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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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ARTEMIEV, EDWARD - THE MIRROR/STALKER O.S.T. (USA)It comes as no surprise that Andrei Tarkovsky, master of Soviet cinema, turned to composer Edward Artemiev to score his two lyrical and haunting films, The Mirror (1975) and Stalker (1979), as he had done for Solaris (also available on Superior Viaduct). Artemiev's ... read more » |
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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 - AVENGERSA vinyl reissue of this essential 1983 US punk album, presented with a poster and download. |
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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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BATTIATO, FRANCO - CLICOn his fourth album, entitled 'Clic', Franco Battiato moved further out to create a seminal work that flows naturally from one musical form to the next. Every second ripples with orbital chords, kosmische textures and schizophrenic string quartets, yet somehow manages the ... 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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BRANCA, GLENN - LESSON NO. 1 (2X12")After cutting his teeth in the late '70s no wave scene with bands Theoretical Girls and The Static, Glenn Branca made his first solo statement, 'Lesson No. 1', in 1980. The inaugural release on legendary post-punk/dance label 99 Records, 'Lesson No. 1' unveiled Branca's ... 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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COLTRANE, ALICE - LORD OF LORDSOriginally released in 1972, 'Lord Of Lords' was Alice Coltrane's final album for Impulse! and the last installment in her awe-inspiring trilogy that also included 'Universal Consciousness' and 'World Galaxy'. While all three records featured strings alongside a jazz ... 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 - TEN YEARS ALIVE ON THE INFINITE PLAIN (2LP)'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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CRIME - LIVE 1978 (2X7"+DVD)'SAN FRANCISCO'S FIRST AND ONLY ROCK'N'ROLL BAND: LIVE 1978'- One of the most savagely cool and confrontational punk acts in history, Crime famously dubbed themselves "San Francisco's First And Only Rock'N'Roll Band." This inflammatory claim was supported by ... 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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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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