Sublime Frequencies is a record label based in Seattle, Washington that focuses exclusively on "acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers," mostly from Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. The releases are primarily divided into four categories: field recordings, folk and pop compilations, radio collages from specific geographic locales, and DVDs. The label is headed by Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayet. Its releases are produced in limited quantities (usually 1,000 copies), and are usually not reprinted after these copies sell out; thus, some of the label's releases are out of print. [As of April 2009, the following titles are out of print: SF 004, SF 005, SF 006, SF 007, SF 010, SF 014, SF 015, SF 022, SF 023, SF 024, SF 026, SF 042, SF 046; and the following have been re-issued: SF 011, SF 016, SF 019, SF 020, SF 025, SF 028, SF 029, SF 030, SF 031]
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- SF 001 - Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol.1
- SF 002 - Radio Java
- SF 003 - Night Recordings From Bali
- SF 006 - Princess Nicotine: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma)
- SF 007 - Radio Morocco
- SF 008 - Radio Palestine: Sounds of the Eastern Mediterranean
- SF 009 - I Remember Syria 2-CD
- SF 011 - Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop music Vol. 1
- SF 012 - Bush Taxi Mali: Field Recordings From Mali
- SF 013 - Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia
- SF 014 - Radio India: The Eternal Dream of Sound 2-CD
- SF 016 - Streets of Lhasa
- SF 017 - Harmika Yab Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal
- SF 018 - Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 2
- SF 019 - Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan
- SF 020 - Radio Phnom Penh
- SF 021 - Radio Sumatra: The Indonesian FM Experience
- SF 023 - Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom
- SF 024 - Guitars of the Golden Triangle: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar Vol. 2
- SF 025 - Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq
- SF 027 - Ethnic Minority Music of Northeast Cambodia
- SF 028 - Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom 2-CD
- SF 029 - Radio Algeria
- SF 030 - Group Doueh: Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
- SF 031 - Omar Souleyman: Highway to Hassake (Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria)
- SF 032 - Thai Pop Spectacular (1960s-1980s)
- SF 033 - Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2
- SF 034 - Group Inerane: Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger)
- SF 035 - Music of Nat Pwe: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar Vol. 3
- SF 036 - Ethnic Minority Music of Southern Laos
- SF 037 - Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam
- SF 038 - Proibidão C.V: Forbidden Gang Funk From Rio de Janeiro
- SF 039 - Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp of Latin American Psychedelia Vol. 1
- SF 043 - Bollywood Steel Guitar
- SF 044 - Radio Myanmar (Burma)
- SF 045 - 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
- SF 049 - Omar Souleyman: Dabke 2020 (Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria)
- SF 050 - Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular Vol. 2
- SF 004 - Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul
- SF 005 - Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead
- SF 010 - Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya
- SF 015 - Isan: Folk and Pop Music of Northeast Thailand
- SF 022 - Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel
- SF 026 - Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan
- SF 040 - Sumatran Folk Cinema
- SF 041 - Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway
- SF 047 - Palace of the Winds
- SF 030 - Group Doueh: Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
- SF 031 - Omar Souleyman: Highway to Hassake (Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria) 2-LP
- SF 034 - Group Inerane: Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger)
- SF 042 - Shadow Music Of Thailand
- SF 045 - 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
- SF 046 - Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez, Vol. 2
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