Vinyl, CD & Tape 159986 Items

The Definitive Anthology 1970-1990 Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG/Sanctuary)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1977 | JP | Reissue (Bronze)

The Best Of...

22,99 €*

Release: 1977 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Japanese pressing without OBI

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Sweet Freedom Picture Disc Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Return To Fantasy Picture Disc Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Look At Yourself Picturedisc Edition

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Sanctuary)

Look At Yourself

25,99 €*

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1972 | JP | Original (Bronze)

Look At Yourself

44,99 €*

Release: 1972 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing, no Obi.
Sleeve has light edge wear.

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LP | 1972 | JP | Original (Bronze)

Look At Yourself

44,99 €*

Live At The London Astoria 1989

Release: 1972 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

seam split. OBI is missing.

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Uriah Heep!

2LP | EU (DBQP)

Release: EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Laser Media)

History Of 1978-1985

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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High And Mighty Picture Disc Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG/Sanctuary)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Every Day Rocks - Xxl Box Edition

Box (Sanctuary)

323,99 €*

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Equator

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Demons And Wizards Art Of The Album Edition

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (BMG/Sanctuary)

25,99 €*

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cosmic Playground: Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour San Diego 1974

LP | 2023 | EU (Dear Boss)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This live set gets Heep in their prime on February 8th, 1974 in front of a hugely appreciative audience. Here is an example of a 70s rock gig that puts you (via that nifty time machine) in the midst of the sweating, stomping, singing masses who gathered around the great bands who ruled the world stages of the era.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Silver Lining)

Chaos & Colour

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

Chaos & Colour

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Sanctuary)

Abominog

25,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Caine:The Passion Of Octavius Catto

Uri Caine

LP | 2020 | Original (Winter & Winter)

26,99 €*

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kob)

Urgonauts

Namassa

12" | 1994 | Original (Beat De Ville)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Already from the first notes one can perceive an unbridled passion for ska and rocksteady and the arrangement of the pieces comes across as natural and spontaneous, the sounds come out smooth and pleasant from the speakers, the lyrics however are anything but onelove, on the contrary they are very pungent and irreverent, listen to "padrone mio" to believe.

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Urgency

Born To Be Alive 95

4,99 €*

Release: 1994 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

LP | 2022 | EU (Omnivore)

Urge Overkill

Oui

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Noiseversity Marbled Vinyl Edition

Urge

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Urgestein)

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Brainwashed Feat. Abdominal & DJ Robert Smith

Urge

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Oonops Drops)

14,44 €* 16,99 € -15%

Resan White Vinyl Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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German hardcore band Urge drops their fiery single release »Brainwashed«. After one year of work on this remix, Canadian rapper Abdominal who is known for his work with DJ Format is rhyming over a heavy Mo'Wax-esque beat produced by Smoove including lots of skilled cuts by Berlin based turntablist and DJ Robert Smith.

Together they built a deep-sounding monster of a tune. The 7inch which sits in a Japanese Katta round inner sleeve includes the original song as well as bonus Beats'n'Breaks for all the DJs.

Furthermore this release includes a hand-folded and hand-sleeved eco-printed poster for the black recycled version and a special riso-eco-printed high-quality poster (with vegetable inks) on the limited colored runs. There are 80 copies each of recycled red, light blue and dark blue transparent with color matching posters for sale on Bandcamp only. Total edition is 90 each (10 copies are reserved for the artists). All hand-numbered and hand-sleeved. When they're gone, they're gone.

The artwork of the poster is designed by Anton Volxem.

»Oonops Drops« is not a guitar-driven music label or specialized in hardcore or metal but it's an openminded label which finds ways to fuse and work until it fits with many different genres.

About Urge: The band was formed in 1989 and has a lot of stage experience touring with American and English bands. For instance, Urge toured Europe for a few weeks with Fugazi. They shared stages with MDC, Melvins, Fugazi, Voivod, Bolt Thrower, MDC, Melvins, just to name a few. The German music magazine Spex called them »Hardcorehausen« and for some time they were on the road as a site project with »Power Of Expression« with singer Marc Grewe (Morgoth) and played at the legendary Wacken Festival.

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Urferd

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sound Pollution / Black Lodge)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Lodge)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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Urferd

Resan

Untergang Dark Green Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Urferd signifies the beginning of a new and additional musical chapter for its founder and sole member, Daniel Beckman (twilight Force, Ages), and brings a refreshing new perspective to the genre, challenging the boundaries of dark atmospheric folk music. The first album “resan” is a musical odyssey in both a literal and figurative sense. The album takes the listener on a journey through dark and olden Nordic forests; where strife and hardships follows in our steps, yet where the beauty and vastness of the solemn Nordic landscape persists and permeates. From the album opening’s depiction of a serene morning’s dawn to the closing track’s respite of a hearth at nightfall, Resan traverses a multitude of captivating musical landscapes and themes throughout its eight songs.

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Urfaust

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Van)

28,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Constellatory Practise

Urfaust

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Van)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Urbs Remix EP Volume 1 (Retrogott, Brenk Sinatra, Cookin' Soul)

Urbs

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Beat Art Department)

9,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Compost)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Beat Art Department releases an EP with remixes from the upcoming album of the Vienna DJ and producer Urbs by Retrogott, Brenk Sinatra and Cookin' Soul.
Retrogott aka Kurt Hustle from Cologne, who completely reshaped the track "10.000 Years Behind Me", is one of the most important representatives of
German Independent Hip Hop ever since the mid-2000s. Collectors spend a small fortune for his 2007 debut album “Jetzt Schämst Du Dich!”, which
has become the blueprint of German rap. He has remained popular, even when he changed his name.

It has been eleven long years since Urbs dropped his last album which was called “Toujours Le Meme Film”. Back then, the musician, DJ and producer created the soundtrack to a fictitious Film Noir, which was released on Kruder & Dorfmeister‘s G-Stone Label, but after touring Europe he almost completely retreated from public life. He does not consider his creativity as
being his career, but rather as a part of his life which rarely is subject to concrete planning, and that is why Urbs quite consciously took his time to create his latest –untitled- album.

Urbs: “A lot of people totally appreciated my last album “Toujours Le Meme Film”, and over the years I’ve learned that it really means a lot to some of them. Which was a burden, because, obviously, you do not want to disappoint these people. By now, I think enough water went down Danube river to perhaps surprise some of them with something completely new.
Those who know me know that I’ve always simply produced dope hip hop
tracks.”

This time, as a consequence, this is no all instrumental album but a collection of 12 soulful hip hop tunes that feature some handpicked vocalist
of the international rap, dancehall and soul scenes. On the album right next to EMC’s Wordsworth or R.A. the Rugged Man from New York, you will hear Ward 21 from Kingston, Jamaica, Voice Monet from New Orleans, One Self’s Blu Rum 13 from Washington DC, as well as long time companions like Skero from Vienna or Blabbwona from the group Abstract Art, who now lives in Munich by choice.

There also is a simple answer to the question of why the album has no title:
“This album, so to say, is my competitive exhibition in this field and owing to the endlessly long ripening process it is wonderfully and intensively boiled
down and on point. Therefore, no intros, no interludes, no title, no gimmicks, simply 12 good songs – period."

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Urbs

Geheimland

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Naive)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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After excursions into Hip Hop, Rap and film music Austrian producer and musician Urbs has returned to the downtempo and Triphop styles that were the cornerstones of his most successful work, discovering his very own niche along the way. Using obscure samples as well as traditional instrumentation for his impressionistic instrumental pieces he takes us to „Geheimland“, the secret land of our imagination where things are not as they seem.

Born as Paul Nawrata in Lower Austria, Urbs is a veteran electronic producer and musician living in Vienna. A music fanatic from a very young age, he started writing and photographing for various fanzines in his teenage years, interviewing numerous artists as diverse as Kurt Cobain, Nick Cave and the Wu Tang Clan.

He soon felt attracted to the blossoming HipHop scene of Vienna, contributing to the radio program of legendary impressario Werner Geier aka Demon Flowers. Best described as the Austrian version of Tony Wilson, he took him under his wing and soon released his first steps in music production on his Uptight label.

In 1998 two EPs were released as Urbs & Chaoz, spawning a first success with „Closer To God“, which was not only a radio favourite, but was also used by famed director Ulrich Seidl in his early work „Models“ and remixed by none other than legendary Washington duo Thievery Corporation.

Heavily influenced by Kenny Dope, Todd Terry and Armand Van Helden’s HipHop releases,
the musical style of Urbs & Chaoz was dubbed Dope Beat in central Europe and can be seen as one of the precursors of Triphop.

His next musical partner was Cutex with whom he released „Breaks Of Dawn“ and „Peace Talks!“, two LPs of timeless instrumental HipHop, both of which are seen as classics of the genre. „The Thing“, a veritable hit on Austrian radio, was used for various commercials and even selected as one of the „Best 100 Austrian Songs“ by FM4, the leading alternative radio station in the country. Until today that song has been streamed more than two million times.

His first solo album was released on G-Stone Recordings in 2005 and was co-produced by Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister). On „Toujours Le Meme Film“, Urbs channelled his love for film music and French Chanson. He toured Europe with a six piece band and a complex visual concept and the album became a remarkable success. Songs from „Toujours Le Meme Film“ were used for US TV shows „Grey´s Anatomy“ and „Nip:Tuck“ as well as numerous commercials; Gilles Peterson discovered the album and played „So Weit“ on his Worldwide radio shows.

Urbs began producing other musicians like Austrian MC Skero, released further EPs of instrumental HipHop and numerous remixes for the likes of Tosca, Marsmobil and Daniel Haaksmann along with countless other Austrian artists.

Together with award winning composer Karwan Marouf, he worked on film music for directors like Arash and Arman Riahi as well as Werner Boote, on commercials, documentaries and contract work for Red Bull Media.

Since the early days of social media Urbs has connected with MCs and singers from around the world and in 2017 finally released those collaborations on the (Rap-)album simply titled „Urbs“, which included contributions by MCs like Wordsworth and R.A. The Rugged Man. The song „10000 Years Behind Me“ with its spectacular video starring Austrian actress Birgit Minichmayr was another success on the alternative radio in central Europe.

While in 2020 the world was in the grip of the pandemic, Urbs, who had just become a father felt inspired by the fantasy and perception of his son. He reconnected with his roots and produced „Geheimland“ in one go, trying to find the essence of his work and musical passion and creating his very own musical language along the way.

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UrbnMowgli

Computer Hermetics

11,89 €* 13,99 € -15%

OST Rysa Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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naive's 20th release epitomizes what the Lisbon-based label, run by Violet, has become cherished for: imaginative yet timeless, soothing yet moody, melodic yet sonic music. Entitled 'Computer Hermetics', this new record is an EP by UrbnMowgli, a fairly new Berlin-based artist who began releasing music in 2020. The opening track, 'Fast Love Life', is a 145 bpm electro-bred, breakbeat-driven emotive dancefloor banger. It features menacing stabs juxtaposed with beautiful pads and acid-drenched arpeggio motifs that lend it a oneiric quality. 'Oracle Algorithm' picks up the 303 spirit and delves into trippier territories, densening the dreamlike, expansive atmosphere while infusing the record with electro-driven grit. Closing side A is 'Warschauer Rush-Hour', a futuristik, high-tempo twisted electro banger that's both tough and playful. 'Immaterial Desires' inaugurates side B--an ode to adventurous drum programming and intricate sound design in the form of a percussion-punctuated curveball belter. 'Digital Dawn' brings it all back home to the heart and closes the record with its deepest, most immersive moment, giving us big bass lines that alchemically converse with angelic bleepy melodies as if soundtracking a soulful sci fi movie that doesn't exist yet.

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Urbanski

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (U Know Me)

Urbanized Featuring Silvano

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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180g vinyl record. only 300 copies - all hand numbered.
pressed in two verison - 200 black and 100 transparet with one white line ("crack" as the name of the TV series).
The first 100 copies have the Urbanski signature on the back cover.

This is another, after "Ultraviolet" collaboration project of the AXN Polska, U Know Me Records and the artist - Wojtek UrbaÅ„ski. The soundtrack for the Rysa series with Wojtek's original music will premiere on the 9th April. "The music for the Rysa series is a combination of the world of electronics, modernity with traditional instruments and folk accents. On one side we have synthesizers, deep bass and wide spaces, characteristic of electronic music and close to my musical style. In opposition to these elements, however, I used traditional instruments such as hurdy-gurdy, pipes, flutes and strings" says Wojtek UrbaÅ„ski. "I wanted the duality of this music to reflect the struggles and double life of the main character of the series. She lives in a certain suspension, between the 'day' world which she knows and remembers, but also the 'night' world which happens beyond her consciousness. Through music, I tried to convey the character of both these worlds, touching very dark and heavy emotions in one of them. I have invited an expert of traditional music, Sebastian WielÄ…dek (hurdy-gurdy, pipes, flutes) and the outstanding violinists StanisÅ‚aw SÅ‚owiÅ„ski and Agnieszka Åšwigut to record these works. " adds UrbaÅ„ski

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Helpless (I Don't Know What To Do Without You)

12" | 1992 | US | Original (Maxi)

5,99 €*

Release: 1992 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Urbanized Featuring Silvano

Helpless (I Don't Know What To Do Without You)

12" | 1992 | US | Original (Big Life)

4,99 €*

Release: 1992 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Dualismo Sound)

Urbanatribù

Mondotondo E.P.

