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Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979
Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979 is Time Capsule’s continuation of the deep dive into Japan’s rich history of folk and psychedelic soul music.
St. John Green
The album “St. John Green” is the only release by the American band of the same name, and is regarded as a minor cult classic of 1960s psychedelia. It was released in 1968 by the small label Flick-disc. Released at the height of the flower power era,…
3/3
3/3 is best known as the precursor to Friction, one of the most influential bands in the history of Japanese rock. Despite the fact that their only album was originally selfproduced in 1975 in an extremely limited run of just ten copies, it has since…
Live at the Oakland Coliseum
Pink Floyd Live at the Oakland Coliseum, is a landmark triple-album release featuring a recording of Pink Floyd’s May 9, 1977 show at the Oakland Coliseum during their “In the Flesh” tour, staged to promote the album Animals. Delivering the full forc…
Black Tape II
The first full-length document of Rotting Telepathies, the group of the late post-punk figure Michio Kadotani and Asahito Nanjo. Recorded live in February 1982 and long buried on a tiny La Musica cassette, it captures the most band-like peak of Kadot…
La Musica Bundle (6LP)
A door into the most private corner of the Japanese underground. With its La Musica series, Black Editions turns to the catalogue of La Musica, the tiny imprint run by Asahito Nanjo - the bassist and ringleader behind High Rise, Mainliner, Musica Tra…
Keep On Truckin'
One of the prized private press rarities of early 1970s American rock. Originally issued in 1972 on the tiny East Coast Records imprint, Keep On Truckin' is the lone album by Surprize, a Philadelphia five-piece whose single recorded statement - heavy…
Peak Impressions
One of the strangest and most ambitious artifacts of American psychedelia. Originally issued by Monitor in 1967, Peak Impressions is the lone album by The Freeborne, a band of Boston teenagers - their ages ranged from seventeen to nineteen, three of …
Stepson
US Heavy rock band Los Angeles-based, active in the 1st half of the 70s. Stepson was formed in 1972 by Bruce Hauser (bass), Jeffrey Hawks (vocals), Vern Kjellberg (aka Joey Newman) (guitar) and Len Fagan (drums). Hauser, Hawks and Newman hailed from …
One
Anonymous transmissions from a spectral, dead-of-night mystery zone. Recorded in 1996 and originally release by Japan's enigmatic La Musica Records label on limited cassette. A group that deconstructs and liberates the chance nature of contemporary c…
Of The People / By The People / For The People From The Common People
The Common People are perhaps the greatest remaining enigma of the ’60s US rock music. Their sole album has belatedly been acclaimed as one of the most distinctive recordings of its time. Produced in 1969 by “Lord” Tim Hudson (The Seeds) and arranged…
Bangor Flying Circus
Bangor Flying Circus, the self-titled debut from the short-lived but influential Chicago progressive rock trio, is a striking document of late-1960s American psychedelia and ambitious musicianship. Formed in mid-1967 and active through 1969, Bangor F…
Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls
Coven’s groundbreaking debut album Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (often shortened to Witchcraft) is reissued in a newly remastered edition, bringing renewed clarity and presence to one of the most infamous and influential records in occult …
Growers Of Mushroom
Emerging from the fevered crossroads of late‑1960s psychedelia and early heavy rock, Leaf Hound’s debut album Growers of Mushroom stands as a raw, unforgettable statement of power, groove and atmosphere. First issued in 1970 as Leaf Hound by Telefunk…
Next To Nothing
Black Editions presents the expanded and definitive edition of White Heaven's brilliant third album Next to Nothing. Originally released in 1994 by Tokyo's Noon Disk, the full album was only ever available in a limited vinyl pressing of 250 copies. S…
Of Queues And Cures
First-ever vinyl reissue. Half-speed mastered. By the time National Health entered Ridge Farm Studio in July 1978 to record their second album, the Canterbury scene was already supposed to be over. Soft Machine had splintered. Caravan had gone pop. H…
Solid Static
On Solid Static, Musica Transonic / Mainliner - Asahito Nanjo, Makoto Kawabata and Tatsuya Yoshida - turn late‑90s Tokyo psych into a feral laboratory, smashing motorik riffs, free‑jazz volatility and distortion worship into one long, white‑hot deton…
Cara Maluco
Osees return with a four-track EP recorded last year in Tornio, TX. A couple fried trippers and couple tight dance punk numbers. Crazy face indeed.
Disque 4 (’76 Studio et Live)
Les Rallizes Dénudés returns with Disque 4 -’76 Studio et Live-, the latest in the ongoing series of official archival releases from the celebrated Japanese underground band.
20 Years Of* Frank Zappa *Give Or Take A Year Or So
Dive into the eclectic genius of Frank Zappa with this essential 8-CD retrospective, spanning two decades of groundbreaking music from 1966 to 1986. Capturing the evolution of Zappa's visionary career—from the raw rock edge of The Mothers of Inventio…