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  • Severo Sarduy – Cobra
    Severo Sarduy – Cobra
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    The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Originally […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
    Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
    $16.00 | ,

    Altered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Techno / House / Electronic
  • The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
    The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Sièc…
    $38.00 | ,

    In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
    Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
    $10.00 | ,

    Off-kilter and lo-fi slowcore. Think Raincoats fronting a band on Darla.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hawkwind – Live 1972
    Hawkwind – Live 1972
    $10.00 | ,

    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Recorded live by the BBC on 28th September 1972 at the famed Paris Theatre in London, this is the classic Space Ritual-era Hawkwind, featuring […]

  • Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    $10.00 | ,

    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. This work is a masterpiece compilation released from Ethiopia’s in 1972 on the eve of the release of Mulatu Astatke’s masterpiece [...]

  • I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio Topo #19
    I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio T…
    $10.00 |

    Deep in the bad places in your mind, you have to fight to get out. C50 of acid bummers.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    $10.00 |

    Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
    Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
    $20.00 | ,

    Like a roar, or a belch, in the face of late-stage capitalism Cincinnati’s Primitive Impulse comes blasting through your speakers with thirteen tracks of head-pounding drums, face-shredding [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
    Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
    $20.00 | ,

    After some turbulent late teen years in her former pop punk band, Mixtapes, Maura Weaver needed a break. Months became years and the songs still weren’t coming. It wasn’t until […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Self Improvement – Syndrome
    Self Improvement – Syndrome
    $20.00 | ,

    Perhaps in the contemporary simulacra wherein copies are all copies of other copies, the sense of the fraught sophomore effort is accentuated even more so. In a world of endless […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Portable Vaudeville – Holland Festival
    Portable Vaudeville – Holland Festival
    $30.00 | ,

    Infinite Expanse is excited to announce the reissue of Holland Festival, the soundtrack for The Theatre for Moveable People, Objects and Music, originally performed live in 1983 during the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Phobophlyptix – Phobophlyptix
    Phobophlyptix – Phobophlyptix
    $20.00 | ,

    Radical Documents is amped to announce the debut LP from LA, CA’s PHOBOPHLYPTIX. In 10 songs, clocking just over 9 minutes, ZZ, JJ, Paully, and Sammy thrash, grind, chug, and […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Martin Franklin & Michael O’Dempsey – Kolbe
    Martin Franklin & Michael O’Dempsey – Kolbe
    $13.00 | ,

    Live recordings taken from the theatrical performance at St Edwards Church, Windsor, UK September 1986. Michael O’Dempsey: Yamaha CX5M, modified violin, piano, voice Martin Franklin: Korg MS10, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Michael Atherton – Windshift
    Michael Atherton – Windshift
    $30.00 | ,

    Michael Atherton is a writer, composer and educator from Sydney, Australia. Originally born in Liverpool, England, to Welsh-Irish and German parents, his family later migrated to Australia in [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • L – Marilyn Monroe – All of Us
    L – Marilyn Monroe – All of Us
    $20.00 | ,

    L are a disassociated non-music trio based around the writings of card magician Jack Paton. Jack is joined by Laurie Pitt (Golden Teacher, The Modern Institute) and Jack Mellin (Smack Wizards, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jaroslav Kořán – Zahrada
    Jaroslav Kořán – Zahrada
    $30.00 | ,

    A pivotal document of the early 90s Czech alternative music scene, Zahrada – the deeply immersive 1992 album by Prague-based composer and sound artist Jaroslav Kořán – finally makes its […]

    GENRE: Ambient
  • V/A – A Lowtides Rising… (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music)
    V/A – A Lowtides Rising… (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Ac…
    $30.00 | , ,

    Featuring: Peter Wright, CJA and Annamarie, Sleep. Pumice, Kieran Monaghan (mr sterile), Swagger Jack, Birchville Cat Motel, Richard Francis, 1/3 Octave Band, Tim Cornelius (Sandoz Lab Techs), [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Features ‎– X Features
    Features ‎– X Features
    $15.00 | , ,

    “The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post-punk in the Auckland, New Zealand scene. The band formed in late 1979, [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Cuticles – Major Works
    Cuticles – Major Works
    $20.00 | , ,

