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Audiopile Review: Purelink’s 2023 debut album, ‘Signs’, was a huge hit in the store and with heads worldwide. Now, the Brooklyn trio’s follow-up, ‘Faith’, has arrived, and we’re here to tell you that it’s pure DSP magic. “DSP” stands for digital signal processing, and just about all new music...
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Audiopile Review: Shinichi Atobe makes a logical move to his own label, Plastic & Sounds, after a decade unloading his archives for DDS, this new 12” quickly following his 2024 onslaught of the Discipline LP, Onagku 1 12” and a rare appearance in the digital-only realm with the Peace of...
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Audiopile Review: Wholly restorative ambient-house and luxuriant IDM from Jared Carrigan’s long-running René Najera guise. Head of the LA-based Jungle Gym tapes label, host to many guises and a serious scene-connector of the electronic and experimental cassette underground that reaches back more than a decade, Carrigan’s René Najera project lands...
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Audiopile Review: Good Morning Tapes keep their 2025 hot streak going strong with a new three-way collab that chases that brilliant Ariel Kalma & Asa Tone album and the instantly sold out ROTW from X Or Size that kicked off our year. The newest comes courtesy of Latvian/UK artist Mu...
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Audiopile Review: Debut release from Bristol-based North View Records, the inaugural offering coming courtesy of the label’s somewhat mysterious founder, simply known as oliver. An ambitious mission statement to kick off the label, oliver traces the nearby coastal lines with a sweaty bout of humid headphone euphoria that swoops across...
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Audiopile Review: With almost a year between releases, 3XL makes up for lost time with a two album drop only weeks apart, following up their recent ROTW clincher from Cortex Of Light with a new album from label head Special Guest DJ. The slippery moniker is one of many from...
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Audiopile Review: Demdike Stare is a perennial presence lurking in the left field of electronic music that is more-or-less danceable. But Manchester’s Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker appear to be coming into a particularly purple patch right now. And ‘Who Owns the Dark?’, a long-in-the-making collaboration with London-based cratedigger Cherrystones...
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Audiopile Review: In ye olde 1990s, Drexciya, the duo of James Stinson and Gerald Donald, had a huge impact on the world of electronic music. As associates of Underground Resistance, they formed an essential part of Detroit techno’s second wave. And by largely eschewing four-on-the-floor bass drums...
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Audiopile Review: In ye olde 1990s, Drexciya, the duo of James Stinson and Gerald Donald, had a huge impact on the world of electronic music. As associates of Underground Resistance, they formed an essential part of Detroit techno’s second wave. And by largely eschewing four-on-the-floor bass drums in favour of...
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Audiopile Review: Some labels really stand out from the general Reissue Industrial Complex. Recent releases on Silver Current have had such a pleasing look-and-feel that we’re thinking of making it the next label we try to harass into releasing a vinyl edition of the godlike Peter Hammill’s ‘Loops & Reels’....
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“If you don’t know it yet, it’s my privilege to tell you that Ryan Davis is one of the greatest songwriters of his generation. Bold instinct immediately insists that I lose the qualifications: he’s the greatest of his generation, he’s one of the greatest ever. Whatever. Posterity—if there is a...
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Perhaps you’ve noticed that things are quite ridiculous these days? Almost non-sensical? In 1984 Dan Foley did too. Same bullshit, different times. In Montreal, Dan wrote, recorded and self-released the Quite Ridiculous Nonsense “A Failure” 7”. He had no distribution. He played no shows. Through word of mouth he sold...
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Thizzing and blown-out ambient trap x dub techno vapours from Ukranian artist xtclvr... Produced under trying circumstances, Ukraine’s xtclvr wrests an escapist sense of hazed beauty on a compelling maiden voyage for bleary-eyed specialists Sferic, written and recorded during long nights under curfew and occasional shelling. Vocals are there, but...
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One of contemporary Ambient’s preeminent figures lands on its leading label, enacting a transition into a new phase of rhythmic noise and tonal shadowplay laced with peculiar sensitivities, wrangling Dilloway-influenced tape noise thru ASMR ambience, fritzed Dub Techno, layered vocal drone and ritualistic mantras - big tip IYI Grouper, Porter...
