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Back in stock after 5 years' absence, this ultra-rare Rallizes album was featured at number 12 in the Top 50 of Cope's influential JAPROCKSAMPLER. Features the epic near-20-minute meditative proto-dubby version of opening track ‘Flames of Ice’ (here re-named 'Honno no Rallizes' and featuring enough wide screen guitar wreckage to live for), plus the inchoate and linear ‘Tales of Cruel Love’, a dawdling haphazard 20-minute affair. The record concludes with a mesmerising version of Mizutani's staple concert climax 'The Last One'. As usual, these are high quality printed and well-packaged CD-R editions, but they are infinitely better than all the Rallizes stuff recently available on eBay, and sport the original cover as depicted in JAPROCKSAMPLER.

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Urthona's debut is a vast distorto-guitar vision, three enormous tracks, commencing with an Ur-garage racket that conjures up visions of the Barrett Floyd hammering T. Dream’s early 45 ‘Ultima Thule’, before plateauing out into two exceedingly beautiful and enormously vast eternities of axe overload, ernie-ernieing seagull dives, digital distortion and microphonic feedback, and all in a sumptuous Dartmoor fold-out package worthy of the Head Heritage mothership.

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“Why Be Bleak When You Could Be Blake?” So concluded Coil’s John Balance in a 1996 letter to the Archdrude. In honour of William Blake’s 250th anniversary, Head Heritage is proud to offer this iconic and Utopian call-to-arms. Available printed in white on a high quality black t-shirt.

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Stunning Taj Mahal Travellers t-shirt just in, featuring the iconic logo from their epic double-LP AUGUST 1974. White printed on high quality American-made Gildan black t-shirt.

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Get this beautiful new t-shirt depicting the front cover art from SATORI, Flower Travellin’ Band’s finest hour. Note: these are superior Gildan US-made products printed in white on a black t-shirt, not the lesser quality items available on eBay.

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Julian Cope, visionary rock musician and musicologist, hip archaeologist and one-time frontman of The Teardrop Explodes, brings you JAPROCKSAMPLER. Until now, the language barrier has made post-war Japanese music an enigma to the West. Julian felt duty-bound to provide the key to that unfairly locked door.

This is the history of Western music's arrival on Japanese shores after World War Two, and the delicious mayhem that ensued. From chromatic instrumental pop covers of The Shadows' songs to the resurrection of Dylan-inspired Rokyoku folk storytelling, nowhere has the continual metamorphosis of rock'n'roll been more fascinating or original than in Japan.

JAPROCKSAMPLER is an exploration of the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock'n'roll renegades of the 1960s and '70s. It tells the tale of key artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking, and rounds up the seminal japrock albums.

Julian guarantees that this book will have you rethinking your attitudes to music, art, time - and even life itself.