{"title":"Ghostly International","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"gold-panda-lucky-shiner-deluxe-edition-fireworks-vinyl-vinyl-lp","title":"Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner (Deluxe Edition - Fireworks Vinyl) Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the occasion of Ghostly's 25th Anniversary, here is a special Fireworks Vinyl repressing of Lucky Shiner featuring a download card with bonus tracks and detachable paper Obi exclusive to this pressing. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere were you for “You”? Gold Panda’s hypnotic track entered the celestial tape deck just as music blog culture neared its halcyon heights in the spring of 2010, stuttering across an excited global community of writers and fans. The sound was different; a collision of pinched and pitched vocal cuts, percussive vinyl-static pops, and teary-eyed chord changes that felt both human and foreign, as if the strange interpretation of youthful nostalgia were broadcasting back from some faraway future. Impossibly replayable (and remixable as proven by Osborne and others), “You” built off “Quitters Raga,” the British producer’s breakthrough single nine months earlier, and cleared the runway for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucky Shiner\u003c\/em\u003e, a career-propelling, watershed work that proved Gold Panda could stir emotion with modest methods in the full-length format as well. From the symphony of twinkling bells and strings on “Snow \u0026amp; Taxis” to the high-flying melancholia of “Marriage,”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucky Shiner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshaped a vision of electronic music that tugged at the heart as much as it nodded to the dancefloor. Now, for the album’s 10-year anniversary, Ghostly International gives\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucky Shiner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ean expanded edition digital release featuring bonus tracks, past remixes, and the previously tour-only CD-R, Unreleased Medical Journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the story goes,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucky Shiner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas named after Gold Panda aka Derwin Dicker’s grandmother Lakhi — “she pronounces it Lock-ee but a lot of people call her Lucky,” he explains (in 2020). “It's quite a funny title, you can imagine some old bloke in a British pub saying \"oioi! you lucky shiner!\" Dicker recorded the material in two sessions at his aunt and uncle's Essex home in the English countryside. \"They went away over Christmas for two weeks and asked me to look after their dog. I'd walk Daisy in the morning and then make tunes till she pestered me to take her out again. I'd bounce down what I'd done, stick my headphones on and walk her, get ideas, and repeat the process.\" The resulting collection is viscerally linked to headphone listening, whether the playback hovers over the hum of a laptop fan or the wind of a walk outside. The album bore the trademarks of pastorally hued Englishness via its retreat origins, but also took certain shades from Derwin’s two years spent abroad studying Japanese culture, language, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps only a novice would be open-eared and fearless enough to explore such disparate sources and makeshift experiments. Gold Panda reflects a decade on: “I’m most proud of the fact that I made a record with very little musical knowledge and a small amount of gear. I'm just listening to ‘Marriage’ now and it's only got 3 drum sounds and two are from a Gameboy running Nanoloop. ‘Parents’ is a guitar into a 4track. ‘Same Dream China’ has a kalimba played into the MPC then chopped up and pitched around. I recorded that into the MPC with a mic, I had no idea the mic needed phantom power, I just turned the record in gain up to max but I think the hiss made it better. At first, I was embarrassed about how it turned out, it was really pop when my influences in electronic music were more, well, underground and leftfield I suppose. I was really into the ‘glitch’ kind of sound, especially the Raster-Noton and Mille Plateaux stuff and anything similar. Now when I listen I can hear those influences quite clearly. When it was released I don't think I realized how good it was, considering I didn't have much gear. I was worried that the heavy compression might date it but it sounds alright.