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Torn Light Records
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Cincinnati, OH 45220
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With Masculin féminin, ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engaged in hopeless love [...]
Behold! A survey of Moondog’s earliest recorded works – many of them unreleased until now – through a collaboration by Mississippi Records and Lucia Records. From 1953 – 1962 [...]
Ghost Note is an inspired duo exchange between guitarist Mark Shippy and violinist Alex Cunningham. Their first recorded collaboration, Ghost Note is alternately dense and spacious, a free improv [...]
Label Description: Recorded using only voice, piano, and handmade cassette loops, Acknowledgment was conceived of and is presented as an intertextual document reflecting on 15 years of dialogue [...]
Scissor Tail presents the first vinyl issue of Marc Barreca’s 1986 album The Sleeper Wakes, originally only released on cassette by the Seattle electronic ambient label Intrepid. Marc Barreca [...]
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time and Kino Classics and Re:Voir are proud to present new 2K restorations of her essential work. Along with being [...]
180 gram reissue of Miles Davis’ expansive 1972 album. “”Here are killer groove riffs that barely hold on as bleating trumpet and soprano sax lines (courtesy of Dave Liebman on [...]
“… The Ohio-based guitarist’s artistic leaps in recent years are rivaled only by those of Daniel Bachman, another once-precocious player formerly in the John Fahey / Jack Rose [...]
Please Note: This item is a PRE-ORDER – Copies will be shipping on or after May 10th! Label Description: Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together [...]
Please Note: This item is a PRE-ORDER – Copies will be shipping on or after May 10th! Label Description: MSBR (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor), aka Koji Tano, was one of the most respected [...]
Label Description: Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. The moniker of Japanese artist Masami Akita was born in Tokyo in 1979. Inspired by dadaism and surrealism, Akita [...]
In his breakthrough second feature, Bong Joon Ho explodes the conventions of the policier with thrillingly subversive, genre-defying results. Based on the true story of a string of serial [...]
2009 US Pressing IPC-105LP Red translucent vinyl. Media Condition: VG Sleeve Condition: VG+ Few light scuff marks on both sides. Sleeve still has shrink wrap. Mild edge wear. ******Interested In [...]
Urashima present the first vinyl version of Mauthausen Orchestra‘s Murderfuck, originally released on cassette in 1983. Tape after tape, Mauthausen Orchestra, aka Pierpaolo Zoppo, [...]
Julie Moon and I began collaborating in 2014 as a computer music and prepared piano duo. Over the years we have tried to create a sound palette that we can navigate easily and utilize in a [...]
Ten years after Marcos Valle’s debut long player (Samba Demais) introduced Brazilian music lovers to the immense talents of the Valle brothers, a new direction and backing band helped the singer [...]
Since 2010, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (Iceage, Vår) has used the Marching Church moniker to a variety of musical ends, both live and recorded. However, the project as it exists on This World Is Not [...]
2020 repress. 180-gram LP version with embossed chessboard artwork print and printed inner sleeve. In celebration of the 2016 35th anniversary of the December 12, 1981, recording of Manuel [...]
Please Note: This item is a PRE-ORDER!!! Estimated to ship the week of April 12th-16th 2021 – Please consider COVID related delays / international shipping times as these items are en-route [...]
Michael Foster: saxophones Ben Bennett: drums, percussion recorded over the course of 2019 by Don Forks at Palliative Studios Dedicated to Steve Dalachinsky 1946-2019
Fully analog cut Deluxe gatefold tip-on and board-mounted sleeve Set of 5 card “artwork” prints (264mm x 264mm) Black heavyweight LP Continuing to push boundaries of both music and genre, m b v [...]
Yellow / Black J- Card Variant Label Description: More commonly known as the founder of Yorkshire legends Smell & Quim, Milovan Srdenovic released several solo cassettes in the mid 80s. [...]
Yellow / Black J- Card Variant Label Description: More commonly known as the founder of Yorkshire legends Smell & Quim, Milovan Srdenovic released several solo cassettes in the mid 80s. [...]
Label Description: Aftershock is a collaborative effort by violinist extraordinaire Mia Zabelka, Vienna and extreme metal bassist/guitarist Arun N, Bangalore which reflect their respective styles [...]
