NILS FRAHM - 'TRIPPING WITH NILS FRAHM'

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• ERATP136LP - 2xLPs

  3700551783342

• ERATP136CD - CD

  3700551783335

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*PRICE DROP FOR LIMITED PERIOD ONLY* A legendary artist at a legendary location: Tripping with Nils Frahm captures one of the world’s most sought-after live acts performing at one of Berlin’s most iconic buildings. When Nils Frahm kicked off his world tour at Funkhaus Berlin in January 2018 to bring his highly acclaimed studio album All Melody to the stage, an ambitious journey was just to begin: Over the next two years, Frahm played more than 180 sold-out performances, including the Sydney Opera House, LA’s Disney Hall, the Barbican in London, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, and several big festival stages around the globe. Yet the stunning setting of Funkhaus Berlin, renowned for its vintage grandeur and outstanding acoustics, and also home to Frahm’s magnificent studio where All Melody was recorded, had occupied a unique place in the artist's heart. In December 2018, Nils Frahm eventually returned to Funkhaus Berlin to host another set of four shows, tickets sold out within hours. Frahm’s friend and film director Benoit Toulemonde — a collaborator since 2011 — captured the concerts on film, only using handheld cameras, and employing techniques he had mastered for the famous concert series La Blogotèque, which featured some of the world’s most popular artists. Tripping with Nils Frahm is an illustration of Nils’s lauded ability as a composer and passionate live artist as well as the enchanting atmosphere of his captivating, and already legendary Funkhaus shows: An extraordinary musical trip – rare and exclusive, close and intimate, bringing a unique concert experience to the screen. "It was about time to document my concerts in picture and sound, trying to freeze a moment of this period where my team and I were nomads, using any method of travel to play yet another show the next day. Maybe tonight is the night where everything works out perfectly and things fall into place? Normally things go wrong with concerts, but by combining our favorite moments of four performances, we were able to achieve what I was trying to do in these two years of touring: getting it right! When you hear the applause on the end of the film you should know that I was smiling happily, being a tad proud and feeling blessed to share these moments with you. Much love, Nils" Tripping with Nils Frahm — the live album is out on Erased Tapes from December 3. Physical stock will ship in early 2021. The concert film with the same name is produced by Leiter in association with Plan B Entertainment and will premiere the same day via the curated online cinema MUBI.

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01 Enters
02 Sunson
03 Fundamental Values
04 My Friend The Forest
05 The Dane
06 All Melody
07 #2
08 Ode ? Our Own Roof

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GUIDED BY VOICES - 'SANDBOX'

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• SCAT84 - LP

  753417008410

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BACK INSTOCK ON BLACK VINYL!!  Even back in 1987, Guided By Voices was not content to release just one album in a year—Sandbox was released in the summer of that year following Devil Between My Toes’ appearance that February. Likewise, in similar GBV style, the sound and approach of the two albums could not be more different. Where Devil mostly mines a darker, lo-fi psychedia, along with several instrumental explorations, Sandbox is sunny, direct, has a bigger, crunchier sound, and zero instrumentals. Where Devil has a murky and impressionistic black and white photo of a rooster for a cover, Sandbox sports a full color photo of the band relaxing on a lawn on a sunny day. Let’s also recall that unlike today, in 1987 a full-color album jacket wasn’t just a little more expensive than a black and white one, it was way more expensive. Right up front, the band was communicating that this was a more commercially ambitious endeavor, while behind the scenes they rented better gear for a bigger sound, and tackled more sophisticated arrangements and honed in on the hooks and harmonies of the songs. Of all the band’s early self-released albums, Sandbox differs the most from the sound fans would later associate with the group, which is in itself a recommendation. Nowhere else will you hear the perfectly rendered three-part harmonies of “Long Distance Man,” direct Beatles quotes, or Robert Pollard reveling in his southern Ohio drawl. It’s also true that one of the more enjoyable aspects of the record is finding all the places where the band’s future is indeed foreshadowed. Simply put, Guided By Voices just can’t help but be a little weird, even when attempting something like a power pop album. At the close of the opening track, Pollard announces, “Ladies and gentlemen! Back by popular demand for your entertainment and spiritual enlightenment...Electric Jam Soul Aquarium!” a truly “wtf is happening here” moment. Or the stripped down gloom of “Trap Soul Door”—a track that could be right at home on nearly any later GBV album wherein Pollard intones, “Just one spark can start a hell of a fire.” Little did he know how true that statement would become.

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GUIDED BY VOICES - 'STRUT OF KINGS'

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• GBVI121 - LP

  657628444312

• GBVI121CD - CD

  657628444329

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**BACK INSTOCK!! **Building on forty years years of GBV history, the majestic and triumphant Strut Of Kings is the forty-first album by indie rock royalty Guided By Voices. Largely recorded in Kings County, New York (Brooklyn), the album is perhaps a gesture towards the malevolent “kings” on the world stage. As the “Serene King” waltzes across the battlefield, Emperor Pollard evokes castles, King Kong and strutting roosters, a surreal yet regal journey.

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: 1. Show Me The Castle 2. Dear Onion 3. This Will Go On 4. Fictional Environment Dream 5. Olympus Cock In Radiana 6. Leaving Umbrella 7. Cavemen Running Naked 8. Timing Voice 9. Bit Of A Crunch 10. Serene King 11. Bicycle Garden

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Majestic and triumphant forty-first album by indie rock royalty!
Includes some of GBV?s hookiest nuggets in recent memory!

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CHARLES MOOTHART - 'CHAOTIC SHIMMER'

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• ITR396 - LP (COLOURED)

  657628452010

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**WAREHOOUSE FIND!! VERY LTD GREEN VINYL** Chaotic Shimmer is a collection of songs that vary in texture and genesis. The A side has a stronger sense of familiarity with the more rocking numbers, while the B side stretches out in more exploration. Some of the same electronic elements of 2024's Black Holes Don't Choke can be found in songs like "Music For The People" and "Caught Waiting". There is also a subtle nod to Minor Threat in the lyrics of "Caught Waiting". The track "Path I'd Like to Follow" is dreamy and meditative - channeling JJ Cale or late sixties San Francisco fog. The opening track is a rocket ship waiting to escape the dull confines of this singular consciousness, and it creates a space for the title track to transcend at will. All of the songs were recorded by Charles Moothart at his studio in Los Angeles. He wrote, performed, recorded, and mixed everything heard on this album. Reserving the right to do as thou wilt is rock and roll 101. The world is chaos, and chaos is creativity. To accept and embrace this is to tap in to the Chaotic Shimmer - a transcendent energy. Music is for the people. Charles Moothart is a multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He plays guitar in bands like FUZZ and Primitive Ring, as well as drums in GØGGS and Moonhearts. He was the touring drummer for Ty Segall's Freedom Band, as well as the Ty Segall and White Fence collaborative tours. Moothart has also released solo work under his initials CFM.

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1. Carried In The Wind 2. Chaotic Shimmer 3. The Path (I'd Like To Follow) 4. Bring To Bloom 5. Caught Waiting 6. Music For The People

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GUIDED BY VOICES - 'GOODNIGHT EL DORADO: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS IN THE AFTERMATH'

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• 1Z - LP

  657628453314

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** WAREHOUSE FIND!!** Live board mixes from three 2024 GBV shows in Indianapolis, Woodstock and Dallas, showcasing the band’s proggiest material of the recent era. Limited edition bootleg vinyl. When they’re gone they’re gone.

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1. Jack Of Legs 2. Sons Of The Beard 3. Alex Bell 4. How Did He Get Up There? 5. For The Home 6. Boomerang 7. Focus on the Flock 8. Unfun Glitz 9. Who Wants To Go Hunting

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CRACK CLOUD - 'PEACE & PURPOSE'

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• MM17LP - 2xLP (COLOURED)

  5061041821912

• MM17CD - CD

  5061041821929

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** PLS NOTE CD IS DELAYED VINYL SHIPPING ONLY** Can’t go over it. Can’t go under it. Gotta go through it. And somewhere out there in the Pitch black beyond all darkness lies Peace & Purpose. The horizon you never quite crest until the inevitable end. Breathe deep — this fearful moment is the most alive you’re ever gonna feel. For the last decade, Crack Cloud’s vision has grown ever more expansive, more cinematic. Last go around, they dropped from The Heavens and then performed with their bare backs to an endless darkening desert. Now they’ve crammed all that life into some metallic and strange object called Peace & Purpose. All the terror of living. All the helplessness. All the raw human will. All glued and screwed and locked into this impossible tactile shape of dungeon dub; sour milk vox; Avant-protest music. Music arm wrestling itself to the ground. Far afield of beauty. The discordant symphony of factory farming and grim timber of the meat processing plant. The grinding din of the cogs. And yet, never giving up in spite of all good sense. Even in death, we are a coterie of survivors. Look now: There’s Terry Fox on his one-legged Marathon of Hope across The Great White North while cancer spreads through his lungs. A self-annihilating drive to feel alive. Rage against the dying of the light, they say. Well, how ‘bout it then!??! Peace & Purpose is not in any way some art project meditation on Punk Rock. It is Punk Rock. Terrifying, inspiring, vital, invigorating and most importantly, utterly unexpected. Every goddamn stupid day is a sublime slice of fresh hell. That’s the point. Gotta go through it. Wishing you Peace & Purpose — if only in that last big breath.

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1 - Peace & Purpose 2 - Safe Room 3 - Not The Same Thing 4 - Life On A Farm 5 - Pick Apart 6 - Marathon Of Hope 7 - Stop Cutting Me Down 8 - Shut The Fuck Up 9 - Reunion 10 - Phantom Limb 11 - Thoughts On My Faith 12 - Eris On The Run 13 - Red House 14 - Truth in Trauma

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Follow up to 2024's RED MILE (JAGJAGUWAR)

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CHRIS D / POISON FANG SOCIETY - 'COURTROOM WEDDING'

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• ITR414LP - LP

  769152434193

• ITR414CD - CD

  769152434209

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Courtroom Wedding, the feral new album by singer-songwriter-punk rock legend Chris D.’s new unit Poison Fang Society, succeeds In the Red Records’ release of two expansive albums by the bandleader’s Divine Horsemen, Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix (2021) and Bitter End to a Sweet Night (2022). The taut, economical eight-song set grew out of several songs penned in the immediate wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown and originally envisioned as material for a third Divine Horsemen record. But logistical problems involving the band’s co-lead singer Julie Christensen’s ability to record in Los Angeles led to the formulation of a new solo configuration rooted in the past. Poison Fang Society guitarist Larry Schemel, most recently of Death Valley Girls, and Tucson-bred drummer Johnny Ray are both veterans of the eight-piece lineup heard on the Flesh Eaters’ 1999 album Ashes of Time. They are joined by bassist-keyboardist-guitarist Sharif Dumani, who also engineered the collection and co-produced with Chris D. The songs Chris brought to the studio reflect a shift in style: “I was really trying to write some more traditional kinds of songs, but not make them sound really anonymous. On the last couple of albums, the Divine Horsemen albums, there was a lot more cut-up stuff. I still did some cut-up in the lyrics with this record, but not as much. The lyrics to ‘Cellars to Weep’ were very influenced by songs like Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ or ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ even though song doesn’t sound like that. I wanted to keep that kind of surrealist humor that Bob Dylan has — those nonsense phrases that add meaning when they’re all put together.” With tracks inspired by subjects as diverse at the gun-toting MAGA couple who pointed their weapons at Black Lives Matter protesters (“Goddamn Thieving Shame”) to the sleazy come-on cover lines of ‘50s pulp paperbacks (“Sex Kitten”), Courtroom Wedding flexes a lean, potent sound that recalls the knife-edge attack of the Don Kirk-era Flesh Eaters and the heavyweight vibe of Chris’ second solo album (as Stone by Stone), 1989’s I Pass for Human. Like this punk grand master’s finest work, it displays an electric, tormented immediacy. “Courtroom Wedding sounds more live than the Divine Horsemen records,” Chris says, “and I think that’s a good thing.”

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1. Mesquite Bed 2. Court Room Wedding 3. End Weeping 4. Backwards Heart 5. Goddamn Thieving Shame 6. Passport to Shame 7. Cellars to Weep 8. Sex Kitten

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ELIANE RADIGUE - '11 DEC 1980'

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• IMPREC498 - 2xCDs

  0793447549811

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On December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard. Included are full in-studio performances of Chry-ptus and the world premiere of parts one and three of Tryptych. 

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1-1 Chry-Ptus
2-1 Triptych I
2-2 Triptych II
2-3 Triptych III

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BOLERO! - 'GREETINGS MOTHER EARTH'

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• SPIRITUAL033 - LP

  096962271787

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The long‑awaited sophomore release and first full‑length LP from San Francisco’s hybrid psychedelic Latin blues rock explorers, Bolero! has risen—an unapologetically primal expression of human music. The album unfolds as a guided journey through the spiritual and mortal realms, bridging past, present, and future through dynamic, richly layered compositions. Drawing inspiration from the San Francisco Sound of the late ’60s and ’70s while reframing it through a contemporary lens, the record moves fluidly between groove, ritual, and reflection. The journey opens with “Greetings,” an acknowledgment and welcome to our planet spoken in fourteen languages by friends and family of the band, layered over a deep, funky instrumental jam that ignites the album’s momentum. A drum hit snaps into motion the next track, “Espíritu,” beginning in a hypnotic trance with ghostly vocals inviting listeners to commune and dance with the spirits. The piece steadily builds into a powerful groove, featuring percussion breaks and soaring guitar and organ harmonies. Wind chimes drift in as a deep, tribal rhythm emerges, leading seamlessly into the final track of Side A, “Bathala.” Inspired by the ancient Tagalog deity said to have created the universe, the song erupts like a volcanic war cry—thunderous, cathartic, and elemental. Side B opens with “U.A.V.” a bluesy, fuzz‑drenched anti‑war anthem featuring vivid, incisive lyrics delivered in a dark, Morrison‑esque baritone over a crushing, Sabbath‑inspired musical assault. As the smoke clears, “Simply Livin” rolls in like the ignition of a classic car. Rooted in California sweet soul, the track pairs everyday imagery with soothing vocal harmonies and tight musicianship, offering a warm moment of release. The album closes with the acoustic track “Alegira,” a multicultural folk blend combining tropical Latin rhythms, wah‑wah finger‑tapped guitar leads, Spinetta‑inspired chord voicings, and intimate campfire‑style Spanish vocals. A final spiritual surprise seals the comedown, completing the album’s immersive journey. The album was recorded and produced in Brisbane, California at Lucky Recording Co. by Kurt Schlegel and Mikel Ross.

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EDGE - 'S/T'

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• EZRDR149LP - LP

  679065076871

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** SUPER LIMITED - WE ARE GETTING 30 ONLY!!** It's 1970 and this beast of an LP nails the moment psychedelic '60s haze faded into early bad ass hard rock. Edge take it other places as well, brief progressive flashes, medieval folk pop, even… ambitious and concise on every track. No excess baggage, killer arrangements shot through with ripping guitar, moody organ and hooks to spare. The Edge LP always pulled premium collector $$ and your ears will tell you why! Edge was formed by members from two L.A. bands that both had psychedelic pop LPs issued on the obscure Flick-Disc label in 1968, a 'hip' subsidiary of MGM. Richard Barcellona and John Keith from the American Revolution and David Novogroski from the Boston Tea Party along with Gallen Murphy make up the guitar/organ/bass/drums quartet lineup. Richard Barcellona is also responsible for the amazing lead guitar on the Seeds 1972 single "Shuckin'' and Jivin'", so this LP is Seeds related, always a notable detail when talking L.A. rock history. Cue it up and hold on to your seat, you're in for quite a ride during the next 28 minutes of your life!

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HARRY P**** - 'YOU'LL NEVER PLAY THIS TOWN AGAIN'

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• PAL069 - 2xLPs

  843563153567

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***Limited double-LP version of the 2008 CD originally issued on Load, compiling the best live and studio recordings by the final iteration of this group. "60 second bursts of chaotic rock 'n' roll that barbarize whole histories of freakout style, from free jazz through classic hardcore, boogie, blues, Black Flag, Germs, most explicitly through Beefheart, but all hyper-condensed into ultra-kranky riffs that Orcutt plays at hallucinatory speed, compressing Zoot Horn Rollo style avant confusion into lighting runs and metallic two note knock-outs. Hoyos's style is so primitive that it's wildly avantgarde, with an instinctive feel for time that confounds the most advanced improvisatory strategies with the most hysterical. And her vocals are post-Yoko in the truest sense, not directly informed by her but sharing the same spontaneous energy and a-musical appeal, sometimes breaking from songs completely to expand on barely articulated vocal rants and fever pitched bouts of screaming. The whole group existed in a zone that was constantly beyond technique. The arc of their career was perfect, the mission truly accomplished, and all that's left is this amazing series of recordings, a body of work that has had a disproportionate effect on the minds, if rarely the actual sound of the underground."—David Keenan , The Wire, December 2008

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