Filastine / Burn It [Soot]
Released on DJ RUPTUREs Soot label, Burn It is one of those rare debut albums that reveal an artist operating at the height of their powers. A hip hop backbone supports live polyrhythms, collaborating musicians, lush electronica, field-recordings, and an array of guest MCs and singers. The result is genuinely fresh, streetwise, and solid from start-to-finish. While Burn It will satisfy beat-heads, the album also exhibits a deeper musicality, as upright bass, horns, and the occasional sultry French vocal. UK import but chock full of locals including members of the Infernal Noise Brigade and the Degenerate Art Ensemble.
Herb Diamante / May I Light Your Cigarette? [Abduction]
This debut release from the mysterious Herb Diamante will transport you on a naughty journey through his speakeasy of debauchery and sin. These eleven tracks of alcohol, tobacco, and desire are driven by his rich, golden voice atop a psychedelic showroom of sound. Think a sort of gothic lounge music with songs about aubergines, yellow kazoos, delicate stilettos, and wasps trapped in jam jars.
This Heat / Out of Cold Storage [This Is]
The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available and Repeat, all re-mastered and re-packaged, with a substantial (48pp) book of interviews, recollections, information, documents and photographs in a sturdy box, PLUS a new CD of concert recordings. Pony up your ducats folks, this is ART.
V/A Sublime Frequencies [Multiple Releases]
Another fine batch of excavated exotica from remote regions of the globe. The team of musicologists at the SF labs continue unabated in their relentless quest to bring us the best in obscure ethnographic recordings, and for this we thank them mightily. This time around we get; Ethnic Minority Music of Northeast Cambodia, Radio Thailand, Radio Algeria and the DVD Phi Ta Khan (Ghosts of Isan). Armchair travelers rejoice!
V/A New Deutsch [International Deejay Gigolo]
So weve had this in before, but not for a very long while. And its great! For fans of NY No Wave, So Young and So Cold, Glass Candy, Chromatics, et al. German new wave from the early eighties. Guaranteed to get your party train heading in an energetic sort of direction.
Senor Coconut / Yellow Fever [Essay Recordings]
Senor Coconut puts the eyebrows on YMO. Famous for his laptop-mambo and acid-merengue covers of Kraftwerk, Sade and Michael Jackson, here the good Senor pays homage to the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Making the orchestra that much more magical, all three of YMO’s members Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi and Ryuichi Sakamoto make guest appearances on the album. And rounding out the barmy, mixed-up social club, the album features a host of distinguished collaborators from all corners of the electronic-music world including Towa Tei, Burnt Friedman, Mouse On Mars, Akufen, Schneider TM and Nouvelle Vague’s Marina.
Six Organs of Admittance / The Sun Awakens [Drag City]
Ben Chasney plays with friends from Om, Comets on Fire, and The Fucking Champs to take his latest album in a heavier direction. If youre not a fan yet, this may be a good place to start. Three cheers for mystic holiness. Weve got it on vinyl too.
Also in stock: Sonic Youth / Plastic Cloud / Booka Shade / Alvarius B / Soul Gospel V.2 / Herbert / Loscil / Paper Rad DVD / Smog EP/ Mr. Lif / Harry Taussig / Current 93 / Lithops / Camera Obscura / Magik Markers LP/ Regina Spektor / Oakley Hall / Susumu Yokota