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Formed in Great Yarmouth in 1990, Catherine Wheel – singer guitarist Rob Dickinson, guitarist Brian Futter, bassist Dave Hawes and drummer Neil Sims – are possibly one of the greatest lost bands of that fabled decade - Swimming against several tides, they were loosely defined as 'shoegaze', and failed to fit in with the grunge... -
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Overseen by Pixies producer Gil Norton and recorded at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row Studios, where band favourites, Joy Division, had made Closer, Chrome marked a huge step forward, honed on the road after the constant touring to support previous album Ferment With it's sleeve designed by Storm Thorgerson, it's as if the album was a...
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A defining album of the '90s, Last Splash by The Breeders turns 30 in 2023 To celebrate, the band have returned to the original tapes to give it its first-ever remaster, and by doing so have also unearthed two lost tracks that will delight fans Recorded by the 'classic' Breeders line-up of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs...
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Loitering on the same Berkeley streets that birthed Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Crimpshrine, Pot Valiant (AKA Vagrants) developed their own style of Gilmangaze in the early-’90s Compiled here are the band’s Lookout and Sunny Sindicut 7”s, Transaudio LP, comp tracks, and three previously unissued songs Remastered from the...
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"Recently found during the closure of New Town House, Warrington, these tapes formed part of the advertising by the Development Corporation in the early 1970s Showcasing a more pastoral, rural idyll than the architecture might imply, this represented an opportunity for people from smoke grimed cities to escape into a greener,...
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“Outline of Nature” started as an experiment in building a modular synthesizer system and ended up as a voltage controlled outpouring of love for the natural world Sylvan-born and pastoral-powered, sap-blooded and lightning-charged, this album grew out of the damp florescent corners of the woods, each note and sound, a fractal...
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My favourite memories are the odd ones Sharing Larry Grayson’s old dressing room, author Lawrence Norfolk telling a journalist that the Mount Vernon Arts Lab was one of his go to bands when writing, organising the first concert of electronic music in a nuclear command bunker in 1998, playing shows with Silver Apples, Add N to...
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The Alkaholiks, like their LA peers Cypress Hill, had three important things going for them – lots of charisma, top-shelf rhyme skills, and a sound that perfectly straddled both East and West Coasts Their deep funk and hard-as-nails beats and overall production put them in a perfect position to make an impression with fans, no...
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The Lost Tapes originally released on September 23, 2002, is a compilation of Nas tracks he recorded from 1998 to 2001 during the recording sessions of I AM and Stillmatic Several of the cuts were leaked and circulated on mixtapes, but were never properly mastered or commercially released until complied for The Lost Tapes The...
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The contemporary realm of hip hop music can be seen as polarized between two sides; mainstream versus underground, industry versus independent, at a base level boiled down to catchy sounds & infective hooks over higher quality lyrical content These elements don't need to be mutually exclusive, but these days its rare to find...
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Killer Mike’s MICHAEL marks the Run the Jewels member and celebrated MC’s first solo project since 2012’s critically lauded RAP Music; and serves as an introduction to the totality of Michael Render, a lifelong rap fiend whose consciousness is seeped in the sounds of community that raised him - multiple eras of southern rap...
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Sideshow’s new project 2MM Don’t just stand there! is set for release via 10k Featuring production from Alexander Spit, Popstar Benny, Ayochillman, Sideshow himself, and more Themes range from adventures on tour, struggles of day to day life in the DMV, to the ongoing conflict against Sideshow’s people in his homeland of...
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Freddie Gibbs fourth studio album from 2018 is being reissued on black vinyl pressed at 45RPM, play it at 33 1/3 and get that Houston Texas screwed sound ;) or slowed + reverb for the Tik-Tok crowd...
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Zach Saginaw consistently grounds his music in a deeply personal, familial context; his grandmother inspired two releases, his producer aliases, Shigeto and Frank Omura, both reference family names and it's not for nothing that his latest release as Shigeto is titled Lineage While only Saginaw could speak to the ancestral...
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"2012 was a powerful year for me I released my second LP; I played nearly 180 shows in 360 days; I made the move back home from Brooklyn, NY to Detroit, MI; a six-year relationship of mine came to an end and I made it 30 years on the planet" The music of Zach Saginaw, aka Shigeto, has always been deeply rooted in his personal...
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Second time out for the Wormholes following on from their anthology, this one an unreleased album recorded in a concise burstof seven nights in Dublin’s Sun Studios in the spring of 1996 Originally envisaged as being The Wormholes’ second album, the follow up to their 1994 debut “Chicks Dig Scars” unfortunately the end...
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What’s good comes fast Two years after Ad van Meurs met Frank van den Nieuwenhof in the famous ‘Happy End’ in Eindhoven, the first album of the World According To (WAT) was released The foundation for Defreeze, a six-track mini album, was laid in the living room of Ad and Ankie Keultjes, where Ad’s guitar riffs and...
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Colleen thrives on reinvention For over two decades under the name, French artist Cécile Schott has continuously pushed her compositional practice into new directions Her creative approaches have included complex samples and loops, instrumental processing and even dub production techniques applied to the baroque viola da gamba...
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"Gala Drop sound even more focused as a working band, with Amizade – friendship in Portuguese – making perfect sense in a celebration of their, by now, patented soundworld of cosmic inspiration: krautrock's endless and hypnotic potential, dub's sense of transient space, the throb of house, balearic dreams, polyrhythms and a...
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Music From Memory is pleased to present the new LP by Krefeld-born, Berlin-based artist Philipp Otterbach entitled 'The Dahlem Diaries' Recorded in a little-visited corner of the German capital, 'The Dahlem Diaries' is a convergence of ideas, sketches and tracks, both old and new, most of which were produced between 2020-2022...
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While she was still a member of Nasmak, one of the leading bands of the Dutch ultra-movement, Truus de Groot started Plus Instruments in 1978 with herself as the sole member When the project evolved, she found a wide range of rotating collaborators like Michel Waisvisz, Lee Ranaldo and James Sclavunos Plus Instruments was about...
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Turman first came onto the industrial scene in the late 70’s as the ominous ‘other half’ of legendary noise outfit NON Shortly after recording the classic 1977 single Mode of Infection, Turman went on to pursue his own unique vision as a solo artist Fusing every possible influence at his disposal while laying his ideas down...
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"Fearlessly Accessing the Divine Spirit From Here on Out" is the vinyl debut from up-and-coming pianist, composer, and producer Diego Gaeta He has previously released projects as Club Diego and with the trio Human Error Club (whose members Mekala Session and Jesse Justice helped produce this record) He has quickly become a fixture...
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Back for a limited edition, individually numbered 12” single from The Future Sound of London comes the iconic original ‘12TOT 17R’ collection of “Papua New Guinea” mixes Mixes alongside the classic 12” Original include the full length Andrew Weatherall Mix, reissued here for the first time since 1992 Andrew...
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Experience the mesmerizing fusion of traditional African sounds and modern Latin house in Brian Jackson's latest single package, "Mami Wata" Drawing inspiration from the depths of West African mythology, this track takes you on a captivating sonic adventure that spans vast regions of the continent Brian Jackson's rendition of a...
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Latin Freestyle was a dizzying, passionate, ultra-modern music It was the aural equivalent of a can of thirst-quenching Quatro or a Spanish Harlem dance-off, and it became the electronically constructed bridge between disco and house Freestyle grew out of the electro sound of the early 80s, combined clean staccato rhythms with...
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Paul Hillery's third compilation in this series of rare and hard to find grooves is as much a geographical journey as it is a musical one With acts, artists and tracks linked to London, Florida, Atlanta, the Netherlands, Switzerland, California, India and Germany and more this compilation is very much proof of the global language...
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Building upon the aesthetics established on 2021’s 'Stay Indoors And Swim', and with a more intentional focus on listening, 'A Leisurely Swim To Everlasting Life' serves as a mediation on the relationship between sound and its environment for Chuck Soo-Hoo's Ki Oni project “I wanted to give tribute to my grandmother who...
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Jungle Gym Records presents "Trail Canyon Suite", official debut of the Angeles Field Orchestra Deep listening organics, absolute modern classical, exclusively from Jungle Gym! Classic white cassette + double sided J-Card in a clear hard shell case Red "Side A" marker Hand packaged, limited edition run of 54 [JGT90] "Trail...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents the official self-titled debut of LA's "Wire"! Armed with a single drum machine the mysterious duo forge an incredible range of atmospheres, from panicked prison-break techno to cavernous tunnel-rat noise landing like a ton of bricks, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM [JGT89] "Wire" (s/t) by...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Profiler", a brand new offering from LA's V Kristoff Six silhouettes for body, mind and spirit, VK moves in shadows, observing the human form through micro-dub gestures and sparkling ambient texturals a distant beautiful world, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM [JGT96] "Profiler" by V...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Examinations", official debut of Mitchell Crk Sifting through shattered industrial rubbish and 3rd-degree-burn ambient, MC surveys the bleakest of environments, head tripping into the abyss with no relief in sight exclusively for JUNGLE GYM! [JGT88] "Examinations" by Mitchell...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Mekong", a brand new collaborative offering from Scurge & Slow Heat Jungle-mist drones envelop anxious blood-moon electronics in this fully immersive audio experience, peak improvisation from two of LA's best experimentalists exclusively from JUNGLE GYM [JGT91] "Mekong" by Scurge & Slow...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Słońca Brak", official label debut of Warsaw's Verlake Following a string of high quality offerings for various boutique micro-labels (including their own "Laral Tapes"), Verlake surfaces on JG with their most polished and comprehensive album to date, a smoked out collection of lunar-tidal dub,...
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Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids are back with their first major new studio album in over 3 years, an epic, sprawling new work exploring the future, the past and the urgent reality of the present, ‘Afro Futuristic Dreams’ Recorded between San Francisco and London and brought together by the genius of Malcolm Catto at his...
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Following up the Ambivalent album from Satoshi earlier this year, these mix out sessions feature Soichi Terada and Kuniyuki on edit and remix duties "Coastlines" is reconstructed by Soichi Terada as a house track in his recognizable style, expanding the positive and light dance music appeal of the original Kuniyuki made two new...
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Shanti Celeste & Hodge team up again for Peach Discs Shanti Celeste & Hodge - Bounce EP by Peach...
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Parisian funk band Jéroboam returns with their second single for Space Grapes, delivering two slices of modern disco heaven sure to turn heads Influenced by the deeper side of late 70s New York (think Mancuso, Gibbons and Levan), the single features both vocal and dub versions of the dancefloor jam “Turn Down The Lights“,...
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The original single from Escape From New York finally gets an official reissue Originally released in 1983 ‘Save Our Love’ was released a year before ‘Fire in My Heart’ and sets out their highly effective fusion of New Wave, Disco, Italo and Post Punk Featuring Jaki Graham and DC Lee on backing vocals, the 12” also...
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Armon-Jones is a busy man With a sprawling catalogue of solo releases and collaborations - mostly released on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood imprint - he's developed a reputation for virtuosic keyboard playing and pristine production, both elements that ground 'Archetype' He connects again with his old flatmate Maxwell Owin, a DJ...
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This live album – released on vinyl for the first time - is made up of 3 European dates in 2001, and introduced Shorter’s “Footprint Quartet” – pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade All are in top form, especially on challenging reimaginations of the title track and “Masquelero,” both...
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Originally released in 1996 — and for the first time here on vinyl — The New Standard features songs by Stevie Wonder, Prince, Sade, Nirvana and more getting creative, inspired and swinging jazz takes from Herbie and a world class band The recording features an all-star cast of Michael Brecker, John Scofield, Dave Holland,...
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Multi-Grammy® and Oscar® winner Jon Batiste invites the world to experience the marriage of hard hitting pop songs to a rich tapestry of international sounds on his highly anticipated album, World Music Radio Jon Batiste delves into the profound question: Isn't all music, in essence, world music Drawing inspiration from...
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Released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series celebrating 70 years of Contemporary Records, Shelly Manne & Friends' My Fair Lady is the first album to ever consist of jazz versions of songs from just a single Broadway musical First released in 1956 and recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, this new edition features...
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Sun Ra, the extraordinary, outlandish, and sometimes controversial pianist, is often described as an “acquired taste”, with a massive and diverse catalog This release is a good place to start for uninitiated or dismissive listeners The album showcases Ra’s grounding in the jazz tradition, with unique takes on standards like...
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The Tribe co-founder’s masterpiece, lacquered directly from his master tapes in an all analog transfer by Bernie Grundman The definitive reissue of this Spiritual Jazz album, one of the most sought after artifacts of the 1970s jazz underground Vibes From The Tribe by Phil...
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Recorded on Valentine’s Day 1970 at Prince Street in New York, the set depicts Ornette Coleman (alto + tenor sax, trumpet, violin) propelled by the dervish of Haden-Blackwell on bass/drums, and joined by Dewy Rodman (tenor + alto sax) to modulate the intensity It’s shy of Coleman’s wilder urges, showcasing him more...
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Legendary American piano player/ composer Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 - April 20, 2007) lived an active and fruitful life leaving us a legacy of unique, enigmatic music Hill, however disappeared from the scene for about a decade in the late 60s This album and its predecessor "Invitation" released in the mid 70's paved his way back...
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