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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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“Another shot fired from the Swedish underground. There's a lot of experimental, out-there noise emanating out of Gothenburg right now, but let it also be clear that a good portion of this music is waaaaaay more accessible than a lot would have you believe (unless of course i've spent far...
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A reissue of the 1981 debut-album by new age pioneer JD Emmanuel. On 'Rain Forest Music' Emmanuel turns gentle, short cycles of notes into floating clouds of sound, mostly improvising around single chords. The "minimalism" in his music lies not in repetitive patterns that barely change -the extreme end of...
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Another superb live set from iconic post-punk band The Fall, this one recorded at the ICC in Hanover in 1984. Coming on a 2LP set....
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Having previously released two dance-floor orientated extended players in 2019- ‘Hooked On Magic’ EP and ‘Lost In Paradise’ EP - the German producer now turns his attention to more ambient, experimental and leftfield tropes.
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To celebrate the 20th release, giegling has compiled a very special VA with tracks by all core artists plus some new appearances on a 3xLP.
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its too beautiful to embrace change and to challenge urself to find something meaningful in it... i love my friends and love is deep :') i want them to know that always... but sometimes i get busy and overwhelmed n im not the best at saying how i feel always......
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Ulla & Perila’s newly formed Log duo arrives on Experiences Ltd with a sublime full-length suite of dubbed-out, warm and fizzing energies, reminding us of Vainqueur’s classic Elevation productions for Chain Reaction, and the most dense, tranquil moments from Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS excursions. Ulla and Perila have each supplied us...
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In the early 1970s, the journalist and composer Walter Bachauer played with experimental fusion group Between, and after founding the Meta Music Festival, began working for RIAS Berlin. 1981's 'Luna Africana' was the first electronic album he issued as Clara Mondshine. Produced by early Tangerine Dreamer Klaus Schulze, it's delightfully...
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Reissue on vinyl of the sixth PJ Harvey studio album Uh Huh Her. The album was self-produced and originally released in May 2004. Uh Huh Her features the singles "The Letter," "You Came Through," and "Shame." Reissue is faithful to the original recording and package, with cutting by Jason Mitchell...
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Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ – by all account, the mopst important work in the history of minimalism “A Masterpiece”- it has been re-recorded by Portishead’s Adrian Utley. If ever there were a popular work of minimalism, one that stated its purpose so clearly it could not be mistaken, Terry Riley’s...
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Around the time of this recording, Stanley Cowell had achieved a degree of prominence as the pianist for the advanced bop quartet Music Inc., which he co-led with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, as well as for unusual projects like his Piano Choir. With Regeneration he chose another path, essentially trying to...
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For their first collaboration on an original audio-visual artefact, Ali M. Demirel and Anthony Linell have developed a stunning and unsettling work that studies the Icelandic landscape as a motor of mythology, a snare that binds us in contradiction. Far from being an acoustic summation of the collaboration, this release...
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In 1976, Yusef Lateef’s as restless a spiritual seeker as there ever was in the field of music, revisited some of his earliest themes in the context of modern sonic frameworks: The Eastern modal and melodic frameworks of his Prestige sides, such as Eastern Sounds, Cry!/Tender, and Other...
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After crafting one of the most enduring albums of the last few years with 2008's 'Hazyville', Actress sets his sights on the future with a crucial debut for Honest Jon's. Wheras it's predecessor was composed over a staggered period of many, many years, this album was fashioned in a fraction...
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Two years since 'Splazsh' topped a stack of annual polls, Actress presents his 3rd, and most coherent album, 'R.I.P' - his 2nd for Honest Jon's. Despite being a vital cog in the machinery of underground UK dance and electronics since at least 2004 (when he released his 'No Tricks' debut),...
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Honest Jons finally compile their amazing lineup of Tony Allen remixes for this one mighty package. Reworkings from Basic Channel's Mark Ernestus and Mauritz Von Oswald head the lineup, with Mauritz delivering a Ten and a half minute basic channel classic, a mighty Steppers version that unfolds in textbook Rhythm...
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Wandering mystic Jackson Bailey aka Tapes returns to Good Morning Tapes on a vinyl edition of his ’Silence Please’ suite, as found on a rare cassette edition in 2018. After ticking off musical trips to Japan, the Caribbean, and Nebraska, we return to Tapes’ Indian sojourn for a hypnotic reminder...
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Key Príncipe unit Puto Márcio, Lycox, B.Boy and Danifox - aka Tia Maria Produções - return to the Lisbon powerhouse with six driving batida songs and club trax built to shake off worries in the dance Six years since their formative 2014 debut, on ‘Lei Da Tia Maria’ the group...
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For us there was no record that better captured our sense of surreal dislocation this year than this one. Originally released on tape over the summer, 'In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle’ finds Mark Leckey stitching together a fantasy travelogue made up of found sounds, spoken word and dismantled tunes like...
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Missing masterpieces of the original Jamaican Ska. Recorded at the Federal Studio between 1964 to 1965 and released on Ken Khouri's Kentone label, this is another essential reissue from the Dub Store Records camp, not to be missed! Featuring The Maytals, The Techniques, Dobby Dobson, Eddie Perkins, Sneer-Towners, Stranger &...
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The quiet, prolific producer collaborated with everyone from Erykah Badu to Common to Janet Jackson to Prince. Dilla was just beginning to capitalize on his cult status when he sadly passed at age 32 due to Lupus-related complications. Jay Stay Paid is a 25 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats...
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Credited as one of the best late '60s German psych-rock albums, Bokaj Retsiem's ('Meister Jakob' in reverse) 'Psychedelic Underground' is an eccentric, soulful, acid and fuzzy rockin' essay that clearly prefigures a part of the krautrock movement. Featuring Rainer Deigner, former guitarist for the '60s German beat group German Bonds,...
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Double-LP edition on 180-gram vinyl, presented in a gatefold sleeve with a 4-page booklet. This live material was recorded on April 10th, 1970 at Fillmore West, San Francisco, when Davis performed as the opening act for the Grateful Dead. The recording took place shortly after the release of Miles' classic...
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Here's a remastered vinyl reissue of cult thrash/death metal album from 1993....
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'Itaipu', written by American composer Philip Glass, were commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Along with 'The Light' (1987), they marked Glass's continuation of a symphonic trilogy of "portraits of nature" as he had recently turned to making orchestral music. The composition pays a beautiful homage to the...
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Farfalla Records presents a reissue of 'Jungle Obsession' by Nino Nardini & Roger Roger. This official reissue of this classic library album comes as a 50th anniversary edition on 180 gram vinyl with two bonus tracks. Jungle Obsession is one of the pearls of pop exotica. Includes 'Safari Park' and...
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It's back in stock! Newly repressed at 45 RPM by Quality Record Pressings. This recording was originally mastered at the former AcousTech Mastering facility and the sound is fantastic. John Lee Hooker himself did not know his exact date of birth. If he hadn't died at around the age of...
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The Spaceman Reissue Program edition of Lazer Guided Melodies promises to give those recordings the fullest spectrum audio and physical treatment they’ve deserved since 1992. It will be the first in this series of 180g double albums mastered from a half speed lacquer cut from original sources by Alchemy Mastering,...
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The remarkable Music, Inc. Big Band remains the apotheosis of trumpeter Charles Tolliver’s singular creative vision. Rarely if ever has a big band exhibited so much freedom or finesse, while at the same time never overwhelming the virtuoso soloists on whom the performances pivot. Built around the core...
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This is one of Eddie Harris’ great records. The playing is inspired! What a band! Cedar Walton (piano) and Billy Higgins (drums), Lee Morgan’s favourite rhythm section. The underrated but popular tenor saxophonist introduces his “Freedom Jazz Dance,” which would become a jazz standard after featuring on Miles...
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Four-and-a-half decades after the event, saxophonist Charles Lloyd’s Love-In, recorded live at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium in 1967, the counterculture’s West Coast music hub, endures as much as an archaeological artifact as a musical document. From sleeve designer Stanislaw Zagorski’s treatment of Rolling Stone photographer Jim Marshall’s cover...
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Rare stuff from John Coltrane! The album features Trane playing tenor on only 4 of the album’s 8 tracks – making it kind of surprising that they used his name in the title – but the album is a lesser-known batch of large group recordings that offer an...
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This is a classic. At a time when the civil rights movement was starting to heat up, drummer Max Roach performed and recorded a seven-part suite dealing with black history (particularly slavery) and racism. “Driva’ Man” has a powerful statement by veteran tenor Coleman Hawkins and there is...
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Charles Mingus has a fascinating way of offering music that is grounded in tradition while remaining startlingly original. The freshness of a piece like Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, has the effect of rendering much of what passes for jazz as tedious. The band is small for Mingus,...
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This music counts among Ellington’s most well-realized ‘concept projects’, all inspired by Shakespeare’s work and filled with memorable melodies and ample opportunities for solos by Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Quentin Jackson. The Ellington-Strayhorn compositions treat their soloists like actors doing scenes and, in effect, playing...
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Recorded over two days in December of 1972 at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood, New Jersey home studio, vibraphonist Milt Jackson’s Sunflower is the first — and best — of his three albums for Creed Taylor’s CTI imprint. (And one of the finest offerings on the label.) With a core...
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Pianist Lonnie Liston Smith began his true professional career with Pharoah Sanders and then moved on to the very electric Miles Davis band before embarking on his own journey — one that took him deep into the waters of pop music and disco by the late ’70s. On...
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This is a reissue of a now out-of-print album from live trio date by the legendary LA-based pianist, composer and multi-bandleader, Horace Tapscott. Pianist Horace Tapscott is always at his best when he is leading a trio. “Sketches of Drunken Mary” features some sparkling piano revolving around a...
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Two years after the death of his mentor and boss, John Coltrane, and just before signing his own contract with Impulse!, Pharoah Sanders finally got around to releasing an album as a leader apart from the Impulse! family. Enlisting a cast of characters no less than 13 in...
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On this record, the little-known Charles Brackeen brings his saxophone to a party with most of Ornette Coleman’s band. As might be expected, while Brackeen certainly holds his own, it’s Ornette’s boys who bring the thunder, playing around Brackeen’s muscular alto as if they were a gang jumping...
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Charles Tolliver began his professional career and simultaneously his recording debut with the saxophone giant Jackie McLean on Blue Note Records in 1964. Since then he has become one of the all-time preeminent trumpeters in Jazz as well as one of its most gifted composer/arranger bandleaders. He is also a...
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John Gordon, a trombone master, brings us another gem from that most renowned of 70’s record labels, Strata-East. The trombone is a difficult instrument. In the hands of an artist like John Gordon, however, it can create vivid images and conjure up beautiful music. And when the cohort...
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A landmark recording in early creative improvised modern music, bassist Cecil McBee’s recording for the Strata East label is an important document introducing him as a leader from the international jazz-based scene in New York City via his native Tulsa, OK and following a brief mid-‘60s stint in...
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