WE CURRENTLY HAVE  NEARLY 200  LISTED ITEMS

 

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·      SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE - BIOSYSTEM - ORIGINAL BRITISH PRESSING - ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1977 BRITISH-ONLY INCUS STEREO LP INCUS 24.

 

·      ORIGINAL U.K. PRESSING

 

·      ORIGINAL WHITE INCUS LABEL WITH THE BLACK PRINT AND BLACK INCUS (EAR BONE) MOTIF ON TOP OF THE LABEL

 

·      THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.K. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

 

·      ORIGINAL, THIN CARDBOARD COVER (EUROPEAN STYLE)

 

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

 

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

 

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

 

 

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AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THE OWNER OF ONE OF THE MOST MAJESTIC, MINDBLOWING RECORD COLLECTIONS ON THE PLANET EARTH (16,000 LP ALBUMS ALTOGETHER, OF WHICH ROUGHLY 10,000 TO BE OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC), TO OFFER ONLINE HIS COLLECTION TO THE MUSIC PROFESSIONALS, SERIOUS JAZZ COLLECTORS AND GENERAL PUBLIC WORLDWIDE. BARRING ANY LAST-MINUTE DEVELOPMENTS, THIS WILL BE THE SINGLE BIGGEST PROJECT THIS SELLER HAS EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN AND IS EXPECTED TO LAST ANYWHERE BETWEEN THREE AND FIVE YEARS. WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL BE OFFERING INDIVIDUAL ITEMS IN GROUPS OF 150-300 IN SIZE, LISTED APPROXIMATELY ONE MONTH APART. THIS IS THE SECOND OF WHAT WILL PROBABLY BE ABOUT 50 SIMILAR INSTALLMENTS AND SHOULD GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT IS TO COME

 

THE BULK OF THE COLLECTION (ABOUT 90%) CONSISTS OF SOME OF THE RAREST AND MOST COVETED FREE- AND AVANT-GARDE JAZZ, SPIRITUAL JAZZ, RADICAL FREE-BLOWING JAZZ, FAR-OUT FUSION, ELECTRONIC JAZZ, SOUL-JAZZ, BEAT POETRY, EXPERIMENTAL AND IMPROVISATORY JAZZ AND MILITANT AND TRIBAL JAZZ OF EVERY SHAPE, SHADE AND FORM KNOWN TO MAN. NOTHING OF THIS NATURE HAS EVER BEEN SO SYSTEMATICALLY ASSEMBLED AND OBSESSIVELY PRESERVED IN ONE PLACE IN THE AVANT-GARDE JAZZ DOMAIN EVER, ANYWHERE, BY ANYONE. ALL MAJOR ARTISTS WHO EVER CREATED MUSIC IN THE FREE- , EXPERIMENTAL- AND SPIRITUAL JAZZ REALM WILL BE REPRESENTED, AS WILL BE HUNDREDS OF LESSER KNOWN, BUT EQUALLY INFLUENTIAL CULT ARTISTS WHO LEFT INDELIBLE STAMP ON THE WORLD OF THE MODERN JAZZ. LIKEWISE, ALL MAJOR STREAMS AND RECORDING LABELS OF FREE JAZZ WILL BE REPRESENTED, IMPRINTS SUCH AS ESP, INDIA NAVIGATION, EL SATURN, FMP, HAT HUT, BLACK SAINT, SOUL NOTE, RED RECORDS, 1HORO,  LEO (UK). TRIBE, ISPLASCH, QBICO, STRATA-EAST, BLACK JAZZ, BLACK LION, MOSAIC  AND DOZENS OF OTHER HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY LABELS.  APROXIMATELY 20-30% OF ALL ITEMS WILL BE FOREIGN PRESSINGS, MOSTLY THOSE UNIQUE TO THEIR MARKETS AND NEVER AVAILABLE IN THE UNITED STATES. YOU CAN ALSO EXPECT TO SEE HUNDREDS OF PRIVATE PRESSINGS, TEST PRESSINGS , ACETATES, AUDIOPHILE AND LIMITED/NUMBERED RELEASES AND ALIKE. THE COLLECTION ALSO FEATURES A SMALL NUMBER OF OTHER GENRES, SUCH AS BLUES, R&B, FUNK AND LATIN AND A NEGLIGIBLE NUMBER OF ROCK TITLES..

 

THIS IS A PRIMEVAL, FIERY, VIOLENTLY PASSIONATE MUSIC, PERPETUALY MODERN AND EVERY BIT AS TIMELESS AS THE DAY IT WAS BORN; A PERPETUAL QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND SPIRITUALITY; AN ERUPTIVE, VOLCANIC STATEMENT - A SCREAM, REALLY - OF LIBERATION FROM ALL SOCIAL NORMS AND FORMS; IT IS A QUINTESSENTIAL LATE-20th CENTURY ART, EVERY BIT AS RELEVANT TO THE ARTISTIC AND SPIRITUAL QUEST OF THE CONTEMPORARY HUMANITY AS THE ESSENTIAL WORKS OF BRANCUSI, POLLOCK, MOORE, JASPER JOHNS, BASQUIAT, BUNUEL, JOHN CAGE, PHILIP GLASS, TERRY RILEY, FRANK ZAPPA, JACK KEROUAC, ALLEN GINSBERG OR LE MONTE YOUNG

 

THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN OBSESSIVELY BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS AND COMPULSIVELY PRESERVED FOR DECADES (SINCE THE MID-60s: THE OWNER BORE WITNESS TO THE MOST OF THE MODERN AMERICAN JAZZ HISTORY AND STORIES TO TELL). ASIDE FROM THE STILL SEALED ITEMS (YES, THERE WILL BE SOME), ALMOST 95% OF ALL ITEMS FALL INTO THE STRONG NEAR MINT TO UNPLAYED RANGE. SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US. MOST OF THE ITEMS FROM THIS COLLECTION WILL BE OF ARCHIVAL GRADE AND YOUR FINAL UPGRADES

 

THE ITEM YOU ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING COMES FROM THIS COLLECTION, AS WILL EVERY OTHER ITEM WHICH CONTAINS THIS FRAGMENT OF TEXT.

 

THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF VISITING OUR EBAY LISTINGS.

 

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·      CONDITION:

 

·      THE RECORD

 

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

 

(a)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

 

(b)         The record comes in the original poly-lined “Made in Great Britain” stock inner sleeve.

 

(c)          The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

 

(d)         Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

 

 

·                          THE COVER

 

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

 

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

 

-       Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.

 

-       Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the seams

 

-       Visible shelf wear noted on the top and bottom

 

-       Front cover has a small, rectangular, sticker residue (small yellowish discoloration from the removed price sticker)

 

 

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

 

 

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POSTAGE & SHIPPING:

 

We offer three postage rates for domestic orders: USPS Media Mail, USPS Priority Mail and USPS Express Mail and three rates for international shipments:  USPS First Class, USPS Priority International Mail, and USPS Express International Mail (in a small number of cases, we will, at our discretion and for purely technical reasons, substitute First Class Mail with eBay's Global Shipping, which is fundamentally the same service at about the same cost). INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE: WE RECOMMEND (BUT DO NOT INSIST) that you select USPS International Priority Mail when making a payment.

 

INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE rates vary from one region of  the world to another. For SPECIFIC international and domestic postage rates, please click on " Shipping, returns, and payments" tab in the header of our listing.

 

 

please note: Effective august 15, 2023 we have ended our volume discount buyer incentive program; this was necessitated by circumstances beyond our control (a never-ending  increase in the cost of doing business, raging inflation and technical difficulties in sending our customers discounted invoices, a simple feature ebay still can't seem to FIGURE OUT even after 30 years of being in business. however, all significant orders will still receive a shipping discount: all orders over $1,000 will be shipped free of shipping charge, and all orders over $300.00 will receive up to $20.00 postage rebate (or free shipping, whichever is smaller) , irrespective of the shipping location. thank you for your understanding and continued loyalty.

 

 

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CRITICALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

 

(A) All orders valued at $50.00 or more will be shipped fully insured against loss, damage or theft by ShipCover, eBay's contracted insurer, at our expense (B) Yes, we do combine items into a single shipment; in order to enable this feature, the winning bidders should WAIT until their last item of interest ends and ONLY THEN make a payment. Doing otherwise will result in multiple shipments to the same customer and forfeiture of multiple shipping charges already paid. (C) Because we do not play-grade our items, we do not know how the purchased item will play on the buyer's equipment. We can only make reasonable inference on the record's playing condition based on its visual appearance. (D) This seller will NOT cancel erroneous, frivolous and prank bids. The bidders can do so on their own, by visiting eBay's Site Map, then clicking on Bid Retractions link. (E) This seller does not specifically grade or describe certain items, such as: shrink (cellophane) wrap; accompanying inserts, booklets, inner sleeves, lyrics sheets, stickers, posters, booklets, newsclips, decals, press kits, publicity photos and similar bonus ephemera; however, the presence of these items WILL be noted and usually accompanied by the gallery photo(s). (F) Please do not submit any bids on our items if you have insufficient user history. We will summarily cancel any bids from the bidders with zero or negative user feedbacks. We will, however, exempt new users if politely asked. (G) Other than in very rare justified cases, failure to pay for the item you won amounts to a fraud and will result in a permanent ban on bidding on our future listings. (H) We will NEVER deliberately, knowingly or willingly provide a false, deceitful or misleading information. If you feel that we have inadvertently provided inaccurate, misleading or outdated information, or if you have any pertinent questions or comments, we encourage you to contact us through eBay soon as possible, and not later than 24 hours before the end of the listing

 

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OUR REFUND POLICY :

 

WE OFFER UNCONDITIONAL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE (POSTAGE INCLUDED) WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE RECEIPT OF THE MERCHANDISE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED; STILL SEALED ITEMS MUST BE RETURNED SEALED IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A REFUND.   NO EXCEPTIONS!

 

 

FINE (BUT IMPORTANT!) PRINT

 

 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description and grading before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable and unwilling to cancel bids in the final 24 hours of the auction; if you need to do so, please contact eBay for help (5) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. If you require this information, please contact us well before the final day of the auction. (6) Absolutely NO haggling. This seller is not a bazaar. If you are unhappy with the merchandise you received, please return it for a full refund, postage included (7). Civilized people can disagree without accusing each other of being indecent or dishonest; if you need proof of this seller's personal integrity, please check our eBay feedback, which speaks for itself  (8) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (attempted humor is generally fine and usually appreciated, although overused-to-death sarcasms can be really, really tedious. (9) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is usually a flexible and agreeable person (10) Our love & appreciation for your trust, loyalty and business, always and forever;  Thank You & Good Night!

 

 

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