Ergot Records

Ergot Records Record label & store. Records, tapes, and related books bought & sold. No holds or shipping on newly posted used arrivals.

32 E. 2nd St.

East Village, NYC

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Soul ain’t: soul is. 🌾 ✨
05/12/2026

Soul ain’t: soul is. 🌾 ✨

Last night’s archive is up now and its playlist—featuring all new and newly reissued music available at the shop—follow...
05/08/2026

Last night’s archive is up now and its playlist—featuring all new and newly reissued music available at the shop—follows below:

Thomas Bush - Down A Precipicetw

Derek Jarman - Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping


Imaginary Softwoods - Center For Tactical Magic

Seefeel - Falling Firstsignals

Inrain - Grow
Inrain - …And Julie Rose


Little Annie - I Think Of You


Seefeel - Ever No Way

Pol Maló - Right Into The Sun
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Annea Lockwood - World Rhythms


Rhythm & Sound - King Version

Public Enemy, Missy Elliott, Lil’ Kim, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Monica, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, and more among to...
05/06/2026

Public Enemy, Missy Elliott, Lil’ Kim, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Monica, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, and more among today’s new arrivals. 🌾 ✨

Known as the voice of Egypt, legendary singer Umm Kulthūm was born 122 years ago today. To celebrate her birthday, we’re...
05/04/2026

Known as the voice of Egypt, legendary singer Umm Kulthūm was born 122 years ago today. To celebrate her birthday, we’re unveiling a once in a lifetime collection of around 200 of her records, a selection of which can be heard on the archive for last week’s show with very special guests and .

Born in the rural eastern Delta of Egypt to a fallahah, or peasant, family, Umm Kulthūm was trained at a young age in Quranic recitation, a background which equipped her with the consummate clarity of Arabic diction that would become her hallmark. Due to her unusually powerful voice, she was invited to join her father’s ensemble, touring locally dressed as a boy before eventually moving to Cairo. There, she proved to be a dedicated artist and shrewd businesswoman, working with a variety of different composers and writers to combine neo-classical and populist forms, recording about 300 songs over the next 50 years. She is best known for her monthly, Thursday night concerts, which reached millions due to their being broadcast over the radio. The first Thursday of the month was thus institutionalized as “Umm Kulthūm Night,” an evening during which Egyptians from all walks of life would stop what they were doing to gather around the radio and listen. Her concerts could extend up to seven hours, with her sometimes singing two-hour versions of her songs, repeating lines and stanzas at the request of her adoring audience as they reached a state of tarab, or enchantment. She was known to never sing a line the same way twice, with her spontaneous variations numbering up to 50 subsequent timbral, rhythmic, and melodic innovations on a text. She taught poetry to the masses, and it was said that even those who did not speak Arabic would understand the meaning of a text from listening to her sing it. In the face of colonial oppression and obscene Zionist expansion, Umm Kulthūm was a dedicated pan-Arab nationalist and her funeral in 1975 was one of the largest peaceful human gatherings in history. Egyptian radio still plays the music of Umm Kulthūm, Egypt’s fourth pyramid, on the first Thursday of every month to this day.

Celtic Frost, Venom, Mercyful Fate, Pungent Stench, Integrity, Sabbath, Manowar, Metallica, and Motörhead among today’s ...
05/01/2026

Celtic Frost, Venom, Mercyful Fate, Pungent Stench, Integrity, Sabbath, Manowar, Metallica, and Motörhead among today’s new arrivals. 🌾 ✨

Twelve choice blues LPs and a beautiful 1966 Jazz Book Club edition of Amiri Baraka aka LeRoi Jones’ classic ‘Blues Peop...
04/29/2026

Twelve choice blues LPs and a beautiful 1966 Jazz Book Club edition of Amiri Baraka aka LeRoi Jones’ classic ‘Blues People’ going out today. 🌾 ✨

Great salsa LPs from the likes of Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colón, Carlos Barberia, Rubby Haddock, Cheo Feliciano, Sonora P...
04/25/2026

Great salsa LPs from the likes of Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colón, Carlos Barberia, Rubby Haddock, Cheo Feliciano, Sonora Ponceña, Larry Harlow, and Tipica 73 among today’s many new arrivals. 🌾 ✨

Last night’s archive is up now and its playlist—featuring all new and newly reissued music available at the shop—follow...
04/24/2026

Last night’s archive is up now and its playlist—featuring all new and newly reissued music available at the shop—follows below:

Don Cherry - Blue Lake

R. Carlos Nakai - Cleft in the Sky
R. Carlos Nakai - Spiral Passage

Mel Keane - PW 1


Wired - Part 2

Jac Berrocal, VIncent Epplay, Timo Van Luijk - Horizontal Valley


Liliane Donsoy - Quatre Chevaliers avec des Glaives d’Eau - d’après Rumi
Liliane Donsoy - Quatre Chevaliers avec des Glaives d’Eau - d’après Artaud

Franco Ansaldo & Alfredo Bracchi - Son Tanto Triste


Ahmed - Ya Annas [Oh, People]


Sade - I Couldn’t Love You More (Vocal Edit By Mr. K)

Sisters 🌾 ✨
04/23/2026

Sisters 🌾 ✨

Progressive electronics from the Berlin school and beyond out today, including titles from Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese, ...
04/22/2026

Progressive electronics from the Berlin school and beyond out today, including titles from Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese, Trance, Robert Schröder, and Tim Blake 🌾 ✨

Just another diamond day… 🌾 ✨
04/18/2026

Just another diamond day… 🌾 ✨

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Monday 11am - 7pm
Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 12pm - 8pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

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