    Oamaru, located about 80 miles north of Dunedin on New Zealand’s south island, might seem like the last place you expect to find a prodigious racket like Cuticles, but ain’t […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Marion Cousin et Kaumwald – Tu Rabo Par’Abanico
    Marion Cousin et Kaumwald – Tu Rabo Par’Abanico
    $20.00 | , ,

    There are commitments whose delineations are only defined by a territory. The series initiated in 2016 by Marion Cousin prompts an exploration of the Iberian Peninsula through its enchanted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Eric Demarsan ‎– Le Cercle Rouge
    Eric Demarsan ‎– Le Cercle Rouge
    $40.00 | , ,

    “Starting as a collaborator of François de Roubaix and Michel Magne in the 60s, Eric Demarsan went on to become a mainstay of French cinema soundtracks, composing for directors such […]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Arlean Brown ‎– Sings The Blues In The Loop
    Arlean Brown ‎– Sings The Blues In The Loop
    $120.00 | , ,

    “If you wandered into a smoky South Side club in Chicago during the early ’70s, there’s a good chance you’d have been met by the raw, unvarnished truth of Arelean […]

    GENRE: Rhythm & Blues
  • Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts (blue vinyl)
    Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts (blue vinyl)
    $23.00 | , ,

    “Though it’s somewhat surprising Thurston Moore and Beck didn’t work together prior to Demolished Thoughts, their collaboration lives up to its promise, delivering an album of psychedelic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • JJulius ‎– Vol I
    JJulius ‎– Vol I
    $35.00 | , ,

    Debut solo-album by JJULIUS. Recorded and mixed by JJULIUS in Gothenburg from autumn 2020 to winter 2021 Label: Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox – MMJ004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • V/A – Wound
    V/A – Wound
    $18.00 | , ,

    Continuing the tradition of its milestone-marking compilations, Carbon is using the occasion of its 25th year to bring together an impressive roster of guitar-based artists. Showcasing the use of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Goose – Som Folk Är Mest
    Goose – Som Folk Är Mest
    $18.00 | , ,

    An organism of shredded memories, connections and relations. Existing because of mixtures, collages, escapism and rescues. Behind Goose there are two of the currently most forward thinking and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Andrew Thomas Wilson – Carnarvon
    Andrew Thomas Wilson – Carnarvon
    $40.00 | , ,

    Synthy & mellow New Age explorations Label: EMI – EMX 430016 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Australia Released: 1984 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Michael Oosten – Michael Oosten
    Michael Oosten – Michael Oosten
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Keeping a band together was difficult in the late 1960s. Tough too, because Michael Oosten was writing songs that veered away from pop-song structures. There was also the relative ease [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
    Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
    $10.00 | , ,

    A dazzling display of 12-string melodicism, Arc Minutes is the second full-length LP from once New Englander, now Tokyo-based, instrumentalist Rob Noyes. If one had to pin an influence from […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Triple Negative ‎– God Bless The Death Drive
    Triple Negative ‎– God Bless The Death Drive
    $16.00 | , ,

    Literally taking off where the acclaimed Precious Waste in our Wake LP finished off, London based outfit Triple Negative return with another exemplary amplified jigsaw puzzle. The playback of [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Lunchbox – Evolver
    Lunchbox – Evolver
    $20.00 | , ,

    Lunchbox’s legendary lost album “Evolver” is lost no more! Sparklingly remastered for the album’s twentieth (and a few!) anniversary and available on CD, cassette and (for the [...]

