Friday, August 14, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
sfs / in vain (selected tracks)
A rare non-jazz release from WRWTFWW, gathering UK jungle heavyweight Tim Reaper (founder of Future Retro London) — his previously digital-only sets sfs and in vain, collected for the first time on 3LP. sfs holds his slower 2025 works probing UK electronic sound beyond jungle; in vain, born of heartbreak and financial strain, carries a heavier emotional charge.
Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990
Light In The Attic's landmark survey of Japanese environmental music, reissued here on new Pearl Sunrise vinyl. It gathers Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Joe Hisaishi alongside ambient pioneers Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoshio Ojima and Satoshi Ashikawa. Inspired by Brian Eno's ambient thinking and Erik Satie's "furniture music," these artists fused sound with architectural acoustics and soundscape — the essential doorway into 1980–1990 Japanese ambient.
Lemonade
aespa's new Lemonade on Korean-pressed LP, packaged with a 12-page booklet and a set of six photocards. Its ten tracks — "Wda (Whole Different Animal)," "Lemonade," "Shakin'" and more — deliver the group's dense, future-facing pop.
Live at Real World Studios
Alfa Mist's live album recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios, first shared only on YouTube and now given a proper release. Built around live readings of his concept album Roulette, it prizes in-the-room interplay and breath over studio polish, leaving full space for the solos to stretch.
On Parole (The Alternative Mixes)
Motörhead's legendary "First Recordings," issued for RSD 2026 — in fact Warner's first official vinyl pressing of them. Alternative mixes including "Motorhead (Take 5)," "On Parole (Instrumental Take 1)" and "Vibrator (Album Take)" document the raw, feral energy of the band's earliest days.
Movements Vol.13
The 13th volume of German label Tramp Records' flagship Movements series. For twenty-three years Tramp has unearthed rare 45s — often pressed in runs of about 500 by self-funded American independents of the 1960s–70s. This bag of scarce rhythm & blues, funk and disco arrives as 2LP bio-vinyl with a bonus independently-made 7" featuring F Fender's "Boogaloo En Monterrey."
Gemini Part. 1
If you thought '70s–'80s Japan was all city pop, this shatters the assumption. Toshikatsu Uchiumi — guitarist of the legendary rock band Carol — plunged into reggae and dub after discovering Jamaican music. Released in 1979, long a high-priced original, now reissued by Survival Research. Deep reggae basslines meet blues-tinged guitar for tropical languor with an unmistakable Japanese-urban cool.
Circus Underwater
A 1984 masterwork reissued by Soundway as a deluxe double LP with six unreleased tracks pulled from the original tapes, plus an insert and never-seen photos. The cover comes from Grateful Dead artist David Lundquist. It traces two friends' musical drift from suburban Washington to San Francisco's hippie haven, weaving prog rock, ambient and new wave with spacey synths that reach toward contemporary electronics.
rain music
An improvised conversation about rain, made across continents by South London's Duval Timothy and California's Carlos Niño. On a rainy November 2025 day they recorded prepared-piano-and-percussion improvisations at Duval's London studio, then finished remotely between London and California — where it was, again, raining. Pitchfork gave it 7.4; delicate and field-recording-laced, with guests including Navy Blue and Laraaji.
Sweet Vibration
The debut album by Ghanaian highlife artist Charles Amoah, who began as a drummer and forged his own path after moving to Germany in the early 1980s. It fuses funk, pop arrangements and a touch of Krautrock texture into a distinctly Ghanaian-German disco-funk. Remastered by Soundway Records in 2022 and pressed to vinyl for the very first time.
Start Breaking My Heart
Dan Snaith launches his new label "People Eating Fruit" by reissuing three early classics at once. Start Breaking My Heart, his debut under the name Manitoba, gets a 25th-anniversary edition — recorded on an old computer in a run-down Toronto rental, still fresh a quarter-century on. A chance meeting with Four Tet made its release, and his career, possible.
Up In Flames
Part of Dan Snaith's "People Eating Fruit" reissue trilogy, a 2026 limited edition. Kaleidoscopic melodies fuse psychedelic rock with shoegaze vertigo — his final album under the "Manitoba" name, and one of Pitchfork's best albums of the 2000s.
The Milk of Human Kindness
The first album after Dan Snaith officially became "Caribou," reissued in 2026 as a limited edition. It blends icy precision with sun-blown abandon into hypnotic sound; singles "Yeti" and "Barnowl" remain fan favorites to this day.
Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim's breakthrough, released in 1996 at a pivotal moment for UK club culture, fusing big beats, acid house and experimental sampling into a quintessentially British rebel spirit. To mark 30 years of Norman Cook as Fatboy Slim, BMG reissues his debut as a half-speed master with new liner notes by Alexis Petridis.
Tracy Chapman
A miraculous last batch — Tracy Chapman's self-titled album reissued on its original Elektra imprint, overseen by the artist and original producer David Kershenbaum. Home to "Talkin' Bout A Revolution," "Fast Car" and "Behind The Wall," it is the 1988 singer-songwriter classic that shook the world and endures.
Idol
A 12" colored-vinyl pressing of Yoasobi's phenomenon "Idol" — the Oshi no Ko theme and a J-pop landmark that swept global charts. Restocked in September; a last chance before it sells out.
The third album from Manonmars (Jack Martyn Richardson), a member of Bristol underground collective Young Echo. Deliberately out-of-focus, murmured rap threads through jazz, ambient, bass and scattered field recordings and voice notes — a haze rooted in his lifelong severe myopia and a childhood remembered as perpetually blurred. "Volcanic Shield" pulls his single-parent home and memories of his mother spinning Lee Perry reggae records directly into the music.