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Your Hands My Pockts / Basket Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Founded in 2015, Tears|Ov are sound artist/self-taught musician Lori E Allen, classically trained cellist/mixed media artist Katie Spafford and illustrator/prison psychotherapist Deborah Wale. The trio first collaborated on Lori E Allen's 'Tears of the Material Vulture' cassette on The Tapeworm, a re-imagination of a brief collaboration with Madame Chaos of cut-up cablecasts, 1995-1996, on Manhattan Neighborhood Network and Television in New York City. That release served to resurrect a hibernating creative practice between the three friends.
Their writing process takes the form of structured improvisation. Allen will create a bed of loops, field recordings or a full framework. She then shares this base with Wale and Spafford who embellish or delete, the three building the pieces through long improvised sessions in London, playing late into the night. During these sessions, the feeling of a songs' words or the emotional tone of a sound can spark sudden mood changes, altering the arc of the compositions. 'Crucially the music is improvised – it is never the same twice. There are triggers and moments that signal moving to another part of the music, but the timings and lengths largely depend on our moods and interpretation on a given day/performance. Because of this, the album was recorded with ambient mics capturing multiple instruments. It wasn't possible to record all the instruments separately as we respond to each others improvisation. Even if the changes are very minor, they really affect the emotion of each piece' Spafford says.

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Team Dresch

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Jealous Butcher)

11,99 €*

Hidden Treasure Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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OMGay, Team Dresch is releasing an actual NEW Song! It's been 19 years since the band has released new material - 25 years since the making of Personal Best, when this particular configuration of players (Jody Bleyle, Donna Dresch, Kaia Wilson and Marcéo Martinez) recorded together. Your Hands My Pockets: Donna Dresch, in her typical Team Captain spirit, busts out riffs that are rife with her awesome signature grunge/punk/melodic catchiness, Jody and Kaia trade off on vocal duties like they're in some frantic singing relay race, and Marcéo slams the toms around like he learned to drum from both Mel Brown and bam-bam (please note, Marcéo actually took drum lessons from Mel Brown in the 80"s). While 'Your Hands' is an undeniable pop/punk song, it is also brimming with bristle and depth, conjuring feelings of longing, angst, desire. When Jody sings 'Oh I wanna want to be wrapped around, to wrap around' there is NO ONE who can't relate to this feeling of reaching out to one another for connection, touch, and love. Team Dresch Keeps IT Real (gay) with their harmonious musical chemistry, queercore spirit, and attention to detail in their musicianship - the alchemy of these humans is clearly still alive and dancing, you know it baby. Produced and Recorded by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Recording Studio, March 2019 Mixed by John Goodmanson

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Team Astro

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lofi)

28,79 €* 31,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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When adventure calls, Team Astro follows. This time, they’re joined by a fourth companion to uncover some ‘Hidden Treasure’. Rich bass lines combine with warm guitar riffs and laidback pianos in a sweet and rhythmic tracklist to make you feel happy and inspired. Exploring extraterrestrial planets is no easy feat - the sky is falling and there’s danger ahead, but we’ll be alright as long as we stay together.

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TN-280BT

349,00 €*

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2-speed Analog Turntable with Phono EQ and Bluetooth
A wireless turntable for new way of enjoying vinyl records

The TN-280BT is not only a great-sounding turntable for music enthusiastic who wants to enjoy vinyl record from closet or re-issues. It brings you a totally new way of listening to vinyl records with its Bluetooth capability. No extra cost for hi-fi components or complicated wiring is required. Only Bluetooth speakers or headphones you might have for iPhones are required to enjoy the world of vinyl records

The TN-280BT also accommodates a built-in Phono EQ amplifier that provides Line output, and allows you to connect to almost any sound system regardless type of inputs.

The belt-drive motor on the TN-280BT reduces vibration for sweeter, more accurate sound than direct-drive turntables for DJ, while an aluminum die-cast platter and anti-skating system provide a solid foundation for great-sounding playback. The high-performance, upgradable MM cartridge captures every detail on your record, and the static-balanced straight tone-arm ensures clear sound. It’s all housed in a handsome case in black or walnut veneer.

For music enthusiasts who want to hear every sensuous note of their vinyl collection.

Main Features

2-speed Belt-drive turntable
Built-in Bluetooth transmitter
Built-in MM phono equalizer and Phono, Line, and Bluetooth outputs
High-performance MM cartridge included (Made in Japan)
Aluminum die-cast platter
Anti-skating mechanism
High-density MDF cabinet for better vibration and resonance

Specifications
TURNTABLE section
Type Belt Drive
Motor DC Motor
Rotation Speeds 33-1/3, 45 rpm
Deviation of Speed +/-2%
Wow-and-Flutters 0.2%
Signal-to-Noise Ratio more than 67 dB (A-weighted)
60 dB (unweighted, 20kHz, LPF)
Turntable (Platter)
Material Aluminum Die-cast
Diameter 30 cm
Tone-arm section
Type Straight, Static-balanced
Effective Length 223 mm
Stylus Pressure Range 0 to 5 g
Compatible Cartridge 3.5 to 6.5 g
Anti-skating Adjustment Supported
Head-shell and Cartridge sections
Type MM-type
Stylus Shape Elliptical
Mount Half inch
Frequency Response 20Hz to 20kHz
Channel Separation 20dB at 1kHz
Channel Balance 2.0dB
Tracking Force 1.5 to 2.5g
Vertical Tracking Angle 20 degrees
Output Impedance 47k ohms
Output Voltage 4.5 mV (+/-3dB)
Stylus Pressure 2.0 g (+/-0.5 g)
Cartridge Weight 5.7 g (+/- 0.5 g)
Head-shell Weight 10 g (including nuts, screws, and wires)
Analog Output section
Connectors RCA Pin Jack x 1 pair (Chrome-plated)
Output Voltage
PHONO 4.5 mV (+/-3dB)
LINE 120 mV (-13dBV)
Bluetooth section
Range Approx. 10m
Supported Codec SBC

General
Operation Power AC Adapter
Input AC 100-240V, 50/60Hz
Output DC 12V 500mA
Power Consumption 1.5 Watts or less
Standby Power 0.5 Watts or less
Dimensions (W x H x D) 420 × 117× 356 mm / 16.5” x 4.6” x 14.0”
Weight (Net) 4.9 kg / 10.8 lbs.
Operating Temperature +5˚C to +35˚C
Included Accessories
Felt Mat x 1
EP Adapter x 1
Counter Weight x 1
Head-shell x 1 (MM-type cartridge installed)
Turntable (Platter) x 1
Dust Cover x 1
Dust Cover Hinges x 2
RCA Audio Cable x 1
AC Adapter (GPE053A-V120050-Z) x 1
Owner’s Manual (including Warranty Card)

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Teac

TN-280BT

331,55 €* 349,00 € -5%

7" | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Top Ranking Sound)

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Tda

Yu Saaf

13,99 €*

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Mallory Williams (son of Jamaican pianist and band leader, Luther Williams), a celebrated musician, singer, arranger, and producer, launched his musical journey in 1976 as a keyboard player in various bands within Jamaica's vibrant tourism industry. Along his path, he performed and toured with prestigious groups like Jimmy Cliff's Oneness Band and also We The People Band, providing backing for countless Jamaican artists.

In 1985, during the reggae's digital revolution, Mallory Williams collaborated with Tony DaCosta (from Skatalites fame) and his group the Tony DaCosta Affair (tda), to craft the remarkable single "Yu Saaf." This release not only showcases DaCosta's impressive vocal range but also highlights Mallory's instrumental talent, which incorporates a pioneering proto-digital rhythm. We are thrilled to announce that the 7" reissue of this single will be released back again on Mallory's original 'now' imprint. "Yu Saaf," which translates to "You're Soft" is a pure sound business! It not only serves as a testament to Mallory's production skills but also possesses the power to silence any selectors.

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Speak Now Taylors Version Violet Marbled Vinyl Edition

3LP | 2023 | FR | Original (Republic)

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / FR – Original

Genre: Pop

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Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is the upcoming third re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, set for release on July 7, 2023, via Republic Records. It is a re-recording of Swift's third studio album, Speak Now (2010), and follows her 2021 re-recorded albums, Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version). The re-recording is a part of Swift's counteraction to her 2019 masters dispute. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was announced on May 5, 2023, at the first Nashville show of her ongoing concert tour, the Eras Tour. It features collaborations with American rock acts Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams. Each Vinyl Album Includes: 22 Songs Including 6 previously unreleased Songs From The Vault, Collectible album jacket with unique front and back cover art, Violet or Orchid, depending on product] marbled color vinyl discs, Collectible album sleeves including lyrics and never-before-seen photos, Full size gatefold photograph and prologue. 2CD Details: 22 Songs Including 6 previously unreleased Songs From The Vault

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Midnights Moonstone Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | CZ | Original (Republic)

Release: 2022 / CZ – Original

Genre: Pop

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Midnights Marbled Lavender Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Republic)

43,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Midnights Mahogany Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Republic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Midnights Jade Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | FR | Original (Republic)

Release: 2022 / FR – Original

Genre: Pop

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Midnights Blood Moon Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Republic)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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1989 (Taylors Version) Indie Exclusive Tangerine Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | FR | Original (Republic)

Release: 2023 / FR – Original

Genre: Pop

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With "1989" (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift is releasing the fourth new recording of her first six studio albums in October. With this longplayer, the superstar completed her transformation from a country musician to one of pop music's biggest phenomena. This highly anticipated album includes the Swift classics "Blank Space", "Style" and "Bad Blood".

As with previous re-recordings "Fearless", "Red" and "Speak Now", fans are already looking forward to the five unreleased "Vault Tracks". These are called "Is It Over Now?", "Now That We Don't Talk", "Say Don't Go", "Suburban Legends" and "Slut!" and even a bonus track.

Of the "1989" album, the star said, "To be perfectly honest, it's my favourite new recording I've ever done because the five "From The Vault" tracks are insanely great. I can't believe they were ever left behind. But not for long!"

The album "1989" contains 21 songs, including five previously unreleased songs (From The Vault) and is available as a beautiful tangerine yellow vinyl.

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1989 (Taylors Version) Crystal Skies Blue Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Republic)

The Best Of Taylor E. Burch

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Taylor E. Burch

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Downwards)

Tau (& The Drones Of Praise)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LA’s Taylor E. Burch ov DVA Damas and Tropic of Cancer drops a cache of nuggets for Downwards, posing a killer mix of droll post-punk vocals and stripped dub/R&B/art-pop somewhere between Lolina, Gwen Stefani and The Slits. Mad original, bass-heavy ohrwurm fire!

Over a decade since her debut 10” with DVA Damas, and following a superb stint on Pessimist’s Stigma project in ’21, ‘The Best of Taylor E. Burch’ (though none of this matereial has even been released before) reveals her prowling swag from unexpected angles across nine distinctively succinct bullets bolstered by Elon Katz’s vocal production. Laid-back but tightly coiled, they slant from the clear echoes of Inga Copeland/Lolina on its intro, to cattier art-pop minimalism on ‘I’ve Never Felt Better In My Life’, her vocals layered and sparingly pronged with compelling effects around her wiry guitars and flashes of the gnash and bump that made her work with main vehicle DVA Damas (beside Joe Cocherell) so vital.

The lilting, purring punky dubs of ‘I Wanna Be Your Girl’ and ‘Time Differences’ illuminate a softer side delivered with a wry swagger, from the eyrie, clipped dembow Tears For Fears cover ‘Head over Heels’ to potent highlight ‘F*ck You Up’, while ‘We’re All The X’ and ‘’Time Is On My Side’ make us think of a slanted Juliana Hatfield, and we can’t help but recall that ace Fay record (‘Din’, Time No Place, 2012) in the brittle but heavy af ‘Na Na Na Na Na (Reprise).’

One of the most enjoyable, rinsable tapes of the year, full marks, plus.

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Presents Dream Awake: Live Az Roadburn Redux 2021

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Roadburn)

LP | 1978 | JP | Reissue (Rca/Air)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Another band slated to appear in 2020, Tau & the Drones of Praise participated in Roadburn Redux back in April, helping to tide us over in yet another year with no physical edition of the festival. Their hypnotic neo-folk performance featured an appearance from Clannad's Pól Brennan, and dived headfirst into their back catalogue of psychedelic delights. No-one could accuse them of phoning it in.We're thrilled to announce that this acid-tinged psych troupe will be packing up and heading to Tilburg in April, led by Dubliner Sean Mulrooney. Bringing along a suitcase full of extrasensory delights and magic potions, no doubt, Tau & the Drones of Praise will be setting up shop and handing out feel good vibes like nobody's business. Expect to leave this earthly plane and head out on a meditative voyage of sonic discovery - Sean will be our guide through shamanic experimentalism, folk-led flourishes and far out lysergic luminance. Having already wowed the crowds at highly regarded festivals throughout Europe, such as Liverpool Psych Fest and Le Guess Who? we're beyond excited to be one of the first stops on their return to the live stage. Expectations are high!

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Tatsuro Yamashita

Go Ahead!

52,19 €* 57,99 € -10%

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Integral)

Release: 1978 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Originally released in 1978 Limited edition Pressed on 180g black vinyl Yamashita’s 3rd solo record, Go Ahead!, defined the path he would subsequently follow as it a blossomed writer acclaimed for this versatility. The songs “Let’s Dance Baby”, “Bomber” & “潮騒 (The Whispering Sea)” would’ve be featured in his 1982 greatest hits album “Greatest Hits! of Tatsuro Yamashita”. Meanwhile, the song “This Could Be The Night” would get re-recorded in 1984 as part of his soundtrack album “Big Wave”.

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Tatora

Confluence

12,99 €*

Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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We’re super excited to welcome back Tatora with their elusive brand of new-gen liquid soul. Crossing dnb boundaries and delving into some explorative deep techno-influences, this fire 4-tracker EP also includes special features from Satl and Perspective Shift. On October 29th the official launch of Tatora’s new Confluence EP will hit all major digital and streaming platforms. Get ready for this one.

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To Catch A Bird In The Net Of Wind

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tashi Dorji (electric guitar) and Tyler Damon (drums/percussion) have developed a musical language that is not only shaped by original forms as free jazz, metal, rock and Buddhist monastic music. Their sound merges passion and emotions of literature, art, cultural movements, politics - flashes of ecstatic intensity, blurred timbral lines, fractal repetition, noir-ish, cinematic mystery and inclinations toward free play hint that the two are pleased to follow a winding path to destinations yet unknown.Recorded by Dave Zuchowski, March 25th, 2018, as part of Elastic Arts' 2018, Chicago.Mixed by John Dawson, Mastered by Martin Siewert Artwork by Aaron TurnerIn 2017 the duo released an album for Trost with danish saxophon player Mette Rasmussen."Together, the combination of Dorji's high-end metallic power-tool skree and Damon's manic-but-earthy hippie clomping are a perfect pairing. Each has a musical spoon in the other guy's soup to begin with, resulting in a collaboration that seems almost brotherly. [_] I'd say expect great things, but they're already happening." - The Free Jazz CollectiveTracklisting A. To Catch A Bird In A Net Of Wind (20:31)B. Upon The Rim Of The Well (18:39)

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Tashi Dorji

Stateless

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Lost 1971 Studio Session Golden Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

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 Lost 1971 Studio Session Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live At Ruisrock 1971 Transparent Purple Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Svart)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Svart Records proudly present Tasavallan Presidentti live at the Ruisrock festival in 1971!

Tasavallan Presidentti’s annual performances at Ruisrock in Turku, Finland during the festival’s early years were proof of the band’s rapid ascent from a local band to an internationally renowned group of top musicians. “Pressa” left a lasting mark on many a festivalgoer, and the most optimistic ones were hoping to get these performances on a live album, if recordings existed. They do exist, and what remains on tape of the first ever Ruisrock performance was released on Changing Times and Movements (Svart Records), and the show at Ruisrock 1971 is now coming out on this album.

Arriving in Turku 1971 “Pressa” had completely shed their skin and revamped their set list from the previous year. The group had evolved into something entirely new musically. The festival had a more progressive lineup this year, and Pressa got the chance to prove themselves as part of a well respected international lineup. Some of Ruisrock’s international talent in 1971 included The Jeff Beck Group, The Kinks, Fairport Convention, Canned Heat, Juicy Lucy, Hardin & York, Pete Brown & Piblokto!, Pink Fairies, Stefan Grossman, Niemen Enigmatic, Culpeper's Orchard, Fläsket Brinner and Fruit.

Another proof of the rapid renewal of Pressa’s set list is how they would perform songs under different names, until the final name was chosen when releasing the song on an album. Jukka Tolonen’s composition The Bargain is included twice on this live album. The earlier version is from Ruisrock 1971 and the latter from the Finlandia house in December the same year.

The Bargain was first performed as Better Move On with lyrics by Frank Robson. In the autumn of 1971 the piece was re-christened as Falling Deeper, and this unreleased studio version was discovered and released on The Lost 1971 Studio Session (Svart Records). This was the name the song got for a few months, and was registered with Teosto, the Finnish music copyright association with this title. For whatever reason the song was performed using its older name at the Finlandia house in December 1971. Then, when Eero Raittinen sang the song when Lambertland was recorded, Mats Huldén provided new lyrics and the song got its final name The Bargain. Ramblin’, a familiar tune from Tolonen’s solo career, was at first performed as Feel My Way Through with vocals by Robson. This early version is featured on this live album.

There’s been a lot of talk among fans about a certain cover tune by Tasavallan Presidentti and its discovery and release are long overdue. Well, here it is, King Kong by Frank Zappa, performed by Tasavallan Presidentti at Ruisrock 1971!

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Live At Ruisrock 1971 Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Svart)

32,99 €*

Poly-Time Soundscapes / Forest Of The Shrine

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Taro Nohara

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Growing Bin)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wrwtfww Records is so happy to announce Poly-Time Soundscapes / Forest Of The Shrine, a brand new release by Japanese producer Taro Nohara (Yakenohara). 8 tracks of pure environmental ambient bliss available on LP housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve with an artwork from the artist himself. Based in Tokyo, Taro Nohara is a producer, beatmaker, DJ, and music activist who made a mark with his electronic / ambient unit Unknown Me ( (of Not Not Fun Records fame). His new solo project, Poly-Time Soundscapes / Forest Of The Shrine, is a unique and modern take on Japanese environmental music, a free floating re-interpretation of the sub-genre made famous by Midori Takada, Hiroshi Yoshimura, or Satoshi Ashikawa (and more!) fused with subtle nuances of various origins: downtempo, hip hop, sound design, chill-out, experimental. Conceived as a two-part adventure of contemplative peace, Taro Nohara’s organic soundscape takes you on a mind-soothing walk through time (or memories) and the beautiful mysteries of luscious forests - don’t resist, let yourself go, explore!

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Taro Nohara

Hyper Nu Age Tekno!

23,99 €*

LP | 2020 | UK | Reissue (Laura Lies)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Equal parts Sheffield bleep, fractal IDM and interstellar ambience, Hyper Nu Age Tekno sees Taro Nohara (aka Yakenohara) plotting a star map on a faded rave flyer. Let the billionaires blast into orbit while you explore your inner space with Growing Bin. From the LP's earliest moments, the whomping subs and crystalline chimes of "Space Debris", it's clear that we're a long way from Hamburg. Taro pilots this craft on a deep space exploration way beyond the run out groove, to a place where heartening chords herald a twin sunrise and any broadcasts are lost in translation. The polyrhythmic pulse of "Ill Ell" follows, its concentric chimes and rapid fire kicks summoning the teknoguild to a watery altar in the engineering department. Sticking with interstellar mysticism but taking a turn for the transcendent, "Baker Baker Paradox" spins Reich-ian repetition into a graphene gossamer embellished with chrome, crystal and shoegaze shimmer. The B-side begins on the observation deck, bathing in the beauty of "Celestial Harmonia"'s sci-fi exotica, before the entheogenic "Use Your Head" prompts a delirious dash to the holodeck. Laying serene pads over a techy 4/4, Taro turns out the most danceable and dreamy track on the LP. As ambient chords ring out into the aether and rhythmic pulses shift out of phase, "Airplane Without People" is the loading screen for your virtual fantasy, soon rendered through the woody percussion and spheric bass of "Music For Psychic Liberation". Leave your body behind as you pick mushrooms in a CGI forest.

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Tara Clerkin Trio

19,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Company)

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tara Clerkin Trio present their self titled debut LP on Laura Lies In. Similar to that directorial effect of filming at double speed and then slowing down for playback, the record ambles with assurance, expertly paced.

Opening with a jovial cacophony before the beatific ‘in the room’ confidently relieves, washing away any unease with an innately alien familiarity.

Coming to with the padded percussive patterns of 'Helenica', taking a moment to remember where you are in this temporal smudge. The serene contemplation of 'Any of these' signals we're homeward with a dependable afterglow, a friend you don’t need to thank for a good weekend.

A record existing disconnected from the daily getyadowns, a holiday from life, optimism as resistance against mundanity, something extraordinary amongst the ordinary, positively grey."

Check the review in this month's Wire.

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"The trio comprises of Tara Clerkin, Sunny-Joe Paradisos and Patrick Benjamin who’ve been playing together and apart in various guises and forms in Bristol for around a decade.

Having solidified the workings of the group over the last year their debut self-titled has emerged alongside a strong live set. Drifting from dubby minimalism to smudged acid jazz, Tara’s stark and tuneful voice acts as the vehicle for her concise poetic lyricism. The group coalesce disparate influences into a cohesive sound, reflecting a romantic view of a familiar world.”

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Tanukichan

Gizmo

23,99 €*

Hills Of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley & Jurgen Koppers Mixes) 2024 Repress

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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When the pandemic hit, Hannah van Loon adopted a dog named Gizmo, who became a much-needed companion while the Bay Area musician wrote her second album as Tanukichan. Aptly named after her new four-legged friend, Gizmo is an exercise in release, whether from situational hindrances—a forced lockdown, for one—or from self-imposed hedonistic coping mechanisms.“ A theme I always had floating around was escape,” van Loon explains of her follow-up to 2018’s Sundays. “Escaping from myself, my problems, sadness and cycles.”

To channel the more uplifting spirit she wanted for Gizmo, van Loon turned to the radio pop-rock of her childhood: “I was struck by the in-your-face positivity of the lyrics,” she adds, referencing artists like 311, The Cranberries, and Tom Petty. “I wanted to bring that positivity while writing about the sad and helpless emotions I’d been grappling with.” But Gizmo’s lightheartedness doesn’t make it shallow: “I think that I could let it go, as beautiful as snow,” she murmurs on “Don’t Give Up,” a nu metal-meets-Cocteau Twins groove about the sudden awareness that all the relationships you depend on could vanish instantaneously. Van Loon’s main collaborator on Gizmo was Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bear, and the jangly pop earworm “Take Care” showcases the heavily distorted, in-your-face guitar work reminiscent of Bear’s own psych joints What For? And Mahal. On the hypnotic, wall-of-sound-rocker “Thin Air” featuring Enumclaw, van Loon channels the triumphant grit of The Smashing Pumpkins as she ponders the impermanence of even the most impactful relationships: “I’ll always have the memories/Of how you used to make me see/Until they fell in the ocean/They’re not swimming/They’re not floating.”

Existentialism aside, Gizmo also sees van Loon break out of her sonic comfort zone. “One of the main changes of how I’m approaching music now is that I want to have more fun in the process,” she says, and she walks the line between melodrama and whimsy gracefully: “I can learn something because I’ve been here before,” she sings on the soaring, bittersweet “Been Here Before.” Deftones-inspired thrash drums and screeching electric guitars are gracefully contrasted with van Loon’s hypnotic, almost deadpan vocal style and a crystal clear acoustic guitar she describes as “cute.” Gizmo the dog suddenly passed away right as van Loon finished the album, but he’s immortalized with his photo on the cover—a fitting emblem of this new era of Tanukichan.

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Tantra

12" | 2020 | EU | Reissue (High Fashion Music)

The Big Mess Multi Color Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Bologna born Italo Disco legend Celso Valli’s ‘Tantra’ project had one aim; to push the boundaries of disco! Released in 1979 in the vein of Cerrone and Giorgio Moroder, ‘Hills of Katmandu’ is a unique, progressive slice of classic Italo Disco. The pulsating ‘Moroder-on-steroids bassline’, menacing female vocal and warbling synths take you on a trippy disco journey. The track became a huge dancefloor anthem at legendary clubs such as The Loft and The Saint in New York and Baia Degli Angeli in Rimini.

Originally available on vinyl in 1982 on San Francisco’s “Hot Classics” DJ Service”, Patrick Cowley’s “Original Underground Mix” is a work of pure genius that unleashes his skills on the synths and somehow manages to surpass the original.

High Fashion Music have enrolled Ben Liebrand to restore all the original remix-tapes, managing to re-edit and adjust each and every nuance to perfection, taking away any and all flaws which appeared in the original and it’s acetates, so that it is now steady preserving the original Hi NRG sound.

This is the first time this restored and upgraded version has been released.

On the flip-side, there is the original 16’20 minutes version of the Jurgen Koppers mix, an extended re-edit of the original Celso Valli version, which appeared first on Disconet in 1979, and in the following year on the US (Importe/12) release of the “Tantra – the Double Album” longplayer."

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Tanlines

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Merge)

Himbeergeist Zum Frühstück Re-Mastered 2024

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Eric Emm and Jesse Cohen of Tanlines are indie-rock lifers turned reasonable, happy middle-aged fathers of two, figuring out their place in a chaotic culture and industry that can no longer command their full attention. They are emblematic of a particular time and place that doesn't really exist anymore, yet here they are existing, and thriving, in 2023. The Big Mess came together when Emm and his family moved from Brooklyn to rural Connecticut, while Cohen launched a marketing career and a successful podcast and stayed in the city. Emm continued writing songs_hundreds of them _ through all the weirdness of the past few years, but he wasn't exactly sure who he was writing them for. "I spent years figuring out in my mind, `What is my musical life going to look like?'" he says. "I just kept writing." Cohen gave Emm his blessing to continue Tanlines, even if his own contributions would be limited due to his own non-musical obligations. "I'm like, `Whatever you can do to keep this thing going, do it,'" Cohen says. And with that, Tanlines was reborn. By January 2022 Emm felt he had a body of work that made sense as a Tanlines album. Cohen spent ten days with Emm at his Connecticut studio, along with unofficial third Tanline Patrick Ford. This was tied together with a sleek final mix from Peter Katis (The National, Interpol) at his famed Tarquin Studios, resulting in a clear vision of what Emm's musical life was going to look like: The Big Mess. The first sounds on The Big Mess are the title track's coiled guitars and thumping drums, building into the kind of outsize, choral rock anthem artists like Tanlines were almost a reaction to. It is warm and nostalgic, and Cohen likens a lot of the prevailing mood to "a sepia filter on a digital photo." He continues, "we were pretty intentional about making this the first song on the album, underlining the way that this is a new phase of the band." Cohen says. The moody, scintillating "Burns Effect" serves as one of the biggest pushes forward for the Tanlines sound, and for Emm as a lyricist. He says that the song is "deep and dark and dangerous, but in a fun way. It's one of the more personal tracks on the album where this ungrounded part of my personality surfaces, but with an over-the-top machismo, almost an ironic character." Other tracks like "New Reality" and closer "The Age of Innocence" are also demonstrably guitar-forward in ways that wouldn't seem obvious for Tanlines (despite Emm's pedigree in austere avant-garde math-rock outfits Storm & Stress and Don Caballero), but Emm is less sure The Big Mess is a total departure. "I'm trying to make these absolutely simple things," he says. "I think of these songs as Rothko paintings: They're big and they're bold and they're seemingly straightforward, but they have a lot of depth and they engage with you and make you feel something."

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Tankwart

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Reaper Entertainment Europe)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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R.I.B. Red / White / Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Roar!)

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One Foot In The Grave Black / Red / White Edition

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Roar!)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kings Of Beer Re-Mastered 2024

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Reaper Entertainment Europe)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Disco Destroyer Re-Mastered 2024

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Reaper Entertainment Europe)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Girl Called Cerveza White / Black / Red Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Roar!)

45,99 €*

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cleopatra)

Tank

Re-Ignition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Deadline)

Tank

Re-Ignition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cispirius Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition

Tangle Edge

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Space Rock)

Live In Paris, Palais Des Congres March 6th, 1978 Record Store Day 2023 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This new double-album by legendary Norwegian progressive rock outfit Tangle Edge, titled ‘Cispirius’, contains studio recordings from the last half of the 1990s. Some of it has never been released before, while some has been re-mixed and is released here for the very first time on vinyl ! The key track is the full length 58min journey entitled ‘Beyond The Hills Of Inhibition’, which first appeared on the ‘Entangled Scorpio Entrance’ live album 1992. Some might argue that the gem of all gems here, is the seventeen minute long studio version of ”Cañcalam”, one of the band`s most well received stage-numbers throughout the 90s, a recording from the band`s uncompleted 1999-album

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Tangerine Dream

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Culture Factory)

43,99 €*

7" | 1982 | UK | Reissue (Diggers Dozen)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Record Store Day 2023 exclusive release limited to 3000 copies.
TANGERINE DREAM is an electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. This release includes the iconic line up of Froese, Franke & Baumann from their most desirable time period. This Legendary concert was the 1st time the band used Laser Lighting on tour. It features never before scene photos of press clipping, backstage passes and other collectable documents from this 1978 tour. This package will be in a 12" by 12" "Slide-up boxset" with marketing sticker, 3 printed inner sleeves and Laser Light Tour poster. Half/Hald Effect Blue, Red & Orange Color Vinyl

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Tampa

Don't Fight The Feeling

17,99 €*

Stand By Your Man Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1982 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Available for the first time ever on 7-inch, Diggers Dozen presents this off the radar, jazz laced, disco funk gem. Originally only featured on an obscure Florida based radio station compilation LP released in 1978.

Tampa formed together in 1977 to be a house band at the most popular nightclub in Tampa Bay, generally playing covers as well as playing their own material in a variety of styles from rock to funk and disco.
At this time the local radio station in Florida WXTB-FM 97.9 Clearwater also know as 98 Rock, called out to musicians in the Tampa Bay area requesting for songs to feature on a compilation album showcasing local talented musicians, as well as being a fund raising project with all profits donated to the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary.
Tampa decided to record and submit a track “Don’t Fight The Feeling” for the radio stations request. They were happily surprised to find out that it made the cut. Over two hundred groups in the Tampa Bay area submitted songs. “Don’t Fight The Feeling” was one out of the ten songs selected to feature on the compilation titled “The 98 Rock Album”.
Soon after this period the seven piece band played all over the Tampa Bay area gigging generally 50 weeks in a year between 1979-1984. The band recorded around a dozen original songs. “Don’t Fight The Feeling” was the only track to ever be released and make it on to record. The other songs recorded sadly have been long lost.
Now this marvellous track is officially and finely issued on 7” for the first time, including superb re-edit magic on the flip side by The Mighty Zaf.

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Tammy Wynette

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

The Grudge Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why you'll love it...
“Knowing Tammy Wynette’s troubled history, and with 50-plus years of social change since the recording and release of Stand By Your Man, it’s difficult to hear the album and not want to scream: Tammy, get out of there; you’re so much better than him! But that’s not to say that the album, which ascended to No. 2 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and earned a Country Music Association Album of the Year nomination in 1969, isn’t worth listening to. Wynette’s mournful voice, described by her longtime producer Billy Sherrill as ‘husky and soulful and tearful and dynamic,’ was made for songs like these; frankly, so were her real-life experiences. ‘She lived it, you know. She lived every tear every-body ever heard her sing,’ Sherrill once said of Wynette, and he assembled talented musicians to match her delivery in lush, Nashville Sound-era style.”

