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A split release between the two bands. Fuxa's entry is what you've come to expect, long drawn out melodic post-rock with vintage synth action. Welsh group Ectogram's contribution is the reason to buy this disc -- their repetitive groove will remind you of

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This is an older release which we've never listed, due to problems with keeping it in stock. However recently this label has improved its distribution situation, so here we go: Not as beautifully packaged as the recent Dagored LP repress, this cd features

This is the 20th Anniversary Special Edition cd from the Lucio Fulci (Argento produced) classic ZOMBI! Features six bonus tracks not featured on the original release.

The eagerly awaited new album from French-Canadian metallers Gorguts eases away from the no-wave guitar sounds that made their previous disc Obscura such a startling, bizarre work of genius (although those skronky sounds are still very much present) to

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Latest album from this politically problematic Polish black metal band. Their bombastic, fuzz-filled anthems of war and triumph are epic and amazing while the band's sole member, Darken, continues to be an idiot (and pose for pictures wearing helmet and

Another batch of essential and long overdue ESP reissues. This one is ALL drums. And like I've been saying all along, guitars and bass and piano, are all very nice and everything, and sometimes they even sound good in a band, but all you ever really need is

With the recent reissues from Luigi Nono and Morton Feldman, their influences upon ultra-minimalist Bernhard Gunter appear quite pronounced, mostly through compositional similarities in building slow organic fluctuations, although all three have arrived at a

This may be only the second Half Japanese album to find a home on the Alternative Tentacles label, but it's one in such a long line of HJ/Jad Fair projects (upwards of 30!)... don't even think of shaking a stick at 'em. At any rate over twenty years after

Those who have continued to follow Hersh thru her lengthy career post-Throwing Muses will already know that the beautiful ferocity of the Muses is completely gone, replaced by a more delicate and mature take on songwriting (read: we have to pay attention to the

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Percussionist / drummer Doug Scharin's talents are such that he's found equally comfortable homes with the sublime indie rock slow-core of Rex, and the twisted, weed-happy Brooklyn-based WordSound collective, hybrid home of forward-thinking hiphop, dub, 'n

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High-octane, leather-clad thrash metal from a trio of young Swedes who really know what they're doing, old-school style. Everybody in Sweden must play in a metal band, for them to have this many good ones! 35 minutes of pure neck-sprain.

Rare, demo, whatever tracks collection from this Bay Area "shit metal" band, local favorites for their excellent Carcass-inspired riffage.

It may be a strange obsession, but The Wallpaper Lifestyle is something which has been popping up in the collective consciousness of Aquarius. It would be nice to say that it's the lust for chic Danish furniture, sharp Italian clothes, and hot Scandinavian Anyway, Jan Jelinek must have the same fantasy and has constructed the perfect soundtrack. It's a blissful electronica record full of all of the click 'n' dub that one would expect from Scape Records (run by Pole's Stefan Betke). The title is a bit misleading as this has very little to do with jazz, and more having to do with the process of creating the record (by fragmenting the sounds from his jazz vinyl collection through the sampler to arrive at the very Pole electro-dub). So clean. So digital. So Wallpaper.

More heartfelt folksy singer songwriter material from the beloved Simon Joyner, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and sounding like a sweet cousin to Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and Vic Chestnut, with the fragile

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It's certainly cheesy how Metal Blade put the current King Diamond logo on the front of this archival recording, and the title is kinda lame too, but on the other hand it turns out to be cool that they released this in the first place, as these are some

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Second release from these ol' rock vets Jerry Teel (Chrome Cranks), Kid Congo Powers (Congo Norvell, Cramps, Nick Cave), Bob Bert (Pussy Galore, Sonic Youth) and company doing what they love best - playing the blues. Sliding from slow 'n' smoky to rambunctious

On the same label that reissued that weird Les Maledictus Sound album, comes this even weirder French-Canadian late '60s artifact. But this isn't really like the pop-psych commerical craziness of the Maledictus disc. L'Infonie was a much more avant-garde group,

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Previously a vinyl-only reissue, now also available on cd -- the crazy French-Canadian sound of 1968! Collectors (like Jello Biafra) have apparently been salivating over this bizarre record for years. A wild psychedelic big-band instrumental soundtrack

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Robert Lippok may be better known for his throbbing pseudo post-rock / electronica excursions with Tarwater and To Rococo Rot, but here he has turned to the laptop and the minidisc to construct his first release for Raster/Noton. At first, this has all of the

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Another batch of essential and long overdue ESP reissues. This one was recorded in 1965 by one Giuseppi Logan, former sideman of Archie Shepp, Pharaoh Sanders and Patty Waters! Features a pretty stellar group (including Milford Graves) of musicians who have

Even through his collaborations (as seen here on Belle Confusion 00 with Amy Denio), Francisco Lopez has successfully resisted procedures, craftsmanship, and semantics. What's left behind are paradoxically both ominous and serene compositions of open ended

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Francisco Lopez's Belle Confusion 0247 with fellow field recording artist Michael Northam is certainly one of the strongest recordings to come from Lopez's encyclopedia of 'absolute concrete music' which in the past, has included investigations of the

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This remastered deluxe edition of Love's 1967 masterpiece features seven bonus tracks! If you've never heard this classic record before then you must buy one now. Period. You will love it, promise. For those who're already fans of Love, know that the bonus tracks are a mixed bag. There are some wonderful outtakes and new songs, some versions of songs that are seemingly indistinguishable from the originals, and one hilarious track where Arthur Lee exhorts his bandmates to relax... and then says "Okay, Take 25"!

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The Matmos back catalogue of quirky electronica features an odd litany of sound sources which sets them apart from the contemporaries trapped within the bunker mentality of laptop trickery. Whoopie cushions contextualized as surface noise, the The album begins with the light shuffling house groove of "Lipostudio (And So On...)" which introduces an odd textural duet between human fat gurgling through a tiny vacuum and a bleating clarinet supplied by Stephen Thrower (currently of Cylobe, formerly of Coil). "Spondee" works another house groove around the rhythmic recitation of spondees -- duo-syllabic words / phrases in which neither syllable is particularly stressed -- by an audiologist testing deaf children. Strangely enough, Matmos hadn't considered this track a mockery of San Francisco's candy flippin' trance / house organization Spundae. By the end of the album, Matmos needed to address the reality of death and did so with "Momento Mori" - a 23Skidoo death-funk groove built out of sounds generated from a human skull. Easily this is Matmos' most successful record to date, and will make fans of Coil's "Love's Secret Domain" or Doctor Rocket's "D Is For Doctor" very happy!

That Memphis Minnie defeated Big Bill Broonzy in a Chicago competition in 1933 that Bill himself called "the first contest between Blues singers that was ever given in the USA" should alone carry a hefty weight as a testament to Minnie's greatness. From 1905,

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Polish chamber music trio. Their minimal Avro Part-inspired threnodies are played on double bass, cello, and accordion. The group's name means The City Didn't Sleep. On Obuh, the same label that brought us the Magic Carpathians.

Aeolian harps are relatively simple devices made from of a couple planks of wood and a taut wire, which are placed in relation to a wind source to transform the speed, force, and directionality of the air itself into an extended drone. David Kenny's Aeolian

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MNortham (who has previously been sighted on the fantastic Ora album Anagram and in recent collaboration with Francisco Lopez) and JGrzinich are sound artists investigating the properties of various organic acoustic forms, making use of long wire devices, found

The prolific, inventive, and cheekily clever Momus is at it again. The last time we heard from him was 1999's Stars Forever on which he performed songs of "patronage pop" (thirty patrons paid one thousand dollars each for the privilege of having a song

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The Music Now Ensemble 1969 is a vital missing link between the arcane studies of Cornelius Cordew's Scratch Orchestra and the free-noise continuum of AMM's extended family. This huge collective featured Keith Rowe and Eddie Prevost (both members of AMM) as

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The second release by this duo after a disc on Meme, presents true "sinecore" sounds for fans of barely-there abstract electronics. We're told that these Japanese artists are part of a new experimental electronica subgenre called "onkyo", which

The list of players says it all: Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock and Sunny Murray. Noisy and free and amazing and completely essential.

In the ongoing uncovering of recordings from Hermann Nitsch's actionist orchestrations, the Huntertmark Gallery in Cologne, Germany has released 7.Sinfonie from the massive Nitsch archives. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no information to be found as

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Reissued Florida death metal classic. Back in '90 when this first came out, Nocturnus were pioneers in the use of keyboards in metal. Nowadays everybody uses keys (that's the basis of the whole black metal thing ain't it? Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir,

It's a little difficult to consider Noisegate a metal band. Although their live persona, which features lots of slow motion headbanging while they hold down various keys on their samplers, clearly gives reason to peg them as metallers, a careful

Joseph Nothing is the pseudonym for Japanese electronica artist Tatsuya Yoshida, who is half of the excellent Aphex-ish collaborative project Rom=Pari (and happens to have the same name as the ringleader of the Ruins, but isn't him). While Joseph

Expect nihilistic, misanthropic one-man-band black metal on this album, the follow-up to his brilliant, raw, and catchy Welcome To My Planet opus. Fuckhole Armageddon is fast & tinny the way it's supposed to be, as Mr. Octinomos gets a really good droning buzz

Man, this sucks. What happened? First the album starts out with a really bad '80s revivalist track sounding like the worst from Severed Heads, then it delves into really bad '80s synthetic dub. There could be something worthwhile on this album, but with two

This underground Tokyo psych rock ensemble presents an extensive and expensive but freakin' great live document, recorded at shows from '95 to '99, including two tracks from their 1999 US tour that for some reason they couldn't fit on either of the two cds in

Ever wonder what happens when you cross the modern classical riffage of The (Fucking) Champs with the chromatic stop-start edginess of Shellac? Yeah, me neither... but if you did, you would have something like this. That is, if you had no bass and

There are rumors flying around that the Arab on Radar side of this record is in fact the Oxes paying a very convincing tribute to the Providence, RI quartet. The fact that the recording is inconsistent with past AOR (by that we mean Arab on Radar, not the

While the previous live album from Pan Sonic was mostly comprised of sequenced elements from various Panasonic (as they were known then) and Mika Vainio recordings, this live recording seems to showcase the group generating new sounds not found on any of their

23 tracks, 9 previously unreleased, highlighting Perry's more esoteric production efforts taken from the beginning of his career as an independant producer in 1969 on up to 1975. This is really quite an exceptional collection of recordings and the unreleased

Long available only in variously expensive bootleg editions, the Pixies "Complete" B-sides is now available in legit form and at a reasonable price. 19 non album tracks (including the much treasured UK Surf version of "Wave Of Mutilation") each one annotated by

LA's Polar Goldie Cats continue their instrumental post-rock explorations on this new Up platter. Their Nels Cline-produced debut had faded into the mists of history, but lo and behold here they are with another album. A nice surprise actually.

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