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Visit product page →Release Date: 06/03/2020
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‘You Made Me’ is a Pete Astor album of other people’s songs. It was recorded with producer Ian Button and features Dave Tattersall (Wave Pictures) playing guitar and Andy Lewis (Spearmint, Blow Up) on bass and synth, with Pam Berry (Black Tambourine, Withered Hand), Sean Read (Edwyn Collins, Pretenders, and a mass of brilliant others) and Nina Walsh (Woodleigh Research Facility, Fireflies) joining on vocals.
From the pure pop ache of Gen X’s ‘Dancing with Myself’ to the stoic heartbreak of Cat Power’s ‘Manhattan’, via the shadowy rider in Elvis Presley’s ‘Black Star’, to the teenage ’50s gangster of Richard Thompson’s ‘Vincent Black Lightening’, You Made Me marks some of the way stations of a life in music, songs to make sense of time passing and what that passing time can mean. Pete Astor shares his thoughts on You Made Me.
Like everybody, my life has been sound-tracked by the songs I listen to and sing along with. And a bit like a collection of photographs, I’ve lost some while some never even got taken. Nonetheless, some really good ones did get through. Here they are.
1. ‘Dancing with Myself (1980)’ Gen X, the song articulated the loneliness of the long-distance musician – and it sounded great.
2. ‘Black Star (1960)’ Elvis Presley This was intended as the title song to a so-named 1960 Presley film that got retitled Flaming Star. The title track of David Bowie’s swansong album is widely thought to have been inspired by this song.
3. ‘Chained to an Idiot (1974) This is the only original on the record – my response to the history that these songs have made; the tale of the permanent teenager chained to his needs, forever defined by the purest, libidinous pop – turning Kingsley Amis’ quote, the provenance of the title, on its head. 4.‘Manhattan (2012). Cat Power This is Chan Marshall’s paean to lost love and lost places, an elegy to the way we locate our lives and love affairs in times and locations – a hazy New York or London, say – that have now disappeared. 5.‘Nitcomb (1999’). Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. ‘Nitcomb’ will ring very true for anyone who remembers all the long evenings spent combing out those stubborn insects. As a musician, Strummer was a lifer, and like those nits, so very tenacious.
6.Vincent Black Lightning (1952)’ Richard Thompson This modern-day outlaw ballad tells the story of tragic love around the centrepiece of the mythic and very English titular motorcycle.
7.‘Solid Air (1973)’ John Martyn John Martyn’s plea to his lost and fading friend, Nick Drake, which becomes a touchstone and document of any lost and fading friends any of us might have had.
8.‘Can’t Hardly Wait (1987)’ The Replacements Paul Westerberg writing and singing about how it feels to be away from home, on tour, magnificently lost, aching to be.
9.‘Courage’ Villagers (2015)’ Conor O’Brien’s document of the heart’s travails re-imagined as lovers rock, making a gentle, steadfast march out of changing love.
10.‘Suffering Jukebox (2008)’ Silver Jews We recorded this in tribute to the passing of Silver Jews’ songwriter David Berman, a song about the plight of the record machine in the corner, devoid of agency, speaking for everyone who wishes things were different. Neil Scott (Felt, Denim, Everything But the Girl) joined us for this one on guitar.
11.‘One Man Guy (1985)’ Loudon Wainwright III Loudon lived in London in the mid ’80s. I once saw him eating alone in Parkway, NW1. Now I know how he must have felt. -
Release Date: 20/03/2020Visit product page →
The deluxe vinyl edition of Faithless Rituals is housed in a gatefold sleeve with printed inners.
The first pressings come in 2 colour green and white splatter vinyl and free download, and each vinyl copy will include the ‘ FAITHLESS RITUAL’ board game designed and created by Sky Valley Mistress and based on the lyrics of their epic track ‘BLUE DESERT', for you to play whilst listening to the record.
Included are gatefold board, 16 unique tarot cards, 4 Sky Valley logo tokens, a game spinner and full instructions.The Compact disc is a 4 panel digipack with lyric booklet.
Sky Valley Mistress are 4 young upstarts from Blackburn, Lancashire, full of spit and vinegar who have delivered a ferocious, two fingered hello to rest of the world with their debut album 'Faithless Rituals'.
Eight tracks of fierce passion and spirit, blistering stoner rock 'n' roll with huge riffs, buckets of fuzz and hooks guaranteed to nail you to the wall from the get go. Couple that with inciendiary playing one of the best female vocalists around ... you have one helluva debut album.
In fact, SVM could easily hold their own against the likes of Jim Jones, Rival Sons, Royal Blood, BRMC or any other rockers greasy or otherwise.
Still only in their mid 20’s, you can only assume, on listening to their debut, that these young turks made that journey to those legendary crossroads and did the dirty deed with the dark one himself, such is the level of musicianship and vocal prowess on show here.
The album was recorded at the legendary Rancho De La Luna, Joshua Tree, California, and co produced by, and featuring Dave Catching (Queens Of The Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal and Mojave Lords amongst others) and like all great rock 'n' roll it has vibe and attitude in spades.
Sky Valley Mistress are:
Kayley “Hell Kitten” Davies (vocals),
Sean “Starsky’ Berry (Guitar),
Russell “Russell” Russell (Bass),
Maxwell Harvey William Newsome III (Drums/Percussion)
Tracklisting Vinyl:
Side A:
1. A Faithless Ritual
2. You Got Nothin'
3. Lost In Shock
4. Punk Song
5.It Won't Stop
Side B:
1.Skull & Pistons
2. She Is So
3. Blue Desert
4. Electric Church
Tracklisting CD:
1. A Faithless Ritual
2. You Got Nothin'
3. Lost In Shock
4. Punk Song
5.It Won't Stop
6.Skull & Pistons
7. She Is So
8. Blue Desert
9. Electric Church -
Available on 180 grm Yellow vinyl 12”.Visit product page →
This is the 2nd single release from L'Épée, from the seminal album “Diabolique”.
This 3 track single contains an exclusive track to the release “Shiny Shiny” & the artwork is by Frank Kozik.
The band are Emmanuelle Seigner (Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle), Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) & Lionel & Marie Liminana (The Liminanas).
Recorded in Cabestany (France) and Berlin at Anton’s Cobra Studio.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Ghost Rider
Side B:
2. Shiny Shiny
3. Lou
Release Date: 06/12/2019 -
At The Dojo Records will be releasing Fu Manchu’s complete incendiary performance at the 2003 edition of the Roadburn Festival Netherlands on limited edition LP and CD.Visit product page →
The band recently unearthed the original professional recordings that were taken direct from the soundboard and had them specifically mastered for this release.
Scott Hill, lead vocals/guitar of Fu Manchu comments: "Playing Roadburn back in 2003 was a blast! It was the year before we put out "Start The Machine” and we played a couple of songs from it live for the first time on that tour.
One of the songs that’s on this live record, “I Wanna Be,” is a different arrangement than what ended up on the final studio release. We're stoked that the show was recorded and that people will get to hear it.
Always a good time playing at Roadburn!"
This is a legendary Fu set including classics “Squash That Fly,” “Hell On Wheels,” “Boogie Van” and “King Of The Road.”
Tracklisting:
1.Squash That Fly
2.Hell On Wheels
3.Eatin’ Dust
4.Laserbl’ast!
5.I Wanna Be
6.Boogie Van
7.King Of The Road
8.Written In Stone
9.Saturn III
Release Date: 29/11/2019 -
Wire exhibit little inclination to look back - rather they remain resolutely focused on producing music which is smart, vital and defiantly modern. Mind Hive is the group’s first newly recorded material since 2017’s Silver/Lead.Visit product page →
That album garnered rave reviews and career best sales. Yet, if Silver/Lead set the bar pretty high, Mind Hive seems to have no problem vaulting over it.
