GOD - 'GOD'

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• ATB005 - 2xCDs

  9326425804551

• ZMAN011 - 2xLPs

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GOD Double Vinyl Reissue LP features the seminal Melbourne band's 1987 mini-album Rock Is Hell and For Lovers Only (1989) together for the first time on full waxy goodness! "GOD was a giant exploding quagmire of a calamity of a band, but they had their bad days as well. At their best, which was neither live nor in the studio ? maybe it was during band meetings ? GOD sounded like a ten train smash-up in Tin Railroad Town, which was hilarious, because they were trying to encapsulate stadium rock at least half of the time and the "monster riffs" ? and they had those, and some sneakily grabby songs as well ? often sounded like a kids' playgroup had broken into the bottle recycling bin combined with that siren song of crap amps buzzing and wheezing you sometimes hear just before they blow up. You just looked at those guys, and even listened to them, and you just knew right away they were the coolest thing going ? a buncha hairy brat kids doing KISS meets punk, heads down and blasting away like a mining company that's just been given the green light on a few hectares of unexploited desert. Tim Hemensley, Joel Silbersher, Sean Greenway, Matty Whittle ? in the annals of rock history, these are names that will never mean anything to anybody, no matter how good they were in GOD or how much great stuff they recorded separately after they broke up. The annals of rock history are fucking stupid, that's why. Thanks to my telcom company sending me a magazine subscription I never wanted instead of cutting their prices down to something a human being might be able to afford, I just got a copy of Rolling Stone today. It eulogises all those great artists whose albums you supposedly rilly need to hear this year, dude. From the front cover photo of 2007's leading fat rock chick Jack White, through to the rock'n'revolutionary mobile phone ad on the back, there's not one single human gazebo in there who, in the broader artistic scheme of things, deserves to scratch the crust off GOD's underpants. There's only one album rock lovers need this year. That's GOD. Same as last year, only now it's on vinyl. Like Radar from "M.A.S.H." once said, "Put a new fang in your tone-arm cobra", and blast it today." -Leaping Larry L. 300 COPIES WORLD WIDE OF THIS ON DELUXE 2LP / GATEFOLD SLEEVE. WE HAVE 35 FOR UK SALES. 2CD VERSION IN STOCK ON AFTERBURN ALSO.

Tracks

SIDE 1
Gunk
Headin' For The Id
Golly Wolly Golly Wolly Hoo Hoo Ha
Sook
Snake Charmer
Talkin' Rude On The Telephone
Blistered Mind
She's Hungry

SIDE 2
Half-Ass
Bone Dry
The Day They Buried Hemensley
Dominatrix
Life's So Hard
Love You To Death

SIDE 3
My Pal
A Man Without A Woman Is Like A Nun Without A Jackhammer
Rockin' Marky
Human Abbreviation
Magic Crayfus
Meat Cleaver Boy

SIDE 4
Chockablock Rock 'n' Roll (Unabridged Version)
Rok Zombi
Worm Sweat
Tommy The Toilet
Real Cool Time (STOOGES)
Strutter (KISS)

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THE HEADS - 'EVERYBODY KNOWS WE GOT NOWHERE (REMASTER)'

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• ROOSTER20CD - 2xCDs

  5060174952340

• ROOSTER20BX - 5 LP BOX

  5060174959998

• ROOSTER20LP - 2xLPs

  5060174955945

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This reissue of Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere will be available as a lavish 5 LP boxset, a double CD package, a double LP as well as the obligatory MP3 download. Broken hands, lost Rickenbackers, and sliced tendons aside, The Heads – Simon Price (guitar, vocals), Hugo Morgan (bass), Wayne Maskell (drums) and Paul Allen (guitar) - hit many highs during this time. The first British band to release records on Frank Kozik’s famed Man’s Ruin label, (the ‘Delwyn's Conkers’ and ‘Mao Tinitus’ 10”s) recorded two Radio 1 sessions (Mark Radcliffe and their second John Peel session), featured on various “scene-defining” compilations and toured Europe and US West Coast. Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere is the bands favourite album. It represents the full force of The Heads’ psychedelic pummel, their trippiest most psyche collection, brutal yet beautiful. Strap in. Let go. THE BOXSET: The Hardcover / full colour boxset is limited  and numbered to 1000 copies only:  it features the remastered original double album in its gatefold sleeve, the double album of extra material from the time - also in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.  A single live album "bootleg" (pressed on neon yellow vinyl) from the 2000 USA tour called "California Jams", and   a 70+ minute CD of material that is previously unreleased, culled from the dozens of rehearsal / demo archival CDrs that Simon Price has from this time.   Various items of ephemera are also included in the box.  a full size 8 page booklet will be inserted in album one with sleeve notes, pictures, track information,  in the live album will be a full size 8 page photo /tour diary attempting to detail some of the USA 2000 tour.  a huge 4  foot by 2 foot folded poster wit hteh calssic blue/red girl tshirt image,  a vinyl sticker of same image, and a Download code postcard with a link to Download the two LPs as MP3.    The 2LP version; Black vinyl, gatefold sleeve:  the album (remastered) in the format it was originally released,  with full DL postcard. The 2CD version. Double CD, wth 12 page booklet (same as the first LP booklet),  CD has the album, CD 2 has all the bonus tracks from LP two in the boxset. Wrapped in a full colour O-Card. MP3 version.  comes with PDF booklet.  all tracks from the two double LPs.

Tracks

2LP: email for full tracklisting. will be supplied on mailed out onesheets

2CD: ditto
5LP: ditto

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'Vinyl package of the month' - MOJO October '14

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WHITE FENCE - 'FAMILY PERFUME VOL: 1&2'

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• WOODSIST059 - 2xLPs

  655035019017

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***BACK IN STOCK***"Fuck nostalgia. Live the truth. Truth is feeling, truth is sound, truth is motion. I am believing. I am seeing. I am moving. Truth is forever. Meet the Tim Presley / White Fence Truth Serum. Imagine, if you will, that your Uncle Frank, Aunt Jane and Cousin Ricky all made out with George Harrison at the same time and felt good about it. That's what the Family Perfume smells like. Like the real shit. This ain't your regular mutton-chop rock. This is freak your fucking mom out 'cause she caught you naked in the backyard blasting this shit rock. This is not a joke. This is the hit factory. This is the eye. This is another planet. And hurry up, cause this perfume ain't available at no Macy's. Fuck the Rolling Stones. Long live Keith. We're already dead. Smell the truth. Fuck the truth. Fuck rock and roll. Love rock and roll." -Ty Segall "Wake up. Write. Write. Record. Tweak. Write. Record. Swallow. Tweak out. Tweak. Bounce. Write. Wake up. Record. Sex? No. Sleep. Wake up. Record. "I hardly have anything but this anymore.... I had 80 songs, then chopped it to 60 and now to 30. It's a collection, and an album. I have some important things to say to myself. I'm a rock 'n' roll soldier forever. I melt music. When people talk to me, I'm thinking about some song to do. I think I've been cursed. I have no say in the matter. A rainbow Vex. It's OK though; it's for the greater good. "A song can make someone feel so good, or make someone want to write a better one. And sometimes, it could make you rob a liquor store. These are the songs of a man in a bag, and his blue pen." -Tim Presley

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Disc One:
1. WF FP Intro 2. Swagger Vets & Double Moon
3. Long White Curtain 4. Balance Yr Heart
5. Do You Know Ida Know? 6. Down PNX
7. Take Away Life?s Endless Take
8. Hope! Servitude, I Have No! 9. It Will Never Be
10. Soaring, Daily Pique Number 2
11. A Hermes Blues 12. Hey! Roman Nose
13. Breathe Again 14. Daily Pique
Disc Two:
1. Groundskeeper Rag (Man?s Man)
2. She Relief 3. I?d Sing
4. Real Smiles 5. Lizards First
6. It?s Confusing When You Wake Up
7. Upstart Girls 8. Stomach Sexes
9. A Good Night 10. Latchkeys 11. Anna
12. Be at Home 13. Makers 14. Tame
15. King of the Decade

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THE ASPHODELLS - 'REMIXED (WOODEN SHJIPS & DANIEL AVERY)'

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• RGC012 - 12"

  N/A

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*LAST 15 COPIES*Hot on the heels of 'Ruled by Passion, Destroyed by Lust', their debut album as The Asphodells, Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J. Fairplay have offered up the entire album for remixing by some established and emerging artists. The first of these to be released are by Wooden Shjips and Daniel Avery, neither of whom should need any introduction.

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THE ASPHODELLS - 'REMIXED'

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• RGCLP020 - 2xLPs

  809651402016

• RGCCD020 - CD

  809651402023

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Andrew Weatherall never wakes up in the morning and decides to start a new album that day. Instead, recording music is a continuous process usually working with different collaborators and seeing where the muse takes him. Somewhere down the line the rewards of a collaboration will coalesce into a body of work between thirty minutes and an hour long and he will put a call into the Rotters’ team to say he has a new release ready to go. We were visiting the studio catching up on new tracks in various states of readiness when he offered up some remixes of tracks from his recent “Ruled by Passion…” he’d been sent by fellow musicians. Tim Fairplay, Andrew’s partner in The Asphodells, Sean Johnston from A Love From Outer Space and Scott Fraser live and work in the area and all popped in at various points. Andrew’s black book reads like the who’s who of contemporary music but rather than plunder it for remixers he’d let drop the idea of a remix with friends and neighbours. These plus a couple a swaps with musical friends who were new to the concept of remixing, gave Andrew an hour of music he thoroughly enjoyed listening to. It goes without saying none of the tracks are duds but our ears always prick up when Justin Robertson’s take on “Beglammered” ups the heart rate or Daniel Avery’s own unscrewing of “… the Axis” ruffles the neck hairs. We’ve stopped arguing in the office about which is the best track. They all are.

Tracks

01) Another Lonely City (Group Rhoda Remix)**

02) Late Flowering Lust (Phil Kieran Remix)

03) Beglammered (Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s Remix)

04) Skwatch (Black Merlin?s Reel to Reel Remix)

05) Never There (Hardway Bros Remix)

06) We Are The Axis (Daniel Avery Remix)**

07) Another Lonely City (Daniele Baldelli and DJ Rocca Remix)

08) Beglammered (Richard Sen Remix)

09) We Are The Axis (Scott Fraser Remix)

10) One Minute's Silence (Ivan Smagghe Remix)



** - CD only

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OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL - 'JOHN PEEL SESSION'

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• CHKLP012LP - LP

  789397830215

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**EXCLUSIVE!! VINYL ONLY RELEASE comes w/download. 1997 was a big year for the Olivia Tremor Control. They were riding high on the release of their debut 2LP "Dusk At Cubist Castle," & touring the world relentlessly. during a visit to the UK in March, dj John Peel requested the band to visit his studios to record for his radio show. 17 years later, "John Peel Session" is released, & features a couple never-before-released songs amidst the three tracks. A radio session that has been officially licensed from the BBC, this is continued evidence of a band that is in further need of celebration

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BRIGITTE FONTAINE - 'BRIGITTE FONTAINE EST...FOLLE'

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• SV041LP - LP

  857176003416

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***BACK IN STOCK***French poet and chameleonic vocalist Brigitte Fontaine’s career spans over four decades. Only a few years before her 1968 debut, Brigitte Fontaine Est…Folle, she moved to Paris to become an actress and took her prodigiously mature voice into the studio. Rich in the drama she brought to theater, Fontaine synthesized chanson (French pop song) and world music, which eventually won her international acclaim as a performer and collaborator with a variety of artists from around the world (Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sonic Youth and Stereolab, to name just a few). On Est…Folle, Fontaine takes flight over conductor Jean Claude Vannier’s brilliant arrangements. Vannier, best known for his work on Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire De Melody Nelson, is in fine form, using what would become his trademark stylings: lush strings, taut rhythms culled from across the globe and a healthy dose of whimsy. “Il Pleut” swings from understatement to rapturous delight. “Une Fois Mais Pas Deux” is an infectious pop song that could have been culled from a French New Wave soundtrack. Fontaine is adventurous and multi-dimensional with sophisticated lyrics, poignant melodies and enthralling delivery. Such artful handling of meter and rhyme (or lack thereof) is rare in pop song. Far from the era’s yé-yé phenomenon, but never fully removed from its traditions, Est...Folle is an essential link in French pop music, exuberantly pushing the genre into more conceptual and experimental sounds.

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MOJO Magazine Top 20 Reissues of 2014

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ALICE COLTRANE - 'UNIVERSAL CONCIOUSNESS'

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• SV070 - LP

  857176003706

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Originally released on Impulse! in 1971, Universal Consciousness is a major turning point in Alice Coltrane’s momentous career. While her previous albums pushed the limits of spiritual free-jazz and featured much of her late husband’s band, Universal Consciousness expands the harpist / pianist’s compositional palette with organ and strings (working with Ornette Coleman). “Oh Allah” is the finest example of Coltrane’s new direction: tense violins dissolve into sublime organ solos and exquisite brushwork from long-time Mile Davis collaborator Jack DeJohnette. While the title track undulates with a fierce clamor, “Hare Krishna” showcases Coltrane’s uncanny ability for transcendent and slow-paced arrangements. In The Wire’s “100 Records That Set the World on Fire,” David Toop writes, “[Universal Consciousness] clearly connects to other dyspeptic jazz traditions—the organ trio, the soloists with strings— yet volleys them into outer space, ancient Egypt, the Ganges, the great beyond. The production is astounding, the quality of improvisation is riveting, the string arrangements are apocalyptic rather than saccharine, the balance of turbulence and calm a genuine dialectic that later mystic / exotic post-jazz copped out of pursuing. Her lack of constraint was dimly regarded by adherents of ’70s jazz and its masculine orthodoxies, yet Alice deserved better credit for virtuosity, originality, and the sheer will power needed to realized her vision.” This first-time vinyl reissue has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes.

Tracks

1. Universal Consciousness
2. Battle at Armageddon
3. Oh Allah
4. Hare Krishna
5. Sita Ram
6. The Ankh of Amen-Ra

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RADIO BIRDMAN - 'LIVE AT PADDINGTON TOWN HALL DEC 12TH 1977'

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• CITCD582 - 2xCDs

  9 326425 808955

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***BACK IN STOCK***This 19 track release engenders a previously unreleased live concert recorded at Paddington Town Hall (Sydney Australia) in December 1977 onto 16 track tape just prior to the band's departure for the UK to promote the Sire release of their Radios Appear album. This live recording has been mixed from master tapes that have languished forgotten for decades. The result is a totally wild and raw release that captures the band?s true primal energy perhaps in a way that other recordings haven't. The songs represent a wide selection of their originals along with covers of Blue Oyster Cult, MC5 and Bo Diddley. The only full live show ever recorded of the band in the 70's 2. Apart from the recent CD Box Set these songs are previously unreleased 3. Mixed from original 2" tapes 4. 6 panel cardboard wallet featurinmg shots taken on the night. 5. Future reissues will be in jewelcases 6. The DVD bonus is an all regions PAL containing the only footage owned by the band

Tracks

Disc 1 - Live At Paddington Town Hall
1. New Race
2. Descent Into The Maelstrom
3. Anglo Girl Desire
4. Murder City Nights
5. Transmaniacon MC
6. More Fun
7. Smith And Wesson Blues
8. Man With Golden Helmet
9. Crying Sun
10. Breaks My Heart
11. What Gives?
12. Let The Kids Dance
13. Dark Surprise
14. I 94
15. Non Stop Girls
16. Do The Pop
17. Burn My Eye
18. Monday Morning Gunk
19. Ramblin' Rose



Disc 2 - Live At Paddington Town Hall (Bonus DVD)
1. Aloha Steve & Danno
2. What Gives?
3. New Race
4. Aloha Steve & Danno
5. Monday Morning Gunk
6. Ramblin' Rose

Tracks 1, 2: Paddington Town Hall Dec '77
Track 3: Paddington Town Hall April '77
Track 4: Promotional video
Tracks 5, 6: Macquarie University '76

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