Musique Concrète / Electronic / Experimental 1981
Jacques Bekaert
Jacques Bekaert
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Sunday, June 28, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
Original Best Hits
Teresa Teng's classic compilation Original Best Hits, reissued on uncolored 100% Pure LP virgin vinyl. The sleeve design is gorgeous and the pressing feels substantial and refined. The uncolored pure-vinyl format strips away the carbon and other colorants of conventional records, using only pure PVC to render grooves closer to the original sound — an ideal edition for collectors of Teng's Japanese-era recordings.
わざ
Kabutomushi (meaning beetle), the eccentric band formed by Tokyo University of the Arts students, presents a compilation that is arguably premature yet fully deserved — Waza. Its monochrome ink-brush sleeve is full of character, mirroring the avant-pop group's freewheeling sonic experiments — a notable alternative release worth investigating.
華麗なる熱唱 中国語 I
One of Teresa Teng's Chinese-language albums originally issued on cassette, now reissued on high-fidelity 100% Pure LP. Volume I gathers recordings from the Island Love Songs series released across Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1975, centered on covers of Japanese standards like Erimo Misaki and Nagasaki wa Kyo mo Ame Datta, alongside Polydor-era hits including Lover's Concern and When Will You Return. Pressed on uncolored pure vinyl as a 45rpm three-disc heavyweight set, limited to 1000 numbered copies.
華麗なる熱唱 中国語 II
The second volume of Teresa Teng's Chinese-language recordings, likewise reissued on high-fidelity 100% Pure LP. Volume II centers on hits such as Winter Romance and You Are In My Heart, and includes enka and kayokyoku covers like You and Me (Kita Guni no Haru) and A Falling Leaf (Tsugaru Kaikyo Fuyugeshiki). Pressed as a 45rpm three-disc heavyweight set on uncolored pure vinyl, limited to 1000 numbered copies, faithfully rendering the original master sound.
From the Depths of Zebes: Super Metroid Resynthesized
A synth-driven tribute to the score of Super Metroid, the 1994 SNES action-adventure widely hailed as the series' finest entry. Luminist reimagines the soundtrack entirely on analog synthesizers. The first pressing sold out in ten minutes; this new colored-vinyl edition features a partially glow-in-the-dark gatefold with new cover art by Luis Melo (Party in the Front), cut at 45rpm and limited to 500 copies.
Off the Wall
Michael Jackson's first adult solo album, made with producer Quincy Jones, blending disco, funk and soulful balladry. A picture-disc reissue.
Thriller
The best-selling album of all time, reuniting Michael Jackson with Quincy Jones; from 'Billie Jean' to 'Beat It' it defined the peak of pop. Picture-disc reissue.
Bad
Following the colossal success of Thriller, Bad cemented Jackson's superstardom with a harder edge and a string of number-one singles. Picture-disc reissue.
Dangerous
Working with Teddy Riley to bring new jack swing into the mix, Dangerous is famed for its ornate surreal cover collage and stands as Jackson's defining 90s statement. 2LP picture-disc reissue.
HIStory: Continues
The disc of new material from HIStory: Past, Present and Future, featuring 'Scream' and 'They Don't Care About Us,' wrapped in its monumental silver-statue imagery. 2LP picture-disc reissue.
Return to Silent Hill
One of the most anticipated game-to-film adaptations in recent memory, scored once again by series mainstay Akira Yamaoka, whose industrial, fog-shrouded soundscapes and sound design are unmistakable. This reimagined film score shifts distance and placement so the music dissolves into the film's sense of time, imagery, and the inner lives of its characters.
Freudian
Daniel Caesar's debut, which broke him out on the strength of its gospel-tinged intimacy and emotional songwriting; 'Get You' and 'Best Part' became modern R&B touchstones.
Case Study 01
Caesar's second album pushes toward a more experimental, psychedelic palette, with guests including Brandy, John Mayer and Pharrell, set against a darker, brooding atmosphere.
Pilgrim's Paradise
Daniel Caesar's 2025 release, carrying forward his signature soul-and-gospel texture across themes of pilgrimage and redemption.
November 89
The earliest GAS recordings, captured by Wolfgang Voigt in the late 1980s, only ever released in 2008 as a CD tucked inside the art book Wolfgang Voigt GAS — and now on vinyl for the very first time. Hypnotic forest imagery, alpine horns woven with bass drum into abstract psychedelic walls of sound: these are the seeds of what would become Zauberberg and Königsforst, the sound of a voice before it grew into its final shape. The release finally completes the GAS vinyl series with its missing first chapter.
Flirty Ghost
Late at night, in a small smoke-filled studio with a few old friends and a single harp — that's the atmosphere in which British harpist Rachel Kitchlew recorded Flirty Ghost. The album blends jazz, ambient, and experimental textures, drawing on everything from Henry Mancini to Dorothy Ashby: elusive, playful, yet quietly haunted. Guests include Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, Dave Bardon, SFJ, and Sholto. The first pressing sold out instantly last September; this is the limited yellow-vinyl repress.
Staircase Made of Rope
Berlin shoegaze upstarts Roomer stuffed heavy walls of sound, dreamy melodies, and emotions of unclear origin into their guitars on last year's record. Singer Ronja Schößler's angelic voice drifts above guitar, bass, and drums — their shoegaze is gentle and a little decadent, intimacy and haze living inside the same song. This new album was mostly improvised, much of it captured on the first take; melodies surface and vanish, and you can never guess where the next second will go.
Lee-Way
A reissue in Blue Note's Classic Vinyl Series. On April 28, 1960, Lee Morgan walked into the legendary Van Gelder Studio and cut what became one of the most cited albums in hard bop history — with Art Blakey on drums, which says it all. Four tracks, each with its own weight, closing on "The Lion And The Wolff," Morgan's tribute to Blue Note's founders. Mastered all-analog by Kevin Gray from the original tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl, this is the most worthwhile edition currently available.
A self-titled album by sound artist Jacques Bekaert, reissued for the first time since 1981. It collects his film music for experimental filmmaker Akiko Iimura's two personal films (Mon Petit Album, A Late Lunch) plus the commissioned piece A Summer Day at Stony Point. Drawing on an electronic-music background since the 1960s, Bekaert built his compositions from electronic textures laced with field recordings and musique concrète concepts—snippets of friends' conversations, pastoral scenes, David Behrman's outdoor saxophone, and Takehisa Kosugi's strings. A political journalist as well as a composer, he kept this avant-garde work tethered to the feel of everyday life. The cover imagery is as quiet and beautiful as the music. Limited edition of 500. For lovers of musique concrète.