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Audiopile Review: In what’s shaping up to be an incredible run for Organic Pulse Ensemble, the one-man band made up of the wildly talented Gustav Horneij chases a pair of near-perfectly executed spiritual jazz juggernauts for Ultraääni, plus an instantly sold-out 10” EP for Jazzagression, with a new album that...
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Audiopile Review: Independent jazz imprints RR Gems and Ultraääni have a lot of crossover appeal for connoisseurs of contemporary jazz, the two labels trading off releases between like-minded acts in an inspiring display of mutual love and appreciation that conjures the communal spirit of independent jazz labels of 70 years...
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Audiopile Review: Those of you who only know Mazzy Star from ‘So Tonight That I Might See’ are in for a shock. Sure, that album’s great. And, yes, we love ‘Fade Into You’. But ‘So Tonight…’ is honestly the band’s third-best album, after ‘She Hangs Brightly’ and ‘Among My Swan’,...
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Among My Swan features the same swirling, psychedelic folk music that brought Mazzy Star mainstream success with 1993's So Tonight that I Might See. The songs employ the sparse arrangements and dark sense of space first explored by bands like Big Star (on Third / Sister Lovers) and the Velvet...
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Audiopile Review: When is pop truly sophisticated? No shade on sophistipop per se acts like The Blue Nile and Prefab Sprout. We love them. But there’s another stratum of sophisticated pop acts where the sheen is often less shiny but the musical and lyrical content is arguably more truly sophisticated....
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Audiopile Review: Absolute bliss-out session from the long-running ambi-folk project of Dutch musician Jonny Nash. Arriving a couple of years since his Point Of Entry album, Nash slips into a balearic-zoner after the ghostly shimmer-folk of its predecessor, lazily waltzing towards sunnier pastures this time around. Circular guitar lines lazily...
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Audiopile Review: Despite being one of the most influential and flat-out-best experimental electronic artists of the 21st-century, Christian Fennesz keeps an oddly low profile these days. You might even have missed his excellent 2024 album ‘Mosaic’, particularly as the Touch label only put it out on CD. The sole vinyl...
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Audiopile Review: Long-awaited vinyl edition of Salamanda’s 2nd album, 2021’s magnificent and sorely overlooked Sphere. Initially released only on cassette and CD, the album disappeared between the cracks of their splashy debut for Good Morning Tapes and the widely praised pairing of Ashblakum and In Parallel. Japanese imprint Plancha satiate...
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Audiopile Review: Back to back winners from Dutch producer Mammo, who follows up the very recently highlighted 2x12” under his Fabiano guise with his first full length under his most notorious moniker. With about a dozen 12”s as Mammo and various ungoogleable pseudonyms (2301, 2302, 2401, A∞x, CoA-A) since arriving...
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Audiopile Review: Up until the turn of the millennium, Finnish electronic duo Pan Sonic built a small but perfectly formed discography. After that, the situation started to get a little fuzzy, as Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen indulged in all manner of collaborations and solo projects. It can all be...
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Audiopile Review: ddwy returns after 2024’s fantastic Spinning Stones with another brief delight in the form of Beaming Backwards—four cuts of dreamy, dubby, and groove-heavy bliss that feel tailor-made for summer’s waning hours. This time around, a deeper dream pop influence runs through the haze, with hints of Broadcast-like ambient...
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Through the interaction of dulcet textures and harmonious melodies, infused with Greek bouzouki string plucks, sporadic piano and violin, enigmatic musician Gabriel Brady laments the everyday with daring simplicity on his lustrous alt-ambient debut for the Tonal Union imprint. Across its seven vignettes, 'Day-blind' is life animated as Brady makes...
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Domenique Dumont’s fourth album, Deux Paradis, arrives like the three that came before it – with an air of mystery and wonder. This is dance music for inner worlds – rituals, revelations and reveries. Deux Paradis is a ten-track song cycle that leads the listener through the rhythm of a...
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Music From Memory are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of ‘Pastoral Blend,’ a new album from the duo of N Kramer and Magnus Bang Olsen (The Zenmenn). Recorded in Berlin between August 2023 and March 2024, ‘Pastoral Blend’ combines Kramer's improvisational process and mastery of contemporary production techniques with...
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Sofia Kourtesis has announced that she will release her new EP Volver on 1 August via Ninja Tune. Along with the announcement she has shared lead single ‘Unidos’ which is made in collaboration with Daphni (aka Dan Snaith aka Caribou), the first ever Daphni collaboration track....
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SofaTalk’s deliciously eclectic music presents as a patchwork of styles carefully pieced together to produce a sound that, whilst tricky to define, ultimately, is a true joy to experience. His unique take on electronica pulls influence from across the global underground, his homeland of Italy, the nu-jazz movement, and beyond....
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"If you like your drum & bass to go deep and ride half-time, lock into this one from Berlin's music composer, publisher and researcher, Felix K. Presumably influenced by the subterranean depths of the murkier corners of his hometown, these are menacing cuts that stay low but hit big. The...
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Gradually, the latest album by Julien Mier, is a sonic journey that delves into the transitions of life, identity, and the blurred boundaries between art and personal growth. With a trilingual brain, Mier reflects on how language shifts have shaped his sense of self throughout his life and the music...
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Space Dimension Controller (Ninja Tune, R&S, Dekmantel, Royal Oak) returns with a six-track EP that pays homage to the early 90s Artificial Intelligence era—think Warp Records, ambient techno, and the roots of IDM—but with his signature futuristic twist. While the foundation is unmistakably retrofuturist, SDC propels the sound into new...
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RWR’s latest release comes straight from Berlin’s underground Electronic Jazz scene. Simon Herody, originally from the South of France but living in the German capital since 2020, delivers an eight-track suite of ambient-informed Jazz. The album grew out of solo gigs in hotel lobbies, low-key half improvised...
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Highlighting a decade of working together as ‘Fronte Violeta’, Brazilian transdisciplinary artist Anelena Toku and musician and sound artist Carla Boregas are set to release the album ‘Fronte Violeta’, a captivating blend of aural compositions, scents and experiences. Switching the moniker name to the album title serves as a way...
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"Wind, Again" is Sary Moussa’s fourth studio album and second album on Other People. Based between France and Lebanon, Moussa returns with a riveting electro-acoustic album informed by his ever-changing relationships to space, listening, and resonance as well as his growing interest in the study of harmonics in electronic and...
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Founded in 2020 by Austrian producer Lee Stevens, Rising Seed has evolved into a joint venture with Ken Hayakawa and a collective of guest musicians. Blending acid jazz, trip hop, and disco, the project bridges the warmth of live instrumentation with the depth of electronic production. With a strong focus...
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ETNOBOTANIKA - remember them? Well, now it's KOSMOBOTANIKA! But rest assured - it's still the same excellent band from Ruda ?l?ska, only this time instead of a forest full of ghosts or a land of fairy tale creatures like a Fruwajacy Przestepca the duo of producers takes us on an...
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Zach writes his dreams, his grand inner music emanating directly from his soul and offering it to the world, guided by his intuition. Nine abstract, ambient, and celestial tracks, evolving with his sensitivity, conducted like an intimate orchestra, revealing his landscapes and skies. Sweetzak takes us on a journey within...
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After a stay in Detroit in 2022 (where I met some of the artists whose music I admire the most), I returned to Montreuil, illuminated and brimming with energy. I had my MPC2000XL repaired, found a second-hand Yamaha Motif ES6 at Zikplace in Croix de Chavaux, and a Korg Triton...
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Third studio album of Tren, following two sold-out releases (The Rising and Setting of the Heavenly Bodies; The Passages through Space and Time). An hour of hypnotic minimal techno and electronica, unfolding seamlessly to guide the listener on an introspective journey. Coming out 1.5 year after the unreleased set (mixed...
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Originally released in 1999 on Kog Transmssions in NZ, and then worldwide via Universal Jazz in 2000, this was MdCL's first major international release. Presenting a new voice on the global crossover jazz scene, Six Degrees showcased Mark's first time integrating sample and beat technology with his keyboards and compositions....
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Petre Inspirescu returns with a four-part suite of mesmeric, long-form compositions. Spanning two 12" records, each track occupies a full side - unfolding with the patience and precision of serialist structures. Drawing from minimalism and contemporary classical traditions, this is introspective electronica in its most refined form - hypnotic, elegant,...
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A love letter to the open-hearted spirit of the Adriatic coast and the sounds that have defined her career. Curated with the theme “U Skladu” (Croatian for “In Harmony”) in mind, the 13-track collection embodies the soulful, euphoric energy of Love International....
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Label head Moopie and digger extraordinaire Bayu shine light on a set of gems excavated from a curious period of IDM-electronica. The sentimental sequel to their stunning I Won't Have To Think About You compilation, the ten tracks float in melancholic space yet sound beautifully human. Neo Ouija alumni Bauri...
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We are back with another chapter in our ongoing series of unearthing smooth vibes from all over the world, this time we go back to the FUTURE for you with: THE SUNSET MANIFESTO Volume 2. After a five year break mainly concentrating on the late 70s/early 80s Westcoast Soul/Yacht/AOR sound,...
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Toy Tonics ITALOMANIA Vol. 3 is a compilation dedicated to NEW ITALIAN DISCO. (Not Italo Disco.) 14 young contemporary Italian producers made new organic disco, indie dance, pop house tracks with Italian vocals. Everything on this compilation has been produced in 2024. Fresh dance music by Italian artists Paul Older,...
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A DJ, producer and significant figure in contemporary electronic music, Marcel Dettmann steps forward to contribute to Running Back’s ongoing Mastermix series. Whereas previous editions of Mastermix have taken an ear to the sound of lapsed, legendary clubs such as Wild Pitch and Front, Dettmann’s curation deftly captures the man...
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A Colourful Storm proudly presents remastered first-time vinyl and digital editions of Lone Capture Library’s modern-day DIY environmental masterpiece, All Natures Most Mundane Materials. “Environmental”, you say? Well, this certainly wasn’t recorded for dinner party ambience nor was it commissioned by Harrods. But it does document a haphazard wander through...
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Emotional Rescue dives back into one of its specialties, the formative years of Post Punk and Dub influenced music, presenting the, to date, unheralded Skinbat Scramble. The rarity of the unknown, the discovery of rich, lost music, it is a delight to release a compilation of the band’s previously unreleased...
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Annie Achron is the nom de plume of Philadelphia sound artist (& dedicated surfer), Nicole Siering. 'Never Paradise' is the long awaited followup to her debut (cassette) release from 2021, 'Silver-Handed Subterranea', which some of you out there may be lucky enough to own. One of the subtle delights of...
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Lard’s Power Of Lard is over forty-four minutes of music by Jello Biafra and Ministry! Came out originally in 1989. “Jello Biafra and Ministry teamed up for this slab of wax. The title track is great. Imagine Ministry playing thrash, that’s what it is. ‘Hellfudge’ sounds like Flipper meets Jerry...
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Sorcerer Records present a reissue of F/i's Space Mantra, originally released on RRRecords in 1988. First time on vinyl for nearly 30 years for this classic slice of American space rock. Milwaukee's F/i have been an ongoing concern since 1981, pioneering a certain brand of experimental rock which encompasses elements...
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Italian label Urashima unveils its most ambitious release yet: Collection 001–010, a deluxe 10 LP box set limited to just 299 copies. This monumental edition compiles Merzbow’s first ten releases from 1981—originally issued on cassette—most appearing on vinyl for the first time. These recordings capture the early incarnation of Merzbow...
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WRWTFWW Records is very happy to release Swiss cult band Grauzone’s recording of their April 12th 1980 live show at Gaskessel in their hometown of Bern. The 9-track album, documenting the very beginnings of the group, is available as a limited edition white vinyl LP in heavy 350gsm sleeve with...
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Multi-instrumentalist producer and songwriter Barney Keen makes music for the long drive and nature’s embrace. Influenced by a dynamic range of styles including Brazilian MPB (having spent time in northwest Brazil, learned Portuguese and written songs on classical guitar), experimental electronic music, folk, soul and other rhythms, it’s clear in...
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TAMTAM’s latest full-length album marks their second international release on PPU (Peoples Potential Unlimited), a label based in Washington, D.C. Inspired by their travels, the album centers on the theme of "inhabitants"—ranging from plants and animals to inanimate objects and imaginary creatures. It evokes a sense of wonder toward forces...
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On his fifth LP, Big Black Plume, Melbourne-based and Californian-born musician Michael Beach reveals the vitalizing power of connection in an often hostile world. Equally informed by the songwriting of Bill Fay and Peter Laughner, the minimalism of Tony Conrad and Terry Riley, and the rock and roll heart of...
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The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his...
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The Armed return with their new album The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed, the follow up to 2023’s critically acclaimed album Perfect Saviors. After completing a trilogy of albums laser-focused on dissecting artistic authenticity in the Information Age, The Armed began work on new material with...
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2 covers of artists and friends who the band lost in the last year—Shellac (Albini) and Drive Like Jehu (Rick Froberg). First new rye recordings in almost 20 years. Every copy unique, handmade, numbered, letter pressed covers, etc.—this one is a huge labor of love, with our friends, for our...
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Limited edition 20th anniversary vinyl edition of Jamiroquai’s 6th studio album ‘Dynamite’ which includes the singles “Feels Just Like It Should”, “Seven Days In Sunny June”, “(Don’t) Give Hate A Chance”. Originally released in June 2005, this 2LP anniversary edition is pressed on “dynamite smoke” coloured vinyl and includes a...
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Grinderman 2 Rmx - a collection of remixes, reinterpretations and collaborations based on the songs contained in the band's 2010 critically celebrated album Grinderman 2. Grinderman 2 Rmx's many outstanding tracks include 'Super Heathen Child' - a collaborative version of Grinderman's 'Heathen Child' (mojo honours song of the year 2011)...
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Maybe I’m Dreaming is the latest collection selected by Mikey Young (Total Control, Eddy Suppression Ring) and Keith Abrahamsson (Founder and Head of A&R at Anthology Recordings), the bent brains behind the beloved Follow the Sun and Sad About the Times compilations. The twenty tracks of Dreaming make a conscious,...
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Originally released in 1996, Kerosene 454’s sophomore album 'Came By To Kill Me’, is back in print after 28 years. These were the first recordings written exclusively with drummer Darren Zentek (formerly of the band, Glendale) and came at a time when the band felt like they were moving at...
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Jackie McLean’s evocative 1965 album Jacknife captured the alto saxophonist in an envelope-pushing post-bop mode. The session featured two trumpeters—Lee Morgan and Charles Tolliver—who are heard together to great effect on Morgan’s groovy “Soft Blue,” but otherwise take turns in the spotlight. McLean also assembled a deeply engaged rhythm section...
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Horace Silver’s 1962 tour of Japan had a profound impact on the pianist who returned to the U.S. and dedicated his subsequent album The Tokyo Blues to his fervent Japanese fans. Along with his quintet featuring trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer John Harris...
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NooPop Records proudly presents 'Naissoo Freeform Quintet,' led by keyboard maestro Tõnu Naissoo. Recorded in Tallinn during two electrifying, improvisational sessions in July 2024, this LP captures the infectious energy of funk, the adventurous spirit of free jazz, and infused with a nostalgic nod to the psychedelic era. This album...
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A much-needed re-issue by Japan's P-Vine Records of vibraphonist and percussionist Billy Wooten's rare soul-jazz-funk session from 1972, which features some amazing drumming by Harold Cardwell. Highly recommended....
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Tim Barnes is a storied drummer, engineer and producer whose CV encompasses col- laborations with a serious who’s-who of late 20th and early 21st century music. Most well known as one of the two drummers (alongside Glenn Kotche) on Jim O’Ro- urke’s seminal late 90s and early 2000s recordings, Tim...
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Tim Barnes is a storied drummer, engineer and producer whose CV encompasses col- laborations with a serious who’s-who of late 20th and early 21st century music. Most well known as one of the two drummers (alongside Glenn Kotche) on Jim O’Ro- urke’s seminal late 90s and early 2000s recordings, Tim...
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Solace of the Mind is a profoundly lyrical solo album from pianist, organist, vocalist, and newly minted NEA Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers. This extraordinary recording – a follow up to her critically acclaimed duo with Wadada Leo Smith, Central Park's Mosaic of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens, released via...
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Musical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano – recorded between 2018 and 2022 – are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen solo and in a series of duets . With such partners as Craig Taborn, Chris Potter, Sinikka Langeland and Jorge...
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NooPop Records is proud to present Naissoo Freeform Quintet, led by keyboard maestro Tõnu Naissoo. Recorded in a local music den on a single night in Tallinn, this electrifying LP captures the raw energy of funk and the adventurous spirit of free jazz. It’s infused with psychedelic nostalgia from the...
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Xciot EP is the first release by Pyramid Of Nahash (Pyramid Of Knowledge and Nahash), who in this project for Asphalt Records, tag team to merge breakbeat science and bass experiments with classic analogue Trance and early Ambient-Techno melodies. The result is a cinematic, sci-fi safari through outer space in...
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"10 Year anniversary edition of cv313's Beyond Starlit Sky on Echospace. Out of print for a decade, now newly remastered, ‘beyond starlit sky’ is archetypal dub house crafted in the image of Berlin’s MvO & Ernestus as much as Detroit’s Infiniti. The nine minute studio original weaves iridescent melody thru...
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A remix by Purelink (Peak Oil) featuring multiple samples from various tracks off Corker Conboy's debut album. In Light of that Learnt Later was originally released in 2003 on Vertical Form. Recorded around the early noughties and originally released over twenty years ago in August 2003, In Light Of That...
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Prana glistens into existence as ethereal pads drift by, giving way to a subtle, almost deep house beat that pulses nicely, backed by tribal-esq percussion. A gently staccato synth pattern flutters in and out toying with the idea of techno ever so slightly yet keeping well within the realms...
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Significant Other unveils a new project: Pain Management. A new imprint presenting music and visual media across a variety of formats. The outlet launches with an original 4 track EP: When It Rains. Christening the label with his first full length release since 2021, the subversive producer steps out from...
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The Scientists’ 1981 wild debut bewildered Perth, Australia’s punters with its charging anthems centered on themes of young love and alienation. Obvious in its rebellion yet more pop than punk, the self-titled “Pink Album” deftly embodied the tough-yet-danceable outsider aura of The Ramones, and its unheard of, feverish clip shook...
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After trekking east from the suburbs of Perth to take new root in Sydney, in 1983 the Scientists hooked up with producer Chris Logan, who’s credited with the album’s imposing sonic girth and rumbling low end, and premier Aussie punk label Au Go Go for an album that would define...
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Unhinged Aussie grunge captured just as the Scientists were imploding/attempting to explode. Recorded over three days in February 1986, Weird Love is the band’s last ditch effort to bring their bad vibes to bedrooms the world over, a colossal failure and brilliant mistake that sounds best...
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Dicks' debut LP has been acknowledged as a foundational statement in Punk ever since its initial 1983 release. Following their first single, 1980's "Dicks Hate The Police," and a live split with fellow Austinites the Big Boys, Kill From The Heart does not disappoint. Originally released on SST, the album...
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Audiopile Review: It’s been four years since Scott Gailey released his 2020 full length for the Mood Hut imprint, Obit For Sunshade, but it’s not like our man hasn’t kept busy with various other projects. He’s recently played in Yu Su’s live band, helping flesh out her magnificent AOTY Yellow...
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Audiopile Review: The early 00’s was what you might call the golden era for Mr. Kranky, with releases that would eventually become classics of not only the Chicago imprint, but of their respective genres. Stars of the Lid’s Tired Sounds, Low’s Things We Lost in the Fire, GYBE!’s Skinny Fists...
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Audiopile Review: Based on recent reissues of his early-2000s albums, we had Pub down as an eccentric dub-techno artist. But listening back to those, it’s clear the underappreciated Scottish producer is far more than that. On ‘Process the Wise’, his first LP of new tracks in over a decade, that...
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Audiopile Review: Amon Tobin’s Permutations is the sound of the Brazilian artist finally arriving into his own distinct sound. His debut album, Adventures In Foam, issued in ’96 under the short-lived Cujo moniker, and the 1997 album Bricolage, his first under his given name, were both part of the crowded...
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A double album boil down of Numero's 2012 45 x 45RPM art object Eccentric Soul: Omnibus. Gathering 25 loose remnants from across the American soul diaspora, Minibus connects the dots between group harmony, funk, disco, and modern soul, 1966-1980. Housed in a deluxe gatefold, tip-on jacket and illustrated with copious...
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Originally released in 1974 on Shandar, Dream House 78'17" is the second full-length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This first-time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux. Side one was recorded at...
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Audiopile Review: The perfect entry point into the ever expanding Roy Montgomery universe finally gets its first vinyl issue, his 1995 debut Temple IV. His continued onslaught of releases, which we’ve been feverishly gobbling up over the past several years (12 albums issued in the last 8 years!), can all...
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At last, one of the all-time bat legends, Nomeansno has returned to Alternative Tentacles Records. The entire catalog no less, starting with their most beloved album, Wrong. Using the original all-analog master, from the original mother, as engineered by George Horn, John Wright, and Jello Biafra. Nomeansno formed in a...
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Audiopile Review: Gastr del Sol was very much a part of the late-80s-early-90s stream of leftfield American rock that came out of Louisville, Kentucky, and made its home in Chicago. The band grew from David Grubbs’s power trio Bastro. When the rhythm section left to concentrate on inventing Tortoise, Grubbs...
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Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson announces her highly-anticipated sophomore album Cyan Blue out May 3rd via Stone Woman Music / XL Recordings. Along with the announcement of her new album comes the release of first single, “I Don’t Love You”, a stark and devastatingly beautiful confessional,...
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Audiopile Review: Majestic psych-pop from the Bay Area underground issued via Ethan Miller’s (Comets on Fire/Howlin Rain guitarist) Silver Current imprint. Residing in somewhat similar circles to other bands from the SF scene we’ve been enamoured with as of recently, Magic Fig aim for the sunnier side of the psychedelic...
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Audiopile Review: For the uninitiated, [Ahmed] is a quartet made up of Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums), Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) and, most notably, the storied pianist Pat Thomas. Their albums and live sets are improvised recreations of the works of bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik, probably...
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Audiople Review: In previous years, the ECM label’s reissue campaigns have sometimes seemed a little random. The current Luminescence series, though, is getting fan-favourite ambient jazz classics back into print like nobody’s business. You may have purchased its recent repress of the excellent first Azimuth album. And we’re all anticipating...
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Audiopile Review: Number 12 in the ongoing Madlib Invasion Library series, which we had heard was to end here with this effort from DJ Muggs, but apparently there is a #13 on the horizon. Confusion aside, Madlib and Egon have saved one of the best in this amazing series for...
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Produced by George Harrison, Shankar Family & Friends is an almost-forgotten masterwork — an emotional and sonic pact on which two like-minded souls unite musical styles, cultures, and sounds in wondrous fashion. It’s also the second album Harrison’s Dark Horse Records released, setting the tone for the label and precedent...
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Whitney Houston’s self-titled debut album has few parallels. Viewed solely through the lens of sales numbers, Whitney Houston is a watershed statement on par with the most commercially successful and culturally dominant LPs ever released. Having sold more than 14 million copies in the U.S. and upwards of 25 million...
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Released only eight months after his exhilarating debut, Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle contains rousing dispatches from the boardwalk, the street, the beach, and the bedroom. It explodes with energy, dares to dream, teases with humor, crackles with tragedy, clings to hope, and overflows...
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Count Basie and Frank Sinatra had the perfect arrangement at the Sands. Before the Chairman hit the stage in Vegas, Count Basie and his big band warmed up the already enthusiastic crowd with a brief set of their own. A dynamite entertainer, the legendary leader causes hearts to race, hips...
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For an artist whose career is flush with enigma, myth, and disguise, Nashville Skyline still surprises more than almost any other Bob Dylan move more than four decades after its original release. Distinguished from every other Dylan album by virtue of the smooth vocal performances and simple ease, the 1969...
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Yes' 90125 was a departure from their progressive style but it introduced the band to a new generation of fans, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and No. 16 on the U.K. albums chart. The 1983 album remains their best-selling album with more than 3 million copies sold in...
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These recordings come from the same sessions that produced 1961's My Favorite Things. This is one of the least well-known Coltrane albums, partly because it is an all blues format and partly because it was released at the end of his association with Atlantic records. Plays The Blues features the...
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Through his numerous releases from Venus Records, Eddie Higgins has firmly established his position as one of the most celebrated jazz pianists in Japan. He has also performed and recorded with many of the biggest names in jazz, including Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Wayne Shorter....
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Venus Masterpiece Collection limited edition 180-gram vinyl double LP! Since his stunning debut in 1974 on the Three Blind Mice label, Japanese pianist Tsuyoshi Yamamoto has built a career that now spans four decades. Speak Low features lyrical solos with beautiful touch, the essence of bebop and hardbop, and has...
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Venus Masterpiece Collection Limited Edition 180-gram 2LP! Modern jazz versions of film theme songs selected by alto saxophonist Phil Woods. Beautiful and exciting improvisation, an amazing performance! "It's little surprise that the Phil Woods Quintet shines during this collection of standards from the movies, but their fresh approach to each...
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Venus Masterpiece Collection Limited Edition 180-gram 2LP! Sax player Barney Wilen made his name when Miles Davis chose him to play in a group he was fronting in Europe in 1957. Wilen is backed here by Kenny Barron on piano, Ira Coleman on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. "Throughout,...
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Intelligent, articulate and controversial tenor sax player, composer and singer Archie Shepp was a strong advocate of "free jazz" in the 1960s and 1970s. He surprised Japanese jazz fans in the 1990s when he released a series of ballad albums from Venus Records, beginning with Blue Ballads in 1995 and...
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Live tracks including "Monk's Hat Blues" and "Autumn in New York" brought to you by percussionist Masahiko Togashi with Kohsuke Mine on tenor saxophone, Masahiko Satoh on piano and Nobuyoshi Ino on bass....
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Al Hirt's infamous Soul In The Horn is inextricably tangled up in crate-digger lore. Originally released in 1967, the album has been in heavy, heavy demand for over 30 years, entirely down to the majestic soul-jazz fire of "Harlem Hendoo." And it's a song so good, so vital, so timeless,...
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Jack Wilson was a talented, if understated, mainstream jazz pianist. Wilson's music had elements of hard bop, swing, cool jazz and soul-jazz, and it was all tied together by his tasteful playing. After recording for Vault, he moved to Blue Note in 1966. This album is an exceptional and fresh...
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"Imagine: It’s sometime in the back half of the 19th century, America. You’re sitting in the parlor of your mansion, or in the only room of your shack; things are dusty and smell like sweat and hair, no matter how wealthy you may be. You don’t own a phonograph, and...
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Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM’s distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of well-chosen standards, including Billy Strayhorn’s “Star-Crossed Lovers”, Sigmund Romberg’s “Softly, As...
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“...as important to Korean rock in 1970-75 as Phil Spector had been to America's pop scene a decade earlier, and every bit as busy.” - MOJO Shin Joong Hyun’s tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions but also reverberating with echoes of...
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Shin Joong Hyun’s tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions but also reverberating with echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. These career-spanning anthologies gather Shin’s work as a guitarist, songwriter, producer and arranger of mind-altering experimental pop,...
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Ugandan-born, Austin-based Jon Muq's debut, Flying Away, melds African and Western melodies, reflecting his astonishing journey. Produced by Dan Auerbach, the album is infused with themes of resilience and Muq's spontaneous, reflective songwriting captures the essence of his cross-continental life. From busking for children on the streets of Kampala, to...
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After scoring a surprise hit in 2006’s red-hot 7” funk market with their cover of “C.R.E.A.M.,” El Michels Affair quickly turned around another smash 7” double-single of re-imagined takes of the Wu-Tang Clan. “Duel of the Iron Mics” sees the hypnotic piano hook of the “Liquid Swords”-classic elevated to intriguing...
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Off of the backs of the 2006 release a pair of 7-inch singles called the Shaolin Series, El Michels Affair would eventually drop the LP “Enter the 37th Chamber” in 2009, which covered classics by the Wu-Tang Clan. To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the landmark full-length, Fat Beats Records...
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In 2006, the slight buzz of a Brooklyn band called El Michels Affair started to sound a bit more like a swarm of killer bees when their instrumental rendition of Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” was released as a 7” vinyl single. The band’s namesake Leon Michels and his production partner Jeff...
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A leading light in the thriving Chicago hip-hop scene, Mick Jenkins has solidified his reputation over the past decade, blending atmospheric vibes, thematic depth, and captivating lyricism. The talented emcee’s remarkable career has included four celebrated studio albums, widespread critical acclaim, and collaborations with artists like Chance The Rapper, Robert...
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Ché Noir kicks off the new year correctly with this EP, The Color Chocolate Vol. 1, on her own label imprint Poetic Records. The Queen MC of Buffalo NY has been steadily dropping gems and gaining momentum the last few years, with countless guest appearances and solo projects (After 12,...
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Transcendental outernational funk and psychedelic jazz from mystery L.A.- based collective Sun Atlas. The sound of Sun Atlas is mystical and cosmopolitan, combining afrobeat, cinematic soul, spiritual & ethio jazz with space sounds, hip-hop breaks and a garage funk vibe....
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Thou has always been a force of raw energy and unapologetic dissent, defying easy categorization and challenging listeners to confront the complexities of existence. Though often lumped in with New Orleans sludge bands like Eyehategod and Crowbar, Thou transcends genre boundaries, drawing inspiration from a diverse array of influences spanning...
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With the broader adoption of the internet around the turn of the century, how people would engage with and discover underground music would change forever. As a result of the new digital era, DIY was now worldwide, and no band embraced this new frontier better than Have A Nice Life....
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In The Red Records is proud to announce a previously unreleased new album by Brooklyn-born master of minimalism Alan Vega, Insurrection. The eleven songs here showcase the unparalleled vision and uncompromising force from one of the most influential artists of all time. Alan Vega was born in Brooklyn in 1938....
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While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (The Grime and the Glow, Unknown Rooms), or the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics (Pain Is Beauty, Abyss), Chelsea Wolfe’s sixth official album Hiss Spun wrings its exquisiteness out of a palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching...
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There is a core element to Chelsea Wolfe’s music—a kind of urgent spin on America’s desolation blues—that’s existed throughout the entirety of her career. Wolfe has always been a conduit for a powerful energy, and while she has demonstrated a capacity to channel that somber beauty into a variety of...
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Classical infused psych from NY groovers Ars Nova! Through their creative use of medieval modes, hook-driven pop, & trombone, Ars Nova delivers psychedelia within a classical & prog rock lens, a style that’s their own, yet recalls bands like Left Banke, Honeybus, and Aphrodite’s Child - all who were experimenting...
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Originally released in 1985, and now remastered by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering, Big Black's first full-length album Atomizer will be re-released in September 2015. To save you having to do the math in your head, yes, that makes this a 30th anniversary reissue. This remastered version...
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A reissue of X's essential debut album originally released by Slash in 1980, and the first in a series of X reissues on Fat Possum. Ranked # 286 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time....
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Sonic Youth’s eponymous debut 12-inch was recorded in late 1981 at Plaza Sound at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and originally released on composer Glenn Branca’s Neutral label. This remastered and expanded double vinyl and CD reissue includes the self-titled debut record plus live material from '81 and a...
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Originally released on Fat Beats Records in 2009, El Michels Affair’s landmark album Enter the 37th Chamber celebrates its 15th Anniversary in 2024. Featuring reinterpretations of some of the Wu Tang Clan’s classic anthems, the album flips raw, stripped-back 90s production into soulful instrumental arrangements. Cover versions of tracks such...
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