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PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: ACRSLP 1690LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"The life and career of Billie Holiday was underscored by triumphs and tragedies. One of the greatest artists of her generation, no-one conveys deep emotion better than 'Lady Day.' Hers was a new jazz voice, influenced by jazz instrumentalists, with its ability to manipulate tempo and phrasing in bold and enthralling ways. The great Frank Sinatra was both a friend and a fan of her music. He said of her in 1958, 'With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.' In fact, her legacy carries across the generations, with artists such as Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, and Amy Winehouse citing her as an influence. This collection traces an important six years of her early recording career which built the platform for the huge commercial success she enjoyed during the mid to late '40s, before she began to succumb to the lifestyle which eventually destroyed her. It features iconic and beautifully harrowing recordings such as 'Summertime,' 'Strange Fruit,' 'Night & Day,' 'God Bless The Child,' and 'Solitude,' demonstrating her unique and unmistakable way of interpreting the songs. It is a fascinating and beguiling musical journey."

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: AKU 1023CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

CD digipack. After a prolific cassette discography, The Totemist marks a new direction for the mysterious group. Equipped with studio quality recordings and a (somewhat) lighter tone, opposed to the oppressively lo-fi sound the group is known for. This is a deep psychedelic-folk album with hints of mysticism, some of which was written and recorded in a ghost-town in the Chihuahuan Desert in far West Texas -- a place where the dead outnumber the living. Various overdubs and field recordings were captured in the historic Terlingua cemetery: an ancient burial ground filled with small grottoes and graves made of sticks and stones. This being the final resting place for miners who succumbed from illnesses derived from the toxic rare-earth element known as mercury. Originally released as an LP.

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: ALA 005CD

FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL

CD box, clamshell. "Recorded in January 2022 in Brooklyn, NY, this album traces the map of an extraordinary musical dialogue. Two guitars, two territories, a moment suspended in time. Loren Connors, an iconic figure in avant-garde blues for 50 years, and Alessandra Novaga, a unique voice in experimentation, come together here for an improvised performance that is both fragile and intense. A moment of deep listening to be shared beyond the boundaries of sound: in the communication between two artists of great sensitivity. A live event captured on record: mystery, emotion and improvisation combine to create the magic of this improvisational piece The concert was part of a season-opening evening at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, New York, which also featured Kim Gordon alongside Loren Connors seven years after their first duo, already immortalized on record in 2022 by the same label, Alara. This duet between Connors and Novaga is like an almost whispered conversation between two guitars, opening up spaces for listening, suspension and revelation. What this record captures is not simply a concert -- it is an immersion in the solemnity of silence, the tension of almost nothingness, the delicacy of sound gestures that are sometimes as if sprinkled. On stage, Connors and Novaga's interventions are overlapped and calibrated, with each silence itself becoming material. The guitars sometimes align in a beam of micro-details: quivering harmonics, subtle glides, dissolving attacks, minimal melodic droplets almost like piano notes. Their timbres blend -- Novaga's high-pitched grains, Connors' spectral depth -- to create a soundscape of subtle density. These emotions, bordering on the infinitesimal, do not impose themselves through intensity or crescendo, but through contained tension, attentive listening, and suspended moments."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: AHA 004CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Zos Kia's music is an essential insight and archival piece into the early work of the industrial scene and particularly of Coil in their formative stages. Their recordings are even darker and more industrial-rooted than much of the Coil material that followed. The music is primal, brutal and reveals the interests that surrounded Coil/Zos Kia. John Gosling was an original member of Zos Kia (as Joan D'Arc), alongside John Balance (Coil) and Min. This trio, together with Peter Christopherson (TG, Coil) and other guests, recorded and performed in the early 1980s under the names Zos Kia/Coil, including the "Performance Action" (involving blood and flesh cutting) at the Air Gallery in London in August 1983 and a performance at the Berlin Atonal festival in December 1983. The latter comprised one side of the transparent cassette issued by the now defunct Austrian label Nekrophile in 1984, which became the first released recordings of both Coil and Zos Kia. It was reissued years later by Coil (Threshold House/Eskaton) and included the Coil manifesto The Price of Existence Is Eternal Warfare, originally written by John Balance in 1983, in which numerous references that inspired their future work can already be found. The name "Zos Kia" had been taken from the magickal system of occult artist Austin Osman Spare although John Gosling never really seemed too occult-fixated, AOS was a great source of inspiration for Coil's members. In 1984, Balance and Christopherson left to concentrate on Coil full-time. All material released under the Zos Kia name alone was primarily the work of John Gosling. After retiring the Zos Kia name, Gosling went on to record with Sugardog, Psychic TV and work solo as Sugar J and Mekon. Debuting in 1994 with Phatty's Lunchbox, Gosling pioneered the blueprint for the dance music popularized years later by the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers: breakbeat trip-hop invested with a lot of energy and old-school attitude.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: AMI 066LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

"Amish Records is pleased to announce the first recorded collaboration between David Watson and Bill Nace, entitled On Bats. Historically, ensembles combining taishōgoto and bagpipes (at least inside the milieu of 'jazz') have been on the tame side. The Winkler Twins, Dagnabbit, CUZ and other such units pandered to the bowtie set so exclusively that many people have all but dismissed the instruments as hopelessly moldy or even (in the words of critic Milo Fine) 'tools of fascism and complacency.' That said, it is my pleasure to announce that the duo of William 'Bill' Nace and Dave 'David' Watson has made a mighty effort hereon to liberate these instruments from the yoke of yokelism. Nace is a Philadelphia-based wizard of avant-string tomfoolery with a recording history stretching back to Vampire Belt (with Chris Corsano) in the early Oughts. Watson is an NYC-based New Zealand ex-pat whose multi-instrumental genius was first evidenced with the Primitive Art Group in the '80s. Now, with On Bats, the pair have set out to right the wrongs of generations of the dull ass taishōgoto/bagpipes artists who preceded them. The taishōgoto is, of course, a Japanese stringed instrument perhaps best described as a cross between a zither and a typewriter. Bagpipes are, well, pipes with a bag attached. Using their respective instruments to create both long-form tones and berserk machine-like squeedles, Nace and Watson create a varied and surreal aural landscape that shifts contours and colors with ease. The way they combine voices here often manifests as a sonic analogy to William Burroughs 'Third Mind' effect. While taishōgoto and bagpipes are usually thought to have radically different sounds, the manner with these two handle them here can sometimes make it difficult to figure out from whence particular passages emanate. These parts, where one drones while the other wiggles, are some of my favorite bits. But there really isn't a dull moment anywhere. Even when Nace whips out his harmonica! Of course, there are some duds who will claim this is not 'jazz' the way they define it, but that's okay. The term is fluid and can be applied any way that anyone wants. If you wanna claim it's aleatory 'new music' or some kind of example of 'post-rock-noise-improv,' go ahead. They're your fucking lips." --Byron Coley

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: BANG 187LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

For the first time on vinyl, Bang! Records brings you The Earth Is Shaking, the third album by The Hydromatics -- a transatlantic high-energy rock and roll unit powered by Detroit legend Scott Morgan (The Rationals/Sonic's Rendezvous Band) and Amsterdam cult-hero Tony "Slug" Leeuwenburgh (Loveslug). Originally released in 2007, this record captures the band leaner, rougher and fully locked-in: big riffs, street-level groove, zero filler, and that unmistakable Detroit soul-grit that Morgan owns like nobody else. And here's the headline for rock and roll die-hards: Kent Steedman (The Celibate Rifles) is on guitar -- bringing bite, melody and attitude, plus extra sonic spice (yes: theremin) and production muscle. The result is The Hydromatics at maximum voltage, moving confidently into their own songs while still carrying the Motor City flame. Highlights include the swaggering "Streets Of Amsterdam," the barroom punch of "Standin' At The Juke," and the epic ride of "Detroit Leaning."

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: BEAT 117LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

One of the pillars and most important records of Spanish punk, Manifiesto Guernika remains a fresh, powerful and intense classic of the genre. An exciting mix of '77 punk, post-punk and Combat Rock-era Clash with smart and profound lyrics that elevated them to cult status. Original artwork and insert and extra fold out insert.

 

PRICE: $22.00

CAT #: BB 008LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Back in stock on gray vinyl. Blackball Records presents the 20th anniversary edition of Jawbreaker's Chesterfield King. Originally released in 1992, this groundbreaking EP has been remastered by John Golden from the original tapes, and the increased sampling rate boosts some of the bottom end and mid-range. Available on vinyl for the first time in years."

 

PRICE: $36.00

CAT #: BRK 153LP

FILE UNDER: HIPHOP

2026 repress. "CZARFACE -- Wu-Tang founding MC Inspectah Deck and veteran Boston duo 7L & Esoteric -- isn't concerned with the glitz and the B.S. that modern consumer culture is pushing. And neither are the group's fans. In 2013, the trio appeared relatively unassumingly with their self-titled debut, which was chiefly produced by DJ 7L and included guests ranging from Ghostface Killah and Cappadonna to Vinnie Paz, Action Bronson and Roc Marciano. The soon-to-be acclaimed group found out quickly that there was a groundswell of hip-hop fanatics thirsting for the lunchpail, lyrics-above-all-else rap they fell in love with in the '90s. Several pressings of the album on CD, 2-LP and even cassette later, they are back and ready to up the ante. The fighting analogy -- whether drawn from pugilism or '80s wrestling, both which figure into Every Hero Needs A Villain -- is an apt one, considering the unrelenting lyrical attacks that Deck and Esoteric unleash on track after track, each trying to one-up the previous verse. Best of all, it is friendly camaraderie, based around a loose theme of renegade mutant MC talents running wild. DJ 7L explains, 'All three of us are influenced by comics, sci-fi movies, TV, wrestling. Czarface encompasses all of that, and it helps with the visuals as well.' On the production side, 7L shows yet again -- as he did with the group's debut -- that he remains a formidable yet underappreciated musical force, constantly providing hard, funky and alternatingly ominous backdrops for the assembled MCs to use as lyrical luge paths."

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: BR 192LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Buh Records presents Selva Selva, the debut album by Wayku, a project led by guitarist and researcher Percy A. Flores Navarro, originally from Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. The album centers the electric guitar, blending traditional jungle sounds with contemporary approaches to explore new textures, rhythms, and expressions. Wayku emerged in late 2022 after Flores's previous project Motilones de Tarapoto. It reflects a dialogue among Amazonian music, rock, and jazz, while also drawing on Brazilian music, tropical rhythms, and other popular expressions from the jungle. The sound feels organic and evolving, rooted in tradition yet open to modern languages. According to its creator, the album seeks to renew the Amazon's repertoire by adapting it to contemporary sonic languages. Selva Selva weaves three strands of Amazonian popular music: sounds and instruments recorded in ethnographic archives, traditional folk ensembles, and tropical jungle bands. Flores Navarro's ethnographic research in Indigenous communities of San Martín and Loreto has profoundly informed Wayku's vision. His compositions interlace narratives of Indigenous resistance with traditional aesthetics, modern harmony, electric instrumentation, and symphonic elements, balancing formal exploration with cultural commitment. Across eleven tracks, Selva Selva offers a journey through native communities while reflecting the cosmopolitan realities of Amazonian cities. Songs such as "Carnaval en la selva" and "Por la marginal reimagine pandilla," a festive Amazonian genre of lively rhythms, flutes, percussion, and community ties. Wayku projects pandilla into the present, amplifying its vitality with contemporary arrangements. This work continues a lineage dating to the 1970s, when tropical Amazonian bands incorporated electric guitar into pandilla, creating the form now known as electric pandilla. Wayku revives and expands that language, asserting a discourse that empowers Amazonian musicians and raises the visibility of their work on broader stages. Selva Selva was recorded between January and March 2024 in Morales, San Martín, with Michel Paredes on bass. Flores performed the rest and handled recording and digital mastering. Vladimir Ivanov completed analog mastering and Gonzalo de Montreuil produced the artwork. The album is released by Buh Records, supported by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture's 2023 Cultural Stimulus Grants.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: BR 195LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Souvenir, the debut album by Lima-based shoegaze band Sueño Púrpura, marks the culmination of a process that began in mid-2022, when guitarists Rodolfo Ontaneda and Christian Ortega -- after years exploring instrumental rock with their project Parahelio -- decided to change course and work on songs shaped by other influences: the enveloping noise of My Bloody Valentine, the melodic sensitivity of Yo La Tengo, and the expansive rawness of post-rock. Shortly after, Jandy Torres (vocals), José Andrés Lezma (bass), and Juan Camba (drums) joined, completing the lineup that has now recorded their first album. From the very beginning, their live performances quickly established them as one of the revelations of Lima's emerging shoegaze scene, which in recent years has gained new momentum and introduced a wave of fresh bands. Their shows, intense and cathartic, revealed a new sensibility within the local scene. Souvenir opens with "Sueño Púrpura," a statement of intent where dense guitars and a delicate yet intense voice condense the essence of shoegaze. The album then unfolds in different directions: "Granate," featuring spoken word passages and guitars that expand into a melodic and atmospheric build; "Luz Inerte," combining the harshness of a corrosive delivery with an instrumental development charged with tension, traversed by a voice that contrasts with the rawness of the guitars -- a hallmark across several tracks; and "La Niebla," which delves into a more guitar-driven, enveloping side. "El tiempo es una flor" embraces an expansive instrumental development, built on emotional crescendos, before arriving at "Mora," an extended closing piece in two movements where repetition and hypnosis open up the band's psychedelic and krautrock dimension. In this diversity of approaches, the album resonates with one of the most visible tendencies in contemporary shoegaze: its intersections with post-rock, post-hardcore, and psychedelia, particularly prominent in emerging Latin American scenes. Souvenir navigates this territory in its own way, unfolding a journey that moves from melodic intimacy to guitar-driven catharsis and expansive trance, consolidating Sueño Púrpura as one of the most distinctive voices in this new generation. Souvenir is released via Buh Records, available digitally and in a limited vinyl edition. It was recorded and produced by Rafael Carranza at Enrique Delgado Montes Studios, mixed by Carranza himself, and mastered by Aldo Gilardi. Artwork and design were created by Rodolfo Ontaneda, with photography by Brenda Lizarzaburu. All music and lyrics were composed by Sueño Púrpura.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: BR 198LP

FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL

En la orilla is the debut album by Sebastián Rojas, a composer and musician born in Mexico City. After years of playing in various bands and collaborative projects, Rojas embarks on a solo journey where the song format expands with unexpected turns, immersive atmospheres, and unconventional arrangements. In the early 2020s, luck seemed to turn against him: the pandemic cut short a tour with his former band just as they were about to take off; he returned from Berlin with no money, and his mother fell gravely ill. In the midst of that chaos, he fell in love. That love helped him rebuild, and together with producer Hugo Quezada, he shaped En la orilla. The album narrates the passage from emotional shipwreck to a new sense of stability, through songs that explore introspection, longing, and vulnerability. The album finds its path somewhere between experimental song, synth pop and balladry. Each piece is woven with synthesizers, melodic bass lines, and saxophones that emerge like emotional flashes. There's a strong melodic sensibility and an intimate tone that allows the sounds to unfold with freedom. Echoes of artists like Arthur Russell and Robert Wyatt can be felt, as well as the nocturnal spirit of Neil Young's On the Beach. Mexican bolero forms -- Pedro Infante, Álvaro Carrillo, Los Panchos -- drift in more subtly, alongside traces of 1980s sentimental pop, with figures like Luis Miguel or Miguel Bosé appearing more as emotional references than stylistic ones. From Cuba, his father's homeland, the music of Benny Moré lingers as an early imprint on his musical memory. Highlights include "Demasiado pronto" and "Pulmón del trópico," the latter inspired by a verse from Roberto Bolaño. The album's emotional range is amplified by the production of Quezada, a key figure in Mexico's independent music scene. Also contributing are Américo Hollander (The Americojones Experience) on bass and Emiliano Tinajero (Demencia Infantil) on saxophone.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: BR 199LP

FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL

Buh Records presents the release of Respuestas, the new album by Chilean sound and transdisciplinary artist Nicole L'Huillier, based in Berlin. Her work centers on the exploration of sound and vibrations as materials for reflecting on agency, collectivity, and vibrational imagination. This approach has taken shape through sound sculptures, immersive installations, experimental devices, performances, compositions, and more. Respuestas originates from Resonaciones, an exhibition by L'Huillier conceived in collaboration with Francisca Gili and guided by Karen Urcia, a Mochica healer and cultural activist. Presented at ifa Gallery Stuttgart, with curatorship by Bettina Korintenberg and Carolina Arévalo, the exhibition revolved around the activation of whistling vessels from the Moche culture, safeguarded at the Linden Museum, to bring forth an immersive soundscape in constant transformation. The album Respuestas gathers this process, compiling recordings made with contact microphones, electromagnetic sensors, and listening devices designed by the artist herself. The vibrations of the vessels expand in dialogue with recordings of planetary tremors, environmental oscillations, visitor contributions, and AI-mediated reinterpretations created in collaboration with musician and engineer Manaswi Mishra, forming a dynamic sound field that resonates across past, present, and future. The result unfolds as a laboratory where fragments, noises, and textures are organized into dense, reverberant layers. In the spirit of musique concrète and sound collage experiments, L'Huillier weaves together heterogeneous materials that, through interlacing and transformation, generate an immersive listening experience highlighting the materiality of sound and its ability to open new perceptual spaces. Sounds emerge and submerge, as if circulating between visible surfaces and hidden depths. Based on a principle of reciprocity, Respuestas proposes listening as an act of mutual transformation. Each piece becomes an exchange -- a call and response -- connecting ancestral imaginaries with contemporary technologies, opening possibilities for new forms of sonic inquiry and continuity. Respuestas is released by Buh Records in digital and vinyl formats. All compositions by Nicole L'Huillier. Produced and mastered by Juan Necochea. Experiments and AI system by Manaswi Mishra. Art and design by Stoodio Santiago Silva.

 

PRICE: $37.50

CAT #: BR 201LP

FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL

ALGOL is a new electroacoustic trio formed by Christian Lillinger (Germany), Elias Stemeseder (Austria), and Camilo Ángeles (Peru). The project was born during a collaborative tour and recording sessions in early 2024, between Mexico City and Guadalajara, and has since expanded with performances across various cities in Europe and Latin America. Conceived as an open system of real-time sonic construction, ALGOL operates at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and electroacoustic experimentation. Its music articulates a language that integrates percussion, piano, flute, and synthesizers. Each member contributes a distinct universe: Lillinger, German drummer and producer, is renowned for his highly structured rhythmic approach and his ability to reformulate the tradition of contemporary European jazz. Stemeseder, Austrian composer and performer, explores the intersections between the acoustic and the digital, moving between piano, spinet, and synthesizers. Ángeles, Peruvian flutist and composer, redefines his instrument through extended techniques, self-built aerophones, and a microtonal sensibility that expands the boundaries of performance. Recorded at Estudios Noviembre (Mexico City) and finalized between Switzerland and Berlin, ALGOL's debut album employs electronic processes that extend the timbre of acoustic instruments. Structures emerge and dissolve within a continuum that challenges stylistic categories. Like the stellar system that inspires its name, ALGOL is a constellation in motion. Its music balances density and transparency, writing and indeterminacy, tradition and rupture. In that point of equilibrium, its true nature is revealed. ALGOL's debut album is released by Buh Records, in digital format and as a limited vinyl edition. Mixed by Michael Brändli at Hard Studios (Winterthur, Switzerland) and mastered by Christian Lillinger at Plaist (Berlin, Germany). Artwork and design by Muriel Holguín. Gatefold sleeve.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: BB 029LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

2026 restock; Bureau B's 2009 reissue. LP version. Originally recorded and released in 1977 on Sky Records, the first collaborative album by Brian Eno and Cluster was the first ambient record produced in Germany, and is considered the seminal, defining work of the genre. Brian Eno was certainly instrumental in creating and popularizing the concept of "ambient music" -- but it was not his invention alone. The German musicians Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius (Cluster) were brothers in spirit. As so often in music, the idea of ambient was in the air -- both Eno and Cluster experimenting with the form in the 1970s, rendering any debate as to who influenced who redundant. What is certain, is that Brian Eno attended a Cluster concert in Hamburg in 1975, strategically positioning himself in the front row. Sure enough, he was invited on stage to jam with the band and, after the show, the participants arranged to meet up again. They did so two years later at the Old Weserhof in Forst, the domicile of the German duo. Eno and Cluster spent three weeks in Conny Plank's studio, resulting in two albums: Cluster & Eno and After The Heat (1978). In the liner notes, Asmus Tietchens (who also plays on the record along with Can's Holger Czukay) writes: "Clearly, all three musicians inspired each other during their three weeks together without any clash of personalities. Nevertheless, some tracks sound more like Cluster, some more like Eno. So it made perfect sense to collect the tracks with a Cluster flavor on Cluster & Eno." The importance of this record can never be overstated, nor can its elegance of diverse forms be matched. From Indian sitar and tamboura, to synth warbles and airy tributes to Western groove, it is a rare glimpse at what happens when masters meet.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: BB 039LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2026 restock; LP version. The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under the name of Harmonia. 1976 saw the duo looking for new musical forms. More than any other Cluster album, Sowiesoso represents the utopian vision of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Mobius, its mellow transparency evoking the landscape of the Weser Uplands where the two musicians lived at the time. Sowiesoso is not the work of fanatic dreamers who have fled the metropolis, but the reward for their tenacious search for a new musical language. The LP's seven cuts were recorded in their own studio with modest equipment -- a four-track tape machine, two Revox A77 stereo tape-decks and a simple 8-channel mixer. Cluster were thus completely independent, able to work where and when they wanted, at their own pace. With no guest musicians, sound engineers or producers to accommodate, Cluster thrived on their new-found autonomous freedom. Sowiesoso captures them at the peak of their creative development, with the limited range of recording equipment enhancing the clarity of their vision, allowing them to concentrate on the music without drifting into narcissistic muso territory. Minimalist, yet neither formulaic nor automated, the album is a rhythmic tapestry of otherworldly electronic and acoustic elements -- relaxed, organic and gentle ambience. This could only be Cluster music; its harmonies reaffirm the quality of song, in spite of eluding song structure as such.

 

PRICE: $22.00

CAT #: BB 356LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

2026 restock. LP version. Two years have passed since Bureau B released the first Sowas Von Egal compilation (BB 310CD/LP, 2018). With the musical movement or genre known as NDW celebrating its 40th anniversary, what better time than now to launch an ambitious successor to the first sampler. The beating heart of this endeavor is once again invigorated by the synchronous passions of bespoke Hamburg label Bureau B and the label's Damaged Goods nights where they present rare, obscure synth and wave discs from the early 1980s. It was clear from the outset that Sowas Von Egal 2 would need to scale similar heights of excellence as its predecessor, featuring carefully selected, sought-after, danceable tunes. Bureau B began by compiling a pool of potential tracks, a creative process of lively discussion in the spirit of "open-mindedness" which culminated in a list of priority targets. After research and rich encounters with input from musicians, friends, and acquaintances, Bureau B revised their target list several times over -- some artists simply could not be found, a few had actually passed away. There were also some who were determined not to revisit their own musical history and asked the label to leave out their songs. Some tracks are so rare that they do not even appear on YouTube. Bureau B have picked up the rights to release them. In contrast to the first volume, most of the acts on Sowas Von Egal 2 were only active in the early 1980s and have not released any records since then. The tape artists were particularly invested in the DIY ethic -- as is often apparent in their sound aesthetics and the unbridled energy which has lost none of its intensity today. Their art was seldom -- if ever -- tempered by commercial considerations or sales strategies. The photograph on the cover beautifully captures the paradoxical tensions which pervaded the atmosphere of the early Eighties: new beginnings, renewal, protest and self-empowerment on one side, frustration, hedonism, future anxiety, and destructive rage on the other. The DIY spirit ingrained in the music and attitude of the bands and artists gathered here is also brought into focus, whilst simultaneously establishing a connection to Hamburg. Mastering by Tom Morgenstern. Artwork by Biljana Tomic. Features Die Neue Weltmacht, Christian Kneisel, Silberstreif, Lieferschein, 4712, Plastiktanz, Rolf Jungklaus, Vono, Kleenex Aktiv, Conrad + Gregor Schnitzler, Partner Eins, Mark Montan, "In" Seit, Mittageisen, Die Synthetische Republik, and Casino Mariteam.

 

PRICE: $16.50

CAT #: BB 504CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

On their ninth album for Bureau B, the internationally renowned Berlin/Düsseldorf-based outfit Kreidler focus on atmospheric soundscapes -- of course maintaining their signature rhythmic groove, which on Schemes is simply more buoyant and less insistent. Schemes is also characterized by the more pronounced use of nature/outdoor recordings. The track featuring Leo Garcia as a guest vocalist is based on just such a field recording. With Schemes, Kreidler step into a more ambient space of possibilities, crafting an album that feels both carefully considered and delightfully unguarded. The songs on Schemes are like beads hanging on a string. Each one distinct, yet connected. Swinging in a warm breeze. Catching the light from different angles. The album begins with "Beads," with a funky stabby synth drives the song, which nonetheless maintains a hazy ambivalence. "Klove Twin" begins with tiny bells emanating some foggy substance intoxicating the band into a mid-tempo shuffle with some brash brush strokes. "Scrap Metal" might be the genre. "Snowflakes" are enjoying a summer dance, layers of synth melodies intertwined. "Marble Upset" plays with memory, activating recollections of present past, a slowed down rave, faint images, glimpses and gasps. "Via de me," big city, nocturnal lights, an ambient pop take. It may be really quiet, still there are better things to do than to sleep. Leading to "Fenix": Leo Garcia just happened to be in Berlin for a concert. The old friend from Buenos Aires built his euphoric vocal melody impromptu over a noisy urban field recording. The bird rising up out of the ashes, fighting the miseries, towards the light. It is a protest song of the unusual kind. The home stretch is "Tar," where some cicadas continue in a similar spirit, tiny animals having a night on the tiles. The smell of tar in the sun, soft and deep black, in sharp contrast with the background of gently curved hills, pastel-colored, asking what it takes to live peacefully together. The cover artwork by Luzie Meyer mirrors this spirit: A dialogue of sorts, on a string, a psychoanalytic dance. Ideas clash, yet disputes are solved amicably.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: BB 504LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

LP version. On their ninth album for Bureau B, the internationally renowned Berlin/Düsseldorf-based outfit Kreidler focus on atmospheric soundscapes -- of course maintaining their signature rhythmic groove, which on Schemes is simply more buoyant and less insistent. Schemes is also characterized by the more pronounced use of nature/outdoor recordings. The track featuring Leo Garcia as a guest vocalist is based on just such a field recording. With Schemes, Kreidler step into a more ambient space of possibilities, crafting an album that feels both carefully considered and delightfully unguarded. The songs on Schemes are like beads hanging on a string. Each one distinct, yet connected. Swinging in a warm breeze. Catching the light from different angles. The album begins with "Beads," with a funky stabby synth drives the song, which nonetheless maintains a hazy ambivalence. "Klove Twin" begins with tiny bells emanating some foggy substance intoxicating the band into a mid-tempo shuffle with some brash brush strokes. "Scrap Metal" might be the genre. "Snowflakes" are enjoying a summer dance, layers of synth melodies intertwined. "Marble Upset" plays with memory, activating recollections of present past, a slowed down rave, faint images, glimpses and gasps. "Via de me," big city, nocturnal lights, an ambient pop take. It may be really quiet, still there are better things to do than to sleep. Leading to "Fenix": Leo Garcia just happened to be in Berlin for a concert. The old friend from Buenos Aires built his euphoric vocal melody impromptu over a noisy urban field recording. The bird rising up out of the ashes, fighting the miseries, towards the light. It is a protest song of the unusual kind. The home stretch is "Tar," where some cicadas continue in a similar spirit, tiny animals having a night on the tiles. The smell of tar in the sun, soft and deep black, in sharp contrast with the background of gently curved hills, pastel-colored, asking what it takes to live peacefully together. The cover artwork by Luzie Meyer mirrors this spirit: A dialogue of sorts, on a string, a psychoanalytic dance. Ideas clash, yet disputes are solved amicably.

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: BSR 817LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

"12 Dub Classics brings together the giants of Jamaica's golden dub era in a deep, resonant collection of rhythm and atmosphere. Featuring foundational figures including The Revolutionaries, The Aggrovators, Niney & The Observers, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Ken Boothe, Gregory Isaacs, Jimmy Riley, and Phil Pratt, this LP captures the essence of the studio-as-instrument ethos that shaped the roots of reggae and sound system culture. Each cut showcases the signature production and performance brilliance of the period -- the cavernous basslines, echo-laden percussion, and swirling textures that define dub at its most transcendent. From the militant power of 'Garvey Dub' and 'Majority Rule Dub' to the cosmic sway of 'Star Wars Dub' and the soulful undertow of 'Public Eyes,' this set traces the full dynamic range of the genre. Moments like 'Jah's Children In Style,' 'Harmony Dub,' and 'Mafia Dub' reveal why the interplay between musicians and engineers such as The Revolutionaries and King Tubby's associates remains unmatched. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl and accompanied by detailed sleeve notes, 12 Dub Classics stands as an essential document for reggae collectors, sound-system selectors, and anyone devoted to the timeless pulse of dub."

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: BSR 821LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

"Pressed on 180-gram vinyl; includes insert with sleeve notes. Originally released in 1978, Girls Fiesta captures Ranking Dread at his most charismatic, delivering a vibrant blend of roots reggae and early dancehall that defined the transition from the 1970s sound system era into modern Jamaican music. The album's propulsive rhythms, infectious basslines, and witty, flirtatious lyrics evoke the energy of Kingston's late-night party scene, where Ranking Dread's toasting style reigned supreme. His distinctive flow -- both confident and conversational -- rides effortlessly over the grooves, creating an atmosphere that's equal parts swagger and celebration. Backed by tight, roots-heavy production, the tracks on Girls Fiesta showcase the artist's magnetic vocal presence and natural storytelling ability, setting a high bar for the next generation of DJs who would follow in his footsteps. A cornerstone of late-'70s reggae and a snapshot of the birth of dancehall culture, Girls Fiesta remains one of Ranking Dread's most iconic releases -- a testament to his influence on the evolution of Jamaican music and the enduring power of the island's sound system tradition."

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: CT 085LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

2026 repress; reissue of the 1976 historic collaboration between producer instrumentalist Augustus Pablo and dub engineer King Tubby.

"If you had to pick one album that best represents the pinnacle of the art of dub, you'd cull the candidates down pretty quickly to ten or 12, and it would get very difficult after that. Few would fault you for ending up with this one, though, which stands as perhaps the finest collaboration between two of instrumental reggae's leading lights: producer and melodica player Augustus Pablo and legendary dub pioneer King Tubby. Among other gems, this album offers its title track -- a dub version of Jacob Miller's 'Baby I Love You So'-- which is widely regarded as the finest example of dub ever recorded. But the rest of the album is hardly less impressive. 'Each One Dub', another cut on a Jacob Miller rhythm, possesses the same dark and mystical ambience, if not quite the same emotional energy, as 'King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown,' and the version of the epochal 'Satta Massaganna' that closes the album is another solid winner. Pablo's trademark 'Far East' sound (characterized by minor keys and prominent melodica lines) is predominant throughout, and is treated with care and grace by King Tubby, who has rarely sounded more inspired in his studio manipulations than he does here. Absolutely essential." --Rick Anderson, All Music

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: CT 3022LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

2026 repress. "There are very few people who define a genre the way King Tubby defines dub. From the early days of dub in the 1960s, King Tubby (born Osbourne Rodduck) influenced a generation of producers across a variety of genres and continued to do so until his death in the late 1980s. While King Tubby was known for experimenting with different sounds, he was also truly never one to settle for mediocrity. Flexing his signature dub muscle on 1975's Explosive Dub, a compilation of various Tubby gems 19 tracks long, the true beauty of his ability is brought to light. It's obvious to the listener that King Tubby spent hours perfecting each track and remix before releasing it to the public. Explosive Dub, a previously hard to find collector's item is a shining example of King Tubby's work. Though many of these tracks have been previously released by different labels on a variety of dusty pressings and formats, Clocktower's reissue of Explosive Dub features audio mastered from the original analog tapes."

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: CTLP 939LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

2026 restock. Tracks: "Hot Dub," "Rockers Rock," "555 Crown Street," "Forever Dub," "Dub in Africa," "Mount of Olives Dub," "Dub Eternal," "Dub in Ethiopia," "Prophet Dub," "Rockers Time," "Green & Gold," and "Decloration of Rights." "Produced by: Brad Osbourne." Mastered by Alex Fodi at Scratch Free Press.

 

PRICE: $22.00

CAT #: LPCT 3333LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

2026 repress. "One of reggae's most distinctive singers, Horace Andy has managed to sound as credible delivering social commentary as love songs. As one critic put it, 'The fragile, vulnerable qualities of his voice could invariably be relied upon to add dignity and sincerity to songs that, if performed by a lesser talent, would sound quite ordinary.' The proof is everywhere on this compilation."

 

PRICE: $37.00

CAT #: NRT 027LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Between 2010 and 2016, the ever-enigmatic Residents -- operating as the trio of Randy, Chuck, and Bob -- embarked on an astonishing creative run that included three acclaimed tours: Talking Light, Wonder of Weird, and Shadowland. These shows, which enthralled audiences around the world, reimagined the group's legendary back catalog while introducing a wealth of new stories, characters, and conceptual frameworks. The Residents Present Randy, Chuck & Bob in the Studio opens a long-locked vault from that era, offering a rare glimpse into the band's creative process with two sides of previously unreleased studio material spanning 2009 to 2015. Drawn from the group's extensive private archive, this collection features demos crafted for the live shows, alternate mixes, rehearsal recordings, and full-on studio improvisations. Listeners can hear The Residents at their most uninhibited -- shifting between ambient experimentation, absurdist pop, and surreal storytelling in ways only they can. It's an intimate document of a band both honoring and deconstructing its own mythology, offering diehard fans and newcomers alike a front-row seat to the strange alchemy that defines their sound. The album's unfiltered approach reflects The Residents' eternal fascination with art-making as a form of theater -- one that is spontaneous, confounding, and continually evolving. Whether through reimagined classics or cryptic new works, The Residents Present Randy, Chuck & Bob in the Studio captures a pivotal era in the group's five-decade legacy, revealing how chaos and control coexist within their singular creative vision."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: DAMGOOD 644LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"It's been three long years since CTMF's last studio album, 2023's Failure Not Success, and now they're back with a brand-new record! House On Fire finds them firing on all cylinders -- they've never sounded finer! The album features remixed versions of their covers of The Saints' 'Untitled' and The Yardbirds' 'Shapes of Things' (both previously only available on limited edition 7" singles), along with twelve original new recordings. Also released on the same day is a four-song 7" EP featuring 'Keep Mojave Weird,' taken from the album, plus three exclusive non-album tracks."

 

PRICE: $24.00

CAT #: EANT 21117CD

FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL

"A master of melody, texture, and atmosphere, Anthony Phillips -- composer, guitarist, and pianist -- presents Gemini: Pieces for Piano, a 2-CD collection of exquisite new compositions written and recorded between 2022 and 2025. Described by Phillips as his finest keyboard work since Soirée (1999), the album takes its title from his celebrated piece 'Gemini,' written for world-renowned pianist Martha Argerich, who premiered it in 2018. The collection is both intimate and expansive, a deeply expressive journey through Phillips's most evocative and personal piano writing to date. As a founding member of Genesis alongside Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks, Anthony Phillips helped define the earliest sound of British progressive rock, contributing to the albums From Genesis to Revelation and Trespass. After leaving the band in 1970, he studied orchestration and harmony at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before embarking on a distinguished solo career marked by innovation and craft. His debut, The Geese & The Ghost (1977), featured contributions from Rutherford and Phil Collins and established his reputation as a composer of rare lyrical sensitivity. Over the decades, Phillips has built an extraordinary catalog that includes landmark albums such as Wise After the Event, Sides, 1984, Slow Dance, and Field Day, along with the long-running Private Parts & Pieces and Missing Links series. His versatility extends far beyond the studio -- he has composed acclaimed music for film, television, and documentaries, often in collaboration with percussionist Joji Hirota, for projects including Lifeboat and Midway: Island of Life. More recently, Phillips has worked closely with Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings label to reissue his extensive back catalogue in definitive editions, earning the Storm Thorgerson Grand Design Award at the Progressive Music Awards in recognition of the series' exceptional quality. Gemini: Pieces for Piano represents a new creative peak in this storied career -- a luminous, contemplative, and beautifully recorded work that reflects both Phillips's lifelong passion for the piano and his enduring ability to craft music of emotional depth and timeless grace."

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: FTR 812LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2026 restock. "46 years after I first heard Stare Kits on a cassette, they finally have an LP. About time! This NYC quartet's name often comes up in discussions of the No Wave era, which make sense. The members -- Angela Jaeger, Amy Rigby, Michael McMahon, and Bob Gurevics -- were all fans of the scene, and involved with various aspects of TR3, one of No Wave's pre-eminent showcases. UT played their first gig opening for Stare Kits. Rick Brown (Blinding Headache, Information, etc.) played guest sax with them. Julia Gorton used Amy as a photo model almost as often as she used Lydia Lunch, and so on. But despite such connections they were not a No Wave band. Stare Kits's music certainly use instrumental elements in line with No Wave's ethos, but these're part of a much larger mix. The band's basic approach is much rockier and punkier. Bob's guitar parts are more in the tradition of Quine and Reed than they are Lydian, the McMahon/Rigby's rhythm section is more primitive than martial, and Angela's vocals are goddamn melodic. Closer musical comparisons might be made to a various aspects of UK bands from Penetration to Wire to Deaf School to X-Ray Spex. There's a soupçon of a '79 UK DIY rattle to some of the tunes as well. But there is an ineffable something lurking in their collective soul that keeps Stare Kits's instrumental sound grounded in the NYC art-punk/street-rock continuum. Angela's vocals may resemble Penelope Houston's at moments but there's not much overt political content in Stare Kits's lyrics. An eclectic mix of elements? Yeah, and it sounds fucking great. The saga of Stare Kits was laid out pretty well in Angela's excellent book, I Feel Famous (Hat & Beard Press 2025) and was also part of Amy McMahon's equally dandy Girl to City (Southern Domestic 2019). Now's your chance to hear what their hubbub was all about." --Byron Coley, 2025

 

PRICE: $41.00

CAT #: GET 52716LP

FILE UNDER: HIPHOP

2026 repress. "It's safe to say that hip-hop has never seen an album like Ol' Dirty Bastard's 1995 solo debut Return to the 36 Chambers. The brief glimpses of ODB's unhinged genius provided by Wu-Tang Clan's landmark Enter the Wu-Tang album two years earlier were begging to be expanded on to a larger canvas, and, with RZA guiding production, the album promised to give Dirty the creative license to make one of the most bizarre, entertaining and original LPs in hip-hop history. With his raspy, drunken flow and dark sense of humor, Dirty fearlessly attacks from all angles, throwing himself fearlessly into punchy rhyme attacks ('Damage,' with GZA), drugged-out party jams (the monster singles 'Brooklyn Zoo' and 'Shimmy Shimmy Ya') and bizarre, grimly hilarious fantasies of sex and violence ('Don't U Know' and the R&B-tinged 'Sweet Sugar Pie'). Backed by RZA's appropriately gritty, dissonant beats and appearances from the Clan, Return became an instant hit, selling over 1 million copies and earning a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album in 1996. The album stands as a high water mark in the Wu Tang Clan's collective creative output and was selected as one of the Best 100 Rap Albums by The Source magazine in 1998. In honoring the legacy of one of hip-hop's most innovative releases, Get On Down is proud to present this incredible and unique special edition of Ol' Dirty Bastard's Return to the 36 Chambers as a double LP which contains the complete original album, remastered for optimal sound quality." Includes 18"x24" poster.

 

PRICE: $16.50

CAT #: GB 184CD

FILE UNDER: WORLD

The iconic Saharan rock band's sixth album, Assikel, is by turns intimate, raw and deeply atmospheric. Recorded on analogue tape, with the band playing live and direct, the album fully captures their instinctive interplay and hypnotic presence. Songs of resistance, community and longing. Music for this moment. For two decades, Tamikrest's music has illuminated the sound, culture and conscience of the Kel Tamasheq (Touareg) people of the Sahara. Tamikrest means "connection" or "union" in Tamasheq, and the band have become one of the Kel Tamasheq's most vital voices, raising awareness of their plight while channeling experiences of exile, loss and resistance. Their sixth studio album, Assikel, which means "voyage" or "journey," shows just how far the band have come. Formed in 2006 by Ousmane Ag Mossa and Cheikh Ag Tiglia, both originally from Tinzawaten near the Mali-Algerian border, Tamikrest emerged under the influence of Tinariwen, those legendary pioneers of Ishumar guitar music. A serendipitous encounter with Glitterbeat's co-founder Chris Eckman and his group Dirtmusic at the 2008 Festival in the Desert in Mali marked the beginning of a long-standing partnership with the label -- one that has since helped bring the band to international attention. They are now an established four-piece with guitarist Paul Salvagnac, who joined in 2012, and percussionist Cédric 'Momo' Maurel, who joined a year later. Assikel marks a deliberate tonal shift. Drawing on years of touring and improvisation, the band chose to record live to analogue tape. The idea was inspired, in part, by their love of the sound created by Altın Gün's engineer/mixer Jasper Geluk. Recording took place over ten days in October 2025 at Jasper's Tone Boutique studio in Haarlem (NL), using a late-1960s 16-track tape machine. The result captures the rawness and spontaneity of the recording process, with this desire to go back to basics also extending to the album cover visuals, which were shot on film to give the artwork a grainy, timeless aesthetic. Thematically, Assikel continues Tamikrest's exploration of exile, displacement and assouf -- that untranslatable Tamasheq word encompassing nostalgia, longing and homesickness. This is, in short, music that only Tamikrest can make. Featuring Ibrahim Ag Alhabib.

 

PRICE: $51.50

CAT #: HPS 332ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Striped color vinyl version. Repress of the Three Kings album. Three Kings is a combination album and film by the psychedelic rock trio Dead Meadow, first released in 2010 by Xemu Records as a CD/DVD set. The album features live tracks recorded during a hometown gig at the conclusion of a five-month tour in support of previous album Old Growth, accompanied by five new interspersed studio tracks. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 332LP) and green vinyl (HPS 332LTD-LP).

 

PRICE: $37.50

CAT #: HPS 345ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Yellow/black/red color vinyl. Buena Muerte is a concatenated anthem that explores death as a central theme, highlighting its benevolence towards a human being who cries out in all ways for its inevitable extinction. Buena Muerte is, in turn, an experiment in resurgent creativity where a vibe of the '70s, metal and chaos converge, on the dilapidating base of the heavy and crushing doom stoner that Ocultum sacredly cultivates. Submerge yourself into a pool of acid joy and find the subaquatic tomb where all gone souls dance. Sadness and drugs build character. Also available on CD (HPS 345CD), black vinyl (HPS 345LP), and yellow/black/red vinyl (HPS 345LTD-LP).

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: HPS 364CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"This is Volume 10 (The Best Of) the series of compilations in which I recorded the vocals. Bands that I like and bands that like my singing voice enough to have asked me to 'guest vocal' on a song for their records. Some of these have been released and some have not until now. I have sung and/or recorded bass on 50+ releases of bands I love and had the great honor to work with. The good folks at Heavy Pysch Sounds Records are releasing a series called N.O. Hits At All. All these songs and bands I've recorded with over the past 25 years are together and available to you to trip out on. So get your head right and put this record on and play it loud. That is all for now." --Nick Oliveri. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 364LP), red vinyl (HPS 364LTD-LP), and orange splatter color vinyl (HPS 364ULTRA-LP).

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: HPS 364LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. "This is Volume 10 (The Best Of) the series of compilations in which I recorded the vocals. Bands that I like and bands that like my singing voice enough to have asked me to 'guest vocal' on a song for their records. Some of these have been released and some have not until now. I have sung and/or recorded bass on 50+ releases of bands I love and had the great honor to work with. The good folks at Heavy Pysch Sounds Records are releasing a series called N.O. Hits At All. All these songs and bands I've recorded with over the past 25 years are together and available to you to trip out on. So get your head right and put this record on and play it loud. That is all for now." --Nick Oliveri

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: HPS 364LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Red color vinyl. "This is Volume 10 (The Best Of) the series of compilations in which I recorded the vocals. Bands that I like and bands that like my singing voice enough to have asked me to 'guest vocal' on a song for their records. Some of these have been released and some have not until now. I have sung and/or recorded bass on 50+ releases of bands I love and had the great honor to work with. The good folks at Heavy Pysch Sounds Records are releasing a series called N.O. Hits At All. All these songs and bands I've recorded with over the past 25 years are together and available to you to trip out on. So get your head right and put this record on and play it loud. That is all for now." --Nick Oliveri

 

PRICE: $44.50

CAT #: HPS 364ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Transparent/orange splatter color vinyl. "This is Volume 10 (The Best Of) the series of compilations in which I recorded the vocals. Bands that I like and bands that like my singing voice enough to have asked me to 'guest vocal' on a song for their records. Some of these have been released and some have not until now. I have sung and/or recorded bass on 50+ releases of bands I love and had the great honor to work with. The good folks at Heavy Pysch Sounds Records are releasing a series called N.O. Hits At All. All these songs and bands I've recorded with over the past 25 years are together and available to you to trip out on. So get your head right and put this record on and play it loud. That is all for now." --Nick Oliveri

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: HPS 371LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Blue color vinyl. SoftSun was formed in 2023 by guitarist Gary Arce (Yawning Man) and bassist/vocalist Pia Isaksen (PIA ISA). On their second album they are joined by Robert Garson on drums. The band is experimenting with sounds and are difficult to place in a specific genre. They have a style of their own with contrasts of softness and distortion, beauty and noise and emotional peaks and valleys. The music is patient, heavy and dreamy, with haunting vocals and beautiful guitars drenched in distortion and reverb over patient and thought-out drums. The songs are flowing slowly and take inspiration from both the Californian desert landscapes to the Norwegian oceans where the two founding members come from. On this second record SoftSun has developed their sound further and sound both moody, experimental, beautiful, and raw.

 

PRICE: $41.00

CAT #: HPS 371ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Magenta/blue/yellow striped vinyl. SoftSun was formed in 2023 by guitarist Gary Arce (Yawning Man) and bassist/vocalist Pia Isaksen (PIA ISA). On their second album they are joined by Robert Garson on drums. The band is experimenting with sounds and are difficult to place in a specific genre. They have a style of their own with contrasts of softness and distortion, beauty and noise and emotional peaks and valleys. The music is patient, heavy and dreamy, with haunting vocals and beautiful guitars drenched in distortion and reverb over patient and thought-out drums. The songs are flowing slowly and take inspiration from both the Californian desert landscapes to the Norwegian oceans where the two founding members come from. On this second record SoftSun has developed their sound further and sound both moody, experimental, beautiful, and raw.

 

PRICE: $44.50

CAT #: HPS 377ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Purple/orange/red splatter color vinyl version. Repress of Weedpecker's sophomore album. "Across its rather considerable span, II demonstrates there's still room for growth in the realm of post-Colour Haze heavy psych, and more than the debut, Weedpecker leave an individual impression here in songs like 'Reality Fades' and the peaceful, patient closer, 'Already Gone,' tapping into Elder-style riffing on 'Flowering Dimensions' as they did the first time out, but elsewhere taking on a similar low-key mindset that drove Sungrazer's second LP toward such expansive jamming. They can be quite heavy at times!" -- JJ Koczan.

 

PRICE: $44.50

CAT #: HPS 380ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Yellow/red/black splatter color vinyl. With dark moon above, the candles are lit, and from the depths rises Ritual Arcana. A three-piece sonic force featuring the high priestess SharLee LuckyFree on bass and vocals (formerly of Moth), the legendary godfather of doom Scott WINO Weinrich on guitar (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan), and the pirate timekeeper Oakley Munson on drums (The Black Lips). Ancient gates of destiny open by virtue of key, sword, and feather, as Ritual Arcana unleashes their debut album on Heavy Psych Sounds.

 

PRICE: $44.50

CAT #: HPS 381ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Red/yellow splatter color vinyl. Five tracks full of heavy riffs but also acoustic vibes. Recorded at Røffsound Recordings. Mixed and mastered by Vegard Liverod and Tony Reed.

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: HPS 382LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Transparent yellow color vinyl. Approaching Doom is the third album by Monsternaut, a darker and heavier representation of the band's established devotion to groovy riffs and to the point compositions. The songs took shape over several years, during which the arrival of a new drummer opened the door to more adventurous rhythms and riff ideas, pushing the band into new territory while staying true to their roots. Sonically, the album leans toward the grit and weight of early '90s metal rather than polished modern production, giving it a raw and immediate edge. Its lyrics and atmosphere follow a naturally darker direction as well, adding an extra layer of tension beneath the grooves. Recorded entirely the old-fashioned way, straight to analog tape with no digital editing, it captures the band playing as they are, relying on performance, chemistry, and feel rather than correction.

 

PRICE: $44.50

CAT #: HPS 382ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. White/red/black splatter color vinyl. Approaching Doom is the third album by Monsternaut, a darker and heavier representation of the band's established devotion to groovy riffs and to the point compositions. The songs took shape over several years, during which the arrival of a new drummer opened the door to more adventurous rhythms and riff ideas, pushing the band into new territory while staying true to their roots. Sonically, the album leans toward the grit and weight of early '90s metal rather than polished modern production, giving it a raw and immediate edge. Its lyrics and atmosphere follow a naturally darker direction as well, adding an extra layer of tension beneath the grooves. Recorded entirely the old-fashioned way, straight to analog tape with no digital editing, it captures the band playing as they are, relying on performance, chemistry, and feel rather than correction.

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: HPS 385CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

The Lords of Altamont's eighth sacrifice to the rock n roll underworld. Ten tracks to take you on a trip through vice enhanced heights and dive bar depths. Recorded worldwide, this album captures the evolution of the Lords' sound, while staying true to the grit and power of their 28 year history. Dope Forever, Forever Loaded. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 385LP), yellow vinyl (HPS 385LTD-LP), and white/red splatter color vinyl (HPS 385ULTRA-LP).

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: HPS 385LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. The Lords of Altamont's eighth sacrifice to the rock n roll underworld. Ten tracks to take you on a trip through vice enhanced heights and dive bar depths. Recorded worldwide, this album captures the evolution of the Lords' sound, while staying true to the grit and power of their 28 year history. Dope Forever, Forever Loaded.

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: HPS 385LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Yellow color vinyl. The Lords of Altamont's eighth sacrifice to the rock n roll underworld. Ten tracks to take you on a trip through vice enhanced heights and dive bar depths. Recorded worldwide, this album captures the evolution of the Lords' sound, while staying true to the grit and power of their 28 year history. Dope Forever, Forever Loaded.

 

PRICE: $44.50

CAT #: HPS 385ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. White/red splatter color vinyl. The Lords of Altamont's eighth sacrifice to the rock n roll underworld. Ten tracks to take you on a trip through vice enhanced heights and dive bar depths. Recorded worldwide, this album captures the evolution of the Lords' sound, while staying true to the grit and power of their 28 year history. Dope Forever, Forever Loaded.

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: HPS 386LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. There comes a point in every band's life when originality stops being a virtue and honesty takes the wheel. On their 11th long-playing record, Forgeries (72-84), 16 return to the impulse that first dragged them into loud rooms and bad ideas: the urge to steal what you love and make it semi-unrecognizable through devotion. The band have partnered with Heavy Psych Sounds Records to release a collection of covers that function less as homage and more as a possession to be given away. The artwork, rendered by the ever-amazing Marald, completes the ritual, iconic, unsettling, and unafraid. From the early '90s onward, 16 have treated covers as translations rather than as replicas, acts of tribute and emulation, filtered through distortion, fatigue, and lived experience. In the band's collective head, this album exists because these songs demanded it. In the end, Forgeries (72-84) stands as both a thank you note and a theft, a reminder that all music worth a damn is borrowed, broken, and passed on between friends. The selections on Forgeries (72-84) span eras and attitudes, unified not by genre but by necessity. Each track is a document of obsession, of influence absorbed and re-expressed without permission.

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: HPS 386LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Neon green color vinyl. There comes a point in every band's life when originality stops being a virtue and honesty takes the wheel. On their 11th long-playing record, Forgeries (72-84), 16 return to the impulse that first dragged them into loud rooms and bad ideas: the urge to steal what you love and make it semi-unrecognizable through devotion. The band have partnered with Heavy Psych Sounds Records to release a collection of covers that function less as homage and more as a possession to be given away. The artwork, rendered by the ever-amazing Marald, completes the ritual, iconic, unsettling, and unafraid. From the early '90s onward, 16 have treated covers as translations rather than as replicas, acts of tribute and emulation, filtered through distortion, fatigue, and lived experience. In the band's collective head, this album exists because these songs demanded it. In the end, Forgeries (72-84) stands as both a thank you note and a theft, a reminder that all music worth a damn is borrowed, broken, and passed on between friends. The selections on Forgeries (72-84) span eras and attitudes, unified not by genre but by necessity. Each track is a document of obsession, of influence absorbed and re-expressed without permission.

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: HPS 389LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Your favorite weed sludgers are ready to come back with their fourth studio album, the aptly titled Stoned Villains, out on your beloved Heavy Psych Sounds Records. The band's distinctive sound emerges immediately after the first listen: seven tracks of heavy, sulfurous doom-sludge, with influences ranging from the '90s to Turin-inspired hardcore punk, the scene in which these "villains" were formed and raised. Heavy and cutting guitars, a seismic rhythm section, and Gingerzilla's voice barking out ungraceful tales of weed abuse and uncontrolled eating. The song titles perfectly describe Tons: a band that doesn't take itself too seriously and uses irony as its strong point.

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: HPS 389LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Pink color vinyl. Your favorite weed sludgers are ready to come back with their fourth studio album, the aptly titled Stoned Villains, out on your beloved Heavy Psych Sounds Records. The band's distinctive sound emerges immediately after the first listen: seven tracks of heavy, sulfurous doom-sludge, with influences ranging from the '90s to Turin-inspired hardcore punk, the scene in which these "villains" were formed and raised. Heavy and cutting guitars, a seismic rhythm section, and Gingerzilla's voice barking out ungraceful tales of weed abuse and uncontrolled eating. The song titles perfectly describe Tons: a band that doesn't take itself too seriously and uses irony as its strong point.

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: HPS 390CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Beyond The Beyond is the highly anticipated tenth studio album from inter-dimensional space travelling explorers The Cosmic Dead. The album takes listeners on a four-track expedition into the deepest cosmos of the band. Recorded at Dystopia Recording Studio in Glasgow, Beyond The Beyond features the riff rolling rhythm section of Tommy Duffin on drums and Omar Aborida on bass guitar alongside soaring fiddle acrobatics from Calum Calderwood and electronic textural bleeps and bloops from Luigi Pasquini on synthesizers, all wah laden and with phasers set to destroy. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 390LP), green vinyl (HPS 390LTD-LP), and yellow/green splatter color vinyl (HPS 390ULTRA-LP).

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: HPS 390LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Beyond The Beyond is the highly anticipated tenth studio album from inter-dimensional space travelling explorers The Cosmic Dead. The album takes listeners on a four-track expedition into the deepest cosmos of the band. Recorded at Dystopia Recording Studio in Glasgow, Beyond The Beyond features the riff rolling rhythm section of Tommy Duffin on drums and Omar Aborida on bass guitar alongside soaring fiddle acrobatics from Calum Calderwood and electronic textural bleeps and bloops from Luigi Pasquini on synthesizers, all wah laden and with phasers set to destroy.

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: HPS 390LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Green color vinyl version. Beyond The Beyond is the highly anticipated tenth studio album from inter-dimensional space travelling explorers The Cosmic Dead. The album takes listeners on a four-track expedition into the deepest cosmos of the band. Recorded at Dystopia Recording Studio in Glasgow, Beyond The Beyond features the riff rolling rhythm section of Tommy Duffin on drums and Omar Aborida on bass guitar alongside soaring fiddle acrobatics from Calum Calderwood and electronic textural bleeps and bloops from Luigi Pasquini on synthesizers, all wah laden and with phasers set to destroy.

 

PRICE: $44.50

CAT #: HPS 390ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Yellow/green splatter color vinyl version. Beyond The Beyond is the highly anticipated tenth studio album from inter-dimensional space travelling explorers The Cosmic Dead. The album takes listeners on a four-track expedition into the deepest cosmos of the band. Recorded at Dystopia Recording Studio in Glasgow, Beyond The Beyond features the riff rolling rhythm section of Tommy Duffin on drums and Omar Aborida on bass guitar alongside soaring fiddle acrobatics from Calum Calderwood and electronic textural bleeps and bloops from Luigi Pasquini on synthesizers, all wah laden and with phasers set to destroy.

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: HPS 391CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Repress of The Cosmic Dead's self-titled debut album. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 391LP), magenta vinyl (HPS 391LTD-LP), and blue/orange color vinyl (HPS 391ULTRA-LP).

"This album is a total revelation of sonic imagery. Across eighty minutes the listener is taken on an astronomic road trip that never once wavers in imagination or immensity." - Shindig!

"It's Can locked in an eternal psychedelic battle with the cosmos itself, a feast of tripped-out riffage, swelling, swirling bass and juddering sonic explorations that come to a hypnogogic climax with the 40-minute sonic quicksand of Father Sky, Mother Earth." - Rock-A-Rolla

"Spatial exploration rather than the psychiatric breakdown. cologne rather than altamont. There's no hipster arched eyebrow here, no faux-intellectual exploration of unfashionable musical tropes. this is just one monstrous monged jam after another monstrous monged jam." - Cows Are Just Food

 

PRICE: $39.50

CAT #: HPS 391LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Double LP version. Repress of The Cosmic Dead's self-titled debut album.

"This album is a total revelation of sonic imagery. Across eighty minutes the listener is taken on an astronomic road trip that never once wavers in imagination or immensity." - Shindig!

"It's Can locked in an eternal psychedelic battle with the cosmos itself, a feast of tripped-out riffage, swelling, swirling bass and juddering sonic explorations that come to a hypnogogic climax with the 40-minute sonic quicksand of Father Sky, Mother Earth." - Rock-A-Rolla

"Spatial exploration rather than the psychiatric breakdown. cologne rather than altamont. There's no hipster arched eyebrow here, no faux-intellectual exploration of unfashionable musical tropes. this is just one monstrous monged jam after another monstrous monged jam." - Cows Are Just Food

 

PRICE: $48.00

CAT #: HPS 391LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Double LP version. Magenta color vinyl. Repress of The Cosmic Dead's self-titled debut album.

"This album is a total revelation of sonic imagery. Across eighty minutes the listener is taken on an astronomic road trip that never once wavers in imagination or immensity." - Shindig!

"It's Can locked in an eternal psychedelic battle with the cosmos itself, a feast of tripped-out riffage, swelling, swirling bass and juddering sonic explorations that come to a hypnogogic climax with the 40-minute sonic quicksand of Father Sky, Mother Earth." - Rock-A-Rolla

"Spatial exploration rather than the psychiatric breakdown. cologne rather than altamont. There's no hipster arched eyebrow here, no faux-intellectual exploration of unfashionable musical tropes. this is just one monstrous monged jam after another monstrous monged jam." - Cows Are Just Food

 

PRICE: $56.00

CAT #: HPS 391ULTRA-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Double LP version. Blue/orange color vinyl. Repress of The Cosmic Dead's self-titled debut album.

"This album is a total revelation of sonic imagery. Across eighty minutes the listener is taken on an astronomic road trip that never once wavers in imagination or immensity." - Shindig!

"It's Can locked in an eternal psychedelic battle with the cosmos itself, a feast of tripped-out riffage, swelling, swirling bass and juddering sonic explorations that come to a hypnogogic climax with the 40-minute sonic quicksand of Father Sky, Mother Earth." - Rock-A-Rolla

"Spatial exploration rather than the psychiatric breakdown. cologne rather than altamont. There's no hipster arched eyebrow here, no faux-intellectual exploration of unfashionable musical tropes. this is just one monstrous monged jam after another monstrous monged jam." - Cows Are Just Food

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: HPS 392CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Repress of The Cosmic Dead's sophomore album. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 392LP), purple vinyl (HPS 392LTD-LP), and yellow/purple/orange splatter color vinyl (HPS 392ULTRA-LP).

"Lysergic acid diethylamidian monstrous waves of sonic color, we've landed home, inside a black hole of fuck." - Beard Rock

"The Exalted King takes its sweet-ass time to worm into your brain, through your ears, and lays some alien eggs. A dark trip worth exploring if you're made of the right stuff." - Fast 'N' Bulbous

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: FL 1016LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

2026 restock. "The string of albums Culture recorded during the late '70s contained some of the most reliably solid sets from the tail end of reggae's roots era. These early releases for the production team of Joe Gibbs and Errol 'E.T.' Thompson yielded the group's finest work . . . The typically excellent assembly of session men respond to such material with an appropriately light touch: the exemplary rhythm work of keyboardists Ansel Collins and Earl Lindo and guitarist Willie Lindo is kept under close watch by the great Sly Dunbar. The drummer's playing is effortless as he alternates the makeup of a particular pattern or subtly changes up the rhythm, heading into a chorus. Closer attention to the backing for tracks like 'Behold,' 'Tell Me Where You Get It,' and 'Vacancy' reveals the sort of strength, though subtle, that drives the best roots music." --Nathan Bush, All Music Guide

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: LANR 049LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

2026 restock; fully licensed and limited. Includes two bonus tracks. Brought to life in 1976 on his small imprint Stars, In Dub is one of the most sought after Tappa Zukie albums. Alongside Man Ah Warrior, it is a mandatory purchase for any reggae lover more akin to the spacey reverberation of the studio facilities. With his deep, rumbling bass and the prodigious engineering of King Tubby (the album was cut at his own studio) the record still maintains his adventurous tenure. This crucial re-issue presents the complete original tracklist with the addictions of two extra tracks. Dig deep into the ark-eology of dub side.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: LIB 2112LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. "Rare Blasts is a compilation of outtakes and movie music tracks from the roots-rock Americana band's 1980s studio albums. The fourteen track collection was compiled as part of the sold out 5-LP box set, An American Music Story. The LP features highly collectible tracks from their studio recordings many never available previously on vinyl. Insert includes liner notes from L.A. music writer Chris Morris with rare photos and memorabilia images. Pressed on cobalt blue vinyl."

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: LIB 2120CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Rare Blasts: Studio Outtakes and Movie Music 1979-1985 is a curated archival collection from The Blasters, assembling fourteen rare tracks drawn from outtakes and film soundtrack recordings spanning the band's most vital early years. Originally issued as part of the sold-out 5LP box set An American Music Story, this standalone release brings together hard-to-find material from the sessions surrounding their classic albums, alongside key contributions to film soundtracks. Highlights include 'One Bad Stud' and 'Blue Shadows,' featured in Walter Hill's cult rock 'n' roll fable Streets of Fire, as well as 'Kathleen,' a track songwriter Dave Alvin has cited as one of the finest the band ever recorded. Formed in late-1970s Los Angeles by brothers Dave and Phil Alvin, The Blasters became central figures in the American roots rock revival, blending rockabilly, blues, R&B, country, and early rock 'n' roll into a high-energy, historically grounded sound. Their music drew heavily on traditional American forms while delivering a modern, electrified edge, earning them a devoted following and influence across multiple genres. Known for their tight musicianship and reverence for musical history, the band's recordings from this era helped define the broader Americana movement before the term was widely adopted. Rare Blasts offers a deeper look into that formative period, showcasing alternate takes, lesser-known songs, and soundtrack material that expand the narrative of the band's studio output. The collection highlights the breadth of their influences and the consistency of their songwriting, even in material that remained outside their primary album releases. Packaged with liner notes by Chris Morris and rare archival imagery, the album serves as both a companion piece for longtime fans and a valuable entry point into the extended world of The Blasters' early catalog."

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: LR 102LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2026 restock. One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Island's sub-label Antilles. Featuring some of the most incredible rule breaking bands of the underground N.Y.C. art and music scene, the project - produced by Brian Eno - is a genuine snapshot of the massively creative N.Y.C. scene. Artists: Contortions, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks, Mars, D.N.A..

 

PRICE: $35.50

CAT #: LBR 157LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Blending Afro-Uruguayan traditions with rock, soul, jazz, and funk, Ruben Rada has shaped the music scenes of Uruguay and Argentina from the 1960s to the present. Alongside Eduardo Mateo, he pioneered candombe-beat during his time with the legendary band El Kinto. In the early 1970s, he fused Afrobeat with rock in the trailblazing group Totem and later helped define the distinctive jazz fusion sound of Opa -- collaborating with the Fattoruso brothers and Airto Moreira during his years in the United States. In the 1980s, Rada settled in Buenos Aires and assembled a powerhouse band featuring top talent from both Uruguay and Argentina. Together, they created a series of unforgettable albums that fused candombe with jazz and rock -- marking one of the most celebrated periods of his career. Adar Nebur, originally released in 1984, captures Rada and his band at their peak. Backed by a stunning horn section, they blend Latin rhythms with jazz, soul, and the new wave sounds of the '80s. Now, more than forty years later, this hidden gem is being released internationally for the first time.

 

PRICE: $35.50

CAT #: LLO 261LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Cerrero steps into his lab like the alchemists of 1970s Kingston: cutting, repeating, filtering, letting the bass breathe, and allowing echo and reverb to give a new dimension to a unique selection of songs from the catalogs of Llorona Records and Discos Pacífico. Cerrero Dubs is a tribute to classic dub, crafted with the soul of cumbia, juga, and bambuco, from Palenque, San Jacinto, Guapi, and Tumaco: live manipulation, sonic experimentation, bass as backbone, delay as tool. Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Son Palenque, Sexteto Tabalá, Bejuco, Agrupación Changó, and Semblanzas del Río Guapi, transported into a universe where the sounds of Colombia 's jungles and coasts are not remixed -- they are deconstructed, twisted, and dubbed. Cerrero -- sound alchemist and founder of Llorona Records and Discos Pacífico -- offers a selection of versions in which the Caribbean and Afro-Pacific sounds of Colombia are transformed into hypnotic, ethereal, psychedelic, and minimalist soundscapes. A reinterpretation of the legacy of iconic groups, shaped through the console and sensitivity of a producer exploring the possible futures of the local sounds.

 

PRICE: $20.50

CAT #: LIR 012EP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Water Sign is the debut EP from producer and instrumentalist John Silas: a five-track suite that moves fluidly between peak-time dance and inward reflection. Deeply aligned with the open-eared ethos of NYC's Love Injection Records, the release channels house and jazz into an emotive personal chronicle shaped by movement, memory, and community. Water Sign reflects Silas's trajectory -- from a childhood steeped in Soul Train, coming of age with hip hop, to MPC craftsmanship, his Detroit musical family and present-day Brooklyn -- into a deeply personal record equally suited to discerning DJs and deep listeners. Featuring Patrice Scott, Marquinn Mason, and Domenica Fossati.

 

PRICE: $12.00

CAT #: MR 493CS

FILE UNDER: ROCK

With only six singles released between 1965 and 1966, and from an apparently remote place such as Lima, Peru, Los Saicos created a raw, wild and visceral sound, the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the garage rock that was coming out of the US Northwest at the same time. Theirs is the same DNA shared by The Sonics, Rocket From The Tombs, The Cramps, and Black Lips. This release compiles all their recordings, including some later rarities available here on cassette for the first time.

"I'd never heard Los Saicos until a few days ago but had experienced the Wau y Los Arrrghs!!! version of 'Demolición.' Whilst appreciating the inherent wildness, I never for a minute considered that the original could have been even more deranged. More importantly, this snarling maelstrom of nihilism was cut in Lima when the rest of the world was wetting itself over The Beatles. I hear direct links to both The Stooges, The Crampshere, and several more equally enthralling combos. The latter spawned several generations of individuals who would dig deep to previously (mostly) unheard seams of music and other forms of culture that have since become part of the mainstream fabric. The unhinged nature of the song title is one thing but after you become acclimatized to the inherent strangeness, other aspects become apparent. The rhythms and the way the guitars chime and twang to offset the howling are no mere approximations or interpretation. Chemistry is by far a more important factor in the gestation of sound than proficiency or ability. There's a point where nature takes over and kicks in the call of the wild. The individuals have no other option than to just go with it. I asked Erwin how aware he and his friends were of what was happening in Britain and the US at the time and here's what he had to say: 'We knew the Beatles, they were our idols. We heard the Rolling Stones after recording 'Demolición' and also Bob Dylan and others. The primitive nature of our songs is something that came spontaneously out of my head. The band had no problem with assimilating and arranging it. The titles and themes are more humorous than violent and actually, the only song that talks about violence is 'El entierro de los gatos.' However, we thought of ourselves as bad boys and that must have been a driving force. After Los Saicos I wrote some really violent stuff, but I would not play it now and I don't think I was comfortable playing it then either.'" --Lindsay Hutton

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: MR 7396EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

At the genesis of one of the most essential bands in Spanish pop-rock of the 1980s, this rarity emerges: early versions of what would later become some of the most chanted songs in Siniestro Total's repertoire. With limited resources but plenty of energy and humor, a three-song demo was recorded in August 1981, now available here on vinyl for the first time. The songs came first, and only later did the band take a name -- initially Mari Cruz Soriano y los que afinan su piano, and shortly after, Siniestro Total. "El Vaticano va a arder" was contributed by Germán Coppini, the mysterious fourth member of this singular lineup. This single is an essential document for both Siniestro Total fans and Spanish-language punk enthusiasts. First-ever vinyl edition.

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: MR 7397EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Debut EP from 1969 by the legendary Bolivian band Climax, recorded during their hard rock period, before evolving their sound toward progressive rock a few years later with the release of their well-known album Gusano mecánico. Includes versions of "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf, "Fire" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream. First-ever vinyl reissue.

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: MRK 297LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

It was a time when the walls were teeming with socio-political proclamations, where the hammer and sickle -- alongside the illegal Ikurriña (the flag of the Basque Country) -- were the most widely used symbols. A time of general strikes and protests on the streets that often ended in an ugly manner. A time also of smoky joints, where huge speakers played loud rock and there were dreams of strawberry fields. In Santurtzi, on the left bank of the Nervión estuary, a unique band was born: Eskorbuto. Iosu Expósito and Jualma Suarez lived in working class neighborhoods that had grown fast. Both Kabiezes and Mamariga were, in the '50s, mainly rural areas of Santurtzi. In the '60s, industrialization and rampant development transformed them into urban areas without any investment in urbanism. Some elements for the alchemy led to the explosion: intelligent young guys who were nevertheless incapable of adhering to school discipline, a country in full swing towards freedom after 40 years of dictatorship. It was a context very familiar with the turbulence of the "Basque conflict," with neighbors seduced by the "armed fight" and the "liberation of Euskal Herria," with the question of "identity" constantly present, traumatic episodes of killings, tortures and imprisonments. One day at the end of the '70s they decided to start a band. The first period of Eskorbuto's life, before the damage done by the needle became noticeable, was incredibly fruitful. They soon found a rehearsal space, thanks to their first drummer, and there the first songs were born. It was a period of line-up changes. Iñaki Laiseka played bass for them, and that role was also taken by "Seni" and "Garlopa", two precursors of "left bank" punk. Later on they found Paco Galán, who also came from a similar neighborhood to theirs. Paco always was the necessary engine, the piece around which the rest revolved, which guaranteed continuity. His drumming also added an apparently chaotic element to the already unbridled guitar melodies and visionary texts, halfway between dirty realism and Edgar Allan Poe's nightmares. These recordings are taken from those early times of excitement and vertigo, of journeys to Madrid under a train's seat and endless trips up and down the left bank looking for "someone that I've heard is selling an amp."

 

PRICE: $38.00

CAT #: MOV 1935PUR-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Demon Fuzz was an afro-rock group of which its members had all immigrated to Britain from Commonwealth countries. Released in 1970 as the band's only album, the extraordinary Afreaka!, demonstrates their excellence in playing psychedelic soul, dub-heavy funk, progressive rock, afro-jazz and black acid rock. Demon Fuzz these days are amongst the most bootlegged and sampled bands from the early '70s British underground. It was a Billboard '4-STAR' selection in June 1971. The band's name means 'devil's children or bad policemen.' They originally played soul, but the music they heard during a trip to Morocco lead to a change in their style to what has been described as a blend of funk, rock, jazz, and African music. Afreaka! is available as a limited edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on translucent purple colored vinyl."

 

PRICE: $37.00

CAT #: MOV 2719COL-LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

"The Ethiopians were one of Jamaica's most popular bands during the late ska, rocksteady and early reggae periods. The much-loved harmony group began working with the legendary producer Carl 'Sir J.J.' Johnson after a series of successful ska and rocksteady hits. This collaboration resulted in some of the biggest reggae hits of the late Sixties and early Seventies. Most notable hits were 'Everything Crash', 'What A Fire', 'Feel The Spirit', 'Hong Kong Flu' and 'Woman Capture Man', which are all included on their 1969 debut album Reggae Power. The album cover features a photo of future Carry On Girls-actress Pauline Peart. Reggae Power is available as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on gold color vinyl."

 

PRICE: $43.00

CAT #: MPI 018C-LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Blue vinyl version. Alle Sorgenti Delle Civiltà Vol. 3: Africa, Australia, Nuova Zelanda (1971) is the third and final chapter of a triptych of folk-based sound recordings released by Folkmusic. The album contains a total of fourteen tracks by Braen and Raskovich, i.e. the formidable multi-instrumentalists Alessandro Alessandroni and Giuliano Sorgini, each grappling with seven different compositions characterized by a tribal mood. Among the grooves of this record, repressed on vinyl for the first time by Musica Per Immagini, it is possible to discern an in-depth study of one of those forms of popular culture referring to a specific geographic area, comprising the types of traditions often handed down orally and concerning knowledge, beliefs, fairy tales, legends, myths, narratives linked to the dimension of the fantastic, customs and traditions, namely music. Festivals and propitiatory rites, fights and dances, magical and sacred representations were all expressions of life whose sound and rhythm contributed to an appropriate description of the environment. Alessandro Alessandroni and Giuliano Sorgini have chosen some of the most significant musical characters that even belong to specific ethnic realities scattered across two distant continents, where the use of some of the typical instruments has favored the realization of sonorities of considerable interest.

 

PRICE: $40.00

CAT #: MPI 018LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Alle Sorgenti Delle Civiltà Vol. 3: Africa, Australia, Nuova Zelanda (1971) is the third and final chapter of a triptych of folk-based sound recordings released by Folkmusic. The album contains a total of fourteen tracks by Braen and Raskovich, i.e. the formidable multi-instrumentalists Alessandro Alessandroni and Giuliano Sorgini, each grappling with seven different compositions characterized by a tribal mood. Among the grooves of this record, repressed on vinyl for the first time by Musica Per Immagini, it is possible to discern an in-depth study of one of those forms of popular culture referring to a specific geographic area, comprising the types of traditions often handed down orally and concerning knowledge, beliefs, fairy tales, legends, myths, narratives linked to the dimension of the fantastic, customs and traditions, namely music. Festivals and propitiatory rites, fights and dances, magical and sacred representations were all expressions of life whose sound and rhythm contributed to an appropriate description of the environment. Alessandro Alessandroni and Giuliano Sorgini have chosen some of the most significant musical characters that even belong to specific ethnic realities scattered across two distant continents, where the use of some of the typical instruments has favored the realization of sonorities of considerable interest. Also available on blue color vinyl (MPI 018LP).

 

PRICE: $62.00

CAT #: NP 055CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Unglee Izi -- France's elusive and impenetrable one-man electronic project -- delivers his most introspective and self-contemplating work to date. Four hours of music spread over four CDs, Le Temps Des Figures Du Soleil Noir proceeds further with his inexplicable open-ended quest in sound. This new episode in the Musique de l'A.S.M.A. saga confronts listeners with a new staggering journey in surgical-precision electronic compositions soaked in dark/bliss mystifying ecstasy that solemnly directs towards unknown spiritual realms. Olivier Messiaen is the only actual musical reference Unglee Izi has explicitly validated in regards to this truly comprehensive work in his oeuvre. The 4 CDs are housed inside a thick cardboard slipcase along with a 150+ page booklet featuring a selection of Unglee Izi's cryptic and gorgeous photography. The journey starts and ends here.

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: NN 002LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

R.I.P. Michael Yonkers (1947-2026). Last copies available of this 2013 LP... Nero's Neptune yields to popular demand, and provides a limited LP reissue of the landmark Carbohydrate Hydrocarbons. Michael Yonkers' splattering, maniacal guitar shards and impassioned vocals ride atop The Blind Shake's driving riffs and scalpel-sharp rhythm section to create a 21st century high-water mark for both forces. It's hard to believe that music this tight, cohesive and utterly essential was borne not long after a chance nightclub encounter between an oddball, 60-something musical genius and a much younger, precociously talented rock band but, as they say, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Cover art by Zak Sally (Low), RTI pressing, Stoughton jacket.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: NA 5115-1LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2026 restock. "Proto-punk and garage Zamrock: the celebrated guitarist Paul Ngozi's essential debut album. Featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo. Guitarist/vocalist Paul Ngozi's debut album ? under the name Ngozi Family - is an important record: not just in the Zamrock genre, but in the global rock canon. Day of Judgement is an introduction to the most intense, raw and inimitable golden era Zamrock recorded, as it paved the way for a dozen Paul Ngozi and Ngozi Family releases (the most famous being drummer Chrissy Zebby Tembo's My Ancestors) that straddled the line between funk and punk, of driving hard rock and Zambian folk melodies and rhythms. Day of Judgement was released in 1976, the same year as other, now famous, Zamrock albums, from WITCH's Lazy Bones!! to Rikki Ililonga's Zambia. But it sounds like none of its counterparts. Part of that stems from its frenzied primitivism, the Ngozi Family's attempt to overcome a lack of musical acumen with sheer force of will. That will allowed Paul Ngozi to overcome a humble upbringing to become the most unlikely combination: Zamrock's most beloved star in its brief but now-well chronicled arc; the only musician to maintain his fame and recording prowess in the dark ages of the '80s; an inspiration to not only aging but young Zambians -- and now others, beyond Zambia's borders. But one cannot imagine Paul Ngozi without this album, a full-on aural assault that sounds as wild nearly forty years after its release as it must have sounded in the developing Zamrock landscape from which it emerged. We listen to this anachronistic yet prescient album now as a wholly original, completely unpredictable album in line with those from mavericks from across the world - from the Ramones to the Sex Pistols to Death. And, though it's been over two decades since Paul Ngozi's passing, his voice and vision still seem exciting, powerful, unique, unvarnished, new."

 

PRICE: $28.00

CAT #: POL 015-2026LP

FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL

"Part of the early independent music movement that started in the late 1970s, K. Leimer and his label Palace Of Lights occupies a special and respected niche among electronic, experimental and ambient genres. His work is included in the Cherry Red Noise Floor compilation series and his early cassette work is featured in the critically acclaimed VOD box set American Cassette Culture. 'I've always wanted to produce an album centered on the muted depth of sadness the piano offers, and this is almost that.' In nearly all his music, Leimer has relied on the density and layering of multiple timbres and voices to shape his compositions. With very few exceptions all the voicing on Atrophies for Piano originates from piano. Composed and recorded over a two-year period, the atrophies occupy sparse, gap-filled stillness, disassembled melody and patterns, and fluctuating, uncertain drones. Aided occasionally by treated strings, each piece seeks out edges of imminent collapse and harmonic decay. Six dark New Classical settings populate an atrophied sonic landscape possessed by an energetic melancholy. Issued on 180gram white vinyl and various digital formats, Atrophies for Piano was mastered by Taylor Deupree with cover photography by Tyler Boley."

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: POL 016-2026CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

"Using a collection of electric guitar pickups, contact microphones, and transducers that would vibrate random metallic and wooden objects, Marc Barreca built a library of loop recordings. Also recorded were the electronic buzzes and bleeps of a computer and various home appliances. Granular effect processing and layering with a sampler and a physical modeling synth transformed this largely atonal source material into deep, harmonious assemblages. These long chains of sonic transformations fused with the dark beauty of their industrial steam-era inspiration, and resonate throughout the music. Only rarely will these pieces hint at their now obsolete and decaying source materials. A Penchant for the Useless is Marc Barreca's 15th solo album, adding to a catalog of constantly evolving and refining experimentation and compositional innovation that now spans more than four decades. Barreca has also collaborated with Three Point Circle, Young Scientist, Savant, and K. Leimer. Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering."

 

PRICE: $22.00

CAT #: PAL 095CD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"This record shouldn't, strictly speaking, be possible at all. It's not just that Autechre's music is electronic and Shane Parish's is acoustic. It's not just that Autechre come from electro and techno, while Shane's solo guitar music is rooted in jazz, folk, and the blues. Those borders, between mediums and genres, are as porous as you want them to be. But Autechre are synonymous with difficulty, opacity, inscrutability -- known for unparseable rhythms, cryptic riffs, and shapeshifting timbres. Even on their early records, before they'd begun building out the mind-bending software systems that have defined the past quarter-century of their music, the duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown were working at the very limits of their machines: eking melodies out of drum sounds, programming intricate polyrhythms of superhuman complexity, and writing sequences that defy attempts to decipher them. The origins of Autechre Guitar run deep. Translating shades of pewter and graphite into something resembling a 12-tone scale. And, most importantly, finding ways to distill Autechre's seemingly limitless details in ways that could be played by just 10 fingers without losing the soul of the song. The material on Autechre Guitar is drawn entirely from the 1990s. The reason is simple: That's the melodic golden age of Autechre, when Booth and Brown were writing hooks that would go down as some of the most enduring, and emotionally satisfying, in the past three decades of electronic music. Shane has done a remarkable job of capturing those melodies and translating them for the steel strings of his Taylor 214E-G. Listening to Shane, you intuit the way he's had to reach deep inside each song, working by feel alone, to grasp its contours and come back with something that communicates its ideas, even if it sounds all but unrecognizably different. Ultimately, Autechre Guitar works on multiple levels. It's a celebration of Autechre's music, shining a spotlight on the durability and flexibility of their songwriting. At the same time, it's an invitation to listen deep inside the music, to take part as active listeners in the process of translation and interpretation. And while it hardly needs to be said, it's an invitation to simply get lost in Shane's astonishingly fleet playing, which takes these songs of unfathomable difficulty and makes them seem practically effortless."

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: PL 195CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Finally back in print! Originally released by EMI's Pathé Marconi imprint in 1969, People in Sorrow -- a 40-minute work by the four-piece lineup of Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Lester Bowie, and Malachi Favors -- has long been unavailable on vinyl and CD, and then only in hard-to-find European and Japanese issues. It is arguably the finest and most ambitious of the 14 studio albums recorded by the Art Ensemble during their 23-month sojourn in France, which launched the American group internationally. People in Sorrow can be viewed as the culminating event in the Art Ensemble's inventive and revolutionary approach to collective improvisation, counterpoising clamorous free-blowing intensity with expanses of hushed conversation on the group's immense arsenal of "little instruments." Fully licensed from Warner Music, and augmented with new liner notes by veteran U.S. music journalist Chris Morris, this release marks the long-awaited return of the record that Chicago-based writer, curator, and label operator John Corbett calls "one of the most luminous albums of creative music ever made." This edition faithfully recreates the first French Pathé-Marconi pressing of People in Sorrow (1969), which originally featured black graphics on a light (white or off-white) background and red Pathé-Marconi labels, rather than the yellow cover seen on later issues. The vinyl LP (PL 195LP) includes an inlay with detailed liner notes, while the CD Digipak comes with a 12-page booklet containing the same material. The album has been newly remastered by Moritz Illner (duophonic), who also handled play Loud!'s acclaimed reissue of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Les Stances à Sophie.

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: PL 195LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

LP version. Finally back in print! Originally released by EMI's Pathé Marconi imprint in 1969, People in Sorrow -- a 40-minute work by the four-piece lineup of Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Lester Bowie, and Malachi Favors -- has long been unavailable on vinyl and CD, and then only in hard-to-find European and Japanese issues. It is arguably the finest and most ambitious of the 14 studio albums recorded by the Art Ensemble during their 23-month sojourn in France, which launched the American group internationally. People in Sorrow can be viewed as the culminating event in the Art Ensemble's inventive and revolutionary approach to collective improvisation, counterpoising clamorous free-blowing intensity with expanses of hushed conversation on the group's immense arsenal of "little instruments." Fully licensed from Warner Music, and augmented with new liner notes by veteran U.S. music journalist Chris Morris, this release marks the long-awaited return of the record that Chicago-based writer, curator, and label operator John Corbett calls "one of the most luminous albums of creative music ever made." This edition faithfully recreates the first French Pathé-Marconi pressing of People in Sorrow (1969), which originally featured black graphics on a light (white or off-white) background and red Pathé-Marconi labels, rather than the yellow cover seen on later issues. The vinyl LP includes an inlay with detailed liner notes, while the CD Digipak (PL 195CD) comes with a 12-page booklet containing the same material. The album has been newly remastered by Moritz Illner (duophonic), who also handled play Loud!'s acclaimed reissue of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Les Stances à Sophie.

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: RCK 025EP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Mandatory re-issue for this 1979 roots reggae smash.

 

PRICE: $18.00

CAT #: RCK 026EP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

A long-awaited repress of one of Hugh Mundell's last recordings. Produced by Hugh Mundell in 1983, recorded at Music Mountain Studio, JA, by Justin Hinds, and mixed by Dennis Bovell, it comes with the hard "Ghetto Rock" dub version on the B-side. Back on the streets on Brent Clarke's Atra Records label. Once again, a solid release.

 

PRICE: $23.00

CAT #: RR 123353CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

"Chet Baker showed with his music that little bit of dark substance that exists in the human being -- the shadow side -- just as very few other jazz musicians have been able to do. However, such a reading that looks for traces of anguish and self-destruction in every note -- and which has also been translated into a couple of films -- has ended up overshadowing something very important: namely, that Chet Baker was a top-notch jazz musician, the creator of a unique and personal poetics, an interpreter who did not wallow in his own torments but who also knew how to take less introspective paths, including a superfine and very lively swing. Chet Baker's music had characteristics of its own. Of a bebop nature in the fast pieces, he had in solos that complex and pulsating way that characterized this style. He differed from it in the soft timbre of the trumpet, which rarely indulged in the 'flare-ups' typical of the boppers, and above all for the insistent use of pauses. These were precisely one of the cornerstones of his musical language. In the ballads the trumpeter-singer expanded them to the point of absurdity (and so did with the notes), making them spaces charged of meaning, as can be seen in the somber 'I'm a Fool to Want You,' made famous by Billie Holiday, and also in the serene 'In a Sentimental Mood.' In this final phase of his career, Baker often liked to have groups without drums with him because, in addition to allowing him to maintain a muffled volume in his singing and trumpet playing, the drumless situation guaranteed him greater freedom. Only the double bass player was left to keep time, a role here entrusted to a solid Knauer. 'In Ferrara,' a sensitive French pianist, Michel Graillier, took the stage; in those years he was looking for a synthesis between the energy of McCoy Tyner and the harmonic language of Bill Evans. Finally, the presence of a piano allowed Stilo to limit the use of the other harmonic instrument, the guitar, in favor of the flute."

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: EZRDR 216LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. "Lauren Lakis makes songs that are steeped in darkness, but inside of them is a sense of hope. They are propelled by the possibility of emerging on the other side feeling less alone and fully transformed. On her debut album Deadlights, she conjures a shifting reality -- one defined by both distortion and clarity. Indebted to shoe gaze and '90s alt rock, its 10 tracks are filled with ethereal vocals, melodic guitars, and a heavy low end. It's inspired by groups like Deftones and Hole, powerful bands that explore the emotional bottom but are able to rise from the depths. Lakis was born in Baltimore, where she was raised by her single mother. As she grew up, she lost multiple family members and friends to addiction. She became an actor and a photographer, trying to capture the human experience with each endeavor. Her travels led to stints living in Prague and Tokyo, before she moved to Los Angeles. In 2016 she endured a horrible breakup, and then her mother was in a car accident that left her paralyzed. Though Lakis was already singing in a band at the time, these life-altering events motivated her to focus on writing and recording her own music. 'When you're in a place of total surrender, you are able to get out of your own way and finally do the thing you want to do,' she says. After the car accident, Lakis's mother's health deteriorated, and Deadlights was recorded over the last year of life, with Lakis frequently travelling back to Baltimore to care for her. Despite these circumstances and the recurring theme of loss in its songs, Lakis doesn't consider Deadlights a grief album. Instead it captures what's possible when you survive the worst reality you can imagine. 'That loss, the experience of going through the absolute worst thing, there's a freedom in that,' she says. 'There's a liberation in that where I almost feel invincible.'"

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: EZRDR 217LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

LP version. "Just as you were getting your head straight coming off the 21st Trip, Brown Acid dose # 22 drops, continuing to fry your mind in a revolving trap-door Twilight Zone alternate world of early hard rock, populated by real life characters so far out they can look like a cheesy wedding band but sound like Blue Cheer! This music comes at you from many angles. Teens in a garage colliding with booze, drugs and girls for the first time, lounge lizard hustlers with snazzy stage clothes and fuzz boxes. Gnarly backwoods troublemakers meet blow dried glam rock wannabes here, seamlessly clobbering your head with sound rather than each other! An electric post-psychedelic bar brawl for your mind awaits, unfasten your seat belt, crank it up and fly! Featuring Sounds Synonymous, The Bumps, Riverside, Cincinatti Joe and Mad Lydia, Straight Up, Scrap Iron, Live Show Tigers, Killer Frog, Good Humore, and Sarawest."

 

PRICE: $37.00

CAT #: SEC 078LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Plugged In captures The Wedding Present at their energetic, guitar-driven best -- an essential 22-track retrospective showcasing the band's evolution from raw indie beginnings to their polished yet impassioned later years. Fronted by David Gedge, one of alternative rock's most distinctive songwriters, the compilation delivers a dynamic journey through the group's extensive catalog, featuring career-defining singles, fan favorites, and rare gems that highlight the emotional honesty and jangly intensity that made them a cornerstone of the UK indie scene. From the punchy urgency of 'Corduroy' and 'Blue Eyes' to the anthemic 'Come Play With Me' (a Top 10 hit in 1992) and the bittersweet 'Loveslave,' the collection underscores the band's unique ability to balance heartfelt storytelling with driving, melodic power. Each track is charged with The Wedding Present's trademark mix of tension, wit, and unfiltered emotion -- qualities that influenced countless indie and alternative acts that followed. Plugged In stands as both a perfect introduction for new listeners and an indispensable addition for longtime fans. The release includes an insert with detailed sleeve notes, offering context behind the songs and insight into one of Britain's most enduring and influential guitar bands."

 

PRICE: $15.00

CAT #: SED 074CD

FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL

Deep and powerful drone compositions recorded live at Epsilon Spires Church performed on organ, accordion, contrabass and cello by Ben Richter, Mike Bullock, and Laura Cetilia. Rich and meditative, arcing past, present and future. This Sedimental release is a monumental document from avant-garde composer Ben Richter.

"This music was made possible through the kind invitation of Executive Director Jamie Mohr to a winter residency at Epsilon Spires, a non-profit performance center housed in a historic former church in Brattleboro, Vermont, with the opportunity to compose a set of works for their 1906 three-manual Estey pipe organ. Due to the frigid temperatures, the organ was sounding almost 60 cents flat from A=440Hz. In combination with Laura Cetilia and Mike Bullock's intonationally flexible A=440 low string instruments and my A=444 quarter-tone accordion, this created a unique pitch landscape and dark atmosphere from which emerged three meditations on the ripples, pulsations, and slow transformations of memory." --Ben Richter

 

PRICE: $23.50

CAT #: SHOUT 006LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Welcome to another chapter of rare and off-kilter tracks conceived in the bloody era of Reaganomics. Classic statement from Texas heroes Hugh Beaumont Experience and Bobby Soxx & Teenage Queers (led by Bobby Calverley, vocalist of influential punk band Stickmen With Rayguns) mix with the urgent new wave style of Phoenix own Killer Pussy or the more out rock vein of Anti-Band (with Jimmy Leach of historical Dangerhouse act Eyes). Venturing further with The Pudz addictive power-pop and Rock Bottom & The Spys wild synth-punk (with founding member of Zolar X Stephen Della Bosca on guitars), this compilation shows a darker side of the American underground with a host of hard-to-find contributions. Also featuring Adaptors, Men In Black, The Cold, Non Compos Mentis, Active Ingredients, The Pudz, The Boners, Dv8, Deprogrammer, Rock Bottom & The Spys, International Q, The Gigolos, and Lost Cause.

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: SIL 003LP

FILE UNDER: HIPHOP

2026 repress; LP version. "Rising from the wreckage of a war-torn planet, Czarface joins forces with MF DOOM in the epic Czarface Meets Metal Face! Blending DOOM's trademark abstractions and Czarface's in-your-face lyrical attack, this album is ripe with cartoon violence, societal observations and pop culture musings. Over banging beats provided by The Czar-Keys, the armored team give you the witty unpredictable treats any hip-hop fan can sink their fangs into. Expect beats, rhymes, and metal as Czarface controlled by Wu-Tang Clan powerhouse Inspectah Deck and 7L & Esoteric team up with everyone's favorite villain, MF Doom. With track titles like 'Nautical Depth', 'Meddle With Metal', 'Astral Traveling' to 'Madness of Badness' this album packs a punch with 16 brand new tracks. Add that with features from Open Mike Eagle and Jedi Mind Tricks' Vinnie Paz, we promise you mind-bending metaphors and brain-melting beats as this powerful pairing sounds off!"

 

PRICE: $16.00

CAT #: SIL 015CD

FILE UNDER: HIPHOP

2026 repress. "Superhero? Supervillain? Super WHAT? Czarface & MF DOOM's newest team-up record Super What? is, much like the Avengers' arch-enemy Thanos... inevitable (and all-powerful!). The icon MF DOOM unleashes his wizardry and wordplay throughout the record, while Czarface (bolstered by the legendary Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck and Esoteric) slash through each of the Czar-Keys' produced tracks as the team raises the bar on their previous LP, Czarface meets Metalface (2018). Featuring golden-age superhero DMC (of RUN-DMC) and Hieroglyphics' leader Del The Funky Homosapien, with art by longtime Czarface co-creator Lamour Supreme, this album will bring all the thrills of a cosmic summer blockbuster. Recorded and slated for an early 2020 release, and paused while COVID raged, this collaboration of masked men is finally finding its way to you on all formats."

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: SC 067LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. "Two giants of alternative/experimental music join creative forces for the first time in their storied, nearly fifty-year careers. A startlingly cohesive union that burns through landscapes of primitive outsider rock, avant-garde composition, progressive ambient and further locales boldly and beautifully unnamable. Bonner Kramer (previously known as Kramer) decoded the sounds of Galaxie 500 as producer on all of their records as well as producing Low, Will Oldham, and Urge Overkill's hit single 'Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon' for the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, to name just a few of his over three hundred and seventy producer credits listed on Discogs. He is the proprietor of iconic indie label Shimmy-Disc (a one-time home to Daniel Johnston, Ween, Boredoms, and John Zorn's Naked City among countless others), and an esteemed recording studio mastermind. Thurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth, and responsible for Chelsea Light Moving and a massive and varied solo career, and remains an era-and genre-defining composer, cultural critic, prime mover of all things cool, and one of the most iconic, singular guitarists in rock music's long tail, the keystone of the explored tension between rock and noise."

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: SC 067X-LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Color vinyl. "Two giants of alternative/experimental music join creative forces for the first time in their storied, nearly fifty-year careers. A startlingly cohesive union that burns through landscapes of primitive outsider rock, avant-garde composition, progressive ambient and further locales boldly and beautifully unnamable. Bonner Kramer (previously known as Kramer) decoded the sounds of Galaxie 500 as producer on all of their records as well as producing Low, Will Oldham, and Urge Overkill's hit single 'Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon' for the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, to name just a few of his over three hundred and seventy producer credits listed on Discogs. He is the proprietor of iconic indie label Shimmy-Disc (a one-time home to Daniel Johnston, Ween, Boredoms, and John Zorn's Naked City among countless others), and an esteemed recording studio mastermind. Thurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth, and responsible for Chelsea Light Moving and a massive and varied solo career, and remains an era-and genre-defining composer, cultural critic, prime mover of all things cool, and one of the most iconic, singular guitarists in rock music's long tail, the keystone of the explored tension between rock and noise."

 

PRICE: $37.00

CAT #: SZ 060-61LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Eskaton is part of that generation of FrenchZeuhlbands that arrived on the scene a little too late in the 1970s, on the cusp of the shift to punk and then new wave, to have benefited from the media coverage of the glory years of progressive rock in all its forms and currents. Originally released in 1980, it was their first official album. But it was actually their second, since '4 visions' (SZ 23 onCD and SZ 39 on vinyl) had been recorded in 1978 but only released in 1981 on cassette by the American label Eurock. When it was released in 1980, the band was very disappointed with the muffled sound of the mastering, which did not do justice to the band's power. The 2003 CD reissue, based on the original tapes and thanks to the Parélies studio, made it possible to correct the errors of the time and restore the sound quality originally intended by the band. This vinyl reissue was once again produced with the help of Parélies studio, a renowned specialist in vinyl engraving. While '4 Visions' is generally considered Eskaton's masterpiece, "Ardeur" is very similar in style (only a little over a year separates their respective recordings) and contains some of the collective's most iconic tracks, such as 'Dagon'. The original album is complemented by a maxi 45 rpm single (a format that allows for much better dynamics due to the optimised spacing of the grooves, a format rarely used in 'our' music but very common in techno for this reason) which contains on side A the two tracks released on 45 rpm in 1979 (" Le chant de la terre' and 'If" -already included as bonus tracks on the 2003 CD) and on side B three completely unreleased tracks...until now.If this release is as successful as the vinyl edition of '4 visions' was in its time (2013) it is advisable not to wait untilstocks run out, as evidenced by the surprising prices reached on the second-hand market since 2022 on Discogs.

 

PRICE: $31.00

CAT #: SZ 062LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

"In 1975, Jannick Top left Magma (before returning in 1976 for the VanderTop period and the album Üdü Wüdü) and had just composed De Futura, a piece performed live for the first time at the Nancy Jazz Festival on 17 October, with a collective of 18 musicians, including C. Vander, under the name Utopic Sporadic Orchestra. The version of 'De Futura' released here, for the first time on vinyl, is the rehearsal from 16 October 1975 (duration 23:40).The record also includes the two studio tracks released by Jannick Top on a 45 rpm single in 1975 on the Utopia label, then created by Giorgio Gomelsky in association with RCA: 'Utopia Viva' and 'Epithecanthropus Erectus II'. It should be noted that the versions released here are those from the aforementioned single, which have never been reissued since then, as the versions released in 2001 on the Utopic CD Soleil d'Ork are longer versions, previously unreleased. The disc includes an insert with a bilingual historical text (French/English) by Jean-Christophe Alluin, author of a book on Magma that has not yet been published."

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: RMSG 007LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

A note from Lawrence English: "Akira Kosemura's Polaroid Piano is a record that is very close to my heart. In fact, it is Akira's work that was one of the drivers for Someone Good, one of the Room40 sibling labels, to be founded. Polaroid Piano marks the beginning of what would later become known as felt piano music, an approach to the piano which was picked up by numerous artists across subsequent years. It captures an essential and intimate rendering of the piano at close proximity, but it does more than that, it allows the piano to breathe within the places around it. Structurally, the record is a collection of piano-led vignettes. Each piece is a microcosm of lived in music, which is porous, and opens themselves outward, inviting a sense of time and 'the present' to seep into the music. They feel instantly intimate and evocative, melodies imprinted with the world around them. In some of the recordings a siren calls out from beyond the immediate acoustic space of the studio, whilst in others birds seep in and the rustling of Akira's clothing folds into the music itself. When we first discussed the recording, Akira had invited me to offer some sounds that might act as a leaping off point for the compositions. I collected a series of field recordings which were offered as simple and suggestive prompts, and as a means of imagining 'other' environments which might be simultaneously in orbit of the places Akira was recording in. Some of those field recordings are captured in the record, like a memory being recounted at a distance of time. Polaroid Piano is a unique record for many reasons. One is it manages to manifest an acoustic transcription of that 'momentary' quality of its photographic namesake. The pieces are auditory snapshots and reflect a certain quality of harmonic light and timbral exposure that is unquestionably tethered to the aesthetics of the polaroid format. It is a record that celebrates the body of the instrument as a sound source and invites us to be proximate to the resonation, and the living qualities of sound, that make music so utterly profound, and gratifying."

 

PRICE: $17.50

CAT #: SNS 027CD

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

Unreleased sound objects by Pierre Henry. Reload and original composition by ErikM. Bidule 2.0 is a unique reinterpretation of Pierre Henry's little-known sound heritage combined with ErikM's original composition. The album explores previously unused raw materials, transformed through ErikM's highly digital approach, balancing fixed composition and unexpected sonic events, a singular sonic experience where historical archives and contemporary creation converge. A live performance at Présences électronique festival is included on CD version as bonus track.

"Bidule 2.0 is a composition by ErikM that revisits a selection of the unused sonic heritage of composer Pierre Henry, covering the period from 1950 to 1974, sourced from the Son/Ré studio and digitized by the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Over the decades, Pierre Henry and his team accumulated a vast collection of sonic materials from their studio research. This sound library, recorded on analog tape, is a testimony to the recording techniques of that era -- including the quality of microphones and recording media, as well as the acoustics of the recording spaces -- all of which define the sound of a time. Not wanting to create a remix from the composer's iconic sounds, I chose instead to work with selections of raw material from unused recording sessions, 168 sequences ranging from one to twenty-two minutes each. Isabelle Warnier and Bernadette Mangin provided me with sessions of prepared piano, series of electronic sounds, feedbacks, and voice recordings. Pierre Henry's analog sounds were, for the most part, processed through successive stages (up to five generations of transformation), using a custom electronic device: Idiosyncrasie 9.3, built on Max/MSP and Lemur." --ErikM

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: SNS 027LP

FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC

LP version. Unreleased sound objects by Pierre Henry. Reload and original composition by ErikM. Bidule 2.0 is a unique reinterpretation of Pierre Henry's little-known sound heritage combined with ErikM's original composition. The album explores previously unused raw materials, transformed through ErikM's highly digital approach, balancing fixed composition and unexpected sonic events, a singular sonic experience where historical archives and contemporary creation converge.

"Bidule 2.0 is a composition by ErikM that revisits a selection of the unused sonic heritage of composer Pierre Henry, covering the period from 1950 to 1974, sourced from the Son/Ré studio and digitized by the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Over the decades, Pierre Henry and his team accumulated a vast collection of sonic materials from their studio research. This sound library, recorded on analog tape, is a testimony to the recording techniques of that era -- including the quality of microphones and recording media, as well as the acoustics of the recording spaces -- all of which define the sound of a time. Not wanting to create a remix from the composer's iconic sounds, I chose instead to work with selections of raw material from unused recording sessions, 168 sequences ranging from one to twenty-two minutes each. Isabelle Warnier and Bernadette Mangin provided me with sessions of prepared piano, series of electronic sounds, feedbacks, and voice recordings. Pierre Henry's analog sounds were, for the most part, processed through successive stages (up to five generations of transformation), using a custom electronic device: Idiosyncrasie 9.3, built on Max/MSP and Lemur." --ErikM

 

PRICE: $36.00

CAT #: SONORIS 003LP

FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL

2026 restock; double LP version. Six-panel, double gatefold sleeve; Includes CD. Inexplicable Hours is the sequel of the successful six-CD boxset Elapsed Time, also released by Sonoris in 2017 (now o/p). The material on the first LP of Inexplicable Hours documents a new direction in his music, with some of his last electroacoustic experimentations with audio generators, field recordings, and various electronic devices. The material on the second LP explores the same ambient/drone territories as the boxset, but there is less static and it is more complex than it appears on the first listen. And as always with recent Kevin Drumm's music there's a sense of majesty, of mystery and a melancholic beauty that is uniquely his own. Some words about the boxset are also appropriate for this record: "Despite Drumm's noisy reputation, his music can be overwhelmingly sensual even at its loudest, providing a form of minimalism replete with a delicate, melancholic motion. How wildly divergent emotions rise, hover, and fall using so little is a mystery that only Kevin Drumm can provide." Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi. CD version comes in cardboard cover.

 

PRICE: $19.00

CAT #: FFL 090-91CD

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Concert at Prades-le-Lez marks the origins of the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra. In 1974, François Tusques and his companions (Michel Marre, Jo Maka, Adolf Winkler and Guem), in the spirit of Don Cherry or Chris McGregor, playfully dismantled all borders and all styles of creative music. The Intercommunal takes its audience from New Orleans to Brittany and on to North Africa, building unprecedented soundscapes around a song of revolt, a dance tune, and a burst of dissonance. This now-restored reissue of the two volumes of Concert at Prades-le-Lez, recorded on January 25 and 26, 1974 by François Tusques and his comrades, is an important event. In 1971, after recording a series of albums that would leave a lasting mark on French jazz, François Tusques founded the Intercommunal -- a grouping whose very name called for the fraternization of the various communities making up the country. Among the great records made by the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, the two volumes of Concert at Prades-le-Lez come first. François Tusques and his companions performed on January 25 and 26, 1974 at the Moulin de Prades-le-Lez, a few kilometers from Montpellier. It was thus in the southern region of Occitanie that the first echoes of this musical vision of a borderless brotherhood were recorded. The energy is striking and it never lets up throughout these two recordings, from start to finish: jazz, blues, traditional music, minimalism, even funk. The musicians of the Intercommunal have heard a lot of great music and now delight in reinventing it by mixing it all together. "We want the song form to take its place as a weapon in the struggle against capitalist exploitation and all those who oppress us morally and materially," declared an Intercommunal leaflet, quoting Jean-Baptiste Clément, author of the lyrics to "Le Temps des cerises." The struggle was therefore serious -- but it did not prevent François Tusques and his group from waging it in a festive spirit: each piece on Concert at Prades-le-Lez sends out a call for love and fraternity. Fifty years later, the message remains as relevant as ever -- and once again, it is François Tusques who makes it heard.

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: FFL 090LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Volume 1. Concert at Prades-le-Lez marks the origins of the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra. In 1974, François Tusques and his companions (Michel Marre, Jo Maka, Adolf Winkler and Guem), in the spirit of Don Cherry or Chris McGregor, playfully dismantled all borders and all styles of creative music. The Intercommunal takes its audience from New Orleans to Brittany and on to North Africa, building unprecedented soundscapes around a song of revolt, a dance tune, and a burst of dissonance. This now-restored reissue of the two volumes of Concert at Prades-le-Lez, recorded on January 25 and 26, 1974 by François Tusques and his comrades, is an important event. In 1971, after recording a series of albums that would leave a lasting mark on French jazz, François Tusques founded the Intercommunal -- a grouping whose very name called for the fraternization of the various communities making up the country. Among the great records made by the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, the two volumes of Concert at Prades-le-Lez come first. François Tusques and his companions performed on January 25 and 26, 1974 at the Moulin de Prades-le-Lez, a few kilometers from Montpellier. It was thus in the southern region of Occitanie that the first echoes of this musical vision of a borderless brotherhood were recorded. The energy is striking and it never lets up throughout these two recordings, from start to finish: jazz, blues, traditional music, minimalism, even funk. The musicians of the Intercommunal have heard a lot of great music and now delight in reinventing it by mixing it all together. "We want the song form to take its place as a weapon in the struggle against capitalist exploitation and all those who oppress us morally and materially," declared an Intercommunal leaflet, quoting Jean-Baptiste Clément, author of the lyrics to "Le Temps des cerises." The struggle was therefore serious -- but it did not prevent François Tusques and his group from waging it in a festive spirit: each piece on Concert at Prades-le-Lez sends out a call for love and fraternity. Fifty years later, the message remains as relevant as ever -- and once again, it is François Tusques who makes it heard.

 

PRICE: $29.50

CAT #: FFL 091LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Volume 2. Concert at Prades-le-Lez marks the origins of the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra. In 1974, François Tusques and his companions (Michel Marre, Jo Maka, Adolf Winkler and Guem), in the spirit of Don Cherry or Chris McGregor, playfully dismantled all borders and all styles of creative music. The Intercommunal takes its audience from New Orleans to Brittany and on to North Africa, building unprecedented soundscapes around a song of revolt, a dance tune, and a burst of dissonance. This now-restored reissue of the two volumes of Concert at Prades-le-Lez, recorded on January 25 and 26, 1974 by François Tusques and his comrades, is an important event. In 1971, after recording a series of albums that would leave a lasting mark on French jazz, François Tusques founded the Intercommunal -- a grouping whose very name called for the fraternization of the various communities making up the country. Among the great records made by the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, the two volumes of Concert at Prades-le-Lez come first. François Tusques and his companions performed on January 25 and 26, 1974 at the Moulin de Prades-le-Lez, a few kilometers from Montpellier. It was thus in the southern region of Occitanie that the first echoes of this musical vision of a borderless brotherhood were recorded. The energy is striking and it never lets up throughout these two recordings, from start to finish: jazz, blues, traditional music, minimalism, even funk. The musicians of the Intercommunal have heard a lot of great music and now delight in reinventing it by mixing it all together. "We want the song form to take its place as a weapon in the struggle against capitalist exploitation and all those who oppress us morally and materially," declared an Intercommunal leaflet, quoting Jean-Baptiste Clément, author of the lyrics to "Le Temps des cerises." The struggle was therefore serious -- but it did not prevent François Tusques and his group from waging it in a festive spirit: each piece on Concert at Prades-le-Lez sends out a call for love and fraternity. Fifty years later, the message remains as relevant as ever -- and once again, it is François Tusques who makes it heard.

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: SOW 066LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Composed by Brazilian masters Tom Jobim and Billy Blanco and originally released in 1954, Sinfonia do Rio de Janeiro came as an early attempt to integrate jazz, classical and pop music forms into a Latin soundscape. Lavish string arrangements flow between sweet choral melodies and light and sensitive rhythms. This is some sort of unprecedented hybrid music prior to the rise of Bossa Nova and still far from the explosion of the so called Popular Brazilian Music.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: SSR 165LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Panoramica Degli Abissi is a plunge into the heart of a hallucination, sinking and resurfacing to become a wild, sprawling three-dimensional project on the border between audio, video, literature and illustration. It is the second album by To Die On Ice, with sounds and influences that retrieve and delve deeper into the nebulous Lynch Core of the first record, adding -- to the disturbed Black-Lodge-style sensuality, the minimalist noir jazz at ten thousand atmospheres, the soul-blues dilations and sudden vocal lacerations -- a few further acts of madness, such as an a cappella screamo-gospel moment, a touch of Fred Bongusto in a doom key, and two features with Francesca Bono and Vespertina. Also available on turquoise color vinyl (SSR 165LTD-LP).

 

PRICE: $31.50

CAT #: SSR 165LTD-LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

Turquois color vinyl. Panoramica Degli Abissi is a plunge into the heart of a hallucination, sinking and resurfacing to become a wild, sprawling three-dimensional project on the border between audio, video, literature and illustration. It is the second album by To Die On Ice, with sounds and influences that retrieve and delve deeper into the nebulous Lynch Core of the first record, adding -- to the disturbed Black-Lodge-style sensuality, the minimalist noir jazz at ten thousand atmospheres, the soul-blues dilations and sudden vocal lacerations -- a few further acts of madness, such as an a cappella screamo-gospel moment, a touch of Fred Bongusto in a doom key, and two features with Francesca Bono and Vespertina.

 

PRICE: $26.00

CAT #: SSR 166LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Doomedelic instrumental space prog rockers L'ira Del Baccano are back with their official fifth full length album on Subsound Records The Praise of Folly. Guitarist Alessandro Santori says about the album: "We are very excited to finally release these three songs that we have worked hard to arrange on over the past two years. Once again we invite the listener to join us on a journey beyond the constraints of song form and genre, and to dive into The Praise of Folly like reading a book where you never know what will happen when you turn the page. From the production point of view we pushed even more on the live aspect and sounds of the single performance. We decided to not edit different takes of each song but to choose which one to use on the base of general feeling and then add some post arrangements to emphasize specific passages."

 

PRICE: $34.00

CAT #: SSR 166LTD

FILE UNDER: ROCK

LP version. Grey & Cherry Transparent Vinyl. Doomedelic instrumental space prog rockers L'ira Del Baccano are back with their official fifth full length album on Subsound Records The Praise of Folly. Guitarist Alessandro Santori says about the album: "We are very excited to finally release these three songs that we have worked hard to arrange on over the past two years. Once again we invite the listener to join us on a journey beyond the constraints of song form and genre, and to dive into The Praise of Folly like reading a book where you never know what will happen when you turn the page. From the production point of view we pushed even more on the live aspect and sounds of the single performance. We decided to not edit different takes of each song but to choose which one to use on the base of general feeling and then add some post arrangements to emphasize specific passages."

 

PRICE: $32.00

CAT #: VAMPI 343LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Jorge Ben is someone who needs no introduction. Since his first hits in the early '60s, this the greatest icons of the greatest icons of Brazilian pop music. His anthems "Mais Que Nada" or "Pais Tropical" are among two of the most ever listened Brazilian songs of all time. Ben's self-titled 1969 album is a true samba-soul masterpiece from one of Brazil's most creative voices. This isn't your typical late-'60s LP: Jorge Ben blends the hypnotic swing of samba with funk, psychedelia, and sun-soaked soul in a way that feels both classic and ahead of its time. Released in November 1969, this was Jorge Ben's sixth studio record, and his first back with the Philips label after a creative hiatus. He recorded it with the tight-knit, percussive groove of Trio Mocotó -- whose rhythms lock in beautifully with Ben's laid-back guitar and vocals. On top of that, the album features lush orchestral arrangements from José Briamonte and Rogério Duprat, adding a soaring, psychedelic dimension to Ben's sound. Standout tracks? You've got the joyous anthem "País Tropical," a perfect celebration of Brazilian life. Then there's "Take It Easy My Brother Charles," a socially conscious number that tells the story of a rebellious sailor -- Ben weaves in themes of race, identity, and resilience. And songs like "Que Pena" bring in that sweet, soulful melancholy, while breezy cuts like "Criola," "Domingas," and "Barbarella" highlight his playful, poetic side. This record is a rare blend of genres -- samba, soul, funk, psychedelia -- and it's got a timeless energy. Whether you're already into Brazilian music or just looking for something fresh and soulful, Jorge Ben's 1969 album is a joyous entry point. Reissue on 180g vinyl.

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: VAMPI 354LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Ghetto Records was Joe Bataan's way to get over on The Man and out of the 'hood, a bold move by an artist looking for independence and creative control in an industry that had exploited his talents and treated him like chattel. Hatched from desperation yet full of hope, Ghetto Records came crashing down shortly after its inception. The seven albums in the Ghetto discography languished out of print. The Power of Love (1971) by Joe Acosta was one of them. Puerto Rico born Joe Acosta was committed to pursuing a career in salsa and Latin jazz, with piano as his primary instrument. In 1969, Acosta started his first real band, Joe Acosta And His Empresarios, with whom he recorded a self-titled LP. By 1970-71, Acosta was getting more gigs, playing dances three or four nights a week at popular venues. It wasn't long before manager and booking agent Richie Bonilla signed him to his talent agency and secured a contract for Acosta to record The Power of Love on Ghetto Records. The album is about a range of amorous emotions, from obsession to disillusion, new romance to breakups, lust to affection. Though an English-language title and romantic ballads sung in English were a somewhat odd choice for a hard salsa LP from El Barrio, recorded during a period in which Latinos were rediscovering their sociocultural roots, these were conscious creative decisions by Acosta that have stood the test of time. The record is now beloved among both salsa dura fans for the tough up-tempo numbers and with the West Coast lowrider "souldies" crowd for its sweet and slow Latin soul track "I Need Her." Back in the day, the song spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Latin Top 10. While the bulk of the selections allow dancers to get their groove on to tasty piano and guitar solos, percussion workouts, and tough trombone moña mambo sections, one track stands out for being exceptionally short and fast: "Bendita Ilusión," that remains a favorite of salsa dancers today. According to Acosta, the success of "I Need Her" encouraged Fania Records' Jerry Masucci to come knocking but, since the bandleader was already under contract to Ghetto, and Febo didn't agree to a buyout, nothing happened. Vampisoul is now reissuing The Power of Love once again thanks to a collaboration with Now-Again Records. This release includes an insert with liner notes.

 

PRICE: $28.50

CAT #: VAMPI 355LP

FILE UNDER: WORLD

Ghetto Records was Joe Bataan's way to get over on The Man and out of the 'hood, a bold move by an artist looking for independence and creative control in an industry that had exploited his talents and treated him like chattel. Hatched from desperation yet full of hope Ghetto Records came crashing down shortly after its inception. The seven albums in the Ghetto discography languished out of print. From Ear to Ear (1971) by La Fantástica was one of them. Orquesta La Fantástica was led by tenor saxophonist, vocalist, and composer Samuel "Sammy" León, who hailed from Brooklyn. His 11-piece orchestra of local musicians featured a rather unique sound, which combined piano and vibraphone with a brass section of two tenor saxophones and a pair of trumpets. They were signed to Ghetto Records by Bataan's business partner George Febo after being blown away by both the band and the overwhelming reaction of the crowd at the Village Gate. La Fantástica had all original tunes, with modern arrangements and a típico feel. Most importantly, they were fortunate to have vocalist Rafael "Ralphy" De Jesús, aka Chuleta and From Ear To Ear greatly benefited from his contributions. From Ear To Ear is composed exclusively of heavy-hitters, including the beguiling English-language psychedelic soul slow-burner "Latin Blues." "Con Quién Andas," a hot salsa banger beloved by DJs and collectors alike, features killer saxophone and trumpet riffs with an interplay worthy of Puente or Machito. Though "Ya No Te Quiero" and "Telegrama" are breakup songs, they function as swinging dance floor ass-shakers with heavy percussion breaks and crazy horn riffs. The band's origins as an instrumental outfit are further displayed by a couple of vocal-free workouts that close out the album: "M&M," a guaguancó rumba jam session dedicated to the band's discoverer, Maisonave, and "Sassie," a Latin jazz suite that flies through a number of captivating sections with different rhythms, tempos, and arrangements. One aspect of the release that has inspired discussion and conjecture is its psychedelic album art. It was designed by an employee at Sanabria's design studio, Charlie Rosario. They wanted something more-colorful and hip that would grab the public's attention. Rosario's surrealistic illustration, with its disembodied ears, rainbows and multi-colored female head floating amongst the clouds, was perfect. Vampisoul is now reissuing From Ear to Ear thanks to a collaboration with Now-Again Records. The release includes an insert with liner notes.

 

PRICE: $15.50

CAT #: VAMPI 45121EP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

The end of the dictatorship in Spain ushered in a period of openness that included a kind of sexual revolution, in which the female body was shown nude in magazines and films in a way that had never been seen before. Susana Estrada -- model, actress, and singer -- became one of the country's most popular sex symbols after appearing in numerous films of the so-called "cine de destape" (softcore Spanish cinema of the '70s). Meanwhile, Josep Llobell was a Catalan musician, composer, and producer who pioneered the introduction of cosmic disco and Italo sounds to Spain. Bringing these two figures together gave birth to this erotic disco project. Amor y libertad, their LP released in 1981 on the Sauce label has since become a cult recording within the international cosmic disco scene. From this album, Vampisoul have selected two of its finest tracks to be reissued for the first time on a 45.

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: VEN 672LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Limited repress on clear with black hi-melt vinyl. Note new price. Sex-classic Stay Sick was originally released in 1990 and features more of the dark side of rockabilly in a jugular vein. The opener, a hopped-up cover of obscure Sun Records tune 'Bop Pills,' proves that rumors of amphetamine usage by the original Memphis rockabilly cats was not exaggerated, and sets the pace for the rest of the album. Hog-wild covers of 'Shortninʼ Bread' and 'Muleskinner Blues' probably have the original writers dancing on their graves, and The Cramps' version of the perverse rarity 'Her Love Rubbed Offʼ' shines a lurid spotlight on the only song that Carl Perkins was admittedly ashamed of writing. Plus, Stay Sick delivers loads of action-packed originals celebrating kamikaze thrill-seeking and scary sexy she-creatures. This is pure jungle music -- one half hillbilly and one half punk. If you canʼt dig this then you must have 'Daisys Up Your Butterfly'! Still a favorite among rock ʼnʼ roll sickos worldwide."

 

PRICE: $29.00

CAT #: VEN 674LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

"Limited repress on metallic red vinyl. Dangerous, bizarre, but most of all cool, The Cramps one again prove themselves as leaders in skull-fracturing rock ʼnʼ roll, delving even deeper into a wicked netherworld where few have dared to tread. They are the architects of a sound that has spawned an entire subversive subculture. Originally released in 1997, Big Beat From Badsville is a haul-ass, careening monster of a record featuring more songs of mutilation, shape-shifting, psycho frenzies and she-devil-worship."

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: VEF 091LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

A stunning fusion of soul, jazz, hip hop, and funk from Spain's most exciting artists presented in volume five of Sampladelia series. From dancefloor anthems to deep, soulful grooves-pure contemporary fire. The Groove Family kicks off the compilation with a dancefloor banger, while Carlos Abril takes listeners on a soulful journey, and producer Blunted Soul dives into instrumental hip hop infused with funk. From Jerez, Maestro Mutante delivers a distinctive sound full of contemporary soul, while Sr. Zambrana blends jazz, hip hop, and Japanese influences. Smart K., from Vigo, brings his signature Spanish-sung R&B, and guitarist Juanma Montoya proves that soul-funk and flamenco accents are a perfect match. Karmasound mixes jazz with electronic textures, MrFoxMad pays an elegant tribute to Roy Ayers, and Malage delivers a killer track for the dancefloor. Laboca joins Flavia Beaká with experimental, conscious hip hop, and to close the compilation, Pablo Torti represents the new wave of Spanish contemporary jazz. Enjoy this new volume of Sampladelia series! Remixes by Marte, Slowlee, and Escandaloso Xpósito.

 

PRICE: $27.00

CAT #: VP 4239LP

FILE UNDER: REGGAE

2026 repress; reissue, originally released in 1978. "Return of the Super Ape was the final revelation from Lee Perry's Black Ark Studio before it close, a psychedelicized dub journey into uncharted sonic territories. Return of the Super Ape is the follow-up to the highly acclaimed dub album Super Ape. Just like the predecessor, the album was produced by Lee 'Scratch' Perry. It was the last album by the Upsetters before Perry closed down his Black Ark Studio. The album showcases yet again the prodigious production skills of undisputed dub master Lee "Scratch" Perry's insanely layered textures and technical wizardry, with the Upsetters providing their musical backing. Now freshly remastered and restored for 2022 with original press artwork complete with inner disco sleeve."

 

PRICE: $25.00

CAT #: WRJ 002LP

FILE UNDER: JAZZ

2026 repress. "Regular edition" on 140 gram vinyl. We Release Jazz (WRWTFWW Records' new sister-label) present the official reissue of criminally overlooked Japanese jazz gem Mellow Dream by Hokkaido pianist wunderkind Ryo Fukui, originally released in 1977. Released in conjunction with the its legendary predecessor 1976's Scenery (WRJ 001CD/LP/LTD-LP). Firmly standing on the foundation he laid down with Scenery, Ryo Fukui continues his exploration of modal, bop, and cool jazz sounds with meticulous grace and absolute mastery. As its title suggests, Mellow Dream ventures into slightly mellower, more soulful, and sometimes more contemplative territories (the Bill Evans-reminiscent "Mellow Dream" and "My Foolish Heart") while still packing the commanding punch Fukui's work is loved for, as heard on the amazingly bombastic "Baron Potato Blues" or the gigantic McCoy Tyner/John Coltrane-influenced "Horizon" which sees each member of the trio -- Satoshi Denpo is on bass and Yoshinori Fukui is on drums -- demonstrating their virtuosity for nine exhilarating minutes. With his sophomore album, Ryo Fukui swings from melancholy to vibrant joy with ease, and reminds you that jazz is best served with a pinch of blues, and displays an immensely rare combination of pure talent, unique personal approach and focused discipline. The man undeniably deserves a spot in the pantheon of all-time great jazz pianists. After releasing the outstanding Scenery and Mellow Dream back-to-back, Ryo Fukui worked on developing his live skills, often performing at Sapporo's Slowboat Jazz Club (which he co-founded with his wife Yasuko Fukui), and even releasing two live albums. He sadly passed away in March 2016, leaving behind a legacy of works that all jazz lovers should explore. Sourced from the original masters. Mastered at half speed; 140 gram vinyl; includes sticker.

 

PRICE: $33.00

CAT #: WPFC 102LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

2026 restock. Deluxe gatefold 2LP version; 2nd edition, no longer contains the (marginally viable) 3CD glasses. Includes a download code that can be used to download all tracks plus a 24-page digital booklet (note: it no longer includes a physical booklet). 'You won't find Os Mutantes or their maestro Rogerio Duprat on this compilation. There is a reason that the records contained here have never been reissued. Even though you will recognize some of the labels contained here... believe me when I write this: some of the rarest, and best, examples of fuzzy, funky Brazilian psychedelia came out as promo-only 7" records on these labels.' Each song contained on this album has never been reissued, and has been restored from the best source possible and remastered for near-perfect sound quality. Artists: Celio Balona, Loyce E Os Gnomes, The Youngsters, Serguei, Fabio, Tony E Som Colorido, 14 Bis, Banda De 7 Legues, Ton E Sergio, Ely, Com Os Falcoes Reais, Marisa Rossi, The Pops, Loyce E Os Gnomes, Piry and Mac Rybell.

 

PRICE: $58.00

CAT #: YAI 004LP

FILE UNDER: ROCK

Ven Al Fuego is the perfect compilation and representative of the powerful unstoppable force from the band on stage. Play this album, play it loud and you will be enjoying one of the most memorable live shows that explores musical horizons emancipated from British rock tradition. Mohama Saz from Madrid, Spain are one of the most exciting live bands in the world today, a mind-blowing manifestation of pure psychedelic exotica. Within minutes of taking the stage they have the audience completely under their spell, dancing in wide-eyed bliss to their uniquely intoxicating music. With an electrified Baglama Saz as their lead instrument they fuse elements of Turkish and Armenian folk music, Mediterranean psychedelia and mesmerizing Middle Eastern-flavored ragas with galvanizing go-go discotheque grooves.