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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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LP ltd to 315 copies. An’archives is proud to present the latest album by Japanese free saxophonist and vocalist Harutaka Mochizuki, Doppelgänger ga boku wo. Since the early 2000s, Harutaka has quietly, yet steadily, released a string of solo and collaborative releases that have allowed multiple perspectives on one of...
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Introducing "The Boy and the Heron", the original soundtrack to Studio Ghibli's 2023 animated film, directed by the acclaimed Hayao Miyazaki. Composed by the renowned talents of Joe Hisaishi and Kenshi Yonezu, this soundtrack is pressed on high-quality black double vinyl and packaged in a gatefold jacket....
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The second LP from this inspired Phoenix DIY punk outfit. "Upstart New York label Dot Dash Sounds have teamed up with Paris' estimable SDZ to bang out this sophomore effort by The Sheaves, an outfit of desert peccaries whose swinley snouts have expertly strung together another string of stinging pearls...
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The 6LP boxset of Mr. Bungle's three legendary albums on Warner Records: Mr. Bungle, Disco Volante & California out July 19. Each album comes as a 2LP Gatefold, all packaged together in a metallic foil box. Mastered by Scott Hull exclusively for vinyl from the original mixes (some for the...
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Fred Again.. ‘USB001’ is an infinite, ever-evolving album that includes recent singles like "Baby Again", "Rumble" (feat. Skrillex & Flowdan, "Jungle", "leavemealone" (feat. Baby Keem) and "stayinit" (feat. Lil Yachty), plus remixes featuring HAAi, Rico Nasty and Nia Archives. Heavyweight double vinyl produced by BMG in 2024. Gatefold sleeve....
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Hers is a specific and singular corner of the Great American Songwriters, artists like David Berman, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Tweedy, and Sufjan Stevens. They're artists connected by a sense of immediacy, not just in the writing - which is precise, evocative, brutal at times, pitch-back funny right when you need...
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Giants Of The Fall is the highly anticipated debut collaboration between Guilty Simpson and Kong The Artisan. Detroit legend Guilty Simpson needs no introduction - he has already cemented his legacy with his collaborations with J Dilla. "Giants Of The Fall" finds Guilty Simpson at his lyrical peak and at...
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Pete Rock was raised in Mount Vernon, but his face belongs on Mount Rushmore. The Chocolate Boy Wonder perfected an art form, inspired millions, and soundtracked a generation. By contrast, Teddy Roosevelt seems like a chump. This is the man who Dilla told, “I wanted to be like you.” Kanye...
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Recorded in 1956 for producer Tom Wilson’s Boston-based label Transition Records, Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill presented trumpeter Donald Byrd in a relaxed and intimate quartet setting with Doug Watkins on bass along with Boston area musicians Ray Santisi on piano and Jim Zitano on drums. This mono Tone Poet...
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Saxophonist Clifford Jordan blew in from Chicago in 1957 with a series of excellent Blue Note dates including Cliff Craft featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, George Tucker on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. The set included Jordan originals like the sublime ‘Laconia’ plus tunes by...
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The Magnificent Thad Jones is widely regarded as the greatest small group recording of the trumpeter and composer’s career. Following his Blue Note debut Detroit – New York Junction in March 1956, Jones returned to the studio in July to record this supremely swinging date with Billy Mitchell on tenor...
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180 Proof Records & BBE Music continue to bring new life to the Strata catalogue, this time with the short-lived label's swan song: Larry Nozero’s 1975 passion project, Time. The final album to be released on Strata Inc., Time is a dream- like mix of mood, an album full of...
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In a long and distinguished career Archie Shepp has made a number of important political statements, speaking out boldly on racial inequality and oppression in America, and Poem For Malcolm has pride of place in his discography. Recorded at the tailed of the 60s after the saxophonist had relocated to...
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Sonny Stitt led a number of excellent record dates in 1959, especially at the end of the year when he produced three LPs for Verve over a span of three sessions with pianist Lou Levy, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Mel Lewis. Playing alto sax throughout this album, Stitt hardly...
