★Rough Trade
Greatest Hits (LP)
Original 1981 edition on Rough Trade of the beautifully packaged compilation of previously released material with cover inspired by Martin Denny.
Trance (LP)
Original 1982 UK edition on Rough Trade of Carter & Tutti's influential second post-TG album covering from minimal electro to heavy industrial dance.
Live At West Runton Pavilion 6-3-79 (LP)
Original 1980 edition on Rough Trade of one-sided LP with generic red die-cut sleeve of superb live diy syntheiszer/electronic music by the odd duo featuring Mute Records' founder Daniel Miller as The Normal.
2X45 (2x12"EP)
Original first edition of the first album of CV's second phase moving towards experimental industrial funk released by Rough Trade in 1982 as a double EP set with fold-out enveloppe sleeve.
Hai! (LP)
Original US edition on Rough Trade of CV's 1982 live in Japan LP marking the transition from industrial experimentation to industrial avant-funk. With insert.
Violent Femmes (LP)
Rare 1983 Belgian edition on Rough Trade of the band's first LP, one of the essential early albums of alternative rock. With original innersleeve.
390 Degrees Of Simulated Stereo. Ubu Live: Volume One (LP)
Original UK edition on Rough Trade of 1981 compilation of previously unpublished live material recorded between 1976 and 1979.
The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian (LP)
Original UK edition on Rough Trade of Pere Ubu's singer's first solo album from 1981, featuring members of Young Marble Giants, Fairport Convention, the Feelies and Golden Palominos, Henry Cow, the Red Crayola and... Pere Ubu.
Monster Walks The Winter Lake (LP)
Original UK edition on Rough Trade of Pere Ubu's singer's 1986 solo album featuring original members of the Cleveland band Tony Maimone and Allen Ravenstine.
Micro-Chips & Fish (12"EP)
Original 1979 UK EP on Rough Trade by Mayo Thompson's band featuring members of the Raincoats, X-Ray Spex and Swell Maps.
Ecstatic Data Sets: The Chorismos Apeiron Scanner (2028 Edition) (Book)
Ecstatic Data Sets is a manual for a music-making machine of the near future. Whilst the technology already exists, these ideas are meant as a speculative projection, if read with a sympathetic ear this book could soon transform inside your mind and become the machine itself. Read it like a compressed file—unzip your imagination and consider a future where music can once again change the world.
Under The Skin
*2024 stock* "There is no horror more visceral than the horror of the impersonal, so it makes sense that Mica Levi, composing the film's score, would turn to the master of elemental horror György Ligeti, whose ability to gather masses of semitones into translucent wisps without a center made The Shining, which relied heavily on his work Lontano, the scariest movie ever made. (Watch that film with the music off, I still maintain, and it becomes a particularly caustic domestic comedy.)
The score o…