Encore Records

Boris & Ian Astbury

Bxi

A collaboration between Japanese Doom/Sludge Rock trio Boris and British vocalist Ian Astbury, frontman for Alt-Rock band The Cult.

Astbury’s iconic Rock vocals are a perfect match for Boris’ straightforward and laid back but still raw and imaginative songwriting.

Electric Light Orchestra

Live: The Early Years

This DVD brings together three live concerts from the earlier part of the band’s career.

The first is a four track excerpt from a show at Brunel University in 1973, the second a longer six track set filmed for the German TV series Rockpalast in 1974 and finally the Fusion concert from the New Victoria Theatre in London in 1976, filmed during the Face The Music tour.

A Complete Introduction to Progressive Rock

Wondrous Stories

4 CD UK release that traces the history of prog from the late 1960’s to the present day.

Soft Machine

Land of Cockayne

Digitally remastered edition of this 1981 release, the final album from the British Prog/Art Rock band.

By the time the album was recorded, the band was comprised of keyboard player and saxophonist Karl Jenkins and drummer John Marshall.

The duo were joined by musicians such as Jack Bruce, the returning Allan Holdsworth, Dick Morrissey and Ray Warleigh to produce a different, but polished album.

Various

Chocolate Soup For Diabetics Vol. 1-5

Finally gathered in one place, here are all five volumes of this groundbreaking series of British psych and freakbeat compilations, in a numbered, limited edition.

Boasting no fewer than 82 classic tracks, the set spans established classics by Tintern Abbey, Apple, The Tickle, The Smoke, Fleur De Lys and others, and gems by lesser-known artists such as Boo & The Boo-Boos, The Perishers, Graded Grains, The Australian Playboys, and many more.

Also included is a lavish full-color booklet, offering discographies and histories of every act, as well as many rare photographs.

Torche / Boris

Split

Limited edition 10” featuring a new track from each band !

Todd Rundgren

For Lack Of Honest Work

For Lack Of Honest Work is just the beginning of what is to be the new Todd Rundgren officially sanctioned bootleg releases.

Featuring performances throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and spanning 4 decades over 3 discs (3 volumes) For Lack Of Honest Work is the ultimate live bootleg experience and the 1st authorized Todd Rundgren bootleg compilation.

Volume 1 from the opening It Wouldnt Make and Difference to the closing Hello Its Me, is a collection of songs guaranteed to make you get over heartbreak.

Volume 2 is an amalgam of synthesized soul Born To Synthesize, progressive Mr Triscuits, glam rock The Seven Rays and pop rock I Saw The Light, showcasing his lyrical genius and residual elements of smokey, gut-wrenching, love me or leave me soul.

Volume 3 illustrates Rundgrens musicial mastery and offers raw insight into his talent and state of being through the third and fourth decades of his career with favorites such as Bang On The Drum, Lysistrata and One World.

All the tracks have been newly re-mastered.

Soft Machine

Bundles

Digitally remastered edition of this 1975 album from the celebrated Jazz/Rock/Prog outfit.

The album was the band’s first for EMI’s Harvest label and featured a line-up of Mike Ratledge, Karl Jenkins, John Marshall, Roy Babbington and new member Allan Holdsworth.

Emerson Lake & Palmer

Pictures At An Exhibition

Pictures At An Exhibition was filmed at the Lyceum in London in December 1970.

A slightly different version was recorded in Newcastle in early 1971 for a live album release.

The film version was finally released in cinemas in 1973 and has had brief previous releases on VHS and DVD.

This new special edition, 40 years on from when it was originally filmed, has the most complete version of the film available and is presented in the best possible sound and picture quality, complete with the original ‘70s psychedelic effects.

The band is in fantastic form and their awesome musicianship is instantly apparent.

Various

Psych Bites Volume 2

Psych Bites Volume Two throws up an international melting pot of twisted mantras and wide-eyed rockers that are almost religiously defined by the volume of their fuzz boxes.

This global garden of unearthly delights hosts a variety of rare species including the last-ever mod boogaloo from 1970, presented by the honorary Spencer Mac and the pure psychosis of Decca’s African warriors Ofo The Black Company, with their distorted take on strumming the guitar taking on new levels of hysteria for lovers of acid, fuzz and punk.

The Psychomaniac offers a complete course in horticultural hallucinogens for the headcase with Indian chants, psychosis and neurotic reactions.

It’s all here in its most frenzied form of enlightenment for your spiritual consumption.

Other artists include: Zappatta Schmidt, The Chartbusters, The Messengers, Anvil Chorus, Frumpy, The Revells, Blackbirds 2000, Kannibal Komix, Krokodil, Rote Gitarren, Madeleine Chartrand, Athanor, Rattles, Danta, Dave Dean, Janie, and Orange Peel.