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Tame One

LP | 2007 | CA | Reissue (Continued Sound)

Henry St. Bone Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2007 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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We’re honored to reissue an album by a truly unique voice in hip hop and dearly missed friend, Tame One. The year is 2007, Fresh off collaborations with the likes of El-P, Cage, and The Weathermen, Tame One - one half of the Newark duo The Artifacts, was approached by a Montclair skateboard shop Division East, as he personified their East Coast new school culture of skating, graffiti, and MCing. This relationship gave way to Division East Records and their first full length release entitled "The Grudge." Despite its merits and the efforts of those involved, the album went largely unheard outside of NJ hip-hop circles. Call it a casualty of the post-CD/pre-streaming musical landscape of the early 00’s. Now, 17 years later and almost 2 years after his heartbreaking transition, issued for the time on purple vinyl, Tame One’s The Grudge.

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Tallest Man On Earth

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anti)

Henry St. Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kristian Matsson has never remained in one place for very long. Having spent much of the last decade touring around the world as The Tallest Man on Earth, Matsson has captivated audiences using, as The New York Times describes, “every inch of his long guitar cord to roam the stage: darting around, crouching, stretching, hip-twitching, perching briefly and jittering away…Mr. Matsson is a guitar-slinger rooted in folk, and his songs are troubadour ballads at heart.” Now, Matsson returns as The Tallest Man on Earth with Henry St., his sixth studio album following 2012’s There’s No Leaving Now, full of “vivid imagery, clever turns-of-phrase, and devastating, world-weary observations” (Under The Radar) and 2015’s Dark Bird Is A Home, his “most personal record… surreal and dreamlike” (Pitchfork). Henry St. notably marks the first time he recorded an album in a band setting. “My entire career I’ve been a DIY person––mostly fueled by the feeling that I didn’t know what I was doing, so I’d just do everything myself.” But now, longing for the energy that’s only released when creating together with others, Matsson invited his friends to come and play. Nick Sanborn (of Sylvan Esso) produced Henry St., which includes contributions from Ryan Gustafson (of The Dead Tongues) on guitar, lap steel and ukulele, TJ Maiani on drums, CJ Camerieri (of Bon Iver) on trumpet and French horn, Phil Cook on piano and organ, Rob Moose (of Bon Iver, yMusic) on strings and Adam Schatz on saxophone.

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Tallest Man On Earth

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anti)

Tall Black Guy & Ozay Moore

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Of Process And Progression

LP | 2021 | Original (Coalmine)

30,99 €*

Internalize / Sky Is Falling

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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‘Of Process and Progression’ is a perfectly balanced combination of hip-hop, jazz, and soul from longtime collaborators Tall Black Guy & Ozay Moore, who continue to push themselves creatively after a collective more than 30 years in the game. On each and every track on this LP, the duo beautifully blend Golden Era boom-bap with modern sounds to deliver something altogether timeless and inspiring.

There’s just so much to love about ‘OPAP,’ an easy candidate for one of the year’s best releases, regardless of genre. Both TBG and Ozay have been on a tear these past few years with their respective careers, but it’s safe to say they’re reaching a new peak together with this release.

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Tall Birds

7" | 2006 | US | Reissue (Sub Pop)

10,99 €*

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Talking Drums)

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Here we have the debut release from Seattle's Tall Birds! Tall Birds = _ of The Catheters (Brian, Leo and Davey) + new bass player Jiancarlo Cateriano. Drawing from a wider palette of influences (citing VU, Love, The Stooges, Monoshock, Wipers, Royal Trux.) and building on the more melodic elements of their former band, Tall Birds made instant fans out of us and we're excited to hear more from 'em.

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Talking Drums

Volume 7

16,99 €*

Liberation Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Slip this delirious disc out of the lime/slime green sleeve and you're up close and personal with the new chapter in the TD saga. A dance floor triptych of such seismic scale that the crew spent two years trying to wrangle the tracks on wax, finally finding a plant with the power to press them up.

Sprawling across the A-side is the devastating 'Doner Summer', an instrumental extension of some lost Munich disco masquerading as an Anatolian excursion. Ditching the vocals and cutting the kase, the crew lay down a galloping groove topped with Turkish licks and disco strings, take us into the psychedelic swirl of a tumbling drum breakdown before hitting the big red button marked banger for a searing second half. Firing up the hardware, TD blast this one further into the Phuture, dropping technoid sequences, nagging 303 and Cowley-style FX fuckery for a full on club assault.

In the alternate B-side universe, Hans Zimmer lost his dread note and Denis Villeneuve was forced to turn to Talking Drums for the Dune soundtrack. They obliged with the sci-fi rai of 'Chaba Ranks', reshaping an Algerian OG with a dancehall kick, off beat vamps and star-crossed synths, then letting loose with a heavy bass tone. |In time honoured fashion, the team also drop a dub version, cutting out the vocals and focussing on those additional elements for the wildly cosmic 'Chaba Skanks'.

Now who's getting the spice in?

Limited Press - Numbered Insert - Drum Fun Guaranteed !

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Talib Kweli & Madlib

LP | 2007 | US | Reissue (Blacksmith)

30,99 €*

LP | 2014 | UK | Reissue (First Word)

Release: 2007 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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2022 repress is coming in March on beautiful black vinyl, a perfect fit to the artwork. Black vinyl is certainly celebrating a comeback in 2022!

Next super collab, "Liberation" features the likes of Res, Strong Arm Steady, Consequence & Candice Anderson.

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Takuya Kuroda

Rising Son

36,99 €*

Takeshi Inomata / Sound Limited

Release: 2014 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First Word Records is incredibly proud to bring you an exclusive vinyl-only re-issue of Takuya Kuroda's highly-sought after album 'Rising Son'.

'Rising Son' was first released on the seminal Blue Note Records imprint 10 years ago in 2014, with Takuya being the first Japanese artist to sign to the label. The record received widespread critical acclaim, hitting No.1 on Japan's jazz charts at the time, with original copies now fetching hundreds of pounds on Discogs and the like. There has long been high demand for a re-press of this album, and we're very pleased to say it's finally here, a decade on.

The re-issue is to be released via London-based Worldwide Award-winning label First Word Records, who coincidentally celebrate their 20th year running in 2024. First Word released Takuya's highly-revered previous two albums, 'Fly Moon Die Soon' (2020) and 'Midnight Crisp' (2022).

For those that don't know, Takuya Kuroda is a Kobe-born, Brooklyn-based trumpeter and musician, who was also a longtime player for Akoya Afrobeat as well as DJ Premier's Badder band. Initially playing on the Japanese circuit with his trombonist brother, Takuya went on to relocate to New York City, where he has largely remained to this day, becoming a prominent player in the jazz scene there.

The original album featured several Roy Ayers covers, including the all-time classic 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine', and this 2024 pressing also includes a brand new remix of the track from keys player & producer, Joe Armon-Jones. Joe is hugely-acclaimed in his own right as a solo artist, as well as his recent collaborations with Mala (who has a track named after him on this very project, as Takuya was influenced heavily by his 2012 Brownswood album 'Mala in Cuba'), and as an integral member of the legendary Ezra Collective, winners of the 2023 Mercury Music Prize in the UK.

Flitting between the genres of jazz fusion, soul, r&b, hip hop and afrobeat, the album was predominantly produced by a previous Takuya collaborator, vocalist José James, while also featuring phenomenal accompaniment from Nate Smith (drums), Solomon Dorsey (bass), Corey King (trombone) and Kris Bowers (keys).

In the words of José James, "no one sounds like Takuya. His tone, warmth and most of all his storytelling have inspired me for years. His writing is soulful, modern, and effortlessly bridges the gap between jazz and soul, and between history and tomorrow."

Previous reviews and accolades for Takuya's third album 'Rising Son' include AllMusic's Best of 2014, NPR Music, Jazz Weekly, Leo Weekly, All About Jazz, Icon, Relix, Pop Matters, Jay Z's Life + Times, Wbgo, Upscale, The Revivalist, East Bay Express and The Jazz Line, to name just a few.

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Sounds Of Sound L.T.D. Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 1970 | JP | Reissue (Columbia Japan)

Love Trip Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1970 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Japanese jazz and Jazz Rock masterpieces are re-released on clear vinyl!

The raging drums scorch the times. Accompanied by a whirlwind of young talents, Takeshi Inomata proudly heralds the arrival of the golden age of jazz-rock.
Takeshi Inomata, a drummer who led the jazz scene in Japan with his precise stick work and musicality that looked ahead to the times. At the end of the 1960s, he was influenced by brass rock, which was flourishing at the time, and formed Sound Limited.
""I want to fuse jazz and rock and bring together young musicians to do music with vitality, and I want this group to be a large-scale group that does not fit into the small framework of modern jazz,"" he says.
His first album and masterpiece was ""Sounds of Sound L.T.D.""(1970). Led by ""Theme ~ Moustache"", which is loved as a symbolic song, it is a masterpiece full of dynamism and enthusiasm throughout the film.
text by Yusuke Ogawa (UNIVERSOUNDS/DEEP JAZZ REALITY)"

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Takako Mamiya

LP | 1982 | JP | Reissue (Universal Music Japan)

58,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

Release: 1982 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Kazuo Shiina, Hiroyuki Namba, Yoshihiro Naruse, Akira Inoue and other skilled musicians participated in Takako Mamiya's only album released in 1982, a masterpiece representing 80's city pop, on clear sky blue vinyl. Limited re-release!

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Tajai & The Architect

Blktek

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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And we're back on the West Coast again with our man The Architect [Homeliss Derilex] and Tajai from Souls of Mischief. This one follows on from the A-Plus album we dropped in 2020.

This heater of an album features the likes of Kool G Rap, Casual, Sa-Roc and more. Beats are top notch and you know what kind of quality to expect from founding Souls of Mischief MC Tajai. Fresh off the back of a Huge worldwide tour celebrating 30 years since the release of the classic 93 Til Infinity, Tajai and their tour DJ The Architect bless the heads with progressive yet traditional hip hop flavas for ya noggins. Another Chopped Herring sure shot....

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Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder

Get On Board

23,99 €*

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Zouenkeikaku)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“They were so solid. They meant what they said, they did what they did… here’s two guys, a guitar player and a harmonica player, and they could make it sound like a whole orchestra.” – Taj Mahal

“It was perfect. What else can you say?” – Ry Cooder

Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives: GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE, on Nonesuch Records.

With Taj Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo – joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass – the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California.

