Record Of The Week Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman – Music For Children – Trunk Records (Carl Orff is a composer and is kind of like Moondog but with a xylophone, his music has featured in every single advert and film since the time began. Maybe a slight exaggeration, you’d probably recognize his work from Badlands/True Romance. Musik für Kinder was an educational tool used in German and English schools in the late 40’s – early 50’s, its been out of print since 1958 and is now fully remastered. It’s a weird creepy record that you probably wouldn’t want to listen to on your own late at night and has a strange Wickerman/ Village Of The Damned vibe about it. This has 48 tracks, which mainly consist of children singing vocal rounds of nursery rhymes; you won’t hear a record like this all year) Wolf Eyes – No Answers: Lower Floors – De Stijl (Wolf Eyes go full on Throbbing Gristle with this new LP, which is finally on vinyl. Its fantastic. Crazy industrial electronics that you will try and dance to but then get embarrassed) Daughn Gibson - Me moan – Sub Pop (Matt from Pissed Jeans put the last Daughn Gibson record out which popped him on our radar. Its an odd sound and not one we were expecting. This new record mines a stranger side of Americana and reminds me of Mark Eitzel in places. Its really unique though) Waxahatchee – Cerulean Salt – Witchita (180gram Blue vinyl with CD, Breeders fans may take interest) Rose Windows – The Sun Dogs – Sub Pop (Deluxe double vinyl, this is great, Pysch-folk, a little bit Goat sounding. Maybe more poppy than that though, still great stuff) Elliphant – Elliphant EP – Bigger Splash (The new MIA, Santagold, Diplo. Annie, Robyn. Loads of great press for this slice of Swedish electro dancehall cool) Gold Panda – Half Of Where You Live – Notown (Double vinyl pressing in deluxe sleeve with MP3, GP is back and sounding fantastic) Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument – Awesome Tapes From Africa (Love, love loving this new double from Awesome tapes, probably the best accordion record we’ve ever heard. Hailu mixes this with funky synths, Bontempi rhythms and psychedelic vocals. This could be your soundtrack to the summer) Janes Addiction – Live In NYC – UMC (Limited double vinyl) Miles Davis – The Kind Of Blue Sessions ’59 – Birdland (With CD, Lost cuts from Davis’s classic album) Robert Pollard – Honey Locust Honky Tonk – Fire Records (Uncle Bob’s new LP, as essential as any GBV release) Six By Seven – Love & Peace & Sympathy – Borrowed Tune Motion Pictures (The elder statesman of Nottsrock are back! And you get an MP3, YAY!) Darren Hayman & The Short Parliament – Bugbears – Fika (180gram with MP3) Lustmord – The Word As Power – Blackest Ever Black (Dark, ambient and brooding) Silk Flowers – Days Of Arrest – Captured Tracks Burial/ Four Tet – Nova 12” – Text (Limited repress of this classic collaboration) Four Tet / Daphni - Pinnacles / Ye Ye 12” – Text (Another limited repress this time is a collaboration with Caribou, great stuff) Rocketnumbernine / Four Tet – Mathew And Toby 12” – Text (What this week needs is another limited Four Tet repress) The Chapman Family – This Ones For Love 7” – No More Records (Great new single from The Chapman) Rank/Xerox – S/T – Blast First Petite (Playing today or tomorrow or last week, depending on when you read this really, Rank Xerox play great Wire/Devo/Fall sounding punk, really like this. Sounds like 10 years ago when this was all fields) Hebronix – Unreal – ATP Recordings (That chap from Yuck has done a record, its limited Green heavyweight vinyl with an MP3. Its recorded by Neil from Royal Trux) R. Stevie Moore – Glad Music / Delicate Tension – Personal Inquiry (Nice limited reissues of early R. Stevie Moore. These 2 are regarded as his finest work from non other than the man himself) EOD – Volume 2 12” – EOD (Great Rephlex/ Drexciya / Legowelt inspired Techno, really loving this) The Dexters – Start To Run 7” – Acid Jazz (Hotly tipped by Miles Kane and the NME and weirdly The Sun) Phaelah – Tides – Afterglo (Cinematic electronica with a hint of Dubstep) Matias Aguayo – The Visitor – Comeme (Underground dance weirdness, double 180gram with CD) Halo Halo – S/T – Upset The Rhythm (There is something reminiscent of This Heat, Talking Heads and Raincoats about this, although more in feel than direct sound. Maybe more folksy sounding than those bands. Its really good) Marcel Fengler – Fokus – Ostgut Ton (Double LP from Berghain resident Fengler. Sounds great) Salty Dog – S/T – Strawberry Rain (WOW! We won’t tell you what a Salty Dog is slang for but this record is amazing. A totally rare Zambian Psychedelic Rock classic, one of the most exciting things I’ve heard in ages. Like the first time I heard Flower Travellin’ Band. Comes with a 7” too) Diamond Terrifier – The Subtle Body Wears A Shadow – Terrible Records (Great experimental Saxophone madness, lovely sleeve too) Peter Parkers Rock ‘n’ Roll Club – Straight To Vinyl – Those Old Records (Limited to 300 copies) Various – Ghana Special – Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 – Sound way (Awesome 5 LP box set with a massive book) Erkin Koray – Elektronik Türküler – Pharaway Sounds (The man who bought Hendrix rock to Turkey, 180gram) Teengenerate – Get Action - Crypt Records (Welcome return of one of Japans finest Garage Punk albums, essential) Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks – Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (For my money the greatest Bob Dylan record, it’s a stripped down bitter piece from 1975, following on from the divorce of Sara Lowndes. Idiot Wind is one of my all time favorite Dylan tracks too. This is a limited 180gram super deluxe version too) Arcade Fire – Funeral – Merge (180gram release of T’Fires best album) Suns Of Arqa – Muslimgauze Re-mixs – Emotional Rescue (Lovely screen printed sleeve which does exactly what it says on the tin) Full Moon Ensemble – Crowded With Loneliness – Superfly (Crazy French Free Jazz LP from 1969, limited to 1000 copies) Man…Or Astro-man – Defcon 5…4…3…2…1 – Chunklet (NEW ALBUM!!!! Exciting times) MØ – Waste Of Time 7” – Chess Club (Limited 7” from everybody’s favorite Dane) Peace – Lovesick 7” – Columbia (Limited picture disc) The new Bomb Turks – Tapeworm Blues: 1992 Demos 10” – Crypt Records (Nice) Deep Magic – Reflections Of Most Forgotten Love – Preservation Big Star – Nothing Can Hurt Me – Omnivore (Its fair to say that we are MASSIVE Big Star fans here at the MX, This limited double repress of one of the most sort after RSD releases has made us very happy. Its 20 tracks all in mixes that have been unavailable before and is the soundtrack to the Big Star documentary) Various – Sprigs Of Time - Honest Jons (Yay to Honest Jons for releasing a double album of recordings of 78s from the EMI archives from 1903-1957, such an important record) Maps – Vicissitude – Mute (Deluxe double 180gram with CD) The Silver Seas – Alaska – EMI Coffins – The Fleshland – Relapse (Limited double Pink splatter vinyl) Congo Natty – Jah Warriors – Big Dadda (The Rebel MC and Machinedrum together at last) Snow Ghost – A Small Murmuration – Houndstooth (Deluxe 180gram with textured PVC sleeve and 10” book) Baths – Obsidian – Anticon (At last its finally here on vinyl, so many customers have been asking about this one. At the moment its reminding me of how sweaty I am and how much I’d love a cold bath)
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