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KAWABATA MAKOTO & MICHISHITA SHINSUKE .
Basement Echo
$12.99
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Basement Echo is the historical meeting point of two generations of the Japanese underground. Kawabata Makoto, leader of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke, leader of LSD March, are together here for the first time in a guitar duo.
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TOM CARTER .
Shots At Infinity 1
$12.99
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This is the companion release to the Tom Carter LP titled Shots At Infinity 2 being release on Important simultaneously.
Shots At Infinity 1(the CD) is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern USA from late 2007...... (more)

 
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TOM CARTER lp
Shots At Infinity 2
$14.99
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This is the companion release to the Tom Carter CD titled Shots At Infinity 1 being release on Important simultaneously. The first 100 copies sent out via Important mailorder will be on green vinyl..... (more)

 
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MERZBOW .
Dolphin Sonar
$12.99
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Dolphin Sonar is Merzbow's full length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts and broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied waters of Taiji. .. (more)

 
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ASTRO/Hiroshi Hasegawa lp
Live At Muryoki Muzen Temple
$14.99
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Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple is limited to 500 copies with the first 100 on color vinyl. This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At The Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. (more)

 
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ASTRO/Hiroshi Hasegawa .
The Echo From The Purple Dawn
$11.99
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The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that masterfully drifts between spaced out analog dream drone and a more extreme form of harsher droning.. (more)

 
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BASS COMMUNION .
Molotov & Haze
$12.99
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Molotov And Haze is packaged in a deluxe tip-on style heavy duty gatefold jacket with the cd slipped into a Japanese inner bag. Design by Carl Glover.
Bass Communion is a project dedicated to Steven Wilson’s recordings in an ambient, drone, and/or electronic vein. Most of the pieces are experiments in texture made from processing recordings of real instruments and...... (more)

 
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KAWABATA MAKOTO lp
We Don't Know Where We Came From
SOLD OUT
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Limited edition of 500 copies from the Acid Mothers Temple leader. Packaged in a deluxe letterpressed jacket printed at 53rd Parallel Press in Portland Maine.(more)

 
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SIC ALPS .
United
SOLD OUT
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This merch table gem is a one sided 7" limited to 1000 copies. 500 on blue, 200 on red, 200 yellow and 100 on green. Contained on this thick piece of love is a rockola version of Throbbing Gristle's track United. This will be gone fast and won't be repressed. (more)

 
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DAN FRIEL .
lp
Ghost Town
CD: $11.99 LP: $12.99
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Ghost Town is the first full-length solo release from Parts & Labor singer/electrician Dan Friel. Characterized by its anthemic melodies, complex electronic arrangements and
huge distorted beats, Ghost Town has massive universal appeal.
Major praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum and loads more press has marked this as one of the years best record....(more)

 
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GRAILS .
lp
Take Refuge In Clean Living
CD: $12.99 LP:$15.99
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Opening with a nod to Syd Barret's Pink Floyd (Piper at the Gates of Dawn) the record begins with morse code and drops into one of the heaviest slow-burn grooves in the Grails canon. Sounding something like Hawkwind and Ravi Shankar scoring Bladerunner......(more)

 
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A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS .
A Place To Bury Strangers
$12.99
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Vinyl version of the groups break out self titled release. Pitchfork 8.4 "Best New Music." Pressed in an edition of 1000. 300 copies are on clear vinyl with 150 reserved for Important mailorder customers. A Place To Bury Strangers have often been called "the loudest band in New York".(more)

 
 

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-Rega Turntables in stock

- New releases from Tom Carter, Merzbow, Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke

- Fall/Winter 2008 new releases announced

- New releases from Sic Alps & Carlos Giffoni. Repressed vinyl from A Place To Bury Strangers & Grails

- Eleh's "Homage To The Square Wave" in stock for a limited time

- New Grails & Important Records shirts

- Glowing reviews for the new Dan Friel album Ghost Town

- New full lengths from Dan Friel, Grails, Cluster & 4 new Important Records t-shirts!

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New full lengths from Acid Mothers Temple, Kluster, John Fahey's Three Day Band & new shirts.

- Commercial for new Grails album on Important

-A Place To Bury Strangers shirts available in the apparel section

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