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Ston Elaióna is John Also Bennett’s first album for Shelter Press since his 2019 solo debut Erg Herbe. The American born, Athens, Greece, based flautist, synthesist, and composer weaves a strikingly singular electroacoustic excursion for bass flute and Yamaha DX7ii, largely recorded in the golden haze of the early morning...
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Finally allowed to get our hands on some copies of the Borez debut, a collaboration between clubland's most nawty, L.I.E.S alumni Beau Wanzer and London pair Rezzett. If I'd not told you who was involved, I'm doubtful it would have taken you too much longer to work it out, so...
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In ‘Of No Fixed Abode,’ Saint Abdullah and Eomac extend their experimentation with genre dissolution to press upon the tensions that exist between culture, place, and migration. This fourth collaborative LP addresses the inherent fluidity of cultural memory, accepting our inability to remain fixed in the past, and explores how...
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This new "Experimental Chapter" by DJ Narciso comes as no surprise, really. Autonomous in the motorization of his music, pushing for progress within the framework of an undeniable (inescapable?) heritage. Twisting and bending sound every step of the way, Narciso definitely keeps in touch with the dancefloor, offering the always...
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Properly deadly and highly screwed body-rattling tarraxho and Afro-house kink and grind by DJ BeBeDeRa - frankly freaky as f*ck club killers for those who need to get down.. Beloved for a pair of 7”s in 2018 for Paris’ Promesses and OG kuduro powerhouse Bazzerk, DJ BeBeDeRa has also snuck...
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DIIV teams with In Sheep's Clothing to release their previously digital-only 'Frog in Boiling Water' Remix EP on a limited edition 12". Featuring remixes from Minor Science, Mount Kimbie, Daniel Avery and upsammy.
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More Dutch Outsider Polder Techno From The Legowelt Archives 1994-2005 "Synths Below Sea Level" is a deep dive into the tape archives of The Hague's premier techno alchemist Danny Wolfers, best known as Legowelt. These newly unearthed and remastered tracks explore a variety of soundscapes and moods. From the spacey...
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On his latest album, Samuel Van Dijk applies his lush, richly rendered electro to a broad sweep of introspective machine music across the tempo range. For well over 10 years VC-118A has cut a striking figure within the contemporary electro landscape. Van Dijk's accomplished catalogue, which also spans the Multicast...
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This is another piece to my musical puzzle. After “The Forced...” album, I still felt there was further I could go in… So again, with David’s support, we ended up here…what a place! Never stops amazing, what happens while making music from the soul. This album is dedicated to my...
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Back from the Rendez-vous at Rimini... All the Alden Tyrell classics finally available on vinyl again. Remastered by the man himself to make his tracks, that inspired a generation, ready for the next decade....
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Claudio PRC’s fifth album, Self Surrender, unfolds as a reflective journey of self-acceptance, a story embracing reality in its purest and most unfiltered form. Released via Delsin Records, this marks his first full-length album on the label, following the EP’s Rites of Passage (2021), Challenger Deep (2022) and Golden Scales...
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Hakuna Kulala debut from Kampala’s Catu Diosis — 7 tracks of mutant afrohouse, slanted Batida, and slow-burn Kuduro pressure. Deeply rhythmic, fiercely physical, and thrillingly unplaceable. Stepping out from her work as a choreographer, MC, and co-conspirator with Rian Treanor, Catu Diosis delivers a remarkable first statement in Anyim —...
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To celebrate their landmark 60th release, Analogical Force proudly present "Sixty", a lengthy compilation (3x12" - 17 tracks) that chronicles the label's journey from its inception to its current cutting edge form. Featuring new unreleased tracks from regular collaborators alongside exciting up-and-coming artists, plus some gems rescued from the past...
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Dutch maestro Kettel (Reimer Eising) is back on Analogical Force with Inmate Shuffle, his first full EP for the label since 2017. This release features five tracks straight from the heart of Reimer’s universe, serving as a heartfelt reaffirmation of his unique identity. Kettel’s artistry is a testament to staying...
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Having James Shinra back on AF is always a cause for celebration, and doubly so this time because we present 'Meteorites’, his second album following the highly acclaimed Vital Heat (2018). During 2023-24, James uploaded a series of digital releases called 'Meteorites’, a set of dreamy and introspective tracks where...
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“Recorded at BBC Broadcasting House and partially aired on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, the first studio encounter between London-based duo Exotic Sin and Swiss percussionist Julian Sartorius is now published in full on this album from Sagome. Winding through six distinct and interconnected paths, the trio effortlessly create a...
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Lucy Duncombe and Feronia Wennborg compose a modern symphony for virtual choir on 'Joy, Oh I Missed You', muddling sound poetry with Nuno Canavarro and ‘Systemische'-style machine-damaged surrealism. It's mindbogglingly good, like a mashup of Lee Gamble's 'Models', Akira Rabelais' 'Spellewauerynsherde' and Robert Ashley's timeless 'Automatic Writing’ screwed to perfection...
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Inimitable musician, theorist and free thinker Mark Fell lifts the veil on his singular, minimalist yet omnivorous practice with almost 3 hours of gonzoid recordings of a week long workshop in Vienna with ensemble Studio Dan, edited and crammed with snagging surprises - RIYL Okkyung Lee, Kakuhan, Nathan Fielder, Limpe...
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"Polymath artist, musician and iconoclast Raed Yassin releases Eternal Ghost, two long-form pieces of modular minimalism via Fourth Sounds. Drawing on influences of Terry Riley, Suicide, no wave and synth pop, the double A-side 12” reverberates with urgent, high-octane loops, repeating patterns and distorted vocal frequencies, each track unfurling over...
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"Fernweh" is an untranslatable German term that describes the longing for a faraway place. This album is a palimpsest of ambient pieces I recorded in the past 5 years that speak to the feeling of suspense between longing for a place far away and home. It expresses my experiences moving...
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"Variegated patterns of deep darkness and quiet light intertwine in this hour-long immersive capsule from Kagami Smile. Fragments of solid matter are explored and assembled, skillfully crystallizing into the impression of a place, alive until it dissolves."- ISOHYET...
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Hotwax returns to Image Research with a new suite of tracks that are as euphoric and majestic as ever. Pulsating with a new depth and detail, his latest offering, 'Proteus', takes the producer’s signature sound to new heights. Airy, vibrant, and kinetically charged rhythms operate at the heart of each...
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The London underground house scene is vast and plentiful when it comes to bedroom producers and wide-eyed DJs. Many flicker and fade out, lost in the constant cycle of releases, events, and one-off collaborations. Stealth-like, but incredibly consistent, Memphis Glass has withstood the waves of an ever-changing scene, bringing forth...
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Rob Thompson makes a triumphant return to Image Research with ‘Artefact’. A new batch of songs that pick up where 2023’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’ left off, deepening an already rich palette of 90s flavored breaks and ambience. Euphoric, spaced-out pads fly to celestial heights over phase-shifted breakbeats and rhythms. Cavernous...
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Abrasive, dark, and intense, Ruminations is the latest offering from Silent Spirit, showcasing their ability to navigate the full spectrum of emotional and sonic extremes. The album unfolds like a psychological journey, delving deep into the turmoil of being trapped within one’s own mind. Shifting between relentless, rhythm-driven tracks and...
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The latest by Russian sound chemist Artem Dultsev aka Metra.Vestlud began in a “collective hallucination” induced by early parenthood. Disorienting tides of dramatic change were channeled via extended synthesis sessions centered on timbre and simplicity, joy and tears, “fires lit in a space for the new.” The results are dimensional...
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The wooded stargate of Western Massachusetts can lay claim to one of modern times’ premiere “deep zones” dispensaries: Secret Places of the Lion. Via their Saturn Fern HQ, they’ve issued three full-lengths plus some scattered private documents. The Lion’s latest continues the project’s legacy of regal arcana: High Gardens. Mirage...
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"It feels like its all lighting off. A lot of fodder in today’s world for an artist. Too easily humans forget their humanity. Forgiveness is a dead science. Empathy is viewed as a weakness by cretins. Easier to hate rather than love. Fear and greed have dug their bloody hands...
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Amish Records is happy to release an expanded, gatefold 2xLP version of P.G. Six's second album, The Well of Memory, originally released in 2004. This 2025 expanded edition has beautiful new artwork, re-imagined by Meredyth Sparks and comes with a bonus LP entitled Lost and Live. The LP includes six...
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Florida-born multimedia artist Ethel Cain returns with her sophomore album Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You. A prequel to the critically acclaimed Preacher's Daughter, the new album recounts the story of Ethel's first love, Willoughby Tucker, and their humid, laden romance. Hayden Anhedonia, the creative force behind the entire Ethel...
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World of Pooh immensely brightened the dark corners of San Francisco, California during the years 1983-1990, with their most recognized guise being the MMF trio that existed & thrived during the years 1986-1990. This is the lineup you’ll hear documented on this exceptional collection of 45s, compilation tracks and assorted...
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"In 1995 In The Red released the Cheater Slicks fourth full length album, Don’t Like You. The band, based in Boston at the time, travelled to New York to record at Jerry Teel’s Funhouse studio with Jon Spencer acting as producer. The result was a completely over the top noisefest...
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Sorcerer Records present the reissue of Why Not Now?... Alan!, the debut LP from 1987 by Milwaukee space-rock gods, F/i. Available for the first time on vinyl since its initial release, it remains a holy grail item for lovers of cosmic rock n' roll sounds from underground Amerika in the...
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Dillinger Escape Plan's Live Infinity was recorded live on tour throughout 2000 with The Misfits featuring songs from their legendary debut album Calculating Infinity and the Under The Running Board EP!...
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Laughing Hyenas is the saga of one of the most uncompromising quartets in post-punk’s artistically dubious history. It’s a legacy of hell-bent self-destruction in the name of making an unholy racket, a sound both original and traditional, fueled by a love of punk rock, blues and the endless highway. The...
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Jessie Murph’s sophomore album, Sex Hysteria, will arrive July 18th via Columbia Records. The album features 15 songs including her chart-topping hit “Blue Strips.”...
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Magdalena Bay is now famous for their sweeping, high-concept pop epics Mercurial World and Imaginal Disk, but it was the duo’s charming, self-proclaimed “mini songs” that first captured our hearts and imaginations back in 2019. Mica and Matt traversed more of pop music’s history and conjured more brilliant ideas and...
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The Black Keys' 13th studio album features the hit single "The Night Before" plus "No Rain, No Flowers" and "Babygirl." Collaborating with iconic songwriters such as Rick Nowels, Daniel Tashian and legendary keys player Scott Storch, the GRAMMY winning Ohio band craft their most ambitious and adventurous album yet, braiding...
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Blockbuster Alanis Morissette Album Transcends Generations: 17-Million-Selling Jagged Little Pill Features Five Hit Singles, Including “You Oughta Know” and “Ironic” 1995 Record Presented in Audiophile Sound for the First Time for Its 30th Anniversary: Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Box Set Is Strictly Limited to 4,000 Numbered Copies...
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It’s easy to forget now, but “Best Rapper Alive” wasn’t the first time Lil Wayne used an album cut to claim he was the world’s greatest spitter. That honor belongs to “Bring It Back,” the electric first single from his 2004 album, Tha Carter. Coated in off-kilter wordplay and preternatural...
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As long-time admirers of his six and twelve-string wizardry, Amish Records is very excited to announce the release of James Blackshaw’s (kinda) new album, ‘Unraveling In Your Hands’. Originally released digitally in November 2024, solely on James’ Bandcamp, the album is now widely available on all digital music services and...
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When the Verve Remixed series debuted in 2002, its concept - inviting top DJs and producers to select songs from the label’s storied vaults - was an instant success, introducing classic jazz recordings to a new generation of listeners and kickstarting a global trend of jazz-electronic fusion. Now back on...
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With two critically acclaimed compilations already under his belt, DJ / collector miche returns to Mr Bongo with the third instalment of his With Love series. Testament to his ever-expanding taste, Volume 3 isn’t just a subs bench call-up from the past compilations, it’s an evolution and progression casting the...
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In English, the Shona word "Useza" means someone of great skill, meticulousness, and precision, and it perfectly illuminates Sekuru Chaka Chawasarira's lifelong practice. The eminent Zimbabwean artist and educator is among the last remaining masters of the matepe, a large mbira-style instrument that's played with both thumbs and index fingers...
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Recorded live in one session at age 18, this album helped launch Tania Maria's career as an acclaimed Brazilian jazz artist, celebrated for her virtuoso combination of piano and vocals. Produced by Romeo Nunes (Meirelles e Os Copa 5, Rio 65 Trio, Elis Regina, Elza Soares), the album features the...
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A true embodiment of Brazilian boogie, this is the first official reissue of Brylho's album, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1978 as Brylho da Cidade. The group was influenced by the Black Rio movement of Tim Maia, Cassiano, and others. Members included Arnaldo Brandão (vocals/bass), Paulo Roquette (guitar), Cláudio...
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Craft Recordings celebrates the legacy of influential indie band 3RA1N1AC (Brainiac) with a 30th anniversary reissue of their long-out-of-print debut, Smack Bunny Baby. Marking the album’s first wide availability on vinyl since 1993, this newly remastered edition includes such cult favorites as “I, Fuzzbot,” “Ride,” “Martian Dance Invasion,” and “Smack...
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“Songs from my life, recently recorded, create a music montage with no beginnings or endings.” — NY On his new album, BEFORE AND AFTER, Young has approached a totally eclectic collection of mostly obscure songs like a painter with a new palette....
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“Phantom Radio,” the eighth studio album by Mark Lanegan Band, is a haunting masterpiece that blends elements of alternative rock, blues, and electronic music into a mesmerizing sonic journey. Released in 2014, this album showcases Lanegan’s distinctive gravelly voice, which has matured like fine wine over the years, delivering lyrics...
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Released in 1980, Gaucho was Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's seventh and last album as Steely Dan until the release of Two Against Nature in 2000. Beset by a number of problems during the album's gestation, including a car crash, a dispute with their label over the retail price and...
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Woof Woof has existed somewhere for a long time, throbbing underneath the surface and masquerading as anything other than the pure energy it is, waiting to be extracted and molded into a form that can be consumed by everyone. With Woof Woof, Arthur beams pure-pop-liminality straight into the world, full...
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Anthony Shakir, Kech Harrington, Martin Bonds, and Brian Bonds recorded the Fairmount Squad EP as a side project. It was released in 1998 and played on Detroit radio station mix shows and in local gentlemen's clubs, selling out quickly and never repressed until now....
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Almost exactly a year since fellow De Lichting co-founder RDS made his Kalahari debut, Eversines returns to the label in a big way. But this is the Dutchman like you’ve never heard him before; tough and direct, coming through with a mean streak of sci-fi propulsion that leaves the sanguine...
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Metroplex continues its run of reissues with more seminal releases from the label's essential back catalog. The long-awaited reissue of M024: Model 500's eternal techno meditation "Starlight", a mid-90s collaboration with dub techno maestro Moritz von Oswald of Basic Channel, Maurizio, and Rhythm & Sound fame. Remastered from original tapes...
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Metroplex continues its run of reissues with two more seminal releases from the label's golden back catalog. First off is Catalog number M003, aka late 80's Metroplex electro staple Channel One, a Juan Atkins joint with Doug Craig (Carl Craig's cousin) on vocals. Futuristic and playful techno from the late...
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Larry Heard’s own Alleviated Records brings back two rarities from the Chicago legend’s beloved 2007 LP Love’s Arrival era for this special reissue of the Another Night Re-Edit 12”. The A side features Moodymann (under his J.A.N. alias) taking ‘Another Night’ to sultry and smooth new heights while the B...
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A 2023 return to Alleviated Records for Michael Kuntzman after his split ep 'the Underground Files 1' from 2016. 4 Freaky Dixie Jacking tracks from Memphis, giving meaning to the 'Deep South' here!!!...
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This highly anticipated release quickly started to catch buzz following the single being premiered on Gilles Peterson’s BBC 6 radio show. The track brilliantly blends together spacey synth melodies, scratch guitar riffs, and a hypnotic vocal chorus with a disco-funk bass and percussion groove. It’s like if Atmosfear and Hi-Tension...
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The story of the legendary Swedish psych rock band Träd, Gräs och Stenar is also a defining story of alternative culture. Across multiple incarnations, the musicians of this iconic group (whose name translates to “Trees, Grass and Stones”) have drawn on their roots in jazz and the avant-garde, the iconoclastic...
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Paul Major has lived resolutely on the vanguard of musical culture for nearly a half-century; as a pioneering record collector turned eminent rock and roller, his influence is vast, far-reaching and woefully unsung—until now. Feel the Music traces Paul’s singular trajectory from his early days in the Midwest, through...
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Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, and mythic in proportion) that can crush the will of the most resilient, well-intentioned listener if the necessary preparations haven't been made. Matthew Stearns explores the album from a range of angles, including a track-by-track analysis...
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In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel (of the experimental band Matmos) creates-through both his own insights and exclusive interviews with the band-an exploded view of the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, shot through with a sequence of thematic entries on key concepts, strategies,...
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Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles. Odd, then, that its creators saw it...
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In 1978, Siouxsie and the Banshees declared 'We don't see ourselves in the same context as other rock'n'roll bands.' A decade later, and in the stark aftermath of a devastating storm, the band retreated to a 17th-century mansion house in the deracinated Sussex countryside to write their ninth studio album,...
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It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos's performance, both positive and negative, are organized around disgust-the disgust that women are...
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"In the absence of love, there is loneliness, sorrow and desperation. And that's where I come in." --Greg Dulli, introducing "When We Two Parted" onstage in San Francisco Like no record before or since, Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception and uncleansable shame...
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Pet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released. It has also been written about, pored over, and analyzed more than most other albums put together. In this disarming book, Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album, on Brian Wilson's pitch-perfect cry...
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Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession of ten blindingly fast, apocalyptic songs. The first English book about Slayer explores the creation of the most universally...
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Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title-or rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The...
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The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking...
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The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm. This book explores the political and cultural zeitgeist of England in 1989 and attempts to apprehend the magic ingredients that made The Stone Roses such a...
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It's the summer of 1979. A 15-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music" - and everything spins outward from...
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So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the Cold War and Carlos's gender to this critically important innovation. Through...
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Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock & roll. Looking at each...
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Posing more riddles than the average sphinx, with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark, Song Cycle was anything but passive. I had already witnessed hippie bands playing with their backs to the hall, so the thought of late '60s musicians being interested in their audience struck me as...
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Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower-reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted ways with Eno, electric...
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One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign 'O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the 1980s. He also...
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Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder was unable to...
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The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and...
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Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't working. But...
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Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop. In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration...
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It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They're under siege. Keith Richards's legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band's future, and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on...
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Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams...
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LP pressing reissue of the 2003 collection. Anthology serves as a celebration of The Clean, a band whose influence extends so far beyond their New Zealand home that even if you have never heard of The Clean before, you have surely heard of some of the bands (Pavement, Yo La...
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Four-Calendar Café was the first of two Cocteau Twins albums previously released via Capitol Records in the U.S. and celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023. It's yet to be formally released on vinyl outside Europe. That all changes in January 2024 when 4AD will reissue Four-Calendar Café and Milk &...
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Belle and Sebastian’s beloved third album ‘The Boy With The Arab Strap’ returns on limited blue vinyl and blue tint cover this autumn to celebrate the LPs 25th anniversary. The announcement comes on the heels of a recent creative outpouring from the Scottish group: ‘A Bit of Previous’ (2022) and...
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Khruangbin present: Live At Sydney Opera House, Australia The globe-trotting, genre-bending Houston, Texas trio Khruangbin closes out their year long collection of live albums with the announcement of Live at Sydney Opera House, a double LP exclusively comprised of Khruangbin compositions, available December 1st on Dead Oceans, in partnership with...
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FELT’s sixth volume extracts another fascinating mineral from Guy Brewer’s Carrier alias, further descending the wormhole of darkside minimalism with his most obfuscated rhythmic explorations yet. FATHOM witnesses Guy Brewer’s unrelenting distillation of precision electronics develop beyond prior incarnations into unclassifiable mutations. Carrier is his sonic vessel in this new...
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London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Akusmi presents Lines, an exhilarating new collection of works born from the desire to take where the acclaimed debut album Fleeting Future left off—in search of new forms. Formed with a sense of urgency and a reductive approach, Lines is almost entirely comprised of...
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By the end of the 1960s Lee Hazlewood’s LHI Records had burned piles of cash, gone through a half dozen distributors and failed to achieve the kind of chart success “Boots” had promised. Fortunately for Lee there was a land where he was still on the top of the charts,...
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“Pimps… whores… pushers… dopers… gangsters… and bottom of the human chain shit-heels. Now you’re probably thinking I’m writing about major record companies and their unscrupulous executives… and lawyers. You could be right… but this time… YOU’RE WRONG! I’m describing the characters in my album ‘13’ …Some I knew… some I...
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Many artists achieve greatness but very few produce work that is so moving it's considered sacred. Whether you choose to call them hymns, psalms or spirituals, their songs are a healing force for troubled times. Jazzman's Spiritual Jazz series would not exist without the inspiration and leadership of the spiritual...
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The funk fans have been waiting for this one. Finally available on vinyl, Grant Green’s near perfect slice of jazz funk and soul, Live at Club Mozambique, remastered and rendered back in the Motor City. Grant Green’s band had been playing a series of live dates at Detroit’s Club Mozambique,...
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In the swirl of underground music emerging from Dunedin, New Zealand in the 1980s, Peter Gutteridge stands as one of the era’s most intense and shadowy figures. Despite being a founding member of The Clean and The Chills, Gutteridge would eschew indie-rock fame for the hypnotic and driving sounds of...
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Lucy Railton trusts in the nuance of her own creative instincts on an intensely modern, quietly radical new album, her second for Modern Love. Following her 2018 solo debut Paradise 94 (LOVE 108LP), and countless collaborations in the time since, Railton's diverse musical circles here bleed into each other, creating...
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Double-LP version. What are the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound, between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer voices, voltage amplified by speakers? On Silencio, Moritz von Oswald works with a 16-voice choir to explore this concept. Drawing from the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations Edgard Varèse,...
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As an important agent of Gothenburg's underground scene, Dan Johansson has been a member of several experimental harsh noise projects such as Sewer Election, and lo-fi indie folk bands like Enhet För Fri Musik and Amateur Hour. Ordeal is his latest solo output, and might as well be ashes stuck...
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Nairobi-born Berlin-based sound artist Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, shares his new work Stupor on the new Helsinki-based label Other Power. Commissioned by the Helsinki curatorial and commissioning agency PUBLICS, Stupor is comprised of three original long form tracks; "CRP-12," "Even a Tear," and the title track "Stupor." The tracks on...
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Fiona Apple's debut album, Tidal, was released in 1996 and has been heralded as a masterpiece of modern music and since its release, Fiona Apple has become one of the most iconic female artists of her generation. Tracks including "Shadowboxer," "Sleep To Dream," and standout "Criminal". <iframe title="YouTube video player"...
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Fiona Apple's second album, When The Pawn..., was released in 1999 to widespread critical praise and is now widely regarded as a classic and includes tracks "Paper Bag," "Fast As You Can," and "I Know". ...
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Fiona Apple's 2005 album, Extraordinary Machine, is a unique blend of alternative and pop sounds showcasedfrom the upbeat “Not About Love” to the gentle “Parting Gift”. ...
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Fiona Apple's fourth studio album, originally released in 2012 features “Werewolf,” “Hot Knife,” and opening track "Every Single Night". ...
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"I was hanging out with Bill Orcutt at the 930 Club nearly 30 years ago, watching a famous post-rock band (who shall remain nameless, but whose moniker contained two-and-a-half times more articles and conjunctions than nouns) when he said: 'This band is like my band in college -- all major...
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For Ambrose Akinmusire, exploring the beauty in solitude and sitting with oneself has been a long-time fascination. "Playing solo has just been something that's been in the back of my head," he shares. The allure lies in finding beauty in simplicity and committing to it, even when the temptation...
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Archie Shepp's world has always been filled with fire music, and eventually Fire Music. Before that landmark LP, Shepp made Four for Trane -- his August 1964 beachhead with Impulse. And even before that, as it turns out, came this one blip -- the earliest Shepp leader project yet on...
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1964 was a pivotal year in the musical life of Wayne Shorter. Early in the year, the saxophonist was still a member of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, appearing on classic Blue Note albums like Free for All and Indestructible. That summer he would join the Miles Davis Quintet,...
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