Tonevendor Update

New Clairecords Releases in abundance!

2008-05-07T08:00:27Z

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Hi everybody,

We have so much great Clairecords stuff going on this week, that we thought it best to send out a separate update for it all. New albums from The Daysleepers and Pia Fraus, plus a long-awaited vinyl release for The Brother Kite's magnum opus 'Waiting For the Time To Be Right'! It's available in a special limited edition package too. We also have a handful of shirts from TBK's SXSW jaunt. And let's not forget about those recent releases from park avenue music and Secret Shine! One last bit of news: the Tears Run Rings CD is currently sold out and undergoing a second pressing, so hold tight and we should have more in stock soon-ish. Thanks for making that one so successful!

For those who need to know, here's what's up on the horizon: in June we have a limited edition split 7" with The Brother Kite and Plumerai plus we should have vinyl EPs on Claire's Echo from Electro Group and Dalek vs. Ifwhen; later in the year we plan to have albums from Raymond Scott Woolson, a limited reissue of the Brittle Stars material on CD, and a limited vinyl issue of Seefeel's classic 'Quique' on quadruple vinyl! Stay tuned...

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THE DAYSLEEPERS-Drowned In A Sea of Sound CD (Clairecords-$12.00)
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A year in the making, The Daysleepers return with their full length Clairecords Debut! "Drowned in a Sea of Sound" takes nothing but the best elements of the band's highly acclaimed EP's and blends them with some entirely new experimental soundscapes. The Daysleepers trademark sound of mixing Dreampop, Post-Punk and New Wave styles is still very much present, and at times pushes even beyond those boundaries. Imagine the sounds of the Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Chameleons and Slowdive rolled into one. These 10 tracks touch on a wide variety of sounds and emotions ranging from spacey ethereal drones to blissful up-tempo dreampop beauty. For fans of the early out-of-print EP's, "Hide Your Eyes" and "The Soft Attack", "Drowned in a Sea of Sound" is a must have. It is proof that The Daysleepers have fully matured and discovered their true sound.

PIA FRAUS - After Summer CD (Clairecords-$12.00)
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Clairecords is extremely proud to present Pia Fraus' new album "After Summer". After 5 long years, we welcome the Estonian pop geniuses back to the Clairecords label with open arms.
"After Summer" is produced by legendary Glaswegian Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, The Pastels etc). Pia Fraus and Norman Blake kept file transfer programs busy for months to exchange soundfiles; this relationship has created something magical. "After Summer" is the 4th proper album from the Pias, and quite possibly their best album to date. No wonder, if your idol takes producer's chair! The album also features some guest musicians: Estonian electronica stars Galaktlan and Pastacas guest on two of the album's tracks. Moreover, "After Summer" has the well-known and well-loved Pia Fraus sound, quality songwriting, a lot of studio tricks and layers of guitars, synths, and boy/girl vocals. This album will bring huge grins to the mouths of Pia Fraus fans, yet at the same time it is a perfect introduction to Pia Fraus for the uninitiated.
For fans of My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, Chicago Underground Quartet, The Pastels, The Beatles, and – of course - Pia Fraus!

THE BROTHER KITE - Waiting For The Time To Be Right 180g LP+CD (Clairecords-$12.99)
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LIMITED TO ONLY 200 COPIES WORLDWIDE!! Finally, the sophomore album from The Brother Kite is presented to the masses on vinyl!! The production on this vinyl has been an absolute nightmare, fraught with problem after problem and delay after delay - but the Wait is over, and we hope you find it was worth the wait! This limited edition release is presented on 180-gram audiophile-quality virgin black vinyl.
In addition to the vinyl, this package includes an exclusive bonus CDr (professionally-manufactured), entitled "Inside Waiting For The Time To Be Right". We thought someone who liked the album enough to purchase the vinyl might be interested in peeling away some of its layers, just for curiosity's sake. So on this CDr, you will find alternative mixes of every song on the album. They are not intended to hold up on their own (although they do!), but the intent was to reveal some interesting, intriguing and/or hidden elements that you may not have noticed before. Stripped down, these songs are a powerful, beautiful and emotional tour-de-force - even more than they were to begin with.
Providence, Rhode Island's The Brother Kite began crafting their shoegaze-inflected rock sound in 2001, when founding members Patrick Boutwell and Jon Downs began writing and recording original material as a duo. Bassist Andrea Mason and guitarist Mark Howard joined them in 2002, and the band released a split 7" record with friends Vaguely Starshaped on Boston's Losing Blueprint Records. The Brother Kite then released their first full length album on Clairecords, thebrotherkite (2004), a self-titled and self-recorded serving of layered guitars and buoyant melodies. Their ambitious debut earned them nationwide attention from critics and music fans alike. They soon enlisted Matt Rozzero as full-time drummer, and relentlessly toured the east coast, gaining new fans at every show and further refining their unique sound.
With the success of thebrotherkite, they were poised to take a bold step, but knew the restrictions of traditional studio recording wouldn't allow for the creative freedom they needed to realize their vision. So they did what any band would do: build their own studio! Waiting For The Time To Be Right is the long-awaited result of this endeavor, a brave new rock record, astonishing not only for its depth and maturity, but also for its willingness to stray from the shoegaze sound that most easily defined their previous works. Layered guitar textures remain, of course, an important ingredient. However, Boutwell's impassioned vocals are now pushed to the forefront, showcasing a Brian Wilson-esque gift for melody hinted at in earlier songs. Guitarist/engineer Downs demonstrates a knack for crafting mini-symphonies out of Boutwell's creations, while drummer Rozzero's skillful percussion adds subtle new dimensions at every turn. Include Mason's rock-solid bass and Howard's e
legant lead guitar, and the result is an album of dynamically orchestrated pop, equal parts Loveless and Smile, Quadrophenia and The Soft Bulletin. With Waiting For The Time To Be Right, The Brother Kite respectfully pay homage to some of rock's great achievements, while carving out an innovative spot for themselves in the world of today's independent music.

THE BROTHER KITE - Waiting For The Time To Be Right: DELUXE EDITION 180g LP+CD+T-SHIRT (Clairecords-$19.99)
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The deluxe edition is exclusive to Tonevendor direct customers -- the album is pressed on lovely orange vinyl (still 180-grams), and comes with an EXCLUSIVE t-shirt, only available with this package! The package also includes the bonus CD This deluxe edition is LIMITED TO LESS THAN 100 COPIES, and then they are gone for good. Get yours while you still can, because they definitely will not last long!!

THE BROTHER KITE - Woodcut: 2008 SXSW T-SHIRT: size SMALL (Clairecords-$10.00)
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Lovely, special, limited t-shirt printed up especially for TBK's appearance at SXSW 2008. We have a handful of leftovers for sale here - but not many, so don't dilly, ya hear? This shirt features a "woodcut" design in black ink on the front, with "handwritten" text of the band name in white ink. The shirt color is olive green, and is the "standard" American Apparel tee, so you know it's super cozy and nice. And the photo shown on the website will explain all of that without words! Available in sizes S, M, L and XL.

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Pop Mayhem - Last Chance for Purchase of Passes and Advance Tickets! / Ifwhen Tour Dates

2008-05-05T12:05:50Z

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Hi folks,

The clock is ticking and your chance for advance-purchase of Pop Mayhem tickets is dwindling! As of NOON (EST) on Wednesday, May 7, there will be no passes available for advance purchase. We will also be cutting off advance ticket purchases for individual shows at the same time. Don't delay: get on over to www.tonevendor.com and get your pass/ticket(s) before it's too late! Also visit www.popmayhem.com for complete schedule information and any other stuff you need to know.

We also want to take this opportunity to announce Clairecords artists IFWHEN will be touring on their way down to Florida and back, and if you live along or near the tour route, you definitely don't want to miss the chance to see these guys live!

6 May 2008 - Norfolk, VA The New Belmont 21st & Colonial - presented by "Substance".

8 May 2008 - POP MAYHEM FESTIVAL, Gainesville, FL. at Common Grounds .... with Brittle Stars, Buddy System, Giddy-Up Helicopter and Saving Twilight.

9 May 2008 - Athens, GA - Flicker Bar 263 W. Washington St.

10 May 2008 - Greensboro, South Carolina - Solaris
125 Summit Ave. ....with Glissade.

11 May 2008 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina - The Cave
452 1/2 W Franklin St. ....with Glissade & Polynyia.

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Tonevendor Update Message for Friday May 2, 2008

2008-05-02T12:52:09Z

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Hey All,

Whoa, this update is heavierthan a wooly mammoth listening to Sunn0))). Ouch!

Rock on, soldiers.

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ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE-Postcards From Nowhere CDr (Distant Noise-$12.99)
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LIMITED to 100 copies!! For fans of: Piano Magic, Hood, Slowdive, Sigur Ros, July Skies, Labradford, Bark Psychosis, Yellow6, etc. ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE is the solo project of the 25 year-old George Mastrokostas, based in Athens, Greece. Recording everything himself in his home-studio, he creates a melancholic sound that covers a multitude of styles such as shoegaze, post-rock, ambient and electronica. To date, he has released his music on labels such as unlabel (uk), duotone (japan), fuzzy panda (usa), bsbta (denmark), october man (uk) and also on his own label sound in silence (greece) and has collaborated for split releases with artists like yellow6, kimonophonic, lope, doogie and cono norte 3. He has played several gigs in Greece at various venues, including synch festival 2007 (among other artists like mum, !!!, front 242, fischerspooner, alexander hacke and many others) and support gigs with piano magic (after being selected by piano magic themselves) and section 25 (fro
m legendary factory records).
This new album is calming, melancholic, and optimistic in equal parts, and there is always the auro of dreams, nostalgia, and romanticism in it. It's a mixture of cinematic ambient, mellow shoegaze, and melodic post-rock. Delicately picked and opiated chiming guitars, subtle drum machines, ethereal keyboards, glockenspiel with a lullaby feel, loops, samples and other instruments combine to form a rich, warm album full of atmospheric soundscapes.

DEAD LEAF ECHO-Pale Fire CD (Year of the Gallon-$
"Shoegaze fans will likely not want to let Pale Fire slip under their radar...." -Angry Ape ".....captures the spirit of 4AD melancholia perfectly...." -Leonard's Lair
Taking their cue from Nabokov's masterpiece Lolita, Dead Leaf Echo has become commentary on a new style. By crafting every aspect of their sound and vision, they remain one of the few left willing to work on high-art as concept. Pale Fire, their 2nd release, featuring the title track mixed by ULRICH SCHNAUSS (Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Mojave 3) and recorded at the Bunker Studio (Ambulance LTD., Hot Chip) is now available through their own record label Year of the Gallon Records. Pale Fire is quickly being hailed as something new and inventive amongst the underground music scene. Formed in 2005, LG (vocals, guitars) together with Mike DiLalla (bass) and Liza B.(keys, vocals) have been formulating their craft for years.
Finally exposing themselves to the public. They have brought with them a completely visual landscape to their live shows by always being backed by live projections.

DULCESKY-Unfamiliar EP CD (Nueve Music-$6.99)
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Sometimes, the best way to jumpstart songwriting creativity is playing someone else's song. That wasn't necessarily the plan when DulceSky set out to cover the mighty Ride in early 2007, but it ended up being the result. Long time Ride fans, they jumped at the chance to cover "Unfamiliar," a Nowhere-era b-side, for a Ride tribute album. But it wasn't a matter of simply going into the studio and banging out a version of the song in an afternoon.
DulceSky tried slowing the tempo down and a few other ideas that went, well, nowhere. Stuck, the band turned to technology. A Groovebox sampler was enlisted, and the band had a revelation: strap the straight-ahead rock of "Unfamiliar" to a two-step, almost disco beat, and watch the sparks fly. The result was a driving, powerful take on a classic and, eventually, a window into the recording of the Unfamiliar EP.
When it became apparent that the Ride tribute album had stalled and possibly would never see the light of day, DulceSky decided to release their cover instead of letting it gather dust. And then the songs started coming: "Icon of Distress," a politically charged slow burner with the band's trademark textured guitars, "In Your Way," an atmospheric ode to reconciliation, and the elegiac "Ana in a Dream," a deeply personal and beautiful song featuring acoustic strumming and arpeggios (elements rarely heard in the DulceSky camp) on a bed of shimmering keyboards. What came from the circuits of that unwitting Groovebox turned out to be a coherent work that furthers DulceSky's story in exciting ways. The Unfamiliar EP fits perfectly within the band's discography while suggesting potential new horizons in their sound. More than a transitional work, though, the songs here speak for themselves: four tracks that, taken together, are a testament to an enduring band's creative vision. -
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HAMMOCK-Maybe They'll Sing For Us Tomorrow CD (Darla-$13.99)
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After four well-loved and critically lauded recordings, Hammock returns with a new full-length, special release, Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow, which features eleven new songs and original artwork by Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi Birgisson of the Grammy-nominated Sigur Ros and Alex Somers of Parachutes). At the invitation of Birgisson and Somers, Hammock gave their first-ever live performance at the after party celebration of the Riceboy Sleeps overseas debut art exhibition, held in Hot Springs, AR in August 2007. Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow is the studio recording of the original music written and played by Hammock for the occasion. �Studio performance� is a more accurate phrase, as the guitars for these songs were recorded live, just as the band performed them, later rounded out by Matt Slocum�s expansive, emotive cello. This is Hammock reduced to an essence�a core. There are no intrusions. No beats. No lyrics. Nothing to break the spell or jar the listener out of t
he moment. Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow has all of the vulnerability and spontaneity of a performance, yet all of the rich, cinematic beauty of a Hammock studio recording. Hammock�s self-imposed minimalism is expertly merged with their hallmark melodic songwriting, resulting in the most focused, mesmeric and deeply personal album in their catalog to date.

MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND-A Thousand Shark's Teeth PREORDER CD/LP (Asthmatic Kitty-$11.99)
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Preorder now and receive a download coupon with printed unique password that provides access to a free digital download EP of five alternate versions of album tracks plus one outtake! We will email your code to you and the physical printed coupon will be mailed with your CD when it ships on or near release date (June 17, 2008). Please note: we will not have coupons until May 20 (possibly a bit earlier), and will email your code at that time. Rest assured, we will email your code to you the very moment we receive them!
This collection of songs is not a few throwaway tracks, rather My Brightest Diamond has offered up
a fully realized EP of alternate versions of the album tracks plus one album outtake. Orchestrated and complex, yet spacious and direct, these versions are a rewarding listen for the opportunity to hear how the songs have mutated into their final form. It also provides a sneak peek into what is bound to become one of the standout releases of 2008.

SECRET SHINE-All Of The Stars JAPANESE EDITION 2xCD (Quince-$13.99)
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Special Japanese licensed issue of the new album from Secret Shine, which includes a second disc featuring all the tracks from their Elemental EP and the now-out-of-print Beyond Sea and Sky EP, all tracks fully remastered! Unique artwork for this issue as well.
All of the Stars is Secret Shine's second studio album, and their first in 14 years. The band took an unscheduled nine year break before returning in 2004 with the release of their back catalogue (After Years) on Clairecords, followed by two emphatically-received EPs of new material in 2006, and live shows in Europe and America.
All of the Stars encapsulates the passion of Secret Shine's live power pop in the heart-thumping 'Oblivion', 'Voice of the Sea' and 'The Sound of Light' but is both delicate and beautiful in 'All that's left' and 'Last Leaves'. Secret Shine have lost none of the sumptuous boy/girl harmonies and celestial melodies (never more evident than in the heavenly 'Stars in the Sky') that made their debut album Untouched such a classic that is still revered in shoegazing circles today.
Secret Shine dedicated 2007 to write and record All of the Stars and demoed twice the amount of songs they needed for the album so that only the finest would survive. The band have grown on this record � the sound is stronger and more confident, expertly produced and directed by Shine protagonist Jamie Gingell. The band drift effortlessly between the epic, orchestral arrangements of 'Caf� Crash' and the sparse, haunting piano-led 'Another Day'.
All of the Stars would sit comfortably alongside shoegaze classics like Slowdive's Souvlaki, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and The Pale Saints' The Comforts of Madness, but Secret Shine have created their own unique treasure and possibly the new wave of 'stargaze'.

THISQUIETARMY-Unconquered CD (Foreshadow Music-$15.99)
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THISQUIETARMY is a solo project from a young talented Canada-based artist Eric Quach. He is also known for being a guitarist in a renowned shoe-gaze band DESTROYALLDREAMERS. As THISQUIETARMY, he explores never-ending spectrum of guitar ambience and loop drone sounds. From the mellow opening of �Immobilization�, through grandiose �Battlefield Arkestrah� and �The Sun Destroyers�, gloomy �Death of a Sailor�, to closing notes of �Empire�, Eric Quach manages to capture the essence of contemporary alternative guitar experimentation while maintaining disturbing but also captivating aural atmosphere. �Unconquered� presents this musical project as consciously standing among the best artists of this genre, which is symbolized by the guest appearance of Aidan Baker. On the other hand, THISQUIETARMY, already on his debut album, looks far into the future and crosses the boundaries, the best sign of which are the clean female vocals of Meryem Yildiz in one of the tracks � something not com
mon in the field of ambient drone guitar music. Eric�s experience in DESTROYALLDREAMERS, numerous live performances, brave open mind and genuine artistic freedom allowed him to deliver his first official debut full-length album in a flawless and extraordinary way.

COMPACT DISCS

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO UFO-Recurring Dream & Apocalypse of Darkness CD (Important-$12.99)
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Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness is the by far the heaviest Acid Mothers Temple record yet. So heavy, in fact, that Kawabata Makoto jokingly said "the album is really heavy, maybe a bit like Sunn o))). hahahaha". The limited edition double LP version of Recurring Dream is packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on heavy duty jacket and it contains two bonus tracks rounding out the double LP set. Both the CD & LP feature remarkable art work by Seldon Hunt. LP is limited to 1000. The Acid Mothers Temple will be embarking on a coast to coast tour to support Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness.

AUTUMNS-Fake Noise From A Box of Toys CD (Bella Union-$12.99)
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A radical departure from the entirety of their earlier work. The songs slice & dice w/a frenzied precision, their pummeling pace interrupted only sparingly by the placid fare of Autumns past. & yet the latter merge all the more lovely from the record's generally rough relief.

BOBBY & BLUMM-Everybody Loves Bobby & Blumm CD (Morr-$15.99)
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Bobby and Blumm is Sweden's Ellinor Blixt (aka Bobby Baby) and Germany's F.S. Blumm, and this is their debut release for the Morr Music label. Bobby tours with her band It's A Musical! and as Bobby Baby and manages a pop-camp for teenage girls in Sweden and Germany. Frank Sch�ltge Blumm has been releasing records since 1998. His first full-length solo album came out on Morr Music in 2001(Mondkuchen), and he is an author and producer of radio-plays. Their debut recording features voices and pickings, guitar, keyboard, Swedish bag and other biscuits. B&B try to give the wide world of pop some little turns and unexpected changes with hiss and rustle, dreamy sound, soft and fragile voices, purity and warmth. Everybody Loves... was recorded 50km north of Berlin in a little house at the edge of the forest in a room with wooden walls and as a result, you will hear the crackling sounds of shellac records, a caressing clothes-brush, some fingertips on greaseproof paper, as well as swi
nging coat hangers on the night train to Krakow, flat-wound strings on a big guitar and above all, a gentle and silky voice. Bobby and Blumm feel the influence of the following records: Stina Nordenstam, People Are Strange, Nico, Chelsea Girl, Juana Molina, Tres Cosas, David Grubbs, Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange and The Best Of Burt Bacharach.

CHAPTERHOUSE-Blood Music CD (Cherry Red-$15.99)
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Expanded version of the long deleted second Chapterhouse album Blood Music. This is a new version of the album mixed especially for this release. Original album now includes all 4 tracks from the Mesmerise EP, along with 2 additional songs from the We Are The Beautiful single. New booklet features liner notes from Electronica/Ambient DJ/artist Ulrich Schnauss, along with image of related artwork, photos and memorabilia from the bands personal archive, plus lyrics in full. Produced by Ralph Jezzard [Wildhearts/EMF/Terrorvision], Pascal Gabriel [New Order/Kylie Minogue/Dido] and Paul Rabinger. Tracklist: Mesmerise / Precious One / Summer Chill / Then We'll Rise / Frost / Age / Don't Look Now / There's Still Life / We Are The Beautiful / Summer's Gone / Everytime Deli / On The Way To Fly / She's A Vision /Greater Power / Confusion Trip / Love Forever

CLINIC-Do It! CD (Domino-$12.99)
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Their fifth studio album is a summer album, a warped Technicolor celebration - pop music and severe cut-ups going from melody to acid psychosis to acoustic, usually in the same song. "Do It!" is a skewed pop amalgam of Motown, Exuma, deep lounge, and The Balloon Farm, amongst many. Songs about living for the day, love, escaping witchhunts, and more. Mixed by Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings Of Leon, Archie Bronson Outfit).

CLOUDLAND CANYON-Lie in Light CD (Kranky-$12.99)
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"It appears there is a second 'kosmische musik' period in full bloom around the world at the moment, not so much 'kosmische' as in 'Krautrock' but instead 'cosmic.' At Kranky they have the celestial symphonies of Stars of the Lid, the guitar circle prog-psych of White Rainbow, the astral folk explorations of Lichens, the cut and splice electro-motorik of Andrew Pekler, the alien space-blues of Valet, and now the half-German, half-American duo Cloudland Canyon, who actually bring the full-on 'Krautrock' on. You can play pick the influences if you like, but you can do that with any group. Cloudland certainly owe a debt to the German underground of the '70s, but they have also added flourishes of baroque pop and even a tinge of the '80s New Zealand scene into their sound. That they have ingested these influences and then delivered something as dynamic as this album without sounding like rote imitation is what impresses. The album is anything but one-dimensional, as they traverse
a wide swath of territory. From the lock down groove of the opening track 'Krautwerk,' to the dense buzz of 'White Woman,' through the pastoral pscyh of 'Heme' and on to the gentle wash of the closer 'Mothlight,' Cloudland Canyon have created an eclectic and rewarding listen."

JOHN COLTRANE-Africa/Brass CD (Impulse-$12.99)
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Newly remastered from original masters in digipak recreating original LP art

DATURAH-Reverie CD (Graveface-$11.99)
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Instrumental combo hailing from Frankfort Germany create a listening experience using crisp & thinly layered synths and half buried samples. While staying true to the Krautrock glide of Can and Tangerine Dream , Reverie is intricately woven headphone music for those who like their loudness plunging to the depths of the ocean while treading on the moddy middle ground of pure resonance and dulcet friction

JANDEK-Glasgow Friday CD (Corwood-$7.50)
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53nd Jandek release. Pictured on front: a ruined castle on the sea. Recorded live: The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland, October 14, 2005. As with the other Jandek CDs recorded live in Glasgow, this features backing provided by Glaswegians Richard Youngs (bass) and Scatter percussionist Alex Neilson on drums.

KETTEL-Myam James CD (Sending Orbs-$18.99)
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After two magnificent Sending Orbs albums (�Through Friendly Waters�, �My Dogan�), and last year�s acclaimed ambient electronic / jazz / classical hybrid �Whisper Me Wishes� on Clone / DUB, Kettel aka Reimer Eising re-emerges with the first part of the �Myam James� series. Kettel manages to squeeze uplifting, warm, cheerful and enjoyable maximal electronic music out of his kettle and pottery factory, which is sad, melancholic and sensitive all at the same time, characteristic of the paradoxical twist in much of his work : beauty lies in the melancholy. Add to this Kettel's profound knowledge of composition and his passionate love of the roots of the early 90s Warp sound, and we guarantee you'll be chained to your speakers for the next months. �Myam James Part 1� is nine tracks of Kettel ecstasy, including a brilliant remix of �My Dogan�s title track by early influencers Phoenecia (Schematic/Warp), and seven minutes of Vangelis-style remix synthesizer-madness by Secede.

KLUSTER-Vulcano: Live 1971 CD (Important-$13.99)
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Packaged in a limited edition deluxe heavy duty gatefold jacket with 4 panel embossing. Vulcano is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann. Along with Admira, also being released at the same time on Important, Vulcano is presented here for the first time in this deluxe package. These intense sessions were made with Schnitzler at the helm, as always, after the departure of Mobius and Roedelius from the group. Conrad Schnitzler founded Kluster in 1969 along with Roedelius, Mobius and often Klaus Freudigmann who had multiple roles within the group as a player, engineer and instrument inventor. Eventually Roedelius and Mobius left Kluster and continued on as Cluster while Schnitzler and Freudigmann continued as Kluster often exploring the communal aspects of music by bringing new people into the group. Vulcano is limited to 1000 copies and is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket made to emulate the orig
inal die stamped puffy packaging for Kluster's album Klopfzeichen. Very deluxe.

KLUSTER-Admira 1971 CD (Important-$13.99)
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Limited edition. Packaged in a deluxe 4 panel embossed heavy duty gatefold jacket. Admira is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann. Along with Vulcano, also being released at the same time on Important, Admira is presented here for the first time in this deluxe package. These intense sessions were made with Schnitzler at the helm, as always, after the departure of Mobius and Roedelius from the group. Conrad Schnitzler founded Kluster in 1969 along with Roedelius, Mobius and often Klaus Freudigmann who had multiple roles within the group as a player, engineer and instrument inventor. Eventually Roedelius and Mobius left Kluster and continued on as Cluster while Schnitzler and Freudigmann continued as Kluster often exploring the communal aspects of music by bringing new people into the group. Admira is limited to 1000 copies and is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket made to emulate the original di
e stamped puffy packaging for Kluster's album Klopfzeichen. Very deluxe.

M83-Saturdays=Youth CD (Mute-$15.99)
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The idea of youth -wasted, gilded or otherwise- has always feat. prominently in their music. "On this record I wanted to have the feeling of a teenager mixed w/ this period of the 80s," Anthony Gonzalez explains. The result is their most explicit celebration yet of how it feels to be dazed, confused & 15 yrs old

NO AGE-Nouns CD (Sub Pop-$12.99)
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No Age: the name alone suggests multiple meanings and possible interpretations�timeless, ageless, anonymous, free from restriction, something positive from something negative� a profound strength in its simplicity. Likewise, the Los Angeles duo consisting of drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall is many things at once even as it embraces its minimalism. No Age issued a slew of singles on a variety of indie labels in 2007, resulting in the tellingly cohesive compendium, Weirdo Rippers on Fat Cat Records later that year. That widely heralded release inspired such mainstream press as The New Yorker and the L.A. Times to feature the band�s ties to the underground scene surrounding the Los Angeles all-ages club The Smell.
Recorded by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound in LA, Harvey Birrell at Southern Studios in London, and at home by No Age, Nouns, the band�s Sub Pop debut, is succinctly all-encompassing, from the faux-simplicity of the title to the beautiful distortion of its sound, to the packaging that includes a 68-page full-color book packed with photos and art pieces. The record opens with a symphony of noise (both Dean and Randy use samples alongside their main instruments) and sometimes creeps, sometimes smashes through a sonic headlock befitting Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, Kiwi pop, My Bloody Valentine, and experimental noise. �No Age is a band,� says Dean. �Bands should be fun and exciting and they should push all the buttons at the same time. They should make you feel like you are going to explode and make you utterly confused and inspired at the same time.� And sometimes they do.

PORTISHEAD-Third CD (Mercury-$14.99)
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Hugely anticipated album from the UK Electronic outfit. It's been ten long years since PNYC and the wait is over! Third is the 2008 album from Portishead. They are a trip-hop group from Bristol, England, named after the nearby town of the same name. Um, in case you didn't know. Yep. 11 tracks.

RUSSIAN CIRCLES-Station CD (Suicide Squeeze-$12.99)
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From the beginning it was their concoction of metal trimmings, minimal jazz primers, & cryptic riffs that hit the scene out of nowhere w/ the pummeling impact of a rouge comet crashing in from the skies. Their music weaves up an intense & cinematic albeit soothing clobbering that cannot be put into words but instead into forms of audible head trips that defies pigeonholing.

SECOND HAND FURNITURE-Game, Set, Match CD (Plastilina-$14.99)
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To start 2008 in the best way you should definitely check this album that compiles all songs ever recorded by this wonderful Swedish outfit! It includes 2 unreleased songs and liner notes by Fraction Discs' Jorgen Svensson!
Check out the bandmember�s solo projects, Thirst For Treasures (Victor), Punktslut (Tobias) and Mr.Pedro(Petter). Other bands that recommended by Second Hand Furniture (which may give you some reference points) include: Moscow Olympics, Kissing Mirrors, Everyday Mistakes, Days, My Darling YOU! and the Clientele.

STRATEGY-Music for Lamping CD (Audio Dregs-$12.99)
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Strategy's Paul Dickow has been a longtime cornerstone player in Portland, Oregon's electronic and experimental music community. He was once a drummer in the punk group Emergency, a keyboard player in jazz/post-rock's Fontanelle, played drums and electronics in Nudge, DJs eclectic disco and techno sets, and also remixes and produces dancefloor bangers as well as ambient, abstract pop expressions under his solo moniker Strategy. He has built up a name releasing acclaimed albums for Kranky and 12"s for labels such as ORAC (Seattle) and Dreck (London) and also by founding the premier Cascadian freedom music record label known as Community Library. For years Paul and Audio Dregs have been comrades and collaborators and now we are proud to bring you his latest offering that collects Strategy's rain-soaked chillout recordings and slow motion filtered dubscapes. These are the tracks rescued from the mornings after the dance parties and longer compositions collected from his studio i
n moss covered corners of green Cascadian forest caverns. "Music for Lamping contains six years' worth of music that can roughly be called ambient - perhaps "meditative" is a better word. All of this music combines my interest in blurring/expanding/clouding processes--such as granular synthesis, vocoding, and bucket-brigade delay--with happenstance sound sources, such as field recordings or a favorite record sitting around the studio. The earliest music dates to a 2002 CD that was never released, entitled Strategy At Beacon Rock, which was intended as a 'gentle' or 'atmospheric' treatment of plundered audio. The material from 2004 onwards dates to a period of soundwalks in my neighborhood of Northwest Portland (a perfect strolling zone). Taken altogether, these pieces form a traceable thread through my work where I use my usual raw materials to reach a more liquid, spontaneous end result." -Paul Dickow TRACKLISTING: 1. I Can't Stand the Rain 2. Cathedral Spark 3. Bike Click 4. All Day... 5. World Service 6. Lower Macleay

TAPE-Opera Plus CD (Hapna-$16.99)
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Opera Plus is a reissue of Tape's 2002 full-length debut Opera (HAPNA 009CD), with three new tracks taken from the original 2002 sessions. Tape are Johan Berthling, Andreas Berthling and Tomas Hallonsten: guitars, laptop, pedals, synthesizers, harmonium, melodica, field recordings, percussion, harmonica, zither, piano, flute, bells, glockenspiel, accordion, trumpet, paper, styrofoam, yongmei. As Stephan Mathieu wrote at the time of this release, "Tape's music lives at the intersection of a 21st century chamber music and an imaginary folklore. Slowly passing by vast yellow rape fields and ancient, abandoned factories, the music on my headphones seems to fit almost too perfectly. The sun and nature are certainly core ingredients of Opera and its slowly floating melodies carry the spirit of travel, not on an aircraft, but submerged in a landscape instead." In the meantime, Tape have distilled their sound with their albums such as Milieu, Rideau, as well as collaborations with Te
nniscoats more and more into an organic song-like format. While all of them are excellent, Tape's essence can be found in Opera. Listening to Opera again after almost six years, it proves to be a truly great and timeless album. Now in a digipak with new cover art.

TAPE-Milieu Plus CD (Hapna-$16.99)
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Milieu Plus is a reissue of Tape's 2003 second full-length, Milieu (HAPNA 014CD), with four new tracks taken from the original 2003 sessions. When this album first came out, it sounded like nothing else. Seemingly improvised but still so tenderly composed, it took cues from both the most gentle free jazz and Brian Eno's ideas of ambient music, but at the same time leaning against both Swedish folk music and broken pop balladry. Milieu -- together with its forerunner Opera -- became something of a stepping stone for, if not a new kind of pop, at least a new way of approaching it and a new way of seeing what it could achieve. Tape had very little to do with traditional experimental music, they never fitted into jazz and -- although many tried to -- their beautiful songs could not by any means be labelled electronica. Instead it was the genuine gentleness itself of Tape's music that spoke to their soul mates across the world. Milieu opened a door to a musical heart their contemp
oraries had been trying to reach for a long time. As Andres Lokko describes of this release, "Tape stir up such forgotten feelings, they restore fading pictures we don't really want to share with anyone else. Or in some cases have forgotten they were ever there in the first place. The aching slowness of these melodies awaken reluctant nostalgia; a forced sentimentality. And they do so without the aid of words, only with the purest music; the electricity in the air that surrounds the captured moment." Now in a digipak with new cover art.

TOKYO POLICE CLUB-Elephant Shell CD (Saddle Creek-$12.99)
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Their 2006 EP, "A Lesson In Crime", elicited raves from Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Interview, Blender, and Nylon, among others. Since then, TPC have been touring virtually nonstop, pausing only to release last year's "Smith" EP and the digital-only single, "Your English Is Good." Now Ontario's favorite sons offer their first full-length.
Where the EP was full of youthful, pell-mell, punked-up energy, ELEPHANT SHELL shows the band honing their angular indie rock into a style that's as seductive as it is energetic. The atmospheric "Juno" and the dreamy, meandering "The Harrowing Adventures of ?" show how Tokyo Police Club are maturing, but despite amazingly sharp songcraft and brain-bending shoegaze guitars, the music is still driven by propulsive rhythms and nervy, post-punk chops that recall the Strokes. "Centennial" and "Graves" are two tracks that show just how promising this outfit, and ELEPHANT SHELL, can be.

VARIOUS ARTISTS-Ambient Not Ambient CD (Audio Dregs-$5.99)
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TRACK LISTING: 1. E*Vax "Awl" 2. White Rainbow "See and The Field Feels" 3. Mudboy �Study for a Sleep Album- 2nd Movement.� 4. Dania Shapes "Weird Boombox" 5. Bird Show "Less of Everything" 6. Yellow Swans "To Valleys of Beautiful Arson" 7. WZT Hearts "Discuss Winter" 8. Sawako "Nst" 9. Grouper "Quiet Eyes" 10. Nudge "Dayrise" 11. AM/PM "Even as We Here" 12. Smoke & Mirrors "Ocean" 13. E*Rock "Exexpat" 14. Freeform "Ante Meridian" 15. Chris Herbert "Whips & Jingles" 16. Lucky Dragons "Sayles Street Ok Ok" 17. Valet "Tuesday Partly Sunny" This collection was curated by Paul Dickow together with E*Rock as a long term project showcasing some outsider ambient works and blissed-out pop from their hometown in Portland as well as friends across the seas. Emphasis was made to bring together artists from a variety of scenes and different underground bubbles of music producers that remain close to our hearts. Though many of the artists may have never previously bumped shoulders it was
important for us in keeping a common thread in the musicality and a conscious flow to the collection. Ambient Not Not Ambient should act strongly on its own merit as a complete thematically unified album of exclusive tracks, not an ad-hoc collection of unrelated tracks. This is part of the reason it took us so long to organize from conception to completion and to paint a larger picture with the variety involved. We are now stoked though and proud to offer this maxed-out 75+ minute compilation of exclusive tracks at special "EP" price. What you'll find is the mellow side of sonic terrorists like Yellow Swans (Load Records) next to old school electronic mainstays like Freeform (Skam/Warp) or AM/PM (Dreck) and full blown psychedelic wizards like White Rainbow (Kranky/Marriage) and Birdshow (Kranky). Tracks by Lucky Dragons unique "sound art" style next to pop craftsman E*Vax (of Ratatat fame) float together with sparse compositions by Sawako (12k). There will be some fresh faces on the table for almost any listener (even the hard-core music nerds), for instance Smoke & Mirrors is the debut appearance by a new duo featuring Strategy�s Paul Dickow. Some of our favorite experimentalists and growling amorphous freedom rock and anti-rock have been cross-pollinated with some of best musical friends and ever expanding audio family. LINER NOTES: E*Vax "Awl" (Brooklyn, USA) At the point where the windpipe divides is situated the bird's sound producing organ, a "voice box" called the syrinx. Humans have no syrinx but a larynx instead. The avian syrinx is called a lower larynx, being differently situated at the other end of the windpipe. E*Vax is half of the band Ratatat (XL Records) and one of Audio Dregs Recordings founding dudes. www.evaxmusic.com White Rainbow "See and The Field Feels" (Portland, USA) White Rainbow is Adam Forkner, a man who lives a life of relative happiness and contentment. He made this music mostly on his computer, with a lot of Flanger on the main mix, I think. www.yarnlazer.com/whiterainbow/ Mudboy "Study for a Sleep Album (2nd Movement)" (Providence, USA) Experimental excerpt from the Doctor or Organismal Musicology. This piece is from a 40 minute long form composition yet to be released. Excerpt by Mudboy with Erik Carlson. Produced and mixed by R Lyon. www.mudboymusic.com Dania Shapes "Weird Boombox" (Cambridge, USA) Dania Shapes is Daniel Lopatin, who has been dispatching homemade ambient pastiche and noise projects sinse '04 when he began experimenting with a combination of analog synths, sequencers and and cut-n-paste digital assemblage techniques. www.daniashapes.com Bird Show "Less of Everything" (Chicago, USA) Bird Show is Ben Vida. "Less of Everything" was recorded at home soon after finishing the first Bird Show Cd entitled Green Inferno. (ASCAP) www.kranky.net Yellow Swans "To Valleys of Beautiful Arson" (Portland, USA) DYS is Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindel. This song representing the quieter side in their churning ocean of psychedelic sound and action freedom noise. www.jyrk.com/yellowswans WZT Hearts "Discuss Winter" (Baltimore, USA) WZT Hearts is Shaun Flynn, Jason Urick, Jeff Donaldson, and Michael Haleta. Recorded at Lord Baltimore Studios by Rob Girardi and mixed at Floristree by Jason Urick. Sawako "Nst" (NYC/Nagoya) Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. www.troncolon.com Grouper "Quiet Eyes" (Portland, USA) Grouper is Liz Harris, from Portland and the Bay Area. She is made of flesh and electrical impulses. She has bones, and muscle tissue surrounding the bones. She also has a variety of internal organs. yellowelectric.googlepages.com/grouper Nudge "Dayrise" (Los Angeles /Chicago/Portland, USA) This short piece was quietly pulled from the air with help from Brian Foote, Marc Hellner, and Rolan Vega in a room above some irritable neighbors in Chicago during the summer of 2007. www.kranky.net/artists/nudge.html AM/PM "Even As We Here" (London/UK) AM/PM is Radovan Scasascia's second project on Dreck Records (also known as Secondo), whereby he combines popular music and conceptual composing. Earlier releases (DRK-05/-07/-08) focused on the original concept of composing music entirely from the endings of existing/found music. www.dreck-records.com Smoke & Mirrors "Ocean" (Portland, Cascadia) Smoke & Mirrors are the duo of Rhenne Molly Miles (voice, electronics, guitar) and Paul Dickow (organ, synthesizer, electronics). They live in Southeast Portland. www.community-library.net E*Rock "Exexpat" (Portland, OR) This track is about returning older methods without repeating myself. This compilation for me is about creating new relationships with people and music while also strengthening some ties that were already there, but in a new way. Sometimes you need a reminder that the end product is actually the journey, and that life is an experiment without a concrete prize at the end. www.e--rock.com Freeform "Ante Meridian" (Brighton, UK) Simon Pyke's music project, Freeform, begun in 1995 out of boredom in British suburbs, growing quickly and releasing a number of albums and toured the world and has has since evolved to house the complete spectrum of sound design and music as Freefarm. www.freefarm.co.uk Chris Herbert "Whips and Jingles" (Birmingham, UK) Shards. Future Rock dipped in liquid nitrogen and struck with a toffee hammer. A conscious effort to escape the murk. www.chrisherbert.net Lucky Dragons "Sayles Street Ok Ok" (LA, USA) On the hottest day of the year we sat in the backyard of Tom's mother's house in Pawtucket with the beehives and the mint plants and played slow music. Then I went to Bamako and made this out of the recordings--iterative repetitions and bad mpeg compression effects--in a tiny room with lizards living behind the air conditioner. Lucky Dragons for this song is Luke Fischbeck, Tom Van Buskirk, George Langford, Annelise Grimm, and Joe Grimm. www.hawksandsparrows.org Valet "Tuesday Partly Sunny" (Portland, USA) Honey Owens has been giving us spontaneous, otherworldly, psychedelic sounds (in a variety of bands) for as long as most of us have been in Portland. Solo she records as Valet.

LP / 12" RECORDS

764 HERO-Nobody Knows This is Everywhere 2xLP (Tiger Style-$6.99)
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Hella cheap vinyl of this sweet record from '02. Cos we heart you. Produced by Phil Ek (who has also recorded with Built to Spill among others), this record is perhaps 764's most accessible and polished record to date yet still retains the raw vocal stylings and aggression of their earlier years. For this outing, the band enlistd the services of Robin P for bass duties. The 10 tracks represented in the cd run the gamut from hook-laden rock songs to extended ballads feat. the trademark wails of Mr. Atkins. The 2xLP format contains a bonus track for all you vinyl aficionados.

CADENCE WEAPON-Afterparty Babies LP (Anti-$16.99)
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"My dad said I was an after party baby. This goes out to all the accidents out there. Keep on making mistakes" - Cadence Weapon. Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon, is back, firmly establishing his legacy as a pioneer in a passionate crusade to push the envelopes of rap and electronic music. This ANTI debut delves into the friends and feelings, crews and club nights, hometowns and heroes, media and fashion, generated by Cadence's precocious career to date, all surrounded by punishing electronic dance jams. Cadence has played shows with Spank Rock, Lady Sovereign, Jurassic 5, TTC, New Pornographers, Final Fantasy, and De La Soul. RIYL: Aesop Rock, LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk, Busdriver.

HOTOTOGISU-Under the Rose LP (Heavy Blossom-$21.99)
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"Hototogisu's first LP release on their own imprint Heavy Blossom. Under The Rose is a pair of incantations for the dark and vengeful animal spirits. Sung in two parts, malignant coronation and origami skulls are blackened arias, dizzying vortices and canyons of screams, guitars and chaotic rhythms. Arising from this richly recorded and mastered vinyl slab come black tarpits of malevolence and savage beauty, harking back to a pre-Christian universe of animating spirits and tutelary daemons. Comes in a black jacket with a full-color photograph attached to the front cover and thickly inked silk-screened backs. Edition of 600."

MAGNETIC FIELDS-Charm of the Highway Strip 180g LP (Merge-$15.99)
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NOW ON 180 GRAM LP!

METALLICA-Ride the Lightning LP (Warner Bros-$18.99)
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2008 reissue of Metallica's sophomore 1984 album which was recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 1984 album was ranked #35 among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Albums Of The 80's. Kill 'Em All may have revitalized Heavy Metal's underground, but Ride The Lightning was even more stunning, exhibiting staggering musical growth and boldly charting new directions that would affect Heavy Metal's future. The standard LPs consist of one regular weight 33rpm vinyl disc in Stoughton jacket, produced at RTI. The pressings are half-speed mastered from the original analog tapes at Mobile Fidelity for the ultimate audiophile listening experience.

MOTORPSYCHO-Little Lucid Moments 2xLP (Rune Grammofon-$26.99)
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2LP version. The double vinyl edition comes in 180 gram vinyl and the spectacular gatefold sleeve is printed on 350 gram extra-thick cardboard. Vinyl cutting done by the super folks at Pauler Acoustics.

POLVO-Exploded Drawing 2xLP (Touch & Go-$14.99)
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REPRESSED! Originally released in April 1996, this was the moment when the band finally kicked off its shoes, cracked the studio windows, & unleashed a long suite of songs showcasing the band's true range. This 2LP gives it all up: paranoid blues rants, Delhi-via-the Ozarks hoedowns, spaghetti western lopers, carnivalesque boogie, a blazing, frustrated finale, & as always, that guitar sound.

POLVO-Shapes LP (Touch & Go-$11.99)
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After a brief interruption, they reconvened to record their final album, released in September 1997. The record weaves plaintive vibes, eastern passages, & rip roarin' freakouts in a pastiche eluding basic classification. Incl. Download Coupon.

RACONTEURS-Consolers of the Lonely 180g 2xLP (Warner Bros-$32.99)
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New studio album! Double 180 gram vinyl, mastered from original 2'' tapes, pressed in tri-fold jacket with large art cards

SHINING-s/t 180g 2xLP (Rune Grammofon-$26.99)
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Double vinyl edition including both In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster and Grindstone. Comes in a beautiful gatefold sleeve designed by Kim Hiorth�y. Limited to 500 copies only.

SILVER APPLES-s/t 180g LP (Phoenix-$31.99)
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Previously reissued on CD by Phoenix Records, now issued on a limited edition deluxe LP format as well; pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl. This is the first vinyl reissue of the self-titled first album by '60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1968. Fresh off their stint as The Overland Stage Electric Band, Simeon and Dan Taylor formed their own extravagant, two-man electronic space-odyssey, Silver Apples, to remarkable critical acclaim. "What's so amazing is that they make absolutely mind-shattering music with all this junky equipment," commented one reviewer, astounded over the then-mindbending concept of build-it-yourself electronics combined with rock drums. The debut album features lyrics by poet Stanley Warren and is an absolutely essential piece of musical history from electronic/psychedelic/rock music's ground-breaking legends. Housed in a deluxe gatefold foil sleeve containing the insert from the original release in a numbered li
mited edition of 1,000 copies.

SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN-Pershing LP (Polyvinyl-$12.99)
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Their follow-up to the critically acclaimed "Broom" (sold over 20,000 copies). SSLYBY have shared stages with Mute Math, Of Montreal, Sound Team, Catfish Haven, and Chin Up Chin Up, to name a few. Spin declared them the band that "could succeed The Shins" and enthusiastic press rolled in. Now, they're raising the bar even higher with "Pershing". Quirky chord changes amid massive hooks and addictive melodies. The band's songs have appeared in various films, commercials, and TV shows, including "The O.C.".

SPOON-Girls Can Tell LP (Merge-$15.99)
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Available on vinyl again!!

SPOON-A Series of Sneaks LP (Merge-$15.99)
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Reissue of Spoon's much celebrated but criminally hard to find 1998 album originally released on Elektra - and now on vinyl! A true diamond in the rough, a post punk pop masterpiece that's been lost since Spoon was dropped from Elektra mere months after the release.

JESSE SYKES & THE SWEET HEREAFTER-Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of Soul 180g 2xLP (Southern Lord-$18.99)
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Deluxe 180 gram double lp version of the third release from dark americana song-writer jesse sykes and her band.

WEEN-La Cucaracha LP (Schnitzel-$24.99)
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1st new full-length album in 4 yrs! None of these tracks have been released before - the "Friends" EP from a few months ago contained unique songs, & even the track "Friends" on this new album is a different track than anything on the "Friends" EP. Gatefold sleeve, includes a Ween sticker

VARIOUS ARTISTS-Droppin' Science 2xLP (Blue Note-$23.99)
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From A Tribe Called Quest to Gang Starr to Dr. Dre to the Beastie Boys, Blue Note has been the source of a deep groove, a soulful vamp, or hittin' beat that we associate w/ some of the greatest hip-hop songs. This is bringing it back to the lab of the jazz, funk, & soul chemists who gave the label some of the most influential & groundbreaking music of their time. They've dug deep into the crates to spotlight some of their most treasured works. Who got da props? The Finest in Jazz, hands down

VARIOUS ARTISTS-New Orleans Funk Vol 2 3xLP (Soul Jazz-$25.99)
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"This is Soul Jazz Records' new journey into the heart of New Orleans and a guide to the city's finest funk music produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Featuring everyone from The Meters to Eddie Bo, Lee Dorsey to Betty Harris, this is a who's who of the Crescent City's most famous and most funky! The city of New Orleans has deep musical roots that stretch back to Africa. New Orleans first gave birth to jazz music, a black musical form centered on rhythm, improvisation, freedom and collectivity at the turn of the century. Similarly in the late 1960s, New Orleans funk came to define a unique sound, mixing Caribbean rhythms, New Orleans second-line syncopation and rhythm and blues, all played by the Big Easy's finest musicians. While jazz and funk music spread throughout the world, many African-American musical traditions remained within the city limits such as Mardi Gras and Carnival, Saturday Night fish fries, funeral marching bands and much more, which partly explains
why New Orleans music is so unique. The album comes with extensive sleeve-notes, exclusive photography and more, and is an essential guide to the musical landscape of New Orleans and -- together with Soul Jazz Records' earlier New Orleans' releases -- presents the definitive story of New Orleans funk. Although on the mainland coast, New Orleans is also surrounded by lakes, giving the city an island feel. Similarly, its proximity to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti and the other West Indian Isles means that Latin and Caribbean musical influences are in its veins as much as American musical traditions. The upside of this city's isolation is that New Orleans musical traditions flourished away from those of the rest of America. A thriving city full of artists, musicians, singers, producers, record companies, studios (well, one studio, actually) led to a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week musical life, playing in clubs, bars, brothels, carnivals and parades. The downside of the city's isolation from the rest of the U.S. was that the city never developed a solid music industry to back up the creative over-supply. While New York had Atlantic, Detroit had Motown, Memphis had Stax, Chicago had Chess, Los Angeles had Modern, New Orleans had a multitude of small businesses fighting for space -- and often each other. Without the marketing, promotional weight, business and financial clout, New Orleans labels found it hard to get the nationwide distribution necessary to fill the million-odd jukeboxes throughout the country. So while every family in America knows the music of Gladys Knight or Smokey Robinson, few could tell you about -- let alone hum a tune from -- Benny Spellman, Inell Young, Warren Lee...this is far from being a reflection of the artists' creativity or musicality -- as anyone can tell you, New Orleans' melodies are the catchiest of all -- more it is a reflection of the limitations of the local music industry. Some New Orleans artists became successful throughout the U.S., such as Fats Domino in the 1950s and in the late 1960s, The Meters and Lee Dorsey, but many artists remained within the city limits. This makes for a fascinating goldmine of music released by a complex myriad of small labels run mainly by New Orleans producers, promoters and artists themselves. New Orleans Funk 2 brings together many of these artists along with text, sleeve-notes and photographs that gives social and historical context to the incredibly funky music of New Orleans."

Plus these LPs as described in the CD section above:

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO UFO-Recurring Dream & Apocalypse of Darkness 2xLP (Important-$24.99)
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DATURAH-Reverie 2xLP (Graveface-$23.99)
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NO AGE-Nouns LP (Sub Pop-$13.99)
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TOKYO POLICE CLUB-Elephant Shell LP (Saddle Creek-$13.99)
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7" RECORDS

ASOBI SEKSU-Strawberries 2x7" (One Little Indian-$13.99)
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Imported and LIMITED!!

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW-Zodiac Girls 7" (Suicide Squeeze-$4.99)
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Incl. a coupon for a free download MP3. They intricately infuse a psychedelic pastiche that seamlessly weaves between the worlds of folk, electronic & pop. This limited 7'' feat. 2 brand spanking new tracks

MV + EE - Old Black Joe 7" (Great Pop Supplement-$7.99)
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Wonderful smoked out blues with erika elder lead vocal and refrained geetar genius from mv. byron coley sleevenotes. Limited to 500 only. UK import.

THE SEE SEE-Up the Hill / Citadel Shuffle 7" (Great Pop Supplement-$6.99)
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Debut 45 from what has become something of a multi-national supergroup of sorts. Ex-EIGHTEENTH DAY OF MAY mainguy, richard olson, SOLEDAD BROTHERS drummer ben swank, former gps 45 guy PETE GREENWOOD on guitars and lap steel and KEVIN PEYOK. 2 fabulous slices of southern u.s folk rock, recalling gene clark, the byrds and burritos with a passing nod to big star perhaps. beautiful, soaring vocals and a gem of a 45 to open up with. early gigs included bill doss from the olivia tremor control - unsurprising given the uplifting nature of the sunny psych tunes within. 300 only 45 given the usual GPS packaging treatment... already out of print.

WHSYP-The Family EP 7" (Great Pop Supplement-$6.99)
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Hazy high end vocal harmonies backed with subtle sitars (courtesy of SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, part time WOODEN WAND backing guy glenn donaldson) which aim for the stars yet quickly turn into a darker beast as the piece closes out. a beautiful 45 in fliptop match wallet style sleeves made from linen card and in a run of 300 only. Already out of print, so don't delay!

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STOP SMILING-Issue #34: Jazz Issue with Peter Brotzmann MAG+7" ($7.99)
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Jazz Issue w/3 differnt covers, ORNETTE COLEMAN, BOBBY HUTCHERSON & ERIC DOLPHY. Includes LIMITED EDITION 7" featuring rare 1965 PETER BROTZMANN recording never before released on vinyl. Ron Carter, Joe Chambers, William Claxton, Satchmo, Coltrane, Miles, Monk, John Corbett on Peter Brotzmann, Vandermark, Tommy Dorsey, Nina Simone, Sun Ra+Moondog, Keith Jarrett, Gary Giddins, Phil Shaap, Michael Cuscuna, Ira Gitler, tons more!

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A SHORELINE DREAM-Avoiding the Consequences CD
AIDAN BAKER-Black Flowers CDr
AIRIEL-Battle of Sealand CD
CATS ON FIRE / Draw In The Reins CD
EMERALD DOWN-Aquarium CD
LIECHTENSTEIN / Stalking Skills 7"
LOVESLIESCRUSHING-Glissceule CD
MOSCOW OLYMPICS / Still 7"
TILLMANNS / A Careless Lifestyle CD
TILLMANNS / Run EP 7"

Plus lots more restocks on the website!

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