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  • Incapacitants – Zouvneree
    Incapacitants – Zouvneree
    $22.00 | , ,

    Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Merzbow & The Haters – Merzbow & The Haters
    Merzbow & The Haters – Merzbow & The Haters
    $12.00 | , ,

    Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Wolf Eyes ‎– Slicer
    Wolf Eyes ‎– Slicer
    $7.00 | , ,

    Condition: VG/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pedestrian Deposit ‎– Fatale
    Pedestrian Deposit ‎– Fatale
    $18.00 | , ,

    Condition: NM/NM. Sealed *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • One Dark Eye – Manic Depression
    One Dark Eye – Manic Depression
    $18.00 | , ,

    Condition: NM/NM. Sealed *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Orquere ‎– Foundations
    Orquere ‎– Foundations
    $7.00 | , ,

    Condition: NM/NM. Sealed *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hair Police ‎– Hair Police
    Hair Police ‎– Hair Police
    $6.00 | , ,

    Condition: VG+/VG. Creasing to insert *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dead Body Love – Low-Fi Power Carnage
    Dead Body Love – Low-Fi Power Carnage
    $18.00 | , ,

    2020 Troniks/Chondritic Sound reissue Condition: NM/NM. Sealed *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Sun Ra | Merzbow ‎– Strange City
    Sun Ra | Merzbow ‎– Strange City
    $10.00 | , ,

    Condition: VG+/VG. Crease to digipak *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Cyrus Colter – The Hippodrome
    Cyrus Colter – The Hippodrome
    $10.00 | , ,

    Set in a Chicago seething with physical and psychological violence, Cyrus Colter’s The Hippodrome is an examination of power and exploitation and their entanglement with sexuality. The [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein
    A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein
    $10.00 | , ,

    An anthology of Gertrude Stein’s early works. Book is in Like New condition and shows very light general wear. *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rachel Ingalls – The End of Tragedy: Four Novellas
    Rachel Ingalls – The End of Tragedy: Four Novellas
    $10.00 | , ,

    A young couple accepts a weekend invitation from someone else’s “Friends in the Country” and stumbles into a decidedly weird house party. When a neglected wife discovers her [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Boredoms – Super Roots
    Boredoms – Super Roots
    $15.00 | , ,

    Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Beacon Street Union ‎– The Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union (Promo)
    Beacon Street Union ‎– The Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union (Promo)
    $35.00 | , ,

    “The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union is a highly experimental album released around the time of the Bosstown sound. Much better than first albums from Eden’s Children and Ultimate [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Collectors ‎– The Collectors
    The Collectors ‎– The Collectors
    $15.00 | , ,

    Canadian psych/sunshine pop. Label: Warner Bros. – Seven Arts Records – WS 1746 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1968 VG/G+. Seam splitting at bottom seam and is […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ford Theatre ‎– Trilogy For The Masses (check condition, plays w/noise)
    Ford Theatre ‎– Trilogy For The Masses (check condition, plays w/noise…
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Ford Theatre was typical of the sound of Boston psychedelic rock circa 1968: dark, foreboding, somber songs, sometimes quite long, with sub-California acid rock guitar, and more weight on [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Strawberry Alarm Clock ‎– Incense And Peppermints (check condition, plays w/noise)
    The Strawberry Alarm Clock ‎– Incense And Peppermints (check condition…
    $20.00 | , ,

    “This is the debut long-player from the southern California-based Strawberry Alarm Clock — the title track of this album topped national singles charts in December of 1967. As the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ultimate Spinach – Ultimate Spinach (1968 Mono Promo in Stereo Jacket!)
    Ultimate Spinach – Ultimate Spinach (1968 Mono Promo in Stereo Jacket!…
    $200.00 | , ,

    Debut album by the Boston psych mavericks Label: MGM Records – E4518 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1968 VG/VG+. Noticeable light marks. Mono sticker has [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat (1985 Reissue)
    The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat (1985 Reissue)
    $35.00 | , ,

    The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground’s first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Colosseum ‎– The Grass Is Greener
    Colosseum ‎– The Grass Is Greener
    $12.00 | , ,

    “The second album from this British jazz-rock quintet rocks harder than their first outing. Their take on Jack Bruce’s “Rope Ladder to the Moon” is especially strong, and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • McDonald And Giles ‎– McDonald And Giles
    McDonald And Giles ‎– McDonald And Giles
    $26.00 | , ,

    “Following the meltdown of the original King Crimson lineup, Ian McDonald and Michael Giles brought brother Peter Giles back, which helps to account, in some ways, for the resemblance of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • King Crimson ‎– Islands
    King Crimson ‎– Islands
    $17.00 | , ,

    “The weakest Crimson studio album from their first era is only a real disappointment in relation to the extraordinarily high quality of the group’s earlier efforts. The songs are [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Jim O’Rourke – To Magnetize Money And Catch A Roving Eye
    Jim O’Rourke – To Magnetize Money And Catch A Roving Eye
    $35.00 | , ,

    “A hypnotic, multi-faceted, labyrinthine piece, a slow-moving, fascinating kaleidoscope with multiple reflections and wrong turns. Recorded at Steamroom between 2017 and 2018.” [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hermann Nitsch / Koehne Quartett – Albertina Quartett
    Hermann Nitsch / Koehne Quartett – Albertina Quartett
    $20.00 | , ,

    2. String Quartett in 6 movements for 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello recorded live at Albertina Museum, Vienna, 29.5.2019. Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Haters / Sissy Spacek – Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways
    The Haters / Sissy Spacek – Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways
    $8.00 | ,

