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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Reduction => Topic started by: fullheadofnothing on May 17, 2013, 08:09:54 AM
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So my task of the day is to plow through as much of the Reduction manual as I can. Since I currently have the only Reduction that is connected in a system, I thought it would be fun(ny) to post a Reduction Spinning thread.
First up: filing the stuff I listened to the other day (partially while working on the Submissive manual, actually) and didn't put away yet:
Anthony Braxton (with Leo Smith, Dave Holland, Richard Teitelbaum)
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Kraftwerk. Awesome.
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Harry Partch - The Music of Harry Partch (Composers Recordings Inc.)
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OOH, ooh, Marion Brown!
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The Shadow Ring - I'm Some Songs (Swill Radio)
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Joshua,
Congratulations! I'm resisting the urge to post with the "needs pictures" banner.
Still, I'm looking at the list. I recognize Kraftwerk, have Autobahn, but ... I only understand the other words yet don't recognize a thing.
Now I am feeling like an Old Fart.
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John Fahey - Days Have Gone By (Takoma)
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Oh, yeah, your guys' tastes are close to mine. Fahey and Partch: American masters.
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Hmm, maybe I'll swap out the Tube Phono and roll in a Reduction over the weekend... How're you liking it fully upgraded vs. your Seduction?
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Sun Ra - Cosmos (Inner City)
@Grainger My tastes are odd, and ever expanding. My only rule for music is that it needs to grab me in some way, emotionally or intellectually. I gave up on popular music at a very early age and never stopped exploring the unpopular. I became a music obsessive, then a record collector, then a (somewhat reluctant) audiophile.
@sam ibid. Also, these are all my personal records at my house. Some are more playable than others at BHHQ...
@PB It's sounding really nice. Caps have settled in quite nicely and timbres are really cooking on it. I've mostly been doing headphone listening. Your mods made it noticeably quieter (note to everyone else: I have a prototype that has been the proving ground for developments that will benefit the people who by this phonostage). The overall sound is fast and clean.
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In my universe Sun Ra is God, or at least a demi-god.
Antique Blacks! Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy! Nothing Is...! Strange Strings! Strange Celestial Roads! Purple Night! (just a few of my favorites)
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Wire - Pink Flag (Reissue, 4 Men With Beards)
You can only type the word "wire" so many times before you just need to hear "Reuters."
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I'd beware of those 4Men reissues, which I understand are 99% of the time sourced digitally, from 16/44 files no less. No different than playing a CD.
I have an original pressing of that record. Stunning.
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Would it be possible to get a summary of the mods done so far? I'd be interested in a parts list as I have a Reduction on order. Guess I'll be reading that manual soon :) ... Can't wait.
Thanks!
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Creative Construction Company - Muhal (Vedette)
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Smegma & Wolf Eyes - The Beast (De Stijil)
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Would it be possible to get a summary of the mods done so far? I'd be interested in a parts list as I have a Reduction on order. Guess I'll be reading that manual soon :) ... Can't wait.
The stock circuit has similar parts values to the Eros, but they are amalgamated differently.
0.01uF EQ cap (5% film and foil parts are supplied with the kit)
0.03uF EQ cap, which is three 0.01uF caps in parallel (again, 5% film and foil caps are supplied)
0.1uF coupling cap and 0.47uf coupling cap (more 5% film and foil caps, though the 5% tolerance isn't useful here)
I wouldn't recommend going out and buying boutique caps until you have the Reduction in-hand. While there is more space for different parts, there still isn't space for Teflon caps or anything along those lines, and the 0.47uF caps are best upgraded after the upgrade kit is retrofitted.
-PB
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This is great, thanks PB! I'll wait until I have it in hand to consider size restrictions and the such.
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Anthony Braxton (with Muhal Richard Abrams) - Duets 1976 (Arista)
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Bomb the Bass Featuring Justin Warfield - Bug Powder Dust
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Morton Subotnick - A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur / After the Butterfly (Nonesuch)
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Anthony Braxton (with Muhal Richard Abrams) - Duets 1976 (Arista)
Oh, man, the contrabass clarinet solo Braxton pulls of on one of the tracks on this album is totally amazing and crazy. Those lows are earth-rumbling!
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The Fall - Perverted by Language (Rough Trade)
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Flaherty/Corsano/Yeh - Slow Blind Avalanche (Important)
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Glenn Gould/CBC Symphony - Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in Cmin/Schoenberg Piano Concerto, Op. 42 (Columbia)
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Daft Punk/Homework
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Wayne Rodgers - Constant Displacement (Twisted Village)
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Emperor's New Clothes - Haunted Music
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Jack Rose - Raag Manifestos (Eclipse)
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Ya Ho Wha 13 - Penetration (An Aquarian Symphony) (Reissue, TeePee)
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Anthony Braxton (Ursala Oppens, Frederick Rzewski) - Composition 95 for Two Pianos (Arista)
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The Needy Visions - The Needy Visions (Bodies of Water Arts and Crafts/Motorcycleface)
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Ornette Coleman - On Tenor (Atlantic)
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The Famous Jug Band - Sunshine Possibilities (Liberty)
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Roscoe Mitchell Quartet - Roscoe Mitchell Quartet (Sackville)
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Joshua,
I envy your ability to listen this much. I can't right now.
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Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond The Rig Veda (Get Back)
I'm listening to stuff while I work. Some people listen to the radio at the office; I write 2 feet away from a turntable and surrounded by great records, so why not listen to the good stuff?
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Sun City Girls are soooo good. I thought their final record was a mini-masterpiece.
What do you write? I am unable to write and listen, unless it's totally ambient music.
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MV & EE - Fuzzweed (Three Lobed)
I write manuals for Bottlehead. This thread has been the soundtrack accompanying the creation of the Reduction manual.
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lol
I guess I should have read your signature.
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Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura (Matador)
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That is one of the benefits of working for a musical company. We make toilet paper and hand towels in the mill where I am working. Music is a far cry from there. Still, I listen to ripped CDs while working on AutoCad during the slow days.
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Finally, someone I recognize - Yo La Tengo . They recently played a set at my favorite Record Store, Grimeys here in Nashville.
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I bought Electr-O-Pura directly from them after a show on the small stage at Lolapolooza in '95. They seem to me to be a superior live band. The albums just don't capture their energy.
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Bren't Lewiis Ensemble - Three Christs of Ypsilanti (Siltbreeze)
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Anthony Braxton - Five Pieces 1975 (Arista)
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Leonard Rose[cello]/Glenn Gould [piano]- The Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, J.S. Bach (Columbia)
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Randall/Vercoe/Dodge - Computer Music (Nonesuch)
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The Monkees - Headquarters (Colgems)
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Neptune - Studio Recordings / May, MCMXCVII (Archenemy)
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HEY, I know the Monkeys! Wait! I shouldn't have admitted that. Well, I don't have any of their albums yet know them.
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Peter Walker - Second Poem to Karmela (or Gypsies Are Important) (Vanguard)
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Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan - Anton Webern -Passacaglia, Op1; Five Movements, Op5; Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op6; Symphony for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Two Horns, Harp and String Quartet, op21 (Deutsch Grammophon)
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Fursaxa - Mandrake (Eclipse)
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Pierre Schaeffer - Le Tri
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Tony Conrad / Tovah Olson - Let There Be Music (Tovinator)
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Pillars and Tongues - Lay of Pilgrim Park (Empty Cellar)
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Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der J
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Alex Neilson/Richard Youngs - Beating Stars (HP Cycle)
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Josh,
If you like the Harry Parch thing try looking up an ensemble from Ohio called "Puzzle of Light". They too play all experimental instruments they build themselves with microtonal tunings.
-- Jim
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Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der J
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Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul - Aster (REL)
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The Chipmunks - Chipmunks
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Elephant Micah - Globe Rush Progressions (Blue Sanct)
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Six Organs of Admittance - Parsons' Blues (Drag City)
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Chris Corsano, Bill Nace, Bill Orcutt - Live At Partners (Open Mouth/Hot Cars Warp Records!)
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This thread looks like one-man-thread already.
I hope Joshua is not the only one who writes and reads his posts :)
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Morton Subotnik - Touch (Columbia)
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Glenn Gould - J.S. Bach: Partita 3 A min, Partita 4 D maj, Toccata 7 E min (Columbia)
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Br
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John Cage - Three Dances b/w Steve Reich - Four Organs (Angel)
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Evan Miller - Transfigurations on a Lap Steel Guitar (Arbor)
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The Monks - Black Time (International)
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Various Artists - Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra, Vol. 1 (Sublime Frequencies)
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Anthony Braxton - Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979 (Arista)
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Eric's Trip - Forever Again (Sub Pop)
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Christina Carter - Bastard Wing (Eclipse)
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Noah Howard - The Black Ark (Bo'Weavil)
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Burning Star Core - Challenger (Plastic)
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Love - Da Capo (Elektra)
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Major Stars - Syntoptikon (Twisted Village)
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Jon Appleton / Don Cherry - Human Music (Flying Dutchman)
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Charlie the Hamster (with Stanely, Huey and Floyd Robinson) - Visits the Holy Land (Singcord)
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Ahmad Jamal Trio - Volume IV (Argo)
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Glenn Gould - Berg Sonata for Piano Op. 1, Schoenberg Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11, Krenek Sonata No. 3 for Piano (Columbia)
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Jackie-O Motherfucker - Freaker Pipe (UZU/U-Sound)
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Where are the rest of the Reduction owners?
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Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadez Volume 3 (Sublime Frequencies)
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Dick Mills and Brian Hodgson - Doctor Who Sound Effects No. 19 (BBC/AudioGO)
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Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (Tanthme Foth)
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John Coltrane - Meditations (Impulse!)
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Jim Shepard - Slit and Pre-Slit (Smudge)
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Dora Hall - Travelin' With Dora Hall (Cozy)
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The Monkees - The Birds, The Bees, and The Monkees (Colgems)
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Anthony Braxton / Derek Bailey - Moment Pr
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Bronze Horse - Bronze Horse (Oakhill)
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The Monkees???? The Monkees??? How do The Monkees get in this eclectic play list???
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Guided by Voices - Vampire on Titus (Scat)
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Leo Coomans - Basement Recordings 1978-1982 (Ultra Eczema)
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Mus
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John Fahey - Railroad I (Takoma)
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Brian Eno - Before and After Science (Polydor)
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Various Artists - Rated GG (An All Ages Tribute to GG Allin) (WFMU)
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The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme) (Turning Point)
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The Dead C / Konono No. 1 - Split (Fat Cat)
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The Beach Boys - SMiLE (Sea of Tunes)
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Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano (Columbia)
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Cluster - Cluster II (Lilith)
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Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam)
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Glenn Gould - J.S. Bach: The Two and Three Part Inventions (Columbia)
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Perry Leopold - Experiment in Metaphysics (Guerssen)
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John Cage (assisted by David Tudor) - Variations IV, Vol. II (Everest)
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Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station (Virgin)
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Keith Fullerton Whitman - Sch
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Anthony Braxton - Three Compositions of New Jazz (Delmark)
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Mmoss - i (Burger)
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Bill Orcutt - How The Thing Sings (Editions Mego)
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Leonard Bernstein/NY Philharmonic - Charles Ives Symphony No. 2 (Columbia)
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Dr. Id / Jusuk Reet Meate - Acnōde One (Poo-Bah)
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Pierre Dervaux / Orchestre de Paris - Erik Satie: Mercure / Socrate (Angel)
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Ron Geesin - Electrosound (Glo-Spot)
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Khamis El Fino - Music for the Classical Oud (Folkways)
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Borbetomagus - Seven Reasons for Tears (Purge Sound League)
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Eleh - Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis II (Important)
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The Monkees - Monkee Flips (Rhino)
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Gary Wilson - Mary Had Brown Hair (Stone's Throw)
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Keith Fullerton Whitman / Mike Shiflet - 070325 b/w 080409 (Amethyst Sunset)
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Preggy Peggy and The Lazy Babymakers - A Short Visit to the City That Bleeds (Being Weird Isn't Enough)
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Friar Tuck - Friar Tuck and His Psychedelic Guitar (Mercury)
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Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2 (ESP-DISK')
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Wild Billy Childish & the Buff Medways - Medway Wheelers (Damaged Goods)
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Simply Saucer - Reckless Agitation (Galactic Archive / Logan Hardware)
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Roscoe Mitchell, Tony Marsh, John Edwards - Improvisations (Otoroku)
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Wolf Eyes - Stabbed in the Face b/w Rat Floods, Stabbed in the Face II (Hanson / Sub Pop)
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The New Surfsiders - Kokomo b/w Good Vibrations (Norton)
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Robbie Basho - Guitar Soli (4 Men With Beards)