A terrific, insider, pocket-book survey of the artwork of cassettes and records of 80s experimental electronic music — industrial, noise, new wave, minimal, drone, sound art, ambient and more. Out typography and wild lay-outs; free-hand drawings and scans like hauntings, magic, infections; Xerox lovely Xerox.
132 pages; recycled natural paper; some colour.
Beautifully done. Very warmly recommended.

This stylish, devoted, two-hundred-plus-page book is based around a deep, fascinating interview, covering the work in detail, but with naturalness and directness; also Radigue’s life, milieux, aesthetics and methods, politics, and so on. There are numerous choice photos; a few precious sketches, flyers and diagrams. The oeuvre is listed, with commentaries. All texts are in both English and French, beginning with her prose poem The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal. Pretty much indispensable, if you’re at all interested.

‘Eliane Radigue and I decided to resume our conversation and come up with this expanded second edition of the book. Much had happened since the first edition that deserved to be explored in more depth, in particular the development of the Occam Ocean cycle. But I also took the opportunity to ask her questions about her earlier work that had not been addressed previously. The first four parts of this new edition remain unchanged, but they are now followed by an epilogue. The lists of works and publications have also been updated and extended’ (Julia Eckhardt, December 2023).

‘This non-academic essay is the first book from Permanent Draft, an all-female record label and micro-press founded by musician Valentina Magaletti and poet and novelist Fanny Chiarello, dedicated to promoting contemporary female, non-binary and transgender artists.
‘Essentially a huge, though non-definitive overview of 2,371 womxn in the global experimental sound and music scene: written in playful and compelling prose, and stylishly presented with photos, illustrations, and discographies.’

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Love You Madly is a behind-the-scenes profile, including various interviews, and performance footage recorded in Basin St. West Jazz Club, at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival, and at the first Concert of Sacred Music in Grace Cathedral. Ellington reckoned it ‘the best film about Duke Ellington ever made.’
Recorded on September 16, 1965, A Concert of Sacred Music more fully commemorates the first of the three evening performances at Grace Cathedral between 1965 and 1973, combining classical, jazz, spirituals, gospel, blues music, and dance.

128 pages… Stories include Makaya McCraven by Ayana Contreras, Sonny Rollins by Ashley Kahn, Amina Claudine Myers by Seymour Wright, Adolphe Sax by Harry Eddy, Ronald Snijders by Mike Bindraban, Puristamo Helsinki pressing plant photo essay by Mathias Foster. Introducing new columnist Mats Gustafsson; plus reviews…

A worthy catalogue raisonne of the JA recordings of this almighty genius at his peak.
A year-by year discography, with more than eight hundred label images, a heap of wonderful photos (including Adrian Boot’s classic images of the Black Ark), and spotlights on key players like Bob Marley, Junior Byles, Augustus Pablo, Junior Murvin, and Yabby You.
Sumptuously presented in full colour throughout 280 pages of coated paper, 297x210mm, with a classy soft-touch cover.
It’s a must.

A top-quality, hard-enamel lapel pin (with back post and gold-metal clutch); the size of a 2p coin.
New colours.

A top-quality, hard-enamel lapel pin (with back post and gold metal clutch); the size of a 2p coin.
New colours.

Belle and Sebastian, novelist David Gordon, Motown artist Christina Carter, Mowest group Odyssey (and its connection to CLR James), Chris Forsyth and Steve Wynn, Tony Iommi-era Black Sabbath, Buffy Saint-Marie…

A lavishly illustrated and elegantly designed hardback; full of gorgeous gear. Early days but a lovely Christmas present.

‘The design, history, and cultural impact of turntables and vinyl technology… the early decades of turntable design and vinyl technology from the late 19th century to the 1940s will set the scene, followed by chapters dedicated to the best turntables of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s… includes 300 illustrations from the world of turntables, from affordable to high-end, and everything in between.’

The great Mingering Mike, 75 Dollar Bill, photographer Michael Lavine, Pavement, Cindy, Irreversible Entanglements, Lea Bertucci, essayist Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Detroit punk flyers… 132 pages, full colour…

Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Lee Perry, Grateful Dead, Goats, Phew…