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Equipment Pointed Ankh - Downtown! LP
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  • Annexus Quam – Beziehungen
    Annexus Quam – Beziehungen
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    Re-release of the second album by Annexus Quam, originally released in 1972. Transferred from the original master tapes and carefully remastered by HaGü Schmitz and Dieter Wegner. The timing was [...]

  • Sand – Golem
    Sand – Golem
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The spookiest acid-folk you can imagine.” – Cleo 2017 remastered edition, with new standard glossy jackets. Texture and feeling of 1974 with boosted [...]

  • Mark Fry ‎– Dreaming With Alice
    Mark Fry ‎– Dreaming With Alice
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    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 […]

  • Günter Schickert ‎– Überfällig
    Günter Schickert ‎– Überfällig
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    What our staff has to say: “Great Berlin school without the use of heavy electronics. Flavors of Ash Ra Tempel.” – Jack Bureau B reissues Günter Schickert‘s album [...]

  • Mœbius & Plank ‎– Rastakraut Pasta
    Mœbius & Plank ‎– Rastakraut Pasta
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    ieter Moebius and Conny Plank got to know each other through their work on Cluster‘s 1971 album and remained close friends until Plank’s death in 1987. They made a congenial […]

  • Cluster & Eno ‎– Cluster & Eno
    Cluster & Eno ‎– Cluster & Eno
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    What our staff has to say: “Best Cluster. Best Eno. Beautifully frail and contemplative yet extremely intentional music. Piano, guitar, synth, ambient textures and micro rhythms all combine [...]

  • Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – black vinyl
    Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – black vinyl
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    “What the heck? You’re Somebody’s World, the new album from Fruit LoOops, is both a jagged sonic question mark and a fruitful return to the avant grit. Their second release […]

  • Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – green vinyl
    Fruit LoOops – You’re Somebody’s World LP – green vinyl
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    “What the heck? You’re Somebody’s World, the new album from Fruit LoOops, is both a jagged sonic question mark and a fruitful return to the avant grit. Their second release […]

  • Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre
    Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    “Hark! DIY sleaze-rock henchpersons, ascend from your cellars and rejoice… Midwestern anti-folk hero Christopher Alan Durham (The Bibs, All Gone Recs) arrives on high horse in [...]

  • Michael Rother – Fernwarme
    Michael Rother – Fernwarme
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    “This is a special guy. Rare among fine musicians is one who never bit the industry weenie. This guy never did. He’s done nothing but superior work just the way […]

  • Holger Czukay – Rome Remains Rome
    Holger Czukay – Rome Remains Rome
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    Upon examining the eventful life of Can bassist Holger Czukay, one might come to the conclusion that this intrepid musician was a loner. His turbulent career exuded an enduring eccentricity […]

  • Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezei – Full Circle
    Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezei – Full Circle
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    Upon examining the eventful life of Can bassist Holger Czukay, one might come to the conclusion that this intrepid musician was a loner. His turbulent career exuded an enduring eccentricity […]

  • Holger Czukay – Movies
    Holger Czukay – Movies
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    Upon examining the eventful life of Can bassist Holger Czukay, one might come to the conclusion that this intrepid musician was a loner. His turbulent career exuded an enduring eccentricity […]

  • The Sonics – Introducing The Sonics (Expanded Edition)
    The Sonics – Introducing The Sonics (Expanded Edition)
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    The Sonics – fronted by Gerry Roslie’s banshee vocals – blow-torched the mists of Seattle in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth [...]

  • Michael Rother – Sterntaler
    Michael Rother – Sterntaler
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    “This is a special guy. Rare among fine musicians is one who never bit the industry weenie. This guy never did. He’s done nothing but superior work just the way […]

  • Twink – You Reached For The Stars: The Best Of Twink (Violet Vinyl)
    Twink – You Reached For The Stars: The Best Of Twink (Violet Vinyl)
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    What our staff has to say: “Wild British psych from Twink, of Pretty Things and Pink Fairies. His Think Pink record is classic, and this combines a number of tracks […]

  • Mayo Thompson – Corky’s Debt To His Father
    Mayo Thompson – Corky’s Debt To His Father
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    Originally reissued by Drag City in 1994. “Mayo Thompson’s until now ultra-rare solo album. The album was produced in Houston, Texas in 1970 by Thompson, Frank Davis and Roger [...]

  • Scott Walker – Tilt
    Scott Walker – Tilt
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    “It’s been 25 years since Scott Walker released his dark masterpiece Tilt (8 May 1995). The album was met with positive reviews despite or maybe because of its arcane, unpleasant, […]

  • Gershom Gerhard Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Gerhard Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]

  • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – Dictee
    Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – Dictee
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Dictée is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. A classic work of autobiography that transcends the self, Dictée is the story […]

  • Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History
    Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History
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    Over a span of some three and a half decades, Michael Gira’s Swans have risen from chaotic origins in the aftermath of New York’s No Wave scene to become one […]

  • Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
    Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
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    Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]

  • Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
    Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
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    In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]

  • Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
    Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
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    Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963–64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and [...]

  • Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy
    Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy
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    Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five […]

  • Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
    Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
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    Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out […]

  • William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
    William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    “Beast or poet? Monster or moralist? Charlatan or magician? Genius or madman?” These are the questions William Seabrook, the great writer on such things as zombies and witchcraft, [...]

  • Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
    Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
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    Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and […]

  • Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny
    Homo Sovieticus: Brain Waves, Mind Control, and Telepathic Destiny
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens.In October 1989, as the Cold [...]

  • Amon Duul – Psychedelic Underground
    Amon Duul – Psychedelic Underground
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    180 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve. Reissue, originally released in 1969. The band Amon Düül formed in 1967, with music being only one part of their artistic work. In 1969, the […]

  • Annexus Quam – Osmose
    Annexus Quam – Osmose
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Reissue of the 1970 krautrock classic. The timing was right: Five years earlier would have been too early, five years later would have been too late. But Annexus Quam from […]

  • Cosmic Jokers – Planeten Sit-In
    Cosmic Jokers – Planeten Sit-In
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    The compilations Planeten Sit-In and Sci Fi Party, both originally released in 1974, are a contemporary document of the legendary jam sessions of the Cosmic Jokers. Under a conceptual mantle, [...]

  • V/A – Silberland Vol. 2: The Driving Side Of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984
    V/A – Silberland Vol. 2: The Driving Side Of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984
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    Double LP version. With synthesizers, rhythm computers, and human metronomes turned to a gallop, these electronic innovators set modernity to a motorik beat, and Bureau B’s second trip into [...]

  • Henry Cow – Leg End
    Henry Cow – Leg End
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    Henry Cow‘s Leg End, originally released in 1979. This was the first time together on record for Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler, John Greaves, and Geoff Leigh. An extension […]

  • 13th Floor Elevators – Live
    13th Floor Elevators – Live
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    In 1968, the 13th Floor Elevators were dealing with legal troubles and personal strife that prevented them from touring, but they still had a reputation in Texas as a powerful […]

  • Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri – Toy Planet
    Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri – Toy Planet
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    Toy Planet was recorded in 1981 and was a collaboration between the Swiss electronic music pioneer (and Jazzman) Bruno Spoerri and Irmin Schmidt.

  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (Colored Vinyl)
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (Colored Vinyl)
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    On their groundbreaking debut album, the 13th Floor Elevators sometimes sounded as if they were still learning how to work with the strange beast of their own creation known as […]

  • David Axelrod – Earth Rot
    David Axelrod – Earth Rot
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    What our staff has to say: “My favorite of Axelrod’s works. The Warning Talk Pt. 1 starts the record off with a bright opening, it feels like the sun is […]

  • Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen
    Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “This is a special guy. Rare among fine musicians is one who never bit the industry weenie. This guy never did. He’s done nothing but superior work just the way […]

  • V/A – Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81
    V/A – Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3: Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81
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    This latest installment in Soul Jazz Records’ successful Deutsche Elektronische Musik series delves deeper into the German nation’s vaults to bring a fascinating new collection that [...]

  • Neu – Neu 86
    Neu – Neu 86
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    After a brilliant fertile period of compositional creativity that begat three studio recordings ­ NEU!, NEU!2 and NEU! ’75 ­ NEU! shut things down in 1975. Core members Michael Rother […]

  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Downtown! LP
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Downtown! LP
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    Ships prior to release date of 9/29/2023. What our staff has to say: “‘Kentucky Kraut Rock’ If you are not yet familiar with EPA, please make it a point to […]

  • Flower Travellin’ Band – Made In Japan
    Flower Travellin’ Band – Made In Japan
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    Life Goes On Records present a reissue of the third album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin’ Band, Made In Japan, originally released in 1972. After meeting Lighthouse at the […]

  • V/A – Brown Acid: The First Trip
    V/A – Brown Acid: The First Trip
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    BACK IN STOCK!!! Expertly archived compilation (asssembled by LA’s Permanent Records along with Riding Easy) explores the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner lost rock tracks from the past 30 [...]

  • V/A – Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip
    V/A – Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip
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    Lo and behold, Brown Acid – The Fifteenth Trip is here, and it’s another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from [...]

  • West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 3
    West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 3
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    What our staff has to say: “60s psych rock core” – Jack Released in July 1968 on Reprise Records, Vol.3: A Child’s Guide To Good & Evil is considered to […]

  • V/A – Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip
    V/A – Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip
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    Here’s just a few of the gems on Brown Acid – The Fourteenth Trip, the much beloved series that is the Nuggets of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock: The Legends’ “Fever Games” […]

  • VA – Brown Acid: The Third Trip
    VA – Brown Acid: The Third Trip
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    “We continue down the wormhole of hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal here on The Third Trip with a set of tunes so obscure they can’t be seen without a […]

  • West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 2
    West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 2
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    What our staff has to say: “A psych record with a little something for everybody. Across the record, there are tinges of folk, art rock, and Hendrix-style shredding, each track […]

  • Can – Tago Mago
    Can – Tago Mago
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  • The Stooges – S/t
    The Stooges – S/t
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    Reissue on brown vinyl

  • Iggy And The Stooges –  Raw Power
    Iggy And The Stooges – Raw Power
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    This double LP version includes the originally released David Bowie mix of the album on the first LP and the latter remixed version by Iggy Pop himself on the second […]

  • MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
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    Kick Out The Jams still sounds astonishingly powerful after almost 30 years. Recorded live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom in 1968, this relentless, aggressive set offers the frenzy of [...]

  • Can – Future Days (Gold Vinyl)
    Can – Future Days (Gold Vinyl)
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    What our staff has to say: “Future Days has always been my favorite Can record. Last one with Damo! Can’t beat it!” – Jon Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Can […]

  • Can – Soon Over Babaluma
    Can – Soon Over Babaluma
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    Following the success of last year’s re-releases of their first four albums, Can release here releases remastered versions of Future Days, Soon Over Babaluma, Landed, and Unlimited Edition. [...]

  • Kraftwerk – Autobahn
    Kraftwerk – Autobahn
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    Special edition blue color vinyl remaster. “The main difference between Autobahn and its predecessors is how it develops an insistent, propulsive pulse that makes the repeated rhythms and [...]

  • Can – Monster Movie (Colored Vinyl)
    Can – Monster Movie (Colored Vinyl)
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    What our staff has to say: “Scariest and most paranoid Can record.” – Cleo Remastered edition. Can’s debut album originally released in 1969, includes “You Doo [...]

  • Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (Turqouise Vinyl, Half Speed Mastering)
    Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (Turqouise Vinyl, Half Speed Mastering)
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    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 [...]

  • 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 – 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. [...]