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Oscar Peterson's Frank Sinatra tribute features his trio with bassist Ray Brown & drummer Ed Thigpen. The renditions are all under four minutes and are highlighted by "Come Dance with Me," "Just in Time," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "How About You?" This is one of Oscar...
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Now available for the first time on vinyl, the third effort by the eclectic psychedelic funk trio. A seamless blend of funk, psychedelia, turkish music, krautrock, cumbia, north african grooves from the sahel and latin vibes, a unique display of influences that could only mesh in a modern global world....
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Harvest is the first Balthvs album composed by all three band members and the name reflects where the band is currently. After 4 years of the industry grind they have seen massive growth in the digital sphere with over 15 million streams; as well as gracing theaters and festivals across...
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Cause & Effect is BALTHVS second record. An evolution from it's initial chill psychedelic sounds portrayed on 2020's 'MACROCOSM'. Owing to it's Colombian roots, the album has plenty of Latin american rhythms, as well as ventures into Deep House, Turkish Music, Vaporwave, Trip-Hop and Disco. Their signature psychedelic elements are...
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Free The Robots unveils the second installment of his tribute project to his Filipino roots. The veteran member of L.A.'s Low End Theory collective (alongside Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Daedelus, Nosaj Thing) keeps his trademark punchy drum breaks and deep bass, but this time adds 100% samples...
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Formed by drummer Bill Curtis in 1970 the Fatback Band signed to Perception Records who issued this debut album in America in 1972. Recorded at Blue Rock Studio in New York, “Let’s Do It Again” featuring the soon to be patented Fatback sound, the album included originals like ‘Street Dance’...
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Sugar Honey Iced Tea! is the highly anticipated debut album from musclecars, set for a May 2024 release on BBE Music. Having already established their presence in the club scene, from the joyous atmosphere of their Coloring Lessons parties to their residency at Nowadays in NYC, and with genre-bending performances...
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Doing Their Own Thing MACEO AND ALL THE KINGS MEN Discover the album that is utterly fantastic and appeals to music fans across funk, jazz, and pop genres. Maceo and "All the Kings Men" famously broke away from James Brown to "Do Their Own Thing," creating something truly spectacular. Rumors...
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Some of the finest names in classic reggae and ska featuring on this new album Ska Shots on Pressure Sounds. The long player packs in 14 jams that take you to somewhere sunny and laid back with super good vibes aplenty. Roland Alphonso's 'Live Desire' kicks off with some hypotonic...
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Legendary producer and label owner Harvey Averne continues the Coco Records story with the essential The Sun Of Latin Music by Eddie Palmieri. Palmieri, younger brother of Charlie Palmieri, is an acclaimed pianist, composer and musical conjurer who has worked with the top exponents in Salsa and Cuban music for...
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Bringing together - favorite titles - selected by Françoise Hardy, this edition offers rarities (among which "Nuit d'été" (1972), "Now You Want To Be Loved" (1970 - adapted from "Des ronds dans l'eau "), "C'est il dort" (1969), "Des yeux d'enfants" (1970), "T'es pas poli" with Patrick Dewaere - 1971)...
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Pure Mania is the debut album by The Vibrators, who have always been considered one of the most important punk pioneers in the UK. The band was formed in 1976 by Ian ‘Knox’ Carnochan, Pat Collier, John Ellis and John ‘Eddie’ Edwards. In 1976 they were backed by Sex Pistols...
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“A masterpiece” - Rolling Stone
“This album — and this band — is monument to camaraderie, absurdity, and the beauty of creation for creation’s sake” - Stereogum
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“Pavement has found its place in the pop landscape and has refused to move an inch. It protects its core of mystery, which is also a kind of blazing innocence” - New Yorker “A trove of effortless pleasures” - Entertainment Weekly...
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This is our reissue of The Fall’s ninth studio album, Bend Sinister, originally released in 1986. This edition is titled Bend Sinister/The 'Domesday' Pay-Off Triad-Plus! This edition has been remastered...
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Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts! In the opening salvo “Drover,” the cattle is herded. Everyone is in this roundup—this is the...
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Hits Are For Squares is a collection of songs from Sonic Youth’s career, curated by a diverse group of artists, actors, directors and musicians whose own progressive and unconventional style is akin to the freestyle expression of Sonic Youth’s music. The artisans handpicking Sonic Youth include Catherine Keener, Mike D,...
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Orange is the fourth studio album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. It was released through Matador Records on October 12, 1994. The Village Voice ranked the album #16 of the top albums of 1994. NME named it the 16th best album of 1994. In 2018, Paste named it the...
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Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew sound like no other band. This is not because they're contrarians, but because they're artists. I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass has everything that ever made Yo La Tengo great, but elevated to new heights, from the...
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Dan Snaith, under the guise of Caribou (formerly Manitoba), has been producing critically-acclaimed albums for years now, each an impressive development on the previous one. For his Merge debut, he marries the kaleidoscopic grandeur he's known for with pop melodies and harmonies crammed densely together. Andorra is so vividly three-dimensional,...
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In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he fell foul of a local family with alleged mafia ties. Some think he was abducted by aliens....
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Townes had just finished the most prolific run of songwriting and recording in his career when he recorded this 1973 double-LP. It’s not just his best live album, but maybe his best album, period: Pancho & Lefty; For the Sake of a Song; Waitin’ ’Round to Die; No Place to...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in hot off his very recent double pack of kinetic dance floor shakers, ISS010, and three years on from Pool, his manic post-IDM masterpiece, Skee Mask takes the time to stretch out and luxuriate with his newest full length, Resort. Befitting of its title, Resort is also...
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Audiopile Review: The link between NYC’s Scissor & Thread and Vancouver’s own Pacific Rhythm grows a little stronger with this sophomore album from the duo ZG. For those just tuning in, ZG is comprised of vocalist & producer Zansika Lachhani and house/techno producer Grant, the latter is also known as...
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Audiopile Review: Panoram’s Great Times is the 10th entry in the always impressive Balmat catalog, a label who have yet to miss on their way to becoming one of the premier electronic outlets of this young decade. Panoram, the project of Italy’s Raffaele Martirani, already has an impressive back catalog,...
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Audiopile Review: For those who haven’t been keeping up on who Abul Mogard really is, he’s apparently now accepted to be an alias of Italian artist Guido Zen. Fine. Whatever. One slightly disconcerting aspect of this is that Abul Mogard releases quite a lot of albums. Given that Abul is...
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Audiopile Review: An integral part of the Unheard Of Hope imprint, Guatemalan composer Mabe Fratti releases her third solo album for the UK-based label, which quickly follows from the chamber-pop debut of her Titanic project and contributions to this year’s shop highlight from Phét Phét Phét. While Fratti began in...
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Audiopile Review: Another newsletter, another Alva Noto album. You should know the score by now. But if you’ve just started subscribing or whatnot, we’ll get you up to speed. In the early 2000s, Alva Noto (aka German sound artist Carsten Nicolai) was one of the great glitch originators. He released...
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Audiopile Review: Spooky’s beloved 1993 debut gets its first vinyl reissue in a generation, perhaps marking the start of a re-evaluation of the much-maligned progressive house genre? Beginning in the UK, the subgenre’s underground cache and relevance was seemingly short-lived, its pop-centric leanings were quickly co-opted and branded into lifestyle...
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Thom Yorke composed the original score for Daniele Luchetti’s film Confidenza, an adaptation of the Italian drama based on Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name, which premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam and will be out in Italian theaters in April 2024. Confidenza follows Yorke’s previous full-length...
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Audiopile Review: New label alert! Freshly launched UK imprint Sounds of Objects comes out swinging with two reissues of sorely overlooked albums pulled from the bottomless depths of 90’s electronic music, both previously released only on CD and now liberated to vinyl. First up is the self-titled debut from Gagarin,...
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Audiopile Review: New label alert! Freshly launched UK imprint Sounds of Objects comes out swinging with two reissues of sorely overlooked albums pulled from the bottomless depths of 90’s electronic music, both previously released only on CD and now liberated to vinyl. First up is the self-titled debut from Gagarin,...
