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Cold Waves Of Color

Lion Productions

***BACK IN STOCK!!! New Lower Price! Collection of rare UK cold wave tracks taken from Color Tapes label cassettes released in micro editions between 1981-1985. Color Tapes was the brainchild of future SUN DIAL leader GARY RAMON: "Living in East London, it was a very grey and bleak time. Huge imposing tower blocks, gasworks and concrete just about everywhere. You couldn't walk through some areas without the risk of being shot at by an air rifle, or worse. Luckily, salvation was in the music. The musical landscape was changing. I saw a very early gig by an unknown all-synth band called Depeche Mode at a dingy pub under a flyover called The Bridge House in Canning Town, London. Following this I saw Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and started buying records by the likes of Afrika Bambaataa. At the other end of the musical spectrum, we were picking up records by Stockhausen, John Cage, Pierre Henry and Moondog, and combing junk shops for anything else that looked interesting!" The UK cassette scene and DIY ethos were thriving. Color Tapes was born. Home multi-track recorders were luxury items. They had to make do with sound on sound recorders, bouncing between reel-to-reel and cassette machines if they wanted stereo. What you're about to hear for the first time since those days is a snapshot of Color Tapes: released material and other unissued tracks too. This compilation is the first of a series of Color Tapes/Lion Productions releases of material from the...

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She Knows More Than She Thinks

Not Not Fun

A cultural experiment as much as compilation, She Knows More Than She Thinks is the result of St. Petersburg musician Galya Chikiss deciding “to show something beautiful, unusual, unknown, and talented from different sides,” by uniting six different solo female DIY electronic artists from Russia and Ukraine within a shared document. She saw it bluntly: “Everybody exists in her own world, lonely and closed. Suddenly I’ve thought – it’s a cool idea – to connect them.” The purity of her motive belies a curatorial instinct heavy on contrast and enigma, as gauzy Soviet ghost-pop gives way to cultish percussion/chant loops, and electro Siouxsie fever sequences dissolve into fragile moon safari space chansons. Other modes repped evoke operatic new wave, insectoid industrial, tape-hazed folk, bedroom organ sleepsong, and 1980’s Moscow MTV, unspooling like a magnetic tape mural of unseen pockets of distant domestic radicalism. The cast includes: Blablarism (Kiev), Peekaboo (Moscow), Tosya Chai (St. Petersburg), Anya Kutz (Petrozavodsk), Ladan (Kiev-Odessa), and Chikiss’ own project. Despite the two nations’ complex international relations, the camaraderie of this collection belongs to people not places: “There is no political and feminist subtext in this story – just music and inmost things.” Pro-dubbed tapes with synthetic snow-maiden in ultraviolet artwork by Galya Chikiss. Mastered by Brian Pyle. Edition of 150.

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Epicurean Escapism

Epicurean Escapism

***The episodic track by Swedish industrial trio IRM is constructed with elements from Indications of Nigredo (Segerhuva 2008), Order4 (Cold Meat Industry 2010), and Closure (Malignant 2014)—unified into a new, holistic composition which contrasts aggressive noise segments with illusionary moments of lavish quasi-folk. The track by JOHN MURPHY’s KRANK is a dark collage of fragmented noise, acoustic samples and female vocals. ERIK JARL (of IRM) contributes a subtle piece of circulating drone with a tranquil surface that makes partially hidden harshness more audible. ANENOME TUBE and HUMAN LARVAE’s lucid piece combines the knock-on effect of the former’s flow of sounds with the heaviness of latter’s doom-like industrial. The ninety-two-minute DVD by IRM’s MARTIN BLADH includes his earliest short film Pig and Tomboy (2005), the epic pentalogy Cycle (2006), and the conceptual installation video DES (2009), among others. All the films present unvarnished set pieces of the human body subjected to subtly implied violence within claustrophobic spaces, where the camera itself, the voyeuristic eye, is the only free player. The accompanying art catalogue includes collages and Polaroids, short essays by Bladh, and introduction text by CARL ABRAHAMSSON. Edition of 350.

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The 78 Project: Volume 2 (Original Soundtrack To The 78 Project Movie)

The 78 Project

The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78 RPM records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. With one blank disc. In one three-minute take.  Inspired by folklorist Alan Lomax, The 78 Project celebrates the artistry and craft that captured America’s musical forms of a century ago, exploring the deep historical significance of American folk songs in the process. This album is the companion to the critically acclaimed documentary The 78 Project Movie, which was shot during a year spent driving across America, visiting artists to cut once-in-a-lifetime recordings. In Tennessee, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, these folk singers, punk rockers, gospel and Cajun singers from The 78 Project Movie share their lives through intimate performances, and find in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy.  “The ineffable romance of old recordings makes for magic … ripe with wonder.” —The Austin Chronicle  “I didn’t imagine anything like The 78 Project, in which we discover that not only are dead media platforms not dead at all, but that they can be gateways into their own peculiarly new universes of creativity.” —William Gibson for The Oxford American “… [R]ises above simple vintage worship and does more than just glorify the past—it helps us experience it.” —The Village Voice “The 78 Project grabs American music by the roots.” —USA Today

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Temporary: Selections From Dunedin’s Pop Underground 2011-2014

Ba Da Bing!

On the same day Ba Da Bing releases an album by Dunedin legend Hamish Kilgour, the label is honored to present the city’s current artists. The tiny city of Dunedin, located in the Otago Region of New Zealand, is synonymous with smart bands, incredible melodies and a wholly distinct and innovative music. Thanks to The Clean, The Chills, The Bats, The Verlaines, and The Dead C, Dunedin has amassed a worldwide reputation for innovative music. Local label Fishrider Records has taken on the mission of compiling and producing an album that casts a light toward the Dunedin of today. These bands have all created their own sound away from the shadow of their city’s past, yet like many of their predecessors they retain the air of slightly disturbed melancholia along with a sense of space and distance from the rest of the world. Whether it is dark synth-pop, teen angst noise pop, guitar-and-organ jangle, or all-out psychedelic weirdness, these songs all come from a place on the edge of the world where the young still read books in abundance and fend off boredom by creating music and art in cold houses. Yet again, an extraordinary number of incredible groups are populating the scene, and the songs on Temporary are the best of the best—a Dunedin Double Plus Good, if you will.

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Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Vol. 1 & 2

Dark Entries

***We combined both Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Volume 1 and 2 on a single CD! BART is Dark Entries’ compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) made between 1978-1988. Towards the end of the ‘70s, San Francisco’s experimental music scene clashed with the aftermath of punk and gave birth to a vibrant underground. By the early to mid ‘80s the DIY music scene of the Bay Area was a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and synthpop, quite similar to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle. This compilation connects the (transit) lines between these varied musical offerings and tells the secret story of eleven forgotten Bay Area bands. BART Volume 1 features a Korg-heavy assault from Danville’s utterly obscure Nominal State; two little-known left-field electronic dance gems from Batang Frisco and Quiet Room; Berkeley’s answer to darkwave, Necropolis of Love; a synth-driven drama fest from drag performance troupe Wasp Women; quirky lo-fi gothic pop from one man band Distant Thunder; a gay Hi-NRG anthem delivered by Danny Boy and the Serious Party Gods; two lesser know gems from SF synth legends Voice Farm and Los Microwaves; and the futuristic pulsing synth-punk of Standard of Living and the Units. BART Volume 2 features slow, dystopian horror from pioneering industrial group Factrix; crushing, motorik noise from acid punks Chrome; amphetamine-driven synth punk from Red Asphalt; an early demo, never released on vinyl, from legendary post punk band Tuxedoomon; chilling atmospheric drone from...

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Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Vol. 2

Dark Entries

***Bay Area Retrograde (BART) Volume 2 is Dark Entries’ second compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) made between 1978-1983. Towards the end of the 70s, San Francisco’s experimental music scene clashed with the aftermath of punk and gave birth to a vibrant underground. By the early to mid 80s the DIY music scene of the Bay Area was a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and synthpop, quite similar to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle. This compilation connects the (transit) lines between these varied musical offerings and tells the secret story of eleven forgotten Bay Area bands. BART Volume 2 features slow, dystopian horror from pioneering industrial group Factrix; crushing, motorik noise from acid punks Chrome; amphetamine-driven synth punk from Red Asphalt; an early demo, never released on vinyl, from legendary post punk band Tuxedoomon; chilling atmospheric drone from Ki Di Me; leftfield new wave from Indoor Life featuring Patrick Cowley on synths; Los Microwaves more sinister side project Baby Buddha; gay drag icon Timmy Spence delivering an unknown camp classic, a pure instrumental electro-pop workout from Human Being Men; TR-808 fueled synth pop from Menlo Park duo Wonders of Science, and a poetic yet somber and haunting song from the mysterious Zru Vogue. All tracks have been carefully remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each LP is housed in a large 6-panel, 2-sided fold out poster designed by Eloise Leigh, featuring original photos and...

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San Francisco Is Doomed

Crime On The Moon

***San Francisco Is Doomed is a compilation put out by Crime On The Moon. The compilation includes 13 songs written by bay area artists as a response to the tech boom. The Compilation includes tracks from Thee Oh Sees, Erase Errata, Valley Boy (solo project of Shannon Shaw), Mikal Cronin and several others.

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Mystic Males 2

Pet Records

***Pet Records is proud to present the long-awaited second volume of Mystic Males. Featuring thirteen rare sides by “tripped-out troubadours from 1966-1973,” this is a totally mind-bending collection of rare and obscure 45s by proto-hippies and recent graduates from ‘60s punk groups like Boenzee Cryque and Third Bardo. This volume is heavy on the mystic. Lots of sitar, weird ethnic percussion, unexpected fuzz guitar breaks, groovy beats and modal moaning. This is mellow acid psych at its utmost trippiest. Features TYREE FORREST, DARIUS, JEFF DUNN, GERRY POND, SHALYNN, ED POWERS, DICK ST. JOHN, PAUL STOOP, RICHARD CORONADO, STEPHEN HARTLEY, MALCOLM MITCHELL, ART GEE and JEFF MOON. Limited to 500 CDs and LPs.

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In Utero, In Tribute, In Entirety

Robotic Empire

After extended delays and legal wrangling, Robotic Empire’s long-awaited tribute—over seven years in the making—to Nirvana’s seminal In Utero LP is finally complete, with twelve diverse bands covering the entire album. In Utero, In Tribute, In Entirety features Thursday, Circa Survive, Jay Reatard, Ceremony, Whirr, Young Widows, Mean Jeans, Daughters, Thou, Pygmy Lush, These Arms Are Snakes and Black Math Horseman twisting the Nirvana classics into their own visions.

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Viare

Voltaire

***VIARE is a 12" compilation featuring four distinct tracks, each occupying their own wildly unique sub-genre of the house experience. "Virgo Cluster" by JONAS REINHARDT fuses elements of cosmic disco and krautrock into a live transcendental package, with amazing guitar work by PHIL MANLEY (TRANS AM, LIFE COACH), and a bonus remix by the Beat Broker (digital only). "Seven Miles Down" from London's TIMOTHY J. FAIRPLAY (THE ASPHODELLS) is a testament to Zombie Horror Cinema, featuring a pulsing dub-house beat that dives into cavernous sonic territory. "Guave" by PLAzA is a playful dancefloor workout, that evokes a slow acidic line and classic Chicago house elements. Lastly, "Back Outside" from ROCHE is druggy outsider house at its best, with an enormous subby bassline that complements a classic alien warehouse vibe. Edition of 500 copies.

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Live at Death By Audio 2012 Flexibook

Famous Class

***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Live at Death By Audio 2012 is a playable flexi record book featuring kick ass tracks from JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, TIM HARRINGTON as OBFS, BLACK PUS, RUINS ALONE, FUTURE ISLANDS, ERIC COPELAND, TY SEGALL, THEE OH SEES, METZ, GROOMS, and A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, all recorded LIVE in 2012 at the Brooklyn venue Death By Audio. This puppy comes packed with artwork by BRIAN CHIPPENDALE, DAVE SINGLEY, PERRY LUBIN, MATT LEINS, RON REGE JR., JON VERMILYEA, and BRENDAN NAKAHARA. To top it off is a full download of the whole comp PLUS the entire live set from Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segal.

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78 Project: Volume 1

The 78 Project

The 78 Project is a documentary journey across America that records today’s musicians as they perform the songs that inspired a century of music—exactly as those works were originally recorded: instantaneously onto 78 RPM lacquer discs. Inspired by folklorist Alan Lomax, The 78 Project celebrates the artistry and craft that captured America’s musical forms of a century ago, exploring the deep historical significance of American folk songs in the process. With just one microphone, one authentic 1930s Presto recorder, and one blank acetate disc, musicians are given a single, three-minute take to cut a 78 RPM record, finding in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy.   “Wow! I feel like I knew what it’s like to be in Bristol in the 1920s, recording those first Carter Family records. That was time travel.” —Rosanne Cash “It’s everything I was saying about emotional. It’s a whole other thing.” —Richard Thompson “New York is buzzing with retro-chic products these days, but few can match the authenticity of a project that aims to bring alive the sound, touch and even smells of recorded music’s first golden period.” —BBC News

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Christmas Tape 2013

Tusco Embassy

***154 minutes of music from a bunch of acts from across the US. The T/E Christmas Tape is an annual tradition begun in 2006 and appearing nearly every year since, in varying forms. This year's edition is housed in a die cut cardboard box, screenprinted on all sides and contains a miniature booklet. Good luck getting it open. It's the Hellraiser Puzzle Box of Christmas themed noise compilations. Be warned. Features tracks from Fluxmonkey, Onewayness, Ironing, Wether,  Outmode, Vibrating Garbage, Telecult Powers, Moth Cock, Birds You Once Knew, Skull Katalog, Zack Kouns, Collapsed Arc, Long Distance Poison, Bonus Beast, Malocculision, Black Thread, Craow, Sun Poisoning, Chemtrails, Fslux, Watchword, Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, Mark McGuire, Bone Rotten, Ilza, Wyld Stallyns, Quicksails, Fun, Skin Graft, Grasshopper.

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Defend Hamilton: Eat Shit Comp EP

Schizophrenic

***Eight Hamilton HC outfits unleash eight short blasts about Steeltown's seedier side with tracks about Evelyn Dick, Loujack Cafe, mobsters, & more local mayhem. This is a short, fast and loud follow up to Schizophrenic’s Destroy Music: Start Your Own Band 12” 2012 compilation. Features tracks from AT WHAT COST, BORN WRONG, DEBT’D, DISMANTLE, LAID TO REST, LEFT FOR DEAD, PICK YOUR SIDE, and SOCIAL DIVORCE.

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Kontroversial Kovers

Reprieve

BACK IN STOCK - LAST COPIES - NOTE NEW LOWER PRICE!!! A collection of thirty-two 1960s mod, garage, and freakbeat bands covering The Kinks. By the end of the 1960s The Kinks had clearly inspired a veritable army of artists who for one reason or another felt the need to put their stamp on a Davies composition. Often times deciding to do so over releasing even their own material in the belief that Ray and Dave, speaking through them, could convey their feelings and the feelings of the day better than their own words ever could. Others just wanted to cash in on a known hit making songwriter. Both camps are heavily featured here and it’s usually pretty obvious which was their respective persuasion. Both takes end up being fascinating however, as you are able to hear the respective artists try to decide where they were going to take what were usually well fleshed out compositions. Few exceed the energy of the Kinks’ performances of these masterpieces, but everyone here put their own interesting stamp on their favorite track and there are many unexpected takes that will interest the casual and hardcore fan alike. Davies’ original compositions still feel as fresh as the day they met the world, but many of the versions heard here have been, until now, very hard to locate, even if you knew of their existence. There is no shortage of fuzz guitars, organs, reverbed out vocals, larger than life drumming, foreign accents, and sixties studio...

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Mountains Of Tongues: Musical Dialects of The Caucasus

L.M. Dupli-cation

Because of its unique geography—situated at the borders of Europe and Asia, between the Caspian and Black seas—the Caucasus has been at the crossroads of multiple empires as well as home to an exceptionally diverse population, resulting in a rich mosaic of history, culture, religion and language. Early Arab travelers referred to the region as the “Mountains of Tongues,” a term that reflected both the geographic and linguistic variety. An incredible number of languages and traditions still exist, but many have yet to be thoroughly documented and are close to disappearing completely.  Since the fall of the Soviet Union the majority of attention the Caucasus has received from the outside world has been as a result of wars in Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The countries of this region have also struggled to forge national identities, a process that has often resulted in the exclusion of smaller folk cultures (ethnic Azeris from Georgia, Kurds from Tbilisi, Avars and Lezgis from Azerbaijan, or Molokans in the South Caucasus, all groups that don’t fit the category of “national” folk music).  Mountains of Tongues: Musical Dialects from the Caucasus includes recordings of songs in languages that have rarely been caught on tape (Lezgi and Batsbi), instruments that only exist in extremely small numbers (the Tushetian chianuri, of which there are only two, and the agach komuz from the remote territory of Dagestan) and performances from a variety of underrepresented ethnic minority communities. These musicians, whether they recognize it or not, are guardians...

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Virus 100: Dead Kennedys Tribute

Alternative Tentacles

“In 1992, Alternative Tentacles—the label co-founded by Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra—decided to celebrate its 100th release with the largely in-house DK tribute Virus 100. Solipsism aside, the disc succeeds: Everyone from Neurosis and Napalm Death to Mojo Nixon and L7 contribute renditions of DK’s manic, twangy, hardcore anthems. The approach ranges from faithful to hilariously skewed, though Virus 100’s most infamous track is Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy’s grinding, funk-industrial version of ‘California Über Alles,’ which first appeared weeks earlier on the band’s debut, Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury. Even Faith No More’s crooning piss-take of ‘Let’s Lynch The Landlord’ works, perhaps because Mike Patton reverse-engineered the treatment that Biafra previously gave Elvis’ ‘Viva Las Vegas.’” —The AV Club (10 Surprisingly Good Tribute Albums)  “… a brilliant tribute album to one of hardcore punk’s all-time greatest bands.” —PunkNews.org

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Double Mono

Aagoo

***Double Mono is a record with sounds hard panned between the left and right channels featuring THE OCTOPUS PROJECT, AU, PALAXY TRACKS, JOHN SABA JR., DEVIN MAXWELL, III, JIM ENO and ERIN FLANNERY & ZACH LAYTON. The album was put together in conjunction with a group show of art and design for anaglyph 3-D glasses. Artist and designer PHILLIP EDWARD NIEMEYER is the man responsible for the curation of the project. (STREET DATE - 9/03/2013)

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Turn Me Loose - Outsiders of “Old-Time” Music

Tompkins Square

***FRANK FAIRFIELD curates another reissue of 78 rpm records—this time with the help of a few of his collector friends. The collection focuses on some of the most seldom acknowledged varieties of Anglo-American vernacular music. You'll hear unusual performers, uncommon intrumentation and great fiddlers from California to Ohio, New Mexico to West Virginia. Forget "Americana", this collection shows Anglo-American down-home music as it actually was and in many cases (although largely unrecognized) still is. With painstaking audio restoration by the great MICHAEL KIEFFER.

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CiTR Pop Alliance Vol. 3

Mint

Back in 2011, Mint Records got really high off of paint fumes while silk-screening the covers to the CiTR Pop Alliance Volume 2 compilation. This March, they’re going to open the windows and do it all again—get ready for Volume 3! CiTR’s Duncan McHugh (the host of Duncan’s Donuts) has recruited fourteen of Vancouver’s finest, including Jay Arner, Movieland, Korean Gut (RIP), Peace and more. Many songs are unreleased, and all proceeds from the release will go back to CiTR 101.9 FM—the birthplace of Mint Records. Only 300 of these gems are being pressed, carefully silk-screened by the station’s volunteers and numbered by hand, so don’t wait around.

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Son Of Flex - Group Flex Vol. II

Castle Face

***Volume 2 in Castle Face’s Group Flex series of Flexi Disc books. You get six 7-inch flexi discs with 12 bands and 7 pages of print (on translucent stock) so the whole thing is like a crappy 3D look into the brain and art of JOE ROBERTS (terrifying). Featuring exclusive tracks from WARM SODA, THEE OH SEES, TY SEGALL, MYKAL CRONIN, THE MALLARD, RUNNING, THE FRESH & ONLYS, KELLEY STOLTZ, WHITE FENCE, BLASTED CANYONS, SIC ALPS, and BURNT ONES. Includes a download card and comes in a specially printed heavy polybag.

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2012 Tusco Embassy Christmas Compilation

Tusco Embassy

***Twenty artists from across the U.S.A.—TELECULT POWERS, AARON DILLOWAY,SKIN GRAFT, NEWTON, GRASSHOPPER, TROGPITE, QUICKSAILS, WEED TREE and many more. Keeping up with tradition this tape is a must have! Made in Cleveland, Ohio U.S.A. Pressed on pro-dubbed C100s in a limited edtion of 200 copies with silk-screened art.

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Velvet Underground & Nico By Castle Face And Friends

Castle Face

***BACK IN STOCK!!! With tracks from TY SEGALL, KELLEY STOLTZ, WARM SODA, BLASTED CANYONS (feat. JEREMY COX of ROYAL BATHS), WHITE FENCE, FRESH & ONLYS, BURNT ONES, THE MALLARD, K. DYLAN EDRICH AND THE BLACK ANGELS DEATHSONGSMEN, HERE COME THE HERE COMES, and THEE OH SEES. Packaged with artwork by DAVID SHRIGLEY.

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Obscure Giants Of Acoustic Guitar

Tompkins Square

37 Trading Cards in a box. San Francisco's Tompkins Square label has released new and reissued recordings by many of the greatest acoustic guitarists of the past several decades. The label presents 37 cards, featuring vivid portraits by artist SHANA CLEVELAND, plus biographies detailing the work and lives of some of these masters. We hope these beautiful cards inspire you to seek out their music. Shana Cleveland is an artist, musician and writer living in Seattle. Her music can be heard in the bands the Curious Mystery, Shana Cleveland and the Sandcastles, and MC ESP. Her work has appeared in Yeti and The Believer.

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Broken Flag - A Retrospective 1982-85

Vinyl On Demand

***Everything from the Vinyl-on-Demand 5xLP box set (VOD39). A compilation and retrospective of GARY MUNDY's (RAMLEH) influential noise label. With SUTCLIFFE JUGEND, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, UN-KOMMUNITI, MAURIZIO BIANCHI, CONTROLLED BLEEDING, Ramleh, MALE RAPE GROUP (MUNDY/BEST), KLEISTWAHR, TOLL, NEW BLOCKADERS, MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA, FALX CEREBRI, GIANCARLO TONIUTTI, VORTEX CAMPAIGN and many more. Edition of 500.

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In A Cloud II - New Sounds From San Francisco

Secret Seven

***BACK IN STOCK AT A NEW LOWER PRICE!!! The second volume in Secret Seven’s excellent In A Cloud series featuring previously unreleased tracks from the cream of the San Francisco scene. You get thirteen previously unreleased cuts from TY SEGALL, VETIVER, TIM COHEN, KELLEY STOLTZ (FRESH & ONLYS), CHUCK PROPHET, WILL SPROTT (MUMLERS), HANNAH LEW (GRASS WIDOW), PAULA FRAZER, BAD BACKS (ANDREW of TRAINWRECK RIDERS), PAPERCUTS, LUCKY EYES, SONNY & THE SUNSETS, and WYMOND MILES (FRESH & ONLYS). Edition of 650 copies. 

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Battery Davis

Teen Action

***This year Teen Action Records is getting in on the TAPE STORE DAY action! (Saturday June 30th) Throw one of these magnetic mutations into your car's tape deck and teleport yourself to that "Independence Day" barbecue... The Battery Davis compilation features seven tracks of otherworldly electronics spanning the Bay Area gutters to the outer galaxies from COPY LAKE, SEVEN LIES ABOUT GIRLS, WEIRD HABIT (ex 16BPU), COAGULATOR (member of TUSCO TERROR), ABYSS OF FATHOMLESS LIGHT, STYROFOAM SANCHEZ. Features handmade packaging by BERT BERGEN. C62, edition of 100 copies.

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Busy Doing Nothing!

Mint

***Assembled by Vancouver punk rock journalist and THE EVAPORATORS singer NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE, Busy Doing Nothing! features ANDREW WK, FRANZ FERDINAND, THE CRIBS, FUAD AND THE FEZTONES, KATE NASH, JILL BARBER and SAGE FRANCIS all showing their love for Canadian punk heritage preservation! Side A kicks off with an original collaboration by Andrew WK and The Evaporators. The action continues with Wakefield, England’s The Cribs covering ’70s Vancouver punk band The Dishrags, London’s Kate Nash covering ’90s Vancouver “cuddle-core” band (and Mint Records’ signature act) Cub, and Franz Ferdinand’s rendition of the legendary Pointed Sticks’ “Real Thing.” Fuad & the Feztones, Bobby Beaton and John Davis from Montreal’s veteran garage punk band The Gruesomes, offer their take on The Evaporators’ first single from 1992, and Sage Francis raps on a verse of The Evaporators’ “Hot Dog High.” The Evaporators rule side B, delivering a number of original tunes plus covers of 1970s rockabilly truck driver Doug Rutledge (featuring Andrew WK and Canadian singer / songwriter Jill Barber) and The Pointed Sticks. The album closes with a clip from the first interview Nardwuar ever did with Franz Ferdinand. This fantastic collection also includes a free 40-page 2013 calendar of vintage 1970s punk rock photos taken by renowned Vancouver photographer Bev Davies!

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Fat Music For Fat People - Fat Music Vol. 1

Fat Wreck Chords

***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! Fat Wreck’s first comp ever now on kick-ass vinyl. Features fourteen tracks from PROPAGANDHI, LAGWAGON, STRUNG OUT, GUNS ‘N’ WANKERS, NO USE FOR A NAME, BRACKET, TILT, FACE TO FACE, GOOD RIDDANCE, 88 FINGERS LOUIE, RANCID, and NOFX. One-time pressing on colored vinyl.

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Black Power And Liberation Struggles

Alternative Tentacles

To commemorate three decades of spoken word releases on Alternative Tentacles, the label has complied four budget-priced spoken word box sets for release this fall—two in September, two in October.  Black Power and Liberation Struggles features pieces by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ward Churchill, Christian Parenti and more.

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(vol. 1) Ranters, Reformers And Raconteurs

Alternative Tentacles

To commemorate three decades of spoken word releases on Alternative Tentacles, the label has complied four budget-priced spoken word box sets for release this fall—two in September, two in October.  Ranters, Reformers & Raconteurs Volume 1 features titles by a variety of iconoclastic thinkers from the archives of Alternative Tentacles.

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Citr Pop Alliance Vol. 2

Mint

***“We hear a lot about Brooklyn, Montreal and San Francisco, but think Vancouver’s music community is the best around. The CiTR/Mint Pop Alliance Compilation is just that—a snapshot of our rainy city on a Friday night in 2011. It features 11 prominent local bands including NO KIDS, KELLARISSA (P:ANO, THE CHOIR PRACTICE), FINE MIST, SLAM DUNK, APOLLO GHOSTS and many more. The songs, labour, mastering and artwork were donated and proceeds from the record will benefit CiTR 101.9 FM, the campus radio station where Mint Records began. Tiny trimmings from CiTR’s Duncan McHugh’s beard and Mint Shena’s cat’s hair were mixed into the molten vinyl during the manufacturing process (Not really. But you get the picture, this record was made possible by several people with a lot of love).” Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies pressed on 180-gram vinyl.

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It’s A Team Mint Xmas 2

Mint

Just in time to celebrate the 2004 holiday season came Mint Records' second Christmas release, It's a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2! You may recall Vol. 1, a snappy, now out of print, 7" record that featured five holiday-themed songs from your pals at Mint Records and their friends just four years prior. It's a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2 contains those five classic songs and piles a few more on to make a 13 song CD that goes well with your holiday stuffing and couple glasses of wine.  Best of all It's a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2 contains a little gem you don't want to miss: The Buttless Chaps' version of Band-Aid's classic "Do They Know It's Christmas"! The track features a variety of Mint artists: Carolyn Mark, Coco Culbertson (The Gay, The Choir Practice), Grant Lawrence (The Smugglers, CBC Radio 3), Ida Nilsen (The Gay, The Beans, Radiogram, The Buttless Chaps) Katie Sketch (The Organ), Tobey Black (The Gay, Maow), Maija Martin (The Gay, The Tennessee Twin, I Mudder Accordion), and Paul and Lucy (Young and Sexy).

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Mint Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

Mint

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Team Mint

Mint

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Team Mint Vol. 2

Mint

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Flowers In The Dustbin

Zoo Music

ZOO MUSIC presents Flowers In The Dustbin, featuring eight previously released ZOO MUSIC tracks from Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles, Dirty Beaches and many more.

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Groove Club Vol. 1 - La Confiserie Magique Popisme Fantastique

Lion Productions

***Fabrice, 17 years old, is a minet, or to say it better, a mod from one of the posh neighbourhoods, the 16th district in Paris and such “golden ghettoes” as Auteuil, Neuilly and Passy. Fab’ likes to have his “ronron at the Dugstore”, as Dutronc sang it (an untranslatable wordplay on ronron, “cat food”, and a minet—“a kitten”—purring). Fabrice attends Henri IV prestigious high-school; his father, a businessman who made a fortune selling plastic flowers, and his mother, a former model from Jacques Fath, are never home – a cosy home indeed! With his Weston shoes, a slim-fitting suit by Renoma and his haircut modelled on those of Anglo-Saxons musicians appearing on French Eps, Fabrice dreams of Carnaby Street and the Sunset Strip. He is not alone: there’s his sister Stéphanie, 16, who wears a fringe, a mock Courrèges dress, a pink Shetland pullover and white boots. Stéphanie reads Salut Les Copains and Mademoiselle Age Tendre, which both fuel her passion for Françoise Hardy, Zouzou, Twiggy and the Beatles. The Groove Club is happy to present twenty-two records that we dug out as a tribute to Fabrice’s kinky faves. We imagine those magic years 1966-71 (with two inclusions from 1976 & 77) to have been as you can hear it here — truly decadent pop-sike, as beautiful as the cathedral of Evry... whether it's the arch-hippie Lolita taking us beyond the limits of pop music, singing songs which make one dream of Anicée Alvina riding her bicycle in a red...

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Play That Beat Mr. Raja Vol.1

Cartilage Records

"'Play That Beat Mr. Raja' is a gobsmacking compilation of recordings made for the Tamil film industry, taking in all manner of bizarre mid-late '80s sonics in the most beguiling, mindblowing manner. Like Charanjit Singh's 'Ten Raga's To A Disco Beat' or the Tafo Brothers' 'Plugged-in Pakistani Pops' it's an ear-opening exposé of the nascent, yet hugely sophisticated, electronic productions from this part of the world, making for a potently intoxicating experience to these Western sensibilities. To be fair, we're being a bit broad there, as this sound is really most specific to the Kollywood film industry based in the South Indian city of Chennai (formerly Madras) at the opposite end of the sub continent to Charanjit Singh and the Tafo Bros. It was compiled by the obsessives over at Cartilage Records, a team of Parisian bloggers/DJs and runs through eleven ecstatic fusions of truly insane drum machine acrobatics, slashing cinematic strings, the nuttiest analog synth sounds and the most charming vocals with an innate feel for daring structures and delirious composition. The sense of freedom and creativity is utterly endearing, placing familiar western concepts in a whole other context to leave us floored at every turn. Take the almost avian vocals and fractal arrangement of Japanil Kalyanaraman's opening 'Title Music' (1985) for starters, then just try keeping your composure when the machine funk and vocoders of Vikram's 'Vikram Vikram' (1986) hit, because we certainly couldn't! There's just too much to sink into, from the demented drum flurries of Mangamma...