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Estonia native Misha Panfilov has been making waves in the vibrant rare groove scene, solidifying his presence with a string of personalized albums. Renowned for his crafted and funk-infused singles on the FNR label out of Detroit, it was albums like the laid-back “Days As Echoes” and the jazz-inflected “Momentum”...
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Currently based in Los Angeles, Laurel Halo has spent over a decade stepping into different towns and cities for a moment or more, to the point where everywhere almost became nowhere. Atlas, the debut release on her new imprint Awe, is an attempt to put that feeling to music. Using...
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Double LP version. While the string of legendary independent labels, from Blue Note and Prestige to Steeplechase and Impulse! loom large in the Spiritual Jazz catalog, Jazzman's latest installment concerns the brave and innovative souls who acted "privately," recording and releasing their music without the aid or involvement of a...
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On this 1970 album recorded in Los Angeles, Donato departs from his Brazilian bossa nova roots, incorporating an eclectic, and electric, mix of funk, fusion and psychedelic pop. The result is a groovy Fender Rhodes driven set, highlighted by “The Frog” and “Lunar Tune”. The Verve By Request Series features...
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Australian post-punk sextet EXEK—singer Albert Wolski, guitarist Jai Morris-Smith, synthesist Andrew Brocchi, trumpeter and backing-vocalist Valya YL Hooi, bassist Ben Hepworth, and Chris Stephenson on the drums—deliver their sixth full-length LP, The Map and the Territory. Self-recorded throughout 2021 to 2022, frontman Albert Wolski describes The Map and the Territory...
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"We are excited to get Moonshake’s debut album Eva Luna back in print, and on October 6th, we will release a deluxe edition re-mastered from analogue 1⁄2” tape on double blue vinyl. Our reissue contains 19 tracks which equal the album’s original 10, The non-LP three-song single “Secondhand Clothes”, the...
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Minor Science -- aka UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson -- makes his Balmat debut with Absent Friends Vol. III, the third installment in a shape-shifting series across a variety of formats and platforms. And with it, he pushes forward his vision of ambient music as neither static vista or merely...
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2023 restock. "In 1987, Rafael Toral began making his own compositions and solo recordings. 30 years later, these recordings sound remarkably prescient and perfectly timeless -- almost fresher today than when they were first released. Rafael has spent the time since then developing his conceptions, with continued explorations in the...
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With its strong but unvarnished pop melodies, dubby production and sprinklings of exuberant racket nicked from free jazz records, D’Ya Hear Me’s contents would flow perfectly on a mixtape along with The Slits, Raincoats, Young Marble Giants, early PiL, and Vivien Goldman’s “Launderette” single. But Ray’s track would be the...
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Producer, DJ, and composer Seb Wildblood returns to the fold with third album Separation Anxiety. Set for release via his own "all my thoughts" label, the prolific producer's blissful electronics are on full display across the album's 10 tracks, his most ambitious and fully realized offering yet. While Separation Anxiety...
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The Meat Puppets' landmark 1985 album, reissued and remastered for vinyl. This one is a stone cold classic; a mix of punk rock, folk, country, jams and poetic lyrics that was a shock when originally released on SST way back when. From the stoned and sunny opening title track to...
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Audiopile Review: We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is, without a doubt, the most hotly anticipated rap album of 2023, coming two years on from Armand Hammer’s breakthrough album with the Alchemist, Haram, and followed by acclaimed solo albums from both ELUCID and billy woods. We are happy to report that the...
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The seed of evil has been sown and all the trees have been infected. The trees infect the water, the animals, the air and the children. The fragmentation is becoming more and more apparent. Have the one you trusted the most turned its back on you? All of a sudden...
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'Serwed IV' mines the vaults for tinny '90s workstation bells and FM pads placed alongside rigorously designed sci-fi drums and textures. The duo take inspiration from commercial background music, from film, documentaries, adverts and installations, re-contextualised with a modern sheen.
Album opener ‘Glare’ deploys Blade Runner-esque midi-woodwind and 4th world pads,...
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LA-based, Dallas-raised artist Liv.e, announces her sophomore album 'Girl In The Half Pearl' due February 10th via In Real Life. 'Girl In The Half Pearl' seizes on both the creative and personal liberation Liv.e has experienced in the time since her 2020 debut album 'Couldn't Wait To Tell You...'. The...
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Om Unit’s ‘Acid Dub Studies’ series continues to unfold. This latest instalment of the project comes in the form of 10 brand new remixes which form the second volume of ‘Acid Dub Versions’, featuring remixes from Yushh (Pressure Dome/Wisdom Teeth), Hodge (Houndstooth / Livity Sound), Double O (Rupture), Amy Kisnorbo...
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Open up the blinds and take me there. We’ll break the surface tension. We’ll dive in. I’m locked in your devotion. You give an inclination to our demise. It will be our exit. To bliss, we’ll be its guardian. Once there was love. Clear as glassy water. No ripples, no...
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First time vinyl repress of a classic Harold Budd album originally released in 1988. Partly recorded at the Cocteau Twins studio with production help from Robin Guthrie and Brian Eno, the album’s effortless blend of glistening synths, limpid piano notes, foggy textures and space result in a beautiful contemplative whole.
“Although...
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Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Beastie Boys’ 3× Platinum album Hello Nasty. This is a limited edition reissue of the rare deluxe 4LP version of the album that was released as an artist store exclusive in 2009. Long out-of-print and sought after by fans/collectors, it features two extra LPs (w/...
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Limited opaque aqua blue vinyl 2LP. Originally released in 1996, 'Exploded Drawing' was generally received as Polvo's "White Album", the moment when the band finally kicked off its shoes, cracked the studio windows, and unleashed a long suite of songs showcasing the band's true range. This double LP gives it...
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Audiopile Review: We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is, without a doubt, the most hotly anticipated rap album of 2023, coming two years on from Armand Hammer’s breakthrough album with the Alchemist, Haram, and followed by acclaimed solo albums from both ELUCID and billy woods. We are happy to report that the...
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Audiopile Review: Seriously stunning debut album from the intercontinental duo Ys, who unleash a an incredible work of contemporary ambient-techno and post-club bliss that’ll have your head spinning if you’re into anything from Selected Ambient Works to Rephlex-era µ-Ziq or even Will Long’s extended ambient-house sessions. The duo flex a palette...
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Audiopile Review: Do you like your techno dubby, glitchy, and slooowed down so much that it isn’t even really techno at all? Think the deconstructed dub of Rhythm & Sound. Consider the mesmerizing bass pressure of Pole. Ruminate about the dehumanized jazz fragments of Jan Jelinek. Recall the intellectually rigorous lounge...
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In recent years, SadhuGold has emerged as one of hip-hop’s most exciting new sonic architects. Specializing in raw, dusty vibes with an otherworldly feel, the Philadelphia native has crafted tracks for acclaimed artists like Mach-Hommy, Westside Gunn, Your Old Droog, Rome Streetz, Tha God Fahim, and more. Originally released on...
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Audiopile Review: Debut release from Brooklyn-based cine-funk outfit Pu Poo Platter, coming courtesy of Funk Night Records, probably best known for being the long-time US home for Estonian producer Misha Panfilov and his many projects. The quintet trod similar territory to the likes of early Badbadnotgood, Surprise Chef, 37th Chamber-era...
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Save Yourself is the debut solo album from rapper/producer ELUCID, New York’s best-kept secret. He’s worked with some of indie hip-hop’s most celebrated artists, like Open Mike Eagle, Tanya Morgan, billy woods, Beans from Antipop, milo, J*Davey, Busdriver, Small Professor and Rob Sonic. ELUCID has released critically-acclaimed collaborative projects as...
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Following reissues for Rush Hour & Studio Mule, Sound Of Vast present “A Love From Tokyo 1991-2003,” a collection of work from Japanese artist, Hiroshi Matsui.
The album features ten tracks produced between 1991 and 2003, and includes material reissued for the first time and previously unreleased treasures from his own...
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JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Natural Paths", a brand new extended play from LA's Lac Seul. Fresh off of 2022's instant-classic "Lac Seul" cassette, the shadowy duo continue to develop their one-of-a-kind blend of coastal drift-house and tactile aquatic electronics on "Natural Paths", wandering off trail only to emerge...
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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...
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Field Records presents the first complete vinyl edition of Monolake's seminal excursion into experimental dub techno, Hongkong. Originally released on the now-classic Chain Reaction label in 1997, this collection of early singles by Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles has gone on to become a vital listening experience in its own...
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A deluxe, embossed 2 LP box set. Alongside a remastered version of PHAROAH, his seminal record from 1977, are two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece, “Harvest Time." Includes a 24-page booklet with rarely seen photographs and ephemera, as well as interviews with many of the participants and a...
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Hiroshima-based artist Meitei announces the reissue of Kwaidan on the 5th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album. A collaboration between 2 labels – KITCHEN. LABEL (Kofū I & II) and Evening Chants (Kwaidan), the reissue sees the highly anticipated special 5th Anniversary Edition of Kwaidan with two previously unreleased bonus...
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The debut album from New York City's Bowery Electric was released in late summer 1995 after they came to the attention of kranky via their self-released 2x7” Drop EP from the year previous.
The first in a trio of albums released by the core duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener...
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"Woo, the project of brothers Mark and Clive Ives, return to Palto Flats for the reissue of Into The Heart Of Love, originally released on cassette in 1990. Formed in the seventies in South London, the duo developed a cult following over the years, with renewed interest in their catalog...
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Dial announce Ben Kaczor's album, Petrovo Uho. After his debut LP, Sun Chapter One on KCZ, Ben Kaczor presents eleven brand new tracks. "For the album, an important conceptual thought came from encountering a rare ear-shaped seashell called 'Petro Uvo (Peter's Ear).' I found it while diving in Dubrovnik, Croatia...
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bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have announced details of their new album ‘Tracey Denim’, which will be released digitally and on CD May 19th on Matador. The album will be available on vinyl September 8.
‘Tracey Denim’ was recorded and produced by...
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Nearly 30 years after Kids’ seismic release, Music For KIDS—a deluxe reissue of The Folk Implosion’s original compositions that soundtracked Larry Clark’s and Harmony Korine’s 1995 cult classic film—compiles for the first time all of the songs the duo of Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr.) and John Davis...
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A split release between Utter and special guest dj’s 3XL, ‘they're with you always’ supplies sanctuary for fried minds and bodies with a highly effective escape pod to serene and OOBE-like dimensions. The artist’s thizzing backdrops of sferic resonances and massaged subs are in step with his 2021 debut ‘Let...
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RAMZi is returning home with these eight sonic quests, reanimating the dormant FATi Records, Phoebé’s own label.
Feu Follets (Fire Sprites) are fireflies, flickering balls of light dancing in the dark shadows, found in fields, forests, chaparral, and scrublands, the many different landscapes of RAMZi’s whimsical adventures.
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Roiling in the wake of his Cav Empt tape, PLO Man’s ‘anonymousmaterial’ prizes the whole “faceless techno” era of ‘90s dance music when a cohort of lowkey artists laid the bed for for today’s LARPers. On each count PLO Man coaxes pulsating rhythms and chattering synths with restless, hands-on discipline...
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The Flow was a psychedelic hard-rock power-trio formed in New York by Pete Fine, Monte Farber and Steve Starer. It was the early '70s in NYC, the pre-glam/punk/new wave days, when Flow (who rehearsed next room to a band called Wicked Lester, later known as KISS) decided to start playing...
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The second 12" to drop on Hank Jackson’s Anno Records comes courtesy of NYC techno oddball Huerco S. under his Loidis moniker. A Parade features three minimal club tracks replete with chirruping synth motifs and the odd dub-techno bassline. The title track is a hypnotic, edge-of-the-dancefloor delight. Imagine a more...
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In the late 2000s a sprawling catalog of what is now genre-defining music was emanating from an unlikely place. Cleveland has a broad reputation for many things, but in the aughts, psyche-expanding Kosmische wasn't necessarily Cleveland's calling card - until Emeralds. The trio of John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark...
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Pacific Rhythm is honoured to share the debut self-titled EP from Inner Flight, a duo comprised of Cooper Saver and Chris Macintyre. Inner Flight began as a long-distance collaboration during 2020 inspired by rural Canadian landscapes, natural beauty, and a myriad of musical fluencies spanning The Second Summer of Love,...
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Threads of Technicolor drama, Factory cool, and bedsit ambition squeezed onto a cassette tape in shimmering and immediate song. Lo-fi that reverently spans the gap between '60s Love (Arthur Lee), '70s private-pressed and would-be glam (Lucky Pierre, Brett Smiley), and perhaps most transparent: The Sound of Young Scotland (Postcard 7-inches)....
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LP version. Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany's sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the corpse of the ubiquitous "neo-kraut", "diskurs-pop", and the like. This is a small underground network of artists and projects with poetic,...
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Since immigrating to Canada in 2010, Danish musician Kim Oxlund has kept busy composing a string of award winning film scores with fellow musician Maya Saxell, who he also released two critically acclaimed albums with in the mid 2000s as 'Said the Shark'. But in the quiet nights of 2022,...
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Uptown, they unfurl scratchy drums and lissom psych/jazz guitar in a spiralling vortex of experimentally agile steppers groove - think of a whisked, hyper Andreas Tilliander and Shed collab - whilst the flipside finds that groove inverted to a viscous tangle and spaced out in fluid, sticky motion.
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