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  • V/A – Mondo Industrial: A Selection Of Rare Tape Music From The ’80s & ’90s
    V/A – Mondo Industrial: A Selection Of Rare Tape Music From The ’80s & ’90s
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    This selection of obscure eighties and nineties experimental and industrial music was taken from even more obscure cassette releases on labels such as Nihilistic Recordings, Harsh Reality, Cauchy [...]

  • Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble Directs The Saint Louis, Missouri Creative Ensemble – Funky Donkey Vol. 1
    Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble Directs The Saint Louis, Missouri Creative Ensemble – Funky Donkey Vol. 1
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Wewantsounds, in collaboration with Corbett vs. Dempsey, reissues one of the great albums out of the BAG galaxy recorded by Luther Thomas and a cohort of musicians including Joe Bowie, […]

  • V/A – Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music: 1953-1969
    V/A – Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music: 1953-1969
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    This LP reveals the extraordinary diversity of research — almost all hidden — by Spanish musicians in the ’50s and ’60s. Those pieces were composed while the country was [...]

  • Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – Dancing On The Edge (2nd Pressing)
    Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – Dancing On The Edge (2nd Pressing)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter RYAN DAVIS’ Americana-noir soundwaves have [...]

  • Heartbreak-Collection Zine & CDr mix
    Heartbreak-Collection Zine & CDr mix
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    Difficult Interactions have put together this incredibly fun & budget mix of non-hype 80s pop from Japan. The CDr comes along with a zine and is made so so well. […]

  • V.A. – Passing Bells 7″
    V.A. – Passing Bells 7″
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    6 track comp 7” with all killer, no filler. A return to the 80s and 90s style of high quality cooperative comp releases you actually love to have in your […]

  • The Last Survivors – 2001-2016 LP
    The Last Survivors – 2001-2016 LP
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    Chaos is here! Legendary Tokyo raw punks, THE LAST SURVIVORS early material finally collected in one place. The Last Survivors sent shock waves through the Japanese punk scene showing there […]

  • Deef – 1982-1983 CD
    Deef – 1982-1983 CD
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    A more affordable pro-CD option containing both of the Deef LPs released by General Speech on one CD. Still with the full liner notes in both English and Japanese, some […]

  • Deef – Real Control LP
    Deef – Real Control LP
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    Documenting the band’s final era, when hardcore gigs in Sapporo were banned, and still had to be organized in private recording studios with seating. Before bands like Gai and Confuse […]

  • Deef – Nou LP
    Deef – Nou LP
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    Deef, forming in 1979 in Sapporo City, Japan evolved from a school-age free jazz group into a raw hardcore band influenced by the global explosion of political punk and hardcore, […]

  • Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken-Ichi LP
    Die Öwan – Mikawa Ken-Ichi LP
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    Die Öwan’s final cassette release, 1983’s Mikawa Ken-Ichi, shows the band at their most focused, crafting a full on album’s worth of music in their trademark style of DIY experimental […]

  • Die Öwan – Öwannibalism LP
    Die Öwan – Öwannibalism LP
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    A cult teenage Japanese punk group which existed from 1979-1983, and during that time managed to release the rarest punk record in Japan, operate their own cassette label, organize house […]

  • Stereolab –  Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
    Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
    $60.00 | Add to cart

    An anthology boxset that compiles all five volumes of the Stereolab Switched On series: 94 non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop. Includes the original Switched On […]

  • Blue Orchids – The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) (Pre-Order)
    Blue Orchids – The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) (Pre-Order)
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around release date. The first revolutionary fracture in The Fall was the sudden departure of guitarist Martin Bramah. Commonly understood as the only […]

  • Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes [Switched On Volume 3] (Pre-Order)
    Stereolab – Aluminum Tunes [Switched On Volume 3] (Pre-Order)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/29/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Remastered edition of a compilation of Stereolab singles and rarities, first issued in 1998. Screenprinted gatefold sleeve. Includes [...]

  • Nico – The Marble Index
    Nico – The Marble Index
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    Release date: 3/29/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Released in 1968 on America’s coolest label Elektra Records, Nico’s sophomore solo release The Marble Index was an instant avant-garde [...]

  • Nico – Desertshore (Pre-Order)
    Nico – Desertshore (Pre-Order)
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    Release date: 3/29/24.  Will ship on or around release date. 1970’s Desertshore, like much of Nico’s early work, has grown in stature with the passing of time. Hardly a pop […]

  • Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
    Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
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    Julian Isaacs aka Auntie Pus, made a bet with his childhood friend Chris Millar (Rat Scabies of The Damned) that one of them would have a top ten record within […]

  • Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
    Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
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    Released date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around release date. on bright future, adrianne lenker, a songwriter known for turns of phrase and currents of rhyme, says it plainly, “you […]

  • Kim Gordon – The Collective
    Kim Gordon – The Collective
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    Release date: 3/8/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Legendary musician and multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album, The Collective, which will be released [...]

  • Dry Cleaning – Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks Sweet Princess EP
    Dry Cleaning – Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks Sweet Princess EP
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/8/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Dry Cleaning’s first two EPs now remastered on one LP with original artwork and lyric sheet. Following two critically acclaimed […]

  • Pixies – Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91
    Pixies – Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91
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    Release date: 3/8/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Between 1988 and 1991 – during the band’s 4AD years – Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for […]

  • Butthole Surfers – PCPPEP (Pre-Order)
    Butthole Surfers – PCPPEP (Pre-Order)
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around release date. The early-mid ‘80s had their share of insane combos — The Birthday Party, Black Flag and Minor Threat had the […]

  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic…. Powerless…. Another Man’s Sac (Pre-Order)
    Butthole Surfers – Psychic…. Powerless…. Another Man’s Sac (Pre-Order)
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around release date. The early-mid ‘80s had their share of insane combos — The Birthday Party, Black Flag and Minor Threat had the […]

  • Butthole Surfers – Rembrandt Pussyhorse
    Butthole Surfers – Rembrandt Pussyhorse
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around release date. The early-mid ‘80s had their share of insane combos — The Birthday Party, Black Flag and Minor Threat had the […]

  • Peter Brotzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love –  Chicken Shit Bingo
    Peter Brotzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love – Chicken Shit Bingo
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Peter Brötzmann collaborated with many artists in his career, regularly adding new compatriots into the fold, and Norwegian drummer [...]

  • Comet Gain – Radio Sessions BBC 1996 – 2011
    Comet Gain – Radio Sessions BBC 1996 – 2011
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    Release: 3/8/24.  Will ship on or around release date. The second release in Tapete’s great series of radio sessions are the collected BBC recordings of Comet Gain, the rough diamond […]

  • V/A – Postcards Vol. 3: D.I.Y and Indie Post-Punk from England 1979-1981 (Pre-Order)
    V/A – Postcards Vol. 3: D.I.Y and Indie Post-Punk from England 1979-1981 (Pre-Order)
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/15/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. […]

  • V/A – Postcards Vol. 2: D.I.Y and Indie Post-Punk from Great Britain 1978-1981 (Pre-Order)
    V/A – Postcards Vol. 2: D.I.Y and Indie Post-Punk from Great Britain 1978-1981 (Pre-Order)
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/15/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. […]

  • V/A – Postcards Vol. 1: D.I.Y and Indie Post-Punk from USA and UK 1979-1984 (Pre-Order)
    V/A – Postcards Vol. 1: D.I.Y and Indie Post-Punk from USA and UK 1979-1984 (Pre-Order)
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/15/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad musical genre that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. […]

  • Masayuki ‘Jojo’ Takayanagi & New Direction For The Arts – Free Form Suite
    Masayuki ‘Jojo’ Takayanagi & New Direction For The Arts – Free Form Suite
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Masayuki “Jojo” Takayanagi (1932 – 1991) was a Japanese jazz/free improvisational musician. He was active in the [...]

  • L’Infonie – S/T (Pre-Order)
    L’Infonie – S/T (Pre-Order)
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Beat poetry influence free form jazz collective, formed in Montreal in 1967, L’Infonie existed officially until 1974. Lead by [...]

  • V/A – Soft Selection 84 (Pre-Order)
    V/A – Soft Selection 84 (Pre-Order)
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/29/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Celebrated new wave compilation from Japan reissued for the first time on Glossy Mistakes. A much-cherished gem from the 1980s […]

  • Skullflower – IIIrd Gatekeeper
    Skullflower – IIIrd Gatekeeper
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    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Double vinyl reissue of Skullflower’s epochal IIIrd Gatekeeper album — the first time that this album has been available on [...]

  • Drew McDowall – Lamina
    Drew McDowall – Lamina
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    This long-gestating box set of Scottish electronic pioneer Drew McDowall’s solo work takes its title from a technical term meaning ‘plate’ or ‘layer’ most often used [...]

  • Melenas – Ahora
    Melenas – Ahora
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    Ahora, the new record by Melenas is the exact opposite of “that difficult third album”. While other bands might be suffering from a lack of inspiration typical of that delicate […]

  • V/A – Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana
    V/A – Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana
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    A sonic snapshot of America’s steel capital, developed in the prosperous cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. Steel, Skyway Soul is […]

  • V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
    V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
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    After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got to work reinventing […]

  • V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Shoestring Label
    V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Shoestring Label
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    Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois’ answer to [...]

  • Daniel Johnston – Alive in New York City (Clear Vinyl)
    Daniel Johnston – Alive in New York City (Clear Vinyl)
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    Daniel played several shows in New York City in April of the year 2000, but there is no way to know for certain the exact date this recording was made, […]

  • Peter Gutteridge – Pure
    Peter Gutteridge – Pure
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    In the swirl of underground music emerging from Dunedin, New Zealand in the 1980s, Peter Gutteridge stands as one of the era’s most intense and shadowy figures. Despite being a […]

  • The Weeds – Just Colour
    The Weeds – Just Colour
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    “Fred Cole’s legendary 1961-1966 band. The 12” is a straight reissue of the 1968 LP (unfortunately originally released as “The Lollipop Shoppe” but now returned to the [...]

  • Gerycz Powers Rolin – Activator
    Gerycz Powers Rolin – Activator
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    Activator is the third installment from the trio of Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin, who respectively need no introduction writ-large. For anyone observing the American underground in [...]

  • Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
    Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
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    Unfettered by studio time limitations with their own home base of Echo Canyon, SYR 2 shows Sonic Youth chasing the shadows of predecessor SYR 1 and the series’ distinct aesthetic: […]

  • Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
    Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
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    Reissue of the Magnetic Fields’ classic 1999 rumination on, of course, love. Funny, smart, dark, memorable, and a lifetime’s worth of listening. Stephin Merritt solidifies his songwriting genius [...]

  • Rocker Magazine – Issue #2
    Rocker Magazine – Issue #2
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    ROCKER is a new bimonthly digest printed and published in the great city of Philadelphia, PA, USA. It focuses on harsh noise, ambient, musique concrète, electroacoustic, drone, tape music, wall [...]

  • Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)
    Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)
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    Release Date: 3/15/24. Will shipped on or around release date. First compiled as a double CD in 2002, Moon’s Milk (in Four Phases) is a suite of four EPs that […]

  • La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Dream House 78’17”
    La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Dream House 78’17”
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    Release Date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around to release date. Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78’17” is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and […]

  • Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – Four Guitars Live (Pre-Order)
    Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – Four Guitars Live (Pre-Order)
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    Release Date: 3/22/24.  Will ship on or around release date. “As Bill Orcutt’s most mature and exhilarating LP to date, Music for Four Guitars was a slab of undeniable Apollonian […]

  • Omit – in/Sec
    Omit – in/Sec
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    Release Date: 2/23/24. Will ship on or around release date. Omit’s in/Sec is “new,” but not new. Recorded in 2013, the masters lost in the label’s murky somewheresville that always […]

  • Sonic Youth – Anagrama (Pre-Order)
    Sonic Youth – Anagrama (Pre-Order)
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/22/24. Will ship on or around release date. BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL! While 1995’s Washing Machine LP moniker was a thinly-veiled jab at the corporate aesthetic (“no, [...]

  • Spacemen 3 – Live in Koln
    Spacemen 3 – Live in Koln
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    *Pre-order* LP will ship April, 2024. Shipping to us from Nagrania Cukiernicze in March. Screen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live 11th January 1988 at The Rose Club in […]

  • Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
    Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
    $30.00 | Add to cart

    *Pre-order* LP will ship mid April, 2024. Shipping to us from Nagrania Cukiernicze in March. Screen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live in The Mean Fiddler, London – 22.10.1987. [...]

  • Personal Best #5
    Personal Best #5
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    A limited number of these are available as New Dead Stock, SOLD OUT FROM THE SOURCE. PERSONAL BEST #5 Published february 2015 Format: 210 x 285 mm 100 pages Colour […]

  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
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    Lasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]

  • New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
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    What our staff has to say: “The birth of NEW FREE JAZZ. A completely unhinged document of New Monuments. Fresh new quartet line-up. This is the next level, and the […]

  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
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    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

  • Running – Wake Up Applauding
    Running – Wake Up Applauding
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    2016 release from the alt-punks. Running elbows in quick from the City of the Big Shoulders with Wake Up Applauding. Delivered loudly, dripping in unintelligible menace with the occasional flash [...]

  • Running – Wake Up Applauding
    Running – Wake Up Applauding
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    2016 release from the alt-punks. Running elbows in quick from the City of the Big Shoulders with Wake Up Applauding. Delivered loudly, dripping in unintelligible menace with the occasional flash [...]