NEW ARRIVALS
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Anal Cunt – The Old Testament 1988-1991
$35.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Expanding 2000’s The Early Years double-disc compilation even further, 2011’s The Old Testament, the last release overseen by Seth Putnam before his passing, essentially wraps [...]
GENRE: Metal -
Cecil Taylor – Live In The Black Forest
$40.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“A retrospective look at the sixty-year career of Cecil Taylor, in progress at the Whitney Museum of American Art, incorporates the museum’s unobstructed spaces and impressive views [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Flipper – Gone Fishin’
$35.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“After the glow of Album, Gone Fishin’ may sound like a bit of a disappointment primarily due to the cleaned up (for Flipper anyway) sound, but that shouldn’t stop you […]
GENRE: Punk / Hardcore -
Fred Lane / Ron ‘Pate’s Debonairs – From The One That Cut…
$20.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“From the One That Cut You starts out like a relatively straightforward, if not quite professional, big-band jazz record, only to get progressively stranger and more surreal as it goes […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Sonny Rollins Quartet With Don Cherry – Complete Live At The Village …
$30.00 | 6xCD, CD, Used ItemsLive at the Village Gate, New York, July 27-30, 1962. Label: Solar Records – 4569959 Format: 6 x CD, Limited Edition, Remastered, Box Set Country: Europe Released: 2015 VG+/VG+ *Image […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Peter Brötzmann Shoji Hano* – Funny Rat
$36.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Free jazz drummer Shoji Hano and German saxophone giant-leading European free improviser Peter Brotzmann first met in Japan in the early eighties. In 1990 Hano went to Europe for the […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Lull – Dreamt About Dreaming
$25.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsFormer Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris’s dark ambient project always enthralls. Label: Sentrax – SET 3 CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1992 VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Montibus Communitas – Ananda Samgha
$20.00 | Cassette, CS, Used ItemsPeruvian psych destroyers Label: Sky Lantern Records – SLR105 Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: US Released: 2014 VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise -
Scattered Purgatory – God Of Silver Grass
$20.00 | Cassette, CS, Used Items“”God of Silver Grass” is Taiwanese experimental duo, Scattered Purgatory’s second release from Guruguru Brain. On this album the drone music-makers delve deeper into their [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise -
Thomas Köner – Tiento De Las Nieves
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“”Love is life’s snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight—whiter and purer than snow itself. What is life without love? It is like this […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Thomas Köner – Kaamos
$18.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Thomas Köner’s first album for Mille Plateaux continues the abstract tones and sublime white-noise of earlier LPs, though occasional crackles and low-end bass gives some element of [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Scattered Purgatory – Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean
$25.00 | Cassette, CS, Used Items“Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean” contains six of their earlier works from 2013 to early 2014. “雲生/Cloudborn” is a re-recorded version. This album is dedicated to Grass Mountain and […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise
VINYL
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Laraaji – The Piano Trilogy
$40.00 | Box Set, Cassette, Used Items“All Saints Records present a 3 Cassette box set anthology of Laraaji’s recent piano trilogy Sun Piano, Moon Piano, and Through Luminous Eyes. The box set includes cassette versions of […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
V/A – Shake Um Up Rock – Early Northwest Rockers And Instrumenta…
$14.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylBenny Cliff – Shake Um Up Rock / Donnie Dean & the D Notes – Frankie & Johnny / Ira Allen – Nursery Rock / Ray Michelsen & the Vikings […]
GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll -
The Milo Fine Free Jazz Ensemble – The Constant Extension Of Inescapa…
$15.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylMilo Fine: drums, clarinet, prepared piano, bowed cymbal, voice Steve Gnitka: guitars Label: Hat Hut Records – H Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Switzerland Released: 1978 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
The Milo Fine Free Jazz Ensemble – Hah !
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylMilo Fine: drums, bowed cymbals, piano, clarinet Steve Gnitka: guitar Recorded by Milo Fine at Anwatin Middle School, Minneapolis, MN; December 29, 1976 Label: Hat Hut Records – HAT-E Format: [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Thomas Köner – Teimo
$40.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“The gorgeous second album from dark ambient pioneer Thomas Köner. Originally released in 1992 and never previously available on vinyl, Teimo is probably the most “tuneful” of [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Thomas Köner – Permafrost
$45.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Permafrost was originally issued in 1993 and marked the conclusion of Thomas Köner’s epic and influential trilogy which included Nunatak (TYPE 069LP) and Teimo (TYPE 070LP). Darker [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
The Anniversary – Designing A Nervous Breakdown
$45.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“The Anniversary’s debut album, Designing a Nervous Breakdown, blends their skill at crafting emotional, punky-yet-melodic songs with a fondness for new-wave synths. Little analog [...]
GENRE: Indie / Alternative -
The Cramps – Stay Sick!
$24.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“”I dig that god damn rock & roll/The kind of stuff that don’t save souls.” Less than three minutes into 1990’s Stay Sick!, the Cramps had summed up their entire [...]
GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Punk / Hardcore -
V/A – Fort Worth Teen Scene! Volume Two
$20.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylRoute 66 (Visions) / I’ll Go (Cynics) / Alibis (Bards) / Night Of The Phantom (Larry And The Blue Notes) / My Confusion (Elite) / Lost One (Roots) / Jack […]
GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll -
V/A – Twistin Rumble Volume 6
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylCrazy rumble/groove/boogaloo comp filled with rare cuts. Label: Twistin Rumble – TR-62016 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: Released: 2008 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll -
V/A – The Ikon Records Story – America’s #1 Unsung Garage …
$24.00 | 2xLP, Used Items, Vinyl“The Ikon Records Story is another lavish double disc set, this time focused on one of the most obscure yet enigmatic independent labels of the mid-1960s: Sacramento’s Ikon Records. [...]
GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk -
Mandrill – Energize
$17.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylElectro influenced grooves from the potent funk ensemble. Label: Montage Records – ST-72008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1982 VG+/VG. Clipped corner. Some sleeve rubbing/discoloration
GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
CDs
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Anal Cunt – The Old Testament 1988-1991
$35.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Expanding 2000’s The Early Years double-disc compilation even further, 2011’s The Old Testament, the last release overseen by Seth Putnam before his passing, essentially wraps [...]
GENRE: Metal -
Cecil Taylor – Live In The Black Forest
$40.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“A retrospective look at the sixty-year career of Cecil Taylor, in progress at the Whitney Museum of American Art, incorporates the museum’s unobstructed spaces and impressive views [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Flipper – Gone Fishin’
$35.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“After the glow of Album, Gone Fishin’ may sound like a bit of a disappointment primarily due to the cleaned up (for Flipper anyway) sound, but that shouldn’t stop you […]
GENRE: Punk / Hardcore -
Fred Lane / Ron ‘Pate’s Debonairs – From The One That Cut…
$20.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“From the One That Cut You starts out like a relatively straightforward, if not quite professional, big-band jazz record, only to get progressively stranger and more surreal as it goes […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Sonny Rollins Quartet With Don Cherry – Complete Live At The Village …
$30.00 | 6xCD, CD, Used ItemsLive at the Village Gate, New York, July 27-30, 1962. Label: Solar Records – 4569959 Format: 6 x CD, Limited Edition, Remastered, Box Set Country: Europe Released: 2015 VG+/VG+ *Image […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Peter Brötzmann Shoji Hano* – Funny Rat
$36.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Free jazz drummer Shoji Hano and German saxophone giant-leading European free improviser Peter Brotzmann first met in Japan in the early eighties. In 1990 Hano went to Europe for the […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Lull – Dreamt About Dreaming
$25.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsFormer Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris’s dark ambient project always enthralls. Label: Sentrax – SET 3 CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1992 VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Thomas Köner – Tiento De Las Nieves
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“”Love is life’s snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight—whiter and purer than snow itself. What is life without love? It is like this […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Thomas Köner – Kaamos
$18.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Thomas Köner’s first album for Mille Plateaux continues the abstract tones and sublime white-noise of earlier LPs, though occasional crackles and low-end bass gives some element of [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band* – Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-…
$50.00 | 5xCD, CD, Used Items“An unprecedented project in the rock field: a five-CD box set of unreleased material by a cult artist that never had anything close to a chart hit. Of course Captain […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Neil Young – Neil Young Archives – Vol. I (1963-1972)
$80.00 | 7xCD, CD, Used Items“This is the first volume of the Neil Young Archives series of box sets, produced by Neil Young himself. This series is the definitive, comprehensive, chronological survey of his entire [...]
GENRE: Rock / Pop -
Aube – Sensory Symphonies
$60.00 | 4xCD, CD, Used Items“Akifumi Nakajima, renowned for his prolific and captivating work under the alias Aube, stands as one of Japan’s most intriguing noise artists. His artistic prowess extends beyond the [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise
BOOKS
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Jean Baudrillard – Seduction [scarce]
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExamines modern critical theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and discusses the modern concept of sex roles and the political aspect of human sexuality. St Martin’s Press/New World [...]
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John Waters: Indecent Exposure
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIt has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents’ Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88 (Permanent Sleep Editio…
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Hunchback ‘88 is a book… or a novel mirror of haunted house ferox… or a puzzle in no rush to be solved… or a plot dug in ocean mist… or […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Music from the Hearts of Space Guide – Anna Turner & Stephe…
$30.00 | Book, PrintThe Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music by Anna Turner and Stephen Hill 8 x 8.75 in. 116pp 1 color PMS offset with 4 color offset […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction, Synthwave / Electronic -
Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
$17.00 | Book, PrintBeauty, in László Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred – even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
$14.00 | Book, Print‘One of Japan’s most venerated writers’ David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a recluse known as ‘Mole’ retreats to a [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
$14.00 | Book, PrintIn a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach’s mysterious, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
$14.00 | Book, Print‘The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940’s. A serial killer stalks the foggy [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Hubert Selby Jr – Last Exit to Brooklyn
$14.00 | Book, PrintFew novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.’s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, [...]
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Walter Benjamin – One-Way Street and Other Writings
$16.00 | Book, PrintWalter Benjamin – philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist – was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings [...]
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Davis Grubb – The Night of the Hunter
$16.00 | Book, PrintTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money – and a relentless psychopath is on their trail… Harry ‘Preacher’ Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
$14.00 | Book, PrintBorn to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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