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howdy all,

hard to believe that it’s the end of september… yet here we are, a month into the school year and i’m already exhausted. and to make matters worse (?) this weekend i’ll be down at the edmonton music collectors show slinging vinyl all day. and just to make it worth your while i’ve been saving some nice used stuff from the last month or so… yay!

also don’t forget, we are hiring right now! someone for part-time (mainly weekend shifts although weekday availability is a bonus) please drop off your resume along with top ten albums of 2012, all time, and top ten beers, or something else interesting. we hope to be starting this new staff member in mid october so get on it!

…..pick of the week…..

*agitation free – malesch – made in germany – lp
– hot damn! their debut, pensive and relaxed. a masterpiece, originally released on vertigo in 1972. “not willing to compromise, and heavily into the avant-garde (many members studied with the influential thomas kessler) it took a long while until agitation free got an album out. by that time they had developed a cosmic styled rock with a strong ethnic element. although in the spirit of ash ra temple and pink floyd, they had their own individual identity, with a largely improvised music that was predominantly instrumental, featuring lots of electronics, keyboards and dual guitars, and a great flair for invention. malesch documents their trip to north africa and the middle east, blending location recordings together with their own compositions and improvisations, and is still quite a unique experience even today, combining cosmic, avant-garde and ethnic musics with great invention.” — the crack in the cosmic egg. hopefully there is much more vinyl on the way from this label…

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howdy….

ugh, you know it’d be nice if i didn’t have to catch EVERY cold my kids get. anyway, loads of new stuff in, and loads more in the coming weeks too… good thing you just got your student loan….

as mentioned last week… due to travel plans and life in general, it looks like we will be needing another part-timer around here. please drop off a resume with your top ten albums of all time, 2012, top ten beers, and uh… something else cool. ya. we’re looking at a start date sometime in early october, so we need resume’s by the end of sept.

also… looks like me/we will be spinning records at the common again on sept 26th. come on down and freakout.

.….pick of the week…..

*alvarius b. – alvarius b. – abduction – 2lp
– in tomorrow… i warned you last week… “originally released in 1998 as a limited edition vinyl 2lp — the second alvarius b. (alan bishop/sun city girls) full-length release. perhaps the most deranged collection of original folk songs ever cut to wax. dark, twisted & apocalyptic with razor twang acoustic guitar & vocal delivery, this epic lo-fi cassette deconstruction/demolition of everything “folk-singer-songwriter” slipped under the radar to a few lucky souls who grabbed the original pressing of this when it showed up 14 years ago. here is your chance to get it again housed in the exact 2lp gatefold jacket as the original with lyrics to all 39 tracks printed inside, strictly limited to 400 copies. “i think it’s fair to say that in ab we have the most inspiring and wholesome, cussing, violent and truthful musical interpenetrator of the psychic realities that has probably ever graced this fair and fucked land.” –trey spruance.” i think it’s fair to say this album is totally awesome and you need it, but i got massively shorted so don’t sleep, this will be gone in a blink.

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