Explaining where Terry and McGhee took him musically, Cooder says, “Down the road, away from Santa Monica. Where everything was good. ‘I have got to get out of here,’ was all I could think. What do you do, fourteen, eighteen years old? I was trapped. But that first record, Get on Board, the 10” on Folkways, was so wonderful, I could understand the guitar playing.”

Taj Mahal adds, “I started hearing them when I was about nineteen, and I wanted to go to these coffee houses, ‘cause I heard that these old guys were playing. I knew that there was a river out there somewhere that I could get into, and once I got in it, I’d be all right. They brought the whole package for me.”

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder originally joined forces in 1965, forming The Rising Sons when Cooder was just seventeen. The band was signed to Columbia Records but an album was not released and the group disbanded a year later. The 1960s recording sessions, widely bootlegged, were finally issued officially in 1992. GET ON BOARD is Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder’s first recording together since then.

Harmonica player Sonny Terry and guitarist Brownie McGhee, both originally from the southeastern United States, had active solo careers as well as collaborating with some of the most celebrated musicians of their time. But they were best known for their forty-five-year partnership, which began in 1939 and included mesmerising live performances around the world and numerous acclaimed recordings.

Their Piedmont blues style became popular during the folk music revival of the 1940s and ’50s, centered in New York City’s flourishing club scene for jazz, boogie-woogie, blues and folk music. Terry and McGhee traveled in the same circles as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, and Josh White, among others in a rich mix of writers, actors and musicians. As a new generation emerging in the 1960’s drew inspiration from folk and blues, Terry and McGhee toured the world as the foremost exponents of the acoustic music of the Piedmont. They were named National Heritage Fellows in 1982 in recognition of their distinctive musical contributions and accomplishments.

“You got the south on steroids, when you got the music of the south, the culture of the south, the beauty of the south, through Brownie and Sonny,” Taj Mahal says. He describes McGhee as a “solid rhythm player. To really play behind the harp like that. He would set stuff up. He wasn’t making many notes. Sonny had all the notes, running around. But Brownie, he laid it down.” Cooder adds: “This thing of squeezing the thumb and first finger and a little bit of the second finger, which I still do. I’d forgotten where it came from. That’s what Brownie did. I saw him do that and said, ‘I think I can do that.’”

Taj Mahal calls Terry “a wizard harmonica player”. Cooder says, “Sonny had incredible rhythm for one thing. Making sounds with his voice and the harmonica so you couldn’t tell quite which was which. He was good at that.”

“We’ve been doing this a while,” Cooder says. “Perhaps we’ve earned the right to bring it back. Taj Mahal concludes. “We’re now the guys that we aspired toward when we were starting out. Here we are now… old timers. What a great opportunity, to really come full circle.”

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Taika

On Chitou Jichi

34,99 €*

Wallpaper For The Soul Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The two-piece rock band Taika’s (帯化) 3rd album ‘On Chitou Jichi’ (御池塘自治), originally released in 2023, is now available on vinyl. The album’s folkloric vocals and krautrock-inspired repetition swirl together with environmental sounds, creating an immersive atmosphere. The interplay between the post-Fourth World Revival soundscapes and the raw, earthy physicality rooted deep within the music blurs the line between the nostalgic and the novel, each reflecting echoes of the other.

In this album, Taika explores the residual sense of "foreignness" within the now-commonplace rock band format in Japan, re-examining it and injecting new possibilities for "translation" and reinterpretation into those gaps.

This release includes a large poster-style lyric sheet. Additionally, it comes with a download code for the digital version of ‘On Chitou Jichi,’ as well as a code for a destructive remix of Taika’s track “Kouraku Biyori” by the up-and-coming dub techno artist Yo, who is signed to Taika’s independent label, Zōen Keikaku.

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Tahiti 80

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Human Sounds)

29,99 €*

Wallpaper For The Soul Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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After the worldwide success of their first album Puzzle (1999), which sold over 200,000 copies and went gold in Japan, Xavier Boyer (vocals, guitars), Pedro Resende (bass), Médéric Gontier (guitars) & Sylvain Marchand (drums) reunited with producer Andy Chase to record the follow-up, Wallpaper for the Soul, in New York City. Starting in November 2001 at Stratosphere Sound, the prolific sessions gave birth to twenty tracks, twelve of which appeared on the original tracklist. The eight outtakes were compiled on the mini albums A Piece of Sunshine (2003) & Extra Pieces of Sunshine (2004). This new vinyl edition will be the first time all these songs appear together. Almost 20 years on, Wfts is a tour de force of contemporary songwriting with obvious nods to the past somehow revisited in a timeless fashion. Tahiti 80’s second effort can also be seen as an alternative and more sophisticated snapshot of an era often associated with the rebirth of rock (The White Stripes, The Strokes…). This set of songs also established them as stalwarts of the Post French Touch cannon, showcasing both their ability to write catchy songs and their knack for mélanges & experimentation. 1,000 Times or The Train are unique examples of blue-eyed soul augmented with French flair (« Prefab Sprout as produced by Thomas Bangalter » suggested Uncut which listed Wfts in their Top Ten’s albums of 2003). Listen to Don’t Look Below today, and ask yourself who was mixing Destiny’s Child with My Bloody Valentine in 2001? Delicate numbers like Open Book or live favorite Better Days Will Come both demonstrate T80’s songwriting skills and their innate sense of melancholia. Listening back to Wfts today, one cannot help but think of it as an album recorded in a state-of-the-art fashion. All four members would typically perform together in the same room. Basic takes were printed on a 24-track analog tape machine and then bounced onto a computer for editing. A fine example of this method is the title track itself. Originally written on acoustic guitar, Wallpaper … is the result of three eight minutes synthesizer jams pieced together. The Frenchmen were keen to try out multitude of ideas and had developed a taste for experimentation. The sessions also coincide with a rich outburst of creativity from a band on top of their game after several months of touring around the world. Another typical Wfts characteristic is Richard Hewson’s orchestration. Veteran string arranger, famous for arranging The Beatles’ The Long And Winding Road or writing RAH Band’s ‘80s classic Clouds Across The Moon Hewson gave the songs a sweeping orchestral touch. Strings, Horns & woodwinds were all performed at the now defunct Olympic Studios in London. Urban Soul Orchestra, a 24-piece ensemble who played on Oasis’ or Spice Girls’ hits can be heard on five songs: the opening trilogy Wallpaper…, 1,000 Times and The Other Side, then on the Northern Soul revival Soul Deep and lastly on the album’s closer Memories Of The Past. Rouen’s most famous four-piece, now relocated in a house on France’s North West Coast, in the quiet seaside town of Étretat, added more bells & whistles and resumed production on the songs. With one last transatlantic leap during the summer of 2002, the boys flew to Portland, Oregon to attend the mixing sessions held by sound wizard Tony Lash (Elliott Smith, The Dandy Warhols…). Suggested by Sub Pop’s craftsman Eric Matthews, also a guest on trumpet and keyboards, Lash would later become a major collaborator on Tahiti 80’s subsequent albums. In the meantime, Laurent Fétis, the designer behind Puzzle’s iconic artwork, had started working with artist Elisabeth Arkhipoff on a set of nostalgic photographs transfigured with a soft air-bush technique. Those visuals, like their predecessors, have since become an inseparable companion to Tahiti 80’s music. Many musical fashions and flavors of the month have come and gone, but twenty years after its release, Wfts still sounds fresh and relevant. And always forward-looking, Tahiti 80 is currently wrapping up the recording of their eighth album, to be released in early 2022.

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Tahiti 80

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Human Sounds)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Human Sounds)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Tahiti 80

Here With You

20,99 €*

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Chinabot)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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In March 2020, Tahiti 80 had a plan to start recording their new album in the studio. That plan, of course, along with everything else in the world, got derailed. But the five-piece group was resilient and resourceful. They quickly shifted to a socially distanced plan B that included file swapping and virtual sessions, all refereed by producer Julien Vignon. The result, due for release in March 2022, is the buoyant Here With You, a collection of eleven upbeat songs that unfold like a prescription for a post-pandemic panacea.

“When lockdown in France happened, we said, 'We're not going to stay at home not doing anything,'” says singer-guitarist Xavier Boyer. “And our new plan became a hopeful thing, waking up every morning and seeing what the other guys had worked on. It wasn't always easy, but this new method allowed a freer approach where we could really go all the way with an idea without being influenced by each other’s suggestions. It must've been overwhelming for Julien, who ended up selecting all our arrangements. But he stayed positive all the way through.”

To help stay inspired and focused during their time in isolation, the band created a mood board, with the centerpiece a photo of an early '90s rave in the UK.

Boyer says, “Whenever you see pictures from this era, people seem very innocent. There are no cell phones and everybody is in to what they are experiencing. We kept that picture in mind as a kind of mantra that would help everyone feel connected to this idea of people celebrating, gathering and just having fun. We were missing the connection with people, and thought it would be great if we could create music that would inspire that kind of emotion.”

Indeed, the songs on Here With You are brimming the feeling of communion that we've all been missing over the past two years. It's there in the catchy opener Lost in the Sound, which walks the walk with Chic guitar flicks, urban nightfall sparkles and an inviting chorus (“Your heart grooves like a thousand 808s on the right time”). It's there in the Jackson 5-style syncopated bounce of “Vintage Creem,” the lush, dreamy “Breakfast in L.A.” and the panoramic sweep of “UFO.” And it's there in the first single “Hot,” which matches an irresistible groove with a neon-lit, percolating arrangement that evokes the disco clubs of 1979.

What's remarkable is that though Tahiti 80 displays a clear affection for sounds of the past, from bubble gum to '70s soul, they never trade in mere pastiche. Their take is more a slightly warped and playful carnival mirror mash-up of classic pop styles, given depth through Boyer's hang-gliding, coolly emotive vocals and lyrics that often rub against the euphoric grain of the music.

“I like to think of songs as a three-minute drama,” says Boyer. “This concept of drama definitely adds different levels to our music. There's the melody, the lyrics, then the production that can maybe emphasize or counterbalance the interaction between the yin and yang in a song.

“There's a difference between the very upbeat, sunshine-y soft rock and the lyrics, even on our past albums,” he continues. “Not dark, but a little more melancholy, and also looking for some kind of motivation, talking to yourself. Like with a lot of Motown songs, you get that feeling where you body’s dancing while your mind’s reflecting, reminiscing.”

That alluring blend of happy-sad has been a signature part of the Tahiti 80 sound from the time Boyer and bassist Pedro Resende formed the group in 1993, as students at the University of Rouen. Taking their name from a souvenir t-shirt given to Boyer's father in 1980, the duo recruited guitarist Mederic Gontier in 1994, and with the addition of drummer Sylvain Marchand a year later, the lineup was complete. The foursome released a self-produced and self-financed EP, 20 Minutes, in 1996, which resulted a record deal with French label Atmospheriques in 1998. Their full-length debut Puzzle, produced with Ivy's Andy Chase and mixed by Tore Johansson, went gold and featured the international hit “Heartbeat” that established the band throughout Europe and Asia.

