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  • Forest Kelley – Silt CS
    Forest Kelley – Silt CS
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    3/29/22 street date. ships week prior. Forest Kelley’s debut album, Silt, is the culmination of a decade-long sonic realization of a singular vision: nematoda, annelida, and other abyssal [...]

  • Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
    Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
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    The first audio document ever published by Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018). There is a romanticism found in Geoffrey, that, in my mind, sets his work aside from his Fluxfriends. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
    Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
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    What does it mean to pray? To address someone, to plead for something, to welcome humiliation and failure: Please, let me forget about the China Chalet parties, please let there […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Molly McCann – Das Jahr
    Molly McCann – Das Jahr
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    The first published recordings of Molly McCann, my older sister, playing Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841); a groundbreaking cycle of 12 thematically interlocked character [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Charlie Morrow – Chanter
    Charlie Morrow – Chanter
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    To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. Curated by Sean McCann, this collection spans over 60+ years [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Le Matos – Ninja Eliminator Trilogy OST (Transparent Purple Vinyl)
    Le Matos – Ninja Eliminator Trilogy OST (Transparent Purple Viny…
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    2008 saw fledgeling filmmakers RKSS release a faux trailer for NINJA ELIMINATOR. It was a love letter to the kung fu flicks of Godfrey Ho they grew up watching, loaded […]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Florian T M Zeisig – Slow Bench Flexi
    Florian T M Zeisig – Slow Bench Flexi
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    Description Languid washes of warming tones punctuated by untreated piano, glittering glissandos, and delicate droplets welcome us into Florian T M Zeisig’s 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ. Like icicles drifting [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sol Yurick – The Warriors
    Sol Yurick – The Warriors
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    The basis for the cult-classic film The Warriors chronicles one New York City gang’s nocturnal journey through the seedy, dangerous subways and city streets of the 1960s. Every gang in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dream Dance: The Art Of Ed Emshwiller
    Dream Dance: The Art Of Ed Emshwiller
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    Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is a catalog released in conjunction with the artist’s first major monographic exhibition at Lightbox Film Center and the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Brett Naucke – Mirror Ensemble
    Brett Naucke – Mirror Ensemble
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    “I guess this is my indie rock record,” jokes Chicago electronic musician and composer Brett Naucke – he’s referring to his new LP Mirror Ensemble, created in conjunction with Windy […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
    Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
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    “I was trying to express the aggression I was feeling without sounding like I had a chip on my shoulder.” That’s Havadine Stone of experimental electronic project Blue Lick, a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • So Pitted – Neo
    So Pitted – Neo
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    Nathan Rodriguez, of Seattle’s So Pitted, is referring to a viral clip of a surfer, standing on the shore in front of mountainous morning waves, relaying to a reporter the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 2.1E+12
    2.1E+12
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    On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • M//R – Anxious Meditation LP
    M//R – Anxious Meditation LP
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    Description With a steady drip of releases from labels such as Great Circles, L.I.E.S., and Jack Dept., Philadephia-based M//R (Billy Werner) has carved out a uniquely penumbral club zone. [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Jackie McLean – Destination Out
    Jackie McLean – Destination Out
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    he innovative hard bop of Jackie McLean evolved as the `60s progressed. Inspired by Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist ventured into the avant-garde but never let go of a soulful sense […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jon Mueller – Family Secret
    Jon Mueller – Family Secret
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    Wisconsin musician Jon Mueller is inquisitive. Open to pushing his experience and his limits, he’s demonstrated the many sides of himself both as a solo performer and as a key […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
    Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
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    On Transgression!!!, Donald Miller, guitar icon known for destroying worlds in the great Borbetomagus, takes the listener on an unexpected journey through the 12-string acoustic guitar. Utilizing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Che-Shizu – A Journey
    Che-Shizu – A Journey
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    Ché-SHIZU is one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from Japan’s musical underground. Founded by master improviser Chie Mukai in 1981 the group has been guided […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
    Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
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    ARE YOU STUPID? Get ready to find out! This DC group of young guns are taking the IQ lower than a limbo pole. Playing punk hardcore inspired by greats such […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) CS
    Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) CS
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    Label Description: Signal Decay – Derelict (Pump Song) Here: Cassette plus 1 Digi Track (Excerpt) Industrial Coast Big Cartel: Cassette Only An ill-at-ease musing on home and place. [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Paul Nouge – The Subversion Of Images
    Paul Nouge – The Subversion Of Images
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    This classic surrealist photobook pioneered the imagery of the domestic uncanny First edited and published by Marcel Marien in 1968 in a limited edition of 230 copies, half a year […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Salvador Dali – Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution: Writings 1927-1933
    Salvador Dali – Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution: Writings …
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    Dalí’s meditations on art and the paranoid-critical method, plus poems and more Salvador Dalí’s writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • John O’Neill – Cine/Hollywood Tow
    John O’Neill – Cine/Hollywood Tow
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    After years of receiving many of his excellent recordings in my inbox, I’m excited to finally be involved in the materialization of the first proper release by Los Angeles-based artist […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Chucha – What Remains
    Chucha – What Remains
    $9.00 | ,

    Laura Muñoz’s Chucha project has been responsible for a healthy chunk of the freshest, most mind-bending live sets I’ve seen since she began playing live in 2016; each performance [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
    Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
    $9.00 | ,

    The new record by Eric Chenaux is his most immaculate and pristine. Say Laura perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
    James Purdy – In A Shallow Grave
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    What our staff has to say: “James Purdy is one of the most underrated american writers of the last 100 years. His writing is grotesque, funny and heartbreaking, often in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
    Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
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    Currently based out Miami FL Autumn Casey is an Artist in the truest sense, using multiple different mediums to express her inspirations. On the A.side of “Your Own Entertainment [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Discreet Music Mag #2
    Discreet Music Mag #2
    $7.00 | ,

    Second issue of Discreet Music Mag, featuring interviews with Greymouth and Jon Collin and a long piece on IDDB 001-044. Full colour, written in English. Discreet Music, 2021

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Riki – Gold
    Riki – Gold
    $13.00 |

    West coast new romantic icon Riki returns with her 2nd simulacrum of pitch-perfect synth-pop, aptly titled for the precious substance it is: Gold. Inspired by notions of symbolic power, letting [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
    Ryann Donnelly – Justify My Love
    $9.00 | ,

    An analysis of sex and gender in music videos, covering everyone from Beyonce to Madonna, Nine Inch Nails to Mykki Blanco. In Justify My Love, Ryann Donnelly explores sex and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
    $16.00 | ,

    A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Bunkur Vs. Mordor ‎–S/T
    Bunkur Vs. Mordor ‎–S/T
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    After several years in the making, it is Nuclear War Now’s honor to finally present this split album from Bunkur and Mordor, two of the most extreme and unorthodox bands […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Advance Base – Live At Home
    Advance Base – Live At Home
    $9.00 |

    The last Advance Base show in front of a live audience was in Portland, Oregon on March 11, 2020, four days into a west coast tour with Claire Cronin & […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    $8.00 | ,

    Platinum Tips + Ice Cream is the first release from Royal Trux in 17 years, culled from two live sets recently recorded in New York and Los Angeles. It is […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    $19.00 | ,

    In and out of focus in a hallucinogenic haze, Bill’s conversations with himself follow a travel-worn map copied over and over again. The picker journeys sonically from familiar to unknown [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Red Death – Permanent Exile
    Red Death – Permanent Exile
    $8.00 | ,

    “In 2014, DC’s RED DEATH came out of the gate and obliterated everyone with one of the best hardcore demos of the year. Their first recorded output channeled the sheer […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
    Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
    $7.00 | ,

    Charging Swedish punk attack, burning guitars and sore throats, cracked cymbals and worn out DISCHARGE records, KSngNSve ( pronounced SCHANG-NAA-VEH, meaning “Crust Fist”) is the [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nancy Barile – I’m Not Holding Your Coat
    Nancy Barile – I’m Not Holding Your Coat
    $9.00 | ,

    What our staff has to say: “Awesome memoir about being a part of the Philly hardcore scene in the 80s. Barile’s story is deeply personal while also steeped in punk […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • Lie In Ruins – Floating In Timeless Streams
    Lie In Ruins – Floating In Timeless Streams
    $11.00 | ,

    Six years since Finland’s Lie in Ruin’s last full-length (2014’s Towards Divine Death), “Floating in Timeless Streams” sees a more streamlined approach from the [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • October Prowler – On The Prowl Again
    October Prowler – On The Prowl Again
    $10.00 | ,

    The sequel to last year’s ‘October Prowler’ Pro-duplicated and printed CDr in a Digipack case

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • HNRTR – True To Form
    HNRTR – True To Form
    $5.00 | ,

    Cadre Fall 2021 artwork by Paul van Trigt

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Genophobia – Guilty Pleasures
    Genophobia – Guilty Pleasures
    $5.00 | ,

    Cadre Fall 2021 artwork by Paul van Trigt

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Airway – Live At Zebulon
    Airway – Live At Zebulon
    $9.00 |

    In December 2019, Los Angeles Free Music Society pioneers Airway performed live at Zebulon with a stacked cast of collaborators, unleashing a constantly mutating wave of raucous free improv [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
    Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
    $9.00 | ,

    Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on 20th September. Altid Sammen (meaning “always together”) is deep and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux ‎– -io
    Circuit Des Yeux ‎– -io
    $22.00 | ,

    Haley Fohr (b. Dec 16 1988) is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit des [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • LOBA Adress – Will You Take No, Will You Straighten Your Jacket
    LOBA Adress – Will You Take No, Will You Straighten Your Jacket
    $6.00 |

    A footrace on the moon / two show up armed with nothing but a polished flute and an assortment of scraping, stumbling percussion. No audience, no prize, no celebration, no […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
    V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
    $12.00 | ,

    Craft Recordings is pleased to launch its 75th-anniversary celebrations of Specialty Records with a brand-new compilation, Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records. Available for pre-order now, [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses)  – Truth
    King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses) – Truth
    $12.00 | ,

    James Shaw (aka The Mighty Hannibal aka King Hannibal) was an American R&B, soul and funk singer, songwriter and record producer known for his showmanship and outlandish costumes. Several of [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobby Story – The Storyteller
    Bobby Story – The Storyteller
    $12.00 | ,

    Bobby Patterson’s (born 1944) life in music has had many facets. Whether as a DJ in Texas (he had a popular show at the Dallas-based radio station KKDA until 2012), a producer […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Andrew Kirschner – Mirror Thru Haze
    Andrew Kirschner – Mirror Thru Haze
    $8.00 |

    Featuring John Olson, Ben Gmetro and TJ Duke Recorded and mixed by Ben Gmetro and AK Mastered by Wyatt Howland Artwork by James Searfoss Layout by Dave Petersen

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise