New Arrivals

The Outskirts came together as a working band during bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s three-year stint as a Chicagoan from 2005-2008. They played regularly at all of the working venues for improvised music in Chicago at that time, including The Hungr…

Moving Images is a collaborative album by composers Frank Maston and Greg Foat, and marks the inaugural release on Magic Hollow, the new imprint founded by Daniel O’Sullivan. Rooted firmly in the tradition of classic library music, the album draws fr…

Originally released in 1981, Mr. Circle’s Thi Nam should really have been recognised decades ago as a jazz dance classic. A beautiful example of European jazz fusion at its most sophisticated and optimistic, the album is immersed in the sonics and rh…

When you’re creating something loosely referred to as “art” with another person, you’re mining the depths of minds and experience, searching connections with pasts, each of us producing from a different place. Communication exists as unspoken and sim…

TripleAkuma is the third in a series of essential live documents from Merzbow. The stage and the studio are not the same place, and Merzbow has an acute understanding of this juxtaposition. Whilst the sheer density of the music might be maintained ac…

Akira Kosemura’s Polaroid Piano is a record that is very close to my heart. In fact, it is Akira’s work that was one of the drivers for Someone Good, one of the Room40 sibling labels, to be founded. Polaroid Piano marks the beginning of what would la…

I have long pondered the concept of connectedness in relation to life’s existence. The Dalai Lama teaches that destruction of one’s neighbour equates to destruction of oneself. In contrast, modern Western culture has placed the individual at the epic…

Thirty years on from the original, Throbbing Gristle returned to the source material of The Second Annual Report - their catastrophic debut of November 1977, pressed in a run of 785 copies on their own Industrial Records with white labels, a "Nothing…

Original UK edition on EMI of the second album from 1981, another post-punk masterpiece possibly as influential as the first one and certainly as essential.

Unofficial 1984 Italian LP with a recording of the live show at Loughborough University Students' Union, December 8, 1983.

Original Italian edition on United Artists of the superb and quite diverse 4th album from 1979. Quite a masterpiece indeed.

Rare original UK 1977 edition on Harvest of possibly the most original debut album of the early new wave and all-time art rock by one of the greatest bands of the last 50 years. Essential masterpiece.

Rare original edition on Rather Records / Rough Trade of the wacky classic avant-garde punk debut album.

1982 EP by the great German Neue Deutsche Welle band released by Les Disques Du Crépuscule in Belgium.

Original UK edition on EMI of the great and funkier 1983 third album by one of the best and most influential post-punk bands.

First LP of jazz-funk experimental new wave by the Sheffied band formed out of the ashes of the first Clock DVA, released by Go! Discs in 1983. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Original and only edition on Illuminated of the sole album by Sheffield industrial new wave band. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

Unofficial 1980 LP on RZM Productions with the tracks recorded for the unreleased album - the RCA sessions. This is an early 1980's re-press on yellow vinyl with laminated sleeve. The 7"EP it originally came with is not included.

Original Italian edition of the 1978 debut album by pop/punk's finest, on Virgin.

1986 re-issue on 4AD of one of the most original and inimitable records produced by the new wave, originally released by the same label in 1980. Essential.