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Heavy Entertainment Show' is the 11th studio album from Robbie Williams, who has sold over 70 million albums in his solo career and won more BRIT Awards than any other artist in history. The album will be released on November 4th via Columbia Records/ Sony Music. Robbie has worked with long time song writing collaborator Guy Chambers on tracks for this album as well as Johnny McDaid, Brandon Flowers, Ed Sheeran and Stuart Price.

A slice of American pop music filtered from the murky depths of Los Angeles, by way of the deep South, from a guy who vanished mysteriously. A folk-rock record w/its head in the stratosphere, backed by Phil Spector's sessioneers, The Wrecking Crew.

From Sundazed, the lost 1969 Jimi Hendrix single! Recorded in April, 1969, with key musicians from the guitar god's inner circle—Billy Cox on bass, Mitch Mitchell on drums, along with friends Roger Chapman and Andy Fairweather Low on backing vocals—this new platter features Hendrix' second studio attempt at "Stone Free," perhaps the song associated with him that best encapsulates the artist's restless renegade spirit!

Reprise scheduled this axe anthem as a single not long after the sessions, but for reasons unknown, they issued an earlier version that was recorded in 1966 and had previously appeared as a 1966 B-side in the UK. This revised, rocking, razing take on a favorite song of the performers' (he often performed it in his shows) only later appeared on a posthumous LP in the '70s in an overdubbed version...but it is restored to the original performances here on the new Sundazed 7" edition!



Also included is "Lover Man," a killer, funkified blues track with Billy Cox on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums, recorded summer, 1970. A tight and tempestuous groove that could've (and should've!) been an A-side of its own.



Two sides of pure, original Jimi Hendrix in his prime, presented by Sundazed in partnership with Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., the fourth in the series of commemorative singles with a new picture sleeve, featuring unique and hard-to-find vintage performances

Nirvana, live at Hollywood Rock Festival, Praça Da Apoteose, Rio De Janerio on January 23rd 1993.

Prior to the release of their raw and uncompromising In Utero album in September 1993, Nirvana performed in various parts of the world, kickstarting with two shows as part of the Hollywood Rock Festival in Brazil.

This set was recorded in Praça Da Apoteose, Rio De Janeiro on January 23rd, and originally broadcast on MTV Brazil. It finds the band playing tracks spanning their entire career, with a guest appearance from Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and is presented here together with background notes and images.

Celebrating 40 years of Status Quo, in 2005, they released their 27th studio album.
The album went straight in at number 18 in the UK Charts and spawned 2 Top 40 Singles, The Party Ain't Over Yet and All That Counts Is Love.
It was also Top 40 in Germany, Switzerland and Sweden.
For the first time ever the original album is available on double 180g heavyweight yellow vinyl.

Released in 1999, Under The Influence was the twenty-third studio album by Status Quo.
The album charted at number 26 in the UK Chart and spawned the three hit singles, The Way It Goes, Little White Lies and Twenty Wild Horses.
For the first time ever the original album is available on 180g heavyweight light blue vinyl.

In February 1996 Status Quo release Don't Stop: The 30th Anniversary Album. It was their twenty-second studio album and was completely made up of cover songs.
The Gold certified album debuted at number 2 in the UK Charts and was Top 40 in France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. It also includes the hit singles When You Walk In The Room, Fun Fun Fun, Don't Stop and All Around My Hat.
For the first time ever the original album is available on double 180g heavyweight transparent vinyl.

Repress.

The Mission is an English gothic rock band from the UK formed in 1986.

Initially known as The Sisterhood, the band was started by front man Wayne Hussey and bassist Craig Adams (both from The Sisters of Mercy). Aside from Hussey, the line-up has changed several times during the years and the band has been on hiatus twice.

Having sold over 4 million albums, the band reformed to celebrate 25 years of The Mission. Hussey, Hinkler and Adams reunited in 2011 to kick start a new chapter of the band and continue to tour the world & release new material.

Carved in Sand is the third regular studio album by The Mission, originally released in 1990. It reached #7 in the UK Albums Chart, making it the second of two top ten albums and overall best-selling album in the band's career. Four singles were released from the album: Butterfly on a Wheel', Deliverance', Into the Blue', Hands Across the Ocean'/'Amelia'. The band had invited members of its fan club to help select the tracks for the album.

The album saw the return of Tim Palmer as producer. The album was recorded at Jacobs studios and mixed at Swanyard studios.

Die vier Tracks von "The Secret Garden" basieren auf dem Soundtrack für eine gleichnamige, 21-minütige Videoarbeit der Münchener Künstlerin Nana Dix, die im Gegenzug das Artwork für die EP gestaltet hat. Zentrales Motiv ist jeweils der Rabe, ein mythischer Vogel, der seit jeher in der Kulturgeschichte seinen festen Platz hat. So wie das Video eine Komposition aus unterschiedlichsten Bildern und Filmsprachen darstellt, wird auch der dazugehörige Sound von Protein aka Tobias Lammert zu einem mäandernden Ganzen geschichtet und verwoben. Das erinnert an die Herangehensweise von Mouse On Mars oder Vladislav Delay, den Protein neben Neu! und Harmonia im Übrigen auch als Inspirationsquelle nennt. Wenn man so will, handelt es sich hier um eine grazile, dunkle und sich langsam entfaltende Begegnung von Clicks & Cuts mit Krautrock. Wer an der Musik von Notwist, Console, Aphex Twin oder Tim Hecker Freude hat, wird auch an "The Secret Garden" Vergnügen finden.

Billed as Almost Summer, the first concert ever at Giants Stadium featured The Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band, Pablo Cruise, and local band Stanky Brown. Steve Miller was flying high on the back of his tenth studio album Book Of Dreams, an album that like it's predecessor Fly Like An Eagle, produced three hit singles. This appearance spans three albums including 1973's The Joker with the band throwing in all the goodies to the obvious delight of their fans.
Live On Vinyl proudly presents the entire WNEW-FM broadcast of the Steve Miller Band in concert at the opening of the new Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on 25th June 1978. Complete with fully re-mastered sound, detailed liners and photos.

Tristesse Contemporaine. Act III, Scene 1. After the first album (self-titled "Tristesse Contemporaine") a form of a declaration of independence and the second ("Stay Golden") rising above the rest, their third, "Stop and Start" will come to close the existing trilogy, and begin a new cycle.

The trio at the head of this veritable voyage through time and space, is a motley crew that found each other in Paris: Narumi from Japan, Maik from England via Jamaican roots, and Leo from Sweden. The essence of what they play as Tristesse Contemporaine is two chords, minimal instrumentation, all mixed with maximum reverb. This is a particular idea of "less is more" which is more applicable to pop music. Abandoning "the middle of the road" the band focused on ten tracks where they put their cards on the table and the petal to the metal.

Today, Tycho releases their brand new album Epoch. This is the final album in the trilogy beginning with 2011's Dive, then 2014's Awake and culminating with this year's Epoch. This period between Dive and Epoch marks a significant maturation for Scott Hansen's continually expanding project, one that has taken him from a solo performer and bedroom artist to fronting a live 4-piece band on large stages across the world.

Epoch hones the sonic aesthetic of Dive while drawing on the kinetic energy of Awake, it explores darker themes and new musical territory. Earlier this summer Tycho released their first single Division' and just last week released their second single and title track, Epoch.' The surprise album is available digitally today and for physical pre-order now.

When discussing the surprise element of this release Hansen said, I've never been fond of the 'hand in the album then wait 4 months for it to come out' release schedule and with the prevalence of streaming and digital distribution it felt like the right time to step outside that way of doing things.' He continued, I wanted to be more connected to the people consuming the music. There is a kind of visceral fulfillment you get from sharing something that you've just created with other people. We just finished mastering the album in late august so it will barely be a month old when people hear it. That's a very satisfying feeling as an artist.

Epoch was produced and recorded by Hansen predominantly in his home studio in Berkeley, California. The album was arranged alongside long time collaborator and partner in the project, Zac Brown. Brown contributed bass and guitar parts to the songwriting process. Rory O'Connor performed drums on the album. Hansen sees Epoch as a multi-dimensional artistic vision at the confluence of his graphic design work via ISO50 and music with Tycho. The graphic presentation of album artwork is as important as the music itself. The keystone is the central image of Epoch and the colors scheme red and black. This is a stark contrast to the almost rainbow palette of Awake. Album art is above and full track listing below.


Nominated for a GRAMMY

Ghostly International recording group Tycho has received its first ever GRAMMY® Award nomination. EPOCH, the Bay Area-based group's acclaimed fifth studio album, earned a nod as 'Best Dance/Electronic Album.' The 59th Annual GRAMMY® Awards will be held on Sunday, February 12th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS from 8-11:30 pm (ET/PT).

"Absolutely surreal to hear the news this morning that Epoch has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album.  The first Tycho release was 14 years ago and since that time I've had the good fortune of working with some incredibly talented and passionate people to help realize this vision,' said Scott Hansen. 'For me Epoch felt like the culmination of that journey so to have it recognized in this way is something truly special. This is an extraordinary honor and we're immensely grateful to have fans who have supported us for so long and enabled us to make the music we want without compromise."

EPOCH made an extraordinary chart debut following its surprise release last September, entering Billboard's 'Top Dance/Electronic Albums' at #1 - Tycho's highest chart placement to date. In addition, EPOCH also arrived in the upper half of the overall SoundScan/Billboard 200 - Tycho's highest main chart placement to date. EPOCH is available now at all DSPs and streaming services; physical media arrives on January 20, with CD and vinyl pre-orders available exclusively via ISO50 and The Ghostly Store.

EPOCH includes such extraordinary tracks as 'Division,' now accompanied by an equally potent live video filmed earlier this year at Morrison, CO's world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. 'Division' is streaming now via Tycho's official YouTube channel.

Tycho will kick off 2017 with an epic world tour, beginning January 7 with a sold out show at Oakland, CA's Fox Theater and then heading east for dates in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as well a major role on the annual Laneway Festival tour, traveling Australia and Singapore from mid-January to early February. A European headline tour will follow, highlighted by already sold out shows in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and London. Tycho will return to Europe in May for a performance at Barcelona's Primavera Sound 2017

Today, Tycho releases their brand new album Epoch. This is the final album in the trilogy beginning with 2011's Dive, then 2014's Awake and culminating with this year's Epoch. This period between Dive and Epoch marks a significant maturation for Scott Hansen's continually expanding project, one that has taken him from a solo performer and bedroom artist to fronting a live 4-piece band on large stages across the world.

Epoch hones the sonic aesthetic of Dive while drawing on the kinetic energy of Awake, it explores darker themes and new musical territory. Earlier this summer Tycho released their first single Division' and just last week released their second single and title track, Epoch.' The surprise album is available digitally today and for physical pre-order now.

When discussing the surprise element of this release Hansen said, I've never been fond of the 'hand in the album then wait 4 months for it to come out' release schedule and with the prevalence of streaming and digital distribution it felt like the right time to step outside that way of doing things.' He continued, I wanted to be more connected to the people consuming the music. There is a kind of visceral fulfillment you get from sharing something that you've just created with other people. We just finished mastering the album in late august so it will barely be a month old when people hear it. That's a very satisfying feeling as an artist.

Epoch was produced and recorded by Hansen predominantly in his home studio in Berkeley, California. The album was arranged alongside long time collaborator and partner in the project, Zac Brown. Brown contributed bass and guitar parts to the songwriting process. Rory O'Connor performed drums on the album. Hansen sees Epoch as a multi-dimensional artistic vision at the confluence of his graphic design work via ISO50 and music with Tycho. The graphic presentation of album artwork is as important as the music itself. The keystone is the central image of Epoch and the colors scheme red and black. This is a stark contrast to the almost rainbow palette of Awake. Album art is above and full track listing below.


Nominated for a GRAMMY

Ghostly International recording group Tycho has received its first ever GRAMMY® Award nomination. EPOCH, the Bay Area-based group's acclaimed fifth studio album, earned a nod as Best Dance/Electronic Album.' The 59th Annual GRAMMY® Awards will be held on Sunday, February 12th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS from 8-11:30 pm (ET/PT).

"Absolutely surreal to hear the news this morning that Epoch has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album.  The first Tycho release was 14 years ago and since that time I've had the good fortune of working with some incredibly talented and passionate people to help realize this vision,' said Scott Hansen. For me Epoch felt like the culmination of that journey so to have it recognized in this way is something truly special. This is an extraordinary honor and we're immensely grateful to have fans who have supported us for so long and enabled us to make the music we want without compromise."

EPOCH made an extraordinary chart debut following its surprise release last September, entering Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums' at #1 - Tycho's highest chart placement to date. In addition, EPOCH also arrived in the upper half of the overall SoundScan/Billboard 200 - Tycho's highest main chart placement to date. EPOCH is available now at all DSPs and streaming services, physical media arrives on January 20, with CD and vinyl pre-orders available exclusively via ISO50 and The Ghostly Store.

EPOCH includes such extraordinary tracks as Division,' now accompanied by an equally potent live video filmed earlier this year at Morrison, CO's world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Division' is streaming now via Tycho's official YouTube channel.

Tycho will kick off 2017 with an epic world tour, beginning January 7 with a sold out show at Oakland, CA's Fox Theater and then heading east for dates in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as well a major role on the annual Laneway Festival tour, traveling Australia and Singapore from mid-January to early February. A European headline tour will follow, highlighted by already sold out shows in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and London. Tycho will return to Europe in May for a performance at Barcelona's Primavera Sound 2017

Today, Tycho releases their brand new album Epoch. This is the final album in the trilogy beginning with 2011's Dive, then 2014's Awake and culminating with this year's Epoch. This period between Dive and Epoch marks a significant maturation for Scott Hansen's continually expanding project, one that has taken him from a solo performer and bedroom artist to fronting a live 4-piece band on large stages across the world.

Epoch hones the sonic aesthetic of Dive while drawing on the kinetic energy of Awake, it explores darker themes and new musical territory. Earlier this summer Tycho released their first single Division' and just last week released their second single and title track, Epoch.' The surprise album is available digitally today and for physical pre-order now.

When discussing the surprise element of this release Hansen said, I've never been fond of the 'hand in the album then wait 4 months for it to come out' release schedule and with the prevalence of streaming and digital distribution it felt like the right time to step outside that way of doing things.' He continued, I wanted to be more connected to the people consuming the music. There is a kind of visceral fulfillment you get from sharing something that you've just created with other people. We just finished mastering the album in late august so it will barely be a month old when people hear it. That's a very satisfying feeling as an artist.

Epoch was produced and recorded by Hansen predominantly in his home studio in Berkeley, California. The album was arranged alongside long time collaborator and partner in the project, Zac Brown. Brown contributed bass and guitar parts to the songwriting process. Rory O'Connor performed drums on the album. Hansen sees Epoch as a multi-dimensional artistic vision at the confluence of his graphic design work via ISO50 and music with Tycho. The graphic presentation of album artwork is as important as the music itself. The keystone is the central image of Epoch and the colors scheme red and black. This is a stark contrast to the almost rainbow palette of Awake. Album art is above and full track listing below.


Nominated for a GRAMMY

Ghostly International recording group Tycho has received its first ever GRAMMY® Award nomination. EPOCH, the Bay Area-based group's acclaimed fifth studio album, earned a nod as Best Dance/Electronic Album.' The 59th Annual GRAMMY® Awards will be held on Sunday, February 12th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS from 8-11:30 pm (ET/PT).

"Absolutely surreal to hear the news this morning that Epoch has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album.  The first Tycho release was 14 years ago and since that time I've had the good fortune of working with some incredibly talented and passionate people to help realize this vision,' said Scott Hansen. For me Epoch felt like the culmination of that journey so to have it recognized in this way is something truly special. This is an extraordinary honor and we're immensely grateful to have fans who have supported us for so long and enabled us to make the music we want without compromise."

EPOCH made an extraordinary chart debut following its surprise release last September, entering Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums' at #1 - Tycho's highest chart placement to date. In addition, EPOCH also arrived in the upper half of the overall SoundScan/Billboard 200 - Tycho's highest main chart placement to date. EPOCH is available now at all DSPs and streaming services, physical media arrives on January 20, with CD and vinyl pre-orders available exclusively via ISO50 and The Ghostly Store.

EPOCH includes such extraordinary tracks as Division,' now accompanied by an equally potent live video filmed earlier this year at Morrison, CO's world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Division' is streaming now via Tycho's official YouTube channel.

Tycho will kick off 2017 with an epic world tour, beginning January 7 with a sold out show at Oakland, CA's Fox Theater and then heading east for dates in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan as well a major role on the annual Laneway Festival tour, traveling Australia and Singapore from mid-January to early February. A European headline tour will follow, highlighted by already sold out shows in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and London. Tycho will return to Europe in May for a performance at Barcelona's Primavera Sound 2017

Next installment of Rex Ilusivi archive uncoverings - This time a live concert from SNP (srpsko narodno pozoriste / serbian national theatre) in Novi Sad, Serbia. Again it's a sublime masterclass in layering and mixing from the much revered King Of Illusion. TIP!
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'To this day Rex Ilusivii remains an enigma of the global music culture, caught between late cold war electronic spheres, classic and the power of found sound. A musician from the Southeast European counterculture, whose art today seems to be the worldly intelligence of the modern age. Listening to the early music of Mitar Subotic sounds like catching the future even tough you know here sounds the past. How can somebody be light years ahead of most of his contemporaries in terms of individuality and uncompromising vision, creating such musical narratives with a feeling for outernational space' It must have been the signs of his time in Yugoslavia, that lead him to compositions in which two or more antithetic forces fight each other for the cause of an unheard harmony that melts industrial, sample art, Musique concr'te and ambient. His 'Koncert SNP' from 1983 demonstrates his ingeniousness to the core ' about 38 minutes of experiment and appeal that move playful between demonstrative frankness and seductive sensuality. You hear pulsating synthesizer bliss, widescreen sample art full of Bosch-like images and elusively drama catchiness that absorbs deep. So deep that words can't express their meaning. Only notes can spell out the score. Listening to his live recording several times without a break reveals also a story arc of literary transcendence. And as transcendence is something beyond speech, the music of Rex Ilusivii can't be narrowed down in phrases. Only one thing must be recommended: surrender to it and it will surrender to you.
Michael Leuffen in June 2016

This collection of demos and live recordings from Amsterdam/Dutch post-punk bands capture the early 80s sound and offer a unique insight into the spontaneous, DIY music style of the time. Wide representation of styles on here - from driving guitar punk to weird minimal synth .. deluxe 180 grams vinyl edition w/ two page insert with info & pics of the bands. ... BIG TIP for the NL punk collectors and beyond!

LP with Bonus 12' in lined red inner sleeves + 8-Page Graphic Art Booklet

This third and last volume offers another fresh choice of tracks exploring the sounds of Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s. As previous volumes have shown, these sounds cannot be confined stylistically or geographically, as their blending of Western and Turkish elements and the variety of styles thrown into the mix reach beyond the borders of the Turkish republic. Here we have a Turkish-Armenian cut by Yorgantz, as well as a Greek-Turkish track by Giannis Floriniotis, offering prime examples of Turkish pop-rock music, itself a hybrid of local and global sounds, interwoven with other musical styles.

The compilation presents a wide selection of music for dancing and listening purposes, ranging from folk to funk and from oriental rock 'n' roll to deep psychedelic. Among other treats, it boasts flow-oriented pop by Nese Karaböcek and Esmeray, jazzy harmonies by Figen Han, experimental rock by O¨nder Bali 4, fluffy folk by Modern Folk Üçlüsü, brass loaded funk by Ali Kocatepe, and Anatolian rock by Beyaz Kelebekler, Fikret Hakan, and Mehmet Peku¨n.

The bonus 12' has an urban disco boogie side with Saadet Gürses and a rural folk music side with Dönüsüm and Kerem Güney.

Made by the curator of Bosporus Bridges' (Vols. 2), The Trip. Psychedelic Music from the Hippie Trail' (Pts. 1-4), and Saz Beat' (Vols. 1 + 2).

All tracks have been carefully restored and completely remastered for full sonic impact at Calyx Mastering, Berlin. Pressing: Pallas, Germany.

Blackest Ever Black presents To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First, the latest - and, for us, greatest - full-length entry in Ashtray Navigations' uniquely important, uniquely sprawling - possibly sentient and self-multiplying - discography. It picks up where the nerve-damaged exotica of 2015's A Shimmering Replica left off...acerbic surf' guitar and synthetic salt-breeze fit for the Tropic of Yorkshire. Instant immersion in a potent, pungent psychedelia that feels equal parts cosmic and aquatic. What Todd wrenches out of his instrument these days is a language unto itself (perhaps it always was)... a helical, ecstatic, grieving howl...a (super)natural efflorescence, beyond earthly description or transcription...ur-rock and post-everything. But equal emphasis is given here to pulsating machine rhythms and lush keyboard textures, with killer contributions from longtime fellow traveller Mel O'Dubhshlaine. There were pre-echoes of all this in the recent(ish) Fluctuants and Aero Infinite: but To Make A Fool feels like the culmination, or the fullest expression, of something which was only glimpsed in those earlier works. The side-long 'Spray Two' - gently eddying string-pads gradually slashed to all f***k with fraught piano improvisations - is a masterpiece in its own right. At its delirious peak, the whole thing boils over into brooding, arpeggiated noir-techno - Michael Mann's steadicam roaming Leeds' B-roads, some kind of tangerine nightmare - before finally cooling into a bleary starfield of pure and sumptuous hypno-tone. This LP is a trip, in the most skull-splitting, soul-crinkling sense of the word, but it soothes and heals as well. A circular and transformative journey to the other side of the underneath and a landmark recording from one of the most adept and visionary nodes in Britain's freakout underground.

Inutile de les présenter hein ^^