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The Magic are brothers Geordie and Evan Gordon, from small town Guelph, on the outskirts of Toronto. Having grown up in a musical house, their father, folk singer James Gordon, wrote 'Mining For Gold' (famously covered by the Cowboy Junkies). *For their own band however, they eschew their dad's acoustic folk roots and have made a record as equally indebted to the effervescent pop of Phoenix, the soulful, studio slickness of Hall & Oates, and the white funk of Talking Heads. *Geordie sings, plays guitar and keys, with Evan on bass, backing vocals and production. They're also joined by their friend Sylvie Smith from the band Evening Hymns on additional vocals, notably on the frustrated lovers plea 'Call Me Up'. *Elsewhere on the record they take in syncopated disco rhythms, languid 80s funk, whilst also peppering every song with effortless big FM pop choruses. *The Magic hope to come to the UK this summer to play for you, we've no doubt you'll fall as head over heels for them as we did.

*Tracklisting:
1. Lightning Strikes 2. Night School 3. Magic Love 4. No Sound 5. Fifth Business 6. Door To Door
7. Mr Hollywood 8. Call Me Up 9. Paradise Parasite

RAMP is very proud to present the first release on the label from new signing, Cupp Cave.
Following a series of astounding releases on labels like Thin Consolidation & Vlek, our interest for Cupp Cave peaked when his 'Dice Pool' EP hit the shops late last year - we excitedly jumped straight on a plane to Belgium to sign the young beatmaker. His debut for RAMP comes in the shape of 'Retina Waves' - a mini album not conforming to any genres or parameters. Part hip hop. Part house. Part brash and colourful. Part ghostly and distrait.

Oh Holy Molar is the second album from UK trio Felix. The group produces a bewitching, minimal chamber pop that works as the perfect framework for singer/songwriter Lucinda Chua's oblique and emotionally immediate stories of superstition and searching for protection against bad omens.
*As a follow up to their debut You Are The One I Pick, the band return with a collection of songs with a sound stripped back to its very core. Something is said to have "teeth" when it has the ability to make an impact. This record certainly has "teeth", and sharp ones at that.
*" The album was recorded in a vast, spooky 1940s cinema in Nottingham, England, now converted into a studio. After recording was completed the band discovered that underneath the live room lay an abandoned Dental Laboratory. "Oh Holy Molar" indeed.
*" Since the release of the rst Felix album, pianist/vocalist Lucinda Chua, also an accomplished photographer, has been working on a number of projects, most recently with Wallpaper* in Detroit. Guitarist Chris Summerlin has been recording and touring with his new band Kogumaza. The group is completed with the recent addition of drummer Neil Turpin who, when not performing with Felix, can also be found touring the world with French composer Yann Tiersen.
press quotes for You Are the One I Pick
'It's a gateway into another headspace, one aglow with uncertain magic. As statements of romantic intent go, 'Death To Everyone But Us' must represent either the most  straightforward, honest distillation of the love song, or the creepiest.' BBC
'In Felix's world, everyday mundanities give rise to furtive explorations of human interaction and ineptitude in a manner as oppressive as it is oddly and honestly addictive.' Drowned in Sound
'The duo keep things refreshingly simple, with single strands of piano, guitar, and cello in quiet symmetry, leaving the listener ample room to savor Felix's knotty, enigmatic songcraft.' Pitchfork
'There is mystery and elegance in the marrow of this music, and I imagine this record will prove to stand the test of time, reserved to be pulled out for the perfect accompaniment to just the right brooding but whimsical mood.' Delusions of Adequacy
track list:
1.The Bells 2. Sunday Night 3. Oh Thee 73 4. Don't Look Back (It's Too Sad) 5. Hate Song 6.Oh Holy Molar 7. Blessing Part I 8. Blessing Part II 9. Rites 10. Who Will Pity the Poor Fool 11. Pretty Girls 12. Practising Magic 13. Little Biscuit

AU are Portland, Oregon-based duo Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka
Both Lights is AU's third album and first for The Leaf Label, a joint release with US label Hometapes
1. A1. Epic
2. A2. Get Alive
3. A3. Crazy Idol
4. A4. OJ
5. A5. The Veil
6. B1. Solid Gold
7. B2. Today/Tonight
8. B3. Why I Must
9. B4. Go Slow
10. B5. Old Friend
11. B6. Don't Lie Down

1. A1. Epic
2. A2. Get Alive
3. A3. Crazy Idol
4. A4. OJ
5. A5. The Veil
6. B1. Solid Gold
7. B2. Today/Tonight
8. B3. Why I Must
9. B4. Go Slow
10. B5. Old Friend
11. B6. Don't Lie Down

Way back in 2008 Capitol K ew out to South America and took an extensive road trip covering over 7000 kilometers of the continent through the territories of Peru, Bolivia and Argentina meeting musicians, collecting instruments and market stall CDR's. Dipping his toes in the burgeoning alternative club scene of Buenos Aires whilst simultaneously tracing the wanderings of early 20th century South American metaphysical Literature.

1 Celestial
2 Yo Tarzán, tú Jane
3 Cumbiatronic
4 Cumbia del pajarito enamorado
5 Zokkor u Popcorn
6 Huayno
7 White Steal
8 7th Charango
9 Cumbia Esqueletos
10 Solo plato de maz
11 Andean dub
12 Anita y Caballos

1. Sermon
2. Gem Asylem
3. Traveling
4. Right
5. Do The Manuver
6. Rats
7. My Mind Is Broken By The Sound
8. Car
9. Airshow
10. Sugar
11. Gas Station Attendant

Think Phillip Glass, 70's soundtracks and Krautrock!

2. Easy
3. Happiness
4. Mannequin
5. City Music
6. Luna Marseille
7. Under The Hat
8. Iceman Pt.1
9. Iceman Pt.2
10. Inside Many Summers

1.Surface, 2. It Calls Me Under, 3. I Fell Into The Light, 4. The Harvest, 5. Watch Over Me, 6. Malacandra

The Strut label returns with a brand new vinyl edition of one of the imprint's most in-demand series, DISCO NOT DISCO, exploring original anthems and rarities from the world of reactionary 1970s post-punk and leftfield disco.



With the original two compilations released at the turn of the decade as a new wave of bands like The Rapture and LCD Soundsystem drew on the music's influence, DISCO NOT DISCO has since been adopted in its own right as a term to describe a whole genre. The compilation is more timely than ever in 2011 as a reference point for a burgeoning mainstream scene.



The new edition moves from New York classics by Konk and Bill Laswell's Material to early Detroit machine music, Belgian New Beat and a healthy dose of UK originals from Shriekback, Quando Quango and more on seminal labels like Y and Factory. Watch out too for rare gems from unexpected sources including Japanese electronic pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra and '70s prog collective Isotope.



DISCO NOT DISCO is packaged in a deluxe 2LP Gatefold with featuring sleeve notes by Bill Brewster, author of 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life', extensive track by track notes and rare photos.
A1) VIVIEN GOLDMAN - LAUNDERETTE

A2) DELTA 5 - MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

A3) SHRIEKBACK - MY SPINE IS THE BASSLINE (12' Edit)

B1) QUANDO QUANGO - LOVE TEMPO (remix)

B2) JAMES WHITE & THE BLACKS - CONTORT YOURSELF (August Darnell remix)



C1) KAZINO - BINARY

C2) LIAISONS DANGEREUSES - LOS NINOS DEL PARQUE (12' mix)

C3) ISOTOPE - CRUNCH CAKE

D1) A NUMBER OF NAMES - SHAREVARI (Instrumental)

D2) MAXIMUM JOY - SILENT STREET / SILENT DUB

500 copies for the world on clear vinyl.

1 Rest in Peace, 2 Summer of Love, 3 Trust, 4 Portaling, 5 Incarnation, 6 Golden Silence

1 Rest in Peace, 2 Summer of Love, 3 Trust, 4 Portaling, 5 Incarnation, 6 Golden Silence

1.Jesus Flag American Fish, 2.Healthy Ghost, 3.Just Ride It, 4.Bad Bad Man, 5.Slut Barf, 6.Possesed By A Corpse, 7.Massage Song.

1. My Name Is Robert, 2. ksjfhgljkhertykjlehgskjhkjvhda, 3. Sound Events (Live), 4. Shit Slowly Applied On Cock Parts, 5. The House I Was Isn't My Girlfriends Porshe, 6. Missy Modle x 1000, 7. Spring, 8. I Will Always Have Juice Today, 9. Glass and Metal, 10. It's Not As It's Going Downtown 11. Junior High Band With Trucks and Dogs, 12. 4400440044040 with Dufus and The Beatles

1. BJI Aii Hmhp #14, 2. Never Do That (Mars), 3. Biggle Hat Was Ice Cream Time (Card Shark Nose Nose), 4. 30 (from 21 through 35) 5. Electronics With Clarinet and Bari Sax, 6. Song For Dina 7. My own face is F word, 8. Drinking Out of Cups, 9. sdahgsfdgh3frgha3wffhjdvbjs4uh 10. The Adventures of Mr Bumbershine, 11. That's A Nice Shirt (Dad), 12. Aerosmith Permanent Vacation 24162-2, 13. Plums, 14. I'm So Gay with The Boner, 15. Aw Ah Ah Ah (Party Cakes), 16. My Weasle Is Married Worm Married, 17. I Have AIDS, 18. 005 September 22 BE

Side A - Fu
Side B - Wedding Day

Limited edition 4 LP box set featuring the Tomboy full length on 2 LPs, the Tomboy single mixes on 1 LP and several Tomboy unreleased instrumentals and a cappellas, plus 'The Preakness' and a 16 page art booklet.
Lp 1 (Expanded Album) You Can Count On Me, Tomboy, Slow Motion, Surfer's Hymn, Last Night At The Jetty
Drone
- Lp2 (Expanded Album) The Preakness, Alsatian Darn, Scheherazade, Friendship Bracelet, Afterburner, Benfica
- Lp3 (Single Mixes ) Drone, Tomboy, Last Night At The Jetty, Surfers Hymn, Scheherazade, Benfica, Slow Motion
Friendship Bracelet, Alsatian Darn, Bullseye, You Can Count On Me
- Lp4 (ACappellas And Instrumentals ) Alsatian Darn (Instrumental), Slow Motion (Instrumental), Friendship Bracelet
(Instrumental), Drone (Instrumental), Last Night At The Jetty (Instrumental), You Can Count On Me (A Cappella)
Alsatian Darn (A Cappella), Slow Motion (A Cappella), Afterburner (A Cappella), Drone (A Cappella).

"… an album as hummably lovely as it is knowingly referencing of a certain tradition of neo-psychedelic English whimsy." - The Observer
“… sets the pair into new experimental territory” - NME
Mute / BMG announce the long-awaited vinyl reissue of Goldfrapp’s fourth album, Seventh Tree. Out on 5 March 2021, this is one of a series of Goldfrapp vinyl releases on special edition coloured vinyl.
Originally released in February 2008, Seventh Tree has been out of print for many years and will be reissued here as a yellow vinyl pressing in a gatefold sleeve, with an exclusive art print of the original artwork.
Featuring the singles ‘A&E’, ’Happiness’, ‘Caravan Girl’ and ‘Clowns’, the album was written by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory and recorded at their own studio deep in the English countryside.

Seventh Tree followed the glitterball glamour of platinum-selling album, Supernature (2005), and is very much its sensual counterpoint. Where its predecessor came cocooned in style and sex, Seventh Tree emerges gilded in the butterfly colours of an English surrealism. It shimmers and shines with the warmth of a hazy summer, an electric whirlpool of sound over which Alison’s glistening voice soars.
Alison Goldfrapp described the album as “English romanticism with a hint of California sunshine.” while Will Gregory called it “heartache dressed in ten louche outfit”’.

white coloured 7" vinyl

green coloured 7"

NEW VERSION WITH ARTWORK BY TINA FRANK BASED ON THE ORIGINAL 2001 MEGO RELEASE!

