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ARESKI & BRIGITTE FONTAINE - JE NE CONNAIS PAS CET HOMMEHere's a vinyl reissue of this intriguing 1973 collaboration. The music is deeply rooted in North African and European folk traditions and features evocative vignettes with breezy vocals and minimal accompaniment of classical guitar, strings and woodwinds. |
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AVENGERS - AVENGERSReissue of the band's first and only album, originally released in 1983. Essential US punk! |
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AVENGERS - THE AMERICAN IN MEFew first wave California punk bands burned as brightly as The Avengers. Formed in San Francisco during 1977's Summer of Hate, they swiftly ascended to the top of the West Coast scene and earned the coveted support slot for The Sex Pistols' final concert in January 1978. ... read more » |
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BENDER, JOHN - I DON'T REMEMBER NOW/I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT'I Don't Remember Now/I Don't Want To Talk About It', Bender's first album from 1980, is a holy grail of minimal lo-fi electronics. Layers of fractured melodies, distorted synthesizers, hollowed-out rhythms and claustrophobic vocals unfold over the 40 minutes of this lost ... read more » |
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BENDER, JOHN - PLASTER FALLINGA vinyl-reissue of John Bender's 1981 release 'Plaster Falling'. Veering towards skeletal urgency, these recordings set bright analogue melodies against half-whispered vocals and expand Bender's electronic cryptography thru a series of lone signifiers. |
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BENDER, JOHN - POP SURGERYFollowing the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece 'I Don't Remember Now'/'I Don't Want To Talk About It' and his brilliant follow-up 'Plaster Falling', Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began assembling his third and last album, 'Pop Surgery', in late 1982. While all ... read more » |
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BROWN, MARION - THREE FOR SHEPPA classic jazz debut-album gets reissued on vinyl. In 1966, when Marion Brown was ready to make his first record as a leader, he was standing on the shoulders of giants. Formative associations with Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra established Brown as a saxophonist to watch, and ... read more » |
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BUDD, HAROLD - THE PAVILION OF DREAMSFor five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract ... read more » |
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CONRAD, TONY - TEN YEARS ALIVE ON THE INFINITE PLAIN (2CD)'Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain' is the quintessential work of artist/filmmaker/composer TONY CONRAD. Comprising a film installation as well as a minimalist score for amplified strings, this work leaps across genre and medium to connect his revolutionary structural ... read more » |
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CONRAD, TONY -WITH FAUST- - OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE'Outside The Dream Syndicate', originally released in Europe only in 1973, is a stunning debut. Two side-long tracks -'The Side Of Man And Womankind' and 'The Side Of The Machine'- show just how far Conrad had moved beyond his minimalist peers. Werner Diermaier's repetitive ... read more » |
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CONRAD, TONY -WITH FAUST- - OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE'Outside The Dream Syndicate', originally released in Europe only in 1973, is a stunning debut. Two side-long tracks -'The Side Of Man And Womankind' and 'The Side Of The Machine'- show just how far Conrad had moved beyond his minimalist peers. Werner Diermaier's repetitive ... read more » |
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CONTORTIONS - BUYSoon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced 'No New York,' a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance's group Contortions had already evolved - getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite the loss of keyboardist Adele Bertei and bassist ... read more » |
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CRIME - MURDER BY GUITARSan Francisco's first and only rock n' roll band, CRIME loomed over the entire Mabuhay Gardens scene with their blistering 1976 single 'Hot Wire My Heart.' CRIME's loose, damaged rock n' roll was as immediate as it was controversial. They were punk by any definition, yet ... read more » |
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CRIME - SAN FRANCISCO'S DOOMEDThe legend of Crime looms large among punk aficionados the world over. Formed in the mid-1970s, the band's dual-guitar sound, confrontational image and sleazed methodology still serve as inspiration decades later. With only a handful of singles released during their active ... read more » |
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CURRAN, ALVIN - CANTI E VEDUTE DEL GIARDINO MAGNETICOAmerican composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century. In 1966, along with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, Curran co-founded Musica Elettronica Viva, a seminal gesture in ... read more » |
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DEPARTMENTSTORE SANTAS - AT THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE NINETEEN 100-YEAR......LIFETIMES SINCE' - A vinyl reissue of an underground rock classic of the highest order. Recorded in the early '80s in La Mesa, CA, this work contains quirky sing-alongs, wide-eyed lyrics, echoey instrumentals and outsider folk-punk à la Daniel Johnston. While ... read more » |
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DEVO - HARDCORE, VOL. 2 (2LP)Volume 2 digs further into the bands cranial bunker with the caveman hit 'Be Stiff', the space age surf-blues of 'Clockout' and even a demented take on bubblegum pop, 'Goo Goo Itch'. This 2xLP set includes four previously unreleased tracks: 'Man From The Past', 'Doghouse ... read more » |
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DNA - A TASTE OF DNAVinyl reissue. Originally released in 1981, this title remains a primary source for No Wave archaeologists. |
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DNA - YOU & YOU/LITTLE ANTSRecorded in May 1978, a few weeks before DNA entered the studio with Brian Eno for the essential 'No New York' sessions, 'You & You' is this legendary no wave trio's sole single. It features the original line-up with Arto Lindsay (guitar/vocals), Robin Crutchfield ... read more » |
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DREYBLATT, ARNOLD -& THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS- - PROPELLERS IN LOVEArnold Dreyblatt has been called "the most rock'n'roll of all the composers to emerge from New York's downtown scene in the 1970s." Dreyblatt founded The Orchestra Of Excited Strings in 1979, harnessing unusual tuning intervals to an exuberant performance style. ... read more » |
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ELECTRIC EELS - SPIN AGE BLASTERS/BUNNIESFollowing their legendary punk-as-ever 'Agitated' single, Electric Eels released their second posthumous single, 'Spin Age Blasters'/'Bunnies', on Mustard Records in 1981. Recorded in 1975 and taking the band's free-form jazz and art rock alliances to dizzying extreme, the ... read more » |
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EX - (USA) DISTURBING DOMESTIC PEACE (+7")Reissue of the first album by legendary Dutch punk band The Ex, originally released in 1980 on Verrecords. Comes with bonus 7", insert and 20-page booklet. While The Ex channel the poise and principled attack of Crass or Flux Of Pink Indians, they create a unique ... read more » |
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EX - (USA) HISTORY IS WHAT'S HAPPENINGReissue of the second album by legendary Dutch punk band The Ex, originally released in 1982 on More D.P.M. Comes with poster and 24-page booklet. On their second album, The Ex advance into a distinctly more post-punk style: textural guitar shards and tumbling motorik ... read more » |
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FACTRIX - SCHEINTOTArguably the most prescient band of the entire late '70s San Francisco underground. Throbbing walls of damaged electronics, grim lyrical musings, droning bass, piercing guitar, and a modified Roland CR-78 played at 1/4 its slowest speed. Filters the influence of peers such ... read more » |
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FACTRIX/CAZAZZA - CALIFORNIA BABYLONCalifornia Babylon is a far more sparse and caustic offering than FACTIX's debut, Scheintot, documenting their live collaboration with notorious artist MONTE CAZAZZA, who along with recording for THROBBING GRISTLE's Industrial label also coined its "Industrial Music ... read more » |
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