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Heaven

Lonesome Town

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***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! The debut EP from HEAVEN. Five tracks of cool, breathy dreaminess produced by JOHNNY JEWEL (CHROMATICS, etc.). For fans of Chromatics, Jewel, Angelo Badalamenti and the like. CD version features three bonus instrumental tracks not included on the 12-inch vinyl.

Jewel, Johnny

A Beautiful Now

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***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! The soundtrack to director and writer Daniela Amavia's first feature film starring Abigail Spencer, Cheyenne Jackson, Collette Wolfe, Elena Satine and Sonja Kinski. Features music from JOHNNY JEWEL, DESIRE, CHROMATICS, and GLASS CANDY.

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Home (original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! The soundtrack to critically acclaimed Flemish director Fien Troch's fourth film Home. Side A features pop music from CHROMATICS and SYMMETRY with JOHNNY JEWEL's ambient score on the flip. Fourteen songs.

Chromatics

Kill For Love - 5 Year Anniversary Edition

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***BACK IN STOCK!!!  New 180-gram "blood kill" red vinyl pressing.  A five year anniversary remastered reissue of CHROMATICS classic Kill For Love. Re-cut by BERNIE GRUNDMAN and pressed on two discs of 180-gram vinyl. Packaged in new gatefold jackets with printed innersleeves. Received an 8.7 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork upon its original release.

Farah

The Only Ones

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***The enigmatic FARAH is back with her third 12-inch EP on Italians Do It Better. Picking up where "Law Of Life" left off, she alternates between Farsi and English asking: "Can you touch the dying sun?" Features a guest appearance from JOHNNY JEWEL on vocoder. Five unreleased tracks. 17 minutes of music. Pressed on 180-gram transparent copper vinyl in an edition of 500 copies.

Nite Jewel

Obsession

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***NITE JEWEL returns with a five-song teaser to an upcoming full-length. 20 minutes of music pressed on 180-gram pink champagne vinyl in an edition of 500 copies.

Twisted Wires

Struck Twice

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***Armed with a voice of velvet and a Linn drum, Houston' TWISTED WIRES their second EP for Italians Do It Better. Two songs (and seven versions) to keep your turntable warm while you wait for their debut full-length, Always. 31 minutes of music. Pressed on 180-gram white vinyl in an edition of 500 copies.

Symmetry

Yes

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***Two if IDIB's favorite SYMMETRY tracks—"Yes" and "Jackie's Eyes"—now available on one 7-inch. Pressed on icy blue vinyl.

Chromatics

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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***BACK IN STOCK AT A NEW LOWER PRICE!!! Seven tracks—"Dub," "Some Girls," "Girls Just Wanna Have Drums," "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Rhythms," "Just Some," and "No Fun"—pressed on 180-gram clear vinyl. Features KATE MOSS on the front cover.

Chromatics

Just Like You

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Six tracks—"I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around," "Just Like You," "Hands In The Dark," Lady Night Drive," "I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around (Instrumental)," and "Just Like You (Instrumental)Pressed on 180-gram clear dipped in cobalt blue vinyl.

Chromatics

Shadow

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***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Seven tracks—"Shadow (Radio)," "Shadow (Michel's Runway Edit)," "White Light," "Shadow (Last Dance Of The Night Club Edit)," "Shadow (End Credits)," and "Shadow (Michel's Runway Instrumental)"Pressed on 180-gram clear dipped in emerald vinyl.

Jewel, Johnny

Lost River Box

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NOW AVAILABLE AS A DELUXE BOX SET!!! The Lost River Original Motion Picture Score Deluxe CD, Flexi Disc, and Book Set is housed in a thick reel to reel tape box, Lost River comes with a glossy 44-page book of photographs shot on location in Detroit, April & May 2013. 7-inch Picture Disc Flexis feature the songs, "Shell Game," "Echoes," "Cool Water," "Tell Me," "Love Theme," and "Blue Moon." Hand assembled by CHROMATICS.

