Various

This CD combines the first two volumes from the “Exotic Blues & Rhythm” compilation series named “Katanga!” and “Ahbe Casabe!” with two additional bonus tracks. This album is a colorful garden of delights consisting of R’n’B and rock’n’roll based songs from the 1940s to the early 1960s that all have this slightly exotic, dark and mystical feeling from the melody structures and instrumentation. Most of the tunes at hand sound astonishingly fresh and timeless. Eddie Cole & Three Peppers with their…

Born from the unfulfilled desires of a whole generation for a peaceful, yet adventurous life in a mystifying environment, a new pop art style emerged in the 1950s combining elements of different cultures from the Pacific area. Part of this movement became a smooth, yet exciting music with a strongly picturesque approach labeled as “exotica”. The compilation at hand “Paradise Found - Rare Exotic Sounds Vol. 1” captures the entire spectrum of moods and directions this music took at the pinnacle ph…

**Limited Edition. Including 36 page booklet** The first compilation album from Niigata, the prefecture on the Sea of Japan side. The Niigata underground music scene in 1980 to 90s was quite unique compared to other prefecture, but had never been compiled. Featuring 20 artists from all over the Niigata prefecture like as Ai To Makoto, Hirohito Taneguchi (aka. Seed Mouth). Including 36 page booklet: Geographical overview, consideration of the music scene and explanation of each artist (Japanese/E…

**Edition of 200** Set incl. the 5 new releases for special discount price   Set incl. the following 5 new releases for special discount price (ltd. 200) (All releases also available as separate 300 Stand Alone Releases)  VOD 158: JERRY KRANITZ / VARIOUS: Cassette Culture - Homemade Music.. Book w. 2CD  VOD 158.INSANE Insane 80’s Tracks from the Insane Label 2x7inch as supplement to VOD158  VOD 159: CLOCK DVA Retrospective 1976-1981 320 page Book with 2x7inch  VOD 163: MEIN GLASFABRIK "Exotic Pe…

Insane Music, run by Alain Neffe, has been one of the greatest and biggest Tape-Labels promoting the international cassette-culture of the 80's. Full of raw analogue electronics, and plenty blood-curdling screaming, thise selection feature BeNe GeSSeRiT, Pseudo Code, Human Flesh and I Scream

Intensive 320 page Book written by Jerry Kranitz, it includes a 2CD loaded with almost 160 minutes of Cassette-Culture / DIY Artists. The book takes a social history/analytical approach to the growth of the global cassette culture/homemade music network that sprouted and flourished from the post-punk era through the early 1990s. The author explores how the participants communicated, traded, collaborated, and set up cottage industry labels to distribute their work. A long overdue study of this pi…

**edition of 250 copies, red vinyl, comes with insert** Eeeee was the name of a periodic journal Marshall Reese co-edited and co-published with composer Gene Carl. The name was taken from the vowel from cognate words in Indo-European languages – meaning to go, to fly, to be in transition and the publication was an attempt to unite the worlds of poetry and music. This LP It is the third number of E magazine and has taken over 40 years to be published and documents forces and influences from the 7…

**edition of 200** Unexplained Sounds Group exploring the Balkan post industrial scene. Artists coming from Greece, Romania, Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Macedonia, introduce us to their vision of post industrial music and culture. The perspective of a region where musicians are growing with their own sonic and artistic identity. - Raffaele Pezzella The release is the brainchild of the Unexplained Sounds Group, an Italian-based label uncovering regional sounds from local music sc…

*2022 stock* It was a really great idea to search for pieces, with the taste of a collector, and to produce this compilation, with jazz pieces and pieces extracted from refined sound tracks which have a subtle and intelligent taste, among the production of some of the biggest Italian composers in this sector. It is a piece that has never been reedited and it is of great taste, and consequent will to give works to an audience that otherwise are difficult to discover.  And therefore has taste for …

** Limited edition of 80. The two cassettes comes with a laser printed insert** First in a series of compiled recordings dug up from CCC’s and other archives. Vol. 1 contains: Robert Graves discussing love, black arts and mushrooms + two tracks by Angus MacLise, previously released in ‘Green Groceries’ magazine, 2000, then a J.G. Ballard interview and reading. Also, Louise Bourgeois in her studio in Brooklyn, ‘Doodlings’ by Angus MacLise, previously released in 2006, and Harry Hoogstraten readin…

** Limited edition of 80. The cassette comes with a laser printed insert** Tune in and enjoy the ride: with an interview with Martin A. Lee, author of ‘Acid Dreams’, then Wavy Gravy speaks about the Green Acid + Ken Kesey on the Perry Lane gang, plus a Dinner with Timothy Leary & G. Gordon Liddyand finally Later in LA with Bob Costas, June 5/6, 1991 (Ben Schot)

*In process of stocking* A Compilation of Minimal Wave From Around The World (1980-1991), The Bedroom Tapes features rare, unreleased, and licensed tracks all the way from Belgium to Australia to Japan. The Bedroom Tapes excitedly marks Minimal Wave’s 66th release and is a follow up in the series to The Lost Tapes, The Found Tapes, The Hidden Tapes and of course The Minimal Wave Tapes. The twelve artists on this compilation mostly recorded their music onto 4-track tape in their bedroom studios. …

Featuring artists as diverse as The Residents, Robert Fripp, XTC’s Andy Partridge, Pete Seeger, Robert Wyatt and The Pretenders’ Martin Chambers, as well as cover artwork contributed by Ralph Steadman, Morgan Fisher’s 1980 release “Miniatures” truly was a first. Overwhelmed with concepts for potential releases, Fisher decided to see how many of these ideas he might be able to squeeze onto just one album. Rather than performing everything himself, he invited 50 musicians he admired to send in tra…

A stunning collection of anecdotes, photographs, articles and sound clips that do not intend to be complete - they form a retrospective of the evolution of Logos since 1968

Searching for new languages beyond the bitter and nihilist dialect of punk, bands like Gaz Nevada, Litfiba, CCCP, Diaframma, Neon, and many others, began spreading their message all along the Italian peninsula during the early eighties and many of the members of these bands are now some of the best musicians/producers in the Italian independent music panorama (Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Piero Pelù/Litfiba, Bisca, etc.). 16 tracks by 16 Italian underground bands from 1982-1984: bands who faded into…

Life behind the Berlin Wall, before the fall. Once there was DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik), otherwise known as East Germany. Verging on the ruins of the 2nd world war, in the fog of the socialist utopia, there was a widespread scene fighting against corporations and restrictions. Die neuen Bands, that was the manifesto, a number of small alternative bands facing the efforts of the post-punk (and even post-industrial) revolution. This was happening right after the English new wave or the …

**200 copies** Dante's Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the two poets begin their descent through a baleful world of doleful shades, horrifying tortures, and unending lamentation. During their journey, Dante and Vi…

Restocked, last copies... Reissue of the rare & infamous double 7“ originally published by FMP in 1973. Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, and Han Bennink.At the beginning of the work, the fifteen invited children aged eight to ten years were asked to come for four days in a row, so that a fixed, unchanging group could be expected. In practice, this was difficult to carry out, since every af…

The ultra-blackness manifesto: a Deleuzian reading of the philosophical and socio-political stakes of the current electronic music scene (publication marking the reactivation of the influential label Mille Plateaux, with texts by an ensemble of international musicians, artists and theorists: Frédéric Neyrat, Achim Szepanski, Holger Schulze, Gerriet K. Sharma, Bernd Herzogenrath, Corry Shores, Marcus Schmickler, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner...). Ultrablack of Music speculates on the manifold wa…

"A great selection of 1920s-50s blues/jazz tracks about the devil, hoodoo men, and dark tales of doom and misery by artists like Victoria Spivey, Blind Willie Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Memphis Minnie, Skip James, and others. An excellent choice for your next Day of the Dead or Halloween party. Also features Leola Manning, Louis Jordan, Blind Joe Taggart, Charley Patton, Truett & George, Oliver Brown, Bo Carter, Brownie McGhee, and Johnny Temple."

"Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content -- art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more -- with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. Cover feature is a three-parter on Moondog. Our editor's phone interview with him from 1998, some amazing never-before-seen-images, and crucially this series of archival interviews from 1953. Shana Cleveland: The singer-songwriter / L…

Borrowing its title from an infamous Australian jazz composition, Pyramid Pieces is a long overdue compilation which documents a period of Australian modern jazz that flourished during the late 1960s and 70s. A brief yet vital survey which examines an isolated yet thriving vibrant scene that was largely unheard outside of its own country. Whilst many local musicians found success abroad in the UK or the USA, those that remained found limited support for jazz from the commercially-minded mainstre…

**2020 stock** Corbett Vs. Dempsey present a reissue of Amarcord Nino Rota, a tribute album assembled by producer Hal Willner, originally released by Hannibal Records in 1981. If you think you know how to put a mix-tape together, take a lesson from Hal Willner, the absolute master. In 1981, Willner produced a landmark record of interpretations of music written by Nino Rota for the films of Federico Fellini. With ten tracks and as many different lineups, this record set the template for a series …

"For this first volume of Musax Background Music Library, Farfalla Records continues exploring the maze of the french library music through one of its most discreet and prolific representatives: Jacky Giordano and one of his many projects, the Musax label. Farfalla Records carefully selected this tracklisting among LPs recorded between 1978 and 1979 of which the originals became particularly sought after by the collectors. Jacky Giordano who appears under his aliases Joachim Sherylee and José Ph…

Originally released in 1976, "The All American Powerhouse" is one of the very best of the Themes library releases. It’s killer. A feast of dramatic jazz, horizontal, melodic funk and bouncing sunshine-y West-Coast feels throughout, there also lurks an intense injection of the Blaxploitation sound. Understandable, given the subject matter and year it was released.

Limited edition 5-CD wooden box set, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Not Two Records. All new recordings, never previously published. Recorded live at the Not Two But Twenty Festival in Wlen, Poland in the Fall of 2018. With Peter Brötzmann, Barry Guy, Zlatko Kaučič, Joëlle Léandre, Steve Swell, Agustí Fernández, Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, Rafal Mazur and many more

**in process of stocking** "As part of the 20th Kamuna (Karlsruhe Museum Night), so-called ›in-situ performances‹ took place at three locations in Karlsruhe on August 4, 2018: The project room ßpace, the artist-run space Halo ARS and the pedestrian zone Kaiserstraße were connected to the ZKM via an outgoing audio data stream. At ßpace, sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek condensed naturalistic field recordings, noise and soundscape recordings into a sonic live collage. The live electronic duo Lintu + R…

Karlheinz Stockhausen was one of the most influential and prolific composers of the twentieth century. His legacy extends far beyond his extensive catalogue of musical works to his achievements as a pioneer of electronic music, as a writer and thinker on music, and as a teacher. In this volume, various aspects of Stockhausen“s legacy are discussed, including his influence on the creative work of others, and the influences he likewise derived from some of his closest associates. Central theoretic…

**300 copies** Avant-garde and experimental musics are intrinsically connected to community, collectivism, support, and collaboration. Audiences and artists, stretching to every corner of the globe, continuously rely on each other to push into ever more ambitious realms. This spirit of discourse has always been central to the multigenerational contexts of avant-garde and experimental music from Italy. For decades, neglected and over looked by their international peers, the country’s musicians an…

**In process of stocking** Outstanding and legendary Italian Library originally released in 1976 on the glorious Cometa label on a very limited run. A totally killer album with tones of mental Jazz-Funk and Psychedelic beats. The listener is constantly catched by the incredible music that swings between Psychedelic Funk, Esoteric Jazz and Cinematic/Love themes. Tracks like Love For Sale, Privacy, Metropolis Notte and Dopping 2000 are simply timeless, with a stunning sound that perfectly plunges …

This bundle includes the latest Vinyl-On-Demand box-sets dedicated to Vanity Records.The Vanity Records Tape Box (6LP Box)Similar to the compilation Musik, Vanity also released a limited edition, 6-cassette tape box set entitled Limited Edition Vanity Records Box Set in 1981. It compiled the music of six artists whose works were rigorously selected from many demo tapes that were sent to Vanity from all across Japan. Each album was also released separately but now Limited Edition Vanity Records B…

A special bundle that includes the latest 8 CD releases published in late April 2020 by Belgian label A New Wave of Jazz. Includes works by Dirk Serries, Martina Verhoeven, Colin Webster, Daniel Thompson, Benedict Taylor, Tom Malmendier, Jürg Frey, Andrew Cheetham, Alan Wilkinson, and John Edwards.

In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.

In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.

In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.

In process of stocking - **first edition of 100 copies** The second release from the archive of the series “Bricolage”, DJ event by music critic Agi Yuzuru who passed away in October 2018.The latest “cutting edge music” was transformed by Agi’s original interpretation. This is part of a series of four discs recorded at four events in 2014. Mastering by Kentaro Hayashi, highly appreciated by Agi in his later years. In outer bag with the same file hole as the 0g series.

Plexi-glass special cover. Edition of 100. This CD was released at the publishing event of "0g_02", "0g Night: Do Bloom in the Silence". It contains tracks by Incredible Plexi-Glass coverMadegg, Yui Onodera, Isolate Line, Akihiko Matsumoto, and Arms selected by Agi Yuzuru.Tracklist:01. Madegg "Eyes (premastering)"02. Yui Onodera "Mon"03. Isolate Line "Astral"04. Isolate Line "Mantra"05. Akihiko Matsumoto "ReModel06. Arms "Saints #1"07. Arms "Saints #2"08. Arms "Saints #3"

*100 numbered copies, sold-out at source** Japanese label Edition Nord presents an exclusive box-set which includes all the six tapes originally published by Vanity Records in 1981 that were collected in the Limited Edition Vanity Records Box Set, now one of the rarest artifacts of that period. Founded by Agi Yuzuru - a legendary music critic and editor, publisher of Rock Magazine - Vanity was active in the late '70s and early '80s, and its releases rank among the best of early experimental unde…

**In process of stocking. Limited edition, Japan release only, few copies available.** Suezan presents a completely remastered double CD set which compiles almost all the 7" releases of legendary German Punk/New Wave label Rondo.The compilation is presented in a gatefold sleeve with two booklets: the first is a detailed explanation by Franz Bielmeier, the Rondo label owner and comes in full color with 64 pages and rare photos; the second booklet contains a Japanese translation version by Masanor…

**2CD version** In collaboration with Markus Acher’s Alien Transistor label, Morr Music presents a collection of hard-to-find Japanese independent music, compiled by Saya, who plays with Ueno Takashi in the iconic duo Tenniscoats. They are part of a current music scene, which is little known outside of Japan. "Minna Miteru"“ focuses on that very scene: the featured bands and musicians share a certain idea of DIY, and are also connected through frequent collaborations and mutual appreciation.