Tracklisting:
1. Be Like Them
2. Cactused (watch the video)
3. Primed And Ready
4. Off The Beach
5. Unrepentant
6. Shadows
7. Oklahoma
8. Hung
9. Humming
Release Date: 24/01/2020 -
Limited edition on white vinyl and limited to 500 copies worldwide. First time on LP / Originally release on CD in 2010.Visit product page →
This is a masterful and critically acclaimed acoustic retrospective of Tony Harnell’s prolific career. With new arrangements and a stellar production, these great songs sound fresh and vibrant with a new spark breathed into them by some of New York City’s finest musicians.
This is a very special record: a stripped down, reinvented retrospective of Tony Harnell’s past classics originally recorded with his previous bands TNT, Westworld and Starbreaker, with one brand new song “Anywhere But Here” recorded especially for this release.
The idea of re-recording some repertoire classics came about after Tony performed some low key shows in New York in late 2008, with some talented and accomplished musicians that were not part of the Metal/Hard Rock scene.
The desire was to breathe new life into the songs with new arrangements, key changes and added parts, it’s like listening to songs you know in a whole new way.
Tracklisting:
1. Somebody Told You
2. Intuition
3. Month Of Sundays
4. Lonely Nights
5. Shame
6. Northern Lights
7. Down To The River To Pray
8. Satellite
9. 10k Lovers
10. Uninvited
11. Ready To Fly
12. When I’m Away
13. Song For Dianne
14. Anywhere But Here
Release Date: 06/12/2019 -
Spacious, psychedelic electronica meets desert rock, laced with lyrical other-worldliness from a collective of iconic musicians led by this Warsaw born/London raised artist living full time in the Mojave Desert.Visit product page →
“Now that the sounds of freedom rattle the glass and fill our lungs with bronchitis, they must be on red alert, ready to shine the light” sings Patti Yang on Sounds of Freedom, the first single from her forthcoming album War On Love, out November 22 via Requiem Records.
She is talking about her home in the Mojave Desert, California, which although is both stunning and unusual, is also within eyesight and earshot of the largest Marine Corps base in the US; 29 Palms. As expected, training exercises are common and the Marines set up a community phone line for civilians to call in with comments and impressions.
It’s the jumping off point for War On Love, a record concerned with privacy and digital voyeurism, the tenuous relationship we hold with our sense of reality, existential sabotage and impermanence.
“I began working on the album by setting myself a challenge: to break out from the daily life cycle”. Patti explored ancient medicine and the properties of sound by studying at the Integratron, a renowned temple dedicated to sonic bliss via quartz bowls played like a giant analog synthesizer.
Following an inner call, she moved from London to Joshua Tree, a small town in the Mojave Desert, California.
“I fell in love with the soft, infinite silence and the open spaces which gave foundation to my research and creative work”.
Songwriting began in Joshua Tree where recording spanned to London and Brooklyn, NY, at Rare Book Room, where the album was also mixed. Untethered by a specific style, the journey oscillates between unadorned hyperrealism and chaotic narratives, linked by dreamlike pop soundscapes.
The collaborators are: Chris Mackin (Le Volume Courbe, Primal Scream), Matty Skylab (Skylab, David Holmes), Jagz Kooner (Reverend and the Makers, Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream), Martin Craft (M. Craft, Jarvis Cocker), Chiara Giovando, Nicolas Vernhes (Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Daughter, Dirty Projectors, The War on Drugs).
Tracklisting:
1. Sounds of Freedom
2. Technicolor Dream
3. Wonder Wells
4. Comfortably Wrong
5. Jerusalem
6. Falling
7. Bright Lights
8. Grace Me -
Fragile Self are electronic duo Anil Aykan and Jonathan Barnbrook · already known for their grammy award winning design for David Bowie’s Blackstar and The Next Day album covers · they have now formed their own musical project combining visuals, music, electronics and live performance, already with a following in design this is a natural evolution and new audience for them.The first self-titled album is released in three physical formats.Visit product page →
Most notably a 480 page book with Download link which takes a poetic journey through the Songs with original photography, Researched archive photos and artwork by outsider artist Peter White
Tracklisting:
1. I Loved Alone
2. This Is My Existence
3. Bertha
4. Deperson
5. Fragile Self
6. Patients
7. Surrogate
8. Leon
9. Need For Sanctuary
10. Journey Taken
Release Date: 08/11/2019 -
EP01 is one of J Colleran's most essential releases to date, fusing glass-like, translucent textures alongside synthesised youtube rips of kawasaki engines to create moments of raw, robotic emotion.Visit product page →
Following standout performances at this year's Mutek and Sonar Festival, RBMA graduate and NTS regular J Colleran launches new imprint, Oyae, with a 5 track masterpiece, simply titled 'EP01'.
Produced in Dublin, Ireland, J Colleran originally experimented with processing old and new work evolving into them fresh elements. Taking these textures and layers, he then assembled them into collages to create beds for additional parts to be added.
He adds - "The music always felt unfinished, and I knew there was something missing. Sometimes I’ll walk about listening to a project at half volume and allow the ambient sound of the city to come into the mix. It’s never usually that direct an influence but when I heard a motorbike speeding past I wanted to pull something straight from that and repurpose it. I started ripping youtube clips of motorbike engines and began processing them with granular synthesis. This eventually led to these new elements becoming the focus of the record and I broke down and restructured the original recordings around them”.
From the glassy and translucent chorus-chimes in the ambient opener 'Arena (crush44 edit)', 'Bene' zooms things forward with granular euphoria and ecstatic melodies of raw, robotic-emotion.
'Interframe' steps off the rollercoaster, for an ambient-hardcore-jungle mashup of morphing textures and hints of muffled robotic speech that ascend into eventual silence. Track 4, '2Hydra', which features Red Bull Music Academy's Nami Sato from Japan on vocals, comfortably slips and slides into glitchy movie atmospheres.
'S-Flood' closes out the EP, with meticulously atmospheric chord washes, concluding some of J Colleran's most essential work to date on an imprint that is one to watch.
Tracklisting:
1. Arena (crush44 edit)
2. Bene
3. Interframe
4. 2Hydra (ft Nami Sato)
5. S-Flood
Release Date: 08/11/2019 -
DAYDREAM LIBRARY SERIES are ecstatic to announce the release date and launch party details of Thurston's forthcoming trio of 7-inch singles:Visit product page →
1.) SPRING SWELLS
2.) THREE GRACES
3.) POLLINATION each 7-inch comprises an excerpted moment from the THURSTON MOORE GROUP live in 2019, free-mixed and free-created by Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker).
The B-side of each is a special cover of a New Order track (recorded in Salford).
Release Date: 08/11/2019 -
Daydream Library
Thurston Moore 'Spring Swell/Leave Me Alone' Vinyl 7" Turquoise Vinyl +8 Page Zine
£9.99
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Thurston Moore 'Spring Swell/Leave Me Alone' Vinyl 7" Turquoise Vinyl +8 Page Zine
£9.99
DAYDREAM LIBRARY SERIES are ecstatic to announce the release date and launch party details of Thurston's forthcoming trio of 7-inch singles:Visit product page →
1.) SPRING SWELLS
2.) THREE GRACES
3.) POLLINATION each 7-inch comprises an excerpted moment from the THURSTON MOORE GROUP live in 2019, free-mixed and free-created by Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker).
The B-side of each is a special cover of a New Order track (recorded in Salford).
Release Date: 08/11/2019 -
Daydream Library
Thurston Moore 'Pollination/Leave Me Alone' Vinyl 7" Yellow Vinyl +8 Page Zine
£9.99
vDaydream Library
Thurston Moore 'Pollination/Leave Me Alone' Vinyl 7" Yellow Vinyl +8 Page Zine
£9.99
DAYDREAM LIBRARY SERIES are ecstatic to announce the release date and launch party details of Thurston's forthcoming trio of 7-inch singles:Visit product page →
1.) SPRING SWELLS
2.) THREE GRACES
3.) POLLINATION each 7-inch comprises an excerpted moment from the THURSTON MOORE GROUP live in 2019, free-mixed and free-created by Wobbly (aka Jon Leidecker).
The B-side of each is a special cover of a New Order track (recorded in Salford).
Release Date: 08/11/2019 -
Conspiracy International
Chris & Cosey 'Trance/Heartbeat/Songs Of Love And Lust/ Exotika' 4LP Bundle
£80.00
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Chris & Cosey 'Trance/Heartbeat/Songs Of Love And Lust/ Exotika' 4LP Bundle
£80.00
Visit product page →All 4 Chris And Cosey Albums in a bundle.
You get:
'Heartbeat' Purple Vinyl
'Trance' Gold Vinyl
'Songs Of Love And Lust' Turquoise
'Exotika' Transparent Violet Vinyl
Release Date: 25/10/2019 -
This hugely popular mid-eighties Exotika album was originally released in 1987 by Play It Again Sam. It includes such Chris & Cosey classics as the crowd-pleasing 'BeatBeatBeat', the haunting ballad 'Dr. John (Sleeping Stephen)' and the original version of their seminal title track 'Exotika', which was adopted as an electronica anthem, most notably on the GOA scene and in the US West and East Coast gay clubs of the later 1980s’.Visit product page →
"Chris & Cosey beat most of 87's mainstream dance-floor contenders on their own territory of sheer pleasure, urged joy. 'BeatBeatBeat' is extreme, a revelation." By Ian Gittins - Melody Maker 1987
"Chris & Cosey have made a great dance record, but it's their kind of dancing. No junk here. They're crazy enough to be sincere about their musical Pleasureland and they want to share their discovery. Come and feel the sound as though your life depends on it: if it were up to them, it would depend on it." From Rockpool 1987
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Confession
2. Arcade
3. Exotika
Side B:
4. Vengeance
5. Dancing On Your Grave
6. Beatbeatbeat
7. Dr. John (Sleeping Stephen)
Release Date: 25/10/2019 -
Songs of Love & Lust was originally released by Rough Trade Records in 1984 and at the time was considered to be quite a departure for both Chris & Cosey and Rough Trade. The album contains Chris & Cosey’s trademark infectious rhythms, melodic tunes, edgy guitar, wailing cornet and of course Cosey's unique vocals - which give a dark and sensual edge to the production.Visit product page →
"A vice-like turn of the screw that is at once dreamy, hard and compelling. A gathering of all those forces which give electronic music a heart of its own. This is seduction!" Adrian Jones - City Limits 1984
"Chris & Cosey's alluring invitation is to try another world: their promise is that the possibilities should be endless." Don Watson - NME 1984
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Driving Blind
2. Love Cuts
3. Walking Through Heaven
4. Lament
Side B:
5. Talk To Me
6. Gardens of The Pure
7. Raining Tears of Blood
8. Chiron
Release Date: 25/10/2019 -
This seminal album and a long time favourites with DJs and fans alike. ‘Trance' is often cited by electronic musicians as being highly influential in contemporary electronic music. Primarily an instrumental album 'Trance' covers everything from minimal electro and polyrhythmic sequences to rhythm heavy industrial dance tracks.Visit product page →
"High-tech sequencer dazzles mix with heavy stews of sound, teasing atmospheric pieces with abrasive disco forgeriesʼ” John Gill - Time Out 1982
"No one else currently turning out commercial music has anywhere near Chris and Coseyʼs intuitive grasp of the stimulating possibilities of electronic rhythm. Trance is just what it claims to be: a mesmerising chance to reassess the suggestive potential of sound, which in turn, attempts to intoxicate the listener into a reinvestigation of surrounding environments.” Steve Sutherland - Melody Maker 1982.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Cowboys In Cuba
2. Lost
3. The Giants Feet
4. Impulse Track List
Side B:
5. Re-Education Through Labour
6. Secret
7. Until
8. The Gates of Ancient Cities
Release Date: 25/10/2019 -
Originally released to much acclaim in 1981 by Rough Trade 'Heartbeat' was the first in a long line of groundbreaking albums by Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti.Visit product page →
This early example of Chris & Cosey features cut-up sampled voices, Cosey's disto-guitar, Industrial sequences, melodious synths and cinematic sweeps.
“There are moments of great beauty like ‘Moorby’ and, equally, many moments of sheer depravity all performed with Kraftwerk’s cultured class and the hypnotic charm and deadly grace of a synthesised cobra.” Steve Sutherland Melody Maker 1982.
"All the world loves a love story… but 'Heartbeat' still has an edge of evil among the extensions of the pair's established scenarios.” Sandy Robertson - Sounds 1981.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Put Yourself In Los Angeles
2. This Is Me
3. Voodoo
4. Moorby
5. Radio Void
6. Just Like You
Side B:
7. Bust Stop
8. Useless Information
9. Manic Melody (Hairy Beary)
10. Heartbeat
Release Date: 25/10/2019 -
With the debris barely settling following the release of their critically acclaimed explosive second album, ‘CollectiV’, and near sold-out spring UK and European tour, testifying rockers Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind have announced details of brand new, limited edition 7” coloured vinyl single, ‘Get Down Get With It’.Visit product page →
It will be accompanied by 11 gigs in September and October. Made famous by Little Richard and Slade, ‘Get Down Get With It’, will be limited to just 1000 copies. 500 will be on sale at tour venues, the remainder for independent record stores.
Pushing the VU meters well into the red, ‘Get Down Get With It’ is arguably the noisiest and rawest record that Jim Jones has recorded over an illustrious career that has seen him front the legendary bands Thee Hypnotics, Black Moses and The Jim Jones Revue. What is beyond debate is that it’s a glorious call to arms guaranteed to get your ass off your seat and your feet on the floor.
Speaking of the new single, Jim Jones says: “’Get Down Get With It’ became the rallying cry for the ‘CollectiV’ tour, so it made sense to go back into the studio, turn everything up to the max and totally let rip.
“Jim Jones’ groove is fully maintained in gale force determination, resolution and incision.” Mojo
‘CollectiV’’s variety never slows the album’s constant state of attack. If anything it increases the impact of the singer’s jowl-shaking, balls-out commitment.” Classic Rock
“This album is a must.” Vive Le Rock
“A dense, dark and dangerous album.” Shindig!
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Get Down Get With It
Side B:
Ace Of Spades
Release Date: 04/10/2019 -
Visit product page →Fu Manchu’s 8th album, Start The Machine, was originally released on 14 September, 2004. Until now, it is the only album from the legendary band that has never been issued on vinyl.
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of this classic, At The Dojo Records will remedy that with a newly remastered debut vinyl release. Also included is a bonus picture flexi 7” of “Written In Stone” performed live at Roadburn Festival 2003, one year prior to the song’s studio version release on this album.
This 3,000 unit run is pressed on neon green/black splatter vinyl and the gatefold package design includes never before seen photos of the band.
Start The Machine features “Written In Stone,” “Hey” (as featured on the television series, “Sons Of Anarchy” and crowd favorites “Make Them Believe” and “Today’s Too Soon.” This is the recording debut of drummer Scott Reeder, formerly of Smile.
The CD version of this album is also newly remastered for maximum fidelity.
“One of Fu’s tightest albums in years” - Pop Matters
“Invariably tight, immediate and groovy, pulsing sonic hot rods like “Written In Stone,” “Open Your Eyes” and “I Wanna Be” dominate an LP that was clearly meant to be heard on vinyl” - AllMusic.com
Tracklisting:
1. Written in Stone
2. I Can't Hear You
3. Understand
4. Make Them Believe
5. Hey
6. I'm Gettin' Away
7. Out to Sea
8. Open Your Eyes
9. Today's Too Soon
10. It's All the Same
11. Tunnel Vision
12. I Wanna Be
Picture disc flexi 7”:
1. Written In Stone
Release Date: 13/09/2019 -
Visit product page →The Bug and Burial return as Flame 2, on The Bug's PRESSURE imprint.
Following last year's Flame 1 - 'Fog/Shrine' 12" on PRESSURE.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
Dive
Side B:
Rain
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