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  • Answer Me! The First Three
    Answer Me! The First Three
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    Compiles the first three issues of Jim Goad’s infamous shock zine, Answer Me! Scapegoat Publishing, 2006 Softcover edition. Some noticeable wear/creasing to wraps, particularly at corners

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
    Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
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    “A unique dialogue between the electronic textures of Saint Abdullah with the live drums of Jason Nazary (Anteloper). Saint Abdullah consists of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rodger Stella / Kites – Interior Moon
    Rodger Stella / Kites – Interior Moon
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    Grim and zoned out noise Label: Mutter Wild – no cat number Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released:2011 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kalyanji Anandji – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
    Kalyanji Anandji – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
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    “O Saathi Re”!!!! Incredible 3 track EP from the film Muqaddar Ka Sikandar Label: His Master’s Voice – 7EPE 7538 Country: India Released: 1978 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Bollywood
  • Khaiyyaam, Sahir ‎– Kabhi Kabhie
    Khaiyyaam, Sahir ‎– Kabhi Kabhie
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    Four songs from Hindi film – Kabhi Kabhie. In a generic sleeve unfortunately, but the record plays so wonderfully. Label: His Master’s Voice ‎– 7EPE 7220, His Master’s Voice ‎– [...]

    GENRE: Bollywood
  • Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darpana Co. Of Dancers And Musicians* – Wondrous Music Of India (South)
    Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darpana Co. Of Dancers And Musicians* – Wondrous Music Of India (South)
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    Sealed copy! South Indian – various tracks of flute music, vocal & classical, ragas, etc Label: Request Records – SRLP 8076 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US NM/VG+  Sealed

    GENRE: Indian
  • Debu Chaudhuri – Debu’s Sitar – India’s Debu – Sitar Maestro
    Debu Chaudhuri – Debu’s Sitar – India’s Debu – Sitar Maestro
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    A impressionistic sitar album. Fantastic and immersive. Label: ABK Productions – ABK2001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Ustad Ali Akbar Khan* ‎– Soul Of The Sarod
    Ustad Ali Akbar Khan* ‎– Soul Of The Sarod
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    Very rare 80s recording – The sarod, tabla & tanpura together in a playful and somber 2 side length pieces. Label: Oriental Records – BGRP 1041 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo […]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Parween Sultana ‎– Sings Rare Melodies
    Parween Sultana ‎– Sings Rare Melodies
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    “Parween Sultana’s voice soars, and this album of two ragas is great evidence. If you love Hindustani vocal acrobatics, Sultana will not disappoint!” – Adam_A, discogs [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Maestro Ali Akbar Khan*, Swapan Chaudhuri ‎– Artistic Sound Of Sarod
    Maestro Ali Akbar Khan*, Swapan Chaudhuri ‎– Artistic Sound Of Sarod
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    Sarod masterwork from Ali Akbar Khan along with tabla from Swapan Chaudhuri & tambouras from Shefali Nag & Daniel Paul Karp. Label: Chhanda Dhara – SP 10685 Format: Vinyl, LP […]

    GENRE: Indian
  • Epicycle – Special First Edition
    Epicycle – Special First Edition
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    Psych tinged power-pop from Chicago. Label:Cirkle Records – CST 1111 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG with some noticeable sleevewear & staining. Start of split at upper [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
    Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
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    Ethnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Bevis Frond – Dolly Bug
    The Bevis Frond – Dolly Bug
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    Great neo-psych from the British masters. Label: Damaged Goods – DAMGOOD 81 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: UK Released: 1995 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Dwarves – I Wanna Kill Your Boyfriend
    The Dwarves – I Wanna Kill Your Boyfriend
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    Label: Sympathy For The Record Industry – SFTRI 132 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Pink Marbled Country: US Released: 1992 VG+/VG+

    GENRE:
  • Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao – Incantation
    Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao – Incantation
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    Haunting soundscapes from the synthesizer pioneer and flutist duo. Label: Toshiba Records – TP-72321 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1979 VG+/VG  

