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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 - AVENGERSRepress! A 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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AYLER, ALBERT - IN GREENWICH VILLAGEReisssue of the excellent 1967 live album from the free jazz saxophonist. This one was his first album for Impulse! Records and it's regarded as arguably his best album for the label. |
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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 - 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 - THE ASCENSIONRepress! Glenn Branca's first full-length album 'The Ascension' is a colossal achievement. After touring much of 1980 with an all-star band featuring four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo) ... 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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BRYARS, GAVIN - THE SINKING OF THE TITANICGavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943. His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia ... read more » |
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BRYARS, GAVIN - THE SINKING OF THE TITANICGavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943. His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia ... 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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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 (USA) - MURDER BY GUITARRepress! San 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 ... read more » |
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CRIME (USA) - 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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CUNNINGHAM, DAVID - GREY SCALEFirst-time reissue of the first solo album by This Heat producer David Cunningham, a landmark statement of DIY minimalist composition - continuing in the vein of the wild explosion of arthouse experimentation from the early '70s. Originally released in 1976 on his own label ... read more » |
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CUNNINGHAM, DAVID - GREY SCALEFirst-time reissue of the first solo album by This Heat producer David Cunningham, a landmark statement of DIY minimalist composition - continuing in the vein of the wild explosion of arthouse experimentation from the early '70s. Originally released in 1976 on his own label ... 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. 1Repress! DEVO's 'Hardcore' documents the groups beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio, underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with the ... read more » |
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DEVO - HARDCORE, VOL. 2 (2LP)Repress! 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', ... read more » |
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DICKS - KILL FROM THE HEARTDicks' debut LP has been acknowledged as a foundational statement in punk ever since its initial 1983 release. Following their first single, 1980's 'Dicks Hate The Police,' and a live split with fellow Austinites the Big Boys, 'Kill From The Heart' does not disappoint. ... 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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