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Raw funky sounds from Penza Penza – maybe one of the best psychedelic funk bands we've ever heard, and for good reason too – given that Misha Panfilov is involved, and really helps the group find their sound! The production is wonderful – all sorts of weird bits and spaces...
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Audiopile Review: One of the key dub originators, Keith Hudson was known as ‘the dark prince of reggae’. The cover of his unimaginably seminal 1974 album ‘Pick a Dub’ may have featured a Rasta reclining against a palm tree, but there’s nothing sun-splashed about Hudson’s music. His vision of dub...
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Audiopile Review: First new album from Dunedin’s Alastair Galbraith since 2021’s Seconds Mark III, arriving only a few months after the first-time vinyl reissue of Talisman, his beloved 1995 full length of art-damaged lo-fi f art folk. Lagash is issued on the Australian-based Nice Music imprint, a multi-format label largely...
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Audiopile Review: Our Record of the Week is the debut self-titled offering from Finnish spiritual jazz outfit Ville Lähteenmäki Trio, which was initially issued last year on cassette via the Ultraääni Records imprint. For the past half decade, Ultraääni, run by the visual artist Arsi Keva, has been at the...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in alongside two represses of albums from Oiro Pena and Ville Lähteenmäki Trio (both listed this week, scroll down for those), Ultraääni Records offer this new album from the prolific experimental artist Olli Aarni, a contemplative counterpoint to the more explosive sound of those two represses. For...
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Spiritual flute jazz by the mastermind Antti Vauhkonen. Artwork by Arsi Keva. Mastered by Samuli Tanner. Risoprinted cover art. ”Wow where did this come from??!? Raw and essential outsider jazz which will be whispered about for years to come…” -Matti Nives / We Jazz...
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Audiopile Review: Just the other day, we had the honour of being messaged by London’s imposingly cool World of Echo record shop. The message read: “M8, we’re blasting The Dead C’s 1992 noise rock classic ‘Harsh 70s Reality’ and it sounds mint. Also, there’s a bloke in here buying a...
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A legendary concert by one of the great unrecorded bands in free jazz history is here at last. WEBO, the third installment in the Black Editions Archive series of previously unreleased recordings from Milford Graves' private tape library, roars into the station June 21, 2024. For the first time, Charles...
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CHBB was a project by Beate Bartel and Chris Haas that developed from their collaboration in 1981, while working on the self-titled album 'Liaisons Dangereuses‘. They released their music only on four limited cassettes. This compilation presents the complete works of CHBB, including all recordings from their original cassettes alongside...
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A continuation of the extensive research project initiated last year between Sound Metaphors, Transmigration and surviving eye-witness/historian Ray Castle. An in depth analysis of the dancefloor landscape that developed in Goa during the 80s' and early 90's well before "Trance" became the unfortunate dirty word it is today. Before "trance"...
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Guangzhou-based producer and DJ COLA REN released her debut LP, 'Hailu' in June 2023, a fulsome ambient, balearic, and downtempo brew with a gorgeous sense of melody and spirituality that offers a soothing escape. To celebrate the release, we have invited 8 talented musicians to the enchanting realm of ‘Hailu'....
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Nomadico's "Shards" recalls the future of Techno beginning with restlessness and urgency. A time where disco, funk, hip-hop and electro rocked hood parties via boomboxes, DIY recordings and sound systems. Our culture has since been shattered into shards that must be reconstructed, reshaped, remixed and reconnected. The A-side launches with...
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FUJI||||||||||TA returns to Hallow Ground with his second full-length for the Swiss label after it had released his international breakthrough album iki in early 2020. Active since 2006, the Japanese composer and sound artist has become prolific since the release of iki, releasing a slew of records while also touring...
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Mike Paradinas, veteran producer and Planet Mu owner has written a new album called ‘Grush' full of weird bangers that reclaim the 'dance' part of the woeful term IDM. A back-to-first-principles record, inspired in part by the group of artists IDM was coined for; melodic dance music that didn't...
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