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Black Truffle announce Backfire of Joy, a previously unheard recording from Phew, John Duncan, and Kondo Tatsuo, documenting a concert at Tokyo’s Hosei University in 1982. Though the [...]
Columbia – YX-7291-AX Comes with OBI & insert Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They’ve secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the [...]
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival The second feature directed by Haynes—the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of Far from Heaven, I’m Not There and the upcoming HBO [...]
The path to living as one’s authentic self is paved with trials and tribulations in this revelatory, assured feature debut by Dee Rees—the all-too-rare coming-of-age tale to honestly represent [...]
Member of the wrenching experimental outfits Form a Log and Social Junk, yet mainly known for his venturesome take on contemporary industrial music as Profligate, here comes a more [...]
PANIC BEATS – A shocking tale of vengeance from beyond the grave! Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy wrote directed and stars in this dark and macabre tale of lust, betrayal and ghostly [...]
Conceived at the heel of Italy’s boot-shaped peninsula in Apulia, Patrick Belaga’s Blutt makes music for the unruly imagination. The title is an old German word for [...]
Dead Gods 65 A. Barren Socket (Visions Reflected Through Mirrors) B. Vacuous Hole (Sustained Surveillance State) Ploughshare is Nate Powell
‘One of the most popular of the RRR sub-labels is the Recycled Music series, which consists of used cassette tapes of pop and rock music that have been taped over with new music by a noise [...]
‘One of the most popular of the RRR sub-labels is the Recycled Music series, which consists of used cassette tapes of pop and rock music that have been taped over with new music by a noise [...]
For more than a decade Plague Mother has occupied a highly influential position in the noise underground, boasting a unique sound that blends haunting ambiance with crushing walls of noise, [...]
Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind Of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal [...]
Peter Thoegersen’s new CD on Flea004 is a recording of his Microtonal Song Cycle «Facebook: What’s On Your Mind » (2016-2020). Sung with hair-raising power by Lore Lixenberg, this is one of the [...]
Light In The Attic and the legendary folk/blues/roots label Vanguard Records are proud to begin a series of collaborations under the umbrella Vanguard Vault. The series will explore the vaults of [...]
Assuming he is incapable of winning, all of the members of a prestigious Madison Avenue advertising firm accidentally vote to appoint the company’s only black executive, Putney Swope, as [...]
The collaborative debut of American minimal techno producer Troy Pierce and Colombian audiovisual artist Natalia Escobar aka Poison Arrow was conceived in reverse: first they created a collection [...]
Hospital Productions announce the unreleased, would-be-classic from Japanese noise hero Painjerk. Originally recorded immediately after the canonical Gallon Gravy classic, this is pure — [...]
A relentless scorched earth blast of speaker-shredding intensity from the machete-wielding Michigan madman. It’s an incendiary, full-volume bombshell of sonic burn and barbaric rust that combines [...]
1986 Rock Records Live at Midem, Cannes, January 29-30, 1986 67/100 Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
1977 Swedish Bootleg on Stoned Records Recorded live at the Concerthouse in Stockholm, Sweden October 3, 1976. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG with sleeve coming slightly [...]
1978 US Bootleg on The Amazing Kornyfone Record Label Recorded January 30, 1976 at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
The Impossible Recordworks IMP 2-22 Recorded in 1977 at The Roxy Theatre and in 1978 at The Bottom Line Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Conditions – VG+
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 [...]
FROM THE WRITER OF WILD AT HEART AND LOST HIGHWAY For his English-language debut, writer/director Álex de la Iglesia (DAY OF THE BEAST) chose novelist Barry Gifford’s prequel to WILD AT [...]
Label Description: c60. Sunset yellow cassette. On body print. Jcard. 2x original postcard art. Presentation envelope presidiomodelo – dark ambient soundscapes, Novosibirsk, Russia Oil [...]
Edition of 220 copies. Conceptual artist Laura Grisi (1939-2017) was mostly know for work with natural elements and phenomena such as fog, water, wind, air & light. Quoting Germano Celant [...]
Slowscan vol. 38 is a expanded re-issue on vinyl of the Dances Interdites tape originally released on Balsam Flex, a London-based label run by artist Erik Vonna-Michell in the late 1970s-early [...]
By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a painfully shy new kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he’s Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by [...]
Label Description: The early, solo-project era of PD had two concurrent but intentionally separate behaviors; the all encompassing genre-hybrid for which is most commonly known, and another [...]
Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a reissue of Misha Mengelberg‘s Groupcomposing, recorded in 1970 and originally released in 1978. Comprised of a one-time international free music supergroup, [...]
First vinyl reissue of Alarm by the Peter Brötzmann Group, originally released on FMP in 1983. Harry Miller: bass; Louis Moholo: drums; Alexander von Schlippenbach: piano; Peter Brötzmann: [...]
Dead Gods – GODS59
Recorded with two different ensembles, Thembi was a departure from the slowly developing, side-long, mantra-like grooves Pharoah Sanders had been pursuing for most of his solo career. It’s [...]
In 2015 I heard PLEASURE ISLAND’s Special Forces cassette originally released on Chondritic Sound. I was blown away at its aural and conceptual marvels. While fiercely militant and with [...]
Seoul based DJ Duo Ping and Pong (Dydsu + DJ yesyes), started annual B2B recording from 2016. always very tripping experience through the all the music around the world (from noise to asian [...]
Label Description: Pedestrian Deposit (Jonathan Borges and Shannon A. Kennedy) possesses a certain, restrained relationship to texture. Sources both electric and acoustic operate on a logic of [...]
Portion Control is a British electronic and industrial band from South London. The trio of John Whybrew, Ian Sharp and Dean Piavani started out experimenting with electronics in 1980. Linking up [...]
Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up again to release another volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. Perhaps one of the [...]
Process Blue was formed in the fall of 1981, at Antioch College near Dayton, Ohio. The group essentially consists of Chel White (tapes, keyboards, percussion) and Dan Gediman (keyboards, vocals, [...]
Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in 1971 to [...]
Dark Entries is humbled to continue digging through the archives of legendary producer Patrick Cowley. While best known for his production on chart-topping cybernetic disco anthems such as [...]
Finally complete after 13 years of attempt. 44 tracks across 3 full discs, compiling all the essential non-album cuts from phase one PD — including 7 previously unreleased and never before [...]
“Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock is a true pillar of the New York avant-garde. In the past 50 years, he has curated over 1,000 performances at his Centre Street loft and [...]
2018 repress, originally released in 2013. “Phill Niblock has pushed the boundaries of sound and visual art for over 40 years. While dutifully producing experimental films and producing [...]
2021 repress; #8 on Pitchfork’s “50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time” list. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, Important Records offer a definitive double-LP [...]
ESP-Disk present a reissue of Pharoah Sanders Quintet, originally released in 1965. Recorded on September 10, 1964, prior to his well-known association with John Coltrane, this eponymous album [...]
The sequel to Pastor Barrett’s landmark 1971 masterpiece Like A Ship…, Do Not Pass Me By finds the young Chicago preacher and his Youth for Christ Choir continuing their genre-bending spiritual [...]
Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a “fairly standard” synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar [...]
Xn Recordings – 012 2019 Italian Pressing Media Condition – VG+ with only a few light marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light wear, 108/186
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In 1963, a group of college cheerleading students were brutally slain by a mysterious killer, resulting in the closure of the school they attended. Now, former student and professional [...]
Shortly after the Ozploitation shocker PATRICK became a worldwide hit, producer Gabriele Crisanti (BURIAL GROUND), screenwriter Piero Regnoli (NIGHTMARE CITY) and director Mario Landi (GIALLO IN [...]
Defenders of the Faith is a collection of heavy metal photography by the artist Peter Beste. These deluxe full color art books are all hardcover and embossed. To celebrate the release we have [...]
Pod Blotz began in 2002 and has released over 25 cassette and vinyl releases via labels such as L.I.E.S., Difficult Interactions, Clan Destine, Chocolate Monk, and Dungeon Taxis. Over the years [...]
Culminating as the purgative ‘finale’ to her improvisational live performances, Pan Daijing’s debut album also offers an insight to her future works. The process was intuitive and raw, born out [...]
Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power [...]
‘A meeting of legends, and an incredible collaborative work.’ -BH
From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, POSSESSOR is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes [...]
In 1974, Hearst Publications heiress Patricia Hearst (Natasha Richardson) was kidnapped by a group of radical revolutionaries named The Symbionese Liberation Army. As her ordeal dragged on, [...]
Taking reference from the rave energy that has passed through decades of UK dance music and combining influences from harder, noisy, industrial tropes that carry a similar raw approach, Ploy [...]
Recorded on the heels of their debut album, If Two World Kiss (also reissued by Dais Records) and informed by the band’s oscillating live synergy and bolstered by a boon of new equipment and [...]
“In the late 1970’s Athens, Georgia was buzzing with a raw but sophisticated music scene. Traditional southern rock had been the Georgia musical export for years before but the turn of the [...]
In the late 1970’s Athens, Georgia was buzzing with a raw but sophisticated music scene. Traditional southern rock had been the Georgia musical export for years before but the turn of the decade [...]
Another time, indeed! It’s been fifty years since Pearls Before Swine first appeared. A genteel, oft-hushed missive from a far corner of the psychedelic hive mind, One Nation Underground [...]
Coaxed perception is assured by constructing a narrative out of abstraction, leading one to posit the statement rather than examine the question. Perception is tainted by presumption. Prophecy is [...]
Harper Horror Paperback “Summer in San Francisco. A killer is on the loose. Twelve victims so far. Men, women, children. All ritually disfigured. Scrawled in each victim’s blood, a [...]
Metropolitan concrete noise absurdity. Edition of 77
By now people know that most of the music coming out of Olympia WA is important in some way, be it artistically or politically. PHYSIQUE manages to hit both points by channeling the classic [...]
Originally released as a tour cassette on Monorail Trespassing, Eleventh Hour features two side-long tracks that serve as excellent examples of the diverse sounds Pedestrian Deposit use to [...]
Dell Abyss line Paperback At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, look for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing [...]
New World Records 80411-4 Original Cassette issue. 1991 Verging on and entering the prog/fusion realms, this is one of the most early 90s things I have ever heard. Media Condition – NM [...]
If you are passionate about local music scenes as much as we are you might already know about the current brood of great bands going on in Cardiff, Wales. Chain Of Flowers were the first to hail [...]
Five years in the making, and the first duo recordings — a very, very calculated and controlled effort. Moving past the harsh noise cutups but not eschewing them entirely; rather, moving [...]
Deluxe instant reissue of the much-too-limited edition Housecraft tape, including two new and previously unreleased tracks; 32 minutes of new music. Reflective of our live sets of the past year [...]
“Shortly before Christmas 1984, the core songwriters, Genesis P-Orridge and Alex Fergusson, of underground arts collective Psychic TV quietly released a limited edition record containing [...]
“‘Too Numb to Know’ showcases Profligate continuing to shirk the heavy electronics of his early years for razor sharp pop. On 2018’s ‘Somewhere Else,’ Noah [...]
Australian band Pleasure Symbols enter a new phase in 2019, physically and stylistically with the forthcoming release of their first full length record Closer And Closer Apart. Three years have [...]
“Hot on the heels of last year’s Matthew J. Rolin LP (FTR 502LP, 2019), here is a new duo recording featuring Rolin’s acoustic twelve-string and the hammered-dulcimer of Jen [...]
Rare Philiosphen In Extase cassette. Philosophen in Extase was a short-lived German noise band, that existed in Lübeck from 1987-1988. Band members were Captain Chaos (5) and Zappo (3). On [...]
