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VA	Malam Minggu: A Saturday Night in Sunda	LP	AKUPHONE	AKU 1012LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Akuphone resumes its reissue operations with its latest compilation, Malam Minggu: A Saturday Night In Sunda. This release brings us once again to Southeast Asia, with a stopover in the Indonesian archipelago -- to the region of Sunda in western Java. As its name suggests, this collection immerses us in the vibes of Sundanese nights at the turn of the 1980s. During the post-independence climate of the 1960s, Presidents Sukarno and Suharto encouraged artists to renew and innovate traditional Indonesian art forms in an attempt to limit and control the spread of Western music -- which was banned from broadcasting in 1961. This policy saw a revival of traditional musical styles like gamelan degung, and the emergence of Indonesian singing genres: jaipong and pop sunda. Recorded between 1978 and 1985, this unique and surprising selection presents some of the most popular artists of the time, such as Nano S. and Tati Saleh. It is richly documented by Southeast Asian music specialist Edouard Degay Delpeuch. Also features: Group Gentra Madya, Tati Saleh & Marriza Group, and Mang Memed Group.

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TAMAYUGE	Baba Yaga	LP	AKUPHONE	AKU 1013LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 After Ko Shin Moon, The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, and Praed, Akuphone continues its sonic exploration of freaky electronic music with Tamayuge. A blend of experimental music, creepiness, melancholia, and kitschy tones, this surprising collaboration releases its first album, Baba Yaga. At the head of the group are Maya Kuroki and Tamara Filyavich, a Japanese and a Ukrainian now based in Montreal. Kuroki's phantasmagoric vocals and dreamy guitar added to Filyavich's team of electronic ghosts fresh out of her nightmares is an invitation to a strange ritual, between tormented performance and feminist ceremony. Like Baba Yaga, an ambivalent character of Slavic mythology, this music is both part of Japanese and Ukrainian cultures, bringing scary and exciting shivers to an enigmatic imagination. The mysterious and unsettling Tamayuge's universe is somewhere between Phew, Laurie Anderson, and The Residents.

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CROWS	Silver Tongues	LP	BALLEY RECORDS	BALLEY 008LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 London's Crows are the latest signing to Balley Records (IDLES, Heavy Lungs, Lice) and deliver their long-awaited debut album, Silver Tongues. The album's thrilling first single "Chain Of Being", was recently Lamacq's Livener on 6 Music, and is a real statement: a widescreen slice of post-punk that combines heaviness and brooding melody in equal measures. Joe Talbot said the following of his decision to sign Crows to his Balley Records label: "I saw them play at the Louisiana in Bristol a few years ago and both the performance and the quality of their songs blew me away. Everything about them excites me; when I heard they were looking to release an album, I had no choice but to chase them. It's a dream to work with them."

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XOLOTL, BERNARD	Last Wave	CD	BUREAU B	BB 314CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Bureau B presents a reissue of Bernard Xolotl's fifth album Last Wave, originally released only on cassette in 1982. This is French electronic music from California. He named himself after the Aztec god of lightning and death; his music is influenced by the Berlin school of electronic music. As a teen, Xolotl (b. 1951) was introduced to electronic music through the works of Musique Concrete composers like Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, although he found the early recordings of Pink Floyd to be more inspirational. During the early 1970s, Xolotl began creating music of his own, working in studios across Europe and the US before settling in California in 1974, where he built his own studio. Between 1978 and 1981, he recorded four solo cassette albums. On Last Wave, Xolotl expanded his musical palette with new instruments such as the Yamaha CS60 and the PPG. Includes previously unissued bonus track. Xolotl on the process of Last Wave: "The first Last Wave I started while still living in San Francisco, a simple and longish piece which could be used as a background for the concerts I was giving with Daniel Kobialka and Richard Horowitz. However, after I moved to the residential suburb of Marin to build up my studio, I kept adding tracks to it so it just became part of my next album. This was going to have more instruments; I got to do everything myself, playing and recording one track at a time. But mixing there was still out of the question; I had to wait for the right opportunity to use a San Francisco studio with the best reverb and acoustics. This took several years in the end and was the last album I didn't mix at home. It was also the last 'analog' album and the 'last' of many other 'things' which made the title very significant in my life."

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XOLOTL, BERNARD	Last Wave	LP	BUREAU B	BB 314LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. Bureau B presents a reissue of Bernard Xolotl's fifth album Last Wave, originally released only on cassette in 1982. This is French electronic music from California. He named himself after the Aztec god of lightning and death; his music is influenced by the Berlin school of electronic music. As a teen, Xolotl (b. 1951) was introduced to electronic music through the works of Musique Concrete composers like Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, although he found the early recordings of Pink Floyd to be more inspirational. During the early 1970s, Xolotl began creating music of his own, working in studios across Europe and the US before settling in California in 1974, where he built his own studio. Between 1978 and 1981, he recorded four solo cassette albums. On Last Wave, Xolotl expanded his musical palette with new instruments such as the Yamaha CS60 and the PPG. Includes previously unissued bonus track. Xolotl on the process of Last Wave: "The first Last Wave I started while still living in San Francisco, a simple and longish piece which could be used as a background for the concerts I was giving with Daniel Kobialka and Richard Horowitz. However, after I moved to the residential suburb of Marin to build up my studio, I kept adding tracks to it so it just became part of my next album. This was going to have more instruments; I got to do everything myself, playing and recording one track at a time. But mixing there was still out of the question; I had to wait for the right opportunity to use a San Francisco studio with the best reverb and acoustics. This took several years in the end and was the last album I didn't mix at home. It was also the last 'analog' album and the 'last' of many other 'things' which made the title very significant in my life."

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HOUSEWIVES	Twilight Splendour	LP	BLANK EDITIONS	BETBC 016LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. London five-piece Housewives return for more anarchic genre-blending adventures on their second LP, Twilight Splendour. The album is a synthesized collage written in Wetherspoons, cafes and anywhere away from their houseboats where they could find a permanent electrical supply. Exploring the possibilities of electronic sound, this new LP marks a turning point for the band - who sold their guitars to buy midi equipment and swapped London rents for water habitation. Bringing to mind the digital meditations of legendary producer Oneohtrix Point Never, Twilight Splendour presents a love letter from an early AI to its owner, its concept-led songs strewn with "ecstatic messages of frustration and a desire to connect". Since forming five years ago, Housewives have drawn from such diverse scenes as post-punk, jazz, drone, electronic and avant-garde. 2013 saw the release of an eponymous debut EP via Brighton label Faux Discx, while their first-full length record, Work - recorded at a barn in a desolate corner in the south of France - arrived in 2015. 2017 live album FF06116 (LAUNCH 116LP) marked the band's first collaboration with experimental saxophonist Ben Vince. Following on from these early statements, Housewives are now set to unleash their game-changing new album, turning away from performance-based writing, the human, and facing the cold light of computers head-on.

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EASTMAN, JULIUS	The N*gger Series	2LP	BLUME	BLUME 014-15LP
$52.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Very limited double-LP bundled version of the two individual LPs, 180 gram color vinyl. Includes printed inner, Nagaoka anti-static record sleeve, plus and Obi-style insert in a fold-out outer sleeve. Only a handful of years ago, the name Julius Eastman would have been met by a unanimous blank look. The legacy of this once-darling of the New York post-minimal avant-garde had, since his untimely death at the age of 49, in 1990, been almost entirely lost. Eastman's story is as fascinating as they come: black, angry, and queer in an all too polite, straight white musical world. A prodigy and genius whose music took him to astounding heights, whose unwillingness to conform and play by the rules took him down the path of drug abuse and homelessness, as well as the loss of his scores. Even before his death, he was already a forgotten name. Eastman belongs to a generation of composers who inherited the mantel left by minimalism, but despite being highly respected by his peers, he was given few chances to record his work, relegating most of his talent as a singer and pianist to the realization of others' work. It was Eastman who conducted the iconic recording of Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning, and whose piano cuts its way across the 1976 recording of Morton Feldman's For Frank O'Hara. It's likely that Eastman's work would have been entirely lost, had it not been for rigorous efforts of a few close friends, the most persistent of whom was the composer, Mary Jane Leach, who spent years tracking down his lost scores. These efforts eventually led to the comprehensive CD collection, Unjust Malaise (2005). It was the beginning of a turning tide, and over the 13 years since, Eastman's singular voice has slowly returned to the audience he always deserved. It also represented the recorded debut of some his most thrilling and controversial work, three compositions for piano from what he called the Ngger Series: Gay Guerrilla, Evil Ngger, and Crazy Ngger. The three pieces are now issued across two LPs in their first-ever vinyl release with extensive liner notes by Leach and Bradford Bailey. These three seminal works by one of the most important, but neglected, American composers of the 1970s and '80s, return to the light once more. Not only are they an entire rethinking of musical minimalism, but they ferociously blow the doors off of what classical music can be. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi*.

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BLUE VELVET	In Event of Moon Disaster	LP	BUH RECORDS	BR 099LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Buh Records present the debut album by Peruvian synth pop/cold wave duo, Blue Velvet, entitled In Event of Moon Disaster with ten songs fully composed by the band and mixed and produced by cult musician Mario Silvania (from legendary shoegaze band, Silvania). Their sound explores ethereal spaces through several layers of voice harmonies, effect chains, and '80s pop melodic hooks washed by early digital textures. Blue Velvet is a duo based in Lima, Peru. The project started in 2017 with Noelia Cabrera as vocalist and Antonio Ballester on the synthesizers. With this release, Buh Records continues its effort to present a series of releases with some of the most important acts of the underground music scene of synthesizers of Lima, with groups such as Varsovia, Dante Gonzales, Juan Nolag, and the Ecuadorians Sexores.

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ENSEMBLE KLEM/JAIME OLIVER LA ROSA	Anexo3	LP	BUH RECORDS	BR 105LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Buh Records presents Anexo3, the debut album by Jaime Oliver La Rosa (Peru) and Ensemble KLEM (Spain). Anexo3 was composed in 2017-2018 over residencies in Bilbao, Lima, and Santiago de Chile, through elaborated processes of sound design, experimentation, improvisation, recording, and reflection. Often processed beyond recognition, violin, flutes, and saxophones along güiros, motors, and an aluminum plates system, struck and induced into resonance through feedback processes controlled by microphones, transducers, and computer software and joined by Oliver's MANO computer-based instrument. The sonic world of Anexo3 ranges from metallic sonorities of the instruments and the industrialized cities we work in, the feedback systems we inhabit, and soundscapes of imaginary nature. A forty-minute structured improvisation, Anexo3 is partially notated with traditional music notation, graphic notation, text indications, and inscriptions on the instruments themselves. The work is also heavily encoded in a software that shapes the ensemble's sound and the set of actions the musicians must make to control the temporal evolution of the piece. Jaime Oliver is one of the most important creators of instruments for electroacoustic music performances, and has received several international awards.

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CHOCOLATE	Peru's Master Percussionist	LP	BUH RECORDS	BR 106LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Julio "Chocolate" Algendones is one of the essential percussionists in the great tradition of Afro-Peruvian music. Peru's Master Percussionist collects recordings made in 1990 in Las Vegas, during a trip that the artist made as a member of Peruvian jazz group Perujazz. The album was produced by the Englishman J. Blue Sheppard and released in 1991 by the New York-based label Lyrichord. It also includes a track originally recorded and published in Lima, in 1984. This reissue on Buh Records presents the material in remastered form and, for the first time ever, in a vinyl edition. Peru's Master Percussionist combines festejo rhythms, of Afro-Peruvian origin, with the polyrhythms of the Santeria rituals of Haiti and Cuba. Using congas, kalimbas, seeds, and cajon, Chocolate embarks on a journey towards the original Yoruba sounds, of African roots. The cajon (a percussion instrument representative of Afro-Peruvian culture) is incorporated into the hypnotic, trance-inducing rhythmic repetitions that Chocolate generates. In the end, Perujazz makes an appearance with a discharge of avant-garde jazz, in a culminating moment, to close a creative and exceptional circle, which at the same time is the perfect summary of a career that led Chocolate to move in the heart of Afro-Peruvian culture and on the edges of the avant-garde jazz. This album is a masterpiece that presents Chocolate in the fullness of his virtues as a master percussionist, as a musician who transcended all classification, who inspired many and whose creative impulse has found its place in an area where Afro-Peruvian culture, Santeria, and the avant-garde converge. Peru's Master Percussionist inaugurates the series of Perspectives on Afro-Peruvian Music. The Collection which will reveal some of the best-kept secrets of black rhythms of Peru. Artwork by Peruvian collage master Yerko Zlatar. Includes Spanish-English liner notes.

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VA	Grabar Y Coagular: A History of Audio Pieces by Peruvian Artists (1972-2018)	LP	BUH RECORDS	BR 107LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Buh Records present Grabar Y Coagular: A History Of Audio Pieces By Peruvian Artists (1972-2018), the first collection that explores the relationship between recording art and conceptual pieces. With a range that goes from experimentation in sound poetry to radio art, eccentric compositions that evoke the Fluxus's spirit, appropriationism, and more. In Peru, the visual arts and sound creation have, in the last years, taken a common path: visual artists have begun to produce sound creations, experimental musicians have begun to move into the visual arts circuit... A sound art movement has turned visual and audible. Grabar Y Coagular brings together for the first time the pioneering works of Jorge Eduardo Eielson (audio-paintings) and Francisco Mariotti (computer poetry), as well as works by Luz María Bedoya, Elena Tejada-Herrera, José Luis Martinat, Eliana Otta, Paola Torres Núñez Del Prado, Maya Watanabe, Alberto Casari (and PPPP), Daniel Jacoby, Gilda Mantilla Y Raimond Chaves, Los Parafusos, Nicolas Lamas, and Juan Diego Tobalina. Grabar Y Coagular ("Record and Coagulate"), curated by Luis Alvarado, is a much awaited and needed release, a collection of audio pieces produced by Peruvian artists which defines a scope of creation where sound is the matter and form in which information becomes present.

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KMRU	Erased EP	12"	BYRD OUT	BYR 017EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 KMRU is one of the rising stars of the East African music scene, selected as one Resident Advisor's "15 East African Artists You Need To Hear", playing at the infamous Nyege Nyege Festival, and being picked up by Deadmau5's label Mau5trap for a track on their We Are Friends compilation, with Chris Waldt. KMRU makes intelligent atmospheric and emotionally evocative electronic music. His sounds combine everything from gritty, indigenous field recordings to piano to 303. As his Erased EP demonstrates, soulful electronica sounds beautiful, even natural. Artwork by G.S-L Studio. Mastered by Neil Perch. Edition of 300

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O$VMV$M	Wat Mor/Naked/TY/House SFX	10"	COLD LIGHT	COLDLIGHT 001EP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Sombre hits from Young Echo's O$VMV$M. Artwork by O$VMV$M. Mastered and cut by Lewis at Stardelta. Includes poster insert; polybag and hand-stamped center labels; Edition of 275.

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HOMESICK	Burnout 2099 EP	12"	DEFROSTATICA	DICA 010EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Burnout 2099 EP is replete with lowrider bangers spilling out of a burning white Lamborghini purpose-built for the worldwide underground. This six-track offering of heretic bass music whispers into the subconscious of the masses with hard-hitting kicks. Canadian producer HomeSick has compiled a selection of club-facing molotovs that eat through speakers like flames through rubber. Features atypical combinations of DnB, dancehall, footwork jungle, and even RnB. HomeSick's mission to leave genre limits behind aligns with Defrostatica Records approach to blur the boundaries between jungle, juke, and autonomic sound. Features So Loki.

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SLEAFORD MODS	Eton Alive	LP	EXTREME EATING	EATING 001LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. Sleaford Mods are one of the most important, politically charged and thought-provoking duos currently making their mark on the UK music scene and beyond. They are now poised to release their fifth studio album entitled Eton Alive. The new album, which features 12 new tracks from the prolific artists, was recorded in Nottingham. The record will be the first release on Jason and Andrew's newly formed label Extreme Eating and their first album since parting ways with Rough Trade Records. "Eton Alive speaks for itself really. Here we are once again in the middle of another elitist plan being digested slowly as we wait to be turned into faeces once more. Some already are, some are dead and the rest of us erode in the belly of prehistoric ideology which depending on our abilities and willingness, assigns to each of us varying levels of comfort that range from horrible to reasonably acceptable, based on contribution. So after the digestive system of the Nobles rejects our inedible bones we exit the Arse of Rule, we fall into the toilet again and at the mercy of whatever policies are holding order in the shit pipe of this tatty civilisation. It is here our flesh regenerates as we rattle into another form, ready, and ripe for order". --Jason Williamson on Eton Alive

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VA	Full Pupp Splits 4	12"	FULL PUPP SPLITS	FPS 004EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Homegrown talent from the beautiful inland town of Hamar, surrounded by the beautiful Furuberget and lake Mjøsa. First collaboration with these former Skwee-stars on Full Pupp Splits. Features Melkeveien, Sprutbass, and Pt.

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DJEUHDJOAH & LIEUTENANT NICHOLSON	Aimez Ces Airs	CD	HOT CASA	HC 061CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 The French-Afropean duo is back with a new funky masterpiece album, Aimez Ces Airs. DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson are French composers and Afro-soul singers. The duo is creating a new vibe with French sounds and mixing it with jazz, Afrobeat, electronic, and soul. T'es Qui? (HC 034CD, 2015) was their first album released in 2015 and re-released a year later under the name Remets T'es Qui? (HC 044CD/LP, 2016). It was result of an intense collaboration that has lasted many years, on stage and in the studio. They call their music "Afropean songs", a collection of jazzy-pop melodies, Afro-soul, and funk arrangements. This album has 15 songs and features a tribute to the famous poet Aimé Césaire on the title. The Antilles are also honored with creole lyrics, and if you listen carefully -- you'll hear them distilled within the album. La Montagne Pelée's eruption in 1902 is evoked under the prism of August Cyparis, one of the three survivors. The rhythms are tight and focused, with some Antilles, but also Detroit elements thrown in, accompanied with a strong horns section, vibraphone, and analog drums. There are lots of echoes from the era of jazz funk and the lyrical French mode, mixed with some slightly warmer currents that show their wider love of modern funk and eclectic tastes. It is a unique sound, an original recipe, using French wordplay with a universal message. In the summer of 2018, they presented the now critically acclaimed first single "El Nino" (HC 057EP), an Afro-funk gem about climate change, and "Fontaine", an Afro hit with a great combination of analog take and electronic dancefloor ingredients. With massive support from national radios and prestigious international DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Aimez Ces Airs could be one of the top funky albums of 2019. Cover designed by the artist Felix. Mastered by DJ Vas.

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DJEUHDJOAH & LIEUTENANT NICHOLSON	Aimez Ces Airs	2LP	HOT CASA	HC 061LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Double LP version. The French-Afropean duo is back with a new funky masterpiece album, Aimez Ces Airs. DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson are French composers and Afro-soul singers. The duo is creating a new vibe with French sounds and mixing it with jazz, Afrobeat, electronic, and soul. T'es Qui? (HC 034CD, 2015) was their first album released in 2015 and re-released a year later under the name Remets T'es Qui? (HC 044CD/LP, 2016). It was result of an intense collaboration that has lasted many years, on stage and in the studio. They call their music "Afropean songs", a collection of jazzy-pop melodies, Afro-soul, and funk arrangements. This album has 15 songs and features a tribute to the famous poet Aimé Césaire on the title. The Antilles are also honored with creole lyrics, and if you listen carefully -- you'll hear them distilled within the album. La Montagne Pelée's eruption in 1902 is evoked under the prism of August Cyparis, one of the three survivors. The rhythms are tight and focused, with some Antilles, but also Detroit elements thrown in, accompanied with a strong horns section, vibraphone, and analog drums. There are lots of echoes from the era of jazz funk and the lyrical French mode, mixed with some slightly warmer currents that show their wider love of modern funk and eclectic tastes. It is a unique sound, an original recipe, using French wordplay with a universal message. In the summer of 2018, they presented the now critically acclaimed first single "El Nino" (HC 057EP), an Afro-funk gem about climate change, and "Fontaine", an Afro hit with a great combination of analog take and electronic dancefloor ingredients. With massive support from national radios and prestigious international DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Aimez Ces Airs could be one of the top funky albums of 2019. Cover designed by the artist Felix. Mastered by DJ Vas.

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FAKE LAUGH	Honesty/Surrounded	7"	HEADCOUNT	HEADCOUNT 066EP
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Hot on the heels of his debut LP and follow up 7", Fake Laugh, AKA Kamran Khan, delivers yet two more bangers for the kids, in the form of another double A-side. The driving, dream-pop bop that is "Honesty" features guest vocals from Poppy Hankin of previous tour-mates Girl Ray, whilst the skittish, social commentary of "Surrounded" hurtles along set against a backdrop of razor-sharp melodies and instant-hit hooks.

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ASZODI, JESSICA	Prayer for Nil	2LP	HOSPITAL HILL	HH 3160745LP
$52.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 2017 release. Chicago-based Australian vocalist Jessica Aszodi is a performer of notated and improvised music, a researcher, and curator. She bridges the worlds of contemporary art music and the experimental with total conviction. In her genre-bounding career Jessica has premiered over 70 new pieces of notated music, performed works that have lain dormant for centuries and collaborated with a constellation of artists. She is co-director of the vocal festival Resonant Bodies Australia. Prayer for Nil is a composer/performer experiment for electronics and voice. Each piece is its own microcosm of unfolding connections, decisions and influences, negotiating varying degrees of control and freedom. If there is a common thread amongst them, it is that they all push her vocalic body towards its limits. The voice on this record is not the voice of a unified and cogent human, it is the mutable voice of someone wailing unrestrained in passionate argument. The composers are Anthony Pateras (Mike Patton, PIVIXKI, Pateras/Fox), James Rushford (Oren Ambarchi, Golden Fur), Alexander Garsden (Erkki Veltheim, Melbourne Symphony), and Jeanette Little (Speak Percussion). "In Anthony Pateras' "Prayer for Nil" the electronics are a swell of voices so dense they seem inhuman, amassed like a threatening cloud. As the piece unfolds the masses thin to a taper. By its conclusion the solitary singer is left brutally alone, though it's hard to tell if she wasn't alone the whole time - every voice in the throng was my own. In "[ja] maser" Alexander Garsden deals with relationships between groups of pitches and non-traditional vocal utterances to create cresting swarms of vocality that grow, splinter and re-germinate. In the second half of the piece, a more vulnerable voice emerges, broken and crumpled in the low depths of my range. James Rushford's piece is the most overtly inspired by composer-performer relationship. Composed material was conveyed to me though an audio-score, piped point-blank into my ear. In Jeanette Little's "Mechanical Bride", my singing voice represents anima in an automated world. The text comes from Enrico Cavacchioli's 1914 poem, Let the moon be damned, in which he describes a decaying environment where humans entwine with machines. The dystopic picture painted in this poem still convinces. As I perform this piece, I stage inside myself a battle between flaw-filled human expressivity and savage, ancient machines. Jeanette's sound world pays homage to an analog era, mid-century modernist instrumental and electronic techniques in a milieu that is something like a space-western."

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SYMONDS, JACK	Cycle & Song	CD	HOSPITAL HILL	HH 8160746CD
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 2016 release. Jack Symonds is a composer, conductor, pianist and the Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Opera. His productions are always daring, both musically and theatrically. They tend to garner five-star reviews and affronted walkouts in equal measure. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he received the university medal. He has written pieces for Jane Sheldon and JACK Quartet and staged almost 20 modern opera productions including three of his own. Jack has conducted works by Pascal Dusapin, Fausto Romitelli, George Benjamin, and Gyorgy Kurtág. He has been involved in the Sydney Festival, Sydney Biennale, Bendigo Festival of Exploratory Music and Resonant Bodies Festival. Deluxe CD and booklet; limited edition. Jack on the pieces: "The pieces on this album reflect my obsession with miniaturization and love of song. They are all related by a desire to cannibalize - in the most loving way - vocal works I find endlessly fascinating from composers as diverse as Schubert and Sciarrino. 'Song Cycle', the earliest work here is modelled on the proportions of the songs that its various movements reflect. At the time I wanted to find a rigorous way of making a very personal 'history of art song' coexist across purely instrumental movements of extremely diverse expression, without pastiche or sarcastic deconstruction. It has been an ongoing preoccupation of mine to filter a kind of Romanticism through what I believe to be a still-living tradition, and 'Song Cycle' showed me the way to find hundreds of points of connection along the complex continuum of harmonic history. This is equally true of 'Ein Fremder in fremden Land - another suite-like piece but here a portrait of a single composer who I shockingly omitted from Song Cycle due to received ignorance - Zemlinsky. I find enormous personal resonances with the way he viewed the world and the music around him. The two smaller violin works perhaps betray my immersion in Kurtág as I was preparing to perform his life-changing song cycle 'pas à pas- nulle parte'. Dealing with his music for an extended period applied a harsh mirror to any extraneous development or gesture and I felt a healthy compression of my own ideas take place. These pieces' focus on warped classical processes gave me a platform to apply the same to actual song: the 'Rilke Lieder' give literal and metaphorical voice to the whole gamut of my preoccupations, all in the smallest possible space.

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LOW JACK	Breizh	CD	HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS	HOS 615CD
$11.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 After his critically acclaimed roto-dub 12" Riddims du Lieu-dit (2018), Low Jack produces Breizh, a highly articulate hybrid mix CD edited from an Editions Gravats showcase, showing his strange meeting of industrial cut-up dancehall and organic artificial intelligence. Originally produced digitally for the Hospital Productions CDMX earthquake benefit showcase in Mexico City last year, this is the first physical document of this alien mix. As always, Phillipe Hallais' sophisticated and cryptic art deals with the sociopolitical contradictions and passions of the region of Brittany, which is ripe for dissection near and far. A portion of the proceeds go to AYOK volunteer civil society organization in Mexico for earthquake reconstruction. FAN MCD in slimline case, edition of 500.

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G36	No Escape/Black Mass	12"	HOTLINE RECORDINGS	HOTLINE 017EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 "No Escape" rings off natty Sleng Teng memories via Blade Runner futurism and 10tonne bassbin war cries. "Black Mass" is the lonesome street sweeper post nuclear war -- no mercy, no survivors. Design by Studio Tape-Echo. Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke at scape Mastering; Pressed at Optimal. Printed in reverse board sleeve; Edition of 500.

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WRAETLIC	Ad Absurdum	LP	HUNTLEYS + PALMERS	HUNTLEYS 035LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Ever since hearing Pete Tong announce "Chica Wappa" as his Essential New Tune back in 2004, Huntleys + Palmers have been following the bold Alex Smoke (aka Wraetlic) on his musical journey. Coming from Glasgow, the label and the artist have shared a lot of common influences, both from within and of the city. The label has Alex to thank for introducing and strengthening their love for the likes of Villalobos, Rhythm & Sound, Carl Craig, and Actress, amongst others. Although he was a familiar face on the "minimal" scene, he always operated on his own terms and that's a through-line that's been much admired throughout his career. Not only is he comfortable releasing techno on Soma and R&S, he's produced for ballet, films and even the NHS. Over the years, Alex has played at a few seminal parties alongside the likes of Oni Ayhun, James Holden, Helena Hauff, and Veronica Vasicka. It was thus a delight to be approached by him to work on Ad Absurdum together and it's been really exciting to hear it evolve over time. It would be arrogant to compare it to Thom Yorke's The Eraser (2006), but it certainly occupies a similar world. To still be producing innovative and inspiring albums 15 years into a career is no mean feat in this age and it's a great honor to welcome such a musical hero on to the label. As with the last Auntie Flo album, there will also be a special remix package with a swarm of favored producers of the moment. 180 gram vinyl.

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FEEL FLY	Remixes	12"	INTERNASJONAL	INT 037EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 In tandem with Feel Fly aka Daniele Tomassini's debut album on Internasjonal DJ Sotofett has been invited to do his thing over a track of his choosing; head honcho PT is on side B. Cut at 45 RPM for maximum pleasure/pressure.

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VA	El Rey Alobar	CD	KLIK RECORDS	KLTMP 008CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Welcome to Klik Records' world. El Rey Alobar follows its heart, just like the legendary king. Chooses to be different and unique, in a flat world defined by the majority. El Rey Alobar follows its senses, Just like every free spirit. Chooses to appear as a distinctive musical scent, so special, made in such a way that you'll always have the urge to come back. El Rey Alobar follows life. Just like every unique human being. Chooses to dive into the magic world of blends, spices, and elixirs, enjoying mysterious, delicious, and thirst-quenching cocktails. El Rey Alobar is a compilation crafted with exceptional music and tones of love. Nomad sounds blending with the warmth and passion that deep house and electronica have to offer, creating a unique outcome. El Rey Alobar pleases the ears, pleases the mind, pleases the soul. Simple and beautiful. What more is there to ask. Features Nordfold & Bremer, Sam Goku, Luca Musto, Louve, Simon Vuarambon, Ivan Garci, Savvas, Aris Kokou, Bona Fide, PHCK, Magnolia Savvas, GHIZ, Erdi Irmak, Glass Coffee, Coyote, Anadel, and Holy Deep.

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LOU	Lou	LP	KLIK RECORDS	KLV 019LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 When you are a little girl and the huge present placed in front you turns out to be a piano, there are three possibilities: A) Terror, clearly; You start screaming in a mixture of fear and disappointment for the present. A doll, maybe two or even 50 of them would be a cheaper and more practical solution; B) You ignore it. You give it the cold shoulder, hurting and surprising the "Magi with the Piano" in the room; C) You get excited and start playing with it 24/7. If it's in your blood, you become a musician. With not much thought. This way you'll turn the givers to Prophets for sure. Helen Papalitsa, or Lou, belongs to the third category. A piano "fell" suddenly in front of her, while at a tender age. She turned it into furniture, she turned it into a safety valve for her anger and her overflowing energy. In the end this became her favorite playground. Of course, this could only be a give and take relationship. The piano bewitched the little girl, so together they've spent years and years studying and practicing. From Athens to Corfu, from Corfu to Helsinki, from soul to jazz and then into the magic world of electronic sound. A long journey for a young and determined-to-succeed girl. The result carries her name, Lou. Her debut album that describes her way to adult life while struggling to retain the excitement and naivety that describe her. Each track, one (at least) of the intense sentimental situations that she had to face during the last two years. Her return to Athens and her new beginning. True love, fake love, small "revolutions". Thoughts on paper converted into sounds, often while being in her room, or inside the studio of the infamous Lefteris Kalabakas. Lou chooses to speak through a pop version of electronic music and her playful voice. In moments, her jazz background can't be hidden, nor does her need to skip the usual rules and forms, leading to really successful improvisations. Words can hardly describe in detail all those that the need on the record will reveal.

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LEGO BOY & BEAT RIDE	Shadow Or Not	LP	KLIK RECORDS	KLV 020LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Producers Lego Boy & Beat Ride, present their album Shadow Or Not, released by Klik Records. Mellow synth pads combined with jazzy piano and vintage keys, underpin Beat Ride's jazzy vocals, building up to a crescendo of trumpets and strings. Shadow Or Not undeniably delivers pure cinematic atmosphere. Lego Boy & Beat Ride first collaborated in 2014 releasing the single "Rethinking About Love". Since then, they've been working on their eight-track album, recorded in Crete and Athens, blending their individual music style and instrumentation aesthetics to deliver a unique outcome. Features The Merge.

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DASZU	Zone of Swans/Lucid Actual + 1/2 Dativa	2LP	LION PRODUCTIONS	LION 174LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 "Excavation of astounding underground post-punk recorded from 1979-1983. Vinyl edition comes in a heavy-duty tip-on jacket. First time on vinyl for all tracks If there's one thing we've learned from doing reissues for twenty years, it's that there is often a lack of justice in the arts. All too often, the intensely talented are shunted aside, or not able to access the means to a greater hearing, or marginalized (or eradicated) by larger societal (commercial) (racial) (political) forces, to name just three potential prongs of an art-crushing pitchfork. The less an artist's work can be categorized, the greater the odds of being an eternal outsider. The more pure those artistic efforts are, the greater the chance they cannot be categorized. Such is the case with the music of Daszu. They were three, and minimal. Bass, synthesizer and drums. I'd like to tell you that the music of Daszu reminds me of This Heat. I'd like to tell you that the music of Daszu reminds me of the Pop Group... or A Certain Ratio... or as some have suggested, early Devo. It does, in purity of intent -- in the great expansive reach of the attempt, and the self-assurance of the resulting music. This intensity of intention is evident in the dark, burbling and buzzing electronics; in the propulsive drumming; in the insistent bass-lines; in the emotional vocals; and in the evocative and poetic lyrics."

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BANANARAMA	The Greatest Hits Collection	2CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521206
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 This revised and expanded two CD edition of the iconic pop band Bananarama's 1988 The Greatest Hits Collection includes replica original artwork, an updated booklet with new photos, handwritten notes, and some track-by-track comments from the band. The first disc includes all the UK and US chart hits spanning 1981-1987 (21 tracks) and the second disc is a bonus disc that includes a selection of classic 12" mixes (11 tracks). Packaged in a "brilliant box" jewel case with 24-page stapled booklet.

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BANANARAMA	Deep Sea Skiving	CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521207
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Bananarama burst onto the pop scene in 1983 with their debut album Deep Sea Skiving. With a DIY punk attitude and bags of charm the band soon became a mainstay of TOTPs, Smash Hits, the NME and The Face. Deep Sea Skiving contains the first of their string of immaculate, self-penned, ramshackle, charmingly naive pop gemstones. The album includes five hit singles: "Shy Boy", "Really Saying Something", "Cheers Then", "Aie A Mwana", and "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)." Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting. Includes eight-page booklet.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Bananarama	CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521208
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 London Records present a reissue of Bananarama's self-titled second album, originally released in 1984. Bananarama's second album cemented the band as International pop superstars -- with no less than five hit singles and a Top 10 with "Cruel Summer" in both the UK & USA. The album includes the singles: "Cruel Summer", "Rough Justice", "King Of The Jungle", "Hot Line To Heaven", "Robert De Niro's Waiting". Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and 10 top 10's. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which sound tracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017, the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line-up for the first time in years. For many Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	True Confessions	CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521209
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Bananarama's third album True Confessions features the smash hit "Venus", which hit the top spot in the US on Billboard Hot 100. The track was a huge dance floor hit across Europe, South American and Asia. The album also includes the singles: "A Trick Of The Night", "Do Not Disturb", and "More Than Physical". Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting. Includes eight-page stapled booklet.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Wow!	CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521210
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 London Records present a reissue of Bananarama's fourth album, Wow!, originally released in 1987. Wow! was entirely produced and co-written with Stock Aiken Waterman and was certified gold in the UK. It was the last album featuring the band's original line up. The album went to number 1 in Australia. The album includes the singles: "I Can't Help It", "I Heard A Rumour", "Love In The First Degree", "Nathan Jones", "I Want You Back". Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and 10 top 10's. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which sound tracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017, the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line-up for the first time in years. For many Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting. CD version includes eight-page booklet.

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BANANARAMA	Pop Life	CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521211
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Bananarama's fifth album Pop Life was released in 1991. It is the only album released which features Jacquie O'Sullivan who replaced Siobhan Faley in Bananarama upon her departure in 1988. The album includes the singles "Preacher Man," "Long Train Running", "Only Your Love", and "Tripping On Your Love." Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting. Includes eight-page booklet.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Please Yourself	CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521212
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Bananarama's sixth album Please Yourself was released in 1993 by London Music Stream and is the first album which features the band as a duo. The album includes the singles: "Movin On", "Last Thing On My Mind", and "More, More, More." Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting. Includes eight-page booklet.

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MINOGUE, DANNII	Neon Nights	2CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521215
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Originally released in 2003, Dannii Minogue and London Records re-release Neon Nights to celebrate its 15th year anniversary of its release. A veritable pick and mix of the European dance scene at the time, Neon Nights spawned four Top 10 hit singles in the UK "Who Do You Love Now?" (No.3), "Put The Needle On It" (No.7), "I Begin To Wonder" (No.2), and "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (No.5). The album reached No.8 on the UK Official Albums Chart and was certified gold. In Australia it was nominated for "Best Pop Release" at the 2003 ARIA Music Awards. Dannii says: "When I embarked on a solo recording career and released my first album in 1990, music was only released on 7" and 12" vinyl. Fast forward through my album releases and throw in a bunch of technology changes; cassingles, cassette albums, CDs, Mini CDs and we are finally back to vinyl! Neon Nights never had a vinyl release -- it was the '90s, and the industry was entering the digital age, and no-one was looking back at this experience of music listening. Thankfully Gen Y has embraced the nostalgia of the record player, so you finally get to put the needle on it with these tracks (please turn the volume up loud enough to annoy your neighbors!)" includes bonus tracks and remixes by Tiga, Jason Nevins, and Almighty. Double CD version includes 24-page stapled booklet.

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BANANARAMA	Bananarama	LP+CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521218
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version, includes CD. London Records present a reissue of Bananarama's self-titled second album, originally released in 1984. Bananarama's second album cemented the band as International pop superstars -- with no less than five hit singles and a Top 10 with "Cruel Summer" in both the UK & USA. The album includes the singles: "Cruel Summer", "Rough Justice", "King Of The Jungle", "Hot Line To Heaven", "Robert De Niro's Waiting". Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and 10 top 10's. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which sound tracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017, the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line-up for the first time in years. For many Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	True Confessions	LP+CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521219
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version, includes CD. Bananarama's third album True Confessions features the smash hit "Venus", which hit the top spot in the US on Billboard Hot 100. The track was a huge dance floor hit across Europe, South American and Asia. The album also includes the singles: "A Trick Of The Night", "Do Not Disturb", and "More Than Physical". Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Wow!	LP+CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521220
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version on red vinyl, includes CD. London Records present a reissue of Bananarama's fourth album, Wow!, originally released in 1987. Wow! was entirely produced and co-written with Stock Aiken Waterman and was certified gold in the UK. It was the last album featuring the band's original line up. The album went to number 1 in Australia. The album includes the singles: "I Can't Help It", "I Heard A Rumour", "Love In The First Degree", "Nathan Jones", "I Want You Back". Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and 10 top 10's. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which sound tracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017, the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line-up for the first time in years. For many Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Pop Life	LP+CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521221
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version, includes CD. Bananarama's fifth album Pop Life was released in 1991. It is the only album released which features Jacquie O'Sullivan who replaced Siobhan Faley in Bananarama upon her departure in 1988. The album includes the singles "Preacher Man," "Long Train Running", "Only Your Love", and "Tripping On Your Love." Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Please Yourself	LP+CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521222
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version, includes CD. Bananarama's sixth album Please Yourself was released in 1993 by London Music Stream and is the first album which features the band as a duo. The album includes the singles: "Movin On", "Last Thing On My Mind", and "More, More, More." Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
BANANARAMA	Deep Sea Skiving	LP+CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521223
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version, includes CD. Bananarama burst onto the pop scene in 1983 with their debut album Deep Sea Skiving. With a DIY punk attitude and bags of charm the band soon became a mainstay of TOTPs, Smash Hits, the NME and The Face. Deep Sea Skiving contains the first of their string of immaculate, self-penned, ramshackle, charmingly naive pop gemstones. The album includes five hit singles: "Shy Boy", "Really Saying Something", "Cheers Then", "Aie A Mwana", and "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)." Bananarama are often cited as the UK's most successful ever girl group with five UK singles and ten top tens. They were the girl group that defined the '80s with their run of pop hits which soundtracked the lives of fans around the world. The news of Bananarama's reunion, after nearly 30 years, was met with universal approval and saw the band celebrated all over again. In 2017 the trio reassembled for a UK tour in a pop reunion only dreamt of in the wildest imaginations by many quarters. The band reunited in their original line up for the first time in years. For many, Siobhan stepping back into her natural habitat once again is pop's very own version of Morrissey and Marr re-uniting.

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BRONSKI BEAT	The Age Of Consent	LP+2CD	LONDON RECORDS	LMS 5521225
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version; includes double CD. London Music present a reissue of Bronski Beat's The Age Of Consent, originally released in 1984. This era-defining, pop classic includes debut single "Small Town Boy", a huge global hit, which continues to resonate with today's LGBT+ generation and remains a dancefloor staple. To celebrate the 35-year anniversary of Bronski Beat's forming, The Age Of Consent has been remastered and expanded. Available on limited edition pink vinyl and deluxe CD/Digital with 20 bonus tracks including demos, remixes, BBC session and unheard material.

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KELLER CRACKERS	KC	12"	MARMO MUSIC	MARMO 009EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Berlin-based trio Keller Crackers likes to shape haunting esoteric sounds, in which self-built instruments dance with ritualistic synthesized rhythms, field recordings, psychoacoustic drones, and poetical spoken silhouettes. Their debut record KC is a four-track EP resulting from various improvisational studio sessions, a bag full of spontaneous visionary DIY sound fashion that melts meandering serialism, foggy Chris & Cosey-ness, exoticism and freely expressed emotions. Includes a tripping Tolouse Low Trax signature remix. "Colours" features Robert Würz.

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OBLONG	The Sea At Night	LP	MEMETUNE	MEME18 VA08-LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Oblong formed out of the occasional meetings/musings/music of three friends, Ben 'Benge' Edwards (Wrangler/John Foxx & The Maths/John Grant co-producer), Dave Nice, and Simon 'Sid' Stronarch. Originally they were in a band together, along with others, in the early 1990s, but as time drifted by the three went their own ways, only occasionally meeting up socially. This eventually resulted in their debut album Indica-tor, released on Benge's Expanding Records label in 2006. Since then the three men allowed life to drift on once again, with Benge setting up Memetune Studios in 2014. Before long the musical draw took hold again and they began meeting up in Cornwall and working on new material. The process was to slowly build up tracks and piece together an album of electro-acoustic music, following their instincts in a similarly uninhibited way, allowing their three very different sets of musical styles and influences to flow. The result is The Sea At Night, an album as infused with nostalgia for past musical styles as it is with the dramatic moorland atmosphere surrounding the studio and nearby coastal landscapes. Think Air/Krautrock/'70s TV themes/'60s Marrakesh, all lovingly woven together to create something new and, well, gorgeous!

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MOTORPSYCHO	The Crucible	CD	RUNE GRAMMOFON	MPCD 103CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 2019 marks 30 years since Motorpsycho's humble beginnings in Trondheim. Both visually and musically, The Crucible starts where The Tower (2017) ended, but it soon takes on its own hue, and it is clear that it cannot be called a "sequel" as such: this is very much a step further out than anywhere the band ventured on The Tower. While it is broader lyrically speaking, it is even sharper focused musically and, if possible, even more idiosyncratic and insular than ever: unarguably a Motorpsycho album. There aren't many traditional song structures or pop format platitudes on display, and there is indeed hardly any respect paid to any trad rock song conventions on the whole album, but that's not really what one listens to Motorpsycho for anyway, is it? From the most Neanderthal of rock riffs to the most rhythmically oblique polytonal solo sections they've ever recorded, this album musically seems to sum up the extremes of the band's current interests and concerns. The Crucible was recorded at Monnow Valley Studios in Wales in August 2018 by Hans Magnus Ryan (guitars, vocals), Bent Sæther (bass, vocals, sundry), and Tomas Järmyr (drums), with co-producers Andrew Scheps and Deathprod. Scheps mixed the band's last two live recordings -- A Boxful of Demons and Roadwork Vol. 5 (MPLP 302LP) -- and in that process, made himself a logical choice to record the next studio album.

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DESAEVER, DIRK	Collected 1984-1989 (Extended Play)	12"	MUSIQUE POUR LA DANSE	MPD 014EP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Side A is a reissue of the highly sought-after Disdain EP from 1988 by White House White. While it's the most straightforward new beat/EBM section of Musique Pour La Danse's collections, Dirk Desaever's sense of dramaturgy, his sound design, rhythmic patterns, and use of film samples create a dark and mysterious ambiance at odds with the smiley atmosphere prevalent in most contemporary new beat productions. On Side B, three previously unreleased tracks in a similar spirit to WHW's sound with a dark and sleazy atmosphere, elegant arrangements.

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DESAEVER, DIRK	Collected 1984-1989 (Long Play)	LP	MUSIQUE POUR LA DANSE	MPD 015LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Musique Pour La Danse presents its latest Collected anthology, the label's most ambitious release since an anthology of music by New Beat pioneer Ro Maron (MPD 001CD/LP, 2016). Label managers Olivier Ducret and Ed Isar have focused on another essential Belgian producer: Dirk Desaever, the man behind White House White, A Thunder Orchestra, and Danton's Voice. Some of his productions under these aliases have appeared in compilations such The Sound of Belgium (LMFLF 193CD, 2014), along with edits by Mick Wills and Marcel Dettman. What was initially supposed to be a simple reissue soon turned into a wider project, as Desaever shared heaps of amazing unreleased material. It seemed more interesting to shed light on the dark side of this producer's body of work, rather than to focus on content already reissued elsewhere. After listening to noisy tape rips over and over, Ducret and Isar opted to break this release into three formats, each with different content. They entrusted engineer Lorenzo Targhetta with remastering the music; it's impressive how much he managed to polish the sound without altering the unmistakable grain of music committed to cassette tape. All the music on this LP has never been heard before, except for a single tune released on a rare 7". The track selection and sequence is the result of Ducret & Isar closely listening to the many hours of material. The record can be approached as an imaginary album or even the soundtrack of a lost film or TV show. The idea was to tell a story about Desaever's music by highlighting its themes and variations. While some tunes can be imagined within a New Beat context, it's clear they were not created with clubs in mind. In fact, most of the material here is actually closer to minimal wave, synth wave and dark wave. With a certain gothic melancholia as the common thread running through the record, some tracks can only be described as lo-fi library music with a strong medieval reminiscence, others are closer to the wave aesthetic; a few could even be considered ambient. Desaever's house holds many rooms, each different from the other. After completing a grand tour of the mansion and seeing the bigger picture, it will become clear for listeners how truly unique this producer sounds, even compared with other Belgians from the '80s. Saved from oblivion and irremediable decay, the music on this LP is waiting to be played and listened as well as to inspire.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MOTORPSYCHO	The Crucible	LP	RUNE GRAMMOFON	MPLP 303LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. 2019 marks 30 years since Motorpsycho's humble beginnings in Trondheim. Both visually and musically, The Crucible starts where The Tower (2017) ended, but it soon takes on its own hue, and it is clear that it cannot be called a "sequel" as such: this is very much a step further out than anywhere the band ventured on The Tower. While it is broader lyrically speaking, it is even sharper focused musically and, if possible, even more idiosyncratic and insular than ever: unarguably a Motorpsycho album. There aren't many traditional song structures or pop format platitudes on display, and there is indeed hardly any respect paid to any trad rock song conventions on the whole album, but that's not really what one listens to Motorpsycho for anyway, is it? From the most Neanderthal of rock riffs to the most rhythmically oblique polytonal solo sections they've ever recorded, this album musically seems to sum up the extremes of the band's current interests and concerns. The Crucible was recorded at Monnow Valley Studios in Wales in August 2018 by Hans Magnus Ryan (guitars, vocals), Bent Sæther (bass, vocals, sundry), and Tomas Järmyr (drums), with co-producers Andrew Scheps and Deathprod. Scheps mixed the band's last two live recordings -- A Boxful of Demons and Roadwork Vol. 5 (MPLP 302LP) -- and in that process, made himself a logical choice to record the next studio album.

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OL	Saigon Special Room	7"	MUSCUT	MUSCUT 011EP
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Oleg Buyanov, aka OL, DJ and electronic music producer from Moscow, Russia. Leading member of Gost Zvuk. On a hot summer day, you enter the main hall of a well-known local Vietnamese restaurant. The noise of the visitors' voices merges with the national music playing in the background. All seats are occupied in the hall and the polite staff takes you to a separate room where the atmosphere of calm and comfort prevails. Beautiful interior, cool air, and soft light conducive to relaxation. Exotic dishes and drinks allow you to fully enjoy the authenticity.

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NACHTBRAKER	Parmigiana	12"	NACHTBRAKER	NB 001EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 A new label by Nachtbraker with an eccentric deep EP, mastered and cut by the legendary Simon Davey. Fresh off his successful debut album on Quartet Series (QSLP 001LP, 2018), he delivers four contemporary and inventive cuts. Expect subtle synths and the signature Nachtbraker groove. Redefining what's deep in 2019 with this new label, Nachtbraker will be keeping you comfortably awake.

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HIPSWAY	Smoke & Dreams	CD	ORIEL RECORDS	ORI 004CD
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Oriel Records presents Smoke & Dreams, the first album in 30 years by Glasgow demigods Hipsway. Musically, their influences cover the art-pop of Bowie and Radiohead to the earthy funk of the Meters and much more besides. Recorded in three three-day bursts over the winter and spring of 2018, the album was recorded "old style" with all the musicians crammed together in one room striving for the best unified take of each track and allowing a continuity of sound, where stylistically, the tunes may differ starkly. Thematically the songs are about deception -- be that by "the self" or on a grander "fake news" scale -- hence the album title. Nostalgia plays its part in a let's-learn-from-our-mistakes attitude. In 1986 the group were a young band from Scotland seemingly with the world at their feet. With a hit single ("Honeythief") in both the U.K. and America, 500,000 albums (Gold in UK) sold worldwide and successful tours of Europe and the States, their future path was surely one to glory. Two years later, they disbanded before their second album had even been released; bass player Johnny McElhone formed Texas, while drummer Harry Travers left to pursue his studies. This left singer Grahame Skinner and guitarist Pim Jones with an album they no longer cared about and a record company that no longer cared about them. As Witness they signed afresh to A&M Records but all momentum was lost, as was their A&R man who deserted them -- again -- just as they began promoting the new material. So far, so familiar. These stories are legion in the music business, but every now and again redemption pops its unlikely head above the parapet. Cut to 2016 and to celebrate the deluxe 30th anniversary re-release of their debut album, Skin and Pim decided to play a one-off show at Glasgow's ABC theater. This quickly sold out as did two further gigs; to date the band has now sold over 10,000 concert tickets in Scotland. This caused the "boys" to reason it might be worth making a new record which brings us to Smoke & Dreams, the new release from Hipsway.

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VA	Girls In The Garage Volume 7	LP	PAST & PRESENT	PAPR 2007LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Past & Present presents Girls In The Garage Volume 7, the seventh volume of a series of garage rock compilations focusing on female artists. Prior to Joan Jett, Patti Smith, Courtney Love, there were the girls in the garage. Like their male counterparts had discovered, being in a band was not only cool and alluring, it was sexual and ultimately political. The garage band was a medium that enabled their voices to be heard; these girls weren't going to be kept in the kitchen. Like Pebbles did for the boys, Girls In The Garage captures the raw essence of dreams played out through guitars, drums, mics and amplifiers. Prevailing gender roles would be tested as rock'n'roll became someone else's domain: the girls! Although it's been said that it was rare for a girl group to play on their own records in the mid-1960s, they were not alone. On both sides of the Atlantic, cynical producers largely employed session musicians, afraid of any conceivable faults at the hands of inexperienced groups, male and female. The ones who didn't were visionaries that believed in a new generation's ambitions and capabilities. As the rise of a female presence in rock 'n' roll rose through the appearance of figures such as The Vejtables's Jan Errico, The Honeycombs's Honey Lantree, and the Maureen Tucker (whose deliberately primal technique is such an undervalued part of the Velvet Underground's sound), so too did the rise of all-female bands. Liverpool's Liverbirds and Hull's Mandy And The Girlfriends gave weight to the idea that it was 'normal' and paved the way for likeminded girls to drop the dream boy and pick up the guitar. The prevailing attitude amongst both major and independent record labels was never going to be inspiring or welcoming, but like the wailing blues mamas such as Memphis Minnie or Jessie Mae Hemphill, times were-a-changin' and girls didn't just want to have fun. Emerging groups such as The Pleasure Seekers, White Boots, Ace Of Cups, Bittersweets, and The Luv'd Ones were playing rock 'n' roll on their own terms whilst breaking new ground; whether they were trying to or not. Features The Nightingales, Little Frankie, The Lawrence Comp, The Weekends, Tammy & The Bachelors, Nai Bonet, The Uncalled Four, Tremelons, Lori Sanders, The She's, The Pussycats, Gayle Haness, Cidney Sza'vee, Manuela Und Drafi, Jacqueline Taieb, Sunday & The Menn, The Indigos, and The Honeybees. 180 gram green vinyl; Edition of 1000 (hand-numbered).

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LIMBOOS, THE	Baia	CD	PENNIMAN RECORDS	PENN 008CD
$19.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Is good music good for anything? Well, you are supposed to connect to it. Make you dance. Feel happy, sad, fearless, in love, jealous and righteous and so much more. And hit you like five coffees in the morning and a few shots of cognac at night. The Limboos just perfected the recipe on their new album, Baia. The Limboos do what they wanna do. They know what they like and they know what you like even though that might be two different things. They work in their own rhythm and it's proven you can move to that rhythm. Everybody lost a few bucks at the end of the night but nobody cares. Everybody woke up a little tired and achy and didn't feel like going to work. But they did and did it even harder the next three times that week. Lucky you caught them on a Monday night. With Baia, their third album in five years, The Limboos will transport you, without asking, to a sweet and viscous spiritual ceremony that crosses paths between Chicago from Santiago de Cuba. This new one again produced by Mike Mariconda and with 100% of their own songs you get eleven new lessons in class and sweaty elegance. Check the single "Where Did She Go?" and see. You'll just dance and maybe fall down from exhaustion and make you do things you swore you would never do. Ignoring this rotten postmodern world, they don't try to transport you to when the times were better. They are just making better times- show by show, record by record. So you got lucky and found something you can listen to in the car, the bar, the barn, at work and even on public transport. But if you choose the last one beware for pickpockets, it's worth more than the cash you are carrying. The Limboos are: Roi Fontoira - vocals, guitar; Sergio Alarcón - organ, guitar, percussion, backing vocals; Daniela Kennedy - drums, backing vocals; Santiago Sacristán - double bass, backing vocals; Dani Niño - baritone sax.

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LIMBOOS, THE	Baia	LP	PENNIMAN RECORDS	PENN 008LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. Is good music good for anything? Well, you are supposed to connect to it. Make you dance. Feel happy, sad, fearless, in love, jealous and righteous and so much more. And hit you like five coffees in the morning and a few shots of cognac at night. The Limboos just perfected the recipe on their new album, Baia. The Limboos do what they wanna do. They know what they like and they know what you like even though that might be two different things. They work in their own rhythm and it's proven you can move to that rhythm. Everybody lost a few bucks at the end of the night but nobody cares. Everybody woke up a little tired and achy and didn't feel like going to work. But they did and did it even harder the next three times that week. Lucky you caught them on a Monday night. With Baia, their third album in five years, The Limboos will transport you, without asking, to a sweet and viscous spiritual ceremony that crosses paths between Chicago from Santiago de Cuba. This new one again produced by Mike Mariconda and with 100% of their own songs you get eleven new lessons in class and sweaty elegance. Check the single "Where Did She Go?" and see. You'll just dance and maybe fall down from exhaustion and make you do things you swore you would never do. Ignoring this rotten postmodern world, they don't try to transport you to when the times were better. They are just making better times- show by show, record by record. So you got lucky and found something you can listen to in the car, the bar, the barn, at work and even on public transport. But if you choose the last one beware for pickpockets, it's worth more than the cash you are carrying. The Limboos are: Roi Fontoira - vocals, guitar; Sergio Alarcón - organ, guitar, percussion, backing vocals; Daniela Kennedy - drums, backing vocals; Santiago Sacristán - double bass, backing vocals; Dani Niño - baritone sax.

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TOTALED	Lament	CD	PROFOUND LORE	PFL 217CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 "Exhaling the ashes from acrimony, Totaled materialized in 2017 and recorded its ferociously blackened-hardcore debut album Lament. While lyrically ruminating in the abstract emptiness of the impervious void and grappling with a paradoxical duality, the audial gloom of the album conjures sorrowing burial strings that furiously discharge a punishing resonance, all wrought with crushing despair, depression, and scavenging hopelessness. Pummeling blasts and d-beats pound into orbiting shadows of pixelated black, beneath a pulverizing dense nihilistic bass distorted into a mournful funeral offering. Here lies a digested celestial nothingness, a symphony frozen in a cyclical noose, gnawed by the bacterial ether."

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TOTALED	Lament	LP	PROFOUND LORE	PFL 217LP
$24.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. "Exhaling the ashes from acrimony, Totaled materialized in 2017 and recorded its ferociously blackened-hardcore debut album Lament. While lyrically ruminating in the abstract emptiness of the impervious void and grappling with a paradoxical duality, the audial gloom of the album conjures sorrowing burial strings that furiously discharge a punishing resonance, all wrought with crushing despair, depression, and scavenging hopelessness. Pummeling blasts and d-beats pound into orbiting shadows of pixelated black, beneath a pulverizing dense nihilistic bass distorted into a mournful funeral offering. Here lies a digested celestial nothingness, a symphony frozen in a cyclical noose, gnawed by the bacterial ether."

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SZARE	Miner/Cut With Glass/Drop Shadow	12"	POLITY RECORDS	POLITY 001EP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Murderous debut disc on this label, combining the fierceness of grime with the bassbin pressure of UK techno, and setting it off with cutting edge rhythm workouts to devastating effect. Mastered and cut by Lewis at Stardelta. Design by Studio Tape-Echo. Printed sleeve and hand-stamped inner; Edition of 300.

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RAAM	RAAM 8.8	12"	RAAM RECORDS	RAAM 008-8EP
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 RAAM throws down another EP, Raam 8.8 with techno-fueled heaters. Things kick into gear with "8." Minimal and rolling synth lines and quivering high hats over a steadfast kick drum creates a steely techno banger. Next up is "16" where washy synths work over crunchy drum work that generates a driving, dub-techno feel. On the Flip 8 gets a remix from Dold (Arsenik, Blue Hour); sci-fi synth sounds shimmer over haunting pads on this smashing techno bomb. The last two tracks are built on layers of cycling, swirling drones, noise, and rasping hiss that is echoing into eternity.

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SIENKIEWICZ, JACEK	IMOW	12"	RECOGNITION	RECOG 042LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Jacek Sienkiewicz's IMOW, or "In My Own Wave" is a moody record. Although overtly experimental in form, it's quite different to Sienkiewicz's abstract, improvisational albums recorded with Max Loderbauer or AtomTM. Clocking in at only 35 minutes and comprised of eight tracks, IMOW is several years of work distilled into a dense, concise whole. Atmospheric, cinematic, stirring and utterly engaging, this is surely Sienkiewicz's most personal work to date and very possibly his best: his constant struggle to find a perfect balance of flesh and machine, or to translate human emotions to sound by means of a modern studio is manifested here in its purest, most consistent and, surprisingly, very accessible form. From subtle drones, through chants and rhythms echoing in mountainous chambers, to innumerable insect-like sounds and tiny details, it's an encephalogram recorded to tape (or disk). With all its complexity, it's not overwhelming: the meticulously constructed compositions leave both space for the sounds to breathe, and for the listener to fully experience it, without being bored, tired, wishing for less or being hungry for more. And there's beauty in this record, and hope -- in the world of overpowering darkness and constant noise IMOW feels like a peaceful trip into the untouched nature with all its wonders -- offering in equal parts rest, strength and inspiration.

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REALZ	Get Set	CD	RHYTHM ROLLERS	RRCD 001CD
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Get Set to join Realz as he takes everything to the next level. Following on from his 2018 debut EP On Your Marks, Realz shows his artistic maturity and delivers his most complete project to date with his second EP, Get Set. The seven-track project showcases Realz's song writing and artistic flare as he effortlessly skips between rap and melodic rap while at the same time delivering his signature hard-hitting lyrics and catchy hooks. With production credits from the likes of Zeph Ellis and Dwayne Patrick as well as features with Geovarn and SNE; Get Set has something for everyone. By focusing on his ever-growing fan base, Realz has found his true voice, which has helped him to push and elevate his talent; he has also made fans out of his peers, including the likes of Wiley, Skepta, Frisco, and Mike Skinner, who have all tipped Realz for big things. Putting in some serious groundwork through his own releases, emcee battles and various head-turning, high profile freestyles, Realz has subsequently earned serious support and kudos from gatekeepers such as DJ Target, Logan Sama, Sian Anderson, and Tim Westwood, all championing his sound. If 2018 was the year that saw Realz Get Set, 2019 will see him go. Also features M-fly, Danzey, Flayva.

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VA	Harde Smart: Flemish & Dutch Grooves From The 70's	2CD	SDBAN	SDBAN 013CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 After taking a deep dive into the dusty crates with Belgian and Dutch music, Harde Smart unearths Flemish & Dutch Grooves From The 70's, a smooth selection of jazzy, funky, and soulful gems from their collected vinyl stash. All the music presented here was recorded and produced during the 1970s, in either Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) or Holland. Besides exquisite grooves and hard-pounding drums, the selected songs also have Dutch lyrics in common, making this a rather unique way to approach and compile lyric-driven Flemish and Dutch music from back in the days. Record collectors all over this language area seem to have neglected a considerable part of their own musical legacy for a few decades, while firmly searching for rare grooves and breaks in the bins with more exotic music; nothing is so certain as the unexpected. Flemish & Dutch Grooves From The 70's is the first "Dutch" compilation album to uncover the genuine, Afro-American funk and soul vibe of the time. It is a sound that - albeit infrequently - influenced the work of some of the popular and less popular singers and musicians in this small part of the world in the '70s, although influences undoubtedly also derived from French chanson and rock music from that era. This 21-track album smashes all musical predictability and takes one on a weird and nostalgic trip, offering a revised set of essential homegrown classics for the local listener, yet also being very exciting to the ears of the non-Dutch speaking audience. Includes tracks by Lamp, Lazerus & Kris, Spectrum, Josine Van Dalsum, Magenta, and more. Also features: Laurentius, Raymond Van Het Groenewoud, André Van Der Veken, Luk Bral, Moeder En Haar Jongens, Lieven Coppieters, Jimmy Frey, Jan De Beer, Daan Broos, Elly & Rikkert, Bizjoe, Daan Broos & Dapokaster, Schralen Tsjip En De Mussenschrik, Herman De Bruycker, Lamp & Lazerus, Liesbeth List, and Della Bosiers. 2CD version includes a mixtape CD on the first disc, and the full-length tracks on the second disc; in slipcase with 16-page booklet.

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VA	Harde Smart: Flemish & Dutch Grooves From The 70's	2LP	SDBAN	SDBAN 013LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Double LP version; includes download code. After taking a deep dive into the dusty crates with Belgian and Dutch music, Harde Smart unearths Flemish & Dutch Grooves From The 70's, a smooth selection of jazzy, funky, and soulful gems from their collected vinyl stash. All the music presented here was recorded and produced during the 1970s, in either Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) or Holland. Besides exquisite grooves and hard-pounding drums, the selected songs also have Dutch lyrics in common, making this a rather unique way to approach and compile lyric-driven Flemish and Dutch music from back in the days. Record collectors all over this language area seem to have neglected a considerable part of their own musical legacy for a few decades, while firmly searching for rare grooves and breaks in the bins with more exotic music; nothing is so certain as the unexpected. Flemish & Dutch Grooves From The 70's is the first "Dutch" compilation album to uncover the genuine, Afro-American funk and soul vibe of the time. It is a sound that - albeit infrequently - influenced the work of some of the popular and less popular singers and musicians in this small part of the world in the '70s, although influences undoubtedly also derived from French chanson and rock music from that era. This 21-track album smashes all musical predictability and takes one on a weird and nostalgic trip, offering a revised set of essential homegrown classics for the local listener, yet also being very exciting to the ears of the non-Dutch speaking audience. Includes tracks by Lamp, Lazerus & Kris, Spectrum, Josine Van Dalsum, Magenta, and more. Also features: Laurentius, Raymond Van Het Groenewoud, André Van Der Veken, Luk Bral, Moeder En Haar Jongens, Lieven Coppieters, Jimmy Frey, Jan De Beer, Daan Broos, Elly & Rikkert, Bizjoe, Daan Broos & Dapokaster, Schralen Tsjip En De Mussenschrik, Herman De Bruycker, Lamp & Lazerus, Liesbeth List, and Della Bosiers.

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KLANGWART	Bogota	CD	STAUBGOLD	STAUB 150CD
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 The "Elder Statesmen of Neo-Krautrock": Electro-duo Klangwart was thought-provokingly labeled as such by an inventive music journalist when presenting their previous album Transit, which was named, among others, Record of the Year in the "Avant-Rock" section of The Wire's 2016 Critics Poll (STAUB 133CD/LP, 2016). The tag responds to an understandable attempt at finding a category for one of the most singular phenomena of the electronic music scene. It might be more passing to call them the "Under-Statesmen", as minimalism and understatement are key elements of the Klangwart project, founded more than 20 years ago by musician and author Timo Reuber and DJ and Staubgold label manager, Markus Detmer. Every few years, seemingly coming out of nowhere, the duo releases a consistently critically-acclaimed Klangwart album, give a couple of concerts, and disappear once again. This might sound of harakiri, as it contradicts all common rules of the music market. But behind it lies a profound longing for veracious expression on the border between avant-garde and entertainment. In 2014, Klangwart traveled to the Colombian capital in order to record the material for Bogotá with protagonists of the local music scene: Damián Ponce (drums), César Quevedo (bass) and Eblis Álvarez (violoncello), members of The Meridian Brothers, and singers Juanita and Valentina Áñez Rothmann, aka Las Áñez. The result is Klangwart's trademark sound permeated by a Latin American pulse and pitch. Collectively improvised and recorded in a matter of days, the raw material was later edited and mixed by Reuber at the Inkiek-Studio in Cologne. Joseph Suchy added guitar overdubs and mastered the album. At all times unpredictable, exciting, and surprising, Bogotá is the latest milestone in Klangwart's ongoing musical journey.

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PINK FLOYD	Broadcast In Rome, Italy, May 6th, 1968 (Green Vinyl)	LP	SUPERNAUT	SUPA 1201GR-LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 The legendary Pink Floyd concert at the First International Pop Festival in Rome in May 1968. This well-recorded performance captures Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason in their very early post-Syd Barrett era; the time when the band was busy trying to reinvent themselves after the crucial split with genius Syd Barrett. This was even before the release of their second album, when Waters and Co. really began to extend the classic three/four-minute song format towards longer and more open sound forms. A marvelous track list including seminal compositions and psychedelic manifestos such as "Astronomy Domine", "Set The Control For The Heart Of The Sun", and "Interstellar Overdrive" all great sparks for visionary instrumental progressions and far-out improvisations. The album ends with an excerpt of Roger Water's voice from a radio interview broadcast. Green vinyl; Edition of 500.

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HARRISON, KEVIN	Inscrutably Obvious	LP	SUPERIOR VIADUCT	SV 145LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 "Hailing from Nuneaton, England, Kevin Harrison recorded both solo and collaboratively throughout the late '70s and early '80s. While his early recordings would come out in hyper-limited editions or go unreleased for decades, Inscrutably Obvious remains his sole LP -- a lost gem of Britian's '80s cassette culture and DIY bedroom aesthetics. Originally released in 1981, Inscrutably Obvious covers a lot of ground on its seventeen inscrutable tracks -- from analog synth workouts to mutated disco and shimmering guitar improvisations. The album maintains a late-night vibe, filtered through a post-punk lens. Harrison clearly wears his influences on his sleeve -- major debts are paid to Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Manuel Göttsching -- yet finds his own unique voice, combining quirky instrumentals and surrealist sensibilities. This first-time reissue is recommended for fans of Chris & Cosey, Cupol and The Normal. Inscrutably Obvious sounds as fresh today as it must have nearly 40 years ago."

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BELL, BOB	Necropolis	LP	TELEPHONE EXPLOSION	TER 055LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 "Canadian private press mega-rarity/obscurity from the artistically schizophrenic Bob Bell. Recorded in 1978, Bell splits the difference between his love of basement psych splatter/pummel and squalling free jazz ramble, the former occupying side A with a stunning four-part suite of wasted guitar scuzz and churning Krautrock-like drama with an akin to German Oak, Roland Kirk, Albert Ayler, DNA, Melt Banana (minus the vocals) and Guru Guru. The latter represents Bell as a saxophonist on side B, and the music itself translates into a 15-minute free-jazz exploration. Necropolis is a highly sought-after 35 min doom-laden trip for the connoisseurs of noise."

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YAN + TERUYUKI KURIHARA	Scrapbook	CD	BLUE TAPES AND X-RAY RECORDS	TERU 001CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Yan and Teruyuki Kurihara are two thirds of Blue Tapes' Tokyo-based improvisational kosmische-techno wonders, Check!!! Blue Tapes released a collection by Check!!! in 2018 that proved well received by music fans of many affiliations, earning comparisons to luminaries as distinct as Can and The Future Sound of London. Now, Check!!! is no more, but bassist Yan and guitarist/producer Teru have streamlined that band's sound into something equally as beautiful, with the parent unit's eclecticism replaced by a newfound sense of purpose. The mesmerizing vortex of delayed and panned guitar notes that opens this new CD sets the tone for a largely instrumental, guitar-focused work that is deeply soulful -- almost bluesy -- while at the same time as hypnotic as the most intense minimal composition or entrancing ambient music. You could imagine Scrapbook being a great, lost Factory Records album -- its floating, delicate guitar tones nestling up close to Vini Reilly's The Durutti Column, while its more electronic elements are as elegiac as early '80s-era New Order. Scrapbook is resolutely graceful music, whether it is delivering spiraling, bird-like guitar vignettes, or slowly, painstakingly building through a one-note throb of bass guitar into a heavenly chorus of synths over the course of the 11-minute epic "F". Features Akiyuki Ishizaki from The Cavemans.

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BLANK STATEMENTS	Blank Statements	LP	TOUGH LOVE	TLV 120LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Vinyl pressing of the Melbourne-based band's self-titled debut cassette from 2018. Includes the original eight-song track list, plus one previously unreleased song, "Successor Island". Blank Statements is a four piece that includes members of the Stroppies and is part of the Hobbie Galore label universe. RIYL: The Au Pairs, The Stroppies. The Raincoats, Grauzone. Edition of 200.

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39 CLOCKS, THE	Next Dimension Transfer	5CD BOX	TAPETE	TR 405CD
$70.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 The 39 Clocks are one of the most magnificent bands ever to have emerged from Germany; Diedrich Diederichsen, German pop boffin, considers them to be the nation's best band of the 1980s. The legendary duo from Hanover broke every rule in the music business, without exception. And -- above all -- with attitude. They are elusive, incapable of being categorized, unless the category is a little bit weird. Their real names have been eradicated ("never had one" -- Clocks), replaced by cryptic initials (CH-39, JG-39), less than randomly reminiscent of molecular chains like LSD-25. The weirdness is reflected in their music: sizzling irradiated, repetitive. The outrageous rumors surrounding the duo are the stuff of legend: strung-out live performances with vacuum cleaners instead of guitars, frequently facing a throng of concertgoers with a tendency to boo, flee the venue or threaten them with physical violence. The Clocks project really began to take shape in 1979 when they turned away from punk and created "psycho beat", positioning themselves as the antithesis of the emerging NDW/German New Wave movement. Their music is a futuristic, definitively urban, evolution of American garage punk from the 1960s. Their stylistic modus operandi: expressionless voice, English lyrics with an intentionally heavy German accent, dirty sound, cool monochrome image. Those lacking in imagination might identify touches of the Velvet Underground and stop right there, but many other influences were also at work: from Salvador Dali via the Troggs, Suicide, Peter Handke's Offending The Audience (1966), Antoine to Tiny Tim, Kurt Schwitters, Can, and NEU! The Clocks themselves spoke of "at least 123" sources of inspiration. In early 1980s Germany, the 39 Clocks were, at one and the same time, a panoply of discernible influences and a singular phenomenon with a clear, inimitable sonic identity. Time and again, the 39 Clocks succeeded in pushing back the borders of experimentation a little further: barely tolerable, protracted live improvisations, atonal passages, background noises, extreme lo-fi and a tinny beatbox test the listener's receptivity to the limit. And their sonic experiments popped up in various film soundtracks and on television series, like Halt and Catch Fire in the US. The Next Dimension Transfer box set, authorized by the band, provides the ultimate overview of the Clocks' output -- a phantom of the German music underground, enshrouded in myth. Available as a five-CD box set or a five-LP box set. Includes two regular studio albums: Pain It Dark (1981) and Subnarcotic (1982); two collections of outtakes, leftovers, and rarities (one of them renamed, edited, and updated by The 39 Clocks exclusively for this box set), plus, a previously unreleased live LP from 1981. Also includes comprehensive deluxe booklet (titled "Revelations") featuring mind-blowing new trivia and secrets; Booklet included with five-CD box set is 44-pages.

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PSYK	A Moment Before	2LP	TRESOR	TRESOR 308LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Tresor Records celebrates the return of Psyk on its catalog, with his new album A Moment Before. This is Psyk's first long player since his debut Time Foundation (MOTE 002CD/LP, 2014) on Luke Slater's Mote Evolver imprint. The Spanish producer released his first single for Tresor, Works (TRESOR 282EP), in 2015. Four years later, the production of A Moment Before comes as natural progression, within the cosmos of the Berlin techno mothership for Psyk. The album is undoubtedly Psyk's most advanced piece of work to date. It dialogs with practices in reduced forms of techno, as originated by artists like Robert Hood, through the recently re-released Internal Empire on Tresor (TRESOR 027CD/LP). Double-LP; 180 gram vinyl; Includes download code.

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BUCK & MASSIMO PUPILLO, TONY	Unseen	CD	TROST	TROST 178CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Italian composer and bass-player Massimo Pupillo (ZU) and Australian drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) collaborate in a beautifully haunting, absorbing ambient set, taking in electronic abstraction and free improvisation. Pupillo and Buck are well known for their work with their long-running bands, as well as for their collaborations with musicians of the current international avantgarde scene; Pupillo released for instance with Cindytalk, FM Einheit, Oren Ambarchi, Chris Corsano; Buck with Fennesz, Branford Marsalis, and Magda Mayas. On Time Being/Unseen, you'll experience floating uncanny percussion sounds underlined with heaving subs, sealed in deep and noisy atmospheres. Personnel: Tony Buck - drums, percussion, vibraphone; Massimo Pupillo - bass, electronics.

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BUCK & MASSIMO PUPILLO, TONY	Time Being	LP	TROST	TROST 179LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Italian composer and bass-player Massimo Pupillo (ZU) and Australian drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) collaborate in a beautifully haunting, absorbing ambient set, taking in electronic abstraction and free improvisation. Pupillo and Buck are well known for their work with their long-running bands, as well as for their collaborations with musicians of the current international avantgarde scene; Pupillo released for instance with Cindytalk, FM Einheit, Oren Ambarchi, Chris Corsano; Buck with Fennesz, Branford Marsalis, and Magda Mayas. On Time Being/Unseen, you'll experience floating uncanny percussion sounds underlined with heaving subs, sealed in deep and noisy atmospheres. Personnel: Tony Buck - drums, percussion, vibraphone; Massimo Pupillo - bass, electronics.

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MOPCUT	Accelerated Frames Of Reference	CD	TROST	TROST 185CD
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Accelerated Frames Of Reference is the blistering debut album by Mopcut. Lukas König (Koenigleopold/5K HD/Kompost 3) on synthesizers and drums, Julien Desprez on electric guitar, and vocalist Audrey Chen. Three artists have joined forces to create songs beyond language and gravity at the interface of sound architecture and performance-ritual. Minimal and maximal improvisation, noise, and electronics, overlaid by Audrey Chen's ecstatic vocals.

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MOPCUT	Accelerated Frames Of Reference	LP	TROST	TROST 185LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. Accelerated Frames Of Reference is the blistering debut album by Mopcut. Lukas König (Koenigleopold/5K HD/Kompost 3) on synthesizers and drums, Julien Desprez on electric guitar, and vocalist Audrey Chen. Three artists have joined forces to create songs beyond language and gravity at the interface of sound architecture and performance-ritual. Minimal and maximal improvisation, noise, and electronics, overlaid by Audrey Chen's ecstatic vocals.

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VA	Cumbia Beat Volume 3: 21 Peruvian Tropical Gems	CD	VAMPISOUL	VAMPI 187CD
$17.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 "Fifty years after the release of one of the founding records of the genre known as Peruvian cumbia (by guitar players Enrique Delgado Montes and Berardo Hernández 'Manzanita'), Vampisoul presents this third volume in the series Cumbia Beat, which brings together 45 rpm rarities from acclaimed groups, short-lived bands and outstanding huaycumbias. Like the previous volumes in this series, listening to this record takes you on a journey across the geography of Peru, as the majority of the groups on this collection were from different regions of the country, or had close links to them, although all of the artists recorded in Lima. Most of the bands emerged during the period 1968-1980, a time of deep political and social change implemented by the nationalist military dictatorship. Los Demonios Del Mantaro, Los Demonios De Corocochay, and Los 5 Palomillas are the exceptions to this, as they recorded between 1965 and 1967 and produced a hybrid of cumbia and huayno called huaycumbia, a genre which achieved high sales figures during those years. Despite the characteristics of huaycumbia, the early composers of Peruvian cumbia didn't consider it a direct source of inspiration. They admit to being more influenced by Colombian cumbia, Cuban guaracha, beat, and psychedelic music from the UK and US that they had played since the end of the '60s, in their 'own style', as a part of a musical appropriation process that quickly led them to forge a singular sound. Peruvian cumbia developed, spurred by the music school erudition of the guitarist Enrique Delgado Montes on the one hand and, on the other, by the self-taught creativity of Berardo Hernández 'Manzanita'. Largely ignored by the elites, it steadily won over audiences and created its own market, establishing its own broadcast channels and distribution channels. As Enrique Delgado stated in 1973: 'We've defined a typically Peruvian cumbia which, strange as it might appear, people also like in Colombia and several other countries.' Finally, setting up their own labels, competing hard against one another and enriching their music with sounds they brought from their specific regions, these bands that gradually sprung up all over the country managed to consolidate a tradition that is still alive today." --Hugo Lévano G Also features Silvestre Montez Y Sus Guantanameros, Los Cóndores Del Cusco, Los Gitanos, Los Orientales De Paramonga, Los Casmeños, Los Beta 5, Los Girasoles, Paco Zambrano Y Sus Ratones, Los Ecos, Los Tantos, Los Scorpios, Los Blue Kings De Ñaña, Grupo Siglo XX, Los Sander's De Ñaña, Los Quantos, Los Diablos Rojos, Marco Merry Y Sus Golfos, and Sonido Verde De Moyobamba.

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ART OF THE MEMORY PALACE	Dusk at Trellick Tower	LP	STATIC CARAVAN	VAN 336LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 With Dusk at Trellick Tower, the duo Art Of The Memory Palace accelerate their trajectory since 2015's incendiary debut, This Life Is But A Passing Dream. Upon its release the latter was called "Fresh and euphoric... an incredible debut" by The Quietus and "fantastically addictive" by The Sunday Herald, while Shindig! Magazine called it "a spine-chillingly satisfying journey into kraut-influenced electronica." In the years since, AOTMP have released a split 7" with esteemed Welsh psych label Fruits de Mer Records, a long sold-out spoken-word collaboration with acclaimed Scottish author James Robertson, and a limited-edition cassette-only French Noir soundtrack album on Horror Pop Records. Raz Ullah (synths, tape loops) has become an intrinsic part of Jane Weaver's touring band, while Andrew Mitchell (vocals, synths, guitar, bass, drums) has released two albums under his Andrew Wasylyk moniker. Dusk at Trellick Tower is inspired by Hungarian Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger -- Ullah and Mitchell channel the darkness and dystopia which grew from much of Erno's work, building synth-heavy sonic edifices evoking lonely night time walks along empty echoing corridors, urban decay and towering, impassive concrete monoliths. Using analog synthesizers, drums, bass, and tape loops processed through long chains of effects pedals, Art Of The Memory Palace strive for greater depths with this release, weaving menacing hooks and icy vocals together with droning chords and ambient soundscapes and creating their own shade of dark, beautiful melodies in the process. Edition of 300.

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CUBE	Decoy Street	LP	W.25TH	W25 008LP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 "Cube is the prolific and chimeric nom de plume of one Adam Keith, formidable tape experimentalist and artist/abraser currently operating in Oakland, California's vibrant subterranea. After countless cassette releases, 2016's well-received My Cube LP and a tenure in no-wave faction Mansion, Keith reaffirms Cube's pledge with Decoy Street -- his second album and the most developed work he has made under any guise to date. Opener 'In This House' serves as the ideal introduction to Cube: cellular interference, colliding circuitry, metal-on-metal grind and simplistic guitar distortion meet a towering and damaged beat. While 'Habit' merges downtempo and industrial touchstones via layers of heavily treated vocals, 'Sanctuary' tilts further towards propulsion -- a dark treatise on discomfort, yet contagious enough to charm DIY and post-punk devotees. Released on W.25TH, Superior Viaduct's sub-label for contemporary bands, Decoy Street is recommended for fans of Prurient, Puce Mary and Alan Vega."

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KITT, LUCY	Stand By	CD	WINEBERRY RECORDS	WBR 001CD
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 Essex-based singer songwriter Lucy Kitt presents her debut full-length album, Stand By, on Wineberry Records. A beautifully crafted self-penned gem, the album draws influence from the golden age of songwriting emanating from Laurel Canyon in the late '60s/early '70s. Stand By was recorded at London's Soup Studios and features contributions from Sam Beer, Dave Holmes, and Pat Kenneally. From the age of 16 she formed a riot girl grunge band Ostara with her cousin and two friends. Performing around the gritty nightclubs and bars of the East end of London is where Lucy found her love of playing live. During her university days in Canterbury, Lucy started developing her song writing and soon became a feature on the local music scene. Strongly influenced by '70s folk rock albums she heard growing up: artists like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young, Lucy writings are honest, and heartfelt accounts of her personal experiences during this poignant chapter of her life. Propelled by her semi-finalist status at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk awards, the live music scene beckoned, and Lucy has supported a host of musical talent ever since, including Cara Dillon, Turin Brakes, The Unthanks, Pete Mollinari, and Nick Mulvey. Major UK festival slots have included Cambridge Folk Festival, The Isle of Wight Festival, Secret Garden Party, and Lounge on the Farm, and Red Rooster Festival. Having won the 2014 Gibson/Sundance song writing competition, Lucy's songs have been placed firmly on the musical map. She has played gigs around the world, including Northern California, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The hugely successful internet sessions recorded for "Mahogany", "Balcony TV", and "On't Sofa", provides a pathway for the world to discover Lucy's beautiful, vibrant, self-penned lyrics. 90,000 Soundcloud listeners eagerly await her debut album - she is now in the position where all this hard work could really start to shine.

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KITT, LUCY	Stand By	LP	WINEBERRY RECORDS	WBR 001LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. Essex-based singer songwriter Lucy Kitt presents her debut full-length album, Stand By, on Wineberry Records. A beautifully crafted self-penned gem, the album draws influence from the golden age of songwriting emanating from Laurel Canyon in the late '60s/early '70s. Stand By was recorded at London's Soup Studios and features contributions from Sam Beer, Dave Holmes, and Pat Kenneally. From the age of 16 she formed a riot girl grunge band Ostara with her cousin and two friends. Performing around the gritty nightclubs and bars of the East end of London is where Lucy found her love of playing live. During her university days in Canterbury, Lucy started developing her song writing and soon became a feature on the local music scene. Strongly influenced by '70s folk rock albums she heard growing up: artists like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young, Lucy writings are honest, and heartfelt accounts of her personal experiences during this poignant chapter of her life. Propelled by her semi-finalist status at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk awards, the live music scene beckoned, and Lucy has supported a host of musical talent ever since, including Cara Dillon, Turin Brakes, The Unthanks, Pete Mollinari, and Nick Mulvey. Major UK festival slots have included Cambridge Folk Festival, The Isle of Wight Festival, Secret Garden Party, and Lounge on the Farm, and Red Rooster Festival. Having won the 2014 Gibson/Sundance song writing competition, Lucy's songs have been placed firmly on the musical map. She has played gigs around the world, including Northern California, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The hugely successful internet sessions recorded for "Mahogany", "Balcony TV", and "On't Sofa", provides a pathway for the world to discover Lucy's beautiful, vibrant, self-penned lyrics. 90,000 Soundcloud listeners eagerly await her debut album - she is now in the position where all this hard work could really start to shine.

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LA YEGROS	Suelta	CD	X-RAY PRODUCTION	XRP 1902CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 La Yegros is a native of Buenos Aires, and her parents are from Misiones, a province in the North East that draws its language from between Brazil and Paraguay. In this enclave, the porous borders of which lets foreign rhythms seep in, people play and dance to chamamé (a mixture of polka and Guarani music), carnavalito, and sways their hips to Columbian cumbia. These genres, bearing the hues of the Andean folklores, have then been put through the mill of Jamaican dancehall and electronic productions, thus composing a cocktail which recipe only La Yegros holds the rights. Thus, having grown up in the suburbs of a cosmopolitan city, imbued with the rural traditions of the country, and based today between France and Argentina, La Yegros does not cheat with her identity, which is as composite as her music is. This sincerity can be found in the songs in Suelta, most of which she has written both the lyrics and the music to, drawing her inspiration from considerations that are in turn intimate and social, exalting the role of women: "Tenemos Voz" ("We Have A Voice"), she sings with the British MC Soom T. La Yegros frees her high-tension temperament throughout the whole of Suelta, all the more so since the album presents original colors, while continuing its exploration of Northern folklores.

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LA YEGROS	Suelta	LP	X-RAY PRODUCTION	XRP 1902LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/29/2019 LP version. La Yegros is a native of Buenos Aires, and her parents are from Misiones, a province in the North East that draws its language from between Brazil and Paraguay. In this enclave, the porous borders of which lets foreign rhythms seep in, people play and dance to chamamé (a mixture of polka and Guarani music), carnavalito, and sways their hips to Columbian cumbia. These genres, bearing the hues of the Andean folklores, have then been put through the mill of Jamaican dancehall and electronic productions, thus composing a cocktail which recipe only La Yegros holds the rights. Thus, having grown up in the suburbs of a cosmopolitan city, imbued with the rural traditions of the country, and based today between France and Argentina, La Yegros does not cheat with her identity, which is as composite as her music is. This sincerity can be found in the songs in Suelta, most of which she has written both the lyrics and the music to, drawing her inspiration from considerations that are in turn intimate and social, exalting the role of women: "Tenemos Voz" ("We Have A Voice"), she sings with the British MC Soom T. La Yegros frees her high-tension temperament throughout the whole of Suelta, all the more so since the album presents original colors, while continuing its exploration of Northern folklores.

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CARPE DIEM	En Regardent Passer Le Temps	LP	LION PRODUCTIONS	LION 172LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 3/30/2019 "Formed in 1970, Carpe Diem started out playing covers by the likes of East of Eden, King Crimson, Deep Purple, and Uriah Heep in clubs along the French Riviera. Original compositions made their way into the band's repertoire over the five years between their formation and the release of their debut album, En Regardent Passer Le Temps, in 1976. Little wonder then that the band sounds as magnificently tight, polished and mature on this classic debut, truly one of the gems of the French rock scene. The success of the album brought them dates with other major French bands like Magma and Ange, led to the recording of a second album, and then ultimately to the sort of nearly total obscurity which deserves to be undone with a reissue such as this one! 'Carpe Diem weave spacey, melodic soundscapes of impossible subtlety and beauty, combining woodwinds and all manner of synthesizers with surging, inspired guitar solos. The playing is free and loose, while yet retaining an air of careful composition. Guitar parts and multiple keyboard lines lock into precise, tightly meshed melodic webs, building tension before bursting into emotive, furious climaxes. Soaring, cosmic guitar melodies glide along churning synthesizer rhythms in the aptly titled opener 'Voyage du non-retour' (Voyage of No Return). The three lengthy tracks that almost evenly divide the album's remainder are uniformly excellent, with nary a superfluous or unnecessary moment. It says something when, in listening to an album, each track convinces you independently that it, indeed, is the best cut on the record. 'Reincarnation' features understated, yet gorgeous, vocal passages in between fiery instrumental portions. The flute and mellotron introduction of 'Jeux du siecle' perfectly sets up the driving grooves to come. In closer 'Publiphobie,' fluid bass-lines and ultra-tight rhythmic work provide the foundation for heavily syncopated, enchanting saxophone melodies. Subtle, smoky vocals return to the fore later in the track, before the band jumps into the closing instrumental finale.' --Greg Northrup, Progweed. First time vinyl reissue of 1976 underground French rock rarity."

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SHRINE	Celestial Fire	CD	CYCLIC LAW	110THCYCLE
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "New album of intense and carefully crafted soundscapes from Bulgaria's Shrine after his acclaimed 2016 album Ordeal 26.04.86. Based on the fictional story for Tomb Raider III, created by the British game studio CORE in 1998, the story begins in Antarctica millions of years ago, where a meteorite has crashed into the landmass and when the continent was still located in the tropics. Millennia later it was discovered by the ancient Polynesians who had reached the Antarctic coast and they soon realized that strange otherworldly powers surround the celestial rock and so the people began to worship it as a deity. After severe mutations started to occur among their newborn, the settlers fled in terror and never came back but before they left, they sealed the meteorite into a deep underground chamber, locked by four 'keys', four unique objects crafted from the same alien material as the meteorite itself. In the 19th century, a group of sailors travelling with Charles Darwin came to Antarctica and rediscovered the artefacts. The story follows the search for the four artefacts and the rediscovering of the meteorite, hypothesized to contain the most important findings in genetics and evolution since Darwin. We are aurally taken through this unique world through 6 singular chapters of pristine sonic grandeur. Artwork by Dehn Sora."

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O SAALA SAKRAAL	Etmaal	CD	CYCLIC LAW	111THCYCLE
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "A new collective led by former Hadewych member Peter Johan Nÿland, also a recent member of Trepaneringsritualen. Etmaal ('natural day') is the first in a series of explorations that aim to serve as a channel between the ethereal and chthonic, sacred and profane, the innermost black well and the outermost white sun. The album follows the circadian path as an analogue to the revelation of the actual self, with the sun as the inverted eye that unveils all things in their temporality, opposite the eternal inner black of night. Sudden transitions between coercive percussive hammering and sharp boreal drone pieces seek to mirror cosmic events; from glacial movements to throbbing punctuation and sudden death and with each end resolved arises a new tension and an attempt at cleansing and delving deeper with the intent of finally arriving at the inner clearing. In the recording process for Etmaal, the group effectively alternated between states of extreme focus and hiati in which subconscious impulses were allowed to arise and the result is an album that skillfully wanders an essential pathway between two planes in its own distinctive way. On this album, O Saala Sakraal is a five-piece outfit that consists of four percussionists; Scramasax (Volksweerbaarheid/Hadewych/Distel), Rene Aquarius (Dead Neanderthals, Fantoom, Krishna), Patricia Manko (Hadewych), Donné Brok (Donné Et Desirée) and Peter Johan Nÿland (Distel, Hadewych), the latter who plays tapes and piano-string percussion instrument 'draak', next to regular percussion. The group first came together for a series shows as Hadewych with an extended percussion section, but it soon became clear that its pieces - partly composed, partly improvised - claimed a realm of their own and drifted away from the overall sound of Hadewych, into something more monolithic, mystical and opaque."

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VERET, OTAVAN	Syvys	CD	CYCLIC LAW	112THCYCLE
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "Syvys is the second demonstration of how Finland's Otavan Veret decipher the pulse of the great cosmic filaments. The radiation from the distant otherness takes audible form in four pieces of ethereal, pulsating atmospherics, where the multitude of transmissions is implemented via a curious amalgam of electronic and acoustic sources operated by Kaarna & XVL. As a result Syvys reflects the many phases of a stellar journey in a dreamlike state, encountering both enchantment and anxiousness."

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VA	Additive Noise Function: Formative UK, European and North American Electronica 1978-1984	3LP	CHERRY RED	BREDT 748LP
$47.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "Including legendary names such as Conny Plank and Holger Czukay (Les Vampyrettes), D.A.F., Bourbonese Qualk, The Legendary Pink Dots, Front 242, Carlos Peron, The Residents, Rhythm And Noise, Richard Bone, and Tuxedomoon alongside cult favorites and previously overlooked nuggets, Additive Noise Function takes in dancefloor fillers, inner space explorations and everything in between."

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SPACE CATS	Something New	LP	CULTURES OF SOUL RECORDS	COS 027LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "After the phenomenal response to our previous survey of disco and boogie sounds from early eighties South Africa, we decided to wade a bit deeper into the pool to focus on one of the most compelling acts to emerge from that theater, the Space Cats. Hailing from the small, insular music scene in the coal-mining city of Witbank, the Space Cats were a five-man band fronted by singer/bassist Themba 'T'Rex' Mzwakali and singer/guitarist Santy Dladala. Operating as a semi-professional live combo rather than a studio-driven aggregation, they stood out from the slick, highly polished conventions of the day. And when they took the stage they offered a take on disco that was stripped-down, raw, rugged and inspired by Afro-rock groups like Harari and Hedzoleh Soundz. While the Space Cats' moment in the spotlight was short-lived -- the band played together for barely a year before management issues necessitated a breakup -- they managed to produce one endearing document of their brief career. Something New, their first and only album, released in 1981, features ten tracks of jittery, hard-edged disco-boogie-funk that capture the flavor of their performances in the rollicking dancehalls of Witbank. Issued on the tiny Rejoice imprint, Something New had a very limited distribution reach even within South Africa and has remained heard by very few people over the last thirty-eight years. So we're proud to make it available for the first time to the wide audience it surely deserved upon its initial release."

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CHAPPELL, RASHEED	First Brick	CD	KAY-DEE RECORDS	KAYDEE 006CD
$15.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "First Brick is the long-awaited return of critically acclaimed emcee Rasheed Chappell. His debut LP Future Before Nostalgia was heralded as a classic by many in the indie Hip Hop scene. On First Brick Rasheed pairs once again with legendary producer Kenny Dope to provide the canvas for his vivid wordplay. It's been 7 years since Rasheed's last release and First Brick serves as a reminder and reintroduction. It reminds those already familiar with Rasheed why he is held in such high regards by luminaries such as O.C., Lord Finesse, DJ Eclipse, DJ Scratch & DJ Clark Kent to name a few. It also serves as an introduction to those who may not be familiar with the work Rasheed had been putting down over the years. Collaborating with the likes of Raheem DeVaughn, Apollo Brown, Diamond D and others has maintained his profile as an elite level rhyme sayer. First Brick provides an in-depth look into the mind and musings of Rasheed Chappell. The title serves as a compass, leading the listener to the very beginnings of what made Rasheed the man he is. His crisp delivery and penchant for silver screen-esque lyricism is on full display on songs such as '101' and 'Shorty Rock Pt.1'. The opening track 'Breaking Ground' is a spoken word piece that informs the audience about the ride they're about to embark on. All of life's hardships and heroism are captured in his words. 'Street Corner Shit' is a standout track that serves as an ode and cautionary tale to those that indulge in such recreation. Unlike his debut LP, Rasheed isn't the sole voice on this project. Enlisted are some of today's truly exceptional rhyme spitters. CRIMEAPPLE and Daniel Son help paint a haunting picture on 'Aiding & Abetting'. On the bar for bar banger 'Kingsmen' Recognize Ali, Hus Kingpin, Napoleon Da Legend and Lil Fame of M.O.P. all pen precise poetic mayhem over a neck snapping Kenny Dope rhythm. As the introduction of the album states, every building starts with a single break. As long as the foundation of Rasheed Chappell and Kenny Dope remain intact, expect nothing but good things."

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CHAPPELL, RASHEED	First Brick	LP	KAY-DEE RECORDS	KAYDEE 006LP
$26.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 LP version.

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AGITATION FREE	Fragments (Mint Colored Vinyl)	LP	MADE IN GERMANY	MIG 1083LP
$30.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "When the band Agitation Free came together in 1967 as a result of the merging of two Berlin rock groups, one of the most interesting groups in a dawning independent German music scene was created. With their improvisations between rock, jazz and new music, Agitation Free -- soon relegated to the not so flattering category of 'Krautrock' -- made musical forays into areas that few of their fellow German musicians had ever penetrated. At a time when most in Germany were still orienting themselves as closely as possible to Anglo-American musical formats, Agitation Free found a completely new and very original form of musical expression. Starting with their debut album Malesch and the album 2nd, Agitation Free delivered a fascinating sound, influenced not least by the manifold impressions from a Near East tour. The band moved toward a form of meta-music, a weaving of exotic-sounding compositions. The album has been justly regarded as a milestone in the genre, especially abroad. Looking back, it's evident that the Agitation Free was one of the most important bands of the experimental circle known as the 'Berlin School', and a career springboard for a whole slew of musicians. At the same time, this policy of changing personnel also meant risking that the band couldn't keep itself together over the long run. Agitation Free consciously took this risk in order to remain as close as possible to their own concept -- free from commercial pressure or concessions to the latest trends and modes. Collector's item! Limited (500) in colored (mint) vinyl."

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MADLIB & FREDDIE GIBBS	Flat Tummy Tea	12"	MADLIB INVAZION	MMS 032EP
$13.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "'Flat Tummy Tea' b/w 'Bandana' featuring Assassin, with instrumentals and bonus beats Flat Tummy Tea is from the forthcoming album Bandana. Other tracks are exclusive to this 12-inch release."

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NAZZ, THE	The Fungo Bat Acetates	2LP	ROCKBEAT RECORDS	ROC 3410LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/5/2019 "Nazz's second album was to be a double album (as per Todd's wishes), called Fungo Bat. Recording began in Nov 1968 and completed in Spring (March) 1969. Due to band members indifference and management decisions, it was never released as such and Todd left the band to pursue a solo career. Todd's personal copies of the Fungo Bat acetates were among the possessions lost in a fire at his home. The source of the recordings is from an individual in Austin, Texas, who once owned one of the only known copies of the acetates for Fungo Bat. It was three 12" acetates, with typed labels. The track listing on the acetates are just in order, 24 tracks -- if this was indeed the album order, what is listed above is the logical place for album side breaks With Todd Rundgren - guitar; Robert 'Stewkey' Antoni - vocals, keyboards; Carson Van Osten - bass; Thom Mooney - drums. Red vinyl."

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AI UNIT	Land der Musik - The Graz AI Score	12"	MARTIN HOSSBACH	12BACH 010EP
$12.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 A world premiere of AI-generated symphonic music -- all three audio files are compiled from two live recordings with different microphone settings. The cover image is generated by algorithms trained with the following image searches: migration, Mediterranean, boat, Libyan coast, EU. Different search engines were used. Land der Musik celebrated its world premiere on October 7th 2018 at steirischer herbst '18 -- volksfronten in Graz, Austria. Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst in cooperation with ORF Musikprotokoll.

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MINDS&MACHINES	Silenced / Nothing	12"	2DIY4	12DIY4 021EP
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 Hailing from Germany as two definitive individuals -- minds&machines exemplify the hybrid human/electronic chorale. "The rules are, there are no rules" -- a perfect embodiment of the minds&machines ethos and that of the new generation of electronic music producers. Primarily drawing on influences of garage, electronica, and restless ambient, the German duo's music encapsulates that moment of human loneliness but gratitude at 3am on a wet, urban street. Silenced / Nothing, has hints of garage, electronica, and ambient, all very much remaining on a divergent route.

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BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER	Black Goat Of The Woods (Transparent Smoke Vinyl)	LP	AURORA BOREALIS	ABX 046C-LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 Released on CD by Aurora Borealis back in 2010, the label present Black Mountain Transmitter's Black Goat Of The Woods on transparent smoke vinyl. An ode to the Lovecraftian lore of Shub Niggurath, Black Goat Of The Woods was conceived as "the soundtrack from some lost low budget horror movie, rediscovered on an old and faded VHS cassette found moldering in a deserted house in the depths of the woods". The one-man project of J.R. Moore, Black Mountain Transmitter has released several albums, all to great critical acclaim, and the quality of his work speaks volumes. The original Black Goat Of The Woods CD version was the first official release, and a reissue of the long sold-out and much sought after limited CD. On describing the recording, Moore said: "The music was certainly very much influenced by that certain breed of '70s horror films. Things like the soundtrack to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Giuliano Sorgini's atmospheres in Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue (1974); Carl Zittrer's soundscapes in Deranged (1974), Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972), and Dead Of Night (1974), and of course people like Fabio Frizzi in Italian horror and the BBCs Radiophonic Workshop's electronic sounds in something like The Stone Tape and countless creepy old TV productions..." An excellent, macabre and psychedelic release that spans electronica, soundtracks, and experimental genres in its 40-minute playing time, Black Goat Of The Woods pays perfect homage to the dark denizen of the nocturnal glades, and is a true paean to backwoods horror. Mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin; Cut at The Carvery, London. 140 gram, transparent smoke vinyl; reverse board heavyweight sleeve; Includes download code and printed insert; Edition of 300.

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KAZIMIRA & DAGMAR GERTOT, DARJA	Death Of The Bull	CD	AURORA BOREALIS	ABX 076CD
$12.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 Aurora Borealis present Death Of The Bull by Darja Kazimira and Dagmar Gertot. Over the years, Aurora Borealis have released some truly strange and genre-defying albums. Death Of The Bull is undoubtedly their most unusual, complex, and challenging release to date. Taking pagan fertility rites as a starting point, Darja Kazimira and Dagmar Gertot have constructed a narrative that witnesses the collapse of the natural order and the end of an age. The breadth and scope of the work is mind-blowing and the results are quite unlike anything you're like to have heard before. Darja Kazimira (Latvia) and Dagmar Gertot (Russia) are engaged in experimental art practices based on the research of various funeral and initiation rituals of the peoples of the world, with emphasis on the territory of the Balkans and ancient Greece. With a solid foundation of musical and classical archaeology, religious studies, mythology, philosophy, and thanatology, they have sought to create an entirely new ritualized imaginal space. Through improvisation and glossolalia, a new mythic realm is born. They explain: "For us, music is an opportunity to articulate a myth, to make tangible imaginary space, to deform the environment through sound, shifting its stable temporal and local criteria." With a mix of various ethnic vocal traditions, extreme and academic vocal practices, and a radical approach to traditional notions of folk music in its truest sense, Death Of The Bull is undoubtedly highly demanding of the listener. While many albums can be termed immersive, the mythic-space and otherworldliness of Death Of The Bull holds the listener to it's rough hide and drags them into the underworld. Six-panel CD digifile.

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ALIS	Papercuts	LP	ASTRAL PLANE RECORDINGS	APR 118LP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 Alis has spent over a decade exploring the intricacies of performance-oriented club music, releasing on labels like Don't Be Afraid and Planet Mu, and becoming a staple in the Berlin and London scenes. Papercuts is her Astral Plane Recordings debut, comprised of five lush, intimate tracks that are both entirely removed from a dance floor context, yet deeply preoccupied with groove and movement. Honed at her Sunday System nights at London's Rye Wax, Alis' interdisciplinary practice comes to the fore on Papercuts with vocals extending far beyond their linguistical potential into a broader, more textural realm. Songs like "Status" and "BCC: me" walk the line of sonority and dissonance, nearing the precipice of abstraction without falling into the abyss. "Papercuts" and "Water" on the other hand offer a more concise narrative vision, proffering a version of hook writing that fluctuates between meditative and commanding.

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MATTIMATTI	Tomrum	CD	AGOGO RECORDS	AR 105CD
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 Mattimatti is two Mattis living in different countries -- Sweden (Malmö) and Germany (Berlin). They travel around the world playing music whilst asking themselves, "who are we?". The answer seems to change just as their surroundings do, but the music stays with them and so does their friendship. It is cliché that it's hard to put a label on music; to say it has almost become a cliché itself. But the whole meaning of music is to listen to it and create one's own world. To create one's own world one needs space, space that is not interrupted by either style or defining categories. Mattimatti is an attempt to step into that space, creating music built solely on improvisation. Tomrum is an invitation to places not yet known, where rhythmic, suggestive and meditative soundscapes meet the present moment. As friends and musicians Mattimatti welcome the unexpected, living in a world full of confusion when it comes to identity. They are trying to stay connected; it is a constant task. They met on the streets of Berlin in spring 2013 while playing on the streets. After they played for the first time together, there was no question that they could travel a musical journey together from that day. Mattimatti was initiated; on their quest they began playing improvised tunes on sitar and hanging on the street while traveling through Sweden and Germany. This lead them to be invited to numerous festivals all over Europe while constantly developing their music and sound. Since then their set has added new instruments such as a drum kit, African harps, sitar, guitar, harmonica, clarinet, and vocals, extending the sound with a space echo. The long, intimate tunes that created here have an original structure and sound. There is a certain present resting in the music which is hard to describe but easy to experience. Their live concerts have been dubbed mythical, hypnotic, magic and epic -- traveling is the biggest influence on their music. Mattimatti are now both based in Berlin and Malmo and work together with the contemporary circus, dance, and music group Kollektiv Knaster.

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MATTIMATTI	Tomrum	LP	AGOGO RECORDS	AR 105LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 LP version. Mattimatti is two Mattis living in different countries -- Sweden (Malmö) and Germany (Berlin). They travel around the world playing music whilst asking themselves, "who are we?". The answer seems to change just as their surroundings do, but the music stays with them and so does their friendship. It is cliché that it's hard to put a label on music; to say it has almost become a cliché itself. But the whole meaning of music is to listen to it and create one's own world. To create one's own world one needs space, space that is not interrupted by either style or defining categories. Mattimatti is an attempt to step into that space, creating music built solely on improvisation. Tomrum is an invitation to places not yet known, where rhythmic, suggestive and meditative soundscapes meet the present moment. As friends and musicians Mattimatti welcome the unexpected, living in a world full of confusion when it comes to identity. They are trying to stay connected; it is a constant task. They met on the streets of Berlin in spring 2013 while playing on the streets. After they played for the first time together, there was no question that they could travel a musical journey together from that day. Mattimatti was initiated; on their quest they began playing improvised tunes on sitar and hanging on the street while traveling through Sweden and Germany. This lead them to be invited to numerous festivals all over Europe while constantly developing their music and sound. Since then their set has added new instruments such as a drum kit, African harps, sitar, guitar, harmonica, clarinet, and vocals, extending the sound with a space echo. The long, intimate tunes that created here have an original structure and sound. There is a certain present resting in the music which is hard to describe but easy to experience. Their live concerts have been dubbed mythical, hypnotic, magic and epic -- traveling is the biggest influence on their music. Mattimatti are now both based in Berlin and Malmo and work together with the contemporary circus, dance, and music group Kollektiv Knaster.

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HANCOCK, HERBIE	Fat Albert Rotunda	LP	ANTARCTICA STARTS HERE	ASH 301LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2019 "If Fat Albert Rotunda sounds like the most fun Herbie Hancock had in his early years as a band leader, it should. He composed the music for the pilot of the children's television show Fat Albert, redirecting the post-bop jazz he honed in a five-year stint with the Miles Davis Quintet towards the R&B and funk styles with which he was becoming enamored. The result was a playful, joyous album in which Hancock clearly had a great time. The same goes for the rest of his Sextet, which by the time of recording in late 1969 was both razor sharp and confidently loose from rehearsing and touring. Flying high with three horn players -- Joe Henderson on sax and flute, Garrett Brown on trombone and Johnny Coles on trumpet and flugelhorn -- alongside Hancock's soaring Fender Rhodes electric piano, the group could swing freely on a track like the rousing 'Fat Mama' and emote precisely on the subtle 'Tell Me A Bedtime Story.' Their versatility