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Teenage Shutdown Things Been Bad

LP | EU (Crypt)

16,19 €* 17,99 € -10%

Release: EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2021 | US | Original (Brick)

Termanology

G.O.Y.A. 3

15,29 €* 17,99 € -15%

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sulatron)

Permanent Clear Light

Cosmic Comics

18,19 €* 25,99 € -30%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Romanticism Ruby Red Vinyl Edition

Hana Vu

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Ghostly International)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Modern Jazz Au Club Saint Germain

Bobby Jaspar

LP | 1956 | EU | Reissue (Sam)

28,04 €* 32,99 € -15%

Love & Life Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 1956 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After hitting Paris in 1950, saxophonist Bobby Jaspar enthralled jazz fans and jazzmen alike with his smooth, elegant playing, with the lyricism of his tranquil phrases heavily influenced by Stan Getz in particular. So when Jaspar began regularly performing with a small ensemble at the Club St-Germain five years later, he adopted the same instrumentation as that of his idol’s illustrious quintet, with Sacha Distel on guitar and René Urtreger on piano in the roles of Jimmy Raney and Al Haig, respectively.
Contrary to what its title might suggest, "Modern Jazz au Club St-Germain" was actually recorded in the studio. It features compositions by Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis along with a handful of standards, in which the angular aridity of bebop gives way to the generous and yet sensitive idiom of cool jazz.
Jaspar’s premature death in 1963 robbed the jazz world of a promising talent; this record is among his best efforts as a leader. Bobby Jaspar is in top form here!!!

Recording: December 1955 at the Pathé Magellan studio, Paris

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Chip Wickham

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ikaros Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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UK jazz master Chip Wickham follows last year"s brilliant soulful long-player Cloud 10 with a deftly crafted, reflective EP of beautiful spiritual jazz sounds influenced by the soulful sounds of Yusef Lateef. Chip"s music has always drawn from a broad world of influences from hip-hop to Roland Kirk and from classic funk to the classic "60s Brit-Jazz sound of Tubby Hayes. But Love & Life finds him foregrounding his wonderful flute playing and producing a perfect four-tracker of reflective, peaceful jazz that elevates and inspires as well as a trademark slice of boppish soul jazz - the jaunty Space Walk.

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Sonny Clark Project

The Sonny Clark Project

19,59 €* 27,99 € -30%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Far Out)

Freeez

Keep In Touch (Pinky 1)

LP | 2010 | US | Original

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two individually sold Vinyl 12"s. Far Out Recordings presents a double bill of two monumental Brit funk classics. 'Keep In Touch' and 'Stay' were the first two 12" singles by the iconic Freeez, both self-funded passion projects of its founding member John Rocca, for his own Pink Rythm imprint.

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Lazy Smoke

Corridor Of Faces

17,59 €* 21,99 € -20%

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Warner)

Ligabue

26,24 €* 34,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2000 | FR | Reissue (F Communications)

Laurent Garnier

Unreasonable Behaviour

22,49 €* 29,99 € -25%

Release: 2000 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (Now-Again)

Rodinia

Drumside / Dreamside

17,09 €* 18,99 € -10%

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Discrepant)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Now-Again Records has enjoyed a long and creative partnership with Munich-based multi-instrumentalist JJ
Whitefield, creative force behind the Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield Brothers and Karl Hector & The Malcouns.
Rodinia, his latest project, is quite different than anything that’s come from his oeuvre to date, but follows in
the line of the Poets of Rhythm’s great Discern/Define, as it reaches back to Krautrock’s experimental heyday
but pushes its boundaries with a post-hip-hop approach.

That’s to say that everything you read in the header above is true, but the ambient sound Whitefield and his
Rodinia collaborator - saxophonist and keyboardist Johannes Schleiermacher – reached for found itself
morphing over the course of a year. What was originally recorded in a two-day studio lock-in, which found
Whitefield and Schleiermacher hooking up “all our vintage synths (Korg MS-20, Moog Prodigy, Roland Juno
60, Jen SX 1000, Korg Polysix), triggering everything with a vintage Korg rhythm box, absorbing some mind
altering substances and jamming out,” was later turned into two, side-long suites, with over-dubbed reeds,
drums and guitar, and self-made Moroccan field recordings introducing the project on its Drumside.
The result is as winsome and exploratory as those from their forebears, but respectfully distanced from the
past’s trappings. With original artwork by Jason Jagel (DOOM’s Mm Food, Operation DOOMsday).

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Raed Yassin

CW Tapes

15,38 €* 18,99 € -19%

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (PMG)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In this 24-minute composition, released here in its original name for the first time, Yassin encapsulates and condenses the aural and sonic landscapes experienced by those who bore witness to the war. In the 1980s, while the Lebanese Civil War, which ravaged the country between 1975 and 1990, was raging, television but particularly transistor radios were the only means through which people heard the news during interminable periods of power cuts or waiting in basement shelters. The audio material was collected by Yassin on his regular trips to the dispersed and neglected archives of militias and political parties, radio and TV stations, and record shops across Lebanon.

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Emma Ogosi

Nobody Knows

15,99 €* 19,99 € -20%

LP+CD | 2016 | EU | Original (Tapete)

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Emma Ogosi has worn a lot of different hats in his career: former air force officer, guitarist with Benin-based Pogo Limited, and husband and manager of Nigerian reggae superstar, Evi-Edna Ogholi. In 1981, he donned a sequined cowboy hat and released Nobody Knows. Nobody Knows is arguably the Nigeria’s best – and perhaps only – Disco Country album. Country music has always been influential in the country and Ogosi managed to channel Jim Reeves via the bright lights of Lagos’ burgeoning disco scene to produce an album of sparkling mournfulness. The album starts brightly with ‘You And I’ and ends with ‘Orindo,’ a horn-driven dance floor filler. ‘Nobody Knows’ and ‘A Lonely Child’ venture into ‘you done me wrong’ territory. And you can imagine Kenny Rogers covering ‘Give A Little’, albeit wearing flares and platforms and a moustache instead of a beard. Overall, though, Nobody Knows is as disco as the sharp suit and gull-wing collar Emma is wearing on the cover. But don’t be fooled – there are rhinestones on that there glitter ball. - Peter Moore

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Family 5

Was Zählt

21,83 €* 27,99 € -22%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Ba Da Bing)

Renderers

In The Sodium Light

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Die With Your Boots On)

Ole Kirkeng

Rocking Chair

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Pias)

Kaiser Quartett

20,39 €* 23,99 € -15%

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Not On Label)

Lolina (Inga Copeland)

Live In Paris

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Martha High with Shaolin Temple Defenders

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This is Hype Williamsprovocateur,Inga Copeland’s 2nd release under theLolinamoniker, which is a live recording of her live A/V presentation for RBMA in Paris, 2015.She was framed by a multi-screen projection of a monopoly board, perhaps best taken as an allegory for London stereotypes as viewed from her insider-outsider position as an Estonian-Russian artist embedded in the city’s multi-textural, poly-cultural fabric, and as comment on its socio-economic merry-don’t-go-round.This soundtrack features a handful of tracks from her“Relaxin’ With Lolina”(2015) release, such as“Relaxx”and“Lolina”,plus“I Am Your Ambient Wife”from that Hyperdub ambient compilation. As far as we know, the rest are all unreleased, and include the piercing bongs of“Time In EU”, used as a similarly discomfiting signifier of Britihsness as Dean Blunt did on the Babyfather album, along with some plaggy Euro techno and a roll-call of LDN road names in“Chance”, whilst”Wheel Up My Tune”is a garish take on bashment, and our favourite,“The Logic”trades in a sort of discordant, lysergic psych sound. It’s definitely prickly stuff instead of easy listening.

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W.O.M.A.N

LP | 2008 | EU | Original (Soulbeats)

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

Release: 2008 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Blackstrobe)

Rebotini / Zanesi

Frontieres

22,39 €* 27,99 € -20%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Barely Dressed)

Good Boy

Shirk Life / Plum Double

15,59 €* 25,99 € -40%

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2014 | US | Original (Side One Dummy)

Andrew Jackson Jihad

Christmas Island

15,99 €* 19,99 € -20%

Slowly We Rot Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Their fifth album is a little bit silly, a little bit serious. It's a record that's irreverant yet somber, full of humor and full of pathos, its twelve songs combinging the two to creat a record that truly cuts right to the bone of the human condition.

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Obituary

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

27,54 €* 28,99 € -5%

Brezel Göring & Psychoanalyse

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited To 2000 Numbered Copies On Colored Vinyl

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Friedhof Der Moral

CD | 2024 | DE | Original (Flirt99)

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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...And Then I Wrote Colored Vinyl Edition

Willie Nelson

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jackpot)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | US | Original (Slamboyant)

Public Enemy

Let It Be Known

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Church Road)

Grivo

Omit

22,79 €* 23,99 € -5%

Expert In A Dying Field Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emerging like and ornate relic, Austin-based power trio Grivo combine slow, methodical hooks and warm tube amplifiers to artfully re-establish the line between heavy guitars and downtempo pop. Grivo's tones and effects are utilised as active compositional elements, crafting and pacing their infectious riffs to allow the saturated guitars and bruising low-end to fully bloom. Within the tidal sound waves and bleak timbre, Grivo forges a distinctive personal connection that challenges the modern definitions of doom metal and shoegaze.

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The Beths

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Carpark)

Flesh Of My Skin Blood Of My Blood

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships – platonic, familial, romantic – and more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?

The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. With Expert, The Beths wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves. They wanted it to be fun -- to hear, to play -- in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics, the fear of change and struggle to cope.

Most of Expert was recorded at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s studio on Karangahape Road in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) -- and sometimes in the building's cavernous stairwell at 1am -- toward the end of 2021, until they were interrupted by a four-month national lockdown. They traded notes remotely for months, songwriting from afar and fleshing out the arrangements alone, the first time they’d written together in such a way. The following February, The Beths left the country for the first time in more than two years to tour across the US, and simultaneously finish mixing the album on the road. That latter half felt more collaborative, with everyone on-hand to trade notes in real time, until it all culminated in a chaotic three-day studio mad-dash in Los Angeles. There, Expert finally became the record they were hearing in their heads.

Expert is an extension of the same skuzzy palette the band has built across their catalog, pop hooks embedded in incisive indie rock. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.”

The rest is a capsule of The Beths’ most electrifying and exciting output, a sonic spectrum: “Your Side” is a forlorn and sincere love song, emotive; while “Silence is Golden,” with its propulsive drum line and stop-start staccato of a guitar line winding up and down, is one of the band’s sharpest and most driving. “When You Know You Know” skews a bit groovier, pure pop and a natural addition to the band’s live set. “Knees Deep” was written last minute, but yields one of the best guitar lines on Expert. There’s a certain chaos across the 12 tracks, the palpable joy of playing music with long-time friends colliding with the raw nerves of pain.

Stokes strings it all together through her singular songwriting lens, earnest and self-effacing, zeroing in on the granules of doubt and how they snowball. Did I do the wrong thing? Or did you? And are we still good people at the end of it? She isn’t interested in villains, but instead interested in just telling the story. That insecurity and thoughtfulness, translated into universality and understanding, has been the guiding light of The Beths’ output since 2016. In the face of pain, there’s no dwelling on internal anguish - instead, through The Beths’ music, our shortcomings are met with acceptance. And Expert In A Dying Field is the most tactile that tenderness has been.

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Keith Hudson

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (17 North Parade)

The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi And Mose..

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Outstanding re-issue of 1974 roots classic album in expanded and remastered form! - The original 1974 release of Keith Hudson's "Flesh Of My Skin" showcased the enduring strength and pivotal importance of the development of reggae music, Keith Hudson's complete mastery of the genre and the unqualified praise that followed its release was fully justified. This suburb re-master features the original mix available for the first time since the 1974 Mamba pressing and comes with the addition of the 7-inch single only "Darkest Night Version" and the restoration of the lost "My Nocturne" omitted from the 1988 & 2004 remix versions, also includes the previously unreleased "Hunting Version". Liner notes are written by Keith Hudson’s official biographer Vincent Ellis.

Original Quotes: "The most moving, satisfying piece of Jamaican music I've heard since "Catch A Fire" and surpasses that album, this is the album of the year without a doubt" (Carl Gayle, Black Music Magazine)

"One of the best albums to be released this year, it combines strong, heavy rhythms with strong, heavy lyrics" (Chris Lane, Blues And Soul Magazine)

"Flesh Of My Skin" is the most potent reggae performance in a long, long while, a remarkable piece of music". (Let It Rock Magazine)

Packaging: LP vinyl with liner notes printed on the inner sleeve, packed into matt UV finish Sleeve, box lot 25

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The Jerry Granelli Trio

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Rare Noise)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2019 | US | Original (Smokecloud)

Osmose & S-Low Kick

Deep 7

15,19 €* 15,99 € -5%

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Smokecloud Blend Colored Vinyl Edition

12" | 2019 | US | Original (Smokecloud)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Osmose, The Funk District & Just Baker

Colt 45 EP

12" | 2019 | US | Original (Smokecloud)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Brand New Breed Green Vinyl Edition

Dog Eat Dog

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Metalville)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Osmose, The Funk District & Oldchap

Disco Grenade

12" | 2018 | US | Original (Smokecloud)

Droppin' Smooth Lyrics EP

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3 tracks of floor fire from Osmose & The Funk District and one slomo cut from OldChap out of France. With works from Mexico, USA and France it's a real international affair! Hand stamped in natural chipboard jackets and always 100% VINYL ONLY.

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D-Smooth

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Dope Folks)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition vinyl!
Only one copy per customer!
Dope Folks’ 88th release is from Providence, Rhode Island... D-SMOOTH! Growing up on the south side of Providence, Danny "D-Smooth" Sykes formed the group The FEROCIOUS TWO. As a solo MC, he released the single "Droppin' Smooth Lyrics" in 1990. Although he recorded more material, this was his only release.
The 12" EP contains the “Droppin' Smooth Lyrics EP”, AND 4 previously unreleased tracks! 8 tracks in all, this EP also features legendary MC's ED O.G, and STEZO!!!
D-Smooth's "Droppin' Smooth Lyrics" EP is limited to 300 vinyl copies (50 colored vinyl, 250 on standard black) never to be repressed. Grab your piece of Golden Era Hip Hop History now!!

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Disco Beatdown Allstars 2

12" | 2015 | US | Original (Smokecloud)

LP | 2010 | UK | Original (VP)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Multi artist comp with one side dedicated to disco floor heat from Osmose & The Silver Rider, and the other offering a midtempo bouncy number from JP Source & a sultry obscure edit from Hristo. Hand stamped chipboard jackets.

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Dennis Brown

Crown Prince Of Reggae

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Tapete)

Robert Forster

The Candle And The Flame

18,99 €* 19,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amishes Red Swirl Colored Vinyl Edition

Naked Raygun

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Wax Trax!)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2023 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Joep Beving

Post

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Spiritual Pajamas)

Nico Georis

A Rainbow In Curved Air

Solitude Gold / White Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“It was never supposed to happen. No one was supposed to reimagine Terry Riley’s A Rainbow In Curved Air—a piece of music that, until now, has existed in its own class of expression. No one was supposed to scale the perilous heights of the citadel and come back with another document of the strange festival scenes within. With the release of Nico Georis’s A Rainbow In Curved Air it’s clear now that this piece of music is a place that you can go to, a kind of astral sanctum that can be visited again and again so long as you know the mysterious paths that lead to it.

“Doing away with the production tricks used on Riley’s original recording (just intonation, mirror image delay, half-speed tracking of all lead parts) Nico Georis confronts the central seven time theme with a new transparency that gradually complexifies into astonishing Persian carpet displays of patterned musical awareness. This is music of the plenum and not the void: it is teeming with forms that behave in ways that recall descriptions of elaborately jeweled DMT hyperspace; sonic shapes that are driven by the pure uplift and force of infinite, unconstrained autotransformation. In this way it is similar to the original but the pace is way less manic, way more listenable as it rides forward on a calm surge of dazzling zero point energy.

“The three other songs on the record are Georis originals. “Vapor” is a moment of twilight abstraction, a plant music duet that features Nico playing along with the plaintive washes of sound produced by a cannabis plant connected to a Plant Wave device. This song was composed spontaneously as it was broadcast live over Nico’s Big Sur based pirate channel, Milky Way Radio. Side B contains two remarkable songs, “Hot Slots” and “777”, that are built mostly out of samples of slot machine sounds. They are both lush holograms of hallucinated beauty and convey something about the spirit of luck, abundance and possibility.” —Matt Baldwin

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Billie Holiday

LP | 1959 | EU | Reissue (Second)

2LP | 2005 | US | Original (Dusty Vinyl)

Release: 1959 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 Gram Vinyl / Gold/White Splatter / Handnumbered Edition limited to 400 UnitsPushed by Norman Granz' Jazz at the Philharmonic shows, Billie Holiday made her comeback with `Solitude' in 1953. With young Oscar Peterson on the piano.

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Lewis Parker

Put A Beat 2 A Rhime

Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull

Release: 2005 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Nice remixes of Mobb Deep, Raekwon, MOP, Children Of The Corn, Black Moon, Camp Lo and many more!

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Live On Air Broadcast

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Laser Media)

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nostalgia Black Vinyl Edition

Sula Bassana

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sulatron)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Silhouettes Magenta Transparent Vinyl Edition

Dead Astronauts

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Cold Transmission Music)

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Dead Lights Black&White Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Limited to 100. Dead Astronauts are one of the leading acts in the Synthwave & Synthpop scenes, blending the lines of Darkwave, Goth and Post-Punk. Previously composed of two members, Jared Kyle and Hayley Stewart, Hayley left to focus on her solo work (Mecha Maiko) and Dead Astronauts was reformed. Florence Bullock then took on the female lead, replacing Hayley in 2019. As a silent member and Record Producer, Slade Templeton (of Crying Vessel, Influx Studios) stepped in to help bring their new sound to life in 2019 and 2020 and round out the band. Dead Astronauts have regrouped and reworked the style they were known for, to become something modern, edgy, new and improved. Dead Astronauts are back and ready to ignite that flame in their fanbase that has been waiting, asking for more!

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Dead Lights

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cold Transmission Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Limited to 200. After their two well-received debut EPs in 2020 (‘Death Pop’ and ‘Hex’), the enigmatic duo now presents their highly anticipated debut album. ‘Dead Lights’ showcases the duo’s visceral and sleazy hybrid of hard hitting dance beats, monumental synth bass lines and catchy vocals in 9 brand new songs. Far away from the creative wasteland of retro synthpop, or the machismo of metal-infused industrial, the androgynous duo creates raw art that disrupts gender and genre, offering high energy, dark electronic songs with killer grooves that cross the borders between dancefloor TDM and electropop.Imagine the gritty sounds of Gesaffelstein or Schwefelgelb on one hand, and the dance vibe of The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy on the other. Locked together in energetic, dark,industrial electropopsongs destined to fill dancefloors in a dystopian world.

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Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Gyrate Metallic Gold Vinyl Edition

Pylon

LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)

The Conducted Tom Lehrer Beige W/ Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the late 1970’s Athens, Georgia was buzzing with a raw but sophisticated music scene. The turn of the decade began producing new sounds from bands like the B-52’s, R.E.M. and Art-Rock luminaries, Pylon. Before they were a band, Pylon were art-school students at the University of Georgia: invigorated by big ideas about art and creativity. In 1980 the band released its first record, Gyrate and began touring across the country in support of the release. Following the critical acclaim of Gyrate, Pylon went back into the studio. They gleefully pulled their songs apart and put them back together in new shapes, revealing a band of self-proclaimed non-musicians who had transformed gradually but noticeably into real ones. The resulting album was, Chomp. Now, more than three decades later, both studio recordings have been remastered from their original audio tapes and are set for release on New West Records.

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Tom Lehrer

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

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The Conducted Tom Lehrer Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Conducted Tom Lehrer is a collection of Tom Lehrer's orchestral recordings, plus all of the songs he did for The Electric Company, including the previously unreleased "Trees."

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Tom Lehrer

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

25,64 €* 26,99 € -5%

Jazz Orchestra Of The Concertgebouw

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Conducted Tom Lehrer is a collection of Tom Lehrer's orchestral recordings, plus all of the songs he did for The Electric Company, including the previously unreleased "Trees."

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Crossroads

2LP (Joc)

22,94 €* 26,99 € -15%

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Orange Milk)

Rmx Reality

Advent

16,89 €* 25,99 € -35%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (22)

Anah

22247005

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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22Recordings pres: 22 24/7 days a year in order to dance

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Raw)

Gemstones - Opal

LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Lex)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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RAW is back with the long awaited Gemstones II compilation. This second edition features 16 original tracks, divided into 4 vinyls and exploring 4 different sides of Techno: Diamond, Amethyst, Moonstone and Opal.

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NehruvianDOOM

Nehruviandoom

19,94 €* 20,99 € -5%

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Steadfast)

Brandtson

Hello, Control

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First time to cassette for 2006 album, yellow cassette & yellow norelco box, limited edition of 100.Limited edition reissue of the final Brandtson album, Hello, Control. Features previously unreleased alternate mixes from album producer Ed Rose and marks the first time the 2006 album will be available on vinyl and cassette. Presented with all new artwork. A pivotal release and the closing chapter on over a decade of making music for the Cleveland quartet. The first album with longtime friend and collaborator Adam Boose joining on bass, and the fifth release with producer Ed Rose. From the dusty lull of album opener "A Thousand Years" a new Brandtson begins to emerge. Putting a ready for the floor sneer to the road worn hallmarks of their back catalog, and taking a decided step into pop territory on singles, "Nobody Dances Anymore" and "Earthquakes and Sharks". The alternate Ed Rose mixes were curated from the bands archives and have been previously unreleased in any format. Originally released by The Militia Group in 2006. The 2022 reissue of Hello, Control was mixed by Ed Rose, mastered by Adam Boose, and lacquer masters cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.

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Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Trost)

The End

Why Do You Mourn

27,54 €* 28,99 € -5%

2LP | 2008 | EU | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sofia Jernberg - voice Kjetil Moster - clarinet, tenor saxophone & electronics Mats Gustafsson - flutes, baritone saxophone & electronics Anders Hana - baritone and bass guitars, langeleik Borge Fjordheim - drums CREDITS: Recording:Borge Fjordheim, September 2021/May 2022 at Electrolüd Studio, Stavanger Production:THE END, Jorgen Træen and Trost Records Mix:Jorgen Træen at Grotten, Bergen Mastering:Jorgen Træen at Grotten, Bergen Artwork:Design by Drid Machine / Painting 'Why do you Mourn' 2022 by Edward Jarvis Publisher:Cien Fuegos

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Tinariwen

Aman Iman Water Is Life

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

Release: 2008 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blanchimont Orange Vinyl Edition

Nuron

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (De:tuned)

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Warner Music International)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nuron continues to make his mark on De:tuned with the long-awaited new 3-track EP 'Blanchimont'. Nurmad Jusat aka Nuron, one of the key figures from the golden era of 90s electronic music and UK techno, extends his legacy by swinging back into gear. On 'Blanchimont' Nuron combines his signature drum programming with uniquely lush and highly emotional synth arrangements. Futuristic aesthetics and mystic sounds to take over your senses. New and essential material!

Ian Anderson at The Designers Republic created all the graphic work. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis. A separate digital release will also be available at the usual digital shops. Stay tuned!

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Chris Rea

The Road To Hell

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2021 | US | Original (Air Vinyl)

38 Spesh & Flee Lord

Loyalt + Trust II

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Partial)

Jah Free

Lightning Clap

I'm Just A Lonely Girl / The Groove I'm In

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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A dig into the vaults leads us to the lesser-spotted Jah Free, a stalwart of the 90’s dub scene and purveyor of all things musically DIY.

* This 12” comprises of slices of `Lightning Clap’, the lead cut being a vocal.

* Originally released on the Jah Free Music label in 1993.

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Florence Miller

12" | 1977 | UK | Reissue (P&P)

15,19 €* 15,99 € -5%

The Black Messiah Live In Vienna

Release: 1977 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Two hidden gems from the P&P vaults courtesy of a scarcely known talent from Georgia, Florence Miller get an official reissue 'I'm Just A Lonely Girl' and 'The Groove I'm In'. With only two releases to her name, both of which came on Peter Brown’s P&P Records, ‘The Groove I'm In’ released around 1975 got the attention of the Northern and Modern Soul scenes in the mid ‘90s becoming a real star of the show. Since then, it’s maintained consistent demand on the second-hand market with originals selling for over £200. As with most of Peter Brown's artists, they briefly emerged on the sparsely distributed P&P label, for a brief stab at stardom only to disappear when Peter's attentions moved on to the next releases. Consequently, very little is known about the multi-talented and sadly ignored Florence Miller following her two releases on the Harlem label. Clearly though, the music speaks for itself with the quality of the P&P catalogue and this Florence Miller slice of magic shining through to this day.

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Cannonball Adderley

LP | 2023 | EU (Whp)

21,84 €* 22,99 € -5%

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Slap The Wall)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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These are the Adderley brothers, Cannonball and Nat, respectively on alto sax and cornet, and both at the head of a top flight quintet featuring Mr. George Duke on piano (acoustic and electric), Walter Booker - bass and Roy McCurdy - drums. Recorded live in Vienna in November 1972, this is a fine example of pure electric Jazz-Funk of the era. The album opens with an ecstatic twenty minutes long version of George Duke's "Black Messiah" and it goes on with equal intensity throughout five other tracks including three Joe Zawinul classic gems, "Directions", "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and "the Scene".

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Just Jungle

For Real

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (SURVIVE ltd.)

Cosimo Damiano

Hypnos

15,99 €* 19,99 € -20%

LP | 1968 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Immersive audio experience for both the dj and the collector, ranging across tribal voodoo rhythms, Coilish esoterism and musique concrete atmospheres

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Aretha Franklin

Lady Soul

Release: 1968 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Kythibong)

Binidu

Very Necessary 30th Anniversary Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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More than 10 years ago, Vincent Dupas, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy and Jérôme Vassereau created Binidu in parallel with their respective bands, Fordamage and Pneu, then very singular and of the most joyful french rock music. Their collaboration is a trek that started from green and sunny pastures to sink over time into mountains surrounded by storms. Binidu holds nothing back in composition, always ready to reinvent himself with each new album.

After "Yes", the first fresh and luminous one released in 2013, the second "Nouvel Ancient" in 2018, more adventurous and kind of lost in an apocalyptic world, the trio returns today just as adventurous but more in a peaceful way with "// ", a creation mostly focused on his appetite for the acoustics and electronics combination. A long-distance running music, which, from the top of the ridge lines, looks at the world with lucidity, embracing the entire landscape, valleys, towns, all the way to the sea.

It is their label, Kythibong, which, on the occasion of the festivities around his twentieth birthday, brings Binidu out of his brief hiatus. 2022 therefore sees the trio reunite and begin to compose a new repertoire with a strong desire to play at a low volume and thus be able to perform in a wide variety of locations. They then broached the composition of the third album changing their instrumentarium. The drums are now reduced to a split snare drum and a hi-hat, the modular synthesizers take an important place in the composition, Jérôme and Vincent play on small amps, the latter exchanges his electric guitar for an acoustic Parlor, and the sound of the voice is now devoid of any effect.

Over the course of rehearsals, Binidu starts to imagine “//” as an overall piece with five linked long compositions. Thirty-five minutes of music, alternating very acoustic phases and other electronic ones, creating supernatural spaces, moments of reflection, some pop, hypnotic and/or rhythmic bursts.

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Salt-N-Pepa

2CD | 1993 | Reissue (Island)

22,79 €* 23,99 € -5%

Release: 1993 / Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Intellect (Remix) / Sample & Hold EP

Orca

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Deep Jungle)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Adeen)

Marcellus Pittman

Eastside EP

Metro Boomin Pres.Spider-Man: Acr.The Spider-Verse

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Adeen Records is on a roll right now and this time out they welcome the Detroit hero that is Marcellus Pittman for a new and beguiling four-track 12". Known for his work with The 3 Chairs collective as well as his solo jams, this Motor City mainstay opens up with 'You Always Hank Bank One Time' which is a real mental maze of rickety loops and blurts of degraded synth. 'Another Spring Lover' is another rusty and lo-fi piece of archetypal Detroit house that is very clearly machine music but with a unique sense of human soul. 'I'm Gonna Be The Everything' is a raw drum track with sparse, heartwarming chords and 'Slick Nickle Pladium Investment' is a knackered downbeat hip-hop closer. Magnificent.

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Metro Boomin

CD | 2023 | Original (Republic)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Represent The Real / A Lil Funk Grey Vinyl Edition

Stylistic Murder

7" | 2022 | US | Original

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited Edition Vinyl (only 500 copies available worldwide)

Mixed by Eddie Sancho
Mastered by Carsten Daembkes

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Greatest 80s Hits Best Ever

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cloud 9)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Greatest Dance Hits Of The 80s

LP | 2022 | EU (Cloud 9)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Pop

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Wild Palm Trax)

Sean Avery

Wild Palms 001

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Deep flowing techno and house tunes on the mysterious Wild Palm Trax. Limited copies!

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Greatest 70s Hits Best Ever

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cloud 9)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Non:Analog-On:Stage Series-Tijuana 10-06-1990

Death

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Relapse)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

Pessi Levanto

OST The Innocents

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

Keys To The Gate Pink Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Original Soundtrack to this modern horror masterpiece!

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Death's Dynamic Shroud

LP | 2023 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

27,54 €* 28,99 € -5%

Billy Green Red Vinyl Edition Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Keys To The Gate is a cinematic and frenetic electronic album confronting personal and geopolitical fears and anxieties. First single “Love Heat” is emblematic of the manic energy of the album, with wonky synth hooks and Dds’ patented vocal manipulations. And the 7-minute, ever-pulsing “Let Them Live” became a crowd favorite during the recent tour. What writhes from just beyond the gate…

Cover artwork by James Webster

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Samiam

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (New Red Archives)

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kscope)

Ozric Tentacles

Lotus Unfolding

27,89 €* 30,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Relapse)

Dying Fetus

Wrong One To Fuck With

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Cruisin)

Stres

Sea // Grams

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Karl)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pretty And Melancholiac Indie-Electronic Music For Queers, Lovers, Marxists, And The Painfully Alone.Sasha Bolof Is No Stranger To Troubled Waters. The Seattle Native Documented A Moment Of Her Life Fraught With Anxiety, Grief, Alcohol Abuse, And The Search For Identity. The Result Is Sea//Grams, Her Most Ambitious Work To Date. Musically Reminiscent Of 90's Trip Hop Production With Post Punk Guitar Stabs. Her Melancholiac Melodies Shimmer Over The Jagged Rocks Of Noise And Carries You To Shore.

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Tellavision

The Third Eye

15,19 €* 18,99 € -20%

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Brain Damage meets Vibronics

Empire Soldiers Live

2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Jarring Effects)

23,39 €* 25,99 € -10%

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Los Guayabo Brothers)

Los Guayabo Brothers

Psychotropical

27,89 €* 30,99 € -10%

LP | 1971 | UK | Reissue (Elemental)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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PsychoTropical' is a true musical journey that skillfully blends traditional Latin American sounds with modern and psychedelic touches. The tracks are both catchy and contemplative, offering a harmonic and rhythmic richness that will take you to unexplored musical horizons. Here's a broad spectrum of the topics addressed: firstly, the simple and wild party (La Conjuntivitis). the sadly familiar crackdowns since 2020 during festive demonstrations in Toulouse (Folkloriptica). social issues such as modern slavery (La Cumbia Libertaria) or the Colombian armed conflict (Fango). Los Guayabo Brothers approach their Colombian identity in a more introspective way (Origins) and also evoke their adopted French culture (El Francer).

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Sonny & Cher

All I Ever Need Is You

28,79 €* 31,99 € -10%

Release: 1971 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Past Inside The Present)

ASC

Loss

12" | 2024 | US | Original (Albina Music Trust)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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James Clements (asc) has been one of the most highly regarded artists in ambient, ambient techno and IDM scene since his evolution into the sound about 15 years ago. His ability to create deep soundscapes over lush beats and atmospheres come from his liquid drum n bass background prior to working with more cinematic tracks. ASC is back with a new release and it finds a home at the Past Inside the Present stable where he had put out a few EPs on the last couple years. This haunting and beautiful release Loss, explores various moods and atmospheres to great success. Tracks like the amazing and spacious 'Sensory Disintegration' to the poignant 'What More Can Be Said' which adds a lush airspace to a stunning piano piece. Some soundscapes are majestic and triumphant while others are minimal and then foreboding. New age and ambient fans will rejoice after hearing this magical album. Available in limited quantities so act quickly! Comes with download code inside.

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Shades Of Brown

22,79 €* 23,99 € -5%

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Albina Music Trust)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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n 1969, a transformation in Albina was underway. Displaced by the Vanport flood two decades prior, an influx of Black residents had settled in the area after redlining practices among the city’s realty boards provided few other options. A local economy among Albina’s Black residents had flourished for a time, but soon declined due to chronic disinvestment by the city’s elites. As with many urban centers in America, the impending ghetto-ization of the neighborhood developed as the civil rights movement was in full swing. And the citizens of Albina had something to say about it.

During this time, Shades Of Brown came together at the Albina Arts Center - a community hub for practicing artists of all stripes. A product of the Model Cities initiative, the center was established to develop the cultural and intellectual resources in the neighborhood amid the protests and civil unrest of the times. Paul Knauls’ Cotton Club had shuddered its doors in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Albina’s Black residents had been forcibly displaced from their homes to make way for urban renewal projects conceived by the Portland Development Commission. And Williams Avenue, the once-vibrant hub for Oregon’s jazz music with myriad Black-owned businesses lining the streets, was at risk of becoming a blighted shell of itself. Left to their own devices, Black artists were organizing to convey truth through their work and the Albina Arts Center was ground zero.

Rehearsing at the Albina Arts Center, members of the Shades Of Brown found one other as a variety of Albina’s musical acts were shifting, separating, reconstituting, and forming anew. The group would feature members of the Cavaliers Unlimited, Little Nolan & The Antoine Brothers, Youthsound, Upepo, and the Norman Sylvester Band. And as luck would have it, Free Meal Ticket - renowned soul singer Wilson Pickett’s group - would disband while on tour in Portland. This left director, composer, and future Grammy recipient Thara Memory en route to the Albina Arts Center. He was quickly recruited to become the bandleader for Shades Of Brown.

Equipped with the ephemeral resources flowing from the Model Cities initiative, Memory organized youth and adults into a variety of ensembles, and with a penchant for results-driven rigor he would furnish his pedagogy via musical boot camp with the Shades Of Brown. The band was required to read and write their music. Before a note was to be played, members were summoned to the blackboard to chalk out their parts on a musical staff. And it was not uncommon that rehearsals consisted of the band being drilled with marching routines, as was common in the tradition of Memory’s southern upbringing. This went on for months. When the results were in, Memory gave the green light for the band to perform. And the Shades Of Brown would have something to say about it.

Celebrating Albina Music Trust’s tenth vinyl release, the story of Shades Of Brown circles back to the label’s first outing, The Gangsters. Both records spotlight the impact of Thara Memory’s tutelage while highlighting the legacy of community-powered arts education in Albina. Even the label’s logo mark is an inspired interpretation of the Albina Arts Center’s motif.

Being the sole recorded output of Shades Of Brown, the album reflects the group’s sense of fellowship as well as the sentiments of its contemporaries in Albina - makers, dreamers, activists, and youth - under-resourced and confounded by the City Of Portland’s blatant disregard. As vocalist Gregg A. Smith lays bare on “Searchin’ For Love”, one can’t help but hold the image of this community and its cry for decency in light of limited services and harm. Over half a century later, we now have this document to ponder. What are we doing to prevent this from happening again?

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Transport

Boldy James & Real Bad Man

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the summer of 1979, a Chicago DJ started a riot that killed disco overnight. Inciting fans to blow up disco records during a nationally televised major league baseball game, the cultural impact of Disco Demolition Night was felt globally. It even made waves in Portland, Oregon.

In the months to follow, clubs in the City of Roses were out to hire anything but disco. For Transport, hot nights as a stage-ready show band would fade to memory. First went the horns, then the vocalists, until all that remained was the rhythm section. The band's days were numbered or so it seemed.

But keyboardists Jimmy and Johnny Sanders were fiercely experimental. Freed from the disco formula, the brothers' exchange over synthesizers and other keyed instruments was electric. With drummer Towner Galaher, the group bore songs in homage to the fusion music ever present in Portland. Inspired by the national success of local groups like the Jeff Lorber Fusion, Tom Grant, and Dan Siegel, the band was reborn.

Months before signing a multi record deal with Geffen, Quarterflash's Marv and Rindy Ross offered Transport a shot at recording in their home studio. The group recorded over two sessions and soon shelved the tapes. Band members were summarily recruited by other acts shortly thereafter. The tapes have continued to sit.

Now over four decades later we hear this music. With tape restoration and mastering by Gus Elg, a calculated spitshine envelops the recording and positions listeners in the shag carpet-lined haze of a 1970s fusion session. With design by Eric W Mast, viewers can check out the aforementioned period upholstery through archival photography in the album's insert, depicting wall-to-wall shag gracing the booths at Mel Brown's Drum Shop.

Out of the gate, "Latin Summer" burns through with an urgency akin to The Gangsters - an album recorded by members of this band a decade prior. On the Funkadelic-fused "Chrome Dome," Jimmy Sanders continues to make use of the synthesizer, through squiggling tones and fried bursts, as well as on “Gospel Bridge,” a track that evokes Heavy Weather in its Pollock-like splashes of melody. Jeff Bruce's fretless bass brings a psych-propelled elasticity to the groove, adding a sinful undercurrent to “Time of My Life” - a languorous tune that could be a Head Hunters outtake - while giving “Song For Valerie” a playful Peaches & Herb-like wiggle.

Transport's output is staggering for a group entirely unreleased and but a drop in the bucket for Portland's cottage industry recording business of yesteryear. This installment in the group's catalog probes a layer deeper.

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Killing Nothing

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Tuff Kong)

15,19 €* 15,99 € -5%