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MELIAN, MICHAELA	Music from a Frontier Town	12"	MARTIN HOSSBACH	12BACH 009EP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Following the U.S. Army's liberation of Munich in 1945, the world's first Amerikahaus was inaugurated there with a library, a record and lm department, and more . . . In 1997, the U.S. government concluded its work at Amerikahaus in Munich and shipped almost all its items back to the States -- 1,630 long-playing vinyl records from the library were left behind. Michaela Melián looked through this forgotten collection. Inspired by Don Gillis's 1940 tone poem "Portrait of a Frontier Town", Michaela Melián's Music from a Frontier Town is fueled by the diverse sonic material of this extensive record collection.

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JPATTERSSON	Folks & Fanfare	LP	ACKER RECORDS	ACKER 006LP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 LP version. It's been around three years since JPattersson opened up a whole new horizon of formerly unheard possibilities between the worlds of dub and techno with PROGaDUB (ACKER 005CD/004LP, 2015). A lot has been happening ever since, and that's very noticeable on his second album, Folks & Fanfare. It still has all the signature elements of JPattersson: There's his dreamy, virtuous trumpet play and his witty vocals, there's his dubby delays and heavyweight beats which often line up in a downbeat rhythm. However, besides his fanfares there's now also many folks, many musical friends who contribute to the vibe of this album. There's a track with Berlin MC Longfingah, as well as a stylistically wide range of remixes that reflect the symbiotic cooperation and mutual inspiration of these last years. Also features Superpendejos and Timboletti.

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THOLLOT, JACQUES	More Intra Musique	LP	ALGA MARGHEN	ALGA 043-2LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Produced in collaboration with the legendary Jac Berrocal's label d'Avantage, More Intra Musique is the second LP in Alga Marghen's series dedicated to previously unreleased recording by the drummer and experimentalist Jacques Thollot. While the furious Intra Musique free jazz first LP (ALGA 043LP, 2017) was centered on a live recording with Michel Portal, Eddie Gaumont, and Mimi Lorenzini at the Faculty of Law in Paris, on an evening in 1969, it is an unexpected Jacques Thollot that you encounter on this second LP, vivid and blazing even more than you might have already known. Jacques Thollot was a major force in the French free jazz scene, collaborating with artists at the level of Don Cherry, Steve Lacy, Sonny Sharrock, Joachim Kühn as well as with French pioneers Jef Gilson and Barney Wilen. Starting from 1971 he released Quand Le Son Devient Aigu, Jeter La Giraffe A La Mer or Watch Devil Go on Futura and Palm Records, or some of the most relevant and revolutionary sonic masterpieces in France. More Intra Musique is free improvisations of course, but also synthetic jitters, musique concrete, and loop experiments, sketched pop songs, minimalist trances with African accents, or simply the promiscuity of a lullaby or the voice of a child posed like a bird in a Norman garden. These long-lost visionary recordings featuring Eddie Gaumont on prepared piano and Jacques Thollot on drums, piano, prepared piano, synth, and tapes are an absolute revelation which make you rethink everything you know about French free improvisation. Tape manipulation created as a potential background for a live set... Bursting rehearsal with Eddie Gaumont... Is the piano well prepared? Besides the stingy mention Intra Musique sticked on the reel, nothing is known of this recording. Edition of 350 copies.

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CONTROLLED BLEEDING	Blistered Bags Of Fodder Swaying: Works 1980	10CD	ARTOFFACT	AOF 277CD
$76.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 "The period between 1985 and 1988 was the most productive in the long history of Controlled Bleeding. No fewer than 13 albums and three split works were released in this short timeframe, starting with Death in the Cameroon, and including releases on Sub Rosa, Dossier, and many others. Founder Paul Lemos, along with long-time members Joe Papa and Chris Moriarty produced material relentlessly over this three to four-year span, experimenting with noise, industrial, tribal sounds, goth, ethereal, and ambient music. In hind-sight, this furious output set the stage for Controlled Bleeding's more famous Wax Trax works, but the material itself found its way to every corner of the experimental world, and it influenced everyone. Artoffact Records is proud to announce a 10CD collection of Controlled Bleeding material, released between 1985 and 1988, much of which has been out of print for decades. The set starts with the tape-only Death in the Cameroon, and includes seven more Controlled Bleeding albums, including Headcrack, which has never been released on CD. Also included are two Controlled Bleeding off-shoots: the industrial one-off project The Art Barbeque, from 1985, and the Lemos / Papa collaboration Music For Stolen Icon from 1986. The set includes large-size reproductions of the front and back covers of each release, as well as a longform essay by Paul Lemos. All material has been remastered and restored. CD Contents: 1. Death in the Cameroon 2. The Art Barbeque - Feet Hacked Rails 3. Headcrack 4. Between Tides 5. Curd 6. Core 7. Paul Lemos & Joe Papa - Music for Stolen Icon 8. Music For the Scourging Ground 9. Music For Gilded Chambers 10. Songs From the Drain"

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HIROAKI, SASAKI	EO EP	12"	ANOTHER PICTURE	APP 007EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Losoul's Another Picture label follows on from EPs in 2017 by Honesty and the label boss himself with a new two tracker by Japanese artist Sasaki Hiroaki. The Yotsume label owner is based in Tokyo and his sleek sounds take cues from '80s new wave and look for a soulful vibe in electronic music. "EO1" is eight minutes of rubbery drums and loose, scattered percussion, tumbling toms and clicks. "Plain Song" is just as heartfelt, but icy hi hats and metal stabs are more upright -- eight minutes of organic, authentic deep house bliss.

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BRADOCK, PEPE	Exodus 8	12"	ATAVISME	ATA 018EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The legal age of majority and the right to vote. 1<3 : chronology and timing is mandatory to make things happen supposedly.. After the terrible plague of awful doppelgängers, it is time to smoke out the disgusting trolls, using the best ingredients possible.

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THEE J JOHANZ/JIM LOK	Bombay Spring Rolls EP	12"	BALLYHOO RECORDS	BALL 107EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Bombay Spring Rolls EP contains three tracks which all have their own strengths. The A side is a wide 45 rpm print of Thee J Johanz's cosmic "Intergalactic Rabbits Remix" of the original "Still Fukkin' With It" on side B, a catchy slo-mo disco track by Jim Lok. You'll also find Thee J Johanz's "Bombay Spring Rolls", which just happened on an afterparty in a studio in Bombay. With pre-production on the spot by Bombay's underground house and techno producers Abhi Meer (modular synth), Spacejams (TR-707), and Chhabb (bass machine). A digestive and spicy disc with a variety of flavors.

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INCHINDOWN	Inchindown	LP	BLANK EDITIONS	BETBC 010LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The self-titled LP is not a collaboration record between the two London based artists -- Tim Garratt (Moon Zero) and Matthew Heywood (Bruised Skies). Inchindown is a project focused on exploring ambient territory only hinted at with the two artists' solo work. Inchindown is a powerfully mournful and beautifully stark work, the soundtrack to walking through a storm of ash only to realize that the city is on fire whilst viewing this incredible spectacle from afar. Beautifully dark yet constantly hopeful, the album also pays homage to older and forgotten areas of their hometown of Hackney through field recordings. Notably "Ridley Road", a section of Hackney that houses a huge indoor and outdoor market and has been victim to violence over the years, features heavily as a repeated motif; a genuine and uniquely recorded atmosphere engulfs the listener at every stage of progression in this three-part work.

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BOYS NOIZE & VIRGIL ABLOH	Orvnge	12"	BOYSNOIZE RECORDS	BNR 175EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Fashion design is a creative task involving the shaping, bending, and breaking of codes. Techno is similar, as one mines the genre's legacy in order to navigate new territory. Creative polymath Virgil Abloh is most widely known for his fashion work, but it's no surprise his track "Orvnge" with Boys Noize is a powerfully executed exercise in the shared practice of finding the memetic, fractal base that forms the skeleton for a myriad of patterns that inevitably follow. "Orvnge" is a club weapon serving as a robust beginning for the further possibilities of their collaboration yet to unfold. Orange vinyl.

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VA	Chebran Volume 2: French Boogie 1979-1982	CD	BORN BAD RECORDS	BORNBAD 105CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Born Bad Records present the second volume Chebran, a series focusing on French boogie. The French in the '80s were not faint-hearted: as some threw themselves heart and soul into music or business, others wouldn't mind going bottomless to get themselves noticed. While Bernard Tapie soon realized his own fortune was rather to be found in business, many music-loving dreamers already imagined themselves in the sun, in an enchanting world made of funky rhythms and synthesizers. While the French National Front was growing in the shadow of François Mitterrand, these guys mixed New York-style funk with electronic, Eastern, or African sounds. With their genre-crossing arrangements and often chanted lyrics, they brought honor to the "SOS Racisme" generation, unconsciously outlining the nascent French contemporary urban culture. The French, while admiring Grace Jones' "savage beauty" in Jean-Paul Goude's advertisements, were enjoying their freshly-gained fifth week of paid vacation, tanning on the beaches of Maghreb. Following The Clash's example, punks and rockers converted to reggae, and the new independent radios opened up their programming to "world music". At the other end of the pyramid, the successive waves of immigration enriched France in a much better way. With the rise of "Youth and Culture Centers", the practice of musical instruments became affordable for those of humble background, allowing for new bands to appear. Caught between the spirit of Gallic bawdiness and their own community hopes, the musicians from this singular scene probably didn't succeed in life the way Bernard Tapie meant it. But their explorations left no room for doubt: by facilitating the rise of a new hybrid culture about to give birth, among others, to French hip-hop, those little-known artists indeed were off on an adventure, quite simply. Since the '60s, numerous venues destined for the North-African community had appeared all over France. In those bars and nightclubs, Eastern 45s were broadcast as well as local productions combining Raï, Frenchy funk, or proto-hip-hop. Thanks to the cassette tape medium, new songs kept circulating between Paris, Lille, Strasbourg, Marseilles, and many other urban areas -- mainly among the working class. The artists appearing on these compilations progressively shaped a new style, blending sounds from their original cultures and from their adopted country. Features Phil Barney, JM Black, Ettika, Sammy Massamba, Shams Dinn, Alfio Scandurra, Philippe Chany, Nordine Staiffi, Brigitte Et Michot, Alec Mansion, Marie Jose Fa, Hamidou, Ganawa, Creole Star, Manu, Ethnie, and Joel Ferrati.

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VA	Chebran Volume 2: French Boogie 1979-1982	2LP	BORN BAD RECORDS	BORNBAD 105LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Double LP version. Includes insert. Born Bad Records present the second volume Chebran, a series focusing on French boogie. The French in the '80s were not faint-hearted: as some threw themselves heart and soul into music or business, others wouldn't mind going bottomless to get themselves noticed. While Bernard Tapie soon realized his own fortune was rather to be found in business, many music-loving dreamers already imagined themselves in the sun, in an enchanting world made of funky rhythms and synthesizers. While the French National Front was growing in the shadow of François Mitterrand, these guys mixed New York-style funk with electronic, Eastern, or African sounds. With their genre-crossing arrangements and often chanted lyrics, they brought honor to the "SOS Racisme" generation, unconsciously outlining the nascent French contemporary urban culture. The French, while admiring Grace Jones' "savage beauty" in Jean-Paul Goude's advertisements, were enjoying their freshly-gained fifth week of paid vacation, tanning on the beaches of Maghreb. Following The Clash's example, punks and rockers converted to reggae, and the new independent radios opened up their programming to "world music". At the other end of the pyramid, the successive waves of immigration enriched France in a much better way. With the rise of "Youth and Culture Centers", the practice of musical instruments became affordable for those of humble background, allowing for new bands to appear. Caught between the spirit of Gallic bawdiness and their own community hopes, the musicians from this singular scene probably didn't succeed in life the way Bernard Tapie meant it. But their explorations left no room for doubt: by facilitating the rise of a new hybrid culture about to give birth, among others, to French hip-hop, those little-known artists indeed were off on an adventure, quite simply. Since the '60s, numerous venues destined for the North-African community had appeared all over France. In those bars and nightclubs, Eastern 45s were broadcast as well as local productions combining Raï, Frenchy funk, or proto-hip-hop. Thanks to the cassette tape medium, new songs kept circulating between Paris, Lille, Strasbourg, Marseilles, and many other urban areas -- mainly among the working class. The artists appearing on these compilations progressively shaped a new style, blending sounds from their original cultures and from their adopted country. Features Phil Barney, JM Black, Ettika, Sammy Massamba, Shams Dinn, Alfio Scandurra, Philippe Chany, Nordine Staiffi, Brigitte Et Michot, Alec Mansion, Marie Jose Fa, Hamidou, Ganawa, Creole Star, Manu, Ethnie, and Joel Ferrati.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
TRESQUE	Vai e Vem	LP	CARE OF EDITIONS	CO 008LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The heavy pulse of sound systems synchronizes with the precision of musique concrète and the reconstructed memory of a masked folk dance of the Swiss mountains. Techno, drum 'n' bass and dub are echoed within this sonic processional, where samples are pulled apart and recycled, cut at the beginning and end, then linked together. Tresque takes his name from an open-chain circle dance from medieval southern Europe. Under the musical moniker d'Incise he has played on numerous solo and collaborative projects with Cyril Bondi, designing quiet, intensive listening experiences with various combinations of software, recordings from vinyl or in the field, modified objects, percussion and harmonium. As Tresque the delicate minimalism he's known for takes shape within driving grooves. Airy, spacious, amplified noise from his collection of samples is sliced and tethered to weightier, physical beats. A tension forms between uplift and downfall, hypnotically oscillating between structural textures and collective dance.

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VALLE, MARCOS	Samba "Demais"	LP	CORNBREAD RECORDS	CRNBR 16050LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Cornbread Records present a reissue of Marcos Valle's debut album Samba "Demais", originally released in 1963. Marcos Valle's incredible debut established him as one of the premier performers and composers in the emerging Brazilian popular music landscape. Barely out of his Rio high school, where classmates included fellow Brazilian musical legends Edu Lobo and Dori Caymmi, Valle caught the eye of label executives and had a debut record out before his 20th birthday. Though he would later go on to be a massive superstar across his native country and a cult figure throughout the rest of the world, this humble beginning show Valle already had a complete mastery of the samba songwriting form and was already a brilliant performer. An essential Brazilian title. Includes one bonus track. 180 gram vinyl.

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PRINCE BUSTER	I Feel The Spirit	CD	COPACETIC	CSPC 004CD
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Copacetic present a reissue of Prince Buster's I Feel The Spirit, originally released in 1963. Cecil Bustamente Campbell, better known around the world as Prince Buster, was one of the most important figures in the development of ska -- and, ultimately, reggae -- music. Not just an innovator, he's also one of the more distinct and distinguished voices in the history of Jamaican popular music. I Feel The Spirit is his very first long player -- and was a hit both at home in Kingston, and in the West Indian clubs of London, where it would help to inspire the late '70s/early '80s two-tone movement. This album is one of the most important documents of early Jamaican ska, and features backing from ska luminaries as Drumbago, Lester Sterling, and Rico Rodriguez.

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VA	Future Sound Of Leipzig	CD	DEFROSTATICA	DICC 001CD
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Future Sound Of Leipzig features talented and upcoming label artists emerging from an open-minded and versatile scene with a long history of endorsing leftfield endeavors. Leipzig-based label Defrostatica unearthed tracks ranging from 80 to 170 bpm, spanning across genres like hip-hop, trap, jungle, juke, and half-tempo drum-and-bass. The sound of these 17 artists manifests a mission aligned with Defrostatica in committing to underground music culture. Features Alec, Kjubi, Maltin Worf, DJ YumYum, Mute-atioN, Trainsient, Kiat, Booga, Alza 54, BRKN1, RUZ, Schmeichel, KC, Goodkat, SicStyle, Kator, The Boy And The Sine, and Sinister X.

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VA	Drum Union Vol. 1	12"	DRUMPOET COMMUNITY	DPC 067EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Drum Union is a new series documenting the different shades of leftfield house. Look Like merges Afro-Cuban rhythms with modern electronica soundshapes. Manuel Fischer presents a beat-driven disco-influenced track to make any dancefloor bur. London-based Tony Nwachukwu (aka Attica Blues, aka Wah-Chu-Ku) provides a deep broken dub techno monster. Mitsubishi Galaxy, who are also known as Jack Pattern take you into a wavy trip to another dimension. A journey wider and deeper than most of the average 4/4 business!

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BLACK DOG, THE	Post-Truth	LP	DUST SCIENCE	DUST 054LP
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 LP version. It's a funny old world, and yet again, The Black Dog have provided the soundtrack. Our fast-approaching dystopia has been envisioned and documented by the band for decades. Now, The Black Dog's two new albums, Post-Truth and Black Daisy Wheel (DUST 055CD/LP), translate their growing horror into some of their most accessible and impactful music, translating our manufactured reality into high-energy dancefloor constructions on Post-Truth, and reflective ambient excursions on Black Daisy Wheel. Long familiar with the tropes and pitfalls of esoteric undergrounds, in both the pre- and post-internet eras, The Black Dog have ventured deep into contemporary conspiratorial cultures with a trenchantly critical eye. In the '80s, conspiracy theories were a tonic for a skeptical mind, a stimulant to agile thinking. Today, they have become the stock in trade of mainstream political influence. The scene has morphed into a rabbit hole where nothing is "really" real, everything is a hoax, and everyone is out to get you. The mindset is beyond paranoid, the discourse so far post-fact that only opinion and assumed identity matter. Arguing against proven science is a part of the entry criteria, and willful pedantry its standard currency. The impact on mental health is corrosive: fear, uncertainty, and doubt multiply and replicate until the most ridiculous theories are invented to explain the most basic things: tarmac, banana skins, duvets. Auto-suggestion is rife, where willing victims drink bleach (MMS) at the behest of YouTube videos, flat-earthers are taken seriously, and the manufactured fearful believe they are being gang-stalked for finding monsters on pixelated screens. The distinction between the real world and the world of an auto-hoaxer is so blurred that reality melts away. You couldn't make it up, even though that is exactly what the conspiratorial fringe (now one sharp corner from the mainstream) always do. As soon as you start engaging with people in the so-called "truth movement", one minute it's painful, but the next can be genuinely funny; these are people who are both on edge and upon the edge of a larger social and political reality that, for worse and for (even) worse, defines our times. Hence these two very different albums. Black Daisy Wheel is reflective, often intense, frequently compassionate; while Post-Truth was written while The Black Dog was fully engaged with people whose paranoia was in full swing. Welcome to our disinformation.

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BLACK DOG, THE	Black Daisy Wheel	LP	DUST SCIENCE	DUST 055LP
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 LP version. It's a funny old world, and yet again, The Black Dog have provided the soundtrack. Our fast-approaching dystopia has been envisioned and documented by the band for decades. Now, The Black Dog's two new albums, Post-Truth (DUST 054CD/LP) and Black Daisy Wheel, translate their growing horror into some of their most accessible and impactful music, translating our manufactured reality into high-energy dancefloor constructions on Post-Truth, and reflective ambient excursions on Black Daisy Wheel. Long familiar with the tropes and pitfalls of esoteric undergrounds, in both the pre- and post-internet eras, The Black Dog have ventured deep into contemporary conspiratorial cultures with a trenchantly critical eye. In the '80s, conspiracy theories were a tonic for a skeptical mind, a stimulant to agile thinking. Today, they have become the stock in trade of mainstream political influence. The scene has morphed into a rabbit hole where nothing is "really" real, everything is a hoax, and everyone is out to get you. The mindset is beyond paranoid, the discourse so far post-fact that only opinion and assumed identity matter. Arguing against proven science is a part of the entry criteria, and willful pedantry its standard currency. The impact on mental health is corrosive: fear, uncertainty, and doubt multiply and replicate until the most ridiculous theories are invented to explain the most basic things: tarmac, banana skins, duvets. Auto-suggestion is rife, where willing victims drink bleach (MMS) at the behest of YouTube videos, flat-earthers are taken seriously, and the manufactured fearful believe they are being gang-stalked for finding monsters on pixelated screens. The distinction between the real world and the world of an auto-hoaxer is so blurred that reality melts away. You couldn't make it up, even though that is exactly what the conspiratorial fringe (now one sharp corner from the mainstream) always do. As soon as you start engaging with people in the so-called "truth movement", one minute it's painful, but the next can be genuinely funny; these are people who are both on edge and upon the edge of a larger social and political reality that, for worse and for (even) worse, defines our times. Hence these two very different albums. Black Daisy Wheel is reflective, often intense, frequently compassionate; while Post-Truth was written while The Black Dog was fully engaged with people whose paranoia was in full swing. Welcome to our disinformation. "Tell Me What You Remember" features Emika.

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MYD	All Inclusive Remixes	12"	ED BANGER RECORDS	ED 107EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Imagine Mac DeMarco on a boat with French touch legends Cassius, Canblaster, and new pop rising star Moodoid!

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MCBEE, CECIL	Mutima	LP	EVERLAND JAZZ	ELJ 008LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 A reissue of Cecil McBee's Mutima, originally released in 1974. Licensed by Strata-East Records. "A landmark recording in early creative improvised modern music, bassist Cecil McBee's recording for the Strata East label is an important document introducing him as a leader from the international jazz-based scene in New York City via his native Tulsa, OK and following a brief mid-60s stint in Detroit. McBee as a pure musician has staggering technique, rich harmonic ideas, and an indefatigable swing, but it is as a composer that he is set apart from other musicians of this mid-'70s era . . . In retrospect, McBee's great career was ostensibly launched well before this recording, having worked with prominently with Charles Lloyd, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, Charles Tolliver, and countless others. Mutima (translated as 'unseen forces') undoubtedly solidified his stature and brilliance as a major player."--Michael G. Nastos, All Music

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DIMENSION	FabricLive 98	CD	FABRIC	FABRIC 196CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Dimension provides the 98th instalment of FabricLive, the world's leading dubstep, drum & bass, and electro mix series from London's renowned Fabric nightclub. FabricLive 98 is 56 blazing bass tracks creatively bound with energy and sensitivity. It is a definitive snapshot of drum & bass in 2018 featuring 22 exclusives coming from both bigger acts and underground artists namely deadmau5, Skrillex, Chase & Status, Calyx & Teebee, Metrik, and Dossa & Locuzzed. Early on in Dimension's career a combination of effortless musicality and production prowess caught the attention of producers and DJs such as Andy C and Sub Focus. These days Dimension is receiving mainstream success without deliberately releasing crossover music -- striking the perfect balance between club and radio. Dimension on the mix: "Some of the most talented producers from all around the scene went out their way to create bespoke VIPs from their back catalogue, specifically for the mix". Also features Dimension, RAPHAELLA, Culture Shock, Concept 2, The Prototypes, Document One, 1991, SpectraSoul, Sub Focus, Skrillex My Nu Leng & Flava D, Bensley, Benny L, Dillinja DJ Fresh, Sigma, Sub Focus, Chris Lake, High Contrast, B-Complex, Rockwell, Fred V & Grafix, IllSkillz, Wilkinson, Empire Of The Sun, Turno, Elisabeth Troy, Koncept, Commix, Tantrum Desire, Cyantific, John B, and Dusky. Packaged in bespoke slipcase containing die-embossed tin.

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FAKE LOVE	Fake Love Vol. 4	12"	FAKE LOVE	FAKELOVE 004EP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 More Fake Love for you and only you.

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KHAN, SEAN	Palmares Fantasy Feat. Hermeto Pascoal	LP	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FARO 203LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 LP version. 180 gram vinyl. For his third album for Far Out Recordings, London-based multi-instrumentalist and one of Europe's finest saxophonists Sean Khan ventures to Rio de Janeiro to collaborate with iconic Brazilian polymath Hermeto Pascoal. Taking its title from the escaped slave settlement "Palmares" in the Northeast of Brazil during the 1600s, Palmares Fantasy is Khan's utopian jazz message for the world, and it features Azymuth drummer Ivan "Mamao" Conti, bassist Paulo Russo, guitarist Jim Mullen, and guest vocals from Brazilian chanteuse Sabrina Malheiros, and Cinematic Orchestra frontwoman Heidi Vogel. Like Hermeto Pascoal, Sean Khan is a self-taught musician. Never able to afford his original dream of studying at Berklee and having been turned away from Guildhall School of Music for being "too raw", he became disillusioned with what he saw as the exclusivity, elitism, and dangerous institutionalization of the jazz world. Yet Sean's love for music and the drive to create never faltered. Hermeto Pascoal, the man Miles Davis once dubbed "the most impressive musician in the world", is a similarly independent artist. by the 17th century settlement of Palmares in Brazil's Alagoas region, which was free from the Portuguese crown's murderous exploitation of South America for a century, Khan notes his fascination with the fact that while made up mostly of escaped African slaves, many deserter conquistadors also joined the settlement. Hearing the deep-grooving title track with this history in mind, the listener is transported to a futuristic musical eden, with Mamao's insatiable 10/8 rhythm back-boning Hermeto's wild improvised vocals, Rhodes, and whistles, while Sean's harmonically brilliant sax and flute add more layers of moody, characterful expression. "Moment of Collapse" is Sean's poetic study on the uncertainties of modern day western civilization, delicately presented by the gorgeous vocals of Heidi Vogel and drenched in lugubrious strings and Alice Coltrane-esque harp. The two covers on the album are of Hermeto's own "Montreux" (on which Hermeto plays solos on a teapot and a pint of water), and an uplifting soulful jazz-funk take on Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges MPB classic "Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser" featuring the vocals of pioneering nu-bossa voice Sabrina Malheiros. The recording sessions for the album were part of an intensive and hugely productive eight-week excursion to South America for Far Out Recordings boss Joe Davis in the summer of 2016.

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JFK	Weapon Design	LP	FOURTH DIMENSION	FD 101LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The very latest from Ramleh's Anthony Di Franco, whose long-running solo JFK project has been dedicated to the kind of concrete-mixed rhythmic pummel countless others would almost kill for since the cassette network culture of the 1980s. It's an immersive sound that, naturally, shares a little common ground with Ramleh yet emphasizes the monstrous chasms that can be drawn from a sturdy combo of bass-churn and galvanized beats. Whilst the labyrinthine textures beamed in from steelworks remain very much suggestive of a charred psychedelia twisted way beyond any stupid hippie dream, JFK's work remains hewn with a distinctive edge at once uncompromising and agile enough to pull you in without the slightest hint of a protest. Music perfect for the age always hinted at when younger by pessimistic sci-fi films that we sometimes appear to be living in... Eight devastating tracks mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy, London.

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JUXTA POSITION	Elixir	12"	FIGURE	FIGURE 096EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Juxta Position finally finds his way to Figure, with highly infectious, acid-festered analog techno runs. Feeding on the raw and dynamic energy of live hardware production, these jams hit the sweet spot where constant modulation and spontaneous changes transform a bunch of loops into something more than the sum of its parts. Whether it's a bouncy ride around the rings of Saturn with "Elixir", the frantic sledge hammer-assault of "Stepping", cascading down into the machine's bowels on "Automated Reproduction", or the all-out overdrive that is "Pestered" -- every track on this record takes on a whole life of its own.

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VA	Footure Classics Vol. 1	12"	FOOTJOB	FJ 012EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The producer crew around Footjob completes catalog number 12 with the first ever label sampler, highlighting their love for a variety of styles. Le Rubrique starts with an Afro disco banger, followed by a funky piano piece from Phonk D and the jazz formation Triorität for all the old school lovers out there. The EP continues with an extraordinary dancefloor filler by Lukas Lehmann and the label's own supergroup Pallaspeople. On the last track Sascha Ciminiera takes you into the deepness of meditative house music with a sexy sax line.

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FAR OUT MONSTER DISCO ORCHESTRA, THE	Step Into My Life/The Two Of Us	12"	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FOMDO 015EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Hot off the back of the second full length Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra LP Black Sun (FARO 202CD/LP, 2018), the orchestra's prolific remix series, which has so far included reworks from the likes of Theo Parrish, DJ Spinna, Andres, and Dego, rolls on. John Morales's massive "M&M Main Mix" of "Step Into My Life" featuring Arthur Verocai gets a reissue, alongside a brand new remix of "The Two Of Us" from Al Kent, who highlights the hypnotic backing vocals of Brazilian psych-folk master Mauricio Maestro, for an emotionally charged Balearic anthem, complete with heavy dub mix.

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MEATBINGO	The Error of My WAVs	LP	FONOLITH	FON 203LP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Meatbingo returns after a lengthy gap following his 2013 Skam album Trendy Robots (SKASSETTE 003CS, 2013) with a brand-new LP of his trademark precise micro-edited cutup-funk on Fonolith. The Error of My WAVs contains eight fresh tracks of tightly-wound, laser-focused disco chaos. Like a dizzying hit of a future dancefloor drug administered digitally into your avatar's holographic brain. Augmenting his intensive sample-mashing approach with bass guitar playing and scrambled up elements of his own back catalog, WAVs sees producer Neil Scrivin further evolving and expanding the limits of the Meatbingo sound.

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AZAMBUJA & CIA	Azambuja & Cia	LP	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FORDIS 002LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Far Out Recordings present a reissue of Azambuja & Cia's self-titled album, originally released in 1975. In 1975, the prolific and multi-talented Brazilian comedians Chico Anysio and Arnaud Rodrigues recorded an album based on the protagonist of one of their most celebrated TV series. Sporting a dodgy moustache and an equally troubling haircut, Carioca conman Paulo Maurício Azambuja (played by Anysio) would flog his own mother's leg if he could, and his ever-ridiculous scams are inevitably always destined to fail. This soundtrack/musical reimagining of the series combines jazz-funk with samba soul and MPB, with the help of cult Brazilian trio Azymuth, keyboard maestro Jose Roberto Bertrami, who arranged the album alongside renowned conductor and composer Jose Menezes, elevates the groovy odd-ball sound to another dimension, with his set up including Fender Rhodes, Arp Strings, Arp Omni, Clavinet, and Hammond organ. Remaining Azymuth members Ivan Conti (drums) and Alex Malheiros (bass) provide the signature Azymuth foundation, and saxophone prodigy Victor Assis Brasil and legendary multi-instrumentalist producer Durval Ferreira also feature. As well as its distinctly comedic character, what makes the music so special is the coming together of traditional samba roots, and Azymuth's ahead-of-its-time psychedelic funk influence. Each side ends with a comedy monolog, complete with live audience laughter, but before that you get seven tracks of weird and wonderfully emotive Brazilian groove music. 180 gram vinyl.

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BAIANO & OS NOVOS CAETANOS	Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos	LP	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FORDIS 003LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Far Out Recordings present a reissue of Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos's self-titled album, originally released in 1974. Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos was a band formed by prolific and multi-talented Brazilian comedians Chico Anysio and Arnaud Rodrigues. Satirizing Brazil's tropicalia movement in the 1970s, the duo took a friendly crack at the likes of Caetano Veloso and psychedelic rockers Novos Baianos, with their righteous tropicalista alter-egos "Baiano" and "Paulinho Boca de Profeta" poetically denouncing the dictatorship while simultaneously mocking those who took themselves too seriously. Jazz funk legends Azymuth play backing band with keyboard maestro Jose Roberto Bertrami also responsible for the arrangements on the album. Azymuth's free and funky psych sounds combine with accordion, harmonica, brass, and plenty of rural Brazilian rhythms, for a hugely varied album drawing on MPB, funk, and soulful samba rock. The album also features Orlandivo who co-wrote many of the songs, and renowned multi-instrumentalist and producer Durval Ferreira. 180 gram vinyl.

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SOLOMKO, ANDRE	Le Deltaplane	CD	FAVORITE	FVR 142CD
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Discover Le Deltaplane, fifth album by Andre Solomko, and third produced on Favorite Recordings, pursuing a collaboration that started before 2013. Born in Ukraine in 1965 and now based in Finland, Andre Solomko is primarily a rich and engaging personality, but above all, a brilliant saxophonist, composer, and engineer, whose contagious passion cannot leave anyone indifferent. After beginning a meteoric career in USSR, fate led him to Finland, where he started the adventure Vinyl Jam, a label/studio/group. It resulted in two self-produced albums that will capture the attention of some international collectors, including Pascal Rioux (founder of Favorite Recordings). Between 2012 and 2014, they released two albums together, Où es-tu maintenant? (FVR 070LP, 2012) and Le Polaroid (FVR 092LP, 2014), hailed by many tastemakers and meeting notable success in Japan. Following Le Premier Disco Sans Toi (FVR 138EP, 2018), an acclaimed single, unveiling two new compositions with disco flavors, Andre Solomko and Favorite Recordings present Le Deltaplane. Fully composed and arranged by Andre Solomko, the six tracks of the album are deeply infused with his longtime passion for jazz-funk and movie soundtracks, this time also injecting more influences from west coast and modern soul music. Andre's backed again by a team of great musicians, recording and producing the album in analog like he always did. As for vocals and lyrics, he teams up with Charlotta Kerbs, a young emerging and talented singer from Helsinki. Andre Solomko, an artist who spreads love like in the good old days. CD version includes three bonus tracks.

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SOLOMKO, ANDRE	Le Deltaplane	LP	FAVORITE	FVR 142LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 LP version. Discover Le Deltaplane, fifth album by Andre Solomko, and third produced on Favorite Recordings, pursuing a collaboration that started before 2013. Born in Ukraine in 1965 and now based in Finland, Andre Solomko is primarily a rich and engaging personality, but above all, a brilliant saxophonist, composer, and engineer, whose contagious passion cannot leave anyone indifferent. After beginning a meteoric career in USSR, fate led him to Finland, where he started the adventure Vinyl Jam, a label/studio/group. It resulted in two self-produced albums that will capture the attention of some international collectors, including Pascal Rioux (founder of Favorite Recordings). Between 2012 and 2014, they released two albums together, Où es-tu maintenant? (FVR 070LP, 2012) and Le Polaroid (FVR 092LP, 2014), hailed by many tastemakers and meeting notable success in Japan. Following Le Premier Disco Sans Toi (FVR 138EP, 2018), an acclaimed single, unveiling two new compositions with disco flavors, Andre Solomko and Favorite Recordings present Le Deltaplane. Fully composed and arranged by Andre Solomko, the six tracks of the album are deeply infused with his longtime passion for jazz-funk and movie soundtracks, this time also injecting more influences from west coast and modern soul music. Andre's backed again by a team of great musicians, recording and producing the album in analog like he always did. As for vocals and lyrics, he teams up with Charlotta Kerbs, a young emerging and talented singer from Helsinki. Andre Solomko, an artist who spreads love like in the good old days.

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HANDY, JOHN	John Handy's Rainbow Band 1979	CD	HI HAT	HH 3102CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 John Handy with his Rainbow Band, live at the San Francisco Great American Music Hall, July 27th, 1979. At the end of the 1970s, jazz saxophonist John Handy helmed an adventurous plunge into world fusion with his Rainbow Band. Featuring Indian music virtuosos Ali Akbar Khan on sarod, Zakir Hussain on percussion, and L. Subramanian on violin, it also included Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete. This San Francisco Great American Music Hall performance from July 27, 1979, was originally broadcast on National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" program and features a 54-minute performance of a work also titled "Rainbow", composed by Khan specifically for this broadcast. The entire broadcast is presented here, digitally remastered, and includes background liners.

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BLEY TRIO, PAUL	Festival International De Jazz Lungano 31 August 1966	CD	HI HAT	HH 3111CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Paul Bley Trio, live at the International Jazz Festival, Lugano, Switzerland August 31st, 1966. The young Paul Bley earned his spurs playing with legends including Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Chet Baker, Jimmy Giuffre, Ornette Coleman, and Bill Evans. As the 1960s progressed, he increasingly embraced the avant-garde, with arguably his greatest successes coming in the piano trio format. Originally broadcast on the RSI Rete Due radio station in the summer of 1966, this superb set included material by Bley, his wife Carla, Annette Peacock, and Sonny Rollins. The entire broadcast, digitally remastered, is presented here with background notes and images. Personnel: Paul Bley - piano; Mark Levinson - bass; Barry Altschul - drums.

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JAVERLING, RICKARD	Album 3	LP	HOGA NORD REKORDS	HNR 014LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Rickard Jäverling, born and raised in Borlänge, Sweden and now living and working in Stockholm, is a wayward and productive musician. Besides releasing material under his own name, Jäverling is/has been part of constellations such as Dödens Dal, Liljor, and Jäverling & von Euler. Album 3 is his third solo album. It breathes psychedelia, dub, Swedish folk, "progg", and continental vintage electronic music. The songs on this album are in a way like a compilation of short stories rather than chapters in a novel. The common factor in this album is Jäverling's exquisitely worked-out melodies and the warm, round production but the songs can, due to the rich storytelling qualities of each one of them, almost be regarded as small albums of their own.

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KONSTRUKT	Oryantal	12"	HOLIDAYS RECORDS	HOL 115LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Istanbul based multi-instrumentalist Umut Çağlar founded the Turkish free jazz band Konstrukt at the beginning of 2008. Since then the band went through many line-up changes and collaborated with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, William Parker, and Keiji Haino, continuously evolving its sound. The band is currently formed by Çağlar, Korhan Futacı, Apostolos Sideris, Erdem Göymen, and Berkan Tilavel and Oryantal -- recorded at Hayyam Studio in Istanbul in 2017 with two drummers and a double bass player on board -- shows a more melodic and groovy side of the band. The session explores their rhythmic roots with the use of traditional instruments such as bendirs, tefs, and double reeds, trying to carry these sounds to the future with the help of electronics. Edition of 300.

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KONSTRUKT	For Ornette	7"	HOLIDAYS RECORDS	HOL 116EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Two short tracks (out of four) taken from the same Hayyam session which gave birth to Oryantal (HOL 115LP). Two funky shots dedicated to the memory of the one and only Ornette Coleman. Some real intense (double) drumming animating a full-band jam on side A, while the B side of the single consists of a nervous duo of saxophone (Korhan Futacı) and drums (Berkan Tilavel).

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KONSTRUKT	Bloppin'	7"	HOLIDAYS RECORDS	HOL 117EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 To be considered a twin release of the previous For Ornette 7" (HOL 116EP). The single consists of two more short tracks -- taken from the same Hayyam session -- where the five-piece goes bebop, building some rhythmic and harmonic complexity filled by solo virtuoso playing of core-members Korhan Futacı (saxophone) and Umut Çağlar (electric guitar).

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LABELLE	Post-Maloya	12"	INFINE	IF 2071EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Labelle has laid the foundations of an electronic maloya, modern and deeply rooted in its home territory: La Réunion. Labelle releases a fascinating EP of introspective trance music with Post-Maloya. You'll find the maloya stamp, which is Reunionese traditional music, both in the rhythms and the instruments used, like the valiha. This traditional tubular harp from Madagascar is played by Vola on the track "Jaojoby". Vola was taught by Rajery himself, who is widely considered as a master of this instrument. The hypnotic sounds evoke distant dimensions and resonate like shamanic incantations, gently leading you towards the trance.

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EMANATIVE	New Day	7"	JAZZ45	JAZZ45 001EP
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 An upbeat positive and spiritual groove paves the way for Jazzman Records' new Jazz45 label. Taken from the forthcoming album Earth from Emanative (JMAN 099CD/LP), with a sublime vocal performance from Ahu. Jazz45 -- Exciting new sounds from the world of independent and creative jazz artistes. Original artwork and original music on each and every release, and limited to just 600 copies worldwide.

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VA	Spider-Jazz: KPM Cues Used In The Amazing Animated Series	LP	TRUNK	JBH 070LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Subtitled: ... That We Are Not Allowed To Mention For Legal Reasons. Rare and brilliant music as used in the late 1960s amazing animated series we are not allowed to mention for legal reasons. And the same music was used in all the NFL clip shoes throughout the '60s and '70s too. Way back in 1967, an animated superhero cartoon was released into the world. It was created by Grantray-Lawrence Animation and was based on a web-spinning, crime fighting blue-and-red dressed character that had originated in 1962, through Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This amazing series ran on ABC TV in the USA, then Canada, then a few years, it ran in the UK. The series was notoriously low budget. After Series One the company Grantray-Lawrence went bankrupt, so the amazing spider series was taken on by producer Steve Krantz. He brought in new talent, including animation director Ralph Bakshi who later went on to turn a Robert Crumb strip cartoon into the feature Fritz The Cat (1972). Krantz also slashed the already cripplingly small spider budget and brought in the idea of using economic library music. Here, thanks possibly to an independent sync agent production turned to the KPM catalog. This was one of the few really established library catalogs around at the time with a modern edge; it was full of fabulous, modern dramatic music tracks -- often all on the same LP. But more importantly all the tracks were far longer than the one-minute musical cuts that many of the fledgling USA library companies were issuing at the time. Krantz produced two amazing spider series, and both were smothered with KPM music. In fact barely a spider second goes by without music playing in either the background or foreground. For many enthusiasts this really is formative music -- a junior foray into hip swinging crime jazz and esoteric musical grooviness. So, what features on this Spider-Jazz LP? Well it's music from the amazing TV series, but, not music from Series One. No, but it is all from Series Two and Series Three. From looking at archival cue sheets, over 50 tracks from various early KPM 1000 series albums were used across the episodes. It's all distilled down into one exciting and enthralling LP. Features Syd Dale, Johnny Hawksworth, Bill Martin/Phil Coulter, David Lindup, Johnny Pearson, Keith Mansfield, and Alan Hawkshaw.

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RED BRUT	Red Brut	LP	KRAAK	K 096LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Red Brut is the moniker of Marijn Verbiesen (part of Sweat Tongue and JSCA). As Red Brut she is isolated, displaying a highly talented ear for day-to-day sounds, musique concréte composition, and spontaneous sound collage. The Kraak record series -- documenting off-stream's currents -- presents her self-titled debut, recorded at home and re-arranged in the come-down of an immersive tour in Japan. The seven chapters document an intuitive and reflective journey through sensitive amateurism and hi-end musique concréte. The main instruments are cassettes, but unlike the continuous strain of post-noise releases, Verbiesen's music is highly personal, subtle, and displays an ever curious and astonished mind. Sounds of gaming interweave with brutal synth oscillations, melancholic melodies, and sensual-absent poetry from the aether. Although rooted in the sinister absurdism of early 2000 experimentalism, her music embraces and redefines the concept of "music of the universe", coined by John Cage, Daphne Oram, and alikes. This stand-out record is a sketchbook documenting a wide array of obscured emotions, unveiling the inner soul of a highly talented and unique voice in avant-garde tape music. Artwork by Marijn Verbiesen; design: rr-jw. Edition of 300.

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STIMMING	Die Luft, Der Garten Und Das Meer	12"	KI RECORDS	KI 014LP
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Ki Records welcome Stimming to the label family. Martin Stimming is well known for his releases on labels like Diynamic and Pampa and his live shows around the world. Here's the new EP, Die Luft, Der Garten Und Das Meer ("The air, the garden and the sea"). Few people bring a truly original sound to house music. Stimming's productions are decorated with his own unique, charismatic field recordings, and he never uses the same sample twice.

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STEVEN PORTER	Reservoir EP	12"	KYNANT RECORDS	KYN 009EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Japanese sound sculptors Steven Porter (aka Katsunori Sawa and Yuji Kondo) sign two striking productions to Kynant, with a pair of remixes completing the Reservoir EP. "A Need For Distance" is abrasive and hard-hitting but not without moments of melody. Fellow Japanese purveyor of tripped-out techno Iori mines a lean, highly-effective groove on the remix. "Romance Tip" takes a slower, endlessly-detailed approach with sharp percussion and mind-bending atmospherics; Max Durante, who recently released his debut LP on Kynant (KYN 008LP), contributes a broken-beat workout to finish the record. Mastering by Giuseppe Tillieci, aka Neel.

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CONGOS & PURA VIDA, THE	Morning Star	CD	LOST ARK MUSIC	LAM 006CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 In 1977 The Congos linked with Lee "Scratch" Perry at The Black Ark Studio to record their debut album. They made the masterpiece Heart Of The Congos and it became one of the best roots reggae albums in history... When Blood & Fire reissued Heart Of The Congos, Bregt "Puraman" De Boever found this album and was struck by its magic and mysticism. He began to sing along and was inspired to start his own reggae band Pura Vida. At the same time, he started to build his studio The Lost Ark Studio with the guidance of DJ Crossfire. When Pura Vida's debut Struggle In The City was released in 2009, Puraman met The Congos backstage at a show in Ghent. They liked the sound and invited Puraman to come to Jamaica. Puraman stayed for two weeks with Ashanti Roy in Kingston and the plan for an album was made. One year later We Nah Give Up was released marking the birth of the Belgian roots musik label, Lost Ark Music. The link with The Congos stayed and Ashanti Roy became the godfather of Lost Ark Music. He guided Puraman and his brother Maarten to build up the label step-by-step. Lost Ark Music released two albums with Ashanti Roy and Pura Vida, Hard Road and Step By Step, and Pura Vida did some magical live shows with Ashanti Roy. In 2014 Puraman met his idol Lee "Scratch" Perry and they made The Super Ape Strikes Again together. The ark was no longer lost and Puraman moved to a new studio, The Last Ark Studio. Puraman kept on recording with The Congos and is planning new releases. The album is called Morning Star and is a combination of the sound of The Congos and the Pura Vida Sound. It features six new Congos songs, three songs from Pura Vida, and a dub version called "Dub Love". The album has the vintage Last Ark Sound and was mixed the old school way using the mixer as an instrument. It features the voices of Roydel "Ashanti Roy" Johnson, Cedric Myton, Derrick "Watty" Burnett, Kenroy "Tallash" Fyffe, and Bregt "Puraman" De Boever. There is also a guest appearance by Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, the famous reggae drummer and movie star, one of Puraman's favorite reggae drummers.

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CONGOS & PURA VIDA, THE	Morning Star	LP	LOST ARK MUSIC	LAM 006LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 LP version. Purple/pink/white marbled vinyl. In 1977 The Congos linked with Lee "Scratch" Perry at The Black Ark Studio to record their debut album. They made the masterpiece Heart Of The Congos and it became one of the best roots reggae albums in history... When Blood & Fire reissued Heart Of The Congos, Bregt "Puraman" De Boever found this album and was struck by its magic and mysticism. He began to sing along and was inspired to start his own reggae band Pura Vida. At the same time, he started to build his studio The Lost Ark Studio with the guidance of DJ Crossfire. When Pura Vida's debut Struggle In The City was released in 2009, Puraman met The Congos backstage at a show in Ghent. They liked the sound and invited Puraman to come to Jamaica. Puraman stayed for two weeks with Ashanti Roy in Kingston and the plan for an album was made. One year later We Nah Give Up was released marking the birth of the Belgian roots musik label, Lost Ark Music. The link with The Congos stayed and Ashanti Roy became the godfather of Lost Ark Music. He guided Puraman and his brother Maarten to build up the label step-by-step. Lost Ark Music released two albums with Ashanti Roy and Pura Vida, Hard Road and Step By Step, and Pura Vida did some magical live shows with Ashanti Roy. In 2014 Puraman met his idol Lee "Scratch" Perry and they made The Super Ape Strikes Again together. The ark was no longer lost and Puraman moved to a new studio, The Last Ark Studio. Puraman kept on recording with The Congos and is planning new releases. The album is called Morning Star and is a combination of the sound of The Congos and the Pura Vida Sound. It features six new Congos songs, three songs from Pura Vida, and a dub version called "Dub Love". The album has the vintage Last Ark Sound and was mixed the old school way using the mixer as an instrument. It features the voices of Roydel "Ashanti Roy" Johnson, Cedric Myton, Derrick "Watty" Burnett, Kenroy "Tallash" Fyffe, and Bregt "Puraman" De Boever. There is also a guest appearance by Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, the famous reggae drummer and movie star, one of Puraman's favorite reggae drummers.

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DJ SPRINKLES & HARDROCK STRIKER	Skylax House Explosion	2CD	SKYLAX	LAX 150CD
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Eight years since A Short Introduction To The House Sounds Of Terre Thaemlitz (2010), and a long, fruitful relationship thereafter, DJ Sprinkles and Hardrock Striker begin a new project, teaming up as Skylax House Explosion (S.H.E.) A nod to Terre Thaemlitz's work as Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion (K-S.H.E.) that started in 2006, S.H.E. presents a compilation celebrating the run of Skylax Records which started in 2004 by DJ and producer Hardrock Striker. The two members of S.H.E. take on a mix either side of the CD, which accompanies a three-piece vinyl compilation featuring previously unreleased music curated by DJ Sprinkles and Hardrock Striker, owner of the label. On the first disc of this mix CD, Sprinkles channels an all at once energetic and subdued sonic pallet -- much like her work as K-S.H.E -- presenting a mix that leans heavily on the sound of Skylax. Very much the straight-up house that the label is known for, but saturated in references to Paradise Garage, The Loft, and the ballrooms of Midtown Manhattan. In parts, the mix belies the insistently deeper mood of Sprinkles shows in recent years, but this is by no means an unfamiliar approach; Terre Thaemlitz has always maintained varying styles at once, often standing in opposition to one another. On disc two, Hardrock Striker draws from his recent label signees, such as Jason Grove, Octo Octa, Fuckthegovernment.Ltd, and Urban Inc. Striker packs more of a bag for the upbeat parties he is known for in Paris, while not straying too far from "deep" sounds allied with his label. The mix features friends from the back catalog of Skylax as well unheard tracks forthcoming on one of three exclusive vinyl releases. Here he unearths some overlooked gems from the last two decades, before ending with his work on the Peter Black and Hardrock Striker record, Dreamtime. House music is ubiquitous in clubs around the world. Stay underground, it pays. DJ Sprinkles' mix features: Garage Shelter, An Expresso, Jason Grove, Nick Beringer, Simoncino, Chez Damier, Soul System (aka Nicholas), Sameed, Damien Zala, F.T.G. & Belfie & Alex Tea, Joey Kay, Lady Blacktronika, Carlos Nilmmns, and Violence FM & The Underground Soulsavers. Hardrock Striker's mix features: Lady Blacktronika, Sinan Kaya, Urban Inc, Jason Grove, Love Island, Octo Octa, Rosenhaft, Concept e25, Kuba Sojka, Groove Riddim, Nathaniel X Project, Niko Marks, Signal St, Mike Sharon, Garage Shelter, and Peter Black & Hardrock Striker.

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FARRAGO	Risin'	12"	LENSKE	LENSKE 001EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Belgium's Amelie Lens launches her own label: Lenske. The first release by Farrago, Risin', comes packing high velocity punches, including a collaboration with Amelie Lens and a remix from Kobosil. "The Riddler" is the first to puncture. The title track, "Risin'", will only be released as the Kobosil remix, a titanium tour of auditory horrors, which also borrows from the EP's other tracks. Lens's signature sultry vocal samples on "Jealousy" draw the contours of a jaw-grinding banger, while "Hidden Power" rounds out the release with a blaring dancefloor siren encased in exquisitely unpredictable arrangement.

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VA	Xenopunks EP	12"	LES POINTS	LESPOINTS 011EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 X written and arranged by Luca Digilio (LOUH); E written and arranged by Nicola Kazimir; N written and arranged by Walid El Barbir; O written and arranged by Flavio Audino.

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WRANGLER	Three Memes	12"	MEMETUNE	MEME18 007EP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Remixes of Wrangler by Daniel Miller (founder of Mute Records Ltd.), Crooked Man, and LoneLady.

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VA	Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991	2CD	MUSIC FROM MEMORY	MFM 031CD
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991 is the second multiple artist compilation on Music From Memory. It's compiled by record connoisseur Raphael Top-Secret and label man Jamie Tiller. The compilation brings together twenty-one tracks from across the continent; exploring the more unusual and unexpected sides of pop music produced during that period. Drawing material from cult experimental artists such as Steve Beresford, Brenda Ray, and Bill Nelson alongside one-off independent musical projects rescued from the fringes, Uneven Paths focuses on a selection of tracks that go beyond the confines of mainstream pop music but which also transcend expectations of much of the "experimental" music of the time. This is music with one foot in the avant-garde and another foot firmly rooted within the sensibilities of pop; where jazz musicians detour into synth-pop, punk bands break into boogie jams, and student doctors jam out on odd melodies with synthesizers and drum machines during their night shifts. Features Nightfall In Camp, Stroer Duo Howard Fine, Tony Hymas, Violet Eves, Miko & Mubare, Piscine Et Charles, John Makin & Friends, Nonobstant, Wolfgang Klingler, Thomas Heimes, Hans-Christian Mittag, Sound On Sound, Harte 10, Pete Brandt's Method, Lost Gringos, Patrick Forgas, Brenda And The Beachballs, Xavier Jouvelet, Lou Blic, Steve Beresford, Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana, Harte 10, and Monica Rypma.

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KAISER	Debris EP (Incl. Johannes Volk Remix)	12"	MADE OF CONCRETE	MOC 017EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Italian club staple and producer Kaiser turns to Made Of Concrete for his Debris EP, showcasing three agile techno slices and a remix from Johannes Volk. "Parachute" opens in a spellbinding, energy-heavy manner, with its whirlwind groove and lead taking no prisoners. "Debris" shows off an equally energetic prowess channeling zig-zagging synths and a more melodic, yet still heavy strung bassline. "Esplosione Di Colori", translated as "color explosion" aptly translates into sound what is usually only possible for a paint canvas. A lighthearted, arpeggio-ridden track in original, Johannes Volk turns it into a versatile piece of raw, dubby techno.

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L.B. DUB CORP	Side Effects	2LP	MOTE EVOLVER	MOTE 004LP
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Reflecting on a career spanning three decades, Luke Slater is a true dance music legend. The British producer has not only been pivotal in the rise of techno but his work continues to play a vital role in driving the genre forward, particularly under his Planetary Assault Systems name. Following its launch in 2006, Slater's L.B. Dub Corp moniker has been responsible for refreshing house music on labels like Mote Evolver and Ostgut Ton, with the latter hosting the pseudonym's debut album in 2013 (OSTGUT 029CD/015LP). Side Effects is the project's first body of work since then. Slater on the recordings: "I wrote the tracks over the last year between being on the road as P.A.S. and playing a few L.B. Dub Corp house sets, which naturally evolved into Side Effects almost accidentally." Crashing stabs and a rolling hook inaugurate the album in "Reel One" before the meandering "Night Time Hawk" demonstrates effervescent effects and bursts of white noise. Commanding kicks and a moody bassline make up the robust "Edge 7" whilst "IELBEE" exhibits a bouncy aesthetic complete with intricate melodies. "Float When You Can" is dark and ominous from the off but an echoing note sequence adds a glimmer of light, making way for the reverberating mechanics of "Bass Machine" before leading into the twisted sounds and ghostly air of "Forever In A Day". Nearing the end, "LBEES Jam" is the most lighthearted track on the album with its twinkling lead melody until Slater rounds off the release with a soulful and vocal driven affair "All Got To Live". "Edge 7" features Aurelie Yung. 180 gram vinyl. Includes download card.

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SPACE LADY	Greatest Hits	LP	MISSISSIPPI RECORDS	MRP 108LP
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 "The Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing versions of contemporary pop music on accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imagination of the world. Of her early street sets, only one recording was made, self-released originally on cassette and then transferred to a home-made CD. The Space Lady's Greatest Hits features the best of these recordings -- mostly covers but with some originals and features archival photographs and liner notes from The Space Lady herself. Greatest Hits contains The Space Lady's personal favourites; her haunting take on The Electric Prunes' 'I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night),' a frantic 'Ballroom Blitz' amidst other reconstructed pop music. Included are also 4 originals that easily match for the pop canon. Old School 'tip on' cover and fold out liners with poster for framing on one side and notes on the other. Limited edition of 1,000 copies."

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WRONG WATER	Dozen	LP	MUSCUT	MUSCUT 009LP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Kiev-based label Muscut opens 2018 with an LP from St. Petersburg musician Eugenii Fadeev (Flaty). Raising the attention of the musical community with his work for the 12th Isle and GOST ZVUK labels as AEM Rhythm Cascade, he's also recently released on Udacha and his own label ANWO as Dada Ques. In addition to the aforementioned, Flaty also adopts such aliases as Ocurob and Wrong Water. Under the name Wrong Water, he presents this current release of a dozen tracks, most of which were recorded purely using analog instruments. Drawing inspiration from the music of such electronic pioneers as Delia Derbyshire, Bruce Haack, Mort Garson, and others, Wrong Water is an attempt to qualitatively re-think the heritage of the '70s and '80s. Thus, through tireless experimentation, Fadeev manages to create his own inimitable neo-library parable. Full of graceful flickering stars and midnight tropical breathing, Dozen is a welcome addition to the endlessly fascinating world of Muscut. Performed, recorded, produced, and mastered by Flaty. Lettering by Zhenia Anfalov; Graphic design by Dmytro Nikolaienko.

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FERRARI, LUC	Atelier De Liberation De La Musique	LP	ALGA MARGHEN	NMN 156LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Alga Marghen present recordings from Luc Ferrari's Atelier De Libération De La Musique, a collective he created together with Martin Davorin Jagodic, Philippe Besombes, and Alain Petit in 1975 for a series of performances at the Galliera Museum in Paris. It was in those years that Luc Ferrari investigated open forms and created some of the most experimental and elusive works of his entire catalog. "Exercices D'improvisation", first recorded by Brunhild Ferrari with GOL, issued on PLANAM in 2010; but specially "Ou Donc Est-T-On?", a very complex piece forthcoming on Alga Marghen including both "Dance", issued on Alga Marghen on the occasion of the presentations at Centre Pompidou in 2009 and "Ephemere", issued on CD by Alga Marghen in 2010, as well as the "Labyrinthe De La Violence", an audio-visual permanent labyrinth for which Ferrari created four fantastic electronic music pieces forthcoming on Alga Marghen. After these experiences the composer decided to discontinue these open practices for a more controlled work in the studio. And within the "Labyrinthe De La Violence" installation Luc Ferrari conceived a series of electro-visual concerts to be performed by the newly created Atelier De Libération De La Musique. The collective included some of the most creative artists of the time: together with Luc Ferrari playing the electric organ you find on electric piano Martin Davoric Jagodic (whose masterpiece of electronic music titled Tempo Furioso was issued on Cramps in Italy that same year), on synthesizer Philippe Besombes (of Pole fame) and on sax, flute, and clarinet, Alain Petit (who was at the time collaborating with Besombes at the wonderful Besombes / Rizet double LP). These four artists met in February and March of 1975, rehearsing for a series of concerts to take place within the audio-visual labyrinth. It is the previously unheard recordings from these wild rehearsals which make up this incredible LP. The sound of Atelier De Libération De La Musique is a thrilling and overwhelming ride. Rattling, difficult polyrhythms play against droning, pulsing and simmering sonorities. These recordings are human and open, wild and incredibly ahead of their time. Obi strip; Edition of 500 (numbered).

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VA	Bird Does Not Doze Vol. 1	12"	NERVMUSIC	NMS 005-1EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Raborb (aka Rabotnic and Sasha Orb), Gojnea (aka G76), and Topper!

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VA	Bird Does Not Doze Vol. 2	12"	NERVMUSIC	NMS 005-2EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 David Gluck, Dubfound, and Jonas Sella!

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FEON	The Sun Is High	12"	OPTIMO MUSIC	OMD 011EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 A new Optimo Music Disco Plate and the debut release from Feon. Feon on the EP: "I wrote these tracks in a manic ten-day session, shortly after an unravelling ayahuasca ceremony . . . Upon reflection there is something of a primal quality to 'The Sun Is High' . . . The flip goes into darker more experimental territory, with 'Holland Fly By' taking clear inspiration from an old iMPLOG track, and 'Without Sound' getting stranger still, the vocal refrain's mournful, tense landscape interrupted by boisterous drums."

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HIGGINS, PATRICK	Dossier	LP	OTHER PEOPLE	OP 049LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Nicolas Jaar's Other People present a new solo record of guitar and live custom electronics from artist Patrick Higgins, an American avant-garde composer and producer from New York City. Higgins is known for his work in experimental and contemporary classical music, playing guitar and composing in the ensemble Zs, which is said to be one of the strongest innovative bands in New York. His work as a composer traverses the styles of the European avant-garde styles with the post-minimalist sounds of New York. Dossier is a four-movement piece performed live without overdubs or edits. All of the samples and synthetic patches were custom built and specifically engaged to become elements of live guitar manipulation. The sound world is post-apocalyptic in style but builds to an intimate and introspective finish. The material was developed over a two-year period and finished at the end of 2016. Cover art is by Alfredo Jaar.

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TERRY, DEWEY	Chief	CD	PROG TEMPLE	PT 8075CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Prog Temple present a reissue of Dewey Terry's Chief, originally released in 1972. As half of the legendary R&B duo Don & Dewey (alongside Don "Sugarcane" Harris), Dewey Terry was responsible for numerous classic songs, and toured alongside Jimi Hendrix in Little Richard's Band. After a period out of the spotlight, he resurfaced in 1972 with this lost classic, a fun and funky stew of blues, soul, and rock that was produced by Bill Szymczyk (shortly to find fame for his work with the Eagles), and features guest appearances from Harvey Mandel, Jim Horn, and others. It makes its long-overdue CD debut here, together with background notes and images.

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PARKER/DEREK BAILEY/HAN BENNINK, EVAN	The Topography of the Lungs	LP	OTOROKU	ROKURE 001LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 2018 repress. OTOROKU caps off the 2014 celebrations of saxophonist Evan Parker's 70th birthday with a vinyl reissue of The Topography of the Lungs, by Parker, guitarist Derek Bailey, and percussionist Han Bennink -- Parker's first recording as a leader. Originally released in 1970, this was the first LP issued by Incus, the label that Parker founded with Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley. This reissue has been produced from an original vinyl pressing from Parker's archives, carefully transcribed and restored by Andreas (Lupo) Lubich at Calyx Mastering, Berlin.

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BAILEY/EVAN PARKER, DEREK	The London Concert	LP	OTOROKU	ROKURE 002LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Following on from the re-issue of Topography of the Lungs, Otoroku is proud to follow up with another legendary free-improvised document, this one from the duo of Derek Bailey and Evan Parker, originally released on the INCUS label in 1975. "The London Concert is one of those rare recordings that capture musicians at a special moment of confluence, a moment when procedures are proving fruitful and before practice has hardened into dogma, when different visions are not yet turned into position papers (insert your list here). There are clearly moments in the London Concert when things that have not precisely happened before emerge from one partner, are caught and supported by the other in a way that, too, is still new 40 some years on, and which prods the initiator to hold and develop a particular line with the clear support of the other." -- Stuart Broomer. The London Concert comes in a limited edition of 500 copies printed on reverse board with printed inner sleeve and newly commissioned liner notes by Stuart Broomer.

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BROMIDE	I Woke Up	CD	SCRATCHY RECORDS	SCRATCHY 050CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 In 2015, London-based Bromide got their electric shoes back on with new bass player Hugo Wilkinson joining long-term collaborators, singer-guitarist Simon Berridge, and drummer Ed Lush. Again, stuffed full of pop delights struggling to reach the three-minute mark -- such as "Two Song Slot", the story of a disastrous open-mic encounter turning into a last-minute victory and "Tale To Tell", a conscience-pricked near perfect example of the Bromide sound written in the studio while recording -- the album also sees the band begin to stretch their wings a bit. "Magic Coins" has an unexpected almost drum and bass inspired rhythm track while title track "I Woke Up" is a six-minute Doorsian odyssey. Elsewhere Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" is given a thorough work out, plus there are contributions from the rhythm section with Lush writing the music for both "I'll Never Learn" and "Always Now", while Wilkinson provides a breath of fresh air in proceedings with the instrumental "Futurist Shore Leave". With I Woke Up, Bromide have firmly fixed the songwriter onto the band and vice-a-versa. As one recent twitter live review summed up "They rock hard but the tunes come first: like Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr". Ain't gonna argue with that.

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BROMIDE	I Woke Up	LP	SCRATCHY RECORDS	SCRATCHY 050LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 LP version. In 2015, London-based Bromide got their electric shoes back on with new bass player Hugo Wilkinson joining long-term collaborators, singer-guitarist Simon Berridge, and drummer Ed Lush. Again, stuffed full of pop delights struggling to reach the three-minute mark -- such as "Two Song Slot", the story of a disastrous open-mic encounter turning into a last-minute victory and "Tale To Tell", a conscience-pricked near perfect example of the Bromide sound written in the studio while recording -- the album also sees the band begin to stretch their wings a bit. "Magic Coins" has an unexpected almost drum and bass inspired rhythm track while title track "I Woke Up" is a six-minute Doorsian odyssey. Elsewhere Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" is given a thorough work out, plus there are contributions from the rhythm section with Lush writing the music for both "I'll Never Learn" and "Always Now", while Wilkinson provides a breath of fresh air in proceedings with the instrumental "Futurist Shore Leave". With I Woke Up, Bromide have firmly fixed the songwriter onto the band and vice-a-versa. As one recent twitter live review summed up "They rock hard but the tunes come first: like Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr". Ain't gonna argue with that.

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SUDDEN, NIKKI	The Last Bandits In The World	CD	SEVENTEEN RECORDS	SEV 002CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Seventeen Records present a reissue of Nikki Sudden's The Last Bandits In The World, originally released in 1986. Remastered at Woodbine Street Recording Studios by John Rivers, with Simon Carmody. 30 years on from the original release of this album, now compiled to include bonus material, singles, B sides, etc. Last Bandits In The World has been out-of-print for over 25 years and the singles were only ever issued in Eire.

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MEYERS	Struggle Artist	LP	SHELTER PRESS	SHELTER 093LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Struggle Artist is the new album from Justin C. Meyers, the Minneapolis-based composer, artist, and head of the Sympathy Ltd. label. Meyers is a unique, underappreciated talent in contemporary electronic music. His greatest strengths are twofold: his compositions have a meticulous structural logic, revealing a hermetic and austere formalism; concurrently, his compositions have a deep, introspective narrativity grounded in his lived experience, evoked with a mature clarity. Together, they make Meyers one of the most interesting electronic musicians working with cutting-edge sonics today, unlocking their latent powers of metaphor and figuration. His previous album, 2016's Negative Space (1981-2014), deals with the onset of chronic illness and near-death experience. Its careful, anechoic meditations on the failing body are a resounding achievement, and the album remains a high watermark of acousmatic music in the 21st century. Struggle Artist portrays Meyers's expectations and disappointments arising from making art in his free time. Created initially during lunch breaks and in hospital waiting rooms, and finished after being laid off from his job, it catalogs the despondency of the precarious life. If Negative Space was about the fallible body, Struggle Artist is its violent collision with late capitalism. Meyers's formal language employs the barest of ingredients: scintillating digital synthesis, evacuated field recordings, impossibly crisp transients, and an elegiac harmonic sensibility. On Struggle Artist, he sets up scenarios that anticipate some musical event or flourish, only to renege on them with stark about-faces or resolutions into dissonance. Tracks like "Self Portrait" evoke the trauma of reconfiguring and rewriting one's own identity to (unsuccessfully) appease indifferent funding sources like grants and fellowships, which Meyers wryly calls "Granular Opportunities". Stability is not conceded until the stunning eponymous final sequence, that ambiguously signals either the willed discontinuation or reaffirmation of Meyers' musical career. The impression is not entirely bleak. Meyers's sound design is buoyant and luxurious with its clean edges and lush tonalities, such as in "Draw Distance" or the "Expectations" diptych. This is Meyers's most playful record, albeit always gesturing towards its melancholic narrative. This guarded, dark humor is alluded to in his sleeve art and track titles. In an environment where most record releases don't break even and the artist usually shoulders the financial burden, Struggle Artist explores what the psychological burdens are. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. 140 gram vinyl.

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SCOPPA & CICCI SANTUCCI, ENZO	Mirage	LP	SONOR MUSIC EDITIONS	SME 048LP
$34.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Sonor Music Editions present a reissue of Enzo Scoppa and Cicci Santucci's Mirage, originally released in 1971. Absolute mythical Italian library LP out of the New Tape micro-label vaults. Mirage is an album signed by SCOEN, aka Enzo Scoppa, and actually composed and arranged by Francesco Cicci Santucci, originally released in 1971 in an edition of 100 copies only. Dreamy collectors' item and super obscure gem, this outstanding LP is another must-have jewel from the unlimited Italian music library production of the '70s and easily one of the top of this game. What we have is mental jazz-funk beats with fat basslines and killer drum breaks, bewitching exotica groove, and dope lounge moods, all driven by a solid groovy key for the whole album. Another monster Italian library is just filed. Edition of 500.

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PICCIONI, PIERO	Al Cinema Con Piero Piccioni	LP	SONOR MUSIC EDITIONS	SME 049LP
$38.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Sonor Music Editions present a reissue of Piero Piccioni's Al Cinema Con Piero Piccioni, originally released in 1968. Originally composed of two volumes and released on the famed RCA SP series in 1968, compiled with a curated selection of the best tracks and presented with renewed striking artwork. Two absolutely cult and impossible to find albums of Italian discography released in a unique LP edition and carefully remastered by from the original RCA master tapes. Includes original soundtrack of the films Il Terrorista (1963), Le Mani Sulla Città (1963), Nude, Calde E Pure (1965), La Donna E' Una Cosa Meravigliosa (1964), Chi Lavora E' Perduto (Tinto Brass) (1963), with the huge jazz imprint of maestro Piccioni. 180 gram vinyl. Heavy cardboard sleeve, like the originals; Limited to 300.

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UMILIANI, PIERO	Al Cinema Con Piero Umiliani	LP	SONOR MUSIC EDITIONS	SME 050LP
$38.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Sonor Music Editions present a reissue of Piero Umiliani's Al Cinema Con Piero Umiliani, originally released in 1969. One of the true rarities of Italian discography out there and an absolute grail of Italian film music. Originally released in 1968 on the legendary RCA Italiana SP 8000 series (promo-only) in an edition of 100 copies, here's an impossible jewel by maestro Piero Umiliani that contains various themes from original scores of the '60s: Il Comandante (1963), Extraconiugale (1964), Tutto Il Bello Dell'uomo (1963), La Bella Di Lodi (1963), Controsesso (1964), La Celestina P... R... (1965). Carefully remastered from the original RCA master tapes. 180 gram vinyl; Heavy cardboard sleeve like the originals; Limited edition of 300.

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TANAKA, FUMIYA	Beautiful Days 2010-2015	CD	SUNDANCE	SND 002CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 All tracks are from Fumiya Tanaka's archive (2010-2015), produced since he moved his base to Berlin. The idea of the DJ mixing with only his own tracks has been gestating for some time and with his trials during his DJ dates in Europe, South America, and Japan, the selection of the tracks and sequence has been made. The thought process he used to mix his own materials is similar to how he prepares for his own live set. The recordings here were recorded at his home in Berlin. All tracks have been released previously over three 12" vinyl (SND 006EP/007EP/008EP, 2017), except "Uneasy Days".

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PAN-POT	Funke EP	12"	SECOND STATE AUDIO	SNDST 045EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Pan-Pot grace Second State Audio with two big bombs and a remix from the one-and-only Petter B on their Funke EP. Kicking things off is "Spitzer" with hi-octane percussion and reverb heavy acoustics spanned out over ten minutes. The duo takes a similar approach on "Funke" but deliver a rugged and brutally mesmerizing lead that'll coax you inner devil inside out. Rounding out the EP is a carefully curated remix from Gothenburg's own and former Hertz collaborator Petter B who hands over a beautiful rendition of "Spitzer" where dense, lavish atmospherics carry a heavy looping groove to a gorgeous climax.

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DAGAR, USTAD ZIA MOHIUDDIN	Ragas Abhogi & Vardhani	2LP	IDEOLOGIC ORGAN	SOMA 028LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Double LP version. "Around ten years ago, deep into a cozy and hazy night following a concert with my sound brothers Daniel O'Sullivan and Kristoffer Rygg in London (as Æthenor), they graciously introduced me to a recording of rudra veena (a kind of noble deeper bass relative to the sitar, in a way) as performed by dhrupad master Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. Dhrupad, for those who do not know, is a branch of Hindustani classical music said to 'show the raga in its clearest and purest form'. It's pacing concentrates heavily on the slow, contemplative alap section and works with specific microtonal gestures and deep characteristics of resonance . . . In early 2015 I was able to make contact with Zia Mohiuddin Dagar's son Bahauddin and some of his American students/disciples, primarily Jeff Lewis. Over time we developed a friendly and educational exchange, access to a massive archive of recordings and developed these two paired titles for my label . . . I'm proud to be able to reveal these to date unreleased archival recordings of one of the masters of dhrupad, Z. M. Dagar, to the public for the first time. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar was the nineteenth generation in a family tradition known as Dagar gharana, a rich lineage which continued and performed the musical form of dhrupad. Initially, dhrupad was a rigorous, austere, devotional genre that was sung in Hindu temples. But between the 16th and the 18th centuries, it became the preeminent genre in royal courts in North and Central India, and the Dagar gharana developed and continued publicly following the eventual loss of court patronage for dhrupad in the 19th century. The French ethnomusicologist Renaud Brizard covers the story of Zia Mohiuddin Dagar's life and teaching (a long story also in Seattle, my hometown!), the Dagar family and gharana, the rudra veena and more topics in an extensive set of liner notes in this release. Ragas Abhogi & Vardhani were recorded in a private house concert in Seattle at the home of the Benegals in March 1986 (the week before the accompanying release, Raga Yaman (SOMA 029CD/LP), was recorded). The Benegals were friends (and Shantha Benegal was also a student) of Dagarsahib who sometimes hosted Hindustani music concerts in their home. It's a rare glimpse of a more intimate, personal and perhaps different kind of performance considering the form of dhrupad." --Stephen O'Malley, March 2018, Paris, France Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.

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DAGAR, USTAD ZIA MOHIUDDIN	Raga Yaman	2LP	IDEOLOGIC ORGAN	SOMA 029LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Double LP version. "Around ten years ago, deep into a cozy and hazy night following a concert with my sound brothers Daniel O'Sullivan and Kristoffer Rygg in London (as Æthenor), they graciously introduced me to a recording of rudra veena (a kind of noble deeper bass relative to the sitar, in a way) as performed by dhrupad master Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. Dhrupad is a branch of Hindustani classical music said to 'show the raga in its clearest and purest form'. It's pacing concentrates heavily on the slow, contemplative alap section and works with specific microtonal gestures and deep characteristics of resonance . . . In early 2015 I was able to make contact with Zia Mohiuddin Dagar's son Bahauddin and some of his American students/disciples, primarily Jeff Lewis. Over time we developed a friendly and educational exchange, access to a massive archive of recordings and developed these two paired titles for my label . . . I'm proud to be able to reveal these to date unreleased archival recordings of one of the masters of dhrupad, Z. M. Dagar, to the public for the first time. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar was the nineteenth generation in a family tradition known as Dagar gharana, a rich lineage which continued and performed the musical form of dhrupad. Initially, dhrupad was a rigorous, austere, devotional genre that was sung in Hindu temples. But between the 16th and the 18th centuries, it became the preeminent genre in royal courts in North and Central India, and the Dagar gharana developed and continued publicly following the eventual loss of court patronage for dhrupad in the 19th century. The French ethnomusicologist Renaud Brizard covers the story of Zia Mohiuddin Dagar's life and teaching, the Dagar family and gharana, the rudra veena and more topics in an extensive set of liner notes in this release. Raga Yaman was recorded at a public concert in Seattle at the HUB Ballroom at the University of Washington in March 1986 (the week after the accompanying release Ragas Abhogi & Vardhani (SOMA 028CD/LP) was recorded) at the end of his last tour of the United States. Yaman was a special raga for Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, one of his signature raags. For centuries, Yaman has been considered as one of the most fundamental ragas in Hindustani music and is one of the first ragas which is taught to students." --Stephen O'Malley, March 2018, Paris, France Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.

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DJ SLYM FAS	Teahouse Sessions	12"	STEP RECORDINGS	STEP 017EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Teahouse Sessions from DJ Slym Fas. Spell PETS backwards to get STEP. Spell STEP forwards and you get PETS going back to basics. STEP is the new vinyl-only label from the founders of PETS -- Catz N' Dogz -- with a focus on the rawest forms and root functions of dance music. STEP Recordings searches for the fundamentals with under-the-radar house and techno that's not afraid to be rough around the edges. It's all about the music.

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SPACEMEN 3	Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To	2LP	SUPERIOR VIADUCT	SV 154LP
$34.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 "Amidst the swirl that is Spacemen 3's discography, Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To occupies a pivotal position -- one right at the nexus between their garage beginnings and their expansionist future. While much of this material is expanded upon via Sound Of Confusion and The Perfect Prescription, many devotees consider these urgent, minimally treated recordings as the prime document of Spacemen 3 at this stage. Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To casts Spacemen 3 alongside the mid-80s cadre of UK front-line rockers, contributing a distinct variation of high pop shining through layered noisy guitars. Ultimately, this collection serves to exalt the strength of Spacemen 3's songwriting over the atmospherics and production assemblage that would permeate their later efforts. Be it the rave-up rendering of 'The Sound Of Confusion' or the churning take on 'Losing Touch With My Mind', these full band recordings capture the excited and inspirational spark of psychedelia rather than deep-dive ruminations on sonics and space."

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VA	Patina Echoes	2LP	TIMEDANCE	TIMEDANCE 001LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Timedance's first releases of 2018 sees the label embark on a new journey. The Patina Echoes compilation is a collection of tracks from a new exciting breed of young producers worldwide. Designed as coherent long-player, every track combines an aesthetic of synthetic sounds imitating natural phenomena. The range of outcomes is captivating and unified, a mission statement of a younger generation driving to create forward thinking, exciting music. Features Cleyra, Via Maris, Simo Cell, Rae, Metrist, Nico, Neinzer, and Ploy.

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THYLADOMID	Places	LP	TRAUM	TRAUM 221LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Traum release the second album of Cologne-born producer Thyladomid. Thyladomid is famous for his forward thinking deep melodic dance music which earned him respect and support from many people of the scene and evolved also in collaborations with Adriatique and the singer Mahfoud. You'll find two tracks featuring Mahfoud on this album. With his first album Interstellar Destiny (DIYNAMIC 012CD/LP, 2012) Thyladomid had already changed towards more introspective music and you will hear he has taken that a step further here. In comparison to his first album, Places refers to different places which inspired him to write the album and offers a higher level of complexity in the making of music which has helped Thyladomid to enhance the moody quality in a dazzling way sometimes even spine tingling when you let yourself go to explore the abundance of the tracks. Thyladomid started working on the album two-and-a-half years ago. His classical training on the piano helped to quickly come up with a musical theme which is based on different tonalities which were then linked to each other and which actually helped to structure the whole release. "A Little Church In Amsterdam" is a track where melodies bloom and flourish. It feels like zooming in on nature grasping a time lapse symphony. "Blossoming Limburg" with Mahfoud was born in the capital of Limburg which is located in the south of The Netherlands and reflects the summer of 2017 and was recorded in a warehouse. "Night Owl" is a lyrical dreamy piano piece with a melancholic note and an ear for details -- acoustic finesse presented on an episodic scale. "Kollwitzplatz" is a small park in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg which was Thyladomid's home for two years. Musically "Kollwitzplatz" is full of life: You can hear children talking while the piano attracts sounds like moths are attracted to light. The track offers this richness of percussive elements and sound sources creating a stunning complexity which does not limiting itself but rather creates this free flow of acoustic signals. "Underwater Rhapsody", the title says it all: it has that episodic, free-flowing structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, color, and tonality. What it actually means to the listener is that grand chords meet dissonances of sound that fly in like drones cross the big-time melodies that gain a centrifugal force at times... Artwork by Florian Kramer.

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LEAP, THE	The Leap EP	12"	TRIPEO	TRIPCOL 002EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The Leap is the new project of Dutch producers Tripeo and Doka. "Shock Doctrine" is a slow-building yet powerful piece of gloomy, hypnotic techno, followed by the exceptionally deep and undulating "Borrowed Time" that combines soft atmospheric textures with distinct fragile melodies. The duo showcases once again seamless production skills and with "Green Capital" they set a nostalgic mood, a trancey journey filled with crisp hi-hats and snares. The mind-bending closing track "Sustainable Communities" creates dancefloor tension with its piercing metallic synth lines.

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ZU/MATS GUSTAFSSON	How To Raise An Ox	LP	TROST	TROST 171LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Trost presents the first vinyl edition of How To Raise An Ox by Zu and Mats Gustafsson. Initially released on CD in 2005 by Atavistic. Features new cover artwork. Long-running intense jazz/noise-core band Zu from Italy teams up with Viking-saxophonist extraordinaire Gustafsson (The Thing, Fire!). Mastering by Andy Moor (The Ex) and Colin McLean. Personnel: Mats Gustafsson - baritone saxophone; Luca Tommaso Mai - baritone saxophone; Massimo Pupillo - bass; Jacopo Battaglia - drums.

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HARNIK/JOELLE LEANDRE, ELISABETH	Tender Music	CD	TROST	TROST 172CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Beautiful, insightful improvisation pieces by two master-musicians full of creativity and musical knowledge. Mastered by Jean-Marc Foussat. Liner notes by Ken Vandermark. Artwork by Lasse Marhaug. Personnel: Elisabeth Harnik - piano; Joëlle Léandre - double bass.

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STROPPIES, THE	Maddest Moments/Architectural Charades	7"	TOUGH LOVE	TVL 114EP
$8.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The Stroppies return with two new songs. Tracked with Zac Schneider of Totally Mild between Phaedra Studios and a small garden shed, the record sees the band moving away from the limits of the lounge room studio for the first time and into more robust sonic territories. Both songs deal with specific types of urban anxiety. The A side, "Maddest Moments", espouses a kind of inside-looking-out perspective. Over-stimulated outside, you return home to find you're still stuck. The B side, "Architectural Charades", is a tribute to ugly buildings and the minds that conceive them.

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CONTROLLED DEATH	Symphony For The Black Murder	LP	URASHIMA	UMA 125LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Controlled Death is a new project by the Japanese noise legend Masonna and this is first official release after a live show in Osaka, Japan. The tracks on the record are based on obsessive and compulsive synth drones with voice, effects, and tapes. The smell of death is soaked in every sound produced by the brilliant mind of Maso Yamazaki. Anxiety, alienation, and hypochondria turn into a deep paranoia in pain. Without hesitation, the bodies are emptied, leaving the field to an electronics purulence of rare power disconcerting: a perfect Symphony For The Black Murder. 180 gram vinyl; Black inner sleeve and deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard outer sleeve; Includes poster; Edition of 199 (hand-numbered).

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SKIN CRIME X WILT	The Horror of Fang Rock	LP+CD	URASHIMA	UMA 126LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The Horror of Fang Rock is a continuation of Skin Crime's fascination with the theme of gothic horror as it relates to 18th and 19th century lighthouses. An audible soundtrack to a tale of terror for an unreleased lighthouse keeper's memoir. Dark drones, scarecrow electronics, and nightmare ambience ebb-and-flow over the entire opus. There are no track titles just a wall of sound to let the listener's own experience fill in the voids of the nightmare of, The Horror of Fang Rock. The recording process involved Skin Crime sending Wilt sound sources through the mail. Wilt would then add sounds and send back for review. This process extended over several months. Once completed Wilt did the final mix and mastering and final art. 180 gram vinyl; black inner sleeve and deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard outer sleeve; Edition of 199 (hand-numbered).

