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Spotlight 9
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PSYCHEDELIC/PROGRESSIVE/FOLK
Agnus
Pinturas Y Expresiones (black)
Agnus formed in 1973 in Santa Fe, Argentina, but it wasn't until 1980 that they managed to release their sole magnus opus 'Pinturas Y Expresiones,' the most expensive (3k) prog album that was ever released in Argentina. This is a unique blend of symphonic prog with 2 faces, equally split between the 2 sides, one with a folky edge, punctuated by aethereal pastoral vocals in an intimate dialogue with flute and violin, and another packed with wandering psychedelic guitars and side-effects. Picture Rennaissance in an interminable jam with MIA and Catharsis with Bacamarte and you might start to get a feel for this one-of-a-kind artefact. This is the first, long-awaited official reissue featuring the original booklet + bespoke biography straight from the band. Edition of 250 copies on black vinyl.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
22-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
556825
EAN
0647625143448
Availability
Exp. 22-02-2025
Easter Island
Easter Island (+cd/black)
Easter Island's self-titled 1979 masterpiece rightfully stands in the midst of the top 10 US prog classics. It offers an emotionally captivating experience, marked by the melodic ebb and flow that is definitive of dexterously multilayered symphonic prog, interwoven with outbursts of heavy riffs. From the lush Mellotron textures and melodic bass lines of 'Genius Of The Dance' to the heavy progression of 'Face To Face,' this is an album that grows within its listeners like a benevolent virus. The highlight of the album is the 17-minutes long 'Alchemist's Suite,' including the oneiric sequence of 'Telesterion,' an evocative tribal piece of percussion and electronics that radiates with spacey keys and adds an almost cinematic twist to the album's lavish tapestry. This reissue is a true testament to Easter Island's oeuvre, featuring the original cover artwork, and including a bonus CD with rare and unreleased live tracks and a 12-page booklet with the official band's biography and previously unseen photographic material. File nearby: Mirthrandir, Cathedral, Lift, Genesis, ELP. Edition of 250 copies on black vinyl.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
22-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
556827
EAN
0647625206129
Availability
Exp. 22-02-2025
GARAGE/BEAT/SURF/ROCK’N’ROLL
Monsters
You're Class, I'm Trash (pink Artwork)
This is the 2nd edition of the Monsters 'You're Class, I'm Trash' from 2021 (first edition had a yellow sleeve and with a 7" single). The second pressing has new pink cover artwork, comes as 180gr vinyl and includes a printed poster booklet.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
21-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
557070
EAN
7640148983587
Availability
In stock
Hot Rod Gang
Can U Dig It?
For their 40th anniversary (in the original line-up!), German band the Hot Rod Gang has released 'Can You Dig It?,' an album that celebrates the spirit of the '50s and surprises with modern influences from later decades. The long player remains true to the band's unmistakable signature sound, but at the same time dares to take a step forward - a bold mix that sounds fresh and unique. The Hot Rod Gang shows once again that rockabilly and rock'n'roll have lost none of their energy. Quite the opposite: the title song winks charmingly at the purists of the genre and asks a question whose answer is hidden between the lines. At the same time, the artistic album cover reflects the essence of the band: a time-worn retro look in which the band poses confidently on a rust-embossed metal sign - ironic, tongue-in-cheek and full of character.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
07-03-2025
Label
Item-nr
557085
EAN
4251329502317
Availability
In stock
POP/ROCK/WAVE/NOISE
Scolastics
Scolastics
Born in 2024, Scolastics (from Haarlem, The Netherlands) is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Louis Inghels, who dived in on his mission statement to create music that is equally pounding, straightforward and eclectic. Together with local heavy weights Guus van Oosterum and Niels Klooster, this power trio produces a unique mix of rock and metal with the emphasis on powerful vocals, contagious riffs and groove. Elements of Hüsker Dü, Killing Joke and Kyuss can be heard in their repertoire, but Scolastics is no throwback act.
Genre
Format
MC - 1 disk
Release date
28-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
556969
EAN
2090505569698
Availability
In stock
PUNK/HARDCORE
Chest Press
No Sweat
Second EP by Chest Press, Sjoerd Nieuwkoop's personal take on electronic punk music. Expect a blend of electric guitars, digital drums and mono synthesizers. Musically inspired by '80s wave and loads of lo-fi Eastern European and Russian punk music.
Genre
Format
MC - 1 disk
Release date
25-04-2025
Label
Item-nr
556970
EAN
2090505569704
Availability
Exp. 25-04-2025
Waterschade
Waterschade
On tape, here's the first EP by Dutch 75% female punkband Waterschade, based in Haarlem.
Genre
Format
MC - 1 disk
Release date
28-03-2025
Label
Item-nr
556979
EAN
2090505569797
Availability
Exp. 28-03-2025
Extreme Noise Terror
Phonophobia
If phonophobia can be defined as an overall fear of sound - what better band can you think of than crustcore titans Extreme Noise Terror to deliver such a fear as though kicking us down a shoot that leads to a lifetime sentence in Room 101. The album contains the band at their best, which sounds and feels like the worst thing you've ever encountered on earth: bolt-sputtering vocals on 'Pray To Be Saved' and 'Self Decay.' Grim guitars groan as they gut the intestines from one's malnourished belly for a final meal on 'Knee Deep In Shit' and 'Moral Bondage.' Rhythms that emerge from nowhere like fleets of demonic hailstone with drywall nails in place of the hail on Third World Genocide. Only a classic band like Extreme Noise Terror can have so much influence, yet by comparison of that influence, such little musical output can sound like being cracked apart and smashed together in equally, exhilaratingly evil measures. Originally released in 1991.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
13-06-2024
Label
Item-nr
557029
EAN
8055515235715
Availability
In stock
INDUSTRIAL/EXPERIMENTAL/NOISE/NEOFOLK/GOTHIC
Colossloth
The Harmony Knife
The fifth album from industrial/esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth is a concept album based on the writings of professor Ted Kaczynski AKA the Unabomber. It is not about his terror campaign against the industrial society and the rise of technology - but his manifesto 'Industrial Society And Its Future' and in particular the elements of 'The Power Process.'
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
28-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
556892
EAN
0641871746583
Availability
Exp. 28-02-2025
Satori
Pillars Of Salt
Satori's mission to document the stupidity of our species continues with 'Pillars Of Salt' - a journey through grinding rhythms, dystopian soundscapes and a fascination into what lies beneath the surface. "An aberrant signal. Data loss. Corrupted programming. Everything should be fine. But it isn't, is it? Everything is f**ked. Something has gotten into the system and is destroying it from within. This is humanity being consumed by the inability to think for itself. Ahead is the future. Just don't look back..." Formed in the mid-'80s, with previous releases on high-calibre labels such as Broken Flag, Cold Spring, Trident, Mindscan, and Tesco Organisation, Satori's sound comprises a mixture of harsh industrial noise and power electronics with harder and heavier percussive beats than before. Their material provides a constant pervasive undercurrent of violence, the feeling of a planet on the verge of collapse and a reflection of the lack of humanity embedded in a culture based on greed and self-preservation.
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
28-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
556909
EAN
0641871746576
Availability
Exp. 28-02-2025
Dorpsstraat 3
Staal Op Staal
The first full length album by Dutch language darkwave/synthpop act Dorpsstraat 3 is a convincing ode to the new wave of the 1980s. With their gritty drum machines, reverb-drenched synths and distorted vocals, they immediately hark back to that nostalgic sound, but they manage to give it a contemporary twist that feels surprisingly relevant in these dark times. The stories of 'Staal Op Staal' are about the people in a fictional factory village that is on its last legs. Introverted people withdrawn in their own houses, artists on the brink of madness and the last people that do still earn an income in this town.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
14-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
556963
EAN
2090505569636
Availability
In stock
METAL/STONER/HARDROCK
Witchcraft (sweden)
Nucleus (2lp/black/it)
After the mind blowing success of the Witchcraft's album 'Legend' in 2012, mastermind Magnus Pelander out did himself with 2015's 'Nucleus.' Combining what made its predecessor the modern classic it quickly became with elements of the band's earlier days, 'Nucleus' is a melancholic, raging, fragile, melodic and at times noisy masterpiece between classic rock, doom and ambient music. With an all new line-up (Rage Widerberg on drums and Tobias Anger on bass) the band sounds more hungry and powerful than ever. In combination with the thrilling, yet very down-to-earth production by Pelander, Philip Gabriel Saxin and Anton Sundell, 'Nucleus' throws you in dreamy sonic landscapes that will mesmerize and haunt you alike.
Genre
Format
LP - 2 disk
Release date
18-05-2025
Label
Item-nr
556859
EAN
0694685736851
Availability
Exp. 18-05-2025
Witchcraft (sweden)
Black Metal (black)
2020's 'Black Metal' is one hell of an album. It's a downbeat, dark folk album, that manages to capture the vibe of the band's earlier work quite well. Pelander has managed to make a "doom album" without actually making one in the traditional sense. 'Black Metal' manages to capture the world weary, woeful, attitude and vibe of doom better than a ton of albums that crank up the Sabbath worship to ridiculous levels. It's a work of darkness and despair and therefore it is another captivating chapter of this band's discography. (New Noise Magazine).
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
18-05-2025
Label
Item-nr
556866
EAN
0694685736899
Availability
Exp. 18-05-2025
Witchcraft (sweden)
Idag (black)
More than 20 years after their debut, Witchcraft's seventh album, 'Idag,' is an awaited full accounting of who they are as a band. Those who have clamored for the return to an earlier sound rooted in '70s classic progressive and heavy rock will delight to the strut of 'Irreligious Flamboyant Flame' while the eight-minute opening title-track is the heaviest the band have ever sounded, and a succession of interspersed acoustic-based pieces helps create a vision of a new, soulfully folkish doom taking shape as they continue to move inexorably forward.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
23-05-2025
Label
Item-nr
556871
EAN
0694685736769
Availability
Exp. 23-05-2025
JAZZ/AVANTGARDE
Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra
Vol. 4 - Jo Maka
Music-lovers of all lands, rejoice! Here you have the re-release of the fourth album of the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra recorded with the Guinean saxophonist Jo Maka. The title says it all: 'Vol. 4 - Jo Maka.' But before that, a bit of history... The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by an "old hand" of French free jazz, François Tusques. 'Free Jazz' was also the name of the recording made by the pianist and other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin and Charles Saudrais) in 1965. But, six years later Tusques had had his fill of free jazz. So he then founded the Inter Communal, an association a name under which the different communities could become closer and compose, simply. In 1976, on the first album 'L'Inter Communal,' we can already hear Tusques playing without borders in the company of Carlos Andreu, Ramadolf, Michel Marre and Jo Maka (as a conclusion to this 'Vol. 4,' we can hear them in 1977 at the Moulin de Prades Le Lez). Over the next decade, the, association kept going with concerts at the Dunois theatre, in 1980 and 1981, it welcomed old hands and new recruits (Bernard Vitet, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Jacques Thollot, Sylvain Kassap...). If 'Vol. 4 - Jo Maka' is an homage to the Guinean saxophonist, who passed away a few months before the release of this selection of concert recordings, it also displays a proud collective inspiration! One foot in the blues, and ears open to everything else, Tusques begins with a lament that the Company rapidly transforms into a joyful dance ('Vive La Commune'), weaves a full-blown party piece ('Poses Ton Fardeau Et Remets La Machine En Route,' '7 Rue Des Prêcheurs,' 'Mazir') or gets fabulous with Mingus ('Fable Of Faubus'). And there you have it, with so many revolutions François Tusques is almost back to free jazz. So, your turn with the turntable!
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
04-04-2025
Label
Item-nr
556914
EAN
3491570067925
Availability
Exp. 04-04-2025
Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra
Apres La Maree Noire
'VERS UNE MUSIQUE BRETONNE NOUVELLE' - If the jazz of François Tusques is "free", his spirit is even more so: having recorded 'Free Jazz' with other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin and Charles Saudrais), the pianist had covered a lot of ground, with Barney Wilen ('Le Nouveau Jazz') or even solo ('Piano Dazibao' and 'Dazibao N°2'), so as not to repeat himself... In 1971 he founded the Inter Communal Free Dance Music Orchestra which, as the notes the this album stated, "is an interpretation of a music which synthesizes the different communities living and working in France." In 1976, on the first album ('L'Inter Communal') we can already hear Tusques playing without borders in the company of Carlos Andreu (vocals), Michel Marre (trumpet and saxophone), Jo Maka (saxophone) and Ramadolf (trombone). It is a meeting between jazz and music from Catalonia, Occitanie and Africa. So far so good, but what about Brittany, that, Tusques knows "by heart"? Having lived for a long time in Nantes, he would expand his 'brittanitude' on the canal linking the city to Brest by playing with, for example the Diaouled-Ar-Menez. With these "devils from the mountain" who, under the baton of Yann Goasdoué, worked throughout the 1970s on the renewal of music from Brittany, Tusques met, notably, Tanguy Ledoré and invited him one day, with trois bombards and some bagpipes (Jean-Louis Le Vallegant, Gaby Kerdoncuff and Philippe Lestrat), to join the ranks of the Intercommunal. And so they set of towards a new music from Brittany, as the title states; 'Vers Une Musique Bretonne Nouvelle'! With percussion from Samuel Ateba and Kilikus, the association launches the 'bombardier': the repetitions and dissonance of the different members all serve a common cause however: the dance, which is always the reason for the party. This sets a whole universe spinning, which can bring to mind Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath ('La Rencontre') when not taking on board waltz, swing, blues and gavotta or even revealing mysteries like those of Gurdjieff ('Les Racines De La Montagne' or 'Le Cheval' sung by Andreu). Only one thing to say to this Brotherhood Of Breizh: Mersi!
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
04-04-2025
Label
Item-nr
556916
EAN
3491570068120
Availability
Exp. 04-04-2025
Grossmann, Muriel
The Light Of The Mind
Muriel Grossmann's 'The Light Of The Mind,' her 16th album as a leader, continues her journey in spiritual jazz, deeply rooted in groove, meditation, and Buddhist philosophy. Grossmann, known for her transcendent sound, blends saxophone-driven compositions with rich textures of Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3, Moog, guitar, and drums. Tracks like 'Pointing Out, Part I' set the stage for introspection, while 'The Light Of The Mind' and 'Unison Unveiled' bring vibrant energy and danceable rhythms. Side II explores meditative depths with 'Ultimate Awareness' and 'Eternal Laughter,' culminating in 'Pointing Out, Part II,' a reflective and unifying closer. The album embodies happiness through musical reciprocity, interconnection, and presence in the moment.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
01-12-2024
Label
Item-nr
557014
EAN
2090505570144
Availability
In stock
Eeg Coherence
Eeg Coherence
RR Gems brings to you EEG Coherence. An album consisting of Devin Brahja Waldman - saxophone and keyboards, Sam Shalabi - guitar, Liam O'Neill - drums, Morgan Moore - bass, Janice Lowe - flute and voice, and Ala Dehghan - voice; with woodblock artwork by Ryock. For reference, EEG means electroencephalogram: a scientific test that measures electrical activity in the brain. When our right brain and left brain hook up, coherence is born. The third eye pops out. The mind and heart become one. As intuition, logic and emotion synchronize, coexistence is a whole lot saner. If the heart detests domination and bullying and yet the mind is condoning State authority, then there is a contradiction that needs sorting out. Jitters is the beginning of that journey. It starts with locating fear.
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
07-04-2024
Label
Item-nr
557017
EAN
2090505570175
Availability
In stock
REGGAE/DUB/SKA/ROCKSTEADY
Hutchinson, Glen
We Need Some Satisfaction
Following the Nairobi Sisters 45 in 2023 and Revolutionaries LP in 2024, 333 is back for 2025 with another rare mid-1970s cut out of Winston Jones' Flatbush-based Flames label catalogue.
Genre
Format
7" - 1 disk
Release date
14-03-2025
Label
Item-nr
556817
EAN
5050580844292
Availability
Exp. 14-03-2025
PRESS: SELECTED REVIEW QUOTES, INTERVIEWS A.S.
DEAD MEADOW – Voyager To Voyager (LP-CD, Heavy Psych Sounds)
HPS is set to release a brand-new album from Dead Meadow, along with reissues of their classic material. In an interview with It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine, the band’s Jason Simon delves into the details of the upcoming record, reflects on the loss of a dear friend, and shares insights into the band's future plans.
EEG COHERENCE – Eeg Coherence (LP, RR Gems)
“Are you ready for a heavy dose of psychedelic spiritual jazz? … Eeg Coherence is a beautifully presented album. RR Gems have released a little wonder here.” (Mike Gates for UK Vibe)
MURIEL GROSSMANN - The Light Of The Mind (LP, RR Gems)
“A highly-respected and immeasurably-talented artist, Muriel Grossmann’s insurmountable efforts have solidified her as one of the genre’s most compulsory voices creating music today – with rapturous reviews for past efforts including ‘Universal Code’, ‘Quiet Earth’ and ‘Elevation’, Grossmann seems to be able to do no wrong and it seems very much a trend that carried over to latest release, ‘The Light of the Mind’.” (Imran Mirza for UK Vibes)
INTERCOMMUNAL FREE DANCE MUSIC ORCHESTRA – L'inter Commmunel (LP-CD, Souffle Continu)
“There is a strange irony in seeing pianist François Tusques’s work with The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra finally resurface at this precise moment. Tusques was one of the key figures to emerge from France’s time as a free jazz hot spot at the turn of the 1960s. But he made some of his most unique music in the 1970s with the Intercommunal, a group that successfully mixed musics from many sources, ranging from North Africa, to Spain, to France’s Brittany region, to North America.” (The Wire)
The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra catalogue is currently being reissued by French label Souffle Continu.
WITCHCRAFT – Idag (LP-CD, Heavy Psych Sounds)
“…heavy yet deeply melancholic, brimming with the occult doom energy that made their early records cult favorites.” (Tim Mudd for Decibel Magazine)
DULCIMER – And I Turned As I Had Turned As A Boy (LP, Magic Box)
There’s a brand new incredible insightful interview about one of the most amazing pastoral psych bands being recently posted on It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine.
RONALD SNIJDERS – A Safe Return (CD, Everland)
There's also an interview with Snijders, where he discusses the making of his latest album, as well as his earlier releases, which we have in stock on CD.
ALLIGATOR LADIES – Alligator Ladies (LP, Anova)
“Alligator Ladies slithered into existence in 2021, the mutant brainchild of Ben Avgay (Silvi Jan) and Eden Atiya (Rasco) two sonic wanderers who crossed paths in 2020 and instantly locked into the same weird frequency. Fueled by garage grime, freak-folk mysticism, and a heavy dose of the unknown, they sound like Ramases & Selket resurrected in the digital age, Thee Oh Sees lost in a kaleidoscopic vortex, Ty Segall’s amp frying mid-set, or MGMT if they’d spent their formative years in a psychedelic doomsday cult.” (Klemen Breznikar for It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine)
FERNANDO PERDOMO & MATT TECU – Art (CD, Think Like A Key)
“In the dark underbelly of LA, where neon dreams and hard nights fuse into one, comes a sound that punches you in the gut.” (Klemen Breznikar for It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine)
DORPSSTRAAT 3 – Staal Op Staal (LP, Geertruida)
“The melodies are strong, especially the often melancholic choruses, which have an almost disarming quality.” (Translated quote from OOR)
SATORI – Pillars Of Salt (CD, Cold Spring)
“Every now and then you still get the wall of sound type of noise, but overall the more industrial approach of the new album is ‘easier’ to listen than the usual material of this project.” (Gangleri)
UPCOMING CONCERTS
LABASHEEDA (PRESTO CHANGO)
11-03-2025: Enschede (NL) – Tankstation
12-03-2025 – Düsseldorf (D) – Graf 39
13-03-2025: Karlsruhe (D) – P8
14-03-2025: Fribourg (F) – La Coutellerie
15-03-2025: Besançon (F) – Hop Hop Hop
15-05-2025: Utrecht (NL) – dB’s
16-05-2025: Dordrecht (NL) – DS17
27-05-2025: Wroclaw (P) – Klub Szalonych
28-05-2025: Liberec (CZ) – Barpapir
29-05-2025: Prague (CZ) – Café V Lese
30-05-2025: Brno (CZ) – Alterna
31-05-2025: Dresdan (D) – Sankt Pieschen Festival
13-09-2025: Wormerveer (NL) – De Groote Weiver
20-09-2025: Gent (B) – Kinky Star
SULA BASSANA - with band (SULATRON)
28-03-2025: Berlin (D) - Neue Zukunft
17-04-2025: Bochum (D) - Planetarium
FORD’S FUZZ INFERNO (SUBUNDERGROUND C.A.)
19-04-2025: Haarlem (NL) - Slachthuis
26-04-2025: Leiden (NL) – Resistor
SOCCER COMMITTEE (MORC)
09-08-2025: Millingen aan de Rijn / Kekerdom (NL) - Millinger Theetuin
