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Sidewalks in Motion
Rashied Ali stood as a magnetic force for the musical environment around him. In his last decades he sponsored rehearsal opportunities for young musicians, tightened up neighborhood street-corner drum circles he happened to pass, and for years would …
Red Light Disco
Dancefloor seductions from Italian sexploitation cinema (1969-1981)" is an unprecedented and one-of-a-kind foray into the erotic side of Italian soundtracks curated by American director and actor Eli Roth. The double black LP includes an exclusive bo…
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La Signora Gioca Bene a Scopa?
“La Signora Gioca Bene a Scopa?” is a 1974 erotic comedy directed by Giuliano Carnimeo, with Edwige Fenech and Carlo Giuffré as main characters. Nothing from this soundtrack had been released at the time, not even a 45rpm; only in 2010 it has been fu…
Ansamblul Hyperion
It's a miracle that some records ever get made. Right in the middle of Ceausescu's ultra-repressive dictatorship, composer Iancu Dumitrescu managed to arrange for his first LP, a compilation of radical new music by Dumitrescu and three of his Romania…
And Yeah So (1981-1985)
Corbett vs. Dempsey presents And Yeah So (1981-1985), the first ever compilation by Splat! Emerging amid the primo froth of the British post-punk era, Splat!'s lineup included vocalist Dave Parsons, the mastermind behind Ron Johnson Records. The band…
Kokotsu No Sekai
Clear Purple Vinyl. Although Ike Reiko was a mere 17 years of age when she recorded 1971's Kokotsu No Sekai, she was already a star in the world of Japanese erotic movies. Despite the tough-gal image, the music is pretty darn life-affirming, so don't…
Bruno Nicolai in Giallo
This limited edition double marbled yellow vinyl record presents a selection of Bruno Nicolai's he best themes of four OSTs ('La Coda Della Scorpione,' 'Perché Quelle Strane Gocce Di Sangue Sul Corpo Di Jennifer?,' 'Tutti Colori Del Buio' and 'Il Tuo…
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Gvoon Brennung 1
Previously unreleased music from the archives of Can cofounder Holger Czukay will be released as an album in the new year. Out on March 28th through Grönland Records, Gvoon - Brennung 1 contains 65 minutes of material that's believed to date back to …
Requiem for the Snake of Maidan
Holidays Records is on fire! Hot on the heels of their recent incredible vinyl releases of the Italian sound artist and musician Ezio Piermattei’s “Gran trotto” and the duo Acchiappashpirt’s “Ninulla”, they return with one of their most important and…
Shadowland: Live In Fribourg, Switzerland
Tip! Limited edition of 225 hand-numbered copies on Milky Clear with Neon Pink Splatter. Issued in a gatefold sleeve. The Residents deliver a live performance that's as eccentric as their decades-long career. Recorded in Fribourg, this show blends th…
Du Musst Nichts Sagen Remixe
2024 Repress.Originally the B-side to Rückverzauberung 2, "Du Musst Nichts Sagen" marched towards a dark fortress, following a point-blank trail and inspired by the mute grit of the many. The remixes present three distinct alternatives, starting with…
Freiland Klaviermusik
2024 Repress. If experimental minimalistic dance music as we know it today had existed during the lifetime of Arnold Schönberg and Paul Hindemith, it might have sounded much like this present album. Something fascinating and possibly well known, is t…
Obtain By Sacrifice
Latest release from Canadian noise act Knurl. Special thanks to David Murphy for releasing this.
Dumb Tangerine Dream
Rounding out the first twenty releases on the label, right back where we started, Krim Kram HQ all-time favs, the inimitable Bren't Lewiis Ensemble. Dumb Tangerine Dream collects four 3" CDRs originally released during those apocalyptic years of 2019…
Fierce / Lighten
*100 copies limited edition* The late Hironari Iwata, best known for his experimental work with "Toukaseibunshi", explored even more uncharted territory under the alias "Haiginsha". This long-lost cassette from 1986 has been resurrected with a meticu…
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Sei Note In Logica / Sonanze (2 LP bundle)
Over the last decade, Superior Viaduct has become synonymous with making the improbable and impossible real. One after another, spanning nearly every idiom of ambitious music, they’ve reissued some of the greatest holy grails in the history of sound.…
Multiple Koller
2024 stock Outstanding performance by the Austrian saxophonist Hans Koller; this is a very uncommon and memorable session from the 1960s. Koller plays tenor in a quartet that also features Fritz Pauer on piano; the track was initially recorded for a …
The Outer View
*2023 stock* "From his earliest days as a composer, George Russell has worked from the assumption that if jazz was to grow as an art form it would have to look within itself for the materials of growth. Developing the theoretical ability to abet that…
Hyena
Big-band no-wave from a stack of local instrumentalists as LA performance artist Went sings her lyrics over the top. Noisy, raucous and free!
Roi De L'Agbadja Moderne 1974​-​1983
Gnonnas Pedro’s “Mo Ngbadun Re” - a song written to pay tribute to Nigerian and Beninese musicians - would change the trajectory of Analog Africa, forever. And while the Nigerian artists were more or less familiar to Samy (the label founder), when Gn…
Hip Ensemble
Wewantsounds is delighted to reissue Roy Haynes' 1971 LP 'Hip Ensemble,' recorded in New York for Bob Shad's Mainstream Records and featuring Hannibal Marvin Peterson, George Adams, Teruo Nakamura and Lawrence Killian. Together the musicians create a…
Theme Park
Performed by virtuosic madman William Winant, who has worked with John Cage, Anthony Braxton, Mr. Bungle, Pierre Boulez, Steve Reich, Thurston Moore, Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor and countless others, Theme Park is a major new work by Alvin Curran and o…
Animal Behavior
Alvin Curran, a persistant innovator in today's new music world, brings the whole environment into unpredictable focus through his sonic fireworks, sharp wit and timeless lyricism. Curran studied with Elliott Carter at Yale in the early 1960's and in…
Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy
2024 repress. "Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, x2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist & composer Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet, is at last here. Recorded live at ETA (referencing David Foster Wallace), a bar in…
Bliss Out For Days
Translucent Light Blue Vinyl Comes in a tip-on jacket and is accompanied by a 32-page booklet. The Numero Group guide to private issue new age. Featuring Laraaji, Iasos, Joanna Brouk, Don Slepian, Peter Davison, Master Wilburn Burchette, Jordan De La…
Metri
Mika Vainio's first album that many regard as one of the most essential foundations of electronic music.
Autofonia (Il Clangore Della Propria Voce Nell'Orecchio)
Big tip! *30 copies limited edition. Remastered reissue of the original*  "Autofonia (Il Clangore Della Propria Voce Nell'Orecchio)" cassette, self-released by Massimo Toniutti in 1986. Sound material, collected and composed from February to Septembe…
The Beginnings of Japanese Electroacoustic Vol.1 - Electronic Music Room 1955-1968
Big Tip! “Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete” is the NHK Electronic Music Archives. The NHK Electronic Music  Studio was established in the mid-1950s as the world's most advanced electronic music studio. The sound origins started in 1993 as a memorial to th…
Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete 14
Brand new release of NHK Electronic Music Studio. This issue is early electronic works of Somei Satou made in this studio. Most of them have reissued on CDs and LPs, but Rarangenjo (tr.3) is unreleased work.
Eqqartuutiffisdaq
Unreleased archival recordings from 1980-84. A small chunk of early 80's Swedish DIY underground history from the legendary but rarely heard Fysisk Fostran. Based in the small town of Stenungsund north of Gothenburg and roughly active between 1980 an…
Industrial Sponge
Edition of 200 copies.  Slithering out the fertile depths of Olympia, Washington circa 1985, Industrial Sponge “released” a lone 90 minute cassette onto the unsuspecting public. And by “released” we mean they would gift wrap the tape and leave it aro…
Apodiktische Gewissheit
Apodiktische Gewissheit ("apodeictic certainty") is the title of a cooperative audio-visual project from Berlin-based artist Gerhard Mantz and Wolfgang Voigt. The project is premised on a digital video piece from Gerhard Mantz. Steadily flowing geome…
The Whitey Album
Available again on vinyl!! A deluxe vinyl re-release of Ciccone Youth’s The Whitey Album, the full-length recorded by Sonic Youth’s Top-40 obsessed alter-ego is now available on the band’s own Goofin’ imprint.  In 1988, after hinting that a tribute t…
Time Machine
Huge Tip! Double LP, Gatefold edition. Born on November 23rd, 1944 in Paris, France, Frédéric Rabold already played with his father in American Army Clubs at age 16. In 1965, Rabold joined the Axel Lauser Quartet, three years later he finally founded…
The Smegma Christmas Album
Bomb! * Edition of 200. Hand-made covers (each one is unique), comes with a postcard. *  At the end of October 1973 Ricky Reets Hubba-Hubba Band was disbanded. It had been decided that what was needed was “a band without Musicians” and many wild expe…
LAFMS Box Box
Signed copy (Edition signed by most of the Artistst) Bringing together over seven hours of  absurd, elusive and often disturbing music, The Box label finally unveil this epic, years-in-the-making 13x LP Box Set from Lafms, a must for those of you fam…
The Raymond Building, 1976 (Art Edition)
Art Edition, includes a 5x5 inch pigment print, a self portrait from the book, printed by and signed on the back by Fredrik Nilsen. This is a 32 page perfect bound book of photographs by Fredrik Nilsen documenting 3 months in 1976 when we members of …
The Raymond Building, 1976
300 copies. This is a 32 page perfect bound book of photographs by Fredrik Nilsen documenting 3 months in 1976 when we members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, aka the LAFMS, occupied studios in the 35 South Raymond building in what was then th…
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Motion Picture Score (1974)
CD edition. Waxwork Records is proud to release The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Motion Picture Score (1974) by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell. In celebration of the iconic film's 50th Anniversary, the long awaited score album is now available for …
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Publications 1977-2019 (Book)
David King was a British-born visual artist / musician best known for designing the Crass symbol. He took part in NYC's No Wave scene before relocating to San Francisco in 1980 when post-punk culture was still peaking.