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Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
YOUNG, AVERY R.	Tubman.	LP	FPE RECORDS	FPE 024LP
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 "Crossing the genres of house, blues, jazz and rock, poet, singer and songwriter avery r. young has been on the scene in Chicago for decades, lending his pipes to albums by Catfish Haven, Marvin Tate, and many others. His debut album booker t. soltreyne: a race rekkid (2013) examined race relations in the Obama-Era and featured crowd favorites such as 'resurrec(t) fred' (for slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Sr.) & 'ham sammich(es)'. This work led him to be co-writer and background vocalist on JC Brooks's Red, Black and Blue EP (2018) and featured vocalist on visionary composer and flutist Nicole Mitchell's Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE Records, 2017), which was named #1 jazz album of the year in the New York Times and placed in the top 5 of the NPR Jazz Critics Poll. As a composer and producer he marinates social commentary in gospel, blues and funk to create a salty concoction he calls sousefunk. His band, de deacon board, channels Gil Scott Heron, Parliament and Curtis Mayfield, building on sounds of the past to chart a course for poetry and music through our rocky present. His newest work tubman. is a soundtrack accompanying his first volume of poetry neckbone: visual verses (Northwestern University Press, 2019)."

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RAEKWON	Only Built 4 Cuban Linx	2LP	GET ON DOWN	GET 51295LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 2019 repress. "The cultural phenomenon that is the Wu-Tang cannot accurately be described without referencing one of the pillars in the Clan's discography. Chef Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx remains firmly planted as one of the defining triumphs in their artistic legacy. The oft referred 'Purple Tape' has been cited and debated by many as the greatest Wu-Tang solo project to date and remains a bullet point in any discussion involving the greatest 'cocaine rap' or 'street hop' albums of all time. In continuing with its proud tradition of honoring historically significant hip hop albums, Get On Down is honored to present Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx for the first time ever on double translucent purple vinyl housed in a high density re-sealable poly bag. This edition features, for the first time ever on vinyl, the formerly CD-only bonus track, 'North Star (Jewels).' And if that wasn't enough, the entire album also features completely enhanced and painstakingly remastered audio. This is the definitive must-own vinyl edition of Raekwon's masterpiece."

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AXELROD, DAVID	Seriously Deep	LP	GET ON DOWN	GET 54100LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 "The rediscovery of the music of David Axelrod in the 1990s was a revelation to the scores of hip-hop and breakbeat DJs that sampled him, but his composition genius was on display as early as the 1960s. After producing and arranging major critical and commercial hits for Lou Rawls, The Electric Prunes, David McCallum, and Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley, he was encouraged by Capitol Records to record and produce solo material. Coming right on the heels of The Beatles' revolutionary 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, Axelrod would produce a slew of instrumental baroque pop records, which were intricately orchestrated, fused elements of jazz, psychedelic rock, chamber music, and neo-classical, and tackled issues of mental enlightenment, environmental impact, and would be hailed by critics as highly ambitious pieces of conceptual art. The albums Song Of Innocence (1968), Songs Of Experience (1969), and Earth Rot (1970) are most often hailed as David Axelrod's finest moments, but little is mentioned of the producer's 1970s material. Among these records is Seriously Deep, his lone album recorded for Polydor, and an unheralded gem of jazz-rock fusion. On Seriously Deep, Axelrod dispenses with the heavily orchestrated measures of previous works to conduct a powerhouse crew of session musicians, including Leon Ndugu Chancler of Santana on drums, Mailto Correa on percussion, Jim Hughart on bass, Joe Sample on electric keys, and many others, with production from frequent Axelrod collaborators Cannonball Adderley and Jimmy Bowen. Seriously Deep is an obscure release, but also one of David Axlerod's tightest, and most exploratory ones. Across six tracks, Axelrod and his collective of players dip in and out of bounding jazz-funk, Afro-Latin grooves, cinematic flourishes, psychedelic synth washes, and blaring big band horns. It's a singularly insular curiosity of musical impressionism that's equal parts brooding and joyous, a definitive part of Axelrod's discography, and a well of sample material for tracks by Mobb Deep, Large Professor, The Black Eyed Peas, and Beanie Siegel, among others."

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GIBBS & MADLIB, FREDDIE	Bandana	LP	MADLIB INVAZION	KCR 3492LP
$27.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 "This album was produced & A&R'ed by Madlib, Freddie Gibbs, Ben 'Lambo' Lambert & Eothen Alapatt. Additional A&R for ESGN by Rich Gains. Special Thanks to Kyambo 'Hip Hop' Joshua. Recorded by Sidney 'Speakerbomb' Miller, Rich Gains, Eric Sandoval & Fabian Hummel between June 2016 and April 2018. 'Education' Originally Edited & Recorded by J.Rocc. Mixed by Mario Caldato, Jr. at MCJ Sound. Mastered by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters." "Overcoming the constraints on black freedom was always the underlying mission of Madlib's beloved jazz and soul artists, as well as Gibbs' prized black rebels. For Bandana, the pair taps into that heritage and allow themselves to be shaped by its highs and lows, its heroes and villains. Finding themselves within that slipstream of black thought and life, they plot their course on their terms. Bandana is tradition and transgression: one rapper, one producer, no limitations." --Pitchfork (8.1) "Bandana is weirder, more freewheeling, more Madlib-y than its predecessor. Gibbs remains unphased; he fields each beat like Omar Vizquel and splits it down the middle with raw charisma, torrential flows, and economic, impactful writing. The end result is glorious -- the sound of two rap veterans still working at the height of their powers..." --Rolling Stone, 2019 (4/5) "The rapper-producer duo follow up Piñata with another cinematic series of street stories delivered with lyrical majesty." --The Guardian (5/5)

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ERICKSON, ROBERT	Duo, Fives, Quintet, Trio	CD	NEW WORLD RECORDS	NW 80808CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 "Born in Michigan but for most of his life a true Californian, Robert Erickson (1917-1997) had a reputation as a maverick. His musical path was never a straight line, nor, really, a line at all but a landscape, with ranges of features rather than mere points of interest. He was a profound and original musical thinker who embraced the expressive possibilities of all music, from the Western classics and moderns of his own early education to Indian and Balinese traditions and all manner of contemporary experimentation, as long as it served a musical purpose. When encountering his work, one doesn't need to know more than one hears: what's important are the sounds one encounters and the expressive journey they suggest for each listener. His works can be looked at in three periods. There was an early period where he worked out his relationship to mid-twentieth century expressionism and atonality, producing such enduring and engaging works as the Duo for Violin and Piano (1957) (included here), the Chamber Concerto (1960) and the Concerto for Piano and Seven Instruments (1963). A middle period followed where he became involved with technology and all sorts of experimental techniques. The tape-and-instrument pieces Pacific Sirens and Nine and a Half for Henry (and Wilbur and Orville) and the music-theater trombone extravaganza General Speech can be said to typify this period. The final period begins in the mid-70s, when technology is put aside (most likely because of his declining health) in favor of instrumental works for his friends and associates. These works reach their culmination in the works on this CD: Fives (1988), Trio (1986) and Quintet (1985), among others. In all three periods, what he never abandoned was a sense of taste, elegance and style -- and a curiosity about sound and its functioning."

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SMITH, STUART SAUNDERS	Palm Sunday	CD	NEW WORLD RECORDS	NW 80813CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 "'An insatiable listener, learner, and reader, Stuart Saunders Smith (b. 1948) has taken into his mind and spirit myriad styles of musical performance spanning centuries, methods of compositional practice of all sorts, and innumerable close personal relationships with artists of all disciplines. He has absorbed this vast expanse of knowledge, art, and personal experience, and rather than mimicking anything he has encountered along the way, he has manifested a truly personal, honest voice that rings true to himself and to all of his inspirations. In four of the works presented here, specifically Thicket (2010), Family Portraits: Self (in 14 Stations) (1997), Palm Sunday (2012), and Among Us (2007), Smith calls upon the performer to provide the musical dynamics, articulations, and phrasing to the traditionally notated pitches and rhythmic structures he provides. This charge extends the performer's contribution well into the realm of composition. In making personal musical decisions regarding dynamics, articulations, and phrasing, given the contrapuntal density of the material Smith composed, it became important for me to remove the mental burden of choreographed performance from the process and make my choices from the listener's perspective. This process involved the making and reviewing of a series of self-recordings that gradually led to the versions of the pieces I present here. The recurring issue in preparing these pieces was negotiating the balance between larger dramatic gestures, illuminating formal clarity in longer works, and shaping local nuance to assist the listener in aurally parsing dense passages.' --Kyle Adam Blair"

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SIMONETTI'S GOBLIN, CLAUDIO	Dawn Of The Dead (Limited Edition)	2CD/BOOK	RUSTBLADE	RBL 064LTD-CD
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 "Rustblade presents Claudio Simonetti and his Goblin playing and reinterpreting the score of one of the most famous horror movies of all times to celebrate 40 years of the idolised film Dawn of the Dead directed by George Romero and produced by Dario Argento. The music that accompanies the movie is a mix of prog and electronic rock full of tension and magic tribalism. Piercing guitars, synth orchestration and virtualism give life to thousands of blood thirsty zombies. Special double-CD plus original comic book Dawn of the Dead Hotel La Muerte plus poster.

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BIG L	Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous	2LP	TRAFFIC	TEG 78509LP
$30.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 2019 repress. "2015 was the 20th Anniversary of this undisputed New York classic from the late, great, Harlem MC, featuring production from D.I.T.C. legends Showbiz, Buckwild and Lord Finesse. The album itself was another shot across the bow of mid-90s pundits who were prophesizing the death of New York's boom-bap dominance. Alongside recent classics from Nas, Biggie, Mobb Deep and Smif N Wessun, Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous laid out the ascendancy of another visionary MC who could throw down brags punchlines with the best of them, but who never veered away from truly thoughtful lyrical dialogue. Most tracks on the album feature slower tempos, which gave the soon-to-be-immortalized MC the chance to fully explore a range of flows and approaches. Cases in point include the two commercial singles -- 'Put It On' and 'MVP' -- as well as the promo-only single 'Street Struck,' the latter produced by Lord Finesse and containing perhaps L's deepest rhymes on the album. There are also some great posse cuts here, starting with '8 Iz Enuff,' which was all about exposing L's crew (including Herb McGruff, Mike Boogie and Buddah Bless); and the amazing 'Da Graveyard,' which let established peers like Lord Finesse and Grand Daddy I.U. flow alongside another newcomer to the scene named Jay-Z. Less-renowned but no less crucial album cuts like 'All Black' and 'I Don't Understand It' help to tie it all up in a beautiful boom-bap package, with production by and from legends in the game that vaulted Big L into the national spotlight. L would be tragically taken from us in 1999, so this album -- along with 2000's posthumous The Big Picture -- will always be special to fans. Big L was a huge talent with the world in front of him, and it's only right to celebrate his life again on the 20th Anniversary of the album that started it all for him."

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75 DOLLAR BILL	I Was Real	Cassette	THIN WRIST	TW Q-CS
$9.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 Cassette version. 75 Dollar Bill is one of the essential groups at the heart of NYC's underground. Driven by the telepathic union of Che Chen's microtonal electric guitar and Rick Brown's odd metered percussion their long-form sound is unmistakable and compelling. On their third album I Was Real, the group expands in bold new directions, embracing brilliant fuller orchestrations, joyous rockers and entrancing new textures. Having emerged as a vibrant musical force with their previous effort -- with Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock (GB 047CD, TW J CS/LP, 2016) -- 75 Dollar Bill have spent the last few years bringing their music to new places and people, delivering what NYC locals have known for years, with their dedication to performance in venues of all shapes and sizes. The fruits of this work can be heard here on their expansive new double-LP I Was Real. The album, its title's origin a jumbled misremembering of the lesser-known Motown song "He Was Really Saying Something", is 75 Dollar Bill's third, featuring new directions accompanying the band's previously established interest in sprawling, unusual grooves and microtonal melodies. The record is enhanced by the presence of eight additional players in various combinations over its nine tracks -- but also shows off the duo's strength when stripped down to the core. Requiring a variety of approaches, the album was recorded over a four-year period, in four different studios, with the band's closest associates and collaborators in a range of different ensemble configurations. The album also features several "studio as instrument" constructions that harken back to the collage-experiments of the band's early cassette tapes, while at the same time pointing to territories altogether new. The players involved highlight the "social" aspect of the band and the eight guests that appear on the record are some of the band's closest friends and collaborators. Some pieces were conceived in the band's very early days and others are much newer, but the music is unmistakably 75 Dollar Bill. As Steve Gunn said about the previous record: "Strings come in underneath Che Chen's supreme guitar tone. Rick Brown's trance percussion offers a guiding support with bass, strings, and horns supporting the melody. They have gathered all the moving parts perfectly." Personnel: Rick Brown - plywood crate, hand and foot percussion, crude horns; Che Chen - 6 and 12-string and quarter-tone guitars, percussion; with: Sue Garner - guitar and bass guitar; Cheryl Kingan - alto and baritone saxophones; Andrew Lafkas - contrabass; Karen Waltuch - viola; Jim Pugliese - percussion; Barry Weisblat - signal processing, Casio SK-1; Steven Maing - quarter-tone guitar; Carey Balch - hi-hat.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
75 DOLLAR BILL	I Was Real	2LP	THIN WRIST	TW Q-LP
$30.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 75 Dollar Bill is one of the essential groups at the heart of NYC's underground. Driven by the telepathic union of Che Chen's microtonal electric guitar and Rick Brown's odd metered percussion their long-form sound is unmistakable and compelling. On their third album I Was Real, the group expands in bold new directions, embracing brilliant fuller orchestrations, joyous rockers and entrancing new textures. Having emerged as a vibrant musical force with their previous effort -- with Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock (GB 047CD, TW J CS/LP, 2016) -- 75 Dollar Bill have spent the last few years bringing their music to new places and people, delivering what NYC locals have known for years, with their dedication to performance in venues of all shapes and sizes. The fruits of this work can be heard here on their expansive new double-LP I Was Real. The album, its title's origin a jumbled misremembering of the lesser-known Motown song "He Was Really Saying Something", is 75 Dollar Bill's third, featuring new directions accompanying the band's previously established interest in sprawling, unusual grooves and microtonal melodies. The record is enhanced by the presence of eight additional players in various combinations over its nine tracks -- but also shows off the duo's strength when stripped down to the core. Requiring a variety of approaches, the album was recorded over a four-year period, in four different studios, with the band's closest associates and collaborators in a range of different ensemble configurations. The album also features several "studio as instrument" constructions that harken back to the collage-experiments of the band's early cassette tapes, while at the same time pointing to territories altogether new. The players involved highlight the "social" aspect of the band and the eight guests that appear on the record are some of the band's closest friends and collaborators. Some pieces were conceived in the band's very early days and others are much newer, but the music is unmistakably 75 Dollar Bill. As Steve Gunn said about the previous record: "Strings come in underneath Che Chen's supreme guitar tone. Rick Brown's trance percussion offers a guiding support with bass, strings, and horns supporting the melody. They have gathered all the moving parts perfectly." Double-LP version presented in a heavy tip-on gatefold jacket with textured clothe wrap and matte foil stamping. Personnel: Rick Brown - plywood crate, hand and foot percussion, crude horns; Che Chen - 6 and 12-string and quarter-tone guitars, percussion; with: Sue Garner - guitar and bass guitar; Cheryl Kingan - alto and baritone saxophones; Andrew Lafkas - contrabass; Karen Waltuch - viola; Jim Pugliese - percussion; Barry Weisblat - signal processing, Casio SK-1; Steven Maing - quarter-tone guitar; Carey Balch - hi-hat.

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UGLY THINGS	#51	MAG	UGLY THINGS	UT 051
$9.95 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/26/2019 "This issue we turn up the volume all the way for the story of Randy Holden's days with Blue Cheer along with the making of his heavy rock colossus Population II. From the sixties garage band universe, we're presenting must-read features on the Night Shadows (aka Little Phil & the Night Shadows), and the Bad Seeds ('King of the Soap Box'). We also have fascinating interviews with Wally Bryson (the Choir, Cyrus Erie), John Dalton of the Kinks and the (pre-Creation) Mark Four, and the second and final installment of our interview with Lenny Kaye, rock writer supreme and Patti Smith's right-hand man. Harvey Kubernik covers (Ike and) Tina Turner in the '60s and '70s; Eric Davidson takes the lid off the epic new Peter Laughner box set; King Khan reveals the secrets of the Black Power Tarot; and Tim Stegall pays tribute to the recently departed Roky Erickson. All this and more, including our expansive review sections covering the latest reissues and rock-related books."

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MARLEY, BOB	Legend in Dub	LP	ABRAHAM	AA 678LP
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Not really a Bob Marley album, but rather a collection of his tracks played by non-Jamaicans at a studio in Long Island, New York (the not-legendary "Pro-Jam Studios").

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RUIZ, MIGUEL A.	Climatery	LP	ABSTRAKCE RECORDS	ABST 007LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Miguel A. Ruiz is a veteran experimental/electronic musician from Madrid who has worked under numerous names since early eighties as Técnica Material, Orfeón Gargarín, Codachrom. Climatery was originally recorded in 1986 and published by the Madrid label Proceso Uvegraf and later again by Esplendor's Geométrico label. Industrial ethnic music like Muslimgauze, O Yuki Conjugate, some Cabaret Voltaire, the avant-garde world rhythms of Jon Hassell, mantric loops, and futuristic soundtracks. "Six long environmental themes with ethnic and exotic touches, within a repetitive minimalism and layers of Korg Polysix synthesizer, combined with loops created with incipient sampler, tribal rhythms, leathery and dragged mix with an amazing ease with the first techno, in addition to adding traces of Industrial music. To the mix we only need to add the connective tissue of experimentation and the avant-garde, which make each theme acquire its own distinctive body." Edition of 300.

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ADIEL	Musicofilia EP	12"	ARA	ARA 002EP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 The second release on Ara comes from Adiel. The repetitive motives are the core of Musicofilia EP, pushing further Adiel's research of hypnotic patterns and raw textures. "Musicofilia" conveys Adiel's exploration of dissonances colliding with abrasive beats and soothing melodies. "The Call" starkly highlights the wistful tone of the record, when "Vanishing" offers a dense soundscape underlined by an irregular rhythmic structure, leading to the title track, unfolding as an overdriven club jam. "Rednight", with its throbbing pulse, gracefully concludes this EP by channeling its melancholic, yet sharp spirit.

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CATTANEO, HERNAN	Balance Presents Sunsetstrip	2CD	BALANCE MUSIC	BAL 025CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Balance presents Sunsetstrip is the next plateau of concept mixes. Featuring 33 tracks by established, and new producers, such as DAVI, Khen, Brian Cid, Navar, CID Inc., and more, plus a host of exclusive original collaborations, where you'll transverse multiple genres and tempos, all under the steady hands by one of the most highly regarded DJ in the industry today. Lovingly referred to as "El Maestro" by his legions of adoring fans, Hernan Cattaneo has, over the last 30 years, carved a career that eclipses all others. Fascinated by the synth-pop and post punk of the '80s, Hernan quickly discovered the futuristic sounds of dance music coming from Detroit and Chicago. Completely consumed by his new-found love, he progressed naturally to DJing. It was his life-changing residency at the epicenter of Argentinian club culture, Clubland in Buenos Aires, that he was catapulted into the global sphere by long-time friend, Paul Oakenfold. Over the years, his forays into the CD compilation market has enthralled, excited, and energized his fans. From those tentative first steps with Perfecto, through to the golden years of progressive with Renaissance, and then onto his groundbreaking Balance mixes, Hernan has always brought more than just a selection of upfront tracks, and his silky mixing skills. In his own words, Sunsetstrip represents a continuation of his legacy, by marrying his all-encompassing love of the music with his strong work ethic. From the opening bars of Darpan's "Blessing", you are treated to Hernan in wistful reflection. Painting the perfect sonic tapestry, richly musical nuggets dovetail with consummate ease as El Maestro teases every last drop of emotion from each track. Soon, a malaise of joyous energy hypnotizes you, as you travel with the soulful journeyman into the deepest realms of his imaginations. Disc two sees Hernan in cruise control -- the more familiar side of his DJing. The opening double from Mike Griego setting the scene well, as rubbery bass, and lightly tribal percussions whisk you off to wonderland. Easily shifting through the gears, things really get going midway as the sun sets and the music takes on a different meaning. Also features Hernan Cattaneo, Soundexile, Mariano Mellino, Interaxxis, Landhouse & Raddantze, Iorie, Kymatik, Juan Hansen, Kevin Di Serna & Guhus, Graziano Raffa, Orsen, Bachir Salloum & Memory, Antrim, Mercurio, Anita Alvarez de Toledo, Paula Os, Subandrio, Black 8, Nick Varon, Marcelo Vasami, Ezequiel Arias, Sentre, Collé, and EANP. Double-CD download link includes MP3 individual tracks, MP3 mixes, photos & mini-movie.

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BORED!	Take It Out On You	LP	BANG! RECORDS	BANG 133LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Bored!'s finest, most sublime, purest excellence, perfection of sonic hazard and guitar violence. Dave Thomas once spoke about this recording as them jamming in the studio with the tape rolling until it finished and the band kept on playing further and further. The most brutal recording ever done in Australia on the roots of Detroit sound. Take It Out On You is a 1990s Bored! EP that has now, on this release, been expanded with three bonus tracks in order to complete the full recordings of the band in 1990, and with Tim Hemensley (GOD, Powder Monkeys) on bass and vocals. 150 gram vinyl; Edition of 500.

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PICCIONI, PIERO	L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo	CD	BEAT RECORDS	BCM 9583CD
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Beat Records presents for the first time on CD the complete edition of the soundtrack by Piero Piccioni for L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo, a series of fourteen documentaries directed by Folco Quilici from 1966 to 1978, all commissioned, sponsored, and produced by Italian Esso with the aim of portraying the scenic, artistic and architectural beauties of each region of Italy with aerial shots taken by helicopter. The most prestigious theaters were chosen in the capitals of the interested regions, such as the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Teatro Argentina in Rome, the Teatro Nuovo in Milan, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari and the Municipal Theater in Bologna, screened in the presence of political, civil, cultural, and religious representatives. The films were also shown in schools and universities and in the main cities of each region, eventually also disseminated abroad with English, French, German, and Spanish versions. Numerous screenings were organized together with the Italian embassies and institutes of culture through an agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The films were put on display at fairs, Italian festivals, and other events. Presented here are the beautiful scores by Piccioni for the L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo episodes "Emilia," "Marche", and "Sicilia" in their entirety, assembled from the stereo master tapes of the original recording sessions. Previously, only one mono track called "Primavera" was issued on a C.A.M. library LP. For the regions "Emilia" and "Marche," Piccioni composed a score that is a true hymn to the joy of living. The main titles theme ("Primavera") provides the background for the aerial shots of colorful balloons flying in the background of a blue sky with green landscapes below, a perfect marriage of music and image. The pleasing motif is performed by a symphonic orchestra with beat arrangements. Piero Piccioni reprises this main theme with many wonderful versions, including Latin American, beat, sacred, cheerful, sad, slow, fast, etc., each allowing the listener to realize the greatness of this musician. For the "Sicily" region, Piero Piccioni wrote pastoral passages of rare beauty with sparse instrumentation including organ, guitar, flute, and oboe. This CD represents another wonderful addition to the ever-growing discography of Piccioni. Jewel case with a 12-page booklet designed by Alessio Iannuzzi. Mastering and liner notes by Claudio Fuiano.

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LOVE LETTERS	Cast Off EP	12"	THE BUNKER NEW YORK	BK 040EP
$13.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 A stunningly confident four-track EP that harnesses the power of deep rave with twisted-up vocals, acid lines, and techniques drawn from the best of classic house topology storming propulsively into the future. Love Letters is NY-based designer and musician Maxime Robillard whose creative process for both design and music often begin from the same consideration of function, "What is the use, what is the environment. How do I want people to move through or move to the sounds? Movement is integral to my creative process."

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PARIS, HUGO R.A.	Threaded Habitat	LP	BEACON SOUND	BNSD 034LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Beacon Sound and Jacktone Records announce a limited-edition joint vinyl release by Hugo RA Paris entitled Threaded Habitat. The new LP from Paris follows two of Jacktone's most popular releases: Mystique Youth (2015) and Horizons Beneath The Surface (2016), which appeared under his alias, Lavender. The transition to the Hugo RA Paris moniker with this album marks a more personal shift in approach. Threaded Habitat combines ambient textures and techno rhythms to reflect tension between humanity and nature -- particularly the cyclical nature of collapse and renewal. It also marks Beacon Sound's first collaborative release with Jacktone, a Detroit and Berlin-based label co-owned by Darren Cutlip and Doc Sleep, specializing in techno, house, ambient, and experimental electronics. Paris resides in Portland and developed the flagship modular product for leading Eurorack manufacturer 4MS: the SWN. The album's closing track was entirely composed on a SWN prototype and recorded in one take. In fact, much of his work is done in layers of single takes with minimal processing to preserve its raw emotion and embrace minor imperfections. As an MIT-trained engineer and physicist, working with hardware -- from modulars to guitar pedals and tape loops -- is essential to his process of not only making but exploring sound. Threaded Habitat captures moments of claustrophobia and bliss in seven tracks and three accompanying videos directed by New Zealand artist Sam Hamilton. Visual art plays a central role in many of Paris's projects, which include intricate audio-visual performances and scores for full-length films like The Modern Jungle (La Selva Negra) and its forthcoming follow-up. Handmade vinyl package. Lacquer cut and mastering by Dietrich Schoenemann. Includes download code; Edition of 300.

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WILSON, DEREK HUNTER	Steel, Wood, & Air	LP	BEACON SOUND	BNSD 035LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Portland composer and pianist Derek Hunter Wilson returns with his second album, entitled Steel, Wood, & Air. Ten lush, expressive pieces featuring piano, bass clarinet, and strings, this collection reflects the efforts of a young musician challenging himself and discovering his voice in the process. Inspired equally by the contemporary neoclassical scene and early recordings on the ECM label, Steel, Wood, & Air stands, timeless and buoyant, on its own. After releasing his debut album, Travelogue (BNSD 016LP, 2017), Wilson set about re-examining what it means to be a composer. This reappraisal revealed a path toward self-discovery that in turn led to the gradual unfolding of Steel, Wood, & Air, a surprisingly rich endeavor given its strict palette, elemental mindset, and determination to avoid overdubs. Wilson was also invited to contribute a track to Thesis (Loscil, Julianna Barwick, Dustin O'Halloran), the label curated by artist Gregory Euclide. His response, the 10-minute "A New Way of Thinking (In Three Stages)", hinted at things to come and was paired with fellow Beacon Sound alumni Rauelsson for a limited edition split 10" release in late 2018. Early on in the process of writing the album, Wilson stumbled across the lectures of David Lang, about which he writes: "Listening to him talk about composing and seeing his enthusiasm for being a composer, and the field in general, made me feel like I had permission to feel that way too. It made me more conscious about what could be possible in contemporary classical music. Listening to him impressed upon me the importance of honesty in creating music. It creates a need as the creator to examine what is essential to them, and that in one sense is what music is or can be -- it's a tool to use to figure out who you are as a person. And honesty is key to this. It's a journey that I'm just at the beginning stages of." From the attention-arresting opening track "Different Opinions" to the unabashedly gorgeous "Knife Fight", and through to the meditative resolution of "Steel, Wood, & Air #7", this is an album with open arms bringing gifts for those who listen carefully. Cover photo by Brett Kallusky. Design by FISK Projects. Recorded at Type Foundry and The Map Room in Portland. Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll. Includes two-sided insert and download code; edition of 300. "An evocative cycle that promises to be one of the season's highlights." --A Closer Listen

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LES BLOUSONS NOIRS	Les Blousons Noirs 1961-1962	LP	BORN BAD RECORDS	BORNBAD 006LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 An ultimate testimony to adolescent rage and the spirit of rock n' roll, these eight songs by Les Blousons Noirs (Black Jackets) are essential to understanding what rock music is and what it should always be: determined, primitive and wild. Originally from Bordeaux, Les Blousons Noirs seem to have bought their instruments the morning of their recording session: the singer sings out of time, the drummer is feverish and the guitarist a total whack. Nothing is repressed with Les Blousons Noirs. Their enthusiasm and carefree attitude are such that the songs are delightfully exuberant. Their two unusually unique EPs were released in 1961 (Special Rock) and 1962 (Special Twist) on the Guilain label. And as a French band, they quite naturally decided to cover French rock standards... slaying them with enthusiasm. Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), Les Chats Sauvages (The Wild Cats), and two of Johnny Hallyday's songs were thus brought to the spotlight. The only original track was "Les Fous Du Twist" (Crazy for the Twist) written by their young producer Claude Ghislain. For the record, their "Eddy Soit Bon" (Eddy be Good) was originally Chuck Berry's "Johnny B Good". The fact that they used the same picture for the cover of both EPs reinforces the feeling of total uselessness and "don't give a fuck" attitude that is so often embraced by rock n' roll. Les Blousons Noirs were forerunners of the French punk and DIY scenes. Remember that it wasn't until 1964 that Hasil Adkins published his "She Said", 1965 that the Peruvians of Los Saicos put out "Demolicion", and 1966 that the Legendary Stardust Cowboy delivered his killer "Paralysed". The Shaggs and their late Philosophy Of The World in '69 were too late to the game. In order to become a band with a cult following, all Les Blousons Noirs had to do was remain anonymous. Our investigations to try and identify these rock n' rollers were futile. The only information regarding the identity of Les Blousons Noirs comes from Marc Liozon (Editor-in-Chief of the club des années 60 fanzine) who found a copy of the second EP dedicated to a certain Minie. This exposed that the band was comprised of Clod on lead guitar, Jo on rhythm guitar, Did on drums, and Samy on vocals -- a nice bunch! In short, no known identities, no concerts, no pictures, two insane EPs out of nowhere.

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MAKINO & TORI KUDO, KAYO	Ein Traum Fur Dich	LP	BLACK TRUFFLE	BT 049LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Black Truffle announce the release of this genuine head-scratcher, the first collaboration between DJ/mixtape-compiler Kayo Makino and underground legend Tori Kudo. Originally created to be played between acts at the launch of Eiko Ishibashi's acclaimed The Dreams My Bones Dream (2018) and then reworked and refined for LP release, the two side-long pieces are sonic environments constructed by Makino for Kudo's piano to inhabit, or, as the LP's credits suggest, a "cinéma pour l'oreille" in which Kudo's piano plays the starring role. Beginning with a soothing field recording of crickets dramatically punctuated by smashing glass, the first side finds Kudo playing his way repeatedly through one of Satie's 1897 Pièces froides. Best known to many listeners for his role as leader of the ecstatically shambolic rock unit Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Kudo's performance of Satie's whimsical yet haunting melody is alternately halting and fluid, delighting in the hesitations of unstudied technique and the subtle variations between repeated attempts. While the combination of Kudo's piano and the background of crickets initially suggests a documentary approach to recording -- as if the you are simply hearing incidental sounds creeping through an open window -- things take an unexpected turn a few minutes in when Kudo's piano is suddenly doubled. Layering two separate attempts at the same piece of top of each other, Makino's unorthodox mixing blurs Satie's original into a fog of stumbling echoes that becomes increasingly dreamlike as the chirping crickets are overtaken by pattering rain, German dialogue and traffic sounds. The second side begins in a similarly inscrutable vein, with snatches of birds and film music providing a gentle backdrop for Kudo's improvisational variations on a chord progression that, as his performance builds over its twenty-minute duration, somehow begins to suggest the sadly swaggering grandeur of Mick Taylor-era Rolling Stones. Makino accompanies and eventually overwhelms Kudo's piano with a bizarre layer of digitally processed voice and drums, stretched out into a disorienting haze before suddenly retreating to leave Kudo's piano accompanied only by a barking dog. Seemingly unrelated to anything else being produced in the world of contemporary music, this is a striking collaboration between two unique musical personalities that bridges the mundane and the surreal, opening up a dream-space both haunted and hospitable. Cover design by Lasse Marhaug. Mastered by Jim O'Rourke at Steamroom, Japan. Vinyl cut by Rashed Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

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ORTOLANI, RIZ	Un Caso Di Coscienza -- Non Commettere Atti Impuri	CD	BEAT RECORDS	CFS 003CD
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Beat Records release for the first time on CD -- complete and in stereo -- the scores by Riz Ortolani for the comedy movies Un Caso Di Coscienza, directed in 1970 by Giovanni Grimaldi, and Non Commettere Atti Impuri, directed in 1971 by Guilio Petroni. For Un Caso Di Coscienza, Ortolani composed a wild shake theme that is introduced in the opening titles in a vocal version (with lyrics by the actor Fiorenzo Fiorentini and orchestra conducted by Natale Massara) performed by Il Supergruppo. This beat motif is revisited throughout the film in different versions and for the party scene in the Baron Favara palace. Ortolani composed other motifs for a magical and mysterious theme with ancient flavor for flutes and guitar, another danceable shake, an evocative piece with solo organ for the mass scene, and atmospheric lounge music for romantic or dining sequences. Beat Records used everything that was recorded in stereo during the recording session, stored in the private archives of the Ortolani family. The cue sheets indicate that track 12 was considered for a single that was never released, but in 1970 the song featured in the opening titles was officially released on Ricordi LP with the title Il Supergruppo, formed by members of other bands known in the '60s: Victor Sogliani of Equipe 84, Mino Di Martino of Giganti, Gianni Dall'Aglio of Iribelli, Petruccio Montalbetti of Dik Dik, and Ricky Gianco who supervised the production of the 33rpm. There is also a promotional white-label single featuring the song (same piece on both sides). For Non Commettere Atti Impuri, Ortolani composed a brilliant soundtrack that opens with a lively, beat-flavored main theme introduced in "Titoli Di Testa" and reprised as a shake. For the tender love story between the boy and girl, Ortolani composed a delicate motif with several variations, an agitated theme for psychedelic organ and percussion, religious music for organ and organ with Gregorian chant, and sensual music for the scenes with Barbara Bouchet, The main theme is reprised in the finale with rock guitar and brass, the middle portion featuring drums in a shake tempo with Gregorian chant. The material from Non Commettere Atti Impuri comes from the stereo master recordings stored in Beat Records' archives. Co-produced by Claudio Fuiano for CFSoundtracks and Daniele De Gemini for Beat Records. Mastering by Claudio Fuiano and Enrico De Gemini.

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VA	Masterpieces Of Jazz	2CD	DELTA	D 20002CD
$10.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 36 classics and great namedropping on a double-CD set. The stylistic origins of jazz are blues, ragtime, spirituals, folk, marches, classical, music of West Africa, and the cultural origin was in the late 19th century, Southern United States. Typical instruments include piano, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, double bass, drums, guitar, vocals. Known subgenres: avant-garde, jazz, bebop, big band, chamber jazz, cool jazz, free jazz, gypsy jazz, hard bop, Latin jazz, mainstream jazz, modal jazz, M-Base, neo-bop, post-bop, progressive jazz, soul jazz, swing, third stream, and traditional jazz. This double-CD collection features: Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Chick Webb, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford, Jimmy Dorsey, Earl Hines, Charlie Barnet, Les Brown, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole & George Shearing, Louis Prima, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Chris Barber, Dorsey Bros Orch., Humphrey Lyttelton, The Nat King Cole Trio, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, and Miles Davis.

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BROWN AND ROACH INCORPORATED	Brown And Roach Incorporated	LP	DOWN AT DAWN	DAD 142LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Down At Dawn present a reissue of Brown And Roach Incorporated, originally released in 1955. Recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles in August 1954, this is the first Emarcy recording of the legendary Brown & Roach Quintet featuring the great Harold Land on tenor sax, Richie Powell on piano, and George Morrow on bass. Under the direction of two modern jazz masters such as trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Max Roach the quintet shines through a fine set of classic standards, including "Stompin' At The Savoy", Cole Porter's "I Get A Kick Out Of You", and a couple of Brown-Roach originals.

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CHARLES/SULIEMAN/JENKINS/WALDRON	Coolin'	LP	DOWN AT DAWN	DAD 143LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Down At Dawn presents a reissue of Coolin', originally released in 1959. An obscure and excellent 1957 session produced by master Rudy Van Gelder and originally released on Prestige Records. A tight sextet with a distinctive sound run by vibraphonist Teddy Charles, featuring great pianist Mal Waldron and some fine and often underrated musicians, such as Idrees Sulieman on trumpet, John Jenkins on alto saxophone, Addison Farmer on bass, and Jerry Segal on drums. The album consists of one standard and five originals, all based on complex melodies and hard swinging rhythms.

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NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA/JOHN GREAVES/ANNIE BARBAZZA	Folly Bololey: Songs from Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom	CD	DARK COMPANION	DCLP 012CD
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Critically acclaimed as one of the best records ever, Robert Wyatt's 1974 Rock Bottom masterpiece has been re-arranged by Craig Fortnam for his amazing North Sea Radio Orchestra. Featuring long time Wyatt's collaborator and Henry Cow founder John Greaves on bass guitar and vocals and the amazing vocalist Annie Barbazza as lead singer: this is a heartfelt, fantastic tribute to Robert Wyatt's music. Cover notes by Robert Wyatt and Jonathan Coe. "This concert is a beautiful event, for me. These musicians seem to me to have really grasped what my songs are about; but at the same time, created an entirely fresh way of putting the music together. I feel so honored and so grateful." --Robert Wyatt, March 2019 "One of the greatest albums of the 1970s, beautifully reimagined and re-written for orchestra. I have listened to Rock Bottom hundreds of times, and thought I was familiar with it: but this brilliant new version opens up new depths, fresh vistas, hidden truths. An amazing achievement." --Jonathan Coe, March 2019

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NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA/JOHN GREAVES/ANNIE BARBAZZA	Folly Bololey: Songs from Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom	LP	DARK COMPANION	DCLP 012LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 LP version. Audiophile, blue vinyl; Edition of 500, hand-numbered. Critically acclaimed as one of the best records ever, Robert Wyatt's 1974 Rock Bottom masterpiece has been re-arranged by Craig Fortnam for his amazing North Sea Radio Orchestra. Featuring long time Wyatt's collaborator and Henry Cow founder John Greaves on bass guitar and vocals and the amazing vocalist Annie Barbazza as lead singer: this is a heartfelt, fantastic tribute to Robert Wyatt's music. Cover notes by Robert Wyatt and Jonathan Coe. "This concert is a beautiful event, for me. These musicians seem to me to have really grasped what my songs are about; but at the same time, created an entirely fresh way of putting the music together. I feel so honored and so grateful." --Robert Wyatt, March 2019 "One of the greatest albums of the 1970s, beautifully reimagined and re-written for orchestra. I have listened to Rock Bottom hundreds of times, and thought I was familiar with it: but this brilliant new version opens up new depths, fresh vistas, hidden truths. An amazing achievement." --Jonathan Coe, March 2019

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BIG JOANIE	Sistahs	CD	DAYDREAM LIBRARY SERIES	DLS 001CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Big Joanie are Stephanie Phillips (singer/guitarist), Estella Adeyeri (bass) and Chardine Taylor-Stone (drums). The band formed in 2013 and released their first EP, Sistah Punk in 2014 and the single Crooked Room in 2016. As part of London's thriving DIY punk scene Big Joanie have played with locals Shopping, toured with US punks Downtown Boys, and Dutch punk band The Ex. Inspired by The Ronettes, Nirvana, Breeders, and Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Joanie have described themselves as being "similar to The Ronettes filtered through '80s DIY and Riot Grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis." Big Joanie recorded Sistahs at Hermitage Works Studio with producer Margo Broom. The album title derives from the band's belief in sisterhood and female friendship. One of the main reasons for coming together was to create an atmosphere to be "completely ourselves as black women and discover what was possible to realize in those spaces." The album cover features Steph's mum Joan, whom the band is named after, and her aunt on holiday in Wales. Outside of the band all three members are involved in communitarian activities whether running the Decolonise Fest, volunteering at Girls Rock Camp, or leading the Stop Rainbow Racism campaign. The Daydream Library Series is the independent house label of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Eva Prinz.

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I FEEL LIKE A BOMBED CATHEDRAL	I Feel Like A Bombed Cathedral	CD	DIRTER PROMOTIONS	DPROM 147CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 I Feel Like A Bombed Cathedral is the ambitious new project from Amaury Cambuzat --guitarist with the legendary Faust and founder of French avant-garde experimentalists Ulan Bator. Just two pieces spread over 50-odd minutes, this CD reaches levels of drone-like intensity barely heard since the days of Theatre of Eternal Music. Beautiful collage art by Cambuzat. Packaged in a gloss laminated digipack; Edition of 500. Essential. Nick Soulsby writes: "You need to tell the world how you feel and all you think is -- The electric guitar stands as analogue to the cathedral: a blown-out shell echoing with imposing history, lineage, collapse and eternal potential. Amaury has conjured a haunted space inviting us to roam firm structures torn to chaotic edges; glimpsed hardness grown over organic and lush. The sounds whisked up around us, from the most minimal to the most densely symphonic, remind us we stand in a place dedicated to the profound. Between the instrument and the image stands the man himself. Amaury's approach throughout I Feel Like A Bombed Cathedral speaks to his memories and lived experience -- graduation from the classical conservatory in western Paris, his discovery of the guitar at age fourteen, his lifelong quest to infuse this instrument with fresh life. I Feel Like A Bombed Cathedral is a testament to the past, to desecrated presents, and to the sacred horizon that is the future -- The unchanging future which is always hope of change."

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DROIDS BLOOD	Be Free	LP	DRUNKEN SAILOR RECORDS	DRUNKEN 111LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Debut LP from this Chicago band that is a new iteration of Broken Prayer. If you were a fan of Broken Prayer, it's hard to imagine how you wouldn't be on board with Droids Blood since they rely on a similar combination of noisy hardcore and whirring synth topped with Scott Plant's trademark topical lyrics and distinctive vocals. Since 2016, Plant has been fronting Droids Blood, whose lineup also includes Broken Prayer drummer Nick Donahue. On Be Free, they vary the tempos more and even add some borderline poppy hooks, but there's also lots of grimy, slightly industrial synth gunk, and bass murk -- "Unreality" sounds deranged in the best possible way.

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CEREAL KILLER	The Beginning & End of Cereal Killer	LP	DRUNKEN SAILOR RECORDS	DRUNKEN 112LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 The Beginning & End Of Cereal Killer is Cereal Killer's first full-length album to date and also their last release since 2016's Demo's EP. The album was recorded over six weeks of tracking in the famous Geelong studios, The Barracks, before calling upon mastermind Mikey Young to sail his yacht across the bay and put his much-practiced mixing techniques into full effect -- the result is mind-blowing. Cereal Killer gained worldwide success in 2016 after their headline performances at Glastonbury and Coachella festivals where they blew away adoring fans and reached international stardom.

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YALO, GILI	Made In Amharica	CD	DEAD SEA RECORDINGS	DSR 003CD
$9.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 After a big success of his first LP released in 2018 (DSR 001CD/LP), Gili Yalo comes back with his new release, Made In Amharica. Ethiopian-born, Israeli artist, Gili Yalo brings together more than two musical worlds this time. The new EP, Made In Amharica, is a result of Yalo's cooperation with Grammy Awards nominated Niles City Sound, production team consisting of Josh Block, Austin Jenkins, and Chris Vivion. The EP songs reflect the cooperation between Gili Yalo and Dallas-based musicians in the high-end vintage equipped recording studios of Niles City Sound Studio in Fort Worth's South Main. The EP consists of four songs -- in English and Amharic. The title of the EP is a word play: Amharic is a language of Ethiopian people. All songs were recorded in America, South Main. Gili Yalo combines the modern definition of Ethiopian roots, strong funky, and jazzy influences with a deep soul feeling. Made In Amharica is something more -- soul with RnB flavor, strengthened by American musicians, production team, and the best sounding analog vintage sound equipment.

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YALO, GILI	Made In Amharica	12"	DEAD SEA RECORDINGS	DSR 003EP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 12" version. After a big success of his first LP released in 2018 (DSR 001CD/LP), Gili Yalo comes back with his new release, Made In Amharica. Ethiopian-born, Israeli artist, Gili Yalo brings together more than two musical worlds this time. The new EP, Made In Amharica, is a result of Yalo's cooperation with Grammy Awards nominated Niles City Sound, production team consisting of Josh Block, Austin Jenkins, and Chris Vivion. The EP songs reflect the cooperation between Gili Yalo and Dallas-based musicians in the high-end vintage equipped recording studios of Niles City Sound Studio in Fort Worth's South Main. The EP consists of four songs -- in English and Amharic. The title of the EP is a word play: Amharic is a language of Ethiopian people. All songs were recorded in America, South Main. Gili Yalo combines the modern definition of Ethiopian roots, strong funky, and jazzy influences with a deep soul feeling. Made In Amharica is something more -- soul with RnB flavor, strengthened by American musicians, production team, and the best sounding analog vintage sound equipment.

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EDDIE C	Green Space	CD	ENDLESS FLIGHT	EF 018CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Canadian beatdown master Eddie C is back with his fourth full-length on endless flight, Green Space. This new album is his unique mixture of laidback hip-hop and lo-fi house sound which is inspired by late '80s to early '90s music, and much darker than usual. Green Space kicks off with old school hip-hop tracks of "Carbondate", "In The Park" then the new wave disco sound of "Way Uptown" -- its reminiscent of NYC post punk/new wave artist konk. There's the dubby Brazilian percussive disco track "Batucada", and "Berlina" is early '90s NYC house, like Pal Joy. The most club-friendly track "Bad Words" is wired, new wave-y vocal house madness and the album closes with the dreamy downtempo track "An Der Wedding" -- heavy krautrock influenced stuff. Features Mister Joshooa.

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DOPE FEAT. FUCK AUTHORITY	666 / 1381	10"	ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES	ES 036LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Treat yourself to this wonderful (and highly-limited) 10" single from Julian Cope's Dope feat. Fuck Authority. Consisting of two, 20-minute tracks, "666" is a Deutsche sing-a-long from beyond the grave, replete with martial side drums and cacophonous orchestral strings. With raised steins, our gruff-voiced male choir recounts their bolshie nursery rhyme -- a beguiling tale of a mysterious tree that predicts the future. Awaiting listeners on the other side of this epic release is Dope's most overtly psychedelic offering thus far. Off-kilter and raging, this non-LP B-side is entitled "1381", after the year of Wat Tyler's Peasant's Revolt. Unbalanced? U-Betcha! As Fat Paul's cataclysmic FX and Holy McGrail's Space Echo obscure and overwhelm Fuck Authority's vast stereo bass guitar, one can only praise the poor technicians who captured it all on vinyl.

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RAINBOW GRAVE	No You	CD	GOD UNKNOWN RECORDS	GODUNK 059CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Featuring Nicholas Bullen (founder member of Napalm Death and Scorn) and John Pickering (founder member of Doom and Sore Throat), Birmingham-based Rainbow Grave channel the blank despair of negative punk through layers of distorted psychedelic damage: dirty guitars, freeform pedal abuse, and effected vocals coagulate around cyclic bass and drum rhythms in repetitive and minimal structures. After a performance at Fat Out Fest in Salford in April 2017, God Unknown Records approached the group to record a split 7" single (GODUNK 043EP). Released in July 2018 as part of volume three of the God Unknown Singles Series, Rainbow Grave's Death Pyramid is a crawling mantric blend of heavy bass, psychedelic guitars, robotic vocals, and hard drums described as "deeply hewn heaviness" (Shindig) and "congruent with the great scum rock purveyors of the late '80s" (The Wire). Following the reception of the single, God Unknown invited Rainbow Grave to continue the relationship with the release of the "Sex Threat/You Are Nowhere" 7" single in November 2018. This was given Single of the Week by John Doran at The Quietus.

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RAINBOW GRAVE	No You	LP	GOD UNKNOWN RECORDS	GODUNK 059LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 LP version. Featuring Nicholas Bullen (founder member of Napalm Death and Scorn) and John Pickering (founder member of Doom and Sore Throat), Birmingham-based Rainbow Grave channel the blank despair of negative punk through layers of distorted psychedelic damage: dirty guitars, freeform pedal abuse, and effected vocals coagulate around cyclic bass and drum rhythms in repetitive and minimal structures. After a performance at Fat Out Fest in Salford in April 2017, God Unknown Records approached the group to record a split 7" single (GODUNK 043EP). Released in July 2018 as part of volume three of the God Unknown Singles Series, Rainbow Grave's Death Pyramid is a crawling mantric blend of heavy bass, psychedelic guitars, robotic vocals, and hard drums described as "deeply hewn heaviness" (Shindig) and "congruent with the great scum rock purveyors of the late '80s" (The Wire). Following the reception of the single, God Unknown invited Rainbow Grave to continue the relationship with the release of the "Sex Threat/You Are Nowhere" 7" single in November 2018. This was given Single of the Week by John Doran at The Quietus.

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SEVERAL WIVES	Goldi Fell	CD	GIZEH RECORDS	GZH 091CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Several Wives lie in the darkened corner of a room. Paintings torn, forgotten against the wall. Dead rhythms seep through the floor. Everything is tired. Everything is jaded. Göldi Fell is Several Wives' newest work, following on from the excellent Blonde, Arms Tight Black cassette release on Tombed Visions (2017). The bowed, electro-acoustic, heavy drones continue and present an almost horror-soundtrack performance of intense beauty. It's a deep, dark world of reverb, echoes, and distant pulses all struggling to be heard and understood. This is a stunning piece of experimental, almost classical work, evoking a sense of ethereal dread and mournful regret. A thick air creeps in. It's a doom-ladened record and one that will take you over if you let it. File under: avant-garde, experimental, drone, ambient. Part of Gizeh's "Dark Peak" series. CD version comes in an edition of 175; Housed in a black, gatefold, recycled card sleeve; Each copy is printed and assembled by hand at Gizeh HQ; Includes download code.

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KIRKEGAARD, JACOB	Black Metal Square	LP	IMPORTANT RECORDS	IMPREC 475LP
$34.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Three freely hanging black metal plates: 50x50x005cm, 75x75x005cm, and 100x100x005cm. Piezo sensor and contact speaker attached on rear side of plate, amplifying and mirroring its subtle and naturally occurring vibrations, evoking its characteristic resonant frequencies. Packaged in a black sleeve with a screen-printed sheet affixed to the cover. Edition of 100 (hand-numbered).

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CFM	Soundtrack To An Empty Room	LP	IN THE RED	ITR 335LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 LP version. "Charles Moothart is releasing his third album under the moniker CFM. It's called Soundtrack To An Empty Room and keeps it cookin' off 2016's Still Life Of Citrus And Slime and 2017's Dichotomy Desaturated. Moothart is a frequent contributor on many of Ty Segall's solo ventures but also as a co-conspirator in bands like the blazing jam unit Fuzz, and a fantastic monster of a group called GØGGS, which throws Segall and Moothart in with Chris Shaw of Ex-Cult. Something that's immediately apparent on this album is that it's a harder record than its predecessors. The shift isn't subtle but it is tremendously cool. A lot of the material was written while Moothart was on tour with Segall and working on the GØGGS Pre Strike Sweep album. The first two CFM efforts gave Moothart the experience to work effectively on his own in the studio, the live shows infuse this with the confidence and attitude that comes from a lot of nights playing where there are no second takes. It is an exciting follow up and further proof that Moothart is one of those people with a lot of music in him."

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VA	Jumping With Mr Lee: Reggae Classics From The Vault Of Bunny "Striker" Lee	CD	KINGSTON SOUNDS	KSCD 083CD
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 The period of 1967-1968 when rocksteady was in full flow, would also be a turning point for Bunny "Striker" Lee, when he became a producer in his own right. Many of the great tunes during this eventful year came out of his stable and initially saw the light of day on his own imprint label "Lee's". Jumping With Mr. Lee has been assembled from some of those fine tunes and tells the story of reggae in what was a stellar time for both reggae and Mr Bunny Lee. Edward "Bunny" Lee, later to become known as "Striker", got his introduction to the music business around 1962 when his future brother in law singer Derrick Morgan introduced Bunny to producer Duke Reid, who gave him a job as record plugger for his Treasure Isle label. 1966 saw Bunny Lee move on to working for producer Ken Lack who ran his own label Caltone. As stated earlier, by 1967 Bunny Lee was leading the way and his vast stable of singers, were producing hit after hit for him -- many of those artists are featured on this compilation. The Sensations' "Long Time Me No See You Girl", The Uniques which featured the great Slim Smith are here on some of their greatest cuts "Love and Devotion", "The Beatitude", and "Girls Like Dirt". "My Conversation", a song that would be a big hit for the Uniques, would also go on to be of the most covered songs and redone over rhythms, in the history of reggae music. The great singer Pat Kelly features on "Somebody's Baby" and "Little Boy Blue" all massive hits, when originally released. Bunny's love of jazz and the brass sections would also shine through with some of Jamaica's finest musicians featured here with the excellent tenor sax work of Val Bennett which provided the album title track "Jumping With Mr Lee" and "Jumping With Val". The alto sax work of Lester Sterling is featured on the timeless cut "Bangerang" and "Tribute To Scratch". The big sound of trombonist Vin Gordon features on "Sounds And Soul". Not forgetting the previously mentioned king of ska Derrick Morgan on "Hold Your Jack", a song that in a few years' time would provide the backbone for Mr Max Romeo's cross over and controversial hit "Wet Dream". A fine collection of tracks from the great producer Bunny "Striker" Lee. Also features Winston "Stranger" Cole, Pat Kelly, and Ken Parker. CD version includes four tracks featuring Slim Smith and The Uniques, Roy Shirley, Webber Sisters, and Glen Adams.

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VA	Jumping With Mr Lee: Reggae Classics From The Vault Of Bunny "Striker" Lee	LP	KINGSTON SOUNDS	KSLP 083LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 LP version. The period of 1967-1968 when rocksteady was in full flow, would also be a turning point for Bunny "Striker" Lee, when he became a producer in his own right. Many of the great tunes during this eventful year came out of his stable and initially saw the light of day on his own imprint label "Lee's". Jumping With Mr. Lee has been assembled from some of those fine tunes and tells the story of reggae in what was a stellar time for both reggae and Mr Bunny Lee. Edward "Bunny" Lee, later to become known as "Striker", got his introduction to the music business around 1962 when his future brother in law singer Derrick Morgan introduced Bunny to producer Duke Reid, who gave him a job as record plugger for his Treasure Isle label. 1966 saw Bunny Lee move on to working for producer Ken Lack who ran his own label Caltone. As stated earlier, by 1967 Bunny Lee was leading the way and his vast stable of singers, were producing hit after hit for him -- many of those artists are featured on this compilation. The Sensations' "Long Time Me No See You Girl", The Uniques which featured the great Slim Smith are here on some of their greatest cuts "Love and Devotion", "The Beatitude", and "Girls Like Dirt". "My Conversation", a song that would be a big hit for the Uniques, would also go on to be of the most covered songs and redone over rhythms, in the history of reggae music. The great singer Pat Kelly features on "Somebody's Baby" and "Little Boy Blue" all massive hits, when originally released. Bunny's love of jazz and the brass sections would also shine through with some of Jamaica's finest musicians featured here with the excellent tenor sax work of Val Bennett which provided the album title track "Jumping With Mr Lee" and "Jumping With Val". The alto sax work of Lester Sterling is featured on the timeless cut "Bangerang" and "Tribute To Scratch". The big sound of trombonist Vin Gordon features on "Sounds And Soul". Not forgetting the previously mentioned king of ska Derrick Morgan on "Hold Your Jack", a song that in a few years' time would provide the backbone for Mr Max Romeo's cross over and controversial hit "Wet Dream". A fine collection of tracks from the great producer Bunny "Striker" Lee. Also features Winston "Stranger" Cole, Pat Kelly, and Ken Parker.

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POWER, JUAN	Crescendo EP	12"	LIFE AND DEATH	LAD 044EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Juan MacLean and Man Power debut as Juan Power for Life And Death. "Crescendo" is a nine-minute masterpiece with rickety house drums making you move while the shuffling percussion builds the pressure. Gorgeously warm chords eventually join the fray and have a blissful effect that sets you off dreaming and keeps you in a trance until the end. DJ Tennis steps up with an edit of "Excuse Me Daddy" that is deep and cavernous. "Praise The Toad" then picks up the pace with more live sounding drums and a sparkling lead synth that rises and falls to cosmic effect.

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TROGGS, THE	Live On Air - Volume Two - '67-'68	LP	LONDON CALLING	LCLPC 5029B-LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Dismissed by critics, shunned by historians, reviled by some, The Troggs were the first primal punk antidote to a bourgeois pop scene with too many teenage idols. Their primitive pop sensibility was a major influence on the '70s punk movement, particularly the Ramones, Iggy Pop, MC5, Sex Pistols, and R.E.M. who've cited The Troggs as a major influence. In 1977, the Beatles and the Stones were dismissed by the punks while the Troggs were embraced. Between their hits "Wild Thing", "With A Girl Like You", and "Love Is All Around", the Troggs made 12 appearances for the BBC courtesy of host Brian Matthew. Stand aside for a defining chapter in British rock as we unearth the raw Neanderthal sound of the Troggs live at the BBC from May 1967 to September 1968. Stunningly re-mastered here from the original transcription discs, with background liners, original interviews, anecdotes, and a plethora of rare original memorabilia. First time on vinyl. 180 gram, blue vinyl; hand-numbered, fold over sleeve with insert; edition of 1000.

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DRISCOLL, BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY, JULIE	Live On Air 1967-68	LP	LONDON CALLING	LCLPC 5031LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Quality live recordings of Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity have been notoriously thin on the ground for some time. In recent years however, surviving material has emerged through various collectors worldwide and with significant advances in audio restoration being made, London Calling can now present this prized edition. Boasting superbly re-mastered original broadcast recordings from their London shows and European television appearances, London Calling present The Trinity, live in 1967/68. With extensive liners and rare original memorabilia in a 12-page booklet, this is a golden opportunity to witness one of the era's most iconic and groundbreaking acts to emerge in the British '60s rock underground. White color, 180 gram vinyl; includes insert; hand-numbered fold-over sleeve.

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UNKNOWN	Untitled	12"	MINIMOOD	MINIMOOD 010EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Mysterious dub techno by some metaphysical entity.

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BLANCH, OLAF	Borealis EP	12"	MODERN OBSCURE MUSIC	MODERN 019EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Olaf Blanch debuts on Modern Obscure Music with the Borealis EP, which also features a remix by Suzanne Kraft. The Barcelona-based producer presents four original tracks that explore different Balearic soundscapes, from the exciting adventure of "Nur Yawa" to the deep ambience of "Birds". For reference points, think Mark Barrott's Islands project or some of the great ambient records of the 1990s. This isn't all. Suzanne Kraft turns "Nur Yawa" on its head, creating a catchy and very danceable Nu Beat styled remix.

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KALEIDOSCOPE	After The Futures ...	LP	LA VIDA ES UN MUS	MUS 194LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 "Kaleidoscope's new LP swells unsteadily into existence, with the tinkle of half-jazzy drums filtering through an industrial gloom. It's a sign that what is to come isn't your standard down-the-line hardcore offering. Title track 'After The Futures ...', for instance, opens with a languorous guitar stab that wouldn't be out of a place on a drone or noise record, a brooding rumble like a distant closing door in an warehouse, before the song tumbles into gear, Shiva enunciating the lyrics with a sharp-tongued Jerry A-like clarity. From the chomp of 'Sigint --> E.K.I.A.', the deathrock swells swooping out from the itchy insistent guitar line of 'Crocodile Tears' to deep thrum of 'Soft Cage', After The Futures ... is full of moments of punk broken and reconstituted, familiar structures and beats rearranged in the uncomfortable clamor into something wilder and weirder. It's about sustained tension before a riff kicks in, a solo looking like it's about to soar before being broken sharply off into a thorny keening. A punk record fractured and sliced-through, twisted into fresh shape and shining with a razor's gleam." --Joe Briggs

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NEUROSIS & JARBOE	Neurosis & Jarboe	CD	NEUROT	NR 114CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 "Neurot Recordings are proud to reissue the landmark collaboration Neurosis & Jarboe, which was originally released in 2003. This latest version is fully remastered and with entirely new artwork from Aaron Turner, available on vinyl for the first time, as well as CD and digital formats. When two independent and distinct spheres overlap, the resulting ellipse tends to emphasize the most striking and powerful characteristics of each body. Such is the case with this particular collaboration between heavy music pioneers Neurosis and the multi-faceted performer Jarboe (who performed in Swans and who has collaborated with an array of people from Blixa Bargeld, J.G. Thirlwell, Attila Csihar, Bill Laswell, Merzbow, Justin K. Broadrick, Helen Money, Father Murphy, the list goes on...) The musicians pull from one another some of the most harrowing and unusual sounds ever heard from either artist at the time -- a sentiment which also rings true to some fifteen years later. The collaboration is a deeply textured mosaic that is a culmination of merged aesthetics from two major influences on free-thinking sounds. It unlocked the hidden potential of electronic music as a new force in heavy rock. At a time when groups like Oneida, Wolf Eyes and Black Dice were beginning to experiment with technology in making mind-numbing leaden electro-drone freed from any essence of 'dance music,' Neurosis & Jarboe redefined all notions of their past -- and outlined the course of heavy music to come."

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NEUROSIS & JARBOE	Neurosis & Jarboe	2LP	NEUROT	NR 114LP
$34.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Double LP version. "Neurot Recordings are proud to reissue the landmark collaboration Neurosis & Jarboe, which was originally released in 2003. This latest version is fully remastered and with entirely new artwork from Aaron Turner, available on vinyl for the first time, as well as CD and digital formats. When two independent and distinct spheres overlap, the resulting ellipse tends to emphasize the most striking and powerful characteristics of each body. Such is the case with this particular collaboration between heavy music pioneers Neurosis and the multi-faceted performer Jarboe (who performed in Swans and who has collaborated with an array of people from Blixa Bargeld, J.G. Thirlwell, Attila Csihar, Bill Laswell, Merzbow, Justin K. Broadrick, Helen Money, Father Murphy, the list goes on...) The musicians pull from one another some of the most harrowing and unusual sounds ever heard from either artist at the time -- a sentiment which also rings true to some fifteen years later. The collaboration is a deeply textured mosaic that is a culmination of merged aesthetics from two major influences on free-thinking sounds. It unlocked the hidden potential of electronic music as a new force in heavy rock. At a time when groups like Oneida, Wolf Eyes and Black Dice were beginning to experiment with technology in making mind-numbing leaden electro-drone freed from any essence of 'dance music,' Neurosis & Jarboe redefined all notions of their past -- and outlined the course of heavy music to come."

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SEANIE T	Ruff, Rugged and Smooth	CD	NICE UP	NUP 007CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Seanie T is a true veteran of the UK music scene with a jaw dropping discography featuring some of the most important releases in the history of UK hip-hop. Produced in full by Hamburg-based DJ Suro, Ruff, Rugged and Smooth touches on elements of roots reggae, dancehall, bashment, soul, and pop, all with that unmistakable hip-hop swagger. As the title suggests, there's moments of rough reality, elements of rugged rawness and enough smooth reflection to keep everyone entertained. Kicking off with "Get Hustling", a familiar vocal sample sets up Seanie to set out his manifesto perfectly. Lead single "Warning" is a tag-team takedown with his old sparring partner Roots Manuva, with the duo trading devastating bars, whilst "The Bird" ups the tempo for a party time banger, compete with dance moves. "More To This" is a statement on the current state of image hungry MCs, with "Mad Dem" providing more party vibes and some deft turntable skills from Suro. "Plush" shows a softer side to proceedings with a tribute to the fine female form, whilst "Blaze Fire Bun' finds Seanie teaming up with UK don Serocee for another call to arms on a Timbaland sounding beat. Pitching for the Guinness World Record of number of UK MCs on a track, "Veterans" lines up a hot verse from 19(!) vocalists such as Rodney P, Ty, Ragga Twins, Navigator, and Hill St Soul, amongst many other legends (count them!) -- never before has this many UK artists collaborated on one track. Following this up is "UK Warriors" finding Seanie riding solo once again, but hailing up his UK comrades, UK Allstars. Things gradually get smoother as you find Seanie in full gentleman mode on the lush "Dancefloor", before showing his love for "Weed" alongside Jamaican legend Chezidek. As we come to a close, the smooth reggae vibes of "Acceptable" ring out the album in perfect style, featuring the smooth vocals of more JA vocalists Little Hero & PZ. Already sounding like a modern classic -- never retro, but respectful of its roots whilst keeping it fresh and always keeping it Ruff, Rugged and Smooth. Also features Simone Watson.

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SEANIE T	Ruff, Rugged and Smooth	LP	NICE UP	NUP 007LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 LP version. Seanie T is a true veteran of the UK music scene with a jaw dropping discography featuring some of the most important releases in the history of UK hip-hop. Produced in full by Hamburg-based DJ Suro, Ruff, Rugged and Smooth touches on elements of roots reggae, dancehall, bashment, soul, and pop, all with that unmistakable hip-hop swagger. As the title suggests, there's moments of rough reality, elements of rugged rawness and enough smooth reflection to keep everyone entertained. Kicking off with "Get Hustling", a familiar vocal sample sets up Seanie to set out his manifesto perfectly. Lead single "Warning" is a tag-team takedown with his old sparring partner Roots Manuva, with the duo trading devastating bars, whilst "The Bird" ups the tempo for a party time banger, compete with dance moves. "More To This" is a statement on the current state of image hungry MCs, with "Mad Dem" providing more party vibes and some deft turntable skills from Suro. "Plush" shows a softer side to proceedings with a tribute to the fine female form, whilst "Blaze Fire Bun' finds Seanie teaming up with UK don Serocee for another call to arms on a Timbaland sounding beat. Pitching for the Guinness World Record of number of UK MCs on a track, "Veterans" lines up a hot verse from 19(!) vocalists such as Rodney P, Ty, Ragga Twins, Navigator, and Hill St Soul, amongst many other legends (count them!) -- never before has this many UK artists collaborated on one track. Following this up is "UK Warriors" finding Seanie riding solo once again, but hailing up his UK comrades, UK Allstars. Things gradually get smoother as you find Seanie in full gentleman mode on the lush "Dancefloor", before showing his love for "Weed" alongside Jamaican legend Chezidek. As we come to a close, the smooth reggae vibes of "Acceptable" ring out the album in perfect style, featuring the smooth vocals of more JA vocalists Little Hero & PZ. Already sounding like a modern classic -- never retro, but respectful of its roots whilst keeping it fresh and always keeping it Ruff, Rugged and Smooth. Also features Simone Watson.

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D.O.K.	06/Look Uno	10"	OIL GANG	OILGANG 017EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Two high grade tracks by one of grime's greatest producers D.O.K. "06" is grime at its purest; gliding synths, weird bleeps, and a heavy bassline whilst the flip, "Look Uno", continues on the Coolie Joyride path. Relentless beats, a heavy sub and catchy samples. Perfect. Grime at ist prime. Marbled purple vinyl.

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VA	Dustin E Presents... Cornflake Zoo: Episode 19	CD	PARTICLES	PART 4106CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Dustin E's intrepid foray into the European pop landscape brings forth unknown pleasures and untold treasures from Sweden, France, Portugal, Holland, Germany, England, Denmark, and Norway, and a lovely, scruffy bunch from Argentina. For some rock n' roll innovation or plain old psychedelic power pop, Episode 19 provides a one-way ticket to a loved-up, fuzzed-up universal party. 20 songs release between 1967-1969. Includes 20-page full-color booklet with comprehensive liner notes and rare color photographs. Features Steampacket, Objectivo, The Holly Guns, The Eddysons, De Maskers, Cops & Robbers, Shocking Blue, The Hep Stars, The Hounds, Incredible, Adam & Eve, The Deejays, The Barbarians, Lord Knud, Christopher K, The Nicols, The Sonics, Mojo Blues, and The Defenders.

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CHANDRA, SHEILA	ABoneCroneDrone	LP	PASSAT CONTINU	PC 003LP
$44.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Few albums have treated human voice and drone as a whole entity like ABoneCroneDrone, the third in a trilogy for Real World Records that this record closed back in 1996. In Sheila Chandra's own words: "it was about the gateways between vocal techniques from different cultures and how it was possible to cross between them within a single word or phrase." With the help of bagpipes, didgeridoos and guitars, ABoneCroneDrone puts drones under the microscope and encourages listeners to retrain their ears to hear the nuances that musicians have always heard in them. Emitting low, chant-like waves, Chandra sings deep spaced atonal words while haunting chord sounds flow and drones slowly interact with listener. First vinyl pressing includes a fold-out insert with a new Sheila Chandra interview, original sleeve notes edited by Chandra herself and unseen pictures taken from the 1996 sessions; Edition of 500.

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MORROW, CHARLIE	The Book of Numbers & Spells	Book	RECITAL	R 061BK
$18.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 "The Book of Numbers and Spells is multi-hatted composer and inventor Charlie Morrow's first book. Number and letter games bejewel the pages of this anthology (pulling pieces and writings from 1974 to 2019). These works are largely text scores. It wasn't until I saw Charlie perform 'Ten the Long Way' with a room full of participants that the performative power became clear to me. Chanting numbers: the meditative, transparent, and unifying joy that swept across the room was beautiful. Charlie, a born networker of people and ideas, has naturally included two close friends in the book. Jerome Rothenberg provides a poetic essay, 'A Gematria Sampler', along with a compelling article written by composer Tom Johnson. These supplements embolden the scope and richness of Morrow's transparent systems." --Sean McCann, June 2019 "The range of Charlie Morrow's work if laid out end to end would show him clearly -- though never completely -- as a protean and transformational composer and performer. He is, from where I see him, both the leading proponent of an active ethnopoetics in avant-garde musical performance and a master of new technologies as they come into contemporary practice. It's this dynamic of old and new that a gathering like this again makes plain. The effect, all in all, is cumulative, the power in the ensemble, the full range of his explorations: shamanic-inspired dream chants, animal language events, performance pieces based on modern signal codes and ancient numerologies, soundscapes derived from the new wilderness of urban spaces and the old wilderness of arctic tundras, recompositions of familiar repertory works and of long neglected or forgotten chants and hymns, works for multiple massed single instruments (ocarinas, tubas, cellos, harps), international radio events in celebration of winter and summer solstices, and an extraordinary range of massive public spectacles. Now after fifty years of active engagement, the work, as serious and deeply rooted as it gets, is conceived and played out with a boundless energy and good humor -- in a style as distinctive as his familiar and ever present bowler hat." Jerome Rothenberg, 2019 130 pages; 6x9" perfect bound. Limited edition of 100; hand numbered in red ink.

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MOBARAK, NOUR	Father Fugue	LP	RECITAL	R 066LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Recital label head Sean McCann on the record (June, 2019): "Father Fugue is Nour Mobarak's first full-length album. The Los Angeles-based artist spent years sculpting this LP, and the result is piercingly emotional. A foray into her being; a sound artist, a songstress, a sculptor. Nour's creativity orbits an ever-moving center. Thus, glimpses, reflections, and splinters of her oeuvre embody Father Fugue. The side-long titular piece on the LP is unlike anything I have ever heard. Nour describes the piece: 'the left channel of 'Father Fugue' is composed of conversations with my father, Jean Mobarak, a polyglot who has a 30-second memory and lives in the mountains of Lebanon. The right channel is composed of improvised song.' Nour and her father speak through four different languages (French, Italian, English, and Arabic), a full transcription and translation is included with the LP in a 24-page booklet. They speak of cars, of soccer, of Italy. They speak in games, in rhymes, and in song. The sonic division of voice and time across the stereo pattern is captivating. The second side of the album is comprised of eleven songs. The word 'song' must be taken widely and liberally in this instance. Elements were recorded in her car, in the shower, in the ruins of Oaxaca, Mexico: a rainbow of personal documentation. The vase holding the bouquet is of jubilation and abstract humor. A chanson written by Nour's great-great-grandmother, at the turn of the 20th century in Constantinople, is sung throughout the LP. The first side concludes with her and her father singing it in duet, as Nour's solo performance begins the second side. Bound by time, Father Fugue reveals Nour Mobarak's expression from and response to her father's place and memory. A flip of the record uncovers her expression and response to her own." 24-page libretto booklet (Arabic/French/Italian/English transcriptions and translations; credits/photo card; Edition of 250.

