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Pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim ( formerly known as “Dollar Brand“) has long ranked among South Africa’s giants alongside Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the late Kippie Mokoetsi. A master of improvisation with a distinctive African edge, the exiled Cape Town musician has developed a musical style over the past 30 years...
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"While best known for crafting opulent deep house since the early ‘90s, Soichi Terada is here found in far more rambunctious jungle and hardcore form matching the energy of a computer game first released in 1999. The styles are all very much in step with the likes of the Wipeout...
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Audiopile Review: Keplar is doing a phenomenal job of getting early-2000s glitch classics back into print. It was only a matter of time before the label turned its attention to Osaka’s Tujiko Noriko. And here’s a reissue of 2003’s ‘From Tokyo to Naiagara’. During the noughties, Tujiko was extremely productive,...
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Happy End's second album, the timeless masterpiece "Kazemachi Roman" released on colored vinyl (clear) for the first time! Latest 2023 cutting from the original master. Pressed at Sony's Shizuoka factory....
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This reissue features the original album, now on 2xLP for improved sound, along with the band’s pre-Sub Pop, self-titled EPs (released in 2003 and 2004), both of which are making their vinyl debut. The package also includes the previously unreleased track “Snakes on the Ladder” from the Apologies sessions. The...
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Audiopile Review: Astrid Sonne, the Danish-born, London-based experimental composer, has deviated from the path of her prior three albums and landed with this extraordinary and idiosyncratic vision of pop music. While those previous albums (also new in stock this week) explored the textural collision between her eerie viola work, haunted...
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Audiopile Review: Huuuuge new comp from the blessed souls over at Blank Mind, taking us on a deep dive into the cushier end of the breakneck strains of UK techno during its ascendent ’91-94 period. The producers here, most of them well kept secrets or favourites of the connoisseur, sprung...
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Available on vinyl for the first time since its original release 50 years ago, the downtempo-funk extravaganza People & Love is a crate-digger's treasure chest, filled with soul-jazz grooves and mesmerizing vibraphone textures laid down by Johnny Lytle, who was touted as "the greatest vibes player in the world" by...
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‘Anomi’ is Sonja Tofik’s first full-length LP, and a continuation of her debut ‘Neuros’. Anomi is the Swedish word for the sociological term anomie, first coined by french sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1893. Described as ‘the condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals’, he suggested that for...
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Taken from Boomkat: "Bit of a special one this; described as an avant-pop supergroup involving “serious legends”, Princ€ss land a strong debut album of modified shoegaze x ambient chamber musick slotted somewhere between Hysterical Love Project, Kevin Shields, A.R. Kane and Astrid Sonne, and tipped if yr on the spectrum between...
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Audiopile Review: We were not completely shocked last year when it was announced that André 3000’s debut album would be a jazz record. Considering his notable appearance on Carlos Niño’s collaborative album last year, (I’m Just) Chillin’, On Fire, alongside random public appearances playing his flute to passersby, this move,...
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Audiopile Review: Mind-blowing live set from Alice Coltrane at the height of her powers, recorded just after the release of her landmark Journey In Satchidananda. Featuring the jaw-dropping lineup of Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Garrison, Cecil McBee, among others, Alice Coltrane leads the group through the first two tracks...
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Audiopile Review: Marcus Brown, the unique voice and producer behind the Nourished by Time moniker, is back with his XL Recordings debut to prove that the explosive success of 2023’s "Erotic Probiotic 2" wasn't a one time deal. Much like its predecessor, "Catching Chickens" forges elements of 90s R&B, pop,...
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Titanic debut album Vidrio is the collaboration between composer I la CatoIica (Hector Tosta) and Guatemalan experimentalist Mabe Fratti.
One could call Vidrio a jazz hybrid record, though once upon a time this music would have been called postmodern; an answer to pop's pre-packaged form, adopting maybe more classical structures to...
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Tierra Whack is a premiere rapper, musician and visual artist who is returning to the scene after a two-year gap in new releases. With collaborations with artists such as Beyoncé, Alicia Keys and Lil Yachty, Tierra has become a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. Her highly...
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Audiopile Review: Moor Mother has really made a name for herself in recent years. She’s worked with everyone from post-rap demi-god Billy Woods to industrial beatmaker The Bug to contemporary jazz band Irreversible Entanglements. Along the way, she’s formed a wild, noisy conception of hip-hop’s future into something that slaps pretty-damn...
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Over atmospheric instrumentation expanded by cinematic structure and pacing, Pearlty presents Knifeplay somewhere between dream-pop influenced shoegaze and lofty slowcore, never fully committing to one or the other in its insistence on creating an immersive, organic world.
Originally released in 2019, Knifeplay’s vivid debut Pearlty documents songwriter Tj Strohmer’s expressions of...
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The solo debut by Canadian indie icon Dan Boeckner - of Wolf Parade, Operators, Divine Fits, Handsome Furs - is filled with lively, catchy rock that calls to mind The Cars or David Bowie. Boeckner understands the grit and gravel that accumulates in the heart and that it takes an...
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Audiopile Review: Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon has long been one of the coolest people in rock. On her second solo album, ‘The Collective’ she reaches Dean Martin levels of cool melting into sheer ennui. The opening single ‘BYE BYE’ is essentially just her reciting a packing list over some distorted...
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Audiopile Review: Bellofatto & Gentile is a newly minted duo made up of Dan Gentile and Jesse Edwards, the latter of whom had an excellent cassette on Pacific Rhythm last year under his C-Thru guise. That cassette was in heavy rotation here in the Audiopile office, and some further digging into...
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Audiopile Review: More ghostly atmospherics from Gothenburg duo Arv & Miljö, who first issued this as a CDr a couple years back, now extended and slightly reworked for this vinyl pressing. The album is centred around samples taken from actions and documentaries of Earth First and Earth Liberation Front, two...
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Audiopile Review: After her appearance on Music From Memory’s now classic Outro Tempo comp, Optimo Music was quick to reissue this 1988 album from Maria Rita album in full, though it instantly went OOP and has remained so ever since. Once again, Mr Bongo comes to the rescue of yet...
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As the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series hits its 19th title, the milestone is suitably matched by a collaboration between two giants of jazz brought together to deliver an exceptional album, working with a band of the very best Japanese jazz musicians.
‘Reminicent Suite’ by American pianist Mal Waldron and...
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Cut in an all-analogue chain by Frank Merritt The Carvery Studio. When BGP inherited the honour of looking after the Flying Dutchman legacy we discovered that, as well as being almost unparalleled in his discovery of great talent, Bob Thiele also recorded it immaculately. The label’s master tapes sounded exceptional...
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Includes 3 new studio recordings: "Here It Comes," "So Much Beauty In Dirt" and "Three Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters." Also includes "The Air," which is a remix of previously recorded songs crafted into one.
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Here is the debut, self-titled album from Schatterau, a Hamburg and Berlin-based three-piece consisting of Daniel Jahn, Jonas Meyer and Tobias Rutkowski.
Having dug out their old 4-track cassette recorder, the group turned it into their primary instrument, spending many hours exploring textures, creating countless tape loops and weaving them into...
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Originally released in 1962, jazz multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef’s “Eastern Sounds” fuses hard bop with middle eastern music as he is joined by Barry Harris on piano alongside Ernie Farrow (double bass, rabaab) and Lex Humphries (drums). This reissue features remastered audio from the original master tapes and is available on...
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Solid State Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic trio Yellow Magic Orchestra. A synthetic cornucopia featuring compelling sounds across their unique electronic palette. Compositions are key here in direct contrast to the sounds of their German counterparts of the same era. Never released in the US, Solid State...
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Alice Coltrane remains a singular figure on the fringe of American music but her appeal is growing. While Coltrane's music is gaining wider acceptance there is an entire era of her recorded output that remains obscure, almost as if by design. Her four self-published, devotional albums of the eighties and...
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With Gentle Confrontation, Loraine's third album for Hyperdub, she lets us into a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present. She says this is the record a teenage Loraine would like to have made, with musical tendencies that reflect that time,...
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We've all experienced earworms - those phrases or riffs that spiral through your head for an eternity, materializing when you least expect it. On 'Models', Brummie producer Lee Gamble lets these sonic spectres inform a suite of illusory anthems, subliming vulnerable, half-remembered fragments of dream pop, Soundcloud rap and trance...
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Lo-fi, low budget, and low key, The American Analog Set’s suite of hypnotic, neo-psychedelic, Texas sloth-kraut LPs appeared briefly on Austin’s Emperor Jones label and slunk quietly into the sprawling indie underground as the old millennium crested. Gathered here are The Fun Of Watching Fireworks, From Our Living Room To...
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Kali Malone's anticipated new album "All Life Long" is a collection of music for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet composed by Kali Malone, 2020 - 2023. Choral music performed by Macadam Ensemble and conducted by Etienne Ferschaud at Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-L'Immaculée-Conception in Nantes. Brass quintet music performed by Anima Brass...
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"He is unmatchable in flow, delivery, and voice. Danny Brown has all the tools to be the greatest working rapper." -PITCHFORK Atrocity Exhibition is one of the freshest and boldest-sounding rap albums in recent memory, a sonic swirl inspired by the work of Talking Heads and Joy Division that nonetheless...
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Released in 1980 while Yellow Magic Orchestra was enjoying its first wave of mega-success, B-2 Unit was Ryuichi Sakmoto’s second full length solo effort. Contrasting with the pop-oriented works Sakamoto was doing with YMO at the time, B-2 Unit was produced with a focus on sounds and tones rather than...
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Sad Disco is excited to present the first ever vinyl release of POiSON GiRL FRiEND’s debut album, Melting Point.
This gorgeous dream pop record features vibrations from the latin-tinged New Romanticism of the ‘80s and electronic sambas that speak of the influence of early Les Disques du Crépuscule discographies. It is...
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Trystero comprises Scottish/Luxembourgish producer Thomas Lea Clarke (aka MR TC) and Low Bat, otherwise known as one half of the formidable duo Jean-Luc. Their debut album, Sfumare e Vedere, was conceived over three days aboard Urban Boat, a 1960s barge transformed into an arts and performance space. Moored along the...
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Presented here is Happy End's eponymous third album that was originally released in 1973 on Bellwood Records. Happy End was a Japanese folk rock band, which existed between 1970 and 1973. The band's pioneering avant-garde sound is highly revered, and they are considered to be one of the most influential...
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Audiopile Review: New EP from Ben Bondy’s k2dj pseudonym, who sidesteps his usual vaporous experimental/ambient proceedings —issued on shop faves like 3XL, Quiet Time Tapes, West Mineral, Good Morning Tapes—for, well, a set of vaporous experimental pop, marking a new parallel direction from the prolific producer. Utilizing a particularly faded and...
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H31R (pronounced heir/air) is an experimental electronic hip hop duo composed of New Jersey producer/composer JWords and Brooklyn rapper/vocalist maassai.
Blending together their worlds, new album ‘HeadSpace’ due for release on Friday 17th November via Big Dada, creates an enigmatic but complementary sonic experience that pushes the fickle boundaries of genre....
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Originally released in 2013 on Tri Angle Records. This is the new double LP version on Archaic Devices. Archaic Devices is a new label founded by Bobby Krlic, aka The Haxan Cloak. It will serve as the home for his future releases as The Haxan Cloak alongside reissues of his...
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Dreamland is the debut studio album by Robert Miles. Originally released on 7 June 1996 to critical acclaim. The US version of the album which the NAD release replicates features the single “One and One” with Maria Nayler on vocals.
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The music heard on this album was originally the result of a commission to score the second half of the film Nico/Nico Crying made by Andy Warhol in 1966. The commission was made by Art Cinema OFFoff in collaboration with B.A.A.D.M for a screening of the film together with a...
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Originally formed in Seattle in 1992, Sunny Day Real Estate featured Nate Mendel on bass (now doing time with the Foo Fighters), William Goldsmith on drum (original touring drummer for the foos'), Dan Hoerner on guitar and vocals and Jeremy Enigk on lead...
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trip9love...??? is the third album from Tirzah, produced by long-time musical collaborator Mica Levi. It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent. After several recording sessions over roughly a year, eventually the music suddenly came into a sound that they...
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Honeyed and screwed, this one carries thru a long tradition of spiky, anti-establishment expression, augmented by MJB’s genius production and Samizdat's blunted - almost slurred - vocal delivery; mystical, itchy and red-eyed. The duo embody a deviant aesthetic, but guide you thru their narcotic vapours with ease. Like some screwed...
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Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones) is the stolen and leaked album now officially released on vinyl. It is without doubt, one of the most joyous, shape shifting pop albums of the last 30 years. It's an album that twist and turns and radiates colours and hooks. Every listen reveals another layer...
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"Culled from half a decade of home four-tracking, Remote Echoes is a hissy, crumbly, and ungrounded expression of Clay Parton and Canaan Amber’s ongoing Duster project.
A mix of cassette only demos released under the banners Christmas Dust and On The Dodge, this 14 track album also includes a bevy of...
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