In the years since, Tahiti 80 – with the additions of Raphaël Léger on drums and Hadrien Grange on keys - has released eight acclaimed albums. The band has fused what Mojo called a “glorious entente of old and new technology” (including singles like “Yellow Butterfly,” “1000 Times,” “Sound Museum,” “Crush!” and “Big Day,” which was featured on a Fifa video game soundtrack), while collaborating with such producers and arrangers as Richard Swift, Tony Lash and Richard Anthony Hewson, who famously arranged The Beatles' “Long and Winding Road.” Boyer has also put out two solo albums, the first under the anagram Axe Riverboy and the second under his name. In 2019, the band released Fear of an Acoustic Planet, a stripped-down reimagining of some of their best-loved tracks from the previous twenty years. It served not only as a look back but a reminder of their formidable songwriting skills.

Boyer is definitely a student of the timeless three-minute pop song format pioneered by '60s artists like The Beatles and The Beach Boys. He says, “I see it as kind of a frame for a painting. Most of the songs on this album, I wrote a verse, pre-chorus and chorus. There aren't many middle eights. I wanted it to be very concise. I feel like people have less attention. There's so much music. It's too easy to switch off or skip to another track, so I want to hook the listener. The three-minute song is kind of an easy code to crack, but at the same time you have to figure out a new way to tell the stories that we've heard before.”

And the stories on Here With You are very much about the longing for connection. Of the album title, Boyer says, “In the world right now, that can mean a lot of different things. Like missing our fans, missing going to concerts. In a way, it can be a statement of what happened last year, and a wish of 'I want to be here with you again.' It's our ninth album. We've had some had some very open, conceptual titles like Puzzle, Activity Center. Sometimes they were more specific like Fosbury orWallpaper for the Soul. Here with You, seems more personal, more engaging in terms of relationships. When I suggested that title, everyone in the band said, 'Yeah, that's it.'”

Until Tahiti 80 can resume a full tour schedule, Boyer says he hopes the new record will make that personal connection. “If I see from the point of view as a music fan, sometimes I see albums I like as companions throughout my life. So if we can be a part of people's existence, even if it's a song that reminds them of the time they were driving with the windows open and it was sunny. Or a sad song that resonates with them after a breakup. That's what we're all looking for when we're making music. You do this very personal thing and you want it to touch as many people as possible.”

A1. Tahiti 80 - Lost In The Sound A2. Tahiti 80 - Vintage Creem A3. Tahiti 80 - Telling Myself A4. Tahiti 80 - Hot A5. Tahiti 80 - Breakfast In LA

B1. Tahiti 80 - Cameo B2. Tahiti 80 - UFO B3. Tahiti 80 - Riddles & Rhymes B4. Tahiti 80 - Zoo B5. Tahiti 80 - Wicked Wicked B6. Tahiti 80 - Let's Get Started

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Tafaa

Random Activity (...)

Grey Skies White Collar Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tafaa - Random activity of the work of art, escalates an extension of accepted (unproductive) concepts of art, nature and society' is a sound editing project led by Chloé Delarue, a visual artist based in Geneva (ch) in collaboration with Adeena Mey, a curator, art critic, managing editor of the magazine Afterall (Central St Martins, London, UK) and researcher/teacher at Ecal (Lausanne, ch).

Together, they gathered sound artists Jaeho Hwang, Lafidki of the Chinabot label and the performer-composer Seth Ayyaz in a desire to bring together horizons of thoughts with a singular tonality in resonance with the Tafaa* cycle. The release is a continuation of the deployment of Chloé Delarue's solo show - Tafaa - THE Century OF THE Snitch, which took place at the Villa du Parc - Contemporary art center in Annemasse (fr).

The four compositions resulting from this meeting are materialized in a hybrid compilation. Each of the tracks, affected by the aesthetic spectrum of Tafaa - THE Century OF THE Snitch, results from unique paths that each sound artist builds in their own works. This compilation released in the exhibition space and in its vinyl form, was infused under this particular atmosphere with the aura of sodium, as an echo of the previous opus Tafaa - Acid Rave. The title evokes territories in wasteland and multitude of theaters of an urbanity that has become tropical for one night.

For Chloé Delarue, the environment produced under Tafaa - THE Century OF THE Snitch and its aesthetic feeling is linked with the dissemination of these four tracks. As she says, it becomes “like the deep trance of a noise invisible to oneself but that we perceive thanks to the questioning of its own imperception, the work no longer looks at itself, it injects itself.”

Moult and Dystopia by Jaeho Hwang, Pandæmonium Cctv by Lafidki in collaboration with Ayankoko and Pisitakun (from Chinabot) and Apophenic studies | stochastic iqaat by Seth Ayyaz thus bring out, through their sound characteristics, a powerful emotional expanse driven by their glimpse of the conceptual reconfigurations of a world increasingly accessible through its ersatz.

The vinyl title Tafaa - Random Activity (...) is borrowed from Gustav Metzger taken from an extract from his Manifesto On random activity in material / transforming works of art in July 30, 1964.

Chloé Delarue constitutes what she calls environments under the influence of the Tafaa perception system, an acronym for Toward A Fully Automated Appearance. Tafaa is a conceptual organ that she builds as a cognitive outgrowth allowing her access to the reasoning that feeds her work. It is under this name, indexed by a number or a subtitle, that each occurrence of her work has been presented since 2015. Thus, she probes the ambiguous relations that our society maintains with its multitudes of transfigurations, real or simulated, at the time of permanent interconnections and raises questions relating to changes in perceptions and cognitive transformations of our beings under the visible and invisible authority of cosmotechnics.

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Taeko Onuki

LP | 1976 | JP | Reissue (Nippon Columbia)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jolly Roger)

Release: 1976 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Taeko Onuki's 1st album "Grey Skies" will be released on white collar vinyl! (Originally released on September 25, 1976) After Sugababes disbanded, he signed a solo artist contract with Crown Records.

Recorded between June ~ August 1976, Tatsuro Yamashita, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Makoto Yano, and Tin Pan Alley (Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hayashi) participated in this masterpiece of city pop.

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Tad Morose

St Demonius

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2012 | US | Reissue (Hardly Art)

Tacocat

Take Me To Your Dealer

10,99 €*

Tacit Group Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On the surface, TacocaT may seem to be all about tacos, cats, fluorescent highlighters, reverb, great hear, gum, and tambourines, but that's just to throw you. That's frosting. Through clever social and political commentary via pop culture references and a relentless emphasis on positivity, this grrrl-fronted palindrome transcends pop-punk pigeonholing while never forgetting their primary mission: FUN. Limited one-time pressing on black vinyl. "TacocaT's jokes and uncanny party-starting ability mean you have to try in order to hate them. And 'trying' isn't going to get you anywhere with this band." - The Seattle Times"They're the best band in the world." --Katy Goodman (La Sera, Vivian Girls)

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Tacit Group

2x12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Wesa)

T-Groove & George Kano Experience With Yuko Imai

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tacit Group is an audio-visual group founded in 2008 with a vision of creating new art for the 21st century. Based in Seoul but working globally, the group comprises composer Jaeho Chang and electronic musician Gazaebal(Lee Jinwon).

With audio-visual art as its core content, Tacit Group has expanded in a contemporary and experimental way in multimedia performances, interactive installations, and music installations. Representative works such as ‘Hun-Min-Jeong-Ak,’ ‘Game Over,’ ‘Morse ㅋung ㅋung,’ combine a systematic worldview weaved through intuitive materials and technology inspired by normal everyday activities such as games and text chatting. In particular, works that utilize the beauty and communica- tion power of characters are among their most striking.

“It’s like wind chimes,” says Tacit Group’s Jeaho Chang. “The creator makes the pipes, but the wind makes the music.” He’s talking about the algorithmic music that Tacit Group creates. Jaeho and Gazaebal create audio/visual systems using code that the pair work within to unleash their utterly compelling AV performances, each show, each track, as unique as a snowﬂake. The pair met at Korea National University of Arts in 2006. Jaeho Chang was a media installation artist and composer who’d studied classical composition in Korea and electronic music at Den Haag’s Conservatoire. Gazaebal, who’d moved to the US as a teen, had worked at the renowned Quad group studios as a sound engineer, recording acts including Rage Against The Machine, Wu Tang and Janet Jackson. Returning to Korea, he had found success as a K-Pop producer, (founding the act Banana Girl, and writing their No.1 Korean hit ‘Shake Your Ass’) and DJing under the moniker Gazaebal, before deciding to go ‘back to school’ to learn to create more challenging music.
The quiet and reserved Jae and the more outgoing Gazaebal bonded over a shared vision, forming Tacit Group in 2008. And until recently, everything they have done has been through the medium of their globally acclaimed live shows, playing all over the world from Lincoln Center in NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) and Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea, Aarhus Festival in Denmark, Stereolux in France and NYU Abu Dhabi.

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Secret Lover

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

22,99 €*

T-Groove & George Kano Experience

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Renowned around the world for his iconic sound, disco legend “t-groove” teams up with one of the greatest street drummers of all time, George Kano, to form the foundation of an 18 man jazz-funk-disco experience! Their debut album, Lady Champagne featured the semi-instrumental “Secret Love”, a silky smooth guitar number that captivated fans of all dispositions. Now re-recorded with the singular vocals of city pop diva Yuko Imai and original Japanese lyrics, this single is sure to dazzle fans of both disco and city pop! Don’t miss this exclusive 7” single, packaged in a flipback cover, only from P-vine Records.

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Lady Champagne

LP | 2022 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

36,99 €*

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Constellation)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Renowned around the world for his iconic sound, disco legend “t-groove” teams up with one of the greatest street drummers of all time, George Kano, to form the foundation of an 18 man jazz-funk-disco experience! Moody but sweet. Soulful and groovy. Recorded live, these ten songs are perfect whether you’re in the club or sitting in your favorite armchair. The only certainty? You won’t be able to stop yourself from dancing like nobody’s watching.

