 | Harnessed the Storm by Drexciya
Buy used from: $14.00 classic detroit techno-lectro from the aquatic... try also Sterac "secret life of machines"
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 | An Awkward Pause by Nurse with Wound
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $14.00 track 2 being the most visceral psychodelic listening experience I've had without the aid of substances
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 | Disconnected by Faust
Buy new: $42.99 faust and nurse with wound...makes sense
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 | Second Pirate Session by Nurse with Wound
Buy used from: $100.00 rock and roll sessions plus extra versions of those songs...Nurse with Wound at it's most rockingestness
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 | Angry Eelectric Finger 2: Paraparaparallelogrammatica by Nurse With Wound
Buy used from: $16.49 of all the eelectric fingers this one is the angriest...Cyclobe does the best reworking of the NWW material provided for this series. Might be the best partnered release in NWW history.
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 | Being a Firefighter Isn't Just About Squirting Water by The Hafler Trio
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $6.00 master of sound and album titles...countless other amazing releases...this one contains experiments with vocal reverbium that I find particularly nice.
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 | Astral Disaster by Coil
Buy used from: $27.00 lethargic visions of the apocalypse always come to mind when I listen to this overlooked coil release.
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 | Ans by Coil
Buy new: $126.49 / Used from: $74.35 most interesting non-vocal release by coil.
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 | Time Machines by Coil
Buy used from: $75.00 classic non-vocal release by coil...i want more time machines
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 | Cloudburst by Pantaleimon
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.72 her best work to date...4 tracks of gentle guitar with softly sung lyrics on the last.
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 | Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether
Buy new: $20.99 an instant classic... belongs right next to the fovea hex box set on your cd shelf. Ambient folk that never gets boring
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 | Digilogue by :zoviet*france:
Buy new: $32.97 maybe the most hypnotic zoviet france release
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 | Fonotone Records 1956-1969 by Various Artists
Buy new: $71.99 / Used from: $59.99 dust-to-digital brings back the finest of fonotone records. 5 discs of americana in all of it's primitive scratchy beauty, all packaged in a cigar box
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 | Goodbye, Babylon by Various Artists
Buy new: $94.49 / Used from: $80.00 phenomenal release by the dust-to-digital label...buy it for the 6 discs of archived country gospel music history, and love it for it's perfectly packaged beauty
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 | Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 by Stereolab
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $17.57 I've decided to get rid of all of my Stereolab cd's...all but this one. Completely overlooked by many fans...I say it's easily their best.
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 | Desertshore by Nico
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.41 I'm sure this'll irritate more than a few of you, but Nico was better without the Velvet Underground...this album proves it.
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 | To Love Somebody by Nina Simone
Buy new: $37.99 If you've never heard Nina Simone's version of "times they are a changin" then you have to buy this...it's better than the best song you've ever heard.
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 | Pastel Blues by Nina Simone
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.04 total classic: strangefruit, and sinnerman!
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 | Congotronics 2: Buzz 'n' Rumble from the Urb 'n' Jungle by Various Artists
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.45 a variety of musicians from the Kinshasa area of the Congo...using homemade amplification hooked up to likembe's they produce music with an energy that radiates...this is music that will make your soul dance. A beautiful dvd shows a variety of their performances.
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 | Svikiro: Meditations from a Mbira Master by Forward Kwenda
Buy used from: $14.65 as the title suggests...Svikiro is a gentler side of Mbira. Kwenda is a master of this unique Zimbabwe sound.
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 | Weleer by Machinefabriek
Buy new: $20.97 / Used from: $15.25 Machinefabriek is producing the most interesting electronic music out there right now. Weleer is a good introduction, but I'd recommend Marijn as it is one of the best albums I've ever heard.
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 | Eye of the Storm by Mirror
Buy used from: $22.90 gentle drones by the masterful project Mirror. Heemann and Chalk are the perfect match. If you can ever find/afford it I'd recommend "into the wood"
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 | Water Music I by WILLIAM BASINSKI
nothing better out there for falling asleep to
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 | Silent Night
Buy used from: $14.75 it's better than the christmas carol, much better.
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 | Multila by Vladislav Delay
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $11.97 might be his best album ever... unique experimental techno rooted in jazz percussion
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 | Entain by Vladislav Delay
Buy used from: $23.99 another brilliant early release by Vladislav Delay. Similar to Multila, but perhaps a bit more expansive, precalling future releases.
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 | Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion
Buy used from: $271.10 this is the best release on the chain reaction label, which is saying a whole lot.
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 | BCD by Basic Channel
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.99 Some classic tracks from the legendary Basic Channel label. If you know nothing about techno, this might be a good place to start.
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 | The Lost Takoma Sessions by Mark Fosson
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $6.94 Mark Fosson does the Takoma sound better than Fahey...well not really, but comes darn close. Fingerpicking brilliance.
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 | Raag Manifestos by Jack Rose
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.25 Jack Rose is keeping the Fahey tradition alive. He has amazing skill, but more than that, he has a sense of space and timing that other recent Fahey revivalists havn't really seemed to grasp.
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 | Beware of the Bird by Claude VonStroke
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $13.47 the album as a whole is pretty good, but the reason I'm listing it is because it contains the track "who's afraid of detroit?", which is one of my favorite techno tracks of all time.
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 | Canaxis by Holger Czukay
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $13.73 This solo release from Holger Czukay is better than his work with Can, and that's saying a lot because Can is one of the best bands ever.
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