20,99 €*

12" | 2002 | BE | Original (Yeti Records)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Urbanatribù was an extremely interesting project based in Alessandria, deep North-Italian province. Formed by bassist Flavio Gemma and cyber wizard Massimiliano Bocchio, the outfit had a distinctive way to interpretate electronic and dance music. Gemma founded some key Italian 80's wave groups like Viridanse and C.O.D.E.X. with some late digressions in the punk scene with Peggio Punx. Bocchio had its debut on the seminal imprint Minus Habens Records in 1994 under the moniker Klange, reflecting the unique and radical sound of the label. Inspired by John Carpenter movies, rough basslines and british ghost stories, Urbanatribù records camed out against any order.

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Urban Voodoo

Humanity

33,99 €*

Release: 2002 / BE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Urban Volcano Sounds)

Urban Volcano Sounds

Disco Taberna

20,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (No Format)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Balearic crossover, urban boogie & mellow, gentle and elegant sound production unit, Urban Volcano Sounds, releases long-awaited new single “disco Taberna” on 7” after 4 years! Gorgeous strings, soulful and soaring homage to the golden age of 70s disco, and meticulous production. Their long-awaited new single “Ame no Uta” from their previous album “blue hour” was included in the compilation “Tangent” by Nick The Record & John Gomez released from MR.BONGO in July this year, and their reputation is growing both in Japan and abroad!

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Urban Village

Udondolo

26,99 €*

Jewel Case CD | 2023 | EU | Original (90's Tapes)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The latest signing to Parisian label No Format! (home to Oumou Sangaré, Blick Bassy and Mélissa Laveaux), Soweto-based 4 piece band Urban Village will release their debut album "Udondolo". Marrying the day-to-day experiences of black South Africans with ebullient elements from traditional Zulu music, Urban Village is the alias of four experimental musicians all born & raised in the township of Soweto at the tail end of apartheid; Urban Village release music under a name which specifically references the blend of cultures, music & rites which were assimilated into the now 1 million strong population of Soweto, when black South Africans from multiple provinces were brought to the area during the establishment of apartheid, under strict segregation from Johannesburg's white suburbs.Born for the most part in the last years of apartheid, whilst growing up the band plunged happily into house and dance music that turned the page of a heavy past. Guitarist Lerato came across older Zulu musicians and their style of maskandi playing. Lerato has since mixed styles from homelands and rural areas, sharpened in club jam sessions (where he went on to meet Tubatsi and form Urban Village) during which spoken word, hip-hop and jazz rub shoulders freely."Udondolo" - partially recorded at legendary Downtown Studios in the heart of Johannesburg and at Figure of 8 studios in the leafy suburbs of Randburg - is a journey through all the colours of Soweto. This is where it draws its consistency, strength & identity. That of Soweto itself - a dormitory town designed to monitor those who were sent there, it has become a laboratory of music where the hopes of an entire people resonate, even today.

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Urban Thermo Dynamics

Manifest Destiny

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (90's Tapes)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 300 copies on CD in jewel case.

"Manifest Destiny" is the first and only release of the Urban Thermo Dynamics, the group formed by Mos Def along his younger brother DCQ and high-school friend Ces. The album was slated for release in 1995, but never saw an official release until 2004 through DCQ's Illson Media Music Group. Almost 20 years later this nugget finally gets the reissue treatment available in a limited run on 2LP (750 copies), CD in jewel case (300 copies), cassette (100 copies) and digitally on all major platforms.

The album contains 14 tracks in total with productions handled by the likes of Diamond D and Showbiz of D.I.T.C. fame, Salaam Remi, J Prins, The Vibe Chemist, J-Swift and YZ.

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Urban Thermo Dynamics

Manifest Destiny

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (90's Tapes)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

"Manifest Destiny" is the first and only release of the Urban Thermo Dynamics, the group formed by Mos Def along his younger brother DCQ and high-school friend Ces. The album was slated for release in 1995, but never saw an official release until 2004 through DCQ's Illson Media Music Group. Almost 20 years later this nugget finally gets the reissue treatment available in a limited run on 2LP (750 copies), CD in jewel case (300 copies), cassette (100 copies) and digitally on all major platforms.

The album contains 14 tracks in total with productions handled by the likes of Diamond D and Showbiz of D.I.T.C. fame, Salaam Remi, J Prins, The Vibe Chemist, J-Swift and YZ.

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Urban Thermo Dynamics

Manifest Destiny

34,99 €*

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Revelation)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 750 copies on 2LP incl. inlay card.

"Manifest Destiny" is the first and only release of the Urban Thermo Dynamics, the group formed by Mos Def along his younger brother DCQ and high-school friend Ces. The album was slated for release in 1995, but never saw an official release until 2004 through DCQ's Illson Media Music Group. Almost 20 years later this nugget finally gets the reissue treatment available in a limited run on 2LP (750 copies), CD in jewel case (300 copies), cassette (100 copies) and digitally on all major platforms.

The album contains 14 tracks in total with productions handled by the likes of Diamond D and Showbiz of D.I.T.C. fame, Salaam Remi, J Prins, The Vibe Chemist, J-Swift and YZ.

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Urban Sprawl

Concrete Altar

15,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born from the same Bay Area scene that has spawned Tørsö, Primal Rite, Look Back AND Laugh, Punch, and countless others, Urban Sprawl is here to play some of the dirtiest hardcore the city of San Francisco has ever witnessed. Featuring members of the aforementioned Tørsö as well as Profile, Wound MAN, and even Joyce Manor, Urban Sprawl tackles issues plaguing the Bay Area like gentrification and inequality

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12" | 1997 | US | Original (BPM King Street Sounds)

Show Me (Part II)

Release: 1997 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Love Is So Nice (Remixes)

12" | 1998 | DE | Original (Jive)

3,39 €* 3,99 € -15%

Release: 1998 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1992 | UK | Original (Cooltempo)

He's Always

Release: 1992 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

Record is close to VG+.

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12" | 1992 | UK | Original (Cooltempo)

Always

2,19 €* 3,99 € -45%

Release: 1992 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alright (The Sasha Mixes)

12" | 1991 | UK | Original (Cooltempo)

9,99 €*

Release: 1991 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alright Remixes Feat. Roland Clark

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Peppermint Jam)

15,99 €*

Some Justice (World Dance Dubplate) / Burnin Passion '93

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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We are honored to present a proper house music classic from 1991 to y’all which was huge back in the day and we had the pleasure to re-vamp for today´s house heads: Urban Soul ft. Roland Clark- Alright! This project is a brainchild from one of house music´s most prolific figures, Roland Clark, who actually wrote and produced the original track that we all love. Vocal credits also go to Roland and to the late Ceybill Jeffries. The remixes on this beauty are rather huge! First up Baltimore´s finest DJ Spen and MicFreak team up and do a masterclass on remixing, what a soulful house monster, beautiful new chords and a baseline to die for. One of Peppermint Jam´s first artists on the roster, Mellow Man, just couldn´t stop and delivered a fantastic remix with that jackin´ groove which puts us back right to the glorious days of house music in the naughties. Vinyl Only Mixes!

It´s allllllllllllllllllllright!

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Urban Shakedown

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Urban Shakedown)

13,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Some Justice '94 / Burnin Passion '94

Urban Shakedown

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Urban Shakedown)

10,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Voodoo Rhythm)

Urban Junior

Urban Et Orbi

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2x12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Wax Classic)

Urban Inc.

Urban Age

12" | 1992 | UK | Original (Rumour)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The mysterious Urban Inc producer that gave chills to many with its first release “pleasure planets” is back 4 years later with a HUGE LP ! (the first one on WAX CLASSIC). And honestly we are proud to say that this one of the best release we've ever done.

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Urban Fugitives

Vertigo / Pump It Up

Release: 1992 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

LP | 2020 | EU (Hellnation)

Urban Fight

No Eroi!

9,59 €* 11,99 € -20%

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Crooked Acres)

Release: 2020 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited To 300 Copies, FirstTime On Vinyl. 1982 Punk Rock From Bologna Italy. One Time Press!

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Urban Exploration

Aeaea

12,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2000 | EU | Reissue (DiKi)

Urban Electro Squad

Ex-Girlfriends EP

12,99 €*

12" | 2002 | UK | Original (Pitch Black)

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Reissue of this trance classic from 2000, remastered for 2021!

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Urban Dwellers

Loverman (Disc 1)

Release: 2002 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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12" | 1993 | US | Original (Eclipse)

Urban Culture

The Wonders Of Wishing

14,47 €* 28,95 € -50%

Release: 1993 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

12" | 2004 | US | Reissue (Eclipse)

Urban Culture

The Wonders Of Wishing

6,99 €*

Release: 2004 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

12" | 2004 | US | Reissue (Eclipse)

Urban Culture

The Wonders Of Wishing

5,84 €* 8,99 € -35%

Release: 2004 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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12" | 1995 | DE | Original (Pulse-8)

So Beautiful

Release: 1995 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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12" | 1995 | UK | Original (Pulse-8)

Rest Of My Love

Release: 1995 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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12" | 1995 | UK | Original (Pulse-8)

Rest Of My Love

Release: 1995 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Small sticker on back cover.

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Key The Secret / Feels Like Heaven

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Demon)

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 1995 | DE | Original (Urban)

Urban Baal

Thorn Of Distortion

2,79 €* 3,99 € -30%

Release: 1995 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Urban & 4

Lipanj, Srpanj, Kolovoz

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rotorelief)

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Urbain Autopsy

Inonu

39,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Svart)

Urarv

Argentum

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aamun Hauta Red Vinyl Edtion

Uranus

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (Svart)

28,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited red vinyl, gatefold sleeve

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

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

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

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

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

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Uranus

Aamun Hauta

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Uranium

Pure Nuclear Death

33,99 €*

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Castle Face)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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American one-man nuclear black industrial weapon Uranium returns, transmuted into its most astonishing and terrifying form yet. A statement of unseen magnitude and scope, the second full length album Pure Nuclear Death sees the enigmatic East Coast visionary harness a realm of terror and death-torn sonic immensity rarely, if ever, seen before in this plane of reality. Clear from the title alone, Pure Nuclear Death embodies the triumph, definition and consecration of a vision and concept which in the span of a just a couple of years and releases so far has already become classic and by all standards and measures, simply unrivaled. Awe-inducing, imposing and inexorably devastating, Pure Nuclear Death comprises thirty six minutes, split up into five tracks, of omnipotent, death-heaving black industrial immensity designed to devour the listener and deliver to them a world-ending payload of absolute death. The legacy of bludgeoning, visionary post-industrial acts like Godflesh and early (Cop, Filth-era) Swans transposed into total oblivion and coerced into a monstrous, lightless abyss of tectonic and crushing blackened electronics. An antihuman concept on nuclear energy and its most godly and terrifying traits incarnated in a sound which is its perfectly executed and envisioned embodiment. An indissoluble fusion reaction between a concept extrapolated from science, ethical literature and philosophy to convey realities of daunting scientific an technological darkness, and a god-like sound assembled from a critical mass of cataclysmic power electronics, apocalyptic industrial and black metal chained together into an otherworldldly sonic weapon of absolute atomic death.

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Uranium Club

Live At Arci Taun

18,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Infants Under The Bulb Black Vinyl Edition

Uranium Club

LP | 2024 | Original (Static Shock)

22,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | UK | Original (Static Shock)

Uranium Club

Human Exploration

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

Uranium

An Exacting Punishment

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Bella Union)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After the glorious Wormboiler cassette tape compilation obliterated human ears in 2021, American one-man black industrial weapon Uranium finally emerges from the depths of oblivion with its debut full-length album An Exacting Punishment, a five-track, forty-minute radioactive nightmare of complete sonic ruin channelling the darkness of black metal with the scathing immensity of defining post-industrial acts like Brighter Death Now, Godflesh, Wolf Eyes, Swans, MZ. 412, Controlled Bleeding, and Genocide Organ. As the band's name aptly hints at, Uranium was conceived as an aural vessel to explore the outer limits and the most irreversible states of complete human disintegration, and the incineration of its most defining and triumphant achievements; namely society, progress, technology, and civilization, with nuclear power being the conduit and ultimate engine of the greatest and most horrific forms of total annihilation mankind could ever face. Auditory terror both permeates and defines Uranium's music, with bludgeoning and majestic post-industrial soundscapes pulsing inside a lightless void lit only by drifting embers and falling ash, while immense infernal atmospherics wrap their deathly spires around the listener, crushing them into a distorted auditory abyss. Power electronics, industrial noise and black metal have rarely before been seen chained together and weaponized into such a mortal design. An authentic weapon of mass annihilation engineered to face human life with absolute death. A death-scarred reality that emerges from the utter bleakness and ruination of Uranium's apocalyptic design, as the listener is cast at the center of a caustic nuclear nightmare where flesh boils and evaporates off bone, cells erratically split into endless deformities and the world is turned into a mangled, corroded and disfigured radioactive oblivion.

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Ural Thomas & The Pain

Dancing Dimensions

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2000 | DE | Original (Forte)

Ural 13 Diktators

Total Destruction EP

12" | 1992 | UK | Reissue (Underground Resistance)

Release: 2000 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

Includes press sheet! Close to VG+!

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The Final Frontier

12" | 2007 | US | Reissue (Underground Resistance)

Release: 1992 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Outer space or Cyber space, you decide… Fantasy or an urban introduction into the vast possibilities of the internet? Honoring sci fi heroes, citing inspiration, or something more sinister?

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Hi Tech Dreams

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Greyscale)

Release: 2007 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Detroit a city of great contrasts. Feats of engineering that spurred the world forward. For a few decades wealth and prosperity. Hi-tech dreams seemed achieved. But with the dream also comes nightmares…..Traffic Jams, Predatory Insurance Companies prey on municipalities with no mass transporation, freeways built specifically to ruin minority prosperity & to build walls between people. Beautiful countries all over the world wrecked at war over the thirst for oil, entire neighborhoods decimated when the corporate greed for profit forces engineers to build throw away cars that are quickly replaced by better built foreign competition. Even Worse……Climate change. Detroit the city that knows the best NO Corporations Should Dictate City Function the people should……listen to the sound and learn from it……or deal with the Lo-tech reality that Corporate greed actually is so good at building. UR the future UR the change……

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Upwellings

Lark Dub / Fed On Dub

Tea Is Too Hot Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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There is big news from the camp at Greyscale Records. Greyscale #9 is here!! A well-respected veteran of the dub techno scene Upwellings (Vincent Raude), is the star of this show for the label's prominent's chapter of releases. Upwellings is not alone thought! #9 features stunning remixes by household names with Bluetrain (Steve O'Sullivan) and Ohm & Octal Industries makes this is one of the must have releases in 2023.

In true Upwellings form, 'Lark Dub' is a brisk and polished track that has a friendly groove that should delight all listener's while Bluetrain turns the remix to a more 4x4 affair naturally injecting it with a house flair. 'Fed on Dub' is a more stark contrast as the alternate featured track. Addictive sequenced sound elements combust like a scientific experiment gone awry. A deep groove that pulses heavy in the sub range. Ohm & Octal Industries up the tempo in their version while still relishing in the signature sound effects. Adding a bit of a melody in spaces brings in a beautiful soundscape and atmosphere to the overall shimmering track. To have all these excellent producers in support on one release is a true treat. Released on super clean white 180 gram vinyl as well as digital. This record will not leave your crate!

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Upusen

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Stratford Ct.)

26,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Golden Pond Black Vinyl Edition

Upupayama

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Cardinal Fuzz)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Fuzz Club)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Upupayāma is the musical persona of Alessio Ferrari, an Italian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who lives in a small mountain village above the city of Parma. Upupayāma’s music is rooted strongly in Eastern and Western folk traditions, an approach that Ferrari blends with his own modern sensibilities and style. In addition to playing guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums, Ferrari himself also incorporates a number of other instruments into his sound, including sitar, erhu, flute, and a variety of percussion instruments. Artist: Upupayama Title: THE Golden Pond Labels: Cardinal Fuzz (Europe), Centripetal Force (usa), Release Date: 25th November 22 For Ferrari, Upupayāma's 2020 debut was all about the journey. The album served a series of musical vignettes that visited and weaved its way through a succession magical settings. The Golden Pond, conversely, is all about location. Inspired by his frequent visits to a small lake near his mountain home, Ferrari intentionally focused on the details of the place he inhabited, a practice he decided would translate well with his approach to writing music. This is something Ferrari feels is best exemplified with the album's opening companion pieces, "Cuckoos from the House of Golden Tin" and "Entering the Time of Wilderness." The Golden Pond also continues Ferrari's practice of using "invented language" in his lyrics. Ferrari wants his voice to be heard as if it were an additional instrument, a tool that does not convey specific messages. His goal is to allow the listener to assign personal meaning to the music. He says, "I want my incorporating invented language is a way of breaking down the barriers that are sometimes created by language, by having to define something at all costs. Ferrari adds, "I think one of my unconscious dreams is not to have to define any[1]thing, but just to be carried away by our feelings." Earlier this year Ferrari put together a group of musicians to help him deliver his live vision of Upupayāma. They made their debut in Rome in May, and they will play a couple of shows in advance of the album being released. Both dates will be in October, one in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland and the other in Esslingen, Germany. Plans to tour throughout Eu[1]rope in the spring of 2023 are currently in the works via El Borracho Booking. The Golden Pond will be Upupayāma's second album with Centripetal Force and Cardinal Fuzz, the first being the well-received self-titled debut in 2021, which is being repressed to coincide with the release of The Golden Pond in November.

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Upupayama

Mount Elephant

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Uptown Funk Empire (Patchworks)

Nothing's gonna stop us now feat. Noel McKoy

7" | 2008 | EU | Original (Soul Lab)

8,99 €*

12" | 1993 | IT | Original (X-Energy)

Release: 2008 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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/ please Mister Postman

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Uptown Featuring Sima

Don't Leave Me This Way

Release: 1993 / IT – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sister Raygun)

Uptown Bones

Time To Die

15,39 €* 27,99 € -45%

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 1991 | DE | Original (Dance Street)

Uptight

Two Time Boy

LP | 2023 | Original (Royal Potato)

Release: 1991 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Price tag.

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Upstate

You Only Get A Few

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2024 | Original (Pinchy & Friends)

Upstairs P

Grem Freche

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It's Hard To Get In The Showbiz

Upstairs

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (The Outer Edge)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Upstairs, a band from Frankfurt, Germany was active from 1977 to 1983. Though considering themselves mainly a rock group, the band incorporated elements of funk, jazz rock and disco into their music. On their rare and privately released debut album “It’s Hard To Get In The Showbiz” from 1980 they created something that could be called Germany’s definite answer to AOR, yet still with an edgy and unique krautrock flavor. The album starts with "Wontcha Try," a track where core songwriter, guitarist and lead singer Helmer Sauer is telling the story about being dismissed from his job: "They tried to tell me in a fucking gentle way, that the time had come to kick me…". Sauer serves more personal, hard-edged lyrics on the album as well. On "Happy Hooker," for example, he tells the story of a working girl in the red light milieu: "The job is as hard that you really can never imagine, she serves for the money, degradin' herself in a way - if you'd know how she's feelin' you wouldn't laugh at all". An empathetic view on the subject of prostitution rarely heard at that time. But aside from the profound lyrics and songwriting, the album has a lot to offer on the groovy side of things. With catchy bass lines, rhythm guitar, Fender Rhodes, Moog synthesizer, Clavinet and swift crisp drumming "It's Hard To Get In The Showbiz" is one of the best examples of late 70s flavored funky rock from Germany. Additional to the aforementioned "Wontcha Try" another DJ delight should be "Make Your Steps On Better Lines" which showcases a superb synth line and disco funk flavors. We also get the slick mellow latinesque AOR grooves of "Get On A Plane" as well as the now-classic "You're Just Yourself", which marks the most soulful track of the LP. As followers of our label are already well aware, "You're Just Yourself" was featured on the compilation, "Boogie On The Mainline – A Collection Of Rare Disco, Funk And Boogie From Germany 1980-1987" from 2018. The band mainly performed locally and never really had ambitions to release their music on a bigger label. Too bad that Upstairs only released this one album. Of course, the highly sought-after original pressing is almost impossible to find nowadays. Therefore, we are proud to finally make this record available again after 40 years for a reasonable, regular LP price. Only 300 copies of the carefully re-mastered repress have been produced, and included is a printed lyrics insert identical to the original. As this is already the 10th release on our label we want to thank you for your support! Stay tuned for more hidden gems unearthed by The Artless Cuckoo.

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Upside

LP | 2022 | EU (No Plan)

18,99 €*