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  • Ekin Fil – Dora Agora
    Ekin Fil – Dora Agora
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    ekin fil returns to the guitar on dora agora. her earliest recordings, notably her debut on root strata, prominently featured guitar in this urgent expressions of a dreamy dreariness that […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jim Haynes – Inauspicious
    Jim Haynes – Inauspicious
    $26.00 | ,

    in a recent interview, the california artist jim haynes was asked to name his top five noise albums. in quick fashion, he listed off kill the king, send, desnos, persona, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Frollen Music Library – 001-015
    Frollen Music Library – 001-015
    $28.00 | ,

    “Do you need samples?” We all ask ourselves this from time to time, and thankfully, Frollen Music Library (FML) has you covered. ‘001-015’ is a “best of” compilation celebrating the […]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
    James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
    $25.00 | ,

    “In 2023 James Elkington released Me Neither, a double album of solo guitar improvisations and experiments. He ended up thinking of it as a wordless collection of library music. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dorothy Carter – Troubadour
    Dorothy Carter – Troubadour
    $29.00 | ,

    The first official reissue of Dorothy Carter’s folk-music exegesis comes 46 years after its original release, 20 years after Dorothy passed, and 11 years before the centennial of her birth. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Apple Cottage – Apple Cottage
    Apple Cottage – Apple Cottage
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    Incredible noise collage work from “Apple Cottage” – rough edits but a good ear made this.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Slacking / Black Corolla – Lonely God
    Slacking / Black Corolla – Lonely God
    $8.00 | ,

    Noisey split from Slacking & Black Corolla.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Black Corolla – Boring Ritual
    Black Corolla – Boring Ritual
    $8.00 | ,

    Psycho harsh tape – B-side is incredible. Hits some weirder nodes & ticks off the “strange” box too many pass over for overt pedal to the floor harsh.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Gangstalker – Gangstalker
    Gangstalker – Gangstalker
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    PE/Industrial – really cool phasing & stereo play in the recording.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Qlowski – The Wound
    Qlowski – The Wound
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    Furious, relentless, maybe less starry-eyed but at the same time profound, celestial and poetic, London concrete-punks Qlowski are back with ‘The Wound’ their second album on Maple Death & [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Why Bother? – Hey, At Least You’re Not Me
    Why Bother? – Hey, At Least You’re Not Me
    $20.00 | ,

    Greetings from the Northern plains of the hopeless heartland. We are now entering the time when the leaves hiss and the dark corners of reality are not so brightly lit….And […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Kuroi Ame – Sacred
    Kuroi Ame – Sacred
    $40.00 | , ,

    “Wake up in a dream. Looking for someone. Searching an inner world. The memory of a name. ‘Midori’. Black rain. Shelter below the underpass in the Electric District. Hallucinogenic whisper [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pagan Altar – Mythical & Magical
    Pagan Altar – Mythical & Magical
    $67.00 | , ,

    “Featuring songs written mostly between 1976 and 1983, Mythical & Magical is Pagan Altar’s third album and is, without a doubt, the pinnacle of their career. This grandiose, [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Lee Ranaldo & Michael Vallera – Early New York Silver
    Lee Ranaldo & Michael Vallera – Early New York Silver
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    Amish Records is excited to announce a new recording from guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Michael Vallera, ‘Early New York Silver’, coming out on March 21, 2025. Ranaldo has long been […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe – Sidewalks In Motion
    Rashied Ali Quintet Featuring Frank Lowe – Sidewalks In Motion
    $31.00 | ,

    Rashied Ali stood as a magnetic force for the musical environment around him. In his last decades he sponsored rehearsal opportunities for young musicians, tightened up neighborhood street-corner [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Townes Van Zandt – Live Europe
    Townes Van Zandt – Live Europe
    $10.00 | ,

    Live european recordings of TVZ! Fantastic release. Fan club tape – ships April 25th

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Ramones – Live on WIIR 1982
    The Ramones – Live on WIIR 1982
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    Incredible 1982 live WIIR NEW YORK set. Fan club tape – ships April 25th

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • J.R. Bohannon* – Compulsions
    J.R. Bohannon* – Compulsions
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    ‘The isolation of lockdown was challenging for guitarist J.R. Bohannon. In refreshingly vulnerable linear notes, he describes how his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Holt* – Build Yourself A Space
    Holt* – Build Yourself A Space
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    “Holt Bodish is best known as one third of Montana’s finest treble strummers, Mordecai. But with that operation now spread all over this repulsive and insane nation he’s gotta [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
    Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
    $15.00 | , ,

    “A question popular among followers of Thrash Metal is undeniably this, “Which is considered the fastest Thrash Metal album of all time?”. There would be a high percentage of answers […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Ryan Garbes – Tabbed View
    Ryan Garbes – Tabbed View
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    “Ryan Garbes is an experimental musician currently rooted in Minneapolis. He’s been shaping and influencing the sound of the weirdo Midwest experimental scene since the mid-00s with his [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hum Of The Druid  – A Strange Export
    Hum Of The Druid – A Strange Export
    $8.00 | , ,

    “The first new recordings released since “Predatory Outlook,” marking the 15th anniversary of the project, this has glimpses of similarly chilling melodic ambient music but runs [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum
    Pestilence – Malleus Maleficarum
    $17.00 | , ,

    ““Malleus Maleficarum” is the debut album of PESTILENCE; a band’s whose input – that stretches across nearly 40 years – blazed the trail for generations of progressive death metal artists. [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
    Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
    $80.00 | ,

    #1-8 is mono. All other is stereo. # 2-15 to 2-20, 3-1 to 3-5 Produced Under License From Atlantic Recording Corp., All Other Produced Under License From Warner Bros. Records, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Arp – Inversions
    Arp – Inversions
    $18.00 | , ,

    “It’s been described as an Eno-like transformation more than once before, but the comparison seems more fitting than ever in light of this magnificent tape of long form, no pussyfooting, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Diatom Deli – TQM
    Diatom Deli – TQM
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Serene ambient music that evokes guided meditation through the use of phase-shifting melodies, droning bass, and gauzy synth textures. Her live performance utilizes classical guitar, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Moor Jewelry – True Opera
    Moor Jewelry – True Opera
    $30.00 | , ,

    “On True Opera, Moor Jewelry took a different approach — exploring the visceral, physical punk music that the duo grew up listening to.The tracks were improvised in the recording [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Famous Mammals – Famous Mammals
    Famous Mammals – Famous Mammals
    $35.00 | , ,

    “Famous Mammals were already going to be fantastic the moment they decided to form as a pandemic avocation in 2020, considering they’d been birthed from the flames of recent Oakland, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Dancer – Dancer
    Dancer – Dancer
    $25.00 | , ,

    “A new Glasgow band with members of Current Affairs (Tough Love), Nightshift (Trouble in Mind), Order of the Toad (Gringo records) and Robert Sotelo (Upset the Rhythm).” Label: Gold [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gidia – Struga
    Gidia – Struga
    $26.00 | ,

    Ritualistic, tribal industrial from the mountains of Greece. GIDIA is a Greek duo of george kondaktor and giorgos lemos, part of Athens fruitful electronic music scene for a long time […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    Ron Morelli – Extinctionist
    $27.00 | ,

    In your face new 8 track LP of vicious beat driven warehouse electronics from the L.I.E.S. boss. Straight and to the point, “Extinctionist” stands very much in line and continues […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    $10.00 | , ,

    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    $10.00 | , ,

    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Inte…
    $12.00 | ,

    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
    Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
    $18.00 | ,

    Althea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
    Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
    $26.00 | ,

    The Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal  between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    $25.00 | ,

    Technicolor Band is a revolving-cast, cross-genre improv unit based in Bloomington, IN. The group, initially instigated by multi-instrumentalists David Brown and Caleb Hickman as a regular [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Michael Vallera – The Other World
    Michael Vallera – The Other World
    $13.00 | ,

    Released in an edition of 300 CDs by Torn Light Records — The Other World was recorded in the spring of 2023 by Greg Norman at his home studio in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    $22.00 | ,

    Pre-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 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • V/A – Gespenterland
    V/A – Gespenterland
    $30.00 | ,

    Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany’s sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the copse of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
    Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
    $30.00 | ,

    LP version. After introducing listeners to the techno-tropical pop of Supersempfft via an essential reissue of their stargazing sophomore LP Metaluna, those surefooted folks at Bureau B beam back [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
    Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
    $30.00 | ,

    Parisian-by-choice Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax turns the page again. Always willing for a new episode, notion, impulse, idea, ideal. Searching for some light out there. Now Kiosque [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Nate Powell – Aggregates of Subjective Desire
    Nate Powell – Aggregates of Subjective Desire
    $10.00 | ,

    After 13 years doing HN under various monikers, Nate Powell gives us his nominative debut. Layers stack seamlessly while never operating from a blur. Each sound is deliberate, laid out […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Midnight Minds – Echo Poems
    Midnight Minds – Echo Poems
    $10.00 | ,

    Fantastic duo of new age / ambient tunes from Midnight Minds. Room recording for extra haze. 10/10 highest recommendation.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Various Artists – Percussive Resistance
    Various Artists – Percussive Resistance
    $10.00 | ,

    A 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 […]

    GENRE: Percussion, Beats, Rhythm
  • Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    $14.00 | , ,

    “Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    $12.00 | , ,

    In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mall…
    $12.00 | , ,

    At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    $12.00 | , ,

    Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction
  • Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
    Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets―incest, abortion, and infanticide―in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction