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05/06/2026

Had this one for a while, more of an appreciation post..

Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star, $72

Named after Pan-African pioneer Marcus Garvey's shipping company (Black Star Line). Also perhaps a premonition as after this album both rappers were flung into Black American stardom.

Although it wasn't the earliest "conscious" hip-hop, it was probably the most gritty and raw that had come out by 1998. Afro-centric themes and socio-politcal commentary whilst still being able to show off their excellent flow and lyrical prowess..

I love this album, the beats are so varied and dynamic, the lyrics are immaculate + they flow into hooks with a vocal chorus that just fits so effortlessly over the top.

Definitely worth a listen if you haven't been graced by the Black Star before..

Also check later slides for some flicks of the flyest lyric book i have ever seen!

04/06/2026

Marking its 30th anniversary with a reissue, this R&S album is a dazzling fusion of techno precision, ambient depth and futurist imagination that propelled Ishii onto the global stage. Bridging Detroit’s mechanical groove with a distinctly Japanese sense of melodic abstraction, it also paved the way for many of the producers in the 90s from the land of the rising sun.

From the iconic opener ‘Extra’. with its tight breaks and cascading synths, to the aquatic glide of ‘Cocoa Mousse’ and the motorised thrust of ‘Stretch’, Ishii produces a sleek balance between direction and poise. ‘Ethos 9’ flirts with ambient jungle atmospherics, while ‘Moved By Air’ and ‘Pause In Herbs’ explore haunted spaces where rhythm and texture blur. The album ends with ‘Endless Season’. a stunning ten-minute finale where melody and Detroit dystopia become pure magic. A prime example of 90s Japanese techno futurism - sweet sounds indeed.

Text via R&S Records

Ken Ishii - Jelly Tones, $72 (2025, R&S Records RS95065LP)

01/06/2026

Extra extra.. read all about it!

Introducing the Hat Hill Herald.. the most vital Blue Mountains periodical that no one knew they needed.

Here, you can read up on all the big topics.. like what albums we like, shop news, upcoming local music events.. this is cutting edge journalism, you’ll have to read it to believe it!

Free, in store only.. paper run + digital version to come 🗞️

29/05/2026

It’s release day for Boards of Canada!

Inferno listening sesh in the shop from 4pm this arvo 🔥

28/05/2026

“Troth is unknown colours, mist-soaked dreamscapes, strange misshapen cities belonging to forgotten lands. Troth is also a pop duo, though not of the kind nowadays subjugated by the algorithm. Forget the Curse is the group’s best demonstration yet that somewhere in the murky fields between song and sound, there is a lot of untilled soil.

There are elements from previous recordings here: the diaphanous synth-pop of Oak Corridor; the bleary hypnagogic ambience of Flaws in the Glass and Small Movements in Radiance. But what previously clocked as two extremes lock together on Forget the Curse, resulting in a record that skirts the fringes of dour folk, glistening candle-lit pop, sublime atmospherics, and even a haunting dalliance with groggy downtempo mid-’90s trip-hop. The textural palette is wide and often surprising: Looped piano, spectral reverberated saxophone, burnished synth basslines, and a whole lot more that’s unrecognisable.

While intrepid in spirit, Troth is also marked by an intimacy born of the duo’s flair for leaving so much space in their productions. Forget the Curse sounds as if transmitted from a great distance, but like the dream logic it so often resembles, there are moments of startling clarity amid the fug. The flowing pop of Valley of Palms and Amarant offer oblique perspectives on familiar forms, elevated by Amelia Besseny’s celestial vocals. Meanwhile, Nettles Silver Lining and Days Become a Circle feel like waking in the night to a familiar, yet strangely-lit room.

Forget the Curse comes with the mood of a new beginning for Troth. But if the Newcastle group’s history is any indication, the next record will feel like a new beginning too. It’s best to savour this moment while it lasts.”

Text by Shaun Prescott

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Troth - Forget The Curse, $40 (2023, Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox MMJ008)

26/05/2026

Legendary debut album by Junko Tange (mystery woman who showed up on the Nurse With Wound list), originally issued by Osaka’s Vanity Records in 1979. Dadaesque recitations and sparse guitar, piano and electronic meanderings combine for a beguiling, hypnotic dreamworld. Anonym showcases Junko’s quietly unnerving style of electro-acoustic, country-folk and avant-lounge jazz shadowplay that quietly reserves the right to sting nerves with hypnic jerks of atonality. It’s one of those records that most palpably evokes the Lynchian sensation of inhabiting someone else’s dreams, replete with the feeling that one maybe shouldn’t be there, but we’ll certainly stick around to see what happens. Officially licensed from the custodians of Yuzuru Agi’s Vanity Records archives, this edition has been fully remastered from new transfers of the original analog tapes by Stephan Mathieu.

Tolerance - Anonym, $58 (2023, Mesh Key MKY033)

25/05/2026

Boards of Canada new album - "Inferno" dropping this Friday the 29th

Going to be a little more lowkey than our last one haha but pop by from 4pm we will crack open one of these guys and give it a spin

Catch you there..

22/05/2026

Colossal Youth is the only studio album by Young Marble Giants, released in 1980. It’s a minimalist post-punk classic, known for its stripped-down sound, haunting vocals by Alison Statton, and quiet intensity. The band, formed in Cardiff, Wales, had a unique approach—eschewing the aggression of punk for a more subdued, atmospheric style, with stark basslines, crisp guitar, and a drum machine replacing a live drummer.

The album remains hugely influential, inspiring artists across indie, post-punk, and electronic music. Songs like Searching for Mr. Right, Brand – New – Life, and Final Day (from a later EP) capture the band’s signature sound.

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth, $58 (2022, Domino REWIGLP32)

21/05/2026

Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ‘80s DIY hive mind. The Oz Waves successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio archives and irrationally abandoned studio sessions, as Steele Bonus sequences a 10-track compendium of drone pop, psyche-electronics and agitated tape cut-ups.

From the Sydney cassette network, The Horse He’s Sick returns with an industrial car crash, alongside Wrong Kind of Stone Age’s pagan cacophony and primal riddims. M Squared dynamo Patrick Gibson appears in both Height/Dismay and Mr Knott, his respective studio-as-an-instrument collaborations with Dru Jones (Scattered Order) and ex-Slugf**ker Gordon Renouf - the former’s worn out apparition hails from an instantly deleted 1981 7”, while Mr Knott entrust one of the compilation’s five previously unreleased tracks.

Matt Mawson represents Brisbane music media-printed matter collective ZIP, as Adelaide’s Three D Radio grants access to their vaults of live-to-air recordings and aspiring demo submissions, rescuing the slap-happy punk-funk of The Frenzied Bricks and Jandy Rainbow’s prodigious beginnings in Les Trois Etrangers and Aeroplane Footsteps. Synchronously in Melbourne, Ash Wednesday (Karen Marks, The Metronomes) leads Modern Jazz’ improvised proto-techno and EBM pioneers Shanghai Au Go-Go home record their sardonic synth-wave.

A cherry-picked cast of unusual suspects, Oz Echoes’ unfamed artist and non-band narratives are detailed by track-by-track liner notes with rarely published archival visions and artwork from Video Synth, prompting further rabbit hole ventures into this golden era of creative risk-taking and instant action.

Text via Efficient Space

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Various - Oz Echoes, $42 (2021, Efficient Space ES018)

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