Visionary DJ/selector and sonic theorist Steve Goodman aka Kode 9 mans what is inarguably Rinse's most crucial mix CD to date. With mercurial sleight of hand he blends 37 tracks spanning the rhizome of techy, contemporary, bass-rooted funk and leaves most other selectors for dust. Bridging tempos, styles and patterns from myriad sub-strains of house, garage, hip hop, grime and footwork, he sums his intentions thusly; "This style has emerged out of me trying to fit all the stuff I want to play in a set… Generally these sets start relatively simple rhythmically and then get more f*cked-up as the mix goes… Read more

'Nocturnes' is William Basinski's first new solo recording release in four years. It comprises two typically sanguine, extended compositions; 'Nocturnes' written between 1979-80 during his post-grad period in San Francisco, and 'The Trail Of Tears' recorded in 2009 for the Robert Wilson opera, 'The Life and Death of Marina Abramovich'. If there's any one way to measure the efficacy of his music, it's by how drowsy one feels after consumption. We could either do with a snooze or a strong coffee after initial listens, and we mean that with the utmost respect. The first piece revolves recording… Read more

Ghost Box co-convenor Julian House is back to haunt your waking dreams with a new album of imagined library cues, test-tones, telly themes and yellowed sound-postcards from a 70s childhood you may or may not have endured. This is his first solo album as The Focus Group since 2007's We Are All Pan's People, though of course in 2009 there was the magickal, expansive Broadcast collaboration Investigate Witch Cults of The Radio Age. In the best possible sense, it's a return to business as usual: a deviant collector's collage of ersatz soft-psych, pastoral jazz, public information anno… Read more

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

*Comes in an oversized 12" x 12" Vinyl-sized package* Two giants of extreme computer music go head to head, and if you’re brave enough to put your skull in the firing line, there’s considerable pleasure to be gleaned from the pain. Never content to accept music technology at face value, both Haswell and his Japanese sparring partner have spent years developing their own generative tools, and finding ways to deconstruct, pervert and reinvent existing software, hardware and media. Haswell has explored the limits of DAT, Xenakis’s UPIC system and analogue synthesis, while… Read more

*Wavey/Post-Punk pop from the excellent Wampire on their debut album "Curiosity"*

Nancy Elizabeth returns with a graceful third album that isn't afraid of its own intelligence. Opener ‘The Last Battle’ is indicative of the Manchester-based talent's present ambition, her voice multi-tracked into a dramatic, Morricone-style chorus, the sighing strings and vibrato guitar underlining that spag-western vibe and also nodding to the mariachi-flavoured psych of Love’s ‘Alone Again Or’. ‘Heart’ sounds like a less fragile Julia Holter, precious vocal harmonies and subtle synth zaps orbiting an almost new jack swing-style rhythm, but Elizabeth doesn’t settle into a predictable pattern:… Read more

Amazing return from Alex Zhang Hungtai's Dirty Beaches; a sprawling double header opus of labyrinthine darkwave pop, knackered electronics and chamber experiments. We're usually impressed by his work but this one is really something else, feeding forward the traces of dilapidated rockabilly, blues and garage that informed his brilliant 'Badlands' into a deeply captivating new sound more akin to Suicide, Andy Stott or Loren Connors. Crafted over the course of winter 2012 while living between Montreal and Berlin, it's leaden with heartbreaking gravity and existential self-reflect… Read more

*Double CD gatefold digipak* "New York, 1990. Guitarists Thalia Zedek (Live Skull) and Chris Brokaw (Codeine) both relocate (separately) to Boston from New York, where a year earlier, bassist Sean O'Brien (Kilkenny Kats) and drummer Arthur Johnson (Bar-B-Q Killers), had moved from Athens GA. These parallel tracks (sub)merge and, fittingly, make beautiful music together. Soon after the four play their first show together, Sub Pop releases the "Car" 7" as part of their Singles Club series. Following a heated game of rock/paper/scissors with other competing labels (Google it), and for Europe, Glitte… Read more

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

Kingdom collects the fruits of his recent labour in a mini-album sized shot dancefloor pressure. Easing in with the 4/4 swagger of 'Fukin Jaker', he offloads an in-demand remix of Ciara's 'Goodies', the menacing minimalism of 'Okay To Dance VIP', and his ballroom slayer, 'Stalker Ha (Rap Mix)' for the playas, alongside the R&B lean of 'Timesup VIP Dub' (check for Total Freedom's incredible remix!) and his pirouetting remix of The Dream's 'Appetite'. Yeah mayne, tru story…

The final segment of the Section 25 jigsaw, this is the fourth album which Factory managed to sit on for two years, until in 1988 the record was released out of context, mis pressed and with the usual lack of support from the label. This swansong was pretty well created by Larry Cassidy after the band split in 1986, and there are feelings of dislocation everywhere in this music. From the sad visit to Satie’s Gymnopedies, to the tripping fancy of "Guitar Waltz" via the Kraftwerk inflections of "Shit Creek No Paddle", the sound is still prescient and wonderful, but a lament for what might have been,… Read more

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

Hard-nosed yet playful experiments with dancefloor rhythm from Japan's Aoki Takamasa, recommended if you like Mark Fell, NHK, etc. Despite its forbidding exterior and opaque, joyless track titles ('Rhythm Variarion 01', 'Rhythm Variation 02', etc), Takamasa's computer constructions are very lush indeed, with luminous, melodically advanced synth patterns and skippy, club-ready rhythms that variously invoke Skam's North-West b-boy roll, Sensate Focus's juddering Chi-house-derivations and, on the awesome 'Rhythm Variation 04', a space somewhere between hip-hop, techno and 2step garage. 'Rhythm Variation… Read more

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

JD Twitch presents an impeccably mixed overview of his home city's feted electronic music scene; 'The Underground Sound Of Glasgow'. Now, unless you've had your bonce in a bucket for the last half decade, you can't have failed to notice the disproportionate surge of musical energy from Scotland's biggest city - and if you have then this is a great place to catch up. Omitting the more obvious numbers, your DJ pal and guide crams in some 21 tracks of high energy house and disco swagger segued with brilliant interludes, neatly reflecting the messy excess and inte… Read more

'Tombstones' is the spellbinding first studio album by Cal Arts co-chair and acclaimed composer, Michael Pisaro. As mentor and collaborator to Julia Holter and John Maus and with a career at CalArts Composition and Experimental Sound Practices department intersecting those of Ariel Pink and Human Ear Music boss, Jason Grier, Pisaro's influence on the current avant-pop vanguard is duly noted. For 'Tombstones' he's assembled an eight-piece ensemble counting Tashi Wada, Julia Holter, and Jason Grier, among others, in a spectral dismantling of pop music, from The Beatles to DJ S… Read more

Regular as clockwork, Yorkshire bleep survivors TBD mount their latest effort in an ongoing crusade against "the bland compliant mainstream." The followup to their recent pair of 'Darkhaus' 12"s for Ostgut's 'Unterton' offshoot and their own Dust Science label revolves 11 tracks intended as unique components in a machine-like body of work connected by five "bolts", in their own words, "small bits of music that help or disrupt the transition between tracks." Collected, it documents the ongoing refinement of their sound rooted in classic Detroit techno and arcane UK synth music in key with mor… Read more

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*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

*Includes two newly remastered Fela albums in one package*

*Probably the most sought-after of all the Fela albums, newly remastered and reissued*

Outstanding debut album from Kevain Wayne Space, aka Footwork's founding father, RP Boo. Originally known as Record Player Boo, RP cut his dancefloor teeth as member of Chicago's House-O-Matics dance crew in the '90s, where, under the tutelage of Ghetto House pioneers DJ Slugo and DJ Deeon, he hatched an accelerated form of Dance Mania's already frenetic styles in order to fuel the city's increasingly demanding competitive dance scene. Armed with a display copy of a Roland-70 drum machine loaded up with beats by the store's previous customers - unnamed producers from Chicago - he coined a hyperactive, 16… Read more

*Epic 64 track 20th Anniversary Edition of the classic second album from The Breeders, includes a 24-page booklet featuring previously unpublished photographs taken during the recording of ‘Last Splash’, personal photos taken during two years of touring, and reminiscences written by band members and others, including Kim Gordon and J Mascis. Housed in a deluxe foldout/gatefold slipcase designed by Vaughan Oliver, who described it as “an irreverent conceptual and visual reimagining” of his original ‘Last Splash’ artwork.* Having always been obsessed with The Breede… Read more

August post-punk survivor Gordon Sharp aka Cindytalk returns with A Life Is Everywhere, surely his most volatile, lyrical and consuming work since his creative re-birth on Editions Mego a couple years back; here he gravitates away from the dawn-treading digital ambience of his recent sides and towards a noisier, more expansive destination, whilst also exploring some of the most beautiful, accessible harmonic themes of his entire career. 'On A Pure Plane' is the purest, plainest example of this fusion: it collages elegiac string pads with curdled, corrosive power electronics, staking out … Read more

After delivering two of 100% Silk's dopest 12"s and a collaboration with LA Vampires, Brooklyn's Octo Octa delivers the label's most anticipated long player. Like his earlier anthem, 'I'm Trying', his 'Between Two Selves' perfectly characterises 100% Silk's shift from super lo-fi towards much cleaner, sleeker deep house tropes whilst retaining something of a raw, unusual, almost psychedelic fuzziness that you're unlikely to find in the latest Hot Creations spawn. Over its eight trax Mr Octa succinctly references classic Chicago, New York/Jersey, Detroit and moodier European flavours with e… Read more

Wonderful 24-track suite of sound FX and cues used in the 4-part Doctor Who series, 'The Krotons' (1968). Notable as the first Who story written by longtime Dr. Who writer and script editor, Robert Holmes, 'The Krotons' storyline topically mirrored the students riots of '68 and was suitably soundtracked by a genuinely dark and unsettling collection of early electronic tape music by Brian Hodgson and the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. It spans a total of 24 pieces in just over 25 minutes, including the new 1967 opening theme (a rework of Delia Derbyshire's iconic 1963 original). For dark early tape music it doesn't get much better...