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CARIBOU	Start Breaking My Heart	LP	PEOPLE EATING FRUIT RECORDS	PEF 001LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2026 25th anniversary black vinyl repress. Before he was Caribou, Dan Snaith was a 20-something student in a "crappy" Toronto bedroom, recording music on a beat-up computer that used to strain under the weight of digital recording. Start Breaking My Heart was Snaith's 2001 debut, originally released under the name Manitoba. Twenty-five years on, it still sounds like an artist finding his voice in real time -- rainbow melody, hopscotch percussion, and playground laughter stitched into warm, tactile electronic pop. Reflecting on the record, Snaith said it was the first time something clicked -- he'd been making music since his early teens, but this was when he first felt he understood what he wanted his tracks to be. That moment coincided with the chance encounter that changed everything: he met Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) at a UK festival, who helped Dan get this album released -- the start of a career that has spanned a quarter century and many albums since.

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CARIBOU	The Milk of Human Kindness	LP	PEOPLE EATING FRUIT RECORDS	PEF 003LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2026 Limited edition black vinyl repress. The Milk of Human Kindness is Dan Snaith's third studio album, originally released in 2005. It marked the first record credited to the Caribou name, after Snaith dropped his previous Manitoba moniker following a threatened lawsuit from Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators. Rather than start from scratch, Snaith folded the two sides of himself together -- the icy precision of Start Breaking My Heart and the sun-drenched sprawl of Up in Flames -- into something both hypnotic -- influenced by French progressive rock and German krautrock of the 1970s -- and pastoral. The record was met with strong critical acclaim, and its singles, "Yeti" and "Barnowl," remain fan favorites to this day. Against the backdrop of the legal name change it is simultaneously the end of a chapter while also quietly setting the stage for the run of albums that would follow.

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CARIBOU	Up In Flames	LP	PEOPLE EATING FRUIT RECORDS	PEF 002LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2026 Limited edition black vinyl repress. Up in Flames is Dan Snaith's second album, originally released under the Manitoba moniker on March 31, 2003. Made with the same modest home setup as its predecessor, it nonetheless sounds like a different artist entirely -- a kaleidoscopic rush of sun-bright melodies, tumbling percussion, and psychedelic pop that traded the hushed intimacy of Start Breaking My Heart for something warmer, bigger, and more joyfully overstuffed, encompassing 1960s psychedelia, Madchaster swagger and shoegaze swoon. Snaith was later forced to change his artist name after a well-documented lawsuit, and Up in Flames stands as the final album released under the Manitoba name -- a high point to go out on. The record was met with widespread critical acclaim, and has since been recognized by Pitchfork as one of the standout albums of the 2000s. It remains, by most accounts, one of Snaith's finest and most beloved records.

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FLUGEL & PHIL KIERAN, ROMAN	Kosmische Advice	12"	PHIL KIERAN RECORDS	PKR 049EP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/20/2026 Kosmische Advice EP is the first collaborative release from Roman Flügel and Phil Kieran. Recorded between Belfast and Berlin, the EP brings together two long-established figures in European electronic music whose paths have run in parallel for many years. The title track was written in a single evening session in Belfast during Flügel's visit for Kieran's Leatherette club night, capturing an immediate and largely unaltered performance that sets the tone for the release.

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FINER & JOHN MATTHIAS, JEM	Almost Starlight	LP	TOUCH	TO 132LP
$20.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/13/2026 LP version. Almost Starlight is the extraordinary new album by Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin). Produced by Jay Auborn and recorded in a medieval church, deep in the Devon countryside, in the Summer of 2025, the music is suffused with light, heat and the natural acoustics of the space. The album defies categorization; forced to pigeonhole it the nearest approximation would be "modern-classical" but this ignores its myriad influences and explorations which encompass inspiration from Arvo Pärt through Terry Riley to Can via Delius, Alice Coltrane, and a subtle reimagining of electronic music played purely with acoustic instruments, bending and shaping their possibilities in surprising and unexpected directions. Produced by Jay Auborn, who also plays cello on a number of the compositions, his production opens up and expands the music through a skilled and imaginative use of space, paying homage to the atmosphere of the church.

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HOOD, ROBERT	Hoodmusic 3	12"	MUSIC MAN	MM 138X-EP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/13/2026 Repress of this classic Robert Hood record from 2007!

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FINER & JOHN MATTHIAS, JEM	Almost Starlight	CD	TOUCH	TO 132CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/13/2026 Almost Starlight is the extraordinary new album by Jem Finer (hurdy-gurdy) and John Matthias (violin). Produced by Jay Auborn and recorded in a medieval church, deep in the Devon countryside, in the Summer of 2025, the music is suffused with light, heat and the natural acoustics of the space. The album defies categorization; forced to pigeonhole it the nearest approximation would be "modern-classical" but this ignores its myriad influences and explorations which encompass inspiration from Arvo Pärt through Terry Riley to Can via Delius, Alice Coltrane, and a subtle reimagining of electronic music played purely with acoustic instruments, bending and shaping their possibilities in surprising and unexpected directions. Produced by Jay Auborn, who also plays cello on a number of the compositions, his production opens up and expands the music through a skilled and imaginative use of space, paying homage to the atmosphere of the church.

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RAMJAC CORPORATION	88-92 It Is What It Was	2LP	MUSIQUE POUR LA DANSE	MPD 055LP
$41.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/6/2026 Ramjac Corporation, aka Paul Chivers, emerged from the UK's late-'80s rave underground, performing live at parties like Sunrise, Energy, Back to the Future, Fun-da-Mental and Synergy. Building tracks with an Atari computer and an E-MU 12-bit sampler, turning severe technical limitations into raw, elastic club music, 88-92: It is What it Was gathers music born in bedrooms then tested in front of crowds at warehouse raves, while the culture was still inventing itself without boundaries, completely free. Ramjac was the original artist on Irdial Discs, following label founder Akin Fernandez's Aqua Regia, and introduced Lee Purkis' In Sync and Neuropolitique to the label, shaping the singular catalogue of that extraordinary imprint alongside Luke Slater's Morganistic, Thee J Johanz and Anthony Manning. That legacy is now revisited by Musique Pour La Danse, with the release of a limited edition vinyl and digital edition featuring extended liner notes by Nick Halkes of XL Recordings, Positiva and Kicks Like A Mule fame, who witnessed the early Ramjac period first-hand. The release is illustrated by Grant Fulton, who created the visual identity for The Shamen's Synergy events and Orbital albums. This album presents music written exclusively between 1988-92 and forms the foundation of Ramjac Corporation's ongoing live performances. Restored from the original floppy discs, the recordings preserve the unique relationship between early digital technology, sampling culture and live improvisation that defines the Ramjac approach. Mixed for release for the first time by Trevor Lancaster-Smith, whose '90s engineering work encompassed Leftfield, Faithless, and Roni Size, the album brings these compositions into sharp focus while preserving the character of the original instruments and performances. Not just a historical document, 88-92: It is What it Was is a living body of work: music created then, realized now, and continuing to surprise and evolve.

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I GRES	I Gres	LP	COMETA EDIZIONI	GGST 10032LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/30/2026 Fully licensed! Originally released in 1974 this is a must-have for any library DJ collector. I Gres were a studio group founded by Silvano Chimenti. The band name brings members signs: G for organist Giorgio Carnini, R for maestro Roberto Pregadio, E for drummer Enzo Restuccia and finally S for leading composer Chimenti. Rare grooves and funky breaks are leading the way for killer tunes like "Restless" (a B-boy favorite also used as the main theme for 1975 Dibattito Politico TV broadcast), movie-theme soundslike "Nonchalant" and cinematic wonder "Grumblings." Also available on clear vinyl (GGST 10032CB-LP).

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YOKOO	The Rise	12"	TENAMPA	TENA 130EP
$21.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/30/2026 Tenampa now turns to French sonic storyteller YokoO, who makes his debut on the Mexican imprint with a three-track workout that perfectly captures his signature sound: deep, refined and effortlessly effective. Rich in groove, subtle textures and immersive atmospheres, the release unfolds with the unmistakable sense of depth and emotional detail that has become synonymous with YokoO's productions. Strictly limited to 300 copies worldwide and available exclusively on vinyl, this release further cements its status as a true collector's piece. The artwork once again comes courtesy of the ever-outstanding Manuel Cetina, aka El_Stitch, whose distinctive visual language adds another layer of identity and lasting value to the release.

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MR. EPP	Ridiculing The Apocalypse	LP	BANG! RECORDS	BANG 190LP
$27.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/30/2026 Before grunge was a genre, it was an insult Mark Arm wrote about his own band: "Pure grunge! Pure noise! Pure shit!" That band was Mr. Epp And The Calculations. Conceived in a math class at Bellevue Christian High School in 1978 as a completely imaginary group, Mr. Epp eventually became one of the strangest, most confrontational and deliberately antagonistic acts in Seattle's early underground. Steve Turner joined during its final phase; Arm and Turner would soon form Green River and later reunite in Mudhoney. Instead of learning to play properly, Mr. Epp learned how to use distortion, repetition, awkwardness and confrontation as a language of their own. Their songs take aim at uniformed hardcore punks, Reagan-era patriotism, the Moral Majority, militarism, police authority, suburban privilege, college life and nuclear annihilation, while never sparing their own scene or themselves. "Mohawk Man" was a vicious attack on those who had reduced hardcore to a pose and a dress code. The song reached number one on the influential Los Angeles radio show Rodney on the ROQ, while their 1982 EP Of Course I'm Happy, Why? was reviewed in the very first issue of Maximum Rocknroll, which praised its strange structures, cynicism and intelligence. During their brief existence they shared bills with Dead Kennedys, Ten Minute Warning, and The Rejectors, before playing their final show in 1984 alongside Malfunkshun, opening for Fang. Less than three years after becoming a real band, it was over. Originally issued on CD in 1996, Ridiculing the Apocalypse now receives its first-ever vinyl edition. BANG! Records and Jo Smitty have reshaped the anthology into a concentrated sixteen-track LP, newly remastered for vinyl by Sergio Delgado in Madrid. It includes the complete Of Course I'm Happy, Why? EP, the band's most essential studio recordings and two live tracks captured at Seattle's Metropolis. The packaging completes the document: Todd Why?'s original drawings, the wrecked Epp car, rehearsal and live photographs, Craig Joyce's extensive band history and Jo Smitty's track-by-track notes. Nothing has been cleaned up or rewritten into respectable rock history. The entire edition retains the photocopied, basement-made, fanzine-and-rented-hall aesthetic that defined Mr. Epp. Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl. Essential for followers of Mudhoney, Green River, Flipper, early American hardcore, post-punk and outsider noise -- and for anyone who wants to hear Seattle before it became an industry.

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I GRES	I Gres (Clear Vinyl)	LP	COMETA EDIZIONI	GGST 10032CB-LP
$31.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/30/2026 Clear vinyl version. Fully licensed! Originally released in 1974 this is a must-have for any library DJ collector. I Gres were a studio group founded by Silvano Chimenti. The band name brings members signs: G for organist Giorgio Carnini, R for maestro Roberto Pregadio, E for drummer Enzo Restuccia and finally S for leading composer Chimenti. Rare grooves and funky breaks are leading the way for killer tunes like "Restless" (a B-boy favorite also used as the main theme for 1975 Dibattito Politico TV broadcast), movie-theme soundslike "Nonchalant" and cinematic wonder "Grumblings."

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IGNACIO	Virton	12"	MUSIC MAN	MM 077EP
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/30/2026 Long awaited repress of this Steve Rachmad classic, including Chris Liebing remix, both remastered.

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VA	Pont Neuf 10 Years: In House We Trust	2LP	PONT NEUF RECORDS	PNC 010LP
$44.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/23/2026 Pont Neuf mark 10 years with an all-star cast and a masterclass in club music -- timeless, tasteful, and built for the dance floor. Featuring Black Loops, Tour-Maubourg, Demuja, Marina Trench, Mad Rey, Maison Blanche, THEOS, Mira Ló, KX9000, Naajet, Dylan Dylan, and Goldie B.

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SABATINI & LUIGI TOZZI, DINO	XAMAN	2LP	OUTIS MUSIC	OOS 005LP
$43.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/23/2026 XAMAN is the collaborative project of Dino Sabatini and Luigi Tozzi, where two distinct artistic paths converge into a shared musical language shaped through years of independent research and mutual exchange. Across eight compositions, XAMAN takes shape through gradual transformation. Every element is introduced with intention, allowing subtle shifts in density, tension and space to shape the music over time, revealing its full form through uninterrupted listening. Released as a double vinyl on Outis Opera Series, the curated imprint of Outis Music, XAMAN reflects a process shaped through listening, exchange and time.

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SMITH, KAITLYN AURELIA	Ruin: It's Not Just Music	LP	SOMEONE SPECIAL	SPECIAL 001LP
$34.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/16/2026 LP version. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith returns with Ruin: It's Not Just Music, a new studio album that marks one of the most decisive statements in her creative trajectory. Across the past decade, KAS has established herself as a unique voice in experimental electronic music, a composer and synthesist whose work dissolves the boundaries between ambient electronica, contemporary classical, composition, and immersive sound design. Her new album arrives with a distinctive gravitational pull. The record moves with greater physical force, placing rhythm and impact at the center of its architecture, revealing a more confrontational and embodied dimension of KAS's musical language. Where much of KAS's earlier work explored harmonic environments, the forthcoming album is built around tension and release. Inspired by the sound of drum and bass, breakbeats fracture through dense fields of synthesis, percussive patterns and her signature melodic fragments -- motions that feel closer to the kinetic language of club music than the meditative spaces often associated with her past catalogue. The result is a body of work that feels both recognizably hers and newly charged, music that moves through the body as insistently as it engages the mind. KAS's practice has steadily expanded beyond the expectations placed upon experimental electronic artists, moving between orchestral composition, audiovisual installations, film scoring, and large-scale commissions while retaining the unmistakable sonic signature that defines her work. Her prolific collaborators and creative partners have ranged from Patti Smith and Suzanne Ciani to Danny Elfman, Tycho, Glass Beams, RY X, Caribou, Four Tet, Reggie Watts, and Max Richter, while her compositions have appeared in projects with Apple, Chanel, Meow Wolf, the BBC Orchestra, and major film and television productions. On Ruin: It's Not Just Music, that vocabulary becomes more kinetic than ever before. The record draws energy from jungle, drum and bass, and dance-floor focused electronic music while retaining the intricate synthesis and tonal curiosity that have defined KAS's work from the beginning. The result is a record that feels equally at home within club culture, contemporary composition, and the experimental spaces that have long championed her artistry.

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PARALLEL 9	Dominus	12"	MUSIC MAN	MM 117EP
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/16/2026 2026 remastered versions. Highly sought after Steve Rachmad classic finally gets a repress.

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SMITH, KAITLYN AURELIA	Ruin: It's Not Just Music	CD	SOMEONE SPECIAL	SPECIAL 001CD
$13.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/16/2026 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith returns with Ruin: It's Not Just Music, a new studio album that marks one of the most decisive statements in her creative trajectory. Across the past decade, KAS has established herself as a unique voice in experimental electronic music, a composer and synthesist whose work dissolves the boundaries between ambient electronica, contemporary classical, composition, and immersive sound design. Her new album arrives with a distinctive gravitational pull. The record moves with greater physical force, placing rhythm and impact at the center of its architecture, revealing a more confrontational and embodied dimension of KAS's musical language. Where much of KAS's earlier work explored harmonic environments, the forthcoming album is built around tension and release. Inspired by the sound of drum and bass, breakbeats fracture through dense fields of synthesis, percussive patterns and her signature melodic fragments -- motions that feel closer to the kinetic language of club music than the meditative spaces often associated with her past catalogue. The result is a body of work that feels both recognizably hers and newly charged, music that moves through the body as insistently as it engages the mind. KAS's practice has steadily expanded beyond the expectations placed upon experimental electronic artists, moving between orchestral composition, audiovisual installations, film scoring, and large-scale commissions while retaining the unmistakable sonic signature that defines her work. Her prolific collaborators and creative partners have ranged from Patti Smith and Suzanne Ciani to Danny Elfman, Tycho, Glass Beams, RY X, Caribou, Four Tet, Reggie Watts, and Max Richter, while her compositions have appeared in projects with Apple, Chanel, Meow Wolf, the BBC Orchestra, and major film and television productions. On Ruin: It's Not Just Music, that vocabulary becomes more kinetic than ever before. The record draws energy from jungle, drum and bass, and dance-floor focused electronic music while retaining the intricate synthesis and tonal curiosity that have defined KAS's work from the beginning. The result is a record that feels equally at home within club culture, contemporary composition, and the experimental spaces that have long championed her artistry.

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INSTITUT FUR FEINMOTORIK	Od	LP	FAITICHE	FAITICHE 043LP
$36.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2026 Öd marks the long-awaited return of Institut für Feinmotorik -- the Black Forest collective known for using eight prepared turntables to investigate acoustic micro-phenomena generated by everyday objects -- with a new album and their first full-length release on Faitiche. The Öd-nis, the wasteland, is a field that the collective has been ploughing in sound since their first release in 1997. Eight prepared turntables, four mixers, no records, six hands (give or take) merge into what they call the "Octogrammoticum." A rotating organism of surfaces in friction, fed with the clutter from a drawer: rubber bands or tin foil, CDs, a discarded socket board. Under IFF's scrutinizing stylus, mundane almost-nothings get scratched open to reveal the acoustic density of negative space itself. The only thing öd about Öd (meaning "barren" or "boring" in German) may well be its title: layers of improvised play and randomized loops convolve around porous, dubby groove locks, tugging at each other in a call-and-response with howling static that cuts through bulbous ambient techno into a scrap-metal Dixieland phantasm. Stratified yet spacious, these sonic double exposures always hover on the verge of collapsing. What you think you hear might not be what you actually hear. The album's track titles resemble Conceptual Poetry, extending this psycho-phenomenological gesture into the realm of spoken language. Conceived by renowned poet Dagmara Kraus, they become word molecules -- "stern," "dies," "lose" -- tilting delicately between German and English, constantly changing depending on the ear's perspective and pointing back to the deeply unstable fabric connecting meaning and sound. Which also makes Öd an unusual cross-disciplinary collaboration -- at least in the field of electronic music.

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VIRAGEZERO	viragezero	LP	BONGO JOE RECORDS	BJR 126LP
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2026 LP version. viragezero was born on a cold Sunday evening in December, on the way home from a Chris Cohen concert at Geneva's Face Z festival. In the winter night emerged the desire to create a new collective space, nourished by the long drifting journeys of kosmische musik. Initially conceived as a parallel playground bringing together the duo Citron Citron, former members of L'Éclair and musicians from Magic & Naked, the project quickly developed its own gravity. This self-titled debut album sketches a world both familiar and distorted, where everyday landscapes slowly slip into stranger territories. Driven by nervous synths, hazy guitars, shifting electronic textures and rhythms drawing from 1990s trip hop and abstract hip hop, viragezero builds a suspended and immersive music. A music guided as much by sensation as by structure, where repetition becomes a moving force and tensions evolve without ever fully resolving. At the center of the album are Zoé Sjollema's lyrics, drawn from fragments of dreams collected over several years. Her instinctive writing blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination, tracing recurring themes of solitude, wandering, exhaustion and disconnection. Rather than telling stories, the songs unfold as emotional states, inhabited by shifting landscapes, distorted memories and fleeting impressions. Somewhere between dream pop, electronica, IDM and spectral songwriting, viragezero delivers a dense and instinctive debut album. A nocturnal and hypnotic record that transforms fragments of reality into constantly shifting sonic matter.

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10LEC6	Ako Akas	LP	GRAND MUSIQUE	LEC 001LP
$43.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2026 Circling a mountain until disappearing into the dance: this is the starting point of 10LEC6's new album. Several years after Bone Bame, released on Ed Banger, 10LEC6 returns with an album that is both digital and organic, conceived as a euphoric journey where language is manipulated, repeated, stretched like a sentence that spins on itself until it becomes rhythm. The title, Ako Akas, is the name of a peak in southern Cameroon, whose legend tells of those who attempt to circle it disappearing in an endless dance. A perfect image for this immersive, fluid music where each loop propels the next. Featuring Superpitcher.

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VIRAGEZERO	viragezero	CD	BONGO JOE RECORDS	BJR 126CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2026 viragezero was born on a cold Sunday evening in December, on the way home from a Chris Cohen concert at Geneva's Face Z festival. In the winter night emerged the desire to create a new collective space, nourished by the long drifting journeys of kosmische musik. Initially conceived as a parallel playground bringing together the duo Citron Citron, former members of L'Éclair and musicians from Magic & Naked, the project quickly developed its own gravity. This self-titled debut album sketches a world both familiar and distorted, where everyday landscapes slowly slip into stranger territories. Driven by nervous synths, hazy guitars, shifting electronic textures and rhythms drawing from 1990s trip hop and abstract hip hop, viragezero builds a suspended and immersive music. A music guided as much by sensation as by structure, where repetition becomes a moving force and tensions evolve without ever fully resolving. At the center of the album are Zoé Sjollema's lyrics, drawn from fragments of dreams collected over several years. Her instinctive writing blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination, tracing recurring themes of solitude, wandering, exhaustion and disconnection. Rather than telling stories, the songs unfold as emotional states, inhabited by shifting landscapes, distorted memories and fleeting impressions. Somewhere between dream pop, electronica, IDM and spectral songwriting, viragezero delivers a dense and instinctive debut album. A nocturnal and hypnotic record that transforms fragments of reality into constantly shifting sonic matter.

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DAYZERO	Soaring EP	12"	TECTONIC	TEC 128EP
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2026 Tsuyushi Hamada, a.k.a. Dayzero, has been producing and DJing for well over a decade, dropping deep heaters on labels including Livity Sound, ZamZam, and many more. Now he comes to the Tectonic family with this epic six-tracker, which sees him explore the deeper outer reaches of dubstep, techno -- and the spaces he gravitates to in between.

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SHEARER, RACHEL	Te Oro o te Ao	LP	THIN WRIST	TW W-LP
$29.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2026 Rachel Shearer's Te Oro o te Ao ("The Resounding Of The World") is a bold work of sonic dreaming and remembrance. As a sound artist and composer from Aotearoa, New Zealand, Shearer has long explored the Māori concept of whakapapa; embracing the belief that the whole of creation, past/present/future is a dynamic interconnected movement. With field recordings, electronics, and voice, Shearer creates immersive analogs of earthly processes that move like tumbling avalanches and crashing waves. Subterranean volcanic activity transmutes into super-heated air rising into frequencies beyond human hearing. Shearer posits that consciousness, like the environment, is not a closed system; that the mind is an ecosystem where our thoughts are the "flora" and "fauna" and the perception of sound vibrations in the material world is a gateway to metaphysical realms. Te Oro o Te Ao was first realized as an immersive eight-channel sound installation made in response to a close listening to the earth. It was also released as a limited artist's acetate edition of 10. Thin Wrist presents Te Oro o Te Ao in a vinyl and digital edition mastered by Rashad Becker, Clunk Berlin. Housed in a tip-on gatefold jacket with embossed black paper stock, ink pigment foil stamping, with a mounted booklet in the inner gatefold and printed inner sleeves. Pressed at Optimal, Germany. For over three decades Rachel Shearer has investigated sound as a medium through a wide range of sonic practices -- installations, composing, recording, writing, as well as collaborating as a sound designer and composer for moving image and live performance events. Shearer's work builds on her research which explores practices related to a listening to the earth through Māori and Western frameworks. She has received numerous public commissions for sound art including the permanent nine-channel sound installation The Flooded Mirror on the Auckland waterfront. She has been active as an experimental musician since the late 1980s and has released material with labels Xpressway (NZ), Flying Nun (NZ), Ecstatic Peace (US), Corpus Hermeticum (NZ), Family Vineyard (US) among others. Waha voice performed by Cathy Livermore (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha).

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HERLOP, MARINA	Dja Dja	CD	MARINA HERLOP	MH 001CD
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/2/2026 Marina Herlop's Dja Dja opens like a held breath finally released: a violent celebration of life, though not the hedonist's easy yes. The exultation here is hard-won, arrived at rather than assumed, an affirmation drawn up from reflection and a long inward descent, stripped of every naïveté. What animates it is a kind of undirected anger, rage reimagined as a creative force that spends itself in catharsis, and a gratitude so overwhelming it can no longer be contained by the body. This is a music of struggle, but the struggle is not for conquest or ruin; it is for self-affirmation, for the quiet authority of someone defending her principles without ever needing to name them. Conceived as a single, unbroken body of work in which every track answers to the others, Dja Dja is the most architecturally ambitious thing Herlop has made, a giant sudoku built out of smaller sudokus, where the whole had to cohere even as each piece kept its own internal logic. Beneath that design lies a borrowed scaffolding, a structure used at first for purely architectural reasons and then, once the music had taken its shape, allowed to fall away. The frame is gone; the music stands without it. Across these movements the Catalan composer -- classically trained, equally at home in the avant-garde -- sets herself a double standard she refused to relax: more open and intelligible than her earlier records, yet venturing onto ground she had never walked before. Voice and bass, so central to her past work, are held deliberately in reserve, withheld until their arrival some ten minutes in lands with real force. For the first time she lets orchestral brass into her palette, scored not by formal training but by intuition, feeling her way toward timbres that conjure whole worlds without ever tipping into excess. Almost everything was made by hand, at home, in a process that could take exactly as long as the music demanded. Throughout, Herlop describes subordinating herself to the music rather than commanding it, following its instructions for as long as it needed her. It is fitting, then, that Dja Dja is her first self-released album, a record made with this much autonomy seemed to ask for it, and the slow pace of its making left no room for a label's calendar. The release is austere by design, almost without imagery.

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