"Endless Summer", originally released in 2001 by Mego, was a breakthrough album for Christian Fennesz. The album which brought his name and music towards the first steps of mainstream recognition. Following on from the more experimental "Hotel Paral.lell" and the Beach Boys homaged "Plays" single, "Endless Summer" brought the guitars more to the front, the electronics shimmered more, and the melodies shined more brightly. It went on to be a classic of its time, topping many end of year polls.
01 Made In Hong Kong
02 Endless Summer
03 A Year In A Minute
04 Caecilia
05 Got To Move On
06 Shisheido
07 Before I Leave
08 Happy Audio
09 Badminton Girl
10 Endless

Tadd Mullinix first made a name for himself as Dabrye in the early 2000s with a pair of instrumental albums combining the rhythmic finesse of Detroit hip-hop with the ingenuity of electronic music. But instrumental beats were only a temporary goal, a way for Mullinix to catch the ears of MCs. On Two/Three, his second Dabrye album for Ghostly International, Mullinix brought together a formidable crew of local and national talent to make the statement he'd always intended. Released in 2006, Two/Three o-ered a fevered vision of rap's future that remains just as intoxicating a decade on. Ahead of the long-await-ed conclusion of Dabrye's hip-hop trilogy in 2018, Ghostly is reissuing Two/Three.

Dabrye's move towards rap began in 2004 with the album's first single, 'Game Over' featuring Jay Dee and Phat Kat. An early inspiration of Dabrye's, Jay Dee invited Mullinix to his crib in 2002 for a listening session during which he picked the 'Game Over' beat to rap on. Crucially everyone involved was in accord that despite perceptions of their respective work this would be a hardcore rap song. Together with Kat, Jay delivered a one-two lyrical punch on 'Game Over' that no one saw coming. Detroit made the world go round and everyone's head spun. 'Game Over' set the tone for the album and, over the next few years, became a Detroit anthem — shortly after Jay's passing in 2006 the audience at Movement Festival sung his verse.

Moody, propulsive, and above all ambitious, Two/Three emerges from a sonic stew of Detroit and UK dance music, Jamaican sound clashes, and hip-hop sampledelia. The guests, a who's who of the mid-'00s underground rap scene, engage in a raucous rhyming session that pays as much attention to the realities of the streets as it does world events. MF Doom, Wildchild, Vast Aire, Beans, and AG represent for the various coasts while local talents — Waajeed, Ta-Raach, Invincible, Finale, Kadence, Guilty Simpson, Big Tone, Phat Kat, and Jay Dee — bring Two/Three alive with an infectious energy. In between bursts of raw rap and hard beats, Dabrye showcases detailed instrumentals that evoke bleak industrial futures, underwater meditations, and smoky late night sessions. With Two/Three Dabrye placed himself at the forefront of hip-hop's new wave, throwing a Molotov cocktail into the rap world as uncompromising as the head-twisting cover art from WK Interact. The independent press praised Mullinix's audacity. Over the following years the impact of Two/Threewas felt in slow increments as Dabrye's music became central to the sonic makeup of a new generation of producers. As this beat scene grew and moved away from rap, it showed Mullinix the influence of his work and the value of his vision for Dabrye as his own brand of Detroit hip-hop.

Continuously defining his unique composition skills over the years, Gábor Lázár shared a first release with Russell Haswell for his now defunct imprint Last Foundation, quickly followed in 2014 by the album I.L.S. on Lorenzo Senni's Presto! label and EP16 on The Death of Rave, before collaborating last year on a joint album with Mark Fell The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making, also released on The Death of Rave.
Mostly pieced together in 2015, but utilising material made as early as 2011, Crisis Of Representation forms a direct continuation of Lázár's increasingly incisive composition techniques, offering 7 pieces (+1 bonus on CD) which unknot the same nasal drip motif in myriad permutations of possibility. With that in mind, it's not difficult to draw an economically short line from his to Mark Fell's music, but where Fell's Linn grammar and SoYo accentuation tends to clip itself, Lázár's compositions ribbon off into unnaturally fluid flights of mercurial, polychromatic acrobatics.
We could imagine that this deeply abstract yet soberly conceived techno sound is antithesis to causal listening. But, if you're game enough to follow Gábor into the wormhole, and have the head for incredibly intense, elusive sonics, then you'll be embraced by a unquantifiably psychedelic experience quite unlike any other, where notions of "proper" musical convention are upended and rhythm, pitch and tone become fused by your head into scintillating psychoacoustic formations of perpetual tension and amorphous resolution.
If you're into sound design or the rave reductions of Lorenzo Senni, this one comes highly recommended

Ann McMillan did not record prolifically, but she was at the vanguard of electronic composition in New York in the 1970s. A student of groundbreaking composer Edgard Var se, McMillan’s primary medium was magnetic tape, which she manipulated to create surreal soundscapes. On Gateway Summer Sounds, her debut album released on Folkways in 1979 and recorded at the legendary Princeton-Columbia Electronic Music Center, she sources sounds from the natural world - frogs, insects, field recordings from the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York Harbor - along with
gongs, bells, and a harpsichord to conceive remarkable, hypnagogic compositions. Like the music of Daphne Oram and Pauline Oliveros, her compositions for tape have been overshadowed by those of her male counterparts, but her work is no less revolutionary or vital.

Although Isa Fdez. Reviriego defends in one of the songs of her last album that “doing nothing” is a sublime pleasure, the truth is that Isabel herself nds it very dif cult to stay still.
It is not because she thinks there’s something wrong “doing nothing”. Introspection is, according to her vision of the world, a highly productive and ef cient activity for the individual. But Isa doesn’t just love to talk about “doing nothing” – she loves to do. In the last year, she soundtracked the Playstation video game Melbits World and a short lm for Stella McCartney. She provided singing voices for the Spanish-language version of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, and has remixed several other artists.

In 2011, Isa discovered a melodic, kaleidoscopic, punk and unpredictable universe inside her head – one in which Brian Wilson’s melodies and Leon Tolstoi’s law-breaking nal messages – could happily dance hand in hand to electronic rhythms. She called this personal project Aries, after her zodiac sign. Her fourth and latest album, Juramento Mantarraya, released by Spanish label La Castanya and K Records, is a collection of beautiful melodies —seemingly convoluted yet simple— a combination of violins, utes, industrial sounds, and chest-rattling bass.

Across Juramento Mantarraya, Isa and co-producer Jose Vázquez creates an orchestra
– an exciting mixture of soul and free-jazz rhythms, melodies from the girl groups of the 60s, sunshine pop, spanish folk and experimental electronics. Combining samplers, synths, guitars, her precious voice and the sounds of the Galician Coast, where she creates, she speaks of friendship, love, and the beauty of error.

Isa tells us that the right to doubt is as relevant as the need to know that making mistakes and meditating are two legitimate activities – just like triumph and work. She shows that imperfection and experience make us human – and that building the path is much more important than the arrival itself. She analyzes ferocious, time-devouring capitalism and the egomaniac society, celebrates experimentation, and invites you to rethink everything you’ve ever learned.

In her 2015 book Un Rayo Ultravioleta (An Ultraviolet Ray) (Chelsea Ediciones), Isa explains: “When I make music, time stops, nothing else worries me and I am happy. During those moments, I feel true pleasure and fullness. I can concentrate for hours and get excited with an arrangement or a sound and vibrate with the harmonies. They are what Lord Byron called ‘the dazzling intervals,’” and Juramento Mantarraya is precisely that: a collection of dazzling intervals created by someone who knows that only those who are as excited taking a walk as composing melodies can reach people’s hearts.

'Eurabia Vol. 1' is the forthcoming EP from Cairo Liberation Front, following up on their debut release on the über hip Höga Nord Rekords. It sees the band collaborating with Iraqi/Dutch female vocalist Meis (aka Bagdaddy) and Syrian keyboard virtuoso Rizan Said along others. The lead single Tilly' track gallops along like a rabid horse with Bagdaddy in the saddle, urging it on. It is, in essence, the embodiment on record of their scintillating live set, which ripped the roof off Dour festival this summer, and promises to do so again at their tenth Eurabia party to mark the EP release, this time with Mehmet Aslan and Baris K guesting.

The debut release by Confusion on Incompetence Records documents an exercise in disciplined spontaneity, a jam session where organic interaction is rigorously shaped into form. Recorded live in Belgrade by Dmitrii Steinberg, Aleksei Siubaev, Viktor Volkovich, Evgenii Piankov, and Leonid Lipelis, the material was subsequently dissected and reassembled with a scalpel like precision reminiscent of Teo Macero’s landmark edits for Miles Davis. What emerges is not a loose improvisational document but a suite of cohesive constructed pieces: weightless structures suspended over a hypnotic pulse, steeped in cosmic vibes and soft psychedelia. There is a slo mo insistence to the grooves, a kosmiche drift that folds jazz funk rituals into something both intimate and expansive. For musicians previously orbiting rare groove, house, indie rock, and modern composition, Confusion expands their explorations into a terrain where genre dissolves into texture and intention. The record’s mesmerizing beauty lies in its restraint, motifs surface, dissolve, and return as if refracted through magnetic tape memory, each fragment locked into place yet breathing with human elasticity. Rather than presenting virtuosity, the quintet channels it into atmosphere, into a patient, glowing continuum that feels less like a jam and more like a carefully mapped inner cosmos, calibrated for deep listening and slow revelation.

The sonorous drift of four trombones, like gentle waves lapping at the edge of a celestial shoreline, opens Craig Kupka’s second album for Folkways, Crystals: New Music for Relaxation 2. Featuring two side-long compositions for trombone and synthesizer, the album is intended as an aid for meditation, a guided journey inward towards selfdiscovery. Before its original release in 1982, Kupka and his wife Nancy took these recordings to relaxation classes and dance studios, field-testing them with participants primed for a meditative experience, and received extensive positive feedback. Like works by contemporaries Michael Stearns, Iasos, and Steve Roach, this is healing music that opens the outer reaches of the mind.

10 years after their debut, City Of All Times audio-visual enquirers John B McKenna and Richard Greenan re-appear as Devonanon, to share the findings of a decade-long sonic experiment. Like its predecessor, Richard & John is a living, breathing collection of field recordings and compositions, gathered gradually from remote corners of the pair's lives. Familiar waypoints - interwoven microtonal synths, regurgitated live performances, polite whispering, and the gurgling hum of vehicles (land and sea) - all fold into the perpetual stew.

Where City read like a crumpled postcard account of fraternal reportage, Richard & John is a tone poem on something more amorphous, and out of time - a garbled history of human closeness, upheaval and mark-making, that seems to buckle and creak like a tapestry with no beginning or end. No two spoonfuls are the same, as our story reels through kosmische library stylings ('Wilderness Engine'), to cortex-quieting free association ('Generate Countryside'), and baroque instrumentation ('Blood Laughing', which features beautiful turns from Masayoshi Fujita on vibraphone, and Rosa Juritz on bassoon).

A band who have never stood still creatively, EBM is a breathlessly heavy step up and Editors’ most leftfield material yet – a thrilling, unrelenting thrust of full-bodied electro-industrial rock. The album title is an acronym of Editors and Blanck Mass, but also a knowing reference to Electronic Body Music, the potent sound that originated in the 1980s and which has hugely influenced Editors’ new material, where the synths of bands like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and DAF hammer darkly amongst smoke machines, strobe lights and the smell of leather.

The LP version is pressed on 140g black vinyl and comes with a printed inner sleeve, lyric sheet and a download code.

The British shoegaze pop band Engineers was formed in London in
2003 by Mark Peters, Simon Phipps, Andrew Sweeney and Dan MacBean. MacBean is also known as the guitarist in The Shining. After being signed to Echo Records, the band released their self- titled debut album in 2005. The album features the acclaimed tracks “Home”, “Forgiveness” and “Waved On”. The latter was produced by Tim Holmes, who worked with The Chemical Brothers, Primal Scream and multiple albums for Death In Vegas.

Engineers is available as a limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on white coloured vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.

Limited edition milky clear with blue and purple splatter + HQ download.


The follow-up to last year's return-to-form collection, Cloudwalker. Sonic Poetry is a refined group of works showcasing Gimmik's adeptness at fusing experimental electronic music minutia with overarching melodicism.
Those that have followed Gimmik's carrier–and subsequent return–will take pleasure in Sonic Poetry's veracity and bolstered production. Leftfield/IDM, Breaks, Downtempo, Electro, and Ambient get dissected and reformed to create a truly authentic album in which it is evident that there is no coincidence in that the opening track is named "Here I am."