  • Lead – 2
    Lead – 2
    $15.00 | , ,

    Artist duo Amy Howden-Chapman and Steve Kado return with a follow up to their debut album on Radical Documents. The side long pieces on 2 are sprawling and intense. The […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
    Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
    $12.00 | , ,

    Noah Sterba is one of Omaha’s underground music heroes, literally performing most of his songs and poetry into dented Radio Shack microphones in the subterranean basements of tornado alley for [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
    Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
    $15.00 | , ,

    ”Listening to Thomas E. Frank’s debut solo album for the first time, I’m amazed at how recognizable and familiar it sounds. Not in the heard-it-a-thousand-times-before kind of way, but more […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits
    Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits
    $150.00 | , ,

    “Jon Spencer’s first ever solo album!!! Despite the title, this is not a hits collection but is instead twelve brand new Spencer penned originals. Spencer Sings The Hits is a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Body/Dilloway/Head – Body/Dilloway/Head (silver vinyl)
    Body/Dilloway/Head – Body/Dilloway/Head (silver vinyl)
    $20.00 | , ,

    “on november 19 we had the privilege of helping introduce you all to the self-titled debut album from body/dilloway/head. this album is a serious and apt soundtrack for our times […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Claire Rousay ‎– Everything Perfect Is Already Here (Silver Vinyl)
    Claire Rousay ‎– Everything Perfect Is Already Here (Silver Vinyl)
    $30.00 | , ,

    “When words trail off at the beginning of claire rousay’s “everything perfect is already here,” ornate instrumentation is waiting to fill a void left by the breakdown of language. Yet […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Inmates – Dirty Water
    The Inmates – Dirty Water
    $5.00 | , ,

    Cover of The Standells track by the British pub-rock group, The Inmates. Label: Radar Records – ADA 44 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Light […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • The Books – Broadcast
    The Books – Broadcast
    $5.00 | , ,

    Electro/synth-pop track that bears some similarities to B-52s & Devo. Label: Logo – BOOK 1 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Light sleevewear/discoloration

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Any Trouble – Yesterday’s Love
    Any Trouble – Yesterday’s Love
    $7.00 | , ,

    Wonderful power-pop track on Stiff Records. Label: Stiff Records – BUY 74 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Light wear. Old store sticker

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Teardrop Explodes ‎– Treason
    The Teardrop Explodes ‎– Treason
    $6.00 | , ,

    One of the best tracks from their debut album, Kilimanjaro. Label: Zoo Records – CAGE 008 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Some edgewear

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Spaces – I’ve Had A Nice Peaceful Day
    Spaces – I’ve Had A Nice Peaceful Day
    $12.00 | , ,

    New Zealand power-pop/new wave that still sounds zippy today. Label: Epic – ES 715 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: New Zealand Released: 1982 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Punts ‎– Shelly’s Boyfriend / Rochambeau
    Punts ‎– Shelly’s Boyfriend / Rochambeau
    $9.00 | , ,

    Sole power-pop 7″ from the Punts. RIYL: Pretenders, Go-Go’s. Label: Bondage Records – 0001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Undertones ‎– The Sin Of Pride
    The Undertones ‎– The Sin Of Pride
    $15.00 | , ,

    “The Sin of Pride was by far the most exploratory album the Undertones ever issued and, other than their debut, fares the best. Whereas Hypnotised had been another punk rave-up […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Easybeats ‎– Easy
    The Easybeats ‎– Easy
    $40.00 | , ,

    Great Australian garage/beat record that matches the Kinks in terms of poppy fun. Label: Albert Productions – APLP.057 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: Australia Released: 1982 VG+/VG. Upper [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Tertium Quid – Days Of Trinity / Megalomania
    Tertium Quid – Days Of Trinity / Megalomania
    $45.00 | , ,

    Sole single from these avant-pop weirdos. Sounds like the catchier bits from Ralph Records, fed through a uranium tube. Label: Cheap Records – 110032X Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
    The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
    $100.00 | , ,

    “The songs which make up Blue Earth originated as demos, and save for some minor studio tinkering, are presented here in their original embryonic state. As a consequence, the record […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Guided By Voices – Propeller
    Guided By Voices – Propeller
    $18.00 | , ,

    “”Propeller was the fifth album by Guided By Voices, and was intended to be the group’s last. Released as a limited edition of 500 LPs in 1992, the album featured […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
    Fruit LoOops – Everything Is Clear To Me Now
    $12.00 | ,

    Torn Light Records recording artists Fruit Looops lastest EP released via Orange Milk Records. Mental & fried 4 track CD of their stripped down vocal/synth/drum line up of art punk/electronic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore, Techno / House / Electronic