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Cincinnati, OH 45220
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A stunning 2xLP collection of music documented during Alan Lomax’s final American field recording sessions from 1978 to 1983. A completely overlooked and underrepresented period in American folk [...]
Originally released in 1968, CAETANO VELOSO’s debut album did for Brazilian music what the Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers did for rock & roll, giving birth to the soon-to-be Tropicalia movement, [...]
Rare live & unreleased tracks from 1979 by the legendary Vertical Slit, passed along from Jim Shepard (to Tom Lax) in 1998. Housed in silkscreened jackets with insert.
Double LP version. 2021 repress; deluxe Stoughton gatefold packaging. Singles and demos, 1964 to 1967. “Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan’s recent re-emergence as [...]
The first commercial recordings from Asia were made in Japan in 1903 by Fred Gaisberg, the legendary producer and recording engineer who traveled the world making recordings for the Gramophone [...]
“Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it [...]
Largely unheard, criminally undocumented, but at their core, utterly revolutionary, the recordings of the diverse North American Aboriginal community will finally take their rightful place in our [...]
Pacific Breeze documents Japan’s blast into the stratosphere. By the 1960s, the nation had achieved a postwar miracle, soaring to become the world’s second largest economy. Thriving tech exports [...]
When Seattle-based recording engineer Kearney Barton died in 2012, the 80 year-old studio veteran had spent the past 50 years recording the cream of the Seattle music scene through the decades. [...]
Light In The Attic’s Japan Archival Series continues with Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, an unprecedented overview of the country’s vital minimal, [...]
When Light In The Attic released Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 in 2019, it was the first collection of its kind to be released outside Japan. It proved to be just [...]
Six international artists showcased across two compact discs of shredding sound, clattering depths, power electronics violence, and deafening discordance. Though a diverse compilation, [...]
Generational Muse “Forty years ago a group of hipsters fled Manhattan for . . . has it even been that long? I cannot fathom for I’m still alive and so many of my comrades have fallen to [...]
V/A Cruel Vanities 2xC70 Chicago Electronic Underground compilation featuring exclusive tracks from Alex Barnett, Rosario, E.F., Necrotized, Spasm of Agony, Murderopera, Desperate Nights, FUJ, [...]
Vampire PE Edition of 78 copies in clear polycase with metallic night sky paper and 8.5 x 11″ poster insert with lyrics. Released as part of the Small Mercies Equinox Program March 20, 2021.
A relentless one-of-a-kind sensory assault chock full of hyper-kinetic fight scenes, gangster shootouts, sword-slashing violence and gory zombie horror, Versus was a key title amongst the barrage [...]
Label Description: An interaction designer by day, Vicki Siolos uses her DJ work to cast aside her day job’s focus on creating seamless systems for online and IRL environments. Instead, [...]
Label Description: Psychedelic Junglist Hardcore Druids! Curated over a number of months by Industrial Coast & DJ Damage (1-800 Iceman, Grimescapes), submissions have been pared down – [...]
**edition of 250 copies, red vinyl, comes with insert** Eeeee was the name of a periodic journal Marshall Reese co-edited and co-published with composer Gene Carl. The name was taken from the [...]
An incredible compilation featuring unreleased before pices by sound related artists such as Charles Dreyfus, Ferdinand Kriwet, Julien Blaine, Richard Maxfield, Bob George, Henri Chopin, Rolf [...]
Slowscan editions presents a new lp record edition It concerns a registration of a broadcasting from 1971 by KPFA_FM, Berkeley on March 1971. Twenty six one minute audio art pieces from a [...]
Published and sold on an audiocassette by Ulises Carrìon (recently rediscovered thanks to an important Alga Marghen retrospective LP) , who in 1975 “created” the legendary Amsterdam [...]
1979 Super Disk Pressing Media Condition – NM Sleeve Condition -VG+
from movies: A1 – Vishwatma (1990) A2 – Sumbandh (1982) A3 – Bade Dil Wala (1982) B1 – Taqdeer Ka Badshah (1982) B2 – Tumhaare Bina (1982) B3 – Bulundi (1982) [...]
