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UMBRA	Umbra	LP	LION PRODUCTIONS	LION 178LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/28/2020 "What was available to unknown hard rocking dreamers like Umbra in Denver in 1971-72? Weekend gigs. Nothing but weekend gigs. But there was an upside to that: bands like Umbra could mix original material in with covers, and make enough money to survive. Or in the case of Umbra, to make enough money to build a home studio, where they recorded ads to promote their upcoming shows -- and eventually, laid down the eight tracks on this disc. Everything was recorded by bouncing tracks back and forth between two-track and four-track reel-to-reel tape recorders. Spacey intros and weird effects were created by recording guitar licks, then re-recording them played backwards at double speed. What sounds like a flute was the result of blowing over the top of a 14" goose neck (believe it or not). The resulting tracks are hard edged and heavy, verging on acid rock at times. Makes sense, as Umbra was a power trio most of their too-brief existence. Yet the songs (heavy though they are) have a deft touch. There are weird effects, space rock elements, plenty of melody, and a refreshing category-free approach to writing songs that makes Umbra's music exciting to hear. Our Lion LP edition comes with an 8-page LP-sized color booklet, with lyrics, photos, plus interesting and funny things that can only happen to musicians, and did to Umbra. We know that band bios can be sterile and boring or can move to the opposite spectrum, rife with grandiose embellishment. Umbra's story is neither. Instead, it is the story is the story of a band from the early 1970's who recorded what they wanted to record: heavy, heavy music from the start of the 'American Comedown Era' (as we've seen it described by friends for their Brown Acid series of compilations). Umbra's story is also that of a band whose music, terrific though it is, has never to this point been released out into the wide world. Prepare yourselves to be surprised -- and we hope as impressed as we are -- by what Umbra had to offer. First ever release of any recordings by this fascinating heavy rock group from Colorado. 8-page LP-sized color booklet with lyrics, photos, and stories from the road."

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UNDERHER	False Promises EP	12"	2DIY4	2DIY4 023EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 False promises, true emotions. It isn't what you say, but how you say it. What you mean. How you act. UNDERHER delivers slow, sensual tales of heartbreak. Complex rhythms sounding like the feeling in your chest when you find out your lover has been unfaithful. The chilling voices of Neev, Liz Cass, and October's Child add a sweet sincerity to the dramatic compositions of Montreal-born, Berlin-based Khaled Bess, better known as UNDERHER, and together create the three tracks that make listening to the False Promises EP so worthwhile.

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HAJIME, CHITOSE	Hajime Uta Yugen Amami Shima-uta Remix EP (remixed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ras G, Tim Hecker, more)	LP	AU(G)TUNES	ATS 065LP
$51.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 "Grammy-nominated Japanese folk singer Chitose Hajime remixed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ras G and Tim Hecker. Hajime has been performing the traditional island music called Amami Shima Uta since she was a teenager. Hailing from the southernmost island of Japan, Amami Oshima, grammy nominated vocalist Chitose Hajime last year released the album Amami Shima-Uta, named after the traditional music of her home island. Six pieces from the album have now been expertly given the remix treatment. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tim Hecker, Dorian Concept and the late Ras G are just some of the artists tasked with remixing tracks from Amami Shima-Uta, which was released last year. Hajime-Uta Yugen -- Chitose Hajime Amami Shima-Uta Remix showcases genre-spanning interpretations on the traditional island folk music that Hajime has been performing since she was a teenager. Chihei Hatakeyama, Ryuichi Sakamoto and the late Ras G all deliver abstracted ambient cuts, filled with gorgeous, brooding textures and sparse arrangements. Tim Hecker goes for a more contemporary approach, the result being a heavily auto-tuned interpretation with plenty of glassy synths for good measure. Ninja Tune associate Dorian Concept, in his unique way bucks the trend and serves up a bouncy, skipping take, far removed from the approach of the others. Finally, Shintaro Sakamoto delivers a truly bizarre version that (in a brilliant way) sounds like very unnerving elevator music. A new song created by the fusion of different genres. The jacket is designed by Mitsuo Shinto as well as 'Genroku-Gen Chitose Amami Shima Collection', and the work of Japanese painter Ichimura Tanaka is used. 130 gram black vinyl in a single-pocket jacket."

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GOLIA WIND QUARTET, VINNY	Live At The Century City Playhouse: Los Angeles, 1979	CD	DARK TREE	DTSR 008CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 "Vinny Golia, John Carter, Bobby Bradford and Glenn Ferris: phenomenal, exploratory, dexterous and astounding jazz! Vinny Golia Wind Quartet - Live at the Century City Playhouse - Los Angeles, 1979 - Vinny Golia (woodwinds), John Carter (clarinet), Bobby Bradford (cornet), Glenn Ferris (trombone)."

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TASE	Tase	CD	FILM	FILM 004CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Eight early songs written and produced by Tase, recorded on 16-track tape machine. Neues Deutschland Studio 2010-2011. Tase is producer Sven Rieger. Co-founder of SUED, Rieger records under aliases SVN and Ixus and in groups such as AU, Département d'Éducation Psychique, Dreesvn, and S.P. Posse.

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CRY BABIES	Cry Babies	LP	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FORDIS 006LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Far Out Recordings present the first ever vinyl reissue of Cry Babies' self-titled debut album, originally released in 1969. An early formation of Brazilian funk greats Banda Black Rio, Cry Babies took inspiration from the iconic US soul records of James Brown, The Isley Brothers, and Kool & The Gang, all of whom are covered on their first and only album. Pioneering Brazil's funk fascination, Cry Babies paved the way for the likes of Jorge Ben, Dom Salvador, Trio Mocotó, and Azymuth: with fat, funky drum breaks, big round bass, touches of psychedelic Brazilian surf, and the kind of hazy soulful arrangements that could only emerge from Rio de Janeiro. Produced by one of Brazil's most prolific musical minds, Durval Ferreira -- whose songwriting and production credits also include Sergio Mendes, Deodato, Emilio Santiago, Ed Lincoln, Joao Bosco, Quarteto Em Cy, and Dila -- the Cry Babies sound, while distinctly North American in influence, carries all the sunshine warmth of the samba jazz and bossa nova records that were coming out of Brazil at the time. With saxophonist Oberdan Magalhães responsible for the album's arrangements, it's no surprise that when Warner Music established themselves in Brazil in the mid-seventies, Magalhães was the man they asked to form a group (Banda Black Rio) to develop this new merging of stateside soul and Brazilian influences. Yet while Banda Black Rio's tight, groove-heavy sound has awarded them cult status amongst lovers of instrumental Brazilian music, their first formation as Cry Babies is a lesser-known story. Since its first and only release, the original record has remained impossibly expensive and hard to find. This first ever vinyl reissue has been remastered and pressed to 180 gram vinyl, with a high-quality replica sleeve.

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DEAD PREZ	Lets Get Free	2LP	GET ON DOWN	GET 51311LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 2020 repress. "dead prez may have been slightly ahead of their time during their golden years, but that is definitely meant as a compliment. Sermonizing Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and the benefits of a healthy and just lifestyle during the height of the Bad Boy / Roc-AFella era of nihilistic excess in the late '90s, they also signed to a major label (Loud / Columbia) despite leaning much more towards the burgeoning indie aesthetics of the day. But this was a good thing -- using major label muscle to wake up righteous hip-hop fans who might have fallen asleep at the wheel. The group itself -- consisting of MCs stic.man and M-1, who produced or co-produced most of the duo's music -- was formed in Tallahassee, Florida in the early 1990s (M-1 originally hailed from Brooklyn). By later that decade, the duo had started making significant waves, having their music heard on the soundtracks to Soul In The Hole and Slam, as well as appearing on albums by Big Pun and The Beatnuts. By 1998, they released their first official single, the serious, stark 'Police State,' on Loud, appropriately brought to the label by Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian. After building a solid rep over the next two years with fiery live performances, in 2000 they unleashed their debut album, Let's Get Free. The album was a welcome return to provocative and often radically political rhetoric that hearkened back to hip-hop forebears including The Coup, Public Enemy and KRS-One (as well as poetic descendants like the Last Poets and Watts Prophets). Let's Get Free was critically acclaimed and benefited from multiple singles, including the infectious, thick analog drive of 'Hip-Hop' (which became the de facto theme song for 'Chappelle's Show'); 'It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop,' with a remix co-produced by a young Kanye West; 'Mind Sex' (with Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets); and the poignant 'I'm An African.' But the singles weren't the only worthy songs, as just about every cut here has deeper meaning than most full albums by their early 2000s peers. Highlights: the thought-provoking, anti-drug album opener 'Wolves'; 'We Want Freedom' (co-produced by frequent collaborator Hedrush); 'They Schools' and 'Propaganda' (co-produced by Lord Jamar, one of five songs he assisted on). All in all, this is one of the more underrated and possibly Top 5 fully-realized political hip-hop albums of all time. If you don't agree with the previous sentence, give Let's Get Free another listen... you might be surprised at how well it has held up over the years."

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MILTON, TED	The Odes	CD	KLANGGALERIE	GG 303CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 "Ted Milton is an English poet and musician, best known for leading Blurt, an experimental art rock jazz group. Milton grew up in Africa, Canada and Great Britain. He published some early poems in magazines like Paris Review and Brian Patten's Underdog. In the mid-sixties he began performing as a puppeteer, participating in numerous international festivals and appearing on So It Goes, the TV show hosted by Tony Wilson. He contributed a short scene for Terry Gilliam's film Jabberwocky. In the late seventies he began to play alto-saxophone and founded the group Blurt. The first single 'My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People' was soon followed by the live album In Berlin. Since then Blurt have released more than 20 records. While living in Brussels in the mid-1990s, Milton started making book-objects with found materials. These were shown at several exhibitions and have been taken up in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris as well as in the British Library. In 1984, Ted Milton released his first solo single, 'Love is like a Violence', recorded with Steve Beresford, followed by 'Ode: O to be Seen through Your Eyes' one year later. Ever since, Ted has released material outside of Blurt, with various musical partners and in various styles and constellations. Klanggalerie are now happy to present the first CD collection of these songs under the title The Odes."

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ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO	Cinetica	CD	GEOMETRIK	GR 2148CD
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Esplendor Geométrico, the influential "industrial" pioneers of the pulsating, hypnotic, and mechanical rhythms, returns with a new album Cinëtica, after their previous Fluida Mekaniko (GR 2140CD/LP, 2016). Based now in Shanghai and Rome, they have not stopped their live performances all over the world in the last two years (Germany, Spain, Russia, UK, France, Italy, and recently Chile) with great success. The material was recorded between 2018- 2019. Cinética gives a twist to the line that the group has followed in their last albums, highlighted by a more elaborate sound. A less raw sound, but without losing the essence of EG: hypnotic rhythms and innovative industrial music, danceable and tribal sometimes. Certain songs like "Acoplamiento Internacional" and "Modulaciones", with Eastern and African voices, remember the classic LP Mekano Turbo (1988) that is considered as one of the best albums of EG. In Cinética, there are filtered and natural voices, broken, mechanical and industrial rhythms, synthesizers layers, percussion, noise, distortion, Mongolian chants... Esplendor Geométrico celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2020 and prepares special editions for that year. They have developed a unique style since 1980 that influenced many "industrial" musicians around the world, including the new trends of industrial techno. CD version includes two bonus tracks; edition of 500.

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BLACK RAINBOWS	Pandaemonium (Green Fluo)	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 073D-LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 LP version. Limited edition green fluo vinyl. Black Rainbows are back two years from their last album, Stellar Prophecy (HPS 037CD/LP/LTD-LP, 2016) with a magnificent new full-length comprised of nine tracks for about 45 minutes of music. Pandaemonium has this mix of new wave of stoner-occult riffing a la Black Sabbath, but in a heavier way. Some of the songs remind of Fu Manchu but sound heavier than ever, and then you have one long doom-sludge-stoner suite ("Grindstone"), and a couple of lysergic, dreamy, heavy psych songs that will blow your mind. The album sounds killer and was recorded at Forward Studios, one of Italy's finest recording spaces. Produced by Gabriele Fiori and engineered by Fabio Sforza, with a special focus on the drums, handled for the first time in Black Rainbows by Filippo Ragazzoni. Bass riffing is solid and has a mellow sound, and the wall of fuzz from Fiori's guitars will drive you nuts. Artwork will be, for the third time for the band, from the visionary SoloMacello. This is the sixth studio album for the band, and by far the best one yet. It's the most solid and complete album they have ever recorded.

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BLACK RAINBOWS	Pandaemonium (Yellow Splatter)	LP	HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS	HPS 073Y-LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 LP version. Limited edition yellow splatter vinyl. Black Rainbows are back two years from their last album, Stellar Prophecy (HPS 037CD/LP/LTD-LP, 2016) with a magnificent new full-length comprised of nine tracks for about 45 minutes of music. Pandaemonium has this mix of new wave of stoner-occult riffing a la Black Sabbath, but in a heavier way. Some of the songs remind of Fu Manchu but sound heavier than ever, and then you have one long doom-sludge-stoner suite ("Grindstone"), and a couple of lysergic, dreamy, heavy psych songs that will blow your mind. The album sounds killer and was recorded at Forward Studios, one of Italy's finest recording spaces. Produced by Gabriele Fiori and engineered by Fabio Sforza, with a special focus on the drums, handled for the first time in Black Rainbows by Filippo Ragazzoni. Bass riffing is solid and has a mellow sound, and the wall of fuzz from Fiori's guitars will drive you nuts. Artwork will be, for the third time for the band, from the visionary SoloMacello. This is the sixth studio album for the band, and by far the best one yet. It's the most solid and complete album they have ever recorded.

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AIRCHINA	LP 2	LP	ITALIC	ITA 115LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Airchina is a weightless instrumental machine music, sometimes ghostly anthropomorphized with a hushed voice or a synthetic choir. Airchina is playful-melodious electronic music of and for today, which also takes its cue from global ambient and pop music from the end of the 1970s to the end of the 1980s. Airchina is a solo project by Nikolai Szymanski. LP 2 is his second release, his debut album LP 1 was released in summer 2018 on Italic. Nikolai Szymanski (born 1986, Düsseldorf) is an artist living and working in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany. He uses a wide variety of media with a focus on film/video, performance and music --whereby all areas give each other impulses. In a narrower artistic framework (exhibition, gallery) he stages his works site-specifically and in installations. Performative interventions (for example at BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Summer 2019) form the soft transition to his musical work. Together with Lucas Croon and Martin Sonnensberger Nikolai Szymanski is a founding member as well as singer of the band Stabil Elite. After concerts in China, Szymanski created the video work Airchina, the title he uses as a name for his current solo project; in his musical work Nikolai Szymanski is responsible for composition, lyrics, production, singing and performance, paying attention to a stringent appearance from cover design to stage appearance.

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BREAK THE LIMITS	Part Two	12"	MUSIQUE POUR LA DANSE	MPD 022EP
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Musique Pour La Danse invites you to rock your body and free your brain with the second volume of Break The Limits. Break The Limits are Bay B Kane and Mister E, two East London underground pioneers who released pivotal and visionary EPs between 1990 and 1991. Together, they produced some of the most innovative music of the era, a blueprint for the emerging warehouse/hardcore/breakbeat scene in the UK. In the same way 1977 was a crucial year for punk's explosion, 1990 was a madly creative and truly revolutionary year for dance music, the essence of which is captured in these tracks. Picture this: a low ceiling sweating red brick basement somewhere at Marshgate Lane, where multicolored lasers, turbo soundsystem. and wacky dancers in ecstatic rush. DJs like Fabio, Bukem, or Matthew B would spin an evil blend of early hardcore and trippy NY house, with live PA set by up and coming acts like The Prodigy, Unique 3, or Satin Storm. This was universal unity, complete mayhem, and total freedom taking a country by storm, with a mutant groove that later became the grooves of all the grooves. Nearly 30 years later, it's still fresh. Produced in Satin Storm's studio (another pioneer), these have shades of deep house, techno bleeps, and rough breakbeat blended in an intuitive and innovative way.