One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of [...]
‘Stunning, hauntingly beautiful mountain music. Free, yet impeccably played gorgeous acoustic dulcimer, viola, banjo and guitar instrumentals that are both serene and transcendent. [...]
For a performance at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in spring of 1966, percussionist Milford Graves invited pianist Don Pullen to play duets. The two musicians had worked together in [...]
R.I.P. Milford Graves, 1941-2021. Please watch the amazing Jake Meginsky documentary film “Milford Graves Full Mantis” if you haven’t had the chance (streaming freely in the [...]
Dead Gods – GODS61
Before his career-defining records on Arista/Novus in the 80s and 90s, jazz and fusion guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson recorded his debut for ESP-Disk . The sessions, recorded in New York, [...]
Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled [...]
“Pleased as punch are we to be reissuing Michael Hurley‘s long-lost 1984 album, Blue Navigator. Admittedly, Secret Seven and Mississippi collaborated on a dandy 8-track version a [...]
Poet and noise musician Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) presents her first theatrical work, a futuristic exploration—part musical, part choreopoem, part play—of public/private ownership, housing, and [...]
Limited edition picture disc Much of Shoemaker’s recorded output prominently features the use of field recordings (see his “Tropical Amnesia One” CD), but in this case he has [...]
Split LP between cut-up S&M noisecore assault squad MENTAL ABORTION and drum machine alchoholic filthy noise grind from RIPPERS & DIDDLERS. MENTAL ABORTION tracks were recorded live at [...]
2015 Superior Viaduct – SV084 Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition -VG+ [still in shrink with hype sticker] 2015 reissue of 1983 UK DIY weirdo LP. SV says “ffo The Faust [...]
Label Description: New techno tape from members of Bruised, Product KF, Conjunto Prmitivo CS edition of 50
Maxx Mann were the gay New Wave duo of Frank Oldham Jr (vocals, lyrics) and Paul Hamman (music) from New York City formed in 1981. Frank studied voice and acting at the Herbert Bergdorf School [...]
Jayve Montgomery: Saxophone, Flute, and effects. Nick Turner: Mellotron and effects.
This extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability. Over the course of [...]
‘That proper n’ super super weird Michigan drip from the boys behind PRC / The Glass Path / GJ Coppola / The New Me etc. Totally brilliant post-industrial zones that only the most [...]
‘Heartbroken post-industrial tape ridden chamber music gone wrong. Hauntingly gorgeous sounds.’ -BH Hand assembled & scored linen paper pocket sleeve. Dated & Numbered, [...]
2020 restock. Zehra present a reissue of Apocalypse Across The Sky by The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar, originally released in 1992. Available on vinyl for the very first [...]
Pat Thomas is one of the most extraordinary pianists of our time. In a first-time duo with saxophonist Matana Roberts, the lyricism of his distinctly dexterous and curious approach to the piano [...]
SOLD OUT AT SOURCE!!! Madeline Darby: Innovation C24. Pumpkin orange cassette. Label to side A. Presentation envelope. Industrial Coast Post Card Madeine is an experimental electronics artist [...]
Michael Berdan: Elegy Frontman for Uniform, Michael has a number of releases set for 2021 under his own name. We are delight to offer Elegy. A 4 track cassette, with the programme repeating on [...]
Experimentation in early electronic music in the Sahara from the singular Mamman Sani. Dreamy organs and droning melodies reinterpret ancient folk tradition into sublime fantastical soundscape. [...]
Touch – TS 06 2008 UK Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
Urashima – UMA 115 2016 Italian Pressing Media Condition – Strong VG+ with only a few stray marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear
Relapse Records – RR 6946-1 1996 US Pressing Media Condition – VG+ with only a few stray marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear, Number 000935
Label mainstays Moss Harvest + Death Kneel document traces and relics of trauma. Post-catastrophic behaviours, tragic scuba fatalities, the great herald of death! Presented in A5 sleeve, real [...]
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NYC by way of Miami, Moist 96 is a new project of Rene Nunez, mostly known through the years for his work under the name, Horoscope. Culled together from decaying tapes, bled out and dubbed one [...]
Manisdron, side project of GOAT (JP) drummer, Takafumi Okada debuts on L.I.E.S. with a four track ep of frenzied live electrified drum/blast synth rip not techno beat experiments. A powerful [...]
Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled [...]
*Max Nordile (Preening, Violence Creeps, Uzi Rash, et al.) tosses Gilgongo 30 minutes of trudging, free-form sprawl that draws unassuming and collateral reference points (in the label’s [...]
The original EP (containing “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver”), plus both sides of the “Academy Fight Song” single and the two outtakes from the Definitive [...]
2020 repress. A golden era gem from the master himself, Masahiko Satoh, presented by Mitsuko & Svetlana Records. Archival reissue of long-lost treasure from genius pianist and composer whose [...]
Marcos Cabral returns to L.I.E.S. with a new six track mini lp after a run of cult releases for The Trilogy Tapes as Chemotex. Here we get Cabral in top form falling somewhere in-between his last [...]
After a long hiatus the elusive LIES-BLK series returns, this time with a wild five tracker sliced and diced by Brasilian dj, Millos Kaiser. As with all LIES-BLK series these are one time [...]
RSD 2020 release. Following the release of Milton Nascimento‘s Maria Maria (FARO 215LP), Far Out Recordings present Nascimento’s 1980 follow-up. With the success of Maria Maria in [...]
“Marie Davidson is back with a new album, a new band, and a bold new sound. Arriving under the banner of Marie Davidson & L’Oeil nu, a trio formed of three old-time friends and [...]
A quick C14 of skipping discs, buzzing tones and humming frequencies soon savaged. At times bringing to mind the works of JOE COLLEY. MOT is the project of collage artist Paul van Trigt from [...]
Anchor Books Paperback This dramatic and deeply moving book combines a narrative that has the pace and excitement of a novel, a timeless portrait of bigotry and a self-righteousness, and an [...]
Mars Records – MREP A2 1953 (Original US Pressing) Media Condition – VG Sleeve Condition – VG
Dell Abyss line Paperback Following her brother Ethan’s brutal kidnapping and murder, twelve-year-old Lucy loses her hold on the real world and begins seeing apparitions of her dead [...]
TechNoir1984 proudly presents the newly mastered and proper vinyl reissue of the debut recording from Michigan bred now L.A. based synth-pop duo, Milliken Chamber. Anna Schmidt (Jane Chain, [...]
Born in a nomad camp in Niger and now a leading figure of desert rock, Mdou Moctar has enjoyed one of quickest rises to success. In contrast to the polished style of Imarhan or Bombino, Mdou [...]
“Our journals and recording equipment were ultimately confiscated and stolen by the MNLF rebels. We escaped with a single cassette, the clothes on our back, and our lives.” —David [...]
Monument is a fitting title for the third album by Belarusian trio Molchat Doma. Indeed, it stands as a monument to everything they’ve achieved in their short time as a band, from whispered-about [...]
“No doubt you know the name Mort Garson from his myriad writing, conducting, and arranging credits, topping a thousand in total: the Kim Sisters, Gi Sönne, Lola Novaković, Pfc. Craig Brown, [...]
“Six years before the release of his landmark Mother Earth’s Plantasia LP, composer and arranger Mort Garson met experimental film director Skip Sherwood, who was interested in an [...]
Where have the alienated masses gone after vaporwave? Producer Ramona Andra Xavier, aka Vektroid, Macintosh Plus, Laserdisc Visions, New Dreams Ltd., and a few others, is a good resource, being a [...]
Merzbow’s “Lowest Music.2” released on his own label in 1982, later reissued on Extreme, and more recently reissued on LP by Urashima. This looks like a more “self [...]
This seems to be an extended version of the S.F.A.G. ’81 tape released on Broken Flag, that was most likely self released or sent to friends at the time by M.B. Has M B carved into cassette [...]
1969 German Pressing, censored Elektra-EKS 74042 Media Condition – VG+ with light marks Sleeve Condition -VG with light sleeve and edgewear
Published in 2020 by IQ32 Press 8.5″ x 11” zine – 24 pages Full color printed eggshell covers Includes single color 8.5”x11” risograph printed by Nick Flessa at the Los Angeles Contemporary [...]
“To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Moon Duo’s long-out-of-print debut LP Escape, Sacred Bones is proud to present a new deluxe version of the album. The new reissue will include the [...]
“To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Moon Duo’s long-out-of-print debut LP Escape, Sacred Bones is proud to present a new deluxe version of the album. The new reissue will include the [...]
New Torn Light release that we have been more than excited to work on with Drew & the crew. Torn Light has a huge place in our heart for records like this. 2020 has been a year of things [...]
Blank Forms is really doing “God’s work” here, first unleashing their stellar reissue of Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit’s April Is the Cruelest Month for the first [...]
Blank Forms is really doing “God’s work” here, first unleashing their stellar reissue of Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit’s April Is the Cruelest Month for the first [...]
2020 repress, originally released in 2016 – raw recordings from the very beginning of the band A1 Voice Of A Tortured Skull A2 Carnage A3 Ghoul A4 Black Metal (Total Death Version) A5 Pure [...]
First collaboration between Japanese noise legend Merzbow and visionary/provocateur Kaoru Sato of R.N.A. Organism (Vanity Records) and EP-4 Side A: Recording of Merzbow and Kaoru Sato’s first [...]
“We want our artists to be strong but we also expect them to be vulnerable. Rather than avoiding this dilemma, Mitski addresses directly the power that comes from appearing impenetrable and [...]
“2020 repress. As composer, musician and initiator of the San Francisco Tape Music Center which he cofounded with Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender in 1961, Morton Subotnick (born 1933) has [...]
“Double LP version. Three-sided. WRWTFWW Records announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase‘s extremely rare live album Anecdote, recorded in 1987. This marks the sixth release [...]
“Aguirre Records present a reissue of Maggi Payne‘s Ahh-Ahh, originally released in 2012 on Root Strata. Originally composed by Maggi Payne between 1984-1987 for the performance group [...]
WRWTFWW Records announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase‘s astounding ambient house album Technodrome, originally released in 1993. This marks the fourth release from the Esplanade [...]
Legendary guitarist Michael Chapman chose tracks from his two Americana albums from 200 and 2002 for this release. Pressed on on 180 gram vinyl, and featuring extensive sleevenotes, this is a [...]
12 inch containing the single So Right from Marie Davidson’s hard techno album Working Class Woman
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players. Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red [...]
Motown – MT607 US 1963 Pressing Media Condition – VG+ with light marks Sleeve Condition – VG with the start of a seam split and discoloration
“First time available since its original release on the Italian Ri-Fi label, Maria Monti’s 1974 LP Il Bestario is a rare item even in its native country. Monti is an Italian singer [...]
Metrist AKA L. SAE AKA Joe Higgins brings the noise in this tech-punk sound-clash straight outta’ Hades. His background in bass music of all moulds can be felt throughout but the round [...]
Unlike World War 3 II, which referred to the second album by that thuggish UK band, or Manfred Mann’s Chapter III, which referred to the third outfit led by Mr. Mann, Manas III is neither the [...]
Bedroom music” as a genre is perhaps questionable, and yet when first hearing the cassette that these songs were originally released on, this was the thought that I was fixated on. Mia’s music [...]
M!R!M is the solo project of Jack Milwaukee, italian multi-instrumentalist based in London since 2011. Inspired by early 80s synth pop, cold and dark wave, M!R!M has been releasing on labels as [...]
“Mekanik Kommando was a post punk / New Wave band from Nijmegen, the Netherlands founded in 1979 by Peter van Vliet and Laszlo Panyigay. The duo became a quartet with the addition of Simon [...]
“Mamman Sani Abdullaye is a legendary name amongst Niger’s avant garde. A pioneer of early West African electronic music, for over 30 years his instrumentals have filled the airwaves. [...]
This drama charts the life of a black gay youth named Chiron as he grows up in a rough neighborhood in Miami. In the first segment, Chiron is a ten-year-old nicknamed “Little” (Alex [...]
An unauthorized collection of My Bloody Valentine rarities. Among these are “Sugar”, one of the b-sides to the “Only Shallow” single and a longer version of the track [...]