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Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks (White Label LP)
Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks (White Label LP)
Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks (White Label LP)
Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks (White Label LP)

Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks (White Label LP)

$32.98


UK white label promo with title sticker in plain sleeve. Includes printed 1-sheet with song titles. 
(dfaemi 2168lp / 2007)

 

1. Wake Up

2. This Aching Deal

3. How Am I Not Myself?

4. Second Hand Girl

5. End Of the World

6. The Narrator

7. Yes! No!

8. Emily

9. Blonde Haired Girl

10. Victims

11. Girl On The Northern Line

12. I Want U Back

13. Smoke Screen

14. Jealousy

15. Cutout

16. 23

17. You Can Make Me Feel Bad

 

 

 

 

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Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes (White Label 12")
Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes (White Label 12")

Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes (White Label 12")

$14.98

UK white label promo with title sticker in plain sleeve.
(dfaemi 2172 / 2007)


A. Smoke Screen (The Glimmers Beyond The Smoke Edit)

B. Smoke Screen (Twelve Inches And A Bit More By The Glimmers)

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Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes 12"
Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes 12"
Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes 12"
Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes 12"

Shocking Pinks - Smoke Screen The Glimmers Remixes 12"

$14.98

DFA EMI UK 12" / dfaemi 2172 / 2007


A. Smoke Screen (The Glimmers Beyond The Smoke Edit)

B. Smoke Screen (Twelve Inches And A Bit More By The Glimmers)

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Shocking Pinks - The Narrator (White Label 7")
Shocking Pinks - The Narrator (White Label 7")

Shocking Pinks - The Narrator (White Label 7")

$12.98

White label promo with title sticker in plain sleeve. 
(dfaemi  2175 / 2007)

 

A. The Narrator

B. Dressed To Please

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Shocking Pinks - The Narrator 7"
Shocking Pinks - The Narrator 7"
Shocking Pinks - The Narrator 7"
Shocking Pinks - The Narrator 7"

Shocking Pinks - The Narrator 7"

$12.98

DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi  2175 / 2007 / Picture sleeve

 

A. The Narrator

B. Dressed To Please

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Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal 7"
Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal 7"
Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal 7"
Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal 7"

Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal 7"

$12.98

DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi  2173 / 2007 / Picture sleeve

 

A. This Aching Deal

B. August 3rd (Arkitype Remix)

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Shocking Pinks - Victims (White Label 7")
Shocking Pinks - Victims (White Label 7")

Shocking Pinks - Victims (White Label 7")

$12.98

White label promo with title sticker in plain sleeve.
(dfaemi  2174 / 2007)


A. Victims

B. April / May

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Shocking Pinks - Victims 7"
Shocking Pinks - Victims 7"
Shocking Pinks - Victims 7"
Shocking Pinks - Victims 7"

Shocking Pinks - Victims 7"

$12.98

DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi  2174 / 2007 / Picture sleeve


A. Victims

B. April / May

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Sinkane - Mars

Sinkane - Mars

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Sinkane - Mars

Sinkane - Mars

$5.00

The DFA debut of Ahmed Gallab (Of Montreal, Yeasayer, Caribou) housed in a heavy tip-on jacket with printed inner.

Tracklist:

  1. Runnin'
  2. Jeeper Creeper
  3. Lady C'mon
  4. Making Time
  5. Warm Spell
  6. Love Sick
  7. Mars
  8. Caparundi
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    Sinkane - Mean Love
    Sinkane - Mean Love

    Sinkane - Mean Love

    $5.00

    It's soul music! A truly universal sound, uniting rhythm and styles from our world over to help you move, relate, and be.

    Tracklisting:

    1. How We Be
    2. New Name
    3. Yacha
    4. Young Trouble
    5. Moonstruck
    6. Mean Love
    7. Hold Tight
    8. Galley Boys
    9. Son
    10. Omdurman
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    Sinkane Album Bundle
    Sinkane Album Bundle
    Sinkane Album Bundle
    Sinkane Album Bundle

    Sinkane Album Bundle

    $29.98

    Both of Sinkane's albums for DFA - Mars and Mean Love  - at a special bundled price.


    Mars Tracklist: 
    1. Runnin'
    2. Jeeper Creeper
    3. Lady, C'mon
    4. Making Time
    5. Warm Spell
    6. Love Sick
    7. Mars
    8. Caparundi

    Mean Love Tracklist: 
    1. How We Be
    2. New Name
    3. Yacha
    4. Young Trouble
    5. Moonstruck
    6. Mean Love
    7. Hold Tight
    8. Galley Boys
    9. Son
    10. Omdurman

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    Sinkane x Peaking Lights - Mean Dub
    Sinkane x Peaking Lights - Mean Dub
    Sinkane x Peaking Lights - Mean Dub
    Sinkane x Peaking Lights - Mean Dub
    Sinkane x Peaking Lights - Mean Dub

    Sinkane x Peaking Lights - Mean Dub

    $14.98

    Four premium dub remixes of Sinkane by Peaking Lights, housed in a natural tan sleeve with red/green/yellow heady gradient center label. 

    Approaching a busy festival season, including a performance at Glastonbury Festival this weekend plus Womad and Meltdown later in the summer, Sinkane has joined forces with Peaking Lights for a 12” EP release entitled Mean Dub, to be released on August 21st via DFA/City Slang.

    With a magical dub overhaul unique to Peaking Lights, Aaron Coyes has given a bass rich enhancement of four original Sinkane songs from last year’s celebrated album Mean Love.
     
    Including stand-out tracks and BBC 6Music favorites "Hold Tight" and "How We Be," there is also special attention given to one of the band's signature live jams "Galley Boys," a song that succinctly explores the spiritual overlap of reggae and country western music with floating pedal steel atop a heavy reggae beat.
     
    Combined with Peaking Lights' dub aesthetic, there is perhaps no finer example of the stylistic multiverse for which Sinkane is known, than this version of "Yacha." It is the first taster from this 34 minute EP.
     
    The two bands met whilst on tour with The Atomic Bomb Band (the William Onyeabor tribute project for which Gallab acts as music director), and quickly developed a mutual admiration for each others work.
     
    Dub is the epitome of music to me”, says Sinkane’s Ahmed Gallab. “It's the concept of re-defining, re-appropriating, and re-interpreting an idea. Putting a different spin on something that already exists. It's collaboration and renovation. I've always wanted someone to make dubs of Sinkane songs and these Peaking Lights joints have come out really beautifully and have shed an amazing new light and energy on our music. We can’t thank Aaron enough for these jams and the amount of work he has put into them."
     
    Aaron of Peaking Lights commented: “Sinkane are such a pleasure to tour with! When I first heard Mean Love I was blown away by it's soulful psychedelia - not just a wash of reverb and delay psychedelic, but literally a new mind expanding approach to songwriting… Then I got into the stems to do the dub, and the fire within was lit!
     
    Ahmed’s voice is amazing! Jaytram’s drums and Ish’s bass are fully locked in, and Johnny is a straight up shredder on guitar. I'm really, really happy with how these turned out, I hope you dig’em too. I hope I kept enough of the original essence that was already so beautifully laid out and freaked out enough for your trip.
     
    Enjoy, brothers and sisters!"
    Tracklist

    A1 - Hold Tight (Peaking Lights Dub Mix)
    A2 - Yacha (Peaking Lights dub Mix)
    B1 - Galley Boys (Peaking Lights Dub Mix)
    B2 - How We Be (Peaking Lights Dub Mix)
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    Slim Twig - A Hound At The Hem
    Slim Twig - A Hound At The Hem

    Slim Twig - A Hound At The Hem

    $5.00

    Slim Twig is the name of a man, not of a band - though he has performed in many a group, some under his own moniker. Boasting a catalogue several underthe- radar releases deep, the Toronto native lays claim to a tremendously original work with his orchestrallyinflected, art rock album, A Hound At The Hem. Self-produced in the fall, 2010, Hound is a suite of narrative songs thematically inspired by Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. DFA is privileged to reissue this album in advance of the release of Twig’s newest works.

    Upon completing AHATH in 2010, Twig struggled to find wide release for it due to its uncompromising textural onslaught and disregard for genre. This course of events set the stage for the composition and release of Sof’ Sike, a somewhat more conventional set of pop songs released on Paper Bag Records, in 2012. The title of that work refers to Twig’s own conception of Hound as the hard-psych flipside to his work of that period.

    Recorded on Toronto Island in collaboration with fellow Torontonian, Louis Percival, the album features string arrangements by Owen Pallett, and other collaborators including Meg Remy (U.S. Girls), Carl Didur (Zacht Automaat), and the St. Kitts Quartet.

    As a conceptalbum exploring the troubling and the taboo and themes like the transformative power of lust, AHATH can be interpreted as an echolike response to Serge Gainsbourg and JeanClaude Vannier’s Histoire De Melody Nelson. Most of all, AHATH poses the question; where next for Slim Twig, this promising and original auteur?

    1. Heavy Splendour
    2. Clerical Collar
    3. Widow Were You Younger
    4. Shroud By The Sheetful
    5. All This Wanting
    6. Hover On A Sliver
    7. Maintain The Charade
    8. Blonde Ascending (Come Into The Clatter)

     

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    Slim Twig - Thank You For Stickin' With Twig
    Slim Twig - Thank You For Stickin' With Twig

    Slim Twig - Thank You For Stickin' With Twig

    $5.00

    Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig is the latest long-playing album from the artist known to the world (or at least to his mother) as Slim Twig. Coming out August 7, 2015 on DFA, you may be surprised to know that it represents the fifth album by the Toronto based songwriter / producer. Twig has released these previous records among a swath of EP’s, singles and one-offs, displaying in the process a complete disregard for genre or consistency. The evolution from Contempt!, his sample-stained 2009 debut, through to A Hound At The Hem, his symphonic tribute album to Nabokov’s Lolita (reissued by DFA in 2014), is not entirely linear, although intriguing all the same. Like so many surf-smoothed stones lining the beach shore, briefly unburied only to be discarded once deemed un-skippable, so Twig has gone about seeking the proper rock to cast at just the right angle. One can see why he extends a gratuity to those listeners who've stuck around.

    In what form then, do we now find the twenty-six-year old, self-proclaimed ‘wah wah master’? His record reissued last year was completed in 2011. So one might reasonably ask, what has Twig done since? After producing two albums for U.S. Girls (U.S. Girls on Kraak in 2011, Gem in 2012), and scoring two films (Sight Unseen & We Come As Friends (winner of a Special Jury Award at Sundance, among numerous other accolades), Twig found himself in 2013 at a creative impasse re: his own songwriting. He had been through full band incarnations live and on record. They featured a cast of Toronto heavies (members of Zacht Automaat, etc...). He briefly performed Slim Twig sets as a duo, featuring multimedia artist and musician, Meg Remy (U.S. Girls). They performed sets that combined versions of Twig’s released songs with freely structured improvisations, samples, and brightly melodic, synth textures. Something in this combination of the pop-minded and the cerebrally-produced has rubbed off on the recordings found on Twig’s latest.

    Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. A fetishization of analogue texture is married to a digital approach. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's Accelerator

    Opening cut, 'Slippin Slidin’, establishes itself as a cock rock analogue to Kanye West’s similarly phallic 'On Sight', the bravura Yeezus introduction. We are welcomed by a blast of synth noise, soon followed by sexually agitated lyrics (supported by Meg Remy, whose vocals are featured prominently on much of the record) atop a deafening beat, distorted and sleazy. The immensity of the production (achieved in collaboration with co-producer Anthony Nemet and mixer Steve Chahley) represents an evolution of Twig’s approach, sustained at a fever pitch throughout the album.

    'A Woman’s Touch (It’s No Coincidence)' is a song sympathizing with the perspective of the Beatles’ wives. The song production sounds like a fusion of dub and baroque pop as played by the cartoon band in the Yellow Submarine movie. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. 

    The centrepiece of the album is composed of two songs sharing the middle of the running time. 'Roll Red Roll (Song For Steubenville)', titled after the football chant of the eponymous town’s high school team, eulogizes the tragedy of the young girl who was the tabloid subject of group sexual abuse (by said football team). Its opening - the most tranquil, dreamy instrumental passage on the record - is harshly interrupted by a mass of pitch-shifted martial drums and wildly panned, distorted fuzz lines. The disturbed atmosphere composes a sonic poem, detailing a narrative through a combination of sound and oblique lyrics (‘Everyone will love / everyone will love / the way you fold / Roll Red Roll’). Side B opens with 'Fog Of Sex (N.S.I.S)'. A cinematic fusion of plastic soul and flute score-for-horror-film, it comprises TYFSWT’s funkiest recording. With voicings from both Twig and Remy, sung from the perspective of someone unwilling to commit to a single gender identity, the song makes overt the album’s subliminal motive. Instability is addressed from a disenfranchised perspective (perhaps as a metaphor for the music itself, which refuses to stabilize or stay put). Twig himself has referred to his ambition of making “a protest album as obscured by smoke” (and what kind of smoke, we wonder?). In swift combination, these two songs make good on that claim. The lyrical voices here take on an (at times) humorously proletarian tone (‘I work a shift, just up the street / cleaning semen off of seats / it’s a way for ends to meet’) that is alien in the contemporary rock landscape, dominated as it is by reheated garage and psych leftovers. 

    The album closes with a triumphantly grandiose cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s instrumental ‘Cannabis’ (released as a 7” single on 4/20, and deliberately echoing Twig’s first LP for DFA, which openly shared its Gainsbourgian debt). The aim is somewhat clearer now. Slim Twig’s latest modulation of voice is to re-contextualize an era of ambition in produced rock music, dislodging the hackneyed and clichéd in the process. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that. He collages his sounds together (here as eclectic as The Love Below, or any Beck album) in a continuum where pop criticism is always recycling through what it chooses to lend cultural currency, if only for an instant. As of now, he’s sized up rock n’ roll, and determined it seems as good as any other vessel to commandeer for his creative impulse. Power to him. Rock may be dumb as a stone, but even so, now and then it’s smart to be dumb.

     Tracklist

    A1 - Slippin' Slidin' 

    A2 - A Woman's Touch (It's No Coincidence)

    A3 - She Stickin' With Twig

    A4 - Textiles On Mainstreet

    A5 - Stone Rollin' (Musical Emotion)

    A6 - Roll Red Roll (Song For Steubenville)

    A7 - You Got Me Goin'

    B1 - Fog Of Sex (N.S.I.S)

    B2 - Fadeout Killer

    B3 - Trip Thru Bells

    B4 - ...Out Of My Mind

    B5 - Live In, Live On Your Era

    B6 - Cannabis

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    Spiked Punch - Guinea Pig / Vanilla Meatball 7"
    Spiked Punch - Guinea Pig / Vanilla Meatball 7"
    Spiked Punch - Guinea Pig / Vanilla Meatball 7"
    Spiked Punch - Guinea Pig / Vanilla Meatball 7"

    Spiked Punch - Guinea Pig / Vanilla Meatball 7"

    $12.98

    dfa 2507 / 2016 / Picture sleeve

     

    Spiked Punch are Aaron Warren and Eric Copeland (aka 66.666% of Black Dice)

    Limited Edition of 300

     

    A. Guinea Pig

    B. Vanilla Meatball

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    Still Going - Still Going Theme 12"
    Still Going - Still Going Theme 12"

    Still Going - Still Going Theme 12"

    $14.98

    dfa 2179 / 2007

    Still Going are Eric Duncan (Dr Dunks / Rub N Tug) and Liv Spencer

    A. Still Going Theme

    B. On And On

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    Stuart Bogie - Morningside LP
    Stuart Bogie - Morningside LP
    Stuart Bogie - Morningside LP
    Stuart Bogie - Morningside LP
    Stuart Bogie - Morningside LP

    Stuart Bogie - Morningside LP

    $32.98

    You’ve heard Stuart Bogie before because he’s played saxophone, clarinet, and flute on a lot of records. TV On The Radio, Foals, Sharon Van Etten, Beth Orton, Run the Jewels, Antibalas, the list goes on and on and on.

    We connected with Stuart during the early clutches of COVID through Korey Richey, DFA Studios engineer and LCD Soundsystem band member. 

    Stuart had been cooped up in the apartment that he shared with his partner, Karyn, and their family. It was Karyn who suggested a restless Stuart start playing clarinet on Instagram Live every morning, a ritual he kept for 150 straight days. Along the way, he solicited drones and other sounds from his friends as accompaniment.

    Korey asked James if he had anything lying around that might fit. Uncharacteristically, James said yes. There was this long, plaintive drone of treated piano made sometime in the 90s that he’d just found. And another similarly droning but slightly darker organ piece made for an installation in the mid-2000s. Stuart played over both in separate sessions, improvising these beautiful, delicate clarinet runs for the sheltered, live-streaming few.

    We listened back to the recordings in the office and couldn’t shake how great they were. They felt like a decompression valve, relief from the persistent, creeping apocalypse. They deserved a more meaningful existence than that of a shitty MP3. 

    So, Stuart came into DFA and recorded them properly. This time Korey ran him through a stack of delay units that stretched and smeared that clarinet into each drone until they were one bewildering whole. Each recording clocked in at roughly twenty minutes - perfect side-long lengths. It all fell into place so naturally.

    “Morningside” is the name of the album. Two tracks on two sides. Produced by Korey and James, mixed by James, mastered and cut by Bob. It’s out October 27. You can listen to a few snippets of each side and pre-order the vinyl below. (Since it’s only two “songs,” we aren’t releasing anything officially beforehand.)

    A final, but important note: the cover features a detail of a photograph called “The Burial Vault” by the excellent photographer Gregory Crewdson, taken from his recent series “Eveningside.” (The full photograph is featured on a printed insert inside the record package.) A few months earlier, Gregory was finishing what would become “Eveningside” and asked James (a friend) if he might, y’know, have anything lying around. A video was being made about the work and music was needed. James sent these recordings, which evidently sort of stopped Gregory in his tracks. And just like that another piece of the puzzle fell into place. The connection was so natural that Stuart also finally found the title he’d been searching for (until that point, we’d been calling the record simply “Clarinet and Delay.”)

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    CREDITS
    Produced by James Murphy for the DFA & Korey Richey
    Mixed by James Murphy
    Mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service
    Clarinet recorded by Korey Richey at DFA Studios, Brooklyn, NY on November 6, 2022

    “Morningside” treated piano recorded at DFA Recording, Manhattan, 2009 originally for an installation at Palais De Tokyo, Paris, in October 2009. Engineered by Matt Thornley and James Murphy.

    “Eveningside” feedback and organ recorded sometime in 1993 at Plantain Recording House, Brooklyn, originally for a video art installation. Engineered by James Murphy.

    Album art direction by Sam Duke
    Cover and insert photograph by Gregory Crewdson, The Burial Vault,
    2021-2022, Digital pigment print, image size: 34.5 x 46 in. © Gregory Crewdson

    Pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, NC.

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    Surahn - Watching The World (Prins Thomas Remix) 12"
    Surahn - Watching The World (Prins Thomas Remix) 12"

    Surahn - Watching The World (Prins Thomas Remix) 12"

    $14.98

    The debut vinyl release by Surahn on DFA Records is the standout track from his 2012 EP, "Watching The World", given the Diskomiks treatment by Prins Thomas. 

    Tracklisting:

    1. Watching The World (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
    2. Watching The World (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) [Instrumental]
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    Sworn Virgins - Fifty Dollar Bills 12"
    Sworn Virgins - Fifty Dollar Bills 12"

    Sworn Virgins - Fifty Dollar Bills 12"

    $14.98

    Side A: Fifty Dollar Bills
    Side B: Burning Off My Clothes

     From the green hills of Albania to the back rooms of New York City, Sworn Virgins bring the light. A stranger's hand on your shoulder, bright red painted fingernails scratching your thigh, all those beautiful things that made you leave that small town you came from. Greased up and ready to go, close your eyes and take it in. 

    Mixed at DEEWEE.
    Art Direction : Ill-Studio.

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    Sworn Virgins - Strangers Hands 12"
    Sworn Virgins - Strangers Hands 12"

    Sworn Virgins - Strangers Hands 12"

    $14.98

    Side A: The Male Man / Slide Little Monster
    Side B: Searchin For Hiro / RWA

    The table has been flipped over, the wine spilled on their custard coloured linen suits, and the pudding squitted all over their dumbfounded faces. A new chapter has been written, one dedicated to the unwanted. Love songs for losers, a dance with the undesirables, a five minute walk in the park after dark while the kids sleep cozy.

    Sworn Virgins, school never taught us these valuable lessons, but life taught us good. Elbows deep in the adventure, eyes closed while driving. Strip yourselves down and slather yourselves up in it.

    The vinyl is housed in a UV gloss sleeve with a printed inner.

    Recorded, produced and mixed at DEEWEE
    Art direction by III-Studio

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    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP
    The Clouds - The Clouds LP

    The Clouds - The Clouds LP

    $61.98

    LIMITED TO 250 COPIES WORLDWIDE

    FIRST-EVER VINYL RELEASE OF A LITTLE-HEARD CULT RELEASE FROM THE EARLY 2000S

    REMASTERED AND CUT AT 45RPM BY BOB WESTON.

    ORIGINAL GRAMMY-NOMINATED ARTWORK TRANSPOSED BY MIKE VADINO.

    SINGLE LP HOUSED IN A CRAFT STOCK GATEFOLD WITH A TIPPED-IN FOLD-OUT FEATURING LYRICS, LINER NOTES, AND PHOTOS. PLUS A FUZZY CLOUD ON THE FRONT. (YES, IT'S EXPENSIVE. IT COST A LOT TO MAKE THEM THIS WAY!)

    “no, you can’t take them was a dfa office staple for the better part of 10 years. we were hungover and cynical, but this song always got through to a very human part of every one of us. kids listing what you can’t take with you when you die: a basketball. a radio. a clarinet. my mom. it’s a great DJ set ender, too, repeating “all you take is love”—like a lost track making weirds on mushrooms weep at the loft or something, but new and vital. the entire record is filled with moments like this. darkness and light? how will i know? it’s impossible not to care about this music.” 

    - James Murphy

    In 2003, The Coleman Center, an Alabama non-profit arts organization, welcomed Stuart Hyatt as an artist-musician in residence. The center, which encourages and supports projects that engage and reflect the unique surrounding community, invited Hyatt to explore local music.

    Four weeks later, he emerged with The Clouds.

    Hyatt, reckoning with the notion of mortality, had written and recorded songs with a variety of local citizens, social groups, and schoolchildren.

    The result is a record that is plainly, if not stylistically, Americana - a patchwork of voices sown together by some simple songs about the one thing we all experience.

    The original release was super DIY - Hyatt’s grandparents helped him assemble the packaging, which also somehow managed to score a Grammy nomination in the category. A copy of the CD somehow wound up in the DFA offices, where it was shared and beloved but still sat until 2020, when we decided it may finally be worth trying to re-release on vinyl.

    That process took two years and an insane attention to detail, but the final product is part and parcel with the original project - a unique document of a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration.

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    The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps 12"
    The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps 12"

    The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps 12"

    $14.98

    The debut 12" from The Crystal Ark

    Features the original and extended instrumental.

    Track List: 

    1. The City Never Sleeps (5:00)
    2. The City Never Sleeps (Instrumental) (12:21)
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    The Crystal Ark - The Crystal Ark
    The Crystal Ark - The Crystal Ark

    The Crystal Ark - The Crystal Ark

    $22.98

    The debut LP by The Crystal Ark.

    The limited edition 2xLP comes in a silk screened sleeve printed inside & out and is an edition of 400 total.

    The Crystal Ark is the child of Gavin Rayna Russom and Viva Ruiz, and features contributions from LCD Soundsystem members Matt Thornley and Tyler Pope, among a cast of other DFA-related musicians like Alberto Lopez and Jaiko Suzuki. 

    Track List: 

    1. Ascension
    2. We Came To
    3. Morir Soñando
    4. Crossing
    5. Paradise
    6. Rhodes
    7. Rain
    8. Silver Cord
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    The Crystal Ark - The Tangible Presence Of The Miraculous 12"
    The Crystal Ark - The Tangible Presence Of The Miraculous 12"

    The Crystal Ark - The Tangible Presence Of The Miraculous 12"

    $14.98

    12" featuring the original and instrumental version.

    Track List: 

    1. The Tangible Presence of the Miraculous (13:45)
    2. The Tangible Presence of the Miraculous (Instrumental) (13:45)
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    The DFA Remixes Chapter Two (White Label 2LP)
    The DFA Remixes Chapter Two (White Label 2LP)
    The DFA Remixes Chapter Two (White Label 2LP)
    The DFA Remixes Chapter Two (White Label 2LP)

    The DFA Remixes Chapter Two (White Label 2LP)

    $39.98

    Hand stamped white label promo in plain sleeve. 
    (0946 371227 1 6 / 2006)

    A.  Tiga - Far From Home (The DFA Remix Instrumental)

    B1. Junior Senior - Shake Your Coconuts (The DFA Remix)

    B2. Chromeo - Destination Overdrive (The DFA Remix)

    C.  Goldfrapp - Slide In (The DFA Remix Instrumental)

    D.  UNKLE - In A State (The DFA Remix)

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    The Juan Maclean - By The Time I Get To Venus 12"
    The Juan Maclean - By The Time I Get To Venus 12"

    The Juan Maclean - By The Time I Get To Venus 12"

    $14.98

    Back in our store for the first time in years. Confusing both critics and fans upon initial release, The Juan's first 12" is backed by "The more raucous" 41 Small Stars (aka Ad Rock!) version and rare instrumental TG-3X. 

    A1: By The Time I Get To Venus

    A2:  By The Time I Get To Venus (41 Small Stars Version)

    B: TG-3X

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    The Juan Maclean - Can You Ever Really Know Somebody 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Can You Ever Really Know Somebody 12"

    The Juan Maclean - Can You Ever Really Know Somebody 12"

    $14.98

    The Juan Maclean return to DFA with a stand-alone single, bursting with deep house elastic bounce and electronic pop flourishes, married to the deadpan earnestness of Nancy Whang’s vocal delivery.

    "Can You Ever Really Know Somebody" is the kind of slinky song that is easily absorbed and difficult to forget. It is a taste of things to come, as The Juan Maclean prepares a brand new LP for DFA due out in Fall 2017.

    The remix is courtesy of LA-4A, aka Ambivalent and legally known as American born producer Kevin McHugh. Stripping out the house music and replacing it with a grinding electro-acid template, LA-4A creates a lovely buzzing new bed of music for Nancy Whang’s vocals to rest on top of it. This is a remix with wildly successful results and a perfect companion to the original.


    1. Can You Ever Really Know Somebody (Original)
    2. Can You Ever Really Know Somebody (Instrumental)
    3. Can You Ever Really Know Somebody (LA-4A Remix)
    4. 
    Can You Ever Really Know Somebody (LA-4A Dub)
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    The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing 7"
    The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing 7"
    The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing 7"
    The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing 7"

    The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing 7"

    $12.98

    DFA EMI UK 7" / dfaemi7 2149 / 2005 / Picture sleeve with promo sticker

    Sleeve has small crease / record unplayed

     

    A. Give Me Every Little Thing (Radio Edit)
    Featuring Vocals By James Murphy and Nancy Whang

    B. La Chine (Previously Unreleased)

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    The Juan MacLean - Happy House (Matthew Dear V Audion Remix) 12"
    The Juan MacLean - Happy House (Matthew Dear V Audion Remix) 12"
    The Juan MacLean - Happy House (Matthew Dear V Audion Remix) 12"
    The Juan MacLean - Happy House (Matthew Dear V Audion Remix) 12"

    The Juan MacLean - Happy House (Matthew Dear V Audion Remix) 12"

    $17.98

    A understated and yet epic remix we left to the digital wilderness got pressed up by our good friend Damian Harris and his new label Vicious Charm. Only a handful (seriously, just a handful) of copies available here for our North American contingent.

    Here's what he says...

    "Originally releases in 2009 Happy House by The Juan Maclean had a lot of remixes…
    The Matthew Dear v Audion Remix was number 10.
    This is the only explanation I can find of why it slipped under the radar
    For me it is one of the finest 10:29 of mid tempo club music ever.
    The joyous vocals of Nancy Whang with added funk, edge & euphoria…

    Rathe than get ANOTHER remix I asked Mark E to rework it. He delivered a stunning soulful version already championed by Gilles Peterson & Erol Alkan."

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    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #1 (White Label) 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #1 (White Label) 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #1 (White Label) 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #1 (White Label) 12"

    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #1 (White Label) 12"

    $14.98

    Hand stamped white label promo in plain sleeve.
    (dfa 2230a / 2009)

     

    A. Happy House (Lazaro Casanova Remix)

    B. Happy House (Paul Woolford Apocalypse Remix)

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    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #2 (White Label) 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #2 (White Label) 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #2 (White Label) 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #2 (White Label) 12"

    The Juan Maclean - Happy House - Remixes #2 (White Label) 12"

    $14.98

    Hand stamped white label promo in plain sleeve.
    (dfa 2230b / 2009)

     

    A1. Happy House (VHS Or Beta Remix)

    A2. Happy House (Chateau Flight Remix)

    B.  Happy House (Will Saul & Mike Monday Remix)


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    The Juan Maclean - In A Dream 2xLP
    The Juan Maclean - In A Dream 2xLP

    The Juan Maclean - In A Dream 2xLP

    $32.98

    'In A Dream' is the third album from The Juan Maclean. If anything, this new LP is further evidence of the "undeniable creative chemistry between house music wizard Juan Maclean & vocalist / former LCD Soundsystem member Nancy Whang". (Pitchfork) The album takes its musical cues from Moroder's Munich to the Funky Nassau sounds of Compass Point and to anytime in downtown NYC.

    An album of high anticipated, brand new material on the heels of The Juan Maclean's acclaimed club bangers from the last couple of years. Features singles "A Place Called Space" and "A Simple Design". Everyone that has heard the record loves the hell out of it, and I promise you will too. 

    Tracklisting:

    1. A Place Called Space
    2. Here I Am
    3. Love Stops Here
    4. You Were A Runaway
    5. Running Back To You
    6. I've Waited So Long
    7. Charlotte
    8. A Simple Design
    9. The Sun Will Never Set On Our Love
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    The Juan Maclean - Love is in the Air 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Love is in the Air 12"

    The Juan Maclean - Love is in the Air 12"

    $14.99

    TRACKLIST:

    A1) Love Is In The Air (Mock & Toof Remix)
    A2) Love Is In The Air (Album Version)
    B1) Love Is In The Air (Strategy Mix)
    B2) Love Is In The Air (Heart Of The Sun Remix by Caro)


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    The Juan Maclean - One Day 12"
    The Juan Maclean - One Day 12"

    The Juan Maclean - One Day 12"

    $14.99

    Oh, the jokes we had with the title of this song. Well, there's only one. "Juan Day". Anyway. The followup to Happy House, features Alex Frankel on backing vox. Includes an instant digital copy. 

    Tracklist

    A1 - One Day

    A2 - One Day (Marc Romboy Remix)

    B1 - One Day (The Emperor Machine Remix)

    B2 - One Day (Surkin Remix)

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    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light
    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light
    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light
    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light
    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light
    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light

    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light

    $5.00

    album artwork by Bráulio Amado. 

    1. The Brighter The Light
    2. Zone Non Linear
    3. You Are My Destiny
    4. Get Down (With My Love)
    5. Feel Like Movin' 
    6. Quiet Magician 
    7. Pressure Danger
    8. Can You Ever Really Know Somebody
    9. The Brighter The Light

    The Juan Maclean return to DFA with a compilation LP of 12-inch singles they’ve amassed over the past six years – re-edited, re-mastered, and ready for fans who may have missed the tracks the first time around. From the dub house sway of 2013’s “You Are My Destiny” to the high-energy stomp of this May’s “Zone Non Linear,” and featuring two never-before-released tracks, “Quiet Magician” and “Pressure Danger,” The Juan Maclean once again justify their longevity as a musical force that is more than capable of repurposing club tracks for every setting. 


    The Brighter The Light is put together in a way that lends itself to appreciating the sheer banging quality of the songs while simultaneously being able to dance to them in your living room. For example, take “Feel Like Movin,’” which Pitchfork called “gloriously beatific” and “pure DFA gold.” In the new remastered version, the fullness of the keys and the kicks takes over, unfurling across the listener. Deep house rhythms, sparkling synths and a certain spaciousness are what’s emphasized across the record. Gone is the slow-motion melancholy disco from their recent full-lengths – The Brighter The Light is all fierce enthusiasm and dance floor missives, perfect for those who aren’t quite ready to let go of summer. 

    Juan Maclean is a DJ and producer who has been a mainstay of the New York club scene, as well as maintaining a rigorous international touring schedule, since the release of his first records on DFA in 2002. Vocalist Nancy Whang is his longtime collaborator, best known as a founding member of LCD Soundsystem and a busy touring DJ. Together, the two artists have released an extensive catalogue of 12” singles and full-length albums for DFA, including 2014’s seminal In A Dream LP. The proper follow-up studio album will follow in 2020.

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    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light 12"
    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light 12"

    The Juan Maclean - The Brighter The Light 12"

    $14.98


    A1. The Brighter The Light
    A2. The Brighter The Light (DJ Tennis Remix)
    B1. The Brighter The Light (Len Leise Remix)
    B2. The Brighter The Light (Octo Octa Remix)

    Limited pressing of 300 copies. 

    Juan Maclean is a Brooklyn-based DJ and producer who has been a mainstay of the New York club scene, as well as maintaining a rigorous international touring schedule, since the release of his first records on DFA in 2002. After putting out an extensive catalogue of 12” singles and LPs for the label with vocalist Nancy Whang (most recently, 2014’s In A Dream LP, and this year’s 12” single ‘Can You Ever Really Know Somebody’), he returns to the label with ‘The Brighter The Light,’ a deep piano-based club track, augmented by three equally DJ-friendly remixes. 

    “The Brighter The Light” emerged while Juan waits (somewhat) patiently in Brooklyn for Nancy Whang to return from touring with her ‘side gig,' LCD Soundsystem. Taking the tiniest splice of a demo vocal and sprinkling it throughout, Juan spun off the work being done for the next LP and created a new piece altogether, offering the smallest glimpse of what is to come, but ending up with something with a completely different purpose: his DJ set. 

    The remixes are a truly euphoric bunch of tracks, coming from Australia’s Len Liese (yes his remix is Balearic AF), DJ Tennis, (fresh from his fantastic DJ Kicks released in July) and Octo Octa, who contributes her second remix for The Juan Maclean (look up her remix of 'Here I Am' from 2014, it’s brilliant). 

    There are already two more singles being planned (with a similar club-driven purpose) to tide over fans and DJ sets while Juan and Nancy finish work on their fourth LP, to be released in 2018.
     
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    The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
    The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
    The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come
    The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

    The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

    $32.98

    "Thoughtful dancefloor fare... a cosmic, contemporary Human League... 4/5" - The Guardian


    "The Future Will Come is something to savour... The Juan MacLean have produced something fantastic" - The Quietus

    Tracklist:
    1) The Simple Life
    2) The Future Will Come
    3) One Day
    4) A New Bot
    5) Tonight
    6) No Time
    7) Accusations
    8) The Station
    9) Human Disaster
    10) Happy House

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    The Juan Maclean - The Simple Life 12"
    The Juan Maclean - The Simple Life 12"

    The Juan Maclean - The Simple Life 12"

    $14.98

    A banging Juan Maclean track featuring performances from Nancy Whang ++ Alex and Nick from Holy Ghost! Remix by Marcus Worgull of Innervisions fame. 

    A) The Simple Life
    B) The Simple Life (Marcus Worgull Remix)
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    The Juan Maclean - Tito's Way 2x12"
    The Juan Maclean - Tito's Way 2x12"

    The Juan Maclean - Tito's Way 2x12"

    $22.98

    2x12" single of Juan's breakout classic "Tito's Way", featuring a massive 11-plus minute remix from Linstrøm + Prins Thomas, plus additional edits from Reverso 68, and Booka Shade.

    Tracklist

    Tito's Way (Album Version)

    Titos Way (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix)

    Tito's Way (Booka Shade Remix)

    Tito's Way (Reverso 68 Remix)

     

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    The Juan Maclean - You Can't Have It Both Ways 12"
    The Juan Maclean - You Can't Have It Both Ways 12"

    The Juan Maclean - You Can't Have It Both Ways 12"

    $14.98

    OG 12" from 2003 by The Juan Maclean

    Two hot tracks of electro goodness from JUAN MACLEAN (SIX FINGER SATELLITE). The title track features female vocals from NANCY WHANG, while the B-side gets you an electro lullaby in the "sad robot" genre. Both tracks produced and mixed by JAMES MURPHY & TIM GOLDSWORTHY

    A - You Can't Have It Both Ways (Live)

    B - My Time Is Running Out


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    The Juan Maclean - Zone Non Linear 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Zone Non Linear 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Zone Non Linear 12"
    The Juan Maclean - Zone Non Linear 12"

    The Juan Maclean - Zone Non Linear 12"

    $14.98

    Tracklist: 
    A1) What Do You Feel Free About
    A2) What Do You Feel Free About (Man Power Remix)
    B1) Zone Non Linear
    B2) Zone Non Linear (Massimilliano Pagliara Remix)

    The Juan Maclean
     returns to DFA with a new 12” – last June’s electro-disco “What Do You Feel Free About?” backed with “Zone Non Linear,” which evokes early Pet Shop Boys. As usual, Juan's sunny productions and Nancy's layered vocals come together, this time in collaboration with Juan MacLean live band member, Monika Heidemann, to lend a maximalist warmth to the dance floor. Man Power (ESP Institute, Correspondant) gives the A-side a club rework with a dubbed out vocal arrangement that adds a touch more drama to the track, while Massimiliano Pagliara (Ostgut Ton, Robert Johnson) revitalizes tropes of old-school piano house. 

    Juan Maclean is a Brooklyn-based DJ and producer who has been a mainstay of the New York club scene, as well as maintaining a rigorous international touring schedule, since the release of his first records on DFA in 2002. He’s released an extensive catalogue of 12” singles and LPs for the label with vocalist Nancy Whang (most recently, 2014’s In A Dream LP, and 2017’s 12” single ‘The Brighter The Light’). Stay tuned for their fourth full-length record, coming later this year.
    ________
    Both tracks written by Juan Maclean and Monika Heidemann.
    Vocals by Nancy Whang & Monika Heidemann.  
    Produced by Juan Maclean.
    Mastered by Joe Lambert.

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    The Juan Maclean- Der Half-Machine 10"
    The Juan Maclean- Der Half-Machine 10"

    The Juan Maclean- Der Half-Machine 10"

    $14.98

    dfa 2136 / 2004 / 10"

     

    Der Half-Machine

    A. I Robot (33rpm)

    B. Less Then Human (45rpm)

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    The Rapture - Children 12"
    The Rapture - Children 12"

    The Rapture - Children 12"

    $14.98

    DFA + Bitches Brew UK / BITCH 025 / 2012

    Limited edition HAND NUMBERED of 300!

    Track originally found on 'In The Grace Of Your Love' LP

     

    A. Children (DarkStarr Diskotek Remix)

    B. Children (Ashley Beedle's Heavy Disco Joint)

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    The Rapture - Echoes LP
    The Rapture - Echoes LP
    The Rapture - Echoes LP
    The Rapture - Echoes LP
    The Rapture - Echoes LP

    The Rapture - Echoes LP

    $32.98

    The album that, in many ways, started it all. Repressed for the first time since its release in 2003.

    Produced by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy for the DFA.

    Pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, NC from lacquers cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.

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    The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
    The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love

    The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love

    $5.00

    CD now available.

    1. Sail Away
    2. Miss You
    3. Never Die Again
    4. Blue Bird
    5. In the Grace Of Your Love
    6. Roller Coaster
    7. Children
    8. How Deep Is You Love?
    9. Can You Find A Way?
    10. Come Back To Me
    11. It Takes Time To Be A Man
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    The Rapture / Juan Maclean Split 12"
    The Rapture / Juan Maclean Split 12"

    The Rapture / Juan Maclean Split 12"

    $14.98

    Two DFA classics, one great price.

    The only way to get a 45RPM version of killing.

    A. The Rapture - Killing

    B. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing

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    Tyler Pope - Make Each Other Happy EP
    Tyler Pope - Make Each Other Happy EP
    Tyler Pope - Make Each Other Happy EP
    Tyler Pope - Make Each Other Happy EP
    Tyler Pope - Make Each Other Happy EP

    Tyler Pope - Make Each Other Happy EP

    $17.98

    Tyler's newest EP on his own Interference Pattern Records, mixed by the mighty Dennis Bovell.

    We got a box for the North Americans looking to avoid insane per-item shipping.

    Special die cut sleeve designed by Lenny Vigden.

    Four tracks of percussive madness.

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    V/A - CULTED001 12"
    V/A - CULTED001 12"

    V/A - CULTED001 12"

    $13.00

    A1 Manfredas– Mani From The Block 7:59
    B1 Siaubas– Hare Hare 6:19
    B2 Simple Symmetry– Yalla 6:46

    CULT EDITS from MANFREDAS, SIMPLE SYMMETRY, and SIAUBAS guaranteed to burn the house / club / teepee down. These top-secret jams have been extensively tested, ended countless epic parties, soundtracked highlight-reel Boiler Room moments, and prompted innumerable feverish attempts at track IDs. Heard in the sets of illuminati DJs, the cult exclusivity now extends with this limited edition VINYL ONLY release. CULTED 001 - worth believing in.

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