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Err (A Photographic Essay)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12” Black Vinyl Single EP w 4 tracks Brand new 4 track EP from the critically acclaimed partnership between guitarists & vocalists Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) & Richie Kotzen (Winery Dogs).

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David Sylvian

Grönland

70,54 €* 82,99 € -15%

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Knekelhuis)

Troth

Oak Corridor

10" | 2021 | EU | Original (AM)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Oak Corridor is the second full-length album from Newcastle, Australian duo Troth (Amelia Besseny & Cooper Bowman). It follows 2020’s warmly received album, Flaws In The Glass (Altered States Tapes) and 2021’s Small Movements In Radiance mini-album (Not Not Fun). While the same themes and intentions remain, this time Troth channel their ambient experiments into an environ located somewhere closer to minimal-wave and synth-pop.

While Oak Corridor is their most ‘song-based’ album to date, it continues the respectful treatment of natural themes found in their previous releases, further tying in elements of balance, truth, justice, humility, strains of mysticism from varied origins and an opposition to the encroachment of ill-advised development surrounding them in Newcastle (and Australia more broadly). The album is a truly collaborative affair and offers something of a sound-diary of the two’s relationship.

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Reda Saiarh

Let's Dance

13,99 €*

Frank Popp Ensemble Under Covers

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Let’s Dance – 08pm – by Reda Saiarh is a 10” release on AM Records. Four oddball “New Beat – not – New Beat” tracks produced by this young dj from Geneva (of the duo Ramin&Reda) for renewed appetite for dancing after the lockdowns… title track Let’s Dance is Reda’s 2021 take on the classic Bowie song, followed by an original new production Quinz Lord, in which he samples his girlfriend’s cat. On the flip he worked with Thomas Lavanchy on E-O, a song constructed around traditional Gabonese chanting before finishing off with an ode to Yello medley, mashed up to the deepest kick of the record! Super heavily cut 45rpm!

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Frank Popp Ensemble

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Unique)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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OST Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Original Soundtrack

John Williams

2LP | 2021 | JP | Original (Universal Music Japan)

83,99 €*

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Morphine)

Gordan

Down In The Meadow

20,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ambientologist)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Truly adventurous and life enhancing music that invigorates your soul. TIP!

Press Release:

Gordan join traditional Serbian singing with abstraction, energy and minimalism. Their music is marked by radical reduction, seemingly endless ascension and a passion for experiments.

The Serbian singer Svetlana Spajić is an internationally recognized and acclaimed artist. She, like almost no other contemporary singer, is a master of all the complex local stylistic variations of singing from Balkan music. Guido Möbius plays bass and various electronic sound generators. Additionally he uses guitar amps, microphones and effects to provoke feedback which either harmonize or are juxtaposed with the song. It is a dialogue between sound and noise which is accentuated or fragmented by means of Andi Stecher’s expressive drumming. With a rich pool of ideas the percussionist drives the sound forward breathlessly and grounds it. Together the trio form a dynamic body of sound.

Gordan recorded their debut during the first wave of the Covid19 pandemic in Europe in March 2020. Due to the lockdown in Berlin at that time the city didn’t have many distractions to offer, so the trio just concentrated on work. The atmosphere of being isolated in a recording studio had a big impact on the musical results. All three band members came up with ideas for new pieces, which were immediately tested, worked out and recorded. On abstract instrumentals provided by Stecher and Möbius, Svetlana Spajic sometimes reacted with personal interpretations of serbian traditionals, and the other way around. Most of the time it was as if the music just happend to the band; playing together felt natural from the first moment on.

Some of the old serbian traditional songs that Spajic sang are extinct forms with a specific local melodic mode. The skillful improvisation of their lyrics and ornaments was of great importance and very estimated among village singers. The title song Down In The Meadow for instance originally is a love song from the village of Odevce in eastern Kosovo, Serbia. The singing manner is of a great intensity and sonority, with lots of specific local ornaments. It disappeared along with the village communities from the area. Oh, my Rose flowers is from the region of Kopaonik mountain (southwest Serbia) and the mode, scale is known as ”kopaonički glas” (Kopaonik mountain air). Svetlana adopted the style from the late singer Veličko Veličković from the village of Ostraće. It is an old mountain solo chant, rich in fast ornamentation movements and microtonal intervals. Don’t ask how I live is Svetlana’s homage to the new popular folk music movement from the 80ies known as Južni Vetar (Southern Wind) led by a musician and composer Mile Ilić, known as Mile Bas (“Mile the Bass”) which revolutionized popular music introducing tabooed oriental music and original arrangements.

All music by Spajic Stecher Möbius except ‘Don’t Ask How I Live’ by Miodrag M. Ilić, original title Što me pitaš All lyrics are traditional, except ‘Don’t Ask How I Live’

Svetlana Spajic — vocals Andi Stecher — drums & percussion Guido Möbius — bass, feedback, electronics

Recorded by Alberto Lucendo at UFO sound studios Berlin in March 2020 mixed by Morphosis Mastering by Neel at Enisslab, Rome Artwork by Lorenzo Mason Studio

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Fionnlagh

What Came Before

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Kotarak)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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An immersive, dystopian, even nightmarish exploration, Fionnlagh’s ‘What Came Before’ drops the listener into an unfolding flashback. Soaring synths over dark, brooding sub tones crescendo in a style that already seems a unique hallmark of the artist, with an immediacy that is as transfixing as it is unsettling. An album to be listened to, to be bravely thrown in front of, and one that stands out boldly amongst its contemporaries. The album’s narrative is one of previous shared experience, shared burden, as a guiding light in dark times. Though a seemingly far stretch from the menacing timbre and haunted frequencies, What Came Before goes further than nostalgia, placing emphasis on the more apparent experience of history’s true nature. Glimpses of light appear at times, but the honesty is laid bare that, for the most part, darkness remains. To construct this echo of the past, Fionnlagh makes use source material, own recordings, synthetic sounds and manipulated external artefacts. ’The Art of Disguise’ presents itself as an impassioned rallying cry, after the album’s bleak and uncertain exposition, while ‘Across the Pacific’ delivers the emotional resolve to be carried through the remainder of the story. Pieces like ’The Villa on the Cliff’ and ’This Storm Will Pass’ continue the thread of enthralling darkness, but with a greater clarity and direction. Nevertheless, the turbulence of the album as a whole could be met with any number of experiences, and what arises will be unique to each listener. His debut album under this alias, and in this genre, Mark Findlay has released numerous techno and drum & bass singles, transposing the darker side of his production into something more cinematic and thoughtful, a bold step backwards in time.

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Rubio

Licks From The Grotto

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Alina Valentina)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Licks From The Grotto came to life during two sessions in the summer of 2020. “I was swimming. I was jamming.” Rubio recalls. His studio resides in an 18th-century sea fortress accessible only by water. It’s a suited environment for capturing raw emotive moments. Rubio’s encounters with machines create a pleasant amount of unconventional truthfulness as well as an exhilarating atmosphere. Though enigma hangs 'round his shoulders like a heavy cloak his music is very warm and inviting, like a big wave lifting your feet off the ground.

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Alina Valentina

Works And Days

11,89 €* 16,99 € -30%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Galacticana)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Emerging from a stylistically varied collection of recordings made during the ongoing global pandemic, “Works and Days” is Alina Valentina’s debut album. Grounded by home confinement, she found herself back in the studio with generous time to reflect on the different directions taken in her previous work. Inspired by 70s horror, sci-fi and film noir, her work blends synth heavy darkwave and pop with misanthropic and playfully aloof lyrics. Lyrical themes vary in dealing with escapism, providence and existentialism; laying bare the struggle of maintaining a healthy balance between livelihood and creative output as an artist. “Works and Days” opens up like Pandora’s box, revealing a myriad of reflections on Valentina’s existence. The title refers to Hesiod’s poem ‘Works and Days’ which, like this debut, is filled with a vivid feeling for the rhythm of human life and the forces of nature.

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Strand Of Oaks

In Heaven

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Colorful World)

Arp Frique

The Seed

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Colorful World)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“A seed is the basis of life: a tree, food, a baby, conception, a thought, an album, a band,” says Arp Frique around the title and narrative theme of his latest album. “A seed is growth from almost nothing to everything.”

It’s also linked to a track by Stevie Wonder that he often covers with the band live - 'A Seed's a Star/Tree Medley.' Arp Frique has an inherent understanding of funk and a flush-tight connection to the groove. This was apparent on his debut Welcome To The Colorful World of Arp Frique, via its fusion of disco and funk interwoven with Caribbean and Cape Verdean sounds, and it continues even more so here. If anything, the album plunges deeper into Arp Frique’s love of rhythm and groove. “I went deeper into my love for synths and drum machines from a dance floor perspective,” he says of the album. “This one has more of an electronic vibe.”

The result is an album that feels potently alive, sonically exploring the globe via a concoction of sounds that takes in disco, synth boogie, funk and the sounds of the Caribbean, West and East Africa. The album radiates the feeling of a lost gem, the kind that a crate digging aficionado may find in some far flung place that ends up with a re-release. Whilst Arp Frique expresses a real fondness for such classic sounds - “honestly I wouldn’t even know how to make modern stuff, I am stuck in the 70-80-90s and I love it there” - a tired exercise in retro nostalgia this isn’t. Instead, the album feels more like a fresh take on sounds that once ignited dance floors across the world.

On top of having the dance floor in mind, the album is also a deeply personal one. “I wanted to make this one even more personal and have the lyrics go deeper,” he says. “The lyrics on the album reflect the times we live in: the confusion, hope, despair, rebellion, unity, upgrading consciousness and divinity.” The creative process - despite benefiting hugely from guests that include Americo Brito, Mariseya, Orlando Julius and The Scorpios - is also a personal and intense one for Arp Frique. “I always think in terms of sound and emotion, the two most important aspects of music,” he says. “Every layer that I add needs to add emotion and amplify the sonic palette. It’s a very deep process that I need to do on my own - there is no other way for me. I connect to a higher level of consciousness during these sessions and all external influences need to be cut off in order for this to have maximum effect.”

The theme of the seed that runs through this album, and the connotations of a life cycle, is linked to parenthood. “My daughter, now 5 years old, is my everything and the main drive for everything I do,” he says. “I dedicated this album to her and because this album means so much to me and reflects so much, I also have a full movie almost ready to be released together with the album.” Much like the album itself, the accompanying video will touch upon the tones and styles of bygone decades. “It’s a mixture of a road movie of me and the live band, mixed with a semi-fictional autobiographical story with the album as a soundtrack, all in VHS. Think Holy Mountain meets Sun Ra movies meets Purple Rain but on a low budget with a VHS-cult vibe to it.”

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Arp Frique

The Seed

22,99 €*

Windless Day Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Scott Hirsch

LP | 2021 | EU (Scott Hirsch)

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Tiptoe Tiger Music)

Mandolin Orange

Nightbird

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (American Dreams)

Jordan Reyes

Sand Like Stardust

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Keep On Pushing Lp 20 Years Red Vinyl Edition

The Black Seeds

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (The Black Seeds)

32,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Forever Living Originals)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Twenty years on, The Black Seeds mark the 2 decade anniversary of their debut album ‘Keep On Pushing’ as a first ever vinyl release. In 1998, The Black Seeds formed their roots in Wellington - a creative, 90s rock based community that was embraced by the sounds of the likes of Shihad, Fur Patrol and Weta.

2001 marked the beginning of the Welly Roots sound and the release of The Black Seeds – ‘Keep On Pushing’ – reaching platinum sales in New Zealand and shaping the funk, soul, Afrobeat and other eclectic elements over their dub/reggae foundation.

Keep On Pushing’s bold themes of love, optimism and solidarity has resonated with fans across the world, shaping them as the creative, vibrant 8 piece band they are today.

"This album marked a change culturally as well as in sound, a south pacific take on soul, where we were proud of our multicultural heritage and our accents. It was a move away from DJ’s to a big band sound. It was the beginning of The Black Seeds as a party band, we wanted to create a funky feel good sound that embraced everyone who experienced it."

- Barnaby Weir, Lead singer and founding member

This special anniversary vinyl edition will feature mixes of all ten tracks from the original album.

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Cleo Sol

Mother

48,99 €*

M-16 20th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Box Set

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Last chance, last repress.

Cleo Sol - Mother is the second studio album by British singer-songwriter Cleo Sol, released on August 20, 2021. The album is deeply personal, with themes centered around motherhood, family, healing, and self-discovery. As part of the Sault collective, Cleo Sol had already established herself as a key figure in the neo-soul and R&B world, but Mother showcases her vulnerability and emotional depth in a more intimate, reflective setting.

The album blends elements of soul, jazz, R&B, and folk, creating a serene, acoustic soundscape that complements its introspective lyrics. Mother features lush, soulful arrangements, with gentle strings, piano, and acoustic guitar forming the backbone of many tracks. The overall sound is calming and meditative, allowing Sol's vocals to take center stage.

Lyrically, the album reflects on Cleo Sol's experience with motherhood and the emotional changes it brings. She addresses themes of unconditional love, personal growth, and the challenges of raising a child while also navigating her own self-healing. Songs like "Don’t Let It Go to Your Head" and "We Need You" express a sense of nurturing and tenderness, while "Promises" speaks to the weight of responsibility and the desire to protect loved ones.

Key Tracks:
"Don’t Let It Go to Your Head" – A standout track that offers both encouragement and advice, encapsulating the nurturing spirit of the album.
"We Need You" – A deeply emotional song that explores themes of connection, support, and the importance of being present for those you love.
"Build Me Up" – A soulful ballad that speaks to vulnerability and the need for support and growth within a relationship.
Critical Reception: Mother received widespread acclaim for its emotional honesty and soothing production. Critics praised Cleo Sol for her vocal performance and the way she was able to capture the complexity of motherhood and personal transformation. The album’s stripped-down production was also commended for allowing her voice and storytelling to shine.

While Mother is a personal solo project, it is clear that Cleo Sol’s work with Sault influences its sound, especially in terms of the introspective lyricism and the use of minimalist, organic instrumentation. Producer Inflo, who has worked extensively with Sault, was also heavily involved in the production of Mother, contributing to its cohesive and intimate sound.

Overall, Mother is a deeply personal and emotionally rich album that solidifies Cleo Sol's place as a standout voice in contemporary soul and R&B

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Sodom

4LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BMG)

85,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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OST One Last Kiss Crystal Blue Vinyl Edition

Hikaru Utada

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Milan)

Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Flesh And Bone)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Hikaru Utada's debut single “Automatic/time will tell” released on December 9, 1998 sold over two million copies, catapulting her to top-artist-status at age 15. The first album “First Love” released a few months later and marked the highest number of CDs sold in Japan, a record that remains unbroken to this day. All of her albums that followed have topped the charts. The 2007 single “Flavor Of Life” set a world record for the highest number of digital downloads. She announced a hiatus from her music career in 2010 to focus on her "人間活動/ningen katsudo/career as a person," or personal growth, returning to her career of music in April 2016 with singles “Hanataba Wo Kimini” and “Manatsu No Tooriame.” Her sixth studio album "Fantome" followed in September 2016 to great success in both Japan and abroad with a #1 on the Oricon charts stretching four consecutive weeks for the first time, a #3 on the US iTunes chart, and over a million units total in sales of CD and digital downloads. Since March 2017, She has been with Epic Records Japan a division of Sony Music Labels Inc. The year 2018 saw the release of her 7th album "Hatsukoi" on June 27, 2018, marked her twenty-year anniversary from debut, and going on her first Japan-wide tour since recommencing her music career. Footage from the tour is available as a video release under the title "Hikaru Utada Laughter in the Dark Tour 2018." The theme song for video game KINGDOM HEARTS Ⅲ "Face My Fears" was released as a single in 2019. The track was co-created with Skrillex and marked Utada's first Billboard Top 100 in the US. An EP including the A.G. Cook co-produced single "One Last Kiss" and her first self-cover "Beautiful World (Da Capo Version)" is available March 10, 2021. The two tracks are both theme songs appearing in the feature film EVANGELION:3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (SHIN EVANGELION).

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Doused

Murmur (Extended)

14,99 €*

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Outernational)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This cassette includes Doused's full length album & extended remixes. This release is available on a recycled lavender tape.

Taking cues from the masochistic volume of bands like My Bloody Valentine or Swans, Doused weaves hypnagogic whispers into a wall of lush guitars played loud enough to drown out jet engines. Their music melds together the members' love of shoegaze acts of the last few decades, the new wave / post-punk scene of the 80s, and everything that falls in between. Formed in 2017, Doused began as the slow burn recording project of bored college students in Philadelphia before eventually transitioning into a full-fledged band with a constantly rotating lineup. Their first release, 2017’s demo tape, Fixed on Innocence, floated around on the internet for months before any of those songs would ever truly be played by a live band.

Currently consisting of Vincent Duong, Emma Hansson, & Mike Wolfe, Doused has been carefully crafting their debut LP in between finishing school, navigating full-time jobs, and staying ahead of a global pandemic.

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The Mallory-Hall Band

The Last Special

20,99 €*

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Outernational)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Outernational Sounds very proudly Presents The Mallory-Hall Band "Song of Soweto" & "The Last Special". Limited, fully licensed digital and vinyl reissues of two crucial South African sessions led by Charles Mallory and Al Hall, Jnr., featuring Kirk Lightsey, Marshall Royal, Rudolph Johnson, Billy Brooks and more! Essential companion pieces to Kirk Lightsey’s legendary ‘Habiba’. Featuring tracks: Song Of Soweto: Side A – ‘Song of Soweto’, ‘Hamba Samba’; Side B – ‘Cape Town Blues’, ‘Moroka Rock’, ‘The African Night’ The Last Special: Side A - ‘The Last Special’, ‘Princess of Joh’Burg’; Side B - ‘Amafu (Clouds)’, ‘Blue Mabone’ Never released outside South Africa, and out of print since 1974, Outernational Sounds presents two long-lost Johannesburg sessions from the Mallory-Hall Band – an all-star review of West Coast jazz stars who toured apartheid South Africa in the mid-1970s. Sanifu Al Hall, Jnr. is a musician’s musician. During a storied career stretching across six decades, Hall has recorded with the greats of the music including Freddie Hubbard, Doug Carn, and Johnny Hammond, and leads his own Cosmos Dwellerz Arkestra. But until recent years, the only records on which he had appeared as leader were a brace of rich, funky LPs, Song Of Soweto and The Last Special, issued only in South Africa under the moniker of The Mallory-Hall Band (named for Hall and his co-leader, guitarist Charles Mallory – musical director for Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Mallory was conductor for Dusty Springfield touring bands, and had worked with John Lee Hooker, Stevie Wonder, and many others). Neither LP had any wider release, and both have remained out of print since 1974. How did a young stalwart of the Los Angeles jazz scene end up in a recording studio in apartheid South Africa? Al Hall, Jnr. and Charles Mallory had arrived in South Africa as part of the touring band for the singer Lovelace Watkins. Sometimes billed as ‘the Black Sinatra’, the Detroit-born Watkins sang standards and ballroom classics on the Las Vegas circuit. He never made it big in the US, but in his 1970s heyday he was a huge star in southern Africa, and 1974 he hired a jazz big band to accompany him on a tour of South Africa – Hall and Mallory were part of the line-up, alongside Mastersounds bassist Monk Montgomery, pianist Kirk Lightsey, tenorist Rudolph Johnson, drummer Billy Brooks, and Marshall Royal, musical director of the Count Basie band. The tour was a huge success, and during downtime from performing, members of the group managed to independently record no fewer than three albums. Lightsey and Johnson’s stunning Habiba was the first (reissued as Outernational Sounds OTR.013), and it was followed by two crucial sessions led by Hall and Mallory – Song of Soweto and The Last Special, issued on the local IRC imprint. Visiting apartheid South Africa in 1974 was a controversial choice for any artist. Numerous artistic and cultural bodies around the world had already announced that their members would boycott the country in solidarity with the struggle against apartheid, and working in South Africa was severely frowned on by anti-apartheid activists everywhere. For a Black band, touring the country to play to mostly white audiences could have been seen by many both inside and outside South Africa as a questionable decision. ‘It was a batch of mixed reactions when I choose to visit South Africa whilst apartheid policies were in place,’ Hall recalls. ‘To me the choice was a simple one – “I wanna see for myself!” I also wanted to be a part of breaking down racial barriers, having been down some of the same roads in my own country.’ The albums were recorded by a twelve-piece band at Johannesburg’s Video Sounds Studios in December 1974, and feature the legendary pianist Kirk Lightsey, Black Jazz recording artist Rudolph Johnson, and the rest of the touring band. Both records are superbly arranged slabs of peak 1970s funky big band soul jazz, with tasteful Latin inflections and more than a nod to South Africa’s upful township jazz sound. They are the sonic traces left by a seasoned African American band who were touring South Africa in the depths of the apartheid era, and who immediately moved beyond the segregated hotels and ballrooms to build links with local South African players and audiences. Never previously available outside South Africa, Outernational Sounds’ new editions of Song of Soweto and The Last Special (alongside our edition of Kirk Lightsey’s Habiba) represents the first time these albums have been in print for nearly fifty years. Fully licensed from Gallo Records and pressed at Pallas in Germany from Gallo’s original masters, they feature new sleeve notes from Francis Gooding (The Wire) based on interviews with Al Hall, Jnr., and a reminiscence from pianist Kirk Lightsey.

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The Mallory-Hall Band

Song Of Soweto

20,99 €*

Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Forse

4CD | 2021 | US | Original (Important)

39,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Siltbreeze)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alessandro Cortini's acclaimed 'Forse' series is available for the first time on CD including an exclusive disc of 'Forse' performed live. Packaged in matte coated digipacks housed in a heavy duty tip-on style outer box. 2021 digital master by Stephan Mathieu.

Composed using only an original Buchla Music Easel, an incredibly rare electronic music instrument designed by Don Buchla, the Forse series features long, romantic compositions full of voluminous, bombastic tones and dripping with thick timbre.

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C.I.A. Debutante

Dust

Merry Christmas From Andra Day

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“Dust is the second vinyl outing from Nathan Roche & Paul Bonnet (aka, CIA Debutante) for Siltbreeze (aka, their label) following the estimable huff of The Landlord (aka, the 1st LP) after countless cassette releases (aka, too much backstory). Dust finds our heroes at the top of their game; the captivating Je ne sais quoi formed around vocal recitation & percolating electronics has been honed to perfection, moving them beyond whatever references were made in the past into a catagorization where they are known as ‘Themselves’. If I were to compare it to anything it would be that giant Zardoz head, flying around the French countryside, drolly enunciating-in English no less!-dystopian affirmations, predicting the future, rewriting the past, ordering off menu, all the while spitting forth a rain of Aperol, Pernod & Gitanes to their brutish followers below. Basically free drinks & smokes. What’s not to follow? You can Cabaret Voltaire this or Shadow Ring that all you want, but Dust puts CIA Debutante in the cat bird seat. And I don’t care what you say, the air really is more rarefied at the top. Listen & find out.”—Arthur Frayn (aka, Zardoz)

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Andra Day

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Warner)

2LP+Book | 2021 | EU | Original (Magazine)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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" I’ve started to work on this album before I knew it. During June 2018 I was in Japan for a month to release my previous album « Cairn » as well as my first solo exhibition of drawings in Tokyo.

Everyday on my way to the gallery I passed in front of the same building, its name kept haunting me.

Back then I was digging for cheap 80’s Japanese CD’s in second hand stores. Most of them set the tone of this album and the direction I wanted to follow. I feel there’s a direct connection between these original sources and the sound I pursue by their meditative aspect.

Most of the demo songs were done before my daughter’s birth on August 2019 and were finalized since then. Many of the titles refer to this main event and relate to how it changed my position in life : being a link through time by becoming a father. "

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Richard Ojijo

Mo_Ro_20

144,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ostgut Ton)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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20 Years OF Music FOR Marcel Odenbach

Richard Ojijo’s music for the films of german video artist Marcel Odenbach not only underscores and accentuates the imagery and motion, but also serves to propel the narrative too. The compositions are auditory distillations of the visual and create a synergy between music and image that draws the observer ever deeper.

With Odenbach’s and Ojijo’s collaboration now entering its 3rd decade, Ojijo was recently inspired to revisit and remix some of the themes contained within the extensive body of work.

Matt Karmil, Aug 2021

Die Musik von Richard Ojijo für die Videoarbeiten des Künstlers Marcel Odenbach sind eindrucksvolle Beispiele dafür, wie Klänge Filmbilder nicht nur untermalen oder deren Wirkung atmosphärisch verdichten können, sondern neben dem Visuellen ein gleichberechtigtes Eigenleben entwickeln, das auf das Gesamterlebnis des Films zurückwirkt: plötzlich auftauchende innere Bilder oder Assoziationen, die das Gesehene mit noch größerer Komplexität und Mehrdeutigkeit versorgen.

Wenn sich etwa in „Innerer Sicherheit“ oder „In stillen Teichen lauern Krokodile“ sphärische Flächen und Soundeffekte ausbreiten, erinnert dies zuweilen an elektronische Stimmungen der späten 90er Jahre, obwohl die Thematiken der Filme in gänzlich andere Richtungen weisen. Dabei wird nie der Spannungsbogen der filmischen Dramaturgie vernachlässigt. Vielmehr kommt es zum Wechselspiel von dienender und freier Funktion, in dem die Musik nicht nur ihre schöne, sondern – den Themen der Filme angemessene – beunruhigende Wirkung ausbreiten kann. So tauchen wie aus dem Nichts Stimmen auf oder Geräusche, etwa von Stiefeln in „Beweis zu nichts“, die parallele Narrationen auf die Audiospur legen, um die zum Teil bedrohliche Wirkung der Bilder zu verstärken und womöglich Bereiche des Unterbewussten zu berühren.

Die Zusammenarbeit von Ojijo und Odenbach dauert mittlerweile über 20 Jahre an. Ojijo hat nun seine Arbeiten für die Filme Odenbachs neu zusammengestellt und neu gemischt. Die Platte erscheint im Herbst 2021 aus Anlass der großen Odenbach-Retrospektive im Düsseldorfer K21-Museum. Dort werden auch sieben Videoarbeiten zu sehen sein, von denen fünf in Zusammenarbeit mit Richard Ojijo entstanden sind.

Michael Kerkmann, Aug 2021

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Jasss

A World Of Service

19,54 €* 22,99 € -15%

LP+CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Insideoutmusic)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, A World Of Service marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist Jasss aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

The evolution of A World Of Service has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show Jasss hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here A World Of Service is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album Jasss muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, Jasss seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of Weightless, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, A World Of Service folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. Jasss is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of A World Of Service. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, Jasss sings: “Pleasure / Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service / I call to be my life.” Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, Jasss offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

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The Tea Party

Blood Moon Rising

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001)

David Bowie

Box | 2021 | EU | Original (Parlophone)

431,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Columbia Local)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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18LPs.

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James Arthur

Back From The Edge

26,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Original Cast / Peter Plate & Ulf Leo Sommer

Owt Ku'damm 56 Das Musical

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rhino)

Eagles

Live At The Forum '76

41,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lucky XIII (Ten Of Swords) Flexi Disc Edition

Pale Shade

7" | 2021 | US | Original (Flesh And Bone)

You Will Be The Death Of Me Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What a song! Perfectly arranged, suitable for summer's end and autumn's breakthrough. Loud, but no harm to your ears.

Pale Shade is a Shoegaze band from Southampton Township, New Jersey.

Pale Shade is: Josh O’Hara - guitars, vocals Evan Lynch - Bass Joe McLaughlin - Drums

This track was engineered and mixed by Josh O’Hara and mastered by Zac Montez at Timewell Recordings.

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Light The Torch

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Nuclear Blast)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ripple)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Time fortifies the bonds between us. Since emerging in 2018, Light The Torch have grown stronger in lockstep together as a band and as friends. Through this growth, the Los Angeles, CA trio—Howard Jones [vocals], Francesco Artusato [guitar], and Ryan Wombacher [bass]—only enhanced every aspect of their signature sound. Upheld by head-spinning seven-string virtuosity, yet also anchored to skyscraping melodies, the group crafted twelve no-nonsense and no-holds-barred metallic anthems on their 2021 second full-length album, You Will Be The Death of Me

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Sun Crow

Quest For Oblivion

22,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In Heaven / Your Lull Transculent Purple Vinyl Edition

Greet Death

7" | 2021 | US | Original (Flesh And Bone)

10,99 €*

Everything You Do / You Told Me You Loved Me Feat. Denise Vallin

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New edition with new artwork in transculent purple vinyl limited to 500 copies.

Recorded and mixed by Nate Leritz and Nick Ranger at The Woods recording studio in Fort Gratiot, MI
Mastered by Jay Maas at Getaway Recording in Haverhill, MA
Design and Layout by Jake Morse & Kacey Keith

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Positive Force

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

22,99 €*

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another Side Black Vinyl Edition

Leo Nocentelli

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Things happen for a reason, man.” - Leo Nocentelli

At just fourteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As an original member of The Meters, Leo wrote instant classics “Cissy Strut” and “Hey Pocky A–Way,” but his greatest moment on record may be totally unknown, until now…

Recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in New Orleans in the early ‘70s and then lost to the ages, Another Side is one of Leo Nocentelli’s most personal and definitive moments ever cut to tape. A mixture of funky folk and rootsy, raw emotion (think Bill Withers and James Taylor meeting Allen Toussaint at Link Wray’s Three Track Shack), this previously unheard album shines like the sun on a spring day on the New Orleans fairgrounds. Backing Nocentelli is an all-star line-up of New Orleans royalty, including Allen Toussaint (piano), James Black (drums), and both George Porter Jr. (bass) and Zigaboo Modeliste (drums) of The Meters. Deeply introspective, the album features nine original songs by Nocentelli, plus a soulful rendition of Elton John’s “Your Song.” Half a century later, these recordings sound just as fresh and engaging as the day they were recorded.

What makes Another Side even more extraordinary, however, is the fact that the album—which could have easily become a classic in the ‘70s singer-songwriter canon—sat untouched for decades; miraculously surviving the devastating blow of Hurricane Katrina, only to be found 2,000 miles away at a Southern California swap meet in 2018 by record collector Mike Nishita. The album’s incredible journey is documented in the liner notes by Sam Sweet (New York Times, Los Angeles Times), who spoke with Nocentelli and Nishita about the recording process and re-discovery of the tapes. Sweet’s full notes appear in the release’s accompanying booklet alongside hand-written lyrics by Leo Nocentelli. The first pressing of the vinyl edition will feature gold-foil treatment on cover and spine. Rounding out the package are original designs and layout by the multi GRAMMY®–winning designer Masaki Koike.

While Nocentelli was embedded in New Orleans’ R&B scene, he was also deeply inspired by the late 1960’s and early 1970’s rising singer-songwriters, and soon found himself exploring sounds that were miles away from his band’s hard-edged funk riffs. Whenever he had downtime from session work and shows, Nocentelli spent much of 1971 recording his newly-found, reflective, diaristic songs at Matassa’s Jazz City studio. Backed by longtime Meters bandmate George Porter Jr. on bass, Nocentelli crafted the lineups for his sessions to match the tone of the material. When he needed a pianist, he’d call Toussaint. For percussion on the slower songs, he used drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, but many of the tracks featured James Black—a frequent collaborator of Toussaint’s and a member of Ellis Marsalis’ jazz group, whom Nocentelli recalls as an “unbelievable” musician. The recording, which Nocentelli fondly refers to as his “country-and-western-album,” paints a picture of a young man yearning to find a sense of purpose. “I was going through some changes which were reflected in the songs that I wrote during that time,” he tells Sweet. Among them is the mid-tempo “Getting Nowhere,” in which he expresses a sense of frustration, as he watches others find success around him. Similarly, “Till I Get There” details a man who is struggling to persevere in his goals. In the soaring “Tell Me Why,” meanwhile, the singer contemplates the existence of God. Other songs center around fictional characters. “Pretty Mittie,” for instance, is sung from the perspective of a farmer who longs to give up his arduous life for the city. “You’ve Become a Habit” is about a man who falls for a sex worker named Fancy. “Riverfront” is based on stories that singer Aaron Neville shared, about his days working on the New Orleans waterfront. Nocentelli also chose to perform one cover: Elton John’s breakthrough hit, “Your Song.” The guitarist made the recently-released ballad his own—infusing it with a loping, head-nodding cadence, ever so tastefully “funkdafied” in true New Orleans fashion. By the time that the album was finished, The Meters were busier than ever. They had just signed a record deal with Warner Brothers and were now the official house band at Toussaint’s studio, Sea-Saint. There, they not only backed artists on Toussaint’s Sehorn label but had also become the go-to session musicians for every major artist that recorded in New Orleans. Rather than focus on a solo career, Nocentelli poured his energies into The Meters’ next album. Eventually, time moved on, as did Nocentelli, and he decided to store his unreleased solo album at Sea-Saint for safekeeping. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Sea-Saint was among its victims. While Toussaint (who passed away in 2015) had sold the hallowed studio in the mid-90s, hundreds of his archived recordings remained in the building. The new owner salvaged what he could from the flooded building, shipping everything to a storage facility in Southern California. Boxes of tapes sat there for more than a decade before moving to another unit, which foreclosed a year later. The contents were purchased in a blind auction and, days later, sold at a swap meet. The fact that record collector Mike Nishita just happened to be there was pure kismet. Nishita, a DJ and brother to “Money Mark” Nishita (of Beastie Boys fame), recognized the Sea-Saint label on the boxes and purchased all 673 master tapes at the swap meet. He inspected the contents with his friend Mario Caldato Jr., the longtime audio engineer for the Beastie Boys. In addition to masters from Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Lee Dorsey, and Toussaint, there was a quarter-inch reel with Nocentelli’s name on it. As Caldato and Nishita played it back, they knew they had something special. “There was nothing else like it,” writes Sweet. “An acoustic album by the greatest funk guitarist who ever lived. It was the tape Mike would play for people to show them how special the collection was. The best album in the vault was something nobody knew existed.” Eventually, Nishita and Nocentelli connected, “He was so grateful, so sincere,” recalls Nishita. “I just kept thinking about how this music needs to be heard...Especially when you look at all the things that had to fall into place for these tapes to survive and be discovered this way.” As Nocentelli simply puts it, “Things happen for a reason, man.” And now, Light in the Attic is thrilled to give this remarkable record the spotlight it so rightly deserves. 50 years later, all is not lost.

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Adele

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (The Drop)

Fat Freddys Drop

Wairunga

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Wairunga finds the Freddy juggernaut digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience but with wild weather elements playing an important creative role in producing this unique live album.

Recorded in Wairunga, high above Waimarama Beach in New Zealand, it is place etched into the DNA of Fat Freddy’s Drop who’ve roamed here for over 20 years; to party, relax between tours, make a song Wairunga Blues in its honour and even to get married. Farmed by the Parker family for a century, Wairunga is an oasis of green pasture and native tree filled valleys that fall away to the ocean below.

In inimitable Freddy's fashion the new tunes run a gamut of genre busting styles. Coffee Black is layered with cosmic hot buttered soul and cinematic wigged out psyche-blues while Shady continues Freddy's Afro-Acid adventures with Fitchie’s beat-making tapping into a South African township brand of techno Freddys experienced on tour. Bush Telegraph is a reggae classic featuring MC Slave aka Mark Williams on the mic with freshly minted yum char spiced rhymes of hope. The other new tracks Leave Your Window Open and Dig Deep are loose rhythmic experiments that the band have been working on for a long time. Versions were developed, rehearsed, but then set aside – dismissed, demonised - only to be revived with new energy in some future moment of creative cohesion. The results are loose-limbed; broken and bruised beats smashing into subterranean bass and twisted up melodies. Bones and Wairunga Blues are the two classics from Freddy's vast back catalogue. Off the Blackbird album, Bones has aged beautifully - like a fine wine - the song’s component parts matured and melded together in harmony and balance. DJ Fitchie rates this 2021 vintage superior to the 2013 original. Wairunga Blues has been a work-in-progress since it was released on Bays in 2015. Kuki dials up some appropriately off-kilter keys to match the wonky-funk laid down by Fitchie’s bass line and the horns. It’s a mighty comeback – and a fitting tribute to this magical place.

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Milano Undiscovered - Early 80s Electronic Disco Experiments

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Spittle)

Shake Off That Dream / Try Something New

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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40 years after the beginnings of the Italo disco movement 'Milano Undiscovered' leads us to discover the first ferments of the Milanese post-punk dance scene.In the early 80's future producers began to veer towards a form of dance music not yet defined, what once seemed like an experimental form, today sounds like a cornerstone for future development in the club scene of key city as Berlin, Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam. Italo disco was first mistreated, then exalted, forgotten and rediscovered a thousand times and today it is one of the most respected genres in club music. Fred Ventura, musician and producer - here curator of the compilation - has selected 11 key tracks from the local scene. Get ready for such unreleased gems – or alternate version – of future dance penned by Modo, Atelier Folie, Fred Ventura, LA Maison, 'lectric Workers, Actor's Studio, Fogli & Riva and Maurizio Marsico. Fred Ventura's career began in 1979, first as a drummer in punk and new wave bands (An Incoherent Psyche, Le Jour Prochain), then as a singer for State Of Art, a seminal group of the Milanese scene of the early 1980s. After State Of Art he was immediately associated with the Italo Disco scene with his productions and record projects. In 2008 he began collaborating with Spittle Records releasing the essential compilations' Milano New Wave 1980-1983 ',' Italia New Wave ',' Italia Synthetica 'and' Milano After Punk ', as well as the fundamental collection of the State Of Art' Dancefloor Statements '. The songs featured on 'Milano Undiscovered' were produced and mixed between 1982 and 1986 in Milan, mastered and edited by guru Alden Tyrell.

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Eddie Bullips

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Outta Sight)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Satta 20th Anniversary Edition

Boozoo Bajou

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Pilotton)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Who Is Jill Scott: Words And Sounds Volume 1 Blue Vinyl Edition

Jill Scott

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Hidden Beach)

44,99 €*

Ron Holden / Jerry Fuller

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Only 1 per customer! Limited double blue-colored vinyl LP pressing. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Grammy-award, multi-platinum artist Jill Scott's debut album, Who Is Jill Scott? Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 is the debut album by the R&B-soul singer-songwriter, originally released in 2000 The album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards, whereas "Gettin' in the Way", "A Long Walk", and "He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)" were nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in 2001, 2002, and 2003, respectively. The album has been listed as one of the best albums of the 2000s by Slant Magazine.

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I'll Forgive And Forget / Double Life

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Outta Sight)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

EPMD

It's My Thing

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Outta Sight)

Sam Dees

Lonely For You Baby

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Melting Pot Music)

SGJAZZ

SGJAZZ Vol. 2

Petrichor Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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With Sgjazz, Dundiff pursues his passion for jazz. SG stands for supergroup. The quintet plays jazz with a hip-hop state of mind. Classically trained jazz musicians – multi-instrumentalist Idris Frederick, Patrick Denney on bass, Anthony Keenan on guitar, Noah Reed on alto and tenor saxophone – are jamming with certified rap cats. Sgjazz are not a random group of session players but five long-time friends who go way back.

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Enfant Sauvage

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Believe Digital)

DJ-Kicks Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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The Blaze ist ein französisches Musik-Duo, das aus den beiden Cousins Guillaume und Jonathan Alric besteht. Sie kombinieren die von ihnen geschaffenen Musikstücke oft mit Videos zu einem audiovisuellen Gesamtwerk. In ihrer Musik mixen beide Einflüsse aus Dub, House und Popmusik. Sowohl Guillaume als auch Jonathan Alric singen auf einigen ihrer Tracks. Als Einflüsse für ihre Musikvideos nennen sie die Regisseure Ken Loach sowie Jean-Pierre und Luc Dardenne und den Fotografen Sebastião Salgado. Nun hat Guillaume Alric mit Enfant Sauvage ein spannendes Solo-Projekt und veröffentlicht mit 'Petrichor' das Debütalbum "Mit Enfant Sauvage wollte ich mit drei Musikvideos, einem Album und Fotos einen Teil einer Welt zeigen, die ich sehr gut kannte. Durch Gesichter und Orte, Klänge und Texte wollte ich die Geschichte einer Ära erzählen, die ich mit der unschuldigen Inbrunst einer Jugend in der Wildnis durchlebte."

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Disclosure

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (!K7)

Roadhogs: Live From Richmond To Pocon

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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For a duo whose youthful energy rejuvenated the world of house music at the start of the 2010s, it seems incredible that Disclosure are now into their second decade of musical life. The incredible vigour of those early records, the spark of invention and ever-onward musical thrust, remains with the Disclosure brothers, Howard and Guy Lawrence, to this day. Their third album, 2020’s Energy, was aptly named, with house, breakbeats, disco, UK Garage, electro, soul, R&B, hip hop and a globe-trotting array of percussion combining to bracing effect, as the Lawrence brothers spat musical life into the face of the pandemic.

The emphasis throughout DJ Kicks is on motion. After a brief ambient introduction from Pépe’s Life Signs, Disclosure keep the energy high, in a mix that showcases the wonderful malleability of a house beat in the right hands. From sub bass to disco samples to 303 tweak, all is welcome in Disclosure’s house, with the mix allowing individual songs space to breathe even as the pace remains harefooted.

“Most of the mix is presenting what you can do with house,” says Guy. “And that's basically our career: trying to move house forward, whether it's with songwriting or using different genres or different languages. The mix should represent where we’re at now; and where we’re at now is clubby.”

Energy may have confirmed Disclosure’s place at the top of the dance music tree but Guy compares the duo’s DJ Kicks to the sets they might play at after parties and smaller shows, rather than at their huge headline dates. “If you put us in Phonox in Brixton, we're gonna play a bunch of this stuff - it's a good representation of that,” Guy concludes, “what we're going to play in a sweaty basement rave.”

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The Groundhogs

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Fire)

40,99 €*

Fabric Presents: Sherelle

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Triple Black Vinyl, 12"X24" Poster, Vinyl "Bumper" Sticker, Dl Card. An Essential Rock Artefact Tracing The Groundhogs From Their Pre - 'Thank Christ For The Bomb' Blues Roots To The Final Live Show For The Classic Line Up Of Tony Mcphee (Guitar And Vocals), Pete Cruikshank (Bass) And Ken Pustelnik (Drums).Never Before Heard Recordings From The Warner Brothers' Vaults Including A Vintage 1969 Set From Their Show At The Richmond Athletic Ground (Aka The Crawdaddy Club) And Their Final Explosive Set At The Pocono Raceway Track.Includes The Live Debut Of What Would Become The Anthemic 'Cherry Red' And Mcphee's Seismic Destruction Of 'Amazing Grace'.A Career-Spanning Gem From The Ultimate Heavy Rock Power Trio Book-Ending 976 Days And 250-Plus Live Shows."In Their Stage Act They Concentrate On Being As Heavy And As Hard-Hitting As Possible." The Scene Magazine"Performing On Stage We Feel That The Emphasis Is On Excitement So We Play The Numbers That Involve The Greatest Amount Of Movement And Dynamics," Tony Mcphee Told Star Pop.

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Sherelle

2LP | 2021 | Original (Fabric)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Henki Black Vinyl Edition

Richard Dawson & Circle

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Domino)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emotions Yellow Vinyl Edition

Das Lumpenpack

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Roof)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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DJ Cam & Frederic Beneix Present: Wine4melomanes

DJ Cam & Frederic Beneix

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (BBE Music)

42,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Paura: A Collection Of Italian Horror Sounds From The Cam Sugar Archives Splattered Vinyl Edition

Aa. Vv.

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (CAM SUGAR)

66,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Garrincha)

Garrincha Star All-Stars

La Vibe Del Padrone

31,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Complete Discography 1979/2009 Colored Vinyl Edition

Sekunda

3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (F.O.A.D.)

72,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alambres Y Barrotes Black Vinyl Edition

Ex-Kombro

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (F.O.A.D.)

12,64 €* 22,99 € -45%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU (La Familia Releases)

Disfear

A Brutal Sight Of War

14,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Elephant Stomp - 12 Instrumental Freaky Stomper Rock Gems From 70s

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Naughty Rhythm)

16,99 €*

Warsaw Silver/Grey Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Here the Cosmic Discotheque team temporarily gives up with the pure 70s Disco mark of the previous releases and, while remaining in the same decade, the spotlight will move on the Rock scene. Those who have followed the series, know that the Cosmic-compilations are based on great selections of European singles (often B-sides) and lots of bizarre productions, mostly unknown and sometimes rare; and so it will be for Elephant Stomp too! Killer Drum Breaks, Tribal Freak Rock, Stomper Junkshop Glam, Instrumental psych rock, proto-Disco... those are the explosive ingredients of this unique compilation. So no long and useless solos or empty virtuosity here, just lots of groove and rousing tracks, in other words the best food for you party animals and digging maniacs!

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Warsaw

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Outsider)

Collected Tape Experiments 1980-1984 Volume 2

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Warsaw was the planned debut album by the English post-punk band Joy Division, while they were briefly associated with RCA Records. Recorded in May 1978, it comprised eleven tracks now known collectively as the "rca Sessions". However, the band were disappointed with the label's post-production work and the deal fell through, the album being scrapped. Four of the songs recorded during the RCA sessions had previously been recorded at the end of 1977, and it was these older recordings that the band would release the following month as their debut An Ideal for Living EP.

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La Maison

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Spittle)

14,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Allscore)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Five years after the release of volume 1 of the collection “Collected Tape Experiments 1980-1984”, further sound experiments by this incredible Milanese duo re-emerge, never sufficiently valued and who in a few years managed to create hundreds of tracks, synthesizing different influences such as Throbbing Gristle, Residents, Kraftwerk and the arty extremisms of the “No New York” scene.

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Mondo Sangue

Rosso Come La Notte

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Potions Music)

Scott Matelic

In A Sky Blue

LP | 2021 | CH | Original (Ish)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Originally hailing from Indianapolis, Scott Matelic is a walking quiet storm. Scott grew up in a musical family, began making beats and digging for drum breaks and samples as a teen in the late 90's, and has not slowed down since. Living in Brooklyn for the past 11 years, the influences of New York have seeped into his music, which is full of soulful chops, psychedelic segues, fuzzy guitar loops, and slapping drum breaks from obscure origins.

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Pablo Color

Hora Azul

26,99 €*

The Dynamic Clark Sisters With Mattie Moss Clark

Release: 2021 / CH – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Our balearic Bossa maestro is back with his third offering - the long awaited final to his mini album trilogy. Painting pictures of blue skies crackling with the promise of a coming storm. Guests include Suso Saiz, Lexx, Berlin Lama and Chee Shimizu!

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Is My Living In Vain

LP | 2021 | US (New Birth)

Release: 2021 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

EPMD

I'm Housin'

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Tapete)

The Wirtschaftswunder

Salmobray

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Preziosen & Profanes (Singles & Raritäten 1980 - 1981)

The Wirtschaftswunder

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Tapete)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Normal Never Was 6 Grey Vinyl Edition

Crass

12" | 2021 | US | Original (Crass)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | DE | Original (Rummelplatzmusik)

Manfred Groove

Hinter Der Tapete

41,99 €*

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Vessel)

Jacob Ohrberg

Deeper Amateurism

Christmas Crackers Volume 1 Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vessel’s fourth outing, Deeper Amateurism, quite deliberately takes its time. Ohrberg’s patiently protracted sounds make sense only for the unhurried dancer with time on their side. Take a deep breath, and submerge. The result of a chance meeting at DJ Sprinkles & Mitsuki’s Deeperama party in Osaka, Deeper Amateurism is something of an ode to the deeper than thou sounds typically dispensed in sedate, smoke filled rooms. We love these rooms.

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The Soul Santas

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Invada)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Invada)

OST Undergods

25,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Hot Action)

Die Ärzte

KRAFT

11,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's A Cool, Cool Christmas

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jeepster)

19,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Zaubermond

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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Von Hier Bis Unendlich

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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So Wie Ich Bin

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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So Nah Wie Du

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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Für Einen Tag

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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Die Helene Fischer Show Meine Schönsten Momente

4LP | 2021 | EU (Polydor)

42,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Pop

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Sony)

Adele

19,99 €*

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Adele's "30" comes this year.

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Matty & Mandaworld

Warm You / Spoonfeed

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Trouble In Mind)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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There is something magical about the synergy of the voices of a couple; they gel, they interweave, they lift each other. Remember classic duets sung by partners over the years; so much is said, more than just words. 'Warm You' is the collaboration between Mandaworld (aka Amanda Hicks) and partner Matthew Tavares (aka Matty of Badbadnotgood fame). It is a song about your lover getting out of bed in the middle of the night because they can't sleep and you telling them to come back to where it’s warm and safe and they’re loved. It was written in their Montreal apartment a few months after they moved in. Matty described the writing process "We just spontaneously decided to make music, and the idea came out pretty much immediately. I laid down some guitar and then Amanda played the synth line over it and I edited the guitar so the timing was more interesting. We worked on it for a few days getting the chorus and the verses to feel right and, for the most part, everything fell into place super intuitively. Amanda wrote the lyrics." This heartfelt, dream-pop song, with a mellow shoe-gaze sensibility, lets the pair trade verses whilst the instrumentation builds to a crescendo and the duo's voices finally combine. Lush, passionate and personal, a beautiful song, rich in evocative memories. On the ‘B-side’, Mandaworld takes centre stage. 'Spoonfeed' is a spacey synth bass-led ambient ballad with smokey hazy vocals, calming like a bubble bath. Produced with a timeless quality, the song leaves you with a sense of tranquility and a feeling of being submerged underwater. Like all the best music this 7" is deeply personal, yet these are universal themes that are relatable to any listener as they recognise their own experiences within the mood of the songs.

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Offset: Spectacles

The Offset: Spectacles

LP | 2021 | Original (Invada)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trouble In Mind Is Superemely Honored To Release The Tenth Anniversary Reissue Of Beijing Trio Offset: Spectacles Lonefull-Length Album; A Forward-Thinking, Captivating And Uncompromising Missive Meant To Subvert R'n'r Traditions; Drummerless, Lo-Fi, With Surrealist Lyrics Meant To Confound & Unnerve. The Band Was A Crucial Part Of The Rose Mansion Analog Label (Including Bands Soviet Pop, Hot & Cold, And Golden Driver) & The Scene That Spawned Around It. Since The Band'sdissolution, Guitarist Tom Ng Has Formed The (Even More) Minimalist Duo Gong Gong Gong (Wharf Cat Records) Andcontinues To Hone The "Phantom Rhythm" With Each Passing Release. The Offset: Spectacles Debut Album Is Presented Again In Glorious Black Vinyl, With Remastered Audio By Mikey Young,And Includes A New Insert With English Translations Of The Lyrics By Vince Li.

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The KVB

Unity

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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All I Know So Far: Setlist

P!NK

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Sony)

35,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Mudhoney

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Another Side Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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- Classic 1991 Album Remastered And Expanded With Rare And Previously Unreleased Tracks.- Extensive Liner Notes By Band Biographer Keith Cameron.- Album Is Considered A Landmark Of The Grunge Era.- Gatefold Jacket With Custom Dust Sleeves And Poster- Black Vinyl Pressing //By Going Back To Basics With Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney Flipped Conventional Wisdom. Not For The First Time - Or The Last - They Would Be Vindicated. A Month After Release In July 1991, The Album Entered The Uk Album Chart At Number 34 (Five Weeks Later, Nirvana's Nevermind Entered At 36) And Went On To Sell 75,000 Copies Worldwide. A More Meaningful Measure Of Success, However, Lay In Its Revitalisation Of The Band, Casting A Touchstone For The Future. The Record Is A Major Chapter In Mudhoney's Ongoing Story, The Moral Of Which Has To Be: When In Doubt, Fudge It. The Album Began At Music Source Studio, A Large Space Equipped With A 24-Track Mixing Board - Downright Futuristic, Compared To The 8-Track Setup That Birthed The Band's Catalytic 1988 Debut, "Touch Me I'm Sick." The Music Source Session Quickly Turned Into A False Start When The Results, In Guitarist Steve Turner's Words, "Sounded A Little Too Fancy, Too Clean." Lesson Learned, The Band Went Primitive And Got To Work At Conrad Uno's 8-Track Setup At Egg Studio. Named After The Cartons Pasted On The Walls In An Optimistic Attempt At Sound-Proofing, Egg Boasted A '60s Vintage 8-Track Spectra Sonics Recording Console, Originally Built For Stax In Memphis. So It Was That, In The Spring Of 1991, Mudhoney Made Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. The Resulting Album Is A Whirlwind Of The Band's Influences At The Time: The Fierce '60s Garage Rock Of Their Pacific Northwest Predecessors The Sonics And The Lollipop Shoppe, The Gnashing Post-Hardcore Of Drunks With Guns, The Heavy Guitar Moods Of Neil Young, The Lysergic Workouts Of Spacemen 3 And Hawkwind, The Gloomy Existentialism Of Zounds, And The Satirical Ferocity Of '80s Hardcore Punk. The Quartet's Special Alc...

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Leo Nocentelli

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

33,59 €* 41,99 € -20%

CD | 2021 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Things happen for a reason, man.” - Leo Nocentelli

At just fourteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As an original member of The Meters, Leo wrote instant classics “Cissy Strut” and “Hey Pocky A–Way,” but his greatest moment on record may be totally unknown, until now…

Recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in New Orleans in the early ‘70s and then lost to the ages, Another Side is one of Leo Nocentelli’s most personal and definitive moments ever cut to tape. A mixture of funky folk and rootsy, raw emotion (think Bill Withers and James Taylor meeting Allen Toussaint at Link Wray’s Three Track Shack), this previously unheard album shines like the sun on a spring day on the New Orleans fairgrounds. Backing Nocentelli is an all-star line-up of New Orleans royalty, including Allen Toussaint (piano), James Black (drums), and both George Porter Jr. (bass) and Zigaboo Modeliste (drums) of The Meters. Deeply introspective, the album features nine original songs by Nocentelli, plus a soulful rendition of Elton John’s “Your Song.” Half a century later, these recordings sound just as fresh and engaging as the day they were recorded.

What makes Another Side even more extraordinary, however, is the fact that the album—which could have easily become a classic in the ‘70s singer-songwriter canon—sat untouched for decades; miraculously surviving the devastating blow of Hurricane Katrina, only to be found 2,000 miles away at a Southern California swap meet in 2018 by record collector Mike Nishita. The album’s incredible journey is documented in the liner notes by Sam Sweet (New York Times, Los Angeles Times), who spoke with Nocentelli and Nishita about the recording process and re-discovery of the tapes. Sweet’s full notes appear in the release’s accompanying booklet, alongside handwritten lyrics by Leo Nocentelli. The first pressing of the vinyl edition will feature gold-foil treatment on cover and spine. Rounding out the package are original designs and layout by the multi GRAMMY®–winning designer Masaki Koike.

While Nocentelli was embedded in New Orleans’ R&B scene, he was also deeply inspired by the late 1960s and early 1970s rising singer-songwriters, and soon found himself exploring sounds that were miles away from his band’s hard-edged funk riffs. Whenever he had downtime from session work and shows, Nocentelli spent much of 1971 recording his newly-found, reflective, diaristic songs at Matassa’s Jazz City studio. Backed by longtime Meters bandmate George Porter Jr. on bass, Nocentelli crafted the lineups for his sessions to match the tone of the material. When he needed a pianist, he’d call Toussaint. For percussion on the slower songs, he used drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, but many of the tracks featured James Black—a frequent collaborator of Toussaint’s and a member of Ellis Marsalis’ jazz group, whom Nocentelli recalls as an “unbelievable” musician. The recording, which Nocentelli fondly refers to as his “country-and-western-album,” paints a picture of a young man yearning to find a sense of purpose. “I was going through some changes which were reflected in the songs that I wrote during that time,” he tells Sweet. Among them is the mid-tempo “Getting Nowhere,” in which he expresses a sense of frustration, as he watches others find success around him. Similarly, “Till I Get There” details a man who is struggling to persevere in his goals. In the soaring “Tell Me Why,” meanwhile, the singer contemplates the existence of God. Other songs center around fictional characters. “Pretty Mittie,” for instance, is sung from the perspective of a farmer who longs to give up his arduous life for the city. “You’ve Become a Habit” is about a man who falls for a sex worker named Fancy. “Riverfront” is based on stories that singer Aaron Neville shared, about his days working on the New Orleans waterfront. Nocentelli also chose to perform one cover: Elton John’s breakthrough hit, “Your Song.” The guitarist made the recently-released ballad his own—infusing it with a loping, head-nodding cadence, ever so tastefully “funkdafied” in true New Orleans fashion. By the time that the album was finished, The Meters were busier than ever. They had just signed a record deal with Warner Brothers and were now the official house band at Toussaint’s studio, Sea-Saint. There, they not only backed artists on Toussaint’s Sehorn label but had also become the go-to session musicians for every major artist that recorded in New Orleans. Rather than focus on a solo career, Nocentelli poured his energies into The Meters’ next album. Eventually, time moved on, as did Nocentelli, and he decided to store his unreleased solo album at Sea-Saint for safekeeping. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Sea-Saint was among its victims. While Toussaint (who passed away in 2015) had sold the hallowed studio in the mid-90s, hundreds of his archived recordings remained in the building. The new owner salvaged what he could from the flooded building, shipping everything to a storage facility in Southern California. Boxes of tapes sat there for more than a decade before moving to another unit, which foreclosed a year later. The contents were purchased in a blind auction and, days later, sold at a swap meet. The fact that record collector Mike Nishita just happened to be there was pure kismet. Nishita, a DJ and brother to “Money Mark” Nishita (of Beastie Boys fame), recognized the Sea-Saint label on the boxes and purchased all 673 master tapes at the swap meet. He inspected the contents with his friend Mario Caldato Jr., the longtime audio engineer for the Beastie Boys. In addition to masters from Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Lee Dorsey, and Toussaint, there was a quarter-inch reel with Nocentelli’s name on it. As Caldato and Nishita played it back, they knew they had something special. “There was nothing else like it,” writes Sweet. “An acoustic album by the greatest funk guitarist who ever lived. It was the tape Mike would play for people to show them how special the collection was. The best album in the vault was something nobody knew existed.” Eventually, Nishita and Nocentelli connected, “He was so grateful, so sincere,” recalls Nishita. “I just kept thinking about how this music needs to be heard... Especially when you look at all the things that had to fall into place for these tapes to survive and be discovered this way.” As Nocentelli simply puts it, “Things happen for a reason, man.” And now, Light in the Attic is thrilled to give this remarkable record the spotlight it so rightly deserves. 50 years later, all is not lost.

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Leo Nocentelli

Another Side

Songo Violet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vespero

LP | 2021 | Original (Tonzonen)

25,59 €* 31,99 € -20%

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Stag-O-Lee)

Gunsmoke 07

19,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Polystar)

Best Of Christmas

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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Ka Baird & Pekka Airaksinen

Frkwys Volume 17: Hungry Shells

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Rvng Intl.)