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Label Description: The battle rages on with Club Music Vol. II. After a more contemplative initiatory track than anything found on Vol. I, this muscular sequel continues with the pounding warfare [...]
Label Description: Club Music Vol. I is an expert concoction: EBM with a strong taste of New Beat, swirled around in one rather cavernous cauldron. The bass lines march, evil, cold, precise, [...]
Jack Callahan & Asha Sheshadri’s Misfired Empathy was recorded and processed in April and May of 2020 at the artists’ apartments, ISSUE Project Room, Public Records, The Windjammer, in [...]
If you were going to envision the ultimate avant-garde meeting-of-the-minds jam session, who would you pick? Even the most hopeful fan of strange and innovative music couldn’t have seen [...]
“A collection of even rougher Suicide. Tracks include: ‘Girl’ (1976 version), ‘Ghost Rider’ (Rough mix), ‘Frankie Teardrom’ te detective meets the Alien [...]
Originally released on CD in 1998, Frequency L.S.D. is now presented on vinyl for the first time. Features 14 ear-wrenching, extreme Japanese noise tracks from Maso Yamazaki (Controlled Death). [...]
Reissue, originally released in 1979. Recorded live at WKCR Radio in New York City in 1978 and issued by Ictus the following year, Environment for Sextet encounters John Zorn at the earliest [...]
Originally issued in 1977, Trio Live was recorded in 1976, only a handful of days after Steve Lacy and Andrea Centazzo’s Clangs (ICTUSRE 001LP) was laid to tape, presumably capturing [...]
Reissue, originally released in 1977. In the history of free improvised music, there has been arguably no greater advocate for the idiom’s power and potential than the English guitarist [...]
Ictus Records’ reissue initiative fittingly begins with Clangs, the first LP issued by the label in 1976. Featuring Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone, bird calls, and pocket synthesizer (or [...]
2022 repress. Be With Records present a reissue of Willie Hutch’s Season For Love, originally released in 1970. A monumental force firmly rooted in the soul canon, Willie Hutch is most [...]
The Millennium stands as one of the most remarkable psychedelic bands from ’60s California despite the sales of their only LP, Begin, did not match the big expectations created by the great [...]
Double-LP version. Gatefold sleeve with insert and original liner notes. Another Thought was the first collection of Arthur Russell’s music to be released after his death in 1992. Released [...]
2021 repress. Trading Places present a reissue of Mighty Baby’s self-titled album, originally released in 1969. The obscure British prog band Mighty Baby evolved from an earlier group [...]
Listeners who know much of anything about Bryn Jones’ work as Muslimgauze know that he was prolific in both his work and in the way he sent out his work to labels and other interested [...]
Joshua Abrams’ first Natural Information album from 2010. In his book Powershift, published in 1990, writer and businessman Alvin Toffler predicted that the century ahead would be defined [...]
Alga Marghen introduce Music With Memory, a new record LP by David Behrman focused on his ’70s work with new small, inexpensive devices then known as “microcomputers” equipped [...]
In 1974, Ileana Sonnabend commissioned Charlemagne Palestine to create a limited edition, double LP in conjunction with a performance to celebrate the opening of her new Soho gallery at 420 West [...]
In 1973, when Smegma (the band) was born they had only one rule: No Musicians! That way they could re-invent the musical wheel with a new primitive, suburban, anti-hippie approach. 44 years later [...]
2021 repress, remastered. Alga Marghen very proudly presents Opus 17, a major turning-point in the sonic oeuvre of Eliane Radigue. Finished in 1970, it was the last work composed with feedback [...]
Gatefold vinyl reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten’s Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000. This vinyl double album contains the track “Pelikanol,” first available as a [...]
LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dell’orecchio 5LP box. Includes the same materials as the original 1978 Cramps LP titled In Terram Utopicam, or “J’aimerais [...]
LP version, previously released in the Il Divano Dell’orecchio 5LP box. Includes the same materials as the original 1974 Cramps LP titled La Caccia (1965). The LP sleeve reproduces the [...]
2014 reissue. Includes a large format 12-page booklet. Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten [...]
2002 release. LP version. Originally released in 1983, Einstürzende Neubauten’s second album marks a radical progression in the band’s sound as well as a revolutionary step forward in [...]
The third part in Arv & Miljös seasonal ambient tetralogy, following up Himmelsvind (Discreet Music, 2020) and Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid (Omlott Records, 2018). The 11 segments on Ensam Är [...]
Collaborative 1992 recordings by the NY trio Borbetomagus and Chattanooga’s only internationally-renowned electronics/drums duo, Shaking Ray Levis. Originally released as a picture disc [...]
Lee Morgan’s magnum opus The Sidewinder—recorded in 1963 and release in 1964—was both a comeback and a coronation. The prodigious trumpeter had debuted on Blue Note in 1956 at the age of 18, but [...]
Knitting Factory Records is proud to reissue Music Of Many Colours on limited edition rainbow starburst vinyl, exclusive to Record Store Day. This is the first pressing of the album since the [...]
I don’t need no southbound highway sign to tell me HELL IS REAL”. This opening line from the debut single “New Tongue” launches us into the sophomore album Glass Fate by the Chicago based Desert [...]
Known for her prolific output exploring the outer reaches of house, techno, ambient music and hip hop, Chicago-based artist Zvrra has released a cumulative masterwork with Array of Light out [...]
Sundazed music is proud to present a genuine psychedelic landmark: live by moby grape, the first official collection of concert recordings by the legendary san francisco band at its blazing [...]
A 1965 journey into found sound; this is John Cage. Another seminal volume of indeterminate music, from an icon of experimental sounds. Reissued for the first time and thematically on gorgeous [...]
Anything can happen and often does. This is John Cage. A seminal example of indeterminate music from an icon on experimental sounds. It could be argued that there is no more controversial figure [...]
Phonography was lo-fi legend R. Stevie Moore’s first vinyl release – only 100 copies were pressed in 1976. The album (including a slightly larger 1978 pressing) barely earned the [...]
THE ’67 PROCREATION THAT BIRTHED HEAVY METAL! Traded in dark circles for decades, these raw and rambunctious demos finally got the studio restoration they deserved! Blue Cheer’s primordial [...]
Beginning as a duo in Edinburg, Scotland, acoustic musicians Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer sought to stretch the boundaries of contemporary folk music from the start. Composing much of their [...]
HE VOICE OF AFROFUTURISTIC SCIENCE NON-FICTION! Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos, June Tyson’s voice is the perfect guide through one of the most challenging and [...]
Celestial Love contains recordings made in September 1982 at New York’s Variety Studios, which had hosted countless Sun Ra sessions since the late 1960s. This was one of the last extended [...]
“It was almost entirely improvised,” explains Columbus-based guitarist Matthew Rolin. He’s talking about Lamplighter, the new album from Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, a trio featuring himself, Columbus [...]
A remastered reissue of The Best of Vis- A-Vis in Congo Style – the album finds the the young band in great form, with six new songs. The album was one of three released by the band in [...]
Lesser Man (Extended Version) is the first release of Boy Harsher`s imprint, Nude Club Records, originally released on cassette by Soft Science in (2014), and Night People (2015). The album was [...]
Dodging Dues is a startlingly expansive record—“startling” in part because it’s relatively short (seven songs, all but one hovering around the four minute mark), but also because it traverses so [...]
In the afterglow of her acclaimed 2020 album *Silver Ladders* (a year-end favorite of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and others), Los Angeles-based harpist and composer Mary Lattimore returns [...]
Bill Fay’s Still Some Light was originally released on compact disc as a two CD collection in 2010. Reimagined with new artwork and available for the first time ever on vinyl, Dead Oceans is [...]
New York painter and musician Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album, Beautiful Illusions, as an entirely instrumental affair, “inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral [...]
ADULT. make a triumphant return after their 2018 album This Behavior, dubbed “…one of the best records of their career…” by Ryan Lathan of Pop Matters. This chilling continuation takes the form [...]