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Hyper-On Experience - The Distant Relatives EP
KF098XSE
Kniteforce Records
12inchRelease unknown

BeatsJungle

This is a very limited new version of what was once a very limited 7" release. The original 7" contained a remix from Pete Cannon and the mash up Mozaik, but in both cases the mixes were cut down in length due to restrictions with the 7" format. So now we have this exclusive 12" version, which not only allows for the full length versions of those classic tracks, but also allows us to add the much requested Gothika Shade remix of Disturbance to the EP as a whole!

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15,34 €
Dj Mixer - Headliner R2 2-Channel Rotary Mixer

R2 2-CHANNEL ROTARY DJ MIXER

Introducing the Headliner R2, a 2-channel rotary DJ mixer that
is perfect for DJ’s looking for precise control and a warm sound,
without breaking the bank. The R2 is packed with features, like an
analog filter and 3-band isolator EQs on each channel, and uses
only high-quality components, including genuine ALPS potentiometers.

Featuring two stereo channels with selectable Line and Phono
RCA inputs, each channel on the Headliner R2 comes equipped
with gain control with a peak LED, a 3-band isolator EQ, a headphone cue selector, a large channel volume control knob, and a
filter activation switch.

The Master channel boasts an analog filter, headphone monitoring,
and output control section. The analog filter features selectable
High Pass / Low Pass Filter modes with Frequency and Resonance
controls, giving you precise control over your sound. Independent
Master and Booth outputs with volume controls, both with balanced
XLR and unbalanced RCA connectors, give you the flexibility to
connect to any sound system.

The Headliner R2 features genuine ALPS potentiometers, and a
sturdy metal enclosure with stained wood side panels for a classic
look that will complement any DJ setup. The modular internal
construction, coupled with the external power supply connected
via locking Mini XLR ensure superior audio performance.
The Headliner R2 is a reliable, high-quality mixer that will give
your DJ performances that classic vibe. Whether you’re spinning
house, techno, or classic funk/soul/disco jams, this fun little mixer
is the perfect addition to your setup.

• Two stereo channels with selectable Line and Phono RCA inputs
• Each channel features Gain control with Peak LED, 3-Band Isolator EQ, Headphones Cue selector with LED, channel
volume control and filter activation switch with LED
• Master channel features analog filter, headphone monitoring and output control section
• Analog filter features selectable High Pass / Low Pass Filter modes with Frequency and Resonance controls
• Genuine ALPS potentiometers
• Headphone Cue control section features volume control, mix control (Cue/Master), and split monitor switch
• High current headphone amplifier with dual 1/4” and 1/8” jacks
• Independent Master and Booth outputs with volume controls, balanced XLR outputs and unbalanced RCA outputs
• Additional Record output with unbalanced RCA jacks
• Dual LED level meters for the Master output
• Microphone input with level control on front panel
• Sturdy metal enclosure with stained wood side panels
• Modular internal construction for superior audio performance
• External split rail power supply connected via locking Mini XLR connector and push-button power switch
• Measurements: 320 x 219 x 106 mm
• Weight: 2.8 kg

Microphone Input
Nominal Input Level: -50dBu
Frequency Response: 20Hz – 20kHz (+/- 0.1dB)
THD + N: 100dB
Crosstalk: 100dB
Übersprechen: < -65dB
THD + N: < 0,05%
Kopfhörerausgang
Maximaler Ausgangspegel: 70mA/Kanal in 150Ω
Minimale Lastimpedanz: 32 Ohm/Kanal
Stromversorgung
Typ: Extern mit verriegelbarem Mini-XLR-Stecker
Eingangsspannung: 100-240v ~ 50/60Hz
Ausgangsspannung: +/-15V; 500mA
Spannungsbereich: 32 Ohm/Kanal

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306,72€
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis LP
  • 1: L'orso
  • 2: Emergence
  • 3: That Thang
  • 4: Three Sisters
  • 5: Boatly
  • 6: The Time is the Place
  • 7: Railroad Tracks Home
  • 8: Asthenia
  • 9: Fourth Wall
5894589
Universal Music Germany
12inchRelease unknown

PopJazzWorld Music

Neu auf Impulse! Records: Die Musik des experimentellen Jazz-Punk-Trios The Messthetics aus Washington DC, bestehend aus ehemaligen Mitgliedern der Punk-Band Fugazi (Bassist Joe Lally, Schlagzeuger Brendan Canty) und dem Gitarristen Anthony Pirog, wurde bereits mit dem ungewöhnlichen Genre-Label „Jazz-Punk-Jam“ versehen. Auf ihrem ersten Album für das ikonische Impulse!-Label haben die drei sich jetzt mit Jazz-Saxofonist, Komponist und Bandleader James Brandon Lewis zusammengetan. Gemeinsam erweitern The Messthetics und James Brandon Lewis jetzt die Grenzen instrumentaler Musik durch ungewöhnliche Überschneidungen von Jazz, Punk und Funk, Aggression und Innovation.

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27,94 €
Luis Pitti - OLDSKOOL SERIES VOL 1
EXB001
ExperimentalBass Records
12inchRelease unknown

BeatsBreak-BeatBassSynth

This is the first vinyl release of our label, from the Canary Islands to the world! The founder and Spanish producer Luis Pitti captures in this release some of the sounds and style that marked an era on our beloved island. On this record you will find Oldskool Hardcore sounds, breaks, enveloping pianos, synths and sounds from the 90s fused with a modern and fun touch.

Released in a limited edition by ExperimentalBass Records on 150 gram black viny

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15,55 €
Ranie Ribeiro - Contemplation MC (TAPE)
DR-MAR03
Duality Research
CassetteRelease unknown

PopJazz

Ranie Ribeiro's artistic journey has taken on new dimensions and disciplines. Formerly known by his DJ moniker D-Ribeiro (4Lux, Meda Fury), Ranie Ribeiro has solidified himself as one of the Netherlands' most unique harpists. Whereas his past releases could be defined by up-tempo, warm, and joyful beats, Ribeiro now presents his first full-length harp record, Contemplation--a delicate collection of unassuming harp compositions and improvisations. A record that has gone through multiple iterations, shapes and life-changes, Contemplation plays out like you're sitting in the room minding your own business as Ribeiro's playing fades in-and-out from the corner, accompanying your thoughts, your chores, your life as it all passes you by. In a musical world where over-processing and manipulation obfuscate intent and feeling; Contemplation is vulnerable. Putting his stake in the ground and claiming his artistic space, Ribeiro refuses to let insecurities stand in his way and his music comforts you so much it'll empower you to feel the same. Words by Gregory Markus

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10,29 €
ELECTRIC SATIE - GYMNOPÉDIE '99
ISCHFR-001
ISC HI-FI SELECTS
12inchRelease unknown

PopKlassic

Electric Satie is a one-off conceptual project by Japanese composer Mitsuto Suzuki, who is mostly known for his work on Final Fantasy soundtracks. Released on CD-only in 1998, “Gymnopédie ’99” reimagines Erik Satie’s beloved piano compositions in electronic form ranging sonically from downtempo bossa-nova (featuring Brazilian percussionist Marco Bosco and vocalist Silvio Anastacio) to freestyle ambience and chillout room IDM, not far from the music featured on Music from Memory’s “Virtual Dreams II” or Warp Record’s “Artificial Intelligence.” A deeply imaginative composer and arranger, Suzuki harnesses a unique mix of drum machines, synthesizers, live percussion, soprano saxophone, piano, and spoken word to craft a lush and vividly futuristic sound world that video game soundtrack enthusiasts will easily fall into.

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25,63 €
Avalanche Party - Der Traum Uber Alles
  • John Coltrane's Moscow Skyscraper Nureyev
  • Said It Best
  • No Neutral
  • Shake The Slack
  • Ecstasy
  • Serious Dance Music
  • The Noise Between Us
  • Slinky Chainz
  • Target
  • Collateral Damage
AMK007LP
AMK Records
12inchRelease unknown

PopIndie

Avalanche Party is a garage-punk rock and roll band from the bleak yet beautiful North Yorkshire Moors After releasing their critically acclaimed debut album '24 Carat Diamond Trephine' in 2019 (BBC 6Music, BBC Radio 1, Radio X, KEXP, NME Top 100, PRS Momentum Fund Award), the band toured heavily until they weren't allowed anymore in 2020. After picking up with they left off, hitting the road with mentors ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, they found their way to the hallowed Rancho De La Luna studio in California's Joshua Tree in 2022 to record their follow up album, engineered and produced by Dave Catching (QOTSA, Iggy Pop, Arctic Monkeys). DER TRAUM UBER ALLES is now ready to be unleashed onto the world.

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27,31 €
Helen Ganya - Share Your Care
  • Weera
  • Share Your Care
  • Mekong
  • Interlude 1 - Sam Law
  • Fortune
  • Horizon
  • Morlam Plearn (Luk Khrueng Surprise)
  • Interlude 2 - Look That Way!
  • Barn Nork
  • Hell Money
  • Chaiyo!
  • Interlude 3 - Conversations At The Catfish Lake
  • Myna
BELLA1625V
Bella Union
12inchRelease unknown

PopIndie

In the summer of 2021, Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai songwriter Helen Ganya's grandmother passed away

The grief hit the artist hard, not only because it marked the loss of her last remaining grandparent, but also because it felt like her links to being half- Thai were disintegrating, roots quaking and shifting in uncharted territories. Ganya grew up in Singapore, but spent her summers in the northeast of Thailand where her mum's side of the family is from, visiting her grandmother. Where would all those memories go now that the person at the centre of them was gone? What was her relationship to this place without that glue? And so, in an attempt to process it all, Ganya began to write. "I got my diary and wrote every single memory of my time as a child in Thailand, spending time with her, my grandad, my aunts and cousins and everything," she explains, "I had these snapshots of memories that I just wrote down because I just suddenly panicked: it was like, who am I, then?" It was for this reason that, while Helen Ganya was waiting for her acclaimed 2022 album, polish the machine, to come out, she was already working on what would become her arresting new record, Share Your Care. Ganya has been releasing music since 2015 (formerly under the moniker Dog in the Snow). In the records she's put out over the years, she's shown a proclivity towards dark and artful rock and off- kilter sounds, garnering praise from the likes of the Sunday Times, Uncut, Clash, Loud & Quiet and more. But Share Your Caremarks a new era, building on Ganya's past sonic worlds and interspersing them with traditional Thai instrumentation, resulting in a plush, luminous, psych-tinged affair that is full of feeling. The result is a triumphant, abundant record, teeming with heart and cinematic warmth.

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28,99 €
Rikas - Soundtrack For A Movie That Has Not Been Written Yet
  • Bike in L.A
  • Driving Down Slow with My 505
  • Barcelona (Learning to Love Myself)
  • Strangers
  • Heartbreak Big Mac
  • Passenger
  • Souvenir Shop
  • Opposite Opinions
  • Just Like Ice Cream
  • Where Do You Go?
  • Jude Bellingham
  • It's a Beautiful World (When I'm on My Own)
NMG31576
Nettwerk
12inchRelease unknown

PopIndie

The Germany-based band Rikas' new album, "Soundtrack For A Movie That Has Not Been Written Yet," promises to be their most cohesive and contemplative project to date

Comprising 11 brisk yet beautiful tracks, the album showcases the band's tight tempos and mellow delivery. "We started this record just to have fun. It's not been that easy, because so much change has happened," guitarist and keyboardist Sascha Scherer reflects. "We've had to learn to adapt... This record is more inward-looking. We were reflecting. " Scherer further explains, "I think a lot of bands have trouble staying still. When you stop touring and moving to a new city each day, you feel lost. I feel like our new album is capturing that feeling of go, go, go." This feeling of inertia contains layers: there's a sense of restlessness, but also brotherhood and camaraderie-- feelings Rikas aim to depict in each of the album's videos. "For our sophomore album, we wanted to create a very homogeneous one," Scherer continues. "Which was not easy to achieve because we have made the experience that throughout all of our records every song differs from each other. We have four songwriters who happen to be also multi-instrumentalists in our band, and that's why we don't have to put much effort into diverse record making. Instead, we had to put pressure on ourselves to make something consistent. But we also didn't want to make every song sound the same. So the concept of the album lays in its topics."The songs for "Soundtrack For A Movie That Has Not Been Written Yet" were written over the past year, adapting and shaping old snippets and ideas, as well as creating songs completely from scratch. "For some reason, when we started writing and listening back to the songs, they all shared a similar feeling of cruising, traveling, being in motion," Scherer says. "This wasn't intentional at first, but felt more and more suiting as we proceeded with the writing. We found we'd enjoy the songs most while driving in our van, looking out the window, seeing the landscapes passing by. This has something very meditating to itself already, amplified even more by a suiting soundtrack. This is the soundtrack we tried to write. The album in its entirety is supposed to feel warm, hugging, like 'being bedded in cotton.'" For the visual content of the album, the band decided to travel to San Remo, northern Italy, to capture some of the late November sun. "In a way, you could say we tried to film the first part of the movie whose soundtrack we had just written," Scherer concludes. "Soundtrack For A Movie That Has Not Been Written Yet" is a testament to Rikas' ability to adapt and reflect on their journey, offering listeners a meditative and immersive experience that captures the essence of being in motion.

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Dunn with Lords and Lady Kevin - Last Days At Hot Slit LP
  • Despair
  • Devil Woman
  • Hell Better
  • Hiq82
  • Humanity One
  • Last Days At Hot Slit
  • Lazarus
  • Monday
  • Shape
  • Sweet Jesus
  • Indifference
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ODR117LPPK
OVERDRIVE RECORDS
12inchRelease unknown

BeatsExperimentalAbstract

This is the third release by Trevor Dunn (Mr Bungle, Fantomas, Trio Convulsant, various with John Zorn) and Kevin Rutmanis (Tomahawk, Melvins, Cows, Hepa/Titus) On this outing Trevor joins Lords and Lady Kevin (duo of Kevin Rutmanis and drummer/artist Gina Skwoz) for a full length LP "Last Days at Hot Slit"

Songs are loosely based on assorted gospel, blues and jazz songs, some original, some covers. Included is a re-working of Mingus "Devil Woman". The trio based the pieces on improvisations that were then arranged and used to build free standing songs. A multitude of instruments were exploited by all those involved, to create a sizzling blend of aural delicacies. The album title is from a collection by writer Andrea Dworkin, often sited as the Celine of feminism. Less outre perhaps than their previous recordings, these songs hover somewhere between soundtrack- like excursions, to jazz/ blues mutations to a demented "rock" sounding affair. Something for everybody, or perhaps, nobody! Uniting former and current members of Tomahawk, Last Days At Hot Slit marks a powerful reunion between Rutmanis and Dunn. The record took shape gradually, born from Rutmanis's raw, unconventional bass recordings. "I sent Trevor a phone recording of some hideous bass racket and asked if he wanted to add anything," Rutmanis shares. "What he sent back was something like delicious fresh cherries with ice and banana slices." The pair's combined creativity gave rise to a new, immersive soundscape, while their collaborative piece, Crackpot Whorehead, set the tone for the current formation of Lords and Lady Kevin."

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis
  • Can't We Be Friends
  • Isn't This A Lovely Day?
  • Moonlight In Vermont
  • They Can't Take That Away From Me
  • Under A Blanket Of Blue
  • Tenderly
  • A Foggy Day
  • Stars Fell On Alabama
  • Cheek To Cheek
  • The Nearness Of You
  • April In Paris
526005
WAXTIME IN COLOR
12inchRelease unknown

PopJazz

The complete album - limited edition pressing on 180g crystal clear vinyl

Although both Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong had met and performed and recorded a number of singles together during 1940s for Decca, they wouldn't be heard on LP together until 1956 when producer Norman Granz paired the two for this first album session, Ella & Louis, which became an immediate hit. Two further sessions under Granz, followed, Ella & Louis Again, and Porgy & Bess. All three albumswere both critically acclaimed and commercial successes - appealing to audiences in and beyond the confines of jazz per se. Ella & Louis features the incredible Oscar Peterson Trio plus legendary drummer Buddy Rich. As one of the most iconic and fascinating jazz albums ever produced, its appeal and commercial sales haven't waned during the sixty-nine years since its first release. "Ella & Louis is one of the very, very few albums to have been issued in this era of the LP flood that is sure to endure for decades." - ***** Nat Hentoff, DownBeat

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24,16 €
LOLO - LOLO LP
BS097
BLACK SWEAT RECORDS
12inchRelease unknown

PopWorld Music

The roots of African music are always open to new possibilities. This is revealed in the music of this unprecedented quartet. Alongside the Malian singer Rokia Traore', Mamah Diabate, Malian griot and djeli ngoni player, has been playing for several years with Stefano Pilia (Afterhours, Massimo Volume). Now, their path intertwines with the artistic and human partnership between Jabel Kanuteh, Gambian griot and kora virtuoso, and percussionist Marco Zanotti(Classical Afrobeat Orchestra, Cucoma Combo). The union of these two pairs develops unusual geographies and architectures, where dual African and Italian identities merge into one universal sensibility. The predominant Malian and Gambian modes chase each other, but all is fused into a broader rhythm factory or embellished by more abstract and liquid experimental digressions. The curiosity and pliability of the individual musicians search for a language that is both current and contemporary, always poised between ancient and modern, landscape and narrative, with jazz, rock and folk influences.

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18,28 €
Miles Davis - Agharta LP 2x12"
  • A1: (Part I)
  • B1: Prelude (Part II)
  • B2: Maiysha
  • C1: Interlude
  • C2: Theme from Jack Johnson
MOVLP134C
Music On Vinyl
2x12inchRelease unknown

PopJazz

The capstone of Miles Davis’ electric period, Agharta reigns as a funk-rock fireball — a blazing comet streaked energy and elan, a fearless organism feasting on adventure and freedom, a seven-headed Godzilla stomping its way through Osaka, Japan. Recorded on February 1, 1975 at Osaka Festival Hall at the first of a two-show stand, the double album offers an endless abundance of surprises and shifts — as well as a road-proven ensemble whose chemistry and abilities equal that of any of Davis’ celebrated bands. If the true measure of jazz is the capacity to adapt to the moment and challenge perception, Agharta is consummate.

Sourced from the original master tapes, housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 33RPM 2LP set of this epic live release presents it in audiophile sound on a domestic pressing for the first time. Offering greater degrees of separation, detail, and richness than the compressed CD editions and more clarity, openness, and presence than older vinyl copies, this version of the 1975 release helps bring the concert stage to your home. Just make sure your turntable and speakers are up to the challenge of Davis and Co.’s explosive performances — and producing the decibels they demand.

Teeming with vibrant colors, tones, and pace, Mobile Fidelity’s reissue captures the hear-it-to-believe-it flow, sweep, and moodiness of the music. Though the group honors looseness and freedom with religious verve, the specificity and scale rendered by this remaster allows you to detect methods behind the alleged madness that are often otherwise harder to discern. This insight extends to the understated changes in volume, harmonics, and phrasings. In many ways, you can listen as Davis himself did that early February evening as he helped coordinate the overall direction and decided on whether to blow his wah-wah-wired trumpet or take a turn on the organ.

Tellingly, Agharta would likely never have been made if not for Davis’ ventures overseas and, specifically, to the Land of the Rising Sun. Having for years faced a backlash on his native soil for his choices to experiment and blow past all known borders, Davis was welcomed with open arms in Japan. The concert documented on Agharta — as well as the day’s later show, captured on the equally exciting Pangea — stemmed from a sold-out three-week tour that would ultimately mark Davis’ final public appearances for years, as he soon settled into semi-retirement and nursed the wounds connected to an unprecedented stretch of restless and relentless output.

For all the band-fueled merit of Agharta — and there’s plenty, given the cast of saxophonist Sonny Fortune, bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Al Foster, percussionist James Mtume, and guitarists Reggie Lucas and Pete Cosey seemingly blasts off to outer space and travels distant galaxies by the time this minimally edited record runs its course — Davis’ own playing often remains overlooked. As critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton observed, it is “often fantastically subtle, creating surges and ebbs in a harmonically static line, allowing him to build huge melismatic variations on a single note.” He attacks like a man on a mission, out to prove naysayers wrong and bent on trailblazing another new path forward. Convention and skeptics be damned.

Noisy and furious, dark and discordant, abstract and off-balance, radical and intense, abrasive and atmospheric, strangely beautiful and hypnotically eccentric: Agharta evades simple description, and refuses to be pinned down in any established category — rock, jazz, punk, ambient, prog, avante-garde, or otherwise. Shot through with trench-deep grooves, screaming riffs, scalding solos, and free-improv leads, its cosmic thrust comes on as the equivalent of an animated pointillist painting comprised of millions of textured dots, dashes, and dabs that hold your attention so raptly you want to revisit the ideas again and again.

Always steps ahead of everyone else, Davis knew what he was doing even when Agharta debuted in Japan before later hitting U.S. markets. Though “Maiysha” and “Theme from Jack Johnson” are identified in the track listing, the record contains a number of uncredited references to other Davis works, including a nod to “So What.” This decision to bypass labels only adds to the art of the reveal — the rare black magic in which Agharta expertly deals.

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RAY CHARLES - The Genius Of Ray Charles LP 2x12"
  • A1: Let The Good Times Roll
  • A2: It Had To Be You
  • A3: Alexander's Ragtime Band
  • B1: Two Years Of Torture
  • B2: When Your Lover Has Gone
  • B3: Deed I Do
  • C1: Just For A Thrill
  • C2: You Won't Let Me Go
  • C3: Tell Me You'll Wait For Me
  • D1: Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin
  • D2: Am I Blue
  • D3: Come Rain Or Come Shine
AAPA066-45
Analogue Productions
2x12inchRelease unknown

Hip-HopSoulPopJazz

Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records! Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums 265/500 for 2012 180-gram 45 RPM double LP Pressed at Quality Record Pressings Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing The Genius of Ray Charles, his sixth studio album, released in 1959 by Atlantic Records, eschewed the the soul sound of his 1950s recordings, which fused jazz, gospel, and blues, for swinging pop with big band arrangements.

Charles is joined bymany ringers from the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands for the first half of this program, featuring Charles belting out six songs arranged by Quincy Jones. "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Deed I Do" are highlights, and there are solos by tenorman David "Fathead" Newman, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, and (on "Two Years of Torture") tenor Paul Gonsalves. The remaining six numbers are ballads, with Charles backed by a string orchestra arranged by Ralph Burns (including "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'"). Charles' voice is heard throughout in peak form, giving soul to even the veteran standards. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, and housed in a tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing.

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83,99 €
LIGUORI / STOCCHI / STRATOS - CANTATA ROSSA PER TALL EL ZAATAR LP
BS091
BLACK SWEAT RECORDS
12inchRelease unknown

PopJazz

This album is both a musical and political document that tells the story of one of the most brutal massacres that took place in 1976 in a Palestinian refugee camp during the Lebanese Civil War. Pianist Gaetano Liguori, along with Giulio Stocchi and Demetrio Stratos (the legendary singer of the band Area), composed this album, a gut-wrenching blend of free jazz, poetry, and Mediterranean music. The first edition was released in 1978 and, after almost 50 years, unfortunately, nothing seems to have changed. If we call ourselves human, we cannot help but grieve for the suffering of the Palestinian people. This is the third edition of the album, and as with the previous releases, all proceeds will go to charity. This time, we have chosen to donate the funds to UNRWA.

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Van Halen - Fair Warning 2x12"
  • Mean Street
  • Dirty Movies
  • Sinners Swing!
  • Hear About It Later
  • Unchained
  • Push Comes to Shove
  • So This Is Love?
  • Sunday Afternoon in the Park
  • One Foot Out the Door
LMFUD1S035
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
2x12inchRelease unknown

PopRock

The song titles on Van Halen's aptly titled Fair Warning don't lie. The likes of "Unchained," "Mean Street," "Push Comes to Shove," "One Foot Out the Door," and more indicate the mood the band channels on its double-platinum 1981 record — the nastiest, darkest, and fiercest album of the group's storied career. For the fourth time in four years, Van Halen throws down the gauntlet to all challengers and emerges victorious.


Sourced from the original analog tapes, pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing, and strictly limited to 5,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP set plays with unfettered clarity, dynamics, and immediacy. Benefitting from superb groove definition, an ultra-low noise floor, and dead-quiet surfaces, this vinyl edition captures what went down in the studio with tremendous realism and involving presence.

Taking a more controlled approach in the studio and still completing everything in less than two weeks, Van Halen and producer Ted Templeman relied on studio amplifiers to direct the sound. Further diverging from the live-on-the-floor approach of its earlier albums, the ensemble also employed overdubs to great effect. The result: Dense, stacked architecture that underlines the hard-hitting tenor of the songs — and which comes alive like never before on this reference edition that looks as good as it sounds.

The premium packaging and gorgeous presentation befit the reissue's select status. Housed in a deluxe slipcase, it features special foil-stamped jackets and faithful-to-the-original graphics that illuminate the splendor of the recording. Aurally and visually, it is made for listeners who want to immerse themselves in everything involved with the album, including the iconic cover art adopted from William Kurelek's haunting painting, "The Maze."

Isolated frames from Kurelek's childhood-inspired work — including a man bashing his head into a brick wall, a guy pinning down an adversary as he delivers bare-fist blows to his face and others watch with apparent glee, a boy tied down on a conveyer belt and being sent through the equivalent of a meat saw — adorn the front and back covers. The sunnier visual disposition of Van Halen's prior efforts gives way to something sinister and tortured, traits reflective of the music within. The band members, too, are visually depicted not in glamorous shots but in a serious black-and-white portrait in which the quartet is clad in black leather jackets.

Tough, aggressive, stark: Fair Warning comes on like a series of bare-knuckled punches to the solar plexus and boasts lyrical narratives to match. Though not a concept record, the concise album revolves around themes of roughing it on the streets and struggling to survive amid dim prospects. Singer David Lee Roth reportedly penned many of the initial lyrics after traveling to Haiti and observing extreme poverty. The characters and situations populating Fair Warning reflect hardscrabble existence, last-chance desperation, and underlying danger.

Witness the crazies, poor folks, and hunters of “Mean Street”; the former prom queen turned pornographic actress on “Dirty Movies”; the menace and vice of “Sinners Swing!”; the streetwise hustle of “Unchained”; the isolation and alienation of “Push Comes to Shove”; the desire for escape on “One Foot Out the Door”: A carefree California beach party Fair Warning is not.

Having said he felt angry and frustrated during the sessions, guitarist Eddie Van Halen uses the forceful arrangements as a playground for his seemingly unlimited arsenal. Supported by a crack rhythm section and a hyped-up Roth, he performs with an almost impossible combination of punk-like intensity, technical finesse, lyrical fluidity, and unbridled emotion. The virtuoso was increasingly butting heads with Templeton and seeking a freedom in the studio he believed denied him.

No wonder he plays like a bat out of hell. Listen to the rapid-fire manner in which he slaps the high and low E strings on the 12th fret of his instrument on “Mean Street,” instilling the tune with funk flair and metal-spiked sharpness. For the pouty strut of “Dirty Movies,” Eddie Van Halen contributes slide guitar magic made possible after he sawed off the lower portion of a Gibson SG so he could reach further down the fretboard.

Related intensity, urgency, and daredevil momentum punctuate the surging “Sinner’s Swing!” A heavily flanged, delicately melodic introduction frames the attitudinal “Hear About It Later,” among the most creative arrangements of Van Halen’s career. And do riffs come any bigger or magnetic than those on the high-wire kick of “Unchained”? As for the out-of-left-field “Sunday in the Park,” an instrumental composed on an Electro-Harmonix micro-synthesizer: Who but Eddie Van Halen to supply creep factor in such an ingenious way?

Despite selling fewer quantities than Van Halen’s prior efforts, Fair Warning remains for many diehards the record that epitomizes all of the band’s immense strengths —Roth’s manic energy and tongue-wagging humor, Alex Van Halen’s rhythmic heartbeat-in-your-chest bombast, and Michael Anthony’s lucid bass lines included. Arriving when the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and new-wave movements were taking flight, it signaled a shot across the bow from a band determined to stay a step ahead and provide proof nobody could touch what it delivered.

More than four decades later, Fair Warning still sounds that alarm.

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Calexico - The Black Light LP
  • A1: Gypsy's Curse
  • A2: Fake Fur
  • A3: The Ride (pt II)
  • A4: Where Water Flows
  • A5: The Black Light
  • A6: Sideshow
  • A7: Chach
  • A8: Missing
  • B1: Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal)
  • B2: Over Your Shoulder
  • B3: Vinegaroon
  • B4: Trigger
  • B5: Spawl
SLANG50031LP
CITY SLANG
12inchRelease unknown

PopAlternative

The perfect soundtrack for a summer roadtrip in an old car across Death Valley.

“Calexico's musical textures are woven out of a dazzling array of instruments and styles, including mariachi trumpets, countrified pedal steel, Latin jazz percussion, and carnival organ, just to name a few. The songs move at siesta speed, casually looping and loping along, never getting overheated. Bandmates Joey Burns and John Convertino have their hands in so many musical pies--including projects with OP8, Giant Sand, Victoria Williams, Giant Sand, and Richard Buckner--one wonders how they find the time to create the sun-soaked music of Calexico. But thank God they have.” --Tod Nelson

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27,94 €
Astral Yacht - Astral Yacht LP
  • A1: Follow The Constellation
  • A2: Dreamer
  • A3: Creation
  • A4: Concentrated Skies
  • A5: Galactic Remedy
  • A6: Short-Circuit Mind
  • B1: Desert Route
  • B2: Colors You've Never Seen
  • B3: Radio Yacht
  • B4: Chapel
  • B5: Misty Hollow
FNR-274
Funk Night
12inchRelease unknown

PopRockIndie

We’re proud to announce the debut LP from Astral Yacht. Heavy-duty psychedelic rock from Lincoln, NE. This one is killer!

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23,49 €
TEMU & MOFAK - Stank in Here / Heralds of the Stank (7")
TSRZV55
The Sleepers RecordZ
7"-VinylRelease unknown

Hip-HopFunkSoulHip-Hop

Stank In Here
Have no fear, the stank is here! Temu & Mofak are bringing it with their new single “Stank In Here”. Serving as a long-awaited follow-up to their first collaboration back in 2015, “On the Come Up”, the duo returns with an even smoother, soulful yet futuristic dance smash meticulously composed by Mofak for people of all ages to enjoy. Meanwhile, Temu addresses the listeners directly with a message of love and togetherness while echoing back to the era of EWF, Kool & The Gang, Zapp & Roger, and The Gap Band.

Heralds of the Stank
Temu is back on the scene with his new solo single “Heralds Of The Stank”. Temu recalls the first moments when the stank hit him personally and credits the ones who introduced him as its heralds — his parents — in an infectious funky tribute song. (Ever heard something so good it made you frown and pucker your lips while nodding your head? That’s the stank face!) Standing ten toes firm on his Funk roots, Temu both lyrically and musically draws inspiration from George Clinton, Sly & the Family Stone, Jackson 5, Prince, and James Brown. Be on the lookout for his upcoming album titled “HERALDS”.

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18,07 €
The Psycheground Group - Psychedelic and Underground Music LP
VMLP239R
Vinyl Magic
12inchRelease unknown

PopRock

The Psycheground Group has been a completely mysterious band for a very long time, about whom nothing was known except the fact
that they released an obscure LP in 1970, with a red front cover with a stylized drawing of a male face wearing a coloured bandana.

Only in recent times it has finally been revealed that “Psychedelic and Underground Music” was played and recorded –
and sung on very rare occasions – by musicians from Nuova Idea, who would debut only a year later with the LP “In the Beginning”,
the first in a trilogy of albums that would leave an important and indelible mark on the Italian Progressive Rock story.

“Psychedelic and Underground Music” is a fully instrumental album – with the exception of some vocal harmonization –
of rhythm & blues, pop and psychedelic music with a strongly British imprint: it is no coincidence that for a
long time it was mistakenly believed that The Psycheground Group were a English group.

“Psychedelic and Underground Music” is a wonderful cult album, impossible to find in its first edition
which is valued thousands of Euros in the collectors’ market. It is now reissued in an original-like version, on clear red vinyl.

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32,14 €
Goblin - Profondo Rosso (50th Anniversary Boxset)
BXMDF004
Cinevox
2x12inchRelease unknown

PopSoundtrack

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Profondo Rosso, Dario Argento’s masterpiece with its iconic Goblin soundtrack, comes a once-in-a-lifetime collector’s box set.

This box set, limited to 450 copies, includes:

GOBLIN - PROFONDO ROSSO / 2LP SET
Special double vinyl reissue with gatefold cover and brand new artwork including the original soundtrack, plus a bonus disc that contains a collection of tracks with the actual music used in the movie.

CALIBRO 35 - CANZONCINE PER BAMBINI / 12” LP
Exclusive 6-track LP featuring brand-new compositions by cinematic jazz-funk masters Calibro 35, blending their trademark sound with nursery rhymes sung by a real children’s choir.
The project is inspired by one of the film’s key scenes — a sort of MacGuffin around which the music playfully revolves — transforming that cinematic idea into a standalone concept full of irony, tension, and imagination.

FABIO CAPUZZO - NEL ROSSO PIÙ PROFONDO
LP-sized book, in English, containing one of the most detailed and thorough analysis on both “Profondo Rosso” movie and soundtrack ever written, courtesy of Fabio Capuzzo,one of the greatest Italian experts on the matter.

LENTICULAR IMAGE, revealing the film’s key scene, turning this edition into a true display piece.

A celebratory release of extraordinary cultural and collector’s value, blending cinema, music, and memorabilia into a total experience. An unmissable tribute to Profondo Rosso, fifty years on.

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120,59 €
Keith LaMar & Albert Marquès - LIVE FROM DEATH ROW (2x12")
  • 1: Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed on Freedom)
  • 2: The Journey
  • 3: Calling All Souls
  • 4: Alabama
  • 5: Transformation
  • 6: Tell ‘Em The Truth
  • 7: Intro to Strange Fruit
  • 8: Strange Fruit
  • 9: On Living
  • 10: Acknowledgement
  • 11: The Drowned and The Saved
  • 12: Truth
SILR028
Say it Loud Records
2x12inchRelease unknown

BeatsSpoken WordsPopJazz

Carmen and María bring a raw, organic, and contemporary sound, where groove and rhythm are the key. Their new album fuses flamenco and soul with unique vocal harmonies and the unmistakable rhythm of María’s guitar. Each song is born from their individual universes but transforms into a shared story of roots, evolution, and emotion. From groove-infused bulerías to neosoul-inspired tangos, their proposal is innovative, authentic, and full of soul.

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36,35 €
MARIOLINA ZITTA - CONCERT FOR BATS, VOICES AND NATURAL SOUNDS LP
BS099
BLACK SWEAT RECORDS
12inchRelease unknown

PopWorld MusicBeatsExperimental

At the end of the 1980s, Mariolina Zitta approached the world of natural sounds, studying musicology and developing a passion for speleology. Her encounter with Walter Maioli was fundamental, guiding and influencing her definitive research into sound archaeology and the primitive sources of musical acoustic phenomena. In these recordings Mariolina conducts a magical ritual as a cave priestess, celebrating the icons par excellence of the mysteries of the an ancestral enchantment on the border between consciousness and dreams, a symbolic liturgy of primordial reverberations, echoes and whistles. Edition of 200 copies.

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19,96 €
TOOPER KEPS - 1000 GUEST ROOMS
 
4
SON07-005
SOUTH OF NORTH
7"-VinylRelease unknown

HouseElectronicaPop

Holiday resort entertainer Tooper Keps takes a break from entertaining the professional leisure class, and reflects their own world back at them with an EP of otherworldly synths and eerie carnivalesque chansons.

Tooper Keps has fired up his trusty Yamaha PSR-11 and PSS-360 to write his first (and probably last) EP, condensing his favourite chord changes from years of distracting the retired and affluent. The result is a collection of floating song structures that revolve like fairground waltzes, punctuated by modulated effects, cowbells and Tooper’s own bitter tenor. Tapping into his inner goblin, he tackles themes such as property (as theft), Drexler’s gray goo problem, and the ‘merits’ of complaining about a system while also benefiting from it - a typical parasite’s paradox.

“1000 Guest Rooms” finds itself on location in luxury homes, cruise ships and holiday resorts, soaked in Tooper’s own self-loathing while casting a critical eye over the state of the world. While we hurtle towards a future that no one wants, “1000 Guest Rooms” is perhaps the best soundtrack we could hope for.

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12,56 €
Ranking Dread - Lots Of Loving
LANR058
Lantern Rec.
12inchRelease unknown

Hip-HopReggae

'Fully licensed, all tracks restored & remastered for the 1st time!
'Lots of Loving was the third album, originally released in 1980 by Freedom Sound Record, by legendary and controversial Jamaican deejay and singer Ranking Dread.
'Recorded at Channel One studio, with Barnabas as engineer and produced by Sugar Minott the album featured musicians from the Black Roots Players, Sly & Robbie, Steeely (Steely & Clevie) and many others... Voiced and mixed at King Tubby's Studio!
'One of the most dangerous rub-a-dub deejay lp’s!'

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23,11 €
Mahotella Queens - Buya Buya: Come Back LP
  • Jomba Jomba (Jump To The Music)
  • Buya Buya (Come Back)
  • Ngibuz'indlela (Show Me The Way)
  • Mpho Ke Lehlohonolo (Take Care Of Your Gift)
  • Phephezela (Wedding Dance)
  • Šalang (Farewell) ft. Jack Lerole Jnr
  • Thoko, Ujola Nobani? (Thoko, Who Are You Dating?)
  • Mma Ditaba (Gossipmonger)
  • Uyeke Amanga (Stop Your Lies)
  • Ba Ntshepisa Lenyalo (I'm Tired Of Your Promises)
  • Nkhono Le Ntate-Moholo (My Grandparents)
  • Laduma Lamthatha (The Thunder Roars)
UM108
Umsakazo
12inchRelease unknown

PopIndie

'The joyous harmonies and high-octane jive dances of South Africa’s greatest mbaqanga girlgroup, the Mahotella Queens, have enthralled audiences for six decades. "Buya Buya: Come Back" is the first full album of exciting new Queens material in nearly 20 years and marks their long-awaited return to the world stage. "These songs are in the Mahotella Queens’ original style and I can promise fans that it has been worth the wait," says lead singer Hilda Tloubatla, who at the grand age of 83 is the group’s last surviving original member. Hilda has been leading the Queens with her famously resonant voice since the beginning in 1964 and is now actively preparing the ground for the group’s future. She is now accompanied on record and on stage by the youthful voices of Amanda Nkosi and Nonku Maseko – the next generation of Queens – proof if ever it were needed that the mbaqanga beat is as indestructible now as it was 60 years ago. "Buya Buya: Come Back" is the group’s debut album for Umsakazo Records in the UK and is being launched with a two-week tour of Japan, the first performances of the Mahotella Queens outside South Africa since 2019 and their first appearance in Japan since 2005.'

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21,22 €
Various - Formicae Myrmecophilia
GOMMADURAVA02
Gommadura
12inchRelease unknown

TechnoTeknoHardcore

We the cyber ants
survivors of the post human era
by smashing dystopic hegemonies
together in colonies we cooperate
through a chemical communication strategy.
Crossing underground labyrinths
as clever roots
in symbiotic relationships we live and
in freaky spirals we dance 'til down.
Catching electricity with feelers
we destroy the buildings of
the enemies of love.
We're a neglected community
an unconquered moltitude of
Yessensis
Longicornis
Solenopsis and Subterranean
Martialis Eureka
Colobopsis Explodens and more.
Souls inside exoskeletons
we don't need your past
'cause we are your future.

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13,87 €
Various - Harkonnen
BOOMBASTIK01
Mobil'Disk Records
12inchRelease unknown

TechnoTeknoHardcore

Trackwahser side bring a crazy romance, mystic call for a tribal dancefloor banger ! Legend !
Second tune, in collab with Boubou, member of Antinorm-17 Sound System back in the years... The oldschool Acid excitation supported by a thick Hard Techno kick. Put some electricity in the air, be Deter-Mina !

With Roland K side you will get 2 Hardtek missiles !
The first track delivers a high-energy, fast-paced, and punchy vibe, perfect for rocking the dancefloor.
The second, a collab with Darth Leng, takes the energy even further with an explosive mix of styles and unrelenting power.
Tracks designed to get parties rocking and boost good vibes to the max!

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17,61 €
OTHERWORLDS - Fushigi Fiction 03

“OTHERWORLDS” is a fantasy / sci-fi book presenting collaborators from the past and future through their otherworldly visions. Each artist offers an intimate glimpse into their own abstractions. The A3 spreads reveal visions, fragments of alternative realities, strange and mysterious flora and fauna, fantastic creatures and altered states of perception.

The book takes you on a curious journey through the minds of many, connected by shared inspirations and their collective contribution to building the Childhood Intelligence universe over the past eight years.

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27,52€

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