Modern Harmonic Vinyl, CD & Tape 40 Items

Limited to 1350 copies. Finally the recorded studio work of Bill Ylitalo as Otto Kentrol and Faceless has been assembled! Featuring hard to find post punk & no wave cuts from his EPs over the years and even delves into his four track demos. Across the post punk treasures you'll be gifted the work of luminaries such as Arto Lindsay, ECM's Steve Tibbetts, and more. Sax, strange electronic instruments, recitative vocals and sporadic bass, guitar and drums are spread over two LPs with liner notes by WFMU's Erick Bradshaw, host of Spin Age Blasters.

1. No Mistakes 2. What About My Engine Rebuild 3. At The Water 4. Learn Greek In Greece 5. Public Eye 6. My Generation 7. Ghost Boy 8. Retread 9. Lady In Cement 10. Young 11. Who Are The Flowers From 12. Drive 13. Fly Line 14. Slut 15. Amgonna Kaar 16. Our Secret 17. The Man With The Flashlight 18. Fake 19. Looking Back 20. Scrap Heap 21. Ghost Boy (Instrumental) 22. 283 23. County K 24. Fun To Be Fake 25. Kids In Kanvas 26. A Light In A Line 27. Meat 28. Sing Along 29. Wong Family

One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, Rttr originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing. Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in Nyc), the tracks here include everything from Ra's sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen's skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track 'They Plan To Leave,' and so much more. Reissued for the first time, and pressed on colored vinyl!

Crazed time signatures abound as musicians from the West look East for inspiration, infusing their rock and jazz sounds with vibes looted from India and the Far East. A true marriage of Western and (Middle) Eastern music with a fuzzed-out psychedelic edge. Released originally in 1969, Middle Eastern Rock is a unique, compelling fusion record from Armenian-American oud player John Berberian. The Rock East Ensemble, Beberian's backing band, consists of the artist's standard group, which specializes in traditional Armenian music with a jazz edge, and American session musicians who bring more of a rock sound. The results, which blend elements of psychedelia, free jazz, surf music, and various klezmer, African, and Middle Eastern textures, are dazzling, and are sure to thrill anyone with a taste for rare "outside" albums. ' AllMusic Review by Anthony Tognazzini

Limited to 1300 copies.

It Happened At The Hop is the first ever compilation highlighting the deep doo wop and teen frenzy from Hollywood's Edison International label. The Austin Sisters deliver the title cut and its flip, Billy Bobbs & The Chips bring the raucous side of doo wop with 'Shim Sham' and 'Teedle Dee Bum Bum,' Linda Strangis brings us her rare 45 cuts and an unissued gem 'The Dipsy Doodle.' Featuring cuts only available on rare 45s and previously unissued gems, plus liner notes from Brother Cleve (Combustible Edison).

1. Austin Sisters - It Happened At The Hop 2. Billy Bobbs & The Chips - Teedle De Bum Bum 3. The Devilles - Treat You Right 4. Linda Strangis - You, Only You 5. The Five Trojans - Lola Lee 6. The Four Flares - Jump Back Honey 7. The Stardusters - Love Story 8. The Devilles - I'll Conquer The World 9. Austin Sisters - Love Can Do Most Anything 10. Billy Bobbs & The Chips - Shim Sham 11. Nicky St. Claire - I Hear Those Bells 12. The Five Trojans - Little Doll 13. Linda Strangis - Too Young 14. The Four Flares - Riders In The Sky 15. Linda Strangis - Dipsy Doodle 16. Nicky St Claire - Creator Of Love 17. The Stardusters - Battle Of Bull Run

Back in print, now on clear vinyl! Tingling tartness of jingle perfection! In addition to being a pioneer of early electronic music, Raymond Scott generated hymns to hunger, odes to pudding and pilsner, and crafted carols for countless other products, elevating the form of advertisement to an art. If Zappa had written music for commercials, it's not hard to think his approach would have been similar! Pressed on clear vinyl at Third Man Pressing and containing varied styles in both instrumentation and vocalization plus previously unavailable electronic works! Products may contain soy, wheat, dairy, or Mel Tormé.

Manic No Wave sax frenzy! James White tore up the city blueprints and charted his own map through the sonic sprawl of New York, perfecting a jittery, manic attack on sax and vocals and adopting the persona of a lounge singer in the waiting room of Hell. A maelstrom of chaotic transformations of funk, jazz (et al.) with equal parts James Brown and James White originals that rank among the most incendiary in his repertoire, this album is available outside of Japan and on pressed on colored vinyl!

New pressing, with a front punch of color! It's the yellow belt edition! Take an auditory trip through a wacky world of oddball and obscure 'classick' exploitation cinema soundtracks from the 1960s and early 1970s, presented by one of the most beloved genre film video companies of all time' Something Weird! Two LPs chock-full of oddities and earworms with great sets of liners and track by track factoids!

Record Store Day 2021 Release.
Limitation: 1350 copies.
Color: Green.

Rude Boy-Curious Post-Punk Lightning In A Bottle “...all of these songs are based on post-Marcusian cliches sophisticated enough to get the average rock fan thinking hard, and some of them are based on post-Marcusian ideas sophisticated enough to get the average post-Marcusian thinking hard. Sounds unmusical but it isn't that either--the singing is clever and impassioned, the punkish, futuristic reggae-synthesizer fusion often catchy and always apt.” - Robert Christgau First ever LP reissue, on verduous green vinyl!

A Mad Menagerie of Grindhouse Go-Go Grooves!

Girl In Gold Boots is Ted V. Mikels' (The Corpse Grinders) homage to the time tested 'small town girl moves to the big city to become a go-go dancer' story. And if a movie is ostensibly about go-go dancing, then we're gonna need some music to go-go to. And that's what this album you're now holding is all about. From the odd psych rocker 'Do You Want To Laugh Or Cry,' to a frenetic barrage of country soul. It's got some solid harmonica groovers, an odd xmas song and of course the banger of a title track!

Pressed on colored vinyl, and includes a DVD of the entire film with lots of extras!

More unearthed tape from a jazz icon! Thanks to a 21-year-old with a tape machine, we can all experience the majesty of guitar legend Barney Kessel! This second volume of Jazz Mill recordings shows Barney firmly at the top of his game!

Recorded in ’73 and rejected by tin-eared major label execs in ’75, Crystal Spears (or “Crystal Clear” as it appears on the tape box) subsumes a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, with percussionists providing tonal textures, and plaintive oboe colliding with roaring electronic keyboards over waves of rollicking marimba, devilishly chattering below the fray. Crystal Spears is Ra’s once lost aural cinematheque! Includes a quad-ra-color Sun Ra poster!
Crystal Spears, intended for release in 1975 by ABC/Impulse! and assigned catalog # AS-9297, was ultimately rejected by the label. Ra and business manager Alton Abraham retained the rights, rechristened the album Crystal Clear and assigned Saturn Records catalog # 562—but they never got around to issuing it. The first three tracks on this album were mastered from that tape, a 1/4-inch four-track (15 ips) brand favored by home recording enthusiasts—and generally disfavored by pro engineers. The sessions took place at Variety Recording Studio in New York on February 3, 1973, a month before the Ark returned on March 8 to record Cymbals, as well as tracks issued decades later under the title Sign Of The Myth (and perhaps even Pathways To Unknown Worlds).