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EOL 068LP
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$32.00
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RELEASE DATE: 1/16/2026
Reissued 30 years after its release, this is the second full-length album by the most important band in Basque thrashcore! 180g vinyl, remastered and redesigned for the occasion. At the end of the summer of 1995, rumors were circulating about the break-up of Anestesia. Dani (bassist) was leaving the band and speculation was rife. But that's all it was, rumors. Two months later, Erantzun was released. The bassist was Txarly, who fit in perfectly with the band's dynamic, without any problems. This second album consolidated the band. The sound quality was excellent for an album recorded in five days at the IZ studios in Amasa (Gipuzkoa), with Kaki Arkarazo returning as engineer, who had also been at the helm for the band's debut album, Gorrotoaren ahotsa.
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EL 1082LP
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$64.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 1/16/2026
The musical legacy of a night that will live on for years. The 40th anniversary roar. Under the title Akelarre Antifascista ("Anti-Fascist Witches' Coven," or "Anti-Fascist Celebration"), in a reference to the legendary Akelarre, a wild gathering of Basque witches, this album distils all the intensity, sweat and collective excitement of a night when thousands of voices joined together to celebrate not just a career, but a way of seeing art as resistance. On 15th February 2025, Madrid saw more than just a concert: it was a collective ritual, an anti-fascist celebration in which thousands of voices came together as one to celebrate the tenacity of a voice that never surrendered. Four decades after lighting the fuse of combative rock in Euskal Herria, the Basque Country, Fermin Muguruza chose the capital of Spain, a city that closed its doors to him so many times and that he has described as "the heart of the beast," to make the definitive record of his 40th anniversary tour. The result is Akelarre Antifascista, a live album that distils the history of a musical and political resistance that has spanned generations, languages and frontiers. The concert, sold out with 15,000 people, was an explosion of energy, memory and future. Right from the first chord, the Sports Palace of Madrid became an open setting, a free territory where bodies, rhythms, languages and flags mixed freely.
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ELK 187LP
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The cover, created by Manolo Gil and based on the band's own idea, bears an undeniable resemblance to that of The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet (Decca, 1968). Sometime later, the band said they were not aware of the resemblance when the final design of the album was decided. The recording and mixing were once again in the hands of Jean Phocas. The double-sheet inside, which contains only the lyrics in three languages (Spanish, Basque and English), is particularly noteworthy. On this occasion, the album's production seems to have a guitar sound that is perhaps more powerful than on other occasions. At times it even sounds like the arrangements of a heavy rock or metal band. Green color vinyl.
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ELK 241LP
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Jean Phocas appears as the person in charge of the recording, once again carried out at the Elkar studios. Manolo Gil, who already worked with the band from Salvatierra in the same role on Ellos Dicen Mierda, Nosotros Amén, assisted by Jokin Larrea, is in charge of the cover design. Apart from the atypical Los Jubilados, this is the album in which the changes in the band's sound are most noticeable. From the start, the heavy, cutting guitars are striking, more in keeping with a metal rock band. The production is very technical. Despite this, "Radio Crime" is one of the best on the album. Purple color vinyl.
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ZL 629LP
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In 1967, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a group of seminarians created a rock band: Enarak ("The Swallows"). They played pop, rock and psychedelia, styles that were strange in the society of the time and, only in Basque. In 1969 they recorded an EP consisting of three songs: a version of the popular song "Solferinoko istua," "Ama," and "Bañan ez," all the band´s own compositions. Over the next four years, they gave hundreds of concerts all over the Basque Country, the last one in Larraitz, in the shadow of Mount Txindoki, on 31 October 1971. On a cold, misty night lit by a full moon, they brought together some 5,000 young people with the intention of enjoying modern music. After that night, they disappeared forever. Their only traces are the three songs you will find on this album. The B-side songs are performed live in 2023 by Amorante, Rüdiger, and Liher. With the aim of recovering and making the history of the group known, the Bira Produkzioak cooperative has produced a documentary entitled Enarak. This is not just an album or a concert in the usual way. It is an exorcism, a ritual for the resurrection of Enarak, a historical piece and, at the same time, an object of memory that encapsulates the soul of the group.
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ELK 1028LP
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Black is Beltza II: Ainhoa arrives and, with it, the soundtrack of almost thirty songs. Black is Beltza, the first feature film directed by Fermin Muguruza was released in 2018. Now that it is three years since the death of his brother Iñigo Muguruza, Fermin presents the second part of Black is Beltza as a tribute to his younger brother.
"Ainhoa, daughter of Manex and Amanda, will embark on her journey of initiation in the mid-80s. In our country, when we talk about the '80s, how quickly words, images and a certain atmosphere come to everyone's mind (even to those of us who were born almost twenty years later). And between words, images and atmosphere, something else, pieces of a puzzle that would later help us to take a picture of the era, among other things: sounds, melodies, songs. Music, after all . . . We follow Ainhoa through almost thirty songs, from Kabul to Pamplona and from Amed to Marseilles, or Beirut, or Havana. With vindictive songs by groups such as Kortatu, Cicatriz, Barricada or RIP, which formed part of the Basque Radical Rock, we will jump to the Basque Country in the '80s of the last century . . . Although most are original songs, there are also beautiful versions made from the vantage point of this second decade of the 21st century: Broken Brothers Brass Band sings to Nicaragua and Mursego curses the bourgeoisie with the strength of the four strings of the cello and the piano. In addition to the contribution of the versions, 'Maite Arroitajauregi', Mursego, has been responsible for the original music of the film. A collection of songs that will also put us out of our village . . . Redskins tell us about power from the UK and The Pogues combine traditional Irish melodies with Turkish flair. We will travel through Lebanon with the sweet melodies of Soapkills and Taniah Saleh, friends of Muguruza during his months in Beirut. The fundamentalists silenced the voices of the Afghans Bakht Zamina and Khan Qarabaghi, ending their lives, but as long as a people sings, you know, death is far away . . . We will approach Palestinian folklore accompanied by the voice of Amal Murkus and we will smell the streets of the south of France with the Marseille band Massilia Sound System, the sound system that performed in Pamplona in 1992 alongside Negu Gorriak. And we will jump from Kurdistan to Cuba with the Afro-Cuban rhythm of Brenda Navarrete..." --Amets Aranguren Also features Imanol, Benny Moré, Mikel Laboa, Wajiha Rastagar, Welatê Me, and Joseba Tapia.
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EO 150LP
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Brigadistak Sound System, originally released on Esan Ozenki Records in 1999, is the title of Fermin Muguruza's first solo album. Now, on the 20th anniversary of the album's release, Elkar present a carefully-edited double-LP set. The album was recorded for more than six months in different studios around the world: Rome, Carracas, Los Angeles, Azkarate... And groups like Todos Tus Muertos, Manu Chao, Desorden Público, and many others participated in these recordings. The album ended with a remix by Mad Professor and in this edition, Elkar have added another remix by Xabi Pery. 180 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve.
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ELK 963EP
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A band immersed in a constant process of expansion based on experimentation. Delorean's last challenge, a live-focused project to pay homage to -- though not cover -- the great Mikel Laboa, culminating in the release of this interesting and hypnotic album. They use Mikel Laboa's original voice recordings to create an enveloping universe of sound. Elegant and respectful. This piece won them the prize for the best disc in Basque at the 2017 independent music awards.
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