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T. Gowdy

Miracles

Skanless Summer: 80z Babyz (Re-Rock Edition) Orange / Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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T. Gowdy has kept up a productive albeit mostly virtual pace since the release of Therapy With Colour (his third full-length album and first for Constellation) which dropped just as things were locking down back in spring 2020: performances at numerous festivals including MUTEK Montréal, Node Festival and NEW NOW; audiovisual pieces exhibited at various European galleries and events; a track andvideo for Constellation's Corona Borealis Longplay Singles Series; sound design for the documentary Atalaya by filmmaker Emma Roufs.Gowdy now returns with Miracles, his second full-length for Constellation, which draws on source materials originally performed in 2018 for an unreleased audio/visual project based around surveillance footage_a precursor to videocapped, monitor-based horizons that soon took on new meanings. Re-immersing himself in those recordings, Gowdy disassembles and deploys them as raw source material for new experiments with vactrols, noise gates and analog-to-digital triggering and aliasing, the original recordings juxtaposed anew amidst their successive textural and rhythmic treatments. Gowdy keeps this re-composition process stripped down, elemental and purposive, guided by an ascetic Aufhebung: synthesis as sublation_subjecting a temporal material/theme to analysis and transformation, reintegrating to form a whole that overcomes what it preserves without erasure, reshaping and intrinsically carrying its origins forward. Where Therapy With Colour was strictly and rigorously a set of stereo live performances, Miracles fuses iterative_though still spartan_layers of performance. "Therapy With Colour was about healing through self-hypnosis; Miracles is about forging a future with memory through subjection to trigger mechanisms" notes Gowdy. The result is a captivating collection of minimal IDM and oscillatedelectronics from the Montréal/Berlin producer, working primarily in a 120-140 BPM zone of tonal percussion and corrugated pulse. Gowdy's sensibility and sound palette gets deeper and dirtier,...

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T.F X Local Astronauts

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Skanless Summer: 80z Babyz (Re-Rock Edition) Black Vinyl Edition

T.F X Local Astronauts

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

33,24 €* 34,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (New Interplanetary Melodies / Kuro Jam)

T/Error

Data Surfer EP

13,99 €*

12" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Rawax)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The successful creative disco-graphic synergy continues between Simona Faraone’s label, New Interplanetary Melodies (nim), and the artistic collective Kuro Jam coordinated by Gianluca Pernafelli.

After creating the two V/A sound-tracks, Kimera Mendax EP (NIMKurojam 001) and Kimera Mendax Vol.2 (NimKurojam002), for this third release of Kuro Jam Recordings line, the team assigned to the Rome producer T/error - already featured on the second volume of Kimera Mendax series with two tracks (kx2048 on vinyl and Rising Tide in the digital re-pack) - the music version of the new, eponymous comic strip. The Data Surfer of the title is a special mixer: among its controllers, in addition to thosefor sounds, there is one that reads, mixes and recomposes space-time. What would happen if it ended up in the hands of a suburban hoodlum angry at the world and intoxicated by electronic music? The answer lies in an irregular and corrosive graphic journey that the graphic novel unravels in 6 chapters, in a symbiotic dialogue with the 6 vinyl tracks. In five temporal dimensions curated by five talented artists. In two cities - Rome and Berlin - criss-crossed by pain, youthful passions, torments, desire for redemption, delusions, desire for life. And by a single, unstoppable sound-narrative flow that will sweep through the protagonists’ lives and caress the readers’ hearts.

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T.A.C.

Funny Money

12,99 €*

Distort Berlin 2 White Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3rd release on Steve O'Sullivan's own Rawax series comes from T.A.C. aka Chris McCormack & John Beer. "Funny Money" was originally released in 2000 on Mosaic. 22 years later it will be out on vinyl (re-mastered) again.

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Szrama / Subverse

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rawmantic Disasters)

16,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rawmantic Disasters)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1st press

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Szrama / Subverse

Distort Berlin 2

13,99 €*

Finest Ego | Hypnotic Machine

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1st press

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Szenario

Tape | 2012 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle)

9,99 €*

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Vintage Pleasure Boutique)

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We’re proudly announcing our first Finest Ego solo releases. Available digitally and on limited chrome cassettes (with digital download code), we are releasing a series of albums and EP’s from talented and promising artists. Expect all facets of instrumental hip-hop, future beats and electronic beat music….

Images of classic movies come to mind while listening to the “Hypnotic Machine“ by Vienna-based beatsmith Szenario. Wether a thriller, crime story or action flick, this album will turn your imaginary cortex into a screen for a true cinematic experience.

Mastered by Dj Buzz of Waxolutionists. Original paintings by Simon Walter.

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Syntech

Atmospheres

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (re:st)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously Unreleased ON Vinyl. Syntech’s second album “Atmospheres” originally released in 1991 is entirely composed and produced by Edwin Van Der Laag. On this album, Edwin breaks away from danceable space synth formula and moves towards strongly electronic, ambient, distant, extra-galactic spaces with his Atari 1040 ST. The music from this album had a huge impact on electronic music enthusiasts and remained an inspiration to many young artists.

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Synkro + Dyl

Empty Faces

14,99 €*

Synanthesia Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

Limited Edition.
Record is close to VG+.

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Synanthesia

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Guerssen)

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Prog-psych / acid-folk lost classic from 1969 by this short lived London trio. Now lovingly reissued on vinyl with fantastic remastered sound and including insert with rare photos / memorabilia and detailed liner notes by Steve Krakow aka Plastic Crimewave. Named after a Cannonball Adderley track, Synanthesia formed thanks to a Melody Maker ad placed in 1968 by guitarist/vibes/vocalist Dennis Homes, answered by Jim Fraser (who played sax, oboe and flute) and Leslie Cook (an Incredible String Band fan on bongos, violin and mandolin). With their particular blend of folk, jazz and psychedelia, the trio played all the key underground venues and clubs, sometimes alongside top acts like Floyd, King Crimson or Fairport Convention. Their sole album was recorded at Sounds Technique studio in Chelsea (which was where Pink Floyd were recording their albums at the time) and subsequently released by RCA. The cover featured the trio climbed onto a tree at the same park where the Beatles filmed their “Strawberry Field” promo film. Despite the good reviews and the support of DJs like John Peel, the album was considered too far out and psychedelic and eventually flopped, only to be re-discovered several decades later by acid-folk fans and collectors.

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Sylvester

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Sultra)

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Mystique)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Officially licensed, expertly executed and respectful re-edit of one of Sylvester’s most loved disco anthems, ‘You Make Me Feel Mighty Real’, from the maestro Michael Gray. Set to storm festivals, clubs, radiowaves, you name it – it’s a summer soundtrack if there ever was one!

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Sylvester Javier

Mystique Vision #01

8,24 €* 14,99 € -45%

Swingin' Utters / Nothington

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mystique Records kick off the label with Mystique Vision #01 a full frontal EP from Sylvester Javier, aka Stefano Curti of Vibraphone fame, that delves into the depths of house, techno and acid. 'Secret Ceremonies' nods to the hey days of tech house with the Italo Disco Mix a rolling '90s influenced number. The Cocorico mix weaves in a bit of that early 00's minimal feel before the Original touches on a jazzier, more soulful strand. On the flip, 'Lost in 1st Avenue Loop' and 'Microdot' venture into the realms of acid tinged techno to round of the EP.

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Bird Party

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Red Scare Industries)

8,39 €* 11,99 € -30%

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The final release from Nothington and they’re lucky to pair up with fellow San
Francisco punks, Swingin’ Utters. Two SF legends! And speaking of badass
combos, on the Utters track we have a rowdy duet with Johnny Peebucks
and Jack Dalrymple. Meanwhile, on the Nothington side, we have a
bittersweet farewell that features Chris and Jay trading vocals one last time.
Oh, but don’t get too emo about this sad sendoff ‘cuz both sides of this 7”
are loud and fast. It’s Haight AND Ashbury. It’s Montana AND Rice. It’s
chowder AND the sourdough bread bowl!

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Sunset Mindset Orange Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Although Swigga has released many singles as L-Swift (within Natural Elements, 2Face and NorthEastWildcats) & countless songs, freestyles & mixtapes as Swigga this is indeed his 1st full-length studio album Ever.

This project is a combination of 2 albums Swigga put together as he writes several albums simultaneously, so songs like ‘Swigga Szn’, ‘Persevere’, ‘Forever Lullabies’, ‘Never No’ etc are from “Swigga Szn” (which is an album he was gonna release before he decided to Focus Solely on the NEw Natural Elements Release) and songs like ‘Flower Shop’, ‘I Understand’, ‘Don’t let me Down’, ‘I Can’t Complain’, ‘Perpetual Summers (Sunset Mindset)’ etc. represent the “Sunset Mindset” vibes of the album.

Producers on this project include Charlemagne, Scram Jones, J Armz, Joe Nights, Haydn3000, Eavesdrop & Reezy Re.

It is very intentional for Swigga’s sound to be a slight departure from the core “Natural Elements” sound while also showcasing his versatility and his evolution as a songwriter. He made it so that his day one fans can still hear him on that vibe simultaneously in this time period as he’s currently still releasing NEw music with his group “ne” with more to come, along with NEw music by 2Face (with his Homie/Partner Anthony Cruz aka A-Butta).

Limited to only 75 copies on Lilac opaque vinyl, 75 copies on Sunset vinyl and 100 copies on Black vinyl!

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Sunset Mindset Lilac Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Sunset Mindset Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

25,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Hip Hop Enterprise)

Sunset Mindset

17,99 €*

LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Luv N Haight)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Sweet Maya

Isolation Boulevard Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Luv N’Haight is proud to re-issue Sweet Maya’s self-titled album. A midwest jazz-funk classic with elements of folk, jazz, soul, funk and rock combining to create a heady blend reminiscent of ‘70s work by French band Cortex and songwriting maestro Terry Callier.
The music of Sweet Maya is an extension of each member. As individuals they bring together diverse backgrounds, as a group they blend it all into a sound that is exciting and full of warmth. The six-piece group of multi-talented instrumentalists has five lead singers, four songwriters and four arrangers. The music that grows from the contact of such persons is evidenced in this album. It is Sweet Maya (the Illusion) that flows through and shapes the many idioms of their music. It is Rob Hayes, Tom Davis, Janice Lakers, John Chamberlin, and Mark Bowen who convey the experience. (excerpt taken from original LP liner notes)

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Sweet

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Metalville)

32,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Asian Man)

Sweet Gloom

Reverie

20,99 €*

12" | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Kalita)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Debut full length from Los Angeles based trio Sweet Gloom. Birthed from the ashes of defunct band Get Married, lead vocalist Jaake Margo recruited friends from the band Tiny Stills to create this new project. Reminds me of Danzig/Sinatra fronting a pop punk band. I call it Crooner Core or Sinatra Core! 1st press: 500 on pink swirl

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Sweet Clover

You're What I Need

16,99 €*

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2004 | EU | Original (Crucificados Pelo Sistema)

Swarrrm

Picture Disc

6,99 €*

7" | 2003 | EU | Original (Crucificados Pelo Sistema)

Release: 2004 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1st press

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Swarrrm / Narcosis

6,99 €*

7" | 2006 | EU | Original (Crucificados Pelo Sistema)

Release: 2003 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Swarrrm / Crowpath

6,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Happy Happpy Birthday To Me)

Release: 2006 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Swansea Sound

Live At The Rum Puncheon

24,64 €* 28,99 € -15%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Skep Wax)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What do you do when the world shuts down? If you’re veterans of the indie pop scene, you form a band… accidentally! HUW Williams (the Pooh Sticks) and former collaborator Amelia Fletcher (heavenly, Catenary Wires) are proud to present Swansea Sound. “At the start of lockdown, we were all quite bored and all had time on our hands,” says Swansea Sound guitarist ROB Pursey (Heavenly, Catenary Wires). “I had written a song that was too fast and punky for me and Amelia’s other band, The Catenary Wires, and I thought Huw might like it. He did, so he sang the vocal part on a cupboard in his house in Wales, sent the vocals back, and we mixed it. That song, “Angry Girl,” is on the album. With it, we realized we could record without meeting up—Huw’s cupboard sounds good—and “Corporate Indie Band” came next. We released the two as a limited edition cassette single. To our surprise, it got played on the radio quite a lot. We realized then that we’d accidentally started a new band,” laughs Pursey. To that end, we’re pleased to present you with Swansea Sound’s debut album, Live At The Rum Puncheon. Fans of the duo’s previous collaboration may well remember the band’s humorous, sardonic, lyrics that often offered commentary of the contemporaneous indie-pop scene. Thankfully, nothing’s changed; Live At The Rum Puncheon is chockablock with the same witty and biting lyrical content fans fell in love with many moons ago.

