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  • Robert Turman / John Wiese – Solid State of Time
    Robert Turman / John Wiese – Solid State of Time
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    Robert Turman is an American sound artist best known for his innovative and experimental work in the field of ambient and minimalism. Beginning in the mid/late-1970s, Turman became involved in [...]

  • Smegma / Merzbow – XCIII
    Smegma / Merzbow – XCIII
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    More than 25 years after their first partnership, international collaborators Smegma and Merzbow reunite for an all-new album that pushes the conceptual springboard of random composition [...]

  • Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
    Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
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    Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released […]

  • Merzbow / Smegma – Plays
    Merzbow / Smegma – Plays
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    Available for the first time as the artists originally intended! In their first collaborative album, influential outsider artists Merzbow and Smegma traded source material through the mail – from [...]

  • V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
    V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
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    Double LP version. Christoph Dallach, Andreas Dorau, and Daniel Jahn present Echo Neuklang, a compilation which explores the question of how krautrock has influenced generation after generation [...]

  • Cluster – Zuckerzeit
    Cluster – Zuckerzeit
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    Cluster was the pioneering German duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. Formed on the cusp of the 1970s, they were a part of West Germany’s nascent Kosmische Musik scene. […]

  • Cluster – II
    Cluster – II
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    “Cluster was the pioneering German duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius. Formed on the cusp of the 1970s, they were a part of West Germany’s nascent Kosmische Musik scene. [...]

  • David Cunningham – Grey Scale
    David Cunningham – Grey Scale
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    “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial [...]

  • Nurse With Wound – Gyllenskold Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs
    Nurse With Wound – Gyllenskold Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs
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    2022 restock. “This 1983 period in which Gyllensköld was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton’s audio art. His collaborations with Diana Rogerson, [...]

  • Eiko Ishibashi – Hyakki Yagyo
    Eiko Ishibashi – Hyakki Yagyo
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    2023 repress. Black Truffle announce a new solo album by Eiko Ishibashi, her first for the label, following on from the duo recording Ichida alongside bassist Darin Gray (BT 039LP, […]

  • Faust – Momentaufnahme II
    Faust – Momentaufnahme II
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    Originally part of 2021’s Faust Box Set release commemorating the bands 50th anniversary Momentaufnahme I and II are now set for their own standalone release by popular demand. This is […]

  • Conrad Schnitzler – Con
    Conrad Schnitzler – Con
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    Bureau B present a reissue of Conrad Schnitzler’s Con, originally released in 1978. Conrad Schnitzler: In the electric garden by Wolfgang Seidel, May 2020: “… Whilst on shore [...]

  • Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
    Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
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    From the viscerally punishing and nerve wrecking, to the wistfully sublime, Kevin Drumm’s work often yield a ferocious intensity through the timbres of minute details. Now, throughout this [...]

  • Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi – Improvisation Sep. 1975
    Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi – Improvisation Sep. 1975
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    What was supposed to be a soundcheck for this session became the session itself: a haunting 50-minute séance of intense avantgarde improvisation using a large instrumentation and live processing [...]

  • Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O’Rourke – Tonic 19-01-2001
    Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O’Rourke – Tonic 19-01-2001
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    Celebrating its one hundredth release, Black Truffle present a major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Jim [...]

  • Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow
    Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow
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    What our staff has to say: “Haunted & solemn guitar works from Orcutt. ‘The Conversion Experience’ is my favorite track. Fits in between the best blues & folk records you’ve [...]

  • V/A – Poesia Sonora
    V/A – Poesia Sonora
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    2022 restock; last copies/reduced price. Song Cycle Records present a reissue of Poesia Sonora, originally released in 1975. Sound poetry emerged in the early years of the post-war avant-garde [...]

  • Gavin Bryars – Sinking Of The Titanic
    Gavin Bryars – Sinking Of The Titanic
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    What our staff has to say: “I’m not sure there are words to accurately describe listening to ‘The Sinking of the Titanic’ or ‘Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.’ It […]

  • Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
    Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
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    What our staff has to say: “Definitely my favorite Nurse With Wound release and probably one of my favorite pieces of experimental music. Frightening, funny, surreal and everything in [...]

