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In the glistening wake of that cult Celine Dion tribute and a couple of collaborative albums with Lynch sound designer Dean Hurley, Romance diverts their attention to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s acidic ’75 melodrama ‘The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant’, turning it into a symphonic rumination on love and decayed glamour The...
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Populated with the vocal presences of vocal spars Deedz, 7aleeb, and Lella, ‘The Room’ is a metaphoric synecdoche for Kelesh’s studio output between 2008-2019, featuring 9 tracks of lo-slung but levitating trip hop and illbient that overlaps his productions on the long sold-out ‘Hyperattention: Selected Digital Works...
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Out of stock"This album is really a thank you to my fans tbh I started and finished it In 2018, mixed and mastered it in 2019 right after the Vince tour I don’t usually work on something right after I release a project But Veteran was the first time in my life I worked hard on something, and it was reciprocated back to me So I wanted thank...
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Out of stockRecital present As Above, So Below, a new album from French multi-instrumentalist Delphine Dora Over the past decade, from poetry reading, chansons, organ performances, tape compositions and so on, each album in Dora's lush discography feels like a feather from a different bird A keen ability to defy any singular "sound," always...
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De La Soul’s third studio release, Buhloone Mindstate, released on September 21, 1993, saw the group evolve into a new sound as they continued to grow stylistically and musically There were several moments on the album which proved the band had matured "I Be Blowin'" was a departure as the track was an instrumental featuring...
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Following a banging streak of collaboration albums with the likes of Boldy James and Smoke DZA, as well as his successful On High Alert series, Real Bad Man teams up with one of the most buzzing names in underground hip-hop right now, a true chameleon, Pink Siifu The Birmingham, Alabama native emcee has been shaking the...
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Named for a banned 60’s psychoactive stimulant, Indopan is the splinter entity of Irish producer Andrew Morrison, aka “tape throb” godfather The Cyclist Its sound runs distinct but parallel, a fusion of blasted house and ghosted soul, smeared with dub, breaks, and redline grit Yupana collects nine new tracks for a 50-minute...
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The usual boom-and-bust cycles of growing up -- breaking down, gathering the strength to get up, fumbling hard, doing it all over again - can feel unmooring, to say the least, but, and according to DEBBY FRIDAY, its tragedies and glories need savoring Losing illusions, gaining expectations; getting deep into the private, soupy...
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The city of Belém, in the Northern state of Pará in Brazil, has long been a hotbed of culture and musical innovation Enveloped by the mystical wonder of the Amazonian forest and overlooking the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean, Belém consists of a diverse culture as vibrant and broad as the Amazon itself Amerindians, Europeans,...
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Out of stockHorn of Plenty casts its gaze into the thriving contemporary Belgian underground with Annelies Monseré’s Mares, a remarkable body of experimental compositions that taps the deep well of raw, emotive expression rumbling below numerous traditions of European folk music As a member of Ghent’s experimental music scene, over...
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Out of stockBBE Music continues its highly acclaimed J Jazz Masterclass Series with Kemo Sabe, the debut album from pianist Masao Nakajima Recorded in 1979 on Yupiteru Records, it’s an elusive beast in the field of J Jazz and balances delicate and refined playing with power and vigour The Kemo Sabe album features bassist Osamu Kawakami,...
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An alloy is a mixture of chemical agents which forms a new substance that retains the characteristics of a metal The mechanical properties of alloys often differ significantly from those of its individual constituents It has been more than two years since ShrapKnel’s debut album, during which time the duo of Curly Castro and...
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Out of stockThe second collection album ‘’2nd Collection’’ of the ‘’Hydeout Productions’’ label is released on 2LP Aside from the trend of the modern music industry as a whole, this is the 2nd collection album of the rare independent label ‘’Hydeout Productions’’, which has gained great support from...
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Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “Solitude,” describes a society rooted in the absolute autonomy of the individual In the world she constructs, people do almost everything alone, and they learn to savor this condition through close, deep observation of all the minutiae surrounding them in the woods, the dirt, the sky A favored...
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Out of stockThe Blackpool-raised songbird, guitarist and painter Joanne Robertson is among the most precious artists of her generation Since the 2008 release of her solo debut ‘The Lighter’, produced by General Strike and This Heat’s David Cunningham, Robertson has been a regular collaborator of Dean Blunt, lending her silvery folk lilt...
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Out of stockNew album from Oroskällan,recorded in Gothenburg 2022 Screenprinted covers on re-used old record sleeves (expect some minor defects) Edition of 295 copies Förlag För Fri Musik...
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Bartosz Kruczyński, also known as artist Earth Trax, is arguably among the leading names in Poland's current electronic music scene Based in Warsaw, his music is deeply emotive and explores a wide-ranging sonic palette that is complemented by well-defined artistic concepts He has already featured on labels including Phonica...
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You Can Can is an echoed affirmation, an album which traces song forms around silence, field recordings, and degraded analog memories This is folk music transmogrified and mutated, as if recorded and reconstructed in Pierre Schaffer’s GRM studio Not your typical Mariposa folk duo, the group is comprised of Toronto avant-music...
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Jon Iverson meets Prins Emanuel, Golden Ivy & Inre Kretsen Grupp is an experiment bridging time and space Recorded across decades and continents, the album merges ‘80s American home studio sensibilities with contemporary European kosmische After receiving hours of unreleased material from Jon Iverson’s reel-to-reel...
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Out of stockAs part of the widely respected BBE J Jazz Masterclass Series, Koichi Matsukaze‘s incredibly rare and much sought after album Earth Mother sees a deluxe repress on BBE Music This is the third highly anticipated release in the series Regarded as one of the most sought-after yet elusive albums from a pivotal era in Japanese...
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2023 repress Folk unit originated in the Swedish underground Enhet för Fri Musik - featuring members of Sewer Election, Ättestupa, Neutral, Makthaverskan, and Blod - continually re-invent what music is about through free improvisation and lengthy folk meanderings Embedded in the ever exciting Swedish underground scene, Enhet...
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Album artwork and layout by Troth, with assistance by James Vinci "Troth is unknown colours, mist-soaked dreamscapes, strange misshapen cities belonging to forgotten lands Troth is also a pop duo, though not of the kind nowadays subjugated by the algorithm Forget the Curse is the group’s best demonstration yet that somewhere...
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New album from Blod recorded during the second half of 2022 by Gustaf Dicksson Där Ska Barnet Vara is a continuation of the themes explored on Pilgrimssånger and contains nine more songs dealing with faith in different forms, with a strong presence of death Compared to Pilgrimssånger, the sound is slightly more lo-fi and fucked...
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New limited edition deluxe tri-fold sleeve 3LP set of these legendary recordings A spectacular, and now revised and updated, archival package of primitive drone and minimalist rock/trance/psych from the Swedish underground, believe the hype as follows; one of the most memorable audio documents ever Pitchfork rating 93 “For a...
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A moving and poetic journey that can sound at once coldly electronic, seemingly abstract, and at once heartwarmingly human Holsen’s unique gentle melodies emerge to surface and go hand in hand with Cassiers’ fragile bits of songs and words, offering the listener a lead through an etheric dreamworld Walking in circles by...
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Fly Anakin's debut studio album Frank is out now, and draws influence from the classic R&B and Soul his dad played him as a child, showcasing a gift for songwriting alongside the breathless raps he’s known for Recorded at the same time as FlySiifu’s, it features Pink Siifu on the DJ Harrison produced ‘Black Be The...
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Out of stockOn their fourth album BGM, YMO continued where they left off with X∞ Multiplies, by venturing further into synthesizers, drum computers and experimentation with rhythm, sequences and speeds This album is more focused on atmosphere and mood, some even say this album is a turning point for YMO and the international Pop music...
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Out of stockI Told Bessie is the third solo album from New York City rapper/producer Chaz Hall aka ELUCID The title is a reference to his paternal grandmother, Bessie Hall, a powerful presence in his life until she passed away in 2017 From childhood afternoons running around her apartment in the Red Hook projects, to living under the same...
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Out of stockChurch is the new project from billy woods, produced entirely by longtime Armand Hammer collaborator Messiah Musik The album is a tightly wound exploration of memory and faith, marijuana and fate, the price of love and the cost of doing business Equal parts memoir and sativa-tinged fever dream, Church moves from Jamaica, Queens to...
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Coming full circle, Vålnad Av Fornskog is the fourth and final part in Arv & Miljö's suite of seasonal ambient albums initiated with Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid (Omlott, 2018) and continued with Himmelsvind (Discreet Music, 2020) and Ensam Är Nattens Rymd Över Vita Vägar (Discreet Music, 2021) Heavily inspired by the...
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Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town somewhere in the USA After a comet hits the town, mysterious things starts to happen The Gothenburg-based artist Magnus Jäverling started to develop the concept and story around 2016, which included a scale model of the town and now the culmination of the project; his 10-track debut album...
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Out of stockOn Bridge Variations, the now Stockholm-based English guitarist Jon Collin changes his guitar for a keyed fiddle Mostly recorded to tape under different bridges around Stockholm during 2021, partly for the sound but also because of their importance to the geographical make-up of the place, the album is like a modern take on...
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Out of stockten years in the making, finally the debut album of this belgian sextet with members of Mote, Joe Speedboat and Annelies Monseré arrives Cello, flute, harmonium and violin blend in with the traditional guitar-bass-drums trio – making them land on a unique spot at the crossroad where ancestral doom folk, heady dronerock and...
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Since 2018, BBE Music has been leading the field in reissuing rare modern jazz from Japan’s golden period spanning the late 60s to the early 80s The J Jazz Masterclass Series continues to present the finest in Japanese jazz with 'Planets' by Masaru Imada Trio + 1 Originally released in 1977 as a private press album, 'Planets'...
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Out of stockIn January 2021, Eelco Topper (Felbm) went into hermit mode by way of a two-week residency at Buitenplaats Doornburgh, a former monastery on the outskirts of his hometown of Utrecht, Netherlands He had already intended to use only natural elements for inspiration, such as naturally-occurring textures and patterns, and the...
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Out of stockUlla returns with ‘Foam’, a surprise new album unlocking variants of ambient pop and looped jazz/dub styles coiled inside a glitched matrix that reminds us of Huerco S’ ‘Plonk’ as well as Ekkehard Ehlers fractal treatments and those incredible, smudged and disneyfied edits of Celine Dion released earlier this year by...
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Out of stockThe prolific German musician Christian Schoppik is dropping his second solo record of 2022 under the moniker Läuten der Seele, following up his critically acclaimed self-titled debut album released at the start of the year Once again, 'Die Mariengrotte als Trinkwasseraufbereitungsanlage' (The Mother Mary Grotto as a Drinking...
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Out of stockWe are very happy to present 'Extended Play 1 & 2', a double vinyl compilation of the two latest, masterful EPs from Londoners TOMAGA The first was released on vinyl in 2019 in a limited edition, and today is almost impossible to find The second, released digitally the following year, now has its first vinyl release on this...
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Daniel Avery's most ambitious and accomplished studio album to date, 'Ultra Truth', is out now on limited edition double white vinyl, CD and blue cassette 'Ultra Truth' offers a very different listening experience to any of Daniel Avery’s previous records It inhabits its own world of sound, a construct built in his Thames...
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Moin, Tara Clerkin Trio, Roxane Metayer, TRjj, Pat Benjamin, Valentina Magaletti and many more are snaffled in World of Echo's butterfly net for a lovely 4th year anniversary DIY survey Hoxton-based label and record shop World of Echo have emerged as a vital part of the DIY music landscape during their years in operation since...
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Mahogany Brain forged their unique audio dialect with their debut release, With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger) for the legendary Futura label in 1971 More Avant-Garde than Prog, it spoke to the souls of the dedicated one percenters — such as the ESP Disk set — specifically patrons of The Godz and Cromagnon But in...
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Out of stockSamurai Champloo Music Record: Impression is the fourth soundtrack album in the series of the anime show Samurai Champloo It contains tracks by Nujabes, Force of Nature, Fat Jon and MINMI The lyrics on “Hiji Zuru Style” are written and performed by S-Word and Suiken The lyrics on “Who’s Theme” are written and...
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Out of stockSamurai Champloo Music Record: Departure is a soundtrack album, originally released on June 23, 2004 It is the second of four soundtrack albums released for the show The album was produced by Japanese DJ / producer Nujabes, and American MC/producer Fat Jon, and featured Japanese rapper Shing02 and Japanese singer-songwriter...
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Out of stockAethiopes is billy woods’ first album since 2019’s double feature of Hiding Places and Terror Management The project is fully produced by Preservation (Dr Yen Lo, Yasiin Bey), who delivered a suite of tracks on Terror Management, including the riveting single “Blood Thinner” The two collaborated again on Preservation’s...
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Ride announce details of the reissues of their early classic EPs and albums, embark on a 'Nowhere' 30th anniversary tour and release a live film Ahead of their ‘Nowhere’ 30th anniversary UK tour starting 20th April, shoegaze legends Ride have announced the details of the reissues of their early classic albums via...
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Crack Cloud’s new album Tough Baby is both a clarion call and a life-manual for the listener Unsurprisingly, it is a record with purpose and resolve Nothing is wasted Sometimes the music feels deliberately compressed, the essences extracted and bottled into an overpowering cordial, as on ‘115 At Night’, which sounds like an...
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Lucrecia Dalt is a Colombian recording artist, songwriter, and producer currently based in Berlin, Germany Dalt channels sensory echoes of growing up in Colombia on her eighth studio album ¡Ay!, where the sound and syncopation of Tropical Music encounter adventurous impulse, lush instrumentation, and metaphysical sci-fi...