Holy shit, Madlib just may be the most prolific musician on earth.  The third installment in his MONTHLY series of Medicine Show albums is “Beat Konducta in Africa”.  This one was inspired and fueled by the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul records of Africa.  In addition to the two songs posted below, you can [...]

The amount of must-buy records coming out lately is killing me (but c’mon, I love it).  Unlike Madlib’s usual forays into jazz fusion (think Yesterday’s New Quintet), his Young Jazz Rebels moniker is responsible for some absolutely batshit avant-garde free jazz.  The record has intentional static and an intentionally worn cover, giving it a decidedly [...]

Man, I loved this band’s last album – Carboniferous. But I can’t front and pretend like I had heard about Zu before that. Too bad, because these guys have apparently been splitting skulls with buzz-sawed sax skronks and richter scale riffs for several years now. Public Guilt is giving 2005’s The Way of the Animal [...]

This is Shining from Norway, not to be confused with Shining from Sweden. One plays black-metal, and the other plays Blackjazz. Get it straightened out in your head before heading to theomegaorder.com and placing your order.
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At last, the long overdue vinyl coronation of this stone-cold doom fusion classic from Southern Lord drone group Ascend. If you didn’t know, that’s Gentry Densley from Eagle Twin and Greg Anderson from Sunn. Given the pedigree of the two musician’s involved, you could guess that this album holds it’s fair share of richter magnitude [...]

Holy shit, I could not have purchased one of these faster.  Madlib’s newest jazz-fusion project, The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble has released an album on vinyl!  “Miles Away” is a 2xLP that comes packaged in a beautiful, heavily 60’s-70’s influenced gatefold jacket.  I can promise you right now that if you like [...]

This hot piece of wax hit the doorstep the other day, and I’ve been trying to digest it ever since.  Double-bassist John Edwards and drummer Chris Corsano make a pretty impressive duo, each at the very top of their respective “game”.  The music is a melting pot of chaos, white-hot temperatures, and room-filling tension.  The [...]

Thrill Jockey just dropped a bomb of new vinyl releases.  We stand by our statement that they are one of the best labels in the world, and you’re about to see why.  The first release is “Boca Negra”, the new LP from Chicago Underground Duo.  If you’re not familiar, the Chicago Underground family has been [...]

Damn near 40 years after it was originally recorded, Love Cry Want is available as a remastered 2xLP on the Weird Forest label. This is straight-up psychedelic jazz fusion, the kind of music Dick Nixon feared would “levitate the White House” but Barack would probably jam on a regular basis. Strange music for stranger days, [...]

I recently chastised fellow contributor Spencer aka NudeMutant for not telling me about this album sooner, it is seriously some HOT SHIT.  Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s “Dolores” is now getting a proper vinyl release from the fine folks at Hydra Head.  Despite having an awful name, this band plays some insanely good “dark [...]

You might accuse me of posting this album just as an excuse to post the video below, but that would be totally discrediting how absolutely amazing this music actually is. The tunes sound just about like the group’s name would have you believe: a simmering brew of drone, jazz and electronica with a subtle touch [...]

Now-Again Records, the Stones Throw spin-off label run by Egon, have three amazing new records available.  This post covers all three, so be sure to scroll down.  The first is a compilation called “Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges”.  Curated by Egon himself, this is a massive package of beat-heavy global psychedelic [...]

One of the best (or worst) albums to come out this year is now available to order on double LP. 180 grams of purest blackened vinyl and high spec packaging. Not much else needs to be said. You can get a canvas bag, slipmat and earplugs too if you want. $25 or $45 from southernlord.net.

If you missed out on this amazing album on the first pressing, you need to do yourself a favor (and quickly). The 2nd pressing comes on white vinyl, no longer 180 grams but still housed in a heavy-duty Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket. A really nice package and an absolutely stunning listen on the vinyl format. [...]

Since Spencer went ahead and introduced you to the world of 9dw (see below), I thought I’d go ahead and inform you folks about their new full-length album.  This one is strictly for the weirdos, Japanese electro-fusion, think you can handle it?  I’m sure you can.  Anyway, this is a 180 gram 2xLP on clear [...]