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black midi’s follow-up to Schlagenheim is a dynamic, hellacious, inventive success. Cavalcade, their second studio album for Rough Trade, scales beautiful new heights, reaching ever upwards from [...]
In the 1920s, Tau Moe (pronounced mo-ay), a Hawaiian musician, arrived in India and introduced Hawaiian music to the Sub Continent. After settling in Calcutta in the early 1940’s, Moe and his [...]
In the 1920s, Tau Moe (pronounced mo-ay), a Hawaiian musician, arrived in India and introduced Hawaiian music to the Sub Continent. After settling in Calcutta in the early 1940’s, Moe and his [...]
In the 1920s, Tau Moe (pronounced mo-ay), a Hawaiian musician, arrived in India and introduced Hawaiian music to the Sub Continent. After settling in Calcutta in the early 1940’s, Moe and his [...]
Brother Theotis Taylor is a 92-year-old spiritual singer and piano player known throughout South Georgia and beyond for his powerful voice and heavenly falsetto. His music took him from his home [...]
1975 US Pressing ILPS 9326 Media Condition: VG Sleeve Condition: VG Some light scuff marks on both sides. Comes in original inner sleeve. Bottom left corner of sleeve is clipped. Sleeve still has [...]
REISSUED!!! BIKINI KILL’s final studio album originally released in 1996 on Kill Rock Stars. Bikini Kill was a feminist punk band that was based in Olympia, WA and Washington, DC, forming [...]
If this 1972 record for the Paula label was the sum total of Dallas, Texas soul man Bobby Patterson’s career output, then he’d still be reckoned a cult figure among R&B fans. In fact, [...]
Ten years ago we were excited to release an archival collection of the sweetest soul from upstate New York in the 1960s; BOB & GENE’S IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE…. The beautifully packaged [...]
Blod is the solo project of Gustaf Dicksson (Enhet För Fri Musik, Oroskällan), a prolific and crucial figure in the Swedish Underground scene radiating out of Gothenburg and centered around a [...]
“This long-awaited LP is finally finished. We agreed to put this record out a long time ago, and various issues got in the way of getting it finished. I have to say if it were not for Covid [...]
After numerous cassette releases, Bravais Lattice bring us their debut LP for Chicago Research: Orientation Matrix. Another assured vision of Bravais Lattice and their transcendent brand [...]
SECRET EARTH is a short collection of haunted, minimal electronics from Chicago duo Brigitte G. Austere, hushed vocals occasionally grace these misty, dirging tracks. With SECRET EARTH, Brigitte [...]
Classic TL tote. Black Ink Printed on Heavy Weight Large Canvas Tote Bags. Holds close to 30 LPs! Thank you for your support.
One can hardly imagine the genre-busting, culture-crossing musical magic of Outkast, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rick James, The Roots, or even the early Red Hot Chili Peppers without the influence of [...]
2021 second edition. “Black Unity Trio – Al Fatihah quite possibly was the first independently released free jazz record ever. Originating in Oberlin, Ohio as the Black Unity Quartet, [...]
1978 Bootleg On Edible Records Track A1 from “Band On The Wall” Nov 8, 1976 Tracks A2-B2 from Oct 2, 1977, Electric Circus, Manchester Track B3 from 1st Peel Session” [...]
1980 Bootleg on Centrifugal Records A release of the Buzzcocks first recording sessions, containing more takes than appeared on Time’s Up. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
Metalanguage – ML 116/Beak Doctor – Beak Doctor 5 1981 US Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
Thirteen years of tears, screams, and reflections culminate with the Loss of Innocence, the long anticipated, ultimate release of depressive electronics project Blessed Sacrifist. Written, [...]
Another crucial excavatio from the elusive The Balsam Flex legendary catalog is now available again thanks to Jan Van Toorn Slowscan imprint. Balsam Flex was a cassette label run by the artist [...]
