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4lp 2010/1956-59 new 3 major scores by the man who taught violins to stab. Herrmann had worked his way up through the orchestra system of radio and came to Hollywood with Orson Welles, wrote the... |
Doxy |
$69.00
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lp 2011/1960 new One of the most famous sonic moments of the 20th century comes courtesy of Bernie's slicing string ostinati during the shower murder of Janet Leigh. They're here, and while movie... |
Doxy |
$23.00
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lp 2010/1969 new Hutcherson's 4-mallet vibraphone style ushered in new techniques for the instrument, but he was also one of those guys who said "groovy, baby" out loud a lot during the right couple... |
Heavenly Sweetness |
$29.50
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lp 1998/1968-74 new Fine introduction to the bloopity-bloops made by the world's only self-taught Canadian peyote-smoking synthesizer builder. Bruce's penchant for awful puns and hippie philosophy is... |
QDK |
$16.00
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lp 2010/1956-58 new Whether it's Joe Meek's depressive episodes or rabid asian tourists staring at his high school in Lubbock, the influence of Holly is hard to overstate. Follow the Crickets' perky... |
Doxy |
$20.50
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lp 2010/2008 new Pretty interesting update on This Heat. Gol pretends to be the rest of the band while Hayward slices things up with his typically tense, crisp, whirling knife-set of a drumkit.... |
Planam |
$25.50
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lp 2007 new Kommissar Hjuler (that's how you spell it when it's not in Flemish) is a real live policeman who lives in a little town in Germany with his quite-a-bit-younger wife Mama Bar. She is a... |
Ultra Eczema |
$24.50
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lp 2008/1979/1974 new New Haven, CT nutbomb Donald Hooker, who rumor has it went dressed like Jesus at all times, was a guitarist, singer & songwriter who got a gaggle of local yokels to accompany... |
Subliminal Sounds |
$25.00
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lp 2006 new John & Tovah Olson on a split with their sometime neighbors Mike & Tara Connelly. Feedback, but very spaciously applied for maximum creepiness. Some lonely yawps of clarinet & a few quiet... |
Gods of Tundra |
$12.00
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lp 2012/1969 new Member of Human Instinct & fantastic Hendrix clone who was only topped by the Instinct's own Billy TK. This release actually makes the case that Harper is a better guitar player than... |
Drag City |
$17.00
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lp 2012/1968 new John Lee Hooker's flashy, sleazy cousin who played echoey & wah-covered slide all over Chicago. Hooker began as a Memphis studio musician, backing Ike Turner for a while & sitting in... |
Arhoolie |
$18.00
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lp 2006/1977 new Solo album from the guitar player of Parliament/Funkadelic, & architect of the 'Maggot Brain' solo. Kaleidescopic cover of 'California Dreamin' here with strings & sick fuzz (overall... |
Warner |
$13.50
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4lp 2010/1950-58 new By the time of his huge 50s films, Kurosawa did not believe in heavy soundtrack arrangements, wishing sound to be a single element in a web of narrative that built up over the... |
Doxy |
$71.00
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2lp 2007/1971 new Basically the 3rd Mighty Baby album, by which time their West Coast-ish psych moves are almost entirely left behind in favor of fake Sufi/Morocco improv. The shakuhachi textures at... |
Sunbeam |
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lp 2010/1969 new FRIED boogie prog that's totally heavy & whompin'. Full of overzealous guitar & vocal bombast. There were two maniac German guys named Harry in the band too. Their slightly bloozier... |
Second Battle |
$29.00
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lp 2009/1967-69 new A pair of art students (Michael English & Nigel Waymouth) & album cover designers slap down an utterly unhinged freakout of primal zonked chant that's a must for every nutso pad.... |
Sundazed |
$19.00
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lp 2009/1980/1978 new Proto-metal with a bit of Goblin-flavored synth goop from Turkey. A few psych moves still crop up too, possibly leftover from the time that a couple of members spent in Baris... |
Shadoks |
$42.50
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lp 2008/2005 new Jenny Graf Shepard with Baltimore's Chiara Giovando. Although Graf is completely capable of making a solo broth that's as wobbly and fitful as Metalux's burbles, cool heads, inviting... |
Ehse |
$13.00
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2lp 2012/1998 new Bill Orcutt's answer to 'Metal Machine Music', an hour long time-stretch of a one second recording of Adris Hoyos screaming. Time-stretching was newly available widely & on the... |
Mego |
$26.50
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2lp 2012/1992-94 new Bill Orcutt's indelibly fierce shoelace strangling technique takes center stage on this compilation of early singles (including that killer one with the frog on it!), their... |
Palilalia |
$19.00
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2lp 2011/1968-1967-8 new Great mystic pop & acid floatalong with lots of acoustic Japanese instruments. Sometimes morphs into near Zombies-style pop or krautrock-style freakout. Produced by Tom... |
Klimt |
$31.50
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lp 2010/2007-09 new Doppelganger of the Sun City Girls' 'Torch of the Mystics'. Except that Hayvanlar Alemi (translation= Animal Kingdom) are basically some mutant form of myspace jam band who hail... |
Sublime Frequencies |
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lp 2010/1973 new Slow-simmering Ghanian vamp with lots of unique performances & instrumentation. Akan & Ewe traditional percussion (aka what's making those boingy jews harp sounds) matched with funk... |
Soundway |
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lp + 7 inch 2009/1974 new Electronics so damaged by excessive acid intake that they seem to flop over like an empty glove. Richard Pinhas' AKS synth & guitar plod along minimally, wandering oh-so... |
Wah Wah |
$27.00
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cd 2012 new Local hero Brendan Murray & DC/NYC fella Chuck Bettis set out some juicy synth blorp that quivers like jello on a countertop. Sliding electronics, rippling synths & a few zaps of space... |
Living Myth |
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lp 2012 new Luke Younger from Birds of Delay. Droney in spots, but for the most part this one doesn't try and be overly epic & just lets some annoying/incisive textures run out like a length of rope.... |
Pan |
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lp 2012/1975 new 3rd, at which point the band had gained Dagmar Krause as a vocalist (Slapp Happy, Art Bears). They match her German art song tendencies with Fred Frith's scraggly guitar histrionics.... |
Recommended |
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lp 2011/1973 new Herbie Hancock at his most nasty. Between the slightly lousy sound, the constantly knotting funk bass, a shitload of 70s Arp synth wacka-wacka slapped on top of everything, and the... |
United Artists |
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lp 2013/1969 new No, the couple on the cover isn't hugging in fear of a dreaded log-sized fart called the Hickory Wind, they're hugging because they like a Graham Parsons song. Indiana country rock &... |
Klimt |
$23.00
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lp 2009/1965 new Cracked, wobbly, warped & mold-covered- just like the 78s they poached for melodies now & again- the Rounders really could play the bejeezus out of their tunes. And they weren't... |
4 Men With Beards |
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lp 2009/1964 new Beautiful, winged and full of springs, going without the 1st Rounders album will leave a hole in your life. Most Greenwich Village folkies took themselves way, way too seriously,... |
4 Men With Beards |
$18.00
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lp 2009 new Jersey Americana just like it oughta be. Awesome late grate 70s songwriting that makes you feel like sticking your feet out a car window & drinking shitty beer- for fun! Ranges from early... |
Richie |
$12.00
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lp 2012 new SF awesomeness from Raub Roy, who puts weights inside balloons & then sets them open-side-down on cymbals to make them go wub-wub or bzzzz. Electronics that go off like fireworks, and... |
Crazy Iris |
$17.00
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lp 2012 new Instrumental rock from Baltimore with complex meters layered over each other, and they end up with a funny lilt that works like a duckrabbit. If you have one kind of record collection,... |
Ehse |
$15.00
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2lp 2008 new Marcia Bassett & Matthew Bower can now get extra heavy with a whole 2nd platter to stretch out on. Hototogisu always makes me think of that point after you skin your knee where the scab... |
Important |
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lp 2012/1971 new After his 'He Doesn't Like It' album flopped, Chess tried once more to connect Chester Burnett, recovering from his 2nd heart attack & not especially long for this world, with... |
Get on Down |
$21.00
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lp 2009 new Slow, bass-heavy primordial ooze of un-rock. Band is from Jersey & has been through a couple of incarnations as members moved out of state, but always led by Trevor Pennsylvania.... |
Scumbag Relations |
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lp 2010/1969 new It's sometimes tough to remember (unless you're really into Vanilla Fudge or something), that there was a point when Cream/Hendrix heavy blasts, tuff R&B, slow moody freakout ballads... |
Sunbeam |
$21.00
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lp 2011/1969 new 1st album by New Zealand heavyweights with the Maori Hendrix, Billy TK, playing guitar. And live he could do it with his teeth. The band went back & forth to the UK, pretty much just... |
Sunbeam |
$21.50
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2lp 2008/1970 new New Zealand's Billy TK was a Maori musician with an incredibly fucked-up looking haircut that was a cross between a Rod Stewart & an Afro. The Human Instinct had already had one... |
Sunbeam |
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lp 2009/2007-08 new Free-flapping Sheffield folks who run the Singing Knives label & hang out with the Harappian Night Recordings guy. Mostly a messy ink blot of bowed whining & acoustic plonks.... |
Chironex |
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lp 2012/1978 new Unknown Italians ignore the prog tendencies of their countrymen and do kosmische spaceouts instead. Could have been recorded 10 years earlier too. Some bass burbles, echo on... |
Wah Wah |
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lp 2008/1970 new Unreleased concept album by the producer of Pacific Gas & Electric- which sounds like a completely lousy idea. Take a chance however, and you get moogs and strings plonking slowly... |
Finders Keepers |
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lp 2011/1978 new Nigerian singer who collaborated with Orlando Julius, Ginger Baker, Victor Olaiya, founded Monomono, etc. The opening track here was a highlight of Soundway's 'Nigeria Disco Funk... |
Hot Casa |
$23.00
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lp 2008/1969 new Henske was an uncategorizable singer who could belt it like Joplin, be pure for folk numbers, whip up yummy softpop, & had also recently been trying out stand up comedy (yuck).... |
Klimt |
$21.00
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lp 2013/2012 new Aka 'Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour In All the Mystery'. Starts off very slowly, as Charlemagne Palestine guests, as does a lady who plays wine glasses, and Haino makes puppy... |
Black Truffle |
$23.00
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lp 2012/1976 new The one & only Hig was once a truck driver who lived in Jersey and wanted to get Nashville & NYC musicians to record his songs. He pressed this record as a demo in order to sell... |
One Kind Favor |
$20.00
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lp 2010 new Der krazy Kommissar recites a Hugo Ball nonsense poem from 1916, written the same year Ball wrote the Dada Manifesto & founded the Cabaret Voltaire. Harappian is a one man UK bedroom... |
Shamanic Trance |
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lp 2011/2009 new 2nd split in this decidedly odd series. Kommissar Hjuler, as always, doesn't dissappoint. He shrieks shrill German nonsense, bangs a toy xylophone, plays 'Twinkle Twinkle Little... |
SHMF |
$24.50
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2lp 2012/1968-71 new Black-humored Lee has a lion-hearted talent for telling stories, and yet his arrangements are singular & never overwhelmed by the fire-eating feats taking place in his lyrics.... |
Light in the Attic |
$23.50
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