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Beatitudes is an album of ten instrumental hip-hop tracks inspired by 20th century gospel recordings The cover is a homage to the work of artist Harvey Scott Williams (1927-1987) who painted hundreds of sleeves in the 50s-60s for gospel and jazz albums on Savoy Records and its subsidiary labels Gospel, Regent, and...
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Out of stockSophie’s debut album Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides is released via Transgressive Records The album is the next step in Sophie’s incredible and unorthodox career, following the Product EP and is a bold artistic statement that establishes Sophie as a pioneer of a new pop sound It is sprawling and beautiful, while still...
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Out of stockMindbending Artificial Intelligence-era business from David Moufang (Move D) and Jonah Sharp (Spacetime Continuum), remastered and still sounding like one of the finest records of its time One for anyone thirsty for more longform electro-ambient backroom cloudiness in the vein of B12, 'Incunabula'-era AE, The Black Dog, Speedy J,...
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Set against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent years in recent memory, Greentea and her band The Seng Seng Family retreated to the country last summer where the alchemy of MAN MADE took place, bringing a live element to the album, and chose to record the record in 432 Hz frequency, a pitch that falls a semitone below music...
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Classic DJ Stingray electro torpedoes from 2008 find their target again on his personal label, Micron Audio Just shy of 20 years since we first had our mind and body rewired by Stingray’s DJ set at Autechre’s legendary ATP, the Drexciyan ambassador and peerless electro specialist has, over the decades, risen to become one...
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Mansur Brown returns with the Naqi Mixtape - an LP that combines both Naqi EPs from earlier in the year Side A finds Mansur exploring the influence of ‘00s hip-hop innovator Timbaland and Afrobeats artists like Burna Boy and Wizkid Side B pares things right back: a laid-back set that showcases Brown’s mercurial,...
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Out of stockZaius Tapes opens 2023 with a reissue that few if any would have predicted The Hams’ legendary and elusive sole release was promoted — as an exclusive — through Systematic via the backdoor in the summer of 1987 amidst the distributor’s fog of bankruptcy The Hams’ label, Down And Out, was equally mysterious, having...
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Oslo’s Deathprod (aka Helge Sten) announces Compositions, his new album out January 27th on Smalltown Supersound, and presents its lead single/video, “Composition 1” The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019’s OCCULTING DISK—“a mesmerizing, terrifying, and emotionally nuanced ‘anti-fascist ritual’ of an...
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I have often wondered what exactly the true roots were for Bardo Pond For a band with such a unique sound, where did it all come from In a recent discussion with Michael Gibbons he was quick to tell me that their earliest true influences were Sabbath, free jazz and no wave Using these sounds as the initial seeds, the band...
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The MIDI Janitor is an outsider electronics project conjured up by Jonathan Orr of St Just Vigilantes and produced by Stephen Ramsay of Young Galaxy The character of the MIDI Janitor was imagined as a summer camp janitor in the 80's who secretly made tracks in his supply closet as the kids played capture the flag in the forest...
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A selection of private press 45s featuring Nate Young, John Olson, Alex Moskos, Gretchen Gonzales, Aaron Dilloway & Raven Chacon These collaborations between the core Wolf Eyes crew and friends was originally self-released as a series of super-limited 7” hand painted box sets, but now the core ‘hits’ have been compiled...
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Between 1988 and 2010, Steve Reich composed three string quartets - Different Trains, Triple Quartet and WTC 9/11 Deutsche Grammophon now presents this trilogy of works for the first time on one album, in definitive new recordings from the Mivos Quartet Hailed by The Chicago Reader as "one of America's most daring and ferocious...
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Out of stockScoLoHoFo—the supergroup made up of guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Al Foster—first played together as a band in 1999, but the musicians’ associations stretched back decades and this masterful 2002 album of originals brims with comradery This 2LP stereo Tone Poet Vinyl...
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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket In November 1960, trumpeter Donald Byrd brought his quintet into the Half Not Cafe in New York City to record this soulful, swinging and highly enjoyable live set of hard cop featuring Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone), Duke Pearson (piano), Laymon Jackson (bass) and Lex Humphries...
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Out of stockAcoustic Sounds Series reissues from Verve/Universal Music Enterprises! Mastered by Ryan K Smith at Sterling Sound from the original analog tapes 180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings! Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds This release presents...
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Underground rock festered and splintered as it spread through the US in the mid-’90s, the alternative boom giving rise to microcosmic regional scenes singularly focused on feral powerviolence or screamo songs about breakfast Boston’s Karate emerged as a force that could grip a national youth movement whose disparate tastes...
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Out of stockLIFECYCLES Volumes 1 & 2 : Now! And Forever More Honoring Bobby Hutcherson - Brian Blade - Bobby Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 - August 15, 2016) has been an endless source of inspiration for Brian Blade and the LIFECYCLES band members In honor of Bobby's memory, LIFECYCLES has chosen to record his NOW! Album in it's entirety,...
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Out of stockWelcome to ‘The Yussef Dayes Experience Live At Joshua Tree Presented By Soulection,’ This 5-track EP is inspired by the blissful nature of one of the world’s most iconic nature reserves In collaboration with Soulection, a global music collective, this sonic journey prompts us to ask, “what is more spiritually uplifting...
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Safe Trip is taking one final deep dive into the warm waters of Italian dream house with Welcome To Paradise Volume 3, the concluding chapter in the label’s journey through the previously overlooked world of one of dance music’s most vibrant and influential underground movements While the influence of dream house continues...
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Out of stockYoung Fathers - Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G Hastings - announce details of their brand new album Heavy Heavy Set for release on February 3rd 2023 via Ninja Tune, it’s the group’s fourth album and their first since 2018’s album Cocoa Sugar The 10-track project signals a renewed back-to-basics approach, just the...
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Out of stockDorothy Ashby was probably the greatest—and certainly the most swinging—jazz harpist of all time, re-purposing an instrument best known for ethereal glissandos into a fully versatile voice in combo settings, capable of providing both instrumental embroidery and rhythmic drive But she was always fighting an uphill battle in...
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Zeta Reticula makes his Censor debut with Star’s Wobble EP The A side starts with the EP title track with rushing leads, arps and a distinct energy that ZR is known for, all held together with electronic clangs and atmospheres adding tension to the mix Next is Planet’s surface which has a murkier and tougher sound, jumping...
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Lurka's Fringe White label dishes up the fourth release, keeping up a 'quality, not quantity' ethos and following the Lurka X Batu collabos with this bumping club tekkers from Facta, backed up with two tripped out reworks from Alexander Berg, aka Dorisburg Ditto, and it's subsequent remixes present a slight shift in rhythm from...
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Expanding on the blueprint of previous releases, Trieste-born, London-based producer Sohrab is the Kalahari clan’s latest inductee OYSTER43 is a distillation of the Italian producer’s stylistic scope in its purest form; impeccably crafted dance music with a healthy dose of prog Running deep with this one Smartly refined...
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A breath of fresh air for Animalia, as the label floats into its next release with a breezy, house tinged EP, tinged with the scent of summer and euphoria Emerging new local Melbourne/ Naarm producer Billus reveals his knack for groove and percussive eloquence in Shifting Sands, with four lighthearted, spaced out tracks...
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Out of stockdgoHn reappears in AF with this 4-tracker EP called "Portus", a dreamy exercise in fast/slow rhythms, atmospheric drumfunk, IDM and experimental electronica Un-bloody-missable New music from John Cunnane is always exciting, surely one of the modern scene's most forward-thinking artists After the brilliant "Undesignated Remixes" in...
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Galvanica: a voice with unusual qualities, refined, balanced, also high-pitched, sensual, embellished by an orgasmic inspiration with fluid and spaced solos in hypnotic rhythms that often change scenery ‘Nightlights in Japan’: an extraordinary piece of pure and profound creativity where each version seems to have been built...
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Out of stockDrum & bass of the highest quality to celebrate the 10th Beyond Electronix...
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One of New York's early pioneers of techno and DJ culture, Reade Truth has been an integral part of the cities' techno history His first of over two dozen releases came out in 1994 on the Brooklyn underground acid label, Direct Drive Since then, his releases have made many a mark on labels like Planet E, Strictly Rhythm,...
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“Habibi”: incredible Egyptian-influenced Italo piece with Arabic vocals Many typical elements of the ‘Italo-Disco’ era give the song a very friendly and reassuring mood, especially the (probably) Linndrum beat with tom fills and tambourine, alternating bass, a sequencer emphasizing the eights, and strings- However, a...
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Some sort of low slung house tracks with a twist from the unpredictable and unparalleled brain that roams the dunes of the Hague Responsible for Dickie Smabers & The Moerwijk crew, Nacho Patrol, Gladio and a swath of other mysterious and inscrutable aliases This one comes straight from his private rave cave Hermit in a Rave...
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Out of stockAdam Pits bows down to the cosmos and bears witness across the super-technical 'Cosmic Confession' EP for his Craigie Knowes debut A record for the DJs packed with sounds that work throughout the movement of the night Time to confess Cosmic Confession by Adam...
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Dream_E joins Craigie Knowes for the first time under his current moniker Dream_E and Craigie Knowes are connected back to the label's inception through Sandy's series of The Burrell Connection releases Euphoria, nostalgia and memory are woven into Dream_E's productions Motherland is an ode to the artist and label's life long...
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Gen-Y delivers a second release on Clone Records, mixing up styles and vibes casually! On this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Saturn Flow EP from 2021, the journey continues and boils up some steaming tracks! On the opener „Dreamboy 10th Version (interstellar Love)'', Estonian singer Maryn E Coote’s vocals take the...
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Three more iconic Parallel 9 dub-techno classics from the Steve Rachmad archives re-issued on the Delsin Sterac series Originally released in 1996 on Prime, now re-mastered Track order is shuffled a bit, as it turned out the full 10 minutes version of Quanah was shortened in 1996 It was through the preparation of this re-issue...
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Out of stockUnreleased space synth sessions from Split, Yugoslavia, 1985 by disco maestro Nenad Vilović (Grupa ST, Mladi Batali, etc) From the original master tapes and with exclusive artwork by Eric Adrian Lee Mastered by Antony Ryan (RedRedPaw Mastering Denmark) In the golden era of pop music in Yugoslavia, Split had a special place The...
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Unreleased instrumental versions from the original master tapes A collection of 1980's music for aerobics and fitness craze in Yugoslavia inspired by Jane Fonda The phenomena of exercise tapes and albums started officially in Yugoslavia in 1983, Jane Fonda’s book was heavily promoted and published in local edition Famous...
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Originally released on Axis records Moonlight Serenade Year 3036, the Third Empire of Human spans hundreds of star systems, only accessible by a faster-than-light spaceship No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien The probe is traced to the...
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While they are best known for working alongside some of the most recognizable names in jazz, Jazz Is Dead now invites you to meet an innovator that has largely gone unheard of, until now In the early 1970s, Garrett Saracho was a recording artist signed to the legendary Impulse Records, who came up in Los Angeles’ fertile...
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Out of stockThe now legendary Jóhann Jóhannsson score to Panos Cosmatos’ “Mandy” is finally back in stock on a new vinyl colour for 2022 Translucent violet variant The vinyl is housed in a beautiful deluxe gatefold sleeve with printed insert, UV spot gloss finish and paper band wrap with tracklist These have been lovingly...