a-Musik Newsletter #7 2025 Mai 2nd
many, many great new releases and second hand goodies


1st section - new items
2nd section - second hand new entries
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"Modern Obscure Music is proud to present Pierre Bastien & DJ Low's "Swing Low", a work that fuses the poetic inventiveness of Pierre Bastien with the visionary legacy of the late DJ Low (Tom Deweerdt), a central figure in Belgian independent music and founder of the ...
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MOM057 | MODERN OBSCURE MUSIC

"The final album from stevie's Mope Grooves, the seminal Portland collective. A 2 hour, 27 track masterpiece of touching, warped music that transcends genre into a realm of pure inspiration." (label info)
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LSSN093 | NIGHT SCHOOL

"Twenty-four years on from its original release, Monolake's seminal Gravity receives its first vinyl pressing courtesy of Field Records. Occupying its own space at the intersection of dub techno, minimal and electronica, it's an ageless album of staggering vision and ...
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FIELD37 | FIELD RECORDS

""Farming, often associated with toil and drudgery, can also be a surprisingly sensual and playful activity. The rhythm of the seasons, the tactile experience of working the land, and the shared sense of accomplishment can all contribute to a heightened sense of ...
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STRLP-088 | STROOM RECORDS

"Anika channels her frustration, anger, and confusion with the world into her third album, Abyss. Recorded live to tape at Berlin's legendary Hansa Studios, the album captures raw energy with minimal overdubs, resulting in a visceral and urgent 10-track journey fueled ...
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SBR-365 | SACRED BONES

"Following the success of their third album, Rohstoff, which introduced psychedelic undertones into their mix, Passagen is set to take Zement's exploration of sound even further. It delivers more disco, more punch, more glitter, more motorik, more lyrics and more jazz. ...
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CSR030 | CRAZYSANE RECORDS

"Pop in your earpiece, close your eyes and embrace the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future as Richard Dawson returns with.The Ruby Cord. These seven tracks plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister ...
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WEIRD149LP | DOMINO RECORDS

"The title of Richard Dawson's new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The ...
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WEIRD166LP | DOMINO RECORDS

The third (and most impressive) of four volumes of dub mixes from the studio of producer Joe Gibbs, African Dub, Chapter 3 finds engineer Errol Thompson getting a bit more adventurous than he had on the earlier installments. More of these dub versions keep shreds and ...
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VPRL4109 | VP RECORDS

"DJ Koze's Music Can Hear Us is, according to the artist, a 64-minute trip into space and back. An album that races like a runaway rollercoaster in a zigzag through a parade of planets, from which magicians like Damon Albarn, Soap&Skin, Ada, Sophia Kennedy, Markus Acher ...
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PAMPALP016X | PAMPA

"Black Country, New Road return with Forever Howlong, their first studio album since 2022's seminal Ants From Up There earned the band their second Top 5 UK album in just 12 months following their Mercury Prize-shortlisted debut For the first time. The highly ...
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ZEN314E | NINJA TUNE

"Novalis were formed in 1971 and started singing in German on their second LP "Novalis" in 1975. Only their debut "Banished Bridge" (1973) was in English. In addition to romantic lyrics, they also used works from the classical period. "Impressionen" from the album ...
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MIG03321 | MIG-MUSIC GMBH

"Czech-American jazz pianist, exceptional keyboarder and composer Jan Hammer is best known for his music for films and television series. In 1984 he was commissioned to write the theme and background music for the new American crime series "Miami Vice". In November ...
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M1227-1 | MIG-MUSIC GMBH

"For more than two years, Zeus B. Held has been the keyboardist for the German kraut rock institution Guru Guru. However, his long-standing international career as a musician, producer, songwriter and arranger began in 1972 with his kraut rock colleagues from Birth ...
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MIG03402 | MIG-MUSIC GMBH

"After three very successful studio albums and a live double LP, Frumpy disbanded in 1972. Singer and frontwoman Inga Rumpf, keyboardist Jean Jacques Kravetz and bassist Karl-Heinz Schott continued as Atlantis. Frank Diez joined as new guitarist and former Emergency ...
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MIG03172 | MIG-MUSIC GMBH