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Hexadic Iii

Drag City

***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.6 rating from Pitchfork. If we subscribe to the current ISO 8601, then 2018 is Hexadic year three—the third annum since we were introduced to a new wave in combinatorial theory with powerful potentialities for music composition. The book, The Hexadic System, was written by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE's BEN CHASNY, who demonstrated the possibilities of the system with two albums of Hexadic composition, as well as touring the music and chairing talks on the process and uses of THE SYSTEM around the United States and Great Britain. This third installment of the Hexadic series had been planned from the beginning—inviting others outside of Ben Chasny’s Hexadic headquarters to make music using THE SYSTEM. Features music from MOON DUO, JENKS MILLER, MEG BARID & CHARLIE SAUFLEY, TASHI DORJI, RICHARD YOUNGS, PHIL LEGARD, and STEPHEN O'MALLEY, TIM WYSKIDA & MARC URSELLI.

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Silk To Dry The Tears

100% Silk

Sorrow’s only silver lining is the selflessness it inspires in others. The nightmare of last year’s fire in Oakland left so many of us shredded, shattered, and speechless. But a communal compassion surged up in response, with artists, allies, and acquaintances from all over the globe re-connecting and re-committing to the power and potential of independent music as a healing, unifying force. So many SILK friends and family reached out expressing the desire to contribute creatively to a relief effort that it was obvious the emotion needed an outlet. Silk To Dry The Tears collects 31 such songs from a spectrum of 100% Silk alumni and affiliates, threaded across four sides of fogged house, fantasy acid, nocturnal electronics, sleepwalker pop, and rhythmic reveries of varied internal states. Totaling nearly 170 minutes, it’s a sprawl and a statement, shared in the spirit of inclusion, endurance, and empathy. Music brought us together; music will keep us together. Mastered by Matt Tammariello. Design by Britt Brown.  50% the profits will be donated to Safer DIY Spaces, an Oakland-based coalition offering guidance, financial assistance, and labor to non-traditional creative community spaces.

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Heed The Call

Vostok

Aotearoa, New Zealand, nineteen-seventy-something, the bottom of the South Pacific—the largest Maori and Polynesian population in the world and a nation wanting to groove. Approximately three million people, two islands, hot summers, muddy winters, one TV channel until 1975, and all radio was AM. A constant supply of international soul, funk, and disco releases were available, but things got really interesting when local artists found their soul on vinyl. Heed The Call! collects the best New Zealand material from the afro-tastic days of 1973 to 1983. Artists include Mark Williams, whose “House For Sale” became a sought-after Northern Soul single, the (three) Yandall Sisters (two of whom are pictured behind Mark WiIlliams on the cover), a teenage Tina Cross, Dalvanius and Prince Tui Teka—all of these became household names in New Zealand. This collection mines some overlooked nuggets from their respective catalogs alongside lesser known acts like The Pink Family, with their non-secular floor sizzler “Don’t Give Your Life Away,” the gritty gospel soul of Sonia & Skee, and many others.  These are the songs that drove a country from black and white to technicolor, and, being a scene born in total isolation, it took turns that weren’t heard anywhere else. This is funk, soul and disco if Studio 54 had been set up within five minutes of a dairy farm, a rugby club and a marae, and it finally let people dance.

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Brown Acid - The Fifth Trip

Riding Easy

***BACK IN STOCK!!! The hits just keep coming—for this fifth lysergic journey, Riding Easy assembles ten heavy slabs of obscure rock the likes of which have never been seen before… not in this form, anyhow. And as usual, the tracks from these impossibly rare records have all been fully cleared through the artists themselves. Great lengths were gone to in order to get the best possible master sources, the worst case scenario being an original 45. The legendary Captain Foam kicks off this trip like an anvil to your skull with a rollicking stomper sounding like The Who with Matt Pike’s thunderous guitar tone. “No Reason” wasn’t easy to find, but lo and behold, the super sleuths located him and got his blessing to include the A-side of his sole single. Good luck finding an original copy of the record. It’s rarer than raw beef—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The other nine tracks continue the onslaught in typical Brown Acid form: George Brigman’s charmingly disjointed bedroom-fi production of “Blowin’ Smoke,” Finch’s way out of time and place grungeadelic anthem “Nothing In The Sun,” Cybernaut’s heavy prog, Fargo’s hallucinogenic BBQ-sauce soaked “Abaddon,” Mammoth’s fittingly beefy eponymous riff-monger, Flasher’s “Icky Bicky” boogie, Ohio-based screamers Lance, Zebra’s gritty rendition of “Helter Skelter” and finally, the mysterious and previously unheard Thor appears here exclusively and for the first time ever with their unknown 45 track “Lick It.”

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Tokyo Flashback

Black Editions

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Received an 8.3 Best New Reissue rating from Pitchfork.  Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the history of underground music. Originally released by Japan's P.S.F. Records, Tokyo Flashback defined the breathtakingly unique and previously obscured musical movement that had been developing in Japan since the late 1970s. The compilation features some of the earliest released recordings by KEIJI HAINO, HIGH RISE, MASAKI BATOH's GHOST, WHITE HEAVEN, FUSHITSUSHA , KOUSOKUYA, and MARBLE SHEEP. It captures the excitement and energy of a Tokyo awash in Technicolor and deep blacks; the music echoing krautrock, psychedelic freak-outs, garage, and no wave. At the same time it reveals astonishing, totally idiosyncratic expansions of rock music. In time, Tokyo Flashback expanded to a synonymous nine volume series that, over the following two decades, unveiled Japan's ever evolving soundscapes to the rest of the world. Tokyo Flashback is a defining statement of late 20th century Japanese psychedelic music and an essential primer to the world of P.S.F. All tracks are exclusive, this edition features the first time translation of the original liner notes. Black Editions' deluxe edition is entirely re-mastered and marks the first release of Tokyo Flashback outside of Japan and it's first ever vinyl issue. Also features VERZERK. Newly created artwork and design expanding on...

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Lasst Die Alten Sterben Soundtrack

Swisspunk

***The soundtrack to Juri Steinhart's Swiss indie film Lasst Die Alten Sterben (Let The Old People Die) featuring classic Swiss punk tracks from NASAL BOYS, BASTARDS, SPERMA, TNT, THE SQUIRT, SIDA, DIETER MEIER & FRESH COLOR, VORWARTS, FLURIN GIGER, and others Compiled by Swiss punk expert LURKER GRAND (author of Hot Love # 1). Housed in gatefold jackets with large poster and 16-page fanzine (English). Limited to 100 copies for North America.

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Trax Test (excerpts From The Modular Network 1981-1987)

Ecstatic Recordings

Trax Test’ is the first ever survey of Italy’s pioneering, visionary and influential label and mail art collective Trax, which ran from 1981 - 1987 as a network for the creation of collaborative projects. The collective included a pre-NWW Colin Potter and some of the earliest work from Masami Akita aka Merzbow, but also had deep connections with the art world; a few trax members went on to become famous designers and artists - Ettore Sottsass of hugely influential Memphis Group even guests on vocals on the last track of the compilation. The whole selection here is rare as heck and sorely in-demand by collectors, much of it now making its vinyl premiere some 30 odd years after the fact.  With credit due to compilers Vittore Baroni of Trax and Ecstatic’s avowed wave fiend, Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) - who was also behind the ‘Mutazione (Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988)’ compilation - ‘Trax Test’ is a portal to the international scene which laid the grassroots for a proliferation of electronic music over the proceeding decades - a pioneering part of the infrastructure for independent music distribution which could be said to pre-echo the myriad social networks and platforms which exist for sharing music today.  As Frans De Waard astutely points out in the 16-page booklet, there were no ‘templates’ for this thing back then - as opposed to the forms of Soundcloud, Spotify or YouTube nowadays - meaning artists did everything DIY: from cutting, pasting and...

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Cold Waves Of Color 4

Color Tapes

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Fourth volume of the completely sold out electronic compilation series from the 1980's Color Tapes label. As with the other volumes you can find great examples of cold wave, minimal wave and synth electronics made by obscure British bands such as DISINTEGRATORS, MYSTERY PLANE, BESERK IN A HAYFIELD and LIVES OF ANGELS—all recorded between 1980-1985, vestiges of the 1980's UK cassette underground scene. Comes with poster insert and reproduction of issue 3 of Color Tapes' own in house Purple Twilight fanzine from 1985 that features articles on INSANE MUSIC, SPACE BROTHERS and Lives Of Angels. Housed in a digipak with 28-page booklet.

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Horrendous New Wave

Lumpy

***Sixteen no name new wave bands from the minds of many celebrated cretins across america and beyond, such as Joe Suss (Nancy, Muff Divers), Rik (Pigs, Mongoloid), Jake Robertson (Ausmuteants, Leather Towel), Arielle McCuaig (Janitor Scum, Glitter), Andy Peterson (Gibbous, Trauma Harness), Cody Phifer (HairLong n Freeky, Nosferatu), BB Eye and many many more! Curated by yours truly, with screen printed jackets, art by Janitor Scum.

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Cruise Control - A Summer Sampler

Italians Do It Better

***JOHNNY JEWEL's summer 2017 mix featuring twenty tracks culled from recent Italians Do It Better 12-inches, assorted LP excerpts and archival reissues. Features music from NITE JEWEL, TESS ROBY, HEAVEN, TWISTED WIRES, CHROMATICS, IN MIRRORS, FARAH, GLASS CANDY, ANDREW DOUGLAS ROTHBARD, and MIRAGE. 79 minutes of pure IDIB magic.

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Brown Acid - The Fourth Trip

Riding Easy

If you thought Riding Easy was getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with their last Trip, you were dead wrong. They’re only just getting rolling. The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45s is deep and nowhere near tapped out. Most of these records, barely released and never properly distributed, were never easy to find, unless you’re willing to dig. Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and sifting through a lot of dirt, but here are another ten tremendous tracks to share with all the heavy heads out there. This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skullcrushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers. The records included on this volume vary in rarity, but at least two of them were virtually unknown until Riding Easy discovered them. You’ll win the lottery before you find copies of all of the original 45s in even the best record stores. Many of those included in this volume are owned only by the members of the bands and some of the band members don’t even have personal copies. That’s just how hard these guys hit it back in the day! It’s lucky some of these guys are still alive and well enough to give permission to use their masters. Brown Acid is here to stay—plug in, turn up, and freak out, this is what rock ’n’ roll is all about!

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Bloodstains Across Virginia

Prompt Critic Productions

***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. A collection of rare and classic Virginia punk circa 1978-1983. Features tracks from ZITS, PREVARICATORS, LAMOUR, NOYS, BARRIERS, BEEX, INSINUATIONS, NAROS, CHUMPS, CITIZEN 23, RATICLES, NEXT OF KIN, and RICKY AND THE WHITE BOYS. Fifteen cuts in all.

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Shake Yo Shimmy Vol. 1

Feral Kink

***A most ass rippin’ set of '50s & '60s gospel / soul / R&B scarcities programmed most boldly to set your ass ablaze! Features cuts fom THE PILGRIM WONDERS SINGERS OF TOLEDO OHIO, THE PILGRIM JUBILEE SINGERS, REV. LONNIE FARRIS & HIS GOSPEL FLAMES, LITTLE "WALKIN'" WILLIE & HIS SWINGING BLUES MEN, SAMUEL PATTERSON, JOHNNY TALBOT, PIANO RED, THE SOUL SEEKERS, THE CYMBALS, ANDY WILSON, IKE TERRY & HIS LYRICS, THE ZIRCONS, CHARLES LATTIMORE, WILBERT HARRISON and EARL BROWN & HIS BAND.

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The Hired Hands: A Tribute To Bruce Langhorne

Scissor Tail Editions

Compiled by Dylan Golden Aycock, Loren Connors, and Suzanne Langille, The Hired Hands is an homage to one of the greatest and most infamous guitarists alive, Bruce Langhorne. His music has influenced and touched a lot of lives over the years, either through his soundtrack work with Peter Fonda or his studio work in the 1960s as the go-to hired hand for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Odetta, and many others. Browsing his wikipedia page, one is informed of the volume of work he accomplished throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Scissor Tail Editions was lucky enough to release Langhorne’s score to Peter Fonda’s 1971 anti-western The Hired Hand on vinyl in 2012. Artists were asked to cover or reinterpret a song of their choice from the soundtrack. No rules were made on whether the music should be derivative of a certain song — if the soundtrack inspired a mood, then the artist could use their intuition. Langhorne has come on hard times in recent years, having suffered a stroke that prevents him from playing the guitar. A large percentage of the profits for this tribute go to Langhorne and his family.

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Sensate Silk

100% Silk

To commemorate the label’s catalog centennial 100% Silk spread its threads coast to coast and station to station for 11 faded blazers and future classics from a fresh cast of characters spanning Okayama to Berlin, England to Echo Park, Boston to British Columbia. Despite such distances the rhythms run parallel: lithe, low-lit, lush, and lost in sense memory. Sensate Silk swirls 75 minutes of smeared neon house, glitter decadence, skyscraper shuffle, flatliner acid, lovesick loops, mutant pulse, rave reverie, and tactile electronics into an expansive voyage of motion, mood, and meaning. Roster includes: Keita Sano, Cromie, Sage Caswell, Inoue Shirabe, Jack Novin, Donny, Badia, PARC, Helios Mode, Nackt, Westcoast Goddess. Defend the dream; feel the feeling. Mastered by Alex Nagle.

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Frequency Of The Truewave Vol. 2

Nervous Intent

***This is the newest edition of the well-received compilation tape series from Nervous Intent Records. The tracks chosen for the Frequency of the Truewave comps are curated carefully by the label, with a listening flow more akin to classic mixtapes than standard compilations made up of random oddities from the bands. All the bands operate on the punk/hardcore/post-punk spectrum, happen to be fronted by women, and are unified by a common raw, powerful, and distinct vision grounded in truewave/punk aesthetics and ethics. Features PRIESTS, SHOPPING, CROOKED BANGS, STREET EATERS, RAGANA, NO BABIES, MOZART, TROIKA, COMPOSITE, LIE, NAIVE, DAISY WORLD, STRANGE FACES, SPLIT FEET, STEEL CHAINS and VIOLENCE CREEPS.

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I Said No Doctors

Dymaxion Groove

***A 2xLP compilation of the most groundbreaking artists of current and past decades who have redefined sound by creating and destroying musical instruments to fit a specific sonic character and method of music-making. Features exclusive tracks from SILVER APPLES, DAVID GRUBBS, OVAL, SENYAWA, JAD FAIR, DAN DEACON, SLUMBERLAND and more. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl with download.

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Twistin’ Rumble Vol. 7

Twistin Rumble

***The seventh in this new series of reissue insanity. Features fourteen cuts of soulstomp, twist-party lunacy, garage, and R&B circa 1960-1968. Dig it—AMERTONES, JAY HODGE ORK, RAY SCOTT & THE SCOTTSMEN, LEGENDS, FUGITIVES, VELVETEENS, RAG MOPS, SHAN-TONES and more.

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Sin Alley Part 1

Big Daddy

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Ho-dad Hootenanny Too!

Crypt

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 1

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 10

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 2

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 3

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 7

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 8

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 9

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 4

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 5

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jerk Boom Bam Vol. 6

Jerk Boom Bam

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Jump And Shout

Jump & Shout

A wild comp of greasy, sloppy, post-R&B/pre-soul dance slop from obscure artists from 1961-1965.  Imagine if John Waters circa "Pink Flamingos" had chosen the "Hairspray" dance tunes!  Do the Grunt!  Do the Zombie Stomp!  Do the Wobble!  18 cuts.

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Strummin’ Mental Part 1

Link Wraycords

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Strummin’ Mental Part 2

Link Wraycords

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Jungle Exotica Vol. 1

Strip

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Jungle Exotica Vol. 2

Strip

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Las Vegas Grind Part 1

Strip

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Las Vegas Grind Vol. 1

Strip

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Las Vegas Grind Vol. 2

Strip

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Las Vegas Grind Vol. 3

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Las Vegas Grind Vol. 4

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