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DIVE, SASCHA	Jet Black	12"	ROTARY COCKTAIL	RC 049EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Sascha Dive presents mutualism between the deep vibes of dub techno and Detroit inspired productions. The title track "Jet Black" features vocals of the Chicago house legend, Robert Owens.

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KANDODO 3	K3	CD	ROOSTER	ROOSTER 026CD
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 "A brand new studio full length from Bristol based sike-o-nauts Kandodo 3, orbiting in the Heads' realm and led by Heads' Simon Price, K3 continues their trajectory of outer space excursions. Out of focus, relaxed and expansive vibes fuse together into serpentine rivers of minimalist rhythms and echoed tones, drawing the listener into tunnels of sound and scorched sonic landscapes -- its one for the headphones at 30,000 feet or late-night deserted drives. The album finds three heads taking time out to dive into the dronal repetitions of deep space, three psychonauts killing time in the only way they know how: head-nodding drumfuzz layered with creamed strings. Guest guitar from fellow sike-head John McBain appears on the final half of this 40-minute trip! It takes the autobahn, veering left past the sun and heading on till morning. Settle in for the long haul and..."

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KANDODO 3	K3	2LP	ROOSTER	ROOSTER 026LP
$30.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Double LP version. "A brand new studio full length from Bristol based sike-o-nauts Kandodo 3, orbiting in the Heads' realm and led by Heads' Simon Price, K3 continues their trajectory of outer space excursions. Out of focus, relaxed and expansive vibes fuse together into serpentine rivers of minimalist rhythms and echoed tones, drawing the listener into tunnels of sound and scorched sonic landscapes -- its one for the headphones at 30,000 feet or late-night deserted drives. The album finds three heads taking time out to dive into the dronal repetitions of deep space, three psychonauts killing time in the only way they know how: head-nodding drumfuzz layered with creamed strings. Guest guitar from fellow sike-head John McBain appears on the final half of this 40-minute trip! It takes the autobahn, veering left past the sun and heading on till morning. Settle in for the long haul and..."

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DIRON ANIMAL	Pair	LP	REBEL UP! RECORDS	RUP 011LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Singer, lyricist, and composer Nirox Romão, aka Diron Animal, was born and raised in Cazenga, Angola. Diron Animal's involvement in the music world began early: he was part of a traditional Angolan music band and capoeira group, followed by a hip-hop project. In 2007, he moved to Portugal to study, but music became more than just a passion when he landed in kuduro. For over six years, he sang, danced, and traveled the world with Afro Portuguese act Thoes + The Shine, mixing rock and kuduro, becoming an explosive ensemble. At one moment, Diron wanted to record a solo album to show a bit more of his own personality and in late 2017 his debut album Alone appeared on Soundway Records (SNDW 123LP), where he himself worked out the melodies, rhythm, vocals and even the guitar parts between classic funk to Afrohouse and kuduro bass. Through that album he explored major festivals in Europe during 2018, such as at Paléo Festival Nyon, Trans Musicales Festival, Amsterdam Dance Event, and others. On Pair, his second album and released on Brussels outer-national label Rebel Up Records, he has worked hard to enhance his special formula. Inspired by the cruel death his nephew, it became a testament against oppression via the mixed sounds of Afro boogie, disco, funk, Afrohouse, coupé décalé, and kuduro, with English and Portuguese lyrics. The first single of the album, "You and Me", is an English sung Afro boogie disco song and produced by Diron with the support of musician and producer Moullinex, actor André Cabral, and video made by director Vasco Mendes. In the video, featuring dancer and actor André Cabral, Diron Animal takes on the role of a gay man to express that a homosexual is a normal person who loves, feels desire, dreams, conquers, wants to be loved and desired, wants to live next to a being that completes him. With "You and Me", Diron Animal above all wants to appeal to society, respect for the choice of people and non-discrimination of sexual choices. For in life we all deserve to be happy regardless of our sexual choice. Includes download.

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MOLLY	All That Ever Could Have Been	CD	SONIC CATHEDRAL	SCR 155CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Innsbruck-based Lars Andersson and Phillip Dornauer's shoegaze-inspired beginnings coalesced on their acclaimed 2017 EP, Glimpse, which did just as it said, offering a tantalizing peek into their world; the full, glorious vista is now revealed on their accomplished debut album. And All That Ever Could Have Been really is breathtaking. It begins with an almost 15-minute post-rock epic and takes in nods to ambient, dreampop and even prog, with echoes of Galaxie 500, Low, Beachwood Sparks, Dungen, The Besnard Lakes, Sigur Rós, and M83. Its eight tracks belie both the band's youth and their small number, forming a mountain of sound that suggests they are more of a geological outfit than a musical one. "Skeletal, celestial shoegaze [that] reflects the cold beauty of the Austrian Alps" --Stereogum.

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MOLLY	All That Ever Could Have Been	2LP	SONIC CATHEDRAL	SCR 155LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Double LP version. Pink Cadillac color vinyl. Innsbruck-based Lars Andersson and Phillip Dornauer's shoegaze-inspired beginnings coalesced on their acclaimed 2017 EP, Glimpse, which did just as it said, offering a tantalizing peek into their world; the full, glorious vista is now revealed on their accomplished debut album. And All That Ever Could Have Been really is breathtaking. It begins with an almost 15-minute post-rock epic and takes in nods to ambient, dreampop and even prog, with echoes of Galaxie 500, Low, Beachwood Sparks, Dungen, The Besnard Lakes, Sigur Rós, and M83. Its eight tracks belie both the band's youth and their small number, forming a mountain of sound that suggests they are more of a geological outfit than a musical one. "Skeletal, celestial shoegaze [that] reflects the cold beauty of the Austrian Alps" --Stereogum.

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INSPECTOR 34	Don't Worry This Is OK	7"	SAD MILK COLLECTIVE	SMC 004EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 The first full-band EP from Lowell MA's Inspector 34. With a healthy whiff of the same self-sufficient spirit as the '90s Drag City or Kill Rock Stars rosters, these four tracks are pinned together by sauntering, oddly distorted guitars tweaked with subtle effects and swooping, near-hawkish vocals that run in the same register as pre-White Stuff Neil Hagerty. Like Polvo with pinched nipples. Recorded live at Q Division Studios.

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ELECTRIC FUNERAL	The Wild Performance	2LP	SOMMOR RECORDS	SOMM 042LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Double LP version; includes download. Ear-splitting hard-rock/proto-doom-metal from the early '70s, Electric Funeral were a pioneering Swiss hard-rock band who sadly never registered any studio recordings at the time. Formed in the late '60s by Edi Hirt (drums), Pierrot Wermeille (bass), Alain Christinaz (guitar), and Dominique Bourquin (vocals), they were influenced by bands like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin. Famous for their loud (they played behind giant stacks of Marshall amps) and powerful shows, their sound was too heavy-sounding for a regular label to offer them a contract. The Wild Performance is made of private live and rehearsal tapes recorded in 1970 -- very raw and lo-fi -- but it's the only testimony of their brutal sound. First released in 1991 as a limited LP, this is an expanded edition with newly remastered sound and four killer bonus tracks, taken from reels and tapes recently found in the band's archives. These tracks were also recorded in 1970 except for "My Destiny", which dates to 1973. The sound is still lo-fi but slightly better than the original tracks, especially on the killer "You Can Help" (proto-punk á la Electric Eels), "My Destiny" and the alternate version of "You Can Help". RIYL: Black Sabbath, Iron Claw, Edgar Broughton Band, Moses, Sainte Anthony's Fyre. Includes insert with rare photos and liner and notes by Klemen Breznikar (It's Psychedelic Baby).

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SCOPPA, ENZO	New & Old Friends	CD	SONOR MUSIC EDITIONS	SONOR 012CD
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Founded in 2013 and based in Rome, Italy, Sonor Music Editions specializes in synchronization music for films, radio, and television. The label shares rare and obscure pop, jazz-funk, breakbeats, cinematic lounge, funk, psychedelic and progressive music, spacey cosmic sounds, easy listening, and all that good vintage Italian vibes hailing from library and soundtrack music production. The latest album on the label is by the legendary Italian jazz sax player Enzo Scoppa, and it's the first CD ever released on the label. New & Old Friends, featuring the famed and timeless duo Santucci-Scoppa active since 1958, is a modern jazz work and interpretation of bebop, big band, and contemporary jazz with sestet, quintet, and orchestra accompaniment. Alongside Basso-Valdambrini Sextet, the Santucci-Scoppa Quintet is the most ancient and solid ensemble in the history of Italian jazz. On this refined jam session, every performance is high quality and perfectly executed, thanks to the skill of talented musicians like the great arranger Antonello Sorrentino, the legendary trumpet Cicci Santucci, and the expert drummer Pietro Iodice. Liner notes by Adriano Mazzoletti.

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VA	A Hard Row To Hoe Volume 1	LP	STAG-O-LEE	STAGO 134LP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Popcorn is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium in the 1970s and 1980s. The style includes a wide variety of mostly American and British recordings of R&B and pop music made between the late 1950s and mid-1960s, often relatively obscure, and characterized by a slow or medium, rather than fast, tempo. The Popcorn music scene first developed from dances held at the Groove discotheque in Ostend, where mid-tempo soul and ska music played by DJ Freddy Cousaert became popular in the late 1960s. In September 1969, a café, De Oude Hoeve, opened in a converted farm barn at Vrasene near Antwerp, and began holding dance competitions on Sunday afternoons. Soon up to 3,000 people began attending each week, dancing in a "slow swing" style. De Oude Hoeve was later renamed Popcorn and the special genre had its name. Later on, the DJs messed up a perfectly fine recipe by adding all kinds of pop tunes as long as the groove was right. The typical Popcorn tempo was usually reached by pitching the record up or down, sometimes massively. This record features 14 pure Popcorn groovers from the "golden era". Features Big Daddy, Lou Johnson, Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks, Roy Brown and His Mighty-Mighty Men, Sam Fletcher, Ivory Joe Hunter, The Sims Twins, Roy Gaines, The Pilgrim Travelers, Lou Rawls, Otis Lee, Jack Grayson and The So And So's, Landy McNeil, Maylon Humphries and The Tri-Seniors, and Louis Jordan.

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VA	Slow Grind Fever Volume 9	LP	STAG-O-LEE	STAGO 150LP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 "Volume 9 in this amazing series of slow grinding R&B/soul/exotica tunes as they are being played in a club in Melbourne/Australia. Around midnight on the last Saturday of every month, an assemblage of juiceheads, grifters, kittens, dandies, and derelicts gather in a dimly-lit, smoke-filled room and dance together real slow. These are some of the records we dance to... Thanks to all the flute players and backing singers of yore for flavouring these old records up just like we like them." --Richie1250 Melbourne, 2019 Compilation and liner notes by Slow Grind Fever mastermind Richie1250. Features Abie Baker, Lee Richards with Lefty Bates Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses, Frank Heppinstall, Frankie Laine, Dick Holler and His Rockets, Johnny Guidry with Jeanie & The Clowns, Joe & Ann, The Miracles, The Patriots, Van Prince and His Complex, Roy Gaines, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group.

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SHIRAISHI, TAKAYUKI	Missing Link	LP	STUDIO MULE	STUDIOMUL 022LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Studio Mule presents Missing Link, a collection by Japanese living legend electronic producer Takayuki Shiraishi. Missing Link is a collection of unreleased material recorded in the late '80s. Shiraishi started his career in working with BGM, who released material on the Japanese experimental label Vanity Records. Their one and only album Back Ground Music (1980) has been one of the most in-demand Japanese new wave albums. The present album is unique mixture of dark new wave, post punk, kraut rock, and experimental electronic music.

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NICOL, JIMMY	Los Nicolquinn: It's Getting Better - The '64-68 Anthology	CD	TIMEBOX	TBCD 3001CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Timebox presents the story of the missing "fifth Beatle", Jimmy Nicol, highlighting his post-Beatles exploits as a recording star both in the UK and in Mexico. This exclusive edition offers a valuable missing piece of the Beatles puzzle, complimented by revealing and in-depth liners, interviews, and rare archival photographs, It's Getting Better combines Nicol's Mexican-only album release from 1967 as Los Nicolquinn, together with a generous selection of his solo UK and USA-only singles and more. Digitally remastered. Revealing and in-depth liners, interviews and rare archival photographs. Includes an Interview with the Beatles and a press conference from 1964.

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METRIST	Pollen Pt. I	12"	TIMEDANCE	TIMEDANCE 018EP
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Joseph Higgins is back on the label under his flagship moniker Metrist. Pollen Pt. I is the first part of a trilogy of records, showcasing Metrist's latest developments in twisted beat-science. The release combines four tracks of rude boi electro swagger, off-kilter vocal chops, and imaginative grooves. Since his L.SAE record in 2015, Metrist has released on Where To Now?, Neighborhood, and Opal Tapes. Here he refines his sound palette even further, striking a unique balance between the avant-garde and dancefloor. Artwork comes courtesy of Harry Butt.

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HAFFAR, BANA	Genera: Live at AB Salon, Brussels	CD	TOUCH	TONE 071CD
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 A lifelong expatriate, Bana Haffar was born in Saudi Arabia in 1987 and spent much of her childhood in the GCC. Through her switch from ten years of electric bass, preceded by classical violin, to modular synthesizers in 2014, Bana is attempting to dismantle years of institutional conditioning in traditional systems of music theory and performance. She is interested in exploring sonic disintegration and coalescence into new forms and synthesized experiences. Bana lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Instruments used on Genera: Live at AB Salon, Brussels: Eurorack modular: Make Noise René 2, Make Noise Tempi, Make Noise WoggleBug, Make Noise Morphagene, Make Noise QMMG, Make Noise tELHARMONIC, Make Noise Maths, Serge Resonant EQ, Mutable Instruments Shades, Mutable Instrument Clouds Non-modular. Field recordings made using a Zoom H6 and LOM mikroUsi microphones, GE 35383 Micro Cassette Recorder.

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KALMA, ARIEL	Nuits Blanches au Studio 116	LP	TRANSVERSALES DISQUES	TRANSVERS 012LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Transversales Disques announce the release of Nuits Blanches au Studio 116, unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma's personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM's Studio 116 during the '70s. Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma started playing the recorder and saxophone as a youth. After successive studies of computer science, music, and art in Paris he performed in various concerts from middle-age music to free jazz duo. Ariel performed and recorded with several bands (J. Higelin, R. Pinhas, NYL, G. Scornic, Baden Powell...) After learning circular breathing on soprano sax, Ariel could include those endless notes into his own long-delay-effect system, dual Revox set-up and two tape machines "chained" together to form a long delay system. In France during the mid-1970s, Kalma was staffed as a recording assistant at legendary Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA GRM) studios, where Ariel recorded some of his compositions in the Studio 116; the same music "concrete" laboratory that spawned masterpieces by members Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, and others.

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DARKO, JEFF	Hotel Lover/Coming Back	7"	VINILOS ENLACE FUNK	VEF 074EP
$9.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 The winner of the best new project during the last Enlace Funk Awards, Jeff Darko, will be presenting his debut vinyl single, endorsed by the prestigious Afro Punk Magazine as one of the most interesting names of the current neo soul scene, ushered in by the song "Dynamite". Backed by a super band, Jeff Darko is willing to demonstrate why everybody has been talking about him for a long time. His debut in vinyl 7" is presented with two songs: "Coming Back" and "Hotel Lover".

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KVELGEYST	Alkahest	CD	VENDETTA RECORDS	VEN 180CD
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Swiss black metal with members of Ungfell and Urgeist. Kvelgeyst was originally called into life in 2015 to delve into the most obscure practices known to man in pursuit of a universal solvent, the alkahest. Their thorough search for transmutations has been molded into the form of wicked riff-craft and otherworldly, musical chaos. Kvelgeyst is: Urgeist - guitars, vocals; Meister T. - bass, vocals, synths; V. Knüppelknecht - drums. Alkahest was recorded in H.U.C. crypt in 2018. Mixed by Kerberos and Meister T. Mastered by Andreas Rosczyk at Goblin Sound.

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KVELGEYST	Alkahest	LP	VENDETTA RECORDS	VEN 180LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 LP version. Swiss black metal with members of Ungfell and Urgeist. Kvelgeyst was originally called into life in 2015 to delve into the most obscure practices known to man in pursuit of a universal solvent, the alkahest. Their thorough search for transmutations has been molded into the form of wicked riff-craft and otherworldly, musical chaos. Kvelgeyst is: Urgeist - guitars, vocals; Meister T. - bass, vocals, synths; V. Knüppelknecht - drums. Alkahest was recorded in H.U.C. crypt in 2018. Mixed by Kerberos and Meister T. Mastered by Andreas Rosczyk at Goblin Sound.

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ALTERNATIVE TV/THE GOOD MISSIONARIES	Scars On Sunday	CD	WINTER HILL RECORDINGS	WHR 005CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Mark Perry has overseen the reissue of 1979's Scars On Sunday, which was originally released as a limited run cassette and is now highly collectible. Comprising material from around the same period as the excellent Vibing Up the Senile Man album period, the ideas behind the music were very much informed by Mark's experience of touring with Here & Now. Perhaps serving as a statement on punk, or the many hordes by this time now completely straitjacketed by it, it could be contended it was conceptually far more "punk" anyway. Beyond this, the music here illustrates precisely how Mark led Alternative TV into wide open terrain sometimes far removed from rock music in its more generally accepted forms. As both proof of where music could be taken once unshackled from all notions of predictability and, indeed, just how far it could go into those realms usually reserved for the avant-garde, this was about as non-conformist as music could get at the time. Originally recorded live at the Greenwich Theatre and The Lyceum these sets aimed for the jugular as they confounded, enticed, and ultimately gave the audiences far more than they'd anticipated. Between the music of this period, the earlier more direct attacks and the subsequent sidesteps into clever songwriting or more electronically-driven pieces, Alternative TV have always embraced the idea of going to wherever they intuitively feel like in the given moment. Since this early period, the group has gone through lengthy periods of hibernation and surges of activity that together might not have served them so well in a careerist sense, but at least maintained their roles as artists possessed of integrity. A rare virtue in music.

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RAHBANI, ZIAD	Abu Ali	LP	WEWANTSOUNDS	WWSLP 027LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 Following the success of the special Record Store Day Abu Ali edition (WWSLP 021LP), Wewantsounds are reissuing a standard version of Ziad Rahbani's mythical disco 12" which was originally issued in Lebanon in 1978. This reissue on black vinyl features the original artwork, with remastered audio. Wewantsounds is to announce the first-ever official vinyl reissue of Ziad Rahbani's mythical Lebanese Disco 12" Abu Ali, originally issued in Lebanon in 1978 on his label Zida Records. A highly collectible album, it will get reissued by Wewantsounds with its original artwork, remastered by Colorsound Studio in Paris. Ziad Rahbani is a cultural icon in Lebanon. The musician, pianist, and producer is also a renowned playwright and a political activist, one of the most important exponent of the Lebanese left-wing counterculture to emerge from the '70s. Coming out of an illustrious artistic dynasty (his father is the famous composer and musician Assi Rahbani, member of group The Rahbani Brothers and his mother is the legendary Middle East Diva, Fairuz), Ziad Rahbani started his music career during his late teens, composing music for his mother. Rahbani quickly spread his wings further. He started producing his own music co-founding the label Zida in 1978 at age 22 in the process and started releasing records under his own name. Among these was Abu Ali recorded in Greece at the EMI Studios in Athens with a full orchestra -- there he also recorded his mother's 1979 album Wahdon (WWSLP 022LP) -- and released it as a limited run EP for the Lebanese market. Legend has it that the album was only pressed at 500 unit hence its rarity. The result is a fabulous New York-meets-Beirut disco ecstasy, developing over two 13-minute tracks and one of the most collectible albums on the international dance and disco scene.

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ARCHITECT, THE	Foundations	12"	X-RAY PRODUCTION	XRP 1904EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/2/2019 The Architect is an artist that travels through styles: swing, jazz, electro, soul, funk, and hip-hop... A real digger of hidden samples, he is also beatmaker for the famous collective L'Entourloop! 2019 marks its big comeback, with the announcement of a new album and a new immersive live under the name of The Architect & the Unique Orchestra. The first EP of the beatmaker The Architect entitled Foundations is finally available on vinyl more than six years after its original release in 2013.

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF	Last Punk Standing	CD	DAMAGED GOODS	DAMGOOD 518CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 "'You're the One I Idolise': This is a love song, along the lines of some of the ballads we used to do in the Milkshakes -- inspired by Arthur Alexander. There also seems to be some Richard Hell in there (the Voidoids have been a big inspiration over the years (I saw them supporting the Clash at Hastings Pier Pavilion in '77. 'Like an Inexplicable Wheel': The strangest thing in life is time, not clocks but that there was a past and there will be a future (apparently). Life seems to be an inexplicable wheel, and I thought there should be a pop song (or two) about that. 'Last Punk Standing': A more CTMF sounding track. This should really be called 'Who'll be the Last Punk Standing?' but it looked better as a shortened title. Again it's about time, and knowledge running out. When a generation passes there's no one left to explain the true nature of their experience, eg. those who fought in WW2 are all but gone and that's how we get the rise of the new right: we learn from history that we don't learn from history. Who'll be left to pass on the essence of what punk was about -- home-made, please yourself music. PS: the character Roberta, is from a Leadbelly tune -- I thought it nice to have her and Mark E. Smith in the same pop song (Mark was still with us when we recorded this number).' --Billy Childish, May 2019"

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WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF	Last Punk Standing	LP	DAMAGED GOODS	DAMGOOD 518LP
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 LP version. "'You're the One I Idolise': This is a love song, along the lines of some of the ballads we used to do in the Milkshakes -- inspired by Arthur Alexander. There also seems to be some Richard Hell in there (the Voidoids have been a big inspiration over the years (I saw them supporting the Clash at Hastings Pier Pavilion in '77. 'Like an Inexplicable Wheel': The strangest thing in life is time, not clocks but that there was a past and there will be a future (apparently). Life seems to be an inexplicable wheel, and I thought there should be a pop song (or two) about that. 'Last Punk Standing': A more CTMF sounding track. This should really be called 'Who'll be the Last Punk Standing?' but it looked better as a shortened title. Again it's about time, and knowledge running out. When a generation passes there's no one left to explain the true nature of their experience, eg. those who fought in WW2 are all but gone and that's how we get the rise of the new right: we learn from history that we don't learn from history. Who'll be left to pass on the essence of what punk was about -- home-made, please yourself music. PS: the character Roberta, is from a Leadbelly tune -- I thought it nice to have her and Mark E. Smith in the same pop song (Mark was still with us when we recorded this number).' --Billy Childish, May 2019"

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DILA	Dila	LP	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FORDIS 005LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 Far Out Recordings presents a reissue of the first and only album from the mysterious Brazilian vocal sensation Dila (pronounced "Jee-la"). Having reportedly died in a car crash shortly after the album's release in 1971, there is very little known about the woman behind the voice. But the joyous music Dila left behind gives us a picture as good as any, of a powerful feminine soul at the top of her game. The liner notes on the elusive original LP, written by composer Arnoldo Medeiros attest: "Friend, look out! Because when this girl starts to sing, you're in trouble. Hold the railing so you don't fall down the stairs, because she's coming this way and shaking up everything." Arranged and produced by Durval Ferreira, alongside his studio band affectionately known as Os Grillos (The Crickets), Dila is a rare glimpse into the authentic soulful samba sound of Rio's favelas in the late sixties and early seventies. A blast of funky, percussive Brazilian breaks, scorching hot brass, and swing-laden piano, the music is as iconic as the album's stark cover, as is clear on opener "Inez," composed by The Crickets bassist Romildo. There's a fantastic interpretation of the Ivan Lins classic "Madalena" (made famous by Elis Regina), a moving version of the Tom Jobim and Vinicius De Moraes classic "O Morro Não Tem Vez," and a number of sunny original compositions by Madeiros, whose other writing credits include music for Marcos Valle, Wanderlea, Evinha, and Dom Salvador. With original LPs extremely hard to come by, this rare treasure of Brazilian soul, which fans of Gal Costa, Celia, Evinha and Elis Regina will love, gets a much-deserved official reissue. Personnel: Durval Ferreira - guitar; Sidney Marzullo - piano; Romildo - bass; Fernando - drums; Horacio - percussion; Christ - brass. 180 gram vinyl.

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CLIPSE	Let's Talk About It/Gangsta Lean	7"	GET ON DOWN	GET 906EP
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 "These 'Big Hole' 7 inches from Lord Willin' are presented on white vinyl in mini Star Trak die-cut jackets -- replicas of the label's original 12" sleeves. The first hip-hop group signed to The Neptunes' newly formed Star Trak label in the early 2000s was a Virginia based duo known as Clipse. The group's first single 'Grindin',' impacted young people with its bare-boned but infectious drum beat in the same way that Run-DMC's 'Sucker MCs' did almost two decades earlier. MCs Pusha T and Malice, combined with The Neptunes' groundbreaking production, sent a clear message to the rap world -- 'we are not the same.' Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo were able to combine their electro-punk production with just the right group to create a street masterpiece. Following in the footsteps of such rap criminologists as Kool G Rap, Nas, Jay-Z and Mobb Deep, the Clipse offer a hustler's viewpoint, with clever, hard-hitting lyrics that are consistent throughout the album. Select singles from Lord Willin' will now be available from Get On Down on white vinyl in 7" size diecut jackets that reproduce the look of the original 12" releases on the Neptune's Star Trak imprint."

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CLIPSE	I'm Not You/Grindin' (Remix)	7"	GET ON DOWN	GET 907EP
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 "These 'Big Hole' 7 inches from Lord Willin' are presented on white vinyl in mini Star Trak die-cut jackets -- replicas of the label's original 12" sleeves. The first hip-hop group signed to The Neptunes' newly formed Star Trak label in the early 2000s was a Virginia based duo known as Clipse. The group's first single 'Grindin',' impacted young people with its bare-boned but infectious drum beat in the same way that Run-DMC's 'Sucker MCs' did almost two decades earlier. MCs Pusha T and Malice, combined with The Neptunes' groundbreaking production, sent a clear message to the rap world -- 'we are not the same.' Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo were able to combine their electro-punk production with just the right group to create a street masterpiece. Following in the footsteps of such rap criminologists as Kool G Rap, Nas, Jay-Z and Mobb Deep, the Clipse offer a hustler's viewpoint, with clever, hard-hitting lyrics that are consistent throughout the album. Select singles from Lord Willin' will now be available from Get On Down on white vinyl in 7" size diecut jackets that reproduce the look of the original 12" releases on the Neptune's Star Trak imprint."

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CASHMORE, MICHAEL	The Doctrine Of Transformation Through Love 1	CD	KLANGGALERIE	GG 284CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 "Michael Cashmore is an English composer and musician currently living in Berlin. He has created music under the name of Nature And Organisation since the early '80s and more recently (2006) under his own name. He is widely known as being the composer of the most seminal albums of legendary post industrial group Current 93 during a 25 year period, he has also worked with, and wrote music for, Nick Cave, Marc Almond, Anohni (Antony and the Johnsons) Tony Visconti, Bill Fay among others. During the last 2 years Cashmore has been undergoing a process of personal Transformation which has also caused a transformation of his work, Michael has also been using his music itself as a tool of transformation in return. His new album The Doctrine Of Transformation Through Love I is the first part of a series of works that will document Cashmore's personal transformation from 2017 onwards. The music here is now very experimental, electronic, melodic and could be seen to have a dark connection to techno. The album features vocals and text by Cashmore's current collaborator, Lithuanian born Occultist and enigma Shaltmira, and as a strong contrast to the rest of the album the last track features a simple melodic song with the legendary English singer songwriter Bill Fay. This album is an eternal journey through darkness, space and loneliness through love into light ... The album comes with a four-page booklet with all new artwork from Cashmore and consists of 13 tracks."

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VA	Lamp Records - It Glowed Like The Sun: The Story Of Naptown's Motown 1969-1972	4CD	NOW-AGAIN	NA 5180CD
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 "Sometimes, all it takes is one man to recognize a city's potential for an industry. In Indianapolis, that man was Herb Miller, and his business was soul and funk. He came to prominence long after Indy's allure as a jazz destination waned. He founded LAMP Records in the late 1960s to wake Naptown from its musical slumber. Miller served a critical role in city's burgeoning soul and funk scene, providing not only financial backing, but acting as a one-stop, record-making shop for artists that had, to that point, been doing it all themselves. He's the Berry Gordy you've never heard of. His roster -- national acts like the Vanguards and Ebony Rhythm Band alongside talented, regional acts such as the Moonlighters, Montiques, Pearls and the Words of Wisdom Truth Revue -- rivaled that of any American independent and paved the way for the ascension of 80s and 90s hitmakers Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds and Antonio 'L.A.' Reid, both of whom cut their teeth with LAMP alumnus."

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VA	Lamp Records - It Glowed Like The Sun: The Story Of Naptown's Motown 1969-1972	2LP	NOW-AGAIN	NA 5180LP
$50.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 Double LP version. Gatefold jacket with OBI. Contains a 24 page booklet with extensive liner notes and photos. Download card for WAV files of the album and bonus tracks. "Sometimes, all it takes is one man to recognize a city's potential for an industry. In Indianapolis, that man was Herb Miller, and his business was soul and funk. He came to prominence long after Indy's allure as a jazz destination waned. He founded LAMP Records in the late 1960s to wake Naptown from its musical slumber. Miller served a critical role in city's burgeoning soul and funk scene, providing not only financial backing, but acting as a one-stop, record-making shop for artists that had, to that point, been doing it all themselves. He's the Berry Gordy you've never heard of. His roster -- national acts like the Vanguards and Ebony Rhythm Band alongside talented, regional acts such as the Moonlighters, Montiques, Pearls and the Words of Wisdom Truth Revue -- rivaled that of any American independent and paved the way for the ascension of 80s and 90s hitmakers Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds and Antonio 'L.A.' Reid, both of whom cut their teeth with LAMP alumnus."

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RESIDENTS, THE	God In Three Persons (Preserved Edition)	3CD	CRYPTIC CORPORATION	NRT 013CD
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 "Produced with The Cryptic Corporation using archival tapes supplied by the group themselves, this package explores and expands the classic 1988 album, which saw The Residents work for the first time in an extended narrative form, enabled by the advent of the CD in the mid-late 1980s. God In Three Persons explores the obsessive, toxic but ultimately loving relationship between the narrator, Mr. X, and a pair of conjoined twins -- this set includes full lyrics, previously unheard demos, live recordings, and an extended 23 minute piece previously unknown to fans and long forgotten by The Residents themselves. Remastered, expanded, and pREServed for future generations -- this is The Residents as we've always wanted to hear them, and the latest in a series of archival reissues that will continue throughout 2019 and beyond."

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TIGER TRIO	Map Of Liberation	CD	ROGUEART	ROG 093CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/9/2019 "Tiger Trio - Map of Liberation. Joëlle Léandre (double bass), Myra Melford (piano), Nicole Mitchell (flute, alto flute, piccolo)."

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HEY COLOSSUS	Carcass/Medal	7"	ALTER	ALT 074EP
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 A new double single by Hey Colossus for Alter. "Carcass" is taken from their latest Four Bibles album (ALT 047CD/LP) and leaves a poppier impression, albeit Hey Colossus style, with dual vocals and searing guitars. "Medal" is a near three-minute blast of their signature dirge with a hook as big as the sound itself. Two tracks, the two sides of Hey Colossus -- half melodic downer pop and the other a destruction tune with no respite. Edition of 300.

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DJ HONESTY	Mais Populares EP	12"	ANOTHER PICTURE	APP 008EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Back on Another Picture after his strong and dubby, DJ Honesty delivers new material of a more uplifting but still abstract vibe. The tracks have a classic feel but tell their own story... a story of a deep and playful experience, narrated with unparalleled ease and subtle motivation. DJ Honesty's tracks ooze that fascination for groove, presence, and the beauty of detail. They go their own, often unexpected, ways but again never miss that elegant flow and natural punch. The light and electrifying atmosphere sparkles like sunlight on the waves at the beaches.

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HARRGA	Heroiques Animaux de la Misere	LP	AVON TERROR CORPS	ATC 002LP
$34.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Bristol-based collective Avon Terror Corps will release the debut album from industrial duo Harrga, aka producer Miguel Prado and vocalist Dali de Saint Paul. Prado and Saint Paul chose the name "Harrga", which means "a burn" in the Moroccan Darija dialect, in reference to North African migrants who burn their identification papers while attempting to illegally cross borders into Europe. Héroïques Animaux de la Misère is their debut release and is described as "a meditation on the horror of that which crevasses borders." Combining Miguel Prado's caustic industrial electronics with the hostile vocal performances of Dali de Saint Paul, who sings in French, Darija, and English, Harrga conjure the horrors of the migration crisis whilst paying tribute to those most affected by them. "À Vif" features Moor Mother.

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TENOR & FREESTYLE MAN, JIMI	Are We It?	12"	STUDIO BARNHUS	BARN 059EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Jimi Tenor & Freestyle Man, Finnish legends and everything-but-grey eminences of electronic music, return to Studio Barnhus for another four-tracker full of the good stuff. Deep house as done by professionals! The world keeps changing, people and sounds come and go, but when Jimi croons away over Freestyle Man's Finn-tastic funk foundations, it all just about makes sense. Plenty of flute solo on this thing as well.

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SCHNITZLER, CONRAD	Conditions of the Gas Giant	CD	BUREAU B	BB 320CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Bureau B present a reissue of Conrad Schnitzler's Conditions of the Gas Giant, originally released on cassette in 1988. The Berlin artist first released these recordings on a small American cassette label. Admirers of the seminal artist Conrad Schnitzler can be found all over the planet, including the USA, of course. Matt Howarth, illustrator and independent comic artist, is one of them. He has been following Schnitzler's music since the early 1970s whilst drawing offbeat science fiction stories. One day Howarth came up with the idea of making Schnitzler a member of a notorious band -- The Bulldaggers -- who featured in one of his comic series. Not wanting to go ahead without permission, he got in touch with Schnitzler who readily embraced the idea. In fact, he posted a pile of photos by return so that the graphic artist could draw him properly. The Bulldaggers popped up repeatedly in the comics and Schnitzler was (repeatedly) delighted. A friendship soon developed between him and Howarth. In 1986, Howarth designed his first cover for a Schnitzler album (Concert) and the following year Schnitzler entrusted him with tapes which Howarth was able to bring to the notice of the small American label Bird O' Pray. Considering the label's predominantly punk and early garage leanings, Howarth and Schnitzler were as surprised as each other to see the album successfully released on cassette. Howarth and Schnitzler came up with the album title together. Conditions of the Gas Giant reflected the atmosphere they associated with the music, clouds of manifold colors, whirling nervously above a gaseous planet. A methane and helium tryst in sonic form -- fireworks, pyrotechnics for the eyes, like the surface of Jupiter, just as Schnitzler's tracks are pyrotechnics for the ears. This is the image conveyed by Matt Howarth in the liner notes for the reissue -- naturally designed by himself -- based on the aborted 1990s CD release. He also called on his friend D.H. Kister for further assistance, the man who first introduced him to Schnitzler's music almost fifty years ago. First CD and vinyl release.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SCHNITZLER, CONRAD	Conditions of the Gas Giant	LP	BUREAU B	BB 320LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 LP version.

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CHILTON, ALEX	It Isn't Always That Easy	7"	BE WITH RECORDS	BEWITH 004-7
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Two of Alex Chilton's staggeringly beautiful demos, on vinyl for the first time. "It Isn't Always That Easy" and "If You Would Marry Me" both sound like templates for some of Alex's best-known Big Star numbers. These demos come from the transitional recording sessions he made with Terry Manning at the Ardent Studio in 1969, but were missing from the vinyl version of the wonderful Free Again compilation that was released in 2012.

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GRIFFITHS, MARCIA	Sweet And Nice	2LP	BE WITH RECORDS	BEWITH 056LP
$36.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Be With Records present a reissue of Sweet And Nice, the vital debut album from Jamaica's undisputed first lady of song Marica Griffiths, originally released in 1974. It's reggae at its most soulful. Slinking through a tight ten tracks of R&B and pop-sourced material, it became an instant best seller. Sweet And Nice has appeared over the years with a revised running order and under different titles. But the original's opening sequence of loping soul is legendary, even beyond reggae circles. These songs are now returned to how they were presented on that first Jamaican release, and under their intended album title. Be With doesn't mess with magic. Marcia's version of "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" has long been lusted after, played by genre-hopping selectors to snapping necks for decades now. It's followed by the sophisticated, rollicking wah-wah funk of "Everything I Own" and the slice of smooth lovers soul par excellence that is "Green Grasshopper" and her ace, lilting Neil Diamond cover "Play Me". The thundering, humid funk of "Children At Play" "sounds uncannily like a precursor of Massive Attack", as FACT Mag astutely noted when they put Sweet And Nice at number 16 in their list of the 100 best albums of the 1970s. Otherworldly, moody, and essential. Side two keeps the fire burning. "Sweet, Bitter Love" should leave you swooning, and is also one of the album's alternate titles. Curtis Mayfield's already-eternal "Gypsy Man" follows, recast as proto-lovers rock. "There's No Me Without You" is elevated to canonical status by the majestic, forlorn horns of the Federal Soul Givers and Marcia's heartbreaking delivery. And if this doesn't get you then surely the next track will: arguably the definitive version of Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". "I Just Don't Want To Be Lonely" re-takes its rightful place at the end of the LP's second side... but Be With Records added an entire second record of rare material recorded around the same time as Sweet And Nice, much of it unavailable since it was originally released. Amongst these 14 extra tracks you'll find the exquisite late-60s singles "Melody Life" and "Mark My Word" which, along with the sumptuous reading of "Band Of Gold". All material is remastered. 140 gram vinyl.

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KURACHI, KUMIO	Sound Of Turning Earth	CD	BISON	BISON 002CD
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 After 11 albums and unknown quantities of cassettes, compilations, and split releases, Sound Of Turning Earth is the first release outside of Japan for one of the most original figures in Japanese music, Kumio Kurachi. Recorded by Jim O'Rourke at his home studio, Sound Of Turning Earth is Kurachi solo on vocals and guitar, mixing surreal lyrics and theatrical vocal personas with unorthodox tunings inspired by Japan's national instrument, the koto. Lyrically, Kurachi draws life from the small events of life, the hira, the joy of choosing a lipstick in springtime, the business of changing the tatami, raindrops deciding whether to fall as snow. Set to his own brand of progressive folk in the Hirajōshi scale and laced with winding melodies which can be hard to forget, Kurachi maps his own territory for the people who inhabit his every day. As much a visual artist as a musician, Bison present Sound Of Turning Earth in the form of a deluxe CD accompanied by three double-sided art cards by Kurachi, a four-panel fold-out poster, and full translation of his poetic lyrics. These striking songs speak for a liberated imagination. Kumio Kurachi has performed actively in Japan since the '80s, and still plays shows in Fukuoka regularly. Past collaborators include Taku Unami and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. He has played with Tenniscoats, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Katsura Yamauchi, Tori Kudo, Jim O'Rourke, and Eiko Ishibashi. "The music is so melodious that the mixture of the strange wording, guitar and variations of voices thrives all together and it can haunt you without noticing it, just like the small events of everyday life you can't escape from." --Midori Ogata

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ELLIS & RIO 18, CARWYN	Joia!	CD	BANANA AND LOUIE RECORDS	BL 003CD
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 You might know Carwyn from other projects like Colorama, Bendith (Welsh dreamy folk), or Zarelli (hauntologic electronic). Or maybe you might be familiar with him because he collaborates with pop superstars and universal references like Edwyn Collins, The Pretenders, Oasis, or Saint Etienne. Or maybe you don't know him at all, so far, because Ellis is one of those musicians that does not feel self-important, that is not under the spotlight but that is praised by other musicians and everyone wants to collaborate with. His diverse personal projects are a sample of his passionate love for the music with no borders of any kind. He is hard to label, and transforms his skin in each new record. Almost in every song. He records the albums that he feels like doing whenever he feels like doing them, and with the sound and the people that stand out for him in that moment. Most of his songs are sung in Welsh, his mother language, but his music is timeless and universal. Carwyn always approaches the global by the local. It isn't a coincidence that precisely now he has decided to take the plunge and go to Rio de Janeiro to record, along with two distinguished crazy local artists like Domenico Lancellotti and Kassin, his most colorful record. Joia!, in which he presents his new band Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, is a non-explicit plea against the Brexit. Against any Brexits taking place right now any way or another in this world shocked by the continuous transformations and fears that they lead to. Pretty sure that Lancellotti or Kassin might say that it is an anti-Bolsonaro record. However, Carwyn and his fellows in Rio 18 prefer to do a cheerful and positive record, like almost all the south American music it is inspire in, to celebrate that those changes, that definitely marks an era, boosts and eases the fact that a musician from Cardiff is able to record an album with musicians from the other side of the world, and make it halfway between Rio and London with the invaluable help from another top musician, like Shawn Lee.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ELLIS & RIO 18, CARWYN	Joia!	LP	BANANA AND LOUIE RECORDS	BL 003LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 LP version. You might know Carwyn from other projects like Colorama, Bendith (Welsh dreamy folk), or Zarelli (hauntologic electronic). Or maybe you might be familiar with him because he collaborates with pop superstars and universal references like Edwyn Collins, The Pretenders, Oasis, or Saint Etienne. Or maybe you don't know him at all, so far, because Ellis is one of those musicians that does not feel self-important, that is not under the spotlight but that is praised by other musicians and everyone wants to collaborate with. His diverse personal projects are a sample of his passionate love for the music with no borders of any kind. He is hard to label, and transforms his skin in each new record. Almost in every song. He records the albums that he feels like doing whenever he feels like doing them, and with the sound and the people that stand out for him in that moment. Most of his songs are sung in Welsh, his mother language, but his music is timeless and universal. Carwyn always approaches the global by the local. It isn't a coincidence that precisely now he has decided to take the plunge and go to Rio de Janeiro to record, along with two distinguished crazy local artists like Domenico Lancellotti and Kassin, his most colorful record. Joia!, in which he presents his new band Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, is a non-explicit plea against the Brexit. Against any Brexits taking place right now any way or another in this world shocked by the continuous transformations and fears that they lead to. Pretty sure that Lancellotti or Kassin might say that it is an anti-Bolsonaro record. However, Carwyn and his fellows in Rio 18 prefer to do a cheerful and positive record, like almost all the south American music it is inspire in, to celebrate that those changes, that definitely marks an era, boosts and eases the fact that a musician from Cardiff is able to record an album with musicians from the other side of the world, and make it halfway between Rio and London with the invaluable help from another top musician, like Shawn Lee.

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CANNELL & POLLY WRIGHT, LAURA	Sing as the Crow Flies	CD	BRAWL RECORDS	BRAWL 015CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Debut vocal album by composer/performers Laura Cannell and Polly Wright. Re-voicing the voices of the lost, forgotten, and hidden people who have lived, worked and loved through the centuries, through the seasons, through the air and in the Marshlands. Sing as the Crow Flies is a set of nine vocal tracks re-voicing the rural landscape, surrounding reed beds and marshes on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Growing up on either side of the River Yare, with a common love of the area, Laura Cannell and Polly Wright are musicians, composers, and creators with deep roots in the marshes and traditions of this rural area. Frustrated by the lack of women's voices represented in the rural landscape writings of East Anglia and further afield, the duo decided to add their own voices and experiences of living and working in rural surroundings in the 21st century to the male dominated discourse of rural life in the past. The music is created through different means -- heterophonic improvisation, Hildegard von Bingen-inspired call-and-responses, and taking words from the 18th century tome Norfolk Garland, A Collection of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Proverbs, Curious Customs, Ballads and Songs, of the People of Norfolk. Together with their own writings and wordless inventions, Sing as the Crow Flies was created as a site-specific sound installation for the 2019 Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, UK. The installation sits around the trunk of a 30-year-old walnut tree in a cherry orchard where five telephone handsets hang from the tree ready to be picked up by passers-by... "There are voices at the end of this line. They are inside Raveningham Church just over 1000 metres as the crow flies from where you stand. Inside the stone walls of the 11th century church two women are moving, singing, separately and together. Every harmonic conversation is improvised, they are moving between the stone and wood, in light and shadow, calling and responding in and out of focus. Footsteps, birds and air can be heard. These new voices are part of the rural landscape, they are using their surroundings as inspiration along with their personal musical traditions & folklore. They are finding a common tongue, their native tongue of the marshlands, two people living, working and creating here in the 21st century. Tapping into vein-like branches, links and marshes. Private voices are woken, then laid again to rest."

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KAYNATAN, GOKCEN	Cehennem	LP	CACOPHONIC	CACK 025LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Cehennem is the first-ever collection of the highly sought after and largely previously unheard EMS Synthi AKS recordings of Gökçen Kaynatan, one of Turkish pop and rock's best kept secrets. A key figure during the birth of Turkish rock and roll, a founding father of Anatolian rock and the studio brains behind the first Turkish electronic pop records, Kaynatan's influence runs like the lifeblood through Turkish pop and rock. Having shunned the recording industry early in his career, he remained a driving force behind the scenes and on TV screens, spearheading the explosion of synth technology in Turkish music with his pioneering use of the EMS Synthi AKS, the fruits of which would only be shared on stage, never to be repeated television broadcasts, and in archival recordings that haven't seen the light of day until now. Having chanced upon the newly released EMS Synthi AKS in 1972 during a sabbatical in Cologne, Gökçen undertook six months of tuition in order to fully explore every intricacy of the highly versatile portable modular analog synthesizer. As the beating heart of his now self-sufficient custom-built studio it would propel Gökçen's forward-thinking aural ambitions to a new plane. Making his first entirely synthesizer-based public performances in Germany in 1974, he then returned to his homeland to soundtrack the dawn of the Turkish television age as in-house composer and one-man house band for Turkey's first TV channel TRT, signaling the arrival of a new era in Turkish pop and rock. Increasingly dogged by ill health, Gökçen privately harnessed the Synthi to channel his suffering caused by what would later be diagnosed as a brain tumor, dutifully recording and archiving his studio experiments, which would remain in the proverbial can for over 40 years. With unparalleled access to Gökçen's closely guarded private vault, Finders Keepers Records presents another first with this previously unheard collection of EMS Synthi AKS recordings that represent a vital yet hitherto missing thread in the development of modern Turkish music. Recorded between 1973-75, this modest compendium comprises two of Gökçen's earliest synthesizer compositions and an updated recording made whilst recovering from brain surgery -- arguably some the earliest Turkish synthesizer music committed to magnetic tape, further cementing Gökçen's indelible legacy within Turkish popular culture. Cehennem was mastered from the original quarter inch studio tapes with full cooperation from the man himself.

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ADANA TWINS	Picture: Adana Twins	2x12"	DIYNAMIC	DIYNAMIC 116EP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Picture: Adana Twins showcases the Hamburg duo's heavy production skills and finally unveils some long-awaited gems that have had the Insta-sphere asking for track IDs for months. From laidback house vibes to soaring techno, the sixth installment of the Picture series covers the artists' full spectrum. Diynamic's Picture: series is a document in time, showcasing an artist's current creative output in order to allow the listener to visualize and understand the artist at a certain moment. It is not an album format, but far more than merely an EP. Picture: is various dancefloor-oriented facets of one producer, shaping the imagery that ultimately results in the listeners mind.

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XT	Palina'tufa	2LP	EMPTY EDITIONS	EE 004LP
$38.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Empty Editions presents Palina'tufa, the newest work from saxophonist Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott's long-running duo XT. Wright and Abbot's respective practices have been marked by a simultaneous engagement (with) and desire to challenge the limitations (of) the British tradition of improvised music -- represented by groups such as AMM and John Stevens's Spontaneous Music Ensemble. This album charts a new trajectory for Wright and Abbott, as they draw on recent live collaborations with RP Boo and Container in developing a sound which hybridizes the spontaneous interplay and timbral experimentation of free improvisation with the recursive formal structures of dance music. The album's title is an enigmatic portmanteau of "Palina" (taken from the name of a species of butterfly sighted by the duo during recording) combined with the word "Tufa" -- a type of rock composed of ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption; the bedrock of the island of Hong Kong. Compellingly, the green sheen of the Palinurus butterfly is not produced by pigments, but emanates from the microstructure of its wing scales. Similarly, XT's Palina'tufa contains a brilliant internal logic of stacked component parts all amalgamated into a singularly iridescent instrumental structure. Recorded during a two-week studio residency in Hong Kong, Palina'tufa departs from XT's previous albums -- primarily documentations of live performances -- in its embrace of the recording studio as a form of instrumentation: a tool to sculpt, overdub, and (re)assemble their chimeric sounds. The result is a striking cybernetic version of the classic sax-and-drums duo pioneered by legendary groupings such as John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Evan Parker and Paul Lytton, and Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille. Wright's unconventional use of feedback and Abbott's heavily deconstructed electro-dance textures expand upon this simulated space, unfurling their instrumentation into an authentically liberated territory. Across four dynamic fifteen-minute cuts, the duo craft an esoteric response to the real (and imagined) landscape(s) of Hong Kong. Interpreting their experience of the island as a kind of extended metaphor, Palina'tufa translates chance encounters, pockets of cultural history, vernacular architecture, and local wildlife (among other phenomena) into organizing principles for the creation of speculative music. Palina'tufa is a brilliant showcase of Wright and Abbott's composite sound: naturally synergistic, with careful attention paid to how psycho-geographical experience is transposed into the deeply considered interplay of their respective instruments. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Featuring artwork by Ikebana artist Kosen Ohtsubo. 180 gram vinyl; edition of 300.

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VIDEODRONES	Atavistic Future	LP	EL PARAISO RECORDS	EPR 052LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 On their third album, the Danish duo Videodrones explore their kosmische take on synth wave further. Videodrones' first two albums tapped into short arabesque-like pieces, playing out like cues in a film. Atavistic Future sees them broadening out, with the two main tracks on the album clocking in at eight and almost 12 minutes respectively. And it's not only in the track lengths that Videodrones are reaching beyond: There is a wider range of influences and nods -- from the Phillip Glass Koyaanisqatsi-repetitions of "Church" to the Suzanne Ciani Buchla-bursts of on the title track. It's the seamlessly weaved together influences, that makes Atavistic Future tick. The album is based around improvisation and repetition, allowing ideas to drift and emerge -- catching fire at random. As always, most of the material were captured during a single prolonged day and night of jamming at Jonas Munk's studio, digging into his expansive collection of synthesizers. The pieces were then folded and reassembed by Jakob Skøtt -- maintaining the improvised spirit, where synths and float out of tune and clock, yet intricately detailed and ever changing -- bringing forth the best of both studio-production and jagged improvisation. As the title might remind you, we're always forgetting the most favorable traits of yesteryear -- in search of what's ala mode, we're missing what the future must have felt like in the past. Videodrones is a silver-clad reminder of what can come out of having keen eyes and ears in the past as well as the future -- leaving behind something vital for the present.

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MONARCH	Beyond The Blue Sky	CD	EL PARAISO RECORDS	EPR 053CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 In recent years, Southern California has proved to be fertile ground for heavy psych, prog, and free rock. The amount of excellent bands growing out of the San Diego soil is simply unparalleled. Among the youngest generation of these bands are the five-piece Monarch, a band rooted in psychedelia and experimental prog, with a view towards broader horizons. There's something refreshing about Monarch's take on psychedelic rock: they aren't afraid to weave Allman Brothers-esque dual guitar lines with synthesizers and saxophone. They can be heavy, but there's an unmistakable panoramic quality to their compositions too, reflecting the rich and diverse environment they've grown up in, with dazzling pacific coastlines, mountains and desert highways. Compared to their debut album, Two Isles from 2016 (EPR 035CD/LP), Beyond The Blue Sky is a more complex record. The three-year journey has led the band through several separate recording sessions and ended up going all-analogue at Audio Design studios. It's an album that's meticulously crafted and with sights set on new musical territory. Their songwriting has matured and each track feels like a mini-epic, traveling unexpected routes before reaching their sonic destination. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the album's centerpiece, the three-part "Beyond The Blue Sky/Phenomena/Counterpart", where Monarch manages to fuse all their influences into one mammoth composition. It's an album to drive off into a careless summer sunset and beyond.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MONARCH	Beyond The Blue Sky	LP	EL PARAISO RECORDS	EPR 053LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 LP version. In recent years, Southern California has proved to be fertile ground for heavy psych, prog, and free rock. The amount of excellent bands growing out of the San Diego soil is simply unparalleled. Among the youngest generation of these bands are the five-piece Monarch, a band rooted in psychedelia and experimental prog, with a view towards broader horizons. There's something refreshing about Monarch's take on psychedelic rock: they aren't afraid to weave Allman Brothers-esque dual guitar lines with synthesizers and saxophone. They can be heavy, but there's an unmistakable panoramic quality to their compositions too, reflecting the rich and diverse environment they've grown up in, with dazzling pacific coastlines, mountains and desert highways. Compared to their debut album, Two Isles from 2016 (EPR 035CD/LP), Beyond The Blue Sky is a more complex record. The three-year journey has led the band through several separate recording sessions and ended up going all-analogue at Audio Design studios. It's an album that's meticulously crafted and with sights set on new musical territory. Their songwriting has matured and each track feels like a mini-epic, traveling unexpected routes before reaching their sonic destination. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the album's centerpiece, the three-part "Beyond The Blue Sky/Phenomena/Counterpart", where Monarch manages to fuse all their influences into one mammoth composition. It's an album to drive off into a careless summer sunset and beyond.

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HERE LIES MAN	No Ground To Walk Upon	CD	RIDINGEASY RECORDS	EZRDR 101CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 "Here Lies Man took the music world by storm in 2017 with their self-titled debut positing the intriguing hypothesis: What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat? Since that time, they have expanded and expounded upon their sound and ideas of heavy riff rock and psych within the ancient rhythmic formula of the clave. The L.A. based band comprised of Antibalas members have toured relentlessly over the past two years, while also releasing a second album, You Will Know Nothing and an EP, Animal Noises, both in 2018. No Ground To Walk Upon is their third album. It continues with an ongoing concept of playing a soundtrack to an imaginary movie, with each song being a scene. Rough Trade named Here Lies Man in their prestigious Top 10 Albums of 2017. BBC 6 and Classic Rock Magazine deemed it among the year's best, as well as countless other press outlets singing its praises. 2018's You Will Know Nothing furthered the band's reputation for genre-smashing rhythmic experimentation, topping many year-end lists as well as earning features from countless metal and indie rock outlets, plus cover stories in weekly papers. This latest album is the next step in the band's rapid ascent to what is bound to be influential upon riff-based rock. 'We're very conscious of how the rhythms service the riffs,' explains founder and vocalist/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Marcos Garcia (who also plays guitar in Antibalas) of the band's sound. 'Tony Iommi's (Black Sabbath) innovation was to make the riff the organizing principle of a song. We are taking that same approach but employing a different organizing principle: For Iommi it was the blues, for us it comes directly from Africa.'"

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
HERE LIES MAN	No Ground To Walk Upon	LP	RIDINGEASY RECORDS	EZRDR 101LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 LP version. "Here Lies Man took the music world by storm in 2017 with their self-titled debut positing the intriguing hypothesis: What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat? Since that time, they have expanded and expounded upon their sound and ideas of heavy riff rock and psych within the ancient rhythmic formula of the clave. The L.A. based band comprised of Antibalas members have toured relentlessly over the past two years, while also releasing a second album, You Will Know Nothing and an EP, Animal Noises, both in 2018. No Ground To Walk Upon is their third album. It continues with an ongoing concept of playing a soundtrack to an imaginary movie, with each song being a scene. Rough Trade named Here Lies Man in their prestigious Top 10 Albums of 2017. BBC 6 and Classic Rock Magazine deemed it among the year's best, as well as countless other press outlets singing its praises. 2018's You Will Know Nothing furthered the band's reputation for genre-smashing rhythmic experimentation, topping many year-end lists as well as earning features from countless metal and indie rock outlets, plus cover stories in weekly papers. This latest album is the next step in the band's rapid ascent to what is bound to be influential upon riff-based rock. 'We're very conscious of how the rhythms service the riffs,' explains founder and vocalist/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Marcos Garcia (who also plays guitar in Antibalas) of the band's sound. 'Tony Iommi's (Black Sabbath) innovation was to make the riff the organizing principle of a song. We are taking that same approach but employing a different organizing principle: For Iommi it was the blues, for us it comes directly from Africa.'"

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DONNELLY, MICHAEL	Why So Mute, Fond Lover?	CD	FRONT & FOLLOW	FANDF 053CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Influenced by everything from Khan Jamal to Egisto Macchi via Basic House and Konrad Kraft, Why So Mute, Fond Lover? builds new worlds of beats and rhythm, sound collage, ambience, and noise using random borrowed equipment, broken gear, and household appliances. The album was recorded in London and Hamburg (with collaborator Ben Page of Rocketnumbernine and Elite Barbarian), and mastered by fellow Rothko member Mark Beazley. Donnelly has previously released albums on Exotic Pylon, Hideous Replica, and Foredoom Productions, and has been a long-term member of Rothko, performing on a number of their albums, including A Continual Search For Origins (2002), Eleven Stages of Intervention (2007), and most recently, 2018's Blood Demands More Blood. Why So Mute, Fond Lover? comes with a bonus album titled Pardon Error, available as a download with all physical copies, featuring tracks from Michael's previous releases plus new remixes by Pye Corner Audio, Polypores, Kemper Norton, Psychological Strategy Board, Basic House, and Elite Barbarian. This new release is the second volume of a new series on Front & Follow -- Ex Post Facto -- which seeks to celebrate experimental electronic music in all its forms, showcasing new work and old, exploring the relationship between the current and the past, how they influence and shape each other and a listener's experiences of them.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
DONNELLY, MICHAEL	Why So Mute, Fond Lover?	Cassette	FRONT & FOLLOW	FANDF 053CS
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Cassette version. Influenced by everything from Khan Jamal to Egisto Macchi via Basic House and Konrad Kraft, Why So Mute, Fond Lover? builds new worlds of beats and rhythm, sound collage, ambience, and noise using random borrowed equipment, broken gear, and household appliances. The album was recorded in London and Hamburg (with collaborator Ben Page of Rocketnumbernine and Elite Barbarian), and mastered by fellow Rothko member Mark Beazley. Donnelly has previously released albums on Exotic Pylon, Hideous Replica, and Foredoom Productions, and has been a long-term member of Rothko, performing on a number of their albums, including A Continual Search For Origins (2002), Eleven Stages of Intervention (2007), and most recently, 2018's Blood Demands More Blood. Why So Mute, Fond Lover? comes with a bonus album titled Pardon Error, available as a download with all physical copies, featuring tracks from Michael's previous releases plus new remixes by Pye Corner Audio, Polypores, Kemper Norton, Psychological Strategy Board, Basic House, and Elite Barbarian. This new release is the second volume of a new series on Front & Follow -- Ex Post Facto -- which seeks to celebrate experimental electronic music in all its forms, showcasing new work and old, exploring the relationship between the current and the past, how they influence and shape each other and a listener's experiences of them.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
GENCE, DURUL	Black Cat	7"	FINDERS KEEPERS	FKSP 015EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 A spontaneous Turkish-Norwegian-Dutch expedition makes the story of Durul Gence's Asia Minor Mission group the stuff of lost-rock legend and remains one of Turkish music's great "what ifs?". Durul Gence assembled the underground fusion group known as Asia Minor Mission (AMM) in early 1972 (with Irfan Sumer, Oguz Durukan, and Ugur Dikmen). Unintended for commercial release, Finders Keepers present these previously unheard tracks sourced directly from original tapes. A testament to the inimitable talent of Gence and the only studio document of the mythical AMM Turk jazz funk troubadours -- a pop-psych Hollandaise holiday postcard which has taken five decades to be delivered.

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AIRCRAFT	Sideways/Backwards	LP	FEEDING TUBE RECORDS	FTR 422LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 "Aircraft was the name Steve Cohen used for the largely unknown and quite fantastic synthesizer music he was creating in NYC in the '80s. This was in the same period Steve was in the late-period No Wave band, China Shop, along with guitarist Naux (who would go on to play with the Voidoids) and percussionist Richard Edson (whose next band was Sonic Youth). Steve had been active in the NYC sub-underground since the '70s, even playing at Giorgio Gomelsky's legendary 'Zu Music Festival' in 1978. Steve pops up playing bass on various odd sessions with various odd musicians like the late painter-turned-punker-turned-funkateer Snuky Tate, among others. But very few had heard the music Steve recorded as Aircraft apart from the handful of friends to whom he passed cassettes back in the day. We found out about Aircraft through Christopher Livengood of Video Nasties. Chris befriended Steve a few years ago and was blown away by the Aircraft tapes he heard. Steve eventually opened up his archives to Chris allowing him to assemble Sideways/Backwards -- an amazingly great LP's worth of synth/guitar/drumbox gabble that was darn near lost in the fogs of time. The album includes notes about where and how each track was put together, and the music will be a blast for anyone who digs the '80s output of the Residents or German groups like Der Plan. Very cool!" --Byron Coley, 2019 Edition of 250.

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MAYBESHEWILL	I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone	LP	FUNCTION RECORDS	FUNC 041LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 An LP repress of one of the top-selling digital releases, Maybeshewill's brilliant third album. Formed in 2005, instrumental four-piece Maybeshewill released four albums prior to their disbanding in 2016. I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone is intended as the soundtrack to an as yet unimagined film; widescreen cinematic highs and haunting moments of quiet played off against intense, almost brutally pounding guitars. They maintained an intense touring schedule during their eleven years together and reformed for a one-off show last year at Robert Smith's meltdown.

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VA	Fundamentum 003	12"	ATMOPHILE ELECTRONICS	FUNDAMENT 003EP
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Fundamentum 003 is the second various artist record release of the Berlin based label Atmophile Electronics -- four tracks by local musicians focusing on playful modular synthesis. Jessica Kert's composition isn't focused on dancefloors but instead entices the listener into a slowly progressing story. Label co-owner Sharad Sood delivers a song that has a powerful kick-bass structure wrapped with complex yet soothing melodic atmospheres. Kangding Ray offers a DJ-friendly track with a bass loaded punching groove and a friendly, sweet vibe. Naty Seres, label founder, drops a tune that's atmospheric but experiments with driving rhythms and darkly resonating sounds.

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GAUNIN, NICOLAS	Noa Noa Noa	LP	HIVE MIND RECORDS	HMRLP 006LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Nicolas Gaunin's surreal sound experiments lift you out of the everyday and transport you to an off-world Tiki lounge set high amongst the tree tops of a tropical rainforest, where you're surrounded by bizarre, colorful creatures, and weird psychotropic plants. Noa Noa Noa is modern Dada, a neon soundtrack to your most outlandish fever dreams. Nicolas Gaunin is the alter ego of Nicola Sanguin, part of the vibrant experimental music scene around Padua, Italy where he plays in outsider rock groups The Lay Llamas and Orange Car Crash. Nicolas Gaunin is his solo electronic project, a bright and playful cosmic mash-up that uses the rhythms of traditional African percussion groups and skews them slightly to create unsettling, off-kilter grooves. These drum machine experiments are laid over a teeming microscopic sound world of bird calls, insect chatter and weird jingles reminiscent of advertising earworms or video game soundtracks. Noa Noa Noa takes its influences from music from around the world, and inspiration from high and low culture; from composer Gyorgy Ligeti to the cosmic sounds of Italian DJ Danielle Baldelli, from the experimental music of Moondog or Harry Partch to the playful sounds of Francis Bebey or the exotica of Martin Denny, from Iannis Xenakis to 8-bit video game music. Noa Noa Noa ends up sounding something like the imaginary soundtrack to the Nintendo Gameboy version of a lost William S. Burroughs novel. Incredibly, most of the tracks on Noa Noa Noa were recorded live in one take with the express intention of creating music that is, in contrast to much of today's electronic music, bright, sunny, light-hearted and mischievous. The resulting album is both totally essential and also completely throwaway. These tracks were originally released in 2018 by Artetetra Records (Italy) as Noa Noa (cassette and digital) and Danse de l'Oiseau (digital only). Hive Mind Records present Noa Noa Noa on vinyl for the first time.

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MADDIN, FRAG	Mistress 13	12"	MISTRESS RECORDINGS	HU-MR13-SH
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 A thrilling collage of rough, jacking US house rooted jams, Mistress 13's attraction thrives from the combination of analog rhythms and catchy melody figures revealing Frag Maddin's soft spot for erratic contrasts. From swinging 909 drums that glide into funky synth sounds and hypnotic vocal cuts to reverberated chord progressions accompanied by bouncing bass-lines to more refined arrangements oscillating between techno and house -- Mistress 13 not only has some serious muscle for the dancefloor injection, Frag Maddin also knows how to maintain the tension between emotional vibes and narrative slices.

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VA	Repeat	2CD	ONOMATOPOEIA RECORDS	HUM 032CD
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Repeat is a heartfelt tribute to and celebration of UK rave culture. It's been lovingly curated by The Gasman and is a corelease with Gasman Music. It's a new compilation celebrating the British independent dance music scene of the early '90s, featuring a mix of old and new tracks from old and new artists. It features 26 exclusive tracks from many pioneers who changed things forever and continue to move forward. It packs a heavy line up with contributions from members of LFO, Humanoid, Future Sound Of London, μ-Ziq, and Altern8, and other acts such as Konx-Om-Pax, Todd Osborn, and Wisp. It also futures the first ever music to be released by Steve Davis (the snooker player turned experimental music DJ) under the name Thundermuscle. The first CD is a nod to house/acid/techno and the second CD has a tendency towards breakbeat/rave. Double-CD in a back-to-back box; an homage to the design style of significant compilations such as Deep Heat. Also features Berk, Type 303, Brain Rays, A-Eno-Acid, Polysick, Boxcutter, Sacred Science, Gez Varley, Mark Archer, The Gammon, Kev Cotter, Dobbo, Double B, American Express, Chevron, The Courier, Vertical67, The Gasman, Emma Catnip, and Attraktta.

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EXTENDED ORGAN	Vibe	LP	IMPORTANT RECORDS	IMPREC 452LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Important Records announces Vibe, the new LP from Extended Organ, the Los Angeles-based quintet associated with the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). Vibe, Extended Organ's first full-length studio LP since 2000's XOXO was recorded in April 2016 by members Joe Potts, Fredrik Nilsen, Paul McCarthy, Tom Recchion, and Alex Stevens. The album consists of two side-long tracks, "Hate" and "Vibe", recorded live at LACM Studio in Pasadena, California by acclaimed engineer André Knecht. On Vibe, the band employs prepared piano, junk percussion, Joe Potts' Chopped Optigan, electric guitar, voice, Rheem organ, various electronics, and homemade instruments. Each track is improvised, then assembled and edited without overdubbing in studio. The music moves with velocity and direction revealing surprises at every turn. The resulting sound is ominous, humorous, harmonious, chaotic, and at times quietly erotic. This is abstractly powerful music. The highly provocative cover image, created collaboratively by Joe Potts, Fredrik Nilsen, and Tom Recchion, is shrouded inside a unique laser-cut outer sleeve. Like the music contained within, the cover reveal is a beguiling experience in and of itself. This intriguing package was art directed and designed by Tom Recchion. Formed in 1994, Extended Organ produces a dynamic otherworldly ambience which can be simultaneously hilarious and frightening. Joe Potts lays down a carpet of sound using and his self-engineered drone instrument, the "Chopped Optigan", over which Paul McCarthy performs vocal and guitar improvisations channeled and processed by Alex Stevens. Alex also adds his own keyboard triggered synthesized sounds. Tom Recchion, renowned as an inventor of homemade instruments, a free improviser, and an accomplished composer of acoustic, electronic and tape music, performs an array of sounds folding lush beauty and horror sensibility into the matrix. Fredrik Nilsen plays an antique Rheem Mark 7 organ along with electronic sound and recordings created by Mike Kelley. Kelley was a member of the group from 2000 until his death in 2012 and continues to be a contributing member by virtue of sound recordings he provided before his death; "In case I can't make a gig, I can still play." The LAFMS formed in the early 1970s around a loosely knit group of like-minded musical improvising sound experimenters in eastern Los Angeles who discovered their mutual interest and banded together to design modes of self-production and distribution of recordings and publications, helping to develop and propel the DIY movement.

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POISON IDEA	Pick Your King EP	LP	JACKPOT RECORDS	JPR 055LP
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 "Not only the greatest Poison Idea record, but the greatest punk album of all time! Formed in Portland, OR in 1980, Poison Idea debut record features 13 songs in 13 minutes. Poison Idea were one of the first hardcore bands to inspire artists across multiple genre lines. On Limited Edition Colored Vinyl w/ sticker and inserts."

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LOSCIL	Equivalents	CD	KRANKY	KRANK 221CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 "Canadian composer Scott Morgan's 12th long-player as loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay. It's a deeply fitting analog for Morgan's own musical process across the past two decades, fraying forms and tones into widescreen mirages of opaque texture and negative space. The name Equivalents referred to Stieglitz's notion of the photographs as being equivalent to his 'philosophical or emotional states of mind;' the same could be said of these eight weighty, shivering chiaroscuros of sound. Each piece unfolds and evolves enigmatically, adrift in low oxygen atmospheres, shifting dramatically from pockets of density to dissipated streaks of moonlit vapor. The entirety of the record was created specifically for the album with the exception of 'Equivalent 7,' which began as a dance score for frequent collaborator Vanessa Goodman. The album version of this track was reworked with Vancouver musician Amir Abbey aka Secret Pyramid. Cloud photographs taken by Scott Morgan at various locations throughout Cascadia in 2018."

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LOSCIL	Equivalents	2LP	KRANKY	KRANK 221LP
$27.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/16/2019 Double LP version. "Canadian composer Scott Morgan's 12th long-player as loscil takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay. It's a deeply fitting analog for Morgan's own musical process across the past two decades, fraying forms and tones into widescreen mirages of opaque texture and negative space. The name Equivalents referred to Stieglitz's notion of the photographs as being equivalent to his 'philosophical or emotional states of mind;' the same could be said of these eight weighty, shivering chiaroscuros of sound. Each piece unfolds and evolves enigmatically, adrift in low oxygen atmospheres, shifting dramatically from pockets of density to dissipated streaks of moonlit vapor. The entirety of the record was created specifically for the album with the exception of 'Equivalent 7,' which began as a dance score for frequent collaborator Vanessa Goodman. The album version of this track was reworked with Vancouver musician Amir Abbey aka Secret Pyramid. Cloud photographs taken by Scott Morgan at various locations throughout Cascadia in 2018."

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SILAS & SNARE	Pressure EP	12"	KAIZEN	KZN 005EP