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  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    “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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Cadre Fall 2021 artwork by Paul van Trigt

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Genophobia – Guilty Pleasures
    Genophobia – Guilty Pleasures
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    Cadre Fall 2021 artwork by Paul van Trigt

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Airway – Live At Zebulon
    Airway – Live At Zebulon
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Nape – Ten Tonne Angel CS (2nd Edition)
    Nape – Ten Tonne Angel CS (2nd Edition)
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    What our staff has to say: “Top level techno. Raw, primitive, engaging angular sounds all under the umbrella of dance inducing psychedelia. A MUST HAVE OF 2021!!!” – Brandon [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • NE 21 – In The Realm of Electricity
    NE 21 – In The Realm of Electricity
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    he NE-21 return to She Lost Kontrol after their first pitch-perfect 80s dark wave release in 2016. After releasing a collaboration with Donato Dozzy with the project ‘Men with [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • taupe set xl – shadow of venus
    taupe set xl – shadow of venus
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    What our staff has to say: “There is always a teetering feeling I have with ambient music. I’m on the verge of standing in place as the piece moves past […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
    Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
    $10.00 |

    A recent long-distance virtual studio collaboration between close colleague and fellow traveller Raphael Alvarez of Guatemala/Cuba via North Carolina, and Richard Vergez. Ongue Ditas is a melding [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • M?thersky – Remain In Memory
    M?thersky – Remain In Memory
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    I never was in a punk band. Began music by making slow-paced space racket, solo with old tape loops around 2005. Then Möthersky was conceived, starting as a solo instrumental […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Nigel Ayers – Electronic Resistance
    Nigel Ayers – Electronic Resistance
    $70.00 | ,

    What our staff has to say: “A fantastically displayed retrospective of work by Nigel Ayers, including his ‘mail art, collages, assemblages, flyers, slides, video stills, ephemera, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • A Fail Association – This Will… CS
    A Fail Association – This Will… CS
    $8.00 |

    Round two for the Sheriff of Dada Drumming and mayor of Funkytown, TX, with two brickwall tracks recorded in 2018. The second AFA release for MT coming 16 years after […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
    History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.   Brute rust belt concréte compositions of full spectrum, delicate yet hard-edged crumbling narratives [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
    Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
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    Interlude with Fun Machine relies on textures, patterns, found sounds, presets, rhythm boxes, inversion of background and foreground elements, and the very deadpan sense of humor of Steve Fisk [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic