Mark's Picks
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Includes 7". When you make a record that doesn't conform, expect to divide opinion. Like Weather was released in 1998, on Rephlex -- run by Grant Wilson Claridge and Richard D James -- an often great label that had a following largely made up of Aphex-logo wearing fanboys who couldn't...
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“The Sojourner” was released on Strata-East in 1974 and is well known as one of the label’s rarest recordings. Most tracks are focused on a soaring, spiritual groove, and some of them expressed their soulfulness. The last track “Peace (Salaam)” could be the most impressive tune on the...
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FIRST REPRESS SINCE 2002 Includes the singles ‘Mic Manipulator’ and ‘Rapperfection (ft Mr.Lif)’ Stanton Swihart of AllMusic gave the album 4.5stars out of 5, calling it "a wild, weird, instantly left-field rap masterpiece from one seriously bugged-out, innovative loner." Thomas Quinlan ofExclaim! described it as "an album that embraces the...
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Out of print and unavailable for many years, one of the most memorable Eric’s Trip releases, aside from the “Love Tara” album, is the indie EP that introduced them to the world. Their youthful energy, catchy songs, and noisy lo-fi recording techniques set them apart from many of the other...
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It began with ‘Kwaidan’, a simmering study on the lost art of Japanese ghost story-telling. Then there was ‘Komachi’, baptized in the earthly winds and static that define its comforting sonics. On ‘Kofū’, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of artforms and aesthetics...
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Map.ache's second album on Giegling sneaks out later in the year, but not too late to make some the best of 2020 lists, we hope. Once again, Jan Barich draws you deep into his mystic world of cloudy dub, grainy ambient and lo-fi textures, house grooves, jazz motifs and downtempo...
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Long awaited Giegling album from Kettenkarussell is an atmospheric, melancholic electronic listening delight. Six tracks, need we say more?...
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Past Cloaks is the first release on POW Recordings, an introduction to one of the most gifted teenaged rappers this side of Earl, Nas, or Andre. These are the first experiments and random blades from the Monotone Samurai, the leader of Nu Age, lungs black as his irises, tangents to...
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Reissue of Mika Vainio's final album under the Ø moniker... Following on from the crushing technoid scapes of 'Kilo' under his own name and the blackened alloys of his ÄÄNIPÄÄ album with Stephen O'Malley, 'Konstellaatio' reveals the revered producer at his most sensitive, teetering on the brink of the abyss...
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Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric industrial, occult electronics, and drugged poetry, both embodying and alienating...
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Today’s Active Lifestyles, the second full-length by North Carolina rockers Polvo, did exactly what a sophomore LP is supposed to do: It expanded the ideas put forth in the first album, gave them a new spin and shine, and presented the “where we are now” to the world....
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With a career spanning two decades and 12 releases, LA duo People Under the Stairs bid farewell last year. Their unique self-produced legacy earned them the designation "The Steely Dan of Hip-Hop" and a worldwide fanbase. Now, for the first time ever, they are reissuing long out-of-print, 2002 classic O.S.T....
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Restocked. Absolutely essential spiritual jazz masterpiece from 1975. This is an exact repro of the original release; it was also re-released with different cover art with Herbie Hancock and Don Cherry as the artists. In addition to Hancock and Cherry, performers include Buster Williams, Mtume, Ed Blackwell and Billy...
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Strum & Thrum seems like the right fit for the first reissue compilation for Captured Tracks. I’m happy that the first compilation I’ve ever produced features overlooked records that are still affordable — anyone who enjoys this comp can dive deeper into this scene without having to take out a...
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This 1975 album is one of a kind in lots of ways. First, it's keyboardist Roland Haynes' only album. But more importantly, Second Wave has a sound'and line-up'unlike pretty much any other jazz fusion album to come out before or since. Anchored by a fantastic rhythm section of Carl Burnett...
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“Bishop Norman Williams is an amazing musician. He not only has command of his instrument and music, but a great spirit that reflects a knowledge and love of his people and what they give the world—the same spirit shared by Sachmo, Bird, and Trane. Reign on, Bishop.” —...
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The multi-media project Kraftwerk was started in Dusseldorf, Germany 1970 by Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums. Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century. AUTOBAHN 1974, RADIO-ACTIVITY 1975, TRANS EUR'OPE...
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Alleviated Records presents the first-time vinyl reissue of Larry Heard's mid-90's gem "Sceneries Not Songs, Volume 1". The album stems from a time when the tempo slowed down and Heard reached a perfect synthesis of jazz influences, deep electronic ambiance and the house sound he was known for....
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Reissue on vinyl of Coil's 2002 5-track album. Few copies available....
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Mood Hut are back with a stunningly detailed ambient album from Hotspring. "Obit For Sunshade is digital technology half buried in the soil, transparent emotion in the intertidal zone; ferns growing by night out of a 4x4 flatbed. Brought to you by Scott Gailey."...
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Official vinyl repress. Following the tour for 'Rid of Me', Polly Harvey parted ways with Robert Ellis and Stephen Vaughn, leaving her free to expand her music from the bluesy punk that dominated PJ Harvey's first two albums. It also left her free to experiment with her...
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An absolute treasure of an album, CS + Kreme’s debut is an early contender for 2020’s best - a quietly seductive, deeply romantic and stealthily addictive long player in the most classic, enduring sense. ’Snoopy’ has got under our skin with its opiated elegance and spellbinding hooks over the precious...
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Wilkes is the debut full-length release on Leaving Records by experimental / jazz bassist, instrumentalist, and producer Sam Wilkes. Sam Wilkes’ epic emotional debut is a work of genre fusion, made in collaboration with members of the Los Angeles musical community. Mentored by Patrice Rushen, Leon “Ndugu” Chancler; has worked...
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LP1 takes influence from cold wave, applying gloomy chords onto House and Breakbeat, whilst including textures that might draw reference to early IDM. Earth Trax blends dreamy vocals, pads and melodies with striking rhythms, squawking synthesizers and strong bass lines throughout. The LP was recorded as an extension of some...
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