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BAKER/BUD SHANK/LEITH STEVENS, CHET	Theme Music From The James Dean Story	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82018LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Wax Love present a reissue of Theme Music From The James Dean Story, originally released in 1957. The James Dean Story is a 1957 documentary on the life of the legendary American film actor James Dean, depicted through dramatic use of still photography and interviews. Composed by Leith Stevens and featuring a veritable who's who of West Coast cool jazz, the moody score perfectly encapsulates the life of the brilliant and troubled heartthrob, a man whose influence on American culture of the 20th can't be exaggerated. With a band that includes Chet Baker, Bud Shank, Pepper Adams, and Don Fagerquist, with arrangements by the brilliant Johnny Mandel, you know this is going to be full of swinging and classy arrangements and soloing, and moody ballad work. A truly great piece of West Coast jazz, the soundtrack to a film about one of the most idolized actors in American film history.

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HOOKER, JOHN LEE	Mambo Chillun: Vee-Jay Singles 1955-1958	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82053LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Following stints with Modern and Chess, legendary blues man John Lee Hooker joined forces with the esteemed Vee-Jay label out of Chicago in 1955. For the next seven years Hooker cut some of the most explosive and legendary blues sides of his career and solidified his position as one of the greatest performers of the electric blues era. By the 1960s the folk and blues revival would make international stars of many blues performers but at the time of these Vee-Jay recordings this was music made by African-Americans mostly for the African-American market, from Chicago to the South to Los Angeles and New York and points between, and Vee-Jay was one of the first and most successful African-American owned record labels. While many of his earlier sides featured only Hooker on guitar and vocals, his Vee-Jay sides feature a full rocking rhythm section. Essential sides from one of the all-time greatest American performers of the 20th century. This first volume, Mambo Chillun, spans the years 1955-1958, and includes the titular "Mambo Chillun" a play on his classic hit, "Boogie Chillun", as well as 16 more great late '50s blues sides.

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HOOKER, JOHN LEE	Boom Boom: Vee-Jay Singles 1959-1962	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82054LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Following stints with Modern and Chess, legendary blues man John Lee Hooker joined forces with the esteemed Vee-Jay label out of Chicago in 1955. For the next seven years Hooker cut some of the most explosive and legendary blues sides of his career and solidified his position as one of the greatest performers of the electric blues era. By the 1960s the folk and blues revival would make international stars of many blues performers but at the time of these Vee-Jay recordings this was music made by African-Americans mostly for the African-American market, from Chicago to the South to Los Angeles and New York and points between, and Vee-Jay was one of the first and most successful African-American owned record labels. While many of his earlier sides featured only Hooker on guitar and vocals, his Vee-Jay sides feature a full rocking rhythm section. Essential sides from one of the all-time greatest American performers of the 20th century. This first volume, Mambo Chillun, spans the years 1955-1958, and includes the titular "Mambo Chillun" a play on his classic hit, "Boogie Chillun", as well as 16 more great late '50s blues sides. This second volume, Boom Boom, spans the years 1959-1962 and includes classics like "Boom Boom", "Want Ad Blues", and 16 more great Hooker blues joints.

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CASH, JOHNNY	Louisiana Hayride Recordings	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82058LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 The late, great Johnny Cash made appearances on the legendary radio and TV show broadcast out of Shreveport, LA in 1955, 1959, 1962, and 1963. Louisiana Hayride Recordings collects recordings from all of those performances. Though you know and love his studio hits, Cash was often at his best in front of a live audience and his performances here leave no doubt about that. With stunning performances from his Tennessee Two, the loose, humorous vibe of these recordings highlight Cash's best side. Absolutely essential.

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SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS	A Spell On You: B-Sides And Rarities	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82059LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 A comprehensive collection of the early, pre-debut LP singles from one of the most controversial front-men of early rock and roll. With his classically-trained bass-baritone singing voice, Screamin' Jay Hawkins conjured up ghoulish images both on stage and on his records. Hawkins, evoking voodoo images and using bone-rattling sound effects, simultaneously entertained and bewildered rock and roll fans. Featuring his all-time classic "I Put a Spell on You", along with a batch of hard-to-find classics from his Okeh Records days. Essential.

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DYLAN, BOB	Long Time Gone	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82060LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 After the release of his self-titled debut in 1962, Bob Dylan spent the rest of that year and 1963 working on songwriting demos of his various publishing company clients. Long Time Gone compiles the best songwriting demos from that fruitful period. Along with early versions of stone-cold classics like "Masters Of War", "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", and "The Times They Are-A-Changin'", this collection of a young Dylan at the start of his brilliant half-century plus career also includes long-forgotten beautiful obscurities like "All Over You" and "Walkin' Down The Line". Essential early demos from America's greatest 20th century songwriter.

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MAKEBA, MIRIAM	Mama Afrika: The Early Years	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82061LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Following her 1959 appearance in the anti-Apartheid film Come Back, Africa South African native Miriam Makeba vaulted into the international spotlight, fell under the tutelage of Harry Belafonte, and moved to New York City in 1960 where she immediately became a massive recording sensation. This LP collects some of that brilliant early material that launched her career and made her one of the most beloved voices of the 20th century.

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SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS	Baptize Me In Wine	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82062LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 In a long line of rock and roll outsiders hailing from Ohio, Screamin' Jay Hawkins may very well be the first. Born and raised in Cleveland, Hawkins' 1956 single "I Put A Spell On You" is one of the most instantly recognizable songs in the history of R'n'B and rock. Baptize Me In Wine compiles that classic track along with 18 other specimens of pure, unhinged, guttural R'n'B madness into what is sure to be considered the definitive Hawkins collection on the vinyl market. Most tracks were originally released as singles on the Okeh label except for the last four, which are outtakes from the first album. Before Devo, before Pere Ubu, before Guided By Voices, there was Screamin' Jay. There really must be something in the water out there.

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DAVIS, MILES	Porgy & Bess	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82066LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Wax Love present a reissue of Miles Davis's Porgy & Bess, originally released in 1958. Recorded in four sessions in 1958 at Columbia's 30th Street Studios with a large group that included Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, this album is Miles Davis and longtime collaborator Gil Evans's brilliant arrangement of the 1935 Ira Gershwin classic Porgy & Bess. Miles Davis was one of the all-time greatest interpreters of standards and with the arrangements from Evans, this album might be the best example of Davis's interpretive prowess. A beautiful piece of 1950s jazz on Wax Love.

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BAKER, CHET	It Could Happen To You	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82070LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Wax Love present a reissue of Chet Baker's It Could Happen To You, originally released in 1958. It Could Happen To You follows a similar style to his previous vocal records in which he updates old standards to a contemporary cool jazz setting. Unlike previous releases, by 1958 Baker's voice had reached a stunning maturity and his trumpet playing is also at a near peak in quality. The song selection is impeccable and everything about this record just oozes coolness. One of the finest releases in Chet Baker's storied career.

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BROONZY, BIG BILL	Who's Sorry Now	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82071LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Big Bill Broonzy experienced more in his 55 years on this planet than most. Before his recording career began in Chicago in the 1920s he had already been married, worked as a sharecropper, a Pullman porter, a cook, and served for two years in World War I. After cutting some of the most legendary blues 78s in the '20s and '30s, despite some success, Broonzy still had to work odd jobs through most of the '40s to survive and by the time the folk revival and Pete Seeger found him, he only had a few years left. This collection documents those final years, from 1951 to 1958, where Broonzy was touring Europe and finally receiving some of the worldwide acclaim he had long deserved. Though these recordings come at the end of his life, his guitar skill is honed and his voice like a fine aged whiskey. Another incredible collection of American blues from Wax Love.

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HOUSE, SON	This Little Light Of Mine	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82072LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Son House is one of the most legendary Southern blues men in history. Just before the Great Depression he recorded some sessions for Paramount that sold very little and when the Depression hit, his recording career was halted. It wasn't until the Library of Congress and Fisk University recorded him at Klack's Store, Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, in August 1941 and again in July of 1942 at Robinsonville, Mississippi. Those recordings have come to define his career and are a hallmark of the blues genre. Wax Love present a glorious retrospective compilation of those recordings, with some of his most well-known tunes like "Shetland Pony Blues", "Low Down Dirty Dog Blues", and "Walking Blues". Classic.

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PIAF, EDITH	Les Plus Belles Chansons	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82073LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Edith Piaf lived a tortured life. She died at 47 of liver cancer after years of alcohol abuse and pill addiction, and it's reported that her last words were "Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for". While that's a hard way to live, her pain and emotion rang true in song, and there's not a better or more gut-wrenching torch singer in history than Ms. Piaf. Collecting some of her most famous recordings, including the immortal "La Vie En Rose", "Tout Fout Le Camp", and "Le Vagabond", this is a brilliant retrospective of her career and a perfect entry point into the world of one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century.

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VINCENT & HIS BLUES CAPS, GENE	Bluejean Bop!	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82074LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Wax Love present a reissue of Gene Vincent & His Blues Caps' Bluejean Bop!, originally released in 1956. Things moved fast for Gene Vincent, he rocketed to stardom in 1956 on the heels of his massive hit "Be-Bop-A-Lula" and had Bluejean Bop!, his debut album, out and in stores before the end of that year. Featuring killer early rock and roll as well as some covers of standards, Bluejean Bop! is a quintessential album of the early era of rock.

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HOPKINS, LIGHTNIN'	Rockin' At Herald	LP	WAX LOVE	WLV 82075LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 Wax Love present a reissue of Lightnin' Hopkins's Rockin' At Herald, originally released as Lightnin' And The Blues in 1960. Recorded in Houston in 1954 and released on the New York Herald label, these classic recordings of Hopkins feature him on amplified guitar with bass and drums. These are not the folk-blues many associate with Hopkins, these are raw and glorious R&B-tinged blues recordings way more for the juke joints than the folk festivals. Lightnin' Hopkins is one of the most crucial blues musicians in history, and these are his most rocking and raucous sides ever!

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CHISHOLM & FELIX SKINNER, BEN	Burgeoning Verse	12"	WEYRD SON RECORDS	WYS 022EP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 In early 2013 Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe) and Felix Skinner (Wreck & Reference) conspired an escape. In a simulated oak-paneled studio, unconstrained by the limitations of real-life recording, the two availed themselves of the finest and latest simulated musical equipment. Armed with a dizzying array of vintage guitars, drums, bassoons, analog synthesizers, and boutique effect pedals (all simulated), the two churned out ten songs, recorded onto simulated 2" reel-to-reel tapes over the course of a single 36-hour marathon recording session.

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SECOND STILL	Equals	12"	WEYRD SON RECORDS	WYS 023EP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/1/2018 While the songs from this newest release retain the sheer power and intensity of Second Still's previous two releases, Equals sees the band evolving their sound and progressing forward. The four main components of the band's signature sound are still there -- chorus and delay-heavy guitar, hypnotic bass grooves, heavyweight drum machine beats, and hauntingly beautiful vocal melodies -- but they have added analog synthesizers into the arsenal. Commanding synth bass, subtle ambient soundscapes, and forceful lead synth hooks now supplement and enhance their distinctive sound.

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PISANO, BERTO	Death Smiles On A Murderer	2LP	ARROW RECORDS	AR 006LP
$42.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 6/8/2018 "Arrow Records is proud to present the original soundtrack to Aristide Massaccesi's haunting and dreamlike Italian horror film, Death Smiles On A Murderer. Previously unpublished on vinyl, Berto Pisano's score is a diverse selection of captivating compositions which moves from achingly beautiful love themes (which tastefully employ strings, trumpet and Edda Dell'orso's ethereal vocals) to darkly morbid suspense cues augmented with off-kilter percussion and fuzz guitar. This limited gold vinyl edition has been newly mastered from the original analogue tapes by James Plotkin and is presented on 180 gram wax, housed inside a 350gsm sleeve. Featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx, and accompanying liner notes by Stephen Thrower."

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DATASHOCK	Krauter Der Provinz	2LP+CD	BUREAU B	BB 299LP