{"title":"february 16, 2022","description":".","products":[{"product_id":"v-a-the-blow-of-oblivion","title":"V\/A - The Blow of Oblivion","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree single set of unreleased tracks by TWISTED VILLAGE house bands Vermonster, Crystalized Movements (pre-Major Stars) \u0026amp; Luxurious Bags. Silkscreened\/hand assembled package. Mid-90s release.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"September Gurls","offers":[{"title":"Triple 7\"","offer_id":51853934151,"sku":"308-SEPTEMBER GURLS","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/ZWc_e5e2a231-2e48-49ba-a45d-eccbdba689ba.jpg?v=1645057843"},{"product_id":"kudo-reiko-rice-field-silently-riping-in-the-night","title":"KUDO, REIKO - Rice Field Silently Riping In The Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There are times when all the music your bruised psyche can take is the softest of whispers, the slightest of instrumental caresses. When an ounce too much pressure could make your veins cave inwards. At times like these, Reiko Kudos previous solo album (\"Fire inside my hat\", Org Records, 1997) has always been my balm of choice. A gauze-thin collection of songs with minimal piano accompaniment, sung in a voice half between a child and a deeply hesitant angel...  For those who would rather trust a history lesson than their own senses, Reiko Omura, as she was known then, first came to light on the Tokyo underground in the late seventies and early eighties. She was part of the Minor circle (which also gave birth to Fushitsusha, High Rise, Kosokuya, Gaseneta and many others) of musical obsessives exploring new and highly personal collisions of noise, improv, rock. Reikos contribution was via groups like Worst Noise and Noise. The latters sole release, \"Tenno\", saw her trumpet and voice meeting the Bach-doom organ and drums of influential scenester Tori Kudo in a totally unique monument to no-wave noise depression. She later married Kudo, appearing occasionally with his avant-pop Christo-mystic idiot-savant group Maher Shalal Hash Baz, but releasing nothing under her own name until the Org disk in the late nineties.  Rice field...\" sees Reiko revisiting the pattern of short songs mostly based around one-finger piano motifs, so structurally simple as to be virtually transparent. This time additional flashes of sensitive instrumental colour are added by husband Tori and various members of the Puka-Puka Brians on wavering backing vocals, violin, guitar, percussion, neuphonium and percussion. The music treads a sure and private path between a perfect childlike naivete and the amateur aesthetic that has long been Toris goal (he has spent twenty years arriving at a point of psychedelic mastery where he sounds like he bought his first guitar yesterday). Reikos songs and vocals are the weakly pulsing centrepoint though. She sings of life, dying flowers, love, and nursing home residents with the unforced naturalness of a mother alone with her child, a bird in the forest, her pellucid melodies seemingly accidental. It is nothing short of heart-stoppingly gorgeous. And as an honest-to-god example of happiness glimpsed through the quotidian, artistic perfection all the more perfect for not being striven for, you couldnt wish for anything more. A perfect prescription for those moments of fragility when you doubt your own pulse.\" - Alan Cummings. 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The main instigator behind the Americans was Andrew Giblet Brenner who assembled a loose, disparate group of musical\/non-musical practitioners as an experiment in equality and democracy. This democracy included Nag, Bendle and Else Watt of Door And The Window, David Toop, Steve Beresford and Max Eastley (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), Viv Albertine of the Slits, Vivien Goldman (who was simultaneously recording the classic dub\/funk\/punk Dirty Washing 12\" on 99 Records which featured Beresford as well as Keith Levine, George Oban, Robert Wyatt, Adrian Sherwood and others) , Igor (Nag \u0026amp; Bendles roommate), parents of the members and many more..\\r\\nThe sound over the course of their career started off as rugged Door And The Window-ish songs\/pieces on the first single but by the 1st LP and 12\" evolved into an off-kilter songwriting style similar to that of Maher Shalal Hash Baz (Tori Kudo actually contributes liner notes which are unfortunately just in Japanese), Red Crayola, early Beat Happening, Good Missionaries and lesser knowns like Department Store Santas, Mark Tucker, Philip Johnson, etc.. By We Know Nonsense many songs have an almost lounge jazz style. This probably doesnt sound too appealing but the record does have its moments, including one of my fave 49 American songs (though some of the tracks are definitely not my bag).\\r\\nThe The Original 14-Track Single... CD compiles the 1979 Wonder Only 85 Pennies 7\" on N.B. Records (Nag \u0026amp; Bendles label) and the 1981, 10 track 12\" on Choo Choo Train Records as well as 6 bonus tracks from 1979. Wonder includes the 1st LP from 1980 (originally on Choo Choo Train) plus 7 tracks from their first live gig at the London Musicians Collective in 1980. We Know Nonsense is the second full length from 1982 (co-released originally by Choo Choo Train and Toops semi-legendary Quartz label) plus 3 bonus tracks from 81 featuring Nigel Coombes on violin.\\r\\nPackaged in thick miniature old LP style jackets with extensive liner notes and lyrics (in japanese and english).\\r\\n\"What might seem to others to be harsh reviews were to us wonderful complimentary fodder; swamped in kettle and saucepan percussion, a hearty shabbiness, amateurism viewed as a material virtue rather than a spiritual one, and the best quote of all, makes Swell Maps sound like Led Zeppelin.\" - Nag (Wonder liner notes).\\r\\n\"The 49 Americans were an experiment in the pursuit of happiness... Have fun! Play! Participate! Everyone should be allowed to be an American.\" - Andrew Brenner (aka Giblet).\\r\\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saidera","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51855392583,"sku":"","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-1644730-1234203558_png.jpg?v=1571717217"},{"product_id":"messages-mirage","title":"MESSAGES - Mirage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/79823937\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Root Strata\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rootstrata\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRoot Strata\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Messages - Cockroach\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rootstrata\/messages-cockroach\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMessages - Cockroach\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\"Primordial moves and stone cold drones from this New York duo of Taketo Shimada and Tres Warren (Sacred Bones Records). 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Both share a desire to jolt the experience of playing and listening to music out of stale routines and atrophied sensibilities, but through play and a haiku-esque close attention to daily life, rather than with a gun to the head. The albums are suffused with a warm, almost alchemical domesticity, rooted in the familiar rhythms of home, community and the seasons. Hito was recorded from summer through to early autumn 2005 and the drowsy heat of the season lies over it like a mosquito net. The hesitant vocals and piano that open its first track are underpinned by what initially sounds like the faint wow and flutter of a cheap tape recorder. Suddenly, as though a window has been flung open, the distortion is revealed to be the pylon-buzz of cicadas in the garden outside. As the sound rises to fill the room, the senses are beguiled, place, time and sensation evoked with the most minimal of means. Kusa sounds slightly stiffer as it takes us from autumn through winter, but on both albums the spare instrumentation is enjoyably creative, with kitchen-cupboard percussion, a vacuum cleaner, the sound of the rain and a gang of local kids on recorders melded effortlessly around the romantic flourishes of Toris piano playing. Reikos albums are always song-based, miniature wisps of melody that sound like something composed over the washing-up, the words perfectly balanced between observation and signification. Her voice has that childlike upper register of many Japanese female singers, but with a definite strength in the low notes. Most striking is her enunciation the slightest tremor of hesitation, a lack of demonstrativeness that makes Vashti Bunyan sound like Whitney Houston, the voice pitched uncannily into an area where the exhaled breath seems to shimmer naturally into song. This is captivating and at times heartbreakingly emotive work.- Alan Cummings, The Wire June 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OxOgXlMGn1Q\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyotan","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51867963399,"sku":"4145-HYOTAN","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/c62cbf51498edd94b43ca137b7da9f29.jpg?v=1627935704"},{"product_id":"kudo-reiko-kusa","title":"KUDO, REIKO - Kusa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The use of amateurism and error as a compositional device characterizes the music of Tori Kudo, particularly in his group Maher Shalal Hash Baz. 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While previous CD-R releases were entirely improvised, On Earth is comprised of three untitled pieces composed by the group with elements of restrained improvisation. Musically, each piece has a specific concern, ranging from extremely subtle microtonal shifts to distorted crashes of intervals against one another. On Earth captures the reductive BONUS sound with all the sustained tones and sparkling textures, but with a more focused and succinct delivery.\" - Root Strata.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51870076423,"sku":"4689-ROOT STRATA","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-1082575-1190730707_gif.jpg?v=1571717487"},{"product_id":"starving-weirdos-shrine-of-the-posthypnotic","title":"STARVING WEIRDOS - Shrine of the Post-Hypnotic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Hidden away deep in the damp forest fog of Northern Californias Humboldt County, STARVING WEIRDOS have emerged once again with another batch of stoned-out inner space slow burners. Utilizing everything from homemade instruments and toys to guitars and drums, the core duo of BRIAN PYLE and MERRICK McKINLAY, joined by various members of their collective, chart a course deep into the heavy waters of group mind. The result is a record that gracefully arcs the outer rim of a hallucination-a travel log of the hazy fragments of a lucid dream, one filled with wild birds and hungry ghosts, animated flora and a full moon overhead. Another winner from the Root Strata pod of wonder-sure to disappear as quickly and mysteriously as it arrived.\" - Root Strata.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51873120903,"sku":"5419-ROOT STRATA","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-942883-1250966348_jpeg.jpg?v=1571717537"},{"product_id":"smell-of-incense-ethereal-counterbalance-split","title":"SMELL OF INCENSE\/ETHEREAL COUNTERBALANCE - Split","description":"\u003cp\u003eSplit 10 release. Smell of Incense are from Oslo, and \"offer long \u0026amp; freely interpreted versions of two early Gong songs. 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Despite the weight of these players when they rock alone, this jam really never gets into full on white out territory. Instead, its loaded to the brim with wavy neon distortion and soothing low end that occasional drops out into huge washes of emptiness. The opening passage of GMS guitar flecks sympathizing with Karls string wash is alone worth the price of admission. Red vinyl with lime green splatter.\" - Root Strata.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":51877426695,"sku":"6500-ROOT STRATA","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-1309248-1344098407-5799_jpeg_f2f29a6a-b32f-4dc5-9e7c-e8597d7dc768.jpg?v=1603136282"},{"product_id":"rv-paintings-trinity-rivers","title":"RV PAINTINGS - Trinity Rivers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"New nature jams from the Northern California peace crew. 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This is by far one of the most beautiful and totally dark audio documents out of the Weirdos camp.\" - Root Strata.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51877428295,"sku":"6503-ROOT STRATA","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-1031051-1414941207-1882_jpeg.jpg?v=1571717603"},{"product_id":"kudo-reiko-licking-up-dust","title":"KUDO, REIKO - Licking Up Dust","description":"\u003cp\u003eNewest release on Tori and Reiko Kudos (Maher Shalal Hash Baz\/Noise\/etc..) inhouse label. 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He spent a few years in Maher in the 80s and this DVD captures the innocent joy and rapturous invention he brought to their music. 24 tracks, 75 minutes. Color, NTSC Region Free (says Region 2 on the package, but that is a typo, it plays Region Free), Stereo, 08.09.21. -PSF\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PSF","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":51899254855,"sku":"7805-PSF","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/PSFDV004.jpg?v=1571717696"},{"product_id":"kudo-reiko-tori-light","title":"KUDO, REIKO \u0026 TORI - Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe CD is an edition of 500 housed in a hand assembled screen printed slipcase with 8 card inserts. Includes lyrics in Japanese and English.\\r\\nArtwork by Namio Kudo.\\r\\nLight was recorded live in 2005 and 2006 and features duo versions of tracks from the last three self released Reiko Kudo albums along with two previously unrecorded songs. Forgoing the big band explorations of Maher Shalal Hash Baz here Tori and Reiko offer an intimate live set of Reikos heartbreakingly beautiful songs of loss and longing. - Siwa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siwa","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":51918399239,"sku":"8605-SIWA","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-1609367-1231940733_jpeg.jpg?v=1571717748"},{"product_id":"ahmed-ilyas-goner","title":"AHMED, ILYAS - Goner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/166601017\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Navalorama Records\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/navaloramarecords\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNavalorama Records\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Ilyas Ahmed - Out Again\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/navaloramarecords\/ilyas-ahmed-out-again\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIlyas Ahmed - Out Again\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\"Portland, Oregon bedroom wanderer ILYAS AHMED emerges from the shadows and offers up his first new batch of songs in some time. 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Liz Harris (Grouper) and Tom Carter (Charalambides) on the tracks Ennui and Earth Liver add to the overall sense of dread. Includes poster.\" -Root Strata\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":51926045319,"sku":"10165-ROOT STRATA","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-2371185-1284526441_jpeg.jpg?v=1571717861"},{"product_id":"harris-liz-grouper-divide","title":"HARRIS, LIZ (GROUPER) - Divide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Divide is the long-awaited book of drawings and an accompanying video by Liz Harris, aka Grouper. Harris visual work runs in parallel to her music as Grouper, and often overlaps into the same vision. Divide maps out dense organic patterns, passages filled to the edges with overgrowth and fractured geometry. Minimal strokes are taken to maximal repetitions to form complex mazes in high contrast. 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Most were available in a very limited capacity at the time of their release, some were never really released at all - Gary Davenport declined to release \"Sarra\" after he split with the girl for whom the track is named - years later a friend convinced Davenport to allow him to put 100 copies online to sell and DJ Sundae was quick enough to snare one. Beyond their scarcity, these tracks are bound together by a certain raw beauty thats achievable when music is made and no one is listening. Sky Girl comprises of fifteen officially licensed songs, a two year international scavenger hunt through long-folded home label operations, the depths of internet forums and traceless acetates. Both compilers are well trained record sleuths - DJ Sundaes labels Hollie and Idle Press have reissued Arthur Russell affiliate Nirosta Steel and DIY relic Pitch, while Julien Dechery previously compiled Fire Star, a retrospective on Tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja, for Bombay Connection. 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In his own words I try to look at sounds and structures as neutral elements that have not yet been categorized by preconceived thoughts, judgement and\/or taste - to apply the idea of emptiness to sounds, structure and form.\" LP includes download code.\" - Root Strata.\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52019401671,"sku":"18772-ROOT STRATA","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-9115958-1475050970-8940_jpeg.jpg?v=1571718449"},{"product_id":"kudo-reiko-tori-from-now-on","title":"KUDO, REIKO \u0026 TORI - From Now On","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Document of a recent (November 2008), intimate live show by Reiko Kudo and her husband Tori (of Maher Shalal Hash Baz fame). 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As a point of entry, the duo's craft can be seen as the joining of their love of many disparate musical forms, from the folk music of the Middle East \u0026amp; Asia to the underground histories of Japan \u0026amp; New Zealand, all mainlined through damaged delay and distortion via their own individual visions. Comes in a heavy black on black offset printed Arigato Pak.\" - Root Strata.","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":37565687988413,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/RS035CD_CU.jpg?v=1605722593"},{"product_id":"good-stuff-house-endless-bummer-root-strata","title":"GOOD STUFF HOUSE - Endless Bummer","description":"2009 release. \"First proper CD of this on-going collaboration between Matt Christensen\/Mike Weis of Zelienope and Scott Tuma of Souled American and Boxhead Ensemble. 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Inspired by countless soundtrack compilations and blog mixes of rare, foreign library and VHS music, Vision Heat varies in production style and technique as if it were the definitive archive, deftly genre-skipping from moody sci-fi suspense, incidental queues, and dramatic scores to uplifting electro-boogie, synthpop, and cinematic arrangements. Ultimately so much more than an homage, The Chosen Themes are a subtle and skilled conjuring of a full spectrum re-imagined past. Part one of a two-volume set. LP includes download code. Exclusive video stills provided by Jennifer Juniper Stratford.\" - Root Strata.","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":37565688742077,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/RS098LP_CU.jpg?v=1605722598"},{"product_id":"mccann-sean-prelusion-root-strata","title":"MCCANN, SEAN - Prelusion","description":"\"The definitive version of this triptych of tectonic drift originally released as a CD-R on Sean McCann's own Recital label in 2011. \"Our Silhouette,\" which blankets the whole of the first side with jewel-like piano runs and distant fading synths, may be one of the artist's most elegant moves. The reverse holds two tracks of long-form organ\/string plateaus that float elegantly in space, refracting light and sound in patterns around the head.\" - Root Strata.","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":37565689626813,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/RS092LP_CU.jpg?v=1605722599"},{"product_id":"tellier-craig-roger-instantanes-root-strata","title":"TELLIER-CRAIG, ROGER - Instantanes","description":"\"Montreal stalwart Roger Tellier Craig (of Le Révélateur and Fly Pan Am) returns to Root Strata under his given name to offer a stunningly abstract pair of compositions indicating a severe departure from his earlier work. While Instantanés might at first evoke acousmatic and musique concrète traditions, the two side-long snapshots Roger presents feel far more spontaneous and rustic than those trappings might suggest, or as Luc Ferrari would say \"a concrète music of the poor.\" A studied meditation over ten years in the making, Instantanés is a surreal mix of the familiar and the alien, a lush garden indifferent to human cultivation or experience. Includes download code.\" - Root Strata.","brand":"Root Strata","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":37565689790653,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/RS106LP_CU.jpg?v=1605722601"},{"product_id":"vision-heat-the-chosen-themes-program-ii-root-strata","title":"VISION HEAT - The Chosen Themes - Program II","description":"\"Recorded between 2012 and 2014, Jared Blum's (GiganteSound, The Talking Book (with Bill Gould of Faith No More), Blanketship, Vulcanus 68, et al.) Vision Heat project is a laser-guided, hyper-vintage conflation of early-to-mid-'80s-centric production, montage, and style. Recalling such luminaries as Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Harold Faltermeyer, and Craig Safan, and such lofty houses as KPM, Bruton, and Parry, with nods to oddballs from Russia and the Eastern Bloc, Blum still manages to be forcefully yet effortlessly unique. 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