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Swansea Sound

Live At The Rum Puncheon

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

I Need A Job ... So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lp Is Limited To 1000 Copies, Black Vinyl. Swansea Sound Started In The Middle Of Lockdown. They Realised That Fast, Loud, Joyous, Angry Indiepop Punk Was The Answer To Being Stuck Indoors. Who Needs Introspection? Hue Williams Is Reunited With Pooh Sticks Partner Amelia Fletcher (Ex- Talulah Gosh, Heavenly). Rob Pursey (Also Ex-Heavenly) And Ian Button (Wreckless Eric's Live Collaborator) Provide The Noise. Swansea Sound Are The Fast, Acerbic And Joyous Past, Present And Future Of Indie. Four Of The Tracks Were Released As Singles, All Of Them Now Impossible To Obtain. 'Corporate Indie Band' Was A Limited Edition Cassette, 'I Sold My Soul On Ebay' Was A One-Off Lathe Cut That Got Auctioned On Ebay (With A £400 Winning Bid), 'Indies Of The World' Was A 7" Inch Single That Briefly Hit The Uk Physical Charts, But Immediately Sold Out And Plummeted Back Out Again. And Then There Was 'Swansea Sound': A Requiem For A Lost Radio Station; An Anti-Corporate Lament - Another Limited Edition Cassette Single. First Track Rock N Roll Void Gives A Three Minute Revision Session, Just In Case You've Forgotten About The Ramones, The Kinks, The Buzzcocks And The Brief Explosion Of Indie Noise Pollution Of 1986. Some Of The Songs Are Reflexive - 'Swansea Sound' And 'The Pooh Sticks'. (Who Else Was Going To Write A Tribute To The Pooh Sticks?) Others Are Searching For Hope In The Digital Desert - 'Let It Happen', 'I'm Ok When You're Around', 'Pasadena', 'Angry Girl'. 'Je Ne Sais Quoi' Is Pure Pop Throwaway Fun. The Others Songs Are Dead Catchy Too, They Just Happen To Express A Sickness And A Contempt For The State Of Things. 'Corporate Indie Band' Is About A Group Who Have Mortgaged Their Creativity To A Major Label And Sold Their Identities To An Online Marketing Team Of Public Schoolboys. Freedom Of Speech Takes A Look At Three Contemporary 'Alternative' Music Stars And Considers How They've Responded To Blm, The Pandemic And The Rise Of Right-Wing Populism. 'Like Self-Serving Arse...

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Swamp Dogg

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Don Giovanni)

Blackgrass: From West Virginia To 125th St

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1954, 12 year old Jerry Williams, then performing under the name Little Jerry Williams, made his first recording for Mechanic Records, a blues stomp with a shockingly mature vocal performance. Through the 60"s Williams' career developed with a number of successful singles, including 'I'm the Lover Man' and 'Baby You're My Everything', as well as writing and producing hits for Dee Dee Warwick, Doris Duke, and Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles. It was in 1970, however, that the full extent of Williams' eccentric creative genius was unleashed on the world for the first time, with the birth of his musical alter-ego, Swamp Dogg. Created to 'occupy the body while the search party was out looking for Jerry Williams, who was mentally missing in action due to certain pressures, mal-treatments and failure to get paid royalties on over fifty single records,' the Swamp Dogg alias, still in use today, allowed Williams to create music that was bolder, raunchier, and more honest to his creative instincts. The Dogg's cult classic debut 'Total Destruction to Your Mind' struck a powerful blend of Williams classic soulful sensibilities and the blooming psychedelia of the time. Infused in the swirling brew is Swamp's blink-and-you'll-miss-it humor, a number of acid odes, and a heavy dose of sharp political insight. Though the psychedelic strangeness alienated R&B fans of the time, and the authentic R&B infrastructure prevented it from clicking with hippie audiences, it has retroactively received legendary status in cult music circles.Now, 50 years after Total Destruction introduced Swamp Dogg to an unprepared world, and nearly 70 since Little Jerry Williams went into the studio for Mechanic, Williams brings us I Need A Job' So I Can Buy More Autotune. A spiritual successor to 2018"s hit Love, Loss and Autotune, this album continues to push Swamp's sonic exploration of the effect as one of his many creative weapons. In the extended tradition of Total Destruction, Swamp Dogg's 2021 LP neatly balances sleek modern production techniques with that classic Dogg sound that has anchored William's music since the 70s. Subtle yet soulful drumming, skin-tight horn grooves and meandering funk guitar leads create a sonic landscape fitting Swamp Dogg's iconic croon, occasionally drenched in the titular autotune. At 78, Swamp Dogg is as sharp of a singer and songwriter as ever. His raunchy yet charismatic sense of humor takes a more forward role on I Need a Job' So I Can Buy More Autotune, with earnestly delivered lyrics about all day sex and an entire song dedicated to the perils of 'Cheating in the Daylight.' Many of the record's most charming moments emerge from the juxtaposition of Swamp's left field humor with genuine messages of love, such as 'She Got That Fire', which weaves descriptions of imagined sex acts, including but not limited to an encounter involving edible underwear, in between relatively wholesome proclamations like 'she must be an angel on earth,' and 'when she looks at you, it's like sunshine from her eyes'. I Need a Job does more than prove that Swamp's still got it, it proves he's still getting better.

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Swamp Dogg

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Oh Boy - Thirty Tigers)

27,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Swamp Children

Taste What's Rhythm

19,99 €*

Doom Jazz Galaxy Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Manchester's Avant-Jazzy-Funk outfit Swamp Children were enviably eclectic and Taste What's Rhythm is their mini masterpiece. Flitting gracefully through a feast of genres with consummate ease, the band were almost indefinable and, accordingly, nigh-on impossible to market. So whilst this cult EP, originally out in 1982 on Factory Benelux, remains in demand for those in the know, it has also glided under the radar of many otherwise clued-up heads for over 40 years. If you don't know, get to know...

The Taste Whats Rhythm EP was originally released in 1982 on Factory Benelux (an informal partnership between the legendary Manchester-based Factory Records and Belgium-based Les Disques du Crépuscule). With it's kaleidoscopic brightness, silky panache and superb execution, it remains one of the most startling documents of a remarkable time and place.

The EP opens with the oh-so-Balearic title track. "Taste Whats Rhythm" gently unfolds with a Spanish guitar, hazy, drifting vocals and sun-bleached Latin percussion. After this most sumptuous of intros, the tempo is raised, the rhythms grow in complexity as horns jostle amidst the restrained chaos quite wonderfully. And then it winds down again. Proper fluctuating rhythms and tempos throughout. I guess that was the point - taste the variety!

“You’ve Got Me Beat” is a *perfect* piece of post-punk pop-jazz. A mysterious, after dark jazz-dancer, the aching vocals serve as a touching, tender resignation to love. A guitar hook which seems to elegantly reference The Blackbyrds' "Rock Creek Park" and a flowing pulse from New York's No Wave scene. It still sounds so fresh all the years later.

Closing out this most perfect of EPs, the twisted synths and nimble rhythms of bass-heavy roller "Softly Saying Goodbye" combine to create a super-slinky gem; Brit-Funk of the highest order.

Swamp Children formed in Manchester in 1980, around core members Ann Quigley (vocals), Tony Quigley (bass, metalaphone, percussion), John Kirkham (electric & acoustic guitars, metalaphone, percussion), Ceri Evans (keyboards, bass, percussion, background vocals), Cliff Saffer (saxaphone, clarine) and Martin Moscrop (drums, percussion, trumpet). They initially practised at a rehearsal space shared with fellow post-punk funkers A Certain Ratio and Joy Division/New Order. Young and relatively inexperienced upon getting together, the ages of Swamp Children's members ranged from just 16 to 19. Talk about the brilliance of youth.

From the outset, Swamp Children shared DNA with A Certain Ratio. Martin Moscrop was a founder member of Ratio, while Ann provided artwork for them. Although the close association with ACR led some to assume that Swamp Children were simply a splinter group, the new band pursued a more overt latin and jazz tinged direction, at the same time adopting a post-punk attitude towards making music, influenced by the records they were listening to at the time: Miles Davis, Brazilian jazz fusion and heavy funk dancefloor sides.

The band made their live debut at Manchester's infamous Beach Club in May 1980. Thanks to a double-booking blunder another support band turned up and were turned away, having travelled all the way from Dublin for a string of British dates. The name of the unlucky band was U2...

With arrangements that emphasised Tony Quigley’s darkly-coloured basslines (and Ann Quigley’s impressionistic vocals as another instrument in the mix) Swamp Children possessed an easygoing grace and a bubbling energy which indicated that the band's true strength was as an ensemble. The band’s musical sophistication (a fusion of funk, jazz, and bossa nova) would prove to be a strong influence on later UK acts like Sade. Indeed, Swamp Children themselves later mutated into the more known and acclaimed latin jazz outfit Kalima.

Working directly with James Nice, custodian of Factory Benelux, means that the audio for this re-issue of the classic EP comes from the original tapes. Cut at 45 RPM and released in the house Be With disco sleeve, we’ve made sure this record is well up to the job of having a permanent place in every DJ’s bag. As far as we’re concerned, this is essential stuff.

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Swami Lateplate

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Subsound)

46,99 €*