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Audiopile Review: Only a handful of releases deep, and Matthew Kent’s Short Span imprint has quickly marked itself as one of the leading sources of dub techno amidst its current renaissance. Returning to Sa Pa, who helped launch the label earlier this year with an EP that’s been well in-demand...
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Audiopile Review: Most of the faces on the original acid house scene were refugees from London’s legacy club culture, which was obsessed with jazz-funk and rare groove. The late Andrew Weatherall, on the other hand, was more of an indie kid, raised on post-punk and northern soul. He was the...
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1993 debut album by the trio of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns. Unavailable on vinyl and CD since original release. Remastered from the original tapes by Matt Colton, contains “Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)” for the first time on the 2LP edition. Coming off the back of his work...
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It’s hard to believe, but SOPHIE’s landmark debut album PRODUCT - a compilation of early singles - marks its 10th anniversary on Glasgow’s Numbers with a first ever complete vinyl edition, expanded with 3 tracks including the Japan CD-only ‘Get Higher’, B-side ‘Unisil’, and 2013 soundcloud drop ‘Ooh’ - making...
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Audiopile Review: In the late 90s and early 2000s, Philip Sherburne was one of The Wire magazine’s main authorities on the left field of dance music. More recently, he has defied the maxim that ‘those who can’t, teach’ by co-founding the Balmat label. Balmat is one of the most reliable...
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Audiopile Review: Truly special release from Portland’s Tone Poem, their inaugural outing a new work from the storied Japanese producer Takako Minekawa, probably best known for her 90s work in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya-kei scene that was centered around pastiche-driven synth-pop, working with acts like Buffalo Daughter and releasing albums on...
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Audiopile Review: Fairly obscure bit of 90s Japanese electronic music (a hobbyhorse of ours these days, we know) gets a second chance with its first vinyl pressing after languishing in the backwaters of YouTube. Initially released in 1998 and listed solely under Rika Kayama, the album is actually a collaboration...
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Audiopile Review: Bristol post-rock is back! Or so we have been inferring from those oh-too-occasional, magnificently Movietone-esque Tara Clerkin Trio records. We, and all smart people, need more of this stuff. Luckily, William Yates, aka prolific one-man-band Memotone, has us covered with ‘Smallest Things’, his new LP, which comes to...
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Audiopile Review: Fresh in from Sweden is the newest release on Discreet, as well as the newest from Blod’s recently launched sub-label Frihetens Förlag. First up is the newest from Juho Toivonen, who we’ve been tracking since his appearance on Ultraääni a few years back, an album that was followed...
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Audiopile Review: Also in from Gothenburg this week is the newest release from Gustaf Dicksson (aka Blod) and his recently launched Frihetens Förlag imprint. With little info provided except that Post-Tragic Man is Danish and is definitely not Dicksson, we don’t have much to go on here but the album’s...
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Brand new cassette repress of Cindy Lee’s album “Tatlashea” on Isolated Now Waves...
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Brand new cassette repress of Cindy Lee’s album “Cat O’ Nine Tails” on Isolated Now Waves
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I first heard Alex Archibald's music on the 2018 compilation Tenderly Industrial, a coming together of Vancouver guitarists all loosely working in the 'American Primitive' tradition. That term, originally coined by John Fahey in a moment of self-deprecating humor, and endlessly fussed over by guitarists and listeners ever since, is...
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Hyperglyph is the first new album in 11 years from composer / trumpeter / synthesist Rob Mazurek and composer / percussionist Chad Taylor's long-running Chicago Underground Duo project. Mazurek and Taylor have played music together in a multitude of formations over nearly three decades, including their ongoing partnership in Mazurek's...
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The return of Roy Of The Ravers is always a moment for Emotional Response. Alongside, the infinitely heralded debut that was the 2 Late 4 Love EP in 2016 and the later Emotinium ’23 remixes, there has been the While Line Sunrise series examining the ambient, experimental electronics meets braindance...
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The second part of Roy’s return to Emotional Response and the While Line Sunrise series dives further in old Hard Drives and DATs to unearth more lost techno for the brain, heart and feet. Ensuing melody for driving beats, Fenix Haus 6 is a TB303 blast. Electro meets acid, the...
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Calling Mattheis a pillar of Nous'klaer Audio would be an understatement. Founded in 2013, the label was at the time solely created to put out Mattheis' Isms EP. Now, twelve years on, we present his latest album: Waiting for the Silhouette. The forty minute LP full of dreamy techno bliss...
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After releasing four albums under his Sonny Ism alias, the Melbourne singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and mix engineer Xavier Bacash flips the script and starts again with the debut album 'Into The Doldrums' from his new project, Now Always Fades, due for release through his Northern Underground Records label. Recorded in...
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There are moments in your life when something changes as you hear and become aware of the sounds around you. Why do the sounds that cups and chairs make feel so distant? It seems that ‘I’ as an existence won’t be forgiven for being my ordinary self. The meaningless noise...
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A rhythmic minimal ambient piece played with organic electronic sounds. Elements of electronic, psychedelic, and ethnic music are interwoven. The vinyl debut of Japanese composer/electronic musician NAT000.
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The personal 10-track long player balances IDM, indie pop and techno, and was written in and about a period of life where heartbreak and threats reinforced each other, creating an inescapable loop of isolation. Attempting to regain confidence and hope, a process of dreaming up a fictive emotional escape emerged....
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“Producer and sound artist Massi NPL has spent close to a decade honing his craft as a producer with an impressive growing list of accolades that have seen him try his hand at everything from scoring award winning video games and theatre productions at the Zurich theater to DJ at...
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Introducing a new compilation tape album of unreleased and rare recordings recorded from 1985 to 1994 from The Dead Goldfish Ensemble. All 13 songs are different from the previous work "Fishy Tails". Using the MSX computer, which can be said to be the original music production computer, he brought classic...
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An incredible blend of piano, organ, and electronics - "Empty Talk" flawlessly encapsulates Aki Tsuyuko’s musical vision of masterful organic compositions, following in the footsteps of 2006’s acclaimed collection of musical and visual short stories “Hokane” and Aki Tsuyuko’s solo debut release “Ongakushitsu” on Moikai / Childisc. The LP edition...
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Rich musical history of Yugoslavia reveals a long-lasting love for the music of Latin America. Entwined in Afro-Cuban rhythms, ballrooms were shakin', swayin' and swingin', gathering musicians who were heavily into jazz bands and orchestras, most notably in Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Belgrade. Jazz could be heard on the streets...
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The highly anticipated reissue project “Spin This Now!”, spotlighting must-hear Japanese jazz masterpieces for the global audience, kicks off! The inaugural titles feature legendary jazz bassist Isao Suzuki, known as the “Jazz God Father,” with the re-release of his landmark albums “Self Portrait” and “Samba Club.” Stay tuned for more...
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The highly anticipated reissue project “Spin This Now!”, spotlighting must-hear Japanese jazz masterpieces for the global audience, kicks off! The inaugural titles feature legendary jazz bassist Isao Suzuki, known as the “Jazz God Father,” with the re-release of his landmark albums “Self Portrait” and “Samba Club.” Stay tuned for more...
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A memorable first album by the very accomplished yet restrained artist, Naosuke Miyamoto. Thrilling straight-ahead jazz with Takashi Furuya and other Kansai-based members!...
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This is the monumental first album by Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, who later became one of the two major artists on the TBM label along with Isao Suzuki. A groovy and heartwarming popular disc by the Japanese piano trio....
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This is the first album by Takao Uematsu, who played in the George Otsuka Group. His blackness of blowing, spirit and technique, which are directly descended from Joe Henderson, set him apart from other Japanese players....
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Japanese jazz is sadly one of best-kept secret. But, it would be very foolish to not discover “Green Caterpillar” by Masaru Imada trio + 2. Led by Masaru Imada and his Fender Rhodes, the record opens with “ A Green Caterpillar”, a 11 minutes piece whose the groove is somewhat...
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Masayoshi Takanaka's 5th album, where he fully embraces a tropical fusion style. Featuring famous tracks such as “BLUE LAGOON,” which was a massive hit at the time and used in a Pioneer commercial, “RADIO RIO” with Ryuichi Sakamoto’s participation, “Parallel Turn” showcasing Takanaka’s vocals, and “RAINY DAY BLUE” with its...
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Celebrating Tatsuro Yamashita's 50th anniversary! Six Moon label albums released between 1983 and 1993 are re-released on a single vinyl record. An album of original songs and Beach Boys covers, all in English. Not only are there many great songs born from collaborations with his friend Alan O'Day, but the...
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This 1978 work reflects the influence of Latin music and a free-spirited approach, created across studios in L.A., Rio de Janeiro, and Izu. The album includes tracks recorded with local musicians in Brazil, a samba arrangement of Star Wars, and other unique pieces. Fans will also enjoy the beloved track...
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This album is an unforgettable live recording featuring both original songs by Yamashita as well as covers! What’s more, Yamashita is accompanied by several top-class musicians including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Minako Yoshida, Shuichi “Ponta” Murakami, Tsunehide Matsuki, and Akira Okazawa at the legendary Pitt Inn....
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After K Records founder Calvin Johnson found a copy of their official debut from Zero Records ‘Burning Farm’, in a record crate, he would release it in the United States, where it found its way to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The resulting tour (and some of the greatest moments...
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Celebrating Tatsuro Yamashita's 50th anniversary! Six Moon label albums released between 1983 and 1993 are re-released on a single vinyl record. Packed with compact and colorful masterpieces, this is truly pocket music. Includes "Saturday Lover," "Corridor of the Wind," "THE WAR SONG," and more. Includes detailed liner notes by Tatsuro...
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Takanaka Masayoshi's best selection from his works between 1976 and 1978. This double LP album features iconic tracks such as "SWEET AGNES," "Mambo No. 5," and "READY TO FLY."...
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Country, township jazz, and pop hits from the height of Zambia’s freedom movement. Vocalist, guitarist, and bandleader Alick Nkhata moved effortlessly between lonesome country slide, big band pop, and air-tight vocal harmonies, all with roots in Bemba and other African traditional songs and rhythms. It’s a dizzying, inclusive, expansive blend...
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Legendary yet ever-evolving, Zamrock pioneers Witch (We Intend To Cause Havoc) continue to push boundaries with their bold new record, Sogolo. After their remarkable resurgence and 2023's critically acclaimed Zango–their first album in nearly 40 years–Sogolo proves that their innovative spirit remains as strong as ever. Derived from the Zambian...
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Mormaço Queima is where it all began for Ana Frango Eléctrico. Raw, quirky and lo-fi, it’s a debut album brimming with attitude and youthful energy, characteristics that would go on to define their sound. Previously released digitally in Brazil in 2018, with a private press CD version in 2020 and...
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One of our last scheduled reissues exploring South African jazz (until 2027 most likely), and years in the making. The album has been remastered from a vinyl-to-vinyl transfer as the original masters are unfortunately no longer available. We’re proud to share this limited run release of 300 copies with you...
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Arriving in Paris just days before recording, the Ensemble—Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors, and Joseph Jarman—landed with nothing but their instruments, ideas, and a fierce determination to create. Funded by the proceeds of Bowie’s personal sacrifice, their journey from New York was a leap of faith that sparked an...
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The last we heard from Marissa Nadler, she was soaring through The Path of the Clouds and its companion EP, The Wrath of the Clouds. Now, on her tenth official full-length record, New Radiations, she returns with a raw, intimate, and breathtaking collection of eleven otherworldly songs. From the first...
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Making Room for the Light, Mae Powell’s debut for Karma Chief Records, is the campfire at dawn, when the firepit is replaced with the first stirring of day. Embers, ashes, and smoke of memory give way to percolating coffee and cast-iron breakfasts. Powell’s jazz-assured vocals wrap around the headphones with...
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Interior Live Oak draws from everything Cass has created over two decades of experimentation to cut through with a direct and clarifying light. Throughout, his attitude is hopeful, which may sound odd for someone who often sings about the more extreme aspects of modern life. Interior Live Oak, however, is...
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Music for Writers is a wordless collection of pieces meant to accompany thought and inspire another way. It is music made in both stillness and motion, music that listens as much as it speaks. Each track offers a space—open, textured, often slow-moving—where ideas, images, and feelings drift in and out....
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Neil Gust and Elliott Smith arrived in Portland, OR together in the summer of 1991 to start a new band with drummer/producer Tony Lash. The pop-oriented songs of Elliott Smith were a contrast to the darker songs of Neil Gust, while both Smith's and Gust's songs touched on subjects such...
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A band that played so loud their entire fan base went deaf and never spoke of them again. Formed in 1993 in the go-nowhere exurb of San Jose, California, Super Static Fever played only a handful of gigs in their brief two year existence, punishing spectators with a tinnitus-inducing wah-wah...
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Reconstruction of The Velvet Underground's Fabled Lost 1969 album, available on vinyl for the first time with bonus tracks. To honour The Velvet Underground's 50th anniversary, Grammy-winning producer Bill Levenson has lovingly recreated the band's much-mythologized lost album, 1969. Nearly fifty years later, much remains unclear about these mysterious recordings....
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Opaque Red Vinyl. Tucson, AZ legends The Supersuckers' classic third album - 1995's The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers - is back in print, and on limited colored vinyl! The Sacrilicious Sounds of... is a furious, sneering blast of punk rock that perfectly encapsulates the band's special fusion of hard...
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Celebrating 30 years of their seminal sophomore album, comes The Cranberries’ No Need To Argue, their worldwide multi-platinum masterpiece. This edition now includes newly mixed, remastered audio from the original album’s producer Stephen Street. Includes newly mixed, remastered audio from the original album’s producer Stephen Street, 2 brand-new remixes from...
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Following on from his highly acclaimed debut Len Parrott's Memorial Lift, Baxter proves that this was no fluke. His new album Floor Show sounds like it was recorded in St Paul's Cathedral, with vocals added in the whispering gallery. Narratively, it's seems to be about a disintegrating relationship, although...
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Perhaps the most immediately apparent characteristic of the fifth Russian Circles album, Memorial, is its wide range of emotion. Vacillating from somber-yet-soaring melodies on one track to pummeling metal heft on the next, Memorial sounds like an album with split personalities. "We've always tried to balance our metal-influenced sounds with...
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Nine inch nails' soundtrack to the legendary first person shooter from id software. Available for the first time ever on vinyl. Remastered 2xlp pressed on 180gram vinyl....
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Impala,' the fabled second Songs: Ohia full-length, originally released in 1998 and long out-of-print, will enjoy a vinyl reissue by Secretly Canadian this August. This release includes the addition of a remastered demo of ‘Tess’ originally captured during recording sessions for 'Impala.' “Lorain, Ohio; it's a tough place to grow...
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Comprised of two songs that build on their use of cyclical rhythm, riff and vocal intonation, Om’s 2006 album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub and psychedelia. The group’s lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by Billy...
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While this fourth and final album by Eric B. & Rakim signified an end to their collaborative studio work, it largely remains an unheralded final chapter in their maturation as a unit. Released in the midst of the first Iraq war, Don’t Sweat The Technique includes subject matter that, for...
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fROMOHIO is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band fIREHOSE. fIREHOSE was formed by former members of the influential punk band Minutemen, including bassist and vocalist Mike Watt, guitarist Ed Crawford, and drummer George Hurley....
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The second fIREHOSE album, released in 1987, a year after the abrupt end of San Pedro’s legendary Minutemen. Mike Watt and George Hurley were reunited once again by the super-enthusiastic ‘ed fROMOHIO’ who chose for himself the unenviable task of filling D. Boon’s role on vocals and guitar. When the...
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Now's the Time captures Charlie Parker during one of his peak recording periods. The personnel of Hank Jones, Al Haig, Percy Heath, Teddy Kotick, and Max Roach all contribute immeasurably to this classic session. There are numerous outtakes, which offers a fascinating analysis of Parker's improvisations, as well as classics...
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The first and best out of just two collaborative albums by organist Jimmy Smith and guitarist Wes Montgomery, Jimmy and Wes: The Dynamic Duo was recorded in 1966 and features arrangements by Oliver Nelson. It is frequently listed among Jimmy Smith’s best albums. Creed Taylor matched two of his most...
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If you want to luxuriate in jazz, then look no further than the Bill Evans Trio with Claus Ogerman conducting a 48-piece orchestra on the appropriately named Bill Evans Trio With Symphony Orchestra. Released in February 1966, the album was the brainchild of Verve’s A&R Director, Creed Taylor. Taylor was...
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Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Phineas Newborn Jr’s 1962 Contemporary Record debut “A World of Piano!”. Recorded by legendary engineers Howard Holzer and Roy DuNann the album also features Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums), Sam Jones (bass) and Louis Hayes (drums). Recorded by...
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On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two Harris originals) - plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G-2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp. The...
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Pianist Junior Mance, a veteran of albums and dates with Dinah Washington and Cannonball Adderley, was offered his own recording date by Norman Granz during a session with Dizzy Gillespie. The result is this 1959 debut album, a bluesy and swinging date with Gillespie’s drummer Lex Humphries and bassist Ray...
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On October 16, 1957, one of the great studio sessions of the decade took place in Capitol’s famous studios in Hollywood. The brilliant tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins spent much of the day and evening in the studios recording two separate albums with producer Norman Granz for Verve Records: The Genius...
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The Cats was released in December 1959 and features John Coltrane (tenor sax), Tommy Flanagan (piano), Louis Hayes (drums), Doug Watkins (bass) and Kenny Burrell (guitar), and Idrees Sulieman (trumpet) playing what are mainly Flanagan-penned tunes. This new edition of the album is released as part of the OJC Series...
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Roach’s solid group featuring Ray Bryant, Julian Priester, and Stanley and Tommy Turrentine are joined by the great Abbey Lincoln on vocals for two tracks, “Never Leave Me” and Cole Porter’s “I Concentrate On You.” A fantastic and often overlooked album, this is the first US reissue since the album’s...
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Mesh-Key is pleased to announce the release of this heretofore unheard collaboration, finally seeing the light of day 15 years after its recording. Acoustic instrumentation and synthesizers meet Mukai’s haunting voice for four sparse, minimalistic compositions unlike anything in either artists’ previous output. <iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;"...
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Sam Gendel and Ugnė Uma's Tam Tikri Objektai Erdvėje album sketches a layered, melismatic and intertextual view on what both performers define as a lightness of being. Ugnė Uma's musical stance is influenced by experimental poetry and Lithuania's 20th century underground music scene - jazz and folk, resulting from the...
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Over the past few years Acid Jazz has released a series of reissues from the enigmatic ‘Albarika Store’ – a goldmine of records from Benin, West Africa from the late ‘60s through to the early ’80s. T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo ‘Le Sato 2’ is a particularly obscure release. The follow up...
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The year 1973 was both a successful and stressful time for Ray Barretto. His band had developed a loyal following among dancers of the new Afro-Cuban-based music known as salsa. He had achieved success as a composer with “Cocinando,” the theme song for the Fania produced movie Our Latin Thing....
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“Whoever has been following the musical movements happening within our culture, must have noticed this young singer hailing from the North of Brazil. An absolute master of Baião, Côco, Batuque and other related musical genres and the owner of an art one hundred percent his own, Ary Lobo is the...
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UK Lovers Rock holy grail 12” from Sonia Whittingham, produced by Glen Sloley and originally released in 1988. ‘When I look into your eyes I feel a sweet sensation. I know our love is true ‘cos you make me happy’. A 140gram pressing in full colour sleeve designed by Bradley...
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The Sensual World is the sixth studio album by Kate Bush. The music is deep and lush, atmospheric and aural. She took four years to make this album when it was released in 1989. The instrumentation and backing singers are sublime. It is a deeply mature work from one of...
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Remastered 2016 audio on 180-gram vinyl, remastered artwork and more. ...
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The Pod (Fuscus Edition) / Back in print on vinyl. Named one of the 20 best albums of 1992 by Spin Magazine, Ween's 2nd record was recorded by Dean and Gene Ween on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder between January and October 1990. All songs were recorded at the Pod,...
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Newly remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road – celebrating Eno’s first-ever solo tour, ‘Ships across Europe’, joined by Baltic Sea Philharmonic conducted by Kristjan Järvi in October 2023. “The Ship is a great, unexpected record. The title track and “Fickle Sun (i)” on their own and as a connected...
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In 1994, Bristol’s music scene went from being a cult concern to big news, as Massive Attack consolidated their reputation with sophomore album Protection, and Portishead joined the party with Dummy. If there was any doubt left as to the city’s talent, in 1995 it was banished for good. Coming...
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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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