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Audiopile Review: Nearly lost to time, the short-live San Jose outfit Ozean only issued a three track cassette in 1993 and played two live shows. The cassette may have been a nearly forgotten footnote in shoegaze if it wasn’t for Moon Sounds Records, who reissued the cassette as a 12”...
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Audiopile Review: Debut vinyl release for Daniel Aged, the in-demand studio musician who has amassed some crazy credits over the past few years, contributing to albums for the likes of Kelela, Frank Ocean, Yves Tumor, and FKA Twigs. He also came up alongside Sam Gendel in the LA improv/jazz/electronic scene,...
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Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. The album sold very poorly in the United States (Rodriguez was himself an unknown in the US), but managed to sell well in both South Africa...
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Either/Or is widely regarded as Elliott’s best album, and remains his best-selling. To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of this masterpiece, Kill Rock Stars proudly presents Either/Or: Expanded Edition. This album features the original tracks carefully remastered from original tapes under the supervision of Larry Crane, owner of Jackpot!...
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1998 debut album from the French postmodernist duo. Air raid every aspect of retro pop music, from the sublime to the ridiculous, in fashioning their sonic bricolage. Everything from Krautrock-inspired electronics to 1960s lounge music is incorporated into the work of Nicolas Godin and J.B. Dunckel. Moon Safari earned massive...
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Incesticide is a compilation album by the American rock band Nirvana. It consists of their 1990 non-album single "Sliver", B-sides, demos, outtakes, cover versions, and radio broadcast recordings, and as such is not the official follow-up to the band's breakthrough album, Nevermind.
The album was released on December 14, 1992, in...
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The acclaimed 1998 album featuring Chan Marshall backed by two-thirds of the Dirty Three (the two-thirds that don't play violin). A breathtakingly beautiful, hypnotic record. If Cat Power were Van Morrison, this would be her "Astral Weeks."...
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Superunknown is the fourth studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994, through A&M Records. Five singles were released from the album: "The Day I Tried to Live", "My Wave", "Fell on Black Days", "Spoonman", and "Black Hole Sun", the latter two of which won Grammy...
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Several months after releasing their first album, The Smiths issued this collection of singles and rarities, several of which are BBC versions of songs from their debut. The Smiths treated singles as individual entities, not just ways to promote an album, and therefore many of there finest songs were never...
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New Order formed in Manchester, U.K. in 1980, rising from the ashes of Joy Division after lead singer Ian Curtis' tragic suicide. Guitarist Bernard Sumner took over on vocals, and with drummer Stephen Morris, bassist Peter Hook and keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, the group became one of the biggest British acts...
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Gang of Four was formed in Leeds in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music that inverted punk's blunt and explosive energies – favoring tense rhythms, percussive guitars, and lyrics that traded in Marxist theory...
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One of the greatest, heaviest, and most sought-after guitar records from 1970s West Africa, available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade!!!
Bamako, Mali, 1973: Rail Band, the official orchestra of the Malian state railway, drops their self-titled LP. It’s a relentlessly soulful and hypnotic blend of American...
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Congo Funk!, Analog Africa’s long-awaited journey to the musical heart of the African continent, presents fourteen funky, hypnotic and schizophrenic tunes from the 1970s, meticulously distilled from an initial selection of around 2000. The double LP compilation showcase the many facets of the Congolese capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, uniting veterans...
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Special edition double LP that includes remastered versions of both the original 1973 David Bowie mixand the 1997 Iggy Pop mix. Gatefold cover, includes a 16-page booklet.
Raw Power is the third studio album by American rock band The Stooges (credited as Iggy and the Stooges). It was released on February...
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The classic 1991 Steady Diet of Nothing album from FUGAZI. Eleven awesome tracks....
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Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is the eighth studio album by the American experimental rock band Sonic Youth, originally released in 1994 by DGC Records. It was produced by Butch Vig and recorded at Sear Sound studio in New York City, the same studio where the band's 1987...
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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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Audiopile Review: While many of Dozzy’s previous solo outings relied on conceptual ideas, Magda is a return to the sprawling sound he perfected with his Voices From The Lake duo alongside Neel. Clearly paying homage to the world-building of the German kosmiche pioneers, Dozzy treats us to his version of...
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Audiopile Review: You might remember Wrecked Lightship from ‘Antiposition’, their Peak Oil album that we highlighted a little while back. Well, here they are again with a new vinyl edition of an album that predates ‘Antiposition’. To refresh your memory, Wrecked Lightship is an exploratory beat-making duo featuring dubstep legend...
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Audiopile Review: Bless, bless, bless Warp Records for enabling this ongoing reissue series which mines the copious vaults of Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound label. The many post-punk-dub-reggae projects helmed by Sherwood sound as primal and futuristic as they did a few decades ago. This latest set of reissues focuses on...
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Released in 1968 on America’s coolest label Elektra Records, Nico’s sophomore solo release The Marble Index was an instant avant-garde masterpiece. Nico’s haunting voice and droning harmonium predicted the Gothic movement and John Cale’s startlingly modern classical production ensured the album’s timeless appeal. Re-mastered from the original tapes....
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1970’s Desertshore, like much of Nico’s early work, has grown in stature with the passing of time. Hardly a pop album, the material stands alongside Chelsea Girl as some of her most accessible work, winning fans as diverse as Throbbing Gristle, Morrissey, Marc Almond, and Björk. Audio has been...
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Remastered edition of a compilation of Stereolab singles and rarities, first issued in 1998. Screenprinted gatefold sleeve. Includes download card. Reissued alongside new vinyl editions of the companion volumes Switched On, Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2], and a CD anthology of all 3 volumes....
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"Heroin Man stands as both the chronological center of the Cherubs catalog, and it's defining moment. As one of noise rock's finest moments, Heroin Man is both a delicate, tragic statement and send-off to a friend who had OD'd, and a bellowing, roaring, over-amped screwball masterpiece of Butthole Surfers mayhem...
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Kindred labels Animalia and NAFF co-release a collaborative project by Priori and Cousin.
Seamlessly bridging the artists’ individually honed styles, Numina displays four carefully crafted, beautifully understated, ultra-deep tracks that oscillate between club workouts and bass meditations. Hi-def and tripped to the core, this is dub for complex organisms....
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Congo’s turbulent and exhilarating ‘70s: Nightclubs and dance floors were packed to the brim in the capital, Kinshasa. The whole continent was submerged into the Congolese Rumba craze. Encouraged by the fantastic productions of the Ngoma label, vibrant radio waves had been spreading the Congo sound from Leopoldville all over...
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When global bass music matriarch Mary Anne Hobbs recently told The Fader "Flying Lotus, for me,is like the Hendrix of his generation", it seemed more than an audacious opinion, and with the arrival of Cosmogramma, it's revealed as a revelation. In the past couple of years since his debut album,...
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Audiopile Review: Guitarist Bill Orcutt is hard to pin down. Even ‘guitarist’ fails to cover it, as Orcutt is also renowned for his advanced computer music skills. In the ‘90s, he played face-melting noise rock with Harry Pussy. More recently, he’s emerged as a next-level acoustic improviser. And so much...
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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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Between 1988 and 1991 – during the band’s 4AD years – Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for John Peel and one for Mark Goodier. Catching the raw energy of the band’s live performances, these sessions felt immediately noteworthy, timestamping a moment when Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey...
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Audiopile Review: A lot ‘90s UK post-rock heroes have been coming out of the woodwork recently. Heck, we even got a deluxe reissue of Moonshake’s era defining ‘Eva Luna’ (an essential purchase in case you do not already have it). But Mark Van Hoen never went away. Back in the...
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Brainwaltzera gets the remix treatment from stalwart of UK underground music, Peshay, alongside alternate versions of original material. Taking on "Medal Headz [ G.B. D. F.]," lifted from the recent Brainwaltzera LP Itsame, British drum and bass producer Peshay turns in a driving remix in a classic UK style. Rolling...
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Double vinyl reissue of Skullflower's epochal IIIrd Gatekeeper album -- the first time that this album has been available on vinyl for 30 years. In addition to the original LP this definitive and expanded edition includes extra and unreleased tracks taken from the recording sessions. For the first time all...
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Audiopile Review: Norwegian imprint Jazzagression follow up their two recent albums from Greg Foat and Misha Panfilov with this striking debut from the Leeds-based Mu Quintet. Moving away from the faux-library styles of Foat & Panfilov, Summit is in line with the modal sound that we’re more familiar with from the...
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Mark K. Nelson is a composer/performer living and working in Chicago. He was previously a member/founder of the musical collectives 'Labradford' and 'Anjou'.
Kramer is a composer/performer/filmmaker and the founder of Shimmy-Disc. He is also the producer of numerous seminal recordings by some of the most renowned indie artists of our...
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Pod is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band the Breeders, released by 4AD records on May 29, 1990. Engineered by Steve Albini, the album features band leader Kim Deal on vocals and guitar, Josephine Wiggs on bass, Britt Walford on drums, and Tanya Donelly on guitar. Albini's...
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Slint's 1991 album, Spiderland, remastered from the original analog master tapes by our friend Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. This is the same version as was included in the Spiderland (remastered) Box Set.
A classic album from 1991 that still defines post rock, and has never been bettered. Although this...
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The Beach Boys’ iconic 1966 album, Pet Sounds, is universally hailed as one of popular music’s most important recordings of all time. This very special pressing comes to you on Coke Bottle Clear vinyl. Pet Sounds is remastered in Stereo with faithfully replicated original artwork....
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Straight from the "Slums of Shaolin" thirty years ago on November 9, 1993, The RZA, The GZA, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon The Chef, Ol' Dirty Bastard, U-God, Masta Killa, Method Man and Ghostface Killah released their classic debut album Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).
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Audiopile Review: Always a pleasure to make a local release album of the week. Not something we’d do from the goodness of our hearts. Record store people. We’re simply not that nice. When will you learn? But ‘Imerro’, the latest LP from Caton Diab, is more than deserving of its place...
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Dry Cleaning will reissue their first two EPs, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks / Sweet Princess, on 8 March 2024. Remastered to celebrate the release, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess will be pressed as one single vinyl. The former will be available on cassette for the first...
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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: Sandwell District forged the menacing edge of post-punk, the subterranean pulse of Basic Channel and the militaristic force of classic Detroit techno into a codified sound that pulled in fans from across the musical spectrum. For some, including a few of us here, they launched a newfound interest...
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Audiopile Review: In operation for the past decade, the Peak Oil imprint got an immediate profile bump after issuing several of the now sought after albums of finely tuned minimal dub techno from the mysterious Topdown Dialectic project. The label has garnered even more attention since then, dropping last year’s beloved...
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"The previously unissued soundtrack to the 1964 western noir, discovered after 55 years in the Wayne Louis Moody archive. Sixteen languid guitar instrumentals, femme fatale dirges, and cinematic country crooners score the loneliest night of one man’s life."...
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Discovered after spending 58 years on a dusty shelf in the Louis Wayne Moody Pictures vault, this previously unissued soundtrack contains a backpack’s worth of grieving guitars, somber surf, and haunting hiss, zipped tight with the teeth of abandonment, dashed dreams, moral ambiguity, fate, tearful goodbyes, and lukewarm diner coffee....
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