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Welcome to System Records: The specialist for hard to find music

Established in 1986, System Records is an independent online music specialist supplying a unique and extensive catalog of hard to find music within a range of specialist categories including Rock/Pop, Reggae, RnB, Soundtracks, Folk, Jazz, Classical, Easy Listening, Soul, Funk, Country, Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll and World Music.

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	Thriftstore Masterpiece - Trouble Is A Lonesome Town - LP	£18.30 VAT Inc £15.25 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Thriftstore Masterpiece Title: Trouble Is A Lonesome Town Music: Country Format: LP Label: Side One Dummy View All: Thriftstore Masterpiece Description: Released On: 10 September 2013 - Info: Includes Download Code - Details: Thriftstore Masterpiece is a revolving music collective devoted to paying homage to the underdog records of years past. The debut album revisits Lee Hazlewood's 1963 lost classic Trouble Is A Lonesome Town and features Pete Yorn, Frank Black (Pixies), Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Courtney Taylor-Taylor (The Dandy Warhols), Eddie Argos (Art Brut), the late Larry Norman and more. . In 1963, Lee Hazlewood released his debut ... view item page for full details >>>

	Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex: Coloured Vinyl - LP	£19.50 VAT Inc £16.25 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Au Pairs Title: Playing With A Different Sex: Coloured Vinyl Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Drastic Plas View All: Au Pairs Description: Released On: 23 July 2013 - Info: Hand-numbered, limited edition 150g opaque-pink vinyl pressing of only 500 collectible copies - Details: Since forming in Birmingham, England, in 1979, the Au Pairs have become known for catchy, dark and politically relevant songs with a biting sense of humor and angry delivery. Their first album, Playing with a Different Sex, instantly became a post-punk classic after its release in 1981. The 10-song set stands as a powerful and controversial offering, with ... view item page for full details >>>

	Beltrami, Marco - World War Z: Music From The Motion Picture - 2LP	£23.94 VAT Inc £19.95 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Marco Beltrami Title: World War Z: Music From The Motion Picture Music: Original Soundtracks Format: LP Label: Warner Brothers View All: Marco Beltrami Description: Released On: 16 July 2013 - Details: Directed by Marc Forster and based on the novel by Max Brooks, World War Z revolves around an ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. In addition to Pitt, the film also stars Mireille Enos, Bryan Cranston, Matthew Fox and James Badge Dale. Marco Beltrami has brought new dimensionality to the s... view item page for full details >>>

	Strangers Family Band - Strangers Family Band - LP	£22.50 VAT Inc £18.75 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Strangers Family Band Title: Strangers Family Band Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Xemu View All: Strangers Family Band Description: Released On: 09 July 2013 - Info: Includes digital download. - Details: Strangers Family Band began in the suburbs of south Florida of a group of close childhood friends and two brothers sharing classes in school, hanging out and getting into trouble which led them to naturally form a band representing their combined love of '60s psychedelic pop and rock with their own twist of Florida Latin flavor. . The band is made up of brothers Rick and Scott Seltzer (vocals, guitar and bass), Juan Londo... view item page for full details >>>

	Hackamore Brick - One Kiss Leads To Another - LP	£19.20 VAT Inc £16.00 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Hackamore Brick Title: One Kiss Leads To Another Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Razor & Tie View All: Hackamore Brick Description: Released On: 03 July 2013 - Info: Bonus track, the single side “Searchin" and liner notes by Tony Rettman featuring quotes from Tommy Moonlight and pictures from the Hackamore Brick archive. Remastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios in NYC! - Details: What makes a record a true cult classic? First, it must be released to a modicum of critical acclaim but zero commercial success. Second, in almost all cases the artists behind the release have to disappear immediately into obscurity. And thi... view item page for full details >>>

	Postelles - ...and It Shook Me - 2LP	£24.60 VAT Inc £20.50 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Postelles Title: ...and It Shook Me Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: +1 Records View All: Postelles Description: Released On: 25 June 2013 - Details: The Postelles initially met while attending high school in Manhattan, drawn together by their similar taste in music. They began playing shows together while still in high school, one of which was attended by The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., who was so impressed by the performance that he invited the band to come record a song at his house. Hammond continued to work with The Postelles, eventually producing their 2011 debut self-titled album. The b... view item page for full details >>>

	Sylvester - Mighty Real: Greatest Dance Hits - LP	£22.50 VAT Inc £18.75 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Sylvester Title: Mighty Real: Greatest Dance Hits Music: Funk Format: LP Label: Fantasy View All: Sylvester Description: Released On: 25 June 2013 - Info: The double vinyl edition features all 11 tracks on two 12” pink vinyl LPs. - Details: Twenty-five years after his untimely death at the age of 41, the iconic legacy of Sylvester, the “Queen of Disco,” will be resurrected with Mighty Real: Greatest Dance Hits, due out on Fantasy Records. This collection will celebrate the life and music of the artist who once danced his way into the hearts and minds of the disco and LGBT communities. A quarter of a century aft... view item page for full details >>>

	Cliff, Jimmy - Kcrw Session - LP	£23.10 VAT Inc £19.25 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Jimmy Cliff Title: Kcrw Session Music: Reggae Format: LP Label: Universal View All: Jimmy Cliff Description: Released On: 25 June 2013 - Details: In June of 2012, reggae legend Jimmy Cliff visited Los Angeles’ KCRW for a live acoustic performance of nine songs on the public radio station’s acclaimed program, Morning Becomes Eclectic, hosted by KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley. The recording of the live broadcast, titled The KCRW Session, will now be issued by Universal Music Enterprises. - Tracks: 1. Trapped - 2. Guns Of Brixton - 3. World Upside Down - 4. Wonderful World, Beautiful People - 5. You... view item page for full details >>>

	Booker T - Sound The Alarm - LP	£16.80 VAT Inc £14.00 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Booker T Title: Sound The Alarm Music: Soul Format: LP Label: Stax View All: Booker T Description: Released On: 25 June 2013 - Details: Booker T. Jones will follow back-to-back Grammy wins for his previous two albums with Sound The Alarm out on Stax/Concord Music Group. This marks Booker's return to Stax, a label revered for the gritty soul sound he helped create with Memphis' first integrated band in the early '60s, and features collaborations with some of the finest talents in modern soul and RandB including Mayer Hawthorne, Anthony Hamilton, Vintage Trouble, Estelle, Gary Clark, Jr., Lu... view item page for full details >>>

	Big Star - Nothing Can Hurt Me2 - 2LP	£25.50 VAT Inc £21.25 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Big Star Title: Nothing Can Hurt Me2 Music: Original Soundtracks Format: LP Label: Omnivore View All: Big Star Description: Released On: 25 June 2013 - Info: Soundtrack to the New Big Star Feature-Length Documentary from Omnivore Recordings. - The Omnivore Recordings soundtrack plays like an audio version of the documentary, capturing its essence. It features previously unissued versions of classic Big Star, Chris Bell and Alex Chilton songs, including demos, plus alternate original and new mixes made especially for the film. - Details: The story of Big Star will finally hit the big screen in the feature-length do... view item page for full details >>>

	Dark - Dark Around The Edges - LP	£21.90 VAT Inc £18.25 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Dark Title: Dark Around The Edges Music: Psychedelic Rock Format: LP Label: Machu Picchu View All: Dark Description: Released On: 25 June 2013 - Info: Remastered and restored by Warren Defever for maximum brilliance. - Sleeve notes by the group’s songwriter and guitarist Steve Giles, including a complete group history. - LP sleeved in a tip-on gatefold jacket, with an expanded version of the original LP booklet - 20 pages of lyrics and never before seen photos from the group’s personal archives. - Details: One of 3 greatest guitar-heavy psych records in the world, “Dark Round the Edges”was originally issued... view item page for full details >>>

	Gilberto Gil - Louvaçao - LP	£15.90 VAT Inc £13.25 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Gilberto Gil Title: Louvaçao Music: Brazil Format: LP Label: Soul Jazz View All: Gilberto Gil Description: Released On: 24 June 2013 - Details: This is the debut album from Gilberto Gil, first released in Brazil in 1967, at a time when Gil was a man already at the height of his creative powers and yet barely a few years into his career. . The album has been digitally remastered here and made available on Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound cased in deluxe bespoke original artwork exact reproduction hardboard Japanese-style box case CD limited to 1500 copies worldwide. . The similarly deluxe limited ... view item page for full details >>>

	Iasos - Celestial Soul Portrait - 2LP	£24.60 VAT Inc £20.50 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Iasos Title: Celestial Soul Portrait Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Numero View All: Iasos Description: Released On: 18 June 2013 - Details: By the mid-1970s - prior to ambient’s “musical furniture” and the coming age of New Age - Iasos had his hands on his first synthesizer and had made in-roads into both aborning genres. In dialogue with Vista, a benevolent music-maker from a distant dimension, Iasos conducted groundbreaking experimentation with tape reversal, feedback, and the electronic processing of acoustic instruments (phase-shifted flute, echoplex). Iasos also worked with some of the fi... view item page for full details >>>

	Various Artists - Youths Boogie - 2CD	£10.50 VAT Inc £8.75 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Various Artists Title: Youths Boogie Music: Ska/Rock Steady Format: CD Label: Fantastic Voyage View All: Various: Ska/Rock Steady Description: Released On: 17 June 2013 - Info: Compiled by genre authority Mike Atherton - Details: It took years for ska music to become an overnight success. When tunes like ‘My Boy Lollipop’ hit the airwaves in Britain in the sixties, most listeners assumed that the odd and addictive back-to-front beat was something dreamed up in the studio the month before. Some realised that the music had connections with Jamaica, but few people knew that the genre had been gestating for some years. The music owed so... view item page for full details >>>

	Various Artists - Midnight Steppers - CD	£9.54 VAT Inc £7.95 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Various Artists Title: Midnight Steppers Music: Blues Format: CD Label: Fantastic Voyage View All: Various: Blues Description: Released On: 17 June 2013 - Info: 70-track 3CD set: accompanying booklet illustrated with label shots and record sleeves. - Compiled and annotated by blues authority Mike Rowe, with discs devoted to the urban blues (“Bluebird Beat”) of the 30s and 40s, the boogie woogie phenomenon and the post war years - Details: Midnight Steppers celebrates the post war blues pianists and explores how their sound had its origins in the 30s and 40s, when boogie woogie piano and the Chicago-centric small comb... view item page for full details >>>

	Various Artists - Graduation Day - 2CD	£10.50 VAT Inc £8.75 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Various Artists Title: Graduation Day Music: Rock and Pop Format: CD Label: Fantastic Voyage View All: Various: Rock and Pop Description: Released On: 17 June 2013 - Info: 2CD 50-track exploration of the songs that shaped the Beach Boys. - Compiled and annotated by music writer and BBC Merseyside presenter Spencer Leigh - Details: 50 years ago, the Beach Boys cracked the US Top 10 with Surfin’ USA, consolidating a career that had been successful from their very first single, and which has remained so ever since. The hits continued until the end of the ’80s, and the group was back in the headlines in 2012 when the surviving orig... view item page for full details >>>

	Pretty Things - Midnight To Six Man - CD	£12.30 VAT Inc £10.25 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Pretty Things Title: Midnight To Six Man Music: Rock and Pop Format: CD Label: Magic View All: Pretty Things Description: Released On: 12 June 2013 - Tracks: 1. Midnight To Six Man - 2. You Don’t Believe Me - 3. Buzz The Jerk - 4. Get The Picture ? - 5. Can’t Stand The Pain - 6. Rainin’ In My Heart - 7. I Can Never Say 8. You’ll Never Do It Baby - 9. I Had A Dream - 10. I Want Your Love - 11. Cry To Me - 12. London Town - Bonus Tracks : 13. Don’t Bring Me Down - 14. Big Boss Man - 15. Rosalyn - 16. We’ll Be Together - 17. Honey, I Need - 18. Sittin’ All Alone - 19. Come See Me - 20. £.S.D. - 21. Progress - 22. W... view item page for full details >>>

	Nirvana - Unplugged In New York - LP	£22.50 VAT Inc £18.75 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Nirvana Title: Unplugged In New York Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Geffen View All: Nirvana Description: Released On: 10 June 2013 - Info: New Rhino pressing - Details: 1994's Unplugged In New York was the last Nirvana collection recorded before the suicide of alternative-rock icon Kurt Cobain and its stripped down, neo-acoustic arrangements and bridled fury caught many fans by surprise. However, the emotion and anguish revealed through the intimate performances here end up offering a new appreciation for the nuances of one of the greatest and most revered bands of recent times, one that may hav... view item page for full details >>>

	Nirvana - Nevermind - LP	£22.50 VAT Inc £18.75 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Nirvana Title: Nevermind Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Geffen View All: Nirvana Description: Released On: 10 June 2013 - Info: New Rhino pressing - Details: Released in September of 1991, Nirvana's sophomore album and major label debut, Nevermind elevated Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from a critically acclaimed Aberdeen, Washington cult band to generational spokesmen who'd unwittingly created a cultural shift and musical touchstone. . Rising to #1 the world over by year's end and ultimately selling over 30 million copies worldwide, Nevermind would come to be much more ... view item page for full details >>>

	Vangelis - Blade Runner - SACD	£21.59 VAT Inc £17.99 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Vangelis Title: Blade Runner Music: Rock and Pop Format: SACD Label: Audio Fidelity View All: Vangelis Description: Released On: 06 June 2013 - Info: Mastered for this SACD by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio - Details: The BLADE RUNNER soundtrack was composed by Vangelis for Ridley Scott's 1982 film considered one of the finest sci-fi movies ever made. It is mostly a dark, melodic combination of classical compositions and synthesizers which mirrors the futuristic film noir envisioned by Scott. The soundtrack holds legendary status and at the time was well-received by fans and critics including Best Original ... view item page for full details >>>

	Flamengo - Kure V Hodinkach - Flamengo - Kure V Hodinkach - LP	£20.99 VAT Inc £17.49 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Flamengo - Kure V Hodinkach Title: Flamengo - Kure V Hodinkach Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Supraphon View All: Flamengo - Kure V Hodinkach Description: Pre order now - Info: For this record Supraphon chose 180 gram vinyl and designed a beautiful black fold out cover which is perfectly manufactured on a high quality cardboard. They reproduced the front page of the original LP from 1972 (which had only a single cover) and added lyrics, photos and same basic information on three more cover pages. - Details: The legendary Czech rock album is back! Exactly 40 years have passed since the release of the groundbreaking disc melding electric big beat... view item page for full details >>>

	Cramps - A Date With Elvis: Coloured Vinyl - LP	£14.99 VAT Inc £12.49 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Cramps Title: A Date With Elvis: Coloured Vinyl Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Ace View All: Cramps Description: Pre order now - Info: Coloured vinyl - Details: This 1985 outing from the coolest band in the universe asks the question 'How Far Can Too Far Go?' and snaps back with an answer before you can say 'Aloha From Hell'. - See more at: http://acerecords.co.uk/a-date-with-elvis-1#sthash.kFSit6xK.dpuf - Tracks: Side 1 - 01. How Far Can Too Far Go? - 02. The Hot Pearl Snatch - 03. People Ain't No Good - 04. What's Inside A Girl? - 05. Can Your Pussy Do The Dog? - Side 2 - 01. Kizmiaz - 02. Cornfed Dam... view item page for full details >>>

	Cramps - Look Mom No Head Coloured: Coloured Vinyl - LP	£14.99 VAT Inc £12.49 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Cramps Title: Look Mom No Head Coloured: Coloured Vinyl Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Ace View All: Cramps Description: Pre order now - Info: Coloured vinyl - Details: After a brief stay in the corporate clutches of EMI, they return to the warm, if slightly sticky, embrace of Big Beat, Their concern for the soft white bit of the under-belly of that thing lying over there on the ground, remains as touching and glamourous as it always was. Dames, booze, chains, boots, two heads, sex change, and that's just the first two little numbers. Slip outa something clinging, and let Lux Interior and lggy Pop tell you all ... view item page for full details >>>

	Cramps - Big Beat From Badsville Coloured: Coloured Vinyl - LP	£14.99 VAT Inc £12.49 VAT Ex check availability
	Artist: Cramps Title: Big Beat From Badsville Coloured: Coloured Vinyl Music: Rock and Pop Format: LP Label: Ace View All: Cramps Description: Pre order now - Info: Coloured vinyl - Tracks: Side 1 - 01. Cramp Stomp - 02. God Monster - 03. It Thing Hard-On - 04. Like A Bad Girl Should - 05. Sheena's In A Goth Gang - 06. Queen Of Pain - 07. Monkey With Your Tail - Side 2 - 01. Devil Behind That Bush - 02. Super Goo - 03. Hypno Sex Ray - 04. Burn She-Devil, Burn - 05. Wet Nightmare - 06. Badass Bug - 07. Haulass Hyena... view item page for full details >>>