” In the early 1970s, the funk / soul band Power Of Attorney was formed at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Graterford (30 miles northwest of Philadelphia). The story of [...]
№ 113： by ᴘ ᴜ ʀ ᴇ ＲＡＶＥ ‘Completely stunning tape-loop based sonic tapestries and psychedelic manipulations. One of Detroit’s true gems.’ – BH European customers, please [...]
‘Gorgeous drip-drop electronic industrial rhythms that sound as though they come both from as far into the future as they do from the past…Excellent!’ – BH No. 111
1969 German First Pressing Harvest SMH 2212/2213 Media Condition – VG [Low end of VG, good amount of light marks] Sleeve Condition – VG [sleeve has some light creasing and a 2″ seam split [...]
Impulse! AS-9229-2 White Label Promo. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition- VG (mellow ringwear. not serious but enough to be noted.)
Seattle’s Profit Prison is back with a new 6-track EP. The solo work of Parker Lautenschlager, previously in local hardcore and black metal bands as well as power electronics acts, was [...]
“Aleph is often defined as the “oneness of God”, and Cardiff, UK indie pop outfit Private World thematically embrace the sentiment on their debut album for Dais while eschewing pop [...]
Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma, one [...]
LP selections of the original cassette-only release.
Finally here from Lasse Marhaug: Personal Best 8. My favorite zine around. Always a worldwide affair, a zine that felt familiar to me the first time I picked up a copy. Since it is the bane of my [...]
Originally released in 1981. “A two-LP set on Theresa, Rejoice features Pharoah Sanders in excellent form in 1981. Sanders sounds much more mellow than he had a decade earlier, often [...]
“Official remastered reissue of the legendary 1988 hyperdelic album. featuring “Godstar” and “Just Like Arcadia”, with guest appearances by Dave Ball (Soft Cell), [...]
Like A Ship-Primarily known as an album that hiphop luminaries such as Kanye West and T.I have pulled samples from, Pastor T.L Barrett’s 1971 album, stands own it’s own magnificently. [...]
“Founded in Cologne, Germany in 1985, Pink Turns Blue’s blend of atmospheric dark pop informed by European post-punk contemporaries and buzzing punk dissonance of Hüsker Dü (the band is [...]
4AD’s first album of the Nineties, The Comforts of Madness by Pale Saints, is receiving a long overdue reappraisal on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. The reissue includes remastered [...]
“Domino is pleased to mark the return of Pram. Across The Meridian, released on 20th July, is a celebration of Pram’s unique vision, focused into a beautifully constructed and tautly [...]
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players. After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn’t commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was [...]
The first long play from Product KF, Songs of the Groves, is the work of a trio of young Chicago musicians who have one of the more impressive cumulative resumes in all of Midwest punkworld [...]
“Professor Rhythm is the production moniker of South African music man Thami Mdluli. Throughout the 1980’s, Mdluli was member of chart-topping groups Taboo and CJB, playing bubblegum pop to [...]
“The story of South African singer and dancer Penny Penny is fit for Hollywood. A nearly homeless janitor with no education gets a record deal, becomes a multi-platinum-selling pop star, [...]
This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration of a pair of pioneering Black artists: writer Ishmael Reed and filmmaker Bill Gunn, who wrote [...]
rofit Prison is the solo work of Seattle-based Parker Lautenschlager, previously in the hardcore band Marrow, power electronics act Anteinferno, and black metal cult Bhereg. Conceived in 2016, [...]
“Photonz is the alias of Marco Rodrigues a DJ, producer and driving force of Lisbon’s underground scene. For little over a decade now, he’s been crafting his own deeply personal [...]
“Patrick Cowley was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in the canon of electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco in [...]
Paul Williams wrote the acclaimed score for this musical horror classic, and stars as an evil record tycoon haunted and taunted by the disfigured composer Winslow Leach (William Finley, Sisters) [...]
“On October 4th Erased Tapes present Handfuls of Night — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur [...]