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  • Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
    Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
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    Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on 20th September. Altid Sammen (meaning “always together”) is deep and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux ‎– -io
    Circuit Des Yeux ‎– -io
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    Haley Fohr (b. Dec 16 1988) is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit des [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • LOBA Adress – Will You Take No, Will You Straighten Your Jacket
    LOBA Adress – Will You Take No, Will You Straighten Your Jacket
    $6.00 |

    A footrace on the moon / two show up armed with nothing but a polished flute and an assortment of scraping, stumbling percussion. No audience, no prize, no celebration, no […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
    V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
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    Craft Recordings is pleased to launch its 75th-anniversary celebrations of Specialty Records with a brand-new compilation, Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records. Available for pre-order now, [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
    Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
    $14.00 | ,

    Long before John Brannon of Negative Approach cemented himself as a USHC icon, you would hear rumblings about his pre-NA glam group, STATIC. Only a handful of people were lucky/brave […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses)  – Truth
    King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses) – Truth
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    James Shaw (aka The Mighty Hannibal aka King Hannibal) was an American R&B, soul and funk singer, songwriter and record producer known for his showmanship and outlandish costumes. Several of [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobby Story – The Storyteller
    Bobby Story – The Storyteller
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    Bobby Patterson’s (born 1944) life in music has had many facets. Whether as a DJ in Texas (he had a popular show at the Dallas-based radio station KKDA until 2012), a producer […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • VA ‎– Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4 (Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1971-83)
    VA ‎– Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4 (Experimental German Rock And Ele…
    $50.00 | ,

    This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series, ‘A near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music’ (The [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Andrew Kirschner – Mirror Thru Haze
    Andrew Kirschner – Mirror Thru Haze
    $8.00 |

    Featuring John Olson, Ben Gmetro and TJ Duke Recorded and mixed by Ben Gmetro and AK Mastered by Wyatt Howland Artwork by James Searfoss Layout by Dave Petersen

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nape – Ten Tonne Angel CS (2nd Edition)
    Nape – Ten Tonne Angel CS (2nd Edition)
    $10.00 |

    What 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
  • James Fella & Gabriella Isaac – CCTK Music
    James Fella & Gabriella Isaac – CCTK Music
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    CCTK 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
  • NE 21 – In The Realm of Electricity
    NE 21 – In The Realm of Electricity
    $23.00 | ,

    he 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 [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • NeuGrau – Beneath The Skin
    NeuGrau – Beneath The Skin
    $19.00 | ,

    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • taupe set xl – shadow of venus
    taupe set xl – shadow of venus
    $10.00 |

    What our staff has to say: “There is always a teetering feeling I have with ambient music. I’m on the verge of standing in place as the piece moves past […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
    Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
    $10.00 |

    A recent long-distance virtual studio collaboration between close colleague and fellow traveller Raphael Alvarez of Guatemala/Cuba via North Carolina, and Richard Vergez. Ongue Ditas is a melding [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • M?thersky – Remain In Memory
    M?thersky – Remain In Memory
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    I never was in a punk band. Began music by making slow-paced space racket, solo with old tape loops around 2005. Then Möthersky was conceived, starting as a solo instrumental […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Rawhead Rex – Hand Painted Ghanaian Movie Poster – 40″x34″
    Rawhead Rex – Hand Painted Ghanaian Movie Poster – 40̸…
    $250.00 |

    RAWHEAD REX. A favorite movie of Dan here at the shop. 40″x34″ painted area. Painted on sewn together flour sacks. We leave the excess for you to decide on framing […]

  • Nigel Ayers – Electronic Resistance
    Nigel Ayers – Electronic Resistance
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    What 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, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • A Fail Association – This Will… CS
    A Fail Association – This Will… CS
    $8.00 |

    Round two for the Sheriff of Dada Drumming and mayor of Funkytown, TX, with two brickwall tracks recorded in 2018. The second AFA release for MT coming 16 years after […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
    History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.   Brute rust belt concréte compositions of full spectrum, delicate yet hard-edged crumbling narratives [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
    Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
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    Interlude with Fun Machine relies on textures, patterns, found sounds, presets, rhythm boxes, inversion of background and foreground elements, and the very deadpan sense of humor of Steve Fisk [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Wasteland Jazz Unit – Mind Obscured
    Wasteland Jazz Unit – Mind Obscured
    $9.00 |

    Wasteland Jazz Unit presents a mind-frying monolith of brain-scrambled haze and searing screech bursting forth from the psychic fog of Cincinnati’s Jon Lorenz (sax, electronics) & John Rich [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
    Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
    $12.00 |

    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    $12.00 |

    Recognized 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
  • Warmer Milks – Soft Walks
    Warmer Milks – Soft Walks
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    “…Let’s just say that the year is 2003, and we’re finally meeting the protagonist of this story, a young aspiring post-post-post-punk musician playing guitar (and burning CDRs) in his [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • DJ ARG – 808 Miles High
    DJ ARG – 808 Miles High
    $10.00 |

    From 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 […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • TX Connect – Jerusalem’s Lot
    TX Connect – Jerusalem’s Lot
    $10.00 |

    Dallas techno renegade TX Connect (Gavin Guthrie) delivers on his first EP for Dead Channel. With releases on L.I.E.S., Crème Organization, Medical Records, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, and his [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Endless Decay – Volume One
    Endless Decay – Volume One
    $10.00 |

    Dead Channel is proud to present Endless Decay – Volume 1. A scorching compliation featuring a powerhouse lineup including: DJ VST, Eindkrak, Keith&Kevin, Robert E Livingood, Memory [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Mokre’tzy Konstruktor – Forms
    Mokre’tzy Konstruktor – Forms
    $10.00 |

    Dead Channel is proud to present Forms, a new album, from Mokre’tzy Konstruktor. A monumental mutant minimal synth masterpiece, filled with gnarled electronics and dystopian soundscapes. Based in [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Huevos II – III
    Huevos II – III
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    HUEVOS II — the relatively new, relatively low-profile power trio of Ma Turner, John McGuigan, and Patrick Borezo — began somewhere up east, sometime in the Winter of 2018, and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mark Perry ‎– Snappy Turns
    Mark Perry ‎– Snappy Turns
    $15.00 | ,

    What our staff has to say: “First ever vinyl reissue of Mark Perry’s (of Alternative TV fame) 1980 album, ‘Snappy Turns.’ A classic of the UK DIY scene. If you […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Mata – No Drums No DJs No Saturdays
    Mata – No Drums No DJs No Saturdays
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: October 1, 2016 MATA was a gallery located at 3709 West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Kate Hall – I Did But I Don’t Anymore
    Kate Hall – I Did But I Don’t Anymore
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Kate Hall is a Los Angeles based artist. I Did But I Don’t Anymore is a compilation of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Michael Dopp – Swizzle
    Michael Dopp – Swizzle
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: March 1, 2017 Michael Dopp is a Los Angeles based artist. Swizzle is a collection of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sarah Rara – Earth Breakup
    Sarah Rara – Earth Breakup
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: October 1, 2015 Sarah Rara is a Los Angeles based artist. Earth Breakup is a collection […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Simone Forti – On An Iron Post
    Simone Forti – On An Iron Post
    $25.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: October 1, 2017 Simone Forti is a dancer, artist and writer based in Los Angeles. The […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Matt Lifson – Sleep With Me And A Ghost
    Matt Lifson – Sleep With Me And A Ghost
    $25.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: October 1, 2016 Matt Lifson is a Los Angeles based artist. “Sleep With Me And A […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Emily Joyce – A Cigar Caught In The Lilies
    Emily Joyce – A Cigar Caught In The Lilies
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: April 1, 2019 A Cigar Caught In The Lilies is a book of visual concrete poetry […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Paul McCarthy/Damon McCarthy – Aftermath
    Paul McCarthy/Damon McCarthy – Aftermath
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: April 1, 2019 Aftermath is collection of photographs of all the inanimate objects in the Saloon, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Luke Fischbeck – Beyond Majority Rule
    Luke Fischbeck – Beyond Majority Rule
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: May 1, 2018 Beyond Majority Rule began by surveying how non-hierarchical groups make decisions, with a […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Petra Cortright – E Girl
    Petra Cortright – E Girl
    $15.00 | ,

    Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: March 1, 2021 “This book is a collection of webcam screenshots from videos that were too […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Soft Shoulder – Formerly On Flourescent Paper
    Soft Shoulder – Formerly On Flourescent Paper
    $18.00 | ,

    Formerly on Fluorescent Paper delivers 14 jaunts culled from the artist’s tape soup collage of several generations’ worth of punk and no-wave adjacent music. Be it jagged, angular, short tracks… [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • MattxIbarra – Seventeen (H2L Reissue)
    MattxIbarra – Seventeen (H2L Reissue)
    $25.00 | ,

    Matt Ibarra presents “Seventeen” a double LP working through 6 compositions. Soothing minimalist ambient akin to Loscil or Windy & Carl.

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • John Cage, David Tudor – Musik Im Technischen Zeitalter 1963
    John Cage, David Tudor – Musik Im Technischen Zeitalter 1963
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    In the winter of 1962-63 the writer on music and supporter of contemporary music Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, professor at the Technische Universität in Berlin, ran the international lecture series [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Limbs Bin – Burnt White Elephant CD
    Limbs Bin – Burnt White Elephant CD
    $11.00 |

    Toiling tirelessly among the shadows of the crumbling imperial superstructure, beloved noise hero Limbs Bin emerges in 2021 with a new full-length studio album on Damien Records. Burnt White [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
    Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
    $7.00 | ,

    From 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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Mark Trecka –  Acknowledgment LP
    Mark Trecka – Acknowledgment LP
    $13.00 | ,

    Label 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 [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cryocene – Exclave
    Cryocene – Exclave
    $10.00 |

    “Exclave” is the debut of NYC-based duo Cryocene, comprised of Stefan Aune (Kjostad) and Matt Boettke (Scant). Over the course of 5 tracks Cryocene weave together an ominous landscape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • King Bullard Version: Songs Of The BOS Label
    King Bullard Version: Songs Of The BOS Label
    $9.00 | ,

    On Cleveland’s late ‘60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddie’s lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfield’s robe-wearing roots. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • H.C.O.D – Instruments Of Destiny
    H.C.O.D – Instruments Of Destiny
    $12.00 |

    “55 minute journey into severe necrological territory. Eight heavily layered tracks that don’t attempt to repair the heavily damaged skeletal system. Suffocating industrial noise and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise