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Velvet Underground – Tune In / Drop Out
$30.00 | LP, VinylWe opened the door to a 6 foot by 6 foot concrete room. There they were, all the dogs standing in puddles of blood. Who put them here? What’s on […]
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Transmissions From Abroad – Soviet Wave 1986 – 1990 –…
$8.00 | Cassette, CSWhat our staff has to say: “Soviet Wave Tape. 35 Min mixtape of dark and synth wave tracks virtually unheard and kept behind the Iron Curtain until this amazing curation […]
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Sluggo – Sluggo LP
$18.00 | LPWhat our staff has to say: “Sluggo was that band, and The Contradiction E.P. that gave me pride of being from the midwest. Amazing reissue with the first EP and […]
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Gift Card
Price range: $20.00 through $350.00 | Gift Certificate, Merchandise This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageDigitally send anyone a Gift Card for Torn Light Records! Cards can be sent in any amount and redeemed online! Your recipient will be given a code for the amount […]
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New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
$13.00 | CDWhat 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 […]
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Marsh Chapel – Child Of YHWH
$16.00 | LP, VinylNew Torn Light release that we have been more than excited to work on with Drew & the crew. Torn Light has a huge place in our heart for records […]
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Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
$12.00 | CDRecognized as a skilled and sought after collaborator, Ted Byrnes solo albums cast a wide net that capture Byrnes’ adventurous and omnivorous approach to solo percussion. An alumnus of [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
The Velvet Underground – 1966
$10.00 | CSIncredibly rich and raw recordings from VU in 1966. Blown out and dragged down. Side A features a Reed-less band with Angus Maclise still in the fold. Side B takes […]
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I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio T…
$10.00 | CSDeep in the bad places in your mind, you have to fight to get out. C50 of acid bummers.
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Music Of Algeria 50’s – 70’s : Radio Topo #021
$10.00 | Cassette, CSRadio 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, […]
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Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin
$30.00 | LPScreen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live in The Mean Fiddler, London – 22.10.1987. Against all predictions, the fight to release these recordings has finally been won. We [...]
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The French Connection – French Ye Ye Garage Pop & Psych Mix…
$10.00 | CS“There is no such thing as intellectual property.” Jean-Luc Godard Take a ride on the back of DJ WW4’s vespa and hold on tight…
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Mark Trecka – Acknowledgment LP
$13.00 | LP, VinylLabel Description: Recorded using only voice, piano, and handmade cassette loops, Acknowledgment was conceived of and is presented as an intertextual document reflecting on 15 years of dialogue [...]
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Equipment Pointed Ankh – Downtown! LP
$22.00 | LPShips 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 […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
Personal Best 9
$16.00 | MagazineLasse 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 […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic -
Nigel Ayers – Electronic Resistance
$70.00 | Book, PrintWhat our staff has to say: “A fantastically displayed retrospective of work by Nigel Ayers, including his ‘mail art, collages, assemblages, flyers, slides, video stills, ephemera, [...]
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Les Rallizes Denudes – 1980-1981 Fields Of Artifical Flowers
$10.00 | Cassette, CSIn from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Psychotic works of L-R-D from 80 & 81. Noise bliss and sad feedback. Pivoting into a more rich toned psychosis of sound, these sessions […]
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V/A – Mexican Rumble
$10.00 | Cassette, CS“Much has already been said about Rock and the welcome our nation has given it; nevertheless, all were surprised at how strongly this “ritmo tuvo” took root in our youth. […]
GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk -
Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
$26.00 | 2xLP, LP, VinylOut December 16th, 2022 – Pre-Orders ship immediately! “Wasteland Jazz Unit is a staple in the world of destroyed music. With countless releases cataloged by a literal who’s who [...]
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Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
$22.00 | LP, VinylPre-order ships on or around April 1st, 2025. Church Shuttle “ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle” is an 8 track LP of alien abducted industrial music. Specifically Pure Michigan soundscapes Chris […]
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The Column – Sparrows Tongue
$19.00 | LP, VinylThe Column, brainchild of prolific musician & illustrator Reuben Sawyer, returns with the Sparrows Tongue EP, his first vinyl release since the 2018 LP, Oracle. Sparrow’s Tongue finds Sawyer [...]
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Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
$12.00 | CDThe first release from our CD imprint, ARKEEN – a 7 track, 30 minute full length from Los Angeles based Ted Byrnes. Percussive abuse and aural assault. Fragmented time creating […]
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Last Train To Hazeville – Radio Topo #24
$8.00 | Cassette, CS, New ArrivalsLast Train To Hazeville – David hit us with the perfect end of summer mixtape. Dusty pop 45s, crying trumpets & all the weird feelings you get before fall. They’re […]
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Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
$10.00 | Cassette, CSIn from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. This work is a masterpiece compilation released from Ethiopia’s in 1972 on the eve of the release of Mulatu Astatke’s masterpiece [...]
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Hawkwind – Live 1972
$10.00 | Cassette, CSIn from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Recorded live by the BBC on 28th September 1972 at the famed Paris Theatre in London, this is the classic Space Ritual-era Hawkwind, featuring […]
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Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
$10.00 | CSShips by 7/28/23. Writing about Mazozma aka Ma Turner’s work is like trying to frame a river. Throughout the course of their prolific career and many projects, the Lexington, KY […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
$10.00 | CD, CDWhat our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]
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NeuGrau – Beneath The Skin
$19.00 | LP, VinylThe 12th instalments on the label is signed by NeuGrau a brand new project from Ingmar Pauli and Saša Rajković. Their sound brings to mind rough 80s/90s dark wave with […]
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V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
$20.00 | LP, VinylAs I was reviewing V3’s cycle of works from early 1986 to the end of Roxanne Newman’s’ tenure in late 1991, I became increasingly flabbergasted at the band. At the […]
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V-3 – The Enemy Within LP
$21.00 | LP, VinylAs I was reviewing V3’s cycle of works from early 1986 to the end of Roxanne Newman’s’ tenure in late 1991, I became increasingly flabbergasted at the band. At the […]
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Lace – Human Condition LP
$19.00 | LP“Crawling out of the darkness in early 2016, Houston’s Lace grabbed several lifetimes of depression, displacement, and outsider feelings, and stuffed them into one-minute blasts of [...]
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Hatred Surge – Human Overdose LP (Yellow Vinyl 2022 Repress)
$20.00 | LP, VinylWhat our staff has to say: “Top tier death metal. Absolutely crushing, FFO being absolutely destroyed. Favorite track ‘Skinjob’” – Dan HATRED SURGE – Human Overdose LP [...]
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Personal Best 10
$16.00 | Magazine, Print, ZineInterviews with: Alexander Rishaug Carlos Giffoni Hilary Woods Harald Fetveit Evicshen Rhodri Davies Deathprod 100 pages. Offset CMYK print. Perfect bound.
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The Pink Fairies – Live 1971 / 1973
$10.00 | Cassette, CSIn from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Pink Fairies at their absolute best. Remarkable psych freaks make loud noise.
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James Fella & Gabriella Isaac – CCTK Music
$18.00 | LP, VinylCCTK Music combines Gabriella Isaac’s exploitative use of laptop as feedback loop / sound source / physical device and James Fella’s electro-acoustic / tape as instrument approach. [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Yana – Obitvs CS
$12.00 | CassetteHeavy psychedelic noise duo from Finland. Decrepit and broken down feedback trails into restrained echoes drenched guitar and bass. Edition of 100 packaged in A5 sleeve
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Tashi Dorji & John Dietrich – Midden
$16.00 | LP, VinylWhile the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily […]
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Bruce McClure – Interval Band Selection / Glance Mechanic: 1st G…
$30.00 | LP, Vinyl“Interval Band Selections” transmits two recordings from Bruce McClure’s October 11, 2019 performance at Cafe OTO, each utilizing one 16mm projector threaded with a film loop of [...]
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Various Artists – Percussive Resistance
$10.00 | Cassette, CSA compilation of 29 percussionists making rhythm, texture & noise to raise funds for the National Network of Abortion Funds. Percussive Resistance is our heeding a call to action. Each […]
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Nico & Cale – En Concert À L’Enfer
$10.00 | Cassette, CS“Tracks taken from Nico’s 1965 45 single, an outake from The Academy In Peril & the Reed/Cale/Nico “Le Bataclan 72″ concert. Wonderful cover art worth price of [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych -
DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
$16.00 | CD-RNew sixteen-minute piece by DJ Speedsick of cut-up style harsh noise and claustrated blues guitar entrails descending into a vortex; comprised largely of archival recordings and audio extracted [...]
