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PRICE: $25.50

CAT #: AUK 023LP

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2025 repress on black vinyl. 2LP version. Aufheben is an album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, recorded in Berlin in Anton Newcombe's studio and the infamous East German Radio Station "Studio East." Featuring Matt Hollywood, an original member of the band. It also features Will Carruthers (Spacemen 3, Spiritualized), Constatine Karlis (Dimmer) and Thibault Pesenti (Rockcandys). Plus vocal performances by Eliza Karmasalo (in Finnish). This album brings the traditional Brian Jonestown Massacre sound mixed with Eastern influences and brings it up to date with the benefit of all the additional weirdness that's been discovered in the past 40 years.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: ASVN 071LP

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"Experience the profound legacy of The Last Poets with their new release, Africanism. Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan revisit and re-energize some of their seminal works such as 'When The Revolution Comes,' 'Gash Man' and 'Niggers Are Scared of Revolution,' infusing them with fresh and potent new soundscapes. Joining the Poets are the late, great Tony Allen (Fela Kuti) -- laying the album's foundations with legendary Afrobeat rhythms -- Egypt 80 guitarist and bassist Akinola Adio Oyebola and Kunle Justice, jazz keyboardist Kaidi Tatham (dubbed as 'The UK's Herbie Hancock') and saxophonist Courtney Pine. Africanism is the result of vibrant live sessions in Brooklyn and London, recorded and mixed by producer Prince Fatty. The album bridges spoken-word poetry with a bold fusion of Afrobeat and contemporary jazz, where live instruments amplify the Poets' raw and unflinching verses."

 

PRICE: $20.00

CAT #: ZORN 119CD

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Announcing Perseverance Flow, the latest album from acclaimed Chicago-based ensemble Natural Information Society (NIS). After a trilogy of double LPs by expanded manifestations of the band that began in 2018 with Mandatory Reality & continued through Since Time Is Gravity (a Pitchfork Best Jazz & Experimental Album of the Year selection & Mojo's #1 Underground Album of 2023), NIS returns to its core formation of Lisa Alvarado on harmonium, Mikel Patrick Avery on drums, Jason Stein on bass clarinet, & composer/multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams on guimbri for one continuous 37 minute composition across a single LP. As the rocket boosters on spaceship earth sputter closer to burnout, lower your stylus into a soundfield that grows stronger the deeper you travel into it; a dose of the medicine many of us look to music to deliver awaits you inside. One of the deep contemplations of this natural information (thanks Bill Callahan) is the wide range of source materials Abrams draws from over the band's more than 15 year history: Ideas from minimalism, modal jazz & traditional musics are regularly reimagined in these compositions. The 2021 double LP descension (Out of Our Constrictions), with guest soloist Evan Parker, reflected aspects of Abrams' love of party music, Chicago house, & John Coltrane. *But even veteran travelers with the NIS best brace themselves for the Perseverance Flow. Speaking to the history & the inspirations behind the album, Abrams offers: "We played the piece for a year in concert before the recording. At Electrical (Audio Studios, Chicago) we went in at 11 & were done in time to pick our kids up from school." Abrams continues: "In a reference world, I imagine Perseverance Flow like a live extended realization of a Jaylib lost instrumental as remixed by Kevin Shields. Or vice versa. I also think it has sympathies to some of the more rhythmically intricate dance musics out of Chicago & Lisbon." The core NIS ensemble heard on Perseverance Flow always address Abrams' writing with the discipline of orchestra musicians & the creativity of improvisers. But this time around, instead of inviting living legend status musicians Evan or William Parker or Ari Brown as honored guests to solo freely over the composed materials, Abrams' invited guest collaborator was the medium of the recording studio itself. Situated at the board with engineer Greg Norman, Abrams pushed post production techniques found only sporadically on earlier NIS records deep into the heart of the music, distorting & reshaping instruments to subtly &, at times, aggressively mutate timbre & texture, color & time. Refracting the band's signature mesmerizing chains of overlapping rhythmic patterns through the sonic funhouse of dub makes Perseverance Flow the most formally experimental NIS album to date. Now a soundworld fully unique to itself is listening to itself, consoling & humoring itself, & consoling & humoring you. A destruction myth & a creation myth of a soundworld together at once -- "energetically nutritious" (October 2025 Issue 500 The Wire) supernatural information society."Perseverance Flow is skipping rope in slo-mo. A dance of co-operation to rally guts & humors & keep marching through pouring tears" (Abrams).

 

PRICE: $20.00

CAT #: AIA 001EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

For Martin Gretschmann, the ever-evolving Berlin artist known as both Acid Pauli and Console, music has always been a deeply personal journey. His new imprint, All Is Acid, is the destination, a creative home for his uncompromising and experimental sound. Breaking from the cycle of trends, the label is a return to the essential, offering just a few curated releases a year. Each is intended as a timeless artifact for deep listening, primarily showcasing Acid Pauli's own intricate and intimate productions. This release is given a powerful new dimension by a standout remix from Italian artist Adiel. Her bold, reverent reinterpretation honors the original's spirit while imprinting it with her own unique signature.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: AMI 065LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Amish Records is excited to announce wet glass, the stately sophomore album from Carrboro, NC-based Verity Den. This eagerly awaited new record follows their 2024 debut, which was built from early demo recordings and quickly attracted a passionate following despite the raw origins. The energy and innovative sound of that album earned praise for its originality and musicianship. Sun13 Music praised the debut as 'a scuzzy, blissed-out torrent of sound that stands completely on its own two feet.' Heathen Disco, naming it 2024's Album of The Year, wrote, 'this thing is just perfect, patient, and pretty revelatory for any band playing in this puddle decades after the fact, and the little-recognized high card they're playing with is texture -- reminds that the best bands don't fall into a stylistic trap so much they rebuild the trap altogether, and let others do the falling.' The new album was self-recorded and self-produced and is built upon the same foundational elements as their first album, noise, texture, ambience and simple songcraft, but wet glass has a wider ranging landscape. A bigger frame brings a bigger picture, but fear not, Verity Den has not forgotten what we've come to love about their sound. Just because it's groomed doesn't mean it's 'clear.' It's 2025, clarity is downright embarrassing and Verity Den has expertly mastered the skill of translating the current mind-fuck zeitgeist into a sonic snapshot. They are equally inner-political journalists as they are musicians. Casey Proctor, Trevor Reece, Mike Wallace, and Reed Benjamin's musical simpatico is natural. wet glass flows between multiple zones including, but not limited to, the melodic Yo La Tengo 'Painful' era drive of 'wet glass' and 'green drag,' the loopy Flying Saucer Attack haze of 'unsolved mystery' and 'highway fifty four' or the loner neo-Fred Neil devotional 'to trees.' Impressionistic lyrics, effective songs and jams that sound warm and familiar. The make-up of wet glass is dense, yet simply beautiful. Unintentionally cinematic. Verity Den conjure a sound that soaks in like an Epsom salt bath after a long day of being pummeled by your 9 to 5. SWEET RELIEF." --David Kenneth Nance

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: AW 139CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Kyle Sowash has had it. I mean, he's not alone. Things are getting tough out there. People are on these streets selling their Built to Spill records just to make rent. It's not okay. Start Making Sense is an appeal to sanity for all dads and phantom dads. A celebration of the tired and a strong cry for another beer. In case of emergency, raise glass. We've come so far from simply filing things under 'what's important' and 'what's not;' on this record, Sowash deals with fragile men, Cleveland football and justice for classic rock drummers. That coffee-colored telecaster still gets beat to hell, just for the healing. Look at the guitar up close if you can. Or just listen closer. The band is locked in. La Russo bumps. You could marinate meat in Hemminger's tone. Bandman has arms like a government clock. There's a universal yuck on us. You wake up to a world advancing and aging and cracking apart. Put this record on, man. Start Making Sense is a modern life survival kit, replete with horn arrangements and hot dog hooks. You're gonna be okay. Or you're gonna get the dishes done, at the very least. Turn it around, my guy. Start making sense." --Lee Keeler

 

PRICE: $38.50

CAT #: BAN 002LP

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LP version. Si?cle, the fourth album by Superpoze (Gabriel Legeleux, born in 1992), stands as the culmination of what the composer of Opening, For We the Living, and Nova Cardinale, also a producer and performer, has been meticulously crafting for the past ten years, with both precision and sensitivity. A striking and melancholic electronic music, where instruments and machines collide, blending synthetic textures, strings, and spectral voices. The result is an album of eight expansive and sharp-edged tracks, where life pulses, burns, and soothes.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: BTR 065GRN-LP

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Green color vinyl version. Sababa 5 finally delivers their long-promised, and self-titled album of original instrumentals, built around the band's distinct mix of Middle Eastern psych, funk, and disco groove. Sababa 5's knack for intricate grooves and catchy melodies have led to a series of acclaimed singles, from fresh takes on classic melodies to vocal collaborations, championed by the BBC's Gilles Peterson, Cerys Mathews, and Gideon Coe in the UK, and Radio Nova and FIP, in France, whilst they gradually found their own contemporary sound, creating original music together that could stand up on its own across a whole album. Across these eight songs, the group blends the Afro disco, reggae, jazz, funk, and a plethora of Middle Eastern traditions, whilst traveling time and space, drawing a musical, cultural and geographical line from Somalia to Iran, via Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt and Turkey, from the late '70s and early '80s to today. Thus, Sababa 5 creates a unique psychedelic groove that builds on the approach that the likes of the Daptones have taken to working independently, writing, producing, and recording original music, with their own modern take on '70s soul and funk. Standouts include "Malca" (a girl's name that means "queen"). Built around broken synth lines, a languid East Africa meets Anadolu psych groove and vintage organ licks, the instrumental peaks a transformative chord change, shooting it into the stratosphere. The carnivalesque "Lizarb" ("Brazil" backwards), raises the tempo and temperature. The piece kicks off with a guitar-led call-and-response before a synth-led melody lifts everything to another level. Topped off before the end by a beautiful wah-wah meets psychedelic Mizrahi style guitar solo over a pulsating drum and groove line, demanding a physical response. "Habedil" ("the idiot" in Hebrew), is named for the innocent, child-like synths that lead off towards the start, whilst the bass and guitar riff repetitively, crafting an irresistible groove before dovetailing into an epic disco synth vamp. With this, their debut, self-titled album, Sababa 5 is ready to take a seat among the most exciting and original instrumental-based groups across the globe, with an exciting and distinct approach to groove, sound, and melody. For fans of: Surprise Chef, Sven Wunder, Yin Yin, The Soul Surfers, ATA Records.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: BEWITH 156LP

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2025 repress. Tommy Guerrero's revered Return Of The Bastard gets its first ever vinyl reissue. Endearingly simple but beautifully beguiling, it's lo-fi dusty break business with the most elegant guitars this side of Vini Reilly and Gabor Szabo. Tommy's breezy drum-machine guitar-soul should be prescribed to soothe an aching world. By rights, he should also be a Balearic god. Here's 14 tracks of drop-dead laconic beauty, all of them combining to create this unheralded masterpiece. Working with Tommy directly, the LP has been fully remastered and sounds as dazzlingly, heartbreakingly beautiful as it did back in 2007. As ever, there's heavenly Latin guitar stylings that make you swoon and the melancholic vibe is accentuated by the addition of some melodic wordless vocals from Tommy. The head-nod funk of "Calling For Ya!" features Curumin delivering the clever title as a hypnotic vocal refrain peppered throughout, all hung around some buried spoken word vocals and gorgeous cello work from Lenny Gonzalez. "Bloodinthemud" is a low-down gritty funk workout whilst "Zapata's Boots" is a total low-key groover, all Latin percussion and Morricone muscle aided by a whistled Spaghetti Western melody. The upbeat and bright "40 Summers," featuring congas from Alfredo Ortiz, is as clean and poppy as Tommy gets and it really is a look he wears incredibly well. Meticulously remastered and cut by both Simon Francis and Cicely Balston respectively, it has been pressed to the highest possible quality at Record Industry in Holland. The original and iconic sleeve, designed by Natas Kaupas, has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue. Part of Be With's Tommy Guerrero reissue campaign. 140g-vinyl.

 

PRICE: $38.50

CAT #: BEWITH 179LP

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Steve Moore reprises his beloved Lovelock guise by presenting his unique riff on the library breaks genre. Business And Pleasure contains grimy groove and sleazy funk-laden lounge music, oscillating between dark and light flashes. It's nothing short of astounding! This vinyl release is hyper-limited, with just 500 pressed for the world. The LP is ushered in by the spacey synth-funk of the sleazy, woozy title track. This is that serious slo-mo cosmic-balearic head-nod shit. Laidback bass, heavy funk with dreamy synth and electric guitars. An outstanding opener. Heaven-sent synth flourishes and a laidback bassline over smooth drums cement its simple, vivacious grace. This collection was written and recorded in Spring and Summer of '24. Everything was tracked at Steve's home studio in Albany, NY except the drums and percussion, which were recorded by Jeff Gretz at his space in NYC. The whole collection is basically a rhythm section feature, so Steve's Rickenbacker 4003 and Fender Jazz Bass play very prominently. The bass guitar serves as lead instrument in a lot of these tracks. Also, lots of Rhodes and stringers and guitar. He even dusted off my sax for this one, which he doesn't do as often as he'd like! This type of groove-oriented library music has been a steady part of Steve's diet since the late '90s. Lovelock started as a dedicated Italo-disco project, but over the years Steve expanded it to include anything directly informed by the commercial/pop side of the music of his childhood ('70s/'80s). Writing and recording this album was, like a lot of Steve's music these days, basically a test to see whether or not he could do it. The album's cover was designed by Chris Stevenson, with no little direction from Steve. He knew that he wanted to go with something photography-based for this cover so, in true DIY/cheapskate spirit, Steve started by looking through his own photos. He found the cover image on his phone, taken through an almost empty bottle of beer, and it clicked. The whole album has a very boozy vibe, so this shot seemed appropriate. Mastering for this vinyl edition was overseen by Be With regular Simon Francis, and it was cut by the esteemed Cicely Balston at Abbey Road Studios to be pressed in the Netherlands by Record Industry.

 

PRICE: $38.50

CAT #: BEWITH 187LP

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Wally Badarou is a synth pioneer and musical polymath. But rarely does he sing over his sumptuous tracks. The six songs that comprise new record Simple Things finally realize Wally's vision for select backing tracks from his beloved Colors Of Silence. The tracks were originally developed back in 2001 for the release of the original CD; here, Wally has "simply" added overdubs and vocals to their mastered mixes with some discerning edits. Simply put, Simple Things is another slice of simply stunning Wally Badarou genius. Simple Things has been decades in the making. Indeed, Wally struggled not only with the idea of singing these wonderful songs himself but singing them in English and writing his own lyrics, while wrestling with the sensational backing tracks, which themselves seemed to have taken on a life of their own. As Wally explains: "In addition to the instrumental artist I have been known as, so far, there has always been a singer who simply was not sure he was, up until now. Even though Back To Scales Tonight, my very first album, was, indeed, a song album." The guide vocal Wally had laid for Colors Of Silence -- with an organ sound -- seemed striving for words in Linguala, a Congolese language he could not speak. Therefore the decision to do it himself was not an easy one, for it had to be in English to fit his singing. A synth specialist, there can be few artists more under-appreciated given their vast influence than Wally Badarou. His solo work practically defined the sound of the Balearic DJs of the 1980s, and thus the more sophisticated sound of dance culture thereafter. He was one of the Compass Point All Stars (with Sly and Robbie, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson), the in-house recording team of Compass Point Studios responsible for a series of albums in the 1980s recorded by Grace Jones, Tom Tom Club, Mick Jagger, Black Uhuru, Gwen Guthrie, Jimmy Cliff and Gregory Isaacs. Badarou's keyboard playing could also be heard on albums by Robert Palmer, Marianne Faithfull, Herbie Hancock, M (Pop Muzik), Talking Heads, Manu Dibango, and Miriam Makeba. Wally's sophisticated synth textures and expressive keyboard runs are so full of character, so full of life, that this work of art transcends any easy genre categorization. Meticulously remastered and cut by both Simon Francis and Cicely Balston respectively, it has been pressed to the highest possible quality at Record Industry in Holland.

 

PRICE: $32.00

CAT #: BT 134LP

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Black Truffle presents Melopea, two new pieces highlighting the incredible voice of Amelia Cuni (1958-2024), the great Italian singer, based in Berlin in later life, whose mastery of the classical Indian dhrupad developed in parallel with a commitment to contemporary experimental approaches. After two stunning archival releases documenting traditional dhrupad performances in India in the 1990s, the two side-long pieces here embody the freedom with which Cuni explored new contexts and settings for her singing. Both make use of a long recording of Cuni singing the pentatonic Raag Bhoop (or Bhopali) made in 2012 by her partner Werner Durand in Berlin. Melopea began from Cuni and Durand's superimposition of this recording with violinist Silvia Tarozzi and cellist Deborah Walker's performance of ?liane Radigue's Occam River II. Inspired by the beauty of this chance encounter (and other experiments with non-synchronous collaboration during the pandemic years), Tarozzi and Walker recorded independently, without hearing Cuni's voice but "having her present in memory." Tarozzi and Walker's bowed strings places Cuni's magisterial performance in a new context, emphasizing, as Radigue commented upon hearing the initial layering of her piece with Cuni's voice, a shared "searching toward the partials, overtones, these natural constituents of acoustical sounds in their richness." Primarily focusing on her lower register, Cuni's performance demonstrates her mastery of microtonal pitch subtleties, elegant sweeping glissandi and meditatively unhurried pacing. The continuation of the same recording by Cuni forms the foundation of "Bhoop-Murchana," with Anthea Caddy on cello and Werner Durand on soprano saxophone. In contrast to the randomized layering of the first piece, here Durand and Caddy have carefully selected pitches based on the raag Cuni sings, using the "Murchana" form, which uses the constituent notes of the raag as tonics of new raags, retaining the same interval structure. Both players who have developed tones of striking depth and harmonic purity on their instruments, Caddy and Durand's patient long tones are simultaneously rigorously grounded in the physical properties of sound and possessed of an immaterial, floating quality. Combined with Cuni's voice and, near the piece's end, her contributions on hammered and plucked tanpura, the effect borders on miraculous. Accompanied by liner notes from Durand, Tarozzi and Walker, Melopea is both a moving tribute to the profound art of Amelia Cuni and, for the uninitiated, a perfect introduction to it.

 

PRICE: $54.00

CAT #: BT 135LP

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Among the true Keiji Haino devotees, Nijiumu's Era of Sad Wings (released on P.S.F. in 1993) has always held a special place in the pantheon. Operating for only a few years in the early '90s and apparently only performing a handful of shows, Nijiumu operated at the opposite end of the dynamic spectrum to Haino's famed power trio Fushitsusha, dwelling in a hushed, meditative realm of mysterious droning sonorities and free-floating melodies that occasionally erupts into violence. Black Truffle now presents a new double-LP edition of a lesser-known 1994 Nijiumu recording, When I sing, I slip into the microphone. Into that void, I bring comrade "prayers", then, turning to face the outside, together we explode. Here, Nijiumu is the trio of Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, and the obscure Takashi Matsuoka, the three performing on a wide variety of string, wind and percussion instruments, as well as electric guitar and bass, and Haino's unmistakable voice. Like on the early solo Haino album that shares the group's name, the instrumentation swims in reverb, often obscuring the instrumental sources. On the short opening piece, a distant reed instrument arcs long buzzing melodies over a bed of cymbals and gongs, like a psychedelic take on Tibetan music. The epic second part, occupying almost 50 minutes, begins as a splayed, near-formless cloud of electric guitar and bass, shadowed by bowed and plucked strings, the three elements working through twisting atonal shapes. At various points in the recording, we hear what seems to be the sounds of musicians moving between instruments, their shuffling and bumps fitting seamlessly into this radically open music. Eventually, what sounds like electric guitar moves closer to the foreground, fixing on a repeated melodic cell around which hover mysterious clouds of long tones and a sporadic shaker. In this new edition, the Nijiumu trio recording is supplemented by a piece recorded solo by Haino in 1973, a bracing electronic blowout stretching almost half an hour. Using a homemade electronics setup to unleash a barrage of crunching distortion and shuddering harmonic fuzz, it takes its place in the canon of extreme live electronics next to Robert Ashley's Wolfman and Walter Marchetti's Osmanthus fragrans, looking forward to extreme noise years before Merzbow. Taken as a whole, these four sides of music are a stunning document of some of the lesser-known waystations of Haino's singular creative path.

 

PRICE: $38.50

CAT #: DKOLP 009LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

S?lavy is Prosper's debut album. It features 13 tracks that range from fairly traditional French chanson to more techno, rap, rock, punk, and even pop styles. Wordplay and stylistic devices play a central role in the lyrics. Much like his work as a visual artist -- where he cuts and assembles elements that seem to have little in common at first glance -- Prosper uses the French language as a tool to express his emotions and reflections on life, with all its sorrows and joys. In doing so, he dissolves the boundaries between poetry, song, and artwork. Featuring Jwles.

 

PRICE: $36.50

CAT #: DELI 032LP

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London-based producer Tar Blanche, also known as a member of the dreampop band Yumi Zouma, unveils How to Dance Freely Without Social Anxiety, a seven-track journey through jazz-house, deep house, and chill-out lounge. With a sound that resonates alongside artists like dublon, Table, and Berlioz, the English producer blends ambient textures, refined guitar riffs, and emotive productions, crafting an intimate yet hypnotic atmosphere. Signed to D?licieuse Records, Tar Blanche continues to push boundaries, cementing his place as one of the most exciting producers in modern electronic music.

 

PRICE: $17.00

CAT #: DIS 199LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"More than 20 years after recording their last record, Cough, Black Eyes returns with Hostile Design. The album is comprised of six all-new songs, written directly in the wake of the band's April 2023 reunion shows. Hostile Design was recorded at Tonal Park studios over three days, with Ian MacKaye resuming his role as producer and Don Godwin engineering. The instrumentation returns to Cough's two drums, bass, guitar and sax lineup, but adds some fresh elements. Live multichannel dubbing, now a standard of their shows, has been integrated into the performances, as have electronic drum triggers and samples as well as the occasional bass clarinet passage. In the years since their initial dissolution, each member has pursued their own creative paths, including drone rock, avant techno, ambient, sonic collage, visual art, video work and more. In coming back together, the breadth of their collective practices are all integrated into the music."

 

PRICE: $22.50

CAT #: ECHO 096EP

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Echocord welcomes Deepchord co-founder Mike Schommer onto its roster with Heirloom Signal, featuring remixes from Mathimidori, TM Shuffle and Another Channel. Mike Schommer co-founded Deepchord alongside Rod Modell and was considered by many to be at the forefront of the second wave of dub techno in the early 2000s following on from the legacy left by Basic Channel in the '90s. Here the musical story continues with a new project for the equally beloved dub techno powerhouse, Echocord.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: ENLP 073X-LP

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A decade after the release of his debut solo album Atlas, Lisbon-born producer Branko celebrates the anniversary with a special vinyl reissue. Released in 2015, Atlas was the result of an ambitious journey across five cities -- New York, S?o Paulo, Amsterdam, Cape Town and Lisbon -- where Branko collaborated with more than 20 musicians and producers. From Afro-house and gqom to baile funk and bubbling, the album captured the emergence of a new global sound, seen through the lens of local scenes and shaped by discovery and mutual exchange. To mark its 10-year anniversary, the vinyl reissue includes the expanded edition highlight "Reserva Pra Dois" with Mayra Andrade. Atlas opened a new chapter in the producer's career, while helping show the world how local sounds drive global club music. It's time to rediscover it. Featuring The CLERK, Nonku Phiri, Mr. Carmack, Alex Rita, Bison, Zanillya, Capadose, The Ruffest, Rodes, Princess Nokia, Okmalumkoolkat, Lewis CanCut, Cachupa Psicadelica, SKIP&DIE, Fellow, and Mayra Andrade.

 

PRICE: $37.50

CAT #: MTE 083LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Announcing Perseverance Flow, the latest album from acclaimed Chicago-based ensemble Natural Information Society (NIS). After a trilogy of double LPs by expanded manifestations of the band that began in 2018 with Mandatory Reality & continued through Since Time Is Gravity (a Pitchfork Best Jazz & Experimental Album of the Year selection & Mojo's #1 Underground Album of 2023), NIS returns to its core formation of Lisa Alvarado on harmonium, Mikel Patrick Avery on drums, Jason Stein on bass clarinet, & composer/multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams on guimbri for one continuous 37 minute composition across a single LP. As the rocket boosters on spaceship earth sputter closer to burnout, lower your stylus into a soundfield that grows stronger the deeper you travel into it; a dose of the medicine many of us look to music to deliver awaits you inside. One of the deep contemplations of this natural information (thanks Bill Callahan) is the wide range of source materials Abrams draws from over the band's more than 15 year history: Ideas from minimalism, modal jazz & traditional musics are regularly reimagined in these compositions. The 2021 double LP descension (Out of Our Constrictions), with guest soloist Evan Parker, reflected aspects of Abrams' love of party music, Chicago house, & John Coltrane. *But even veteran travelers with the NIS best brace themselves for the Perseverance Flow. Speaking to the history & the inspirations behind the album, Abrams offers: "We played the piece for a year in concert before the recording. At Electrical (Audio Studios, Chicago) we went in at 11 & were done in time to pick our kids up from school." Abrams continues: "In a reference world, I imagine Perseverance Flow like a live extended realization of a Jaylib lost instrumental as remixed by Kevin Shields. Or vice versa. I also think it has sympathies to some of the more rhythmically intricate dance musics out of Chicago & Lisbon." The core NIS ensemble heard on Perseverance Flow always address Abrams' writing with the discipline of orchestra musicians & the creativity of improvisers. But this time around, instead of inviting living legend status musicians Evan or William Parker or Ari Brown as honored guests to solo freely over the composed materials, Abrams' invited guest collaborator was the medium of the recording studio itself. Situated at the board with engineer Greg Norman, Abrams pushed post production techniques found only sporadically on earlier NIS records deep into the heart of the music, distorting & reshaping instruments to subtly &, at times, aggressively mutate timbre & texture, color & time. Refracting the band's signature mesmerizing chains of overlapping rhythmic patterns through the sonic funhouse of dub makes Perseverance Flow the most formally experimental NIS album to date. Now a soundworld fully unique to itself is listening to itself, consoling & humoring itself, & consoling & humoring you. A destruction myth & a creation myth of a soundworld together at once -- "energetically nutritious" (October 2025 Issue 500 The Wire) supernatural information society."Perseverance Flow is skipping rope in slo-mo. A dance of co-operation to rally guts & humors & keep marching through pouring tears" (Abrams).

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: FEELIT 154LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Vse po Kolu, Znovu (All in a circle, again) is the fourth studio album by Morwan, marking the culmination of years of creative exploration. The collection features eight tracks recorded between 2023 and 2024, except for the title track, 'Vse po Kolu, Znovu,' which was written back in 2020. The new album delivers a heavier, more aggressive sound, representing a noticeable departure from the band's earlier works. Genre-wise, it drifts from post-punk to avant-gard rock and even shoegaze. Combined with deeper and more personal lyrics, this makes it Alex AShTAUI's most emotional and honest work to date. Vse po Kolu, Znovu is a story about fears tearing you apart from within and conflicts that give you no peace. It's about the endless cycle of existence, pulling you into the vortex of inevitable dread. It tells of the moment when control over yourself slips away, and you become a helpless observer, forced to watch your life crumble before your very eyes. It's about the rejection of oneself, about the desperate desire to escape your own essence and return to the beginning, just to feel something real once again."

 

PRICE: $45.50

CAT #: FLEE 007LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

The songs of Louisiana's Francophone and Creole heritage have flowed through the bayous for centuries, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences. This double vinyl compilation and its OBI strip features a staggering 34 songs, ranging from French ballads and Creole renditions to zydeco hooks and reinterpretations by a wide array of contemporary artists such as Madteo, Tanz Mein Herz, Radio Hito, Cyril Cyril, and Deafkids, among others. With archival recordings and contemporary creations side by side, it serves as a bridge across the vast bayou of Louisiana music. Also featuring Elby "Bee" Deshotels, Alma Barth?l?my, Caesar Vincent, Raywood Morvant, Chalvin Godar, Burton LeMaire, Clifton Chenier, Isome J. Fontenot, Gabriel Broussard, Emeline Broussard, Chim?re FM, Yama Warashi, Herandu, _thesmoothcat, Juu, and NAPPYNAPPA.

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: FLENSER 181CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"There's a kind of quiet violence in how music is consumed today -- flattened into background noise, sonic perfume fed into algorithms, sold as lifestyle. It's entertainment as anesthesia. Sound without the weight. The Spiritual Sound, the new full-length from Los Angeles?based band Agriculture, stands as a pointed refusal of this condition. This is not a playlist. This is not a vibe. It is a demand. Across its runtime, The Spiritual Sound traces a narrative arc through extremes: searing, sky-cracking catharsis on side A; a slow-burning, devotional undercurrent on side B. The album is largely a fusing of the visions of its two principal songwriters, Dan Meyer and Leah Levinson: distinct voices, deeply complementary. Meyer writes like someone clawing toward the divine through noise, channeling Zen Buddhism, historical collapse, ecstatic grief. Levinson's songs move differently: grounded in queer history and AIDS-era literature, amid the suffocating fog of the present, they carry the weight of survival as daily ritual. Her writing asks how to honor queer community and collective struggle without turning it into identity branding or personal mythmaking: how to stay honest, how to stay present. Though distinct, their voices converge in a singular spiritual grammar -- one that defines the totality of The Spiritual Sound, not as separate parts, but as one unified expression. Agriculture's formation mirrors this duality. What began as a loose collaboration between Kern Haug and Dan Meyer in the Los Angeles noise scene evolved into a shared pursuit of the sublime through heavy music. With the additions of Richard Chowenhill and Leah Levinson, the project solidified into the band's current form. The ecstatic black metal foundation was laid on 2022's The Circle Chant, expanded into something more precise and far-reaching on their 2023 self-titled full-length, and deepened further with 2024's Living Is Easy: a record that embraced devotional intensity and radiant heaviness in equal measure. Agriculture doesn't offer salvation. The Spiritual Sound isn't a map out of the fire. What it offers instead is presence: a confrontation with the moment, however unbearable, however divine. It insists that meaning is still possible, even in a world hell-bent on reducing everything to content, and where suffering itself can be conducive to recovery. As the Buddhist saying goes 'the only way out is in.'"

 

PRICE: $43.00

CAT #: FLIES 075LP

FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK

"On 26 August 1975, Nude Per L'Assassino (also known as 'Strip Nude for Your Killer') landed in Italian cinemas. It was the sexiest, sleaziest, and most unhinged giallo film of the decade. Four Flies Records now makes a landmark announcement: the original soundtrack, long thought lost to time, has been found. This marks its first-ever release, presented in a lavish LP edition meticulously remastered from the original 8-track tapes. The score, composed by Berto Pisano and Elsio Mancuso is an intoxicating and lethal brew: jazz-funk grooves, highly charged lounge atmospheres, chilling dodecaphonic suspense, and sweeping orchestral themes. All of it crowned by Edda Dell'Orso's magnetic, otherworldly voice at one of her career's absolute peaks. Believed gone and vanished forever, this soundtrack has obsessed collectors and fans of Italian film scores for decades. And yet, there it was, forgotten in a dusty cellar. It may sound like an urban legend, but it's true. So, the world can finally listen to a proper, stand-alone, official edition of one of the most beautiful soundtracks from the '70s, a true manifesto of the Italian erotic sound, but also a testament to the skill with which Italians could lift American funk and imbue it with a unique, visionary spin that was entirely their own. This soundtrack is the very soul of the film, hidden for far too long, now gloriously brought into the light. A forbidden dream made real."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: ITR 386LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Na?m Amor and Kid Congo Powers met shortly before the pandemic in Tucson, Arizona. When the complete lockdowns hit everybody, Amor, like lots of other musicians, reclused himself in his studio and started experimenting with longtime ideas that were on the shelf. The initial idea was to combine rockabilly/garage-electric guitars with electronic drum machines and bass synthesizers, a vague intuition inspired by Link Wray's guitar tones on one hand and the electronic rawness of the band Suicide on the other. After recording a couple tracks, Amor got the idea of inviting Kid Congo to collaborate in the making of some electric guitar 'dialogs.' The tracks of Tucson Safari display the two different personalities and approaches of Amor and Kid Congo, both passionate electric guitar players, in the form of an exploration through composition and tone. The interwoven layers of guitars reveal the particular harmonic and melodic sense of Amor's sound 'dancing' with the unmistakable slide and fuzzy tones of Kid Congo Powers."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: IF 1099CD

FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL

"After more than thirty years of working with and performing the great repertoire, the music of Philip Glass has, in a way, almost revolutionized my life as a musician," confides Vanessa Wagner. An emblematic artist on the French music scene, winner of a Victoire de la musique award and director of the Chambord and Giverny festivals, Vanessa Wagner is as inspired in her interpretation of Mozart, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and Dusapin as she is alongside Murcof and Rone. With her innovative and daring approach, she has established herself as a major influence on the classical music landscape, crossing boundaries and blazing inspiring trails. For InFin?, she has dedicated four albums to the major figures of this movement, John Adams, Meredith Monk, Brian Eno, and Ry?ichi Sakamoto, as well as to the new generation Caroline Shaw, Bryce Dessner, and Nico Muhly. After giving numerous concerts based on these works, she felt the need to record in their entirety this essential monument in the history of music, which bridges the gap between the 20th and 21st centuries: Philip Glass's 20 Etudes for piano by Philip Glass. His approach helps to place these two books in the great repertoire, alongside the great cycles of studies by Ligeti, Debussy, Dusapin, and before them, Chopin and Liszt. The thread linking Philip Glass to Vanessa Wagner may be as simple as a detail: a moment, a pedagogy, a way of looking at the piano. In Words Without Music, Glass recalls his apprenticeship with Nadia Boulanger in Paris -- a lesson in rigorous received just as the Nouvelle Vague was about to shatter the conventions of cinema the conventions of cinema, just as the composers of the minimalist movement had done with the language of music. Nurtured by Ravel and Debussy, the great French pedagogue disciplined yet inquisitive minds, capable of embracing modernity without denying modernity without denying their heritage. The Complete Piano Etudes of Philip Glass is also available for the first time on vinyl, housed in a 4LP Box set (IF 1099LP).

 

PRICE: $12.00

CAT #: JIAOLONG 002EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Warehouse fine, last copies. "Feted kosmische synthesizer wizards from Cleveland OH, Emeralds, have never had any of their music remixed before. Let alone having the title track from their acclaimed 2010 album reworked (twice) into a floor-filling behemoth by Daphni (aka Dan Snaith aka Caribou). 'We toured together in 2010 and since then I've always wanted to play their music in my DJ sets. So I did my own version of this track,' says Snaith. 'It's one of those tracks that whenever I play it I can feel the energy in the room lift.' Luckily, Emeralds were equally enthusiastic, and so this unlikely hybrid sees the light of day... or rather, the dark inside of a club."

 

PRICE: $10.00

CAT #: JIAOLONG 005CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

2025 repress. Daphni's classic debut gatefold 2LP from 2012 finally repressed! Dan Snaith has fallen deeper into his love affair with the dancefloor to bring a full-length release as Daphni. The first Daphni album of shape-shifting works is titled Jiaolong (pronounced JOW-long) and is released on Dan's own imprint (also called Jiaolong). Inspired to work in a completely different way -- setting aside the meticulous compositional rigors and musical layers that underpin Caribou songs -- Dan Snaith-as-Daphni reaches out for a more feminine, fluid energy and seeks instant gratification.

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: FREUD 129CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 repress. "35th anniversary edition of the 1985 studio album. Disc 1: Remixed by The Vibrators' Pat Collier, with the guitar properly up in the mix - Johnny missed the original mixing sessions. Expanded with two unreleased tracks left off the original album, plus six previously unheard outtakes. Previously only available as a limited RSD19 vinyl release. Disc 2 is Que Sera Sera - Live in Europ -- a selection of 18 live tracks from Geneva, Amsterdam & Lyon, mostly previously unreleased. Disc 3 is the original album and related single and mixes. It comes with a 36-page booklet featuring new sleeve notes by Thunders biographer Nina Antonia with interviews with the participants, including Mike Monroe, plus lyrics and unseen photos. Packaged in a clam-shell box."

 

PRICE: $14.00

CAT #: KSCD 042CD

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 repress. If any album could conjure up the revolutionary spirit of Jamaica in the mid-1970s, Tapper Zukie's invincible M.P.L.A. set would surely be a fighting contender. The coming together of great rhythms and meaningful lyrics in a time of unrest in the country seemed to have made the album all the more urgent and relevant. As time would tell, it would also prove to be a lasting success, not only with the hard core reggae fans but also their punk counterparts, who embraced its militant themes and crossed the album over to a whole new audience. Tapper Zukie (b. David Sinclair, Kingston, Jamaica) had already returned from a trip to London, England by the mid-'70s, initially sent with help from his parents, brother Blackbeard and producer Bunny "Striker" Lee to get him out of trouble on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica. He had performed some live shows in London and made some recordings for Larry Lawrence, who produced his debut Jump And Twist. He returned to Jamaica in 1974 to work with Bunny Lee. His frustration over Bunny Lee's reluctance to record him led him cutting "Judge I Oh Lord" for producer Lloydie Slim. Bunny Lee finally recorded "Natty Dread Don't Cry." The eight rhythms and a further two from Jo Jo Hookim and Ossie Hibbert, alongside some free studio time at King Tubby's Studio would result in the M.P.L.A. album. The rhythm provided by Jo Jo Hookim was a Channel One studio cut by The Revolutionaires based on Little Richards' "Freedom Blues." The Ossie Hibbert rhythm again cut at Channel One based on The Royals' "Pick Up the Rockers" would provide the backdrop to Tapper's "Pick Up the Rockers." These and the remaining Bunny Lee rhythms, were all cut in a one-hour session at King Tubby's Studio. "Don't Get Crazy" was cut on a rhythm based on the Joe Frazier rhythm to Tony Brevett's "Don't Get Weary." "Go De Natty" was cut on Cornell Campbell's "Please Be True," originally a cut to Alexander Henry's "Please Be True." "Stop the Gun Shooting" runs over Horace Andy's "Skylarking." "Ital Pot" was cut on Johnny Clarke's version of Burning Spear's "Creation Rebel." "Marcus" sees Tapper professing over Johnny Clarke's "Poor Marcus." "Chalice to Chalice" pulls on Johnny Clarke's "Give Me a Love," "Don't Deal with Babylon" answers Junior Ross And The Spears' "Babylon Fall" and "Freedom" rides on the great rhythm of Junior Ross And The Spears' "Liberty." An outstanding and timeless album cut by one of Jamaica's finest DJs and producers, the mighty Tapper Zukie.

 

PRICE: $20.00

CAT #: KSLP 056LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 repress; LP version. Ska was the name given to the music that came out of Jamaica between 1961 and '66, based on the American R&B and doo-wop records that the sound systems in Kingston used to play. But the American records' style started to mellow out while the Jamaicans preferred a more upbeat sound. So the sound system bosses became record producers to cater to this demand. Sir Coxsone Dodd and Duke Reid led the way, putting the top musicians on the island in the studio to make music, with the emphasis on the offbeat making the music unmistakably Jamaican. WIRL (West Indies Records Limited) was set up by the Jamaican politician Edward Seaga in the late 1950s. He had supervised the recording of an album of ethnic Jamaican music and needed an outlet for its eventual release. In 1962, the year of Jamaican independence, Seaga became a member of parliament, representing the Jamaica Labour Party, and decided to sell the label to Byron Lee, who changed the name from WIRL to Dynamic Sounds. Ska from the Vaults of WIRL Records features some of the best scorching ska sounds to come out of WIRL, and they still sound as fresh today as they did when they were recorded. Features tracks by The Skatalites, Johnny Moore, Roland Alphonso, and Don Drummond.

 

PRICE: $20.00

CAT #: KSLP 062LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 repress; LP version. Derrick Morgan is one of the greats of Jamaican music, and the undisputed king of ska. But his recording career did not stop in 1967 when the sound of ska slowed down into rocksteady. Nor did it stop in 1968 when rocksteady evolved into the early sound of reggae. This set was first released in 1974, when reggae was king, under the name In the Mood, but the working title had been This Is Derrick Morgan. The working title follows the format by which the world of reggae would normally introduce a new singer with a showcase album. In this case, for the first reissue of this album, the working title is restored to reintroduce Derrick Morgan to the new reggae sound -- though an artist of Morgan's caliber really needs no introduction, as his voice works on any rhythm put his way. One of the greats of Jamaican music showing the world -- with the help of producer Bunny Lee -- that he can roll with the reggae sound.

 

PRICE: $20.00

CAT #: KSLP 070LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 repress; LP version. Kingston Sounds present a reissue of Horace Andy's Natty Dread A Weh She Want, originally released in 1979. The Natty Dread A Weh She Want set brings together two legends of reggae music. The stylish and unmistakable falsetto voice of singer Horace Andy, and the production/DJ singing skills of Tapper Zukie. Both artists' catalogues of music stand up strong, but something special out comes from both of them on this set of tunes. "Natty Dread A Weh She Want" was a massive hit when it was released by Tapper Zukie and Horace Andy, but this timeless track still sounds as fresh today as the day it was released in 1979, as do the other tracks on this fine album.

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: KOM 501LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Double LP version. Kompakt's Total 25! Another anniversary in a year that is already rich in anniversaries. For the 25th time, the Kompakt family is gathering for its annual rendezvous. The latest boy band in town, Pop Vampires Cologne, opens the party with the enigmatic "Karianne." Superpitcher knows how to make a grand appearance, accompanied by high-caliber guests. His electro-pop treat "Pandora's Box" features Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor on vocals. J?rgen Paape isn't coming alone either, but with newcomer Hella in tow. "Grace (A Tale)" once again shows the resident hit maker at his best. J?rg Burger also has a table companion, the extremely talented Irene Kalisvaart, and remixes himself on top of that. Reinhard Voigt points out that money never sleeps and proceeds according to the motto: "Zahl an einem anderen Tag (Pay another day)." Brazilian whirlwind Gui Boratto returns after a long absence with the banger "Panorama X-Press." After careful consideration, Robag Wruhme has named his new track "Total" and sings in the chorus with his family for the first time. Wassermann contributes an ultra-fat remix of Mayer's "Brainwave Technology," while Michael Mayer himself marvels at the rare "Erdbeermond." Hardt Antoine's "Let Me Go" really gets the party going again before Wassermann orders a large taxi and skips out on the bill.

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: KOM 502EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Michael Mayer, aka Mr. Lava Lava asked a bunch of his absolute favorite artists to have a go at some of the tracks from his recent album The Floor Is Lava. First up is Barcelona's brightest flame, RAXON, who is melting "Brainwave 2.0" into a stompin fun-filled primetime banger. Longtime collaborator DAVE DK is a masterful producer and remixer that appears regularly on Pampa and Kompakt. His take on "The Solution" feels like a road trip to paradise and back. Montreal's PRIORI is one of the hottest names in showbiz right now. His ability to bridge genres and create pristine sound designs is fully on display in his remix for "The Solution." Last but not least, the legend that is SEBASTIAN MULLAERT took a moment off from his revered Circle Of Life jams to transform the albums deepest cut "Ardor" into an extraordinary musical journey.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: LULLP 009LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Psychedelic Krautwave wrapped in analog warmth, raw guitar bursts, and machine-driven pulse, carried by a mesmerizing voice. Songs that stretch time, reject convenience, and crave the real. A romantic revolt against the daily noises that numb and distract -- slow, honest, and widely aware. For those who still long to long and refuse to get comfortable. Changing Rules is the third studio album by Berlin-based duo AFAR -- a sonic manifesto of presence, eruption, and resistance.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: LULLP 010LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

What About Love is MONKyMAN's personal journey through solitude, love and connection: An honest, heart-driven record exploring spirit, romance and community in a chaotic world. Written over the course of three years and recorded live on analog gear only with no loops or plugins, the album blends warmth, vulnerability, and a message of hope. Produced with Drew Deal at Sundown Studios with guests from all over the planet, it invites you into a space of reflection, belonging and joy. Genre-defying and soul-centered, the album unites meditative moments and heavy grooves, moving from the question What About Love to the simple realization: "I feel better in love."

 

PRICE: $49.00

CAT #: MTY 013LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Mac Declos presents his second album Nothing Stands Still, on Mama Told Ya. Following the acclaimed Hard Work Always Pays Off and a trilogy of striking EPs, as well as countless DJ sets and All Night Longs around the globe, Mac is now ready to unveil a bold new chapter in his musical journey. Nothing Stands Still is a sonic artefact: a double-vinyl album composed of 12 timeless tracks. Eleven pieces are produced solely by Mac Declos, with one co-produced alongside Anetha. The album also features unique contributions from Mac's mother, Doona Rolls, and Mac's dad, Eric Declosmenil, adding emotional depth to the project. While music is often elusive and ephemeral, with Nothing Stands Still, Mac Declos set out to create an archive of the future that transcends time and trend, an echo meant to endure.

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: MER 001LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Wrong Filament embodies Robert Piotrowicz's creation of fictional traditional music -- not studied but invented, a utopian and oniric construct that becomes tangible in sound. These imagined traditions act as communal forces of music-making, resisting dominant structures of power. The album unfolds in six dense compositions built on rhythm, repetition and minimal melodic gestures that draw on archetypal patterns of Eastern European traditions. Entirely synthetic yet strikingly instrumental in character, they develop as autonomous sound events, expanding into multi-part forms that evoke the physicality of ensemble performance -- as if played by an imagined community of musicians. Rather than reconstruction, Piotrowicz invents forged dances -- a pre-techno of sorts, where complex meters and dense textures point to a parallel history of collective sound beyond industrial uniformity. They imagine a utopian and fictional genealogy of collective sound: one where industrial modernity yields to more unstable, communal energies. This is celebratory music with invocatory charge: calls to dance, echoes of ceremony, microtonal melodies shaped by emotional weight, and traces of Eastern ornamentation stretched through synthetic means. Wrong Filament sacralizes performance through sound alone, spinning a world where specters of collective experience vibrate against the limits of rupture and resistance. These pieces confront the traces of violence inscribed in body and memory, yet also affirm freedom, emancipation and integration. They manifest celebration, identity and resistance while opening a path toward liberation and shared needs that exceed social, private and intimate categories.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: MGART 612LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 repress. MG.ART announce the authorized 50th anniversary edition of Ash Ra Tempel's Schwingungen, originally released in 1972. One of the most important German krautrock albums. Re-cut carefully overseen by Manuel G?ttsching himself. Gatefold sleeve with sticker; Includes original release sheet and inlay.Julian Cope's review on Schwingungen in Krautrocksampler (Head Heritage, 1995): "'Beware of Schwingungen!' That should be the large sticker on the front of all copies of this record. For it is dangerous to be casually introduced to something that is life-changing, as I found out to my cost when first listening to this record. It all starts fairly simply and without any cause for alarm -- 'Look at Your Sun' begins with a Doorsy lone groover guitar begins a pedestrian blues, beautiful. Then the most crushed voice, a cross between Johnny Rotten and Tiny Tim, preaches its way into the proceeds. God, it is beautiful -- John L. repeats over and over, 'We are all one, we are all one', until a howling fuzztone solo guitar blows the whole one chord 'Signed D.C.' ringing-cymbals torture to an end. And then the most far out track of all begins. This is called 'Flower Must Die' and it is a free-rock giant that transcends everything else in its field (there are no contenders.) As I've written before, PIL sounds like this. John L. was John Lydon in a previous incarnation. After a slow weird build, a frantic streamlined one-chord mantra kicks in and it's like the Stooges' Funhouse period but in a Righteous Vision Zone that fucks them right off. Phasing tears at the whole tracks as this Holy Racket crosses into hyper-space and everything gets all hyphenated just-for-the-sake-of-it. 'Flowers Must Die', man, it's fucked up. Over on side two, the title-track ('Vibrations') begins poetically enough with Wolfgang Muller's epic and hugely reverbed vibraphone. Organ fades in and FX guitars, and time passes by. Finally, tom-toms roll and the developing pace is built upon until that great eternal chord sequence finally materializes -- this is the one that G?ttsching and Enke believed was the sound of heaven. They may have been right. And Schwingungen was a gift from the Gods."

 

PRICE: $20.00

CAT #: MUSIQ 301LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Kito Jempere, a producer hailing from Saint Petersburg and now based in Dubai, makes his debut on Mule Musiq with a high-quality four-track album. Opening with an aptly titled, anthemic dancefloor track -- bouncy breakbeat house layered with spoken word and an uplifting, lyrical piano riff -- the record moves into "Infinite Azure," a jazzy deep house cut reminiscent of late-'90s releases on Guidance. "Mid 0000s" follows with an abstract deep house vibe that recalls the work of Isol?e, before closing with "Teaser," a beautifully melancholic blend of piano and vocals, perfect for the end of the night.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: NSD 173LP

FILE UNDER: HIPHOP

"The legendary Wu-Tang Clan is among the most successful and influential groups in hip-hop history. As one of the nine original members, Masta Killa has been an important part of the Wu-Tang legacy since the group's debut in 1993. He's contributed verses to countless Wu classics ('Glaciers Of Ice,' 'Winter Warz,' 'Triumph,' 'Duel Of The Iron Mic,' 'Wu Banga 101'), released three critically acclaimed solo albums, and always remained true to the core Clan aesthetic: razor-sharp wisdom over dusty, soulful production. In 2017, Masta Killa unleashed the impressive album Loyalty Is Royalty. The memorable project boasts an impressive list of guest appearances, including Method Man, Redman, KXNG Crooked, Sean Price, RZA, GZA, Prodigy, Inspectah Deck, Cappadonna, and more. As fate would have it, two of those MCs have since passed away, making their contributions particularly special. With production handled by the likes of 9th Wonder, Illmind, P.F. Cuttin, RZA, True Master, and Dame Grease, Loyalty Is Royalty delivers the kind of classic hip-hop experience fans have come to expect from Masta Killa. After years out of print, this classic collection is now back on 2LP vinyl."

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: NSD 260LP

FILE UNDER: HIPHOP

LP version. "A true innovator who elevated the art of rhyme to new levels of complexity, Myka 9 emerged in the early 1990s with influential Los Angeles collective Freestyle Fellowship. After the group sparked California's underground hip-hop movement with dazzling jazz-inflected flows on two classic albums, Myka launched an ambitious solo career, further developing his singular style while working with Talib Kweli, Cut Chemist, Prefuse 73, Busdriver, Open Mike Eagle, and more. Blu took inspiration from pioneers like Freestyle Fellowship in crafting the next generation of electric lyricism, becoming a remarkably consistent presence in the modern L.A. rap scene. The talented emcee's deep catalog includes four classics with Exile, albums produced by Evidence, Madlib, Nottz, Oh No, and more, plus collaborations with The Roots, Logic, J Dilla, Alchemist, Miguel, Kota The Friend, Roc Marciano, and others. Now, Myka 9 and Blu are joining forces for the new album God Takes Care Of Babies & Fools. 'Working with my idols is always the highest honor,' Blu explains. 'Myka is the God. He is so untouchable lyrically, and he can do it all because he has done it all.' The collection is entirely produced by Mono En Stereo, a renowned NYC beatmaker who has crafted music for De La Soul, Action Bronson, Mos Def, Your Old Droog, Homeboy Sandman, and more. With Mono's organic sampler concoctions providing an ideal canvas, Blu and Myka's rapid-fire linguistics explode into vibrant technicolor, animated by a consistent spiritual undercurrent. With an epic posse cut uniting Freestyle Fellowship and The Pharcyde plus appearances by Planet Asia, Abstract Rude, Exile, and A-F-R-O, God Takes Care Of Babies & Fools is an exhilarating collage of rap brilliance."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: OATH 026EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

London-based DJ duo, producers, and curators Earthly Measures present their debut EP From Earth. The six-track release is a statement of rhythm, collaboration, and borderless sound. Across From Earth, Earthly Measures move through deep grooves, organic instrumentation, and global club culture. The EP also includes three remixes: Olsvanger's dubbed-out "QUE," Sun Sone's bright "Third Try," and Jinje's euphoric "Earth Groove."

 

PRICE: $43.50

CAT #: ORNVS 001EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

After five years of activity, Orion Records presents its first various artist release. Horizon Begins is a collection of tracks from artists connected to the Orion universe, encountered in clubs and festivals over recent years. The compilation aims to tell a complete story through its tracklist, moving from ambient to deeper shades of techno, with interludes of classic club sounds. An unknown project opens the record with an intro that sets the overall mood of the release, before giving way to deep and rhythmic moments by artists such as Martinou and Ateq & Orion. Skyra from Tbilisi closes side B with the unmistakable sound of Georgia. The second part of the release shifts towards a darker, more hypnotic direction with two key figures of the Swiss scene, Ben Kaczor and LB Honne. The final chapter of this story is entrusted to Hame and Soela, a perfect soundtrack to close in a special way.

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: OROOMVE 001EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

GusGus are continuing their weird fusion of '80s and '90s vibes in the spirit of their last album DanceOrama. This time its nostalgic futuristic raving, delivering two nasty bits for those DJ's bringing stranger journeys on floor, or some madness when the crowd is vulnerable for some alter reality experience.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: PALAZZO 012LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Elektro Guzzi return with their 11th studio album, Liquid Center -- more focused than ever, yet more sonically open. The album presents the trio on a new level: their sense of precision and structure meets an unexpected depth and warmth. The sound is more restrained, more subtle -- and in this way, it gains even more presence. What stands out: this album sounds different. And it feels different too. Over the course of a year, the band developed a recording technique that translates their analog live energy into a sonic image that captures both the physicality of a band in space and the cool abstraction of techno. The result is a sound that doesn't seek loudness, but detail -- clear, warm, deep, and with an almost artificial precision. Liquid Center is not a loose collection of tracks but a coherent album experience. With every listen, it opens up a little more: a new texture, a shifted perspective, another layer emerging from the space between groove and sound. Maybe it's the music that's changing. Or maybe it's just the way you hear it.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: PEACOCK 2501LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Limited restock. "A selection containing the best of the latest pre-Creation EPs from the beloved godfathers of shoegaze. It includes 'The New Record by', the KAELYDOSCOPE Records EP, produced by Joe Foster, and rarities."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: PP 1001LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Restocked on LP. "This is the first stop on Sven Wunder's musical journey. Wunder takes the listener somewhere around the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, around the Levantine Sea, where he paints a colorful portrait and illustrates the region's flora through sound. The fruitage is a vivid bouquet where Wunder fuses colors and pigments by using traditional and modern instruments merged with arrangements and melodies that stretch from popular to folk music by portraying tulips, red roses, hibiscus, hyacinths, chamomile, magnolia, daisies etcetera. With both fine and thick brushes these flowers are pictured in both modern and classic idiom. The outcome is prismatic. It stands between Anatolian rock and European jazz-funk with ponderous drum patterns, groovy organs, far-out synthesizers, enchanting sax, and impetuous bass lines. Eastern Flowers sweeps through time and space and points towards the future. It could appeal to both psych and prog listeners, folk or jazz aficionados, and as well the gourmet hip hop connoisseurs."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: PP 1002LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Restocked on LP. "By welcoming the beauty of imperfection and simplicity, Sven Wunder applies the timeless wisdom of Wabi Sabi on this musical journey. What you can hear is filtered through Ukiyo-e (which translates as 'pictures of the floating world'), which illustrates everyday life, as well as through Japonism, the study of Japanese art, and more specifically its influence on European works. The result is a surface that creates an illusion through sound. The infusion of Min'y? with jazz-rock, this hazy scene evokes the landscape of Monet's The Water Lily Pond, which depicts the painter's Giverny garden, with a Japanese bridge, bamboo, ginkgo trees, and the reflection of the sky in the pond. This illusion constructs both time and space. The surface of the music, like the canvas of the painting, invents a journey between now and then by interpreting the idiom of folkloric and western art instruments. In this composition, the sound of the Western concert flute, which stretches back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, evokes the sound of the bamboo flute ('shakuhachi'), which reached its peak during the Edo period. The guzheng, also known as the Chinese zither, with a more than 2,500-year history, joins traditional Japanese folk melodies with modern pop percussion and 20th-century electronic instruments such as the Moog synthesizer, Wurlitzer electric piano, and electric bass. This is the illusion that celebrates the fleeting nature of all things. A journey. A deep inhale and a slow exhale. It has a mix of jazz (both funky and progressive), East Asian, and South Asian sounds. The idea of fusing these styles and reframing them with the aesthetic of Wabi Sabi is to reconnect with nature and concentrate on asymmetries and emphasize ornamentation to generate new ways of looking at the world, here and now."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: PP 1003LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Restocked on LP. "Still life painting, also referred to as 'natura morta' ('dead nature') in Italian, stretches back to ancient times. Some of the earliest works, found in Pompeii, depict commonplace objects such as fresh autumn fruits alongside man-made objects such as a small amphora and a small terracotta heap with dried fruits. These two-thousand-year-old paintings give a snapshot of Roman life and also create a link to time and space. A slice of life has been created by binding the earth's pigments with extracts of oil, made from nuts and seeds, painted with brushes, and made from a variety of fibers, such as trees and hair from animals. While life wanes with each brush stroke, by shifting reality into the past, art exists to make people come alive, being a living image of a dead thing, a surface, and a symbol with symbolic powers of its own. Still life works celebrate material and ephemeral pleasures by returning to nature as the ultimate source for our standards in art as well as in life itself. Natura Morta collects pieces from a continuous variety of melodies -- supported by a decisive rhythm section -- creating a musical kaleidoscope of ever-changing colors. Sven Wunder brings life into this rich assortment of musical implications by fusing and combining melodic instruments with each other in a setting that spans from a classical to a modern idiom. The author evokes this panoramic portrait by articulating an instrumental dialog between a chamber orchestra and a jazz ensemble. The result is a musical celebration of material pleasures that also serves as a reminder of the brevity of human life."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: PP 1004LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

"When the sun hovers near the horizon, the rays of white sunlight are scattered out of the beam by small particles and molecules in the atmosphere that sprinkle the sky with brilliant hues indicating that the day starts to fade. As night begins to fall, tree-tops redden and begin to glow. Darkness closes in and falls like a blanket covering the sky. It is late again and all is in shadow below. It is when stars align and dreams come true. Sven Wunder thrives at nightfall and welcomes the horizon of beginnings on Late Again, a collection of nocturnal jazz pieces that depict shooting stars and scattered beams from the setting sun, with an emphasis on gentle compositions for piano and orchestral pop-jazz arrangements for flute, brass, and strings."

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: REBREC 005LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Berlin-based Swedish singer-songwriter Nadya Albertsson returns with her most personal work to date. Half Silk Half Blade blends diaristic storytelling with lush, layered instrumentation, the capturing a fleeting, transformative moment of queer self-discovery. A Scottish Young Jazz Musician finalist in 2018, her sound has been described as evoking Alice Coltrane, with a blend of Ella Fitzgerald, Esperanza Spalding, and Erykah Badu. Her versatile and expansive vocal range has already been showcased on Rebecca Vasmant's Blessed and Broken Biscuits and Amanda Whiting's After Dark -- projects championed by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Jamie Cullum, Jamz Supernova, BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, and BBC Radio Scotland. For fans of Olivia Dean and Cleo Soul.

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: RM 4255CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"The field recordings on this album contain the common theme of water in different states: snow, ice, hail, streams, creeks, in the Puget Sound passing under a ferry boat, pouring from a leaking sea wall, in frozen ponds, as it turns a water wheel, rain in thunder storms, in a pool during winter swimming. These were recorded between 2017-2024. They were usually made quickly while out with my son, and later edited to preserve the sounds of our voices while obscuring the specific content of what was said. In contrast, when Daniel records, he has a predetermined place in mind, and sets off on whole day adventures to document through both photography and audio. Working together melds his high fidelity, pre-meditated recordings with my spur-of-the-moment low-fi recordings... When we decided to work together on Smelter, I gave him five recordings of my piano compositions which he treated and added his own elements to -- turning them into long drone formations. These were then combined with the various water-based field recordings we'd made individually. Making records this way creates an aural archive of place/time and environment -- in the same way a film photograph holds onto a vision in time: the single moment when light is suspended in microscopic halide crystals which can then be recreated and reinterpreted: a form of time travel, where the past is both fixed and also accessible in the present. With Smelter perhaps we have created a time capsule, an index in which to place our combined story telling for listeners to share." --Faith Coloccia

 

PRICE: $22.50

CAT #: SLOMO 055DISC1

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Disc 1 of Slow Motion Records founder Franz Scala's infectious, ground-moving LP Cafe Futuro, a follow-up to his highly acclaimed debut Mondo Della Notte. Homage to the influential Neukolln bar and meeting point for Italo and cosmic disco heads, Cafe Futuro builds upon a bold and innovative sound, showcasing fellow creators and genre-defining artists, solidifying the Italo aficionados sound, synonymous with the pioneering greats. Featuring Furotica.

 

PRICE: $22.50

CAT #: SLOMO 055DISC2

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Disc 2 of Slow Motion Records founder Franz Scala's infectious, ground-moving Cafe Futuro, a follow-up to his highly acclaimed debut Mondo Della Notte. Homage to the influential Neukolln bar and meeting point for Italo and cosmic disco heads, Cafe Futuro builds upon a bold and innovative sound, showcasing fellow creators and genre-defining artists, solidifying the Italo aficionados sound, synonymous with the pioneering greats. Featuring Local Suicide, Charlie, and Acid Gymnastics.

 

PRICE: $42.00

CAT #: SLOMO 055LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Slow Motion Records founder Franz Scala presents the infectious, ground-moving LP Cafe Futuro, a follow-up to his highly acclaimed debut Mondo Della Notte. Homage to the influential Neukolln bar and meeting point for Italo and cosmic disco heads, Cafe Futuro builds upon a bold and innovative sound, showcasing fellow creators and genre-defining artists, solidifying the Italo aficionados sound, synonymous with the pioneering greats. Featuring Furotica, Local Suicide, Charlie, and Acid Gymnastics.

 

PRICE: $43.50

CAT #: SO 002LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

The second release on Ben Kaczor and LB Honne's new imprint St. Odes features Ben Oyefeso from Hamburg with a deep, glitchy 2x12" vinyl-only LP. Ben Kaczor: "After a gig at the Golden Pudel in Hamburg last year, I stopped by Remoto Records the next day. The music playing in the shop struck me immediately -- delicate, unusual, and soothing all at once. As I kept listening, I even noticed my headache fading away. Behind the counter was Ben Oyefeso, quietly playing his unreleased tracks. Since that moment, the rest is history."

 

PRICE: $20.50

CAT #: BARN 122EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Swedish underground maestro Jo Bubbles (a.k.a. Jonas Dahlstr?m) boasts an impressive streak of hot dance 12'' releases in recent years, for illustrious labels like Parkway Records, The Transient Nature of The Disco Business and V?stkransen. Ever intent on lifting homegrown talent and presenting it to its worldwide audience, Studio Barnhus unveils Mr. Bubble's first outing on the label: a compilation of four distinct, yet equally striking dance tracks, each showcasing meticulously curated sound palettes paired with undeniably rock-solid grooves.

 

PRICE: $20.00

CAT #: STUDIOMUL 051EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

A long-awaited reissue of an ultra-rare 7-inch single, originally released as a promo-only item from handsome boy, the 1990 masterpiece by Inoue Yosui -- widely regarded as one of the greatest singer-songwriters in Japanese music history. "Pi Po Pa," arranged by Haruomi Hosono was featured on Heisei No Oto, a compilation released by music from memory. The album's standout track, "Shonen Jidai," remains one of Japan's most iconic and beloved songs. Also included on this 7-inch is "Yume Migokochi," a pinnacle of Japanese Balearic sound, arranged by Yuji Kawashima -- keyboardist of EP-4. Exclusive to this release is also "Kurenai Suberi," an overlooked gem that might best be described as Inoue's take on cold-funk.

 

PRICE: $22.50

CAT #: SR 569LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

This album is not just an homage -- it's a gentle act of remembrance. A way of tuning in to what Alvin Lucier showed the world: that listening is an art in itself. A meditation on resonance, memory, and the quiet power of pure sound. The influence of Alvin Lucier's work on acoustic phenomena and the interplay between sound and space is difficult to overstate. His legacy continues to echo through the work of countless composers and sound artists today. Lucier's music is marked by a sense of childlike wonder and sonic simplicity -- shifting perception from what people hear to how they listen. At the heart of his compositions lies the sine wave: the purest, most elemental form of sound. Clarinetist Dries Tack pays tribute to this master of minimalism with an album centered around two works Lucier composed as intimate "In Memoriams" for friends. Both pieces explore a single, elegant idea: the interaction between an instrumental tone and a sine wave. Out of that interaction, "beatings" emerge -- a pulsating rhythm that accelerates or decelerates as the waves draw nearer or drift apart. Though built on the same concept, the two works are like mirrored reflections of one another: "In Memoriam Jon Higgins," the sine wave glides in a slow glissando while the clarinet holds steady tones. "In Memoriam Stuart Marshall," it's the clarinet that dances around a fixed sine wave. Dries Tack is a clarinetist specializing in contemporary performance practices. He performs with ensembles such as Nadar Ensemble, Curious Chamber Players, and Ensemble Fractales. As co-artistic director of the GLoW Collective, he explores collaborative practices across artistic disciplines in the broadest sense. In addition to his ensemble work, Dries curates solo projects that offer fresh perspectives on existing repertoire or give rise to entirely new works at the intersection of composition and improvisation.

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: SR 575CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

That Wolf At The Door is a collaborative 2CD between Henry Kaiser (Califonia, USA; guitar) and P.ST (Prague, Czechia; electronics). The first CD That Wolf At The Door is a solo baritone guitar disc that pays a heartfelt tribute to the late science fiction author Gene Wolfe (May 7, 1931 -- April 14, 2019). The album is a testament to the decades-long friendship and mutual appreciation between Wolfe and Kaiser, two creative minds who shared a passion for pushing the boundaries of their respective art forms. With novels often as complex and extraordinary as Cecil Taylor's best piano playing, Wolfe is one of Kaiser's favorite writers of all time. On this disc, Kaiser's guitar storytelling and narratives were consciously and intentionally influenced by Wolfe's writing. The baritone guitar, with its longer scale length, typically larger body, and lower tuning than a regular guitar, is an intriguing instrument. It is often pitched halfway between the lowest note of a bass of a regular guitar, adding a unique depth and resonance to the sound. Henry Kaiser has been playing baritone guitars for over 30 years, and this is his second CD, after 2024's The Lost Chord, which is all baritone. The solos here are free-improvised, live, in real time, with no overdubbing. Various extended techniques, both manual and electronic, were employed to create polyphonic and orchestral textures. Many of Kaiser's musical heroes -- Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, Iannis Xenakis, Rockette Morton, Conlon Nancarrow, Barry Guy, Rakotozafy, D'Gary, Evan Parker, and Gy?rgy Ligeti -- inspired the solos on this disc. The second CD Sea Of Memories is a solo electronic disc by P.ST, created exclusively from Henry Kaiser's guitar playing. P.ST is a performer/composer based in Prague. The first fifty minutes of Sea Of Memories are sourced from Henry Kaiser's solo guitar playing, which P.ST digitally decomposed and deconstructed. The second piece, "Pattern Of Joy," is an eight-minute guitar improvisation from Henry Kaiser processed by P.ST through thirty-two periodically delayed overlays that grew the piece into twenty-two minutes duration.

 

PRICE: $47.50

CAT #: SR 583LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

The long-awaited interpretation of Le Lay de l'Ymage -- never recorded before! -- is the most beautiful song of the 14th century you will hear this year. To approach the music and poetry of Guillaume de Machault, at the heart of the 14th century, one must always take a step back and look again, to see what a poetic and musical tradition of old might contain, with fresh eyes and ears -- as each generation must - to immerse oneself in it with care. Thus was born the great desire for the boxed set of L'Ymage, the new double album by Micha?l le Gr?bil Liberg -- a co-production between Sub Rosa and Th?dol Records. At the heart of the box is an exclusive and complete interpretation of the Lay de l'Ymage. The repertoire of Machault's lais is very rarely performed, and this album offers a rare opportunity to hear this unique and particular form, one that unfolds across an extended period of time; an experience of duration, at a time when brutality and acceleration are shrinking the sense of time. On the fringes of the Lay de l'Ymage, are two other pieces. One opens the album, a piece where l'envers vaut l'endroit (Backward's worth forwards) -- as the filmmaker Jean Epstein once said -- the polyphonic rondeau Ma Fin est mon Commencement instrumentally reimagined in collaboration with Clara Levy and St?phane Clor. At the other end, there is a H?rbild, a book of sound images in the orthogonal lineage of German h?rspiels, aural cinema and radio poems -- an intertwined form where music, distant voices, and field recordings allow listeners to hear some Oyseaulx d'Avryl. What's in the box? Medieval Ars nova meets dark folk, aural cinema, contemporary music, drone and much more. An astonishing album gathering three extended pieces that unfold the works of polyphonic music genius Guillaume de Machaut, the greatest and last of the troubadours. Lovingly recorded by sound master Frederic Alstadt, featuring Clara Levy, St?phane Clor and Eug?nie De Mey, this album captures all the poignancy and poetry of this timeless music. Comes in a limited handmade box set of 300 numbered copies including double LP and 72-page booklet.

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: SR 585LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Narthex" means "railed-off western portico" or "ante-nave" in early Christian churches for women, penitents, and catechumens. Narthex is also a trio featuring (at the beginning) Daniel Denis (Univers Zero, Art Zoyd), Alain Neffe (Pseudo Code, Human Flesh, Bene Gesserit) and Nicolas de Villemarqu? (Nuwage Music). They had a very different musical background (mostly electric/electronic rock) and decided to work in the field of a totally acoustic music recorded live (two microphones + portable DA T) in churches of their area. After several recording sessions, Nicolas de Villemarqu? decided to leave the group. ln order to complete the trio, Daniel Denis and Alain Neffe ask the participation of some of their friends. Anna Homler (The Sugar Connection, Cro-Magnon), Michel Berckmans (Univers Zero, Julverne, Aksak Maboul, Von Zamla) and Daniel Malempr? (M.A.L., Human Flesh) accepted the challenge and succeed to fit into their musical universe. Never released before and recorded from 1994 to 1999, Superstitions features rhythmic, exotic, deep, and primitive sounds for postmodern ears.

 

PRICE: $26.50

CAT #: SF 130LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

West Virginia Snake Handler Revival "They Shall Take Up Serpents" marks the arrival of a landmark record, documenting the last, snake handling church in Appalachia. Featuring hillbilly rock guitars, trance-like rhythms, and howling vocals, this album was recorded 100% live and without overdubs by Grammy-award winning producer and author, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Zomba Prison Project). The first release of American music ever by Sublime Frequencies, Brennan states, "As much as I've traveled around the globe to remote areas such as Comoros, the southeast Sahara or up-river in Suriname, few places have felt more foreign or 'exotic' than this part of Appalachia. The recording represents in many ways a companion and counterpoint -- the other side of the Deep South, so to speak -- to the music that was explored on the Parchman Prison Prayer albums. The Snake Handler album was an attempt to listen across that divide -- a divide that's never fully healed and continues to haunt and imperil the USA to this day." The recording took place during a two-plus hour Sunday service in the West Virginia mountains. Brennan states, "I'd sworn to stay far away from the snakes at the service, but instead they were waved in my face as they coiled in the preachers' hands, and I crouched down at the foot of the altar tending to the equipment. The pastor soon was bitten and blood splattered, pooling on the floor. The female parishioners hurriedly came to wipe up the mess, and it instantly became clear just what the rolls of paper towels stacked on the pulpit had been for. You can actually hear this moment transpire towards the end of the track 'Don't Worry It's Just a Snakebite (What Has Happened to This Generation?)'. The congregation leapt to its feet and a mini mosh-pit formed. The tag-team preachers huffed handkerchiefs soaked in strychnine, as they circled like aggro frontmen and an elderly worshiper held the flame of a candle to her throat, closing her eyes and swaying. The church PA blew out from the screams as a bonnet-wearing senior whacked away at a trap kit that dwarfed her. It was the most metal thing I'd ever seen, rendering Slayer mere kids play." The flock claim to be the first church that merged Rock and Roll with firebrand preaching -- that the music was stolen from them by Satan, that they are the originators. Given that snake handling ministries can be traced back to at least 1910, there might even be a faint something to the claim. The pastor's father and brother both died after being bitten by timber rattlesnakes, and the pastor himself suffered greatly from one a few years back -- his forearm swelling to twice its size and turning slime green. As a result, he fell unconscious and his forearm had to be sliced open from wrist to bicep to relieve the pressure. Nonetheless, Pastor Chris steadfastly claims that "Jesus is our anti-venom." "Some people think we're Devil worshippers, that we're a cult. But snake handling is only a small part of what we do." In the 1970s there were reportedly five-hundred snake churches throughout Appalachia, but now there is only one -- in West Virginia, the only state where serpent handling remains legal. It's estimated that in the past century more than one-hundred preachers have died from poisonous snakebites inflicted while leading these services. This includes the founder of the first snake handling flock, George Went Hensley, who was illiterate and once convicted of selling moonshine during the Prohibition era. His death was officially ruled a suicide due to his refusing medical treatment. The local county's population has dropped by more than 80% in the wake of the West Virginia coal industry's globalization gutting, and the area now leads the USA in drug-related deaths per capita while also being the poorest in the state. Within minutes of launching into trance-like states during the service featured on this album, both preachers became drenched in sweat. More than strict scripture, the preachers are gifted improvisers able to vent for hours at a time. Brennan states, "Pastor Chris joked, 'You definitely don't want to hear me sing.' But, in fact, he is a gifted vocalist with singular phrasing." Like so much of the most classic music ever made, it sounds as if it is emanating from the past and the future simultaneously -- some parallel universe where instead of discovering amphetamines, The Damned found God (or maybe both) and became born again. The vinyl edition includes a long 13-minute bonus track and features a four-page booklet sporting stunning photos of the congregation's rituals in action.

 

PRICE: $14.50

CAT #: RELS 666EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Rico Friebe's earworm sequel to 2024's single "So Many Hints" and deep take on narcissism and manipulative behavior.

 

PRICE: $39.00

CAT #: TU 014X-LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Color vinyl version. "Blue Lake reveals his most ambitious album yet, which finds its visionary creator Jason Dungan harnessing the collective alchemy of his band, with ten spirited tracks that resonate with a powerful directness, evoking an ecological connection to the wider world. On The Animal, Dungan introduces the use of voice as an instrument, as a way of unlocking song-like characteristics. On the gracious album opener 'Circles,' which sees the group embrace in choral unison, like in birdsong, voices echo as a part of the surrounding sonic environment. The band are fore grounded and formidable in their delivery, forming a rich, acoustic accompaniment to Dungan's zither strokes, earthy guitars and percussive patterns. The soundworld is noticeably bolder and livelier, as evidenced on 'Cut Paper,' with now regular mixing collaborator Jeff Zeigler capturing the fullness of the new band sound. Dungan also enlisted the help of Danish producer Aske Zidore who encouraged him toward new working strategies, a liberating intervention which allowed the element of surprise and discovery. The center ground is never fully consumed by Dungan as we find him consciously orchestrating from a respectful distance, giving generous space for the musician's spontaneous performance and improvisation, allowing their musical intuition to give rise to beguiling, holistic synchronicity. 'The Animal' is a form of musical metamorphosis, still acoustic, yet more amplified, elevating it to new dimensions. The Blue Lake project takes on a new lease of life to encompass collaboration with Jason Dungan bound in a universal connectivity, resulting in his most ambitious album to date. A harmonious rejoicing that cements his reputation as a transformative presence in contemporary music."

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: TO 5320CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

2025 reprint. The 20th anniversary re-issue of Fennesz's best-selling Venice, originally released in 2004, is now available as a deluxe version remastered by Denis Blackham, with new and extra tracks not on the previous CD or vinyl versions. Included in the DVD-format edition is a booklet with texts by Fennesz himself, Denis Blackham, and Jon Wozencroft, with unseen photographs from the original 2004 sessions. The booklet also reproduces David Sylvian's original handwritten lyrics for "Transit." This "stunning" collaboration with David Sylvian continues where their fantastic duo track on Sylvian's album Blemish left off. Situated directly in the middle of a mostly subdued listening experience, "Transit" literally bursts out of the speakers accentuating the album's more pop-like characteristics as well as its more restrained moments.Denis Blackham: "Fast forward to 2024 and here I am again with the same original master mixes I used in 2003 to make a new and expanded version of the album -- Venice 20. A little over twenty years later, technology in audio production, recording and mastering has improved substantially, so I was excited to return to this album and give my 2024 treatment."Christian Fennesz: "Over months, I collected material for the album: short recordings of acoustic and electric guitars, experiments with newly introduced soft synths and samplers, and field recordings, sometimes done on the go and directly in Venice, where I stayed for several weeks. The sound and acoustics of the city fascinated me. From my room, you could clearly hear conversations at night with the window open, but it was uncertain whether they came from the neighboring house or several blocks away, as if the sound waves in Venice followed their own rules. It was during this time that the idea for Venice as an album title came to me, as a suggestive description of a dignified decline, decay, death, and rebirth. David Sylvian's lyrics and vocal performance for "Transit" perfectly encapsulated this idea for me. The piece remains a highlight of a wonderful, ongoing collaboration."

 

PRICE: $14.50

CAT #: TONE 085CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

2025 reprint. When KMRU relocated to Berlin from Nairobi, he was immediately fascinated by the German capital's relative silence. Back home, he was surrounded by sound: the omnipresent churr of birds and insects, the chatter of passers-by, and the electrical smog belched out by criss-crossing power lines and roaring transformers. In Berlin, this noise was muzzled; pedestrians wandered the streets with headphones in, barely communicating, while electrical cables were hidden away underground, and wildlife retreated from the imposing, concrete jungle. KMRU compares this observation with his visual experiences. Acclimatizing to life in Western Europe, he realized that night, a dusky blue-black lit up by streetlights and shops, offered little contrast with day. Nighttime in Kenya felt more tangible, somehow. After 6PM, when the sun sets, even the dim glow of a screen can dazzle the eyes, which must quickly adapt to the conditions. And as anyone who's closed their eyes while listening to music will know, the ears also adjust when visibility is impaired, enhancing even the tiniest sounds. So KMRU used this phenomenon to inform Natur, a billowing long-form narrative that blurs the audible spectrum with an imperceptible sonic universe, contrasting cacophonous electromagnetic soundscapes with more familiar and grounding natural sounds. The piece was composed in 2022, and since then KMRU has made it a live staple, tweaking and reshaping it as he performed on tour with Fennesz, and with the London Contemporary Orchestra at Southbank Centre. The experience allowed KMRU to sculpt not only the album's crucial dynamics, but its philosophy. Natur is KMRU's most uncompromising work to date, crackling to life from dense clouds of static and intimidating, dissonant drones. Using electromagnetic microphones, he uncloaks the commotion hidden by the digital era's ambiguous stillness, juxtaposing roaring, mechanical growls with microscopic glitches and tranquil, electrical wails. When environmental recordings do appear, they're used as transitions between the thickets of harsh noise; sometimes hard to identify, they subconsciously remind the listener that behind the wall of sound there's a natural world in constant communication, continually adapting to the fluctuating ecosystem. KMRU sees Natur as a way to reconsider what technology actually is and how it changes perceptions of reality. On Natur, KMRU allows listeners to visualize a concealed landscape, one that's teeming with life and in dialog with mechanization.

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: TRESOR 385EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Irish techno producer, Kerrie, returns to Tresor Records with her second EP for the label. Entitled Echoes Of The Live Wire, this collection captures the beauty and essence of live performance; a moment in time never to be repeated. Layered meanings are employed throughout as Kerrie explores this idea: "Live Wire" draws connections between circuit boards and the human nervous system, whilst also toying with multiple meanings of the word "live". "Echoes Of" channels classic Detroit techno influences, resonating with the distant hum of memories that refuse to fade, while "Moment To Memory" is a beatless, floating piece which slowly builds to an ecstatic crescendo.

 

PRICE: $20.50

CAT #: TRILPFR 069CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Catastrophe are back in the spotlight with La proie et l'ombre. In the forest of the world, on the lookout, Catastrophe stalks the light. Born in 2016, the group has never stopped reinventing itself: now with four voices (Carol, Pierre, Arthur and Blandine), it presents a chiseled, delicate and restless record, which is as much contemporary pop as it is cinematic fresco. Distributed by their long-time label Tricatel, it is released with a 16-page booklet.

 

PRICE: $30.50

CAT #: TRILPFR 069LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

LP version. Catastrophe are back in the spotlight with La proie et l'ombre. In the forest of the world, on the lookout, Catastrophe stalks the light. Born in 2016, the group has never stopped reinventing itself: now with four voices (Carol, Pierre, Arthur and Blandine), it presents a chiseled, delicate and restless record, which is as much contemporary pop as it is cinematic fresco. Distributed by their long-time label Tricatel, it is released with a 16-page booklet.

 

PRICE: $36.00

CAT #: UOH 018X-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Color vinyl version. "Titanic, the project spearheaded by Mabe Fratti and Hector Tosta (aka I. la Cat?lica), return with a sumptuous and life-affirming new album. With Hagen, and their previous release, Vidrio, (2023), the pair are creating a distinctive signature sound in modern alternative pop music. Nobody else sounds quite like them. Both records have an open-hearted nature and simple, winning melodies that play off against a taste for drama, spectacular orchestration and a feeling of otherworldly mystery. Hagen is the more ambitious, sometimes more mystical effort. From the opening handclaps of 'L?grima del Sol', (a wonderfully uptempo playground chant translating as a tear from the sun but, surely, not referencing the brand of pineapple wine), the record dances its way through various mid-to-late-eighties inspirations, lush and widescreen passages of melancholy and vertiginous contrasts. On Hagen, singer and cellist Mabe Fratti once again displays her brilliant knack of speaking to us directly. There is never the suspicion of her playing to the gallery, and the directness of many of the lyrics don't allow it. Parallel to this, Fratti has an almost magical ability to give Hector Tosta's melodies, and her and Tosta's lyrics ones imbued with an insight and meaning that feels otherworldly. Tosta admitted it was 'pretty wild to hear Mabe take the interpretations to a different place' and the listener can pick up on the delight Fratti takes in (literally) adding a voice to the many narratives. Like Vidrio, Hagen was partially and additionally recorded at Fratti and Tosta's house, aka Tinho Studios in Mexico City, as well as Golden Girl Studios & Circular Ruin Studios in New York City. Mixing was done by Santiago Parra in Pedro y el Lobo Studios, Mexico City and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, New York City. The recording engineer was Nate Salon. Hagen featured Mabe Fratti on cello, vocals and backing vocals, I. la Cat?lica on guitar, keyboards, prepared piano, bass and backing vocals, drums by Eli Keszler and synths in 'P?jaro de Fuego' from Daniel Lopatin and Nate Salon."

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: VPALWR 52274EP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

"Ohlin Russell (born on 2 January 1962), better known as Sister Nancy (or Muma Nancy), is a Jamaican dancehall DJ and singer. She is known as the first female dancehall DJ and was described as being a 'dominating female voice for over two decades' on the dancehall scene. One of her most famous songs is 'Bam Bam,' labeled as a 'well-known reggae anthem' by BBC and a 'classic' by The Observer."

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: WWSLP 078LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2025 restock. Wewantsounds team up with Disco Arabesquo for the reissue of Nagat El Seghira's cult 1980 album Eyoun El Alb. Originally released only on cassette on the Egyptian label Soutelphan, the album has since become a sought-after classic on the Arabic groove scene and this is the first time it is released on vinyl. Consisting of four tracks, the album features two tracks, "Bahlam Meaak" and "Ana Bashaa El Bahr" produced by Hany Shenouda whose group Al Massrieen is a reference to the Arabic funk scene. The long title track "Eyoun el Alb" features a more traditional percussion-heavy orchestra enhancing Nagat's languorous singing and was recorded live while the track "Fakra" brings the best of both world with a syncopated rhythm and arrangements that are slightly more traditional than the Shenouda-produced tracks. When it comes to Arabic Divas, Oum Kalthoum, Fairuz and Warda usually take the lead in the poll list. But in her native Egypt, singer Nagat Al Saghira comes very close to this triumvirate. She rose to fame in the late forties and became an essential part of classic period of Arabic music, interpreting songs by such titans as Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Baligh Hamdy and Kamal Al Taweel. One such song is "Eyoun El Alb" ("Eyes of the Heart") which makes up the whole of Side 1 of the original cassette. Written by Mohamed El Mougy and Abd al-Rahman al-Abdouni, "Eyoun El Alb" is a love song made up of several distinct sections enhancing Nagat's hypnotic singing, accompanied by a percussion-heavy, traditional Egyptian orchestra. Side 2 is the "diggers" groovier side featuring two floaters, "Bahlam Ma'ak" ("I Dream with You") and "Ana Basha El Bahr" ("I Adore the Sea") produced by cult Egyptian musician and producer Hany Shenouda. Both tracks feature an infectious slow-burning groove and incorporate funk influences with fat bass and lines of synth and clavinet that adds a funky tone to Nagat's soft singing. The third track "Fakra" ("Do You Remember") brings the best of both worlds with a syncopated rhythm and arrangements that are slightly more traditional than the Shenouda-produced tracks. The album is now making its vinyl debut on Wewantsounds annotated by Disco Arabesquo and remastered for vinyl by Colorsound Studio in Paris for the joy of Arabic funk and Global beats worldwide. It includes the original cassette artwork plus a two-page color insert featuring liner notes by Disco Arabesquo.

 

PRICE: $36.50

CAT #: WWSLP 094LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2025 restock; LP version. Includes bonus 7". Wewantsounds continues its extensive Meiko Kaji reissue program -- in partnership with Teichiku Records and Kaji herself -- with the release of Yadokari, her third album from 1973. This marks the first time the album has been reissued on vinyl, featuring its original artwork and newly remastered audio. Renowned for her iconic 1970s films (Lady Snowblood, the Stray Cat Rock series) and admired by Quentin Tarantino, Meiko Kaji also released a string of outstanding albums on Teichiku, blending Japanese pop with cinematic grooves. Yadokari is reissued here with its original deluxe gatefold sleeve and OBI plus a two-page insert featuring new liner notes by Hashim Kotaro Bharoocha. As a special bonus, this edition includes an EP single featuring "Shura No Hana," famously featured on the Kill Bill soundtrack. Kaji was one of Japan's most iconic exploitation film actresses of the early 1970s. Beyond acting, she was invited by film studios to perform theme songs for many of her films leading to revered music career. Between 1972 and 1974, she recorded five albums for Teichiku, which have since become highly sought after. Yadokari ("hermit crab"), released in 1973, was Kaji's third album for the label. Like its predecessors Gincho Wataridori and Hajiki Uta, it offers a rich mix of kay?kyoku (Japanese pop), traditional enka, psychedelic rock, and cinematic '70s funk. The album includes two tracks, "Hagure Bushi" and "Kiba no Ballad," from the cult 1973 TV series Sengoku Rock Hagure Kiba, in which Kaji starred. "Hagure Bushi" stands out as one of the album's funkiest tracks. Like "Kiba no Ballad," it was composed and arranged by the legendary producer Yuji Ohno (best known for his work on Lupin the III). The album as a whole is a superb blend of atmospheric songs, from the haunting, slow-burning title track "Yadokari" to "Ah," which features groovy guitar licks, harmonica, and sleek string arrangements, evoking a subtle Morricone influence. To complete this reissue, Wewantsounds has included the rare 1973 7" EP "Shura No Hana/H? Yare Ho" as a bonus. Only released as a single, "Shura No Hana" (Flower of Carnage") is a cult classic, famously featured on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2 soundtrack. A key release in Meiko Kaji's 1972 - 1974 Teichiku Records catalog, Yadokari is a testament to her singular talent as a singer.

 

PRICE: $39.50

CAT #: WRWTFWW 085LP

FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK

2025 repress. WRWTFWW Records is announces the first-ever physical release of Louisiana-based composer and producer Jammin' Sam Miller's full HD re-creation/restoration of the beloved Super Metroid video game soundtrack. The limited biovinyl double LP is packed with 27 tracks and features an exclusive artwork by French illustrator Pierre Thyss, as well as an obi strip. Composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano, the soundtrack for 1994 SNES exploration/action-adventure/sci-fi/alien video game Super Metroid has always been a fan-favorite. A true masterclass in music storytelling, it beautifully evokes the epic and eerie adventure of the game's protagonist Samus Aran with superb use of atmospheric sounds, space-operatic arrangements, rumbling bass, oppressive techno-futurist moods, tribal drums, and airy synth themes, admirably balancing the ominous feel of a dark menace and contemplative, even soothing, ambient soundscapes. Jammin' Sam Miller assiduously recreated the soundtrack note by note, by finding the original equipment used to create it, translating the MIDI into a modern studio context, adding in keyboard samples, and re-mixing and re-mastering the whole score. He explains: "This was made possible by locating the original instrument samples from workstation keyboards and drum machines before they were put into the game and rebuilding the soundtrack from the ground up, applying some modern mixing techniques along the way to lift the veil of 16bit compression and create an updated listening experience." Super Metroid is pressed on biovinyl, a sustainable alternative to traditional vinyl. Biovinyl replaces petroleum in S-PVC by recycling used cooking oil or industrial waste gases, resulting in 100% CO savings in bio-based S-PVC production. Furthermore, it is 100% recyclable and reusable, embracing the circular economy ideology.