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  • Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 1
    Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 1
    $28.00 | ,

    HZB-013 235 pages, paperback 3rd EDITION of 400 copies When Tim from Dagger zine approached us about his book idea covering long-loved “spaces” held sacred for countless music fans, we […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • V/A – Emerald: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records
    V/A – Emerald: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records
    $15.00 | , ,

    Comp featuring artists such as Lia Kohl, Cole Pulice & Omni Gardens Label: Moon Glyph – MG148 Format: Cassette, Compilation Country: US Released: 2025 VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Synthwave / Electronic
  • Meat Puppets ‎– Monsters
    Meat Puppets ‎– Monsters
    $10.00 | , ,

    “The Meat Puppets’ final release for SST, 1989’s Monsters is best described as a cross between their experimental Mirage and the more in-your-face Huevos (both released only a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Meat Puppets ‎– Out My Way
    Meat Puppets ‎– Out My Way
    $8.00 | , ,

    Pre-Mirage EP Label: SST Records – SSTC 049 Format: Cassette, EP, CrO2 Country: US Released: 1986 VG/VG+. CS shell has some scuffing/discoloration *Image in the listing is stock. There may […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Don & Sophia Campbell – The Power Of Overtones And Chant
    Don & Sophia Campbell – The Power Of Overtones And Chant
    $20.00 | , ,

    Overtone singing & meditative chants, both accompanied and unaccompanied by percussion & bells. Label: Institute For Music, Health And Education – no cat number Format: Cassette [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Timo van Luijk And Mark Harwood ‎– Vang Circular
    Timo van Luijk And Mark Harwood ‎– Vang Circular
    $15.00 | , ,

    Vang Circular is the first outing from Timo van Luijk (La Scie Dorée / Af Ursin, Elodie) and Mark Harwood (Penultimate Press / Astor). Employing vibes, mellotron, natural reader, an […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Banks Violette (Whitney Monograph)
    Banks Violette (Whitney Monograph)
    $45.00 | , ,

    Banks Violette (b. 1973) has been called the “Grown-Up Goth.” Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Isles, at the time of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, described his work as [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rob Young – Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music
    Rob Young – Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary …
    $10.00 | , ,

    In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
    Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
    $8.00 | , ,

    The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Andy Hamilton – Aesthetics and Music Continuum
    Andy Hamilton – Aesthetics and Music Continuum
    $8.00 | , ,

    The Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nick Cave – Faith, Hope and Carnage
    Nick Cave – Faith, Hope and Carnage
    $8.00 | , ,

    Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
    Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
    $18.00 | , ,

    Where did musical minimalism come from―and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
    Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
    $50.00 | , ,

    A documentation and critical examination of Sol LeWitt’s influential Incomplete Open Cubes. With essays by Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee. Begun in 1974, Incomplete [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
    Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
    $15.00 | , ,

    The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin, over 15 million strong, are heirs to one of the oldest and greatest artistic traditions in West Africa. This text offers a look […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)
    Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hard…
    $7.00 | , ,

    A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they “sell out” and find mainstream […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Sutekh Hexen ‎– Primeval
    Sutekh Hexen ‎– Primeval
    $13.00 | , ,

    “SUTEKH HEXEN at the core has conducted experimental black metal deconstructionism from the blight of the Bay Area, and depending on conceptual framework, with a global cast of high-calibre [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Sylvain Chauveau – S.
    Sylvain Chauveau – S.
    $7.00 | , ,

    All pieces composed for the dance show “Au nombre des choses” (A thing among things) by Compagnie Mi-Octobre / Serge Ricci. Label: Type – TYPE030 Format: CD, Mini-Album, Digipak [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Goat – Commune
    Goat – Commune
    $7.00 | , ,

    “With a sound that seems to exist outside of any particular place and time, Goat materialize once again to bestow upon us their second musical offering, Commune. A simmering head […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Alchimia – Aurora
    Alchimia – Aurora
    $8.00 | , ,

    “On June 15 Instant Classic will release “Aurora” – a second album from free jazz-ambient trio Alchimia. The album comes out in a limited run of only 100 copies in […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Faro – Roma
    Faro – Roma
    $14.00 | , ,