Small Mercies 005 CDr housed in a 24 page art zine with glued-in sleeve. Edition of 33 copies released to coincide with the Shredded Nerve/ Kjostad March 2020 Midwest tour.
The first chapter of Onderstroom digging into the history of Dutch minimal synth and wave. Who needs a big, expensive recording studio with all those fancy high-tech machines that only make your [...]
Charly Records present a reissue of the compilation Epitaph For A Legend, originally released in 1980. Formed in Austin, Texas in 1965, the International Artists label is best known for the 13th [...]
Tapper Zukie is not only a successful recording artist in his own right, but a well-respected producer as well. In the mid-1970s he set up his own record label, Stars, to help nurture the many [...]
2021 repress! Deluxe 3LP version: packaged in a six-panel triple gatefold jacket with a 16-page full-color booklet. ” The untold story of Indonesia’s various underground 70s musical [...]
Victrola is the duo of Antonio “Eze” Cuscinà and Carlo Smeriglio from Messina, Italy. The band formed in 1979 but shortly thereafter relocated to Florence take part in a rich musical [...]
In eleven years of deep digging, Dark Entries has uncovered many curiosities, lone exemplars of the scarsest breeds. They are lurking in Croatia, on the streets of New York, maybe in the back of [...]
2020 has been one rough ride for everyone, forcing us all to review what we thought was normal and maybe, one would argue, even our priorities. Two years have passed since their previous Inflict [...]
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of New Forces we assembled a compilation CD featuring all-new tracks from 12 New Forces affiliated acts. A snapshot of the sorts of artists this label is [...]
1984 Giorno Poetry Systems – GPS 030 Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition -VG+ with a little bit of wear here and there. Featuring: John Giorno, William S Burroughs, Laurie [...]
2020 repress. Vinyl Lovers present a reissue of the Velvet Underground‘s White Light/White Heat, originally issued in 1968. While 1967’s Velvet Underground & Nico was a part of [...]
As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982. Led by vocalist Isaac “Superstar” Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim [...]
As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982, of which Obi Agye Me Dofo remains the most sought after. Led by vocalist Isaac [...]
‘Stellar comp of forward thinking electronics spanning from coast to coast. At times rhythmic,, contemplative and challenging.’ – BH No. 103
𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗. 𝟸𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚕𝚘𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚠𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜. hand-numbered. sealed. stamped. 30-min analogue cassette. private [...]
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“Intimate Ghosting“, a compilation album featuring nine musicians from Japan and South Korea, is being newly introduced to the roster of the Netherlands/US-based record label Psychic [...]
‘Massive triple cassette compilation encompassing everything from gorgeous, tender ambient, to slow, brooding rhythmic industrial and beyond. An excellent look into the world of the very [...]
‘Beyond stellar compilation showcasing the more rhythmic and often extremely dance-able shades of the phenomenal Chicago Research label – Utterly mandatory!!’ – BH A [...]
It’s a Swedish house thing. Börft boss Jan Zwarre Svensson a.k.a Frak returns to his early project, Villa Åbo, for six deep and rude acid rub downs.
“Smalltown Superjazzz was a free-jazz subsidiary label to Smalltown Supersound from 2005-2012. The label has been dormant in the years 2012 to 2019, but is now reborn as the AFJ-Serie. The [...]
NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE OVERSEEN BY DIRECTOR BETTE GORDON. Bette Gordon’s Variety is a landmark independent film that challenges common notions about feminism [...]
Physical copy of the Vision Board ” Color Swipe” album. Hand stamped CDrs in archival ink, housed inside a linen paper pocket sleeve, dated & numbered out of 50 copies. Sealed in [...]
RSD 2020 release. “When I say 1980 was a kind of dead zone in the Cleveland music scene, I can hear a collective, ‘Isn’t every year a dead zone in Cleveland?’ Go ahead, [...]
A burning descent into a purgatory of humanity’s mistakes played back ad infinitum. The enormous door slams in the depths of hell. Will we wake up from this continuing nightmare? A savage [...]
NEW on Total Black: Active since 2013 with a multitude of acclaimed cassette releases on Summer Isle, Strange Rules, Clandestine Compositions, and our own imprint; “A Name, For [...]
Based on the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol – and previously adapted by Mario Bava as BLACK SUNDAY – the first horror film ever produced in the Soviet Union remains “genuinely [...]
Previous Vat efforts have focused on the classic ‘americanoise’ approach of scrap metal through distortion overload. ‘A Pile …’ sees Chris Conroy merging elements of that [...]
The first completed material in over a year following a long battle with various creative blocks introduces a dark ambient element to the ongoing focus of placing harsh noise in different [...]
The Swiss Zürich-based act comes back with their third full-length recording. Not even one year after their latest Ursprung LP, Veil Of Light give us ten new songs that mark quite a change of [...]
A year prior to Duster’s landmark debut album Stratosphere, Clay Parton, Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini quietly issued a prequel LP into the great expanse. An ode to ’70s Kosmische, Hier Kommt [...]
Exactly two years after their latest Front Teeth LP, the Zürich-based duo VEIL OF LIGHT is back with a new album called Inflict which will be out May 10 on Avant! Records. This is their fourth [...]
Posh Isolation – Posh Isolation 160 2015 6x CS box set, edition of 200 “Recordings from Rome, Vilnius, Warzaw, Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Detroit, Copenhagen, Kiruna, [...]
Cassette on Trax from 1984 by Vittore Baroni, who was one of the label’s co-founders. Looks to be a handmade tape specifically for GX Jupitter-Larsen. Has tracklisting on indside of J card. [...]
Beast 666 comp featuring The Gerogerigegege, Yellowhouse (featuring Eye from Boredoms / Hanatarash), We Never Sleep, Bruce Cossano, The Mormons, and The Ponchans. Front art of J-Card is different [...]
US Pressing Verve Records – 829 405-1 Y-1 Media Condition – Strong VG+ with only a few stray marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear
Primary Information Hardcover Primary Information is reprinting the seminal book, Fantastic Architecture, making the book widely available for the first time since it was originally published: [...]
“A collection of rare psychedelic/freakbeat tracks from such bands like The Kinetic, The Factory, Steerpike, State Of Micky & Tommy, Cain, Nimrod, and more. This is for fans of those [...]
“A great selection of ’20s-50s blues/jazz tracks about the devil, hoodoo men, and dark tales of doom and misery by artists like Victoria Spivey, Blind Willie Johnson, Lightnin’ [...]
“Repressed! After years of mythology, misinterpretation, and procrastination Nurse With Wound‘s Steven Stapleton finally chooses Finders Keepers as the ideal collaborators to release [...]
“In 2018 we introduced our first Mothers’ Garden compilation on International Womens’ Day. This compilation looked to shine a light on the often under-acknowledged musical [...]
“We are honored to announce the debut album from Vin Sol, who’s taken club-goers on a trip with his tracks and sets for the past two decades. Vin Sol is a third-generation San Franciscan of [...]
1966 Folkways Records – FE 4251 Media Condition – VG(visually) plays VG+ – small sticker on label Sleeve Condition -VG (old library copy) Recordings of Chippewa, Sioux, [...]
Full circle. A new project from Jonathan Borges (Pedestrian Deposit, Everyday Loneliness, Emaciator, etc). After several years of operating in more subtle areas of experimental music, Vasculae is [...]
1976 Folkways Records – FTS 33442 Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition -VG+ with insert A cold electronic LP. tracks from Jon Appleton, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Russell Pinkston & [...]
“We are honored to release the debut album from Violet, the alias of Inês Borges Coutinho, Lisbon born and raised DJ, producer boss of Naive records, co-founder of Rádio Quântica, and mina [...]
“We have been working on this reissue since we began the label 10 years ago, and finally its ready to share with the world. Velodrome need no introduction to most, but for the uninitiated, [...]
After crashing a party, three street punks decide to have their own kind of fun with the local preppies. But did the punks bite off more than they could chew with these well dressed yuppies? A [...]