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Italians Do It Better by V/a

V/a

Italians Do It Better
Italians Do It Better

***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! The JOHNNY JEWELL produced tribute to the Material Girl features the breathless IDIB best performing Madonna's iconic singles. Features tracks from DESIRE, SALLY SHAPIRO, FARAH, ORION, DOUBLE MIXTE, JORJA CHALMERS, LOU REBECCA, JUNO FRANCIS, NUMBER ONE POPSTAR, IN MIRRORS, JOON and others. Pressed on hot pink vinyl.

2XLP $30.00

04/05/2024  

 


***Desire shares Escape, their new album written and recorded in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. Inspired by the ultra-vivid world of 1970's giallo films, they wrote the soundtrack of their dreams using their favorite musical instruments: Minikorg, Jupiter 8, 909, Mellotron, Simmons Rhythm Modules, String Machine, a D-50 & Fender Rhodes. House music rhythms provide the canvas for girl group narratives and a children's choir to paint the picture. Throbbing synthwave and daytime drama soap operas all play into the color pallet of the album. The lyrics are sung in English, French, and Korean, adding even more drama to the mix. Through it all, there is the optimism of true love's compass navigating us through all the chaos life has to offer.

2XLP $30.00

03/08/2024 196429033412 

IDIB 337 


***"Sally Shapiro's cover of this Pet Shop Boys classic keeps the original close to the heart. Emphasizing the baroque leanings of the chord progression, they take it further with a 8th note melody careening over icy pads. The result is a Synthwave skyline scraping the upper atmosphere in the never-ending race to survive the first of the month. It's a twisted tale of the politics of economy in relationships where the currency is love. Sally's crystalline coo glides over Johan's elegant Italo production as the bass line anchors the galloping rhythm section. Home is where the heart is... but shelter comes first in this game of love."—Johnny Jewel Pressed on clear vinyl.

12" $26.95

02/16/2024  

IDIB 172 


***"Main Character, like the rest of Glüme’s discography, explores identity and feeling at home in yourself. But in a delightful, meta way, Main Character soundtracks a curious, free-flowing world of selves totally in keeping with the title. Glüme has composed her own musical in three acts in which she stars as the titular main character and antagonist, and it makes for excellent watching. Act 1 sees Glüme at her vibrant, bright best, opening Main Character with a handful of sparkling pop bangers. After the reflective beginnings of 'Child Actor', Glüme absolutely comes into her own on 'Do Me A Favor': simultaneously end-credits energy and opening-montage optimism, pairing lyrics about escapism with bubbly synths and sprawling production that could soundtrack any number of excited new beginnings. It’s a good note to open the new chapter of Main Character on, and fittingly cinematic too. In a similar vein, 'Dangerous Blue' is pure euphoria, glittering in falsetto and blending a pulsing club beat with dizzy, delicate melody lines, and even punctuating the rhythms with huge orchestral flourishes. “Wedding Cake Shop” is one of the record’s most avant-pop moments, a breathless walking bass and vivid storytelling alongside pure playfulness. 'Flicker Flicker' employs a darker tone, with murmured vocals over trap beats, but it’s still sensual and based around a catchy, coy hook and grounded in slick production. Glüme is at her best when she’s toying with quintessential pop tones and prodding them towards her boundaries, and it shines across Main Character. But the album's...

2XLP $30.00

09/29/2023 196429195097 

IDIB 200 


***Do androids still dream of electric sheep? Introducing RAMXES—a dystopic cowboy hailing from the outskirts of Houston. His ferocious debut album, Deep Crimson, is out now via Italians Do It Better. It’s cybernetic head music for the blurry hours before dawn. Fusing the thematic vocabulary of Philip K. Dick & William Gibson, Ramxes effortlessly blends classic Chicago House with a hybrid of ‘80s horror, new wave, and early 1990’s industrial landscapes. The result is a mesmerizing vision of a future most likely trapped in the glitching dream of a video game avatar. Deep Crimson swiftly jumps from John Carpenter & Sinoia Caves to Frankie Knuckles, Nine Inch Nails, & Massive Attack, but never sits still long enough to get lost in any of them. His bold, genre-agnostic alchemy captures strands of their DNA, but engineers a world of his very own. Whiplashing the listener with a megaton of pressure, Ramxes floors the throttle & pushes the boundaries of what a synthesizer can do. Deep Crimson opens with a captivating menace, & raw funk obliterates sequencers pouring acid rain from the pixelated sky. That dirty swagger bleeds ultra-vivid hues. The album is a pulsating, serpentine strut through unfriendly terrain, sticking to you like wet Lycra. It’s a skittering download of Berlin 2200 AD, & with the right bionics, you might finally get into Berghain. Take the cosmic night drive on the shores of Neptune where purple light echoes rhythms just below the surface. Klaxons wail in the distance as your oxygen...