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • MC5 – Back In The USA
    MC5 – Back In The USA
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    The second MC5 record, cementing their status as proto-punk stalwarts Label: Atlantic – SD 8247 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG+/VG. Drillhole, some moisture damage and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Possessed – The Eyes Of Horror
    Possessed – The Eyes Of Horror
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    The third and final release from Possessed Label: Combat – 88561-8168-1 Format: Vinyl, 12″ EP Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG. Vinyl is in great shape. Jacket has minor ring/edge/corner [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Aster – Things That Just Happen
    Aster – Things That Just Happen
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    [duo of Ashley Paul & Eli Keszler] Label: R.E.L. Records REL21 Format: LP Country: US Released: 2013  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Liverpool Five – Out Of Sight
    Liverpool Five – Out Of Sight
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    Solid, soul-influenced garage rock from UK expats. Label: RCA Victor – LPM-3682 Format: RCA Victor – LPM-3682 Country: US Released: 1967 VG/VG. Disc and sleeve both low end VG with […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Off Our Shoulders Volume 2
    V/A – Off Our Shoulders Volume 2
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    New Zealand indie rock/DIY compilation featuring Kinisis, Psychic Daisies & Nichola Donovan Label: Unwucht – PRA 2430 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 2014 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – Outer Himmilayan Presents
    V/A – Outer Himmilayan Presents
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    “Dark Entries and Sacred Bones team up to release the early discography of UK synth-punk and Deathrock label Outer Himmilayan Records. Between 1979 and 1982, Nick Blinko and Martin Cooper’s [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Schakalens Bror ‎– Omelette Of Disease
    Schakalens Bror ‎– Omelette Of Disease
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    Guitar-driven sheets of noise from the ever-potent Förlag För Fri Musik label. Label: Förlag För Fri Musik – 008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden Released: 2018 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nagisa Ni Te ‎– Newocean
    Nagisa Ni Te ‎– Newocean
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    “Since their first album in 1995, Japan’s Nagisa Ni Te has created an enchanting and deeply personal sound world woven from elements of folk, psychedelia and rock along with wistful [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A  ‎– Temporary – Selections From Dunedin’s Pop Underground 2011-2014
    V/A ‎– Temporary – Selections From Dunedin’s Pop Underground 2011-2014
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    “The tiny city of Dunedin, located in the Otago Region of New Zealand, is synonymous with smart bands, incredible melodies and a wholly distinct and innovative music. Thanks to The […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Steve Moore ‎– Eye Of Horus
    Steve Moore ‎– Eye Of Horus
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    “Synth wizard, soundtrack composer, and Zombi member, Steve Moore expands further on his stark and drama filled cosmic sound with a new six track lp. These tracks call to mind […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Sir Lord Baltimore ‎– Sir Lord Baltimore
    Sir Lord Baltimore ‎– Sir Lord Baltimore
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    The challenging follow-up to the Brooklyn hard/garage-rock pioneers debut, Kingdom Come. Label: Mercury – SRM 1 613 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1971 VG+/VG. Sleeve has [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Maxx Traxx / Third Rail ‎– Maxx Traxx / Third Rail (Sealed!)
    Maxx Traxx / Third Rail ‎– Maxx Traxx / Third Rail (Sealed!)
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    “There was one irrepressible Chicago club act that refused to be replaced by any DJ’s sound system. Maxx Traxx (and Third Rail before them) were a scene unto themselves in […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Leda ‎– Neuter
    Leda ‎– Neuter
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    “Sofie Herner (Enhet För Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik III-X LP released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Prince ‎– Originals
    Prince ‎– Originals
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    “Prince will forever be remembered as a commanding live performer, chart-topping recording artist, and music business revolutionary. Yet for all the time he spent in the spotlight over his [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pelt ‎– Pearls From The River
    Pelt ‎– Pearls From The River
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    “All acoustic epics from the “classic” Pelt trio lineup of Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, and Patrick Best. Recorded in a single March 2003 session in VA by Mikel Dimmick, this […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Octopus ‎– An Ocean Of Rocks
    Octopus ‎– An Ocean Of Rocks
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    Keyboard-led prog/psych rock from Germany. Recommended if you like your prog mellow. Label: Sky Records – sky 016 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1978 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Monocot – Direction We Know
    Monocot – Direction We Know
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    “In one sense all collaborations and recordings thereof have a certain surprise factor. Any time two or more people get together to create something from nothing, the exact contours of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Di Stefano – For The Moment
    John Di Stefano – For The Moment
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    American-born, Japan-based composer John Di Stefano self-released a number of cassettes as part of the 80s DIY underground on his own imprint Oktron Produktions, including Klang’s Drift, a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
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    Written between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini’s imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ruggero Vasari – Raun
    Ruggero Vasari – Raun
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    Raun, certainly one of the great works of Futurist drama, if not the greatest, was written by Ruggero Vasari from 1926 to 1927 before being published in 1932. Here, presented […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
    She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
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    She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
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    Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
    Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
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    As the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
    Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
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    As the digitization of every aspect of existence grows more pervasive and absolute, from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals, the central nervous system of the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
    Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
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    Written in his Bastille cell in the years between 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, this is the first English translation of Marquis de Sade’s collection of short works, Stories, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
    Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
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    Children of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gerhard Roth – The Will to Sickness
    Gerhard Roth – The Will to Sickness
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    Gerhard Roth burst on the German-speaking scene in the early 1970s with three fiercely experimental novels, among them our present DER WILLE ZUR KRANKHEIT (1973). It is here that Roth […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
    Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
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    Norma Cole has combed through books, little magazines, and correspondence to gather an exciting body of writing by our French contemporaries. There are letters, poems, interviews, critical [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
    Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
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    Composed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
    Brendan Connell – Cannibals of West Papua
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    Few indeed have penetrated the remote areas of West Papua, a land abounding in ritual and magic. A breviary of anthropophagy and the supernatural, Cannibals of West Papua recounts the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Grosjean – An Earth of Time
    Jean Grosjean – An Earth of Time
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    Written while Jean Grosjean was a prisoner in the Second World War, Terre du temps, his first book, was published by Gallimard in 1946 and attracted a great deal of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
    Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
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    Giovanbattista Tusa takes the commitment of lending his voice to the voiceless further, reaching the depth that the Anthropocene demands from us. He finds the words that won’t fill the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Habib Tengour – Crossings
    Habib Tengour – Crossings
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    Beginning with the astonishing prologue poem, “Conversation with Mohammed Dib,” followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour’s Crossings takes us through [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
    Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
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    “About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies, that he suffered […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
    Bénédicte Vilgrain – A Tibetan Grammar
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    “For the past several years, Vilgrain has been working on an open-ended project titled A Tibetan Grammar, which explores language from an almost architectural perspective, using the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive