New Releases
Various Artists”Hot Wax” (Be With)
Hot Wax is an assured KPM masterclass from a dream team line-up of Brian Bennett, Alan Hawkshaw and John Fiddy. Here we’re treated to what happens when all three decide to explore “the latest trends in production music”. The latest as of ...
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Nick Ingman “Distinctive Themes/Race To Achievement” (Be With)
Released in 1976, Distinctive Themes / Race To Achievement is legendary arranger Nick Ingman exploring the two distinct ideas of “impressive themes varying in style from ‘Basie to Elgar’” and “a study in the pressure and rewards of achievement”. Distinctive ...
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Keith Mansfield & John Cameron “Voices in Harmony” (Be With)
Voices In Harmony was released in 1973 as “a selection of contemporary pop titles featuring voices, brass and rhythm”. We choose to describe this collection of works by Keith Mansfield and John Cameron as “a string-laced, harmony-drenched KPMclassic”. From the bright, ...
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Beatles “White Album” (Apple)
Double 180-gram LP vinyl set featuring the new stereo album mix Packaging faithful to the original album. In November 1968, millions of double LPs were shipped to record stores worldwide ahead of that tumultuous year’s most anticipated music event: the ...
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Beatles “White Album” (Apple)
4LP/Deluxe Edition In November 1968, millions of double LPs were shipped to record stores worldwide ahead of that tumultuous year’s most anticipated music event: the November 22nd release of The Beatles (soon to be better known as ‘The White Album’). With their ...
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Brian Bennett & Alan Hawkshaw “Synthesis” (Be With)
The “vivid contemporary sounds for a fresh visual image” make up the now canonized Synthesis from Alan Hawkshaw and Brian Bennett. These two greats go deeper than usual on this collection, and the end result is a synth concept record ...
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Francis Coppieters “Piano Viberations” (Be With)
Piano Viberations’ “small group jazz featuring piano and vibes with rhythm” makes for a gorgeous Francis Coppieters showcase, surely one of Belgium’s best-kept musical secrets. Released in 1975, and arguably the most low-key of the KPM and Themes records we’re re-issuing, this ...
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Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw & David Snell “Big Business” (Be With)
The two sides of 1973’s Big Business / Wind of Change are mainly the work of the great Keith Mansfield but there’s a killer cameo each from Alan Hawkshaw and David Snell to help deliver “a thematic suite, diverse in ...
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Craft “White Noise And Black Metal” (Season of Mist)
CRAFT return to strike terror once again with their long-awaited new album 'White Noise and Black Metal'. Their first new album in over seven years, 'White Noise and Black Metal' sees the notorious and highly influential Swedish black metal band ...
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Charlatans “Wonderland” (Universal)
Not since it first appeared on vinyl in 2001 has The Charlatans’ 7th studio album ‘Wonderland’ been readily available, now almost after an 18 year absence ‘Wonderland’ has been re-pressed on 2 x 180g vinyl featuring original artwork and indie ...
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Charlatans “Up At The Lake” (Universal)
Up At The Lake is the eighth studio album from Indie pioneers The Charlatans - which pretty much went under the radar upon its release in 2004 and is, still today, one of the more undiscovered and rewarding albums by ...
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Alpha & Omega “King And Queen” (Partial)
With Alpha & Omegas second album King And Queen you can hear the distinctive A&O sound developing with tracks like Pure and Clean, Rasta Woman, The Lions' Den, Majesty and King & Queen. Also it features the first A&O track with Eastern ...
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Tubby Hayes “What Is This Thing Called Love” (Acrobat)
"This is the first vinyl LP release from the Acrobat label, and it features, unreleased 'live' recording from 1969 by one of the greatest of all British jazzmen, tenor saxophonist Tubby Hayes, performing at one of London's most popular jazz ...
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Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” (Sub Pop)
After 3 albums and ten years of touring and recording, The Helio Sequence (Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel) have recorded their most dynamic, extraordinary work to date. Keep Your Eyes Ahead marries the Portland duo’s signature layered keyboards and impossibly big guitars with crisp ...
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J Mascis “Elastic Days” (Sub Pop)
Elastic Days was recorded at J’s own Bisquiteen studio. Mascis does almost all his own stunts, although Ken Miauri (who also appeared on Tied to a Star) plays keyboards and there are a few guest vocal spots. These include old mates Pall ...
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Heather Leigh “Throne” (Editions Mego)
On Throne, Heather Leigh takes her place as queen of pedal steel with a suite of heart-rending ballads cauterized with burning riffs. After the rawness of its precursor I Abused Animal (SOMA 023LP, 2015), Throne is a record of late night Americana and heavy femininity; intimate love ...
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Merzbow & Genesis P Orridge “A Perfect Pain” (Cold Spring)
180 gram vinyl; Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics; Includes download code. Repressed; 1999 release. A Perfect Pain is a manifestation of the incredible power created by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Psychic TV/Throbbing Gristle) -- the founding father of the industrial world, and Merzbow -- the undisputed ...
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Koray Kantarcioglu “Loopworks” (Discrepant)
Doing what Leyland Kirby, William Basinski, Philip Jeck or Stephan Mathieu did to old shellac 78s, vinyl ephemera and tape, Koray Kantarcıoğlu turns ’60s and ‘70s Turkish records into spellbinding webs of crackle and ghostly harmonic structure, offering acres for ...
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Ursula Bogner “1969-1988” (Faitiche)
Faitiche is ten years old. October 2008 saw the release of Ursula Bogner - Recordings 1969-1988, for which the label was created. While working as a pharmacist, Ursula Bognerexperimented with electronic music, undiscovered, for over three decades. When Jan Jelinek first heard Bogner's work ...
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Sisters Love “With Love” (Get On Down)
"Motown's First Ladies of Funk finally release their vinyl debut, some 45 years after it was originally scheduled! As the '70s dawned and Motown relocated to the West Coast, the era of their honey-toned '60s girl groups came to a ...
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Ron Morelli “Disappearer” (Hospital Productions)
The Disappearer story is an abstract and conflicted one, loosely based around moral codes handed down through generations, reinterpreted, debated and enforced, followed and broken. What happens when a threat is posed? Is the answer diluted to the simple fact of survival ...
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Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement “Red Ants Genesis” (Hospital Productions)
Low Jack and Equiknoxx join Dominick Fernow's Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement on a new double vinyl expansion of Red Ants Genesis, originally issued on limited cassette in 2018. Recorded in winter 2017, Red Ants Genesisfinds the Hospital Productions boss discovering strength in collaboration following the triumph of his classic Ambient ...
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Dan Kye “Joy, Ease, Lightness” (Rhythm Section International)
In the past two years, Jordan Rakei has immersed himself in the London scene, winning plaudits from countless tastemakers and thousands of fans along the way. For a musician so unconstrained by style, one moniker would never suffice. Enter Dan Kye, Rakei's stripped-back ...
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Grad_U “Balance” (Pro-Tez)
Balance EP contains two powerful dub-techno tracks perfect for the dance floor and smoky rooms. Grad_U is a musician and DJ based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Since 2005 he has focused on the deeper side of techno. He has released tracks and remixes for ...
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