LP $26.95

12/09/2022  

IDIB 160 


***Legendary synthesis wizard STEVE MOORE returns with his soft rock disco alter ego, LOVELOCK—stepping out of the time machine and jumping into your tape deck via Italians Do It Better. Picking up where his brilliant 2012 debut Burning Feeling left off, Moore comes back with a guitar driven, sax laced modern yacht rock soundscape. Imagine Christopher Cross stumbling into a smoke-filled after hours hole in the wall off the 101. Camera pans to the bar to reveal Michael McDonald & Alan Parsons red-eyed behind a few glasses of whiskey. “This album is inspired by sophisti-pop, yacht rock & R&B from the late 70’s & early 80’s. Not necessarily the hits though. Someone is meant to feel more like a collection of tracks from private press LPs. Crate digger gold that sounds both familiar & alien at the same time. Once while traveling in Italy, I bought a 2xLP collection of 'Top Hits of the 80’s'—most of the songs I had never heard before, yet they all gave me a sense of familiarity as they were all undoubtedly meant to sound like songs I have heard. That’s the sort of ‘uncanny valley’ type feeling I was chasing with this album.”—Steve Moore

LP $26.95

11/25/2022  

IDIB 195 


***Jorja Chalmers enjoys a quiet life. The Australian born mother of two lives in Margate, the Kent coastal town that is turning into something of a cultural hub. Yet there’s another, shadow version of Jorja Chalmers, one that resides in a liminal realm; a saxophonist & composer, a brooding, vampiric, twilight soul who yearns for some sense of aesthetic transformation. New album Midnight Train comes close to severing the two. Constructed during the long winter lockdown, Jorja would put her kids to bed before closing the door in the spare room, building lengthy, undulating passages of cinematic terror, patching together European art-pop glamour with outsider electronics. It’s composed, intense, and challenging—but it’s also utterly exhilarating. It’s not been a straight-forward path. Burned out following years of classical studies in her native Sydney, Jorja traveled half-way round the world looking for an escape. Settling for some ad hoc office jobs in London, she started kicking around in b&s, playing saxophone for a friend’s new wave project. Someone from Bryan Ferry’s team spotted her at some flea-bit bar, and was infatuated—soon Jorja started touring the world with Roxy Music. Jorja’s 2019 debut album Human Again was sketched in hotel rooms across Europe & North America, ideas punched out on down-time between shows. Open ended and lucid, its formless, dreamy atmospherics touched freely on darker aspects of the psyche. This time round, however, things are a bit more defined. Midnight Train is a treasure trove of ideas. Indeed, it could well be...

LP $28.75

07/01/2022  

IDIB 140 


**Glüme wants it all. Born & raised in Los Angeles, it all started with a Judy Garland biopic. When a six-year-old Glüme heard her parents arguing about money, she knew what to do. If the Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy Gale could become a star and buy her parents a house in the real world—Glüme could do it too. She stopped going to school, started taking dance lessons and started booking auditions. Baby Glüme landed roles in 102 Dalmatians, Kingdom Hearts, and a Hayao Miyazaki film, but her airy voice & melancholic aura wasn’t exactly what the Disney Channel was looking for. “There were all these happy, girl power albums, but they were all written by men. Guys would say to me, you need to be more empowering, more uplifting. I don’t have any of that to say.” Fast forward…Glüme hears Chromatics on Spotify Shuffle. Immediately, she knew that Johnny Jewel’s production was the only way the music in her head could be translated to the outside world. Her years as an actor had supplied her with enough connections to get a meeting with the president of Warner Brothers & Rihanna’s lawyer, but she couldn’t track down Johnny Jewel. Then, out of nowhere, Glüme wound up in the ICU for two weeks. After dozens of tests, she was diagnosed with Prinzmetal Angina, a rare heart disease. It felt like a door had closed. “I didn’t like the vision of myself as a sick person. So I went on The Internet.” Between...

