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  • Coil ‎– Scatology (1985 UK pressing, includes affixed postcard and OG inner)
    Coil ‎– Scatology (1985 UK pressing, includes affixed postcard and OG inner)
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    “Coil’s first official full-length album, Scatology, is one of the essential landmarks in the group’s discography and, moreover, one of the ’80s industrial scene’s [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • The Cult – Live At The Lyceum – London – 20th May 1984
    The Cult – Live At The Lyceum – London – 20th May 1984
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    This album is from the soundtrack to the Cult’s video album Dreamtime Live At The Lyceum. Label: Beggars Banquet – LIVE 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Canada Released: 1986 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aesop’s Fables ‎– In Due Time
    Aesop’s Fables ‎– In Due Time
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    Psyched out soul-jazz from New York Label: Cadet Concept – LPS-323 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some noticeable discoloration, edgewear and drillhole [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Various – Gone 2 “Basement Walls” (14 U.S. Oilslickers And Garage Mechanics From The Mid Sixties)
    Various – Gone 2 “Basement Walls” (14 U.S. Oilslickers And Garage Mechanics From The Mid Sixties)
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    Compilation of hard to find Garage nuggets, curated by Julian Cope. Label: Antar – GONE 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: UK Released: 1986 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • V/A – Rat Music For Rat People
    V/A – Rat Music For Rat People
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    Compilation of live performances from key 80’s hardcore bands such as Dead Kennedys, Flipper & Bad Brains. Label: Go! Records – GO 003 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Cult – Dreamtime
    The Cult – Dreamtime
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    “Image-wise, the Cult still weren’t entirely there yet, as the band photos show. Ian Astbury’s bandana is more dated than anything else. But it’s Billy Duffy’s look [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Cult ‎– Electric
    The Cult ‎– Electric
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    “The roots of Electric lay in another album entirely, Peace, which was recorded with Love producer Steve Brown in a series of sessions that the band found increasingly pressure-filled and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Church ‎– Heyday
    The Church ‎– Heyday
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    “Whether it was the assistance of Peter Walsh on production, a decision to bear down and see what could be done, or some further combination of that and other factors, […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Pussy Galore – Right Now!
    Pussy Galore – Right Now!
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    “Making their intentions clear with the indescribably manic garage stomper “Pig Sweat,” which kicks off this 1987 album, Pussy Galore proceeds to mash it up dumpster style with [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Public Image – Public Image (First Issue) (1978 UK pressing)
    Public Image – Public Image (First Issue) (1978 UK pressing)
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    “Like it or not, Public Image Limited’s First Issue (aka Public Image) was an album that helped set the pace for what eventually became known as post-punk. In England a […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Public Image Limited – Happy?
    Public Image Limited – Happy?
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    “Happy? benefits from some relative stability in PiL’s lineup, not to mention the undeniable fact that the band members’ allegiance makes sense (in contrast to that of [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Public Image Ltd. ‎– The Flowers Of Romance
    Public Image Ltd. ‎– The Flowers Of Romance
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    “As opposed to the axis of throbbing bass and guitar slashings of Metal Box, The Flowers of Romance is centralized on razor-sharp drums and typically haranguing vocals. No dubwise grooves [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Psychic TV ‎– N.Y. Scum
    Psychic TV ‎– N.Y. Scum
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    “Executed at The Danceteria, New York 19 November 1983.” Label: Temple Records – TOPY 002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: UK Released: 1984 VG+/VG+. Light marks [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Pamelo Mounk’a Accompagné De Orchestre Afrisa International* Avec Rochereau* Et M’Bilia Bel* – 20 Ans De Carrière
    Pamelo Mounk’a Accompagné De Orchestre Afrisa International* Avec Rochereau* Et M’Bilia Bel* – 20 Ans De Carrière
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    Groovy one from one of the biggest Congolese popstars Label: Genidia – GEN 106 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: France Released: 1983 VG+/VG+. Some sleeve discoloration

    GENRE: International
  • Keith LeBlanc ‎– Major Malfunction
    Keith LeBlanc ‎– Major Malfunction
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    “It is more than a little disingenuous to refer to this as a Keith LeBlanc album. While his considerable drumming skills and compositional abilities are major parts of why this […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Jane’s Addiction ‎– Nothing’s Shocking (1988 US Pressing)
    Jane’s Addiction ‎– Nothing’s Shocking (1988 US Pressing)
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    “Although Jane’s Addiction’s 1987 self-titled debut was an intriguing release (few alternative bands at the time had the courage to mix modern rock, prog rock, and heavy metal [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gun Club ‎– The Birth, The Death, The Ghost
    Gun Club ‎– The Birth, The Death, The Ghost
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    “The first of two live Gun Club collections released in 1984, The Birth the Death the Ghost is also the better of the pair; recorded with guitarist Kid Congo Powers, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Fripp & Eno ‎– Evening Star (check condition, plays w/noise)
    Fripp & Eno ‎– Evening Star (check condition, plays w/noise)
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    “Robert Fripp’s second team up with Brian Eno was a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno’s then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Discharge ‎– Grave New World (Promo)
    Discharge ‎– Grave New World (Promo)
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    The very controversial and much maligned “metal” album from the punk band. “It’s their best one”-Cleo Label: Profile Records – PRO-1221-DJ Format: Vinyl, LP, Promo [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • False Prophets ‎– False Prophets
    False Prophets ‎– False Prophets
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    Classic NYC 80’s Hardcore. Label: Alternative Tentacles – VIRUS 48 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1986 VG+/VG. Light marks. Sleeve has some noticeable rubbing/edgewear

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Die Kreuzen – Gone Away
    Die Kreuzen – Gone Away
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    1989 EP Label: Touch And Go – T&G 040 Format: Vinyl, 12″, EP, Country: US Released: 1989 VG+/VG+. Very light creasing on cover, with insert. Vinyl has light cosmetic marks.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cabaret Voltaire – Drinking Gasoline
    Cabaret Voltaire – Drinking Gasoline
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    “On the two-record set Drinking Gasoline, Cabaret Voltaire stand oddly balanced between accessibility and abrasiveness. On each of the album’s four tracks (one track per side), Kirk [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
    Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
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    “A shambling wreck of an album, Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers ranks among the most harrowing experiences in pop music; impassioned, erratic, and stark, it’s the slow, sinking [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Blue Cheer – Blue Cheer (German Pressing Comp)
    Blue Cheer – Blue Cheer (German Pressing Comp)
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    German comp including the entirety of Outsideinside, along with two extra tracks. Label: Philips – 6463 142 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo Country: Germany Released: VG/VG. light marks on [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Cabaret Voltaire – Code
    Cabaret Voltaire – Code
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    “1987’s Code, co-produced by On-U Sound mastermind Adrian Sherwood, finds Cabaret Voltaire at their loosest and most accessible. Though its subject matter remains dark and paranoid, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Sam Weinberg Trio – Of Peeling Passage: Live At Sisters
    Sam Weinberg Trio – Of Peeling Passage: Live At Sisters
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    Although this is only second album of my trio with Henry Fraser and Jason Nazary (after last year’s “Plays Quarter Notes and Other Notes”), the three of us have been […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Brett Naucke – Ground Fault Matinee
    Brett Naucke – Ground Fault Matinee
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    After a three-year break, Brett W. Naucke returns with Ground Fault Matinee — a two-EP suite that bridges two distinct sonic worlds yet connects through a shared charged portrait of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Night Foundation – Wrapped Up In Time
    Night Foundation – Wrapped Up In Time
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    The world passing. Days ending. Nights blooming. Wrapped Up In Time is the fourth vinyl release by Night Foundation; the solo project of Intermedia artist and Noir Age label owner […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Thelonious Monk – Unique
    Thelonious Monk – Unique
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    “The seven-song Unique Thelonious Monk (1956) platter was the pianist’s second during his remarkable five-year tenure on Riverside. His debut for the label was the aptly titled Plays [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Thelonious Monk – Genius Of Modern Music Vol.1
    Thelonious Monk – Genius Of Modern Music Vol.1
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    “Thelonious Monk was a little-known figure on the New York City bebop scene when Blue Note founder Alfred Lion discovered and fell in love with the pianist’s utterly unique music […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Miles Davis – Bags Groove
    Miles Davis – Bags Groove
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    There are a multitude of reasons why Bags’ Groove remains a cornerstone of the post-bop genre. Of course there will always be the lure of the urban myth surrounding the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman – Town Hall 1962
    Ornette Coleman – Town Hall 1962
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    Ornette Coleman’s decision to temporarily retire from music (this ESP disc was his only recording from a four-year period) was unfortunate. His alto playing was getting stronger, and on [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chet Baker – Big Band
    Chet Baker – Big Band
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    “Releasing an entire album under the moniker Chet Baker Big Band is a bit of a misnomer, as only the first four sides actually incorporate an 11-person configuration. The remaining […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McLean – Jackie McLean Quintet
    Jackie McLean – Jackie McLean Quintet
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    “Originally issued in 1955, this is Jackie McLean’s debut date as a leader. The band includes Donald Byrd on trumpet (himself a young lion at the time), pianist Mal Waldron, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie Mclean – Fat Jazz
    Jackie Mclean – Fat Jazz
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    The Jackie Mclean Sextet in full swing on this ripper. Label: Jubilee – YW-7562-RO Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono Country: Japan Released: 1977 VG+/VG+. Light marks/sleeve discoloration. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie Mclean – 4, 5 And 6
    Jackie Mclean – 4, 5 And 6
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    “1956 Jackie McLean was only beginning to assert himself as a true individualist on the alto saxophone, exploring the lime-flavored microtones of his instrument that purists or the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Miles Davis – Birth Of The Cool
    Miles Davis – Birth Of The Cool
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    So dubbed because these three sessions — two from early 1949, one from March 1950 — are where the sound known as cool jazz essentially formed, Birth of the Cool […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman – Art Of The Improvisers
    Ornette Coleman – Art Of The Improvisers
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    Like many of Ornette Coleman’s Atlantic sides, The Art of the Improvisers was recorded in numerous sessions from 1959-1961 and assembled for the purpose of creating a cohesive recorded [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • George Russell, Don Cherry – At Beethoven Hall
    George Russell, Don Cherry – At Beethoven Hall
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    “This intriguing double LP was innovative composer George Russell’s first recording after breaking up his young combo of the early ’60s… Most unusual is a suite dedicated [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Art Blakey – A Night At Birdland, Volume 2
    Art Blakey – A Night At Birdland, Volume 2
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    “When Art Blakey founded the Jazz Messengers, his initial goal was to not only make his mark on the hard bop scene, but to always bring younger players into the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Art Blakey – A Night At Birdland Volume 1
    Art Blakey – A Night At Birdland Volume 1
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    “When Art Blakey founded the Jazz Messengers, his initial goal was to not only make his mark on the hard bop scene, but to always bring younger players into the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Unchained – Frontalier
    Unchained – Frontalier
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    Unchained—a name which at the project’s inception or on earlier recordings spoke perhaps to the ecstatic saturation of high gain guitar—has over the past three albums (N.D. Visitor, Pic, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
    Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
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    “Less overtly adventurous than its predecessor, Empyrean Isles, Maiden Voyage nevertheless finds Herbie Hancock at a creative peak. In fact, it’s arguably his finest record of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gigi Gryce, Donald Byrd – Jazz Lab
    Gigi Gryce, Donald Byrd – Jazz Lab
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    “Alto saxophonist/arranger Gigi Gryce and trumpeter Donald Byrd’s innovative, but unfortunately short-lived Jazz Lab Quintet recorded several sides during 1957, seven of which were [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Elvin Jones, Richard Davis – Heavy Sounds
    Elvin Jones, Richard Davis – Heavy Sounds
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    Hard Bop from two greats. Label: Impulse! – IMP-88080 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold Country: Japan Released: 1973 VG+/VG+. Sleeve has noticeable wear. Light marks.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dollar Brand – Anthem For The New Nations
    Dollar Brand – Anthem For The New Nations
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    Recorded at Nippon Columbia’s 1st Studio, Tokyo, June 10th, 1978. Label: Denon – YX-7537-ND Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1978 VG+/VG+. Promo stamp. General light [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus
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    “Charles Mingus has a fascinating way of offering music that is grounded in tradition while remaining startlingly original. The freshness of a disc like Charles Mingus Presents Charles [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Clown
    Charles Mingus – Clown
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    “The Clown was Charles Mingus’ second masterpiece in a row, upping the already intense emotional commitment of Pithecanthropus Erectus and burning with righteous anger and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Charles Mingus – Changes One
    Charles Mingus – Changes One
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    “Charles Mingus’ finest recordings of his later period are two Atlantic LPs, Changes One and Changes Two. The first volume features four stimulating Mingus originals (“Remember [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bill Evans, Jim Hall – Undercurrent
    Bill Evans, Jim Hall – Undercurrent
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    “Other than four piano solos from April 4, 1962, this set was pianist Bill Evans’ first recordings after a hiatus caused by bassist Scott LaFaro’s tragic death in a car […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz