 | Traced in the Air by Cynic
Buy new: £13.98 *Not listed in any specific order* Where the worlds of prog, jazz and extreme metal collide in one epic colossus of a record. A worthy followup to their cult debut 'Focus'
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 | Antithesis by Origin
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £11.47 Does metal get anymore extreme? On their last record, Origin developed a groove to their techgrinddeathcore and on this release they lock into a slick flurry of unadulterated deathcore
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 | Black Sea by Fennesz
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £7.67 Dark ambient electronica for those solitary nights where your only friends are your 2 loudspeakers and the heavily textured dreamy sounds the bellow out from them
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 | Been Through by Fenin
Buy new: £10.79 Warm, analog and effervescent dub-tech from the German (whoelse?) masters. A stunning release for all you Basic Channel, Maurizio and Rhythm and Sound dubtech warriors
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 | Walk in Da Park by Giggs
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.99 The SN1 boys come through with this ultra-real and slickly captured documentary of gritty street life. Mastefully gangster, Giggs spits out some epic flows on this, our UK hiphop release of the year
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 | London Zoo by The Bug
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.48 With its beefy production, The Bug lets rip with some immense ragga breakcore mashup. For all the top shotta man dem out there!!!
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 | Pro Tools by GZA
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.76 Brilliantly structured and delivered 'concious' raps meet flowing and somewhat leftfield underground beats. GZA back on TOP form
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 | Pain Language by DJ Muggs
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £19.32 DJ Muggs has done some great work with other artists but this is the crowning achievement. Raw, rugged and totally O.G. it stamps its mark all over underground US hiphop.
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 | Smile by Boris
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.40 A freak out multi-coloured explosion of psyche-rock that will transport you into the clouds
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 | Dimension X by Dimension X
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.49 More totally freak out jazzed-up math rock with transisitions into some immense ambient Old Man Gloom-ish sci-fi territory
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 | The Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.25 The best modern band ever??? Possibly as they just keep breaking rock boundaries with their jazz fusion neo-prog mathrock soundscapes all whilst making immensly catchy songs.
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 | The Hawk Is Howling by Mogwai
Buy new: £6.98 Scottish post-rock gloomsters back on top form with their ultra epic and hypnotic gloom-laden soundscapes being complimented by lighter and more optimistic synth-led pieces
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 | The Last Camel In Paris
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £11.83 Minimalist Eastern psychedelica created by one man and his heavily modified organ in 1978. An immense and sprawling body of work that will transport you into the hashish clouds
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 | Bersarin Quartett by Bersarin Quartett
Dark and cinematic minimalist electronica from the very upper echelons. A very classy masterclass in dark ambience meets micro-tech
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 | Dodovoodoo by Elephant9
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £13.20 Fans of uncomprimising 70's jazzrock fusion masters will be more than captivated by this ultra-faithful yet unique slice of Scandanavian fusion. A total revelation of the scene
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 | Brolt by Scorch Trio
Buy new: £12.69 Fusing spiraling improv-jazz with downtuned post-Mclaughlin jazz-rock fusion, this Norwegian power-trio plow through 6 movements of bustling sonics with mind boggling time-signature shiftage
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 | ReComposed by Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald by Carl Craig
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £21.54 Painstaking and ambitious pairing of subtle classical music with Carl Craig's unique brand of micro-techno and electro ambience. Expensive but essential
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 | Bip Hop Generation, Vol. 9 by Various Artists
Organic warmth meets electronic-groove in this ultra subtle ode to techno minimalism. Bip Hop's best yet
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 | Saint Dymphna by Gang Gang Dance
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.00 There is more than enough room for another Battles sounding band and GGD is right up there with their concoction of dance-orientated mathrock. Great stuff and very post-modern
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 | Rain by Fauna
Buy new: £9.79 Totally captivating post-rock morphs into Opeth folkprog and then unleashes into a torrent of brutal black metal craziness before going back and forth in interesting fashion. A 60min 1track epic
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