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Schedars
First worldwide vinyl edition of Schedars's self-titled debut, originally self-released in 2023. A five-piece Tokyo no-wave / post-punk band that brings the lineage of Friction and Chance Operation into the present tense - a hyperactive blend of shar…
Harafuri
First-ever official reissue of Machizo Machida and Kitazawagumi's Harafuri, originally on Tokuma's WAX imprint in 1992. Eleven years after the foundational INU classic Meshi Kuuna!, Machida (now better known as the novelist and Musashino University p…
乙女の祈りはダッダッダッ！A Maiden’s Prayer
First-ever vinyl reissue of Mizutama Shobodan's legendary 1981 debut A Maiden’s Prayer DA-DA-DA!. A wild theatrical mix of avant-post-punk worked out by one of the most uncompromising women-led ensembles ever to emerge from the Japanese underground, …
Romancing The Music
On Romancing The Music, Hip-See-Kid reanimates Japanese New Wave as a jittery, neon‑lit fever dream: punk‑funk basslines, soul‑scarred melodies and splashy jazz inflections squeezed into a compact mini‑LP that feels like a lost 80s club classic beame…
Dance Till You Die
Reissue of Daisuck & Prostitute's Dance Till You Die, expanded from a 1980 7-inch into a full-length the following year. Equal parts ritualistic groove and No-Wave abrasion: one of the most uncompromising statements of early-80s Japan, and an obvious…
Dendö Marionette
Definitive 2LP overview of Dendö Marionette, gathering the band's complete studio legacy: the cult 1981 7-inch flexi, a previously unreleased EP recorded in 1982, and an array of demos that captures the group as they evolved towards their fullest son…
Juvenile Rock
First-ever vinyl edition of Dendö Marionette's Juvenile Rock, a 2LP collection of unreleased recordings, alternate versions, studio experiments and live captures previously circulated only on a tiny CD-R run and a cassette via Brooklyn's Bitter Lake …
Trap
First international vinyl reissue of Chiko Hige's Trap, his second solo album, originally on Japan Records in 1985. A tense, hypnotic record of hyper-kinetic grooves, clipping guitars and twisting saxophone lines: one of the cleanest distillations of…
Spare Beauty
First 12-inch edition of Chance Operation's Spare Beauty, originally a double 7-inch on Jeep Records in 1982. A dense four-track EP of hypnotic, infectious, sax-driven Japanese post-punk by the Higo Hiroshi-led project, finally laid out in the format…
Chance Operation
First-ever reissue of Chance Operation's self-titled 1981 debut 12-inch on Jeep Records. A foundational document of Japanese avant-funk and post-punk that captures the Higo Hiroshi-led project at the moment of its formation.
Paradise Mambo
First vinyl reissue of Akebonojirushi's Paradise Mambo, originally on the influential DIW label in 1987. A six-piece formed in Hakata before relocating to Tokyo in 1984, the band fused new wave, jazz-funk and unconventional pop into a record that is …
Hairway To Steven
The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis,’ 1987’s ‘Locust Abortion Technician’ and 1988’s ‘Hairway …
Material Action 2
First time on CD for this classic Merzbow duo album from 1983. Material Action is a favorite among early Merzbow free-music, junk-noise workouts. Psychedelic improvised instrumental energy abounds on this essential early recording that is Pure Merz. …
Ambient 1 (Music For Airports)
Brian Eno's Ambient album from 1982. Standard 1 LP version.. Though not the earliest entry in the genre (which Eno makes no claim to have invented), ‘Ambient 1 (Music For Airports)’ was the first album ever to be explicitly labelled ‘ambient music’. …
If Your Mirror Breaks
In true ‘Ex fashion’, If Your Mirror Breaks picks up where 27 Passports left off, and erupts like a musical short story collection, a ten-part series of surrealist daydreams, calls to action, ominous warnings and bursts of vitality tapped into the pu…
Dreams For Sax
Another gem from the extensive Flipper Music catalog, more precisely from their Flower sublabel, "Dreams For Sax" is possibly one of the most stand-out productions from their studio ensemble Gruppo Sound, this time around featuring saxophonist Paolo …
Love's Secret Domain
* Deluxe Hardcover Triple-Gatefold 3xLP. Gold Vinyl, sold-out at source * In 1991 Coil released the third of their early classic full-length albums "Love's Secret Domain", seemingly casting aside the gloom and funereal beauty of its predecessors in f…
Brown Rice
If Eternal Rhythm was Don Cherry's world fusion masterpiece of the '60s, then Brown Rice is its equivalent for the '70s. But where Eternal Rhythm set global influences in a free jazz framework, Brown Rice's core sound is substantially different, wedd…
Live In Ankara
Recorded in November 1969 at the US Embassy, Live In Ankara saw the adventurous jazz trumpeter Don Cherry performing with saxophonist Irfan Sümer, bassist Selçuk Sun, and drummer Okay Temiz, with arrangements by trumpeter Maffy Falay, who had introdu…
Relativity Suite
*2025 much needed repress!* Reissue of Don Cherry's 'Relativity Suite', recorded with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra in 1973. At this time, Cherry was becoming increasingly interested in Middle Eastern and traditional African and Indian music, having …