From creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, SAS Rogue Heroes) comes new drama This Town. A 6-part series set in 1981 Birmingham, which follows a bands formation amid the violence and social tensions of the time. The music from the Original BBC Series brings together the show’s genre-wide mix of timeless classics, brand new music, and iconic hits of the era. It features an eclectic, world-class mix of artists paying tribute to this hugely formative period and includes original covers from Self Esteem, Ray Laurél, Mercury-nominated breakthrough Olivia Dean, GRAMMY-winning powerhouse Gregory Porter, BRITs Rising Star nominee Sekou and Academy Award nominee Celeste. Additionally, the songs played by Fuck The Factory - the band at the heart of This Town - have been created by trailblazing producer Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C, Wet Leg) in collaboration with singer-songwriter ESKA and musician, novelist and poet Kae Tempest in work that adds another chapter to the story.

TRACK LISTING

1. Self Esteem - You Can Get It If You Really Want
2. Ray Laurél - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
3. Fuck The Factory - Estella
4. Olivia Dean - The Harder They Come
5. Fuck The Factory - Birdsong
6. Fuck The Factory - Pelicans
7. Celeste - Blue Moon
8. Fuck The Factory - Farewell To Matty And Her Flowers
9. Gregory Porter - The World’s Going Up In Flames
10. Fuck The Factory - This Town
11. Sekou - Wonderful World, Beautiful People

Math rock sounds like blueprints look: exact, precise, architectural. This trance-like progressive metal music with indie rock and jazz influences has been captivating and challenging listeners for decades. Bands associated with the genre include King Crimson, Black Flag, Don Caballero, Slint, American Football, Toe, Elephant Gym, Covet, and thousands more. In an online age of bedroom producers and sampled beats and loops, math rock is music that is absolutely and resolutely played: men and woman in rooms with instruments creating chaos, beauty, and beautiful chaos.

This is the first book-length look at the global phenomenon. Containing interviews with prominent musicians, producers, and critics spanning the globe, Math Rock will delight longtime fans while also serving as a primer for those who want to delve deeper. It shows why and how an intellectually complex, largely faceless, and almost entirely instrumental form of music has been capturing the attention of listeners for 50 years-and counting.

Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or “German New Wave,” was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and then left as quickly as it came. Conventional wisdom among artists dictates that it's better to burn out than fade away, but this doesn't tell the full story of NDW-the reason for its rapid rise and fall, the historical context that necessitated the genre, and where the energy of the NDW movement went after its end.

The genre has international influences but still demonstrates a uniquely German desire to build a new, sanitized identity in the aftermath of World War II. Originally quite subversive and underground, NDW became exponentially more mainstream until it could no longer sustain itself creatively. And rather than disappearing, it helped give rise to the post-Cold War rave craze and is still an important touchstone in music history.

From the 1979 LP Accadde A by Arawak, this superb 7" showcases standout Italian Library recordings that you need in your life. Arawak, one of Luciano Simoncini's many pseudonyms, crafted compositions for film scores, radio, and television in Italy and the album remained obscure until the legendary Madlib heavily sampled it in 2000 and drove up the price of originals. The LP received its first reissue by Golden Pavilion in 2017 so fans could cop it once more and now two of the best bits from it are on their own record. Both tracks oscillate between mellow dreamy atmospheres and irresistible drum breaks with 'Bali' being sampled in 'Real Eyes' by Quasimoto in 2000, and the b-side jam coming on strong with bagpipes intertwined with punchy bass and steady drums.

TRACK LISTING

Bali (Edit)
Belfast (Edit)

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums. “Your playlists will soon be overflowing.” - Spectrum CultureThe music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice.

It emerged amid the social tensions of the late 1980s, and as part of hip-hop’s rise to global dominance. It carried the innovations of Jamaican soundsystem culture, the sweet refuge of Lovers Rock, the bliss of club jazz dancefloors and post-rave chill-out rooms. It went mainstream with Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, DJ Shadow, Kruder & Dorfmeister, and Björk; and with record labels like Ninja Tune and Mo’ Wax.

To the artists despair, the music was tagged with a silly label and packaged as music for the boutique and the lounge; made respectable with awards and acclaim. But the music at its best still sounds experimental and dramatic; and its influence lingers through artists like FKA twigs, Sevdaliza, James Blake, Billie Eilish, and Lana Del Rey. This short book is a guide to trip-hop in its context of the weird 1990s: nostalgia and consumerism; pre-millenium angst and lo-fi technology; casual exoticism amid accelerating globalization and gentrification.

Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history.

In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the European front of World War II and the Third Reich. In the immediate aftermath, German youth were tasked to create their own culture. Krautrock is this unlikely success story, as hundreds of bands-including Kraftwerk and Can-seemed to sprout overnight in the early 1970s, forging a unique and experimental sound that was different than American or British rock. The major innovation of krautrock is not only its motorik beat, the steady click-click of Can's Jaki Liebezeit or monolithic stomp-stomp of Neu!'s Klaus Dinger, but also how the musicians relate to each other. In krautrock, no musician is given more focus than any other, and listening to these bands is to witness interplay common in jazz music. Thus, krautrock represents German politics reflected in music: a dictatorship replaced by democracy.

Krautrock explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its influences and innovations, its more mainstream acts (like Faust, Kraftwerk, and Can) as well as the less universally known (including Harmonia, Popol Vuh, Embryo, and Ash Ra Tempel), and how the genre developed in post-war Germany and what it means to today's listeners.

Donald Byrd presented A New Perspective with his magnificent 1963 album for band and voices which wove the essence of spirituals into modern jazz with arrangements by Duke Pearson and contributions from Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, and others. Highlights include the stunning ‘Cristo Redentor’, spirited ‘Elijah’ and soulful ‘Chant’. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Elijah
2. Beast Of Burden

Side B
1. Cristo Redentor
2. Black Disciple
3. Chant

Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954. Blue Note later compiled the tracks into two 12” LPs as part of the 1500 series. The music presents all the hallmarks of his early style from blazing bebop to beautiful ballads. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is mono, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original masters, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Take Off
2. Weirdo
3. Would'n You
4. I Waited For You
5. Ray's Idea – Alternate Take
6. Donna

Side B
1. Well You Needn't
2. The Leap
3. Lazy Susan
4. Tempus Fugit – Alternate Take
5. It Never Entered My Mind

Devon made her musical debut releasing her first ever recorded single, 'Swim' to swooning fans in September 2023, and followed it up with the sultry high energy tune entitled ‘Killer'. ‘Killer’ was the second song released by Actress/Model/ - and, now Musician, Singer/Songwriter: Devon Ross. ‘Killer' hit all digital platforms worldwide 1 December 2023 in advance of Devon’s very first concert at London's legendary 100 CLUB on December 13. 2023.

Inspired by Sixties and Seventies legends, such as The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, The Stooges and Television, Devon Ross is finally debuting her first recordings on the forthcoming EP, entitled OXFORD GARDENS. OXFORD GARDENS was recorded in Paris and mixed & mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London and set for release on Thurston & Eva Moore's indie record label, The Daydream Library Series the week of St. Valentine’s Day in February 2024.

Bio: Model-actress-guitarist, 23-year-old recording artist was raised in Los Angeles and moved to London in 2020. British Vogue cited Ross as “the coolest model currently climbing up the ranks”. During 2019, Gucci recruited her for a Rome runway show before casting her in the launch of the Gucci x Disney Collection (notably shot at Disneyland). It opened up the floodgates as she went on to walk for Valentino, Erdem, Gauchere, Sies Marjan, and Simone Rocha and lead campaigns for Vivienne Westwood and Mulberry. Her career would be chronicled by L’Officiel, 10 Magazine, W, and many more. In 2021, she joined the cast of HBO and A24’s Irma Vep - The Serial (2021) alongside Academy® Award Winner Alicia Vikander, Adria Arjona, Carrie Brownstein, Byron Bowers, and others.

Eva & Thurston met Devon at Cannes Film Festival in France in 2021 and started going to shows and kicking around London together. After witnessing her guitar playing and hearing her music the couple invited her to release music on their independent record label. This month November 2023, The Daydream Library Series independent record label will celebrate five years in operation. Thurston & Eva founded the label in 2018 to release the debut album Sistahs by London’s black, feminist, punk band Big Joanie.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Don’t Wanna
2. Swim
3. Killer
4. Mine Not Yours

A mesmerizing journey of electronic and classical elements from the acclaimed Canal + series. "D'Argent & De Sang" is the latest creation from French producer Erwan Castex, known as Rone, famous for acclaimed albums such as "Room with a View" and "Tohu Bohu", who won a César for his first soundtrack for Frédéric Farrucci's film "La Nuit Venue" in 2021 and the award for best soundtrack at the Cannes Film Festival for Jacques Audiard's "Les Olympiades".

Initially entitled "Tikkoun", the next CANAL+ original series "D'Argent & De Sang" is produced by Curiosa Films and directed by multi-César winner Xavier Giannoli (with "Lost Ilusions in 2021), with whom the composer worked closely to develop a subtle blend of electronic and classical sounds, a field in which Rone's reputation is well established. 'By mixing classical orchestral textures with modern electronic elements, I wanted to symbolise the heterogeneity of the worlds that intersect in this story'.

TRACK LISTING

A1 - Tikkoun
A2 - Tikkoun, Piano 1
A3 - Power
A4 - Tikkoun, Piano 2
A5 - Tikkoun, Electronic Variation 1
A6 - Tikkoun, Piano & Synth
A7 - Tikkoun, Quintet 2
A8 - Tikkoun, Piano 3
A9 - D'argent Et De Sang

B1 - Tikkoun, Electronic Variation 2
B2 - Tikkoun, Quintet 3
B3 - J'en Veux...
B4 - Carbon
B5 - Madness
B6 - Stress
B7 - Jackpot
B8 - Prayer

Ella Fitzgerald took the stage on Friday the 13th in 1979 at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the PWA hall. This unique vinyl release finally showcases this superb performance by one of jazz’s greatest- ever vocalists on stage at one of the most unique and iconic jazz festivals in the world.

PWA Zaal, Friday July 13, 1979 – the Hague, the Netherlands. Ella Fitzgerald (vocals), Paul Smith (piano), Keter Betts (double bass), Mickey Roker (Drums) - officially recorded by the Dutch Public Broadcasting companies at the North Sea Jazz Festival and officially licensed for this vinyl release.

Detroit based producer & DJ 2lanes takes his digital label Auto Shop into the physical world with its first release; a new alias called Overton Series. A collaborative project between 2lanes and fellow Detroiter Jonah Baseball, recorded over many sessions during early lockdown.

The "Shuffle Shack EP" has 4 tracks that span psychedelic deep house, dancefloor stomping soul, and rejuvenating sunrise downtempo moments. The record also features performances from Jonah’s father David Gray, Los Angeles based singer Jia Pet and Ji Hoon - who was featured on the B-side “Impish Desires” on 2lanes breakthrough record on Portage Garage Sounds. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: New Detroit wonderkid 2lanes continues to turn heads and beguile with his arresting New Sound. Taking the Motor City spirit of invention and experimentation into psychedelic and adventurous new realms.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Shuffle Shack
A2. Standing Waves (featuring David Gray On Clarinet)
B1. Speak For Yourself
B2. Honeycrisp (featuring Jia Pet & Ji Hoon On Saxophone)

2001, the first year of the 21st century, but especially for many born in the 60's, 70's and 80's, the year that was surrounded with an aura of the Future and which became symbol of the new and unknown things that life has in store, the starting year of a new transgression period in both scientific, cultural and spiritual evolution. In that year Transllusion recorded music in the Dimensional Waves Productions studio of which till date two known productions saw a release: "The opening of the Cerebral Gate" and shortly after that the mysterious "L.I.F.E." album on Rephlex. More than 15 years later, an unknown wave resurfaced, washing up an incomparable emotional state of electronic depth. Music from the future rooted in an underwater Afro-futurist realm and the grandiose cosmological truths. This time rushing over us in a much more personal, reflective and more introspective way, yet leaving behind sonic confusion. We now know who was responsible for all these futuristic recordings perfectly reflecting what the year 2001 stood for, James Stinson can be seen as one of the last few techno musicians from his generation that lived up to the high expectations of moving forward, finding the unknown and embracing the future without reliving the past. This recently discovered DAT-tape, using his Transllusion alias, is the 3rd outing of the project and, surrounded with an even brighter aureole than the previous recordings, confirms the status of its producer's mastermind. No further details are known, except for the project name written on the tape, but these intimate moments in the studio tell us what the future sounds like according to James Stinson!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Another Drexciyan relic rematerialized for our delectation. A James Stinson solo project sounding light years ahead of anything then and now. 20 years seemingly no time to catch up to up these sub-aquatic cosmic technologies.

TRACK LISTING

Moment 1
Moment 2
Moment 3
Moment 4

Originally released in 2002, Drexciya's cult "Grava 4" gets a juicy repress on double vinyl with fresh new artwork!

The epitome of the underwater sci-fi electro wizards' prowess, the album explores sub-aquatic sonic worlds and deep space techno with an intrepid, beyond-human approach; solidifying them as one of the most groundbreaking and innovative artists to work within electronic music. 

TRACK LISTING

1 Cascading Celestial Giants
2 Powers Of The Deep
3 Drexciyen Starchamber
4 Gravity Waves
5 Drexciyen R E S T Principle
6 Hightech Nomads
7 700 Million Lightyears From Earth
8 Astronomical Guidepost

Music by legendary, iconic, UK pioneering electronic duo ORBITAL (Paul & Phil Hartnoll) (Peaky Blinders, Pusher, Tormented, Keen Eddie, Octane) ORBITAL has contributed music featured in: The Saint, Event Horizon, xXx, Spawn, Test Drive 4, Mortal Kombat, Mean Girls, Peaky Blinders, The Beach, Wipeout, Hackers, Teen Spirit, American Ultra and many more.

Double LP on Metallic Gold & Black Vinyl, with Colour Gatefold Jacket and Inserts “The fast paced electro beat offers a thrilling score that is sure to catch the viewers’ attention” mxdwn.com

TRACK LISTING

1. Professor Clark Arrives
2. The Box - Theme
3. Ken And Reilly At C.A.C.A.
4. Patty
5. Drug Cart Ride
6. Pent TV - Ident 1
7. Introducing Mentor
8. Concludiato
9. Approaching Niagara
10. Initiato
11. Donet Makes Your Brown Eyes Blue
12. The Musk
13. The Maester
14. Pool Table Stand Off
15. Ken Enters The Pentaverate
16. Let’s Make Some Waves
17. The Demetrius Protocols
18. I’m A Free Man!
19. Skip Arrives
20. Pent TV - News Bed
21. Accusations
22. The Spare Key
23. The Red Robes
24. Pent TV - Ident 2
25. Ken’s Turning Point
26. The Box - Sting Horn
27. Hall Of Mirrors
28. The Box 3
29. Ken On Trial
30. Bruce Takes Control
31. Patty To The Rescue!
32. War Council
33. I’m Sorry
34. Bruce’s Plan
35. Enter Mentor
36. Mentor Reboot
37. Murder Montage
38. Pent TV - Ident 3
39. I’m Just A Local News Guy
40. Reilly All Along
41. Lakeside Conversation
42. Get The Canadian!
43. The People Are Too Stupid
44. Charge Of The Liechtenstein Guard
45. Don’t Move Or The Sheila Gets It!
46. The World Has Changed
47. Pent TV - Orange Alert
48. The Box - Ken Into Kentor
49. Kentor Start Up
50. The Box - The Septaverate

Top Boy is a British television crime drama series, created and written by Ronan Bennett. The story follows two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty streets of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler. It stars Ashley Walters, Kane Robinson, and the 2020 BAFTA Rising Star Award-winning Michael Ward. The first two seasons aired between 2011 and 2013, but following interest from rapper Drake, Netflix announced in 2017 that it would revive the series. Co-produced by the Hotline Bling-rapper, the third and fourth season of Top Boy launched in 2019 and 2022.

In the captivating Netflix series Top Boy, Brian Eno’s transcendent music serves as a vital companion, molding the narrative’s essence with its ethereal power. With a masterful touch, Eno’s atmospheric compositions effortlessly transport us into the gritty world of crime, friendship, and survival in East London. From delicate ambience to pulsating beats, his sonic tapestry envelops every scene, elevating the storytelling and evoking a range of emotions. Eno’s singular ability to capture the struggle, hope, and inner strength of the characters accentuates the raw authenticity of Top Boy, leaving an indelible mark on its viewers. His haunting melodies and intricately crafted soundscapes symbolize the unyielding resilience amidst chaos, making Brian Eno’s music an integral and unforgettable component of this groundbreaking series.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Top Boy Theme
2. But Not This Way
3. Damp Bones
4. Cutting Room I
5. Floating On Sleep's Shore

Side B
1. Beauty And Danger
2. Beneath The Sea
3. Afraid Of Things
4. Waiting In Darkness
5. The Fountain King
6. Washed Away In Morocco

Side C
1. Overground
2. Watching The Watcher
3. Sweet Dark Section
4. Sky Blue Alert

Side D
1. Delirious Circle
2. Cutting Room Ii
3. Dangerous Landscape
4. The Good Fight

Based on the critically acclaimed video game of the same name developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation® platforms, The Last of Us is written and executive produced by co-creators Craig Mazin (Emmy® Award-winning creator of HBO’s “Chernobyl”) and Neil Druckmann (creator and writer of the award-winning “The Last of Us” franchise and Naughty Dog Co-President). The Last of Us takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed by a viral outbreak. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heart-breaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.

The vinyl release to the acclaimed series contains soundtrack highlights from the show. Featured are score tracks by composer Gustavo Santaolalla, with additional music by David Fleming as well as songs by Depeche Mode, Pearl Jam, Jessica Mazin & Nick Offerman.

The package contains 2x vinyl, standard weight at 140g, 1x green and 1x clear, a double-sided poster of the show’s key art, spot gloss and soft touch on the gatefold and an insert featuring liner notes by Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin, Gustavo Santaolalla & David Fleming and images from the show.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
1. The Last Of Us
2. Get Out
3. All Gone
4. The Quarantine Zone
5. Don't Look
6. Forsaken
7. Breaching The Wall
8. Hope
9. Haven
10. Resolve
Side B:
1. The Swarm
2. Long Long Time By Nick Offerman
3. It Can't Last (Sunset)
4. Raiders
5. Longing
6. All Gone (Affliction)
7. Vanishing Grace
8. All Gone (Purpose)
9. All Gone (Isolation)
10. Warning Signs
11. Salvation
12. Subterranean
13. The Last Of Us (Prevail)
14. Bravery
Side C:
1. Survive
2. A Great Man
3. All Gone (Flashbacks)
4. Never Let Me Down Again By Jessica Mazin
5. Left Behind (Together)
6. Fleeting
7. Vanishing Grace (Devotion)
8. Never Let Me Down Again By Depeche Mode
9. The Choice
10. Left Behind
Side D:
1. All Gone (Embrace)
2. Complications
3. Collateral
4. Resolve (Isolation)
5. Unbroken
6. All Gone (Elegy)
7. Wounds
8. The Last Of Us (Vengeance)
9. All Gone (In Vain)
10. All Gone (Ephemeral)
11. The Path
12. All Or None By Pearl Jam

Neil Young's OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 is a stunning collection of four albums that begins with the exciting renaissance that came with the release of FREEDOM in 1989, and continues on the unequalled exploration of collections RAGGED GLORY (1990), WELD (1991) and ARC (1991). In many ways, it is a musical travelogue of how Young saw the future and opened up creative worlds for the use of sound and originality which had not been used before.

The OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 is available as a vinyl box set of the original four albums on 9 vinyl LPs and the CD version is now issued on 6 CDs. Like all the reissues in this series, the albums are remastered from the best source available--original analog tape in most cases. For the four albums in the series, this is the first time they have been remastered.

In addition on RAGGED GLORY, the 10-song original album is expanded for this re-issue with 4 rare tracks. “Interstate” and “Don’t Spook The Horse” were both B-sides to singles. “Box Car” and the 12 minute “Born To Run” are both previously unreleased versions

TRACK LISTING

VINYL (9LP SET)
FREEDOM
01 Rockin’ In The Free World (Live Acoustic)
02 Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part 1)
03 Don’t Cry
04 Hangin’ On A Limb
05 Eldorado
06 The Ways Of Love
07 Someday
08 On Broadway
09 Wrecking Ball
10 No More
11 Too Far Gone
12 Rockin’ In The Free World (Electric)

RAGGED GLORY – Smell The Horse
01 Country Home
02 White Line
03 Fuckin’ Up
04 Over And Over
05 Love To Burn
06 Farmer John
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Days That Used To Be
09 Love And Only Love
10 Mother Earth (National Anthem)
11 Interstate
12 Don’t Spook The Horse
13 Box Car
14 Born To Run

WELD
01 Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
02 Crime In The City
03 Blowin’ In The Wind
04 Welfare Mothers
05 Love To Burn
06 Cinnamon Girl
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Fuckin’ Up
09 Cortez The Killer
10 Powderfinger
11 Love And Only Love
12 Rockin’ In The Free World
13 Like A Hurricane
14 Farmer John
15 Tonight’s The Night
16 Roll Another Number

ARC
Arc (A Compilation Composition)

CD (6CD SET)
FREEDOM
01 Rockin’ In The Free World (Live Acoustic)
02 Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part 1)
03 Don’t Cry
04 Hangin’ On A Limb
05 Eldorado
06 The Ways Of Love
07 Someday
08 On Broadway
09 Wrecking Ball
10 No More
11 Too Far Gone
12 Rockin’ In The Free World (Electric)

RAGGED GLORY – Smell The Horse
01 Country Home
02 White Line
03 Fuckin’ Up
04 Over And Over
05 Love To Burn
06 Farmer John
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Days That Used To Be
09 Love And Only Love
10 Mother Earth (National Anthem)
11 Interstate
12 Don’t Spook The Horse
13 Box Car
14 Born To Run

WELD
01 Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
02 Crime In The City
03 Blowin’ In The Wind
04 Welfare Mothers
05 Love To Burn
06 Cinnamon Girl
07 Mansion On The Hill
08 Fuckin’ Up
09 Cortez The Killer
10 Powderfinger
11 Love And Only Love
12 Rockin’ In The Free World
13 Like A Hurricane
14 Farmer John
15 Tonight’s The Night
16 Roll Another Number

ARC
Arc (A Compilation Composition)

Originally released in 2005, "Tryshasla" is the second "Perennial" series release and was the second studio album by Dutch producer Secede. 

Lennard van der Last, better known in electronic music circles as Secede, has always remained an elusive character, preferring to prioritise to his work in the studio. Although "Tryshasla" is unanimously heralded as his finest work, throughout his career Lennard has continually demonstrated his unique ability in producing venerated musical pieces.

Upon its original release on CD by Dutch label Sending Orbs, "Tryshasla" immediately became a benchmark album and featured in many independent lists of that year. Lapsus Records is bestowed with the honour of pressing this masterpiece in a collector format: a double tricolor vinyl pack, remastered by Xavier Alarcón and accompanied by a lithographic original art print from illustrator Jeroen Advocaat.

"Tyshasla" continues to sound as current and relevant as ever. It is an album with a powerful ambient spirit, replete with micro-passages in which field recordings and piano phrasing form its core sound, but which also include styles such as IDM, drum and bass and even trip-hop. As if this were not enough, Reimer Eising - Lapsus' beloved label contributor Kettel - collaborates on one of the albums integral tracks, "Leraine".

TRACK LISTING

A1. Hospital Requiem
A2. Foliage Pathway
A3. Leraine (with Kettel)
B1. The Realms Of Sanda
B2. The King Of Sanda
C1. Born In A Tropical Swamp
C2. Kingdom Of Hearts
D1. Friday Fall
D2. Terata
D3. Shrine
D4. We No Longer Need Ourselves

For 1971’s Black Unity, Pharaoh Sanders added groove to foundation of spiritual and free jazz he had explored on his previous Impulse! albums. The result is a piercing and emotive 37-minute rhythm-driven title track exploration of African, Latin, aborigine and Native American sounds. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Black Unity – Part 1
Side B
2. Black Unity – Part 2

This excellent 1965 album from the always versatile Yusef Lateef runs the gamut musically, from the Coltrane influenced “Semi-Octo” to soulful reads of standards from Hammerstein/Kern, Fats Waller and Erik Satie, and a beautifully rendered original ‘Bamboo Flute Blues’. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Psychicemotus
2. Flute Blues
3. Semiocto
4. Why Do I Love You?
Side B
5. First Gymnopedie
6. Medula Sonata
7. I’ll Always Be In Love With You
8. Ain’t Misbehavin’

Robert Glasper’s 2005 Blue Note debut Canvas signaled the arrival of a singular new voice in jazz and his 2007 follow-up In My Element solidified his status as a rising star who was taking the music someplace new. Featuring bassist Vicente Archer & drummer Damion Reid, the album expanded the possibilities of where a modern jazz piano trio might go by delving further into his hip-hop & gospel roots.

This 2-LP Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

The sound of Blue Note had been embedded in hip-hop thru sampling & remixes since its early days but Madlib raised the bar when the DJ, producer, rapper & multi-instrumentalist invaded the Blue Note vaults for his 2003 masterpiece Shades of Blue, a visionary album featuring remixes & reimaginations of classics by Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Ronnie Foster, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter & more.

This 2-LP Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal

Japanese Telecom (aka Dopplereffekt / Der Zyklus) first outing recorded at the end of the 90's and officially released in 1999. A sonic exploration of the culture and technologies that influence daily life in one of the most advanced countries on this globe, the land of the rising sun. As a recurring theme in Heinrich Muellers work, the Japanese Telecom EP takes inspiration from the exciting culture of the upcoming internet, robots, high speed trains and game culture from a future past and combines this with Detroit's hi-tech machine funk. Remastered and re-issued for the first time since its original release.

STAFF COMMENTS

Patrick says: Clone's Aqualung Series plunge deeper into the Drexciyan waters here, bringing us a much needed reissue of Gerald Donald's first album under the Japanese Telecom alias. Though perhaps not as polished as 2001's 'Virtual Geisha', it's still a vital piece of electro history with a dope Castlevanian aesthetic.

TRACK LISTING

01 Rising Sun
02 Japanese Animation
03 Asian Amazons
04 Character Maps
05 Game Player
06 Nipponese Robots
07 Kubi
08 Bullet Train

The mystery series ‘1899’ was created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese (‘Dark’), and streamed on Netflix worldwide. A migrant steamship heads west to leave the old continent. The passengers are a mixed bag of European origin, united by their hopes and dreams for the new century and their future abroad. But their journey takes an unexpected turn when they discover another migrant ship adrift on open sea. What they will find on board will turn their passage to the promised land into a horrifying nightmare.

Ben Frost is a composer, producer, sound artist and director. His work includes the studio albums ‘Theory of Machines’ (2007), ‘By The Throat’ (2009), ‘A U R O R A’ (2014) and ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’ (2017), and spans an array of other forms including installations, live performance, scores for dance, theatre and various studio collaborations. He has composed several scores for film, including the Palme d’Or nominated ‘Sleeping Beauty’, the TV series ‘Fortitude’ and ‘Dark’. Most recently he composed the score for ‘Raised By Wolves’ with director Ridley Scott and wrote and directed ‘The Murder of Halit Yozgat’, an opera for the Hannover Staatsoper. He also recently scored ‘Broken Spectre’, a new installation piece made with long term artistic collaborators Richard Mosse and Trevor Tweeten, which premiered at the National Gallery of Victoria in October.

TRACK LISTING

CD
Wake Up!
Ellas Están Escuchando
Les Secrets De L'Univers
Kapitän
Reality, Or A Construct Of One
Mainframe
Djævlen Kalder På Dem
At Hjælpe Hendes Sjæl På Vej
Wirus Się Rozprzestrzenia
This Can't Be Real
Nína
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Blanck Mass (Fuck Buttons, Benjamin J Power, The Editors) scored the new Amazon Prime series ‘The Rig’, staring Iain Glen and Emily Hampshire.When the crew of the North Sea stationed Kinloch Bravo oil rig is due to return to the mainland, a mysterious fog rolls in and cuts off communication with the outside world. The crew are then driven to the limits of their endurance and loyalties are forced into a confrontation with forces beyond their imagination.

“With ‘The Rig’ being the first TV show I have scored, I feel lucky to have worked with the team behind the show on a score which to my mind is my most concise and unified palette-wise in recent memory,” says Power. “The setting of the physical oil rig presented a very specific visual and sonic identity for me. The creaks and groans of the giant metal sculpture and how it is in a constant battle with the nature fed itself into the scoring process. This score is perhaps my most elemental to date and it was a joy to work on.”

TRACK LISTING

The Rig (Main Titles)
Wake Up
Omen
Fossils Digging Fossils
Flesh Meets Floor
Vision
Ghost
Helideck
S.B.V Lights
Body, Rejecting
Circles
Leck
Search For Hutton
Spiderdeck
Alwyn / Discovery
Surrender
No Fire Without Flare
We’ll Bring Him In
Survivors, Arriving
Person Unknown
Don’t Let Him Out Of Your Sight
ROV
The Altar
Fissures Spread
Sleep Tight
The Charlie
Rose Takes Control
Bigger Than All Of Us
It’s Quitting Time
System Priming
Life Remains In Life
The Wave
The Rig (End Credits)

One of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Alice Coltrane’s fourth Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. "Almost 50 years after [it] was released, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out." (NPR)

Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Journey In Satchidananda
2. Shiva-Loka
3. Stopover Bombay
Side B
1. Something About John Coltrane
2. Isis And Osiris (rec. Live)

Black feminist punk band Big Joanie have announced their upcoming second album 'Back Home', set for release on Daydream Library Series in the UK and Kill Rock Stars in the US.

The brand new album 'Back Home' follows on from last month's one-off single 'Happier Still', and the release of their 2020 single ‘Cranes in the Sky’, a cover of Solange Knowles released on Jack White’s Third Man Records. Recorded at Hermitage Works Studios in North London, 'Back Home' was produced and mixed by Margo Broom (Goat Girl, Fat White Family) and features violin courtesy of Charlotte Valentine of the experimental art rock project No Home, who recently collaborated with the LA-based artist SASAMI. 'Back Home' is a dramatic leap forward for the band; the band build on their tightly knit, lo-fi punk formula to bring forth a collage of blazing guitars, down tempo dance punk, and melancholic strings that evoke the full depth of the band’s expansive art punk vision. The album title references a search for a place to call home, whether real or metaphysical. “We were really ruminating on the idea of a home and what it means,” explains Stephanie. “It’s about the different ideas of home, whether that’s here in the UK, back in Africa or the Caribbean, or a place that doesn’t really exist; it’s neither here nor there."

The band worked with multidisciplinary artist Angelica Ellis to design the striking embroidered cover art, which is a depiction of Chardine’s nephew at the barbers. The artwork is a reference to the embroidered wall hangings popular in Caribbean homes post-Windrush that were a callback to the homes they left behind. The album’s strength lies in the band’s bold and varied new sound. Album opener ‘Cactus Tree’ is an eerie, gothic folk tale that tells the story of a woman waiting for her lover while a wall of euphoric harmonies and screaming feedback roll in the background.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Big Joanie are back! This time forging on from their blistering debut, 2018's 'Sistahs' to an ever more ferocious and thematically diverse follow-up. Drawing influence from all over the musical spectrum, 'Back Home' is an accomplished and hugely enjoyable slice of art-rock tinged post-punk.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cactus Tree
2. Taut
3. Confident Man
4. What Are You Waiting For?
5. In My Arms
6. Your Words
7. Count To Ten
8. Happier Still
9. Insecure
10. Today
11. I Will
12. In My Arms (Reprise)
13. Sainted

The complete Bob Dylan Fragments January 2023Time Out of Mind Sessions (19961997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 will be available as a deluxe box set in a 5CD edition. Also available, a twodisc/4LP standard edition of Fragments which includes the Time Out of Mind 2022 remix disc and a disc of twelve select Outtakes and Alternates highlights.

The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series takes a fresh look at Time Out of Mind, Dylan's midcareer masterpiece, celebrating the album and its enduring impact 25 years after its original release on September 30, 1997.

Fragments Time Out of Mind Sessions (19961997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17 follows the evolution of songs written for the album, from intimate early incarnations in the previously unreleased 1996 Teatro sessions featuring Dylan (vocals, guitar, and piano), Daniel Lanois and Tony Mangurian (guitar and organ), Tony Garnier (bass) (drums and percussion) through incandescent live renditions (also previously unreleased) showcasing Dylan and his touring ensemble channeling the songs onstage from 1998-2001.

TRACK LISTING

CD Box Set:
Disc One - Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix) 
1. Love Sick
2. Dirt Road Blues
3. Standing In The Doorway
4. Million Miles
5. Tryin
6. 'Til ' To Get To Heaven I Fell In Love With You
7. Not Dark Yet
8. Cold Irons Bound
9. Make You Feel My Love
10. Can't Wait
11. Highlands

Disc Two - Dreamin Outtakes And Alternates
1. The Water Is Wide (8/19/96, Teatro)
2. ' Of You (10/1/96, Teatro)
3. Red River Shore
4. Love Sickversion 1 (9/26/96, Teatro) Version 1 (1/14/97, Criteria Studios)
5. 'Til I Fell In Love With You
6. Not Dark Yet –– Version 1 (10/3/96, Teatro) Version 1 (1/11/97, Criteria Studios)
7. Can't Wait Version 1 (1/21/97, Criteria Studios)
8. Dirt Road Blues
9. Mississippi Version 1 (1/12/97, Criteria Studios) Version 1 (1/11/97, Criteria Studios)
10. 'Til I Fell In Love With You
11. Standing In The Doorway
12. Tryin ' To Get To Heaven ––version 2 (1/16/97, Criteria Studios) Version 1 (1/13/97, Criteria Studios) Version 1 (1/18/97, Criteria Studios)
13. Cold Irons Bound (1/9/97, Criteria Studios)

Disc Three – Outtakes And Alternates
1. Love Sick–version 2 (1/14/97, Criteria Studios)
2. Dirt Road Blues –version 2 (1/20/97, Criteria Studios)
3. Can't Wait–version 2 (1/14/97, Criteria Studios)
4. Red River Shore –version 2 (1/19/97, Criteria Studios)
5. Marchin' To The City (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
6. Make You Feel My Love –take 1 (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
7. Mississippi –version 2 (1/11/97, Criteria Studios)
8. Standing In The Doorway –version 2 (1/13/97, Criteria Studios)
9. 'TilI Fell In Love With You –version 3 (1/16/97, Criteria Studios)
10. Not Dark Yet –version 2 (1/18/97, Criteria Studios)
11. Tryin' To Get To Heaven –version 2 (1/12/97, Criteria Studios)
12. Highlands (1/16/97, Criteria Studios)

Disc Four – Live (1998-2001)
1. Love Sick(6/24/98, Birmingham, England)
2. Can't Wait (2/6/99, Nashville, Tennessee)
3. Standing In The Doorway (10/6/00, London, England)
4. Million Miles (1/31/98, Atlantic City, New Jersey)
5. Tryin' To Get To Heaven (9/20/00, Birmingham, England)
6. 'TilI Fell In Love With You (4/5/98, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
7. Not Dark Yet (9/22/00, Sheffield, England)
8. Cold Irons Bound (5/19/00, Oslo, Norway)
9. Make You Feel My Love (5/21/98, Los Angeles, California) Previously Released On The "Things Have Changed" Maxi-single
10. Can't Wait (5/19/00, Oslo, Norway)
11. Mississippi (11/15/01, Washington, D.C.)
12. Highlands (3/24/01, Newcastle, Australia)

Disc Five – Bonus Disc (Previously Released On The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare And Unreleased 1989–2006)
1. Dreamin' Of You –Tell Tale Signs(10/1/96, Teatro)
2. Red River Shore –Tell Tale Signs, Version 1 (1/19/97, Criteria Studios)
3. Red River Shore –Tell Tale Signs, Version 2 (1/8/97, Criteria Studios)
4. Mississippi –Tell Tale Signs, Version 1 (9/96, Teatro)
5. Mississippi –Tell Tale Signs, Version 3 (1/17/97, Criteria Studios)
6. Mississippi –Tell Tale Signs, Version 2 (1/17/97, Criteria Studios)
7. Marchin' To The City –Tell Tale Signs, Version 1 (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
8. Marchin' To The City –Tell Tale Signs, Version 2 (1/6/97, Criteria Studios)
9. Can't Wait–Tell Tale Signs, Version 1 (10/1/96, Teatro)
10. Can't Wait–Tell Tale Signs, Version 2 (1/5/97, Criteria Studios)
11. Cold Irons Bound –Tell Tale Signs, Live (6/11/04, Bonnaroo Music Festival)
12. Tryin' To Get To Heaven –Tell Tale Signs, Live (10/5/00, Londo

‘Stranger Things 4 (Original Score From The Netflix Series)’ by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, is now available.

Split over two volumes - this is Volume 2.

“A pretty spectacular score from Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein” - Collider

“A stunningly creepy original score by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein” - Billboard

Score written, performed and produced by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (‘Native Son’, ‘Valley Of The Boom’, ‘Spheres’, ‘Butterfly’, and their band S U R V I V E).

‘Stranger Things’ has won seven Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for 216 various awards, with 77 wins.

Starring Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Sheriff Jim Hopper), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), among many others

‘Stranger Things 4’ is Netflix’s most-viewed English language series of all time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: You synth soundtrack fans are ALWAYS in safe hands with Dixon & Stein (aka Survive). With rich oscillator throbs and tense pads akimbo, it's yet another suite of perfectly manicured soundtrackery that's perfect for the series (obviously) and just as good on the home stereo. Lovely.

TRACK LISTING

A Proper Thump
Hiiiiiiiii
Still Dizzy
Reign Fire From Above
Religious American
Surf That Tasty Pie
Follow Me Into Death
Project Nina
Being Different
Undressing
I Want You To Watch
A Realm Unspoiled By Mankind
Four Gates
Sleeping Dracula
Praying Something Will Happen To me
Stained Glass Roses
One
Gates Of Kamchatka
Top Secret Location
You're The Heart
Sleepyhead
Skull Rock
Spellcaster
You Should Go East
Unfortunate Development
Slashing The Tires
Soteria
ELVIS CLONED BY ALIENS
[delicate, Intense Music Playing…]
Demogorgons In Tanks
The Cure
Patient Confidentiality
Stay Calm, Focus On The Game
It’s Time Max
All Evil Must Have A Home
Flashlights, Flashlights
You Have Already Lost

In the liner notes to this grooving 1969 album, featuring a big band led by drummer Louis Bellson and arranged by Impulse! star Oliver Nelson, the Godfather of Soul explains that he is a “jazz man at heart.” Brown’s soul consigliere, saxophonist Maceo Parker, helps make this a swinging, spirited and satisfying set of standards and JB hits.

Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit..

TRACK LISTING

1. Homestretch (Side A)
2. If You Could See Me Now (Side A)
3. Passin’ The Buck (Side A)
4. Soulin’ (Side B)
5. Soulsphere (Side B)
6. My Secret Passion (Side B)

Guitarist Mel Brown’s 1967 Impulse! debut is possibly both the funkiest and most unique album ever released on the label. Brown’s clean blues picking style—honed while playing in John Lee Hooker’s and T-Bone Walker’s bands—marinates funkily with the swinging soul-jazz organ of Gerald Wiggins. Especially noteworthy are the title track, “Greasy Spoon” and the simmering lament of “I’m Goin’ to Jackson”. Audio transferred from the analog tapes.

Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.

TRACK LISTING

1. Chicken Fat (Side A)
2. Greasy Spoon (Side A)
3. Home James (Side A)
4. Anacrusis (Side A)
5. Hobo Flats (Side B)
6. Shanty (Side B)
7. Sad But True (Side B)
8. I’m Goin’ To Jackson (Side B)
9. Slalom (Side B)

Cowboy Bebop (Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series) is now available on vinyl! Yoko Kanno and the band SEATBELTS, the artists behind the music in the original anime series of Cowboy Bebop, have returned to bring their signature dynamic, jazzy sound to the Netflix live-action show. The resulting compositions are characters themselves - constant companions to the crew of the Bebop and brimming with just as much personality.

COWBOY BEBOP is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. Long on style and perpetually short on cash, bounty hunters Spike, Jet and Faye trawl the solar system looking for jobs. As the crew of the Bebop, they make up a ragtag team that chases down the galaxy's most dangerous criminals. They'll save the world... For the right price!

This release is a treat for Bebop fans in an additional way - it features over twenty new tracks only available on vinyl! This wide release is pressed on red marble vinyl discs in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves. 

TRACK LISTING

A1. A Day In The Bebop*
A2. Kickin' Colt
A3. A Hole To The Universe*
A4. What Planet Is This??*
A5. Twilight*
A6. Weekend Ana*
A7. Julia's Song
A8. The Adventures Of Losers
B1. Rouge*
B2. Sleuthing Two*
B3. Suit And Tie*
B4. Funky Stuff
B5. Faye's Sky Fall*
B6. Time*
B7. IKA Pod*
B8. Net Rush
B9. Headphone*
B10. Ein*
B11. Waltz In High Socks
B12. Beans Be
C1. TANK!
C2. Cat Attack Part 1
C3. Dedicated To Sergio*
C4. Woodcock
C5. Rooftop Kung Fu
C6. Milky Cheat
C7. My Bean At 5*
C8. Blood Brothers
D1. Sad End Fad*
D2. Muddy Road*
D3. Lord Of The Empty
D4. Sushi Truck*
D5. Into Noir*
D6. The End Of Friendship*
D7. The Fate Of Three
D8. Earthland Entrance*
D9. El Rey Bar*
D10. Hello To Ya Blues*

*Vinyl Exclusive Track 

Recorded for Berry Gordy's short-lived Workshop Jazz imprint and recorded at the Hitsville USA studio, Roy Brooks (joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohanon and Hugh Lawson, along with his Horace Silver Quintet bandmates Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor) injects a Motor City soul-jazz groove into the hard bop root of this engaging 1964 album. Audio transferred from the analog tapes.

Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.

TRACK LISTING

1. Homestretch (Side A)
2. If You Could See Me Now (Side A)
3. Passin’ The Buck (Side A)
4. Soulin’ (Side B)
5. Soulsphere (Side B)
6. My Secret Passion (Side B)

Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4 will include key music covering various classic eras and styles as featured in "Stranger Things 4." The soundtrack album is conceptualized and produced by The Duffer Brothers and Nora Felder (Grammy and Emmy nominee Nora Felder has served as music supervisor for "Stranger Things" since the show's inception and was nominated for a Music Supervision Grammy the first year the category was recognized by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences). The compilation album is produced by The Duffer Brothers and 2x Grammy nominee Timothy J. Smith.

"Stranger Things 4" is scheduled to be released worldwide exclusively via Netflix's streaming service in two volumes, with the first set for May 27, 2022, and the second five weeks later on July 1, 2022. The fourth season will have nine episodes and has continued to be produced by the show's creators the Duffer Brothers, along with Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Iain Paterson.

TRACK LISTING

1. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Bryce Miller/Alloy Tracks Remix) - Journey
2. California Dreamin' - The Beach Boys
3. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
4. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush
5. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
6. Chica Mejicanita - Mae Arnette
7. Play With Me - Extreme
8. Detroit Rock City (Single Version) - KISS
9. I Was A Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps
10. Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth
11. Wipe Out - The Surfaris
12. Object Of My Desire (Single Version) - Starpoint
13. Rock Me Amadeus (The Gold Mix) - Falco
14. Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson
15. Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
16. Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
17. Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo (Single Version) - Rick Derringer
18. Fire And Rain - James Taylor
19. Spellbound - Siouxsie And The Banshees
20. Master Of Puppets - Metallica
21. When It's Cold I'd Like To Die (featuring Mimi Goese) - Moby
22. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Steve Perry & Bryce Miller Extended Remix) - Journey

The first thing that strikes you about Kenny Burrell’s second Blue Note album, Kenny Burrell, is the cover, which features an illustration by Andy Warhol. The second is the striking music, which is drawn from four different sessions recorded in 1956 with the guitarist featured in a variety of settings.

This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.

Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow are known for their scores for the Ivor Novello Award winning ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Devs’, along with their work on ‘Annihilation’, ‘Free Fire’, ‘HANNA’ and more.

Inspired by the popular podcast of the same name, ‘Archive 81’ depicts the life of a man who comes across videotapes full of a mysterious woman’s adventures in an even more mysterious apartment building. What seemed to be an ordinary job turns into a nightmare as the strange creature that took the woman’s life in the past seems to have found a way back to him 25 years in the future.

TRACK LISTING

CD
Archive 81 - Titles
The Visser Ritual
Tape Cleaning
Losing Track Of Time
Jess Opens Up
Journey To The Compound
Seizure
Ghost Story / Cracking The Code
Otherside
Mold
Someone In There
Séance
Cameras
The Greenstone Totem
Dan’s Theme
I’m A Spirit Receiver
Church Seizure / The Compound
The Cult Of Kaelego
A Connection Through Time
Tamara’s Opera
Dan’s First Lucid Dream
I Need To Find Her
Pep Talk
Going Rogue
Fucking Smothering Me
The Ritual Space Recreated
Song Of The Otherworld
What Are You Playing?
Stay Out
Archive 81 - Credits

Archive 81 - Titles
The Visser Ritual
Tape Cleaning
Losing Track Of Time
Jess Opens Up
Journey To The Compound
The Greenstone Totem
Dan’s First Lucid Dream
Otherside
Song Of The Otherworld
Someone In There
Séance
Cameras
Dan’s Theme
Tamara’s Opera
I Need To Find Her
The Ritual Space Recreated
Stay Out
Archive 81 - Credits

Music For Healing is a series of long form tracks to aid stress and anxiety relief in these challenging times.

Now available on vinyl for the first time this edition collects The Longform Series 5-8.

The series totals four hours of listening time. Use them as background ambience, as immersive deep listening, in combination with meditation or any other practice. Music For Healing tracks are crafted and recorded in real time with no Artificial Intelligence involved.

Neil Young announces the release of the fourth installment in his Official Release Series (ORS): a box set that includes his classic ‘80s records Hawks & Doves, Re•ac•tor, and This Note’s for You, as well as his Eldorado EP, previously released only in Japan and Australia. Both vinyl and CD box sets will be available for pre-order today and out on April 29th.

The ORS Vol 4 collects an eclectic set of decade-spanning sounds. Hawks & Doves (1980) revisits his folk roots and explores some of his most country-leaning offerings; the blistering Re•ac•tor (1981) showcases a stomping set of heavy, overdriven rock with Crazy Horse; and This Note’s for You (1988) casts Young as a big band leader, belting out intricately arranged blues. The Eldorado EP (1989) is full of feral distortion and earthy crunch featuring Young backed by The Restless (Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas). It includes two thundering tracks — “Cocaine Eyes” and “Heavy Love”— not available on any other album.

ORS Vol 4 collects a large swath of his diverse and compelling ‘80s work, testifying to the legendary songwriter’s gift for sonic shape-shifting.

TRACK LISTING

LP1
Hawks & Doves:
01 Little Wing
02 The Old Homestead
03 Lost In Space
04 Captain Kennedy
05 Stayin’ Power
06 Coastline
07 Union Man
08 Comin’ Apart At Every Nail
09 Hawks & Doves

LP2
Re•ac•tor
01 Opera Star
02 Surfer Joe And Moe The Sleaze
03 T-Bone
04 Get Back On It
05 Southern Pacific
06 Motor City
07 Rapid Transit
08 Shots

LP3
This Note’s For You
01 Ten Men Workin’
02 This Note’s For You
03 Coupe De Ville
04 Life In The City
05 Twilight
06 Married Man
07 Sunny Inside
08 Can’t Believe Your Lyin’
09 Hey Hey
10 One Thing

LP4
Eldorado
01 Cocaine Eyes
02 Don’t Cry
03 Heavy Love
04 On Broadway
05 Eldorado

Music For Healing is a series of long form tracks to aid stress and anxiety relief in these challenging times.

Now available on vinyl for the first time this edition collects The Longform Series 1-4.

The series totals four hours of listening time. Use them as background ambience, as immersive deep listening, in combination with meditation or any other practice. Music For Healing tracks are crafted and recorded in real time with no Artificial Intelligence involved.

Form an orderly queue! The second part of Kelly Lee Owens' "Inner Song" remix series featuring remixes from Haider, Elkka, Yazzus and Roza Terenzi.

Haider adds gliding Reese bass, a hyped up 'Think' break and pure old school jungle flavour to "Jeanette", creating a darkside banger that'll put hairs on your chest - heavy!

Elkka adds ethereal atmos, a pulsating beat and frenetic arpeggios to "On", transforming it into a peaktime electro-disco epic that'll find favour on electronic leaning dancefloors throughout clubland.

Yassus injects "L.I.N.E" with urgent footwork and rave energy, a galvanized hybrid that's utilizes high speeds and solid production to summon up an large amount of propulsion and energy.

Finally, one of the hottest stars of techno right now, Roza Terenzi fattens up "Night" with her typically chunky, prog house-influenced beats that rattle and thud and send E'd up dancers into a full on ecstasy!

Not only does Kelly Lee Owens make some of the most inventive and pioneering music out there, she's also got her finger firmly on the pulse when it comes to curating her remix EPs; making these two parts essential collectors items. Don't sleep! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Unmissable KLO remix package with upfront purveyors of house, techno and jungle given freedom to let loose on some of Owen's delicious new tracks.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Jeanette (Haider Remix)
2. On (Elkka Remix)

Side B
1. L.I.N.E (Yazzus Remix)
2. Night (Roza Terenzi Remix)

Form an orderly queue! It's another limited edition 12" from Kelly Lee Owens with remixes for the critically acclaimed album “Inner Song”. Part 1 features remixes from Loraine James, Breaka and Coby Sey.

James tackles the stems of "Wake Up" with a gross intensity, utilizing the latest cut-up software to re-mangle, stretch and skew the track into a punctuated, holographic refraction of its former self.

Breaka adds gliding subs, hi-tek breaks and lashings of electricity as he remixes "Re-Wild" into a club-ready future-garage beast destined for the big rooms.

Finally leftfield weirdo Coby Sey adds some black magick to "Corner Of My Sky"; a sonic cauldron of strange sounds seeping over tuned tribal toms and John Cale's haunting vocal part. Another excellent addition to Kelly’s multi-dimensional discography. Top stuff. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Wake Up (Loraine James Remix)
2. Re-Wild (Breaka Remix)

Side B
1. Corner Of My Sky Ft. John Cale (Coby Sey Remix)

The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series revisits an often-forgotten, rich vein in Dylan’s vast and complex catalog, shining fresh light on the provocative new musical directions Dylan was taking as a songwriter and a recording artist from 1980 through 1985. In the early 1980s, while the music industry was grappling with the arrival of new trends and technology, from MTV to compact discs to digital recording, Bob Dylan was writing and recording new songs for a new decade, creating an essential new chapter in his studio catalog. Bob Dylan - Springtime In New York (1980-1985) celebrates the rich creative period surrounding Dylan's albums Shot Of Love, Infidels, and Empire Burlesque with previously unreleased outtakes, alternate takes, rehearsal recordings, live performances and more. 

Flexi is a record store and music label based in Italy and run by Simone and Lorenzo. Over the years, Flexi have gained both the respect and recognition of the music scene, earned by almost forty years of experience in the world of music and with the support of many DJs, artists and fans

Finally the camp return with a new 12" in the “Velvet Series”. Featuring six acts that are completely new to me (bonus) and seemingly representing the best new primtive house, atmospheric techno and moody electro that Europe has to offer.

The A side opening is by Bologna-based Brine, with “YR Body”, providing a wobbly Juno bassline and catchy HOUSE vox; nicely shuffled for extra wiggle. Then we have “Benerice" from Daughters and Sons (aka Luca Fronza) who throws us into a beautiful, Detroit-inspired analog jam rich with synth work and interesting;y programmed snare & hi-hat patterns.

Sicily man Manuold is up next with an amazingly stylish take on the Italo-house blueprint which reminds oneself of finding a lesser known but incredibly tasty vintage Barolo - yum yum!

On the B side, welcome back the veterans Tengrams (formerly the Piatto brothers from N.O.I.A Records) with the outstanding "Rapid Eye Movement" which traverses across retro-futurist influences and 808 patterns under a dystopian-sci-fi movie theme - wild!

"Dreaming Pad" is by the Calma duo who play with a few elements to build a neverending, slow-techno climax...did you recognise the sample?

The last track is a sort of relaxing downtempo sunset closure complete with bells, from the California producer Gloved Hands, whose relaxed composier and super chilled demenia are the perfect tonic to unwind with after dancing the whole night under the stars.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says:

TRACK LISTING

A1. Brine - Yr Body
A2. Daughters & Sons - Benerice (feat. Miss Daisy)
A3. Manuold - Acid Puff
B1. Tengrams - Rapid Eye Movement
B2. Calma - Dreaming Pad
B3. Gloved Hands Rice Cracker

Archive Series Volume No. 5: Tallahassee is the lost-in-time debut album from Iron & Wine. A collection of songs recorded three years prior to his official Sub Pop debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle (2002). A period before the concept of Iron & Wine existed and principal songwriter Sam Beam was studying at Florida State University with the intent of pursuing a career in film. Tallahassee documents the very first steps on a journey that would lead to a career as one of America’s most original and distinctive singer-songwriters.

Creek arrived like a thief in the night with its lo-fi, hushed vocals and intimate nature, while almost inversely Tallahassee comes with a strange sense of confidence. Perhaps an almost youthful discretion that likely comes from being too young to know better and too naïve to give a shit. The recordings themselves are more polished than Creek and give a peak into what a studio version of that record might have offered up.

Tallahassee was recorded over the course of 1998-1999 when Beam and future bandmate EJ Holowicki moved into a house together. Beam had not been performing publicly, however he was known for playing an original song or two in the early morning glow of a long night. Holowicki also in the film program and who would go onto a career as a sound designer at Skywalker Sound, had a mobile recording device and after some prodding convinced his friend to record these late-night meditations.

Together they would record close to twenty-four songs, ideas and sketches, with EJ on bass and Sam on vocals, guitar, harmonica and drums. The recordings – all captured in the house where they lived – have a “live in the room” feel akin to say Neil Young’s Harvest or Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left, rather than the homespun lo-fi 4-track home recording experiment taking place at the time.

These recordings, minus one track, have never been made available and were instead left preserved on a hard drive for the last twenty years. The one track that floated out there, called “In Your Own Time” was shared without a title to childhood friend Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses) at some point. The song became known as the “Fuck Like A Dog” song and Ben shared it with more than a few folks during the golden era of mix cd’s. Two of those folks were Jonathan Poneman from Sub Pop and journalist Mike McGonigal, who included it on his best songs of 2001 mix cd, passed out to friends and acquaintances. And for many that is where the Iron & Wine story begins, until now…

Tallahassee is the foreword to your favorite book that you’ve somehow skipped over time and time again. It’s an alternative history mixed with some revisionist history told over the course of eleven songs. It’s also the debut record by Iron & Wine some twenty years after the fact. 

TRACK LISTING

Why Hate The Winter
This Solemn Day
Loaning Me Secrets
John's Glass Eye
Calm On The Valley
Ex-Lover Lucy Jones
Elizabeth
Show Him The Ground
Straight And Tall
Cold Town
Valentine

"What's Growing" is the second album by Wurld Series, an indie rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand. Christchurch is a city home to a strong DIY music ethic, traceable back to the beginning of labels such as Flying Nun and Xpressway. Wurld Series have been at the forefront of a continuation of this approach since the mid 2010's and are known locally for their skewed pop sensibility and lo-fi production aesthetic. The songs contained in "What's Growing" are submerged within reeling guitar, hypnotic mellotron and meditative drones. Lyrical themes include post-apocalyptic living, extraterrestrial visitation, TV game show monsters and the workplace as a dreamlike medieval dystopia. At times traces of Tall Dwarfs or The 3Ds can be heard. More obvious American 90's indie rock influences are also evident, alongside a clear strain of unsettling, pastoral British psych folk that runs throughout the album.

Milan Records is pleased to release this stunning double, coloured LP Vinyl edition of the soundtrack to the hit anime series Cowboy Bepop. Originally aired in 1998, Cowboy Bebop became a critical and commercial success both in Japanese and international markets (most notably in the United States), garnered several major anime and science fiction awards upon its release, and received wide acclaim for its style, characters, story, voice acting, animation, and soundtrack. Seatbelts’s repertoire covers not only jazz but also rock, electronic, funk, blues, heavy metal, country and Jpop. 

TRACK LISTING

Tank!
Rush
Pokey Dokey
Bad Dog No Biscuits
Cat Blues
Cosmos
Space Lion
Waltz For Zizi
Piano Black
Pot City
Too Good Too Bad
Car 24
The Egg And I
Felt Tip Pen
Rain
Digging My Potato
Memory
What Planet Is This?
Diamonds
Mushroom Hunting
Einstein Groovin’
Pearls

This is the original score to Devs by Ben Salisbury, The Insects and Geoff Barrow. It includes all 37 tracks from the stunning score. Ben Salisbury says, "As with all of Alex's projects, we started working on ideas for the music after reading the scripts, and as well as being blown away by the material, we knew the music would need to reflect the strong religious thread that runs through story, and that we would need a number of developing themes that had a warped devotional vibe to them. But the music also needed to work with the thriller and tension side of things and the moments of outright horror, as well as sitting alongside the sheer beauty and scale of the amazing cinematography and set design. Crucially, the score also had to reflect and emphasise the human and emotional aspects of a story that is ultimately about grief and love.”

TRACK LISTING

Plainsong
Stranger Danger
Amaya Corporation
Entering Devs / The Machine
Stealing The Code
Two Concurrent States (Plainsong Part 2)
Tramlines
Were You Listening?
Suffocation
You're Fired
Christ
Sudoku
Amaya's Theme (Version 1)
The Visualisation Chamber
Reporting A Crime
All Possible Worlds
I'm A Tank
Specifically You
Crash No Crash
Stay In My Bed
Object Input
All Buddies Now
Keep Extrapolating
Someone Crazy
Ad Infinitum Ad Nauseam
Aubade
You Were Counting In Russian
Cause And Effect
Aftermath
The Universe Is Deterministic (Plainsong Part 3)
The Day Will Break
The Second Coming
Resurrection
Your System Breaks
This Is Where You Say Goodbye
Predetermined
Amaya's Theme (Version 2)

This is Thurston Moore’s seventh solo album, and features musicians Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine) on bass and backing vocals, Jon Leidecker aka ‘Wobbly’ (of Negativland) on electronics, James Sedwards on guitar, and Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, as well as Jem Doulton, alternating on drums. ‘Hashish’ is the first single from the album to be released and is described by Moore as “an ode to the narcotic of love in our shared responsibility to each other during isolation." The song includes a video with footage from The Thurston Moore Group’s tour in early 2020 in Europe, as well as footage of Thurston quarantined in his home during the past few months “with respect to the sacred healing truth of nature.”

Prior to isolation during the COVID pandemic, Thurston worked in recording studios in North London until the third week of March 2020 to complete this album for release on September 5, 2020. While the musicians may not immediately tour, Thurston was adamant to release BY THE FIRE in 2020, and with Daydream Library, has released this quote: ​BY THE FIRE is music in flames.

2020 is our time for radical change and collective awareness and Thurston Moore has written nine songs of enlightenment, released to a world on fire. Taking a cue from Albert Ayler's "music is the healing force of the universe", this recording offers songs as flames of rainbow energy, where the power of love becomes our call. These are love songs in a time where creativity is our dignity, our demonstration against the forces of oppression. BY THE FIRE is a gathering, a party of peace—songs in the heat of the moment.

Some of the songs feature all of the musicians whist a few are solo guitar and vocals.

BY THE FIRE is released on The Daydream Library Series record label which was founded in 2018 especially to release London Afro-punk feminist trio Big Joanie’s debut album ‘Sistahs’.

TRACK LISTING

1. Hashish (5:54)
2. Cantaloupe (4:44)
3. Breath (10:54)
4. Siren (12:20)
5. Calligraphy (5:20)
6. Locomotives (16:50)
7. Dreamers Work (4:53)
8. They Believe In Love (When They Look At You) (7:49)
9. Venus (14:20) Instrumental

‘A Series Of Sneaks’, Spoon's second studio album, released in 1998.
Newly recut from the original masters.

“Hints at the possibility of perfection” – Pitchfork.

‘A Series Of Sneaks’ is released as part of the Slay On Cue series, which will see the reissue of the band’s first eight records in original editions - Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002), Gimme Fiction (2005), Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007) and Transference (2010).

“Some of these albums haven’t been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out,” says frontman Britt Daniel.

TRACK LISTING

Utilitarian
The Minor Tough
Execution
Reservations
30 Gallon Tank
Car Radio
Metal Detektor
June's Foreign Spell
Chloroform
Metal School
Staring At The Board
No You're Not
Quincy Punk Episode
Advance Cassette

Originally released in 2007 This was Thurston's first solo outing since 1995's Psychic Hearts.

From original 2007 Press release: “Thurston recorded primarily on acoustic guitar and bass, laying down the core of the tunes with drummer compatriot Sonic Youth's Steve Shelly and violinist Samara Lubelski, a noted player from MV/EE and The Golden Road, Hall of Fame and other awesome gatherings as well as solo artiste. Thurston grabbed John Agnello to record and mix the sucker after having a helluva good time with the bro from working on Sonic Youth's 2006 killer Rather Ripped. They decided to work in Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis' Bisquiteen studio (the top floor in J's Amherst house actually) where Dino did their Beyond album. This worked out very nicely as it allowed Thurston to yell down the stairs every time he needed a shredding guitar solo and J would trundle up, plug in and BURN.

Other guests on "trees outside..." are Christina Carter, she of Charalambides, and she of the most beatific, beautific voice on land, sea and air. One track called Honest James has Thurston and Christina singing duet against a single acoustic guitar and it is a naked groove. The otherworldly Canadian musician Andrew Macgregor aka "Gown" plays some spectacularly understated and incredible guitar and Sunburned Hand of The Man's John Moloney takes over the drum stool to absolutely flail on the pit snarling Wonderful Witches. And then there's the 20 seconds or so of primal noise wave courtesy of American noise underground genius Leslie Keffer on Off Work. Most of the tunes are lyric driven but there are a couple of majestic instrumentals like Trees Outside The Academy, which brings the album to a musical and breathless close. There's also some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early 70s making some kind of sound-theatre.” 

TRACK LISTING

1. Frozen Gtr
2. The Shape Is In A Trance
3. Honest James
4. Silver>Blue
5. Fri/End
6. American Coffin
7. Wonderful Witches
8. Off Work
9. Never Day
10. Free Noise Among Friends
11. Trees Outside The Academy
12. Thurston@13

The soundtrack to Shane Meadows’ ‘The Virtues’, which screened on Channel 4 in May / June 2019, features six original pieces of music by PJ Harvey written for the series and includes tracks used throughout the series, including music by Aphex Twin, MONO, Lisa Hannigan and more.

“I am so happy to have provided the original music for this extraordinary and powerful new drama by a director I have admired and followed all my life. Shane has a unique directness and sensitivity to his work which I am drawn to and aspire to in my own work, so our collaboration was open and trusting. I sent Shane ideas as demos for him to try out as he edited and let him choose what he used and where to the greatest effect. In the end we both loved how the demos worked so left them as they were, adding to the raw beauty of the piece.” - PJ Harvey

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: What better combination could there be than Shane Meadows' singular artistic direction and PJ Harvey's keen soundtracking talents? Beautiful ambient sections and orchestral lushness, terse melodies and PJ's instantly recognisable vox. Lovely.

TRACK LISTING

PJ Harvey - The Lonely Wolf
Lisa Hannigan - Flowers
PJ Harvey - Death
Aphex Twin - Gwely Mernans
Micah P. Hinson - Beneath The Rose
PJ Harvey - Submerge
Toydrum - Jesus Song (Rival Consoles Rework)
Gazelle Twin - Cutting Into Flesh
PJ Harvey - Prayer
MONO - The Flames Beyond The Cold Mountain
Ted Barnes - If The Truth Hurts
Set Fire To Flames - When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts
PJ Harvey - Subterranean
PJ Harvey - The Crowded Cell

More hot edits from the common series camp.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Want To Be
A2. Getting Over
B1. America
B2. Shaker

As post-episode surges towards song-seeking app Shazam testify, Holmes and music supervisor Catherine Grieves left no box unmarked with their BAFTA-winning music for Seasons 1 and 2 of BBC America’s Killing Eve. Adapted from Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle novellas by lead-writers Phoebe Waller-Bridge (S1) and Emerald Fennell (S2), the Emmy-winning spy series has established itself as a swaggering, slippery, playful and punchy thriller of cat/mouse obsession like no other. And it comes with killer soundtracks to match, modern classics of pick’n’mix curation cut from the cloth of cinematic style but tailored with a moody, mischievous vivacity of their own

As Grieves tells the tale, it became clear during early talks that strong female voices, multiple artists and a great composer would be crucial ingredients of the show’s music. A music supervisor whose work has ranged from The Inbetweeners Movie to Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here via various TV hits (Wolf Hall, Collateral, The Casual Vacancy and beyond), Grieves already knew of the Belfast-born Holmes’ formidable CV. In between his work as a DJ, rock’n’soul remix artist and band-leader, Holmes’ screen output has ranged from music movies (Good Vibrations) and sundry retro-cool Steven Soderbergh pics (Out of Sight, the Ocean’s Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen trilogy and more) to various stylish TV dramas, among them London Spy.

TRACK LISTING

1. Unloved - It's Not You, It's Me
2. Fabienne Delsol - I'm Gonna Haunt You
3. Unloved - Damned
4. Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows
5. Unloved - Remember
6. Fireflies - She's My Witch (Edit)
7. Unloved - Tell Mama (Killing Eve)
8. Le Volume Courbe - Born To Lie
9. Unloved - I Could Tell You But I'd Have To Kill
10. Unloved - Her (Killing Eve)
11. Unloved - Lee
12. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
13. Dalida - Vai Tu Sei Libero
14. The Delmonas - Dangerous Charms
15. Ramases - Screw You
16. Jacqueline Taieb - La Plus Belle Chanson
17. Willeke Alberti - Vlinder Van Een Zomer (Angel Of The Morning)
18. Bertrand Belin - Comment ça Se Danse
19. Cigarettes After Sex - Opera House

For the surreal German supernatural thriller, Frost’s dynamic and ominous orchestrations provide a striking backdrop. Says Frost: “Working in this strange and beautiful world of light and shadow has been a gift and an endless source of inspiration”. Ben Frost is an Australian composer and producer based in Iceland. His albums include: Steel Wound (2003), School of Emotional Engineering (2004), Theory of Machines (2007), By the Throat (2009), Sólaris (with Daníel Bjarnason) (2011), Aurora (2014), The Centre Cannot Hold (2017), Fortitude OST (2017, 2018) and more. Dark is set in a German town in present day where the disappearance of two young children exposes the double lives and fractured relationships among four families. The story takes on a supernatural twist that ties back to the same town in multiple time periods.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Furthering his already prolific output on the soundtrack scene, top-tier noise merchant and ambient god Frost brings out two parts to his superb score for German Netflix outing, 'Dark'. The first cycle is a bit more of a brooding affair (as with Stranger Things) and perfectly soundtracks the rising unease and supernatural strangeness of the whole situation.

TRACK LISTING

Alles Ist Miteinander Verbunden
Ein Mensch - Ein Schmetterling
Die Hölle Ist Leer, Alle Teufel Sind Hier
Tick Tack, Tick Tack
Warum Nicht Waldweg
Apokalypse
Kein DeLorean
Das Ist Nicht Mikkel
Eine Reise Durch Die Zeit
Ich Kann Die Vergangenheit Ändern
Gott Gib Mir Gelassenheit
Wo Ist Übergang

For the surreal German supernatural thriller, Frost’s dynamic and ominous orchestrations provide a striking backdrop. Says Frost: “Working in this strange and beautiful world of light and shadow has been a gift and an endless source of inspiration”. Ben Frost is an Australian composer and producer based in Iceland. His albums include: Steel Wound (2003), School of Emotional Engineering (2004), Theory of Machines (2007), By the Throat (2009), Sólaris (with Daníel Bjarnason) (2011), Aurora (2014), The Centre Cannot Hold (2017), Fortitude OST (2017, 2018) and more. The award-winning mystery series DARK transcended borders and connected with audiences around the world. The second season continues the story of four families and their attempts to change their fate within their tightly knit community. Through eight hour-long episodes, they experience how every decision irretrievably influences the present, the past and the future.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: The second part of Frost's soundtrack for 'Dark' ramps things up a little, with tension and in turn musical intensity building to breaking point through a shadowy and foreboding electronic soundcape. Typically mindblowing work.

TRACK LISTING

Schwarze Materie
Winden 2053
Bootstrap
Alles In Einer Endlosen Schleife
Die Reisenden 1
Du Bist Ein So Guter Mensch
Jeder Bekommt Was Er Verdient
Die Apokalypse Muss Kommen
Wir Haben Keine Zeit Mehr
Die Reisenden 2
Ich Dachte, Ich Haette Mehr Zeit
Folge Dem Signal
Der Weisse Teufel

Each 7-inch comprises an excerpted moment from the THURSTON MOORE GROUP live in 2019, free-mixed and free-created by Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker). The B-side of each is a special cover of a New Order track (recorded in Salford).

Each 7-inch comprises an excerpted moment from the THURSTON MOORE GROUP live in 2019, free-mixed and free-created by Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker). The B-side of each is a special cover of a New Order track (recorded in Salford).

Peaky Blinders is a British crime drama television series primarily set in Birmingham, England following aftermath of World War I. Starring Cillian Murphy as ‘Tommy Shelby’ – the gang’s leader, the show follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family. The fictional gang is loosely based on the Peaky Blinders, a real urban youth gang who were active in the city from the 1890’s and early twentieth century. The show is known for its dark and dramatic soundtrack. The soundtrack is a window into the mind of Tommy – a tortured ex-soldier with a sensitive side who appears to be suffering from PTSD after fighting in the trenches during World War One.

This 3LP set will feature music and key clips of dialogue from all 5 series the show, the 5th series aired late 2019 to critical acclaim. The album will feature Nick Cave’s title opening track Red Right Hand and PJ Harvey’s cover recorded exclusively for the show. Other artist’s music featured on the show and set to appear on this release are The White Stripes, Laura Marling, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets, Queens of the Stone Age, David Bowie, Foals, Black Sabbath, Idles, Joy Division and Richard Hawley who has covered Bob Dylan’s “Ballad Of A Thin Man”.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: A soundtrack that features not one but three Nick Cave songs can only be a winner if you ask me. This sometimes pensive but often raucous collection of songs perfectly soundtracked the many dramatic scenes in Peaky Blinders, or, as Cillian Murphy better describes it: 'The sound has this “peakiness” to it.'
Includes the iconic 'Red Right Hand', the one Bad Seeds song even Barry admits he likes!

TRACK LISTING

LP1 - Side A

*Tommy: 'It’s Not A Good Idea…'
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
The White Stripes - St James Infirmary Blues
Truce - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 1 (Score)
*Tommy: 'Right I Have Bought You Hear Today…'
Dan Auerbach - The Prowl
*Polly: 'There’s Only One Thing…'
Jack White - Love Is Blindness
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

LP1 - Side B

Alfie: 'I’ve Heard Very Bad, Bad, Bad Things…'
Black Rebel Motorcycle - River Styx
Post Irish Meeting - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 2 (Score)
PJ Harvey - Red Right Hand
Laura Marling - What He Wrote
Arthur: 'Do You Wanna Tell ‘Em…'
Royal Blood - Come On Over
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

LP2 - Side A

Tommy: 'I Love You…'
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Breathless
Radiohead - You And Whose Army?
Polly: 'A Woman Of Substance…'
PJ Harvey - This Is Love
Sons - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 3 (Score)
Tommy: 'You Can Change What You Do…'
Queens Of The Stone Age - Burn The Witch
The Last Shadow Puppets - Bad Habits
David Bowie - Lazarus

LP2 - Side B
Tommy: 'Sex, Freedom, Whiskey Sours…'
Savages - Adore
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (Live From KCRW)
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - I Wish
Ballad Of Polly Gray - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 4 (Score)
Tommy: 'I’m Not A Traitor To My Class…'
Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes - Devil Inside Me

LP3 - Side A
Foals - Snake Oil
Polly: 'It's In Our Gypsy Blood…'
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Laura Marling - A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Ada: 'So, Tommy Shelby, MP…'
Black Sabbath - The Wizard
Anna Calvi - Papi Pacify

LP3 - Side B
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Tommy: 'You Need To Understand…'
You’re Not God - From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack / Series 5 (Score)
Arthur: 'There’s A Bentley Outside…'
Jehnny Beth - I'm The Man
Idles - Never Fight A Man With A Perm
Tommy: 'I Will Continue…'
Richard Hawley - Ballad Of A Thin Man

What is "Drift"?

• It’s precisely one year inside the minds of Underworld.

• It’s a journey that began on 1st November 2018 when Underworld released the track "Another Silent Way" and set off with no map, no fixed destination and a simple mantra ('Drift is the opposite of ‘normal’ or ‘usual’ practice; we’ll do this until we’re dust'). Rick Smith and Karl Hyde’s aim was to create and publish music and film episodically for 52 weeks and see where the journey took them. Within a few weeks, the experiment found its own path, prompting the electronic pioneers to react to previous releases and create new works accordingly. Over time, the duo’s innate curiosity opened up a unique space in which they could experiment, learn and explore new frontiers - together and with others (including Tomato’s Simon Taylor, Australian improv-trance band The Necks, techno producer Ø [Phase], Japanese noise band Melt-Banana, economics writer Aditya Chakrabortty and members of Black Country, New Road). During the 52 weeks, five self-contained episodes were released (respectively in November, January, March, May and August) - collectively, they form "DRIFT Series 1". 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: An impressively on-going, interactive, year-long project from the band culminates in the album's actual release in October. Always keen to push the envelope, the idea behind this is very satisfying.

TRACK LISTING

Appleshine
This Must Be Drum Street
Listen To Their No
Border Country
Mile Bush Pride
Schiphol Test
Brilliant Yes That Would Be
S T A R (Rebel Tech)
Imagine A Box
Custard Speedtalk

The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series revisits Dylan's pivotal musical journeys to Nashville, from 1967 to 1969, focusing on previously unavailable recordings made with Johnny Cash & unreleased tracks from the John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, & Self Portrait sessions. Disc One of Travelin' Thru, 1967 - 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 finds Dylan in Columbia's Studio A in Nashville recording alternate versions of compositions written for John Wesley Harding (October 17 and November 6, 1967) & Nashville Skyline (February 13-14, 1969) while introducing a new song "Western Road" (a Nashville Skylineouttake). Discs Two and Three of Travelin' Thru are centered around Dylan's collaborations with American music icon Johnny Cash including the much sought-after Columbia Studio A sessions & on-stage performances at the Ryman Auditorium (May 1, 1969) for the recording of the premiere episode of The Johnny Cash Show (originally broadcast on ABC-TV on June 7, 1969). Disc Three closes with tracks recorded on May 17, 1970 with Grammy Award-winning bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs for the PBS television special, "Earl Scruggs: His Family & Friends" (originally aired January 1971). 

Invada Records and Lakeshore Records announce the release of the soundtrack to Amazon Prime’s ‘HANNA: Season 1’ on vinyl.

Pressed on white double vinyl housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.

For the first time, composers Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow were able to put together a team of musicians to work together to form a collaborative score for the whole series.

The soundtrack consists of tracks by Karen O and Beak>, plus an original score by Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow, The Insects, Simon Ashdown and Yann McCullough.

“Because of the size of the ‘HANNA’ series, we had the opportunity to bring our own team of artists and composers. The producers had already contacted the amazing Karen O whose song ‘Anti-Lullaby’ formed a theme that was continued throughout the series. It was also great to work with our friends The Insects (Massive Attack co writers Bob Locke & Tim Norfolk), Simon Ashdown and music editor turned composer Yann McCullough” - Geoff Barrow

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ singer Karen-O’s wandering, ominous ‘Anti-Lullaby’ appears on the soundtrack along with her Goth rendition of Smashing Pumpkin’s ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’, with Beak>’s ‘Wulfstan II’ appropriately closing the album.

The score for ‘HANNA: Season 1’ features layers of manipulated organic elements which composer Ben Salisbury describes thusly: “The score for the series was mainly inspired by the character of Hanna herself, and her forest upbringing. Even though the music is sometimes processed, it is always based on something real and organic rather than pure electronics. We often used layers of woodwind instruments (including some fairly unusual ethnic flutes and pipes) as a way of linking Hanna to the natural world in which she was brought up, and also to try and capture her fierce animal spirit and her sense of wonder as she experiences the ‘new world’ beyond the forest.” - Ben Salisbury

TRACK LISTING

We Have Heller
Anti-Lullaby (Karen O)
Training
Connections
Escaping The Hotel
The Ghost Of Her Mother
Relentless / Forest
Memories
Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Karen O)
Berlin Night Drive
Always Hunted
Eric's Theme
Sensing Danger
Beyond
A Cornered Animal
Marisa Held Hostage
Eric Leaves Hanna
Nice Paris Life
Runway Ambush
Wulfstan II (Beak>)

Grammy nominated ‘Stranger Things’ composers and S U R V I V E members Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein return to score three part British drama ‘Butterfly’.

Housed in a heavyweight spined sleeve and pressed on 180g black vinyl with digital download card included.

“We had just come off our first project that had established us as these retrosynth/80s producers, and we wanted to do something that helped get us out of that box,” Dixon and Stein said in a press release. “Obviously there are still synths being used, and coincidentally some of them are from the 80s, but hopefully this score won’t be received as such.”

The music to ‘Butterfly’ sustains Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s proclivity for locating humanism in their electronics. The signals they send have some sort of uncanny correlation with core feelings. More uncanny is their tonal grasp of what it is to be young and curious.

‘Butterfly’ is the story of 11-year-old Max who identifies as a girl and wants to live her life as Maxine. Her estranged parents Vicky and Stephen attempt to work out how best to cope with and support this huge life decision.

LP includes digital download code.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: AARGH. I always loved the throbbing synths and intense atmospheres in Dixon & Stein's work under their own names (soundtracking Stranger Things for example), and as 'Survive', but this soundtrack takes all of that oscillator knowledge and inject it with a healthy dose of hazy 80's reverie (despite their insistence to the contrary), all saturation and arps. Completely on-board.

TRACK LISTING

Butterfly
Blue Eyes
Taking In Lodgers
Daughters
Comfort
Just Make Up Your Mind
I Don't Know How Happy I Am Anymore
Accusations
School Troubles
Introducing Maxine
Cut Wrists
Tickle Gods
Dress Up
Mermaid
Arrested
Family
Maxine's Groove
Making The Choice
Interrogation
Truths
What Was The Point Of Me?
Dancing With The Girls
A Long Way To Go

Written and recorded over a seven year period, "The Quanta Series" tracks K Á R Y Y N’s movements across continents on a voyage of self-examination. Beginning in 2011 following the death of two relatives in Aleppo, K Á R Y Y N left her native LA for Cherry Valley, upstate New York to process her grief in seclusion. During the 18 months she lived in Cherry Valley, K Á R Y Y N wrote two songs for "The Quanta Series". The first was a visceral, emotional piece recorded in one take called "Today I Read Your Life Story 11:11". The second, a musing on impermanence and understanding the impact of our choices called "Segment & The Line".

Over the years that followed, K Á R Y Y N spent time living in Berlin where she wrote "Purgatory!, a song inspired by a memory from her childhood spent in the Forty Mountains of Idlib province in Syria. As she travelled, she found inspiration everywhere, leaning into her own familial legacy, feelings of grief and love and observations on human interaction. A deep connection to her lineage is a concurrent theme in K Á R Y Y N’s work, with an interpretation of traditional Armenian folk song "Ambets Gorav" present on the album plus a beautiful choral patchwork called "Mirror Me" providing an introspective break in the album - a track about 'facing yourself, the good, the bad; searching for the parts in us that have been lost.'

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: With shimmering, echoed reverb and tentatively delivered vocal shards, K A R Y Y N has crafted a stunningly original juxtaposition of choral ambience and direct, modern electronics. Rife with changes in pace and unexpected slabs of withering gloom before launching once again into a euphoric resolution. It's a gorgeous LP and one that reveals more on every subsequent listen.

TRACK LISTING

1 Ever
2 Yajna
3 Purgatory
4 Binary
5 Ambets Gorav
6 Un-c2-see
7 Mirror Me
8 Cytokinesis
9 Aleppo
10 Today I Read Your Life Story 11 11
11 Segment& The Line

The latest chapter in the highly acclaimed Bootleg Series makes available the pivotal studio recordings made by Bob Dylan during six extraordinary sessions in 1974 - four in New York (September 16, 17, 18, 19) and two in Minneapolis (December 27, 30) - that resulted in the artist's 1975 masterpiece, Blood On The Tracks.

*The 2LP configuration of More Blood, More Tracks assembles 10 of the most emotionally resonant alternate takes of each of the 10 songs appearing the original Blood On The Tracks plus a previously unreleased version of "Up to Me."

*The 6CD full-length deluxe version includes the complete New York sessions in chronological order including outtakes, false starts and studio banter. The album's producers have worked from best sources available, in most cases utilizing the original multi-track session tapes.

The only recordings remaining from the Minneapolis sessions are the multi-track masters of the five performances included on the finished Blood On The Tracks album. Each of these has been remixed and remastered for the deluxe edition.

The deluxe box set is a strictly limited edition. The set includes a hardcover photo book featuring liner notes by rock historian Jeff Slate and a complete reproduction of one of Dylan's legendary handwritten 57 page notebooks, where you can follow the lyrical development of the songs that would eventually comprise Blood On The Tracks.

TRACK LISTING

CD + 2LP Track Listing:
1. Tangled Up In Blue(9/19/74, Take 3, Remake 3)
2. Simple Twist Of Fate(9/16/74, Take 1)
3. Shelter From The Storm(9/17/74, Take 2)
4. You're A Big Girl Now(9/16/74, Take 2)
5. Buckets Of Rain(9/18/74, Take 2, Remake)
6. If You See Her, Say Hello (9/16/74, Tape 1)
7. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts(9/16/74, Take 2)
8. Meet Me In The Morning(9/19/74, Take 1, Remake)
9. Idiot Wind(9/19/74, Take 4, Remake)
10. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(9/17/74, Take 1, Remake)
11. Up To Me(9/19/74, Take 2, Remake)

6CD Deluxe Edition Tracklisting:
CD1
1. If You See Her, Say Hello (Take 1) –solo
2. If You See Her, Say Hello (Take 2) –solo –previously Released On The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991
3. You’re A Big Girl Now(Take 1) –solo
4. You’re A Big Girl Now(Take 2) –solo
5. Simple Twist Of Fate(Take 1) –solo
6. Simple Twist Of Fate(Take 2) –solo
7. You’re A Big Girl Now(Take 3) –solo
8. Up To Me(Rehearsal) –solo
9. Up To Me(Take 1) –solo
10. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts(Take 1) –solo
11. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts(Take 2) –solo –included On Blood On The Tracks Test Pressing

CD2
1. Simple Twist Of Fate(Take 1A) –with Band
2. Simple Twist Of Fate(Take 2A) –with Band
3. Simple Twist Of Fate(Take 3A) –with Band
4. Call Letter Blues (Take 1) –with Band
5. Meet Me In The Morning(Take 1) –with Band –edited Version Included On Blood On The Trackstest Pressing And Previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
6. Call Letter Blues(Take 2) –with Band –previously Released On The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991
7. Idiot Wind(Take 1) –with Bass
8. Idiot Wind(Take 1, Remake) –with Bass
9. Idiot Wind(Take 3 With Insert) –with Bass
10. Idiot Wind(Take 5) –with Bass
11. Idiot Wind(Take 6) –with Bass
12. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Rehearsal And Take 1) –with Band
13. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 2) –with Band
14. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 3) –with Band
15. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 4) –with Bass
16. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 5) –with Band
17. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 6) –with Band
18. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 6, Remake) –with Band
19. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 7) –with Band
20. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 8) –with Band

CD3
1. Tangled Up In Blue(Take 1) –with Bass
2. You’re A Big Girl Now(Take 1, Remake) –with Bass And Organ
3. You’re A Big Girl Now(Take 2, Remake) –with Bass, Organ, And Steel Guitar –included On Blood On The Trackstest Pressing And Previously Released On Biograph
4. Tangled Up In Blue(Rehearsal) –with Bass And Organ
5. Tangled Up In Blue(Take 2, Remake) –with Bass And Organ
6. Spanish Is The Loving Tongue(Take 1) –with Bass And Piano
7. Call Letter Blues (Rehearsal) –with Bass And Piano
8. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 1, Remake) –with Bass And Piano
9. Shelter From The Storm(Take 1) –with Bass And Piano –previously Released On The Jerry McGuireoriginal Soundtrack
10. Buckets Of Rain(Take 1) –with Bass
11. Tangled Up In Blue(Take 3, Remake) –with Bass
12. Buckets Of Rain(Take 2) –with Bass
13. Shelter From The Storm(Take 2) –with Bass
14. Shelter From The Storm(Take 3) –with Bass
15. Shelter From The Storm (Take 4) –with Bass –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
16. Bob Dylan: Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica

CD4
1. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 1, Remake 2) –with Bass
2. You’re GonnaMake Me Lonesome When You Go(Take 2, Remake 2) –with Bass –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
3. Buckets Of Rain(Take 1, Remake) –solo
4. Buckets Of Rain(Take 2, Remake) –solo
5. Buckets Of Rain(Take 3, Remake) –solo
6. Buckets Of Rain (Take 4, Remake) –solo
7. Up To Me(Take 1, Remake) –with Bass
8. Up To Me(Take 2, Remake) –with Bass
9. Buckets Of Rain(Take 1, Remake 2) –with Bass
10. Buckets Of Rain(Take 2, Remake 2) –with Bass
11. Buckets Of Rain(Take 3, Remake 2) –with Bass
12. Buckets Of Rain(Take 4, Remake 2) –with Bass –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
13. If You See Her, Say Hello(Take 1, Remake) –with Bass –previously Included On Blood On The Trackstest Pressing
14. Up To Me(Take 1, Remake 2) –with Bass
15. Up To Me(Take 2, Remake 2) –with Bass
16. Up To Me(Take 3, Remake 2) –with Bass
17. Buckets Of Rain(Rehearsal) –with Bass
18. Meet Me In The Morning(Take 1, Remake) –with Bass –previously Released On The “Duquesne Whistle” 7” Single
19. Meet Me In The Morning(Take 2, Remake) –with Bass
20. Buckets Of Rain(Take 5, Remake 2) –with Bass

CD5
1. Tangled Up In Blue(Rehearsal And Take 1, Remake 2) –with Bass
2. Tangled Up In Blue(Take 2, Remake 2) –with Bass
3. Tangled Up In Blue(Take 3, Remake 2) –with Bass –included On Blood On The Trackstest Pressing And Previously Released On The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991
4. Simple Twist Of Fate(Take 2, Remake) –with Bass
5. Simple Twist Of Fate(Take 3, Remake) –with Bass –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
6. Up To Me(Rehearsal And Take 1, Remake 3) –with Bass
7. Up To Me(Take 2, Remake 3) –with Bass –previously Released On Biograph
8. Idiot Wind(Rehearsal And Takes 1-3, Remake) –with Bass
9. Idiot Wind(Take 4, Remake) –with Bass
10. Idiot Wind(Take 4, Remake) –with Organ Overdub –included On Blood On The Trackstest Pressing And Previously Released On The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991
11. You’re A Big Girl Now(Take 1, Remake 2) –with Bass
12. Meet Me In The Morning(Take 1, Remake 2) –with Bass
13. Meet Me In The Morning(Takes 2-3, Remake 2) –with Bass

CD6
1. You’re A Big Girl Now(Takes 3-6, Remake 2) –with Bass
2. Tangled Up In Blue (Rehearsal And Takes 1-2, Remake 3) –with Bass
3. Tangled Up In Blue(Take 3, Remake 3) –with Bass
4. Idiot Wind –with Band –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
5. You’re A Big Girl Now –with Band –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
6. Tangled Up In Blue –with Band –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
7. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts –with Band –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks
8. If You See Her, Say Hello –with Band –previously Released On Blood On The Tracks

Moog Recordings Library is the record arm of Moog Sound Lab which was created and loaned by Moog Music Inc as a celebration of the life and work of Dr Robert Moog. Across 2015 and 2016 the project invited a who's who of contempory electronic artists for a 'conference' around the celebrated synthesizer. This week we see the fruits of these sessions via releases by Mika Vainio, Hieroglyphic Being and The Grid.

Mika visited the Moog Sound-Lab in April 2015. He made one his last known solo studio recordings in the form of two vinyl sized side long pieces. Entitled "Lydspor" - Danish for ‘Soundtrack’. Mika worked almost exclusively with the lab’s Moog Modular System 55. This UK sound-lab instrument is the sole protoype model (containing several golden filters) of Moog’s recent sold out reverse-engineered edition (55 units only) recreating the 1970’s classic. On completion of his sessions Mika announced ‘I could work with this machine for the rest of my life….I would need nothing else”. A second Moog session was planned but tragically Mika died in an accident in April 2017, shortly after he had approved the vinyl mastering. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: The late, great electronic genius Mika Vainio brings his imitable ambient electronics to Moog Recordings Library for his superb suite of simmering industrial electronics and crushing, static drone.

TRACK LISTING

Lydspor (Part 1) 20:00 
Lydspor (Part2) 19:37

After furnishing us with three volumes of excellent mood-setting synth-dread from S U R V I V E's Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, the time has come for the real retroist deal, a double LP of the perfectly selected and precisely arranged period jams from the magnificent Stranger Things. A cursory scan of the tracklist reveals hits from The Police, The Clash and The Bangles, alternative anthems from Echo & The Bunnymen, Fad Gadget and Joy Division and pop smashes from Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran and Corey Heart. Stitched together with choice bits of dialogue from the show, this mixtape is an immersive trip into glorious nostalgia.

STAFF COMMENTS

Patrick says: While Dixon & Stein have deservedly picked up the plaudits for their Carpenter-esque synthery, the music supervision of Stranger Things was every bit as important in setting the scene. This double vinyl set serves up winners from series 1 & 2 pieced together with dialogue from the show. Contains Joy Division, Cyndi Lauper and Devo - mint!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Intro - Will Singing The Clash (dialogue)
A2. The Police - Every Breath You Take
A3. The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
A4. Coffee & Contemplation (dialogue)
A5. The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter
A6. Echo & The Bunnymen - Nocturnal Me
A7. Bring Him Home (dialogue)
B1. Duran Duran - Girls On Film
B2. Just Because Some People Tell You (dialogue)
B3. Joy Division - Atmosphere
B4. Maybe I'm Crazy (dialogue)
B5. Olivia Newton-John - Twist Of Fate
B6. Says Logic (dialogue)
B7. The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost In You
B8. Toto - Africa
C1. Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Me
C2. Accident Or Not (dialogue)
C3. Devo - Whip It
C4. Bon Jovi - Runaway
C5. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
C6. The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
D1. Mouthbreather (dialogue)
D2. Fad Gadget - Back To Nature
D3. She's Our Friend And She's Crazy (dialogue)
D4. The Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
D5. Peter Gabriel - Heroes
D6. Friends Don't Lie (dialogue)
D7. New Order - Elegia
D8. Outro - Will Singing The Clash (dialogue)

A CMG release - The latest in the Bob Dylan 'Bootleg Series' covers a prolific recording period between 1979 - 1981, where Dylan recorded a x3 album trilogy - "Slow Train Coming", "Saved" & "Shot of Love". 

The Deluxe box-set includes:- A hardcover book with exclusive liner notes & pics, plus... The first two discs contain x30 live songs, with discs 3&4 being rare & unreleased songs. Discs 5&6 are recorded live in Toronto (1980). Discs 7&8 are recorded live @ Earls Court, London, June 1981. Disc 9 is a bonus DVD featuring "Trouble No More" a musical film, plus other extra bonus content.

The Vinyl format has x4 LP Vinyl & x2 CD (featuring the first x2 discs from the deluxe box). The standard CD a x2 CD set (featuring the first x2 discs from the deluxe box).

This collection debuts x14 previously unreleased songs & a multitude of unreleased live performances, rare studio outtakes & more...

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1: Live
1. Slow Train (Nov. 16, 1979)
2. Gotta Serve Somebody (Nov. 15, 1979)
3. I Believe In You (May 16, 1980)
4. When You Gonna Wake Up? (July 9, 1981)
5. When He Returns (Dec. 5, 1979)
6. Man Gave Names To All The Animals (Jan. 16, 1980)
7. Precious Angel (Nov. 16, 1979)
8. Covenant Woman (Nov. 20, 1979)
9. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking (Jan. 31, 1980)
10. Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (Jan. 28, 1980)
11. Solid Rock (Nov. 27, 1979)
12. What Can I Do For You? (Nov. 27, 1979)
13. Saved (Jan. 12, 1980)
14. In The Garden (Jan. 27, 1980)

Disc 2: Live
1. Slow Train (June 29, 1981)
2. Ain’t Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (Unreleased Song – Apr. 24, 1980)
3. Gotta Serve Somebody (July 15, 1981)
4. Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One (Unreleased Song – Nov. 16, 1979)
5. Saving Grace (Nov. 6, 1979)
6. Blessed Is The Name (Unreleased Song – Nov. 20, 1979)
7. Solid Rock (Oct. 23, 1981)
8. Are You Ready? (Apr. 30, 1980)
9. Pressing On (Nov. 6, 1979)
10. Shot Of Love (July 25, 1981)
11. Dead Man, Dead Man (June 21, 1981)
12. Watered-Down Love (June 12, 1981)
13. In The Summertime (Oct. 21, 1981)
14. The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar (Nov. 13, 1980)
15. Caribbean Wind (Nov. 12, 1980)
16. Every Grain Of Sand (Nov. 21, 1981)

Disc 3: Rare And Unreleased
1. Slow Train (Soundcheck – Oct. 5, 1978)
2. Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (Soundcheck – Dec. 7, 1978)
3. Help Me Understand (Unreleased Song – Oct. 5, 1978)
4. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking (Rehearsal – Oct. 2, 1979)
5. Gotta Serve Somebody (Outtake – May 4, 1979)
6. When He Returns (Outtake – May 4, 1979)
7. Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One (Unreleased Song – May 1, 1979)
8. Trouble In Mind (Outtake – April 30, 1979)
9. Ye Shall Be Changed (Outtake – May 2, 1979)
10. Covenant Woman (Outtake –February 11, 1980)
11. Stand By Faith (Unreleased Song – Sept. 26, 1979)
12. I Will Love Him (Unreleased Song – Apr. 19, 1980)
13. Jesus Is The One (Unreleased Song – Jul. 17, 1981)
14. City Of Gold (Unreleased Song – Nov. 22, 1980)
15. Thief On The Cross (Unreleased Song – Nov. 10, 1981)
16. Pressing On (Outtake – Feb. 13, 1980)

Disc 4: Rare And Unreleased
1. Slow Train (Rehearsal – Oct. 2, 1979)
2. Gotta Serve Somebody (Rehearsal – Oct. 9, 1979)
3. Making A Liar Out Of Me (Unreleased Song – Sept. 26, 1980)
4. Yonder Comes Sin (Unreleased Song – Oct. 1, 1980)
5. Radio Spot January 1980, Portland, OR Show
6. Cover Down, Pray Through (Unreleased Song – May 1, 1980)
7. Rise Again (Unreleased Song – Oct. 16, 1980)
8. Ain’t Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (Unreleased Song – Dec. 2, 1980)
9. The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar (Outtake – May 1, 1981)
10. Caribbean Wind (Rehearsal – Sept. 23, 1980)
11. You Changed My Life (Outtake – April 23, 1981)
12. Shot Of Love (Outtake – March 25, 1981)
13. Watered-Down Love (Outtake – May 15, 1981)
14. Dead Man, Dead Man (Outtake – April 24, 1981)
15. Every Grain Of Sand (Rehearsal – Sept. 26, 1980)

Disc 5 – Live In Toronto 1980
1. Gotta Serve Somebody (April 18, 1980)
2. I Believe In You (April 18, 1980)
3. Covenant Woman (April 19, 1980)
4. When You Gonna Wake Up? (April 18, 1980)
5. When He Returns (April 20, 1980)
6. Ain’t Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (Unreleased Song – April 18, 1980)
7. Cover Down, Pray Through (Unreleased Song – April 19, 1980)
8. Man Gave Names To All The Animals (April 19, 1980)
9. Precious Angel (April 19, 1980)

Disc 6 – Live In Toronto 1980
1. Slow Train (April 18, 1980)
2. Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (April 20, 1980)
3. Solid Rock (April 20, 1980)
4. Saving Grace (April 18, 1980)
5. What Can I Do For You? (April 19, 1980)
6. In The Garden (April 20, 1980)
7. Band Introductions (April 19, 1980)
8. Are You Ready? (April 19, 1980)
9. Pressing On (April 18, 1980)

Disc 7 – Live In Earl’s Court, London – June 27, 1981
1. Gotta Serve Somebody
2. I Believe In You
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
5. Maggie’s Farm
6. I Don’t Believe You
7. Dead Man, Dead Man
8. Girl From The North Country
9. Ballad Of A Thin Man

Disc 8 – Live In Earl’s Court – London – June 27, 1981
1. Slow Train
2. Let’s Begin
3. Lenny Bruce
4. Mr. Tambourine Man
5. Solid Rock
6. Just Like A Woman
7. Watered-Down Love
8. Forever Young
9. When You Gonna Wake Up
10. In The Garden
11. Band Introductions
12. Blowin’ In The Wind
13. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
14. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Disc 9: Bonus DVD
Trouble No More – A Musical Film

DVD EXTRAS:
Shot Of Love
Cover Down, Pray Through
Jesus Met The Woman At The Well (Alternate Version)
Ain’t Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody (Complete Version)
Precious Angel (Complete Version)
Slow Train (Complete Version)

Tanya Donelly is a singer-songwriter and founding member of three of the most successful bands of the post-punk era. At the age of 16, she and stepsister Kristin Hersh formed Throwing Muses, which became the first American band ever signed to the influential British label 4AD. Not only did the Muses' dreamy, swirling guitar sound prove highly influential on many of the alternative acts to emerge in their wake, but they also made any number of unprecedented advances into the male-dominated world of underground rock. Donelly later sidelined with Pixies bassist Kim Deal to form the Breeders, appearing on the debut LP, Pod. She later exited both the Breeders and Throwing Muses to form her own band, Belly.

After issuing a pair of well-received EPs, Belly released their full-length debut, Star -- a superb collection of luminous, fairy tale-like guitar pop songs -- and for the first time in her career, Donelly earned commercial success commensurate to her usual critical accolades. Not only did the record go gold on the strength of the hit single 'Feed the Tree' but the band even garnered a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist.

Donelly would eventually disband Belly to raise her two daughters. She still found time to write and record music as a solo artist -- Beautysleep, Whiskey Tango Ghosts and This Hungry Life were all exceptional albums and enjoyed critical success. The Swan Song Series is a collection of songs in which Donelly collaborated with friends, musicians and authors such as Rick Moody, Robyn Hitchcock, John Wesley Harding, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang (Damon + Naomi/Galaxie 500), Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom), Tom Gorman (Belly), and Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields), and explored an impressive range that wasn't always captured on previous albums.

This exclusive collection includes the first 5 self-released digital EP's + 7 brand new, previously unreleased, tracks on a 31 song set.

TRACK LISTING

1. Mass Ave
2. Christopher Street
3. Let Fall The Sky
4. Blame The Muse
5. Meteor Shower
6. Still
7. Mary Magdelene In The Great Sky
8. Why So Sad
9. Making Light
10. Miranda (Pacifically)
11. Written_Unread
12. VivaKaraoke
13. Far Away And Hard To See
14. Hidalgo Street
15. Cygnet Song
16. Salt
17. Worry Doll
18. Cape Ann
19. Flying At Night
20. Snow Goose And Me
21. Tu Y Yo
22. Lucky Love
23. Oh Me Of Little Faith
24. The End To The Dawn
25. Silver

"The Cutting Edge, 1965-1966" is the latest installment in the 'Bootleg Series' of releases from rock music icon Bob Dylan on the Columbia/Legacy label. Focussing on the legendary studio sessions that produced 'Bringing It All Back Home', 'Highway 61', & 'Blonde On Blonde'. All recordings are pristine transfers & mixed from the original studio tracking tapes.

STAFF COMMENTS

Andy says: Sessions and out-takes from Dylan's imperious phase. Absolutely essential.

TRACK LISTING

Disc: 1
1. Love Minus Zero / No Limit
2. I'll Keep It With Mine
3. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
4. She Belongs To Me
5. Subterranean Homesick Blues
6. Outlaw Blues
7. On The Road Again
8. Farewell, Angelina
9. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
10. You Don't Have To Do That
11. California
12. Mr. Tambourine Man
13. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
14. Like A Rolling Stone
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence
17. Medicine Sunday
18. Desolation Row
19. Desolation Row
Disc: 2
1. Tombstone Blues
2. Positively 4th Street
3. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
4. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
5. Highway 61 Revisited
6. Queen Jane Approximately
7. Visions Of Johanna
8. She's Your Lover Now
9. Lunatic Princess
10. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
11. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
12. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
13. Absolutely Sweet Marie
14. Just Like A Woman
15. Pledging My Time
16. I Want You
17. Highway 61 Revisited

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Following on from Volume 1 and 2 comes OIB Records Split Series Volume 3, a limited edition 7 inch bringing together four of the most exciting contemporary DIY punk-rock bands.

Lovvers are a lo-fi scuzzy dance-punk four-piece featuring members of the seminal UK post-metal band The Murder of Rosa Luxemberg.

During the writing process for the eagerly awaited new Ex Models album, Zach Lehrhoff and Shahin Motia ended up inadvertently writing a bunch of hypnotic and overdriven stoner-rock jams. Deciding that they weren't quite right for Ex Models, Zach and Shahin teamed up with ex-Ex Model and Oneida guitarist Shah Motia to form Knyfe Hyts.

Drenched with b-movie samples and grotesque brain-eating lyrics, The Death Set's track is a furious, electro-punk track that features ludicrously fast keys, killer riffs, and Johnny's trademark high-pitched rapid-fire punk snarl.

Following on from last years "Alphabetically Arranged" album on Moshi Moshi comes the new offering from Austin Texas kings of spazz-punk, Best Fwends. Epic from start to finish "Hail" is Best Fwends at their most demented and sleep deprived.

Following on from Volume 1 (featuring Munch Munch; Gay Against You; Lonely Ghosts; The Tumbledown Estate) comes OIB Records Split Series Volume. Limited to just 450 copies worldwide, with reversible gatefold sleeves, inserts, and one-inch badges. Features the following tracks:
- SJ Esau: "Part of a Diagram". Hot off the heels of his second album proper for Anticon comes the new SJ Esau recording "Part of a Diagram". In just three and a half minutes SJ Esau delivers driving guitar riffs, hypnotic drum rhythms, multi-layered off-kilter chanting, and delicate piano, all wrapped around his distinctive yet humble vocal delivery.
- Half-Handed Cloud: "When Overwhelmed With Dread". Marking his first release since the "Winding Currents On A Spool EP" in 2007, "When Overwhelmed With Dread" is Half-Handed Cloud at his absolute finest. John Ringhofer aka Half-Handed Cloud offers up a musically complex and joyful avant-pop track that's as thought-provoking as it is exciting. Half-Handed Cloud also plays in Danielson and Sufjan Steven's Illinoisemakers
- Suburban Kids With Biblical Names: "God Save Roger Nichols". After a way too long hiatus, Sweden's finest electro-twee-pop outfit are back with the four minute pop opus "God Save Roger Nichols".
- Kopek: "The Way You Are". Following their debut self-release "Lost At Sea EP", Kopek release "The Way You Are", a heart-warming two minute pop masterpiece.

Hot on the heels of appearances at Exit festival in Serbia and in the final of the prestigious Red Stripe Music Awards, 21 year old Norwich troubadour Rory McVicar releases his highly anticipated debut album on Series 8 Records. Wielding a guitar, a spellbinding voice, yearning lyrics and sublime melodies, McVicar is ready to bring his sound to a bigger audience.

Hailing from Brighton, Oom are a four piece fusing beautiful vocals with broken electronics and noisy guitars. Their music, if you wanted to squish it into a pigeon-hole, could be described as the mutant offspring of Bjork, The Aphex Twin and Nine Inch Nails... sort of. Vocalist Debs is currently writing and singing with Massive Attack on various projects.

17-track compilation from Fat Cat's widely-acclaimed split 12" series, from which many new artists have been discovered. Includes Matmos, Kid606, and David Grubbs. This CD-only release showcases material previously only available across the eight 12" singles from Split Series number 9 to number 16 - a period that spans nearly four years. Excepting the Matmos track (which is one of their greatest ever), this is the first time any of these tracks have appeared on CD. Includes sought after gems from Fennesz, Avey Tare (Animal Collective), Kid 606 and David Grubbs.

This historic 'halloween concert' remastered from original source tapes captures the moment when the hottest young folk singer of his age transformed into one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. The show is divided into the standards that made his name and the longer, experimental pieces ("It's Alright Ma ...") that emerged on the then unreleased "Bringing It All Back Home". Includes a 56 page booklet with stunning rare photographs and in-depth notes

"BYO Split Series Vol.IV" links those biting socio-politico punksters Anti-Flag (on top form here) with the highly respected US punk band Bouncing Souls. Four brand new tracks each plus you get Bouncing Souls covering Anti-Flag's "That's Youth" and Cock Sparrer's "We're Coming Back", and Anti-Flag covering the Bouncing Souls "Freaks, Nerds and Romantic's" and the classic Buzzcock song "Ever Fallen In Love With Someone".

A high octane burst of emo-punk from a viscious little Virginia USA band that goes straight for your jugular. In an unusual clear slipcase package.