  • Ash Ra Tempel – Join Inn
    Ash Ra Tempel – Join Inn
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    What our staff has to say: “Second side track two, pure ambient goodness.” – Jack MG.ART announce the reissue of Join Inn as part three of the authorized 50th anniversary […]

  • Cluster – Cluster 71
    Cluster – Cluster 71
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    What our staff has to say: “My favorite Cluster. No synths used and light years ahead of contemporaries.” – Jack 2022 repress. 140-gram LP. Cluster’s self-titled debut was [...]

  • Faust – Punkt
    Faust – Punkt
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    After the overwhelming success of the 1971-1974 box set release (BB 374CD/LP), containing the first four studio albums and for the first time ever this lost “last” album recording, [...]

  • Sand – Golem
    Sand – Golem
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    2017 remastered edition, with new standard glossy jackets. Texture and feeling of 1974 with boosted audiophile sound quality. Black vinyl version. Originally released in 1974. German trio [...]

  • The Bachs – Out Of the Bachs
    The Bachs – Out Of the Bachs
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    ’60s garage-psych moody monster! Out of The Bachs was originally released in 1968 as a private pressing of 150 copies; it’s one of the rarest USA ’60s garage/teenbeat albums [...]

  • Cluster – Grosses Wasser
    Cluster – Grosses Wasser
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    What our staff has to say: “Top notch Cluster – Proper, transcendent synth laced space dwelling komische musik!!! Acoustic instruments fuse with electronics and swirling soundscapes. [...]

  • Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
    Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
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    What our staff has to say: “Michael Snow may be more recognized as an artist/filmaker, but has crossover into recorded media (music) as well, starting with his involvement with free […]

  • Mark Fry ‎– Dreaming With Alice
    Mark Fry ‎– Dreaming With Alice
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    What our staff has to say: “Total classic of the acid folk underground, finally reissued direct from the original master tapes.  Recorded in 1972, when he was only 19, this […]

  • Faust – S/T
    Faust – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “The first Faust record still hits the hardest. The warped sample of All You Need Is Love is still just as startling. Absolute best” […]

  • Heldon ‎– Electronique Guerilla
    Heldon ‎– Electronique Guerilla
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    Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon‘s debut album Electronique Guerilla, originally released on Disjuncta in 1974. In 1973, 22-year old Richard Pinhas was well on his way to becoming […]

  • Guru Guru – Hinten
    Guru Guru – Hinten
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    Limited purple colored vinyl LP pressing. Special deluxe reissue of the landmark 1971 album from krautrock pioneers, Guru Guru. Includes newly remastered audio and meticulously reproduced album [...]

  • Manuel Göttsching ‎– E2-E4
    Manuel Göttsching ‎– E2-E4
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    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 [...]

  • Faust – 71 Minutes
    Faust – 71 Minutes
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    2020 repress. With Magma, Faust was one of the most important of all the European groups of the ’70s. Compiled from “lost” and unreleased material, originally released as Munich [...]

  • Lou Reed ‎– Words & Music, May 1965 CS
    Lou Reed ‎– Words & Music, May 1965 CS
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    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

  • Lou Reed Words & Music, May 1965 CD
    Lou Reed Words & Music, May 1965 CD
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    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

  • Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965
    Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965
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    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

  • Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
    Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
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    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

  • The Shaggs – Philosophy Of The World
    The Shaggs – Philosophy Of The World
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    In 1968, three sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire strapped on their instruments and declared themselves The Shaggs. At that moment begun a peculiar tale that would last far beyond the […]

  • Les Rallizes Denudes – The OZ Tapes
    Les Rallizes Denudes – The OZ Tapes
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    Operating out of a small upstairs space just around the corner from the train station in the Kichijoji neighborhood of Tokyo, OZ was a scruffy, DIY affair that lasted not […]

  • Les Rallizes Denudes – ‘77 Live
    Les Rallizes Denudes – ‘77 Live
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    Temporal Drift presents the first-ever officially sanctioned reissue of celebrated Japanese cult band Les Rallizes Dénudés’ three albums, originally compiled and released in limited quantities on [...]

  • Les Rallizes Denudes – ’67-’69 Studio et Live
    Les Rallizes Denudes – ’67-’69 Studio et Live
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    Temporal Drift presents the first-ever officially sanctioned reissue of celebrated Japanese cult band Les Rallizes Dénudés’ three albums, originally compiled and released in limited quantities on [...]

  • Les Rallizes Denudes – Mizutani
    Les Rallizes Denudes – Mizutani
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    Temporal Drift presents the first-ever officially sanctioned reissue of celebrated Japanese cult band Les Rallizes Dénudés’ three albums, originally compiled and released in limited quantities on [...]

  • William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
    William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
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    Inspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another [...]

  • William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
    William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
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    In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of (then-)Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of [...]

  • Alan Licht, Charles Curtis, & Dean Roberts – May 99
    Alan Licht, Charles Curtis, & Dean Roberts – May 99
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    In the spring of 1999, Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, and Dean Roberts brought an unconventional mix of drone, improvisation, and experimental rock on an eleven-stop tour of Europe. The concept […]

  • Coil – Queens Of The Circulating Library (Transparent Baby Blue Vinyl)
    Coil – Queens Of The Circulating Library (Transparent Baby Blue Vinyl)
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    Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the [...]

  • Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – FRKWYS Vol. 13 – Sunergy (Expanded) (Pacific Blue Vinyl)
    Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – FRKWYS Vol. 13 – Sunergy (Expanded) (Pacific Blue Vinyl)
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    Sunergy brings together synthesists Suzanne Ciani and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith for the thirteenth installment of FRKWYS, RVNG Intl.’s intergenerational collaboration series. For this expanded [...]

  • Black Mountain Poems
    Black Mountain Poems
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    Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it’s hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and [...]

  • Thomas Bernhard – The Voice Imitator
    Thomas Bernhard – The Voice Imitator
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    The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts [...]

  • Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
    Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
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    Chasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]

  • Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
    Paul Celan – Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
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    In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that “would be a bit more sober & more spacious” than his poems. And yet, in his […]

  • Anna Kavan – I Am Lazarus
    Anna Kavan – I Am Lazarus
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    Short stories addressing the surreal realities of mental illness, from an incredible cult writer often compared to Kafka and Woolf The tortured life of Anna Kavan brought her some reward […]

  • Fernanda Melchor – This Is Not Miami
    Fernanda Melchor – This Is Not Miami
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    Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories–spiraling from real events–that bleed together reportage and the [...]

  • The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
    The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
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    Mina Loy’s technique and subjects – prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide – shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as [...]

  • M. S. Coe – The Formation of Calcium
    M. S. Coe – The Formation of Calcium
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    A horror story of one woman’s awful reinvention, M. S. Coe’s The Formation of Calcium is disturbingly funny and completely unexpected. Middle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed [...]

  • Steven Cline – Amok!
    Steven Cline – Amok!
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    In this collection of recent texts, American surrealist artist Steven Cline has opened the floodgates to his inner worlds, demanding that we take a look. When we do, we are […]

  • Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
    Kenneth Patchen – Sleepers Awake
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    Sleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen’s major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be described as novelistic fantasy–a [...]

  • Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
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    Ishmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.

  • Otto Julius Bierbaum – Samalio Pardulus
    Otto Julius Bierbaum – Samalio Pardulus
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    A gothic novella offering a stepping-stone between German Romanticism and the then-nascent Expressionism In an isolated castle on the outskirts of a city in the Albanian mountains, the wildly [...]

  • Unica Zürn – The Trumpets of Jericho
    Unica Zürn – The Trumpets of Jericho
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    This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin […]

  • Pierre Reverdy – The Thief of Talant
    Pierre Reverdy – The Thief of Talant
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    Challenged by his friend, poet and art critic Max Jacob, to write a novel, Pierre Reverdy produced this fragmented, beautiful assemblage of loneliness, paranoia and depersonalization drawn from [...]