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucky Shiner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an axiom for so much of the electronic music that would come in the decade since its humble inceptions. As myriad bedroom productions ebb and flow with trends and microgenres, flashing, sizzling, and often fading away, this one has withstood and remains unto itself the genuine article. Though ten years have passed, the music continues to strike with a timelessness, forever facing forward with a naive brilliance. Ghostly has championed that here in this comprehensive suite, offering more than one sitting’s worth of ways to experience\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLucky Shiner\u003c\/em\u003e. This set contains multiple interpretations of each single, digital rarities, and the lost-to-Discogs tour CD notably absent from streaming services until now, all extended to fans old and new.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finer Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850811048252,"sku":"FSLP-274","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/files\/GI-123_1400_300dpi_1200x_ff8ffb48-45cd-4550-920c-73ef7e9b11a1.jpg?v=1752438392"},{"product_id":"shigeto-full-circle-25-year-anniversary-edition-blue-purple-marble-vinyl-vinyl-lp","title":"Shigeto - Full Circle (25 Year Anniversary Edition Blue \u0026 Purple Marble Vinyl) Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThus far, Zach Saginaw's releases as Shigeto have been fragments, albeit singularly satisfying fragments -- EP-length glimpses into the Detroit producer’s creative psyche. After filling two EPs on Ghostly International, Shigeto's lush, sumptuous take on instrumental hip-hop has fully materialized. Full Circle, the artist’s first full-length album, completes the journey begun with Shigeto’s Semi-Circle EP, synthesizing the drummer\/producer’s signature themes of family, continuity, and musical boundary-pushing into a vibrant, fully unified artistic statement.The sounds on Full Circle come from four years of obsessive field recording and collaboration. Saginaw brought his Tascam mini-recorder with him everywhere, capturing the \"glasses, chains, breathing, children, family meals, monks singing in cathedrals, walks in the south of France, and good friends offering their musical skill\" that would all find homes in the record’s compositional nooks and crannies. As a result of Saginaw's constant documentation, the songs on Full Circle play like chapters in an ongoing story--as in \"Escape from the Incubator\", whose initial rhythmic claustrophobia opens up into a boom-clap nocturnal chase, or \"French Kiss Power Up\", whose romantic digital strut gives way to discord and fragmentation as the waves of synthesizer give way to a shaky, neurotic coda. Full Circle is framed by the \"Ann Arbor\" diptych, a pair of beat suites named after Saginaw's hometown (one featuring a sample of Detroit MC SelfSays), all double-thick synths and triple-strength kick drums. Saginaw plays the majority of his rhythms by hand, and Full Circle’s consistently deep pocket is the record’s secret weapon, thumping and breathing like a living being.Having set the stage with Semi-Circle and What We Held On To EPs--twin treatises on Saginaw's Japanese grandmother’s escape from a US internment camp--Shigeto is clearly ready to draw the tale to a close and take center stage. \"This release represents the end of the beginning--or perhaps that there is no end and no beginning at all,\" says Saginaw. 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I spent most of the year traveling and that gave me a lot of time to think. I got to know myself a lot better and that helped me be more honest with myself… that helped me write more honest music and gave me inspiration and excitement for the future.\"This sense of internal reflection and confidence imbues every moment of this record. As Saginaw says, \"I feel when things change so much so fast, you are forced to look at what is right in front of you… [to] look at what's happening in the moment, [which] sometimes helps you embrace that moment. These songs are that for me. Don't sleep on a feeling. If it feels right it is. We say life is 'short,' but [we] know it feels 'long,' so when you have a chance to be honest with yourself, take it — there is no better time than now.\" No better time, indeed.Fans of Shigeto's previous work will find all the hallmarks of his sound here — the warm, inviting washes of liquid synth sounds, the intricate production, the jazz-influenced arrangements. Now, however, they're imbued with a subtle energy — \"Detroit Part 1,\" for instance, features a surprisingly pounding hip hop beat, while \"Ringleader\" is propelled by an insistent hi-hat pattern that sits slightly ahead of the beat, giving the track a driving mood that belies its tempo. Even the quieter tracks retain a certain sense of urgency — the aforementioned \"Soul Searching,\" for instance, is a track that sounds just as reflective as its name might suggest, but it's kept from drifting too far into introspection by a powerful, echo-laden beat. The title track starts out in a similarly pensive vein, but builds slowly into a storm of fuzzy synth sounds and clattering drums. Even the penultimate \"Silver Lining,\" a quietly beautiful mixture of Shigeto’s evocative vocals and tinkling electric piano, features one of the punchier kickdrum sounds you'll ever hear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finer Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850811277628,"sku":"FSLP-276","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/files\/GI184_cab30467-7f10-45de-8649-2ee1f08a6ca8.jpg?v=1752438409"},{"product_id":"c418-minecraft-volume-alpha-transparent-green-vinyl-vinyl-lp","title":"C418 - Minecraft Volume Alpha (Transparent Green Vinyl) Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMinecraft is a dreamscape, a limitless world where anything is possible. Minecraft is a tool, a means of bringing the imagination to life. Minecraft is a community, a platform on which inventive minds of all ages can share their creations and ideas. Minecraft, of course, is also a game, the most popular and best-selling video game of all time. Created in 2009 by Swedish programmer Markus \"Notch\" Persson, this cultural phenomenon speaks volumes of our current zeitgeist's love for virtual spaces, but its unprecedented success couldn't be pinned on one factor alone. Countless layers of thoughtful artistry flow through Minecraft's singular experience, not the least of which is its transportive soundtrack by C418, the project of German composer and musician Daniel Rosenfeld. Minecraft Volume Alpha, the first installment of a two-part OST, helped breathe life into the game's voxel-based universe. Upon release, fans and critics were universally enamored with C418's beatless, nuanced electronic pieces. Popular gaming site Kotaku named it among The Best Game Music of 2011, calling the music \"remarkably soothing.\" The Guardian compared Rosenfeld's delicate piano and sparse ambient motifs to legendary artists Erik Satie and Brian Eno. 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Consistent with his solo work is Hauschildt’s ability to coil his craft in precise, varied, and distinctly physical forms. Gently spinning arpeggios converse with post-industrial decay. Sonic fibers sway like pendulums from static melancholy to motorik bliss. Dissolvi, the artist’s first full-length with Ghostly International, engages sublimation from an ontological perspective: by dissociating the self. Hauschildt steps out from the singular path, for the first time in a traditional studio, to compose and arrange contributions from friends. As a result, his most collaborative work to date extends a vast, vibrating framework in which to consider the state of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album's title — a reference to cupio dissolvi, the Latin phrase meaning \"I wish to be dissolved\" — needn't be taken one-dimen- sionally or as purely solipsistic. It does, however, serve an apt reference. Physiological phenomena are of interest to Hauschildt. These back-of-mind ruminations find their way out. Songs are cerebral in orientation, but beyond explanation, the music is truly visceral. Involuntary eye movement inspires the serene, sanguine-near- ing-suspicious \"Saccade.\" Hauschildt feathers soft percussion beneath the echoed refrains of Los Angeles musician Julianna Barwick, together shaping a svelte suggestion of the anxieties brought about by modern-day surveillance; if everyone is being watched constantly, there is no individual, no self, only a broadly monitored and clumsily cataloged populous. The work of Chicago poet Carl Sandburg comes to mind: “I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.” The individual dissolves into the taxonomic crowd. Minimalist techno impulses provide a stylistic through-line for Dissolvi. Understated synth phrases and drum grooves take hold in selective moments, like synchronistic structures onto which nebulous mists, like the rapturous voice of Gabrielle Herbst aka GABI on \"Syncope,\" cling to and cloud, producing a dazzling rift in consciousness. The 7-minute centerpiece \"Alienself\" reiterates this creative logic, burbling like an amorphous body of water on a low-gravity planet, on the verge of dissolving, but never fully dematerializing. The album was constructed in Chicago (where Hauschildt now resides) and partially in New York. \"Much of it was recorded in a windowless studio which removed elemental or seasonal references to time in the music,\" says Hauschildt. \"The focus this time was on mixing the album and incorporating a broader set of instrumentation. I describe my compositional approach as being quasi-generative.\" Embracing new methods and philosophical curiosities, and in turn, expanding the range of his repertoire, Hauschildt proposes a fascinating and profoundly rich experience in listening, being, and deliquescing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finer Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850811605308,"sku":"FSLP-278","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/files\/GI320_031fab78-67ea-42ba-a599-c3ca2ec5f43a.jpg?v=1752438414"},{"product_id":"khotin-finds-you-well-transparent-purple-vinyl-lp","title":"Khotin - Finds You Well (Transparent Purple Vinyl) Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSince debuting his Khotin project in 2014, Edmonton’s Dylan Khotin-Foote has fine-tuned an impressionistic, dream-like style of music that straddles multiple sonic worlds. His output often sways from gentle synthesized atmospherics to hypnotic, dance-minded frameworks. His self-released 2018 LP, Beautiful You, offered a study on melody and memory; the album’s nostalgia-nudging use of passing environments, voices, and abstractions captivated a cult following, a rare 4.5 review in Resident Advisor and the attention of Ghostly International, who pressed the cassette on vinyl for wider circulation in 2019. Now, Khotin reveals his first collection of new material since the signing. The album is a fluid continuation of his blissful and melancholic songcraft, extended humbly and warmly, Finds You Well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs tongue-in-cheek as the title may appear, the phrase has haunted the producer for some time. Most often seen at the start of correspondence, the words “I hope this email finds you well” can land with varying levels of sincerity, depending on context and mood. Khotin-Foote started to read the line more ominously during the onset of the pandemic. So, this set of music winks at both possibilities, mixing a platitude’s opaque optimism with lurking uncertainty. Finds You Well can be heard in near-symmetrical halves: its 10 tracks represent the selections from a bounty of demos that, with less modes- ty, could have filled two records, one active and the other ambient. The resulting set isn’t an even split but it’s close. The A-side centers on the album’s steadiest sequence of beat-centric material. “Ivory Tower” is inextricably tied to benchmarks set by late ‘90s downtempo forerunners, spilling lucious and narcotic synth modulations across a sprinkler’s spray of breakbeats. Khotin’s sprightly melodic noodling brings that touchstone sound into vogue, bubbling up in free-form spurts. The sequence contin- ues through the propulsive “Heavyball,” into “Groove 32,” which begins with a funky bit-clipped drum and bongo boogie. A tight bass-line plugs into place, building a grid for square-wave pads, shimmering melodic textures, and stuttering vocal samples to percolate in. Khotin’s tone stabilizes on the B-side, balancing decidedly bucolic terrain with suspiciously eerie melancholy. Voices wander in the sprawling fre- quency sweeps. Organic textures sizzle and sputter in the clouds. “WEM Lagoon Jump” references local West Edmonton folklore, the time a kid jumped from a shopping mall’s second-floor balcony into the main pa- vilion’s fountain. After the splash, we land in the record’s most satisfying stasis, “Your Favorite Building.” A brittle clave and muffled kick hover in a wobbly mist of organ chords; the building is gorgeous, but seen at night, and empty, and from this angle, those shadows seem to crop up more of those subdued tremors, those nostalgic creeps, those droll musings. From behind a wall of melody, a kid peeks their head and softly sings, “you must love the world because it’s wonderful,” the vocal snippet comes courtesy of Khotin-Foote’s sister, Amaris. For much of Finds You Well’s second half, Khotin dabbles in a dusty and slightly detuned piano sound, revealing an artist unafraid to change shapes but maintain course. This set of chimeric visions sidesteps the subdued bombast that fills the A-side; instead, it suggests a counterpoint emphasizing the uncanny overlap between well wishes and empty promises.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finer Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51850811736380,"sku":"FSLP-279","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/files\/GI371_35a1cb84-9f52-4456-827f-3d51930937e3.jpg?v=1752438397"},{"product_id":"julie-byrne-the-greater-wings-sky-blue-vinyl-vinyl-lp","title":"Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings (Sky Blue Vinyl) Vinyl LP","description":"The first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, she now emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the most powerful, lustrous, and life-affirming music of her career, The Greater Wings. While they hold the plasticity of grief and trauma, the songs are universally resonant, unbridled in their devotion and joy, held up by the love and alliance of a chosen family. Byrne leans further into atmospheres both expansive and intimate; the lush, evocative songcraft flows between her signature fingerpicked guitar, synthesizer, and a newly adopted piano, made wider by flourishes of harp and strings. It is the transcendent sound of resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments — raw, gorgeous, and wild.The Greater Wings was written across several seasons, pulling imagery from nights on tour, periods of isolation, and the drives cross-country for its various collaborations between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Recording started with the late Eric Littmann, her longtime creative partner and Not Even Happiness producer, and finished in the Catskills of New York with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick).\"My hope for The Greater Wings is that it lives as a love letter to my chosen family and as an expression of the depth of my commitment to our shared future. Being reshaped by grief also has me more aware of what death does not take from me. I commit that to heart, to words, to sound. Music is not bound to any kind of linear time, so in the capacity to record and speak to the future: this is what it felt like to me, when we were simultaneous, alive, occurring all at once. What it has felt like to go up against my edge and push, the love that has made it worth all this fight. These memories are my values, they belong with me.\"Julie Byrne will confess the success of her 2017 LP Not Even Happiness was unexpected; nine gracefully road-worn odes to the fringes of life she assembled without any expectation that they'd travel so far beyond their DIY origins. But its hushed closing track, \"I Live Now As A Singer,\" did forecast an intention. She knew the open space — occupied by Littmann's signature palette of synth tones, Jake Falby's strings, and Byrne's robust, drifting voice — presented something new and thrilling, something they'd develop as a live band touring the world, and what would later be understood as the catalyst for material to come. 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And while three striking singles have emerged since then, the sum of all those sepia-toned parts is nowhere near the double-exposed soundscapes of Dive. The product of a prolonged break from IS050's design work and blog, it pays tribute to Tycho's prismatic past (the dense, guitar-guided turning points of \"Daydream\" and \"Adrift\") but spends most of it's time pointing to the project's not-so-distant future. That can mean any number of things, really, from the halcy- on hooks and hopeful horizons of \"A Walk\" to the expansive, wildly expressive tone poetry of the title track, an eight-min- ute epic that unfolds like a compressed concept album. Or at the very least, a restless vision of prog-rock-one that's been coated in neon colors and filtered through a thick piece of blotter paper. And then there's \"Elegy,\" a spare curtain closer that pairs a vulnerable crescendo with a fitting bridge to future works. 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For their first LP with new label home, Ghostly International, Green-House grows and refines their vivid instrumental songcraft with uncharted, genre-defying freedom and movement, a more active, percussive, and emotion-filled energy, marked by flowing bodies of sound and sweeping vistas. Hinterlands tunes into the beauty of the world with defiant, radical sincerity.Since 2020, across a catalog of acclaimed releases via the scene-creating Los Angeles imprint, Leaving Records, the duo has pursued a curiosity in environments, reaching for innate and faraway spaces by way of organic and synthetic instrumentation, high-definition sound design, and “idiosyncratic melodies crafted with the patient and methodical hand of a gardener,” writes Pitchfork. Green-House doesn’t fit neatly into any single category. 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This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. 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Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. 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His five-decade legacy continues to grow and attract new fans, and has been cited by an acclaimed list of artists, including Mac DeMarco, Cameron Winter, Ginger Root, Vampire Weekend, and Harry Styles. Shaped by mid-century American music, Hosono's work now reverberates back through a new generation of Western artists—a remarkable circular exchange. Yours Sincerely, his 23rd studio album and first collection of new music in over seven years, finds Hosono ever-pushing his exploratory songcraft: “I am now 78 years old, but from here on, I feel a growing curiosity toward the unknown music that my new self will create, while also embracing the music of my former self—as if I now carry two musical worlds within me.” Across arrangements that span tender psych-folk and bubbling avant pop, Hosono contemplates the concept of a maternal force that envelops the Earth, “humanity’s understanding of the unconditional love possessed by those who give us life,” he says. 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