    Multi-instrumentalist Robert Iwanik collaborating with players such as Eugene Robinson and Doug Scharin Label: Not On Label – 001 Format: 2 x CD, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo Country: US [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jonathan Coleclough & Colin Potter – Low Ground
    Jonathan Coleclough & Colin Potter – Low Ground
    $10.00 | , ,

    Track 1 recorded at Parkwood, Bottom Wood and the Water Tower. Tracks 2 and 3 recorded at the Water Tower. Track 4 recorded along the Kennet & Avon canal, at […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Final – One
    Final – One
    $6.00 | , ,

    Solo dark ambient music by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh. Label: Subharmonic – SD 7014-2 Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: US Released: 1994 VG+/VG+. marker through barcode on back of digipack. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures – La Nouvelle Pauvreté
    Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures – La Nouvelle Pauvreté
    $7.00 | , ,

    “Every musician wants his own sound. I would imagine that in electronic music, the desire to carve a unique sonic identity into the endless wall of digital possibilities is even […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Voïvod – Symphonique
    Voïvod – Symphonique
    $13.00 | , ,

    After more than 40 eventful years of existence, Canada’s progressive sci-fi metal innovators Voïvod return with “Symphonique”, a special live release together with the Quebec Symphony [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Miles Davis – Panthalassa: The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974
    Miles Davis – Panthalassa: The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974
    $6.00 | , ,

    “Panthalassa” marks a return to some of the most important recordings of Miles Davis’ passionate and controversial “electric” period of the early 1970s. Conceived by [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Makaya McCraven – In These Times
    Makaya McCraven – In These Times
    $8.00 | , ,

    “In These Times is the new album by Chicago-based percussionist, composer, producer, and pillar of our label family, Makaya McCraven. Although this album is “new,” the truth it’s [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sugar – Copper Blue
    Sugar – Copper Blue
    $5.00 | , ,

    “How ironic that after years fronting the hugely influential but desperately overlooked Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould’s first project with new band Sugar, 1992’s Copper Blue, would [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma
    Chris Watson – El Tren Fantasma
    $10.00 | , ,

    El Tren Fantasma, (The Ghost Train), is Chris Watson’s 4th solo album for Touch, and his first since Weather Report in 2003, which was named as one of the albums […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love – Song For The Big Chief
    Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love – Song For The Big Chief
    $12.00 | , ,

    “The duo of Paal Nilssen-Love and Joe McPhee has been an on-going adventure in sound for the last 15 years. The two started playing together when McPhee joined The Thing […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • William Fowler Collins / Gog – Malpais
    William Fowler Collins / Gog – Malpais
    $5.00 | , ,

    Edition of 500. Label: Utech Records – URCD063 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 2011 VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • So – So
    So – So
    $10.00 | , ,

    “So began in 2002 with the pair of Eri and Markus Popp (Oval, Microstoria) working together as a true symmetrical duo with both members equally contributing to the songwriting and […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Prong – Force Fed
    Prong – Force Fed
    $25.00 | , ,

    “Prong’s second independent release, Force Fed, showed great improvement over their aptly named Primitive Origins debut. Rather than resorting to blind fury and pure chaos like its [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Dean Roberts – Be Mine Tonight
    Dean Roberts – Be Mine Tonight
    $12.00 | , ,

    Be Mine Tonight is easily the most unusual recording New Zealand guitarist Dean Roberts has ever made, and his first since 2000. Admittedly, this is saying a lot, but given […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • RST – Air
    RST – Air
    $7.00 | , ,

    As a progenitor of that specific seam of guitar noisiness and experimentation found at latitudes of 40.9006° S or less, Andrew Moon has continued to explore and mediate the relationships […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
    Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
    $11.00 | , ,

    “In Absentia was Porcupine Tree’s seventh studio album, first released in 2002, and was the first in a run of three albums that for many represent the pinnacle of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Puce Moment – O.R.G. II
    Puce Moment – O.R.G. II
    $10.00 | , ,

    All music composed, performed, recorded, and produced by Puce Moment. Christian Rizzo, aware of Puce Moment’s ongoing exploration of pipe organs, invited them to compose the music for his new [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hayward x Dälek – HaywardxDälek
    Hayward x Dälek – HaywardxDälek
    $10.00 | , ,

    “HAYWARDxDÄLEK is the brand new collaborative album from acclaimed This Heat drummer and creative force Charles Hayward and rapper/producer Will Brooks (aka MC dälek). Out on December 5 via [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Overkill – Under The Influence
    Overkill – Under The Influence
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Originally released in 1988, Under the Influence is another confident, if unremarkable Overkill recording. Highlights include the punk-ish “Overkill III (Under the Influence),” [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Overkill – The Years Of Decay
    Overkill – The Years Of Decay
    $15.00 | , ,

    “The final Overkill disc to feature guitarist Bobby Gustafson, this 1989 recording is considered a classic by the group’s fans, and is often mentioned as the pinnacle of the East […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Sutekh Hexen – Constellation Ritualistic Altars: Demo(n)s
    Sutekh Hexen – Constellation Ritualistic Altars: Demo(n)s
    $10.00 | , ,

    Tracks 1-2 originally self-released as the “Constellation” demo tape, 2010 Tracks 3-4 originally self-released as the “Ritualistic” demo tape, 2010 Track 5 originally [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Gurdjieff / de Hartmann – Gurdjieff / De Hartmann: Music For The Piano, Volume 1: Asian Songs And Rhythms
    Gurdjieff / de Hartmann – Gurdjieff / De Hartmann: Music For The Piano…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Series I, II and III Label: WERGO – WER 6284-2 Format: 2 x CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 1997 VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Stoned Ancestor – Exhale On Jean-Maine St.
    Stoned Ancestor – Exhale On Jean-Maine St.
    $8.00 | , ,

    Six Organs Of Admittance-adjacent psych-rock. Limited to fifty numbered copies. Comes with “Meditation On The Four Winds” Text by Michael Bertiaux made specifically for this release. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Eagle Twin – The Thundering Heard: Songs Of Hoof And Horn
    Eagle Twin – The Thundering Heard: Songs Of Hoof And Horn
    $7.00 | , ,

    “Eagle Twin’s commanding sound delivers like a tectonic force, where doom and blues collide. Gentry Densley’s dominating low-end vocal tone is like an instrument in itself, rumbling [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Muslimgauze – Kashmiri Queens
    Muslimgauze – Kashmiri Queens
    $25.00 | , ,

    “”Kashmiri Queens” presents a more accessible side of Muslimgauze, featuring a faster tempo and fewer sonic overtones than his previous endeavors. The music’s core is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Simple Minds ‎– Empires And Dance
    Simple Minds ‎– Empires And Dance
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Hardly content with fumbling around with the same sound, Simple Minds shifted gears once again for album number three, Empires and Dance. The “dance” aspect of the title needs [...]

    GENRE: Power Pop / New Wave
  • Dust On The Nettles (A Journey Through The British Underground Folk Scene 1967-1972)
    Dust On The Nettles (A Journey Through The British Underground Folk Sc…
    $20.00 | , ,

    “This richly realized collection from the Cherry Red label’s psych/garage imprint Grapefruit offers up three heaping discs worth of British folk from its late-’60s and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Lapis Niger ‎– At The Throne Of Melek Taus
    Lapis Niger ‎– At The Throne Of Melek Taus
    $15.00 | , ,

    Dark ambient project of Tommy Eriksson of Nocturnal Rites Label: Athanor – ATNR 035 Format: CD, Album Country: France Released: 2008 VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Current 93 – Present Harry Oldfield ‎Crystal
    Current 93 – Present Harry Oldfield ‎Crystal
    $15.00 | , ,

    “We used two Electro-Crystal Therapy sound generator units and the following crystals: a 6″ synthetic quartz, a 7″ flat cluster quartz, a 6″ stick quartz, an 8″ [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Cabaret Voltaire – The Voice Of America
    Cabaret Voltaire – The Voice Of America
    $15.00 | , ,

    “The Voice of America introduces itself with a Southern policeman delivering instructions to what could be a riot squad. Part of the instructions direct those offering security to a first [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Betsy Jolas / Iannis Xenakis / André Boucourechliev ‎– New Sounds From Paris
    Betsy Jolas / Iannis Xenakis / André Boucourechliev ‎– New Sounds From…
    $9.00 | , ,

    Quatuor II composed in 1964. Herma composed between 1960 and 1961. Archipel I composed in January and February, 1967. Label: Angel Records – S-36655 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic