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  • Birth Control* – Operation
    Birth Control* – Operation
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    Ohr present a reissue of Birth Control’s Operation, originally released in 1971. Re-release of the second album of the Berlin outfit on the original Ohr label. Produced by the famous […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Carla dal Forno – Look Up Sharp
    Carla dal Forno – Look Up Sharp
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    Carla dal Forno announces her second full-length album, Look Up Sharp, on her own Kallista records. Dal Forno beckons a bold new era in her peerless output pushing her dub-damaged […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Carla dal Forno – Come Around
    Carla dal Forno – Come Around
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    Carla dal Forno resurfaces with the news of plans to release her third album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint. Now, based in the township of Castlemaine, Central […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Carla dal Forno – Come Around
    Carla dal Forno – Come Around
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    Carla dal Forno resurfaces with the news of plans to release her third album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint. Now, based in the township of Castlemaine, Central […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Squirrel Bait – Skag Heaven
    Squirrel Bait – Skag Heaven
    $26.00 | ,

    What’s new for the first time in over a decade? Squirrel Bait’s self-titled 12” EP and Skag Heaven in the black. In ’85-’87, their screamin’ teenage psycho dilemmas stood way […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Karl Bartos – Communication
    Karl Bartos – Communication
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    A timeless statement on media, culture, and music. Karl Bartos, renowned as an essential member and songwriter of Kraftwerk during their most innovative years, is reissuing his solo album [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hans Nieswandt – Fluoreszent
    Hans Nieswandt – Fluoreszent
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    Fluoreszent is the new solo album by Cologne based artist Hans Nieswandt and his third for Hamburg’s Bureau B label. Hans Nieswandt is a long standing and highly respected key […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • CV Vision – Im Tal Der Stutzer
    CV Vision – Im Tal Der Stutzer
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    “Taking inspiration from deep in the mediaeval mists of times long past, CV Vision comes riding over the hills like a knight to the rescue, and his new album Im […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Faust IV
    Faust – Faust IV
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    By 1973, Faust had already rewired the circuits of German rock. Their first two albums had exploded traditional song form with a joyous disregard for continuity, coherence, or commercial appeal. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Momentaufnahme IV
    Faust – Momentaufnahme IV
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    Faust is a group of artists who shared intense musical experiences in the years 1971 to 1974. Supported by producer Uwe Nettelbeck and sound engineer Kurt Graupner, they produced an […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Momentaufnahme III
    Faust – Momentaufnahme III
    $17.00 | ,

    Faust is a group of artists who shared intense musical experiences in the years 1971 to 1974. Supported by producer Uwe Nettelbeck and sound engineer Kurt Graupner, they produced an […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Peter Baumann – Nightfall
    Peter Baumann – Nightfall
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    Hamburg’s kosmische custodians at Bureau B welcome legendary synth maestro Peter Baumann back into the studio for his first solo album since Machines Of Desire (BB 234CD, 2016). A defining [...]

    GENRE: Synthwave / Electronic
  • Conrad Schnitzler – Convex
    Conrad Schnitzler – Convex
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    “On Convex, as on many of his other albums, Schnitzler definitely used a sample-and-hold generator (S/H generator), a device that converts sounds stored as desired into random sequences of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Conrad Schnitzler – Slow Motion
    Conrad Schnitzler – Slow Motion
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    The 1960s weren’t just about The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and hippies; they also ushered in new forms of art: happenings, Fluxus, Neo-Dada, video art, to name just a few. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Martin Rev – Les Nymphes
    Martin Rev – Les Nymphes
    $17.00 | ,

    Hazy dream chronicles. “A Martin Rev album is always liable to spring a surprise. Think of the rough guitars which unexpectedly appeared on his 2003 release To Live (BB 417CD/LP) […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Martin Rev – The Sum Of Our Wounds (Cassette Recordings 1973-85)
    Martin Rev – The Sum Of Our Wounds (Cassette Recordings 1973-85)
    $17.00 | ,

    “[Martin] Rev initially explored free jazz and similarly free forms of musical expression before discovering the magnetic attraction of electronic production and instrumentation, enabling [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • V/A – Silberland Vol 2: The Driving Side Of Kosmische Musik (1974-1984)
    V/A – Silberland Vol 2: The Driving Side Of Kosmische Musik (1974-1984…
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    On their last trip to Silberland, hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Saeko Killy – Dream In Dream
    Saeko Killy – Dream In Dream
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    Japanese producer Saeko Killy returns for her second album of psychedelic electronics and drum machine workouts with Dream In Dream on Bureau B. In contrast to her first LP Morphing […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Martin Rev – To Live
    Martin Rev – To Live
    $17.00 | ,

    “Like a blizzard in a snow globe American indie label File 13 Records released what was already Martin Rev’s sixth solo album in the autumn of 2003. The previous year, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Patti Smith – Horses
    Patti Smith – Horses
    $25.00 | ,

    Horses by Patti Smith Group? Yeah, that 1975 slab of raw nerve and poetry vomit. Don’t let the “Group” fool you – this is Patti’s show, front to back. She […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Wayne Shorter – The All Seeing Eye (Tone Poet Series – 180g)
    Wayne Shorter – The All Seeing Eye (Tone Poet Series – 180…
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    On October 15, 1965, tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye, a brilliant and ambitiously multi-layered album for Blue Note. Shorter’s goal for the album [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • McCoy Tyner – Expansions: Tone Poet Series
    McCoy Tyner – Expansions: Tone Poet Series
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    Pianist McCoy Tyner was an acknowledged force of nature. On the aptly-named Expansions, Tyner fronts a remarkable band consisting of Woody Shaw on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Gary [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Joy Division – Closer
    Joy Division – Closer
    $26.00 | ,

    Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. Closer, the band’s 1980 sophomore album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Eraser – Hideout
    Eraser – Hideout
    $22.00 | ,

    The quartet of Sonam Parikh, Pier Harrison Juliette Rando & Kat Bean are the glorious blood & guts behind Eraser. Much can be said of their paths to this apex, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Miles Davis – Live in Belgrade 1973
    Miles Davis – Live in Belgrade 1973
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    A new Miles Davis boot available in our shop. Live in Belgrade, very very fried material from an early 1970s set in Belgrade. Get em while they’re hot. “Details, revisions […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Living Are Few, The Dead Many : Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn
    The Living Are Few, The Dead Many : Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn
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    The works of Hans Henny Jahnn exploded on to the inter-war literary scene in Germany as a crazed marriage of Gothic Romanticism, modernist literary Expressionism and the experiments of writers [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories
    Jewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories
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    In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things… Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearful Symmetry
    Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearful Symmetry
    $14.00 | ,

    When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Constance Debre – Offenses
    Constance Debre – Offenses
    $16.00 | ,

    Is a criminal born or made? What turns them towards violence?A young man stabs an elderly woman ten times for the sake of a 450 euro debt. But why would […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anna Kavan – Sleep Has His House
    Anna Kavan – Sleep Has His House
    $16.00 | ,

    In an unhappy suburban household, a young girl begins to retreat into a nighttime world of her own imagining. As her daytime life deteriorates, she decides to take up permanent […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass
    Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass
    $14.00 | ,

    Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kim Gordon – Play Me
    Kim Gordon – Play Me
    $26.00 | ,

    Kim Gordon’s third album, ‘PLAY ME,’ is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Charlatans – Some Friendly
    The Charlatans – Some Friendly
    $38.00 | ,

    One of the best-loved UK bands of the last four decades, The Charlatans’ career spans 14 albums, three Number One UK albums and era-defining anthems like “The Only One I […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Scritti Politti – Songs To Remember
    Scritti Politti – Songs To Remember
    $26.00 | ,

    The debut album of one of Britain’s most acclaimed and influential bands, Songs to Remember takes us back to the beginnings of Scritti Politti. Having emerged out of the DIY […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe
    My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe
    $26.00 | ,

    As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Cameron Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex storytelling through thrilling passages [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe
    My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe
    $15.00 | ,

    As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Cameron Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex storytelling through thrilling passages [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator
    Mdou Moctar – Ilana: The Creator
    $23.00 | ,

    Blistering and hypnotic, ‘Ilana (The Creator)’ (2019) marked the beginning of a new chapter for Mdou Moctar. It is the Nigerien guitar hero’s first album recorded with a live rock [...]

    GENRE: African, International
  • Anjimile – You’re Free To Go
    Anjimile – You’re Free To Go
    $23.00 | ,

    Anjimile has forged a distinctive musical path characterised by unflinching introspection and deep honesty. Giver Taker, hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the year’s best albums, positioned [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Buck Meek – The Mirror
    Buck Meek – The Mirror
    $24.00 | ,

    A gleaner of the forgotten, Buck Meek tips over the familiar and turns the unknown into a companion. On The Mirror, the artist’s fourth solo record and second released by […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gary Numan – Telekon
    Gary Numan – Telekon
    $15.00 | ,

    In early 2025, a visit to Gary’s personal archive allowed for a deep dig, and amongst all the treasures, unreleased Telekon material was found. We are thrilled to include four […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Sleaford Mods – The Demise Of Planet X
    Sleaford Mods – The Demise Of Planet X
    $26.00 | ,

    No need to worry, it’s only the end of the world… welcome to The Demise Of Planet X. Having put the Do into DIY in a 15 year (and counting) […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sleaford Mods – The Demise Of Planet X
    Sleaford Mods – The Demise Of Planet X
    $15.00 | ,

    No need to worry, it’s only the end of the world… welcome to The Demise Of Planet X. Having put the Do into DIY in a 15 year (and counting) […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fields Of The Nephilim – Dawnrazor
    Fields Of The Nephilim – Dawnrazor
    $35.00 | ,

    Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Fields Of The Nephilim – Dawnrazor
    Fields Of The Nephilim – Dawnrazor
    $15.00 | ,

    Formed in 1984, Fields of the Nephilim is the creation of vocalist and front man Carl McCoy. Highly influential, especially in the world of goth, but also within the metal […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003 – 2009)
    Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003 – 2009)
    $29.00 | ,

    A new live album that sees the band reflecting on their 6th album, Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) is comprised of performances of songs in London, Amsterdam, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Fall – Seminal Live
    The Fall – Seminal Live
    $26.00 | ,

    Beggars Arkive is happy to announce our reissue of The Fall’s 1989 half-studio/half-live album, Seminal Live. Available on yellow vinyl and digitally, the album has been newly remastered by Kevin [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Fall – Schtick: Yarbles Revisited
    The Fall – Schtick: Yarbles Revisited
    $21.00 | ,

    Available for the first time on vinyl, this collection compiles the singles released around This Nation’s Saving Grace and includes 5 tracks from the bands’ 1985 BBC Peel sessions. Also […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • CCNT – CCNT
    CCNT – CCNT
    $10.00 | ,

    Guttural, coarse, and unprecious. Twisted Arp Odyssey and heavily-processed Saprano saxophone improvisations form a labyrinthine album of synth drone, occasional scronk, and composed noise. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Nathan Taylor – Life is but a Dream
    Nathan Taylor – Life is but a Dream
    $10.00 | ,

    Nathan Taylor’s debut under his given name, 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘈 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, presents a hypnagogic atmosphere unfurling within the space spanning crepuscular phantoms to late-night reveries. Though the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
    Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
    $14.00 | ,

    Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive