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  • Eugene Thacker – Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
    Eugene Thacker – Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
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    Zer0 Books presents a new, omnibus edition of a cult classic: all three volumes of Eugene Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy trilogy, revised and expanded by the author. Across the three […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
    Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
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    Pierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pamelo Mounk’a Accompagné De Orchestre Afrisa International* Avec Rochereau* Et M’Bilia Bel* – 20 Ans De Carrière
    Pamelo Mounk’a Accompagné De Orchestre Afrisa International* Avec Rochereau* Et M’Bilia Bel* – 20 Ans De Carrière
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    Groovy one from one of the biggest Congolese popstars Label: Genidia – GEN 106 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: France Released: 1983 VG+/VG+. Some sleeve discoloration

    GENRE: International
  • Mark Fisher – Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
    Mark Fisher – Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
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    Completed in 1999 during his time with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Mark Fisher’s PhD thesis, Flatline Constructs, invents a fusion of culture, critique, and radical philosophy that [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
    Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
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    At the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
    Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
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    When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno’s characteristics, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Catherine Breillat – I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet
    Catherine Breillat – I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet
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    Catherine Breillat has always told just one story: her own, the story of a young girl whose existence was forbidden, who was, from childhood, cut in half, split between her […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Klaus Theweleit – Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies
    Klaus Theweleit – Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies
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    First of this two-volume work providing an imaginative interpretation of the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist “warrior” through a study of the fantasies of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nick Land – Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
    Nick Land – Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
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    A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land’s unique work, variously described as “rabid [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wadaiko Amano Kai – Wadaiko Furinkazan (- Master Sound)
    Wadaiko Amano Kai – Wadaiko Furinkazan (- Master Sound)
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    Wadaiko (Japanese Trad Drums) Big Sound with Cosmic Effects, Psychedelic Shakuhachi (Bamboo Flute) Label: CBS/Sony – 25AH 509 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. [...]

    GENRE: International, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Akiko Yano – Iroha Ni Konpeitou
    Akiko Yano – Iroha Ni Konpeitou
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    “Another superb Akiko Yano album and one of her funkiest, highlighting her unmissable singing and songwriting talents. Recorded in Tokyo and New York City, the album features a superb line [...]

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • Carlos Paredes – Movimento Perpétuo (Portugal Pressing)
    Carlos Paredes – Movimento Perpétuo (Portugal Pressing)
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    A masterpiece of Fado, and guitar music as a whole. Label: Columbia – 11C 074 40150 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo Country: Portugal Released: 1983 VG+/VG+. Laminate bubbling/sleevewear

    GENRE: International
  • Pancho Acosta / Money Chicha – Egyptian Reggae / Carnaval De Jujuy
    Pancho Acosta / Money Chicha – Egyptian Reggae / Carnaval De Jujuy
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    “Jonathan Richman’s classic “Egyptian Reggae” has been responsible for setting thousands of discerning dance floors on fire. After getting the obvious Jah twist on a few [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Luisa – Luísa
    Luisa – Luísa
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    “Azymuth bassist Alex Malheiros doesn’t remember recording this single. It’s understandable — the sessions happened over forty years ago, and at the time, Malheiros, Ivan [...]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Phylipe Nunes Araújo – Phylipe Nunes Araújo
    Phylipe Nunes Araújo – Phylipe Nunes Araújo
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    “Phylipe Nunes Araújo’s songs are as rich and varied as the diverse landscapes they were written in. The hills of Pernambuco, the lagoons of Alagoas, and the beaches of Bahia […]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Azymuth – Marca Passo
    Azymuth – Marca Passo
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    “In an ever-expanding musical universe, Azymuth have long existed as a celestial giant, drawing countless artists, musicians and followers into their orbit. Marking fifty years since their [...]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Agustin Pereyra Lucena – Puertos De Alternativa
    Agustin Pereyra Lucena – Puertos De Alternativa
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    “Far Out Recordings continues its reissue campaign of the late Argentinian guitarist Agustin Pereyra Lucena’s work with the first-ever vinyl reissue of his singular 1988 private press [...]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Marcos Valle – Contrasts
    Marcos Valle – Contrasts
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    “Originally released in 2003, Marcos Valle’s Contrasts combined early noughties production techniques with his trademark Brazilian songwriting brilliance. The album quickly became one [...]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Alice – Châteaux Faibles
    Alice – Châteaux Faibles
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    “Alice is a vocal harmony trio made up of three persons, joined by a cheap synth and limited virtuosity. Together, they craft a kind of future folklore that’s part funny, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Madalitso Band – Ma Gitala
    Madalitso Band – Ma Gitala
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    “For their third album on Bongo Joe, Madalitso Band takes a new direction. After two records capturing the raw intensity of their live performances, the Malawian duo ventures for the […]

    GENRE: International
  • Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
    Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
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    “When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
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    “The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Simon Critchley – Mysticism
    Simon Critchley – Mysticism
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    A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
    Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
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    Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
    Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
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    Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
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    The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
    Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
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    Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
    Deforrest Brown – Assembling A Black Counter-Culture
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    In Assembling a Black Counter Culture, writer and musician DeForrest Brown, Jr, provides a history and critical analysis of techno and adjacent electronic music such as house and electro, showing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
    Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
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    In his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
    Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
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    With mass poisonings, global warming and other tidings of contemporary civilization threatening the planet, shouldn’t we begin to reconsider our unthinking attachment to it? Feral House’s new [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
    Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
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    In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group
    Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group
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    Founded in New York City in the mid-1960s by self-educated ghetto kid and painter Ben Morea, the Black Mask group melded the ideas and inspiration of Dada and the Surrealists, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
    Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
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    Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic– our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
    Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
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    Scott Bukatman’s Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional “subject” and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
    Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
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    First published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Chants Révolutionnaires D’Oman – Oman Protest Music
    Chants Révolutionnaires D’Oman – Oman Protest Music
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    Compilation of revolutionary Omani songs from the time of the Marxist-Leninist Dhofar Liberation Front seeking to overthrow the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and Establish an independent state in [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Music Of Algeria 50’s – 70’s : Radio Topo #021
    Music Of Algeria 50’s – 70’s : Radio Topo #021
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    Radio Topo #021   Born from the rich musical heritage of the Berber people, the music of Algeria is as diverse as Algerian culture itself. While primarily associated with Rai, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
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    Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]

    GENRE: International
  • V/A  – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
    V/A – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
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    Mississippi compile a selection rootsy Aboriginal music which has never been reissued on vinyl before. Political and powerful songs from communities throughout Australia. Label: Mississippi [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, International
  • A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
    A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
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    In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Abdou El Omari – Nuits De Printemps
    Abdou El Omari – Nuits De Printemps
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    Oriental psych from the organ king of Casablanca, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. This is the third part of Abdou’s ‘Nuits’ trilogy. Mystical sounds [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Abdou El Omari – Nuits D’Été
    Abdou El Omari – Nuits D’Été
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    Reissue of this ultra rare Oriental psych monster from the organ king of Casablanca, combining traditional rhythms with spaced out modern sounds. This is the first part of Abdou’s [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga
    Jupiter & Okwess – Na Kozonga
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    Jupiter & Okwess returns with the explosive ‘ Na Kozonga’ album, a blast of energy that bewitches the body and feeds the spirit . From the samba of carioca Rogê […]

    GENRE: International
  • V/A – Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol 2, 1973-1981
    V/A – Cadence Revolution: Disques Debs International Vol 2, 1973-1981
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    Strut present the second volume in a series of compilations taken from the archives of Disques Debs International, the longest-running and most prolific label of the French Caribbean. Set up […]

    GENRE: International
  • Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
    Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
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    Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
    Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
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    Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
    Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
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    Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Elisabeth Croll – Feminism And Socialism In China
    Elisabeth Croll – Feminism And Socialism In China
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    First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
    David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
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    Scott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction