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AGF 026CD
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
The Dissidentova audio collection is another edition of feminist language exploration by the artist, music producer and poet Antye Greie-Ripatti, aka AGF. This time her work focuses on poetry, sound art, and the her-story in Russia from the mid-18th century to the present day. AGF chooses 15 iconic figures in Russian culture and creates fragmented tributes, placing them in chronological order. She invited Russian musicians and sound artists to collaborate with her as a reflection of the musical landscape of Russia today. Features the work of Ekaterina Urusova, Anna Bunina, Zinaida Gippius, Elena Guro, Emma Goldman, Alexandra Kollontai, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Olga Berggoltz, Elena Shvartz, Unknown Russian Austronaut, Anna Politkovskaya, Anna Gorenko (Carp), Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Galina Rymbu. Features Gubaidulina and an old Russian oven door. Includes booklet with liner notes.
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ANIMALS 005EP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
The fifth release on the Animals Dancing label is a special one. Sourced from recordings of a live set from 2014, Animals Dancing famiglia Jonny Nash and Suzanne Kraft (Diego Herrera) originally created these tracks in LA ahead of a series of live performances together. After some finishing touches made in Jonny's studio in Bali in 2016, Animals Dancing are very excited to finally launch these two to the club. Za Talent will see you now.
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BALANS 024EP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
After her well received 707 Collision EP on Balans Records earlier in 2018 (BALANS 023EP), the Parisian DJ and producer Hemka returns on the Dutch imprint with Familiar, presenting four stomping, big-room techno cuts. "Familiar #1" sets the tone of the EP with its fast-paced twisted rhythms, followed by yet another fierce track perfectly suited for dark warehouse raves. On the B-side "Familiar #3" rolls forward and things get trippier while its steady cycling groove remains warm and soulful. "Familiar #4" shuts things down in a more seductive, playful mood adding a little Detroit hypnotism into the mix.
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BANG 124LP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
The Kill Devil Hills' fifth album, Pink Fit! In this occasion the band deliver six long tracks, fulfilled of complex melodies and intensity. The Kill Devil Hills are one of Australia's best kept secrets. Coming from the isolated city of Perth, these musicians continue their growth and evolution delivering the very finest and most intense music which takes you, with their unique stamp and signature, to the world of The Drones, The Beasts Of Bourbon, Kim Salmon, The Gun Club, Johnny Cash... After the highly demanded reissue of their 2004 debut (BANG 017LP), here comes another magnificent musical work by these excellent and finest Australian musicians. 150 gram vinyl; Edition of 500.
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BC 046-12
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LP version. Includes bonus tracks.
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BNR 175EP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
Fashion design is a creative task involving the shaping, bending, and breaking of codes. Techno is similar, as one mines the genre's legacy in order to navigate new territory. Creative polymath Virgil Abloh is most widely known for his fashion work, but it's no surprise his track "Orvnge" with Boys Noize is a powerfully executed exercise in the shared practice of finding the memetic, fractal base that forms the skeleton for a myriad of patterns that inevitably follow. "Orvnge" is a club weapon serving as a robust beginning for the further possibilities of their collaboration yet to unfold. Orange vinyl.
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BPC 336EP
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$12.00
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
The shortest connection between the past and the future leads through the music of Boston 168, the duo of Sergio Pace and Vincenzo Ferramosca. "Cosmic Tribe" translates its idea of universal togetherness into a nerve-wrecking groove punctuated by complex percussion work and a subtly building acid line, while "Drops In Heaven" uses a booming kick drum as base for an emotionally driven exploration of sonic textures. The psychedelic "Straight To Light" nods to nineties pioneers like Emmanuel Top, showcasing Ferramosca and Pace's talent for creating musical depth by ingeniously bringing together a few select elements to greater effect.
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CLOUDS 114EP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
12" version. Long Beach, Southern California. Whilst nearby Los Angeles is where dreams are shattered, in Long Beach, people are getting on with their lives. Matt Wignall has been living there for years, runs a studio, seeks out old equipment to repair and prides himself in making it sound better than it ever did before. He produces bands such as Cold War Kids. With them, Wignall has recorded tracks such as "Hang Me Out to Dry" and "Hospital Beds" with a sound that is to die for. So the interesting question is: Why does a musician who has such an understanding of sound and such awesome equipment not have his own band? Now he has got one: Wargirl. "I knew I was capable of recording and writing good music. But the idea of being in some band where there's four guys playing and one of them singing lead just seemed incredibly boring to me," Wignall says. He likes listening to Santana's early records, Afrobeat recordings by Fela Kuti, the psychedelic masterpiece Forever Changes by Love (1967), the '70s psych funk masters War (who happen to also be from Long Beach!), as well as reggae, disco, garage rock, and post-punk. "One day the thought occurred to me that really what I should do was to get to know people and set up a band with them that would combine all of these aspects." So he went out, into town, down to the beach and realized: Actually, I already know all of these people, I just need to ask them. Looking at the band one immediately notices that the make-up of this band also makes a socio-political statement. There are three women and three men, each with colorful biographies, and they are playing music that is from all over the world, yet could only have been invented in California. Wargirl knows that the situation elsewhere in the US is totally different. "That's why we want to take a stand, want to show: There are still people who are different, who are open and not interested in commerce. We're still here!" Wargirl's music doesn't carry clear messages. "First and foremost, the songs should be fun and make you dance," Wignall says. But there is another layer hiding behind this. "It's like The Clash. They could be consumed as a party band-- but also as a source of information for revolutionary thoughts."
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$21.00
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Miles & Monk At Newport by The Miles Davis Sextet and The Thelonious Monk Quartet, originally released in 1963. Featuring the Miles Davis Sextet and the Thelonious Monk Quartet recorded in 1958 and 1963, respectively, this classic album features two of jazz music's most famous groups at the peak of their powers. This 1958 recording from Miles Davis is, in fact, one of the finest live documents of the classic Kind Of Blue-era group featuring John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, along with the great Bill Evans on piano. Monk's group as usual featured tenor-man Charlie Rouse, with help from Pee Wee Russell on clarinet, and they really stretch out on two ten+ minute tracks. Another great American jazz classic reissued on Cornbread Records. 180 gram vinyl.
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CSR 255CD
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$15.50
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
C.3.3. is a personal project from Paul Jamrozy, co-founder of original industrial agitators Test Dept. The work is inspired by the real life experience of Her Majesty's Prison Reading. Tracing the history of the location through to the present current political and social situation, evoking the harsh realities of Victorian and modern-day Britain. Reminiscent of the finest mid-era Test Dept., such as Gododdin (1989) or Pax Britannica (1991), with heavy percussion, strings, and strident vocals. The title C.3.3. is drawn from the cell number where the literary figure Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol under gross indecency charges. C.3.3. was the pseudonym used for the publication "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", a poem based on the execution of a fellow inmate. This sonic rendition draws upon the writings of Wilde's poem and the horrors of prison life for a condemned man, as a metaphor for the universal predicament of all humankind. Originally released on CDr in 2011. Remastered with two bonus tracks, featuring Test Dept.; Six-panel digipak.
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CSR 256CD
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Tunnels Of Ah is Stephen Ah Burroughs (Head Of David). Charnel Transmissions is the fourth Tunnels Of Ah release and once more the TOAH sound is taken into ever more oblique regions. Inspired by the "chime and gong stations" recordings of the Cold War era, Charnel Transmissions sets out to evoke rather than recreate the alienated spirit(s) of those recordings. With the ritual percussion of Francis P. weaving throughout the album alongside cracked electronics, Charnel Transmissions is a disquieting spiral into an ashen world of "mythostatic psychopomp" where this world is transformed into a charnel ground of gods, ghosts, and jackals. Crumbling drones, splintered bursts of noise, and buried voices make Charnel Transmissions unconventional and non-linear, much like those charnel dwellers who seek out the lowest to attain the highest. For lovers of ceremonial sounds and dark places. Digipak. File next to Coil, Z'ev, Arktau Eos, Head Of David.
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DESET 001EP
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RELEASE DATE: 6/29/2018
Pietro "Bingo" De Lisi and Alex Carpentieri, aka the Italian duo System Of Survival, provide two stunning originals for Deset's inaugural release, backed by remixes from two Chi-town legends, Boo Williams and Ricardo Miranda. "Nu Soul Era" is a raucous, deep cut that displays all that's excellent about System Of Survival. "Funky Left Funky Right" sees the duo expertly showcase their penchant for melodic structures, this time with a bleep-y, peak-time baseline. Ricardo Miranda's interpretation goes deep and off-kilter but remains true to the original's characteristics. Boo Williams's acid-led, 909-flavoured remix of "Nu Soul Era" brings the heat.
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DPC 067EP
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Drum Union is a new series documenting the different shades of leftfield house. Look Like merges Afro-Cuban rhythms with modern electronica soundshapes. Manuel Fischer presents a beat-driven disco-influenced track to make any dancefloor bur. London-based Tony Nwachukwu (aka Attica Blues, aka Wah-Chu-Ku) provides a deep broken dub techno monster. Mitsubishi Galaxy, who are also known as Jack Pattern take you into a wavy trip to another dimension. A journey wider and deeper than most of the average 4/4 business!
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EM 005EP
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Known for his work as the label head of Outcast Oddity, Engyn now presents his first own EP on the Kiel-based imprint Empore Music. The Pain features four tracks from Engyn, reaching from melodic ambient music to high powered percussive techno tracks. With an additional Aera remix, which leads you into dreamy soundscapes and euphoric open-air moments, the EP comes full circle.
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ESPDISK 5025CD
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Wet Robots is Fay Victor's first album as a leader released on an American label other than her own Greene Street Music, but she is already a star on the New York avant-jazz scene. From Bradley Bambarger's liner notes: "Few vocalists have the sheer boldness -- the outright fearlessness -- of Fay Victor as an improviser. The New York native has long been a creative force on the avant-jazz scene, as a singer, bandleader, composer, arranger, and teacher. She has worked on both sides of the Atlantic with the likes of Misha Mengelberg, Roswell Rudd, and Anthony Braxton, along with recording several distinctive albums as a leader. Reviewing her recent disc Absinthe & Vermouth (2013), NPR declared evocatively that Fay's original songs sound 'as if Joni Mitchell wrote lyrics for a lost Betty Carter prog-rock album -- and it totally works.' Fay has also recorded edgy blues in a duo with guitarist Anders Nilsson, and she is an inspired re-animator of vintage instrumentals as vocal material, in the spirit of Carmen McRae in Monk ; to this end, Fay has performed with her In Praise of Ornette group and with her house-rocking Herbie Nichols Sung band. Now we have on record Fay's SoundNoiseFUNK quartet, featuring Joe Morris, Sam Newsome, and Reggie Nicholson -- each an exceptional maker of music in the moment. Although Fay enjoyed a rapport with each of these players in various combinations, this foursome had never played together as a unit before the single summer day last year when Wet Robots was captured in a Brooklyn studio. If jazz is the sound of surprise, this album startles -- a sonic funhouse of left turns. The band floats in its own space, untethered by a bass. Morris's guitar moves like a snake. Newhouse keens, taps, sighs on the straight horn. Nicholson makes his percussion set-up a skittering, rattling thing. Then there is Fay -- her voice primal and wild, as attuned to unfettered expression as Albert Ayler's tenor."
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FARO 204CD
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Far Out Recordings venture further out to Uruguay to record a new album with fusion legend Hugo Fattoruso. After a twenty-year search for the man behind the cult '70s jazz-funk group Opa, Far Out Recordings present Barrio Opa: a new work from Fattoruso and his team of world-class musicians, including the sensational Candombe drumming of the renowned Silva brothers. Recorded at Sondor Studios, Montevideo, the album is the natural development of the original Opa sound, fusing Afro-Uruguayan rhythms, jazz harmony, and heavy funk attitude, under Hugo's unique musical vision. Hugo Fattoruso went from playing in his family band at street festivals around Uruguay, to fronting Los Shakers: South America's answer to the Beatles. At the end of the '60s Fattoruso was looking to broaden his musical horizons, and in 1969 he moved to New York where he formed Opa and went on to rub shoulders with the likes of Ron Carter and Creed Taylor. Fusing Candombe (traditional rhythm of Uruguay) with rock, jazz, funk, and other Latin American rhythms, Opa created a distinctive Afro-Uruguayan voice within the global jazz vernacular, influencing a generation of musicians throughout the seventies and beyond. During the '80s Fattoruso moved to Brazil, where he continued to work and record with Brazilian artists including Milton Nascimento, with whom he composed the World Music Grammy winning Nascimento album in 1997. Fattoruso also collaborated extensively with Airto Moreia. Recorded at Sondor Studios in Montevideo's iconic Barrio Sur district, the album features some of the world class musicians at the forefront of today's Uruguayan jazz scene, including Hugo's son Francisco Fattoruso on bass, Tato Bolognini on drums, Albana Barrocas on percussion, and Nicolás Ibarburu on electric guitar. The album also features the Candombe drumming of the legendary Silva brothers, Mathías, Guillermo Diaz, and Wellington, who give the album its Afro-Uruguayan identity. In Hugo's own words "this is the sound of Opa today." The stripped back yet equally rip-roaring trio piece "Botijas" is led by Hugo's virtuosic piano playing and hypnotic wordless vocals, and backed by an inventive, heavy grooving fusion of Latin rhythms from Tato Bolognini on drums. The shining moments for the Silva brothers' Tambor playing are "Candombelek" -- a beautifully moody Afro-Uruguyan groove with characterful Rhodes and vocal harmonies -- and "Candombe Alto", a carnivalesque track, awash with soaring synth lead, wah-wah guitar, and pulsating keys.
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LP version. 180 gram vinyl. Far Out Recordings venture further out to Uruguay to record a new album with fusion legend Hugo Fattoruso. After a twenty-year search for the man behind the cult '70s jazz-funk group Opa, Far Out Recordings present Barrio Opa: a new work from Fattoruso and his team of world-class musicians, including the sensational Candombe drumming of the renowned Silva brothers. Recorded at Sondor Studios, Montevideo, the album is the natural development of the original Opa sound, fusing Afro-Uruguayan rhythms, jazz harmony, and heavy funk attitude, under Hugo's unique musical vision. Hugo Fattoruso went from playing in his family band at street festivals around Uruguay, to fronting Los Shakers: South America's answer to the Beatles. At the end of the '60s Fattoruso was looking to broaden his musical horizons, and in 1969 he moved to New York where he formed Opa and went on to rub shoulders with the likes of Ron Carter and Creed Taylor. Fusing Candombe (traditional rhythm of Uruguay) with rock, jazz, funk, and other Latin American rhythms, Opa created a distinctive Afro-Uruguayan voice within the global jazz vernacular, influencing a generation of musicians throughout the seventies and beyond. During the '80s Fattoruso moved to Brazil, where he continued to work and record with Brazilian artists including Milton Nascimento, with whom he composed the World Music Grammy winning Nascimento album in 1997. Fattoruso also collaborated extensively with Airto Moreia. Recorded at Sondor Studios in Montevideo's iconic Barrio Sur district, the album features some of the world class musicians at the forefront of today's Uruguayan jazz scene, including Hugo's son Francisco Fattoruso on bass, Tato Bolognini on drums, Albana Barrocas on percussion, and Nicolás Ibarburu on electric guitar. The album also features the Candombe drumming of the legendary Silva brothers, Mathías, Guillermo Diaz, and Wellington, who give the album its Afro-Uruguayan identity. In Hugo's own words "this is the sound of Opa today." The stripped back yet equally rip-roaring trio piece "Botijas" is led by Hugo's virtuosic piano playing and hypnotic wordless vocals, and backed by an inventive, heavy grooving fusion of Latin rhythms from Tato Bolognini on drums. The shining moments for the Silva brothers' Tambor playing are "Candombelek" -- a beautifully moody Afro-Uruguyan groove with characterful Rhodes and vocal harmonies -- and "Candombe Alto", a carnivalesque track, awash with soaring synth lead, wah-wah guitar, and pulsating keys.
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FORMAND 001EP
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Form And Function present a compilation of four transcendent cuts with a different approach in mind. Kafim starts the exploration with "Kisin". The trance-y bassline that dictates the pace of this track, combined with a variety of distinctive sounds, make it sound almost otherworldly. Qindek offers "Two Birds", pushing the envelope with hard-hitting techno infused with dizzying noise. SIWEI then delivers modular madness -- kick drums decide the tempo on layers of ambient sounds and hi-hats. Thomas Hayes ends with "Non Solo", which is partially slow burner; it advances in a gradual manner, by appending elements, almost one by one.
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New single by legendary Brazilian singer Di Melo, 40 years after his classic self-titled samba-soul LP (1975). Performed and produced by French brilliant combo Cotonete, this single and collaboration will be followed by a full album early 2019. Florian Pelissier speaks about the project: "... I'm a huge fan of Di Melo and had already tried to contact him for Cotonete six years ago . . . He had 400 original songs never recorded, a gold mine. On the same night, we started working the arrangements for two days . . . Immediately after, we recorded in the magical Epsilon B studio..."
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2018 repress. "There are West Coast classics, and then there is Music To Driveby, the third LP from the group that birthed MC Eiht: Compton's Most Wanted. Although the group started in the late '80s with multiple MCs (including Tha Chill and Boom Bam), by 1992 Eiht was pulling the group's vocal weight -- supported by DJ Mike T on turntables and production -- and even producing and co-producing tracks. Music To Driveby might lack beats-per-minute variety, but to fans that's not a bad thing. Across the board, this is mid-tempo, super deep, funky hip-hop, made for cars creeping along boulevards across the West and South, and it's about as good as it gets for such purposes. Just about filler-free, the album struts intensely and with purpose, as Eiht throws tales of Cali street life at fans for an hour straight, almost without a break. This solo marathon is given a respite only once, with Scarface's guest spot on 'N 2 Deep,' an excellent hood roller supported by a soulful guitar lick sampled from Lyn Collins' 'Do Your Thing.' Elsewhere, Eiht rolls alone and intensely, on cuts like the classic smash single 'Hood Took Me Under'; the album's second single and Tim Dog attack 'Who's Fu**ing Who?'; the hometown big-up 'Compton 4 Life'; and hustle tales like 'Jack Mode' and 'I Gots To Get Over.' After this album, Eiht released more classics under his own name, and with similar fan worship. It was the continuation of a legendary career and Music To Driveby still ranks high on anyone's "West Coast Legends" playlist."
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An ode to a special place and time. Glyk label-founder DJ Balduin is presenting six songs of dreamy ambient and house on his debut mini-album, Vvigmara. Inlay with download code. Edition of 300.
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Excerpt from liner notes by Keith Potter: "Georges Aperghis is probably still not much associated, by the public that internationally attends performances of his works, with music for solo piano. Music-theatre -- of an uncommonly original kind, with extended vocal techniques much to the fore -- has usually been his stamping ground. The concerns that his operas and other music-theatre compositions have embraced -- often focusing around a highly individual approach to words and to all aspects of language, developed with great musical sophistication, resulting in what one might call a kind of sound poetry -- are not among those immediately linked to the note-against-note preoccupations of which one tends to think where music for the piano is involved. This instrument's 88 keys, and the two hands of its (usually firmly seated) keyboard operative, are normally engaged to less obviously 'theatrical' ends." Personnel: Lenio Liatsou - piano, voice.
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Tiny space... dimmed lights... little steps... circling... like abstract curving lines... round and round... repeat... Composition by Slobodan Kajkut. Personnel: Dejan Trkulja - clarinet; Christian Pollheimer - vibraphone; Slobodan Kajkut - sampler, programming.
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dieb13 on Philip Jeck: "... In his hands, a tool as simple as a hammer that blocks the arm of the record player creates a loop with a taste of eternity. Two or three such hammers can create musical galaxies far beyond the reach of traditional instruments, where no human ear has ever been before. From unidentifiable rumble and grinding to brilliant instrument-snippets and comical voice fragments, Philip Jeck glues sounds together as if they were never meant to exist on their own. Whether it be Pachelbel's Canon or some mid-90s dance music that's on Philip's vinyl, but what we hear in the Vinyl Coda is his very unique musical voice -- articulated with a perfect sense for structure, suspense and sound."
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LP version. Wedge was formed in early 2014 by Kiryk, The Holg, and David, three dedicated musicians and party pals from Berlin, Germany. Named after the first ever stone tool created by the hand of man the group's sound is simple, raw, effective and causes fire if operated the right way... especially live! But besides being a high energy rock n' roll locomotive, Wedge is also capable of writing very catchy original material which, other than with many other bands of that genre, easily meets the standards of their heroes from the psychedelic late '60s and hard rockin' early '70s. So turn on your stereo and check out some tunes here. This debut album, originally released in 2014, features the German classic, vintage, retro rock sound of Wedge. It's a small gem for lovers of Kadavar, Captain Beyond, The Who, Cream, MC5, and all the retro rock scene. Includes one bonus track, "Turn Back Time".
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LP version. Limited edition transparent vinyl. Wedge was formed in early 2014 by Kiryk, The Holg, and David, three dedicated musicians and party pals from Berlin, Germany. Named after the first ever stone tool created by the hand of man the group's sound is simple, raw, effective and causes fire if operated the right way... especially live! But besides being a high energy rock n' roll locomotive, Wedge is also capable of writing very catchy original material which, other than with many other bands of that genre, easily meets the standards of their heroes from the psychedelic late '60s and hard rockin' early '70s. So turn on your stereo and check out some tunes here. This debut album, originally released in 2014, features the German classic, vintage, retro rock sound of Wedge. It's a small gem for lovers of Kadavar, Captain Beyond, The Who, Cream, MC5, and all the retro rock scene. Includes one bonus track, "Turn Back Time".
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You can almost smell the weed, the blood, and the sweat as Duel Live At The Electric Church takes you on a tripped-out journey to an old abandoned Spanish church turned DIY rock venue in East Austin, Texas USA. The front door is locked... The entrance is around the backside of the old building where rowdy metalheads and stoners huddle around a small bonfire made mostly of trash. Through the walls you can hear the thumping of a full-on beer-soaked, high-energy rock show. Swirling psychedelic tones breaking into blistering riffs, and the relentless chugging and smashing as Duel deals one sonically punishing blow after another. You can feel the intoxicated energy of the crowd, and the band's unpolished swagger as they pay no mind to the microphones set up all around them recording the show. Brought to life by Crow studios mobile recording truck straight out of 1970s. Hear these tunes like they were meant to be heard live and raw.
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Infopesa present a reissue of Los Mirlos' Los Charapas De Oro, originally released in 1975. Back in the year 1972, seven young musicians from Moyobamba, a Peruvian city and the capital of the department of San Martin located in the Amazon region of northern Peru, arrived in Lima brandishing an iconic name that would soon become legendary: Los Mirlos. The original members of the band included singer and director Jorge Rodriguez, Gilberto Reátegui on lead guitar and composing duties, Dany Johnston on second guitar, and a rhythm section made up of Manuel Linares on bass guitar, Hugo Jauregi on drums, Carlos Vasquez on percussions, and Wagner Grandez providing backing vocals. By the time of their arrival to Peru's capital, they had distilled an exotic psychedelic flavor and incredible chemistry matched only by their determination to succeed. They quickly caught the eye of the Peruvian Record label Infopesa, which was responsible for the "Cumbia Amazónica" movement that was sweeping the country at the time. By 1973, they were signed by Infopesa and began an iconic and successful career that spawned nine long plays, two compilations, and several singles, all produced by prolific music producer Alberto Maraví. It must be noted that in the midst of these classic releases there was one that became their most popular album, their third album, correctly titled Los Charapas De Oro. "Charapa" is a common nickname Peruvians use to refer to people from the Amazon jungle where it's hotter than most places in the country, and "The Oro", well, it's how they are seen by their audiences: as guys made from gold because of their incredible talent and success! Los Charapas de Oro was released in 1975 winning an instant cult following by serving up irresistible guitar-driven classics such as "Sonido Amazónico", "La Danza del Petrolero", "Cabalgando Con Ella", and "Somos Los Mirlos". This cult classic has stood the test of time and is now being considered as one of the most collectable Latin American records ever produced. Remastered from the original analog tapes at Infopesa's studio by Aldo Montalvo under the direction of Juan Ricardo and Alberto Maraví, who produced and oversaw the original mastering of the record in 1975. Artwork features a reinterpretation of the original cover by well-known Peruvian collage master Yerko Zlatar. Includes Spanish-English liner notes.
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"Released in 1985, Green River Come On Down was a record existing in its sonic universe--out of step with its own time. Was it glam? Was it punk? Was it metal? Was it cool? We now know it was one of the building blocks of what Mark Arm would coin as "grunge" but in 1985 this record was a silent groundbreaker. It was not only the raw, sludgy, slower guitar sound that makes this band important in its place in rock history, but the members of Green River would go on to lead some of the biggest names in the genre: Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone, the latter of which also contained the roots of Pearl Jam." The record includes the iconic original cover artwork, is pressed on colored vinyl, has a printed inner sleeve with lyrics and photo of the original master tape box, plus an unreleased rare bonus track!"
The record includes the iconic original cover artwork, is
pressed on colored vinyl, has a printed inner sleeve
with lyrics and photo of the original master tape box,
plus an unreleased rare bonus track!"
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Ki Records welcome Stimming to the label family. Martin Stimming is well known for his releases on labels like Diynamic and Pampa and his live shows around the world. Here's the new EP, Die Luft, Der Garten Und Das Meer ("The air, the garden and the sea"). Few people bring a truly original sound to house music. Stimming's productions are decorated with his own unique, charismatic field recordings, and he never uses the same sample twice.
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TM404 and Echologist (aka Andreas Tilliander and Brendon Moeller) return to Kynant Records with their second collaboration, this time including a remix from another standout dub techno artist, VRIL. The Infiltrated EP has two boomy, 4x4 rollers on the A side. On the B side, VRIL's broken-beat, ethereal version on the is followed by the title-track, a twisted stream of grainy modulations.
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Pedro Pina has been a key figure in the Spanish electronic music underground since the late '90s. The prolific Barcelona producer on Lärm enters new industrial wastelands, where noise is a common thread throughout. Pina openly experiments on this nine-track album, delving deep into the changing facets and mutations of noise, in which his typical powerful and rhythmic house bass lines once again combine with IDM textures and melodies. Furthermore Lärm includes exceptional collaborations with Cora Novoa on "Krach", and Oriol Rosell on "This Is It" and "You Were Warned".
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Livingstone Studio present a reissue of Gboyega Adelaja's Colourful Environment, originally released in 1979. Fresh from touring with Hugh Masekela -- The Boy's Doin' It (1975) -- Gboyega Adelaja goes into the lab to drop heavy keyboard science on his Moog and Fender Rhodes. Its Joe Sample meets the Afro funk of BLO. With names like Jake Sollo on guitars, Mike Odumusu (BLO, Osibisa) on bass guitar, and Gasper Lawal on percussion, this is a top quality, Afro funk -- an all-stars affair that shines from the inspired interventions, masterly arrangements to the sublime production.
Adelaja on the period of recording: "I was already following Hugh Masekela when I met him, he was an outstanding musician and I knew of his collaboration with Hedzoleh, that band brought him nearer to many of us, because he was playing authentic African melodies with the Hedzoleh sound which was mostly percussion oriented. Yes I knew about Hugh's music before I met him. In fact when we started playing together, he insisted that I stay with him in our three bedroom apartment, other members of the band had their own apartments, but Hugh and myself shared the same three bedroom apartment". "We were touring, under Casablanca owned by Neil Boggart, we toured as professional musicians, flying to our gigs. There was a time when we were touring with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic we had two luxury buses deployed for our use. We made many friends where ever we went to play, we met many big and popular musicians who came to watch our shows, the Spinners came to see us in Detroit, we met Wayne Shorter of Weather Report, Freddie Hubbard, we played a gig with Herbie Hancock at the Carnegie Hall New York City, we toured almost all the 50 States of the US."
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LP version. Livingstone Studio present a reissue of Gboyega Adelaja's Colourful Environment, originally released in 1979. Fresh from touring with Hugh Masekela -- The Boy's Doin' It (1975) -- Gboyega Adelaja goes into the lab to drop heavy keyboard science on his Moog and Fender Rhodes. Its Joe Sample meets the Afro funk of BLO. With names like Jake Sollo on guitars, Mike Odumusu (BLO, Osibisa) on bass guitar, and Gasper Lawal on percussion, this is a top quality, Afro funk -- an all-stars affair that shines from the inspired interventions, masterly arrangements to the sublime production.
Adelaja on the period of recording: "I was already following Hugh Masekela when I met him, he was an outstanding musician and I knew of his collaboration with Hedzoleh, that band brought him nearer to many of us, because he was playing authentic African melodies with the Hedzoleh sound which was mostly percussion oriented. Yes I knew about Hugh's music before I met him. In fact when we started playing together, he insisted that I stay with him in our three bedroom apartment, other members of the band had their own apartments, but Hugh and myself shared the same three bedroom apartment". "We were touring, under Casablanca owned by Neil Boggart, we toured as professional musicians, flying to our gigs. There was a time when we were touring with George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic we had two luxury buses deployed for our use. We made many friends where ever we went to play, we met many big and popular musicians who came to watch our shows, the Spinners came to see us in Detroit, we met Wayne Shorter of Weather Report, Freddie Hubbard, we played a gig with Herbie Hancock at the Carnegie Hall New York City, we toured almost all the 50 States of the US."
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Dr. Lektroluv presents Elektrik World, a deluxe boxset four-CD compilation with each and every essential electro classic you need to own. Boys Noize, Tiga, Digitalism, Etienne de Crécy, Anthony Rother -- you'll find all the golden boys and girls of electro present on this ultimate collection. Elektrik World is compiled by the green masked Dr. Lektroluv, who's been at the forefront of the electro movement, from Belgium to Brazil, for more than 15 years. Comes in a "pizza box"; Includes four CD wallets and a fold-out poster booklet. Features Tiga, Lopazz, Tiefschwarz, Traffic Signs, FPU, Little Computer People, Dopplereffekt, ADULT., Anthony Rother, Arpanet, Shiny Toy Guns, Boys Noize, Noisia, Federico Franchi, Etienne de Crécy, Simian Mobile Disco, WhoMadeWho, Superdiscount Cajuan, Digitalism, Teenage Bad Girl, Shameboy, Moby, Trentemøller, Justice, Soulwax Strip Steve, Puro Instinct, Destructo, D.I.M., Hatiras & Jelo, Bart B More, Proxy, The Bloody Beetroots, Steve Aoki, Tommy Trash, Vitalic, Flairs, Alex Gopher, Siriusmo, Mumbai Science, Peaches, Riton, Boris Dlugosch, Sharooz, Dr. Lektroluv, Modek, The Subs, Mumbai Science, Polymorphic, Attaque, Gtronic, and Junior.
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The new Chanson generation, re-modernized and reshaped! A new generation of artists is born to shake up the French pop scene. It isn't without reason that the Le Pop 9 compilation is subtitled Au Début: 16 new French artists, none of which have ever appeared on a Le Pop compilation before, hereby introduce themselves. The modern sound of the current French pop scene allows for its listeners to rediscover the creativity of chanson-pop in all its different facets. The 2018 generation is influenced by electronic sounds and production styles deriving from R&B and hip-hop. The two brains behind Polo & Pan are DJs, Hollydays' singer is a Rihanna fan whilst her partner prefers Amon Tobin and Aphex Twin. Whoever sees the high achieving Angèle on stage will be perplexed by her dance moves -- until one finds out her brother is the famous Belgian rapper Roméo Elvis. And there's more: Ezéchiel Pailhès first appeared in electronic duo Nôze whilst the George Moustaki prize winner Laurie Darmon drifts from chanson into speech song and stands beside a human beatbox performer on stage. La Femme, awarded twice by the Victoire de la musique, showcases their Francophone indie pop with four keyboards on the stage. No trace of guitar rock nostalgia of the old times. And in "Poésies" the singer Chaton's voice is made foreign through autotune effects, so that the song becomes a subtle reminiscence of modern dancehall. In comparison to the cool naturalness of Flavien Berger, arguably the central figure of the new scene, many bands aiming for international success with their average English are made to look like wannabe hipsters. The wealth of ideas hidden behind Ali Danel, who for instance reinterprets a Paul Éluard poem onto an Afro-beat backdrop, seem in line with a contemporary re-appropriation of Gainsbourg's "Percussions" principle -- without making it sound a little out of date. But the special thing about it all is that, in its very essence, the music remains chanson. The language and words define the genre, with voices central to the production and melodies remaining frameworks in which the songs are structured. And so, Le Pop 9: Au Début is simply another piece of evidence of the vitality and vibrancy of a genre that is being constantly renewed musically amidst changing frameworks and thus remaining perpetually fascinating. Also features Pomme, Eddy Crampes, Alexia Gredy, Adrien Soleiman, Achille, and Gérald Kurdian.
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Double LP version. The new Chanson generation, re-modernized and reshaped! A new generation of artists is born to shake up the French pop scene. It isn't without reason that the Le Pop 9 compilation is subtitled Au Début: 16 new French artists, none of which have ever appeared on a Le Pop compilation before, hereby introduce themselves. The modern sound of the current French pop scene allows for its listeners to rediscover the creativity of chanson-pop in all its different facets. The 2018 generation is influenced by electronic sounds and production styles deriving from R&B and hip-hop. The two brains behind Polo & Pan are DJs, Hollydays' singer is a Rihanna fan whilst her partner prefers Amon Tobin and Aphex Twin. Whoever sees the high achieving Angèle on stage will be perplexed by her dance moves -- until one finds out her brother is the famous Belgian rapper Roméo Elvis. And there's more: Ezéchiel Pailhès first appeared in electronic duo Nôze whilst the George Moustaki prize winner Laurie Darmon drifts from chanson into speech song and stands beside a human beatbox performer on stage. La Femme, awarded twice by the Victoire de la musique, showcases their Francophone indie pop with four keyboards on the stage. No trace of guitar rock nostalgia of the old times. And in "Poésies" the singer Chaton's voice is made foreign through autotune effects, so that the song becomes a subtle reminiscence of modern dancehall. In comparison to the cool naturalness of Flavien Berger, arguably the central figure of the new scene, many bands aiming for international success with their average English are made to look like wannabe hipsters. The wealth of ideas hidden behind Ali Danel, who for instance reinterprets a Paul Éluard poem onto an Afro-beat backdrop, seem in line with a contemporary re-appropriation of Gainsbourg's "Percussions" principle -- without making it sound a little out of date. But the special thing about it all is that, in its very essence, the music remains chanson. The language and words define the genre, with voices central to the production and melodies remaining frameworks in which the songs are structured. And so, Le Pop 9: Au Début is simply another piece of evidence of the vitality and vibrancy of a genre that is being constantly renewed musically amidst changing frameworks and thus remaining perpetually fascinating. Also features Pomme, Eddy Crampes, Alexia Gredy, Adrien Soleiman, Achille, and Gérald Kurdian.
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Keeno18, also known as Reginald James Johnson, is back with his third release entitled Los Green for Ultramajic. The release was "inspired by the communication plants have with everything around us," Reggie explains. In reality, the tracks are very raw techno beats, snapping celery sticks and drumming carrots. Keeno18 first two releases on Ultramajic were strange, fuzzy, and dizzy. Los Green has Keeno18 juiced on acid and cold-pressed in his own style: buttoned up. "Inquiry" is dripping acid over a straight beat, hypnotic and appreciating of the subtle. "Dances With Leaves" is the greenest of all four tracks.
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Munster Records present a reissue of Marc Jonson's 12 In A Room, originally released in 1992. Self-recorded and produced, Marc Jonson's second album came out in 1992, two decades after his debut, the psych folk/baroque pop masterpiece Years (MR 379LP). 12 In A Room was another brilliant display of his gift for beautiful pop music, now available on vinyl for the first time. Includes CD.
"... 'A melody comes into my head 'da-da-dah-da, show me some mer-cy' and I start thinking is that some Motown song from the Sixties? And I go uh-oh, no it isn't, it's mine. I gotta write it down.' So he runs into a candy store and buys a Bic pen and a pad. And then he goes up there to his room, the timeless teen-space where everything stops, where he does his dreaming and his scheming, laughs at yesterday and puts it on tape. From the ELOish opener to the cosmic 'Love Radiates Around', from the Bardo-haunted love ballads to the drowning 'Larry Stein', from the dire conditions of "Cold Weather" to the dire straits of 'Desperate', all the songs on this album were written, recorded and produced in that little 11x14 foot room high above Cornelia Street on a four-track TEAC. It's a little like making your own movie and playing all the parts. Clouds go by -- no clock ticking --night comes down -- guitars strumming -- pulse of the street -- drums smack -- reverb -- mix down to two track -- crash 'till late afternoon -- call up to play it over the phone -- can you hear the words? I'm hungry -- wanna get a bite with me and walk around? But there's a little of the mad scientist, too. 'It's where I get in touch with the thing.' Marc at the controls -- turning all the knobs -- he's everybody in the whole universe and he's blasting off. Head exploding 'till it fits the whole room. Head is room. Room alive! 'A song is a collection of the way a certain period of time feels,' he says. That's where the real weather is, inside." David Dalton
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Vinilisssimo present a reissue of Pan & Regaliz's self-titled album, originally released in 1971. This is the album any record collector would have at the top of his wants list when visiting Spain. No matter if you are into prog rock, psychedelia, leftfield jazz, kraut or just looking for interesting breaks and beats, this is the record you will need. But let's face it, there are little chances of coming across an original copy of Pan & Regaliz's only album; groundbreaking quality music did not sell well in early '70s Spain. Despite the late release date (1971), the album is often compared with the early Jethro Tull recordings and their distinctive flute work and experimental blues rock sound, but there is much more to it. One of the opening tracks, "Waiting In The Monsters Garden", shows a strong psychedelic edge spiced with Eastern percussions and trippy vocals that anticipate the hazy wandering atmosphere of the entire LP (the superb "I Can Fly" could easily be confused with a West Coast acid jam and would definitely appeal to fans of The Doors). "Today It Is Raining", the longest cut on the record, is one of the most unique passages on the album and features an amazing hypnotic rhythm background that is almost crying for someone to rap on top, no wonder it was sampled by hip hop producer Madlib after hyping it as one of his favorite psych records. Unfortunately the story of Pan & Regaliz did not last long and shortly after the release of their only album on Ekipo/Dimension the band broke up, merely one year after their very first single (signed as Agua de Regaliz) saw the light. Some of the members would join other bands from Barcelona like Evolution or Jarka while the remaining ones would struggle keeping the band active for one more year. Presented in facsimile gatefold sleeve and pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
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After 30 years, Nonplace is now rereleasing the A side of the much sought-after maxi single "Elephant's Easy Moonwalk Through The Night" by Manos Tsangaris together with a new B side, created especially for this release in 2017. Manos Tsangaris is also a member of Drums Off Chaos. Manos Tsangaris is a traveler and a radical. That is why his tracks are like journeys, flights, or escapes. They dazzle, they drive ahead, they drift away while staying rooted to their foundations. The same applies to Tsangaris's experimental internationally acclaimed musical theater works and installations.
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"This recording is the first ever devoted to the orchestral music of Christian Wolff (b. 1934) and thus documents a little-known aspect of his wide-ranging work. John, David (1998) introduces in its second part a prominent role for solo percussionist, playing a wide range of pitched and non-pitched instruments, including marimba, glockenspiel, a variety of drums, wood and metal instruments and other sources, the exact choice left to the performer. Rhapsody (2009), in contrast, uses instruments of the traditional Western orchestra without percussion, divided into three separate ensembles and reordered into unusual combinations and relationships, both within and between the groups. In his essay On Charles Ives (1990) Wolff remarks that in the mid-1970s he had a sudden sense of his own work as 'an odd sort of mix of Ives and Satie.' He refers to Ives's 'readiness to draw upon whatever sources are useful'; the tendency to include altered versions of popular music and hymn tunes is a feature they have in common. The unlikely conjunction of Ives and Satie may provide a clue to such disparities as are evident in these orchestral pieces: Sections reminiscent of the density and complexity of Ives, of the simplicity and directness of Satie, and of the transparency of Webern, are juxtaposed without any need to mediate or explain how they are connected. The music is continually surprising, exhilarating, and challenging; it resists easy categorisation. Sometimes engagingly direct and transparent, at other times bewilderingly complex and profuse, it invites listeners to be alert to new kinds of musical experience, to suspend judgement based on more familiar models. There is a sense of immediacy that deliberately avoids any suggestion of a general plan or underlying theoretical principle; the controlling idea of a 'grand narrative' such as is associated with composers of the European avant-garde is explicitly rejected in favour of a variety of ad hoc procedures."
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Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of The Electrosoniks's Electronic Music, an LP by Tom Dissevelt and Dick Raaymakers's (aka Kid Baltan) originally released in 1962. Tom Dissevelt and Dick Raaymakers were both Dutch composers and electronic music pioneers. Both musicians began their studies at Royal Conservatory of The Hague on trombone and piano respectively, and later discovered the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Anton Webern. In the mid-50s Raaymakers began working at the Philips NatLab (the Dutch research division of the Philips company). Dissevelt was recruited by the NatLab soon after, and this is where they met, working on Philips stereo equipment and electronics, and eventually composing electronic music and musique concrète pieces together. Their first recordings in 1959 together, The Fascinating World Of Electronic Music, set the tone of experimental synthesizer space odysseys that would be perfected with their 1962 LP, Electronic Music, released as The Electrosoniks. Cited by David Bowie as one of his favorite albums of all-time, Electronic Music is a forward-thinking collection of bubbling synths and space-age atmospherics that is well ahead of its time. Since Dissevelt and Kid Baltan were employed by a research lab to compose and record electronic music, one might assume that the music would be soulless and restrained, but the reality is quite the opposite this is joyous and haunting and soulful music created by two undercelebrated Dutch pioneers who are finally getting the credit they deserve. Essential pioneering electronic music brought back to life by Fantôme Phonographique. Edition of 500 (hand-numbered).
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Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Pur En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu by Antonin Artaud. Antonin Artaud was a French poet, dramatist, and director and one of the most important figures in 20th century European theater, and especially the avant-garde. His piece "Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu" was recorded in 1947 to be aired on French radio. But the project was shelved not only for its scatological, anti-American, anti-religious content, but also for its avant-garde sound, with screams, cries, grunts, glossolalia, and general cacophony, all of which the radio thought would be too shocking for the listeners of post-WWII France. Now regarded as one of his most brilliant works, the piece is finally available again on vinyl courtesy of Fantôme Phonographique. Features the voice actors Maria Casarès, Roger Blin, and Paule Thévenin. Edition of 500 (hand-numbered).
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Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of the only known recordings from the infamous occultist, mystic, magician, poet, novelist, sexual deviant, and all-around misfit, Aleister Crowley. Recorded onto wax cylinder in the early 1910s, and later transferred to 78 RPM discs. The tracks include Crowley's recitation of the first two Enochian Keys, original poetry, incantations, and songs. An absolutely essential piece of occult history. This collection was originally compiled and released on LP in 1986.
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"The Grammy-nominated string orchestra A Far Cry and pianist Simone Dinnerstein have teamed up on a new recording of keyboard concertos by Philip Glass. The album will be released on Glass' Orange Mountain Music label. The album features the world premiere recording of Glass's Piano Concerto No. 3, a new concerto for piano and strings co-commissioned by A Far Cry and composed by Glass specifically for Dinnerstein, whom the New York Times calls 'an utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.' Dinnerstein and A Far Cry toured the new Glass concerto in the fall of 2017, and recorded the album in the stellar acoustics of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, MA. Of their world premiere performance at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, the Boston Globe wrote, '[Dinnerstein and A Far Cry] caught and held the music's patient grandeur, giving each phrase, each chord judicious gravity.' The Wall Street Journal called it 'an inspired pairing,' adding 'Mr. Glass could not have hoped for a more graceful, fluid reading.' The idea first germinated in 2014, when Dinnerstein and Glass met for breakfast in his garden and found that they shared a strong interest in the music of Bach and its impact on the world today. Glass, having come to know her work over the years, offered to write a piece for her, and Dinnerstein proposed that it be a concerto for piano and strings, to be paired with one of Bach's own. She explains, 'There are almost no concertos written for piano and strings since Bach's time. The pairing of the Bach concerto with Philip's own composition creates myriad strands of connectivity, enabling the listener to create bridges between the old and the new.' Glass finished Piano Concerto No.3 in 2017 as a response to hearing Dinnerstein play at the Glenn Gould Prize concert in Ottawa the previous year. He explains in the album's liner notes, 'I can say that Bach's music was not consciously in my mind as I composed this new concerto, but in a way it's unavoidable. My basic musical formation was influenced by the study of Bach for years during my studies with Nadia Boulanger. Inasmuch, while this piece itself is not directly influenced by Bach, his music is by definition a part of mine.' To fund the work, Dinnerstein reached out to a number of orchestras from across the U.S. and Canada, eventually enlisting a total of 12, from various parts of the country, to co-commission the work. It was clear from the beginning that the premiere and recording should fall to Boston's A Far Cry, with whom Dinnerstein had formed a musical connection after filling in for pianist Leon Fleisher at a concert in 2016. Jason Fisher (viola) of A Far Cry says, 'A Far Cry has always been a proponent of new music, and it has been a dream of ours since day one to commission a major work from an iconic American composer such as Philip Glass. We're delighted to be partnering on this project with Simone Dinnerstein, a collaborator beloved by our group and one of America's finest pianists.'"
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Selecta is yet another crystalline acid body workout from the Ovum boss Josh Wink. Galvanized by heavily swung drums, loaded and coded with a venom-like funk and characterized by a big sound system vocal that tears out of nowhere and disappears just as quickly; it's yet another unique piece of 303 witchcraft, the likes of which only Wink can conjure. Deeply groovy, unabashed darkness, and just a nuance of mischief with the vocal, it's yet another precision piece from Mr. Wink who's also kindly provided an instrumental for your added creative pleasure.
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A massive ten-CD box set spanning from the deep of the Mississippi Delta, through various country blues traditions such as Piedmont, Louisiana, and Texas up to the core of the Chicago sound. An extensive exploration of the rise of the blues and its influence on the today's global music and culture. The transformation of the blues idiom following the path traced by a selection of cornerstone recordings. From Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Leadbelly's seminal voices, through the classic sound of Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King till the electric revolution of Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, and Junior Wells.
Features: B.B. King - Blues In My Heart (1963); Blind Boy Fuller - Greatest Hits 1935-1938 (2017); Buddy Guy/Junior Wells - Chicago Blues Festival (2000); Howlin' Wolf - Big City Blues (1962); Leadbelly - Take This Hammer (1965); Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Strikes (1966); Little Walter - Best Of Little Walter (1957); Muddy Waters - At Newport (1960); Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues (1961); Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim - Willie's Blues (1960).
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Release the beast! 6 is the number of Permanent Vacation's biennial Selected Label Works series. Time to land on planet Permanent Vacation and step into the past two years... Hearing Voices with John Talabot. "Glitter", now and forever by TB. The sun always shines in Tel Aviv. Benjamin Fröhlich rocks uptown at "Holloway" station. There is a conga hit by Gerd Janson. Marvin & Guy are dancing with fire, super hero Argoman comes to rescue, or better "ESC" with Lauer. A happy moment with Roman Flügel, Love is the message, pray the Lord Of The Isles, Kauf, and Fort Romeau. Dusted beams from Daniel Bortz, Lake People, and Lawrence. And those monster magnets by Konstantin Sibold, DJ Koze, Mano Le Tough, Red Axes, and Tuff City Kids with and without Annie ... better dial the number. Includes 12-page booklet. Also features New Jackson, Jasnau, Prins Thomas, and Woolfy vs Projections.
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...rage rage rage ra- ra- rage rage rage ra- ra- rage rage rage ra- ra- rage rage rage...
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Riot Season present a vinyl issue of Blown Out's Sun Rot, originally released on cassette in 2014. Riot Season's label head on Blown Out: "July 2014 was my first encounter with Blown Out label wise. That's when sister label, Swap Meat Records put out the band's debut physical release Sun Rot as a limited run tape. That quickly sold out and two furthers runs were made and also sold out. Since then, we've released further four Blown Out releases on Riot Season. Drifting Way Out Between Suns (REPOSE 042LP, 2014), New Cruiser (REPOSE 053LP, 2016), Superior Venus (REPOSE 056LP, 2017), and In Search Of Highs Volume 1 (REPOSE 065LP, 2018). So what better thing to do next than go back to where it all began and release Sun Rot on wax at long last. Sun Rot was recorded to tape and was very lo-fi in nature. We've rescued the original tapes and have tweaked them for vinyl ever so slightly but it very much remains the lo-fi classic it once was." The artwork has been reimagined by the original cover artist and long-time Blown Out artwork collaborator, Anthony Downie. Limited one-off run -- Edition of 300.
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Ron Trent meets Skymark -- two masterminds at work. Ron Trent takes on the mighty Skymark original and elevates the listener to a whole other place like only he can. Trent treats you to one of his deepest, dubbiest jams in recent years -- embracing the strength of the song while interweaving his own rhythm throughout. The original track, here on the flip, featured on Skymark's 2015 Wave From The Nucleus LP, is a beautiful song from the sun-kissed Swiss musician and producer who resided in Rio de Janeiro for many years, and now in Barcelona.
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Based in the Northeast of Niger, Etran De L'Aïr is one of the longest running bands in Agadez. Unknown outside of their hometown, Etran is one of the hardest working bands on the wedding circuit, playing on ramshackle equipment in true DIY aesthetic. The name Etran De L'Aïr translates to "the Stars of the Aïr," the mountainous region of Northern Niger. They are based in the town of Agadez, an urban center renowned for the electric guitar and the Western named "desert blues." In the Sahara, this electric guitar genre is intertwined with social function. It's a lucrative commerce, and gigging bands make their living in weddings, baptisms, and political events. Etran De L'Aïr is one of Agadez's longest playing groups on the circuit. Yet they are also a band that has remained on the fringes, stars of the Agadez working class. Etran De L'Aïr play a style that captures the contemporary sound of Agadez, incorporating vastly different musics into their repertoire. While Tuareg guitar follows a predictable format, Etran breaks convention and throws a third guitar into the mix. The two lead guitars solo on top of one another, in constant dialogue, with a crashing response from the drum. There is a bubbly underwater warble that emerges from reverb and crackly amps. It's electric party music, surf rock, from a place that is all beach. They differentiate themselves from the other wedding bands: "... Our music is based around traditional Takamba... and we listen to a lot of Malian music. Not Tinariwen, but musicians like Ali Farka Touré and Oumou Sangaré." Etran De L'Aïr is not just a musical group, but a family collective. The group was formed in 1995. Agadez was much smaller then, few homes were electrified, and guitars were rare. As new technology found its way to Agadez, they band adapted, amplifying the acoustic guitar with a transducer microphone, acquiring electric guitars, and finding a drum set. As the family grew, so did the band, integrating the younger siblings into the musical group. This is Etran's debut record. They claim to have written over 40 songs, but none of them have been released until now. This session was recorded live in the outskirts of Agadez. The impromptu performance drew the entire neighborhood out of their houses -- eliciting the audible clapping, shouting, and ululation.
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Stroboscopic Artefacts presents the Totem series -- a chain of transparent 10" vinyl -- with Lucy, aka Luca Mortellaro, kicking things off. "Tarkomania", builds dark hued mood and texture over one of the spilling monologues of Russian cult classic film director Tarkovsky's in Stalker (1979). "Tarkomania Dub" takes the listener one circle deeper into the groove-filled anxiety, flickering between a set of industrial sounds, the guttural voice of Takovsky's writer, and warm, moody synth. "Tarkomania Acapella" is a summation of these elements with an emphasis on the "Stalker" monologue.
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Jan Roth's second album Kleinod will be released by Sinnbus. Five years after his gorgeous debut L.O.W. (2013), Roth delivers a real gem in the best sense of the word. Personally valuable, with light patina, various scratches, and one or two significant dents. Loaded with important stories and memories, with dignity and full of love, Kleinod is a band album. The album of a band, however, whose members prefer to leave space for each other. Roth's unobtrusive piano unites the seven other instruments played on the album, but more as an underlying texture in the background. His "all-time-favorite" bass player Alex Binder, and the "amazing" drummer Maximilian Stadtfeld, lend hand to the songs, with their airy playing, helping set the tone for the rest of Roth's album. Finally, Antonia Hausmann and Fritz Moshammer make the music shine even brighter with trombone, clarinet, trumpet, and flugelhorn. While the former were planned from the outset, the latter were just "in town for a few days, having nothing better to do.", having them there was "the magic of chance," says Roth. "These four gems made it very easy for me to play the piano." The album opens largely promising. "Herbst" sets the stage with Roth's signature, gentle and open piano. The piece draws in warm tones, less of a view of a dark winter and more a view that goes back to a long and great summer. "Boicycle" is about a boy who learns to ride a bicycle, just as the helping hand lets go of the handle bars: shaky and overwhelming at first, but alas, a proud conquer of a new freedom upon release.
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After releasing EPs on labels like CLR, Plus8, Drumcode, and DMT, amongst others, Pascual is now onboard with Sino. Four raw, mental techno tracks, like it should be.
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Pan-Pot grace Second State Audio with two big bombs and a remix from the one-and-only Petter B on their Funke EP. Kicking things off is "Spitzer" with hi-octane percussion and reverb heavy acoustics spanned out over ten minutes. The duo takes a similar approach on "Funke" but deliver a rugged and brutally mesmerizing lead that'll coax you inner devil inside out. Rounding out the EP is a carefully curated remix from Gothenburg's own and former Hertz collaborator Petter B who hands over a beautiful rendition of "Spitzer" where dense, lavish atmospherics carry a heavy looping groove to a gorgeous climax.
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Sorcerer Records present a reissue of The Grifters' So Happy Together, originally released in 1992. Memphis's Grifters made some of the finest recordings of Clinton-era America, with a number of albums on labels such as Shangri-La (their second and third LPs) and then Sub Pop for their remaining two albums. Their mixture of Memphis blues/roots influences, classic pop songwriting, and lo-fi aesthetics saw them as one of the shining lights of the '90s indie-rock scene. Here, Sorcerer Records reissue their first full-length LP, So Happy Together, out of circulation for over two decades. Originally released in 1992 on the Chicago indie label, Sonic Noise, which ceased operations not long after the album was released (hence many Grifters fans having never heard this very recording), the Grifters' So Happy Together is an absolute masterpiece of lo-fi slapped-together rock & roll. Less "rootsy" than their subsequent music, it sees the band navigating their way through ten sublimely inventive, non-generic "rock" tracks which beggar comparison. Well, at the time they were compared to the likes of Pavement, Guided By Voices, Trumans Water, et al. and other practitioners of stumbling no-fi sounds, but the Grifters' deft grasp of song dynamics, mixing up quiet balladry with booming guitar explosions inhabiting the same song surely puts them in their own bracket, no? In a review of the album at the time, they were claimed to be the missing link twixt the Wipers and Mission Of Burma (stealing comparisons from others), and 25 years later, such a claim still doesn't seem totally ridiculous. Anyway! The time is ripe for the world to rediscover the sheer genius of the Grifters. The Fat Possum label reissued their second and third albums, and now it's time to hear where it all began. So Happy Together comes fully remastered from the original tapes by Mikey Young. Housed in the original artwork in a heavy 425gm sleeve; Includes an insert featuring exclusive photos from the time and new liner notes from the band's Tripp Lamkins.
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Spittle Records present a reissue of the I Refuse It! compilation Cronache Del Videotopo, originally released on CD in 2005. Long awaited re-issue for one of the most influential and controversial post-punk combos of the "Granducato era". After more than three decades, I Refuse It! are still quite a great thing. Rock n' roll's later reaching of higher peaks of brutality finally made acceptable what once was considered noise and chaos and now make them appear just a bit less subversive, but their impact is still strongly felt. So, collecting and publishing their complete output in one album is definitely an historical act. Differently from Cronache Del Videotopo, the CD published in 2005 by the glorious Wide Records, the present double LP includes also their great version of "Atto Di Forza N. 10" from I Ragazzi Del Sole, a real gem from the '60s Italian beat repertoire. They were certainly a bit too far out for a large part of the aficionados of "classic punk" but deserved attention, at least for those who began to be tired of the old stereotypes. It's no coincidence that in a review of the Permanent Scar/Sfregio Permanente cassette (1983) in the magazine Il Mucchio Selvaggio their style was described as "experimental hardcore" and "a sort of Meat Puppets oriented sound". Finally, between 1982 and 1983, Italian punk got its spot on the international map. In fact, even if there were already some Italian punk bands, it was not before the emergence of the hardcore movement that you could really start talking about a real Italian scene. Needless to add that this was not just a simple musical issue, back in the day, for many, hardcore punk was mainly an attitude and a way of life. In Tuscany, the whole scene became known under the acronym of GDCH (Granducato Hardcore) and I Refuse It! (together with CCM, Wardogs, Putrid Fever, Traumatic, Juggernaut, and others) became one of its most significant bands. Because of their varied and multiple inspirations and tendency to experiment, it's hard to consider I Refuse It! as simply a hardcore band. This double-LP collection compiles their complete recorded output for the first time and is an essential piece of Italian punk history.
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Mainstay of the Berlin scene, Meggy presents Times Up. "Stay 2Nite" opens with a lush pad over crisp 808 drums and spaced-out echoes, along with Meggy's trademark R&B style vocal. "Times" turns up the house vibes with big open hi-hats and a heavy bass relentlessly driving the groove forwards. Meggy's talent to combine club functionality with emotional song-writing is just as present in "Tyler", with groovy analog goodness and tight drum machines. Meggy's huge hit "Everything" (with Rampa) finds a worthy successor in "Everything Pt. 2". A club track at its core, it's full of feeling and goose-bump-inducing chords.
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"Born Booker T. Washington White, Bukka's trajectory as a blues performer follows a familiar template for his time. Born in Mississippi, maybe in Houston, MS -- maybe in Aberdeen, MS -- maybe in 1902, maybe in 1909 or even 1906 he recorded throughout the 1930s. Bukka even recorded while incarcerated in the Mississippi State Penitentiary aka Parchman Farm. Asked about his time at Parchman White commented 'Well, I mostly played guitar.' During the 1940s and 50s as Blues moved from the Delta to Chicago, from rural to urban, Bukka's career went dormant. And then, like many of his time, his talent was 'rediscovered' in the early 60s, in no small part thanks to a brilliant guitarist in his own right, John Fahey. Performances and all new recordings happened throughout the 60s, building interest in Bukka White's Delta roots. This compilation of White's best early material was first issued in 1969 (1970 in the US), collecting Bukka's 78s recorded for Vocalion and Okeh. His influence on rock performers of that day cannot be understated. He opened for rock bands he'd inspired at venues like The Fillmore, played his instrument in such a fashion that some said it's like he was trying to destroy that guitar, his most famous guitar, a 1933 National Duolian, was even known as 'Hard Rock.' And then there's the fact that his song 'Shake'em On Down' was so influential on Led Zeppelin that they, 'borrowed' from the song for both 'Hats Off To Roy Harper' and 'Custard Pie.' Bukka White was many things, a strong influence on his cousin B.B. King, a cotton picker, a mule driver, a hobo, a player in the old Negro Leagues, a boxer, a preacher, a convict, a factory laborer and, as celebrated here, one of America's blues pioneers."
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LP version. One of the greatest visionary in jazz history, Thelonious Monk, caught here in different formations -- solo, trio, quartet, and quintet -- including saxophone masters such as Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Griffin, and John Coltrane. Includes selections from Thelonious Monk Trio (1954), Monk's Music (1957), Brilliant Corners (1957), Misterioso (1958), and Thelonious Himself (1957).
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Tresor present the release of Manni Dee's first album, The Residue. Based in London, Manni Dee is held in high esteem by many for his spotless production and relentless DJ sets. The gleaming rendition of Manni's creative vision stuns. He knows sounds inside-out, making his studio a favorite stop for many to receive Manni's expertise. The production of The Residue was inspired by the city of London and its general living conditions. More particularly, how social cleansing, inequality, and the political situation generally -- and on a holistic scale -- informs internal and external locus of control. The Residue is disconsolate, and with such heart-wrenching tracks as "In Communal Solitude", "Vicarious Living", or "Submit. Breathe." or the mutinous "At Mercy Of The Muse" and "Paroxysm", Manni Dee clearly cuts out his insurgent statement.
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Welcome to the second Vampisoul set of trouvailles from the Supraphon vaults, a series of compilations that the label launched in 2016 under the title Czech Up! (VAMPI 167CD/LP). It's a concept that the label had in mind ever since they began their collaboration with Supraphon over ten years ago, but that wasn't initially possible to accomplish due to -- luckily temporary -- licensing restrictions. In the meantime, just as Supraphon is steadily progressing with revalidating their immense back catalog, the label is now able to move along with them, picking up their cherries as they keep popping up on the notional surface. The Supraphon label was established in the early 1950s in former Czechoslovakia and has been continuously active ever since. While it's always been highly esteemed by music connoisseurs for its excellent classical music releases, Supraphon's pop, rock, and jazz music catalog, although comprising around 60,000 unique tracks, remains for the most part a big unknown to the international audience. Today it also incorporates the complete back catalog of Panton, another Czechoslovak label launched in 1967 that operated independently until the late 1990s. On Czech Up! Vol. 2, Vampisoul again present an array of astounding songs from the otherwise inglorious decade of political and social gloom in Czechoslovakia, a decade that actually started shortly after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies in 1968. Here's your chance to meet up with some eccentric fools, wry sarcasm, fountains of cognition, lovers approaching, lovers leaving, faunal fables, bizarre beings, wizardly seasons, ordinary oddities, unearthly gardens, morbid dreams, pretense obedience, melancholy windscapes, wishful thinking, exotic jungles, and eerie ravines. So whether you're hanging loose, shaking a leg, sampling some of this'n'that, or just opening your mind and ears widely, here's 22 more tracks that won't let you down while you're czeching up. Includes detailed liner notes by Lukás Machata. Features Olympic, Hana Ulrychová, Mahagon, Framus Five, Apollobeat, Beatings, Valerie Cizmárová, Gustav Brom Orchestra, The Blue Effect, SHQ, Metronom, Synkopy 61, Jazz Q, Vulkán, George & Beatovens, Flamengo, Eva Pilarová, Flamingo, The Soulmen, Barnodaj, Hana Zagorová, and Karel Cernoch.
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Double LP version. Welcome to the second Vampisoul set of trouvailles from the Supraphon vaults, a series of compilations that the label launched in 2016 under the title Czech Up! (VAMPI 167CD/LP). It's a concept that the label had in mind ever since they began their collaboration with Supraphon over ten years ago, but that wasn't initially possible to accomplish due to -- luckily temporary -- licensing restrictions. In the meantime, just as Supraphon is steadily progressing with revalidating their immense back catalog, the label is now able to move along with them, picking up their cherries as they keep popping up on the notional surface. The Supraphon label was established in the early 1950s in former Czechoslovakia and has been continuously active ever since. While it's always been highly esteemed by music connoisseurs for its excellent classical music releases, Supraphon's pop, rock, and jazz music catalog, although comprising around 60,000 unique tracks, remains for the most part a big unknown to the international audience. Today it also incorporates the complete back catalog of Panton, another Czechoslovak label launched in 1967 that operated independently until the late 1990s. On Czech Up! Vol. 2, Vampisoul again present an array of astounding songs from the otherwise inglorious decade of political and social gloom in Czechoslovakia, a decade that actually started shortly after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies in 1968. Here's your chance to meet up with some eccentric fools, wry sarcasm, fountains of cognition, lovers approaching, lovers leaving, faunal fables, bizarre beings, wizardly seasons, ordinary oddities, unearthly gardens, morbid dreams, pretense obedience, melancholy windscapes, wishful thinking, exotic jungles, and eerie ravines. So whether you're hanging loose, shaking a leg, sampling some of this'n'that, or just opening your mind and ears widely, here's 22 more tracks that won't let you down while you're czeching up. Includes detailed liner notes by Lukás Machata. Features Olympic, Hana Ulrychová, Mahagon, Framus Five, Apollobeat, Beatings, Valerie Cizmárová, Gustav Brom Orchestra, The Blue Effect, SHQ, Metronom, Synkopy 61, Jazz Q, Vulkán, George & Beatovens, Flamengo, Eva Pilarová, Flamingo, The Soulmen, Barnodaj, Hana Zagorová, and Karel Cernoch.
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East LA is much more than an area located east of the Los Angeles River. Inhabited almost exclusively by Chicanos with their own way of life, there is not enough space allotted here to explain the East LA culture. Local groups like Thee Midniters, Cannibal & the Headhunters, The Blendells, The Premiers, The Ambertones, and dozens others, provided a soundtrack. In the '60s, East LA garages, where the bands rehearsed, were mined by record companies searching for the new sounds. One of the movers and shakers of this scene was Eddie Davis, who started his Faro label around 1958. Faro issued mostly pop-oriented records, but also Richie Valens-influenced rockers like "So You Want To Rock" by Chick Carlton & The Majestics. Davis formed other labels as well, like Linda and Rampart. Davis's music enterprises really took off in 1964 with three songs that were licensed to larger companies. Takin' Care Of Business consists of tracks from Eddie Davis's family of labels and it is evidence of the wonderful music made with a solid emphasis on the groove. R&B was always very important on the East Side. The included recordings by Sarah James & The Soul Babies, Thee Enchantments, The Majestics, and Sammy Lee are among the finest soul records ever recorded. One of the best R&B records cut for Faro was "Tracy (All I Have Is You)", a Ray Charles-influenced stormer by a young Barry White (his first record) backed by The Atlantics. Also featured herein are some fine party records: Little Ray's "Come Swim With Me", The Atlantics' "Beaver Shot", and The Blendells' "Huggies Bunnies" are among them. They liked to rock on the East Side, and three of the tracks included here -- those by The Romancers, The Premiers, and Sunday Funnies -- have plenty of beat, snarl, and fuzz-toned guitars. No serious East LA compilation of music would be complete without a romantic soul ballad. Dig "One Like Mine" by The Salas Brothers with The Jaguars. Davis continued his operations into the early '70s with Gordo. Many of the songs recorded for this label exuded new-found Chicano pride, such as "Via Tirado" by El Chicano and especially the two included here by Willie G with Six Pak and Two Tons Of Love. Also features: Ron Holden, The Mixtures, The Pagents, The Four Tempos, The Invincibles, and Thee Royal Checkmates. Includes a 16-page illustrated booklet.
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Paul and Alessio of Possible Futures believe that some essential fractions in the history of music need to be transmitted in new ways to budding generations. Over the last 15 years, Possible Futures have been witnesses to the wildest fauna and flora the great nocturnal jungle. It is through their open and eclectic selections that Possible Futures turn the dancefloor into spaces of self-discovery and musical trance-en-dance. For this third record, Argentinean expert producer Leonel returns with two long pieces of poetry. 180 gram vinyl; Includes AIFF download code.
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Following Jimi Jules's mix (WG 024CD), Watergate Records deliver two EPs from the man himself, starting with Midnight Juggernaut EP. "Abandoned Soul" is equal parts moody as it is groovy as classic 303 acid fuses with Jules's post-modern drum programming. On "Midnight Juggernaut" Jules shows his affinity for artfully crafted minimalism as remnants of early Perlon stylings merge with a more modern melodic approach. Recondite delivers a beautiful rework of "Abandoned Soul", keeping all the original parts in tact while incorporating lush melodic progressions. On "Othervision", one single lead line carries the tune to an incognito crescendo of emotion.
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"Wild Honey Records is proud to present a new series of releases, following the career of rock'n'roll icon Deniz Tek post Radio Birdman. With this collection, we will reissue (sometimes for the first time in vinyl!) all his solo and band material post '78, with new material, liner notes, and graphics and bonus tracks. We begin with the long-awaited reissue on vinyl of the legendary Visitors LP. From 1978 to 1979 The Visitors were Deniz Tek on guitar, Mark Sisto on vocals, Ron Keeley on drums, Pip Hoyle on keyboards and Steve Harris on bass. Their style was a dark mixture. The band being 3/5ths Birdman, including the chief songwriter, was essentially what the next phase of Radio Birdman would have been, had the band continued on. At the same time, the sound of the band was more like the early Birdman days with the single guitar and keyboard format. The music was hard and heavy, while maintaining a melodic sense unusual in those immediate post-punk days. The Visitors recorded a session's worth of demos at the 8-track Palm Studio in Sydney, essentially playing their entire set live in the studio direct to tape. From this source tape, recorded in one day with minimal overdubs, came a 12 inch vinyl ep, a full length LP, now impossible to find. Now it's finally time for a much needed reissue, complete with the bonus track 'Skimp the Pimp'."
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Part One of two. Double LP. Gatefold sleeve. Z Records continues its commitment to unearthing the obscure and long-forgotten tracks from the last 40 years with the much-anticipated follow up to Backstreet Brit Funk. Volume 2 has been eight years in the making and continues to showcase the best of the genre from the late '70s to early '80s, compiled once again by Joey Negro. Brit funk is perhaps one of the UK's most under-appreciated genres. Emerging in the late '70s and taking influences from jazz, funk, reggae, and pop, by the early '80s it had spread all over the UK. Brit funk was essentially the UK's answer to underground disco. Like disco, the Brit funk scene was significant in reducing racial boundaries in the clubs and raising the profile of black and white musicians who worked together. Back in 2010 Joey Negro complied the first volume of Backstreet Brit Funk. The fact that it's taken eight years for Volume 2 to see the light of day is a testament to the both the obscurity of the records included, and the logistical challenges involved in digitizing what started life as vinyl-only releases. It's incredible how rare some of the records included on Vol.2 are and how diverse the sounds become. Though well over half the album's material comes from the likes of Touchdown, Rick Clarke, and Savanna, which have the classic slapped bass-driven Brit funk sound that many will be familiar with, it also features acts like Mercy Mercy, AD 2000, and Veira Krew who were releasing a little later in the scene's evolution, employing drum machines and resulting in more synth-based records. Paul Bailey Sound and Eastbound Expressway were earlier acts, experimenting with the disco sound, whilst I.C.Q. is a classic early '80s UK jazz dance cut that's never been released beyond the original white/green label.
Part One (ZEDD 044LP) of two double LPs features Rick Clarke, Savanna, Proton, The Oceans, Kandidate, The Paul Bailey Sound, Janet Kay, Veira Krew, Rare Moods, and Powerline.
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Animals Dancing continues its quest for world domination with a double A side of Russian intelligence from Moscow's Leonid Lipelis. As the title would suggest, these two sides come from Lipelis's private arsenal of club tracks, beef'd up and shared with the people after some friendly persuasion. I.O.D.T.F.M.B.N.I.F.E.
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"After the success of their debut album A Deeper Blue in late 1967, The Petards were unstoppable. 1968 was to be another decisive year. Sigi Loch, then young record company boss in Munich, discovered the band and signed them to his label Liberty. The Schrecksbach band consisting of the brothers Klaus (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Horst Ebert (vocals, guitar, piano), Roger Waldmann (bass, vocals) and Arno Dittrich (drums) was now in prominent company, because Amon Düül II, Krokodil and The Can were also under contract with Sigi Loch. In July, The Petards recorded their first single for Liberty, Pretty Liza b/w Rainbows & Butterflies at the Munich Trixi recording studio, directed by Sigi Loch. A respect success, of course from the pen of the two Ebert brothers. The four musicians had long since become stars in their Hessian homeland, and intensive touring has also made them famous in the rest of Germany. In 1968 alone, The Petards played 270 gigs, including a handful of shows in what was then Czechoslovakia, where the band was enthusiastically received. Their performance in Pilzen was even broadcast live on Czech radio! The band still lived with their roadies in the Ebert family home in Schrecksbach, the band's rural headquarters.Shortly before the CSSR tour in October 1968, the band returned to the Trixi recording studio in Munich to record their second album under the direction of Sigi Loch. The band had already tried out many of the songs live at their countless live shows, so the recording sessions were fast and professional. The Trixi recording studio was already known at that time for its great technical equipment, and the band enjoyed audibly trying out the versatile possibilities of the existing equipment. The Petards was a significant move forward compared to the debut A Deeper Blue, which affected both the songs (of course all written by the Ebert brothers) and the performance in the studio... read more on www.bear-family.de"
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If Conversations celebrates the memory, the artistic and spiritual heritage of bassist Fred Hopkins -- a historical member of the revolutionary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians of Chicago -- who died in January 1999, it also marks the amazing collaboration between the Ritual Trio of Kahil El'Zabar (with Ari Brown and Malachi Favors) and the intrepid veteran Archie Shepp, the great voice of the '70s Afro-free-jazz. Being a tribute that invites to an intimate memory, almost an antidote to exorcise the loss of a brother, the music is a spiritual hymn to life. Between ballads, hard-bop, and free-improvised accents, blow winds of vibrant pianistic chiaroscuros, which are reminiscent of the best McCoy Tyner in the great blinding quartet of John Coltrane in the '60s. Furthermore, when an angular rhythmic base decisively follows the typical hypnotic ostinato of the ancient tribal rituals, the voice is expressed in the purest black spirituals (Big Fred and Brother Malcolm), pervading some moments of that "Holiness" culture dear to the dawn of Afro-American identity. Here, Shepp brings back the flaming shivers of the golden age, when his message of freedom resonated the true spirits of primordial Africa.
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First of all, Bengt Berger -- a pioneer of the Swedish underground of the '70s and historical member of bands such as Archimedes Badkar and Arbete Och Fritid -- is a versatile drummer-percussionist and well-educated ethnomusicologist with several research sojourns in India and Ghana. Deeply influenced by Hindustani, Carnatic, and West Africa music, he founded the Bitter Funeral Beer Band in 1980, an ensemble of 12 elements, basing his ideas on the traditional funeral music of the people of LoBirifor, in the northern region of Ghana. The sound material reinterprets the spirit of the funeral ritual, when the dance and its songs become a moment of catharsis, releasing a sense of joy in the trance for the liberation from pain. The marriage between this Afro-polyrhythmic roots, with the spiritual jazz of the eternal Don Cherry, and the Ondian sarod of K. Sridhar, it is in the direction to a pan-internationalism of profound spirituality, which blends different geographical traditions in a single contemplative gaze. It is the convergence towards a music without boundaries, where every instrumental voice shines and is well fermented and integrated.
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Listening to the music of Al Doum & The Faryds is always like staying in the pristine nature of an exotic island, in the sacred harmony of a new organic society; imaging all brothers and sisters singing and dancing in the unity of the brotherhood. This is the message of love and joy that pervade this fourth album, Spirit Rejoin. Moving towards accents of jazz ancestry, the Faryds absorb and re-elaborate -- with remarkable insights -- disparate elements and influences of electric jazz of the '70s (Miles Davis, Dr. John) and spiritual jazz (Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry), marrying them with the forceful instances of Afro-free (Pyramids, Alkebu-Lan). The music celebrates a new collective soul, a dancing cathartic ritual with birds, plants, and all the animals, together in the circle of devotion. A journey in the total pranic breath.
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LP version. Listening to the music of Al Doum & The Faryds is always like staying in the pristine nature of an exotic island, in the sacred harmony of a new organic society; imaging all brothers and sisters singing and dancing in the unity of the brotherhood. This is the message of love and joy that pervade this fourth album, Spirit Rejoin. Moving towards accents of jazz ancestry, the Faryds absorb and re-elaborate -- with remarkable insights -- disparate elements and influences of electric jazz of the '70s (Miles Davis, Dr. John) and spiritual jazz (Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry), marrying them with the forceful instances of Afro-free (Pyramids, Alkebu-Lan). The music celebrates a new collective soul, a dancing cathartic ritual with birds, plants, and all the animals, together in the circle of devotion. A journey in the total pranic breath.
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"1978 roots reggae album from Leroy Smart repressed on vinyl. Recorded at Channel One studio, Smart's 1978 set features stripped down rhythms and some of his best vocals. Includes 'Have Got To Go,' his version of the 'I'm Still In Love With You' rhythm."
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"All songs are performed by Byron Lee's Allstars. Featuring Ken Lazarus, Jo-Jo, Keith Lynn, Smokey 007, Hubert Lee and Cecil Barker. All the tracks originally recorded in the mid-Sixties, were produced by Alty East, one of the first producers of Ska in Jamaica."
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"Here To Be Heard'The Story of The Slits' is a film about the world's first all girl punk band who formed in London in 1976, contemporaries of The Clash & The Sex Pistols, they are the pioneering godmothers of the musical movement known as 'Punky Reggae'. The film tells the story of the band and the lives of the women involved, from the band's inception in 1976 to the bands end in 2010 coinciding at the death of lead vocalist Ari Up. When Ari passed away she was working with Slits tour manager and friend Jennifer Shagawat on a film about the band. After Ari passed and the film was still not completed Jennifer contacted her long time friend Bill over at Molasses Manifesto to come on and help finish the project. Film includes Viv Albertine (Slits Guitarist), Ari Up (Slits Vocalist), Palmolive (Slits Founder/First Drummer), Tessa Pollitt (Slits Bass Player), Bruce Smith (Slits Second/PIL Drummer), Hollie Cook (Slits Vocalist/Keyboards/Percussion), Vivien Goldman (NYU's Punk Professor), Don Letts (Former Slits Manager/Punk Documentarian), Dennis Bovell (Producer of The Slits album Cut), Paul Cook (Sex Pistols Drummer), Gina Birch (Raincoats Bass Player), Adrien Sherwood (Producer/Long time friend and collaborator of the band) and many more! Film includes previously unseen footage of the band, as well as photographs, & newspaper clippings." NTSC format, region free.
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"Newly written and researched liner notes by Ray Funk, based on recent interviews with Rudy Smith. Reproduction of the original album artwork with additional information. Gatefold sleeve and 180gram vinyl pressing, remastered from the original analog master tapes. Perhaps the first time that steelpan is featured on an album as a jazz instrument in Europe, Otinku is an important, groundbreaking jazz album that offers a mix of Caribbean and African roots with jazz and pan. The Modern Sound Quintet's leader Rudy 'Two Left' Smith grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad in the Caribbean and has had an illustrious career as a pannist - having traveled with one of the first steelbands to perform all over Europe which then morphs into a jazz ensemble. He has continued to be a leading jazz pannist performing all over the world and recorded extensively. The Modern Sound Quintet recorded Otinku for EMI Finland. The album mixed originals and covers of both long time jazz standards and recent jazz hits. The title track offers the strongest African element Kofi Ayivor chanting and Rudy Smith trying to give the pans a balafon quality to its sound in that piece. They choose two jazz standards to work through. 'Bye Bye Blackbird' is a song from 1926 sung by crooners like Gene Austin. Didn't take off as a jazz standard until it was recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. The other song from the 1920s, 'Softly As In A Morning Sunrise' written for an operetta at the time had been picked up by jazz artists from Artie Shaw to Miles Davis, Milt Jackson to John Coltrane and many others."
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"After his success with the 'Michael Boothman Sound' and 'What You Won't Do For Love', a song Michael had recorded in 1980 with Charmaine Forde he decided to change his musical direction again. Once again, he incorporated Calypso and other Caribbean musical genres in his music. In the early 1980s he rebranded the 'Michael Boothman Sound' as 'Kysofusion Band'. Change and experimenting has been an important part of Michael Boothman's career since the 1960's when he started with his first group The Rockerfellas playing contemporary pop music. During the 1970 revolution in Trinidad and his experiences at the QRC Jazz Workshop The Rockerfellas evolved into Family Tree, a band that experimented with African rhythms, Calypso, Jazz, Funk and Latin music. A few years later The Michael Boothman Sound was born which was a Caribbean Pop/Disco project. The name Kysofusion Band is based on the name of the musical style 'Kaiso', a type of popular music in Trinidad & Tobago that has its roots in West African music and evolved into Calypso music. The band had many different line-ups over the years but the core of the band were Michael Boothman, Wayne Bonnaparte , David Boothman, Barry Howard, David Batiste and Sydney Joseph. In 1985 after a collaboration with Ralph MacDonald and Keith 'Designer' Prescott on Jump With Me, Michael went into Coral studios with Designer again to record Can't Stop Dancing, a Balearic and atmospheric Disco song with Calypso influences. The song got some minor recognition on the radio and in the local clubs in Trinidad & Tobago. Can't Stop Dancing is very sought after among record collectors and has now been picked up by DJs on the international club scene and is the perfect soundtrack for a mellow summer night."
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"Released in 1974 by Gull Records, Things To Come was the brainchild of musicians Ken Elliott and Kieran O'connor (previously with the pioneering group Second Hand).The conceptual album was recorded at Chalk Farm Studios in London and was the result of many hours of meticulous overdubbing, with Ken Elliott playing an arsenal of keyboards and utilising the latest synthesiser technology of the day (in addition to providing vocals), whilst Kieran O'Connor played a multitude of percussion. The finished work was truly ground-breaking and in hindsight was very much ahead of its time, proving inspirational to a new generation of musicians. A stunning work of technical complexity, Things To Come was critically acclaimed and led to Seventh Wave becoming a fully-fledged touring band that would include Hugh Banton (of Van Der Graaf Generator) among their ranks. The album has now been re-mastered from the Gull master tapes and includes a bonus track of the single version of 'Metropolis' (previously unreleased on CD). This new edition of Things To Come restores the original album artwork and features an essay by Malcolm Dome and exclusive interviews with Ken Elliott, Hugh Banton and producer Neil Richmond."
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"The Residents are fiddlers. Not fiddle players, just fiddlers. They like to play around and see different ways their songs could sound. They call this RMX. Some say RMX stands for 'remix' but with The Residents, who knows? While the RMX concept is mostly associated with two album projects (The King and Eye RMX and WB:RMX), The Residents had also tinkered with individual songs. These were released as free streaming tracks on the band's official MySpace page (yes, they had one). In 2007 most of these tracks were collected in a compilation simply titled RMX, first made available on iTunes. Never before have this tunes been available on a physical release, so we are now glad to present you RMX as a CD including two previously unreleased rmx's! New cover artwork by Pore Know Graphics."
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"Hardy Fox used to be composer for The Residents for over four decades. He later released solo albums under the name Charles Bobuck before finally switching to his real name in 2017. After Heart, Nachtzug is his second solo album. In the beginning, this release was intended to become a TOOK release - simply releasing Fox's sketches for The Residents' Ghost Of Hope album. But this idea soon turned out to be not challenging enough, so Hardy started using his original sketches as the basis of an entirely new recording. In the end, The Night Train became such an exciting album that we trashed the TOOK idea and made it a Klang release. It's too precious to be a limited edition, too good to be heard only by a few. The inspiration came from a real train journey, says Fox, towards the end of his time with The Residents: 'It was nothing special. I needed to be in Zürich for a show and caught the last train leaving Vienna. Eight hours of rolling down the shiny tracks. Plenty of time to think. Too much time to think. Nachtzug, the night train, understands beginnings. Nachtzug, the night train, comprehends ends.'"
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To start 2018, International Deejay Gigolo Records presents the a techno interpretation by DJ Hell of Yello's classic tune "Bostich". The electronic music pioneers Yello released the original "Bostich" track in 1981 as third single of their album Solid Pleasure (1980) and it became a worldwide club hit. The new techno interpretation by DJ Hell reinforces the original vibe and adds a new deep and dark ambience.
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"The new Lavender Flu album Mow The Glass was recorded in the living room of a small house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. One can hear it in the music: the Oregon coast, the dream life of an Axolotl, the open sound of a band playing to an audience of endless water, sun, and sky. A bald eagle flew by the window every few hours as if to remind the band where they really were. Still, the laughter was real, the freedom was magic, and the tambo was sprinkled like sugar. Heavy Air, the previous album, was a home recording project. The songs started with Chris Gunn (The Hunches) on a guitar or a synth or a bowl of cereal and were built up from there. A rotating cast of friends and family helped flesh out the material. It could have been made in deep space or at the bottom of the ocean. Transmissions from a bedroom at the bottom of Pill Hill. This new album is a reflection of the live experience. Four people playing together; working within the template of pop classicism. thirty-five minutes of music. This time, the Flu comes out of the water and spends a little more time on land: pop kicks, psychedelic derangement, beauty, spells cast via hate raga and rocker. The band moves backward, forward and sideways; often within the same piece. The music breathes. It doesn't deal in nostalgic regression or self conscious futurism. It just sounds like the Lavender Flu."
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LP version. "The new Lavender Flu album Mow The Glass was recorded in the living room of a small house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. One can hear it in the music: the Oregon coast, the dream life of an Axolotl, the open sound of a band playing to an audience of endless water, sun, and sky. A bald eagle flew by the window every few hours as if to remind the band where they really were. Still, the laughter was real, the freedom was magic, and the tambo was sprinkled like sugar. Heavy Air, the previous album, was a home recording project. The songs started with Chris Gunn (The Hunches) on a guitar or a synth or a bowl of cereal and were built up from there. A rotating cast of friends and family helped flesh out the material. It could have been made in deep space or at the bottom of the ocean. Transmissions from a bedroom at the bottom of Pill Hill. This new album is a reflection of the live experience. Four people playing together; working within the template of pop classicism. thirty-five minutes of music. This time, the Flu comes out of the water and spends a little more time on land: pop kicks, psychedelic derangement, beauty, spells cast via hate raga and rocker. The band moves backward, forward and sideways; often within the same piece. The music breathes. It doesn't deal in nostalgic regression or self conscious futurism. It just sounds like the Lavender Flu."
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Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve; Includes download card. Orbiting somewhere between the interplanetary funk of Sun Ra and the cinematic experimentation of Floating Points lies the new album Earth from the spiritually awakened Brit-jazz collective Emanative. Led by drummer and producer Nick Woodmansey, Emanative have created a cosmic strand of multi-cultural UK jazz with African, Indian, and Middle Eastern influences unlike any other act on the UK scene. Following on from their previous record on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label back in 2015, Earth celebrates the diverse backgrounds of its galaxy of contributors, which includes Idris Ackamoor of US spiritual jazz legends The Pyramids, Afrobeat legend Dele Sosimi (previously of Fela Kuti's Africa 80), key protagonist from Manchester's jazz scene Nat Birchall, India-raised Ninja Tune artist and Shabaka Hutchings-collaborator Sarathy Korwar, Ibibio Sound Machine player Ben Hadwen, Benjamin Page from RocketNumberNine, The Heliocentrics' Malcolm Catto, and Flying Lotus collaborator Ahu. Initially Emanative was an output for Woodmansey's more beat-led productions which he began releasing in 2008. Over the course of a decade and a multitude of singles and three full-length albums, the project has morphed -- emanated -- into a collaborative, jazz-influenced, outward-facing globally-inspired collective. 2015's The Light Years Of The Darkness album release was a key turning point and a record that saw Woodmansey work with a stellar cast of contributors featuring amongst others Keiran Hebden, aka Four Tet, and trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah. Born in 1975 and growing up in Sussex, music was part of Nick's life from an early age as his dad Mick ("Woody") Woodmansey was the drummer with Bowie's Spiders From Mars. His father instilled in him a life-long passion in drums, teaching him the basics. Plans to go to art college were shelved after he moved to London in 1991, squatting in Dalston, and ensconsing himself in the London music scene. A few years later Woodmansey took a 12-month gig playing drums on a cruise ship, before returning to the UK and spending the next decade playing on the London scene in various projects whilst raising a family -- it was there he decided to go it alone and so in 2006 Emanative was official. The Earth record encouraged Nick to delve deeper into his spirituality.
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"All of the original compositions from the band's two self-released holy grails of psychedelia (the Black Album and the Red Album, from 1967-68) combined into one collection -- all newly transferred from the original tapes! Most of you have no doubt heard of records that have been touted as 'mind blowing', 'fuzz monsters', or 'lost/undiscovered classics'. The raves rarely turn out to be justified. That's certainly not the case with the music of Index -- if anything, the raves underplay the essence of the band's music, which is seething with cavernous reverb, snaky guitar lines, and downer lyrics. It is fantastically minimalist, starkly atmospheric, and sprinkled with ferocious guitar work. In the mid 1960's, Detroit Michigan was a thriving industrial city. But the great ethnic diversity in the inner city was a brewing powder keg of civil unrest. This, coupled with a disillusioned population struggling to make some sense of a questionable war in the rice paddies of Viet Nam, set an uneasy and troubling tempo for the future. Still, there were pockets of communities in the Detroit area where things were good and economic life was vibrant. The Grosse Pointes were such communities. It was on the outskirts of this political and racially tense era, in those affluent suburbs just outside Detroit, that Index was formed. The music of Index has been lauded by (and bootlegged by) music heads for decades, and with good reason: it is unexpected, atmospheric, and 'home-made' in the best of all possible ways. The band has a druggie sound, with songs full of feedback and fuzzy guitars, hazy guitar riffs and loud pushy rhythms. And in there amongst the echoing canyons of sound you'll find some snotty post-punk attitude wrapped up in all that trippy velvet fuzz. It's a wonderful bleak sound, droning and murky and introspective -- the atonal side of late 1960's rock that would leave the most lasting impression on those who would eventually become punk, post-punk and indie rock... you know, artists like Joy Division or the Fall or Felt to name three out of a thousand. Includes a 4-panel color insert, written by Index drummer Jim Valice, detailing the band's rock and roll adventures, replete with rare photos."
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Sonic Rendezvous presents a 35th anniversary edition of the punk classic 6 MET by Frites Modern from Amsterdam. 6 MET was released on cassette in 1983, it became a great success and ended up being the best-selling Dutch indie cassette ever. 6 MET contains, amongst other tracks, the ultimate punk version of Sesame Street and Bionic Adventure, which ended up on compilation albums several times over the years. "Your speakers are running wild: arrow-fast riffs, a screeching solo and vocals to kiss. Frites Modern works according to the old craftsmanship of the songsmith, with exciting verses and beautiful choruses. An ode to The Undertones." --OOR Magazine no. 10, May 21, 1983
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Double LP version. "Any Day Now stands as one of the Legendary Pink Dots' best albums, and certainly among the best of the '80s. The Dots were often called an unlikely link between prog rock and industrial. Any Day Now lives solidly in a world of synthesizers & British goth & Syd Barret & psychedelia. This 2018 Expanded and Remastered Edition features bonus material, including excerpts from Any Day Now Secrets."
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"Re-Release of the impressing Klaus Schulze album Das Wagner Desaster - Klaus Schulze talks about Das Wagner Desaster: 'The title of this album, The Wagner Desaster, has its origin in a concert that was given on the occasion of a Nietzsche conference in Rome. Those who know a lot about music history and philosophy know that Friedrich Nietzsche at some point turned again Richard Wagner and gave him a roasting. This was because Wagner had once told him to stop composing music as he wasn't capable of doing it! Nietzsche took this so personally that he was finished with Wagner. For Wagner, who had actually respected Nietzsche, this was very much a real disaster!' This double-CD contains two different mixes of concert recordings from Rome and Paris in 1994. The 'Wild Mixes' are done by Andrè Zenou, who also designed the cover. The Soft-Mixes were by Klaus himself. As bonus track we added the encore from the 1991 Schulze concert in Sevilla."
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In the early '80s, futuristic music existed that triumphantly anticipated another musical era for a number of groups that worked on alternative circuits in Spain. Tradition, trajectory and future: these three words sum up a movement that was castrated at birth and sought to bring plurality and nuance to a monolithic cultural scene that was too predictable, commercial and stale. The musical texture of synth pop, experimental electronic music, and the incipient primitivist industrial sound of groups like Esplendor Geométrico or Orfeón Gagarin came up against a lack of social participation that supports a popular and broad-based culture. Both volumes of Interferencias seek to do their bit in the odyssey to disseminate rarities from the Spanish musical heritage dating from the '80s, when the dictatorship was over. In this era, there was a conflict between those who wanted to break with the past and those who preferred designer camouflage. In this second volume of Interferencias the series continues to explore the interest and attraction of the new sounds back then, which were a kind of pressing need for these embryonic gurus of techno pop, who held on tight to their next-generation instruments as if they were symbols of the post-Francoist advance party. These bands appeared in the middle of the transition to democracy, a strange small breakaway movement, but popular with the minorities on the margins of the dominant and official artistic system. This new movement was anointed by one key idea, namely, moving beyond the discrimination surrounding the use of synthesizers in order to recreate emotions. Adopting a modern attitude, they hung out outside major record label circles but keeping an eye on the media, which was already putting their music out there, exemplified by their sporadic appearances on television programs such as Musical Express or La Edad de Oro. Interferencias closes this analytical search for our synthetic and minimalist musical heritage; adopting a respectful, historically accurate, heterodox and undogmatic approach. These sounds embody the perplexity, paradox and confusion of those years, which disconcerted audiences through the use of innovative musical language and discourse and provoked a lack of understanding and enthusiasm in equal measure. Features Muzak, Diagonal, TV Soviética, Orfeón Gagarin, Esplendor Geométrico, Logotipo, Jan, Claustrofobia, De Picnic, Fanzine, Q, Demian, Flash Cero, Flácidos Lunes, Betty Troupe, Manía, Minuit Polonia, Heroica, V Generación, and Programa. Includes extensive booklet with liner notes by Sergio Sánchez (Jazznoize) and artist photos.
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Double LP version. In the early '80s, futuristic music existed that triumphantly anticipated another musical era for a number of groups that worked on alternative circuits in Spain. Tradition, trajectory and future: these three words sum up a movement that was castrated at birth and sought to bring plurality and nuance to a monolithic cultural scene that was too predictable, commercial and stale. The musical texture of synth pop, experimental electronic music, and the incipient primitivist industrial sound of groups like Esplendor Geométrico or Orfeón Gagarin came up against a lack of social participation that supports a popular and broad-based culture. Both volumes of Interferencias seek to do their bit in the odyssey to disseminate rarities from the Spanish musical heritage dating from the '80s, when the dictatorship was over. In this era, there was a conflict between those who wanted to break with the past and those who preferred designer camouflage. In this second volume of Interferencias the series continues to explore the interest and attraction of the new sounds back then, which were a kind of pressing need for these embryonic gurus of techno pop, who held on tight to their next-generation instruments as if they were symbols of the post-Francoist advance party. These bands appeared in the middle of the transition to democracy, a strange small breakaway movement, but popular with the minorities on the margins of the dominant and official artistic system. This new movement was anointed by one key idea, namely, moving beyond the discrimination surrounding the use of synthesizers in order to recreate emotions. Adopting a modern attitude, they hung out outside major record label circles but keeping an eye on the media, which was already putting their music out there, exemplified by their sporadic appearances on television programs such as Musical Express or La Edad de Oro. Interferencias closes this analytical search for our synthetic and minimalist musical heritage; adopting a respectful, historically accurate, heterodox and undogmatic approach. These sounds embody the perplexity, paradox and confusion of those years, which disconcerted audiences through the use of innovative musical language and discourse and provoked a lack of understanding and enthusiasm in equal measure. Features Muzak, Diagonal, TV Soviética, Orfeón Gagarin, Esplendor Geométrico, Logotipo, Jan, Claustrofobia, De Picnic, Fanzine, Q, Demian, Flash Cero, Flácidos Lunes, Betty Troupe, Manía, Minuit Polonia, Heroica, V Generación, and Programa. Includes extensive booklet with liner notes by Sergio Sánchez (Jazznoize) and artist photos.
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The Legendary Tigerman is all about roots, the essence of things, always keeping it real, gritty and true. From 2001 to 2006 he recorded three records that established him as one of Europe's best kept secrets, playing festivals from Japan to Brazil. In 2009 he released Femina, a record about women with special guests like Asia Argento, Peaches, Lisa Kekaula, Becky Lee, Phoebe Killdeer, Cibelle, Maria de Medeiros... A year later the record was platinum in Portugal and one of the records of the year for newspapers and magazines such as Les Inrockuptibles, Rock & Folk, Telerama, El País, among many others. Sold-out shows, festivals, praise from the press... The secret was out. In 2014, True sees the daylight though the light is much darker, much more complex. It's rock & roll but with orchestras and brass and drums with truth on every corner, shape or sound coming off from this outstanding record. In the words of Lindsay Hutton, "True comprises the type of music that really has been known to save souls." Touring extensively across Europe, Brazil, Mexico, or China, The Legendary Tigerman took on the rock & roll ride full on, no more a one-man-band, now touring as an amazingly powerful trio with drums and baritone sax. The story of The Legendary Tigerman's awaited sixth album, Misfit, starts with a road movie, How To Become Nothing, a three-head project by Paulo Furtado, Rita Lino, and Pedro Maia. In May 2016, the trio landed in LAX to film a psychedelic adventure in the form of a road movie between Los Angeles and Death Valley, about the philosophically disturbed journey of a man searching to become nothing. During two weeks of traveling, Paulo "Tigerman" Furtado spent his days writing the diaries of this imaginary man, acting, while at night, in motel rooms across the California deserts, armed with a Gibson SG, he started writing the songs of Misfit. The album was recorded at Rancho de La Luna, Dave Catching's legendary studio in Joshua Tree, in the heart of the Mojave Desert. Co-produced and mixed in Paris by Johnny Hostile (The Savages, John & Jehn) at Pop Noire Studios.
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"Featuring a disc of suitably inspirational wonky pop music alongside a disc of vintage ambient musings to cater for each and every oblique occurrence. Disc one includes the original versions of Eno covered classics 'Fever' and 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' along with inspirational sound purveyors as diverse as Little Richard, Gene Chandler, Sun Ra and Moondog along with a gaggle of uplifting spiritual classics. While disc two traces the roots of ambient music from Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis through Daphne Oram and Raymond Scott to Harry Partch and Marcel Duchamp. Which begs the question: 'Why take two jukeboxes into the shower - when you can have it all on one?' Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine's Dave Henderson."
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Written and produced by Maurice Fulton. "An Original Dr. Scratch Mix'" Published by Buttrubb Music. Players: Karo Brandi, leader of all of what you see, plus all of the artwork; Hanna Sarkari, all guitars; Mim Suleiman, all drums and percussion; Maurice Fulton, all keyboards, bass, and drum programming. Recorded and mixed at BubbleTease Communications Sheffield UK.
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2x12" version. Gatefold sleeve. Written and produced by Maurice Fulton. "An Original Dr. Scratch Mix'" Published by Buttrubb Music. Players: Karo Brandi, leader of all of what you see, plus all of the artwork; Hanna Sarkari, all guitars; Mim Suleiman, all drums and percussion; Maurice Fulton, all keyboards, bass, and drum programming. Recorded and mixed at BubbleTease Communications Sheffield UK.
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The Amsterdam BeatClub 15th anniversary album: The Best Place To Go! Go! Vol. 2. An outstanding, two record-set presenting the very best bands and artists that performed at Amsterdam BeatClub from 2003-2018. You'll find the best in garage, rock n' roll, surf, beat, etc. ever to be combined on one record. Includes a wicked 16-page book full of photos, rare flyers, full-length stories and inside information about 15 years of Amsterdam BeatClub. Edition of 750. Features Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns, The Uppertones, The Wiseguyz, The Rhythm Shakers, The Rhum Runners, Rosie Stevens with Dry Riverbed Trio, Surfer Joe & The Deadrocks, The Spunyboys, The Real Gone Tones, The Paladins, Lil' Sal & The Wildtones, The Velvedettes, Black River Four, The Phantom Surfers, Messer Chups, Ixtahuele, Working Voodoo Club, The Stangs, Max Meser, The Spinshots, The Reaction, The Works, Mark & The Spies, Labretta Suede & The Motel 6, The Jackets, Sir Bald Diddley & His Ripcurls, The Beat Girls, The Courettes, The Kik, The Kryng, Julia P. & The Hengles, and Bruut!.
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Double LP version. "Steve Reich's Drumming is regarded as one of the most important musical works of the last century. Distilled through his studies of African percussion in Ghana during 1970 and Balinese gamelan music, Reich revolutionized our understanding of polyrhythms, sculpting a new sonic territory to illuminate the radical potential of Minimalism. Divided into four sections, performed without pause, Drumming is written for eight small tuned drums, three marimbas, three glockenspiels, piccolo and voice. The singers recite melodic patterns that mimic the sounds of the instruments, gradually rising to the surface and then fading out. The overall effect can be transfixing -- pulling listeners into the rhythm and possessing a raw immediacy, directness and energy. The premier performances of Drumming took place in December 1971 in New York City -- first at The Museum of Modern Art, then at Brooklyn Academy of Music and finally at Town Hall where this recording was made -- and featured the composer along with a cast of longtime collaborators including Art Murphy, Steve Chambers, Russ Hartenberger, James Preiss, Jon Gibson, Joan La Barbara, Judy Sherman, Jay Clayton, Ben Harms, Gary Burke, Frank Maefsky and James Ogden. Originally released in 1972 by gallerist John Gibson in a small private edition, Drumming represents the culmination of Reich's investigation into rhythmic phase relationships and its early realization captures a remarkably organic feel, especially compared to the more widely known version on Deutsche Grammophon from 1974. This first-time vinyl reissue and first-time CD release has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes."
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