Every week a different member of our staff or roster will curate a list of their favorite heard and unheard classics from the Matador catalog. Some of these you may have heard before, some will be painfully overlooked gems. A lot of our catalog has been out of print for years but is now available in digital form through the Matador Store

May 1, 2008
Curated by Patrick Amory, General Manager Matador Records

[las vegas] burger/ink
[las vegas] OLE-334 1998-09-08 Back in the early nineties, before the Loveparade, before dance music exploded in Germany, a little known producer named Wolfgang Voigt was quietly releasing tracks in Cologne under the name Mike Ink...
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Snapshot Mission Of Burma
Snapshot OLE-641 2004-11-09
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Better Days Will Haunt You Chavez
Better Days Will Haunt You OLE-720 2006-10-10 Two legendary albums, a bunch of tours, a small but fanatical fanbase... the twin guitar attack of CHAVEZ is at last enshrined in a landmark, extremely enhanced collection...
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As The World Burns Arsonists
As The World Burns OLE-343 1999-08-24 Crucial Brooklyn hip hop wordsmiths with the most consistently great rap album of 1999.


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The Slow Wonder A.C. Newman
The Slow Wonder OLE-615 2004-06-08 Solo debut from The New Pornographers' leader brings forth singer-songwriter skills in a sparkling pop masterpiece.
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