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Volume repetition volume repetition volume and repetition this is the sonic mantra of Austin Texas s Water Damage On their new record In E Water Damage continues to scorch the earth with walls of punishing sound It s no secret that something truly special can happen to the psyche when...
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Audiopile Review Another 90s braindance classic gets its due Bochum Welt s Module 2 initially issued back in 96 on Richard D James beloved Rephlex Records Arriving in the wake of artists like µ Ziq Squarepusher and of course Aphex Twin Module 2 was a standout in a growing...
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Audiopile Review In many cases we ll take ideas over execution no question Give us a spirited amateur over a jaded pro But sometimes the execution is so damn good it makes you realize the ideas are way better than you originally thought A lazy critic might dismiss Montreal...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 amp 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The classic 1991 Steady Diet of Nothing album from FUGAZI Eleven awesome tracks...
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nbsp 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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nbsp 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...
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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...
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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 amp Panfilov Summit is in line with the modal sound that we re...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 nbsp...
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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...
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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 time...
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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...
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Audiopile Review Bellofatto amp 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...
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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...
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