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Limited Splatter Vinyl Edition (2 colors - clear Vinyl basis). Sleeve with gold hot stamping.

Celebrating 10th anniversary of Connan Mockasin 's both debut album "Forever Dolphin Love" & career, Phantasy and Because Music release new editions of long time out of stock "Forever Dolphin Love" & "Caramel" (2nd album) Lps. Exclusive Splatter 2021 Editions .

Product informations
- "Caramel" : Limited Splatter Vinyl Edition (2 colors - clear Vinyl basis). Sleeve with gold hot stamping.

CARAMEL (SPLATTER 2021 EDITION)
A1 Nothing Last Forever
A2 Caramel
A3 I'm The Man , That Will Find you
A4 Do I make You Feel Shy ?
A5 Why Are You Crying ?

B1 It's Your Body 1
B2 It's Your Body 2
B3 It's Your Body 3
B4 It's Your Body 4
B5 It's Your Body 5
B6 I Wanna Roll With You


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2018 REISSUE LP, first time and exclusive to thsi Pressing on 180g Vinyl (& Download Code )

Connan Mockasin´s Superclassic Debut Album is being repressed for the first in a HQ 180g Vinyl Edition (+Download). Back by popular demand!

Tracklist:
A1 Megumi The Milkway Above 2:32 , A2 It’s Choade My Dear 4:08, A3 Faking Jazz Together 5:16, A4 Quadropuss Island 2:15, A5 Forever Dolphin Love 10:07
B1 Muss 1:19, B2 Egon Hosford 2:15, B3 Unicorn In Uniform 3:43 , B4 Grampa Moff 0:28 , B5 Please Turn Me Into The Snat 4:34

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2018 REISSUE LP, first time and exclusive to thi Pressing on 180g Vinyl (& Download Code )

TRACKLISTING: 1 Nothing Lasts Forever , 2 Caramel, 3 I'm The Man That Will Find You,
4 Do I Make You Feel Shy?, 5 Why Are You Crying?, 6 It's Your Body 1, 7 It's Your Body 2,
8 It's Your Body 3, 9 It's Your Body 4, 10 It's Your Body 5, 11 I Wanna Roll With You,

Connan Mockasin's new album 'Caramel' , excpect nothing but yet another prome example of shocking great weird ness - a total standout in todays POP!

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Rel date 3.2.2014
UPC: 5060281617095
Track listing:
A. I'm The Man, That Will Find You
B. She Lives In My Lap
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Tracklisting:
CD 1 - Forever Dolphine Love (album)
1. Megumi The Milkyway Above
2. It's Choade My Dear
3. Faking Jazz Together
4. Quadropuss Island
5. Forever Dolphin Love
6. Muss
7. Egon Hosford
8. Unicorn In Uniform
9. Grampa Moff
10. Please Turn Me Into The Snat
CD2 - Forever Dolphin Live
1. Megumi The Milkyway Above (Live)
2. It's Choade My Dear (Live)
3. Faking Jazz Together (Live)
4. Egon Hosford (Live)
5. Unicorn In Uniform (Live)
6. Forever Dolphin Love (Live)
7. Sneaky Dog Friend (Live)
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Connan Mockasin has the kind of deliciously off-kilter and gloriously idiosyncratic worldview that rapidly proves addictive. Once you’ve heard it, you can’t help but wish to go back for more.
Welcome, folks, to the delightful, slanted and enchanted world of Connan Mockasin. Like David Lynch’s wilfully surrealist take on American suburbia, or Richard Prince’s paintings investigating modern cultural tropes, the New Zealand born, current London resident Mockasin makes beautiful, off-kilter music which subverts as it compels, challenges as it mesmerists, startles as it seduces, even drawing fans as diverse as Johnny Marr and Radiohead to Ed Banger chief and ex Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter into its wide-eyed, childlike exploration into the final frontiers of pop music. It is all too rare, in this current climate of manufactured pop acts, grey over produced 'alternative' guitar music and press-fuelled mania for the next-big-thing, to hear something truly striking and original, but a strong case can most certainly be made for Connan to be a true pop auteur, taking his rightful place in a proud lineage which includes past mavericks such as Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, right through to current cult heroes like Ariel Pink, Sufjan Stevens and John Maus. It was this brilliantly ingenious approach to invention, and his masterfully unique charm that caught the attention of Erol Alkan, who signed Connan to his label Phantasy after hearing initial demos for the record. Connan has become the first artist to release a full album through Alkan's Phantasy, a perfect home for an artist who will undoubtedly evolve and reincarnate (and possibly re-invent?) over time.
Finally finding his feet with his own sound, Connan discovered a collective of like-minded experimental artists such as Micachu & The Shapes and The Invisible, as well as Late Of The Pier’s Sam Eastgate (who Connan is currently working with on the side project Soft Hair), clearing a path for the once perennial outsider as one of the most vibrant and engrossing musicians on the map. You’d do well to clutch him to your hearts now.
Special Packaging :
- Cristal clear vinyl
- 3mm edge vinyl sleeve with a black undersleeve
Tracklisting:
Face A
Forever Dolphin Love - Original
Forever Dolphin Love - Mickey Moonlight Remix
Face B
Forever Dolphin Love - Erol Alkan Rework



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Territories: World excl France, Uk

Limited Splatter Vinyl Edition (2 colors - clear Vinyl basis). Sleeve with gold hot stamping.

Celebrating 10th anniversary of Connan Mockasin 's both debut album "Forever Dolphin Love" & career, Phantasy and Because Music release new editions of long time out of stock "Forever Dolphin Love" & "Caramel" (2nd album) Lps. Exclusive Splatter 2021 Editions .

Product informations
- "Caramel" : Limited Splatter Vinyl Edition (2 colors - clear Vinyl basis). Sleeve with gold hot stamping.

CARAMEL (SPLATTER 2021 EDITION)
A1 Nothing Last Forever
A2 Caramel
A3 I'm The Man , That Will Find you
A4 Do I make You Feel Shy ?
A5 Why Are You Crying ?

B1 It's Your Body 1
B2 It's Your Body 2
B3 It's Your Body 3
B4 It's Your Body 4
B5 It's Your Body 5
B6 I Wanna Roll With You


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UPC: 5060281616272 Release: 07.10.2013
Special Remarks: 2LP Gatefold vinyl, printed inner sleeves, stickers
Tracklist LP : A 1. Waterjump / A2. Freefloating / A3. Naive Response B 1. Drone Logic / B2. These Nights Never End / B3. Platform Zero C1. Need Electric / C2. All I Need / C3. Spring 27 D1. Simulrec / D2. No Energy / D3. Knowing We'll Be There
The 12 track album was written and produced since the turn of 2013 and mixed with Erol Alkan at 'The Phantasy Sound', the label's own studio in London. A difficult trick to master but like Carl Craig's 'More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art', Plastikman's 'Consumed' or more recently the work of Four Tet, the album works as a cohesive whole rather than a disparate collection of tracks. Innovative and forward thinking, Drone Logic manages to draw influences from beyond the dancefloor via My Bloody Valentine, NEU! and Chris Carter while still having the techno pulse to scale the walls of any club. The wide array of plaudits and early adopters of Avery's music is proof of this, ranging from acid house legends like The Chemical Brothers, Andrew Weatherall and Richie Hawtin to the best of the new breed in Maya Jane Coles, James Holden and Factory Floor.
Firmly established as one of the UK's most exciting new DJ / producers having cut his teeth in Weatherall's Shoreditch studio bunker, Drone Logic follows up Avery's universally acclaimed mix CD for London clubbing institution Fabric where he remains a resident, recent remixes for Primal Scream, The Horrors & Django Django and last year's Need Electric and Water Jump EPs on Alkan's Phantasy label. This summer sees him play at Bestival, Festival No.6 and the Green Man festival.


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Territory, World ex F,UK.

2018 REISSUE LP, first time and exclusive to thsi Pressing on 180g Vinyl (& Download Code )

Connan Mockasin´s Superclassic Debut Album is being repressed for the first in a HQ 180g Vinyl Edition (+Download). Back by popular demand!

Tracklist:
A1 Megumi The Milkway Above 2:32 , A2 It’s Choade My Dear 4:08, A3 Faking Jazz Together 5:16, A4 Quadropuss Island 2:15, A5 Forever Dolphin Love 10:07
B1 Muss 1:19, B2 Egon Hosford 2:15, B3 Unicorn In Uniform 3:43 , B4 Grampa Moff 0:28 , B5 Please Turn Me Into The Snat 4:34

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2018 REISSUE LP, first time and exclusive to thi Pressing on 180g Vinyl (& Download Code )

TRACKLISTING: 1 Nothing Lasts Forever , 2 Caramel, 3 I'm The Man That Will Find You,
4 Do I Make You Feel Shy?, 5 Why Are You Crying?, 6 It's Your Body 1, 7 It's Your Body 2,
8 It's Your Body 3, 9 It's Your Body 4, 10 It's Your Body 5, 11 I Wanna Roll With You,

Connan Mockasin's new album 'Caramel' , excpect nothing but yet another prome example of shocking great weird ness - a total standout in todays POP!

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UPC: 5060421560298 Release: 02.03.2015
Tracklist:
CD 1
1/ FACTORY FLOOR (GABE GURNSEY REMIX) , 2/ ALL I NEED (ROMAN FLÜGEL REMIX) , 3/ PLATFORM ZERO (VOLTE - FACE REMIX) , 4/ NAIVE RESPONSE (Ø [PHASE] REMIX) , 5/ SPRING 27 (SILENT SERVANT REMIX) , 6/ FREE FLOATING (MATT WALSH REMIX) , 7/ KNOWING WE'LL BE HERE (KINK REMIX) , 8/ NEW ENERGY (BEYOND THE WIZARD'S SLEEVE RE-ANIMATION)
CD2
1/ DRONE LOGIC (RØDHÅD REMIX) , 2/ NEED ELECTRIC (AUDION REMIX) , 3/ RECEPTION (PERC REMIX) , 4/ THESE NIGHTS NEVER END (RICARDO TOBAR REMIX) , 5/ SIMULREC (CONFORCE REMIX) , 6/ WATER JUMP (POWELL REMIX) , 7/ TASTE (SPECIAL REQUEST REMIX) , 8/ NAIVE RESPONSE (DANNY DAZE REMIX)

Short info:

Following the international success of his much acclaimed debut LP, Drone Logic, Daniel Avery expands on his wide reaching world with a carefully curated collection of remixes from the artists with whom Avery's forward facing electronic style shares the deepest affinity.

Inviting each producer to either compliment, reconstruct or occasionally rebuild his original compositions, New Energy stands as a testament to the strength of the current state of affairs in electronic music, borne out of one of its most original talents.



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1 LP+Download Code - heavycard gatefold, spot varnish,special inner sleeves, donwload code - UPC: 5060281619464 Release: 12.1.2015
Tracklist LP: A SIDE // 1 MOUTH / 2 GIUDECCA / 3 ARMS / 4 HOW / 5 GLASS - B SIDE // 6 GLACIER / 7 LYING / 8 LUCKY / 9 ANSWER / 10 THE FOG

In recent times, Phantasy have provided the soundtrack for many adrenaline fuelled nights and hazy mornings with critically acclaimed albums from Daniel Avery ('Drone Logic') and Connan Mockasin ('Forever Dolphin Love' & 'Caramel'). Their latest discovery Ghost Culture emerges from the shadows to make the space between those two worlds his own. Since announcing his arrival one year ago with a debut single 'Mouth', the London based artist has built up a feverish following with a further pair of ear catching singles.

This trio of sell-out releases, each pressed on 'invisible' vinyl, offered a glimpse of a rare talent whose music was just as at home in the club as it was in ones bedroom. Now Phantasy, are proud to present his self titled debut album, a collection of ten tracks rich in emotion, musicality and sonic artistry.
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Rel date 3.2.2014
UPC: 5060281617095
Track listing:
A. I'm The Man, That Will Find You
B. She Lives In My Lap
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3x12" Gatefold White Vinyl (Download Code Inside)


1. Extrawelt - Dark Side Of My Room (DE-Q20-08-00161)
2. Extrawelt - Wippsteert (DE-Q20-08-00162)
3. Extrawelt - Trümmerfeld (DE-Q20-08-00165)
4. Extrawelt - Must Attack (DE-Q20-08-00164)
5. Extrawelt - Wolkenbruch (DE-Q20-08-00166)
6. Extrawelt - Added Planet (DE-Q20-08-00167)
7. Extrawelt - Daten Raten (DE-Q20-08-00169)
8. Extrawelt - Lost In Willaura (DE-Q20-08-00170)
9. Extrawelt - Kurt Curtain (Skit) (DE-Q20-08-00168)
10. Extrawelt - One Tree Hill (DE-Q20-08-00160)
11. Extrawelt - Messy Machinery (Rough Mix) (DE-Q20-00-01376)
12. Extrawelt - Homing (DE-Q20-08-00171)
13. Extrawelt - Bright Side Of My Room (DE-Q20-22-00014)



Including all the tracks from the original release. But adding "Bright Side Of My Room" to the list as a counterpart of "Dark Side Of My Room" makes this release even more attractive. And to top it all off, as another treat, there's the "Messy Machinery" Rough Mix instead of the Original Mix.

It's all about hooking up our music to the emotional world of electronic music at the beginning of the Nineties, however, without falling for nostalgic references. We don't want to do cowardly Zeitgeist Techno, we want to have the heart to dare big sounds and more melodies. Sunrise scenarios, energy, revolution, and kaput-ness, all these are parts of the Extrawelt." (Extrawelt, 2008)

However, don't panic even if the aesthetics of the debut album of the two Hamburg-born artists Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe is affected by the attentive observation of electronic dance music over the last fifteen years, the "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" is above all this: Premium Techno 2008! The Hamburg-based producer team has been unmistakably imprinting the last three years' club sound with widely noticed releases on Border Community ("Sooper Track"), Traum Schallplatten ("Doch Doch") and Cocoon Recordings ("Titelheld") as well as with remixes for Gregor Tresher, Minilogue or Alexander Kowalski - last but not least due to an excellent live presence, that resulted in the second rank in the Groove Live Act Charts, even still without the accompanying long-player.

The work on "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" started more than two years ago for Schaffhausen and Raabe. "The initial idea was to present an album covering all styles of electronic music between Ambient, Breakbeats, and Techno. When we had 25 tracks for the album ready, we had to realize that this approach did not work for us. Insofar, we finally decided to use the 4/4 bass drum in all tracks except in the little intermezzo "Kurt Curtain". We have tested all tracks live over the last three months and constantly re-interpreted them. So, the 'danceability' is clearly in our focus, but the sound spectrum and the dramaturgy of the titles should not be solely functioning in the club. Our intention was definitely not to deliver an album full of superficial peak time hits."

Those twelve tracks on "Schöne Neue Extrawelt", all unreleased, are therefore primarily representing a pleasurable 'in-between', the organic development of hypnotically compressed dance music that is more than "just" Minimal Techno, reduced Trance or electronic listening sounds of the Warp era - even all those elements have left their marks. From the richly decorated musical-clock-intro "One Tree Hill" via the stereo singing bowl of "Trümmerfeld" to the Asian-sounding creaking of "Daten Raten", Extrawelt celebrate a vision of futuristic melancholy with organic detail richness, which is permanently in motion but is nevertheless seeming to be well-balanced. However, in the Extrawelt universe, one gets along quite well with antagonisms. "We have always been polarizing, not only in the Techno scene but also in the Trance scene. Because in the end, "Schöne Neue Extrawelt" - freely adapted from Aldous Huxley - is now not only a big neon-colored future but is likewise positioned in the often-disillusioning grey of the here and now."



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- Limited 1000 copy 2018 Edition in CRYSTAL CLEAR "View Through the Looking Glass" Type Vinyl , Crystal Clear Vinyl + 2x 180g !
- Limited editionUltra Deluxe 45rpm Cut Edition with Gatefold "Tip On" Sleeve
- housed in heavy cardboard old Stoughton tip-on jacket (Gatefold)
- 45 rpm cut for superior Sound (than 33rpm) made by Emil Berliner Studios
- sticker

*** TERRITORY RESTRICTION - NO SALES TO JAPAN ***

Tracklisting:
1. Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream
2. Crossing
3. Trompe-l'œil
4. Catastrophe £

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WRWTFWW & Palto Flats Records are ecstatic to announce the highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient / minimal album "Through The Looking Glass", originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan.

Considered a Holy Grail of Japanese music by many, "Through The Looking Glass" is Midori Takada's first solo endeavor, a captivating four-song suite capturing her deep quests into traditional African and Asian percussive language and exploring contemplative ambient sounds with an admirably precise use of marimba. The result is alternatively ethereal and vibrant, always precise and mesmerizing, and makes for an atmospheric masterpiece and an unparalleled sonic and spiritual experience.

The fully licensed reissue is available as a single 33rpm LP and a limited 45rpm DLP, both cut directly from the original studio reels (AAA), at Emil Berliner (formerly the in-house recording department of renowned classical record label Deutsche Grammophon) for the 45rpm DLP, and at the equally famous Frankfurter SST Studio for the LP. It is also available in CD format for the first time. All versions come with extensive liner notes.

Bio

Midori Takada is a composer, multi percussionist, and theater artist renowned in Japanese vanguard circles. She will tour Europe this year.

Midori released two solo albums: "Through The Looking Glass" and "Tree Of Life" and wrote music for Tadashi Suzuki's theater plays. Her hypnotic, minimalist music is based in the concept of coherence between sound and the human body. She performs solo on marimba and other percussion instruments.

She debuted on the scene of Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin just after graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1974. She continued her career with solo concerts in Japan and abroad.

In the 1980s Midori began to explore the traditional music of Asia and Africa. Her fascination resulted in joint projects with Kakraba Lobi from Ghana, Lamine Konte from Senegal, Farafina Band from Burkina Faso, and Korean musicians: zither player Chi Seong-Ja, flute player Won-Il, and saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan. She also led Mkwaju Ensemble's innovative percussion project and still performs with free-jazz band Ton-Klami with Kang Tae-Hwan and jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh.

In the past 20 years, Midori Takada spent more time in theaters than in concert halls - composing and performing live music for theater. She regularly works with Tadashi Suzuki and his Suzuki Company of Toga on their adaptations of "Electra" and "King Lear".

Takada's compositions have a remarkable way of affecting the imagination. Her minimalist, contemplative music is filled with the concept of infinity and reminds us of a moon voyage, falling stars, a journey into the ocean, or a walk in the garden. The trans melodies, initially simple, begin to loop and splinter, their rhythm breaking and thickening, slowly drawing the listener into another reality.

Every live performance Midori Takada gives is unique and prepared especially for that occasion.


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Double LP: Heavy 350gsm Sleeve, Liner Notes, Sticker
- Official reissue of Grauzone's album with 9 bonus songs including the megahit "Eisbär" and more, straight from the original reels!

Genre: Post-Punk, Electronic, New Wave, Cold Wave, Pop, Synth, Industrial, Experimental

Tracklisting Double LP Album

A1. Film 2
A2. Schlachtet!
A3. Hinter Den Bergen
A4. Maikäfer Flieg
A5. Marmelade Und Himbeereis
B1. Wütendes Glas
B2. Kälte Kriecht
B3. Kunstgewerbe
B4. Der Weg Zu Zweit
B5. In Der Nacht
C1. Eisbär
C2. Ich Lieb Sie
C3. Moskau
C4. Ein Tanz Mit Dem Tod
D1. Traüme Mit Mir
D2. Ich Und Du
D3. Wütendes Glas (Maxi Version)
D4. Raum
D5. Film 1

WRWTFWW Records is very happy to reissue Swiss cult band Grauzone's self-titled album in an expanded 40 Years Anniversary Edition packed with the original 1981 album plus 9 extra songs, as well as extensive liner notes by Swiss music historian Lurker Grand. The 19-track album is available as a double LP vinyl in heavy 350gsm sleeve and a digipack CD, both sourced from the original reels and put together under the supervision of band member and all around legend Stephan Eicher.

The pioneering band from Bern (Switzerland) had a short-lived but highly-regarded career which birthed a cult discography that still fascinates and resonates today. Consisting of core members Martin Eicher, Stephan Eicher, and Marco Repetto, and on-and-off participants Christian GT Trüssel, Claudine Chirac, and Ingrid Berney, the elusive group broke new grounds in the early 80s, experimenting with punk and industrial music, early techno sounds, minimalism, new wave, pop, and various electronics. With an innovative and polished approach to design, visuals, performance, and all around style and philosophy on top of their superb music, the constantly transforming unit developed a whole experience - the Grauzone experience: wild and unpredictable, yet sophisticated and cohesive, or as Swiss music historian Lurker Grand would call it, "an Art band with a Punk attitude".

Completely rejecting the music industry rules and refusing to play the game of promotion, touring, release schedules, and TV appearances even though they had a multi-platinum international hit with the song "Eisbär", the band quickly disintegrated in full convention-defying glory, leaving behind an inspiring music legacy for the world to discover and discover again, one generation after the other.

This extended version of their debut (and only) album beautifully crystallizes the Grauzone miracle/accident - where pop and youthful experimentation meet at (new/cold/no) wave and industrial crossroads, and where classic hits ("Eisbär", "FILM 2", "Raum", "Träume Mit Mir", "Der Weg Zu Zweit"…) flawlessly mesh with unconventional deep cuts ("In Der Nacht", "Film 1", "Maikäfer Flieg"…). Very simply put: GOOD timeless music with an edge.

Stephan Eicher went on to be, arguably, the most successful Swiss musician ever, with an international career extending from pop chanson to experimental escapades and collaborations with Moondog, artists Sophie Calle and Sylvie Fleury, and author Martin Suter among many other luminaries. Marco Repetto flourished as a techno and ambient producer, releasing multiple projects including releases on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label.




Points of interests

- For fans of electronic, post-punk, new wave, cold wave, Swiss wave, no wave, Neue Deutsche Welle (Welle means wave!), synth, pop, industrial, proto-techno, 80s, Stephan Eicher, Marco Repetto, Liaisons Dangereuses, Tristesse Contemporaine, Young Marble Giants, The Cure but weirder, Switzerland, romance, mountains, polar bears, contemporary art, wearing nice (white) shoes in dirty basement squats, and xerox machines.

- New release from WRWTFWW Records (Grauzone's Eisbär and Raum, Midori Takada's Through The Looking Glass, Kenji Kawai's Ghost in the Shell Original Soundtrack, John Carpenter's Dark Star Soundtrack, Ryo Fukui's Scenery, Dominique Guiot's L'Univers de la Mer, Bernard Parmegiani soundtracks and more).
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2023 repress

Format Notes: 140g vinyl, remastered from the original tapes

Territories:
Worldwide no restrictions

Track List:

A1 : Flying High (3:35)
A2 : Going Home (2:46)
A3 : Walking In The Dark (4:42)
A4 : Fighting For Life (3:37)
A5 : Feeling Tense (4:05)

B1 : Running Fast (4:42)
B2 : Loving Tenderly (3:27)
B3 : Fearing Much (3:35)
B4 : Being Friendly (2:54)
B5 : Having Fun (4:00)

Release Notes:

More than once Jay Richford and Gary Stevan’s Feelings has been described as the greatest library record ever released. Of course Be With can’t be seen to be playing favourites, but we have to admit, it’s pretty good. Insanely rare and immensely sought-after, it’s a tough funk, street jazz masterpiece coveted for many years by collectors of all musical genres.

Since its original release on Italian label Carosello in 1974, Feelings has appeared on several labels with different sleeves and even under a different artist. Indeed cult library label Conroy put it out in one of their iconic red sleeves in 1976 and yes, Feelings has indeed had more than one modern re-issue since these “original” releases. But a record this special deserves to be kept in press and we think it deserves the Be With treatment.

No, Jay Richford and Gary Stevan aren’t two of the most Italian sounding names. As the story goes these were the pseudonyms adopted by Stefano Torossi and Giancarlo Gazzani who wrote the album but couldn’t use their real names on the original release for legal reasons. But Stefano Torossi himself later both clarified and confused the tale further by explaining that Feelings was the work of four people not just Gazzani and himself. Fellow composers and musicians Sandro Brugnolini and Puccio Roelens also worked on the album and as Torossi himself explained “we all worked together”, with all four gents “dividing the royalties in equal parts… that’s the story.” Right, so, with that all sorted out let’s get back to talking about the music. And what music it is.

Long hailed as a holy grail of library music, Feelings is the epitome of the sort of cinematic orchestral jazzy funk that is “that 70s library music sound”. Infectiously funky, deliciously melodic and with impeccible, elegant production, this record is the showcase for a stunning set of compositions and arrangements and with performances that are nothing short of virtuoso.

The record’s first side lifts off with “Flying High”, soaring brilliant and shimmering. Funk licks, menacing strings and swaggering horns combine for an ice-cold intro groove that Isaac Hayes would surely have envied, before the steady-paced drums deliver the slo-mo TKO. The string-drenched cop-funk of “Going Home” raises the tempo. All funky quick-fire bass lines and killer electric guitar soloing. A real thriller.

“Walking In The Dark” positively drips in blaxploitation-funk drama strings and horn struts, all laced with delicate drums, velvet piano and more filthy wah-wah. “Fighting For Life” is another funk-fuelled workout built around an effortlessly relentless drum track that refuses to give up until even the stiffest-necked head is nodding.

The loping, open drum break that guides the much-loved “Feeling Tense” through its early stages would be good enough on its own. The heavy bass gloss, swirling strings and ominous horns that follow take things to the next level.

The second side opens with another favourite “Running Fast”, and the track does precisely that. This is one fine rollicking chase theme underpinned by frenetic (yet funky) Fender Rhodes and skipping bass and drums. Those sweeping strings are a gorgeous extra. It’s a deliciously feel-good groove that sets the heart racing.

“Loving Tenderly” envelops us in warm, velvety night-time vibes with easy listening horns and slinky strings dialing up the seduction. Definitely one for the lithe lovers out there. The pace picks up on the electrifying “Fearing Much” where strings dart around deep bass, buzzing guitars and another funky drum break. The lush, melancholic “Being Friendly” is another easy beauty, all warm Rhodes and strings. Majestic stuff that puts an aural arm around you. The climactic “Having Fun” rides a pulsating, bass-heavy drum break with snatches of a funky guitar refrain, some luxurious keys, sweeping strings and triumphant horns. Sensational.

“Feelings” is a profoundly appropriate title for such an emotionally funky and genuinely affecting record. Groove-laden bass, irrepressible horns, sweet flute lines, warm Rhodes, lush string arrangements, blaxploitation-styled wah-wah guitars and so, so much more make this one of the finest instrumental soul LPs of the 70s, if not of all time.

The audio for this re-issue of Feelings comes from the original analogue tapes and has been remastered for vinyl by Be With regular Simon Francis and cut by Pete Norman. The same care has been taken by the Be With team to restore that glorious original Carosello sleeve. Feelings is almost too good to be true. Feels good all over.
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TRACKLIST
A1. INTRO - A2. BIENVENIDA A TIJUANA - A3. MACHINE GUN - A4. POR DONDE SALDRA EL SOL? - A5. PELIGRO - A6. WELCOME TO TIJUANA - A7. EL VIENTO - A8. CASA BABYLON - B1. POR EL SUELO - B2. BLOOD AND FIRE - B3. EZLN… PARA TOD@S TODO… - B4. MR BOBBY - B5. BONGO BONG - B6. RADIO BEMBA - B7. QUE PASO QUE PASO - B8. PINOCCHIO (VAGGIO IN GROPPA AL TONNO) - B9. CAHI EN LA TRAMPA - C1. CLANDESTINO - C2. RUMBA DE BARCELONA - C3. LA DESPEDIDA - C4. MALA VIDA - C5. RADIO BEMBA 2 - C6. QUE PASO QUE PASO 2 - C7. PINOCCHIO 2 (VAGGIO IN GROPPA AL TONNO) - D1. LA PRIMAVERA - D2. THE MONKEY - D3. KING KONG FIVE - D4. MINHA GALERA - D5. PROMISCUITY More

Special remarks :

- Limited Ten Year Edition
- Crystal Clear Vinyl
- Gatefold Sleeve
- Double Vinyl 45rpm recut
- Download Code

- RA's Album Of The Year in 2011
- Pitchfork's Top 20 in 2011
- Pitchfork's Best 200 Best Albums of the 2010's


It has been 10 years since Nicolas Jaar released his celebrated debut album, Space Is Only Noise here on Circus Company. With countless accolades, forays, and dips into other waters both preceding its arrival one decade ago and since with many musical ventures this LP still stands as not only a unique and verified-classic release in the artist's own expansive catalog as well as ours, but also amongst the general pantheon of electronic music of the 21st Century on the whole.

What better way to celebrate this milestone than with an immaculate must-have re-release package, with the music now spread out over double discs and cut at 45rpm on crystal clear vinyl to let the glacial top-end soar as originally intended, and the air of the general proceedings expand, once again, into the ears and consciousness of electronic music lovers the world over. Along with this technical upgrade recut, the distinct artwork has also received a facelift fit for the occasion, and will now be found adorning a full gatefold cover, inked lovingly in reverse on inside-out heavyweight paper including printed inner sleeves for a total collector's gem front-to-back.

While Nicolas Jaar's own recent online musings of the origin of the album title and lead track has us imagining playful plexiglass-letterings and a fresh sense of abstract calm before soon-to-be career storms, the music itself feels to have not aged a day past its prime of creation. From the unanimous crowdpleaser "Colomb" to "Keep Me There" indeed doing just that, with Jaar keeping us right where he left us last go-round, to the luminous titular track "Space Is Only Noise If You Can See" and omni-prophesy of "Specters Of The Future" - please join us in a warm welcoming return to this universally acclaimed classic LP, which garnered coveted spots in both RA's Album Of The Year and Pitchfork's Top 20 in 2011, now in its unmissable pristine new vinyl form, sounding as fresh as ever, a solid 10 years later.


Tracklist LP:

A1. Être
A2. Colomb
A3. Sunflower
B1. Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust
B2. Keep Me There
B3. Problem With The Sun

C1. Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
C2. Almost Fell
C3. Balance Her In Between Your Eyes
D1. Specters Of The Future
D2. Trace
D3. Variations
D4. ^tre


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JUSTICE, The French duo formed by Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, is the band of a whole generation. When the two friends were still bright students in graphic design, in 2003 they made JUSTICE a place to experiment a hybrid genre between music and image, which blends pop and electronic borders, and showcases the talents of 2 fascinating passionate pop culture craftsmen, bored with hierarchy. They met Pedro Winter who had just founded his label ED BANGER RECORDS, he immediately signs them after listening to "We Are Your Friends" which, with its joyful and vitamin-enriched electro beats combined with exhilarating voices, became the hymn of a whole generation and one of the most important tracks of the year 2000, celebrating a reconciliation of pop music and the dancefloor. It was awarded an MTV Video Award in 2007, bringing about the famous live TV appearance with Kanye West outraged that his million $ clip was outclassed by a home-made bomb. (Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, Justice, Ed Banger and So_Me became a constant source of inspiration for Kanye and his superstar rappers colleagues. Kanye even employed So-Me as director for the video for his hit song "Good Life"), Jay Z will use D.A.N.C.E for his next album. From now on, the duo's ascent was constant and then lightning struck: remixes for N.E.R.D, Britney Spears, Franz Ferdinand, U2, Daft Punk, Lenny Kravitz and an EP in 2006 (" Waters Of Nazareth ") defining the "Justice sound", this famous ultra-powerful compression of pop and baroque melodies, both dark and threatening; lightning and animative; and above all the famous Justice image, the cross from which an earlier version figures on the first EP. 2007 was the explosion that will turn the duo into the emblem of a whole generation: their first album "†", anticipated like the Messiah, holds all the promises, and swept everything away as an epic soundtrack. "†" is more than a magnificent synthesis of our time: its potential definition. 800 000 sales worldwide and 4 years later, the album is considered as a mainstay of the 2000s puzzled and tonic, one of the few who bridged the gap from Pitchfork world to MTV without losing its credibility.

Tracklist:

A1 - Horsepower B1 - Canon (Primo)
A2 - Civilization B2 - Canon
A3 - Ohio B3 - On'n'On
B4 - Brianvision

C1 - Parade D1 - Audio, Video, Disco.
C2 - New Lands D2 - Presence
C3 - Helix

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2LP GATEFOLD +CD , The Legendary DJango Django album Debut.

The quartet, who met at art school in Edinburgh, first came to peoples' attentions after a gradual migration to London a couple of years back. 2009's double A-side single "Storm"/"Love's Dart" laid the blueprint for a confident, adventurous and psychedelically-bruised strain of art-rock that melds intangible electronic flourishes to the visceral rub of live instrumentation.
The time since has been spent holed away, expanding upon that blueprint, seeing where they can push it. The impression one gets of Django Django is of a band laying down the first, meticulously measured borders on some vast map of a world that only they are privy to. Correspondent to that, each track is like its own nation of harmonies, rhythms and textures. "We didn't put much conscious thought into making it sound like an album - we thought we'd let any similarities between the songs come out by themselves," explains Tommy. What that means in practice is the swooning, bucolic Beach Boy-isms of opening track "Hail Bop" and the sterner, questing Bo Diddley beat guitars of "Life's A Beach". The industrious, go-getting tattoo verses of "Firewater" and the sleepy cowboy sighs of "Silver Rays". "Default" and "Waveforms" are future singles. The former sounds like an uprising in a Mexican gun factory, the latter The Glitter Band's "Rock And Roll Part 2" disappearing from sight like a particularly successful Kongming Lantern. "Music's so mad and widespread and varied, that eclecticism's the only way to be for us," reasons Maclean. "That said, I think you can draw a line through all the music we're into. It's about creativity and experimentation and the quest to find a new sound."

Tracklisting:
Vinyl 1
Side A:
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HAIL BOP
3. DEFAULT
4. FIREWATER
Side B:
5. WAVEFORMS
6. ZUMM ZUMM
7. HAND OF MAN

Vinyl 2
Side C:
8. LOVE'S DART
9. WOR
10. STORM
Side D:
11. LIFE'S A BEACH
12. SKIES OVER CAIRO
13. SILVER RAYS More

2LP Gatefold . File Under: French electro-pop
Tracklist
1. My Licorne & Me (Rework) 2. De la Vitesse à l'Ivresse 3. Les Voiles 4. Sous l'Orage 5. Toi et Moi
6. Il n'y a pas d'Amour Heureux (Poom cover) 7. Qui es-tu ? 8. Je Bois (Poom cover) 9. A Quoi Bon 10. Illusions

Shortinfo:

They differ from the French song scenery with their electronic sounds inherited from the french touch, their love for funk and disco, and a hint of symphonic orchestra. If you listen to a track, you can hear the influences of the French artists Michel Legrand, Daft Punk, Gainsbourg or Air.
The texts are intimate, their performance swings between elation and melancholy, with contrats with their energetic arrangements.
Taking advantage of their art studies, they created the whole visual universe of the project.
Their debut album in vinyle gathers 10 tracks written since the start of the project, with 2 covers of French writer and artist Boris Vian, French singer Georges Brassens in the style of the day.


quick overview:
Their first 2 singles " Les Voiles " and " De la Vitesse à l'vresse " released in 2014 & 2015 on Partyfine (french producer YUKSEK label) and got great press/radio in France (Vogue, Grazia, Grand Journal TV show, Konbini, France Inter playlist radio etc.) but we were also very surprised by the international pick up for songs sung in French ! Pharrell playlisted " les Voiles " on his Beats1 show, or Marc Jacobs tweeted it to his 5Millions followers for example. Les Voiles was also #1 on Hypemachine upon release.

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Territories: World excl France, Uk

Limited Splatter Vinyl Edition (2 colors - clear Vinyl basis). Sleeve with gold hot stamping.

Celebrating 10th anniversary of Connan Mockasin 's both debut album "Forever Dolphin Love" & career, Phantasy and Because Music release new editions of long time out of stock "Forever Dolphin Love" & "Caramel" (2nd album) Lps. Exclusive Splatter 2021 Editions .

Product informations
- "Caramel" : Limited Splatter Vinyl Edition (2 colors - clear Vinyl basis). Sleeve with gold hot stamping.

CARAMEL (SPLATTER 2021 EDITION)
A1 Nothing Last Forever
A2 Caramel
A3 I'm The Man , That Will Find you
A4 Do I make You Feel Shy ?
A5 Why Are You Crying ?

B1 It's Your Body 1
B2 It's Your Body 2
B3 It's Your Body 3
B4 It's Your Body 4
B5 It's Your Body 5
B6 I Wanna Roll With You


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Special Remarks: Double LP Gatefold +CD - Territory : World Ex France

Tracklist Vinyl:
A1. Cassius 1999 / A2. Feeling For You / A3. Crazy Legs / A4. La Mouche
B1. Chase / B2. Foxxy / B3. Planetz / B4. Hey Babe
C1. Mister Eveready / C2. Nulife / C3. Interlude / C4. Somebody
D1. Club Soixante Quinze / D2. Supa Crush / D3. Invisible / D4. Cassius 1999 Remix
The CD included in the LP features the 16 tracks in the same order

Short info:
1999…after the global supremacy of Oasis and Blur, the world is looking for some musical freshness. Some artists such as Daft Punk and Air have already contributed to globally popularise what the English called the "French Touch", a new term that refers to a large musical French movement.
The first album of Cassius is one of the key pieces of this growing genre, and demonstrates once again the variety of the trend. Indeed, after have cooperated for a long time with MC Solaar, one of France's 90's best rappers, the hip-hop influence of both Cassius members had to have an impact on their personal concept, and it did seduce a lot of listeners hungry for new musical flavours: more than 250 000 units sold worldwide and numerous unconditional fans…Before the release of their new album Ibifornia coming out this summer, we're taking you back to basics with a new release of Cassius' first album, for the ones who didn't have the opportunity to hear it, or for those who only have the CD, and would like to get themselves the vinyl edition !





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