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100 FLOWERS - 100 FLOWERSFirst-time reissue of underground LA classic, originally released in 1983. This band, previously known as THE URINALS, had a sound that rests between the inspired bursts of The Minutemen and the pastoral jangle of the Dream Syndicate, with similarities to the equally ... read more » |
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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 - SOLARIS O.S.T. (ORIGINAL)It's only appropriate that Solaris, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's psychological sci-fi classic from 1972, contains an equally original and mind-bending score. Solaris explores the inadequacies of time and memory on an enigmatic planet below a derelict space station. ... read more » |
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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 - AVENGERSA vinyl reissue of this essential 1983 US punk album, presented with a poster and download. |
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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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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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BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. - CALL ME BURROUGHSOriginally released in 1965 by The English Bookshop in Paris and later by ESP-Disk in New York, 'Call Me Burroughs' marks the recorded debut of William Burroughs. While Burroughs has had pervasive influence on counterculture in the past 50 years -from the beats to punk rock ... read more » |
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COLEMAN, ORNETTE - TO WHOM WHO KEEPS A RECORDThis awesome collection of outtakes from COLEMAN's Atlantic period gets its first ever reissue on vinyl. Originally issued in 1975, the recordings date from 1959 and 1960. |
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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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COLTRANE, JOHN -& ALICE COLTRANE- - COSMIC MUSIC (USA)Reissue of a fantastic 1968 free jazz album. Two tracks are John Coltrane's last recordings from 1966, two further cuts are creditied to Alice, and date from 1968. |
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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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