Numero Group Vinyl, CD & Tape 369 Items

Set You Free Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Original 1996 album remastered and pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl."Beheaded was such a quiet record out of necessity. I was living in a small apartment. Some of the songs I did are really quiet with no drums because I couldn't think of anything to do, we couldn't practice, and I didn't want to wake up the neighbors. It's a definite case of environment affecting the creative process." - Matt Kadane

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Chisel

2LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Set You Free Brown Vinyl Edition

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In late 1996, after two years of persistent touring, Chisel was eager to document its quickly evolving sound. Decamping from their native D.C. to Brooklyn's Rare Book Room, the power trio of Ted Leo, Chris Norborg, and John Dugan teamed with engineer Nicolas Vernhes and came away with Set You Free, a remarkable, but largely overlooked, classic of the era. Originally issued on the venerable Gern Blandsten imprint in April 1997, Set You Free presaged the turn of the century 60s rock revival, providing a counterpoint to second-wave emo. This deluxe 25th anniversary edition has remastered and expanded the original's 17-song track list with five period alternates and rarities, plus a booklet of lyrics, photos, and an essay by Jes Skolnik. Get ready for the invasion.

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Chisel

2LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Set You Free Random Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chisel

2LP | 1997 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1997 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In late 1996, after two years of persistent touring,Chisel was eager to document its quickly evolvingsound. Decamping from their native D.C. toBrooklyn's Rare Book Room, the power trioof Ted Leo, Chris Norborg, and John Duganteamed with engineer Nicolas Vernhes and cameaway with Set You Free, a remarkable, but largelyoverlooked, classic of the era. Originally issuedon the venerable Gern Blandsten imprint in April1997, Set You Free presaged the turn of the century60s rock revival, providing a counterpoint tosecond-wave emo. This deluxe 25th anniversaryedition has remastered and expanded theoriginal's 17-song track list with five period alternatesand rarities, plus a booklet of lyrics, photos, andan essay by Jes Skolnik. Get ready for the invasion.

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Stratosphere Light Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster's 1998's debut Stratosphere simultaneously capped off and reinvented the slow core's first wave. A four track dreamscape that will wake the neighbors and then lull them back to sleep. Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over a deliberate drummer with no real place to be, as semi-inaudible vocals warn of millennial malaise and subtly encourage the listener to "rock out, rock out, rock out, rock out.""Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids, deeply psychedelic but without sprawl, ambient music with a serrated edge of punk."_The Ringer"Warm, fuzzed-out sounds that hit home like a tight, melancholic embrace from your favorite person."_Vice

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The Bed Is In The Ocean Tri-Colored Vinyl Edition

29,99 €*

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A lingering guitar note. A cushion of a bassline nudging along a hushed cadence unspooling impressionistic poeticism one halting line at a time; the sparse snap of a snare providing punctuation. This is how Boston's Karate opened their third full-length, 1998's The Bed Is In The Ocean. Perhaps this was a reaction to the aggressive punk tones that marked their previous album, or maybe they hoped to capture the somnambulant dusk on one of those pristine fall days that make living in a town whose population swells when colleges welcome back students all worthwhile. Then again, Karate never made a point of chasing the same idea twice, and "There Are Ghosts" remains in line with the band's stylistic intrepidness and unpredictability. Even the group's lineup appeared constantly in flux. After expanding from a trio to a quartet and employing a dual-guitar attack with 1997's In Place of Real Insight, founding member Eamonn Vitt hung up his axe to attend medical school. Karate soldiered on as a trio, with mid-stream addition Jeff Goddard's bass work helping establish a sidewinding path forward through the smoky jazz melodicism and sun-beaten blues brushstrokes that hung in the background of the band's catalog. In their short time together, Karate helped bolster the national punk ecosystem, a scene in which individual artistic vision was prized but rarely achieved. Their exacting precision and emotive interplay helped recombine the DNA of the dignified grace of slowcore, the hot-and-sweaty atmospherics of the blues, and the high-wire tension of post-hardcore to deliver drawling instrumental curveballs and a furtive riptide climax with a controlled grace on "Outside Is The Drama." Singer-guitarist Geoff Farina frequently teased out the emotional nuances of each song, his worn-in voice shading in the complexities of his enigmatic lyrics; no matter how difficult it may be to parse his snatched-from-daily-life wisdoms, on The Bed Is In The Ocean Farina sounded like a guy who knew exactly the right thing to tell whoever may be listening. And with Karate's snaking turns through quasi-punk reveries no one else appeared capable of mustering, it's comforting to hear it accomplished by a band that knew exactly what they were doing.

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Stratosphere Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tropical Solution Green VinylBest listened to from inside the womb, Duster's1998's debut Stratosphere simultaneouslycapped off and reinvented the slow core'sfirst wave. A four track dreamscape that willwake the neighbors and then lull them back tosleep. Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over adeliberate drummer with no real place to be,as semi-inaudible vocals warn of millennialmalaise and subtly encourage the listener to"rock out, rock out, rock out, rock out.""Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids, deeplypsychedelic but without sprawl, ambient music with aserrated edge of punk."_The Ringer"Warm, fuzzed-out sounds that hit home like a tight,melancholic embrace from your favorite person."_Vice

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Challenge For A Civilized Society

Tape | 1998 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Unwound's paranoid and pulsating sixth album, Challenge For a Civilized Society explores the pre-Y2K technological dread of modern punk living. Producer Steve Fisk threads Justin Trosper's stabbing, discordant guitar in and around Sara Lund's consolidated drum attack and Vern Rumsey's relentless, throbbing bass. A vicious and sinister penultimate LP from the '90s most misunderstood band.

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Challenge For A Civilized Society White Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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White Vinyl.Unwound's paranoid and pulsating sixth album, Challenge For a Civilized Society explores the pre-Y2K technological dread of modern punk living. Producer Steve Fisk threads Justin Trosper's stabbing, discordant guitar in and around Sara Lund's consolidated drum attack and Vern Rumsey's relentless, throbbing bass. A vicious and sinister penultimate LP from the '90s most misunderstood band.

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Stratosphere 25th Anniversary Black Vinyl Edition

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Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stratosphere 25th Anniversary Constellation Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stratosphere 25th Anniversray Edition

Tape | 1998 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Transaction De Novo Grey, Silver Or Natural Vinyl Edition

Bedhead

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Original 1998 album remastered and pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl."I met them in full flower, in the depths of their mania, pursuing contemplative music with the kind of intensity normally found in psychopaths. No detail was too small to sweat, no crack in the veneer not worth gluing and clamping. We built a common language, equal parts philosophy, rock music, and disdain for the dullness around us." - Steve Albini, on recording Transaction De Novo.

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1975 Mostly Ghost White Vinyl Edition

12" | 1999 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

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Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Y2K prepper-rock for the underemployed. Tracked at home in 1999, the 1975 EP expands on Stratosphere's slacker-positive dreamscape, with layers of guitars both clean and fuzzy, humming organ, and "gasp!" a drum machine. Needle down, candles on.

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12" | 1999 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

1975 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1975 Black With White Splatter Vinyl Edition

12" | 1999 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1999 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Contemporary Movement

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Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A muffled cry into the technological darkness, Contemporary Movement slid into the world right as the MP3 was seeping out of college dorms. A 39-minute drift into the void, drenched in Cold War-era reverb and then submerged in four track hiss for good measure. Duster constructed a Brutalist masterpiece on the outskirts of a suburban mall, as if to say, "We were here.""Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids, deeply psychedelic but without sprawl, ambient music with a serrated edge of punk."_The Ringer

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Unsolved Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As Warped Tour pop-punk and American Apparel indie rock dominated the strange post-Y2K guitar-band milieu, Boston's Karate delivered an engrossing shot of rock that constantly shifted between several shades of subterranean sounds. The quiet moments on Karate's millennium busting fourth album carry much of that old, unbridled intensity, braided into subdued jazz melodies and slowcore restraint. Karate's transition into rock maturity bore supple fruit with Unsolved, presented here with three previously unreleased songs.

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Unsolved Angels Halo Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Unsolved

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Unsolved Karate Cornetto Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Contemporary Movement Diamond Dust Vinyl Edition

LP | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amuffled cry into the technological darkness, Contemporary Movement slid into the world right as the MP3 was seeping out of college dorms. A 39-minute drift into the void, drenched in Cold War-era reverb and then submerged in four track hiss for good measure. Duster constructed a Brutalist masterpiece on the outskirts of a suburban mall, as if to say, "We were here.""Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids, deeply psychedelic but without sprawl, ambient music with a serrated edge of punk."_The Ringer"Warm, fuzzed-out sounds that hit home like a tight, melancholic embrace from your favorite person."_Vice

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LP | 2001 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Leaves Turn Inside You

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Unwound album that ended all Unwound albums. Recorded in a moldering farmhouse basement at the crest of the new century, Leaves Turn Inside You is the no-wave response to Spector’s wall of noise call. Infinite layers of choppy guitar stabs and bridge scrapes, guttural bass thronk, thrift store synths, and monotone chanting wash over suffocating rhythms to deliver the world’s only choral grunge LP. Remastered from the original analog tapes and pressed on heavyweight vinyl for the discerning noise-nik.

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Some Boots Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2002 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2002 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Some Boots Ice Or Ground Vinyl Edition

LP | 2002 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2002 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Birds In The Ground Black Vinyl Edition

Eiafuawn

LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Birds In The Ground White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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While Duster went into hibernation in the year 2000, Clay Parton's four-track never stopped rolling. Recorded alone at home over several years, Birds In The Ground is an album of 30-something, post-9/11 malaise. Under his Eiafuawn (Everything Is All Fucked Up And What Not) acronym, Parton hides beneath layers of fuzzy and clean guitars, his hesitant, cottony vocal disappear into noise. This deluxe pressing is packaged in a gorgeous tip on sleeve and includes the complete lyrics for this cryptic entry of the Dusterverse.

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Eiafuawn

LP | 2006 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Eccentric soul - the prix label

2LP | 2007 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A glorious batch of unearthed soul and funk from the early 70s central Ohio scene ... the storming singles of Prix label ... culled from ultra rare 45s plus previous unreleased gems!

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Home schooled - The ABCs of Kid Soul

2LP | 2007 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Home Schooled, the 16th record in Numero’s library of the lost, looks at the unknown side of the early 70s kid soul revolution. Beyond the Osmonds, the Five Stairsteps, and the Brighter Side of Darkness lay hundreds of aspiring children (or parents) bent on becoming the next Michael. Numero has selected seventeen of our favorites. A detailed and photo stuffed booklet breaks down the history of the phenomena, while the disc straddles the line between historical artifact and wild mix tape.

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Soul Messages From Dimona

2LP | 2008 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following a path blazed in Belize and the Bahamas, The Numero Group finds yet another stop on the soul diaspora tour: Dimona, Israel. Between 1975-1981, a group of American ex-pats took their native sounds of Detroit and Chicago and intermingled them with the messages of the Black Hebrew culture. The results are a heavenly mix of spiritual soul and jazz with an undercurrent of gospel psychedelia. Featuring the Soul Messengers, the Spirit Of Israel, Sons Of The Kingdom, and the Tonistics, Soul Messages From Dimona is the only living document of a thriving community at both the center and fringe of the world.

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24-Carat Black

CD | 2009 | US | Original (Numero Group)

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Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously unissued recordings!!

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Wayfaring Strangers - Lonesome Heroes

2LP | 2009 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday

Release: 2009 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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17 Rare tracks by folk unknowns Jim Schoenfeld, Jim Ransom, Richard Smyrnios, Tucker Zimmermann, Kierian White, Les Moore, Rob Carr, Jack Hardy, George Cromarty, Jay Bolotin, Tony Trosley, Roger Lewis, Tim Ward, David Kaufmann, John Villemonte, Bob Brown and Robb Kunkel.

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24-Carat Black

LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Charlie Megira & The Modern Dance Club

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday is by no means a sequel to Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - missing are the poignant and bleak sermons on the pain of inner-city existence, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of tainted love songs Warren had written as far back as 1965, during his time as a songwriter at Shrine and Motown. Still, his unfinished self-reinvention, even heard through the prism of these skeletal remnants, delivers on a remarkable purity of vision: one man's corner of black culture, 24 carats pure and mishandled perhaps until now, finally a bit less misunderstood.

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Love Police Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Charlie Megira & The Modern Dance Club

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Provocative post-punk from Israel's undercover goth prince. Megira's lone album with the Modern Dance Club showcased a grimier, more driving vision of his brand of trashy no wave. Spread across 31 tracks and two LPs, Love Police schizophrenically mixes industrial soundscapes, surf ditties, hardcore, swamp pop, bubble grunge, screaming, ecstasy, and enough fuzz to warrant a needle check.

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Love Police Frogmen Green Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2009 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

7" | 2010 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2009 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Four Mints

No Longer / Endlessly

Love Apple Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The story of the Capsoul master tapes is well known: after City National Bank of Columbus foreclosed on the debt the label incurred to found the city's most successful soul label, owner Bill Moss hid the tapes at a family friend's farm in Central Ohio, looking to dodge repossession. But a flood finished the job that the bank started, and Capsoul's legacy was left to the hands of soul collectors who arrived a generation later. Or so everyone thought. Unearthed in songwriter Dean Francis' basement were two then-unheard Four Mints songs, produced by Francis and recorded in the Capsoul studios with the Capsoul session musicians. "No Longer" and "Endlessly" made for a fitting postscript to the Capsoul story, told by the label's greatest group, and pressed here to bevel-edged 45s with lovingly recreated label art_a full invocation of the magic of an original Bill Moss production.

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Love Apple

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

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Brown Bombers & Soul Partners

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the late '70s, three do-right women from Cleveland forged a brief partnership with Ohio's everything man, Lou Ragland. Unlike the prefabricated singing combos of the day, Lily Pearson, Annette Warren, and Avetta Henry swapped lead duties as situation demanded. When a Ragland-centric publicity stunt preempted a concert appearance, Love Apple disintegrated, abandoning this rehearsal tape within the lo-fi confines of Thomas Boddie's cherished Eastside studio. Devoid of bass, the sparse instrumentation (only Lou on guitar and piano and Hot Chocolate's Tony Roberson on drums) accentuates each vocalist's aptitude, showcasing some of Ragland's finest songwriting in the process. During any given take, Ragland can be heard calling audibles, directing his singers to repeat a passage, or lending his own sweet tenor to the vocal mix. Never intended for release, Love Apple's six-song sketch is the perfect companion to I Travel Alone, bringing Ragland's unique musical vision into sharper focus.

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Wait For Me

7" | 2013 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eccentric Soul - The Bandit Label

3LP | 2013 | US | Original (Numero Group)

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LP | 2013 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label takes a look at the underside of Chicago soul through twenty tracks of blistering R&B, sweet soul, and discofied funk. Hundreds of hours were spent researching, interviewing, re-mastering, and compiling the history of Bandit and the life of Arrow Brown. Unearthed in the process were two cassette tapes worth of acappella rehearsals that we've done our best to preserve in their lo-fi, in-the-red state. Numero 003 might be the deepest we'll ever dig. No map, no shovel, just a stack of 45's and a city of three million people.

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Medusa

First Step Beyond

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2013 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Notations

That Girl / I'm For Real

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1514 Oliver Avenue Black Vinyl Basement Edition

Mind & Matter

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

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Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimmy Jam Harris was just 16 when he began writing and arranging for Minneapolis 11-piece Mind & Matter. Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, Rolands, and Hammonds, the danceable act failed to win favor with frigid Midwest audiences. Tracked in 1977, this bundle of never-before-released basement demos throw Harris' beloved Philadelphia Sound into an unfinished root cellar, pelting it with Clavinet attacks, disco skats, and infectious hooks. Named for the street address of its underground uptown genesis, 1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement) is James "Jimmy Jam" Harris' first foray into songcraft and an organic Minneapolis-vintage alternative to a late '70s Prince songbook gone increasingly synthetic.

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Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First Step Beyond Silver Countertop Vinyl Edition

Medusa

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

2LP | 2014 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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You must physically hold this album, kneel at its altar; we willfail to describe it. Medusa's First Step Beyond might have forevershifted the perception of Chicago rock history had it managedto make the leap from tape to its never-realized vinyl pressing.Instead, the confl agation of Sabbath, Hawkwind, and Amon DuulII remained petrifi ed in the Corycian Caverns_otherwise knownas the drummer's basement. Self-produced on four track in 1975,this lone transmission from Medusa's repertoire appeared on theextremely mysterious Pepperhead label, whose proprietor allegedlydisappeared after a bad trip and was never been seen again. Forgedin ceremonial mock-velvet, custom embossed in Gorgon-goldand blood-red, and art directed in accordance with the band'selaborate original stage props and artwork, we have positionedthis unreleased opus to fi nally reach its destination: the stereosof pot-smoking and leather-clad teenagers, young and old. Theexpanded CD version (also ensconced in ceremonial mock-velvetwith embossed artwork) boasts a wealth of new band photos andephemera as well as three additional tracks not available on the LP.Prior to tracking First Step Beyond, Chicago proto-metal quintetMedusa headed three miles west to the Village of Oak Park and cuttheir debut 7" at Stephen Wilcox's Pepperhead custom studio. Theresulting versions of "Strangulation" and "Temptress" are a touchfurther unhinged than their sororal album twins, as phased-outscraps of psychedelia and bleeding solos maxed out Pepperhead's8-track rig. Pressed in a strictly limited quantity of 1000 copies.

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Fern Jones

The Glory Road

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Her voice was all Saturday night, delivered on a Sunday morning. Patsy on Jesus. Elvis without the pelvis. Fern Jones' only album, released by Dot Records in 1959, captured 36-year-old Sister Fern as she anointed church music with the same untamed energy that younger white Southerners were bringing to their rock 'n' roll. Produced by Mac Wiseman and showcasing crack Nashville session players Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland, Floyd Cramer, Joe Zinkan, and Buddy Harman fresh off their June 1958 session with The Pelvis, Singing A Happy Song should've taken Jones from dusty canvas big tops to the Opry's storied stage. But with no 45 to flog, Jones instead sold nary a record and never did hear herself on the radio. Her fiery rockabilly gospel was a few shades too radical for the conservative, traditional, near puritanical public she played to anyway. Fern Jones: The Glory Road collects her Singing A Happy Song LP and cuts including "Didn't It Rain," from her The Joneses Sing album, into one rousing package, rich with the details and imagery of a brief career spent tethered to the hard ground and gazing skyward. The Glory Road's sound gnaws at the bit and stands in reverence, a runaway rockabilly tent show without a single drop of rain on the horizon.

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Local Customs: Cavern Sound

2LP | 2014 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Gymnosphere: Song of the Rose

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Not quite hell, but close enough. Local Customs: Cavern Sounds covers six years lost in the deranging darkness of Independence, Missouri's Pixley limestone mine, where a team of misfit engineers captured the reverberating echoes of Kansas City's rock 'n' roll blasting cap. Taped in the subterranean studio headspace of Cavern between 1967 and 1973 are previously unissued recordings by Jaded, Larry Sands & the Sound Affair, Sheriff, Mulligan, Stone Wall, Morningstar, the Montaris, and the Dantes, alongside the most explosive tracks released on KC's Pearce, Rock, and Cave labels by the likes of the Reactions, Burlington Express, the Classmen, Fraight, American Sound Ltd, Baxter's Chat, 21st Century Sound Movement, Pretty, Tide, and A.J. Rowe.

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Jordan De La Sierra

2LP | 2014 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Before New Age hit terra firms at the dawn of the 1980s, the classically-trained Bay Area composer Jordan De La Sierra's consciousness soared with cosmic concepts. With cues and lessons from the great minimalists La Monte Young,Terry Riley, Pandit Pran Nath, and help from the venerable public radio program Hearts of Space, De La Sierra embarked on a journey in alternate tunings and resounding reverberations, transporting entranced listeners from the Golden Gates to the intergalactic. Take an interstellar ride on the sensory engulfing space piano with this lovingly recreated double LP set, complete with De La Sierra's India-inspired visual artwork and musings on the tableau of space.

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LP | 2014 | US | Original (Numero Group)

South Side Story

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Overworld Sarah's White Vinyl Edition

A.R.T Wilson

LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Numero Group)

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LP | 2014 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A new age album that draws as much from ethno-groove, Chicago house, and G-funk, as it does from primitive percussion and '80s library music. Relaxing, gentle, and warm, the 10-song ambient suite was made for a multidisciplinary modern dance performance described as "Neo-Paganism, Pop Divas, YouTube, Yoga, and Death Metal side by side in a live performance that searches for transcendence in the most unlikely places."

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Bedhead

What Fun Life Was

Release: 2014 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Trevor Dandy

Is There Any Love

Universal Togetherness Band

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A branch pruned from West Indian-born Trevor Dandy’s 1970 LP Don’t Cry Little Tree, “Is There Any Love” is the stand out track from our 10th release, Good God: A Gospel Funk Hymnal. Produced by composer Paul Zaza in his basement studio in Toronto’s Etobicoke municipality, the socially turned-on Don’t Cry was intended to be sold to Dandy’s congregation. When Dandy failed to hit his promised sales goal of 2000, most of the pressing was relocated to the dump. “Is There Any Love” has since gone on to be sampled by a plethora of artists, including Kid Cudi, Ghostface Killah, Monsters of Folk, and Common. In 2009 we pressed up 200 copies of a one sided version of Dandy’s signature tune in conjunction with United Record Pressing and gave most of them away. It has since become one of the most in demand 45s Numero has ever issued. This unlimited repressing ups the ante slightly, as we’ve added an identical second “bonus” side for discerning DJs and home hifi enthusiasts alike to add their own cue burns, scuffs, and scratches to.

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My Sentiments / Missing You

7" | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ork: The Complete Singles Box Set

Box Set | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

123,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ork Records, New York, New YorK

2CD | 2015 | US | Original (Numero Group)

38,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Still Here Red Vinyl Edition

The Notations

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Temptress / Strangulation

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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From the dawn of doo-wop to the death of disco, the Notations saw_and sang_it all. Persisting through changing trends and technologies, on major labels and minor ones, produced by both Syl Johnson and Curtis Mayfield, nothing could stop the Notations from representing Chicago's Southside for decades. The first overview of their indie label golden age, Still Here 1967-1973 finds the Notations at a musical crossroads, turning from simmering R&B ballads to socially-conscious soul. Offering up a platter of golden-dipped harmonies, inventive arrangements, and super-powered soul, the Notations survived as unheralded legends in their own time.

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Medusa

7" | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

9,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Prior to tracking First Step Beyond, Chicago proto-metal quintet Medusa headed three miles west to the Village of Oak Park and cut their debut 7" at Stephen Wilcox's Pepperhead custom studio. The resulting versions of "Strangulation" and "Temptress" are a touch further unhinged than their sororal album twins, as phased-out scraps of psychedelia and bleeding solos maxed out Pepperhead's 8-track rig. Pressed in a strictly limited quantity of 1000 copies.

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Ultra High Frequencies: The Chicago Party Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Ringing Bell (Sweet Music) Part1 / Part 2

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, "The Chicago Party" dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The CopHerBox II and onto TV screens, presented here as a 100-minute video mixtape on DVD. Its companion compilation features five previously unreleased tracks, joined by music culled from a trove of self-released 45s and small-time 12"s. Die-cut cathode-ray jacket and six in-package stills put the Party at your fingertips.Available on CD or 2LP, each edition of Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party will arrive in one of six cover configurations, all of which are interchangeable via printed inner sleeves and enclosed booklet. Both editions include our entertaining DVD mixtape, isolating the most absurd and outrageous moments from the original broadcasts. Play functions enable viewers to enjoy 23 unique musical performances, as well as a mini-documentary about the creation and realization of "The Chicago Party." For fans of electronic soul with a public-access aesthetic, Ultra-High Frequencies: The Chicago Party is the place to be.

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The Young Senators

7" | 2016 | US | Original (Numero Group)

9,99 €*

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music

2LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Over 19 tracks, Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music mines gold from dollar bin country-rock detritus to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's wild west - Americana's vast private press substructure. As progenitor and contemptuous poster boy for the music that came to be Cosmic American, Gram Parsons found himself mired in a recording career spent mostly in scouting the perimeters of chart success. "He hated country-rock," Parsons collaborator Emmylou Harris would later reflect. "He thought that bands like the Eagles were pretty much missing the point." Parsons had been orbiting the idea of Cosmic American Music for some time. In 1968 he'd parted ways with the Byrds and was looking to take air with a new project. "It's basically a Southern soul group playing country and gospel-oriented music with a steel guitar" he told Melody Maker, on the subject of The Flying Burrito Brothers. So it was that when A&M's Burrito Brothers debut The Gilded Palace of Sin made it to shelves in February of 1969, early adherents to the Cosmic American gospel were already echoing its message from areas flanking Gram Parsons' Southern California hills and canyons. There was F.J. McMahon in coastal Santa Barbara, Mistress Mary further inland in Hacienda Heights, and Plain Jane of Albuquerque, New Mexico, each responding by committing their own private readings to tape before day one of the 1970s. Parsons himself might've disdained them, had he even been aware of such minor ripples, shimmering at the edges of his desert oasis. But these were true believers all the same, given over fully to his roots music concept, each filling vinyl grooves with non-rock instrumentation like fiddle, banjo, and pedal steel guitar, the last undoubtedly Cosmic American Music's most distinguishing stringed signifier. Only too predictably, big labels did the grunt work of confining and defining the movement, as ABC, United Artists, RCA, and more played catch-up with Asylum's raptor rock juggernaut, via backwoods crossover also-rans with names like Gladstone, American Flyer, and Silverado. Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became "the dominant American rock style of the 1970s," as Peter Doggett's comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's real Wild West-America's one-off private press label substructure.

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Southwest Side Story

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares Neon Blotter Swirl Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Seafaring Strangers Seafoam Green Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At the glassy apex of rock's softer side, away from all of the commotion, exists a place for both relaxation and reflection, where listeners can enjoy the present, a cool breeze_a taste of the good life.

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Laraaji

Vision Songs

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vision Songs Vol. 1 (1984) is the LARAAJI album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel. It is both his outlier and magnum opus, the feel-good DIY tape of the century.

Discovered busking in Washington Square Park by Brian Eno in the late 70s, engagement with the eternal flow has led Laraaji to, seemingly by magic, emerge as the most beloved avatar of the unstoppable new age music revival of recent years. Now Vision Songs rewrites Laraaji’s musical history. Unlike the many instrumental, free form albums upon which his reputation was built, this is an album of songs, with lyrics, verses, choruses. Vision Songs is literally a revelation -- of a master songwriter whose unbelievably catchy best compositions such as “We Shall Be Lifted”, “All Of A Sudden”, and “Is This Clear?” belong in any great American songbook.

Casio synth jams recorded at spiritual retreat guest rooms and a tiny bedroom on the Upper West Side, lysergicallyspectacular anthems for a continually arriving new moment, “channeled,” as Laraaji states in the album’s eloquent liner notes, “from the sky,” previously available in an edition of 100 cassettes sold at yoga retreats and on the streets of New York City, Vision Songs is humbly offered on vinyl, CD, and streaming for the very first time.

This is where this is going on, this is where this is taking place, this is how this is going on. Is this very clear?

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Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label

Laughing On The Outside / Heavenly

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Guntoting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the coasts. Helmed by the O’Jays Bobby Massey, Saru was a creative vortex that pulled Cuyahoga County’s greatest talent in, making a strong case for Cleveland to contend with Detroit, Philly, and Memphis as America’s soul music’s capital. Includes obscure and unknown sides from the Out of Sights, the Elements, Pandella Kelly, David Peoples, Sir Stanley, the Ponderosa Twins + 1, Ba-Roz, Bobby Dukes, and of course, the O’Jays.

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Bernadette Carroll

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Though not a household name, Bernadette Carroll is one of the more successful teen vocalists of the girl group era. She charted as a member of the Angels, as a solo act, and as a for-hire backup singer, performing on at least two #1 hits, selling over a million copies of each. You’ve heard her voice, whether you know it or not.

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Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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From a basement in New Jersey, Tommy Falcone remade himself into a DIY Phil Spector. From 1962 to 1970, he founded and ran Cleopatra Records, discovered and mentored young Garden State talent, wrote songs and produced wild studio effects, and quit his day job to promote it all himself. Trained as an accordionist, Falcone had a whirlwind imagination and an omnivorous approach to genre, expressed through acts like the Centuries, the Tabbys, Johnny Silvio, the Inmates, Bernadette Carroll, the Hallmarks, Vickie & the Van Dykes, the Shandillons, Eugene Viscione, the Shoestring, and more. Cleopatra became a time-capsule of every 1960s pop style imaginable—garage rock, psychedelia, surf, girl groups, soul, novelties, exotica, even a crooner—a kaleidoscope of sound in search of the ever-elusive hit record.

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Basement Beehive: The Girl Group Underground

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Pop

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Who do we become when we live our dreams? It’s all here — the high hairdos, the dreams and schemes, the tender camp, the wedding bell fantasias and chaste tragedies. Sister acts, studio receptionists, classmates, angelic voices of the 1960s, some legendary, many hidden in the basement of expired rainbows.

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Switched-On Eugene

I Can't Stand It / Only Yesterday

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Switched-On Eugene documents the Eugene Electronic Music Collective and some of the many synthed-out figures in and around Oregon’s iconic hippie stronghold during the 1980s. Whether connected by membership, geography, or the tape trading scene, the artists in and around the EEMC shared compelling visions of the future we now inhabit, vividly captured on home-recorded tapes and distributed via zines, classifieds, and local radio. Switched-On Eugene is a deep dive into a heretofore forgotten sonic microcosm unlike any other.

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Thelma Jones

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

11,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The missing link between her Barry and Columbia singles, “I Can’t Stand It” b/w “Only Yesterday” is Thelma Jones with her back against the wall of an empty and indifferent Holiday Inn lounge and nothing to lose. Washed out of the recording business by the age of 30, Jones and her then-husband/manager James Hazley relocated to Tampa to work the hotel circuit and figure out what—if anything—was next. Following a chance encounter with Blair Mooney, Jones was invited to workshop a few stray originals at his Studio 70 compound in 1972. “He seemed to believe in me more than I did at the time,”Jones remembered of the Tampa studio impresario. Jones signed with Columbia a few years later and hightailed it out of The Big Guava, leaving two sides of country-politan soul on the shelf to be forgotten about. This Eccentric Soul 45 is a first time issue, carrying the banner of Mooney’s Gimp label and mastered directly from the original analog tapes.

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Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label

CD | 2018 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Leaves Turn Inside You

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | Original (Numero Group)

New World Music

Intellectual Thinking

24,99 €*

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One copy per customer.

Pre-dotcom electro-funk from the long-running S.F. collective New World Music, gathering the best of their opium-hazed Macola-issued singles on one tidy 12”. Winding keys loosely hug an over-worked 808, as a slapping, watery bass gallops alongside, the looming bummer of the mid-’80s drug war hanging heavy over the whole affair. Intellectual Thinking finds New World Music jamming towards a techno future that never arrived.

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Planisphere

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ten incredible albums culled from the deepest, weirdest co-op of record enthusiasts ever gathered under one banner. We’ve spared no expense packaging these, pairing the idea of the Art of Compilation with living and breathing art, creating little fortune cookies baked in a factory of forgotten dreams. Video games, pyramids, trading cards, matchbooks, mazes, lottery tickets, film canisters, yearbooks, and various other exercises in design absurdity.

Static filled signals emanating deep from inside the walls of Laurel Canyon, bouncing off clusters of incipient late century technology, are pulled through the twisted rabbit ears of a Chevy Astro Van. Planisphere. The equivocal sound of hippies fresh from their back-toland sojourns shuttling drum machines through heartworn aspirations, as if the music section of the Whole Earth Catalog came to life. Let out from astronomy class with an arm full of Brain and Sky label releases, these 9 nomads scribble plein air narrations over a landscape turning its back on the sun. Bask in the reverberations of our celestial home sweet home.

Our Planisphere, for those within the 30-40 degree zone, will provide you with a fairly discernible chart for discovering both deep-sky objects and telluric emotional pulses.

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Contemporary Movement Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Universal Togetherness Band

Dreamality / Lucky Stars

7" | 2019 | US | Original (Numero Group)

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Pastor T.L. Barrett And The Youth For Christ Choir

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two brilliant, previously unissued modern soul discoveries from the archive of U.T.B. mastermind Andre Gibson. “My Lucky Stars” rides the 120 BPM crest, with sharp horns, handclaps, triangle, and a wild guitar solo filling out the four and a half minute ride. “Dreamality” cops a Steve Miller vibe and goes on a spaced-out future funk adventure.

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Do Not Pass Me By Volume II Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Numero Group)

LP | 2019 | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The sequel to Pastor Barrett’s landmark 1971 masterpiece Like A Ship…, Do Not Pass Me By finds the young Chicago preacher and his Youth for Christ Choir continuing their genre-bending spiritual journey. Heavy drums, soaring falsettos, euphoric tambourines, sharp horns, and Barrett’s unwavering devotion dance around a 40-piece choir, working together to form sanctified slab of gospel funk. Pressed in a minuscule quantity in 1973, Do Not Pass Me By was sold primarily from the pulpit of Barrett’s Mt. Zion Baptist Church, disappearing into Chicago’s south side for 45 years before Numero’s excavation. The ten-song album has been remastered, it’s generic album cover updated to match Barrett’s vision. On the back of the jacket, he insisted on the following words: “After listening to this album you will be glad that you did not pass it by!”

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Indian Summer

Giving Birth To Thunder

The Cookhouse 5 Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The fourth leg on the early emo table of Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, and Cap’n Jazz, Indian Summer’s Giving Birth To Thunder compiles their complete discography. Emo’s second wave crashed into the Bay Area in the summer of 1994 in a rage-filled capsule of quiet and loud, octave chords, angry sons, Spock haircuts, and screaming. At the eye of this pissed-for-the-hell-of-it storm were Indian Summer. In the quartet’s 12-month existence they wrote ten songs, appeared on a dozen singles and comps, and played over 100 gigs across the U.S. and Canada before burning out, passing out, and moving out of their Blue House in Oakland. Their hand-screened aesthetic is replicated in alarming detail in the accompanying by 24-page book with detailed liner notes, flyers, and miscellaneous propaganda.

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94 East

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP in tip-on jacket with purple velvet and gold foil stamping. In 1975, Brooklyn transplant Pepe Willie booked time at Cookhouse Recording Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to demo five original compositions. Without roots in the Twin Cities' insular scene, Willie had no fixed backing group to help realize the arrangements he and vocalists Marcy Ingvoldstad and Kristie Lazenberry had been rehearsing. Willie organized a young cast of backing musicians for the session, among them his wife's cousin: a 16-year-old guitar prodigy named Prince Rogers Nelson. Known colloquially as "The Cookhouse 5" these recordings showcase Prince's instantly recognizable guitar playing, seasoning to perfection 94 East's short-but-sweet songbook. A crucial document concerning the origins of the Minneapolis Sound, the B-side boasts instrumental versions of each infectious tune, providing an even greater vantage point from which to admire the Purple One's expressive playing style, already evident in his teenage years.

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Duster Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After a 19-year hiatus, Duster came back with their S/T chef-d'oeuvre in 2019. Recorded in band member Clay Parton's garage (aka Low Earth Orbit), the record bears all the hallmarks of the band's early work: gaunt basslines, spindly guitars, and melancholy lyrics that lurk in the background.

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Duster Ghoulish Translucent Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After a 19-year hiatus, Duster cameback with their S/T chef-d'oeuvrein 2019. Recorded in band memberClay Parton's garage (aka Low EarthOrbit), the record bears all thehallmarks of the band's early work:gaunt basslines, spindly guitars, andmelancholy lyrics that lurk in thebackground.

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Tape | 2019 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After a 19-year hiatus, Duster cameback with their S/T chef-d'oeuvrein 2019. Recorded in band memberClay Parton's garage (aka Low EarthOrbit), the record bears all thehallmarks of the band's early work:gaunt basslines, spindly guitars, andmelancholy lyrics that lurk in thebackground.

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Duster Chocolate Color Vinyl Edition

Herculean House Of Cards Fools Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After a 19-year hiatus, Duster cameback with their S/T chef-d'oeuvrein 2019. Recorded in band memberClay Parton's garage (aka Low EarthOrbit), the record bears all thehallmarks of the band's early work:gaunt basslines, spindly guitars, andmelancholy lyrics that lurk in thebackground.

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Trey Gruber

2LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Giving Birth To Thunder Opaque Violet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trey Gruber's posthumous debut double LP Herculean House of Cards. A compilation of early demos, studio demos, and live recordings. A tortured songwriter and struggling addict who jolted the tired Chicago DIY scene with his own brand of primal despair, Trey Gruber and his band Parent were on track to join the ranks of Twin Peaks, Mild High Club, and Whitney. His death in 2017 at the age of 26 brought it all to a halt. In his final years Trey wrote and recorded hundreds of previously unheard demos, dandelions in the cracked concrete of 21st century disconnect, an alphabet's worth of which have been compiled by his family and friends for his only album: Herculean House Of Cards. The 26-song 2xLP covers years of material, from home tape recordings, sessions at Mathew Roberts (Mild High Club) & Paul Cherry's home studio, to a studio session with Charles Glanders (Whitney) at Chicago's Foxhall Studios, along with audio taken at The Hideout during his last live performance, among others. Though Gruber was an unrelenting perfectionist who was constantly self-deprecating about his best demos, Herculean House of Cards is a wholly comprehensive and accurate reflection of his infectious charisma and raw songwriting. He had a charmingly distinct way with words but also could be disarmingly vulnerable. Like he was in life, Gruber never shied away from being open with his struggles with alcoholism and addiction. On the vivid opener "Eisenhower to the West Side," he sings in painstaking detail of, "A jail-skin cell, a junkies fight/Corner-boys full of grace/And Jesus Christ full of spite." He told then-future bandmate flautist Rebecca Ridge, "It's not some Lou Reed glorification of drugs _ `makes me feel like a man'_ I talk about the disconnect and the ugliness. They're sad pop songs." But even with the pain and the darkness in his lyrics, Gruber's songs had an unmistakable sense of hope and catharsis.

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Indian Summer

Tomorrow's Gone Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Opaque Violet VinylThe fourth leg on the early emo table of Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, and Cap'n Jazz, Indian Summer's Giving Birth To Thunder compiles their complete discography. Emo's second wave crashed into the Bay Area in the summer of 1994 in a rage-filled capsule of quiet and loud, octave chords, angry sons, Spock haircuts, and screaming. At the eye of this pissed-for-the-hell-of-it storm were Indian Summer. In the quartet's 12-month existence they wrote ten songs, appeared on a dozen singles and comps, and played over 100 gigs across the U.S. and Canada before burning out, passing out, and moving out of their Blue House in Oakland. Their hand-screened aesthetic is replicated in alarming detail in the accompanying by 24-page book with detailed liner notes, flyers, and miscellaneous propaganda.

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Charlie Megira

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The bastard love child of Elvis and Lux Interior, Israeli guitarist Charlie Megira brewed a heady amalgam of '50s trash rock, surf-y tremolo, and reverb-drenched goth during his all-too-brief 44 trips around the sun. He recorded seven albums worth of material in 15 years, primarily issued on CD-R, most of which is now unreadable or in a landfill. Tomorrow's Gone is the first collection of Megira's work; a 24-track double album accompanied by a lavish booklet that documents his tragic existence. Armed with only an Eko guitar, a black tuxedo, and his signature wrap-around shades, Charlie Megira was a mold-breaking artist who disintegrated while we were all staring at our phones.

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Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Numero Group's dive into the deep end of America's private press continues. Having battled the witches and wizards of Darkscorch, the outlaws of Cosmic Americana, and traveled alongside Ladies From the Canyon and their Lonesome Heroes, it's time to take it easy.With pop music's volume knob adjusted for deflation in the early 80s, softness begat smoothness. Crewmen arrived from the worlds of jazz, folk, rock, and soul, all peddling a product that was sincere, leisurely, and lofty. A sound that was buoyant, crisp, defined. Sometimes classified as West Coast-and, later, Yacht Rock-the compass points of our Private Yacht expedition are the blue-eyed harmonies of Hall and Oates, the cocaine-dusted Fender Rhodes of Michael McDonald, and the combover strums of James Taylor. Here, at the glassy apex of rock's softer side, 20 strong swimmers are gathered together. An album for both relaxation and reflection, where listeners can enjoy the present, a cool breeze, and a taste of the good life.

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Numero Group)

The Future Of What

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sea Of Bliss Opaque Blue Vinyl Edition

Don Slepian

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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You're Not From Around Here Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The previously unissued soundtrack to the 1964 noir, You're Not From A round Here, discovered after 55 years in the Louis WayneMoody archive. A hobo's bindle full of twangy tremolo, reverb-drenched revenge, and existential echo. Songs of a lienation, paranoia, dark alleys, betrayal, prison, prostitution, trains, gun play, feminine betrayal, and thedusty, lonely road of self discovery. A black and white affair trapped under the weight of a post-war technicolor allure, You're Not From Around Here lives in a universe of moralambiguity.

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You're Not From Around Here Blood Drop Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tommy McGee

I'm A Stranger

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Book+LP | 2020 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Louis Wayne Moody High

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Ten incredible albums culled from the deepest, weirdest coop of record enthusiasts ever gathered under one banner. We’ve spared no expense packaging these, pairing the idea of the Art of Compilation with living and breathing art, creating little fortune cookies baked in a factory of forgotten dreams. Video games, pyramids, trading cards, matchbooks, mazes, lottery tickets, film canisters, yearbooks, and various other exercises in design absurdity.

The lost yearbook from Louis Wayne Moody High’s graduating class of 1967, chronicling the peaks and valleys of teenage angst, lost loves, and life after summer vacation. Fourteen moody melodies of surf kings, guitar Bettys, talent show psychers, and pre-S.D.S. soft- poppers. Walls of jangly guitars, maudlin organs, and melancholy harmonies deliver the bummer to ring in the summer.

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Valium Aggelein (Duster)

Black Moon

4 X A Dream Beachball Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Just as Duster’s landmark debut album Stratosphere was making its first orbit, Clay Parton, Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini tracked a largely improvised companion capsule under their Valium Aggelein alter ego. An ode to ’70s Kosmische, Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond is a skeletal space nap for the prozac generation. Remixed and remastered from the original 16 track analog tapes, the 1998 album has been adjoined by 15 period-appropriate bonus tracks. A fuzzy masterpiece, hidden in plain sight, by the most important slowcore band of all time.

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Masumi Hara

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Seamless Mix Of The Organic And Inorganic, The Recent Past And Distant Future, And The Possible And Impossible, Japanese Multi-Media Artist Masumi Hara's Sophomore Album Arrived Like A Fish On The Moon In 1984. An Album Filled With Contradiction And Purpose, 4 X A Dream Is Both Balearic Acid Folk And Damaged Steel Drum Dub, Hi-Tech New Wave Balladry And Ambient Synth Pop. Classical And Neoimpressionist Vibes Haunt And Entrance. Quite Possibly The Most Unique Lp You'll Ever Add To Your Collection.

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Eccentric Funk Clear With Yellow & Purple Splatter Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)