LP $28.75

07/01/2022  

IDIB 130 


***The anticipated new album from the Italo disco / synth pop duo SALLY SHAPIRO comprised of Shapiro and Johan Agebjörn. "Seems like ages, since Sally Shapiro shared their first song online, Italians Do It Better’s introduction to the pair was 'I’ll Be By Your Side,' a shimmering Italo Disco track with ethereal vocals that hypnotised everyone who heard it. Johan’s elegant production was years ahead of what anyone else was doing at the time, & the elusive falsetto of the dreamlike singer was unforgettable. Sally Shapiro’s sound was a definitely a different take on the romantic club music of the mid 1980’s. At the time you could count the artists exploring this territory on one hand. Johnny Jewel began corresponding with Johan later that year resulting in Agebjörn’s remix of Glass Candy’s 'The Chameleon.' The seminal After Dark compilation had come out that summer & the kindred spirits kept in touch... Working in deep seclusion over the last half decade, they record Sad Cities, an incredible collection out on February 18th 2022 via Italians Do It Better. A gorgeous bouquet of pure electronic bliss mixed by Johan Agebjörn & Johnny Jewel."—Northern Transmissions. (STREET DATE - 2/18/2022)

CD $6.85

02/18/2022  

IDIB 171 CD 


2XLP $43.95

10/28/2022  

IDIB 171 


***Every seven years, we release an After Dark label sampler, the long awaited third edition is finally here. Produced by Johnny Jewel, ‘After Dark 3’ features label mainstays DESIRE, CHROMATICS, FARAH and introduces fresh blood from around the globe. A glimpse beyond the curtain, into what the new year sounds like for Italians Do It Better. In the tradition of our spaced out cinema disco, we present After Dark 3…The wallpaper of your dreams & the stardust of the future. With ORION, JOHNNY JEWEL, DOUBLE MIXTE, ATRIP, LOVE OBJECT, JOON, GLÜME, MOTHERMARY, GUy GERBER, CAUSEWAY, CLUB INTL, and PINK GLOVES.

3XLP $43.95

09/10/2021  

IDIB 137 


***CHROMATICS return with a fourteen-track album featuring both new material and remix tracks from their recent Closer To Grey album. Colored vinyl pressing.

LP $20.00

12/25/2020 733102719043 

IDIB 238 


***BACK IN PRINT IN NEW 6-PANEL ECO WALLETS!!! Received an 8.7 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork.  THE CHROMATICS return with the soundtrack to a film of their own imagination. Seventeen tracks. 

CD $9.75

03/10/2020 647603398488 

IDIB 038 CD 


2XLP $25.95

07/14/2015  

IDIB 038 


***The anticipated new album from CHROMATICS. Twelve new tracks produced by JOHNNY JEWEL, mastered by MIKE BOZZI and cut by BERNIE GRUNDMAN in Hollywood. Received a 7.1 rating from Pitchfork.

2XLP $43.95

01/27/2020  

IDIB 237 


***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! A solo album from JORJA CHALMERS, the saxphonist/keyboardist of Bryan Ferry's band. A dreamy twelve-track affair self-recorded and produced by Chalmers with mixing by JOHNNY JEWELL and DEAN HURLEY. A perfect addition to the Italians Do It Better family.

LP $23.50

11/15/2019  

IDIB 105 


CD $6.00

09/20/2019  

IDIB 105 CD 


Beatbox Gatefold Remastered Edition by Glass Candy

Glass Candy

Beatbox Gatefold Remastered Edition
Italians Do It Better

***GLASS CANDY's album of classic midnight synth pop remastered and housed in new gatefold jackets.

LP $20.95

07/26/2019 767870658518 

IDIB 05 X 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Crafting melancholic electronic pop inspired by Scandinavian balearic music, 80s synth pop and 00’s music like Hot Chip, Junior Boys or Chromatics. Pink Gloves is the project of Petr Pliska from Prague, Czech Republic. Since 17 he has been obsessed by discovering music. When he was 20, he established his first band which was hugely influenced by britpop. For almost ten years he’s been writting about new music on his blog. In 2013 he started his project Pink Gloves, which is named after the song by Pulp. His music mostly reflects nostalgia, loneliness, daydreaming and escapism.

CD $6.00

07/26/2019  

IDIB 102 CD 


12" $17.75

07/26/2019  

IDIB 102 


***A new six-track release from Paris-based electronic/synth pop duo DOUBLE MIXTE—THOMAS MANN and CLARA APOLIT. Produced by JOHNNY JEWEL.

LP $17.75

02/14/2019 647603404554 

IDIB 097 


CD $6.00

02/14/2019 647603404561 

IDIB 097 CD 


Don't Come Back From The Moon Ost by Jewel, Johnny

Jewel, Johnny

Don't Come Back From The Moon Ost
Italians Do It Better

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  JOHNNY JEWEL's soundtrack score for the film Don't Come Back From The Moon starring James Franco and Rashida Jones. Includes additional pop songs from GLASS CANDY, CHROMATICS, MIRAGE and SYMMETRY. Fourteen tracks in all. Pressed on pink champagne vinyl.

LP $17.75

02/08/2019 647603404448 

 


CD $6.00

02/08/2019 647603405490 

IDIB 117 CD 


Wise Blood (johnny Jewel Remixes) by Zola Jesus

Zola Jesus

Wise Blood (johnny Jewel Remixes)
Italians Do It Better

***ZOLA JESUS and JOHNNY JEWEL team-up with twenty-three-minute selection of remixes. Features "Ash To Bone," "Wiseblood," "Ash To Bone (Instrumental)," "Wiseblood (Vocal)," "Ash To Bone (Drumless)," and "Wiseblood (Reprise)." Pressed on 180-gram blood red vinyl.

12" $17.75

02/08/2019 647603404455 

IDIB 108 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  “I Want To Be With You…But Sometimes Life Becomes Too Real…I Want To See The Things In My Heart I Know I Feel.” The opening track is a love song written from the perspective of the camera, asking to be held up to see the world through the eyes of its user. CHROMATICS’ dense electronics are anchored by the intimacy of RUTH RADELET's vocals. Framed by negative space, this is pop music from the blurry hours. She softly sings, “I write a song in my head, pretend that I’m lying in your arms.” The music is minimal and bare, layered with sparse percussion. The Camera EP features unreleased material, including a haunting take on Dear Tommy’s title track and the midnight mood of “Flashback To Forever.” Deluxe CD version features 25 minutes of unreleased material, featuring long time David Lynch collaborator, DEAN HURLEY's reimagined “Blue Girl” fit for the Silver Screen… The synthesizer heavy club take on “Magazine” stripped of it's guitars from Fien Troch's HOME soundtrack..The midnight vamp of “The Taste Of Blood” & the nightmarish “House Of Dolls” will throttle your pulse.

CD $6.00

11/23/2018 647603403731 

IDIB 071 CD 


***Beyond the decay of ruins hums the subtle sound of Vapor, a suite of dystopian instrumentals by Italians Do It Better visionary Johnny Jewel. His trademark analog synthesizers have never sounded more crystalline, their landscape never more evocatively barren. Chiming bells slowly twirl like the rusted music box of a child’s nightmare, a pitch-black bleak that is utterly frightful—Jewel channels the beauty & horror of a world that long ago abandoned its own destiny. This is a fever dream flashback. The kind that strikes you in the blur of night & refuses to weaken its grip until the sheets are drenched in sweat. This soundtrack is as elegant as it is violent, conjured in the deepest blacks & most vivid reds. These 21 celestial tracks clock in at just over an hour. Warping wind from a spiraling pinwheel…The sound of dust in the Garden of Hera, walking the tightrope between Life & Hades. The thin line that divides the Heavens from the Earth. Breathe Deep. Pressed on clear vinyl.

CD $6.00

11/23/2018 647603403748 

IDIB 077 CD 


2XLP $26.25

11/30/2018 647603403786 

IDIB 077 


***“I Want To Be With You…But Sometimes Life Becomes Too Real…I Want To See The Things In My Heart I Know I Feel.” The opening track is a love song written from the perspective of the camera, asking to be held up to see the world through the eyes of its user. CHROMATICS’ dense electronics are anchored by the intimacy of RUTH RADELET's vocals. Framed by negative space, this is pop music from the blurry hours. She softly sings, “I write a song in my head, pretend that I’m lying in your arms.” The music is minimal and bare, layered with sparse percussion. The Camera EP features unreleased material, including a haunting take on Dear Tommy’s title track and the midnight mood of “Flashback To Forever.” Eight tracks in all.

12" $20.95

07/13/2018  

IDIB 071 


***It was a year ago now that ​Twin Peaks: The Return​ arrived like a godsend and defied every plausible expectation. David Lynch and Mark Frost’s sprawling, unprecedented 18-part masterpiece proved unlike anything seen before on television. Nobody will forget the moment the show’s uncanny two-part premiere drew to an enigmatic close, as CHROMATICS took the stage at the Roadhouse bathed in cobalt, inaugurating with their hypnotic performance of "Shadow." This was only the beginning of JOHNNY JEWEL's sonic presence on the series. His mesmerizing, dreamlike "Windswept" became the bona fide theme song of Kyle MacLachlan’s Lodge-dazed Dougie Jones—a siren song of melancholic saxophone calling out to him from the beyond.  “I was about a year deep into recording what would become ​Windswept​ when I heard that David was making Season 3,” he explains. “It’s been a year since Chromatics performed at the Roadhouse. With disintegrated memory through the haze of television snow, I wanted to share a glimpse behind the red curtain.”  Themes for Television​ is an epic from the cutting room floor. A nearly hour-long foray into the blurry hours of night. “The project began as a sonic exploration of the sounds I was hearing in my nightmares,” Jewel says. “I wanted to find my way out of the maze by focusing on beauty over fear—like the way the fractured sunrise looks in a dream.”  Themes for Television ​is in keeping with the unpredictable twilit splendor one expects of Jewel. Working entirely without images, drawing from...

CD $6.00

06/01/2018 647603401751 

IDIB 096 CD 


2XLP $27.95

06/01/2018 647603401768 

IDIB 096 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  “A Montreal-based artist and grizzled veteran of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Roby wrote Beacon in 2015 following the death of her father. Collaborating with her brother Eliot — and using synthesizers and drum machines from her father’s studio — Roby sought to craft a “spiritual homage,” both to her father, and to the beacon the album takes its title from (a Napoleonic War-era watch tower that still sits atop Ashurst Hill in Dalton, Lancashire.) Fittingly, Roby’s music is awash with ethereal synths, imbued with a sense of longing for a place, moment, or feeling, like its searching for a guiding light in the darkness.”—Tiny Mix Tapes

LP $25.95

04/27/2018  

IDIB 099 


CD $6.00

04/27/2018  

IDIB 099 CD 


***A deluxe vinyl version of CHROMATICS' Cherry EP with unreleased bonus tracks. Eighteen songs in all with a running time just shy of an hour and twenty minutes. Housed in gatefold jackets and pressed on 180-gram vinyl.

2XLP $30.95

02/23/2018 647603400631 

 


Night Drive - Ten Year Remastered Edition by Chromatics

Chromatics

Night Drive - Ten Year Remastered Edition
Italians Do It Better

***NEW TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY REMASTERED EDTITION!!! Includes the track “Tick of the Clock” from the film Drive. The ever-popular Night Drive release, now expanded to fifteen tracks. The lost side of the album is dark and abstract. Opening with the almost funerial "Shining Violence." Where detuned analog synths collide & struggle to hang onto a fading melody. Followed by the sleeper hit, "Circled Sun," and the Vangelis inspired reflection of life's duality in "The Gemini." Looking into a broken mirror, RUTH is more vulnerable than ever with the bare bones bass & vocal of "Bell." "Night Drive" closes with an arpeggiated musical refrain from the beginning of Side One. "Acelerator" reinterprates elements of "Night Drive's" chord progression while leaning heavily on the gear shift. As painted lines in the road begin to strobe, Chromatics propels full speed ahead into an uncertain future. Packaged in gatefold jackets with two lyric sheet inserts. Pressed on "white" colored vinyl.    . "... the transformation of Chromatics has been so effortless that it's still easy to be wowed by the results. But listeners who are only familiar with the band's forays into shambling punk will certainly be surprised by Night Drive's assured songwriting (which would wow even if the band had been chasing this narcotic Eurodisco sound for years) and how it wrings ravishment out of electro moves that should be long-drained of their charms."—Pitchfork.

2XLP $30.95

02/09/2018  

IDIB 006 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Received a 7.4 rating from Pitchfork.  Hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed 2017 LP Windswept—which soundtracked David Lynch's Twin Peaks, Digital Rain is JOHNNY JEWEL's s latest album. Jewel is known for his extensive collaborations with film makers David Lynch, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Ryan Gosling, as well as for his work with groundbreaking musical groups such as CHROMATICS, GLASS CANDY and DESIRE. The 19 movements of Digital Rain are three dimensional beds of analogue warmth encompassed in raw electronic moisture. The result is an expansive pallet of soft color amid canyons of jagged oscillations. Pressed on 180-gram purple vinyl. Housed in gatefold jackets.   According to Jewel, "Digital Rain is a mirror image of itself designed to play as a singular liquid movement." "After living a few years in a desert climate, I realized I was nostalgic for the constant presence of precipitation from every city I once called home. The sound of hail ricocheting off my roof in Houston... The floods crashing in from the Gulf of Mexico that would destroy my mother's house three times... The constant kiss of drizzle on the streets of Portland, and the morning rain against the windshield of Trimet city bus number 15 that I would ride home after recording all night... The snow buried row houses of Montreal where my daughter was born, and the rhythmic feel of ice cracking under my boots for six months straight." "The desert is constant, and...

LP $20.95

01/26/2018  

IDIB 074 


CD $6.00

01/26/2018  

IDIB 074 CD 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  CHROMATICS return with an archival release. Features a remastered version of the title track, along with previously unreleased tracks from 2005-2006. Pressed in 180-gram blue colored vinyl and housed in gatefold jackets.

LP $20.95

11/17/2017 647603399959 

 


CD $6.00

11/17/2017 647603399942 

 


***GLASS CANDY return with an archival release featuring a remastered version of the title track, along with previously unreleased tracks from 2005-2006. Pressed in 180-gram purple colored vinyl and housed in gatefold jackets.

LP $20.95

11/17/2017 647603399935 

 


CD $6.00

11/17/2017 647603399928 

 


One Night At The Raw Deal by Twisted Wires

Twisted Wires

One Night At The Raw Deal
Italians Do It Better

***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. “It's Miami. It's night. You're in a convertible and maybe... Bette Midler is there? If that's the case (in your brain if not in reality), you might very well be listening to TWISTED WIRES’ soon-to-be released single ‘One Night at the Raw Deal’ (Italians Do It Better)—a brooding, belligerent, open-top, ocean-drive, wind-in-your-hair eighties disco theme. So eighties, in fact, you keep expecting Governor Arnie himself to appear outside the window and start flexing his republican biceps in time with the kick drum. And that kind of expectation is a hell of a lot more fun that it may sound, weirdly. Described elsewhere as crafting ‘a perfect storm of dark synths and disco beats, transporting the listener to some dystopian future where every dance floor is a crime scene', Twisted Wires' cosmic mash-up of early Germanic techno (think Terminator or Grand Theft Auto soundtrack), Bobby Caldwell and Bowie sounds dangerous in a cheeeeeeeeesy way. Maybe a bit dark for Bette Midler, so you might have to drop her home and pick up a couple of call girls.”—weluvmilk.com

12" $14.25

10/13/2017  

 


MP3 $2.97

10/13/2017  

IDIB 015 


***Four tracks taken from the Cantosynaxis album by symth explorer ANDREW DOUGLAS ROTHBARD (MICHANDI SHALIMAR, PLEASURE FOREVER, SLAVES, THE VSS). Features the tracks "Worshipping the Myth of Betrayed Talent," "Rat & The Family Bones," "Prognoz Relikt," and "Section 8 Face." Pressed on emerald green vinyl.

12" $14.25

10/13/2017  

IDIB 066 


***BACK IN STOCK ON NEW BLUE VINYL!!! JOHNNY JEWEL's Windswept featuring music from the new season of Twin Peaks. Housed in gatefold jackets and pressed on 180-gram blue vinyl.

LP $20.95

09/29/2017  

 


CD $6.00

06/09/2017 647603398372 

 


***JOHNNY JEWEL was asked to make a mix of Italians Do It Better tracks for the anniversary of the film Drive. Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue—Get In The Car & Let's See The World, Windows Down... Our Hair In The Breeze... Features music from CHROMATICS, GLASS CANDY, DESIRE and SYMMETRY.

CD $6.00

08/07/2017  

IDIB 073 CD 


***Features the tracks from both TWISTED WIRES 12-inch EPS—One Night At The Raw Deal and Struck Twice—along with bonus B-sides.

CD $6.00

08/07/2017  

IDIB 103 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  A deluxe CD version of CHROMATICS' Cherry EP with unreleased bonus tracks. Eighteen songs in all with a running time just shy of an hour and twenty minutes.

LP $20.95

05/17/2016  

IDIB 42 


CD $6.00

08/04/2017 647603405520 

IDIB 42 CD 


***Introducing In Mirrors From Vancouver, B.C. Their Debut LP "Escape From Berlin" was recorded in deep isolation on location at Nite Prison in Vancouver. Produced & mixed by Johnny Jewel, the album plays as a dizzying massive singular collage. Acutely focused on texture & the negative space between moments, composer & poet Jesse Taylor is the core member in a revolving cast of collaborators. For this LP, his partners in crime are Suzanne, Hiromi Inada (Japan), & Andrew Grosvenor on clarinet. As enigmatic & fleeting as reflections in a hall of mirrors, these themes are fractured & textural. Taylor ambitiously asks us to look beyond the mirror...through to the other side where we imagine Phillip Glass playing chess with William Burroughs while Klaus Schulze slaves over a droning synthesizer in the corner. Sonically, we hear vapor trails from Coltrane, Carpenter, & Amon Duul. This debut is a glance at one of the most varied artists on Italians Do It Better's roster. Johnny & Jesse have been collaborating behind the scenes since 2003. Distilled in a process strengthened by time from Portland to Montreal...Los Angeles to B.C. In Mirrors blurs the imaginary lines between genres opening with a sultry Stevie Nicks cover & closing with 14 minutes of expansive aural fusion. Perhaps Taylor's good friend, Joey Casio said it best..."Change the channel, this one is the mirror". On 180 Gram Blood Vinyl!

LP $25.95

06/30/2017 647603398396 

IDIB 079 


CD $6.00

06/09/2017  

IDIB 079 CD 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! Two new digital EPs—fifteen tracks—combined onto one LP of electronic score / soundscape music that JOHNNY JEWEL created for the film Ghost In The Shell. Disc one is The Hacker, disc two is The Key. Pressed on 180-gram colored vinyl.

LP $20.95

06/30/2017  

IDIB 057 


***BACK IN STOCK AT A NEW LOWER PRICE!!! Introducing TESS ROBY, a 23 year old musician and photographer born in Toronto and now living in Montreal. "Ballad 5" is a song of love and loss in the humid Montreal summer—the sound of Parc Avenue in the blue light of dawn. Her music echoes the cascading pulse of Steve Reich, the drone of Stereolab, and the melancholic drift of Durutti Column, and her voice lands somewhere between Broadcast's Trish Keenan and Nico. On record she is accompanied by her brother ELIOT ROBY Roby on guitar. Limited Edition of 500 on ultra clear vinyl.

12" $20.95

06/16/2017 647603398334 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! Featured in a new Michael Kors commercial.  Features the tracks "Lady," "Looking For Love (Instrumental)," "Lady (Instrumental)," "Lady (On Film)," and "Looking For Love (Extended)." Running time 37:35. Pressed blue velvet colored vinyl and packaged with artwork by JOHNNY JEWEL.

LP $20.95

06/16/2017  

 


12" $14.25

06/16/2017  

 


Cruise Control - A Summer Sampler by V/a

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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.

CD $6.00

06/09/2017