Captain Cloud's Web Guide to Music Stores
Last Revised:
5/11/06
Here is a decent attempt at listing many great stores for purchasing Space
Rock, Drone, and other psychedelia. Most have online catalogs and online ordering. Note
that some are based overseas, with consequent currency conversion issues and higher
postage.
RECORD LABELS
- Freak
Emporium UK based psychedelic distributors, former Delerium Records
- Countryman Records run by The Spacious Mind
- Cleopatra/Hypnotic/Purple Pyramid
Records
- Mammoth Records U.S. home
of Eat Static, Banco De Gaia, etc.
- SONY Music Artists
- Caroline Distribution
- A&M Records
home of Queens of the Stone Age
-
- Griffin Music (closed
but re-opening, but catalog info is still online)
- CG Publishing includes HW
book, HotWacks books
- Kinesis Label mostly prog, but
they try hard
- Cuneiform
Records Boud Deun and others
- Kranky king of drone
- VHF label drone
- Worship Guitars
(goes unupdated for months at a time)
- Ace of Discs most recent Sun Dial
- Darla Records
- Brainwashed
- Forced Exposure clearing
house for *every* independent label, includes Spalax
- Woronzow Records Bevis Frond and
friends
- Emperor Jones
- Free City Media
- Captain Trip
Records Japan (requires Japanese fonts)
- Discipline Global Mobile UK King
Crimson and family
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- Voiceprint in the
UK
- Artists Shop Voiceprint section
from US distributor
- Twisted Records home of
Hallucinogen, Shpongel
- Camera Obscura
many great psych bands
- Eternity's Jest Records
home of Quarkspace and National Steam
- Magick Eye all Astralasia, Magic
Mushroom Band releases
- Mother West Records Escapade
- Bakery Records Tadpoles
- One Way Records
- Unit Circle
Records two SubArachnoid Space releases
- Elsie and Jack Rekkids
one SubArachnoid
Space release
- Secret Eye.org Iditarod, Black Forest Black Sea
- September Gurls Records
- Silber Records Zann comp with
SubArachnoid Space
- Snapper Records Gong
current US home
- Lolo Records Gongzilla
- Dog Fingers Pseudo Buddha
- Wolkenreise Grobschnitt/Eroc online
store (in German)
- Jellyfant home
of Grimble Grumble
- Woronzow Bevis Frond, etc
- Contact
Information for many other labels, from the Forced Exposure site
MUSIC FOR SALE (but not from me!)
People I've Bought From In The Past
- Rubbish Records Ozrics, recent UK festi stuff
- Strange Attractors Kinksi, Vocokesh
- Slippy Town Vocokesh
- CDR4Less blank media and double jewel cases
- Eclipse Records lots of drone
- Amoeba Records in San Francisco
- Amazon
- Groove Entertainment formerly RPM Records in Texas
- Midheaven many US indie space, F/i, Vocokesh, ST-37
- Aquarius Records
- The End Records great Porcupine Tree prices for new releases
- Fleece Records Texas
home for LP4, Dunlavy, part of Soundexchange
- 33 Degrees Records
Texas stuff at good prices
- Lone Starfighter
Records by Pat Reilley from Texas, Spacious Mind LP
- Meteor City Kyuss and Monster
Magnet desert sludge
- Waterloo Records Austin-based
indie store
- Music Masters by
Roman Lewis (wide selection but expensive)
- Lost Records small
mail-order only, ST-37 and Floralia comp
- Thee Shop local Goth &
Cleopatra store
- Mother West
- SouthLand CD
- CD Connection
- Doug Larson
purveyer of inexpensive Krautrock CDs
- Midnight Records
unreliable as can be, expensive, last resort only
- The Wild Places includes
The Spacious Mind, Holy River Family Band
- CD Universe
- Peace of Mind (Sweden) by
Henrik Hallgren (store is offline now??)
- 101CD.com (U.K.) discount mail-order
- CD Zone The UK equivalent of CD
Connection, postage takes about 4 weeks
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People I've NOT Bought From, But
Might - Some Day:
- Compact Disc Services psych from the UK
- Wolkenreise Grobschnitt and Eroc store
- GenesysDTP.com blank media
- Meritline.com blank media
- Big Balloon Music
- Strange Attractors SubArachnoid Space, Surface of Eceon, Vocokesh
- Ozit/Morpheus Records Spaceritual.net, Nik Turner
- Rustic Rod psych from UK
- Last Visible Dog psych noise
- Drag City
- Drunken Fish Records
- Black Widow Records
- Mutant Music Salamander
- Opal Music in the UK
- Time-Lag Records Charalambides, etc
- Voiceprint Music Hawkwind reissues and live
- Inside Out Music neo-prog
- Swamp Room Records in Germany
- Dragonfly Records techno from UK
- Syn-Phonic Music (really slow last time I dealt with them?)
- Marshead Records
- Cumbersome Records Australian, carries Vegetable Man Project
- Crippled Dick Hot Wax Anubian Lights
- Lazy Squid Records
- Rock of Ages music, posters,
programmes
- EurRock for Hidria Spacefolk, Ash Ra and related stuff
- Greatest Hits Mailorder German site, carries Linus Pauling Quartet
- Aether Records
- Brainticket Records
Liquid Sound Company, Mandra Gora Lightshow Society
- Beta-Lactum Records Charalambides
- Cheap CDs
- CD Quest
- CD Cellar variety of new and
used
- Clamazon.com indie and japanese
noise
- Crippled Dick Hot Wax
Anubian Lights
- EIL.com UK-based distributor
- InSound Annex
- Lazy
Squid Records Rotten Piece, more Texas strangeness
- RecordHeaven
in Sweden, source for spacerock and more
- Saiko Sounds trance for sale
- Psyshop trance for sale,
including Shpongel
- PureAcidMixTapes DJ
techno mix tapes source, wide GOA but
expensive
- Twisted Village Records krautrock at resonable prices
- Relapse Records
- Vintage Vinyl
- Southern Records
Jessamine, Godspeed-related bands
- Paul's Compact
Discs US neo prog, lots of Porcupine Tree/No Man
- Music Cartel
Orange Goblin and other stoner rock, similar to Meteor City
- Aron's Records
variety of used vinyl
- Hippie Shake Records
- Concert Posters from New Legends
A List of Music Stores by Misfit City Junction
Bandlist for many
great space rock bands