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  • Philip Perkins – King Of The World
    Philip Perkins – King Of The World
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    “This album was inspired by the lives and works of three ancient monarchs, all of whom considered themselves to be the absolute ruler of all mankind. The music was made […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Musica Transonic ‎– Musica Transonic
    Musica Transonic ‎– Musica Transonic
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    “In 1986, Tokyo’s PSF Records released the second album by High Rise, simply titled II, and it immediately became one of those legendary albums that hipsters worldwide whispered [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Various – Spela Själv (Repress)
    Various – Spela Själv (Repress)
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    “A bit of confusion surrounds this release: The album has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren’t featured on it. Bo Anders Persson did, in fact, in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Ernesto Symphonic Ensemble – Insieme
    Ernesto Symphonic Ensemble – Insieme
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    Danceable and mellow library music. Label: Dala Produkte – DALA 053 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Switzerland Released: 2018 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Quintron – Erotomania: Quintron At The Chamberlin
    Quintron – Erotomania: Quintron At The Chamberlin
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    Loop-based, cacophonous grooves that sound just a little too off to be mellow. Label: Mind Meld Records – MM-002 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fille Qui Mousse ‎– Fille Qui Mousse
    Fille Qui Mousse ‎– Fille Qui Mousse
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    “Fille Qui Mousse (“Girl With Froth”??) is one the most mythical albums to be released(?) from France. Recorded in 1972, it was issued in 73 (evidently only as a test […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Kim Gordon ‎– No Home Record
    Kim Gordon ‎– No Home Record
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    With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists working today. A co-founder of the legendary Sonic Youth, Gordon has performed […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Michael Oosten – Michael Oosten
    Michael Oosten – Michael Oosten
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    “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
  • Vertical Slit ‎– Live At Brown’s
    Vertical Slit ‎– Live At Brown’s
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    Rare live & unreleased tracks from 1979 by the legendary Vertical Slit, passed along from Jim Shepard (to Tom Lax) in 1998. Label: Siltbreeze – SB186 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
    Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
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    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
  • Public Image Limited ‎– Public Image (First Issue) (1988 UK Pressing)
    Public Image Limited ‎– Public Image (First Issue) (1988 UK Pressing)
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    “In 1976 Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols set the agenda for punk’s year zero with ‘Anarchy In The UK’, a song that summed up the spirit, sound and attitude […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Triple Negative ‎– God Bless The Death Drive
    Triple Negative ‎– God Bless The Death Drive
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    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
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    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 [...]

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  • The Shadow Ring – City Lights
    The Shadow Ring – City Lights
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    Throughout their legendary, decade-long run, the Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force on the international musical sub-underground. Before their disbandment in 2002, this shambolic rock outfit, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tales Under The Oak – Swamp Kingdom
    Tales Under The Oak – Swamp Kingdom
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    “..and he left the cold dying swamp in search of wisdom and knowledge to return as the true heir to the croaked throne and rebuild their mystic kingdom.” Label: Dark […]

    GENRE: Metal, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Nashville Ambient Ensemble – Cerulean (Blue Vinyl)
    Nashville Ambient Ensemble – Cerulean (Blue Vinyl)
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    The Nashville Ambient Ensemble is based, as you may have guessed, in Nashville, Tennessee. Organized and led by electronic composer Michael Hix, the ensemble’s lineup is made up of some […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Glorias Navales ‎– Cofradía Náutica
    Glorias Navales ‎– Cofradía Náutica
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    “Kye is proud to present ‘Cofradia Nautica’ the debut LP by Chile’s Glorias Navales, and the follow-up to 2015’s ‘Carta a Maureen Tucker’ cassette on ETCS. “Glorias Navales is a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Triple Negative ‎– Precious Waste In Our Wake
    Triple Negative ‎– Precious Waste In Our Wake
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    Debut full length from London based 3 piece originally hailing from New Zealand (Matthew Hyland), Germany (Anja Büchele) and Romania (Dennis Debitsev) Precious Waste In Our Wake (full title [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Stick Figures ‎– Archeology
    The Stick Figures ‎– Archeology
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    “The Stick Figures, formed in 1979 by University of South Florida students Rachel Maready Evergreen and David Bowman (siblings), Robert and Sid Dansby (also siblings), and Bill Carey, were [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Moonlove ‎– May Never Happen
    Moonlove ‎– May Never Happen
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    Moonlove, a group who went unknown in their time except to a few locals in their hometown of Kent, Ohio, quietly released a masterpiece of melancholy, jangly pop called “May […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Handful Of Dust ‎– Dragging Her Wings Of Rusty Knives: Selected Recordings 1994-2016
    A Handful Of Dust ‎– Dragging Her Wings Of Rusty Knives: Selected Recordings 1994-2016
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    A Handful of Dust was founded over three decades ago by two giants of the New Zealand underground, Bruce Russell (The Dead C, Xpressway, Corpus Hermeticum) and Alastair Galbraith (Plagal […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lead – 2
    Lead – 2
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    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
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    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
  • Dow Jones And The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest 1979-1981
    Dow Jones And The Industrials – Can’t Stand The Midwest 1979-1981
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    Dow Jones and the Industrials created roaring art-punk that collided with the confusion and celebration of technology. Their left field approach turned gnarled guitar riffs into unshakable [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Lovedolls Superstar
    V/A – Lovedolls Superstar
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    “Clearly half of this soundtrack LP stars the LOVEDOLLS, who seem to mainly to do the vocal tracks (sounding like the RUNAWAYS), and backed by the likes of REDD KROSS, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Piotr Kurek ‎– Edena
    Piotr Kurek ‎– Edena
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    “10 years anniversary reprint of the amazing record of Piotr Kurek! As a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for vintage sound equipment, as well as the practical sense to [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Able Tasmans ‎– Store In A Cool Place
    Able Tasmans ‎– Store In A Cool Place
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    Able Tasmans wear their influences on their down-under sleeves; their fourth album (and first in the U.S.) Store in a Cool Place blends British folk melodies, garage-band riffs, and Jefferson [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Above Ground ‎– Gone Aiwa
    Above Ground ‎– Gone Aiwa
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    Above Ground was a short lived New Zealand outfit consisting of Bill & Carol Direen (Builders, South Indies imprint), Maryrose Crook (Max Block, Renderers) & Stuart Page (the mighty [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Graeme Miller And Steve Shill ‎– The Carrier Frequency
    Graeme Miller And Steve Shill ‎– The Carrier Frequency
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    Frozen in time over four decades this 1984 “cyclic incantation” combines electroacoustics, grazed euphoria, industrial aesthetics, sampled salvage, and recycled mechanic folk to score [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Neon ‎– Obsessions
    Neon ‎– Obsessions
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    ‘Obsessions’ is clearly a cult single of the era and one of their personal highlights. The band recorded the 4 track live in April 1982 and then reprocessed the take […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Beautify Junkyards ‎– Cosmorama
    Beautify Junkyards ‎– Cosmorama
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    The fourth album for the Lisbon based band and their second on Ghost Box following on from The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards in 2018. Joining the band as writing […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • F/i / Boy Dirt Car – Split
    F/i / Boy Dirt Car – Split
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    Heavy beyond heavy psych zones Label: RRRecords – RRR 006 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1986 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Post Moves – Heart Music
    Post Moves – Heart Music
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    “Heart Music’ was recorded over the course of 2019 and 2020. The initial intention was not necessarily to produce an album, but rather to explore composing from a percussive perspective [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
    Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
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    ”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
  • Astrel K ‎– Flickering i
    Astrel K ‎– Flickering i
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    “Astrel K’s debut single ‘You Could If You Can’ was released via Duophonic Super 45s – a label which has a history of releasing limited edition abstract releases from Stereolab, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A  – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
    V/A – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
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    Mississippi compile a selection rootsy Aboriginal music which has never been reissued on vinyl before. Political and powerful songs from communities throughout Australia. Label: Mississippi [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, International
  • Elori Saxl – The Blue Of Distance
    Elori Saxl – The Blue Of Distance
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    Combining digitally-processed recordings of wind and water with analog synthesizers and chamber orchestra, Elori Saxl’s The Blue of Distance begins as a meditation on the effect of technology on [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Christina Vantzou – No. 5
    Christina Vantzou – No. 5
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    While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as “a moment of focus” – a specific vision […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Raajmahal – Anthemoessa
    Raajmahal – Anthemoessa
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    “I’m thinking of following a river up and up stream until it becomes just a little trickle on a bare hill. I’m thinking of the time I climbed into the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant [Clear Vinyl]
    Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant [Clear Vinyl]
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    The new Sarah Davachi record is an 80 minute, 17 track double album meditation on impermanence and endings, framed by minimalistic organ études and careful harmonic layering. On two tracks […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits
    Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits
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    “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
  • F/i ‎– Space Mantra
    F/i ‎– Space Mantra
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    A classic slice of Underground Amerika from the Reagan Era, Space Mantra was originally issued on the RRRecords label in 1988 and saw Milwaukee’s in full Hawkwind/Krautrock mode, mixing [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Body/Dilloway/Head – Body/Dilloway/Head (silver vinyl)
    Body/Dilloway/Head – Body/Dilloway/Head (silver vinyl)
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    “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
  • Blueboy ‎– If Wishes Were Horses
    Blueboy ‎– If Wishes Were Horses
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    Blueboy followed their first two 7″s for Sarah Records with this 8-track mini-album recorded at the White House in Weston-super-Mare. With the twin guitars of Paul Stewart and (former Field [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Susan Alcorn, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace – Live At Rotunda
    Susan Alcorn, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace – Live At Rotunda
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    “OM59/Live at #6. Numbered edition of 200. Silkscreened covers by Alan Sherry. Personnel: Susan Alcorn – pedal steel; Chris Corsano – drums; Bill Nace – guitar. Recorded [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bobby Lee – Oridin Myths
    Bobby Lee – Oridin Myths
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    Open sky/scorched earth improvisations recorded to four track tape during the rare moments of solitude afforded by lockdown and early fatherhood. Bobby Lee’s “worn-denim psych-country” remains, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Emmanuelle Parrenin – Maison Rose + 17 Decembre / La Foret Bleue
    Emmanuelle Parrenin – Maison Rose + 17 Decembre / La Foret Bleue
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    An album such as this obviously owes a lot to the atmosphere in which it was recorded, which we can imagine was magical. We know it took place in Fromentel, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Kahn & Neek – Lupus et Ursus
    Kahn & Neek – Lupus et Ursus
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    “A decade since their debut, ‘Backchat / Hotline’ (2012), Kahn & Neek play to a now-classic conception of UK rudeness with lurching halfstep rhythms underlining an armoury of MCs and [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
    The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
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    The Hard Quartet is comprised of: Emmett Kelly, a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist best known for his work in The Cairo Gang and The Double, as well as in the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kizza Ping – Först River Man Allt
    Kizza Ping – Först River Man Allt
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    Kizza Ping formed in Linköping 1980 from the ashes of local punk bands such as Spy, RAS, ÅOBF and Zpamhead. Much in line with the current strains of Ny Våg/postpunk […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk