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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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Quelle Chris' album "Guns" uniquely blends diverse sounds and themes, focusing on the concept of weaponization in various forms, from literal to metaphorical. The album's production features a mix of traditional hip-hop and experimental elements, creating a distinct auditory experience that complements its thematic depth. This work marks Quelle Chris's...
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Audiopile Review: Following a quiet 2023, 3XL’s opening salvo for 2024 is a sprawling 2xLP album from Naemi (formerly Exael) and features a jaw-dropping guest list, including Huerco S, Pontiac Streator, Perila, Ulla, Ben Bondy, Erika De Casier, and former Vancouverite NAP (Daniel Rincon). It’s basically a who’s who of...
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Audiopile Review: Issued the year before their breakthrough album Haram, Shrines would be the last album from Armand Hammer as underground hip-hop's best kept secret. It’s also their first truly great, 10/10 full length, and the start of a run that has seen the duo become one of the most...
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Audiopile Review: Likely a familiar name to some of our readers, Vegyn was the creative force behind the music on Headache's The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth, a recent Record of the Week and top pick for 2023 here in the shop. With his latest, Vegyn has...
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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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Fantastic funk from one of the hippest combos currently working on the planet – the mighty Misha Panfilov Sound Combo, a group who effortlessly blend 70s-style funk with some sweet spacey sounds! The "astral" in the title here is very well-placed – as there's a slightly cosmic vibe to the...
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En Route takes you on a futuristic journey to the golden days of European library music and music for cinema - bending and constructing different tones with instrumentations that creates a whole spectrum of sound with basement grit....
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Audiopile Review: Carlos Niño is on the creative roll of a lifetime. Fresh off his André 3000 victory lap and the very recent album on Leaving alongside Nate Mercereau and Surya Botofasina, all of whom feature prominently here, he brings us the newest instalment in his ongoing Carlos Niño &...
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Audiopile Review: Carlos Niño is on the creative roll of a lifetime. Fresh off his André 3000 victory lap and the very recent album on Leaving alongside Nate Mercereau and Surya Botofasina, all of whom feature prominently here, he brings us the newest instalment in his ongoing Carlos Niño &...
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Audiopile Review: Five compositions of confident and visionary playing by a septet of musicians conversing fluently in a language both old and new. It is clear (as with many Birchall recordings) that this is a letter of love and appreciation to John Coltrane, melding the gentler tones of Ballads with...
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Audiopile Review: We’ve said it before, but we’ll keep saying it until you lot start paying attention. Max Loderbauer is one of the most underappreciated electronic music producers evar. From his 1990s ambient techno work with Sun Electric, to his collaborations with Ricardo Villalobos, to his consistently brilliant solo albums…...
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Audiopile Review: NUG caught our attention with 2023's "Napping Under God," a glitchy feast of breaks and dubby beats. A year later they return with Bong Boat, the German duo has been building upon their past work, enveloping it in a deep, murky shroud that leans evermore into the ambient...
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Audiopile Review: It’s puzzling that UK dreampop band Cranes never got the critical, cult, or commercial success they deserved. Perhaps it’s all down to the freakish and wrong fact that they somehow never got signed to 4AD. Or maybe it’s just that they eschewed easily marketable genre identification in favour...
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Audiopile Review: Osamu Kitajima is probably best known for his pair of late ‘70s Japanese folk-infused psychedelic albums, Benzaiten and Osamu, both of which got the reissue treatment several years back, reigniting interest in the cult musician. The Forest Jams imprint has dug a little deeper into his extensive catalog...
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Music From Memory is delighted to present ‘Elevations’, a new album from Manchester based artist Tom Burford, aka Contours. Drawing heavily on his background as a drummer and percussionist, ‘Elevations’ began as an exploration of the Balafon, a Malian tuned percussion instrument, before organically growing into its final form; a...
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After a five year hiatus Luke Slater reanimates his L.B. Dub Corp alias for a dynamic, vocal-led ode to the club featuring Robert Owens, Paul St. Hilaire, Miss Kittin and more. The LP is set to release on 10th May 2024 Since his first forays into DJing, Luke Slater has...
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Temples of Jura is proud to present ‘The Great Beyond’, the ninth studio album from Ilija Rudman. The concept of the album is the afterlife with words from Nikola Tesla, Slavoj Zizek, Jim Morrison, JF Kennedy, Charles De Gaulle, WH Auden, Azar Nafisi and Eleanor Roosevelt woven together to tell...
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A key document of the late ’70s experimental music scene in Kansai, Japan, R.N.A. Organism’s R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O (first released by legendary Osaka label Vanity Records in 1980) is a hallucinatory trip of dubby bass, churning guitars, sputtering rhythm boxes, twisted vocals and unidentifiable sound effects. With the...
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Don’t believe your ears - Pepper’s Ghost is the latest offering from NYC project Nuke Watch. Whatever you think it is - it is not. By the same token it really can be whatever you want - electronica, jazz, improv, noise, new age, ambient - it’s none and all of...
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Limited expanded 4 x LP Boxset edition, including 2 double gatefold records; one of the original album and one of remixes and rarities. Includes an exclusive 60 page hardback 12” x 12” book, documenting Orbital’s story and history. Also features a 12” Slipmat, and 3 printed repro A6 flyers, randomly...
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Emerging from a generative paradox of laser precision and fluid dynamism, Metallur fuses percussive, metallic force with warping tempos and a field of ethereal resonance and debris. The result is an insurgent, elemental, time-smearing of hyperspace, where "tellurian beats merge with alien glossolalia and vocal samples blip tesseracts of human...
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"Along the west coast of Co Kerry in Ireland you will find the amazing Valentia Island. Attached by a bridge to the mainland, it is a place of beauty touched by years of history and the songs of the sea. I managed to obtain a house there for a few...
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"the main idea was to create a certain atmosphere, but also to help some of my favourite collaborators and buddies to give their songs a little push out into the world. Hope you like it” Jordan Rakei...
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Berlin-based producer and live artist Ben Böhmer has risen through the Anjunadeep ranks to become a breakout star of the past 18 months, amassing almost 40 million streams, picking up BBC Radio 1 support from Annie Mac and Pete Tong, including an 'Essential New Tune', and being featured in...
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The release of fabric presents: Shygirl marks the beginning of fabric’s 25th-anniversary celebrations, with Shygirl leading the charge as the first of five artists to curate mixes throughout the year, each featuring the CD tins. These tins aim to showcase both current and heritage artists who are and continue to...
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Groenland Records are proud to announce that, in April 2024, they will be releasing a document of a unique – if until now little-known – performance given by BRIAN ENO, HOLGER CZUKAY & J.PETER SCHWALM, in which they were accompanied by Raoul Walton and Jern Atai, members of Schwalm’s group,...
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Following last year’s formidable 4#TRAX EP- a love letter to the TRAX community that helped shape a young Travis Stewart into the phenomenal producer we know today- Machinedrum returns with his first studio album since 2020, 3FOR82. 3FOR82 features an incredible cast of collaborators including the likes of Tinashe, Tanerélle,...
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n 1992 Dave Clarke launched his own music label, "Magnetic North", releasing recordings under the moniker "Fly By Wire". He then produced a series of EPs under the name "Red", one of which was listed by the DJ Mag publication in its "All Time Techno Top 100" list. The Red...
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Time Splitters is a various artist compilation created and produced by Richmond VA based Deskulling in collaboration with veteran Spanish Town JA artist I Jahbar between 2021 and 2023. This 21 track 50 plus minute Dancehall epic also includes other veteran vocalists such as G Sudden, RDL Shellah, Buddydon, and...
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Twin Cities duo Feel Free Hi Fi return to their in-house imprint Digital Sting with their first full length entitled I was so far in I was out. After two prior EP's and collaborations with Equiknoxx and Duppy Gun Feel Free Hi Fi deliver 8 new tracks of...
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G Version III from Kyoto Japan arrives on Digital Sting via a correspondence going back a few years that grew out of mutual musical connections and a deep appreciation for the Jamaican soundsystem diaspora. G Version grew up with a love of Hip Hop, R&B, and Reggae and...
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Embarking on an unconventional premise for a beat tape is par for the course for Detroit native Waajeed, who thrives on breaking conventional boundaries. Known as the self-titled futurist Producer, DJ, and UMA Director, Waajeed typically pushes forward, but some narratives demand retrospection. Enter the compelling saga of Patricia Hearst,...
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Awesome remixed version of Nas' Nastradamus album as reimagined by hip hop beatsmith extraordinaire M.F. Doom, featuring loads of fucked-up rare groove samples! Many of the beats are taken from his superb Special Herbs series of beats albums and they really come to life with Nas' lyrics over them!...
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The sixth full-length studio release from rapper Schoolboy Q features guest appearances by Ab-Soul, Az Chike, Childish Major, Freddie Gibbs, Jozzy, Devin Malik, Rico Nasty, and Lance Skiiiwalker. A record that refuses to compromise, Blue Lips presents ScHoolboy Q in unfiltered form. A creative accelerator, its commitment to the individual...
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Celebrating 25 years since the release of Giant Sand’s legendary ‘Chore Of Enchantment’, the panoramic masterpiece that was the turning point for the classic line-up featuring seasoned songwriter Howe Gelb and latter-day Calexico members Joey Burns and John Convertino from 1999. Filled with mind-bending one-liners, customary offbeat instrumentation, echo fields...
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Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News offers a unique blend of existential lyricism and innovative soundscapes. The album, viewed as an alternative classic in the early 2000s, continues to resonate with listeners years later. In addition to the hit songs “Float On” and “Ocean Breathes Salty,”...
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Katie Crutchfield, under the name Waxahatchee, made her debut album during a snowstorm in the winter of 2012. She dedicated it “to anyone who had woke up and realized their identity is blurry, has had to clumsily get to know themselves, has hit a bottom, has felt self-deprecating and vagrant,...
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Frog In Boiling Water, produced by Chris Coady, was a four-year process that nearly broke the band before the album was completed. With an aim to push their sound, make a record that challenged them, and treat the band as a democracy for the first time, DIIV began an ambitious...
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A raid on the values of oriental jazz master and pioneering ethnomusicologist Lloyd Miller. As we’ve said before on the rare encounters we’ve had with Miller’s work, he’s quite a unique figure within the worlds of jazz, traditional Middle-Eastern folk and musicology. Few in history seem to be so heavily...
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Doc Lloyd Miller returns with his signature and timeless Spiritual Jazz and World/Cultural Music trademarks, as well as inviting a few contemporary sensibilities contributed by himself and collaborators Ian Camp and producer Adam Michael Terry. Expanding upon Miller's distinctive Academic, Persian and Far-Eastern Jazz Fusion into territories of New Age,...
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This is among the finest Ellington small group sides. The predominantly blues repertoire is the perfect setting for Sweets and Hodges to open out, with Duke getting a simpler, but no less forceful rhythm section backing than he did in his own band, notes Jazzwise. Hodges does some of...
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