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THE THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY .
(un)sentimental
CD: $11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Though each member of the 13th Assembly is acclaimed in their own right this group is very much a singular musical experience.
Featuring Taylor Ho Bynun, Mary Halvorson, Tomas Fujiwara and Jessica Pavone. Each member contributes compositions to the quartet -a group forged in shared experiences, long friendships, and mutual love and trust which is clearly reflected in the music. Thank you for listening.
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Yes!

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PAUL FLAHERTY
C. SPENCER YEH
GREG KELLEY
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New York Nuts And Boston Baked Beans
CD: $11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Violinist/vocalist C Spencer Yeh & unrivaled saxophone elder-titan Paul Flaherty team up without the assistance of acclaimed drummer Chris Corsano for the first time. Along for the jamz is bonkers Boston trumpeteer Greg Kelley. Imagine Kurt Schwitters jamming Ursonate inside out with Evan Parker in the 21st century. Totally essential jazz/noize improv. Massive energy........ (more)

 
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ANDREA PARKINS .
Faulty (Broken Orbit)
CD: $12.99
info, reviews & mp3

Faulty (Broken Orbit) re-imagines Faulty (Per-Objective), an hour long 10-channel site-specific audio work, premiered in 2007 at Diapason gallery for sound in NYC, with sponsorship from Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the New York Electronic Arts Festival...... (more)

 
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Jozef Van Wissem .
It Is All That Is Made
CD: $12.99
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Brand new full length comprised of six compositions from acclaimed lutenist and James Blackshaw Brethren Of The Free Spirit bandmate Jozef Van Wissem. This stunning record consists of six trance inducing circular pieces composed for 10 course renaissance - and 13 course baroque lute. ..... (more)

 
 
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LSD MARCH .
Under Milk Wood
CD: $12.99
info, reviews & mp3

The new LSD March album Under Milk Wood is their first full length since 2007's Constellation Of Tragedy for Important Records. With grace (in the rock sense), style, humor & the perfect touch of heavy riffage this tremendously unique and original recording is a classic of the new Japanese underground....... (more)

 
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STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS & ANGEL .
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CD: $12.99
info, reviews & mp3

Featuring members of Pan Sonic & Mum working with Strings Of Consciousness. Sophisticated drone work slowly evolving in complexity and occasionally bordering on noise. Highly recomended.
All orders will also receive a bonus CD of SOC member Phillippe Petit collaborating with Aidan Baker, Lydia Lunch, Justin Broadrick, Eugene Robinson & more. ...... (more)

 
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ANAHITA .
Matricaria
CD: $12.99
info, reviews & mp3

Anahita is Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and cellist Helena Espvall (Espers). Anahita is a beautiful, laboriously created and floating affair of skeletal organ drones, ceremonial singing and subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment conjuring up a natural woodland romp and stomp....... (more)

 
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LARSEN .
La Fever Lit
$12.99
info, reviews & mp3

Long awaited full length from Larsen following the acclaimed SeieS. La Fever Lit features the omnipresence of smoked dub-diva/punk cabaret icon Annie Anxiety.Much of the material on La Fever Lit was composed for architecture, having been written to be played in Torino's landmark......(more)

 
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BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT

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The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb
CD: $12.99
info, reviews & mp3

Brethren of the Free Spirit are guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem. Named after a cult of 13th-century Northern European religious heretics this duo play with an appropriately zealous
intensity. ...... (more)

 
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KAWABATA MAKOTO & MICHISHITA SHINSUKE .
Basement Echo
$12.99
info, reviews & mp3

Basement Echo is the historical meeting point of two generations of the Japanese underground. Kawabata Makoto, leader of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke, leader of LSD March, are together here for the first time in a guitar duo.
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TOM CARTER .
Shots At Infinity 1
$12.99
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This is the companion release to the Tom Carter LP titled Shots At Infinity 2 being release on Important simultaneously.
Shots At Infinity 1(the CD) is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern USA from late 2007...... (more)

 
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MERZBOW .
Dolphin Sonar
$12.99
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Dolphin Sonar is Merzbow's full length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts and broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied waters of Taiji. .. (more)

 
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ASTRO/Hiroshi Hasegawa .
The Echo From The Purple Dawn
$11.99
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The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that masterfully drifts between spaced out analog dream drone and a more extreme form of harsher droning.. (more)

 
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CLUSTER .
Berlin 2007
$12.99
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Berlin 2007 was a monumental performance for Cluster as it marked the first time that they had peformed live in Berlin since their 12 hour concert in the Galerie Hammer in the Europacenter in 1969. The performance was a massive success as a sold out crowd cheered loudly for Cluster to return to the stage. Fortunately, the concert was.......(more)

 
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TECUMSEH .
Avalanche & Inundation
CD: $11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds.
Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using 2 basses, electronics, percussion and guitar Tecumseh wrap themselves and...... (more)

 
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JOHN FAHEY .
The Mill Pond & Collected Paintings
$12.99
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The Mill Pond was originally released in 1997 as a double 7" that went immediately out of print. For it's 10th aniversary we're issuing it on compact disc housed in a deluxe letterpressed jacket and including an extensive booklet collecting John Fahey's paintings for the very first time. Limited edition...(more)

 
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BEEQUEEN .
Sandancing
$11.99
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After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is
ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song based, this album features now vocals by......(more)

 
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SLOMO .
The Bog
$12.99
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Holy McGrail: Moog Taurus II, Sunn Mustang, Clatter
Howard Marsden: Korg MS10 & Korg MS20, Hiss
Julian Cope: Poem
The Bog is the 2nd full-length release from Slomo, honing down the ritual clatter of their first album, The Creep (2005), into a more cumbersome and laden affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung.... (more)

 
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AIDAN BAKER (Nadja) i'm a double disc!
I Too Wish To Be Absorbed
$12.99
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Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2 disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soundtrack to a book of his poetry..... (more)

 
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OCEAN .
Pantheon Of The Lesser
$12.99
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Following their acclaimed breakthrough debut album that caught the ears of critics and fans worldwide, and became Important's highest selling album, Ocean has returned with their forward thinking, brutally heavy and purely minimalist sophomore album Pantheon Of The Lesser. Everything in it's own time. Simply profound. Heavy like Schoenberg.(more)

 
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BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT .
The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb
$12.99
info, reviews & mp3

Brethren of the Free Spirit are guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem. Named after a cult of 13th-century Northern European religious heretics this duo play with an appropriately zealous
intensity. ...... (more)

 
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KLUSTER .
Admira 1971
$12.99
info, reviews & mp3

.Admira (1971) is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann.......(more)

 
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KLUSTER .
Vulcano 1971
$12.99
info, reviews & mp3

.Vulcano (1971) is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann.. .......(more)

 
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THREE DAY BAND .
s/t (John Fahey/Ayal Senior)
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

John Fahey and Ayal Senior layed down the tracks for Three Day Band in Fahey's Woodburn Hotel room at some point in 1999. These tracks show an undocumented improvisational side of Fahey. It's certainly not early period Fahey but not TOTE era either. At night after the recording sessions commenced Ayal would record Fahey reading selected excerpts from his writing. Fifteen tracks of Fahey reading are included here. ......(more)

 
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE .
Recurring Dream & Apocalypse Of Darkness
CD: $11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Heaviest Acid Mothers record ever. . Kawabata went as far as to, half jokingly, compare this album to Sunn O)))). Our last Acid Mothers Temple full length quickly became many people's favorite and this one is sure to give it some serious competition. Just check out the mp3......(more)

 
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DANIEL MENCHE .
Glass Forest
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any
newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last cd he will release. (more)

 
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TAU EMERALD .
Travellers Two
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Travellers Two is a full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Sharron Kraus. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic.
Tara Burke and Sharron Kraus were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight (more)

 


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ACIDMOTHERSGURUGURU
Psychedelic Navigator
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

AcidMothersGuruGuru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's holy Acid Mothers Temple. The result is a trans-generational psych blowout!.... (more)

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JULIA KENT .
Delay
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Julia Kent is a member of the Mercury Prize winning Antony & The Johnsons. Her debut solo effort, Delay, is a cd of multitracked cello and found sounds. It was inspired by airports, by transitoriness, and by the private emotional worlds that we create amid the disorientations and disjunctions of travel..... (more)

 
 
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DUANE PITRE/PILOTRAM ENSEMBLE .
Organized Pitches Occurring In Time
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Organized Pitches Occurring in Time consists of two 25 minute pieces of music, both spawned from the same conceptual composition/score by Duane Pitre, titled Ensemble Drones. With their form reminiscent of works by La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music and their tonality touching on the floating works of Terry Riley....(more)

 
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DAN FRIEL .
Ghost Town
$11.99
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Ghost Town is the first full-length solo release from Parts & Labor singer/electrician Dan Friel. Characterized by its anthemic melodies, complex electronic arrangements and
huge distorted beats, Ghost Town has massive universal appeal.
"Music-box melody shoved through the speaker cone of a subwoofer salvaged from the trunk of a totaled Jeep" Pitchfork.......(more)

 


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MANI NEUMEIER
Sketches
$11.99
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Mani Neumeier has been at the helm of Germany's legendary Krautrock group Guru Guru for over 35 years and for 20 of those years he's been working on Sketches, his first solo album.l (more)

 


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LSD MARCH
Constellation Of Tragedy
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Constellation Of Tragedy is the sixth full length album from Japan's LSD March. Apt comparisons are often made of LSD March being a cross between the Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes. (more)

 


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SUISHOU NO FUNE
The Shining Star - Live
$11.99
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Heavy lyrical emotion transcends linguistic barriers and Pirako's blown out fuzzy free-dream guitar work is an alternate universe heavy Japanese shoegaze. They are a forest at night drenched in echoing reverb and soaked with deeply spiritual/emotional melodies. . (more)

 


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WILLIAM HOOKER w/ Eyvind Kang & Bill Horist
The Season's Fire
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

This all-star trio features William Hooker on drums, Eyvind Kang on violin and guitar and Bill Horist on guitar. Sync'd up like they've been playing together for eternity these recordings represent a dramatic paradigm shift in the art of improvisation. These three thoroughly modern artists scan jazz, new music and noise – stretching it all out and putting it back together within the expansive boundaries of these tremendously compelling high energy recordings....(more)

 


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SKY CITY
Sky City
$11.99
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Sky City features Tom Carter (Charalambides), Robert Horton, Lisa Cameron & Lee Ann Cameron. Sky City is psychedelic space music with all the atoms of surfaces freed to inter and counter react. Noise in the outer dimension. Horton’s homemade inventions, Carter’s lyrical ebow guitar lines. The walking on the moon vocals of Lee Ann Cameron. The vibration of material planes by Lisa Cameron... (more)

 


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DUANE PITRE/PILOTRAM ENSEMBLE
Organized Pitches Occurring In Time
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Organized Pitches Occurring in Time consists of two 25 minute pieces of music, both spawned from the same conceptual composition/score by Duane Pitre, titled Ensemble Drones. With their form reminiscent of works by La Monte Young’s Theater of Eternal Music and their tonality touching on the floating works of Terry Riley....(more)

 


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( r )
In Pink
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Brand new full length, 2nd for Important, from Larsen/XXL member Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo's brilliant ( r ) project. Highly recommended.... (more)

 


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ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB
Neon Pibroch
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Neon Pibroch is a brand new full length cd from the Astral Social Club. Also available at the same time is a limited edition Astral Social Club LP on Important titled Super Grease. ..... (more)

 


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BLACK MAGIC DISCO
Black Magic Disco
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Black Magic Disco is the new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (JOMF), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope)...... (more)

 


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XXL
Spicchiology?
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Spicchiology? is the sophomore release from the supergroup XXL comprising all members of Xiu Xiu and Larsen. Recorded in late 2006 in Torino Italy Spicchiologi? is the result of a profoundly creative friendship translated into music and spanning the globe.. (more)

 


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MERZBOW & CARLOS GIFFONI
Synth Destruction
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Over 60 minutes of total analog destruction by noise king Merzbow and Brooklyn noise boss Carlos Giffoni, This live collaboration was recorded during Giffoni's Synth Destruction Japan Tour in September of 2006. This is Sound Totalism..... (more)

 


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ALESSANDRO STEFANA
Poste E Telegrafi
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Featuring an allstar cast including Mark Ribot & Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly modern Western world.(more)

 


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JESSICA RYLAN
Interior Designs
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can't) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more “classic” in nature than her work as Can't. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan......(more)

 


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LARSEN
Musm II
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Musm has long been out of print on both cd and lp. Originally released as a tour only cd this extremely expanded edition is titled Musm II and it includes all the non-album tracks that Larsen have released since their first full length as well as the original tracks from Musm. ......(more)

 


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MERZBOW
Merzbear
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especial Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. ......(more)

 


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VANISHING VOICE
Nordic Visions
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

While Wooden Wand and Satya Sai jammed with the Sky High Band in beautiful California, the Vanishing Voice dug in deep in the frozen northeast. Snowed in with utopian texts and mounting paranoia, Steven The Harvester, Heidi White Diamond Diehl, and Pete Wolfy Nolan joined Nonhorse ......(more)

 


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AXOLOTL
Memory Theater
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl's out of print cdrs and vinyl only releases.
Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with Black Dice, Mouthus, Double Leopards.........(more)

 


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VANISHING VOICE
Stone Tablet
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Total Can-style audacity from Brooklyn drone stew Edward Goreyian broken house sufic wanderers the
Vanishing Voice......(more)

 


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BAIKAL
Baikal
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Baikal is a new burner from Bardo Pond brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow Bardo Pond members Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis. (more)

 


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RAMESES III
Honey Rose cdep
7.99
info, reviews & mp3

Rameses III are architects of the most beautiful swathes of blissful ambience whose releases have previously found homes on labels like Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Music Fellowship, Scarcelight, MYMWLY, Barl Fire and Type......(more)

 


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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Leave Me In The Black No-Thing
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Leave Me In The Black No-Thing is MCIAA's response to their last album for Important titled Cosmic Light Of The Third Milennium. Where Cosmic Light celebrated infinite light, Leave Me hovers in a particular sort of cosmic darkness
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ROBERTO OPALIO
Chants From Isolated Ghosts
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Roberto Opalio is 1/2 of My Cat Is An Alien. Chants From Isolated Ghosts is his debut solo recording and it was originally released in a tiny private pressing on cdr which sold out immediately and has since become one of MCIAA's most sought after releases...... (more)

 



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CONRAD SCHNITZLER
Klavierhelm
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

The piano is certainly an instrument with which Conrad Schnitzler is not often associated. However, his compositions on Klavierhelm exhibit his highly expressive and free approach to the piano. Calling to mind Erik Satie and Cage, Cecil Taylor and even Carl Stalling. (more)

 



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KK NULL
Kosmista Noisea
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Kosmista Noisea is a brand new full length from Japanese legend KK Null (ANP/Zeni Geva). Packaged in a jewel box with a metallic print on a vellum tray card, this was lavishly designed by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn 0)))/Khanate). (more)

 


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ANP
Metacompound
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3


Metacompound is the first full length studio album from ANP in 19 years. Lavish metallic ink on vellum packaging by ANP fan and Sunn O))) member Stephen O'Malley. (more)

 


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FE-MAIL & CARLOS GIFFONI
Northern Stains
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Northern Stains is the result of a collaboration between experimental phenomenon Carlos Giffoni and Spunk/Fe-Mail members Maja Ratkje & Hild Tafjord. This trio finally met when Giffoni booked Fe-Mail to headline the sunday night of his genere defining Brooklyn based 3 day No Fun Festival in 2005. Early in 2006 Giffoni boarded a flight to Norway and Northern Stains was born in Spunk's Oslo studio.(more)

 
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MUDSUCKERS
Mudsuckers
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Brand new collaboration between Pete Swanson and Gabe Saloman of Yellow Swans, Tom Carter of Charalambides and Robert Horton. This time it's a landslide of swamp-noise-drone with feedback layered like mud atop the skeleton of a buried song structure

 
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ALUMBRADOS
A Generation Of Vipers
$11.99
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Much different than the lumbering jams of Alasehir are the drenched ethno-drones of Alumbrados. Featuring Bardo Pond's John & Michael Gibbons on guitar, sitar, cumbas and various percussive instruments as well as Michael Zanghi and Aaron Igler with additional electronics and percussion. Alumbrados is a beautiful, rhythmic and tremendously arranged psychedelic experience.

 
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FLAHERTY/CORSANO/YEH
A Rock In The Snow
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Together Chris Corsano and Paul Flaherty have re-written the concept of modern free-jazz with their post-hardcore punk style approach of euphoric togetherness. Ferocious, spontaneous, explosive and aggressively lyric they've established their groundbreaking duo with loads of shows and a host of tremendous recordings. Now, with violinist/vocalist C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) they've expanded their sound even further. Great liner notes by John Olson

 
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DANIEL MENCHE
Jugularis
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

 

Imagine yourself riding on cells coasting through your body's veins. The sound of the heart grows stronger like a beating drum as you're pulled closer. Suddenly, you're embraced by this giant pulsating muscle and when you're finally released back into the veins you can hear it's sound fading slowly, but still growling with the same intensity that it has beat with for eternity. Jugularis is the soundtrack to this ride and like your heart it's packaged in blood: the ultimate symbol of life and intensity.

 
 
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Merzbow
Minazo Volume One
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3
minazo shirts available

Minazo is Merzbow's tribute to the beloved male elephant seal who lived life in captivity at a Tokyo aquarium. Masami Akita often visited the seal at the aquarium and was allowed to access Minazo behind the scenes. Minazo includes many phototographsand an essay by Masami Akita as well as illustrations by Jenny Akita.

 



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ANOICE
Remmings
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Let's get this straight immediately. Anoice is not another instumental group with strong rock tendencies and an armchair association with classical music. Unlike numerous contemporaries which they will undoubtedly be compared to, their goal is not to follow the trends and make the soft/loud/soft/loud juxtapositions in every song, but to carefully craft each song with a strong attention to melody, solid accompaniment, and courteous counterpoint. Six panel digipack design by Non-Format

 



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PESTREPELLER
Isle Of Dark Magick
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Prepare yourself for this gem of free-improvised-found-sound-collage enriched with dark pagan folky vibes and supernatural horror noise dedicated to HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare!
Pestrepeller consists of long-celebrated illustrator and Wire journalist Savage Pencil, Evan Parker student and ex-Medicine Head member Peter Hope-Evans, comic artist Ed Pinsent, cartoonist Harley Richardson and Rob Brown.

 
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OCEAN
Here Where Nothing Grows
$10.00 (jewel box edition)
info, reviews & mp3
Ocean shirt available
OCEAN PRESS PHOTOS
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The first 2000 in the deluxe package are now sold out. The jewel box edition is now available for a lower price.
Over the last couple of years Ocean has established themselves as an unparalleled current in the east coast metal scene. Here Where Nothing Grows is their debut full length album of 3 rogue waves clocking in at a full 65 fathoms. This is a slow ancient doom harnessing the deep low end drone of Sunn 0))), Burzum's screams, the crushing heaviness of Buried At Sea, and even the art rock of Mogwai.
Here Where Nothing Grows was originally recorded by a physically and emotionally exhausted Ocean at Volume Studios in Chicago with Sanford Parker (Buried At Sea/Pelican) at the tail end of a self destructive mini tour....
 
 
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DIANE CLUCK
Macy's Day Bird/Black with Green Leaves
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3
This deluxe double cd, priced the same as a single disc, pairs up Diane Cluck's 2nd full length album Macy's Day Bird with the ep titled Black With Green Leaves. Macy's Day Bird was released by Diane in an elaborate tiny handmade edtion in late 2001. Black With Green Leaves followed almost exactly one year later also packaged by Diane. These are arguably Diane's most compelling, immediate and striking works and it was these two recordings that originally caught the ear of Important Records in 2001
 
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LARSEN
HMKE ep
$7.99
info, reviews & mp3
-read a recent Larsen interview

 

Larsen's HMKE contains a Deathprod remix and an Origami Galaktika remix of two new Larsen tracks. The remaining two tracks are unremixed Larsen originals unavailable elsewhere and featuring their beloved cellist Julia Kent (also of Antony & The Johnsons.)
The second track M, a Larsen original, will be available on the forthcoming Larsen album Seis but as a Lustmord/Larsen collaboration and not in this original form.
 

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Merzbuddha
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3
Merzbuddha shirts available

What did you listen to last summer? Masami Akita, otherwise know as Merzbow, spent most of his summer listening to Horace Andy, Studio One, Dennis Bovel, Keith Hudson and a whole pipe full of other dub mavericks. That's probably why this brand new full length, with cover art by Jenny Akita, is dripping with deep bass riffage and a whole lot of electronic dub vibes and beats.

 
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CARLOS GIFFONI
Welcome Home
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Welcome Home is less of a homecoming and more of a coming out for Carlos Giffoni, a highly respected and active NYC collaborator who typically shares the stage and records with the likes of Jim O'Rourke, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, John Duncan, Massimo, Thurson Moore and many others. Giffoni has long been the experimentalists experimentalist and now on Welcome Home, his first official full length, finds him center stage where he belongs.
 
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XXL (Xiu Xiu Larsen)
Ciautastico!
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3
XXL shirt available

Ciautistico! is the debut album from XXL (Xiu Xiu Larsen), a collaboration between the Italian experimental cult band Larsen and James Stewart's mutated-pop project Xiu Xiu. Both groups consider their joint creative clash as a new band in itself more than just an occasional collaboration as it has been already proved by the succesful sold out theater performances in Italy by XXL.
 
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BARBEZ
Insignificance
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3
Insignificance is the result of two years of intensive work and the culmination of seven years of exploration and growth by this unusual and powerful Brooklyn-based band. After the critcal success of Barbez's self titled full length debut on Important Records, they've returned with a groundbreaking sophmore album and a new Theremin player who Bob Moog has called the single greatest living Theremin player on Earth. While Insignificance maintains Barbez's trademark ethno-punk-cabaret, the compositions have become more tight, more spacious, more frenetic and more explosive. Insignificance has more of a compositional complexity and careful instrumentation than Barbez's debut, promising to be a classic in this burgeoning sub genre known as Punk-Cabaret.

"The most musically adventurous of the blooming "ethno-punk-cabaret" movement (think Dresden Dolls and Gogol Bordello)" Washington Post
 
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VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Tuning To The Rooster
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

 

"This is music as a shamanic aid, made as much for the players themselves as for the listeners. But as I’m writing from the listening perspective, I have to inform y’all that this is music to get you there. Every track sounds as though it has always just ‘been there’, it’s just you ain’t quite tuned into its peculiar frequency until now. The 12-and-a-half minute Wearing Clothes of Ash is like a piano-led PARADIESWARTS DUUL-period drone-a-thon with John Cale and Terry Riley guesting on viola and keys. Following this, the sublime Baptism Bar Blues is proof positive that they can rock the riot house with pure adrenaline rush when the decision is made. Indeed, this track is magnificent and should be available to the masses free or in pill form." Julian Cope
 
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO
Just Another Band From The Cosmic Inferno
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3
Just Another Band From The Cosmic Inferno is the debut full length album from the brand new configuration of the Acid Mothers Temple. Replacing the original lineup are deep-psych heavyweights including members and ex-members of The Boredoms, Ghost, Mainliner and Zeni Geva. Cover artwork by Stephen O'Malley
 
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Under The Cables Into The Wind
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Debut solo album from Larsen's Fabrizio Modonese Polumbo.
"...surprisingly gentle inflections, combining low voices, groung hugging mists of keyboards, genial electronic hucklebuck and even acoustic guitar to create small vistas of delightful otherness..."
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DIANE CLUCK
Oh Vanille/Ova Nille
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Mojo Magazine Underground Album Of The Month July 05'

“This record is by my favorite singer-songwriter in all of New York City. I'm so happy to be alive at the same time she is because i get to see her perform. It's her and guitar or her and piano or her and harmonium. Her lyrics are so good, when i play this for people they stop doing everything and are quiet for hours after." Devendra Banhart

 


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DANIEL MENCHE
Sirocco
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

Sirocco by Daniel Menche is the first recording by him created by utilizing sound sources from several other sound artists. Andrew Lagowski, Asmus Tietchens, Main, John Duncan, Scanner, Illusion Of Safety, Merzbow, ErikM, B. Labelle and AMT submitted one minute sections of sound for Daniel Menche to work with.
Much like Steve Reich's Phase Patterns or Phillip Glass' Music In 12 Parts, this is a lenghty single piece that evolves and and changes shape slowly over the course of the composition.

 


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PIANO MAGIC
Opencast Heart ep
$9.99
info, reviews & mp3

A Note To Listeners From Piano Magic:

I should input that this is, hands down, thee most purely electronic record Piano Magic have ever made - a brash stylistically pendulum swing from the most recent album, The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic........

 
 


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JACK DANGERS
Loudness Clarifies/Electronic Music From Tapelab
$15.99
info, reviews & mp3

Following the success of Forbidden Planet Explored, Jack's soundtrack for the legendary sci-fi film Forbidden Planet, Jack has brought us a brand new Meat Beat style manifestation and a collection of 10 years worth of his electro-acoustic musique concrete.
Loudness Clarifies/Music From Tapelab brings forth both sides of Jack Dangers multi-dimensional audio personality into one single commercial package neatly designed by Almighty. From the distant, careful, experimentalism found in Music From Tapelab to the dance floor oriented Loudness Clarifies we experience Jack as a whole musical entity.

Top Ten of 2004 according to the editors of Igloo Magazine

 

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BARBEZ
Barbez
$10
info, reviews & mp3


Imagine Kurt Weill chewing sausages with the Residents underneath the Williamsburg Bridge while watching a Russian wedding dance and you have some approximation of Barbez, Brooklyn's one-of-a-kind post-cabaret punk chamber ensemble. Provoked by such musics as Slavic folksong, Argentine tango, post-war classical and pre-mtv punk, Barbez wrings these disparate worlds into the band's own unique soundscape.

 


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JACK DANGERS
Forbidden Planet Explored
$13.99 double cd
info, reviews & mp3


This double cd release contains Jack's now famous soundtrack for the legendary sci-fi film Forbidden Planet. This recording was performed live accompanying a screening of the film at the I.D.E.A.L. Music Festival in Nantes, France. Since the performance the legend has built as Jack's legions of fans have searched far and wide for this recording. As a special bonus, Forbidden Planet Explored contains a second cd full of sci-fi sound effects inspired by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

"...These ethereal sound effects are captured in twenty-three thematic tracks that illustrate the quirky film, and at the same time give it a fully timeless quality..." Igloo Magazine

 

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ASA IRONS & SWAAN MILLER .
self titled
$8
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Highly recommended solo recordings from Feathers/Witch member Asa Irons accompanied by his childhood friend Swaan Miller. Asa lives in a home he built from stones in the rural woods of New Hampshire and this record was constructed with the same sort of honest, real & quiet sincerity. Again, essential. (more)

 
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RIVULETS .
You Are My Home
$8
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For Rivulets' third album members include Jessica Baliff, Chris Brokaw and musicians from The Rachel's, Boxhead Ensemble & Mission Of Burma.
Together they tastefully smother Rivulet's soft voice and guitar with layers of wintery sounds.....
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Various Artists .
Belly Of The Whale
$8
info, reviews & mp3
t-shirts available

The goal was to create digital music from underwater sound samples of creatures including orcas, dolphins, beluga whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, Weddell and Bearded seals, lobsters, shrimp and water. Together, Interspecies and greenmuseum.org compiled a sample cd of 350 captured sounds and sent it out to many of their favorite electronic artists. Scanner, Merzbow, Yannick Dauby, LapCore, Jayne Fenton Keane, Kim Cascone and many others answered the call merging deep sea underwater sounds with their electronic aesthetics.

 
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CITAY ,
Self Titled
$8
info, reviews & mp3
Ex Piano Magic member Ezra Feinberg teams up with the dual Tim's from The Fucking Champs (Drag City) to explore the underappreciated acoustic side of Sabbath, Zeppelin, Metallica, Heart, Eno etc. to create a thoroughly modern folk-rock epic. Let the California sun shine through your speakers. "The unititiated listener could easily be excused for thinking this might be some lost early 70's masterpiece." Dream Magazine .....sneak preview
 


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KING MISSILE III
Royal Lunch
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3

"The madman who brought us such classics as "Sensitive Artist", "Wuss", "Jesus Was Way Cool" and "Detachable Penis" return. ...A pared-down King Missile III (John S. Hall, Sasha Forte and Bradford Reed) mixing up jams from outer space with unique lyrics and spoken word pieces…a template the band has spent the last two decades building their legend on." Rolling Stone

 

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KAWABATA MAKOTO
O Si Amos A Sighire A Essere Duas Umbras?
$11.99
info, reviews & mp3
AMT shirts available

O Si Amos A Essere Duas Umbras? is comprised of two epic, deeply meditative, spiritual and transcendental compositions. Track one, titled "Ses Aintro ‘e mene finzas Si Ses In S'Atter'Ala E Su Mundu" is the very first solo track Kawabata has ever recorded on an acoustic guitar. Filtered through 3 reverb units and a single delay this epic acoustic track starts off droning but quickly builds with reverb drenched and finger picked momentum light years away from any of Kawabata's solo guitar work.

"...Weaving shimmering phrases and drones, Makoto
brings to mind the soundscapes of Robert Fripp's more
recent solo releases, especially Fripp's collaboration
with Jeffrey Fayman, A Temple in the Clouds..."
-Igloo

 
 
 
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When I Was Young
$10

Surprise full length from Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founder Genesis P-Orridge, and produced by Astrid Monroe, has been slowly coming to fruition and it arrives with perfect timing. The true identity of Astrid Monroe has been kept a secret from all parties involved in the release of this CD.

 
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ANP
Live In Japan
$10
ANP shirts available

"ANP (Absolut Null Punkt) was originally formed in 1984 by KK.Null (before he started his progressive hardcore rock trio Zeni Geva) and Seijiro Murayama (founding drummer of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha). Live In Japan was recorded at dates between December and February 2003 in Osaka as well as Tokyo. The live setting is a perfect showcase for ANP's diverse inspirations and unique approach to creating music. An echoing chamber of stark,pummeling fusion is created by combining strong elements of free jazz, heavy rock, industrial noise, glitch and free improvisation dynamics.

 
 
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My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess
$10
Kimya Dawson shirts available

"Don't be fooled by Kimya Dawson's tiny voice and fey affect. She writes like a giant, and finds the music to put her words across. " -Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock Critics

"Kimya Dawson has the most arresting voice since Mo Tucker of the Velvet Underground." - John F. They Might Be Giants

 
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Knock Knock Who?
$10 in stock
Kimya Dawson shirts available

On break from Rough Trade and her band The Moldy Peaches, our friend Kimya finds herself at home on Important Records releasing two albums at once. Both albums are full of unique, original and beautifuly moving folk songs about Matlock, Atari 2600's, love, growing up, growing old and the Golden Girls. Kimya is one of the most unique voices in modern music and we're honored to be releasing these albums.
Both albums were recorded after her Rough Trade solo debut and both prove to be even stronger.

 
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Magical Power from Mars
$11.99
Acid Mothers Temple shirts available
2008 repress. Remastered with expanded artwork.
Get the cd and shirt for $15.99
 
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Ikebana : Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused and Recycled
$11.99
mp3 samples:
Dj Spooky "Takemitsu"
Dj/Rupture "In & Out Of Institutions"
Plug "Untitled"
Negativland "An Actual Attack"
Hrvatski "Toru Pup"
Mouse On Mars "Superstar"

Remixers were asked to use Merzbow's AMLUX as an instrument in an original composition. as a result we received over 25 brilliant exclusive tracks from : Jack Dangers (meat beat manifesto), Kawabata Makoto (acid mothers temple), Negativland, Nobukazu Takemura,Cornelius, Luke Vibert, Dj Spooky, Mouse on Mars, E.A.R., Bola, Atom tm, Dj Rupture, KK Null, Kim Cascone, John Wiese (bastard noise), Freiband, Lasse Marhaug, Kim Hiorthoy, Custom Drummer, the Staalplaat Soundsystem, Kurt Weisman, Raub Roy, Nau-Zee-Aun and Abstinence
 
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debut
$9.99 in stock
Hyperjinx t shirts available

The Hyperjinx Tricycle is a trio consisting of Daniel Johnston, NYC painter Ron English and the ever elusive and mysterious Jack Medicine. the initial pressing of this disc sold out fast. available now.
VOTED ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2002 BY MUSIC AUSTIN!!! !(www.musicaustin.com)

 
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Kosmik Engine
$9.99 in stock
Kazuyuki K. Null is the leader of Zeni Geva, one of Japan's finest grind metal creations. he has evolved into quite a fine electronic artist and this album is proof. This full length album, 13 untitled tracks, is a unique digital ride through jarring surreal electronic soundscapes in a similar vein to recent works by NobukazuTakemura and Merzbow. This cd release is housed in a nice cardboard gatefold package with artwork created by KK Null.
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Seijiro Murayama (original drummer of Fushitsusha)
 
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Merzbeat
$11.99
Merzbow shirts available
Finally repressed by demand after almost 3 years of being out of print, Merzbeat is the flagship release in Merzbow's Merz titled releases for Important Records. This time around Merzbeat is packaged in a deluxe oversized Important heavy cardstock gatefold jacket.
 
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amlux
$9.99 in stock
Merzbow shirts available
this disc contains some groundbreaking compositions full of new ideas and directions. it is one of Masami Akita's most stunning releases to date and is also the source material for a major merzbow remix project released later this year.
 

 

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TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU
lp
The Ocean Of Milk
$7
info, reviews & mp3

Limited edition of 400. First 100 mailorder customers will receive a silver shimmer cover.
Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer) & John Wesseltoft (Thorns) are Tongues Of Mount Meru. Together they create epic, reaching dronescapes. (more)

 
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PICK UP lp
Mouthless
$5
info, reviews & mp3

Pick-up is a new duo of Frans de Waard (Beequeen) on laptop and Martin Luiten (Girlfriends, Uw Hypotheek Advies) on guitar. Limited edition of 300. Hand made cover artwork.
This is the 9th release in our Arts & Crafts series which pairs music with handmade artwork by the artists responsible for the recordings. .............. (more)

 
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TECUMSEH .
lp
Avalanche & Inundation
$5
info, reviews & mp3

Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds.
Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using 2 basses, electronics, percussion and guitar Tecumseh wrap themselves and...... (more)

 
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TOM CARTER lp
Shots At Infinity 2
$7
info, reviews & mp3

This is the companion release to the Tom Carter CD titled Shots At Infinity 1 being release on Important simultaneously. The first 100 copies sent out via Important mailorder will be on green vinyl..... (more)

 
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DAN FRIEL lp
Ghost Town
$7
info, reviews & mp3

VINYL VERSION.. The first 100 records shipped will be on red vinyl. All copies shipped after that will be on black vinyl. There's been some heavy buzz around this record so color vinyl will not last long. ....(more)

 
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. LP
My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess
$5
Kimya Dawson shirts available

REPRESSED in expanded packaging. Thanks to the film Juno Kimya Dawson has been receiving a whole lot of deserved attention lately.
This vinyl repress includes a lyric sheet insert - something we still haven't gotten around to including in the cds. The first 100 copies we ship via mailorder will be on pink vinyl.
CD version available also.

 
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Knock Knock Who?
$5
Kimya Dawson shirts available

REPRESSED in expanded packaging. Thanks to the film Juno Kimya Dawson has been receiving a whole lot of deserved attention lately.
This vinyl repress includes a lyric sheet insert - something we still haven't gotten around to including in the cds. The first 100 copies we ship via mailorder will be on pink vinyl.
CD version available also

 
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A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS .
A Place To Bury Strangers
$7
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XBXRX XBXRX
Sounds
$7
info, reviews & mp3

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SMEGMA .
33 1/3 lp version
$7
info, reviews & mp3

black vinyl.... (more)
Check the news page for a handmade edition of the vinyl.

 
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THE BARK HAZE .
lp
$7
info, reviews & mp3

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FLAHERTY/CORSANO/YEH .
Snow Blind Avalanche
$7
info, reviews & mp3

black vinyl... Artwork by C. Spencer Yeh. Liner notes from Wolf Eyes bro John Olson aka Johnny Coors. Last copies.

 
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CITAY LP
Self Titled
$5
info, reviews & mp3
Ex Piano Magic member Ezra Feinberg teams up with the dual Tim's from The Fucking Champs (Drag City) to explore the underappreciated acoustic side of Sabbath, Zeppelin, Metallica, Heart, Eno etc. to create a thoroughly modern folk-rock epic. Let the California sun shine through your speakers. "The unititiated listener could easily be excused for thinking this might be some lost early 70's masterpiece." Dream Magazine .....sneak preview
 
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arts and crafts series, volume 1
$6
The first installment in our perpetual Arts and Crafts series is a 7" from Half Japanese's Jad Fair. this is limited to only 500 copies and each one comes with a hand made paper cut by Jad. The Arts and Crafts series will continue to bring you very limited edition seven inches each packaged w/ artwork made by the artist/artists on the record.
"It's a keeper on all known levels." The Wire
 
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GRAILS lp
Take Refuge In Clean Living
LP: $10
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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/PRAXINOSCOPE lp
For The Tears Of Land, Prayers From Outer Space
2xLP: $15
info, reviews & mp3

Beautifully packaged double LP inside a metallic gold hand printed jacket done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Brand new jams from MCIAA on one LP and Praxinoscope (an MCIAA project) on the other. Hand numbered to only 300 copies!...... (more)

 
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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN: Robert Opalio/Maurizio Opalio lp
split
LP $10
info, reviews & mp3

Hand numbered and limited edition of 300 copies. This is the sister release to the MCIAA/Praxinoscope LP. Hand printed at Monoroid by Neil Burke on heavy duty board stock. Super deluxe and epic adventures from the MCIAA space-brothers. Each brother takes a side...... (more)

 
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LARSEN lp
LLL
LP $5
info, reviews & mp3

Deluxe 4 color screenprinted jacket on heavy duty board stock. 500 made. First 100 on white vinyl. Hand pulled by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Sterling live performances from Italy and Austria selected by the group for this live LP release. ....... (more)

 
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BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT

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The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The Lamb
LP: $7
info, reviews & mp3

Brethren of the Free Spirit are guitarist/composer James Blackshaw and lutenist/composer Jozef van Wissem. Named after a cult of 13th-century Northern European religious heretics this duo play with an appropriately zealous
intensity. ...... (more)

 

 

 

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