Basement Echo is the historical meeting point of two generations of the Japanese underground. Kawabata Makoto, leader of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke, leader of LSD March, are together here for the first time in a guitar duo.
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This is the companion release to the Tom Carter LP titled Shots At Infinity 2 being release on Important simultaneously.
Shots At Infinity 1(the CD) is comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern USA from late 2007...... (more)

This is the companion release to the Tom Carter CD titled Shots At Infinity 1 being release on Important simultaneously. The first 100 copies sent out via Important mailorder will be on green vinyl..... (more)

Dolphin Sonar is Merzbow's full length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts and broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied waters of Taiji. .. (more)

Limited edition of 500 copies from the Acid Mothers Temple leader. Packaged in a deluxe letterpressed jacket printed at 53rd Parallel Press in Portland Maine.(more)

Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple is limited to 500 copies with the first 100 on color vinyl. This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At The Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. (more)

The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that masterfully drifts between spaced out analog dream drone and a more extreme form of harsher droning.. (more)

Molotov And Haze is packaged in a deluxe tip-on style heavy duty gatefold jacket with the cd slipped into a Japanese inner bag. Design by Carl Glover.
Bass Communion is a project dedicated to Steven Wilson’s recordings in an ambient, drone, and/or electronic vein. Most of the pieces are experiments in texture made from processing recordings of real instruments and...... (more)

This merch table gem is a one sided 7" limited to 1000 copies. 500 on blue, 200 on red, 200 yellow and 100 on green. Contained on this thick piece of love is a rockola version of Throbbing Gristle's track United. This will be gone fast and won't be repressed. (more)

.Limited edition of 300 copies in a heavy stock screen printed jacket.
A Zamuro is a dark South American vulture of great size. Zamuro is also a solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter. .(more)

Ghost Town is the first full-length solo release from Parts & Labor singer/electrician Dan Friel. Characterized by its anthemic melodies, complex electronic arrangements and
huge distorted beats, Ghost Town has massive universal appeal.
"Music-box melody shoved through the speaker cone of a subwoofer salvaged from the trunk of a totaled Jeep" Pitchfork.......(more)

VINYL VERSION.. The first 100 records shipped will be on red vinyl. All copies shipped after that will be on black vinyl. There's been some heavy buzz around this record so color vinyl will not last long. ....(more)

Opening with a nod to Syd Barret's Pink Floyd (Piper at the Gates of Dawn) the record begins with morse code and drops into one of the heaviest slow-burn grooves in the Grails canon. Sounding something like Hawkwind and Ravi Shankar scoring Bladerunner......(more)

VINYL VERSION..VINYL VERSION. We're now on the 2nd pressing (still packaged in the same deluxe jacket w/ insert poster) and this time around we have 100 copies of amber color vinyl to ship while supplies last....(more)

Berlin 2007 was a monumental performance for Cluster as it marked the first time that they had peformed live in Berlin since their 12 hour concert in the Galerie Hammer in the Europacenter in 1969. The performance was a massive success as a sold out crowd cheered loudly for Cluster to return to the stage. Fortunately, the concert was.......(more)

.Admira (1971) is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann.......(more)

.Vulcano (1971) is sourced from original master recordings discovered by Kluster member, and Tangerine Dream engineer, Klaus Freudigmann.. .......(more)

John Fahey and Ayal Senior layed down the tracks for Three Day Band in Fahey's Woodburn Hotel room at some point in 1999. These tracks show an undocumented improvisational side of Fahey. It's certainly not early period Fahey but not TOTE era either. At night after the recording sessions commenced Ayal would record Fahey reading selected excerpts from his writing. Fifteen tracks of Fahey reading are included here. ......(more)

Heaviest Acid Mothers record ever. . Kawabata went as far as to, half jokingly, compare this album to Sunn O)))). Our last Acid Mothers Temple full length quickly became many people's favorite and this one is sure to give it some serious competition. Just check out the mp3......(more)

.Limited LP has two bonus tracks not included on CD. Available on orange or white vinyl for Important mailorder customers. Please specify what color you'd like (you're welcome to purchase both). Please specify what color you'd like. If it has run out we'll ship you the other color.
Packaged in a deluxe heavy duty tip-on style jacket with artwork by Seldon Hunt. ....(more)

.Deluxe 10 panel digipak includes a 12 page essay by Anthony Braxton on the topic of Ghost Trance Music.
Quartet (GTM) 2006 is Anthony Braxton's first release for Important Records. GTM stands for Ghost Trance Music and this four cd box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded in quartet........(more)

The Mill Pond was originally released in 1997 as a double 7" that went immediately out of print. For it's 10th aniversary we're issuing it on compact disc housed in a deluxe letterpressed jacket and including an extensive booklet collecting John Fahey's paintings for the very first time. Limited edition...(more)

Essential limited edition 180 gram vinyl release pressed in an edition of 500 copies. Letterpressed jackets. The first 100 copies are available in a silver shimmer ink on black letterpress. Beautiful drone compositions from two kindrid musical entities......(more)

After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is
ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from The Bodyshop (also on Important Records). More song based, this album features now vocals by......(more)

Limited edition of 300 copies in heavy duty screen printed jackets by Monoroid. The Sandancing Demos 10", as it's title suggests, contains the original ideas that birthed Beequeen's wonderful new album Sandancing. Original versions, rough mixes & home demos plus an unreleased track. .(more)

Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any
newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last cd he will release. (more)

Body Melt is limited to 500 copies only. The first 500 are on white vinyl. This is the companion release to the Glass Forest CD being released on Important simultaneously. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique artwork by
Emily Hyde.
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Basilica is Rameses III´s eagerly anticipated follow-up to
their acclaimed release Honey Rose (Important), Basilica is a double album of live recordings of new Rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and Astral Social Club. (more)

REPRESSED in expanded packaging. Thanks to the film Juno Kimya Dawson has been receiving a whole lot of deserved attention lately.
This vinyl repress includes a lyric sheet insert - something we still haven't gotten around to including in the cds. The first 100 copies we ship via mailorder will be on pink vinyl. CD version available also.

REPRESSED in expanded packaging. Thanks to the film Juno Kimya Dawson has been receiving a whole lot of deserved attention lately.
This vinyl repress includes a lyric sheet insert - something we still haven't gotten around to including in the cds. The first 100 copies we ship via mailorder will be on pink vinyl. CD version available also

Available now for pre-order. Limited copies remian. We will begin shipping Feb. 29th.The Ape Of Naples/New Backwards is limited to 1500 copies.
This 4 lp set is pressed on heavy duty 180 gram vinyl and each record is packaged in it's own lp jacket which is then housed in a deluxe tip-on style box. A poster is included. The first three records make up The Ape Of Naples and the b-side of each has a custom etching. The fourth record is The New Backwards and it is double sided. . (more)

This will be shipping with the Coil box set. If you order this to be shipped with your Coil box there is no additional shipping fee.
The Wardrobe is a collaboration between Tony Wakeford and Andrew Liles and combines the very best of Andrew Liles' twisted and incomprehensible vision with Tony Wakeford's dark sensibilities. (more)

Kurt's stunning musicallity and absolute compositional prowess makes this an extremely compelling and wonderfully musical experimental pop-folk recording. The dense & original arrangement makes recalls the majesty of Van Dyke Parks album Song Cycle. (more)

The Garden Of Forking Paths was compiled for Important
Records by guitarist James Blackshaw. Compositions were recorded specially for this collection by Helena Espeval (Espers), James Blackshaw, Jozef van Wissem and
Chieko Mori. Beautifully assembled, The Garden Of Forking Paths serves as a singular and particularly unique musical statement. (more)

Travellers Two is a full length recording from the duo of Tara Burke (Fursaxa) and Sharron Kraus. Togerther Kraus & Burke create an ethereal record of dark-folk magic.
Tara Burke and Sharron Kraus were due to travel to Finland together for a week but missed the flight (more)

This is a limited edition of 500 copies on LP. The first 100 copies are on blue vinyl & are reserved for Important mailorder. Improvisational Bay Area quartet Thuja create aural landscapes that capture the reverberations of wood and wire, the sounds of breaking sticks and scraping stones, and the ambience of their surroundings into a shifting, dynamic musical framework.(more)

Christina Kubisch is a first generation sound artist of the highest order. Kubisch has been working with electrical induction since the late seventies and in 2003 she began her Electrical Walk installations. Listeners wear specially built headphones that reveal electro-magnetic radiation eminating from the technological world around us. 5 Electrical Walks is her first collection of compositions untilizing material recorded during Electrical Walks. (more)

Three major works of sound assemblies. Crucial listening. Night Flights is a groundbreaking work from one of the most influential of the first generation sound artists. For some reason this staggering work has been left out of print for over 20 years. Night Flights has been remastered and includes updated liner notes from Christina Kubisch. (more)

A further step out in Birchville Cat Motel's ruminations on time space distortion featuring the addtional mystikal talents of fellow gravity destroyer, Matthew Bower (Hototogisu/Sunroof!.) (more)

“Inspired by the acoustic sides of ‘70s rock behemoths Led Zeppelin, Heart and Black Sabbath, they've taken a detoour into lush, baroque folk and sun-kissed Laurel Canyon jams; blending those groups with more pastoral shades with the likes of John Fahey, Pentangle and CSN&Y to very fine effect.”---MOJO. (more)

Vinyl version of the groups break out self titled release. Pitchfork 8.4 "Best New Music." Pressed in an edition of 1000. 300 copies are on clear vinyl with 150 reserved for Important mailorder customers. A Place To Bury Strangers have often been called "the loudest band in New York".(more)

Limited to 500 copies with 100 on white and 100 on orange. Sun is the coupling of sound artist Oren Ambarchi and musician-producer Chris Townend. The pair have been kindred spirits for many years, with Townend being a sensitive and crucial ear in engineering Ambarchi's landmark solo recordings.(more)

Mani Neumeier has been at the helm of Germany's legendary Krautrock group Guru Guru for over 35 years and for 20 of those years he's been working on Sketches, his first solo album.l (more)

Sounds documents the improvisational side of XBXRX. The band has built a reputation over the past decade for its singularly high-energy live performances and committment to pushing the limits of rock music forms and Sounds is the next step in this progression. . (more)

limited edition LP version. please specify green or yellow vinyl (more)

Constellation Of Tragedy is the sixth full length album from Japan's LSD March. Apt comparisons are often made of LSD March being a cross between the Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes. (more)

Heavy lyrical emotion transcends linguistic barriers and Pirako's blown out fuzzy free-dream guitar work is an alternate universe heavy Japanese shoegaze. They are a forest at night drenched in echoing reverb and soaked with deeply spiritual/emotional melodies. . (more)

This all-star trio features William Hooker on drums, Eyvind Kang on violin and guitar and Bill Horist on guitar. Sync'd up like they've been playing together for eternity these recordings represent a dramatic paradigm shift in the art of improvisation. These three thoroughly modern artists scan jazz, new music and noise – stretchin