 | Ultra White Violet Light/Sleep by Charles Curtis
Buy used from: $24.32 well-respected but quite taken for granted is old charlie. he was an apprentice to la monte young, say no more...
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 | The Expanding Sea by San Agustin
Buy new: $51.98 / Used from: $25.00 really quite understated and all the better for it, this is a 3cd set of live recordings from their euro wanderings. good releases on erstwhile (as haunted house) and table of the elements too.
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 | Bliss by Sunroof
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $1.33 its unusually piercing for a drone album, this one. after you get over the mild aural shock it has a great casio-zen charm to it.
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 | Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4, 7 & 8 by Coates
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $36.07 coates seems to have an interesting path around serialism; becoming dissonant simply by piling on the glissandi.
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 | Mass Projection by Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe
Buy used from: $39.99 two of the biggest names in the japanese avant-garde go head to head and really tear open a whole new dimension to jazz. sadly, it makes whatever you play after it seem a little inconsequential.
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 | Hot Sounds From the Arctic by Vladmir Rezitsky
a great little album from the band leader of jazz group arkhangelsk; a sort of unsung russian counterpart to the art ensemble.
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 | Bullet Into Mesmer's Brain by Temple of Bon Matin
Buy used from: $14.97 here's hoping they eventually achieve legendary status outside the smallish noise&psych community. certainly my fav bulb band, beating out those hacks in wolf eyes (joking) (or am i?)
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 | Catch-Wave by Takehisa Kosugi
Buy used from: $39.99 one of the 10 or so utter classics of the japanese avant-garde, source of dozens of brilliant albums. solo effort from leader of taj mahal travellers & member of group ongaku (a fluxus-related trio).
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| We Are Everyone in the Room by Stilluppsteypa
Buy used from: $5.39 sorry about all these non-covers, probably looks a bit bland, UNLIKE THIS FINE MULTI-LAPTOP JAM. ive noticed an odd tv pow resurgance since gutzeit made it on kranky, no complaints though, its good...
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 | The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $6.91 there was a record which came out with the original pressing, which is just the most demented plunderphonic lecture youll ever hear. the book is an interesting little read too, quick and easy.
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 | Customer by Collections of Colonies of Bees
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.58 this is probably one of the best amalgamations of idm fundamentals into actual music; not empty exercises in technology, but a genuinely beautiful album.
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 | Event '76 by Area
Buy used from: $19.89 hardly "their most difficult album", this is just area tossing away all their self-restraint and jamming like wild gibbons (nature's improvisers).
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 | Entomological Reflections by Mephista
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.77 great album on tzadik. "on tzadik?", you say. "yes, incredible isnt it? monkeys and typewriters, and all that", i reply.
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 | Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1 by Sun Ra
Buy used from: $69.95 the freakout moog on the flipside of this is hilarious and/or brilliant. just a great image of french folk, having politely applauded the first dittys, staring aghast at the full-on meltdown on stage.
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 | Argentina by Thela
Buy used from: $7.94 ignore the review's mysterious mullholland drive namedropping, this is one of two great albums by former locals (auckland, new zealand).
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 | Now Right Here by Minit
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.85 quite spectacular drone a la ekkehard ehlers' play series. pretty much testing the limit of how rich this sort of thing can get before melting into a mess.
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 | What?? by Folke Rabe
Buy used from: $11.30 yet another classic of drawn-out sound, the flipside is the same piece at half speed, which is just a hilariously great move by the pressers.
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 | Den Verste Toppen En Blmalt Flaggstang by Spunk
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $5.00 just a great, great playful improv group. maybe now maja ratkje is a "celeb" the next one'll get the coverage it deserves.
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 | Down In The Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 (Digipak with 72-page booklet) by Uncle Dave Macon
Buy used from: $30.99 how can you deny the incredible urge you feel to buy this based on the title alone? damn, its good. unless you feel like music wasnt any good until mid-period zepplin, youll LOVE this disc.
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 | Goodbye, Babylon
Buy new: $94.49 / Used from: $88.24 one hell of a boxset. along with the ayler boxset, they really raised the bar on just awe-inspiring releases. it may be 109 bucks but when you have it in your hands youll experience $1090 worth o joy.
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 | Funeral for a Friend by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.98 those wanting a fantastic gospel big band record: its as good as you mightve hoped, this has more gospel soul than three popes stacked end to end.
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 | You Without Sin Cast the First Stone by Isaiah Owens
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.98 and one more. if you like authentic gospel stuff, keep an eye on the casequarter label. theyre off to an amazing start...
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 | South Pacific: Island Music by Various Artists
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.94 considering new zealand has supposedly the largest polynesian population base in the world you'd think i might be bored of this sort of thing, but these recordings are genuine and totally human.
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 | Tractatus (1991-1995) by Tibor Szemzó
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $16.99 Famous Hungarian Rock Band says the album description, shamefully obscure hungarian composer is the reality. quite hypnotic in its simplicity, but its a pleasure to let it run itself through.
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 | This Is Nmperign's Second CD by Nmperign
Buy used from: $131.17 all nmperign is great, but try to find the ridiculously monikered We Devote Every Effort To Offer You The Best That You Deserve To Have for Your Enjoyment double lp.
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