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Guru Guru / Uli Trepte – Live 1972/1974
$10.00 | Cassette, CSIn from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Bassist Uli Trepte was one of the founders of the seminal space rock Krautrock group Guru Guru, and this CD, a reissue of a […]
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Alex York – Electro Paralysis
$7.00 | CassetteFrequent patrons of the Prime Ruin catalog should already recognize Alex York as a household name but for those that don’t, here is a brief introduction: Hailing from the Cincinnati, […]
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Discreet Music Mag #2
$7.00 | Print, ZineSecond issue of Discreet Music Mag, featuring interviews with Greymouth and Jon Collin and a long piece on IDDB 001-044. Full colour, written in English. Discreet Music, 2021
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Nape – Ten Tonne Angel CS (2nd Edition)
$10.00 | CSWhat our staff has to say: “Top level techno. Raw, primitive, engaging angular sounds all under the umbrella of dance inducing psychedelia. A MUST HAVE OF 2021!!!” – Brandon [...]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
NE 21 – In The Realm of Electricity
$23.00 | LP, Vinylhe NE-21 return to She Lost Kontrol after their first pitch-perfect 80s dark wave release in 2016. After releasing a collaboration with Donato Dozzy with the project ‘Men with [...]
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Mia Loucks – Sister Honey Demos LP
$13.00 | LP, VinylBedroom music” as a genre is perhaps questionable, and yet when first hearing the cassette that these songs were originally released on, this was the thought that I was fixated […]
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Null Mutants – Syncing Feeling
$10.00 | Cassette, CSTHE FINAL RELEASE ON TORN LIGHT RECORDS Null Mutants is the Chicago-based duo of Todd Irwin and Nick Butcher. Accomplished graphic artists, the project finds the pair mixing deep reverence […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Reggae / Dub -
Chants Révolutionnaires D’Oman – Oman Protest Music
$10.00 | Cassette, CSCompilation 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 [...]
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Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
$10.00 | CSNowhere 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 [...]
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Laibach – Deutschland 1985
$7.00 | CD-RCDr packaged with fold over cover in polybag. A bootleg live recording from Oberhausen, Germany, performed on 4 December 1985. Bringing to mind the best of underground industrial tapes in […]
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Container – Yacker
$24.00 | LP, VinylRen Schofield’s long running electronic project Container returns with his first release since the Creamer EP in 2021. Rolling straight out of the pandemic Schofield has since played a large […]
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Franciska – Afvikling
$7.00 | Cassette, New ArrivalsThe latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]
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Similar Shapes – Sites CS
$9.00 | CSWhat our staff has to say: “Ambient soundscapes, environmental noise, all tinged with decay. Listening to this tape feels like library music you heard as a kid appearing in your […]
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Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
$32.00 | 2xLP, VinylClassic album, limited repress.
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Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
$7.00 | Cassette, CSCurrently based out Miami FL Autumn Casey is an Artist in the truest sense, using multiple different mediums to express her inspirations. On the A.side of “Your Own Entertainment [...]
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Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP
$12.00 | LP, VinylWhat our staff has to say: “Neutral live tape – now reissued on wax via Happiest Place. Disturbing “true industrial” sound. No flexing – akin to throbbing gristle or buried […]
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DJ ARG – 808 Miles High
$10.00 | CassetteFrom Mainz Germany, DJ ARG is one of the most prolific and skilled acid producers in the underground scene. He lives and breathes acid. With ‘808 Miles High’ he has […]
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Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
$7.00 | LP, VinylFrom the label: “Originally released on CD in 2012, Chapter’s landmark compilation of 70s gay musical pioneers gets a vinyl release for the first time ever – and on pink […]
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Giuseppe Chiari – Gesti Sul Piano LP
$28.00 | LP, VinylEdition of 250 copies, historical recordings from 1975 and 1980. Giuseppe Chiari was one of the leading names associated first with Fluxus (being the only Italian member of the interdisciplinary [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic