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cdr 2013/1979 new Block party djs spun Colombian rumba, son & cumbia right alongside Carribean & afrobeat music, and the inevitable local response was called champeta. Manuel & his buddies recorded... |
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2cd 2012/1998/1994-96 new Friend, the stars are always falling on Alaburma, and blood & mud are still the only truths to tell. Plenty of all of that on this thick-ass slab, wherein the... |
Abduction |
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cd 2011/2005-11 new If you haven't been waiting for the next message from Al. B- & waiting like you're crouched behind a tomb and the shuffling noises won't go away- then I warn you little one,... |
Abduction |
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cd 2011/2006 new Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. Last time this was around I named it my favorite record of the last five years. Guess I'll have to make it ten or twelve then. Vocal overdubs... |
Abduction |
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cd 2006/1994/1981-9 new One-eyed pirate attacks on a guitar with six extra holes in it recorded onto a shitty cassette recorder hanging from a rope in the middle of an old shed. A few breaks for... |
Abduction |
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cd 2012/1975 new Ghanian forerunner of hiplife (highlife + hip hop + dancehall), which is just another way of saying that Ambolley is commonly known as the first guy in West Africa to flat out talk... |
Academy/Voodoo Funk |
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cd 2011/2010 new Beirut-based trio of trumpet, bass & acoustic guitar, but they mostly sound like helicopters trying to break out of a cage, or doves having an ugly argument. Lots of threatening... |
Al Maslakh |
$16.00
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cd 2006 new Moody floating laptop drones and blackened tape murk from Washington state. Tracklisting: Standing, Panterns, Cavern. |
Audiobot |
$6.50
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cd 2010/1968-69 new Jap band that plays hard but simple 'tardo bar blues suddenly crimps itself into a flash fire of blister-riddled psych with the vocalist acting as fuzz bomber by singing through... |
Bamboo |
$16.00
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cd 2012/1973 new Chicago large ensemble spiritual jazz, with some members who were in the AACM. Almost all instros, with lots of brass, electric organ, & echo to make things smeary for that rainy... |
Black Jazz |
$12.00
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8cd 2012/1979-95 new After a short career in Chicago's hard bop scene, Abrams founded the AACM, playing with Anthony Braxton, members of the Art Ensemble, Marion Brown, etc. He moved to New York in... |
Black Saint/Soul Note |
$48.00
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cd+dvd+7 inch 2001/1998/1977 new LAFMS' first businessman & label-owner Joe Potts decided during the late 70s that he needed a project that was meant to deliver subliminal messages. His basic idea... |
Cortical Foundation |
$30.00
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cdr 2011/1978 new Buchla 200 pieces made for dancers & at the Columbia Princeton Electronic music studio when the means to make this kind of oscillator gorp was very new & clunky. The dance piece was... |
Creel Pone |
$10.00
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cdr 2010/1974-76 new Klaus is from Salzburg & has been running an Austrian new music festival since the mid-70s (2012's was in May). Just before founding it, Klaus took a trip to Stockholm to play... |
Creel Pone |
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cdr 2005/1955 new Short (it was a ten inch originally) musique concrete parable for children in french. Weird sound effects, stultifying delivery. My french isn't great, but the story is by Rudyard... |
Creel Pone |
$8.50
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cd 2004/1978-79 new Live in SF just a few shows before they broke up, at a club that was way too polite for a real punk show. Penelope Houston was the real deal, and you can still hear the jumble of... |
DBK |
$17.00
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cd 2004/1984 new The second I heard this, it became one of my favorite releases of the year, and I'm completely stoked to have it back around after several months of unavailability. Fried and... |
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$19.50
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cd 2008/1965 new Albert Ayler is pretty much the Plato of experimental jazz- sometimes it seems like everything else is just a footnote in his story. A rollercoaster of raw energy, tears of sax that... |
ESP |
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cd 2005/1964 new The visceral clarion call for the entire world of free jazz, and still one of it's clearest expressions. Ayler's tone is so rough & vibrato so wide that most of the time it sounds... |
ESP |
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cd 2011/2010 new Father Yod's guitar player, who, full disclosure, I once went as for halloween & who got entirely miffed with me in 2007 when I called him 'deeply inept' in a newspaper. Djin grew up... |
Global Recording Artists |
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2cd 2012/1998 new Unobtrusive & bucolic Syrian classical ensemble. Shipshape interplay of zither, oud, a couple of singers, flute & hand drums. The zither player is originally from Paris instead of... |
Harmonia Mundi |
$23.50
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cd 2012/2011-12 new Mattias Gustaffsson works out of a little town in Sweden, & his reel-to-reel collages are appropriately solitary & haunted. Wind blowing on a mic or droning electronics are the... |
Hasten & Korset |
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cd 2012/1987 new Atlanta Coltrane-worshippers who have somehow not figured out that they traveled forward 20 years in a time machine to 1987. They're at their best when they're taking it slow rather... |
Jazzman |
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lp 2011/1964 new 2nd session, and his 1st in NYC after coming home from Copenhagen. Cecil Taylor's rhythm section (Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes) plus a couple of Clevelanders on trumpet & a 2nd... |
Klimt |
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cd 2009/2006 new Recorded alone in a cabin, but the result is closer to Sic Alps' burned & buried pop than anything you'd associate with going blind from too much moonshine. Fuzzed out, but light... |
Locust |
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2cd 2010 new Ashley and Jacqueline Humbert mumble bits of stories that have been chopped up & re-ordered so that you have to put the plot back together like a puzzle. One is about a long moment &... |
Lovely |
$24.50
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cd 2013/1976 new Credible, tasteful mix of West Coast influences, and therefore greatly beloved by Acid Archives & seemingly every record collector over the age of 50. Same sorts of vocal harmonies... |
Machu Picchu |
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cd 1993 new Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost. One of the great AMM records, probably my favorite besides the 'Yellow Truck'. Considering it was made after the band had been around for 25... |
Matchless |
$18.00
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cd 2008 new Even after 40 years, AMM is so subtle it makes other improvised records seem like they were put together with jackhammers. Never just a drone, never just chirping, but curling waves of... |
Matchless |
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cd 2001/1969 new Pre-AMM performance with Eddie Prevost, Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare. Lots of quiet scrapes, little insect feet, and a few moments of far-off tooting whistles or slight... |
Matchless |
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cd 2012 new As usual, Ambarchi puts on a new hat. Supertaut moog-bass & ticky trap drums make for a long one-note-riff that is hypnotic & krautrocky but oddly slick. Almost the entire record is taken... |
Mego |
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cd 2012/1971 new Manuel Gotsching & Klaus Schulze (who'd already done time in Tangerine Dream) discover the floating power of the chord that never moves. Their 1st, best, & most cosmically melted.... |
MG Art |
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cd 2012/1973 new Klaus Schulze rejoins the band after a spell with a solo career, and impressively it's his drums rather than his famed EMS synthi that make this one the krautrockinest of all their... |
MG Art |
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cd 2012/1973 new Timothy Leary, 3 years escaped from jail & lately divorced, had been running around Switzerland doing heroin, banging girls, reading occult books & pretending to have telepathic... |
MG Art |
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cd 2011/2002-11 new About ten years ago, Rudiger Carl & Oliver Augst put out an FMP record ('Blank', with Christoph Korn) which is one of my top faves on the label, even if it's an extrememly late... |
Mille Plateaux |
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cd 2007/1973 new Large, horn heavy funk ensemble from Indiana that was born when two earlier bands merged. Starts off in an Earth Wind & Fire mode (and that trumpet is wayyyy too high in the mix,... |
Now Again |
$14.00
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cd 2013/1970-75 new Impossibly funky drummer Ed Apple Nelson lived in LA but grew up in New Orleans. He was a total hustler, swapping women & drugs around while trying to tall tale his way into a... |
Now Again |
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cd 2012/1973-77 new Heavy psych from India, by one of the precious few groups to form outside of the Bollywood film industry. Compilation that switches uneasily between both of the band's very... |
Now Again |
$21.00
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cd 2013/1963-71 new Akiyama was a Fluxus pal & writer/musicologist who founded the Jikken-Koubou Experimental Workshop along with Toru Takemitsu. He turns in a sound sculpture complete with Bertoia... |
Omega Point |
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cd 2008/1994-95 new Contemporary Japanese sound poet Adachi plays electronics, builds his own instruments, runs a punk acapella choir (which is quite a bit better than that sounds), and seems to be... |
Omega Point |
$23.50
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cd 1998/1974-76 new Bedbug snortin' crazy 70s free jazz from Kansas City, led by Dwight Frizzell on sax & clarinet. Unequaled in the history of album concepts, in that it's supposed to evince the... |
Paradigm Discs |
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cd 2008/1963-65 new The most perfectly squaretastic girl group song of all time is the twisted, soulless & chirpy 'Dumbhead'. How many hours have I spent staring in happy awe at Ginny's frozen fake... |
Poker |
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cd 2013/1970 new Couple of UK guys were in a heavy rock band, and whenever they broke down & did their metal ballad, the crowd would go wild. So they quit & decided to just do acoustic songs instead.... |
Prog Temple |
$16.00
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cd 2008/1975 new Lots of African psych doesn't blend influences so much as it stacks up strikingly different ones next to each other, but this one's a fascinating missing link. Cream-type rhythm... |
QDK |
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2 cd set 2006/1968-71 new Spanish easy listening soundtrack composer who nearly won Eurovision a few times, and is the spitting image of Peter Sellers. By our ears anyhow, his best album would be "Mi... |
Rama Lama |
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cd 2010/1996/1970 new Hairy Chilean bloozerock with a bit of Jefferson Airplane in the vocals & some swashbuckling & low slung guitar solos. With their first record sporting the band sitting naked in... |
Relics |
$16.00
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cd 2012/2011 new Oren Ambarchi, Mats Gustafsson & a rhythm section that includes the guy from Tape. Fascinating mix of personalities, and together, they pretty much take the shape of a rock band. Sax... |
Rune Grammofon |
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2cd 2006/1972-80 new Career overview of the ace from the 2nd generation of Turkish rockers. Edip started out winning a song contest and was soon cranking out electrified saz laments. His voice has a... |
Shadoks |
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cd 1995/1972 new Swedish trippy hippies, who are not yet (though they would be shortly) delving into prog. Spaced-out medieval violins, jew's harps & tablas are mixed up with wiggy Moog synths & a... |
Silence |
$14.00
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cd 2006/1992/1987/1972 new Inept banging and yowling that's the Swedish answer to the Godz or the Fugs. Band members have remained anonymous to this day, supposedly so that the members of their small... |
Silence |
$14.00
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