Island Records – ILPS 9309 Media Condition – VG+ (Edge Wear Present On all Sides Sleeve Condition – VG+
From Sam Peckinpah, the legendary director of Ride the High Country, The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, The Getaway and Convoy, comes this audacious crime drama starring the great Warren Oates [...]
Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise as a formal [...]
Label Description: Blackfire is the collaborative project of Wyatt Howland (best known for his work as Skin Graft, but also the black heart of about 30 other Cleveland projects) and Andrew [...]
2020 repress, originally released in 2013. Barcelona’s Belgrado return with their second album Siglo XXI and first for La Vida Es Un Mus. The 11-track album melds dark and dreamy goth and [...]
2021 black vinyl repress; available on 180-gram vinyl (no longer comes with download code). This the first time that this title has been available on vinyl. At the risk of belaboring a rather [...]
Make Noise Records is proud to present the new EP by Chicago-based musician Brett Naucke! Entitled “Electronic Hypnosis Program,” this 45rpm 12″ EP is pressed on clear vinyl in [...]
Brett W. Naucke Cumulative Index: Synthesis written & recorded 2010-2020 Label: Dassi Brett Naucke’s Cumulative Index sits somewhere between a full length and compilation, culled from [...]
1970 original ABC Records ABCS 705 Media Condition – VG Sleeve Condition -VG Plays with some noise. Incredible record and becoming nearly impossible to find.
These 20 classic hits from the inimitable Byron Lee & The Dragonaires are available together for the first time as Uptown Top Ranking.
Released in 1975 and produced by Lawrence Lindo aka Jack Ruby, Burning Spear’s magnificent ‘Marcus Garvey’ album set the benchmark for Roots Reggae and is still widely considered the greatest [...]
Double LP version. “These newly remastered editions of Bill Fox’s second album are the first since its 1998 release, including the first-ever vinyl pressing. Listeners will hear a [...]
‘Crucial and dense sonic manipulations from the KSX Solutions commander-in-chief. Really rad stuff – Slow motion molasses thick crumbling walls with a textural gorgeousness seldom [...]
Label Description: Ideal X asks how commercial shipping and containerization histories in the NY/NJ metropolitan area ports, and their present networks, can serve to re-contextualize how we [...]
Documenting two Bizarre Uproar live shows from 2017. Usual extreme Finnish noise.
2013 reissue Superior Viaduct – SV041 Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition -VG+ Amazing chanson!
2014 reissue Superior Viaduct – SV043 Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition -VG+ Avant garde chanson BLISS.
Label Description: Bela introduces themself as “a musician and DJ, who finds various hidden passages to emotional balance. Gender non-binary and Asian. Name preferred written with no uppercase [...]
Label Description: Sophomore tape of new age music, LP out in April. CS edition of 50
We are proud to release ‘Fortunate Isolation’ the sophomore album from Borusiade. Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, Borusiade aka Miruna Boruzescu started dj-ing in 2002 as one of the very [...]
**Highly suggested listening from Alex.** Human terrain systems. Operational art. Combat maneuver. Unrelenting harsh electronics exploding at a breakneck pace. The first Breaking The Will [...]
On the heels of the critical and commercial success of the band’s last album Careful, Boy Harsher return with two remix 12-inches featuring some legends and some up and comers in electronic [...]
On the heels of the critical and commercial success of the band’s last album Careful, Boy Harsher return with two remix 12-inches featuring some legends and some up and comers in electronic [...]
Music Has The Right To Children is the debut studio album by Scottish electronic duo Boards Of Canada, originally released in April 1988 via Warp and Skam Records. Boards Of Canada are a Scottish [...]
Soul Note Vinyl present a reissue of Bill Dixon‘s In Italy – Volume One, originally released in 1980. Bill Dixon one of the great visionary composers and improvisers in modern [...]
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Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) helms a bitingly satirical espionage thriller set in the heart of the Japanese auto industry in his 1962 landmark Black Test Car, which [...]
On the eve of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and on its final night before closing, a Las Vegas dive bar becomes a stage where its employees and barflies commiserate one last time. [...]
Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Lungs, the first Big Black release was recorded by Steve on a borrowed 4-track. [...]
As humans, we are aware of our inner beast and should therefore be able to control it. We understand our hard-wired primal urges and why they exist in an evolutional sense. We understand the [...]
Fifty years after his debut album was released on Deram Records, Bill Fay returns with his third album for Dead Oceans, Countless Branches. The album was produced by Joshua Henry, who oversaw [...]
Tomorrow Was the Golden Age is an album length composition by NYC minimalist ensemble Bing & Ruth. Written and conducted by pianist David Moore, Tomorrow Was the Golden Age is a halcyonic [...]
By late May of 1989, Cleaners From Venus man Martin Newell and Peter Nice a/k/a Nelson finished their first album, Lizardland, and handed it over to upstart indie Deltic Records. Though there is [...]
LA’s Benedek delivers a killer old school house lp influenced by 78th Street era Beltram, Beat Club, latin freestyle dubs and WBMX drum tracks. This is street beat at it’s finest and [...]
It all started as a simple game of softball… When a women’s softball team wins a game against a group of rough talking and dirty playing men, they find themselves unwittingly involved [...]
LUX is Brian Eno’s first solo album on Warp Records and his first solo release since 2005’s Another Day On Earth. It finds him expanding upon the types of themes andsonic textures [...]
Reissue of Brian Eno’s 1992 album dedicated to Russian artist and friend Sergei Shutov, and a continuation of the atmospheric ambient work found on records such as On Land and Thursday Afternoon. [...]
You heard it here first – it’s the Gold Record we always knew Bill Callahan had in him! Last summer, he returned from a silence of years – now, he’s raring to go with [...]
black midi — Geordie Greep (vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums) — have a dynamic energy, playing [...]
“A delicate, unsettling dip into a boiling pool of subconscious imagery and otherworldly pixie vocalism. The best tracks cause ripples in the space/time continuum. Bobb Trimble’s first album [...]
Reissue of Big Black’s Pig Pile
Back in print for the first time in 5 years, and if you ask me, not a minute too soon. As influential now as it was upon its original release in 2002, the first LP ever on DFA gets a remaster by [...]
“Broadcast and The Focus Group is the most experimental outing for Broadcast to date, continuing as it does in the vein of the Focus Group’s Hey Let Loose Your Love and We Are all Pan’s [...]
To be released on September 14th, Penny Sparkle – the band’s third album for 4AD – marks another sonic twist in their already adventurous canon. It was made over the last year with [...]
A placid study of shoreline life in Manitoba’s interior through noise, field recordings and tape loops. The album title is in Ojibwe and is pronounced “ve-sheep see-be”, which [...]
12″ vinyl reissue of the rare and infamous double-7″, originally published by FMP in 1973. Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children [...]
2020 repress; LP version. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Musique de film imaginé (music for film imagined) is a soundtrack that pays homage to the great European film directors of the late ’50s [...]
Jack, an up-and-coming Hollywood actor, sells his soul to Satan and returns home after he is unable to fulfill his end of the pact. After being attacked by hooded men, Jack meets up with his old [...]
One of the great horror anthology films, and Bava’s personal favorite of his works, BLACK SABBATH solidified the director’s reputation as Europe’s maestro of the macabre. In [...]
Dell Abyss Paperback As a storm of corporate greed and cruelty descends on New Orleans, two powerful businessmen, twin brothers, watch as their empire comes apart, the victim of voodoo. NM with [...]
The requisite principles of 1990’s metallic burl distilled through layers of aggressively employed junk and sharp 2000’s-era hyper-cuts are merged with skill. Crisply engineered and [...]
On Fog Mirror, SLC based musician Braden McKenna, has crafted a weighted, textural album of architectural drone punctuated with stirring washes of crackling static and arcing tones that gather [...]
Signet Paperback Highly acclaimed when first published in 1981, The Tribe follows a group of Jewish people who not only survive the concentration camps, but thrive. Their secret follows them to [...]
Verso Paperback This outstanding biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. [...]
Beginning with Aemae and now working under his own name, Brandon Nickell has spent the last decade taking cues from nearly all generations of analog and digital sound development and shaping them [...]
“A rust-colored soundscrape of heavy dirt and textured electronics, featuring three distinct tracks of tactile sonic destruction. Painted Rope is the first new full length in nearly 15 [...]
“Originally released in 1987, this 4-song 12″ EP is the fourth Big Black vinyl title to be remastered by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering – following the [...]
Limited repress! LP reissue of Land And Sea’s limited 2016 tape documenting a performance by guitarists Michael Morley and Bill Orcutt at the L&S gallery in Oakland. “… Once [...]
Taking its name from Maryanne Amacher‘s visionary, unrealized opera, the fourth issue of Blank Forms’ journal, Intelligent Life, features a select group of unpublished, newly [...]
“Originally released 20 years ago on June 6, 2000, Blonde Redhead’s 3rd Touch and Go Records album was recorded earlier that year at Bear Creek Studio in Washington State from January 15th [...]
Milwaukee youth brings the fire and fury on their first record, Manic Revision. Sharing as much influence from Boston bands such as SSD and DYS and power violence bands such as Heresy and Infest; [...]
Vanguard Apostolic – VSD6511 1969 US Promo pressing Media Condition – Strong VG+ with only a few stray light marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light sleevewear and discoloration
Primary Information Art Book Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally [...]
“I’ve always loved the cover song aspect of live performance. Most musicians are fans first and covers are a way for bands to show this. They can add an improvisational tone to an otherwise [...]
A few years from now… Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) [...]
“Originally released in 1971 on Dandelion Records this was Bridget St. John’s second and, arguably, best album. Produced and scored by Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin, Songs For [...]
LP version includes digital download card; includes CD bonus track. Mental Experience present the first ever reissue of Bomis Prendin‘s Clear Memory, originally released in 1984. Formed in [...]
2020 repress. Limited red-colored vinyl version. Gatefold exact repro reissue manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1971. Baby Huey was a psychedelic soul legend as well as an enormous [...]
“The full-length player of FRKWYS Vol. 7 features pieces improvised in various forms by David Borden, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin, Laurel Halo, and Daniel Lopatin. When Lopatin (Oneohtrix [...]
“The great Bill Fay returns with the third album in the celebrated second phase of his recording career. “21 years ago, Colin Miles of See For Miles records dropped a pebble in a pond.” [...]
“Inspired by a poetry booklet by Kenneth Patchen (from which it takes its title), 14 Love Poems focuses on expression and emotion. Recorded and first released by FMP in 1984. Peter [...]
“Here it is, the tenth edition of Brown Acid in just half as many years! As always, Riding Easy has packed in the highest highs of the dankest hard rock, heavy psych, and protometal tracks [...]
DECCA DL 8707 Mono, Repress 1961 Pinckneyville pressing, as indicated by “2” stamped in runout, with black colorband labels and “◆” on side B label. Media Condition [...]
Few debut albums have ever arrived as nearly perfectly formed as In the Flat Field. It practically invented what remains for many as the blueprint of goth music. In the Flat Field contains a wide [...]
60s pop, soundtrack & avant masterpiece from Broadcast. One of the greatest bands of the Warp Records catalog. A must have!
“It’s the age of green, so Smog had to go. In its place stands a single man, ready to shake your ass…er…make you shake your ass. Either way probably works, I guess. As [...]
180 gram Vinyl 2018 Standard Edition. On ‘Ambient 4 (On Land)’ – the final edition in Eno’s ambient series – his palate shifted from electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards [...]
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is the second solo album by Brian Eno. Produced by Eno, it was originally released by Island Records in November 1974. Unlike his previous album Here Come the [...]
While his earlier work with Robert Fripp on ‘No Pussyfooting’ and several selections from his own ‘Another Green World’ feature similar ideas, ‘Discreet Music’ marked a clear step toward the [...]
