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  • Sam Rivers – The Quest
    Sam Rivers – The Quest
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    «Improvising is sort of a real democracy kind of situation where everyone is performing in their own particular style or idiom of performing», stated Sam Rivers in December 1997 during […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
    Cecil Taylor – Three Classic Albums
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    Contains Jazz Advance, Looking Ahead & The World Of Cecil Taylor

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
    Archie Shepp – Yasmina, a Black Woman
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    ICONIC MUSICIAN AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST MAKES A TYPICALLY THOUGHT-PROVOKING STATEMENT ON HISTORIC 1969 RECORDING Of all the African-American jazz musicians who arrived in Paris at the end of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
    Archie Shepp – Poem for Malcolm
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    HISTORIC 1969 PARIS SESSION BY THE AMERICAN SAXOPHONIST-VOCALIST-INTELLECTUAL WHO CONVEYS HIS DEEP ANGUISH AT THE LOSS OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON. In a long and distinguished career Archie Shepp has [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
    Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
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    Livin’ In Elizabethan Times is a 2017 mini-album by Alien Stadium – a collaboration between Steve Mason and Primal Scream’s Martin Duffy.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
    Hawkwind – Hall Of The Mountain Grill
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    “The band’s best studio album, coming off of the success of Space Ritual. The group’s rock roots are juxtaposed effectively with the swelling synthesizer flourishes and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
    Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
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    “Doremi may not be Hawkwind’s most renowned album, but it carries the same type of prog rock spaciness as their first two releases. Even though the keyboard playing is trimmed […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
    The Electric Prunes – Original Album Series
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    Five CD box set containing a quintet of albums from the Psychedelic rockers all housed in mini LP sleeves and packaged in a slipcase. Includes the albums I Had Too […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fraternity – Livestock
    Fraternity – Livestock
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    CD reissue of ultra-rare Australian prog/psych album featuring contributions from Bon Scott, pre-AC/DC.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
    The Zoo – Presents Chocolate Moose
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    Early & rare psych gem.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
    The 13th Floor Elevators – 13 of the Best of the 13th Floor Elevators
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    2023 collection from the psych rock icons. Each original source has been referenced to the earliest vinyl pressing and meticulously transferred at 96khz 24-bit resolution. Multitrack tapes of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gong – Magick Brother
    Gong – Magick Brother
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    GONG’S MESMERIZING 1969 DEBUT ALBUM TRIPPY & SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PSYCHEDELIC ROCK OF THE HIGHEST ORDER Having been part of the fabled ‘Canterbury scene’ along with luminaries such as Robert [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
    Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
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    The Pretty Things created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late sixties and early seventies. Winners of the Hero award at the 2009 Mojo Honours, the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – Parachute
    Pretty Things – Parachute
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    “The Pretty Things always made ‘The Stones’ look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance” David Gilmour, Pink Floyd The Pretty Things, iconic 1st wave R&B […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
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    Garage/mod rock at its best

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – In from the Cold
    The Prisoners – In from the Cold
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    The Prisoners got their start in the same Medway River delta area of Britain as Billy Childish’s Pop Rivets. After the band’s demise singer/guitarist/songwriter Graham Day went on to [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
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    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
    The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
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    Die Kosmischen Kuriere reissue the legendary debut album of the krautrock all-star band from 1974. Produced at Dierks Studios with the collaboration of Dieter Dierks. What an amazing improvement [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
    Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
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    Compilation CD including tracks from Munic & Elsewear and The Last LP

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – Leaving Meaning
    Swans – Leaving Meaning
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    leaving meaning. is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the line up of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joni Île – Semaphore CS
    Joni Île – Semaphore CS
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    In the age of boredom-less nights I sometimes yearn for times I sat on my bedroom floor listening to the same albums over and over. The first time I heard […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kazumoto Endo – Brick And Mortar
    Kazumoto Endo – Brick And Mortar
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    Skeleton Dust is honored to reissue Kazumoto Endo’s “Brick And Mortar”, originally released on Rhystop in 2003. Despite being produced in an ample edition of 500 copies, Brick And Mortar […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
    Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
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    “Mercer County is in central New Jersey, main city is Trenton (they make pork roll) but the more known town is Princeton (they have the college where Einstein spent time […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
    Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
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    The collection of music you’re about to squeeze through your temporal lobe is not comprised of your standard 4/4 dance remixes. Unlike traditional remix records, these thirteen pieces are [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
    Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
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    Using an idiosyncratic compass and thinly disguised as Broken Telepathy, the Bronx-based duo of Kaori Nakamura (Soft Gang) and Darin Mickey (Dichroics/Soft Gang) navigate a range of emotional [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
    Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
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    Co-Released by Sophomore Lounge and Grapefruit Records. The NZ-American *Bilders* brings *Matt Swanson (Lambchop,* *My Dad Is Dead*) and *Alex McManus (Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop)* into the fold, all [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ned Collette – Our Other History
    Ned Collette – Our Other History
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    “Our Other History is a wonderful new LP by this wandering Berlin-based Melbourne expat. Ned’s last album, Afternoon Dusk was an avant instrumental trio outing with James Rushford and Joe [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
    Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
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    “The Styrofoam Winos are that band that we love to have in our lives because they transcend the language of music, not by their individual parts, but by their oneness. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
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    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite bands making music in the world today. All star cast of Kentucky HEADS – members of Flanger Magazine (Torn Light), […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
    Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
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    With his 2021 self-titled debut, Andy Pastalaniec’s Chime School became one of the defining acts of the seemingly never-ending, prolific and multifaceted Bay Area pop scene. Slumberland Records [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
    Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
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    ‘Endlessness’ is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    DJ Speedsick / Giugno
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    Released on CDr from endogenesis – housed in a manilla envelope. labeled CDr.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Rog Logan – Explode The Rose
    Rog Logan – Explode The Rose
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    “Explode the Rose” is the first solo recording by Rob Logan (Desert Liminal / Midnight Minds). The album is as much self-examination as it is an exploration of composition and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
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    A solo double bass LP from Zach Rowden. A minimal and  drone album that requires you to let go, and hear Zach’s discipline and from that – patience. Immediately intimate, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
    Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
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    Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
    Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
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    A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cannibal Error (Revised)
    Cannibal Error (Revised)
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    A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
    Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
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    On 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Troy James Weaver – Visions
    Troy James Weaver – Visions
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    “Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
    Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
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    The reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Louis-Auguste Blanqui – Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
    Louis-Auguste Blanqui – Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
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    In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
    Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
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    Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia is a series of poems Tinti composed in the spring of 2020. The epigraphic collections of the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, and the National [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
    Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
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    Upon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mathias Enard – Zone
    Mathias Enard – Zone
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    “The novel of the decade, if not of the century.”–Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
    Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
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    “Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop Alice [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
    Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
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    New evidence in ‘Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
    Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
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    Turner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong and Turner gets […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
    Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
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    Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction