KIM JUNG MI Now (Lion Productions) lp 21.00
Yay! Now reissued on nice thick vinyl too! Here's more or less what we said about this when the cd reish came out some weeks back...
All of you who loved Light In The Attic's career-spanning collection of music by Korean psych guitar maestro Shin Joong Hyun, that we recently made Record Of The Week, should be happy about this. It's an brand new official reissue, the first in a series, of Shin Joong Hyun related albums. As you perhaps recall, soothing psych-pop-folk singer Kim Jung Mi, backed by Shin Joong Hyun and his group The Men, appeared on that Beautiful Rivers And Mountains anthology with a song called "The Sun", which we said reminded us of Galaxie 500!
This 1973 full-length from Kim Jung Mi, as masterminded by Shin Joong Hyun, is also quite special. "The Sun" is just but one of the ten dreamily melodic tracks found here, including a four minute version of the song "Beautiful Rivers And Mountains" itself, a signature Shin Joong Hyun tune. Other titles include "Wind", "Blow Spring Breeze", "It's Raining", and "Lonely Heart", and although the lyrics are all in Korean, we get the idea that love and nature form much of the subject matter here. In the extensive liner notes, Shin Joong Hyun is quoted as having said: "There is no person who can sing Psychedelic music as well as Kim Joong Mi".
Kim Jung Mi's lovely voice will go straight to your heart, and the emotive music accompanying her is moodily lush, majestically melancholic... it's not really about hard-edged fuzz guitars, though they surface occasionally, as more often do propulsive psych "beat" grooves, but for the most part this album seems to hover on a higher, more heavenly pop plane of psychedelia than that suggests... The groovier stuff, though, reminds us of Serge Gainsbourg's Historie De Melody Nelson at times (on "Your Dream" especially). And it's no stretch that the liner notes call Kim Jung Mi the "Francoise Hardy of Korea". Recommended to any fan of the Forge Your Own Chains comp, in addition to those who already heard her on that Shin Joong Hyun collection. Gorgeous!
Comes nicely packaged, with obi, and large full-color 4-page insert with photos and those aforementioned liner notes.
MPEG Stream: "Wind"
MPEG Stream: "Your Dream"
MPEG Stream: "Beautiful Rivers And Mountains"

KINETIX Selected E-Missions (Small Voices) cd 10.98
Selected E-Missions is the first release by Kinetix (aka Gianluca Becuzzi) for Small Voices, and presents a collection of deep and wrapping digital soundscapes, dotted by micro-noisy granular material and resonant fields. Contemporary, abstract, cold,Êminimal, dense, intense and evocative drone music.

KINETIX White Rooms (Small Voices) 2cd 14.98
According to the liner notes, this 2cd set of acousmatic minimalism from the Italian composer Gianluca Becuzzi - here working under the moniker Kinetix - centers on "the relationship between physical space and acoustic space." The work certainly jumps from the classic minimalist piece "I Am Sitting In A Room" by Alvin Lucier; and the text of that piece actually gets reprised by, presumably, Becuzzi's voice at the end of disc one amidst a sea of buzzing drones. If Becuzzi is in fact rebroadcasting the same frequencies dozens, maybe hundreds of times in particular rooms, he's not applying the linear accumulation that gave the Lucier piece its telescopic psychedelia. Instead, Becuzzi slices and dices those recordings into spatialized musique concrete compositions that are halfway between the ultra-minimalist work of Ryoji Ikeda situated beneath the psychosexualized vocal delivery found on Luc Ferrari or Robert Ashley pieces. Becuzzi has certainly manipulated and filtered many of the frequencies in his recycling resonance recordings, as there are extreme low-end and high-end frequencies that could only be generated with some digital help. This artificiality is emphasized through Becuzzi's many jump cuts from various rasping drones in and out of silences, with male and female voices whispering throughout in both English and Italian. Alongside those aforementioned composers, Francisco Lopez, Bernhard Gunter, and Sachiko M might be other references to this intriguing set of electro-acoustics. Very few copies, last ones ever!
MPEG Stream: "01A"
MPEG Stream: "03aaa"
MPEG Stream: "01B"

KING BISCUIT TIME No Style (Regal/Astralwerks) cd 10.98
King Biscuit Time is Beta Band head guy Steve Mason's alter ego. This domestic release compiles the "No Style" ep along with last year's "Sings Nelly Foggit's Blues In Me And The Pharaohs". Imagine Pink Floyd meets electronica with scratchin and muggin' gone even more crazy, then add some occasional jungle beats. Beta Band fans will love this. We think it's better than the slightly boring second Beta Band album.

KING BLOOD Eyewash Silver (Ignorant Gore) lp 14.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
Long time readers of the aQ list no doubt remember Tetuzi Akiyama's Don't Forget To Boogie record, ostensibly, as the title suggests, a boogie rock record, but in reality, a twisted droned out hypnotic psychedelic minimal psych record, with the boogie elements stripped down to a single riff, then drenched in distortion and repeated over and over and over, creating super mesmerizing fields of layered repetition a la Reich or Riley, it quickly became a bigtime aQ favorite.
This debut lp from one man 'boogie' outfit King Blood, approaches boogie rock in a similarly oblique fashion, taking those boogie riffs and fucking them up big time. Not quite as minimal as Akiyama's opus, Eyewash Silver adds drums, and what sounds like multiple layers of guitars, not to mention WAY more distortion, a gloriously blown out chunk of experimental abstract minimal boogienoise weirdness.
Opener "Black Money" is probably the most traditionally song-y, a loping lumbering midtempo groove, a main riff locked tight and looped over a similarly tight barely there rhythm, but then all around it, guitars howl and grind, churn and crunch, loads of distortion and tangled melodies, swirling clouds of corrosive sound wrapped around that fantastically incessant groove, gradually growing more and more explosive, before the noise guitars nearly swallow up the boogie riff completely.
"End Of A Primitive" sounds like a Stooges sample dipped in distortion and left outside to crumble and decay before being brought back in and recorded onto some 20 year old 2" tape that had been stored in a wet basement. Another groovy riff, multiple guitar lines, the song gradually shifting, but so gradually, it's easy to get totally mesmerized. "Grimhaven" and "Grimhaven (A Return)" are all twang flecked dirge, like an echo drenched Earth, via the desert rock of Scenic, but again way more minimal, a single riff, a single part, looped and locked and totally hypnotic, while much of the melody is supplied by the bassline which is fluid and woozy, drifting beneath the song's core hypnodirge.
"Poison In Jest" is the killer here, super short at 2+ minutes, but an insanely super distorted chunk of garage dirge minimalism, Stooges riff and about ten tons of crumbling super blown out distortion.
The other songs follow a similar path, taking simple riffs and stretching them way out, adding layer after layer of thrum and howl and fuzz and buzz, occasionally letting the sounds slip into full of in-the-red freakout, but just as often, keeping them just this side of total chaos, the result, a gloriously hypnotic bit of riffy mesmer.
SUPER LIMITED, ONLY 100 COPIES, we got 12 or 13, and those are all we'll ever get. Way recommended for folks into droney, dirgey, hypnotic heaviness, which should most definitely be most of you!
MPEG Stream: "Black Money"
MPEG Stream: "Poison In Jest"
MPEG Stream: "Grimhaven (A Return)"

KING BLOOD Eyewash Silver (Permanent) lp 16.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
This super limited lp (100 copies) we listed last year, on the Ignorant Gore label, has now been repressed, also in quite limited quantities (300 copies), by Permanent Records, yay! Here's what we wrote about it before:
Long time readers of the aQ list no doubt remember Tetuzi Akiyama's Don't Forget To Boogie record, ostensibly, as the title suggests, a boogie rock record, but in reality, a twisted droned out hypnotic psychedelic minimal psych record, with the boogie elements stripped down to a single riff, then drenched in distortion and repeated over and over and over, creating super mesmerizing fields of layered repetition a la Reich or Riley, it quickly became a bigtime aQ favorite.
This debut lp from one man 'boogie' outfit King Blood, approaches boogie rock in a similarly oblique fashion, taking those boogie riffs and fucking them up big time. Not quite as minimal as Akiyama's opus, Eyewash Silver adds drums, and what sounds like multiple layers of guitars, not to mention WAY more distortion, a gloriously blown out chunk of experimental abstract minimal boogienoise weirdness.
Opener "Black Money" is probably the most traditionally song-y, a loping lumbering midtempo groove, a main riff locked tight and looped over a similarly tight barely there rhythm, but then all around it, guitars howl and grind, churn and crunch, loads of distortion and tangled melodies, swirling clouds of corrosive sound wrapped around that fantastically incessant groove, gradually growing more and more explosive, before the noise guitars nearly swallow up the boogie riff completely.
"End Of A Primitive" sounds like a Stooges sample dipped in distortion and left outside to crumble and decay before being brought back in and recorded onto some 20 year old 2" tape that had been stored in a wet basement. Another groovy riff, multiple guitar lines, the song gradually shifting, but so gradually, it's easy to get totally mesmerized. "Grimhaven" and "Grimhaven (A Return)" are all twang flecked dirge, like an echo drenched Earth, via the desert rock of Scenic, but again way more minimal, a single riff, a single part, looped and locked and totally hypnotic, while much of the melody is supplied by the bassline which is fluid and woozy, drifting beneath the song's core hypnodirge.
"Poison In Jest" is the killer here, super short at 2+ minutes, but an insanely super distorted chunk of garage dirge minimalism, Stooges riff and about ten tons of crumbling super blown out distortion.
The other songs follow a similar path, taking simple riffs and stretching them way out, adding layer after layer of thrum and howl and fuzz and buzz, occasionally letting the sounds slip into full of in-the-red freakout, but just as often, keeping them just this side of total chaos, the result, a gloriously hypnotic bit of riffy mesmer.
SUPER LIMITED, ONLY 300 COPIES, hand numbered, with "glorified" artwork compared to the original pressing. Way recommended for folks into droney, dirgey, hypnotic heaviness, which should most definitely be most of you!
MPEG Stream: "Black Money"
MPEG Stream: "Poison In Jest"
MPEG Stream: "Grimhaven (A Return)"

KING BROTHERS (Bulb) cd 10.98
The quality-trash rock merchants at Bulb bring to us this Japanese ultra-distorted noisy garage fuzz trio, a band clearly trying to give countrymen Guitar Wolf a run for their money.

KING BROTHERS In the Red (In the Red) cd 13.98
Album number two from this hot Japanese trio! After an amazing overdriven garage monster debut on Bulb and years of touring for these Osaka mod rockers, "In the Red" is a long awaited and highly anticipated follow up. Released on Toshiba EMI in their homeland, this new LP is jam packed with twelve scorching tracks of furious speaker blowing blues stomp action mastered at maximum volume!
RealAudio clip: "Super X"
RealAudio clip: "***"

KING COBRA, THE s/t (Troubleman Unlimited) cd 10.98
No, not the '80s hair metal band led by drummer Carmine Appice!! This King Cobra is a brand new band formed by drummer Rachel Carns of The Need (also ex-Kicking Giant), bassist Tara Jane O'Neil (Rodan, Retsin, The Sonora Pine, and solo y'know), and a third party named Kwo on guitar. There is, however, a distinct metal element to be found here as you'd expect from The Need connection. I guarantee you that people will be headbanging and making the devil sign at their shows! This trio's sound is fat and heavy yet sinewy, additionally incorporating bombastic electric organ, some wild horns, and even wilder vocals. You'll hear how they distort metal, new wave, prog, and punk into their own supercharged sonic brew as they grind, gallop and gear-shift their way through six tracks in eighteen minutes. Short this may be but The King Cobra pack a lot of music into that span of time! We're definitely looking forward to a future full-length!
MPEG Stream: "March On Pompeii"
MPEG Stream: "Fake Ex Swan Diver"

KING COBRA, THE s/t (Troubleman Unlimited) lp 10.98
No, not the '80s hair metal band led by drummer Carmine Appice!! This King Cobra is a brand new band formed by drummer Rachel Carns of The Need (also ex-Kicking Giant), bassist Tara Jane O'Neil (Rodan, Retsin, The Sonora Pine, and solo y'know), and a third party named Kwo on guitar. There is, however, a distinct metal element to be found here as you'd expect from The Need connection. I guarantee you that people will be headbanging and making the devil sign at their shows! This trio's sound is fat and heavy yet sinewy, additionally incorporating bombastic electric organ, some wild horns, and even wilder vocals. You'll hear how they distort metal, new wave, prog, and punk into their own supercharged sonic brew as they grind, gallop and gear-shift their way through six tracks in eighteen minutes. Short this may be but The King Cobra pack a lot of music into that span of time! We're definitely looking forward to a future full-length!
MPEG Stream: "March On Pompeii"
MPEG Stream: "Fake Ex Swan Diver"

KING CRIMSON Earthbound (BMG) cd 15.98

KING CRIMSON Epitaph (Discipline) 2cd 23.00
Live 1969 Crimson, the original line-up. You get a couple of versions of "20th Century Schizoid Man" but also tons of great improvisation. Packaged in a keen cardboard box, with a thick full-color booklet of reminisces.

KING CRIMSON Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With (Sanctuary) cd ep 11.98
We didn't expect that this new Crimson disc, some sort of pre-album ep of new songs, mixes, and acoustic versions, would be all that great. But you can always hope. Well, so much for hope. This includes "Larks Tongues In Aspic Part VI" but a better title would be "Larks Tongues In Aspic Part Suck". The King Crimson line-up listed here consists of Fripp, Belew, somebody, and somebody else. No Bruford or Levin (we mention, for those that care). But it seems that this must also include uncredited contributions from Stone Temple Pilots, Blues Traveler, and some vocoder vocals from a bunch of Battlestar Galactica Cylons. Yuch. Must have been touring with Tool that got Fripp & Co. thinking they needed more of a "modern rock" sound. It's not all bad, but it's a mess. There are a few moments of Frippertronics on here, but in this context they sound weak and New Agey... How 'bout they start working on "Happy With Never Making An Album Again 'Cause We've Totally Lost The Plot"? Just a suggestion. Sorry to be so harsh, but even the biggest Crim/Fripp fans we know were disappointed.
RealAudio clip: "Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With"

KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King (EG) cd 15.98
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Debut from Robert Fripp & Company. Mini-LP sleeve version (with that great, disturbing cover painting).

KING CRIMSON Islands (Discipline Global Mobile) cd 14.98

KING CRIMSON Ladies Of The Road (Discipline) 2cd 19.98
"The King Crimson Collectors Club" (god, what's gotten into them?) presents: "Ladies of the Road", a double cd of live Crimson from 1971-72. While oddly enough it doesn't actually have their song "Ladies of the Road" on it, it's a powerful document of Crimson's unique insane math-rock jazz-prog from an underrated, underdocumented era and lineup of Crimson (circa their album "Islands" and the recently reissued live disc "Earthbound") that was definitely being influenced by American R&B and jazz, moreso than the classical elements prominent in the original Crim of 69-70.
Did we get the word jazz in there? This is VERY jazz, with lots of Mel Collins' saxophone all over the place, along with of course Robert Fripp's unmistakable guitar genius. The songs and improvs presented here are in part and together gorgeous, heavy, pretty, crazed, gentle, funky (!), psychedelic, smooth, noisy, intense, and (of course) schizophrenic. Speaking of which, the second disc in this set, entitled "Schizoid Men", is a mammoth edited-together collection of NOTHING BUT THE GUITAR AND SAX SOLOS from a whole bunch of live performances of "21st Century Schizoid Man"! Yes, fifty-some energetic minutes worth. As Fripp says in the liner notes: "King Crimson has often been accused of a capital offence in the annals of Prog Crime: the endless guitar solo. Who cares that prosecutors had not listened to the band? Schizoid Men is one approach to offering a plea of guilty, on the basis of manipulated evidence long after the events. Extended soloing by Mel Collins is not, in my book, any kind of crime at all. Rather, an instruction in performance by a young master." Not to mention, humble man he is, his own extended soloing... Pretty cool, actually, really way out there. We were playing it in the store, and one of our more avant-garde and drunken customers, who claims not to like Crimson, even felt compelled to buy it.
So, after last list's panning of the new 2002 Crimson effort, here's a nice (sad too, I suppose) reminder of how great (and different) they once were. Maybe Fripp ought to take a close listen... By the way, this has really good live sound, not like a shitty bootleg!
RealAudio clip: "Groon"
RealAudio clip: "The Letters "
RealAudio clip: "Schizoid Men 5"

KING CRIMSON Lark's Tongues In Aspic (EG) cd 15.98
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Mini-LP sleeve version.

KING CRIMSON Lizard (Discipline) cd 15.98

KING CRIMSON Nightwatch (DGM) 2cd 19.98
Fripp & crew live in concert, 1973. Fine sound (a portion of this was overdubbed for use on Starless And Bible Black), great music, plenty of beyond-prog improvisation.

KING CRIMSON Red (EG) cd 15.98
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Mini-LP sleeve packaged version of this essential Crim album. A must-have, certainly, for fans of Don Cab!!

KING CRIMSON Red (DGM) cd 14.98
For fans of Don Cab!!!!!! This is where it all began suckas!

KING DIAMOND House of God (Metal Blade) cd 15.98
His Satanic Majesty returns with another of his trademark concept albums, this one telling a story based around an alternate version of the life of Jesus, one in which he does not die upon the cross... Good stuff, with more high King Diamond screams than ever before, and plenty of classic Andy La Rocque guitarwork.

KING DIAMOND AND BLACK ROSE 20 Years Ago: A Night Of Rehearsal (Metal Blade) cd 16.98
It's certainly cheesy how Metal Blade put the current King Diamond logo on the front of this archival recording, and the title is kinda lame too, but on the other hand it turns out to be cool that they released this in the first place, as these are some definitely worthwhile long-lost rehearsal recordings done by King Diamond's pre-Mercyful Fate band Black Rose back in 1980. They weren't a (black) metal outfit, in fact, they were closer to prog/hard rock a la Deep Purple or Uriah Heep, thanks to their John Lord style keyboards. King's famous falsetto isn't much in evidence, in fact you wouldn't really know it was him. But the band is really great, especially considering how this was recorded on shitty equipment by these drunk Danes in their practice space under some bar! What I really like about this, aside from the remarkably good rock songs, is that it comes complete with between-song chatter, false starts, tune-ups, fuck-ups, all the stuff that, along with King's amusing liner notes, makes you feel like you're there with them in the basement. Because this really has its own charm apart from having anything to do with KD's later career, it's one maybe less for fans of the King than for those into obscure '70s hard rock/prog.
RealAudio clip: "Locked Up In The Snow"

KING DUDE Love (Dais) lp 23.00
As we mentioned in our review of the last King Dude record, you really couldn't come up with a less appropriate name for a group like this, a group whose sound is some sort of brooding, moody, post industrial neofolk, all haunting and apocalyptic, deep crooned vox and lush layered strum, but like all weird band names, they eventually become so familiar and so inexorably linked to the sounds, it's hard to separate the two. This latest King Dude record finds T.J. Cowgill, the one man behind this one man band, adding some classic country to his sound, a sound which already touched on classic seventies psychedelic folk, as well as the martial industrial of groups like Death In June, Blood Axis, Sol Invictus and the rest, but this hint of classic country definitely transforms the sound into something else entirely.
Opener "Don't Want Me Still" sounds like a classic country ballad, mixed with a sixties girl group production, and some Mazzy Star like shoegaze, everything slathered in effects, thick whorls of delay and echo, all hazy and druggy and so divinely dreamy, weird too, when the vox pitch down and become a strange sort of gurgling rumble. Elsewhere KD touches on the swampy apocalyptic folk of groups Like Woven Hand and Sixteen Horsepower, but with creepy deep vocals that sound more like Pete Steele, and gives the sound a distinctly gloomy gothic vibe.
A couple of the tracks here are spare and skeletal and sound distinctly slowcore, reminding us a bit of Low, with woozy guitars, and sweetly angelic female back up vox, while others seem to touch on the sort of fractured lo-fi rockabilly of Dirty Beaches, that crumbling low fidelity crooned creep, with still others sounding like classic torch songs reimagined as dark strummed dronefolk. The sound drifting drowsily from urgent and strident, to hushed and ominously menacing, to dreamy and droney and darkly warped and woozy. So great.
Some of the SWEETEST packaging we've seen, stark black and white jackets, diecut with the shapes of sigils cut out, revealing the strange full color imagery beneath. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Each one hand numbered.

KING DUDE My Beloved Ghost E.P. Plus... (Bathetic) lp 14.98
Don't let the inappropriate band name fool you. We had visions of dorky noise rock, or maybe fuzzy garage pop goofs, when in fact, King Dude is something much more haunting and enthralling, initially lumped in with the whole witch house scene, due in part to releases on witch house labels like Disaro and Clan Destine, the sound of King Dude, aka TJ Cowgill, who also does time in Book Of Black Earth, is more a dark brooding, neo-folk, think Death In June, Blood Axis, Cult Of Youth, Sol Invictus, urgently strummed guitars, deep dramatic sung/spoken vocals, the vibe haunting and otherworldly, minor key and melancholy, occasionally strident and majestic, but more often moody and mournful, the lyrics full of blood and sky, earth and fire, death and the beyond, a ritualistic doom folk, channeling the seventies British acid folk of groups like Comus and Incredible String Band through the more modern industrial folk sound of the above mentioned groups. Female vocals add dreamy harmonies here and there, but for the most part, this is dark stripped down twang flecked doom/neo folk that should also appeal to fans of Woven Hand, Sixteen Horsepower, Hexvessel, Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat, Der Blutharsch and the like.
This record collects the out of print My Beloved Ghost ep, the out of print Black Triangle 7", and tacks on one unreleased bonus track.
LIMITED TO 500 COPIES!!
MPEG Stream: "My Beloved Ghost"
MPEG Stream: "Harry Rag"
MPEG Stream: "Why Must I Go On"

KING GEEDORAH Take Me To Your Leader (Big Dada) cd 16.98
Fans of DJ Shadow, Boom Bip, that recent Unagi disc, QBert, Madlib, Ninjatune label, Dr Octagon and all Dan the Automator projects: you will looove this. It's my (Windy) new favorite record. Now, in another review this week I wasn't at all ashamed in admitting that I don't know the material of Peter Gabriel, but let's make it clear that I haven't heard any other MF Doom material, and now the excellence of this King Geedorah album is going to make me have to go backwards to hear Doom's Operation Doomsday and all the other stuff. Anyway, this is hip hop, some of the best I've heard in a long time. Each track has the de riguer single hook that loops throughout, which can sometimes threaten to bore, but only in lesser hands. With Doom the hooks -- often soundtrack-derived orchestral, swelling piano and string dramatics -- are delicious so sustaining them creates just the most luxurious comfortable groove. And he adds ample doses of applied audio grit -- sudden glitches, vinyl static, disjointed drums, vocal snippets interspersed with the skills of several guest MCs -- that just enhance the casually pulled together feel of the album. It's not messily done, mind you, just flows so well that it seems effortlessly catchy and kickass.
MPEG Stream: "Fazers"
MPEG Stream: "The Fine Print"
MPEG Stream: "Fastlane"

KING GOBLIN Goblin King (Smell Rot Music) cd 14.98
Just got a few more of these back in stock!!
You'd think it would be easy to write reviews of records you love, but it's not, not always anyway. This band, though, makes the task easier, 'cause maybe we can just say a few key words: JAPAN. DOOM. PSYCH. CRAZY. Uh... is that doing the trick? Tokyo trio King Goblin, who describe themselves as a "progressive space psychedelic death rock band", definitely have that "anything goes", totally WTF?! Japanese thing going for 'em, mixing up prog and punk and funk and metal and noise whatever else they want, you know what we mean if you have albums by bands like Boredoms, Melt Banana, Children Coup D'Etat, Space Streakings, Omoide Hatoba, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, and others of that ilk in your collection. Specifically, though, the Japanese bands that King Goblin most especially make us think of are CSSO, Solar Anus, and Sigh (circa Imaginary Sonicscape). Somehow melding gonzo grind and druggy doom, plodding heaviness and catchy grooves, the nine strange songs here bouncing from spaced out acid rock to lumbering funk, with rubbery bass, squiggly guitar, gruff guttural vocals, and, as it says here, "hand craps" (sorry if it's not PC to chuckle over that particular credit in the cd booklet!).
Imagine if retro-disco-doomsters Cathedral got even weirder than they already are now, turned Japanese, and went no wave... that might approximate the dizzying extreme entertainment offered up by King Goblin. Also, how can songs with titles like "Boiled Again (Born To Ride)" and "Motordead" not be entertaining?
This disc, their debut, actually dates from 2007, but we only discovered 'em recently, and got some copies directly from Japan as quick as we could. They're working on a new album, to be entitled Cryptozoology, but unfortunately the guitarist of King Goblin is currently suffering from some unspecified, serious illness, so that's delaying things. Hopefully he gets better soon!! However, a couple of the King Goblin guys are also in wicked sick grindcore band called AKBK, who have a brand new album out that smokes, see the review elsewhere on our site.
MPEG Stream: "Megalomaniacs"
MPEG Stream: "From Dusk 'Til You Die"
MPEG Stream: "Datura"

KING KHAN AND BBQ What's For Dinner (In The Red) cd 13.98
If you're cravin' retro garage rawk stylings that're a little campy, cheeky, kitschy, trashy... all of the above?! Well, the In The Red label has long been a headquarters for top notch wildly good rockin' sounds, and they just keep 'em comin' with this new album from King Khan And BBQ! The oddly named Canadian band might be the ticket! In our opinion, the second half of the album is where the band really kicks the party up a boozy notch. Includes a cover of Circle Jerks' "Operation". Super fun!
MPEG Stream: "What's For Dinner?"
MPEG Stream: "Operation"

KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES The Supreme Genius Of (Vice) cd 14.98
While it might not always seem like it, sometimes the thing we're craving for the most is some blazing, direct in your face on fire rock n' roll. The problem is that most groups who play that kind of stuff these days either come off as total burn outs or are way uninspired. So when we heard this for the first time we all smiled wide and started rocking out with wreckless abandon! It was exactly what we've been wanting to hear. King Khan has made some really good garage fueled rawk in the past with the BBQ Show, but this collection of songs with his soul soaked band The Shrines has caught our attention and interest BIG TIME. With a nine piece band including Rahn Streeter on percussion who has played for everyone from Curtis Mayfield to Stevie Wonder, the songs are filled with undeniable chops and King Khan's vocals have been giving us great flashbacks to primetime era Rocket From The Crypt and the Make-Up as well as folks like The Dirtbombs. These are songs that owe as much to the history of garage rock and Nuggets compilations as it does to the Stax sound and all sorts of scorching r&b. Feels so damn good to have some high octane tunes to blast throughout the summertime!
MPEG Stream: "I Wanna Be A Girl"
MPEG Stream: "Sweet Tooth"
MPEG Stream: "Burnin Inside"

KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES The Supreme Genius Of (Vice) 2lp 17.98
While it might not always seem like it, sometimes the thing we're craving for the most is some blazing, direct in your face on fire rock n' roll. The problem is that most groups who play that kind of stuff these days either come off as total burn outs or are way uninspired. So when we heard this for the first time we all smiled wide and started rocking out with wreckless abandon! It was exactly what we've been wanting to hear. King Khan has made some really good garage fueled rawk in the past with the BBQ Show, but this collection of songs with his soul soaked band The Shrines has caught our attention and interest BIG TIME. With a nine piece band including Rahn Streeter on percussion who has played for everyone from Curtis Mayfield to Stevie Wonder, the songs are filled with undeniable chops and King Khan's vocals have been giving us great flashbacks to primetime era Rocket From The Crypt and the Make-Up as well as folks like The Dirtbombs. These are songs that owe as much to the history of garage rock and Nuggets compilations as it does to the Stax sound and all sorts of scorching r&b. Feels so damn good to have some high octane tunes to blast throughout the summertime!
MPEG Stream: "I Wanna Be A Girl"
MPEG Stream: "Sweet Tooth"
MPEG Stream: "Burnin Inside"

KING KONG Buncha Beans (Drag City) cd 14.98
If we didn't know that this album was brand new we could say "they don't make 'em like this anymore!" We'd probably even put money down on a bet that this was a long-lost indie rock album from the late '80s / early '90s. Yup, the sounds on Buncha Beans comes straight out of the wee hours of that period's college radio dial which is when/where this band first surfaced. Although Ethan Buckler (very early Tweez era bassist for Slint) originally intended King Kong to be something of a dance band, we've gotta say, their music is quite possibly some of the most untypical, unconventional disjointed dance music around. Go on, you try to dance to it! Maybe hop around in stocking feet in the privacy of your living room. Buckler's peculiar, atonal, almost spoken vocals, a cross between Beat Happening's Calvin Johnson and Fred Schneider of the B-52s (whom Buckler apparently modeled his King Kong sound after), push the tunes even further off the dance floor. A quirkuliscious, occasionally facetious, out-in-left-field kind of listen.
MPEG Stream: "Bulldozer"
MPEG Stream: "Tough Guys"

KING KONG Movie Star (Drag City) cd ep 5.98
Many moons ago Ethan Buckler was in a soon-to-be-genre-defining band called Slint, but very swiftly he came to the realization that his musical calling was something quite different... something more poppy and dance-y. He assembled his own band and dubbed them King Kong. Together they made totally trashy, tweaked, funky pop tunes that sound as though they were influenced equally by cop show theme songs, the B-52s, Jonathan Richman and a hen house! Fast forward about sixteen years, and well, here we are... Just in time to coincide with his former band's reunion (and the remake of the classic movie to boot!), Buckler and the kind folks at Drag City Records have rejuvenated his own King Kong with this cdep reissue of three songs originally self-released back in 1989, then reissued on 7" by Drag City in 1995.
MPEG Stream: "Movie Star"

KING KONG DING DONG Youth Culture Index (self-released) cd-r 7.98
Originally discovered by one of our pals at Root Strata, you can just imagine the emails:
"You guys gotta check out this band King Kong Ding Dong!"
"Um... really?"
"Seriously, they're so amazing, KING KONG DING DONG!"
"Ummm, okay..."
Originally we thought maybe it was all a ploy, and it was them messing with us, maybe they had recorded a bunch of stuff themselves and were trying to dupe us into heaping praises on what was essentially a joke, but we took their advice, sought out KKDD, and gave it a listen, and HOLY SHIT. All it took was about a minute of "Evil", and we were hooked. We made a sample, it's down below, we'll wait... listen, and read on...
After some woozy guitar and amp buzz and cord crackle, the band lock into a mesmerizing minimal groove, a loping melody, disembodied voices, swirls of effected buzz, simple tribal percussion, and then BAM, the main riff comes in, all languid and stoned sounding, super spaced out, just two notes, a weird sort of indie folk doom, crooned and hummed vocal harmonies underscore the warm warped riff and the stumbling drums wrapped around it. It's almost like some weird hybrid of Silvester Anfang, True Widow, Animal Collective and No Neck Blues Band or something. Raw and lo-fi, loose and shambling, but so darkly heavy and groovy and hypnotic. We listened to that track about 100 times, before we even moved on to the rest of the record, which was just chock full of sonic surprises. Nothing else on the record is quite like "Evil", the rest of the record flits all over the place from super abstract soundscapes to tuneful indie jangle, to vocal driven bliss out anti pop, to warm warped drone, but they are all somehow woven together into one organic, and constantly transforming whole.
Opener "Jample", winds a strange looped crunchy riff over a simple pounding beat, and some reverby "whooo"s, female vocals belt out an equally reverbed counterpoint, the whole thing building to a super tripped out effects heavy dream pop freakout.
Backwards guitars, lead out of that track into a gorgeous hazy acousticguitarscape, ethereal vocals definitely drifting into Animal Collective territory, but way more scrappy and lo-fi, shimmery sheets of indie jangle give way to blown out distorted drums and looped detuned melodies. Dreamy buzzy pop music gets twisted up into a strange Beach Boys dirge, all choral and chaotic, shot through with spidery high end melodies, which slips sweetly into a spare field of twinkle and twang, wrapped around distant drums and sweetly crooned falsetto vox. Then we're back to "Evil" again, which, heck, deserves yet another listen...
The final four offer up more off kilter outsider dream pop stumble, high crystalline vocals drifting over distorted drum splatter and looped guitar shimmer, soft swirls of effects drift beneath almost operatic sounding harmonies, a sort of twangy slowcore, but slowly crumbling into something much more atmospheric and abstract. After a brief fanfare, what sounds like a soft cacophony of horns, comes a strange harmonica loop, which erupts into some gorgeous, hazy, near perfect minimal space psych drone dream pop.
Shouldn't take long for the rest of the world to catch on. And wouldn't be surprised if these guys started getting hyped by Pitchfork or Matador or any other number of 'tastemakers', and heck, they deserve it, this stuff is mysterious and magical, and the fact that they're called King Kong Ding Dong, somehow only makes it that much better....
MPEG Stream: "Evil"
MPEG Stream: "A Violent Light"
MPEG Stream: "The Tiniest Anything"
MPEG Stream: "Jample"
MPEG Stream: "Here We Rest"

KING LOSER You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live (Flying Nun) cd 12.98
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Chris Heazlewood's noisy trio kicks ass as it summons the ghost of Dick Dale. Or something. From New Zealand so. You. Know. It's. Good.

KING MIDAS SOUND Goodbye Girl (Hyperdub) 12" 13.98

KING MIDAS SOUND Waiting For You (Hyperdub) cd 21.00
We were a little hesitant to check this out at first, even though we've loved all the tracks we've heard on various comps, because for some reason it was described as dark dubstep with "spoken word vocals". Spoken word? Ugh. Thankfully, one person's spoken word is another's woozy warbly mumbly crooning, 'spoken word' not in the crappy poetry slam sense, but as in brooding smoldering, slow motion toasting, totally reminiscent of classic Tricky, especially Nearly God, the music too, all hazy, and druggy and somnambulant, the beats, cough syrupy, gorgeous late night, rain soaked, glacial tarpit slow jam ballads. Totally dubbed out and minimal, the production hazy and gauzy and softly psychedelic. There's a new Massive Attack out this week too, and it's not bad, but listening to this, all we can think is this is how we wish Massive Attack sounded now.
Every track is a bleary eyed, druggy drift through warped, slow melting downtempo dubscapes, the rhythms, clipped and skittery, horns moaning in the background, wheezing keyboards, clouds of record crackle, the vocals, both male and female, wreathed in reverb and echo, draped over the slowly undulating grooves, sultry and sexy, so darkly languorous, murky and mysterious, the beats thick and dense and heavy, all wrapped in a laid back and lysergic, grimly psychedelic atmosphere, which makes sense considering the man behind the King Midas Sound is none other than Kevin Martin, aka The Bug!
WAY RECOMMENDED!
MPEG Stream: "Cool Out"
MPEG Stream: "Waiting For You"
MPEG Stream: "Meltdown"

KING MIDAS SOUND Waiting For You... (Hyperdub) 2lp 22.00
Now on swank ass double vinyl!
We were a little hesitant to check this out at first, even though we've loved all the tracks we've heard on various comps, because for some reason it was described as dark dubstep with "spoken word vocals". Spoken word? Ugh. Thankfully, one person's spoken word is another's woozy warbly mumbly crooning, 'spoken word' not in the crappy poetry slam sense, but as in brooding smoldering, slow motion toasting, totally reminiscent of classic Tricky, especially Nearly God, the music too, all hazy, and druggy and somnambulant, the beats, cough syrupy, gorgeous late night, rain soaked, glacial tarpit slow jam ballads. Totally dubbed out and minimal, the production hazy and gauzy and softly psychedelic. There's a new Massive Attack out this week too, and it's not bad, but listening to this, all we can think is this is how we wish Massive Attack sounded now.
Every track is a bleary eyed, druggy drift through warped, slow melting downtempo dubscapes, the rhythms, clipped and skittery, horns moaning in the background, wheezing keyboards, clouds of record crackle, the vocals, both male and female, wreathed in reverb and echo, draped over the slowly undulating grooves, sultry and sexy, so darkly languorous, murky and mysterious, the beats thick and dense and heavy, all wrapped in a laid back and lysergic, grimly psychedelic atmosphere, which makes sense considering the man behind the King Midas Sound is none other than Kevin Martin, aka The Bug!
WAY RECOMMENDED!
MPEG Stream: "Cool Out"
MPEG Stream: "Waiting For You"
MPEG Stream: "Meltdown"

KING MISSILE Mystical Shit / Fluting On The Hump (Instinct / Shimmy Disc) cd 12.98
There was a time when Shimmy Disc could do no wrong. Hard to believe but true. Bongwater, Velvet Monkeys, Fred Lane! Equally hard to believe, is that there was a record of spoken word set to music, that was amazing, funny and fucked and not at all as annoying as the sobriquet spoken word might lead you to believe. John S. Hall was a struggling poet in New York who hooked up with the enigmatic Dogbowl (check out Tit! An Opera, one of Andee's all time favorite records) and who together started King Missile (Dog Fly Religion) -- the dog fly religion part was dropped when Dogbowl left. This disc combines the first King Missle Record and the third (the second is the also amazing They), both of which are so goddamn funny and surprisingly clever and catchy. Most of you probably remember "Jesus Was Way Cool" which was a huge hit for a while. And that pretty much is the King Missle formula. Hall reciting absurd stories over all sorts of musical backdrops. Fluting On The Hump offers up two of the best King Missile songs, "Take Stuff From Work" and "Sensitive Artist". Both funny and scathing in their own way. By record number three, Dogbowl had left and was replaced with the King Missile lineup that would basically continue until today. But nothing was lost, in fact the music became less random and strange and more focused letting Hall get even weirder. The creepy sex tale of "Gary And Melissa", the stupidly cute "Cheesecake Truck", the brilliant "Jesus Was Way Cool" and on and on and on. We hadn't listened to this record in a while, but it's just as good as we remember it. Fun and funny, weird and wonderful.
MPEG Stream: "Take Stuff From Work"
MPEG Stream: "Sensitive Artist"
MPEG Stream: "Gary And Melissa"
MPEG Stream: "Jesus Was Way Cool"

KING OF BLUEGRASS : THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JIMMY MARTIN (Straight Six Films) dvd 23.00

KING RHYTHM What's Left (Quatermass) cd 14.98
Skewed leftfield hip hoptronica from Germany, a cool hybrid of classic hip hop and tech step drum and bass. Think Ed Rush or anyone on No U-Turn stepping in for Timbaland, and turning bouncing, loping booming hip hop big beats, into skittering two step workouts with rumbling, woofer-blowing basslines. Add a couple pretty wicked MC's and you're in business. Cool stuff.
MPEG Stream: "What's Left Breaks The Silence"
MPEG Stream: "Steve's Job"

KING TUBBY Explosive Dub (Abraham) lp 16.98

KING TUBBY Firehouse Revolution (Pressure Sounds) cd 14.98
I really wanted to like this one a lot more. One thing Pressure Sounds can do really well is put together handsome album art and King Tubby's Firehouse Revolution is no exception. The vinyl especially cuts a dashing figure with its matte finish. Firehouse Revolution is a collection of late period recordings (1985 to Tubby's death in 1989) done at King Tubby's state of the art "100% Digital" facility that he built in Kingston's Waterhouse district, also known as the "Firehouse" due to the frequency of gun fire in the neighborhood. The collection is an attempt to demonstrate that, while his former apprentice Prince Jammy pioneered the digital reggae sound, Tubby was not one to rest on his laurels and that his work in his new studio was just as cutting edge in eighties Jamaica as his early experiments in dub were in the seventies. The problem is that this period of reggae is generally not highly regarded as the most inspired or crucial. Pressure Sounds argues that, like the cold reception that reggae received by the critics in its early stages, this era of digital reggae will eventually get its come uppance in the form of a plethora of reissues much like the profusion of 60's comps that everyone wants now. "You heard it here first" Pressure Sounds seems to say but, although there are some interesting electronic bass lines to be found here, I for one prefer to remember King Tubby by the ovesaturated analog tape and spring reverb that he built his reputation on. Having said that, I say also Kudos to Pressure Sounds for having the vision and or foresight to put together a collection of unique material in the hopes that this may inspire other labels in the business of reissuing Jamaican music to lay off the old standbys for a while and dig a little deeper into the vaults for some more previously un-exploited gems. A final word of caution to those making assumptions about King Tubby's career: you won't find many dub tracks here, but you will find lots of vocals from the likes of Anthony Red Rose, King Everall, Lloyd Hemmings, Little John, King Asha, Johnny Osbourne and more. Comes with several pages of well written liner notes.
RealAudio clip: "Original Sound"
RealAudio clip: "Version"

KING TUBBY Firehouse Revolution (Pressure Sounds) lp 12.98
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For some reason the LP of this didn't get listed last time, so here's the description again for all you vinyl heads:
I really wanted to like this one a lot more. One thing Pressure Sounds can do really well is put together handsome album art and King Tubby's Firehouse Revolution is no exception. The vinyl especially cuts a dashing figure with its matte finish. Firehouse Revolution is a collection of late period recordings (1985 to Tubby's death in 1989) done at King Tubby's state of the art "100% Digital" facility that he built in Kingston's Waterhouse district, also known as the "Firehouse" due to the frequency of gun fire in the neighborhood. The collection is an attempt to demonstrate that, while his former apprentice Prince Jammy pioneered the digital reggae sound, Tubby was not one to rest on his laurels and that his work in his new studio was just as cutting edge in eighties Jamaica as his early experiments in dub were in the seventies. The problem is that this period of reggae is generally not highly regarded as the most inspired or crucial. Pressure Sounds argues that, like the cold reception that reggae received by the critics in its early stages, this era of digital reggae will eventually get its come uppance in the form of a plethora of reissues much like the profusion of 60's comps that everyone wants now. "You heard it here first" Pressure Sounds seems to say but, although there are some interesting electronic bass lines to be found here, I for one prefer to remember King Tubby by the ovesaturated analog tape and spring reverb that he built his reputation on. Having said that, I say also Kudos to Pressure Sounds for having the vision and or foresight to put together a collection of unique material in the hopes that this may inspire other labels in the business of reissuing Jamaican music to lay off the old standbys for a while and dig a little deeper into the vaults for some more previously un-exploited gems. A final word of caution to those making assumptions about King Tubby's career: you won't find many dub tracks here, but you will find lots of vocals from the likes of Anthony Red Rose, King Everall, Lloyd Hemmings, Little John, King Asha, Johnny Osbourne and more. Comes with several pages of well written liner notes.

KING TUBBY In Fine Style (Trojan) cd 18.98

KING TUBBY In the Mix: Classic Dub From the Master (Recall) 2cd 16.98
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Low priced double disc anthology of King Tubby, apparently a part of a series of anthologies of Jamaican artists being released by Recall. Each collection comes with a fair amount of biographical notes on the artist and generally make good starting points if you don't have anything already. Generally acknowledged as the father of dub, King Tubby has left a huge legacy of recordings as a producer and has been an ongoing influence and inspiration to engineers and dub aficionados from Jamaica to the Netherlands. If you have any of the numerous collections of King Tubby's then you're likely to get a good deal of overlap here, as even with a cursory listen I noticed several tracks that have been released already. In fact, I don't think you'll find a rare track on here. But if you love dub and don't already own any Tubby then there's really no reason you shouldn't just pick this up. It's cheap, packed with classic seventies dub and it comes with a decent bio on the King.
RealAudio clip: "Don't Try To Use Me"
RealAudio clip: "Fittest of the Fittest"

KING TUBBY Lost Treasures (Jamaican Recordings) cd 14.98
So this collection of King Tubby dubs called "Lost Treasures" was released some time ago. It's one of the few on this label that we haven't listed yet. It's not because it's a bad disc that it hasn't been listed, but because apparently the dubs on the album are suspect, ie: bogus dubs. After King Tubby was murdered in 1989, friends coming by the studio to pay their respects made off with armloads of master tapes (including a good deal of Lee Perry produced material that was in King Tubby's possession.) Apparently, according to those in the know, those tracks on that Tubby mix were not mixed on his board, and do not include the trademark effects gear that Tubby used. It's actually a nice record, with some great rhythm tracks and excellent playing all over the place, plus the fidelity is superb -- coming from the master tapes -- they just weren't mixed by King Tubby, but were more likely done posthumously. So I'm trying to sort out this mess with the Tubby dubs, because I still want to list it, and then I find out that the Lee Perry disc on Jamaican Recordings -- "Skanking With The Upsetter" -- is also chock full of bogus dubs. Boy do I feel like a sucker.
So now I'm wondering if any of the albums that Jamaican Recordings have released are legit. One of the biggest suspects in the 'theft' of Tubby's tapes is none other than Striker, a.k.a. Bunny, a.k.a. E. Lee (whose name is all over Jamaican Recordings' releases as producer and copywrite holder.) Bunny was one of King Tubby's biggest clients and through the seventies Tubby was essentially Bunny's engineer, so a lot of the sessions that make up the source material for much of Jamaican Recordings' catalog are in fact produced by him. In that case it is arguable that these tapes are legally his anyhow (except maybe the Perry tapes which make up 'Skanking With the Upsetter'). So technically these aren't even bootlegs, like the nefarious Abraham's LPs. But why bother faking it by calling them rare dub plates and yadda, yadda, yadda? If Mr Bunny Lee is the legit owner of the original master tapes, why not just release them as contemporary dub mixes of classic Aggrovators material? I think people would have more respect for that in the long run, as it is suspicion and allegations of illegitimacy that will eventually catch up with this label and hurt sales. Or maybe not; I've been surprised before. Legit-Tubby or ersatz-Tubby; this album is still fucking great. The slap-back delay on percussion never fails to float my boat and the source material is all first rate, taken primarily from mid-seventies Aggrovators productions by Bunny Lee and layed down at the best studios (Dynamic, Randy's & Channel 1.) Like all releases on Jamaican Recordings, the CD versions all have extra tracks not included on the vinyl and in the case of 'Lost Treasures' there are a few really nice ones that are only available on the aluminum disc.
RealAudio clip: "Cherry's Dub"
RealAudio clip: "Cold Hearted Dub"

KING TUBBY Lost Treasures (Jamaican Recordings) lp 14.98
So this collection of King Tubby dubs called "Lost Treasures" was released some time ago. It's one of the few on this label that we haven't listed yet. It's not because it's a bad disc that it hasn't been listed, but because apparently the dubs on the album are suspect, ie: bogus dubs. After King Tubby was murdered in 1989, friends coming by the studio to pay their respects made off with armloads of master tapes (including a good deal of Lee Perry produced material that was in King Tubby's possession.) Apparently, according to those in the know, those tracks on that Tubby mix were not mixed on his board, and do not include the trademark effects gear that Tubby used. It's actually a nice record, with some great rhythm tracks and excellent playing all over the place, plus the fidelity is superb -- coming from the master tapes -- they just weren't mixed by King Tubby, but were more likely done posthumously. So I'm trying to sort out this mess with the Tubby dubs, because I still want to list it, and then I find out that the Lee Perry disc on Jamaican Recordings -- "Skanking With The Upsetter" -- is also chock full of bogus dubs. Boy do I feel like a sucker.
So now I'm wondering if any of the albums that Jamaican Recordings have released are legit. One of the biggest suspects in the 'theft' of Tubby's tapes is none other than Striker, a.k.a. Bunny, a.k.a. E. Lee (whose name is all over Jamaican Recordings' releases as producer and copywrite holder.) Bunny was one of King Tubby's biggest clients and through the seventies Tubby was essentially Bunny's engineer, so a lot of the sessions that make up the source material for much of Jamaican Recordings' catalog are in fact produced by him. In that case it is arguable that these tapes are legally his anyhow (except maybe the Perry tapes which make up 'Skanking With the Upsetter'). So technically these aren't even bootlegs, like the nefarious Abraham's LPs. But why bother faking it by calling them rare dub plates and yadda, yadda, yadda? If Mr Bunny Lee is the legit owner of the original master tapes, why not just release them as contemporary dub mixes of classic Aggrovators material? I think people would have more respect for that in the long run, as it is suspicion and allegations of illegitimacy that will eventually catch up with this label and hurt sales. Or maybe not; I've been surprised before. Legit-Tubby or ersatz-Tubby; this album is still fucking great. The slap-back delay on percussion never fails to float my boat and the source material is all first rate, taken primarily from mid-seventies Aggrovators productions by Bunny Lee and layed down at the best studios (Dynamic, Randy's & Channel 1.) Like all releases on Jamaican Recordings, the CD versions all have extra tracks not included on the vinyl and in the case of 'Lost Treasures' there are a few really nice ones that are only available on the aluminum disc.

KING TUBBY Lost Treasures (Jamaican Recordings) lp 12.98

KING TUBBY Original King Key Dub (Cribouille Industry) cd 16.98
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KING TUBBY & SOUL SYNDICATE Freedom Sounds In Dub (Blood And Fire) cd 16.98