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Audiopile Review: After launching the label in 2022 with a handful of mega rarity noise/punk/art-fuck reissues from deeply obscure artists like Violin Sect, Smelly Feet and Zyklon B. Zombies, New Jersey imprint Minimum Table Stacks has held our gaze, slowly inching it towards the shadowy corners of the US experimental...
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Music From Memory’s latest release in their 12” series focuses on the little known UK band The System. A project masterminded by Bob Lamb, a somewhat cult figure in Birmingham's music history; the short lived group released only one album ‘Logic' and a single in 1983 on the somewhat obscure...
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Bobby Hutcherson’s cutting-edge 1969 session Medina found the vibraphonist with a remarkable band featuring Harold Land on tenor saxophone & flute, Stanley Cowell on piano, Reggie Johnson on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums. The set presents original compositions by Hutcherson, Cowell, and Chambers. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition...
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A Colourful Storm presents the first vinyl edition of Yahho no Potori, a treasured recording by one of the most cherished contemporary Japanese folk outfits, Eddie Marcon. Comprised of the core duo of Eddie Corman and Jules Marcon, Eddie Marcon was formed in Himeji in 2001, following Corman's involvement in...
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After the runaway success of The Sidewinder in 1964, trumpeter Lee Morgan continued his musical hot streak in 1965 on albums including The Gigolo featuring Wayne Shorter, Harold Mabern, Bob Cranshaw, and Billy Higgins. Highlights of this swaggering set of hard bop includes the groovy opener ‘Yes I Can, No...
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In the Summer of 1964 Wayne Shorter joined the Miles Davis Quintet and recorded his second Blue Note album JuJu which found the saxophonist in the company of three musicians with strong ties to John Coltrane: pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Elvin Jones. The quartet soars across...
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Compiled by label founder Dom Ore Miles Away: One is a collection of tracks that spans continents, era and genres. Rooted in soul this compilation features recordings from legendary musical figures side-by-side with perhaps lesser-known soulful gems – all beautifully bought together in one cohesive long player. Setting the tone...
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Death Is Not The End sub-label 333 hit again with a reissue of a rarely encountered piece of prime UK digi, courtesy of Franklyn Bernard aka Frankie B - mixed at Fashion's A Class Studio in Clapham, and released on the Ital Stuff label in early 1986. Frankie B began...
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Death Is Not The End's 333 series is back with another dig into the catalogue of the NYC-based Flames label on this reissue of a highly coveted Revolutionaries LP, Meditation in Dub. One of reggae music's most famed session bands, The Revolutionaries were an often r/evolving cast of some of...
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Soul Jazz Records’ are releasing their classic release ‘Rastafari – The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83’ in a new one-off pressing limited edition blue coloured double vinyl edition. The album includes new tracks and is fully remastered from the original edition. // Spanning nearly 30 years of revolutionary music and featuring...
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A reissue of the wonderful female vocal LP released by FEDERAL in 1977! Mellow reggae with covers of classics by Patti Austin, Albert Hammond, Bob Marley, and more. Marcia Griffiths participates on backing vocals....
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Chapter number 8 in the Yellow Jackets book is ready to go and will please a whole range of music lovers! Legendary visionary artist Joe Claussell strengthens up his relationship with Mother Tongue [check the MT distributed Sacred Medicine label that he curates with Ron Trent] serving here a piece...
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Dark Entries celebrates its 15th anniversary by returning to where it all started, our initial darkest entry: Eleven Pond’s masterpiece Bas Relief, an ultra-obscure album from 1986 that would become a definitive dark pop holy grail. Eleven Pond was James Tabbi (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jeff Gallea (drum machine, synthesizer, vocals),...
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Love Spirals Downwards' groundbreaking fourth studio album, 'Flux,' has been reimagined and expanded in a deluxe edition, meticulously compiled by bandleader Ryan Lum. Originally released in 1998, 'Flux' surprised fans and critics alike with its unexpected exploration of drum 'n' bass and downtempo electronica genres. Over the past 25 years,...
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Audiopile Review: Fresh in from Pacific Rhythm is a new release from C-Thru, the new pseudonym of Jesse Edwards, likely best known for contributing to a great run of releases from the dream-folk/shoegaze artist Jessica Bailiff. Through those albums, his ethereal space-rock project Red Morning Chorus, as well as working...
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Today! is Skip James’ second album, originally released in 1966. The album features James solo on all but one track, “How Long,” which includes Russ Savakus on bass. This 180-gram LP pressed at QRP includes an obi with notes by Scott Billington, a paper-wrapped jacket and (AAA) lacquers cut from...
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Double LP version. Since 2008, Jazzman's Spiritual Jazz series has presented unlimited horizons. Each album celebrates the rich tradition of African-American songs based on the belief in a higher force than oneself and has also focused on geographical areas, such as Europe or Japan, thus recognizing that these territories have...
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We are more than thrilled to share a second collection of deep grooves and unreleased songs from Algeria's Ahmed Malek sound track works with you. Ahmed Malek who has often been compared to Ennio Morricone recorded the majority of these songs in the 1970s and early 1980s. His first releases...
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Efficient Space welcomes Th Blisks to the fold with their mutant strain of melodica dub, torched hip hop breaks, post-punk and procession song. Th Blisks' members have many notches on their collective belt. Amelia Besseny and Altered States Tapes’ founder Cooper Bowman are prolific in their ritualistic ambient-pop duo Troth,...
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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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Audiopile Review: Tonal Union continues their incredible streak with this newest album from Ezra Feinberg, the multi-instrumentalist who had a brief run with post-rock outfit Piano Magic before forming the experimental prog-psych group Citay alongside Tim Green (Nation of Ulysses, The Fucking Champs). He went on to record a handful...
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Audiopile Review: Khotin’s debut full length, the appropriately titled Hello World, celebrates ten spins around the sun with a new cassette reissue. Released during Khotin’s brief but fruitful tenure here in Vancouver, arriving at a time when the twin electronic institutions of Mood Hut and Pacific Rhythm were finding the...
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Serving as a soundtrack to the Balearic region as well as addition to the genre, The Last Resort brings some usual and unusual suspects to set the sun on a paradise lost in time....
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The Dead's seventh live album was released in August 1981 and contains live material recorded from between September and October 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York. Dead Set is essentially an electric companion release to Reckoning, a 1981 live album...
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Audiopile Review: Dutch duo Kettel and Secede have their overlooked 2012 CD-only album When Can brought to vinyl for the first time. This surely would have been a mere footnote of of early 21st century electronic music if it wasn’t for the acute ear of the folks over at Lapsus,...
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Audiopile Review: Softening the edges of the doom-drone-folk of his duo Tongue Depressor, New England multi-instrumentalist Henry Birdsey has managed to break through to a wider audience with his Old Saw project, which began with 2021’s sublime Country Tropics. Much like Tongue Depressor, the sound of Old Saw is steeped...
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The new album from Lebanese-American musician Solpara, Melancholy Sabotage, marks his full-length debut and return to Nicolas Jaar's Other People label. While it was recorded over Covid lockdowns, Jaar had been talking about wanting to back a Solpara full-length since he put out Swing. Melancholy Sabotage explores the theme of...
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Tropicale is the explosion of joy of the Italian economic miracle, the promise of distant destinations becoming all of a sudden tangible, the illusion of a taboo world where everything seems possible. Through rare and unreleased cuts from the CAM Sugar archive, Tropicale traces the incendiary liaisons between Italian film...
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Audiopile Review: It’s no surprise to learn that Belgian ambient veterans Pablo’s Eye once released an album on the Extreme label, home of ‘90s dark ambient classics from Paul Schütze and Shinjuku Thief. There’s a whole world of this sorta noirish ambient music waiting to be discovered. Ever heard Woob?...
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Audiopile Review: The long-running solo project of James Vella’s A Lily project, who has issued a handful of CDs and cassettes on several other labels, finally lands on his own imprint, Phantom Limb, a label which has been on a bit of a hot streak recently with notable albums released...
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‘2 Sim’ is a phrase the references mobile phones with two sim cards to describe people of mixed heritage, dual nationality or multiple residences. After being called a 2 Sim in conversation with a stranger whilst on a walk through Freetown (a recording of this moment features on the record),...
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The third album from Sade originally released in 1988. Includes “Love Is Stronger Than Pride,” “Haunt Me,” “Give It Up,” and the hit single “Paradise.” The album was recorded at Compass Point Studios (Bahamas), Studio Miraval (France), and...
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Promise (1985) is Sade’s second album, featuring the singles “The Sweetest Taboo”, “Is It A Crime?”, and “Never As Good As The First Time.” The album was recorded at Power Plant Studios (England) and Studio Miraval (France). The vinyl audio uses high resolution digital transfers of the stereo master mixes,...
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Diamond Life (1984) is Sade’s debut album, featuring the singles “Your Love Is King”, “When Am I Going To Make A Living”, “Smooth Operator”, and “Hang On To Your Love.” The album was recorded at Power Plant Studios (England). The vinyl audio uses high resolution digital transfers of the stereo...
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A remix 12” of three Jura Soundsystem classics featuring interpretations from Quiet Village, Tapes and Good Block. “Having released a few Eps and an LP it felt like a fun thing to get some remixes. I’ve ticked off a few musical bucket list items with this 12”, Quiet Village being...
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Audiopile Review: Less than a year after his Dystopia LP, a largely subdued analogue dive into warmer ambient waters, Lars Bartkuhn circles back to his two 2017 EPs, Nomad and Massai. He’s reworked both those tracks here, finding fresh inspiration from the almost decade old sessions and finessing a new...
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A humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments, Someone Like Me unites a geographically unbound cast of real people in pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats and the big city bustle of Sydney and Los Angeles, these kindred...
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When it’s so nice, why not do it twice? The iconic John Beltran returns once again to Oath to exercise his passionate love affair with all things Balearic, and to say he expanded upon his 22’ EP with style is a severe understatement.. Based purely on his outputs over the...
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Continuing Four Flies' dedication to delving into lesser-explored periods of Italian music, Africamore takes us on a captivating journey into the intersection of Afro-funk and the Italian soundscape during the six years between 1973 and 1978 - a time when disco was looming on the horizon and the nightclub market...
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Released in 1988 and acclaimed as one of the best reggae albums of the decade, Strength Of My Life was the fourth studio LP from Kingston roots-reggae act Israel Vibration. Made after the group had left Jamaica in search of better healthcare for various ailments they suffered, it was their...
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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: Still riding high from last year’s Bulk Order cassette, also issued via Hotham Sound, Vancouver’s own MIDI Janitor strikes while the iron is hot, pulling more gems from his coffers with another ace set of smeared tonal ambience and upcycled lo-fi IDM. Once again MIDI Janitor hits upon...
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When the likes of the Zombies, The Left Banke, and a little band called The Beatles arrived on the sixties scene, they left a florid waft in their wake, inspiring a whole new generation to pepper a little psychedelia in with their sound. Soft Summer Breezes, another new gem from...
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2024 repress. Johnny's Disk record is an independent jazz label, run by the owner of jazz cafe Kaiunbashi No Johnny located in Rikuzentakata City in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The legendary label released a string of albums of high-quality, but down-to-earth music, spanning from modern jazz, avant-garde jazz to left-field pop....
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Audiopile Review: The newest venture for Mood Hut is a bit of a cross country affair, teaming local legend Michael Red with the Mexican-born, Montreal-based producer Ultima Esuna. While Red’s wide-ranging palette, hitting almost everything between ambient and dubstep, is a familiar presence in the shop and throughout the Vancouver...
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Audiopile Review: Ulla, who likely needs little introduction from our regular readers at this point, joins up with Japanese ambient artist Ultrafog, their first release together despite running in similar circles for the past half decade. Ultrafog has tallied up a shorter resume than his counterpart, though no less impressive,...
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