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“A rough-hewn pendulum, Cruel Intentions swings between Shredded Nerve’s previous LP and this year’s Acts of Betrayal, vacillating between the noisy and the serene through crude loops and [...]
‘Proper industrial wasteland soundscapes. Truly unique and stimulating experimental electronics.’ -BH No. 104
‘Brilliant blown out Detroit tape deck techno. Destroyed and totally danceable Must have.’ -BH No. 102
Strut present the definitive edition of Sun Ra’s ‘Egypt 1971’ along with the original albums ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and [...]
Strut present the definitive edition of Sun Ra’s ‘Egypt 1971’ along with the original albums ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and [...]
Suzanne Ciani is a true electronic music pioneer. The five Grammy nominated Italian-American neoclassical composer is unquestionably one of the greatest minds that contemporary music has ever [...]
Two years have passed since Bureau B released the first Sowas Von Egal compilation (BB 310CD/LP, 2018). With the musical movement or genre known as NDW celebrating its 40th anniversary, what [...]
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Letter sized paper – record company press kit/bio for Stevie’s 73 fall festival tour.
The Stray Cat Rock series stars Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Blind Woman’s Curse) who with these five films began her reign as the badass action queen of the era. In these five tales of rebellious [...]
Mazy Fly, the second full-length by the Bay Area artist SPELLLING, explores the tension between the thrill of exploring the unknown and the terror of imminent destruction. Chrystia Cabral spent [...]
Switched-On Eugene documents the Eugene Electronic Music Collective and some of the many synthed-out figures in and around Oregon’s iconic hippie stronghold during the 1980s. Whether connected by [...]
Luis Vasquez never intended for The Soft Moon to reach the public’s ears; for him, music has always been about self-actualization rather than self-aggrandizement. Nevertheless, the bleak, hushed [...]
Debut release of four on the floor industrial EBM from this side-project of Primitive Knot. Manchester’s current king of riffs and circuits delivers catchy, aggressive dance music with nods [...]
Impulse! – AS-9245, ABC Records – AS-9245 1974 Impulse! Reissue Media Condition – VG+ (Some faint scuffing) Sleeve Condition – VG+ (Jacket looks to be cut a little wrong with with spine text [...]
The planets align this October as the mighty Sun Ra Arkestra, under the direction of the maestro Marshall Allen, release their first studio album in over twenty years, ‘Swirling’. [...]
Stephen Molyneux performs stirring, classically inspired folk music with both feet planted firmly in the American Avant-Garde tradition. Formerly a stalwart of the Nashville and Denver D.I.Y [...]
‘Slow burn, beautifully abysmal industrial – Frozen by the lake Chicago style.’ -BH -oversized case with insert edition of 30
After seeing us off with last year’s ‘Your Skulls Are To Us What The Sun Is To You’ for Industrial Coast, the duo’s instinct for ace titles is in effect again on ‘The New Age Is Shit’, which [...]
Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander created Saturn and the Sun for their mutual passion in mindchanging sound experiments. Since 2005, they have created music together in ritual rock band The [...]
Fireburn the Bloodlot’ commits crenellated walls of guitar noise by CM Von Hausswolff and Joachim Nordwall under their Sins For Beginners alias for avant-garde powerhouse, iDEAL Mantled after a [...]
Souffle Continu Records present the first ever reissue of Steve Potts‘s Musique Pour Le Film d’Un Ami, originally released in 1975. In 1975, Steve Potts left Steve Lacy for a time to [...]
Trading Places present a reissue of Sir Lord Baltimore‘s self-titled album, originally released in 1971. Fresh from their US tour supporting Black Sabbath, Brooklyn-based heavy metal trio [...]
2020 repress, on blue vinyl. “The 1969 follow up to Silver Apple’s debut found the duo digging into the far reaches of their songwriting psyches for a darker and more emotionally [...]
A 1981 drama from ‘No Wave’ director Amos Poe shot in New York City. A psychotic street saxophonist lures victims into dark city spots with his haunting music – then shoots [...]
SCARY TALES proves that the films of John Waters and Don Dohler aren’t the only genre miracles from Baltimore. A shot-on-video horror anthology that plays out like a public access version [...]
Dropping somewhere between PINK FLAMINGOS, BLOOD FEAST, and an episode of THE BRADY BUNCH on acid, SOMETIMES AUNT MARTHA DOES DREADFUL THINGS is a histrionic psychodrama that could only have [...]
This is the latest new installment of Soul Jazz Records’ on-going collection of Rastafarian music at Studio One, featuring classic material from legendary roots and culture artists The [...]
An anti-fidelity swarm of hysteric helltrash by Phil Blankenship, Jesse Jackson, Charlie Mumma, Corydon Ronnau, and John Wiese. Cruel sickness, vicious vocal retch, and a blinding squall of [...]
Synth master Steve Moore makes a welcome return to L.I.E.S. with his first ep on the label since 2012. Through these four tracks Moore creates a world with simplistic stripped down beauty, often [...]
Noisy and experimental, Britain’s Swell Maps experienced little commercial success during the course of their chaotic career, but in hindsight they stand as one of the pivotal acts of the new [...]
Didn’t It Rain is Jason Molina’s first perfect record. Recorded live in a single room, with no overdubs and musicians creating their parts on the fly, the overall approach to the [...]
Artificial Dance chronicles K. Leimer’s complete collaborative venture as Savant and explores the unpredictable alchemy of music made in chance environments. For fans of Brian Eno & [...]
“An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut…from Sun Ra?! While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee “Nuclear War,” [...]
Last copies available… OFFICIAL RSD 2020 release. Acnalbasac Noom — meant to be the German-English-American avant-pop group Slapp Happy‘s second album — was originally [...]
All tracks composed, recorded, and performed by Sarah Davachi Electric organ, piano, Mellotron, voice, synthesizer, and strings recorded October and November 2019 at Alms Vert in Los Angeles, [...]
Sire/Some Bizzare – 1-23694 1982 US Pressing Media Condition – Strong VG+ with only a few stray marks Sleeve Condition – VG with noticeable shelfwear and slight cornerbend
Finders Keepers’ continued and unwaning commitment to preserving the archives of composer Suzanne Ciani pays off in an avalanche of dividends with this latest master tape discovery, placing [...]
Geffen Records – PRO – A – 4361 1991 US Promo Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ White Center Cut Jacket W/ Large Decal.
Geffen Records – GEF – 24387 1991 US Pressing Clean Printed Inner Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
PVC Records – PVC 4902 1981 US Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ (Sleeve wear from storage minor ringwear and small promo cut on sleeve opening)
This has barely left the turntable since our order came in from James Fella. One of the best No Wave/Post Punk records I have heard in years. Clanging guitars, free improv interludes & [...]
ACE Paperback Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When [...]
A brief but dense dose of simply hulking intense turmoil. Subtle terminology is trite, so to get to the point: S.H.I.T., the LP, blurs by in under twenty minutes of thrashing hardcore gristle. [...]
Four untitled tracks of brutish, inspired and primitive organics, recorded at the Western Massachusetts pillar Cold Spring Hollow throughout 2019 and early 2020. Bowed, scraped and clattering [...]
On vinyl for the first time, the 2006 debut full length from Vancouver?s SHEARING PINX, ?Poison Hands?, was originally released as a 2×3″ CDr on Not Not Fun and CD on Gilgongo. This collection of [...]
Two months after the recent ‘Aerosol Can Stand’ 7”, James Fella’s long-running group Soft Shoulder returns with 10 tracks recorded throughout 2018-2019 at various live performances, at their [...]
41 tracks of scathing, cautiously partitioned short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore—redefining “raw punk”, and an even more destructive force than the already harsh and damaged [...]
While it’s relatively easy to refer to Sandy Ewen’s use of guitar as unconventional or abstract, the true nature of her work is much more exploratory in nature. The instrument functions as a [...]
Berkley Horror Paperback Anthology of otherwise unpublished stories from the three writers at their peak VG with corner/shelfwear and spine creasing
Vintage Paperback A discussion of the ways in which illness is and has been regarded throughout history VG+ with light shelfwear and light underlining
Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, and Ju Suk Reet Meate (three original members) are joined by Rock ’N’ Roll Jackie (35 years in the band), John Wiese (approximately 10 years), and a cast of others [...]
Uncompromising large ensemble studio recordings from Los Angeles, 2016: John Wiese, Charlie Mumma, Bill Nace (Vampire Belt, Body/Head), Martin Escalante, Ted Byrnes, and elders of the Los Angeles [...]
I’d Rather Be Lucky Than Good is a new recording collaboration of Sam Ashley and Werner Durand. Sam Ashley’s mystic parables imbued with benevolent humor are drawn from a lifelong [...]
Between 1975 and 1981, a group of American ex-pats brought the native sounds of their Detroit and Chicago homes across the Atlantic, combined them with the messages of the Black Hebrew culture, [...]
Third cassette from Rachel Slurr, mid-atlantic noise queen and former den mother of Heaven’s Gate. Six tracks of true American Noise; arguments, attitude and depravity flying the flag through [...]
Sopportare translates into english as ?to bear? ? and it is a dark journey through aggressive electronic synthesis transitioning from calmer passages of modular minimalism, to arrhythmic [...]
Following up shortly after MT’s Hostage Pageant release with Shane Church’s sibling project. Crude, simple, yet direct tracks utilizing room sounds and amplified metal instruments. Patient and [...]
Industrial sound research. A direct lineage from such Colorado essentials as Architect’s Office, Jeph Jerman and Eric Lunde’s “Colorado Terrain Investigation.” Tapes as [...]
SDH (Semiotics Department of Heteronyms) is the new project of two key figures of the synth-wave/industrial scene of Barcelona. Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz, founders of the Cønjuntø Vacíø [...]
To resonate: re-sonare. To sound again — with the immediate implication of a doubling. Sound and its double: sent back to us, reflected by surfaces, diffracted by edges and corners. Sound [...]
*ships on/around september 24th* “If color is one of the contents of the world,” wrote William Gass, “then nothing stands in the way of blue’s being smelled or felt, eaten as well as heard.” [...]
Primitive Languages 005 2014 C32 Media Condition – VG+ with slight residue on edges Case/Jcard Condition -VG with top hinge broken and light scratching
HD037 Limited to 1000 copies, 2016 Media Condition- VG+ Case/Jcard Condition – VG+ with light scratches on case
HD015 Cassette reissue of the band’s debut LP, released in a limited of 200 copies in 2013 Media Condition-VG+ Case/Jcard Condition-VG+ with light scratches and slight residue on case
1969 US Pressing Probe/ABC – CPLP4505 Media Condition – VG with noticeable light marks Sleeve Condition – VG with drill hole, corner bend and sleeve discoloration/wear
Is there a definitive song about Cincinnati? One that truly captures the fraught relationship with being a city both out of time and place? A Midwestern Rust Belt straddling the Southern border [...]
New disc on Small Mercies.
Wax Trax – WAX7072 1989 US Pressing Includes Wax Trax order sheet Media Condition – Strong VG+, incredibly clean. Sleeve Condition – VG with light cornerbend and shelfwear
“Silvia Tarozzi, inspired by the poet Alda Merini and her studies with composer Garret List, worked with intimate personal history to write songs of love, motherhood, and the mystery hidden [...]
2nd PRESSING. Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious [...]
“Come When The Raven Calls is the second album by Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai after more than two decades performing together. Langille fuses the rawness of American spiritual blues [...]
“As a collective thought, SPICE’s self-titled debut album offers a deliberate isolation of pain as interpreted through different vehicles. Less than 30-minutes in length, the record diverts [...]
Omega Records 001 1981 UK press Media Condition – VG+ with light stray marks Sleeve Condition – VG with noticeable sleevewear and corner bends. Store sticker on front
“Songhoy Blues new EP featuring “Time To Go Home” – lyrics by Will Oldham, “Meet Me In The City” – a Junior Kimbrough Cover, and “Shakara” [...]
“Songhoy Blues has always been about resistance. We started this group during a civil war, in the face of a music ban, to create something positive out of adversity. As long as we have [...]
“A different sound than usual for Syl Johnson – but a record that still has loads of those amazing vocals we love from Syl! The style’s mostly modern soul – with a tightness [...]
Mental Experience present the first ever reissue of Steve Piccolo‘s debut album from 1982, Domestic Exile. A hidden gem of minimalist beauty, mixing a post-punk/DIY/lo-fi aesthetic with [...]
“A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip follows Sparks’ 2017 Top 10 album Hippopotamus, which was universally acclaimed with many critics declaring it to be one of the finest albums of the year. Since [...]
JAGJAGUWAR & Death Waltz Recording Company are proud and excited to release a true masterpiece into the world with the soundtrack to Panos Cosmatos’ BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW. Posited as [...]
“Slowdive’s second act as a live blockbuster has already been rapturously received around the world. Highlights thus far include a festival-conquering, sea-of-devotees Primavera Sound [...]
Geffen Records – 0-20399 12″ Maxi Single 1985 Media Condition – VG+ (Small Amount Of Glue From Price Sticker On Label) Sleeve Condition – VG+ (Small Seam Split [...]
“For over a decade, the band has traveled the world, blowing minds with their explosive live performances and their raw, hand-crafted studio recordings. While other artists have ridden the [...]
After their car breaks down, a group of travelers find themselves stranded in a remote part of New England. After taking shelter in a spooky old mansion, complete with a graveyard, they discover [...]
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players. An archeologist’s wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating [...]
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players. The small city of Tarker’s Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a [...]
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players. The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed [...]
US television staple Robert Lansing (Star Trek, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone) stars as a deranged surgeon in this twisty-turny psychological thriller from Blood Rage director John [...]
Remastered from original tapes. Bonus disk of unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate mixes. Co-released by band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. Fold-out poster insert with [...]
“Back in 1978, Bernard Treton recorded four ‘tradi-modern’ bands in Kinshasa. These sessions spawned the “Zaïre: Musiques Urbaines à Kinshasa” album (released in [...]
Half Alive is a compilation album by Suicide, originally released on cassette only on September 9, 1981 by ROIR. It is composed of live recordings from 1978 and home and studio demos recorded [...]
The classic ’81 live album from No-Wave legends, Suicide, reissued by ROIR.
“This is all slabs of sound, rhythm and screaming/testifying. What more do you need? In a way, it was a reaction against Punk (and just about any other music you can think of), and the [...]
“Repressed; Triple-LP version. Tri-gatefold cover. “Considering the monumental depth of Sun Ra’s recorded oeuvre, there are surprisingly few solo piano albums. Monorails & [...]
“MY BROTHER THE WIND, released by Sun Ra in 1970 (but recorded in 1969) is one of several albums that showcase Sun Ra’s initial reckonings with the then-recently introduced Moog [...]
“God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be is something of a rarity in the Sun Ra catalog—a cohesive album, with none of the stylistic eclecticism and musical chair shifting found on many of the [...]
“Will Syl Johnson ever run out of soul? No way, baby. He’s got a bottomless supply! Syl’s inspiring voice and his mighty band, the Pieces of Peace, are a match made in soul heaven. Hit [...]
“Sequoyah Murray is a 21 year old vocalist, musician and producer from Atlanta, Georgia. Writing deeply confessional lyrics and creating abstract textured song structures, Sequoyah is a [...]
“At just 22 years old, Sequoyah Murray is crafting the kind of concise, singular musical statements that many artists strive for their whole careers. His mutant brand of modern soul is as [...]
“The story of the passenger liner MS Scandinavian Star stays adrift. Tragic and complex, the details are out there in the electronic ozone, still yet to find closure. From sea port to [...]
“Sourakata Koité was born in 1955 in Malème, Senegal, a Malinke-speaking area. As Sourakata says, “All the Koité are musicians!” He is indeed a member of a family of djéli (or [...]
“SK Kakraba is master of the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone made of 14 wooden slats strung across calabash gourd resonators. The buzzy rattle emitted with each note comes from the silk walls of [...]
“2013 repress. 48st volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. “This album was recorded in Paris on August 15, 1969 with Lester Bowie, Dave Burrell, Roscoe [...]
SDH return with the Against Strong Thinking EP, which follows its 2018 self-titled album. Although six songs may be insufficient, their new tracks highlight the strengths of their debut. The [...]
“Silvia is the name of a Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW “New German Wave”) project created Tommi Stumpff and Silvia Nemanic. The pair met in Düsseldorf in the late 1970s and started dating [...]
Skemer is a brand new cooperation between singer Kim Peers, who’s also a model for Vogue, Steven Meisel, Prada and guitarist Mathieu Vandekerckhove of post-metal band Amenra and his [...]
After being found in bed with another woman, Frederick, a retired mercenary, is blinded by his deranged and spiteful wife, who is then confined to an asylum. Deciding to start a new life and [...]