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BREAK THE LIMITS	Part Three	12"	MUSIQUE POUR LA DANSE	MPD 023EP
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Musique Pour La Danse invites you to rock your body and free your brain with the third volume of Break The Limits. Break The Limits are Bay B Kane and Mister E, two East London underground pioneers who released pivotal and visionary EPs between 1990 and 1991. Together, they produced some of the most innovative music of the era, a blueprint for the emerging warehouse/hardcore/breakbeat scene in the UK. In the same way 1977 was a crucial year for punk's explosion, 1990 was a madly creative and truly revolutionary year for dance music, the essence of which is captured in these tracks. Picture this: a low ceiling sweating red brick basement somewhere at Marshgate Lane, where multicolored lasers, turbo soundsystem. and wacky dancers in ecstatic rush. DJs like Fabio, Bukem, or Matthew B would spin an evil blend of early hardcore and trippy NY house, with live PA set by up and coming acts like The Prodigy, Unique 3, or Satin Storm. This was universal unity, complete mayhem, and total freedom taking a country by storm, with a mutant groove that later became the grooves of all the grooves. Nearly 30 years later, it's still fresh. Produced in Satin Storm's studio (another pioneer), these have shades of deep house, techno bleeps, and rough breakbeat blended in an intuitive and innovative way.

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FLIPPER'S, THE	Discotheque	LP	MUNSTER RECORDS	MR 403LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Munster Records present the first facsimile reissue of The Flipper's Discotheque, originally released in 1966. Don't let their elegant suits sported on the front cover confuse you: The Flippers were ambassadors of the British Invasion in their native Colombia, but the strength of garage music, surf instrumentals, and psychedelia quickly became their true hallmarks. They are, undoubtedly, one of the essential bands of Colombian rock, as also are The Speakers or Los Yetis. You can easily imagine The Flipper's reigning on the hippest stages of Colombia in the late '60s, performing very rhythmic songs full of fuzzy and reverb infected guitars and fueling the audience's desire to dance wildly. That's how things worked back then. In 1964, Arturo Astudillo and Carlos Martínez formed the student group The Thunderbirds in Bogotá. One year later, after the line-up was enlarged with Miguel Durier and Guillermo Acevedo, the group was renamed as The Flipper's after the American TV series Flipper. Medellín based label Codiscos signed them after publishing an EP with several versions of current hits and soon released their first album. "Impromptu Jazz a Go Go, the first song on Discotheque, their debut LP, already drops some leads about where the band's musical interests were in 1966, the year this album was published. The guitars quickly catch the listener with the characteristic dynamism of the dolphin that gave name to the group while they share the leadership of the song with an energetic and forceful drumming. It somehow anticipates other sensational instrumental cuts on the album such as "Dance to Go Go" or "Master Flipper" that give full meaning to the title of the LP. There is also some room for the cover versions on this album: the timeless "Winchester Cathedral" or The Yardbirds' top hit "Over Under Sideways Down" are translated into Spanish with greater or lesser fortune while classics such as "Route 66" retain their original lyrics and charming. The relationship with their record company would be extended to one more LP, Psicodelicias, while the style of the group was beginning to move towards more progressive sounds. In the mid-70s The Flipper's would dissolve temporarily to later continue for a short period of time in the early '80s.

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TOBAR, RICARDO	After The Movie	12"	MUSAR	MUSAR 010EP
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Releasing his first ever vinyl release El Sunset on James Holden's, Border Community back in 2007, Chilean producer Ricardo Tobar has since been held in high regard by the seminal UK producer. Continuing to extend his already significant discography, he now returns to Musar for a third time with the After The Movie EP. Ricardo's EP forms a selection of cuts that have been held in his locker for quite some time. Uncovered by Musar label head, David on a podcast from way back, it seemed only natural that this unreleased music from Ricardo would find its home on the Amsterdam-Tel-Aviv label. Tobar on the release: "This EP is quite special to me because it reflects a long timeline in my work. The 'After The Movie' track had been in the vault for ages until David from Musar found it in an old podcast; it really takes me back to those first steps in recording music." Across his EP, Ricardo plays with varying textures and arrangements that in turn provide a cross-section of his sound that has expanded and developed over time. "After The Movie" presents the experimental ambience synonymous with his early works, whilst "Parques" brings an idyllic, cinematic feel with strictly crafted synth arrangements riding high, post-rock influences also show through. "Regain Your Power" represents a change of course, whilst also channeling a political message punctuated by social unrest taking place in Ricardo's home country, Chile. He abandons experimentalism in favor of tougher 4x4 elements, allowing his machines to run riot. "The mixture of ideas and feelings on this EP have a politically charged spirit, as electronic music always does. A few weeks after I finished 'Regain Your Power' the whole Chilean social explosion took place with the same ideals I had in mind when recording the track." Stepping up on the remix is a pair whose names are etched into the history of UK electronic music, Andy Turner and Ed Handley, aka Plaid. Reworking title track "After The Movie", they produce an emotive, soundscape complete with droning basslines and ex-terrestrial flourishes.

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SLUM VILLAGE & ABSTRACT ORCHESTRA	Fantastic 2020 V.1	LP	NE'ASTRA MUSIC GROUP	NMG 3202011LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 LP version. Volume 1 of a two volume set. Blue vinyl.

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SLUM VILLAGE & ABSTRACT ORCHESTRA	Fantastic 2020 V.2	LP	NE'ASTRA MUSIC GROUP	NMG 3202110LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 LP version. Volume 2 of a two volume set. Red vinyl.

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EVEN AS WE SPEAK	Blue Suburban Skies	7"	OPTIC NERVE	ON 205EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Originally released in 1987 on Australian label Big Home Productions both tracks were later re-released in 1990 on Sarah Records together with the "Goes So Slow" single as a five-track, 7" EP titled Nothing Ever Happens. This is the first time that the single has been released in the UK in its original format. Even As We Speak is an indie band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in the mid-1980s, founding members Matthew Love (guitar, banjo, vocals) and Mary Wyer (vocals, guitar) were later joined by Rob Irwin (bass), Anita Rayner (drums, banjo, mandolin), Julian Knowles (guitar, keyboards, production), and Paul Clarke (guitar, vocals). After a series of vinyl releases on Australian independent labels including Phantom Records, and success on the Australian indie scene, they came to the attention of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel who started to play the band's Goes So Slow Phantom Records release on his show. This brought them to the attention of UK audiences and began a relationship with UK indie label Sarah Records. The band released several singles and an album on Sarah Records, three of which reached the Top 5 of the Melody Maker and New Musical Express UK independent music charts in 1992 and 1993. Color vinyl; includes postcard and poster; Edition of 800.

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VASELINES, THE	Son Of A Gun	7"	OPTIC NERVE	ON 206EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 First appearance on 7" for The Vaselines' classic debut single that was originally released on 53rd & 3rd Records in 1987. Two of the three tracks that were on the 12" are included in this version. Color vinyl ; includes postcard and poster.

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VA	Wild Chile! A Collection of Rare and Wild 60's Chilean Rock 'N' Roll	LP	PINCHE DISCOS	PINCHE 005LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 A collection of rare and wild '60s Chilean rock n' roll. Time to celebrate! Here's a new installment of the Wild series, focused on wild, untamed Latin American rock n' roll from the '60s. This time Pinche Discos takes you to the beautiful land of Chile for a rollercoaster of wild sounds and smashing and obscure hits. In Wild Chile! you'll find, of course, wild rock n' roll but also crazed out twist, soul stompers, and a few fiery Instrumentals to boot. If you know the previous two volumes of this series you know what to expect: a record perfectly designed to make your next party explode, pure dynamite! Features Willy Monti & Los Tiburones, Los Atomos, Pepe Pato & Los Stereos, Los Primos, The Blue Splendor, Alan Y Sus Bates, Los Harmonic's, Los Caporales, Los Stereos, Flash Galindez, Los Beat 4, The Ramblers, Los Minimas, and Los Diablos Azules.

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CURRAN & JON ROSE, ALVIN	Cafe Grand Abyss	CD	RER MEGACORP	RER JRAC1
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 "Jon and Alvin on terrifying form: Alvin spookily surefooted in his deployment of an often-counterintuitive palette of sounds, and Jon just brilliant. Living legends: Alvin recently left 80 behind, Jon is facing down 70. The two have known each other since 1985, when they were both living in Berlin, and they've worked together on and off ever since. On this CD they look back to their earlier careers, when they were gainfully employed in bread and butter club bands: Jon in the house band of Club Marconi in Sydney where, in addition to playing Italian favourites and film music, he backed funky soul singers and topless go-go troupes, and Alvin, who says: 'So embedded is the cocktail pianist in my music, there are times when I think in medium bounces, or up-2's, slow 4's or Viennese 3's with the accent on the delayed 1, offset by single triplet rest.' Curran doesn't scratch or filter his samples but takes them straight; it's the choice of the samples that leads away from the main path. Rose responds -- or ignores -- with regular and amplified tenor violins. And when Alvin reaches for the Shofar, Jon picks up his 3-metre drainpipe with strings. And did I mention the singing saw?"

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SOLAL & BENOIT DELBECQ, CLAUDIA	Hopetown	CD	ROGUEART	ROG 094CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 "A matchless voice, an outstanding pianist, singular lyrics and music, a unique duo! Claudia Solal - Benoît Delbecq Hopetown - Claudia Solal (vocals), Benoît Delebcq (piano)."

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FRITH/NICOLAS HUMBERT/MARC PARISOTTO, FRED	Cut Up The Border	CD	ROGUEART	ROG 098CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 "One hour of music and sounds out of 33 hours of the film. Fred Frith - Nicolas Humbert - Marc Parisotto - Cut Up The Border" - Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, organ, piano), Niolas Humbert (composition), Marc Parisotto (composition)."

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LUCY	Reworks	12"	STROBOSCOPIC ARTEFACTS	SA10YEARSEP
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Label head Lucy, nom de techno of Luca Mortellaro, revisits four pivotal tracks from his label's peerless catalog. In their original form, these tracks from Donato Dozzy, Caterina Barbieri, Lucy & Klock, and Xhin each represent significant and deeply personal moments for Mortellaro in Stroboscopic Artefacts' history. The release of Donato Dozzy's "Sotto Ma Sotto" in 2014 was in retrospect the moment at which Mortellaro's curatorial vision broadened to include artists from outside of the immediate early collective of Lucy, Xhin, Dadub, et al. Dozzy's hedonistic yet sharp-eyed "Sotto Ma Sotto" is recast by Mortellaro as a twilit techno roller, as the original's fevered tempo is reduced to a sinister creep. In remixing Caterina Barbieri, another beloved Italian artist, Mortellaro highlights the breaking of the barrier between experimental and club music that Stroboscopic Artefacts has always sought. His remix of "Virgo Rebellion", which was released on the Flowers From The Ashes (STROBO 009CD/006LP, 2018) compilation of contemporary Italian electronic music, retains the adventurous spirit of Barbieri's gorgeous synth-driven original but frames it in a dramatic new dance floor context. The choice of "War Lullaby" is both a reflection on Mortellaro's friendship and creative partnership with Ben Klock, and the closing of a chapter: the period in which the label's focus moved past what had come to be perceived by the outside world as the sound of Berlin techno. The original might be considered a Stroboscopic Artefacts anthem, a track of such scale a remix could be risky. But Lucy responds to the project by matching the intensity of the original while subtly redirecting its synthetic expressions. It would have been almost inconceivable to create a project such as this and not include Xhin. The visionary Singaporean was the first artist signed to the label, and Mortellaro doesn't pass up the chance to journey back to 2009 and the label's second release, the EP that gained it an international audience. You can sense the energy he draws from Xhin's original, as he weaves a deadly synth line through the original's laser-focused groove.

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VA	Back from the Canigo: Garage Punks Vs Freakbeat Mods Perpignan 1989-1999	2LP	STAUBGOLD	STAUB 152LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 The Limiñanas have been international stars since 2010. A few years earlier, The Hushpuppies were in the spotlight. Two groups from North Catalunya who have written some of the most beautiful pages of French rock thanks to their garage and neo-sixties style. Two groups born from the flourishing sixties style punk and mod scene of the 1990s in Perpignan. Back from the Canigó explores that decade, which saw the emergence of more than twenty groups from different scenes that were to fuse together in the end. Through more than thirty tracks, many of which are released here for the first time, this album brings to light the pioneering work of Les Gardiens du Canigou and of The Ugly Things, as well as eleven other groups who make worthy heirs to the former: The Beach Bitches, Uguet 68, The Feedback, Les Buissons, The Likyds, The Lazy Sundays, The Vox Men, The Lightning Circus Band And The Boom Boom Beat, Human Potatoes, The Rippers, Psiquàtric Xaïs. From savage garage revival to sixties punk, from mid-sixties freakbeat to more psychedelic sounds, Back from the Canigó amplifies the echoes of a town turned into the French capital of these underground genres. These are the beginnings of a still active garage scene that, a few years later, would see the emergence of groups such as Les Bellas, The Sonic Chicken 4, Gaz Gaz, Les Fatals, Les Go-Go Players, Jack Of Heart, Hair And The Iotas... But that's another story, perhaps to be told on Volume 2. In the meantime, this is the '90s at the foothills of Mount Canigó.

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SMITH, KAITLYN AURELIA	Tides: Music For Meditation And Yoga	LP	TOUCHTHEPLANTS	TTP 102LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, performer and producer, originally from Orcas Island and currently based in Los Angeles. After several self-released albums, Smith was signed to independent record label Western Vinyl in 2015, who released her first official album, Euclid, in January 2015. Tides: Music for the Meditation and Yoga, was released in January 2019. Smith grew up and was home-educated on Orcas Island, Northwestern Washington. She left the island to study composition and sound engineering at Berklee College of Music in Boston, before returning to the island after her graduation. It was after returning home that Smith discovered synthesizers, when a neighbor introduced her to the Buchla 100 Synthesizer. Having originally intended to use her voice as her primary instrument, and then moving to classical guitar and piano, Smith switched to the use of synthesizer after being leant and experimenting with the Buchla 100 for a year. Smith formed indie-folk band Ever Isles whilst still at Berklee but left the project after discovering the Buchla 100, explaining, "I got so distracted and enamored with the process of making sounds with [the Buchla's potential] that I abandoned the next Ever Isles album." When developing her composition skills, Smith used visual aid as inspiration for her music. She has said that she is always composing to a visual in her head, explaining, "Sometimes I let the sound create the image for me and then I build off that. Or vice versa: I come up with imagery that is inspiring to me, or I see something that is inspiring, and then create sounds that I feel match it." Recorded in 2013, Tides is a glimpse into the early phase of what has become Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's signature approach to electronic music. Composed and played on a Buchla Music Easel -- the modular synthesizer that gives Smith's music its organic feel -- this collection of instrumentals is at once uplifting, transportive, and meditational.

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EVER ISLES	Cocoon	LP	TOUCHTHEPLANTS	TTP 104LP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, performer and producer, originally from Orcas Island and currently based in Los Angeles. After several self-released albums, Smith was signed to independent record label Western Vinyl in 2015, who released her first official album, Euclid, in January 2015. Tides: Music for the Meditation and Yoga (TTP 102LP), was released in January 2019. Smith grew up and was home-educated on Orcas Island, Northwestern Washington. She left the island to study composition and sound engineering at Berklee College of Music in Boston, before returning to the island after her graduation. It was after returning home that Smith discovered synthesizers, when a neighbor introduced her to the Buchla 100 Synthesizer. Having originally intended to use her voice as her primary instrument, and then moving to classical guitar and piano, Smith switched to the use of synthesizer after being leant and experimenting with the Buchla 100 for a year. Smith formed indie-folk band Ever Isles whilst still at Berklee but left the project after discovering the Buchla 100, explaining, "I got so distracted and enamored with the process of making sounds with [the Buchla's potential] that I abandoned the next Ever Isles album." When developing her composition skills, Smith used visual aid as inspiration for her music. She has said that she is always composing to a visual in her head, explaining, "Sometimes I let the sound create the image for me and then I build off that. Or vice versa: I come up with imagery that is inspiring to me, or I see something that is inspiring, and then create sounds that I feel match it." Recorded in 2009, Ever Isles' Cocoon is an experimental folk album made by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Jeremy Harris on Orcas Island in an improvised recording studio built from bed mattresses. Smith and Harris, longtime friends, first met in 2004 while attending Berklee College of Music. Cocoon is the only remaining document of the Ever Isles project and offers a unique glimpse at the early work of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith -- an era predating her discovery of synthesis when she was still playing classical guitar. Jeremy Harris, a multi-instrumentalist and neo-classical composer, engineered and co-produced the record with Smith. In 2016, Harris released Ages via Gnome Life Records.

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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART	Live In Vancouver '81	LP	VIVERE	VIV 2002LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 "Broadcast live by CBC from the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on 17th January, 1981, this limited edition LP features a stunning set and is pressed on Yellow Vinyl. 12 classic tracks including 'Nowadays A Woman's Gonna Hit A Man', 'Abba Zaba', 'Best Batch Yet', 'Bat Chain Puller', 'Kandy Korn', 'Big Eyed Beans From Venus'."

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RAYBOULD, TOM	The Machine	LP	WRWTFWW RECORDS	WRWTFWW 037LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/31/2020 WRWTFWW Records announce the first ever vinyl release of Tom Raybould's award-winning movie soundtrack for excellent AI-themed sci-fi thriller The Machine (2013). Undoubtedly one of the greatest (and most overlooked) movie scores of the 2010s, The Machine finds its influences in the works of John Carpenter, Vangelis, Brad Fiedel, and Tangerine Dream, but presents its own unique twist, one that cleverly evokes the thin line between man and machine that haunts the whole film. Cold and tenacious rhythms suggest mechanical killer instincts, brooding synths crystallize the fear of an AI-controlled future, but the warm and gentle sounds of guitar and piano ease the tension and bring hope of humanity. From its menacing introduction to its tender ending, Tom Raybould's masterwork ingenuously blends ambient, electronic, neoclassical, and synth wave to recontextualize and upgrade the classic '80s sci-fi movie score template, holding its own against mammoth soundtracks like Blade Runner (1982) or The Terminator (1984). Truly. Cold with a touch of humanity like the perfect machine, Tom Raybould's movie score won the BAFTA Cymru award for Best Original Music in 2013. LP housed in a glow-in-the-dark sleeve. "Tom Raybould's Music For The Machine Is Amazing" --Bloody Disgusting

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COMMODO	How What Time	2LP	BLACK ACRE	ACRE 007LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Commodo, one of the UK underground's best-regarded producers, returns with How What Time, following his impressive 2015 collaborative double-12" with Kahn and Gantz (Deep Medi Musik). An artist with deep roots in bass music's history and present, Commodo experiments with a variety of underground elements, using components of hip hop, grime, dubstep, and more. On his debut album he pushes his sound further while managing to uphold the basic formula of space and bass. Continuing to add a thoughtful touch to the deeper ends of UK bass music, How What Time sees Commodo create deeply meditative jams that harness a raw energy and sub-bass power. Made in several different places in the UK, Turkey, and Germany, the album sees Commodo fuse the UK's raw and vibrant grime and hip hop scene, as heard in the fierce and murky soundscapes of "Itchin" with an unmistakable vocal from Trim. The album's standout track "Set It Straight" features Croydon's fast-rising rapper and beatmaker Rocks FOE, and like Commodo's 2014 Jme-featuring hit "Shift," is an instant underground anthem. Commodo blends Madlib-style hip hop beats with the fierce spirit of grime, while the addition of Rocks FOE's straight-talking charisma and energetic flow transitions "Set It Straight" into an up-tempo head-banger. Commodo's inherently unique and accomplished production style has earned him recognition right from the outset of his ascendancy, garnering attention from a host of key figures within the electronic community. While making How What Time he sought to "strike a balance between a sample-heavy, rap style sound palette and the energy of the 140bpm based music." From the tough bass weight of his dancefloor-leaning productions to the tonally rich and immersive qualities of the album's more intricate tracks, How What Time maintains a resounding freshness throughout.

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CLAP! CLAP!	A Thousand Skies	2LP	BLACK ACRE	ACRE 009LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 2017 release. One of Italy's brightest new talents, Clap! Clap! (aka Cristiano Crisci) returns with his second album for Black Acre, following his colorful breakthrough debut LP, Tayi Bebba (ACRE 006LP, 2014). Bringing together disparate inspirations and styles onto the dancefloor of his mind, A Thousand Skies sees Clap! Clap! create a high energy and inventive kaleidoscopic fusion of sound - drawing on the traditional global rhythms of the old world, hip hop, footwork, UK bass and house. Following Tayi Bebba, which soundtracked the tour of an imaginary island, A Thousand Skies is a mix of Crisci's career to date, combining samples and live instrumentation from Clap! Clap! and collaborators such as South African folk singer Bongeziwe Mabandla, John Wizards, HDADD, and OY. As with his debut, the album is anchored by a story - this time of a young girl's journey through the stars - which completes the work. Clap! Clap!'s unique blend of global dance and timeless sounds draws from nature, traditional music, field recordings and the electronic savvy of modern centers like Chicago and London. At its core is the inspiration of everyday life, what Crisci calls "the search for new flavors." The now internationally acclaimed producer and performer started his career age 13 in the mid-90s as a rapper, before picking up the saxophone and performing both jazz standards and jazz/punk fusion with his band Trio Cane. Now, as Clap! Clap!, he's taking his energetic live shows across Europe and Japan. Following the release of his debut album in 2013, he has found a fan in Paul Simon who told Rolling Stone the LP is "a masterpiece. He makes music sound new and old at the same time." This led to Crisci to collaborate on the production for 2016's #1 Paul Simon album Stranger To Stranger. With a passion for history and the sounds that surround us, Clap! Clap! is a unique electronic artist capable of both channeling the energy of the moment and the intricacies of creating a music that can soundtrack the dynamics of life. Includes four-page printed "Agata" fable booklet.

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XYLO, SCOTT	Find Us When U Get There	LP	BLACK ACRE	ACRE 012LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 2018 release. A rising young talent, 23-year-old Leicester-based producer and artist Scott Xylo is releases his debut album Find Us When You Get There on Black Acre, following on from a string of single releases in 2017 that were championed by tastemakers like Gilles Peterson, Kojey Radical, and Stones Throw's MNDSGN. His previous single "Hold On", which was spotlighted on BBC 6 Music's Mary Ann Hobbs' show, caught the attention of UK tastemaker label Black Acre and led to his signing. Features Jon Glitches, Catherine Sera, Afronaught Zu, and Marcus Joseph.

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KAMODA, JUN	Jun Kamoda	2LP	BLACK ACRE	ACRE 014LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 2018 release. Making music as Illreme for over 15 years, as well as being a member of hip-hop trio Baleine 3000, Jun Kamoda has been a formidable force in Japan's music scene for quite some time. "Surreal Tongue in Northern Osaka" kicks off the album with organic, choppy hip-hop paced drums lead by rugged Japanese vocals. Kamoda then follows with "Nightmare Club" and "Crush" -- two tuneful, funk-infused rollers. "Hakoniwa Disco Strut" switches up to a reformed new-age disco track with an emphatic '60s electric guitar solo surrounding the center. The next three tracks, "Mt. Woo", "Gravity of Love", and "Blooming Blues.o0O" are all peppered with high-energy, uplifting melodies layered over a more uniform house sound. "The Ruddy Sunset", is a pitched down, Balearic inspired dance track. The album decisively ends by throwing genre categories completely out the window with "No Rhyme Nation" -- tough, broken drums and breaks of unpredictable, eccentric melodies are the theme here. Contains four-page cartoon booklet (12x24") by Jun Kamoda.

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ROCKS FOE	Fight The Good? Fight	2LP	BLACK ACRE	ACRE 070LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 2017 release. Rocks FOE returns to Black Acre with the eight-track project Fight The Good? Fight, a dark and conceptual record built around the notion of, according to Rocks himself, "everything being an internal and external battle". A powerful lyricist and complex storyteller, Rocks' sound combines hyper-fierce spitting with his own, abstract beat sketches. Having released his impressive debut EP, Legion, back in 2015 -- a raw, self-produced grime-rap hybrid -- he has since remained dormant to the outside world, bar a quick-fire feature on Commodo's How What Time LP in 2016 (ACRE 007LP). Written over the course of that period and entirely self-produced, Fight The Good? Fight digs deeper than ever before into Rocks' psyche, drawing on both religious elements -- "I was more or less force fed it when I was younger" -- and his own experiences for much of its lyrical inspiration. He talks money, love, confusion, happiness, and ambition to tell the story of his own every day battles. Musically, Fight The Good? Fight also broadens horizons, with Rocks widening his scope to take in sounds from beyond the sprawling urban landscape of his home town of Croydon. On tracks like "Nitty Gritty" and "Into My Own Hands" for example, the two tracks that bookend the record, he flows at trademark lightning speed over crunchy rap beats, but it's on cuts like "Downpour" and the wandering spoken-word of "Red Hand Of Ulster" that he unmasks a new, more vulnerable guise. Toning down his flow to reflect and take stock, it is in these solemn, inward moments that Rocks shines the brightest. Comfortable spitting acapella, off-beat or even in spoken word -- over straight-up rap beats or woozy Commodo instrumentals -- he has long been considered one of the UK's most compelling young lyricists, but on Fight The Good? Fight, Rocks addresses his demons, calls out bullshit, and comes of age proper. "Downpour" features Secaina.

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COMMODO	Dyrge	2x10"	BLACK ACRE	ACRE 074EP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 2018 release. An artist with minimal online presence, Commodo is one of an increasingly rare few who make waves through the strength of their music alone. He builds bass-focused beats with soul and substance that never perpetuate a formula, distancing himself from contemporaries with ingenious sampling and sound design influenced by his long-time affinity with the vibrancy of hip-hop. Having released on renowned labels like Mala's renowned Deep Medi Musik and Kahn & Neek's Bandulu, Commodo is indisputably a champion of the scene. Having released his debut album entitled How What Time on Black Acre in 2016, he now returns to the Bristol-based imprint to further explore the boundaries of the 140BPM template. Guitars open "Bitch & Moan" before harmonious pads, syncopated drums, and elements of jazz come into play, moving into the dubby sounds of "Leeroy" with its ghostly synths, reverbed snare and low frequency growls. Meandering forward with a grime influenced chord sequence, "Dyrge" is a moody cut from the off featuring glitchy effects and echoing atmospherics, making way for the stripped-back and intricate "Yuliya" with its subtle percussion and mesmerizing melodies -- concluding a release exemplary of Commodo's diverse production abilities.

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PRAYER	Vital EP	12"	BLACK ACRE	ACRE 076EP
$10.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 2018 release. Prayer's outsider sound is as easily recognizable as it is hard to pinpoint; it lives at a cross section of influences from classical to jungle and breaks to ambient. After his Seeing EP (ACRE 069EP, 2017) and I / II cassette release in 2017, Prayer returns to affiliate label Black Acre with VITAL EP, a heavy four tracker. Again, PRAYER blurs the lines between sorrowful sounds and high-voltage club energy in Vital EP; a piece of art that refuses to be boxed off by genre or stereotype. Opener "Fear" explores the producers love of film music; a dark sci-fi landscape punctuated with drums and melodic synths, a Bladerunner-esque track. Moving on, "I'm Still Here" is an anthem, a nostalgic mix of hardcore, jungle and classical influences with a DIY, rough and ready feel. On the other side, Prayer shows his talent for the piano with "Kind", finessing the skills that reflect his first adventures in sound. It's an emotive, stripped back number. The final track is "Vital", another drum-heavy, weighty track that sounds only like Prayer -- as ideal for the club as it is for headphones.

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ROHRER, SAMUEL	Continual Decentering	LP	ARJUNAMUSIC	AMEL 719LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 With his Arjunamusic label and a growing catalog of category-defying releases, Samuel Rohrer continues to quietly, yet confidently, make a name for himself as a genuinely unique figure within the European electronic music realm. Rohrer is one of those rare alchemical explorers to have truly created a hybrid which is all his own, one that does not just exist to melt distinctions for its own sake, but is a natural result of years of experimentation with both the determination of electronic music and the ludic spirit of "free improvisation". On Continual Decentering, this vision is applied to a set of mostly in real time (live) performed explorations. In keeping with his many years' worth of fruitful collaborations, the tonal palette on this record is one that is expectedly rich for those familiar with his work, yet still surprising in terms of how exactly the differing tonal colors come together. Representative tracks like "Spondee" and "The Fringe" are brimming with dub pulses, noir shivers, and blooming timbral variations. In terms of the emotional atmosphere, the pensive and questioning tone hearkens back to the "wide open" state of electronic music in the mid-to-late 1990s, with a greater clarity and maturity of vision. As with Rohrer's most recent solo work, like the Range Of Regularity album (AMEL 712CD/LP, 2017), Continual Decentering showcases the artist's skill in turning the drum kit into a lead instrument. While the term "lead instrument" denotes a kind of exuberant "Glash", or a clear separation from the rest of the voices in an ensemble, we can take the term to mean something different throughout this listening program of 13 short vignettes. It helps that Rohrer has, in fact, developed a unique and complex hybrid system in which drum hits trigger modular synthesizer processes, the use of which makes for an incredibly fluid response time between distinct sonic events. In contrast to the previous Range album, this new offering is propelled less by interlacing threads of intensity and more by a shared sense of deep listening. As displayed on pieces like "All Too Human", there is a profound sense of attention to silences or thoughtful pauses that maybe hints at another crucial aspect of Rohrer's style. All of the above come together to give Continual Decentering a "live"-ness that will easily translate from recorded document to dynamic performance.

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GOKU, SAM	Every Step EP	12"	ATOMNATION	ATMV 074EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Sam Goku's music showcases bonds of ambient, acid, house, techno, and melodies. It's perfect for both club environments and home listening. The modern production style in combination with old-school elements/non-repetitive vocal sample work give Goku's music a unique, trippy twist that is topped off with Chinese percussive instrumentation.

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MILLSART	Every Dog Has Its Day Vol. 5	2LP	AXIS	AX 085LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 In 2020, Jeff Mills is inviting his listeners to look inward in the form of his Every Dog Has Its Day series. The last time an installment came out was 17 years ago, just enough time for a periodical cicada to emerge from the ground, finished with its former life as a nymph. The series itself has acted as a barometer of the times, and Mills feels, after a long layoff, it's time to rehash his Millsart persona and gauge the here and now, and where it fits in. The record itself will be the fifth chapter. It's donned in a specific color, taking heed from its predecessors. The first four were gold, silver, pearl, and sky blue. Now it's time for red: the first of the series to be a primary color, it was chosen for its connotation. Red, being very emotive, stirs different feelings in us all; lust, love, rage, power, energy, desire, passion. This music is a tool for us to see the world as is, and be able to reflect inwards to see what we are. It's not your stereotypical electronic dance track or DJ tool. Each of the eight cuts has a story behind it and invites the listener to get lost in it and curate their opinions about it or themselves. Stripped and left in a way for true music listeners, those with unconditional love and appreciation for a master at their craft. Mills himself has said, "You never figure out life, you just get used to it." Reflected in this record is that sentiment, that life doesn't present to you the answers because there are none. What is right and just for you, may not be for me, so how can I share with you any secrets. Electronic music can act as a guide, a catalyst of your headspace; it is not the map. The sixth edition of this series is soon to follow in spring dressed in brown, continuing to deliver a spiritual and emotional raft for you to see that Every Dog Has Its Day.

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EMPIRE LINE, THE	The Nature Of Your Oppression Is The Aesthetic Of Our Anger	12"	BASSIANI RECORDS	BAS 009EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 The Empire Line unleash their demons on The Nature Of Your Oppression Is The Aesthetic Of Our Anger. When Jonas Rönnberg (aka Varg), Christian Stadsgaard (part of the Danish duo Damien Dubrovnik, co-founder of Posh Isolation), and noise artist Isak Hansen combine their musical vision, the result is sure to be radical. Claiming that "the nature of your oppression is the aesthetic of our anger" right away in the title, the four-track EP sounds like it was recorded straight from a sweaty basement. Combining cascading rave tropes with noise, anger, and punk, this release merges different underground currents. The result is a flamboyant, nevertheless harsh sound collage.

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DEUX BALEINES BLANCHES	Singende Drahte	CD	BUREAU B	BB 332CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Sammlung (BB 236CD/LP, 2017) compiled by Stefan Schneider first introduced a selection of previously little-known exponents of 1980s Duesseldorf electronic tape music. A further remarkable example of the Duesseldorf underground tape output, 1986's Singende Drahte originally circulated in a minuscule edition among aficionados only is now finally available as a CD and vinyl re-edition. Deux Baleines Blanches was the name of Stefan Schneider's avant-pop-project who concurrently with his studies of photography at Duesseldorf's Kunstakademie had begun his musical explorations in the early 1980s, which also led him to cofound the bands Kreidler (1994) and To Rococo Rot (1995). Singende Drahte showcases some of his early work in the field. The somewhat sketchy and abstract character of these 14 tracks, "Draehte" (wires) is slightly reminiscent of the esthetics of contemporary labels like Les Disques du Crépuscule or early 4AD, yet they sound surprisingly modern even 30 years after they were first released. "The music on this album has originally been recorded in an attempt to recreate an electric drone emanating from an overhead electric power line which I had noticed by chance on a humid day in May 1986 whilst on a bicycle tour across the rural outskirts of Düsseldorf. The surprising discovery of this static yet tender hum which filled the air was a completely overwhelming listening experience . . . The very next day I borrowed a recording device from a friend (it was a Sony Walkman if memory serves) and went back to the same spot right underneath the huge wires of the power line, eagerly anticipating the chance to record this particular hum, my future favorite album onto cassette tape. Yet weirdly, on this day the hum was nowhere to be heard . . . Back at home I took my guitar and my amp and tried to imitate what I could not record in the field. The more effort I put into these attempts the worse it got, however I was convinced . . . A couple of weeks later, however, I listened back to these sketches and was surprised that there was something quite uniquely intriguing within these recorded fragments. You simply had to disregard the original intention -- to imitate the sound of an electric hum. I chose to liberate myself from the constraints of the experiment and subsequently recorded my sketches on a 4-track cassette. The nished cassette was released in November 1986 in an edition of maybe 15 copies." --Stefan Schneider, October 2019

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DEUX BALEINES BLANCHES	Singende Drahte	LP	BUREAU B	BB 332LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 LP version. Sammlung (BB 236CD/LP, 2017) compiled by Stefan Schneider first introduced a selection of previously little-known exponents of 1980s Duesseldorf electronic tape music. A further remarkable example of the Duesseldorf underground tape output, 1986's Singende Drahte originally circulated in a minuscule edition among aficionados only is now finally available as a CD and vinyl re-edition. Deux Baleines Blanches was the name of Stefan Schneider's avant-pop-project who concurrently with his studies of photography at Duesseldorf's Kunstakademie had begun his musical explorations in the early 1980s, which also led him to cofound the bands Kreidler (1994) and To Rococo Rot (1995). Singende Drahte showcases some of his early work in the field. The somewhat sketchy and abstract character of these 14 tracks, "Draehte" (wires) is slightly reminiscent of the esthetics of contemporary labels like Les Disques du Crépuscule or early 4AD, yet they sound surprisingly modern even 30 years after they were first released. "The music on this album has originally been recorded in an attempt to recreate an electric drone emanating from an overhead electric power line which I had noticed by chance on a humid day in May 1986 whilst on a bicycle tour across the rural outskirts of Düsseldorf. The surprising discovery of this static yet tender hum which filled the air was a completely overwhelming listening experience . . . The very next day I borrowed a recording device from a friend (it was a Sony Walkman if memory serves) and went back to the same spot right underneath the huge wires of the power line, eagerly anticipating the chance to record this particular hum, my future favorite album onto cassette tape. Yet weirdly, on this day the hum was nowhere to be heard . . . Back at home I took my guitar and my amp and tried to imitate what I could not record in the field. The more effort I put into these attempts the worse it got, however I was convinced . . . A couple of weeks later, however, I listened back to these sketches and was surprised that there was something quite uniquely intriguing within these recorded fragments. You simply had to disregard the original intention -- to imitate the sound of an electric hum. I chose to liberate myself from the constraints of the experiment and subsequently recorded my sketches on a 4-track cassette. The nished cassette was released in November 1986 in an edition of maybe 15 copies." --Stefan Schneider, October 2019

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DROPKICK	The Scenic Route	LP	BOBO INTEGRAL	BBI 012LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 The Scenic Route is Dropkick's most accomplished, coherent, and fully-realized collection of songs to date. The record showcases the timeless, jangly-pop simplicity of their music and the ear for melody and harmony that has helped Dropkick's music appeal to a growing cohort of music lovers around the world. Their 16th album, The Scenic Route, concerns itself lyrically with the passing of time: relationships with people, places, and music -- some expired and some constant. The album was recorded in Dropkick's rehearsal space in Inch House, Edinburgh between May and July 2019. Recorded mainly live, with minimal overdubs, this is the sound of the band enjoying playing together, trusting their instincts and delivering their best ever set of songs. Hailing from the east of Scotland, Dropkick have drawn on influences such as Wilco, Teenage Fanclub, and The Jayhawks to produce their own blend of harmony-driven power-pop.

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TURNER, BIG JOE	The Boss Of The Blues: The Complete Mono and Stereo Recordings, Recorded at Carnegie Hall 1956	2CD	BEAR FAMILY RECORDS	BCD 17505CD
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "Seriously, one of the best blues albums of all time. masterfully tight, unpretentious and crazily swinging album. One of the first conceptualized blues records ever recorded. Recorded on two consecutive days in March 1956. Original mono album released September 1956. Turner never sounded better. Album reissue producer and liner notes: Colin Escott. Eco-pack with extensive booklet. When Big Joe Turner recorded the songs for Boss Of The Blues on two consecutive days in a New York studio in 1956, he could already look back on several stages of an extremely successful career. Around the mid-1930s, Turner began working with one of the stars of boogie woogie, pianist Pete Johnson from Kansas City. Both were involved in the legendary 1938 show produced by John Hammond Sr. at New York's Carnegie Hall, the 'Spirituals to Swing' concert. In 1951 Ahmet Ertegun signed Turner to his young Atlantic label. Over the next few years, Big Joe Turner recorded his most successful singles and became an Atlantic bestseller with a series of major hits in the R&B charts. In March 1956, however, history was written. Boss Of The Blues was one of the first blues concept albums (almost all other LPs of that day were compilations of previously released singles). Atlantic engaged musicians from the Count Basie community (plus their arranger). The music is anything but nostalgia. With exquisite musicians he created one of the best blues/jazz albums of all times with Big Joe Turner at the peak of his vocal expressiveness."

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LOGIC1000	Logic1000	LP	BECAUSE MUSIC	BEC 5650565
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Logic1000 is Sydney-born producer and DJ Samantha Poulter. After the release of her eponymous debut EP on Melbourne's Sumac label, her music has made it into the sets of Four Tet, Caribou, Ben UFO, Floating Points, DJ Python, and Anthony Naples amongst many others. Now based in London, Logic1000 has already performed in some of UK's best clubs including Printworks (with Carl Craig, Larry Heard, Moodyman), Phonox (with Mount Kimbie), Bristol's Motion (with Four Tet), and Corsica Studios (with DJ Python). Previously released as a white label vinyl on her Bandcamp as a very limited run, her debut EP finally gets a proper vinyl release. "Na" features DJ Plead.

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BLANCMANGE	Nil By Mouth 2	CD	BLANC CHECK RECORDS	BLANC 019CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 The second Blancmange instrumental album, 14 electronic tracks written and recorded by Neil Arthur. Slow-mo synths, dark swirls of sound, and a characteristic flair for melody can be found with every subtle change of mood and style. But there's also emotion under the surface, sometimes breaking through and catching the listener off-guard. It all adds up to an atmospheric and quietly moving follow-up to the original Nil By Mouth which was released back in 2015.

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BROKEN NOTE	Exit The Void	2LP	METHLAB RECORDINGS	BNLP 002LP
$37.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Sonic innovators Broken Note present their long-awaited second album instalment, Exit The Void, a collaboration between creative label forces MethLab Recordings, Slug Wife Recordings, and Broken Note Recordings. Broken Note mark the bleeding edge of bass music across 15 tracks as they display an unerring commitment to the creation of boundary breaking sonic sequences. As a symbol of social cohesion in divided times manifested through the collaboration of independent labels and artists, Exit The Void serves as a soundtrack for a disenfranchised generation. A cutting-edge body of work emblematic of the Broken Note sound, Exit The Void draws on a wide array of influences from across the autonomous and subversive spectrums of the underground. Broken Note has been hard at work in the nine years that have passed since the release of their groundbreaking Terminal Static LP, releasing a full seven EPs that have further solidified their multifaceted heavyweight sound. Exit The Void follows in the wake of these previous works, presenting a cohesive collection of music that draws from past, present, and future as it delivers a new chapter of the project's densely amalgamated audio vision.

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OSO EL ROTO	Pop De Cuchillo	LP	BRUIT DIRECT DISQUES	BRD 032LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "While he's known alternately as David (La Familia) & Mr. Loayza (La Abogados) to the gravity-clutchers of the world, for us Falstaffian iota's what inhabit the non-boundaried scrub out here in wire-brush country, he is always and forever Oso El Roto. My first encounter with the man's multi-faceted snert was on the LP, Mojon Po'l Agua back in 2007. Housed inside a brutish sheath of fabricated, hand-painted, cardboard was an album brimming with aberrant, gibbering, genius. Since then a dozen or so releases have spunked into the discography, the latest being this one on the estimable Bruit Direct Disques label. On Pop De Cuchillo our hero has returned to his native Chile (after years in Paris) and not surprisingly, hasn't lost a step in the transition. If anything, Oso El Roto may have 'mellowed', which is to say he's moving at 1,000,000,000 mph instead of 1,000,000,001. It's hard not to draw comparisons to that other great and prolific Chilean of the absurd, Alvaro, but Oso El Roto has never broken from his native tongue, so the elitists-for once-are not Anglais. While Oso El Roto trucks most assuredly in the lurch of lo-fi, the way he grinds those gears is spectacularly kaleidoscopic. The aural offerings brought forth on Pop De Cuchillo are a smorgasbord of charred delicacies to feed your head. Some artists go their whole lives trying to catch lightning in a bottle once. Then there's Oso El Roto, who seems to absorb it at will. Impervious is not born, it's earned. For fans of The Rebel, Jerry Solomon, Pierre Schaeffer, Sun Ra, Eye Yamatsuka, Made For Chickens By Robots, Waste Sausage, Leather Donut, Chocolate Monk, Bananafish magazine, NWW list, Llama kababs, Borgona, Yage, Gary Panter, Yoko Ono & Ono." --Tom Lax, Catbird, Ohio

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GRAY, OWEN	Jamaica's First Homegrown Star	CD	BURNING SOUNDS	BSR 901CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "New stereo recordings including 'Three Little Birds', 'One Love', 'Apollo 12'. Booklet contains in depth Interview with Owen Gray. Owen Gray was the island's first home grown star to sing in a style that wasn't mento, calypso or jazz. Bursting on the scene with a string of hits, repeatedly topping the Jamaican charts, sometimes for months at a time, he's now eighty years of age... not eighty years old, and he has never, ever stopped making marvelous records. Further evidence of his continuing creativity can be found and greatly enjoyed on this collection."

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DEKKER, DESMOND	Rude Boy Ska (Red Vinyl)	LP	BURNING SOUNDS	BSR 902LP
$26.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "These recordings are from the final studio session before Desmond's untimely death in 2006. Pressed on red vinyl."

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PERRY, LEE 'SCRATCH'	Live in Brighton	CD+DVD	BURNING SOUNDS	BSR 903CD
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "CD+DVD double pack. Full concert DVD with behind the scenes footage. Exclusive interview with Lee Perry. Five commercial advertising clips and biography. Filmed & recorded at Concorde 2, Brighton UK. 19th February 2002."

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PUSSY	Pussy Plays (Ginger Vinyl)	LP	MORGAN BLUE TOWN	BT 5002G-LP
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "180 gram audiophile vinyl edition of this much sought after 1969 Pussy album. This repress is on ginger vinyl. A real deal heavy psych classic!"

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EA WAVE	High Tide	12"	BYRD OUT	BYR 022EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 EA Wave (short for East African Wave) consists of Nairobi-based DJs/producers Ukweli, Sichangi, HIRIBAE, Nu Fvnk, and Jinku. They're getting noticed by all the right people in the West -- Boiler Room, Red Bull Music Academy, 1Xtra, and Worldwide FM -- as well as securing stacks of African coverage. This debut outing on vinyl presents new sounds from their native Kenya. Byrd Out listened to the tracks a lot, and concluded that "contemplative house" is a good descriptor. Expect beautifully crafted beats, hazy synths, and inch-perfect bass, constructed for the dancefloor when bodies need to get a bit closer. Things are only going to get bigger for EA Wave, so get on it now. Stand out track: Nu Fvnk's "Happening In The Grey Area".

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GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA	Eroina (Clear Vinyl)	LP	COMETA EDIZIONI	CMT 1024C-LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 LP version. Clear vinyl; edition of 150. Cometa Edizioni present a reissue of Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza's Eroina, originally released in 2011. There are still so many treasures to be discovered out there, but once you find a gem like this you can definitely put the research on hold for a little while and give it a deep listen. Recorded at Fono Roma in 1971, Eroina is a series of haunting improvisations -- each one inspired by the effects of a different drug -- made of whirling electronic glitches, skronky horns, pounded piano, funky drums. and weird tape experiments delivering the best drone/spaced/drugged-out free jazz performed by the legendary ensemble of Ennio Morricone, Mario Bertoncini, Egisto Macchi, Battisti D'Amario, Franco Evangelisti, and Walter Bianchi. A timeless masterpiece.

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GRUPPO DI IMPROVVISAZIONE NUOVA CONSONANZA	Eroina	LP	COMETA EDIZIONI	CMT 1024LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Cometa Edizioni present a reissue of Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza's Eroina, originally released in 2011. There are still so many treasures to be discovered out there, but once you find a gem like this you can definitely put the research on hold for a little while and give it a deep listen. Recorded at Fono Roma in 1971, Eroina is a series of haunting improvisations -- each one inspired by the effects of a different drug -- made of whirling electronic glitches, skronky horns, pounded piano, funky drums. and weird tape experiments delivering the best drone/spaced/drugged-out free jazz performed by the legendary ensemble of Ennio Morricone, Mario Bertoncini, Egisto Macchi, Battisti D'Amario, Franco Evangelisti, and Walter Bianchi. A timeless masterpiece. Standard LP version comes in an edition of 150.

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COOPER/MARK WASTELL, MIKE	Sound Mirrors	CD	CONFRONT RECORDINGS	CORE 010CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Personnel: Mike Cooper - lapsteel guitar, electronics; Mark Wastell - Paiste 32" tam tam, percussion, shruti box. Recorded at Studio 3, Stoke Newington, London on October 3rd, 2018 by Rupert Clervaux. Mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux and Mark Wastell. Produced by Mark Wastell. CD comes in printed, double-panel ekopack cardboard sleeve.

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CHAPMAN, MICHAEL	Plaindealer + Twisted Road	2CD	SECRET RECORDS	CREST 010CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "Reissue double pack of two of Michael Chapman's releases. Includes 1999's Twisted Road and 2005's Plaindealer."

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FRANK, JACKSON C.	American Troubadour	CD	SECRET RECORDS	CREST 101CD
$16.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "This album is an overview of the work of Jackson C. Frank, friend and peer of the likes of Paul Simon, Bert Jansch and (his girlfriend for a while), Sandy Denny. It just about spans his entire career, from his first 1965 single to three tracks recorded in 1994. It also includes five tracks never before released, which he performed when presenting the 'My Kind Of Folk' radio show in 1968. His most well-known song 'Blues Run The Game' (included here in the rare single version, along with the non-album b-side) has been covered by Simon and Garfunkel, Counting Crows, Bert Jansch and Eddi Reader, and Nick Drake recorded four of his songs. In recent years, Jackson's work has come to be recognized much more widely, and his music (particularly 'Blues Run The Game') has been included in many TV programs and films, with 'My Name Is Carnival' featuring in 2019's huge hit Joker. Sessions include 'My Kind Of Folk' Nov 13, 1968 'Shotwell Sessions,' recorded June 5, 1972 'Rude Sessions,' recorded May 9, 1974 'Mekeel Sessions,' recorded in May, 1975 'The Anderson Sessions,' recorded in September, 1994 Extensive sleeve notes detailing the tragic life of this folk artist."

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TOOP/PAUL BURWELL, DAVID	Wounds	LP	SONG CYCLE RECORDS	CY 980LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Song Cycle present the first reissue of Wounds by David Toop and Paul Burwell. Originally released in 1980 on Toop's Quartz! label, the album is representative of a seminal moment within the British music scene evolved around the London Musicians Collective in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Founded in 1976 by a group of improvising musicians and sound artists including Evan Parker, Peter Cusack, Lol Coxhill, Sylvia Hallet, Max Eastley, the LMC contributed to shape a new generation of free improvisers with broader interests ranging from the music of John Stevens, Evan Parker, and Cornelius Cardew, to non-western music experiences. David Toop and Paul Burwell came to know each other precisely in these crucial moments, to start a long-lasting collaboration on two separate but intertwined projects a trio with the artist and poet Bob Cobbing, and an improvisation duo. As result of the latter, the nine tracks included in Wounds are edited from a single performance at the LMC, date 30.6.1979. Recorded by Max Eastley and Russ Wood, these shows saw the employment of different musical instruments as well an odd number of found objects placed in front of the artists, on the floor, ready to be picked up and played. Electric guitar, flute, cassette, water, rubbish, explosives, six strings harp, bamboo fiddle, whistle were only a few of the wider arrange of instruments at the disposal of the two. The result is an ambivalent album, suspended between the unfolding of the time of performance, and the circularity of the ritual. And if the collage of texts appearing on the artwork demonstrates a certain disapproval and skepticism toward the progress of society, Wounds seems also suggesting a possible cure. The improvised music, the use of non-canonical instruments, the presence of pre-recorded sounds coming, seems indeed to be an open invitation to the listeners to abandon the old conventions and to search for a new system of relationships.

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OSLENDER, SIMON	About Time	CD	LEOPARD	D 77076CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Debut album for Germany's shooting star on the keyboards, Simon Oslender. A mature feeling for time and how to use it in the right way, when to strike a note or a chord and -- even more importantly --when to refrain from doing so. The usage of rests and space as a creative, dramatic element. All this is usually expected from top-level musicians, qualities that -- and this seems to be the consensus --develop over the years and need a large amount of performance practice; in short: they are a result of "age". But sometimes this does not happen. We all know the sayings: "feeling" -- you either have got it or you don't; or: virtuoso but without any feeling; or: lots of feeling but technically rather inexperienced. Considering his youthful age, it might come as a surprise that Simon Oslender already combines all these qualities in his performance. The 21-year-old Oslender, a steady member of Wolfgang Haffner & Band and Bill Evans & Spykillers, shows his talent on this incredible good debut album. Beside his regular band members Bruno Müller (guitar), Hanno Busch (guitar), Claus Fischer (bass), Hendrik Smock (drums), and Roland Peil (percussion), this album features Wolfgang Haffner on drums, Bill Evans on saxophone, Randy Brecker on trumpet, and the very special guests Cosmo Klein and Peter Fessler on vocals. Great grooves and melodies combined with a soulful playing -- it's about time for Simon Oslender. Also features Christopher Dell.

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OSLENDER, SIMON	About Time	2LP	LEOPARD	D 78076LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Double LP version. Debut album for Germany's shooting star on the keyboards, Simon Oslender. A mature feeling for time and how to use it in the right way, when to strike a note or a chord and -- even more importantly --when to refrain from doing so. The usage of rests and space as a creative, dramatic element. All this is usually expected from top-level musicians, qualities that -- and this seems to be the consensus --develop over the years and need a large amount of performance practice; in short: they are a result of "age". But sometimes this does not happen. We all know the sayings: "feeling" -- you either have got it or you don't; or: virtuoso but without any feeling; or: lots of feeling but technically rather inexperienced. Considering his youthful age, it might come as a surprise that Simon Oslender already combines all these qualities in his performance. The 21-year-old Oslender, a steady member of Wolfgang Haffner & Band and Bill Evans & Spykillers, shows his talent on this incredible good debut album. Beside his regular band members Bruno Müller (guitar), Hanno Busch (guitar), Claus Fischer (bass), Hendrik Smock (drums), and Roland Peil (percussion), this album features Wolfgang Haffner on drums, Bill Evans on saxophone, Randy Brecker on trumpet, and the very special guests Cosmo Klein and Peter Fessler on vocals. Great grooves and melodies combined with a soulful playing -- it's about time for Simon Oslender. Also features Christopher Dell.

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ALIEN NOSEJOB	Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud	LP	DRUNKEN SAILOR RECORDS	DRUNKEN 117LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "You'd think Jake Robertson would already have his hands full playing in the likes of Ausmuteants, Leather Towel, School Damage, Drug Sweat, et al. But no, evidently there's always time for one more thoroughly wracked project, and Alien Nosejob's focus is as kaleidoscopically scattershot as you'd expect from a man with such a short attention span. Just to confirm: yes, that's a good thing. From the off, we glide through the Coneheads-style Devocore of 'Television Sets' before romping through the jangling lo-fi pop of 'Weight Of The World', which skips and mopes while making like The Clean setting light to their parents' carpet with a magnifying glass. There's also charmingly scruffy soul-pop, chugging sci-fi slop-punk, straight-up college rock balladry and much, much more. But these aren't sketches or tossed-off genre exercises. They're bona fide works of consummate skill that resonate sincerely and effortlessly. Essentially, each song sounds like a challenge to the one that follows, a cry of 'step the fuck up'; Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud is a treasure trove of mini-masterpieces. Rough as fuck mini-masterpieces, sure, recorded with a cheap drum machine and guitars that sound like rusty drills cutting through power cables, but mini-masterpieces nonetheless. When venerable doyens of the pop establishment make albums of such eclectic scope and genuine songwriting talent, they get called geniuses. When punk-as-fuck wiseguys like Robertson pull it off, words like 'maverick' get tossed around. Rest assured, his Alien Nosejob project covers both angles. This second album is an instant classic that deserves to be heard far beyond the underground -- but if it isn't, who cares? He's probably playing in another seven bands already by the time you read this. I've not heard them yet either, but I can tell you they're all fucking amazing. Just buy this record and join the cult." --Will Fitzpatrick

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COWBOY, THE	The Cowboy	7"	DRUNKEN SAILOR RECORDS	DRUNKEN 118EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "So, what happens when you add members of Pleasure Leftists to members of The Homostupids? Yeah yeah, we know, you get The Mind, the amazing post-punk band Priss from Blade Runner might have formed in a left-of-center attempt to pass the Voight-Kampff test. But that's their inner replicant; what of their human side? The one that just wants to create a squalling rock n'roll racket? Laydeezungennelmen, meet The Cowboy. Those of you paying close attention might have picked up their scent before -- their 2017 debut LP dropped on Drunken Sailor in a flurry of power chords, raw throats and some of the best damn punk rock that year had to offer. And that's not to confuse 'em with Lumpy Records superstars The Cowboys (plural), either -- fine though that act may be, they just ain't as feral a prospect as The Cowboy (singular). At three tracks and less than seven minutes in length, this 7" doesn't exactly waste its time in getting to the point and reminding you that sludged-out garage rock and a healthy dash of 'DAFUQ?' are a potent combo in anyone's book; like a fistful of California reaper chillies, dipped in nitroglycerine and poised for supersonic shockwaves to smash into 'em. All three tracks here walk a tightrope between The Stooges at their most furiously muscular, The Minutemen in twanged-out Americana mode, and something totally wild; they're every bit as weird as that sounds (particularly 'Way Out Beneath''s bass-driven menace) but also beautifully ragged and ready to cry havoc. You could tie 'em alongside bands like Hot Snakes and they wouldn't feel out of place; alternatively, you could hop on your turntable and let this record spin you right off your axis. Punk rock at its best is a giddy thrill. Wanna ride off with it, pardner, into the sunset? The Cowboy are here to help you do just that." --Will Fitzpatrick

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DARK THOUGHTS	Must Be Nice	LP	DRUNKEN SAILOR RECORDS	DRUNKEN 119LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "'You only get worse,' goes the first line on Dark Thoughts' third album, but while they might be correct about your personal decline, this West Philly trio are quite evidently better than ever. Hot on the heels of 2018's At Work LP -- 18 months later, to be precise -- this new collection sees the band at their willfully-dumb-but-smarter-than-u best, knocking out Ramonescore nuggets of the purest gold as if their lives depended on it. Whether imploring you to 'listen to the radio' or simply 'please don't leave me alone', Jim Shomo's voice remains the perfect balance of snot-drenched sneer and wounded croon, while the band lock into their fast'n'furious groove to frame his lovelorn melodies with the correct amount of muscle, and maybe they'll even pour a few beers directly into their amps while they're at it. Sure, they retain the sound that powered those first two albums, but they know what they're doing -- if it ain't broke, don't fix it; if you're broke, write a 90-second punk banger about it with an irresistible melody and play it as loud as possible. As if to prove that fact, synth-splashed closer 'Must Be Nice' shows they might even have written their best cut yet. Getting back to that first song, 'Hesitate', Shomo goes on to say: 'I've seen the future / It looks so much brighter than it used to.' On the basis of Must Be Nice, it's difficult to argue with that assessment: this is the perfect synthesis of pop and punk and a welcome reminder that your '70s heroes just wanted to recreate the unforgettable 45s they heard on the radio as kids. The 12 songs here may be destined for your turntable rather than the wireless, but you'll treasure 'em every bit as much. Another classic from a band that just doesn't know how to stop writing 'em -- Dark Thoughts forever." --Will Fitzpatrick

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PAGAN, J. M.	Kiu I Els Seus Amics	LP	FINDERS KEEPERS	FKR 102LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 From the cosmic creative musical mind of Swiss/Catalan studio whizz, Zeleste Nightclub engineer, Video Nasty film composer, occasional Jaume Sisa (Música Dispersa) collaborator and future electronic music therapy pioneer comes the synth-ridden vocoder-loaded 1984 sci-funk soundtrack to Barcelona's daytime TV response to the universal E.T. phenomena. Get ready to meet your new alienígena amic and the unidentified flying object of thousands of Catalonian kids' affections through the 1980s as Finders Keepers present J. M. Pagan's lost lunar modular synth score to Kiu I Els Seus Amics (Kiu And Friends aka Kiu Is Your Friend). From the same intergalactic phenomenon that brought such delights as Turkey's exploito cash-in "Badi" or South Africa's lo-rent homage "Nukie", and the same craze which filled international airwaves with the likes of Extra T's electro smash single "E.T. Boogie" or the million selling Columbian "Cumbia De E.T. El Extraterrestre" smash hit. In 1982, the diaspora from Steven Spielberg's small fictional mid-American neighborhood that played host to everyone's favorite torch-fingered, three-toed, Skittle-scoffing space goblin touched virtually every family home in every major city resulting in one of the biggest cinematic merchandise phenomenas of the 21st century, resulting in an unexpected high-demand/short-supply play-off in which bootleggers, copyists, and counterfeiters rose to the challenge like never before. When Spielberg regrettably told interviewers that he had no intention of making a sequel to E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, it instantly became open-season for the imitators... but way before somebody squeezed-out, Mac & Me, ALF, and The Purple People Eater a team of kid's TV executives in Catalunya were ready to fill the widening gap in the market without haste. Created in 1983 by Luna Films and Televisió de Catalunya (TV3) and screened exclusively in Catalunya, Kiu I Els Seus Amics was one of the first E.T. "tributes" to make it out of the gate, and with a crew of five individual directors and writers to ensure that the five episode, one-off series hit the wave of phone-home-fever, Kiu has since remained a short but sweet micro-memory in the hearts of an entire generation of Catalonian cosmonauts. The bulk of this LP is made up of tracks taken from the rare full-length album which was released after the TV program had aired, coinciding with sales of jigsaws and rubberized play figures in an attempt to catch-up with the unexpected mega-success of the show. Needless to say, with a short promotional window, the LP (and cassette edition) did not benefit a repress and most copies were unfortunately sold to children.

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SOLOMKO, ANDRE	Recalling You	12"	FAVORITE RECORDINGS	FVR 163EP
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Favorite Recordings presents Recalling You, a dazzling disco/jazz-funk new single EP by Andre Solomko. Born in Ukraine and based in Finland for a while, Solomko is a rich and engaging personality, but above all, a talented saxophonist, composer, and engineer, with contagious passion. Since they met seven years ago, Andre and Pascal Rioux's (founder of Favorite Recordings) collaboration resulted in three albums and a couple of singles acclaimed internationally. Primarily known for a sound mixing jazz-funk, with European soundtracks, pop, and soul influences, Andre Solomko's skills for composition and production are much wider. He demonstrated his versatility when delivering the hot disco anthem "Le Premier Disco Sans Toi" (FVR 138EP, 2018). This first attempt definitely seduced many DJs and collectors, and it seems Andre enjoyed the trip too and decided to embark for it again with Recalling You. For this new single, Andre's idea was to revive two of his past compositions, tailoring brand new glamorous disco suit and arrangements for it. Backed again by a close team of musicians and the beautiful and charming vocals of Charlotta Kerbs, the new session was recorded live and analog as usual, and then brilliantly mixed in France by Jordan Kouby at Question de Son studios. It ended with what might be Andre Solomko's best level of productions and sound so far. To make it short, "I Recall" and "Teasing You" felt in love and had a baby at the nightclub... here comes Recalling You. Equipped with a hot dub edit by Charles Maurice on B-side. 45rpm.

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HASSELL/FARAFINA, JON	Flash of the Spirit	CD	TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT	GB 087CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Tak:Til/Glitterbeat present the first ever reissue and remastering of Jon Hassell and Farafina's prescient, "Fourth World" masterwork, Flash of the Spirit, originally released in 1988. Propulsive Burkinese rhythms meet revelatory, ambient soundscapes. Co-produced with the legendary studio team of Brian Eno and Dainel Lanois. Composer and trumpeter Jon Hassell has been an elusive, iconic musical figure for more than half a century. He's best known as the pioneer and propagandist of "Fourth World" music, mixing technology with the tradition and spirituality of non-western cultures. In 1987 he joined with Farafina, the acclaimed percussion, voice, and dance troupe from Burkina Faso, to record Flash of the Spirit. While the album is a natural extension of those "Fourth World" ideas, and a new strand of Possible Musics, it also a distinctive outlier in the careers of both artists; an unrepeated merging of sounds whose influence still reverberates today. The eight members of the band -- who had also collaborated with the Rolling Stones and Ryuichi Sakamoto -- brought their long apprenticed, virtuosic drumming, and melodic textures (balafon, flute, voices) to the sessions. They built up layers and patterns of rhythm, while producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois (fresh off the success of U2's Joshua Tree) created a sonic atmosphere in which they could creatively intertwine with Hassell's digitally processed trumpet and keyboards. Despite their initial skepticism, the musicians from Farafina ended up relishing their interaction with the studio team and the trumpeter/conceptualist Hassell. The music that emerged was rich and groundbreaking, a move to transcend the boundaries between jazz, avant-garde classical, ambient and the deep rhythmic tradition embodied by Farafina. On "Out Pours", the groove simmers softly, led by shifting patterns on the balafon, while Hassell's heavily treated trumpet creates breathy swirls of sound that play and dance around them. Percussion leads on "A Vampire Dances," pushing and probing and seeming to force electronic shrieks as a response from Hassell's trumpet, while the keyboard creates a bed of sound that refuses to hold still. "(Like) Warriors Everywhere" takes that idea even further. Over Farafina's surging rhythms, Hassell's electric piano and trumpet dig deep into abstract, melodic ideas hinted at by the Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis band. Farafina create the rhythms and counter-rhythms that spring and move. A new, natural trans-cultural harmony is apparent on the final track, "Masque", where percussion and treated trumpet draw the listener along on a journey through shifting landscapes.

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HASSELL/FARAFINA, JON	Flash of the Spirit	2LP+CD	TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT	GB 087LP
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl; includes CD. Tak:Til/Glitterbeat present the first ever reissue and remastering of Jon Hassell and Farafina's prescient, "Fourth World" masterwork, Flash of the Spirit, originally released in 1988. Propulsive Burkinese rhythms meet revelatory, ambient soundscapes. Co-produced with the legendary studio team of Brian Eno and Dainel Lanois. Composer and trumpeter Jon Hassell has been an elusive, iconic musical figure for more than half a century. He's best known as the pioneer and propagandist of "Fourth World" music, mixing technology with the tradition and spirituality of non-western cultures. In 1987 he joined with Farafina, the acclaimed percussion, voice, and dance troupe from Burkina Faso, to record Flash of the Spirit. While the album is a natural extension of those "Fourth World" ideas, and a new strand of Possible Musics, it also a distinctive outlier in the careers of both artists; an unrepeated merging of sounds whose influence still reverberates today. The eight members of the band -- who had also collaborated with the Rolling Stones and Ryuichi Sakamoto -- brought their long apprenticed, virtuosic drumming, and melodic textures (balafon, flute, voices) to the sessions. They built up layers and patterns of rhythm, while producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois (fresh off the success of U2's Joshua Tree) created a sonic atmosphere in which they could creatively intertwine with Hassell's digitally processed trumpet and keyboards. Despite their initial skepticism, the musicians from Farafina ended up relishing their interaction with the studio team and the trumpeter/conceptualist Hassell. The music that emerged was rich and groundbreaking, a move to transcend the boundaries between jazz, avant-garde classical, ambient and the deep rhythmic tradition embodied by Farafina. On "Out Pours", the groove simmers softly, led by shifting patterns on the balafon, while Hassell's heavily treated trumpet creates breathy swirls of sound that play and dance around them. Percussion leads on "A Vampire Dances," pushing and probing and seeming to force electronic shrieks as a response from Hassell's trumpet, while the keyboard creates a bed of sound that refuses to hold still. "(Like) Warriors Everywhere" takes that idea even further. Over Farafina's surging rhythms, Hassell's electric piano and trumpet dig deep into abstract, melodic ideas hinted at by the Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis band. Farafina create the rhythms and counter-rhythms that spring and move. A new, natural trans-cultural harmony is apparent on the final track, "Masque", where percussion and treated trumpet draw the listener along on a journey through shifting landscapes.

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UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANE	L'homme A La Camera/La Glace A Trois Faces	CD	KLANGGALERIE	GG 277CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "Un Drame Musical Instantané were founded in 1976, featuring Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé. Their aim was to promote collective musical creation, co-signing their albums, which they consider as artworks in themselves, or their live shows which they tried to renew every time they played. Their sound was created with many influences: rock; jazz, and classical modern music; as well as movies or world news; they were the first in France to give a new impetus to live music on silent movies. After having improvised freely for many years, they led a fifteen-piece orchestra from 1981 to 1986, and from 1989 onwards they produced multimedia shows (live video remix on a giant screen, fireworks, choreographies). Still their music was the most important technique, they called their recordings 'blind cinema'. The Drame used to mix acoustic and electronic instruments in real time as well as original instruments built by Vitet (a reed trumpet, a multiphonic French horn, a variable tension double-bass, a giant balafon with frying pans and flower pots keyboard, a fire organ, plexiglas flutes, etc.). After Francis Gorgé left the band in 1992, Birgé and Vitet went on recording and producing with other musicians close to the 'family' such as percussionist, Gérard Siracusa, or multi-instrumentalist, Hélène Sage. Un Drame Musical Instantané always remained independent (they always owned their own recording studio and record label GRRR) and stopped its activities in 2008, with Birgé being the only one active until this day. L'Homme À La Caméra was originally released on GRRR in 1984 and features 15 musicians. In addition to the original album, we offer you a whole new section of previously unreleased music from the time entitled La Glace A Trois Faces which is another soundtrack to a silent movie from 1927."

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TONIUTTI, MASSIMO	Variation Seculaire Geomagnetique	CD	KLANGGALERIE	GG 298CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "Massimo Toniutti is an Italian sound designer and experimental musician. He is the brother of Giancarlo Toniutti who is best known for his dark ambient masterpiece La Mutazione which was originally released on the Broken Flag label in the UK and later reissued by Klanggalerie. Massimo started working with sound when he was a teenager, collecting and playing recordings of all kinds. In th 1980s he released four cassettes on his own label, all heavily influenced by the experimental musis scene of that time. He soon developped a strong relation to electroacoustic structures, space/environment and silence. In the 1990s, he began investigating radio, creating his own sound archive and producing unusual broadcasts. He released an album entitled Il Museum Selvatico, which was reissued in Australia in 2018 on Oren Ambarchi's label Black Truffle. A documentation of his radio work can be heard on the CD Le Gabbiette Di Faraday, collecting radio pieces from 1996 to 1998. After a twenty year break, the cassette Antidocument/Groundwork was released in 2016 in a tiny edition of only 100 copies. Klanggalerie asked Massimo Toniutti to reissue this composition on CD to which he agreed. When work was started, Massimo decided to extend it to a much longer piece which became Variation Séculaire Géomagnétique. if you are into Musique Concrete, Dark Ambient or simply beautifully crafted atmospheric music, then this release is for you."

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RESIDENTS, THE	Refused	CD	KLANGGALERIE	GG 314CD
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "The Residents are an American art collective best known for their over 60 studio albums that were recorded over a period of over forty years. They also created some outstanding multimedia works, mainly three CD ROM projects and ten DVDs. Working as an anonymous collective, their identities were kept secret until in 2017 Hardy Fox revealed himself as their primary composer. Hardy died in October 2018, but the group continue to record and perform. The compilation album Refused was originally released by the band's own Ralph America label in 1999 and collected 11 versions of the track 'Santa Dog'. For our 2019 Christmas reissue, we have collected a total of 18 variations and have adapted the original artwork."

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MY BUS	Our Life In The Desert	CD	ONOMATOPOEIA RECORDS	HUM 030CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 My Bus are Joe Cassidy and Gary McKendry. As Butterfly Child and Papa Sprain respectively they were restless parallel adventurers in the early days of UK dream-pop. The released EPs for AR Kane's label H.ark! and then for Rough Trade. They blazed radical trails for music, burned bright and then faded away. Now they have combined to form My Bus. Our Life In The Desert became is of the richest and most emotional dream-pop entities of any era. They combine Gary's love of dissonance and Joe's love of melody/composition. It is a deeply nostalgic record born out of love and a friendship across decades. The lyrics range from direct to oblique as the music spans oceanic drift ("Moon Tempo"), full-on drama ("Elvis & Me"), simmering pop tones ("Tomorrow Will Be Ours") and the stirring, multi-faceted "Goose Pimples Forever", rescued by the wonders of technology from an ancient disintegrating My Bus cassette. On the exquisite, haunting "Angeles", spoken words matched to one of his more restful ambient pieces. "It's an idea of confusion and uncertainty," says Gary ("Our minds contemplating the paltry limits of the conditional to my mind thoughts are only for preparing an entrance and an exit").

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MY BUS	Our Life In The Desert	LP	ONOMATOPOEIA RECORDS	HUM 030LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 LP version. My Bus are Joe Cassidy and Gary McKendry. As Butterfly Child and Papa Sprain respectively they were restless parallel adventurers in the early days of UK dream-pop. The released EPs for AR Kane's label H.ark! and then for Rough Trade. They blazed radical trails for music, burned bright and then faded away. Now they have combined to form My Bus. Our Life In The Desert became is of the richest and most emotional dream-pop entities of any era. They combine Gary's love of dissonance and Joe's love of melody/composition. It is a deeply nostalgic record born out of love and a friendship across decades. The lyrics range from direct to oblique as the music spans oceanic drift ("Moon Tempo"), full-on drama ("Elvis & Me"), simmering pop tones ("Tomorrow Will Be Ours") and the stirring, multi-faceted "Goose Pimples Forever", rescued by the wonders of technology from an ancient disintegrating My Bus cassette. On the exquisite, haunting "Angeles", spoken words matched to one of his more restful ambient pieces. "It's an idea of confusion and uncertainty," says Gary ("Our minds contemplating the paltry limits of the conditional to my mind thoughts are only for preparing an entrance and an exit").

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ROMBOY, MARC	Voyage de la planete (New Interpretations)	12"	HYPERHARMONIC	HYPE 005EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 The release of Marc Romboy's album Voyage De La Planète in 2017 (HYPE 002CD/LP) marked a new era of his career. With ten rather beatless tracks where he combined his definition of electronica with classical instruments like violin, cello, double bass, and piano Marc began to walk the path of fresh sounding music for the brain. The title track has been the most successful one so that Marc called no one else than Erased Tape's poster boy Ben Lukas Boysen from Berlin to contribute his very own interpretation. Ben created a typical and unique version which comes along with a, believe it or not, 4/4 kick pattern towards the end. But listen yourself, it totally makes sense. And Bordeaux's best Ocoeur made a short but epic ambient version you also should not miss.

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CHANDLER & JEROME SYDENHAM, KERRI	You're In My System	12"	IBADAN RECORDS	IRC 143EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Ibadan Records present a new remix by Dennis Quin of Kerri Chandler and Jerome Sydenham's "You're In My System" featuring Troy Denari. Quin, a self-professed house addict and die-hard Kerri Chandler fan since the early nineties, had been searching for a new vocalist to work with. He turned to Simon Birkumshaw, label manager and A&R of Chandler's Madhouse Records, who recommended Troy Denari, the original vocalist of the classic Ibadan track "You're In My System". When Denari revealed that had just re-sung the vocals, Quin was inspired to remix the track. Quin's aim with this remix was to update the track for his sets and give it contemporary production values in line with his current digital sets. "It's always tricky to put your hands on a huge record like this," he says. "It's a legendary track that everyone knows, so I was extremely careful in terms of mixing, timing, and all the rest." The result is a modern version of the classic that is very true to the original. At the same time, Quin makes his mark by bringing his own drum and percussion into the mix. The remix versions cover all the bases for various digital distribution formats, including atmospheric dub, club and instrumental mixes. Working together for the first time, the members of the musical team were excited to exchange their ideas. "Troy, Kerri, Jerome and I have gained so much out this intense collaboration. It has developed into a deep friendship that is all about house music, good vibes and pride in our achievements. Each of us is fulfilled by our individual roles in this project. I'm really proud to be part of this family."

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WILSON, DELROY	Dubbing at King Tubby's	CD	JAMAICAN RECORDINGS	JRCD 070CD
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Delroy Wilson's rich vocal tones always added magic to any song put his way. The "Cool Operator" was what he was affectionately named after he worked on a tune with the legendary Jamaican producer, Bunny Lee. A match made in heaven, that you will hear on this collection, where he was put against some of the finest rhythms made in what would be a high point in reggae's history. Delroy Wilson (b.1948 Kingston, Jamaica) began his musical career at the school which was Coxonne Dodd's Studio One label. His first release at the tender age of 13 was the Lee Perry produced "Joe Liges". This ska-enhanced tune gave the young singer his first hit and the follow-up single "Spit in the Sky" also flew out the record store doors. After a brief stop in 1969, Delroy began working for producer Sonia Pottinger's Tip Top label which gave him more hits including "It Hurts" and "Put Yourself in My Place". The 1970s saw Delroy Wilson's arrival at Bunny "Striker" Lee's door and what would turn into a winning formula, scoring hit after hit. It is from this great period in Delroy's career that Jamaican Recordings have compiled this selection of killer tracks, cut with drum and bass rhythm kings themselves Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. A great dub set mixed at the one and only King Tubby's studio... CD version includes three bonus tracks.

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WILSON, DELROY	Dubbing at King Tubby's	LP	JAMAICAN RECORDINGS	JRLP 070LP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 LP version. Delroy Wilson's rich vocal tones always added magic to any song put his way. The "Cool Operator" was what he was affectionately named after he worked on a tune with the legendary Jamaican producer, Bunny Lee. A match made in heaven, that you will hear on this collection, where he was put against some of the finest rhythms made in what would be a high point in reggae's history. Delroy Wilson (b.1948 Kingston, Jamaica) began his musical career at the school which was Coxonne Dodd's Studio One label. His first release at the tender age of 13 was the Lee Perry produced "Joe Liges". This ska-enhanced tune gave the young singer his first hit and the follow-up single "Spit in the Sky" also flew out the record store doors. After a brief stop in 1969, Delroy began working for producer Sonia Pottinger's Tip Top label which gave him more hits including "It Hurts" and "Put Yourself in My Place". The 1970s saw Delroy Wilson's arrival at Bunny "Striker" Lee's door and what would turn into a winning formula, scoring hit after hit. It is from this great period in Delroy's career that Jamaican Recordings have compiled this selection of killer tracks, cut with drum and bass rhythm kings themselves Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. A great dub set mixed at the one and only King Tubby's studio...

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VA	Mississippi Hillbillies, 1927-1935: Curated & Annotated by David Bragger	4CD	JSP RECORDS	JSP 77215CD
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "From the golden age of field recordings of early country and old timey from the early 1920s to mid-1930s, these fabulously rare recordings from the Chris King collection stand out as some of the most important. This collection focuses on the Mississippi region and features performances by true folk musicians-Leake County Revellers, Nations Brothers, Mississippi 'Possum Hunters and many more."

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KASPAR, JONATHAN	Kante EP	12"	KOMPAKT	KOM 414EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Kompakt welcome a local Cologne hero, Jonathan Kaspar. He's released on Crosstown Rebels, Pets Recordings, Ouie, and of course our own KX imprint. His single "Renard" was a highlight of Kompakt's recently released Total 19 collection (KOM 400LP/KOMP 154CD), so it was time to make the relationship official with a four-track EP. Opener "Kern" leads with layers of melodic synths power charged around a playful house rhythm. "Zentrum" is for that peak-time pace... elevating melodies caress a swelling mid-tempo beat. Not to mention one of the biggest breakdown's on Kompakt in some time. "Licht" literally sounds like it soars, then back to earth comes "Kante" -- the most techno inspired track of the EP -- an oscillating synth rips through solid low-end bass frequencies -- with Jonathan Kaspar skillfully demonstrating prime time, peak and valley production. Kante EP brings out his emotive, high energy style of writing and producing in a means that could be pointed to as his best work to date.

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DONOVAN	Best Of 1965-1969 Live	LP	LONDON CALLING	LCLPC 5033LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 The best of Donovan, live from 1965-1969. Donovan Leitch burst into the UK hit parade in March 1965 with a #4 hit for Pye Records in "Catch The Wind". This recording had been preceded by a three-week run on the TV program Ready Steady Go, unprecedented for an artist yet to release his first record. While Granada had Ready Steady Go, the BBC had a handful of contemporary light programs for radio to host the "happening" current acts such as Saturday Club, Folk Room, and later; Nightride and Top Gear. Here, you travel back to 1965, where Donovan made numerous consecutive trips into BBC's Paris Theatre Studios, presented here are his best performed tracks between 1965-1969, accompanying himself on guitar with additional stand-up bass provided by Spike Heatley and Danny Thompson. This landmark release also includes fascinating interviews with host Brian Matthew. Digitally remastered, first time on vinyl. Orange color, 180 gram vinyl; hand-numbered fold-over sleeve, with insert.

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LULU AND THE LUVVERS	Best Of 1964-1967 Live	LP	LONDON CALLING	LCLPC 5034LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 The best of Lulu, live from 1964-1967, joined by The Luvvers and Bean & Loopy's Lot. Since shouting out her first chart record way back in April 1964, Lulu's profile in the pop mainstream has seen a wealth of Top 10 hits and international success. The '70s may not have offered the same rewards, but pairings with boy bands in the 1990s such as Take That and singer Ronan Keating saw a resurgence in her profile and popularity. However, turning the clock way back to her 1965 heyday with her Scottish counterparts The Luvvers, you can trace her story and irrepressible climb to become one of Britain's most esteemed golden girls courtesy of her performances in session for the BBC. London Calling presents for the first time, Lulu in session at the BBC, backed by beat groups such as The Luvvers and Bean & Loopy's Lot, and duets with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, this is a fascinating account of one of British pop music's hardest working and most authentic iconic singers. Professionally remastered original broadcast recordings of her best 18 tracks during this period, and revealing interviews with Brian Matthew recalling her 1964-1967 period. Includes background liners and rare archival photos. Yellow color, 180 gram vinyl; hand-numbered fold-over sleeve, with insert.

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CLOCK OPERA	Carousel	CD	LEAGUE OF IMAGINARY NATIONS	LIN 004CD
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Clock Opera release their long-awaited third album Carousel on League of Imaginary Nations. Carousel is a unique and intimate look at the emotional challenges faced when becoming a father, a search for new identity and an examination of what you need to surrender in order to change. Guy Connelly, Clock Opera's lead singer, found that the profound life changes accompanying parenthood transformed his writing process. Huge questions dominated and called him to account. There is also a great sense of discovery, joy and renewal to Carousel, a return to the euphoric uplift of their debut Ways To Forget (2012); an understanding of the odds against being alive at all. A new sense of incredible wonder and happiness accompanied by a fresh set of reasons to fear the future. Carousel sees Clock Opera reach new heights in their production and songwriting craft, seamlessly combining a wide range of instrumentation, from distorted bass clarinet, French horns, Suzuki hand chimes, to mournful midnight choirs and ambient swells in collaboration with found sounds and frozen moments. Inspired by sci-fi soundtracks (Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jerry Goldsmith, Mica Levi), experimental theater scores, unpredictable electronica, and futuristic pop, Carousel was self-produced at their South London studios. Drawing from the deep artistic wells of Shawn Everett, Homogenic by Björk, Roy Orbison, and ambient Eno recordings, the album was written in a sequence of intensive bursts in hideaways from Peckham to LA. Nic Nell's wild synth improvisations, driven through a collection of idiosyncratic '80s delays became a huge part of the Carousel sound, drawing from the experimental electronic palette of his Casually Here recordings. As ever, Che Albrighton's furiously energetic drums power the whole operation relentlessly to its target, with spontaneous detail and featherlight touch. Mixed by Kristofer Harris at Squarehead Studios in Kent, in the same room that their sophomore album Venn was made (2017). This creative continuity has resulted in a beautiful and accomplished record, simultaneously vulnerable and triumphant, immediate and multi-layered. Clock Opera rose to prominence in 2012 with their debut Ways To Forget, together with a raft of well-loved remixes for Everything Everything, Christine & The Queens, Metronomy, Blood Orange, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marina & The Diamonds, amongst many others. In 2017, Venn explored darker themes and wider sonic territory. Clock Opera is: Guy Connelly (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, production), Che Albrighton (drums, percussion, samples), and Nic Nell (keyboards, bass, vocals, production).

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CLOCK OPERA	Carousel	LP	LEAGUE OF IMAGINARY NATIONS	LIN 004LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 LP version. Clock Opera release their long-awaited third album Carousel on League of Imaginary Nations. Carousel is a unique and intimate look at the emotional challenges faced when becoming a father, a search for new identity and an examination of what you need to surrender in order to change. Guy Connelly, Clock Opera's lead singer, found that the profound life changes accompanying parenthood transformed his writing process. Huge questions dominated and called him to account. There is also a great sense of discovery, joy and renewal to Carousel, a return to the euphoric uplift of their debut Ways To Forget (2012); an understanding of the odds against being alive at all. A new sense of incredible wonder and happiness accompanied by a fresh set of reasons to fear the future. Carousel sees Clock Opera reach new heights in their production and songwriting craft, seamlessly combining a wide range of instrumentation, from distorted bass clarinet, French horns, Suzuki hand chimes, to mournful midnight choirs and ambient swells in collaboration with found sounds and frozen moments. Inspired by sci-fi soundtracks (Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jerry Goldsmith, Mica Levi), experimental theater scores, unpredictable electronica, and futuristic pop, Carousel was self-produced at their South London studios. Drawing from the deep artistic wells of Shawn Everett, Homogenic by Björk, Roy Orbison, and ambient Eno recordings, the album was written in a sequence of intensive bursts in hideaways from Peckham to LA. Nic Nell's wild synth improvisations, driven through a collection of idiosyncratic '80s delays became a huge part of the Carousel sound, drawing from the experimental electronic palette of his Casually Here recordings. As ever, Che Albrighton's furiously energetic drums power the whole operation relentlessly to its target, with spontaneous detail and featherlight touch. Mixed by Kristofer Harris at Squarehead Studios in Kent, in the same room that their sophomore album Venn was made (2017). This creative continuity has resulted in a beautiful and accomplished record, simultaneously vulnerable and triumphant, immediate and multi-layered. Clock Opera rose to prominence in 2012 with their debut Ways To Forget, together with a raft of well-loved remixes for Everything Everything, Christine & The Queens, Metronomy, Blood Orange, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marina & The Diamonds, amongst many others. In 2017, Venn explored darker themes and wider sonic territory. Clock Opera is: Guy Connelly (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, production), Che Albrighton (drums, percussion, samples), and Nic Nell (keyboards, bass, vocals, production).

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MUIR, LENA	Go	7"	MALKA TUTI	MALKA 025EP
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Opening 2020 with a storm, Malka Tuti delivers a new 7" by mysterious artist Lena Muir. Two cuts of post punk-infused dancefloor bonanza for your weirdo selectors set, or your next car chase... Sounding like they were taken out of a Robert Rodriguez movie, the two tracks push relentlessly forward, with a quirky drum machine, heavy bass and kick-ass guitar riffs. The 7" will be a vinyl-only release; edition of 300.

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MELCHIOR BAND, DAN	Outside In	LP	MIDNIGHT CRUISER RECORDS	MCR 004LP
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "Dan Melchior has been creating his own unique take on lo-fi pop/garage rock and American roots music for close over two decades. He has recorded over 35 records as a solo performer, as a collaborator with Billy Childish and Graham Lambkin and more notably with his band Dan Melchior's Broke Revue. He has also released several records with his post Broke Revue band, Dan Melchior un Das Menace. Dan's latest LP comes courtesy of his newest group Dan Melchior Band. Outside In is eight tracks of distortion-drenched, fuzzed-up rhythm and blues, and rock and roll. While Dan's distinctive vocals and guitar playing are the cornerstone of the group's sound, the entire album is awash in a sea of unspooling riffs and hooks moving from heavy locked in bass grooves to distorted synth freakouts. In the words of Steve Lowenthal 'Dan Melchior is an anomaly in the modern music world, even for the underground. As one of the world's last truly great songwriters ... His music cannot be neatly partitioned into a narrow genre although one can detect elements of blues, vintage R&B, British psych pop and more recently brazen experimentalism.'" "Outside In has a cinder-scorned midnight feeling to it, slinking through the darkened streets in search of some forgotten solace, some inner peace that never quite conjures through the haze ... Falling in the blues-buttressed valley between his fuzz-freaked noise offerings and his poppier days in the Broke Revue, the record is a greasy slide that hops back and forth with a pugilist's swagger." Andy French (ravensingstheblues.com)

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BENDIK HK	Depot EP	12"	MUTUAL INTENTIONS	MI 015EP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Bendik HK is now launching his debut EP Depot via Oslo-based label Mutual Intentions. The EP boasts Bendik HK's futuristic approach in the realm of techno, house, and ambient. His progressive production revolves around melodic structures, rhythm, and soundscapes. On all four tracks Bendik HK uses an atonal percussion instrument called "Sixxen", brought to life by the Greek contemporary composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. On Depot, this instrument is fused with more classic synths, in an attempt to "challenge" the club genre and invite something new; not only through rhythm and production, but tonality as well.

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WHITE, WOLFF PARKINSON	Small Favours EP	12"	NONPLACE	NON 049EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Juxtaposing his trademark torrent of rapid-fire sliced processed audio with the warmth of the human voice, Wolff Parkinson White's first 12" release on Nonplace, relies on comparatively familiar song structures and answers the question of what a collaboration between Björk and Venetian Snares would sound like, if both were more aware of the drawbacks of both diatonic tedium and ceaseless harmonic wasteland, respectively. The six tracks were handpicked by label owner Burnt Friedman (Flanger) from the full 13-track album release. Jochen Rueckert, jazz drummer hiding behind the moniker "Wolff Parkinson White" also appears on Heaps Dub" (NON 020CD/LP, 2006) by Root 70 and Coptic Dub (NON 027CD, 2009) by Hayden Chisholm's recording project The Embassadors. Norah Jones appears courtesy of Blue Note Records. Also features Josh Mease, Clare Manchon, Natalie Beridze, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Desmond White.

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PENYA NA MSAFIRI ZAWOSE	Penya Safari E.P	12"	ON THE CORNER RECORDS	OTCR 12017EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 On The Corner Records favourites Penya kick off the new year with a collaborative EP with legendary gogo musician Msafiri Zawose. The collaboration began in September 2017 when Penya's Magnus P.I. spent a week in Tanyania, East Africa, recording material at Zawosi's studio. Penya are a genre defying quartet that embody the energized sound of a cosmopolitan UK. A host of traditional folkloric rhythms, club culture motifs, and DIY electronics mark the band's distinct sound. Drums, horn, and vocals evoke Penya's live performance from a world of euphoric ritual and visceral dance scapes, ancient and future. The band's debut LP Superliminal (2018) quickly achieved critical acclaim from a host of taste makers and artists including Gilles Peterson, Bonobo, Tom Ravenscroft, WorldWide FM, Jeremy Sole, Late Junction (BBC Radio 3), and Boiler Room. The band went on tour, quickly establishing its dancefloor ready, multi-instrumental live show. Since Superliminal, Penya have released collaborations with a diverse array of artists including Dengue Dengue Dengue, Photay, Sarathy Korwar, and most recently the renown Tanzanian artist Msafiri Zawose. Legendary gogo musician Msafiri Zawose, is heir to the legacy of the late Hukwe Zawose that put the music of Tanzania on the atlas.

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BITTER SPRINGS, THE	The Odd Shower + Excretus In Completus	CD	TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS	PICI 025CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Incredibly, despite two decades of recording history, The Bitter Springs have never had a full-length vinyl release until now. The Odd Shower has been four years in the making, and is, unequivocally, the band's finest work. Listeners will be dazzled by the consistency and peculiar brilliance of each and every track. As a label, Tiny Global Productions sometimes afforded the chance to get behind a release that's more deserving of attention than albums by artists with much bigger profiles, and The Odd Shower is a prime example of such an occasion. Dismayed by the lack of attention to their earlier work, much of Simon and crew's recent work was released only digitally. Rather than continue on that path, they redoubled their efforts to create an album which deserved their full treatment. A 7" 45, Love Rat/Less Than Love preceded this album and some of the tracks hereon, but as infectious as that single was, it provides by sparing hints to the magnificent contents of the album. There's a Postcard feel to the album -- that bilious humor, a sarcastic sentimentality hovering in contrast to absurdist portraits of the modern age, and Vic Godard's ever-present influence best explained by his newly enshrined position as the band's organist. Their pugilistic yet literary sensibilities may be at odds, but they've allowed for the addictive electro-tango of "Words Of Love", the bizarre social commentary/celebration/comedy of "Girls In F.I.T.S." (that's "fighting in the streets"), the Fallish guitar and keyboard rant underlining "Angry All The Time", and minimalist folk homily "Mistakes", which self-reflects for barely a minute. It is a homespun masterpiece, and if its physical release is a surprise, the curious will be delighted to learn that five other songs from the sessions are included on a special (and limited) EP called Excretus In Completus. Two of these are from what might have the follow-up single to "Love Rat", two others are songs which couldn't be included on the album for reasons of running time, and the label also added Vic Godard's remix of "The Addison Brothers".

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SUBTLE HOUZZE	Controversy EP	12"	RUNNING BACK DOUBLE COPY	RBDC 005EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Subtle Houzze were Boris Dlugosch and the late Gary D. The joint venture of Hamburg's golden boy and Front resident Dlugosch and his Unit/Tunnel counterpart Gary D was like a moment in love. Written and produced in 1992, it cast the grappling statues of techno soul and deep house in bronze. Save for two tracks of the original release, albeit graced with another and previously unavailable mix of "Hemisphere", all the glory of the future of the past is available again. Remastered, restored and reconfigured via the Running Back Double Copy series. If you need more proof, see this quote from Discogs user guigui612 from September 26, 2019: "Super good EP. Very diverse, full of deepness and emotions."

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DWARVES	Free Cocaine 1986-88 (Limited Edition)	2LP	GREEDY	RECESS 051LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "'Mixing Lucifer's Crank', 'Toolin' For a Warm Teabag' and other early Dwarves singles, EPs and unreleased tracks this is the noise rock Dwarves at their most untamed. Zero production value, maximum profanity. Hits include 'Eat You To Survive', 'Fucking Life' and 'Dead Brides in White'." Originally Released in 1999, this much sought after package is back with new art and a suave ass gatefold jacket!

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MORRICONE, ENNIO	End Of The Game (aka Il Giudice e il suo Boia)	LP	DAGORED	RED 260LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 End Of The Game (aka Il Giudice e il suo Boia) finally on vinyl for the first time. One of the most wanted and mysterious scores by the maestro Ennio Morricone. With the help of the magical voice of Edda Dell'Orso (Sul Ponte di Istambul) this score follows the steps of the most famous soundtrack composed by the maestro combining melancholic melodies with wild funky tunes, such as the brilliant "Shake del Giudice". End Of The Game (aka Il Giudice e il suo Boia, aka Assassinio sul Ponte, aka Der Richter und Sein Henker) was a 1975 cult noir movie starring the great John Voigt and Jacqueline Bisset. Color vinyl; edition of 500.

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TROVAJOLI, ARMANDO	Il Grande Colpo Dei 7 Uomini D'oro	LP	DAGORED	RED 261LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 First vinyl reissue of this true gem from the "cocktail generation" soundtracks! The great Armando Trovajoli, an exceptional composer and the one who brought American jazz to the Italian cinema, with his experienced touch, elegant phrasing and irony curry the listener over this incredible sound experience supported by the mighty vocal band, I Cantori Moderni of Alessandro Alessandroni. Bossa jazz vibes for this truly magnificent score for this Italian crime comedy movie, sequel of the famous The Seven Gold Men (1965) here presented in audiophile quality. 45RPM; Color vinyl; edition of 500.

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DWARVES	How To Win Friends and Influence People	LP	REPTILIAN RECORDS	REP 068LP
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "The first, the best, the last, the one and only Dwarves celebrate over 20 years of unmentionable practices against music, the populace, small animals, teenage girls, law, order, and society with a kiss-off collection of 16 classic tracks on Reptilian Records. After nearly 20 years out of print, the classic collection How to Win Friends and Influence People spits out re-recorded versions of the songs that made the Dwarves a universally loved Satanic cult of sex, drugs, and destruction -- 'Drug Store', 'Fuck You Up and Get High', 'Dairy Queen', 'Let's Fuck', and many others. Although the originals resounded with power and fury, the newest versions are even mightier; not bland, verbatim clones, but altered arrangements -- some slower, some faster, all better, recorded raw and with increased abandon. The Dwarves -- talented, demented, (not to mention once young and good looking) leave countless imitators in their sleazy wake, but none could ever fulfill the twisted manifest destiny declared by these lawless pioneers many years ago."

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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.	Minstrel In The Galaxy	LP	RIOT SEASON	REPOSE 084B-LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Limited edition black vinyl repress; includes download code; gloss finished 350gsm board sleeve; edition of 300. Way back in 2004, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. released the CD-only album Minstrel In The Galaxy on Riot Season Records. The decision to make it CD only at the time was down to the epic title track being almost 42 minutes in length. Fast forward fifteen years and new technologies and Riot Season present the first-ever vinyl release of this classic album, with a new edited especially for vinyl mix by main man Makoto Kawabata. Here's what Riot Season said back then: "Minstrel In The Galaxy is the sound of the newly slimmed down four-piece AMT recorded in their smoke filled basement Studio in Nagoya during summer 2004. The sounds captured on these three tracks are the first post-Cotton Casino AMT workouts. The diminutive beer and cigarettes Goddess has upped sticks and moved to the USA to start a new life and plan her solo career. We'll miss her that's for sure but we can't worry about that now, AMT have another ten albums to lay down before New Year. The AMT line up for this album features the core trio of Makoto Kawabata (Guitar), Atsushi Tsuyama (monster bass), Hiroshi Higashi (guitar and effects) and new permanent drummer (and ex-Mainliner man) Hajime Koie (drums). The free jazz style drumming from Hajime has helped give AMT their sense of improvisation back, most of their work is improvised and recorded live to tape which gives that great loose feel they have that takes them off on tangents and makes each new record that little bit different from the last. And with this new studio album I think we can safely say it's something of a new direction. They're joined on this album by Japanese underground queens Afrirampo . . . Musically this album is a slight departure for AMT, anyone buying it expecting a head-melting riff heavy record are going to be disappointed. To these ears 'Minstrel In The Galaxy' sounds darker and more stripped down that any previous AMT release. The title track alone lasts a staggering 41 minutes, over the course of which the band take our heads in a few gentle directions before letting rip towards it's crushing finale." Color vinyl; includes download code; edition of 500.

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AFTER DINNER	Souvenir Cassette And Other Further Live Adventures	CD	RER MEGACORP	RER ADR1
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "A limited edition collection of exquisite live interpretations of songs by Japanese pop genius, Haco, taken from the band's first and second European tours in the early 1980s -- technically innovative events at which they set up 5'1 sound systems at every concert. Powerful, delicate music featuring exotic as well as conventional rock instrumentation, and the extraordinary voice of diminutive diva, Haco. Includes previously unreleased materials. Powerfully played and beautifully recorded with full documentation, new photographs, technical diagrams and an introduction by Haco, who oversaw the project. Re-mastered by Bob Drake."

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SHINN, DON	Temples With Prophets	CD	SUNBEAM RECORDS	SBDP 1093CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Sunbeam Records present the first official reissue of Don Shinn's Temples With Prophets, originally released in 1969. Having made several classic 45 with The Soul Agents (whose singer was briefly Rod Stewart), Don Shinn taped his remarkable debut album in London's Lansdowne Studios in December 1967. Featuring his explosive organ (a clear influence on the young Keith Emerson) and outstanding guitar from Paul Hodgeson, it's one of the first progressive albums ever recorded. Includes a 12-page booklet with detailed background notes and rare images. Includes two jaw-dropping bonus tracks from 1966. "Don Shinn got a fantastic sound from the L-100... He and Jimi Hendrix* were controlling influences over the way I developed*..." --Keith Emerson

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SHINN, DON	Departures	CD	SUNBEAM RECORDS	SBDP 1094CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Sunbeam Records present the first official reissue of Don Shinn's second and final album, Departures, originally released in 1969. Departureswas made in London's Lansdowne Studios only a few months after his classic debut. Featuring a more jazzy and experimental side to his remarkable organ playing (a clear influence on the young Keith Emerson) and a band including jazz legend Stan Tracey, it's presented here fifty years after its first release. Includes a 12-page booklet with detailed background notes and rare images. Includes three newly recorded bonus tracks that make it clear that the maestro has lost none of his touch. "Don Shinn got a fantastic sound from the L-100... He and Jimi Hendrix* were controlling influences over the way I developed*..." --Keith Emerson

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NAGAYA, KAZUYA	Dream Interpretation	CD	SCI + TEC DIGITAL AUDIO	SCITEC 006CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 "There are dreams that I still remember. Although it has been decades since I had those dreams, they continue to pulsate, circulating their pellucid blood, vital and fresh as if dreamt just last night" Singing bowls, bronze bells, and gongs resonate through the mindful layers of Japanese percussionist and ambient producer Kazuya Nagaya's music. In Zen Buddhism, bells are believed to wash away the cares of the mortal world, as the listener follows the resonance of the bell into the silence and stillness within all beings. It is a penetration into the depths of one's self. Nagaya's music is rooted in Buddhist (Zenzhu) philosophy and sensibilities unique to Japan. Concurrently, his work and interests are also contemporary and traverse a broad spectrum of cultures. "There is one thing I have known all along. Someday I will have to face the messages from my unconscious. I will have to decipher their meaning and change my life accordingly. The messages from my unconscious are like a knocking on the door of my mind. For many years the sound reverberated, but I payed it no attention" Nagaya started out to pursue his talents in literature and is also an award-winning writer and a connoisseur on Japanese Literature, Buddhist Folktales, and Zen Philosophical Works. These interests breathed life into his music, and the sensibilities and philosophical views which he developed during his literary years are now reflected in most of his music today. He spends half the week teaching courses at his University in Tokyo, and the other half composing and writing in his home in the Japanese Alps, where he resides with his wife, and many adopted cats and dogs. Dream Interpretations was composed at a difficult time in Nagaya's life. While he worked, he listened closely to the sound of the knocking that reverberated from the paths of his unconsciousness and transformed that into music. In other words, this music is his dream interpretation. CD version includes a 48cmx24cm poster.

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NAGAYA, KAZUYA	Dream Interpretation	LP	SCI + TEC DIGITAL AUDIO	SCITEC 006LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 LP version. White vinyl; printed inner sleeve. "There are dreams that I still remember. Although it has been decades since I had those dreams, they continue to pulsate, circulating their pellucid blood, vital and fresh as if dreamt just last night" Singing bowls, bronze bells, and gongs resonate through the mindful layers of Japanese percussionist and ambient producer Kazuya Nagaya's music. In Zen Buddhism, bells are believed to wash away the cares of the mortal world, as the listener follows the resonance of the bell into the silence and stillness within all beings. It is a penetration into the depths of one's self. Nagaya's music is rooted in Buddhist (Zenzhu) philosophy and sensibilities unique to Japan. Concurrently, his work and interests are also contemporary and traverse a broad spectrum of cultures. "There is one thing I have known all along. Someday I will have to face the messages from my unconscious. I will have to decipher their meaning and change my life accordingly. The messages from my unconscious are like a knocking on the door of my mind. For many years the sound reverberated, but I payed it no attention" Nagaya started out to pursue his talents in literature and is also an award-winning writer and a connoisseur on Japanese Literature, Buddhist Folktales, and Zen Philosophical Works. These interests breathed life into his music, and the sensibilities and philosophical views which he developed during his literary years are now reflected in most of his music today. He spends half the week teaching courses at his University in Tokyo, and the other half composing and writing in his home in the Japanese Alps, where he resides with his wife, and many adopted cats and dogs. Dream Interpretations was composed at a difficult time in Nagaya's life. While he worked, he listened closely to the sound of the knocking that reverberated from the paths of his unconsciousness and transformed that into music. In other words, this music is his dream interpretation.

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KLEIN, MICHAEL	Hoisin	12"	SECOND STATE AUDIO	SNDST 072EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Techno DJ and producer Michael Klein has been consistently putting out solid work for years, a habit that has made other DJs -- among them Richie Hawtin, Chris Liebing, and Laurent Garnier -- look to Klein's releases as reliable fodder fit for a variety of moods at any given party. Born in Frankfurt and trained in classical piano as a child, Klein cut his clubbing teeth at the likes of Robert Johnson and Cocoon. He then moved to Berlin where he cultivated his dark and groovy sound, assisted by his studies in sound engineering, and earned a residency at the beloved, now-closed Stattbad. Klein is prolific but versatile, and these qualities come to the fore on his latest release, the Hoisin EP for Second State. The title track, "Hoisin", is a shapeshifter, switching gears from mesmeric, winding bass and rhythmic bleeps to minor, eerie builds, cheeky drum rolls, and more energizing chords. "Bite" is more urgent, kicked along by impatient percussion and an acidic bass burble. "The Signal" is the EP's biggest moment, destined to be a highlight of not just Klein's sets, but others', too. It has the atmosphere of a '90s Bristolian rave, with a whomping stomp, beguiling bass and the odd vocal yelp adding era-specific authenticity. "Hollow Night" demonstrates how deftly he can change moods. Here Klein retreats into something darker and more insular. A kick joined by circular chords creates a claustrophobic but compelling inner world. Klein is a highly valued member of the Second State Audio family and recently contributed an excellent exclusive track for Amelie Lens' Fabric Presents mix. He's been something of a secret weapon in the techno community for years, but while his music prefers to live in the dark, Klein's profile is, deservedly, coming into the light.

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FLAMINGO PIER	Indigo EP	12"	SOUNDWAY	SNDW 12041EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 New Zealand DJ collective Flamingo Pier return to Soundway with their Indigo EP. Their previous release, the eponymous Flamingo Pier EP in February 2019, was the beginning of their relationship with Soundway -- garnering support from industry peers including Gilles Peterson, Tim Sweeney (Beats In Space), The Black Madonna, Gideon Coe, The Wire magazine, JD Twitch, and more. Drawing inspiration again from cosmic disco, Afro-house, and Italo -- Luke, Brad, and Dominic hone their craft further on the Indigo EP with tight percussion, balanced arrangements and hard-hitting grooves. The EP was recorded in Auckland and London over the course of 2019, with additional contributions from local New Zealand collaborators: percussionist Isaac Chadderton and brass player Finn Scholes. The full EP will be released on 12" vinyl and digital on Friday February 8, 2020, to coincide with the hugely popular Flamingo Pier festival on Waiheke Island. For fans of: Psychemagik, Earthboogie, Todd Terje, Joey Negro.

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WAXIST	Message In Our Music Volume II: Selected By Waxist	LP	SOL DISCOS	SOL 1005LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Sol Discos presents the second volume of their Message In Our Music compilation series, selected by Waxist. This album is the result of more than two years of work in researching the original recordings, the artists involved and licensing the different songs. Focusing once again on the modern-soul genre, the album brings back to light eight extremely rare songs from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, all officially licensed. From the heavy synth gospel boogie of Sharnell Morton's "You Are My Shining Star", to the magnificent Network & Co private disco "Spirit Of The Boogie", most of these songs are highly difficult to find on their original format, not to mention at a decent price. Direct Connec Shun's "He's No Good" records have been destroyed in a flood, and the few copies which have sold on the Internet reach the three figures price tags for example. Also, the album is proud to introduce to a wider audience some lesser known but exceptional recordings such as Janice "Nicki" Harrison's "Magic of Love", which is taken from a Broadway musical produced & composed by Ted Wortham -- who also composed for Philadelphia International Recordings artists such as Teddy Pendergrass, Anthony White, or Jean Carn. Message In Our Music Volume II has been fully remastered, and features interview-based liner notes, along with never seen before pictures of the artists selected. Also features James Family, Marlon Hunter, Spice Of Ice, and Executive Suite.

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TOROSSI/GIOVANNI TOMMASO, STEFANO	Echoing America (Clear Vinyl)	LP	COMETA EDIZIONI	SRST 130C-LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 LP version. Clear vinyl; edition of 150. Cometa Edizioni present a reissue of Stefano Torossi and Giovanni Tommaso's Echoing America, originally released in 2013. Such a legendary Italian library that blends instrumental touches that evoke images of a continent at the beginning of the '70s. Obscure and electric jazz groove, R&B stompers, percussive funk chase with some of the finest players in the Italian scenario: Stefano Torossi and Giovanni Tomasso (one of the most in-demand double bass player in the seventies, already part of such legendary combos as Perigeo, Enrico Rava Septet, and Amedeo Tommasi Sextet). A definitively highlight in the Cometa catalog.

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TOROSSI/GIOVANNI TOMMASO, STEFANO	Echoing America	LP	COMETA EDIZIONI	SRST 130LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 2/7/2020 Cometa Edizioni present a reissue of Stefano Torossi and Giovanni Tommaso's Echoing America, originally released in 2013. Such a legendary Italian library that blends instrumental touches that evoke images of a continent at the beginning of the '70s. Obscure and electric jazz groove, R&B stompers, percussive funk chase with some of the finest players in the Italian scenario: Stefano Torossi and Giovanni Tomasso (one of the most in-demand double bass player in the seventies, already part of such legendary combos as Perigeo, Enrico Rava Septet, and Amedeo Tommasi Sextet). A definitively highlight in the Cometa catalog. Standard LP version comes in an edition of 150. Clear vinyl LP version comes in an edition of 150.

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ALEX.DO	Amplified Music EP	12"	SEILSCHEIBENPFEILER SCHALLPLATTEN BERLIN	SSPB 014EP