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"Barely known to the international public, the Electone pioneer and virtuoso Shigeo Sekito is the man behind four LP volumes titled 'Special Sound ...

"Orion features production by Grammy award-winning producer Nascent (SZA, Brent Faiyaz, Lil Wayne, etc.) and Rodaidh (Don Toliver, Adele, Sampha, e...

"Our close friend and fellow Scot, now Ibiza resident, Pikes resident DJ and island favourite, For Mankind (Russ Forman) had talked about doing a s...

"An ocean of water has passed under the Zero 7 bridge since we originally issued this collection of music. The selection is compilation perfection ...

"Vinyl LP pressing of rare vocal album recorded by Moondog when he was in his sixties, these ten art songs blur the boundaries between classical an...

"Double LP, single outer sleeve, 180-gram black vinyl wit printed inner sleeves. Not available on vinyl since 2022 and repressed to celebrate the f...

"Get out! Fight! The Lijadu Sisters’ Horizon Unlimited is the insurgent afrofunk their second cousin Fela strived to create. Soulful, psychedelic, ...

"180 gram exact repro reissue of this minimalist masterpiece, originally released in 1969. All the music on this recording is played by Terry. In '...

"What does it mean to be perfectly blue? Perhaps it means swimming contently in the waters of deep, complex emotions, or simply learning to spin lo...

"Originally released in 2011, Julianna Barwick's debut full length The Magic Place is a nine-piece full-length album of magic and solace, bursting ...

"In 1980, Les Rallizes Dénudés welcomed guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi (The Dynamites, Murahachibu, Teardrops) to its fold. The unconventional pairing o...

"Mr Bongo proudly presents an official reissue of an iconic, exploratory album by Indian maestro of the sitar, Ananda Shankar, aptly titled 'Ananda...

"After the genre-bending Paradigmes (2021) and the Spanish escapade Teatro Lucido (2022), French neo-psych ensemble La Femme continue their world t...

"On Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop, Dark Entries brings us 10 divergent tracks of Mexican electronics from 1980-1989, full of skittering analog drum bo...

"Mostly recorded during a single early evening in Southern California, outdoors, with the San Bernardino Mountains in view, this collaborative albu...

I first learned of Shin Joong Hyun in middle school. An Entertainment Tonight-style Korean show (rented on VHS, of course) featured him in a retros...

"Akio Niitsu's first album, I/O(i･o) released in 1978, was produced in a homemade studio that had been converted from a storeroom in his home, and ...

Antena's Camino Del Sol is a classic work of dark psychedelic pop, made way back in 1982. It meets all reissue hype requirements: Factory Records c...

"Across the albums nine tracks, Ana blends elements and influences from MPB, Tropicália, indie rock, punk and pop, forging them together with a sum...

"After digging deep into the overwhelming archive of Discos Fuentes in the previous volume, this second instalment in the series comprises 28 Colom...

"A collection of mind-blowing songs from Hindi films 1958-1984. 12 musical gems from the Bollywood vaults with a wide variety of styles thrown in t...

"The collection titled 'exQuisxx' is a creation of POiSON GiRL FRiEND's own music, and is comprised of pieces from three different works: 'Shyness,...

"Fievel is Glauque is a critically acclaimed genre-bending indie-jazz, indie-rock fluid group, led by Zack Phillips in NYC and Ma Clament in Brusse...

"Now JAUBI draw on the elements of North Indian classical music, Hip-Hop and modal/spiritual jazz in their debut LP entitled 'Nafs At Peace'. The j...

"Tim Hecker's latest work approaches a form of secular musical transcendentalism from within the battered temple of spirituality. Recorded in a chu...

"Vision Songs Vol. 1 is the Laraaji album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel, his outlier and magnum opus, the feel-g...

On what is consistently classified as one of the greatest ambient records of all time (an increasingly impressive designation; as the amount of amb...

"Celebrated new wave compilation from Japan reissued for the first time on Glossy Mistakes. A much-cherished gem from the 1980s underground Japanes...

Minimal Wave continue their run of crucial synth compilations with The Hidden Tapes. The compilation features rare, unreleased, and licensed tracks...

"Minimal Wave proudly presents a newly remastered deluxe double album of archival material by pioneering 80s minimal electronic duo Oppenheimer Ana...

"Minimal Wave is honored to present a reissue of Sympathy Nervous’ pioneering debut album originally released in 1980 on Vanity Records out of Japa...

"The second LP compendium of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru’s early solo piano works, recorded throughout the 1960s – finally available again. Emahoy Ts...

"Although sung almost entirely in Korean, Mid-Air Thief's cult-acclaimed album Crumbling exhibits a distinct universality, merging disparate sounds...

"Jun Miyake and Ichiko Aoba's live sessions held in Tokyo in November 2016 and the following February 2017, valuable recordings that had only been ...

Arguably the crown jewel New York’s Strata East label, Clifford Jordan’s Glass Bead Games features some of the heaviest playing to ever be laid dow...

"Ceaseless seeker Yusef Lateef continually sought to push the boundaries of jazz, striving to make connections across continents and to capture the...

"Jakarta Records & Uno Loop are thrilled to announce Bowes Road Band’s sprawling LP Back in the HCA. In 1972, 4 design students at the Hornsey ...

"Some albums act as tickets to travel through time and space, ones where you hear history and venture to worlds familiar, yet undeniably foreign an...

"To launch Mr Bongo's new Cuban Classic Series, we are thrilled to present this sought-after, psychedelic-funk masterpiece. A fusion of traditional...

"Based in Los Angeles, Slauson Malone 1 is the musical project and performance piece of artist Jasper Marsalis. Following two, critically acclaimed...

“Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz, which has earned him royal status amongst free jazz players,...

"The latest by Canadian composer Tim Hecker serves as a beacon of unease against the deluge of false positive corporate ambient currently in vogue....

"Earlier this year, HCMJ invited Giant Claw to team up under the death's dynamic shroud.wmv moniker to create what is arguably one of the biggest r...

"Sven Wunder thrives at nightfall and welcomes the horizon of beginnings on Late Again, a collection of nocturnal jazz pieces that depict shooting ...

"When The World Was One' is something of a companion piece to 'Fletcher Moss Park' (much of the music was written at the same time) but draws more ...