WORLD PROG, AVANT PROG,INDEPENT ACOUSTIC... :

http://www.synphonic.8m.com/ World prog

http://www.lasercd.com/Merchant/lasercd/ prog

http://www.hicom.net/~dlarson/ prog (very quick delivery)

http://www.musearecords.com from France, good list of prog and distribution

http://downloads.muse-wrapped.com/ Musea Records dealer in US

http://musicbymail.dk/ avant prog, RIO, Musea Records dealer in DK (quick delivery)

http://www.midheaven.com/ prog folk, indipendent stuff (with some audio)

http://www.recordheaven.net/butik/index.htm World prog

http://www.shroomangel.com/shroom/orderinfo.asp prog

http://www.kinesiscd.com/storeframe1.htm World prog, mostly neo-stuff

http://www.viajeroinmovil.com/ Latin America

http://www.feriadeldisco.cl/fshop/default.asp Latin America  (Spanish but they understand)

http://www.waysidemusic.com/default.asp avant-prog,RIO,contemp,progressive (quick delivery)

http://www.rerusa.com/ ReR in US : avant-prog, R.I.O.,contemporary,underground,..

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/browse.php avant, prog, electronic,exp,improv..

http://www.othermusic.com avantprog, modern & beyond (with audio on updates)

http://www.surefiredistribution.com experimental,.. (with audio)

http://bigballoonmusic.safeshopper.com/9/cat9.htm classic prog & RIO,neo-prog,..

http://www.forcedexposure.com/ have almost everything

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/ good list (with audio)

http://www.progcds.com/index.shtml prog

http://www.artist-shop.com/hinote/index.htm shop from Hi-Note label in UK

http://www.znrcds.com/ progressive,.. (don't have experiences with this one yet)

http://www.osmind.com/ progressive,.. (don't have experiences with this one yet)

http://www.bigballoonmusic.com/ prog

http://www.eclipse-records.com/index.shtml psych, world psych, drone, psych-folk,..

http://www.eventyr-records.it/ psych ; obly new releases have small reviews

http://cdbaby.com/ mostly indipendent & privately released music,.. (with audio)

http://www.fusetronsound.com/ independent, psych folk, avant prog,..

http://www.kozmik-artifactz.com metal and rare psych ; with short reviews

(of course you also have www.amazon.com but there you have the disadvantage of high postage costs). One more, which I never tried myself :

http://www.longhairmusic.de/malesch/malesch_cd.htm prog, not '2' many items & not '2' quick

http://www.importantrecords.com/distributed_af_new.htm independent interesting exp.releases

http://shop.ascorpus.com independent music (with audio)

http://www.freaksendfuture.com avant, noise, exp, .. shop in Antwerp

http://www.mandai.be/ RIO, avant-rock

http://www.slippytown.com/ new music

http://www.sound-control.org/catalog/ European distributor

http://www.gemm.com/ rare LP's

More for UK costumers (outside UK it'll be expensive) :

https://www.freakemporium.com/new3/index.cgi prog & psych dealer (comments are exaggerated) & http://www.ultimathulerecords.com/ for Krautrock,RIO,electronica & http://www.rermegacorp.com/ avant prog, RIO, underground

with (US section : http://www.rerusa.com/) &

http://www.volcanictongue.com/catalogue.html

http://www.picadillyrecords.co.uk/ (with audio) indipendent, kraut, prog, folk, (...)

FOLK :

http://www.rockinworld.com/ best shop for folk, acid folk

http://www.greatesthitsmailorder.com/ German shop, good for acid & psychedelic folk

http://www.thewildplaces.com/ acid folk, prog, psych

http://www.tonevendor.com/catalog/ has lots of the new psych-folk scene listed

http://www.broadtradition.com/ in UK

http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/...retailers.htm list of retailers of wyrd folk,..

http://www.skullsofheaven.com/ limited editions (noise folk, ..)

http://www.neofolk.de/ German shop of neo-folk

FOR SPECIFIC COUNTRIES :

www.blackrills.ch  for Swiss stuff and rare (expensice) items

For Italian stuff : see my page at http://progressive.homestead.com/ITALIAPROG.html

for all various shops

http://www.panymusica.com/pym/pym.htm Spanish stuff and more

Swedish prog : https://www.mellotronen.com/

For Eastern Europe (Czech,Russia,Poland,...) : http://www.tamizdat.org/

Also for Czech stuff : http://indies.eu & http://www.indiesrec.cz/

& http://www.moo.free.fr/site/body_catalogue_cd.html

For Polish Stuff : http://serpent.pl & http://sklep.serpent.pl (used to be http://www.terra.pl/ & http://sklep.terra.pl/)

Russian stuff : http://rwcdax.here.ru/DIST/eng/catalog.htm

Russian and Eastern Europe : http://www.tamizdat.org/

Ukrain folk : http://www.umka.com.ua/eng/catalogue/33/

For former Yugoslavia http://www.kalemegdan-disk.de/

For Turkish stuff http://www.onstagerecords.com/Turkish_psych/turkish_cd_official.htm & http://www.tulumba.com & http://www.musto-gusto.us/ (and eventually http://www.kalan.com/english/scripts/ but beware for too high shipping costs) & http://www.cdrehberi.com/

Iran : In Europe :

http://www.tamasha.de/shop/home.php?cat=787

and in the US : http://www.iranianmovies.com/music/newcds.htm

& http://www.musicboxla.com/musicboxla/popfromiran.html

& http://store.yahoo.com/eworldrecords/index.html

& http://www.tamasha.de/shop/home.php

& http://www.iranmehr.com/music/shopping/

& http://www.iranmusic.tv/shop/default.asp

& http://www.caltexrecords.com & http://www.iranstore.com

Spanish stuff http://www.discosacetato.com/ or http://www.ctv.es/USERS/acetato/ &

http://www.guerssen.com/

Bask stuff http://www.elkarlanean.com/  (directly !, so cheap)

Finland listed at http://progressive.homestead.com/FINLANDPROG.html

Korea : http://www.annyoung.com/cdstore & http://www.koreapop.com/ & http://www.asiandb.com/ (for Korea the only one I tried) & http://www.koreainfogate.com/shop/movie/review.asp & http://www.metavox.co.kr/

& http://www.mrkwang.com

a few more commercial Asian at http://us.yesasia.com/

LP's : http://progressive.homestead.com/KOREASELL.html

Japan : http://dasgemeine.com/catalog/default.php?language=en

& http://www.jpophelp.com/

& http://www.sonore.com

Asia : http://global.yesasia.com/en/Index.aspx

Far East : http://www.farsidemusic.com/

Peru: http://www.repsychled.com/cd/fe.htm

For more Latin America ask me..

http://www.honestjons.com Africa & World, reggea

did not try yet but they seem interesting :

http://www.gemm.com/

Also interesting and helpful for second hand LP's is http://www.popsike.com/

go back to index

here some useful shops are listed

Most of them have proven for me to have a very good choice of World Progressive music,

or Acid Folk, ..to be trustworthy and mostly have good prices :