Torn Light Records

@tornlight

Record store 1855 N Milwaukee Chicago, IL Open 10AM-7PM daily We are always buying records, CDs and tapes. Top prices paid.
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Out next Friday on Torn Light: Michael Vallera - The Other World CD Just in time for Michael's performance at GRM next week. The CDs are shipping now, and will soon be available at @tobirarecords in Japan & @soundohm in Europe.
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1 year ago
Up now for pre-order!!!! Stream the first track “Sheep Man” on our Bandcamp. Church Shuttle “ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle” is an 8 track LP of alien abducted industrial music. Specifically Pure Michigan soundscapes Chris Durham has unveiled to us for over a decade. “A depressed Whitehouse” - Tyler Hicks, Creode Vinyl ships on/around April 1st. Released in an edition of 200 copies.
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1 year ago
We are in beta of our new Jazz delivery systems here at Torn Light. Please let us know what you think.
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13 hours ago
Open today (and everyday) 10-7pm New arrivals is absolutely stack with newly priced LPs and we have the newly released 2XL Lp from @stern.records Pol Malo - Right Into The Sun Up on the site for mail-order now! Originally released on CD-R in 1999 by Cha-Bashira Records Tokyo under the alias “Orange Head,” this new 2xLP edition features fully remastered audio and new cover art by Pol. This release also includes a special risograph print edition of the original artwork. Recorded using 3-6 portable record players, plus one MD player on tracks 2 and 4. All records used were melted, warped or broken by briefly placing them on a gas heater. The records were randomly altered this way to allow the styluses to find and stay in their own loops themselves on the wavy record surfaces. No samplers or editing - live aleatoric playback recordings only. Raw, cacophonous kinetic sound!
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14 hours ago
Selection of books up on the site from a massive collection we’ve been working though. Hit the site or send us a message. Raymond Pettibon: A Reader - $22 Jean Baudrillard – Seduction - $40 St Martin’s Press/New World Perspectives, 1990 Softcover Edition. Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change. - $50 Prestel, 2016 Hardcover Edition. Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary - $45 Peter Brotzmann: Along The Way - $30 Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler - $20 The Exegesis Of Philip K. Dick - $20 WhiteWalls: Fluxus - $50 WhiteWalls, 1987 Softcover edition. Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid - $50 Taschen, 2013 Hardcover edition. R. Bruce Elder – The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson - $75 Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998 Hardcover edition
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1 day ago
The Sleeves are comprised of Tara Cunningham & Jack Cooper (both of Modern Nature) - Another record scratching the itch in my brain. Sparse guitar duo play & vocals. Not folk. A constellation of wonderful moments. Released by 12XU
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2 days ago
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Pleasure Tax, self titled LP. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ "Make eye contact, but don't stare. Keep hand visible. Ask open ended questions. Roll your shoulders back and smile. The most effective conversation is "Hello, how are you?" Inside jokes are great too for opening up conversation. Ask someone about topics that trigger dopamine." Pleasure Tax is the solo project of Jeannine Lonardo of Equipment Pointed Ankh / Shutaro's Roadhouse Band. This is the perfect sweet spot for music I NEED TO SURVIVE in the echo chamber of stuck culture... The cross point of post-prog into kraut & post-punk. Driving, borrowing from all things to just make it happen. Don't hold onto my buzz word/genre engineering. Who cares what I think. Just listen. Incredible lyrics & delivery of everything. Co-produced by Jim Marlowe (EPA/Roadhouse Band/#1 homie) The insert includes a list of all instrumentation for the tracks & a photo of a cat that is captioned "Hello, How are you?" - perfect. The first LP release on Jim Marlowe's label, Newton's Kidney.
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2 days ago
Next Monday May 18th! Performance Tap Dancer & Experimental Percussionist @reona_tapdance_metalperc / will be preforming at the Hideout as apart of her current US tour. (Check out her IG for highlights from this tour and some amazing clips or her performances) Supported by Sarah Lutkenhaus & Tyler Damon, Leroy Bach, Mai Sugimoto Trio. Presented in collaboration with @tornlight Tickets are $15 and Starts at 9:30
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3 days ago
150 tapes out in the shop now. Large collections of Astral Spirits, Dinzu Artefacts, Never Anything Records, Notice Recordings, Fort Evil Fruit + various other underground sounds from around the world. Full list in our stories 👁️
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3 days ago
Some new arrivals and current highlights in the book section right now. Keep checking the cart for new arrivals dropping daily. Open 10-7 today and buying collections every day
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4 days ago
Here today 10AM-7PM 🌞🎶
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5 days ago
Another collection in today of music that we love. ❣️
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6 days ago