“Spirits Drifting , ‘Another Green World’ represents the bridge between Brian’s ground-breaking pop career and his early experiments with ambient music. This time around he was ably [...]
The incredibly influential power pop band Big Star (1971-1974) was formed in Memphis, TN by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. They continue to inspire fans and musicians [...]
Radio City is the 1974 follow up to Big Star’s debut, #1 Record. The critically acclaimed, Memphis-based band is often credited with creating the power pop sound, and has become a cult favorite [...]
Originally released in 1972, #1 Record is the debut album from Big Star, a critically acclaimed, Memphis-based band which is often credited with creating the power pop sound. Remastered from the [...]
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly [...]
With Rotten Codex, the long-gestating debut LP from nebulous Chicago post-punk outfit Bruised, we find the project codifying and ultimately transcending the thematic proclivities of their [...]
John Turturro shines in the lead role as Barton Fink, the Coen Brothers’ (Fargo, No Country for Old Men) hilarious satire set in the 1940s Hollywood. Barton Fink is a Broadway playwright [...]
In his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Derek Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. Laying bare his physical and [...]
Creation Books Paperback In 1958, garbageman Charlie Starkweather, accompanied by his jailbait sweetheart Caril Ann Fugate, embarked upon a killing spree which shocked America. Modelling himself [...]
“In this post-industrial, post-enlightenment religion of ourselves, we have manifested a serpent of consumerism which now coils back upon us. It seduces us with our own bait as we betray the [...]
Bob Bellerue’s new double-LP, “Music of Liberation,” is a careful and intricate album of textured drone and shapely noise. Like the greatest works by post-industrial masters [...]
“Bola’s music melds sheer force of spirit with a sound not often heard by ears outside the remote Upper East Region of Ghana. This man who grew up herding livestock in the savannah, far [...]
Before and After Science is the fifth studio album by Brian Eno. Produced by Eno and Rhett Davies, it was originally released by Polydor Records in December 1977 in the UK and by US Island soon [...]
Limited edition GREEN vinyl re-issue of the 1972 album by experimental Krautrock pioneers, Brainticket!
“The Londoner plugs in the synths for a journey into the supernatural. Natasha Khan’s latest is a synth-pop love letter to the ’80s sci-fi and fantasy films of her youth. Lost Girls is the [...]
“The long-awaited reissue of the Brainbombs fifth album “Fucking Mess”. Originally released in Sweden in 2008 on the Lystring label, it quickly sold through two pressings. After [...]
“Includes the single that came out on tUMULt, the “Stinking Memory” 7″ on Anthem, as well as the Wabana Gun Court single, the Ken Rock single and the Big Brothel single. A [...]
“The Brainbombs use a horn, scraping guitars and the mindset of a mentally-impaired killer to bring some dark damage to the putrid remains of the corpse of rock music. When the band [...]
“The long-awaited reissue of the Brainbombs first album “Burning Hell”. Originally released in 1992 on the Blackjack label. After many years out of print in the USA, it has been [...]
Blank Forms Journal Paperback “Perhaps best known for his collaborations and artistic affinities with notable artists such as Joseph Beuys and Fluxus members like Nam June Paik and Dick [...]
The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after a social democratic [...]
In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a [...]
“We are pleased to present ‘Hallways’ the third full length from Austin, Texas analogue hardware enthusiast Bill Converse. Immersed in the early days of the 90s midwest rave scene, Bill [...]
New Kind of Cross is the sophomore LP, and follow-up to 2017’s stunning Chroma, from Sydney based synth-maestro, Buzz Kull. Traversing darkwave, EBM, and industrial with ease; New Kind of Cross [...]
A1 The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch A2 Fever A3 Wimoweh A4 The Fat Lady Of Limbourg B1 Baby’s On Fire B2 I’ll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoes) B3 Third Uncle B4 Seven Deadly Finns
When Chris Stewart set out to write and record his third album as Black Marble, he was newly living in Los Angeles, fresh off a move from New York. The environment brought much excitement and [...]