Jewel, Johnny

Lost River Soundtrack

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***Original score by JOHNNY JEWEL, with additional music from GLASS CANDY, CHROMATICS, DESIRE, and SYMMETRY. Triple LP pressed on 180-gram opaque purple vinyl and packaged in thick, full-color pocket sleeves with stills from the film.

Desire

Under Your Spell

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***PRESSED ON 180-GRAM OPAQUE ELECTRIC PURPLE VINYL!!! A collection of classic DESIRE tracks remixed and remastered. Features "Under Your Spell," "Don't Call," "Mirroir Mirroir (Instrumental Dub)," "Under Your Spell (Vocal & Synthesizer)," "I Can Dream About You (8 Track Version)," "and "Don't Call (Vocal & Synthesizer)."

Chromatics

Tick Of The Clock

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REISSUED ON 180-GRAM OPAQUE ELECTRIC PURPLE VINYL!!!CHROMATICS deliver "Tick Of The Clock" from the Drive soundtrack, along with VISIONE's "Stroke Of Midnight" remix version and an "Extended Overdrive" mix.

Jewel, Johnny

The Other Side Of Midnight

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PRESSED ON 180-GRAM ULTRA CLEAR DIPPED IN BLOOD VINYL (TWO-TONE)!!! JOHNNY JEWEL's epic instrumental "The Other Side of Midnight from the forthcoming Dear Tommy full-length. Dedicated To The Painters, Walkers, Drivers, Talkers, Directors, Riders... Designers, Shooters, Readers, Writers, Lurkers, Creepers, Cruisers, Sleepers... Givers, Takers, Movers, Shakers, Winners, Losers, Lovers, Fighters... Designed To Disintegrate With The World Around You. Your Life Is The Movie. Thank You For Listening.

Glass Candy

Beatbox

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***BACK IN STOCK ON 180-GRAM TRANSPARENT PINK LEMONADE VINYL!!! IDIB chiefs GLASS CANDY take the reins with nine tracks of synth-pop dance magic. Midnight classics from start to finish. Packaged in new deluxe tip-on style case wrap jackets.

Chromatics

In The City II

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REISSUED ON 180-GRAM ULTRA CLEAR VINYL AND NEW COVER ART!!! An expanded version of the In The City EP from CHROMATICS. Includes the original 12-inch vocal and instrumental versions of “In The City,” the B-side cover of Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” (also from the original), along with the added “Tears of Pain,” “Lady,” “Dark Day” (Robin Crutchfield), and “Dagger Moon” (Dead Moon).

Glass Candy

Feeling Without Touching

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REISSUED ON 180-GRAM TRANSPARENT PINK LEMONADE VINYL!!!  GLASS CANDY returns with talians Do It Better’s first record of 2010. Includes the cuts “Feeling Without Touching” (Video Mixx and Instrumental Mix), “Sugar & Whitebread” (regular and instrumental versions), “Covered In Bugs,” and “Shine Like Gold & Diamonds.” Features full-color two-sided insert and lyric sheet and full-color sleeve. Was named “Record of the Day” by RCRD LBL, 4/09/2010.

Glass Candy

Warm In The Winter

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REISSUED ON 180-GRAM TRANSPARENT PINK LEMONADE VINYL!!!  Forever pushing forward into new ground from where B/E/A/T/B/O/X and 2010's Feeling Without Touching left off, GLASS CANDY candy-coated this slice of analog glamour and sprinkled it with some stardust on top. Lazer driven melodies bounce off electro primitive drums that would make Moe Tucker proud. IDA's crazy like a monkey & happy like a new year as she sings a call & response to the crowd. "Warm In The Winter" continues to unfold for seven plus minutes of shimmering percussive synth. The proto boogie B side "Beautiful Object" is so grimey it makes us think of bbbb's production on the first Madonna album. The rhythms keep turning while future and past collide. JOHNNY JEWEL gives us the usual dosage of heavy bass & crisp handclaps. Written and recorded in the icey Montreal winter. Mixed for all seasons.

Desire

Ii

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***BACK IN STOCK ON SILVER VINYL!!! Note new price. Includes the track “Under Your Spell” from the film Drive. The highly anticipated new album from this new Italians Do It Better supergroup comprised of JOHNNY of GLASS CANDY & CHROMATICS, NATTIE from Chromatics and vocalist MEGAN from Montreal. Eight tracks.

Symmetry

The Messenger

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PRESSED ON 180-GRAM TRANSPARENT ICY BLUE VINYL!!! Originally available as a limited run or promo-only pressings. SYMMETRY is the instrumental project of JOHNNY JEWEL of CHROMATICS.

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After Dark 2

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BACK IN STOCK!!! !!   The long awaited second volume in Italians Do It Better’s After Dark series. Features tracks from GLASS CANDY (four songs), DESIRE, MIRAGE, APPALOOSA (two songs), CHROMATICS (three songs), SYMMETRY, TWISTED WIRES, FARAH, and MIKE SIMONETTI. Fifteen songs in all. Pressed on Clear Vinyl. Received a Best New Music 8.3 rating from Pitchfork.

Chromatics

In The City

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***BACK IN PRINT ON CD!!! After five years of experimenting with a string of different singers, Chromatics introduced Ruth Radelet as the lead actress to star in their films in 2005. Forever standing out from the crowd, Chromatics imagined the soft rock focus of Hall & Oates stretched over a Fleetwood Mac beat. Trading the dancefloor for gorgeous chords & melancholic strings. They lived where it was always late & neon lights glimmered across the wet streets. This record archives studio work between 2004 & 2006 leading up to the now infamous "Night Drive" album. The title track, "In The City", enjoyed a second life popularized by the American television show "Nip Tuck". Where the song's rhythmic chirp symbolized the slow drip of anesthetic as the characters went under the knife. "Dark Day" first appeared on the unexpected breakout label sampler ,"After Dark". This is the original version of "Hands In The Dark" from 2006 before they added the spiked electronic sparkle of Caribbean air. The 808 bass will pummel your speakers, and the guitars remember Martin Hannett's coloring of Joy Division. Meanwhile, synthesizers crash into the beat as Ruth hums a melody at the top of the lighthouse. Side one closes with the slo motion "I'm On Fire". A cover of the Bruce Springsteen classic originally written for "Nebraska", that later appeared on "Born In The U.S.A.". Chromatics is the blood & guts of American imagery, with a taste for European noir. Pour a little out for Danny Federici...

Symmetry

Themes For An Imaginary Film

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***CLOSET FIND!!! Received an 8.1 rating from Pitchfork. Three years in the making, SYMMETRY—the project that began as a conceptual tangent between GLASS CANDY, CHROMATICS, MIRAGE and DESIRE’s more abstract sides—finally sees its release. Themes For An Imaginary Film is two hours of claustrophobic cinematic bliss compiled for Painters, Writers, Photographers, Designers, Cruisers, Night Walkers, & Dreamers. Adrenaline drips thick like syrup across a horizon where memories become blurred scenes behind the windshield & yesterday's faces fade as the road strobes to aggressive rhythms. Romantic melodies linger in the rearview mirror as chimera bells saturate the electric fog that's slowly rolling in. Over the span of thirty-seven tracks, Symmetry embraces the elegance of European noir, cut with a lean & violent American razor. Directly in your face and breathing down your neck one minute, and escaping beyond the night sky the next. The attention given to color and detail on these recordings is more graphic than musical. More visual than aural. With no flashy virtuosity to clutter the mood, the album's pulse thrives on the empty pockets of space left in the wake of throbbing bass and the faint flicker of electro candlelight. Minimal, strict, and always in motion, there's an oppressive overtone throughout the record that winds itself tight as a clock. JOHNNY JEWEL & NAT WALKER (Chromatics & Desire) give us propulsive moments that are more rhythm based than Pop, and less reliant on a lyrical presence than their other projects. A lot of computer screens this year...

Tiedye

Fisherman’s Bend

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***Two guys form the heart of this obscure and obvious formation of what we call the band TIEDYE. From the rocks & waves of the west coast of Sweden, Tiedye explores the sounds of dreaming disco, windblowing pop & gruyère-smelling rock. The gritty Italians Do It Better Records got a nose for the smell of saltwater drained boogierock & adopted Tiedye to the dramatic Italians-family. Their first two releases gathered much attention in the underground. Their now infamous cover version of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" catapulted them into the worldwide spotlight. They soon followed up with a remix for Feist, another instant early Italians Do It Better classic that solidified them as a force to be reckoned with. This 12" showcases their first original composition, along with remixes from STUDIO’s DAN LISSVIK and A MOUNTAIN OF ONE. The Dan Lissvik version was the epic closer to our Solid Gold compilation last year. Tiedye re-invented modern AOR as we know it. Sit back, relax, & enjoy the music.

Simonetti, Mike

Capricorn Rising

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NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!!  Italians Do It Better head honcho MIKE SIMONETTI got his start in the New York City underground House scene in the late 1980's. As a teenager he promoted parties at the legendary dance club Mars. Twenty years, countless edits, mixes & DJ gigs around the world later, Italians Do It Better is pleased to present Mike's first slice of original music. Capricorn Rising is songs for the dance floor & the party after the after party. If you've caught one of his infamous DJ sets, you know he can keep the dance floor playful, heady & obscure all at the same time. His recordings are equally eclectic. Alternating between pulsating rhythms & atmospheric clouds. He blurs the lines between major, minor and motorik. The lead track "Third Of The Storms" is a collaboration with Australian pop singer SAM SPARRO. It started three years ago in a hotel room in New Zealand with JOHNNY JEWEL. The video for "Black and Gold" came on in the middle of the night. They were both intrigued by what they heard and Sparro would continue to come up in conversation a few more times over the years. Sam would often play Mike's Whitney / Swizz Beats edit to warm up the audience right before hitting the stage. They initially got in touch over twitter & were introduced in person at a hotel in Manhattan. Hands were shook & champagne flowed. A gentlemen's agreement was made, he was the perfect man for...

Chromatics

Night Drive (deluxe Edition)

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***BACK IN STOCK!!! Includes the track “Tick of the Clock” from the film Drive. The ever-popular Night Drive CD, now expanded to fifteen tracks. "... 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

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Solid Gold

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***Excerpts from Italians Do It Better’s disco sleeve series 2007-2010 covering the fringe elements & producers of the label. Volumes one and two compiled by JOHNNY JEWEL. Almost every track featured on this CD is out of print on vinyl. Limited one-time pressing with tracks from TIEDYE, INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE, PREMIER RANG, T&K, BOTTIN, TWISTED WIRES, SOLANGE, and RUBIES. Ten solid gold tracks. Sixty-one minutes from Houston, New York, Paris, Venice, Berlin, Lisbon, and Gothenburg. Gatefold CD with full-color artwork! Essential music for the warm summer nights

T&k

Mucho Swash

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***T&K is the duo of DJ KAOS and TIAGO. The music is piano and guitar filled house music that takes us back to Chicago 1991. Mellow vibes that build and build. Strictly limited edition of 750 copies , no represses. No download card. This is a RECORD.

Tiedye

Nothing Else Matters (1-sided 12”)

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***TIEDYE are part of the new crop of Scandanavian disco groups that have been making waves lately. Sharing the same attitude (and sometimes gigs) as Studio , Lindstrom, Todd Terje, and all those dudes- Tiedye are taking the notion of a live disco band to new dimensions. Not simply just a guy and a laptop making dance music, Tiedye is an actual band. Their debut single is a cover of "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica. A slow, balaeric/cosmic disco slayer! This is one-sided 12-inch with laser-etched B-side. One-time pressing of 1,000 copies.  

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After Dark

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***BACK IN STOCK!!! An official reissue of the latest GLASS CANDY tour CD is a sampler for upstart label Italians Do It Better (a Troubleman Unlimited offshoot). Features all unreleased songs by GLASS CANDY, CHROMATICS. FARRAH, PROFESSOR GENIUS, and MIRAGE. The future of dance music is here. Designed and compiled by JOHNNY from Glass Candy. Original limited edition CDR received a “Best New Music” rating from Pitchfork, sparking off a nationwide avalanche of I want that.