Bis Aufs Messer Weekly News 01 Sept 2024
Hi, welcome to another newsletter - a bunch of cool stuff arrived like some Team Dresch restock, restock of the THE RED SCARE - Smoky Mountain High DLP, NALA SINEPHRO - Endlessness DLP, NGOZI FAMILY BAND - 99% Confusion LP, MERCURY REV - Born Horses LP, HANNAH MOHAN - Time Is A Walnut LP, EIKO ISHIBASHI / JIM O'ROURKE / KEI MATSUMARU / TATSUHISA YAMAMOTO / GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO - Sakuraza LP, MICHEL MOULINIE - Chrysalide LP, SUSS - Birds & Beasts LP, DIE VERLIERER - Notausgang LP, THOU / RAGANA LP, YOSHIO OJIMA - Club LP, M.I.A. - Murder In A Foreign Place LP, France Gall restock, Molchat Doma restock, BREMER / MCCOY - Kosmos LP and much more
We also added (adding) a few more second hand LPs and 7“s to our discogs
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Robert & Norman
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LITIGE - 2 Degree b/w Je Cree 7“ (echo canyon - 3 new killer tracks from Lyon's Litige with silkscreened illustrations by Louise on the cover. Chorused melodic punk with amazing catchy vocals.) 9.00
PLEXI STAD - Siren Dance 7“ (mangel - Plexi Stad comes around the corner with their second 7'' (with riso-printed covers), which is their first release on Mangel. With broken-down melodies, they insist on rhythms and tones, somehow stubborn and angry. The bass purrs along and the guitar works its way into the rhythm section, while the vocals sit on top, somehow offended, once more whipping the songs forward. Sometimes a melody breaks through and the whole thing becomes catchy and dancy."Thanks a lot!" ) 9.00
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AYYUKA - Zaman Ziyan 10“ (Active since 2001, Ayyuka was one of the first bands to look back at 70’s Turkish music to find a new voice. Not caught up in the “retromania” but reincarnating Turkish Psychedelic within their own style, the band managed to develop an unmistakeable unique sound. Inspirations of Dick Dale, John Frusciante, and local heroes like Erkin Koray, Orhan Gencebay, make their music more guitar oriented but their fascination with film music and improvisation creates unexpected twists within their songs. Right after their eponymous debut in 2007, the band shared stage with Sonic Youth and Jonathan Richman. Heading to a completely instrumental music, their 3rd studio recording “Sömestr” had already become a cult album for record collectors. They’ve collaborated with Orlando Julius, Ilhan Ersahin and had guests on almost every album. Their latest full length “Maslak Halayı” was a creative collaboration with Calibro35 genius Tommaso Colliva. The worldwide hype of their single from Maslak Halayı “Yukadans” is now followed by their 2024 EP "Zaman Ziyan”, showcasing 4 new instrumental tracks that will transport listeners through a kaleidoscope of musical landscapes. Experimental with techniques of music writing, Ayyuka is flirting with genres like afro-beat, funk, bossanova or arabesque on this new EP.) 25.00
LP
ABDULLAH SAMI - Peace Of Time LP (spirit muse - In recent years, in the world of jazz and spiritual jazz, the phrase 'holy grail' has been often used. Once in a while though the phrase is truly justified, such as is the case with this reissue: Abdullah Sami - "Peace Of Time" Recorded in New York in August 1977 and released in 1978 on Sami's own label imprint, only 300 copies were ever pressed, each cover individually hand-made with different covers photocopied and pasted onto different coloured paper while some copies were adorned with Sami's own hand-drawn art (in much the same way as some of the rarest albums by Sun Ra). Forty years later, such a fabled, rarely seen artefact would garner mythical status amongst spiritual Jazz seekers with original copies selling online for over $2,000. But first, behind every myth and legend, there's a true story, or in this case two stories... ) 37.00
ARTHUR RUSSELL - In The Light Of The Miracle 12“ (be with - FINALLY! The very first commercial release of two legendary remixes of Arthur Russell's "In The Light Of The Miracle". Both are widely regarded as transcendent masterpieces and very much befitting of the title “holy grails”. These long-beloved mixes are the types you'd wish would last for eternity. With almost 30 minutes of music here, we very nearly get our desires granted. At last, these jaw-dropping mixes are widely available to every Arthur fan in the world. This is musical perfection.) 28.00
BREMER / MCCOY - Kosmos LP (Luaka - It is with immense pleasure that we get to tell you—on the solstice of all days—that Bremer/McCoy has a new album coming out. They’re calling it KOSMOS, which we think is a fitting title for a body of work so airy and ethereal and gossamer-lite. Morten McCoy took a break from enjoying the incredible but fleeting summer weather of his Nordic climes to tell us about Kosmos, and its unique conceptual architecture: “We decided to call it Kosmos,” he said, “because for us, it's this feeling of being able to transcend time and space and just be, which is a very important thing for humans. Even though it's quiet music, it's music that you're able to just dream: have your own dreams, your own inner images.” If that doesn’t transport you to the idyllic Danish countryside, then their music will. Sending love from Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Europe, The Northern Hemisphere, The World, Planet Earth, The Solar System, The Milky Way Galaxy, The Kosmos.) 30.00
DANNY PAUL GRODY DUO - Arc Of Night LP (three lobed - Lunar Surface Grey Vinyl. On his 2023 release “Arc Of Day” Danny Paul Grody gathered an ensemble of musicians and gave us compositions that conjured not just bird-like flights but the supportive skeleton of a bird itself - intricate, delicate, but able to carry a body (or a listener) through bright, airy spaces. That same ensemble, since renamed the Danny Paul Grody Duo, now bring us "Arc Of Night" - a sister collection to "Arc Of Day", shaped from core collaborations between Grody and percussionist/drummer Rich Douthit along with additions on select tracks from Trevor Montgomery on electric bass and Chuck Johnson on pedal steel guitar. Though coming from the same musical bones as its sibling album, the darker tones and predominance of electric guitar on "Arc Of Night" evoke a different aviary figure - the nightbird. There are moments in these pieces that feel like stepping out at twilight as a single nightjar begins its song. Other voices soon answer, inviting us to say goodnight to sleep, to stay with them till sunrise. Other tracks give the feeling of waking at 3 AM - hearing a far off train, the wind, the deep drone of the hour, and above it all the cry of some nightbird hunting for companionship - or prey - in the darkness. There’s terror on "Arc Of Night", specifically the terror of not knowing whether one is awake or dreaming, but there is also comfort - the world, however dark, is still there outside the window, outside the ear, and even terror has its place in the flow of things. ) 30.00
DON CHERRY TRIO - Live In Paris 1971 (The ORTF Recordings) LP (Japanese edition with obi and English & Japanese liner notes. ONE OF JAZZ'S ALL-TIME GREATS PLAYING TURKISH RHYTHMS! Don Cherry delves into Turkish rhythms, accompanied by his long-time Don Cherry Trio members: Turkish drummer Okay Temiz and South African bassist Johnny Dyani.The vinyl LP is manufactured in Istanbul under the guidance of Mr. Okay Temiz, the only living member of this iteration of the Don Cherry Trio. The LP has been remastered from original material housed in BYG Records' vaults by Okay Temiz & Mert Ucer and licensed from BYG Records, France.) 32.00
EIKO ISHIBASHI / JIM O'ROURKE / KEI MATSUMARU / TATSUHISA YAMAMOTO / GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO - Sakuraza LP (modern - obscure - "Sakuraza" is a collaborative album that brings together five luminaries of the contemporary music scene: Eiko Ishibashi (flute and electronics), Jim O'Rourke (electronics), Kei Matsumaru (alto saxophone), Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (drums), and Giovanni Di Domenico (piano). This live recording, made at the Sakuraza jazz club in Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan, offers a sonic exploration marked by dynamic precision and timbral sophistication. Pianist Giovanni Di Domenico, who has traveled to Japan for over 15 years, has cultivated a close artistic relationship with Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O’Rourke, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. In June 2023, during a visit to Japan, Giovanni proposed organizing a concert with his long-time friends and collaborators. They chose the cozy and acoustically refined Sakuraza club as the venue and extended an invitation to the young and promising saxophonist Kei Matsumaru. ) 29.00
FRANCE GALL - 1968 LP (third man - 1968 dives further into the psychedelia that FRANCE GALL was hinting at on Baby Pop. Even with addition of sitars and echoes of The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks and Pet Sounds era Beach Boys all over this record it is still 100% French and could only have been made by France Gall. The addition of English expat producer/arranger, DAVID WHITAKER, brought a new and welcome airiness to the mix that was lacking on Gall’s earlier recordings. The album contains 2 of Serge Gainsbourg’s strangest and most out there arrangements, “Nefertiti” and “Teenie Weenie Boppie” about an LSD trip gone horribly wrong. 1968 is an absolutely essential addition to any record collection.) 37.00
FUCKED UP - Another Day LP (fucked up records - Another Day is the new full-length from Fucked Up, successor to 2023’sOne Day. Another Daywas made in many different studios in Toronto and one in London, England, but it was primarily engineered and mixed by Alex Gamble and produced by Mike Haliechuk. Damian Abraham writes lyrics and sings, Mike Haliechuk writes lyrics, sings, and plays guitar, Jonah Falco plays drums, guitar, and sings, Sandy Miranda plays bass and sings, and Josh Zucker plays guitar. Guest vocalists include Sam Bielanski, Pretty Matty, Charlie Manning Walker, Holden Abraham, D. Franklan, and Danko Jones.) 32.00
FUJITA MASAYOSHI - Migratori LP (erased tapes - With the new studio album, Fujita continues his musical journey of discovery by consistently moving into unknown territory. After living in Berlin for 13 years, Fujita returned to Japan in 2020 with his wife and three children. There he fulfilled a lifelong dream, because he always wanted to move to the countryside - and live and work in the middle of nature. His family found their new home in the hills near the coast of Kami-cho in Hyogo Prefecture, about three hours west of Kyoto. On the new album, the composer and producer draws fascinating and completely new sounds from the vibraphone, his trademark and core instrument, and at the same time he continues the experiments with marimba and synthesizers that he began on the previous album Bird Ambience (2021). He had previously completed his acclaimed vibraphone triptych, consisting of the albums Stories (2012), Apologues (2015) and Book of Life (2018). As on Bird Ambience, our feathered friends are the central source of inspiration again this time. The album title Migratory refers to an image that came to him when he was thinking about migratory birds that live somewhere between Africa, East Asia and Japan. He imagined them hearing the music of the different regions and lands below them - and how this lived bird's eye view blurs and erases not only the boundaries of music, but also those of countries.) 30.00
HABIBI - Dreammachine LP (kill rock stars - Breezy Blue Vinyl. Co-founded by Detroit natives Rahill Jamalifard and Lenny Lynch, Habibi got its start in Brooklyn in 2011, earning early raves everywhere from Pitchfork and NME to All Things Considered and The New Yorker, who praised the band for infusing “the Colgate-white glisten of sixties-girl-group pop with an uncensored edge.” Dreamachine, Habibi’s mesmerizing new record releasing on Kill Rock Stars, marks a major sonic evolution for the band, rising beyond the critically acclaimed five-piece’s garage rock roots to arrive at a singular swirl of analog and digital elements that underpin their search for spiritual and physical transcendence.) 32.00
HANNAH MOHAN - Time Is A Walnut LP (egghunt - Hannah Mohan’s new album is a first in more ways than one. Time Is a Walnut is the first solo release from the Western Massachusetts singer and songwriter, after nearly a decade fronting indie-pop band And the Kids. The album also comes amid the longest stretch Mohan has spent in one place since she left home at 16 to hop freight trains and hitchhike across North America. Making music has been at the center of Mohan’s life ever since, even as other circumstances have changed—sometimes radically. A long-term relationship crumbled in 2019. Then the pandemic arrived, bringing an end to her band. After writing a batch of new songs taking stock of her situation, Mohan asked Alex Toth of Rubblebucket and Tōth to produce them, the latest installment of a longtime friendship and occasional creative collaboration.) 30.00
MERCURY REV - Born Horses LP (In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson River, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, and fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums - and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow. Spiritually, literally, psycho-geographically: where else does Mercury Rev’s ninth album Born Horses spring from? This cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazz-folk-baroque-ambient quest that searches its soul but can never truly know the answer? A sound and vision begun with skeletal chords and surges of self-reflection, alive to the notions and motions of time and reality somehow both linked to their exalted past whilst quite unlike anything they have created before?’’) 28.00
M.I.A. - Murder In A Foreign Place LP (modern city - Formed in Las Vegas in 1980, M.I.A. moved to Orange County in 1981 and started playing shows at the infamous Cuckoo’s Nest. They first appeared on the classic Last Rites for Genocide and M.I.A. split LP (Smoke Seven) in 1982. After a short break, the band got back together in 1983 and recorded a six-song demo at Greencarton studios in November. They quickly became known for their energetic live shows, blending fast, guitar-driven hardcore with singer Mike Conley’s unique melodic voice and the trademark Southern Californian punk sound. After a show with the Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra offered to release their next album, Murder In a Foreign Place on his Alternative Tentacles label in the summer of 1984.To mark the album’s 40th anniversary, Modern City is teaming up with Alternative Tentacles to bring you Murder In a Foreign Place in 2024. Totalling 19 tracks, this re-issue includes the original album along with 2 studio out-takes and the full Greencarton demos. Unreleased track Help Me Up appears here for the first time ever! This release comes in 3 different versions, all on colored vinyl with a 24 page booklet.) 26.00
MICHEL MOULINIE - Chrysalide LP (wrwtf - Chrysalide (1978) is the sole album from French multi-instrumentalist and enigmatic genius Michel Moulinié. The krautrock/ambient/minimalism paragon is available as a limited edition LP with one never-heard bonus track. It is sourced from the original reels and housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve. Originally released in 1978 on Ange and Jean-Claude Pognant's mythical prog rock label Crypto, Chrysalide is a fusion of minimalist meditations, cosmic soundscapes, and ambient with a human warmth, carried by a profoundly beautiful and unique use of twelve-string guitar, bass, and violin. Ideal for an introspective listening experience, the hypnotic Kosmische Musik of Michel Moulinié belongs to the same psychedelic family as Manuel Göttsching’s Inventions For Electric Guitar, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, early Tangerine Dream, and Steve Hillage’s innovative guitar mastery. WRWTFWW listeners might also be reminded of the label’s seminal French release, Dominique Guiot's L'Univers de la Mer, which makes a great spiritual pairing with Chrysalide. ) 28.00
NALA SINEPHRO - Endlessness DLP (warp. - Endlessness is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, mesmerising celebration of life cycles and rebirth. Following Sinephro’s critically acclaimed 2021 debut album Space 1.8, Endlessness further elevates her as a transcendent and multi-dimensional composer, beautifully morphing jazz, orchestral, and electronic music. The album was composed, produced, arranged, and engineered by Sinephro. Performing on the album are Sheila Maurice-Grey, Morgan Simpson, James Mollison, Lyle Barton, Nubya Garcia, Natcyet Wakili, and Dwayne Kilvington, joined by Orchestrate’s 21 string players. 36.00
NGOZI FAMILY BAND - 99% Confusion LP (now agin - A late period hard-rock, proto-punk entry in Zambian guitarist and bandleader Paul Ngozi’s extensive catalog. Featuring drummer Chrissy Zebby Tembo. LP includes oversized 8p. booklet detailing Ngozi’s arc, rare photographs, discography and annotations. Released under license from the Estate of Paul Nyirongo “Zambia's Zamrock movement that exploded in the 1970s ... provided young musicians access to European and American music, and created a unique sound. At its root, Zamrock melded fuzz-toned psychedelia, chugging garage rock and roiling funk with a broad mix of African cadences and beats.... enlivening a scene that included bands like Musi O Tunya, Amanaz and the Ngozi Family.” — The New York Times Zamrock was a bona-fide rock scene, with albums released through independent labels based in Zambia. This music scene was complete, encompassing the genres of rock, acid folk, fusion, Afro-beat, South African jazz and traditional Zambian melodies. It quickly became a uniquely Zambian movement, befitting of its name. WITCH, Paul Ngozi and Amanaz sound nothing like other rock music from the African continent or elsewhere. ) 35.00
RAGANA - You Take Nothing LP (AN OUT - BROWN VINYL - Here’s the fourth full-length by the unique, female black metal duo from Oakland, CA. 'You Take Nothing' is heavy, dark, beautiful and punishing like hell.) 25.00
THE RED SCARE - Smoky Mountain High DLP (solid brass - 'Smoky Mountain High' is the discography release from the late 90s Knoxville hardcore band, The Red Scare. Formed by college friends Matt Hall (drums), Kip Uhlhorn (guitar/vocals), Abby Wintker (bass), and Adam Ewing (guitar) in August of 1997. In 1998, Jon Asher replaced Adam Ewing on guitar. They began playing locally; building a name for themselves, with short, hyper-energetic sets similar to those of Sleepytime Trio from Virginia and Gravity Records heroes, Heroin, from San Diego, CA. The played and toured extensively with bands like Orchid, Milemarker, Lightning Bolt, The Locust, Nuzzle, Blood Brothers and more. All the material on 'Smoky Mountain High" has been sequenced by the band and remastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. Available digitally as well as a Limited Edition 2xLP on colored vinyl with new, highly custom artwork from Grammy award winning designer and former owner of the DIY label, Hand Held Heart, Brian Roettinger.) 40.00
ROYAL HEADACHE - Live In America LP (what’s your rupture - For anyone who ever knew they were watching the world’s greatest band in that specific time and place, we bring you evidence of Royal Headache’s live performances in America in the 2010s. Kicking off the East Coast leg of their 2012 American tour, they made a stop off at the vaunted WFMU studios in Jersey City, where they recorded the live set for Terre T’s Cherry Blossom Clinic program, comprising side A of this release. As was customary, these guys simply turning on their amps generated a cyclone of bracing, scratched up noise pop, lifted to even higher peaks with Shogun’s vocals, emotionally soaring out of traps and circumstances to push an already careening band over the top and off the edge. Mostly comprised of material from their first album, Royal Headache debuted “High” on this show, and closed with “Stand and Stare,” a rarity recorded for a 7” single.) 30.00
SKEET - Simple Reality LP (efficient - Simple Reality cements the short-lived legacy of Coventry DIY group Skeet. Emerging from a scene of first-generation punks and 2 Tone kids, Skeet was instigated by Gary and Nigel Meffen in 1981, fusing tightrope instrumentals with a Roland CR-8000 under the glow of projected visuals. After a cassette of their debut performance found its way to Kay Booth who worked at Inferno Records, the unsuspecting frontwoman took the liberty of adding her own vocals. Instantly embraced as a permanent member, Booth’s shy delivery and open-diary expressions of social alienation and romantic rejection hovered over the brothers’ scratchy guitar and agitated bass. ) 25.00
THE SOFTIES - It's Love LP ("It's Love" was the first of three albums by The Softies between 1995 and 2000. Heartbreak, longing and ultimate finesse become ultra-pop that you can't escape. With two guitars and two voices, Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, Gaze, Go Sailor) and Jen Sbragia (All Girl Summer Fun Band) create songs that dig deep into your heart and soul - and that you don't want to let go of. The music of The Softies has a power that doesn't let up, and the songs break over you, pure beauty. The song "This House" included here was sampled by Lil Peep for his song "Ghost Boy". The cover of "It's Love" was designed by the world-famous comic artist Adrian Tomine.) 28.00
STEVE MOORE - Cursed Objects LP (be with - Steve Moore returns to the library music fold and it's a total doozy: Cursed Objects is truly sensational prog-synth-wave. Featuring epic electronic explorations with chamber music and symphonic flourishes, it's our favourite thing Steve has ever done.In keeping with the horror heat of the music contained within, this vinyl release is frighteningly limited, with just 500 pressed for the world.) 30.00
SUUNS - The Breaks LP (joyful noise -On their seventh long player The Breaks - their second for Joyful Noise Recordings - SUUNS are lost in limbo. For some artists, being caught in flux may result in songs that are either naive, out of touch or both, simply as a consequence of being cut off from human civilization. But for SUUNS, a band who have grown more than comfortable in the oblique and the intermediate, it actually had the opposite effect. The Breaks marks the Montreal experimental rock outfit's most emotionally resonant and tonally rich collection of music to date. The trio of Ben Shemie, Joseph Yarmush and Liam O' Neill leans more zealously than ever into their pop instincts. Yet remarkably enough, with that same dauntless abandon, SUUNS have mined a more extreme sonic palette this time around, one that stretches far beyond their core fundamentals as a band. The Breaks finds Shemie, O'Neill and Yarmush gleefully experimenting with loops, synths, samples and MIDI-instruments like a post-millennial Tangerine Dream messing with downtempo triphop beats. O' Neill took point in the producer's chair for The Breaks, arranging, structuring and editing many of Shemie and Yarmush's ideas from sporadic rehearsal sessions into Pro Tools, reimagining the songs over and over during a two-year time frame. Forged between countless plane rides, road trips, van tours and text threads, The Breaks became a product of endurance and a lot of trial-and-error. It's a record forged in tight fissions of freedom, where spells of whispered intimacy - like on the stunning ballad "Doreen" - are allowed to branch out into the vast glacial dreamscapes of the album's majestic title track. It captures SUUNS at their most panoramic, curious and exuberant: a constant relay of being adrift and enlightened anew, geared up to eleven. And guess what: the wheels keep on spinning.) 30.00
SUSS - Birds & Beasts LP (northern spy - Yellow & Pink Vinyl. SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound inspired by the cycles and rhythms of the world around us. But while conveying the power of natural forces, it also embraces occasional warm rays of hope and humanity. “For once, it looked like the stark, vast landscapes that we had been painting before were starting to be populated with a bit of creature warmth,” says Bob Holmes (mandolin, guitar, harmonica, violin). But, he adds, “this is not Garden of Eden kind of stuff.” Pat Irwin (electric guitar, resonator guitar, keyboards) adds, “I think of the fragility of the world around us. I think of the humanity, and the lack of it. The world seems out of balance. There are birds and there are beasts.” ) 30.00
TEAM DRESCH - Personal Best LP (jealous butcher - Combining the brazenness of Riot Grrrl with the angst dirge of grunge, Team Dresch didn’t just raise the stakes of queercore: They created two near-perfect albums about longing, freedom, and belonging over guitar riffs as epic and intense as Jody Bleyle and Kaia Wilson’s poetic couplets. On their 1995 debut, Personal Best, they rage against the Christian right and small towns, then kiss their girlfriends on the mouth. Donna Dresch, Bleyle, and Wilson play ferocious, intricate riffs fast while Marcéo Martinez hits the drums hard. To paraphrase their own song, they are amazing; their words save us.) 27.00
THOU / RAGANA - Let Our Names Be Forgotten LP (An Out - GOLD VINYL - Louisiana sludge metal band Thou had one hell of a productive 2018, having already released three vastly different EPs and a career defining LP. And now they've got a split 12" out with fellow noise makers, Oakland's Ragana. The two artist's "Let Our Names Be Forgotten" split is dedicated to the people lost in the Ghost Ship fire and sounds like an aching, solemn blend of Americana and metal.
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DIE VERLIERER - s/t LP (Mangel - New Postpunk band from Berlin with peeps of Chuckamuck & Die Maske. Bass-driven, raw and NDW influenced Postpunk that transfer you straight in the 1980s in Berlin.) 20.00
DIE VERLIERER - Notausgang LP (mangel - Die Verlierer’s second celebration of sound, their new album Notausgang (emergency exit), is an enrapturing manufactured approach to the nostalgic turns known to few as 70’s punk n roll, now released on Mangel Records. With shades of both American and German influence, Die Verlierer are lyrically exploring riotous and somber notions of both public concerns and private endeavours. The unified sonic realm does its job accordingly, with a thick determined timbre of bass, sharp guitars and rolling drums – Die Verlierer create a sound as clear as a broken glass. Through the course of 14 rich tracks, the band will take you on a journey between the busy cross roads of early- and post punk, mixing fast beats and slow&heavy melodies. ) 20.00
YOSHIO OJIMA - Club LP (wrwtfw - Official reissue supervised by the artist - Sourced from the original masters A rare and sought-after item among collectors and enthusiasts of early Japanese electronic music - Never released on vinyl before Club is a stunning and timeless collection of avant-garde electronica, proto-techno, mecha-ambient, and ear-pleasing experimentations from the master behind Music for Spiral and producer of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Pier & Loft, Motohiko Hamase’s #Notes of Forestry, and Satsuki Shibano's iconic Rendez-Vous - Experience the roots of Japanese electronica ) 28.
V/A - Disco E Culture Vol. 2 LP (mad about records - "Disco é Cultura, 2" Brings 15 tracks of the funkiest Brazilian music from the 70s and 80s. Soul and Funk were taking the world by storm in the 1970s. Brazilians developed their own sound by combining influences from Funk and Soul music from abroad to create something uniquely Brazilian. ) 35.00
V/A - Funk.BR - São Paulo DLP (NTS - NTS presents funk-BR - São Paulo, an exploration into the magical and menacing world of the Brazilian city’s current baile funk sounds. São Paulo has built up a reputation for its confrontational funk output over the past decade, and the emergence of the mandelão sound has underlined this. This riotous strain of baile funk has been tailor made for the favela parties (bailes or fluxos) of the Brazilian megalopolis. Played across the bailes do Helipa, Bega, Marcone and Casinhas, mandelão now spans a wide range of sub-genres; from hypnotic ritmado to brutal bruxaria. This 22-track collection of previously unreleased songs finds starlet producers like DJ Blakes and DJ Arana, sat alongside scene stalwarts and national icons like Deekapz, Mu540, and the inimitable MC GW. It all serves to make funk-BR - São Paulo a vital snapshot of this sensational city’s musical magic.) 42.00
CD
PANOPTICON - Kentucky CD (“Kentucky” by Panopticon stands as a groundbreaking fusion of US black metal and Americana, delving deep into the heart of Kentucky’s cultural and environmental legacy. Austin Lunn's passionate exploration of the coal miners’ struggles against exploitation is masterfully intertwined with bluegrass melodies, creating a unique narrative of resistance and reverence for the state’s rich heritage. “Kentucky” is an essential listen for anyone drawn to music with depth and historical significance.) 18.00
TAPES
DIE VERLIERER - Notausgang TAPE (mangel - Die Verlierer’s second celebration of sound, their new album Notausgang (emergency exit), is an enrapturing manufactured approach to the nostalgic turns known to few as 70’s punk n roll, now released on Mangel Records. With shades of both American and German influence, Die Verlierer are lyrically exploring riotous and somber notions of both public concerns and private endeavours. The unified sonic realm does its job accordingly, with a thick determined timbre of bass, sharp guitars and rolling drums – Die Verlierer create a sound as clear as a broken glass. Through the course of 14 rich tracks, the band will take you on a journey between the busy cross roads of early- and post punk, mixing fast beats and slow&heavy melodies.) 9.00