    GX Jupitter-Larsen/Charlie Mumma/John Wiese Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Cosm
    Sissy Spacek – Cosm
    $7.00 | , ,

    A new Sissy Spacek album in the realm of free-improv, but a great expansion of the perimeter. This power trio features Charlie Mumma on drums, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania) on guitar, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Graham Lambkin ‎– Community
    Graham Lambkin ‎– Community
    $18.00 | , ,

    all material recorded/assembled at Empty Stage, Poughkeepsie, NY 2015-16. this 2CD edition features the full ‘Community’ Kye LP material reproduced on CD 1, with an exclusive additional longform [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Search Ensembles – Prescient / Legend
    Search Ensembles – Prescient / Legend
    $8.00 | , ,

    The second Search Ensembles artifact sees the return of Cédric Peyronnet (Toy Bizarre, Kaon / Ingeos, Sechres Mound,), Cyril Herry (Ninth Desert, Sechres Mound), Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Milo Christie – Pulsey’s Epithet
    Milo Christie – Pulsey’s Epithet
    $15.00 | ,

    A rare paper imprint release from Gerrit Hatcher’s Kettle Hold Records imprint “Little Appropriately Priced Library” 80 page perfect bound book.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
    Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pi…
    $175.00 | ,

    Hanuman Books, 10.5 x 7 cm.Softcover. 1988 edition. Light discoloration & foxing to both dustjacket and edges of pages. Noticeable corner crease/warp along upper right corner of front wrap. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
    $350.00 | , ,

    Grove Press, uncorrected proofs for the 1964 edition, presented in a spiral binder. Staining to & writing on both front and back wraps.Some general wear & discoloration to edges of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition…
    $110.00 | , ,

    “From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    $75.00 | , ,

    “Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
    Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
    $40.00 | , ,

    Part of Silliman’s Alphabet series/long-form poem. Generator, 1993 Staple-bound chapbook. Cornerwear, light discoloration and creasing to wraps.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    $125.00 | , ,

    Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition…
    $200.00 | , ,

    “With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    $150.00 | , ,

    “VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever “book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Opal – Early Recordings Vol. 2
    Opal – Early Recordings Vol. 2
    $175.00 | , , ,

    Kendra Smith and David Roback with Keith Mitchell. All tracks recorded 1983-1987. Label: no label – no cat Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: Released: 2018 [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • King Crimson ‎– In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By King Crimson)
    King Crimson ‎– In The Court Of The Crimson King (An Observation By Ki…
    $22.00 | , , ,

    “The group’s definitive album, and one of the most daring debut albums ever recorded by anybody. At the time, it blew all of the progressive/psychedelic competition (the Moody Blues, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Pay It All Back Vol.1
    V/A – Pay It All Back Vol.1
    $10.00 | , , ,

    Bizarre post-punk/industrial/dub comp. Features Missing Brazilians, Mark Stewart & African Head Charge. Label: On-U Sound – ON-U LP37 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK & Europe [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Reggae / Dub
  • Grouper – A I A : Alien Observer
    Grouper – A I A : Alien Observer
    $18.00 | , , ,

      Label: Kranky – KRANK224 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Grouper ‎– Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
    Grouper ‎– Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
    $18.00 | , , ,

    I’d Rather Be Sleeping…….. Label: Kranky ‎– KRANK 176 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2013 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Bitchin Bajas ‎– Switched On Ra
    Bitchin Bajas ‎– Switched On Ra
    $30.00 | , , ,

    To pour some out for one of their heroes, the cosmos’ own Sun Ra, Bitchin Bajas simply cut a slice of their own DNA and amplify it! Or something like […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
    Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
    $8.00 | , , ,

    “The Other Crowd,” “The Good People,” “The Wee Folk,” and “Them” are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Eve Babitz – Slow Days, Fast Company
    Eve Babitz – Slow Days, Fast Company
    $8.00 | , , ,

    No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos
    Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos
    $9.00 | , , ,

    Milan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz “one of the great novelists of our century.” Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Plotkin & Jon Mueller – The Injured Healer
    James Plotkin & Jon Mueller – The Injured Healer
    $12.00 | , , ,

    “The Injured Healer” is a new 6-track album by James Plotkin and Jon Mueller. While the two have worked closely on numerous projects and releases, this marks their 2nd official […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Black Duck – Black Duck
    Black Duck – Black Duck
    $8.00 | , , ,

    “Black Duck brings together three pillars of the Chicago music community: guitarist/bassist Douglas McCombs, guitarist Bill MacKay and drummer Charles Rumback. MacKay began releasing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Maurizio Bianchi, Nobu Kasahara, Hitoshi Kojo – The Epidemic Symphony No. 9
    Maurizio Bianchi, Nobu Kasahara, Hitoshi Kojo – The Epidemic Symphony …
    $8.00 | , , ,

    Mail exchange collaboration, 2003 Winter – 2005 Winter. Milano, Tokyo, Kagoshima, Lavaux. Limited to 500 copies. Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Maurizio Bianchi – MIND US TRIAL / IHC NAIB OIZIR UAM
    Maurizio Bianchi – MIND US TRIAL / IHC NAIB OIZIR UAM
    $8.00 | , , ,

    “MIND US TRIAL: Phonological de-composition in 8 dissections for tapes, noises and neurologic piano Not dedicated to the industrialized conscience. Respectful thanks to the electroacoustic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise