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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (LabOhr)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Absolutely ripping dirty & melodic pop-punk from BC, Canada! This was one of our favorite punk EP's of 2020, so listen up and don't say we didn't tell ya so. Limited to 100 on White Cassette Tapes. (Comes w/ download code)

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Direct Control

First Hit

4,99 €*

Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (LabOhr)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The „First Hit“ is a collection of classic sample based Hip Hop instrumentals with the flavour of Soul, Jazz & Funk.

This album contains 16 raw beats produced by „Direct Control“.

Direct Control is a member of the „Real Onez“ crew, Hip Hop & Electro producer & beatmaker also known as „Skal“ & graphic designer as „Camo Creative“.

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Pub Crawlers

Raw + Explicit

4,99 €*

1 Piece | 2021 | Original (GPO)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Das Debütalbum der Pub Crawlers! 23 eisgekühlte Drinks, serviert zu den Beats von 24think, Charles Malowsky, Clark Bent und He-Kut. Mit Remixen und Mashups von MF Doom, Kool Keith, Nas, Jay-Z, KRS-One, Necro und mehr! Und garantiert ohne Kater!

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GPO

C90 Cassette

5,24 €* 6,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / Original

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Flesh And Bone)

Cashier

Fear The Past / Beginner

6,15 €* 13,99 € -56%

Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cashier is a band from Lafayette, LA that plays a washed out, fuzzy blend of shoegaze & indie rock. This two song cassette captures a unique ebb and flow between sonic intensity and harrowing urgency with melancholic flare and a DIY attitude.

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Shannon Lay

August

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Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Mansions & Millions)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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There is an entire sub-genre of poetry devoted to rivers and their persistent, meditative flow. Emily Dickinson's ''My River Runs to Thee'' compares them to the cycle of life, while Alfred Tennyson's ''The Brook'' deems them eternal and Kathleen Raine's ''The River'' muses on the dream-state they evoke. For transcendent folk-pop artist Shannon Lay, the river is all of the above: It's the metaphor driving her latest album, the exquisitely uplifting August, which doubles as an aural baptism renewing her purpose for making music. ''I always picture music as this river. Everyone's throwing things into this river, it's a place you can go to and feed off of that energy,'' she says, ''and feel nourished by the fact that so many people are feeling what you're feeling. It's this beautiful exchange.'' The album's name, August, refers to the month in 2017 when Lay quit her day job and fully gave herself over to music. This was her liberation as an artist, and the album is devoted to paying that forward to her listeners. Lay may be the most chilled-out artist you'll ever meet. Despite fronting her tranquil solo act and being a guitarist/singer in the indie-rock band Feels, she never pressures herself to overachieve. Nonetheless, she regularly does: in a glowing review, Pitchfork anointed her last album, Living Water, ''captivating.'' With her life devoted to music, Lay often spends hours a day simply playing the guitar, challenging herself to become better. ''It just feels so good, doing something that is so much bigger than myself. I think so much of music is that, realizing that it's coming from something beyond and you are just the messenger'' says Lay, who took guitar lessons at age 13, which introduced her to Neil Young and The Beatles. After high school, she moved from Redondo Beach, Calif., to Hollywood and joined an indie-rock band. ''It was an energy I needed to release,'' she says. The exact type of energy may have changed, but her drive hasn't. August was mostly written in three months, during Lay's first solo tour for Living Water. ''For the most part, all of the songs were just guitar and voice,'' she says. In keeping with the humbled, contemplative nature of August, most tracks clock-in at three minutes or less. She saved indulgence for the production. ''Some songs as they were had this room to grow,'' says Lay, who recorded the album with her longtime friend, musician Ty Segall at his home studio on the East Side. ''I believe whoever you record with tends to affect the mood of music and Ty really brought this jovial sense that I hadn't really explored yet,'' she says. Also in the mix is Mikal Cronin, who played saxophone on the album's opener, ''Death Up Close.'' ''A lot of my friends who are really tough have admitted that they shed a tear when they hear my songs, and I think that really speaks to the visceral aspect of folk music,'' Lay says. ''It's this ancient form of expressing yourself.'' Think of August as a warm hug for your psyche. ''I want to create as much music as I can,'' she says, ''and leave this spot by the river where people can go sit and enjoy.''

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Helen Fry

Future Light Cone

6,99 €*

CD | 1997 | EU | Original (Out To Lunch)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Pop

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The uncanny is Helen Fry’s birthright: both of her parents have a twin sibling. For her, the absence of a genetic double is felt as a lack. When nature reveals itself as a master of eerie duplication, how does one draw a line between organic and mechanical reproduction? Thus, Fry’s plea to her mother for a “Twin” becomes a technological proposal: “so this is the future….if we have the possibility to create functional 3D-printed human organs, why don’t we just print my twin?” If nature is in the business of cloning, why wouldn’t your mother have a 3D printer?

In this world, where it is hard to trace the boundaries of the artificial, a love song becomes a matter of materials science. Feelings can be confused with industrial processes. An emotion might have not only texture but extension; a sentiment might be a membrane, becoming impossibly thin. The prospect of lost passion shades into the promise of a technological miracle. It’s hard to tell whether the request to “turn me on” in “Maybe Not” is a come-on or a friendly computer instruction, robotically repeated. It’s not made any easier by the dispassionate phrases spoken between the choruses: “a sensible desire, a vulnerable reflection.” Is a lover another kind of twin? If yours was 3D-printed, could you tell?

What does all of this actually sound like? Well, beautiful. (The arpeggios of “Plasticine,” a standout on the second volume of the Mansions and Millions label mixtape, might make one teary-eyed.) Technological alienation is an easy theme to find in music today; Future Light Cone distinguishes itself as music for technological domestication, music of the cyborg hearth. Fry’s Classical background comes through in her organ and harpsichord-invoking synth pads, but the tones don’t aspire to an organic realism; nor are they self-evidently artificial. They simply are themselves, comfortable and elegant like a worn-in but finely-crafted set of furniture. On “PCNC 310,” a fantasy about an unstopping milling machine, with Fry (who is also an industrial designer) repeating a priestly intonation of the device’s name and MS-DOS entry code, one can imagine the heavy-duty machine tool positioned in a living room, next to an antique sofa and a loom. That domestic feel likely has a lot to do with how the EP came about. Fry and her collaborator Rémi Letournelle, (of the band Slow Steve) who played on the record as well as producing and mixing it, retreated to a rural east German home to work on Fry’s demos. There they incorporated the setting’s prosaic elements into the recordings, using baskets, cotton swabs, and a neighbor’s cat.

The term ‘future light cone’ refers to the region of space and time that a beam of light will travel through in its lifetime. It’s a nice metaphor for an EP which sees the future unfolding in front of it and takes in all its strangeness with equanimity and poise.

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Lowtec

The Early Portrait

6,99 €*

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Flesh And Bone)

Release: 1997 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Excellent Ambient Techno/House album

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Sparkler

Big Sonic Chill

7,49 €* 14,99 € -50%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This listing is for a cassette copy of Big Sonic Chill by Sparkler on a blue & green glitter cassette.

Sparkler is a four-piece shoegaze band from San Diego, CA. Drawing influences from the 90's shoegaze movement and harnessing sounds that span from growling distortion to massive swirling textures, Sparkler gives classic shoegaze a new line on life with a modern twist of all natural lemon and lime flavors. The songs cut through the modern take on shoegaze and dig back into the roots where it all began.

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V.A.

New Galactic Windows 4

7,59 €* 7,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Das Label Mit Dem Hund)

Jaycop

Die Goldene Mitte

7,69 €* 10,99 € -30%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Strangest Part Of The Dream Is That The Water Was Alive

Shit Creek

7,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch

Music For The People

Tape | 1991 | US | Original (Interscope)

7,99 €*

Release: 1991 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 1996 | US | Original (Luther Campbell)

Luke

Uncle Luke

7,99 €*

Release: 1996 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Greatest Hits Prison Tape Edition

DeBarge

Tape | 1986 | US | Reissue (Motown)

8,44 €* 12,99 € -35%

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This tape is a prison tape made for inmates of prisons in the USA. It comes without screws and without an inlay as it should be. Manufactured in 2012 or 2013.

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Jukka Herva

Kultainen Nauha

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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F.Ampism

The Radical Stop

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Euphotic

Conjugate Regions

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Takehiro Mukai

Dogu

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

El Manantial

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Core Of The Coalman

Klein Bottles

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

Leo Nocentelli

Another Side

Tape | 2018 | EU | Original (Martin Hossbach)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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*Available Nov. 19th, 2021*

“Things happen for a reason, man.” - Leo Nocentelli

At just fourteen, Leo Nocentelli was backing up Otis Redding. Soon after, he was playing on hits for Lee Dorsey, The Supremes, and The Temptations. As an original member of The Meters, Leo wrote instant classics “Cissy Strut” and “Hey Pocky A–Way,” but his greatest moment on record may be totally unknown, until now…

Recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s Jazz City Studio in New Orleans in the early ‘70s and then lost to the ages, Another Side is one of Leo Nocentelli’s most personal and definitive moments ever cut to tape. A mixture of funky folk and rootsy, raw emotion (think Bill Withers and James Taylor meeting Allen Toussaint at Link Wray’s Three Track Shack), this previously unheard album shines like the sun on a spring day on the New Orleans fairgrounds. Backing Nocentelli is an all-star line-up of New Orleans royalty, including Allen Toussaint (piano), James Black (drums), and both George Porter Jr. (bass) and Zigaboo Modeliste (drums) of The Meters. Deeply introspective, the album features nine original songs by Nocentelli, plus a soulful rendition of Elton John’s “Your Song.” Half a century later, these recordings sound just as fresh and engaging as the day they were recorded.

What makes Another Side even more extraordinary, however, is the fact that the album—which could have easily become a classic in the ‘70s singer-songwriter canon—sat untouched for decades; miraculously surviving the devastating blow of Hurricane Katrina, only to be found 2,000 miles away at a Southern California swap meet in 2018 by record collector Mike Nishita. The album’s incredible journey is documented in the liner notes by Sam Sweet (New York Times, Los Angeles Times), who spoke with Nocentelli and Nishita about the recording process and re-discovery of the tapes. Sweet’s full notes appear in the release’s accompanying booklet alongside hand-written lyrics by Leo Nocentelli. The first pressing of the vinyl edition will feature gold-foil treatment on cover and spine. Rounding out the package are original designs and layout by the multi GRAMMY®–winning designer Masaki Koike.

While Nocentelli was embedded in New Orleans’ R&B scene, he was also deeply inspired by the late 1960’s and early 1970’s rising singer-songwriters, and soon found himself exploring sounds that were miles away from his band’s hard-edged funk riffs. Whenever he had downtime from session work and shows, Nocentelli spent much of 1971 recording his newly-found, reflective, diaristic songs at Matassa’s Jazz City studio. Backed by longtime Meters bandmate George Porter Jr. on bass, Nocentelli crafted the lineups for his sessions to match the tone of the material. When he needed a pianist, he’d call Toussaint. For percussion on the slower songs, he used drummer Zigaboo Modeliste, but many of the tracks featured James Black—a frequent collaborator of Toussaint’s and a member of Ellis Marsalis’ jazz group, whom Nocentelli recalls as an “unbelievable” musician. The recording, which Nocentelli fondly refers to as his “country-and-western-album,” paints a picture of a young man yearning to find a sense of purpose. “I was going through some changes which were reflected in the songs that I wrote during that time,” he tells Sweet. Among them is the mid-tempo “Getting Nowhere,” in which he expresses a sense of frustration, as he watches others find success around him. Similarly, “Till I Get There” details a man who is struggling to persevere in his goals. In the soaring “Tell Me Why,” meanwhile, the singer contemplates the existence of God. Other songs center around fictional characters. “Pretty Mittie,” for instance, is sung from the perspective of a farmer who longs to give up his arduous life for the city. “You’ve Become a Habit” is about a man who falls for a sex worker named Fancy. “Riverfront” is based on stories that singer Aaron Neville shared, about his days working on the New Orleans waterfront. Nocentelli also chose to perform one cover: Elton John’s breakthrough hit, “Your Song.” The guitarist made the recently-released ballad his own—infusing it with a loping, head-nodding cadence, ever so tastefully “funkdafied” in true New Orleans fashion. By the time that the album was finished, The Meters were busier than ever. They had just signed a record deal with Warner Brothers and were now the official house band at Toussaint’s studio, Sea-Saint. There, they not only backed artists on Toussaint’s Sehorn label but had also become the go-to session musicians for every major artist that recorded in New Orleans. Rather than focus on a solo career, Nocentelli poured his energies into The Meters’ next album. Eventually, time moved on, as did Nocentelli, and he decided to store his unreleased solo album at Sea-Saint for safekeeping. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Sea-Saint was among its victims. While Toussaint (who passed away in 2015) had sold the hallowed studio in the mid-90s, hundreds of his archived recordings remained in the building. The new owner salvaged what he could from the flooded building, shipping everything to a storage facility in Southern California. Boxes of tapes sat there for more than a decade before moving to another unit, which foreclosed a year later. The contents were purchased in a blind auction and, days later, sold at a swap meet. The fact that record collector Mike Nishita just happened to be there was pure kismet. Nishita, a DJ and brother to “Money Mark” Nishita (of Beastie Boys fame), recognized the Sea-Saint label on the boxes and purchased all 673 master tapes at the swap meet. He inspected the contents with his friend Mario Caldato Jr., the longtime audio engineer for the Beastie Boys. In addition to masters from Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Lee Dorsey, and Toussaint, there was a quarter-inch reel with Nocentelli’s name on it. As Caldato and Nishita played it back, they knew they had something special. “There was nothing else like it,” writes Sweet. “An acoustic album by the greatest funk guitarist who ever lived. It was the tape Mike would play for people to show them how special the collection was. The best album in the vault was something nobody knew existed.” Eventually, Nishita and Nocentelli connected, “He was so grateful, so sincere,” recalls Nishita. “I just kept thinking about how this music needs to be heard...Especially when you look at all the things that had to fall into place for these tapes to survive and be discovered this way.” As Nocentelli simply puts it, “Things happen for a reason, man.” And now, Light in the Attic is thrilled to give this remarkable record the spotlight it so rightly deserves. 50 years later, all is not lost.

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Martin Hossbach Kassete

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Phantom)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One per customer only!

These are the last remaining 60 or so copies of the Martin Hossbach label cassette compilation »Martin Hossbach Kassete« which was distributed for free to everyone attending the label’s sixth anniversary party at Kantine am Berghain on 21 June 2018. Featured are tracks from each of the releases, from 2012 until 2018, with a few edits only available on this release.

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Schiach

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jonny Kurt Und Die Hühnerficker Kombo

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Phantom)

Tape | 1985 | US | Original (Milestone)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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the long awaited tape edition of this soon to be #1 of the Top 2020 polls

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Azymuth

Spectrum

Release: 1985 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tape | 1986 | US | Original (Milestone)

Azymuth

Tightrope Walker

Release: 1986 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tape | 1984 | US | Original (Milestone)

Azymuth

Flame

Release: 1984 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr. Magic's Rap Attack Volume 3

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Tape | 1987 | US | Original (Profile)

Release: 1987 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 1993 | US | Original (Warner)

Jungle Brothers

J. Beez With The Remedy

Tape | 1999 | US | Original (Worldwide)

Release: 1993 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Case has cutout marks!

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II Tight

Southern Ballers

Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Death Is Not The End)

Release: 1999 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Rare southern rap tape!

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Death Is Not The End

Bristol Pirates

Tape | 2018 | EU | Original (Sunken Rock)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Cassette edition of Death Is Not The End's contribution to the Blowing Up The Workshop mix series.
"A trip across the frequencies of Bristol's pirate radio stations via cut-ups of broadcasts, taken from the late 1980s to the early 2000s ~ also a love-letter to my childhood, an audio document of the years I spent growing up in the city."

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Forslag Pa Musik

Stroll Music Volume 1

Tape | 1993 | US | Original (Ybb)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Beautiful library-style coolness from the north!

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Mac Mall

Illegal Business

Release: 1993 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Armand Van Helden's Sampleslaya

Enter The Meatmarket

Tape | 1998 | US | Original (Ruff House)

Tape | 2016 | EU | Original (Tanz auf Ruinen)

Release: 1998 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Original pressing with small coutout.

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Lügen

Demo

8,99 €* 9,99 € -10%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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KEATS 02XTRA: Kaiju Bosoo

Q-Cut

Tape | 2015 | EU | Original (KEATS / HHV)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2014 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

Monsoonsiren

Falstrati

Tape | 1992 | US | Original (Cold Chillin)

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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I was heavily inspired by Chris Marker’s film Sans Soleil (Sunless) just before I began recording the EP. He talks about remembering and memories; we preserve our recollections through photographs, films, literature and in my particular case, music. Each track on the EP is essentially a memory preserved.

The EP deals with ennui or just the overlying feeling of listlessness that usually props up when one thinks life is futile. Again, like my last release, this EP is quite melancholic in nature except the themes are more mature. I’ve focused on the artificial gratifications such as drugs, sex and what these temporary distractions can do to you and the relationships around you. I tend to take these dark subject matters and try and transform them into something beautiful, it’s incredibly cathartic. This is why I find it amusing and overwhelming when people call my music “ethereal” or “uplifting”.

I really love Dostoyevsky’s work or just any Russian author to be honest. His novels are incredibly detailed and meticulous, everything is palpable. I want any release I put out to feel this way. When people listen to my music I want them to be able to really feel the sounds, as if they can touch them: I work really hard to try and accomplish this. Lastly, I think what inspires me the most about being a musician: is the story telling. To be able to project your stories and memories through sound knowing that there’s at least somebody out there that will listen to what you have to say.

Featuring production by such renown producers as Go Yama, Insightful, Laplace and Galimatias, ‘Falstrati’ comes out worldwide on limited clear vinyl in December 2014.

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Kool G Rap & DJ Polo

Live And Let Die

Release: 1992 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Russian Beatmaker Compilation

Finest Ego

Tape | 2010 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

Japanese Beatmaker Compilation

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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The tendency towards advanced beats seems to be more and more a global phenomenon. As we already have said: Decentred beats for decentred people. During the last few years arose also in Russia a small, loosely networked scene of people, who have experimented with Hip Hop-beats. But in this case, the young Russians have no examples or references for this kind of music in the musical culture of their own country. All of their inspirations are taken from blogs and from the intensive study of their role models worldwide. The result is an organic, very playful, snappy and jazzy sound, which is carried by a common vibe, but is in the same way as diverse as the finest egos of the artists themselves.

The compilation includes Pavel Dovgal, DZA, Pixelord, Demokracy, Moa Pillar, Arktor, Shawalski, Myown, Nienvox, 813 and Long Arm.

В течении нескольких лет появилось все больше и больше музыкантов,экспериментирующих с хип-хопом.А делать это не легко,так как в России beat культура развита не так хорошо как на западе.Но ребятам удается создавать свой собственный,непохожий на других,стиль,и это не может не радовать.Мы представляем Вам второй сборник серии Finest Ego,с такими музыкантами как Pavel Dovgal,DZA,Pixelord,Demokracy,Moa Pillar,Arktor,Shawalski,Myown,Nienvox,813 и Long Arm.В итоге сборник получился очень разнообразный,некоторые треки звучат джазово и органично,а некоторые наоборот,можно даже отнести больше к дабстепу,чем к хип-хопу.

Design by LGB5. A&R by Jinna Morocha & Gordon Gieseking. Mixed & Mastered by Sven Friederichs.

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Finest Ego

Tape | 2010 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

Tape | 2024 | US (Roachleg)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Even in the land of the rising sun, during the last months the enthusiasm for eccentric rhythms has increased. More and more young beat maker in Japan emulate their models J Dilla, Flying Lotus or Hudson Mohawke. This new generation of beat smiths understood Hip-Hop not as a mere pose, but as an aesthetic principle, in which it is explored, where the boundaries of this music style lie. The artistic crucial questions are therefore: How can you make known subjects in other contexts? How abstract can it be? Some of these emerging artists, we can now gather on this download Compilation. It’s a good way to become familiar with these extraordinary artists. So the Compilation shows the wide range of this emerging beat music scene, the originality of each artists. The title of the records tries to reduce very different types of artists to a common denominator: Finest ego.
The compilation includes BudaMunk, a.z, Daisuke Tanabe, The Astronotes, Dj Olive Oil, FERRARI, RLP, SATO, Ogiyy, ichiro_, Eccy & Himuro Yoshiteru.
Design by LGB5. A&R by Akira Inagawa & Gordon Gieseking. Mixed & Mastered by Sven Friederichs.

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Demon

Demonstration

Release: 2024 / US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | US (Roachleg)

Dente Canino

Demo

Release: 2024 / US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Perspektif)

Tibia

Dream Pulse

Vakka-Suomen Rytmi-Kuninkaat

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Second release of Perspektif comes from Berlin based artist Tibia. Dream Pulse, his new album includes 8 tracks and will be released on 28th of February. Hailing from Berlin, Tibia is an electronic music producer and DJ known for blending melancholic moods with unconventional rhythms. His versatile sound spans from breakbeat techno to drowsy ambient all the way to 160 bpm footwork. Anchored in his roots as a drummer, he developed a rhythmic foundation that continues to permeate throughout his productions. As a producer, he explores new territories while maintaining a consistent commitment to his unique sound. Tibia's musical journey is a testament to the limitless possibilities in electronic music, contributing to its ever-evolving tapestry with innovative and emotive sonic landscapes.

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Joko Joku On Kuullut

Tape | 2017 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Varropas

Rakuuna

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tasos Stamou&Alan Wilkinson

Whenever

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Bardo Todol & Devid Ciampalini

El Origen Del Pensamiento Mágico

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Indalaska

Poésie Surnaturelle

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Trumpets

Natural Screenery

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Muuton Koto

Satumainen Avaruus

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Polonius

Gemini

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Polonius

Aries

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Plays Ewe-Neuro Wastelands

Innercity

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Tim Cornelius/Uton

Atlantean Fusebox

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Arttu Partinen / Amon Düde

Songs In The Attic / Live At Leeds

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Gas28a

Dao Hac

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One Snake Smarter Than Us All E.P.

Long Drag

Tape | US | Original (self-released)

8,99 €* 11,99 € -25%

Tape | 2008 | UK | Reissue (Back On Black)

Release: US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Long Drag spent the Winter of 2022-23 recording their third release, One Snake Smarter Than Us All. A punk band that puts their effort into crafting songs with depth, and thought. Long Drag dives into humanity with compassion, and a desire to better understand ourselves and others.

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Dismember

8,99 €* 14,99 € -40%

Folge 214: Und Der Geisterbunker

Release: 2008 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Founded 1988 in Stockholm/Sweden, Dismember were among those responsible for Death Metal's big break through. The debut album, Like An Ever Flowing Stream from 1991, clearly showed that Dismember are an uncompromising band which resulted in their rise to cult status and within a short period of time the album took the scene by storm. Extensive touring with bands like Death, Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse showed that Dismember are a live force to be reckoned with and the number of fans grew steadily. The band then released the 5-track EP, "Pieces", and went out on tour again with Napalm Death and Obituary. They played for thousands of fans throughout Europe thus reinforcing their status as one of the best live bands on earth. "Dismember" is the ultimate death metal album from one of the finest Swedish bands. Dismember have lost nothing in terms of intensity. The sheer pace and passion of the songs are blistering and the vocal sounds as pissed off as ever. Powerful riffs that are not in short demand, plenty of lead works and amazingly melodic harmonies are what the metal scene needed and Dismember have them in huge spades. This is definitely one of the best death metal releases in many, many years.

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Die Drei ???

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Europa)

9,09 €* 12,99 € -30%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Soundtracks

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Eleements D'une Diplomatie Fantome

The Dead Mauriacs

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

9,09 €* 13,99 € -35%

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Eotrax)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Dead Mauriacs return to Sucata Tapes. After Cocktails pour la fin des temps (Discrepant, 2016) and Beauté des Mirages (Discrepant, 2017) the mysterious (french?) artist recalibrates his/her tools into another head rush journey of concrete exotica and space lounge plunderphonics. Lush vistas from broken verandas and confusing cocktail parties brush shoulder with the most original musique concréte experiments this side of the jungle. ‘Eléments d'une Diplomatie Fantôme’ does it again in brilliant eléctrique style, a mesmerising addition to a unique catalogue from an exploratory artist doing his thing!

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Lair

I Hurt So I Cry

9,34 €* 10,99 € -15%

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Dirt Cult)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lair returns to Eotrax with a new 4-track EP. Following her 2017 self-titled debut EP, releases on Urban Legend and Rhod Records as well as collaborative projects in the visual arts and dance she returns to Eotrax to release I Hurt So I Cry this summer. Created using elements of sound healing and sacred sound I Hurt So I Cry can be engaged with from a purely musical perspective or listeners can take advantage of its sound healing qualities and use this EP as an active sound bath- active in that the listener intentionally uses the music to support them in going within and releasing, resting and restoring their body, nervous system and heart. As with all Lair’s work, the music is composed using only her voice with one exception, a sampled cello in the EPs first track Foreshadow. This brooding opener inhabits the dark ambient world we've come to expect of her music but as the EP unfolds ethereal vocal lines mix with her darker sound and a new, lighter sound world is revealed. In the artist’s words: “A shadow falls across our lives, we hurt so we cry, the feeling starts to shift and from that shift hope can spring." Both intimate and expansive, the tracks create a feeling of existing outside time. Lair’s profound connection to nature can be felt through all the tracks - at times in a deep cavern, at times moving through an elvish forest and at times in an Otherworld. Released on June 29th on red cassette & digital with artwork and design by Goldmoth Media. Mastered by Dominic at Declared Sound.

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Taxi Girls

Coming Up Roses

9,49 €* 9,99 € -5%

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Iron Lung)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Taxi Girls is a high-energy rock trio hailing from Montreal, Canada. Comprised of three talented and fierce ladies - Jamie, Vera and Lynn - this band is quickly making a name for themselves with their unique brand of punk rock that blends the classic sound of the Ramones with the fiery spirit of the Muffs and a dash of Verruca Salt. Since forming in 2022, Taxi Girls have quickly gained a dedicated fan base with their electrifying live shows and infectious hooks.

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Innumerable Forms

The Fall Down

9,49 €* 9,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Phantom)

Doc Flippers

Human Pork

9,49 €* 9,99 € -5%

Life By Misadventure Clear Cassette Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The good doctor is finally back to flip us on our backs and give us the old one-two-three-four, following a cassette I only knew about and listened to death and onto rebirth after hanging with the boys in Marseille.

These new-age space cowboys take us to the other side of the galaxy with a space shuttle of punk-fuelled psychedelic country… and drop you off into a black hole. The riffs bring the good news of the apocalypse to the new world from the one they left behind. US Maple lightsaber guitars fighting in a Uranium Club? Singer running out of oxygen.

References aren’t required anymore, just like when you hired VHS from the local video store. Take the risk, take the plunge, form an opinion yourself… get your money’s worth, tell me to go to hell and stop reading this.

If Captain Beefheart kept playing punk music and joined Marbled Eye or something, wearing modern, youthful clothes with an iPhone to hang out with some of the deranged, loveable, lust-for-lifers of Leipzig, maybe it would sound like this, but only after pulling him apart and putting him back together as robocop with a country teasers bumper sticker on his metal arse.

Why hire VHS when you can see their amazing video clips, which look like they’ve been directed by Giuseppe Andrews... Doc Flippers are trailer trash cooking bratwurst on top of flaming oil drums... crazy homeless, performance art punk rock.

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Rag'n'Bone Man

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Columbia)

9,74 €* 12,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Red Apples 45)

Ray West

Rap Is Art

9,74 €* 14,99 € -35%

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Red Apples 45 presents: Rap is Art by Ray Wes.t A limited Cassette instrumental EP release crafted with the SP12,MPC 2000xl & a Moog little phatty. Rap is Art is an exploration into sample based creation & analog craftsmanship. Packaged in a cassette single style case, Ray West crafts 7 instrumentals & one guest vocal piece by Queens’ own JUNCLASSIC. Rap is Art pays homage to the great Guru's line.... Rap is an art you cant own no loops .... so take it personal .....

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Serpente

Cornos

9,74 €* 12,99 € -25%

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Lightweight)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A more upfront and streamlined proposition than last year's 'Dias da
Aranha' on Souk, 'Cornos' is a reflection of Serpente's solo live
apparitions throughout this last year.
A cycle tainted by tragedies and a maze-like feeling of loss, 'Cornos'
mirrors both the urge of overcoming and its ghostly remnants through
five digressions that pulsate with crippled rhythmic symmetries and loner
harmonic motifs. Maybe just the sound of moving on with broken legs.

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Doppelgaenger

Link To The Past

9,79 €* 13,99 € -30%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Trouble In Mind)

Mountain Movers

World What World

9,79 €* 13,99 € -30%

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Linden Pros)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Experimental And Improvisational Psychedelic Rock, For Fans Of White Heaven, Les Rallizes Denudes, Headroom, Düngen, Heron Oblivion, Comets On Fire, The Renderers, Bardo Pond. Mountain Movers Arguably Are The Perfect Band For All The True "Heads" Out There. The New Haven Quartet Have Been At It For 15 Years, And The "Newest" Lineup (Now At It For Well Over A Decade; Vocalist/Guitarist Dan Greene, Bassist Rick Omonte, Guitarist Kryssi Battalene And Drummer Ross Menze) Have Firmlygrasped What It Takes To Fry Brains; Achingly Beautiful Melodies Buoyed By A Life Raft Of White-Hot Guitar Scree And Mind-Melting Feedback. "World What World" Is The Band's Eighth Album And Third For Trouble In Mind Records. "World What World" Is The Newest Chapter Of The Group's Continued Explorationsand Efforts To Refine Their Sound. The Lyrics Of "World What World"S Songs All Imply A Protagonist On A Quest; The Title Itself Is An Implied Query With No Question Mark; Is It A Question, Or A Statement?. The One-Two Punch Of Opener "I Wanna See The Sun" And "Final Sunset" Lay Out What's In Store; Crazy Horse-Inspired Sandpaper Melodies Sit Comfortably Next To Improvised, Psf-Influenced Six-String Ragers. The Group Performs Together Effortlessly And Telepathically, Subverting The Loud/Quiet/Loud Dynamic That Has Saturated Independent Music Since The Late-Eighties. The Loud Parts And Quiet Parts Are Like Waves; Indistinguishable From Each Other, Creating A Fluid Dynamism And Intensity That Swallows The Listener Up Inits Current, Sweeping It Toward Oblivion. Hyperbole, You Say? Watch Out For Midway Through "Then The Moon" When The Tune's Lilting Waltz Pivots Into A Casually Blistering Solo By Battalene Before Fading Into The Melancholic "Haunted Eyes" -Beckoning You With A Mournful Sidelong Glance. Side Two Opens With "Staggering With A Lantern", An Elegant, Lumbering Instrumental Improvisation Again Showcasing The Synergistic Shredding Of The Group's Guitarists. The Sticky Lyrical Hooks And Sideways Jangle Of "Way Back To The World...

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Freddie Reich X Kevin114

Hawei 2007

9,79 €* 13,99 € -30%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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9/11 Was An Inside Steve Jobs/Demos & Live

Anstalt

Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (ALO)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Uton

Awakened Hyperspace

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Revorg)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Recorded mostly with Korg Minilogue XD in September-October 2020. Some additions & mixing & cassette mastering November 2020 - February 2021, Digital version mastering July 2021.

Music & artwork by Jani Hirvonen. inspiration: Quantum physics, universe, cosmic vibrations / dimensions / frequencies, spirituality, the unknown...

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Jester Jacobs X Formz

Grimefulness

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (New Retro Wave)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Jester Jacobs on the mic Formz on the beats

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The Secret Chord

Fermi Paradox

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It doesn't stop. NRW is proud to present something very special for your ears. Beautiful soft synths with vast and dynamic chords make "Fermi Paradox" an instant definitive Retrowave album. A must listen to for all synth lovers.

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Long Drag

Three Days Dead EP

Tape | US (Tapeheadcity)

Release: US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Release: US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Dirt Cult)

Inject The Light

The Apocalypse Is Boring

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Dirt Cult)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the early days of Covid, Chris (Dirt Cult Records, Low Culture, Macho Boys) would mask up every night and take a long walk to keep his sanity. One evening, the week before the murder of George Floyd, he popped in his headphones and put on a Killed by Death comp while he grappled with how the virus had changed his life and the lives of those around him, while so many people refused to accept the slightest inconvenience to keep their neighbors safe. When he returned home, he went down to the basement and stayed up until four in the morning writing and recording the songs on this cassette. Consider this a time capsule of the early days of the pandemic, showcasing the mundane weirdness of those early days of the pandemic, filled with grocery deliveries and clips of right-wingers claiming victimhood because they can’t get their haircut or order dine-in – all to a snotty punk soundtrack for fans of Circle Jerks, Crucifucks, Dead Kennedys, et al.

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Crisis Party

Welcome To The Party

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Community building is maybe the most punk thing all of. Recent Halifax to Ottawa transplant Matty Grace (Cluttered, Century Egg, Future Girls) wasted no time in recruiting Ottawa punk mainstays Anthony Cardozo (Precious Failures, The Flying Hellfish) and “Ska” Jeff (Doxx, Dogma, Zooman) to bring Crisis Party to life. Blending influences from the Wipers to Wire and the Marked Men with the ethics instilled by those that came before them. Crisis Party is here to let you know it’s ok to struggle. Life is suffering. Let’s Party!

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Stuart Chalmers

The Heart Of Nature

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Swagger Jack

Phoney Recs

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Cucumber Sandwich

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2014 | UK | Original (Yogocop)

Team Dreebs

Team Dreebs Volume 1

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Padre Himalaya)

Release: 2014 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Team Dreebs Vol.1 - Cloud 9, Concept of Thought, Benaddict, M. Kozi, Mr Slipz, Tonks and more…

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Patricia Brito

Phmix003

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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New quickstrike mixtape from Silvestre's Padre Himalaya label This time is Porto deejay Patricia Brito serving up Jungle, IDM, shoegaze and more.

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Nancy & Lee

Tape | 1968 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

Tape | 2022 | DE | Original (Phantom)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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First ever official reissue of Nancy & Lee’s classic 1968 duet album
Definitive reissue with Nancy’s involvement
Includes the bonus tracks, “Tired Of Waiting for You” and “Love Is Strange,” from the album sessions
Newly remastered from the original analog tapes by GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin
Vinyl pressed at RTI
Q&A with Nancy & GRAMMY®-nominated reissue co-producer Hunter Lea
Never-before-seen photos from Nancy Sinatra’s personal archive

Light in the Attic is thrilled to announce the first official reissue of Nancy & Lee: the highly-influential 1968 duet album from Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood. This definitive edition of Nancy & Lee features newly-remastered audio by the GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin and includes an array of exclusive content, including a new interview with Nancy, never-before-seen photos, and two bonus tracks from the album sessions: an ethereal cover of The Kinks’ “Tired of Waiting for You” and an uptempo version of “Love Is Strange” (first made famous by Mickey & Sylvia in 1956). This release marks the official debut on vinyl for both tracks.

Nancy & Lee can be found in a variety of formats, including vinyl, cassette tape, CD, 8-track, and digital. The vinyl LP, pressed at Record Technology, Inc. (RTI), is presented in an expanded gatefold jacket and features the iconic, original cover photo by Ron Joy. Inside, a 20-page booklet offers an array of photos from the legendary singer, actress, and activist’s personal collection, as well as an in-depth Q&A with Sinatra, conducted by the reissue’s GRAMMY®-nominated co-producer, Hunter Lea (also available in the CD package). In addition to the classic black vinyl pressing, a selection of colorful variants can be found exclusively at NancySinatra.com, LightInTheAttic.net, independent record stores and select online retailers.

In celebration of the release, Nancy Sinatra and fellow musician and longtime friend Don Randi (The Wrecking Crew) visited Record Technology, Inc. (RTI) in Camarillo, CA to take a tour of the plant and get a sneak peek at the Bootique-exclusive pressing of Nancy and Lee. A short video piece documenting the day, including new interviews with Sinatra, Randi, and RTI plant manager, Rick Hashimoto is available here.

MORE ABOUT NANCY & LEE

When Nancy – the eldest daughter of Frank Sinatra – first met Lee Hazlewood in 1965, she was a demure, 25-year-old divorcée, who was struggling to find her place as an artist amid the changing musical landscape. At the urging of her label, she was introduced to the Oklahoma-born songwriter, Lee Hazlewood, who had found success working with guitarist Duane Eddy. While Sinatra and Hazlewood hailed from vastly different worlds, they were about to embark on a partnership that would change the course of their lives. Just months after meeting, Sinatra scored her first No.1 hit with “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.” Written and produced by Hazlewood, the song became Sinatra’s signature tune – transforming her into a confident and commanding feminist icon.

Initially, Hazlewood maintained a behind-the-scenes role with Sinatra, enlisting arranger and composer Billy Strange, as well as other members of The Wrecking Crew (the famed Los Angeles session musicians) for the singer’s best-selling 1966 debut LP, Boots. But when they returned to the studio later that year for Sinatra’s sophomore effort, How Does That Grab You?, Hazlewood joined the singer for a duet of his song, “Sand.” Over the next year, as Sinatra’s star rose, the artists continued to collaborate in the vocal booth, finding success with “Summer Wine,” “Lady Bird,” and the cinematic “Some Velvet Morning” (all penned by Hazlewood). In 1967, just months after Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash scored a country hit with “Jackson,” Sinatra and Hazlewood released a pop version of the offbeat song, landing in the Top Ten across Europe and peaking at No.14 in the US.

Recalling her duets with Hazlewood, Sinatra laughs, “we used to call it beauty and the beast!” Voices with no blend.” Indeed, no one could have predicted that these two contrasting voices (and personalities) would work together quite so well. Praising the duo’s “sonic alchemy,” Hunter Lea writes, “rarely in music has there been such an unlikely collaboration: Nancy, the sassy and sweet songstress contrasted by Lee, the gruff, psychedelic cowboy. A harmonic partnership that defies conventional logic yet yields so much beauty.”

Before long, it seemed only natural for the artists to release an entire album together. In addition to compiling their recent duets (many of which appeared on Sinatra’s solo LPs), the duo recorded several new covers and Hazlewood originals. Billy Strange and The Wrecking Crew provided lush orchestral arrangements, as the two artists performed a range of material, including folk, pop, and country songs, with a twist of psychedelia.

Throughout the album, a palpable chemistry can be heard between Sinatra and Hazlewood – from the frisky banter on “Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman” to the tongue-in-cheek delivery of “I’ve Been Down So Long (It Looks Up To Me).” But the artists also reveal their softer sides – particularly in the romantic balladry of “Sand.” Their languid rendition of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” meanwhile, is downright erotic, despite the lyrics. But, as Sinatra asserts, her decades-long relationship with Hazlewood was always platonic. “We had sort of a love/hate relationship,” she explains. “Maybe it was a sexual tension because we never had any kind of affair. I don’t know exactly what it was, but it worked.”

That je ne sais quoi certainly did work. Upon its release in the spring of 1968, Nancy & Lee became a critical and commercial hit on both sides of the Atlantic, peaking at No.13 on the Billboard 200 and No.17 in the UK. By 1970, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA. Over the decades, however, the appeal of Nancy & Lee has only grown, while the album has amassed an enduring cult status that few titles achieve. Multiple generations of artists, including Sonic Youth, Lana Del Rey, and the Jesus & Mary Chain, have cited Nancy & Lee as an influence.

In recent years, Nancy & Lee has also inspired a groundswell of recognition from such outlets as Rolling Stone, which ranked the pair at No.9 on their 20 Greatest Duos of All Time list. Pitchfork included Nancy & Lee in their “Best Albums of the 1960s” roundup, hailing the record as “a document of a flawless collaboration.” The UK’s Far Out Magazine declared Nancy & Lee to be “a masterpiece that still ripples in the sonic waves today.” NPR, meanwhile, noted that “Sinatra and Hazlewood masterfully marry sunshiny orchestral elements with lyrics that dig at something darker about the human condition.” They went on to praise Sinatra’s work on Nancy & Lee as “some of the best that she’s ever recorded…it proved that she would hardly allow herself to be pigeonholed into one-hit wonder territory. Here, she made it clear that she was capable of so much more.”

Today, Sinatra reflects fondly on her time with Hazlewood. “The most fun was when there were two mics in the studio, and Lee was on one and I was on one,” she recalls. When asked about the lasting appeal of Nancy & Lee, the artist credits much of its success to her partner. “Lee has a following that continues to this day. He’s beloved; people love him all over the world.”

Sinatra’s legacy, meanwhile, continues to grow, as new generations discover her impressive catalog (which boasts nearly 20 studio albums – her duets with Hazlewood among them – and dozens of charting singles, including the theme song to the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice). In 2020, Sinatra was recognized by her peers when “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame. That same year, Sinatra partnered with Light in the Attic Records for Nancy Sinatra: Start Walkin’ 1965-1976, a definitive survey of her most prolific period. At the end of 2021, LITA reissued Sinatra’s classic debut, Boots, while the label will continue to celebrate Sinatra with a variety of special releases, exclusive merch, and more.

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Roüge

72 Rouge

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Das Gute Leben Ist Schlecht

Ostseetraum

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Mangel)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Caiola)

Jungle

Loving In Stereo

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Phantom)

Melt Downer

III

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (My Ruin)

Halb Aus Plastik

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (My Ruin)

Gvlls

2020 EP

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1991 | EU (Radiation)

Dinosaur Jr

Green Mind

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Burger)

Release: 1991 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition of 350 only copies on cassette! Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s, issuing three highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records, who issued “Green Mind” in 1991 as the alternative American rock scene the band had long been part of exploded globally. Produced by a stripped down line-up of the group (in fact, J Mascis himself plays almost everything), the album and Sire’s international reach took Dinosaur Jr’s reputation to a new level, aided by the singles ‘The Wagon’ and ‘Whatever’s Cool With Me’, a non-album EP of new material and live recordings, all of which are included here alongside a previously unreleased live recording capturing the group at the Hollywood Palladium in June 1991. Critically lauded on release, “Green Mind” remains one of the band’s strongest collections, and a firm fan favourite.

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L'resorts

Tape | 1986 | US | Reissue (Light In The Attic)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Milwaukee band L'Resorts blend electric folk and americana with a subtle, 60s pop twinge. Formed by boyfriend/girlfriend team Vincent Kircher (Jaill) and Martha Cannon (Lady Cannon), the supergroup includes members from Milwaukee's well-known bands including Saturday Night Duets, Ruth B8r Ginsburg and more.

Consider them your midwestern Sonny and Cher minus the comedy routine and kitsch. Perfect for fans of Velvet Underground, Jenny Lewis and Camera Obscura.

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Hiroshi Yoshimura

GREEN

Tape | 2017 | US | Original (Third Man)

Release: 1986 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First ever reissue of this groundbreaking ambient work
Produced in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate
Remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI
Unseen original handwritten track notes by Yoshimura.

Barely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years. The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a renaissance in his acclaimed body of work, much of which has never been released outside of Japan. Known for his sound design and environmental music, Yoshimura worked on a number of commissions following the 1982 release of Music For Nine Post Cards, including works for museums, galleries, public spaces, TV shows, video art, fashion shows, and even a cosmetics company.

Originally released in 1986, GREEN is one of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s most well-loved recordings and a favorite of the artist himself. Recorded over the winter of 1985-86 at Yoshimura’s home studio, the compositions unfold at an unhurried pace, a stark contrast to the busy city life of Tokyo. As Yoshimura explained in the original liner notes, the album title in the context of this body of work is not meant to be seen as a color, but is rather used to convey “the comfortable scenery of the natural cycle known as GREEN”—which perfectly encapsulates the soothing and warm sounds contained on the album, although it was created utilizing Yamaha FM synthesizers, known for their crisp digital tones.

This edition marks the first reissue of the highly sought-after and impossible to find album. It features the original mix preferred by Yoshimura himself, previously available only on the initial Japanese vinyl release (a limited edition remixed version of the album, with added sound effects, was released on CD in the US). Additionally, this release is the first in our ongoing series, WATER COPY, focusing on the works of Hiroshi Yoshimura.

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The Entertainers

Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Ehse)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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TRACK LISTING:
1. Opening
2. The Entertainers
3. New Immortals
4. Drink It In
5. Nothing Lasts Forever
6. Shackles
7. No Art
8. Never Enough
9. Out of My Hands
10. I Will Wait
11. The End of It All

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