TONY CONRAD WITH FAUST - 'OUTSIDE THE DREAM SYNDICATE'

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• SV048 - LP

  855985006888

• SV048CD - CD

  855985006895

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** REPRESS. SHIPPING NOW ON BOTH FMTS!!** Violinist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad started his career in New York in the early 1960s. As a member of the Theater of Eternal Music (a.k.a. the Dream Syndicate) alongside John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Angus MacLise, he participated in now-legendary and often legendarily loud drone performances with many pieces having no beginning and no end. During a fateful trip to Germany in 1972, Conrad met with avant-rock visionaries Faust and made the very first record to bear his name. Outside The Dream Syndicate , originally released in Europe only in 1973, is a stunning debut. Two side-long tracks— “The Side Of Man And Womankind” and “The Side Of The Machine”—show just how far Conrad had moved beyond his minimalist peers. Werner Diermaier’s repetitive drum beat and Jean-Hervé Peron’s stripped-down bassline conjure a tense, ascetic groove, while Conrad’s seamless violin, initially so controlled, reveals a surprising adaptability. The music shifts almost on a subliminal level, pushing and pulling to the drone’s internal pulse. It is hard to imagine Conrad’s trajectory from downtown Manhattan to a farmhouse in the German countryside that ultimately resulted in Outside The Dream Syndicate, yet no other record captures—so completely and instantly—the intersection of avant-garde and rock forms. Outside The Dream Syndicate remains ahead of and bracingly outside of its time. This first-time vinyl reissue and long out-of-print CD release have been carefully been carefully mastered from the original master tapes and include liner notes by musician Jim O’Rourke and author Branden W. Joseph.

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1. The Side Of Man And Womankind
2. The Side Of The Machine

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VARIOUS - 'OST: GHOST WORLD'

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• CPR003LP - 2xLPs

  762183475227

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**BLACK VINYL REPRESS NOW SHIPPING** Cinema Paradiso is proud to present the Ghost World soundtrack, released on vinyl for the very first time, as a double gatefold LP. A film adaptation of the popular Daniel Clowes comic of the same name, Ghost World starred Scarlett Johannson, Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi, becoming a critically acclaimed cult favourite immediately upon its release in 2001. As he did with Crumb, director Terry Zwigoff has created a soundtrack as eclectic and riveting as his movie subjects. The sounds of early jazz and blues play a crucial role in the events of Ghost World - the music heard here is some of the best ever recorded. Skip James's classic "Devil Got My Woman" from 1931 may be the best-known work on this soundtrack, but it hardly steals the show. Three tracks from weird but riveting jazz-meets-calypso bandleader Lionel Belasco are included; the 70-year-old recordings are so original, they sound timeless. The same praise can be stated of film opener "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" a Bollywood rarity that has elements of surf music, funk, and garage rock. Of course, we also have to hear "Graduation Rap" and Blueshammer's "Pickin' Cotton Blues" two intentionally bad contemporary tracks that make the characters in the movie (and anyone listening to this soundtrack) feel out of place in today's pop culture. Zwigoff wisely fills out the LP with tracks from his personal 78 record collection, a mix of '20s and '30s string band and blues tunes that are seldom found in compilations (including great cuts by the Dallas String Band, Joe Calicott, and McGee Bros). The haunting "Theme from Ghost World" composed by David Kitay, finishes off the second LP, perfectly capturing all the bittersweet moods found in the film.

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SIDE ONE
1. Jaan Pehechaan Ho by Mohammed Rafi
2. Graduation Rap by Vanilla, Jade And Ebony
3. Devil Got My Woman by Skip James
4. I Must Have It by Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks
5. Miranda by Lionel Belasco

SIDE TWO
1. Pickin' Cotton Blues by Blueshammer
2. Let's Go Riding by Mr. Freddie
3. Georgia On My Mind by Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks
4. Las Palmas De Maracaibo by Lionel Belasco
5. Clarice by Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks

SIDE THREE
1. Scalding Hot Coffee Rag by Craig Ventresco
2. You're Just My Type by Vince Giordano And The Nighthawks
3. Venezuela by Lionel Belasco
4. Fare Thee Well Blues by Joe Calicott
5. C.C. & O. Blues by Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley

SIDE FOUR
1. C-h-i-c-k-e-n Spells Chicken by The McGee Brothers
2. That's No Way To Get Along by Robert Wilkins
3. So Tired by Dallas String Band
4. Bye Bye Baby Blues by Little Hat Jones
5. Theme From Ghost World by David Kitay

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Soundtrack to the cult film

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KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - 'DEMOS VOLUMES 1 & 2'

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• GPLPDEMOS12 - 2xLPs

  5060446129715

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***LAST REMAINING COPIES AT NEW LOWER PRICE*** 500 double lps ON BLUE / GREEN VINYL VOLUME 1 IS sea blue VOLUME 2 IS army green Recorded between 2011 - 2020 by King Gizz Mastered by Joseph Carra Cover design by Jason Galea

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SUBURBAN LAWNS - 'S/T'

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• SV179 - LP

  857661008797

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If your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke New Wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot right next to the likes of Devo, Talking Heads and the B-52’s. After putting out two singles on their own Suburban Industrial imprint, the Lawns signed to I.R.S. Records and released their debut LP in 1981. While the band gained cult status thanks in part to a Jonathan Demme-produced music video which aired on Saturday Night Live, their self-titled album would sadly be the five-piece’s only full-length statement. Suburban Lawns’ asymmetrical aesthetic is personified by co-vocalist Su Tissue, whose mesmerizing stage persona was at once childlike and terrifying. Her unique style embodies the awkward/arty female singer of the Reagan era, while the group’s male vocals—courtesy of Frankie Ennui, Vex Billingsgate and John McBurney—maintain the satirical themes of Southern California’s postwar mirage of limitless sprawl. Suburban Lawns’ catchiness can be attributed to their drum-tight performance and taut songwriting. Listen to the vocal trade-offs on “Anything,” which could have easily come out on any purely Punk label from LA at the time, while Tissue’s deadpan delivery on “Janitor” glides into the best art-warble this side of Lene Lovich, broaching the possibility of nuclear annihilation with a murmured “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom.” From a West Coast scene dominated by 7-inch singles and EPs, the Suburban Lawns’ lone LP remains in a class with precious few. It’s not surprising that they found acceptance in the Hollywood punk scene, despite their Long Beach roots, and would influence other bands such as Minutemen. This is not a disc that will get parked in your collection hoping to get pulled once in a while; this is a record you will play. 

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1. Flying Saucer Safari
2. Pioneers
3. Not Allowed 4. Gossip
5. Intellectual Rock 6. Protection
7. Anything 8. Janitor
9. Computer Date
10. Mom And Dad And God
11. Unable
12. When In The World
13. Green Eyes
14. Jam The Controls

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Sole album by legendary Southern
California New Wave/Punk band
Originally released in 1981 on I.R.S.
Recommended for fans of Devo, Talking
Heads and The B-52?s

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ZYKLUS - 'STIMULACRA'

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• BUTR52 - CD

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**SHIPPING MID SEPT** 2nd volume of industrial rhythms, vintage synths, tape jams, acoustic noise, library edits & experimental electronics by Alan Gubby (Revbjelde / The Delaware Road). 23 tracks transferred and remastered from the original cassettes, DATs, minidiscs + hard drives recorded between 1983 & 2006.

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"a priceless look at the way analogue synth futurism has evolved - sounding as vital as ever" CARL GRIFFIN / ELECTRONIC SOUND

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DANIEL O'SULLIVAN - 'FOURTH DENSITY'

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• VHF151 - LP

  783881015119

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Second in a series of three records of Library Music miniatures from composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan (Æthenor, Ulver, This Is Not This Heat, etc) following 2020’s Electric Māyā. For heads, the term “Library Music” in 2021 might evoke dodgy Italian gray market LPs and crate-diggers hunting for “funky breaks”— but London’s venerable KPM Music is working with groundbreakers like O’Sullivan to open up new avenues for composers to experiment with. Fourth Density’s fifteen tracks include several beguiling instrumental beauties, including the Ashra-like “Astral Survivor” and the drifty “Faster Than Light.” Mixed in with the instrumental are almost-pop gems like the hypnotic “Orgone Attenuation” and “Head In The Belfry,” both with guest vocals from Astrud Steeholder. Like the other volumes, this is in a beautiful jacket designed by O’Sullivan and Turner Prizenominee Mark Titchner and pressed on aesthetically complimentary blue vinyl.

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1. Perpetual Ascension
2. Fruiting Bodies
3. Astral Survivor
4. Orgone Attenuation
5. It?s All You
6. Head In The Belfry
7. The Fothering
8. Arming The Seraphim
9. Faster Than Light
10. Pearl Divers
11. Moondrops
12. Palo Sagrado
13. Saraswati
14. Swampland Flowers
15. Slips Of Yew

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Second in series of modern Library Music
from composer and multi-instrumentalist
from Aethenor, Ulver, This is Not This Heat,
etc

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SUNNYBOYS 40 - 'SUNNYBOYS 40'

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• FEEL016CD - CD

  0746935500832

• FEEL016 - LP

  0746935499938

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In 2020 Sunnyboys will celebrate 40 years since their inception (though a mere 12 years of actual existence) via a new release SUNNYBOYS 40 that brings together the first ever re-release of the band’s much loved 1980 eponymous debut 7” - featuring the original version of the classic Alone With You - alongside four new recordings culled from the archives of chief songwriter Jeremy Oxley. Recorded over two days in October 1980 and released via independent Sydney label Phantom Records on December 31st the same year, the four songs featured on the EP were essentially the first songs Jeremy Oxley had presented to the band on his arrival in Sydney from Kingscliff just a few months earlier. Alongside Alone With You they included Love to Rule, What You Need & The Seeker. The debut ‘yellow’ ep was an instant underground smash selling out its initial pressing of 1000 copies in just 2.5 weeks. A further pressing of 1000 would follow but then all further attempts of a repress were quashed when the ep master mysteriously disappeared after band signed to Mushroom Records in February 1981. The tapes having never been recovered these masters have been taken from the cleanest vinyl available and appear here for the first time ever outside the 7” ep format and that limited run of 2000. Fast forward 40 years (as you do) and Sunnyboys are enjoying a renaissance rarely seen for any band from any era. In truth their popularity now eclipses what it did in 1980-1984 with each successive tour selling more tickets and faster than the tour previous. Why not then give the people new music? Part 2 of Sunnyboys 40 was recorded between touring commitments in 2018 at Airlock Studios, Brisbane. Overdubs were added over the following twelve months at locations in Sydney & Brisbane and the mixing completed in the summer of 2019 by current in-demand producer Konstantine Kerstin. The idea being to tackle some material Jeremy had written for other projects post-1984 and to complete some unfinished business from back in the band’s original lifespan. Can’t You Stop is a reworking of a song Jeremy recorded as The Fisherman in 1986. The short-lived trio were Jeremy’s immediate post-Sunnyboys band and the original version was released on the Waterfront label the same year. In this guise Can’t You Stop features an all new arrangement plus those trademark Sunnyboys harmonies. Lovers (On Another Planet’s Hell) meantime, is a reworking of a track from the Sunnyboys third album Get Some Fun. The original version featuring a 4/4 beat often referred to as the “AC/DC beat” which never sat well with the band. The opportunity to readdress that all these years later proving irresistible. The added keyboards of Alister Spence and brass playing of Eamon Dilworth and young Nico Oxley (Peter’s son) also adding a new dimension to the original. Strange Cohesion was actually written post-Get Some Fun in 1984 and was performed by the band regularly during their final tour. It would feature on the band’s swansong release, 1984’s Real Live but was never recorded in the studio. 40 gives the track its recorded debut and gives some small hint as to what Sunnyboys album no.4 may have sounded like. Originally released as a solo recording back in 1991 under the banner Jeremy ‘Ponytail’ Oxley Way After Five shares perhaps the strongest relationship to the ‘40’ concept. Jeremy’s voice at times just a croak - a by-product of the life he has lead for much of last 40 years - adding further poignancy to the songs lyric; and it’s another Oxley classic. And what better way to celebrate both the new release and the milestone anniversary than by doing what Sunnyboys do best - play live! And so Sunnyboys hit the east coast this February including first time ever shows in Torquay and for Sydney’s Twilights @ Taronga. Special guests Painters & Dockers will join Sunnyboys for the shows in Victoria while garage rockers Rocket Science will join the birthday boys in Sydney. “We really didn’t think we would ever play again as a band. But wow, we have and we sure are having a bloody great time doing it.” - Peter Oxley

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01 Love To Rule
02 Alone With You
03 What You Need
04 The Seeker
05 Can?t You Stop
06 Lovers (On Another Planet?s Hell)
07 Strange Cohesion
08 Way After Five

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VARIOUS - 'MAGGOT BRAIN ISSUE #6'

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• MG007 - BOOK

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Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content – art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more – with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. This issue contains pieces on: Bikini Kill, Boris, Endless Boogie, New Kingdom, The Clean, ELO, Archie Shepp, Echo and the Bunnymen, Primal Scream, The Guerilla Girls, Planetary Peace. ON THE COVER: Amazing unseen image of Bikini Kill live at CBGB in 1990, by MIKE GALINSKY, with accompanying lengthy photo essay exploring indie-rock in the early 1990s, including behind-the-scenes, unpublished black-and-white film images of Sonic Youth, Unwound, Mary Timony, Sleepyhead, Half Japanese, and more.

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This issue contains pieces on: Bikini Kill, Boris, Endless Boogie, New Kingdom, The Clean, ELO, Archie Shepp, Echo and the Bunnymen, Primal Scream, The Guerilla Girls, Planetary Peace

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STATIC - 'TOOTHPASTE & PILLS: DEMOS & LIVE 78-80'

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• TMR706 - LP

  813547029775

• TMR706LE - LP (COL) + 7"

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*COL VINYL SOLD OUT* Long before John Brannon of Negative Approach cemented himself as a USHC icon, you would hear rumblings about his pre-NA glam group, STATIC. Only a handful of people were lucky/brave enough to see them live. Scenesters spoke of a tape but never seemed to have one. Their most well-remembered song, Toothpaste and Pills, allegedly featured smashing beer bottles against John’s mom’s basement wall as a percussion instrument. Could this be real? Fast forward to 2020 and a few months into the covid-19 lockdown, Brannon came across a bunch of tapes he dug out of a box in his Mom’s closet - STATIC “DEMOS ‘78”, STATIC “LIVE AT GROSSE POINTE SOUTH H.S.”, STATIC “LIVE AT PLEWA HALL”. Holy shit! The legend is true! And best of all, STATIC rule! John Brannon grew up in Grosse Pointe Park just a few blocks from the Detroit border. John was always into music, but as soon as he heard T-Rex, The Stooges and Alice Cooper, he was obsessed (and still is) and had to start a band to channel his obsessions. With the help of neighborhood kid and collaborator Billy Daniels and a local drummer simply known as “Red”, STATIC was born. Before Negative Approach changed the face of punk and hardcore, before Laughing Hyenas scared the world silly and blew everyone else off the stage and before Easy Action started melting minds all over the world, there was STATIC. STATIC was real. STATIC was real as shit. Third Man Records is beyond ecstatic to be providing this long-missing piece of the American Underground Music puzzle. We worked closely with John Brannon and Warren Defever, one of Third Man Mastering’s resident wizards, to put together this essential collection of demos and live recordings.

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SIDE A
1. Toothpaste and Pills
2. Punk Nation
3. TV Show
4. We?re So Cheap We?re Divine

SIDE B
1. Ain?t No Stranger
2. High School Riot
3. What?s This Thing Called Love
4. We?re So Cheap We?re Divine
5. Video Deficiency
6. If We Had Brains We?d Be
Dangerous
7. Ugly Teenager

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For fans of: Electric Eels, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, Sex Pistols
Indie exclusive colored vinyl includes bonus 7.

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