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The Sorcerer
Gábor Szabó was one of the most original guitarists to emerge in the 1960s, mixing his Hungarian folk music heritage with a deep love of jazz and crafting a distinctive, largely self-taught sound. This evocative 1967 set for Impulse! features nine li…
The Complete Hopbine '69
Previously only issued in fragmented form and long out of print, these recordings catch Tubby Hayes in transition. Less than a month after they were taped just before Christmas 1969, he was to collapse on a gig, signaling the beginning of the final p…
A Touch Of Grey
The power trio Mirande/English/Skinner has dug out a strangely lit tunnel between the dustier nooks and crannies of the rich and varied 1980’s industrial scene and the just as elusively defined experimental field of today where they themselves reside…
Ultimate Vibrator
*Limited edition of 300* Usagi is proud present this much sought after gem from the vast Macronympha discography. Released in 1994, Ultimate Vibrator is one of the earlier testaments of Rodger Stella's meticulous editing and mixing genius, and above …
Flare Blues (LP)
Tip! Flare Blues reimagines two of Merzbow’s long out of print EPs from 1994, Flare Gun and White Blues. Revisiting the original pieces and adding previously unreleased materials recorded during these sessions, Flare Blues tethers together a set of M…
Fallen Gods (2LP)
Fallen Gods is the third studio album by Rapoon aka Robin Storey, formerly of :zoviet*france:. Originally released in 1994, ‘Fallen Gods’ emerged amid a prolific early period for the Rapoon project, following in the wake of debut album ‘Dream Circle’…
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The Malady Of Elegance (LP)
Originally released in 2008 on CD and in a very limited vinyl edition, "The Malady Of Elegance" by Goldmund aka Keith Kenniff finally gets its long-deserved vinyl re-release, featuring a new artwork and remastered audio by Taylor Deupree.Taking cues …
Accident In Heaven
Accident In Heaven was originally released in 1987 as a hand-made micro-edition of about 40 cassette tapes. It was only the third ever release on the short-lived now near legendary SDV label which had been established that same year by Konrad Kraft, …
Batang Frisco
Founded by Eric Jensen & the late Bill DiMichele (RIP), the lifespan of San Francisco based project Batang Frisco (‘San Francisco Kids’ in the Filipino dialect Tagalog) is inimitably distilled on this solitary self-titled record, an outlandish privat…
Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T. (Drawings Of Patient O.T.)
*Reissue of the 1983 album, originally released on Some Bizzare and Rough Trade* "Einstürzende Neubauten's second album marks a radical progression in the band's sound as well as a revolutionary step forward in the realms of industrial and experiment…
Kollaps
*Reissue of the 1981 album, originally released on Zickzack*  "Einstürzende Neubauten's first studio record. They established themselves as relentless and pioneering right out of the gate, bringing power tools and metallic percussion into the mix in …
Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
*Reissue of the 1987 album, originally released on What's so funny.* "Like watching a stalker cleverly follow its prey for miles, only to watch it shy away just short of lodging a knife into the back of the followed, Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Ri…
Busz/Dyskusja
Over the last two years, Astigmatic Records have been digging through the Radio Łódź archives, listening to hundreds of recordings of the local Orchestra conducted by Henryk Debich. As a result, 13 gems were selected from the period between 1974 and …
La Cave Live, Cleveland 1966
the first authorized release by permission of the Estate of Albert Ayler of the two concerts played at La Cave, Cleveland on April 16 & 17, 1966. Remastered for best possible sound of these under difficult technical circumstances recorded performance…
White1
White1 was originally released in 2003 by Southern Lord as a CD and very limited 3 sided LP edition of 540 copies (in a white sleeve with a sticker, packaged in an embroidered pillowcase and containing a sleeping pill.)Sunn O))) co-founders Stephen O…
Flight Of The Behemoth
* Limited to 500, Brown vinyl * Flight of the Behemoth is the third album by Sunn O))). The band collaborated with legendary Japanese noise artist Merzbow, who mixed tracks 3 and 4. The first ever use of a drum machine on a sunn O))) track is heard o…
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Music From Two Continents (Live At Jazz Jamboree '84)
Full-length, legendary Cecil Taylor Orchestra concert from Jazz Jamboree 1984 feat. greatest names on American and European free jazz scene.
To Look Inside Music
The Henning Christiansen Archive is proud to present a collection of previously unreleased ‘classical works’ by Henning Christiansen, a large part of his oeuvre which has remained out of sight, until now. This 2CD compilation encompasses a variety of…
Op.1984 (160C) Goodday, Mr Orwell, Green Ear Year
Previously unreleased Henning Christiansen work from 1984. A dedication to George Orwell.
The Art of Mary Mazzacane
A new expanded reissue of the sold out & extremely limited LP from 2017.
Omniverse
** Purple Vinyl ** Recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label, this is a solid, overlooked set in the vast Ra canon. The tracks aren't so much compositions as excursions, pure jazz, lots of reflective piano in trio, …
Fantasy In Orbit
Discounted copies, sealed with slightly damaged on corners We Are Busy Bodies announces the official reissue of the seminal 1959 album, The Fascinating World of Electronic Music by the Dutch electronic music pioneers Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan. In …
The Fascinating World Of Electronic Music
We Are Busy Bodies announces the official reissue of the seminal 1959 album, The Fascinating World of Electronic Music by the Dutch electronic music pioneers Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan. In combining jazz with experimental electronics, the album sig…
Patlabor 2 The Movie (Original Soundtrack "P2")
WRWTFWW Records announce the release of Kenji Kawai's complete soundtrack to Mamoru Oshii's 1993 superb political thriller science-fiction mecha anime Patlabor 2: The Movie. Includes liner notes by the great Masaaki Hara. A true soundtrack maestro, K…
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My Favorite Tune
** LP version. 180 gram vinyl. Heavy sleeve and obi ** We Release Jazz announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui's only solo piano album, recorded live, June 4-5, 1994 at The Lutheran Hall in Sapporo. Originally released on CD only by Sapporo Jazz C…
Le Cut-Up Populaire
Gatefold sleeve; edition of 600 (numbered). Pascal Comelade has been working for three years to achieve his brand-new album. Not only it features all of his musical obsessions and trademarks, some long-time partners and friends such as Richard Pinhas…
20 Years of Sound Art 2 LP+Book
20 Years of Sound Art is a new release that covers the past 20 years of Lars Lundehave Hansen's work as a sound artist. 48p book with 180 gr double vinyl in exclusive handbound foil stamped linen wrapped box.
The Space Between The Silence
Lars Lundehave Hansen has been working with ephemeral drones and physical music for the past 20 years - as a soundartist, enthusiastic promotor of and dedicated performer in these fields.
Bundle
Futuro Antico / Dai Primitivi all'Elettronica / Isole del Suono (3LP in bundle)
This bundle includes the complete available Futuro Antico discography, namely it includes the three following LPs:Futuro Antico (1980)Dai Primitivi all'Elettronica (1980)Isole del Suono (1980)Futuro Antico (1980)For the first time on vinyl this obscu…
Plays the Clockwork Orange
Reissue of a February 1980 decomposition (M.B. skippin' up the film's original soundtrack) from the Italian industrial forereunner. Halting tape cut-ups of the classical score from Kubirick's film. One of the strangest M.B. recordings!
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100 Years of Soundings
Edition of 90 copies plus 28 H.C. Pressed on white vinyl and packaged in a b&w gatefold sleeve.
Water Angels
Sound poetry by Katalin Ladik from the 1970s, "Water Angel" and "Three Orphans": her voice and texts mixed with Joyce and Lewis Carroll, electronic treatments, Ernö Király's zitherphone and Hungarian folk recordings.
Fluxstuff (4LP Box - Art Edition)
* Edition of 30 signed and numbered linen boxsets. 4 signed LPs with hand-drawn sleeves, also including a 112-page signed book with title page in calligraphy *  Alga Marghen started their activities in 1996 soon to become a reference for experimental…
Musik Der 60. Aktion, Berlin 1978 / Musik Für Rita Nitsch Geburtstag
1996 release. A prime example of the intense & noisy wildness of Hermann Nitsch’s early actions employing scream-choirs, beating, whistles, chaotic austrian folklore juxtapositions, rough brass sections and dissonant strings
La Convenzione / Paranoia (7")
* 2021 Stock. * Pollution from 1972 is the captivating follow-up to Fetus. Like its predecessor, the album features Baroque textures, motorik rhythms, weird tape effects and Franco Battiato’s perfectly oblique vocals, with a minimalist sound mainly b…
Cluster 71
The abrasive, epochal debut. Moebius and Roedelius push organ, guitar and homemade electronics through banks of effects into three untitled slabs of proto-ambient drift. Year zero for German electronic music, still startling fifty years on.
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Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1980-86
Spunky wave kraut from early ‘80s Germany, portraying the sound of the country’s first proper youth movement, with Conrad Schnitzler, Der Plan, Palais Schaumburg, Asmus Tietchens, Holger Hiller, Populäre Mechanik and many more
The Second Law
Key 1990's works by cult Australian minimalist / ambient / industrial / fourth world composer, remastered and reissued on vinyl for the first time
MO_RO_20 (20 Years Of Music For Marcel Odenbach)
Richard Ojijo’s music for the films of german video artist Marcel Odenbach not only underscores and accentuates the imagery and motion, but also serves to propel the narrative too. The compositions are auditory distillations of the visual and create …