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~~~ New symbols & letters as we move forward, designed by Kristian Henson @kristian_henson Excited to share this new partnership/collaboration 🌞 ✨✨✨ Kristian Henson (Filipino-American, b. 1981, Los Angeles) is a designer, director and publisher based in Muntinlupa, focused on working in collaboration with artists, photographers and art institutions with a primary focus on The Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. In 2013 he co-founded the publishing imprint Hardworking Goodlooking with Clara Balaguer as a means of researching and circulating concepts such as social-practice art making, decolonization in design, vernacular typography, cyber folkways and local print culture. Their work has been featured in a range of talks, workshops and residencies in spaces such as The Walker Art Center, MoMA PS1, Swiss Institute, Printed Matter, Gwangju Biennale, 356 Mission, Ulises, CCA, Parsons, Pratt, VCU and Central Saint Martins. Henson has a BFA from Art Center and a MFA from Yale University School of Art. Transplanting from New York City to Metro Manila full-time in 2021, his studio continues to expand into applying theory and experience toward personal / commercial projects both locally and abroad.

caption reads: Much love to the dancers, listeners, Magic makers, Disruptors, activators, freaks, weirdos, raverz, loners, lovers, outsiders, club kidz, creative transmuters, angels, demons, bedroom musicians, djs, music nerds, earth workers, ceramicists, writers, weavers, land reformers, regenerative practioners, synth wizardesses, noise makers, print makers, seamstresses, diy clothing designers, builders, performers, back of house staff, organizers and facilitators, skill sharers, gate openers,sculptresses, drawers, painters, photographers, muralists, movement artists, performance artists, hard to define artists, self taught artists, emcees, video projectionists, installation / lighting wizards, herbalists, healers, poets, neighborhood nourishers, zinesters, mixtape makers, small label runners and publishers, space holders, local radio stations, self run handmade creators, archivists that shine light on forgotten stories, fighters, protectors, quiet heros, those that don’t get enough props for their tireless work and brilliance, dreamers, also to those that have passed on to other worldly realms and those that feel left behind and forgotten, tomorrow is also for you

CST Imprint’s logo has a new look and we love it! ✨🎶 design by Will Liang @radcheckers 🌝

Open today 2-8p Today’s Staff Pick @mattbrownell____ Shinichi Atobe - Silent Way / Plastic & Sounds Track featured: TRNS Japanese dub techno luminary returns with another full-length, the first on his newly minted Plastic & Sounds label. Perfectly minimal, deceptively simple, utterly hypnotic the swirly discordant synths in a Terrence Dixon vein on TRNS 💯

Open today 2-8p Today’s Staff Pick @bored_lord Boo Williams - Pleasant Dreams / Chiwax Classic Edition Track featured: Mistical Journey Boo Williams crafts a 4 track EP of classic house music. Half the record is light and uplifting with soulful piano. The other half is hypnotic and deep with 303 acid lines and masterful drumwork. Wouldn’t expect anything less from the Chicago legend.

We got another one for ya, this one is dedicated to all the mamas 💐 Today’s Staff Pick @radcheckers : Ben Shirken - H.D. Reliquary Track featured: Take it all w/ Dorothy Carlos & Muein perfect for a gloomy slow morning or a late night wind-down ~ enjoy it on any tempo for a jellyfish moment 🪼 Ex Wiish’s first full length solo under his name and label (29 Speedway) featuring collabs w/ Pavel Milyakov, MIZU, Dorothy Carlos, Kevin Eichenberger and Muein.

Open today 12-6p Today’s Staff Pick @boredlord : Drexciya - Hydro Doorways, Fusion Flats, Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller 1-4 Track featured: Fusion Flats (043 Chaos Remix) What music is supposed to sound like 🔊 From Tresor’s Drexciya reissue series, Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller 1-4 sealed 💌

Open today 12-6p Today’s Staff Pick Susumu Yokota - Unreleased Works 94’ - 97’ Track featured: Dust Unearthed Dat tapes from Susumu Yokota’s golden mid 90s era, remastered and showcasing his deeper explorations in acid and ambient during the making of Acid Mt. Fuji and Ebi’s Zen. Sealed 💌

Open today 2-8p Today’s Staff Pick Devon Rexi meets John T. Gast - Breathstep Track featured: Breathstep We r obsessed w Devon Rexi 🔥 psych dub fried no wavy postpunk with vocoder Farsi chants outta Amsterdam. Link up with John T. Gast (5 Gate Temple) on Accidental Meetings RIYL: ESG, Holy Tongue, Gang Gang Dance

Open today 2-8p lots of new arrivals in the bins, come have a look ☀️ Today’s pick : glob deejay - glob Track featured: “clowns” Swirly / effervescent / foggy sunrise deep minimal house out of South London from Stone Burletson on naff recordings

We are a few days away from our listening event this Sunday with Philipp Otterbach ☄️ We are excited to include Errorbesque on the line up who will be doing live visuals all evening ~~~~~~ Errorbesque is a cross-disciplinary artist with active practices in dance, illustration, generative visuals, costuming, and set design. Often collaborating with dancers and musicians, he uses various visual mediums for analyzing and extending the expression of their performance. He is particularly interested in glitch as a metadata layer that can both contribute and degrade information.” For opening support we have Night School, the extracurricular gathering of DJ NFS, Matt Brownell, and Matt Sussman for third mind exploration. Capacity is limited so come early! Don’t forget to bring cushions for extra relaxation ~~~~~~~ +Philipp Otterbach +Nightschool +viz by Errorbesque Doors 6p 5.10.2026 Sunday Green Room at The Crown 2523 Broadway, Oakland $15 NOTAFLOF

Tomorrow join us for an intimate listening party at the shop as we are excited to share the first vinyl pressing of Marc Leclair’s (aka Akufen) Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes released on ISC Hi-Fi Selects + streaming via Community Music Group. 5/7 Thurs 7p Opening set by Izaak S playing adjacent sounds followed by a full listen of the album at 8p From In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi: First issued on CD in the early 2000s, Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes (Music for Three Pregnant Women) now returns in a new edition from In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi, appearing on vinyl for the first time as a double LP. The record is being pressed in Detroit at Archer Record Pressing, the historic plant behind deep-groove classics by Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Underground Resistance, UR’s Jeff Mills, and J Dilla. Listeners who know the Montreal-based Leclair through his better-known work as Akufen might be surprised by the tone here. During the same years he was shaping the intricate micro-sampling tracks that made Akufen a cult figure on labels including Perlon, Force Inc. and Trapez, Leclair was quietly developing this far more personal project. The meticulous craftsmanship remained the same, though the focus shifted from the hyper-detailed cut-up rhythms of his dance records toward something slower and more atmospheric. The new In Sheep’s Clothing Hi-Fi edition finally presents the record in the format Leclair long imagined. “I always thought that record deserved a vinyl edition,” he says. Spread across two LPs, the music now has room to unfold at its natural pace. More than twenty years after it first appeared, Musique pour 3 femmes enceintes remains what it was from the start: a carefully shaped meditation on transformation and the quiet miracle of life beginning.