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The Avant-garde
**Yellow vinyl** Though Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane were two of the prime forces in what came to be known as free jazz, their approaches couldn't have been more different. While Coleman's music dispensed with chords and rejected instrumental vi…
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Journey In Satchidananda
*180 Gram/ gatefold/ audiophile* Originally issued by Impulse in 1971, this masterpiece Alice's album is on of the most exciting record she have ever did! And, what's more, it's absolutely live! It is definitely one of the best  truly cosmic jazz orc…
The Long Living Things
*First time on vinyl* Masahiro Sugaya, his name is now known worldwide as one of the leading artists of Japanese ambient, which has been re-evaluated worldwide in recent years. The Long Living Things, the album was released in 1988 by Japanese musici…
Mother-Of-Pearl Box
Japanese composer Hiroko Matsuzaki began her classic music career as a flutist, and from 1985 to 1987 she worked as a studio musician as a flute/synthesiser player based in London, gaining an excellent reputation abroad without passing through the Ja…
Musique Créée Pour Le Ballet Iguzki Hauskara
*250 copies limited edition* Originally released on cassette only in 1984, Iguzki Hauskara by Pascal Gaigne, combines Basque Folk oral tradition, Spanish guitar and Contemporary Classical minimal compositions in equal parts. Beautifully haunting, won…
The Broadcast Collection 1970-1981
Kraftwerk was formed in 1970 and is widely regarded as a pioneer of  electronic music. They built custom-made electronic instruments and utilized cutting-edge equipment to create their signature sound. The album "Autobahn," particularly its title tra…
Another Lonely Night: Live At The Palalido, Milan, Italy, May 27th 1981 - FM Broadcast
Milan's Palalido, 1981 crackles with Kraftwerk's "Computer World" tour. Robotic rhythms, neon lights, anthems like "The Model" & "Numbers" ignite. A time capsule of synthpop mastery, future sounds live.
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Il Ginecologo Della Mutua
Beat Records is glad to publish the unreleased original motion picture soundtrack composed by Renato Serio for the movie "Il Ginecologo Della Mutua", a movie in the Sexy Comedy genre directed by great Joe D’Amato (Aristide Massaccesi) with brilliant …
Le Pistole Non Discutono
2024 reissue. Beat Records relaunches on the market the classic OST by Ennio Morricone for the Western film "Le pistole non discutono", directed in 1964 by Mario Caiano and starring Rod Cameron, Ángel Aranda, Vivi Bach, Horst Frank, José Canalejas, K…
Playing It Cool & Playing It Right
Keith Hudson, who temporarily worked as a dentist in the ghettos of Kingston, emigrated to New York City in 1976 and died there prematurely in 1984. He is best known for his work as a producer for artists such as U-Roy, Big Youth, Ken Boothe and Hora…
Swing Ensemble
Did someone say Summer? Sicily is what Cuba is to the Caribbean, sun, sea, easy and friendly people with lots of troubles! You won't find anything better around that identifies the summer more than this album by Enzo Randisi who at the beginning of t…
Super America
*2024 repress* Remastered edition of Janko Nilovic's album Super America, originally released in 1976. Janko Nilovic was one of the greatest European studio talents in the '70s. He is a musician who devotes himself to music, which resulted in a great…
The Amygdala Expedition
A truly stunning masterstroke with almost no equivalent, "The Amygdala Expedition", by the Hungarian musician and musicologist, László Hortobágyi, weaves a singular world of myth and imagination at the boundaries of New Age, Ambient, experimental, an…
Harsh 70's Reality
Originally seeing the light of day in April of 1992, "Harsh '70s Reality" was not just a high water mark for that year, but for the ages. Technically this was the band’s fourth long-play outing, and as a double-album, it followed two formidable dual …
Njitna !
Nanga Boko Records is very proud to present you "Njitna !" ("I'm Coming" in Bamoun vernacular langage of Cameroun), the official compilation of the finest early recordings (1979/1980) of the Cameroonian composer & musician Théodore Mounta, known on s…
Daisies - Sedmikrasky
Temporary Super Offer! Back in the latter half of the 1960s the burgeoning idiosyncratic group of alternative filmmakers coming out of (then) Czechoslovakia known as the Czech new wave were taking art house cinemas in western Europe and America by st…
Buchla Concert at Galeria Bonino New York 1974
Huge Tip! The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved and discerning global phonographic audience. With this p…
Electric
*2024 stock* Arne Nordheim is among Norway’s most important post-war composers, particularly among those working within the field of avant-garde electronic music. Nordheim studied studied Musique concrète in Paris during the mid 1950’s, expanding his…
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The Many Faces Of Karin Krog (Recordings 1967-2017)
Norway’s Grand Old Lady of jazz, Karin Krog turned 80 in May 2017, and the Odin label honoured her with a superb 6CD box set overviewing her outstanding career. Karin Krog is one of the great jazz singers. Few others worked within so many different a…
Soothe
One of the rarest Motorpycho’s 90's EPs, freshly repressed.  Strictly one-off limited collector's edition of 500 on beautiful marbled vinyl! Don't snooze, due to licensing restrictions this will not be re-pressed. Comes in the original sleeve and inn…
Mountain EP
*2024 stock* One of the Trondheim band’s 90's EPs, repressed on black/brown vinyl.
Another Ugly Ep
*2024 stock* One of the Trondheim band’s 90's EPs, repressed on green vinyl.
BBC Jazz Club Session April 1965
"The Rendell/Carr Quintet was a groundbreaking jazz ensemble featuring saxophonist Don Rendell and trumpeter Ian Carr, among the most influential musicians in post-war British jazz. BBC Jazz Club Session April 1965 is a snapshot of the group in trans…
Citadel
The original tracks were perfectly remastered for this first time ever vinyl release and the new masters received high praise from the Extreme Music owner Roger Richards. A new sleeve design was created by Oleg Galay, who is famous for his artworks f…
Tribute
*2024 stock* Tribute is a live double album by the Keith Jarrett Trio recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie on October 15, 1989 and released on ECM a year later. The trio—Jarrett's "Standards Trio"—features rhythm section Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnet…
Zuckerzeit
Limited Anniversary Edition: 180g vinyl, hand numbered, 1000 copies.  In 1974, Cluster entered the sugar era. This doesn't mean that they had finally arrived in their promised land, but they had simply moved from Berlin to the country, to a small pla…
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Now Wait For Last Year
Mannequin Records is proud to present the official reissue of Caroline K's outstanding 1985 album, "Now Wait For Last Year." This haunting, wistful work of post-industrial synthesizer music sees the late Nocturnal Emissions co-founder only solo recor…
Il Tuffatore
* 300 copies, machine-printed numbered edition, 180gr vinyl *A beatiful reissue of Flavio Giurato's second album released in Italy in 1982, whose original edition usually sells for crazy prices on the second-hand market. This undervalued piece of wor…
Gelato Metropolitano
“I was born in the sun of a big country that free maybe never was, a big country of happy people, of big forests and big cities.” This is how Alberto Camerini's second album opens, and it is clear from the outset that one is dealing with something no…
Druid One - Live at Essen Pop & Blues Festival 1970
Big Tip! From 1969 to 1972, Third Ear Band released three albums on the progressive Harvest label, of which "Music From Macbeth" (1972) was the best known and most commercially successful. On April 24, 1970, the Third Ear Band performed at the 2nd Es…
Zoe
Deluxe LP housed in tip-on jacket with gloss film laminate photo mounted on cover and printed inner sleeve. With each release and performance over the last ten years, saxophonist Makoto Kawashima has continued to stake his claim as one of today’s mos…
Os Afro Sambas
“The Afro-Sambas from Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes”… Many guitarists all over the world respectfully smile when they hear these words. The compositions are true masterpieces that never seem to loose their inspiring quality. The two legends in …
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Miroslav Vitous Group
*2024 stock* Between 1979 and 1982, the Miroslav Vitouš Group was the primary outlet for the abundant improvisational skills of leader Vitouš and John Surman. They made three ECM albums: this eponymously-titled disc from 1980 is the middle one. Vitou…
Per... Un Mondo Di Cristallo
* 2024 stock * The Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno (also called RRR) were a Roman group dedicated to progressive rock in the years in which the genre, in Italy and in Europe, lived its best years with enthusiasm. Formed by Luciano Regoli (vocals, acous…
Waves
*2024 stock* Terje Rypdal’s Waves (recorded 1977) announced the beginning of the Norwegian guitarist’s association with Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, which continues to this day. The album also introduced one of Terje’s most enduringly popular p…
The Survivors' Suite
*2024 stock* The Survivors’ Suite, recorded in 1976, is the crowning achievement of Keith Jarrett’s “American Quartet” with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, and one of the all-time enduring masterpieces in the ECM catalogue. Melody Maker:…
Timeless
*2024 stock* John Abercrombie’s ECM debut Timeless (recorded 1974) has proven to be exactly that. This fiery session with Jack DeJohnette and Jan Hammer still sounds as fresh as the year it was released. “Timeless comes as a major surprise in terms o…
III
Five years after the second life of Death was started with the release of their revelatory 1976 album, For the Whole World to See, Death III slams the door on the vault with a powerful set of songs that bring equal amounts of rock and ethereal soul-s…
Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard's first album as a leader, recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, on 19 June 1960 with Tina Brooks, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones and Clifford Jarvis, produced by Alfred Lion for Blue Note.
Mingus Ah Um
2024 stock 180gr pure virgin vinyl LP in Gatefold packaging. "Mingus Ah Um", featuring an all-star group including Jimmy Knepper, John Handy, Booker Ervin and Curtis Porter (aka Shafi Hadi), was Charles Mingus’ first LP for Columbia. The Penguin Guid…
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