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Artist Album Format Label & Cat. Number Year Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL Tapes 81-89 5 x LP Box + 7inch Vinyl-on-Demand VOD 37-RE 2020 €85.00
ALLBEE, LIZ & BURKHARD BEINS Mensch Mensch Mensch LP Alt.Vinyl av054 2014 €17.50
ALTARMANG Void LP Autarkeia vinyl 013 / avi 098 2017 €23.00
ATOM EARTH MOTHER Ancient Faith do-LP BOX Alt.Vinyl av44 2013 €55.00
AUTECHRE / HAFLER TRIO ³oæh 7 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD166 2023 €149.00
BASINSKI, WILLIAM Lamentations (black vinyl) do-LP Temporary Residence TRR343 2020 €29.50
  Melancholia (opaque red orange vinyl) LP Temporary Residence Limited TRR236 2023 €29.50
CHRIS & COSEY Exotika (violet vinyl) LP Conspiracy International - C.T.I. LP 16 2019 €23.00
COIL Another Brown World / Baby Food (black vinyl) LP Sub Rosa SRV443 2017 €18.00
A Prison Of Measured Time (col. vinyl) 12inch Old Europa Cafe ‎ OELP 033 2020 €30.00
Musick to play in the Dark (yellow vinyl) do-LP Dais Records dais155* 2020 €32.00
Musick to play in the Dark (black vinyl) do-LP Dais Records dais155 2020 €30.00
Musick to play in the Dark 2 (Black Vinyl) do-LP Dais Records dais184 2022 €29.50
  Moon's Milk (in four phases) (lim. clear vinyl) 3 x LP BOX DAIS Records - DAIS188 2024 €65.00
COLUMN ONE Cindy, Loraine & Hank do-LP 90% WASSER WVINYL020 2015 €21.00
Boiling Pool LP 90% Wasser WVINYL 023 2016 €19.00
  Whip cracking & Death defying (a Ceremony) LP 90%WASSER WVINYL 019 2016 €17.00
CURRENT 93 If a City is set upon a Hill [coloured vinyl] LP House of Mythology / HomAleph HOMx 5 2022 €37.50
DARK MORPH (C.M.VON HAUSSWOLFF + JONSI [SIGUR ROS]) Dark Morph LP The Vinyl Factory VF329 2019 €44.00
DONIS Без Гражданства (No Citizenship) LP Autarkeia vinyl 012 avi 068 2016 €23.00
DUET EMMO Or So It Seems (double white vinyl - special ed.) do-LP Mute XSTUMM11 2022 €42.50
ECKLOFF, JÜRGEN Jürgen Eckloff liest Nietzsche / Es geht im Kreis herum LP 99%Wasser WVINYL 017 2012 €15.00
  Angeflantschte Fugenstücke LP 90% Wasser WVINYL021 2016 €15.00
ELECTRIC SEWER AGE Moon's Milk (in four phases) (lim. clear vinyl) 3 x LP BOX DAIS Records - DAIS188 2024 €63.50
EYELESS IN GAZA Rust Red September do-LP Letthemeatvinyl LETV273LP 2015 €28.50
FERGUSSON, ALEX Secret Recordings 1976-1992 5 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD182 2023 €105.00
GRIM Factory Ritual (white vinyl) LP Tesco Organisation TESCO 133 2019 €23.00
GRUNTSPLATTER The Aberrant Laboratory CD Dark Vinyl DV#52 2006 €13.00
HIS DIVINE GRACE Eurydice CD Dark Vinyl DV # 48 2005 €10.00
HOEDH Universum CD Dark Vinyl Records DV 46 2004 €8.00
HUNTING LODGE Shadows out of Time 82-83 3 x LP Box Vinyl-On-Demand VOD78 2010 €59.00
  The Will CD Dark Vinyl Records DV#10 1992 €14.00
IN THE NURSERY Recordings 1981-1999 7 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD180 2023 €145.00
ITAMOC / MARINA STEWART Sunshine Discord 7inch m.m Label m.mVINYL06 2012 €9.00
JESU Terminus (lim. col. vinyl) LP Avalanche Recordings AREC049VC 2020 €25.00
JULIUS, ROLF Music for the Ears CD Western Vinyl WEST075 2010 €14.00
Music for a Distance CD Western Vinyl WV83 2011 €13.00
  Raining CD Western Vinyl WV93 2012 €13.00
KEIN ZWEITER Teilstück für totalen Schwung LP & DVDr 90% Wasser WVINYL022 2016 €17.00
KENT, JULIA Temporal (lim. white vinyl) LP + CD LEAF Records BAY 106VX 2019 €22.50
KILLING JOKE Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (coloured deluxe vinyl) do-LP Cooking Vinyl COOKLP346DE 2023 €28.00
KRANITZ, JERRY Cassette Culture - Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet-Age BOOK + 2 x CD Vinyl-on-Demand VOD 158 2020 €85.00
LILES, ANDREW Miscellany Deluxe do-LP Vinyl-On-Demand VOD61 2009 €21.50
  Miscellany Deluxe (Box Edition) 3 x LP-Box & T-Shirt Vinyl-On-Demand VOD61B 2009 €60.00
LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Untitled Single Piece # 5 7 90%Wasser WVINYL 001 2002 €6.00
LUNDVALL, TOR Beautiful Illusions (lim. clear blue vinyl) LP DAIS Rec. - DAIS 2022 €24.00
LUSTMORD Much Unseen is also here (col. vinyl) do-LP Pelagic Records PEL 251-V 2024 €37.50
LUSTMORD & KARIN PARK Alter (lim. col. vinyl) do-LP Pelagic Records PEL 167 2021 €35.00
  Alter (black vinyl) do-LP Pelagic Records PEL 167-V 2021 €28.00
MACHINEFABRIEK With Voices CD Western Vinyl WV185 2019 €13.00
  With Voices (col. vinyl) LP Western Vinyl WV185 2019 €20.00
MALDUR ATAI Holy Grief 7inch Autarkeia Vinyl 003 2010 €8.00
  Alarm Valhalla 7inch Autarkeia Vinyl 005 avi 046 2010 €8.00
MARGITT HOLZT & THORSTEN SOLTAU Atvasinajumu un diferencetu EP pic-12inch Albert Deitzel Records Kat-Nr. 37A / M.M.Label M.M VINYLLP01 2011 €15.00
MCDOWALL, DREW Agalma (black vinyl) LP Dais Records DAIS158 2020 €22.50
MEIN GLASFABRIK Exotic Percussion / Death TV - Recordings 1979-81 do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD 163 2020 €28.00
MONTGOMERY, GEN KEN Postcards 1981-1986 do-LP Vinyl-On-Demand VOD106 2012 €27.50
MOTT, NICK The Visitors LP Alt.Vinyl av037 2012 €16.50
NAUGHTIEST GIRL WAS A MONITOR untitled LP Vinyl-On-Demand VOD 43 2007 €15.50
NEUROSIS Fires within Fire (white vinyl) LP Neurot Recordings NR102-45 2016 €33.50
NEW BLOCKADERS (THE) VIVA NEGATIVA Vol. 1 4 LP - Box Vinyl-On-Demand VOD24 2006 €55.00
  VIVA NEGATIVA Vol. 2 4 LP - Box Vinyl-On-Demand VOD25 2006 €55.00
NON TOXIQUE LOST (NTL) OGRE-SSE LP Vinyl-On-Demand VOD13 2005 €15.00
NURSE WITH WOUND TRIPPIN' MUSIK (black vinyl) 3 x LP BOX United Dirter DPROMBX148 2020 €51.50
PAOLO CAMPANA VINYLMANIA (FILM) 2 x DVD Good Movies / Neue Visionen 2012 €12.00
PETBRICK I (split black - clear vinyl ) LP Rocket Recordings LAUNCH 170 2019 €26.00
PHALLUS DEI Black Dawn CD Dark Vinyl Records DV 70 2017 €13.00
  Black Dawn do-LP Dark Vinyl Records DV 70 2017 €22.50
PLOOG, JÜRGEN Tapes von Unterwegs 1971-1976 LP 90% WASSER WVINYL019 / MOLOKO+ PLUS 079 2015 €18.00
PORTION CONTROL Progress Report 1982-1986 do-LP Vinyl-On-Demand VOD138.01-02 2015 €27.50
PROSCENIUM Weltschmerz CD Dark Vinyl DV #58 2007 €8.00
PSYCHIC TV Those Who Do Not (White Vinyl) do-LP Cold Spring CSR323 2023 €33.00
PÄRT, ARVO Tabula Rasa do-LP Vinyl Passion VP 80121 2012 €19.50
RAPOON Ten Four: Centred Horizons (lim. blue vinyl) LP Winter-Light WIN 047LP* 2022 €28.50
REJECTIONS Clone EP MC Alt.Vinyl AV039 2012 €10.00
RESIDENTS Intruders (yellow vinyl) LP Psychofon Records PR 021 2018 €27.00
SAND North Atlantic Raven (lim. mix coloured vinyl) LP Rotorelief ROTOR0009 2014 €23.00
SAVAGE REPUBLIC Sword Fighter / Taranto!!! (RED vinyl) 7" A Silent Place ASP24 2009 €12.50
  Meteora LP (Lathe-cut) Don't Sit On My Vinyl! - SIT 867 2021 €26.50
SIEBEN Each Divine Spark LP Dark Vinyl Records DVLP-7 2014 €19.50
SKELETON BIRDS AND THE NUMBER OF GOD These dark Roots of Heaven LP alt.vinyl av024 2010 €18.50
SLOWDIVE Everything is Alive (Crystal Clear vinyl) LP Dead Oceans DOC232 2023 €26.50
SMEGMA I am not Artist 6 x LP-Box / DVD-BOX Vinyl-On-Demand VOD70 2010 €95.00
SOISONG QXN948S (CLEAR VINYL) LP Dais Records - DAIS 202 2022 €25.00
SPECTRAL ARMIES The Vanished People LP AltVinyl av025 2010 €17.50
SUNN O))) METTA, BENEVOLENCE, BBC6 MUSIC (coloured vinyl) do-LP Southern Lord SUNN400 2022 €36.00
  Life Metal (Pinwheel green and purple vinyl) do-LP Southern Lord SUNN300LP2C 2022 €35.00
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Campaign Volume I: 1979-2000 10 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD178 - I 2023 €225.00
  Campaign Volume II: 2007-2020 10 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD178 - II 2023 €225.00
THE FORCE DIMENSION Early Recordings 1985-89 4 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD179 2023 €95.00
THE ONE ENSEMBLE OF DANIEL PADDEN Oriole LP Alt.Vinyl av036 2012 €16.50
TIETCHENS, ASMUS / FRIEDER BUTZMANN NNOI#02 LP 90% Wasser WVINYL027 2020 €19.50
TOY DIVISION Cute LP + 7inch Vinyl-on-Demand VOD 164 2020 €21.50
V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) Wahrnehmungen 1980 / 1981 3xLP-BOX Vinyl-On-Demand VOD 18 2005 €45.00
Must be Musique LP Dark Vinyl DV#15 1992 €15.00
INSANE 2 x 7inch set Vinyl-on-Demand VOD 158.INSANE 2020 €20.00
  NEKROPHILE REKORDS 1983-1990 10 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD173 2022 €299.00
VANDEWEYER, ELS Debut LP 90% Wasser WVINYL025 2019 €18.00
VELIOTIS, NIKOS & XAVIER CHARLES Kaspian Black LP Alt.Vinyl av061 2015 €19.50
VIDNA OBMANA 1984-1986 [Testament of Tape] 3 x LP-Box Vinyl-On-Demand VOD65 2009 €46.50
VINYL-TERROR & HORROR Nightmare Lullabies LP Vinyl-Terror & Horror 2004 €11.00
VINYL/RECORD-SLEEVE 12inch (325 x 325mm) made out of PE high quality poly-ethylene sleeve   €0.20
10inch (272 x 272mm) made out of PE high quality poly-ethylene sleeve   €0.15
  7inch (185 x 185mm) made out of PE high quality poly-ethylene sleeve   €0.10
VON EULER-DONNERSPERG, DITTERICH / FELIX KUBIN NNOI#01 LP 90% Wasser WVINYL026 2020 €20.00
X-NAVI:ET Aurum 10inch (lathe cut) Don't Sit On My Vinyl! - SIT 562 2019 €18.00
XYRAMAT / THORSTEN SOLTAU Lack klebt auf Schwarzgeld nicht 7 m.m label VINYL02 2010 €7.00
ZOVIET FRANCE Collusion (WHITE vinyl) do-LP VOD Records VOD165.11-12 2020 €30.00
Chasse 3 16 x LP BOX Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 2022 €325.00
In.Version do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 1/2 2022 €31.50
Digilogue do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 3/4 2022 €31.50
Feedback [Mort Aux Vaches] do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 5/6 2022 €31.50
The Decriminalisation of Country Music do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 7/8 2022 €33.50
A Long Walk do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 9/10 2022 €31.50
7.10.12 do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 11/12 2022 €31.50
The Tables are Turning do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 13/14 2022 €31.50
A Third Collusion do-LP Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 15/16 2022 €31.50
  Chasse 3 (as set) 16 x LP SET / bundle Vinyl-on-Demand VOD172 2022 €260.00
ZOVIET FRANCE & FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT [ZFAMP] Flexible Pooling 7inch flexi Alt Vinyl av064 2015 €18.00

"vinyl" entries in albums descriptions

Artist Album Format Description Year Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO Between Checks and Artillery. Between Work and Image 10inch first vinyl for this trio from San Francisco; lim. 500 2007 €10.00
2:13PM Matkormano LP the French duo 2:13PM is another project with JULIEN LOUVET, who is also a part of Drone Rec. artist YRSEL - "Matkormano" is the soundtrack to a 32min movie he made with FABIEN RENNET, a film about a mysterious French man called "the Mage de Marsal" who gains matter transforming skills and builds a 'mother statue' that can predict the future... these two exquisite atmospheric / analogue drone pieces were pressed on white-grey-black marbled vinyl; + download code for the movie!! 2017 €15.00
ABATE, MAURIZIO The Maadi Sessions LP first album on Backwards by this Italian guitarist, known for his psychedlic, ornamental ways of playing, recorded in Cairo, Egypt, absorbing the atmosphere and sounds of the city... "During my first visit, I was especially struck by the sounds, so I recorded some of them over my following stay, and I tried to mix them with my electric guitar, a sort of conversation between the inner world and the outside one.." lim. 200 black vinyl 2018 €16.00
ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL Tapes 81-89 5 x LP Box + 7inch re-issue of the highly successful box-set from 2007 including all five tapes released on Body Records between 1981 and 1989 on re-mastered vinyl; now with bonus 7" - lim. / numbered 500 -- " Classic Belgian minimal synth sound from one of the originators of New Beat/EBM" [Die or DIY?] 2020 €85.00
ACTION & TENSION & SPACE Explosive Meditations LP third album by this recommended 'space impro' outfit from Norway... "Free improvised and travelling up-right bass, chill-out combo organ, smooth drums, crispy guitars and a surfing lap-steel. If you combine the ambience from the NECKS and the doomsday revelations of PINK FLOYD's - a saucerful of secrets - you can get to where Action & Tension & Space are on this album..." - ed. of 400 copies on black vinyl 2019 €18.00
ADAMSON, BARRY + PAN SONIC + HAFLER TRIO The Hymn of the 7th Illusion LP first vinyl re-issue of this not very well known album from 2001 (CD on Kitchen Motors), the amazing collaboration of PAN SONIC with BARRY ADAMSON (MAGAZINE, NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS), and a fabulous 23 min. remix by HAFLER TRIO, which is alone worth the money 2017 €18.00
AEOGA Obsidian Outlander LP first ever vinyl release on Aural Hypnox with six new AEOGA tracks that sound much more noisy and monumental as before, with highly processed distortion harmonies, throbbing pulses and occasional field recordings, these whizzing sonics create an aura of vision and power... excellent, overwhelming drone noises from the abyss... - silk-screen sleeve with 3 large photo prints, lim. ed., BACK IN STOCK ! 2017 €20.00
AETHENOR Betimes Black Cloudmasses LP second album from this project by VINCENT DE ROGUIN (SHORA), STEPHEN O'MALLEY (SUNN O:))), LOTUS EATERS, etc..), and DANIEL O'SULLIVAN (GUAPO); lim. vinyl version 2008 €17.50
  En Form For Bla do-LP fourth album, recorded at three live gigs in Oslo 2010; lim. white vinyl-version with sleeve-design by STEPHEN O'MALLEY 2011 €21.00
AF URSIN Itinera LP this is the first AF URSIN album created entirely on analogue synths - and if you know AF URSIN it should be clear these are not the typical "minimal synth" or "cosmic" sounds, but more mysterious surroundings: like stranding on an alien planet, finding strange hieroglyphs from an archaic past, listening to space winds, waving sinus tones and choirs of unknown beings, at the same time melancholic and full of nostalgy.. lim. 250 copies on clear vinyl 2017 €19.00
AGNIVOLOK Sculptor LP heavy vinyl, oversized cover, silver printed, lim. 500. Back in stock few last copies of this wonderful project from Israel ! 2002 €12.50
AKITA, MASAMI Wattle pic-LP the series of picture discs on Elevator Bath (with visual artwork by the artists themselves) finally continues with a release by MASAMI AKITA aka MERZBOW, who re-worked photogrraphs of a Turkey; on the vinyl two tracks of "unidentifiable metallic clanging, crushing feedback, jagged white noise, and various effects...There are no drums, no guitars, no vocals; just scorching electronic mayhem of the highest quality..." lim. 270 copies 2016 €20.00
ALBRECHT/D. - // KOMMISSAR HJULER Kein Leporello LP ALBRECHT/D. (1944-2013) was a legendary German (fluxus, dada, industrial) artist who co-released earliest THROBBING GRISTLE live tapes in 1976 and performed with JOSEPH BEUYS and many others.. DETLEV HJULER managed to get a ultra rare piece ("Anrufbeantworter-Konzert") from him consisting of bewildering voice-fragments (with heavy swabian dialect), musical debris, radio-madness, noise.. (25 min.), Side B fits perfectly : "JoBeuysseph" collage by K. HJULER; black vinyl edition of only 25 copies! (numbered) 2020 €45.00
ALFEO, PIER Works 2016-2018 LP (one-sided) PIER ALFEO = DUBIT (who had an excellent CD before on Backwards) - with three electro-acoustic compositions, revealing great details and lots of very "near" crackling sounds, sudden breaks and changes, and more calm passages, between tension - dynamism and spheric relaxation, there are wide fields to explore.... / art edition LP (one-sided, white vinyl, poster cover 60 x 90 cm with mathematical graphics , and vellum paper A4 inlay) - ed. of 300 2019 €18.00
ALIO DIE The way of fire (SOLD OUT) 7 sec. ed. 300 copies / blue vinyl w. yellow-red spots / full-colour printed covers 2002 €6.00  
  The Way of Fire (SOLD OUT) 7inch mint-green vinyl / absolutely different and unique covers! 1998  
ALIO DIE / PARALLEL WORLDS Circo Divino LP heavenly voices ambience, natural organic flux, entrancing ethno drones, electronic spheres - ALIO DIEs collaboration with PARALLEL WORLDS from Greece, feat. INDIA CZAJKOWSKA, lim. vinyl version (500) 2010 €16.50
ALOG Amateur do-LP lim. vinyl version 2007 €22.00
ALONE Fossilized In Concrete (1995-2006) LP first LP release for this Avant-Pop project from Belgrade, collecting material from 12 years.- "Definitely pop but never easy, futurist and neo-romantic at times, ALONE’s music remains through the years as unfamiliar and utterly compelling as the post-apocalyptic landscapes it tells us about.." - lim. 318 copies on crystal clear vinyl with fold out full colour insert 2009 €8.00
ALTAIR TEMPLE / EXPO '70 split LP promising drone-duo from Bordeaux, France, with three tracks on this split LP with EXPO70; a stunning mixture of cosmic drones & psychedelia... lim. 300 white vinyl 2011 €16.00
ALVA NOTO Kinder der Sonne do-LP very ambient + romantic soundtrack to the theater piece "Komplizen" by SIMON STONE, the title is inspired by MAXIM GORKY's play "Children of the Sun"... - *takes the listener into a sonic journey of emotional tension and release, revealing a particular kind of sci-fi lust fused with a suite of modern, minimalist ambient classical...* - lim. vinyl version comes in gatefold cover, on black vinyl 2023 €27.50
ALVARET ENSEMBLE Skeylja LP the ALVARET ENSEMBLE (around GREG HAINES) in collaboration with diverse other (multimedia) artists, mainly from Iceland; recordings are taken from 9 different performances done in a church in Terschelling, NL => lonely ambient Jazz passages & more concrete improvisation on classical instruments, suspended drones by wonderful strings & voices... black vinyl lim. 350 copies 2014 €19.50
AMBARCHI, OREN A Final Kiss on Poisoned Cheeks LP release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side; light blue vinyl 2008 €17.50
  MMXX-16: Viscount Gort LP 16th release in the series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => one-sided clear vinyl with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. 500 copies => OREN AMBARCHI's contribution is based on slow piano chords that are more and more accompanied by little electronic sounds and field recordings of goats and their bells.. 2021 €23.00
AMBARCHI, OREN / KASSEL JAEGER / JAMES RUSHFORD Face Time LP second release by this trio, remarkable 'outsider electro-acoustic' studio improvisations, difficult to define.. : " a simmering stew of electronic smears, pitched-down animal moans, and mysteriously emotive microtonal organ chords... squelching electronics, chiming bells, distorted autoharp, inchoate grunts and the sound of a Cristal Baschet", and more to be astonished and to explore on this orange vinyl pressing 2018 €22.00
AMENRA / CAVE IN / MARISSA NADLER Songs of Townes van Zandt Vol. III LP a deeply emotional compilation with cover versions of TOWNES VAN ZANDT songs, the dark / desparate US American folk singer... each artist has 3 tracks, the "atmospheric sludge metal" band from Belgium AMENRA shows their most melancholic and sensitive side... limited colour vinyl ed. 2022 €25.00
AMINI, SIAVASH A Mimesis of Nothingness LP already the fourth album on H.G. for this high-class "exp.-drone" artist from Tehran, transfering the photographs from NOOSHIN SHAFIEE into six stunning sound pictures.."..führt sein Publikum in ein Teheran, durch dessen Häuserschluchten und Alleen, über dessen weite Plätze, Parks, Fabrikgelände und Ruinen ein eisiger Wind weht, ein Wind, der Hagelklötze und Staub und Erinnerungen transportiert und all dies sprunghaft in die unterschiedlichsten Richtungen weht" [African Paper] + 8p booklet, on white vinyl 2020 €22.00
AMINI, SIAVASH & EUGENE THACKER Songs for Sad Poets do-LP "cursed poets" songs and the Song Cycle tradition served as inspiration for these eight stirring tracks, the poetry of EUGENE THACKER is not vocalized but mirrored in the vast, emotional dark drones.. - all sounds extremely amorph and melancholic, often with eerie and dramatic climaxes.. - Limited edition on clear vinyl w. 12-page booklet with the poems printed on black paper 2022 €32.50
AMON Aura 7inch first vinyl release from the Italian project, few copies available again! "..with the minimal, but effective dark ambient soundstructures on this first AMON-vinyl the listener is taken to a journey into the archaic heart of darkness. 1000 miles away, calming and alien." - 300 copies on orange-grey-yellow vinyl (2nd ed.) 2002 €7.00
Nona 10" lim. 300; clear vinyl 2003 €12.00
  Aura (SOLD OUT) 7inch clear vinyl, gloomy handcoloured covers in green & black, edition of 250 numbered copie 1998  
AMUNDSON, NATHAN Western Songs LP the man behind RIVULETS (from Denver, Colorado) creates here the most minimal / lonely country-drone you can imagine; displaying perfectly the endless "western" atmosphere, an acoustic guitar riff is repeated slowly over and over... lim. 200 black vinyl 2015 €18.00
ANENZEPHALIA Magenta do-LP a collection of material that was performed live through the past years (1992-2013), sluggish and eerie ambient / post industrial with analog synth grounding, by one of the first projects that was ever signed on TESCO; lim. 250 copies on BLACK vinyl (out of 500 total), gatefold cover, included numbered insert 2018 €29.00
ANTLERS MULM Of Withered Sparks LP vinyl-version lim. 222 copies 2008 €15.00
APOPTOSE Ana Liil LP + CD with 'Ana Liil' (about a mysterious girl existing in otherworlds) this German project goes into a completely new direction by incorporating slow dark wave electro *pop* elements and rhythms, female vocals, choirs, and cosmic/harmonic synths into their dreamlike and melancholic visions... "extremely enthralling ambientmusic" [NonPop]; the vinyl version comes with printed inner sleeve and CD copy of the same album 2014 €24.50
  Blutopfer LP vinyl re-issue of APOPTOSE's well received second album from 2002, now with bonus track and download code: " It combines raw ambient electronics with drumming footage of the Easter processions in the village of Calanda in Aragón, Spain."; lim. 300 on violet vinyl 2017 €21.50
APSE Climb up do-LP lim. vinyl version 2009 €17.50
  3.1 / The Whip 7" lim. ed. white vinyl 2009 €6.50
ARANOS No Religion 7inch ed. of 500 / green vinyl / fullcolour sleeve / one of our favourite ever singles! a must have!! - *Feine Single mit einem lustig-beschwingten Stück über Religion („I’ve got no religion and I’m glad“) auf der Verso-, und einem wunderbaren Konkret-Noise-Collagen-Stück auf der Recto-Side.. giftgrünes VinyL 2005 €7.00
ART ZOYD Musique pour l'Odyssee LP re-issue of their 2nd album from 1979, now with additional band-members reaching an eve more dynamic sound - suspenseful compositions with beautiful dark & subtle parts, very cinematic and always on the edge to break out.. lim. 250 white vinyl (total re-edition 500 copies) 2013 €20.00
ARTEFACTUM Sub Rosa (SOLD OUT) 7inch wonderful esoteric beauty-drones from this female polish project, handmade covers using "decoupage"-technique, closed with pink ribbon, lim. 300 pink vinyl 2008 €7.00  
ARTEMIEV, EDWARD / ANDREY TARKOVSKY Solaris. Sound and Vision LP-BOX collector's item: the definite "experimental / archaic / transcendental drone" film soundtrack by E. ARTEMIEV for TARKOVSKY's masterpiece "Solaris" from 1972 in 180gr. vinyl and CD versions, plus a blue ray version of the film (original language with English subtitles) plus a luxurious exclusive hardcover photo book with unreleased photos and essays; lim. / numbered 500 copies, made in collaboration with the Andrey Tarkovsky Institute (Moscow) 2018 €120.00
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE (AMT) Boto [Encantado] LP a new volume in the nice INI.ITU 12" series and the first AMT-vinyl release since a long time; surreal & subtle collages, strange sounds you can hardly recognize, based on field recordings from the "Boto" = the Amazon river; stunning full-colour cover, handnumbered ed. 250 copies, simply fantastic !! 2011 €12.50
ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE / GERALD FIEBIG / EMERGE / PBK Fiction Circuit LP four experimental collaborations on this colourful designed LP, feat. re-workings of A.M.T. and PBK basic materials... "one will experience, thoroughout the whole album, a change between very different sonic textures and temperaments that showcase the wide range of expressive possibilities of electroacoustic music. This is not the product of good luck, but of planned collective composition.." lim. 300 copies on green-marbled vinyl, hand-numbered and with download code 2019 €18.00
ASHTORETH Rites I & II LP the first wider available full length release by this Belgian 'shamanistic' doom/drone project, the sounds can be raw and heavy but extremely meditative and otherwordly far away at the same time, a guitarish melancholy is often present, eternally fluctuating winds and aural substances are really transporting you to another (mind) place.. exceptional drone muzak, highly recommended !! vinyl version lim. to 300 copies 2019 €20.00
ASIA NOVA [=ASIANOVA] Magnamnemonicon (SOLD OUT) 10inch first vinyl for ASIA NOVA, second part in the new 10"-series by Drone Records. Full colour cover & pink / red-white vinyl, 33 rpm, more than 30+ min. playtime. ed of 500. Release-date: 3. March 2006 !! 2006 €12.00  
ASPHODEL Aokigahara, the Black Sea of Trees LP a very strong 'audio story-telling' (without narrator or voice) about loss and the AOKIGAHARA-forest, known as "suicide forest" in the Mount Fuji region in Japan, which is covered with all kinds of items like photographs, letters and instruments from the leavers; beautiful subtle ambient and roaring field recording noises... pressed on red vinyl 2017 €18.00
ATAVIST / NADJA 12012291920 / 1414101 LP vinyl-edition, real collaboration between two bands, two side-long tracks, black vinyl only 2008 €16.50
ATELEIA & BENJAMIN CURTIS Baghdad Batterie LP release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side 2008 €17.00
ATHEUS / RELAPXYCH.0 Soundscape One / Distant Radiance II 12inch long play split 12" (31 min) by the two deep ambient projects; comes on orange marbled vinyl LAST COPY! 2009 €15.00
ATKINSON, FELICIA The Flower and the Vessel do-LP poetic and introspective ambience (waving synths, piano, bells, soft crackles + found sounds..) with soothing and fascinating effect through the whispered and spoken lyrics, the whole feels like a moony +half surrealistic, tender sensual massage, the musical part could be compared to ANDREW CHALK for example... "The album’s 11 songs span a vast pantheon of whispering textures, opaque moods, and surreal spoken word, leading the listener through a mirrored hall of beguiling mirages.." - black vinyl version 2019 €29.00
ATRABILIS SUNRISE Aesthetics of Self-Destruction 7 white vinyl / edition of 505 copies 2003 €5.00
AUBE Re-Chant (SOLD OUT) 7inch pink vinyl, handmade covers, lim. 250 1995  
  Hydrophobia 1993 LP previously unreleased material composed, recorded and mixed with water sound only, comes on water blue vinyl, lim. 300; artwork by ABBY HELASDOTTIR (GYDJA) - singled sided LP!! (this is actually a remix of the Hydrophobia cassette material [Vanilla Rec.] that was supposed to be released on CD by Cheeses at the early 2000's, but never came out..) 2021 €20.00
AUN Utica (SOLD OUT) 7 harmonic distortion-drones of a higher beauty; the rising drone-star from the active Montreal-scene; white vinyl, lim. 300 2009 €7.00  
AXOLOTL Chemical Theatre LP lim. & handnumbered 525 copies / heavy vinyl / 45 rpm 2006 €12.50
BABY DEE A Book of Songs for Annie Marie LP the CURRENT 93 - member with minimally arranged songs based on harp & piano sounds; limited vinyl version 2010 €15.00
BAD SECTOR Dolmen (SOLD OUT) 7inch yellow vinyl, lim. 250 copies 1996  
  Xela LP vinyl re-issue of the great Waystyx CD from 2001, being based on a backing tape for the performance at a Staalplaat festival in Berlin, August 1996; this is also the first ever 12" VINYL release by the Italian cult project!! "Deep droning waves echoing through the abyss are underpinned by minimalistic archaic rhythms and processed radio transmissions, creating an inexplicable mystery of beautiful and timeless sound sculptures." lim. 200 on black vinyl 2017 €16.00
BAKER, AIDAN Same River Twice (SOLD OUT) 7inch Lim. 300 on clear blue vinyl with yellow spots, blue/green handpainted covers with unique handwritten poetry, each one totally unique 2004 €6.50  
Gathering Blue do-LP gatefold-cover lim. 444 copies designed by ALAN MC CLELLAND, coming in three vinyl colours! Feat. new material, a JOY DIVISION cover-version of "Twenty-four hours", the CICATRICE mCDR (Dreamland Rec.), THE TASTE OF SUMMER ON YOUR SKIN mCDR (Taalem), and two remixes of tracks by BUILDING CASTLES OUT OF MATCHSTICKS and TROUM that appeared before on the "Remixes" CDR (Arcolepsy). A wonderful collection of introspective & poetic drone-ambience ! 2009 €24.00
Pure Drone (Drone Compendium One) LP Killer-release by the NADJA-half, two side-long transcension drones that evolve like a living organism, created entirely on guitar... first part of the "Drone Compendium-series", lim. 400, 180gr vinyl, very nice & thick sleeves!! 2011 €15.00
Bach eingeschaltet - vierter Band 7" fourth part in this lovely series of J.S.BACH interpretations - AIDAN BAKER plays "Prelude" from Cello Suite # 1 in G Major (BWV 1007) and "Menuet II" from Cello Suite # 2 in D Minor (BWV 1008) in "drowning" and "drowned" versions ; lim. & numbered ed. 166 copies, on silver-grey vinyl! 2011 €14.00
The Sea swells a bit do-LP the first release in the new "Mind Travels" series of this French label is a vinyl re-issue of AIDAN BAKER's stunning album from 2006 => three longs tracks about the deepsea, the ocean, dying sailors, dense & inapproachable, dark & mysterious, working with mesmerizing layers & circles of long guitar loops, arising in slow Crescendos... beginning with track 2 smooth percussion & bass-grooves are pervading the drones, the whole gets slightly psychedelic... comes with new artwork & live bonus track! 2015 €20.00
Same River Twice 7inch finally the re-edition of one of the most beautiful Drone EPs (both in sound & artwork) is out, more than 10 years after its first appearance this was the also the very first VINYL release of AIDAN BAKER => two pieces of shimmering guitar drone harmonics, with titles inspired by literature phrases; filed under: Poetic & trancy day-dream-drones ~ lim. 300, colour vinyl, new artwork by AIDAN himself !! 2015 €7.50
  There / Not There LP highly recommended new album which appears to be more like a new (experimental shoegaze / post-rock) band project => DANA SCHECHTER on bass (she played with SWANS and AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB), FIONA McKENZIE from HALMA on drums, and AIDAN BAKER on guitar and foggy vocals, with three extremely sensitive pieces, ranging from most gentle instrumentation to walls of noise... - lim. vinyl version 2020 €16.50
BAKER, AIDAN & PLURALS Glass Crocodile Medicine LP two side-long tracks recorded "live in the studio" with AIDAN BAKERs tour-mates PLURALS in 10/2011 for the now famous Latitudes series, very droney, experimental, soundscaping, very different superb tracks... comes on blue vinyl with diecut cover, numbered ed. 500 copies 2013 €18.50
BAKER, AIDAN / N / DIRK SERRIES Enomeni do-LP "Enomeni" (which is Greek and means 'connected') is a document of a special live performance (Sept. 2014), held at the marriage of the MIDIRA REC. label-owner: AIDAN BAKER, N and DIRK SERRIES came together for the first time to play an improvised live session. The result is an one hour session (divided into four tracks) of guitar-based dream drones and pulsations. So nice. Gatefold-cover , black vinyl ed. lim. to 150 copies; BACK IN STOCK LAST COPIES! 2016 €27.50
BALDRUIN Portal LP debut LP by this German project (from Wiesbaden) => well constructed cosmic ambient-scapes with a dark psychedelic / cinematic / surrealistic touch, when strange voices, subtle percussion and whistling noises enter the scenery.... lim./numbered 260 copies on heavy CLEAR vinyl, with insert, download card... definitely to discover for cosmic spaceheads !! 2015 €15.00
BAND OF PAIN Still falls the Rain 7inch after a long pause a new release by STEVE PITTIS (DIRTER PROM.) project, a tribute to the poem found inside the gatefold cover of the first BLACK SABBATH LP, feat. LUCY COTTER (voice) and ANDREW LILES; lim. 500 on heavy purple vinyl 2015 €9.50
BARBIERI, CATERINA Spirit Exit do-LP new album by the Italian modular synth innovator, recorded in 2020 during the pandemia isolation, being inspired by female philosophers, mystics and poets, like St. Teresa D'Avila, Rosi Braidotti and Emily Dickinson.. - "Spirit Exit crystallizes Barbieri's densely layered, blindingly bright synth arrangements while introducing stunning new elements that feel as if they've always belonged" - lim. SILVER col. vinyl 2022 €31.50
BARDOSENETICCUBE Rain in June (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies on black-white sprinkled vinyl 2003  
BARUCH, BEN The complete Recordings 1949-1950 do-CD re-issue of all vinyl-discs with religious Hebrew & Yiddish songs published by "Saturne" in 1950 by this Jewish singer. Comes in slipcase-box with two booklets ! 2007 €16.50
BASHO-JUNGHANS, STEFFEN IS LP German lapsteel-drone-guitarist on a British label; numbered ed. 500, very nice edition, 200gr vinyl 2009 €21.00
BASINSKI, WILLIAM A Shadow in Time LP two long new pieces, the title track is dedicated to DAVID ROBERT JONES (aka DAVID BOWIE), the pieces have been created with synths, tenor saxophone, tape loops and electronics => very rich & multi-layered, subharmonic ambient drones and waves full of ringing overtunes, surely among his best material! The limited vinyl version contains a special mix, only available on this format 2017 €25.00
On Time out of Time CD two pieces commissioned for installations in Berlin 2017: "These works utilize, among other things, exclusive source recordings from the interferometers of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) capturing the sounds of the merging of two distant massive black holes, 1.3 billion years ago." - the CD feat. different material/mixes than the vinyl version 2019 €14.00
  On Time out of Time LP two pieces commissioned for installations in Berlin 2017: "These works utilize, among other things, exclusive source recordings from the interferometers of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) capturing the sounds of the merging of two distant massive black holes, 1.3 billion years ago." - the lim vinyl version feat.. different material/mixes than CD version 2019 €25.00
BASINSKI, WILLIAM & LAWRENCE ENGLISH Selva Oscura LP first ever collab between the two prolific aural atmospherics, two side-long tracks inspired by 'Dante's Inferno', extremely minimalistic / warm harmonic drone-layers with enough spatial expansion and rawness, majestic and subtle at the same time ... "As one sound fades away, another is revealed in its place, creating a sense of an eternal reveal..." this is the lim. grey opaque vinyl ed. 2018 €21.00
BASINSKI, WILLIAM / ANDREAS MARTIN / CHRISTOPH HEEMANN Cloes do-7inch clear vinyl, printed clear inlay, lim. 400 2003 €16.50
BASS COMMUNION Sisters Oregon (first edition) 10inch The newest studio material of STEVEN WILSON's experimental drone project, especially recorded for our 10" series! Based on ethereal vocal choir material the four parts of "Sisters Oregon" reach a transcendental beauty of the highest degree. first edition: 500 copies, black vinyl, excellent artwork by CARL GLOVER - SOME LAST COPIES FOUND - SEALED! 2017 €18.00
Sisters Oregon (SOLD OUT) 10inch the newest studio material of STEVEN WILSON's unique experimental drone project, especially recorded for our 10" series! Based on ethereal vocal choir material the four parts of "Sisters Oregon" reach a transcendental beauty of the highest degree. Excellent artwork by CARL GLOVER. // NOW AVAILABLE the 2nd edition 300 copies on sky-blue marbled vinyl & now black cover-frame 2018 €16.00  
  Ghosts on Magnetic Tape do-LP luxurious vinyl re-edition of the beautiful 2004 album, re-cut from new masters, lim. 300 copies (numbered!) on clea 180gr. vinyl ! - "Sehr poetische dark ambience aus England, mit Pianohauchklängen & knisper-Sounds, eingebettet in warme Watte-Drones, sanften Chorgesängen, atmosphärische field recordings & verlangsamte Instrumentalklassik... anmutig und schön ! TIP! " [Drone Rec. info to the first release] 2021 €36.50
BATES, MARTYN Americas Dissonance LP lim. vinyl-version, only 150 copies! (220 gr vinyl). the very first tape of MARTYN BATES project, re-issued 2007 €20.00
BAYLE, FRANCOIS Les Couleurs de la Nuit LP 'Perhaps that which is lost or destroyed does in fact circulate?' - the complete version of BAYLEs masterpiece from 1982, a work for tapes and computer, transforming various instrumental sources with electronic means in order to create 'sound images moving like butterflies through audible space' [BAYLE]... a very own musical language; vinyl version lim. 500 2013 €20.00
BAZE.DJUNKIII presents Pink Minimalism 7inch ENGRAVE YOURSELF! ANTI-RECORD! A completely blank PINK 7"-vinyl with no grooves at all, in order to become creative with this medium on your own and make it a very personal record...."a gift to all free spirits out there"... lovely idea! lim. ed. 120 copies 2012 €6.50
BECKAHESTEN Vattenhalens Dräpare LP first album for this impressive "ritual folk / drone / industrial" trio from Sweden, feat. PER AHLUND (DISKREPANT, SKARE, SOPHIA & KARJALAN SISSIT live member). with female vocations and most powerful dark sonics... " Their sound lingers within the shadow lands of ritual and folklore where solemn harmonies and rhythms intertwine with lyrical poetry, becoming rites and omens" - 300 copies pressed on vinyl in total 2020 €20.00
BEEQUEEN Aughton LP nice vinyl-only release with older recordings by the Dutch experimental ambience project with FRANS DE WAARD; organic & dark drone/musique concrete at its best ! lim. ed. 300, full colour inner sleeve, last copies available 2004 €17.00
BERLINER RING Bardo 12inch the only vinyl release (5 track mini-LP) for the Berlin based "electro-mechanical" group so far, who excite with rhythmic and subtle pulsating electronics and sounds from their self-built instruments and machines; the 4 members use: timpani, rhythm maches, a 'Heckeshorn' (hybrid slide guitar), self build theremins and analogue synths, samples, bass. osmotic dubbler, etc. etc.. for their fresh and original songs.. 2012 €12.00
BERRY, KEITH The Cartesian Plane pic-LP another release in this lovely series (artwork painting & sound by the same artist) - the first vinyl appearance of KEITH BERRY, creating subtle & graceful drones of timeless transcension... lim. 233 copies 2010 €17.50
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & RYAN MARTIN As strong as Death is do-LP this remarkable collaboration by M.B. with RYAN MARTIN (co-founder of DAIS Rec.) is inspired by the biblical "Song of Solomon" (Chapter 8, Verse 6), a collection of poetic lovesongs; the four long tracks are based on strings, prepared electronics and tapes and sound like smooth, rusty noise, as coming from a 1000 years old past... "an ambient religious compilation to understand the desire to be ONE"; mixed and edited by HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT; lim. 400 in black vinyl 2016 €20.00
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO (M.B.) Mectpyo Bakterium LP re-issue of the much sought-after LP from 1982 released on DYS (the label run by THE MNEMONISTS), recorded August-October 1981, one of the "calmer" albums of the early MB phase, comes with reproduction of the original cover, lim. 275 on coloured /marbled (grey / black / white) vinyl, with inlay... "The icy opression, the hallucinative electronic wounds, are a precious and singular fact in a technological society brought to limit" [M.B.] 2013 €22.00
  Telmegiddo LP + CD "Apocalyptic echo-sounds" - re-issue of M.Bs last tape-composition from 1983, with a bonus CD "Bakterihabitat" containing sound sketches that lead to 'Telmegiddo" - together more than 105 min playtime, lim. and numbered 100 copies on white vinyl (out of a total ediiton of 250) with paste-on Cover, the cover image is a 1981 original M.B. artwork 2015 €20.00
BIG CITY ORCHESTRA Drone Gnomes (SOLD OUT) 10inch ed. of 500 in light blue marmor-vinyl / full-colour cover by well known designer MIKE DRINGENBERG ! / 5th part in our 10"-series dealing with acoustic ideas about the "something" we can't know anything about.... 2006 €12.00  
Salty Sea Shanties 7inch right in time to BCO's "SONIC UTOPIA" tour October 2012 through Europe & the 30th anniversary of the band (= BILGE SEAWEED ORCASTRUA for this relase) this 7" comes on oceanic split-coloured vinyl (half light & half dark blue) with six tracks of weird ocean-tales songs between earplay & craziness, that proof once again BCO are on of the most exceoptional "bands" on earth, and beyond.. well, not really a "band", rather a mystery we still fail to understand; feat. ROBO, DAVID AELLEN, CHERYL E. LEONARD, etc.. 2012 €6.00
  Kapellmeister CD-R ten new tracks of atmospheric xxx-ness by the cassette-cult act, this is the lim. CDR version... "oneiric collage confusion with keyboardisms infiltrated with radio hum and vinyl itch" 2015 €8.50
BIOMECHANICA BM-01 CD collaboration project of FRANCISCO LOPEZ and ARTURO LANZ (founder of ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO!) with their first release, raw rhythmic power & complex environmental sounds, collected over many years... the CD version has two tracks that are not on the vinyl version! 2012 €14.50
BIOSPHERE Substrata do-LP re-issue of this true ambient-classic from 1997, comes with previously unreleased track "Laika" (14:35 min) on Side D !! Lim. 1000, gatefold-cover, 180 gr vinyl, re-mastered by STEFAN BETKE, Berlin 2011 €33.50
Shenzhou 3 x LP first ever vinyl re-issue of the great album from 2002 based on the orchestral works of CLAUDE DEBUSSY - this is a most meditative and calm album, truly mesmerizing - SHENZHOU means "magic vessel"; as a bonus comes the full album "The Samphire Tower" on record three, a so far unreleased installation (?) work with field recordings, "a building designed by JONY EASTERBY and PIPPA TAYLOR" 2017 €36.00
The Senja Recordings do-LP BIOSPHERE has created the perfect "BIOSPHERE"- album of 'Arctic Ambience', with these 17 tracks of field recordings and studio improvisations all made on the island of SENJA in Northern Norway... "Some of the sounds are astonishing, not least the opening track, a recording of ice being thrown onto a newly frozen lake - taken from under, with a hydrophone." [Spectrum Culture] lim. vinyl version 2019 €28.50
Dropsonde 3 x LP re-issue of the much praised 'jazzy' BIOSPHERE album from 2005 (TOUCH), now with seven (!) so far unreleased bonus tracks, comes with DL code ..."..new directions towards the jazz colours of Miles Davis and Jon Hassell, whilst re-invigorating the pulse and projection of his signature sound: a hypnotic combination of pleasure and dread." - lim. vinyl version 2020 €32.00
  N-Plants do-LP vinyl version (re-press 2020) of the underrated 2010 album. A Soundtrack to specific Japanese Nuclear Power Plants, finished about one month before the Fukushima catastrophe happened !! comes in gatefold cover 2020 €32.00
BIRDS OF PASSAGE & LEONARDO ROSADO Dear and Unfamiliar LP second album for the "dark poetique" singer/songwriter from New Zealand, collaborating with LEONARDO ROSADO; vinyl-version lim. 300 in the typical DENOVALI deluxe style ! 2011 €19.50
BIXOBAL No. 3 (April 2008) mag little 56p mag with ROB MILLIS (CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS) 78rpm records column, HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS, LIMBUS 3 & 4-interviews, lots of reviews of vinyl, books, CD, DVDs, cassettes.. english language 2008 €3.00
  No. 5 (October 2008) mag little 56p mag issue by ANOMALOUS RECORDS-fame ERIC LANZILLOTTA, feat.: ONDE, MICHAEL GRIFFEN, TUNNEL CANARAY, ASSOPHON RECORDS, lots of reviews of vinyl, books, CD, DVDs, cassettes.. english language 2008 €3.00
BJÄRGÖ, PETER Structures and Downfall LP newest album by the (ex) ARCANA / SOPHIA mastermind, with beautiful chorus echo guitars this goes more into a "waving" / songwriting direction, extremely dense and hautingly melancholic.. -"On what is now his 4th full length solo album, we are granted a calm, thoughtful and at times somber aural voyage. Melodic atmospheric guitar work, lush string arrangements and slow, heavy percussive rhythms are present and elevated to new heights." - lim. vinyl 200 copies on black vinyl 2019 €22.00
BLACK EARTH Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation LP Spanish ritual industrial, drenched in a nighmarisch black metal atmosphere.. "s they first weave and then slice and dissect their impenetrable veil, a sonic ritual of abject disfigurement begins to take shape before the listener, as the strokes and gashes of black metal, industrial, noise and ritual drone intersect erratically and hypnotically, painting an hallucinatory arabesque of absolute dread and deformity..." - lim. 200 copies on black vinyl 2019 €20.00
BLACK MAGIC DISCO same do-LP JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER & MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. Colour vinyl, gatefold-cover, incl. huge poster ! 2007 €19.50
BLACK TO COMM same do-LP eight new pieces by this German 'experimental ambience/drone' project who delevoped his own remarkable style over the years... "a sprawling double album pieced together with crumbling samples, vocal snippets and an arsenal of noise generators and filters"; lim. 300 on BLACK vinyl 2014 €23.50
Seven Horses for Seven Kings do-LP the Hamburg-based project with the first new studio album after many years, going into a much more experimental and abrasive "industrial drone" direction => mighty multi-layered drones from various sources arise, noisy orchestral elements (percussion, wind instruments, sax, etc.) are present, this really sucks you into a dark maelstrom, without using structures and harmony... on 13 very versatile tracks - the best BTC album so far we think! Last copies in stock on limited green vinyl 2019 €23.50
  Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens LP third BTC album on Thrill Jockey, on limited translucent green vinyl: " Each of his phantasmagoric works is meticulously constructed from an omnivorous array of smudged samples and other sonic detritus, painstakingly collected by Richter from across the history of recorded music or his immediate environment and altered into beguiling new shapes." - come with DL code 2020 €26.00
BLACKSHAW, JAMES Fantômas: Le Faux Magistrat do-LP ambitious 75 min. long soundtrack for the famous fifth "Fantomas" silent film by LOUIS FEUILLADE, performed live in Paris in October 2013; feat. diverse guest musicians as DUANE PITRE, SIMON SCOTT (SLOWDIVE) and others... lim. vinyl version in gatefold sleeve 2014 €30.00
BLACKSHAW, JAMES & LUBOMYR MELNYK The Watchers LP first collaboration between JAMES BLACKSHAW (12-string guitar) and LUBOMYR MELNYK (grand piano), resulting in incredible floating & mellow improvisations with lots of atmosphere... black vinyl version lim. 500 copies 2013 €20.00
BLANCK MASS Ted K (Original Motion Picture Score) LP excellent soundtrack to the film about the tragic story of TED KACZYNSKI, the "Unabomber" who wanted to fight against the destructive side of technology... BLANCK MASS is the project of BEN POWER (FUCK BUTTONS) who created a fully electronic score, mirroring the drama, tension and emotionality of the film perfectly.. - lim. ed. RED vinyl 2022 €22.50
BLOOD RHYTHMS Civil War LP + BOOK second LP (after 'Assembly' co-released by RRRecords, 2015) by the exceptional noise & power electronics project of Seattle-based ARVO ZYLO, with stunning studio material collected over 10 years, feat. many guests such as DAN BURKE (ILLUSION OF SAFETY), DAVE PHILLIPS, BRUCE LAMONT (YAKUZA, BLOODIEST), WYATT HOWLAND (SKIN GRAFT), etc.. - we got few copies of the ART edition (lim. 100) with gatefold cover and 44 page foll colour book, on RED vinyl 2019 €35.00
BOBBY MOO Aventures 12inch trio of: Alexandre Bellenger, Arnaud Rivière, MIHO; studio & live side! 45 rpm, white vinyl, limited ed. 2005 €9.00
BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE / WALD Schwarzer Sabbat für Dean Martin 7inch remastered re-issue of this very rare early BOHREN EP from 1995 (their second vinyl release) - WALD was the project of Mark Sikora who is featured with 6 (!) tracks here and got help by some "Grundbollern" of Bohren... comes with 3 flyers and a piece of "forest" sticked on the inner sleeve; pressed on black vinyl; lim. 200 copies 2020 €17.50
BRAEYDEN JAE Fog Mirror LP debut vinyl album from this fresh drone project (Salt Lake City, USA) after some cassette releases, contemplative ambient drone static with lots of raw hissing and overtones based on synths, e-bow guitars and subtle pulses in the way of TIM HECKER, etc.. "a weighted, textural album of architectural drone punctuated with stirring washes of crackling static and arcing tones that gather like visible precipitation on an early morning windshield." very nice, to discover! lim. 220 copies on white vinyl 2016 €20.00
BREAKLAB Reet 12inch drone newcomer from Bremen with roots in the open minded / experimental techno- and art scene, this is the debut vinyl EP with 5 tracks (about 20 min. playtime) presenting very wide and sonorous sounding layered mystery drones with swinging overtones and almost orchestral tension, when metalloid object or instrumental sounds strike in, or fragmented crackles and noises appear and build chaos-structures.... highly recommended 12"! 2016 €10.00
BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb LP project of JAMES BLACKSHAW & JOZEF VAN WISSEM; lim. vinyl version 500 copies 2008 €23.50
BRIGHTER DEATH NOW All too bad, bad to All LP "Let Everything Rot!" - limited vinyl version of the new BDN album - only 506 copies, numbered postcard, gatefold-cover, DL code : - "By combining the depressing atmosphere of earlier works like the Great Death trilogy and Necrose Evangelicum with the more power electronics inspired work like 2005’s Kamikaze Kabaret, BDN continues to push for a sound that is both totalizing in vision and sonically dominating." [Discipline Mag] 2022 €28.50
  Everything is Gonna' be Allright 10inch clear vinyl 10" with four exclusive tracks, luxurious cover w. postcard + DL code, lim. 500 and already gone at source.. 2022 €25.00
BRODERICK, PETER & GABRIEL SALOMAN same LP collaboration by these two artists known from EFTERKLANG and YELLOW SWANS - basic source material recorded together was later shaped into 5 pieces:' Broderick’s side brings together elements of modern compostion, electronic music, dub and vocal-oriented songwriting, while Saloman’s side is an epic 18-minute journey that builds into a gorgeous crescendo before gliding away on plaintive cries of a violin'; lim. 350 copies on black vinyl 2015 €19.50
BRUITAL ORGASME Experiment in functional Background Music LP this very active male/female industrial noise duo from Belgium releases their first LP on Silken Tofu! - by incorporating a wide range of different sound-sources (self build sound objects, old vinyl players, tapes, radios, etc..) they manage to create very versatile collage noise tracks with lots of atmosphere... lim. 200, comes w. silkscreened PVC sleeve & cover + download code, very nice artwork 2015 €18.00
BRUME Two Characters 10inch the French "atmospheric musique concrete" master on the Drone Rec.-sublabel with two highly evocative drone-pieces, full of tension & great sounds, showing a compelling densification process.. lim. 500 coloured vinyl; cover-artwork by MAL HOESCHEN (MULTER) OUT NOW !! 2013 €12.00
Friction LP a 'compression' from the two very first BRUME tapes 'Frikture' (1985) and 'Le Jour du Cochon' (1986-1987) with recorded material 1984-1986, showing a different, more rhythmic & electronic sounding early BRUME... lim. 200 copies RED vinyl, a release in the "Archives des Musiques Industrielles de France" 2015 €22.00
  Autoportrait LP re-issue of MC from 1991 (LA LEGENDE DE VOIX), revealing the harsh and "industrial" side of BRUME that let's you shiver, using lots of spoken word material (quotes vom ARTAUD, TARKOWSKY, J.L.GODARD), cold loops and noises with dark classic samples and apocalyptic fanfares.. a masterpiece!! lim. 100 clear vinyl (complete edition: 500 copies), when the clear vinyl version is sold out we offer the black vinyl ed. 2017 €25.00
BRUME + VOMIR Unstable LP unexpected collaboration by BRUME with the hyperactive French "HNW" maniac VOMIR, combining Musique Concrete and Wall of Noise elements impressively => two oppressive, eerie, side long collages, cold and direct into the face.. lim. 200 red vinyl 2014 €22.00
BRUME / OUBLIER ET MOURIR A Year to live LP split LP inspired by the book of the same name by STEPHEN LEVINE about preparing for death in order to live more consciously inside every moment; OUBLIER ET MOURIR is the ambient side of ANEMONE TUBE; BRUME has an incredible side-long dark ambient-drone noise & poetry track in different parts, haunting & captivating & always changing! lim. 300 copies on white vinyl, with postcard and very nice 320gr. full-colour cover 2012 €17.50
BURNES, ANDREW Telescope LP 7th release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series Vol. 3 & 4 (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side on colour or clear vinyl; solo debut album of this member of SAN AGUSTIN; mastered by JIM PLOTKIN 2008 €17.00
BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. Curse Go Back LP re-issue of a rare CD ("Electronic Revolution") with original cut-up experiments by BURROUGHS recorded in 1968, comes with insert feat. an essay and so far unseen photos, lim. 500 clear vinyl ; "This is the first readily available edition of an hypnotic and meditative recording that examines the hidden power of words. Closer to work of sound poetry than anything literary" 2016 €22.00
Let me hang you LP recordings from 20 years ago, with new musical input: BURROUGHS reading his favourite parts of NAKED LUNCH, combined with musical and sound creations of BILL FRISELL and WAYNE HORVITZ (NAKED CITY), EYVIND KANG and many more, creating a kind of atmospheric soundtrack and background for the ever strange contents of the novel... finally these recordings have been re-found & finished by KING KHAN and other musicians. 13 pieces, pretty obscure but it works!!! multi-coloured vinyl, gatefold cover 2016 €23.00
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings LP re-issue of this now almost historical LP from 1981 - the last release on Industrial Records (IR0016), coordinated and produced by GENESIS P-ORRIDGE and PETER CHRISTOPHERSON who put together this compilation of incredible spoken word cut up experiments and field recordings, in fact the first widely available release with BURROUGHS recordings; back in print, re-mastered audio + re-stored artwork, Clear vinyl ed. lim. 750 copies (black vinyl available too) 2023 €25.00
  Break Through in Grey Room LP SUB ROSA compiled and released this LP in 1986 with rare, highly experimental early cut-up recordings from the 60's to 70's, working with BRION GYSIN, THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA; and mathematician IAN SOMMERVILLE... *the record is as much an exhibition of studio and composition technique as it is a document of underground culture at that time.* - clear vinyl 750 copies (black vinyl available, too) 2023 €25.00
BVDUB Wrath & Apathy do-LP "People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.." - four long new tracks (each clocking at almost 20 minutes!), inspired by HARUKI MURAKAMI's surrealistic novel "Kafka on the Shore" (deutsch: "Kafka am Strand", from 2002); comes on coloured vinyl ("coke bottle clear"), lim. 500 copies 2020 €32.00
B°TONG (B*TONG / B-TONG/ BTONG) Each and every Word must die LP collector's item! - recordings of private concert given in Barcelona in December 2016, in front of an audience of 2 people only!! numbered edition, lim. 100 - handpainted cover - coloured vinyl - inlay - download code 2017 €26.00
CARTER TUTTI Feral Vapours of the Silver Ether LP The second album under the CARTER TUTTI name from 2007, for the first time on vinyl ! - " the electronic and the acoustic are merged in a seamless, crafted album that is awash with echoes of the sea, the moon, the open road, and flatlands..." - remastered edition on YELLOW vinyl 2023 €30.50
CARTER TUTTI VOID Play Chris & Cosey do-LP re-workings & re-interpretations of classic CHRIS & COSEY songs from the 80's & 90's, which they performed at live performances throughout 2011 - 2014; five remixes come from the limited tour CD; vinyl version w. gatefold-cover 2015 €29.50
  Triumvirate LP the third and final album by the project of CHRIS CARTER, COSEY FANNI TUTTI and NIK COLK VOID - "The rhythms, created by Chris Carter, formed the foundation and starting point from which the process began of melding the live instrumentation of Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s searing guitars, vocals, effects and the arsenal of sounds each had amassed from a variety of sources, some sounds manipulated to extremes, all fed into the mix.." lim. vinyl version 2019 €26.50
CARTER, CHRIS Chemistry Lessons (CCCL Volume One) do-LP the first solo-album by CHRIS CARTER in 17 years, the 'genius behind the machines' at T.G. - "Each of the 25 tracks feels to offer a window onto worlds of encrypted kinetic energy, fulminating figments of the imagination which come to life in shapeshifting, plasmic forms made all the more 'real' and hyperstitious....cropping up as alien sirens, glossolalic darkroom murmurs, and fully-fledged 'singers' in their own strange right." [Boomkat] gatefold cover, coloured vinyls 2018 €26.50
CASAS, CARLOS MMXX-19: 1883 (Sound Model I) LP 19th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => CARLOS CASAS (Barcelona) is a new name for us, he worked out a phantastic "trance / transcension" piece based on field recordings made in Indonesia and Philippines.. 2021 €23.00
  Mutia (special ed.) 3 x LP the Spanish soundartist and film-maker CARLOS CASAS created a highly atmospheric / surrealistic documentary named CEMETERY about an "Elephant Graveyard" in Sri Lanka (2019) => MUTIA has been created from the field recordings made for the film, radio frequencies and electronics, and contains four contemplative side long pieces, plus 2 on the bonus LP and more bonus material via Download Code; lim. 200 RED vinyl (special ed.), with art print 2019 €45.00
CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER Black Axis do-LP first ever vinyl re-issue of the second album (1989, LP + 7"), remastered => "a hellscape of militaristic bass, brutalist drums, strangled guitar, and distant werewolf calls...But for all the ghoulish yells, suicide-cult references, and malevolent tones, Brötzmann’s music with Massaker is the stuff of transcendence, too, the sound of three musicians fighting through darkness in search of any light." [Pitchfork] 2019 €24.00
Koksofen do-LP the fourth album from 1993, 1st time vinyl re-issue, their most dark & intense masterpiece! - "Mountainous noises tower up and crash down, and tormented sounds rise from ominously seething grounds, haunting the entire song-scape. The feel of doom and dread hangs heavily over the five songs, and the title song rumbles, shrieks and wails, plagued by Caspar’s guttural growls of war, suffering and death..." 2019 €24.00
  Home do-LP with "Home" (1994), a collection of live recordings, the circle of vinyl re-issues of C.B.M albums by Southern Lord ends = simply one of the most raw and violent, ecstatic and experimental rock industrial bands that has ever existed... and there are rumours they are recording again! "Schwere Gitarren, Feedback-Wogen, ausufernde Strukturen, wuchtig bollerndes Schlagzeug, ein Noise-Sperrfeuer, aber in Blues grundiert - eine Musik, die kaum eindeutiger in den 1980er Jahren zu verorten wäre."[Andreas Schnell] 2020 €24.00
CASTRO, NICK & THE YOUNG ELDERS A day without disaster (gold edition) 10inch lim. 100 golden vinyl ! Comes with gold foil printed covers & poster 2007 €19.50
CATCH 20-22 same 12" clear vinyl, one-sided 2002 €9.00
CAUDAL Let's all take the yellow Pills LP the trance / drone - krautrock outfit from Berlin with their fourth vinyl release, most subtle, hypnotic, instrumental and very clear structured pieces... with AIDAN BAKER on guitar,GARETH SWEENEY on bass, FELIPE SALAZAR on drums.. "A great release that would be wonderful in an endless loop.." [Expose] 2018 €16.50
  Murk 12inch absolute last copies of this rare long-play 12" with two long pieces by the "Trance-Punk-Trio" from Berlin, with influences from Kraut & Drone... => "Murk" is a dark and subtle instrumental piece evolving around a hypnotic bass-line, with dense psychedelic overflow... the B-Side is like a continuation of Side A with sound more floating effects and noises.. great 12", 28 min long, only 125 copies, comes in simple black sleeve and on BROWN vinyl 2015 €14.00
CENT ANS DE SOLITUDE En Concert - El Diablo, Lille, France 29.11.14 LP the French project (formed by the person behind the legendary LES NOUVELLES PROPAGANDES label) in a rare live concert from Nov. 2014, perfect old school industrial which mixes electronic drones and pulses, object noises and cinematic spoken word and other found sounds, from rough ambient to noise... - comes w. excellent "constructivists" silk-screen sleeve, on rust-coloured vinyl, lim. 270 copies 2020 €18.00
CHALK, ANDREW The River that flows into the Sands LP one of the nicest ANDREW CHALK solo-works now available on vinyl - extremely subtle dronescapes (probably based on guitar) that change between harmonic and disharmonic scales, thus creating a most ethereal, unreal atmosphere, ... lim. 300 w. oversized, handmade cover 'with tipped-on images', each print is unique; lim. 300 clear vinyl 2018 €30.00
  Paradise Lost LP vinyl version of the deleted cassette release from 2019 with new artwork: "the album has two side-long, untitled tracks, more floating and synth-based, ebbing and flowing in smooth melancholic textures, feat. the voice of NAOKO SUZUKI (the wife of DAISUKE SUZUKI) for the first time..." [Drone Rec.] - ed. of 300 copies 2021 €19.50
CHAOS AS SHELTER New Jerusalem Now ! (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies in gold vinyl with silk-screened covers 2001  
CHASSAGNARD, JEROME & JEREMIE MATHES Outer Dialog CD French deep droner JEREMIE MATHES (known from our 10" vinyl in the Substantia I. series) worked before with J. CHASSAGNARD (AB OVO), this fine genre connecting album is the follower to "Inner Dialog"... "ambient electronica and shoegaze spheres counteract with intense rhythm-oriented idm textures while the sound is focused on extroverted beat patterns. a fascinating interaction between soothing beauty and stirring, powerful force.." - to discover ! / SPECIAL LOW PRICE 2020 €6.00
CHAUVEAU, SYLVAIN Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) LP lim. vinyl version 2010 €16.50
CHEN_PITCHER_VAN NORT One History of Troy LP DOUG VAN NORT - electronics, JEFFERSON PITCHER - guitar, clarinet, field recordings, playground, JONATHAN CHEN - violin, viola=> free improvisations dedicated to PAULINE OLIVEROS (all three musicians have worked with her), "Instrumental and electronic timbres blend seamlessly, with harmonic/melodic and noisy elements perfectly balanced. The album is dominated by calm, rather meditative pieces which exude a certain melancholy.." lim. 300, coloured (marbled) vinyl 2017 €17.00
CHORA(S)SAN TIME-COURT MIRAGE (=CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX) Blues Alif Lam Mim do-LP The "Eastern Drone" Ensemble (feat three singers and a deep brass section) around C.C.HENNIX with a recording from April 2014 => complex multi-layered drone expanses with a very spiritual / religious touch, one piece of 80 min length... - "Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis presents fragments of ‘raga-like’ frequency constellations following distinct cycles and permuting their order, creating a simultaneity of ‘multi-universes." - first time on vinyl ! 2021 €37.50
CHRIS & COSEY Muzik Fantastique! LP first ever vinyl re-issue of this album released 1992 by Play It Again Sam, now fully re-mastered: "The album finds Chris & Cosey in one of their most dynamic and melodic periods with an album that slides towards subtler grooves and textures..." - comes on PINK vinyl 2023 €30.50
Elemental 7 LP The legendary soundtrack to the film of the same name (released on CABARET VOLTAIRE's label in 1983 on VHS), feat. JOHN LACEY (COUM TRANSMISSIONS), a true collector's item, available for the first time since 40 years!! - "Elemental 7 has cast a looming shadow of influence over almost all electronic music since it was made." [Boomkat] remastered edition on GREEN vinyl 2023 €30.50
  Pagan Tango LP first re-issue of 1991 album on vinyl, RED vinyl, printed inner sleeves with new archival photos, re-mastered - *...acted as spirit-guides for the post-industrial era's phase shift to synth-pop and new wave. In title and function `Pagan Tango' echoes an occult thrust that underlined their music since the beginning and would parallel and dovetail themes of PTV, a rising new age consciousness, and neo-folk...* 2023 €30.50
CINDYTALK Camouflage Heart LP re-issue of great debut album from 1984 / vinyl version 2007 €16.00
A Life is Everywhere LP six new tracks recorded in London & Japan, feat. one remix for MIMETIC; digital metallic noise is set against mellow synth-drones, storms of fizzling analogue clouds & white noise winds combined with subtle drone expanses...'a schizophrenic creation, the quieter, often acoustic moments buffering against repeated onslaughts of brutal technological noise' [Dusted Mag]; lim. vinyl version 2013 €16.50
Wappinschaw (lim. clear red vinly) LP first ever re-issue of the fourth CINDYTALK LP from 1995, and the last of the "first phase", a most remarkable mixture of styles and approaches between beauty and aggression, as impressive as "Camouflage Heart", comes with rare bonus tracks... " As beautiful as it is strange, and as savage as it is delicate. There is no other record even remotely like it, and very few that equal it's artistic process. " [dreamritual] lim. colour vinyl version 2021 €23.50
  The Wind is strong (lim. marble smoke viny) LP re-issue of LP from 1990 - the third album by the unique Scottish industrial/ambient /experimental/poetry project of GORDON / CINDY SHARP, recorded for a film project that couldn't be realized => "a mix of musique concréte, haunted reverie, and desolate beauty. Even unaccompanied by their intended visuals, this is overtly cinematic music, conjuring forests at dusk and shadowed corridors, equal parts remote and reflective..." - lim. vinyl version on marble/smoke vinyl 2021 €23.50
CIRCLE Meronia do-LP first vinyl re-issue of the FIRST album by the Finnish "hypno/psych-rock" group from 1994; lim. 700 black vinyl 2016 €28.00
CISFINITUM Devotio 10inch ed. of 500, white vinyl, artwork by Tilmann Benninghaus 2006 €12.00
  VS (Curve/Curse) (SOLD OUT) 7" Lim. 300 on black vinyl with white stripes, in hand-sewed wool-covers. SOLD OUT NOW!! 2004 €6.50  
CLAVICVLA Sepulchral Blessing LP second album of this black ambient and occult ritual industrial act from Italy, extremely bleak and cavernous, really captivating in its opacity.. "a sonic tomb of immense evocative force that inters the listener into a lucid nightmare and transports them straight into the kingdom of the dead, acting as an abominable sonic vessel to the underworld." - vinyl version lim. to 300 copies 2019 €21.00
CLOCK DVA Neoteric RMX4 12inch four remixes of the 3 track CD-EP from 2016, by: JACK DANGERS (MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO), BORIS DIVIDER, WRANGLER and ADI NEWTON/CLOCK DVA himself; comes on limited white vinyl with stunning artwork 2019 €19.50
COIL Time Machines CD IN STOCK NOW!! COIL as 'TIME MACHINES' : re-issue of this much requested release from 1998, when COIL created four drone "tones" named after psychoactive substances: Telepathine, DMT, Hecate, Psylocybin, enabling time travels; CD version incl. reproductions of the 6 original vinyl stickers, comes in gatefold brown board digipack with spot gloss overlay 2017 €14.00
A Sip from a Cup of Mercury do-LP rare material from 2003-2004, such as an extended version of "The first five minutes after Death", projection versions of "A Slip in the Marylebone Road", "Triple Sons and the One you bury", etc... 10 tracks: "Coil in dub, live backing tracks and projections 2003-2004." - lim. 500 on clear vinyl 2017 €60.00
Theme from the Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex LP Coil's soundtrack for educational documentary entitled 'The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex' from 1992 (Pride Video, VHS only, otherwise unreleased), feat. a newly reworked "sexy" edit of the main theme, and as bonus tracks re-workings of 'Nasa-Arab' and 'Omlagus Garfungiloops' from the 1992 CD-only 'Stolen And Contaminated Songs'; licensed by DANNY HYDE; purple vinyl- "a unique piece of the impossible jigsaw puzzle that is Coil’s catalogue, and a fine throwback to early ‘90s ambient/downtempo styles." [Boomkat] 2019 €22.50
Sara Dale's Sensual Massage do-LP the complete version of COILs soundtrack for the erotic video of the same name, including 8 previously unreleased tracks and the "Themes for Derek Jarmans's Blue" material; all for the first time on vinyl! Comes in gatefold cover with artwork by STEVEN STAPLETON, lim. 500 BLACK vinyl 2020 €34.00
Love's Secret Domain (GOLD) 3 x LP re-mastered re-issue of the third proper COIL album from 1991 - this is the "DANNY HYDE - version" with full bonus-disc feat. 10 exclusive remixes and tracks from his archive... the original recordings feat. MARC ALMOND, CHARLES HAYWARD (THIS HEAT), ANNIE ANXIETY, ROSE Mc.DOWALL and others; comes w. triple gatefold cover + huge poster !! LAST COPIES of the limited 2021 pressing on GOLDEN vinyl ! 2021 €49.50
Musick to play in the Dark (milky white) do-LP first vinyl re-issue in over 20 years of COILs masterpiece from 1999 - comes with complete, unedited versions of each song and exklusive etching (pine tree branches created by the band) on Side D; "What's most remarkable about the album 20 years after its release is how brazen, insular, and unpredictable it still feels.." - lim. re-press on MILKY WHITE vinyl, 800 copies, embossed lettering / spot gloss elements, download card 2021 €32.00
The Ape of Naples 3 x LP set expanded, remastered re-issue of the praised last studio album with JOHN BALANCE from 2005, comes with 9 bonus tracks from DANNY HYDE's archives... - "in many ways the band's ultimate swan song, it is now considered one of the go-to albums for introducing new listeners to the unparalleled magick of Coil." - BLACK vinyl ed., restored design from the original box set, TRIPLE GATEFOLD cover 2022 €46.00
Constant Shallowness leads to Evil do-LP first ever 'official' vinyl issue of this very expermental/noisy COIL album from 2000 (ESKATON 24), completely remastered, lim. clear vinyl ed, printed inner sleeves, DL card: "This work remains one of the group’s most miasmic and mind-expanding creations, on par with Time Machines- a sustained divination of shuddering, psychoactive noise, rippling with the motion sickness of an all-seeing eye..." 2022 €33.50
The Ape of Naples (White) 3 x LP set expanded, remastered re-issue of the praised last studio album with JOHN BALANCE from 2005, comes with 9 bonus tracks from DANNY HYDE's archives... - "in many ways the band's ultimate swan song, it is now considered one of the go-to albums for introducing new listeners to the unparalleled magick of Coil." - WHITE vinyl ed., restored design from the original box set, TRIPLE GATEFOLD cover 2022 €48.50
The Ape of Naples do-CD expanded, remastered re-issue of the praised last studio album with JOHN BALANCE from 2005, comes with 9 bonus tracks from DANNY HYDE's archives; "in many ways the band's ultimate swan song, it is now considered one of the go-to albums for introducing new listeners to the unparalleled magick of Coil." - the CD version comes in a 6 panel digipak with booklet & mini poster, and in two cover variants: APE art (orignal CD cover) or VINYL art, please choose 2022 €23.00
Queens of the Circulating Library (transparent blue) LP "The forest is a college, each tree a university.." - new vinyl re-issue of this 'long-form-drone' album, originally released at COILs live performance as "Time Machines" in London April 2000.. "the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural, channeling the spirit of levitational minimalism pioneered by La Monte Young... " - lim.sky-BLUE TRANSPARENT edition, glossy printed inner sleeves, DL code 2023 €25.00
Love's Secret Domain (colour in colour) LP collector's item, small extra pressing of 100 copies "COLOUR IN COLOUR" vinyl... (Wine-Red in Gold), looks great... comes wtih 4 page 12" .x 12" inlay 2022 €39.00
  The New Backwards (colour in colour) LP collector's item, small extra pressing of 100 copies "COLOUR IN COLOUR" vinyl... (black in clear), looks great... comes 12" inlay 2022 €39.00
COIL + ZOS KIA + MARC ALMOND How to destroy Angels LP another 'early COIL' archives found, re-mastered: the complete recording of 'A Slow Fade To Total Transparency' (24th August 1983, at the Air Gallery, London), featuring JOHN BALANCE, JOHN GOSLING, MARC ALMOND (!), mixed by PETER CHRISTOPHERSON; + an unheard 9 min. remix by JOHN GOSLING (ZOS KIA), plus "Baptism on Fire", a so far unreleased studio recording of ZOS KIA and COIL made Oct. 12, 1983, at Recession Studio London; 180gr. vinyl version w. download code 2018 €22.00
COLECLOUGH, JONATHAN & ANDREW LILES Torch Songs do-LP lim. 500 / gatefold-cover / 180 gr vinyl // www.diestadtmusik.de 2007 €22.50
COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES Six Guitars LP FIRST release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series Vol 3 & 4 (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side 2008 €17.00
COMBATIVE ALIGNMENT Image Acoustique 7 heavy vinyl, lim. 333 copies 2003 €7.50
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER A Wound of Body LP lim. vinyl version of this album by the US American "esoteric black ambient" project who mix ritualistic soundscapes, dark ambient/drone, folk and black metal elements to a very minimalistic melange beyond all typical genres...- "a beautifully stark soundscape, dolorously dense, suffocatingly oppressive and utterly claustrophobic. An immersive black hole of bleak, cavernous drone music and disquieting, desolate ambience, each track a hushed and harrowing ritual..." - 300 copies, printed innersleeve 2018 €25.00
CONCERN Cæsarean LP second full length album by this promising US drone / ambient project; based on piano, banjo & tape manipulation; lim. vinyl version (500 copies) 2010 €16.50
CONCERT SILENCE Rain Furniture LP 3-track 12" (one-sided), companion release to "9.22.07"; very beautiful vinyl edition with strangely etched backside 2010 €16.00
CONJECTURE V LP excellent electro-rhythmic industrial / dark ambient / IDM from Greece, arranged with a great focus on atmosphere and tension.... - " V" is an anti-body statement. The individual's disengagement from the human body and from all kinds of physical hypostases is portrayed through unconventional industrial sound forms. Sometimes oneiric, sometimes frozen and aggressive, while at the same somewhat erotic." - lim. 275 copies on black-white marbled vinyl 2019 €15.00
CONRAD, TONY & FAUST Outside the Dream Syndicate LP the meeting of minimal violin drones and Krautrock, rec. October 1972 at Wümme-studios; first vinyl re-issue of the famous LP from 1973, when TONY CONRAD (the film-maker, sound-artist and member of the THEATRE OF ETERNAL MUSIC with LA MONTE YOUNG who died April 2016) visited Germany... includes double sided insert with liner notes 2016 €24.00
CONTINUUM [STEVEN WILSON & DIRK SERRIES] Continuum Recyclings Volume One (expanded re-issue) do-LP + CD this expanded re-issue of the first CONTINUUM RECYCLINGS release contains as a bonus the so far unreleased BASS COMMUNION remix "Construct III - Immersion mix" (a remix from one of the pieces of the first CONTINUUM album on Soleilmoon) - a full 60 min. CD !! On the vinyl: four "recyclings" of the CONTINUUM album done by VIDNA OBMANA / DIRK SERRIES, 180 gr. black vinyl and gatefold picture sleeves 2016 €32.00
CONTRASTATE A live Coal under the Ashes CD 1992 saw the release of CONTRASTATE's third proper album (after two brilliant self-released LPs) on Tesco, with a packaging no one had seen before: a CD placed "inside" a clear die-cut vinyl LP; this is the re-issue of the CD with one bonus-track, their mixture of experimental ambience, ritual industrial and poetry / lyrics let's this still stand out! "There is an odd sense of mania whilst listening to ‘A Live Coal’ strange whistling, off key guitar strings and trance like paranoia" [blackaudio] 2008 €13.00
English embers (SOLD OUT) 7inch lim. 200, handmade covers, coloured vinyl (two colours) 1994  
An Exercise in deFascination 7inch two pieces inspired / dedicated to the Italian "Giallo" film genre, these are alternate mixes of ongoing studio recordings for the next album - "It reminded me of the first time I heard Contrastate and I was reminded straight away why I like it so much back and still would play with great fondness." [Vital Weekly] - lim. 250 copies on yellow vinyl & with colourful cover art 2019 €10.00
  35 Project 10inch four new studio tracks, dark industrialized collages of superb quality and vision! - ' "Their current sound insinuates itself inside the dark ritual ambience of the electronic avant-garde shot through with a vein of experimental noise and stentorian vocals that are strewn amongst touches of industrial surrealism and sonic soundtracks." - lim. 250 copies on white vinyl, UK import 2022 €16.50
CONTROLLED BLEEDING Knees and Bones do-LP first ever VINYL re-issue of the cult harsh industrial noise album from 1985, C.B. first LP - at that time it was said to be the harshest, most brutal and noisiest record existing (and it's NOT just pure noise, but has great sounds and a great impact and effect !!); comes in gatefold cover with bonus tracks 2016 €30.00
Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps do-LP the first studio album of C.B. since 2002, one of the most versatile and often style changing groups from the experimental post industrial scene... "Larva Lumps..." overruns you with intense power, crazy Prog Rock combined with extreme Industrial Noise/Rock, furious and speedy.....they're still pretty unique!! Produced by MARTIN BISI (SWANS, WHITE ZOMBIE, JOHN ZORN) Lim. vinyl version w. gatefold cover 2016 €38.00
Distress Signals I do-LP first proper re-issue of C.B.s first legendary cassette (came out before the harsh industrial noise milestone "Knees and Bones" LP), released on BROKEN FLAG in 1984..."a rare delivery of brutal powernoise and experimentally distorted and tortured vocals."; BLACK vinyl edition, 300 copies pressed 2016 €26.00
Headcrack LP essential (first ever) vinyl re-issue of this early, most favoured C.B.-album from 1986 (Sterile Records SR11) where they moved completely away from the harsh noise beginnings: melancholic vocal chants as coming from middle age, dreamlike synth patterns move through raw and spheric air, repetitive proggy / jazzy structures and subtle harmonic echo ambience build by guitars, bass and electronics... a unique sounding album! Lim. ed. BLUE vinyl 2017 €23.00
  Blistered Bags of Fodder Swaying 10 x CD this collects material (= 10 CDs!) from the most productive C.B. period 1985-1988, 'experimenting with noise, industrial, tribal sounds, goth, ethereal, and ambient music' (including side-projects), comes in a vinyl-sized book bound format with 24 page 12" x 12" booklet, most of the releases were out of print since years, or have never been issued on CD so far // LAST COPIES SPECIAL OFFER!! 2018 €50.00
COPH NIA A Prelude to Lashtal Lace 12inch the Swedish martial industrial / dark wave-ambient- folk / neo-classic hybrid with a very 'musical' four-track long-play 12", where COPH NIA continue their tradition to cover underground classics ("In a lonely Place" by JOY DIVISION) and remind on a more electronic version of MICHAEL GIRA or EDWARD KA-SPELs solo works... three tracks are exclusive to this vinyl, lim. 200 excellent cover artwork + design 2014 €16.00
CORTINI, ALESSANDRO & LAWRENCE ENGLISH Immediate Horizon LP a live album with a recording of their performance that happened at BERLIN ATONAL festival in 2015.. "a work that meditates on saturation and the ruptures that occur when harmonic elements are stacked. Immediate Horizon’s five pieces swell and burst in a perpetual sense of pulse" lim. 300 BLACK vinyl 2018 €30.00
CORTINI, ALESSANDRO & MERZBOW same do-LP after the highly successfull "modular synth" albums A. CORTINI collaborates with MERZBOW, both performing on a vintage EMS Synth, a British machine from the early 70's; "The result is a retching, sputtering beast of a record wresting jittery animations of white noise and spooling oscillators into chaotic briar patch of pure analog synthesis making the machine wail, buckle and cough up its least salubrious secrets in four extended parts." [Boomkat] black vinyl ed. 2017 €32.00
COSEY FANNI TUTTI Tutti LP after the legendary "Time to Tell" MC (1982), this is only the second solo album by COSEY FANNI TUTTI, the "living artwork" of the industrial (COUM, THROBBING GRISTLE, CHRIS & COSEY,CTI, X-TG) and famous for the more technoid and seductive side of the genre..."The music production on TUTTI, like its 1983 predecessor, has a timeless quality.... it lives and breathes her insistence on exploring new sounds and techniques." [Resident Advisor] BLUE vinyl, embossed sleeve, download code 2019 €29.50
  Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes LP audio explorations and experiments that lead to the creation of the soundtrack to the film about DELIA DERBYSHIRE (who died 2001) from CAROLINE CATZ... COSEY FANNI TUTTI had full access to DERBYSHIRE's audio archive and her compositional notes..15 tracks & surrealistic miniatures, merging COSEYs and DELIAs sound in a great way...- "the album is a journey through both Delia and Cosey's practise -- to create an audio world for Catz's depiction of the artist to inhabit." - CLEAR vinyl 2022 €30.00
CRANIOCLAST Arctic Salon do-LP the "Arctic Salon" was announced already in the 90's, at that time the next album by the German conceptual experimental / electronic mind & industrial mythology travellers, but it never appeared... - now finalized, this music symbolizes a trip to the Pole, through ice and snow and endless shades of white... - lim. 300 clear vinyl in clear PVC sleeves, looks great 2023 €27.50
CREATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION & MAURIZIO BIANCHI Nullification CD after collabs with NEW BLOCKADERS and DISSECTING TABLE the Serbian noise project teams up with M.B., when their vintage analogue sounds, damaged loops & vinyls, radio static and field recordings are processed through digital machines, the multiple layers generate the impression of mechanized engines and industrial machines, endlessly suppressing all movements and thoughts... 3 tracks, 72+ min., lim. 250 copies 2017 €13.00
CRETA Creta LP a new ambient/experimental trio from Italy around MASSIMO PUPILLO (ZU), creating somehow improvised spheric dense drones and slow electronic pulses with acoustic guitar melodies...."As Creta, they create outlandish sonic pieces that blend sci-fi ambient atmospheres with dark bass pulses and bucolic-Mediterranean string instruments -- a unique and yet coherent mix of elements that adds consequently to the oeuvres of the three artists." 180 gr. vinyl, insert, download code 2018 €18.00
CRISTAL Re-Ups LP project of members from LABRADFORD & AIX EM KLEMM; one time pressing of 500 copies (numbered) on 180 gr vinyl / gatefold jackets 2008 €23.00
CROENE, FREDERIK & TIMO VAN LUIJK Ipnopedion LP two ghostly, subtle side-long tracks (one live, one studio) based on the words of PIER ZANFRETTA, narrated under hypnosis, about his mysterious encounter with "aliens" from Taetonia, reproduced in trance by VAN LUIJK & CROENE, with subtle sounds added.. "Ipnopedion became a ritual invitation to withdraw from the concrete world, returning to it as uncanonical aliens from Taetonia." - clear vinyl ed. 300 copies 2020 €20.00
CTEPHIN DUAD 7 a whole drone-family (incl. 7 children) from the Great Plains doing bizarre & lovely ambient noise; comes on golden vinyl; lim. 300 handmade black / white painted covers 2009 €7.00
CUNI, AMELIA & WERNER DURAND Diasporagas (Ancient Trends & New Traditions In Indo-European Music) LP after the wonderful "Already awake in the Night" LP this must be the second vinyl release by "ethno-contemplation" duo from Berlin: three long tracks show them at their best, when DURANDs loops, drones and self build wind instruments meet with AMELIA CUNI's wonderful dhrupad singing, percussion, various resonaters and historical samples by Indian singers; the first side-long track HISS sound especially archaic and low-fi and was recorded live in Berlin Nov. 2013; lim. 300 2016 €20.00
CURRAN, ALVIN Canti Illuminati LP re-issue of the third LP (1982) by the US American composer who co-founded the MEV (MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA); two pieces dedicated to the human voice, using Choir, Synths, Piano and Tapes; "...In lyrical and poetic form, it rethinks the possibilities and potential of organized sound.... a landscape of sustained tone, rippling texture, and structural intervention. Necessity stripped to the elemental, while challenging, endlessly surprising, and complex." re-mastered, white vinyl, new liner notes 2019 €25.00
CURRENT 93 When the May Rain comes 12inch cover-version of a track by SAND & alternate version; lim. 500 on black vinyl, deluxe heavy duty cover, numbered 2010 €19.50
  Invocations of Almost LP dark experimental / atmospheric music for DAVID TIBETs art exhibition in Fullerton (Californa, launched on Davids 59th Birthday, March 5), containing 9 untitled tracks with elements of the latest album "The Light is Leaving us all" - the vinyl version has a shorter edit than on the CD and comes on ivory coloured wax..." Fast allen Stücken wohnt etwas (Alp-)Traumhaftes inne, und insofern erinnert es von der Stimmung zum Teil an 'The Stars On Their Horsies'. [African Paper] 2019 €20.00
CUTLER, CHRIS / THOMAS DIMUZIO / FRED FRITH Golden State LP lovely designed LP edition (180 gr.) with four recordings made 1999-2002 (in LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO) comes with circular die-cut sleeve; we have copies on white & black vinyl in stock 2010 €20.00
CZUKAY, HOLGER Cinema 5 x LP-BOX + DVD + 7inch VINYL-VIDEO special release for CZUKAYs 80th birthday (March 2018) - a 5 LP box of the CAN-legend ("anarchist at the editing table" - taz) who died Sept. 2017 in Cologne: early Jazz-experiments from the 60's, rare and unreleased meditations, hits and fragments, collabs with BRIAN ENO, STOCKHAUSEN and CLUSTER, etc. etc...plus a DVD with the film 'Krieg der Töne' from 1987, a 7" vinyl-video and 36 p booklet !! 2018 €120.00
D'INCISE Rivages sur l'Antipode LP numbered edition of 250 copies, first vinyl release for this project doing experimental ethno-electronica; beautiful full-colour artwork & poster 2010 €12.50
DAIJING & DAFELDECKER A Page to a Corner 7inch intense collab. by the Austrian double bassist / guitarist and the Chinese performer: hypnotic drones, pulses, and strange sounds fusion with the heavenly suspended voice and demonic whisphers of PAN DAIJING; lim. 200 - white vinyl 2018 €11.00
DAIJING, PAN Jade LP second full length LP for the Chinese post-industrial sound artist, an intense, high-class tour de force into catharsis, solitude and darkness...- "It's an anxious, solitary album that twins basement noise aesthetics with Daijing's cathartic performance, playing her signature vocals against screaming oscillators, booming Wolf Eyes-esque percussion and uncomfortable analog bass. " [Boomkat] - comes on white vinyl with 8 page 12" booklet 2021 €23.50
DANIELL, DAVID I-IV-V-I LP 8th release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series Vol. 3 & 4 (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side on colour or clear vinyl; D. DANIELL is / was a member of the RHYS CHATHAM ensemble, FEBRUARY, TORTOISE, SAN AGUSTIN; where Blues meets the Drone 2008 €17.00
DATASHOCK Kräuter der Provinz do-LP "Hullu Gullu, wir liefern Shizz." - DATASHOCK, the 70's influenced impro / drone / krautrock ensemble are back on the prolific Bureau B label from Hamburg - this is the lim. vinyl version with two bonus tracks that are not on the CD version - "Music as a social happening, both in terms of process and outcome, where individual and collective development can thrive - an ecstatic experience! Sheesh!" 2018 €26.00
DAUBY, YANNICK La Riviere Penchee LP last copies back in stock of this first vinyl release by the French Field-Recording artists who gets more and more recognition these days; beautiful river-scape sounds, has been compared to MICHAEL NORTHAM and THOMAS KÖNER; lim. 280 gatefold cover 2004 €15.00
DAVID [TIBET] Ferelith LP first ever solo-album of DAVID TIBET from CURRENT 93 - this is also the first in a series of 5 albums from him, so far issued only as very limited editions a year ago - comes in art-cover and on brown-grey marbled vinyl, with printed insert and all are signed... => two side-long pieces of transcendental ambience, mysterious and harmonic underneath.. 2021 €36.50
  Fontelautus LP second in the series of five solo albums from DAVID TIBET, so far issued only as very limited editions a year ago - comes in art-cover and on dark marbled vinyl, with printed insert, all are signed... => two side-long pieces of sacral, probably choir based ambience, mysterious and harmonic underneath, with lots of psychedelic effects.. 2021 €36.50
DE BABALON, CHRISTOPH Scylla & Charybdis LP second 12" vinyl album of DE BABALON after the "If You're into it, I'm out of it" milestone from 1997, moving between tension filled ambience and furious breakcore, between noise and melancholy, feat. the voice of ALEXANDRA VON BOLZ'N... original copies, lim. 500 clear vinyl, with huge collage poster 2008 €20.00
DEAD GUM Meta LP the remarkable Greek industrial / psychedelic / drone / noise - "rock" project with second LP - the guitar noise filled collages meander between harsher territories (think of WOLF EYES, SKULLFLOWER, KOLLAPS) and more cinematic and atmospheric parts and tracks, that can even remind on SPACEMEN 3 or MELANCHOHOLICS... - "META" is no post-something. "META" merely stands half foot ahead of absolute nothingness, the true end of it all. - 200 copies on black vinyl 2019 €16.00
DEAD MACHINES The Night Callers LP lim. 500 pink marbled vinyl / JOHN OLSON (WOLF EYES) & TOVAH OLSON (WOODEN WAND) project 2007 €15.00
DEAD RAVEN CHOIR Jean Genet's Lonesome Rhino 7 really sick doomed & distortened noise, incl. two insane cover-versions of HANK WILLIAMS & KAZUKI TOMOKAWA songs; lim. 300, black & red splatter vinyl 2010 €8.50
DEAD SHALL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN / DYSTHYMIA split 7inch split 7" of these two US harsh ambient / analog industrial projects; lim. 300, clear vinyl, comes in printed custom wallet 2010 €7.00
DEAD VOICES ON AIR The Light of June drowned Flowers in your Mouth LP hard to find vinyl only release from 2009, dedicated to the working people fighting in the international Brigades in the Spanish Civil War - a more poetic and dark release, with dreamlike narrative elements and industrialized sounds... definitely one of the highlights in the DVOA discography! Lim. 350 copies on the Königsberg-based Russian label Brudenia 2009 €23.50
DEATHPROD Occulting Disk do-LP DEATHPROD aka HELGE STEN (also a member of early MOTORPSYCHO and nowadays SUPERSILENT) with a new album after 15 years => most abstract and amorph, eerie dronescapes and fog horns that ebb and wave in siren-like formations, an intense trip into the naught and mysterious powers, understood as a sound ritual against hate and fear... \"it could be viewed as an amulet to ward off hate and bad energy..\" [Resident Advisor] - comes with inlay on black vinyl 2019 €24.00
  Sow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth LP compositions for HARRY PARTCH self-designed, most special "just intonation" instruments (using up to 43 intervals instead of 12), used and performed on concerts 2015-2018 by Cologne's ENSEMBLE MUSIKFABRIEK, with the backing 'audio score' recorded by DEATHPROD himself.. => nine movements of waving acoustic dronations, very pure, accentuated and focused, bringing the mind into a different harmonic system.. vinyl version comes with 4 page 12" x 12 inlay 2022 €26.50
DEISON Substrata 10inch long playing 3 track EP by Italy's Cristiano DEISON - filed under "awesome crystalline drones", based on prepared tapes, metals, strings, wires and electronics... Sounds of elementary transformations, metamorphosis, and overcoming the usual sense of time; lim. 300 copies on transparent green vinyl 2020 €15.00
DEISON & LASSE MARHAUG 33 Minutes of your Life maxi-CD [re]discovery of this rather unknown collaboration gem from 2003 - on 5 tracks (33 minutes) DEISON and LASSE MARHAUG create compositions made from humming static and hissing vinyl loops, from found sound ambient drones and shredded tones, wired voices and strange creakings... very peculiar music that always stays on the subtle and mysterious side.. - full colour paper cover with inlay 2003 €8.00
DELPHIUM Snowhill-X EP (SOLD OUT) 7 sec. ed. 300 copies / red vinyl / full colour - printed covers / back in stock few copies ! 2002 €6.00  
  Snowhill X (SOLD OUT) 7inch clear vinyl, strangely handmade cover 1997  
DESIDERII MARGINIS Vita Arkivet LP 'Vita Arkivet' translates from Swedish as 'The White Archive' and is an official document detailing ones funeral arrangements. In death our existence is whitewashed, the slate wiped clean. We start all over and we bring nothing with us were we go.... This record is a personal reflection and manifestation of that process, the loss and the great detachment from life, from others, and from ourselves." - BLACK vinyl ed, 200 copies only ! 2018 €23.00
DET KÄTTERSKA FÖRBUND Lidaverken Del I: Att I Vådeld Förgås LP the Swedish death industrial project ("Hereditary Association") of HENRIK NORDVARGR BJÖRKK (MZ.412, FOLKSTORM, etc.) and THOMAS EKELUND (TREPANERINGSRITUALEN) with their first album, 5 years in the making..." Everything is set to pitch black here, the rhythms operate as jackhammers, voices crawl up from way below the surface of the earth and the drones are a myriad of intertwining branches of a 1000-year-old tree.." - a perfect mixture of 'archaic' sounds and electronic ritual industrial!! BLACK VINYL 2021 €22.00
DEUPREE, TAYLOR Mur LP contemplation ambience with soft background hiss, piano drops, finest backwards streams, slowly evolving bassy hums.. this really lulls you in (comparable to ANDREW CHALK, BASINSKI, ROBERT HAIGH).... - "Mur is a profoundly tender work, made for close listening; the waters of its meditational, memorial stream of flowing minimalist ambient run deep." (Loud and Quiet] - 300 copies on white vinyl, 180gr. vinyl 2021 €23.00
DEUTSCH NEPAL Vol. 1 6 x LP - BOX the first five albums on vinyl, plus the bonus LP "Dystopian Selection" with rare material - comes in sturdy box with three postcards, certificate, each LP in own sleeve...- *All of them seem to be the evolution of an early idea, a baby that grows old, getting monstrous and divine while doing so..* - ed. of 435 copies (standard ed.) 2023 €123.00
DHOMONT, FRANCIS Birthdays LP new recordings (four pieces) created 2007-2010 by the now 85 years old French composer; one sided white vinyl picture disc, with backside screen-printed, lim. 300 only 2012 €18.00
DI CROCE, NICOLA Clinamen 12inch + artwork inspired by LUCRETIUS philosophy on atoms and MICHEL SERRES, this is a very special work on a special format, an unplayable / object 12" vinyl plus booklet with paintings, the music is available as download: 4 tracks with exquisite field recordings (Palermo) and instrumental sounds and samples by GABRIELE MITELLI and others; numbered edition of 111 copies 2018 €24.00
DIE ANARCHISTISCHE ABENDUNTERHALTUNG #1 LP re-issue of debut talbum from 1995, for the first time on vinyl, by the modern / perfectly arranged, very moving and powerful "Eastern Folk" band from Belgium, inspired by the "Magisches Theater" of HERMAN HESSE.. - *DAAU offeriert mit gehörigem Überhang von Postpunk-Spirit und Imaginärer Folklore eine wilde Mixtur von osteuropäischem Gypsy- und Klezmer-Drivfe mit Polka und Musette-Verve..* [Bad Alchemy] - comes on coloured / marbled vinyl 2023 €17.00
DIE FORM Die Puppe LP re-issue of DIE FORMS debut album from 1982 (BAIN TOTAL LP 001), cold minimal rhythmic machine industrial, all recorded on analogue equipment... "Songs range from hypnotic, minimalistic proto-IDM to pure, daring experimental sound manipulation"; re-mastered for vinyl, incl. 2 postcards & liner notes, with replica of the original cover 2015 €18.50
Die Form ÷ Fine Automatic¹ LP full version (first part) of an early DIE FORM side-project (MC on Bain Total, 1982); lim. 200 RED vinyl, a release in the "Archives des Musiques Industrielles de France", greatly designed 2015 €22.00
Die Form ÷ Fine Automatic² LP full version (second part) of an early DIE FORM side-project (MC on Bain Total, 1982); lim. 200 RED vinyl, a release in the "Archives des Musiques Industrielles de France", greatly designed 2015 €22.00
Die Form ÷ Hurt LP re-issue of the HURT side-project, the only release under this name from 1984 (cassette on Bain Total)... " It is a kind of snapshot, close to the tear and chaos, where the machines and the out-of-control guitars are used as a support for the cry up to the final exhaustion. Passion - Pain - Urge. " RED vinyl ed. lim 200 copies only 2016 €23.00
  Ad Infinitum do-LP & BOOK the album from 1993 (Hyperium) for the first time on vinyl, deluxe edition with bonus versions and tracks and a 16 page casebound hardcover bok feat. unpublished images and photographs, lim. 474 numbered copies. *In praise of the shadow, fascination with the machine, attraction and repulsion, litany and liturgy, funeral Eros…* 2021 €55.00
DIETER MÜH & LON MILO DUQUETTE The Call LP maybe the most obscure DIETER MÜH release, finally in stock! - this is a collaboration with US American occult writer and Grand Master of the O.T.O., LON MILO DuQUETTE, who intonates the "19 Calls" that were transmitted to JOHN DEE between 1582-1589 in a special "angelic language"; D.M. created a most trance-inducing soundtrack to this (Side A: 4 studio recordings, Side B: a live (Augsburg, Nov. 2003) recording using elements by LON MILO); lim. 230, white vinyl, both sides are 23 min long!! 2008 €16.00
DIETER MÜH (DIETER MUH) Aakal / Nostrum / Earblind 7inch still one of the best British acts of roaring post-industrial tunes, DIETER MÜH excite the listeners with rough & machine-like alien ambient noise on this new 7". Comes with postercover & colour-vinyl; lim. 400 - poster cover, vinyl in different colours: red, olive-green, marbled! BACK IN STOCK 2008 €7.00
Eponymous LP one of the strongest D.M. studiorecordings (released in 2002 by Naninani as limited CDR only) is finally available again: low fi "ambient industrial" based on electronics, samples, loops and weird found sounds, especially the 2nd half is very hypnotic.. lim. 150 on white vinyl 2017 €23.50
  The Bjorn Tapes LP the series of re-issues for the great British "ambient industrial" group continues, this was once released as a rare cassette / CDR (1999/2004).... "...the Dieter Müh I remember from the live shows I witnessed where they slipped seamlessly from subtle drones into denser, harsher sound layers writhing with distended, disembodied voices, sampled percussive clatter and chasms of noise. Unsettling, unnerving and oppressive" - lim. 320 copies on white vinyl, silkscreen fold out cover 2018 €18.00
DIMUZIO, THOMAS Amid Zero Echo do-10inch the jubilee release, a double-10" in gatefold cover with four breathtaking drones by Californian sound-designer & multi-experimentalist THOMAS DIMUZIO, whose massive hypnotic soundscapes already released in the 90's were much ahead of the time! Comes with great gatefold-cover art by MARS WELLINK, lim. 500, clear vinyl! 2014 €20.00
DIMUZIO, THOMAS & ALAN COURTIS Monk Style or Scream LP first collab by ex "REYNOLS" ALAN COURTIS and THOMAS DIMUZIO, who use each other's source material to create their own side-long track (" A Bare Bones Empty Skin"): secrectful drone noises in a swampland with muffled voices and other unrecognizable sound objects... lim. 300 copies on green transparent vinyl, BACK IN STOCK ! 2017 €18.00
DINEL, KARBE MMXX-09: Ouroboros LP 9th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => KARBEL DINEL is a sound artist from Belgium, his sublime piece drones through all kinds of overtones and resonances, but also incorporates more concrete sounds, dense & slow & otherwordly... 2020 €23.00
DO MAKE SAY THINK Other Truths LP + CD sixth album of this instrumental avant/post-rock/whatever ensemble; lim vinyl edition with poster & CD-copy 2009 €19.50
DOC WÖR MIRRAN FEAT. RE-DRUM & S. STADLMEIER 24.3.16 LP a meeting of 5 experimental musicians on electronics, sound objects, guitar, bass, synth, theremin and percussion [three of them as DOC WÖR MIRRAN], recorded at one day at Two Garage Studios in Fürth (Germany), connecting industrial, improvised ambient noise and krautrock.... lim. / numb. 300 copies transp. vinyl; "Statt nur ein ambientes Mantra ist das psychotrop, manchmal unheimlich, mit repetierten Riffs und Delay auch insistent" [Bad Alchemy] 2017 €17.00
DONIS Без Гражданства (No Citizenship) LP the long existing Lithuanian dark folk & ambient project with a Russian titled LP, inspired by the post 2nd WW fate of the artists grandfather; "the record is done using only acoustic instruments and ambient sounds of the authentic grandfather's life places: the remaining houses, attics with old craftsman’s tools, native whistling winds of Zindaiciai and chirping birds, church, yellow rusted documents and photographs, squeaky steps in Jurbarkas’ town cemetery... lim. 150, white vinyl 2016 €23.00
DORA, DELPHINE ET MOCKE Le Corps Defendant do-10inch collaboration album spread on two 10" vinyls (the OKRAINA label from Brussels only releases on this format!) by the French singer/songwriter with the special introspective "ambient / experimental" mood, and bell-like voice, with guitarist MOCKE... "Created like an exquisite corpse story they sent each other music to work on with no instructions or suggestions.." - comes with two inlays 2017 €20.00
DOYLE, ROGER Thalia do-LP ROGER DOYLE from Ireland was one of those 'outsider artists' being on the legendary NURSE WITH WOUND list in 1978, and this album appeared in the same year but was withdrawn by 'CBS Classics' almost immediately after the release..." Now finally available on its intended format, the keening, breezy logic and abstract dramaturgy of Doyle’s work on ‘Thalia’ has been reshuffled to highlight its apparent surreality and frolicking apparitions.." - FIRST TIME VINYL RE-ISSUE !! 2019 €25.00
DRCARLSONALBION La Strega and the Cunning Man in the Smoke LP solo-project of DYLAN CARLSON from EARTH, feat. Teresa Colamonaco on vocals and Jodie Cox on guitar; lim. 1000 on white & green vinyl with special die-cut sleeve 2012 €18.50
DRONAEMENT Wassermond 7inch re-release of this much requested Drone, 300 copies on grass-green vinyl with inlay & full-colour cover designed by Mr. Dronaement himself ! 2007 €6.00
  Wassermond (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 on green vinyl with green silk-screened covers 2000  
DRUMM, KEVIN Battering Rams LP stunning new recordings from Chicago's experimental droner, from object percussion noises into realms of organic bliss, first new vinyl release since some years we think! => *On »Battering Rams«, sinister forces interlope with sanguine glimmers of respite and contemplation, while recurring drones ceaselessly crescendo to near paralysing effect...* - lim. 350 copies 2023 €22.50
DUAL Klanik 7inch second ed. 300 copies / handcoloured white covers / clear-printed white inlays / white vinyl 2005 €6.00
  Klanik / 4tH (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 on black vinyl with white on white printed inlays 1999  
DUNCAN, JOHN Organic LP first ever re-issue of JOHN DUNAN's debut LP from 1979, which consisted of two side-long pieces recorded live when he was a member of the LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY (LAFMS); using Water-Noises, Percussion and Tapes (along with Bassoon sounds from MICHAEL LE DONNE-BHENNET on one piece).... lim. + numbered edition of 500 copies, inlay, clear vinyl 2018 €25.00
  MMXX-02: Panic @ 11000 Feet LP 2nd release in the new MMXX series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => JOHN DUNCAN returns to experimental soundscapes based on shortwave frequencies and mysterious sonics, going through various stages... 2020 €24.00
DWELLING LACUNA Cheap Dynamite for expensive Silence (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies in "indian yellow" vinyl, with thick black cardboard covers w. painting and photo 2001  
DZIADOSZ, BARTOSZ & TOMASZ MRENCA Black Lake LP the Polish duo (known for their works as PLEQ, FROZEN VAULTS and as curator for the DRONARIVM label) with a strong ambient album, reminding on (i.e.) HUMAN GREED... - "This is a slightly dark, ghostly, and nearly religious noir-fi, full of orchestral progressions, field recordings, gloomy soundscapes, and shuffling noise. The eight compositions are of cinematic quality, evoking nocturnal whispers which echo their nostalgic cries." [Headphonecommute] - lim. 150 copies on black vinyl, luxurious cover art 2020 €23.00
DÄLEK {DALEK] Untitled LP finally in stock, ONE long track recorded in session for the nice LATITUDES-series by the best experimental cosmic hip-hoppers we know; 40 minutes playtime, lim. 700 on black vinyl 2011 €15.00
Respect to the Authors 12inch a six track mini-LP by the atmospheric hip-hop experiMENTALists, still unique in their genre, vinyl-only release lim. 500 copies; "...being Hip Hop for those who don’t pigeon-hole themselves as typical Hip Hop diehards, attracting those who keep listening outside the box. Subversive. Paradigm-changing. Mindblowing." - no download code, no digital version at all available !! 2019 €17.50
  Precipice do-LP DÄLEKs latest album, five years after \"Endangered Philosophies\", lim. ed. on SILVER vinyl, all lyrics are printed in the booklet - \" Boycott the whole lot! / The structure, the whole spot / The vultures, the cold cops\" - * Their brutal sonic temperament pushes rap music’s capacity for noise and protest to some exhilarating conclusions...* 2022 €33.50
ECCLESIASTICAL SCAFFOLDING Lucid Dreaming // Sleep Paralysis (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 on multicoloured vinyl 2003 €7.00  
EINHEIT, ESCH & MUR Terre Haute LP collaborative project of legendary German underground figures F.M.EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN), EN ESCH (KMFDM) and MONA MUR, resurging the typical West-Berlin 80's industrial / new wave / minimal sound with heavy sequencer synths, samples, noises and strong female/male vocals; they call it "German Angst Ridden Art Core"; feat. one cover of a BRECHT / WEILL song ! lim. 299 copies on red vinyl 2015 €22.00
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN Alles in Allem LP the first new regular studio-album after 12 years forms a very lyrical and song-oriented, critical and nostalgic "homage" to their hometown Berlin, and sounds (again) like none of the albums before.. "Alles in Allem is a more pleasant listen than one would typically associate with the Neubauten brand. Within that refined accessibility, however, they remain playful and manically experimental." [The Quietus] - vinyl version with 4 page 12" booklet 2020 €22.50
ELEH / TARA JANE O'NEILL Circle Four: 100 Gongs for Arieto / Medusa Smack LP wonderful split release with highly meditative drones as a homage to HARRY BERTOIA => contains a piece from 2012 by TARA JANE O'NEILL using BERTOIAs sound-sculptures on one side, 100 gong-sounds (for 100 years of BERTOIA) performed on a 'Serge modular system" by ELEH on the other; lim. 800 letter-press cover (gold on black), looks great. BLACK VINYL 2015 €30.00
ELGGREN, LEIF Motor for an Unknown Vehicle (Opening the Grave) LP 2nd part in the trilogy that started with "Das Baank": an excellent, long evolved drone piece spread on the two vinyl sides.."Motor is now a 32 minutes long continuous piece of sounding matter. Autonomous and free in itself. Like an homunculus it can now leave its birthplace and head for the future, for something else..." - comes with signed & number inlay and extensive liner notes 2019 €18.00
ELLENDE Odyssey, A Sentimental Journey BOOK + 2 x 10inch collector's item: impressive art-book (38 pages) and two 10" vinyls with four sides of dark nostalgic, acoustic / improv drone pieces by the mysterious South African art collective (residing in Tokyo), recorded in Cape Town 2018; the text in the book is centered about the odd sexual experiences of founding member Wim Bontjes with "Geishas" in Japan in the 90's, accomponied by "women's death-masks-like faces" graphics... beautiful and disturbing at the same time! ; numbered ed. of 300 copies, Japan import 2019 €38.00
ELODIE (TIMO VAN LUIJK & ANDREW CHALK) La Lumiere Parfumee LP vinyl version of the second album (CD in 2011) by the ever evolving project of ANDREW CHALK & TIMO VON LUIJK, released after the highly successful LP -Echos Pastoraux-... "an impressionistic pallette of pastel shades and shimmering opalescent rays"; comes with insert // handmade sleeve // letterpress design 2018 €26.00
Le Nid d'Ivoire LP 'With intravenous stealth and efficacy ‘Le Nid D’Ivoire’ gets right under the skin and soothes the senses with its glacially unfolding pace and sensuous smoke-curl dynamics. It starts out recalling the soundtrack to a film noir, but ends up ripe to soundtrack scenes of druggy, psychedelic experiments or a slow burning, furtive romance, conjuring heavy-lidded osmosis, letting the soundtrack drift over you during the dying light of a winter afternoon.' [Boomkat] - lim. 500 clear vinyl 2020 €19.50
  Clarte Deserte (special edition) LP eft-over copies of the special edition with handmade sleeve designed by ANDREW CHALK in the typical FARAWAY PRESS - style; comes with beautiful 12" x 12 " insert on dark blue art paper, with four postcards sticked to it, and on CLEAR vinyl... please note: the insert is SIGNED by both members, but NOT numbered! Only very few of this extra edition exist !! (UK import, directly from Andrew Chalk) 2023 €38.00
ELPH VS. COIL Worship the Glitch (coloured v.) do-LP first ever double vinyl re-issue of COILs daring experimental ambient work from 1995, working with accidentally appearing error "Glitches" in a productive way; fully re-mastered, lim. 500 YELLOW vinyl ed, gatefold cover, download code, with sticker & small vellum insert 2018 €34.00
EMERGE Oneirism 10inch third vinyl appearance of this south-german project presenting two very hypnotic dream-drone tracks; whereas one side dissolves into ghostly fog-sounds (reminding of certain JOHN DUNCAN or M.B. works), the flipside points into sub-bass areas, extremely deep & with hallucinogenic effect... lim./numbered 300 copies & with bonus CDR of the same tracks 2013 €13.00
ENCEPHALOPHONIC Alone 7inch Geez, this boy is fucked. Fucked raw. Raw. That's the fucking word, you fuck. Wonderfully blown-out sonics from A to B. A to Z. Whatever, you fuck." - very last copies of this very limited 7" (100 copies) by the Italian harsh noise project, excellent powerfully developing noise landscapes, comes with full colour fold out cover with sexually explicit collages, the vinyl pressed on 'piggy pink' colour 2014 €15.00
ENDO, KAZUMOTO Live at Sendai Contemporary Museum 12inch one sided LP with a legendary live recording from 1999 by K. ENDO also known as KILLER BUG => "This live recording shows once again an artist on fire, both in studio as well on stage, with usual master control over his sharp and abrasive electronics. A delightful mangle to the fanatic's earholes, with non stop assault of metal scrap feedbacks, and powerful, crushing walls of distortions.. " -lim. 250, never seen black & white halved vinyl + splatter colours above.. - 45 RPM 2017 €20.00
ESCAMA SERRADA Echis Carinatus LP second album by this Spanish dadaistic industrial project comparable to crazed out FAUST, NWW and R. PINHAS: "If the collage aesthetics remain, the incantatory, 'écriture automatique' vocals and above all R. Riba’s psyché rock guitar input invest the opus with a surreal, intensely ritualistic mood, between shamanic trance and psychedelic improvisation" - feat. guests appearances from members of O PARADIS, WERMUT, HIS DIVINE GRACE; lim. 319 copies on grey marbled vinyl 2010 €7.50
ESO STEEL Two Ways (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies in rice-paper cover , white vinyl 2001  
ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO Pulsion CD Cd-version of album from 2009, some of the tracks are not on the vinyl version! digipack 2009 €13.50
Desarrollos Geometricos LP limited vinyl version (700 copies) of new album by the Spanish "rhythmic industrial" pioneers who label themselves nowadays as "powerful, primitive and hypnotic" - six stunning new tracks, three of them exclusive to this format ! 2011 €20.00
Nador LP + 7inch first ever vinyl issue of NADOR, originally released on CD in 1995 (Daft Records), with rare material already recorded back in 1988-1989; lim. 700 2015 €23.50
Fluida Mekaniko do-LP 12 new tracks of E.G. who sound especially "shamanistic" here on several tracks, so dry and bouncing, adding voices and sounds from African, Arab and Asian music to it, they call it "Industrial Neo-Tribalism"... lim. 600 on black vinyl (700 in total) 2017 €26.50
  Cinetica LP new album after 4 years by the Spanish cult act, who is settled now partly in Shangai=> CINETICA marks a step away from their latest stuff, this evokes a more shamanistic feeling, imagine an indigenous tribe with a bunch of electronics, great polyrhythmics with strange vocal chants.... - "Recommended both for "old school" industrial music fans and the followers of the new industrial techno." - lim. 500 black vinyl 2020 €19.50
ETANT DONNES Re-Up do-LP in 1999 ETANT DONNES surprised everyone with this album linking their pulsing post industrial machine ambience with spoken word / vocal collaborations by ALAN VEGA (SUICIDE), LYDIA LUNCH, GENESIS P-ORRIDGE and even BACHIR ATTAR from the legendary MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA contributing ghaita-sounds; this first vinyl re-issue has one bonus-track ("Ghost Rider 2014 remix by MARC HURTADO from E.D.") and comes in a gatefold-cover 2016 €22.00
  Unreleased Tapes 1977-1979 Box 1 3 x LP BOX earliest unreleased tape recordings (1977-1979) by the French twin brother duo, completely different from the box on Vinyl-On-Demand: raw musique concrete experiments with droning electronics, spoken French poetry, field recordings, unrecognizable noises and found sounds from records, radio, tape manipulations, etc.. often collaged; recorded with most simple equipment but already a fascinating listening... lim. 90 copies in sturdy blue box with golden embossing, on white vinyls 2015 €65.00
ETIENNE, YVAN Twist LP this highly interesting French composer uses the legendary SERGE MODULAR synth (developed 1972) in combination with field recordings of granular surfaces noises, objects and environment, giving room for silent passages and a focus on every tone / sound / drone... best for contemplative listening - two side long pieces, edition of 300 copies, 180 gram vinyl with die cut black paper inner sleeve. 2019 €18.00
ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN Les trois fou's perdegagnent LP re-issue of second album from 1978 (recorded 1977) by this unique French jazz/avantgarde/RIO band; lim. 500 - 180 gr vinyl 2014 €20.00
EVIL SPIRIT The Imageless Mirror LP the amazing South American "experimental doom metal" duo with their second release, feat. MARCELO AGUIRRE (see Newsflash June 19 for his excellent solo LP) on vocals and drums - "Slow, weird ass doom from a horror movie. Cool as hell, particularly when the unhinged saxophone kicks in.." [Last_vinyl_before_doomsday] ; edition of 200 copies with insert 2018 €17.00
EXPO 70 (EXPO SEVENTY) Kinetic Tones LP four new studio tracks by the prolific JUSTIN WRIGHT with his space rock / neo psychedelia project in this nice release series, this LP is dedicated to the Flores Hawk-Eagle > "Laced with drones, heavy and leaden as cinder block bunkers, and shot through with a cosmic strain of psychedelia that unwinds as much as unravels the soul...from minimalist Drone over spooky Psychedelia to harmonic and beautiful soundscapes" ed. of 500 copies on bronze coloured vinyl 2015 €20.00
EYELESS IN GAZA Rust Red September do-LP re-issue of the great EIG album from 1983, comes with 6 rare bonus tracks (from rare 12"es) w. gatefold-sleeve on coloured vinyl 2015 €28.50
FABRIS, FRANCESCO & BEN FROST Vakning LP fascinating recordings (very close) from vulcanic eruptions in Iceland, unfolding like exploding bubbles or broken glass...- *These recordings, captured at close range, exist at a nexus where liquid rock becomes solid. They capture moments of transformation, of obliteration and of creation, often all at once..* .- Australian born BEN FROST is known as prolific film composer (for example for "Dark" / Netflix) and lives in Iceland.. BLACK vinyl ed. + DL card 2023 €27.50
FATHER MURPHY Lamentations 10inch the Italian band with two dark folk drone pieces full of vocal passion and emotion, this time feat. FABRIZIO MODONOSE PALUMBU from LARSEN / BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER; ".. explodes with passion, sorrow, rage and atmosphere." lim. 400 black vinyl 2015 €13.00
FAVARON, GIANLUCA Surfaces LP collector's item, lim. 86 only - second release in the 'Private Sounds' - series (one sided, coloured vinyl) => G. FAVARON created digital processed, repetitive, quasi-rhythmic microsound-patterns derived from smallest particles of object-sounds (paper, scissors, stones, daily kitchen things), inspired by a series of polaroid pictures... a very conceptual release with often surprising result !! LAST COPY! 2014 €18.00
FEAR FALLS BURNING The Amplifier Drone LP lim. 500 / 180 gr. white vinyl / special photo-cover & postcard 2006 €18.00
Woes of the desolate mourner 7inch clear vinyl, ed. of 500 2006 €7.50
Once we all walk through solid objects 5 x LP-SET source material by FFB performed by 10 artists (one per LP-side): BASS COMMUNION, FINAL (Justin Broadrick / JESU), FREIBAND, HARVESTMAN (Steve von Till / NEUROSIS), BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, BYLA, AIDAN BAKER, JOHANNES PERSSON, JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA (of TARENTEL), STEFANO PILIA. Lim. 500, pressed on clear 180gr vinyl. LAST COPY, MINT ! 2007 €62.00
  When Mystery prevades the Well, the Promise sets Fire LP deluxe edition (gatefold-cover, 180 gr. vinyl), ed. of 500 copies on black vinyl 2007 €19.50
FEAR KONSTRUKTOR Nonexistence 7inch lovely two track 7" with slow & deep pulsing and crawling, metallic shimmering low fi industrial drones that could also have been released on Drone Rec. years ago - strong vinyl debut for this Moscow based project.. lim. 300 2011 €7.50
FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM (F.T.B.P.D.) Froschdosis (SOLD OUT) 7inch black vinyl, stone & emerypaper cover! Lavendel-Duft! 1996  
FELINE/FERAL Wilderness T-SHIRT FELINE/FERAL is the new VINYL label project of TURGUT KOCER, known for the great VOLUNTARY WHORES tape series; high quality shirt with black print on white / cotton wool colour, ask for available size 2015 €20.00
FELIX KUBIN & MARIOLA BRILLOWSKA Morgenröte 7inch + comic art two FELIX KUBIN pieces (one previously unpublished) as a soundrack for M. BRILLOWSKA's colourful comic & video works, telling an "anti-utopian" SF-story ("in the 71st century, sex is practiced only by machines.." ) with their two heroines Linda and Lorna... lim./numb. 100 copies in oversized special packaging (20,5 x 43 cm!) and on turquoise coloured vinyl 2018 €19.50
FENNESZ June LP release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side; comes on beautiful orange-marbled or clear vinyl. Mastered by JAMES PLOTKIN 2008 €17.00
Seven Stars maxi-CD CD-version of the lately released 10" vinyl, 4 tracks with brilliant new material, feat. STEVEN HESS 2011 €9.00
  Agora LP more than 4 years after the last albums "Becs" and "Mahler Remix" FENNESZ is back with 5 tracks recorded in a much reduced way, without a studio and in his bedroom with simple equipment; wonderfully drifting ambient-scapes and glimpses of melodies, endless melancholy and elevation combined... "At times it is ethereally forlorn and at others defiantly joyful delivering some of the most uplifting pieces of music this year." [Drowned In Sound] - lim. vinyl version 2019 €22.50
FERGUSSON, ALEX Secret Recordings 1976-1992 5 x LP BOX 5 LP box with various projects and solo works by the founding member of ALTERNATIVE TV and PSYCHIC TV: industrial sessions 1977 with GENESIS P. ORRIDGE ("Industrial Porridge"), material from THE NOBODIES, CASH PUSSIES, PTV "Pagain Day II", solo material feat. CHRIS CARTER and DANIEL MILLER (MUTE) 1980-1982... - lim. 400 in total, 300 on black vinyl, plus T-Shirt and 32 page booklet 2023 €105.00
FERRARI, LUC Music Promenade / Unheimlich Schön LP two of the most fascinating / well known pieces by LUC FERRARI: "Unheimlich Schön" (1971) - for the first time on vinyl; "Music Promenade" (1965-1969) in an edited version for four stand-alone tape recorders, premiered in March 1970: "A series of colliding realistic sounds and sonic images. Whilst walking, a man is struck by the violence of his surroundings. Nature has disappeared in a whirlwind of warfare and industry in the midst of which he encounters a dying folklore and a lost young girl." 2019 €19.50
FESHAREKI, SHIVA MMXX-20: Nebula LP 20th and final release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => SHIVA FESHAREKI is a British-Iranian sound artist and turntablist with a Doctorate in Music Composition - "Nebula" confronts us with strange loops and voice experiments in a spacey background... 2021 €23.00
FINAL The Apple never falls far from the Tree do-LP new recordings from JUSTIN BROADRICKS "experimental ambient" project with some surprising tracks; lim. 300 green vinyl, gatefold-cover, excellent artwork 2010 €30.00
FINGER / PLOTKIN / ZABELKA Pleasure-Voltage LP BENJAMIN FINGER (multi media artist from Oslo, Norway), MIA ZABELKA (Austrian impro musician and curator) and experimental noise veteran JAMES PLOTKIN in a first time collab - " the trio crafts a mesmerizing sonic world that buzzes and drones, glitches and slithers, eventually careening into unexplored musical territory somewhere between ambient / drone / psychedelia." - 400 copies on black vinyl 2019 €18.00
FISER, LUBOS Valerie A Tyden Divu (Valerie and her Week of Wonders) LP a new vinyl edition of LUBOS FISER's soundtrack for this Czech experimental "bad fairy-tale" cult film from 1970 with tons of surrealisic and symbolistic elements... "may be the most exotic flower to bloom on the grave of the Prague Spring, but it's one with deep roots in 20th-century Czech culture" [New York Times] - comes in TWO different cover-variants (green sleeve or black sleeve with flower) 2018 €20.00
FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC Oborot CD-R the regular STILL*SLEEP series continues with this F.E.M release, using again nature sound sources (metal, wood, stones), but also vinyl player and radio coils => secretful field recordings with low bass sounds, you can almost feel the structure of objects and the air....4 hypnotic tracks with unique 'breathing' organic ambient ... F.E.M. is the experimental solo project of SERGEY SUHOVIC, also active as SISTER LOOLOMIE and part of the drone duo EXIT IN GREY 2015 €9.00
FLYING SAUCER ATTACK & ROY MONTGOMERY Goodbye mLP 3-track EP (23+ min) by the legendary feedback/drone/rock band from Bristol in collaboration with ROY MONTGOMERY; experimental and beautiful guitar & piano-drones on red vinyl, back in stock! 1996 €12.00
FORD PROCO / COIL Expansion Naranja 12inch two rare collaboration tracks from 1999 by this Mexican industrial electronic pioneers (active since 1986!) with COIL, now for the first time on vinyl! PETER CHRISTOPHERSON: sax (!), drums, effects, JOHN BALANCE: vocals; Lim. 500 in total, 400 on BLACK (this one) 2015 €18.00
FORSYTH, KEELEY Debris (gold) LP “like blocks of metal that drop from the sky” - absolutely remarkable debut album by this British actor and composer, highly intimate, experimental songwriting with incredible fragile voice (we had to think on ANTONY /ANOHNI, others on NICO), placed on beautiful instrumental / electronic drone-ambience (think of FOVEA HEX, etc..)... "melancholic, contemplative, and deeply devastating." [Lound and Quiet] - lim. ed. on golden vinyl ! 2020 €23.00
FORT, BERNARD FRACTALS / Brain Fever LP "Brain Fever" is a quite new piece (2017) using sounds of the Brain Fever bird ("Falkenkuckuck") from India, shaping a quite unusual electro-acoustic composition; "Fractals" is the first vinyl issue of his classic piece from 1981: "the 5-part composition by the Lyon based writer, ornithologist and teacher BERNARD FORT, which forms nice contrasts between more intense creaking sounds and subtle or polyrhythmic clicks and rumbles..sounds like nothing else " [Drone Rec] 2020 €19.50
FOVEA HEX Salt Garden (Landscaped) LP + CD two longform remixes from pieces of FOVEA HEXs mesmerizing "Salt Garden" trilogy (2016-2019) by STEVEN WILSON (BASS COMMUNION), plus additional remixes by ABUL MOGARD and PETER CHILVERS on the CD version; comes on clear vinyl with stunning cover art + liner notes plus CLODAGH SIMONDS interview on the inner sleeve 2021 €31.50
FOX, HARDY (THE RESIDENTS) same LP a very personal solo-album by this founding member of THE RESIDENTS who left the group in 2015 and started to record music under his real name only a short time before his death (Oct. 2018) - pure electronic "avant" pop with spoken vocals...- "An album full of minimal love songs, a portrait of the young Hardy Fox." ; this edition: 350 numbered copies on yellow-green vinyl with additional golden flexi 7"; CD version available as well (Klanggalerie), please ask 2019 €25.00
G.A.M.S. (GUIDO MÖBIUS & ANDI STECHER) G.A.M.S. LP debut album for this new project of GUIDO MÖBIUS (feedbacks) and ANDI STECHER (drums) plus special guests MICK HARRIS and YUKO MATSUYAMA => "With the pulse of the feedback ANDI STECHER's drumming, at times feverish and driven, then distanced and abstract, creates polyrhythmic structures. What comes into being is a maelstrom of sound and rhythm - music beyond every style, the power of which lies in its rawness." - 300 copies, 180gr. vinyl, DL code 2019 €18.00
GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ Kubark 10inch the German industrial project still working on / revealing themes like secret brainwash-methods & psycho manipulation techniques; KUBARK is a special interrogation manual published 1963 to "break" prisoners; this the 'Enlightenment' side of industrial, accompanied with threatening analog / ambient industrial tunes to symbolize the process... eerie stuff, very well arranged ! lim. / numb. 250 on blue (or black) vinyl ! (500 existing in total) 2012 €15.00
GAMMELSAETER & MARHAUG Higgs Boson LP incredible collaboration by MARHAUG with vocalist RUNHILD GAMMELSAETER, once singer for THORR'S HAMMER and KHLYST (with JIM PLOTKIN), a dark and haunting, almost occult sounding album, inspired by a large array of topics, i.e.: Japanese cinema, Futuristic comic books, landscape photography, Glass Bead Game by HESSE, the discovery of the HIGGS BOSON and work of quantum physicians like SCHRÖDINGER.. black vinyl ed. 2022 €24.00
GEINS'T NAIT & L. PETITGAND Je vous dis LP music for a situationist movie? Surprising new album by this French project, active since 1986, with LAURENT PETITGAND (brother of DOMINIQUE PETITGAND) => quite poetic and higly atmospheric experimental electronic ambience with a 'weird' touch + influences from the industrial and electronic movements from the 80's, strangely effected singing, slow rhythms, instrumental drones, electronic sounds... very much worth to discover ! vinyl version comes with download code 2014 €16.00
GENETIC TRANSMISSION Strychnina LP very rare vinyl version (100 copies!) of a release from 2005 (originally a CDR on Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk) which shows the full quality of the Polish project: all sounds originate from installations with "garbage, environment, voice", and are not electronically processed - most is based on scrap and metal objects, the result are two dynamic musique concrete / "tape collages", full of tiny details.. - reminds on ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE, Z'EV, G PARK... + excellent laminated cover art 2020 €18.00
GENOCIDE ORGAN Mind Control CD first ever CD re-issue of one of the most sought-after albums in the history of apocalyptic industrial, G.O.'s third album appeared originally as vinyl-only release in 1995 => eerie analogue synths, layers of spoken voice material, sluggish beats and pulses plus powerful noise loops and alienated vocals form a swan song on human mankind; one outtake from the original sessions (too long for the vinyl version) is issued here for the first time! comes w. embossed digipak 2018 €14.00
GENOCIDE ORGAN / PRURIENT Carte Blanche LP * The apocalypse has already happened * there aren’t any sunken caskets of gold * and besides * you can’t even swim. How does anyone know what’s inside another * how does anyone know what’s inside another country * there are no countries * only marketplaces* - first ever collab by the power electronics & "true" industrial legends from Germany + USA - BLACK vinyl ed. lim. 300, luxus die-cut cover, high price unavoidable 2023 €45.50
GERECHTIGKEITSLIGA / GEHIRN.IMPLOSION Centaurea Cyanus 7" NEW material from the legendary German industrial group, another part in the split 7" series with GEHIRN.IMPLOSION; lim. 199 copies, white marbled vinyl, full colour cover ! 2010 €8.00
GEROGERIGEGEGE, THE The Gerogerigegege 12inch a 45 rpm 12" with 16 pieces, feat. the basic sounds used for their April 2003 US tour, which now forms an "instrument" for your own creations... samples of all kinds and funky 70's dance-music, pretty weird .... lim. 400 black vinyl, lovely cover 2017 €12.50
GILBERT, B.C. Monad 7inch new installment in the great Touch 7" vinyl-only series with strangely mutated analogue KORG synth-drones & vibrations by this legendary British artist & musician (& member of WIRE), lim. 500 2011 €8.00
GILBERT, B.C. & G. LEWIS Ends with the Sea 7inch first time vinyl re-issue of the rare 7" released originally 1981 on 4AD by the two members of WIRE who were also active as DOME then... 2015 €13.00
GINNUNGAGAP Return to Nothing / Nothing to Return mLP collectors item, live 2004, lim. 500 silkscreen-cover / yellow-beige vinyl / one side 33, other side 45 rpm / different from the CD-version released before 2009 €23.50
GNOD Chapel Perilous LP stunning new album by the furious and versatile "industrial psych noise rock" band, incorporating more experimental elements again, here deeply inspired by the writing of ROBERT ANTON WILSON... lim. 700 coloured vinyl version (clear & black splatter); "Chapel Perilous ranks easily as one of the best things they’ve produced to date" [Dusted] 2018 €24.00
GNOSTIC GNOMES Zwergenlieder 2 x 5inch vinyl this is, in many respects, a unique and bizarre release => the story behind it tells that the music on these micro vinyls comes from religious GNOMES who live in the mountains of Spain - the music is incredible weird, folky, Gnomes on acoustic guitar and with bizarre vocals - a very beautiful designed item...and the described place really exists, in Northern Spain, as the full colour fold out sleeve shows us all... - lim. 495 copies numbered, 8 panel full colour sleeve + 1 paper dwarf included 2007 €6.00
GODFLESH Purge LP GUITARS, VOICE, BASS, MACHINES, HEAVINESS - the "industrial metal" legends are back! - *Both minimal and maximal, with layer upon layer of filth and heaviness, Godflesh deliver alien grooves that swing whilst also retaining the psychedelic / bad trip edge that Godflesh has always obsessed over. This is, and always has been, feel bad music.* - 8 t racks, BLACK vinyl version 2023 €30.00
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPOROR! [GYBE] Allelujah! Don't bend! Ascend! LP + 7inch the BIG surprise - after many many years a new GODSPEED YOU! album, and it's brilliant - very droney & dense, developing to ecstatic power-rock with oriental flair.. the vinyl version comes with 7" (seperating two drone-tracks that are bound differently into the album on the CD) & nice full-colour fold out poster in a gatefold sleeve!! Masterpiece !! 2012 €25.00
  G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! LP + 10inch "The God's have returned to rain ash upon our graves." - four epic new pieces spread on 12" and 10" vinyls, with wonderful artwork again + DL code... - "Poignant atmospherics, noisedrenched orchestration, drone, hypnotic swingtime crescendos, inexorably-layered towers of distorted clarion sound: STATE'S END encapsulates every beloved facet of the band" 2021 €27.50
GOEM Audio.NL CD collection of all vinyl-only releases released on AUDIO.NL by this dutch "minimal repetitive pulses" trio (too experimental to be named techno): one 7", two 12"es, a remix by JOS SMOLDERS and two previously unreleased tracks, all produced 1998-2000 by FRANS DE WAARD, ROEL MEELKOP & PETER DUIMELINKS; lim. 200 2012 €10.00
GRAILS Chalice Hymnal do-LP sixth album by this remarkable US "cinematic / highly atmospheric electro Prog Rock" band (feat. EMIL AMOS from OM) that somehow unites Post Rock/ Psychedelic Kraut / Metal Prog / Eastern Folk and Western film score influences, a quite unique melange, now sounding more electronic, orchestral and lush than before and even going into Ambient, Trip Hop and Electronica areas.. vinyl-version w. luxurious gatefold cover and download card 2017 €29.50
GRAVETEMPLE Impassable Fears LP the band project of STEPHEN O'MALLEY, OREN AMBARCHI, and ATTILA CSIHAR with their third album - an extreme abysmal dark noise blast with furious drums, deep bass and roaring guitars, along with ritualistic vocals and experimental sound-collages in between... ecstatic & ultra heavy, we love it ! Lim. clear vinyl version, luxurious cover 2017 €23.00
GRIM Therianthropy 7inch + BOOK 4-track 7" vinyl EP plus 48 pages fineart hardcover book, the 2nd chapter... - "An album about the mythological ability of individuals to shapeshift into animals or hybrids ? Brilliant. The experimental, tribal, eastern music references in the rhythms and overall sound could make shapeshifting possible!" [blauerosen] - lim. 200, sold out at the label! 2023 €35.00
GROWING live do-LP gatefold-cover, 72 min playtime (black vinyl) 2007 €19.50
  Lateral EP 12 vinyl version of 4 track EP, includes Mp3 coupon 2008 €12.00
GRUNT Spiritual Eugenics do-LP the Finnish (harsh) noise & industrial project (active since 1993) with a new epic work, spreading on two LPs (80 min.) with 'pure filth & anger', the tracks are short attacks gouging into your brain, and have a nice 'mechanical' and trashy old school touch, analolgue throbbing pulses and cut up distortions, screams and pushed vocals, establishing quite a wide spectrum of noises and sounds in these 20 tracks; - gatefold-cover w. 2 inlays, black vinyl 2020 €26.00
GRUNTSPLATTER The Passions of a Cripple LP last copies found of this radical darknoise-ambient release = the only 12" vinyl release for this now inactive US project; lim. 300 / dark blue marbled vinyl / 2nd part in the lim.12" series! 2005 €13.00
GUSTAFSSON, MATS & NORDWALL, JOACHIM Their Power reached across Space and Time - to defy them was Death or Worse LP a highly creative Swedish instrumental + electronics meeting: M. GUSTAFSSON: different Saxophones, Flute, Reeds; J: NORDWALL: Synths, Tapes, Effects = > *The duo creates a sense of vast, three-dimensional auditory expanses---Gustafsson and Nordwall push their instruments to the limit, almost mirroring the title of the record by "reaching across space and time* - black vinyl, DL card 2023 €29.50
H.Ö.H. Superorganism LP deep from the Finnish "analogue noise" scene, so far only released on cassette... "This vinyl album is all new material, exclusive for the LP. Tape loops, broken primitive electronics, tape hiss and distortion crackles, with really tasty sound and perfect vinyl sound..." 2020 €20.00
HAFLER TRIO Only the hand that erases can write the true thing do-10inch STANDARD EDITION, lim. 500 clear vinyl; four long tracks, using the voices of MICHAEL GIRA, DUA42, YVES KLEIN and BJÖRK GUDMUNDSDOTTIR for incredible result! Comes in gatefold cover lim. 500 clear vinyl, beautiful textured cover ! 2004 €20.00
Wolf Sheep Cabbage. Episode 2: Evidence Pertaining to the Creator 7inch rare H30 7" - lim. 333 copies, clear vinyl, special artwork with gold printed letterpress-covers & booklet on opaque paper feat. a cryptic text by ANDREW Mc.KENZIE; remaining copies with slight damages at OBI strip or cover now for reduced price !! 2004 €14.50
  Who Sees Goes On # 1 - 7 7 x 10inch vinyl SET "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly" - the seven 10" vinyls as SET from this most beautiful / sophisticated H30 release series: "Timerape" ,"Broadcast in White", "Lipchamber", "GODfood", Solvitur Ambuldao" , "Dream Adjustments", Avec le vide les pleins pouvoirs", all with cryptic 8 page booklet (7 booklets in total), not signed and no bonus CD (that was only for subscribers); hand numbered ed. of 333 copies => ANDREW McKENZIE at the peak of his unique creation! 1998 €300.00
HAFLER TRIO / DITTERICH VON-EULER DONNERSPERG / KONTAKT DER JÜNGLINGE PLAYS THE HAFLER TRIO untitled do-7inch lim. 200 clear vinyl, usually only available on the H30-tour May 2003 through Germany, clear vinyl, numbered edition, exquisite artwork! Has rare THOMAS KÖNER & ASMUS TIETCHENS tracks on Side C / D, using HAFLER TRIO souce materials. LAST NEW COPIES FOUND !! 2003 €25.00
HAIGH, ROBERT Creatures of the Deep LP ROBERT HAIGHs beloved, suggestive piano tunes - between harmonic phrases and extremely spheric surroundings - play again a great role on this new album.. "Among noir, minimal, neo-classical landscapes are robust scatterings of bright reflection and a musical expression that is subtle and elusive yet uniquely Haigh’s in its voice and masterful execution." the vinyl version comes with postcard and download code 2017 €18.00
Human Remains CD third in the trilogy of piano-based works for Unseen Worlds => "The title, Human Remains, was initially based on a painting of the same name by Haigh that is suggestive of an ancient structure resolute in the wake of overwhelming forces. As a metaphor for our current times, it could be interpreted as human frailty in the face of nature’s unyielding dominion. Conversely, it could represent the persistence of human spirit and resourcefulness in the midst of catastrophe and upheaval."- vinyl version to follow 2022 €14.50
  Human Remains LP finally out, the lim. vinyl version of the third album in this trilogy, mastered by STEPHAN MATHIEU => "The title was initially based on a painting of the same name by Haigh that is suggestive of an ancient structure resolute in the wake of overwhelming forces. As a metaphor for our current times, it could be interpreted as human frailty in the face of nature’s unyielding dominion. Conversely, it could represent the persistence of human spirit and resourcefulness in the midst of catastrophe and upheaval." 2022 €24.00
HAINO, KEIJI / BALAZS PANDI / MERZBOW Become the Discovered, not the Discoverer do-LP the second noise-clash (after "An Untroublesome Defencelessness", 2016) for these three gifted performers on the RareNoise label, four long sets recorded in a studio in February 2018... "the three intrepid improvisers explore a threshold of sound so blisteringly intense, that it passes into a zone of divine cacophony." - comes on coloured vinyl 2019 €27.50
HALMA The Ground LP newest album by this 4 piece (two female - two male) German instrumental (post / psychedelic / kraut) rock band from Hamburg, active already since 2000.... born from flowing improvisations, they create relaxed but very focused and clear tracks, subtle melodic, echo-guitars, hypnotic percussion.... lim. 200 copies on BLACK vinyl 2019 €15.00
HANSEN, LARS LUNDEHAVE Terminal Velocity LP first solo-album by this Danish soundartist also known with WÄLDCHENGARTEN (see DR-81, 2006), operating between 'underground drone' and the more academic/serious composed sound-art; the album contains 21 (!) tracks that follow the concept of incorporating 'atmospheric ambient' into a classic pop/rock format, so all tracks are very short and hold melodic scales and a kind of architectural composition, with amazing result; created at EMS in Stockholm, lim. 300 blue vinyl 2016 €18.00
HARRIS, MICK & MARTYN BATES Murder Ballads (Drift) do-LP first vinyl re-issue of this breathtaking vocal / isolationist ambience merge album (originally released 1994), comes on marbled vinyl! " ...LULL-ähnliche Klänge treffen auf den poetisch vortragenden, hauchenden und singenden Martyn Bates, der von gruseligen Mordgeschichten erzählt... unheimlich dichte und schaurig-schöne Atmosphäre.. dies der erste Teil der Trilogie.." [old Drone Rec. info] 2021 €20.00
  Murder Ballads (Passages) do-LP first vinyl re-issue of this breathtaking vocal / isolationist ambience merge album (originally released 1997), the second part in this trilogy after 'Drift'... lim. ed. on coloured / marbled vinyl; - "Passages plays out an unbreakable and timeless cycle of bloody folklore (people) and hypnotic soundscapes (the god who watches). The effect is chilling yet engrossing..." 2022 €20.00
HATERS / GEHIRN.IMPLOSION ... and in the end a beautiful memory remains 7" lim. 199 copies / green vinyl 2008 €6.50
HATI Recycled Magick Drones (SOLD OUT) 7inch lim. 300 handmade cover / red vinyl 2007 €7.00  
HAYNES, JIM Flammable Materials from Foreign Lands LP a full LP composed from material recorded at a residency in Estonia, taken from abandoned post Soviet-Era buildings and strange radio shortwave transmissions, leading to crackles, mechanical drones, rusty noise and cryptic speech with the typical flair of decay JIM HAYNES is known for... kind of sister-album to the 'Throttle & Calibration' tape.. "somewhat sparser than his other works, but no less fascinating, and with an additional menacing edge" [Brainwashed] lim. 300 clear vinyl 2016 €22.50
HECKER, TIM Dropped Pianos LP sound-sketches from 2010 that became later the "Ravedeath, 1972" album, all based on piano sound-sources. Lim. vinyl version 2011 €17.00
Love Streams do-LP now on a major label: TIM HECKERs irresistable "fake church music" or "neo metal drone", heavily processed digital spheres between harmony & ambient noise, usually based on acoustic sound sources / samples from church organs, pianos or strings; on LOVE STREAMS he works with JOHANN JOHANNSSON who contributed medieval chorals... lim. vinyl version with download code, gatefold cover 2016 €27.50
  The North Water (Original Score) LP selected compositions (enhanced mix) from the soundtrack to "The North Water" (deutsch: "Nordwasser") series, created in Montreal in 2020 with several guest musicians, merging instruments (Cello, Piano, Guitar) and electronics, on 15 tracks...- "a doomed arctic journey that charts a trajectory from hardened optimism into abject futility..." ; - 180gr. black vinyl with insert and download code 2022 €29.50
HEIRS Alchera LP industrialized instrumental rock/metal in the way of GODFLESH, PELICAN or ISIS, with a strong melancholic touch; lim. vinyl version in gatefold-cover 2009 €18.00
HELICE PIED Conduit No. 2 7 lim. 300 handmade cover / white vinyl 2006 €7.00
HELL, RENE The Terminal Symphony LP + CD lim. vinyl-version with bonus CD ! 2011 €21.00
HELM The Hollow Organ 12inch four new studio tracks by LUKE YOUNGER aka HELM (who is also a member of BIRDS OF DLEAY) on clear vinyl, very powerful pulsing & repetitive structures again with sharp & metallic sounds & drones... the suspenseful meeting of drone & industrial.. 2014 €16.00
  Axis LP the project from London is back with a truly enthralling release, 7 tracks of pulsing, sometimes ghostly atmospheric industrial-electronica with always interesting breaks, loops, effects, passages, harmonic substructions, ... working with old equipment again this has a nice raw & low fi-ish character, feat. many guest musicians (using violin, guitar, cello, vocals, etc.)... .- standard BLACK vinyl version, printed inner sleeves, DL code 2021 €23.00
HEMATIC SUNSETS Aroma Club Adieu 5 LP + 12inch the cult goes on! -> fifth and last part in the raunchy "Aroma Club" series by the Alter Ego project of ASMUS TIETCHENS (+ other Alter Egos), now successful amongst the young hipsters; the bonus 12" (white vinyl) contains remixes of FELIX KUBIN, the beloved UNKNOWN SINGING OBJECTS, MICHAEL ROTHER (HARMONIA), OKKO BEKKER, etc.. - rarely experimental music has such a charme and absurd wit!! - lim. 300 copies 2020 €32.00
HENRIKSEN, ARVE The Nature of Connections LP + CD remarkable album by the Norwegian trumpeter and singer, combining subtle Jazz with Nordik Folk and Contemporary Chamber Music in an elegant, highly emotive / melodic way... recorded with four different string-players (2 x violin, viola, cello), many of the pieces were composed by his collaborators... the vinyl version comes with CD copy of the same album included 2014 €25.00
  Chiaroscuro LP second praised album on RUNE for the Norwegian trumpet player & member of SUPERSILENT - a mixture of ambient & worldmusic with mysterious undertones and atmosphere.... "quite an unbelievable listen - cinematic in a way that defies pastiche, a vast panoramic ocean of sound reduced to the most silent, heart-wrenching string arrangements, samples and a whispered sweep of barely audible percussion, hovering around Henriksen unique, mesmerising trrumpet playing and broken voice." - lim. vinyl re-issue 2017 €25.00
HIDEG RONCS A Vihar / The Storm (SOLD OUT) 7inch limited + numbered first edition of 200 copies; silk-screened covers, each in different colour, luminous red vinyl 1994  
HIJOKAIDAN Modern do-LP this Japan Noise classic (between FAUST, SOFT MACHINE, JOHN COLTRANE hints and extreme noise) appeared fist on CD in 1989 (Alchemy) and had various re-issues now for the firist time on vinyl w. gatefold cover - "a fascinating juncture between space-harsh progressive, impro and noise, it was years ahead of its time when it first appeared becoming one of the great holy grails of Japan noise... " - lim. 299 copies 2021 €34.00
HITHLAHABUTH (drone) (SOLD OUT) 7inch clear vinyl, lim. 250 copies 1996  
HODELL, AKE & DAVID GRUBBS Igevär / Yellow Sky LP white vinyl / lim. 327 copies / gatefold-cover / featuring HODELL-piecee from 1963 / 1965 ! 2004 €20.00
HOIST Gravity CD-R illbient / dub / breakcore artist with a collection of 3 EPS, comes on vinyl effect CDR; lim. 80 copies 2010 €7.50
HOLTERBACH, MANU Leonore 7inch a re-interpetation of a classical opera (!) through three short pieces => solemn & harmonic, extensively sounds full of melancholy and droney overtunes (track 2 on Side B ends in a lockgroove)... a surprising work by this sound artist from Belgium, known also for his administration of the ELIANE RADIGUE archive; golden silscreen cover, various coloured papers, yellow transculent vinyl; a great little EP !! 2012 €8.50
HUM The Spectral Ship 10inch two great new pieces by this russian artist, most sensible & emotional drone-ambience, a graceful dance of acoustic reflections & resonances; edition of 500 on silver-coloured vinyl, full colour sleeve design by DANIEL CROKAERT / MYSTERY SEA !! 2008 €12.00
HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA Natural History of Failure LP vinyl version of the third album by the amazing "apocalyptic industrial metal/doom/drone" band, feat. contributions from diverse artists like JASON ZEH, BRANDON NICKELL (AEMAE), DAVID GRAHAM (REQUIEM), etc.. lim. 250 only, genius cover-artwork 2011 €18.50
HUNTING LODGE The Will CD one of true early US-American Industrial classics - originally released on S/M Operations in 1983, feat. additional vocals & tape material by FRANCISCO LOPEZ (!) and MASAMI AKITA ! On this CD re-issue are diverse bonus tracks not to find on the vinyl. Rhythmic, noisy, dark ecstatic stuff ! 1992 €14.00
HYBRYDS Mistrust Authority / Tectonic Overload do-CD re-issue of two HYBRYDS vinyl albums from 1996 and1998 when the project turned into more bumping rhythmic "cybernetic" industrial areas, creating a quite unique, almost obsure sound with alienated female vocals and ethnic samples.. as all Zoharum re-issues before, this comes with previously unreleased bonus-material, new artwork, and lim. to 500 copies 2018 €15.00
ID BATTERY (=LOREN CHASSE & BRANDON LABELLE) The Foot (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies on multicoloured (orange based) vinyl 2002  
IELASI, GIUSEPPE MMXX-10: Untitled LP 10th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => Italy's prolific composer GIUSEPPE IEALASI formed a piece with many microscopic / delicate sounds and noises (of probably instrumental sources), building weird and beautiful patterns and moments... 2020 €23.00
IF, BWANA / GERALD FIEBIG split LP the second release in the A.C. vinyl split series is by IF, BWANA (AL MARGOLIS) and GERALD FIEBIG who used each others instrumental (e.g. organ) sounds for their refined & almost elegant drone compositions... lim. 100, white vinyl, inlay, handpainted cover !! 2013 €23.00
ILLUSION OF SAFETY Sweet Dreams 10inch 3-track EP by the legendary experimental project from Illinois / Chicago-area around DAN BURKE, one of the inventors of what once was called "Ambient Industrial", undergoing through many musical changes through their almost 30 years of existence; SWEET DREAMS is an almost psychedelic record, using many incredible acousmatic sounds coming from field recordings & instrumental sources; lim. 500 3-colour vinyl with stunning artwork by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS, Berlin, and mastering by THOMAS DIMUZIO !! OUT NOW !! 2012 €12.00
IN MEDITARIUM [IN MEDITARIVM] Mare Internum 7inch Esoteric inner-cosmic / mother-womb drones, pre-symbolic surroundings attracting your unconscious. first ed. 300 copies / white vinyl / selfmade covers / 2005 €7.00
IN THE NURSERY Recordings 1981-1999 7 x LP BOX rare recordings by the British twin brother duo, known for some great soundtrackish neo classic works, they started as a post punk / wave band..: this includes their earliest recordings 1981-1982, live material, plus lots of instrumental versions, demos, and unreleased tracks: black vinyl ed, comes with 50page booklet and T-Shirt 2023 €145.00
INADE The Axxiarm Plains (SOLD OUT) 7inch Limited + numbered first edition of 250 copies. Individually made covers; clear vinyl 1995  
Aldebaran do-LP first ever vinyl re-issue of the dark ambient milestone from 1996, re-mastered and expanded with additional material from the same sessions => "...walls of solid deep and pulsating sound waves, crushing explosions of stellar noises, wails and voices dragged from the very depths of space itself, along with blanketing swathes of night-encrusted atonal skitterings echoing in dark cathedrals." lim. 350 copies on BLACK vinyl 2017 €25.00
Aldebaran - Revisited CD the sister-release to the vinyl re-issue of ALDEBARAN is this CD with a stunning, multiply extented live version recorded during the "Aldebaran 20th anniversary concert", captured in Paris on 9th of Sept. 2016 2017 €12.00
  The Nine Colours of the Threshold LP the long awaited new album by the dark ambient cult band from Leipzig, nine years after the last proper studio album INADE created another dark ambient milestone, strongly inspired by GUSTAV MEYRINKs writings and insights... music of a shining grandeur, and elevating darkness, creating a celebratory subtleness... "sonically sculpturing of that which lies deeper than matter, time and space."... "Audio-Alchemy in perfection" [Non-Pop] lim. vinyl version 400 copies 2018 €20.00
INCITE Minimal listening 7 grey sparkle-vinyl, lim.ed 2004 €7.00
INFANT CYCLE Secret Hidden Message 7inch hypnotic drone-circles from Canada using tons of instrumental sound-sources, lim. 300 transparent/black vinyl, comes with self-made transparent cover-sheet by the artist. VERY LAST COPIES available (retour from distro) 2008 €7.00
  Drop-Out Center CD the 20th anniversary release (!) by the Canadian 'true underground' project & Drone Rec. artist (DR-95), who established a very own style over the years => carefully constructed drone-mantras often build around circling loops or repetitive elements (vinyl grooves, etc.) with lots of details & microsounds that make every of the 9 tracks a different experience... maybe his most worked out album so far! Lim. 300, highly recommended ! 2012 €12.00
INFINITE LIGHT LTD same LP a kind of "mail-art" studio project by AIDAN BAKER (NADJA), NATHAN AMUNDSON (RIVULETS), and MAT SWEET (BODUF SONGS), who all recorded basic material independently which was later put together by exchanging the files; the result is a pretty wonderful mixture of folk, post rock, drone spheres and electronics... 300 copies on 180gr. black vinyl (+ wonderful gatefold cover and download code) 2011 €16.00
INFINITE MUSIC A Tribute to La Monte Young LP live collab between SONIC BOOM (SPACEMEN 3), ETIENNE JAUNET (ZOMBIE ZOMBIE), and CELINE WADIER, a master of Indian Dhrupad singing and Tanpura playing, rec. live in Lissabon Sept. 2017, dedicated to the father of drone-music (in western culture), LA MONTE YOUNG => vibrating drone-winds and electronic oscillations merge with the expressive voice for a truly psychedelic and contemplative ride... lim.ed. on magenta col. vinyl & silver print cover 2018 €25.00
INGENTING KOLLEKTIVA An Anatomy of Melancholy LP finally in stock, the latest LP by this romantic drone impro collective around MATTHEW SWIEZYNSKI, who are inspired by INGMAR BERGMAN's concept of 'nothing' => six melancholic tracks evolve around guitar drones, field recordings, harmonium, bells, strings and LP feedback, creating a wonderful nostalgic atmosphere full of shining overtunes, mysterious backwards sounds and other cinematic noises... top album!! edition of 426 copies on red/black transparent vinyl 2015 €18.00
IRISARRI, RAFAEL ANTON The North Bend LP 10th anniversary re-issue of IRISARRI's third proper solo album from 2010, re-mastered by LAWRENCE ENGLISH, comes with download code on black vinyl, filed under: timeless foggy drone ambience ; "...shifting to much hazier and clouded affair, beat-less and ethereal, feeding on something primal and cinematic. Irisarri builded each piece from a slow recurring core theme, and expanded it outwardly from there.." 2020 €28.50
The Shameless Years LP re-issue of the strong 2017 album by the ambient composer from New York, w. new artwork and on crystal clear vinyl, feat SIAVASH AMINI on two tracks... "Inspired by a troubled socio-political climate, buried melodies punch their way through a bleak cover of noisy drones, periodically veering into some of Irisarri’s most eerily pertinent music... " 2021 €21.00
Agitas Al Sol LP sister album to "Solastalgia" with two side long tracks - "Like its sibling work, this album is an enveloping sonic drift that traces across the unsteady topographies of the Anthropocene. It moves in deep exhales, drawing from within and pressing outward into a sound vista that is effortlessly deep..." - BLACK vinyl 2022 €27.50
  Peripeteia (clear) LP first IRISARRI album for DAIS, now also using vocal & choir material along with electric guitars and overdriven sounds for his deeply dark and emotional oceanic ambience...- *Irisarri explores deep smeared textures of noise, mortar and drone. Shuffles of steps, echoes of a choir, and cavernous reverberations of shuddering strings are fused, plastered, and drowned in a soaring cathedral of sound...* [Headphone Commute] - CLEAR vinyl version now in stock, lim. 500 2020 €24.00
IROHA & FRAGMENT Bittersweet LP UKs IROHA (Andy Swan from FINAL) in collaboration with FRAGMENT from France, creating beautiful melancholic droney & doomy slowcore a la JESU, NADJA & CODEINE; lim. vinyl version 2010 €17.50
IRR.APP(ext) & AT JENNIE RICHIE [ = APT.J(EXT.)IE IRRCHIE] Night Wearing Feathers / Sunshine Bus Rider LP 'An elegant vinyl reissue of the the long out-of-print irr/AJR collaboration ‘Night Wearing Feathers’, originally released as a 3″ CDR by Psychform Records back in 2006; the original track has been remastered and paired with a new collaborative track, ‘Sunshine Bus Rider’, on the flipside. Gorgeous gold ink printing on pearlescent black paper. Released by Black Horizons in an edition of 234.' 2013 €20.00
JACASZEK Music for Film LP a collection of 10 pieces composed for the films / series "November", "He dreams of Giants", and "Golgota Wroclawska"; dark and sacral chamber music creating highly melancholic and nostalgic atmospheres of true brilliance... (using strings, piano, harp, voices/choirs, organ, but also electronic effects, field recordings and drones..), think of MAX RICHTER, ARVO PÄRT, JOHANNSSON, etc....lim. ed. on pale blue vinyl, with DL code 2020 €20.50
JARL Hyperacusis LP rare vinyl release (lim.100) by the Drone Rec. fave artist, two sind long pieces of trance-formed sonic matter... - "Drones, high frequency pulsations and oscillations work here as a intronautic vessel in which you descend into into the depths of subconscious and as much as we are aware that this is a bold statement the closest comparison that comes to mind is COIL’s Time Machines. Yes, we said it." ; CD version avaiable, too 2021 €20.00
JAZZFINGER Mole & the Morning Dew LP lim. 600 on purple vinyl 2009 €15.50
JEANIE FINLAY SOUND IT OUT! DVD lovely cult-film / docu about a vinyl record shop in Stockton, UK, "the last record shop on earth" - very funny, intimate, bizarre at times - a must for any vinyl collector! english language, german subtitles, 75 min. 2012 €18.50
JENNIFER GENTLE Live in the House of God LP white vinyl, lim. 300, one-sided live recording 2008 €19.50
JERMAN / BARNES Versatile Ambience LP collaboration by JEPH JERMAN and TIM BARNES, creating a special form of improvised ambience, intimate, near and concrete... (using atmospheric field recordings, instrumental sounds (wind and stringed) from guests, occasionally shortwave and electronics); very nice edition on 180gr. vinyl with insert, on the re-activated IDEA label.. edition of 500 copies 2016 €26.00
JESU Pity / Piety LP "when all is full - when all us fall" - two side long tracks on this 12" mini-album (35 + min. length) by the most melancholic and sad guitar / shoegaze drone project..... - *...taken the churning pummel of his former project Godflesh, augmented it with the textural melody of 90s shoegaze rock and spawned a new sub-genre and the inevitable legions of imitators...* - 2 x 500 copies on white vinyl splatter, mixed either with gold or with silver 2023 €26.00
JOHANNSSON, JOHANN Englabörn & Variations do-LP ENGLABÖRN (2002) was the first album by the great Icelandic composer who sadly died in Feb.2018; this re-mastered vinyl re-issue has a full bonus LP with reworkings and different versions of his tracks by various well known artists as HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR, A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, etc. and JOHANNSSONs own variations.. .. gatefold cover, translucent banderole, download code, 180gr. pressing 2018 €32.00
Ibm 1401, A User's Manual do-LP first vinyl edition of the CD from 2006, a work based on old tape-recordings from the 60's made by his father with a vintage IBM 1401 computer system - it's electromagnetic waves emissions could be combined with a radio receiver and create melodies; a work about "the relationships between human and artificial intelligence, between the 'spirit' and the machine.."; comes with bonus D-side (live material rec. in Prague 2010), embossed gatefold-cover, clear vinyl 2017 €26.50
  Drone Mass LP first recording of this so far unreleased composition, with a very strong emphasis on droning structures.. - "Drone Mass is a profoundly atmospheric work, at times reminiscent of the meditative minimalism of composers such as PÄRT or GÖRECKI....Here, his drones have a motivic-like role, shifting and shimmering with hypnotic effect, conjuring different moods, from unsettling to uplifting.." - vinyl version available again !! 2022 €29.50
JUNKO & THOMAS TILLY Wild Protest LP a very curious record: the ultra silent field recordings of THOMAS TILLY in a French forest (atmospheric air, birds, insects..) meet the extreme noise shouts and screams of JUNKO, known from HIJOKAIDAN and ACID MOTHERS KAIDAN => her cries break the peaceful mood and sound like a creature of the wilderness herself after a while.... something you definitely haven't heard before! Clear vinyl, only 300 copies in circulation 2016 €20.00
JUPITTER-LARSEN, GX & ACE FARREN FORD / LA SCRAMBLED DEBUTANTE FEAT. EMERGE Untitled LP two collaborations on this great new A.C. LP: Side A shows one of the grandfathers of conceptual ART-noise (aka THE HATERS) in collab with one of the members of the LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY, for an amazingly organ like poly-drone piece; Side B delivers an uncategorizable impro-collage by ALLAN ZANE's (aka WYRM) LE SCRAMBLED DEBUTANTE and EMERGE with lots of weird acoustic & electronic sounds under full effects.. lim. 300 col. vinyl 2015 €17.00
JÜPPALA KÄÄPIÖ Rainbow Mask LP first recordings (2006) by this new project feat. HITOSHI KOJO, lim. 200 orange vinyl / lim. 250 clear vinyl; full colour cover 2010 €19.50
KA-SPEL, EDWARD O'er A Shalabast'r Tyde Strolt Ay CD CD-version of the album from 2002 which was only available on vinyl so far; comes in oversized gatefold-design 2009 €14.00
High on Station Yellow Moon 10inch this is the rare companion release to the full-lenght album of the same name, recorded with AMANDA PALMER; the two bonus songs from the CD version, plus one exclusive new track on side two, all previously unreleased on vinyl; lim. 227 copies w. special textured paper cover 2017 €26.00
High on Station Yellow Moon CD "There is a station where the train never arrives, where the Waiting Room is always occupied, where the conversation is inevitably awkward and where you're never quite alone, but perpetually almost alone." - a very special, more experimental album ["This deeply strange and proggy solo effort"- Brainwashed] with contributions by AMANDA PALMER (DRESDEN DOLLS); this CD version contains two bonus tracks not on the vinyl version 2017 €15.00
An Abandoned Laboratory Vol. 3 CD-R third volume of the trilogy containing lost or rare EK tracks spanning the last 3 decades, comes with printed inlay card, 150 copies - "Included in this collection is 'Amber' now revisited/remastered, hailing from the hyper rare 'handmade' vinyl edition of Trapped in Amber (there named 'Wrapped In Sand') and a previously unreleased version of "Empires Must Burn" which appears on a collaborative album with Philip Petit and Asva." 2018 €15.00
  Tales from the Trenches LP 250 copies on brown vinyl, 250 on black 2024 €23.00
KA-SPEL, EDWARD & MOTION KAPTURE Anagramma LP project by the LPD singer with the Italian 'ambient & psychedelic prog duo' MOTION KAPTURE, compared to TANGERINE DREAM, AREA and COIL, their second album! - "A conceptual Voyage through Space Kraut rock and meditative ambient atmospheres in extended visionary ballad...." - standard LP version lim. 499 copies, blue-foggy vinyl 2022 €30.00
KABOOM KARAVAN The Log and the Leeway LP first album by BRAM BOSTEELS extraordinary project after 7 years, this is like entering a beautiful and strange universe of its own, merging to many musical influences to be classified into any known genre... "A rare, spectral folk music has emerged from this metamorphosis, and it’s created a genuinely diverse record..." [Fluid Radio] - lim. 200 on coloured vinyl with 16 page LP sized booklet (full colour) 2020 €26.00
KABUKABU / KLEZMER CHIDESCH performs The KREV Underwater National Anthem # 3 / 4 7 second in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland, this one is performed by KABUKABU and the KLEZMER CHIDESCH groups, recorded at 21. October 2006 at "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" in Berlin; edition of 500 2007 €7.50
KALLABRIS Music for very simple Objects 10inch one of the most mysterious & thought-provoking German experimental projects with a bizarre formation of sequential sounds derived from field recordings; "substantia innominata et principium innominatum" (Kallabris). Edition of 500 copies, great full colour artwork by Mal Hoeschen (Multer, Genesungswerk), transparent flour green vinyl ! 2009 €10.00
KAMMARHEIT Thronal LP only the fourth full length album by the Swedish project in 20 years of existence, for many seen as the "flagship" of the C.L. label and authentic dark ambience in general... - "This one has a heavy and gargantuan feel to it, heavier than all previous Kammarheit releases. Each track like a massive block of iron and stone. " [Ayn Soph] : "I really can’t recommend this album highly enough. It’s been on repeat here, awake or asleep for days.." [This is Darkness] - lim. BLACK vinyl version 2020 €20.00
KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF There are Actions which we have neglected and which never cease to call us LP "After 20 years of Kammerflimmer Kollektief, with 10 albums thus far, the time has come to take a trip. The Karlsruhe combo guide us through seven stations in an unfathomable Terra Incognita, where a listening space emerges at the intersection of improvisation and composition, a space where certitude slips out of reach, jouncing incessantly between precision and freedom..." black vinyl, comes with CD of the same album 2018 €20.00
KAMPEN SKOLES MUSIKKORPS performs The KREV Underwater National Anthem 7 third in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland, this one is performed by the KAMPEN SKOLES MUSIKKORPS, consisting of around 24 musicians aged from 9 to 16, it was founded 1906 and is the third oldest school marching band in Norway; rec. 12 March 2008 by JANA WINDEREN. Numbered edition of 500 copies 2008 €7.50
KARL BÖSMANN Auslaufrillen mCDR lim./numb. 33 copies in mini-DVD box; comes with little vinyl-piece inside 2009 €10.00
KASSEL JAEGER MMXX-13: Vol Sombre LP 13th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => Drone Records fave artist KASSEL JAEGER unfurls slowly pacing instrumental drones / drops, circuiting each other like in a timeless slow-motion dance, harmonic and dense.. 2020 €23.00
KE/HIL Syndrome / Antidrome LP the last full album by the GENOCIDE ORGAN offshoot, feat. 2 G.O. members... "Follow KE/HIL on their way through ruins that no one sees - hear screams no one hears - exist! , so no one else does. ... " - ed. of 500 copies, two different covers on white or black vinyl (each 250 copies) 2017 €19.00
  Zone 0 LP staggering, sluggish, slow waving industrial noise, the second recommended LP by KE/HIL ("The Saints of the Scum"), white vinyl lim. 250, last copies.. "reports from precarious minds and worlds, written in analogue noise reflecting degenerated inner city life and death. Observing non-zones, non-objects and especially non-subjects. Nightmarish sounds and rhythms beat the pulse of cities and areas in agony. It could be your city! it could be you" 2015 €18.00
KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT Alkuhärkä LP + 7inch comes with 4-track bonus 7", lim. 150 ! 220 gr vinyl, full-colour cover & inner-sleeve // www.blrrecords.com 2007 €25.00
KENT, JULIA Green and Grey (Expanded) do-LP 'personal landscape music' based on Cello, electronics and field recordings that appear in loops & layers, beautiful, timeless and deeply melancholic; second solo-album by this New York City based Canadian artist - this is the first vinyl issue for this album in an expanded version with bonus material: three tracks from the the rare "Last Day in July" EP (2010), and two previously unreleased tracks; comes on green & grey coloured vinyl; a special RECORD STORE DAY BLACK FRIDAY release ! 2019 €25.00
KESZLER, ELI Stadium do-LP innovative, playful, percussion driven compositions merging jazz and an experimental atmospheric framework, performed on various acoustic instruments (farfisa, mellotron, piano, glockenspiel) and with guest musicians on bagpipes, cello, trombone, vocals... absolutely unique! - "For all the complexity of Stadium, its true genius lies in understatement and how a thousand small sounds build into a larger vision." [Pitchfork] - BLACK vinyl edition 2018 €26.50
KILLER BUG Live in Taiwan 1995 12inch a true ecstatic harsh noise orgy from the legendary Japanese project, recorded live at a festival in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1995, with a fully excited audience... - lim. 100 - translucent yellow vinyl - 291x197mm insert sheet - 45 rpm one-sided - last copies in stock !! 2014 €18.50
KILLER VS VOLLMER Noise Generation LP + pic-LP curious collector's item which uses a "never seen before" format (ca. 300 gr. vinyl!): a picture 12" sticked on an old (German Schlager or whatever) LP, the old LP cover is combined with a cut-out cover, the pic-LP is fully playable on one side & has a loop from the recycled LP on Side B!! Understandable? No? doesn't matter!! => The fierce & furious noise attacks come from the solo project of "Junge" (the EA80 singer) and endless noise worker CARSTEN VOLLMER; lim. 100 2017 €20.00
KLEISTWAHR This World is not my Home do-LP limited vinyl re-issue of two albums ("Over your Head Forever", 2016; and "This World.., 2014) by GARY MUNDY's (RAMLEH) legendary solo project (starting once with a cassette on Broken Flag in 1983!).. - "..ranging from harmonic guitar distortion drones to overwhelming noise, with occasional vocals (both sung & spoken) and percussive elements, all very blurred & and drowned in heavy emotions & distortion.." [Drone Rec. info] 2020 €23.00
KLOOD Gag-Hamin (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 on pink vinyl with handcoloured & burned Cover! 1999  
KLUSTER Klopfzeichen LP re-mastered re-issue of one of the milestones of German experimental / impro electronic, the first KLUSTER LP (with CONRAD SCHNITZLER); very free, mysterious and ahead of their time (recorded 1970, released 1971); new liner notes by ASMUS TIETCHENS; 180gr vinyl. CD version on request 2012 €18.50
  Eruption LP re-issue of their album from 1971 (first vinyl re-issue ever!), maybe the most radical / experimental release KLUSTER did... pre-industriall! 56+ minutes, new liner notes from ASMUS TIETCHENS: "Pure Symphony of Sound" 2012 €17.50
KMRU Stupor LP KMRU aka JOSEPH MAKARU, originally from Nairobi, with three new longform tracks on a new Finnish label => "Stupor reminds us that we are intrinsically spatial and temporal beings who contribute to the social construction of our worlds. Importantly, this album is a reminder of the capability of sound to carve out space and its potential to open spatial and temporal dimensions. Sound is movement. Sound is space." black vinyl, printed inners, OBI strip 2023 €26.00
KNIZAK, MILAN Broken Music LP first ever re-issue of this LP from 1979 by Fluxus artist MILAN KNIZAK, who was a true pioneer in recycling & looping music from damaged and prepared LPs (by scratching them, burning them, putting tape and paint onto them, cutting & re-shape them, etc..), combining loopy fragments of the original content with the new 'broken vinyl' noises, often until the needles of his players got destroyed... nice gatefold cover with many pics from his objects.. 2015 €16.00
  Broken Music CD first ever re-issue of this LP from 1979 by Fluxus artist MILAN KNIZAK, who was a true pioneer in recycling & looping music from damaged and prepared LPs (by scratching them, burning them, putting tape and paint onto them, cutting & re-shape them, etc..), combining loopy fragments of the original content with the new 'broken vinyl' noises, often until the needles of his players got destroyed... 2015 €13.00
KONRAD KRAFT Oval LP third album by K-KRAFT (pioneer of the Düsseldorf electro / techno scene) on Auf Abwegen - a fine merging of synthetic sounds with field recordings, 'Synthetic Sounds with a Brain' so to say, subtle + elegant...- "Clear textures, wobbling rhythm structures and unexpected melodic particles develop into unusual soundscapes. Blurred and foggy layers give way to clear musical accents" - lim. 300 copies on green transparent vinyl 2019 €18.00
  Nifbin Circle (coloured) LP fourth album by the long active (since 1980) electronic producer from Düsseldorf, using I PAD app sounds as basic structures, melodic and minimally constructed.. - "There is a great interplay of percussive moments and slightly melancholic melodies... crackling and melodic pads create a slightly dark-melancholic atmosphere... Kraft creates a very unique and idiosyncratic form of abstract electro-pop, whose "rudimentary melodies" are convincing." (African Paper). - lim. 112 copies VIOLET vinyl 2023 €23.00
KRAFTWERK Live 1971 do-LP incredible, early live recordings made for Radio Bremen at GONDEL Cinema , 25. June 1971, plus "Interzone" rec. at Beatclub May 1971 !! Contains the 4 pieces from the first LP (1970), and three very rare live-only tracks! Line up with MICHAEL ROTHER (NEU!), drums-guitar-flute-electric violin & keyboard; first ever vinyl release of these recordings, lim. 500, clear vinyl, soon to be rare !! 2012 €36.50
KRAKEN Aquanaut LP "He who gazed into the abyss for too long.." - getreu nach diesem Motto erschaffen KRAKEN abgrundtief düstere Soundscapes, geisterhafte Drones sorgen für Unruhe, vielerlei Effekte schaffen Gänsehaut-Atmosphäre, befremdliche Stimmung, soundtrackartig.. klasse Debut auf schwerem blauen Vinyl... last copies, sold out from the label ! 1999 €16.00
KRENG Selfed (SOLD OUT) do-10inch An Interplay of Circling Dynamics! KRENGS most intense soundtrack in three parts for a solo dance performance choreography by KEVIN TRAPPENIERS, relating to the phenomenum of 'Self-Pollination' in Biology ; a double 10" (45 rpm) in full colour gatefold sleeve, first ed. of 498 copies; two different coloured vinyls, the fourth side has a 'clear on red' etching with the credits, something you have never seen before!!!! 2016 €25.00  
Camino - Original Soundtrack do-LP original Soundtrack for this high class thriller by JOSH WALLER; KRENGs second soundtrack work, full of tension, darkness and pounding elements, electronic and classic foundations... lim. 500 clear vinyl, gatefold cover with booklet & download code - on the label of GEOFF BARROW (PORTISHEAD) 2016 €28.00
  Lowlife LP KRENGS third soundtrack for a bigger movie, he is already compared with CLIFF MARTINEZ ("Drive", "Solaris") for his originality..."Tonal shifts from comedy to tragedy to everywhere in between work with Kreng's deft hand guiding the madness... he's somehow made a score that both completely supports the film and stands on its own as a great work of art" [Ryan Prows, Director] a one time pressing of 500 copies on violet vinyl 2018 €26.00
KTL IV do-12 rare Japanese vinyl-pressing in gatefold-cover with mounted bonus 7", printed innersleeves, banderole, etc.. lim. 500 2009 €49.00
  The Pyre : Versions distilled to Stereo LP STEPHEN O'MALLEY and PETER REHBERG with their (originally multichannel) Score created for GISELE VIENNE's dance theatre piece "The Pyre" (2012): very atmospheric and surrealistic drones and sounds with captivating aura.. "This composition dizzyingly sculpts the space on stage and generates an impression of great spatial depth, which activates light-sculptures that in turn evoke the illusion of a tunnel, whose depth also results in a play of reflections." lim. 700 green vinyl 2018 €22.50
KUBOTA, KAZUMA / S.I.V. [SELF-INFLICTED VIOLENCE] The first Cry / Atrocity of Sunrises 7inch Japanese harsh noise 'newcomer' with a well-composed track pairing with S.I.V. from Poland doing extreme noise with silent blocks; wash your brain, think again! black vinyl, lim. 150 2013 €7.00
KÖNER, THOMAS Tiento de la Luz LP second release in the "Tiento" series, now with additional piano, percussion and viola gamba instrumentation; lim. vinyl (500 copies) version w. gatefold cover 2016 €20.00
  Aubrite do-LP this is the re-issue of KÖNERs fourth album (Barooni, 1995), drones coming to the endpoint of droning, reaching the "ULTRABLACK" spere.. "Whoever understands the spirit of impartiality through ten thousand million partial tones, hears Ultrablack and can no longer be measured. No measures, no enclosures, no properties are the sign of ultrablack scores." [Thomas Köner] - comes with 2 bonus tracks, about 15 min. of extra material; for the first time on vinyl !! 2022 €26.00
LA STPO (La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux) Le Combat Occulte LP collection of rare & live material of this great French Avant-band which has been often compared to D.D.A.A (their very first 7" appeared on Illusion Production in 1986), though they have much heavier & very expressive experimental Prog-Rock and "RIO" influences; lim. 200, 180gr. vinyl, back in ! 2005 €16.00
Wir schwitzen Blumen / La STPO in Concerts LP impressive album with a collection of furious live recordings (2006-2009) by this wonderful and energetic art-rock/ 'avant-prog' / dada-punk ensemble with insane & expressive vocals from Rennes, France, now existing since almost 30 years! Perfect stuff for you if you like the 'wilder' bands on ReR Megacorp like HENRY COW, or FAUST, D.D.A.A., ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN; lim. 250 , 180 gr vinyl , download code 2013 €15.00
  Les Explositionnistes LP the second album by the unique 'surrealist attacks' performance group from Rennes (FR) was released in 1995, unavailable for long - all tracks are inspired by paintings(MAX ERNST, PICASSO, LYONEL FEININGER, etc..) - musically it's an almost unclassifiable experience between TAZARTES, DDAA and prog rock, like visiting a strange circus, but it's also very musical and greatly arranged... sometimes sad, sometimes mad, sometimes violent; vinyl ed. lim. 379 copies w. insert 2018 €17.50
LA STPO (SOCIETE DES TIMIDES A LA PARADE DES OISEAUX) Tranches de temps jete (Slices of thrown time) LP the French masters of highly expressive, unusual, surprising, theatrical, bewildering "(Avant / Post / Uncategorizable) Rock" compositions "especially for those of you who like their music challenging, alternatingly dense and spacy and most of all - uncontainably inventive" [Prog Archives] vinyl version / lim. 325 copies ! / Volume 3 in the RECORDS ARE NOT FOR BAKING-series !! 2006 €17.00
LALI PUNA Our Inventions LP after many years the 4th studio album by this cult Popband from Berlin; vinyl version 2010 €16.00
LAMI, GIOVANNI Monumento Fiume LP a kind of sound study using the sounds of the "anthropic landscape" of Cotignola (Ravenna, Italy), as result of an artist residency, the 'memory' and character of a certain region is transfered and condensed into electronic sounding structures, atmosperic hissing and animal sounds are present, it's a magic dimension of human and more than human sounds, a meeting point of the "hyper-real" and "sur-real".. - lim. 300 ORANGE vinyl 2023 €18.00
LAMMERS / USENBENZ Drawing in Sound LP after the great 'bell drone' LP this shows ANDREAS USENBENZ in a live collaboration with painter / illustrator CHRISTOPHER LAMMERS - recorded at Städtische Galerie Rosenheim in spring 2018 - about the topic of meadow; by using charcoal, ink, brushes and his bare hands, LAMMERS painted a 7 by 4 metre canvas during the evolving drone-scaping performance of USENBENZ; later a part of the painting has been used to be screen printed on Side B of this clear vinyl; lim. 100, one-sided 2018 €25.00
LANDING Third Sight LP the US American (Connecticut) post rock / psychedelic drone / space rock band with a four track LP, some wonderful floating and trance inducing textures are created.. "Listening through this LP is likely to stimulate mental images of rural winds blowing across vast American fields of grass, bonfires, blue rivers and power lines sailing through rolling hills."..."like a calming codeine syrup, thickening once they’re in yr skull like gummy candy." [Tiny Mix Tapes] green vinyl 2016 €23.00
LANZA, MAURO MMXX-14: Fully Automated Luxury Communism LP 14th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => MAURO LANZA is a composer from Venice (IT), his eerie electro-acoustic drone piece is full of tension and crescending tones.. 2020 €23.00
LASWELL, BILL & NICHOLAS JAMES BULLEN Bass Terror LP for the first time on vinyl, two side long pieces from 1995 of "black trance music", feat. N.J. BULLEN's first solo-piece outside of SCORN and NAPALM DEATH; "we can now say this is the kind of 12” that epitomised a certain area of the mid ‘90s leftfield, a no-mans-land where rock experimenters encountered rave and dub music and attempted to bend them to their own means." [Boomkat] lim. 400 RED vinyl 2018 €15.00
LE SYNDICAT Second Empire LP powerful (quasi-)rhythmic electronic industrial filled with weird sounds, voices, changes & transformations, noises.. a complex and innovative sounding new album by the French bruitists, intelligently designed... lim. 200 red vinyl, great silver print cover ! 2014 €22.00
LEACH, MARY JANE Woodwind Multiples LP four instrumental drone pieces for multi-layered expanses of one certain instrument: 4 bass flutes, 9 oboes, 9 clarinets, 7 bassoons...- very pure, organic, meditative..- *Each piece works closely with the unique sound of each instrument, combining pitches that create other, sometimes unexpected, tones, primarily combination and interference tones, as well as rhythmic patterns. What you hear is what happens naturally -- there is no processing or manipulation.* - lim. 500 clear vinyl 2023 €30.00
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS & KETVECTOR The Shock Exchange LP split album by LPD (three new tracks on Side A, with the beautiful 'The Lie in the Sky') with a new project of SKINNY PUPPY and BAHNTIER members (four tracks on Side B); excellent electronic neo-psychedelia.... lim. 299 on clear vinyl, planned RSD release 2015 which came out a bit later 2015 €23.00
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS (LPD) 10 to the Power of 9 - Vol. 1 LP concept album about 'conspiracy theories, magic & spirituality', a dark psychedelic trip... lim. 499 pink (non-transparent) vinyl 2014 €23.50
10 to the Power of 9 - Vol. 2 LP concept album about 'conspiracy theories, magic & spirituality', a dark psychedelic trip - the second part! 'Minimal synths, guitars, syncopated rhythms that are making weird, psychedelic and transcendental noises which are of course accompanied by the distinctive voice of Ka-Spel' - lim. 499, mint-marbled vinyl 2015 €22.50
Five Days... Complete do-LP so far only available on self-issued limited CD-R\'s, this collects the FIVE DAYS and FIVE DAYS INSTRUMENTALS recordings from 2015...."the only real thread holding all of the endlessly morphing electronic fantasia together is Ka-Spel’s voice. Almost everything else seems completely fleeting and illusory." [Anthony D'Amico / Brainwashed] - "Hours of experimental improvisation went into creating this project in what Edward Ka-Spel describes as a "primeval freak-out!" - gatefold cover, ORANGE vinyl, lim. 30 2019 €43.50
Come out from the Shadows 4 - Live at Lounge AX Chicago 1993 do-LP BOX taken from SILVERMAN's cassette archive, a recording from an unforgotten live performance that happened in Chicago 1993, during the "Shadow Weaver" and "Malachai" times; comes in a luxus / full colour box with insert, and on yellow vinyl, lim. 299 copies 2021 €33.00
Come out from the Shadows 4 - Live at Lounge AX Chicago 1993 3 x LP BOX taken from SILVERMAN's cassette archive, a recording from an unforgotten live performance that happened in Chicago 1993... this is the collector's box with bonus live vinyl (Philadelphia), double gatefold CD, art-poster and insert, the vinyl is orange marbled; lim. 149 copies 2021 €105.00
  The Museum of Human Happiness (col.) do-LP the COVID-19 studio album of the Dots, written in 2020 + 2021 connected through cyberspace during the lockdown; 12 new tracks, gatefold cover, lyric sheet, lim. ed on GLOW IN THE DARK vinyl!! - "As a result, the lyrics are utterly poignant, desperate, yet sometimes bearing a flash of gallows humor. The soundtrack is a purging fire. It's a fire that still burns..." [Edward Ka-Spel] 2022 €36.00
LEJEUNE, JACQUES Early Works 1969-1970 LP three of the earliest compositions by the influential French musique concrete composer, one piece is previously unpublished on vinyl: "D'une Multitude En Fete" (1969), "Geodes" (1970, concert version), and the incredible "Petite Suite" collage reminding on the weirder NURSE WITH WOUND pieces (1970)! [all of this material has NOT been included on the recent 'Parages and other Electroacoustic Works' 3 CD] 2015 €26.50
LES FRAGMENTS DE LA NUIT Musique du Crepuscule LP vinyl-version of this nice neo-classic / chamber ambience album 2009 €20.00
  Musique de Nuit LP third album by this amazing French neo-romantic / classic ensemble, re-worked early material (from first CDR 2006) and brand new tracks! Lim. vinyl version, 500 copies, two different vinyl colours 2012 €16.50
LIAISONS DANGEREUSES same LP this milestone of electronic music (the only LP by legendary CHRISLO HAAS (DAF, DER PLAN, MINUS DELTA T., etc.) and BEATE BARTEL (MANIA D., MATADOR..) from 1981 got another vinyl re-issue.. "Songs such as 'Peut Être...Pas' and 'Los Niños Del Parque' played a decisive role in the development of Detroit and Chicago’s house sound, as well as various forms of European techno." - remastered + DL code 2015 €17.50
LIBEREZ All tense now Lax LP phantastic third album by the band from Southend-On-Sea, UK, really powerful 'handplayed' and acoustic (percussion, guitar, distorted violin, piano) Industrial with female vocals and almost psychedelic / krauty passages, dense and full of tension, combining the acoustic with the eletronic in a great way... "The overall result is an enormously adept capturing of the conundrum of the 'industrial' in a post-industrial landscape." [Drowned In Sound] vinyl version lim. 500 2015 €21.00
LICHT-UNG Kristall 7 lim. 300 handmade cover / blue-black vinyl 2007 €7.00
anfangsrusiwuthsnull / zweiwenigerdreizehnb 5" very first LICHT-UNG release, the most "anti" & weird you can go: a 5" vinyl & mCDR fixed together in a cardboard-folder with no real info, a weird german inlay "Verehrter Tanzfreund" copied from the 50's maybe, all placed in a used german "Schlager" 7"-cover together with the original record (all different). The music: cut up & feedbacks! Great unwieldy release, more an object for itself, edition of 489 copies 2002 €7.00
  Die Weiße 10 very early LICHT-UNG vinyl release lim. 110 copies; comes in totally white design (white vinyl, white inlay, white cover); extreme noise sounds, last copies 2003 €10.00
LIFE GARDEN Songs from the other Side of Emptiness LP + 7inch collection of material from their 4 CDs (1990-1995), for the first time on vinyl!=> LIFE GARDEN (ex MAYBE MENTAL) was a kind of ethno-industrial group and had a great EP on Drone Records (DR-20 in 1997); similar to VOICE OF EYE, they established a unique style 2017 €20.00
LILES, ANDREW Anal Aura Gram LP + 7inch back in stock this re-issue of the long deleted early LILES album based on HANS BELLMERs works & ideas (originally a CDR from 2003), comes on blue vinyl and has a bonus 7" with remixes from STEVE SEVERIN (SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES!); luxurious cover, lim. 300 2009 €20.00
Monster Munch 7inch 8-track EP, full colour poster cover (lovely psychedelic porn art), red vinyl, lim. 300 2010 €11.50
Fast Forward through Time (Illusion Four) LP the first vinyl release on UNITED DAIRIES in over 20 years (!!!) - a recording inspired by the concept of "Self-Replicating Machines" (JOHN NEUMANN), based on eerie piano tunes & noises...lim. 500, 180 gr vinyl, fourth & final part in the 'Through Time' series 2014 €18.00
Life is an empty Place LP an album that seems to be focused on personal childhood & adolescence memories filled with judgements, disciplination and control (school, work) as the cover-art shows; musically based on drum machine and machine gun sounds, lots of processed (vocoder) voice material and analogue / digital synths, this is like a dismal journey into LILES implicit autobiographical memory... lim. 400 on golden vinyl, gatefold cover with front artwork by BABS SANTINI (aka STEVEN STAPLETON); BACK IN STOCK, better pricing! 2015 €20.00
Mother Goose's Melody or Sonnets for the Cradle do-LP vinyl re-issue of one of LILES best albums (originally a CD from 2005), where human language and weird found sounds play the main role, building a kind of "bad fairy tale" journey with elements from plunderphonics, dark ambient and earplay; lim. 160 copies only! Very last copies back in stock !! 2015 €29.50
  It's only Pain LP this album with 10 new mind-bending tracks uses lyrics from MICHAEL LILES, the father of ANDREW, written in the 70's and found only after his death, diverse guest musicians such as JEAN-HERVE PERON (FAUST) or KARIN PARK => "It is a compelling album full of unlikely twists and turns, a unique homage to his dead father’s memory and words.." - lim. 250 copies on pink marbled vinyl, two cover variants 2021 €30.00
LINDWALL, HAMPUS MMXX-15: Lost & Found LP 15th release in the series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => one-sided clear vinyl with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. 500 copies => HAMPUS LINDWALL is a prof. organist from Paris in full electronic mode and virtuosic performed: echo-tones, sequences, patterns, in different shapes and shades.. 2020 €23.00
LINEKRAFT / ALBERICH Shock Industrialization 10inch 'the two modern masters of the industrial noise and cacophony collide on this crushing 10" intersecting at the little known and largely forgotten cold war crossroads of the cambodian civil war and which some could argue its deep predecessor of the korean war. 2 decayed and corrupted tracks from each artist spreading rotten winds' - lim. pressing on RED vinyl, comes w. fold out silver/black printed cover + download code 2019 €20.00
LOCRIAN & MAMIFFER Bless them that curse you do-LP rare vinyl version of this much attention-drawing collab by Chicagos ambient noise heros LOCRIAN with MAMIFFER (project of FAITH COLOCCIA and AARON TURNER and guest musicians) = 7 musicians in total creating a great album between dark cinematic chamber-like music & high tension-dronescapes... lim. 550 copies, colour vinyl 2012 €29.50
LOCRIAN / HARPOON split 7inch rare split single by these two Chicago-based bands, industrial-grind & metal-core... lim. 300 on green marbled vinyl, comes with etched cover & oversized full-colour inlay 2009 €11.50
LOPEZ, FRANCISCO A sudden pest of droning pseudoinsects 4 x 7inch oversized cover, white vinyl, sounds from an installation held in Rotterdam 1994. Ed. of 100 copies (un-numbered) ! 2006 €38.00
Untitled Single Piece # 5 7 lim. 500 / white vinyl 2002 €6.00
Untitled # 115 7inch Deep, nearly unrecognizable frequencies, nearly smooth drones & vibes .. lim. ed. on white vinyl 2002 €7.00
Untitled # 295 LP mysterious ultra low frequency pulses & crackles, sounds like electrified whistles.. a masterpiece of mysterious muzak that sinks into your mind like cotton wool into water.... two long tracks especially designed for vinyl, hard to find album released by the excellent Austrian GOD label 2014 €20.00
Untitled # 300 LP new LOPEZian composition based on multi-track field recordings of a large colony of SEAGULLS and hydrophonic capturing of sea and underwater creatures from the same location (coast of Morocco, 2011) processed digitally in an unusual way after; lim. 300 black vinyl - nice textured cover 2015 €26.00
La Selva. Sound Environments from a Neotropical Rain Forest. etched LP/USB one of LOPEZ most beloved / famous recordings (rainforest on Costa Rica) is finally back in print => as it was impossible to bring it in a complete form onto vinyl, the here included vinyl is EMPTY, therefore a USB audiocard is added with the full audio ("The Ultimate Mix"); LA SELVA is maybe the most intense djungle recording ever made, a different kind of 'absolute music'... numbered ed. 500 copies, signed by FRANCISCO LOPEZ 2015 €18.00
  Animast LP two surprising pieces using crunching, mechanical vinyl loops, after a while you get the impression there\'s something organic inside these machine sounds, that circle and spiral in multiple layers with great effect.... \"noisy crispness, compositional ‘loopiness’, contrasting sharp-and-thick textures and cycling dynamics..\" - lim. 200 copies only 2021 €19.50
LOPEZ, FRANCISCO / MICHAEL GENDREAU Untitled # 185 / Drowning LP "Split-LP des ex-CRAWLING WITH TARTS Mitglieds M. GENDREAU mit dem spanischen Puristen F. LOPEZ => Vinyl-Kratzer & Rauschen von Auslaufrillen uralter Platten, aber auch die Geräusche der Mechanik & Motoren von antiken Plattenspielern dienten als Klangquelle für diese Bearbeitungen, ein Meer von low-fi Knirschen, Rascheln & Geknister, von multiplen 'white Noise'-Flächen und rhythmisch-repetitiven Mustern, so ungewöhnlich & wie überraschend im Verlauf... lim. 500, signed, covers are bend a bit; LAST COPY! 2006 €8.00
LOSCIL Submers do-LP vinyl re-issue of the much requested 2nd full length album (CD from 2002) from the Canadian electro/ether ambient project, all tracks are named after submarines... - "The songs are impeccably organized bouquets of circulating, oscillating, chattering, hissing, placating, and agitating layers of audible vibrations, that pool, and loop together slowly" [Drastic Steps] 2018 €32.50
  Clara do-LP latest full LOSCIL album on Kranky, lim. vinyl version! - *a stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay, sourced from a single three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest ... Despite their limited palette, the compositions summon a sense of the infinite, swelling and swimming through luminous depths. Certain tracks percolate over narcoleptic metronomes while others slowdive in shimmering shadowplay, sounding at times like some noir music of the spheres.* 2021 €32.50
LOTUS EATERS same (SOLD OUT) 7 sec. ed 300 copies, full colour cover, colour-vinyl. 2004 €6.00  
Mind Control for Infants do-LP re-issue of the first LOTUS EATERS-album from 2002, the wonderful & wondrous trio consisting of STEPHEN O'MALLEY, AARON TURNER & JAMES PLOTKIN. Absolute luxurious & heavy design, gatefold-jacket in brown linen with gold print, 200gr vinyl. Contains bonus material not on the original CD version 2009 €33.00
same (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies on white vinyl 2002  
  Wurmwulv (black) do-LP remixed & rearranged re-issue of the CD using alternative takes of the recording sessions, also included is reworked material of the Drone Records EP (DR-55) from 2002! Comes in luxus gatefold design, lim. 1000 in total, this is the black vinyl (ed. of 600) version! 2011 €27.50
LOWE, ROBERT AIKI AUBREY Levitation Praxis Pt. 4 LP experiments on HARRY BERTOIA's sound sculptures by the man behind LICHENS (and member of OM), also using his own (high) voice, to create something unreal and ethereal... recorded in July 2016 in conjunction with the "Atmosphere for Enjoyment" exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York; out on the DEMDIKE STARE label, black vinyl ed. 500 copies 2017 €20.00
LULL Moments do-LP expanded vinyl re-issue of MICK HARRIS ambient classic from 1998, which had 99 track indexes, now there are 100 "Moments" of humming drones that slowly chang into other, pretty otherworldly, forms... - " Staggeringly beautiful, glacial sub-bass sounds, deep ambient and thunderous tones, with subtle shifts" - gatefold sleeve with spot varnishing, ed. of 500 copies on BROWN vinyl 2021 €29.50
LUMINE Quiet Ends LP " ‘Quiet Ends’, the 2nd album by Lumine, draws an isolationist scenery with subtly merging halftones of twilight. The penumbra diffuses mysterious textures and a melancholic hypnotic atmosphere conductive to introspection. In the gathering darkness all troubling details of reality melt into large evocative masses and abstract surfaces." - project with TIMO VAN LUIJK, 350 copies on clear vinyl, DL code 2019 €18.00
LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM Brusnika (SOLD OUT) 7inch Ethno ambient Industrial with a shamanistic & hallucinogenic aura from this rising star from the St. Petersburg scene (aka LUNAR ABYSS QUARTET) first ed. 300 copies / red vinyl / handpainted covers, each one unique ! 2005 €6.50  
  Atanimonni Aitnatsbus 10inch the fantastic experimental drone/ethno/trance project from St. Petersburg, Russia, with two long tracks (total 23+ min.) of stunning multi-layered compositions, using lots of detail-sounds from animals, analogue synths, female eastern voices/singings, subtle (neo) classic harmonies, bells & gongs... hyper-dense & fluid; both tracks end up in endless grooves (of water & fire), to symbolize the connection to timeless energies; lim. 500 with artwork by ARTYOM OSTAPCHUK, comes on sky-blue & white mixed vinyl 2012 €12.00
LUNDVALL, TOR Ghost Years CD retrospective CD with rare & vinyl-only tracks and plus previously unreleased material (1995-2004) by the "Ghost Ambient" singer who releases nowadays on the prolific DAIS Records label.. SPECIAL OFFER NOW! 2010 €6.50
Yule LP re-issue of rare 2006 album: "Tor Lundvall's music often evokes a sense of soft-focus autumnal melancholia but nowhere is this atmosphere more explicit and evocative than his self-released 2006 holiday album... the collection feels appropriately hushed and hypnagogic, half-remembered melodies heard through falling snow.." - lim. RED vinyl ed. 2020 €24.00
Yule LP re-issue of rare 2006 album: "Tor Lundvall's music often evokes a sense of soft-focus autumnal melancholia but nowhere is this atmosphere more explicit and evocative than his self-released 2006 holiday album... the collection feels appropriately hushed and hypnagogic, half-remembered melodies heard through falling snow.." - black vinyl standard ed. 2020 €22.00
  There must be Someone 5 x CD BOX limited boxset that compiles two early out of print albums (incl. the rare debut "Passing Through Alone" (1997) and 3 vinyl albums, along with several bonus tracks; comes with 20 page booklet - " "Spanning 33 years, the collection showcases the subtle but striking evolution of Lundvall's sound, from brisk autumnal synth-pop to desolate dark place devotionals to fragile winter moon meditations and beyond." - each CD with own sleeve 2023 €32.50
LUSTMORD First Reformed do-LP THE TRANSCENDENTAL MUSIC FOR THE TRANSCENDENTAL FILM - "Soundtrack to Paul Schrader's 2017 film 'First Reformed', starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried and Cedric Kyles. The release features extended versions of the score formatted as a standalone album. The double vinyl edition includes an extra track "Venice" which was featured at the Venice Film Festival red carpet event." - gatefold cover, black vinyl ############ IN STOCK !! 2019 €27.50
Beyond do-LP Re-issue of the second album with extended remixes from [o t h e r] (2008) = otherworldy dark ambient in perfection! - "[OTHER] was a journey with friends, while The Dark Places of the Earth and Beyond take the concept and listener further, deeper, in-between and beyond...." - deluxe gatefold edition with silver foil print; BLACK vinyl; lim. coloured vinyl also available (higher price) please ask 2022 €32.00
[The Dark Places of the Earth] do-LP Re-issue of the first album with extended remixes from [o t h e r], originally released on Vaultworks 2009 = otherworldy dark ambient in perfection! - "[OTHER] was a journey with friends, while The Dark Places of the Earth and Beyond take the concept and listener further, deeper, in-between and beyond...." - deluxe gatefold edition with silver foil print; BLACK vinyl; lim. coloured vinyl also available (higher price) please ask 2022 €32.00
  [O T H E R] do-LP first ever vinyl edition of the landmark album from 2008, the first / only LUSTMORD album that ever had guitar sounds on it, delivered by members of TOOL, ISIS and MELVINS.. "..resonates perfectly within the deep soundscapes that make up this frightening yet inspiring journey. " - deluxe gatefold edition with silver foil print; BLACK vinyl; lim. coloured vinyl also available (higher price) please ask 2022 €32.00
LUSTMORD & NICOLAS HORVATH The Fall do-LP pianist NICOLAS HORVATH and LUSTMORD have re-played and de-constructed the famous "November" piece by DENNIS JOHNSON from 1959, one of the first pieces of minimalistic music, influencing LA MONTE YOUNG, etc.. - " the duo strip the original back even further and play subversively with the core elements to deliver ruminative, brooding sounds which shapeshift between classical minimalism and pure drone." [Norman Rec.] - lim. ed. white vinyl 2020 €22.50
LUSTMORD & VARIOUS ARTISTS The Others (LUSTMORD deconstructed) 3 x LP remixes of [O T H E R] by GODFLESH, BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE, ULVER, ZOLA JESUS, ENSLAVED, STEVE VON TILL (NEUROSIS), MONO, and many more - this is the deluxe "Below" vinyl edition on GOLD vinyl, lim. 300 2022 €52.00
M.B. (MAURIZIO BIANCHI) Mectpyo - Blut do-LP re-issue of very first (private) M.B. cassette release from 1980; comes in stunning gatefold cover, lim. 300 red vinyl; 4 long tracks, back in stock last copies!! - *This release marks the transition from using the name Sacher Pelz to M.B. and was his first official release as M.B....in each of these pieces MB plays around with some low fidelity means, such as spinning records by hand and taping them to reel-to-reel machines, cutting them into crude loops and playing around with these...* 2010 €32.50
Endometrio LP first ever vinyl re-issue of album from 1983! Numbered. ed. 500 2010 €19.00
Weltanschauung LP material from 1981 recorded for COME Org. and released as LEIBSTANDARTE SS MM in 1982 (one of the most requested M.B. albums ever), now with one replaced different track, re-mastered by CHRISTIAN RENOU (BRUME)....brown vinyl edition, lim. 333, luxurious cover 2013 €23.00
  Aktivitat LP re-issue of an old cassette release from 1983 (by Tegal Records, the label that was run by SCHLOSS TEGAL) => 4 re-mastered tracks with raw distorted beatbox sounds, shrunken harmonies, voices and blistering analogue electronic effects, sounds really different than any other M.B. work! "Neuronal radioactivity, supported by ancestral sounds that emanate from atomic testing flows that absorb a loss of fallen energy." lim. 500 copies in total, black vinyl 2016 €21.00
M.B. / COALMINER + ALLIES Antimateria LP split LP with two new M.B. pieces on one side, and four COALMINER (= scream noise duo from the Phillipines!) tracks feat. diverse collaboration guests on the other side: TORTURING NURSE (Shanghai), RICHARD RAMIREZ; GNAW THEIR TONGUES; UNSIGNIFIED DEATH + TOSHIIJI MIKAWA; extreme monolithic noise and extreme minimal ambience as daily practises for aural awareness! - comes on different coloured vinyl, each lim. 100 - our copies are RED 2023 €20.00
M.BRYO + D.M.T. Things I was due to forget (1979-2005) do-LP collection of material from this legendary figure (= MARK BURGHGRAEVE) from the minimal electronic / synthwave / industrial scene in Belgium, original founding member of the THE KLINIK... - "Things I was due to forget" is a compilation of songs that appeared on K7 and vinyls or came from M.BRYO's personal archives of unreleased tapes, all remastered by the artist especially for the release." - luxurious lim. gatefold cover edition, different vinyl colours (black, white), please ask 2019 €25.00
MACHINEFABRIEK Marijn LP vinyl-version of the first album by this dutch project, creating suspenseful digital ambience based on instrumental sounds (guitar piano)... a very own style 2007 €15.50
  15/15 LP 15/15 is a composition for 'Soundpiece', a soundart installation that happened in Rotterdam (NL) with 32 speakers used in an area of 30 by 30 meters, installed under the floor of a square: fifteen sine tones with freq. between 150 to 9000 hertz are repeated in different intervals, thus creating a very focused and stringent, almost ZEN-like acoustic structure... the B-side is a backwards remix and sounds more floating and atmospheric... lim. 200 yellow vinyl 2012 €15.00
MAEROR TRI Saltatrix (SOLD OUT) 7inch first vinyl-release by MAEROR TRI an the first Drone EP, came in hand-sprayed "wheel" covers 1993  
  The Singles CD special priced collection of all M.T vinyl. 7"es and one 10", recorded 1993-1996, re-issue as 6 panel digipak with new cover, 500 copies... "Traversing raw post-industrial noise and sublime guitar-generated dronescapes, this is essential stuff for fans of MAEROR TRI's dream-drift. and remains some of the best drone music ever made.." [Crucial Blast] 2020 €10.00
MALDUR ATAI Alarm Valhalla 7inch second 7" by the Lithuanian industrial project, vibrating dark noise with martial WWII atmosphere, eerie and dramatic... very good and captivating! lim. 230, luxurious design: heavy vinyl, very thick cover with embossed print 2010 €8.00
MALLINDER, STEPHEN Um Dada LP "Um Dada is about `play' - cut and paste, lost words, twisted presets, voice collage, simple sounds - things that have been lost to technology's current determinism. Let the machines talk to each other, let them dance" [Stephen Mallinder] - co-founder and frontman of the legendary CABARET VOLTAIRE with his first solo-album in 35 years! - BLACK vinyl version 2019 €21.00
MALONE, KALI (FEATURING STEPHEN O'MALLEY & LUCY RAILTON) Does Spring Hide its Joy 3 x LP a full immersion drone piece spread on 6 vinyl sides, performed by KALI MALONE, STEPHEN O'MALLEY and LUCY RAILTON on tuned since wave oscillators, e-guitar and cello...-" The music is a study in harmonics and non-linear composition with a heightened focus on just intonation and beating interference pattern...Her nuanced minimalism unfolds an astonishing depth of focus and opens up contemplative spaces in the listener’s attention." - laminated cover w. printed inner sleeves 2023 €49.50
MANDIBLE CHATTER The Drone EP (SOLD OUT) 7 violet vinyl 1999  
MARCHETTI, LIONEL La grande vallee / Micro-climat LP two main pieces (1990-1995) by the still underrated French composer, who often creates intense and almost ritualistic musique concrete with a strong surrealistic / dreamy atmosphere, for the first time on vinyl - "Micro-Climat" was born out of his fascinations for clouds, "La grande vallee" has a strong narrative character, the listener is set into constant motion... - absolut high-class audio art and "cinema for the ears" ! 2021 €20.00
MARIACHI AZTECA PRINCIPAL performs The KREV Underwater National Anthem # 2 7 first in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland, this one is performed by the MARIACHI AZTECA PRINCIPAL orchestra during the inauguration of The Embassy of The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland in Mexico City on 30 August 2002 2007 €7.50
MARTINIS, SOCRATES Au Seuil de la Liberte 7 the Greek Drone Records artist also known as HELICE PIED, NIXILX.NIJILX and BLANCO ESTIRA NUESTRO now under his "real name"; a lovely 45 rpm disc inspired by RENE MARGRITTEs painting from 1937. coloured vinyl 2009 €6.00
MASONNA Frequency L.S.D. LP first vinyl re-issue of CD from 1998 (Alien8), one of the last albums.. - "The main attraction of this release is the use of 60's psychedelia in the warped textures of sound laid out in each track. Instead of being treated to a barrage of uncontrolled, harsh, and maddening noise, we are treated to lengthy explorations into the joys of warped synthesizer repetition and digitally altered radio frequency loops... the best noise release put out by any artist [Chronicles Of Chaos] - ed. 400 copies black vinyl 2021 €25.00
MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE Totem Two LP second TOTEM release by "ritualistic dark psychedelic & New Age" band, feat. Turkish guest-musicians; lim. vinyl version 2010 €19.50
MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA (JAJOUKA) Apocalypse Across the Sky do-LP for the first time on vinyl, these recordings made by BILL LASWELL in 1991 ".. the music performed in several hour long rituals on traditional instruments like tebel and tariyya (drums), ghaita (a woodwind instrument), lira (flute) and gimbri (stringed instrument) reveals hypnotic, trance-inducing qualities and is considered to have magical and healing properties... a pure document of the ensemble, raw and unpolished but exquisitely recorded" - gatefold sleeve, liner notes inlay, DL code 2020 €27.00
MATHES, JEREMIE Arkhaios 10inch cavernous 'musique concrete' from this French composer living in Cambodia.. You get the impression as being under the earth in a place populated by metallic amoeba or other smallest creatures, inside sewerage ducts or an deserted mine, exposed to the circulation of air...This is the spirituality of the underworlds! - ed. of 300 copies, black vinyl, 37 min length !! 2020 €15.00
MATTIN & RICHARD FRANCIS Lisa Says LP transcontinental collaboration between Drone Rec.-artist RICHARD FRANCIS (also known ESO STEEL) from NZ and Basque noise improviser MATTIN, creating highly minimal & reduced drones of hissing, crackling, rasping & scraping... a very special subtle sound, somehow anorganic... numbered ed. 300 copies on clear vinyl, with inlay.. 2012 €13.00
MAXIMIN, BERANGERE MMXX-18: Komora LP 18th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept: one-sided clear vinyl with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => BERANGERE MAXIMINs "Komora" sounds very droning and abstract, with lots of flittering and vibrating sounds caving into the mix, somehow mechanical, somehow organic, but impossibe to be captured exactly... a extraordinary and beautiful composition ! 2021 €23.00
MAZUREK, ROB / EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA Dimensional Stardust LP Chicago-based ROB MAZUREK and the E.S.O. ensemble with 10 new studio tracks, awesome "Minimal Jazz" with Avantgarde influences, floating and perfectly arranged..- "Crystalline and cosmic,there are so many colors and textures packed into these songs. Each one is a window into a different world." - comes in very beautiful oversized gatefold cover with OBI on white-blue splatter vinyl 2020 €26.00
MCDOWALL, DREW Collapse LP first proper solo album by this ex member of COIL and PSYCHIC TV (& nowadays one half of COMPOUND EYE) , this is an excellent record of 'mysterious electronic / experimental ambience', based on modular synthesizer sounds & samples, creating an esoteric, organic wholeness... blue vinyl (second pressing 300 copies) 2015 €23.00
  The Third Helix LP third album for McDOWALL on DAIS and this could be his most experimental, mind-challenging but also fascinating release so far.... "Unnerving, trancelike anthems for nervous meditation and anxious relaxation. Fans of Coil will immediately connect and immerse, while the complex compositions are a welcome listen for drone and ambient enthusiasts." - standard ed. BLACK vinyl 2018 €22.00
MEIRINO, FRANCISCO & DAVE PHILLIPS We are none of us do-LP a "dark an unsettling audio narrative", inspired by 70's/80's horror-movies, from F. MEIRINO aka PHROQ and the legendary Swiss Schimpfluch artist DAVE PHILLIPS; very fascinating eerie soundscapes (no harsh noise at all) using many unsettling field-recordings, full of tension, dynamics and strange movements, filled with organic entities living inside the music somehow...reminds on stuff by LIONEL MARCHETTI, etc.. vinyl-version with two bonus-tracks, lim. 200 2012 €29.00
MELANCHOHOLICS Masking My Monkeys 7" the german trio working on dark guitarish & very filmic sound-drones, "thick atmospheric darkness" at its best. dark blue vinyl, different coloured silk-screen covers, lim. 300 2009 €7.00
  Solar Cafe LP the third and last, so far unpublished album by this German "cinematic post-rock drone" and Drone Rec. artist (DR-98, 2009) trio who had to disband sadly after the passing of one member => desolated 'desert' guitar-chords, deep bass drones, voice samples, flickering electronic effects, field recordings... rough & melancholic at the same time - a great legacy of this impressive band, with many beautiful emotional moments; comes on coloured vinyl (180 gr.) + download code, lim. 400 2015 €16.00
MENCHE, DANIEL Radiant Blood (SOLD OUT) 10inch first release in a new 10"-series focused about "the unknown". lim. 500 on special brown-black marmorized vinyl. Stunning artwork by ROBERT SCHALINSKI (COLUMN ONE) !! 45 rpm 2005 €12.00  
Guts do-LP GUTS is using the inner parts of a piano as only sound-source; single sounds drown into unusual drone-fields & dark reverb, you can feel almost bursting metal & wood... four masterful tracks, lim. vinyl version 2012 €20.00
Radiant Blood (SOLD OUT) 10inch test-pressing of the very first SUB 10inch! Edition of only 3 copies on black vinyl! the test-pressing will be delivered with an original cover sleeve 2005 €25.00  
  MMXX-05: 4424 LP 5th release in the new MMXX series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => DANIEL MENCHE's piece is based on long sustained "Zither-like" tones and deep & slow percussion, morphing into other dimensions.. 2020 €24.00
MERZBOW Hyakki Echo HYBRID (CD+VINYL) startling release on "hybrid" format which has a playable vinyl side on 5" (33 rpm), and a full playing CD side!! And the sounds are very unusual and experimental for MERZBOW, improvised object noises in muliple layers and configurations, no typical harsh noise at all, great one !!! Comes in die cut gatefold sleeve, lim. 500 2017 €20.00
Storage 2 x pic-LP & CD first ever vinyl re-issue of the ZSF Produkt LP from 1998, with third bonus track released so far only in the MERZBOX CD box... "Masami Akita creates in Storage a very experimental and atmospheric album with a masterful use of scraping sounds and metal percussions but also with a very effective use of silence. A strongly hypnotic and creepy sounding early analog Merzbow album." lim. 302 copies, new MASAMI AKITA artwork on the pic LPs, extra cover + CD version included! 2016 €38.00
Merzbow Duo 86 + 89 do-LP BOX unreleased studio recordings with KIYOSHI MIZUTANI made in 1986 and 1989; lim. & numbered 200 copies on different coloured vinyl in handmade black cardboard box, with insert... "A fantastically varied Duo Merzbow release. The only piano that’s piano like on any release I’ve heard. As well as great use of chain." [Donsolo] 2018 €65.00
Lowest Music.2 LP very early cassette from 1982 (on Merzbow's own 'Lowest Music & Arts' which later became ZSF Products) with first vinyl re-issue from the original tapes... lim. 199 copies in deluxe silver silkscreen cover + insert, absolute last copies in stock ! 2016 €20.00
  Hybrid Noisebloom do-LP MERZBOW 1997 on EMS & MOOG synths, Theremin, metal objects, effects and with his voice, a truly complex analog noise affair... => "a fascinating sonic assault, heavily driven by the presence of electronic sounds, played against the sparse interjections of Akita’s heavily processed vocals, that push toward new territories of the extreme, while subtly nodding toward historical gestures from the early years of the avant-garde." - lim. 299 copies, gatefold cover, 1st time on vinyl 2022 €32.50
MERZBOW & LAWRENCE ENGLISH Eternal Stalker LP their first full collab album, based on field recordings L. ENGLISH made of nocturnal industrial activity in a huge factory complex in Australia..=> "He characterizes the area as 'uneasy and unsettling', awash in the sickly glow of smelters and refinement machinery, somehow not of this world- a liminal quality vividly captured in Andrei Tarkovsky’s sprawling purgatorial opus, Stalker"; - lim. col. vinyl ed (clear red). ."This is noise at its most elemental and unknowable: brooding, bristling, and opaqe" 2022 €24.00
MERZBOW + GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE A Perfect Pain LP this so far only encounter between the father of industrial music and the Japanese godfather of harsh noise was recorded in 1998 and appeared on Cold Spring as CD in 1999, now re-mastered and re-designed; "a long overdue collaboration from these two living legends of experimental music... This disc will scare the shit out of most people... it's almost a modern day take on the simultaneous beauty/brutality aesthetic" [Brainwashed] 180g vinyl with printed inner sleeve and download card 2018 €22.00
MERZBOW + HEXA Achromatic LP behind HEXA we find Australian experimental ambience composer LAWRENCE ENGLISH and JAMIE STEWARD from XIU XIU, with MERZBOW as partner they formed raw and quaking, 'harsh drone' expanses and layers, overlapping slowly and building new figures continuously.. "Their collaborative work has been described as being possessed by cascading low frequency pulses and tectonic plates of sound, suspended in cavernous cathedral-like spaces." CLEAR vinyl lim. 400 2018 €23.00
MERZBOW / ASKEW Level LP strong split release by Italian's ASKEW (feat. JUSTIN BENNETT [SKINNY PUPPY, etc.] and few others from the Rustblade circles) who produce complex dark droning analogue industrial noise with old school delay effects and metallic voices, with the godfather of noise, MERZBOW, on the flip side, using only analogue tools and objects... white vinyl, ed. of 299, last copies ! 2015 €15.00
MERZBOW / M.B Merzbow meets M.B. LP + 7inch first ever album collaboration by two of the most important and well known industrial and harsh noise artists => "Dissonant Abstractions" and "Surreal Distortions" are characterizing the music quite aptly, these are wall of sound drones with lots of subtle distortion and distant harmonies appearing... comes on multi-coloured vinyl and with a bonus split 7", only 267 copies were pressed in total !! 2013 €26.50
MERZBOW / RAVEN / DAO DE NOIZE Animal Liberation CD after "This is the Truth" (2007) and "Transgression" (2008) this is only the third full length LP by KEVIN TOMKINS (ex WHITEHOUSE) "transgressive art" project; one side sounds more suspenseful and dark, the other goes the classic power elecronics way, all powerful and captivating; comes in heavy gatefold sleeve on colour vinyl, numbered 300 copies 2015 €13.00
MGR (MUSTARD GAS AND ROSES) Nova Lux LP solo-project of MIKE GALLAGHER of ISIS ! Lim. 200 on blue/gray vinyl, full colour outer & inner-sleeve ! 2006 €15.00
  Wavering on the Cresting Heft LP lim. 500 / solo-project of ISIS-guitarist MIKE GALLAGHER / 180gr vinyl, heavy stock full colour sleeve & innersleeve! 2008 €13.00
MICH, LUDO / WATARU KASAHARA / KIYOHARU KUWAYAMA Les archives de l'univers amnesique illustre LP highly experimental & raw expressive collaboration recordings by LUDO MICH (Fluxus / soundartist from Belgium), K. KUWAYAMA (also known as LETHE) and W. KASAHARA from Japan; perfect stuff if you like the TOCHNIT ALEPH label, RUDOLV E.BER or MAMA BÄRs nerve-bending soundscapes.. white vinyl, lim. 250 copies 2013 €18.00
MIRROR Some Days it rains all Night LP the most "lulling", dream-minimalistic ambience you could find came from MIRROR in the early 2000s, the project of ANDREW CHALK & CHRISTOPH HEEMANN, with occasional guests => here's NEW material recorded with TIMO VAN LUIJK (AF URSIN, ELODIE..) and VICKI JACKMAN (MARSFIELD), two side-long pieces.. "In other words, it’s dead trippy, and the other side takes the vibe yet further out into the dream swamp,.." [Boomkat] - 350 copies on clear vinyl 2020 €19.50
MIRT Most 12" very first vinyl release for the Polish label NEFRYT known from many great CDR releases presenting the Polish ambient/drone scene (HATI, ARSZYN, UCHO/OKO, etc.); a long play (24min) 12" by MIRT with subtle prepared field recordings &instrumental sounds (clarinet, accordion), very beautiful and softly hypnotic, comes in full colour cover &inlay, lim. ed. 250 copies 2009 €12.50
  Heading South LP new studio album by this remarkable Polish project with very own style, inspired by B adventure films and 'cheap comic stories", creating a dark & hazy mood; edition of 200 copies on black vinyl 2013 €15.00
MIXED BAND PHILANTROPIST The impossible Humane LP first ever vinyl re-issue of the very rare & legendary collectors LP by this side-project of NEW BLOCKADERS - a milestone of mail-art & collage-noise, using source material from P16.D4, ORGANUM, NURSE WITH WOUND, ANDREW CHALK, H.N.A.S., ASMUS TIETCHENS, MERZBOW, HATERS, and many more... comes with two bonus tracks not on the original LP from a rare 7", lim. 400 2014 €16.00
MLEHST Vilification of the english peasant class LP ed. of 300 on clear green vinyl 2007 €15.00
MODELL, ROD & TAKA NODA Glow World do-LP "techno ambient" composer ROD MODELL (Detroit) in collaboration with Japanese TAKA NODA aka MYSTICA TRIBE, black vinyl lim. 192 copies: gatefold cover.. - ".. sounds that come from afar, that seem to fade away but suddenly illuminate the world around us, which lands on us and which no longer belongs to us, leaving us lost in an infinite melancholy." 2023 €36.00
MOEBIUS & TIETCHENS same LP NEW recordings by these two legendary figures of German electronic/experimental music (MOEBIUS known from KLUSTER/CLUSTER/HARMONIA), who have worked together again after a 35 years break ! Lim. 180gr. vinyl version with download code. CD-version on request. 2012 €18.50
MOGARD, ABUL Kimberlin (Original Soundtrack) LP soundtrack to the short film KIMBERLIN by DUNCAN WHITLEY, using field recordings from the Isle of Portland (UK) = > four extremely subtle, but slowly swelling and dramatically evolving dronescapes, less raw and even more meditative as before.. once you've sunken in, it's difficult to resist these absorbing drones... the track titles are taken from the poetry of CECIL 'SKYLARK' DURSTON (1910-1996); this is the CLEAR vinyl version, lim. 500 copies 2019 €23.00
MOGARD, ABUL / MAURIZIO BIANCHI Nervous Hydra / All this has passed forever LP split release of MB with hyped Serbian 'synthesist' ABUL MOGARD: amorphous, metallic low-fi drones with strange mechanical sounds shining through by MB, more harmonic synth-scapes on the B-side by MOGARD: " For 16 blissed minutes, Mogard spells out a nostalgic fantasy in creamy strokes of Farfisa organ and Serge modular.." Two side long tracks, black vinyl lim. 300 2017 €22.00
MOHAMMAD (MMMD) Pèkisyon Funebri 3 x 10inch BOX after the great "SPIRITI" 3 x LP-box (2011) which became a collector's item, this is the second vinyl-box by the Greek "chamber doom" trio/duo, operationg in similar acoustic realms with their incredible low end Cello drone harmonics..." Let it all sink in. Let it make your bones shake. Let it change how you walk. Let it bring you down when you feel too proud. Let it pull you up when you feel too small. Let it be and let yourself be changed by its unrelenting resonance." [Tinymixtapes] 2016 €58.00
  Pekisyon Funebri CD CD version of their second vinyl-set (3 x 10") after SPIRITI, incl. one bonus-track... operating in similar acoustic realms with their incredible low end Cello drone harmonics..."Let it all sink in. Let it make your bones shake. Let it change how you walk. Let it bring you down when you feel too proud. Let it pull you up when you feel too small. Let it be and let yourself be changed by its unrelenting resonance." [Tinymixtapes] 2016 €13.00
MOHNE, ACHIM Accelerated Standstill LP two side long compositions made entirely of carefully assembled 'locked grooves' (caused by dirt, etc.) found on various mainstream vinyl records - a curious LP full of rhythmic structures and musique concrete drones that are constantly shifting by this German multimedia artist, playable at any speed - a must for fans of PHILIP JECK and Plunderphonics; lim. 300 / Nr. 7 in Touchs white label series; excellent record ! 2014 €14.00
MOLJEBKA PVLSE lode lvx (SOLD OUT) 7 edition of 300 / black vinyl, black silk-screened black cover 2008 €7.00  
In Love and Death You are Alone 10inch after a long break our series dealing with "the Unknown" continues with this great 10" by Stockholm based MOLJEBKA PVLSE, presenting two dense & emotional drone-tracks ("In Love and Death" , "You are Alone") that form an existential unity; lim. 300 only, comes on crystal clear vinyl with 'frozen bronze' metallic cover print, artwork design by THOMAS DOHMEN. #### OUT NOW !! 2015 €15.00
  Borrowed Scenery LP the complete "Borrowed Scenery" sessions, now on vinyl - these droning sculptures spread and wave in a melancholic way, entangled by circling resonances and acoustic spirals... highly recommended day dream ambience! - lim. 150 with the "Borrowed Scenery: Appearance" CD-EP as bonus !! 2022 €20.00
MONOCUBE & TROUM // TROUM & MONOCUBE Contemplator Caeli LP the first vinyl release on Transgredient is a 4 track collaboration between Ukraine's experimental guitar drone project and TROUM, working with each other's basic material on the topic of the ancient 'Nightsky-Immersion'; second pressing on black vinyl, numbered ed. of 100 copies with inlay + phantastic artwork by sukkeret.og.pepper studio - "This has got to be one of the more densely atmospheric works to come along in years"[Toneshift] LAST COPIES !! 2020 €20.00
MORAL ORDER Alpha + Omega LP newest album by this Spanish industrial project, dealing with philosophical (KANT) and religious issues, and going into a strong ritualistic / dark ambient / well structured direction... "A collection of songs in which a resounding darkness is projected, fusing dark ambient with ritual in a unique way, all without losing the industrial essence that characterizes the sound of Moral Order." - lim. 150 copies on black vinyl, hand-numbered, + 8 page 12" x 12" s/w booklet 2021 €23.50
MORRICONE, ENNIO Cosa Avete Fatto A Solange? LP original soundtrack for the film of MASSIMO DALLAMANO from 1972 about a serial killer and sex party secrets of a boarding school, feat. JOACHIM FUCHSBERGER (!) (="Das Geheimnis der grünen Stecknadel" in German), based on a novel from EDGAR WALLACE - a quite dark soundtrack with unusual rhythms and arrangements that only MORRICONE could write; lim. ed. red vinyl 2015 €20.50
  Escalation LP soundtrack to the film of the same name from 1968, directed by ROBERTO FAENZA, a very political comedy attacking the values of western capitalism..; stylistically a very versatile soundtrack with lots of choral elements and the phantastic "Dies Irae Psichedelico" track; comes with cover replica of the original first LP edition from 1968, lim. 500 yellow vinyl 2015 €21.00
MUELLER, JON Strung LP first release in the new TOTE guitar vinyl-series (12 LPs!), a one-sided LP with etching by SAVAGE PENCIL on the other side 2008 €16.50
MULTER Quantenengel / Subdrüse (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies with metal-cover, clear inlays, black vinyl 2001  
MUNDAL, ARE Compilation Vol. 1 do-CD this compilation collects all existing vinyl material: two LPs, one 7" and the recent 'Kreis' 12", + a bonus track from the Norwegian dark industrial surrealist...=> this is the place where hallucinogenic visions, dark cosmic connotations, strange cinematic samples and dense dark post industrial tunes melt into a ritualistic atmosphere... the perfect music for our times of hazy illusions, alternate realities and self deceptions...- excellent artwork, too, double digipak, numbered ed. 200 copies 2023 €16.00
MURCOF Ultimatum 12 4- track - 33prm 12" with two tracks previously unreleased on vinyl, and two remixes by JAN JELINEK and DEATHPROD, lim. 1000 2004 €8.50
  The Versailles Sessions do-LP lim. vinyl-version 2008 €18.50
MURMER In their Homes and in their Heads 7inch field- & object recordings (from a garden in London, an old computer, a broken necklace) form two amazing "concrete drone" pieces: "... they take you on a trip into an other world of low drones and high-pitched noises, crunching and gritting microsounds, surprising cut-ups, all very near and clear..." - lim. 300 copies on clear vinyl, handmade cover art 2007 €7.00
  Songs for Forgetting LP almost 10 years in the works, this is the first vinyl album by MURMER, culled together from various field / object recordings and his own explorations of little instruments, alone or with others... " The resulting harmonics and pastorally minimalist drones are drop-dead gorgeous, as richly sonorous as anything Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine would compose through more conventional means." [Stranded Rec.] lim. 300 with embossed "skeleton leaf" paper cover, a wonderful edition 2016 €20.00
MURRAY, BRENDAN / PERISPIRIT split LP Long play split album of two U.S.-sound artists / projects: BRENDAN MURRAY works with the processed voice of NOELL DORSEY and creates spooky drones combined with dehumanized voice-sounds; PERISPIRIT move between noise collages & distorted guitar drones with excellence; a totally amazing, challenging, mysterious record, very much recommended ! Lim. 250 white vinyl, great cover artwork, too ! 2010 €21.50
MUSLIMGAUZE Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass CD very nice MG album from 1998, later re-issued on vinyl, back in stock.... "sees Muslimgauze taking a turn away from his recent electronic distortion experiments into a smoother flowing rhythmic current".. 1998 €13.50
UZI LP first time re-issue of LP from 1989 (Parade Amoureuse) - "Muslimgauze's gem from the late 80s. Cinematic, minimal, noisy, hypnotic, and gloomy. Probably not so overtly Middle Eastern as his later works, though definitely bearing an influence. Backed by electric drones percussion forms a living, breathing atmosphere of impending menace." - lim. 400 copies on GREY vinyl with fold-out (12" x 24") poster 2021 €20.00
Farouk Enjineer do-LP first vinyl re-issue of the praised album from 1997 (Soleilmoon), lim. 600 copies on black vinyl - " This is MUSLIMGAUZE at their peak! This is one of the absolute best albums Byrn made, superb all around. Amazing high and low tech sounds circling and coliding together, to make one remarkable album. It sounds like you may have sand in your speakers. Unmistakable Gauze!" [SAW] 2021 €30.00
Chechnya Over Dub do-LP for the first time on vinyl, originally a part of the rare \"Fatah Guerilla\" 3 CD set in 1996 (Staalplaat) - at that time dedicated to an independent Chechnya; now released on a new Ukrainian label run by DMYTRO FEDORENKO (KOTRA, etc): 11 tracks, 600 copies, 3 sided 2022 €34.00
Shekel Of Israeli Occupation do-LP a withdrawn/unreleased album from 1993 which was replaced through the "Betrayal" album; some remixes of these basic versions appeared later on various releases - this is the very first vinyl version after a very lim. CD version in 2019, new artwork and design by DMYTRO FEDORENKO (KOTRA) and KATERYNA ZAVOLOKA, ed. of 600 copies 2022 €34.00
Eye For An Eye LP + 7inch re-issue of 6 track album from 2001 (Muslimlim.029), now completed with two unreleased bonus tracks on the 7\" from the same sessions, a very atmospheric / ambient album with lots of casading echo effects...- *This record makes an adventure of the sameness, breaks it all down, and turns it into texture-fields of tactile melodic density. The timeliness of the title and the current world situation.* - BLACK vinyl ed. lim. 600, excellent cover + DL code inside 2023 €26.00
Veiled Sisters (GOLD) 3 x LP new edition of this double album originally released on Soleilmoon in 1993 => "this album balances a medley of shrill instrumental bursts with a complex patterning of ambient atmospheres.. The hissy wash of drums, both played and machined, decorate a restless patina all over, and the cacophony of samples send impressions scattershot into Jones' idiosyncratic yet readymade psychedelia" - we got very few of the rare "opague GOLD vinyl" edition, lim. 250 copies! 2022 €55.00
Lo-Fi India Abuse LP very nice re-issue of praised album from 1999 (BSI Records), very percussive and loopy.. lim. 500 black vinyl with full colour inlay - "Nearly all of the tracks have hand percussion in varying tempos and intensities and at least 1/2 make use of electronic noise surges. The sound is very crisp and clean, extremely well produced, recorded and nicely varied throughout the length of the disc.." [Brainwashed] 2023 €24.00
  The Extreme Years 1990-1994 9 x LP BOX luxurious wood box containing all MG releases by the Australian EXTREME label that appeared 1990-1994, for many the best MUSLIMGAUZE phase, all for the first time on vinyl, with bonus material, booklet, and numbered certificate, 234 copies on BLACK vinyl, it sold out from the label immediately !! 2024 €199.00
MY BLOODY VALENTINE m b v LP & CD what a sensation & surprise - almost 22 years after the masterpiece "Loveless" the NEW third album by MBV is out - this limited vinyl version (with bonus CD of the same album) comes in a gatefold-cover and was recorded & mastered 100% analogue (no digital procession)- so it sounds really different on vinyl !! 2013 €30.00
MÜLLER, WOLFGANG & CHRISTINE SUN KIM Panning Fanning do-7inch curious conceptual release by WOLFGANG MÜLLER (TÖDLICHE DORIS) and CHRSTINE SUN KIM (performance / sound artist from New York), both records (with voice-loops and one longer track of vocal material by her) have to be played simultaneously in a special way; lim. 333 copies, handsigned in card boxes, with inlay how to spin the vinyl 2013 €22.00
MYRNINEREST Jhonn, Uttered Babylon LP MYRNINEREST ist DAVID TIBETS new project together with JAMES BLACKSHAW and others; the first album is dedicated to / dealing with JHONN BALANCE (COIL) and was released in different versions (mixes) - this vinyl edition was mixed by THE BRICOLEUR, comes with 4 page booklet & inlay, cover painting from JHONN BALANCE; lim. 1500 2012 €17.50
MYSTIFIED Pulse Ringer Pieces LP finally the first LP for the experimental drone project from the States / pressed on clear blue vinyl, edition of 300 2009 €15.00
MZ.412 Ulvens Broder 10inch the return of Scandinavians "death industrial" project (12 years after the last studio album), = NORDVARGR DRAKH ULVTHARM; feat. B-Side with ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO; limited ed. on three vinyl colours; BLACK and WHITE in stock ! "If Ulvens Broder is an indication of what’s to come in the forthcoming full-length album from these sonic geniuses of destruction, then it should be nothing short of devastating, if there is anything left that is.." [NoiseBeneathTheSnow] 2018 €18.00
MZ.412 /TREPANERINGSRITUALEN X Post Industriale / Rituals 2015 e.V. do-LP recordings from the "X CONGRESSO POST INDUSTRIALE" festival in Bologna, Italy, Oct. 2015; two side-long rituals per project ! Lim. 500 on heavy BLACK vinyl, comes w. gatefold-cover and mini poster 2017 €32.00
N + BALTZER Gaunerzinken do-LP first collaboration by N with BALTZER aka J.F.SEBASTIAN, on Dortmunds true DIY underground label INSELKIND: two massive droning guitars on amps in continuous surroundings and spirals, 5 tracks all improvised with some almost "desert blues" sounding elements, reaching a great width and depth... (we had to think of the gifted MELANCHOHOLICS - R.I.P.); very special edition of only 107 copies in total, w. linoleum print cover, black printing on grey paper, BLACK vinyl 2022 €26.00
N / MOLOCH / E H E Live at N51 21064 ° E6 783782 ° (28 11 2015) LP E H E = ERRARE HUMANUM EST, MOLOCH and Hellmut Neidhardt (MULTER) aka N [N 66], live in performance: what begins very harsh develops into a strange kind of drone-noise with fluttering rattles, the B-side is even better, surrealistic / cinematic soundscapes, raw and booming... the release comes on clear vinyl with 5 different sleeve versions with stills taken from the concerts, somehow limited 2019 €16.00
N [49] [HELLMUT NEIDHARDT] & SIMULACRA Birka LP collaboration of "N" with SIMULACRA from Belgium: much different from the raw diamonds on "Anklam", on BIRKA synthesizer spheres merge with ultra dark guitar drones in a most subtle, sublime way, 4 tracks...."slowly shifting frequencies through endless caverns, reverberating from the black walls..." lim. 100, thick cardboard covers & inner sleeves, 180gr. black vinyl 2016 €27.50
N [58] & TZESNE Sismo LP *the third collaborative record with the Basque artist Tzesne, this time focusing on one long track twisting guitar lines with field recordings Tzesne made at Baix Vinalopó. At this place, there seems to be a deep ongoing melancholia; life seems to have stopped or is only able to go on in a slow motion that is barely noticeable ...* - wonderful drone resonances with lots of natural and electronic hissing.. - 100 copies, YELLOW vinyl 2023 €33.50
N [XX] (HELLMUT NEIDHARDT) Vreden [N 44] LP the first of two new "N" releases, recorded live at the Denovali festival October 1st 2015 at Weststadthalle, Essen; the three parts of VREDEN appear and disappear like tidal waves and spread a tremendous width and melancholy, as usual drowning in massive amounts of 'caressing distortion' and hissing... lim. 100, 180gr. vinyl, raw & thick cardboard cover 2018 €28.00
NADJA Under the Jaguar Sun do-LP this vinyl version features three completely different remixes (from last years do-CD with the same name) by NADJA and a real stunning one by EDWARD KA-SPEL! Comes in oversized "book bound" full colour gatefold sleeve 2010 €26.50
Ruins of Morning (SOLD OUT) 10inch experience the avantgardish drone-metal duo at their most dark & beautiful; 500 copies on GOLDen vinyl, fantastic artwork by Marcin Lojek (ibsendesign.pl). One very long track spread on two sides / parts, playtime 40+ minutes !! This is also the very first 10" vinyl from NADJA, be quick if interested, we expect this to sell out very fast !! 2010 €15.00  
Flipper LP special release dedicated to dolphin & wales, all profits are donated to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation; four long tracks, feat. ANGELA CHAN & PETER BRODERICK (on violin & viola); very subtle, slow, harmonic & beautiful... definitely one of our most favourite NADJA release; comes with free download code, clear vinyl, lim. 500, 180gr. vinyl 2013 €20.00
Autopergamene do-LP re-arranged re-issue of the CD from 2010 (Essence Music), one of the highlights in the NADJA discography! The three tracks have been re-mixed to form three side-long tracks, plus there's an unreleased fourth track on Side D, built from segments of the others... black vinyl lim. 200, gatefold cover 2018 €25.00
Luminous Rot LP almost three years after the glorious "Sonnborner" NADJA are back on the SUNN O)))-label Southern Lord, with this heavily distorted, throbbing & pulsing drone-doom monster, everything seems to blur inside thick atmospheric air, a full dose of (sub) bassy, oneiric hallucination... - comes on milky, YELLOW vinyl (lim. 500), w. colourful gatefold cover 2021 €20.00
  Labyrinthine CD extremely heavy, doomy new album with special concept => "Four extended tracks of atmospheric doom sludge, each with a different guest vocalist: Alan Dubin (Gnaw, Khanate), Rachel Davies (Esben & The Witch), Lane Shi Otayonii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel), & Dylan Walker (Full of Hell)....Labyrinthine explores themes of identity and loss, monstrosity and regret, extreme asceticism, the differences between labyrinths and mazes, etc.. " - no vinyl version, but numerous Cassette versions on other labels exist! 2022 €13.00
NADJA & OVO The Life and Death of a Wasp LP great collab between NADJA and this Italian band; lim. 500 black vinyl 2010 €13.00
NADJA & VAMPILLIA The perfect World LP collaboration by NADJA with this 'brutal orchestra' from Japan (three vocalists, two guitars and violins, etc.) feat. ex BOREDOMS member; a hybrid of doom and neo-classical music; the lim. vinyl version has new mixes from the limited / deleted Japanese tour-edition CD plus one extra track! 2013 €22.50
  Imperfection LP LP version of the rare japan tour only CD from 2014 with new artwork; 400 copies black vinyl -"Imperfection was recorded as if both bands were one, with Nadja playing their world-acknowledged thick unearthly droning wall of bass and guitars, while Vampillia arranged the doomy acoustic drumming, beautifully harsh classical strings and piano. This instrumental voyage will take you to the highest peaks in a crystal-clear sunny day only to drag you to the blackest abyssal ocean's depths right afterwards." 2015 €15.00
NADJA / DISROTTED Roman Numeral LP "From The Lips of A Ghost In The Shadow of A Unicorn's Dream" is the title of NADJA's great doom opus on this rare split LP with US "sludge" band DISROTTED, comes on Purple swirl vinyl => "Both of these bands are capable of conveying profound and gripping atmospheres by weaving together pummeling riffs and walls of noise, creating rich and organic textures on a level very few are able to reach.. " 2021 €20.00
NADJA / PICASTRO Fool, Redeemer LP split- & collaborative album by "dreamsludgers" NADJA with Canadian band PICASTRO; incl. NADJAs side-long great subtle but monumental drone-piece "VENOM"; lim. vinyl version 2011 €15.00
NADLER, MARISSA Little Hells LP lim. vinyl-version, heavy cardstock cover 2009 €16.00
NAKATANI, TATSUYA Confirmation LP recording of a solo percussion performance (2015) by this prolific Japanese musician & experimental improviser, incredible sounds on drums, gongs, bells, focused & dynamic...."the foundation of his practice, charged with thunders, screams, sparks and countless other ineffable sonic textures. " lim. 430 copies on 200gr. vinyl, in beautiful heavyweight yellow cover with silver & metallic foil stamping 2015 €23.50
NALLE The Sirens Wave LP psych folk trio from Glasgow, UK, with female singer, has been compared to JOANNA NEWSOM, ISLAJA, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE; lim. vinyl-version gatefold-cover 2008 €18.00
NEBELUNG Mistelteinn LP re arrangement of the first EP from 2005 - all songs have been re-recorded and newly treated => this is very emotional German 'nature-mysticism'-folk with a guitarish & almost 'wavey' character; using lyrics by BAUDELAIRE & NIETZSCHE... "The delicacy of the picked guitars, the mournful melancholy of the cello, and the warm sonority of the matured voice": our favourite German neo-folk band! lim. 300 copies, white vinyl 2016 €20.00
NEHIL, SETH Knives LP six compositions, feat. MATT MARBLE; transparent vinyl, numbered ed. 180 copies only LAST COPY! 2010 €25.00
NEUROSIS & JARBOE same do-LP in 2003 this remarkable collaboration appeared by San Francisco's apocalyptic noise-rock band and JARBOE (ex SWANS), now for the first time on vinyl with new wonderful artwork by AARON TURNER (ISIS, etc.), on clear & gold splatter coloured vinyl - a powerful, hypnotic & expressive teamwork, crossing all kinds of genre-borders... "a deeply textured mosaic that is a culmination of merged aesthetics from two major influences on free-thinking sounds.." 2019 €26.00
NEW BLOCKADERS & INCAPACITANTS As Anti As Possible CD 'relentless metal abuse, screaming feedback, gut-churning rumbles and deranged vocals. As the title suggests, ‘As Anti As Possible’ is certainly no easy listen and will be a challenge for all but the most die-hard of Noise fans.' - two 'chaotic symphonies' produced by the two harsh noise pioneers from UK & Japan in their first time collab.. ; ed. of 300 copies (a vinyl pressing was intented but due to the nature of the sound impossible to realize!) 2019 €13.00
NEW BLOCKADERS & VARIOUS ARTISTS Viva Negativa! A Tribute to the New Blockaders Vol. II - Europe do-CD tributes to the legendary anti-music group from UK with tracks by ASMUS TIETCHENS, RLW, RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK, SUDDEN INFANT, CISFINITUM, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE, KOMMISSAR HJULER, FREIBAND, LASSE MARHAUG, JEROME NOETINGER, CHRISTIAN RENOU (BRUME), G. TONIUTTI, KARKOWSKI, etc.. most tracks taken from the V.o.D-vinyl-box, but some tracks are previously unreleased! Lim. 500 2010 €17.50
NIBLOCK, PHILL Music for Organ LP two powerful / overwhelming drone piece for organ recorded 2007 / 2019, entitled UNMOUNTED / MUTED NOUN and NAGRO (AKA-ORGAN), recorded in Austria & France.. "...sustains a breathless pressure that’s either hellish, ecstatic or simply otherworldly, depending on your disposition.." [Boomkat] - ed. of 300 copies on clear vinyl on the new Matire Memoire label 2019 €26.00
MMXX-12: Browner LP 12th release in the series that presents 20 artists from the exp. sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. 500 copies => PHILL NIBLOCK presents a new piece that uses the instrumental drone sounds from 4 players / instruments: 2 x cello, flute, bassoon to create a rich, full-scaled and dense drone expansion with micro movements inside.. 2020 €23.00
Exploratory I LP a new multi-dimensional drone piece, originally written / performed by ENSEMBLE PHOENIX from Basel (Switzerland) on 11 instruments; further studio versions were recorded by ARDITI STRING QUARTET (2 x violin, 1 x viola, 1 x violoncello) = Side A on this LP, and DAVID WATSON on scottish bagpipes and guitar (half acoustic, half electric) = Side B on this LP; lim. 300 copies on clear vinyl with full colour inlay and DL card 2021 €26.00
  Exploratory II LP a new multi-dimensional drone piece, written / performed by ENSEMBLE PHOENIX from Basel (Switzerland) on 11 instruments - it toook 22 rehearsals before the enlarged piece of 30 min. could be recorded in the studio (spread on two vinyl sides) => awesome deep and spectralized drones, with subtle changes appaering in waves or 'blocks', this is a true masterpiece of powerful expanses!!! - lim. 300 copies on clear vinyl with full colour inlay and DL card 2021 €26.00
NICHOLS, PASCAL Nihilist Chakai House LP excellent album of most unusual & vivid 'solo percussion' music => PASCAL NICHOLS surprises with all kinds of drum sounds, using various percussion instruments (also made from metal), creating membran-drones, bell-like layers, or furious distorted clatter... comes on frosted clear vinyl with, full colour insert , lim. 250 on a highly interesting North-East UK based record label that "specialises in alien sounds" 2014 €18.00
NIEDOWIERZANIE same LP lim./numb. 200 white vinyl / french-german project being compared with COIL, MIRROR, ARVO PÄRT.. 2008 €16.00
NILSEN, BJ & STILLUPPSTEYPA Big Shadow Montana LP spectral surrealism-drones, dusty ambience, almost amorphous sounds with hidden melodies & hardly recognizable structures & a somehow melancholic / nostalgic / hallucinogenic flair, always pouring out of your consciousness... already the sixth album by this fruitful collaboration-unit... limited vinyl edition incl. download code 2011 €14.00
NIMH This crying Era LP very first vinyl-release for this Italian ethno/ambient project, a collection of rare & unreleased material 2002-2011; numbered ed. of only 100 copies, comes with A4 inlay. LAST COPY! 2012 €18.50
NINE DAYS WONDER same LP the first NINE DAYS WONDER from 1971, at that time one of the most bizarre productions made in Western Germany, inspired by ZAPPA, KING CRIMSON, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, SOFT MACHINE and Free Jazz, between structured and completely improvised sections...the fruit of a freaked out community in Mannheim! 180gr. re-issue on green vinyl 2018 €22.50
NO BUSINESS FOR DOGS Lovely Objects LP amazing album of this quartet with STEVEN HESS (LOCRIAN), searching for new musical pathways between improvisation & composed material, lim. 200 coloured vinyl 2013 €22.00
NO XIVIC same 7 (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 300 copies, clear vinyl, handpainted cover SOLD OUT ! 2003 €7.00  
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS Stoneface LP re-issue of album from 1989, N.E. in full ritual and animism evocation mode, electronic patterns and all kinds of strange ambient noises appear in continuous, loops, repetition and well done circles, the nine tracks relate to pagan traditions and nature worshipping... - *An excellent record that has aged quite well and is a fine reminder to play some of the old ones again. Time is what I want, more time!* [FdW / Vital Weekly] - lim. 300 copies, CLEAR vinyl 2023 €21.00
NODDING GOD (DAVID TIBET & ANREW LILES) Play Wooden Child LP a quite bizarre new project by DAVID TIBET & ANDREW LILES, a band that is 666 years old, including the mysterious "Underage Shaitain Boy" - lyrics are for 93% sung in Arkadian language... "This is a masterful record, precisely because it is not po-faced. Singing in an ancient tongue, but with galactic, futuristic overtones, it’s almost as if the voice exists out of time itself, a primal spirit that was there in Akkadia and is there in every corner of the universe." [The Quietus] - lim. vinyl ed. on PINK 2019 €29.50
NOETINGER, JEROME & LIONEL FERNANDEZ Outer Blanc LP JEROME NOETINGER; the French master of pure analogue and physically treated 'reel to reel' tape manipulations (here with a REVOX B77), teams up with the guitarist of SISTER IODINE for ten advanced experiments in strangely groaning sound transfigurations.. => "processed guitar sounds through analogue tape recordings & effects: like the intoxicated meeting of a chainsaw and a microphone." - lim. vinyl version 2021 €18.00
NOGRAY, FREDERIC & YANNICK DAUBY Panotii Auricularis CD this most astounding release brings together the sounds of singing birds (recorded by YANNICK DAUBY in Taiwan, France and Honduras) with very dry analog filter electronics and modular synth sounds... the repetitive pulses and bubblings and swirling tones of the electricity circuits interact with the animal calls often in an almost perfectly synchronized way....for discoverers of the unexpected! comes in a clear letterpressed vinyl sleeve 2015 €15.00
NOISE DREAMS MACHINA IN / OUT (SOLD OUT) 7inch edition of 300 / milky vinyl, white cover with black silk-screen print 2008 €7.00  
NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES Zona Incerta 10inch third part in the SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA series. ed. of 500 on two different colour-vinyls (half of the edition clear, the other half green-blue!), artwork by MARS WELLINK (VANCE ORCHESTRA) !! 2006 €10.00
  Intervisage (SOLD OUT) 7inch orange vinyl, Jute-Cover ! 1997  
NORDWALL, JOACHIM MMXX-17: Before it gets better, it will get worse LP 17th release in the series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => one-sided clear vinyl with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. 500 copies => JOACHIM NORDWALL created a sound poetry piece with the help of many friends / artists who whisper, speak, and sing the title-slogan, only sparse electronic sounds have been added... (VON HAUSSWOLFF, JOHN DUNCAN, DAVE PHILLIPS, LEIF ELGGREN, and many others are featured).. 2021 €23.00
NORTHAM, MICHAEL Suhina 10inch lim. 500 white vinyl / "Suhina" is the notion for the wind going through trees, a wonderful new entry for our 10" series 2009 €12.00
NOTWIST Trashing Days 12inch heavy vinyl, with CONSOLE-remix 2001 €8.00
NURSE WITH WOUND Homotopy to Marie do-LP luxus re-issue of NWW's 5th album and true surrealistic masterpiece from 1982, described as "a step on from the Dadaist rock of Merzbild Schwet, with much use of tape manipulation and classical avant-garde techniques"; much more eerie and subtle as previous releases, we think: the best possible approach to the Irrational and Unconscious, a kind of logbook for surpressed memories... silver printed gatefold cover, 4 rare bonus tracks from the same period, numbered ed. 700; SILVER-BLACK/WHITE VINYL 2018 €38.50
Arcane Reawakeing 7inch rare 7" released for the festival "Scenasonica Congresso" that happened in Pordenone, Italy, in October 2019 - the 7" was normally only available at the concert or from the label directly, we could get a handful of copies... two pieces ("Trasference 1 & 2") on two different coloured vinyl, numbered ed. 2019 €16.50
Trippin' Musik do-CD CD version of last year's triple vinyl boxset that sold out very quickly - contains 35 min. of previously unreleased material - " Music For Tai-Chi. Best NWW album of the century. Contemplatif, psychédélique, Addictif, Dadaïste, Taoïste... " [Germainescalp] - comes in 6 panel double-digipak 2020 €28.00
To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl LP first LP re-issue after 25 years of the NWW classic from 1980 (2nd album and the last one recorded as a trio), released at the same time as "Merzbild Schwet", feat. JAC BERROCAL and with dedicated material to Vienesse actionist RUDOLF SCHWARZKOGLER; this re-issue has a replica of the original cover art but a newly designed insert, and comes on YELLOW vinyl 2020 €23.50
Merzbild Schwet LP first LP re-issue after 25 years of the NWW classic (third album) from 1980 - released at the same time as 'To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl' - "the first fully realized NWW record.." - this new edition comes with a replica of the original cover, with new designed inlay and on BLUE vinyl 2020 €23.50
The Ladies Home Tickler (And Other Exotic Devices) do-LP expanded edition of "The Ladies Home Tickler", originally the bonus LP of the 'Psilotripitaka' box (1990), feat. historical recordings with WILLIAM BENNETT and JIM THIRLWELL (1980) - now enriched with diverse rare bonus tracks or different versions: "Classic tape cut-ups, radio sludge, surrealism, and abstract chaos." - Gatefold Cover, RED vinyl with black splatters, art insert, new artwork by BABS SANTINI - lim. 500 2022 €39.50
Brained By Falling Masonry/Cooloorta Moon pic-LP first vinyl re-issue of the praised "BRAINED by.." (1984, L.A.Y.L.A.H. 7), with J.G. THIRLWELL vocals on the title piece, PLUS the "COOLORTA MOON" 12" (1989), both feat. DAVID TIBET... as a bonus, the track "Sarah's Beloved Aunt" from the rare "Rushkoff Coercion" 7" is included; re-mastered by ANDREW LILES, comes as picture disc in die-cut sleeve 2023 €31.50
Bar Maldoror do-LP luxus re-issue of the live album from 1991, collecting performance material from the 80's when NWW only performed eight times, feat. DAVID TIBET, DIANA ROGERSON, JOHN BALANCE, ANNIE ANXIETY, and others... Side D has two bonus tracks, comes w. silver metallic gatefold cover, with 4 panels of new artwork, lim.700, numbered and sealed, BLACK vinyl 2023 €40.00
Little Dipper Minus Two Plus (Echo Poeme Sequences) LP rare vinyl version (300 copies on green marbled vinyl) with two newly formed pieces / remixes of a concert CD-R from 2005, one of the more beautiful and sublime NWW albums, layered and echoed female vocalizations and slow electronic pulses merge, so psychedelic and dreamy... - comes with full colour insert 2023 €32.50
  Thunder Perfect Mind (special ed.) 3 x pic-LP luxus / collectors re-edition of the legendary 1992 album, for the first time on vinyl since its initial releas, three picture discs containing all the bonus material from the various CD editions, all newly re-mastered + with large poster, numbered ed. 300 copies 2024 €88.00
O YUKI CONJUGATE Sleepwalker do-LP lim. vinyl version of the AUF ABWEGEN CD from 2019 with selected live recordings (with top quality!) from their extensive touring throught Europe 2017-2019, building the dreamlike soundtrack for the film of a same name by ANDREW HULME of OYC... 400 copies incl. 12" insert and 16 page 10" x 10" booklet, 3 bonus-tracks !! 2021 €36.50
  A Tension of Opposites Vol.1 & 2 do-LP lim. vinyl edition of the 2020 "Covid-19 isolation" material released last year on Cassette, which was split in two halves:"At Variance" was recorded and arranged by ROGER HORBERRY, "Into the Pleasure Garden" by ANDREW HULME, both long time members of OYC, they call this 'Dirty Ambient', - "a phrase coined by OYC for the process of working quickly and instinctively, embracing errors and honouring imperfections".. - lim. 500 gatefold cover 2022 €34.00
O'MALLEY, STEPHEN Keep an Eye out LP back in stock this great one-sided LP on FIRE-RED vinyl in the GUITAR SERIES of Table of the Elements with etching on one side... "quicksilver-like" drones [Hellmut Neidhardt aka N] 2008 €18.00
Eternelle Idole do-LP a score written for Paris based choreographer GISELE VIENNE for a pretty weird ice skating piece (including a monster) "Metal against ice, tights and knots, spirals and scratches, shouts and winds : field recordings mold a crispy atmosphere while instruments draws some ovals shapes such as lakes, ice skating ring, cosmos belt"; white vinyl, incl. luxurious 16page 12"x12" booklet with many great photos from the choreographic piece; lim. 500 (2nd ed.) 2015 €32.00
  MMXX-11: Ost-Väst Sommaren LP 11th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => STEPHEN O'MALLEY created a dense drone piece based on field / insect recordings and organ sounds... 2020 €23.00
O'ROURKE, JIM MMXX-07: In all due Deference LP seventh release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => on of the highlights in the series is this new piece by JIM O'ROURKE, complex entities of ebbing and flowing sound-clouds evolve slowly, strangely harmonic, into magic spiralling.. 2020 €23.00
  Too Compliment LP O'ROURKE at his most experimental - two side long pieces with strange morphing tones and amorphous quasi-rhythms.. cut on 45 rpm, 36 min, playtime, 1st ed. CLEAR vinyl, UK import! - "O’Rourke focuses on the frequency shifter here, using it to coax out fluxing tone thickets, haphazard frequencies and elongated drone corridors. It’s transportive stuff, harking back to the early days of private press academic synth music but also sitting on edge alongside Autechre’s recent long-form work.." 2021 €27.00
O'ROURKE, JIM & C.M.VON HAUSSWOLFF In, Demons, In! LP long awaited first time collaboration by the "experiMENTAList drone" veterans, using field recordings from Kathmandu (Nepal)... "the uncompromisingly adventurous results are galactic in scope and viscerally metaphysical in presence, conjuring scales of abyssal bass and diffused, atomised, abstract dark matter that make the listener feel like a speck of stardust floating in infinity." black vinyl ed. 300 copies 2019 €21.50
OJERUM (øJERUM) 7 Sjaele LP seven tracks "Sjaele" (souls) with a side-long B-side of extremely calm & melancholic drift, synths drops like gong sounds, waving drones, loops and circling tones... very lonely and moody, and completely soothing... lim. 100 copies on clear vinyl (total edition 200), comes in a nice design with die-cut cover and with inlay 2019 €25.00
OLHON Lucifugus 10inch processed field recordings from an abandoned water tank; first vinyl release for the project of BAD SECTOR & WHERE !! lim. 500 on orange vinyl, artwork by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS known from the CISFINITUM - Devotio 10" (SUB-04) and IGNIS SACER LP (TROUM vs. NID) 2009 €12.00
ON (SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU & STEVEN HESS) Your naked Ghost comes back at Night do-LP collaboration project consisting of SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, STEVEN HESS (HAPTIC, PAN AMERICAN) & HELGE STEN (DEATHPROD) (remix). Limited vinyl version (400 copies) 2009 €20.00
  Something that has Form and Something that does not LP third album by this project by SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU & STEVEN HESS, this time with guest musician FENNESZ; wonderful mellow dronescapes based on guitars & drums; limited vinyl version !! 2010 €19.50
ONODERA, YUI Synergetics 7inch lim. 300 handmade cover / blue-transparent vinyl 2007 €7.00
ONRUST Tagore | Luthuli 12inch first vinyl release for a female "old school" analogue / synth industrial project from Belgium, celebrating low fi rusty minimal beats & analogue noises in the way of ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO, ORPHX, PAN(A)SONIC... edition of 250 copies 2015 €16.00
OPION SOMNIUM As they fly into darkness, only black feathers remain to wipe away our tears (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 300 / handmade covers / violet-blue vinyl 2004 €6.50  
ORA Morgendämmerung 10inch mysterious drone ambience with a poetic atmosphere, steeped in field recordings... this was the last release by the project of COLIN POTTER and DARREN TATE, lim. 400 clear vinyl - last copies back in stock !! 2004 €13.00
ORGANISATION TOTH Follow the Red ö.rder 10" lim. 450 / colour vinyl 2001 €12.00
ORSI, FABIO Von Zeit zu Zeit LP two long new pieces by the well established Italian "cosmic & electronic ambience" composer; 2nd ed. on orange vinyl, lim. 102 copies only! 2012 €18.50
Memory of a safe Place / La Forest a non fa pura LP + mag this new series from the Italian ambient label combines acoustic & visual art: a lim. LP + large A4 booklet (16 pages) with b/w photographs of the same artist; FABIO ORSI starts the series with time-suspending dense transcension drones & beautiful forest pictures; lim. 250 copies, white vinyl 2013 €18.00
  Sterminato Piano LP similar to the just released "Uncharted Waters" CD on ZOHARUM, FABIO ORSI is here now fully engaged into minimal analogue "cosmic" sequencer compositions with a fine hypnotic quality, slowly evolving into something else, with remarkable effect... the black vinyl ed. is lim. to 100 copies 2019 €18.00
OVRO Horizontal / Vertical (SOLD OUT) 7inch the finnish wonder-girl of surrealistic dronescapes with her first vinyl release! lim. 300, handmade covers, white vinyl . SOLD OUT !! 2008 €7.00  
OÖPHOI (OOPHOI) Potala 10inch first ever vinyl by the italian deep ambient master! Two long contemplative tracks into the center of holy places (may it be physically or mentally), opening endless spaces with low humming & reverberating meditation-drones! Edition of 500 copies pressed on luminous green vinyl, full-colour artwork by 1000SCHOEN aka ex-MAEROR TRI-member HELGE SIEHL ! 2008 €12.00
PACIFIC 231 Unusual Perversions LP re-issue of the very first P231 LP (1984) with recordings made 1981-1983; 16 tracks of raw industrial experiments, distorted beats & pulses, deranged voices, weird electronic sounds, simple but electrifying! Lim. 300 BLACK VINYL 2016 €19.50
PACIFIC 231 & RAPOON Palestine LP + CD in 2007 Old Europa Cafe released this intense + hypnotic collab. on CD in a lim ed. with bonus mCD, now for the first time on vinyl + all bonus material + 2 rare P.231 tracks on the CD; dedicated to BRYN JONES / MUSLIMGAUZE this focuses on raw middle eastern rhythms... 300 copies, transparent RED vinyl 2021 €20.00
PALESTINE / VAINIO / THIELEMANS P V T LP unreleased studio sessions from October 2013, now finally released! => six unnamed tracks or movements (C. PALESTINE: voice, piano, organ / MIKA VAINIO: Electronics & Live Processing / ERIC THIELEMANS: Drums & Percussion) of a very experimental / improvised / suspenseful nature, revealing unheard aspects of all three artists.. - lim. 500 copies on clear vinyl 2020 €23.00
PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Godbear LP vinyl re-press of the BAROONI CD from 1998 (with recordings already made in 1987) which became a classic, with 3 solo piano recordings demonstrating his minimal ecstatic overtune-drones... (contains a version of his famous 'Strumming Music' piece) "an ideal introduction to Palestine's ecstatic and mysterious sound world" 2016 €16.00
MMXX-06: Vvvoooodddoooo Ddddooooodddddooooo LP sixth release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => C. PALESTINE created a multi-layered drone wave piece, performed on analog synths, with lots of cosmic dirt dispersed... 2020 €23.00
Dingggdongggdinggg Vs. Singggsonggsinggg LP + 7inch the very first release for this new label from Belgium, dedicated to mainly experimental drone forms, and starting with a pioneering drone artist: 5 studio tracks using carillon sounds and voice for the first time in this combination; this is the lim. ed. with bonus 7" (one track - one etching of a Palestine drawing), LP on yellow vinyl, only 240 copies with bonus 7" !! Numbered Edition !! 2018 €36.00
  DINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz ferrrr SSSOFTTT DIVINI TIESSSSS​!​!​!​!​!​!​!​!​! LP two mesmerizing works for carillon (the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived from the 16th century), so far unpublished / for the first time on vinyl : a brand new studio piece from 2023 on Side A, on Side B a recording performed on the bells of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in 2018 as eulogy for TONY CONRAD, at the place where both met for the first time ! - mastered by STEPHAN MATHIEU 2023 €27.50
PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE & RHYS CHATHAM Youuu - Mee = Weee (First) LP lim. LP version of the first CD (two side long pieces) from their epic collaboration; PALESTINE: voice, piano, yamaha organ CHATHAM: trumpet, loop pedal, electric guitar => floating minimal drones with great effect on the mind, all handplayed and sung and slowly shifting, these are acoustically painted Drone-Mandalas.... comes on translucent red vinyl 2015 €15.00
PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE & Z'EV Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear LP first ever published collaboration, PALESTINE playing bells, Z'EV on drums (both rhythmic and just sounds) => very minimal, subtle contemplation drones, simple but great ! black vinyl 2013 €15.00
PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE / GRUMBLING FUR TIME MACHINE ORCHESTRA ggrrreeebbbaaammmnnnuuuccckkkaaaiiioooww!!! LP stunning recording of a performance that happened at London's 'Cafe OTO' in June 2013: PALESTINE supported by DANIEL O'SULLIVAN (AETHENOR, GUAPO) and ALEXANDER TUCKER (GINNUNGAGAP, etc.) (=GRUMBLING FUR T.M.O.), has some wonderful & wondrous ethereal, ecstatic and weird moments! "processed strings, live tape manipulations, Indian harmonium, shimmering piano clusters, bleating cattle, a Japanese orgy, disembodied vocal harmony..." lim. 500 blue vinyl 2015 €25.00
PALMER, AMANDA & EDWARD KA-SPEL I can spin a Rainbow do-LP first full collab album by the DRESDEN DOLLS and LEGENDARY PINK DOTS singers who appear here like twin-siblings with their expressive, psychedelic song-writing full of emotion and pathos and wonderful violin playing by PATRICK WRIGHT.. "Light a candle in a dark room and wrap up snug; this is a haunted house of a record - the album blends storytelling, poetry and lyricism with a wide range of soundscapes." [The Skinny] the vinyl-version has two bonus tracks not on the CD, and a download code 2017 €27.50
PAN AMERICAN White Bird Release LP 6th album of LABRADFORD member MARK NELSON; vinyl version 2009 €15.00
PAN SONIC & CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE Mort aux Vaches do-LP this most curious "live in the studio" colloboration happened on 10. January 1999 at VPRO studios in Amsterdam, and was released in the M.A.V.- CD series in the year 2000; - 5 movements with more than 60 min. playtime, now for the first time re-issued; lim. 300 copies clear vinyl, new cover-art and re-mastering 2019 €34.00
PARA-NOISE-TERMINAL Fraktale (SOLD OUT) 7 blue vinyl, 250 copies, handpainted covers 1995  
PARALLEL LINES White Fur / Black Cathedral LP impro / instrumental band from Canada with ERIC QUACH (THISQUIETARMY) on guitar, RYAN FERGUSON (SIANSPHERIC) on synths and PASCAL ASSELIN (MILLIMETRIK, etc.) on drums - creating a free dreaming & drifting psychedelic sound without borders... lim. 300 white vinyl, the whole album is dedicated to Polar Bears 2013 €18.50
PARMERUD, AKE Growl CD five stunning pieces (2004-2015) with a focus on exploring acoustic phenomena, like 'sounds from mechanical machines and tools', vinyl noise extractions, calls from exotic birds that sound electric, vocal material from Swedish heavy metal bands, completely de-constructed, etc.. all high in dynamics and tension... ' "Growl is a fascinating disc, experimental yet accessible, a wealth of experiences collected in a single binding." [A Closer Listen] 2015 €14.50
PAVONE, JESSICA Knuckle Under LP first vinyl release for this experimental Viola player from New York City, minimal solo viola tunes with lots of sound effects creating strange results, with occasional outbursts of noise... lim. 300, letterpess jacket 2014 €23.00
PERREY, JEAN-JACQUES Prelude Au Sommeil LP re-issue of the first album by this French electronic / tape / musique concrete composer (originally 1958!), performed on the Ondioline (a vacuum-tube based, spring-loaded electronic instrument); "The music contained in this mysterious vinyl is like something between dreamy church organ hymns and the keyboard-based minimalism that Philip Glass and Terry Riley developed a decade later. It was intended as sleep-inducing and tranquilizing for use in mental hospitals." 2018 €18.00
PERRY, BRENDAN Eye of the Hunter / Live at the ICA do-LP first vinyl re-issue of BRENDAN PERRY's (=DEAD CAN DANCE) first solo-album from 1999, comes with the recordings of a rare live / promo cassette from 1993; w. gatefold cover, vinyls in two different colours... - "Don't remember how many times I listen to this album, home many more times I had sung this songs myselfs to the darkness of room. Alone.Poetry of late night." [audacter] 2023 €44.50
PETIT, PHILIPPE Henry: The Iron Man LP vinyl-version of PHILIPPE PETITs first full album, a dark filmic droney soundtrack based on found sounds, inspired by a dream "that Shinya Tsukamoto was working on a blurred remake of Eraserhead, and in the dream, Petit knew that he was to score the soundtrack of Henry’s mutation into an Iron Man" 2011 €13.00
PETRELS Haeligewielle LP stunning debut-album for this new drone/ambient project from UK, has been compared to TIM HECKER, FENNESZ, STARS OF THE LID; black vinyl, lim. 350 2012 €18.50
PG.LOST Oscillate LP fifth studio album by the awesome Swedish post rock band that has been compared to GYBE and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, for the new album partly even with NEUROSIS, COIL and TIM HECKER... "Oscillate is the true definition of its title with incredibly tense swells to the point of collapse leading to a slow but pensive disintegration." - gatefold cover and on limited WHITE vinyl 2020 €34.00
PHALLUS DEI Black Dawn do-LP the 7th album for this German industrial band (existing since 1988) showing a wide spectrum of different approaches from rumbling earthquake noise over distorted guitar ur-drones to massive electronic industrial soundscapes with hypnotic classic or jazzy touch, feat. guest musicians NIELS VAN HOORN (LPD), PETER BRÖTZMANN (!) and MERZBOW (!), as well as JACQUELINE HAMELINK on Cello... vinyl version lim. 250 with 16 min. bonus track not on the CD 2017 €22.50
PHARMAKON Devour LP the extremely powerful fourth full length of 'new female industrial' cult act PHARMAKON aka MARGARET CHARDIET, as usual based on deep psychological implications "... using imagery and language of self-cannibalism as allegory for the self-destructive nature of humans. Each of the five songs echoes a stage of grief associated with this cyclical chamber of self-destruction and the chaos surrounding us that leads us to devour ourselves in an attempt to balance the agony." - lim. ed. with half white half black coloured vinyl 2019 €20.00
PHELIOS At the Mountains of Madness LP the 5th PHELIOS album, vinyl (+ digital online) only, standard ed. 300 copies- "...majestic atmosphere, complex dronesaceping and deep cushions of textural shamanic percussions...This is channeling the unimaginable and connects with the cubes and subterranean caverns of echoing, vaporous, wormily honey-combed mountains of madness." 2019 €18.00
PHILLIPS, DAVE Agitated unfilled extended geometric Figure made of Ersatz Substance 7inch last copies of this rare yellow vinyl (comes in clear polyvinyl chloride sleeve) 7" : "Presented as recorded in real-time without any edits, overdubs or effects added. This recording contains unprocessed acoustic sounds only." 2012 €8.50
PILIA, STEFANO Spiralis Aurea do-LP luxurious vinyl issue of PILIA's masterpiece, 12 truly evocative, sad harmonic "drone" pieces that are mainly based on acoustic sources (Cello, Violin, Organ, Horns), feat. various guest musicians, the compositions were inspired by a visit to the Italian "Futa Pass Cemetary", a large war cemetary for German soldiers killed in WWII, holding the remains of about 31.000 soldiers.. - "a place crossed by thoughts about the landscape, history, symbols, rituals.. " - lim. black vinyl 6 panel gatefold, letterpressed 2022 €45.00
POST SCRIPTVM Gauze LP re-issue of POST SCRIPTVMS (a Russian duo living in Brooklyn, NYC) first official album (CD-R from 2002), a document of creepy and eerie death industrial, more raw and unpolished as following works but already emanating a petrifying, authentic atmosphere.... lim./numbered 250 copies on heavy vinyl with inlay 2016 €23.00
PRESTON, JOE & DANIEL MENCHE Cerberic Doxology LP amazing collab. using only Voice as basic material; lim. vinyl version with 20 lock-grooves on B-Side 2009 €14.00
PROCER VENEFICUS How the Heather Moonlit Shivers do-LP this is the first epic vinyl release by this US American dark folk / dark poetic ambient project => acoustic guitars, amorph drones & whispers, melancholic tunes, but this also has a very sensual, erotic, night-shade coloured side... incl.a cover version of an AMBER ASYLUM song; comes in a stunning gatefold cover on RED vinyl, lim. 406 copies 2009 €10.00
PRURIENT Casablanca Flamethrower do-LP the first proper PRURIENT full length album for Tesco, returning to his industrial / heavy 'doom' electronics origins, thematically centered on hidden allied war crimes:::: "Thirteen tracks of doom electronics crowded by voices of industrial cynicism focused on four theatres (corridors of violence)...these are the songs from torture chambers across hateful american shores." - lim. 250 BLACK vinyl, gatefold cover, numbered insert 2020 €33.00
PSEUDO CODE Europa CD re-issue of the vinyl-releases (2 EPs + 1 LP) of this industrial / electronic project around ALAIN NEFFE from the early 80's 2010 €13.00
PSYCHIC TV Pagan Day LP mythic PTV album from 1984 with early song demos and sketches of ALEX FERGUSSON and GENESIS P.ORRIDGE, recorded on a simple 4-track cassette machine and originally not intended to be released as "finished" material; feat. "We Kiss" and "Cold Steel", one of the most intimate PTV albums - appeared first as TOPY 003 on 23rd Dec. 1984 as lim. picture disc. only available in the shops for one hour! we have copies on red vinyl in stock, after they're gone we sell the black vinyl ed. 2017 €20.00
  Those who do not do-LP definitely one of the best PTV-releases ever, now for the first time back in print on vinyl! With GENESIS P'ORRIDGE, P.CHRISTOPHERSON, JOHN BALANCE, HÖH, ALEX FERGUSSON, JOHN GOSLING, recorded live in Rejkavik in 1983 (released 1984), remastered gatefold ed., standard BLACK vinyl - "Psychic TV at their most esoteric, their most ritual, and often most extreme, a perfect accompaniment to the legendary Dreams Less Sweet album of the same year" 2023 €31.00
PYRAMIDS WITH WRAITHS Magpie & Raven LP one-sided clear vinyl LP with epic 25 min track - feat. members of BURIAL HEX as well as BEN FLEURY-STEINER (PARADIN) and TARA VANFLOWER; lim. 350 in clear PVC outer sleeve / vellum inner sleeve; incl. download code card 2012 €20.00
PÄRT, ARVO Tabula Rasa do-LP rare vinyl-version presenting some of the best works of the famous Estnian "post-modernist" composer: TABULA RASA (1977), SYMPHONY No.1 (1964), COLLAGE ON THE THEME B-A-C-H (1964), PRO ET CONTRA (1966); devotional, dark, harmonic orchestral music; recordings made in St. Petersburg 1995; comes in gatefold-cover 2012 €19.50
RABELAIS, AKIRA Eisoptrophobia do-LP re-workings and -processings of solo piano pieces by ERIK SATIE, BELA BARTOK, and RABELAIS himself, using a special self build software ("Argeïphontes Lyre") to create incredibly haunting and poetic atmospheres.. CD from 2001 for the first time on vinyl; "The recognisable melodies here ring out in myriad new ways, sometimes fractured and indented by patinas of crackle that echo the original contours, while, at othere, smudged into mind-bending obfuscation or spectral, timbral thizz." 2018 €26.00
RAINFOREST SPIRITUAL ENSLAVEMENT Venus Flytrap Exotica 7inch the highly successful ambient / dub project of DOMINICK FERNOW (PRURIENT) and LOW JACK (who runs Editions Gravats in France): "a tropical spell from on a lights-out dancehall voodoo tip - Powerful spells, strongly recommend to fans of Demdike Stare, Equiknoxx, Shackleton, Burial." [Boomkat] - ed. of 400 copies on GREEN vinyl 2019 €13.00
RAISON D'ETRE Alchymeia CD phantastic new RD studio album, influenced by C.G. JUNGs theories this is meant as a journey to one's unconsciousness, in order to strenghten the 'true self'; using lots of vocal/choir material again, this contains the most deeply melancholic and emotional RD material we ever encountered.. first (?) edition of 500 copies only, a vinyl version will be available soon! 2018 €13.00
Prospectus I do-LP first vinyl re-issue of R.D. classic first album from 1993, filled with religious chants, choirs, bells & creating a 'gothic' ambient atmosphere, this marked the invention of the typical R.D. sound, somehow a mixture of post-industrial & archaic catholic mysticism... for this re-issue all material has been restored and re-recorded from the original tapes, and four rare tracks from early cassettes have been added as bonus; gatefold cover, lim. 300 2018 €27.50
Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness do-LP first vinyl re-issue of R.D. second album from 1994, a masterpiece of sacral & melancholic dark ambience; for this re-issue all material has been restored and re-recorded from the original tapes, and four rare tracks from early cassettes or online releases have been added as bonus; gatefold cover, lim. 300, black vinyl 2018 €27.50
Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations do-LP first ever vinyl version of this dark ambient classic from 1995 (the third R.D. album, released on Cold Meat Industry) - "Layers of ethereal atmospheres and the collage of choirs, strings, bells and occasional voices slowly bleed together to create music for society whose spirituality has been rendered impotent. Soaking in this world, one is left with the impression of overwhelming sadness and profound desolation..." - gatefold cover, incl. 5 bonus tracks from same period, 300 copies black vinyl 2020 €28.50
In Sadness, Silence and Solitude do-LP first ever vinyl version of this dark ambient classic from 1997 (the fourth R.D. album) - "This is music guaranteed to at least bring about thoughts of mysticism, if it doesn't produce mystical states outright. This defines the term hauntingly beautiful...".- gatefold cover, incl. diverse rare bonus tracks from same period, 300 copies on black vinyl 2020 €28.50
  Apres Nous Le Deluge LP first ever vinyl re-issue of R.D. first cassette release, recorded 1991-1992, different from the later re-mixed CD versions 2023 €25.00
RAISON D'ETRE & TROUM De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu do-LP re-issue of CD from 2015, for the first time on vinyl, gatefold cover + exclusive bonus track, lim. 300 ! => RAISON D'ETRE re-works TROUM basic materials, the title is inspired by a book from 1678 by JOHANNES BOHN - "Engulfed in a hauntingly beautiful kaleidoscope of grey-ish melancholia, raison d’être comfortably walks deeply into Troum’s vast territory, delivering his very own trademark of eerie tones, ominous sacral ambience and crystal clear constructions..." / black vinyl, 76+ min. 2023 €28.00
RAMLEH Conquest Play / Clockwork 12inch rare 12" with two exclusive tracks (lim. 200) on heavy black vinyl, RAMLEH in best rhythmic industrial rock / guitar noise wall mood; last copies definitely ! 2016 €13.00
  It's never alright 7inch a kind of sister release to the recent "The Great Unlearning" doLP, two tracks of powerful, hymnic industrial punk & trancy psych rock, short and to the point - comes on grass green heavy vinyl with tasteful "Bunny" cover 2019 €8.00
RANALDO, LEE / JIM JARMUSCH / MARC URSELLI / BALAZS PANDI same LP immersive studio improvisations of these musicians who never met before (drums, guitars, bass, synths, electronics), brought together by MARC URSELLI in New York.. 'Absorbing instrumental patterns of cinematic sounds and improvised rhythms. No overdubs, no editing. All was recorded live and analog, produced and mixed by Marc Urselli" - 3 tracks on the vinyl, 2 bonus tracks with included DL code 2019 €20.00
RAPOON To West and Blue CD wonderful new album of "angelic ambience", the very spheric, droney, spacey, mysterious side of RAPOON, extremely contemplative & atmospheric... lim. 500 / vinyl-replica cover 2013 €13.00
Moon and Cups Series # 1 7inch rare 7" (lim. 100 in total) on this label from Hongkong, two tracks filled with hallucinogenic ethno-drones, exotic flute-sounds & rhythms, strange voices... gives you the full "early ZOVIET FRANCE" feeling; great but expensive EP! clear vinyl & two colour postcards included 2013 €20.00
Moon and Cups Series # 2 7inch rare 7" (lim. 100 in total) on this label from Hongkong, again a kind of surrealistic ethno-sound on two tracks filled with subtle percussion, exotic flute-sounds, deranged "oriental" voices...mesmerizing & dreamlike, gives you the full "early ZOVIET FRANCE" feeling; great but expensive EP! Clear vinyl & two colour postcards included; SECOND PART in this series !! 2013 €22.00
Moon and Cups Series # 3 7inch rare 7" (this edition: 75 copies only!) on this label from Hongkong,clear vinyl & two colour postcards included 2016 €19.00
Moon and Cups Series # 4 7inch rare 7" (this edition: 75 copies only!) on this label from Hongkong,clear vinyl & two colour postcards included 2016 €19.00
Vernal Crossing do-LP first vinyl re-issue of RAPOON's third (or fourth?) album from 1993, masterful rhythmic & tribalistic, with endless tabla-drummings, chants, echoes, oriental harmonies & drones, defining the typical hypnotic RAPOON sound... the re-mastering for vinyl was done by COLIN POTTER, who also edited the new bonus track / remix included here; lim. 500 copies 2020 €26.00
Pell Mell LP the wonderful CD from 2002 which came in a felt cover (Staalplaat 2002), is finally re-isussed, now re-mastered for vinyl and with bonus track "Scatter" => cascades of short-echo sounds create a mysterious, yet soaring "time stands still" atmosphere... lim. 300 w. nicely laminated cover + oversized postcard and DL code 2020 €18.00
:Cinema Telephonique: LP this new studio album (7 tracks) was especially recorded for vinyl and functions as "an audio description of an imagined film", using as basis quasi-rhythmic staccato sound files that were created randomnly when ROBIN STOREY worked with them; enriched with electronics, orchestral and vocal samples of all kinds and drumbox sounds, at times heavily treated, a full sphere of hypnotism is opened.. - lim. 300 copies on navy blue vinyl, matt printed covers 2021 €20.00
Fallen Gods do-LP the third RAPOON album (1994), now a classic of experimental ethno ambience, for the first time on vinyl => "Throughout ‘Fallen Gods’ the reverberant pulse of Tabla-led percussion and the remote tones of what sounds like the Bulbul tarang (aka Indian banjo) resound and repeat in locked instrumental cycles, as vast, atmospheric shadows and echoes are unfurled.... creating a profound work of entrancing, ritualistic minimalism" - lim ed. in two cover variants 2022 €27.00
  Raising Earthly Spirits do-LP BOX first vinyl re-issue of this early RAPOON classic (2nd album from 1993), a masterpiece of ethno/trance post industrial - comes in a glorious edition (printed wood box-sleeve plus printed inners) with two unreleased tracks from the same sessions!! - "The spirits Rapoon conjure either rise from the primordial ooze breathing fire or poise themselves on the abyssal edge, waiting patiently for obeisance " [i/e magazine] - Lim. 400 on BLACK vinyl 2023 €42.50
RATKJE, MAJA S. Sult LP based on her music for the ballet "Sult" (performed by the Norwegian National Ballet), this is a very different album compared to previous works, presenting RATKJE performing and singing to a 'out of tune' pump organ, fitting to the atmosphere of Kristiana in the 19th century; "Metal tubes, PVC tubes and a wind machine were built into the organ; guitar strings, a bass string, a resin thread, metal and glass percussion and a bow are also utilized..." lim. 500 white vinyl 2019 €25.00
RATTI, NICOLA & MARK TEMPLETON Resophonic LP + booklet third volume in the 13(3) series, with interesting audio part by Italian sound artist NICOLA RATTI - field recordings mixed with other object sounds that do no really "belong" to it, creating a subtle illusion.... the photographic (?) part comes from MARK TEMPLETON (16 page A4 booklet); NICOLA RATTI is a prolific composer with releases on DIE SCHACHTEL, SENUFO, ROOM40 or STUDENTS OF DECAY.. lim. 250 copies on white vinyl & still to discover ! 2014 €15.00
REED, RICK Music for the Rothko Chapel 10 lim. 500 / Nr. 2 in the lactamase 10" series / white vinyl ..... www.blrrecords.com 2001 €12.50
RELAPXYCH.00 Hallucinogenitaliencryption 12 amazingly entitled & sounding one-sided long play 12" (4 tracks) with laser-etched artwork on Side B, loopy hazy ambience in the way of RAPOON, but evoking a stranger atmosphere with more cut ups, etc ("Björk Homogenic era meets early Warp Records releases."); comes on purple marbled vinyl 2010 €10.00
RENALDO & THE LOAF Song of the Lungfish 12inch elaborated designed 4-track 12" (with flourescent colours + art insert) with the title track using lyrics send in by a fan, all new material recorded after their re-union, 2017-2019... - "They continue to record and explore their decidedly individual unclassifiable sound world. Although the words surreal, playful, timeless, ethnographic, electronic, punk and oddly folk-ish have been used in attempt to describe their music." - lim. 100 copies only, numbered ed, BLACK vinyl 2019 €25.00
RENOU, CHRISTIAN Transfer LP very dense & intense soundscapes by the ex- (& now again) BRUME, using bell / metal sounds in a genius way, dark elecro-acoustic drone & almost cinematic atmospheres, powerful & melancholic...just great ! Ultra-limited vinyl-only album, hard to find Russian import; special die-cut cover with holes, lim. 198 copies only. The very first RENOU LP ! 2009 €25.00
REPTILICUS & HAFLER TRIO Designer Time LP first vinyl re-issue of the obscure CD from 1994 (Staalplaat / Soleilmoon) - a collaboration by Icelandic duo REPTILICUS (who had some great releases in the 90's) and ANDREW MC.KENZIE, who lived in Iceland during that time... they recorded various sounds from a derelict slaugherhouse freezer that poured into this release of weird sample, rhythm and drone architecture... - comes on white vinyl, over 50 min. playtime 2021 €20.00
RESIDENTS Metal, Meat & Bone (Six Songs Inspired By Dyin' Dog) LP rare six track (45 rpm) mini LP with RESIDENTS versions of songs originally recorded by ALVIN SNOW aka DYIN' DOG, somehow transmitted without their conscious will it seems.. - ."..but here is all the evidence we need that some special happened. Equal parts pan-dimensional projection and group exorcism.." - BLACK vinyl lim. 100 only!!! 2020 €28.50
REUTOFF ReuTRauM VI 7 black vinyl, 300 copies 2003 €8.00
ReutRaum IV (SOLD OUT) 7 sec. ed. 300 copies. full colour cover & coloured vinyl 2004 €6.00  
  The fourth face 10inch great 4-track 10" from this ultra dark & moody Moscow-area based Electro / Industrial-band & Drone Records artist (DR-46), ORANGE or BLACK vinyl, lim. 500 in total 2002 €12.00
REYNOLS 10.000 Chickens' Symphony 7inch re-pressing of 300 copies on coloured vinyl & w. printed full-colour covers! 2003 €6.00
  10.000 Chickens' Symphony (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 on red-yellow-gold vinyl with different coloured covers & inlays 2000  
RILEY, TERRY In C LP the first ever recording (= most original version) of this famous minimal music piece, recorded at 30th Street Studio in New York City in 1968; instrumentation: saxophone, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, clarinet, flute, viola, trombone, vibraphone, and marimbaphone; 180gr vinyl, original cover reproduction, gatefold cover 2012 €22.00
RISHAUG, ALEXANDER Shadow of Events LP minimal ambient electronica at its best - sometimes more low-fi droney, sometimes sparsely harmonic & melancholic, connected by obscure field recordings... composer from Oslo, Norway; vinyl version lim. 300 2011 €13.00
RLW Merry Merry 7 white vinyl, 300 copies 2003 €6.00
  Contours Imaginaires 10inch lim. 500 / dark orange vinyl 2007 €12.00
RLW / PAAK Zur Arbeit I LP already the third collaboration by RLW with PETER KASTNER aka PAAK, this time on the subject WORK: on three pieces called "Schnaps" (booze), "Kantine" (canteen), and "Gerberei" (tannery) they distill the typical sounds from these "areas" of work in the 19th, 20th, and 21th century with a sarcastic and at times dadaistic approach, using harpsichord, mellotron, rhythmbox, voice and field recordings; a very curious record to say the least !! Lim. 300 colour vinyl & inlay 2016 €17.00
ROIGK, STEFAN Suffering for the promised LP "Being in the making – or un-making – for the past 14 years, Stefan Roigk's »Suffering For The Promised« has gone through many stages, from being finished, revoked, left untouched, reworked, discussed to finally getting banned onto vinyl in its ultimate and irrevocable form. An atmospherically intense but yet utterly fragile piece, combining concrete sounds, field recordings and devotional vocal fragments to an eclectic and highly intimate composition.." lim. 316 copies, printed inner sleeve 2019 €16.00
ROSENQVIST, DAG & SIMON SCOTT Conformists LP ghostly, subtle ambient soundtrack to the short film by JURIAAN BOOIJ, white vinyl. DAG ROSENQVIST = JASPER TX. SIMON SCOTT: ex SLOWDIVE ! 2010 €15.00
S-CORE Finger Mark (SOLD OUT) 7inch lim. 250, white vinyl 1995  
S.Q.E. Wahid (SOLD OUT) 7inch lim. 300 / handmade cover by the artist / white marbled vinyl 2005 €7.00  
SAKAMOTO, RYUICHI & DAVID TOOP Garden of Shadows and Light LP DAVID TOOP and RYUICHI SAKAMOTO invite to a contemplative journey with (exotic) instruments (flute, piano, guitars) and objects, but also field recordings and very subtle analog electronics appear, recorded in performance / London August 2018... . "You are led through a series of discrete moments, each uniquely shaded, whether by highly amplified small percussive sounds, austere electronic tones or the mournful tones of Toop's bass recorder.." - clear vinyl 180.gr, embossed sleeve 2021 €29.50
SAND His first Steps LP recorded 1972-1973 as a "forerunner" to GOLEM with early/different versions, just after the split up of P.O.T. (Part of Time); 5th in the series of SAND albums on Rotorelief, lim. 700 coloured vinyl, luxurius oversize cover 2016 €25.00
Vibrating Cloud do-LP finally in stock, the latest "new" album by the German Kraut / Psych / Kosmische / Experimental legends, celebrating their 50th anniversary with 10 NEW tracks, plus 6 tracks that are remakes of older classics; - * Over 5 decades Sand is a timeless narrative machine full of pictures and scenarios, each title a unique piece that stands alone. * - black vinyl ed., numbered, "android" cover art by ENKI BILAL, 200 gr. vinyl 2020 €32.50
Desert Navigation (clear) LP unreleased album (first in a series of four unheard SAND albums on Rotorelief!) by the legendary Krautrock-band, composed during the period of "Golem"... - 'Desert Navigation is the link with the earth, in its primal sense' - re-press on CLEAR vinyl, 300 copies, numbered ed. 2017 €25.00
  Golem (clear) LP re-issue of legendary psychedelic/experimental Krautrock-album from 1974; front-cover painting by BABS SANTINI (re-make of the original cover); lim/numbered 300 copies on CLEAR vinyl, this is the latest existing pressing. - *Golem is as uncharacteristic of Krautrock as it is of the rest of Sand’s catalog, which would largely become more proto-industrial, roping in factory field recordings and ambient noise to their sound..* [Raven Sings the Blues] 2017 €25.00
SANTOS SILVA, SUSANA MMXX-08: Sometimes it's raining a lot LP 8th release in the new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => Portugesian trumpet player S.S.SILVA (more known in the impro & Jazz scene) mixes instrumental sounds, electronics, voice and field rec. for a dronish experimental journey, very nice.. 2020 €23.00
SANTOS SILVA, SUSANA / HAMPUS LINDWALL / TORBJORN ZETTERBERG Hi! Who are you? LP high class improvisation, kind of "jazzy post industrial / avantgarde" soundscapes by these there players: SUSANA SANTOS SILVA: trumpet ; T. ZETTERBERG: double bass, electric noise ; HAMPUS LINDWALL: pipe organ / live electronics; their second encounter after the "If Nothing Else" CD from 2015, with a full step forwards including electronic drones and sounds.. lim. 300 - ORANGE vinyl 2019 €23.00
SAVAGE REPUBLIC Sword Fighter / Taranto!!! 7inch two powerful NEW pieces by the legends! Comes in beautiful very special fold out die-cut cover w. silk-screen print; standard edition in BLACK vinyl SPECIAL PRICED NOW ! 2009 €5.00
Aegean do-LP the great epic album (19 tracks, 64 min.!) from 2014 now on vinyl! => the Californian cult band goes deeper "back to the roots" with tribalesque percussion, 'oriental' sounding guitar melodies and surprises with female vocals and a wind section even, but also has very powerful 'wall of sound' / post-punk influenced tracks, and a stronger experimental approch as before.... lots of guest-musicians as BLAINE REINIGER (TUXEDOMOON) on violin appear... spreading in all directions... lim. 400 w. wonderful cover 2015 €28.00
Meteora LP (Lathe-cut) what started in 1982 with the genius "Tragic Figures" album finds a continuation in 2021 with "Meteora"; although the line-up has changed completely, you can hear in every second that this IS SAVAGE REPUBLIC, rich harmonic instrumental tracks in the typical "desert rock" style change with aggressive, vocalized and more post punking tracks... the power, the emotion, the yearning, it's all still there... - this is the lim. LATHE CUT pressing (lim. 80) on 140 gr. vinyl, incl. silkscreen cover, inlay, DL code 2021 €26.50
  Tragic Figures (40th Anniversary Edition) do-LP collector's item! = the 40th anniversary release of this cult album from 1982 (definitely in our personal TOP TEN for the lonely island), the masterpiece of "art punk" or "art industrial" with psychedelic / tribal / ethnic influences and strong political impact - comes with a full extra disc of rare recordings and demos from the same time, when they rehearsed in a garage with natural reverb; all re-mastered, plus new liner notes & interview, lim. gatefold cover edition on RED vinyl 2022 €55.50
SCHAEFER, JANEK Unfolding Luxury beyond the City of Dreams LP seven new very atmospheric tracks by the British composer who originally studied Architecture, majestic drones & ambient vinyl loops slowly unfolding with ocassional field recordings or 'concrete' additions, often created with a concept for an installation or exhibition... very nice cover-artwork too; mastered by STEPHAN MATHIEU 2014 €14.00
SCHNITZLER, CONRAD & PHARMAKUSTIK Kontraktion LP so far unreleased recordings from 1986/1987, based on two sessions recorded at SCHNITZLER's studio in Berlin; in 2014 SIEGMAR FRICKE edited and restructured these sessions into five pieces... the result sounds similar to SCHNITZLERs first three albums 'Schwarz' 'Rot' 'Blau' and early CLUSTER material; lim. 400 black vinyl 2016 €22.00
SCKE// Ornaments 7inch project from UK with a 7" pressed already in 2004, but strangely "made available" only in 2012 - contains two "Ornaments" of electronic, repetitive structures taken from concrete tape fragments, and occasional cut-up noises.. "2 Sides of rough and ready cut up fragments over warm undulating textures and brittle loops.." pretty nice!! lim. 300 on heavy vinyl 2004 €7.00
SCORN / SEEFEEL / TIMOTHY LEARY / YANOMAMI Ancient Lights and the black Core LP vinyl re-issue of the ground-breaking compilation from 1995, linking the post-industrial tribal electronica beats and drones with ritual chants of the famous Amazonian tribe (Yanomami), and words of the "neuropolitics" pope TIMOTHY LEARY (with DJ CHEB I SABBAH)=> everything seemed possible, the unification of post modern culture with ancient knowledge and rites.. inc. inlay with an essay by British music ethnologist DAVID TOOP, comes on clear/black marbled vinyl 2017 €15.00
SEASONS (PRE-DIN) Your Eyes The Stars and Your Hands The Sea LP debut vinyl-release (vinyl-version of the CD-R on MYSTERY SEA) by this new experimental drone artist from UK 2009 €16.50
SECONDS IN FORMALDEHYDE A Shiver in Red do-LP very good first vinyl / LP release for this German experimental guitar-ambience project (also using piano, electronics, shortwave radiosounds..), unfortunately completely overlooked... - lim. 100 with one-sided bonus 12" !! 2009 €21.50
SEETYCA The Lake (SOLD OUT) 7inch lim. 300 handmade cover / black-green vinyl 2007 €7.00  
SELAXON LUTBERG Cold House of Love LP first great album (Eibon Records 2006) now re-released on luxuriously designed vinyl; lim. 250 / 2 vinyl-colours 2011 €19.50
  Simboli Accidentali LP third full album by this ultra spheric melancholiac from Italy, these nostalgia drones are made from effected guitar, organ and self-made loops, creates a wonderful mellow & sad atmosphere ... reminds on LABRADFORD, STARS OF THE LID, WILLIAM BASINSKI.... lim. vinyl version 2013 €20.00
SERRIES, DIRK Microphonics XXI-XXV do-10inch & CD subtitled: "mounting among the waves, there's a light in vein, the burden of hope across thousands of rivers" = 4 new long tracks of multi-layered guitar ambience & drones, very refined, orchestral & beautiful; lim. vinyl version w. gatefold-cover & CD of the same album; numbered edition (300 on black vinyl) 2013 €27.50
SEVERIN BESTOMBES (VOM HORSE GORE CLUB) Auszug & Abgesang LP lim./numb. 333 copies on 'glow in the dark' vinyl (green) ! Very experimental project of NOVY SVET, quite crazy & lovely collages in the way of NWW, etc.. last copies found!! 2006 €20.00
SHRINE Distorted Legends, Pt. 1 (SOLD OUT) 7inch edition of 300 / black vinyl, oversized full-colour gatefold sleeve 2008 €7.00  
SIDHARTA, OTTO Kajang LP highly recommended LP with four newer works (2015-2020) by the Indonesian composer, a great organic and contemplative mixture of processed field and object recordings, multi-layered drones, traditional instrument recordings (gongs, etc.)...- *deeply inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music, that he tries to preserve, as in some remote places, they keep their own tradition very strongly.* Lim. ed. WHITE vinyl 2022 €17.00
SIGHTINGS Michigan Haters LP first vinyl re-issue of the second SIGHTINGS album from 2002, very raw, noisy, unpolished rumbling quasi-rock; "something like listening to TERRY RILEY or STEVE REICH through a Big Muff at 110 decibels" 2011 €16.00
SIGUR ROS Kveikur do-LP & 10inch lim. vinyl version of new album with bonus 10" (two extra tracks & one remix) and CD of the same album, showing SIGUR ROS going partly into a darker, more "industrial" direction as before... 2013 €26.00
SILK SAW Parallel Landscapes LP the comeback for this experimental electronic(a) duo from Belgium, known from several SUB ROSA and ANT-ZEN releases; intelligently constructed IDM that is not really danceable, more hypnotic (like VROMB for example) and quirky and with a nice use of acoustic instruments and weirdo sounds....the vinyl version contains 4 tracks that are also on the CD version entitled "Parallel Landscapes" with different cover - done by Moscow street artist GRISHA; lim. 300 2015 €18.00
SINGER, CLAIRE M. Trian: Recent Works do-LP this nicely designed vinyl release (full colour gatefold cover) presents CLAIRE SINGERs two recent CD releases "Solas" (without "The Molendinar") and "Fairge" - her beautiful, elevating 'instrumental drone' compositions based on electronics, organ, cello, etc. remind on HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR but also more experimental works and build a class of her own... ed. of 500 copies 2019 €20.00
SION ORGON Dust LP the 5th full album by this Welsh project, 'impossible to categorize' avantgardish Pop / Rock, feat. THIGHPAULSANDRA and many other guests... "within these 6 tracks he moves seamlessly from noisy indie rock, abstract ambient to and back, with a grand finale of heartfelt and moving psychedelic rock....While this release basically lasts only 6 tracks in barely 40 Minutes it really kicks ass, ashes and dust at once." [CHAIN D.L.K.] - lim. vinyl version 300 copies 2021 €20.00
SIRIA Boa-Lingua MC this female Portugesian artist combines her beautiful singing/voice (based on traditional folk songs), field recordings and found sources (vinyl) into mesmerizing, improvised "songs"... highly atmospheric! - 2nd tape for Cronica; "Like my previous album, Boa-Língua was born and developed as a result of a subconscious will and energy, rather than a clear idea that was intended to be seen and heard..." - lim. 100 copies, prof. cover & duplicating 2020 €9.00
SISTER IODINE Venom do-LP sixth album by the radical French No Wave/Industrial/Drone/Noise-Rock band (active since 1994), continuously re-newing their "radioactive chaos", sounding like a more abrasive form of WOLF EYES, bursting with tension...=> "Sister Iodine’s Venom is a pure and raw, energy-powered album performed like an audio exorcism. Each track contains its own intense physicality to radiate sound illuminations of light inside of darkness." transparent vinyl edition lim. 100! 2018 €32.00
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE / (R) Shivers 7inch split 7" with two cover-versions of ROWLAND S. HOWARDS song, (r) is the project of FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO (of LARSEN fame); lim. ed 350 copies - colour vinyl 2012 €10.00
SKULL DEFEKTS Storm Skull Dub 7 clear vinyl / hand-patterned clear sleeves / lim. 200 2007 €8.50
  The Drone Drug LP vinyl version in nice silkscreen print cover; includes coupon for free download of the album incl. bonustracks 2008 €15.00
SKULLFLOWER / MASTERY split LP monolithic "black psychedelia" with lots of suction on three new tracks from SKULLFLOWER, based on bleak guitar riffs & sequences; + almost unlistenable extreme & fast "black metal" noise with de-humanized vocals on Side B by MASTERY; killer-album! lim. 100 on green vinyl ! LAST COPY 2013 €23.00
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY/LLYN Y CWN Sargo / Posidonia CD nautical dark / deep ambient on this awesome split album, centered on the themes deap sea, ocean field recordings, subconscious perception: *The ultimate deep listening experience from two masters of dark ambient. A slow descent into the blackened watery abyss, where light cannot reach.* - CD in mini-LP sleeve, replicating the vinyl design. 2023 €15.00
SMALL CRUEL PARTY (before the dream...) (SOLD OUT) 7inch limited + numbered first ed. of 250 copies. handmade sleeves; yellow vinyl 1995  
SMARZOCH, RAPHAEL Spitrobot 7inch ed. of 500 / heavy vinyl 2004 €6.00
SOLEILKRAAST Choresonic Preludes to a Dark Cycle (SOLD OUT) 7 Lim. 300 on black vinyl with yellow/orange speckles, handmade inlays 2004 €6.50  
SOLO ANDATA Ritual LP third album (first on vinyl) by the Australian duo; otherwordly organic ambiences at its best, performed entirely on acoustic instruments, wildlife or environmental recordings; recommended for explorers of dense mysterious dronescapes... 2010 €19.50
SORIAH (FEAT. ROEDELIUS & NORMAN WESTBERG) Lumina 10inch the "Avant-Shamanic Throat Singer" SORIAH (who lives in California and Tuvan Republic, Russia, a master of 'Khoomei', the traditional Tuvan Throat Singing) with two mesmerizing; evocative drone pieces, feat. ROEDELIUS (CLUSTER, etc.) on pipe organ and NORMAN WESTBERG (SWANS) on guitar - lim. / numb. 350 copies, printed inner sleeves, clear vinyl, download card; - high price unavoidable but this is a very special item we believe !! 2023 €29.50
SOUND_00 / IVERSEN same 7inch nice otherworldy spacious 4-track EP and first vinyl release on this British label => the project from Macedonia in collab. with JAN-MORTEN IVERSEN from Norway, moving between versatile 'abstract experimental ambience' with subtle ice-sounds and more aggressive post industrial collage noise; "Someone dragging heavy sheets of cold steel through the soft mush formerly known as your brain.." lim. 500 BACK IN STOCK 2005 €6.00
SPEAR Not two (SOLD OUT) 7 clear vinyl 1999  
SPECIAL INTERESTS (MAG) No. 9 mag the noise & industrial mag. from Finland, feat: PRURIENT, SEKTOR304, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE, FOETUS, THE RITA, etc. etc. , + reviews of live shows, books, CDs and vinyls, 84 pages B5 offset printed pages, perfectly bound 2013 €10.00
  No. 10 mag the noise & industrial mag. from Finland with articles on: LE SYNDICAT FACTION VIVANTE, ROBERT TURMAN, GRIM, STORM BUGS, T.O.M.B., WINCE, etc.+ reviews of live shows, books, CDs and vinyls, 84 pages B5 offset printed pages, perfectly bound 2018 €10.00
SPECIMENS In the Dust of Idols LP difficult to find second LP by the London based "Drone-Mind" compilation artist, these are wonderful hazy, dusty atmospheric miniatures (based on guitars, voice, field rec., organ, synths, sax, cello..) full of beauty and melancholy, inspired by existentialist questions... recommended to fans of R.A. IRISARRI, TROUM, LAWRENCE ENGLISH (who did the mastering again); ed. of 300 copies on white-blue splatter vinyl, with inlay 2018 €20.00
SPIEGEL, LAURIE The Expanding Universe 3 x LP extended re-issue of LAURIE SPIEGELs debut-album from 1980 that became a classic of 20th century electronic music (contains now 15 additional tracks from the same period, many for the first time on vinyl) => very reduced and minimal electronic & purely synthetic patterns & structures, that can be poly-rhythmic or just floating... her piece "Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds" was included on the Golden Record launched on board the Voyager spacecraft! Gatefold cover & download postcard 2019 €42.00
SPK (S.P.K.) Zamia Lehmanni (Songs of Byzantine Flowers) LP re-issue of the classic SPK album and mystic ethno-masterpiece (1986, Side Effects) with new liner notes by GRAEME REVELL, gatefold-cover / lim. golden vinyl (lim. 500); "Its overall spirit is bathed in a classical mysticism conjured from the sounds and instruments of New Guinea and Indonesia. These textural pieces are occasionally accompanied by choral chants that add a haunting air. Their restraint belies an inner strenght that sends shivers down your vulnerability." [Kevin Murphy /Sounds] 2019 €23.50
SRMEIXNER / BAND OF PAIN Texture. Montage. Sequence / Tripping in Q 7inch lim. 250 white vinyl / nice design / SRMEIXNER = STEPHEN MEIXNER = CONTRASTATE member! 2007 €7.00
STABAT MORS Ich bin so wild nach deinem Erdbeermund (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 300 / handpainted covers / red vinyl 2004 €6.50  
STAPLETON, STEVEN & DAVID TIBET The Threats of Memories do-LP second vinyl release with collected TIBET / STAPLETON material, feat: "The Sadness of Things" (orig. 1991), "The Dead Side of the Moon" and "BubbleHead" (both from the 'Musicalische Kürbs Hütte' LP (1996), and "DreamBreath", an unreleased, side-long outtake from the "Musical Pumpkin Cottage"-sessions (CD 1996) ; the whole comes in a gatefold sleeve with insert containing all lyrics and credits, with an unknown amount pressed but probably only 500 2019 €32.00
STIEBLER, ERNSTALBRECHT Kanon / Torsi LP two pieces by this German composer of reductionist contemporary music: "Kanon" (1980) for organ, electric organ and wind instruments, previously unreleased; "Torsi" (2002), for organ, first time on vinyl (recorded in a church in Konstanz, Germany) => extremely quiet, sublime, droning and minimal... this music really breathes! lim. 300 gatefold cover with extensive interview 2017 €20.00
STIEBLER, ERNSTALBRECHT / VARIOUS ARTISTS Reworks LP tribute remixes for the 85th birthday of the pioneering German minimalist composer, following his three principal compositional concerns "SONORITY, RHYTHM, and DURATION" - " five artists from different musical backgrounds present their approach to and understanding of Stiebler's minimalist aesthetic" : FRANK BRETSCNEIDER, BERANGERE MAXIMIN, JASMINE GUFFOND. PHONOSPHERE, KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF; 300 copies on 180 gr. vinyl + download code 2019 €18.00
STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS same LP nice drone improvisation LP, feat. members of PAN SONIC, SCHNEIDER TM, MUM... lim. 400 black vinyl 2008 €16.00
SUBOTNICK , MORTON Silver Apples of the Moon LP first vinyl re-issue of SUBOTNICKs masterpiece from 1967, a milestone of electronic music; created on a self-built modular electronic system he invented with DONALD BUCHLA and RAMON SENDER; "a fascinating vocabulary of points, glissandi, spatters, hisses, whistles and sirens..." [Allmusic.com]; lim. 500, pressed on 180 gr. vinyl 2014 €20.00
SUDDEN INFANT My Life's a Gunshot 4 x LP collection of 49 rare & unreleased tracks from the last 20 years of this radical project; two fold out double LPs, cover-paintings by JOKE LANZ, plus 4 page essay by GX JUPITTER-LARSEN (THE HATERS); vinyl only release lim. 500 2010 €49.00
Things that happened LP intense noise- & bodyscapes, incredible collages, always original, organic, unescapable... documents two live-performances (Leeds 08.2011 & Hamburg 10.2007), comes in three different vinyl-colours (red, green, blue), definitely one of the best experimental noise-acts around !! Lim. 300 copies. Released on Hamburgs true underground label (& connected with the HÖRBAR / B-MOVIE association there) REDUKTIVE MUSIKEN 2011 €16.50
  Wölflis Nightmare LP + CD JOKE LANZ dedicated his new album to the legendary Swiss schizophrenic 'Art Brut' artist ADOLF WÖLFLI and created a swampy industrial rock masterpiece, the labels calls it "Industrial Brachial Minimal Blues Noise"; the vinyl version comes with CD copy of the same album 2014 €15.50
SUNEATERS Cosmic Insight, Baby (Part 1) 10inch project of TOBIAS FISCHER (FEU FOLLET) and MIRKO UHLIG (AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF), a great retro-trip into soundrealms of the "Berliner Schule" of the 70's.. - "References are plentiful, ranging from the great pioneers Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze as well as Kluster and Eno to the magical musical territories of Coil, Robert Fripp and Mirror.. " - golden vinyl, great special designed die-cut sleeves, numbered ed. of 347 copies 2007 €7.50
SUNN O))) Pyroclasts LP a kind of sister-album to "Life Metal", the four tracks were recorded at the same sessions (Chicago, July 2018) as "early morning improvisation" contemplation practises... and here SUNN O))) do what they can maybe do best: creating mighty drones that swirl and circle, full of vibrations, resonances, overtunes, feedbacks, overwhelming with the full spectrum of frequencies, with the gradual crystallization of certain structures and forms.. feat. stunning full colour sleeves & inlays, PURPLE IN ORANGE vinyl 2019 €23.50
Flight of the Behemoth do-LP first ever vinyl re-press of the 3rd album from 2002, feat. MASAMI AKITA....slow moving lava guitar drones of a subterreanean beauty...contains the vinyl only bonus track "Grimm & Bear It" - luxurious design: case-wrapped gatefold jacket with full color 24" x 36" folded poster, printed inner sleeves, metallic print; BLACK vinyl edition 2020 €33.00
  METTA, BENEVOLENCE. BBC 6MUSIC do-LP one hour session recorded in the legendary JOHN PEEL studios for a MARY ANNE HOBBS radioshow, October 2019: advanced versions of "Pyroclasts" and "Troubled Air", feat. ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF on synths / voice... - "The radiation embraces collaboration and freedom of interpretation by each player, within a structural format of the massive monuments of sound and distortion which define SUNN O))).." - massive gatefold sleeve with OBI, printed innersleeves, BLACK vinyl ed 2022 €30.00
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Offal do-LP our favourite S.J. album so far, on OFFAL four long tracks fight with your senses with their organ-like wall of drone piercings, intense electronic pulses, powerful/violent vocals, and stormy noise effects..."The production on the album sounds massive compared to previous releases, giving the carefully constructed songs an intense, brutal and relentless environment not heard before." Vinyl version w. gatefold sleeve, printed lyrics + dowload code, lim. 500 2016 €23.50
SUTEKH HEXEN Sutekh Hexen do-LP already sold out at the label, the vinyl version of the latest album by this radical US American collective of black metal influenced toxic UR-noise..."a distillation of power-ambient, industrial, and black metal deconstructionism" - ed. of 300 copies 2019 €30.00
SVARTSINN Morkets Variabler do-LP Eight years after the last full length album this project from Norway is now surely one of the best known in the current dark ambient scene, this new album consists of 7 long movements, with references to NIETZSCHE or H.P.LOVECRAFT and use of "real" cello performed by AMUND ULVESTAD; the vinyl version (300 copies, gatefold sleeve, black vinyl) is now available 2017 €26.00
SWANS White Light from the Mouth of Infinity / Love of Life 3 x CD re-issues of "White Light.." (1991) and "Love of Life" (1992), plus a bonus CD with 18 tracks of outtakes & rare live material; all re-mastered, with different cover artwork than the vinyl version 2015 €22.50
Leaving Meaning do-CD first SWANS album after the dissolution of the previous lineup (2010-2017), recorded with an amazing array of guest musicians such as THE NECKS, ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF, BEN FROST, BABY DEE, etc... going again more into a very fruitful songwriting and hypnotic jazz / folk / drone direction, without ignoring the experimental / cacophonic noise side... CD version with extended mixes and additional track not on the vinyl ! 2019 €18.50
  The Beggar do-LP *Todessehnsüchte eines Toxikers* - MICHAEL GIRA got 69 and this marks a return to more folky, romantic, and mellow areas; beyond catharsis and rage, recorded in Berlin... »Just by thinking I’m here / I will soon disappear. / Who cares and who knows / where I’ve been or will go?« - *Housed in a gatefold sleeve. Contains an insert, a poster, and a download code. Download includes extra 44 minute track, The Beggar Lover (Three), not featured on the vinyl.* 2023 €45.00
SYBARITE Dolourous Echo 7inch ed. of 500 / blue vinyl / fullcolour sleeve 2005 €6.00
SYNDROME Now and Forever LP last copies of the vinyl version of the third SYNDROME release, the project of MATHIEU VANDEKERCKHOVE (SEMBLER DEAH, AMENRA) form Ghent, Belgium => one long profound / philosophic piece of super minimal guitar-ambient drone folk with vocals, feat. JOSH GRAHAM (ex NEUROSIS, A STORM OF LIGHT) and COLIN VAN EECKHOUT (AMENRA), so slow, fragile and emotional, think of STEVE VON TILL (the voice) or TROUM (the polyphonic guitars)... 2013 €20.50
SZCZESNY, DAWID Unheard Treats CD first album by this Polish laptop-artist using old vinyl & tape samples to create a very introspective and calm experimental ambience 2005 €10.00
TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Live LP four live extracts by the legendary Japanese experimental / drone / impro - ensemble rec. 1972 & 1973 in Denmark, France, Japan; lim. 500 blue vinyl & clear cover with black printing 2011 €20.00
TALVIHORROS Music in four Movements LP vinyl version of the second album (CD from 2010 on Hibernate which is now deleted) by this promising British guitar drone/ambient project; lim. 150 (heavy vinyl, gatefold cover, MP3 download code) 2012 €20.00
  And it was so LP 4th full length album by this London-based composer, nostalgic & very harmonic / filmic dronescapes with lots of handplayed guitars and a neo-classic touch, feat. many guest-musicians from FIELD ROTATION, PETRELS, and others... described as a meeting of TIM HECKER with BARN OWL or SUN ARAW; vinyl version lim. 500 copies 2012 €20.00
TAM QUAM TABULA RASA Cotidie Morimur (SOLD OUT) 7inch re-pressing of 300 copies on coloured vinyl & w. printed full-colour covers! 2003 €6.00  
  Cotidie Morimur (SOLD OUT) 7inch the only vinyl release during their existence for this legendary Italian "archaic drone" tape project; original first edition / unplayed / individually printed cover / lim.+numbered 250 copies 1995 €6.00  
TAMING THE OUTBACK 1986-1989 CD anthology of 21 tracks from this overlooked 80's UK "wave" band, sounding very much like ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN, JOY DIVISION or SAD LOVERS & GIANTS; comes in a mini-gatefold cover with mini-poster & booklet and collects before released & much unreleased material.. lim. 385 copies (there's also a box / lim. 75 edition existing with vinyl 7" and badges and more.. please ask if interested) 2011 €13.00
TARIQUA 'ALAWIYA The \'Imara (The Dance of the Stars) LP original SUFI music from Algeria! - Like a dance of derwishes made with vocals, these prayers develop into something rhythmic and hypnotizing, moving faster and faster.. *The balance between the soloist who sings the mystical poems and the rest of the assembly is progressively established, and then the accelration of the hamza finally throws the participants into the abyss of ecstasy.* - white vinyl, 300 copies 2021 €25.00
TARKATAK Skärva / Oroa 7 re-pressing of 300 copies on coloured vinyl & w. printed full-colour covers! 2003 €6.00
TAYLOR, DUB Lumiere (for synthesized & concrete sound) LP a "masterpiece of Concrete and Synthesized music" from 1972 by this interesting US-composer, finally re-issued; this is the extra limited edition of signed 50 copies on green vinyl (out of 500 total pressing)!! 2011 €20.00
TAZARTES, GHEDALIA 5 Rimbaud 1 Verlaine 10inch vinyl version of the rare mini-album from 2006 with 6 tracks, which marked TAZARTES return after more than 10 years: a tribute to the poetry of RIMBAUD and VERLAINE, re-mastered on 45 rpm, lim. 350 copies 2016 €16.50
  Diasporas LP re-mastered vinyl re-issue / re-pressing of the maybe most well known & impressive TAZARTES album (recorded 1977, released 1979), his most expressive debut! Lim. ed on transparent RED vinyl, or regular black... "Ghédalia Tazartès is a nomad. He wanders through music from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. He paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker..." 2020 €22.50
TBC Gute Luft (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies on clear violet vinyl 2002  
TEAR GARDEN, THE The Brown Acid Caveat do-LP the perfect "pop"-album by the long going project of EDWARD KA-SPEL and KEVIN CEY, reminding on their early albums on NETTWERK, the title being inspired by 'bad acid' spread at the first Woodstock festival in August 1969; "Psychedelic electronic melancholia, fearless experimentation & improvisation combine to take the intrepid listener on a mesmerizing voyage of the mind. Feel the Love." gatefold cover, coloured vinyl, download code 2017 €34.00
  Have a nice Trip do-LP first vinyl re-issue of album from 2009, the project of EDWARD KA-SPEL and KEVIN KEY (SKINNY PUPPY) worked together with diverse remixers such as RAYMOND STEEG (LPD), PHIL WESTERN (DOWNLOAD), HIWATT MARSHALL, etc.. to design these 12 most psychedelic, free floating sci-fi electronic space-pop tracks.., gatefold sleeve, green vinyl, download card 2017 €36.00
TEARDO, TEHO & BLIXA BARGELD Fall 12inch the latest 12" vinyl of this fruitful and unusual collaboration, feat a cover version of NEIL YOUNGs "My My Hey Hey"; 4 tracks in total, many guest musicians on Bass Clarinet, Cello, Viola, and Violin.. + download code 2017 €22.50
TEFITON (VAN BEBBER, CLAUS / ERHART HIRT) Tefiton LP lim. 300 heavy vinyl 2005 €13.00
TEGH Unusual Path LP rare 12" with a side-long piece by the Teheran based composer, on Side 2 two we find remixes by SIAVASH AMINI and ZENJUNGLE => as with the precursor "Downfall" (CD on Midira), this is a melodramatic, but raw/distorted and organ-like ambience dronescape of a "higher" transcendental beauty,not to be missed! - lim. 100 copies only, blue vinyl, heavy cardboards sleeve and DL code 2019 €23.00
THE FORCE DIMENSION Early Recordings 1985-89 4 x LP BOX early material by this dutch EBM / electro industrial duo, who had a well known album out on KK Records in 1989; 4 LPs in box with T-Shirt, certificate and 16 page booklet, black vinyl lim. / numbered 400 copies 2023 €95.00
THE LORD & PETRA HADEN Devotional LP the second solo effort by GREG ANDERSONs (SUNN O))) solo project comes as a true surprise, as he's collaborating with expressive singer PETRA HADEN (known from OO VOID and GOATSNAKE), they create ornamental multi-layered vocal-guitar-vinyl heavyness.. - "Through a haze of incense, flowing robes, and secret mantras, Haden's voice rings out over constant drones in ecstatic chants throughout this musical investigation into the myriad of ways in which worship can lure and intoxicate.." - lim. 500 WHITE vinyl 2022 €26.00
THE POP GROUP For how much longer do we tolerate Mass Murder ? LP first ever vinyl re-issue of the political post-punk (& crazy noise funk!) classic from 1980, now with "We are all Prostitutes" as a bonus; replica of the original cover artwork + 8 huge artwork prints & 4 double-sided posters, + download card 2016 €27.50
THE ROOTSMAN MEETS MUSLIMGAUZE Amahar do-LP 15 tracks recorded 1997-1998 at THE ROOTSMANs "Third Eye" studio in Bradford (UK), this so far unpublished album was announced to be released in 2000 (as their third full joint CD), but never appeared... lim. vinyl ed. (now re-pressed) 2021 €28.00
  City of Djinn do-LP first ever vinyl issue of this CD collab from 1997 (their second), 23 rhythmic tracks - *For this album the original The Rootsman material from his albums Into The Light and 52 Days to Timbuktu was remixed and deconstructed by Muslimgauze....We hear distorted dub rhythms, sawn-off loops, traditional music, male and female voices and then distorted rhythms again.* - lim. 750 copies, with 12\" insert 2022 €30.00
THE THRESHOLD HOUSEBOYS CHOIR Form Grows Rampant 2 x 12inch re-issue of the only main release by P. CHRISTOPHERSON's post-COIL project from 2007, when he lived in Thailand; for the first time on vinyl (45 RPM), re-mastered / heavy vinyl / gatefold cover / full colour images.. - "Form Grows Rampant" is the soundtrack of a film shot by Christopherson (a video capture at the GinJae Vegetarian Festival)... a suite of lenghty dense atmospherics that combine shuddering electronics with sampled vocals, eerie digitalia, buried melodies and sinister undercurrents.. " 2022 €30.00
THIS IMMORTAL COIL The World ended a long Time ago do-LP the second part of COIL interpretations, 13 years after the beautiful "Dark Age of Love" (praised by PETER CHRISTOPHERSON at that time) = 10 pieces with a focus on the dark & melancholic side ("Dark River", "Cold Cell", etc.), created by a total of 19 gifted musicians which forms this virtual "ensemble", such as CHRISTINE OTT, MATT ELLIOT, MASSIMO PUPILLO, KRISTOFFER RYGG, STAN WESTERHUS, AIDAN BAKER, etc.. / vinyl version w. gatefold cover 2022 €26.00
THISQUIETARMY Vessels LP lim. 300 clear vinyl - more song-oriented & orchestral material from the Canadian droner, forming a new vision of epic drone-pop using also synths, rhythms & electronics 2012 €20.00
THISQUIETARMY + YELLOW6 Death LP Guitar-drone collaboration by these two artists from Canada & UK; melancholic & lonely ambient landscapes, not as dark as the title suggests; lim. 400 on golden & black vinyl. Mastered by FEAR FALLS BURNING 2010 €14.00
THO-SO-AA Dying Reveal (SOLD OUT) 7inch Dark hypnotic noise drones which suck you into “something”.. first ed. 300 copies / red vinyl / handmade covers 2005 €6.50  
THOROFON Gladio LP the German power electronics / industrial band is back- lim. 200 clear vinyl! - "Thorofon is loaded with angst-pop, haunting synth lines from mighty analogue devices and rhythmic core. the ingredients of vintage industrial music, metallic percussion and the remarkable psychotic voice are united in a most perfect way - a trademark thorofon. this is dystopian music for empty dancefloors... " 2022 €25.00
THROBBING GRISTLE Mission of Dead Souls LP vinyl re-issue of this most legendary recording (for the first time on vinyl again since 1983!): TG's last ever live performance happened in San Francisco, on May 29, 1981, incl. versions of 'Persuasion' and 'Discipline', an incredible powerful and apocalyptic live-ritual... comes on white vinyl with enhanced cover-artwork and new printed inner sleeves with photographs & texts, plus digital copy of the album 2018 €26.00
Journey Through a Body LP lim. vinyl re-issue of TGs last studio recordings (first time on vinyl since 1983!), regarded as their most haunting release; this was made as a piece of radio art for Italian National Radio RAI, Rome in March 1981, recorded in five days, a day per body section... comes on silver vinyl with foil-blocked cover feat. photos from the session, plus download code for a digital copy 2018 €26.00
  A Souvenir of Camber Sands do-LP the legendary live performance at ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES December 2004, dedicated to JOHN BALANCE who died one month earlier; this was first released as lim. concert CDR (sold out immediately); comes in gatefold-cover, with mini-poster and digital copy inlcuded, lim. vinyl ed. on white vinyl // IN STOCK NOW ! 2019 €25.00
THUJA Hills LP the 'dreamtone' improvisation/acoustic drone/folk-ensemble with LOREN CHASSE, GLENN DONALDSON, STEVEN R.SMITH and others with a rare work from 2002 (CD-R on Last Visible Dog), now re-issued on vinyl... "a misty fold of keyboard drones, tinkling piano, clusters of percussives, shuttling and scrabbling strings and other things - often asks for metaphor from the natural world" - ed. of 500 copies on a new sublabel of BLACKEST EVER BLACK 2019 €20.50
TIETCHENS, ASMUS In die Nacht CD fourth part in the rerelease-series of all early vinyl albums by Asmus Tietchens on CD. This is the third of the SKY albums from 1982 incl. three bonus tracks of unreleased material not included on the original LP. Comes with a poster booklet feat. the original cover artwork. 2004 €15.00
Stupor Mundi CD re-issue of LP from 1989 (Discos Esplendor Geometrico), plus 4 previously unreleased bonus-tracks, lim. 600 (part 14 in the ongoing series of re-releasing all TIETCHENS vinyls 1980-1991) 2012 €15.00
Biotop LP re-issue of this very early TIETCHENS album from 1981 (the first from his "SKY-phase") presenting short miniatures of his inimitable analogue-electronics of artificial pseudo-pop, using MOOG & drum-machine... 180gr vinyl 2013 €18.50
  Nachtstücke LP finally a vinyl re-issue of his very first solo LP from 1980 with recordings from 1975-1978 made on MOOG Sonic Six and Minimoog, produced by PETER BAUMANN (TANGERINE DREAM); strange harmonic ghostly synth-music, revealing even a dark romantic character... 2014 €19.50
TIETCHENS, ASMUS & TERRY BURROWS Burning the Watching Bride LP back in stock some NEW copies of this 12 year old vinyl-only album, the first release from the now defunct north-german label ! Soon to be rare 1998 €15.00
TIETCHENS, ASMUS / MIKI YUI Neues Boot LP first ever collab by TIETCHENS with Düsseldorf based Japanese artist MIKI YUI who worked with ROLF JULIUS and others before... > a true "recycling" of mutual sound sources with no added own sounds, a sensitive balance of somehow natural and somehow electronic acoustics occurs and catches the listeners full attention... masterful abstract microtonal ambience... vinyl version lim. 300 copies 2021 €20.50
TILLY, THOMAS (TO) & JEAN-LUC GUIONNET Stones, Air, Axioms / Delme do-LP in their ongoing "Stones, Air, Axioms" project the 2nd release (after the strong CD on Circum Discs 2012), creating a complex on-site installation for an old synagogue in Delme, France (May 2015), fitting to the religious architecture of the place: frequencies, voices in different languages, instrumental notes, rhythms and silences are blurred in ghostly resonances.. comes with luxurious cover art, extensive liner notes, lim. 300 on white vinyl 2018 €29.00
TO / THOMAS TILLY Script Geometry do-LP & CD first vinyl release by this French soundartist also known as TO => a work about \'density\', using sounds of a tropical forest as if they were synthetic, as if it was an artificial construct => quite massive, pulsing drone waves with eerie organic sounds inside, arrays of undecipherable microsounds, atmospheric vibrations with strange \'electronic\' sounding animal phenomena and surprising cut-ups; a mysterious sounding album with interesting concept, comes in gatefold cover with additional CD - BACK IN STOCK! 2014 €24.00
  Le Cebron / Statics and Sowers LP THOMAS TILLY aka Tô shows his skills again to record unusual enviromental sounds for his compositions => intriguing sounds of (crushed) ICE on the frozen lake Cebron (France) [Side A], recordings of beehives and electric circuits from a mixing board [Side B] - dedicated to Z. KARKOWSKI... explore thee outlandish sounds! Lim. 300, clear vinyl 2014 €20.00
TOMUTONTTU same LP lim. 400 on 220 gr vinyl / solo-project of KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT member: "Äusserst absonderliche und kaum zu klassifizierende Solo-Platte eines KEMIALLISET-Mitglieds zwischen Dadaismus in Reinform (allerlei Casiosamples, Bilig-Synths, low-fi Instrumente und Gemurmel, Gesinge, Getrommel, Tierstimmen, etc. ) und einer Art liebenswert verwunschem Märchen-Folk-Drone.... irre Musik!" 2007 €18.50
TORAL, RAFAEL Space Solo 1 LP LP-version of the Quecksilber CD from 2007; edition of 500, 200gr vinyl 2008 €13.50
  Space Elements Vol. 1 LP vinyl version (CD on Staubgold), clear vinyl; LAST COPY! 2008 €14.00
TORBA Musique Inconcrete LP absolutely mesmerizing album by this Italian project, with first full length on vinyl, relating conceptually on the "Unfinished" [INCOMPIUTO], it consists of sketches of field and object recordings plus few tape- & oscillator-sounds, with stunning and hardly describable result..."a macro cut-up of sound-screens reorganized as quasi-organic narration: Fragments of unfinished compositions, roughly assembled according to a mere aesthetic criteria." lim. 300 copies 2019 €18.00
TORTURING NURSE / EZCATON Eternal Foreshadowed / In Humana Ombra Solitaria 7inch split 7" on this French underground noise label by the Chinese masters of harsh noise from Shanghai & the "nekronoise" project EZCATON from Italy; sick sounds for sick braincells! Orange vinyl, lim.200 , handmade wallpaper cover 2012 €7.00
TOTESLAUT Strident Impurity CD first CD after two vinyls of this new controversial Finnish project, the sound a mixture of martial industrial (with distorted spoken words), dark classic samples, whizzing noises and power electronics / harsh noise, combined with S/M imagery (the info says: BLOOD AXIS, NAOS.. and RICHARD RAMIREZ!). Time to get your poison ! 2021 €12.00
TOY BIZARRE kdi dctb 180 10inch It's acous-MAGIC !! French CEDRIC PEYRONNET (aka TOY BIZARRE) is currently one of the most impressive composers using / processing pure nature recordings, and shaping them into something beyond the known... his soundscapes are full of details and circling dynamics but keep a floating & atmospheric character... like ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE, ERIC LA CASA or FRANCISCO LOPEZ, this is not just a recording of "what was", but a scheme of what could be!! lim. 300 full colour cover, clear vinyl 2015 €15.00
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN Perfection & Permanence LP the cold sound of death ! - if you want it really completely dark & sinister, filled with apocalyptic & esoteric / religious visions, this Swedish Death & Ritual Industrial project that gained cult status very quickly is the right 'medicine' for you! Lim. vinyl version RE PRESS on RED vinyl 2017 €16.00
Yours is a Kingdom of Death CD collection of rare vinyl-material: three tracks from the split LP with BODY CARGO (Autarkeia, 2016), one long track from the split LP with DEATHSTENCH (Malignant Records, 2013); "A renunciation of the created world; a glorification of the New Man; he who is beyond life and death, existing as pure flame alit in eternal void." 2017 €13.00
Yours is a Kingdom of Death LP collection of rare vinyl-material: three tracks from the split LP with BODY CARGO (Autarkeia, 2016), one long track from the split LP with DEATHSTENCH (Malignant Records, 2013); "A renunciation of the created world; a glorification of the New Man; he who is beyond life and death, existing as pure flame alit in eternal void." Vinyl version lim. ed. 300 copies on white vinyl 2018 €23.00
  Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave LP T x R x P surprise with this cryptic, album-long ritual work, minimal and mysterious, reminding on recordings from the Finnish AURAL HYPNOX clan.. - "a collection of unsettling sounds, sparsely placed chimes, whispers, horns, something resembling a waterphone, and deep bassy drones carried out in two ordeals" [The Covenant] - black vinyl ed. 500 copies 2019 €22.50
TROUM Ljubimaya / Daur CD re-issue of the very first TROUM release (the 3-track 10" vinyl-only "DAUR" from 1998, Cohort Rec), plus the LJUBIMAYA 10" from 2003 (Waystyx 03); cover pictures by Dmitry Chistov aka HUM; lim. 500 2009 €12.50
Autopoiesis / Nahtscato CD finally a CD version / re-issue of the two vinyl-only releases AUTOPOIESIS (pic-LP from 2004) and NAHTSCATO (12" from 2005); plus two unreleased versions / bonus-tracks recorded 2003; 6-panel digipack, edition of 500 copies 2010 €12.00
AIWS LP vinyl version of album from 2007; re-mastered by THOMAS DIMUZIO - the last Troum album that was recorded entirely analogue, on 8-track tape recorder; BLACK VINYL edition, 300 copies, stunning new artwork by PIERRE-YVES GIRARD "composed with guitar-drones and harmonic phrases that are processed in various ways creating an atmosphere of the sublime and emotional meditative states that transcend listener to immerse within themselves.." 2017 €18.00
DA-PU-RI-TO-JO (The Singles 2004-2016) CD re-issue of the BLACK MARA - box from 2017 - a compilation of TROUMs 7" vinyl releases (+ one digital only EP) through the years 2004 - 2016, all re-mastered and with stunning new artwork (6 panel digipak)... "12 dreamscapes that range from soothing, etheral and meditative through emotional and mysterious to dark, industrialesque and nightmarish." 2021 €13.00
  Autopoiesis / Nahtscato (re-press w. different artwork) CD re-press with slightly different cover (glossy spiral on backside) of about 300 copies: the re-issue of the two vinyl-only releases AUTOPOIESIS (pic-LP from 2004) and NAHTSCATO (12" from 2005); plus two unreleased versions / bonus-tracks recorded 2003;.."When suspending their drones as lugubrious slabs of sound, Troum emerge as a brooding doppleganger of the shoegazer ethos." [Jim Haynes /The Wire] 2021 €12.00
TURNER, AARON & DANIEL MENCHE NOX LP drifting transcension drones based on the voice of AARON TURNER (ISIS, LOTUS EATERS, SUMAC, etc..) with additional percussion, field recordings and electronic treatment by DANIEL MENCHE - this first single collaboration by two of the main U.S. drone- & rock noisers comes as a (wonderful) surprise, the 31 min. piece - stretched over 2 LP sides - reminds on classical contemporary choir pieces or otherwordly drone ambient art... lim. 400 on clear & black vinyl, letterpress cover 2017 €23.00
TWIG HARPER New Lost Knowns LP JAMES TWIG HARPER's LP for the Alga Marghen sublabel, full of unclassifiable + strange low fi noises, silkscreen cover, ed. of 200 copies, white vinyl, last copies! - *There's an animalistic or perhaps even plant-like bio-logic to its devolved, dubbed-out arcana, a grunting, scraping, grubbing ecological complexity of sounds that grows, twists and bifurcates at seemingly haphazard junctions to catalyse chain reactions of constant change and multiple layers of surreality.* 2013 €21.50
TZESNE Asimilacionismo LP 12 years after the "Huffduff" 7" on our own label (DR-74) the first LP by the favored Basque project: field recordings and vintage synth drones+tones+pulses+sequences serve as basis for the mysterious, somehow drone-based compositions, which use lots of unrecognizable sounds, there are flickering passages, synthetic scrawls and glittering environmentals, all carefully constructed for a wonderfully inspiring brain-ride... lim. 200 copies only, on white vinyl, finally BACK IN STOCK ! 2016 €20.00
UGGERI, MATTEO The Next Wait LP + 7inch a quite special album beyond all existing genres we think, Milan based musician MATTEO UGGERI (known with SPARKLE IN GREY and many collabs) created a 'very concrete' day-dreaming album using field recordings and musical material of many guest musicians like E. CONIGLIO, MAURIZIO ABATE or NICOLA RATTI, inspired by very personal experiences (becoming father, etc.)... setting a very special, intimate atmosphere! Luxus vinyl edition (clear+blue col) lim. 100 with bonus 7", printed inner sleeve 2019 €28.00
ULTRA MILKMAIDS AMR lathe-cut LP two very long "experimental drone"-tracks full of whirring & psychedelic effects... the French droners re-new themselves again & use new & unusual sounds, exciting! lim./numbered 92 copies only; transparent lathe-cut vinyl, comes in Kraft paper cover 2013 €20.00
ULTRA UNITED Research 1 (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 on golden vinyl with black on black printed Covers! 1999  
ULTRASOUND Death comes from the left (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 copies on clear vinyl, clear covers 2001  
ULVER Flowers of Evil LP completely different from the previous "Drone Activity" monumental sound, this new ULVER album goes into a full "Melancholic Pop" direction, feat. C.FENNESZ and many other guests. ". a band moving deeper into beats and grooves, hooks and choruses, synths and guitars, yet sounding more stripped back, making room for the distinctive detail. Once again Michael Rendall (The Orb) and legendary producer Martin Glover have taken crystalline care of the mix." - lim . coloured vinyl available, please ask ! 2020 €32.00
UNIT 21 November CD Russian project with experimental Electronica, using micro-loops from old Soviet vinyl records; at times very droney & hissy, at times more pulsating & trancy; recommended if you like stuff as BIOSPHERE or GAS.. 2007 €12.00
UNIVERS ZERO Relaps / Archives 1984-1986 do-LP a collection of unreleased live material rec. 1984-1986 (for example in Hannover and Frankfurt 1984, which shows the Belgian 'dark chamber rock' & RIO band around DANIEL DENIS in their legendary 80's line ups before they made a long break... excellent sound quality, coloured / marbled vinyl, nice gatefold cover with extensive liner notes 2015 €19.50
Ceux du Dehors LP re-issue of the third album (1981) incl. the H.P. LOVECRAFT influenced "La Musique d'Erich Zann" - a true classic of dark, ominous chamber music, with powerful outbreaks and minimal arrangements full of tension... lim. ed. clear/red vinyl, + insert 2018 €16.00
  LUEUR LP first album after 10 years by the legendary experimental / dark Prog Rock band from Belgium around DANIEL DENIS, active since 1974 lim. col. vinyl.. - *a dense journey, rooted in the balance between power and calm, raging and serene sound. A balance, too, between complex arrangements and more contemplative moments* 2023 €20.00
UNKNOWN ARTIST Anastenaria do-LP "Anastenaria" is the name of a fire-walking folk dance ritual still held in some villages of Northern Greece, after hours of dancing the participants walk in trance barefoat over glowing coals... these recordings of the music and ritual were made in the village of Agia Eleni in Greece, on 20-21 May 1979; the vinyl re-issue of this rare CD-R (Edition_Zero, 2008) contains a bonus 12" with remixes by PETE SWANSON (ex YELLOW SWANS) and VATICAN SHADOW (=PRURIENT )!! Gatefold sleeve 2014 €18.50
URBAN SAX Spiral LP + DVD first ever vinyl re-issue of the fourth full-length album (CD from 1991, now a collector's item) by GILBERT ARTMANs Saxophone & Multimedia orchestra; on SPIRAL the choir has grown to 22 singers, 3 vibraphones are used, the sound is majestic and cinematic.... comes again with a full bonus DVD with unreleased audio & video material, plus 24 page 12" x 12" full colour booklet; re-mastered, with original cover replica 2016 €25.50
URE THRALL Premonition 9/11 7inch re-release of this much requested Drone, ed. of 300 on red-black striped vinyl, full-colour cover designed by Mr. URE THRALL himself & updated liner-notes on the inlay! 2007 €6.00
  Premonition 11/9 // The Traveler (SOLD OUT) 7" lim. 250 copies on red-yellow-blue multicoloured vinyl 2003  
USENBENZ, ANDREAS Bells Breath LP highly recommended LP for this sound art / drone minimalist who recorded for this installation project the 10 different bells of the famous minster of Ulm (Germany), creating a hypnotic 'metallurgic' ambience; all different tones of the bells have been stretched and layered and form clouds of pure resonances and overtones with gradual shifts in the shapes and pitches, adding more subtle electro-acoustic processing on Side B; very nice edition with diverse inlays, on clear vinyl 2017 €16.50
V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) One Man Drone 12inch nice clear vinyled 12" with tracks by B°TONG, OLDINE, TAMAGAWA, SHIT 2006 €8.00
Oscotarach do-LP 1 band per side: SKALPELL, SPHERICAL DISRUPTED, CARSTEN VOLLMER, HIDDEN TECHNOLOGY. lim. 500, heavy vinyl, special sewed tissue-cover. back in stock this collection of german / swiss industrial tunes.. 2005 €16.50
Yokomono 02 (Staalplaat Soundystem + FENNESZ, PALESTINE, FM3, RADIAN, TIM HECKER, ILPO VAISANEN, etc.) LP again 110 loops on this record, 55 by Staalplaat Soundsystem, others were made by: Anton Nikilae, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Charlemagne Palestine, Christian Fennesz, fm3, Ignaz Schick !! clear vinyl and looks really arTy ! 2005 €13.50
Yokomono 03 LP white vinyl. one side w. 55 loops featuring BLIXA BARGELD, MERZBOW, KARKOWSKI, HATERS, MAIN, A. BORISOW; etc (each one 5 loops); other side tracks by MIKA VAINIO & PETRI KULJUNTAUSTA 2006 €12.50
Three aural interpretations of a drawing by Eric Lanzillotta 7inch this was the last release on the legendary ANOMALOUS RECORDS label from Seattle ! => JEPH JERMAN, LEIF ELGGREN, and RALF WEHOWSKY are transforming drawings of label founder ERIC LANZILOTTA into different granular & collagic sound / noise scapes... lim. 250 clear vinyl, absolutele last copies 2007 €8.00
SPIRE LIVE FUNDAMENTALIS do-LP third in the SPIRE LIVE-series with experimental organ works performed live throughout Europe; contains recordings by PHILIP JECK (May 2006, Brussels), CHARLES MATTHEWS (May 2006, Brussels, performing a piece by GIACINTO SCELSI), MARENS DAVIDSON (Oct. 2005, Göteborg), BJ NILSEN (Oct. 2005, Göteborg), and FENNESZ (May 2006 Brussels). Vinyl-only edition, gatefold-cover, art by JON WOZENCROFT 2008 €18.50
Audioscoop Compilation 1 do-LP compilation with artists who were part of the AUDIOSCOOP-events between 2005-2007 happening in Situ, Maastricht, Netherlands: ASMUS TIETCHENS, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE, AUBE, KAPOTTE MUZIEK, INCITE, SUDDEN INFANT, and many more... all exclusive material, numbered ed. of 444 copies in gatefold-cover, one vinyl black, one white, nice edition 2008 €25.00
>Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista. Tributo a LUIGI RUSSOLO do-LP fullside-long contributions each from SACHER-PELZ, RAPOON, MERZBOW, GX JUPITTER-LARSEN. Numbered ed. of 765 copies, white vinyl, nice foldout-cover 2008 €22.00
Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep do-LP label-compilation to the 100th release of the Norwegian label; exclusive material by ALOG, ULTRALYD, MAJA RATKJE, SUPERSILENT, DEATHPROD, and many more Norwegian acts.. lim. vinyl version with luxurious cover (350gr. cardboard) 2010 €22.00
Offstrings LP the label of DAN BURKE (ILLUSION OF SAFETY) is back with a very experimental compilation feat. new work from Chicago-based guitar players: DAVID DANIELL, MARK SHIPPY, TRAVIS BIRD, DAN BURKE, MICHAEL VALLERA; 180gr. vinyl, colour vinyl, download coupon 2010 €18.50
TF100 BOOK/ 2 x 10inch jubilee-release presenting the history of this Dutch label in a beautifully designed 108-page hardcover book showing the full discography, cover pictures, background-infos, etc.. plus two 10" vinyls with exclusive collab-material by DIRK SERRIES (FEAR FALLS BURNING), STEVEN WILSON (BASS COMMUNION), THEO TRAVIS, PETER VAN VLIET, MOONSWIFT, SAND SNOWMAN, MAARTEN VAN DER VLEUTEN. Limited ed. & soon to be rare ! 2011 €39.50
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 1 : HALO MANASH, UBEBOET, JARL, B*TONG (SOLD OUT) LP the NEW LP-series from Drone Records, dedicated to the Drones of the World, and the Drones of our Minds. Each LP features four artists from the international drone-scene and is limited to 500 copies, pressed on four different vinyl-colours. Volume 1: UBEBOET (Spain), HALO MANASH (Finland), B°TONG (Suisse), JARL (Sweden). Stunning artwork paintings by British artist PETE GREENING, design by NINA KERNICKE (ALL SIDES). RELEASE-DATE: 5. DECEMBER 2011 !! 2011 €15.00  
Yokomono 03.5 ("triple grooved" MERZBOW, MIKA VAINIO, NO ARTIST, JAAP BLONK, CYNTHIA ZAVEN) LP the fourth in the Yokomono-series is a uniquely mastered vinyl: three parallel soundtracks / grooves per side were cut into the master in a way that the needle will jump between the three tracks randomly !! REALLY a "experimental" record, use turntable & record as an instrument! Lim. 500, clear vinyl 2012 €12.00
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 2 (SOLD OUT) LP second volume in the NEW Drone Records series, feat: YANN NOVAK (USA), STROM NOIR (Slovakia), EMME YA (Colombia), KARL BÖSMANN (Germany); lim. 500 - four different vinyl-colours! Official RELEASE DATE: 31.12.2012, OUT NOW!! 2012 €15.00  
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 4 (VERY LAST COPIES!) LP after a long break listening to many demos of newcomers (showing us the drone 'scene' is alive & kicking!) we can finally present you Vol. 4 in our ongoing series, with new names you probably don't know yet: JEREMIE MATHES (France), KIRILL PLATONKIN (Russia), ILIOU PERSIS (Portugal), and ROMAN KHARKOVSKY (pseudonym for a drone ambient newcomer from Pakistan!); edition of 400 in four vinyl colours [each lim. 100 for every artists choice] 2015 €15.00
Insane 80's [EV01>EV10] CD collection of pieces from the (mostly deleted) 10 x vinyl 7"es on EE Tapes, + 5 bonus tracks from rare cassettes: NOSTALGIE ETERNELLE, PSEUDO CODE, HUMAN FLESH, OPERA MULTI STEEL, BENE GESSERIT, NINE CIRCLES, etc.. bringing you back to the glorious times of the typical 80's minimal wave & industrial synth pop; liner notes by PETER VERCAUTEREN (GONZO CIRCUS); lim. 500 2014 €12.00
Nostra Signora delle Tenebre do-LP already the 2nd edition (500 copies on violet vinyl) of this very successful compilation dedicated to the glorious era of Italian (B-) movies in the 60's & 70's of last century, when a special soundtrack style was established; tracks from this 'Italien occult psychedelia" time are re-interpreted by Italian indie bands such as FATHER MURPHY, JENNIFER GENTLE, HEROIN IN TAHITI, LAY LLAMAS, MAMUTHONES, etc... 2nd edition of 500 copies on violet vinyl 2015 €20.00
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 5 LP echanting female drones by GYDJA (New Zealand), focused 'magic of the moment' drones by CLADE, (Scotland/USA), transcendental drones by MONOCUBE (Ukraine), cryptic drones by YRSEL (France): again filled with exiting experimental drone acts from the whole planet, we can finally present you Vol. 5 in our ongoing series; lim. 400 coloured vinyl, full colour artwork paintings by PETE GREENING. OUT NOW & SHIPPING !! 2016 €15.00
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 6 : NAM-KHAR, FOR KINGS AND QUEENS, MARKIAN VOLKOV, KEVIN DURR LP the newest edition in our DRONE EXPLORERS series, for MIND EXPLORERS, with: NAM-KHAR (Germany), FOR KINGS AND QUEENS (Germany), MARKIAN VOLKOV (Italy) and KEVIN DURR (U.S.A.), ranging from nature+ vocal-drone to electronic ethno rituals to surrealistic soundscapes.. lim. 400 on beautiful blue-violet-transparent vinyl, with amazing cover-art (a true 3D effect with the use of extra golden pantone colour) by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS, using paintings by British painter PETE GREENING 2017 €15.00
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 7: OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA, MYTRIP, SKELDOS, SPECIMENS LP & CD : first DRONE-MIND compilation with full bonus CD: SPECIMENS (UK), SKELDOS (LT), MYTRIP (Bulgaria), OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA (CZ); cover-art by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS using two paintings by British artist PETE GREENING; Edition of 400 copies on TURQUOISE coloured VINYL. Mastering by PETER ANDERSSON 2019 €18.00
Fluxuus aan de Waanzin LP yes the WAANZIN continues, do you want to be a part of it?: BARBARA RAPP & KOMMISSAR HJULER & FRAU, KNUT KARGEL, JO KONDO, DEREK BEAULIEU, BRANDSTIFTER and a STEVE DALACHINSKY-TOM SURGAL-THURSTON MOORE (! SONIC YOUTH), = incredible mixture, six tracks all presented on a very long vinyl side in the Psych.KG FLUXUS series curated by DETLEV HJULER; lim. 100, hand-assembled and oversized cover, ONE SIDED 2015 €25.00
Wire Recorded Pieces LP one of those compilations that function more as a "sound library" with relics from the absolute pioneers of the Electronic and Avantgarde with material from 1921-1960 and many rather unknown pieces: HALIM EL-DABH (who recorded in 1944 probably the very first "tape music" piece on a wire recorder), JOHANNA M. BEYER (1938 - first electro-acoustic piece composed by a woman!), BENGT HAMBRAEUS, REMI GASSMANN, GISELHER KLEBE, etc.. clear vinyl with full CD version included 2019 €20.00
Princess Nicotine LP one of the earliest (and very successful) releases on Sublime Freq. was a CD re-issue of "Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma)", originally a sought-after vinyl LP from 1994, containing 9 tracks of material from the last decades, the first true compilation of really bizarre (for western ears) and completely "over the top", high-pitched and speedy pop tunes... gatefold-cover w. liner notes by ALAN BISHOP 2011 €22.50
Bookwar Records - Famous Lathe Cuts LP this wild compilation collects very limited lathe-cut 7"es that were released in the past years by this obscure experimental / electronic / psych noise / punk / rock label from Moscow - a wide range of styles and unknown projects from the Russian underground, and few more well known names are presented, a crazy blast of UNADAPTED stuff: CISFINITUM, DAO DE NOIZE, YAO 91404 D, BOOKWAR, ELECTRO-HARAM, POST MATERIALISTS, GRAZHDANSKAYA OBORONA, etc.. lim. 100 copies only (black vinyl), surely last copies!! 2017 €18.00
Institute of Sonology 1959-1969 do-LP first vinyl issue of this collection with rather incredible, pioneering electronic compositions created at the "Instituut Voor Sonologie" in Utrecht, Netherlands, by: DICK RAAIJMAKERS, FRITS WEILAND, TON BRUYNEL, and very long pieces by KONRAD BOEHMER, GOTTFRIED MICHAEL KOENIG and RAINER RIEHN..- "a music produced by machines designed to construct the new." - liner notes by KONRAD BOEHMER 2019 €19.50
PRSNT (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pascal Comelade, Laurie Spiegel, Lyra Pramuk, Chassol, Nicolas Godin, Pierre Rousseau, Pedro Vian, Pierre Bastien, Visible Cloaks, Kelman Duran, Refree, Lucrecia Dalt, Lafawndah) LP + BOOK collector's item / ambitious art project with writings and artworks from diverse artists, plus original compositions which are all 32 seconds long, based on the fact that digital online platforms usually only play the first 30 seconds of a track (which truly shortens our attention spans); - gatefold cover with full-colour booklet (32 pages), white vinyl, one-sided (the B-Side has a 32 sec. "Silence" track by R. SAKAMOTO) 2021 €55.00
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 8: AUME, K. ISHIGAMI, HIROSHIMABEND, BALDRUIN LP finally the new DRONE-MIND compilation with an exquisite selection of experimental / "advanced" drone highlights: AUME (U.S.A.), KAZUYA ISHIGAMI (Japan), HIROSHIMABEND (Austria), and BALDRUIN (Germany); cover-art & mastering by puppy38, using two paintings by British artist PETE GREENING; edition of 400 copies on VELVET PURPLE (solid purple and solid red mixed) coloured VINYL 2021 €16.00
NEKROPHILE REKORDS 1983-1990 10 x LP BOX the eight cassette releases by the legendary Austrian label (many for the first time on vinyl, like the LASHTAL, KORPSES KATATONIK, THE BEAST666 compilation...) plus unreleased material on two LPs by METGUMBNERBONE and COMING TO NOW: 10 LPs in luxus wooden box, plus 2 x 7"es and T-Shirt with incredible 240 pages book, feat. hundreds of documents, pictures, texts, from the "occult underground of the post industrial area"; lim. 666 copies 2022 €299.00
TIME ENDS - A Tribute to J.G. Ballard's Tetralogy of Transformation (special ed.) do-LP / CD not just 'another tribute' to the great British writer, this release focuses in form and content one BALLARDS four early "disaster" novels from the 60's, each artist created about 20 min. of material inspired by one book: DESIDERII MARGINIS, TROUM, MARTIN BLADH (IRM) & KAROLINA URBANIAK, ANEMONE TUBE - finally the SPECIAL VINYL edition is out, numbered 150 copies with huge signed A2 poster of the cover art, booklet, and CD version of the album; comes on N EON YELLOW vinyl 2022 €36.00
TIME ENDS - A Tribute to J.G. Ballard's Tetralogy of Transformation do-LP not just 'another tribute' to the great British writer, this release focuses in form and content one BALLARDS four early "disaster" novels from the 60's, each artist created about 20 min. of material inspired by one book: DESIDERII MARGINIS, TROUM, MARTIN BLADH (IRM) & KAROLINA URBANIAK, ANEMONE TUBE - standard version lim. 250 copies, neon yellow vinyl, printed inner sleeves with lots of background info and essay by MICHAEL GÖTTER (African Paper, etc.) 2022 €27.50
  XKatedral Anthology Series II do-LP "An Anthology Of Slowly Evolving Timbral Music" - unreleased pieces from the archives 2018-2020: KALI MALONE, JESSICA EKOMANE; MATS ERLANDSSON, THEODOR KENTROS; WILMA HULTEN, MARIA W. HORN.. * "This collection of pieces focuses on the use of synthetic sound and algorithmic composition languages as tools for precise work within the realm of spectral exploration* - comes on orange vinyl, lim. 500, sold out at label already ! 2023 €45.00
VAINIO, MIKA / PAN SONIC Last Live do-LP this release documents the last ever live performance of MIKA VAINIO (2.2.2017 at Cave12. Geneve, Switzerland), who died sadly only few days later... - with the help of C.M. VON HAUSSWOLFF (mixing, artwork), STEPHEN O'MALLEY (editing), DENIS BLACKHAM (mastering) and FRANZ GRAF (artwork) and others a most compelling memorandum has been created, almost exactly 60 min.long & spread on 4 vinyl sides.. comes with DL download card 2021 €26.00
VAN HOUDT, REINIER MMXX-04: Les Champs Lissajous LP 4th release in the new MMXX series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => REINIER VAN HOUDT created a cloudy, amorph, dreamlike soundtrack for TAKASHI MAKINO's film "Memento Stella" (2018) 2020 €24.00
VAN WISSEM, JOZEF The Joy that never ends LP new material by the "sublime master of the lute", minimal repetitive compositions feat. film-maker JIM JARMUSCH (!), and vocalist JEANNE MADIC. Vinyl-version limited to 500 copies 2011 €16.00
VASILISK Whirling Dervishes LP re-mastered re-issue of the very first VASILISK LP from 1987 (Eskimo Rec. Japan) - a true collectors item, the perfect link between post-industrial, ethno and soft ambience; lim. 150 copies on coloured vinyl, containing one rare bonus-track 2014 €20.00
Mkwaju LP re-mastered re-issue of the second VASILISK LP from 1988 (Eskimo Rec. Japan) - a masterpiece of experimental ritual music - lim. 150 copies coloured vinyl, contains one rare bonus-track 2014 €20.00
  Acqua LP re-mastered re-issue of the third VASILISK LP from 1989 (Musica Maxima Magnetica) - great percussive ethno-ambience, now developed to its full beauty... lim. 150 copies coloured vinyl, contains one so far unreleased bonus-track 2014 €20.00
VIGROUX, FRANCK MMXX-01: Tension 24 LP first release in a new series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => FRANCK VIGROUX starts the series with an awesome,multi-layered overwhelming drone piece that slowly develops into something else, complex and surprising to follow in its development... highly recommdended !! 2020 €24.00
VIR Strika / Solaris (SOLD OUT) 7 lim. 250 on blue-grey vinyl with handtyped card-sleeves 2000  
VISIONS & PHURPA Monad LP the 100th release for the now maybe most important dark ambient label around: a studio collab between PHURPA and the project of label-owner VISIONS, the typical PHURPA vocal and ritualistic instrumental sounds are drowning in a deep morass of huge reverberations, but there are also moments of complete, rather silent alienation, whispers and winds from unknown spheres, timeless and lonely harmonic rays of elevation.... a very beautiful album, highly recommended! vinyl lim. 200 2018 €20.00
VIVENZA Realite de l'automation directe LP re-issue of 2nd cassette release from 1983! The true futuristic/bruitistic industrial machine sound from this French master! Comes in "heavy duty" oversized deluxe cover, lim./numb. 200 on RED 200gr. vinyl 2011 €23.00
Veriti Plastici LP third part of the first works of VIVENZA (originally MC from 1983), based on the theory of RUSSOLO's bruitism; comes with text "LE PROGRAMME FUTURISTE DE RETOUR A LA REALITE MATERIELLE"; this luxus LP re-edition (very thick oversized cover) in white or red vinyl, numbered ed. 333 copies 2012 €22.50
Fondements bruitistes 2 LP the best pure machine noise you can find!! The complete sessions from 1984 with many unreleased bonus tracks, spread on two single LPs - sounds still incredible!! lim. 200, red vinyl version, filed under: bruitism drones 2014 €22.00
  Fondements bruitistes 1 LP the best pure machine noise you can find!! The complete sessions from 1984 with many unreleased bonus tracks, spread on two single LPs - sounds still incredible!! lim. 200, red vinyl version, filed under: bruitism drones 2014 €22.00
VOGEL, MICHEL / PHILIP CORNER / PHOEBE NEVILLE Musiques des Ailes / Winged Music LP listen to the gongs of MICHEL VOGEL, played by him, PHILIP CORNER and PHOEBE NEVILLE, recorded at "Archipel" (l'atelier of Polska), Paris, Oct. 3, 1999; 4 pieces of improsived gong-drone muzak, performed on gongs, bells and sound sculptures, so far unpublished recordings, lim. 300 on black vinyl with full colour cover w. inlay. nice document of improvised contemplation-drones 2012 €17.00
VOICE OF EYE Substantia Innominata 10inch the legendary US-duo from New Mexico back on Drone Records! Three new tracks of NEW material ("VIRYA", "DHYANA" and "PURUSA"), highly sublime & emotional "other-dimensional" ambience using lots of vocal material, flutes and self-build string-instruments, all handplayed; almost 39 minutes of material on clear vinyl with golden striae, superb artwork by THOMAS DOHMEN, lim. 500 2008 €12.00
  Sprocket (SOLD OUT) 7inch lim. 250 handpainted cover, luminous bright yellow vinyl ; handmade saw-shaped painted covers 1994  
VOLCANO THE BEAR Planetary Betlehem LP vinyl-only release, re-workings & collages of material originally rec. 1995/1996; lim. 300 in very nice / thick bookbound cover w. great desgn, 220gr vinyl 2010 €20.00
  Golden Rhythm / Ink Musik LP VOLCANO THE BEAR now on Rune Grammofon! "a hysterical melting pot of THIS HEAT, ROBERT WYATT, FAUST & RESIDENTS, of MUSIQUE CONCRETE and ETHNO-FOLK" - new studio album by this unique group around DANIEL PADDEN & AARON MOORE ! lim. vinyl version 2012 €20.00
VOLLMER, CARSTEN & PHILIP NUSSBAUM Versuch 5 7inch & BOOK the anti-DITTERICH VON EULER-DONNERSPERG?= processed sound poetry & spoken word on this 7" by CARSTEN VOLLMER & G. NUSSBAUM, coming with a fake police A4 cardboard folder / "book" with a trashy 34 page story about violent sex, criminal policemen and aliens...(all in German); lim. 100 white vinyl 7" plus 8 original photos and real blood (?) on the folder... you have been warned!! 2015 €12.50
VOLLMER, CARSTEN / RECTAL SURGERY Arbeit Nummer 12: Tonbandprotokolle / Actually I tried to fuck his girlfriend 7 little sick harsh noise single, back in stock last copies; first vinyl release on DEAFBORN 1999 €5.00
VON EULER-DONNERSPERG, DITTERICH Klein:Rot LP A bouquet of rigid electronic and electro-acoustic mouvements Printed as red vinyl in an edition of 300 numbered copies. Published April 2021 - last copies, tiny seam split at one cover side 2021 €26.00
VON HAUSSWOLFF, ANNA All Thoughts Fly (Pink) LP the daughter of C.M.VON HAUSSWOLFF with her breakthrough 'organ drone' album, inspired by ORSINIs "Sacro Bosco", now re-issued on limited PINK vinyl => " the entire record consists of just one instrument, the pipe organ, and represents absolute liberation of the imagination. 'All Thoughts Fly' radiates a melancholic beauty, and is distinguished by fluid transitions of contrasting elements; calmness and drama, harmony and dissonance, much like the place that inspires the music." - lim. 300 2022 €25.00
VON HAUSSWOLFF, C.M. (CARL MICHAEL) MMXX-03: For Marietta LP 3rd release in the new MMXX series that presents 20 artists from the experimental sound-art scene with very nice design / concept => dedicated to the year 2020 there will be 20 x 20 min. compositions on one-sided clear vinyl, with laser engraved artwork by the artist on the B-Side, lim. to 500 copies => CM VON HAUSSWOLFF trudges with you through a dense but mellow / somehow harmonic drone-fog that changes its 'Gestalt' gradually and suspends the passaging of time (for at least 20 minutes;)... 2020 €24.00
VOSTELL, WOLF De-coll/age Musik LP re-issue of collector's item LP from 1982 by the German painter, sculptor and happening artist, who co-organized the "Festum Fluxorum" festival 1962 in Wiesbaden, seen as the birth of FLUXUX => we find here recordings from 1959-1981: radio collages, happenings, soundart ambients, environment actions, and an extract from a Fluxus-Opera! lim. 400 black vinyl 2017 €25.00
VOX POPULI! La Cathedrale Morte LP re-issue of the early obscure cassette from 1985 (Cause & Effect) by the French cult-band (that operated somewhere between experimental folk/drone/ethno and electronic post industrial), which has never seen a new edition so far !!! => pretty incredible collages derived from found sounds and all sorts of instruments, acoustic and electronic sources... silkscreened cover with full colour printed innersleeve, lim. 300 BLACK vinyl 2019 €16.00
  Psyko Tropix LP another collection of material, mainly from 1986-1990 (their "creative highpoint"), three tracks are from the reconfigured band recorded in 2017, all for the first time on vinyl and most of them previously unreleased - 11 tracks in total - the printed inner sleeve comes with images of unseen concert posters, and new liner notes from MARK REID based on an interview with AXEL and MITRA KYROU, December 2020 2022 €29.50
VOX POPULI! / VOX 231 Ebats Spirituels LP first re-issue of the C-40 cassette-only release by CTHULHU Records (CR-03, 1993), containing seven wonderful VOX POPULI! pieces on Side A, most of them very rare or even unpublished before... this is the true "ethno Industrial" sound they got well known for! VOX 231 is the more electronic based project of PIERRE JOLIVET and AXEL KYROU (brother of V.P. singer MITHRA); Lim. 491 copies, velvet purple vinyl + silk-screened poster on deluxe paper 2021 €20.00
WAKINYAN Copal Flow LP the following project of TERRORITMO (Italy), creating powerful ritual muzak with a very organic & expressive side (whispers, screams, chants), using lots of acoustic instruments & objects....lim. 300, blackvinyl, gatefold cover.. 2012 €15.00
WALKER, SCOTT & SUNN O))) Soused do-LP amazing & highly praised SUNN O))) collab with the dramatic singer/songwriter SCOTT WALKER, surprising on many levels - like a collision of completely different worlds, building a new planet... "Most definitely a twisted outsider masterpiece" [Aquarius Records]; the lim. vinyl version comes in a luxus gatefold cover with printed lyrics; BACK IN STOCK 2014 €29.50
WAPPENHALTER, EDGAR On the Beach LP low-fi psychfolk & ecstatic tape-loops from the ex SYLVESTER ANFANG member, first vinyl release, only 180 copies pressed ! 2010 €17.00
WARDROBE MEMORIES Life after Suicide LP first ever LP for this ambitious (always conceptually working) German ambient project, who created with "Life after Suicide" a mournful cinematic soundtrack => subtle piano & synth figures with voice samples expressing despair and hopelessness, very intimate and emotional... "a virtual post-life-construction in ghosty environments"; lim. 200 with half of the edition pressed on coloured vinyl 2015 €18.00
WE STOOD LIKE KINGS USA 1982. A new Soundtrack for the Movie Koyaanisqatsi do-LP ambitious 'alternative soundtrack' for the famous 'KOYAANISQATSI' film by this post-rock / neo-classic / progressive band from Belgium which has been compared to EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, OLAFUR ARNALDS, SIGUR ROS and G.Y.B.E... " instrumental progressive rock tinted with neoclassical influences thanks to the central presence of the piano." - gatefold cover, 400 copies on black vinyl 2017 €22.50
WETWARE Flail LP second album by this male/female post industrial duo from Brooklyn, USA, which has been compared to TG, PHARMAKON, PUCE MARY... - "Flail draws from the dearth of clarity that informed No Wave and early-Industrial music through a modern lens offering no deft solutions, allowing the album to circle infinitely in the fading present, fostering a window into modern paranoia." - lim. 400 copies on clear vinyl 2020 €23.00
WHITEHEAD, CHRIS / ANDREA BORGHI Wade's Causeway / Gelazen CD start of a new "split CD" series on the Russian SEMPERFLORENS label run by [S] from EXIT IN GREY and FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC: CHRIS WHITEHEAD is a field recordist from North Yorkshire, he created a kind of "mythogeographic" piece (31+ min.) with sounds from the area of secretful linear stone structure going through the wild; ANDREA BORGHI presents two pieces of "prepared" vintage disco vinyls from Italy... new concepts and sounds to explore ! ed. of 300 2016 €13.00
WHITEHOUSE Halogen LP studio album released 1994 produced by STEVE ALBINI (artwork TREVOR BROWN), incl. their smash hit "Lightning struck my dick";) ;) this is the first vinyl re-issue 2015 €23.00
WHOTE (=THOMAS WATKISS) Align LP newest incarnation / project by THOMAS WATKISS from NYC who just toured through Europe with AMBER ASYLUM in Nov. 2010; showing more obviously his "metal" roots this is industrialized dark drone doom in the way of NADJA, SUNN O)), THIS QUIET ARMY, etc.. lim. 250 in two different vinyl-colours; incl. digital download code 2010 €18.50
WIESE, NICOLAS Unrelated LP second solo-LP for this German artist under his real name (once known as [-HYPH-] ) who works in the field of gallery sound-art, taking samples from various sound sources to treat them "live" with his technique of 'modulated feedbacks' => challenging collages in various shapes, from fast changing, overloaded craziness to abstract drone-scaping, these are highly sophisticated compositions full of microscopic details... comes on clear vinyl, lim. 200 copies 2018 €22.50
WILTZIE, ADAM BRYANBAUM Salero (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) LP original soundtrack by the STARS OF THE LID-half to the film by MIKE PLUNKETT about the "Saleros" in the Bolivian salt desert 'Salar de Uyuni'; recorded with the help of the Budapest Art Orchestra, this is the adequate ambient music for the endless widths and surrealistic places of the desert; lim. 500 clear vinyl 2016 €25.00
WOLF EYES / SKULL DEFEKTS Yes I am your Angel LP white vinyl / back in stock last copies 2006 €16.50
WOLFARTH, CHRISTIAN Acoustic Solo Percussion - Vol. 1 7inch two compositions for solo percussion by this Swiss musician, with unusual drum tunes => droning overtunes / resonances and trance-inducing drum rolls; first in a series of four 7"es, comes on red vinyl 2009 €7.50
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Celestite do-LP very atmospheric, psychedelic soundscaping album by the 'mythic black metal' band from Olympia, USA, using lots of vintage synths & effects... produced by RANDALL DUNN (EARTH, SUNN O))), MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE); lim. vinyl version (clear) 2014 €30.00
WRIGHT, PETER Air Guitar 7inch lim. 300 orange / black / white hand painted / stenciled covers, orange vinyl 2006 €7.00
  Let's hide under the House until they're gone LP excellent experimental drones based on bass & guitar sounds, mesmerizing stuff with great contemplative power again from this New Zealand Drone Records-artist! Comes on 180gr. vinyl in an edition of just 300 copies 2011 €16.00
WYRM Divination Bones (2nd extended ed.) 7 second edition with revised & complete versions of both tracks previously released as a picture-7"; silver coloured vinyl & new full cover design, ed. of 400 (of which only 150 are for sale as single copies); FREE TO ALL (excl. postage) WHO ALREADY HAVE THE PICTURE DISC / FIRST EDITION 2011 €6.00
WZT HEARTS Threads rope spell making your bone LP vinyl-version 2007 €14.50
WÄLDCHENGARTEN The Leech 7inch lim. 300 silk-screened covers, purple vinyl 2006 €7.00
X-NAVI:ET Dead City Voice LP recommended second (vinyl) album by the solo project of RAFAL IWANSKI (HATI), a 6-track work about the psychic influences & transformations through the CITY, a dark filmic & emotional soundtrack to confront with the 'living dead' of one's town.... comes in nice gatefold-cover, lim. 250, with stunning artwork by EWA BINCYK 2013 €16.00
XABEC Feuerstern (SOLD OUT) 7inch + box two tracks of luminous tones & magnetic resonances which create a warm and floating aural flux, feat. MICHAEL NORTHAM... last copies found of the true gem in the drone rec series that comes in a printed / golden embossed cardboard box, on dark red vinyl w. inlay, 300 copies 2008 €10.00  
XENAKIS, IANNIS Persepolis LP the Non Plus Ultra version of XENAKIS famous piece which was premiered in 1971 in Iran, comissioned by the Persian Shah (!) => XENAKIS longest electroacoustic composition (54 min) was now re-mastered by MARTIN WURMNEST (ZEITKRATZER) from the original 8 track tapes, and cut by RASHAD BECKER; comes with inlay & liner notes by REINHOLD FRIEDL; first vinyl re-issue since the 70's !! 2018 €18.00
YEN POX Deliver (SOLD OUT) 7inch red vinyl, lim. 250 copies 1995  
Universal Emptiness 10inch OUT NOW May 2011 !! A new 10" vinyl on our sub-label series SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA by the great dark / cosmic / black hole ambience project from the US! Lim. 500, over 30 min. playtime, stunning artwork by EYELYFT feat. gloss-spots 2011 €12.00
Between the Horizon and the Abyss do-LP the glorious opus by this outstanding transcendental / cosmic dark ambient / ritual duo from the USA, many years in the making => trance inducing sinister drones of a higher beauty, with enough variation between the tracks and great spatial quality... music for your deepest mind! .... VINYL version now available - lim. 500 copies w. gatefold sleeve 2016 €20.00
  Universal Emptiness (test pressing) (SOLD OUT) 10inch + CDR for the fans: the test-pressing (lim. 5 copies on black vinyl, white labels) with original cover and bonus promo CDR, containing a longer /"complete" version of one of the tracks!! 2011 €25.00  
YOUNG GODS, THE The Young Gods Play TERRY RILEY in C do-LP + CD the Swiss industrial rock band performs TERRY RILEY's classic minimal music piece from 1964, as a trio: consisting of 53 short "phrases" that can be repeated a long as needed and sounding different with every new performance - TYG made a very hypnotic, multi-layered percussive affair ouf of this, with enough variation awesome powerful moments.. - "allowing for some additional freedom, for example in terms of managing the sound intensity -- which evolves, in several long cycles..." - gatefold cover, black vinyl version 2022 €32.00
YOUNG, DENNIS Bella LP the founding member of LIQUID LIQUID with this first solo-album in 15 years, exploring sound images and experimental tunes on his guitar (all is based on solo guitar here) - 12 tracks appear like open moods, often bright sounding and delay-effected... for fans of DURUTTI COLUMN, etc.. - lim. 293 copies onf clear vinyl 2020 €20.00
YRSEL Abraxas do-LP third album by this French-Swedish minimal / ambient doom duo (with member from ONDO), now feat. beautiful female vocals to create a highly desolate but beautiful isolationistic drone muzak, mainly based on guitar & electronic-sounds & arrangements.. vinyl-version lim. 200 2013 €16.00
Z'EV & BOYD RICE untitled mLP lim. 1000 on marbled vinyl; two pieces 24+ minutes (one side 33, one side 45 rpm) . LAST COPY, SEALED ! 2008 €15.00
ZEALLEY, ANDREW Themes & Variations LP "...the third installment in Zealley's "How To Explain Silence To A Dead Hare" series of vinyl project editions. The album showcases selected film, video, installation and performance music by Zealley, commissioned by visual artists - including Luis Jacob, Joey Medaglia, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, and Scott Treleaven." - lim. 300, numbered, inlay 2009 €25.00
ZOS KIA 23 3 x LP collection of 23 tracks (over 2 hours) from the two vinyl releases (1984/1985), compilation / live material plus rare and unreleased stuff (for example: like "SLEAZY SAID") from JOHN GOSLINGs archive, some tracks feat. JOHN BALANCE and PETER CHRISTOPHERSON, other guests were STEFAN JAWORCYZN (early SKULLFLOWER) or FRITZ CATLIN (23 SKIDOO); these are the complete recordings of this early British Industrial project, strongly connected to the very early COIL; vinyl version triple gatefold 450 copies 2018 €46.00
ZOVIET FRANCE Look into Me do-LP first vinyl re-issue of this album from 1990 (with recordings made 1987 + 1988), probably the last one with MARK SPYBEY in the line-up... "Zoviet France cycle and recycle abstract noises into a constantly changing texture, composed of sonorous drones, grindings, scrapings, squeakings and so on. It's atmospheric without conjuring up any obvious imagery at all, thanks to the unreality of most of the sounds used.." - lim. 300 (outside of the Chasse II box) 2020 €31.50
Vienna 1990 LP first vinyl re-issue of CD from 1991, containing a stunning live recording made in Vienna November 1990 at the Ohrenschrauben-Festival; Z.F. was ANDY EARDLEY, ROBIN STOREY and BEN PONTON for this 64+ min. long concert.. 300 copies available outside of the "Chasse II" box 2020 €18.50
What is not True do-LP first vinyl re-issue of CD album from 1993 (Charrm CD17), contains live material recorded in the UK a year before... \"Until the hypnic jerks kick in, this one’s got potential to takes listeners right out there to another place and time entirely. Best consumed by the keenest isolationists in a bothy on high moorland with a thermos and lots of layers, probably..\" [Boomkat] - 300 stand-alone copies 2020 €38.00
Further Collusion do-LP after "Collusion" (1992), this is the second collection of rare & deleted compilation material, spanning a period from 1992 - 1996 with 11 pieces, many of them for the first time on vinyl..."Crushing drone, wispy ambience, mind-boggling sonic collage and experimental concrete can all be found here, but the overall listening experience remains awe-inspiring throughout." [Bleep] - lim. 300 'stand-alone' copies outside of the Chasse 2 box 2020 €32.50
Chasse 3 16 x LP BOX the third and final part of the Z.F. story and the third incredible VOD release in this trilogy, containing releases 1996-2013 (most of them for the first time on vinyl), plus a full unrelased album \"A Long Walk\" and rare compilation material, extended versions + bonus tracks; comes with T-shirt & superb 24 p. 12\" x 12\" art booklet, plus numbered certificate and a small bag with mysterious minerals, in a white printed wooden box, lim. 500 copies 2022 €325.00
In.Version do-LP re-issue of the album from 1996, now for the first time on vinyl... - "Gone are the days of wild and experimental sound collages and grating industrial, ritualistic ambient banger's and in its place is a more subdued and droning affair. During this period especially the groups hallmark sound would be twisted and shifted into what amounted to a swill of limp krautrock inspired dark ambient.." [Soundohm] ; 300 copies 2022 €31.50
Digilogue do-LP the original album first appeared on Soleilmoon in 1996 on vinyl and had a CD re-issue two years later with bonus material, this is the re-issue with the three bonus tracks from the CD version, lim. 300 - " Digilogue, a foundational record in the dark ambient movement. ‘Soft Helion’ and its sister track ‘Another Soft Helion’ provide the blueprint for a lot of imitators, most of whom fail to reach their height.. " 2022 €31.50
The Decriminalisation of Country Music do-LP the obscure ZF album from 2000 with special concept (\"Themes for Tramway\") - for the first time on vinyl with additional unreleased material => \'Tramway\' is an art space in Glasgow\'s tram depot remains, the group was invited to record a sound documentation of the building...- \"All in all \"Decriminalisation..\" is an engaging work of auditory art. And it\'s as suited for busy high brow art rooms as it is lonely late night bed rooms\" - lim. 300 copies 2022 €33.50
7.10.12 do-LP re-issue of the rare ALT.VINYL "3D"/ architectural cover art release in box (2012) that came out on 3 vinyl formats on 7. Oct. 2012... => "7.10.12" is a very versatile collection of many shorter tracks (18 in total), many field recordings and obscured material appears, but also more typical Z.F. "harmoniques exotiques" pearls, backwards-sounds and 'undecipherable atmospheric noises' (U.A.N.) en masse... a most beautiful & mysterious Z.F. album from their later phase... lim. 300 copies 2022 €31.50
A Third Collusion do-LP "On The Edge Of A Grain Of Sand" - the third collection of rare & deleted ZF material, recorded mainly for compilations, this time covering a period from 1996 to 2016 (11 pieces); the album is also part of the "Chasse 3" box, this is the 'stand-alone' version and comes on WHITE vinyl 2022 €31.50
  Chasse 3 (as set) 16 x LP SET / bundle the third and final part of the Z.F. story and the third incredible VOD release in this trilogy, containing releases 1996-2013 (most of them for the first time on vinyl) from \"In.Version\" to \"Third Collusion\", plus a full unrelased album \"A Long Walk\" and rare compilation material, extended versions + bonus tracks - this is the \"SET\" or bundle version with eight double LPs, no box, booklet and shirt, just the records !! Lim. 300 \"stand-alone\" copies outside the box-sets 2022 €260.00
ZSOLT SORES Astro-Noetic Chiasm (Ahad's Flux Worlds 2) LP Z SORES is an Hungarian experimental musician, curator, sound-artist, who worked with J:-H.PERON (FAUST), THANOS CHRYSAKIS and many more.. => this stunning 42 min. multi-layered electro-acoustic drone piece was performed live at "Ultraschall Berlin" in January 2022, feat. for example JUDITH HAMANN on Cello.... *In listening to Astro-Noetic Chiasm by Zsolt Sorés, one quickly has the impression that the sounds being heard are coming from an anomalous nowhere* - lim. 300 GREEN vinyl, DL code 2023 €20.00
[AD]VANCE[D] Two Events LP Waystyx goes vinyl! Fabulous release by the dutch project around MARS WELLINK, numb. ed. of 200 copies comes with huge poster-cover & postcard. Atmospheric collage-music at its best ! 2009 €16.00
[LAW-RAH] COLLECTIVE, THE Vesuvius 12 transparent golden vinyl, lim. 300 2003 €12.00
1997EV Zeta Reticuli LP 1997EV - "ZETA RETICULI" (rur017) LP - marbled dark red / glittering orange /gold-marbled transparent vinyl - lim. ed. of 315 copies Four years and several intense live appearances after their much acclaimed debut CD on Punch Records, 1997EV are back, this time on vinyl, with a new masterpiece of pure minimal post-psychedelia. “Zeta Reticuli” is a long, dark, trance inducing ritual journey verging on astral bad trip. Spooky, spacey, percussion-driven and guitar-loaded ballads unfold with a Voivod-like weirdness in the back of your mind, served by AndreaEV’s deep, hypnotizing vocals and an occasional drift of intoxicating Theremin sounds. Reminiscent of Goblin and S/T, with a hint of Earth and an overall feel of early Ordo Equilibrio on LSD, those hallucinogenic cosmic flowers will leave their imprint burnt on the retina of your inner eye long after the record has stopped spinning. 2010 €8.00
23 SKIDOO The Culling is Coming CD "First released on vinyl only by Crepuscule's Operation Twilight arm in February 1983, The Culling is Coming flagged two radical new directions for Skidoo following their funky indie chart-topper Seven Songs the previous year. Drawn from two live performances, Culling combined a collaboration with the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra recorded at Dartington College of Music in October 1982, together with extracts from a more extreme, improvised set at the first Womad festival in July 1982, using scrap metal and tape loops. Both sides of the album were exactly 23 minutes long, and side one signed off (or rather didn't) with a stylus-hostile lock groove. Long deleted, this, challenging misunderstood album was light years ahead of its time. Now digitally remastered for release on The Boutique Label, it has been expanded by the inclusion of a complete (and equally extreme) 26 minute loop performance at Tielt, Belgium, on 8 October 1982. Recorded as part of Crepuscule's short Move Back/Bite Harder tour with Cabaret Voltaire, Tuxedomoon and Pale Fountains, this material has never before been released. The extended CD runs for 76 minutes. The booklet features the original artwork and contextual notes by Skidoo's Alex Turnbull. Full tracklist: G-2 Contemplation, S-Matrix, G-3 Insemination, Shrine, Mahakala, Banishing, Invocation, Flashing, Stifling, Healing (For the Strong), Move Back/Bite Harder." [label info] www.ltmrecordings.com www.ltmrecordings.com 2003 €15.00
  Seven Songs do-LP "Expanded digital remaster of the classic 1982 mini album that topped the indie charts, together with all tracks from associated Fetish label singles. Booklet features detailed band biography and archive images. The gatefold double vinyl edition includes Skidoo's John Peel radio session from September 1981." [label info] www.ltmrecordings.com 2012 €27.50
3/4HADBEENELIMINATED Theology CD Die Band mit STEFANO PILIA & CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI, filed under: seltsame atmosphärisch-melancholische Improvisationen im (entfernten) Post-Rock-Gewand [mit späterer effektvoller Nachbearbeitung im Studio ohne das improvisatorische Feeling zu zerstören]; zwei lange Stücke füllen THEOLOGY, schwebend und unfokussiert aber stets im Wandel, unter Einsatz von vielen "echten" Instrumenten (Gesang, Drums, Gitarren, Piano), mitunter blitzen Ähnlichkeiten gar mit A SILVER MT. ZION auf... die ist der "Schwester-Release" zur LP "Religious Experience". "Soleilmoon Recordings is proud to announce the simultaneous release of 3/4HadBeenEliminated’s new CD and LP, titled “Theology” and “The Religious Experience”, respectively. 3/4HadBeenEliminated was founded in 2002 in Bologna, Italy as a trio, with Stefano Pilia, Claudio Rocchetti and Valerio Tricoli. An eponymous album was released in 2003 by Bowindo. In 2004 the group welcomed Tony Arrabito and became a quartet. The next year Hapna put out their second album “A Year of the Aural Gauge Operation”, and in 2006 the band self-released a 7 inch single “DimethylAtonalCalcine”. The group straddles the line between live improvisation and studio experimentation, blending and shaping raw sounds into living pieces, then gently dissecting the delicately structured songs into disruptive sonic excursions more evocative of moving shadows and swirling leaves than recognizable tunes. Stasis and stability are nowhere to be found here. Instead, an ever-changing dialogue between structure and chaos shifts from one performer to the next, never resting long before launching again into shuddering flight. Accoustic instruments and vocals form a familiar reference point, but studio treatments take the music into psychedelic and cinematic realms. In their words , “Improvisation is a way to experiment without thinking. When our improvisations ‘work’, the music just happens on its own. It reveals itself as if guided by its own logic, its own desire. In fact we don’t even feel like we are actually playing the music. It’s more like a stream that moves and changes autonomously. With composition (editing, overdubs, etc. etc.) we then remodel this stream, trying to make it more complex, ‘forever lasting, forever changing’, in the sense that every hearing will reveal a new perspective of the music. As a live band, we improvise 100%, and it's really risky, but when it ‘happens’, it’s the greatest satisfaction.” “Theology” is presented in a wooden box with a hinged cover decorated with layers of hand-painted tracing paper, and is limited to 450 copies on CD. The companion vinyl LP “The Religious Experience” is a reinterpretation of the recordings made for the CD. The LP is limited to 225 copies. The two albums – and their music – should be considered as mirror opposites. Where theology is a completely artificial system of belief, a religious experience is the immediate experience of the thing itself. Likewise, the music on “Theology” is complex and elaborate, while “The Religious Experience” is much simpler, going directly to the heart of the material comprising “Theology”. Thus, the two works are independent, yet relate to each other as mother and daughter." [press release] "....and with some imagination you could say that they are a rock band. Well, an expanded rock band that crosses many lines: post rock, singer songwriter, improvisation and above all musique concrete collage techniques. Maybe the stage isn't their place but they should be safely stuck in the studio, where they can freely experiment with sound. Each member plays a wide variety of instruments, except Arrabito, who is just credited for drums. Inside the studio they find a safe place to improvise their music, but not as an end, but as a start. Recordings are separated, deconstructed and rebuilt into something. These two new releases, both lavishly packed with all sorts of nice paper, are best heard together, as mirrors of each other. The CD (limited to 450 copies) and the LP (limited to 225 copies) have however their differences, but the provide a nice view in the kitchen of 3/4HadBeenEliminated. The CD is perhaps more complex in approach. We hear lots of processed guitars, percussive sounds, organ like drones but also contact microphones scratching the surface alongside humming vocals. Not really rock by any rock standard, even when things seems to hint that way. Seemingly things move from atmosphere to atmosphere, gradually, slow, but without doubt moving.." [FdW / Vital Weekly] "...you'll know to expect fractured and mysterious soundscapes, a densely textured drone-zone constructed from field recordings, record crackle, improvised acoustic instruments, radio static, fragments of piano melody, electronic treatments, whispered Italian voices, turntable scratchings, reel-to-reel tape manipulation, synthesizer sinewaves, scattered percussion, and more. That's a zone we LOVE to visit. There's two long tracks, lots to explore, all manner of curious creakings and cracklings, shifting rhythms and rumblings abounding within 3/4hadbeeneliminated's carefully crafted and/or improvised music. At times quiet and meditative, at others noisier and distorted, but always (to our ears) utterly gorgeous and compelling. Aligns quite nicely with the likes of the Jewelled Antler collective, the Finnish forest foraging of Kemialliset Ystavat, and of course others in the experimental underground Italian scene of which the members of 3/4hadbeeneliminated are a part." [Aquarius Records review] www.soleilmoon.com 2007 €19.50
  Speak to me LP "Black Truffle present Speak To Me, the sixth full-length release from 3/4HadBeenEliminated, the Italian trio of Stefano Pilia, Claudio Rocchetti and Valerio Tricoli. Based on source material recorded in Bologna and Berlin over the course of several years, the album is made up of two side-long pieces meticulously constructed in post-production by Tricoli in his singularly dense and unpredictable style. Although their live performances have always been entirely improvised, in their recorded work the group focuses on using improvised recordings as source material for compositions built up through layering, editing and analog manipulation, extending the practices of Teo Macero, Faust and This Heat. Melancholic instrumental ruminations sit alongside cracked electronics, concrete sounds and Tricoli's whispered vocals, drawn together into dense assemblages animated by gradual transformations and sudden jump cuts. Beginning from the abstractions of their self-titled debut release in 2004, the group embarked on a trajectory that saw them move toward near-song structures, Tricoli's voice becoming a dominant element amid an increasingly dense and layered production style. On Speak To Me, however, the listener feels confronted by the ghost of music, sonic memories echoing across a psychedelic expanse. Evacuated of any clear structure, the music becomes a reverb-saturated morass, from which crystalline details momentarily emerge: shimmering echoed guitar, bowed double bass, tactile hand percussion, skittering electronics. Suffused with a darkly pensive atmosphere, Speak To Me is an elegant summation of the distinctive blend of electroacoustic techniques, instrumental improvisation and contemporary psychedelia pioneered by 3/4HadBeenEliminated over the last decade. LP design by Stephen O'Malley with striking artwork by Stefano Pilia. Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." www.blacktrufflerecords.com 2016 €17.50
A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN same CD "Debüt des gemeinsamen Projekts der Neoklassiker Adam Wiltzie und Dustin O’Halloran. A Winged Victory For The Sullen sind Adam Wiltzie (Stars Of The Lid) und der amerikanische Komponist Dustin O’Halloran. Mit verschiedenen Klavieren und Droneklängen experimentierten die beiden auf ihrem selbst betitelten Debüt in extrem tiefen Frequenzbereichen. Aber auch traditionelle Instrumente wie Waldhorn, Fagott und Streicher sind zu hören, immer durchdrungen allerdings von Gitarrenmelodien. Die Aufnahmen begannen mit einer nächtlichen Session auf einem alten Bösendorfer-Imperial-Klavier in der berühmten Grunewaldkirche in Berlin. Die Streicheraufnahmen stammen aus den Ostberliner Räumen des einstigen DDR-Radios. Eine letzte Session gab es auf einem handgemachten Fazioli-Flügel in einem Privatstudio in Italien. Das Ergebnis sind sieben Klanglandschaften harmonischer Wiederkehr, Late-Night-Music, von der man immer geträumt hat. Zu den Gastmusikern gehören die isländische Cellistin Hildur Gudnadottir sowie Erased-Tapes-Labelkamerad Peter Broderick an der Violine. Die Vinylversion erscheint mit einem Download-Code. // A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie and composer Dustin O'Halloran. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began in one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in West Berlin on a 1950s imperial Boesendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last final session in a private studio deep in the northern cusp of Italy on a handmade Fazioli piano, and the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara, Italy, with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to live dangerously, realizing that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic replicating ingemination. In 'Requiem for the Static King Part 1' (created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous) they have taken the age old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of mellow bliss. Of the 13 minute track 'Symphony Pathetique,' Wiltzie says 'after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing.' Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, and violinist Peter Broderick. A Winged Victory for the Sullen is not a side project. This is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of." [label info] www.brainwashed.com/kranky 2011 €14.00
AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF Fragment 36 (SOLD OUT) 7inch Hinter dem Projekt mit dem seltsamen Namen steckt MIRKO UHLIG aus Bonn, der sich auf seiner Drone-7“ auf HERAKLITs „alles fliesst“ bezieht und entsprechende Dronescapes mit hoher Dynamik erschaffen hat.....zerfliessende-handbemalte Covers & multi-colour Vinyl ! “You never cross the same river twice! PANTA RHEI!” Behind this project with the strange name (german for “eel-catch with horse-head”) is one Mirko Uhlig from Germany, who had few CDR-releases so far, most of them standing out through their weird surrealistic coloration. In the meantime he also build his own label EX OVO. “Fragment 36” relates to a quote from Heraclites showing that ‘everything deliquesces” at any moment and can never be the same as one moment before. According to that, AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPFs first and last ever 7” creates two drone-minimal pieces with very high dynamics, using water-sounds and Glockenspiel, drenched into overtune-feedback-resonances & dark deep drones... Filed under: fleetingmelting drones LIGHT GREEN / YELLOW SPRINKLED VINYL. HANDPAINTED COVERS USING WATER-COLOURS IN GREEN, RED, VIOLET.” [press release] RELEASE DATE: 30. April 2006 ! 2006 €6.50  
  Kindspechleber LP + CD "On Kindspechleber Mirko Uhlig offers a set of real disturbing tracks bsomewhere between musique concrète and cold ambient layers. The added CD Kall Trä presents reworked sound collections from the vinyl and with this four completely new songs. As they complement this work as whole, these recordings shouldn´t be withhold. A release which shows once more that Mirko Uhlig is just a versatile experimental musician. Comes in a very appealing coverartwork by Robert Schalinski." [label info] www.empiricrecords.com "This proofs absolutely nothing. What the hell do I know? Like why Mirko Uhlig once changed from using his band name Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf to his own name, and since time it's back to that moniker again. There might be a perfect logic explanation for it, but I don't know. Or perhaps I am not certain about it but the differences could be hidden inside the music. If that is the case, then I am sure these differences are quite small. Maybe with Uhlig (as Uhlig) I had the impression things were all a bit more subdued, and with Aalfang it's perhaps all a bit more louder. But maybe I just have the volume turned up more today? Here we have a LP and a CD, both of around forty minutes which offer a sufficient insight in the world of Uhlig. Mood music is the best description but perhaps not mood music in the 'classic' drone sense, but more like a story telling. Uhlig uses long form sounds, drones if you will, but cuts it along with spoken word, children's voices, radio which gives the music a strange surrealistic notion. Will you be surprised if I bring up the name Nurse With Wound in this respect? It has that same estranged atmosphere here as on say 'Spiral Insana', like a wicked radio play, or a montage of film voices from a horror movie, but also with samples from a spaghetti western towards the end of 'Les Mouches Volantes'. If I understood matters correctly, the CD is Uhlig taking the sounds from the LP into a whole new world, a recycled version as we would have said so in the 1980s. Now to proof my point I don't know much. The LP sounds differently than the CD. The CD could be more Uhlig than Aalfang (am I still making sense?). with more subdued textured tones, more ambient, more Hafler Trio than the wounded nurse. It's great that both come to us as Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf as they fit along each other quite well. First play the record to get in a scary mood, and then the CD to relax and contemplate about what just happened. Great work, I must say, but I guess I have been a converted fan for quite some time." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2012 €20.00
ABATE, MAURIZIO A Way to Nowhere LP Maurizio Abate rented a room in a isolated house in the mountains during the winter of 2013, bringing all his instruments there. Time was spent walking around, enjoying some dope in complete solitude and recording music at any time of the day. Rather than being into this experience in a Thoreau sense, the surrounding landscape was just a background scenery to Maurizio, and the real immersion has been made in his room and in his head where all the sounds he had in mind were floating. What Maurizio looked for was a way to boil down and aggregate togheter many influences he had in recent times, meditative krautism, traditional music and the inalienable passion for blues guitar. Some of the tracks were sketches to work on, others were the result of long improvisations which has been rearranged and mixed when he got back home. The record sees contributes from good ol’ friends like Rella the Woodcutter, BeMyDelay and Alberto Boccardi and features a piece of interview with Aldous Huxley on “Towards the Outside” released in black vinyl, 250 copies. co-released with Black Sweat Records blacksweatrecords.com Cover photos by Valentina D'Accardi valentinadaccardi.it www.boringmachines.it 2014 €15.00
ABNER MALATY Glide (SOLD OUT) 7 released in August 1994 in an edition of 200 copies on light blue vinyl. Each Cover had a different coloured spiral on the front. The vinyl-labels were white stamped with the drone logo and a brain-stamp. Press-information: "If there was ever something that could be called 'spacious' then it must be ABNER MALATY! This totally unknown musician from Indiana, USA, does a kind of mystic noise that is alien and surreal, complex and energetic. It seems to us that ABNERS view goes far beyond the earth, into cosmos or even further. It's a kind of dynamic quality that makes ABNER MALATY so unique... it's intuitive, intentional-made sound without any pathetic emotional outburst. So far, there are only existing a few limited tapes of this unconventional and original artist, this 4-track-E.P. is the very first vinyl. Exorbitant music for exorbitant people! YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF SOUND? THEN YOU SHOULD INTRODUCE YOUR MIND TO THIS OUTER SPACE RIDE! Mutate again – double check." 1994  
ADMIN DADA The Hypnagogic Traveller LP "First of all, you should know that the hypnagogic state characterizes a phase between wakefulness and sleep: that of falling asleep. So, as an insomniac who has trouble falling asleep, I was curious to see how Admin Dada would put all this to music. On a purely sonic level, we sail aboard rather spatial electronic drones, sometimes disturbed by more abrasive sound frequencies. It is true that when listening to this opus, one enters a form of psychedelic trip, as if the brain was following the modulations of the music, which becomes almost meditative and brings us closer to a shamanic trance state. It's a bit of a sound illustration of this particular moment when we leave the state of pure awakening to become more cottony, to feel the sensations of our body evolve, the noises gradually fade away, the breathing slow down. Although generally calm, this work can become darker at times ("Vouivr") and approach a form of dark ambient rather psychedelic. I am well aware of Sheitan's creativity and his talent for handling atmospheres and melodies, even in quasi-atonal moments, but I find that he has surpassed himself here: this album settles in itself as a great pleasure that one immediately wishes to repeat. In addition to the digital version, the album is also available on vinyl, which will allow you to appreciate the very nice artwork. With this album, Admin Dada has established itself among the references of modern ambient/experimental music, and one would have to be an idiot to miss it!" [Le Scribe Du Rock] https://hammersteinwaldteufel.bandcamp.com/album/the- hypnagogic-traveller review: https://www.webzinelescribedurock.com/2021/04/review-admin-dada-hypnagogic-traveller.html 2021 €20.00
AF URSIN Aura Legato CD Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition, and the first CD edition, of Af Ursin's 2005 masterpiece Aura Legato. Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser Timo van Luijk. His work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings), but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them, results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive shadows, creaks and whispers. Van Luijk's process begins always with pure improvisation: music played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique. He performs and overdubs each instrumental component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised composition. Aura Legato is one of van Luijk's darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings: a work of profound interiority, but one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-siècle decadence - dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den - and has earned comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS. 2016 €15.00
  Aura Legato LP "Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition, and the first CD edition, of Af Ursin's 2005 masterpiece Aura Legato. Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser Timo van Luijk. His work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings), but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them, results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive shadows, creaks and whispers. Van Luijk's process begins always with pure improvisation: music played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique. He performs and overdubs each instrumental component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised composition. Aura Legato is one of van Luijk's darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings: a work of profound interiority, but one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-siècle decadence - dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den - and has earned comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS. Fully remastered and housed in die-cut sleeve with gold detailing and individually hand-glued labels." [label info] 2016 €26.00
AGUILAR, LUIS DAVID Ayahuasca: Musica Para Cine de Luis David Aguilar 1978-1983 LP "Ayahuasca: Music for Film, by Luis David Aguilar (1978-1983)" compiles works by Luis David Aguilar, one of the most prolific composers of film scores in Peru. It shows the great versatility and avant-garde style that has distinguished his work. Luis David Aguilar (Arequipa, 1950) occupies a fundamental place in the history of film music in Peru, not only because of the prolific nature of his work (which also includes music for television and advertising), but because of the singular, experimental style found in many of his scores. Aguilar's music blends modern academic composition with the use of native instruments, synthesizers, sound collages and a diversity of resources, which identify him as a key figure to understand a period of Peruvian music marked by the imprint of the avant-garde and the use of native sounds, which developed during the late 70's and the early 80's. Aguilar belongs to the so called “Generation of the 70's”, along with Peruvian composers such as Walter Casas, Seiji Asato and Aurelio Tello, who were then immersed in the languages of contemporary classical music. But he also shares the spirit of renewal of a generation of musicians who came from the world of jazz and electronic experimentation such as Manongo Mujica and Arturo Ruiz del Pozo. After his graduation from the National Music Conservatory, Luis David Aguilar studied at the Instituto Nacional de Teleducación, starting from 1976, which proved to be decisive. It allowed him to start a career as a composer of music for radio and television, and drove him away from the classical scene. With this experience in hand, he was then able to produce film music and to work in many recording studios in Lima. He also set up his own studio and, as a result, he is the owner of a large archive of recordings, which has been maintained without being published. “During those years I composed a lot of music: children's songs, jingles for various radio shows, as well as music for television series, etc.”, says Aguilar. “The great attraction for me was that all of the music I created was recorded immediately, and because of my academic training, I was able to write scores for symphonic orchestra. My purpose was to introduce the sounds of classical instruments in the auditory memory of a vast audience. I had never experienced this possibility before. As an academic composer, I created works that were rarely performed. Most of them gathered dust in different places or, because of my lack of order and frequent relocations, they simply got lost. But during this period, all of the music I wrote came to life. I was also able to work with different recording studios and use their fantastic technical resources. In addition, this situation allowed me to create job opportunities for classically trained musicians (who at that time were very poorly paid). Over any other consideration, this had a clear social function, and the experience was totally worthy for me. In large measure, this is why I stopped working in academic settings.” Ayahuasca is an album that collects pieces from 1978 to 1983 and offers an overview of the different musical paths that Aguilar followed during his career as a soundtrack composer. The album opens with music from the film El viento del ayahuasca [The Wind of Ayahuasca] (1983), by director Nora de Izcue, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Cuba under the baton of Luis David Aguilar, with Chucho Valdés on piano. Recorded at the ICAIC studios (Cuba), it is an ambitious orchestral and vocal composition, in which you can hear the beginning of the famous melody popularized by the Amazonian cumbia group Juaneco y su Combo, which serves as an introduction to the sound world of the jungle, a dense and hypnotic atmosphere that, without a doubt, places this work as one of the most important compositions of the author's repertoire. The next track is the music for the documentary Anónimo cotidiano [Anonymous Everyday] (1979), by director Jorge Rey, a unique experimental piece for synthesizers (played by Aguilar), drums and percussion (played by Manongo Mujica), with the addition of various Andean instruments (panpipes, charango, among others). It is a clear example of fusion of sound experimentation and timbres from the Andean world. And finally Los constructores [The Builders] (1978), by director José Carlos Huayhuaca, a salsa which incorporates unusual sounds of tubular bells and prepared pianos. About this diversity of genres, the composer says: “Creating film music gave me a wide perspective, because of the possibility of using all the composition techniques that I studied, both traditional and avant-garde, and even inventing some of my own, in addition to giving me the versatile craft that is needed”. Ayahuasca: Music for Film by Luis David Aguilar (1978-1983) is the second album by Aguilar released by Buh Records, following the celebrated Hombres de Viento/Venas de la Tierra (1978-1982), appeared in 2015. The album is published in vinyl format, in a limited edition of 300 copies, as part of the Essentials Sounds collection. It includes a booklet with notes by Luis David Aguilar. The audio has been remastered from the original reel tapes by Aldo Montalvo. The artwork and design is by About Studio. This project was awarded with the Economic Stimulus for Culture 2021 of the Ministry of Culture of Peru. https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ayahuasca-m-sica-para-cine-de-luis-david-aguilar-1978-1983-essential-sounds-collection 2022 €25.00
AHTI, MARJA Still Lives LP “Still Lives” is the third solo full length by the Finnish composer Marja Ahti, following a pair of releases on the Hallow Ground imprint. As a collection, it may be seen as a series of studies on the liminality of the listening act and an investigation into the physicality of sound. Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a set of articulate, prickly, and surprising compositions. In the artist’s words, “These pieces could be conceived of as vanitas paintings of a kind – selections of mundane or archetypal objects, sounds that have their own distinct qualities, but exist only by virtue of being temporary events. From another angle, one could think of them as shrines – objects assembled and set in a particular relationship to each other, charging each other in their given constellations.” Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Originally from Sweden, Ahti has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner and as a member of the Himera artist/organizer collective. https://marjaahti.bandcamp.com/album/still-lives "Rethinking the boundaries of electronic process and musique concréte on visionary new terms, Marja Ahti, returns with “Still Lives”, her first LP with Students of Decay. Doubling as studies into the liminality of listening and the physicality of sound, from a pallet of field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape, and digital processing, Ahti weaves a series of free-standing sonic worlds at the borders of metaphor and abstraction, endlessly reconfiguring the meanings carried by language and sound across the album’s stunningly beautiful two sides. Building on the accomplishments of two groundbreaking LPs for Hallow Ground - 2019’s Vegetal Negatives and 2020’s The Current Inside - as well as Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?, her stunning duo with Niko-Matti Ahti released by Ouidah last year, the Swedish-born, Finland based artist / composer, Marja Ahti, returns with Still Lives, her first LP on Students of Decay. Across the album’s two sides - venturing further into unknown creative territory - Ahti’s delicate hand transforms raw sonic materiality into a shimmering and immersive tapestry - imbued with humanity and life - that presents electronic process and musique concrète on visionary new terms. Active for more than a decade, first issuing solo efforts under the moniker Tsembla, as well as working within the psychedelic improv collective Kemialliset Ystävät, over the last few years the Swedish-born, Finland based, artist and composer, Marja Ahti, has risen to prominence within the global context of experimental music, increasingly gaining critical accolades for a series of releases issued under her own name. An artist who takes nothing for granted, through the vessel of her work, Ahti endeavors to challenge and reconfigure fundamental elements of meaning that are carried by language and sound, setting out to build them again from scratch. The result, blending metaphor and abstraction, seamlessly binds the familiar and known - be it fleeting impressions of the natural world or elements and approaches to experimental music - through a radically unfamiliar pattern of human action and thought. Her latest, Still Lives, issued by Students of Decay in a limited vinyl edition of 300 copies, takes this line of inquiry to beautiful new extremes. Comprising eight compositions that double as studies into the liminality of listening and the physicality of sound, across the album’s two sides Ahti forges vivid electroacoustic environments from field recordings, analog synthesizers, acoustic feedback, magnetic tape and digital processing, resulting in a strikingly visionary reimagining of electronic process and musique concrète, within which impressions of a source material’s identity is retained, while simultaneously being allowed to be heard on autonomous and fully dislocated terms. In Ahti’s own words, “These pieces could be conceived of as vanitas paintings of a kind – selections of mundane or archetypal objects, sounds that have their own distinct qualities, but exist only by virtue of being temporary events. From another angle, one could think of them as shrines – objects assembled and set in a particular relationship to each other, charging each other in their given constellations.” Formed from tense collisions of harmony and dissonance - buzzes, long shifting and intersecting tones, textural abrasions and trickles, and impressions of nature intersecting with the technological and industrial - each piece, across the length of Still Lives, encounters the 'non-musical' taking on a new musical life, and proves Ahti to be what we suspected all along; one of the great, holistic voices in contemporary electroacoustic music resting in our midst. Issued by Students of Decay in a very limited edition of 300 copies on vinyl, Still Lives stand high among our favourite records of the year. Grab it fast before it goes." [Soundohm] 2021 €20.00
AIN SOPH / SIGILLUM S Simulacra CD First released in 1989 as a tape on the legendary German label CTHULHU RECORDS and re-released in 1998 by OEC as limited vinyl, this legendary album sees finally the light for the first time into CD format. An absolute masterpiece of Ritual Music by those two primer Italian post-industrial acts. Tracklist: 1. AIN SOPH - Rex Tremendae 2. AIN SOPH - Estey 3. AIN SOPH - Katàbasis 4. AIN SOPH - Retrowange Novelle Retrospective - SIMULACRA 5. SIGILLUM S - Sea Ov Dreams 6. SIGILLUM S - Abyss Dissection 7. SIGILLUM S - Deepest Of My Brain 8. SIGILLUM S - Into the Nothing 9. SIGILLUM S - Iconsire ############################### "thee Roma based Italian projekt Ain Soph were active for over twenty years & generated an opus which has irrefutably impacted many who have followed!! conjuring dark ritual atmospherics beginning in thee early 80's, and working into realms which were at times neo-classical, archaic-choral, traditionalist folk, and even psychedelicised renderings ov rock. this cassette was released intitially upon thee highly respected German industrial/experimental electronics label Cthulu which operated from 1981 until 31 Dec. 1999. Will-I Stasch and Rose Kasseckert ran the label and are well-known for their work as Ernte, as well as being two-thirds of Mental Measuretech and publishing the magazine "The Feverish"." the cassette was also later reissued onto a vinyl format by thee astonishing Italian labels Old Europa Cafe & Misty Circles!! whilst thee materials for thee Ain Soph side ov this release are not easily definable; an inarticulate summation comrprised ov thee descriptives dark ritual electronics, haunting choral workx, and neo-classical symphonics may be within a range ov aproximation; though thee reader/listener shall hopefully draw reactions ov their own.. thee lineup for these recordings was listed as: Clau-D.E.D.I. [Claudio Giammarini- Circus Joy, Sentinels, Mushroom's Patience, MALATO..], Crucifuge, Foraenovis, and Marcello Fraioli [Sex Voto, Spectre]!! thee projekt Sigillum S [alternately known as Apocalypse Fanfare & Helix] were "formed in Milan on 23 December 1985 by Paolo Bandera [Komplet, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Sidra ], Eraldo Bernocchi [Black Engine, Charged, Equations of Eternity, Metallic Taste of Blood, Owls, Parched, Somma], and Luca Di Giorgio! still active after more than twenty-five years ov creative activities; thee presence ov this projekt tis undefinably magnificent!! thee recordings for this cassette consist ov uncanny synthesizer ambiances with ritualistic percussions and vocals with thee usuage ov human bones as instrumentation!! for all ov those who may have been waiting: may this be a token ov affection from your faltering presenteur.." [vitaignescorpuslignum.blogspot.com] 2016 €13.00
ALIO DIE Under an holy Ritual LP Wiederveröffentlichung der ersten ALIO DIE-CD von 1992 in einer schönen Vinyl-Edition !! "First time on vinyl this amazing Alio Die masterpiece..., a milestone of ritual ambient music!!! "Under an Holy Ritual" was his first CD, released on his label Hic Sunt Leones in 1992 and re-released on Projekt in 1993, was received with international acclaim. "Natural and acoustic sounds and selected noises, electronically treated and reworked, are integrated in a meditative and spiritual context that often, in the feeling, becomes close to a prayer. Visible static, this music is rich of hidden sounds, layers of elements to discover at each listening. Alio Die's music, in the consciousness space that creates, it's a melting of technology and mysticism, like a new ritual with echoes of a medieval time, deep and grounded in introspection." Ghostly incantations from the void, subtly shifting frequencies and moods... Stefano Musso has menaged to resurrect unsettling sounds from a pre-Middle Ages epoch and merge them into a pastiche of gripping, evocative pastures. One might be prone to labelling Alio Die as quasi-active ambient music, but that has become a word so bandied around these days that in this case the meaning far from concise. Alio Die presents in his first seminal work, his personal interpretation of atmospherical music... Stefano Musso studied art and electronics in his home town of Milan, Italy, and began performing ambient, electro-acoustic music under the name Alio Die in 1989. Characterized by evocative acoustic sounds manipulated and tendered electronically, Alio Die's work builds intimate soundscapes tied to the mystery and majesty of life and nature. His first CD "Under an Holy Ritual", released on his label Hic Sunt Leones in 1992 and re-released on Projekt in 1993, was received with international acclaim. He subsequently released more than 25 CDs, and collaborated with many well-known artists such as Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, Mathias Grassow, Nick Parkin, Yannick Dauby, Amelia Cuni, Raffaele Serra, Ora, Antonio Testa.” [label info] “Multi-layered sonic densities that can evoke the air of ancient storms one minute, then ebb like an immense black ocean the next. This knows how to alter moods with both thick electronic pulses and prehistoric scrapes of mysterious percussions. Cerebral, spooky, and thought provoking meditative/ambient music that harkens from a ritualistic viewpoint." [I/E Magazine] 2006 €15.00
  Aura Seminalis CD Auf AURA SEMINALIS verwendet ALIO DIE vokales und chorales Material, welches elektronisch verfremdet oder mit elektronischen Effekten angereichert wird. Dabei entstehen zwei lange Stücke von unglaublicher Emotionalität und Tiefe, frei fliessend & sanft wirbelnd um imaginäre Zentren....Die sakralen Choräle verschmelzen auf eine einmalige Art und Weise mit akustisch-elektronischen Sound, vielleicht das beste ALIO DIE -Album bisher, auf jeden Fall aufregend anders als vorherige Arbeiten ! "The new work by Alio Die it is part of the Castle's sonorisation series, titled AURA SEMINALIS. The first track 'Sine Tempore part I-III' it's an epicentre of mystic music carachterized by a gold cathedral's atmosphere, while 'Aura Seminalis part I-II' displays an ascensional soundworld of arcane purity and rare beauty. One of the best works by Alio die so far. CD packaged in an elegant three sides digipack!! HSL 045" [label info] "This latest release in a recent outpouring of creativity from Italy's master of organic drones is possibly the most unique in this artist's long career as a sound sculptor. While most of his recent releases on his own Hic Sunt Leones label have been collaborations, this is his first solo effort since the release of the 10 inch vinyl Aurea Hora. As the elaborate Renaissance style artwork on the cover suggests, this music points in the direction of a more "classical" sound insofar as the utilization of Gregorian style chants. These are successfully incorporated into Musso's customary drones comprised of field recordings, acoustic instruments, and electronic processing, giving this disc a particularly reverent ambience. Don't think Enigma or Delerium, because as one listens to this they may be inclined to bow their head and meditate or pray rather than nod or chill. I imagine that if today's sound recording abilities were available during those times evoked by the artwork or chants, they too would have then added the organic elements that Alio Die does, creating a balance of both the heavenly and the earthbound. Fans of his music may or may not find this approach a departure from what they are accustomed to, but it is certain that this artist is going beyond his previous huge body of work to encompass a broader sonic pallette." [Pauldient / Discogs.com] www.aliodie.com 2008 €15.00
ALLBEE, LIZ & BURKHARD BEINS Mensch Mensch Mensch LP "Berlin based composer-performers Liz Allbee and Burkhard Beins team up for some electro-acoustic explorations, utilising synths and field recordings, trumpet and percussion. Informed by their musical backgrounds ranging from industrial/noise via musique concrete to free improv, the two players create interactive fields of an imaginarchic nature. Limited to 250 copies." [label info] www.altvinyl.com 2014 €17.50
ALOG Islands of Memory LP "Islands Of Memory is the long lost, long awaited EP from Norwegian duo Alog that was recorded during the summer of 1999 in Malmö, Sweden. It was scheduled for release around the time of the Duck-Rabbit CD for Rune Grammofon. Due to unknown problems at the vinyl plant, it never saw the light of day, and was lost in the boiling vinyl cauldron somewhere in Switzerland. Fortunately, Creaked got the master tape back and Islands Of Memory is now finally being released. The wait is over, and it was well worth it! The brainchild ideas of Dag-Are Haugan and Espen Sommer Eide / Alog bring a breath of new and invigorating air to electronic music scene with their very own blend of modern, melodic and minimal electronica merged with warm instruments and organic sounds. Delivered with beautiful designed cover from Grandpeople, Islands Of Memory is definitely a must-have for any curious fan of contemporary electronic music." [label info] www.creakedrecords.com 2006 €15.00
ALTARMANG Void LP "2 great magicians: par bostrom - master of dark sound known of his projects kammarheit, cities last broadcast, and kenneth hansson - specialist of alchemies and plants magic - deliver 2 great dark ambient tracks under the title altarmang. 2 years of collaboration results the great album void where listener can experience great analogic sound and hypnotic rituals crystalised in heavy black vinyl." [label info] www.autarkeia.org 2017 €23.00
ALVA NOTO HYbr:ID I LP HYbr:ID Vol. 1 is the first installment of a new series of Alva Noto’s works bringing together heterogeneous composition methods. HYbr:ID Vol. 1 captures the music commissioned for the score of ‘Oval’, the choreographic piece directed by Richard Siegal and performed by the Staatsballett Berlin at the Berlin State Opera in 2019. The process of creating HYbr:ID Vol. 1 was defined by the search for a form to bind astrophysics phenomena, fiction, and performance movements. Its narrative is inspired by cinematic visual techniques and static images portraying scientific events which also inspired the titles of the nine compositions. The music possesses a dilated rhythmic base contributing to the images of gravity and spatiality. At points static is used with an ornate, delicate intricacy. The album’s sonic spectrum builds with deep sub-bass, gloomy sonics, spacious sound design, and inorganic ambiance that is gently coerced with artistic finesse. The nine compositions are accompanied by graphic notations informed by the album’s sonic and acoustic codes. HYbr:ID Vol. 1 will be released digitally as well as a limited edition vinyl and CD. https://noton.info/product/n-056/ 2021 €27.00
AMACHER, MARYANNE Petra LP Maryanne Amacher (1938 - 2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization, creative intelligence, and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called “sound art,” although her thought and creative practice consistently challenge key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of the genre. Amacher’s work anticipates some of the most important developments in network culture, media arts, acoustic ecology, and sound studies, yet due to its expansive interdisciplinary nature it has rarely been documented. Following two CDs for Tzadik and her inclusion in the monumental collection OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980), this publication of Amacher’s 1991 piece Petra marks her first commercially available instrumental work as well as the first time her music has ever been available on vinyl. Petra was originally commissioned for the ICSM World Music Days in Boswil, Switzerland. Written for two pianos, the piece is a unique example of Amacher’s late work, a direct extension of her working methodologies for electronic composition taken into an acoustic realm that alludes to the music of Giacinto Scelsi and Galina Ustvolskaya. Petra is a sweeping, durational work based on both Amacher’s impressions of the church at Boswil and science-fiction writer Greg Bear’s short story of the same name, in which gargoyles come to life and breed with humans in a post-apocalyptic Notre Dame. This solemn interpretation of Petra was recorded at its 2017 American premiere at New York’s St. Peter’s Episcopal Church with pianists Marianne Schroeder, who originally performed the piece alongside Amacher in 1991, and Stefan Tcherepnin, who performed it alongside Schroeder in 2012 at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Weighing tranquilizing passages of glacially-paced serenity against stretches of dilapidated, jagged dissonance, the recording illuminates a crucial node in the constellation of Amacher’s enigmatic oeuvre. Artistic director of the Giacinto Scelsi Festival in Basel, Marianne Schroeder is a Swiss composer and pianist specializing in the interpretation of New Music. She has collaborated with and premiered work by John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Dieter Schnebel, Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman, Pauline Oliveros and Giacinto Scelsi, with whom she studied. She is currently a professor at Hochschule der Künste Bern, and has also taught at the International Summer Courses in Darmstadt. Stefan Tcherepnin is an American electronic music performer, contemporary artist, and composer in fourth generation, continuing the family heritage of his great-grandfather Nicholas, grandfather Alexander, and father Ivan Tcherepnin. As a family friend of Amacher’s and a student of hers at Bard College he is uniquely qualified to navigate the labyrinth of Amacher interpretation. https://soundcloud.com/blankforms/maryanne-amacher-petra-1 2019 €28.00
AMBARCHI, OREN Triste CD Überraschender CD Re-Release der vergriffenen LP auf dem Metal-Label SOUTHERN LORD, die auch SUNN O))) veröffentlichen. Ein Live-Mitschnitt eines schönen Konzertes aus Nijmegen vom Juni 2001. „...zu hören ist AMBARCHI’s ruhig-dronige Seite, markante gitarrenbasierte Töne die in einem immerwährenden Wechsel zu interessanten Mustern verbunden werden...“ [Drone Rec info] Als Bonus gibt es noch Remix-Collaborationen mit TOM RECCHION. “An expanded reissue of the Triste album from Australian electronic guitarist and percussionist OREN AMBARCHI. The Triste material is reminiscent of his work on Grapes Of Wrath, with his guitar sound/tone transformed into a dark, tonally extreme, percussive instrument, with the sound arranged melodically to create beautiful drone soundscapes. Includes all the tracks from the original version (released on vinyl in a limited edition), along with some remix collaborations with TOM RECCHION.” [press release] “ Mr. Ambarchi's subtle harmonic clusters and beautiful Acoustic lullabies sway the listener into a waking dream like the best works of Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Phil Niblock, and John Fahey. Imagine that deep tranquil ocean, endless and mysterious, filled by single tears of resonating beauty until the ocean gives way torrents. This is Triste...” [from the original press release] 2005 €14.50
Destinationless Desire 7" "Electric guitars, organ, samples, bells, percussion and motorised cymbal recorded at BJB Studios, Sydney with additional overdubs made at home 2005-2007. Gratitude to Fairport Convention and Boris D Hegenbart. This is the 5th in the series of Touch Sevens - 7 vinyl only releases. 7 vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. Today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a healthy popular culture. It might seem like another retrograde step to launch a vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and indeed there is an element of the rear view mirror... the generation of Touch artists who grew up with vinyl [and cassette] still feeling a strong emotional attachment to it. This series is more than that... an overtly critical, non-digital statement is supported by treatments of audio work which cannot be applied to digital formats - the sonic texture, the use of a locked groove, the A & the B and the additional dimension of the visual counterpoint. As for the aspect of audience participation, we choose not to specify the RPM on the label, encouraging the listener to experiment with playback options and personal preferences. An attempt to make music that works at both speeds. The front cover might actually be the back cover..." [label info] "...Using electric guitars, organ, bells, samples, percussion and motorized cymbal (!), Ambarchi has created to dramatically different pieces. The A side is a woozy, washed out underwater sounding loopscape, peppered with record crackle (unless that’s coming from the record player, either way, it sounds great!), like a slightly jauntier, less melancholy Oval, major key melody, all softly sunshine- y, a dreamily hypnotic stretch of soft swirl that could go on forever. The B side is much darker, long streaks of shimmery low end beneath haunting slowed down vocals, mournful and mysterious, the vocals and the guitar drift and shift, all wound up in and around each other, throughout, bits of electronic glitchery, smears of muted buzz, snippets of conversation and dialogue, but all that stuff seems to be woven into an undulating backdrop for Ambarchi’s ghostlike disembodied blues. As always, packaged in super striking thick matte sleeve with gorgeous photos and layout from Touch head honcho Jon Wozencroft." [Aquarius Records review] www.touchmusic.org.uk 2008 €7.50
  Live Knots do-LP "Oren Ambarchi captured in two exceptional live performances. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M. Pressed on double 140g vinyl & CD. Photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Bill Kouligas. 'Live Knots, Oren Ambarchi's first release for PAN, presents two live realizations of 'Knots', the epic centrepiece of his Audience of One (Touch, 2012) release. Built on the interplay between Ambarchi's swirling, guitar harmonics and the metronomic pulse and shifting accents of Joe Talia's DeJohnette-esque drumming, the piece merges the organic push and pull of free improvisation with an overarching compositional framework. 'Tokyo Knots' presents the complete recording of a duo performance of the piece by Ambarchi and Talia recorded at Tokyo's legendary SuperDeluxe in March 2013. The performance builds gently on the foundation of Talia's insistent ride cymbal and the shifting tonal bed of Ambarchi's rich overtone-drenched guitar, eventually going into a free rock free fall of buzz- saw harmonics and crashing drums. From within the maelstrom, Talia picks up a pulsing motorik rhythm that leads the piece back to where it began, with the addition of the shuddering, elastic tones of a hand-played spring reverb unit. Krakow Knots' works with the same basic structure but stretches it out to nearly twice the length and adds strings played by the Sinfonietta Cracovia, led by Eyvind Kang on viola. The strings expand the piece's textural range with lush chordal blocks, uneasy dissonances and occasional Ligetiesque swarms of micro-activity, the swelling string tones intensifying the ecstatic nature of the piece as it moves towards its mid-point crescendo in which Ambarchi unleashes a particularly malicious continuum of stuttering harmonic fuzz. The strings then enter with a series of swelling chords, announcing the piece's final movement, and reaffirming the uniqueness of the tonal and compositional language that Ambarchi has patiently developed over the last two decades, in which the influence of post-minimal composers such as Alvin Curran, Gavin Bryars and David Behrman can be felt alongside the inspiration of raw free jazz, harsh noise and academic psychoacoustics. The final moments of the performance pit Talia and Crys Cole's amplified objects and spring reverb textures against a field of gently gliding string glissandi before the audience erupts in much-deserved applause.' Francis Plagne" [label info] www.pan-act.com 2015 €29.00
AMON Nona maxi-CD Nach langer Veröffentlichungspause gibt es nun immerhin eine maxi-CD bzw. 10“ von einem der besten dark ambient-acts. NONA ist eine faszinierende Soundreise in präverbale Sphären, mysteriöse & wunderschöne Klänge die sich in langsamen, aber dynamischen Wellenbewegungen durch Zeit und Raum bewegen... After a long release-pause here’s a new maxi-CD / 10“vinyl from one of the best dark ambient- acts. NONA is a fascinating soundjourney into pre-verbal spheres, mysterious and truly beautiful noises move in slow but dynamic waves through time and space.. The CD version is lim. to 500 copies and comes in an oversized 10” fullcolour cover with artwork by Daniel Crokaert (Mystery Sea). “Nona" takes inspiration from a case of xenoglossy (the ability to speak in an unlearned and unheard foreign language, often associated with past-life recall, states of trance or hypnosis and mediumship) discovered in Great Britain around the early Thirties when a woman in state of trance expressed herself in a language which was recognized as ancient egyptian. This voice from the past was called "Nona" or "The One Without a Name".[from the press-release] 2003 €6.50
ANAKRID Banishment Rituals of the Disenlightened LP Tolles Album dieser Neuentdeckung auf Beta-Lactam: sehr dichte, dunkle, geräuschhäft-mysteriöse Klänge, elektronisch unterfüttert & stets in dynamischer Bewegung, ein weites Spektrum auf den 11 Stücken austestend... sehr eigener Stil! Dies ist die superlimitierte Vinyl-Version, wie immer wie bei Beta-lactam speziell verpackt! "..A very dark, often unsettling and intense album of electronic experimentation." [Side-Line] "LP edition of 100 copies in a hand printed heavy gatefold sleeve. The inside gatefold sleeve is hand painted by Anakrid (each unique). Anakrid a day keeps the doctor slurred in a trove of fish-tallowed sling slong. This is what it sounds like when doves cry because the mother ship crashes into their nest in the 6th dimension. With this symphony of sickness comprised of scraped palpitations, pitched whooshes, roaring cathodes and syncopated metallics, Anakrid have another breakthrough chart topper on their bruised hands! These avant-garde hit-makers have real crossover potential, combining the best, most dynamic experimental noise with the very latest drones. This exciting NOW sound is OUT OF THIS WORLD! The long awaited fusion of ritualistic tribalism with the tweaked electro-tech of ancient alien cultures is finally here. Hey kids! If you love Nurse With Wound, Genocide Organ, Hafler Trio, Muslimgauze, Pierre Henry, Nadja and Harry Bertoia and confusing your parents, then you’ll want to get in on the Anakrid craze before it’s too late. They’ve got a whole new way of kickin’ it old school. With electronics AND home-made instruments, Anakrid CREATES an exploratory atmosphere WITHOUT all those boring, go-nowhere improvisational hang-ups. Everything sounds fresh, progressive and weird!!! It’s just that good. Let’s face it; outsider music has gotten plain boring. Anakrid is just the electrodes to the testicles that left field music has been weeping for since, like, forever. Ex-punks hang up their Mohawks and make good mayhem." [label info] www.blrrecords.com 2008 €26.00
ANEMONE TUBE :existence CD " A U F A B W E G E N RELEASE INFO cd-audio releaae date: 25.05.2001 artist: ANEMONE TUBE title: :EXISTENCE: order no.: aatp09 time: 50:12 min jewel case / 500 handnumbered copies / fold out colour insert :existence: as a great mix between rumbling noise and floating ambience. four hasrh tracks and three more dense and collage like works make this a varied and thrilling listen! tracklisting: Flesh & Bombs (10:13) Secondary Master (4:43) Choke Down (5:41) Existence (11:10) Red Waves (5:56) Continuity (4:08) The Encounter III (8:19) Anemone Tube was founded in Summer of 1996 by Stefan Hanser who felt the urge to express deeper personal feelings and dreams. The audioworks from Anemone Tube vary a lot along with the different means Stefan Hanser uses as sound source and for manipulation and could easiest be described as industrial-, ambient- and noisescapes of organic and synthetic sounds. The use of constantly shifting and altering sounds and moods is possibly one of the most intruiging things about the audio creations of Anemone Tube with the purpose of trying to put the listener into a delirious mental state, to irritate, torment and caress him no matter if in a positive or negative way: to cause emotional reaction! Over the years plenty of releases, several participations on compilations, split and collaborational releases on tape, vinyl, cd and video have been realised by different labels worldwide such as Transfixional Entertainment/Ravensburg, AufAbwegen/Köln, Solipsism/USA, Loud!/Italy, Napalmed/Czech, Inner Space Records/USA and many more. www.transformed.de/anemone.html" [original press release by AUF ABWEGEN] "German ambient-industrial project Anemone Tube was formed in 1996, and has explored a variety of heavy noisescapes and rhythmic blocks of sound; the Tube's modus operandi has always seemed to focus on putting the listener into a state of delirium caused by constantly shifting sounds and tones sourced from assorted organic and synthetic sounds, and this approach has resulted in a stylistically diverse body of work over the years. On the debut full length Existence, a nearly hour-long disc released in a hand-numbered limited edition of 500 copies, Anemone Tube is at it's heaviest, constructing seven bulky tracks that move from gorgeous ambient dronescapes to crushing, loop-heavy walls of distortion and menacing melodic tracers undulating over grinding rhythmic throb, sort of like what I'd expect a collaboration between Wolf Eyes and Maurizio Bianchi to sound like, although you can also draw lines to Throbbing Gristle, SPK, and violent early UK power electronics when tracks like 'Choke Down' and 'The Encounter III" get into full swing and start obliterating speakers with ferocious torrents of factory distortion. I really dig the way that Existence manages to balance the haunting, atmospheric drones and buried deconstructed rhythms with the louder, brutal passages of rumbling machine filth, making this much easier to digest than many of Anemone Tube's peers. Packaged in an elegant jewel case with a large 10-panel booklet glowing in fiery, fractaled reds and oranges, imprinted with mysterious pictograms." [Crucial Blast] 2001 €12.50
ANIMA SOUND Underground Altena LP Alga Marghen returns with an absolute stunner, the LP “Underground Altena”, comprising a never before heard or released series of recordings capturing Anima - the duo of Limpe Fuchs and Paul Fuchs - in 1973. Largely rendered on a striking array of instruments, invented and played by the couple, its otherworldly, visionary sounds upend nearly every perception held about underground music transpiring in Germany during this period. Wild, wonderful, truly free, and inspiring as records come. ** Edition of 300. ** Over their decades of activity, the Italian imprint, Alga Marghen, has illuminated a near countless number of historical artefacts within the field of experimental sound. Their latest, a previously unreleased body of recordings from 1973 by Anima - the duo of Limpe Fuchs and Paul Fuchs - entitled “Underground Altena”, encounters them casting their gaze toward a fascinating juncture between the krautrock scene, free jazz, and experimental music. Beautifully pressed on vinyl, comprising two visionary long form works, its incredible sounds - radically pursuing freedom with every texture, tone, and beat - entirely redefine the terms through which understandings of German 1970s musical experimentation has been historically approached. Founded at the periphery of the kraut / kosmische scene by then husband and wife team, Limpe and Paul Fuchs, during the late 1960s, Anima was easily one of the most singular and unique projects to have ever emerged from the European sonic counterculture. At the time of its inception, Paul was an avant-garde sculptor, while Limpe was a conservatory trained percussionist, violist, and vocalist. In addition to emboding a radical form of free living, and farming in the small Bavarian village where they lived, their collaboration centered upon a meeting of their respective creative worlds; Paul’s work and understanding of objects, and Limpe’s musical understanding. Anima’s distinct sound was largely the result of the pair’s invention, building, and playing of unique instruments, notably the Fuchshorn, Fuchszither, Fuchsbass, and a ‘pendulum string’ based on a Pythagorean monochord, alongside regular instruments and vocals, within a radical approach toward the achievement of freedom through creativity. The result, which appeared across eight full lengths documenting their activities until they disbanded during the 1980s, as well as a handful of more recent archival releases, are some of the most remarkably experimental and sought-after releases to have emerged from Germany during those years. Describing that period’s activities, Limpe recalls: «In the Anima duo with Paul Fuchs beside the drum set I used iron tools and metal sheets from the workshop. Instead of the hi hat cymbals I had a metal ring with five strings and plucked them by foot with a plectrum. Paul had built the Fuchsharp with two pickups and glided up and down the scale.» “Underground Altena”, comprising the contents of a tape recently discovered by Limpe Fuchs in her archive, gathers two long form works - “Underground” and “Altena” - recorded by the duo in 1973. The title may be a reference to the legendary jazz festival in Burg Altena, Germany, that they played at during this period (the documentation of which can be found on B.Free’s “New Jazz Meeting Burg Altena 1972-1973” box set, issued back in 2016). Heavily guided by Limpe’s unique approach to percussion playing and vocals, with Paul delivering a striking arsenal of tonal interventions on his invented instruments, “Underground” and “Altena” plays like the outer reaches of free jazz dropped in an alien landscape. Howling and clattering, entirely free and spontaneous, while never losing the sense of a deep sense of consciousness, purpose, and control, it’s hard to think of anything else quite like it before or since. As is widely known, since the disbanding of Anima, Limpe Fuchs has gone on to have a solo career that has positioned her as one of the great legends of experimental sound and musical practice. The absolutely incredible recording - never before heard or issued - that make up Alga Marghen’s release, “Underground Altena”, return us to where it all began, and one of the most incredible musical projects to have emerged from the 1960s and '70s German scene. Available as a stunning vinyl LP, we struggle to find the words to recommend it enough. Otherworldly, visionary, and inspiring as records come. 2022 €21.50
ANTLERS MULM Of Withered Sparks CD "Our hopes, our flesh, our tears... are draped like dead birds in the skies"... Different from most other LOKI-artists, ANTLERS MULM appears to be much more song-oriented, doing a kind of dark electronic pop-music, but very refined, minimal, deeply melancholic & quiet. Reminds us a bit on TWICE A MAN or TOR LUNDVALL at times, but with a much darker singing.. "The third album of ANTLERS MULM opts for deep resonating tones that are harmonious and hypnotic with a greater emphasis on percussion, and the massive foray into song based structures. Dark Beats and phantasmagorial Melodies are melting into an intense atmosphere guided by the outstanding voice of the father of shadows Hans Johm. Throbbing samples enriches this compositions to a homogenic masterpiece. These 10 songs are catching the mood of the warm feeling of being at home and creating a landscape of a coruscant kingdom that lies deep within the lyrical and musical expression. These tracks building melancholy on the most song based LOKI release ever - take a deep breath and get lost in this aural world of ANTLERS MULM. Limited digipack and vinyl version (222 copies) released in January 2008." [label info] www.loki-found.de 2008 €13.00
APOPTOSE Ana Liil CD "Ana Liil doesn't want to be your friend – she lives in an entirely separate world. Maybe at night you see her shape behind a grimy window in the neighbourhood, or you hear her singing from afar. But you will never get closer to her. “I don't know who she is,” Apoptose says. “One day she just emerged. Like a thought that sounds logic in your dreams but completely strange in daylight.” Apoptose’s “ana liil” plays with your expectations. This album spins within close range of those dark ambient realms that Apoptose became known for since the early 2000s. Songs like “meer der ruhe” or “schnee” still bear this signature. But at the same time they show a new quality of songwriting. Both feature the frail singing of a girl who keeps the dusty shadows at bay . On “forget your face”, “adrenalin” or “ich verbrenne” Apoptose replaces the reverb charged tracks by songs full of voices and haunting melodies. But beware: all is not as it seems. The album will be available on CD, vinyl+CD and download. The CD is housed in a stylish spot varnished six-panel cardboard pack including a twelve-pages booklet and a separate CD-sleeve. The LP+CD version comes in an altered design with copper foil blocking and printed inner sleeve. Don't miss!" [label info] www.tesco-germany.com "Wer ist ANA LIIL? "Sie will nicht mit Dir befreundet sein – sie lebt in ihrer ganz eigenen Welt." So steht es in der kurzen Beschreibung zum neuen APOPTOSE-Album. Ich könnte mir gut vorstellen, dass ANA sich diese Eigenschaft mit RÜDIGER, dem Mann hinter APOPTOSE teilt. Wohltuend zurückhaltend präsentiert sich der Musiker, den wir seit einiger Zeit begleiten. Rund vier Jahre nach "Bannwald" (Besprechung und Interview) legt er, ganz unaufgeregt, im Mai mit "Ana Liil" auf TESCO ein neues Album vor; wir durften es vorab schon hören. Trotz vieler Änderungen in den vergangenen Jahren – von den rituelleren Alben "Nordland" (2000) und "Blutopfer" (2002) über das industrielle "Schattenmädchen" (2007) und den Post Punk-Ausflug "Warrior Creed" (2008) wieder zurück in waldigere Gefilde auf "Bannwald" (2010) – blieb ein gewisser APOPTOSE-Sound immer erkennbar. Dies gilt auch für "Ana Liil", hier finden sich erneut die leicht orgeligen, langgezogenen Synthietöne. Ansonsten hat sich allerdings eine ganze Menge getan. Zum Beispiel arbeitet RÜDIGER auf einigen Songs mit Gesang, die Trommeln von früher liegen wohl endgültig im Keller, und die Musik mit eingängigen, starken Melodien könnte als minimaler Synthiewave durchgehen. Schon "Meer Der Ruhe" (01) birgt die erste Überraschung: Zu einer ruhigen, traurigen Synthiemelodie mit neoklassischer Anmutung singt eine Kinderstimme, anrührend und auf Deutsch. Gemeinsam mit dem angesprochenen, speziellen Klang ergibt sich etwas Märchenhaftes – wir reden allerdings von den düsteren, morbiden Märchen, in denen es um Geister, Tote und andere Dimensionen geht. So kommt der Song trotz der Kinderstimme sehr gut am Kitsch vorbei. In "Ich Verbrenne" (02) wandelt sich die Sängerin vom Mädchen zur Frau. Die weiterhin ruhige Synthie-Ambientmusik mit dezentem Rhythmus im Hintergrund erinnert mich – hier und an anderen Stellen – an elektronische Musik der 1980er/90er, zum Beispiel an die frühen WOLFSHEIM. Der Titeltrack (03) schlägt zum ersten Mal wirklich düstere Töne an: dronige E-Gitarre, Percussion und englische, gesampelte Vocals. KRAFTWERK oder deren aktuelle Version ATOM™ scheinen in "Fernsehen" (04) zu grüßen (und auch das nicht zum letzten Mal): sanfte, jetzt sehr modern wirkende Elektromusik mit TV-ähnlicher Ansagerstimme ("Fernsehen macht dumm ..."). Die moderne, computerisierte Anmutung bleibt für die nächsten beiden Tracks bestehen: "Adrenalin" (05) mit mächtigem BACH-Chor im Hintergrund und "I Say Seven" (06) mit einer dronigen, mächtigen Melodie, analogem Schlagzeug, Synthielayern und der technisierten Frauenstimme, welche Zahlen präsentiert – mein Favorit. "Hiding" (07) ist eines von zwei Stücken, bei denen mir "Twin Peaks"-Lieder von JULEE CRUISE in den Sinn kommen (mit mehr Drive und Rhythmus), auch die Kinderstimme im Abschlussstück "Schnee" (09) bringt mich dorthin zurück. Dazwischen liegt mit "Forget Your Face" (08) ein Track, bei dem ich kurz – ich hoffe, RÜDIGER verzeiht mir das – an die PET SHOP BOYS denken musste. Extrem packende Ambientmusik, die inhaltlich durchaus an frühere Alben von APOPTOSE anknüpft, vor allem "Schattenmädchen" und "Bannwald". Auch Kinderlieder und Gesang gab es vor allem schon auf letzterem. Musikalisch allerdings geht "Ana Liil" in eine andere Richtung. Die Nähe zur Natur ist nicht mehr so deutlich hörbar, die starke rituelle Komponente fehlt, die Trommeln spielen überhaupt keine Rolle mehr. Das aktuelle Werk ist in seiner fast ausschließlich elektronischen Anlage durchgängiger, die Stücke sind sich ähnlicher und häufig mit Gesangsstimmen versehen. Nach und nach umspinnt die Hauptdarstellerin den Hörer mit Einsamkeit und Verlorenheit – und trägt ihn davon. Das Album erscheint als CD, LP und als Download und kommt laut Beschreibung von TESCO mit aufwändiger Verpackung..." [Michael We./NONPOP] 2014 €14.50
APSE Eras LP "APSE hail from New England in USA and have been described as "Post-Rock" / "Avant-Garde/Rock" / "Experimental" / ?? ... It may indeed be a tired, old, cliché but the band truly defy normal musical stereotyping. This release presents their debut on vinyl and has been long in the making. This follow-up to their 2006 CD (Spirit on Acuarela Discos) is defined as 'a glossary', that just happens to be a full-length release in its own right. View the APSE band page (here) for videos, discography and more information. Well worth exploring. The record is pressed on highest quality 180g virgin vinyl and presented in a luxurious gatefold sleeve with full printed inner and a numbered post-card insert." [label info] www.chronoglide.com/equation.html 2009 €18.00
ARASTOO & AEMAE Ostrakon LP "Two side-long ice sculptures built on piano and processing, the piano coming strictly from Arastoo Darakhshan, while both add their effects but Brandon Nickell as Aemae delivers digital doctoring as his primary outlet. The title track is a wonderful splintering of sound, with glacier cracking in on the stark black and white keys. Aemae’s timing with noisier nuance is excellent on this, and he has at least one treatment like a frozen train going off the tracks! Here the sum decimates the parts, Arastoo’s delicate hesitance almost dances around a ghost of Clara Rockmore. A very open piece with rays of mourning and crystal shards of electronics, it captures that ever-important balance of order and chaos. If the first piece is Nickell plating Darakhshan, then perhaps the second is a reverse, with a layer of Aemae cast out and the piano imposed on top? Just a guess, maybe I’m too concerned without tallying yin and yang. The first piece really is a stunner with a fascinating name that wiki shows as the derivation for ostracism. Yeah, this is outsider music but I suspect readily acceptable to many ears, of course we too at KFJC have been happily exiled beneath main street for decades of decadence. Limited release on Nickell’s own label." [Thurston Hunger / KFJC] "A long in the works collaboration from two aQ favorites, Aemae and Arastoo. We've listed both Aemae releases, but Arastoo has been a bit more elusive, with tons of super limited vinyl and cd-r releases, of which we've only ever managed to review 3. Well, the two have come together, to produce this, the first in a new salvo of Bay Area sound art from Aemae, aka Brandon Nickell's Isounderscore label. And a pretty fantastic start. Arastoo plays the piano, and then the two shape and mold the piano into two side long pieces, both quite impressive. The A side is mostly straight piano all the way through, some gorgeous fluid playing, some stunning arrangements, but the two subtly shape and twist throughout, adding mysterious little music box flourishes, sudden squalls of super high end skree, but those moments are actually quite controlled, the sounds sculpted onto dog whistle melodies, and haunting upper register textures. The subtle production tweaks really only augment, creating complimentary sounds, or add bits of ambience, allowing the piano to drift and sway and unfurl its melody, seemingly oblivious to what's going on around it. The B side however, finds the sound of the piano obliterated, transformed completely into long shimmering streaks of layered metallic reverberation, a bit industrial sounding, layers of constantly shifting whir and rumble and hiss and roar, like a choppy sonic sea, building to a buzzing crescendo before settling back down into a tranquil sea of black ambience, as the piano returns, unfurling gentle, yet ominous minor key melodies, all very creepy and cinematic, but also quite lovely. LIMITED TO 320 COPIES. Super striking silkscreened covers, with original artwork by Arastoo." [Aquarius Records] www.isounderscore.com 2008 €14.50
ARBEIT / BEAUCHAMP / PALUMBO Torino 012010 do-CD "Torino 012010 is the second release of a series documenting the collaboration between Jochen Arbeit (guitar player of Die Haut and Einstuerzende Neubauten) Paul Beauchamp and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (the duo known as Blind Cave Salamander). This collaboration started as part of Arbeit's “Soundscapes” improvisation live project. The focus being on the moment of the spontaneous meeting of different systems of soundscaping, the task and challenge of exchanging the results of individual sound research in a public space. The Torino 012010 double cd release on Tourette Records follows the vinyl only live album Halle 27022010 (released by the German label Behind s.r.b.) and presents two different sessions recorded by the trio in January 2010 in Torino Italy: a studio session at O.F.F. studios reecorded, mixed and edited by producer and sound engineer Marco Milanesio and a recording of a live performance in the historical chapel of the San Pietro In Vincoli ex-cemetery as recorded by Larsen's Paolo Dellapiana and edited by Jochen Arbeit. Even though this collaboration is an integral part of Blind Cave Salamander's activity and discography the musicians have decided to release these albums under their individual names to emphasize the project's collaborative nature based on improvisation and composing as a real time emotional and musical reaction to each other's inputs/outputs. Credits Jochen Arbeit : guitar, electronics Paul Beauchamp : electronics, musical saw Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo : guitar, electric viola" [label info] www.touretterecords.com 2011 €16.00
ARNALDS, OLAFUR Dyad 1909 CD "Der Isländer komponiert die Bühnenmusik für ein zeitgenössisches Tanzstück: 2009 war ein gutes Jahr für Islands neoklassischen Export Ólafur Arnalds. Nach dem Erfolg seiner "Found Songs", die er innerhalb einer Woche aufnahm, bat ihn der renommierte britische Choreograph Wayne McGregor, einen Soundtrack für sein Tanzstück "Dyad 1909" zu kreieren. Das Werk, inspiriert von Shackletons Expedition zum Südpol, feierte im Oktober 2009 Premiere in London. Im Dezember 2009 wurde "Dyad 1909" zur Hauptsendezeit auf ITV1, Englands größtem privaten Fernsehsender, ausgestrahlt. Neben vier neuen Kompositionen bietet der 30-minütige Soundtrack auch vertraute Momente. Auf Wunsch von McGregor interpretierte Arnalds das vorletzte Stück seines Debütalbums "Eulogy For Evolution" und zwei Stücke seiner EP "Variations Of Static" auf neue Art und Weise. "Dyad 1909" erscheint auf 10"-Vinyl (mit Download-Code, digitalem Bonus-Remix und Label-Sampler) sowie als CD. "Die beste Klavierplatte 2009" urteilte "De:Bug" über "Found Songs". Für Fans von Sigur Rós, Max Richter, Peter Broderick und Yann Tiersen." [label info / Indigo] www.erasedtapes.com 2009 €14.50
  Two Songs for Dance 7inch "Following on from Ólafur Arnalds critically acclaimed dance score 'Dyad 1909' (2009) for the internationally renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor, now comes 'Two Songs For Dance' - a limited edition 7" vinyl that captures two exciting tracks from two contemporary dance projects. The first 'Endalaus II' was created for 'Endalaus' by Norwegian choreographer Alan Lucien Řyen and is available for full stream as part of the Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary Tour playlist. Fans will recognise the track as one of the highlights from Ólafur's recent live shows, creating an emotional punch against the classical strings. 'For Teda', the second song is for London-based company Neon Dance and part of choreographer Adrienne Hart's on-going project 'Archived'it'." [label info] www.erasedtapes.com 2012 €9.50
AROVANE & PORYA HATAMI C.H.R.O.N.O.S. LP https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/organism-evolution On “C.H.R.O.N.O.S”, their 3rd album on KARL, AROVANE and PORYA HATAMI deliver five delicate ambient pieces, rich in textures and zen-like atmospheres. Available as 180gr LP and DL. After “Organism” (2017) and the musique concrete influenced “Organism_evolution” (2018) UWE ZAHN alias AROVANE and PORYA HATAMI continue their sonic explorations with “C.H.R.O.N.O.S.”, the fifth collaborational album by the German electronic producer and the Iranian sound artist. While the duo’s last album was a collection of 23 mostly short tracks, each an acribic examination of sounds that treated by techniques like modular synthesis, granular synthesis, spectral processing, granular synthesis, resynthesis and resonator / modal synthesis, ““C.H.R.O.N.O.S.” consists of five longer compositions that focus on creating a contemplative, zen-like atmosphere of subtle beauty. Rich in details, carefully sound-designed, AROVANE and PORYA HATAMI prove once more their top notch skills when it’s about creating state of the art contemporary ambient. Quotes on previous albums: # Organism (2017) “an album of fleet, subtle beauty.” The Wire “some of the subtlest, elusive material in either’s catalogue.” Boomkat “a dark, mysterious, but extremely detailed sound – as alive and moving as nature’s finest organisms.” Ambientblog.net ################# "My good friend and partner in crime [you will find out soon enough what I mean by that], Uwe Zahn, has been prolific these years with collaborations [hint, hint], explorations, and trials. His most successful among these, in my humble opinion, is the partnership with the Iranian ambient sound artist, Porya Hatami. Together, they have already released numerous albums: Resonance (Éter Editions, 2015), Kaziwa (Time Released Sound, 2016), and Organism (Karlrecords, 2017). This year, the pair returns to Thomas Herbst's "outlet for experimental music" with C.H.R.O.N.O.S. - a five-piece statement "rich in textures and zen-like atmospheres." This music is a culmination of the interchangeable sonic language, which is reduced in grammar or words but is simply understood. Fans of intricate designs and loosely-structured aural fabrics will find themselves drowning in the expansive architecture of sound, synthesized via granular, modular, and spectral machines, each with a thick layer of resonating fabric. Like a never-ending zoom-in on a delicate textile, up until the point where the fibre becomes the forest and a universe of its own, C.H.R.O.N.O.S. takes the listener into a complex compound of delicate blankets, which they will peel apart long after the last tones have gone. Highly recommended with a sophisticated pair of headphones or precision-tuned bookshelf speakers, playing from a 180g vinyl, or a lossless digital source. Fans of Ian Hawgood, Celer, Tomasz Bednarczyk, Christopher Bissonnette, and Taylor Deupree will agree." [Headphone Commute] 2019 €18.00
ARTAUD, ANTONIN Pour en finir ave le Jugement de Dieu LP Antonin Artaud was a French poet, dramatist, and director and one of the most important figures in 20th century European theater, and especially the avant-garde. His piece 'Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu' was recorded in 1947 to be aired on French radio. But the project was shelved not only for its scatological, anti-American, anti-religious content, but also for its avant-garde sound, with screams, cries, grunts, glossolalia, and general cacophony, all of which the radio thought would be too shocking for the listeners of post-WWII France. Now regarded as one of his most brilliant works, the piece is finally available again on vinyl courtesy of Fantôme Phonographique. 2017 €18.50
ASHTORETH Rites I & II CD We’re glad to welcome Belgian artist Peter Verwimp and his shamanistic guitar driven soundscapes. The first instalment for the Rites series touches on the importance of ceremony and ritual in our daily lives. It deals with our interconnectedness with nature as a whole and the necessity to acknowledge and use this connection as an amplifier of thoughts, ideas and emotions. Minimal, meditative ambient drones with layers of meandering guitars and voices mixing elements of doom, drone and ambient experimentation. Rites I & II take a shamanic and animistic approach to our surroundings, unveiling inner and outer visual landscapes, a journey through flesh, sound and spirit. CD Edition of 500 copies in 6 panels Digisleeve. 2 Tracks. Running Time 37:51 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/rites-i-ii "Slowly but certainly, Peter Verwimp is becoming the forerunner for the new wave of Antwerp ambient. Throughout the years I have seen him perform his enigmatic guitar drones and soundscapes numerous times. From petite venues and living rooms to forests and stages everywhere, Ashtoreth manages to turn everything into a place for rituals and meditation. I think it was only a matter of time before a quality label like Cyclic Law would become interested in this shamanic approach to ambient. With 'Rites I & II', the first installment of a series, Ashtoreth delivers a long ceremony and a deep meditation. 'Rite I: Earth' opens with heavy guitars and powerful vocals. When I heard these for the first time, I wasn't sure if I was listening to Ashtoreth or to an intro for a Conan album. This is a somewhat different approach from the slowly in-fading soundscapes. But mostly, it immediately grabs the listener's attention for its brutalist approach. Gradually, however, the track evolves. The distortion fades away and other soundscapes appear. They sound like the breathing of the earth. Then, hints of melody appear, in perfect Ashtoreth tradition. In a way, this first track feels like a journey from something bad and scary to a feeling of piece of serenity. 'Rite II: Fire' is somewhat shorter but still long enough to be a narrative drone ambient highlight. It drives on gloomy drones and shamanic voices, a bit like we're used from Peter Verwimp by now, but let that not be a turn-off. This track is downright eerie, a perfect addition to the heaps of dark ambient masterpieces released by Cyclic Law. So yes, this is a stunning piece of work and it comes with equally stunning artwork by GootSlaper. I don't think this needs much more explanation. 'Rites I & II' is one of those albums that deserve a spot in your ever widening and mind-altering collection." [Merchants of Air] "Here’s an interesting story. There was an amazing Belgian progressive, experimental hardcore band from Antwerp and their name was Maya. Until now, I consider their debut album as the epitome of hardcore progression, an utterly unrecognized gem and one of the most important hardcore albums in the history of the genre! In 2013, I uploaded Maya’s debut via Youtube, as I believed that such a gem deserves the utmost recognition. Not much time passed and I received a message from a fine gent, Peter Verwimp (Building Transmissions, Haunted Places, Station Grey, Stifled Cries) thanking me for that upload and telling me that he played in… Maya! Shocked as I was, he added that he has a new (at the time) project, named Ashtoreth! Much time have passed, people and I’m extremely pleased to review Peter’s new creation. Ashtoreth – as I read – is in search of a shamanistic perspective, channeling at times: minimal, meditative drones with layers of meandering guitars and at others, a catharsis of doom, drone, ambient, folk, metal, noise and experimentation, always in a free and improvised form. Intriguing, right? Rites I & II is a two-piece album, clocking at almost 38 minutes. Being heavily based on drones and ambient, it creates a certain space and a holistic appropriation of darkness, a ritual and introverted expedition into a spiritual and organic vastness. Ashtoreth’s sound is penetrating in every aspect: shamanic chanting, energy razor-blades in the form of minimal guitar, a huge embrace of bass driven currents, cathartic and certain. An aesthetic procreation and the well-perceived certainty of exquisite ambient music, that leaves a feeling of void thereafter. Music that delivers plentifully giving one climax after the other! Serene soundscapes with such power and punch! It’s amazing to hear in this recording elements of Peter’s early works, even before Ashtoreth. The listener faces a recognizable and fine-tuned sound, with very sincere and solid continuance as developed over the years. In Ashtoreth’s case, ambient that – I dare to say – includes in it’s core, amazingly concealed, but present hardcore (!) elements. In fact, many different but related elements merged together, quite skillfully. And the album is presented as a beautifully packaged vinyl and equally beautiful, six-panel CD released by the Berlin based label, Cyclic Law. Peter Verwimp has become an artist of his very own kind; a self-proclaimed sonic shaman and very well deserving of this attribute. Let us witness and be merry for his wonderful incantations." [Toneshift] 2019 €13.00
  Rites III & IV CD Awaited follow up to the 2019 album Rites I & II, we're presented with 2 subsequent aural rituals from Peter Verwimp intricate guitar driven soundscapes. The Rites series touches on the importance of ceremony and ritual in our daily lives. It deals with our interconnectedness with nature as a whole and the necessity to acknowledge and use this connection as an amplifier of thoughts, ideas and emotions. Minimal, meditative ambient drones with layers of meandering guitars and voices mixing elements of doom, drone and ambient experimentation. Rites III & IV expand on the shamanic and animistic path, an ongoing journey through flesh, sound and spirit. CD Edition of 500 copies in 4 panels Digisleeve. 2 Tracks. Running Time 37:24 LP Edition of 300 copies on Black Vinyl. Matt Lamination and black Paper Sleeve. 2 Tracks. Running Time 37:24 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/rites-iii-iv "Ashtoreth is Belgian Peter Verwimp, and this release is a follow-up to 2019’s Rites I & II. Here, Verwimp uses overlapping electric guitar, percussion, and voices to create menacing soundscapes. Of note is his broad palette for each of these instruments. The guitar provides heavily distorted chords, drones, and brief melodies with cleanly-picked notes. The voices are both male and female, often wordless or unintelligible, and can be beautiful, poignant, or painful. The percussion is largely based on bell-like sounds. This instrumentation blends into a wafting and moody ambiance. Rites III & IV explore humankind’s relation to nature, evoking ancient rituals and a connectedness that is largely missing from the modern world." [Avantmusicnews] 2021 €13.00
ASTRID & RACHEL GRIMES Through the Sparkle LP "Through the Sparkle is a collaboration between French ensemble astrïd and American pianist and composer Rachel Grimes. Rachel Grimes is best known for her chamber music project Rachel’s, a hugely influential group formed in 1991 in Louisville, Kentucky, releasing six studio albums between 1995 and 2005. She has also released a string of contemporary classical works in recent years on labels such as Temporary Residence. astrïd is a collective of four musicians based in Nantes, releasing records on Rune Grammofon and Home Normal. After years of mail and email back and forth over the ocean, from Nantes to Kentucky, astrïd invited Rachel to come for a residency to make music together and play shows in France. They gathered for a few days, here and there, in 2012 and 2013 to write songs in Cyril and Vanina's home studio in the countryside. The compositions found on Through the Sparkle glow with a unique, connected energy and a pure, instinctive musical understanding. Considered contributions from all sides allow the pieces to unfurl naturally. Each note and phrase feels like it simply couldn’t be placed anywhere else in the album. Charming, gentle and cinematic sounds are found here in abundance. Melodies circle and reveal themselves without force, allowing the listener to focus and explore the depths of what is on offer. Musically, Through the Sparkle is an expansive and evocative album. There is a presence to be felt throughout, from Cyril Secq’s emotive tremelo’d guitars of M5 to the darker, more haunting mood of The Theme, to the tension in Mossgrove & Seaweed. Strings and woodwind coalesce around intricate piano and guitar movements creating a wealth of harmony and melancholy. Through the Sparkle is a record of miniature symphonies, of elegant restraint. A gracious and generous offering from a group of musicians at one with each other and at the top of their game." www.gizehrecords.com https://gizehrecords.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-sparkle "Man, that’s devastating! If the reverb-drenched guitar on this record’s second track doesn’t move you to tremble with tears, then the soaring strings on “M1” surely will. Pianist/composer Rachel Grimes follows up her best-of-2015 The Clearing solo outing with the magnificent Through The Sparkle, a seven-song collaboration with the French chamber ensemble Astrïd, out today digitally, on CD and on vinyl through U.K.-based Gizeh Records. This thing’s gotta be heard to be believed. Striking, again, with some of her finest work, Grimes’ piano flashes more contemporary flourishes than the heart-wrenching Romanticism of her landmark years with Rachel’s, everyone’s favorite post-classical ensemble. While there are still gentle, lulling notes – I’m looking to the album-closing “Le Petit Salon” and, again, the epic “M1” – Grimes’ metronomic figures on “The Herald en Masse” and “Mossgrove & Seaweed” positively pulsate with life, lending a record laced with restraint loads of emotional force. This says nothing of Astrïd multi-instrumentalist Vanina Andreani, whose violin wraps its fingers around Grimes’ ephemeral melodies in much the way Christian Frederickson’s viola did in Rachel’s. Guillaume Wickel is brilliant on bass clarinet, drummer/percussionist Yvan Ros does a fine job anchoring the melancholy, and didn’t I already mention the eerie repercussions of Cyril Secq’s guitar? This ensemble, featuring Grimes, seems to have a beautiful way of making even the most composed moment seem instinctive, lending a gentle humanity to the proceedings. There are less “classical” and more “post-classical” moments on the record, too, like the haunted “The Theme,” which starts with an emotive bass clarinet figure and kalimba, and expands, more often through the space between notes than the notes themselves, with an electric guitar right out of Hotel2Tango in Montreal. Or there’s “Hollis,” which punctuates Grimes’ refrains with more kalimba, subtle bass, and a shuffling, jazzy backbeat before descending into a field of mathy beeps that could be summoned from piano and, maybe, a Fender Rhodes. The whole record is breathtaking gossamer – definite year-end-list material." [Justin Vellucci/Popdose] 2017 €20.00
ATARAXIA Suenos CD "SUENOS ('Dreams' in Spanish) is the title of the long-time sold out and eagerly awaited album by ATARAXIA but the onomatopoeic sound reminds also of the English words for 'signs' and 'sounds'. It has been recorded in 2000/2001 year and originally released by Cruel Moon International (Cold Meat Industry). For the first time in ATARAXIA's history this album is not a conceptual album but a collection of new songs with different styles, themes, with different historical backgrounds and many acoustic new instruments. The album has been divided into three parts of 4 songs each: the first (‘Ego Promitto Domino’) features lyrics inspired by journeys and remembrances of mid-eastern lands. The sounds are between neo classical, orchestral for 4 voices and Mediterranean dreamy ambiances. The second part (‘L’ame d’eau’) is entirely based on Medieval ballads just for acoustic instruments and 2 voices and the Third part (‘Sandy Dunes’) finally is more intimate and meditative, once again the theme is the one of water linked to the female soul: The voyage through the sea, regret, the need of the sea. Just for Francesca’s heavenly vocals... More then 10 years later, Ataraxia & Infinite fog Production presents new, completely remastered edition with special bonus track “Melisanda” - Rare song “Melisanda” was released on split-vinyl Ataraxia/Engelsstaub - “In Amoris Mortisque” 95 but carefully remastered now." [label info] www.infinitefog.ru 2012 €13.00
ATAVIST II:Ruined do-LP "Gatefold double-LP limited to 500 copies featuring Justin Greaves (ex-Iron Monkey ) and Rose Kemp on guest vocals. ATAVIST "II:Ruined" defines pure epic suicidal sludge doom metal. The band's second album, "II:Ruined", is a massive, monolithic, introverted chapter of audial suffering and torment. It sees ATAVIST plunge further into the audial abyss by incorporating more layers and substance to their art (not unlike the way Japan's Corrupted portray their immaculate aesthetic). Heavier, more diverse, intricate, and melodic, "II:Ruined" is just that; an unforgiving observation of selfreflection, repentance, and desperation. It is interesting to note that this was the final album for this line up of the band, one can only wonder at the self-fulfilling prophecy of such and immense and bleak work. Perhaps its a wonder they are all still alive. This double vinyl edition of II:Ruined on Aurora Borealis marks a long overdue vinyl release for this important milestone of extreme doom, and stands in monolithic testament to their achievement." [label info] www.aurora-b.com 2009 €16.00
ATOM EARTH MOTHER Ancient Faith do-LP BOX "solo release by mark warren of zoviet*france. Double album with etched D side. with printed satin insert & enhanced cdr all in a hand branded, hand made wooden box. Ltd to 250 copies. RoW review: Atom Earth Mother: A solo project from one half of :zoviet*france: Dedicated to the White Goddess and inspired by the prehistoric antiquities in Northumberland, primarily the enigmatic and beautiful ‘rock art’ that are known as ‘cup and ring’ marks, a form of symbolic language 4500+ years old, whose meaning has been lost in the mists of time. Utilizing digital and analogue equipment and production technique, location recordings, found sound and employing experimentation as the creative tool, Atom Earth Mother embarks on a sonic journey to the origins of our civilization and indeed our very being. ‘Ancient Faith’ is an album about love and faith, and although it started out as homage to the Earth Mother, it soon became a deeply personal story documenting the end of a love affair and the emotional aftermath. Stunningly packaged in a wooden box with a hand branded conjoined ‘cup and ring’ marked design burnt into the front panel, and containing a photographic insert with two superb images of the antiquities that were the major inspiration, taken by the artist himself, this double vinyl has three sides of audio and a fourth side that contains an etching of a ‘cup and ring’ mark." [label info] www.altvinyl.com 2013 €55.00
ATOMINE ELEKTRINE The Antikythera Mechanism CD "A container of all the knowledge about the universe. The motion of the gears deeply intertwine a link between micro- and macrocosm. A mechanism that simulates cosmology and senses characteristics of an eclipse, with color, size and associated winds. Define a question, and there will be a calculated answer, even capable of astral divination. Is it an all-seeing eye, or perhaps something beyond even that; a magic entity capable of creating the cosmic events that it is supposed to measure and foretell. If so, is it by nature auspicious or ominous. Or is it merely a representation and extension of ourselves and our senses, trying to reach both the celestial and the intrinsically unobtainable. Winter-Light warmly welcomes Peter Andersson to our label, with his 'Atomine Elektrine' project and a stunning new studio album 'The Antikythera Mechanism'. Here we are invited or compelled even, to delve deep into the intricacies and finely tuned mechanics of this mysterious, all-encompassing machine. Infinitely extending it's influence across multi-dimensions of time and space, constantly calculating, cogs ever turning, gears whirring, mapping, learning, storing and moving ever onwards. Leaving in it's wake, a vast ocean of unimaginable cosmic events, left to ripple through time until they too fade away to become yet another click in the eternal cycle of 'The Antikythera Mechanism'. Difference between the CD/Digital and vinyl version 'The Antikythera Mechanism' has a small degree of randomness built-in to the sounds which means that the output of each rendering becomes slightly different. The tracks on the vinyl are of a different rendering than the tracks for the CD/Digital version. This is a natural glitch in 'The Antikythera Mechanism' and it is more or less noticeable. The sounds are the same but the positions in the sounds are time offset in an arbitrary mode. Any further inequalities are due to the fact that a different mastering technique has been utilised for the vinyl version, than for the CD/Digital version. As well as there being a different final rendering for the vinyl version, the DLP also comes with an additional and exclusive track, which clocks in at 19:52." https://winter-light.bandcamp.com/album/the-antikythera-mechanism "This mechanism Peter Andersson is referring to in the title of the new Atomine Elektrine offering is considered as the first analogue computer. The device was constructed by the ancient Greeks to predict future astronomical occurrences and phenomenas. Even this day it’s an object of scientific researches and studies as its technological sophistication is still unexplained for XXI century scientists and scholars. One of the greatest enigmas in the history of mankind and… what an inspiring theme for a dark ambient artist to explore through music. It’s not a secret that Peter is a truly versatile musician within the electronic underground, always efficient, no matter if he seeks more noisy approach or more atmospheric one. Atomine Elektrine was born of his fascination of science and instead of wandering through lost cathedrals and desolate wastelands we explore the secrets of space and quantum physics. Clearly, it’s not just the words in the titles and press releases, but the music is unlike his other projects as well. For 25 years the foundation of Atomine Elektrine sound was the use of analogue synthetisers, the old-school instruments cherished by the German masters from the 70s. His music was constantly developing over the years, in all projects, apart from Atomine Elektrine also Raison d’etre, Necrophorus, Bocksholm and several others. Often the inspirations were morphing one through another (for example Necrophorus’ “Imprints” has a one hundred percent Atomine Elektrine vibe), but in general high quality is practically always guaranteed. I have to admit that while my favourite Peter’s “non-raison” release is “Drifting In Motion” by Necrophorus, it is Atomine Elektrine I value the most as a whole. Maybe not exactly the very first albums, like “Elemental Severance” where it was Jean Michel Jarre a godfather rather than Klaus Schulze, but “Nebulous” or “Laniakea” are very frequent guests in my CD player, up to this day. Can’t declare today that “The Antikythera Mechanism” will also regain its place in my personal pantheon of all Peter’s releases as it is quite crowdy over there, but yes, it is good, it is goddamn good! The opening dark space of “Arcturus Alpha Boo” made me think of the cosmic vacuums generated by some of the Loki Foundation maestros as the deep rumblings and the feeling of an infinite expanse made me feel small and irrelevant. It calms down after a few minutes and brings a mystery of a titular mechanism to the forefront. From the universe entirety to this tiny device that can capture its secret. I’m in love with “Metonic Spiral”. You know why? Because it’s like taken straight from “Drifting In Motion”, those delicate synth passages combined with weird bubbling and swirling sounds recall the atmosphere of that masterpiece. Yet while that one had this overwhelming aura of sadness and solitude, in “Metonic Spiral” I hear… a hope that the wonder of what hides behind the ionosphere can be comprehended by the human mind. That feeling is intensified by the second half of the track where these slow melodies and analogue sequences take it one step closer to the old-school German electronica. In the following track, “The Exeligmos Pointer” all these rhythmic pulsations may recall a working mechanism, while the majestic background textures compliment the structure as a subject of that work. They’re huge and beautiful, they can be compared to the sun/moon eclipse, watched by you, predicted by the device. Subtly disturbing “Time Dislocated By The Mechanism” is. It may sound bizarre, but this piece have something in common with what Penjaga Insaf did on their “Sama Sadja”. While conceptually both projects couldn’t be more distant one from another. The organic aura of “Epicylic Gearing” is represented by these cyclic sequences, coming and going, pulsating like a bloodflow, later that bass rumblings appears, like a heartbeat. And that simple repeated melody, combined with the mentioned elements develop a tremendous track, which brings another name to my mind. Predominance. Remember that one? Yes, as you can see, that Loki reference few paragraphs ago wasn’t accidental. Such albums like “The Antikythera Mechanism” deserve an epic ending, yet one must have in mind that Peter Andersson doesn’t really like to finish his albums with a bang. “Fragment F” is not a praise of a human mind, the awe of its endless powers and capabilities. No, it’s a cosmic space, quiet, soulless, without beginning nor end.It’s like the blackest shade of black, it’s probably Peter’s most oppressive finale since “The Eternal Return And The Infinity Horizon”. And probably one of his best works, at least within the last couple of years. This reference may sound funny, but he’s like Stephen King of dark ambient and I know that a lot of folks grumble that “it’s not the same, his older novels were classic and now he’s just reaping the benefits of his older efforts.” Not true, “The Outsider” or “Sleeping Beauties” are as good as the novels from his so-called “golden era”. Same goes with Peter Andersson, I heard more than once that what he does now is not the same as 20-25 years ago. Wrong. Don’t let nostalgia speak for you. He’s still in a very good shape and the astounding sound of “The Antikythera Mechanism” is its brightest, or rather darkest example." [Santa Sangre] 2019 €13.00
ATRAX MORGUE Close to a Corpse do-LP + 2CD On February 24, 2001 Marco Corbelli take part in the performance “Autopsia dell’opera d’arte vivente come vivisezione del corpo di dio” in the Viareggio art gallery, Studio D’Arte Memoria Indelebile. Together with three other artists he stages an autopsy on a shapeless body, which represents the living work of art. Corbelli actively participates in the pseudo autopsy, as well as sounding the live event. The recording of the sound performance will be released two years later on Slaughter Productions in an extremely limited box set titled Close To A Corpse consisting of three CDr. The first two CDr contain the complete live recording in the Tuscan art gallery. They are improvised synthesizer recordings, an infected and purulent soundtrack, which actually transports you to the mortuary of a corpse and you can smell its stench pervading your senses. The pauses between one burst of sounds and the other are just the introduction to the next nightmare! The third CDr contains ten wonderful unreleased tracks recorded in the studio in September 2002, apart from Basic Procedure Autopsy (recorded and released in 1995), without the use of vocals or other effects: just the faithful Sequential Circuits Six-Trak. Both the live tracks and those recorded in the studio represent the artist's sonic maturity and stand out from the rest of his discography for their eccentricity and the ability to make exceptional use of analog synthesizers, pulsating tones and enveloping frequencies by mixing a shocking atmosphere of hellish manifestation, where cruelty and compulsive disorders are more evident and interesting, showing Corbelli deeper work, pushing himself further into the experience of his concrete ‘’noise’’ vision. Comes in a double vinyl for studio tracks and double CD for live tracks, fully remastered by Andrea Marutti, is limited to 199 copies, reproducing the album’s original cover art and inserts. Close To A Corpse is an illuminating immersion into the remarkable potential of synth processes by one of the most exciting artists in the Italian industrial/noise field. Among the best of Urashima’s releases, it’s bound to blow minds and fly off the shelves. 2021 €36.00
AUME (SCOT JENERIK & ALEPH OMEGA) Agere Urendum Mentis Epode LP "Immersive, dark ambient, soundscape, sound art collaboration by Scot Jenerik (solo, F-Space, 23five) and Aleph Omega (Chrome, F-Space, Altar De Fey). The soundtrack for falling through a wormhole on your way to creation. Foil-stamped, die-cut linen jacket. 180-gram vinyl. Numbered edition of 555 copies. Scot Jenerik: Composer and multidisciplinary artist. Performed, lectured and distributed works extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan, as a solo artist and member of F-Space. Co-owner of Mobilization Records, has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, founded 23five Incorporated and co-hosted the No Other Radio Network on KPFA. Aleph Omega: Composer, multi-instrumentalist and artist. Performed and toured extensively throughout the United States, and Europe as a member of Chrome, Helios Creed, F-Space and pioneering Deathrock band, Altar De Fey. Owner/operator Unicursal Studios." https://aume.bandcamp.com/album/agere-urendum-mentis-epode www.mobilization.com "Not releasing many records means that you move out of sight. Scot Jenerik is such a person. He never released much music anyway, and spends his time as a conceptual artist, doing a record out of cement and a CD in an edition of five copies. You should check out his bandcamp. He also runs 23Five and Mobilization Records, the first well-know, I should hope, to the readers of Vital Weekly for their many interesting releases (Karkowski, Chop Shop, Gum, G*Park and many others) and the latter for their releases by Savage Republic and F-Space, a group of which Jenerik is also a member. Much to my surprise this LP landed on my desk, packed in a beautiful black cover, with a die cut silver foil print and it looks dark, stark and great. The music is credited to Jenerik and Aleph Omega and no instruments are mentioned on the cover, but I would think percussion is certainly the place to be for this music; that, and a lot of studio trickery, which works out to using quite a bit of reverb and delay, but I must say it’s not very much in the way of the music; the effects don’t take over. There might also be a guitar in play, but maybe not. Each side has one piece and they last exactly 21 minutes and 12 seconds, according to the timing on bandcamp; the LP cover says it’s 18 minutes and 0 seconds. It opens up with more drone based sounds, hence the guitar I thought, but somewhere half way through the first piece, ‘Praeludium’ it becomes more percussive, and it’s from then on that one has the idea of this being two pieces of sound collage, albeit of long forms. It’s not a quick cut ‘n paste, but it uses various longer blocks with overlaps in various lengths. There are drum parts that end up with much effect treatments but these effects don’t take over. The overall mood of this record is quite dark, but I found ‘Epilogue’ on the second side a tad bit lighter in tone. Whereas ‘Praeludium’ is a dark beast, this side reminded me from time to time of zoviet*france in the mid to late 80s; lots of delay used, a bit string instruments being plucked, percussion and more delay, but here too darkness is never far away. Overall I was very pleased with this album; the music was great, the production excellent and, despite it’s blackness, it was not without light and not entirely focussed on a wall of sound, as the cover maybe indicates. Let’s hope there will be more of this." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2016 €25.00
AUTECHRE / HAFLER TRIO ³oæh 7 x LP BOX what were they? oh, sit down here, and I'll tell you. long, long ago, there were pieces of shiny matter which issued forth in an erratic manner over many aeons. and what is this? why, it's a box. and what's in the box? well, those small shiny things are now larger shiny black things. and what use are they? well, none, but you can get sounds out of them, if you treat them nicely. really? yes, really. the miracles of modern science. all (yes, all) of the Autechre/Hafler Trio collaborations topped and tailed and groomed and lacquered and fizzed and popped onto 7 Long-Playing Stereo Microgroove Records, in a box, for purchase, by you. or someone you don't know. either is a reasonable situation. Lp01. æ³o / h³æ Lp02. æo³ Lp03 ³hæ Lp04/5 5ah³eo Lp06/7 ha³oe 180g DMM vinyl New black artwork by Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio Spot varnished sleeves and box Art prints in black envelope 2023 €149.00
AX Metal Forest CD "AX is the project of British rock and electronic musician Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, Novatron, Ethnic Acid, JFK, ex-Skullflower). Extreme and uncompromising, AX presents a unique sound world of blistering power electronics, pulverising bass drones, feedback symphonies, and dark atmospheres. This CD includes tracks from the legendary long out of print mid-90′s vinyl albums, digitally remastered for the first time." "Needless to say EXTREMELY recommended, and not just for nineties industrial obsessives (although obviously, for those folks, this is a no brainer), but if you dig minimal guitar mesmer, psychedelic doom, abstract heaviness, post industrial soundscaping, all strains of drone, especially heavy guitardrone, this collection will blow your mind." [Aquarius Records] 2012 €12.00
BAD ALCHEMY No. 95 (Sept. 2017) mag BA 95 enthält: Live: No Noise No Reduction + Lumats Hand & Alex's Beitrag + Panivalkova & The Instant Voodoo Kit + Chris Pitsiokos Trio; We Remember: Plastic People Of The Universe; Spotlights: Marc Démereau & Mr. Morezon, Fovea Hex, Irmler/Oesterhelt, Martin Küchen, Rob Mazurek, Udo Schindler, Oliver Schwerdt; News: Altrock, Attenuation Circuit, Clang, Cuneiform, Dark Vinyl, Emanem, Hubro, Immediata, Intakt, Karlrecords, Kendra Steiner, Kyou, Leo, Libra, Opa Loka, Psych.KG, RareNoise, Terp...; Wo Lettlands Töchter blühen = Baltikum II; 88 Seiten 2017 €3.50
  Nr. 122 (Januar 2024) mag Killing Jews is Not Fighting For Freedom / I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free; Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm; Magma - 50 Jahre Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh; Freakshows:Hala – Spinifex; Kind (Kombo Komplex) live; w71: Watts / Edwards / Østvang; Spotlights: Los Bitchos – Jean-Jacques Birgé – Ulf Mengersen – Sozialistischer Plattenbau – John Zorn; Labelnews: Aguirre – Attenuation Circuit – Col Legno – Cyclic Law – Dark Vinyl – Discus – Gruenrekorder – Intakt – Karl – Klanggalerie – Mille Plateaux – No Part Of It – PNL – Room40 – Thanatosis – Trouble In The East – TryTone – Umland – Veto – Xing; Andreas Hiroui Larsson: Does truth have form?; Kant? Kant! Eine kleine Polemik; 88 Seiten, keine Werbung [nur für Abonnent* 2023 €4.00
BAKER, AIDAN Only Stories LP "Only Stories is Aidan’s second release on The Kora Records. The album continues in the “drone folk” style first heard on his (nearly out of print) Kora release, Scalpel. All of the sounds on the record were created by voice and 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars. Aidan penned the three long compositions featured on Only Stories a long time ago, but they were never properly recorded until the fall of 2009, and Kora is ecstatic to release them now in a beautiful fold out letterpress vinyl release limited to 500 copies." [label info] www.thekorarecords.com 2011 €18.50
BAKER, AIDAN (WITH RICHARD BAKER) Smudging LP "Backwards proudly presents a new Aidan Baker vinyl LP, issued in a edition of 450 copies. For this release AIDAN BAKER, co-founder of Nadja and member of Arc, is aided by his brother, Richard Baker, at drums. Recorded variously in Toronto and Berlin, 'Smudging' includes six songs comprised in two long epic tracks, with guitar textures and hypnotic rhythm structures to create a beautiful and dreamy listening experience. In the wake of his most experimental and characterized by dilated atmospheres works, as it happened for example in "The Sea Swells A Bit...", Aidan Baker is back to exercise his hypnotic power on the listener. The guitar drones succeed one another, alternating with more rhythmic and structured brackets, thanks to the involvement of Richard, who divides his time between more consistent raids, which almost tend to evolutions near to improvisation (as in "Sweetgrass 1"), and softer and occasional interventions which leave full space to the landscape drifts created by Aidan with his guitar effects and enveloping electronic sound-carpets (as in "White Desert Cedar"). "Smudging" is a work that, both in the execution and in the structure of the six tracks that comprise it, represents another confirmation of the stylistic code reached by the eclectic Canadian musician, who's determined in his aim to drag the listener, with extreme elegance, into the multiple parallel worlds created by his unlimited sounds. Another excellent album from this marvelous artist! "Smudging" is released as a limited edition of 400 copies in a beautiful designed sleeve. First 45 copies come with an original painting done by Aidan Baker; each one is unique." [label info] www.backwards.it 2012 €15.00
BAKER, AIDAN / NOVELLER Colorful Disturbances LP "aidan baker ist hier einfach wolfgang voigt: gas, bei einem der reinen ambient stücke ohne beat. ungefähr genau so viele schichten statischer akkorde und weit, weit unten / hinten passiert dann doch dauernd etwas. und erst viel später merkt man, dass auch die statik nicht statisch ist... perfekter nachschub für alle, die genau diesen typischen, weit ausgebreiteten sound an ihm (und anderen) mögen. sarah lipstate ist mit ihrem instrumentarium auf der gleichen baustelle unterwegs; hier auf der split-LP mit „under the color cave" und „white rabbit" jedoch intimer im sound und etwas kammermusikalischer, dabei in den einzelsounds auch konkreter als aidan baker. melancholisch, abwartend, die gitarre wie ein cello. unbedingt empfohlen und trotz split zweier unterschiedlicher künstler und trotz der unterschiedlichen soundhaltung homogenes ganzes. schönes cover auch, dessen finesse sich erst beim genauen hinschauen erschließt (und hier, in der abgebildeten größe, nur durch hochgedrehte kontraste) und: sehr gute vinylqualität dann auch noch." [N, Unruhr] "Guitars warped so hard they dissolve into pure consciousness! Seriously, this record had to happen because these two are the NOW of transcendental guitar weirdness. In families like ours where deformed music of one kind or another pours out of the speakers all day long, Toronto's Aidan Baker is a household name. He is no doubt one of the most imaginative experimental musicians of the new generation, quickly creating a universe of limitless sound with his bursting discography. He offers this record an extensive piece which mixes drone, texture, and an ever-bowing foundation -- imagine the sound of falling backwards... forever. The new blood on this split is guitarist Sarah Lipstate from Brooklyn, New York (aka Noveller). Sarah's prepared twin guitar works up a slow hypnotic force, gently pulling way out to the furthest deep end of pulses and patterns. Beautiful repetitions effortlessly skirt over a dark undercurrent. A+++ listen. Edition of 600 copies." [label info] www.divorcerecords.ca 2009 €14.00
BARBARELLA PLÜSCH d_b 7inch Experimenteller, ruhiger Post-Rock aus Österreich, sehr schön die B-Seite mit schillernden Drones aus denen sich ungewöhnlich punktuierte Drums herausschälen.... "Musikalisch ist die 7" eine Offenbarung; und ich bin mir nicht einmal im Klaren, warum. Wenn ich nun ‚Postrock’ schreibe, ist das im Grunde wohl gar nicht falsch, aber: ist es ausreichend? Ich denke nicht. Hier geht es vor allem um Konzentration und damit einhergehend: Reduktion, vielleicht auch Vereinfachung. Um das Wesentliche. Ich könnte mit diesen beiden Tracks locker den Sommer verbringen." [Quietnoise, August 2005] “Barbarella Plüsch stunned the audience when they opened the live sets on our anniversary party last year. These tracks on vinyl are the band's first ever release. Our first post-rock record, beautifully constructed guitar/bass/drum pieces in the style of Trans Am, David Grubbs or quiet Sonic Youth. Featuring Alexander Wallner of Das Fax Mattinger.“ [label info] "Descended from the Austrian trio Das Fax Mattinger, a new outfit called Barbarella Plüsch has a very nice single in d_b/Mono. Jazzy rolled drums plus e-bowed guitar and bass create a quiet instrumental space." [The Wire, January 2006] 2005 €10.00
BARRIKAD / DEATH SQUAD & HYDRA Entropic Society / Neurology 2 10 TO THE DREAMERS AND THOSE WHO PUT FAITH IN DREAMS AS THE ONLY REALITIES. Das neue schwedische Industrial-Label SEGERHUVA beglückt uns hier mit wütendem Radikal-Noise: die stark politischen BARRIKAD auf der einen Seite mit drei extrem verzerrten Feedback-Noise-Stücken, die in der Tat entropische Qualität haben, wenn sich die found sounds einer durchkapitalisierten Gesellschaft in reinstem Lärm auflösen... Das San Franciscoer harsh noise Projekt DEATH SQUAD in Kollaboration mit HYDRA benutzt lyrics eines Psychiatrie-Patienten, die mit dunklem, eindringlichen analog-Noise versetzt werden... “This most likely is the last of death squad¹s recordings. The most current name has changed to MK9. Hydra is Greg Scott who was also a member of the power electronics project Final Solution from New York. Vocals by G. Scott and electronics by death squad. Neurology 1 was originally released in 1994. Almost ten years later the second installment is realised. Recorded in Poughkipsie NY at The Space. The content is an audio document of aggressive and passive emotional extremes. From night time rants to letters left on door steps. It becomes an array of sound and audio suffocation as each item becomes cataloged and addressed. Extremely bass-heavy and dense electronics gnawing on the top of your vertebrae, a worthy conclusion to the saga of the criminally underrated genius of DEATH SQUAD. Wake up... This is the sound of young Sweden. The raging youthful energy of anarchist noise as presented by Barrikad. Three tracks of splendid energetic white-hot scorching electronics dealing with the frustration and despair of what passes for everyday life for modern man in a consumerist society. This is the vinyl debut for Barrikad, who has so far released one great CDR on Freak Animal.” [label description] 2003 €10.00
BASINSKI, WILLIAM A Red Score in Tile CD "Composed way back in 1979, ,A Red Score In Tile" eventually surfaced as a vinyl-only edition in 2003. Made up of piano, this shows Basinski's patented tape-loop technique perfectly and still stands as one of his most affecting pieces of music. If you've heard ,Melancholia" you'll likely know what I'm talking about, piano notes are transformed into tones by the slowly disintegrating tape, and the loops become motifs all of their own. The beauty of Basinski's work is in its patience, and this early piece is a testament to that overwhelming skill, a skill that few others possess. There are plenty of people now attempting similar things and recreating these sounds using similar methods but for my money none have come even within ten feet of William Basinski. Put this on, lie back and prepare to spend forty-five minutes in paradise. Absolutely gorgeous." [label info] 2013 €16.00
BASINSKI, WILLIAM & RICHARD CHARTIER Aurora Liminalis CD "Line is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the second highly anticipated collaboration from renowned composer William Basinski and sound artist Richard Chartier. Aurora Liminalis is a rich and nebulous soundtrack, the aural equivalent of undulating trails of light. Disintegrating spatial shifts incorporating the two artists' distinct sonic palettes mesh to create a slow, deep ebb and flow like some melting spectral transmission. The work has a distinct complex presence, difficult to resist its pull. Befitting cover image by visual artist James Elaine. William Basinski (b.1958)is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 30 years in NYC and most recently, California. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. His epic, entropic masterpiece, The Disintegration Loops has received international critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 50 albums of 2004 by Pitchfork Media, as well as the top re-issue for 2012's Temporary Residence vinyl box set. Art Forum selected The River, his transcendental 2-disc shortwave music experiment on Raster-Noton, Germany as one of the top ten albums of 2003. Installations and films made in collaboration with artist-filmmaker, James Elaine have been presented in festivals and museums internationally, and his concerts are presented to sold out crowds around the world. Recent collaborations include music for Robert Wilson's latest opera, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, Aurora Liminalis with Richard Chartier and a remix of Antony's Cut The World as well as a new solo album for release in early 2013, Nocturnes. Basinski's works are released on 2062 and distributed internationally. Richard Chartier (b.1971), sound and installation artist, is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic sound art which has been termed both 'microsound' and Neo-Modernist. Chartier's minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself. Chartier's sound works-installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally including the 2002 s Whitney Biennial and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label Line and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. In 2010, Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship to explore the National Museum of American History's collection of 19th-Century acoustic apparatus for scientific demonstration." [label info] 2013 €14.50
BASS COMMUNION / PRECISION SURGERY Kurzwellen 8 LP "Many of you will be aware of my love of industrial and noise music, and one of my favourite labels of this kind in recent years has been the old school 80’s industrial revivalist label Kurzwellen, affiliated with ToneFloat from the Netherlands (who have released many of my projects over the years, including the IEM and Bass Communion box sets). Each of their releases so far have been in the form of hyper limited edition vinyl only releases, sometimes only 100 copies of so, and each is housed in a 24x36inch silkscreen poster sleeve with suitably grim black and white imagery. This time around the label played me a new album they were releasing as Kurzwellen 7, “Hinterkaifeck” by Precision Surgery (Hinterkaifeck being the location of a famous unsolved murder from the 1920’s), and I felt inspired to create 2 minimal Bass Communion remix treatments which are now being released alongside the Precision Surgery album as Kurzwellen 8. Both LPs are out on 7th July and can be pre-ordered from the Tonefloat Store. Not recommended for people who find the music under my own name quite depressing enough already thank you very much…" [Steven Wilson website] 2018 €20.00
BASTARD NOISE / BIZARRE X Self Righteous Suicide / ...Ethik?... LP Back in 2011 Bastard Noise went on Tour in Europe and they played one day together with Bizarre X and an idea for doing a split release grown up in their heads. Finally, here we are with a 12“ split ep, cut on 45 rpm for a maximum of power and clearness. Bastard Noise recorded 4 ultra sonic tracks with his unique voice full of anger and pain compinated with his insect war electronics. Bizarre X comes out with 11 tracks of pure rumpling drum and bass with vigorously vocals, including one Fear of God cover. Both sides were mastered by Mr. Rozon at Speed Semen Clove Factory! Artwork and insert were done by FetusK! This records sounds like you stand in front of the band with a diabolical PA soundsystem. This 12“ is pressed on virgin vinyl with a pro done recordsjacket and 12“ sized insert. Co-released with Regurgitated Semen Records, in an edition of 600 copies. scrotumrecords.limitedrun.com/products/635151-bastard-noise-bizarre-x-split-12-e-p 2019 €15.00
BATES, MARTYN I Said to Love CD Within this excellent and finely crafted album of songs dedicated “to the future”, there lies a puzzle, an enigma. With Eyeless In Gaza tending more and more towards the collaged soundscaping type situation where “the studio is very much an instrument” there is also Martyn Bates’ solo work, with his albums of late travelling in quite the opposite direction, all having the distinctive feel of being performance based voice/guitar type records. Initial listenings to Bates’ new album take all of that elsewhere however, and extend it – with the results ending up kind of schizoid in character. The more familiar ‘introspective’ songs and voice remain for sure, yet they’re often contrasted wildly with a brace of noisier and more musically complex “duo” songs played and sung by Bates together with chanteuse Elizabeth S. These ‘opposing’ styles often seem to clash at first, crazily contrasting in tone and mood, creating a not altogether unpleasant tension – which actually turns out to make more sense on repeated hearings. A good example of this would be the quiet, whispering aura of “At Last”, followed with the pummelling, disturbing melee of “Hallucination”. Also, somehow managing to stray outside of all this sturm und drang, the album holds a different kind of gem of a song yet, in its title track – “I Said To Love” – which finds Bates pitted against a string section for the first time in eons, and … it works too – bitter, bitter sweet, indeed. Bates has never been one to shy away from tackling grand themes, with the songs on I Said to Love staying true to form – dealing with mystery, rest, space, hallucinations, hindsight, loss, pity, hope, transformation, having your soul stolen & recovered, solace, deja vu, despair, resistance, delirium, entropy, determination – amongst other similarly chewable topics. The key however is in the album’s penultimate track, the haunted “I Look Back”, where Bates eschews his usual poetic lyric style – a style that can sometimes come across as overtly personal and as an almost private language – portraying within this one lyric a peculiarly single-minded determination. Somehow, listening through these words, they seem to summon up something personal in term of locating new spirit, a new direction for Martyn Bates’ whole oeuvre – we’re looking back, and it just isn’t right … how can we hope, if our hope lives in memories? … we must face our fear for there’s no turning back: just a set of simply framed words that manage to mirror the equally plain statement of dedication to be found on the album sleeve of I Said to Love – “to the future”. On the sheer melodic strength and diversity of this music, this is one future that I will eagerly await. www.eyelessingaza.com/mb.html#1 "I’ve been a hooked fan of Martyn Bates since his one of a kind experimental band ‘Eyeless In Gaza’. I bought everything on vinyl (and now CD) by both his band (a brilliant and endless stream of creations unlike anything I have ever heard and suspect it will remain as such). and his solos. With this, the 16th solo work by Bates, (not counting the comps, singles, EP’s, guest appearances, and many collaborations with other artists, you would think nothing could be left, but you’d be very wrong. ‘I Said To Love’ brings classic Martyn into the limelight with glorious melodies, somewhat alien elements, and rich gorgeous folkish semi siren music, with long time mate and stunning lyricist (multi-instrumentalist and angelic vocalist) Elizabeth S. Alan Trench also contributes cymbals, string machine, and ghost feathers as well as co produces with Bates. All titles composed by Martyn. This equals the utopian ‘Red Rust September’ by Eyeless In Gaza (my all-time favorite EIG recording). Simply stunning with strings backing Martyn’s jeweled and often melancholy voice. He sounds every bit as blissful as he always has. Songs include Martyn performing guitar and vocals on fifteen tracks of storybook, fields of pastel, and things dreams are made of. The first listen left me speechless. It took a second spin to begin this review. This one will stay on my recommendation list forever. All I can say to readers who have never heard either EIG or Martyn’s solos, you need this one. A grand place to start your collection. ‘I Said To Love’ gets a massive applause from this listener." [Lee Henderson / Art Rock Magazine] Reviewed by Lee Henderson 2 – 18 – 2018 2017 €13.00
BEEQUEEN Summer Rain (SOLD OUT) 7 released in November 1993 in an edition of 200 copies, in hand-painted covers, different vinyl colours! second ed. of 200 copies released July 1995 in white vinyl. press information (first ed.): "Dutch band BEE QUEEN is one of the most interesting so called "ambient"-groups that is currently active in the post-Industrial and Experimental scene. After their just released debut-CD "Der Holzweg" (on Anomalous Records/Staalplaat) and two great one-side/Split-LP's they present a rather 'rough' piece of pure metal-work on the A-side, which evokes lots of increasing tension and focusses your intention on the high-overtuned sounds. The two pieces on the B-side "Thunder Storm" and "Thunder Rain" are perfect examples of somehow noisy, but very sensible mind-pushing "ambient Industrial". Real Thunder for your sub-consciousness! LET THESE GREAT SOUNDS SPEAK TO YOU! FEEL THAT THIS IS MORE THAN JUST MUSIC!!" 1993  
BEHRENDSEN, PETER 10 x 15 = 30 LP + CD Peter Behrendsen (b. 1943) is a Cologne-based radio producer, performer and composer of experimental music. He started concerning himself with electro-acoustic music in 1972, was a member of Josef Anton Riedl's ensemble and assistant to Klaus Schöning at the WDR radio play studio (Studio for Acoustic Art). He organized numerous concerts and festivals for experimental music in Cologne, most notably BrückenMusik, a series of concerts in the box girder of the Deutz bridge. After Nachtflug / Atem des Windes in 2017, this is his second LP on Edition Telemark. "10 x 15 = 30" is the vinyl mix of a concert for Behrendsen's 75th birthday at the LOFT in Cologne. The full-length recording has been released on CD by Obst Music with the title "Fünf Mal Dreißig Ist Sechzig" ("5 x 30 = 60"). The players were: Peter Behrendsen (electronics), Dietmar Bonnen (prepared piano, glockenspiel), Andreas Oskar Hirsch (carbophone), hans w. koch (axoloti, blippoo box) and Lucia Mense (recorders). What Behrendsen had in mind for the concert was not a programme of solo pieces but a collective improvisation with musicians and visual artists. Being sceptical about conventional "free" (psychodynamic) improvisation, he decided to go with an approach that John Cage called "with the head in the sky – and the feet on the ground": between individual freedom and preconceived rules. The total length of the concert was set to 60 minutes, each player had 30 minutes in sections between 2 and 10 minutes. Their length and distribution was decided by chance. Within their sections players had individual freedom: Musical communication was not mandatory but possible, emerging musical relationships would often be unintentional. Simultaneously, 5 videos by visual artists were projected in random order, again without any intended correlation between sound and video. For the LP, the concert recording had to be adapted in length, i.e. reduced to 2 parts of about 15 minutes each. To maintain the character of a whole, the 60-minute concert was cut into 2 equal parts, mixed down and cut into 2 halves for both sides. The result is a new piece: denser but still transparent, the relationships between the musicians even more abstract – a new composition. Regular edition of 240 in glossy sleeve with artwork by Dietmar Bonnen. Special edition of 60 including the LP, the Obst Music CD with the full-length recording, both in their regular sleeves, and a numbered card signed by all musicians, all housed in a plastic outer sleeve. https://www.edition-telemark.de/923.02.html 2020 €34.00
BEKAERT, JACQUES Jacques Bekaert LP Originally released in 1981 on the Belgian Igloo label this reissue comes with the same sleeve as originally designed by Alain Géronnez. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"A Late Lunch\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" is the soundtrack to Akiko Iimura\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s eponymous movie realized in 1978. It is based on acoustic instruments and field recordings, brilliantly reconfigured and mixed by Bekaert to create a surreal, immersive soundscape. The technique used includes superposition and speed change of recordings, radical sound effects, and juxtaposition of sounds. The players were prominent musicians of the 1970s, including Maggi Payne, George Lewis, David Rosenboom, and Blue Gene Tyranny. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"A Summer Day at Stony Point\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" was composed in 1969, with participation of David Behrman, Shigeko Kubota, and Charlotte Warren. The piece was commissioned by English composer Hugh Davies who presented it at the Harrogate festival the same year. Stony Point is a small village in New York State where John Cage co-owned a small pseudo-commune art resort where like-minded artists gathered. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"A Summer Day at Stony Point\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" is nothing more than a page of a journal, a fragment of a notebook that utilizes a series of sound sources recorded at Stony Point on one beautiful day in the summer of 1968. Other electronic sound sources were recorded at the Brandeis University where Alvin Lucier was professor. The final realization of the piece was done at Henri Pousseur\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s APELAC Studio in Brussels, 1969. The soundtrack for Akiko Iimura\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Mon Petit Album was composed on the basis of a simple description of the technique of the film and its time span. It includes David Behrman on alto, from an outdoor recording at Stony Point, plus excerpts from a Transition concert in London, the band Bekaert formed in 1971 with Michel Herr, Takehisa Kosugi, and Ryo Koike, both members of the Taj Mahal Travelers. The atmosphere is quiet and pastoral throughout with a very dreamlike flavor. Edition of 500. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"... Gentle threads of instrumental and electronic sounds are mixed with outdoor rural field recordings and occasional voices of his friends speaking, whistling or singing. Bekaert creates a warm environment within which we can hear subtle individual voices of good musicians who are relating to his loosely-notated scores and verbal instructions...\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" --David Behrman https://metaphon2.bandcamp.com/album/jacques-bekaert \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"In a truly great moment for reissues, Metaphon delivers one of the best of the year: the first ever vinyl reissue of Jacques Bekaert\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s monumental self-titled LP for Igloo from 1981. An unprecedented window into a singular creative mind, including contributions by Takehisa Kosugi, David Behrman, David Rosenboom, Maggi Payne, Georges Lewis, and numerous others, it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s a masterstroke of electroacoustic composition that achieved nothing short of holy grail status for collectors over the years, which manages to entirely recalibrate the listener\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s mind. Working at a slow, meticulous pace, for a decade and half, Metaphon - the Brussels based imprint run by Timo Van Luijk - has continuously illuminated fascinating trajectories within a number of historically neglected contexts of electronic music and sound art. Primary focused on work produced in Belgium - with their own criteria of personal taste guiding them well - they’ve produced an incredibly important body of albums that endeavour to respect and supports the music and those who make it. In the midst of an incredible run - having recently released important works by Jan Bruyndonckx, Johannes Fritsch, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, and Takehisa Kosugi’s - they’re back with the first ever vinyl reissue of Jacques Bekaert’s astounding self-titled LP, originally issued by the seminal Igloo imprint in 1981. A long-standing holy grail for countless experimental music fans, its two sides gather three astounding compositions, created in collaboration with some of the most important voices in 20th Century sound: Takehisa Kosugi, David Behrman, David Rosenboom, Maggi Payne, Georges Lewis, and numerous others. Absolutely incredible and not to be missed. A truly legendary album - issued in a very limited edition of 500 copies on vinyl - has finally returned to our hands. [By Bradford Bailey, 16 December 2022] 2022 €24.00
BELLERUE, BOB Music of Liberation do-LP Bob Bellerue's new double-LP, "Music of Liberation," is a careful and intricate album of textured drone and shapely noise. Like the greatest works by post-industrial masters David Jackman (Organum) and Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), its power lies not in harshness, but in dynamic spectral intensity. These are minutely composed pieces with very great attention paid to timbral details and variances. Through the last few years, Bellerue has released a series of highly acclaimed long-form classics of tactile noise, including 2014's "Hollow Body" (Los Discos Enfantasmes), 2015's "Damned Piano" (Anarchymoon Recordings), and 2017's "Yamaha Deluxe" (iDEAL Recordings). These are in addition to more concise releases for labels like No Rent, Banned Production, Phage Tapes, and others, issued in a lava-like flow since the start of the millennium. And with "Music of Liberation," Bellerue's singular brand of volcanic aesthetics has reached a point of near-Hellenic refinement. The four pieces here are controlled eruptions, seeping slowly with the force of geologic synthesis. There is a subtle poignancy at work here too: "Music of Liberation" is dedicated to Bellerue's friend and collaborator, Z'EV, who passed away during the final stages of finishing the double album. The late experimental percussionist/sound artist shared a certain sensibility and approach with Bellerue, as both artists have a longstanding interest in the power of metallic resonance, poetic dissonance, and composition in-situ. "Music of Liberation" (née "Música de Libertação") was recorded in April 2016 at Sonoscopia (Porto, Portugal), in a raw session balancing drone feedback states with instrumental and vocal elements. The session was made possible through a variety of borrowed equipment and instruments (acoustic bass, shruti box, bowed gongs), which led to techniques and content which diverge from Bellerue's canon of work with surprising melodic moments. The unfamiliar instruments lent an inscrutable, organic quality to Bellerue's emotionally charged metallurgy. To bring out more full-spectrum sound, the recordings were played back in the old marble and plaster cavern of Issue Project Room in Brooklyn (where Bellerue works), to harness the resonant acoustics and add depth and dimension to the mono source recording. In Bellerue's realm, volatility frequently gives way to passages of sustained beauty, compelling all those journeying with him from instability to lucidity; from repression to liberation. “In the realm of noise and experimental music, Bob Bellerue elevates his recordings beyond the mere level of harshness into three-dimensional soundscapes that can be felt as well as heard.” - Chuck Foster, The Big Takeover Bob Bellerue is a noise composer, experimental musician, and creative technician based in Brooklyn NY. "Music of Liberation" has been released by Elevator Bath as a limited edition double LP, mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin https://elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/album/music-of-liberation 2018 €25.00
BERNIER, NICOLAS Usure.Paysage LP "usure.paysage combines the strongest particles of Bernier's kaleidoscopic oeuvre: an expressive mix of lively field recordings, tiny and massive electronics and sparkling relocations. The docker barks out aloud, the little insect crawls through the 19th century woodworker's atelier, forgotten voices vanish and the rest is no silence. This is truly some of the finest musique concrète ever released on vinyl - very charming. Nicolas Bernier: electroacoustic artist, surround sound composer, occasional curator, old typewriter aficionado and sandcastle manufacturer. Careless about aesthetic tags, Bernier navigates through live electronics, installations, musique concrète, art video, performance, music for dance, theatre and cinema. In the midst of this eclecticism, his artistic concerns remain constant: the balance between the cerebral and the sensual, and between organic sound sources and digital processing. He is the founder of the sound art microorganism Ekumen, member of the media art organization Perte de Signal and the art director of Réseaux, a major Canadian electroacoustic concert producer. His works have been awarded or broadcast in festivals around the world including ZKM, Transmediale, Prix Ars Electronica, Akousma, Mutek and DotMov. Artwork by urban9 Mastered & cut at D+M Berlin Vinyl only, 300 copies http://www.nicolasbernier.com" [label info] www.hronir.de 2011 €16.50
BERROCAL, JAC / MARIE FRANCE / JACK BELSEN Marie Antoinette is not dead 7" "Crystal transparent 7' vinyl encrusted with white sprayings (I worked a lot this year and I'm emptied), numbered and stamped edition limited to 470 copies. Stunning collaboration between four entities who all left an indelible track in various spheres and in different eras, such as Jac Berrocal, a mythical figure, improvisator in his music and his encounters, a visionary poet and avant garde trumpeter who went against the grain in jazz and punk, amongst others, and his associate Jack Belsen, a virtuoso with the machines, guitarist and into a lot of other things, composer of soundtracks for films, who founded with F.J. Ossang in 1980 the Messagero Killer Boy of which the noise'n roll sonorities essentially structure themselves around the poetic words of Ossang. Also the singer and actress Marie France, rock, punk, diva, cabaret muse, fond of unpredictable and stunning collaborations, just as her own personality. ' Je vous veux ' and ' Marie-Antoinette is not dead ou dans quelle position je vous laisse ' are the titles of the two tracks of this historic 7'', historic by this never seen before collaboration initiated by the label rotorelief, and by the presence of the author of the letter and the poem put in music, the Queen of France Marie-Antoinette. She is the fourth protagonist of the project. Out of time and out of eras, this concept is definitely away from a passeist royalism or a vain nostalgy. It only wants to put forward these personages who, strangely, have common particularities :innovators, avant gardists, passionate about liberty and pleasures. A sharp and historic single." [label info] http://rotorelief.com 2008 €13.50
BERTONCINI, MARIO Arpe Eolie LP "Format: LP, Limited Edition of 400 copies. Deluxe silver cover with silver foil design, custom inner sleeve and 4-page booklet in English and Italian. First ever vinyl release of the works by Italian maestro Mario Bertoncini, relentless experimental composer, philosopher, artist and builder of sounds. The LP presents a selection of his compositions for aeolian constructions: in the early 70s he started to produce sound aggregates, true 'sound sculptures' based on the Aeolian sound principle. Amongst his more spectacular installations there were Vele, a massive Aeolian harp (more than 7 meters high); Venti (winds), for 20 Aeolian sound generators and 40 performers; and Chanson pour Instruments à Vent, an assemblage for Aeolian harps, Aeolian gongs, and one performer. By their very nature these sound objects ("sound sculptures" that liberate the concept of sound form from time development) convey a sense of natural sounds beyond the grasp of composition and musician. Bertoncini self-built harps and gongs are excited by blows of compressed air, or by the composer's own breath, resulting in a musical blueprint that takes minimalist drone to a massive scale: the music unleashes itself. There's no sense of a composer's hand present. If at superficial levels they may sound like electronic music (long drones and swooshes of otherworldly sounds), at a close listening they reveal the intensity of a pure sound of air, far removed from both any artificial or measurable principle as well as from any casual or chance method of composition." [label info] www.die-schachtel.com 2016 €26.00
BEUYS + PISSOFF Creamcheese Düsseldorf LP BEUYS + PISSOFF CREAMCHEESE DÜSSELDORF 1968 550 black vinyls copies – ROTOR0076 A side : “Part1” (20:00), B side : “Part 2” (21:06) MUSIC, RECORDING, PRODUCTION: EBERHARD KRANEMANN The experimental project PISSOFF was founded in the late 60s by multimedia-artist Eberhard Kranemann and some friends who studied together at the Düsseldorf Academy Of Fine Arts. The chaotic, loud and soundwise undisciplined band took part in various events at this location and other places. Due to the intense fluctuation of band-members the performances by PISSOFF were characterized by continously changing participants and variations of the involved equipment: cello, violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute, vocals, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, organ and drums. In 1968 PISSOFF performed together with JOSEPH BEUYS who was professor of sculpture at the Art Academy at that time. During this incomparable audiovisual interaction Joseph Beuys staged his HANDAKTION: in concentrated manner he moved his hands in front of his head while listening and visually reacting to the very loud and abstract staccato-rhythms by PISSOFF. The event was recorded by Eberhard Kranemann on a Telefunken mono-tape-recorder and remains the only existing audio-material by PISSOFF until today. On that night Eberhard played cello, clarinet and tenor saxophone while the other members added sounds by electric guitar, electric bass and drums. Earliest musical experimentations that can be defined as the origins of the band Kraftwerk already started in 1967 by Eberhard Kranemann and Florian Schneider-Esleben. Sometimes Kranemann invited Florian Schneider-Esleben to join PISSOFF. 2021 €26.00
BEX Rosegger LP "Third opus by Berlin-based one-man project Bex. Originally from France, Bex has released two CDs on the French label “Le Dernier Cri” and played a great many concerts throughout Europe since his first live gig back in 2006. “Rosegger” is his first vinyl appearance, his most luminous and most intense work to date. As if emerging through some hermetic transformation from the harshness and anger of the previous albums, “Rosegger” is ablaze with a radiant, almost ecstatic mixture of joy and grief, drenched in light even in its darkest moments. Melodic guitarscapes and distant shoegaze vocals between lament and incantations pour over the listener, filling every pore, vein and cell with a warm, brittle, spellbinding emotion, taking him adrift on luminous waters which progressively darken on side B, finally drowning the incandescence into deep pools of doom drones like a glorious, achingly beautiful sunset." [label info] www.tutrur.com 2011 €10.00
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO & MAOR APPELBAUM Innervation CD-R "Excluding the avantgarde composers of the 1950/60s, Maurizio Bianchi is probably the most well-known and respected italian experimental composer. At the end of the 70s, at the peak of the Industrial scene, he released several tapes of noise music under the Sacher-Pelz moniker. In the early 80s he started using the M.B. moniker and as the tape network was growing, a lot of his cassettes, such as Mectpyo/Blut, Industrial Tape, Computer S.p.A., Technology, Dicembre 1980 and many more were released. Symphony for a Genocide was his first vinyl record, soon followed by other cult albums such as Menses, Neuro Habitat, Regel, Mectpyo Bakterium (released under his own real name), Das Testament, Endometrio, Carcinosi and The Plain Truth. In 1984, "Armaghedon" was announced as his last record. In 1998-2000, due to the interest of Emanuele Carcano, founder of the Alga Marghen label, after having been sadly bootlegged all over the world for more than a decade, the whole M.B. vinyl catalogue was officially re-released on CD by Ees't Records. At the same time, after a 14 years of meditative pause, Maurizio Bianchi returned to create music. Plenty of solo albums and collaborations were subsequently released on various medias by labels all over the world, showcasing Bianchi's different approaches at experimental music. Maor Appelbaum is a well-respected producer and sound and lighting engineer and multi-talented musician. He has been heavily involved in the Israel music scene for many years. He is involved in multi-textured and genre-hopping projects such as the atmospheric Sleepless, the highly aggressive and varied Vultures, the dark wave EBM-oriented band I.W.R, the dark black noise project Thy Mesmerized, as well as being the sole creator of such avant-garde solo projects as, Vectorscope, Lunisolar and Screening. His musical ventures expand to more metallic bands such as the doom infested Moonskin, for whom he play bass and compose most of the music and lyrics. He has done various musical collaborations with Maurizio Bianchi, Kenji Siratori, Clint Listing, The Hollowing and Tom Davidov. He was a freelance writer in such well-known zines as Metal Hammer Israel and Dofek. Currently he is the editor of the music webzine www.alternative-zine.com, and also a D.J. for many clubs and radio programs. Coming after "Environmental Meditations" (Topheth Prophet, 2006) and "Electrostatic Deflection" (Silentes, 2007), "Innervation" is Maurizio Bianchi & Maor Appelbaum's third collaborative effort. "Innervation", in the scientific study, is the distribution of the nerve fibers to an organ or body region. "Innervation", in the experimental dissertation, is the prevaricator apportionment of the sound filaments to a magnetophonic tissue or electrostrictive territory." * The six tracks on the album have a strong impact, treating us with stabs of intense noise generated by analog synthesizers and effects. "This innervated work was released using electro-neurotic sequences, mixed with concrete-sensorial modulations in an investigative contraction. Its mechanistic internalization stimulates indipendent functions for an emotional behavior. For your genetical safety please listen to it using intense cellular ear-dilatation..." * * Maurizio Bianchi, October 2008" ]label info] www.aferecords.com 2010 €13.00
BIANCHI, MAURIZIO (M.B.) S.F.A.G. 81 LP "MAURIZIO BIANCHI’s 1981 Symphony for a Genocide LP is the artist's most well known work, widely recognized as a classic of early industrial music. A year and a half after its initial release on vinyl in a limited edition of 227 copies, the album was reissued on cassette by the Broken Flag label. It was at this time that Bianchi created an entirely new recording drawn from the audio of the original LP. Entitled S.F.A.G. 81 and issued in January 1983 as a companion to the Symphony for a Genocide cassette release, it was a radically different work comprised solely of two extended, side-long tracks. Bianchi had already began to evolve from the harsh and primitive attack of his earliest releases toward a more desolate, introspective sound exemplified by The Plain Truth and Armaghedon albums; S.F.A.G. 81 lands somewhere in between these two approaches. Remnants of the relentless mechanical rhythms and synthesizer churn of the original Symphony remain, but it is as though one were listening to them from a distance, lost in the midst of a massive blizzard. Strains of recognizable sound drift in and out of earshot like hallucinations, echoing across the bleak stretches of grayed-out sound. The S.F.A.G. 81 recording has been re-released (often in abridged form) on cassette and CD several times over the years, and an except appeared on one LP side of Vinyl On Demand's massive five-disc Broken Flag retrospective box set; this reissue marks the first time ever the complete album has been available on vinyl. Remastered and fully authorized, it comes packaged in thick tip-on jackets with artwork by longtime Bianchi collaborator SIEGMAR FRICKE. One-time pressing of 500 copies." [label info] 2014 €16.50
  Industrial Murder / Menstrual Bleeding CD An early work of Maurizio Bianchi recorded at Mectpyo Studio in 1981 and originally released by Banned Productions (US) back in 1992 as a vinyl LP. Co-released with RONF. 2011 €10.00
BIBLE, JEREMY & JASON HENRY Vryashn LP "A vinyl-only release of a fantastic underwater dark ambient piano piece by a local duo of musicians -- Jeremy Bible (he of Experimedia) and Jason Henry. This vinyl remaster (by 12k's Taylor Deupree) is limited to 500 copies. 180g vinyl, printed on a reverse board gatefold sleeve with an OBI. Comes with an exclusive download code featuring an expanded version of 'Vryashn.'"[label info] "Two lengthy, sonorous tracks with looming, viscous currents offset by a seductive parade of pattering detail. Fluttering piano notes pierce shifting planes of texture, catspaws of white noise skip across the swell, and Echoplexed flurries float, like distant birdsong, back and forth across the threshold of audibility. Vryashn reveals a perfect balance between fluidity and architecture before disappearing into a haze of chiming bells." [The Wire] 2011 €18.00
BIBLO On Ugliness LP "pop music had been an intensity-thing once, as to follow the legend, but as time passed it just started to quote and copy the erstwhile forms in a void way. the latter has never been exactly accurate, especially regarding the developments in the less noted niches. one example for that is provided by the amalgamations of folk-traditions, vanguard experiments, improvisation and outsider art, as they have boomed in the last years with acts like inca ore, pocahaunted and kuupuu. also in the music of the composer, singer, bass-guitarist and laptop-musician pinar üzeltüzenci aka biblo from istanbul - a sister in mind of all the acts mentioned above - you feel the intensity again and again in an almost painful way when it peeps through the curtain of drones and noise. her lost in reverie vocals leave you irritated and in love. we are proud to present the new biblo-lp "on ugliness" in a limited edition of 200 pieces as the first ever record on quetzi records." (label info) "No, the ever-prolific Bibio hasn’t snuck out yet another new album as a limited vinyl release on an obscure label. This is actually an LP by a Turkish woman going under the name Biblo, who refers to her music as “ambient thrash”. Not sure what’s so thrash about it (or even what the proper definition of thrash really is), but regardless, this sounds a lot closer to ambient than any type of metal. Not much is provided in the way of liner notes, but it sounds like plenty of static loops, some toy instruments, some found sounds, and some delay-heavy girlish vocals. The dozen tracks on here progress slightly, but it doesn’t feel so much like traveling from one place to another as it feels like standing in the middle of a darkened room and watching things float around you. Even though it’s late at night, your eyes are wide open at all the illuminated objects circling you. In some sense, the “ambient thrash” tag does fit, as this is not ambient to ignore or lay back and fall asleep to, but ambient that’s active and commands attention. While most of the tracks on this album are miniatures that only last a few minutes, the centerpiece of the album is side 2′s opener “Son Super Tembel”, which begins looping some chopped up ghostly piano, adding some more vinyl-sourced loops until they sound like a skipping record, then adding some more subtle blips, whispery vocals and small-sounding instruments. “Earth” also stands out for coating its drifting vocals in a thick layer of droning distorted guitar feedback; perhaps the song is a tribute to the band Earth. “The Eyeballs Of Truth” ends the album with its thickest layer of hiss and crackle, featuring distant piano and vocals that suggest some of the spectres in The Caretaker’s ballroom stepping up to the mic. It’s easy to overuse the word “haunting” to describe anything that’s dark yet otherworldly beautiful, but it’s hard to think of the sounds on this album as being created by anything other than possessed beings. As dreamlike as it seems, though, it feels completely real. The whole album is an incredibly moving experience." [Paul Simpson / FOXY DIGITALIS] www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=17357 2011 €18.00
BIG CITY ORCHESTRA A Childs guarden of noize (SOLD OUT) 7 released in May 1994 in an edition of 200 copies, in ultra-handmade covers, on clear vinyl. Each cover had on one side a painting / drawing by a child, on the other a unique work of "rubbeled" letters and symbols by BCO. second ed. of 300 copies on yellow vinyl in red on yellow (printed) covers & inlays appeared in July 1996. press-information (first ed.): "Legendary cassette-ensemble BIDFE CITTY ARDSERTYA from Nothern California release their first ever vinyl. Perhaps to become one of the most obscure pieces on vinyl ever. The theme of this unbelievable 5-track-E.P. is KIDS MAKING NOISE. Found on side one is a strange lecture about NOISE in the vein of BED CTY ORKSTAS sound effects library (which can be found on their three CD's); it will rotate your mind. Side two will even confuse you more with a collection of bizarre kids songs that will push you backwards in your evolution! Be a child again, open your mind to childrens' noisey worlds! Noise specially formatted for sensitive ears. Mastered with extra deep grooves to keep the stylus from flying out during the louder bits. WARNING: DANGEROUS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE NOISE OR CILDREN! " This will not just surprise you, this will maybe de-condition your brain!" (Baraka[H])" Later Note on artist: BCO are still active, and in the meantime they have out several more CDs, and an amazing 7" in a grass-cover! They still do cassette-releases also. I loved them when I discovered their obscure cassettes from the 80'es, a real dimension of their own. Back in 1993, when DAS, the head and organizer of the orchestra, sent me the DAT for the E.P., I was really some kind of "shocked" about the material. This was not what I expected ( I expected some long droney loops as they did so often on their old cassettes)... on the other hand, it was so extremely unique and worth listening (with the concept of kids really doing the music), that I could do no other and release it on Drone. I still think it's one of the most bizarre 7"es ever released. (BarakaH, Nov. 1998) 1994  
BIG CITY ORCHESTRA / CTEPHIN MiZture #2 CD-R Recht ausufernder bis ziemlich wahnsinnig tönender Split-Release der beiden kultigen US-Projekte - die fünf Stücke von BCO bewegen sich zwischen fülligen Drones und eher chaotisch infantilen Arrangements mit Gedröhn, Gitarrengeklimper, Beat-Box & highpitched Gesang; CTEPHIN sind viel massiver, beschwörend & agitativ, pulsierend, okkult, ekstatisch dronend... Langeweile kommt garantiert nicht auf bei dieser MIZTURE ! "MiZture (disambiguation). A suspension of noise in water, a heterogeneous miZture... miZture an noise made from the miZture of two metals. Just about everything that you can think of is probably a miZture and then showed a curious miZture of eagerness and terror. 10 tracks - running time 1 hour 16 minutes - inkjet printed 5" CDr w/ insert in a large 6 mil vinyl sleeve." [label info] http://roilnoise.com 2008 €9.00
BIONULOR Sacred Mushroom Chant CD "Inspired by the work of such artists as Aube and William Basinski, Bionulor again rakes the past, looking like an alchemist for the most appropriate material for their work. "Sacred Mushroom Chant" is a record created solely on the basis of treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments. Each of the five tracks is based on a separate part of the sound source. Then the base is: an archival record of shamanic chant associated with the ceremony of taking hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Japanese traditional song extracted from a collection of old vinyl records, Neil Armstrong's walking on the lunar surface famous phrase, a fragment of an interview with Marcel Duchamp telling about his first ready-made, and finally the voice of the artist himself denouncing the sentence attributed to Hassan ibn Sabbah (“Nothing is true”). Over 50 minutes of pure experimental music (mix of minimal, ambient and even noisy sounds) created on the basis of author's creative method called the "100% sound recycling." You will be really impressed when you realize that those tracks were crafted only with scraps of samples. Cover art by Monika Machnik, mastered by Peter Andersson. Comes in 4-panel digipack." [label info] www.wrotycz.com 2011 €12.50
BIOSPHERE Angel's Flight CD Angel’s Flight is the new album from highly-acclaimed producer and composer Biosphere, set for release on vinyl and CD in January 2021. It features twelve tracks based on Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 that deftly tread the peripheries of classical and electronic composition. Much of the music was initially composed for Uncoordinated Dog, a dance production by the Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt in 2019 that explored the personal, the ambiguous, exposure and beauty – which gives you a sense of what the album holds. Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke and Scape Mastering Designed by Alex McCullough and Noah Baker https://biosphere.bandcamp.com/album/angels-flight 2021 €16.50
BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND So As CD "So As is Birds Build Nests Underground’s first studio album after three years. It features four songs/compositions created exclusively with turntables and prepared vinyl records. The first of them, 'Sintordin,' is BBNU’s attempt to add something to the “jazz from hell” niche. And the idea of clashing marching bands... 'Ossifying Tongues' started, as the name implies, as a sonic description of the ossification of the mouth: the human voice material was slowly changing into white rhythmic and repetitive skeletons. However, over the years, the song has changed into a different kind of a monster and can be read as a comment on BBNU’s industrial/ambient past. 'Axe Loop' is a rock song – intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, instrumental break, chorus… somehow it is sixteen minutes long – after the band decided to leave out one verse. And finally there is 'Smoking Sun', a short interpretation of the band’s long-lost loop. New Romance meets clarinets on a nicely decorated dissecting table with some flowers in the pot. The fifth is a video track – a 10 minute part of BBNU’s performance from the autumn 2011, the day Freddie Mercury died. Martin Jezek shows his skills of 16mm improvisation here while Petr Ferenc and Michael Brunclík are locked in their favourite groove. The release arrives in a digipak and is limited. It is joint-released by BBNU's own Love Nest imprint." [label info] 2012 €13.00
BISCLAVERET & FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM Both Sides of the Looking Glass 7inch "Zoharum's first release on seven inch vinyl. 'Both Sides of the Looking Glass' is a split between BISCLAVERET & FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM. As the title of publication, each of these projects has created a sound in a slightly different vein, based on the post-industrial stylistics. One medium, two sides, similar areas of music. The release is a collaboration of Bremen's FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKES DAHEIM and Gdansk's BISCLAVERET that began after their concert in London. Then the musicians of both groups, each appreciating the other's work, decided to prepare a joint release. On this occassion, they prepared a new piece of work exclusively for this release. 7" vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, strictly limited to 200 hand-numbered copies. cover painting: Maciej Nabiałek" [label info] www.zoharum.com 2012 €8.50
BLACK EARTH Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation CD Spanish ritualistic industrial sorcerers BLACK EARTH return with "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" - a sophomore full-length of unreal cinematic sonic disembodiment, conceived with the aim of turning the listener into a sacrificial centrepiece to a surreal ritual nightmare. Following in the steps of their debut LP "A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth" and of their followup mini-album "Diagrams of a Hidden Order", on "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" Black Earth further refine and sharpen their horrific sonic blade, slicing through shadows and darkness with more skill and mastery than ever before to reveal a dimension beyond of incomprehensible ritual abandon. As they first weave and then slice and dissect their impenetrable veil, a sonic ritual of abject disfigurement begins to take shape before the listener, as the strokes and gashes of black metal, industrial, noise and ritual drone intersect erratically and hypnotically, painting an hallucinatory arabesque of absolute dread and deformity. As the album's wicked spires envelops them like a fog of snakes, the listener finds themselves immersed into an hallucinating aural delirium of complete disembodiment and self-implosion, in which they feel simultaneously out of body and helplessly trapped and crushed within themselves at the same time. CD Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digisleeve. 7 Tracks. Running Time 45:04 LP Edition of 200 copies on Black Vinyl, 100 copies on Clear & Black Splatter. 7 Tracks. Running Time 45:04 (Co-Released with Sentient Ruin) https://www.cycliclaw.com/releases/black-earth-gnarled-ritual-of-self-annihilation-cdlp-134th-cycle 2019 €13.00
BLACK OX ORKESTAR Ver Tanzt ? LP Wer auf „osteuropäische“ Harmonien steht, muss hier zugreifen !! Das BLACK OX ORKESTAR ist ein Bandprojekt mit Musikern der Montrealer Szene von SILVER MOUNT ZION, GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPOROR und SACKVILLE, das seit 1999 besteht und osteuopäische & jüdische Klezmer-Musik mit Indie-Rock und FreeJazz-Einflüssen verbindet. Lyrics werden auf Jiddisch gesungen. Melancholische Leidenschaft pur! “Black Ox Orkestar is a Montreal based quartet formed in 1999 The band features: * Thierry Amar (double-bass) (Silver Mount Zion/ Godspeed You! Black Emperor/ Molasses) * Jessica Moss (Violin, bass clarinet) (Silver Mount Zion/ Frankie Sparo) * Gabe Levine (clarinet, guitar) (Sackville) * Scott Levine Gilmore (vocals, mandolin, cymbalon, drums, ecc) (Silver Mount Zion) The Black Ox Orkestar songs filter the traditional Klezmer tunes through punk rock and free jazz, borrowing turkish/balkan/greek idioms. They are a hypnotic blend of Eastern European songbooks along with some traditional klezmer compositions. Scott Levine Gilmore and Gabe Levine also perform in "Le Petit Theatre de l'Absolu" a political theatre and puppet show. They have toured in occupied territories and have performed in Canada and in USA, France and Spain. Nowadays Klezmer music transcends its Jewish folk roots: Balkans and blues, ancient Jewish culture and prayer and history, spirit, punk rock, and jazz all mixed together and enjoyed by people of all cultures. (Klezmer in english means "instrument of song"). The lyrics are in Yiddish and concern past and current political issues. Yiddish was the language that the Eastern European Jews brought with them when they emigrated to America. At the beginning of the 20th century there were many Yiddish language newspapers and an important Yiddish tradition in theatre. Today it's hardly used as an everyday language but has left its impact on on the speech of the American Jews. The lyrics of the song "Toyte Goyes in Shineln" are by the poet Itzik Feffer who belonged to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and was murdered by Stalin's decree in 1952. The album is available on CD and 180g vinyl formats, each in lovely chipboard packaging and both featuring an 8-page booklet. The front cover artwork is an ancient kabbalistic icon and the back cover is original art by Scott Levine Gilmore. The booklet contains historical and original images, and translation f the lyrics "Ver Tanzt?" ("Who's dancing?"). On the back of the booklet is a prophetic message from Gershom Schol (one of the most famous researchers of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala) to Franz Rosenzweig (most influential figure of 20th century European and North American Judaism) dated 26 December 1926.” [press release] 2004 €16.50
  Ver Tanzt ? CD Wer auf „osteuropäische“ Harmonien steht, muss hier zugreifen !! Das BLACK OX ORKESTAR ist ein Bandprojekt mit Musikern der Montrealer Szene von SILVER MOUNT ZION, GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPOROR und SACKVILLE, das seit 1999 besteht und osteuopäische & jüdische Klezmer-Musik mit Indie-Rock und FreeJazz-Einflüssen verbindet. Lyrics werden auf Jiddisch gesungen. Melancholische Leidenschaft pur! “Black Ox Orkestar is a Montreal based quartet formed in 1999 The band features: * Thierry Amar (double-bass) (Silver Mount Zion/ Godspeed You! Black Emperor/ Molasses) * Jessica Moss (Violin, bass clarinet) (Silver Mount Zion/ Frankie Sparo) * Gabe Levine (clarinet, guitar) (Sackville) * Scott Levine Gilmore (vocals, mandolin, cymbalon, drums, ecc) (Silver Mount Zion) The Black Ox Orkestar songs filter the traditional Klezmer tunes through punk rock and free jazz, borrowing turkish/balkan/greek idioms. They are a hypnotic blend of Eastern European songbooks along with some traditional klezmer compositions. Scott Levine Gilmore and Gabe Levine also perform in "Le Petit Theatre de l'Absolu" a political theatre and puppet show. They have toured in occupied territories and have performed in Canada and in USA, France and Spain. Nowadays Klezmer music transcends its Jewish folk roots: Balkans and blues, ancient Jewish culture and prayer and history, spirit, punk rock, and jazz all mixed together and enjoyed by people of all cultures. (Klezmer in english means "instrument of song"). The lyrics are in Yiddish and concern past and current political issues. Yiddish was the language that the Eastern European Jews brought with them when they emigrated to America. At the beginning of the 20th century there were many Yiddish language newspapers and an important Yiddish tradition in theatre. Today it's hardly used as an everyday language but has left its impact on on the speech of the American Jews. The lyrics of the song "Toyte Goyes in Shineln" are by the poet Itzik Feffer who belonged to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and was murdered by Stalin's decree in 1952. The album is available on CD and 180g vinyl formats, each in lovely chipboard packaging and both featuring an 8-page booklet. The front cover artwork is an ancient kabbalistic icon and the back cover is original art by Scott Levine Gilmore. The booklet contains historical and original images, and translation for the lyrics "Ver Tanzt?" ("Who's dancing?"). On the back of the booklet is a prophetic message from Gershom Schol (one of the most famous researchers of the Jewish mystical tradition and the Kabbala) to Franz Rosenzweig (most influential figure of 20th century European and North American Judaism) dated 26 December 1926.” [press release] 2004 €16.00
BLACK TO COMM Rückwärts Backwards CD “Black To Comm is an alias for Dekorder label owner Marc Richter's audio excursions. "Rückwärts Backwards" is his debut full-length album recorded between 2003 and 2005 in his adopted hometown Hamburg and his childhood home in the Black Forest located in the south of Germany. With a background in many musical styles (from Psychedelia to pure Computer Music) BTC's music is never easy to pin down. This album is essentially created from scratchy shellac and vinyl loops merged with ambience field recordings (with some voice manipulations and kitchen gamelan thrown in for good measure). The warm hiss of analogue recording techniques combined with the apparently antique sounds of vintage organs, acoustic & electric guitars, pianos, glockenspiel and mbira used on these tracks generate a kind of hyperreal, fake nostalgia playing with one's perception of a pseudo-recollection. The layering and hypnotic repetition of short loops extracted from old Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Vaudeville and Traditional records reveal a haunting melodic quality sometimes not distinguishable within the original source material, evoking a hovering feeling of bittersweet melancholy with an omnipresent, slightly disturbing atmosphere hidden beneath the surface.The 8 songs constantly sway back and forth between simple, almost naive arrangements and dense surreal drones with rare, yet intense distorted climaxes making this album one constantly absorbing listening experience.” [label info] “First of all this CD is beautifully packaged with a tri-fold disc holder. Each picture bears its own character (blurry forest with handscrawled text, a sleeping cat, and what appears to be an old wallpaper pattern) But on to the music. Black to Comm (aka Marc Richter who also runs Dekorder) knows how to keep it short and sweet with 8 songs clocking in at under 37 minutes. Ruckwarts Backwards opens with the aptly titled 'Bees' some gentle buzzing of said insect is later accompanied by some child-like hums, this gives way to the second song 'Levitation' which is a gentle soundscape of rising and falling organ tones backed by a field recording. 'Lucifer Lacca' ushers in an operatic vocal loop that reaches crescendo and ends with another bit of children's singing. The feel is still subdued and continues throughout the record, I'm reminded at times of Tape, not so much in sound but in how I feel while listening to them. The title track is a series of interlocking vibraphone melodies that are augmented by computer processing. The computer treatments are more of an enhancement rather than something that would radically alter the source sounds. Track 5 is my personal favorite with a minimalist and slightly buzzing drone that cross-fades with a quieter drone. The remainder of the album hits just the right drone spot! Minimal loops with a somber feel, that guides you right to the end. The credits list microphones, voice, and kitchen gamelan, and Marc is good at assembling seemingly unrelated segments into gently blurred landscapes that roll by with an ease and comfort. In a few words..... simple, and elegant. Ruckwarts Backwards follows a self titled 10" also on Dekorder. Very curious to hear to more from this project” [CJ / Vital Weekly] 2005 €13.00
Alphabet 1968 CD "Marc Richter alias Black To Comm ist kein Newcomer auf dem Feld der elektronischen Musik. Als Kopf des in Hamburg ansässigen Labels Dekorder hat der Musiker und Designer die Musikfans schon mit zahllosen Kuriositäten beglückt, mit seinen eigenen Kompositionen machte er allerdings am meisten Furore. Richter ist ein Pionier auf seinem Gebiet: Mit Bandschleifen, alten Orgeln und einer Flut zufällig gefundener Sounds schuf er einen ganz eigenen, organischen Drone-Sound. Mit "Alphabet 1968" indes bewegt sich Richter eher hin zu klassischen Mustern, hin zu Songs (in Ermangelung eines besseren Begriffs). Kurze Stücke, die für ihn Meilensteine repräsentieren, die ihn wiederum an seine Lieblingsplatten erinnern. So entstanden zehn atemberaubende Songs, die über 45 Minuten Weltmusik, Techno, Noise, Avantgarde, Ambient und sogar Exotica streifen, die Reverenzen reichen dabei von Moondog über Basic Channel bis zum Soundtrackkomponisten Bernard Herrmann. Jedes Stück ist mit elektrostatischem Radiorauschen unterlegt, das einen durch das Album wie auf einer alten Senderskala wandern lässt. // A sprawling epic of a record from Hamburg's omnipresent Marc Richter. Marc Richter (aka Black to Comm) is no newcomer to the experimental music scene. As the figurehead of the Hamburg-based Dekorder label, the musician and designer has brought countless oddities to the attention of rabid music fans in the last few years, but it is with his own compositions that he has made the biggest splash. Releasing for a plethora of labels including Digitalis, Trensmat and of course his own imprint, he has pioneered a new, organic drone sub-genre using tape loops, vintage organs and an inexhaustible swamp of found sounds. With this latest album however, it was Richter’s intention to move away from the epic drones he had made his own and into something more ‘classic’. The mission statement for ‘Alphabet 1968’ was to write an album of ‘songs’ for want of a better word. Short tracks which represented genre points, the milestones which stuck in Richter’s mind when he thought back to his favourite records. What we arrive at is an breathtaking ten track album which, over the course of forty-five minutes, explores world music, techno, noise, avant-garde, ambient music and even exotica. Each track is linked with a loose thread of radio static or environmental sound, dragging you through the album as if tuning in to a stray broadcast or a particularly adventurous mix. Richter has pieced the album together from hours of recordings made at his studio with home made gamelan, small instruments and loops gathered from a collection of ancient vinyl and 78 records. The scope of the album is admirable but ignoring this it is simply a shockingly arresting collection of experimental oddities, with references ranging from Moondog to Basic Channel by way of the Bernard Herrmann. It’s not hard to fall in love with ‘Alphabet 1968’, far harder would be to place exactly where the record should fit into your collection." [label info] www.typerecords.com 2009 €15.00
  Wave UFO do-7" "Following his latest album "Alphabet 1968" on Type Records and several releases for Digitalis, Trensmat and his own Dekorder label Marc Richter (aka Black To Comm) has recorded another amazing yet unexpected collection of brand new tracks. Always hard to pinpoint, on these two vinyl singles Richter's music oscillates between cosmic drones, dub, lo-fi pop anthems, musique concrete and high-pitched free jazz rhythms. Strictly limited edition of 200 copies in a large full-colour collage poster cover. Limited edition of 200 copies!" [label info] www.dekorder.com 2009 €12.50
BLACKSHAW, JAMES Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death CD "Important is proud to welcome back James Blackshaw for his first full length on Important since his breakthrough album O True Believers was released on the label in 2006. James has since forged a remarkable career achieving critical praise for his dexterity, his deep, connected songwriting and his beautiful arrangement. Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death is available on CD & LP. LP pressed in an edition of 1000. Limited stock of color vinyl for mailorder customers. Written at a time of great emotional disquiet, the hauntingly beautiful and bittersweet ninth full-length studio album, 'Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death', from British guitarist-composer James Blackshaw was recorded at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago in December 2011 by engineer Andrew Hernandez (Balmorhea). The six original pieces contained on the album (whose titles are lovingly misappropriated from those of short stories by the late, great science fiction author James Tiptree Jr AKA Alice B. Sheldon,) are based alternately around nylon-string classical guitar and grand piano, with spare and subtle vibraphone and B3 organ parts overdubbed by Blackshaw himself. Geneviève Beaulieu (Menace Ruine/Preterite) adds her stunning and powerful voice and words to track 'And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways'. 'Love Is The Plan' is an incredibly warm and intimate recording and perhaps Blackshaw's most concise, consistent and overtly melodic to date." [label info] www.importantrecords.com 2012 €13.00
BLOCK, OLIVIA Karren LP "Ltd Edition 500 copies. Karren is a two-movement electroacoustic-orchestral composition. The first movement, Foramen Magnum, is an electroacoustic/concrète piece created from heavily processed field recordings taken from orchestral rehearsals and various public locations, including museums and zoos. The second movement, Opening Night, is a layered orchestral score performed by the Chicago Composer’s Orchestra, with whom I recorded and worked for several years in order to complete this project. Thematically, Karren includes several personal interests and areas of study, including my recent work in anthropology and sociology. Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical metaphor described in The Presentation of Self in Every Day Life is a lens through which the entire composition, presented on vinyl, might be viewed as a metaphor for the self. The act of turning the vinyl disc over to play one side or another highlights the binary quality of the metaphor. Side one of the record plays the chaotic, angular and unsettling “back stage” sounds of Foramen Magnum, while the other side plays the smooth “front stage” sounds-the orchestral layers of Opening Night. The term “foramen magnum” literally means “large hole” or “large opening” in Latin. In anthropological terms, it is the name of the opening in the base of the human skull that allows the spine to connect with the brain. The position of the human foramen magnum is crucial to the evolution of bipedalism. The titles frame the composition with images of openings-an opening into a human skull on one side of the record and an opening into night on the other side. Olivia Block creates original sound compositions for concerts, site-specific multi-speaker installations, live cinema, and performance. In a recent feature article in the April 2011 issue of The Wire magazine, Julian Cowley describes Block’s compositions as “finely nuanced textures of environmental material and occasional surges of sonic power blended with an elegant instrumental architecture.” Her compositions often include field recordings, scored segments for chamber instruments, and electronic textures. Additionally, she performs her own partially improvised compositions for inside piano and electronics. She has performed throughout Europe, America, and Japan in tours and festivals including Sonic Light, Dissonanze, Archipel, Angelica, Sunoni per il Popolo, Outer Ear, and many others. Her works have premiered at La Biennale di Venezia 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music, and she has completed residencies and premiered works at Mills College of Music and The Berklee College of Music. She has taught master classes at several additional universities. Block has created sound installations for public sites and exhibition spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the library at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, the Lincoln Conservatory Fern Room in Chicago, and at the “Echoes Through the Mountains” exhibit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Her 2008 DVD release with expanded cinema artists Sandra Leah Gibson and Luis Recoder, Untitled, on SOS editions, has been screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Expanded Cinema symposium at the Tate Modern in London. Her release Mobius Fuse was voted one of the best albums of the decade by Pitchfork. Block has published recordings through Sedimental, either/OAR, and Cut, among other labels." [label info] sedimental.com 2013 €19.00
BODIN, LARS-GUNNAR / BENGT EMIL JOHNSON Semikolon LP "LP, 500 numbered, 4 page insert. Originally created as a 6 part radio series in 1965, and released in 1966 by Sveriges Radio. This is the first LP recording by either of these composers. Recorded at EMS (Elektron Musik Studion), the newly established studio facility at Swedish Radio. This pioneering work did not easily fit in any category that existed at the time. Inspired by the work of Öyvind Fahlström (who was a pioneer of concrete poetry along with the Lettrists and Futurists), a few young Swedish artists began exploring new text based experiments. The only other artist releasing records of similar soundworks at this early time in Sweden was ke Hodell who had released two 7' singles. These Swedish sound poets differ in style from their other European counterparts mainly due to their easy access to the high quality facilities available at EMS, with its own in house engineers and sophisticated studio equipment. Given the close relationship at that time between EMS and the national Swedish radio station, their works often have a strong narrative (radio art) quality. Semikolon is one such work, but it also uses found sounds, musique concrète and electronics to create a collage, the likes of which had not been heard before. By 1967, Bodin and Johnson had together finally agreed upon a term for this particular style of sound poetry; text-sound composition. This term was then taken up by other Swedish artists working in the same field including Hodell and Sten Hanson, and soon became internationally recognised. The following year Bodin and Johnson in association with Fylkingen inaugurated the first annual festival of text-sound composition. This international festival, and the commissions it gave rise to, became a major part of the work at Fylkingen and EMS. The festival ran for 10 years. 7 LPs from the early years were released by Sveriges Radio and more recently Fylkingen have compiled the series as a 5CD set. Naturally, both artists were included in the festivals, but they also created a large body of work which appeared on many of the essential anthologies of European sound poetry at the time, including the OU Revue and Klankteksten (released by the Stedelijk Museum in 1970 to accompany their exhibition of concrete poetry), as well as other international compilations. Both artists have also worked in the area of pure electro-acoustic composition, and these works are also mostly available on compilations. This record though, is a collaboration rather than a compilation and retains a timeless contemporary feel that is shared with other radio art projects like the Hörspiel Heute series released by Luchterhand in the 70s. This new vinyl edition of the original LP adds an extra 7 minute composition by Bodin, also taken from the original Semikolon radio series." [label info] 2013 €18.00
BOE, TORE HONORE Knekk 7 TORE H.BOE ist ein norwegischer Musiker und Künstler, der bisher v.a. im dichten ORIGAMI-Netzwerk aktiv war... inzwischen liegen auch solo-Veröffentlichungen vor, wie diese feine 7“, die mit subtil-dronig aufbereiteten Flöten und Harmonika-Sounds begeistern kann.. back in stock! “Tore H. Bøe should by all rights be well known to you all from his many years as a performing artist. Sometimes in various Origami fractions, sometimes in different hotshot bands and sometimes on his own, as he is on this single. Alone Tore specialises in micromanipulations. Glitch without a Laptop. The wonderful world of contact microphones. The comfort of objects. Tapes and trolls. The seriously stunning Siesta on CD last year was a revelation. Now he’s moving to Gran Canaria to set up recording facilities to be known as Hacienda. Could be well worth a visit. Righteous colour cover by Tore himself, now to be known as a designer also. 45 rpm, edition of 300 where 100 are on clear tangerine vinyl.” [press-release] 2002 €6.00
BOHMAN, ADAM Burnhill Row LP Incredible weird recordings from 1980 from this one half of todays still very active duo BOHMAN BROTHERS ! "1980 was an incredibe year for London's experimental music scene with many different strands. Recommended Records were rereleasing the first two Faust LP's, L. Voag had found 'the way out', Swell Maps were 'in occupied Europe'. Throbbing Gristle and other industrialists were giving plenty of live actions. Nurse With Wound had just released their first LP, as had This Heat. The other great LP on Piano Records by Steve Beresford was also on the shelves. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the capitol Adam Bohman was making his first recordings working with two budget cassette recorders. Bunhill Row was the first complete album of material, but whilst the aforementioned artists were pressing up their recordings and making them easily available via Rough Trade or the Recommended Records shop, Adam's releases remained in tiny cassette editions made for friends or exchanged on the mail art network. So here for the first time is Bunhill Row, released as it should have appeared at the time - on vinyl. It must be said that this is quite unlike any of Adam's other releases, and quite unlike his work with Morphogenesis, or his work as one half of The Bohman Brothers. This is 'songs' - 30 in all, and the main instrument used is a trumpet (an ordinary trumpet), along with a variety of other acoustic instruments and objects, many of which are still part of the Bohman armoury as known. The overall feel sits somewhere between R. Steevie Moore and Caroliner Rainbow, but this is British of course. Somehow it all works, and all in all opens another window on to the incredibly fruitful astral alignment that occured over London at this time. Adam also has a solo CD on Paradigm Discs, and also appears on 'Variations - a London compilation' the first CD released on Paradigm Discs." [label info] www.stalk.net/paradigm 2006 €17.50
BOKANOWSKI, MICHELE La Plague LP (one-sided) "Invisibilia - the new Canti Magnetici serie curated by Andrea Penso - is proud to introduce for the first time on vinyl a composition of Michèle Bokanowski, one of the most poetic composers in the avantgarde european music scene. Remained unpublished until today, this composition is made as soundtrack for the short film "La Plage" (1992) created by the experimental filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski (husband of Michèle Bokanowski). "La Plage" is probably the less "concrete" composition made by Michèle Bokanowski. It is pure liquid abstraction in sounds. It is one of those rare compositions really out of time and space. As expressed by Pip Chodorov, editor of 4 DVDs that contain all the films directed by Patrick Bokanowski, we can feel the works created by Michèle Bokanowski and Patrick Bokanowski are a sort of "spiritual search for the overrunning of perception, and thereby oneself. Searches into abstraction in the real, mysterious blanks that recover the daily". *** Born into a musical environment, Michèle Bokanowski studied Russian before turning to composition after reading Pierre Schaeffer’s "À la recherche d’une musique concrète". Training in classical composition with Michel Puig, she followed a course at the Research Department of the ORTF directed by Pierre Schaeffer and was part of a group researching sound synthesis. She composed mainly for concert and cinema (music of Patrick Bokanowski ’s short films and his two features "L’Ange" and "Un rêve solaire"), and also created music for theatre and dance performances. As a composer of electroacoustic music she skilfully employs techniques of looping, reinjection and montage scripting. Her concrete, evocative and poetic sounds find resonance within an ambiance of mystery in which expressivity is always dominant. Single sided vinyl, limited edition of 300 copies. Unconventional 4 different cover artwork (75 copies each) on elegant embossed cardboard (2 colours version : Lavanda and Tabacco), one credit sheet inside. All on high quality recycled paper. 2019 €16.00
BORGHI, ANDREA Fuochi Rituali Di San Giuseppe CD March 19th is Father’s Day, which falls in correspondence with St. Joseph, husband of Mary and also considered the father of Jesus. In Italy, however, we know that every religious holiday is intertwined magically with some pagan ritual that lasts even today despite the years. So, on March 19 in many cities and villages of Italy it also celebrates the end of winter and beginning of spring, and the fire is the symbol of this long awaited step. The bonfire is also part of a purification and consecration ritual. In March agrarian purification rites are also carried out. Traces of the bond with this type of worship are found in the tradition of the bonfires of crop residues of the previous year and still widespread in many regions. Usually, in this huge fire under control, a puppet which takes the shape of an old man or an old woman is burnt, and symbolizes the Winter. While burning the puppet, one says goodbye to the cold weather and greets the beginning of spring. Throughout Italy, especially in small towns, the Feast of St. Joseph is still very much felt by people, who are carrying on the old traditions. This work is the result of field recordings made during a whole night spent last year on the occasion of this particular traditional celebration, one of the many fires that are done in the countryside near the area where I live, precisely in Versilia, Lucca Province, Tuscany . This particular location is a wasteland of about 2000 square meters located near to the sea. (Andrea Borghi, February 2016) LOCATION : Versilia, Tuscany. Recordings made in Versilia during the night of March 19, 2014. Sounds taken in situ, materials found at the concerned locations : Crepitio del fuoco (Crackling fire) Presenza di persone raccolte attorno al fuoco (Presence of people gathered around the fire) Olio che frigge sul fuoco (Frying oil on the fire) Bambini che giocano attorno al fuoco (Children playing around the fire) Legna per il fuoco (Firewood) Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. All include an additional art card on 300gr matt-coated satin-paper. Packaged in clear vinyl sleeve with folded insert. www.unfathomless.net 2016 €14.00
BORISOV, ALEXEI A Polished Surface of a Table CD Eine der experimentelleren neuen Veröffentlichungen auf dem Moskauer Label von A. ARTEMIEV kommt von ALEXEI BORISOW. Zu hören gibt es von ihm sehr komplexe Collagen und unendlich scheinende Überlagerungen aus „everyday sounds“ und atonal-dronigen elektronischen Klängen, Geräuschkaskaden, mutiert-technoides und vieles mehr.... “ A full-length album by Alexei Borisov is a nice thing to hear, if you need a redefinition of the experimental music. Alexei is certainly one of the Russian artists that's gaining a bigger worldwide recognition lately, he played live at this year's Club Transmediale in Berlin few weeks ago. Before this album and besides the tracks from various compilations (released by N&B Research Digest), I've heard Alexei's live album Before The Evroremont released by N&B Research Digest / Avanto Festival, and I liked it. I wonder what it means when a track by Alexei Borisov is titled Blue Vinyl? Does it mean he took a blue vinyl and conducted a musical massacre on it? Could be. Alexei likes to use voices in his post-electronic, post-techno, post-experimental, post-post music, one of the best post-musics I've heard. This is done truly amazing in the sixth track Dew, a complete musical slaughter, 4 minutes of the most amusing (and most gentle) sound-killing I've heard recently as a counter-point of the first 15 seconds at the beginning of the track with the appealing vocal of Angela Manukjan. Kill sound before sound kills you? Kid606, take notes. The techno moment is in Zaraza (Volume I), a track that could have been done maybe by Motor, and noone else. Could be because of the national connection. The softly distorted beats make me want to hear Volume II, if there is. The voices are sometimes used to create only noises with them, like in My Voices. Alexei Borisov's music is maybe not the kind of music you'll listen all day every day, but it's sure great to know it exists out there, somewhere, in the outer limit. Great work! Address: http://www.electroshock.ru [BR, Vital Weekly] 2004 €12.00
BRUME Ainsi-soit-il! LP "LP album, numbered and stamped vinyl limited edition of 250 copies. Alone, you have to listen to BRUME alone, and lie down far from the neon lights, traffic and gossips, with your lights filtered. In the dominating dark and night, BRUME carries an atomized reality to a world where chaos rhymes with spatial waverings, where atmosphere is devoid of impurity, rich with sonorities and dense with emotions, for a mysterious but undoubtedly innovatory trip. In these days of mist, 'Ainsi soit-il!' envelopes us with a rich, complex and experimental coat." [label info] http://rotorelief.com 2009 €19.50
  V s /M 3-44-65 / Time out of Joint (SOLD OUT) 7 "For several years now Christian Renou aka BRUME from Villiers/Marne in France has been creating one of the most intense & unique form of dark musique concrete one can imagine. However the project is about to be stopped soon and this is one of his last releases (he will continue as RAGLE GUMM). On these two tracks the more minimal side of BRUME can be experienced – suspenseful & quiet tunes, voices, samples, sudden harsh break-outs that make you shiver, etc.. the highly atmospheric music of BRUME is always a very expressive form of emotional outburst, and this is no exception. BLACK VINYL, HANDMADE COLOURED BLACK COVERS WITH DIFFERENT PATTERNS AND COLOURS DONE BY BRUME" [label info] 2000  
BRUNNEN The Beekeeper's Dream LP Eine Art Retrospektive von der BEEQUEEN-Hälfte mit seinen melancholisch-süssen, folk-angehauchten Homerecording-Ambient-Songs… einiges davon ist wohl bereits auf anderen Formaten schonmal erschienen, aber vieles scheint auch neues Material zu sein. Diese limitierte Vinyl-Version ist auch gleichzeit Teil 3 der RECORDS ARE NOT FOR BAKING – Serie, die es im Abo auch mit Bonus pic-12“ gibt! “Brunnen reveals that part of Beequeen's Freek Kinkelaar which is the strange wandering minstrel/alchemist (half-orc cleric with a +2 mace). If only more records were so cogently perplexing. A slightly cinematically arranged, quasi-psychedelic little dear of a hushed pop song opens the album. Freek's vocals sublimate in a pleasant whisper, not unlike (ahem) a quieter Yo La Tengo song. Freek, perhaps true to his name, does not hesitate to then very, very slowly weave together a spacious tone poem whose initial notes live counties apart, concocting an outré sort of high lonesome that might sonically drift across the same sort of plain as Wenders' Paris, Texas does visually. Kinkelaar's vocal delivery tugs at shirt tails ala Just Drifting era Psychic TV balladry or introspective LPD. Subtly amplified guitars chime quietly against slo-mo keyboards, occasional samples, tablas and air. An understated rave-up of Trust In Me from The Jungle Book is a nice exclamation point. A musical sandwich, really, with the outer psychedelic pop buns keeping the avant-garde middle meat warm.” [label info] 2006 €17.00
BRYARS, GAVIN / PHILIP JECK / ALTER EGO The Sinking of the Titanic (1969- ) CD "...GAVIN BRYARS taucht mit der Neueinspielung seines Klassikers The Sinking Of The Titanic (Tone 34) auf der Biennale in Venedig 2005 noch einmal ein in das Wasser ohne Balken und die Luft ohne Drähte. Überlebende, 711 von 2201, gab es nur Dank Marconis drahtloser Telegraphie, wobei die 1. Klasse dreifach bessere Überlebenstüchtigkeit bewies als die 3. und die Mannschaft. Bryars selbst am Kontrabass und das italienische Ensemble Alter Ego spielen ebenfalls etwas, das ‚Autumn‘ heißt, jene episkopale Hymne, deren dritte Strophe die passende Zeile Hold me up in mighty waters; Keep my eyes on things above enthält. Philip Jeck dreht mit seinem Vinylgeknister die Zeit bis nach 1912 zurück. Dazu hört man - Legenden gibt es immer in mehreren Versionen - den Bericht einer Zeugin, die Nearer, My God, to Thee gehört haben will. Der Unterwassersound der immer und immer wieder intonierten, aber verlangsamt und wie schon nicht mehr von dieser Welt in einer Luftblase gespielten Hymne mischt sich mit herbstlichen Assoziationen wie Grillengezirp, aber auch der raunenden Menge bei einem Sportereignis. Jeck‘scher Sarkasmus? Die Regenmacher als perkussives Element wirken ähnlich makaber. Wäre das Pathos ohne solche V-Effekte zu stark? Oder soll es diesmal gegen Kitschverdacht hartgekocht werden, nachdem die ‘94er Version (Point Music) noch einen Kinderchor und dunkle Bläser mit versenkt und auf dem Gebein am Meeresgrund Morsezeichen getokt hatte? Wenn die White-Star-Musiker, von denen keiner überlebte, aber tatsächlich als Letztes Walzer gespielt haben? Und wenn Marconi recht hätte, dass Klänge unsterblich sind? Dann wellt sich um den Erdball, selbst wenn auch die Erinnerungen längst verdämmert, zu Bernsteintränen geronnen und zu Hollywoodmelodramen verklärt sind, eine oxymorone Kakophonie aus Entsetzensgebrüll im Walzertakt." [Bad Alchemy] "Performed by Gavin Bryars (double bass), Philip Jeck (turntables) and Alter Ego (strings, brass, wind, percussion, keyboard, tape recorder and sound design). This version of UK composer Gavin Bryars' seminal piece, The Sinking of the Titanic, was recorded at the 49th International Festival of Contemporary Music at The Venice Biennale, October 1, 2005 at the Teatro Maliban. The Sinking of the Titanic is an open semi-aleatoric work written in 1969 and Bryars has developed versions of variable length (from 15 minutes to an hour) that have been performed in different contexts, both as sound installation and as a real concert work. The piece has its origins in an obsession (one in which Bryars meditates on the famous ship's sinking), whose evidence is in a minute handwritten notebook. This brings together information, curiosities, evidence, statistical data on the survivors, technical research on the ship, on the places occupied by the passengers, on projects for the wreck's recovery. This sinking is then a metaphor for the failure of modern technology, of the paradox of modernity, the fact that a super-technological ship could have been rammed and sunk by a block of ice. The version proposed by Alter Ego (a contemporary music group based in Rome, Italy) and Gavin Bryars is an absolutely new approach for the project and for multimedia installation. The other important new figure in this version is Philip Jeck, one of the most important names on the experimental scene. Jeck uses his experience to cover the sound with a blanket of thin dust, which, at the same time, is memory, distance, hallucination, traveling and anxiety. The dust which comes from the obsessive repetition of a short phrase and its melancholy is part of a harmony that Jeck shares with Bryars that succeeds in freezing time in another dimension. This is another important aspect of the Titanic idea: one related to memory and to lifetime, to concreteness and abstraction meant as a metaphor for the journey between life and death, the ocean's surface and depth. Gavin Bryars (double bass); Philip Jeck (turntables); Alter Ego (strings, brass, wind, percussion, keyboard, tape recorder and sound design). Limited edition of 2000 CD in a special wallet + postcard [postcard image by media artist Andrew Hooker]. Artwork by Jon Wozencroft." [press release] www.touchmusic.org.uk 2008 €14.00
BURIAL Burial.Hdbcd001 CD „Auf "Burial. HDBCB001" schickt BURIAL die unterschwellig sexy Beats des britischen Garage über den Umweg von Funkstörungen in eine heimelige Gummizelle aus tiefem Bass, nicht ohne auf der Reise noch einen Zwischenstop im Berliner Dub von POLE einzulegen. Dabei klingt es, als würde BURIAL das Südlondon der nahen Zukunft unter Wasser setzen. Das allumfassende Knistern ist gleichzeitg das Statikgeknister eines Piratensenders und der tropische Regen, der sanft ans Fenster schlägt. Die Melancholie der Tracks öffnet ihre Arme und sucht nach ertrunkenen Liebhabern. Der Mix von BURIAL wird von den Echos aus einer anderen Zeit heimgesucht. Signale einer fremden Frequenz strecken tastend ihre Fühler aus. Eine Flutwelle aus Lärm verschlingt alles und lässt nur die schärfsten Beats zurück. Doch der Lärm schmerzt nicht; er streichelt, kitzelt und erregt die Nervenenden. Willkommen in der Welt von BURIAL. This first album on Kode9's Hyperdub label comes from the mysterious Burial. On this self-titled CD debut, Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of uk garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole's Berlin crackle dub. Burial explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing sound of dubstep. Burial's parallel dimension sounds set in a near future South London underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate radio transmissions, or the tropical downpour of the submerged city outside the window. In their sometimes suffocating melancholy, most of these tracks seem to yearn for drowned lovers. The smouldering desire of ‚Distant Lights' is cooled only by the percussive ice sharp slicing of blades and jets of hot air blowing from the bass. Listen also for a fleeting appearance from Hyperdub's resident vocalist, the Spaceape unravelling his crypto-biography. In its loud quietness, Burial takes his kitchen crackle aesthetic neither from the digital glitch nor merely a nostalgia for vinyl's materiality. Instead, as irates' suggests, Burial crackle mutates the tactile surplus value of pirate radio transmissions. Burial's mix is haunted. Echoed voices breeze in and out, on road to another time. Pirate signal from other frequencies steams in. A tidal wave of noise submerging all but the crispest syncopations. The noise is not violent, but caressing, tickling, exciting the ends of your nerves. Seducing you in.“ [press release] 2006 €14.00
BURIAL CHAMBER TRIO Wvrm pic-10 ONLY VINYL IS REAL! Erst einmal fällt die beeindruckende Cover-Artwork von SELDON HUNT auf, zusätzlich zum SPLATTER-igen picture-vinyl gibt es noch gold & schwarz bedruckte klare Inlays, sehr passend zum dem unglaublichen tief-morastigen Sumpf-Bass-Drones die hier erzeugt werden, man meint die hohe Lautstärke mit denen hier die Verstärker in Schwingung versetzt wurden immer noch zu spüren, alles steht kurz vor dem ZERBERSTEN, und irgendwo da drin in diesen tiefen Feedbacks ist eine menschlichähnliche Gestalt die ächzt & stöhnt, ein sterbendes Monster... DIE BESTIE IST LOS! Selten einen so tiefgrunzend-abartigen Sound vernommen... In der Tat, auf 33 klingts noch besser als auf 45, und es dröhnt länger.... so LIEBLICH! "The Burial Chamber Trio is: Oren Ambarchi (Guitar, Analog Electronics), Greg Anderson (BASS/subsonics) & Attila Csihar (Vokills, invokations). Live recordings from the groups performance in Rotterdam, Holland in Jan. 2007 at club: Wurm. 10"Picture disc // with original art and packaging design by Seldon Hunt. Two transparencies with gold ink/printing on them." [label info] "....For this outing, Ambarchi and Anderson are credited with sub bass death throb, while Attila is responsible for undead voices. And that's pretty much what it sounds like, sub bass throbs with haunting undead vocals woven into the heaving roiling mass. There seem to be some guitars in there too, maybe some electronics, but it's hard to tell, it's all smeared into a single swirling blackened mass. When we first listened to it, we played it at 33 (which we're assuming now is NOT the right speed, so hard to tell sometimes), and we thought, wow, this is even slower and sludgier than ever, but once we figured out it was meant to be 45, the sound reverted back, closer to the sound of SUNNO))) or the older records of their forbears Earth. Slow motion riffage, glacial and thick, massive and blown out and super distorted, muffled and murky, a sluggish sprawl of caustic crumbling guitars, the vocals barely audible, a haunting raspy growl way down in the mix, often just sounding like another buzzing bassline, hum and fuzz, dense and intense, all melted down into a viscous black crawl. Occasionally, the random bits of riffage and low end rumble coalesce into truly gorgeous harmonies, lovely and chordal, like some blackened church organ, but for the most part, this is the sound of guitar tones allowed to ring out forever and beat against each other, the air filled with oscillating overtones and strange tonal colorations, all beneath a patina of thick black buzz. Amazing cover art as well, a gross out gutted worm picture disc, with a transparent skull and bugs insert on one side, and another sick silkscreened artwork overlay on the thick plastic sleeve, all courtesy of Mr. Seldon Hunt. Recorded live, in January of this year, in Holland. And of course, you had to know this part was coming: LIMITED TO 3000 COPIES!! And if it's anything like the other Burial Chamber record, it will sell out FAST." [Aquarius Records] label: www.southernlord.com 2008 €15.00
BURNING STAR CORE Amelia 10inch Rare 10" auf dem in letzter Zeit hochaktiven britischen Psych/free Drone-Label NO FI, 3 Stücke mit sich überlagernden, minimalen (Synth?)-Polydrones und bizarren, auf konkreterem Material basierenden Geräuschlandschaften... sehr eigen und schön... das Material befindet sich auch auf der do-CD "Mes Soldats Stupides". "First in the series of six 10"s by C. Spencer Yeh entitled 'Mes Soldats Stupides 96-05.' Hard-to-find reissues on vinyl for the first time. Includes insert with design by guest artist Robert Beatty (Hair Police). 'Three very different but equally captivating electronic pieces, this may be some of the most focused work Spencer has produced to date.' --Rock-A-Rolla Magazine" [label info] www.no-fi.org.uk 2007 €10.00
BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. Call me Burroughs LP "Originally released in 1965 by The English Bookshop in Paris and later by ESP-Disk' in New York, Call Me Burroughs marks not only the recorded debut of William Burroughs, but also for many the first encounter with his inimitable voice. While Burroughs has had pervasive influence on counterculture in the past 50 years – from the Beats to punk rock and even hip hop – no other figure today is so widely considered the epitome of cool. Call Me Burroughs features the author reading from Naked Lunch and Nova Express, two of his best-known works that utilize the cut-up method developed by Burroughs and artist Brion Gysin. An eerie, deadpan drawl guides the listener through sci-fi innerscapes, narcotic nightmares, reports from the edge of the apocalypse. Phantasmagoric passages echo real experiences roaming the streets of Mexico, the West Village, Tangiers. Bradley the Buyer and other shadowy agents haunt our ears as Burroughs turns the page and pauses purposefully. "Anything put out up till now is like pulling a figure out of the air – Enemy installations shattered – Personnel decimated – Board Books taken – Electric waves of resistance sweeping through mind screens of the earth – The message of Total Resistance on short wave of the world" This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith and Throbbing Gristle." [label info] www.superiorviaduct.com 2016 €24.00
  Break Throuigh in Grey Room LP Inspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another album: Break Through In Grey Room. Originally compiled in 1986 by producer Bill Rich, the album features Burroughs's experimental recordings from 1961 to 1976, featuring field recordings by Burroughs of the Master Musicians of Jajouka, experimental collaborations with mathematician Ian Sommerville and painter/cut-up originator Brion Gysin. Break Through In Grey Room documents William S. Burroughs during his time in Europe and England, working with Ian Sommerville on recording with the 'cut-up' technique. Sommerville's technical background enabled him to contribute to the early development of sound-and-light shows in London, leading to work with gear provided by Paul McCartney in an apartment owned by Ringo Starr. Experimental in nature, the record is as much an exhibition of studio and composition technique as it is a document of underground culture at that time. For the 2023 reissue, Dais Records has collaborated with the Estate of William S. Burroughs on reissuing the album on vinyl and compact disc, fully remastered by mastering engineer Josh Bonati. Releasing in tandem with Nothing Here Now but the Recordings 2023 €25.00
BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. & BRION GYSIN same LP Rare recordings of beat/cut-up writers and artists William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Comprises the complete recording of Burroughs reading live in Liverpool in 1982, plus performances by Gysin of a selection of his permutated poems, as well as home recordings made by the pair in Paris in 1970. All recordings are taken from original tapes in the British Library collection. Ltd Edition 180g vinyl. Officially licensed from the British Library, The Estate of William S Burroughs, and The Estate of Brion Gysin. credits released May 10, 2021 SIDE A: 1. The Beginning is also the End (excerpt) Speaker: William S. Burroughs Recording date: Unknown, probably c.1963 2-6. Reading at the Centre Hotel, Liverpool Speaker: William S. Burroughs Date of recording: 5.10.1982 SIDE B: 7-10. Reading at the Centre Hotel,Liverpool cont. 11. Cut-Ups Self-Explained Speaker: Brion Gysin Date of recording: c.1960-1962 12. I Am this Painter Brion Gysin Speaker: Brion Gysin Date of recording: c.1960-1962 13-18: Pistol Poem I’ve Come to Free the Words No Poets Don’t Own Words Calling All Reactive Agents Junk is No Good Baby Kick That Habit Man Speaker: Brion Gysin Date of recording(s): 1960-1962 19. I Am That I Am Speaker: Brion Gysin Date of recording: 1962 20-22. Invisible Art (three versions) Speaker: William S. Burroughs Date of recording: 22.03.1970 23. 'Silky supple mirrors to be folded...’ Speaker: Brion Gysin Date of recording: 22.03.1970 https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/william-s-burroughs-brion-gysin-csr293lp 2021 €28.00
BÜNNAGEL, JULIA Sounds like... Vienna LP Soundperformances im öffentlichen Raum – Ein urbaner Soundtrack für Wien. Aus Abformungen von Gehwegen und Straßenbelägen des Wiener Stadtraums stellt Julia Bünnagel Schallplatten aus Beton her. Damit bringt die Kölner Künstlerin in ihrem live DJ-Set (Turntablism) Wiener Architektur zum Klingen. Der Tonarm des Plattenspielers liest die architektonische Textur ab. Die abgegossenen Oberflächen der Straßen, die in die Schallplatten eingeschrieben sind mischen sich während den Performances SOUNDS LIKE…VIENNA mit den Geräuschen der Stadt. – überschwemmen den Platz – ein Architektur-Rave für Wien. www.juliabuennagel.de https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=18469 "I’ve fallen in love with this performance video. Many people make field recordings, but few cut out circles of concrete and play them like records. And then even fewer go out in public to share what they’ve done. To our knowledge, there’s only one, which makes Julia Bünnagel a true original. Does Sounds Like … Vienna sound like Vienna? That’s a trick question. The records literally are Vienna, so from this angle yes, the record of records one receives in the mail (to save on postage, these are made of vinyl) does sound like Vienna. The counter-point is that one should not expect the city to sound like this when one visits for the first time, unless one is fortunate enough to see the artist set up on the street outside one’s hotel. But listen deeper and one might hear the real sound of Vienna, delivered in sonic metaphor, a mesmerizing blend of repetitions and jutting angles, both rhythmic and offbeat, soothing and off-putting, until it clicks and one exclaims, “Oh, Vienna!” in a tone that may or may not echo Ultravox. The added charm is the sound of traffic, children and other passers-by, exposing just how interested the residents of the city may be in hearing the amplifications of diamond on concrete. This may be an unprecedented level of needle abuse, all for a good cause, although our guess is that Bünnagel is not using brand new needles. Would our Technics 1200s make the same sounds? Do we really want to try? The beauty of listening is sinking into the recording, finding the tempo, just as one acclimates to a new city by immersing one’s self in the culture. If this sounds like Vienna, we might come to the conclusion that Vienna is exciting, creative, and beckoning, just as it is rumbling, vibrating, and unique. The set makes us wonder about other places that might lend themselves well to Bünnagel’s technique: the volcanic rocks of Pompeii, or the famed “concrete jungle” of New York. We’re also imagining with some amusement the reaction to the artist should she show up at a club gig with this heavy milk crate of slabs. How many people would leave the dance floor? How many would come running? The second number is likely much lower than the first, but wouldn’t they be the crème de la crème? Wouldn’t they be the most attentive, the most curious, the most dedicated, as Bünnagel teases out the sounds lying beneath their feet? A huge thanks to the artist for playing a type of music we’ve never encountered before, despite the fact that we walk on it every day." [A Closer Listen] 2020 €18.00
B°TONG (B*TONG / B-TONG/ BTONG) Prostration before Infinity LP "LP + download, splattered vinyl in a reverse printed 300gr cardboard sleeve. Limited edition of 300 copies. BºTong is the experimental drone project of Chris Sigdell. His work takes the listener from ambient isolationism and experimental microsounds to a noisy orgy of sounds. He takes samples from television, radio and film, which are then processed with recordings of his voice and others. In a live-situation Chris Sigdell relies on instruments like microphone, metal-sheet, electric toys and kitchen utensils. The sounds made with them are fed and put through various effect-pedals giving him that trademark sound. 'Prostration Before Infinity' was inspired by the vast and still quite unknown space that surrounds us. It tries to capture the unfathomable concept of infinity and the meaninglessness of our endeavours within this finite yet endless universe. It plays with our quest for answers, our search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Maybe what they can hear is only gibberish, the distorted waves of our radio and televison broadcasts. Using digital sounds, samples and recordings from outer space and field recordings, BºTong aims to stimulate the listeners fantasy and help tenter a state of mind where the listener can see. 'Prostration Before Infinity' is a soundtrack for the inner cinema, a journey to the inner eye." [label info] www.silkentofu.org 2014 €17.50
B°TONG / EMERGE / IF BWANA / GERALD FIEBIG Thing CD-R In 2022, attenuation circuit starts a new series of four-way split albums called THING. The aim is to provide a medium for exchange and presentation of a great variety of artists. As each artist spreads the copies to their network, listeners also get to know the other artists featured on the same disc. The title references the fact that the CDs are physical objects – things! – but also refers to the 'thing' or 'ding' in old Norse and other Germanic languages, which designates the place of a popular assembly or the assembly itself and thus alludes to the 'meeting-place' character of the albums on (or around) which the four artists and their audiences meet, if only virtually. With the first instalment of the THING series, attenuation circuit also celebrates the 10th anniversary of its very first vinyl release. In 2012, b°tong and EMERGE released their self-titled split LP on the label. In contrast to other split LPs, their pieces were composed specifically for this LP, with both artists sharing the same pool of sound materials to create their respective pieces. The 100 copies shared a common design created by visual artist Tine Klink, but as all sleeves were hand-painted, each copy had a recognisable, yet still unique cover. This concept earned the label a mention in recognised art director Stuart Tolley's book “Collector's Edition: Innovative Packaging and Graphics” (London: Thames & Hudson 2014). In 2013, this album was followed up with another split LP by If,Bwana and Gerald Fiebig which followed the same musical and visual approach. Together, these two split albums formed attenuation circuit's original Vinyl Series, which was soon replaced by individually conceived vinyl albums. To celebrate the anniversary of attenuation circuit's first venture into vinyl territory, this THING collects all four sides of the two original LPs. To retain the “LP side” feel, the two pieces by If,Bwana have been transferred to the CD as only one track. File under: drone, dark ambient, ambient https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/thing 2022 €8.00
CAMBERWELL NOW The EP Collection LP Camberwell, in South London, pops up infrequently in pop culture. Perhaps you know it from the Camberwell Carrot, the heroically sized joint smoked in cult movie Withnail & I, or perhaps – if you’re attuned to experimental music – you know of Camberwell Now. The group formed from the ashes of This Heat, the art-noise group whose catalog was reissued on Modern Classics Recordings in early 2016. Not so much a supersession as a continuation of that group, Camberwell Now featured This Heat’s vocalist / drummer Charles Hayward, who assembled an unusual line-up comprising Stephen Rickard, a former BBC sound engineer, on field recordings and tape manipulation and Trefor Goronwy on bass, vocals and ukulele. “We had a very specific set of skills,” says Hayward, in new liner notes compiled for this long overdue reissue, “and it wasn’t immediately clear to us how best to bring them together so that we could play live.” Taking inspiration from seafaring and imperialism, and the fact that the music was created within close proximity to the meridian line in Greenwich, the Meridian EP was originally intended to be a project for This Heat. The group’s departing member Charles Bullen plays on the opening track, “Cutty Sark”, named for the famed British clipper ship. The second EP, 1987’s Greenfingers, was their final recorded work and, according to Hayward, “it’s possible to hear the group atomising and preparing to go its separate ways” within its grooves. The only This Heat or Camberwell Now recording not to have been produced at Brixton’s Cold Storage studios, it was recorded as a DIY exercise and – unusually for either of the groups – was not pored over laboriously for a great deal of time. The EP also saw the addition of a new member, Maria Lamburn, primarily on sax, whose “Element Unknown” was inspired by her experiences in the nuclear protest camp at Greenham Common. Comprising tracks that overlapped between This Heat and Camberwell Now, the EPs concerned themselves with information technology, surveillance, propaganda and what Hayward describes as “day-to-day, hand-to-mouth survival” – all pertinent concerns in a fractured Britain under the rule of right-wing ‘Iron Lady’ Margaret Thatcher, and perhaps still as pertinent today in fractured, recession-hit, isolationist Britain. The group dispersed after a final European tour, amicably, quietly, and differently, the latter their MO throughout a unique career. Goronwy, Hayward and Rickard all share their experiences and thoughts on The Camberwell Now in liner notes accompanying this landmark release: young and old, birth and death captured on two sides of vinyl. Note: On download card (and audio samples above), track one includes the songs “Cutty Sark”, “Trade Winds” and “Pearl Divers”. Total running time for track one is 9:34 and each song is distinct, though they are to be experienced as one long-form piece of music. Release Notes Official vinyl re-issue in collaboration with original members 24 bit/96 kHz re-master from original analog tapes Restored art, expanded to a gatefold tip-on jacket Includes download card with two bonus tracks 8 page booklet with track notes by the artists, lyrics and archival photos Auf Camberwell in South London wird sich in der Popkultur immer wieder bezogen. Vielleicht kennt man es von der Camberwell Carrot, dem überdimensionalen Joint, der im Kultfilm „Withnail & I“ geraucht wird, oder von CAMBERWELL NOW. Die Band entstand aus der Asche von THIS HEAT und bildete sich um Sänger und Schlagzeuger Charles Hayward, der den ehemaligen BBC Sound Engineer Stephen Rickard für Field Recording und Bandmanipulationen und Trefor Goronwy an Bass, Vocals und Ukulele akquirierte. „Wir hatten eine sehr spezielle Herangehensweise“, sagt Hayward, „und zu Beginn wussten wir nicht, wie wir unseren Sound live umsetzen sollten.“ Die „Meridian EP“ vereinigte Einflüsse aus der Seefahrt und dem Imperialismus und spielte auf den Fakt an, dass die Musik nahe am Meridian in Greenwich entstanden war. Die zweite EP, „Greenfingers“ von 1987 war ihre allerletzte Aufnahme, auf der man laut Hayward hört, wie die Gruppe „sich langsam zerstreut und getrennte Wege geht“. Auf der EP war erstmals das neue Mitglied Maria Lamburn am Saxophon zu hören, deren „Element Unknown“ von ihren Erfahrungen in einem Protestcamp gegen Atomenergie inspiriert ist. Die EPs vereinen Tracks aus Zeiten von THIS HEAT und CABERWELL NOW und befassen sich mit Informationstechnologie, Überwachung, Propaganda und dem tagtäglichen Überlebenskampf, ernsthafte Sorgen im gespaltenen Großbritannien unter der eisernen Margaret Thatcher und vielleicht heute noch genauso relevant im zerrissenen, rezessionsgeplagten, isolationistischen Großbritannien der Gegenwart. 2016 €28.00
CARGHINI, SEBASTIANO Tpeso LP (single-sided) Sebastiano Carghini is a musician whose research is mainly focused on the use of modular synth and the recording of physical objects. After his recent releases for Second Sleep, New York Haunted and Hideous Replica, he's now for the first time on wax with this miscellaneous composition out of several recordings dating from 2014 through 2015. The result is a powerful and complex, unconventional collage, just as if a bunch of tracks were squeezed on it. Found objects, DC motor, transducer, balloon, metal wire, fan, cymbals sounds fade rapidly in and out, adding a sense of velocity and movement. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, tpeso comes in 200 single-sided copies on black vinyl, featuring design and layout by Sean De Coux. Black vinyl s/sided 12", featuring design and layout by Sean De Coux. Edition of 200 copies https://kohlhaas.bandcamp.com/album/tpeso 2017 €13.00
CAROLINE K Now Wait for Last Year CD Caroline K ‎– Now Wait For Last Year Label: Old Captain ‎– OCCD35 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered Country: Ukraine Released: December 2017 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Ambient Tracklist: 1. The Happening World 20:50 2. Animal Lattice 4:56 3. Chearth 6:04 4. Tracking With Close-Ups 4:45 5. Leaving 2:37 6. Between The Spaces 1 3:19 7. Between The Spaces 2 3:42 8. Between The Spaces 3 5:58 Old Captain re-releases a masterpiece of experimental electronic music commemorating 30 years since its first release in 1987! "She was unique. Had a bad time in her childhood, her later years were never comfortable. But somehow she got an intensity, feeling of direction. Anything she didn't know, she just learnt it. Awful history in the countryside, then in London, carrying the banner against injustices. I was in the studio many times with her, the single mindedness. Brilliant technician. Long time before sampling took hold, Caroline had 4-track loops, proper innovation. A bit insecure, had to be in a band (natural for the period) to begin, but when she got on her own, I honestly think her material is up with the best classical musicians, with rock'n'roll - just listen."- by Danny Ayers, Nocturnal Emission, husband of Caroline K. Limited to 300 copies in a 4-panel matte-laminated black & white Digipak. credits released December 15, 2017 Arranged By, Composed By, Performer [Played By], Producer, Recorded By – Caroline K Executive-Producer [Executive Production For Original Release], Remastered By [Vinyl Tracks Remastered For CD] – Nigel Ayers Design [Uncredited] – Mauro Berchi 2017 €13.00
CARTER, TOM & VANESSA ARN What is here for ? LP Die CHARALAMBIDES-Hälfte in Zusammenarbeit mit VANESSA ARM -> zwei lange flächige Improvisationen bestehend aus analog-elektronischen Vibrato-Tönen & Carters "Lap Steel" Gitarren-Drone-Arbeit, genaustes Zuhören belohnt mit feinsten konkreten Details. "Limited Edition of 515 copies. First 110 copies released as coloured (brown) vinyl. Including a small insert. Contains two long and deep duo cuts of univibe-era lap steel/ electronic tone generator improvisation, one side recorded live and stamped w/ the indelible mark (ie, the #15 bus rumbling by) of Bullbabe Studios, Austin TX (the odor of sweat, lone star, and barbeque is palpable). The sounds: monolithic serenity infused with a deep breath from the void, as peaceful and violent as a mountain range. A shame that this configuration is so underrepresented in the discography, as the mesh of T&V's playing is so instantly seismic... Tom Carter is best known for his work with Charalambides, which he co-founded with longtime creative partner Christina Carter in 1991. Since 2002, Carter has also undertaken solo work and collaborations. His 2003 solo tour, centered around the seminal Brattleboro FreeFolk festival, featured unaccompanied solo shows and musical excursions (on stage and tape) with Bardo Pond, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, the MVEE Medicine Show, Ian Nagoski, Tower Recordings, and Double Leopards, among others. Vanessa Arn became a member of Boston/California/Texas group Primordial Undermind soon after Tom's brief tenure in the group. The potential for mountainous difference tones between the lap steel and the triwave tone generator (a custom built synthesizer) was immediately apparent to all parties, and Tom suggested a collaboration (which was greatly assisted by the fact that Tom and Vanessa were at the time next door neighbors). A sole performance and a handful of recordings ensued and the results are here for your perusal." [label info] www.asilentplace.it 2007 €14.00
CHALK, ANDREW The Circle of Days LP "Truly beautiful new LP, "The Circle Of Days", from UK sound/drone artist Andrew Chalk on his own Faraway Press imprint. Recorded in 2003-06 and created with field recordings, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, and slide-guitar, "The Circle Of Days" includes a return for Chalk to his long-term collaboration with Daisuke Suzuki (Ghosts On Water, Lost Shadow, Siren Records et al), who features on five of the LP's 14 (relatively short) pieces. The field recordings, mostly captured from everyday home/community life, blend with beautiful fragments of minimalist keyboard runs and droning string tones that reach out, rise-up, and resonate to stunning effect, conveying celestial-like imagery of, say, light from another world shimmering in the dark of our own fog-blurred night. The sounds unfold, subliminally freezing/interrupting time, before fading into voids that sometimes leave a peculiar and wondrous sense of longing. Whilst the field recordings feel grounded in the real world, the instruments' rich sounds seem like they arrived from the ether of far-away, deep inside Chalk's expansive artistic vision. A magical, captivating piece of work that functions like a sonic parallel to the way shooting stars grip our gaze in wonder. Released on Chalk's Faraway Press imprint in an edition of 325 copies. Pressed on super-sounding black vinyl, mastered by Denis Blackham and housed in a sleeve featuring a reproduction of a pencil sketch by the artist himself, with layout design by Jos Moers." [Infinite Limits] www.farawaypress.info "Andrew Chalk records are the jewels of the English underground. The noise of Ferial Confine gasped with an existential blurt of obstinate tactility, violent in their self-immolation but never directing a rage outward. The gaze was inward. Then, when the drone grounded much of Chalk's classic works in the '90s and '00s, these slippery, elegiac croons of sonic impressionism dripped with an opalescent beauty that also spent a fair amount of time splashing around in the mud. More recently, Chalk has been exploring the poetic fragment, cracking the lens of British avant-folk eccentricity and scattering the results on stunningly beautiful albums like The Circle Of Days. The curious introductory track here sports a clattering of wood, recorded in situ with longtime collaborator Daisuke Suzuki, with a church nearby, whose bells chime the solemn Westminster Quarter melody. The following track pools rounded tones from Chalk's open-body electric guitar, finding a counterpart in the stoner-folk of Tom Carter's early work in the Charalambides. Piano, chord organ, and more guitar flesh out further tracks of nocturnally impressionist details that hang like constellations in the night sky, curving steadfast against the traffic of satellites, planes, and planets. The course of the second side reprises that of the first, with equally wandering expositions of intimate ambient swath, gossamer half-melody, and the soft-spoken mystical charm that has graced many an Andrew Chalk record! Very highly recommended as with everything that Chalk touches." [Aquarius Records] "Or, where quality meets content. The name Andrew Chalk, and indeed Faraway Press and La Scie Dorée, will be familiar to any attentive Vital Weekly reader. Chalk has been releasing music since the mid 80s and has worked with people like David Jackman, Darren Tate and Jonathan Coleclough. His best know collaboration is perhaps that with Christoph Heemann under the name Mirror, creating a series of albums that belong both musically as visually to the, in my humble opinion of course, to the best that the ‘ambient/soundscape’ genre has to offer. His new solo album The Circle Of Days has been made available in two editions: 325 copies in regular sleeve and 100 in a beautiful handmade portfolio sleeve, which, if you enjoy that sort of thing, is well worth hunting down. Working again with Daisuke Suzuki, headman of Siren records, Chalk has created what can only be described as yet another gorgeous and very fulfilling album. Even though the cover features several song titles on the back, the album itself is banded as one track per side, giving the impression of two suites, which is something I really like. Plus the record features a label that is slightly smaller in size than regular LP labels, which gives the album the look of an ancient 78 rpm record, which, again, I like very much. Full points for style and design therefore. The precise contribution of Suzuki is not always clear: even though some tracks mark his name, the almost hesitant playing of instruments like guitar, keyboards, piano (in gorgeous stereo), vibes could be either of the two. There are environmental sounds added to the slow tempo music; birds, children playing, the sound of a swing, it all adds to a beautiful musical painting of endless summer days. Nothing new, nothing shocking, simply an emotionally moving musical miniature." [FK/Vital Weekly] 2014 €20.00
CHALK, ANDREW / RALF WEHOWSKY / ERIC LANZILLOTTA Yang-Tul CD "A legendary sound collaboration formed of two lengthy pieces. The first track features Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Ferial Confine) gently reworking the sound materials of Ralf Wehowsky (P16.D4). A hypnotic, slowly-evolving drone with waves of mysterious sounds, static and glitches. The second piece, on the other hand, finds Ralf Wehowsky composing a frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from Andrew Chalk and Eric Lanzillotta (Eye Music). These pieces reflect a sound unique from the work of any of the three individual participants, but clearly related. Subtle, but full of detail for the willing listener. Originally issued as limited coloured vinyl only on Lanzillotta's label Anomalous Records in 1998. Cover painting by Andrew Chalk. Remastered for CD from the original master recordings. Digipak." [label info] 2016 €12.00
CHAOS AS SHELTER Dawn Syndrome CD TOPHET PROPHET is maybe the only real dark ambient / industrial-label in Israel at this time. This new CHAOS AS SHELTER-release spreads on 9 tracks lots of very clear metal / bell / glass –sounds & drones, “eastern/oriental” ethnic found sounds and melancholic melodies, wonderful vocals from VERA AGNIVOLOK on one piece, conrete recordings from broken glass, etc... and the epic drones CAS is known for... A high-class release and also perfect introduction into the mystic-drone world of CHAOS AS SHELTER ! [Drone Rec. info 2006] “After releasing over 18 releases since 1999, Chaos As Shelter needs no further introductions. His latest work, dawn syndrome, was recorded in 2001 and is dedicated to the end of Kali Yuge, the age of iron, which is the final and most negative of four evolutionary Yugic cycles, the end of the world, and the dawn of a new golden age - Sataya Yuga (the age of purity). Dawn Syndrome is an eight-track composition of ritual dark ambient crafted in the skillful way Chaos as Shelter is known for. The usage of organic and artificial sound sources which has been his trademark. It is a hymn of submersion and rebirth, of confusion, ambiguity and enigma, of the darkest moment before sunrise. Dawn Syndrome was recorded at new Jerusalem studios and Chaos As Shelter was supported by Vera Agnivolok , Helena Dorsht and an accidentally obtained presto home recorded vinyl disc.“ [label info] 2005 €10.00
CHAUVEAU, SYLVAIN S. 10inch Five pieces, composed for the dance show "Au nombre des choses", very reduced material, single notes on guitar, piano, electric hummings & micropatterns, gives a lot of room and silence, quite special & intense! " 10" vinyl version to accompany the long-awaited sixth release for French composer and electro-acoustic producer, Sylvain Chauveau. Since his 2000 debut Le Livre Noir Du Capitalisme, Chauveau has been a pioneering figure in the world of modern classical/electronic music. This status has seen him inhabit the same creative space as Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Ryan Teague, and Type welcomes him to their label and community, beginning with the issue of this brand new mini-album. S. sees Chauveau taking a daring new direction since his last record, moving away from the haunting strings and piano work of his best known works and temporarily stepping into the world of minimal electroacoustics, using the guitar as a focal point." [label info] https://sylvainchauveau.bandcamp.com/album/s www.typerecords.com 2007 €12.50
The Black Book of Capitalism CD "Erste Solo-CD von Sylvain Chauveau aus Toulouse, Mitglied der ebenfalls hochgelobten MICRO:MEGA, die eine vielseitige Verknüpfung von mehreren Stilen vorgenommen haben. "Le live noir du capitalisme" ist introvertierter und (noch) melancholischer ausgefallen als man es von MICRO:MEGA kennt, langflächige Pianopassagen, Violine, Gesang, dazu aber auch einzelne Samples, Bläser,... aber auch leicht experimentelle Anwandlungen, perfekte Filmmusik.... herbstlich-warm, einsam, unglaublich nostalgisch & wunderschön, eine CD für die Insel." [Drone Rec. info 2001] "Originally released in 2000, Le Livre Noir Du Capitalisme was the first album from French composer Sylvain Chauveau. Now in 2008, it has been remastered and repackaged for Type Records, translated into the English The Black Book of Capitalism. This record was the first the world had heard from Sylvain, a musician who had been rooted in post-rock before realizing that he could do a lot more with the instruments around him. On The Black Book of Capitalism, we hear a rare playful side to the composer as he flirts with Gallic classical music, electronica, jazz, and even indie rock. The variety splintered into various side-projects as Sylvain moved on in the music scene, but here we get a sense of confident experimentation without a hint of cliché. Sylvain's sound would go on to influence a host of other artists and kick off an entire sub-genre of modern classical music, but strangely enough, this debut album has been out of press for some time. Now remastered by Dubplates and Mastering in Berlin and on vinyl for the first time ever, it sounds more relevant and timeless than it ever has. Beginning with a cloud of smoky ambience, piano, strings and the atmospheric field recordings that frame the record, we are dragged into Sylvain's noir-esque world. This sets the scene for the entire album which drifts through the kind of piano-led classical vignettes popularized by Max Richter and more recently Goldmund, yet punctuates these with doomy jazz and lighter pieces such as the guitar-led "Dialogues Avec Le Vent." The result is a beguiling collection of pieces which show an incredibly inventive mind at work, a mind refusing to be held to one specific style, or even time." [label info] www.typerecords.com 2008 €13.00
  Kogetsudai LP "Kogetsudai is Sylvain Chauveau's 10th album, the second in a trilogy initiated by Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) (2010), where the song structure is dismantled and reconstructed on the fringe of silence. Whereas Singular Forms found inspiration from Abstract Painting, Kogetsudai is influenced by Zen rock gardens found in Japan Ñ also the location where the album was conceived (for the most part) Ñ and from which the album borrows its title. Layers of minimal electronic sounds and filtered field recordings meet Sylvain's rich baritone voice, with ghosts of piano. Sylvain Chauveau has made solo records on labels such as FatCat, Type, Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier, and Brocoli: very minimal compositions for acoustic instruments, electronics and vocals. He has played live around the world (Europe, America, Asia), performed in museums and art galleries, and was artist in residence at the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto 2011), Fundacao Serralves (Porto 2011), and Lieu Unique (Nantes 2004). He runs the labels Onement, whose aim is to release one-copy vinyl records (www.onement-label.com) and I Will Play This Song Once Again Records where musicians re-record their songs for each buyer. He has composed a piece titled You Will Leave No Mark on the Winter Snow whose duration is seven years, with extremely long silences inside (www.7yearsofsilence.com). He has made soundtracks for long feature films and dance shows. Sylvain Chauveau also plays with 0 (with Joël Merah and Stéphane Garin), Arca (with Joan Cambon) and On (with Steven Hess). He was born in 1971 in Bayonne (France) and lives in Brussels, Belgium. Kogetsudai is the third album featuring Sylvain Chauveau published by Brocoli, following ON's Second Souffle (with Steven Hess and Pierre-Yves Macé), and the 7 inches The Absence (with Rainier Lericolais)." [label info] www.brocoli.org 2013 €15.00
CINDYTALK In this World CD Nach "Camouflage Heart" von 1984 verschwanden CINDYTALK für vier Jahre in der Versenkung, die sie allerdings damit verbrachten, das epische Nachfolgewerk "In This World" zu schreiben und aufzunehmen. "In This World" erschien als zwei separate Vinyl LPs, die beide "In This World" betitelt, aber mit verschiedenem Cover Artwork ausgestattet waren. Die Neuauflage erscheint als Doppel-Vinyl oder einfache CD. "In This World" is a noble venture. It's every inaccessible racket you could imagine but creeps gently in on the delectable title instrumental before kicking you in the navel with a hybrid broth of Motorslug, Swans, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, and generally alienating cacophonies." [Chris Roberts (Melody Maker)] " So the rumor goes that Gordon Sharp was invited to join Duran Duran after Sharp dissolved his Edinburgh glam-punk band The Freeze in the late '70s. He turned them down. Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie also put out the request for Sharp to join the Cocteau Twins. After a brief stint accompanying the Cocteau Twins for a Peel Session in 1982 and a guest spot on This Mortal Coil's It'll End In Tears, he opted for his own project -- the obscure, yet majestic Cindytalk. In This World is an opus in every sense of the word. Originally, In This World came out in 1988 as two separate albums under the same name, each with slightly different artwork. One album, a masterpiece of abject post-punk that in all honesty is the closest parallel to Swans' Children Of God; the other, a delicate ambient construct of melancholy piano scarred with surface noice prognosticating pretty much everything that Type Records has released (e.g Machinefabriek, Jasper TX, etc.). It's very good thing that both of these albums have been repackaged into one self-contained object, as the only half of In This World that seemed to be floating around was the piano-laced ambient one. As good as that half is, you need the grit and dirge of its companion album to complete Cindytalk's ideas of grand dualities: heaven / hell, pleasure / pain, holiness / transgression, etc. While billed by Sharp as the 'disgusting' part of the In This World diptych, the first half begins with a lovely tonefloat of scratched violin drones and painterly piano notes. Yet, with the crushing rhythm and noise attack of "Janey's Love," Sharp does not disappoint with his disgusting tag. This is a monstrous industrial dirge with huge monotone slabs of distortion and atonal drones counterpointing Sharp's soaring falsetto. The punk poet Kathy Acker supplies a brief spoken word interlude as the coda to this incendiary number. Immediately hereafter, Cindytalk continue their turgid rhythmic marches with an angular distorted rhythm, slippery bassline mired in audio rust, and twin guitars spitting acid, fire, and brimstone on such tracks as "Gift Of A Knife" and "Circle Of Shit." As the first half of the album progresses, the songs steadily disintegrate as rhythm, song structure, and noise all collapse into a blur of smeared grey that is eerily reflective of William Basinski's Disintegration Loops. The piano which opened In This World becomes the dominant sound in Cindytalk's soundscapes, also marking the delineation between the two halves of In This World. Yes, this is the beautiful side of Cindytalk, coated in ash, snow, bruises, and rust. Gordon Sharp's piano playing comes from Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon, which in turn came from Erik Satie; and that impressionist sentiment continues forward amidst subterranean drones and field recordings of barren spaces. Sharp's voice is mostly absent from these tracks, although the eponymous finale to the album showcases one of Sharp's most emotive croons. They really don't make albums like this any more, with such attention to detail and dynamics between rage and beauty. Fortunately, both of these records were concise enough that they could both fit onto one CD; and if you've not had the opportunity to hear Cindytalk, please do not let this album and its predecessor Camouflage Heart pass you by!" [Aquarius Records review] 2007 €14.00
Silver 7inch "We dream in colour, is the title of the new Live music project, curetted by six d.o.g.s (www.sixdogs.gr) and Angelos Petroutsas (Prince of Poverty), that consists of seven live concerts in the Gig Space of six d.o.g.s venue in Athens Greece, starting from February 2011 and ending in December 2011 of seven music artists, and the release of seven 7” by Tourette Records, in which the artists shall contribute music for the project. Each artist has been assigned with one colour in a “journey” from the moon to the sun, and each 7” is considered as a blooming coloured flower and as seen in the art work of the jacket a bee dancing in coordinates with the sun showing to other “bees” where the “nectar” music can be found and a solar clock pointing the time of each live concert taking place in Athens. Each 7” vinyl shall be released in the colour assigned to each artist in 300 limited edition copies and the artistic direction is by Pindaros (www.arsondpi.gr), the first seven vinyls from each release will be all united in a limited edition box of seven copies in the form of a bee hive made from black non see through Plexiglas, with a surprised art work inside to be revealed to the ones that acquire them, plus as each box will be dedicated to each artist taking part in this will include also the test press for each one. The artists that are participating in the project and their colours are as follows : Silver - Cindytalk Yellow - COH Red - Οthon & Tomasini Green - Troum Violet - Mark Spybey (Dead Voices on Air) & Jochen Arbeit Blue - Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo & Little Annie (USA) Orange - ?" [label info] www.touretterecords.com 2011 €10.00
  Hold Everything Dear do-LP "All tracks written and recorded by Gordon Sharp and Matt Kinnison between 2006-2011 at Roi Vert, Okamoto (Japan), 13th Floor and Space Eko (London), Southend (Essex). Mastered at Piethopraxis, June 2011. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, June 2011. Design-images: David Coppenhall. Assembled at Sixism (Maggi Smith-David Coppenhall). For Matt Kinnison and John Berger. 'Hold Everything Dear' is the third installment in the new Cindytalk sound which started with 2007's The Crackle Of My Soul, and then last years Up Here in The Clouds. Its the first in the trilogy to feature musicians other than Gordon Sharp namely the late Matt Kinnison, to whom the album is dedicated. Inspired by the John Berger book of the same name, this latest release is whole new set of parameters which push the sound on the previous two works to an extreme point of abstraction, and in some places near silent passages and haunted melodic segments. And what a mysterious journey this ends up being with increased use of piano and found/field recordings giving all the tracks a blurry soundtrack appeal to the point where the definitions between the tracks are no longer clearly defined. It harks back to the odder parts of In This World and The Wind Is Strong albums from the early 1990s. Superbly packaged with new David Coppenhall artwork in a 4-panel digipack and gatefold vinyl sleeve." [label info] www.editionsmego.com 2011 €20.00
CIRCLE Soundcheck CD "Recorded in Finland in October 2009, the band describes Soundcheck as “the most contemporary document possible of a Circle soundcheck/concert experience. For this concert Circle was reinforced by the guitars of J. & P. Jaaskelainen, who may be familiar to some from the ranks of Circle’s brother-in-arms Pharaoh Overlord. On the album, this expanded line-up explores the experimental possibilities of concert staples “Virsi” and “Nopeuskuningas” further than possibly ever before.” “The first part offers two new tracks, beginning with the brief “Kukkakaalia Kapteenit!”, a wispy swirl of shimmery synths, laid back tribal drumming and some dramatic, emotional crooning, very cinematic sounding, almost like it could be some lost 4AD single, dreamy and ethereal, giving way to the way more rocking and intense “Tuhatsata”, which takes up most of the side, a slow burning, blackened bit of Finnish krautrock, super epic, with dueling vocals, crooning versus grunted and growled, fusiony keys, still more tribal drumming, spidery guitars, the track pulsing and pounding, building to multiple crescendos, frenzied freakouts that always lip right back into more looped mesmer. The album progresses with two instantly recognizable live set staples, first up, “Virsi”, dramatically progtastic, with that super soaring epic intro, all dynamic shifts and huge bursts of instrumental crunch, with vocals howling and wailing almost operatically, before lurching into some rad atonal krauty, fusiony, jazzy, hypno groove skitter. The second track, another Circle classic, and live staple, “Nopeuskuningas”, explodes right out of the gate, with its chugging almost surfy, ZZ Top-ish boogie riff, locked in groove, the whole thing stretched out over the remainder of the side, the band solid, and hypnotic, and intense, and rocking and tight as fuck. Their showstopper for sure, and it clearly did the job at this show as well. In so much as between albums, Circle, like Grateful Dead, crank out killer live record after killer liver record, often with some of the same songs, always including a few live staples, familiar enough to hit the spot, but different enough that a Circle fan could be forgiven for needing them ALL!” (Aquarius Records) A stunning and truly unique live album approach by the Finnish masters of hypnorock and unusual sounds. Originally released as a very limited vinyl edition via J. Lehtisalo’s own imprint Full Contact Records and instantly sold out, Soundcheck is now back to life housed in our luxurious, heavy tip-on mini-LP gatefold packaging featuring fantastic expanded photography and artwork by Jussi S. Karjalainen. Limited edition of 800 copies. 2011 €13.50
CLAVICVLA Sepulchral Blessing CD "Black Ambient at its finest. Italy’s Clavicvla channels the cosmic void, the source and finality of all things manifest. A true sonic force that reverberates through the core, allowing to escape one’s physical form and delve deep without, where logic and comprehensions are null... Diabolical black ambient/death industrial demon Claviclva returns with his blood-chilling sophomore LP "Sepulchral Blessing", unravelling another forty minutes of tyrannical nightmare fuel that will leave the listener catatonic and agonising in horror. With "Sepulchral Blessing" this time Clavicvla constructs a sonic tomb of immense evocative force that inters the listener into a lucid nightmare and transports them straight into the kingdom of the dead, acting as an abominable sonic vessel to the underworld. Unbelievably repulsive, blood-chillingly horrific and unyieldingly evil, on this astonishing new work sole mastermind Ittiel has harnessed the quintessence of malignity and created a cinematic soundtrack to a ghastly decent into the underworld, where diabolical atmospheres drenched in the stench of death, nightmarish soundscapes, and monstrous drones and sub-bass frequencies are masterfully interwoven and manipulated to envelop, entrance, and entomb the listener into the nethermost pits of hell." CD Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digisleeve. 6 Tracks. Running Time 37:30 LP Edition of 300 copies on Black Vinyl with printed inner sleeve. 6 Tracks. Running Time 37:30 (Co-Released with Sentient Ruin) Conceived and recorded by Ittiel Mastered by James Plotkin Layout/design by Ittiel Photography by MA https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/sepulchral-blessing 2019 €13.00
CLOSING THE ETERNITY Northern Lights Ambience (SOLD OUT) 7inch Das Projekt aus Sibirien mit einer Single auf Drone, auf der Sounds von Nordlichtern benutzt werden, „kosmischer“ Noise mit einem inhärenten Drang ins Objetklose.... jedes Cover mit aufgeklebtem, handgeschnittenen Metal-Logo („CTI-Key“) ! “CLOSING THE ETERNITY is a siberian “cosmic drone”-project from Ekaterinburg, with only few released CD-Rs so far it gained already kind of cult-status for lovers of bleak drone-minimalism. The first vinyl-release shows CTI using original ‘northern lights soundings’ together with synths, implementing very cosmic soundwaves with electronic whirs & sinus-tones and small raspy craters inside. There’s a drift into objectlessness and dissolution in these sounds, and urgo into non-existence or transformation into a higher existence-form? This is the perfect soundtrack to the ‘red dawn of the north’ ! Filed under: Aurora Borealis-Drones DARK BLUE VINYL, BLACK COVERS; EACH COVER COMES WITH HANDMADE / LASER-CUT CTI - METAL-LOGO / KEY STICKED ON IT !!!” [press release] RELEASE DATE: 30. April 2006 ! 2006 €6.50  
COH IIRON CD "It would be too easy to simply call IIRON the COH metal album, as it goes way beyond that. True, this album of classic Ivan Pavlov stompers contains more than its fair share of guitars both acoustic and electric, yet it still maintains that sense of power and purpose through electronic music which stands out as the COH "raison d'être." Coming 11 years after IRON (Wavetrap, 2000), which also tackled the sound of rock with alarming results, the new album features not only recent guitar tracks recorded at Music Research Centre at York University, but also recordings made during Soviet-era Russia, which refer to Pavlov's underground music activities in the early '80s when making or even consuming of "metal music" was forbidden. IIRON is a powerful, well-executed electronic rock record, with just a dash a humor to keep it from becoming pompous, as so much of that kind of music can be sometimes. Packaged in a 4-panel digipack for CD, and lavish gatefold for the vinyl, with stunning artwork by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))). Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, November 29th, 2010. HAIL TO WORLD PEACE AND DEATH TO FALSE METAL. In memoriam: Satoshi Kon and Peter Christopherson." [label info] www.editionsmego.com 2011 €14.00
COIL Musick to play in the Dark CD Few groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric industrial, occult electronics, and drugged poetry, both embodying and alienating parallel currents of their peers. The late 1990's in particular were a fertile era for the duo, embracing chance, chaos, and collaboration, enhanced by recent advancements in synthesis and sampling. Fittingly, at the summit of the decade's long, intoxicated arc, their divergent strains of interstitial ritual congealed into one of Coil's most celebrated and hallucinatory creations: Musick To Play In The Dark. Convening at Balance and Christopherson's vast Victorian house / studio in the coastal town of Weston-super-Mare, they began a series of ambitious sessions aided by inner circle associates Thighpaulsandra and Drew McDowall. Although the creative process was admittedly “iterative” and “a bit of a drug blur,” the results are astoundingly inventive and well realized, winding through shades of divination dirge, wormhole kosmische, noir lounge, ominous humor, and black mass downtempo, guided by Balance's cryptic lunar muse, which he announces on the opening track: “This is moon musick / in the light of the moon.” What's most remarkable about the album 20 years after its release is how brazen, insular, and unpredictable it still feels. The songs follow an allusive, altered state logic all their own, warping from microscopic ripples of glitch and breath to widescreen warlock psychedelia and back again, as much hyper-sensory as inter-dimensional. Even within a catalog as eclectic as Coil's, Musick is a mystifying collection, oneiric evocations of desire, decadence, dinner jazz, and dietary advice, far beyond the pale of whatever gothic industrial ambiguity birthed such a journey. The record closes with a slow, starlit shuffle, bathed in seething sweeps of spectral texture and high cathedral keys, like approaching the altar of some arcane temple. As the trance thickens Balance's voice rises, processed into an increasingly eerie, gaseous haze, but he resists these unseen forces, intent on delivering a final sermon: “Through hissy mists of history / the dreamer is still dreaming / the dreamer is still dreaming.” Reissued for the first time in over 20 years, now on double vinyl LP with the complete, unedited versions of each song and an exclusive "D-side" vinyl art etching. Packaged in a sturdy matte jacket with embossed lettering and spot-gloss design elements. The compact disc version mirrors this design, and comes housed in thick tip-on "LP style" package. Both formats are completely remastered by engineer Josh Bonati with restored artwork and layout by Nathaniel Young - all under the project supervision of Drew McDowall and Thighpaulsandra. https://www.daisrecords.com/products/coil-musick-to-play-in-the-dark 2020 €15.00
Love's Secret Domain do-CD In 1991 Coil released the third of their early classic full-length albums "Love's Secret Domain", seemingly casting aside the gloom and funereal beauty of its predecessors in favour of a painstakingly multi-layered hallucinogenic electronic beast, which unlike some of their fellow ex-industrial contemporaries' releases of the time wasn't an attempt at easy accessibility or (the-gods-forbid) danceability, but a vibrating psychedelic masterpiece unrivalled in their discography and still a landmark album. To mark its 30 year anniversary Infinite Fog are beyond proud to present an expanded, fully remastered re-release of this fan favourite available for the first time ever in its entirety on vinyl with 10 rare and mostly unreleased tracks and alternative versions from the period added as a bonus to a luxurious 3LP/2CD set. Love's Secret Domain contains among its many highlights the Lynchian William Blake tribute of its title track and the intoxicating single "Windowpane", original versions of the later Coil live staple "Teenage Lightning" and the majestically warped classicisms of "Chaostrophy". Marc Almond guests on the typhonian "Titan Arch" and This Heat's Charles Hayward provides some amazing drum stylings. This album is Coil pushing their sound ideas and probably their sanity to their very limits. Beyond the iconic Steven Stapleton cover art here reproduced in unseen definition the doors of perception still open wide for both long-term Coil aficionados and new-comers to this supremely innovative release to explore unknown depths. The long-overdue re-release illustrates how far ahead of the curve Coil were with the sounds on this album, which still sounds as fresh and mind-blowing as it did back in the early 90s. https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/loves-secret-domain-30th-anniversary-edition 2021 €24.00
The New Backwards (extended edition) do-CD "The New Backwards" was conceived by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson in 2007, revisiting stray tracks which hadn't seemed to gel with the material he had chosen for the more somber "Ape of Naples" from 2005, COIL's initial posthumous release, a sort of requiem and a kiss-goodbye to his then recently deceased partner John Balance. Significantly different to its sister release, this album collects the brilliantly chaotic and outrageously rhythmic material from the original sessions for the album that was begun as early as 1993 and had originally been conceptualised as the follow-up to "Love's Secret Domain". These songs are as diverse and wild as the places they originated from, partly infamously spawned in Sharon Tate's former home in the Hollywood Hills, the Nine Inch Nails home base in New Orleans and London's Swanyard, co-composed, remixed and restructured with the help of long-term friend Danny Hyde in Thailand, this collection has its own unique flow and an atmosphere not found on any other COIL release. Both "AYOR" and "Backwards" had by the time the album was first released already become favourites in COIL's manic live performances. Some of the other tracks had only leaked in demo versions and are here presented updated and polished as Christopherson and Hyde intended them to be heard. It is interesting to consider Balance's vocal contributions, too. Whilst on the albums COIL did release at the time this material was first put aside ("Black Light District" and "ElpH") his voice is all but absent, his vocal performances and his lyric writing here are arguably more closely indebted to the previous "Love's Secret Domain" era, especially the epic "Copacaballa" is noteworthy in that respect. The New Backwards" effectively became the final official COIL studio release of all new material whilst Peter was still alive and is here presented for the first time fully supervised by Danny Hyde, its co-creator. The stunning cover uses a detail from artist Ian Johnstone's "Cubic Raven" painting, licensed from the estate of IJ.. It is high time to rediscover this timeless album with the Infinite Fog release, first time available on vinyl in its full form without 3 skipped tracks! Besides that boasting nine further tracks of previously unheard material from the same sessions, rough working stages and surprising remixes which will surely delight the dedicated COIL archaeologists, as they shine yet another light on the creative process and on what could have been. credits released March 30, 2022 Recorded at Swanyard, London and at Nothing Studios, New Orleans, 1996. Thanks to everyone there, especially Trent Reznor who made it all possible. Written & Produced by Coil & Danny Hyde. Remixed by Peter Christopherson & Danny Hyde, Bangkok 2007. For that session Coil were: Peter Christopherson, Jhonn Balance & Drew McDowall. Mastered by Jessica Thompson. Front artwork by Ian Johnstone. Artwork licensed from The Estate of Ian Johnstone. Layout Cold Graves and Oleg Galay. https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-backwards-extended-edition 2022 €26.00
  The New Backwards (special edition) 3 x pic-LP "The New Backwards" was conceived by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson in 2007, revisiting stray tracks which hadn't seemed to gel with the material he had chosen for the more somber "Ape of Naples" from 2005, COIL's initial posthumous release, a sort of requiem and a kiss-goodbye to his then recently deceased partner John Balance. Significantly different to its sister release, this album collects the brilliantly chaotic and outrageously rhythmic material from the original sessions for the album that was begun as early as 1993 and had originally been conceptualised as the follow-up to "Love's Secret Domain". These songs are as diverse and wild as the places they originated from, partly infamously spawned in Sharon Tate's former home in the Hollywood Hills, the Nine Inch Nails home base in New Orleans and London's Swanyard, co-composed, remixed and restructured with the help of long-term friend Danny Hyde in Thailand, this collection has its own unique flow and an atmosphere not found on any other COIL release. Both "AYOR" and "Backwards" had by the time the album was first released already become favourites in COIL's manic live performances. Some of the other tracks had only leaked in demo versions and are here presented updated and polished as Christopherson and Hyde intended them to be heard. It is interesting to consider Balance's vocal contributions, too. Whilst on the albums COIL did release at the time this material was first put aside ("Black Light District" and "ElpH") his voice is all but absent, his vocal performances and his lyric writing here are arguably more closely indebted to the previous "Love's Secret Domain" era, especially the epic "Copacaballa" is noteworthy in that respect. The New Backwards" effectively became the final official COIL studio release of all new material whilst Peter was still alive and is here presented for the first time fully supervised by Danny Hyde, its co-creator. The stunning cover uses a detail from artist Ian Johnstone's "Cubic Raven" painting, licensed from the estate of IJ.. It is high time to rediscover this timeless album with the Infinite Fog release, first time available on vinyl in its full form without 3 skipped tracks! Besides that boasting nine further tracks of previously unheard material from the same sessions, rough working stages and surprising remixes which will surely delight the dedicated COIL archaeologists, as they shine yet another light on the creative process and on what could have been. Recorded at Swanyard, London and at Nothing Studios, New Orleans, 1996. Thanks to everyone there, especially Trent Reznor who made it all possible. Written & Produced by Coil & Danny Hyde. Remixed by Peter Christopherson & Danny Hyde, Bangkok 2007. For that session Coil were: Peter Christopherson, Jhonn Balance & Drew McDowall. Mastered by Jessica Thompson. Front artwork by Ian Johnstone. Artwork licensed from The Estate of Ian Johnstone. Layout Cold Graves and Oleg Galay. https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-backwards-extended-edition 2022 €79.00
COLD BODY RADIATION The longest Shadows ever cast 7inch "So hard to categorise, CBR is becoming a fiercely original reference in the so called postbm shoegaze movement. Cold Body Radiation pervasive melancholic sound structures are the marriage between trascendence and power of nature. The two-track vinyl is about the death of the summer, when the light changes and the shadows become very long… This amazing release is presented as 7” ep hard vinyl limited to 500 copies featuring exclusive brand new compositions for your inner conceptual meditation." [label info] www.greytone.eu 2013 €7.00
COLLEY, JOE Acting As If 10inch "When Joe Colley speaks about his work and even about his life, he shrugs in an awkward attempt to stave off an existential frustration that not only his work addresses but also seems to consume his identity. There are numerous metaphors through his titles that allude to endless failures and a nihilism full of contempt, but Colley also implores a desperate urgency to express these poetics no matter how painful they may be. For three decades now, Colley has been a central and persistent figure in the California noise community. First recording under the moniker Crawl Unit and running the short-lived Povertech label, Colley presented a preternaturally strong acumen of electro-acoustic techniques and abstraction through a vast language of blistered textures, atonal noise, and gnarled drone. By 2000, he dropped the Crawl Unit moniker in favor of his own name with an ongoing discography of damaged yet exploratory electronics. Colley returns to Drone Records for this 10" on the Substantia Innominata series, many years after his Crawl Unit "Tuscon Mon Amour" 7." In describing "Acting As If," Colley offers a vague series of descriptors: unheimlich, terror of the familiar, and no faith in what is "real." Within the sustained movements of scrabbling textures, motorized abrasions, and uncomfortable harmonics, such conditions are made manifest and Colley amplifies them into something eeriely sublime. All of that held within a self-contained logic that works within and against his deep knowledge of drone-on minimalism, musique concrete dynamics, and the explosiveness of noise culture. His swarming masses, throttled rumbling, and smoldering tension are all encircling and folding in on themselves. Rhizomes of sound that speak poison. Drink up, if it doesn't kill you, it will only make you stronger." [Jim Haynes / Northern California, 2023] listen to various CRAWL UNIT + JOE COLLEY tracks here: https://aftersilencepodcast.bandcamp.com/album/as-31-from-crawl-unit-to-joe-colley https://www.last.fm/music/Joe+Colley "MECHANICAL RITUALS: 23 years after his EP for Drone Records (DR-28, as CRAWL UNIT) we are proud to release another / new work of conceptual / minimal / object drone artist JOE COLLEY from California. We think JOE COLLEY (*1972) is a master of using mechanical object sounds and electronic static, but also strange low fi found sources and field recordings, creating alienating, surrealistic effects, similar to the likes of SMALL CRUEL PARTY, JIM HAYNES, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE or even the more experimental side of ZOVIET FRANCE... His newer compositions seem always to be filled with electro-magnetic hummings, strange hissing and the pourings of metallic objects as a basis, but you never find the use real instruments, synths, or masses of effect procession. Thus a very own scent of mystery appears, as all of these radiations are not really from this planet, without any "cosmic" connotations.. For the creator, these sounds are connected with unreal emotions of "Being Lost", a mistrust in what may be called reality, and a general feeling of alienation... - you can only wonder how this can result in such beautiful droning expanses.. Presented here are over 30 minutes of very best new COLLEY material (entitled "Limit / Limit" und "Always I / Always II") => through these drones of strangeness the mind is thrown inside an unrecognizable and confusing realm of broken electricity and something like audible-made atmospheric pressure.. Lim. 300 copies with artwork by dutch designer and micro label hero MEEUW, using a special silver print (on reverse board), BLACK vinyl. glossy black inner sleeves." [press release] "I don't keep up with Joe Colley's recent releases for reasons I am unsure of myself. Not that there are many of them, but I only heard a few. Maybe his work is these days within installation work or performing? This new record shows Colley as I know him best. He is a man with an ear to the ground or wall; he hears stuff we don't. I believe he uses very few 'real' instruments, and for convenience, I include all things synthesizer (modular, digital, analogue). With his equipment, he records the unwanted sounds from our world. Buzzing, whirring, near broken cables and other forms of electric debris. It's never clear whether his recording devices are great or lo-fi. It could go either way, I think. Maybe you need great some great electro-magnetic devices to pick up these sounds, but at the same time, when they are relatively low-key, they might have another attractive quality. Get my drift here? We live in a world with many sounds, at least many of us. I like to think I live in a quiet street, but here too, there is a lot of noise pollution. This pollution, so I believe, is Colley's playground. He collects and collates this material into pieces of dystopian nightmare. Coley's music sounds like I imagine the sound of a leaking nuclear power plant, the last breath of a machine park, and the death rattle of our post-industrial society. Unlike some of the other work I heard from Colley, this new work is relatively 'smooth', I must say. There aren't many hard cuts to indicate the final breath of a sound (but they are also not entirely absent), but Colley, this time, uses smoother transitions in the music. Many fragments are slowly cross-faded into the next section, revealing a less brutal element in his work. Or, perhaps, one could say, it makes his music all the more gentle? Or even more musical? Colley applies all the techniques from musique concrète here but keeps much of his source material in what seems to be a pretty rough state anyway. It's dark; it's real, scary, weird, haunting and haunted and, ultimately, beautiful music." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2022 €18.00
COLUMN ONE AntiphoNA 10inch " 'ANTIPHONA AD INTROITUM'! Finally on SUBSTANTIA we can present to you the highly regarded German masters of experimental dadaism & de-construction, whose releases are always a thoughtful play with hidden meanings, conceptions & contradictions: 'Learning to play. Disorder. Destruction of programmed Solutions. Learning to see.' COLUMN ONE is a long existing collective of multimedia artists hailing from the Berlin-area with frequently changing members; their performance & artworks are as important as the music (see also their impressive website: www.column-one.de). On this mysterious 10" you will disocver two pieces that sound completely different: ANTIPHONA is a bewildering work of musique concrete, changing between very fast moving collages and quieter parts, always surprisingly fractured, using an amazing quantity of different sound-sources of all kinds. The second piece INTROITUM is a meditative overtone bowl-drone recorded at the legendary "Sibirische Zelle" in Berlin with three microphones in three different rooms, resulting in strange sound-effects and audio interactions. Both tracks can be regarded as anthiponies forming a single whole. For us these are metaphors for the emergence of the "Irrational" and "Sacred" in the daily profane lives, using notions from religious scopes in a new context. Side A ends in an endless groove, the artwork comes from SEAN HILLEN, pressed on bleak vinyl in an edition of 500 copies." [label info] www.substantia-innominata.de "Following Illusion Of Safety's 'Sweet Dreams', Germany's Substantia Innominata (daughter of Drone), returns with another fine work of some the older garde of experimentalists, Column One from Berlin. They have been around for quite some time, and for them the presentation is equally important as the music, and there is always some sort of link with dada, even when it's quite well hidden, like on the b-side 'Antiphona' 10". Or the a-side, depends which one you play first. I started out with 'Introitum' in which a salad bowl is played. It's recorded with three microphones in three different rooms. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Peter Hollinger, who played the bowl, was walking around, as to catch the overtones in various ways. The location was a masonry, so there is quite some natural reverb. He plays it graciously and it makes up a wonderful simple but lovely piece of 'drone' like music. The title piece can be found on the other side of the record and shows the dada side of Column One. All of the members seem to donates 'sources' as well as Antoine Chessex playing saxophone and Robert Schalinski on zither, voice, gongs, saw, acoustic instruments and field recordings. The editing was done by by Jurgen Eckloff. This is a fine piece of instrumental passages by the duo of Schalinski and Chessex and taped media excerpts by the others. Set next to each other, rather being superimposed on each other. Its hard to say what this piece means, if anything at all. I'm sure it does however. It's perhaps not a piece one easily expects from this label, better known for music such as captured on the other side, but it's a daring out-of-the box movement of said label, and therefore needs our applause. And Column One? They just always surprise us." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2013 €12.00
Cindy, Loraine & Hank do-LP "The latest album from the legendary Berlin-based art collective Column One, entitled "Cindy, Loraine & Hank", was in the works for almost 10 years and it is their first album since anniversary box set "No One" from 2011 and "Antiphona" 10" vinyl EP from 2013. Many fragments, materials & ideas created during the collaboration with the Berlin Zeitkratzer Ensemble (2012) remained unfinished or underdeveloped. After years of further recordings and reviewing the existing material and the destruction of useless bubbles arises with "Cindy, Lorraine & Hank" a bulky muscleman from the splinters of classical instrumentation, electro-acoustic manipulations & assemblages & the clarity of field recordings. A boundless world. This double album presents Column One and their experimental approach to sound at its best. "Cindy, Loraine & Hank" a collection of incestuous figures, a museum of small, lovely bastards. Products of passion & weakness, disorientation and dedication, of dull instincts and narrowness. Twins, triplets, octuplets, dyslexic, presidents, beginners, criminal citizens, sacred Neanderthals, expert idiots. Begotten in haste, hidden in the dirt, covered with garbage. A contourless, monstrous void in the cardigan of the great-grandmother. A voyage through the labyrinthine mind of Column One... a surreal, organic projection. The two LPs are housed in a luxury gatefold sleeve and the first edition is limited to 300 copies only. The cover was designed by Robert Schalinski, based on "Black Depths" print (1974) by John Hiliard. CD edition available from Zoharum Rec.: http://zoharum.com/ „Column One’s greatest achievement is then that by constantly applying all these techniques, they have succeeded in creating a real alternative, a filter onto reality itself. The mask is not pretty, hell it may be even ugly sometimes. But the identity of Column One is created through the power of their findings, and this includes a lot of questioning and doubts and sometimes stepping into a pool of shit only to discover it was gold in the end. May the search continue…“(Till Kniola) " [label info] 2015 €21.00
Cindy, Loraine & Hank do-CD "Zoharum proudly presents the latest album from the legendary Berlin-based art collective Column One. Their new double album, entitled "Cindy, Loraine & Hank", was in the works for almost 10 years and it is their first album since anniversary box set "No One" from 2011 and "Antiphona" 10" vinyl EP from 2013. For this recordings, Column One were René Lamp, Robert Schalinski, Jürgen Eckloff, Andrew Loadman with Nada and Rasmus Schalinski plus a host of guests including Reinhold Friedl and Zeitkratzer Ensemble. This double album presents Column One and their experimental approach to sound at its best."Cindy, Loraine & Hank" a collection of incestuous figures, a museum of small, lovely bastards. Products of passion & weakness, disorientation and dedication, of dull instincts and narrowness. Twins, triplets, octuplets, dyslexic, presidents, beginners, criminal citizens, sacred Neanderthals, expert idiots. Begotten in haste, hidden in the dirt, covered with garbage. A contourless, monstrous void in the cardigan of the great-grandmother. A voyage through the labyrinthine mind of Column One... a surreal, organic projection. Idiotenmusik - field recordings - orchestral variations - cut-up´s - musique concrete - collage The CDs are housed in a digipak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 500 copies. The cover was designed by Robert Schalinski, based on "Black Depths" print (1974) by John Hiliard." [label info] www.zoharum.com 2015 €16.00
  Boiling Pool LP "BOILING POOL consists of 953 fragments, 722 situations, 952 interruptions & countless Sources, intensions & beings. BOILING POOL was recorded at various places between 1971 & 2016. ..edited, mixed & produced at Polly´s Home, 23rd of may 2016 by robert schalinski. mastered by polly sinclair 2016. collage “the king ape feeds at dawn“ by robert schalinski . limited edition of 245 numbered copies . source donation ...derek holzer, antoin chessex, konrad schalinski, paul viebeg, nada & rasmus, leo solter, remo lamp, zeitkratzer, hilke schalinski, jürgen ploog, mirko uhlig, nocturne, herbert brauer, nam, nora below, joachim schönfeld … “Time is a human affliction; not a human invention but a prison. So what is the meaning of one hundred sixty million years without time? ...“ WSB 90%WASSER records WVINYL 023 / PLUS 086 side A: POOLING 444 fragments side B: BOILING 509 fragments CO were: jürgen eckloff rashad becker robert schalinski + rené lamp tom platt andrew loadman stea andreasson" www.90-prozent-wasser.de 2016 €19.00
COMBATIVE ALIGNMENT The ritez of higher communication LP Erstes vollständiges Album des AVATAR-Projekts, die hier ein wahrhaft illuminiertes Debut-Werk vorlegen – eine erhabene Atmosphäre aus Klang und Ritus tut sich hier auf. Trancig-rituelle Klänge, die an tibetanische Gebirgslandschaften denken lassen, undurchdringliche soundscapes voller Geheimnis: Perkussive Strukturen, flutes, choirs, deep voices, drones. First album of this german AVATAR-project and a real masterpiece of ritual-trance Illumination-sounds ! "The ritez of higher communication" celebrates the first step of COMBATIVE ALIGNMENT into a new area of recordings for first time on a long play vinyl album. Dreamlike soundscapes rising out of the rain and creating a deep symphonic atmosphere where flutes and Tibetic mantras are mixed with drums in order to build ritual music in the finest form. Circles of visionary dark voices are introducing brooding anthems on the climax with multiple layered drones, illuminating a weeping red sky. TROFHC is an invocation of consciousness corresponding to individual fears banned in sound. The journey of Combative Alignment through several media formats on different labels finds it´s manifestation in an outstanding release. Limited edition of 523 copies” [press release] 2003 €12.50
... and outside glows the red dawn CD & CD-R Nach einigen Veröffentlichungen auf deutschen Labels jetzt die erste volle CD, und das auf dem profilierten MALIGNANT – Label aus den Staaten! AND OUTSIDE GLOWS THE RED DAWN ist eine einzige Manifestation von archaisch-mythisch anmutenden Klängen, die von unentzifferbaren Hieroglyphen zu berichten scheinen. Eine undurchdringliche, dickflüssige, dunkle aurale Glut wird hier in Szene gesetzt, die von auftauchender Perkussion & harmonischen Sprengseln begleitet werden.... ein grandioses archaic-ambience Album ! “After several releases, including full length vinyl releases on LOKI and their own label Avatar, and a 7" on Eternal Soul, it is with great honor and pride that we present 'And Outside Glows the Red Dawn', the first full length CD from this powerful and visionary German project. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn can perhaps be seen as Combative Alignments benchmark, offering 6 tracks that work as a virtual musical thoroughfare to a more dreamlike, illusory state. Deeply brooding atmospheres, where omniscient layers of drones and reverberating sound currents meet measured, ritual percussion as performed under the glowing, gloomy haze of a primordial sunrise. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn shines a dim light on a world of obscure origin, full of dark permanic mysticism and unearthly sonic terrain. On a whole, this is a more focused, deeper, and fluid recording than you've heard before, yet triumphantly carrying on the tradition laid down by previous releases.” [label description] 2005 €18.00
  ....and outside glows the red dawn CD Nach einigen Veröffentlichungen auf deutschen Labels jetzt die erste volle CD, und das auf dem profilierten MALIGNANT – Label aus den Staaten! AND OUTSIDE GLOWS THE RED DAWN ist eine einzige Manifestation von archaisch-mythisch anmutenden Klängen, die von unentzifferbaren Hieroglyphen zu berichten scheinen. Eine undurchdringliche, dickflüssige, dunkle aurale Glut wird hier in Szene gesetzt, die von auftauchender Perkussion & harmonischen Sprengseln begleitet werden.... ein grandioses archaic-ambience Album ! “After several releases, including full length vinyl releases on LOKI and their own label Avatar, and a 7" on Eternal Soul, it is with great honor and pride that we present 'And Outside Glows the Red Dawn', the first full length CD from this powerful and visionary German project. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn can perhaps be seen as Combative Alignments benchmark, offering 6 tracks that work as a virtual musical thoroughfare to a more dreamlike, illusory state. Deeply brooding atmospheres, where omniscient layers of drones and reverberating sound currents meet measured, ritual percussion as performed under the glowing, gloomy haze of a primordial sunrise. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn shines a dim light on a world of obscure origin, full of dark permanic mysticism and unearthly sonic terrain. On a whole, this is a more focused, deeper, and fluid recording than you've heard before, yet triumphantly carrying on the tradition laid down by previous releases.” [label description] 2005 €13.00
CONTRASTATE The Illusion of Power CD The re-release of the two re-mastered tracks available on the very limited 10" Lathe-Cut Vinyl released for CONTRASTATE's first live appearance in Italy on october 12 2019 at OEC's historical venue, the CONGRESSO POST INDUSTRIALE. Plus 4 brand new and unreleased tracks. Brexit: a dark tunnel driven by fear and past anger and the desire for war against the other, or a symbol of Europe’s popular imagination breaking free from its disaffection to re-invent itself. Is the real price war by any means necessary? A sonic soundtrack to an apocalyptic world that is hypnotic, yet still full of dynamic sounds and shifts. Their sound insinuates itself somewhere inside the dark ritual ambience of the electronic avant-garde shot through with a vein of experimental noise and sarcophetic vocals strewn amongst industrial surrealism. https://www.oldeuropacafe.com/catalog/category/the-illusion-of-power-cd-.html 2020 €13.00
CONTROL World of Lies CD "Control "World of Lies" album, that came out c. 15 years ago. There was couple albums between this and Algolagnia. I suggested artist, that what if he would intentionally break the template a bit, of course not completely abandon his style, but my suggestion was to make first vinyl LP of Control, and my hopes was that it would be a bit noisier, a bit less complex, more harsh and direct, a bit more upfront mix of vocals. Kind of capture the aggression we could see in live settings during these years. It felt like LP format would be ideal for it, as it would benefit from more stripped down approach and less massive sub-bass levels and stereo efx that work best on CD. As a result, World of Lies happened. It was certainly all Thomas Garrison's vision, and 100% Control, but indeed mentioning possibility that what I would hope for, resulted Control doing one of his most aggressive and fierce albums!" [Freak Animal] https://control-exsanguinate.bandcamp.com/album/world-of-lies 2022 €13.00
CONTROL / GRUNTSPLATTER A Fatal Circle 7inch like a well-prepared appetizer, a single release can be an overly tasty experience, as satisfying as a full meal. one can surely trust the chefs scott e. candey aka gruntsplatter, master in preparing disturbing dark ambience, and thomas garrison aka control, rogue noise cook par excellence, with their respective experience of over 20 years, to fully meet your expectations. both tracks clock in around six minutes, with "in the blood" generating a vortex of almost classic industrial sounds treated to psychedelic effect, and "hunting extinction" capturing a dehumanized, hostile environment. mouth-watering excellence for the noise-savvy! black vinyl in heavy black dyed cardboard sleeve. slow processed block printing by hand - each print is unique. limited edition of 100 copies. https://raubbau.bandcamp.com/album/a-fatal-circle 2022 €18.00
CONTROLLED BLEEDING Distress Signals I do-LP "Re-Issue auf limitiertem, schwarzem Doppel-Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Offiziell autorisiert Die erste autorisierte Wiederveröffentlichung von CONTROLLED BLEEDINGS seltenem Debütalbum "Distress Signals I" auf Vinyl. Ursprünglich wurde es im Jahr 1984 auf Gary Mundys Label Broken Flag ausschließlich auf Kassette veröffentlicht. Ein Album voll von Powernoise und verzerrtem Gesang. Diese 2LP-Edition wird im Gatefold Sleeve mit originalem Artwork veröffentlicht und enthält die ursprünglichen Liner Notes der Kassetten-Veröffentlichung.// Originally released as a tape on Broken Flag in 1984, Controlled Bleeding's first album 'Distress Signals' is a rare delivery of brutal powernoise and experimentally distorted and tortured vocals. The near hour-long performance is immediate and harsh, and the tape has a kind of holy grail'ish quality amongst collectors, not the least because of the special status of Broken Flag, but also because it had never been properly reissued on either CD or vinyl. Now the material is issued as a DOUBLE-LP, presented in a sublime gatefold sleeve featuring the original artwork, as well as a copy of the liner notes from the tape insert. This edition is limited to 200 copies on GREY VINYL." [label info] www.artoffact.com 2016 €30.00
Distress Signals II LP "Bisher unveröffentlichtes Album auf schwarzem Vinyl Remastert von den Originalbändern Offiziell autorisiert! Eine wunderschöne Vinyl-Version eines bisher unveröffentlichten CONTROLLED BLEEDING Albums, das während der "Distress-Signals-Session" entstand. Der Gründer von CONTROLLED BLEEDING, Paul Lemos, bestand darauf, dass es zwei "Distress Signals"-Alben gibt, von dem eines nie veröffentlicht wurde. Nun wird es über Artoffact Records auf Vinyl erscheinen." www.artoffact.com 2016 €22.00
Body Samples do-LP "Both original vinyl and CD are hopelessly out of print, and the Artoffact Records reissues expand the original vinyl pressing with a healthy dose of unreleased bonus tracks into a gorgeous 2LP remastered edition. The vinyl is housed in a gatefold sleeve." "Expanded Re-Issue auf schwarzem Doppel-Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Inkl. Bonus-Tracks Offiziell autorisiert! "Body Samples", eines der wichtigsten Dokumente aggressiven Industrials der 80er-Jahre kommt als Wiederveröffentlichung auf Vinyl zurück. Im Jahr 1984 veröffentlichten CONTROLLED BLEEDING ihr erstes Album auf dem deutschen Label Broken Flag, mit dem sie später sehr eng zusammen arbeiten sollten. Mit experimentellem, Noise-geladenem Industrial ist "Body Samples" weniger aggressiv als seine Vorgänger. Artoffact Records erweitert die originale Vinylversion mit einer Reihe an unveröffentlichten Bonus-Tracks und veröffentlicht das Album als wunderschöne 2LP-Edition. " [label info] www.artoffact.com 2016 €28.50
Body Samples do-CD "Both original vinyl and CD are hopelessly out of print, and the Artoffact Records reissues expand the original vinyl pressing with a healthy dose of unreleased bonus tracks into a gorgeous 2LP remastered edition. The vinyl is housed in a gatefold sleeve." "Expanded Re-Issue auf schwarzem Doppel-Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Inkl. Bonus-Tracks Offiziell autorisiert! "Body Samples", eines der wichtigsten Dokumente aggressiven Industrials der 80er-Jahre kommt als Wiederveröffentlichung auf Vinyl zurück. Im Jahr 1984 veröffentlichten CONTROLLED BLEEDING ihr erstes Album auf dem deutschen Label Broken Flag, mit dem sie später sehr eng zusammen arbeiten sollten. Mit experimentellem, Noise-geladenem Industrial ist "Body Samples" weniger aggressiv als seine Vorgänger. Artoffact Records erweitert die originale Vinylversion mit einer Reihe an unveröffentlichten Bonus-Tracks und veröffentlicht das Album als wunderschöne 2LP-Edition. " [label info] 2016 €19.00
  Knees and Bones CD "Remastered Version auf schwarzem Doppel-Vinyl Inkl. Bonus-Material Gatefold Sleeve Offiziell autorisiert! Eine fantastische Wiederveröffentlichung von CONTROLLED BLEEDINGS Album "Knees & Bones" auf Vinyl, inkl. Bonus-Tracks. "Knees & Bones" war die erste Vinyl-Veröffentlichung der Band überhaupt. In vielerlei Hinsicht war es DAS Industrial-Album der damaligen Zeit. Die Wiederveröffentlichung über Artoffact Records beinhaltet zusätzlich eine ganze Reihe an Bonus-Tracks, wie zum Beispiel den von der CD-Version bekannten Song "Swallowing Scrap Metal Pt. 5 1/2" und erscheint als Doppel-LP." www.artoffact.com 2016 €16.50
CONTROLLED DEATH Ritualistic Mutilation in the Bloody Darkness do-LP "Controlled Death is the dark side project by the Japanese noise legend Maso Yamazaki a.k.a. Masonna. In April 2018 he decided to make a shudder debut with 1st album Symphony For The Black Murder then followed at the beginning of 2019 from 2nd work in an astonishing black wooden box that included Journey Through A Dead Body on vinyl and Deathwish Tapes 1-3 on cd and double tape. Now we're thrilled to see yet another mind-boggling work on double LP recorded during this year, Ritualistic Mutilation in the Bloody Darkness. Wild and amazing, this one is absolutely essential for any fan of synth and dark ambient music. Cracked minimal electronic sound by Korg MS-20, unclear and disturbing voice with the influence of primitive black metal and dark ritual in this new double album which developed a moisturized doom world while wearing a raw material texture. While listening to the records, each long track does meander their way slowly through proceedings with silent pauses, but they nonetheless generate a respectably dense assemblage of sounds. The smell of death is soaked in every groove produced by the four vinyl sides. The activities of Controlled Death are like archaic revival to the music experience before Masonna . We can also find the pathology image of the early industrial period and the shadows of Vienna activism such as Hermann Nitsch as well as loose bits of seminal black metal. The existence and art that pierces through conspicuous consciousness and dives to areas of unconsciousness due to death and pleasure. Double LP has been pressed on 140gr black vinyl and comes in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with impressive photography (of a cave church with the remains of the people who were massacred by the Saracens in 999 A.D. during the invasion of southern Italy) by Aldo Volpe. This release is not be missed, and with only 299 copies pressed you'd better grab it now! www.urashima.it https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/ritualistic-mutilation-in-the-bloody-darkness 2019 €32.00
  Requiem for the Boundless Flesh 5 x 7inch BOX (wood) "Controlled Death is the dark-side project by the Japanese noise legend Masonna that started with Symphony For The Black Murder as first official work released in April 2018 in a vinyl edition of 199 copies. The activities of Controlled Death are like archaic revival to the music experience before Masonna. You can also find the pathology image of the early industrial period and the shadows of Vienna activism such as Hermann Nitsch. The existence and art that pierces through conspicuous consciousness and dives to areas of unconsciousness due to death and pleasure. Controlled Death's incredible new work is released on a fivefold seven inch. Ten new tracks, to be precise ten requiem (Rè-quiem carnem I – X), between five and six minutes each for a total duration of almost an hour. The selection of the format is perfect for this composition: the analog support highlights the lo-fi recording and the choice of seven inches allows you to listen to the same song several times, or more songs without a preset order. Thus was born Requiem for the boundless flesh, a pulsating panorama of screams, Korg MS20 MK1 and EMS VCS3 The Putney synthesizers with the addition of the grand piano, electric guitar, tape and effects. Each piece is a short sound vignette, which fills the air with its otherworldly beauty and goes away with the same speed with which it arrived, where the presence of the Viennese master always hovers. Like a cosmic journey, without a precise destination, we enter a new evolution of Controlled Death's work. The sound is darker, the darkness envelops you with its ancestral echoes, the use of synths is accompanied by inhuman screams, sounds on the edge of psychosis are lost in the infinite expanse of the gorges ''at the mountains of madness''. A sound tunnel is created that leads to the depths of the earth. The myth of Cthulhu mingles with the mangled flesh of human beings. The legend moves towards the harsh reality. Rotten, worm-eaten flesh lies beneath thousands of tombstones: boundless masses of flesh! The rumble of the synths becomes thunderous. The use of the guitar and the grand piano are thus distorted, slowed down and overwhelmed once again by the slanted and dilated screams and the intertwining of the pedal’s effects. The tape editing work is wonderful, with a mastery of machines that can be compared to the German cosmic duo Moebius & Roedelius. But the result is not as sugary as Cluster or Harmonia tunes. Honey has become blood and flesh in Maso's hands and harmony gives way to obscure and desolate side. But if it had been recorded in West Berlin during 1970, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser would have certainly wanted it for his Ohr label!" https://urashima.bandcamp.com 2021 €59.00
CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) / MAYUKO HINO Split pic-LP Two giants of the Japanese Noise scene present exclusive material on a special limited vinyl release. Controlled Death is the nom de plume of Maso Yamazaki (MASONNA), who unleashed his claustrophobic Death Industrial / Blackened Electronics debut for Cold Spring last autumn (the sold out split LP with Rudolf Eb.er). "Devil's Sacrifice" (in 6 parts) continues Maso's obsession with heavy, Korg MS-20 drones. Deranged vocals choked under impenetrable, blood-soaked atmospheres of doom, death and decay, saturated with washes of anxiety, paranoia and alienation. Mayuko Hino, 'Queen Of Japanese Noise', delivers two lengthy tracks. While the first track is filled with feverish, dense noise and swathes of savage electronics, the second, mind-melting electronic piece (reminiscent of her debut album 'Lunisolar' for Cold Spring) descends into a diseased, suffocating maelstrom, finishing on the verge of psychosis. In addition to self-made instruments, Mayuko plays noise with her six-theremin oscillators (in bright pink) - the one and only in the world, specially made by Ryo Araishi (a.k.a. ichion). Mayuko is most well-known for forming C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) in 1990, together with Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai and Ryuichi Nagakubo. Picture disc LP. Ltd x 400 copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve. 2021 €26.00
CONTROLLED DEATH / RUDOLF EB.ER Death Ceremonies LP "Death Ceremonies" is the darkest, most primitive death industrial record, soaked throughout with the smell of rotting corpses and burning bodies. Controlled Death (MASONNA) features Yamazaki's most compulsive Korg MS-20 drones and obsessive, disturbing vocals, drenched with anxiety and alienation. Dense atmospheres of doom, death and decay build up just to break away in deep paranoia. Rudolf Eb.er (SCHIMPFLUCH) scratches a near-dead violin over horrifying synth tones, celebrating obscure forest rituals, unearthing an archaic actionism and long forgotten witchery - decomposing his raw sounds on dusty magnetic tape. Maso Yamazaki (best known for his extreme Japanoise project Masonna) and Rudolf Eb.er (Swiss noise-actionists of the legendary Schimpfluch circle) collaborated live and in the studio multiple times during the mid and late 90's. Both based in Osaka, Japan, a spontaneous meeting brought up their mutual interest in degraded and primitive black metal. Discussing their own latest black brews of sinister side projects gave birth to the idea of the "Death Ceremonies" LP. Ltd x 400 copies on 180gm vinyl in a 350gsm sleeve. https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/death-ceremonies-csr283lp 2020 €25.00
CORRUPTED Felicific Algorithim 12inch "CORRUPTED is a mysterious Japanese doom metal band, formed in 1994. Immensely downtuned guitar and crushingly slow bass are shrouded under deep layers of feedback. They are rightly hailed as one of the heaviest and darkest doom metal bands of all time. "Humankind's folly it its continuing idiocy. This is the beginning of the "Hollow" series. The schoolyard of the school was buried in the mountains of radioactive contaminated rubble. We cannot hear children's voices from anywhere. I hear it is the world of sound of only footsteps and the warning sound of the Geiger counter..." (Chew Hasegawa) This record isn't your standard doom fare. The title-less tracks are to be played at either standard vinyl speed. Therefore (and at the band's request), no samples or download code. The limited 12" is accompanied by a foldout poster." 2018 €20.00
CORTINI, ALESSANDRO Risveglio do-LP "Much needed new vinyl edition of Nine Inch Nails' synthesist, Alessandro Cortini's much sought-after second album for Hospital productions, originally released in 2015 and out of print since. On 'Risveglio' Cortini animates an enveloping shadowplay of Roland 202 and TB303, here enhanced by the intangible quality provided by ambient room recordings that lend proceedings a mysterious and unquantifiable dimension. It’s easily our favourite Cortini. 'Risveglio' is the 'Awakening' to 'Sonno''s 'Sleep'. Like its predecessor, it was also written and recorded while on tour but, unlike 'Sonno', it syncs his favoured 202 with the unique integers of a TB303, eliding the two via a delay unit to expand his sound without ever losing sight of the crushing harmonic noise romance at its core. It's fair to say that we've never really heard the 303 used quite like this, eviscerated of its usual characteristics and instead used as an electro-acoustic component to convey a ghostly sense of momentum and underlying tension in some of the albums strongest passages. Ultimately, however, it's the perpetually claggy, electro-acoustic atmosphere and desiccated timbre of Cortini's spectres that we find ourselves so enchanted by, operating at liminal levels of ambient biting points similar to his label mate, Kevin Drumm, but guided by a grander, innate sense of gothic emotion. Cortini is a genuine anomaly by today's synth music standards, and 'Risveglio' is a perfect case in point. Classic." [Boomkat] "One of the most unlikely moments of musical philosophy surely comes from the mouth of Peep Show's Super Hans when, while pressing a bass synth note, he utters the immortal line, "remember, the longer the note, the more dread." And of course he's right. Ambient music has long utilised the idea of drones and sustained notes to invoke such feelings. Like the musical equivalent of the Deleuzeian time-image, the long drone highlights the breakdown of sound that's organised by rhythms and movement, creating in its place a sense of memory and history, with the pitch and timbres of the sound opening and unfolding to our ears. Alessandro Cortini is a musician who's fast being recognised as a master at manipulating sound and time. A long-time connoisseur of analogue and modular synths, when he's not performing as a member of Nine Inch Nails, he is more likely to be seen on YouTube videos tinkering and messing around with huge modular synth racks. His solo discography of synth music, in particular the album Sonno he released last year on Hospital Records, shows a musician capable of creating ambient music of eerie and physical uneasiness. With its thick, crepuscular drones and tape hiss textures, Cortini draws out the sense of the uncanny, his music a soundtrack to those night time non-spaces built by but uninhabited by humanity; multi-storey car parks, office spaces, industrial parks, hotel and office corridors. Cortini now brings us Risveglio, a follow-up and continuation to Sonno. Like Sonno, Risveglio is an album created under severe restrictions and economy, composed while Cortini was on tour with NiN, with the tracks recorded in hotel rooms with a portable studio recorder. The capturing of fleeting moments of music on the hoof can be heard in instances on 'Dormiveglia,' which inexplicably stops less than 30 seconds in, while 'Ricadere' has fluctuating recording levels and the sound of cables being unplugged during the song. While Sonno was made with a single Roland MC-202 synthesiser/sequencer, Cortini, with Risveglio, adds a synched TB-303 bass synth. In terms of self-imposed limits, Cortini's setup is a closed system on starvation rations, with only Andreas Tilliander's TM-404 alter ego (where he uses combinations of nine pieces of classic Roland equipment) coming close to such levels of creative austerity. The inclusion of a TR-606 drum machine on the final track, 'La Sveglia (Drum Version)', feels gaudy and ostentatious in comparison. Despite such minimal and spartan conditions, Cortini makes his two machines sing to each other on Risveglio, creating remarkably dense soundscapes that bubble and oscillate in their own world. The opening two tracks, 'Stambecco' and 'La Sveglia', highlight how the TB-303, if not adding distinct rhythm, introduces a sense of movement to Risveglio’s sonic space imbibing a purpose of action to Cortini's music. While the bass purrs and burbles in the background, Cortini inflicts queasy pitch-shifting notes reminiscent of Boards Of Canada at their most hypnagogic. These two elements or movement and sound, reach their highpoint on 'Rispetto', a track with crumpled clicks and pings that echo through darkened zones. Despite the introduction of movement to Cortini's music, Risveglio still contains huge monolithic surges of synthwash drones. 'Lotta' consists of a simple repeating melody structure whose sounds gradually increase in mass until the notes distort and lose their stability, bleeding and dissipating into each other until they become a single mass. 'La Guardia' is one of Risveglio's highlights; a pulsating bass line strafed by single note pulsars and shrieking atmospherics that come to a crushing, noisy conclusion. Risveglio is an album that, while a continuation of Cortini's increasingly esoteric and hermetic journeys to the edges of the analogue synth frontier, actually turns away from the idea that ambient music should be passive and pastoral. Its use of frayed tones and frequencies as the organising basis for movement and propulsion allows the music to seep into the cracks and pores of the space around you, extracting the anxiety and dread inherent hidden in our world around us. Embrace the abyss and enjoy." [The Quietus] 2019 €25.00
COSEY FANNI TUTTI Tutti CD UTTI is comprised of eight soundscapes: an audio self portrait comprising of manipulated sound recordings from Cosey’s life, music and art: “It’s the only album I’ve made that is an all encompassing statement expressing the totality of my being. A sense of the past in relation to the present and everything in between.” These eight pieces were originally conceived as the soundtrack to the autobiographical film ‘Harmonic Coumaction’, and performed live in February 2017, part of a series of events that accompanied the COUM Transmissions retrospective which opened Hull UK City of Culture 2017. Later that year, ‘Harmonic Coumaction’ was presented as an audio-visual installation for Cosey Fanni Tutti’s solo exhibition at Cabinet Gallery, London. Cosey Fanni Tutti explains: “Working on the COUM Transmissions exhibition also coincided with writing my autobiography - collating archive material and re engaging with my past. My work is a continuum, the past feeding the present and vice versa. The album is an interpretation of my past and present, of my understanding the shifting perceptions of how they inform one another. One form creating another through a metamorphic process.” On TUTTI, the music has been updated and enhanced with elements of the original tracks re-recorded and further processed specifically to create a unique stand-alone document, separate to the live performance and installation. Recorded at Cosey Fanni Tutti’s studio in Norfolk, the album, as on her debut release, Time To Tell, merges Cosey’s art activities with her exploration of sound: The album’s autobiographical theme is not locked into any specific time or place, the ‘voices’, instruments and sounds together span decades of my life, music and art. In this context my name 'TUTTI’ shifts from its role as a noun to perfectly represent the concept of the album, also acting as sign for me the artist. TUTTI is Cosey Fanni Tutti’s only solo album release since 1982’s Time To Tell. Time To Tell was recently given its first release on vinyl, on a long awaited official deluxe edition. The interim years between solo releases has seen a blisteringly prolific output as an artist and musician. Renowned for her art, her work in the sex industry, as co-founder of Industrial music and Throbbing Gristle, and her pioneering electronic music solo and as Chris & Cosey, Carter Tutti and Carter Tutti Void, she has created throughout with the motto “my life is my art, my art is my life”. Cosey’s autobiography ART SEX MUSIC was published to worldwide acclaim by Faber & Faber in 2017, a Japanese edition has just been published with further translations and an audio book to follow. TUTTI TRACK LISTING Tutti Drone Moe Sophic Ripple Split Heliy En Orenda TUTTI besteht aus acht Tracks und ist ein Audio-Selbstporträt, das aus manipulierten Tonaufnahmen aus Cosey Fanni Tuttis Leben, Musik und Kunst besteht: "Es ist das einzige Album, das ich gemacht habe, das eine allumfassende Aussage ist, die die Gesamtheit meines Seins ausdrückt. Ein Gefühl der Vergangenheit in Bezug auf die Gegenwart und alles dazwischen." Diese acht Stücke waren ursprünglich als Soundtrack zum autobiografischen Film ,Harmonic Coumaction" konzipiert und wurden im Februar 2017 im Rahmen einer Veranstaltungsreihe zur Retrospektive über COUM Transmissions live aufgeführt. COUM Transmissions war eine subkulturelle Gruppe von britischen Musikern, Undergroundfilmemachern, Aktions- und Konzeptkünstlern, der Cosey anghörte und die Anfang der 1970er Jahre durch aggressive, provokante und schockierend-verstörende Performances medienpräsent auf sich aufmerksam machte und zu den Wegbereitern des späteren Industrial zählt. ,Harmonic Coumaction" wurde ebenfalls als audio-visuelle Installation bei Cosey Fanni Tuttis Einzelausstellung in der Cabinet Gallery, London, präsentiert. Cosey Fanni Tutti erklärt: "Die Arbeit an der Ausstellung COUM Transmissions fiel auch mit dem Schreiben meiner Autobiografie zusammen - dem Sammeln von Archivmaterial und dem Wiedereinbringen in meine Vergangenheit. Meine Arbeit ist ein Kontinuum, die Vergangenheit speist die Gegenwart und umgekehrt. Das Album ist eine Interpretation meiner Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, meines Verständnisses der wechselnden Wahrnehmungen, wie sie sich gegenseitig beeinflussen. Eine Form, die eine andere durch einen metamorphen Prozess erzeugt." Auf ,TUTTI" wurde die Musik aktualisiert und mit Elementen der Original-Tracks ergänzt, die neu aufgenommen und speziell weiterverarbeitet wurden, um ein einzigartiges eigenständiges Dokument zu erstellen, das von der Live-Performance und Installation getrennt ist. Das in ihrem Studio in Norfolk aufgenommene Album, wie auch ihre Debütveröffentlichung ,Time To Tell" von 1982, verbindet Cosey's künstlerische Aktivitäten mit ihrer Erforschung des Sounds: Das autobiografische Thema des Albums ist nicht an eine bestimmte Zeit oder einen bestimmten Ort gebunden, die "Stimmen", Instrumente und Klänge reichen zusammen über Jahrzehnte ihres Lebens, Musik und Kunst. In diesem Zusammenhang verschiebt sich ihr Name ,TUTTI" von seiner Rolle als Substantiv, um das Konzept des Albums perfekt darzustellen und gleichzeitig als Zeichen für Cosey als Künstlerin zu fungieren. ,TUTTI" ist Cosey Fanni Tutti's einziges Soloalbum seit ,Time To Tell" 1982. Sie ist Mitbegründerin von Throbbing Gristle und des Genres Industrial Music, bekannt für ihre Kunst, ihre Arbeit in der Sexindustrie, für ihren Beitrag zur elektronischen Musik als Teil von Chris & Cosey, Carter Tutti und Carter Tutti Void und für ihr bahnbrechendes Solowerk. Ihr Motto: ,Mein Leben ist meine Kunst, meine Kunst ist mein Leben". Coseys Autobiografie ,ART SEX MUSIC" wurde 2017 von Faber & Faber weltweit mit großem Erfolg veröffentlicht, eine japanische Ausgabe ist gerade erschienen, mit weiteren Übersetzungen und einem Hörbuch, das folgen wird. http://www.coseyfannitutti.com/content/tutti-lp-resources.html 2019 €16.00
CRAB, SIMON Demand Full Automation CD "Simon Crab has a long history in music. He is anti-capitalist, a practicing anarchist and strongly against material acquisition. Many years ago, he offered the complete back catalogue by his former band Bourbonese Qualk as free downloads. Nevertheless, people like product, so the Qualk catalogue will be-reissued physically, and Klanggalerie are happy to release his second solo album on Compact Disc. Crab considers himself a non-musician, yet is oddly quite good at playing instruments like the guitar, clarinet, gamelan-percussion and especially electronics. In fact, his favourite musical instrument is the computer. Whereas classically trained musicians often assert that there is no artistry in computers, Crab asserts there is no artistry required to play a musical instrument well. Crab's 'music career' spans nearly four decades and continues until this very day. Demand Full Automation presents our society's choice of either liberating the working class through automation, or further subduing them with it. Enter this rich, and meticulously crafted mostly electro-acoustic narrative with some instrumental excursions, that emphasizes more synthetic than natural textures, and on occasion, a sublime melding of the two. Demand Full Automation continues the narrative; ambient-atmospherically pensive some moments, but mostly energetic and upbeat, and relentlessly marching towards progress. But what kind of progress? Says Crab "At the moment, the proletariat is being replaced by the precariat. It is a really interesting time, apart from all the kind of 'rise of fascism' and globalization. The big issue that nobody is looking at is automation and it seems to me that it can go one of either two ways; that can be the neo-liberal way in which corporates are going to use automation as a way of enriching themselves even further, irrespective of the workforce. The workforce is going to become completely irrelevant. That is the neo-liberal take on it which is a dystopian view of the world and it is clearly not going to end very well. The other view is that if you take more of a Marxist approach, taking control of the means of production, if the workers themselves control automation for the good of themselves, then there is a better future. Automation doesn't have to be a dystopian horror. It can easily be a liberating future." www.klanggalerie.com/gg269 "About a month or two ago everybody on Facebook seemed anxious to list their top 10 records ("No explanation needed"; why not, I wondered) and I got away because nobody asked me. Thank god. I hate chain letters. A record that certainly would be on my list as an all-time favourite is 'Hope', the second album by Bourbonese Qualk, which is something that should be no surprise; I mentioned this when discussing their 'Archive 1980-1986' boxset in Vital Weekly 1065. Ever since buying that LP in the early 80s I am a big fan, still owning all the original vinyl and CDs. I always thought that Bourbonese Qualk had a distinct sound, combining industrial beats with guitars and an odd-pop touch, which others perhaps call leftfield. Bourbonese Qualk ceased to exist in 2002 and their catalogue was online for free download, but I am told will return in a remastered and no longer free form. Plus some of their very early records will be released on vinyl again, which I guess is good news, but why not go for something new (and yes, in our conservative time I realize this is a most daring proposition) by Simon Crab, erstwhile one of the main members of Bourbonese Qualk. He returned to the world of music with 'After America' (see Vital Weekly 981), pushing for me all the right buttons again. It had the musical variety of Bourbonese Qualk, but perhaps a little bit more streamlined and electronically enhanced. He now has a 'real' CD out, 'Demand Full Automation', on Klanggalerie, who are known to release music from 80s musicians, such as Hula, Eric Random, and lots of Residents off shoots. I didn't bother deciphering the cover to find out the titles of the pieces (they are on the label's website anyway), but I sat back and enjoyed these forty-eight minutes immensely. Still sweating away in summer's heat, Simon Crab plays some lovely music, all with the use of computers, samplers and electronics. One push button music, you may ask, looking at the title, and maybe it is true, but these machines ooze life, melody and freshness. For Crab it is all about the workers taking control of the Automation process and "then there is a better future", which message I can't subscribe too (not being a Marxist as you may remember), but I could argue that even a non-musician, as Crab calls himself, is well-off with some automated process in the production of music. No longer, here's a guitar now play three chords, but here's a button and you need one finger to push it. It is impossible to ignore Crab's previous, almost forty years output and experience, as otherwise it would have been impossible to craft these lovely tunes together. It is again very melodic, not as dense or dark as Bourbonese Qualk once could be, but fresh, light, moving from ambient to techno to hip-hop rhythms; rhythms play anyway an important role here, along with neatly bouncing synthesizer patterns. This is a great album. Intelligent as well as accessible and as poppy as it is ambient. Excellent! (FdW) 2018 €14.00
CRANIOCLAST Cract on Sail LP Cract On Sail is the first new album from the mysterious German project CRANIOCLAST since 1993! Cract On Sail is an epic work spanning two sides of an LP. The piece is deliberately divided by a harsh cut in the middle, thus refreshing the listeners impressions after turning the record. Cract On Sail progresses intuitively in an almost linear way and includes strong guitar riffs, flexing bass and synthetic rhythms and sample-laden electronic scapes. It is the most accessible Cranioclast today – CoC in 2018 sound almost like pop! The record is released in a edition of 300 LPs on grey vinyl with cover disgn by Cranioclast. The LP includes a download code. Cract On Sail A: CORIOLIS SPECTRES / CONGRESS OF THE SPACE ARCHEOLOGISTS / THE ARRIVAL OF THE SPACE FROG Cract On Sail B: THE RETURN OF THE SPACE FROG / BY FERRY TO THE EVENT HORIZON / LES ABEILLES DE CRAC’H Sailing under the command of Captain Coitra & his Clan with a barrel of rum: Soltan Karik Sanct Clario soone (guitar & bass) About Cranioclast Cranioclast is a duo from Hagen, Germany which produce various artistic endeavors, most commonly music. Active since the 1980ies. 2018 €19.50
CRAWL UNIT Tucson, Mon Amour (SOLD OUT) 7inch white vinyl, handmade Coverartwork (sticked papers & pictures with coloured wax), edition of 250 numbered copies "This project from Sacramento, CA, has released some of the most exciting experimental music in the last few years, which is documented on some CDs, Vinyls and tapes. CRAWL UNIT has shown many different sides to his sound so far, and this EP is no exception: metallic, high frequent reverberated sounds and low, droning backgrounds, accompanied by some harsh outbursts of noise. Extremely suspenseful and not to be missed by lovers of new & independent music." [label info] 1998 €6.00  
CROENE, FREDERIK Le Piano demecanise LP "Le Piano Demécanisé is a vinyl album with music played on a dismantled piano. The release of the album goes in tandem with the publication of the new issue of RTRSRCH magazine, in which Frederik Croene presents the text accompanying the LP. The LP was pressed in an edition of 500, sleeve design by Joris Verdoodt." [label info] www.audiomer.org/projects 2010 €18.50
CURRENT 93 Invocations of Almost CD Current 93 have dreamt a new album, Invocations Of Almost, using music from her FuturePast and her PastFuture, to accompany David Tibet’s art exhibition, Invocations Of Almost. "The CD version of Invocations Of Almost is 59-minutes long, as it is launched on David’s 59th BirthDay, March 5, whilst he is in LA for the official opening of his show on March 9. There will also be a vinyl LP edition, which sings a slightly shorter version, mixed specifically for the 12”. The music on Invocations Of Almost will be played on a continual loop in The Begovich Gallery whilst the exhibition is open." 2019 €15.00
CYCLOTIMIA Same Time Same Place 10 Gerade erst ist die Debut-CD auf STATE ART erschienen, da kommt auf Blade bereits dieses neue Vinyl der Russen heraus! Hier sind sie überraschenderweise wesentlich melancholischer, songorientierter und elektronischer als auf den eher industriellen vorherigen Releases – aber nicht weniger düster. 7 tracks. First vinyl (as far as we know) for the russian Industrial-project (who just have their debut CD on stateart out) – here they sound much more electronic, melancholic and songoriented, but still very dark. As dark as the russian soul.. as always on Blade Records, strictly limited. [Drone Rec. 2002] 2002 €12.00
D.D.A.A. / LE COMMISSAIRE HJULER ET LA MAMAN OURSE Une Voiture Banalisee LP racklist A1-A5 –Déficit Des Années Antérieures* En Tout Genre, De Rêves: Rêves Optiques / Rêves D'Oiseaux / Rêves Cauchemardeux / Rêves Abscons / Rêves Automatiques B –Le Commissaire Hjûler Et La Maman Ourse* Konzert Für Waldhorn, Gesprächsfragmente, Leere Marmeladengläser, Holzkiste Und Ein Häßliches Kind Auf Einer Schaukel Notes LP in series FLUXUS +/-, limited edition of 75 copies, numbered. LP appears in black vinyl with black labels. 2019 €28.00
DAIJING, PAN Tissues do-LP Pan Daijing's exhibition-performance Tissues premiered in the Tanks at the Tate Modern in autumn 2019. A five-act immersion in performance, sound, movement, space, and most of all emotion in its most distilled and conflicted states, Tissues engaged with the conventions of opera and tragedy to present a searing representation of the embattled human psyche in space and time. While the ambitious multi-sensory artwork made use of the range of Daijing's artistic capabilities, music, particularly the voice, was at its formal and emotional core. The vinyl and digital release of Tissues on PAN serves as a record of that work, in the form of an hour-long audio excerpt: an invaluable archival document from Daijing's expansive live practice. Tissues is both a solitary work and a formal study in relation. Composed, directed, designed, written, and performed by Daijing (alongside a cast of twelve dancers and opera singers), the work_its libretto written in a mixture of old and modern Chinese_lingers inside a single human perspective. Daijing conjures states that are by turns delicate and severe, the tension between opposing modes animating the work as it unfolds. And yet, for all its interiority, Tissues foregrounds an intimate relationship with its audience through details like its engulfing visual landscape and its rattling, confrontational narrative arcs. Daijing uses the opera form as a prism through which to question the boundaries of music itself: perhaps, she proposes, music is much more than simply what is heard. It is in the relationship between voice and electronics that this limit is most clearly breached. Across the four acts gathered in this documentation, a counter-tenor, a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, and the artist herself voice a mixture of stunning laments and cries over an instrumental landscape, built out from industrial texture. Meant to be heard in a single listen, rather than track by track, the work unfolds through tender hollows and agitated peaks. At its crescendo, the operatic vocals melt away and the synthesizers themselves seem to howl with grief. Daijing uncovers an essential, sometimes painful, music in all that surrounds us, inviting something like catharsis but also a greater understanding of the thing she and her cast conjure and draw close. A tissue, after all, is both a disposable object one uses to wipe away a tear, and the building block of our fleshy human forms. Daijing reaches and excavates the roiling core of what it is to be alive and full of feeling. Music from Tissues, an opera of five acts at Tate Modern, London on Oct 2nd, 4th and 5th, 2019 Composed, written, produced and directed by Pan Daijing. Performed by Anna Davidson, soprano ; Marie Gailey, mezzo soprano, Steve Katona, countertenor and Pan Daijing, additional vocals. The recording is mixed by James Ginzburg , Jan Urbiks and Pan Daijing, mastered by Rashad Becker. *2xLP comes in a gatefold cover, and includes an obi strip and a booklet containing images from the performance & liner notes, as well as a postcard granting access to exclusive video documentation* https://pan-daijing.bandcamp.com/album/tissues 2022 €26.50
DAKOTA SUITE The Night just keeps coming in CD "Tieftraurige Melodien und melancholische Schwermut zeichnen den Singer/Songwriter Chris Hooson von Dakota Suite aus. Das waren auch die Hauptanregungen der letzten Platte "The End Of Trying", welche Anfang 2009 erschien. Das Nachfolgealbum "The Night Just Keeps Coming In" wiederum enthält Versionen und Remixe von einer illustren Schar Musikern aus den Bereichen neuer und elektronischer Musik. Auf Hoosons eigenem Label Navigators Yard erschien bereits 2009 eine auf 300 Exemplare limitierte Auflage des Albums. Die Originale erzählen von Kummer und Schmerz des Komponisten aus Leeds. Künstler wie Machinefabriek, Peter Broderick und The Boats hauchen den einzelnen Tracks ein völlig neues Leben ein. Dadurch wirken die einzelnen Lieder graziöser (Jasper Leylands "Hands Swollen With Grace"), tragischer (Hauschkas "A Quietly Gathering Tragedy") und manchmal auch unheimlich wie Elegis "All The Love I Had Was Not Enough". Neben der CD wird es auch eine streng limitierte Vinylauflage geben. *** 01. Machinefabriek „One Day Without Harming You“ // 02. Peter Broderick „This Failing Sea“ // 03. Jasper Leyland „Hands Swollen With Grace“ // 04. Hauschka „A Quietly Gathering Tragedy“ // 05. Elegi „All The Love I Had Was Not Enough“ // 06. Deaf Center „Very Early Morning On Old Road“ // 07. Arve Henriksen „The End Of Trying Part 1“ // 08. Greg Haines „The End Of Trying Part 2“ // 09. Hannu „The End Of Trying Part 3“ // 10. Tape „The End Of Trying Part 4“ // 11. Swod „Een Langzaam Lekkende Wond“ // 12. The Boats „The Night Keeps Coming In“ // 13. Jacaszek „How Could You Let Me Go“ // 14. Emanuele Errante „Second Hand Light“ // 15. Loscil „Things We Lost Along The Way“ // 16. Dakota Suite & Nick Hawley „Z-Cars“ " [label info] 2009 €15.50
DARK MORPH (C.M.VON HAUSSWOLFF + JONSI [SIGUR ROS]) Dark Morph LP * Collaboration between Jónsi (Sigur Rós) and composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff * Created as part of TBA21–Academy’s expedition program on the research vessel Dardanella * Includes field recordings that were collected while visiting the newly established Tabu Site at Vanua Vatu Reef in Fiji which were then synthesized onboard Dardanella * Original sounds recorded by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Jónsi Birgisson and CM von Hausswolff. * Mixed at Gee Jam Studios, Jamaica. * Mastered and cut by JAson Goz at Transition Mastering, London. * Artwork by David Rudnick * Black printed artwork with embossed outer sleeve * 1 x 180g heavyweight black vinyl * Ltd Ed of 1000 * Release date: 10/05/2019 This album is exclusively composed of recordings made during an expedition to Vanua Levy, Matangi, Vanua Balavu, Vulanga and Totoya in Fiji, except the voices of the Humpback whales recorded in Tonga, August 2018. A1. SO(NG)QE A2. URA DARDANELLA A3. BEKA TOVUTO A4. TOVUTO B1. KAVURA B2. WAI B3. BANI MANUMANU B4. BEKA YALO https://thevinylfactory.com/product/dark-morph/ 2019 €44.00
DAS ERDWERK Leben im Wartesaal (SOLD OUT) 7inch "This creative duo from Switzerland has only released one CD so far ("Grat"), which was a dark journey into apocalyptic worlds. Now they go into a total different direction and present very concrete & strange material on this 7" (on 4 tracks), music that has no history and can't be described really, a short but surprising trip into realms of neverheard sounds! Expect something very different!! Grey vinyl, great handmade & printed fold-covers." [label info] 1998  
DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE Gleis3eck / Görlitzer Tunnel do-CDR "The long-running (22 years and counting) German-spawned outfit Das Synthetische Mischgewebe (The Synthetic Mixture of Fabrics in English) has a long history of site-specific performances and recordings, two of which are documented on the two CDs comprising this release. Recorded around the time the group departed from Germany for Barcelona and then France, it’s fitting that both of the sites here represented no longer exist. In 1986 and 1987, Berlin was still a victim of the Wall, and deserted spaces were seemingly easy to come by. One such was the Gleisdreieck, a railway junction where DSM set up their electronic and acoustic instruments for an extended recording, of which some 85 minutes are hereby presented. The second location, of which 46 minutes is included, was the Gorlitzer Tunnel, a pedestrian underpass several hundred meters long under Kreuzberg. It would be of no avail to try to determine exactly what instruments, items and gadgets were used to make the sounds heard in these recordings – and that mystery suits these CDs well. It’s useful to recall that this was around the same time as Einstürzende Neubauten, also in Berlin, were releasing Halber Mensch and Funf Auf Der Nach Obenen Richterskala, their strongest statements. Berlin at that time (beautifully documented in the Berlin Super 80 DVD/book package) had more than its share of experimental artists, and DSM’s sounds were emitted from the least-accessible cracks in the city’s pavement. From quiet rumblings, these performances grow via distorted hissings, squawks, clanks and grindings into a soundscape akin to a futuristic factory stamping out robots. Metal is scraped, mechanical contraptions buzz and squeak, feedback squeals and vibrations summon deep groans. The second track on disc 2, the Gorlitzer tunnel set, is on the whole a quieter, more eerie evocation of the location’s deep reverberations, with what may be a generator rumbling quietly in the background. The occasional vocal interjections, echoing in the tunnel, are unexpected and deeply strange in the context of the overall darkly mysterious sounds. Limited to 200 copies, the two CDs come packaged DVD-style with a beautifully-printed insert of text and photos on translucent paper. The liner notes by member Guido Huebner nicely describe the place and time. These recordings are marvelously evocative: of lost places, of a time and location that was certainly unique, of a group’s early works from 20 years ago, and of surreal, often intimidating imaginary places summoned by the mysterious equipment. One would hope that many more than 200 people would want to investigate these places." [Mason Jones / Dusted Magazine] "These days it's probably no longer known, but Das Synthetische Mischgewebe was a band, and not the project of G.do Hübner, which it is since some time. Before people like Yref, Chazev, T.O.W. Richter, Isabelle Chemin and Jean Rene Lasalle were member at one point or another. The recordings on this double pack are in more than one way historical. They are old, twenty years to be precise, but they were also made in the then divided Berlin, in a place you can't find anymore. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe used an old tunnel and a subway station going from East to West Berlin to rehearse for concerts that were later held. Abandoned industrial areas, in which they could easily find material to play their music on. Everything you hear on this double pack is recorded on the spot, using what ever is available there. Industrial tools, scraping metals, obscure objects which we can't visualize and such like. But they are played like musical objects and rather than trying out what the sound possibilities are, the actors in Das Synthetische Mischgewebe want to play a piece of music with those objects, so they carefully move about and create pieces of improvised music with these objects. Battery run amplifiers and a walkman to record the whole thing onto give this a slightly rough edge, although I must say that the sound quality is more than excellent. Cut into sessions of thirty minutes, this can't be engaging to hear from beginning to end without leaping into a moment of boredom, but throughout I thought this was a very fine release. Not loud or heavy industrial as some of the early work was (or perhaps that's just a wrong memory? Apparently Vinyl On Demand is releasing some LPs with older work), but rather pre-dates a lot of the onkyo type improvisation of the last few years and a very fine work of electro-acoustic music. Topped off with a nice presentation and a most enjoyable set of personal liner notes. Great archival release." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2006 €18.00
  Casual Praise of Domestic Calamities CD "Another attempt to dissolve any kind of structures from DSM, something like micro-concrete Noise, very small bits and pieces are put together in fast sequences, sometimes it climaxes in harsh outbursts, radiowaves are appearing as well..... comes in nice box on our favourite British anti-music label." [Drone Rec. info 2005] "Edition of 500. All compositions by Guido Huebner, created between 1999 and 2004 in Caen, France and Berlin, Germany. Sections of track 6 recorded in the studio for electro acoustic music at the arts academy of Berlin. Field recordings for track 8 and 9 were carried out at the harbour of Hamburg, Germany, as well as at the shores of Lower Normandy and in the countryside around Caen, especially the bridges trespassing the canal between Caen and the sea." [label info] „Guido Hübner, Ex-Berliner und seit über zwei Jahrzehnten ununterbrochener Noisebastler, kommt tatsächlich mit einem neuen Album auf richtig fertiger CD und obendrein auf dem Label, das uns bisher lediglich bzw. fett selbstbewußt ein Album der New Blockaders auftischen konnte. Neulich kamen schon mir leider unbekannte DSM-Kompositionen auf Vinyl-On-Demand, die CD aber, soviel läßt sich sagen, knüpft definitiv an DSMs frühere Versuche an, Form völlig aufzulösen, bevor sie sich als greifbar und folglich interpretierbar entblößt. All die tausend kleinen, dreckigen noises passen ganz sicher auf eine CD, das steht fest. Aber Hübners einzigartige Anordnung dieser Unjuwelen an sound (eine Anordung übrigens, die offenbar ohne Wiederholung auskommen will) übertrifft ganz sicher alle banalen Versuche, die Harmonie zwischen diesen unvereinbaren Geräuschen auszumachen. Form ist immer Harmonie und somit Mittelmaß. Vielleicht ist es genau dieser Gedanke, den DSM in uns wachrütteln wollen; und natürlich gelingt es ihnen perfekt.“ [Ed Benndorf , de:bug] 2005 €13.00
DAUBY, YANNICK & HITOSHI KOJO La Vie dans les Airs & dans les Eaux 10inch "We were touching metal with our skin, with wood and with stones. We were navigating in the obscurity, under the earth. We were probing the water with our instruments. Almost like if we were trying to let some lifeforms emerging from the land." [Yannick Dauby] Drone Records is proud to present the first ever collaboration release of these two cosmopolitan sound artists from France and Japan (residing currently in Taiwan and Belgium), based on a variety of field recordings, 'concrete' material improvisations and personal additions done in different parts of the world. We can hear mysterious (micro)-sounds that could come from minerals, stones, plants, or daily objects and instruments - opening up two soundscaping tracks full of wondrous elements, combining the 'concrete' with the sublime and the atmospheric.... lost in the huge network of organic entities in the 'More-Than-Human World' around us. 10" vinyl on black vinyl and with full colour sleeve, lim. 300 copies. cover artwork: ANDREW CHALK 2017 €15.00
DE FABRIEK Terugkeren LP The world of noise, ambient and cosmic sounds doesn’t get much obscure than De Fabriek. They have been active since the late seventies, as a band and a label of the same name, and in the 80s they were very active players in the world of cassettes and exchanging sounds through mail. We haven’t heard anything from them in ages. This new release, their first on over a decade, sees some old players again, such as Klaas Mons (who was once responsible for the three concerts De Fabriek ever did), Nico Selen (from O.R.D.U.C.), Alex Nanuru (who contributed voice to Neveleiland, one of De Fabriek’s best LPs from the 80s) and Richard van Dellen himself. Other members (‘workers’ is how De Fabriek, translated ‘the factory’, called them in the past) here are Simon Steiner and Jan Peter van Aalst. What is De Fabriek and their new LP TERUGKEREN all about? That is not an easy thing to say, as there is no defined De Fabriek sound. Over the years the group experimented with ambient music, with noise, with rhythms, industrial music and perhaps even cosmic music. This release of Terugkeren sees a bit of all of this and that makes release a nicely varied journey as well as an introduction into the world of De Fabriek, and we find the gentle guitar strumming of Machinerie/Luide Muziek next to a heavy guitar sound in Verleden, dark ambiences of De Terugkerenden and Zwarte Engelen or radio play like Rustpunt, with Alex Nanuru’s voice reciting a story (this could have easily been an outtake of Neveleiland). Guitars play quite an extended role here, but are transformed by the use of sound effects, without sounding too droney. De Fabriek keeps their pieces short and to the point. It is all in all a wonderful collection of pieces and it’s great to hear something new from De Fabriek. (txt with thanks to Frans de Waard). TERUGKEREN is manufactured on 180 grams vinyl, and packed in a deluxe triple foldout sleeve with insert. The LP is limited to 300 copies. Release date: September 29, 2017. https://tonefloat.com/2017/08/29/de-fabriek-returns-with-terugkeren-lp/ 2017 €19.00
DE FILIPPIS, ALAIN Musicien Improbable LP "Alain De Filippis died in 2010 when he was 50, and it is only today that a first record on vinyl is released, showing the large diversity and coherence of his complex approaches, between concrete music and unlikely sound editings. His first « musical collages » on tape contained more adhesive than real tape ! Further digital collages was made of thousands of small musical sequences that decorated the computer screen of a beautiful multi-colored matrix. We find in this new record unreleased material from early works, work for theater and movies, little intimist numbers and a great tribute to Edgar Varese." inpolysons.free.fr/en/filippis-lp.html 2017 €18.00
DE WAARD, FRANS De Nederlandse Cassette Catalogus 1983-1987 BOOK In late 1983, Frans de Waard published the first edition of De Nederlandse Cassette Catalogus, listing all known, independently released cassettes in The Netherlands up to that point. No images, no descriptions, just a list. In the following years, three more editions were published and then De Waard ceased producing these booklets. This book contains all four catalogues, along with a 100-page selection of 'source material, articles from Vinyl, Muziekkrant Oor, De Nieuwe Koekrand, the complete one-off K7 fanzine, along with letters, flyers and label information. This book includes an English introduction to the background of the various catalogue editions, as well as translations of the instructions on how to consult the catalogues. Otherwise, the rest is in Dutch. The front cover is an homage to The International Discography Of The New Wave by Martha DeFoe and B. George, which was itself the direct inspiration for me to compile the first edition. Design by Alfred Boland image: http://kormplastics.nl/ncc.html 2021 €16.00
DEATH KNEEL Adaptive Emotional Use LP "Max Klebanoff’s (Tomb Mold) industrial noise unit thrives on buried rhythmic nodes under walls of crackling distortion and blistering sonic disfigurement. Nascent hums blossom into spectral ambient drones. Gnarled electronic pulses waver in grand fields of dissonance. Granulated tones crumble and reform as the tracking adjusts on Death Kneel's harsh noise synthesized into meditative soundscape creation." [concert info] Limited edition black vinyl LP, edition of 250. Housed in 350gsm sleeve with full color center labels. "Death hides the angels it makes in blue skies" Mastered by Grant Richardson. Additional processing by Moss Harvest. Thanks to Rita Mikhael, Brett Wagg, and Matt Harrison. https://totalblack.bandcamp.com/album/adaptive-emotional-use "This album is my formal introduction to the works of Death Kneel, the project of Max Klebanoff. Seemingly active since 2014, 13 cassette releases have been issued in that time, but Adaptive Emotional Use is the first release on vinyl. Stripped to the Ivory Core opens the album with detailed micro-tonal scrap metal and field recording tones, but ample depth in the mix and the separation of sounds makes for detailed and engaging listening. A brooding atonal synth rumble and looped conveyor belt provide slight momentum and structure, but mid-track the whole mood shifts into wondrously minimalist and melancholic synth melodies. The title track follows and continues with shimmering melodious synth elements, yet these are force-fed through sonic filters which changes their tonal quality to scattered and fractured. Later in the track a pounding industrial undercurrent appears while the sweeping maudlin sub-orchestral textures gain focus and prominence. In clear contrast to the controlled and moody elements which precede it, Trauma Martyr opts for a more direct expression, consisting of choppy cut-up static and chaotic junk metal noise, with a rumbling bass distortion undercurrent. Would Anyone Die For Me? features a moody piano melody, minimalist scrabbling textures, and fractured mid-toned synth elements, generating a mood of melancholy and restraint. For the final track Redemption Angel (Corpse Criteria) the harsh and choppy cascade of noise returns, sitting at the mid to lower tonal range and clearly based on layered and processed scrap metal abuse – yet midway in it coalesces into a mangled mass of sub-orchestral synths and shimmering, fragmented, mid-toned noise. With its wildly divergent sound, but one which is clearly the result of detailed attention to the structure and composition of sonic elements, Adaptive Emotional Use could be filed alongside the likes of Puce Mary or Damien Dubrovnik, without necessarily sounding like either of those. With its clear attention to detail and the careful juxtaposing of harsh sounds against melodious elements, Death Kneel have delivered an evocative and artistic take on experimental industrial noise." {Noise Receptor} 2019 €16.00
DEISON / K.K.NULL Yugen CD Ten years after their first collaboration (“Into”, Silentes, 2009) KK Null and Deison are back together with “Yugen”*, a new work exploring darkness and controlled chaos thru deep and dense sounds. Pulsating and fractured electronics are mixed with an eerie atmosphere of clunks, broken tribal drums and hovering electronic tones. https://deison.bandcamp.com/album/yugen "Both KK Null and Deison are musicians who love to collaborate, either in person or through the exchange of sound files. I would think this is an example of the latter, as for Null it says recorded at 'Prima Natura Studio Japan' and Deison at '1st Floor Studio Italy'. He takes credit for 'field recordings, sound processing' and Null for 'electronics, noise'. I can't say anything sensible about how this worked out. Did Deison process also sound supplied by Null, or vice versa, perhaps? Or is a question of overlaying independently created sound work and see what dialogue can be formed? As said, I don't have the answer to this question. Both men are known, well perhaps to some, for their more radical sonic enterprises (although Null more than Deison), to avoid the word 'noise' (as a genre, not as an instrument). While the music here isn't necessarily very quiet, it is also not the loudest and we see both gentlemen venture into the world of rhythm. Not techno-based, but rather minimalist beat stuff, inspired by the work of Pan Sonic. Interesting enough one could say the same thing about some of the more noisy outings on this release as well. A piece such as 'Nervi Scoperti' has some repeating sounds from a piece of vinyl that got stuck and along with that comes a bit warped electronics. Sometimes the two dwell upon a more ambient industrial/drone soundscape, thus creating a varied dish of musical interests. It is a release to play with some considerable volume, as I found out, as it will you give a slightly more presence of the music and it all shines a bit more. This is a collaboration that turned out to be great!" [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2019 €12.00
DEL (DRONE ELECTRIC LUST) Villa Graps LP "Four songs recorded back in 2006 and reminiscent of early DEL, i.e. like a dirty wound that looks cool and doesn't hurt enough for you to want it to disappear. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl and packaged in silk screened sleeves with fluorescent artwork featuring some of the band's favorite film babes. With Kjell Runar Jenssen, Lasse Marhaug, Fredrik Ness Sevendal and Per Gisle Galåe." www.apartmentrecords.com 2010 €15.00
DEL / KOBI split 10inch "One side-long psychedelic drone by each band, recorded live without overdubs in the studio at Brugata in Oslo back in 2009. Limited edition of 220 copies on black vinyl in screen printed sleeves. Kobi: Kai Mikalsen, Fredrik Ness Sevendal, Martin Powell, Petter Flaten Eilertsen, Mats Monstad, Per Gisle Galåen Del: Fredrik Ness Sevendal, Lasse Marhaug, Kjell Runar Jenssen, Per Gisle Galåen" 2013 €12.00
DEL POZO, ARTURO RUIZ Composiciones Nativas LP BUH RECORDS IS PLEASED TO PRESENT A MASTERPIECE OF PERUVIAN AVANT GARDE MUSIC "COMPOSICIONES NATIVAS" (1978) BY ARTURO RUIZ DEL POZO - LP REISSUE By the end of the 1970s, a new generation of musicians who brought together ancestral and forefront, became visible in Lima as they searched for native sounds and the new tools of technology. Amongst them, we find Arturo Ruiz Del Pozo, composer who studied with Edgar Valcárcel. After studying at the National Conservatory in Lima he traveled to London in 1976 to register himself at the Royal College of Music where he took a master's degree in electronic composition. Ruiz Del Pozo had left Lima with a bag full of Peruvian native instruments with the idea of utilizing them in his future compositions. In London he was taught by Lawrence Casserly, one the prominent figures of Britain's electro acoustic composition; a musician who was fascinated by the interaction of instruments and electronic media way back from the times of his fundamental audiovisual experimentation group Hydra. Ruiz del Pozo utilized a series of concrete music resources learnt from Casserly. Based on sounds that came from native instruments and diverse manipulations to which these sounds were subject of, he obtained textures and sonorities, which, at the same time they invoked rituals, they opened a new field of experimentation; a collage of sounds of Andean reminiscence, echoes and abstractions, which will entrance you an unprecedented sound universe. These recordings were named Native Compositions (Composiciones Nativas) and they were released in a cassette tape format in 1984 by the author himself. More than 30 years later Buh Records rescued these recordings to inaugurate its Essential Sounds Collection, dedicated to publishing strange and fascinating artifacts of Peruvian experimental music of this period, in a CD edition (2015), which was quickly sold out. Now the label presents its first release on vinyl. https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/br66-arturo-ruiz-del-pozo-composiciones-nativas-1978-sounds-essentials-collection-vol-1 2018 €21.50
DEMOULIN, JULIEN & IA The Bay CD "A tribute to both a great friendship and the mist-mantled San Francisco Bay Area, “The Bay” is a sprawling forty-minute drone piece recorded and produced in 2009 and 2010 over the course of several journeys between Oakland, California and Brussels, Belgium. Guitar and vocal drones, environmental recordings and flute merge to form an emotional travelogue at the grey boundaries of the dreaming and waking worlds…in celebration of reminiscence, before a darkling dawn, deep under the skies of water…" [label info] www.bassesfrequences.org "These two new releases on Basses Frequences see further exploration of the theme of ambient music, but are worked out differently. On the soft(er) edge we have a collaboration between Julien Demoulin and IA, recorded in Brussels and Oakland. The thematic approach here is about the Bay Area of California, but it could have been anything else really. Demoulin and IA use, apparently, guitars, voices, environmental recordings and flute in these two pieces which exactly last twenty minutes. Perhaps they intended this to do be a LP? Compared to other CDs I was listening to, around this, this is very soft music. I am not sure why that is, but I'm glad its not on vinyl; who knows what would have been left? Maybe its an artist statement to do it this soft, but it could have been easily a bit louder and still sounding great - I know someone who can a great mastering job, guys. Its not easy to spot those water recordings, or chimes, and certainly in the first part things move away below the surface of audibility. Its music you hear from a distance, maybe just like overlooking the bay area (a view to a kill?) from some distance. The music acts like fog horns in the night, far away, shining through the mist and haze of the night. The second piece is a bit 'louder', and comes across like boats passing in the night. Its also the somewhat more abstract piece of the two, dwelling more on sustaining tones, whereas the first part has nicely shimmering melodies. Excellent stuff." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2012 €12.00
DEN SORTE DOD same CD New full length album from joint project of OFFERMOSE and ANGST. From the bottomless depths of a murky Swedish forest lake, the haunting cries of a thousand voices rise like distant whispers. Songs of forgotten spirits forever drowning in the cold, still waters. Shadows form and melt away within the hovering fog of icy green. Offermose and Angst performs the sacred ritual of old and releases the glowing sadness of their wooden synths. Far into the night emotive spells are cast, long will they linger… CD Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digisleeve, Matt Lamination. 8 Tracks. Running time 38:28 LP Edition of 300 copies on Black Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Matt Lamination. 8 Tracks. Running time 38:28 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/den-sorte-d-d 2021 €13.00
DER PLAN Geri Reig (Bonus Version) LP Mit minimalen Mitteln produzierte, teilweise experimentelle elektronische Musik, verspielt und mitunter dilettantisch anmutend, aber immer mit Humor. So ließe sich des Debütalbum von Moritz Reichelt, Frank Fenstermacher und Kurt Dahlke (Pyrolator) alias Der Plan kurz zusammenfassen. Auf "Geri Reig" aus dem Jahr 1980 revolutionierten die Wegbereiter der Neuen Deutschen Welle den Synthiepop. "Geri Reig" ist ein Punkalbum im eigentlichen und im besten Sinne. Neu, bedrohlich und gleichzeitig humorvoll. Der Plan verzichteten - nicht unähnlich wie eine Handvoll anderer Bands dieser Zeit, etwa die Residents oder Throbbing Gristle - nicht nur auf die althergebrachten Songstrukturen, sondern gleich auf das ganze olle Instrumentarium. Das Reissue erscheint im Digipak mit Linernotes von Carsten Friedrichs (Ex-Superpunk), seltenen Fotos und sechs Bonustracks. Erhältlich als CD, Download und als 180g-Vinyl. https://derplan.bandcamp.com/album/geri-reig-bonus-version 2012 €20.00
DERGARABEDIAN, CHRISTIAN (C.D.) Un piano en la garganta (SOLD OUT) 7 Der Argentinier C.D. beeindruckt mit 6 kurzen, monumentalen Digital-Drone-Sphären, dicht und dynamisch.. “Another newcomer on DRONE Records is C.D. (aka CHRISTIAN DERGARABEDIAN) originally born in Buenos Aires and now residing in Barcelona. Christian once played with REYNOLS and is now currently working solo. Here we can enjoy a six tracks album that shows us the fascinating universe of C.D. A dimension where static slow sound waves, disturbing noise-entities and meditative storm-breezes with sound effects are guaranteed to make you shiver! Imagine THE HAFLER TRIO meeting the dynamics of BRUME…endless thick waves of overwhelming drones shaping up to this digital ambience that sounds purely organic... Filed under: monumental slow-wave-drones. RED TRANSPARENT VINYL. WHITE COVERS WITH HANDMADE DRAWING AND STAMP.” [press release] 2003 €6.00  
DESIDERII MARGINIS Serenity / Rage CD \\\"Serenity / Rage\\\" focuses on the contradictory human capacity to do both good and evil, where clarity and insight can turn to blind overwhelming rage and how we find ourselves moving back and forth across this vast expanse of human emotions. With hints of classic Death Industrial and a unique cover version of Brighter Death Now\\\'s classic track \\\"Necroses Evangelicum\\\", Johan Levin exposes a new facet of his expanding discography. Nothing is Black nor White, we all fade to Grey... CD Edition of 300 copies in 4 panel Digipak. 6 Tracks. Running Time 36:41 EAN: 0679628554211 Vinyl Edition of 300 copies, 3mm sleeve, Matt Lamination with printed inner sleeve. 6 Tracks. Running Time 36:41 EAN: 0679628554228 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/serenity-rage 2023 €13.00
DI CROCE, NICOLA Istruttiva Serie LP Istruttiva serie is a non-linear path progressing by attempts. A limited number of non consequential exercises about re-elaboration and evocation. The sound material comes from field recordings (recorded in Italy in 2014) and folk guitar. The main purpose is to investigate the constant encounter and collision between field sounds and melody by developing an acoustic stream which aims a perceptual redefinition. As “not completed” doesn’t mean “lacking” every track is here a personal exercise challenging perceptual aesthetic. Istruttiva serie comes in a limited edition 12” LP, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, featuring cover and poster illustrations by Caterina Gabelli and layout designed by Giulia Dolci. Liner notes are curated by France Jobin. Edition of 150 copies on black. Nicola Di Croce is a Venice based architect, musician, composer and scholar. His main research deals with the relation between territory and sound. The listening and field recording practices lead together to a new perception of the environment, where the sound language becomes a narrative and design vehicle; fragments to be re-mixed as the essential tool for the understanding and the redefinition of the environment. Black vinyl LP 12'', featuring cover and poster artwork by Caterina Gabelli. Layout by Giulia Dolci. Liner notes by France Jobin. 150 copies on black. https://kohlhaas.bandcamp.com/album/istruttiva-serie 2015 €16.00
DIE FORM Baroque Equinox 2LP+CD+DVD-BOX "Sturdy box with lid - exquisitely and lavishly printed, incl: regular album in digipak, EXCLUSIVE Vinyl [Black 180g 2x12" vinyl], High quality, super-audiophile disc, incl. 4 EXCUSIVE Tracks!, EXCLUSIVE DVD feat. Videoclip of „Psychic Poison“, exclusive LARGE sized Poster-booklet (30x30 cms), 16 pages with all graphics in large format, printed as High quality art print! Hand-numbered Certificate for limitation of 500!" www.trisol.de Ein neuer Sündenfall. Ein neues Paradies. Ein neuer Anfang, geschaffen aus einem weiteren Ende. Wir alle sterben jeden Tag, wir alle atmen jeden Tag. Besonders greifbar wird diese Dualität seit jeher im chimärenhaften Schaffen des elektronischen Chamäleons DIE FORM. Vor beinahe 40 Jahren als revolutionärer Live-Act für die anrüchige, jedoch auch visionäre BDSM-Szene begonnen, hat sich das französische Künstlerpaar Philippe Fichot und Éliane P. bis heute zwei Dinge bewahrt: Ihre künstlerische Einzigartigkeit – und ihr Händchen für druckvolle Clubhits am schwarzen Puls der Zeit. Sie wandeln auf Messers Schneide, umarmen den Tod und das Leben, die Nacht und den Tag, den Schmerz und die Liebe, das Böse und das Gute. Nie heißt es schwarz oder weiß für sie. Es sind die ungezählten Grautöne, die ihre Kunst beherrschen. Es sind die ungezählten Grautöne, die unser Leben beherrschen. „Baroque Equinox“ ist ein sinnlicher Vorstoß in eine neue Zeit. Ein in die Zukunft weisendes und selbstbewusst auf das erreichte zurückschauende Manifest, ein neues Äquinoktium. Tagundnachtgleiche, schöner und treffender könnte man das Wirken von DIE FORM nun wirklich nicht in Worte fassen. Tag und Nacht, Eros und Thanatos, in Harmonie vereint, untrennbar verbunden sogar. Eines ist undenkbar ohne das andere, für einen endlosen Augenblick ist unklar, in welche Richtung das Pendel ausschlagen wird. Sicher ist nur: Es wird mit treibendem Beat und visionären Sequenzen auf die Tanzflächen treiben. Musikalisch kongenial umgesetzt von diesen Pionieren der elektronischen Musik, umarmt „Baroque Equinox“ druckvollen Electro und Avantgarde, die rauschhafte Opulenz des Barock und den sterilen Beat, das Schwärmen und das Drängen. Die sündige Nacht und der unschuldige Tag bilden die Bühne für ein Werk von beschwörender Kraft, für ein Panoptikum aus Electro, Industrial, Techno, Gothic, Klassik, Erotik, Poesie und fernöstlichem Butoh-Tanztheater. Sündhafte Club-Kultur und künstlerischer Anspruch gehen nirgendwo sonst derart harmonisch ineinander auf. Sie sind vorbei, die Phasen, in denen die Franzosen mit Haut und Haar dem Fetisch, dem Sex ergeben waren. Ebenso vorbei sind ihre Zeiten purer Bach-Huldigung, in denen sie weit über die dunkle Szene hinaus auf Verehrung stießen. Jetzt, zu diesem besonderen Anlass der barocken Tagundnachtgleiche, gebären sie ein neues Wesen, das der dunklen Electro-Welt ein weiteres Mal neue Impulse verleiht. Ein Wesen mit Januskopf und zwei Herzen in der Brust. Ein Menschwesen in einer postapokalyptischen Maschinenwelt, eine Kreatur, die die Unberührtheit der Natur im Herzen und den stampfenden Takt der industriellen Revolution im Geist hat. „Baroque Equinox“ ist ein Moment in der Schwebe, ein Zustand, der ins Licht oder ins Dunkel, in die Stille oder ins Chaos kippen kann. Wie in einem Bild von Gustave Courbet (insbesondere „L‘Origine du Monde“), in dem bei aller Sinnlichkeit immer auch die Präsenz eines Abgrunds mitschwingt, ist dieses Album ein Manifest für diese Zeit, das gleichzeitig klingt wie aus ihr herausgefallen. Wie sie das auch nach 40 Jahren immer wieder hinkriegen? Es wird auch diesmal ihr herrlich dunkles Geheimnis bleiben. 2017 €45.00
DIE FORM (IT) La Dimensione Umana LP & CD "An obscure Italian early Industrial/Electronic outfit coming from Brianza, in the Lombardia region covering the triangle between the cities of Milan, Monza and Brescia, an area known for the high amount of furniture factories. Die Form first emerged in 1982 with the tape La Dimensione Umana (here remastered and put on vinyl for the 1st time) later the band members merged with long time friends Orgasmo Negato (also known as Nulla Iperreale), choosing the definitive name Tasaday in 1984. The band was made up of six extremely young kids influenced by the music of Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and Pop Group, as well as the philosophical theories of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudrillard." www.officinafonograficaitaliana.it 2016 €18.00
DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND De Schaal CD & BOOK "Raymond Dijkstra is a Dutch visual artist and avantgarde musician active in the field of acoustic music. Most of his oeuvre is released on his own label Le Souffleur, in very limited vinyl format. "De Schaal" is his first book collecting 40 collage artworks and comes with an exclusive piece on CD. After a two-year long delay - a technical malfunction at the printing plant - we are proud we can finally offer you this visual/musical poem, a must have! Limited to 200 hand-numbered copies of which the first 100 are signed by the artist." [label info] www.eetapes.be 2013 €18.00
DISKREPANT A Captive Of Oxygen mCD-R "Sweden’s Per Åhlund presents the second three inches in a nine-inch trilogy that began with Through an Odious Framework. A Captive of Oxygen is close-up magic, field recordings of a rubber-booted hunter slogging through muck and tall, wet grass before entering a rusting, oily world like the Zone of Tarkovsky’s Stalker. The walker turns into a vinyl cripple, limping over a low tone that actually instills in the listener a certain cold comfort in this cast-iron, toxic brownfield, as do the birds, who always have the option of flying far, far away. Deftly manipulated, Diskrepant’s A Captive of Oxygen fuses natural and synthetic sounds into a far-more earthbound second chapter, albeit one into which you are required to supply your own fresh air." [Igloo Mag] www.attenuationcircuit.de 2013 €6.50
DOCKSTADER, TOD / DAVID LEE MYERS Pond CD Überraschende Collaboration zweier Urgesteine der experimentellen Elektronik – der wiederentdeckte TOD DOCKSTADER und der ebenfalls nach langer Pause wieder aktive „ARCANE DEVICE“ DAVID LEE MYERS. Hier frönen sie ihrer Faszination für Frosch- & Kröten-Sounds, die elektronisch bearbeitet werden - so entspringen ihrem „Klang-Teich“ die merkwürdigsten stakkatohaften & pulsierenden organisch-elektronischen Akusmen.....sehr kurios & obskur ! "Tod Dockstader and David Lee Myers are two pioneers of electronic music, but from very different epochs. Dockstader started working with optical sound in the 1950s, later working with vast Telefunken tape recorders that became so hot they had to be left overnight to cool down. His electronic soundscapes ('Lunar Park' and 'Apocalypse' among them) are now being re-discovered and given the respect they deserve. Pond is his first new album-length piece since 1967. David Lee Myers, on the other hand, made his name in the 1980s under the name Arcane Device, and the music was derived from almost uncontrollable feedback systems. His Engines of Myth was originally released by ReR on vinyl in 1988, and was re-released on CD in 2001. A collaboration between these two legendary figures -- the painstaking, highly organised researcher Dockstader with the younger, more go-with-the-flow Myers, is an intriguing proposition. The first problem to overcome was computers; Dockstader had never used them, having perfected methods of working with optical and tape formats. It was only with much coaxing from Myers that it became possible. Dockstader recently remarked that when he began working with computers he 'realised that many of the old principles -- slowing, speeding, pitch-change, reversal -- were the same -- but with much more control and better sound. And no tape hiss. Because it was faster and I could keep my belief in what I was doing, more fun.' Fun is what they had. Most of the sounds derive from frog and toad calls, garnered by hanging around ponds with recorded equipment late into the night. The results are extraordinary -- the cries are transformed into an electronic melee that does not so much resemble a pond, as fragments of a road-movie soundtrack left over by Kraftwerk or Eno."[label description] 2004 €14.00
DRAPE An Idea and its Map LP "Drape is an ambient duo comprised of Ryan Gracey and Spencer Williams. They have been crafting soundscapes since 2004. Their debut, 'dream words' (Gears of Sand) saw a limited CDR release in 2009. It was well received and garnered comparisons to Stars of the Lid, early 70's Tangerine Dream as well as late 80's space ambient. Their follow-up was an interesting pairing on cassette - a split w/ experimental artist Odd Nosdam. 'An Idea And Its Map' marks a refined leap forward in Drape's sound. While less space music, there is certainly more expansion. It is a smudged and blended orchestra of drones on the opener 'Solo in High Dreary' and those drones are split apart in slow-motion - eventually revealing a single guitar tone. Moments of sublime resonance as on 'The Visible The Untrue' anchored by piano, and notes that float, seemingly carried in on a breeze. All is not as it seems with an undercurrent of ground swelling, oscillating air - somewhere in the distance there is a storm assembling. Ebb and flow between light and dark - silver lined black clouds converge on the B side opener 'fanfare for lake flies'. The strings, guitar, siren calls are assembled and plastered to one another. A thick blanket of overwhelming beautiful cacophony results. The album's close is as much filtered white noise as it is heavenly chords. The dual slow-motion treated guitar present thoroughout 'An Idea...' diverges between pools of dissonant feedback, howls of wind, and melodic drones. 'An Idea...' is a study in contrasts - and Drape find effective employment of the disparity as well as the combination of the reticent and the reserved turbulence. There is an atmosphere of tension, in a sense with resplendent tones enveloping a barely concealed fury just under the surface. Edition of 400 copies. Black vinyl, 180 Gram pressing. Gatefold sleeve + OBI strip. Purchase of LP will include a download code of the album (FLAC, MP3, etc. - your choice). After a tumultuous pathway to being pressed on vinyl, be it natural phenomena, pressing issues, manufacturer issues, broken plates, and so on - Infraction is relieved to present finally the first vinyl full-length LP by Drape." [label info] www.infractionrecords.com "Graduating from extended synthesizer jams of their earlier output to symphonic, string-based ambience, the duo of Drape provide a soundtrack for frigid early mornings and star-laden late nights. The seven tracks that comprise "An Idea and Its Map" glisten and glide over slow arcs of swelling strings and luxurious textures that bring to mind the oft-referenced figureheads of the genre, Stars of the Lid. Drape, in both structure and execution, clearly aim for this comparison. Yet they do it better than most and while they can't approximate Stars of the Lid's natural emotion and grasp of melody, Drape smartly overlay their drones with guitar distortion and amplifier feedback to give the surroundings a patina of worn textures. The end result illuminates "An Idea and Its Map" with both a vulnerable and hard-edged feel and is all the better for it." [Ryan Potts, Experimedia] "Its been a while since I last from Drape, the duo of Ryan Gracey and Spencer Williams - see Vital Weekly 722 - but I believe they didn't release much beyond that point, other than a split cassette with Odd Nosdam. With this release we return to the more introspective ambience which we also encountered with Eluder. Yet there are differences also. Whereas Eluder is certainly grey towards black, Drape is more grey towards white. It would seem to me that all of this music is created with guitars, and it's not difficult to see a strong influence from Stars Of The Lid. The long form, sustaining guitars, cascading slowly, like majestic waves, rolling ashore, has a strong orchestral to it. Ringing string music, on an endless, perpetual slow motion roller coaster. If that is at all possible. Its been a while since we last heard something from Stars Of The Lid, and for all I know they might no longer exist, but Drape, on this particular record, would win easily the chance of successor to their throne. A fine example, textbook drone music. Forty years of mood music pass by, from the German cosmos, Eno's living room and a bit of neo-classical music - Arvo for my part. Highly refined journey on the wings of musical history." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2012 €25.00
DROMOMANE Abaton LP Black vinyl, 9 tracks, limited edition of hand-numbered 313 copies. "After three albums under his own name (the latest of which, "Rosegger", was released on (T)reue um (T)reue a couple of years ago), and several collaborative projects as the driving force behind DUHKHA and HELAAS, Benjamin Bex reveals his new avatar: DROMOMANE. With "Abaton", he delivers a singular and intimate album, inspired both by his urban experiences in Berlin, and his Mediterranean life in Marseille. Gnawing electronic drones rub shoulders with delicate arrangements of guitar arpeggios and synth loops, carrying a passionate, at times almost extatic voice. Grégory Lelay contributed field recordings from his sojourn in the Azores, as well as the stunning artwork." https://soundcloud.com/staalplaat/sets/dromomane-abaton-lp 2016 €15.00
DRUMM, KEVIN Phantom Jerk LP \"6 oscillators recorded July 2013 at Single Room Occupancy, Chicago IL. Vinyl issue of his 2013 CDr release, \'Phantom Jerk\'. In the tradition of \'Imperial Distortion\'.\" [label info] www.bocianrecords.com \"Arch electro-acoustic drone/noise explorer Kevin Drumm returns to \'Imperial Distortion\'-alike drone scapes on this abridged (3 tracks instead of 4) vinyl issue of his 2013 CDr release, \'Phantom Jerk\'. Using six oscillators, Drumm casts a shadow world of sedentary low end sag and keening, glassy highs as haunting as they are piercingly compelling. The 23 minute A-side moves as slowly and furtively as anything from his modern classic, \'Imperial Distortion\' for Hospital Productions, leading us thru successively dank, cold antechambers of isolated, wavering frequencies arranged with stoic logic. The B-side opens with a shorter, redemptive piece, almost painful in its achingly bittersweet beauty, and culminates in a thirteen minute piece of glacially layered, acrid tones yielding a spectrum of smeared, wide bass and beautifully hypnotic high end discord.\" [Boomkat] 2014 €18.00
DRØNE / DROENE / DRONE (MARK VAN HOEN / MIKE HARDING) Mappa Mundi CD This the first CD released by drøne, after two vinyl albums on Anna von Hausswolff's label, Pomperipossa. In a 5” jacket with artwork and font by nico, who also provided the hand-written text for the vinyl artwork for the 2015 and 2016 releases, “Mappa Mundi” traces and describes audio surrounding and occupying the planet earth. Workers toil in smithies, call signs and chants-at-prayer reveal attempts to order the chaos, which always remains one step ahead. Post-lapsarian for sure, but smoke signals and drums have morphed into the ‘bing bong’ of the attention-grabbing, mind-polluting PA system. The coded simplicity of the whistle (“Start!”) has evolved into a more deliberate attempt to control rather than inform by explicit, structured language. Announcements have become commands; signs bark orders. Thus ‘no’ becomes a powerful rejection, rather than merely a preference; and no-ers are more easily to spot… “You’re going the wrong way”! (To which the only sensitive and mature response is: “Good!”) Call signs, IDs, audio sigils and signatures all combine to describe a polluted, confusing atmosphere which threatens to leave us powerless and bewildered. "Decipher the sounds and you win the game! First prize is, guess what? You get to take the audio poison! Congratulations! You’ve lost!”. The first album, 'reversing into the future' drew this response from Lend Me Your Ears: "This thrilling piece – surely the most kinetic non-dancefloor record in an age". Anna herself wrote of the follow up record, 'a perfect blind': "I love everything about this release. Such a great presentation and exciting project! And most important: the music is sublime." The Quietus wrote: "Last year's distinctive debut from drøne was likened to a hurtling journey. It's combination of field recordings, shortwave radio and modular synths possessed an excited, driving energy whose route was hitherto unexplored and destination unknowable. But with an expanded sound pool boasting instruments across the ages - from guitar, through pipe organ and strings to dulcimer and psaltery – its follow-up takes a sideways step into more cognizant, reflective pastures.” 2017 €10.00
DUBACH, PETRA & VAN HORRIK Failing Humans Failing Machines LP Performance artist couple Petra Dubach and Mario van Horrik produce electro-acoustic music. The A-side of this album consists of a collage of various instruments (abstract sounds) and the B-side is a 20-minute drone piece. The Failing Humans' instruments: Petra Dubach: portable harmonium, toy harmonica, mouth organ, vibratone, small percussion, voice, marbles, kalimba. Mario van Horrik: prepared electric guitar, loop station, voice, cymbals, marbles, small percussion. zijn Eindhovense veteranen op het gebied van de electro akoestische muziek en klankinstallaties. Na een samenwerking van meer dan 20 jaar werd het tijd om een uitgave te maken. Op vinyl krijgen we 2 stukken van een volle plaatkant. Kant A is een wergave van de performances met bied een caleidoscopische blik in het instrumentarium van Dubach&vanHorrik. Kant 2 is een klank installatie onder de titel Failing Machines en laat een hypnotiserende drone horen. Nog niet overtuigd? Luister zelf: www.kolonne.nl 2014 €25.00
DUHKHA Mariyammal LP "Ambient-Puzzle aus Frankreich. Zahlreiche Soundlandschaften von Musikern werden zu einer Fläche verbaut. Organisch und handfest. mit einer ganz besonderen, kränklichen, geheimnisvollen Stimmung und irren Vocals. Achtung Sogwirkung! Vor vier Jahren veröffentlichte der in Berlin lebende Franzose BENJAMIN BEX mit "Rosegger" ein Album auf TREUE UM TREUE / REUE UM REUE. Für seine neue Projektarbeit, zusammen mit befreundeten Musikern als DUHKHA auf IDÉOBLASTE erschienen, übernimmt das Label zwar 'nur' den Vertrieb. "Mariyammal" klingt aber so stark nach der mysteriösen Ambientwelt von TUT / RUR, dass das Album perfekt in die Labelwelt gepasst hätte. (Wer mit der entsprechenden Musik vertraut ist, kann sich den Rest des Artikels theoretisch sparen und blind zugreifen.) Für mich stellt sich die Arbeit von DUHKHA wie ein großes, schönes Puzzle dar, mit BENJAMIN BEX als Chef am Tisch. Er hat sich von befreundeten Musikern Klänge, Töne, improvisierte Tonfolgen, Geräusche et cetera einspielen lassen und diese auf sehr kunstvolle, magische Weise zusammengebaut. Ergänzt durch eigene Beiträge, insbesondere durch bemerkenswerte Gesangsparts. PIERRE GORDEEFF zum Beispiel hat Aufnahmen seiner verrückten Maschinen beigesteuert. Das Turntablism-Projekt VINYL -TERROR & -HORROR lieferte einige Klanglandschaften. Andere Freunde spielten Cello-Improvisationen oder Echtzeit-Soundbasteleien ein. Der ganze Prozess, inklusive des Verwebens der Bestandteile, dauerte rund zwei Jahre. Das ansteigende, dröhnende Rauschen im Opener "Mariyammal" (A1) lässt sich viel Zeit, bevor sich Streicher mit sirenenartigen Sounds einmischen. Eine eigenartige und recht bedrohliche Atmosphäre, die plötzlich umschwingt: Als würden Wolken weggeblasen, taucht der Gesang auf. Verletzlich, hoch, fast Falsett, und dazu ein Kratzen – als ob die Singstimme gleich wieder weggewischt werden sollte. Weitere Zutaten: Arienansätze im Hintergrund und improvisierte Streichertöne. Sehr filmisch und sehr, sehr intensiv. In "Whidama" (A2) stammen die ersten Töne zwar von einer Akustikgitarre (nicht von Streichern), ansonsten bleibt vieles gleich. Die knarzenden, fordernden Sounds, der hohe Gesang (kurze Momente lang erinnert er mich an DAVID TIBET), und später quietscht auch das Cello wieder, zu- und abnehmend. "Teufelssee" (A3) bleibt instrumental, mit bearbeitetem Piano und einem Potpourri aus bisherigen Klängen, etwas enervierend mutet dabei das heftige Vinylknacken an. Die B-Seite startet ("Dans La Nuit Et L'Oubli", B1) mit Gitarrendrones, dem Klirren von Münzen und extrem hingebungsvollem, mystischem und beschwörendem Gesang. Durch längere Instrumentalparts, repetitive Geräusche mit Streicherimprovisation und später wieder dem verrückt machenden Plattenknistern und -knacken ist das Stück zerhackter, collagenartiger als die Tracks auf der ersten Seite. In "De La Lumière Et De La Mémoire" (B2) übt ein ganzes Orchester, mit fanfarenartigen, sägenden Tönen im Vordergrund. Der Gesang: noch höher, lyrisch und manisch, dagegen geschnitten sind ängstliche, fliehende Frauengeräusche und schräge Engelschöre. "Mariyammal" ist ein organisches, handfestes Werk zum Anfassen. Gleichzeitig scheint es mir durchzogen von Vergangenem, Morbidem und erinnert phasenweise an unsaubere, entfernte Schellackaufnahmen. Erstaunlich, dass sich die ungeheure Vielfalt stets zu dieser ganz besonderen, kränklichen, geheimnisvollen Stimmung mischt. Sorgfältig geschichtete Ambientmusik, bei der vor allem die Stimme – im Vergleich zu vielen sonstigen Basteleien auf dem Markt – den Unterschied macht. Achtung Sogwirkung." [Michael We. für nonpop.de ] https://vimeo.com/116551690 2015 €15.00
DUNCAN, JOHN Klaar LP "Sonic provocateur John Duncan has made a career through leaps into the unknown. During the heyday of Los Angeles performance art (i.e. Chris Burden, Paul McCarthey, etc.), Duncan conceived of a number of projects that deliberately antagonized his audience through perceived violence and shattered taboos. At the same time, he began exploring the empty channels on shortwave radio where unsettling noise, silence and crackle could propagate. He was particularly intrigued by the psychological colorings of the sounds that often reflected dread, anxiety and paranoia - themes that were commonplace in his performance pieces. Duncan's first works were published in conjunction with the Los Angeles Free Music Society, with whom he performed on occasion in various ensembles. His work began to really blossom upon a decision around 1981 to leave America for Japan, a place where he knew no one and where he knew nothing of the language. His work with radio began in earnest both as a source material and as a platform for pirate radio broadcasts. By the end of the decade, he relocated once again, this time to Amsterdam to begin a fruitful series of collaborations with Andrew McKenzie (a.k.a. The Hafler Trio). Shortwave radio was still prominent, with his compositions becoming more complex and nuanced. Klaar was first published on the Australian imprint Extreme in 1990. The aforementioned McKenzie contributes various field recordings, with Duncan lacing those amidst long-form collages of blank static, distant signals detuned into smeared vibration and swells of electric noise. The relative calm of the album's proceedings belie the implied threat within Klaar. Duncan actively seeks to reflect a psychic, subliminal violence within society through the unintended artifacts of commonplace technologies. Here, the existentially nihilist agenda is to spook through the haunted radio. Klaar, along with much of his catalogue that spans three decades, remains a remarkable work of spectral electro-acoustics. And for the first time, Klaar is pressed on vinyl. Highest recommendation." [Stranded Rec.] 2017 €17.50
DUNCAN, JOHN & PETER FLEUR The Scattering CD Die Zusammenarbeit des MEISTERS mit dem ex L.O.S.D. PETER FLEUR beschert uns elektronisches Schnarren & Pulsieren, gleissende elektromagnetische Muster, und lange geisterhafte drones, mit überraschenden cuts. Solo- und Collaborationtracks von beiden. “ This CD is a collaboration album of sorts: the first track (of three) was done by both Duncan and Fleur, the second pece is by Fleur solo, the third by Duncan solo. For those who don't know: Fleur was part of the duo L.O.S.D. with Radboud Mens and later released a very DIY ambient kit in the form of a double 5" (one CD, the other vinyl, beautiful!). The tracks on this disc all stem from 2001 and seem to be based on data files and shortwave sounds. This could be true, but it could just as well not be. Most of the sounds are heavily stretched, so they could have originated anywhere. But of course, that is also unimportant in the end, because what ultimately counts is the music itself. And after an initial slight repulsion on my behalf by so much stretching (this is strictly personal!), things begin to find their place and flow. The track sounds ambient at first, but escapes this by having way too much composition and build up. The tension stays good throughout the piece and after some time the sound actually stops, which is highly surprising in a work like this, but it's a very nice surprise indeed. We are now more than halfway through, still 13 minutes to go and then: bang! another stretch blasts in and puts everything on edge again. This one lasts the whole last 13 minutes, although it fades out very slowly and somewhere a bass sound is added, that slowly gets richer. This is the title track by the way. Well done. Track two is a 15 minute piece by Peter Fleur, starting with a low resonating ambient bass sound, into which a cluster of higher frequencies is slowly mixed. This movement is repeated, but each time more sounds are added, which does a lot for tightening the tension. And here again, halfway through: a sudden break, a completely distorted sound taking over, fading out and digital rain is left. The track ends with long glissando's of all kinds and a surprise. Defenitely not your everyday ambient drone stuff from Fleur. Something way more interesting instead! Duncan's track is the one stemming from the shortwave sounds. The piece seems to be edited together from several recordings, but then again, it could also be a direct to disc mix. The sounds are familiar for anyone who has ever turned a radio dial and the track itself doesn't do much to enhance that experience, except for layering these sounds. To be very honest: I have heard it done better. Still, the CD as a whole is a success, as far as I am concerned." [MR, Vital Weekly] Address: http://editionellipsis.hypermart.net 2003 €14.00
DUPLANT, BRUNO Nox CD The sound piece Nox (in addition to reflecting the traditional nocturnal effluvia specific to the title) is based on the multiple meanings and interpretations that can be made of the incomplete form of the dactylic hexameter and palindrome In girum imus nocte ecce et consumimur igni. This Latin phrase, pictorial and poetic, most often attributed to Virgil, refers to the moths that circle around the candle before burning themselves, and which means: “We go around in circles in the night and we are devoured by fire “. It is also, much closer to us, a French film directed by Guy Debord in 1978. The film (lasting 95 min) describes the consumer society and capitalist alienation, applying to highlight the condition of modern slaves. Today even more this Latin expression takes on a new meaning with the phenomena of ultra-liberalism and major climate crisis. Man, like moths, burns his wings on the fires he himself lit and continues to maintain despite warnings and threats. Are we witnessing the end of the Anthropocene, of the consumer society and capitalist alienation described by Guy Debord? ~ La pièce sonore Nox (outre le fait de refléter les traditionnelles effluves nocturnes propre au titre), repose sur les sens et interprétations multiples que l’on peut faire de la forme incomplète de l’hexamètre dactylique et palindrome In girum imus nocte ecce et consumimur igni . Cette locution latine, imagée et poétique, le plus souvent attribuée à Virgile, fait référence aux papillons de nuit qui tournent autour de la chandelle avant de s’y brûler, et qui signifie : « Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit et nous sommes dévorés par le feu ». C’est aussi, beaucoup plus près de nous, un film français réalisé par Guy Debord en 1978. Le film (d’une durée de 95 min) décrit la société de consommation et d’aliénation capitaliste, s’appliquant à mettre en évidence la condition d’esclaves modernes. Aujourd’hui encore plus cette expression latine prend un sens nouveau avec les phénomènes d’ultra-libéralisme et de crise climatique majeure. L’Homme, tels les papillons de nuit, se brûle les ailes sur les feux qu’il a lui même allumé et qu’il continue a entretenir malgré les avertissements et les menaces. Assistons-nous à la fin de l’anthropocène, de la société de consommation et d’aliénation capitaliste décrite par Guy Debord ? (Bruno Duplant, May 2022) Release Date : June 20, 2022 Duration : 40:00 Format : glass mastered CD/digital Track : nox Regular Edition : 165 hand-numbered copies Packaged in clear vinyl sleeve with folded insert + additional art card on 350gr satin paper. Cover design, card & treatments by Daniel Crokaert Based almost exclusively on photos by Bruno Duplant and some additional textures from Unfathomless' archive "It seems as if no week passes by without a new release by Bruno Duplant, the French composer of whom I never seem to know much about. Releases for Unfathomless deal with field recordings, and this one is no different, except, perhaps, for the fact that many of these field recordings are made in one place. Duplant recorded his material in Waziers, Berlin and London, without being very specific about the exact locations. That too is sometimes different on this label. And lastly, Duplant uses some instruments here. I believe to hear a piano and some instrument played with a bow; that might strings or a cymbal. The title refers to "the multiple meanings and interpretations that can be made of the incomplete form of the dactylic hexameter and palindrome In girum imus nocte ecce et consumimur igni. This Latin phrase, pictorial and poetic, most often attributed to Virgil, refers to the moths that circle around the candle before burning themselves, and which means: “We go around in circles in the night and we are devoured by fire". I am not that smart. More explanations on the Bandcamp page. Maybe the piece is indeed a palindrome. At least when I opened it in an audio editor it gave that impression. As with some of other recent works, Duplant seems to be layering a lot of sounds that may not have many relations with each other and then finds a dialogue among them. By slowly fading up and down particular sounds, he creates a very rich sound world. I am not sure to what extent this is to be understood as random in the John Cage-sense, or if the composer willingly allows sounds to be louder or quieter in the mix. There are some massive, drone-like rocks, very detailled small field recordings, the occasional piano tone, the bow across the cymbal/violin, crackles and it all works very well. 'Nox' lasts exactly forty minutes, but I am sure this could be twice as long and still be interesting. I know this, because I had it on repeat and didn't notice the change over that much and it wasn't until much longer that I realized it started again. The overall tone of the piece is quite moody and atmospheric, but I guess such is the nature of densely layered field recordings. High quality work, as usual." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2022 €14.00
DWARFS OF EAST AGOUZA Rats don't eat Synthesizers LP Alan Bishop: acoustic bass, alto sax. Sam Shalabi: electric guitar. Maurice Louca: organ, synthesizers, beats.Akuphone in collaboration with Annihaya is very proud to present “Rats Don’t Eat Synthesizers” the long-awaited second album by the Dwarfs of East Agouza. Hailing from the Agouza district of Cairo, Egypt, this brilliant trio consists of Alan Bishop (Acoustic Bass & Alto Sax), Maurice Louca (Keyboards & Drum Machine) and Sam Shalabi (Electric Guitar).Following their acclaimed first album “Bes “, this new long play is composed of two hypnotic journeys: “Rats Don’t Eat Synthesizers” and “Ringa Mask Koshary”which was recorded in Cairo in September of 2015.Mesmerizing electric guitar parts, frenetic beats, both supported by the deep sound of Alan’s acoustic bass create a new magical Egyptian soundscape.Vinyl version is coming with a beautiful hot-foil stamped sleeve that magnifies the red metallic rats and a wonderful printed inner sleeve. Includes redeem code. Limited Edition. https://akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/rats-don-t-eat-synthesizers 2018 €22.00
DÖRING, ROGER & KONRAD KORABIEWSKI Komplex LP The project was created over two years in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland and in Berlin, Germany, and is an evolving conversation between Döring’s improvisation on acoustic instruments such as clarinet and saxophones, and Korabiewski’s electronic live treatment and composition with Döring’s sounds. A third compositional element is contributed by the particular ambiences of the spaces in which the recordings took place, as Korabiewski and Döring came together to record at sites with personal and acoustic resonance, from Döring’s apartment in Berlin to an abandoned herring factory by the sea in east Iceland. Musically Komplex moves seamlessly between ethereal ambient re- frains, to a somber, churning low end, to a hypnotic looping rev- erie that slowly disintegrates as if under the burr and scratch of a gramophone needle. Melodic elements occasionally distort and peak into noise, lending the simplicity of solo instrumental im- provisation an atmospheric density, and revealing the material and spiritual limits of the fragile musical moments around which the album circles. The track titles, made of German expressions and short sentences, refer to the restless transience of creative life, much like that of a journeyman craftsperson centuries ago. The result is a highly expressive, dark, and deeply felt, honest album, reflective of shifting emotional states and uneasy sagas from the north. Side A 06:02 kremmenerstraße [baritonsaxofon ] 03:07 seelischer konflikt [baritonsaxofon ] 06:24 flucht [baritonsaxofon ] 04:03 hof [tenorsaxofon ] Side B 04:44 wenn es gehen will laß es gehen [klarinette ] 02:09 aber langsam gehe ich meinen weg – langsam [klarinette,diktaphon ] 05:34 wohin des weges, wandersmann? [klarinette ] 04:24 zeit heilt alle wunden [tenorsaxofon ] 8 Tracks (36′29″) Vinyl (300 copies) www.gruenrekorder.de 2015 €16.00
EARZUMBA Real Ruido Pastizo CD-R Embrace the unexpected! Again C.D. manages it to create very unexpected and uncommon soundscapes made up out of found sounds & samples. This has at times even a jazzy & funny feel, but its like being in a totally deranged & transformed reality-system. Collage-music, Loops, all arranged very nicely. Check it out! "Christian Dergarabedian is by now more known through his Earzumba than his previous engagement with Reynols, and releases a great bunch of great CDRs. More and more he relies on the sampler to be the crazy melting pot of sounds and here he seems to be taking matters a bit further. From the field recordings of 'Intro' to a heavily cut up reggae collage madness in 'Descuidado'. Spinning vinyl by hand and picking up crazy fragments, and not by strange coincidence Editions_zero remarks that this is a nice soundtrack to a b-movie. I was playing this a couple of times in a row, and each time I turned it back on and discovered new themes in this crazy road movie. It has a strange appeal, this madness, this hotchpotch of music. A strange kind of radio play even when words aren't really used here to any extent. Not even a real story actually now I come to think of it. Turntablism without turntables. A story of no words, but the perfect soundtrack to out and make your own crazy roadmovie." [FdW /Vital Weekly] "I managed to create a film score sensation giving the dynamic as if it were done strictly following a script. Includes one mash up in between Bernard Herrmann & Silvestre Revueltas." [Christian Dergarabedian] label: www.void.gr/absurd 2007 €8.00
EBTEKAR, ATA & THE IRANIAN ORCHESTRA FOR NEW MUSIC performing works of Alireza Mashayekhi: Ornamentalism CD "An Organic Electrocution: perfect follow-up to the highly acclaimed Persian Electronic Music (SR277), this new Persian Music album involves a cast of seasoned musicians performing works written by legendary Iranian composer Alireza Mashayekhi; in which Ata Ebtekar (aka Sote) was granted complete creative freedom by Mashayekhi himself to transform these compositions into fully realized pieces using his techniques of synthesis and electronic manipulation. it's an organic electrocution without sacrificing the beauty of the performance. these sound sources and compositions were metamorphosed via electronic processing, rearranged and decomposed using sound generators, effect boxes, modular synthesizers and samplers. finally, Ebtekar programs synthetic sounds and adds new electronic harmonies, melodies and soundscapes to the sonic palette of Western classical music and Persian instrumentation for a unique musical experience. Sote unites the grace and symmetry of noise and silence inside the magic circle of electronic music composition. ________________________________________ The Tehran Contemporary Music Group: cofounded in 1993 by Farimah Ghavensadri and Alireza Mashayekhi. in 1995 Mashayekhi established the Iranian Orchestra for New Music as a performing entity. the Tehran Contemporary Music Group's main goal is the presentation of new music in order to promote young composers and performers. the Group has also helped to establish the Biannual For Composing and Performing of Contemporary Music in Iran. ________________________________________ Alireza Mashayekhi: a short biography. Alireza Mashayekhi was born in 1940 in Tehran, Iran. He is one of the pioneers of modern music in Iran. Mashayekhi's works have been performed in Iran and abroad for more than 35 years. Mashayekhi believes that contemporary composers should create music in wide range of styles. His own compositions have tended towards three major direction: pieces that are directly inspired by Iranian music (e.g. Symphony No. 5, Persian Suite and Shahrzad) and compositions that are not directly related to Iranian music (e.g. Symphony No. 6, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra,Sonata for Piano) and multicultural compositions (e.g. Symphony No. 8 and the electronic composition East-West). 'At the time of Stalin in the USSR, many pieces were composed with predetermined identities in honor of Marxism and Leninism by the request of the governmental authorities or by the artist's own whishes. Among these pieces those with artistic rightfulness remained and they were honored in both East and West, but the political weight of the other ones did not succeed to help them survive.' [Alireza Mashayekhi] 'Alireza Mashayekhi is regarded as a pioneer Iranian avant-garde composer whose ideas and works, which have been performed in Iran and abroad for more than 35 years, have greatly influenced the contemporary music in Iran..' [Hooman Asadi of the University of Tehran, Iran] ________________________________________ Ata Ebtekar aka Sote: a short biography. aka Sote is an Iranian-American electronic composer and sound artist. he was born in Germany to Iranian parents, spent the first eleven years of his life in Iran and the next six years in Germany. at the age of seventeen he moved to the United States and lived in the Bay Area for fifteen years. he has spent the last few years living in Tehran and working on several projects. one of these projects was released in 2007 as a double disc set called 'Persian Electronic Music - Yesterday and Today' (sub rosa SR277) for which he compiled early electronic music from Alireza Mashayekhi who had created these compositions forty years ago. disc two features Ebtekar's own electronic compositions to present a timeline in modern Iranian music history. Sote's compositions are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary patterns of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo meets folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analysis. he believes that music is a cultural habit of sound and anti-sound (silence). therefore, he generates music without a specific culture, which he believes to be 'The Other Sound'. He has released several cds and vinyls on Dielectric/RLR, Spundae and especially on Warp." [full label info] www.subrosa.net 2009 €13.00
  Ornamental do-LP Subtitled: Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra for New Music Performing Works of Alireza Mashayekhi. "An ambitious, extremely complex, and sonically rich project that gives us an immense pleasure to release. An incredible collaboration between Ebtekar and Alireza Mashayekhi's Iranian Orchestra for New Music in Tehran, Iran involving dozens of trained musicians. Ebtekar has recently returned to the Bay Area from his three year stay in Iran where he closely worked with legendary composer Alireza Mashayekhi. The album spans 50 minutes, crystallizing acoustic instruments and electronic music composition with ten tracks fully realized by Ebtekar and Mashayekhi's orchestra. Ata Ebtekar (b. 1972, Hamburg Germany) aka Sote is an Iranian-American electronic composer and sound artist. His compositions are sonic tales synchronously decoding and regenerating customary patterns of thought in nature; aural designs of crisis and harmony where contempo meets folklore, orchestrating an artificial saga with a variety of illuminations and analysis. Presented here is a full-length album involving dozens of trained musicians performing works written by legendary Iranian classical and electronic music composer Alireza Mashayekhi in which Ebtekar was granted freedom by Mashayekhi himself to arrange and transform these compositions into fully realized pieces using his techniques of synthesis and electronic manipulation. Ornamental continues to explore even further than that which was presented in Sub Rosa's 2007 anthology, Persian Electronic Music (Yesterday and Today 1966-2006). The album also continues the radical experimental departure from his early electronic music work as Sote in the 12"'s published by Dielectric and Warp Records. Ebtekar's work continues to be painfully singular and shines bright in its ability to eliminate barriers the world over between noise, silence and modern electronic music composition. All music recorded in Tehran, Iran. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl on full color spot-varnish matte jackets. Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios in San Francisco, CA. Artwork and design by Brandon Nickell." [label info] "....The sounds are varied and wondrous, from fantastical flurries of wild freaked out electronic flecked free form soft noise, to delicate tinklings and hushed moonlit drift, spacey metallic shimmers to haunting alien music box like lullabyes, Eastern sounding folk fragments drifting in soft swirls of rumble and hiss, long stretches of barely there melody and wispy streaks of distant rumble. Really quite mysterious and beautiful, whether you're into modern classical, electronic music, abstract dronemusic, or all of the above. ESPECIALLY all of the above. Beautiful screened sleeves, with a printed insert, detailing the project, as well as the various performers and composers." [Aquarius Records review] www.isounderscore.com 2008 €22.50
ECKLOFF, JÜRGEN Jürgen Eckloff liest Nietzsche / Es geht im Kreis herum LP "Two sides – two tracks! 'Der (halb) mechanische Derwisch' was a live performance given at the N.K. In Berlin in May 2010. 'Es geht im Kreis herum', the incredible circling soundtrack for this live-ritual, is presented on one side of this record. “It goes in circles - as a record does! As a Dervish does! As life does! Rotating bliss!” (Ignaz Horeb) Many, many, many readings of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings are available. But THIS is the only one that comes to the point! And the only one Mr. Nietzsche would have accepted as a correct one!“Accurate, concise, precise & specific - the only words to describe this recording.”(Gustav-Ramon Ludig, Literature Now!) As usual for the high quality of 90% Wasser, the 34 recorded minutes are presented in FSS (Full-Stereo-Sound) on black vinyl in a limited edition of 199 copies including two inserts. The whole artwork is done (again) by Robert Schalinski of Column One." [label info] www.90-prozent-wasser.de 2012 €15.00
EITR Trees have Cancer too LP "Pedro Sousa, saxophones, electronics. Pedro Lopes, turntables, electronics. Recorded between 2008-2011. 150 gr vinyl, 350 gr carton cover, 150-copies limited edition. Liquid, high viscosity, between amber (Pedro Sousa) and gas (Pedro Lopes). Music is always dual and eternally renewed, at the present time (recorded live), the first person singular. "Duo of Pedro Sousa and Pedro Lopes, two portuguese young musicians, and some of the most exciting in the plastic, tonal and energic exploration of sound in a long time. Using sax (Sousa), turntables (Lopes) and a communal use of electronics, their music is admittedly nervous, obsessively bent over the following moment.” (Outfest press release, 2011) "The pieces on this grimly titled record were recorded between 2008 and 2011, in Portugal and Berlin. Improvised music no doubt, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is some careful planning ahead of recording. The music of Eitr is closed off: everything seems to be together, in the same dynamic frame, somewhat below the level of mid-range frequencies. In 'Forth Twice', the first piece on the b-side they use some Russian instruction record, and a bumping rhythm, whereas the saxophone plays a melancholic tune, and the whole things gets a surprising musical touch. That is less apparent in the second (and last) piece on this side and the side long piece on the other side. There is an odd sense of acoustic drones on this release, very austere and dark, with the saxophone being with held, with drawn, bathing in this sea of repressed sounds. It never bursts out, this music, it never wails about, but instead has a lot of tension, perhaps due to the fact that much of this hoovers around the edge of feedback, but never bursts out into this. You wait for this enormous blast to happen, but it never comes around to do so. I thought this was a great release. Very intense for the players - probably - and for the listeners - surely for me. Every time I play this I hear something new, which made me think 'oh, no, its much more electro-acoustic than I thought', 'damn, it's much more composed' or 'what a refined way of improvising'. Excellent record all around." [FdW in Vital] 2013 €18.50
ELEKTROJUDAS / XNDL split LP "For years, the work of elektrojudas released on Attenuation Circuit has been linking the drone/ambient flavour of the label to more dance-oriented styles of electronic music. On this split LP featuring four tracks by elektrojudas and three by his long-time musical companion XNDL, the two collaborators give an impressive insight into the hidden kinship between abstract instrumental hip hop and drone electronica. XNDL has been active since 1998 in musical styles from hip hop to drum’n’bass as a DJ, producer, and engineer, working with artists such as Anticon, Botanica Del Jibaro, Shapeshifters, Plague Language, and many others. On his own record label Subversiv*Rec, he published some 45 releases by underground/abstract hip-hop acts. This LP is co-released with his current publishing outlet, cognitive*defect. This split release marks a new step in the ongoing artistic collaboration of XNDL with elektrojudas. Both sides of the vinyl are unified by mid- to downtempo beats with a rather relaxed feel. Dreamy piano chords sometimes make you think that this could be a nice chill-out album. But then you turn the record over, and suddenly jarring, guitar-like distortion and high-pitched oscillators change the atmosphere. Things do not get faster, but the tension rises … until it is resolved again. An exciting sonic journey that showcases one of the many paths of musical innovation in the hip-hop tradition, and an admirably consistent approach shared by the two artists." [label info] www.attenuationcircuit.de 2014 €16.00
ELLENDE HALLO KAPTEIN mCD-R During the early 2000’s we experimented as a collaborative in trying to erase the notion of being a band. Instead, we aimed at operating as an anonymous musical assembly. Through the rise of the internet and its collaborative economy we thought that by pouring various (found) sounds into a large database, we could mix this into music with an incredible complexity that would amount to soundscapes (ugh) so deep that each time the listener would have a multifarious listening experience. In the mid 1970’s Ellende’s founding band members, the cousins Wim and Martinus had tried something similar when they over-dubbbed every 7” vinyl record found at their Cape Town home (mostly Dutch and Afrikaans popular music) onto tape, with mixed results. Conceptually we continued to experiment with this idea of overdubbing; by randomly layering found sounds, but also juxtaposing images or tv images on top of each other in anticipation that this technique could lead to interesting new images or sounds. We can safely say that the Post Modern concept of a hyper-collage has been an obsession for us for over 45 years. This idea reached for us its zenith in 2003 with the double cdr release on Somnabulant Corpse: No Holiday Without a Funeral - Damaged Beyond Repair. This release was extremely deep (sometimes 20 layers deep), but also very, very data heavy (it crashed our at that time top of the line Apple computers). Despite this technical feat, the resulting albums never reached the level of complexity that we had in mind. The result just sounded muddy. In 2010 we tried it again. The sessions for Hallo Kaptein started in 2010 and were mixed in 2011. It follows the same collage approach and contains many found sounds that are layered. However, we consciously aimed at remaining sonically spread out, leaving space for the various layers to be heard in context to the other sounds that are stacked on top of them. Some of the tracks are very open and give a feeling of having been recorded outside, while others are more metallic and enclosed. The last title track of the album is a live improvisation by adding one instrument upon the next one. As this was recorded in one take, we depended heavily on a compressor to keep everything within an acceptable dynamic range. Although recorded more than 10 years ago we felt that Hallo Kaptein was a layering exercise in which we achieved, to our own ears, more acceptable results. Ellende was Martinus Antonius and JJ. Scholtz with many anonymous contributions. Recorded in Cape Town and Tokyo. https://ellende1.bandcamp.com/album/hallo-kaptein "Experimental music is not constrained to a specific part of the world. And experiments, in general, are everywhere: it's a 'human' thing to think outside of the perspective we're given in our upbringing, environment or culture. The only thing is that it is sometimes difficult to get informed about what is all happening outside our little bubble of western influences. But thankfully, sometimes, the sounds of these unknown territories reach our side. We get to hear so many beautiful things ... One of the lesser-known continents where experimental music is made in Africa. Still, the best-known experimental group from this continent is South-African (and Tokyo) based Ellende (Dutch / Afrikaans for 'misery'). They also have a label called Smeerlappen (tr: Scumbags), and in the player are two 3" CDRs from that label. "Hallo Kaptein" by Ellende is the first, and it contains six tracks with a total playing time of just under 18 minutes. Way too short if you ask me because what I hear is serious of a higher level. The combination of field recordings, vocals and (mostly?) synthetic sounds are folded into hypnotizing sound collages, which I simply can't get enough of. Especially the title track - with its almost 7 minutes also the longest track - is so subtly layered and has excellent sound perfectly aligned and mixed ... A constant tension because of subtle changes in the attack of the recurrent sounds, layers in the background that after a bit of while shifted from the back to the front and then back again. And the use of vocals where I must say that being Dutch, the Afrikaans is in a way foreign to me, but with enough overlap to understand the basics. Damn, 18 minutes. Replay. I need a complete CD. And I believe I understand the "ETERNALLY ILLUSIVE DRONESOUP" words on their website." [BW / Vital Weekly] 2022 €9.50
ELODIE (TIMO VAN LUIJK & ANDREW CHALK) Miniatures Persanes LP "Fourth album by Andrew Chalk & Timo van Luijk. 'A musical fantasy in two movements symbolising the evocative power and poetry of ancient illustration'. Edition of 300 copies." [label info] www.lasciedoree.be "Elodie’s Miniatures Persanes (‘Persian miniature’ I would venture) is the fifth album of Chalk’s collaboration with Timo van Luyk and released on Van Luyk’s private label La Scie Dorée. Available on both vinyl and in one of those beautiful handmade portfolio/slipcase covers that are also produced for Faraway Press albums, this record features two side long tracks that indeed conjure up images of Persia. The instrumentation and feel of Miniatures Persanes is not unlike that of The Circle Of Days, but there are differences that set it apart. The first side long track, Le Doigt d’Etonnement (The Surprising Finger?), is a slow drone-like piece, filled with reverbed instruments, backwards tapes and what sounds like wind (electronic or real), giving it a thick rotating sound. Despite the lack of some breathing space and, indeed, surprise in the track itself, this is a fine musical piece. The second side, Illuminations, fares even better with more pensive and transparent playing, that much-needed breath of air and even a hint of melody. With more variety in its structure and playing, I prefer this over the first side. Miniatures Persanes is a beautiful and reflective record, that works very well on a quiet winter evening." [FK/Vital Weekly] 2014 €17.50
Le Manteau d'Etoiles LP The fifth full length album by Elodie, here expanding on the first concert as a quartet given in Leuven, Belgium in November 2012 -with Tom James Scott : piano and Jean-Noel Rebilly : clarinet. “Le Manteau D’étoiles” collects ten airy instrumental spheres glowing and evaporating in a universal infinity like any moment in the panorama of everyday life. Released on Andrew Chalk’s Faraway Press label in an edition of 300 copies. The album contains a specially printed double-sided insert and postcard set, printed on 350 gramme cream paper stock. Mastering and cut by Noel Summerville at 3345 Lacquer cut, pressing on 160gramme vinyl, sleeve design and layout by Timo van Luijk, Andrew Chalk and Jos Moers. Faraway Press. www.farawaypress.info 2016 €18.00
  La Porte Ouverte LP La Porte Ouverte was recorded by Timo van Luijk, Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott and was cut by Noel Summerville at 33/45 in London. Available in a standard only edition and cut at 45 RPM for higher fidelity. 350 copies pressed. Sleeve is printed in reverse board with poly-lined inner sleeve. Any orders are always shipped vinyl out of main sleeve to prevent seam ripping. 'An open door... an exit... an entrance... a new horizon we never know where we are... as long as the door remains open there will be light...' www.farawaypress.info "Few musical artists have explored the notion of quietness as a virtue — and, let’s face it, as a reaction to the fetishization of high volumes in rock music — with as much rigor as Andrew Chalk and Timo van Luijk do in their Elodie duo. Performing live in about 2012 or so, opening for Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney, they held the audience in rapt silence, Chalk gently — barely — caressing the strings of his acoustic guitar and van Luijk only occasionally whistling with unbelievable restraint into his flute, was remarkable. Not to mention bold. It’s a potentially risky approach, but the control van Luijk and Chalk have in their interactions (not to mention their musical skill) means they have consistently been able to evince new forms of minimalism. For La Porte Ouverte, originally issued in 2016 on cassette, the duo is joined by Liberez pianist Tom James Scott, and his keys, added to subtly applied textures from other instruments, lead to a slight change in the overall aesthetic of Elodie. There was always a difference between Elodie live and their studio output, but on this album they shake off the shackles of lowercase altogether, removing the constraints of that genre’s formalism and delving into a delicate, moonlit realm somewhere between barroom jazz and modern minimalism. On most tracks, Tom Scott’s piano acts like a semi-regular metronome: emerging gradually but with confidence, delineating the atmosphere with patient, slow-building clusters of notes, arranged like outlines. Within — and even without — the resulting canvasses, Timo van Luijk and Andrew Chalk have the space to reflectively dab their own considered shades, reacting both to the piano and each other. “Matin de Marbre” shimmers like light on a marble statue, a thread-like keyboard note drifting anxiously in and out of tremulous piano notes. There are hints of Angelo Badalamenti’s compositions for David Lynch, especially the Straight Story soundtrack, in the aching tone of the instruments; it’s equally easy to imagine a lot of the tracks on La Porte Ouverte forming the backing track for a song sung by Isabella Rosselini in Blue Velvet. “La Marche” is more austere, with piano notes struck almost angrily by Scott only to find no echo in van Luijk and Chalk’s unflinching keyboard drone. Somewhere deep in the mix, van Luijk’s flute seems to echo like a defeated cry, but that could just be my ears finding textures that aren’t there. Or maybe they are, it’s hard to tell. As an entire album, La Porte Ouverte can have that effect, especially on the longer tracks. On average, the tracks on the first half are most minimal and quiet, borrowing most noticeably from lowercase traditions in the sparseness of the piano notes and barely audible flourishes on flute or guitar. Scott’s playing will instantly appeal to fans of Morton Feldman or Michael Nyman, whilst the keyboard arrangements evoke the ambient works of Fennesz or David Sylvian’s mid-1980s work (sans the vocals, of course). “Le Jardin Onirique” is the side’s longest work, and also the most abstract, fittingly given the title. A dreamlike quality drifts through much of the entire album, the earthiest moment coming with the emergence of Andrew Chalk’s guitar on “Par la Main,” as he sketches out a gentle series of scales to dance hesitantly with Scott’s piano motif, rewarding listeners with the most intimate piece on the album. In contrast, the second side features synths and keyboards more prominently, although don’t go thinking the results are lush or dense. Elodie make a virtue of stillness and calm, and the lengthier tracks (of eight, only three feature on side B) somewhat paradoxically underline this further. The title track drifts on a curtain of synthetic strings into which piano notes drop like rain into a pond. It’s a profoundly moving and melancholic piece, its apparent simplicity hiding a range of depths. Tom James Scott really shines, delicately deploying his notes only when necessary, and the synth arrangement is positively haunting. I’m not sure what the title, which translates as “The Open Door,” means, beyond maybe a sense of welcome, which this track certainly carries in abundance. The organ-drenched “Lumen” is possibly the loudest Elodie has ever got, the venerable church instrument building a foundation over which piano and vibraphone notes swirl like motes of dust caught in a shaft of light. Again, I find myself reaching for Badalamenti, but in truth that’s a lazy shorthand for music that is both emotionally-resonant and cinematic in scope. Elodie have jazz and minimalism in their bones, and feeling in their hearts, and by broadening their palette so effectively on La Porte Ouverte they have created an album as close to unique as you can get in 2016." [Joseph Burnett/Dusted Mag] "Utterly sublime ambient jazz from consummate, lower case collaborators, Timo Van Lujik and Andrew Chalk, joined here on piano by Tom James Scott (Charcoal Owls, Liberez) in a subtly breathtaking LP of melting romantic gestures and spectral electronics. Big recommendation if you're into David Lynch, Bohren Und Der Club of Gore, Af Ursin, Oren Ambarchi... Their 8th album - alternately released like all previous Elodie LPs since 2011 on the duo's respective labels, La Scie Dorée and Faraway Press - they navigate thee finest line of anticipatory tension and vaporous release, resulting in some of the most tender, unshowy yet arresting musical expressions that we’ve heard in years. In eight parts they expand, contract and drift off on shafts of moonlight, oscillating shorter vignettes which appear like magnetically suspended bonsai trees - as with the hyaline delicacy of Matin de Marbre or the latinate acoustic guitar that slides between the silken ambient tones and Feldman-meets-Sakamoto keys of Par La Main - with longer sections such as the midnight stroller Le Jardin Onirique and the B-side’s sail-away suite of three pieces, including the unmissable title track, afford teasingly intangible visions of a sound which we’re sure everyone can agree, is some of the most beautiful music imaginable. We were lucky enough to catch the duo in this record’s line-up with Tom James Scott at Salford’s Islington Mill in 2016, where we witnessed them totally silence the room with an almighty, barely-there demonstration of how to enchant a crowd. As with everyone else in the room, we were duly pinned to our seat for the duration, with incidental creaking chairs and refrigerator hum only heightening the sublime tension whilst waiting for the trio’s next, curious jazz chord in sequence, or when attempting to follow their chromatic gasses off into the ether. Like the weeks after seeing their show last year, you just kinda want to make sure everyone in earshot knows about or can at least get a glimpse of this music. It just seems to reset everything..." [Boomkat] 2017 €16.50
ELPH VS. COIL Worship the Glitch CD "Bei ELpH vs Coil handelt es sich mitnichten um zwei Bands, die "gegeneinander" antreten. Vielmehr bezeichneten Coil mit ELpH die Gesamtheit an Sounds, die aus Versehen, ungewollt oder zufällig aus ihrem elektronischen Equipment herausflossen: Brummen, Zischen, Stottern, Knirschen, Fiepen usw. All das verarbeiteten Coil auf ihrem 1995 veröffentlichten Album "Worship The Glitch" zu - im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes - verstörenden Klanggebilden, die vielfach für offene Münder sorgten. Nicht nur, weil die Produktion weit weg war von allem, was die Formation bislang herausgebracht hatte. Vor allem waren die meisten Musikhörer Mitte der 90er mit ästhetisch radikalen Stilen wie Glitch (dt. "Störung"), Click & Cuts oder IDM schlicht überfordert: keine Rhythmen, keine Beats, keine Harmonien. Stattdessen sperrige elektroakustische Fragmente, die bei Coil zudem gewohnt düster ausfielen, und alles andere als komfortablen Musikgenuss versprachen. Die von Josh Bonati remasterte und Coil-Mitglied Drew McDowall überwachte Wiederveröffentlichung von "Worship The Glitch" erscheint bei Dais Records." "Unexplainable" may well be the best explanation for the members of the UK based electronic outfit COIL. Making a radical shift from intentional accessibility, by means of traditional pop songwriting, to abstract happenstance, Coil had entered into a new phase in their career...uncharted waters utilizing what was then the newest computer technology, digital and analog synthesis and the newly formed ideas that something outside of themselves was steering the ship. During the studio sessions that developed into what would become “Worship the Glitch”. Coil became aware of random compositions emitting from their gear, and were at odds with constant ?”accidents” that were perpetually plaguing the recordings. The band called these unintentional emissions "ELpH": a conceptual being that is one part physical equipment, one part celestial being...constantly playing the role of trickster, throwing a wrench into Coil’s methodology. Eventually, these accidents and mistakes were embraced by the band, and the process of misusing audio software to create intentional "errors" was adopted as a musical technique. The acceptance of the "mistake", and the use of discovered mistakes as intentional elements slowly became the drive and concept behind the album, thus birthing the title “Worship the Glitch”. Originally released in 1995 on Coil’s in-house imprint Eskaton, Worship the Glitch was Coil’s first proper album-length attempt at conceptual ambient composition, with a radical focus on chance. Seamless vignettes of shattered electronics (though ebbing softly and in delicate balance with each other) provide an underlying uncertainty and discomfort to the listener. Dais Records presents the official reissue of "ELpH vs Coil - Worship the Glitch". Remastered by engineer Josh Bonati and supervised by Coil's Drew McDowall, the vinyl release is pressed onto double 12" LP vinyl (from the original 10" release), and is packaged in a gorgeous 24pt stock matte gatefold LP with sticker and vellum track listing insert. Comes on black vinyl and a limited edition on translucent yellow vinyl. Also available on digipack CD." 2018 €16.50
ELUVIUM Similes CD "Matthew Cooper wurde 2003 zu ELUVIUM und brachte sogleich frischen Wind in eine Ambient Electronic Szene, deren Luft zusehends stickiger geworden war. Beeinflusst von neoklassischen Helden wie Erik Satiey und Philip Glass schmuggelte ELUVIUM emotional mitreißende Melodien ins Auge eines Hurricanes aus Nebel und Fuzz und wurde so eher zufällig zu einem Komponisten, der gern in einem Atemzug mit den Namen seiner Helden genannt wird. Nach "Copia" aus dem Jahr 2007 waren ELUVIUM ein Jahr lang auf Tour unterwegs - oft und gern auf einer Bühne mit den Labelkollegen von EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY. Doch mitten im Jahr 2008 drängte es Cooper in eine neue Richtung. Nach fünf Alben in ebenso vielen Jahren setzte eine gewisse Selbstzufriedenheit ein. Ein Jahr verging, ohne dass ein neues ELUVIUM Album erschien. Tatsächlich vergingen ganze drei Jahre. In der Zeit veröffentlichte Cooper mit "Miniatures" ein Soloalbum, schrieb den Soundtrack zu dem Kinofilm "Some Days Are Better Than Others" und brachte ein Vinyl Boxset heraus, das jedem Hörer den Atem verschlug. Nachdem "Copia" geschrieben und wieder verworfen wurde, wagte Cooper mit "Similes" den kreativen Quantensprung: erstmalig finden sich hier Percussion, eine Songstruktur und Gesang. "Similes" verschmelzt die typische traumartige Aura von ELUVIUM mit dem lakonischen Gesang von Cooper - als ob sich ein extrem grüblerischer Ian Curtis Gedanken über MAGNETIC FIELDS und Brian Eno macht. www.myspace.com/eluviumtaken " [Label info / Cargo] "The long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed Copia, ELUVIUM takes a courageous creative leap with Similes, an eight-song album featuring three key musical elements previously uncharted by Eluvium: percussion, a verse-chorus song structure, and singing. For a celebrated experimental musician, it was just about the bravest and scariest direction to go. In this way, Similes is the most truly experimental Eluvium album yet, and also the most accessible. Written, performed and recorded as always by MATTHEW COOPER’s own Watership Sounds studio, Similes marries Eluvium’s trademark dream-like aura with Cooper’s unique, laconic vocals, akin to an especially contemplative Ian Curtis with trace reflections of Magnetic Fields and Brian Eno. It is the most daring—and ultimately most rewarding—work of Eluvium’s impressive and prolific career." [original label info] www.temporaryresidence.com 2010 €13.00
EMERGE Relativity (SOLD OUT) 7 Ein neues Experimentalprojekt wird mit der DR-64 gewürdigt, EMERGE aus Augsburg schafft mit tiefen, schweren Sounds eine Atmosphäre wie unter Tage oder in einer Katakombe...alle Klänge basieren dabei auf field recordings.. “ EMERGE is a new project from Augsburg in South-Germany. After two self-released tapes & CDrs, DRONE Records is very pleased to officially present this great audio-work to a wider audience. The two tracks here (‘Relativity’ and ‘Profundity’) carries the listeners into very deep & low sound-regions throughout mysterious low rumblings & mechanized loops added by various distorted voices arising from beyond. This atmospheric feeling is like being under the earth or even underwater. It’s something that sounds like deep breathings coming from an invisible abyss that would create a psychic room inside it where the darkness is without any boundaries; no time or logic whatsoever: it’s the primal state of being. Filed under: amorph catacomb-drones YELLOW - BLACK SPRINKLED VINYL. HANDMADE COVERS WITH EXTREME PROCEDURES: PARTLY PAINTED & BURNED !!! “ [press release] 2003 €6.00  
EMERGE + RE-DRUM Persecutory Delusion CD-R "Although recorded at a concert series titled “NoiseAngriff” (noise attack) in Berlin, this live collaboration is actually a lot less harsh than one might expect. The paranoia suggested by the title might be felt in the dark ambient dronescapes, though. In this slowly evolving set, the two performers connect to their roots in drone ambient, combining harmonic, yet vaguely ominous electronic textures with small concrete sounds. Over the course of some 45 minutes, Russian artist Re-Drum and his German colleague EMERGE create a vast expanse of sound through which they navigate with tentative movements, like ships in dark uncharted waters in the night." "Zusammenarbeit von Emerge mit Re-drum: und zunächst ist da ein geradezu ambientes Abtasten; Noise und Nicht-Ton als feingliedrige Bestandteile eines sehr luftigen Gewebes, das die beiden wie fast nicht spürbar im Laufe dieses One-Trackers verdichten, immer enger werden lassen. Durch dynamische Interventionen genau so wie durch ein zunehmendes Herausdrängen der Stille als zunächst noch gleich bedeutendes Element der Musik. Re-drum + Emerge verzichten aber (mit Blick auf den im positiven Sinne fragilen Gesamteindruck von „Persecutory Delusion“ dankenswerterweise) darauf, das Stück in irgendwelche vordergründigen Rechteckwellen-Verdichtungen zu schieben. Statt dessen tauchen zwischendurch überaschenderweise auch tonale Fragmente auf, wie verwehte Flächen, ein Anriss tatsächlicher Harmonie. Und ganz am Ende so etwas wie ein Fall in einen Sog… Wie ein aus der Inspiration des Moments entwickeltes Gesamtes; gemacht aus Zutaten, die, einzeln betrachtet, eigentlich nicht zusammenpassen können. Zusammen aber wird aus Zufall Werk. Wie bisher in dem endlosen Strom aus dem Hause Emerge auf Fake-Vinyl-CDr, jetzt neu in bedruckter Stecktasche." [N/Black Magazin] www.attenuationcircuit.de 2016 €7.00
EMMANUEL, J.D. Echoes from ancient Caves LP "Probably one of the most underestimate artist of electronic of the early ‘80, has been lately rediscover. Expert modulator of electronic and natural sounds, with this work Emmanuel seems to recall and reflect exstensively on that poetics of the cyclic and mantric sound investigated by other pioneers as Terry Riley and La Monte Young. The micro-tonal pattners of the compositions are animated by dense and minimum pulses that amplify the hypnotic and meditative dimension and can be coloured by tibetan suggestions or guitar glissandi of nocturnal taste. In this way the "Echoes from ancient caves", originally appeared only on tape in 1981, is ideally connected to the previous experimentations of "Rain Forest Music (1981) and Wizards (1982). 500 copies on black vinyl + download link for digital edition." [label info] www.blacksweatrecords.com 2014 €20.00
EMPUSAE Geesten 7 Techno Noir, durchaus tanzbar, aber mit ungewöhnlichen Sounds & Ambient-Passagen versehen.... Schweres Vinyl und dickes Booklet-Cover mit Zeichnungen... “Geesten is an exorcism on vinyl by the belgian artist Empusae, who releases his ghosts by banging the electronic drums. Hypnotic constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions for the intelligent dancer.” [label description] 2003 €7.50
ENGLISH, LAWRENCE & WERNER DAFELDECKER Shadow of the Monolith LP "Shadow of the Monolith is the collaboration of acclaimed artists Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker. Recorded across the Antarctic Peninsula and produced in Brisbane Australia, Shadow of the Monolith works across aesthetic disciplines exploring electroacoustic transformations of atmospheric, hydrophonic and ionospheric materials. The raw materials have been layered, processed and structured into a record that drifts from dense microscopic cracks to vibrant shifting frequencies, from sections of profound white stillness to storms of intense activity, from intense light to improbable dark and from immersive macro-spaces to non-spaces. Lawrence English is composer, media artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilizes a variety of approaches including live performance and installation to create works that ponder subtle transformations of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception. Werner Dafeldecker’s background is in European modern music and improvisation, examination of graphical notations, Fluxus, minimal music, electro acoustic music, jazz and field recordings. His musical projects are often inspired and deduced by outside influences such as architecture, physics, photography and film. Longtime sound and structure studies and the formulation of distinct articulations are in the center of his work as a composer and musician and are parallel to technological developments often connected with electronic form. Shadow of the Monolith comes in a limited edition of 300 copies, cut by CGB at Dubplates and Mastering and pressed on 140gram black vinyl. Recorded at Marambio and Esperanza bases, Antarctica Summer 2010 Written and produced by Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker. Cover Photo by Lawrence English www.lawrenceenglish.com www.dafeldecker.net This project has been supported by Austro Mechana LP designed by wearestillbb.com Released on the 18th of November 2014" [label info] www.holotype-editions.com "You may, I hope, have heard the names Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker before. The first is from Australia and uses his laptop to transform field recordings, while the second is from Austria and best known for his work in improvisation, Fluxus, minimal music and field recordings, among many other things. This record was recorded 'across the Antarctic Peninsula' and produced in Brisbane, 'exploring electroacoustic transformations of atmospheric, hydrophonic and ionospheric materials' - the microphone picks up signals from water, wind and the ground; all of which are then transformed using computer techniques. This album, though great as it is, is not as a big surprise as the one by Stefanou. Here we have some solid constructions of treated field recordings, the breaking of waves and ice, stale wind over polar landscapes and all such like. It's sometimes quite dark and haunting, like an endless winter night in these regions, but it's not exclusively like that. Light shimmers through this here, occasionally and throws a long shadow over the material. Sometimes it becomes even musical, when it hints towards a melody or rhythm, such as in the final piece 'Outtake'. Though not a surprise per se, I think this is a great record. Dark yet imaginative, cool but not cold, it's a fine record of nicely retuned field recordings. Exactly, probably the kind of thing you would expect from these two composers." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2015 €17.50
ENKIDU Live in Kyoto do-LP Mitschnitt eines Konzertes dieses Projekts mit der TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS-Legende CHIE MUKAI vom 12. Mai 2004, die in Kyoto mit SEIICHI YAMAMOTO (Gitarre, Electronics, Percussion) und ERIC CORDIER (Hurdy-Gurdy, Electronics) zusammentraf. Zu hören gibt lebendige Drone-Improvisationen mit surrealem & expressivem Flair; das ganze kommt im Siebdruck-Cover, limitiert auf 525 Exemplare. "Enkidu is the mythical Japanese psychedelic noise project of legendary performers Chie Mukai (Taj Mahal Travelers, Che-SHIZU, East Bionic Symphonia, Dadnur), Eric Cordier & Seichi Yamamoto (the Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, Rashinban, Ontoko). Over four bruised side-long cuts, Live in Kyoto faithfully captures the intensity of one particularly eviscerating evening of ritualized self expression at Kyoto's Tanq space in 2004. This is liminal ecstatic drone, clatter & relentless sound bursts with a rough-around-the-edges vibe that maintains a loose kinetic debt to everything from La Monte Young & the Theater of Eternal Music to Keiji Haino, AMM & Fushitsusha. Hand-numbered edition of 525, 2 X 180 gram vinyl housed in a black silkscreened bottom-folded heavy jacket. Chie Mukai (kokyu, electronics, voice, percussion & dance) Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar & electronics & percussions) Eric Cordier (hurdy-gurdy & electronics)." [label info] label: www.locustmusic.com 2007 €22.00
ENSEMBLE PEARL same CD "Cosmic heavy amplified rock drops and ripples, auras radiate and expand into cloudforms, through which lightning bolts. Tides rise, the moons wax upon a place somewhere between Link Wray, Hex-era Earth and early Tangerine Dream. The echoes return, leaving a trail that blows and drifts, creating a separate piece. The metal of coils is the metal of the earth, the air... the meteoric and primal elements found in space. ENSEMBLE PEARL reaches through the clouds and atmospheres and brings it all back down to the ground, to forge further creations for woman and man. This music production is inspired by rock from the classic era (’50s through ‘70s) and acousmatic contemporary composition alike. Ensemble Pearl are ATSUO, WILLIAM HERZOG, MICHIO KURIHARA and STEPHEN O’MALLEY. Their debut album also features the elemental forces of EYVIND KANG and TIMBA HARRIS. These players have all moved air and earth in many other projects and can create monolith and river alike on their own—but for Ensemble Pearl they give and take, knowing and understanding each other’s strengths and lack of weakness. Rather than blast sheets of air-filling sound, their contributions float the space with positive and negative dynamics. There are no borders being patrolled, allowing Ensemble Pearl to move from place to place unhindered. Over the course of six sides of music (and four sides of vinyl) they ride the jet stream as the world revolves slowly below, static almost, shimmering imperceptibly, mostly water. In and amongst the sprays of foam, there’s a wash of twin-lead psych-proggery, a raft of tribal-beat sun worship, a passing rumble of neck-stretching, some delicate noiseblowing, a bit of float-and-drone and finally, a majestic drift into the deep waters of dub atmosphere. From these heavy vibration masters, with their ear-shattering antecedents, these are new horizons, first dreamed of, then visited and played upon." [label info] www.dragcity.com 2013 €15.50
ENTRELACS Cynorrodhon (SOLD OUT) 7inch ENTRELACS ist das neue Projekt von YANNICK DAUBY und MICHAEL NORTHAM, auf dieser Single präsentieren sie detailreiche, hochfrequente mikro-drones.. “Originally our label wanted to present YANNICK DAUBY’s solo work, knowing him from some fabulous field-recordings (unfortunately most of them are still unreleased), he came up with a new project he has put together with “organic-drone-master ” MICHAEL NORTHAM, known from several beautiful installations and field-recording releases. Both are present in their new project going under the name of ENTRELACS. Here they enchant us with live improvisation of high-frequency drones & overtones, some concrete microscopic sound-objects as well as a rumbling appearing from time to time. It’s like millions of small sounds condensed together here... very rich in details. The B-Side is more challenging with a much stranger and darker atmosphere using sharp & sawing clear sounds. Somehow this music seems to reveal no “outer” or “objective” rhythm but rather the ‘inner-essence’ of nature itself. The title of this record ‘Cynorrodhon’ is the name of a plant also named "Rosier des chiens" in French. It develops “delicate flowers in spring time, red fruit in autumn and bears spines the whole year.” (Yannick Dauby) Filed under: organic micro/macro-drones. CLEAR VINYL. BEAUTIFUL PRINTED COVERS WITH PICTURE OF CYNORRODHON. EACH COPY HAS A STAMPED DRONE SUN & AN HANDWRITTEN CATALOGUE-NUMBER.” [press release] 2003 €6.00  
ERIK M (eRikm) Sixperiodes CD Kollektion von sechs sehr unterschiedlichen Stücken für Tanz, Theater und Kino (2001-2004) von dem aussergewöhnlichen französischen Komponisten & Klangkünstler, der mit Computern, Turntables, Objekten & was auch immer arbeitet. Feinste konkrete Mikro-Sounds wirbeln hier herum und bilden doch kohärente Klangmuster, ob Drones, Pianotupfer, elektronische Sounds, konkrete cut-ups, ERIK M erschafft eine musikalische Sprache für die es noch keinen Namen gibt, die dynamisch-aggressiv aber auch sehr poetisch und surreal-zart sein kann. Für Sound-Explorer ! "sixpériodes departs from composed and improvised fragments of different media from dance or theatre performances, silent films or dance-conferences. far from standard soundtrack music, each creation here is accomplished using diverse approaches and techniques that demonstrate the most personal skills of erikm in combining different material - digital and acoustic sounds, field recordings and vinyl manipulations - in a unique way. his primary aim is no longer simply to quote his system of references but to create for himself a bank of singular material to compose without referring to other works, thus approaching a subtle abstraction and a sense of pause within contemporary sonic agitation. erikm has collaborated with the likes of fennesz, otomo yoshihide, musique concrète composer luc ferrari and avant turntablist christian marclay. he has released on such labels as hathut, for4ear, asphodel, metamkine, sonoris and others." (label info) “Described as a "display of ErikM compositions for dance, theatre and cinema between 2001 and 2004", this album is a charming alternative in the congested field of laptop/acousmatics, being imbued with a determined research for a sonic biology whose purpose goes far beyond the "soundtrack" definition. ErikM's target appears to be the action of freezing what moves into aural snapshots: he reduces his perceptions to the bare minimum, using fragments of intuition and sampled snippets to find a connection with the functions of the body, which most of this music seems to represent in an almost graphic manner. It feels like there is a strong correlation with the automatic reactions of our nervous system, most sounds zapping around like a stimulated grasshopper, therefore effectively fulfilling their scope of demarcating choreographic schemes and underlining images. This music is indeed extremely visual, yet absolutely suggestive when taken as pure electroacoustic circumstance, completely original and honestly transcendental but at the same time very substantial.” [Massimo Richi / Touching Extremes] “....It's hard to tell what is on those records and tapes, but throughout everything jumps and skips around like crazy, creating things to be very vibrant and lively. Most of the times rhythmical in a sort of non-linear way (even when it's a dance record!), combined with elements of noise and musique concrete, this also jumps stylistically all over the place, moving from strict improvised parts, such as the opening 'Les Paesines' to the more straight forward, almost industrialized rhythms 'Paris Qui Dort'. But that keeps the adrenaline of this disc going round and round. I enjoyed many of his collaborative works already, but as a first introduction to his solo work, I am even more impressed. Very good material...” [Vital Weekly] 2006 €15.00
ERLANDSSON, MATS 4-track Guitar Music do-LP 4-Track Guitar Music is the unassuming title of a cassette by Swedish composer Mats Erlandsson, which was originally released on Kali Maloneʼs and Maria W. Hornʼs XKatedral label in 2018. Composed using only, as the album title implies, a 4-track tape deck and an electric guitar, the music was later modified on the computer and re-amplified in the machine hall of Ställbergs Gruva, a disbanded Swedish iron mine. The music is primarily composed using melodic motifs and canonical structures in which a set of pitches are transposed in octaves and delayed, creating an ever-evolving cyclical polyphony. Contrary to the albumʼs modest title, the music is a tour-de-force of exuberance and stoic catharsis, continuously bordering on a sense of ecstatic serenity, sincere contemplation and restraint. Now Vaagner is proud to present the work on vinyl for the first time via a fully remastered reissue of 4-Track Guitar Music, with the Double LP including a bonus track titled "Cellar" by Mats Erlandsson which was not included on the original release. ~ As a composer, musician and sound artist, Mats Erlandsson is part of the vibrantly reemerging field of drone music in Stockholm, Sweden, and is associated with practices characterized by the extensive use of sustained sound. Erlandsson has undergone studies in composition in Stockholm, where he received a Masterʼs degree in Composition of Electronic Music. In addition to his own artistic practice, Erlandsson holds a position as studio assistant at the world-renowned Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm. He presents his work both as a solo artist and in collaborations, most notably together with Yair Elazar Glotman. https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/4-track-guitar-music 2021 €22.50
ESMERINE Dalmak CD "180 GRAMM VINYL LP INKLUSIVE POSTER + DOWNLOADCODE! Als ESMERINE mit "La Lechuza" 2011 ins Licht der Öffentlichkeit traten, war das Album das Signal für viele Dinge: es markierte die ersten Aufnahmen der Band nach sechs Jahren, ein erweitertes Line-Up und eine Songsammlung, die vom Leben und dem viel zu frühen Tod eine Freundes und Mitmusikers inspiriert war. Das neue ESMERINE Album ,Dalmak" stellt heraus, dass die Band nicht damit aufgehört hat, zu schreiben, zu entdecken und zu kollaborieren. Bruce Cawdron (Ex-GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR) und Cellistin Rebecca Foon (SILVER MT. ZION, SET FIRE TO FLAMES) haben den Percussionisten Jamie Thompson (UNICORNS, ISLANDS) und den Multiinstrumentalisten Brian Sanderson als vollwertige Mitglieder rekrutiert. Europäische Touren brachten ESMERINE zwischen 2011 und 2012 nach Istanbul; ,Dalmak" ist das Resultat dieses Besuches: Der Großteil des Albums wurde in Istanbul aufgenommen, wo die vier kanadischen Musiker Verstärkung von der gleichen Anzahl türkischer Gastmusiker bekam. ,Dalmak" ist ein türkisches Verb mit vielen Auslegungsmöglichkeiten: betrachten, sich auf etwas einlassen, eintauchen, baden, in etwas hineineilen, abstürzen. Als Albumtitel bezieht sich ,dalmak" wörtlich auf das Einlassen auf die Kultur und Musik von Istanbul, beschwört jedoch auch passenderweise die Spannweite der Musik, die hier herauskam: eine Sammlung von Songs, die zwischen meditativem Pulsieren und umarmender Hemmnis und spontanem Ausbruch in Rhythmus und Groove pendelt." [label info] www.cstrecords.com 2013 €14.00
Mechanics of Dominion LP 180G AUDIOPHILES VINYL INKL. EINEM SET AUS FÜNF 12 "X12" KUNSTDRUCKEN (ARTWORK VON JEAN-SÉBASTIEN DENIS AUS DER IMBRICATIONS-SERIE) + DOWNLAD-CODE "Mechanics of Dominion" entstand durch das moderne Kammer-Ensemble ESMERINE, das von Rebecca Foon (SALTLAND, SILVER MT. ZION) und Bruce Cawdron (GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR) gegründet wurde. "Mechanics of Dominion" ist vielleicht ESMERINEs' dynamischste und narrativ informierte Arbeit, die einen Bogen durch neoklassizistische, minimalistische, moderne zeitgenössische, Folk-, Barock-, Jazz- und Rock-Idiome verfolgt, um Klage, Meditation, Entschlossenheit, Widerstand und Hoffnung aufzurufen. Es ist ein Requiem für unseren unerträglich leidenden Planeten und ein Lobgesang für die unergründliche, wesentliche Würde der indigenen Ethik, der natürlichen Welt, die moderne menschliche Schwäche und den Einfallsreichtum. Stilistisch bringt "Mechanics of Dominion" Schlag-Instrumente in den Vordergrund, mit Marimba, Glockenspiel, Klavier und Spieluhr. Die Beiträge von Multi-Instrumentalist Brian Sanderson nehmen einen immer größeren Teil in ESMERINEs Songwriting ein - seine melodischen Linien auf Hörnern und akustischen Streichern sind Elemente der zeremoniellen Lyrik und beleben diesen Songzyklus. "Mechanics of Dominion" ist außerdem eine weitere Superlative im Anspruch an Covergestaltung und Verpackung, diesmal mit der Arbeit des Montréal-Künstlers Jean-Sebastien Denis, die das komplizierte Gleichgewicht des Albums von Abstraktion, Spannung und emotionalen Färbungen genial widerspiegel 2017 €22.50
  Everything was forever until it was no more LP Deluxe 180gram vinyl edition comes in a foil-embossed and die-cut cardstock jacket with printed inner sleeve and additional 12x12 art cards featuring the collages of Maciek Szczerbowski. All the art interacts with the die-cut jacket framing. Edition of 300. Rooted in a distinct and immediately identifiable sound_with the cello of Rebecca Foon (Saltland, Set Fire To Flames, Thee Silver Mt Zion) and the marimba of ex-Godspeed You! Black Emperor percussionist Bruce Cawdron at its core_Esmerine has long embroidered emotive chamber works using threads of post-classical, post-rock, Minimalism, neo-Baroque, jazz, pop and a wide array of folk traditions. Multi-instrumentalist Brian Sanderson, who joined the group in 2012, has furthered Esmerine's melodic and ethnomusicological sensibility ever since, expanding the ensemble's palette as its third core member with guitars, ngoni, ekonting, hulusi, brass horns of all sorts, and more. Since 2003, six stately and filmic instrumental albums have inscribed compositional landscapes through epigrammatic miniatures, longform multi-movement chronicles, and all manner of evocative musical prosody between. Marked by an inimitably turbid yet tempered pastoralism, alternately lit by dappled dawn and disquieted dusk, Esmerine's musical narratives balance asceticism and romanticism, melancholy and hope, stillness and wanderlust. Esmerine now shares Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More, its seventh full-length album and first in five years. The band surprise-dropped the full album digitally on 06 May 2022, with the CD and Deluxe 180gram LP editions hitting stores on official release date 26 August 2022. Following an acclaimed run of mid-career records on Constellation through the 2010s_the last three of which have all been finalists or winners of Juno Awards for Instrumental Album of the Year and/or Album Packaging of the Year_Esmerine began working on new music at decade's end. Under the auspices of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a summer 2019 residency at Le Château de Monthelon (an artist commune in France where the band has cherished long-standing spiritual, creative, and personal connections), compositional seeds were planted_and then pandemic rooted everyone in place. In between lockdown waves, at the respective rural Québec homesteads of Cawdron and Foon, longtime co-producer Jace Lasek (The Bernard Lakes) began capturing the band in various stripped-down configurations with spartan remote equipment. More fulsome arrangement and overdub sessions at Foon's converted barn during the summer of 2021 brought the album to full fruition_where a notable increase in the use of acoustic piano also poured forth, with just about every band member having a go. The record also signals the definitive integration of bassist Philippe Charbonneau_having joined Esmerine as a touring member pre-pandemic, he plays throughout the album on upright and electric bass, with turns on piano and synth, as well as sound design contributions via tape echo and other processing. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More grapples with the existential tensions between atmosphere and airlessness, seclusion and claustrophobia, forbearance and coalescence. In many ways it is one of Esmerine's most restrained records. Only a few passages are driven by full percussion. There is palpably less Sturm and Drang or overt crescendos compared to its recent predecessors. The new album roils with a different sort of dynamic intensity, where instrumental densities ebb and flow within an overtonal centre, melding into each other with gauzy timbral warmth, sometimes tracing fleeting tendrils outwards, but always rotating around a saturnine gravitational force. Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More is like a dark forest lit by a closely-orbiting opalescent planet; it could be the alternate score to Von Trier's Melancholia or Cormac McCarthy's The Road. https://esmerine.bandcamp.com/album/everything-was-forever-until-it-was-no-more 2022 €27.50
ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO Re-Pulsion 10inch " 'Re-Pulsión' includes four outstanding versions/mixes of tracks from ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO's last album "Pulsión", made by four unique talents of the international electronic scene. A long-time genius of the genre is ATOM TM (aka Atom Heart, Señor Coconut, Lassigue Bendthaus etc), who has delivered an impressive and irresistible rhythmic version of "Metallum", using his personal and unique style. FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER, pioneer and frontman of electronic minimalist/microscopic scene and one of the founders of acclaimed label Raster-Noton, collaborates on a version of "Japo" in his typical style. MOST SIGNIFICANT BEAT, are a duo founded by Saverio Evangelista (ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO member) in 1991, and have produced an hypnotic version of "Aplicación Insospechada" and Swedish artist ANDREAS TILLIANDER (aka Mokira), who enjoys international fame as a producer of avant-garde techno dub and an experimental musician, offers his version of "Japo": pure harsh industrial music! This special vinyl-only release is strictly limited to 500 numbered copies. The beautiful cover design is printed on a special cardboard sleeve." [label info] www.geometrikrecords.com 2011 €18.00
ETANT DONNES Bleu do-LP Following the first ever vinyl reissues of Aurore and Royaume/Aimant + Aimant, Penultimate Press make available the final part of this extraordinary trilogy. Bleu is the final gesture and culmination of this period of creation where poésie and la nature form a magical alliance that resonates as an alchemical wedding. Having the conviction that Bleu was the ultimate arc based on the purity of natural sound and poetry, leaning towards a mystical spiritual search towards their own souls the band moved into comradery and collaboration with friends and ideals such as Lydia Lunch and Alan Vega. A1. Aime - Moi A2. Droite A3. Mercure B1. Sirène B2. S'envole C1. Pierre Lune C2. Comète D1. Force De L'amour https://penultimatepress.bandcamp.com/album/bleu-2 "There are artefacts within the history of recorded music that stand entirely on their own; bound to the circumstances of their moment, while owing allegiance to none. Such is the case of Étant Donnés’ Bleu, originally issued by the legendary Staalplaat imprint in 1994, now receiving its first ever vinyl pressing by Penultimate Press. The final instalment of a tetralogy of field recording based works by the duo, preceded by Aurore, Royaume and Aimant + Aimant - also previously reissued by Penultimate Press - the album’s subtle textures, natural ambiences, and disarming vocalizations are imbued with a startling sense of intimacy, weaving a free-standing aural context from the inner and outer worlds of the singular minds that brought it to be. Founded in 1977 by Morocco born brothers, Eric and Marc Hurtado, Étant Donnés - taking their name from Marcel Duchamp's last major work - belongs to the flowers of sonic creativity and experimentation that developed in the wake of punk, hybridising the techniques and approaches of the avant-garde and DIY with countercultural attitudes, across a body of work more than 30 albums deep - including collaborations with Alan Vega, Genesis P. Orridge, Michael Gira, Lydia Lunch, Philippe Grandrieux, Mark Cunningham, and Bachir Attar - that traversed the fields of experimental film, performance, musique concrète, field recording, and experimental music. Bleu, originally released in 1994, is the fourth in a tetralogy of records that includes Aurore, Royaume and Aimant + Aimant, each being works of musique concrète built from body of field recordings and poetic utterances by the duo. Like its predecessors, the album not only defies all standard notions of genre, but deftly avoids orthodox perceptions of what its core practices usually entail. Eight works - spanning four sides of the double LP - rise as meetings of whispers - the whispering voices of the brothers intervening with the whispering textures produced by nature and discreet acts - seemingly resting at the verge of a violent scream that never comes. Field recordings of natural occurrences and intentional actions intertwine, blurring the boundaries purpose and chance, as subtle deployment of sound collage challenges the location of the artist’s hand, laying a striking foundation for the raw and unmediated vocals that punctuate the album’s length; the sounds of splashing water, scraping pebble, crackling fire, percussive rhythms, the rustles of nature, and the human voice building an uncanny body of magical narratives that points the brothers’ roots in the work of Duchamp. Fascinating, immersive, deeply personal, and remarkably tense, Étant Donnés’ Bleu is a revelatory inner world; a creative wonder unlike any other that gives the impression of having appeared fully formed. Issued by Penultimate Press in its first ever vinyl edition - spanning a full twoLPs - and its first ever reissue of any kind since its original 1994 CD release, this one is not to be missed." [Soundohm] 2021 €35.00
EVAPORI Dia-Logos LP For nearly two decades Oliver Peters has been working as Evapori, with releases on Entr'acte, Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, 1000füssler as well on his own now defunct Antiinformation imprint he used to run with his close collaborator Nicolas Wiese since the early 2000's. Following his highly acclaimed Kárka LP (Walter Ulbricht, 2018), Dia-Logos... marks Evapori's 4th full-length album, on which Peters explores and busts the boundaries between concrete music, sound poetry and contemporary classical music. Involved in the creation of this album were his fellow artists Martin Lau, Peter Schlewinski, Markus Wettstein as well as his longtime co-conspirator Ditterich von Euler Donnersperg. Oliver Peters is living and working north of Hamburg. All music written by Oliver Peters 2014-2019, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, artwork by Nicolas Wiese. Released in an edition of 300 copies on black vinyl, including download-code. https://fragmentfactory.bandcamp.com/album/dia-logos-i-dia-logos-ii-dia-logos-i-ii-conclusion-imitation 2020 €18.00
EX COCAINE / YELLOW SWANS Split LP "Two-storied USA duo institutions share war stories across twelve miles of raw wax, and the rest of us are lucky enough to eavesdrop. Missoula, Montana's Ex-Cocaine continue roping that weird rambling wind that seems to stir the soul and keep America mellow, and the pair of anthems they jam out here encapsulates the whole breadth of their sea-to-shining-sea cosmosis. Plainsong guitar lassoes around loose-limbed percussion flame-fanning, building and burning till a boss bonfire glows on the horizon, then they close out the side with a ragged and earnest Meat Puppets cover that's become a live staple of late. Real and roamin'. On the B, Yellow Swans channel a supreme slice of psychedelic eulogy that cuts twice as deep with the knowledge that after many a summer (they birthed in 2002-ish) dies the Swan. Pete and Gabe's DYS saga has spanned the decade and their impending non-existence will be lamented all over the world, so the more 11th hour record books they want to stencil with their electric synergies, the better for all of us. R.I.P.eace out. In a stunning "sexy legs" kaleidoscopic masterpiece art jacket by Religious Knife Maya Miller. Half on bleached olive vinyl, half on black. Edition of 600." [label info] 2008 €15.50
EYELESS IN GAZA Caught in Flux CD "Originally released in 1981, this is the first time "Caught In Flux" has been available on CD. The album features 17 tracks that includes the very rare "The Eyes Of Beautiful Losers" 12", which was only available with the original vinyl." [label info] www.cherryred.co.uk 2008 €14.00
FAITH & DISEASE / JEFF GREINKE Dream the Red 10 Traurig-fragile Kompositionen zwischen dark wave und sad ambient, eine ungewöhnliche Zusammenarbeit des ambient-composers GREINKE und der PROJEKT Records-Band! 300 Stck auf rotem Vinyl! Auch als mCD erhältlich.. “The second WEIRD AMPLEXUS releases a incredible collaboration between the great FAITH & DISEASE (do you remember their last album on PROJEKT?) and the well known master of ambient electronic JEFF GREINKE... DREAM THE RED CLOUDS is a 21 minutes of pure poetry. Pure emotions as maybe only the old AREA knew how to put in music... Sweet harmonies with a celestial voice that speaks to our souls... and the little dark sounds that penetrates in our bodies... do you want to classify this release? Well, file it among gothic-dark-ambient... but the reality that it's only pure poetry. This release is published on MCD in special package (the cover is the same of the 10") and in ltd.300 copies 10" VINYL.” [Amplexus press release] 2002 €10.00
FALX CEREBRI (FâLX çèRêBRI) Trials Textures Errors CD "Almost 7 years in making, finally this milestone of pioneering & legendary german noise outfit is released - more than 25 years after the last recorded FâLX çèrêbRi track, compiles several contributions to compilations, as well as outtakes, erratic experiments, live cuts and unreleased tracks. Release date is 28th July 2014. Limited edition of 500 copies in jewelcase." [label info] "If it wasn't for a German guy named Graf Haufen I would probably not have started a record label, even when it was a cassette label at that time. This was thirty years ago, the summer of 1984. I had a made a booklet, a sort of 'discogs-on-paper', listing all Dutch cassette releases and Graf Haufen wrote about it in his German fanzine, Die Katastrophe. He then informed if I'd be interested in compiling a cassette with the 'loudest' Dutch electronic music acts, which became 'Katacome Vol. 3', which was then co-released by his Schrei Records and my own Korm Plastics label. The second release was 'Rite 64', a tape by Falx Cerebri, the musical project of Graf Haufen. I was envious of what he did: selling music, doing art, doing fanzines, mail-art, music, studying and I was surprised to learn he was even four months younger than I was. For a while I assumed he was much older. While I am hardly an archivist of any kind, I still have a mailer right here, containing all of the correspondence I received from him, including all his fine print catalogues and we see a friendship grow and crumble together. Graf Haufen went into Neoism, was a bit too critical about my releases and mail-art - quite rightly probably - and quickly we lost contact. He went into art and video circles and I stayed with music. In the late 90s I re-issued all of the Korm Plastics cassettes on CDR and tracked Graf Haufen down, then owning a video store in Berlin, who gave me some nice bonus material for the Falx Cerebri CDR re-issue. In the very early days of the Vinyl On Demand label there was talk of some highly limited Falx Cerebri LPs, but they never emerged, so this CD is the first true document available (the CDR also disappeared a long time ago, sadly). But, so you may ask, was the music all about? Was it really something special? Browsing his old catalogues, Graf Haufen was interested in what he called 'anti-musick', by which he understood not just industrial music, but also cruder forms of musique concrete. On 'Rite 64' it's all a bit more 'classic' industrial, with synthesizers, radio snippets, tape-loops and delay, and thus perhaps a bit more musical, but on this CD the emphasis lies more in the electro-acoustic aspect of his work. I played both this one and 'Rite 64' again, and while I still like the latter, this new compilation of pieces is stronger. Here we have quite a bit of contact microphone abuse, 'Scanning No. 2' for instance, vocal pieces, field recordings and synthesizer pieces, such as the 'The Eighth Enochian Key'. Rudimentary tape loops are used, but also cut-up/collage/montage techniques, scratchy records and all of that and it make up a more than excellent release. The only thing, but really that's just me, I would have liked to know more about these pieces, where they were released, live, unreleased etc. A documentation of some kind if you will." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2014 €12.00
FAVARON, GIANLUCA Equivalent XI CD "Following the publication of the extremely limited single-sided 12" record “Surfaces”, which occurred just a few months ago and is now hopelessly sold-out, Gianluca Favaron returns on 13 with a new solo work released in the prestigious "Private Sounds" series. Besides having published a few solo works, Favaron is part of Under The Snow along with Stefano Gentile and collaborates with Ennio Mazzon on the Zbeen project. In the past he has released music as Ab'she and was part of Lasik Surgery along with Pierpaolo Zoppo. Among his most recent releases we remember his collaboration with Corrado Altieri entitled "The System of Objects". "Equivalent XI" continues the path undertaken with "Surfaces", also benefiting from some excerpts that were already included in the aforementioned work, which are proposed again on this new CD. Starting from simple recordings of sounds produced by everyday objects (…such as paper, scissors, kitchen stuff etc.), treated mainly with two delay machines, Favaron has collected eleven compositions. The idea behind this new release is to create some patterns based on the repetition of small sound particles obtained from a single source. In the eleven tracks on the album, mostly of short duration, we witness the proliferation of particular sound events that, sometimes wandering alone or sometimes by congregating into small throbbing and vital lumps, generate a vibrant microcosm characterized by short loops, slowly but constantly evolving. In some cases, as for example in the more long-lasting closing number, the simplicity of the construct and the infinitesimal tonal progressions are appreciated for their intrinsic hypnotic quality. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, "Equivalent XI" is released in a limited edition of 250 copies that stands out for its essential graphics; the first 50 copies of the CD contain a real hand-numbered photograph." [label info] 13.silentes.it "On this new work he continues what he started on his previous record, 'Surfaces', a limited piece of vinyl which we didn't review (or hear), but which apparently deals with every day sounds - songs from the kitchen sink? - such as paper, scissors, kitchen stuff, which are treated with two delay machines and the result is eleven short pieces, from less than a minute up to five minutes. This is a most strange release, and if you know me, strange is not a word I use easily. This music has a certain naivety, or perhaps something rather 'simple' with the objects being played with relatively ease, but then captured or locked into a system of living electronics, bending and moving these 'easy' sounds around. Maybe it's all done in a very simple and direct way, much like it is suggested. And there is nothing 'wrong' with that. In the end it's the result that counts and that is result is something I like very much. It's very quiet music, almost accidental, 'I couldn't help it, it just happened', but of the variety that is usually associated with the label and the styles we know it for, ambient and drone." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2014 €12.00
FE-MAIL Voluptuous Vultures 10inch Wow, these girls are dangerous !! A slowly developing noise piece on side A, which begins very calm and droney and turns into something & harsh furious. The two pieces on Side B are also great with machine-like noise-structures, totally fragmented & effected voice-extracts, and more crazy cut-up sounds and weird concrete collages. Great record. “Standard Edition of 470 on black vinyl in full color foldover jacket, features absolutely stunning photos of these 2 vultures! 10” HOW CAN THIS MUCH NOISE COME FROM THESE 2 BEAUTIFUL CREATURES!!!!! Crazy Maja vocals! Insane Hild noise! More mayhem than one should be allowed to enjoy!!!! Psychocticly Hypnotic! September Release!” [label info] 2005 €12.50
FEAR FALLS BURNING The Carnival of ourselves CD "... beide CDs sind da natürlich erstmal für die interessant, die die limitierten LPs nicht haben, aber, nicht nur für die: neben schickem cover-artwork (martina verhoeven + carl clover/aleph) und genau so schicker ausführung als pappschuber, kommen beide reissues mit je einem, dafür gleich ellenlangen (27.57 + 34.22) bonustrack: "and the land torn down" (live aufgenommen von ronald marien am 16. may 2006 bei den audio-unit living room concerts in hamburg) und "dead wisdom". ersterer in unbedingt vergleichbarer qualität zu den auf "the infinite sea of sustain" kompilierten 6 konzerten, allerdings, im gegensatz zu den meisten der dort versammelten (und auch im gegensatz zu dem auf "the rainbow mirrors a burning heart" konservierten live-set) vollständig auf langsamen, fast endlosen aufbau setzend; ohne breaks, ohne harmonische veränderung, fast ein suchspiel, was sich / ob sich überhaupt etwas verändert / ab einem bestimmten punkt (etwas) verändert hat. perfekte ergänzung der oben genannten und musterbeispiel für "wie lange laufzeiten gleichzeitig hypnotisch UND abwechslungsreich anlegen“. "dead wisdom" dann gleich vom start weg sperriger; passt ja, ist / war die original "numb" ja auch schon. und viele der sounds auf "dead wisdom" sprechen dafür, dass alle drei stücke aus der gleichen session stammen. siehe z.b. die von mir damals als fast twang / surf / dub abstraktionen etikettierten, leicht schrägen, abstürzenden flächen, die auch hier, schon innerhalb der ersten 10 minuten, auftauchen. und nach ungefähr der hälfte der spielzeit auslaufen und vorgeben, das stück beenden zu wollen. nach dieser antäuschung dann der echte auslauf, fast 20 minuten lang... und tatsächlich: die "numb" bleibt auch in der extended version noch immer so ein ding ohne fassbaren anfang, ohne fassbares ende... irgendwie faszinierend." [N, Unruhr.de] "when the carnival of ourselves and i'm one of those monster numb with grace were originally released, dirk serries had only just started recording under the name of fear falls burning. the albums turned out to be decisive in shaping his vision of an ongoing drone-manifesto: during several exploratory sessions initiated in mid-2005, he quickly expanded the project's catalogue by a staggering eight releases within a single year. these would take the cosmic, post-rock- and kraut-infused production of his early recordings into new directions and eventually lead up to his current, raw and unpolished symbiosis of hypnotic guitar power and percussive thunder. the carnival of ourselves was the first full-length to follow the double-album »he spoke in dead tongues« and pointed towards an immersive and ghostly ambient sound. an extensive european tour, however, catalysed the inclusion of rock elements and heralded the advent of a more edgey and tribal approach: i'm one of those monster numb with grace, especially, was an important record, as it aligned the more refined studio output of fear falls burning with its direct and passionate live sound. as these strictly limited releases sold out in no time (resulting in numerous requests for a second print), tonefloat and fear falls burning decided to leave the legacy of the vinyl untouched and to reissue both albums on cd - featuring new cover designs and bonus tracks culled from the abovementioned sessions. the astounding quality of these discoveries from the vault should convince even those already in possession of a vinyl copy: the twenty-eight-minute »and the land torn down« (on the carnival of ourselves) at first seems to build into a dense, dirge-like drone-sheet but intruigingly cools off to a disturbing soundscape haunted by muffled feedback and echoes of theremin-chants. the monumental bonus track to i'm one of those monster numb with grace, »dead wisdom«, meanwhile, would have made for a complete album in its own right: thirty-four minutes of subcutaneous feedback hum lead the listener down a spiral staircase into a place of deep calm and tantric concentration." [label info] www.tonefloat.com 2009 €12.00
FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM (F.T.B.P.D.) Ahuenna CD-R "„AHUENNA“ ALBUM INFO: This album consists of a single, 45 minute long title. No computer, no digital sound preparer. Everything live. Contact microphone, sound effect units and various other sources. The entire piece was recorded at home in the studio of “Feine Trinkers bei Pinkels Daheim”. Pure, live produced sound. “Ahuenna” is a typical album but still different. With “Ahuenna” Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim has broken new ground and thus has the history of the project posted on. ABOUT FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM: Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim ist the experimental music project of J. Eberhard and it’s based in Bremen and have toured everything from the Netherlands to Switzerland and Russia extensively over the last 2 decades. In the last 2 decades, the project released unique vinyl CD and cassettes in multiple editions, usually personalised and with personalised hand-painted artwork. Every show of Feine Trinkers bei Pinkels is an experience for itself - it's timeless, it's a feast for the ears, and it's such a pleasure to see him doing all the work on stage when you just lean back staring at him, with his aural earbuds tickling your eardrums. Now, Yesterday or Tomorrow, and why do he have such an attention to detail - that's the question you will ask yourself." [label info] www.format-noise.com 2010 €9.50
  A Bug's Life CD "Jürgen Eberhard aka Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim celebrates 25 years of his artistic activity with the first full-length album on Zoharum entitled "A Bug's Life". keen observers of our activity certainly know his name, for instance from a common vinyl 7-incher entitled "Both Sides of The Looking Glass" shared with Bisclaveret duo or from the composition "Enigmatic Visions", which appeared on a commemorative compilation "07|100|15". "A Bug's Life" is the tenth full-length album in the discography of Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim. It was being created, like the previous ones, for several years and is another conscious artistic statement. Seven compositions included here are of a collage nature and combine echoes of post-industrial ambient, drone music, musique concrete, field recordings and even plunderphonics. On his first studio album since "Die Legende vom Heiligen Trinker" from 2011, Jürgen Eberhard consciously continues his sonic quest on a depleted terrain and he manages to avoid traps of empty experiments. "A Bug's Life" is at the same time an atmospheric, and even accessible, album, and sonically elaborate and demanding of the listener." [label info] www.zoharum.com "FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM ist ein Projekt, das ja eher unregelmäßig in der Musiklandschaft auftaucht, dabei aber bereits recht langlebig ist. Das letzte reguläre Album von JÜRGEN EBERHARD unter diesem Banner erschien 2011. „A Bug’s Life“ – so hieß übrigens auch der Pixar-Film „Das große Krabbeln“ im Original – widmet sich dem Namen entsprechend den Geräuschen von Insekten, die Grundlage für die Soundgestaltung des Albums gewesen sein sollen. Hierbei sollte man aber kein dauerndes, möglichst naturnahes Gezirpe oder Gesirre im Kopf haben – quasi ein Field-Recording-Overkill, sondern Klänge, die extrem stark bearbeitet und verfremdet wurden, wobei am Ende dennoch der Charakter von Sounds, die von Insekten erzeugt werden – auch knisternde, schabende Geräusche –, erhalten bleibt. Tatsächlich ist der Sound auf „A Bug’s Life“ aber relativ vielschichtig, teils auch wuchtig und massiv oder mit Drones durchsetzt, sodass das Ganze recht gut funktioniert und eben nicht an einen Abend auf der Terrasse erinnert. Auch Stimmen werden – verfremdet oder nicht – eingesetzt und Abwechslung kommt zusätzlich durch Stücke ins Spiel, die mit weiblichen Gesangslinien, die quasi als Zusatzinstrument fungieren, ausgestattet sind. Hier wäre wohl auch der Punkt, an dem man die Unterstützung von diversen Gästen wie u.a. MISS POLYESTER, FRL. LINIENTREU oder GENEVIÈVE PASQUIER erwähnen könnte. Das Klangspektrum reicht letztendlich von orientalisch angehauchten Sounds inklusive Rhythmus („Metallifekuwagamon“) bis hin zu düsteren Soundcollagen, die auch aufgrund der Bilder, die im Kopf entstehen, Unruhe auslösen können. Somit ist „A Bug’s Life“ eine spannende Sache für Freunde des Ambient oder der experimentellen Elektronik. Idee und Ausführung passen in jedem Fall hervorragend zueinander und die Qualität stimmt hier sowieso." [Tony F. für nonpop.de] "In der Geräuschmusik und überall sonst, wo mit Samples gearbeitet wird, sind Tiergeräusche eine beliebte Soundquelle, und zu den gefragtesten Geräuschproduzenten zählen seit jeher Insekten – was wäre ein sommerliches Kitschkolorit ohne das Zirpen von Grillen und Zikaden, und dass man aus dem Summen fliegender Insekten Noise und elektroakustiche Musik machen kann, ist hinlänglich bekannt. Beliebt sind Feldaufnahmen, bei denen die Sounds weitgehend naturbelassen bleiben und nur gelegentlich etwas Struktur eingebracht wird wie bei Dave Phillips’ und Hasegawa Hiroshis “Insect Apocalypse” oder “The Progeny of Flies” von Daniel Manche und Andrew Liles. Seltener sind Aufnahmen, bei denen die Sounds so stark verfremdet sind, dass man ohne Hintergrundwissen die Quelle kaum erkennen kann. Etwas derartiges hat der feine Pinkel, ähm: Trinker Jürgen Eberhard vor Kurzem unter dem Titel “A Bug’s Life” zustande gebracht. Die komplette CD wirkt wie ein Zoom, bei dem die Kamera dem lebenden Objekt so nah auf den Panzer rückt, dass man nur noch kleinteilige Strukturen in Übergröße erkennt, während größere Zusammenhänge nur noch zu erahnen sind. Vieles klingt wie ins Monströße vergrößert: Maschinell klingendes Summen, dass zeitweise in Noisewände übergeht, Detonationen, verursacht von einem enormen Insekt, das gegen eine überdimensionierte Scheibe knallt. Zirpen und Flattern, das eher nach einem Vogel klingt, und dem Tier, dessen rhythmischer Flügenschlag gegen Ende zu hören ist, möchte ich nicht im Dunkeln begegnen. So furchteinflößend es hier zugeht, hat die bizarre Szenerie auch irrsinnig Komisches zu bieten. Neben all dem gibt es zahlreiche Stellen, an denen kaum zu erkennen ist, ob die Aufnahmen ganz unkenntlich gemacht wurden oder anderen, z.B. elektronischen Ursprungs sind. Dies gilt für geschliffenen Ambientsound und zirkushafte Melodien ebenso wie für den entspannten Ethnosound, der irgendwann ganz überraschend eine Sängerin begleitet (die meisten Stimmbeiträge von Geneviève Pasquier, Allseits vs Troum, Frl. Linientreu und Joke Lanz sind spoken words). Ebenso gilt dies für monströses Brüllen, dass hoffentlich von einem Wirbeltier stammt. Aber warum eigentlich? Im Unterschied zu naturbelassenen Insektensounds lassen die Aufnahmen hier die Tiere enorm groß erscheinen und brechen so mit gänigen Wahrnehmungsgewohnheiten. Die nachhaltige, über den bloßen Schock weit hinausgehende Wirkung, kann im besten Fall in einem veränderten Blick auf das Tierreich münden." [J.G./U.S./African Paper] 2016 €12.00
FENN O'BERG (FENNESZ / O'ROURKE / REHBERG) In Stereo CD "Written and performed by Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke & Peter Rehberg. Recorded and mixed at Studio GOK Sound, Tokyo, October 2009. Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, December 2009. 'Thats right, they're back! After a hiatus of almost 9 years the legendary trio of Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg have returned with a new studio album. Technically the first studio album as previous releases were edits of live performances. They spent a week in Studio GOK Sound, Tokyo to lay down some stunning electronic works. Whereas previously the emphasis was on a chaotic blend of found samples mangled through their mobile computing systems to create a humorous oddball sound, 'in stereo' implements a more wider instrumental palette of analogue & digital synthesis, guitar, piano, bass and percussion. What they do maintain is the ability to make a near psychedelic audio blend where its impossible to determine who does what. Released as CD digipack and gatefold double vinyl which features an extra slice of classic fenn O'Berg magic beauty. 'in stereo' ...for you." [label info] www.editionsmego.com "Is there something that you really want? That one coming release that excites you very much? In the world of reviewers: hardly. There is tons of music coming out every week, and everything is examined carefully (we do out best). But sometimes there is a release coming which even excites the overloaded reviewer. Say a new album by Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg, who work as Fenn O'berg. They released two albums almost a decade ago, classic works of computerized madness, culled from live shows. Mayhem, plunderphonics, laptop a gogo (recently re-issued as double CD - see Vital Weekly 685). Workload was also heavy for these musicians, always touring, recording, touring and recording. In October of last year they meet up again, for a week, in Tokyo, to sit together and record their first studio album. Six tracks and what a difference from the previous two. Its no longer laptop madness, but a fine blend of that with analogue sound material, guitar, piano, bass and percussion. I must admit its not easy to spot these instruments in these pieces. The music has changed though. Its not a wild and vivid collage of sound, but more concentrated efforts of sound, more composed than improvised. I think they laid down all the various sounds in an improvised form and then mixed it together into quite dense music, which has partly an ambient character (in a rather unique way) and also a strangely psychedelic atmosphere. Sometimes the computer processed sounds play a role, such as in 'Part VII', but by and large its not easy to spot here. Its an excellent release, I must say. Especially the first four tracks are great here, where they really go out into their own form of psychedelic music. 'Part III', the opening of the CD is perhaps the standout track of the CD. An excellent release, as said, well worth waiting so long for, but let's hope the next one will come sooner." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2010 €13.50
FERRARI, BRUNHILD Exterieur-Jour LP "After her stunning collaborations with Vincent Royer (for Mode Records), Jim O'Rourke, and Christoph Heemann (both for Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle Records) Brunhild Ferrari returns to the scene with this new solo album. Extérieur-jour is comprised of two previously unreleased compositions, one being the title track the album is named after and the other 'Le Piano Englouti (version original).' Extérieur-jour translates to 'Outside Day,' and indicates an instruction for a film scene, a piece of cinéma pour l'oreille, a movie for the ears. It was recorded at Luc Ferrari's Atelier Post Billig in January and February 2014. 'Le Piano Englouti' ('The Sunken Piano'), another electroacoustic composition which was realized over a period of fourteen years between 1996 and 2010, also brings forth cinematic elements with sound sources recorded in places as diverse as a Greek island by the noisy Agean Sea, a Pachinko place and a quiet island in Japan. It comes across as a meditation on the loss and reappearance of memory and silence. The graphics for the album sleeve were created by the late Wolfgang Meyer Tormin, artist and composer and also father of Brunhild Ferrari. The album was mastered for vinyl from the original source by Jim O'Rourke." 2024 €33.00
FERRARI, LUC Didascalies 2 LP "First record after our Luc Ferrari trilogy (see list below), Didascalies 2 is not to be confused with Didascalies already published 3 years ago - it's another composition unpublished and a premiere. This production will only released on vinyl. 'The other day I found a file from 1993, a score for 2 pianos entitled "revenir à la note de départ" ["getting back to the initial note"]. So I decided to turn it into a new composition without changing a single note in it - it contained very little notes actually, which suited me just fine. So I called it Didascalies 2, in memory of what I had done the previous year: a piece for piano and viola entitled Didascalies tout court. That piece was played on two notes, one for the piano and the same one for the viola. It had an obsessive feel. Very, very obsessiiiiiiive !!!' Luc Ferrari " [label info] www.subrosa.net 2010 €16.00
FERRARI, LUC & BRUNHILD FERRARI Programme Commun do-CD "Sub Rosa presents two volumes of work from French composer Luc Ferrari and his wife and closest collaborator, Brunhild Ferrari. These two volumes are being released together and simultaneously, as a sign of continuation. For Luc Ferrari, this is the first full-length CD to come out after the trilogy Sub Rosa developed with him. What we have here is three substantial pieces: "Programme commun pour clavecin et bande magnetique" (1972), performed by Elisabeth Chonacka, "Didascalies" (1993) performed by Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, Claude Berset, and Vincent Royer (in 2009) and previously available only on vinyl (note that "Didascalies" and "Didascalies 2" are two different compositions), and another previously-unreleased piece that he held dear, "Les emois d'Aphrodite" (1986-1998), performed by San Francisco's MC Band under his direction. Sub Rosa is also pleased to release for the first time the solo works of Brunhild Ferrari: "Derivatif" (2008), "Brumes du reveil" (2009) and "Tranquilles Impatiences" (2010), forming a trilogy on reconstruction from a memory that is still quite alive. These works are new bricks in the erection of a liberating oeuvre." [label info] "Programme Commun' collects the first solo works of Brunhild Ferrari alongside three pieces by her husband and collaborator, the revered avant-garde composer, Luc, for the first time in a relationship spanning over 40 years. The first disc presents a trio of Luc Ferrari's works; the pondering electro-acoustic piece 'Musique Socialiste Ou Programme Commun Pour Clavecin Amplifie Et Bande Magnetique' (1972) featuring harpsichord and the clavecin (the earliest surviving electric-powered musical instrument) recorded at GRM in Paris, and written in honour of the socialist reform program; the lush minimalism of two pianos and violon, 'Didascalies 2' penned in 1993 and recorded 2008-2009; a lively and disjointed rock piece, 'Les Emois D'Aphrodite' revolving around punchy drum breaks, ebullient string harmonies, swirling synths and clarinet. Brunhild's trio were composed between 2008-2010 and haven't been issued on CD previously. They include the dynamic, vivid concrète movements of 'Derivatif' (2008); the surreal, between-worlds awakening of 'Brumes Du Reveil' (2009); the subtle microtonal fluctuations of layered tape, 'Tranquilles Impatiences' (2010)." [Boomkat] 2021 €16.00
FIBO-TRESPO Askel oikeaan suuntaan CD-R low-fi as low-fi can! Vergriffenes Vinyl (1997 & 98) des Inbegriffes oder absolutesten Steigerung des low-fi-drones aus Norwegen, auf dieser CDR versammelt... Im handgezwirbelten Tapetencover zu einem gar lächerlichen Preis. “ Excellent droning lo-fi ambient improvisation - or nor-wave - from this highly acclaimed Norwegian duo. This CD-R features their sold out 10" and 7" lathe cuts and two extremely rare compilation tracks from a few years back.” [press release] 2002 €6.00
FINAL It comes to us All LP Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, JK Flesh) breathes new life into his FINAL project for an album on Helm’s ALTER label. Formed in 1984 out of an obsession with the industrial, noise & power electronics acts of the early eighties, FINAL made its public debut at the legendary Mermaid pub in Birmingham when Broadrick was just 14 years old. A string of cassette releases via his Post Mortem Rekordings label established the name within the underground noise scene of the time until increased activity with his various groups (Napalm Death, Head of David and later Godflesh) meant that FINAL naturally fell by the wayside before the end of the decade. Broadrick reactivated the project in 1993 during the British ambient “isolationism” period and FINAL's sound became focussed more on texture, producing beatless ambient work with a number of albums for labels like Sentrax, Utech, No Quarter and Neurot. ‘It Comes To Us All’ is the first FINAL album to appear on vinyl since 2015’s ‘Black Dollars’ on Downwards and continues to explore the textural nature of Broadrick’s ambient work - this time through a filter of blown-out harmonic noise that reconnects the project with its harsher roots. Rather than channelling the angst of early power-electronics, the noise here rumbles along blissfully through 8 untitled tracks, sombre in tone and at times beautiful. Melodies sampled from pop music are put through a process of decay, stripped of their form and worn down with a rusty, melancholic afterglow. Reducing all its parts to slow-motion shadows of their former selves, ‘It Comes To Us All’ is an exploration of the decay of all living things that we face collectively, day after day. https://final1.bandcamp.com/album/it-comes-to-us-all 2022 €28.50
  It comes to us all CD Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, JK Flesh) breathes new life into his FINAL project for an album on Helm’s ALTER label. Formed in 1984 out of an obsession with the industrial, noise & power electronics acts of the early eighties, FINAL made its public debut at the legendary Mermaid pub in Birmingham when Broadrick was just 14 years old. A string of cassette releases via his Post Mortem Rekordings label established the name within the underground noise scene of the time until increased activity with his various groups (Napalm Death, Head of David and later Godflesh) meant that FINAL naturally fell by the wayside before the end of the decade. Broadrick reactivated the project in 1993 during the British ambient “isolationism” period and FINAL\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s sound became focussed more on texture, producing beatless ambient work with a number of albums for labels like Sentrax, Utech, No Quarter and Neurot. ‘It Comes To Us All’ is the first FINAL album to appear on vinyl since 2015’s ‘Black Dollars’ on Downwards and continues to explore the textural nature of Broadrick’s ambient work - this time through a filter of blown-out harmonic noise that reconnects the project with its harsher roots. Rather than channelling the angst of early power-electronics, the noise here rumbles along blissfully through 8 untitled tracks, sombre in tone and at times beautiful. Melodies sampled from pop music are put through a process of decay, stripped of their form and worn down with a rusty, melancholic afterglow. Reducing all its parts to slow-motion shadows of their former selves, ‘It Comes To Us All’ is an exploration of the decay of all living things that we face collectively, day after day. https://final1.bandcamp.com/album/it-comes-to-us-all 2022 €16.00
FIRST HUMAN FERRO FEAT. ALBIREON Prosa Profana CD " "Prosa Profana" is a follow-up to "Guernica Macrocosmica" and the 2nd post mortem dedication by Olegh Kolyada collaborating with Albireon neo-folkers this time. A low-key unison of dissonant ex-Soviet schlager melodies and forefront Italian vocals in a tender naive manner offer a unique nostalghic experience. The release comes in a beautiful digipak with a 12-page booklet. Tribute: Dedicated to my father Vasyl O. Kolyada (1950-2008). Production: Conception + composition + engineering + arrangement + alternative sampling & vinyl scraping (vinyl & tapes restoration, including the 1970-80`s ex-Soviet recordings by Ariel, Tsvety, Sinyaya Ptitsa, V.Obodsinskiy) + vocals engineering + lyrics in English/translation of P.Celan`s 'Die Niemandsrose' poem + improvisations upon Cl.Debaussy and M.Dietrich songs and ex-Soviet ‘Autumnal Marathon’ and ‘The Star Boy’ motion pictures themes by Olegh Kolyada (with Helena K`s contribution in piano & clavier parts), 2005-2008/Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Strings + trumpet + cello by Zhytomyr Chamber Orchestra, early 2000/Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Acoustic guitar on "Eye-Deep in Hell" and "Late August Flowers" by Pavel Voskoboyev, November 2007/Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Vocals in Italian + lyrics renderings + mandolin on "Every Time I Turn around (another Year is over)" by Davide Borghi; vocals recording and engineering + samples editing on "Eye-Deep in Hell" (children’s talking-away), and "Every Time I Turn around (another Year is over)" (rain and wind snippets) by Stefano Romagnoli, summer 2007/Carpi, Italy. Layout & artwork by Katia Ilieva, winter-spring 2007-2009/Sofia, Bulgaria. Conception: Prosa Profana unveils a humane feeling of nostalghia as that of sorrow towards present lack of integrity, commonness, and harmony. Homesickness and melancholy, grief and yearning, but also hope and belief nostalghia is a deep relation one cannot relinquish or renounce since it is the purest sacrificial nature of a man. Sacrifice as a consequence of nostalghia is a verdict to overwhelmingly materialized time, its impiety and de-spiritualization. Nostalghia is a confession, humble declaration of love as generally the highest art manifestation ever possible. Prosa Profana is our verdict to ourselves." [label info] www.nitkie.ru 2011 €12.00
FOLKSTORM Dödsabnorm CD Only a year after the "Nihil Total" album Folkstorm returns stronger than ever with an album of suffocating and death-infused ortodox industrial. Recorded using only 70´s circuitry and lots of metallic percussion Nordvargr has created a dense atmosphere that is dark and threatening as well as hypnotic. Recorded September 2020 in Studio Nar Mattaru All music by Henrik Nordvargr Björkk: Serge 73-75, metals, FX "Obotlig" is dedicated to Marcus LaBonte CD/Vinyl versions by Old Europa Cafe Tape version by Cloister Recordings https://folkstorm.bandcamp.com/album/d-dsabnorm 2021 €13.00
FORDELL RESEARCH UNIT / CULVER split 10inch "split 10" on black vinyl limited to 100 copies. one side each, one wonderful awesome brand new track from each. i love FRU & Culvers sounds, so to show my appreciation and love for their musik, ive been lucky enough to get to put this wee installment of a 10" record out to add to their already vast, impressive and brilliant cosmik catalogue of releases on labels of awesomenesses such as matching head, pjorn 72, basses frequences, dead sea liner, kovorox sound, turgid animal, dead pilot, sick head, at war with false noise, small doses and blackest rainbow to name but only a few. packaged in plain white disco jacket and paper inner with info card insert plus attached photos & art by Pete Burn and t." [Tom Newell] 2009 €12.50
FOVEA HEX The Salt Garden III 10inch + CD Janet Records, in association with Headphone Dust and Die Stadt present Fovea Hex The Salt Garden III Cat No HDFH1034 (vinyl) / HDFHCD32 (CD) (Bonus CD Cat. No: HDFHCD33) Shipping Date - 26/11/2019 Ltd Edition - 10" vinyl + CD + bonus remix CD Standard Editions - 10" vinyl + CD / CD / DL "The starlit nocturnes of Fovea Hex bind electronics, drones and voices into song-spells that are untimely in the best possible sense; their intimacy and raw emotional power feel centuries old, but the experimental sound-design can be shockingly modern." Drew Daniels (Matmos) The new EP from Fovea Hex THE SALT GARDEN 3 will be released on November 26th 2019 on Steven Wilson's Headphone Dust label. The Salt Garden 3 is the final word, and the concluding instalment to the critically lauded The Salt Garden Trilogy. Issued in 3 standard editions; 10 inch vinyl + CD, CD only, and Digital Download. There will also be a limited edition release featuring a bonus remix CD by Steven Wilson. The pre-sale for this limited edition, featuring 4 remixes by Steven, presented in individual and combination treatments, will only be available online via Janet Records. The core ensemble of Clodagh Simonds, Michael Begg, Colin Potter, Cora Venus Lunny and Kate Ellis is joined by special guests Guido Zen, and the Medazza and Dote Moss choirs. Critical Reaction to The Salt Garden 1 and 2 5 Against 4 (UK) "Whenever Irish experimental electronic folk group Fovea Hex put out something new, it's not just a cause to rejoice but a guarantee of something unique and indescribably wonderful..." The Wire (UK) "...fragile baroque instruments and synthy atmospheres surround Simonds's singing and songwriting, both on better and less predictable form than ever... A Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom for the 21st Century: emotionally deepens with extra listens" Brainwashed (US) (Readers Poll Winner: Single of the Year, 2016 for Salt Garden 1) "Another beautiful piece in a flawless catalog..." Igloo (US) "The superlatives left to describe this unique chamber ensemble are fast running out..." Dusted (US) "... a blending of acoustic and electronic that attains a kind of smooth, vatic timelessness. Every element feels precisely placed and oddly haunting... Spellbinding". Subjectivisten (NL) "...an almost indefinable sound...the music is a hybrid of (dark) ambient, experimental music, neoclassical and ethereal folk and yet no label feels completely comfortable. . It is of an unearthly beauty!" Touching Extremes (IT) "no actual comparison is conceivable - sonic poetry" Gonzo Circus (NL) "if you like unique sirens like Nico, Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil, you will also unconditionally embrace Fovea Hex." Fovea Hex Background Having first emerged at the tender age of 15 as the main writer behind 70s cult Irish psych-folk band Mellow Candle, and with sessions for both Thin Lizzy and Mike Oldfield under her belt by the age of 21, Irish singer Clodagh Simonds relocated to New York and subsequently "went quiet" for almost two decades, before re- emerging in 2005 with Fovea Hex, supported by an extraordinary assembly of friends and colleagues, including Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Carter Burwell, Donal Lunny, Roger Doyle, and Steven Wilson. Their first trilogy of eps, NEITHER SPEAK NOR REMAIN SILENT, was, upon its release, greeted by a growing momentum of critical acclaim. Their nascent cult reputation was further affirmed by a personal invitation from David Lynch to perform live in Paris at the Cartier Foundation in Paris as part of his THE AIR IS ON FIRE exhibition. In 2008 a full length album, HERE IS WHERE WE USED TO SING, was released, to yet more glowing reviews. The album made several end-of-year lists and was awarded album of the year in periodicals in the UK, North America and Italy. THE SALT GARDEN 1 was released in 2016 and THE SALT GARDEN 2 in 2017, consolidating and deepening the high esteem and critical regard in which this most beguiling of ensembles continues to be held. The frequently claimed "impossible to categorise" tag applies well to Fovea Hex. The songs are dominated by a voice that's too strong to be deigned ethereal, but remains too otherworldly to file alongside more conventional female singer-songwriters. The pace tends to be languid, the arrangements intricate and fragile. Comparisons have been made to This Mortal Coil, Emily Dickinson, Nico, Dead Can Dance, and even Schubert, but really this music is quite unique, a mix of electronic and acoustic sounds from a palette which ranges from state-of-art to ancient and arcane. "If Emily Dickinson had ever been allowed to make a record, this is probably what it would have sounded like" (The Wire) janetrecords.com/SG3/press-release.html "2019 findet die “The Salt Garden”-Trilogie mehr als zwei Jahre nach Veröffentlichung des zweiten Teils ihren Abschluss. Das Projekt von Clodagh Simonds – die (u.a. mit Mellow Candle) schon in den 60er Jahren Musik machte – kehrt mit „The Salt Garden“ wieder zur kleine(re)n Form der EPs zurück, mit der Fovea Hex in der zweiten Hälfte der 00er Jahre debütierte. Erneut beeindruckend ist die Konsistenz und Kohärenz dieser drei EPs. Anlässlich des ersten Teils der Trilogie wurde Fovea Hex hier attestiert: “[Die] Musik, die Begriffe wie Ambient, Folk oder experimentelle Musik überflüssig erscheinen lässt, ist erdverhaftet und zugleich entrückt, ist ebenso traumwandlerisch wie meditativ. Die meisten der getragenen Stücke haben starke Songqualitäten und sind doch von der verschwimmenden Struktur abstrakter Kompositionen. Und was in dieser Musik emotional passiert, lässt sich besser empfinden als rational erfassen.” Über das 2011 erschienene Langzeitdebüt “Here Is Where We Used To Sing” schrieben wir: „[T]rotz aller hypnagogischen, traumhaften Momente [...] verlier[t] sich [Simonds] nie im Unterholz und inmitten aller getragenen Momente gibt es auch immer die Gewissheit des Gelingens” und diese zumindest vom Rezensenten so wahrgenommene „Gewissheit des Gelingens“ trifft die auf dem dritten Teil von “The Salt Garden” evozierte Stimmung gut. Denn obwohl die Musik wieder getragen und elegisch ist, sollte man die vier Stücke nicht als Soundtrack zu einer Reise in den Untergang verstehen. Sucht man nach (eigentlich unnötigen) Vergleichen, so kommen einem manche Soundtrackarbeiten Hilmar Örn Hilmarssons oder aber (geographisch vielleicht etwas naheliegender) Richard Skeltons immer wieder von Orten und Plätzen geprägten Streicherdrones in den Sinn. Eröffnet wird die EP von „The Land’s Alight“, einem von Keyboarddrones geprägtem Stück, auf dem Simonds singt: “I dreamed I flew, the whole night long…./Ah but the light is on the land/and the hand upon the heart/and the open road is a real thing”. Diese Haltung erinnert an Coils “Bee Stings”, auf dem es heißt: “Don’t believe A.E./See for yourself the summer fields”. Wenn Simonds dann intoniert, “The land’s alight/And this vital eye/and the view…”, dann bekommt ihr Gesang etwas Hymnenhaftes. “Trisamma” ist ein instrumentales Stück, auf dem dezente Klavierpassagen mit Streichern kombiniert werden. „A Million Fires“ ist das vielleicht beeindruckendste Stück: Simonds’ Gesang wird von Harmoniumdrones und den Stimmen des The Date Moss Choir untermalt. Wenn sie singt “glory be upon the hapless writer/ glory be upon the spotless page/to call the woman with the fire inside her/to bring the luminous from age to age”, dann kann man das fast schon programmatisch lesen. Beendet wird diese Veröffentlichung und damit die Trilogie mit “The Given Heat”, auf der traurige Streicher zu hören sind, wobei es am Ende heißt: “suddenly there it is –/ the molten gold on the city street”. Wie auch schon bei allen anderen EPs liegt einer limitierte Version eine Remix-CD bei. Steven Wilson hat unter dem Titel “Is Lanza Light & Given” die vier Stücke zu einem Track verschmelzen lassen und gerade zu Anfang gibt seine Neuinterpretation den Stücken einen leicht entrückteren Charakter." [MG/African Paper] 2019 €17.50
  The Salt Garden III CD-EP Janet Records, in association with Headphone Dust and Die Stadt present Fovea Hex The Salt Garden III Cat No HDFH1034 (vinyl) / HDFHCD32 (CD) (Bonus CD Cat. No: HDFHCD33) Shipping Date - 26/11/2019 Ltd Edition - 10" vinyl + CD + bonus remix CD Standard Editions - 10" vinyl + CD / CD / DL "The starlit nocturnes of Fovea Hex bind electronics, drones and voices into song-spells that are untimely in the best possible sense; their intimacy and raw emotional power feel centuries old, but the experimental sound-design can be shockingly modern." Drew Daniels (Matmos) The new EP from Fovea Hex THE SALT GARDEN 3 will be released on November 26th 2019 on Steven Wilson's Headphone Dust label. The Salt Garden 3 is the final word, and the concluding instalment to the critically lauded The Salt Garden Trilogy. Issued in 3 standard editions; 10 inch vinyl + CD, CD only, and Digital Download. There will also be a limited edition release featuring a bonus remix CD by Steven Wilson. The pre-sale for this limited edition, featuring 4 remixes by Steven, presented in individual and combination treatments, will only be available online via Janet Records. The core ensemble of Clodagh Simonds, Michael Begg, Colin Potter, Cora Venus Lunny and Kate Ellis is joined by special guests Guido Zen, and the Medazza and Dote Moss choirs. Critical Reaction to The Salt Garden 1 and 2 5 Against 4 (UK) "Whenever Irish experimental electronic folk group Fovea Hex put out something new, it's not just a cause to rejoice but a guarantee of something unique and indescribably wonderful..." The Wire (UK) "...fragile baroque instruments and synthy atmospheres surround Simonds's singing and songwriting, both on better and less predictable form than ever... A Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom for the 21st Century: emotionally deepens with extra listens" Brainwashed (US) (Readers Poll Winner: Single of the Year, 2016 for Salt Garden 1) "Another beautiful piece in a flawless catalog..." Igloo (US) "The superlatives left to describe this unique chamber ensemble are fast running out..." Dusted (US) "... a blending of acoustic and electronic that attains a kind of smooth, vatic timelessness. Every element feels precisely placed and oddly haunting... Spellbinding". Subjectivisten (NL) "...an almost indefinable sound...the music is a hybrid of (dark) ambient, experimental music, neoclassical and ethereal folk and yet no label feels completely comfortable. . It is of an unearthly beauty!" Touching Extremes (IT) "no actual comparison is conceivable - sonic poetry" Gonzo Circus (NL) "if you like unique sirens like Nico, Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil, you will also unconditionally embrace Fovea Hex." Fovea Hex Background Having first emerged at the tender age of 15 as the main writer behind 70s cult Irish psych-folk band Mellow Candle, and with sessions for both Thin Lizzy and Mike Oldfield under her belt by the age of 21, Irish singer Clodagh Simonds relocated to New York and subsequently "went quiet" for almost two decades, before re- emerging in 2005 with Fovea Hex, supported by an extraordinary assembly of friends and colleagues, including Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Carter Burwell, Donal Lunny, Roger Doyle, and Steven Wilson. Their first trilogy of eps, NEITHER SPEAK NOR REMAIN SILENT, was, upon its release, greeted by a growing momentum of critical acclaim. Their nascent cult reputation was further affirmed by a personal invitation from David Lynch to perform live in Paris at the Cartier Foundation in Paris as part of his THE AIR IS ON FIRE exhibition. In 2008 a full length album, HERE IS WHERE WE USED TO SING, was released, to yet more glowing reviews. The album made several end-of-year lists and was awarded album of the year in periodicals in the UK, North America and Italy. THE SALT GARDEN 1 was released in 2016 and THE SALT GARDEN 2 in 2017, consolidating and deepening the high esteem and critical regard in which this most beguiling of ensembles continues to be held. The frequently claimed "impossible to categorise" tag applies well to Fovea Hex. The songs are dominated by a voice that's too strong to be deigned ethereal, but remains too otherworldly to file alongside more conventional female singer-songwriters. The pace tends to be languid, the arrangements intricate and fragile. Comparisons have been made to This Mortal Coil, Emily Dickinson, Nico, Dead Can Dance, and even Schubert, but really this music is quite unique, a mix of electronic and acoustic sounds from a palette which ranges from state-of-art to ancient and arcane. "If Emily Dickinson had ever been allowed to make a record, this is probably what it would have sounded like" (The Wire) janetrecords.com/SG3/press-release.html "2019 findet die “The Salt Garden”-Trilogie mehr als zwei Jahre nach Veröffentlichung des zweiten Teils ihren Abschluss. Das Projekt von Clodagh Simonds – die (u.a. mit Mellow Candle) schon in den 60er Jahren Musik machte – kehrt mit „The Salt Garden“ wieder zur kleine(re)n Form der EPs zurück, mit der Fovea Hex in der zweiten Hälfte der 00er Jahre debütierte. Erneut beeindruckend ist die Konsistenz und Kohärenz dieser drei EPs. Anlässlich des ersten Teils der Trilogie wurde Fovea Hex hier attestiert: “[Die] Musik, die Begriffe wie Ambient, Folk oder experimentelle Musik überflüssig erscheinen lässt, ist erdverhaftet und zugleich entrückt, ist ebenso traumwandlerisch wie meditativ. Die meisten der getragenen Stücke haben starke Songqualitäten und sind doch von der verschwimmenden Struktur abstrakter Kompositionen. Und was in dieser Musik emotional passiert, lässt sich besser empfinden als rational erfassen.” Über das 2011 erschienene Langzeitdebüt “Here Is Where We Used To Sing” schrieben wir: „[T]rotz aller hypnagogischen, traumhaften Momente [...] verlier[t] sich [Simonds] nie im Unterholz und inmitten aller getragenen Momente gibt es auch immer die Gewissheit des Gelingens” und diese zumindest vom Rezensenten so wahrgenommene „Gewissheit des Gelingens“ trifft die auf dem dritten Teil von “The Salt Garden” evozierte Stimmung gut. Denn obwohl die Musik wieder getragen und elegisch ist, sollte man die vier Stücke nicht als Soundtrack zu einer Reise in den Untergang verstehen. Sucht man nach (eigentlich unnötigen) Vergleichen, so kommen einem manche Soundtrackarbeiten Hilmar Örn Hilmarssons oder aber (geographisch vielleicht etwas naheliegender) Richard Skeltons immer wieder von Orten und Plätzen geprägten Streicherdrones in den Sinn. Eröffnet wird die EP von „The Land’s Alight“, einem von Keyboarddrones geprägtem Stück, auf dem Simonds singt: “I dreamed I flew, the whole night long…./Ah but the light is on the land/and the hand upon the heart/and the open road is a real thing”. Diese Haltung erinnert an Coils “Bee Stings”, auf dem es heißt: “Don’t believe A.E./See for yourself the summer fields”. Wenn Simonds dann intoniert, “The land’s alight/And this vital eye/and the view…”, dann bekommt ihr Gesang etwas Hymnenhaftes. “Trisamma” ist ein instrumentales Stück, auf dem dezente Klavierpassagen mit Streichern kombiniert werden. „A Million Fires“ ist das vielleicht beeindruckendste Stück: Simonds’ Gesang wird von Harmoniumdrones und den Stimmen des The Date Moss Choir untermalt. Wenn sie singt “glory be upon the hapless writer/ glory be upon the spotless page/to call the woman with the fire inside her/to bring the luminous from age to age”, dann kann man das fast schon programmatisch lesen. Beendet wird diese Veröffentlichung und damit die Trilogie mit “The Given Heat”, auf der traurige Streicher zu hören sind, wobei es am Ende heißt: “suddenly there it is –/ the molten gold on the city street”. Wie auch schon bei allen anderen EPs liegt einer limitierte Version eine Remix-CD bei. Steven Wilson hat unter dem Titel “Is Lanza Light & Given” die vier Stücke zu einem Track verschmelzen lassen und gerade zu Anfang gibt seine Neuinterpretation den Stücken einen leicht entrückteren Charakter." [MG/African Paper] 2019 €10.00
FOVEA HEX + ANDREW LILES Gone every Evening 7 "... Ihr bittersüßes Timbre, die fast mit Händen zu greifende Melancholie, sind einzigartig. Die Musik dazu, nur dröhnendes Harmonium und eine Handvoll schwarzer Pianoperlen, ist wie ein Rabenflügel, ein samtiger Saum, wie der Schatten, den diese Melancholie nicht abschütteln kann. In ‚Gone‘ verschwinden ein Baum, ein Bild an der Wand, die geliebte Katze, sogar der alte Teppich unter den Füßen und auch der Boden selbst. Eine Elegie des Verlustes, der diebischen und mörderischen Zeit. Von Geisterpiano und gespenstischen Stimmen umschallt, rezitiert Fabrizio Palumbo die Strophen, Simonds und Laura Sheeran singen den Refrain: Well well well Nobody can tell Why why o‘ why Nobody knows. Das ist schon sehr tongue-incheek (wie Hitchcock das genannt hätte), purer Edward Gorey." [Bad Alchemy] "DIE STADT is honored to inform you that a limited edition 7" vinyl single "Gone Every Evening" was released today April 1, (and no, we're not having you on...) 2008. The record features two collaborative pieces by ANDREW LILES & FOVEA HEX, with Fabrizio Palumbo as special guest. Featuring Andrew Liles, Clodagh Simonds, Laura Sheeran, Fabrizio Palumbo and Michael Begg, these two strange songs will find the way swiftly to your very core, quite by themselves, to simultaneously delight and only faintly unsettle you. Needless to say that everyone who enjoyed the 'neither speak nor remain silent' trilogy by Fovea Hex will also love this. It comes packaged in an attractive gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve designed by Andrew Liles in an edition of 500 copies of which only 250 copies will be available for wholesale." [label info] "Following three excellent mini CDs produced with the top layer of sonic experimentalism, Clodagh Simonds teams with here Micheal Begg, Fabrizio Palumbo and Laura Sheeran, all under the guidance of Andrew Liles (rapidly climbing up to the top layer) to record two lovely tracks on a 7". 'Gone' is on side a, and 'Every Evening' on the other. The a-side has piano at the hearth of the piece and Simonds heavenly vocals solo with beautiful ambient like electronics humming sparsely about. 'Every Evening' has a strange narrative by Palumbo and multi-layered singing by Sheeran and Simonds and has a fairy tale like atmosphere, but with an unsettling undercurrent in the piece. This is beautiful too but much more spooky. Way too short on this format, one could only want some more after this. Fascinating, beautiful, small treasure." [FdW / Vital Weekly] label: www.diestadtmusik.de 2008 €12.50
FRANCIS, RICHARD & CLINTON WATKINS // ADAM WILLETS split 7 Neuseeländische Mikro-Auflage von einer 7" mit "ESO STEEL" Richard Francis. Seite A zeigt ihn mit CLINTON WATKINS und das ist wirklich paradoxer "sanfter harsh noise" was die beiden machen.. es ist Noise auf einer anderen Ebene ! ADAM WILLETS noised anders, knarzend-flatterig und seltsam ätherisch abgehoben. Zwei super Noise-Drones ! "Emulsified dunes and slowmo mistrals committed to 7 inches of confinement somewhere in I Zwicky 18 by the antipodal trinity of the mind-fucking club: CMR zone-clerk Richard Francis, Whitebass' Clinton Watkins and Saturn's Adam Willetts. Probably written in 1610¬11. First side blasts in with the sand-drinking mug-shot Francis/Watkins Hydrahead, conducting light-year syncopations, cryptozoological moshpits and gale enemy forces through the doorway of your featherweight stucco homes. Flipside captures the carbonated mind of Adam Willetts in the same place Anakin Skywalker must have been in just before he waltzed over to the shadier side of synapse- shredding psychedelic pop music. Deep-as-Hell Rotella decollages from made-up worlds where this stuff grows everywhere. On Earth it's cryptobotanical. Hydrophonic Dagobah loops, bottom-end data obliteration, and general all-round friendship termination. 7" Vinyl. 150 Copies." [label info] 2009 €8.00
FREIBAND Stainless Steel LP "ini.itu is releasing a new vinyl only LP, the 8th of its catalogue, composed by Freiband • Freiband is one of the long lasting projects of Frans de Waard, who is making music since more than 25 years under many aliases and in different line-ups, the most well-known being Kapotte Muziek ( with Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks ), Goem ( same team, different tools ), THU20 ( same, augmented by Jac van Bussel and Jos Smolders ), Beequeen ( w/ Freek Kinkelaar ), and more recently Wieman ( formerly known as Zèbra ) ( w/ Roel Meelkop ), Ezdanitoff ( w/ Wouter Jaspers ) and Tobacconists ( w/ Scott Foust from Idea Fire Company ). Solo he has been active under his own name, Shifts and of course Freiband. His other activities include : editor and writer for Vital Weekly, programmer at Geluidswerkplaats in Nijmegen, organizer of the residencies Brombrom and director of the labels Korm Plastics, Moll and Plinkety Plonk. • the name Freiband itself is picked from Asmus Tietchens' album Daseinsverfehlung, on which he explored sounds created by rubbing tape freely on magnetic heads. Frans de Waard transferred the concept to the digital field and now mostly uses that name for his computer-based pieces. What Freiband proposes here is 2 sides of radically reworked gamelan : • Side A seems to progress through an acid bath and take the magnifying glass to enhance the digital decays, evoking various stages of textural corrosions. Through these aggressive and irreverent treatments, the naturally metallic harmonics are by twist and turns abruptly dismantled and fractured into crunchy, dense and fuzzy fireworks. Despite the stop & go transitions this hard-edged and raw piece still holds a nice unity across the digital errs and disturbances. • on side B, through some arcane wirings, some machines end up spitting out shifting binary patterns with a somewhat alienating feeling. Proof that electronic music can be minimal and eschew the 4/4 dance floor pattern, in favour of some dry and uncompromising “Unerforschtes Gebiet” between minimal beats and Steve Reich’ early tape compositions. this LP further expands the horizon of ini.itu, successfully interrogating the link between south-east asian instruments and electronic contemporary music. Maybe something to file along Hecker, Pita, Mika Vaino, Fennesz or Alva Noto's Xerrox LPs. p.s. Frans de Waard will also simultaneously release a companion 3” on his Moll imprint, with a totally different track from the same sessions that couldn’t be included on the LP. That track is a spectral exploration of the higher frequencies, followed by a pile-up of gamelan sounds." [label info] www.iniitu.net "The LP thus both presents the quality of the gamelan style in its pure origin and 21st electronic avantgarde by one of Holland's finest sound artists. A superb ode to the importance of the gamelan music for the modern sound experimentations of the Western world." [NM/Vital Weekly] 2011 €12.50
FROZEN FACES Broken Sounds of a Dying Culture CD Re-issue of self-released first LP from 1997, plus tracks from the 7" "Religion of Hate". Project of Lina / DEUTSCH NEPAL. large cardboard cover. "The year is 1996 I was surfing on cold waves through the very heart of Linkopia, night after night it was all the same. Sleeping in the Karmanik basement seduced by delerium echoing between white concretwalls. I could hear the equiptment slowly disintegrating as I put out the light, broken sounds of a dying culture. This might be the erosion of history eternally scraping on the crown of mankind...or was it just the decline of my personal belongings after years of abuse... and was there any difference between the two theories? I streched out my limb and pressed the record-button." - Lina Baby Doll. Originally released by Entartete Musikk in 1996 as a limited edition LP. Now available in cd format with totally remastered sound, new artwork and bonus tracks from the Religion of Hate 7" in original extended versions. A must for all the fans of Lina's works who somehow missed the vinyl version! Fomat: CD, A5 folding cover" [label info] www.wrotyczrecords.prv.pl 2007 €10.00
FUKUOKA, RINJI / MICHEL HENRITZI / LUCA MASSOLIN Weather Report LP "BACKWARDS is proud to announce a mind-blowing album of cosmic improvisation by the trio of musician / producer Luca Massolin (Golden Cup, Golden Jooklo Age), French avant-garde guitarist Michel Henritzi and Rinji Fukuoka, formely member of Overhang Party and currently of Majutsu No Niwa. Recorded in November 2011, eight months after the Fukushima disaster, ‘Weather Report’ is an onirical yet political soundpiece, developed in two long movements, ‘A Chuva Obrigado’ and ‘Radioactive Arigato’. The first side is a cornucopia of ghostly shapes and haunted tones, with Massolin’s dreamy organ and heavenly electronics blessed by Fukuoka’s elegiac violin lines. The piece evolves soon into an improvised blues for flamenco-like guitar (!!!), percussions and abstract electronics, building up tension until Henritzi’s lapsteel joins with waves of ectoplasmic electricity, and finally exploding into a blast of cathartic free noise. The other side is when the piece starts vibrating, with Massolin’s electric bass pushing the whole thing into full-on shoegaze mode, Henritzi combining long, doomy drones and Fukuoka playing the most emotionally violin ragas you got to hear in an improvised studio album. There will be room for more ghosts until the end of this side, taking us to a landscape of wintry trees, empty streets, an abandoned city devoid of human presence. This is the soundtrack of an echological disaster, a picture taken right after it happened, a warn about the risks of pushing the limits of human technology against nature. Images translated into sounds by improvised free music in its purest form: evocative, political, magical. How can you not be affected? Limited edition of 260 copies of which 50 are on BLUE vinyl, and the remaining on standard black wax." [label info] www.backwards.it 2014 €15.00
GALBRAITH / NEILSON / YOUNGS Belsayer Time LP Folk-Drone at its best, ätherisch-erhabener Gesang von RICHARD YOUNGS und organische Drone-pulses, rollende Glas-Drones und sowas wie elektrisch aufgeladene wandernde Kugelblitze, am Ende ekstatische Entladung... Grosses Vollfarb-Cover inkl. Einlageblatt mit eingeprägten Credits & einzeln geprägter Nummer ! "Fully mind-blowing dream collaboration from Alastair Galbraith, Alex Neilson & Richard Youngs. All serious international underground sound weavers in their own right, this trio collaboration lifts things ever higher... for the last 20 years or so Alastair Galbraith has quietly been releasing some of the most stunning outsider/psych/folk/drone work to ever come out of his New Zealand homeland, and we couldn't be more thrilled to have him back on the scene. Richard Youngs makes a nice UK parallel with a vast and equally impressive catalog of sub-underground avant/drone/folk wonderment to his name. And while Alex Neilson's name might be a bit new, he's been bending many a mind under his directing hand solo guise, as well as collaboration with MV & EE, Taurpis Tula and others. Oh yeah, and that small fact that Alex & Richard backed Jandek at his first ever live performance is pretty cool too... musically, things are way fucking deep in the zone here folks. Side one glides along in slo-mo dream state, hovering with Richard's beautiful and unmistakable vocals soaring and refracting into echoes, quietly fluttering and droning electronics, otherworldly sounding synth melodies, rolling splashes of free percussion, backwards effects, and syrupy sound pools of acoustic strings. Beautifully lulling and deeply psychedelic... but the second you flip the LP, the bottom drops right out with a real electro jammer, blasted with throbbingly heavy free drumming, vibrating walls of synth, and yowling bird-of-prey electronic squeal... and things just get more abstract from there... really amazing stuff for those who dig a headspinningly deep listen... packaged in a stark but beautiful full color offset printed & debossed heavy art board cover, with debossed insert. 180 gram virgin vinyl. Numbered edition of 900 copies." [press release] 2006 €22.50
GAPIK, CEZARY Contrast I LP "The White Box label presents a release by Polish electronic experimental/harsh ambient drone musician Cezary Gapik. Gapik's deeply unsettling soundscapes go beyond the primal "power electronics" assaults (which the label adores and thrives on), of early Whitehouse and Sutcliffe Jugend. They go far beyond the capabilities of many of the supposed "dark ambient" artists releasing music today. Primitive forms have been discarded in favor of an articulate attention to detail, all for the benefit of the discerning listener. Fans of diverse, forward-thinking sound artists such as Philip Jeck, Kevin Drumm, Tim Hecker, Carlos Giffoni, Phill Niblock, Peter Rehberg, Fennesz and other SERIOUS people should take note. Gapik's sonic assaults and tonally perverse audio structures house such progressive depth, that upon discovering this music, White Box concluded there was simply too much good material to contain in a single release. Presented here is part one of a triptych; "Contrast I" comprises two pieces, and perhaps not surprisingly given its title, features two very different compositional approaches from the same artist. From the opening moments of side A's monolithic "#0473 [Tremor]," Gapik's music asserts an unflinching, confrontational prowess all its own; an articulate slab of cold, metallic sound, unrelenting, aurally oppressive and executed with total precision. If we're talking power electronics here (and as far as side A goes, we are), it doesn't get much more forward-thinking than this. Side B track "#0458 [Drowsiness]," offers an altogether different approach to its side A counterpart, its peculiar, clustered tones slowly creeping in and out of phase, seemingly designed to throw off the listener, traversing dark psychedelic territories. White Box will be releasing "Contrast" Parts II and III further into 2011. Limited edition vinyl release of 400 copies only. Features gorgeous sleeve art from Berlin-based painter Suse Kipp." [label info] www.whiteboxrecordings.co.uk 2011 €20.00
GAUCHISTE Sommet LP Gauchiste the black ambient, experimental band from USA was formed in 2009 and based in Raleigh, NC / Richmond, VA. Gauchiste is Tomas Phillips & Tannon Penland. Tomas Philips known as the minimalist sound artist but also in written and in visual arts, he released albums on such labels as Line Imprint and Trente Oiseaux. He currently teaches literature at North Carolina State University. Tannon Penland is a musician known mainly from the heavy metal scene, in bands like Loincloth - a Southern Lord label band that toured with Sunn O))) and released a couple of albums. This is their second full length album and "Sommet", like the predecessor, contains their finely crafted dark music, that will transpose you to an outstanding soundart noveau of dark-noire ambiance. It combines elements that reminds of metal aesthetics and experimental music subtleties aiming at minimalism. Indeed, Gauchiste veers much closer to a dark abstraction, falling somewhere, between Japanese minimalism, Thomas Köner, Nurse with Wound and the heaviness in the relative silences of metal. "Sommet", brings this noir soundtrack quality to this mix with numerous collaborators, including Robert Donne of Labradford fame - the band is greatly proud of. "Sommet" requires no more words, it speaks for each listener, for himself. But I dare to say it's an outstanding release. It is the kind of release that truly fulfills label's audio aesthetics. Animating the subtle vibration of the tree, which is breathing, beating. This release demanded also a very special package. The LP album is presented in shiny black Vinyl with folded cover in PVC envelope. Each copy includes the bandcamp download code! Gauchiste: Tannon Penland, Tomas Phillips Contributors: Greg Elkins - Steel guitar M. Moore - Vocals Matt L. - Guitar David Sanchez - Vocals Robert Donne - Synth Jenna Ottinger - Vocals David More - Bowed cymbal John Winston Phillips - Synth Tracy Wilson - Vocals Dave Witte - Drums Drums recorded by Brett Bamburger, Dan Gargiulo Mastering by: Ronan Chris Murphy (known for working with King Crimson, Gwar, Steve Morse, Terry Bozzio, Ulver...) Graphically Designed by Doug Dobey for Dobey Design https://essentiamundi.bandcamp.com/album/gauchiste-sommet-em047 2021 €23.00
GENESIS P-ORRIDGE & DAVE BALL Imagining October (Dir. Derek Jarman) O.S.T. LP The first ever release of the soundtrack to the rarely-seen DEREK JARMAN 1984 short film "Imagining October", with music recorded by Derek's friend and collaborator Genesis P-Orridge (PSYCHIC TV / THROBBING GRISTLE), and Dave Ball (SOFT CELL / THE GRID). Recorded at DJM recording studios in Theobalds Road, London. Limited Edition 12" vinyl featuring a beautiful etched B-Side. Features liner notes by James Mackay (Jarman's producer, collaborator and archivist). Derek Jarman put together a programme of films for the London Film Festival, reflecting the cutting edge of the London avant-garde of the time. Recorded at the same time as "The Angelic Conversation", "Imagining October" was filmed in the Eisenstein Museum in Moscow, Vladimir Mayakovsky's grave at Novodevichy Cemetery, the GUM department store facing red square, and the fire temples of Baku in Azerbaijan. The painting sequences with a group of soldiers (Angus Cook, Stephen Thrower (COIL), Peter Doig and Keir Wahid) was filmed in London. Jarman considered it one of the best, if not the best, of his shorter works. It was intended as an agit-prop work and the combination of music and imagery remains powerful to this day. "The heroism of revolution through the queered lens... It was not just the Soviet Union censoring books, Jarman points out here, but Thatcher’s government and its homophobia was no greater friend to gays than the regime on the other side of the Iron Curtain. A moral hysteria surrounding AIDs was sweeping Britain, the miner’s strike was in full swing (an action supported by gay activists, as it was brutally broken up by police): back home, society seemed on a knife edge." (ArtReview). https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/imagining-october-dir-derek-jarman-o-s-t-csr300lp 2022 €26.50
GENETIC TRANSMISSION Strychnina CD It has become a sort of tradition that every year during first days of autumn we release at least one part out of GT Archive Series. Keeping this tradition alive we present you seventh instalment of this series that is “Strychnina”. “Strychnina” being one of the most important albums in vast Genetic Transmission discography, originally was released in 2005 as CD-R via his own imprint Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk. It consists of 2 compositions about 20 min each which suits perfectly vinyl format. Wax version of this release has been discussed for a long time and for a number of reasons couldn’t work out. Until now. We are proud to inform you that “Strychnina” will be available in two strictly limited versions: LP limited to 100 copies and CD limited to 200 copies. https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/strychnina 2020 €12.00
GENOCIDE ORGAN Live in Japan 2007 LP Vinyl Edition im Klappcover mit bedruckten Innenhüllen und A2-Poster! "....Ausschnitte der beiden Konzerte von 2007, die beide im 20000V stattfanden. Statt auf ein Best-Of zu bauen, wählte man erneut eher ungewöhnliche - und nichtsdestotrotz kraftvolle - Stücke aus, die erneut atmosphärische und aggressive Momente mischen. Am bekanntestens dürfte hier das kämpferische "Hail America" sein. Wer die letzte 7" nicht erstanden hat, wird sich vor allem über Track 9 freuen: "I kept my faith: Revelation of John". Das in Zusammenarbeit zwischen Tesco und Teito (J) ästhetisch ansprechend produzierte Set ist gleichermaßen für Fans der Band wie auch für Genreneulinge interessant, die sich einen Eindruck vom Status quo der deutschen Industrial Culture verschaffen wollen. Gelungen!" [Ikonen] "This numbered & limited 888 copies LP features the best tracks from two G.O. Tokyo performances in 2007. The record comes housed in a gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve and contains an A2 poster. FAST PRE-ORDER HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" [label info] www.tesco-germany.com 2009 €20.00
Civilization do-CD BOX "This release was already planned in 2011 for the 20th anniversary of „Save our Slaves“. The implementation and the restoration of the original source material took a lot of time, especially the sound-files of the 1990 pre-release concert which are completed for this set for the 1st time. Genocide Organ had to dig deep into long-forgotten parts of the archive, to reconstruct as many as possible of the original photo-materials, reconstruct, extend and re-view them. The work on the new album „The Obituary of the Americas“ delayed the completion as well, but then also accelerated it, as both publications were cut across thematically. Now it is done! A further stone fits into the wall of the bands historical back catalogue. LP version: Limited numbered edition 500. The deluxe linenpaper covered Hard-Slipcase is foilblocked and debossed. The record sleeves and the additional artwork sleeves are all debossed and spot-varnished in the typical Genocide Organ artwork finish you know from : Obituary of the Americas: album. The artwork sleeve is filled up with extensive large 24p booklet, numbered certificate, inlay for the Live LP and embroidered patch. CD version: Limited first edition comes as deluxe linenpaper covered, foilblocked and debossed Hard-Slipcase, incl. Coverpak with double CD and extensive large 24p booklet. Only this first edition comes as special Hard-Slipcase Set with the additional Live CD. Musical contend on both formats: The complete material of „Save our Slaves“ originally released in 1991. „The Lever Sunlicht Shooting“, reflecting the complete performance of Genocide Organ Live 15.12.1990 in Mannheim in front of an invited audience. Compilation Tracks from: Perpetual State of Oracular Dream LP 1991 Natural Order 2LP 1997 Sound of Hate Vol.7 MC 1992 Exploration One CD 1995 Trans-Action MC 1992 + both tracks from: Klan Kountry 7″ 1998 all material from original source material re-mastered by Jerome Nougaillon and Genocide Organ. :CONTEXT: Released on Tesco Organisation in 1991, Save Our Slaves arrived as the second album for Genocide Organ, following the debut Leichenlinie released 2 years prior. Although the impact of Leichenlinie is undeniable in establishing the group within the noise industrial / power electronics scene, upon reflection Save Our Slaves is the release that cemented Genocide Organ’s cult underground status. This cult status has been generated via their musical approach, coupled with lavish handmade packaging and the presentation of strong, potentially controversial thematic material in an impartial and ambiguous manner; which incidentally some have interpreted as being ‚politically incorrect‘. Save Our Slaves stands out as the landmark release that definitively executed each hallmark element of sound, visuals and thematic content with flawless accuracy. :THEME: Conceptually, Save Our Slaves is an album renowned for its direct engagement with many taboo aspects of America’s history. Consequently, without shying away from the darkest aspects of America’s past, Save Our Slaves is concerned with: slavery, racist movements such as the Ku Klux Klan, radical right wing political advocacy group The John Birch Society, and the struggles for suppression, dominance and/or liberty on both sides of the civil rights movement. There are seemingly implied references to Dr Martin Luther King (the vinyl side dubbed Birmingham perhaps referring to Birmingham, Alabama and the 1950-60’s civil rights movement), whilst the track Violent Coordinating Committee appears to be inspired by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee – an important ‚direct action‘ organization of the 1960’s civil rights movement. Save Our Slaves also contains more direct references to other civil rights figures including James Meredith – the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi (a flashpoint of the civil rights movement); and Sarah Patton Boyle – Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950-60s. Yet to expand the thematic content further, the album also makes reference to American Imperialism of the 1950’s to 1970’s, which included covert CIA operations in the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Indochina / South East Asia. Specifically, such operations involved the facilitation of military instigated coups and provision of financial and military support to various dictators in the ideological fight for capitalism against communism and socialism. Accordingly, within the broadly coveted discography of Genocide Organ, Save Our Slaves stands out as one of their pinnacle releases by fact of it being one the of most sought after. The album’s revered status is also demonstrative of the manner in which Genocide Organ combine music, theme and artwork to transcend the creation of albums designed merely to be ‚enjoyed‘. Save Our Slaves functions as a politically charged, controversial declaration and socio-political manifesto that analyses American society, the roots of America’s history and culture and its role in shaping the modern world. As exemplified by its sound, visuals and thematic content Save Our Slaves stands as a strong and clear testament to the initial rise and early establishment of Genocide Organ’s cult status. Richard Stevenson: editor of Spectrum Magazine (1998-2001) / current editor of noise receptor journal (print ‚zine & blog). 2017 €28.00
The Truth will make you free LP "Debossed Cover, comes with numbered insert. 20 years after „The Truth will make you free“ saw light for the 1st time, this last Brick in the wall of Genocide Organ´s back catalogue gets re-issued. First released in 1999 as vinyl only release. Here Tesco offers this album in the typical art-style that all Genocide Organ records come in. „The Truth will make you free“ is an album yet to discover featuring many dark rhythmic industrial pieces filled with the agony of a dying world. All the confessions made there were true and the presence proved them right. The Truth will be twisted and turned around as often as someone wilst it and then it becomes a lie and suddenly the lie becomes truth just to turn lie again." https://tescogermany.bandcamp.com 2019 €25.00
  DEATH ZONES do-LP First Video Teaser: NoSuicideUnit Released as limited 2LP in gatefold cover with two inserts & numbered card. 2CD Version. Gatefold and Digipak shows the typical GO debossed and spotvarnished layout. Will be not available via bandcamp. ATTENTION: The vinyl version will only be produced according to the number of orders we get prior to 9.11.23. After this date it may prove difficult to obtain a copies. Somewhere out there they were controlling the streets to ensure that rules were followed. They were smuggling themselves from one continent to another, guarding borders training rebels, breaching doors, steering drones, and following the path of the War-Orchestra. The seventh year anniversary of the release of :OBITUARY OF THE AMERICAS: sees Genocide Organ returning with a release full of cynical survivalism in a world of havoc! While those celebrate the new world - we prepare ourselves for :DEATH ZONES:. What started with the :TIPPING POINT: 3MC Set in 2020 has now turned into :DEATH ZONES: Stand fast, mark your target , when it comes. No more sounds - Just moving ground! TRACKLIST: Conditioned War Sheep Appropriate Action Identity Politics NoSuicideUnit Loitering Munition When our Terror comes Pure Evil Affirmative Action Abbey Gate Virtue Signaling Migrant Soldiers Kommando Found Dead Stack the Bodies Malicous Purity FU6 - Waiting for Hell Trial by Combat Fake Emotions Small Boys Unit TESCO 160 2023 €39.00
GEORGE & CAPLIN Electronic Eulogy LP + 7inch Überraschend musikalisches auf Beta-Lactam Ring! GEORGE & CAPLIN arbeiten in 80er Jahre Tradition mit Drumbox, Gitarre, Synths, Gesang. Melodisch & melancholisch, nicht wirklich düster... Elektronische Wave/Pop-Grössen vergangener Zeiten fallen einem ein, SOFT CELL, NEW ORDER, FOR AGAINST, aber auch die Label-Kollegen WHITELODGE... Again a more „Pop“-oriented discovery on Beta-Lactam: rather simple electronic beats, backwards-guitars, harmonic synths, very melodic, we had to think on poppier / more electronic SAVAGE REPUBLIC or FOR AGAINST..... “Third album by george&caplin and also available on vinyl with bonus 7"! This might be a future college entrance question, so pay attention: Ceramic Hello is to Soft Cell as what is to Ladytron? If you answered G&C, then you probably cheated, which is perfectly allowed as owning any of their 3 releases makes you a better person. Clearly one of the bright spots to rise up out of the so-called Electroclash debacle. Where groups like Chicks On Speed and Felix Da Housecat ultimately end up creating dance-floor anthems, G&C have been that weird brother hiding in the corner making minimalist masterpieces with dusty equipment. G&C's brand of minimal synth on Electronic Eulogy is a dark wave of another colour. Like underground synthesists of old, such as Ceramic Hello, or John Ruth, or even very early New Order, G&C's musical omniverse is a beatific one filled with lush, polychromatic chord progressions presented within a spare and melancholic framework. The wave is cold, but not blanched (as opposed to the repetitive sturm und drang of, say, Snowy Red or Suicide). An album of introspective quality, Electronic Eulogy steals seeds fostered in the glitch garden and grows them into a wholly unique and very melodious Tannen-baud. Those sweet electonyxx click, wash and whirr, counterpointed occasionally by acoustic guitar and/or vocals on a few tracks (a kind of perfectly flat and distant vocal delivery, somewhat like Dean Wareham. In fact, 'Dictionary Dream,' which happens to feature the guitar upfront, is something of a synth pop take on Galaxie 500). That's just the thing with G&C...they are like some long lost Factory or Cherry Red or 4AD cold/dark wave group, before there were deeply established camps within the synth and post punk worlds. Second Layer meets Shox? Minny Pops vs Insides? The Fast Set has a scone with early Arms Of Someone New? The opening 'Promenade,' with its brilliantly twisted boomerang timing structure and analog buzz, is like some kind of electro-crack. All in all, just lovely sequenced rainy day electronic head-music. It'll have you praying for rain.“ [label description] 2005 €18.00
GILBERT, B.C. & G. LEWIS 3R4 LP "In 1980, after three relentlessly creative albums, the members of WIRE were at an impasse, unsure of how to push themselves any further as a four-piece rock band. While frontman Colin Newman spent the band's hiatus mining WIRE's knack for intelligent and contorted pop songs, guitarist Bruce Gilbert and bassist / vocalist Graham Lewis joined forces for a series of experimental projects (DOME, CUPOL, etc.) where the primary motivating concept was "studio as instrument." 3R4, the duo's only LP under the B.C. GILBERT / G. LEWIS moniker and the very second album to be released on 4AD, eschews melody and structure in favor of ambient-noise soundscapes, metallic textures, and tense moods. If the brief "Barge Calm" tracks appear like sonic exercises, the longer pieces ("3.4…" and "R") are true exorcisms, conjuring supernatural found-sounds with the patience and deliberation of (un)holy men. Play this record loud and try not to think that it is the soundtrack to a lost David Lynch film. Originally released on 4AD in 1980. This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of FAUST, David Cunningham and Thomas Leer & Robert Rental's The Bridge." [label info] www.superiorviaduct.com 2015 €23.00
GILLIS, ANNE Vhoysee CD The first Manon Anne Gillis release was a single-sided mini-album titled “Angebiguë”, which was Manon’s self-release in 1983. “Angebiguë” was 6-track mini-album in a cold-minimal-synth vein, and any track from “Angebiguë” were not included in her retrospective 5CD Box “Archives Box 1983-2005”, which Art into Life released in 2015. “Angebiguë” was privately released in tiny edition for her friends only and has been a highly sought-after item among collectors. “Vhoysee” is Manon’s long-awaited new album, and the album collects her latest six pieces and four re-worked / re-mixed tracks from “Angebiguë”. The latest six pieces are physical subject-based composition with minimum elements, whereas re-worked / re-mixed tracks from “Angebiguë” are simple rhythm-oriented pieces with her glacial sound texture. In “Vhoysee”, the past and present are interwoven and linked together in a kind of labyrinth. 1983年にカセットフォーマットでリリースされたManon Anne Gillisの1stミニアルバム[Angebiguë]。そこから本人が4曲を厳選し新たなリワーク及びリマスタリグ版を制作、新作音源と共に纏め上げ完成させた待望の8thソロアルバム。[Angebiguë]はArt Into Lifeが2015年に出版した5CDアーカイヴボックスに収録出来なかった音源であり、長年復刻が望まれていた希少なプライベート作品。ミニマルシンセやコールドウェイヴを踏襲しつつも、彼女らしい冷ややかなテクスチャーで仕上げられたリズムトラックの数々。悍ましい物質感を強く押し出した新録と共に不穏な記録として纏めている。 The album was mastered by Jos Smolders, and vinyl comes with DL code that has all tracks. https://art-into-life.bandcamp.com/album/vhoysee 2023 €16.00
GILLIS, ANNE / JAC BERROCAL / JACQUES DOYEN Fuel 217 / Sacre pic-7inch Side A : Anne Gillis / Jac Berrocal - fuel 217 Collaboration between Anne Gillis (oil can de Dion-bouton) and Jac Berrocal (pocket trumpet). Side B : is a reissue of a collaboration between Jacques Doyen and Jac Berrocal on a text by Allen Ginsberg that was released on the tape compilation "Paris Tokyo" in 1983 on the Tago Mago label. "This is quite a little oddity. It is the only release (so far?) of this French label (listing the main distribution source as the address) and it is a picture disc on heavy vinyl. Both sides involve Jacuqes Berrocal, the French trumpet improviser and on one side he has a duet with Anne Gillis, of whom I had not heard in a long time. They met the lovely Parisian festival Sonic Protest and Gillis found an "oil can De Dion Bouton at a flea market" and used that in the recording. The other sees a lyric by Allen Ginsburg recited by Jacques Doyen and that song already appeared on the 1982 compilation 'Paris Tokyo' by the Tago Mago label. The whole thing is limited to 230 copies. It may seem odd to pair both songs together, but then: why not? The side with Anne Gillis is certainly a most curious affair with the crackling of can, oil or otherwise, and some far away sounds; it might be a trumpet but for all I know it might also be a voice. Surely a fine piece of musique concrete in a very naive sort of way, which is something I enjoy very much. The trumpet is easily recognized on 'Sacré', layered I should think, also not too present in the mix, unlike the voice of Doyen, reciting the French poem, and even without understanding what this is about, one feel the somewhat scared atmosphere of the piece. Do these pieces fit together? Maybe not, indeed. Does it matter? It doesn't, either. It is a most lovely 7" and that's what matters." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2018 €17.00
GLACIAL On Jones Beach LP "Glacial is Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), David Watson (Afternoon Saints), and Tony Buck (The Necks). The vinyl edition of the album presents the studio session in two twenty-one minute installments. The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the complete 48 minute studio session as well as three live bonus tracks." [label info] www.threelobed.com 2012 €20.50
GODFLESH Nero 12inch Highly Limited 1,000 ONLY vinyl version available both on Bandcamp and from the JKB store IMPORTANT : Cheaper NO TRACKING option available at JKB store only (only available outside of EU/UK) : www.justinkbroadrick.com/collections/godflesh/products/godflesh-nero-ep-incl-download NERO is taken from the album 'PURGE'. Tracks 2 - 4 will be inc. on the Japanese domestic 2xCD version of 'PURGE' (CD 1 - 'PURGE' CD 2 - NERO remixes) and will eventually be included in the forthcoming 'NEW FLESH IN DUB VOL 2', scheduled for mid 2024. AVALANCHE RECORDINGS. 2023. AREC069 https://godflesh1.bandcamp.com/album/nero 2023 €25.00
GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPOROR! [GYBE] f#a#°° LP \"Das 10-köpfige Ensemble aus Montreal, das man nur als Kondensat aus Ennio Morricone, 17 Pygmies, Savage Republic und dem Rhythmus von EX, die kanadische Tradition des Radio-Dramas und Instrumente wie Cello, Violine, Glockenspiel, Percussion, 3 Gitarren und Loops einbeziehend, bezeichnen kann!\" [original label info] Die erste GODSPEED-LP (es gab vorher noch eine Kassette namens „all lights fucked on the hairy amp drooling“ ,lim. 33!], mit dem sie ihren ureigensten Sound manifestierten: spannungs-geladener, tief-melancholischer, psychedelisch ausufernder Instrumental-Noise-Rock, immer ästhetisch-elegant und poetisch bis politisch ausgerichtet. oh ja. First GODSPEED LP, the first manifest of their very own sound. Thick card sleeve with b/w orig. photo. Several letter-press inserts. 140g vinyl. www.cstrecords.com 1997 €26.50
Slow Riot for new Zero Kanada mLP \"Our second vinyl-only release from Godspeed contains two long songs, and sets the bar for the sprawling compositions that would characterise the group in the years to follow. Side A is cut at 45rpm and features \"Moya\", a broiling cascade of upward scales that repeatedly explodes beyond its own threshold. \"BBF3\" on Side B clocks in at 18 minutes, and was the band\'s most lyrical, multi-movement music to date - more elaborated melodic figures wind around an angry spoken-word field recording (infamously culminating in the recital of the speaker\'s poem - verses lifted straight from Iron Maiden). Both songs were recorded with Dale Morningstar at the old Gas Station studio in Toronto.\" [label info] \"Nachdem Godspeed You Black Emperor!, kurz GYBE!, mit ihrem Album \"Lift yr. skinny fist like antennas to heaven!\" allgemein für Furore sorgten, wirft dies natürlich die Frage auf, was denn deren frühere Werke musikalisch bieten. \"Slow riot for new zero\" ist eine EP, die lediglich die zwei Titel \"Moya\" und \"bbf3\" enthält, die mit ihren jeweiligen Längen von 10:51 bzw. 17:45 Minuten, selbst für GYBE! Dimensionen relativ kurz geraten sind. Auf ihnen wird nicht ganz so extrem wie beim nachfolgenden Longplayer das Konzept der \"Wall of Sounds\" ausgelebt. Zwar gibt es auch hier das mehrfache An- und Abschwellen von Soundkaskaden, die melancholischen Lieder entwickeln sich langsam, schleppend - doch einfache, monotone, aber zugleich traumhaft schöne Melodien geben dem explodierenden \"Krach\" eine Struktur, eine Linie zum Entlanghangeln. Wo bei Sigur Rós die Stimme für einen ausgleichenden Gegenpol sorgt, da setzt bei GYBE! das Zusammenspiel zwischen klassischen und elektrischen Instrumenten die Akzente. \"Slow riot for new zero\" lebt so vor allem von der Stimmung, der Faszination des kontrollierten Lärms (nicht umsonst heißt die Übersetzung des hebräischen Zeichen auf dem Cover u.a. \"Chaos\") der von einfacher, fragiler Schönheit bis hin zu ohrenbetäubendem Crescendo reicht.\" [Kristian Selm, Babyblaue Seiten] www.cstrecords.com 1999 €19.50
Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven do-LP \"Das neue, phänomenale Album der innovativen Post-Rock-Band ! Vier lange, ausufernde Stücke die nur noch manchmal entfernt an gängige „Rock“-Strukturen erinnern, vielmehr entwickeln sich zarte Anfänge aus z.B. Guitars, Streichern, Bläsern & Bass hin zu monumentalen Instrumental-Stücken; voller Harmonien und unterschwelliger Kraft, die manchmal fast explodiert.. es gibt auch atmosphärische Zwischenparts mit piano, field recordings, etc.. hier treffen sich GLENN BRANCA, RACHEL’S, und LABRADFORD. Intense !\" [Drone Records info 2000] \"...like Antennas to Heaven After two years of constant touring and near-unanimous critical acclaim, Godspeed You Black Emperor! assembled a collection of new recordings that charted the creative evolution of the band as well as its literal physical movement on the road, criss-crossing North America and Europe. Five expansive full-band compositions are framed by various field recordings, tape manipulations and ensemble pieces in a return to the narrative sonic collage techniques that marked their 1997 debut (F#A#8). Four seamless sides of vinyl unfold a world of aching sadness and beauty, with musical quotes ranging from heartland americana to mitteleuropa folkways, all distilled through the unique sonic filters of Godspeed\'s pedal-crazy orchestral rock instrumentation. Harrowing guitars, plaintive strings, pulsing basses and explosive drums combine with glockenspiels, horns and tape drones to form an overwhelming palette of sounds, always driven by fierce melodic momentum and intense emotional resonance. GYBE! continued to paint on an impossibly large canvas, with an uncanny blend of world-weariness and naive exuberance that spoke volumes about the conflicts and contradictions permeating our political and cultural life. The tension between humility and hubris conjured an epic scope and a raw hope that such sweeping gestures might survive with some semblance of substance.\" [label info] www.cstrecords.com 2000 €26.00
F# A# °° CD "Originally released on vinyl in a pressing of 500 on the Constellation label, F# A# ∞has been remixed and resequenced. Take the epic scope of Ennio Morricone, the artsy slash of 17 Pygmies, the desert tones of prime Savage Republic, bolster the mix with the rhythmic chugalug of The Ex and add the Canadian tradition of radio drama and you begin to get a hint of what this band are up to. With twin percussionists, three guitar players, violin, cello, glockenspeil and tape loops, godspeed you black emperor! can make a big rumbling sound or stretch out into delicate filigrees. The nontet has developed a reputation in their hometown for gripping multimedia shows at their recording and performance space Hotel 2 Tango. At the Lounge Ax twin film projectors emitted grainy backdrops while the band built up their cinemascope sound world. The original home recordings were made at Hotel 2 Tango and have been tweaked at Toronto's Chemical Sound studios (with the help of Daryl Smith of Slow Loris). Two new pieces,"Dead Metheny" and "Sad Mafioso," have been recorded for the compact disc." [label info] www.brainwashed.com/kranky 1998 €15.00
Allelujah! Don't bend! Ascend! CD "We are proud to announce the first new recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor in a decade. Featuring two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones, ‘ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND! provides soaring, shining proof of the band’s powerful return to form.
 Having emerged from hiatus at the end of 2010, GYBE picked up right where they left off, immediately re-capturing the sound and material that had fallen dormant in 2003 and driving it forward with every show of their extensive touring over the last 18 months. The new album presents the fruits of that labour: evolved and definitive versions of two huge compositions previously known to fans as “Albanian” and “Gamelan”, now properly titled as “MLADIC” and “WE DRIFT LIKE WORRIED FIRE” respectively. Accompanied by the new drones (stitched into the album sequence on CD; cut separately on their own 7″ for the LP version), GYBE have offered up a fifth album that we feel is as absolutely vital, virulent, honest and heavy as anything in their discography.
 
We don’t have much time for mythology, but we’d be lying if we said the return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2010 didn’t signify a whole lot to us as a marker from which to look back on the past decade, to reflect on what’s been gained or lost within the confines of independent music culture and what’s been gained or lost in the socio-political landscape writ large. Godspeed’s music will do that to you. It is music that bears witness to, channels and transforms this predominantly terrible, infuriating, venal and nihilistically sad story we’re all living, sharing, resisting, protesting, deconstructing and trying to change for the better. We think GYBE has once again provided a uniquely moving and compelling soundtrack for these acts of analysis, defiance and ascension. * * * Hard to believe a full decade has passed since the release of Yanqui U.X.O., the last album by GYBE. Never a band to care for conventional industry wisdom, Yanqui was released shortly before xmas 2003 with little publicity and no press availability, no marketing plans or cross-promotions or brand synergies, with back cover artwork tracing the inextricable links between major music labels and the military-industrial complex. Driven by word-of-mouth from a passionate and committed fanbase galvanized by the group's sonic vision and its dedication to unmediated, unsullied musical communication, the album found it's rightful audience. To suggest that such simple principles and goals have become harder to maintain and enact a decade later is an understatement. For all the contents and discontents – for all the "content" – of our present cultural moment, the idea of circumventing the glare of exposure, the massaging of media cycles and the calculus of identity management appears quaint, if not futile. But Godspeed is looking to try all the same. The band wants people to care about this new album, without telling people they should or talking about themselves. They want to hold on to some part of that energy that comes with the thrill of anonymous discovery and unmediated transmission, knowing full well that these days, anti-strategy risks being tagged as a strategy, non-marketing framed as its opposite, and deeply held principles they consider fundamental to health as likely to be interpreted as just another form of stealth. Truly, thanks for being open to hearing it. Release date: 15 October 2012 (Europe), 16 October 2012 (rest of world) Running time: 53:09 LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a tipped-on heavyweight gatefold jacket printed in full-colour process plus a spot metallic ink and spot matte varnish. LP dust sleeve is also 4-colour print. Package includes a 7 inch in printed dust sleeve (same audio appears in a different sequence on the CD) and a 12"x48" pull-out poster (printed full colour on both sides) featuring a collage of film stills specially-photographed and captured from the GYBE live 16mm projections." [label info] www.cstrecords.com 2012 €14.50
Asunder, Sweet and other Distress LP "Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GYBE) returns with its first single LP-length release since the group's earliest days in 1997-99. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' clocks in at a succinct 40:23 and is arguably the most focused and best-sounding recording of the band's career. Working with sound engineer Greg Norman (Electrical Audio) at studios in North Carolina and Montreal, GYBE slowly and steadily put the new album together through late 2013 and 2014, emerging with a mighty slab of superlative sonics, shot through with all the band's inimitable signposts and touchstones: huge unison riffage, savage noise/drone, oscillating overtones, guitar vs. string counterpoint, inexorable crescendos and scorched-earth transitions. Following Godspeed's return from a long hiatus at the end of 2010 to begin playing live shows again, and with the hugely acclaimed 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! release in 2012 marking their first new release in a decade, the group continued to perform regularly on their own headlining tours (and as headliners at many leading festivals), often including a new multi-movement piece in concert over the past couple of years. Known to fans and through live show recordings by the sobriquet "Behemoth", GYBE has gradually distilled this new work down to a fastidious and uncompromising essence in the studio, with the swing-time swagger of the opening unison riff in "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'" giving way to increasing microtonal divergences and an exhilarating immersion in the harmonic power of massed amplified instruments, before collapsing into some of the most visceral and unalloyed noise/drone the band has yet committed to tape on "Lambs' Breath" and "’Asunder, Sweet'”. The album closes with "Piss Crowns Are Trebled", a classic 14-minute piece of vintage Godspeed, where ascending and descending guitar and violin melodies intertwine over gut-rattling distorted bass in 3/4 time, segueing into a pummeling four-on-the-floor series of sparkling, soaring crescendos 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' finds Godspeed in top form; a sterling celebration of the band's awesome dialectic, where composition, emotion and 'note-choice' is inextricable from an exacting focus on tone, timbre, resonance and the sheer materiality of sound. The album is available on 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve and insert poster, on CD in a 100% recycled custom paperboard jacket, and on all manner of formats in our fractured digital marketplace." [label info] www.cstrecords.com 2015 €22.00
Asunder, Sweet and other Distress CD "Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GYBE) returns with its first single LP-length release since the group's earliest days in 1997-99. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' clocks in at a succinct 40:23 and is arguably the most focused and best-sounding recording of the band's career. Working with sound engineer Greg Norman (Electrical Audio) at studios in North Carolina and Montreal, GYBE slowly and steadily put the new album together through late 2013 and 2014, emerging with a mighty slab of superlative sonics, shot through with all the band's inimitable signposts and touchstones: huge unison riffage, savage noise/drone, oscillating overtones, guitar vs. string counterpoint, inexorable crescendos and scorched-earth transitions. Following Godspeed's return from a long hiatus at the end of 2010 to begin playing live shows again, and with the hugely acclaimed 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! release in 2012 marking their first new release in a decade, the group continued to perform regularly on their own headlining tours (and as headliners at many leading festivals), often including a new multi-movement piece in concert over the past couple of years. Known to fans and through live show recordings by the sobriquet "Behemoth", GYBE has gradually distilled this new work down to a fastidious and uncompromising essence in the studio, with the swing-time swagger of the opening unison riff in "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'" giving way to increasing microtonal divergences and an exhilarating immersion in the harmonic power of massed amplified instruments, before collapsing into some of the most visceral and unalloyed noise/drone the band has yet committed to tape on "Lambs' Breath" and "’Asunder, Sweet'”. The album closes with "Piss Crowns Are Trebled", a classic 14-minute piece of vintage Godspeed, where ascending and descending guitar and violin melodies intertwine over gut-rattling distorted bass in 3/4 time, segueing into a pummeling four-on-the-floor series of sparkling, soaring crescendos 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' finds Godspeed in top form; a sterling celebration of the band's awesome dialectic, where composition, emotion and 'note-choice' is inextricable from an exacting focus on tone, timbre, resonance and the sheer materiality of sound. The album is available on 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve and insert poster, on CD in a 100% recycled custom paperboard jacket, and on all manner of formats in our fractured digital marketplace." [label info] www.cstrecords.com 2015 €15.00
Luciferian Towers LP 180g Vinyl im Gatefold Cover! Inklusive 24"x24" Poster und DL Coupon! Luciferian Towers", das siebte Album der Kanadier GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, wurde im Winter 2016/2017 im Hotel2Tango Studio in Montreal aufgenommen. Greg Norman übernahm wie bereits beim Vorgängeralbum ,Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress" das Engeneering und die Co-Produktion. Der Sound des Albums hat sich in den vergangenen zwei Jahren herausgeschält, maßgeblichen Einfluss daran hatte die gleichzeitige Kooperation mit der Tanzgruppe HOLY BODY TATTOO, sowie der Auftrag zu einer Komposition zum 100jährigen Gedenken der Schlacht bei Messines, welche im Juni letzten Jahres in Belgien auf dem Gelände des Massakers in Heuvelland ihre Premiere feierte. "Luciferian Towers" ist zudem das dritte Album von GY!BE seit der ,Reunion" der Band 2011 und die zweite aufeinanderfolgende Einzel-LP - denen drei Doppel-Alben (2000, 2002 und 2012) vorangingen. Neben den einzelnen Track-Beschreibungen gibt die Band dazu noch das folgende Statement ab: "this long-playing record, a thing we made in the midst of communal mess, raising dogs and children. eyes up and filled with dreadful joy - we aimed for wrong notes that explode, a quiet muttering amplified heavenward. we recorded it all in a burning motorboat." 1. UNDOING A LUCIFERIAN TOWERS - look at that fucking skyline! big lazy money writ in dull marble obelisks! imagine all those buildings much later on, hollowed out and strippe d bare of wires and glass, listen- the wind is whistling through all 3,000 of its burning window-holes! 2. BOSSES HANG - labor, alienated from the wealth it creates, so that holy cow, most of us live precariously! kicking at it, but barely hanging on! also - the proud illuminations of our shortened lives! also - more of us than them! also - what we need now is shovels, wells, and barricades! 3. FAM / FAMINE - how they kill us = absentee landlord, burning high-rise. the loud panics of child-policemen and their exploding trigger-hands. with the dull edge of an arbitrary meritocracy. neglect, cancer maps, drone strike, famine. the forest is burning and soon they'll hunt us like wolves. 4. ANTHEM FOR NO STATE - kanada, emptied of its minerals and dirty oil. emptied of its trees and water. a crippled thing, drowning in a puddle, covered in ants. the ocean doesn't give a shit because it knows it's dying too. finally and in conclusion; the ,Luciferian Towers" L.P. was informed by the following grand demands: + an end to foreign invasions + an end to borders + the total dismantling of the prison-industrial complex + healthcare, housing, food and water acknowledged as an inalienable human right + the expert fuckers who broke this world never get to speak again. www.cstrecords.com 2017 €23.00
  G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! CD GY!BE kehrt mit einem weiteren Soundtrack für unsere Zeit zurück, wie ihn nur dieses unnachahmliche und ehrwürdige Ensemble schmieden kann. Das neue Album besteht aus zwei fesselnden, 20-minütigen, LP-Seiten füllenden Epen aus lärmgetränktem Breitwand-Post-Rock, während die beiden begleitenden 6-minütigen Stücke der 10" die Band aus Kanada in ihrer verheerendsten, eindringlichsten und elegischsten Form zeigen. Unerbittliches Tuckern blüht auf, während einige der hochfliegenden, brennenden Melodien der Band inmitten von Geigen- und Basskontrapunkt abprallen und zusammenlaufen. Field Recordings und aufgewühlte, halb-improvisierte Passagen umrahmen diese inbrünstigen Epen. Ergreifende Atmosphären, geräuschhafte Orchestrierung, Drone, hypnotische Swingtime-Crescendos, unaufhaltsam geschichtete Türme aus verzerrtem Klargesang: STATE'S END verkörpert jede geliebte Facette der Band. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre später ist dieses neue Album so vital, mitreißend, zeitgemäß und unerbittlich wie jedes andere in der geschichtsträchtigen Diskographie von Godspeed You! Black Emperor. So wie STATE'S END die ganze Bandbreite der klanglichen Trademarks von Godspeed vereint, so umspannt auch das Album-Artwork die gesamte visuelle Geschichte der Band: die körnige, monochromatische Fotografie der letzten Veröffentlichungen findet ihren Weg auf die Innenhüllen, während das Klappcover auf die ikonischen Grafiken früherer Klassiker wie Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada und Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven zurückgreift. STATE'S END ist mit Illustrationen von William Schmiechen versehen, wobei die Taijitu-Blumen auf der Vorderseite und die Tränengaskanister auf der Rückseite des Covers in erhabener, thermografischer, schwarzer Tinte auf dem Doppelvinyl-Albumcover abgebildet sind. Das leuchtende Kreuz von Godspeeds Debütalbum F#A#INFINITY taucht auch auf der Innenseite des Klappdeckels wieder auf, als wiederkehrende Hommage an das elektrifizierte Hügelkreuz in der Heimatstadt der Band in Montreal. STATE'S END wurde im Oktober 2020 in Montreal im Homebase-Studio der Gruppe, Thee Mighty Hotel2Tango, von Jace Lasek aufgenommen und abgemischt, dem altgedienten und preisgekrönten Indie-Produzenten (und Mitbegründer von The Besnard Lakes), der mit Godspeed bei dieser Aufnahme zum ersten Mal zusammenarbeitet. Danke fürs Zuhören. UNSERE SEITE MUSS GEWINNEN. (R.I.P. D.H.) [ENG] GYBE returns with another soundtrack for our times, like only this inimitable and venerable ensemble can forge. As the heretical impudence of the anarcho-punk title implies, Godspeed harnesses some particularly raw power, spittle and grit across two riveting 20-minute side-length trajectories of noise-drenched widescreen post-rock: inexorable chug blossoms into blown-out twang, as some of the band's most soaring, searing melodies ricochet and converge amidst violin and bassline counterpoint. Field recordings and roiling semi-improvised passages frame these fervent epics, and two shorter self-contained 6-minute pieces find the band at its most devastatingly beautiful, haunting and elegiac. Poignant atmospherics, noisedrenched orchestration, drone, hypnotic swingtime crescendos, inexorably-layered towers of distorted clarion sound: STATE'S END encapsulates every beloved facet of the band. Twenty-five years on, this new album is as vital, stirring, timely and implacable as any in Godspeed You! Black Emperor's storied discography. Just as STATE'S END summons the gamut of Godspeed's constituent sonic trademarks, so the album artwork spans the entirety of the band's visual history: the grainy monochromatic photography of recent releases finds its way onto the inner sleeves, while the gatefold cover art harkens back to the iconic graphics of earlier classic records like Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven. STATE'S END features illustrations by William Schmiechen, with the front cover taijitu flowers and back cover tear gas canisters rendered in raised thermographic black ink on the double-vinyl album jacket. The illuminated cross from Godspeed's debut F#A#8 also makes a reappearance on the inside gatefold drawing, in recurrent homage to the electrified hilltop landmark crucifix of the band's Montreal hometown. STATE'S END was recorded and mixed in Montreal in October 2020 at the group's homebase studio Thee Mighty Hotel2Tango by Jace Lasek, the veteran awardwinning indie producer (and co-founder of The Besnard Lakes) who works with Godspeed for the first time on this recording. Thanks for listening. OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN. (R.I.P. D.H.) 2021 €14.50
GOL & CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE Pandamoniahbleeumm!!! LP "Entering their twentieth year of existence, the GOL orchestra, together with the label Planam, celebrates and starts a new program of collaborations: the GOLlaboration series.Volume 2, Pandamoniahbleeummm!!!! marks the encounter with Charlemagne Palestine, pionneer of strumming music and piano maximalism, in the St. Eustache Church in Paris, known for its world famous church organ. The following battle, in form of a long incantatory improvisation, Charlemagne Palestine playing the church organ and GOL doing the electronics, bass, guitar, and the flutes part, combines many attributes of a pagan ritual. GOL was formed in 1988 in Paris by Jean-Marcel Busson, Frédéric Rebotier, Ravi Sharda and Samon Takahashi. The quartet embodies, within a post-dada spirit, a lost rural tradition. GOL plays flute, horns, guitar, violin, toys, selfmanufactured instruments, tapes, turntables, voices, various percussion instruments and electronics, an appropriateness of both traditional string instrument and handmade low fi equipment. GOL's first LP (GOL lp 01), issued in 1993, compiles their first items (88-92) based on vinyl- record's scratching, tape's cut-ups and acoustic instruments. The issuing of this LP was followed by a 9 years long hibernation. Since 2002, the band is back together to pursue its common research and play together of instinct and invention. Their music, electroacoustic oriented, is partially improvised and partly tense. At the time of a collaboration with roumanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu, GOL developped a score system knowned as ' layer's leaf '. Through this system, they could elaborate an hybrid music, between orchestral conduct and free interpretation of movements. Edition limited to 300 copies, also including a large insert with liner notes great graphics by Jean-Marcel Busson who also design the front and back cover." [label info] 2009 €19.50
GRABOWSKI, PAWEL Cirr's Songs 7inch Einigen bekannt vielleicht durch die wunderbare 7” auf Laub Records oder die MIASTO NIE SPALO – CD (OBUH).... zwei Stücke mit bearbeiteten, dichten, melancholischen field recordings, die von Trauer und der „Stimme im Kopf“ berichten..... "PAWEL GRABOWSKI is a polish musician. He has been active with MIASTO NIE SPALO (CD on OBUH Records) and solo.....CIRR’S SONGS are about drowning. At that time i had this dream in which i was drowning in deep waters , every night over and over again. The dream lasted for about a month, then disappeared completely, but that feeling remained... Filed under: Melancholic Field-Drones BLACK VINYL. BLACK COVERS WITH PHOTO." [press release] „...Der in Insiderkreisen durch einige Veröffentlichungen in Mini-Auflagen schon etwas bekanntere Pole kreiert einmal mehr düstere Ambientsoundscapes, die aber keinesfalls brachial-okkult wie MZ412, Raison D'Etre oder Brighter Death Now, sondern stiller, beim ersten Hören fast unscheinbar klingen - Für Industrial-Addicts, die nach jahrelangem Konsum von besagten typischen Cold Meat-Acts genug von deren zwar stimmungsvollen, aber doch ewig gleichen monumentalen Streichersounds und Chören haben, fast so etwas wie ein Pflichtkauf. Eine grandiose, irgendwie geheimnisvolle Single also, die auch inhaltlich Interessantes zu bieten hat..“ [Uwe Marx / Etoile] “PAWEL GRABOWSKI is a polish musician. He has been active with MIASTO NIE SPALO (CD on OBUH Records) and solo.....CIRR’S SONGS are about drowning. At that time i had this dream in which i was drowning in deep waters , every night over and over again. The dream lasted for about a month, then disappeared completely, but that feeling remained... filed under: Melancholic Field-Drones. BLACK VINYL. BLACK COVERS WITH PHOTO. “ [press release] 2005 €7.00
GRAILS Black Tar Prophecies 1, 2, 3 CD "The collected Black Tar Prophecies ends up being a more idiosyncratic mission statement for future Grails recordings, revealing their fondness for the groundfloor '60s and '70s experimental artists that saw music as a process of discovery as opposed to the pre-conceived, pre-parametered, commodified sport that underground music has become. A parallel is now forming between Grails and old-school experimental bands like Faust who, rejecting their past, started over from the beginning to build new languages in music. Grails' third full length recording, and first full-length since leaving Neurosis' label Neurot, is The Black Tar Prophecies. Seven of these nine tracks from this full length were released in small highly sought-after pressings of 12" vinyl on two European labels. The Black Tar Prophecies is a massive evolutionary step in the established Grails sound and it is shrouded in change and pain. The somewhat clinical studio sound and recording style which has established them a tremendous following has been replaced with a much more free and conceptual recording style. This method liberated the group in the studio and these recordings feel much more open, heavy and for lack of a better term, 'psychedelic.' We're not talking about the cliché co-opted psychedelic fashion, but psychedelia as a reckless embrace of new states of mind and possibilities." [press release] 2006 €13.50
GRIM Message LP Grim is the one-man project of Jun Konagaya - formed from the ashes of White Hospital, his legendary early 1980s noise duo with Tomosada Kuwahara - which, accepting a long hiatus in the middle, has bridged the worlds of industrial music, power electronics, and noise for nearly three decades. Belonging roughly to the first wave of Japanese noise, Konagaya is particularly noteworthy among his peers for casting an eye further afield, drawing influences from bands like Whitehouse and SPK, rather than members of his own scene, as well varied reference points as far afield as the traditional folk music of Tibet. That understood, nothing was likely to prepare the context of Japanese noise for what was delivered by his 1987 EP “Message”. It belongs to a body of three releases created by Grim during the 1980s, including the full length, “Folk Music”, issued by Eskimo Records in 1986, and the EP, “Amaterasu”, released by G.A. Propaganda in 1985. While its two predecessors are brilliant and more or less what you might expect from a seminal artist of Japanese noise, “Message” follows a markedly different path, delving toward the realm of pop and folk via a series of six songs that emit a stronger connection to Daniel Johnson, Syd Barrett, Sebadoh, and Tenniscoats than anything the noise scene has ever produced; it feels like walking through an ancient fairy tale forest, all hazy, magical and slightly eerie. Dreamy and meandering, drawing on '60s psychedelia, DIY aesthetics, and folky undercurrents, Grim’s “Message” is a masterstroke in underground Japanese pop, pushing radically forward, while challenging the boundaries of the scene to which the project predominately belongs. Following the album’s original release in 1987, Jun Konagaya followed different paths beyond the world of sound, before unexpectedly relaunching an incredibly prolific career, returning to more explicit territories of noise. As such, “Message” remained a coveted, rare artefact of a road less traveled and a window into the diverse talents and temperaments that rest below all of his output. One of the most distinct and unexpected artifacts of the Japanese scene during the period, rather than the full throttle fury for which it has been widely known, here we encounter the one-man project of Jun Konagaya weaving stunningly beautiful passages within the realm of pop and folk, incorporating elements of '60s psychedelia and Lo-Fi DIY, with Yukio Nagoshi, founding member of the Vasilisk unit, on guitar and percussion and A. Takahashi on vocals, with collaboration and technical support from Tomosada Kuwahara, partner and co-founder with Jun Konagaya of the legendary group White Hospital. First ever reissue of the album furthers these insights, extending the original EP with an entirely new body of noise-oriented reworks by Grim of the original six tracks, effectively doubling in length to a full-length release. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/message "Hätten die subkulturellen Phänomene, die irgendwann von Juristen und Journalisten als Wreckers of Civilization oder England’s Hidden Reverse bezeichnet worden sind, ein Pendant in Japan gehabt, dann wäre Jun Konagaya alias Grim wahrscheinlich das zentrale Flaggschiff dieser Bewegung gewesen, denn sein Interesse am Abseitigen hatte – in Ansätzen bereits bei seiner Band White Hospital – Züge des okkult-autistischen Dandyismus, die man häufig bei den englischen Kollegen beobachtete. Nachdem Konagaya bereits einige Erfahrungen mit lärmenden Soundcollagen gesammelt hatte, entdeckte er Mitte der 80er seine Leidenschaft für das Songformat und für eine Art folkigen Pop, der Schrägheit mit gut dosiertem Kitsch verbindet, und so erschien 1986 das heute als heimlicher Klassiker geltende Album “Folk Music” auf Grims eigenem Label Eskimo Records. Zu dessen Nachwehen gehört auch die im Jahr darauf erschienene EP “Message” (ebenfalls Eskimo), die mit einer Handvoll an Gästen eingespielt wurde und jüngst von Urashima Records neu aufgelegt wurde. Während Grims Wurzeln in der Geräuschmusik in “Folk Music” noch deutlicher zu hören waren, könnte man diese in “Message” eher subtil in einer unterschwelligen Unbehaglichkeit aufspüren, denn rein stilistisch bewegen sich die sechs Stücke fast komplett im Bereich poppig angehauchter Folk-Lullabies, in denen sanfte Gitarrenakkorde und dazu passender Gesang, bei dem nicht immer ganz klar ist, ob man gerade eine Sängerin oder einen Sänger hört, das Bild prägen. Der Opener “Heritage” startet gleich mit Picking und lieblichem Gesang, und schon in diesem Stück fällt in der gefühlvollen Mollastigkeit eine galoppierende Euphorie auf, deren verhuschte Exzentrik durch die launige Trompete gegen Ende noch einmal extra unterstrichen wird. Jedes der Stücke hat seine eigenen Marotten: Bei “Deep in Meditation” ist es das Zusammenspiel von Walzertakt und etwas, dass wie eine Melodika klingt, bei “Parable & Cole” das Paradox einer lieblich-pastoralen Monotonie als Kulisse intimer Flüsterstimmen. Bei “Mooncalf’s Walz” der leicht verzerrte Moment zu Beginn, der aber recht schnell einer noch fiepsigeren Lieblichkeit die Tür öffnet. Diese erreicht bei “Klara’s Song” den Höhepunkt an Kindlichkeit, und trotz psychedelischer Twangs schwebt über all dem eine 80er Jahre-Stimmung, die sich neben der rauen und sicher gewollt einfachen Klanggestaltung einem Esprit verdankt, den man nicht künstlich erzeugen kann. Man sollte als weitere Klammer aber auch das leicht unbehagliche Element einmal mehr betonen – eine seltsame Weltfremdheit, die sich in den allzuschönen Arrangements bei genauerem Hinhören offenbart und den Eindruck entstehen lässt, dass dieses Idyll nicht nur von Feen und Folksternchen bevölkert ist, sondern ebenso sehr von dämonischem Gesindel. Heute werden gerne renommierte Sängerinnen und Sänger aus Folk und Psychedelic der Jahre um 1970 genannt, wenn man sich auf Grims hier durchgezogenen Stil einen Reim machen will. Wer allerdings zu Konagayas eigener Generation gehört und mit undergroundigen Songs der 80er und 90er sozialisiert worden ist, hat vielleicht spezifischere Assoziationen, und die können von Strawberry Switchblade über frühe Psychic TV und die Legendary Pink Dots bis zu den ersten folkigen Versuchen von Current 93 oder Death in June reichen – ein merkwürdiges Kuriosum, bei dem ich nie ganz über den Gedanken hinweg komme, wie nah das alles an einem potentiellen Pop-Hype vorbeigeschlittert ist. Interessant und hervorhebenswert ist dabei, das Grim eine solche Musik bereits perfektionierte, als diese auch in Europa erst im Entstehen begriffen war. Der Wiederveröffentlichung, die diese Songs erneut auf Vinyl präsentiert, sind einige Remixe als Bonustracks hinzugefügt – ultranoisige Versionen, die die Spuren späterer Entwicklungen Konagayas tragen, die aber die süßlich säuselnden Stimmen immer noch geisterhaft im von Lärm erfüllten Raum schweben lassen." [U.S./ African Paper] "Returning off the back of an incredible run of deep dives into numerous historical contexts of noise, Urashima brings us the first ever vinyl reissue of Grim's legendary 1987 EP, “Message”, now expanded to a full album's length. One of the most distinct and unexpected artifacts of the Japanese scene during the period, rather than the full throttle fury for which it has been widely known, here we encounter the one-man project of Jun Konagaya weaving stunningly beautiful passages within the realm of pop and folk, incorporating elements of '60s psychedelia and Lo-Fi DIY. This highly sought-after holy grail of the 1980s underground is issued by Urashima in a limited edition of 199 copies, and won't sit around for long. Grim "Message"(LP) Since its founding during the late 2000s, the Italian imprint, Urashima, has become a definitive voice in the landscape of noise, sculpting a singular vision of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary bodies of experimental sound to have graced the globe. Already in 2022, they’ve delivered beautiful, ambitious limited edition releases like Controlled Death’s “Death Synth Box”, Merzbow’s “Collection 001-010” and “Hybrid Noisebloom”, as well as Masonna’s “Masonna Vs. Bananamara” and Hijokaidan’s “Zouroku No Kibyou”. Beginning the label’s final push toward the end of the year is the first ever vinyl reissue of Grim’s legendary, highly sought after 1987 EP, “Message”, now expanded with new material to a full LP in length. An inexplicable hybrid of folk, indie pop, electronic music, and experimentalism, there’s almost nothing like it within the territory and context of sound within in which it rests. A true holy grail of the 1980s Japanese underground, with original pressings commanding crazy money on the collector’s market, this very limited edition of 199 copies is going to be gone in a flash. Don’t sleep! Grim is the one-man project of Jun Konagaya - formed from the ashes of White Hospital, his legendary early 1980s noise duo with Tomasada Kuwahara - which, accepting a long hiatus in the middle, has bridged the worlds of industrial music, power electronics, and noise for nearly three decades. Belonging roughly to the first wave of Japanese noise, Konagaya is particularly noteworthy among his peers for casting an eye further afield, drawing influences from bands like Whitehouse and SPK, rather than members of his own scene, as well varied reference points as far afield as the traditional folk music of Tibet. That understood, nothing was likely to prepare the context of Japanese noise for what was delivered by his 1987 EP “Message”. “Message” belongs to a body of three releases created by Grim during the 1980s, including the full length, “Folk Music”, issued by Eskimo Records in 1986, and the EP, “Amaterasu”, released by G.A. Propaganda in 1985. While its two predecessors are brilliant and more or less what you might expect from a seminal artist of Japanese noise, “Message” follows a markedly different path, delving toward the realm of pop and folk via a series of six songs that emit a stronger connection to Daniel Johnson, Syd Barrett, Sebadoh, and Tenniscoats than anything the noise scene has ever produced. Dreamy and meandering, drawing on '60s psychedelia, DIY aesthetics, and folky undercurrents, Grim’s “Message” is a masterstroke in underground Japanese pop, pushing radically forward, while challenging the boundaries of the scene to which the project predominately belongs. Following the album’s original release in 1987, Jun Konagaya followed different paths beyond the world of sound, before unexpectedly relaunching an incredibly prolific career, returning to more explicit territories of noise. As such, “Message” remained a coveted, rare artefact of a road less traveled and a window into the diverse talents and temperaments that rest below all of his output. Urashima’s first ever reissue of the album furthers these insights, extending the original EP with an entirely new body of noise-oriented reworks by Grim of the original six tracks, effectively doubling in length to a full-length release. Visionary, wild, and weird, this beautifully produced LP is issued in a very limited edition of 199 copies, and is an absolute must for any fan of Grim, Japanese noise, and '80s DIY psychedelic pop." [Soundohm] 2022 €29.00
GRUBBS, DAVID & ELI KESZLER One and One less LP One and One Less is the first collaboration between David Grubbs and Eli Keszler and the first release in the UDPR series. One and One Less consists of a performance and an installation, both of which draw upon a single source text—David Grubbs’s ongoing One Poem, and the LP is split between these two forms: the live performance for reader (Grubbs) and percussionist (Keszler), and a recording of the installation version from the MIT List Visual Arts Center. The original installation (at the MIT List Visual Arts Center from October 10, 2014 to January 4, 2015 as part of the show Open Tunings) used recorded excerpts from One Poem to trigger a range of mechanical strikes within seven custom-made, sculptural sound boxes, each of which contained an elaborate mechanism of motors and speakers built by Keszler that acoustically filtered the voice, creating a constantly changing composition—one equally verbal and percussive. Subsequent to the live performance, the installation at MIT was intended as an aural afterimage, in which the clean visual disposition of the gallery space was contradicted by the intensity of the acoustically produced sound field. This LP is printed in a limited edition of 300 copies and includes an insert with the text of David Grubb's poem-in-progress. UDPR is a vinyl record series for the sound of poetry, curated by Michael Barron for Ugly Duckling Presse. David Grubbs is Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. At Brooklyn College he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, and Sound Recording (Duke University Press). Grubbs has released twelve solo albums and appeared on more than 150 commercially-released recordings. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe, visual artists Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, and Stephen Prina, and choreographer Jonah Bokaer. His work has been presented at the Guggenheim, MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and he has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, and Loren Connors, among many others. He is a grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; a contributing editor in music for BOMB Magazine; director of the Blue Chopsticks record label. Eli Keszler Photo credit: Christelle Perrin Eli Keszler is a New York-based artist, composer, and percussionist who situates his practice within the intersections of architecture, performance, installation, notation, and composition. Keszler’s installations and visual work have appeared at the Victoria & Albert Museum, MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Barbican, Luma-Foundation, Tectonics Festival Reykjavik, and Centraal Museum in Utrecht among many others. Keszler has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, performing solo and in collaboration with artists such as Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Oren Ambarchi, Joe McPhee, Jandek, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Coleman, T Model Ford, and Ilan Volkov with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. His writing and work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, Frieze, and Modern Painters. He has received commissions and awards from Gaudeamus, National Public Radio, and the Foundation For Contemporary Art. Keszler is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. https://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=546 2017 €28.00
GRUNT Spiritual Eugenics do-CD Born in 1993, Grunt remains one of the most active and restless forces in Finnish – or even global industrial noise network. Since first tapes published 25 years ago, project has been active without any breaks. Messy discography makes it hard to judge how many actual ”albums” has been created. List of releases reaches close to hundred, yet most of them represents other approach than creation of ”album”. Spiritual Eugenics continue to path established by Castrate The Illusionist (2018), Myth Of Blood (2015), World Draped In A Camouflage (2012), Petturien Rooli (2009) and Seer of Decay (2006). It expands the sounds, themes and visuals to unheard levels, but keeps firmly touch of known Grunt sound. 80 minutes long album is monolithic work packaged in double digipak with booklet and vinyl edition double LP in full color gatefold cover. https://freak-animal.net/2020/05/15/grunt-spiritual-eugenics-album/ 2020 €16.00
GRÖHN, COSTA 2+1 mCD-R "Während Asmus Tietchens nur manchmal dafür gehalten wird, ist COSTA GRÖHN tatsächlich ein Mann der Kirche, nämlich Pastor von St. Johannis-Harvestehude. Weit davon entfernt, ein heimliches Laster zu sein, ist sein offenes Ohr für die Dinge des Lebens um ihn herum eine Tugend, der man weitere Verbreitung wünscht. 2 + 1 (1000füssler 016, 3“ mCD-R) hat Grillen und Vögel erlauscht, Schritte, Stimmen, brausenden Wind, auch eine maunzende Katze, knisterndes Feuer. Draußen, daheim. Alles zart und geheimnisvoll genug, um unter die Rubrik ‚Ohrenblicke der Schöpfung‘ zu fallen (so hieß 2003 ein Projekt in der Hamburger Petruskirche, an dem Gröhn mitgewirkt hatte). Der Alltagsklang ist nicht allein collagiert, er ist detailreich bearbeitet, mit Vinyl-Samples beschichtet, mit fein schwebendem Feedback durchfädelt und durchwellt. ‚Discounterbeat‘ mischt das typische Piepen einer Supermarktkasse mit Drummachine und einem Hauch von Chor. Das hat seine eigene Art von Frömmigkeit. Weltfremd ist es definitiv nicht." [Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy] "Costa Gröhn makes field recordings on the road, at home, in the city or in the forest. On "2+1" he processed recordings from his archive and added feedbacks and vinyl record samples to 2 and 1 soundscape compositions. [P] January 2009. 1. Chirring calls at home 8'25 2. Within a circle of fire (disrupted playback) 3‘10 3. Discounterbeat 3‘44 About the Artist: Costa Gröhn was born 1976 in Bad Segeberg (northern Germany). He is a pastor at the St. Johannis Church in Hamburg. He has been composing soundscapes and doing performances since 2000. Besides tracks for compilations and remix-projects, he has also released two full length CD-R albums "Im Gehölz" and "Bouboukas" on the Gruenrekorder label." [label info] 2010 €6.00
GUDNADOTTIR, HILDUR Chernobyl (Music from the HBO Miniseries) LP "Chernobyl is a five-part miniseries by producer Craig Mazin, which premiered on HBO on May 6 2019. The series deals with the nuclear disaster which occurred in the Ukraine in April, 1986, with tragic effects on both the Soviet Union and numerous countries in Western Europe. Hildur Guðnadóttir, Icelandic composer, cello player and singer, has composed the music score which is available on CD, vinyl as well as download and streaming." "Am 26. April 1986 erlitt das Kernkraftwerk Tschernobyl in der Ukraine, Sowjetunion, eine massive Explosion, die radioaktives Material über Weißrussland, Russland und die Ukraine bis nach Skandinavien und Westeuropa freisetzte. Der Schriftsteller, Schöpfer und ausführende Produzent Craig Mazin begann 2014 mit der Erforschung der Katastrophe von Tschernobyl unter Verwendung einer Vielzahl von Materialien, darunter mehrere Bücher, Regierungsberichte aus dem In- und Ausland und Berichte aus erster Hand. Er sprach mit Kernforschern, um zu erfahren, wie ein Reaktor funktioniert, und interviewte ehemalige Sowjetbürger, um ein besseres Verständnis für die Kultur im Jahre 1986 zu bekommen. Tschernobyl ist eine fünfteilige Miniserie - eine Koproduktion von HBO und Sky. Hildur Guðnadóttir, isländische Komponistin, Cellistin und Sängerin, komponierte eine Reihe von Filmmusiken für Filme wie Joker, Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), Strong Island (2017) und Mary Magdalene (2018). Hildur hat unter anderem mit Múm, Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Knife, Fever Ray und Jóhann Jóhannsson live gespielt und Musik aufgenommen. Hildur hat vier von der Kritik gefeierte Soloalben Mount A (2006), Without Sinking (2009), Leyfðu Ljósinu (2012) und Saman (2014) veröffentlicht. Ihre Platten wurden mehrfach für die Icelandic Music Awards nominiert." https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/chernobyl-soundtrack-gunadottir-7130 2019 €25.50
  Chernobyl (Music from the HBO Miniseries) CD "Chernobyl is a five-part miniseries by producer Craig Mazin, which premiered on HBO on May 6 2019. The series deals with the nuclear disaster which occurred in the Ukraine in April, 1986, with tragic effects on both the Soviet Union and numerous countries in Western Europe. Hildur Guðnadóttir, Icelandic composer, cello player and singer, has composed the music score which is available on CD, vinyl as well as download and streaming." "Am 26. April 1986 erlitt das Kernkraftwerk Tschernobyl in der Ukraine, Sowjetunion, eine massive Explosion, die radioaktives Material über Weißrussland, Russland und die Ukraine bis nach Skandinavien und Westeuropa freisetzte. Der Schriftsteller, Schöpfer und ausführende Produzent Craig Mazin begann 2014 mit der Erforschung der Katastrophe von Tschernobyl unter Verwendung einer Vielzahl von Materialien, darunter mehrere Bücher, Regierungsberichte aus dem In- und Ausland und Berichte aus erster Hand. Er sprach mit Kernforschern, um zu erfahren, wie ein Reaktor funktioniert, und interviewte ehemalige Sowjetbürger, um ein besseres Verständnis für die Kultur im Jahre 1986 zu bekommen. Tschernobyl ist eine fünfteilige Miniserie - eine Koproduktion von HBO und Sky. Hildur Guðnadóttir, isländische Komponistin, Cellistin und Sängerin, komponierte eine Reihe von Filmmusiken für Filme wie Joker, Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), Strong Island (2017) und Mary Magdalene (2018). Hildur hat unter anderem mit Múm, Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Knife, Fever Ray und Jóhann Jóhannsson live gespielt und Musik aufgenommen. Hildur hat vier von der Kritik gefeierte Soloalben Mount A (2006), Without Sinking (2009), Leyfðu Ljósinu (2012) und Saman (2014) veröffentlicht. Ihre Platten wurden mehrfach für die Icelandic Music Awards nominiert." https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue/products/chernobyl-soundtrack-gunadottir-7130 2019 €15.00
HAFLER TRIO An Utterance of the Supreme Ventriloquist CD Wiederveröffentlichung einer der besten H30-LPs, erschienen 1996 auf Soleilmoon. Auf den beiden Stücken klingt Andrew Mc Kenzie noch weitaus „fordernder“ und elektro-akustisch-experimenteller als auf den heutzutage erscheinenden, eher ruhig-dronigen Werken: minimale elektronische Klangwellen und Pulsationen, dazwischen aber auch immer Breaks & hereinbrechende Soundeffekte, „konkrete“ field-recording-Schnipsel, dabei aber in derart fremdartige Klang-dimensionen vordringenden, dass es (zumindest für uns) eine wahre Freude ist! Geniales Werk in wunderschöner Verpackung !! "An Utterance of the Supreme Ventriloquist was originally issued by Soleilmoon in 1996 in a hand-numbered edition of 451 clear vinyl LPs. Utterance consists of two 21-minute pieces, 'Placing the Seed' and 'Seeding the Place.' It's a psychedelic head-trip that reaches a similar plane of consciousness occupied by Nurse With Wound. The material has been completely remastered for maximum digital appreciation, and is presented in a deluxe embossed folder with lavishly printed inserts, all wrapped in semi-transparent paper, very much in the style of the recent reissues of 'The Sea Org' and 'Mastery of Money.'" [press release] 2005 €15.00
HASEGAWA, HIROSHI (長谷川洋) Ascension No. 999 CD "Hiroshi Hasegawa's musical roots go back to the late 80s, where he started as a pioneer under the Japanese Experimental Electronic artists. Hasegawa is the man behind C.C.C.C., ASTRO, MORTAL VISION, TRANCE and other projects. He released also several works together with Akifumi Nakajima from AUBE. Ascension No.999 is his first album under his real name (besides a split LP from 1988) and it's also his very first ultra-noise work! The sounds vary from experimental cut-up noise, over droning sound-walls, to screaming high frequency manipulations. Some passages even remind to early Säköh/Panasonic vinyls. Cover-design by Yoshihiro Nakano." [label info] www.steinklang-records.at 2008 €8.00
HASTINGS OF MALAWI Vibrant Stapler obscures characteristic Growth CD A classic masterpiece from 1981, never re-released on CD before. Originally 1000 copies pressed on orange/red vinyl. 120 copies were sold through Rough Trade and Virgin Records. 800 copies were bought and later destroyed by the United Dairies label, makin this record even more rare. Hastings of Malawi were Heman Pathak, David Hodes and John Grieve. They recorded the album in one night in 1981 with no plan and no idea of what they were doing. They played drums, clarinet, synthesiser and piano but also made use of things that they found lying around the studio – old records, cookery books, telephone directories and a telephone. The recordings were played down the phone to randomly dialled numbers and the reactions added to the recording. All three had been involved in the recording of the first Nurse with Wound album Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella and had contributedmetal scrapings, piano, effects, clarinet and guitar during the session. https://www.klanggalerie.com/gg405 2022 €15.00
HAUSCHKA A NDO C Y LP "Limitiertes Vinyl mit Remixen von DEVENDRA BANHART und ELUVIUM. Im letzten Jahr veröffentlichte HAUSCHKA (alias Volker Bertelmann) mit ,Abandoned City" ein Album von Klavierstücken, die von vergessenen Orten inspiriert wurden, die langsam verfallen und zurück in die Natur übergehen. Das Album war prachtvoll und einzigartig bewegend - Kritiker applaudierten und HAUSCHKA unterstrich einmal mehr seinen Status als Mitglied der Elite moderner Komponisten. ,A NDO C Y" ist eine Fortsetzung der Geschichte von ,Abandoned City", erzählt über zwei Seiten. Seite A versammelt fünf Tracks aus den Sessions zu ,Abandoned City"; eine Suite aus Songs, die sich zu einem ausnehmend stimmigen Ganzen fügen. Diese Songs verarbeiten minimalistischen Techno ebenso wie moderne Komposition, was die Tracks wie gemacht für Remixe erscheinen lässt. Auf Seite B interpretiert die Folk Ikone DEVENDRA BANHART ,Agdam" von ,Abandoned City" neu - zu Fragmenten aus einzelnen Klavierbeiträgen und aufbrausenden Synthies. Im Vergleich ist die Interpretation von ,Stromness" von ELUVIUM beinahe schockierend euphorisch, während Kaskagen aus Verzerrung sich über einzelne Klaviertöne ergießen. Als Download gibt es hier noch überdies ein atemberaubendes Livealbum, das Ende 2014 in Japan aufgenommen wurde. Die 40-minütige Performance teilt sich in zwei 20-minütige Improvisationen, die sich auf Themen von ,Abandoned City" gründet. A NDO C Y is a continuation of the Abandoned City story, told as a tale of two sides. Side A features five tracks conceived during the Abandoned City sessions, a suite of songs that together form an exceptionally resonant whole. As with Abandoned City, these songs owe as much to minimalist techno as modern composition, which makes them particularly conducive to remixes. On Side B, experimental folk icon Devendra Banhart distills Abandoned City standout, "Agdam", to barely-there, fractured clusters of solitary piano strikes and swelling synths. By comparison, Eluvium's transformation of "Stromness" sounds almost shockingly euphoric, all cascading waves of distortion washed over a plethora of plucked piano pings. Included as a special bonus download is a stunning live album recorded in Yufuin, Japan in late 2014. The 40-minute performance is split into two 20-minute improvisations built on themes from Abandoned City. It's a gorgeous glimpse of live Hauschka, a world where songs you think you know become entirely new works of art at the mercy of Bertelmann's whims. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES" [label info] www.temporaryresidence.com 2015 €20.00
HAYNES, JIM The Decline Effect do-LP "Parapsychology introduced the notion of the decline effect as a statistical phenomenon of diminishing results whilst investigating extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. Where initial findings might substantiate proof of such abilities, further studies would almost always demonstrate the contrary. As such, this ontological disappearing act stands in allegorical parallel to the entropic art of Jim Haynes and frames his 2011 opus of the corroded drone and a compacted disintegration of sound. This San Francisco Bay Area artist has long defined his work through the pithy phrase: "I rust things." The Decline Effect continues his investigations with electroacoustic decay through four bodies of evidence left behind from ephemeral aktions, shipwrecked electronics, re-engineered field recordings, and transmissions from the ether. Haynes composes through all of these sources through a patient suturing of sympathetic elements, whether they be textural, tonal, visceral, heavenly, sodden, or monolithic. Here, embers foretelling a nuclear winter gently waft upon industrial chorales amassed from an army of fidgeting motors; the sulfur-laden hiss from volcanic vents erupts from an organic thrum into boiling crescendos of environmental noise; geiger counter palpitations stream along a leaden sea of modulated radio noise; a warm explosion of sun-bleached distortion caresses the evanescent halos from an undulating mesmerism inexplicably not sourced from a guitar and / or digital patch authored by Christian Fennesz. Haynes' broken minimalism orbits somewhere near the work Joe Colley, G*Park, Nurse With Wound, and BJ Nilsen. The 2LP of The Decline Effect is strictly limited to 350 copies, comes in a handsome gatefold sleeve, and sports the necessary download coupon. Zener cards not included." [label info] www.helenscarsdale.com "Another mysterious sonic missive from our very own resident dronologist Jim Haynes, another excursion into the sound of decay, this time in the form of four sprawling sidelong epics, each its own self contained soundworld, culled from various field recordings, vibrating strings and other sonic errata. Recorded over the last three years, these recordings require headphones to truly explore their depth, and once strapped on, it's easy to get lost in these strange lands of decay and declines. The A side was originally a commissioned soundtrack for a pair of films that screened at the Hauntology exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2010, and while we've yet to see either of these films, the smoldering slow moving "Ashes" does evoke a certain ontological sonic dread, the core of the sound is of course the drone, but that drone is pulled taut, and the sound seems to fray as the track progresses, shedding sonic detritus in the form of fractured melodies, strange clicks and muted buzz. At times, this begins to sound like perhaps Haynes' most overtly musical record, but that musicality is eventually picked apart, the remaining elements litter the landscape like bits of some sonic wreckage, but then the edges are smoothed, and the stray shards are reigned in, the sound is truly beautiful, whether a deep sonorous drone, or a lush layered stretch of celestial shimmer. Named for the performance space at which the piece was debuted, "Terminal" is another sidelong soundscape, the majority of the sounds sourced from field recordings of geysers and thermal vents, the opening few minutes unfurling like a raw field recordings, playing out like some obscure scientific document, unearthed from some dusty box filed away in a warehouse, chronicling some lost expedition. The sound doesn't necessarily grow more musical, but instead, seems to blossom and display more texture, and more depth, as if more sounds were introduced and then layered or woven into one another, streaks of blurred hiss, peppered with the sound of wind on microphone or the trickle of water, the white noise of eruption balanced by the hushed murmur of calm before and after. Side three finds Haynes exploring radioactive decay, unclear what the sound sources are, we'd like to think, that it's indeed recordings of Strontium or Uranium, the radioactivity causing the tape to warp and curdle, but in fact, it sounds more like an assemblage of intercepted short wave broadcasts, and deep bellows of bowed metal, lush chordal swells washing over strange effects, muted glitches, lush tones and surprisingly dreamy overtones, bell like chimes, chittering cricket like clicks, Geiger counter like bleeps, all blurred and smeared into a gorgeous hazy of soft focus shimmer, those clicks coalescing into an almost-rhythm, while the surrounding sounds seem to lose cohesion, the edges softening, all bleeding into one another and drifting like blackened clouds of whir and thrum. And finally, the last movement in this crumbling sonic tetraptych is the wire recording sourced "Cold", in which Haynes captures the sympathetic buzz of wires and plays them like some sort of abstract harp, at least that's how we picture it, a huge stone room, with metal wires running across in wild tangles, Haynes at the center, wildly bowing and striking wires, creating this delicate crystalline symphony, another blurred buzzscape, that peppers the lush layered shimmer, with creaks and clatter, skitter and crunch, but those errant sounds are quickly subsumed by the warm whirls of hushed bleary drift and an unexpected eruption of caustic blown out noise, a psychedelic squall that acts as the record's coda, before the inevitable decline, the sound slipping into nothingness. Gorgeous stuff. LIMITED TO 350 COPIES!! Housed in a luxurious full color gatefold sleeve, and pressed on nice thick black vinyl. Includes a download coupon as well." [Aquarius Rec.] 2011 €22.50
HECKER, TIM Norberg LP "This year Room40 celebrates 15 years of editions and events. As part of the celebrations we are re-issuing a number of editions in various formats that are out of print. One of these editions brings together two of the pieces we’ve had the pleasure to publish by Tim Hecker. These two works were both created in conjunction with visits by Tim to Australia and were released in limited quantities. The 7” edition of Apondalifa basically vanished upon release. It was also originally split across a 7”. On this new edition, cut by the wondrous LUPO at Calyx, the piece is available on vinyl for the first time in its extended format. Tim remains a dear friend to us, and an inspiration! We’re glad to be revisited these astounding pieces and making them both available in this format for the first time!" [label info] www.room40.org "This album collects two long out of print releases that the beloved Tim Hecker produced for Room 40 quite a while ago - Norberg was a 20 minute EP from 2007, and Apondalifa was a 7" dating to 2010. These being Tim Hecker releases, we had much to say about these gauzy, blurry, buzzy expanses of muted digital glitch, disembodied melodies, sepia toned ambience, organic and electronic woven into swirling shimmering soundscapes. So here's a synopsis of the two reviews we penned a while back about about the two recordings that constitute this, yet another exquisite Tim Hecker production! Norberg begins with an Oval like sweep of glimmering chimes and washed out whir, but quickly develops into something much more weighty, the chimes swallowed up by a warm whirring blur, a softly churning, slowly crumbling wall of blissed out guitar buzz, the buzz very gradually dissipating, leaving just the hiss and the whir, to drift like gossamer clouds in a deep blue sky. The sounds become softer and softer, muted and murky, underwater sounding, allowed to pulse and ebb and flow and sway softly back and forth, under a delicate patina of electronic crackle, an ultra distorted guitar way down in the mix unfurling ribbons of gnarled prismatic crunch, spread out over the hushed shimmer below, like the icy crust on a dying sun. Finally the hiss takes on a life of it's own, pushing all of the other sounds under the surface, the hiss made up of all manner of skipping static and layered white noise, impossible musical in its own right, the perfect climax to a surprisingly bracing expanse of buzzing blissful ambient sound. Apondalfia is a gloriously washed out sprawl of warm fuzz and softly swirling melodic squalls, all of the edges smoothed out, but leaving plenty of grit, the guitars way more obvious than in the past, but it's hard to tell exactly what they're doing, they seem to be unfurling strange little woozy warped melodies, that seem to loop and layer and shift constantly, ringing out and bleeding into the various sounds around them, all beneath the thick sonic swells and a glacially churning shimmery sonic gauze. So beautiful and deliriously hypnotic!" [Aquarius Rec.] 2015 €24.00
HEIRS Fowl CD "Upon returning to Melbourne after 67 shows across Europe and Japan, Heirs commenced work on their second album, Fowl. With the baton of core song-writing being handed from drummer Damian Coward to guitarist, Brent Stegeman, Heirs turned their attention toward their electronic underbelly, honing in on the industrial vapour and blackened ambience that permeated their debut, Alchera, distilling the underlying sense of melody with an arresting sense of dread. Fowl displays a deliberate shift towards a broader sonic palette, enabling the band to incorporate disparate in­uences and approaches to create a sound that is uniquely their own. Fowl deals with the human processing of the ornery – the filth we feed upon to entertain us, to sate our hunger, to gratify our sexual desires, to escape our reality or simply to facilitate our survival. Fowl is an exploration of the consumption of filth, the nourishment it provides and the way we excrete it back into the world, calling into question the notion of morality and its place in an increasingly faithless populace. From wheezing blasts of industrial steam to weeping passages of gothic suspense, Fowl is a fully realised analysis of the repugnant. Its pugilistic rhythmic foundation, reverb soaked guitars, crackling electronics and deadpan dark-wave meditation create an abstract dronescape of industrial dirge and metallic ambience coalesced into an ambitious whole. Recorded and mixed by Neil Thomason at Head Gap in June/July 2010, and produced by Brent Stegeman and Damian Coward, Fowl is a 45-minute journey inside the proverbial machine and represents a band confronting the visual and aural atrocities of the quotidian. The VINYL VERSION comes with a fantastic design in three different colors (white with yellow, Black/Yellow - A Side / B Side, Black) in a heavy gatefold sleeves with thick printed inner sleeves and on 180g. The CD is available as a limited card pack. For fans of Swans, Controlled Bleeding, HTRK, Pelican, Godflesh & Nadja." [label info] www.denovali.com 2010 €14.50
HERBST9 :Enenylyn: (SOLD OUT) 7 “Probably the most well-known band of the new Drone Records 7”-releases. This is the first non-LOKI release by the German dark/transcendental ambient-duo from Leipzig, who already gained cult-status. The two pieces on this EP are filled with roaring feedbacks & amorphic sounds. Deep reverberations evoke impressions of endless vaults, halls & tunnels way down deep below this Earth. In addition to this music whereabouts, there’s an intense emotional imprinting, like being in the middle of a sacrificial or shamanic ritual. This music has the psychedelic drug power to evoke ancient gods. ~ Filed under: sacrificial / shamanic drones ~ WHITE VINYL. BLACK COVERS WITH HAND-PRINTED BANDEROLE.” [press-release] 2004 €6.50  
HIJOKAIDAN Zouroku No Kibyou (40th Anniversary Edition) LP ’Zouroku no Kibyo is the first album by Hijokaidan, released in April 1982. It is a compilation of live recordings from 1981, when the extreme performances of Hijokaidan first attracted attention, and is a record of the chaotic inner energy of young people in their early 20s, influenced by rock, jazz, contemporary music, and avant-garde art, erupting outside. It was first released on the independent Osaka label Unbalance Records and came to be regarded as a historical masterpiece of independent recordings in Japan. It was later released on CD several times by "Alchemy Records," and was also released by the major Japanese label Teichiku Entertainment. An analog reissue of the album was released in 2006 by the German label Vinyl-On-Demand in the form of a double LP set. This will be the first time that the album will be reissued in its original form as a single analog disc, this time on Urashima in 2022. ‘’ JOJO Hiroshige Hijokaidan is a Japanese noise band with a turning lineup that has ranged from two members to as many as fourteen in its early days. The group is the project of guitarist Yoshiyuki ‘’JOJO’’ Hiroshige, its one constant member, who is owner of the legendary Osaka-based Alchemy Records. The ensemble began at the very end of the 70’s as a performance art-based unit whose anarchic shows would often involve destruction of venues and audio equipment, food and garbage being thrown around, and on-stage urination. As the group's lineup changed over time, their focus became less performance-based and more musically based, fine-tuning their sound into a dense wall of white noise created by each member both for live performances and for studio recordings. Zouroku no Kibyo resting at a fascinating juncture between space-harsh progressive, impro and noise, it was years ahead of its time when it first appeared becoming one of the great holy grails of Japan noise. Creatively thrilling - filled with emotive highs and lows - it’s a crucial piece in the puzzle of Japan’s wild and wonderful history of noise music. A truly stunning, visionary expanse of texture and tonality - pushing noise practice and the very notions of language into uncharted realms, improvising with a ferocity different from that of hard rock or punk, and a chaos unlike that of free jazz. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/zouroku-no-kibyou 2022 €24.00
HIMUKALT Between My Teeth LP Dark, psychosexual electronics lurk between the teeth of Ester Kärkkäinen, the Las Vegas based artist also known as Himukalt. For the past six years, she has tirelessly pursued an avenue of bleak industrial productions that parallel the extremist works of Genocide Organ and Atrax Morgue. She has built a considerable reputation for uncompromising, full-frontal noise, releasing albums on Total Black, Malignant Records, Found Remains, and Foul Prey, amongst others. Between My Teeth was originally a cassette which came out in 2018 as a tiny edition on the Greek imprint Several Minor Promises and sold out immediately upon release. Himukalt returns to The Helen Scarsdale Agency with the necessary reissue of Between My Teeth as a vinyl edition with expanded artwork. The album is a maelstrom of ill-tempered noise and blackened frequencies, sutured to a foundation of primitive, raw rhythms. Kärkkäinen cuts up her own voice with the digital equivalent of a rusted razor blade through her proclamations of misery, rage, and desire. The albums' opening track "Cataclysm" a turgid industrial production with Kärkkäinen adopting two distinct voices that, while they remain mostly indecipherable in content, the context presumes an inevitable, catastrophic and emotionally violent collapse in the relationship between two people. A tense rhythm clicks below the full spectrum bursts of harsh noise on "She Went Mad" followed by the smoldering power electronic moves of "I No Longer Belong" and "Not Proper." And the death disco groove of "Mine" is far more hellish than danceable through its scalded distortion and Kärkkäinen's vocal mantras about bodily self-loathing. Another bold, declarative album in the ever impressive Himukalt discography. Remastered by James Plotkin and features a 12 page booklet of Kärkkäinen's signature collaged xerography. https://helenscarsdale.bandcamp.com/album/between-my-teeth 2022 €23.00
  Septic CD "SEPTIC was the second full length vinyl release from Himukalt. The LP was released by Malignant in 2020 and immediately sold out. Here comes the CD re-edition including 2 exclusive bonus tracks, some minor chages on another track and a complete new mastering for best CD sound quality. Himukalt aesthetic and template is immediately recognizable through the 5 original Septic tracks and becomes even more intriguing through the addition of the 2 exclusive bonus tracks. Deadening rhythmic pulsations, bristling oscillations, and a steady stream of crackling and frying circuitry, often infused with layers of filth, hostility, and sexuality. This is best Industrial P/E. Six pannels Digipack plus 12 pages booklet in a limited edition of 300 copies. All art, se(n/x)sual imagery, photos and collages by Ester Kärkkäinen." https://himukalt.bandcamp.com/album/septic 2023 €15.00
HINSIDAN Nightshift 10 4-track EP from this promising project, two pieces of very subtle / droney material, one remix on Side B by L'OMBRE, and one live-version of "Nightshift", this sounds like dark wave drone ambient with beats & vocals, hard to define but highly atmospheric and stunning! "After their monumentual debut - the praised double album 'God Is In The Details / Music For Ghosts' [phisteria 2005], and hot on the heels of two limited album releases in Germany [Shapeshifter Blues on Verato Project] and US [Bleach Dye Yr Heart on Gears of Sand], our very own animal rights avantgarde-drone-poltergeist-rockers return to phisteria, with this diverse 4-tracker that really pays hommage to the band's heritage. This limited 10'' EP of 250 copies is most likely to be a hot collectible for all eternity, we dare you to miss it!!" [label info] "... Opening very slowly, the first piece titled "The first time we met the blues" (no worries, not any sign of Blues on this track!) builds steadily from inaudible drones to smoothing vibrant drones building a great atmosphere from early start, not too far away from British legends Zoviet France. As the first piece fades out, another swarm of drones build with the opening of following piece "Labyrinths of obsession", this time with a more abrasive approach. Soon after subtle acoustic drum-patterns penetrates to create a rhythm structure in the abstract composition. Side B of the vinyl opens with a remix of "The first time we me the blues" executed by Ant-Zen legend L'Ombre. The result is a completely different work based on repetitive downbeat rhythm textures assisted by discreet ambient melody in the background. Final piece on the album is a live recording from legendary Danish underground club "Ungdomshuset" (R.I.P.). Despite the fact that it has been recorded live the sound of the work is still nice and clean. The title-track "Nightshift" consists of vibrant drones and distant male vocals adding to the strange nocturnal atmospheres of the track. As was the case with the earlier efforts of Hinsidan the guitar plays an important role in the spheres of work, and the result again is utterly beautiful." [NM, Vital Weekly] www.phisteria.com 2008 €12.00
HIS DIVINE GRACE Eurydice CD www.darkvinyl.de 2005 €10.00
HISS TRACTS Shortwave Nights CD "180g Vinyl mit Kunstdruck und Downloadcode. 'Shortwave Nights' ist das Debüt von HISS TRACTS, einem neuen Duo aus David Bryant (GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, SET FIRE TO FLAMES) und Kevin Doria (GROWING, TOTAL LIFE). Die beiden trafen sich 2004 und begründeten eine musikalische Freundschaft, die in drei GROWING Alben mündete, die im The Pines Studio von Bryant in Montreal aufgenommen wurden und in mehreren Kollaborationen mit z.B. dem experimentellen Filmkünstler Karl Lemieux. Probebänder für ein Underground Film Festival in Lausanne 2008 wurden zur Basis für HISS TRACTS; David und Kevin arbeiteten zwischen 2009 und 2013 daran, doch vieles von der Magie der ersten Versionen ist noch immer greifbar. Kevin und David sind instrumentale Musiker von ungewöhnlicher Tiefe und Intensität. HISS TRACTS eröffnet neue kollaborative und erzählerische Pfade, um die beiden Musiker die Soundlandschaft von Komposition und Produktion erforschen zu lassen. Beide sind Gitarristen und die E-Gitarre erscheint als Quelle von 'Shortwave Nights', doch die Fülle an zusätzlichen analogen Quellen und Signalen stellt sicher, dass dieser Sound hier nicht mit gitarrenbasiertem Drone, Noise oder Postrock verwechselt wird. 'Shortwave Night' setzt sich über solch engmaschigen Genrebegriffe hinweg und lässt sich ebenso wenig in die vorherrschenden Subgenres einordnen. Wenn Drone jedoch der Orientierungspunkt ist, dann liegt das sicherlich an dem Mix, der die einzelnen Elemente zu einer Wall of Sound in Stereo vereint. Dies ist keine Elektro-Platte und 'Shortwave Nights' begibt sich auch nicht in die Welt von Ambient oder Wave, vielmehr lässt sich der Sound hier im breiten Abstammungsfeld von Post-Industrial und Musique Concrète verorten. // Shortwave Nights is the debut album by Hiss Tracts, a new duo featuring David Bryant (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames) and Kevin Doria (Growing, Total Life). The two met in 2004 and struck up a musical friendship that led to three Growing records being made at The Pines (Bryant's recording studio in Montreal) and a separate collaboration between the two, initially in conjunction with experimental filmmaker Karl Lemieux (also GY!BE's current 16mm auteur/projectionist). Rehearsal tapes from a set of sessions for a Lausanne Underground Film Festival performance in 2008 became the foundation and starting point for Hiss Tracts; David and Kevin continued working throughout 2009-2013, but much of the material from their earliest session is still present, in one state or another, within the tracks on this debut album. The sonic preoccupations of Bryant and Doria are well-known and well-documented across many highly acclaimed recordings over the past fifteen years, from the organic, group-based, semi-improvised collage albums of Set Fire To Flames to the glimmering, immersive minimalism of Growing and the more maximalist full-spectrum noise works of Total Life. David and Kevin are instrumental music practitioners of uncommon depth and intensity; Hiss Tracts opens new collaborative, procedural and narrative pathways for these fine musicians to continue exploring soundscape-based composition and production. Both are guitar players, and the electric guitar figures as both recognizable and unrecognizable source instrument on Shortwave Nights, but the deployment of a wide range of additional analog sources and signals ensures that there is no confusing this for a guitar-based drone, noise or post-rock record. Shortwave Nights defies categorization by terms like "drone" or "ambient" and it does not easily slip into any of the predominant subgenres that have proliferated around studio-based soundscape work in recent years. Insofar as drone is a touchstone, this has mostly to do with the approach to mixing, which tends towards a transcendent/trance-inducing integration of elements into a unified, saturated, wall-of-sound stereo field. The album contains no beats or programming and very little that is identifiably loop-based or overtly sampled and sampler-driven. Occasional deployments of digital signal processing remain firmly in the service of Hiss Tract's overriding framework and commitment to analog sources and human instrumentation. This is not an electronic record, nor does it sit comfortably at either the pastoral or spooky/sinister poles of any ambient or 'whatever'-wave spectrum; it can perhaps best be placed within the broad lineages of post-industrial and musique concrète. Meditative and visceral, humming with the electromagnetic atmosphere through which all manner of frequencies, transmissions and surveillances pass and collide, Shortwave Nights strikes an evocative balance between sonics captured-channeled-harnessed vs. composed-sculpted-performed, with an almost documentary rigour and restraint that nonetheless remains profoundly charged and engaged. Constellation is thrilled to introduce this new project with a brilliant debut album that has heavily infiltrated our brains and bloodstreams since Bryant and Doria first played us the nearly-finished recordings in the fall of 2013. Thanks for listening. Release date: 13 May 2014 Running time: 44:28 Packaging notes CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve. LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album." [label info] www.cstrecords.com 2014 €14.50
HOEDH Universum CD "Last studio-album and musical testament of T.H. Thiel ( ORDO CATHARSIS TEMPLI ), who died in April 2003, only few days after putting the final touches to this impressive album. Like only few ambient artists, HOEDH succeed to awake a feeling of longing and melancholy within every listener and at the same time HOEDH create a feeling of inner silence: a spiritual drowning into your soul. ( HOEDH hymnus 1996) UNIVERSUM was released as official - In Memoriam Album - in collaboration with Ordo Catharsis Templi, who s founder T.H.Thiel was." [label info] "HOEDh was thee projekt ov thee German artist Thorn Hoedh who passed away on thee night ov May 15th-16th 2003.. he was involved in thee projekts: Delysid , DLS, Helix 12, Moksha, and Ordo Catharis Templi!! thee two albums shared here are some ov thee most beauteous dark ambient releases which one could hope to encounter!! Hymnvs was released in 1993 on thee Atmosphere sublabel ov Dark Vinyl which was dedicated to generally more rhythmic ambient music.. and Universum was released post-humously on thee Dark Vinyl Records label on thee first ov April 2004.. again here are presented more releases from thee astounding 23 Temple!!" [vitaignescorpuslignum.blogspot.com] 2004 €8.00
HOFFMAN, KAY Floret Silva LP "Wiederveröffentlichung einer raren LP von 1985 (bereits 1977 aufgenommen) dieser Schweizerin, die inzwischen als Tanz- & Trance-Therapeutin in München tätig ist (www.kayhoffman.de). FLORET SILVA benutzt Texte der „Carmina Burana“, jener Gedichtsammlung aus dem 12.Jahrhundert, und bettet diese in mittalalterliche Folk-Melodien und ein „progressives“ Gerüst ein, gesungen meist von JACQUELINE DARBY. Eine avantgardistische Hippie-Platte mit meditativ-mystischer Ausrichtung und wunderschönem Gesang." [Drone Rec. info] "Sounding at times like Vashti Bunyan fronting Sunforest, "Floret Silva" is a haunting mix of medieval music and progressive / psych / folk with Latin lyrics straight from the Carmina Burana book. The "Floret Silva" project was born when minimalist composer Kay Hoffman went to Italy in the mid–70s. Once there, she met with welsh soprano Jacqueline Darby, who had recently been working with the Italian avant–prog band Pierrot Lunaire. Jaqueline was working on new compositions with RCA producer Vincento Miccocci in Rome and she asked Kay if she was interested in getting involved in a new project. Kay agreed and Gaio Chiochio and Arturo Stalteri of Pierrot Lunaire also joined them on this new venture. Gaio travelled from Rome to play the guitar and other friends of Jacqueline also offered their collaboration. In a short time, Kay wrote all the material, inspired by the Carmina Burana book and her love of Medieval and Renaissance music. Kay also contributed vocals, clavinet and piano and together with Jacqueline Darby – on haunting vocals – plus an impressive cast of jazz/rock/progressive musicians, they recorded "Floret Silva" during 1977–78, under the guidance of Vicento Micocci. Sadly, RCA backed off and the album went unreleased until a copy of the masters found their way to Japan, where the great Belle Antique label put out the first vinyl edition of "Floret Silva" in 1985. In 2006, US label Robot Records resurrected it again for the first CD release. After many years out of print on vinyl, we present a new edition of this lost piece from the 70s Italian underground scene. A visionary album which anticipated the sound practiced by many neo–folk bands some decades later. RIYL: Jan Dukes de Grey, Vashti Bunyan, Sunforest, Wicker Man, Pierrot Lunaire, Opus Avantra, Current 93, Nico, Gal Costa, Wooden O, Giles Farnaby’s Dream Band… Master tape sound 4–page insert with detailed liner notes by Richard Allen and photos. "This album is like the prettier, more elegant companion piece to Nico’s somber medieval explorations on The Marble Index" – Brainwashed.com "This should appeal to experimental psych–folk fans for sure, even if this unique treasure is really something outside almost any genre designation you’d care to come up with!" – Aquarius Records "…An almost perfect fusion of styles that when combined with the archaic language is both haunting and entrancing reminiscent perhaps of the otherworldly atmosphere created by Bo Hansson on his Lord of the Rings album." – Richard Allen Iste Mundus – Floret Silva – Exorcismus – Intermezzo (Chume, Chume) – Ich Will Truren – Rondo – Mai Tanz – Quot Sunt Horae – Tot – Sonus Dulcis Lyrae – Ouverture – Zum Fest – Intermezzo (Fagott Sommer Nacht Promenade) – Tempus Instat – Langueo (Vacillantis) – Chume, Chume – Nummus – Post Communio Sancti Cyrilli " www.guerssen.com "We've had the cd reissue of this gem before, but now for the very first time it's been reissued on vinyl, too! What does Floret Silva sound like, you ask? How about RennFaire gone Rock In Opposition? Italian prog meets medieval madrigals?? We're still puzzling about how to describe this wonderful, wonderful disc, a reissue of a rare lp which was recorded by composer Kay Hoffman in Florence, Italy in 1977, though not released until 1985, on vinyl in Japan only! Hoffman and her collaborators, including members of the very excellent and arty Italian prog band Pierrot Lunaire, took a trove of medieval Latin poetry known as the Carmina Burana - poems written by anonymous authors around 1200 AD that are both religious in nature as well as very earthy and real, about such subjects as love and money - and set them to music. The settings are diverse (as befits the variety of these texts), and the results are often eerie and pretty and even a little bit groovy, with quirky chamber ensemble/prog rock backing and even the use of field recordings. Utterly magical for the most part, most especially due to the delicate vocals of Jacquline Darby. One song reminds us strongly of Stereolab, others call to mind (rather more obscurely) that Flamen Dialis album we've raved about before. This should appeal to experimental psych-folk fans for sure, even if this unique treasure is really something outside almost any genre designation you'd care to come up with!" [Aquarius Rec.] “1977 avant/folk progressive masterpiece from minimalist composer Kay Hoffman. Includes collaborative performances from Jacqueline Darby and Gaio Chiocchio--members of the legendary, Italian progressive group Pierrot Lunaire. Originally slated for release on RCA/IT (Italy) in ‘78, the album was later rejected due to recording deadlines, release schedules, and requests by RCA for other artistic/musical considerations. However, many years later, Floret Silva did end up surfacing on a very different shore. Copies of the masters found their way to the highly eclectic Japanese label Belle Antique, whose musical director had heard rumors about the early project in the mid-1980’s. As a result, Floret Silva was finally released eight years after the completed sessions in 1985 as a small edition, but very well received LP (Belle Antique 8502, Japan). Apparently, not many copies of the record were exported outside Japan. This merely created even more mystery surrounding the recordings as well as rumors associated with a Pierrot Lunaire-related project. The recordings were based on the Carmina Burana--a collection of medieval poetry written by various authors of which little is known. Floret Silva was an attempt to find a voice for these anonymous authors in the late 1970’s in Florence. Now, nearly 30 years after the completed sessions, Floret Silva blooms again….this time in the US. Available for the first time on CD with remastered sound, including a 12-page booklet with full lyrics and English translations. A lost (but now reclaimed) gem from the Italian progressive underground.” [label info for the CD release] 2016 €22.00
HOLTKAMP, KOEN Field Rituals CD " 'Field Rituals' is the first solo album to come from Koen Holtkamp, an artist probably better known as one half of ambient duo Mountains. Based in Brooklyn, Koen created the album slowly and as a love letter of sorts, taking in delicate field recordings and using them like faded photos representing his distinct memories of the people and places he chanced upon. Some may have heard the incredible ‚Make Haste’ which appeared on limited edition vinyl earlier in the year, but this was only a taste of what Koen has to offer on ’Field Rituals’. Taking cues from the classic ambience of Brian Eno and fusing it with the instrumental subtlety of Sweden’s Tape, Koen has come up with an aural book on his subject matter. Each track feels entwined in the next and feels like a part of something much bigger. Sure we’ve heard field recordings, synthesizers and guitars before but rarely have these instruments been injected with such a lightness of touch and with such a delicate open ear. Each listen reveals more, like peeling back layers of onion skin – take the album’s epic centrepiece ’Sky Flowers’ for example, which blends slow-moving synthesizers with good-natured environmental recordings and shimmering strings. The result is explosive somehow, with the grandeur more usually exploited by Arvo Part being framed with a distant electronic ambience. The slow-burning pace is probably the single most important facet and reveals an artist at ease with his musical choices, something unusual in a genre brimming with young hopefuls. A good comparison might be Stars of the Lid, but Koen’s music is more organic and more humble somewhat than the ex-Texan duo. In the end we are just proud that Koen has allowed us a look into this most personal of works." [label info] "Here be the first full length album from Mountains-man Koen Holtkamp. You may recall we got in (and sold out) his contribution to the A Room Forever series of LPs commissioning artists to match a field recording on one side with a sympathetic composition on the other. Where his offering there was a dark-hued, ominous crescendo of crackled drone sourced from acoustic guitar, Field Rituals has its head in the clouds. Holtkamp begins the album with a lovely round of brightly rendered acoustic guitar finger picking with some tricked out ring modulation effects giving each of the tones a sun-flecked glow and funhouse mirror curvature. Sustained drones from loops of melodica and harmonica mutate into an ersatz harmonium with the soaring overtones and sweeping fluctuations of tonalities gently crashing into each other. The loops every once in a while coalesce into a rhythmic underbelly, but mostly they settle as a effervescent bubbling of overlapping delay patterns and softly shimmered ambience. On top of all of this, Holtkamp dapples everything with his shimmered guitar and occasional crackles of tactile objects (he mentions water, seeds, ice, and paper) as well as field recordings of giggly children romping in a playground. The effect is somewhere between the immaculate pieces from Keith Fullerton Whitman's recordings and the bright-eyed naturalist wonder of the Jewelled Antler camp. Really gorgeous stuff from the ever impressive Type label." [Aquarius Records review] www.typerecords.com 2008 €16.00
  Make Haste / Free Birds LP-Box "Third volume to be released in this amazing new series. Koen Holtkamp is from Brooklyn, NY and runs the Apestaartje label and records as one half off the group Mountains. "Room Forever. Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high quality digital C-print covers and letterpressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, A Room Forever is inherently about the act of listening." Please note that these records are cut at the Dubplates & Mastering lab in Germany and are designed to be played at 45 r.p.m. [label info] www.aroomforever.com 2008 €28.00
HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT A Doorbell of Earbows for Brefix LP Geheimtip aus den Staaten! Wer auf rauh-chaotische Collagenmusik mit hohem Objekt-Noise Anteil steht, die trotzdem stimmungsvoll atmosphärisch ist, sollte hier unbedingt mal reinhören. Die vier Stücke schwanken zwischen wirren, sehr konkreten Impro-Geräuschmusik-Passagen und eher dronigen Parts in denen auch vokales Material auftaucht, immer mit dem Hang, die wahrhaft ungewöhnlichen Klänge und Arrangements herauszuarbeiten... "Grainy loop tracks, vocal tracks (which may or may not also be from tape), and surrealist music which isn't miles away from early Nurse With Wound. Richard Vergez (Drowning the Virgin Silence, Gray Girls, Mothersky), Duane Hosein (A Jealousy Issue, Hand Carved Gentleman, ex-Poison the Well). BRANDON SAMDAHL (Mr Entertainment and the Pookie Smackers) and ANTHONY MANGICAPRA bathe the entire thing in foggy reverb and mysterious scratching and shifting, which pulls it all together. It makes sense only as a dream transcribed onto recording equipment. The A side contains material previously released on The Huntington Chapters three-inch CDR (Small-Doses) and the B side is all previously unreleased recordings from the same sessions. Mastered by JAMES PLOTKIN." [label info] "...The A side, previously released on Small Doses, is a tripped out burst of mysterious musical abstraction. Two tracks, clocking in at about 18 minutes total, an abstract and spacious drift through some lost alien soundscape. The first track is all tinkling melodies, glistening high end, strange rumbling fluctuations way off in the distance, bits of creak and scrape, everything bathed in foggy reverb and warm wet swirls of tape hiss and atmospheric whir. Melodies creep in and out, as do bits of field recordings, it all feels like some cinematic bleary eyed wander through a hazy druggy flashback, a washed out world of lost memories and fragmented dreams. Here and there guitars grind and reverberate, and strange percussive sonic events drift into earshot, like an even more abstract Wolf Eyes maybe. Quite gorgeous and dreamlike. The second track starts out the same, a smear of high end shimmer, but instead of spreading out into languid pools of blurry sound, things get decidedly more abrasive, the high end becomes sharper, the percussion is more clattery and jarring, a disembodied voice intones some creepy monologue over the top, effects swirl and swoop, deconstructed riffs chug and churn, everything dizzying and disorienting, like the nightmare analogue to the opening track's dream. The flipside also offers up two tracks, the first begins with a swirl of creaking metal, sizzling cymbals, clattery percussion, until suddenly the clang and crunch are transformed into a strangely rhythmic crunch, the metal sounding much deeper, more of a resonant bellow, all very chaotic and cacophonous, underpinned by deep distant rumbles. Which leads right into track number two, all birdsong and tinkling chimes, whispered voices, random sonic detritus, sharp slivers of momentary buzz, soft smears of static, very haunting and ominous and like the first side, quite cinematic. Beautifully packaged as always, pressed on thick vinyl, housed in full color sleeves with super striking artwork from HPK mainman Anthony Mangicapra. We know it's LIMITED too, just not sure to how many." [Aquarius Records review] www.goat-eater.blogspot.com 2008 €15.00
HOTOTOGISU Under the Rose LP "Hototogisu's first LP release on their own imprint Heavy Blossom. Under The Rose is a pair of incantations for the dark and vengeful animal spirits. Sung in two parts, malignant coronation and origami skulls are blackened arias, dizzying vortices and canyons of screams, guitars and chaotic rhythms. Arising from this richly recorded and mastered vinyl slab come black tarpits of malevolence and savage beauty, harking back to a pre-Christian universe of animating spirits and tutelary daemons. Comes in a black jacket with a full-color photograph attached to the front cover and thickly inked silk-screened backs. Edition of 600." [label notes] 2008 €20.50
HULA Murmur CD "Hula were founded in Sheffield in 1981. Three members (Mark Albrow, Alan Fish and Ron Wright) lived with Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) and Paul Widger (They must be Russians, Clock DVA, the Box) in a villa called Hula Kula. After trying the bass players Alan Watt, Chris Brain (Tense, NOS) and Mark Brydon (Chakk, Moloko), and after the replacement of Alan Fish by Nort (both drummed for the Cabs), Hula recorded the impressive album Murmur. Ingredients like cut ups, steady rhythms, and paranoia vocals were blended together into a unique white funky sound. Murmur was the band's second album and came out on Red Rhino in 1984. This was also the time of Hula's great singles - Fever Car, Get the Habit and Walk on Stalks of Shattered Glass were all released around that time. They are all added to the album as bonus tracks here making this CD about twice as long as the original vinyl album. Remastered by Attrition's Martin Bowes and the band's own Nort. First time ever on CD!" 2018 €14.00
HUM Ether Rider (SOLD OUT) 7 “Drone Records is proud to present HUM, another newcomer from the growing russian experimental scene, who had out before a few most promising self-released CDrs on his own label. HUM (originally a reduction from “hum-an”) sees his work as a representation of emptiness and sound, derived from tantric tradition. The basic intention is the “restoration of mythological time”. This release, being dedicated to “magic flight”, enlights on the first track with full vibrating “cosmic” drones, sounding like a swarm of low-pitched insects. The second piece CRUCIBLE is more loop-structured & noisy, with low-fi mechanized rumblings, filled with organic substances... two fantastic sound-samples that show the ability of drone-sound to lead your inner mind into the center of nothingness. Filed under: magic-flight drones. BLACK VINYL. MINIMAL DESIGNED WHITE COVERS WITH B/W PHOTO” [press release] 2004 €6.50  
HUNGTAI, ALEX ZHANG / DAVID MARANHA / GABRIEL FERRANDINI Eight Black Horses Crown Snake CD "Through me you go into the city of grief, through me you go into the pain that is eternal, through me you go among people lost. Justice moved my exalted creator; the divine power made me, the supreme wisdom, and the primal love. Before me all created things were eternal, and eternal I will last. Abandon every hope, you who enter here. ...after he had taken me by the hand, with a cheerful look which comforted me, he drew me within the secret place [the eternal world]." -Dante, Canto III, The Divine Comedy Alex Zhang Hungtai - Voice, Saxophone and Drums David Maranha - Organ and Drums Gabriel Ferrandini - Drums Recorded in Cinema Passos Manuel 10th of March 2017 Mixed by Alex, David and Gabriel in Violante do Céu Studio Mastered by Tó Pinheiro da Silva in Oeiras on 10th of November 2017 Cover photo from White Noise Book, Interior photo taken at Conservatório de Lisboa, both by António Júlio Duarte We are self releasing it through david's label Violent do Céu, if you would like a CD version of the album please email david and he will post it to you. Unfortunately our self release budget is limited, but hopefully one day we can release this on vinyl. davidmaranha@gmail.com https://alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com/album/eight-black-horses-crown-snake 2018 €13.00
HUNT, JERRY Five Mechanic Convention Streams do-LP The final album released by the composer-performer Jerry Hunt before his death, Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams is a rare and foundational audio document of Hunt’s compositional process. The record collects five pieces from the artist’s “Ground” series, translating his characteristically variable and spatial scores into “recorded fixtures of activity using mechanic musical instrument arrays,” to eerie and mesmerizing results. Originally released by experimental label OODiscs in 1992, it is now available on vinyl for the first time from Blank Forms Editions. Its tracks are dense and unpredictable, a miscellany of arrhythmic bursts, fragments of spoken and whispered words, soft then fevered rattles and shaking, and a rare return to pianoforte for the virtuoso player. On “Talk (slice): double” a nervous, warped dialogue unfolds between Hunt and composer Rod Stasick, their voices alternately measured and monstrous. In “Transform (stream): monopole,” breathy whistles build against a shimmering stream of bells, rattles, and shakers in a fantastical cascade of percussion. Hunt revisits the piano in “Lattice (stream): ordinal” and “Bitom (stream): link,” oscillating between gentle, almost classical phrases and frantic, seemingly random play. His collaboration with violinist Jane Henry, “Chimanazzi (Olun): core,” extends similarly unorthodox playing techniques to the violin, involving the scraping, plucking, and playing of its strings. The unstable quality of these tracks belies the rigor of Hunt’s procedures; each of Ground’s five pieces, their “common ground core,” is derived from the angelic tables of sixteenth century English philosopher and occultist John Dee, adapted by Hunt as frameworks to layer, adapt, and renew in his compositions. With a complex arrangement of sensors and equipment, which the artist called “interrelated electronic, mechanic, and social sound-sight interactive transactional systems,” Hunt realized these derivative systems in the techno-shamanic performances for which he is best known. Ground distills these procedures into fixed songs, producing a vital and critical record of Hunt’s singular approach to composition. Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams is released as part of Blank Forms’s extensive program dedicated to Jerry Hunt. This program includes the first institutional exhibition of the artist’s videos and sculptures, Jerry Hunt: Transmissions from the Pleroma, presented at Blank Forms from February 16th to June 11th, 2022; the publication of Partners, a memoir-cum-biography by the artist’s long-time romantic partner Stephen Housewright; the forthcoming anthology Blank Forms 08: Transmissions from the Pleroma; and Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979–1986, a deluxe LP boxed set and reader on Hunt’s briefly-lived independent label. https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/ground-five-mechanic-convention-streams 2022 €37.50
HUNTING LODGE Shadows out of Time 82-83 3 x LP Box "Shadows out of Time is a collection of three LP's with unreleased and formerly cassette-only material from Hunting Lodge, representing the first blush of their creativity, a time when each sonic experiment festered into a beautiful sore. Dark Ambient, Noise, Power Electronics, all represented here before these pigeons had holes in which to fit. One LP is comprised of the now-legendary EXHUMED, which was formerly released cassette-only, heard here in better shape than ever - direct-metal mastered from the original two-track mixes. The second LP is all unreleased material, highlights of which include never-heard gems from the recordings for the promotional cassette 23 MINUTES OF MURDER. On the flip-side, both literally and figuratively, are the electro-disco-teckno recordings used for intermission music at Hunting Lodge live shows in 1983. The final LP contains Live material which was formerly cassette-only, including tracks from AT THE HARRINGTON BALLROOM and S/M OPERATIONS LIVE, as well as much of the formerly unreleased LIVE AT THE LODGE. Oft-bootlegged, this performance is pressed here direct from the original masters, representing the two-piece early noise-unit of Hunting Lodge in harrowing live intensity. Furthermore featured in the Box-Set is an additional Bonus 7" including studio cover version of John Wright's „Stellazine Shuffle“ b/w „Learn to Will II“,formerly released on Nekrophile Rekords "Beast 666" cassette compilation in 1983 These LP's and 7“ are presented with period-accurate, gloriously bold, black and white artwork. Each LP comes in it's own printed sleeve inside of a box printed with the Thomas Nordstrom artwork previously only seen on early Hunting Lodge stationery. Also included are liner notes by Jeff "Central" Chenault and recording details, including information on equipment used, and never before seen photos of live Hunting Lodge and of collectors minutiae. The scars will never completely heal." [label info] www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2010 €59.00
HYBRYDS The Rhythm of the Ritual / Ein Phallischer Gott do-CD "Zoharum continues reissuing past works of one of the most interesting projects coming from the 1980s underground - Hybryds. ”The Rhythm of the Ritual / Ein Phallischer Gott” is the fifth instalment in the reissue series of Hybryds classic releases. Sandy tells a few words about the period: In the 1990s only small independent labels existed which had their own area to cover distributionwise hoping to spread our music in the world. ”The Rhythm of the Rituals” (1994, Charnel Music) and ”Ein Phallischer Gott” (1997, Crowd Control Activities) shared some songs. There were no official media supporting this world of “underground” music. Acid and rave became popular in the “commercial” scene. Pro Tools was the magic word. But we made our music live on the 8-track. The only sequences were the drum machines. We stayed loyal to working the old-fashioned way. It's the more rhythmical and ethnical site of Hybryds, lots of percussion, played acoustically, or sampled and looped, or from drum machines. Some of the basic music was from the 1980s but by then we worked on a reel-to-reel 8-track tape recorder with a bigger mixing desk. Livewise we started to transfer to our cyberpunk period (as visible in the live version of ”Whisper”). Depending on the demand we had two live shows, the “magical” or the cyberpunk. It was also the time when Yasnaïa and me did the live shows alone. We did not work live on stage with others anymore. We had a manager, Patty Hele from Motherdance. It was easier to travel and perform with two people only. Yasnaïa released her solo album and started playing live with her solo project. The first CD collects tracks from two studio releases ”The Rhythm of the Ritual” and ”Ein Phallischer Gott”. The live CD contains live versions of the studio CD (some taken from the live Obuh vinyl LP) and some extras, like an unreleased song ”Dusk Falling”." [label info] www.zoharum.com "Neben dem Backcatalog anderer Bands taucht in den letzten Jahren auch immer wieder ein Album der HYBRYDS via ZOHARUM auf. Mit „The Rhythm Of The Ritual/ Ein Phallischer Gott“ ist man dabei bei zwei Werken von 1994 bzw. 1997 angekommen, die nun ergänzt um Live-Aufnahmen aus der Zeit als Doppel-CD, wiederaufgelegt werden. Hierzu ist allerdings anzumerken, dass nur drei Stücke des „The Rhythm Of The Ritual“-Albums enthalten sind. Die drei anderen wurden bereits mit der (Wieder-)veröffentlichung von „The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive“ 2015 erneut ans Tageslicht befördert. Auch nicht alle Stücke von „Ein Phallischer Gott“ haben es auf diese Zusammenstellung geschafft. Dafür taucht z.B. das eindrucksvolle „Call Of The Tuareg“ auf – ein Compilation-Track aus jener Zeit. Auf die fürchterlichen, quietschbunten 90er Jahre Computer-Cover der Originale wurde zum Glück nicht zurückgegriffen. Stattdessen wurde dem Release ein absolut stimmiges Artwork verpasst, das sich in die aktuelle, künstlerische Darstellung der HYBRYDS einpasst. Dass die vorliegenden Aufnahmen um die zwanzig Jahre alt sind, lässt sich tatsächlich nur schwer heraushören. Frei von damaligen Trends wirken die Stücke eher zeitlos. Die stark Ritual-, Tribal-lastige Musik wird zumeist von einem Rhythmus-Loop zusammengehalten, über den nicht durchgängig aber hin und wieder YASNAIAs Stimme gelegt wurde. Daneben erklingen Flötenklänge und Synthesizerpads, so dass der Gesamtsound mal organischer und mal elektronischer wirkt. Beteiligt waren an den Arbeiten damals auch illustre Gäste wie HERMAN KLAPHOLZ (u.a. AH CAMA-SOTZ) oder MOON FAR AWAY. Die Live-Aufnahmen und Proberaumaufnahmen der zweiten CD stammen ebenfalls aus der Zeit – zumeist 1996. Neben anderen Stücken, sind hier auch einige Tracks noch einmal in der Live-Version vorhanden, die auf der „Studio-Seite“ bereits zu finden sind. Der Sound ist dabei bis auf einige Ausnahmen durchweg recht gut. Wie oben dargestellt ist „The Rhythm Of The Ritual/ Ein Phallischer Gott“ keine Wiederveröffentlichung im eigentlichen Sinn, sondern eher eine Zusammenstellung von Stücken aus einer zeitlichen Periode, die in sich aber absolut stimmig und geschlossen wirkt und mit den zusätzlichen Live-Versionen und Outtakes einen gewissen Mehrwert mitbringt. Hörer, die sich für rituellen und Tribal-lastigen Ambient interessieren, sollten ruhig ein Ohr riskieren, da die Musik ohne Frage gegenüber der heutigen Konkurrenz mithalten kann – mindestens." [Tony F. für nonpop.de] 2016 €16.00
HYPNODRONE ENSEMBLE The Shape of Space LP "In May of 2014, Canadian experimental / ambient guitarists Aidan Baker and Eric Quach (a.k.a. Thisquietarmy), who have frequently performed and collaborated together, recruited three drummers—David Dunnett (CA), Jérémie Mortier (BE), and Felipe Salazar (CO)—to accompany them for a performance at NK in Berlin. The resulting performance—a freeform, semi-improvisational study in rhythmic, psychedelic, atmospheric spacerock—was documented as a CD release on Belgium's Consouling Sounds under the moniker Hypnodrone Ensemble. Following a second performance in September 2014 at Incubate Festival in Tilburg, NL, Hypnodrone Ensemble, with the addition of Gareth Sweeney (IE) on bass, entered Golden Retriever Studios in Berlin to record a follow-up to their live debut. The results, edited down from several hours' worth of recorded material and mastered by James Plotkin, became the album The Shape of Space, released as a limited LP (100 translucent vinyl, 400 black vinyl) by new Berlin label Calostro Recordings." [label info] calostrorecordings.bigcartel.com 2015 €16.00
IF, BWANA / ROEL MEELKOP / THE NEW BLOCKADERS / KOMMISSAR HJULER UND FRAU Die Stille nach dem Schuss LP Tracklist Hide Credits A1 –If, Bwana Oct 1 Tenors A2 –Roel Meelkop Windwerk A3 –The New Blockaders Epater Simphonie (Excerpt) A4 –Roel Meelkop Holzwerk B1 –Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau Ich Bin Dein Neukopf ! B2 –The New Blockaders Variations Pour Une Porte Et Une Brouette Performer – Gillham*, Rupenus* Notes LP in series FLUXUS +/-, limited to 79 copies, black vinyl and black labels. 2019 €25.00
ILLUSION OF SAFETY More Violence and Geography CD Re-release dieses Klassikers in Sachen amerikanischen Industrials, die erste LP von IOS von 1988 ! Mit Bonustrack! “Rerelease of their very first self released vinyl only album from 1988. The 11 tracks display a much rawer and more 'industrial' feel with the use of harsh found sounds and voices, compared to recent works. Featuring new artwork by Dan Burke perfectly matching the albums title the CD also includes an unreleased live track (approx. 11 min. long) from the early 90's that didn't appear on the original album. Edition of 700 copies in folder cover and plastic sleeves.” [label press release] www.diestadtmusik.de https://illusionofsafety.bandcamp.com/album/more-violence-and-geography : More Violence and Geography LP This is the vinyl debut of a long-time cassette-making outfit that specialize in dense, throbbing electronic ooze littered with found voices, tape and record manipulation, loops, samples and all the usual audio debris you would expect. In other words, it's not exactly a new idea but if you tend to go for this sort of thing (as I do) when it's done well, then you ought to give this disc a try. Part of the album's strength is due to the relatively short length of the tracks, which tend to run no longer than the average pop tune. I also enjoyed the way IOS temper the rather morbid subject matter with a bit of humor. (Complacency Productions,-John Booth Original release on Complacency 1988. Re-released on DIe Stadt DS52 in 2002. (reissue sports new cover artwork and adds "Unknown Quantity," an 11-minute live bonus track by Dan Burke from 1991) *All music composed and performed by IOS Main Core: Dan Burke, Mitch Enderle, Mark Klein, Mark Sorensen. With Alleyn Hoyt providing violin on Hayden. L'akstrumuncio providing backing tape for Techmort. Jef Bek on we can now tell you 2 things. Eliam was composed and performed entirely by Chris Block. 2002 €13.00
Bridges Intact CD "New album of Illusion Of Safety was recorded preliminary with piano, guitar, electronics and sound processing devices. Abstract tonal and atonal improvisations share the sonic continuum with background drones, rasps and gentle noises, and they do it in highly unpredictable surreal way: mild "melodies" turn into energetic uneasy passages being interrupted by "concrete" sonic romp evolving into spatial drone and electronic landscapes... and all this whirl continues during the whole CD increasing the degree of abstractness and psychedelia as it moves towards the end, which is presented in a form of beautiful harmonic composition." [Zhelezobeton] "Its is hardly a secret: since about twenty-five years I am a big fan of Illusion Of Safety, following them since their cassette releases, through vinyl, CDs and now, oddly perhaps, cassettes again. But there are still CDs, such as the lovely packed 'Bridges Intact' on Russia's Waystyx Records, who certainly have a reputation to keep up in the packaging department. It surely beats me why the website seems to be in Russian only, perhaps its some conceptual stance? Illusion Of Safety's core member is Dan(iel) Burke since the start, but has included fifteen other people, of which Jim O'Rourke is no doubt the best known one. Here, on this new CD, old member Thymme Jones appears on three tracks as well as guitar player Ben Vida on one. Musically Illusion Of Safety can be all over the place, although the most recent work is usually quite a bit based in the realms of improvised music. That is evident on 'Bridges Intact'. The pieces recorded with Jones show this love of improvisation, with duets for guitar and piano, as well as a fine mixture of acoustic and synthetic sounds. At first one might think this is all an improvised record, but when the third piece, 'Special Passing', kicks in we know we arrived in the field of music we know and love Illusion Of Safety for: a delicate combination of musique concrete, electro-acoustics, improvisations for instruments, ambient passages, field recordings and electronic music. All put together in a great way. Sometimes all in one piece, and sometimes one piece is just one thing, such as the ambient crackling of static charges in 'Forgotten Baggage', with bits of field recordings at the start. Again an excellent release by one of the greatest talents for this kind of music. This isn't as high up on my list of favorites as say 'Probe', but its not far away." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2010 €15.50
Fin de Siecle CD "Long overdue re-issue of this long out of print LP on Korm Plastics (kp 5495), and perhaps its fits the format of CD even better. Illusion Of Safety is Dan Burke, here with Kurt Greisch. Since 1983 Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke, working alone and with various collaborators. They have released over 20 CDs on labels such as Complacency, Die Stadt, Experimedia, Odd Size, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, and Waystyx, and played over three hundred concerts in Europe and North America. IOS' work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, noise, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics, but they are unwilling to limit their work to any given style or method. The sonic character and affective substance of the music will often shift abruptly within each recording and live performance. 'Fin de Siecle' was part of the 'ambient series' of Korm Plastics and has some highly subtle music to offer, based on field recordings and quiet electronics. Part One and Part Three, the original sides of the LP, were recorded for a tour in 1995 and edited to release on vinyl. The CD version has an extended 'prologue' and 'epilogue' as bonus tracks, making the total CD 66 minutes long." [label info] www.kormplastics.nl "Behind the legendary project Illusion Of Safety, you find the two sound artists, Daniel Burke and Kurt Griesch. The two main pieces of present album "Fin de siecle", was created for an American tour back in 1995. Due to the time-limit of the vinyl-media which was the original release format, the pieces were cut and revised to fit the time-span of the vinyl. Now sixteen years later, the two pieces have returned from the historical archives to be presented on this re-issue on Dutch label Korm Plastics. The twosome has for this particular occasion composed two smaller pieces - an epilogue and prologue for the original album. After the abrasive "Epilogue"-piece, we move into first piece of the original "Fin de siecle"-release, simply titled "Part one". A 22-minutes running piece of ambient tranquility built on repetitive sound-drones until the closing moment where the piece culminates in a harsh grande finale. Second piece of the original vinyl is a lengthy work combining field recordings and trippy sound drones - a subtle piece of an almost inaudible character. Stepping to the last piece of the album, the "Prologue"-track is another recent created work for this re-issue. As was the case with the epilogue, this is a piece of a more upfront nature with long-stretched monotonous tone that because of its repetitive nature create a nice hypnotic atmosphere stretched over the 22 minutes run-time." [NM/Vital Weekly] 2011 €10.00
  Pastoral CD Illusion Of Safety - Pastoral CD only, 200 copies, Korm Plastics While Korm Plastics publishes books these days, this is a surprise CD only release. We sent him this demo in 2011 & we all forgot about it. Pastoral is a welcome edition to the catalog showcasing a less aggressive stance from the project, a more organic subdued presentation, sounds to make a clearing, & open space. The recordings history is a bit blurred now but it is very likely tracks 1, 2, 3, & 5 are Kurt Griesch and Daniel Burke, post 1995 tour work. Track four uses an instance of Reaktor 5 VCS-3 software emulation. Illusion of Safety Since 1983, Daniel Burke and his many conspirators under the Illusion Of Safety banner have over the course of 40+ full length releases traversed most every facet of the avant sound plane, from early industrial pop deconstruction to blindingly minimal sound art to densely surreal found-sound collage, each unique approach bending and reconstituting the expectations and possibilities of each realm, creating uneasy music that is dense and dystopian and yet also beautiful. Performing over 300 live concerts throughout Europe and the states included No Fun 2008, the Wroclaw Industrial Music Festival 2009, Sonic Circuits in 2010, with Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and at the Crisis Data Transfer Pre-Party October 2023. Outside of IOS Burke has collaborated with Jim O’Rourke, Jon Mueller, Randy Greif, Darin Gray, Z’EV, Cheer-Accident, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Bill Horist, and others. https://kormdigitaal.bandcamp.com/album/pastoral "I don't think it's a surprise that here at VWHQ, there is a person that likes Dan Burke's aka Illusion of Safety's output. Earlier this year, Korm Plastics (who said they'd never release music again) broke the dry spell of releasing music by co-releasing the IoS/Z'ev collaboration on vinyl. Now they have a CD by Illusion of Safety. Combine that with a few other releases like Muziekkamer and the BOH Sampler, and those first words on the Korm website raise questions: 'Korm Plastics was a record label. These days, we publish books. About music.' Maybe Frans will explain it to me at some point. But, back to what it is all about. Illusion of Safety / Dan Burke. It's a blind spot in my collection. I've seen him perform once in Aachen, but since that was something like 25 years ago, I really can't remember the details. So, it's Dan's recent output that I started to know and respect. And with this new album, "Pastoral", the concern is only getting stronger. Though I must say, it took me several listening sessions before it struck me at the right spots. The five tracks with a total playing time of 58 minutes are hidden in serene packaging. Pictures of a morning or evening stroll in the countryside and the first sounds of "Invulnerable" are concrete staccato sounds. There was something wrong with the combination of those in my head. Still, as the track continued, field recordings started building a backing drone, and additional sounds formed the actual composition with a massive piano/guitar intermezzo, which has to be mentioned. All kinds of manipulated musical instruments create a flawless transition towards the second track entitled "Neolithic", and from here, it only gets better. Tracks 3 to 5 are droney soundscapes with a perfect balance between layers of minimal noise and drones and additional sounds projected on top of it. In total, 40 minutes of absolute poetic sounds. And there it struck me how I see Dan's music, in this release at least. Looking at the picture on the cover, you get an emotion, but zooming in on the picture, you can extrude air, sun, grass, sand, and a little forest in the back. And zooming in on the woods, you can see trees and then branches... But zooming out, you get a 'walk in nature'... But what if you zoom out from there... "Thermogenesis", "Ground", and "Compelling" all cover a particular aspect of switching perspectives like this. At least, that's what I think. Pastoral (noun): a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. For me, the first tracks are about escaping what's terrible, and the last three are about embracing what's good. The illusion of Safety presents in one album that you can't make just one of those choices (escape/embrace) and that the result is great if you follow your heart. (BW) 2023 €12.00
IMCA same CD Das IMCA-Projekt, fertiggestellt 1991, kann exemplarisch sicher als eines der klassischen "Mail-Art" und "Tape-Exchange"-Projekte der 80er und 90er Jahre angesehen werden. Heutzutage ist es absolut erstaunlich, welche Ergebnisse rein analog durch tape-processing und Boden-Effekt-Geräte zustande gekommen sind...Feedbacks und scrapings, geräuschhafte Loops, meist im eher ruhig-minimalen bereich angesiedelt, Collagen mit seltsamsten Alltags- und Konkret-Sounds, immer wieder mechanisch-repetitive Strukturen, die archaisch und low-fi klingen... noch heute klingt das so "bizarr" und "advanced " wie irgendwas! Beteiligt ware 5 Leute von KAPOTTE MUZIEK, DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE und JOHN HUDAK. Die LP kam damals bei Korm Plastics heraus, es gab nur 98 Kopien davon. Ein lohnenswerter Re-issue auf dem griechischen ABSURD-Label. "I have to admit that I have a love-hate relation with this album. I love the way this album was made. It represents a somewhat bygone musical age, a time with cassettes and without e-mail, when things worked perhaps slower, but perhaps also more intensely. The full story of how the IMCA project (International Musique Concrete Ensemble) came together is told in detail in the CD booklet. In short, in 1990 Frans de Waard started a mail collaboration with John Hudak and Jos Smolders for a cassette on Midas Music, and later a second one with Guido Huebner (of Das Synthetisches Mischgewebe), Ios Smolders and Isabelle Chemin, which was the LP released by Korm Plastics. The basic soundmaterial (created by De Waard) was mailed to the first recipient who would rework the material and mail it to the next recipient etcetera. Thus a network chain was born. The results were released on the original IMCA album, which came on glorious white vinyl and contained an explanatory booklet. The vinyl edition consisted of 98 copies; 77 of these were for the public, 21 for the makers, resulting in the fact that many people knew about it, but only a few actually heard the music. I remember I was supposed to help gluing the covers, but I can't remember if I did in the end. I was given a free copy, so perhaps I did. I love the way this re-release is presented; an old tattered cover of the LP was used for this CD, which gives it a nice archival touch. The booklet is well-designed (by Meeuw), contains some of the original notes and explains the recording process in detail. But now to the music: IMCA is not easy listening, it is in fact a very demanding, electro-acoustic record with extreme dynamics. These dynamics were a bit lost on the original pressing on vinyl, but due to Jos Smolder's remastering these are back in place, which means you'll get to hear the IMCA ensemble as it was meant to be heard. The opening track of the CD still gives me a headache: high pitched feedback shrieks close to the level of irritation. It's hard to listen to this without turning the volume down. Luckily the electro-acoustic/musique concret of IMCA becomes more listenable after the challenging intro. The often dry sounds (dry as in untreated") are combined with long silences, with, at times, sudden blasts of concrete noise. Most of the used sounds seem to have their origin in noise (musique concret) rather than a musical source. Despite the many hands at the wheel of this album, the results are strangely coherent, which is a complement to those involved. In total 10 tracks are indexed, even though it's hard to tell where one ends and the other one begins. IMCA is probably best enjoyed in one long listening session in the right frame of mind. The final 2 tracks, which make up for the final 30 minutes of this CD, feature side A and B from the Midas cassette version with contributions from John Hudak. Here the sound is more traditional industrial if you like, with rhythms and a bit of a Nurse With Wound touch. Not bad at all. This is an important archive release of an album made by adventurous musicians who actually live up to their name. Like back in 1991, I'm not sure if it's musically a classic, but I am very happy to have this in my collection." [Freek Kinkelaar, Vital Weekly] Address: http://www.void.gr/absurd 2007 €12.00
INADE Audio Mythology Two CD "The soul of Eternity has a voice. It has a smile that radiates dreams of ancient origin. Its yawn is vast and perilous: to view it is to sacrifice sanity. Infinite eons have passed through its throat, sometimes latticed with tectonic cosmic rumbles, sometimes threaded with dissonant whispers of devious design.
 
It is a place where Desolation strangles Hope with withered fingers. The soul of Eternity has a voice. It is pure sound convulsion; it is harsh sound vibration. It speaks through Inade. Though its playground is beyond conception, where space and beyond space merge, the foundation for translation is cultivated here, on Earth, by the Masters of Dark Ambient, Inade. Audio Mythology II collects more loose strands and bleak, back-alley diversions, and gives them life. This is the breath of lost souls as they sigh, of shadows as they break into song, of unimaginable gods as they murmur and scheme.
 
The saga of Sonic Pioneers continues with the second part of the collection from the archive of INADE´s sound work. This release focusses on re-structured session material (1997-2011), V.A. compilation tracks (2006-2009, partly re-worked) and finalised studio recordings of live backing tracks (2012-2013). Available as limited vinyl edition with a different track order and mixing. The Cd will be included as well in slip case with the vinyl.
Edition of 300 copies. The regular and unlimited CD-edition comes in jewel case and 16-pg booklet.

Mastered by Andreas Wahnmann/SECRETLAB." [label info] www.loki-found.de 2014 €13.00
  The Crackling of the Anonymous (re-press) CD The second album of Inade after two tapes (Schwerttau, Burning Flesh) and Aldebaran CD (1996). Orginally reelased in 2001 as digipack CD and double LP. With The Crackling Of The Anonymous, Inade move beyond all preconceived notions of sonic creativity. The plethora of puzzle pieces that interconnect in the expanding universe that Inade unwaveringly explores have grown amorphous, no longer defined by distinct outlines, melding as one whole, obscure entity. The expansion comes in many levels, incorporating the vast parameters of time, dimension and reality as viable participants in Inade's aural objective: to shine a light on the enigmatic unknown and give it a vague silhouette. The dark and hallucinatory masterwork that is The Crackling Of The Anonymous, is constructed via the never heard utterances of the void, while tapping into the psyche of the impossible. A stunning release that defies all logic because it creates its own. https://loki-found.bandcamp.com/album/the-crackling-of-the-anonymous "INADEs zweites Studio-Album befasst sich kryptisch mit dem Aufspüren der tiefliegenden Kräfte des Unfaßbaren & Unergründlichen, den Wurzeln des Bewußtseins, die letztlich ins Unendliche führen. Der Sound hat sich gewandelt seit „Aldebaran“, ist noch symphonischer, dichter & melancholischer geworden, geisterhafte Stimmeneinspielungen & Effekte, repetitive Vibrationen und Pulsare tauchen auf... eindrucksvoll werden archaische Erlebnis- und Gewühlsweisen heraufbeschworen...für psychognostische Erfahrungen bestens geeignet & musikalisch von atemberaubender Weite und Schönheit! The fantastic second studio-album for the east-german dark ambient industrial band, dealing with the power of infinite existence. This is the limited vinyl-version !!" [old Drone Rec. info] 2024 €13.00
INCAPACITANTS Extreme Gospel Nights LP "Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan; the group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group Hijokaidan. Mikawa, a bank employee who later became manager of one of the largest securities brokers in Japan, later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with government office worker Fumio Kosakai (also an occasional member of Hijokaidan, as well as a former member of C.C.C.C.) to make Incapacitants a duo. Mikawa and Kosakai are no ordinary salarymen, though. They've been making some of the most unremittingly ear-shattering racket for decades as Incapacitants, one of the most significant noise outfits to emerge from the Japanese scene in the early 1980s, and still one of the most radical and powerful. They've consistently been responsible for some of the most complex, chaotic, loud, and downright fun releases in the genre. Extreme Gospel Nights is a shocking cassette from 1993, released by one of the Japanoise-defining labels, Vanilla Records, whose sound is particularly exciting, agonizingly dense and full of detail. "Gospel" refers to the studio where the recordings were made; don't expect traditional spirituals, but rather some truly alien performances, complete with sporadic screaming of vivisected baboons drowning in the sonic sludge. There are two tracks here "Bitter Insect" on and the super lo-fi "Accelerated No(i)sebleed," in all probability recorded directly from the soundboard. Just pure, unadulterated electronic distortion of the highest quality done by two of the masters of all who have ever turned the knob on a distortion pedal. This is fun, terrifying, hypnotic, and fascinating all at the same time; their noise takes root not in violence or gimmickry, but in pure energy. It also serves as great example of just what makes well done noise so great: the layers of complexity that build upon each other reveal new and different textures and patterns on subsequent listens. Mastered by Mikawa and reissued for the first time on vinyl, with black label and black inner sleeve. Edition of 300 in deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve with an image of the Tomyodai lighthouse in the late Meiji era as cover art, insert on classic ultra-bright paper with glossy plastic coating with replica of original. Wrapped in tissue golden paper to replicate original tape release, includes sticker." https://urashima.bandcamp.com 2019 €23.00
  As Loud as Possible do-LP + 7inch The mid-90s were particularly abundant years for harsh noise, producing many albums which are now considered masterpieces. One of the most beloved classics from this period is "As Loud As Possible" by Incapacitants. Active since 1981, the duo of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai found their stride in the early 90s and set off on an unrelenting course which produced countless gems of noise. Many of these have been well preserved and documented elsewhere, compiled on "Box Is Stupid" and "Alchemy Box Is Stupid", however, "As Loud As Possible" has never been reissued since its original release on Zabriskie Point. It is now made available for the first time since 1995, with no corner cut in preparation of its reissue. The audio was transferred from the original tapes by Din-I-Ilahi, and re-mastered for digital and vinyl formats by Rashad Becker. The iconic cover photographs by Naomi Hosokawa have been scanned from the original negatives and enlarged for the expanded format, along with outtakes and unused shots, which are now included here for the first time. T. Mikawa also dug into the Incapacitants archives and unearthed two additional tracks of previously unreleased material, recorded around the same time as the album. These two tracks, entitled "As Loud As Possible Revisited" are included as a bonus 7" with alternate picture sleeve. Features extensive liner notes written by Sam McKinlay aka The Rita. A personal all-time favourite, it is an honour to present "As Loud As Possible" as a double LP in deluxe gatefold sleeve. Includes digital download. https://totalblack.bandcamp.com/album/as-loud-as-possible 2022 €32.50
INDRA KARMUKA su'o / rana (SOLD OUT) 7inch first edition limited to 250 copies, clear vinyl, transparent cover artwork released November 1996 "This is the first release by this trio from amsterdam, who seem to be deeply concerned with religious themes from the indian mythology. 'Indra Karmuka' is a notion from the sanskrit-language spoken in India. The two titles are pieces of flowing and transcendental droning music, which arrive at your cognitive system to stimulate you emotionally at the highest degree. indra karmuka work with bells, synths and strange minimal sources (not possible to define exactly) and create a deep natural touch inside it. note: one member of indra karmuka already released an lp on the korm plastics ambient-series as k-s-p (ky-sync-pulse)! "it's time for a new engramm in your brain - with indra karmuka!" [label info] 1996  
INFANT CYCLE The Sand Rays CD "Diophantine Discs is pleased to announce the release of a new CD... The Infant Cycle - The Sand Rays. We're happy to introduce the new full-length record from The Infant Cycle. The Sand Rays is to be played from the outside to the center, from whichever edge you choose. The Sand Rays is pinball rhythm reverberations from sliced vinyl record playout grooves, gravelly surface vibrations. The Sand Rays is exploiting broken cords, near-empty batteries, half-broken equipment. We loved it and think you will too. Just be prepared to be a bit more confused when it is all over, but don't worry: you'll be too busy wiping that silly grin off your face because you had such a fun time. The Infant Cycle, active since 1992, is the brainchild of Jim DeJong. He has released material on such labels as Drone, EE Tapes, Hands, Moloko+, Afe, Zhelezobeton, Blade, Abgurd, and his own The Ceiling. Additionally he is a former member of Mind Skelp-cher and (as The Infant Cycle) has collaborated with numerous artists including Aidan Baker, Orphx, and Dronaement. Housed in a custom printed color wallet. Edition of 500 copies." [label info] http://discs.diophantine.net "This label has released both on CD and vinyl. Perhaps its therefore a bit of an odd choice to release the new Infant Cycle on CD. Not because of the nature of the music, but due to the material which was used to create this music: like before Jim DeJong, the man behind The Infant Cycle, uses vinyl to create his music. Ah. You think vinyl and you think Yoshihide, Marclay or Spooky? Wrong. The Infant Cycle has nothing to do with turntablism like that. More along the lines of Vertonen, The Infant Cycle uses run out grooves which are taped and then fed through a line of analogue sound effects or perhaps synthesizers and then further treated, enhanced and altered on the computer. Actually I made that last bit up, as I think there are no computers used by The Infant Cycle. Its more likely that everything exists in the world of analogue sounds, with cheap low resolution sampling keyboards, four track recording machines and more analogue sound effects. The music is raw and densely layered with lots of icing on the cake, but this is not a work of endless spinning noise loops. Jim DeJong knows how to create music that is both noise based and yet still something to hear. Although throughout quite present, he is not shy to take matters into a more quieter area, and presents us a highly listenable release of music that is, for me at least, the logical step in what some call industrial music. Powerful, intense, rich of ideas and excellently executed." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2009 €12.00
INFANT CYCLE & RAMUNAS YARAS / DELPHIUM Translation / Heart full of Soul do-mCDR Die Wiederkehr des britischen, vor langer Zeit (DR-24) auch auf Drone gefeatureten Projekts DELPHIUM! "Heart full of Soul" besteht aus fünf überwiegend aggressiven "pulse'n'noise"-tracks, basierend auf Gitarrenklängen (das merkt man kaum), harsch und metallisch-mechanisch rhythmisiert, mit wie immer sehr düsterem Unterton... THE INFANT CYCLE dagegen arbeitete für die zweite mCDR mit RAMUNAS YARAS (aka ENDICHE VIS.SAT) zusammen, der Klarinett-Klänge beisteuerte; entstanden ist ein grossartiger, hitziger, fast flirrend-rhythmischer track, dronig-melancholische Zwischenspiele, sowie mysteriöse Klanglandschaften die auf verfremdeten Vogelstimmen, Radiokurzwellen & "feedback generators" bestehen... starke Kontraste auf einer hervorragenden Split-Veröffentlichung! Das ganze in schlankem Hochformat, ein sehr kurioses Cover, professionell gestaltet, lim. 100 ! "Heart Full of Soul," nearly 23 minutes, is one of Delphium's darkest and noisiest recordings to date. The very direct and engaging work features tracks ranging from droning dark ambient to distorted and expressive rhythmic beats. "Translation" is a 20-minute release consisting primarily of The Infant Cycle processing and supplementing avantgarde clarinet recordings by Ramunas Yaras. The resulting experimental (and somewhat rhythmic) pieces fall variously within the spectrum between ambient drone and noise. This release is presented as a pro-printed 2x3"CDr set, packaged in a special color folder sleeve, and limited to 100 copies. Delphium has been active since 1993, releasing numerous vinyl and CD releases on labels such as Drone, Moloko+, Hibou, and his own Aquese label. The Infant Cycle, active since 1992, has many releases on labels such as EE Tapes, Blade, Hands, and his own label, The Ceiling. Ramunas Yaras is a Lithuanian experimental composer and writer who is also known for his work in Endiche Vis.Sat and Magic Carpathians Project." [label info] 2007 €8.00
INFANT CYCLE / JARED DAVISON Periodical I mCD-R Schöne kanadische EP mit zwei Stücken, INFANT CYCLE mit einem quasi-rhythmischen, elektronisch-sirrenden & sich windenden Soundknäuel, der uns unbekannte JARED DAVISON kreiert einen dunkel-loopig-mechanischen Soundscape aus „Oberflächenklängen“ von Vinylschallplatten, eine Art düsterer PHILIP JECK? Super ! “The most recent project embarked upon by The Ceiling is a series of split mini-CDRs (originally intended as a series of a 7"s, which remains in the artwork), between The Infant Cycle and other artists in the southern Ontario region of Canada, working mainly in the arena of CDRs, MP3s, and less in larger-circulation formats. The series intends to bring together artists working outside existing genres and subgenres, working in areas of their own. The intent is to unify the series with a sense of adventure and challenge, and not necessarily a stylistic consistency. The series is also intended to function somewhat as a sort of newspaper, a snapshot of where each project is at the time of issue. The series can be viewed as sidebar releases by the artists- perhaps a progress report. THE INFANT CYCLE has been in operation since 1992, producing numerous CDRs, CDs, vinyl, cassette and MP3 releases, alongside many compilation appearances for labels all over the planet. The Infant Cycle creates eccentric sound-worlds from disparate strands of instrumental phrases, field recordings, and everything in between; composition mixing with improvisation, influenced by happy accidents and technical failures. The piece contained is a mixing of previously recorded tracks, rethinking the past and foreshadowing future releases. JARED DAVISON has followed an uncompromising path from his time as founder and mainstay of the many incarnations of Mind Skelp-cher, through various short-term projects, to his current work under his own name. While quiet for the past few year, he is re-emerging with material focused narrowly on particular sounds isolated from their sources, and projected into unpredictable shapes and atmospheres. "Phonography" is an uneasy and sometimes violent soundscape based entirely on the crackle and hum hiding amidst the grooves of your favourite vintage vinyl.All releases in the Periodical series are "budget" priced releases of 80 copies only.” [label info] 2005 €6.00
IRM / SKIN AREA Purple Screen // Red Eruption / Red Discharge 10" Harsh Noise with a sometimes jazzy (yes!) feel to it from SKIN AREA, who use also drums and bass and voice, in fact they begin with harsh noises and end up in an improvisation. Very strange and beyond good and evil. IRM create one long dark piece interesting soundwalls... new swedish noise on a new swedish label ! “ Two of Sweden's finest bands share this slab of vinyl. Skin Area delivers a 14-minute track that begs you to push the volumes louder and louder until your brain becomes one with the raging hardcore noises they produce. You'll wish there were drugs as hard and vicious as these sounds, but I'm afraid western science hasn't come that far yet... Skin Area's versatility might shock (and offend) some listeners who are unprepared to blow their minds on a regular basis. IRM makes full use of the 10" format with what could very well be their finest moment yet -- a 12 min epic that expertly combines menacing electronics and more traditional sounds (this should be among the top-five of any best-power-electronics-with-glockenspiel list ever compiled). Since none of you are regular church-goers, why not make it your Sunday ritual to blast the neighborhood with this 10"? You will be rewarded.” [label info] 2003 €10.00
IRR.APP. (ext.) Are all Things Equivalent? 10inch "Substantia Innominata" is the 10" VINYL - series by Drone Records, presenting works inspired by or related to "the Unknown" around or within us. OUT NOW (March 2019): SUB-26 • IRR.APP.(ext.) - Are all Things Equivalent? Drone Records is proud to present two new tracks on vinyl by the master of surrealistic, enigmatic sound (and visual) worlds, whose collages and titles often reveal a cryptic and thought-provoking nature. As soon as the music starts you might get the impression that micro- and macroscopic dimensions intermingle and oscillate, these multi-layered drone expansions and deep humming drones evoke a strange organic feeling, ominous half-concrete acoustic shadows seem to live inside this, ghosty saw-blades conquer the sonic space, there are rolling mechanic eruptions, and you could be stuck in huge spinning machines, it's music that consists of complex noises and drones that seem to be in a circling state of an endless metamorphosis... irr.app.(ext.) has been the project of sound, performance and visual artist M. S. Waldron for more than 20 years. He currently resides in Hillsboro, Oregon (USA), just slightly to the left of the picturesque midriff of the Pacific Northwest. Known for recurring collaborations with NURSE WITH WOUND and through a phantastic trilogy of albums with reference to the radical psychoanalytic and founder of body psychotherapy WILHELM REICH, the creations are much grounded in non-orthodox surrealism and collage and fall somewhere between beauty and absurdity, between amorph drone ambience transcensions and bewildering and attacking noises, often with deep philosophical and psychological implications involved. Released in an edition of 300 copies on CLEAR vinyl, with full colour artwork by M.S. Waldron himself. www.substantia-innominata.com https://soundcloud.com/drone-records/irr-app-ext-side-b-sleep-turbines 2019 €15.00
ITAMOC / MARINA STEWART Sunshine Discord 7inch "7" (black wax). Limited Edition of 100. Carefully mastered audio by Gavin Weiß @ SoundSupport Hamburg. Stamped and numbered cover sheet. Comes with two special postcards. First appearance of Marina Stewart on vinyl since 1986." [label info] www.aemag.virb.com 2012 €9.00
IYV (SKELDOS & RUKANA) Upes LP "I came across the music of IYv shortly after I encountered the dark ambient project Skeldos. Both are projects by the same musician. The IYv debut release (and only so far) “Upės” I had missed when it was released on tape. But I had been listening to it a lot when I was away during the winter of 2020 at a small house at a lake. There was a bluetooth speaker in the house so I could listen to the music there. The beauty of this music really resonated with me. Some time later after the musician contacted me (there are no coincidences) to order the Ô Paradis & Nový Svět LP I released on Vrystaete I dared to ask him if he would be into doing a vinyl version of this long sold out tape release. I was very happy he and his partner in crime involved in this project liked the idea. About IYv… it is a project by Vytenis (Skeldos) and Inga (Rūkana) from Lithuania and “Upės” (meaning “Rivers”) was released by themselves in 2017 in a small edition of 72 copies. While Skeldos is more towards the dark ambient sort of thing with hints of (post-)industrial music, IYv is much more on the melancholy side of things… accordion, electronica and Lithuanian vocals make up for a beautiful post-folklore album… The musicians themselves described the album in a perfect way… so I will not try myself to capture the mood and spirit of the music: “Upės” is an album about travelling. About the hearing of birds, close to the rock chains, which twists on the surface of mountains, through marks of our memory just like the rivers. The album was recorded in seclusion: in a log barn and wooden summerhouse. It’s decorated with deliberately left spontaneous inaccuracies and coherent crookedness. Nostalgic loops of ambient music tells a natural story about the composers: approaching gritty earth, enjoying crackling fire in the night, enduring live rain and swimming through the river streams." https://www.enfant-terrible.nl/releases/iyv-upes/ LP, 150 copies with screen printed artwork, hand numbered (75 copies on brown paper, 75 copies on grey paper) 2022 €22.50
JACASZEK Pentral LP Legendary album of Jacaszek from 2009, first time on vinyl, 180g, gatefold, with downloadcode PENTRAL (lat: inside, spirit, temple) Michal Jacaszek's new project is an attempt to describe a gothic church interior by means of sounds. A temple owes its special atmosphere not only to visual elements but also to characteristic acoustics – reverb, enhancing and prolonging a slightest whisper into infinity. Jacaszek spent several days in three Gdansk historic churches (Oliwa Cathedral, St. Nicolas' church, St. Mary's Basilica) recording chanting, organs, and also a broad spectrum of accidental noises. Source sounds were were used only as a stimulus which releases the sound of the whole inside, and as such, they were consequently retouched in the post production process. Studio work and also the atmosphere of melody and arrangements were subordinate to the idea of portraying the church as a place filled with distant mysteries, a huge music instrument. https://jacaszek1.bandcamp.com/album/pentral 2020 €20.00
JACASZEK / ROMKE KLEEFSTRA / JAN KLEEFSTRA It Deel I LP SOUNDS FROM THE FORESTS IT DEEL is a new project for the upcoming years by the Kleefstra Bros in collaboration with Popfabryk. The underlying motive for this new project is the disastrous damage to the nature. Together with guest musicians the brothers work on new material in the Thomaskerk in Katlijk (Friesland, NL) which stands in relation to this theme of environmental decline. Each project is presented live in front of an audience after a week, and results in a vinyl release on Moving Furniture Records. The Kleefstra Bros: “Trees are pre-eminently the example of life forms that are predestinated to a fixed place. This spot is where they have to survive. For tens, to hundreds of years they are bound to this specific spot, surrender to it. With untouchable patience, many of the trees in Oranjewoud (an old forest in Friesland) have seen many generations of people pass by. But still we claim as if we can decide over their lives and let them suffer with all our interventions in their environment. The Kleefstra Bros are poet Jan Kleefstra and guitarist Romke Kleefstra. Both are member of (amongst others) Piiptsjilling, The Alvaret Ensemble, CMKK, Tsjinlûd and Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra. For IT DEEL I in 2021 they collaborated with the Polish composer, producer, and sound artist Michał Jacaszek. Michał Jacaszek creates electro-acoustic music in which electronic sounds are combined with acoustic instruments. He often collaborates with other artist from various backgrounds incl. video art, visual arts, dance choreography and photography. IT DEEL I is released on vinyl limited to 300 copies in artwork designed by Rutger Zuydervelt and available digital. The album will be presented with a short tour in the Netherlands this fall. More about Michał Jacaszek jacaszek.com More about Kleefstra Bros kleefstrabros.bandcamp.com More about IT DEEL popfabryk.nl/project/it-deel Michał Jacaszek: electronics, string arrangements Jan Kleefstra: words, vocals Romke Kleefstra: guitars, bass, effects Recorded at the St. Thomas church, Ketlik, the Netherlands, by Jan Switters, June 1-4 2021 produced, mixed and by Michał Jacaszek Mastered by Michał Jacaszek & Jos Smolders https://kleefstrabros.bandcamp.com/album/it-deel-i 2022 €18.00
JASON LESCALLEET'S DUE PROCESS Combine XXI / Combine XXII 10 Ein Low-Noise-Maelstrom voller Rauschen & tiefen Feedbacks & Wummern mit einigen konkreten Elementen, die sich herausschälen. Nicht wirklich harsch, eher dumpf krachig und vielschichtig. JASON LESCALLEET im Zusammenwirken mit DUE PROCESS. "Combine xxi, Combine xxii' is the second vinyl album documenting the ongoing collaboration between tape loop composer destroyer Jason Lescalleet and ron lessard, aka noise legend emil beaulieau and head of the pioneering rrrecords label. while due process has been lessard's longtime umbrella for collaborations (which previously have featured like-minded outsiders tom dimuzio and john wiggins), this current iteration of due process is an altogether different beast. using severely manipulated recordings of the duo's ear-splitting live concerts, Lescalleet creates a dense sound world, abstract and visceral. Consisting of two sidelong pieces, by turns both brutal and beautiful, this latest record is a testament to Lescalleet's ability to recast rough sounds in his blurry, tape-distorted image. lavishly printed on heavyweight lennox paper and lovingly letter-pressed by smudge ink in Boston, this 10' record is limited to 300 copies." [label notes] www.webreakmore.com 2008 €17.00
JAZKAMER Chestnut Thornback Tar LP & CD "As Norway's premier noise troupe, Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre's Jazkamer project has a certain status to uphold.'Chestnut Thornback Tar' was originally the May instalment of the Jazkamer subscription series, and to my mind the record that best sums up the band's wide reach. 'Chestnut Thornback Tar' might not be for the faint of heart, but you'd struggle to find a more rewarding collection of intense, metal-drenched experimental noise. Limited Vinyl Edition with bonus-mix-cd!" [label info] www.typerecords.com 2011 €17.50
JAZKAMER / MARK DURGAN split 7 "Another instalment in NO-FI’s vinyl catalogue, this 7” sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the European noise circuit. Norway’s Jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, best known for their ‘Metal Machine Music’ death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. For this release, they also recruit fellow Norwegian and multi-tasking guitar-mangling prodigy Anders Hana (Noxagt, MoHa!) - as if they needed any help to kick out the jams on this jawdroppingly raucous live recording. In contrast, the flip side is significantly more serene from Mark Durgan (who you may also know as Putrefier and who is rumoured to have been part of the mystery line-up of The New Blockaders at Thurston Moore’s All Tomorrows Parties). Subsonic rumbles and birdsong dominate the surface of this track, but the devil’s in the detail – poke your attention through the thin surface ice and you’ll easily fall through to hidden depths." [label notes] www.no-fi.org.uk/label.php 2008 €8.50
JAZZKAMMER Pulse CD “Jazzkammer are Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre from Norway. Together they have been making music as Jazzkammer since 1998. Past releases include Timex, Rolex (a remix album), Pancakes and a live album with Merzbow. Jazzkammer are relentless sound explorers with no set style or specific 'sound' -- they move swiftly from hardcore overload electronics and sonic freakouts to lowercase soundscapes and location recordings. Once described as 'sonic architects', Marhaug and Hegre insist they are merely trying to make 'good music'. Pulse was recorded in Singapore during the SARS-crisis in april of 2003. It was inspired by a theatre piece of the same title that they were working on at the same time, though the music on the CD does not resemble that of the play. The album Pulse is a single beautiful 32-minute piece; its basic structure is a drifting electronic drone that slowly unfolds and mutates, with subtle layers of location recordings and vinyl-static adding color and depth. Like last year's Pancakes, Pulse has a cinematic feel to it, a feeling that is further enhanced by the photos of acclaimed photographer Yuen Chee Wai that grace the cover and 12-page booklet." [press release] 2003 €13.00
JENSEN, CLARICE The Experience of Repetition as Death CD Brooklyn-based cellist Clarice Jensen’s gorgeous sophomore album and first for FatCat’s pioneering 130701 imprint, ‘The experience of repetition as death’, was recorded and mixed by Francesco Donadello at Vox-Ton studios in Berlin in late 2018 and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri. Following up her hugely impressive 2018 debut, ‘For This From That Will Be Filled’ , which included collaborations with Jóhann Jóhannsson and Michael Harrison, all of the material on this new album was written and performed by Clarice alone and all of the sounds on it were created with a cello through a variety of effects and effects pedals. An outstanding musician, Clarice has recorded and performed for a host of stellar artists including Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter, Björk, Arcade Fire, Nick Cave, Jónsi, Stars of the Lid, Dustin O’Halloran, Joanna Newsom, Nico Muhly, Dirty Projectors, Frightened Rabbit and Beirut. As the artistic director of ACME (the American Contemporary Music Ensemble), she’s helped bring to life some of the most revered works of modern classical music, and as a solo artist has developed a distinctive compositional approach - improvising and layering her instrument through loops and a chain of electronic effects to open out a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Forging a very elegant and precise vision, her music has been described by Self-Titled as “incredibly powerful neo-classical pieces that seem to come straight from another astral plane” and by Boomkat as “languorously void-touching ideas, scaling and sustaining a sublime tension”. Her debut album was released in 2018 on Miasmah and followed in September 2019 by the ‘Drone Studies’ cassette EP on Geographic North. Receiving glowing critical acclaim, both releases made it into Pitchfork's end of year charts. Expanding her sound again, ‘The experience of repetition as death’ is a warm, deep and cyclical album that explores notions of repetition in both its conceptual underpinning and musical structure. Unlike the easily readable step builds and grid-locked looping of so many artists using the looper as a compositional tool, Clarice’s loops slide across one another in organically morphing structures; align and intersect at different moments, yielding a kind of aleatoric yet minimal counterpoint, with joins overlaid in ways that appear seamless and sophisticated. Where her live performance relies heavily upon the use of loop pedals, in the studio she and Donadello recorded much of the material onto tape to create a series of physical loops. There’s something oceanic in the immensity of the resulting work - in the ebb and flow of her sound and the way it builds and dissipates through swelling and wave reflection. Whilst in previous releases Jensen’s cello has largely been abstracted via effects to sound somewhat other than itself, ‘The experience of Repetition…’ opens with an undisguised passage that is clearly wood and string - a clarity retained throughout much of the album. Across its span, Clarice balances her material between darkness and light and the shades in between. Rigorously structured yet fluidly slipping between states, the album shifts from a glowering sense of dread / malevolence to warm, euphoric washes; from an elegaic or graceful sense of suspension to curious, clipped interstitial loops that recall the segues in My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Loveless’ or the minimalist pulsing and phase-shifting of Steve Reich. Throughout, the album reveals a viscerality and attention to textural accretion that’s reminiscent of more electronic artists like Actress or Gas; whilst the glacially moving, hypnotic build recalls prime Stars Of The Lid. Other reference points might look back to Minimalism, to the deep listening immersion of Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, and the long-string drone work of Ellen Fullman. Or forwards to the rising current wave of drone-spinners like Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro, Caterina Barbieri and Sarah Davachi, and adventurous cellist peers like Hildur Gudnadottir or Resina. Conceptually, the album is based upon the theme of repetition and informed by some of Freud’s key principles of psychoanalysis (namely the “compulsion to repeat” self-destructive beaviours or re-live traumatic events explored in his writings about the Death Drive in ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’); by notions of the primarily repetitive nature of our existence and attempts to break beyond this: “I hope this album, in its repetition, might provide the listener with a respite from - or a reflection upon - the malaise and / or comfort of life’s repetition,” she writes. The album’s title is taken from a line in a 1971 poem by the influential American radical feminist poet Adrienne Rich called ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’ – a response to a John Donne poem of the same title from 1611. Jensen expresses great admiration for Rich both as a writer and feminist icon, citing her as “an inspiration to create work in a field that is still largely male-dominated," and noting how “her poem to me is a reflection on the idea that dying and death are ordinary. Any meaningfulness we create comes from within and is deeply personal but entirely our own construct.” With death as a clear subtext, Jensen describes how the music was written or conceptualized in a period towards the end of her mother’s fight with leukemia and shortly after she passed away. “My sister and I were taking care of her. So I’m also referencing the repetitiveness of all the mundane things we still did with her in the face of her terminal illness - preparing meals, doing the shopping, paying bills - as well as the repetition of all of visits to the doctor and hospital." Third track ‘Metastable’ was inspired by the chorus of repetitive beeping heard in hospitals - a sound that can be both fascinating and beautiful as well as overwhelming or irritating. The beeps here integrate themselves into a single loop, creating a fixed counterpoint around a deep, foreboding bass loop and slowly building, Reich-ian structure. “This idea of the ‘metastable’ became very pronounced to me”, notes Clarice. “Her continually evolving treatments kept her in temporary states of stability that would eventually become unstable, which would then require some different treatment." Perhaps the most dramatic of the five pieces here, ‘Holy Mother’ is a towering piece that moves through all twelve chromatic pitches. The title refers to the Tibetan name for Mount Everest (Qomolangma) and through this piece Clarice has attempted to evoke a sense of that place and the obsession with its conquest - an extreme example of the feats people attempt in an effort to break from the monotonous repetition of everyday life - as well as contemplating the bodies of those climbers who didn’t make it, left frozen and permanently entombed there. Musically, in addition to the looping on every track, the concept of repetition is also expressed on a larger scale, with the album’s central melodic theme repeated in different ways across its length. On opening track ‘Daily’ the theme appears in the track’s second half, fragmented into three different tape loops and never expressed fully in order; in ‘Day tonight’, it’s played in full but in an unfamiliar key and rhythmically augmented; whilst mirroring track one, closing track ‘Final’ employs the same tape loops as the opener, but this time with the tape having been subjected to methods of degradation in order to erode the sound – crumpled up, creased and stepped on, and run (silently) for long periods of time to deteriorate the quality of the tape and the sounds recorded on it. As the piece draws to an end, the album’s theme is finally presented in full in its original key and fully harmonized, performed by a quartet of cellos without effects and emerging whole at the end of the process in a beautiful resolution. Structurally smart, texturally rich and deeply immersive, ‘The experience of repetition as death’ is a powerful new album by a hugely talented young artist, whose star is clearly on the ascendant. It is released on FatCat’s 130701 imprint on 3rd April on vinyl and digital formats. Clarice will be touring the US in March / April supporting A Winged Victory For The Sullen, with whom she will also be performing as cellist. https://claricejensen.bandcamp.com/album/the-experience-of-repetition-as-death 2020 €16.00
  Drone Studies LP "In the past few years, Clarice Jensen has forged her own path. Recently, her focus has shifted to film scoring, successfully recording work for three feature films between 2020 and 2021. At the same time, Clarice continues to serve as artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, while continually collaborating with an impressive array of musicians, such as Max Richter, Björk and Stars of the Lid, to name a few. That being said, it was her 2019 tape release on Geographic North, Drone Studies, that initially caught the attention of a wider audience, with the work showcasing a compelling assembly of deeply immersive drones, and elegantly orchestrated compositions, in which neoclassical elements collide with electric density. Three years later, the work has lost none of its innovative character and appeal. It also documents a turning point in Clarice's career, one where her classically trained background started to converged and overlap with her interests in improvisational electronics and drone music. As a result, the aptly titled Drone Studies shows Clarice at her most exploratory, introspective, and daring, channeling her areas of interest into a collage of richly textured timbers, and cello movements of sublime tension. Now for the first time, the original album can be experienced through an expanded vinyl reissue, mastered by Rafael Anton Irissari, and carefully adjusted for vinyl by Ian Hawgood. The new reissue also features an additional track by Clarice called Platonic Solids 2, which was originally conceived around the same time as Drone Studies, and which has now been made available exclusively for the vinyl edition and on the Vaagner Bandcamp. We hope that this new reissue will aid in introducing Clarice's groundbreaking Drone Studies to a new crowd of listeners through this expanded edition." https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/drone-studies 2022 €18.50
JESU Why are we not perfect? maxi-CD "... Why Are We Not Perfect completes Broadrick’s transformation from atmosphere-obsessed drone metallurgist to neo-shoegaze aesthete. There’s heaviness of a very different sort oozing from the two-chord vamp “Farewell” -- it’s the kind of heaviness that derives from depth of production and emotional resonance, rather than piles of distorted guitar. You could easily fall into the cracks between those Björk-like fuzz bass hits on the title track. Its final lyric (“Why are we not perfect/ When we can’t live forever?”) is just one of the many simple profundities you’ll find buried deep within if you do... ] [Prefix mag] "5 track EP (2 songs of which originally appeared on the vinyl only split 12" with Eluvium). JUSTIN BROADRICK has set aside the heavy foundation of pounding guitars prevalent in past recordings & brought to the fore elements of texture & melody that previously hovered at the periphery of his monolithic compositions. While this may prove frustrating to metal idealists, those with a greater sense of adventure will find the results both illuminating & heart rending." [label info] "Not a brand new Jesu record, instead, this ep collects the three tracks from Jesu's split lp with Eluvium from last year, and adds two alternate versions to flesh it out a bit. Folks who missed out on that now out of print 12", or those amongst you who remain turntableless, will for sure want to pick this up, and Jesu fanatics, might just find this worth it for the two extra alternate takes. First the songs proper: Three new songs from Jesu, and as if we didn't already see Broadrick and Co. heading in this direction, they've almost entirely jettisoned the heaviness, in favor of a blissy new wave-y drift. Really! No massive sludge, no blissed out crunch, in fact, most of this sounds like Jesu doing the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie, all drift and croon and no crunch and pummel, but it's really nice, and pretty, and still suitably Jesu-like. Imagine Simple Minds or the Cure but raised on Slowdive and Chapterhouse and Swervedriver and My Bloody Valentine, doing the theme song for Sixteen Candles 2008 (which if our calculations are correct would be more like Forty Candles). The first song would be a massive hit, sort of melancholy and romantic, dark and dreamy, but still sort of catchy and hopeful, like sunbeams barely making it through grey storm clouds. The final track sounds like it could be from that last scene in Sixteen Candles 2008, the one where the boy and the girl finally make it to the dance after all of the crazy mishaps and misunderstandings and are finally sharing that slow dance... lugubrious and fuzzy, and soft focus and so great actually. It's weird, and a bit unexpected, but as much as we love the glacial crush of past Jesu discs, this new-wave-y drift really suits them, which is a good thing, since they seem to be heading even more and more in that direction with each new release. The two extra tracks are definitely not -drastically- different, but different enough certainly to make them worth having. "Farewell" gets even more washed out, the whole thing muted and over saturated, the chugging guitars, disembodied and more textural than heavy, the whole song suffused with chiming harmonics and sun dappled soaring bittersweet melodies. "Why Are We Not Perfect", the above mentioned Sixteen Candles 2008 closer, hews closely to the original, the change more in timbre and texture than anything, the vocals still weary and woozy, the beat a loping skittery shuffle, surrounded by shimmering clouds of effervescent streaks of warm buzz, swirls of backwards melody, all whirling softly and dreamily. Beautifully packaged in a super thick oversized Japanese style mini lp cd jacket, with a thick printed inner sleeve." [Aquarius Records] www.hydrahead.com 2008 €11.00
JOHANNA LIEBHART Damals 10inch Mysterious and long-forgotten electro-wave diva of the early 80s, JOHANNA LIEBHART (occasionally credited as “ANNA”) disappeared in largely unknown circumstances back in 1999, leaving behind several unreleased albums. Even if her name is not familiar, some of you will already know her style from ICH WOLLTE ICH KÖNNTE’s first album, released on T.U.T. a couple of years ago, which was inspired by, and largely based on some of her compositions. The tracks on this 10” are all taken from Anna’s early tape recordings, and probably represent some of her most emotional and intimate works, as simple and modest in their beauty as the personality of their creator was facetious. Seven neo-romantic analogue-synth pieces, entirely instrumental. Sacral, minimal and utterly desperate, like the disclosing of someone’s secret chapel, or the hidden garden of a run-down doll-house. 10-inch LP, black vinyl - in special fold-out sleeve + inserts - lim. edition of 277 hand-numbered copies www.tutrur.com/tutrur_html/tut013.html 2009 €8.00
JOHANNSSON, JOHANN Personal Effects LP Jóhann Jóhannsson gehörte bis zu seinem tragischen Tod zu den gefragtesten und innovativsten Filmkomponisten einer neuen Generation in Hollywood. Weltweit gefeiert für seine wegweisenden Scores für die Villeneuve-Filme “Sicario”, “Arrival” und “Prisoners” gewann er 2015 in der Kategorie Best Original Score den Golden-Globe für den Film Theory of Everything. Sein musikalischer Stil war geprägt von klassischem Minimalismus sowie der Verschmelzung von elektronischen Klängen mit klassischen Elementen. Am 29. Mai erscheint nun die bisher noch unveröffentlichte Musik zum Film “Gemeinsam stärker” (2009) mit Ashton Kutcher & Michelle Pfeiffer als Vinyl bei Deutsche Grammophon. “Für mich war es eine aufregende Zusammenarbeit. Jóhann griff immer wieder in die Bilder und Emotionen des Films ein, um etwas Besseres zu schaffen als alles, was ich mir je vorgestellt hatte.” David Hollander (Regie & Drehbuch) https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/de/katalog/produkte/personal-effects-soundtrack-johannsson-11986 2020 €28.00
  Drone Mass CD "Deutsche Grammophon is honoured to release the eagerly anticipated world premiere recording of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Drone Mass. Described by its composer as “a contemporary oratorio”, this exceptional work is written for voices, string quartet and electronics. It was commissioned by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), who have now recorded Drone Mass together with vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices and its Artistic Director Paul Hillier. Both ACME and Theatre of Voices worked closely with Jóhannsson on many occasions – in concert, on tour and in the studio. Out today, 18 March 2022, in digital format as well as on CD and 180g vinyl, this new album not only immortalises one of the Icelandic composer’s defining works, it also stands as a moving tribute from some of the long-time collaborators with whom he worked closely during his illustrious career. Drone Mass is a profoundly atmospheric work, at times reminiscent of the meditative minimalism of composers such as Pärt or Górecki, and represents what Jóhannsson called “a distillation of a lot of influences and obsessions”. One of these was, as the title suggests, his fascination with the musical device of the drone. Here, his drones have a motivic-like role, shifting and shimmering with hypnotic effect, conjuring different moods, from unsettling to uplifting, as the work progresses. Beginning with strings and voices, but slowly integrating Jóhannsson’s electronic techniques into its landscape, Drone Mass draws on material from the so-called “Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians” – part of the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945 – including a hymn the composer spoke of as “a seemingly meaningless series of vowels”. Both the enigmatic nature of the chosen texts and the sheer beauty of his vocalise-style writing add to the spiritual quality of the work as a whole. The album was recorded in May 2019 at Copenhagen’s Garnisonskirken (Garrison Church) and produced by Francesco Donadello, another of Jóhannsson’s regular collaborators. ACME were joined by internationally renowned Danish vocal group Theatre of Voices and their Artistic Director Paul Hillier. They too have a very close connection with Drone Mass, having performed it twice in the US, and in Krákow, with Jóhannsson and ACME. Most recently, ACME and Theatre of Voices gave a further performance in Athens, just four months after the composer’s untimely death in Berlin on 9 February 2018, at the age of 48. Their recording of the mysterious, and timeless, Drone Mass is a further reminder of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s rare visionary talent." 2022 €19.50
JOHANNSSON, JOHANN & YAIR ELAZAR GLOTMAN Last and First Men CD & BLUE-RAY Format: CD + BluRayWährend er eindringliche Konzeptalben und wegweisende Soundtracks wie für Denis Villeneuves „Arrival“ komponierte, dachte der preisgekrönte isländische Komponist Jóhann Jóhannsson schon seit 2010 über ein noch größeres Projekt nach - ein multimediales Gesamtkunstwerk, das sein eigenes visuelles Konzept, Regie und Musik umfassen würde. Basierend auf dem gleichnamigen Kult-Science-Fiction-Roman von Olaf Stapledon verbindet Jóhann Jóhannsson in seinem Opus Magnum Last and First Men kunstvoll Musik, Film und Erzählung gesprochen von Hollywood-Star Tilda Swinton, zu einer poetischen Meditation über Erinnerung und Verlust. Bilder einer verfallenden futuristischen Landschaft - in 16mm-Schwarz-Weiß im ehemaligen Jugoslawien gefilmt – verbinden sich mit Jóhannssons ergreifender Orchesterpartitur, die über sieben Jahre hinweg entstanden ist. Zum Zeitpunkt von Jóhannssons überraschendem Tod in 2018 arbeitete er noch immer an Last and First Men, wobei ihm der in Berlin lebende Komponist und Tonkünstler Yair Elazar Glotman zur Seite stand, der die Partitur anschließend fertigstellte. Für die Aufnahmen fanden sich darüber hinaus Jóhannssons langjährige, enge musikalische Wegbegleiter wie Oscar-Preisträgerin Hildur Guðnadóttir (Gesang, Cello, Schlagzeug), Mitglieder von Theatre of Voices u.v.a.m. zusammen um sein atemberaubendes Werk zu vollenden. Der Film feiert seine Premiere bei der diesjährigen BERLINALE und wird gleichzeitig auf Blu-ray zum ersten Mal im Bundle mit der Originalaufnahme der Partitur auf CD und in einer Limited Deluxe Vinyl Art-Edition bei Deutsche Grammophon veröffentlicht 01 PRELUDE 2:35 02 A MINOR ASTRONOMICAL EVENT 3:40 03 A MOVE TO NEPTUNE 3:48 04 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST HUMAN BEINGS 4:37 05 ARCHITECTURE 5:01 06 SUPREME MONUMENTS 1:48 07 TELEPATHIC UNITY 1:59 08 CHILDHOOD / LAND OF THE YOUNG 5:36 09 THE NAVIGATORS 8:09 10 THE SUN 1:29 11 A NEW DOOM 2:54 12 TASK NO. 1: THE SCATTERING OF SEEDS 1:56 13 TASK NO. 2: COMMUNICATING WITH THE PAST 1:06 14 THE LAST OFFICE OF HUMANITY 2:11 15 SLOW DESTRUCTION OF NEPTUNE 4:25 16 THE FEW THAT PREVAIL 2:01 17 THE LAST MEN 3:19 18 REMEMBRANCE OF THE PAST 2:35 19 THE UNIVERSAL END 1:23 20 EPILOGUE 5:09 2020 €23.00
JOHANSSON, SVEN-AKE Konzert für 12 Traktoren pic-LP "The unusual, famous ,Konzert für 12 Traktoren" was only performed a few times by twelve tractors built in the 50s and 60s. A symphony produced by old engines - according to this beautiful project Trost releases a special picture disc vinyl. Sven-Åke Johansson (Mariestad, Sweden, 1943) works as a composer, drummer, accordionist, poet, and visual artist. Longtime collaborator of the free improv scene in the German sixties with Kowald, Brötzmann, Schlippenbach, Reichel. He contributed to numerous exhibitions, publications and recordings. ,The tractors sing about a time passed by. but no future without memories. So the ,Konzert für 12 Traktoren" is as well a piece to praise labour". (Ebbe Gilbe) performed by 12 tractors, 2009 in Orust (SE) composed by Sven-Ake Johansson" [label info] www.trost.at 2015 €29.00
JULIUS, ROLF Music for the Ears CD "For a long time I've been thinking about how to create spaces into which one can retreat, where one can find quiet, where one can see, hear, where one is able to concentrate, where one is isolated from the world around but still is able to participate in itby means of art or Music or both' Rolf Julius, 1987. 'Futurism and Dadaism both made use of the synthesis of audio and visual arts to create a singular experience greater than the sum of its parts. This idea was further advanced by the Fluxus and Minimalism movements. Born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Rolf Julius was profoundly influenced and inspired by these movements while he studied art in Bremen and Berlin. YEars later, after immersing himself in Musical works by artists like Morton Feldman, John Cage, and La Monte Young, Julius began to shift his focus from visual art to the synthesis of sound and visual art and nature, exploring the relationships between sounds and objects and environments. Julius soon discovered how sounds can influence vision, creating simple tones to be presented in conjunction with his early photographic work. Such experiments culminated in the creation of his pioneering work 'Dike Line' (1979), which combined visual images with texture-inducing tones. This piece was presented at the ground breaking exhibition 'Fur Augen Und Ohren' in 1980. Mythical in scope, this was the first major European exhibition attempted to map international research by artists exploring relations between sound and visual art, bringing together work by John Cage, Luigi Russolo, Nam June Paik, Joe Jones, Bill Fontana, Milan Knizak, Harry Bertoia, David Tudor and Rolf Julius. Over the next 30 yEars Julius went on to create some of the most meaningful and moving works in the grey area between Music and art, between sound and silence. Alongside Takehisa Kosugi, Terry Fox, and Akio Suzuki, he has emerged as one of the most important and influential sound artists of our time. Since the early 1980's Julius has referred to his compositions as Small Music, receiving international acclaim from those in the fields of contemporary art and Music for calling the origins of sound and vision into question. Small Music not only describes Julius' approach to composition (soft and compelling sounds from simple instruments and nature), but also a way in which to view his works and ultimately the world. Art historian Bernd Schulz once wrote 'if one recalls John Cage's central theme of 'silence' then Rolf Julius is the contemporary artist who approaches him most closely'. Julius' Small Music has the distinct ability to heighten our perception such that 'silence' becomes a positive quality of a place and a situation, and not just an absence of sound. Whether using photographs, ink drawings, audio compositions, or subtle and sometimes almost hidden outdoor installations, Rolf Julius' works serve as catalyst, increasing our awareness of the great beauty of the world that surrounds us. Western Vinyl is proud to release 'Music for the Ears' the first in a series of Small Music releases by Rolf Julius. With a goal of creating solitary sound environments, the Small Music series will culminate into a boxed edition of seminal works by this master sound artist. 'Music for the Ears' is comprised of two long tracks of gently weaving tones exploring the possibilities of spatial experience. The cover image depicts Julius' sound installation in a bamboo forest in Kyoto, Japan where his Music is placed high in the air, by speakers hanging freely from the branches of the trees. As the Music suspends itself in the air, the tones sway in the wind floating ever so gently, caressing the Ears, the trees, the light, and clouds." [label info] www.westernvinyl.com "Now here's someone who is perhaps world famous in the world of sound art, yet hardly ever appears in Vital Weekly. Its, among other reasons, because he didn't release that music, but also because his music is usually heard in museums and galleries and not always on record. But the good news is that Western Vinyl will re-release eight of his old works, starting with 'Music For The Ears', which comes with the subtitle 'small music no. 1' and small music it is. 'Song From The Past', the first of the two pieces on this album sounds like one long tape loop of bamboo flute being played. Every now and then it stops and then it starts again. Music that is very undemanding - an environmental piece to fill your ambience. Or perhaps music to meditate by - if only I ever did that. The second piece 'Music On Two High Poles' is different. It might be played on a small, children's organ or a harmonium, cut into two loops of a varying length. Its a bit louder, or perhaps it just appears so: I turned up the volume quite a bit for the first piece, so this one comes in louder. I think both pieces are designed to do the same thing: create a sonic environment. What I especially liked about it, and that's something you can only hear when the volume is quite a bit, is all the extra sounds that come along: the static hiss from the used analogue tapes that creates a nice additional sonic layer to the music. And which doesn't seem to make the music static but very much alive and vibrant. Excellent music. This is the earliest Rolf Julius recording, from 1979 and the start of a great career. Can't wait for the other seven releases." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2010 €14.00
Music for a Distance CD "Music for a Distance is the second release in the small music series. The title of the work in relation to the cover images (abstract photographs of Julius' wife resembling landscapes merging into a distant horizon) suggests a work of uncommon poetic perception and inspiration. With the opening track "Music for a Distance," Julius achieves a sensitive balance of unpredictability and deliberate design, at times resembling a symphony of insects, complete with crickets and cicadas and rustling leaves. Listening closely, you can hear old fractured melodies float by only to be hidden again under a thunderous sky and rain. TRACKLISTING: 01. MUSIC FOR A DISTANCE 02. MUSIC IN A CORNER " [label info] www.westernvinyl.clm "Back in Vital Weekly we reviewed 'Music For Tears' by Rolf Julius, and we noted that he is quite famous in the field of sound art, but perhaps not that well-known in the world of Vital Weekly. Now that may of course change due to the good work of Western Vinyl, who plan a series of CDs with his 'small music'. 'Music For A Distance' is the second volume. Like before, or perhaps like always, we have no clue what it is that Julius does. The title piece was composed (or rather refined) over a six year period and its unclear what Julius does. Is it a bunch of field recordings? Like insects, crickets, cicadas, leaves, or perhaps something more mechanical? Played back from a bunch of CDRs perhaps, or something that creates the sound as they are, like small devices? What is sure that Julius' music is quite minimal. Not in a drone kind of sense, but hyperactive, with lots of sounds crawling like insects over eachother. Maybe there is a bit of sound processing? I really couldn't tell. Like 'Music For The Ears', 'Music For A Distance', which is with forty minutes the main piece here, creates an excellent sonic environment, and that's what Julius aims at. Could we call this ambient? Yes, perhaps we could. Music that fills your surrounding with a intelligent sound, and not some lift muzak, but never loud enough to be disturbing or confronting. There is also a difference between 'Music For The Ears' and this new work (apart from the time separated between recording - the main work here is from 2003-2009) and that's the volume of the music. Both 'Music For A Distance' and 'Music In A Corner' are quite audible, like those loud singing crickets in Japan, which are loud without being a nuisance. An excellent disc, once again!" [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2011 €13.00
  Raining CD " "Raining" ist der dritte Teil einer kleinen Musikserie und die erste Veröffentlichung, die nach dem Tod von ROLF JULIUS erscheint. Das Titelstück ,Raining" erschien ursprünglich als Teil der Installation ,Drawing (Dot)" von 2007. Spielt man das Stück mit großer Lautstärke ab, steht der Hörer mitten in einer Welt aus dichtem Regen, windgeschüttelten Bäumen und durchnässten Wiesen voller Leben. Wenn man das Stück jedoch durch den kleinen, flachen Lautsprecher abspielt, den JULIUS für die Installation benutzte, werden die Sounds zu sanften, zyklischen Mustern, wie eine üppige Landschaft, auf die man vom Flugzeug aus herabsieht. Das zweite Stück ,Weitflächig" ist ein Beispiel dessen, was JULIUS ,Musik für eine weite Ebene" nannte - aus einem kleinen Sound eine weite Soundlandschaft zu erschaffen. ,Music For A Glimpse Inward" tauchte ursprünglich 2005 als Teil einer Installation auf. Kleine Lautsprecher wurden am Rand eines sehr großen, leeren Raumes platziert. Die Musik erklang leise und vermittelte dem Betrachter so einen noch stärkeren Eindruck von Raum und Leere. Die Arbeiten von ROLF JULIUS wurden in wichtigen Museen auf der ganzen Welt gezeigt: im PS1 in New York (1983), 1985 auf der Pariser Biennale, auf der 8. Doucmenta in Kassel, im Hamburger Bahnhof, in Berlin (1998), in der Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh 2001, im Pariser Centre Pompidou (2004), in Japan und in den verschiedensten Galerien auf der ganzen Welt. ########################################### Raining is the third installment in the small music series and the first posthumous Rolf Julius release. The title piece “Raining” originally appeared as part of the 2007 installation “Drawing (Dot)". When played on room speakers the piece engulfs the listener in a dense world of rain, wind rattled trees, and soaked pastures full of life. However, when played in the context of the small flat speaker which Julius originally chose for the installation, the sounds become soft and cyclical patterns, similar to a lush landscape being viewed from a plane many miles above. The second piece, “Weitflächig”, is an example of what Julius called “Musik für eine weite Ebene” (Music for a Wide Plain) - a method of "sketching" which allows small sounds to flourish into vast landscapes. “Music for a Glimpse Inward” originally appeared in a 2005 installation. With small speakers placed along the edge of very large empty room, the music played softly, heightening the listener's perception of space and stillness." [label info] www.westernvinyl.com "Western Vinyl occupy themselves with the release of the archive of Rolf Julius. They started doing so when he was alive and continue doing so after his death, last year. This is the first release since then, from his archive. Julius is a man of 'small sounds', making 'small music' in mostly empty spaces with a minimum of equipment. His work could either be installations or compositions. Small speakers in small or large rooms, or even outdoors, using field recordings of say rain, such as the almost fifty-four title piece on this CD. Its very minimal music, of rain sounds and 'something else' which I found very hard to define, but it gives that electronic texture to the piece. That something which I think also very much defines music by Julius. More water like field recordings can be heard in 'Weitflachig' - music for a wide plain. Here too we hear insect like sounds, over water sounds. Are they tape loops, real time recordings? Its hard to say. 'Music For A Glimpse Inward' has insect and bird sounds and was originally a piece for small speakers in a large room. All of these pieces are very minimal, and show hardly any development. But that's hardly the point of Rolf Julius' music. Its more about perceiving space and silence and it works best when played softly in your space. Open up windows - if you are in a quiet surrounding I should think - and have this on repeat for a long time. It will definitely alter your perception of space and time. An excellent release - once again, and hopefully with more to follow." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2012 €13.00
JUPITTER-LARSEN, GX Expanded Slam 10inch " "Expanded Slam" and "Extended Slam", two new compositions by one of America's most consistently explorative and radical artists. Presented in a blazing gatefold package designed by Jupitter-Larsen, including an essay on the permawave, the polywave and the hoopla. Utterly delightful. GX Jupitter-Larsen is an media artist, based in Hollywood, California, who has been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. He has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture. During the 1990s he was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories. His best known work is as the founder of the noise act The Haters, who have performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD & record releases. Mastered and cut at D+M, Berlin Edition of 500, vinyl only " [label info] www.hronir.de www.jupitter-larsen.com "Hronir is a small German label, who released two things in the late nineties and five new items only this year. This 10″ is the latest release and is a noise record from G.X. Jupitter-Larsen. I have no idea why its released under his own name, and not by The Haters. Maybe it has to do with profiling as a composer? Maybe a wholly different reason. Two side long pieces here, ‘Expanded Slam’ and ‘Extended Slam’, which may or may not be extensions of eachother. Two sides of loud noise. The scraping of an object onto a surface perhaps, but then within a full distortion package. Loud, vicious noise music. Probably, if you have been paying attention, you would imagine that this is the kind of noise I don’t like, and you are probably right. But over the last twenty-five years I learned to appreciate The Haters quite a lot, and I think the sheer minimal noise of The Haters is great. It is loud and distorted, but also totally captivating. It also fits perfectly into whatever else Jupitter-Larsen does, in his performances and internet work, so unlike youngs boys fiddling with two distortion boxes in their bedroom, this is all encapsulating. Not just a record, but a statement." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2010 €16.00
K2 Kinky Tape Collection 1981-1983 do-LP K2 alias Kimihide Kusafuka is one of the most important early 80's japanese noise protagonists in line with Masami Akita (Merzbow) or Hijokaidan and Toshiji Mikawa of Incapacitants with several hundreds of releases and contributions in the past three decades In 1981 he started his musical activity devoting himself solely to recording several different styles of noise-works/music to be released primarily on his own tape-label called Kinky Tape Collection (later changing name to Kinky Musik Institiute) and released around 20 tapes during the coming 4 years with noise-music while the term and genre "noise-music" itself interestingly just established years later. Some of his works he also licensed to other international Tape-Labels such as Schwabenstolz and Stock und Hut Records in Germany or D.D. Records in Japan or contributed to Cassette-Compilations on ZSF, Illusion Productions, De Fabriek, Calypso Now, The era during 1981-1986 was the time of music experiments for Kimihide with 1983 being the most intense year of recordings produced At that time, he had been related to mail art & music and performed metal percussion solo-concerts. Although Kimihide loves the dark and neurotic atmosphere of “ZombieAnatomy” series, he also loves the rhythmic noise work such as “Dance Macabre” and “N.G. Music” and he even recorded electronic pop, avant-garde rock which you can listen to in his project Techno Menses in 1983/84 (released on VOD-Records a few months ago) or Denjubaku in 1982/83 or under his real name Kimihide Kusafuka This 2Lp-Compilation contains the very early period of K2; his previously unreleased first tape work “Student Apathy” which is a kind of music concrete or tape music in modern music as well as three serial works of “ZombieAnatomy” and the more beat noise work “N.G. Musik” and “Dance Macabre”. (Some of these works have been released in the late 80's as a 5 cassettes box by RRRecords, Pathosonico Anatomico”/ K2) www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2014 €26.50
KA-SPEL, EDWARD The Moon cracked over Albion CD A year in the making in complete secrecy, the intention was to spring "The Moon Cracked Over Albion" without any warning or preview upon an unsuspecting World. In fact, personal anticipation scuppered that plan and here is the finished article a little ahead of time. Conceived and recorded in a nation (a World?) so tragically divided, it could fall apart, it's hoped that just a few seeds of hope and optimism can be sown over the course of the time you'll spend in this peculiar World. The cd is in production right now. An expanded vinyl edition is planned for early 2020. Please note that Track 10 is the exclusive 4th side for the coming vinyl edition EK- voice, instruments, devices, cover art. Thank you Simon for essential help with the layout, Alena for her photography and endless support and Alice for inspiration https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/the-moon-cracked-over-albion-2 2019 €18.50
  The Man who never was 7inch Recorded at The Farm 1992. Printed in Canada. Edition of 1000 copies on black vinyl with insert in varying colours. 1996 €8.00
KAHN, JASON & RICHARD FRANCIS same CD "Just how many CDs did Jason Kahn release by now? Hard to say, but quite a fair bunch. He doesn't surprise me with his music that much anymore, but that has nothing to do with the quality of the music as such. Here he teams up with Richard Francis, once known as Eso Steel and running the CMR label, and these working under his own name. The two met for the first time in Auckland where they played together and then, a year later, again in Switzerland. Kahn plays percussion and analogue synthesizer, while Francis is on computer and electronics. Four pieces (between ten and sixteen minutes each) of great lo-fi humming sounds. A very special kind of drone music that sounds both electronic and acoustic. It seems to me that these are microphone recordings, which capture the atmosphere from the space they play their music in, and which adds a nice textured quality to the music. Minimalist in approach, but very fine in execution. Like said, Kahn doesn't surprise me with his music, but he sure knows how to please me." [FdW / Vital Weekly] "The new album from two masters of electroacoustic improvisation, who are living thousands miles away from each other, but found some common aesthetic views and originality of artistic expression. This materials were recorded live during their collaborative performances in various locations, consisting of four long tracks, presenting the unique interaction between technology and intuition. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Jason Kahn's work includes sound installation, performance and composition. He was born in New York in 1960, grew up in Los Angeles and relocated to Europe in 1990. He currently lives in Zürich. He has given concerts and exhibited sound installations throughout Europe, North and South America, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Lebanon, Egypt, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. Kahn performs both solo and in collaborations, using percussion, analog synthesizer or computer in different combinations. He composes for electronics, acoustic instruments and environmental recordings. For larger groups of directed improvisation he has devised a system of graphical scores. Kahn creates his sound installations for specific spaces. The focus of these primarily non-visual works lies in the perception of space through sound. Richard Francis has been releasing works on CD/vinyl, performing solo and in collaboration as a touring artist since 1996. He uses field recordings of natural and electronic sounds and a signal generator to compose layered sound works of textural and tonal detail. He has released solo and collaborative works on a number of labels worldwide and runs his own label CMR through which he currently releases limited edition lathe cut records by New Zealand artists. In performance he uses a computer and electronics and has toured Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, USA and Europe. Since 2003, Francis has composed works for sound installation, participating in group and solo shows at galleries throughout New Zealand. Jason Kahn: percussion, analogue syntesizer Richard Francis: computer, electronics First two tracks recorded live at Gus Fisher Gallery, Oakland on 22nd September 2007, third one - on 17th June 2008 at Werkstatt für Improvisierte Musik, Zürich, and the last one - at Le 102, Grenoble, on 19th June 2008." [label info] www.monochromevision.ru 2009 €13.00
KALLABRIS 81° n.Br., 178° ö.L. (SOLD OUT) 7 "Since many years, this is the first release of an anonymous project from Germany which is linked with the CoC/Cranioclast –family. This record describes a very cold place, with high frequenced & feedbacked effects, accordeon, long & deep gong-drones, and strange voices coming from underneath. We think this is as brilliant as their legendary "Hafalgar" 10" from 1990. Welcome to this magical mystery tour! Beautiful golden vinyl, handprinted covers on raw paper, contains extra-inlay with a strange explorer-story..." Drone Records info August 1998 "Three mysterious new E.P.s for holographic minds" 1998  
KEIN ZWEITER Teilstück für totalen Schwung LP & DVDr 10 YEARS LATER - 10 STEPS AHEAD! Above party lines – below the horizon of forgiveness...Kein Zweiter return stronger than ever! 10 years after the „Muskeln + Kraft = Überlegenheit“ album – a new release by Kein Zweiter! And nine pieces that are very difficult to categorize: - electronic music? - dance-able? - strong voices? -still a bit sweat of DAF? - uninspired 1980s pure-cult-machine YES! YES! YES! MAYBE! NO! KEIN ZWEITER STAY AS ORIGINAL AS UNIQUE! “...fantastic, sticky, garish nobleman-fetish-fantasies and pre-communistic oaths of knights take possession of me…" (Felix Kubin) Released as 12“vinyl including the „Eine Richtung – Eine Saat“ video on DVD-R, a postcard and an A4-inlay containing the lyrics & liner notes! Also available on Bandcamp! www.90-prozent-wasser.de "GORT KLÜTH, der Bände sprechende Vokalist und KLAUS-HELENE RAMP, der elektronische Musikverantwortliche, bilden zusammen das Berliner Duo KEIN ZWEITER. Dieses hat dieser Tage ihr zweites Album auf dem Label 90% WASSER herausgebracht. Und das hält sich, was die Aufmachung betrifft, elegant zurück. Das heißt, das mir vorliegende Cover ist schlicht in Pappkarton verpackt, auf dem nur der Bandname und der Titel der Platte aufgestempelt sind. Die Klebchen sind weiß, mit einem stilisierten K versehen. Mehr nicht. Doch mehr braucht es auch nicht ... Gegründet wurde KEIN ZWEITER von den genannten zwei Herren bereits 1989. Allerdings dauerte es nicht allzu lang, bis es wieder still um die beiden wurde. Die Stille währte dann bis 1998. Dann taten sie sich wieder zusammen. Nach mehreren Anläufen inklusive einer unveröffentlichten 7inch begannen sie 2003 damit, ihre erste, hier bereits besprochene LP "Muskeln + Kraft = Überlegenheit" aufzunehmen, die drei Jahre später erschien. Darauf folgt jetzt, etwas verzögert, weil GORT KLÜTH einige Probleme mit der Obrigkeit hatte und deshalb dann und wann in Staatsvoll- bzw. Halbpension war, die zweite "Teilstück Für Totalen Schwung". Und die ist nun noch verstrickter, der Gesamtklang voller, die Arrangements komplexer und die Texte derart hintersinnig aufklärerisch, dass einem die Augen auf- ja übergehen, in Anbetracht bzw. Anhörung dessen, wozu die Sprache fähig ist. Doch zur Sache ... Das Album nimmt sich zunächst, hört man es durch, verstreuter Teilstücke an. Da hören wir etwas vom Glied, von einem Kuchenstück, vom Tanzen, von Fügsamkeit und Widerstand, vom Wegsperren der Mütter und der Befreiung von den Vätern, von wilden Horden und vom Wagenmann, der dem, der sagt: Du sollst oder sollst eben nicht, den Kopf mit dem Hammer einschlägt. Da haben wir National- und auch nur Sozialismus, Aufbau, Zerstörung und Sexualität, die ja in all ihren Ausformungen eigentlich nie wider die Natur sein kann, aber auch schon mal wehtut ... "Genitalmetamorphosenovid", das erste Stück, gibt dabei die Stoßrichtung vor. Da wird der römische Dichter Ovid herangezogen, bzw. wird ihm etwas angehängt, an das er sicher damals nicht dachte. Seine Meatmorphosen, könnte man meinen, bilden dann auch gleich das Album ab. Denn stehen die einzelnen Stücke ähnlich wie die Ovidschen Verwandlungen in keinem direkten Zusammenhang. Man könnte gar meinen, ihre Zusammenstellung wär völlig wahllos. Doch so ist das nicht. Nein. In Wahrheit sind alle Teile sowohl der Metamorphosen als auch die des Albums kunstvoll miteinander verknüpft … “Komm herein” (02) verbindet z.B. gekonnt und mit einem tiefschwarz humorigen Anfang ("ss die wirklichkeit/ die mich von hinten treibt") Faschismus und Homosexualität. (Die ersten zwei Buchstaben werden als Laute gesprochen.) "Die Saat" (03) trägt dann in seiner auf youtube zu bewundernden bildlichen Darstellung Anleihen an den vergangenen Realsozialismus zur Schau. Was dann den im zweiten Stück genannten Faschismus nun wohl um die Dimension des Sozialismus, der die Vorstufe zum Kommunismus sein sollte, reicher macht, also ganz allgemein Diktatur bedeuten dürfte oder repressives System. Sowohl textlich als auch musikalisch kann das mindestens doppeldeutig genannt werden. Und das ist auch gut so. Denn das Eindeutige, bzw. all die Vormünder, die sich stets auf der richtigen Seite wähnen, nerven ob ihres ausschließlichen Hoheitsanspruches enorm. Es bedarf nun mal keiner Oberaufsicht. Das hat sicherlich auch Ovid, als er, so wie GORT KLÜTH, und zwar als das Werk fast abgeschlossen war, in die Verbannung geschickt wurde, gerufen ... Ob die Kunst nun also Kot isst, bleibt eben ihr überlassen … Mit "Kreislauf" (04) holen KEIN ZWEITER dann noch einmal Schwung, um sich im "Tanzlied" (05) dem Tanzen zu widmen … Die B-Seite umfasst dann noch vier weitere Titel. "Endstation Gürtel" (06), "Miteinander" (07), "Der Weg" (08) und "Der Wagenmann" (09) … Oh, der Wagenmann! Der hat es mir nun wirklich angetan. Dieses Stück Musik ist wohl das Epischste, das mir seit Jahren zu Ohren gekommen ist – sagenhaft. Man hört hier sogar einen klassischen Chor, der die Handlung der im Text beschriebenen Tragödie kommentiert ... großartig! Und dann ... dann fällt der Hammer ... Aufgenommen wurde "Teilstück Für Totalen Schwung" zwischen 2007 und 2013 in Morgenitz und Berlin. Die Produktion übernahmen PAUL VIEBEG und JÜRGEN ECKLOFF." [andrewkorsch für nonpop.de] 2016 €17.00
KELLER, ALEX & SEAN O'NEILL Kruos LP Alex Keller and Sean O'Neill have created performances and installation pieces together since 2015. Using field recordings, vintage telephone test equipment, and magnetic oscillators, among other tools, their work addresses the agents and artifacts of change in the urban (and acoustic) realms. The resultant audio is a potent brew, seamlessly merging drone, musique concrète, phonography, and various electronic intrusions. "Kruos" is the duo's debut release. It was developed between December 2016 and February 2017 as a distillation of live performances and as a chronicle of the pair's speculative investigations. "Kruos" is an assured, bracing study of an invisible landscape, and a wholly absorbing colloquy. This collaboration began as an exercise in the manipulation of field recordings exclusively. The album's title, "Kruos," refers to those early processes, for it is an ancient Greek word meaning frozen or frost, and is the root of the word krustallos, or crystal. The ancient Greeks believed that, like frost, crystal was created by the cold. And similarly, field recordings exist in a kind of crystallized stasis - frozen in time. The additions of magnetic oscillators and a vintage telecom test synthesizer to their cache have given Keller and O'Neill more time-based control over what happens in a performative setting, while still leaving a great deal to the time-frozen nature of the original field recordings. This remarkable juxtaposition of sound sources, of action and repose, engenders a startling and satisfying listening experience… "Kruos I" takes the listener on an interior journey, from test equipment to a warehouse, to a medicine cabinet on the Carnival Triumph, to a digital synthesizer: a tense, anxious exploration. "Kruos II" resumes outside, from an urban university's power plant, to magnetic oscillators, to a pastoral scene on a lake, to a dock on another lake, closing this chronicle at a point of poised stasis (or "kruos"). "Kruos" has been released by Elevator Bath as a limited edition clear vinyl LP, copies of which are also available here: www.elevatorbath.com credits released July 7, 2017 Alex Keller is an audio artist, sound designer, curator, and teacher. His engagement with performance and recording is an outgrowth of his interest in architecture, language, abstraction, music, and in the inherent aesthetic value of the act of research. Keller recently spearheaded the creation of the Phonography Austin group; his work in the realm of phonography/field recording (plus that of sound art and engineering) has been documented on several releases over the last 20+ years. Sean O'Neill is a multi-media artist interested in how perception shapes the dynamics of spatiality. He explores both the visible light spectrum and the audible frequency range to determine how they influence our lived environments, and vice versa. O'Neill's installation work involving light and sound has been exhibited and documented internationally. Keller and O'Neill are both currently based in Austin, Texas. They have performed live, to great acclaim, alongside the likes of John Duncan, Lawrence English, Rick Reed, and many others. They will tour the US this summer. elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/album/kruos "Alex Keller and Sean O'Neill may have been collaborators since 2015, but Kruos is actually their debut release. That relative youth does not translate to lack of experience on the album, however, as the duo’s work is a complex, nuanced work of sound art, conjured up from some rather rudimentary sources, largely just field recordings and a telephone test synthesizer. It is a bit of a difficult, unsettling experience at times, but a strong one nonetheless. The two halves of Kruos complement each other well, with each side representing some drastically different approaches to sound. The first half begins rather simply with a big, looming bassy analog tone that slowly oscillates in pitch. Sputtering at times, it functions well as an underlying foundation for the processed field recordings to be constructed upon. The duo introduces these rather coarsely via recordings of violent, heavy reverberated knocking. There is a rhythmic quality to it, but is anything but conventional. Instead, it functions as a jarring, menacing addition to initially restrained sounds. Keller and O'Neill are not just working with pure field recordings, of course, so after some of those loud outbursts, a bit of delay scatters the sound nicely, giving an additional sense of depth. Beyond that, some weird creaking textures and shifting of pitches balance out the open space well, bringing a nicely foreboding quality to the composition. The tones get even more varied and pushed to the forefront, building up to a dramatic, yet abrupt ending. The second half of the record is the more subtle side to Kruos. The low frequency synthesizer hum reappears, but here blended with an ambience somewhere between white noise generator and air conditioning system. From here slow, sparse pulsations appear, representing another misuse of that telephone test equipment the duo utilizes. Sputtering, rumbling electronics appear, giving a bit more tension to the otherwise peaceful surroundings, but still staying more restrained and less confrontational than the first half. Eventually these indistinct and mostly unidentifiable field recordings and found sounds are presented in a less treated way, consisting of far off birds and insects that again capture the vastness of nature very well. Towards the conclusion, however, the duo decides to get weird again. There is a reappearance of some of the knocking/clattering type sounds that were heard throughout the first part, building to a more disorienting, chaotic arc before coming to another abrupt conclusion. Alex Keller and Sean O'Neill may not have used a significant amount of instrumentation to construct Kruos, but they achieve a great deal with what they have. It is difficult and challenging at times, and there is not much to grab on to as far as conventional rhythm or melody, but it excels in abstraction. In many cases the result is far removed from the source material, but the environment the two create on here is just as fascinating as any natural one that could be captured." [Creaig Dunton / Brainwashed] 2017 €20.00
KENT, JULIA Asperities CD There's something about that cello sound that keeps me mesmerized. And it's not a bias towards strings - after all I'm a piano player at heart - but rather something about the tonality and timbre of the low-end of those strings. In the right hands, the cello could be moody, stormy, and even dour. I think by now I have accepted my total fascination with melancholy instrumental music, and so it is the music with the cello to which I'm always drawn again. The 'right hands' this time belong to none other than Julia Kent, a Canadian-born NYC-based cellist, who, after many years of performing and recording in groups, such as Rasputina, decided to go solo in 2007 with Delay. I was introduced and captivated by Kent's sound with her 2013 release on Leaf, titled Character. I was also lucky enough to witness Kent's live performance at the Unsound Festival New York, which I followed with an Interview, and so, you got the idea, I was hooked. Julia's fourth solo studio album, Asperities, is due out on October 30th, again on the amazing Leaf label, and I've got the privilege to spend more than a few hours inside her world. I was thinking about the concept of difficulty. Whether in life or in nature – of conflict, of being troubled. The idea of friction. Also in geology, an asperity is some part of a fault line that doesn’t move that can create an earthquake, which is an evocative concept. Asperities is layered, soaked and stratified, and then peeled back upon its core. The cello swirls in clouds of reverb, dancing around the stereo stage, temperamental, volatile and glum. Like the early dark clouds of an autumn downpour, the sonic whirlwind slowly gathers among the textured washes of its aural weather. The atmosphere is nearly electric, slowly building, growing, gnawing with every single piece. This tension finally breaks with my favorite track on the album, "Terrain", which erupts with glitchy percussive rhythm, completely unexpected and very welcome. This is a cinematic journey, meticulously sculpted to keep you on the edge. A lot of the melodic material is based on semitones,” Julia elaborates. “So in the music there is an inherent sense of dissonance; that things are too close for comfort. More generally, it seems like a particularly dark time in the world right now, and I think that definitely had an influence too.” This amalgamation of looped cello, electronics and found sound creates a perfect unity of all that is incredibly lovely about Julia Kent. The album is mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (whom I actually witnessed doing so at his Black Knoll Studio), and is available as a CD, digital download, and limited edition vinyl LP. Highly recommended for fans of cello music in general, and especially works by Greg Haines, Peter Gregson, Richard Skelton, and Hildur Guðnadóttir. [Headphone Commute] 2015 €15.50
KHOST (DECONSTRUCTED AND RECONSTRUCTED BY) GODFLESH Needles into the Ground LP "Needles Into the Ground contains material by Khost which has been elementally transformed by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh. The original Khost material – taken from their second album Corrosive Shroud – is dense, multifaceted and purgatorial with no straightforward ‘stems' based approach. Broadrick has extracted what he needed for his work whilst in pure Godflesh mode. As a result, the outcome is claustrophobic and frenetic, the experience akin to being in the proximity of a large, unstable machine on the verge of meltdown. In addition to these pieces, Khost has added a new track. Vinyl comes with download code. "If it was a painting it would be about a kilometer wide held up by old, thick metal supports and wires that creak in wind, in parts abstract, in parts quite hard to decipher, and the materials would be oil like and seeping, never quite drying out" (Khost)." www.coldspring.co.uk 2016 €18.00
KINKELAAR, FREEK WONDERSOUND. Discovering weird, wild and wonderful music BOOK Wondersound discovering weird, wild and wonderful music a book by Freek Kinkelaar hard cover, 282 pages For over thirty years, Freek Kinkelaar has been writing about music for publications such as Vital Weekly and renowned international magazine Record Collector Magazine. He has contributed liner notes for releases by labels such as Cherry Red, and also writes essays on music. Wondrous music. This book, Wondersound, is about being amazed, challenged, bedazzled and caressed by music. It documents Kinkelaar's discovery of obscure vinyl, cassettes, artist records and vanity pressings covering avant-garde, noise, ambient, lounge and experimental music. The book's quire presents nearly 50 examples of exuberant vinyl and cassette packaging. Featuring an introduction written by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots, Wondersound offers a dozen articles on, amongst others, noise music, Brainticket, The Gerogerigegege, Gary Wilson, Japanese erotic music, Rozz Williams, Vagina Dentata Organ and labels such as Come Organisation and Industrial Records. Over 80 columns cover artists as diverse as The International Sex Opera Band, SPK, Su Tissue, Pierre Schaeffer, Derek Jarman, La Monte Young, Princess Tinymeat, Zoviet France and Robbie the Werewolf! Added are an interview, liner notes and essays on why not to read lyric sheets and how Kinkelaar not only met a member of The Residents but, in the end, became one! With an aim to inspire and entertain, Freek Kinkelaar writes with a wicked sense of humour, a keen eye for Anorakian detail and a genuine love for music. Known for his own musical endeavours under various guises such as Beequeen (with Frans de Waard), Brunnen and a plethora of other names, Kinkelaar has been collecting weird, wild and wonderful music since 1980. This book is an essential read for those with an open mind towards the beautiful strangeness of sound. Wondersound. Design by Alfred Boland BLACK AND WHITE The book's quire of 50 images is printed in black and white. The book's front and back cover are printed in colour and the book's content is identical to the colour-printed version. The black and white version does not come with any of the additional extra's of the colour version. image: http://kormplastics.nl/wondersound.html 2021 €20.00
KLEISTWAHR The Return CD "Following the 2014 release of Kleistwahr’s latest album, This World Is Not My Home, also on Fourth Dimension Records, The Return is a remastered reissue of a limited edition LP originally on Noiseville Records. Both now long out of print and collectible, Gary Mundy (Ramleh, Breathless, Broken Flag, etc.) never felt completely satisfied with the Noiseville release, hence this revisit to redress the balance being more than justified. Here featuring two previously unreleased bonus cuts, ‘The Storm’ and ‘The Resounding’, the album has been digitally remastered by Gary to capture the intention originally in mind; to render the music at once powerful and dynamic in a setting where volume also plays a significant part of the sound. As with Gary’s long-running group, Ramleh, the music of Kleistwahr stems from a place both angry and anguished. Underpinned to a huge sense of existential despair, a sense of urgency and frustration likewise screams from this music. Long known for his part in creating a music subsequently known as ‘power electronics’, itself copied by hundreds of groups to lesser effect or duly seen as a wellspring of inspiration by countless others often removed from this form, along with Whitehouse and Consumer Electronics, Gary Mundy’s own forays here have always ventured far beyond such convenient trappings. Kleistwahr, his solo enterprise, pays testament to both this and, more importantly, Gary’s place as a progressive and highly accomplished visionary artist deserving far more than his status as a merely cult concern. The Return witnesses electronic music once more teased and reshaped into something highly original by one of the genre’s master craftsmen. Listen to it as loud as your ears can take. Packaged in gatefold Broken Flag-style sleeve. Released in late September 2015." [label info] www.fourth-dimension.net "Not only is there a killer new Ramleh double cd set on this week's list, but we also just got a first-time-on-cd edition of this, originally released on vinyl in Noiseville's awesome (and super limited) Outer Bounds Of Sound series in 2009, Kleistwahr being another project of legendary UK noise merchant Gary Mundy (Ramleh, Skullflower, Broken Flag collective) that fits nicely within the man's legacy of harsh electronic noise. Anyone digging Skullflower's more recent forays into blown out guitar skree (and we know there are plenty of you out there) will find much to love here. The four songs making up The Return contain all the air raid siren guitars and eardrum pulverizing feedback we have come to love, but things take a surprisingly beautiful turn on what was side two of the original lp, with warm droney keyboards weaving a haunting melody that perfectly compliments the album cover, a stark photocopied image of a building foundation sitting exposed in the snow surrounded by dead trees. Though the songs are instrumental, Mundy is able to perfectly convey a feeling of despondency and sadness, genuine emotions that definitely set Kleistwahr apart from the multitudes of floorcore outfits, all hunkered over effects pedals making lots of noise, but very little of it as compelling and emotionally charged as this." [Aquarius Rec.] 2015 €13.00
Common Values CD "Since 2014 Gary Mundy of Ramleh and Breathless has been releasing most of his solo work through Fourth Dimension Records. Common Values is his seventh such album for the label (not including a reissue of 2009’s The Return album, originally released on vinyl by USA’s long gone by legendary Noiseville, and the LP reissues of the Broken Flag albums Mobility and Do Not also shipping in October 2022) and gathers another six mighty cuts that on one hand continue his penchant for exploring more serrated sonic landscapes and, on the other, keep those in check with a tempered approach to atmospherics that this time round is widened further by almost kosmische-like curdled organ playing,, electronic swirl, psychedelic guitar mainlined from one of Saturn’s outer rings, and occasional haunting yet despairing vocals that are more pronounced than ever before. Common Values is a title itself that simultaneously commands empathy as well as a wry nod towards the irony at work. If anything serves as a common thread in all of Gary’s work then it’s not only in his love of stratospheric sounds, but also this deep sense of anguish due to hoping things will improve whilst knowing that humanity is its own worst enemy. It’s this quality that binds his music together and is laid barest in Kleistwahr. Common Values sounds both like a basic recognition of a quality most individuals are possessed with whilst they tear each other apart because of perceived differences or a disagreement over fundamental truths. If Kleistwahr tread any line, then it’s right here. Common Values might well be illuminating this more than ever. This is the thirteenth Kleistwahr album since 1983's Myth (reissued as a limited edition LP by Harbinger Sound in 2011). Packaged as usual in gatefold-LP style sleeve in a characteristic Broken Flag design once again featuring fantastic photos by Chris Low, this album appeared in late October 2022 and is shipping now. 300 only." https://fourthdimensionrecords.bigcartel.com/ "Gary Mundy might be best known as the man behind Ramleh (well, to the readers of these pages), but Ramleh is a group (I may have used this opening line before). Kleistwahr is his solo project, and after a short period of activity in the 80s, releasing four cassettes (all re-issued on vinyl), he started again in 2010, and it's now the work he's most active with. His current Kleistwahr doesn't sound like the old incarnation, which was noisy and collage-like. The current Kleistwahr is noisy too, but a different kind of noise. Mundy uses a guitar, organ, synthesizers, and a plethora of sound effects and creates a multi-layered, orchestral sound. No doubt there is new technology available these days that allows him to use multiple layers in the music. As I noted before, Kleistwahr's music is not here to cheer anyone up. It is dark and grim, as opposed to dark and pleasantly atmospheric. The soundtrack for harsh times, and luckily (?) we have plenty of those these days. I wonder what the 'Common Values' are, according to Mundy. The titles of the pieces are puzzling, anyway. There is 'Time To Realise', 'Heaven Maybe Never', 'Toward A New Land' or 'In Blood Covered Land', all of which don't provide clues but leave much to guess (and, yes, it sounds grim) Kleistwahr's music is not piercingly loud, but somehow pierces right into your brain. When vocals are used, they sound far away, like a cry for help or a howl of pain. Maybe the voice is that one thing that sounds like Ramleh. The harpsichord sound I heard before (Vital Weekly 1271) returns here and has that haunted house, shivers down the spine sound. The title track is the longest, and following the loudest start, the volume drops, and Kleistwahr is off to a collage of voices and suppressed sounds and is more a collage piece, as opposed to the others, which are layered and psychedelic noise pieces. An excellent album all around, and Kleistwahr goes from strength to strength." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2022 €13.00
Do Not LP Limited edition reissue of this album originally released in 1986 on cassette on Broken Flag. Comprising two untitled side-long pieces, Do Not catches Gary Mundy of Ramleh in peak "noise" mode with his solo endeavor, taking much from his place as one of the innovators of the so-called power electronics genre yet pushing this confrontational avant-garde sensibility somewhere entirely new. It is a sound that Kleistwahr has continued to explore and add new dimensions to since, but never completely untangles itself from this particular root. Raw and seemingly unrestrained, these pieces present a robust, white-hot sonic meltdown up there with the very best from this ultimately fertile period for music from the basement. This LP is packaged similarly to the vinyl reissues of the first two full-length Kleistwahr albums released by Harbinger Sound in 2011, Arsonicide and Myth. It is also being released the same time as the one-sided Mobility (FD 129LP) reissue originally released on cassette in 1983. https://fourthdimensionrecords.bigcartel.com/product/kleistwahr-do-not-lp 2022 €18.00
  Mobility LP (single-sided) Limited edition reissue of this cassette originally released in 1983 on Broken Flag, gathering five untitled solo pieces by Gary Mundy of Ramleh in full on early power electronics mode, firmly illustrating his place as one of the innovators of this genre yet likewise pushing this confrontational avant-garde sensibility somewhere entirely new. It is a sound that Kleistwahr has continued to explore and add new dimensions to ever since, but never completely untangles itself from this particular root. Raw and seemingly unrestrained, these pieces present a robust, white-hot sonic meltdown up there with the very best from this ultimately fertile period for music from the basement. They last around 17 minutes in total. This release is packaged similarly to the vinyl reissues of the first two full-length Kleistwahr albums released by Harbinger Sound in 2011, 'Arsonicide' and 'Myth'. It is also being released the same time as the 'Do Not' reissue originally released on cassette in 1986. ############## "Limited edition reissue of an ultra-rare Broken Flag cassette (BF27), by Gary Mundy of Ramleh's longstanding solo endeavour, originally released in 1983. Unavailable for over 30 years, this is a must-have record by all those with an interest in Ramleh and their offshoots, the Broken Flag archives or, more broadly, anything from this fertile period in noise / avant--garde music from the basement. Ltd x 300 copies with insert. Mastered by Sion Orgon. Artwork by Gary Mundy and Puppy38." 2022 €14.00
KLUSTER Klopfzeichen CD "Angstmusik: Reissue des Debüts der bahnbrechenden deutschen Elektronikband. Kluster war ein kurzlebiges Projekt der drei Musiker, Künstler und Performer Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius und Konrad Schnitzler. 1970 nahmen sie mit Conny Plank zwei Alben auf, die in ihrer experimentellen Radikalität bahnbrechend waren. Chaotische, apokalyptisch klingende (Geräusch-)Improvisationen (später nannte man diesen Sound Industrial), teilweise angereichert durch rezitierte Texte. Wer heute zum ersten Mal das 1970 auf Schwann AMS Studio (einem Label für Kirchenmusik) erschienene "Klopfzeichen" hört, bekommt Geheimnisvolles und auch nicht einfach zu Entzifferndes aus einer längst vergangenen Zeit mitgeteilt. Die drei "Verfasser" formulierten mit "Klopfzeichen" vor allem eine radikale Forderung: anarchische, völlige Freiheit der Kunst und der Musik. Klopfzeichen war mit Abstand das radikalste Album der frühen deutschen Popmusik-Avantgarde. Kluster-Musik war reine Angstmusik. Die Linernotes des Reissues stammen von Asmus Tietchens, erhältlich als CD, Download und 180g-Vinyl." [label info] www.bureau-b.com 2012 €13.00
Eruption CD "Kluster war ein kurzlebiges Projekt von Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius und Konrad Schnitzler. 1970 erschienen zwei bahnbrechende Alben mit Geräuschimprovisationen: "Klopfzeichen" und "Zwei Osterei". Weil Moebius und Roedelius das finanzielle Risiko, ein drittes Album herauszubringen, zu hoch war, trennten sich Kluster, und Schnitzler veröffentlichte das gemeinsam eingespielte Material auf eigene Kosten. In der offiziellen Werkliste Schnitzlers wird das 1971 erschienene "Eruption" als erstes Schnitzler-Album mit dem Titel "Schwarz" geführt. Tatsächlich ist "Eruption" aber die dritte und endgültig letzte Kluster-LP. Das Album unterscheidet sich dennoch ganz erheblich von seinen Vorgängern. Auf Texte wird verzichtet, die Musik ist nichts weiter als sie selbst, und der Hörer kommt in den Genuss einer puren Geräuschsinfonie, deren geschickte Dramaturgie ihn bis zum Schluss konzentriert zuhören lässt. Kluster sind bei "Eruption" auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer musikalischen Ausdruckskraft. Die LP erscheint auf 180-Gramm-Vinyl, die Linernotes stammen von Asmus Tietchens." [label info] 2012 €12.00
  Zwei Osterei CD Das 1971 erschienene Album "Zwei Osterei" ist das Ergebnis des zweiten Teils einer legendären Aufnahmesession, die im November 1970 an einem einzigen Tag stattfand. Mit dabei: die drei Musiker, Künstler und Performer Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius und Konrad Schnitzler sowie Conny Plank als Produzent. Der erste Teil, die Platte "Klopfzeichen", erschien bereits ein Jahr zuvor. Allerdings übertrifft "Zwei Osterei" in seiner Konsequenz, in seiner harschen Geräuschhaftigkeit und seinen brutalen Lärmattacken das vorangegangene Album ganz erheblich. Alles, was an revolutionärer Verve der späten 60er-Jahre noch aktiv war, scheint in dieser Musik brennglasartig konzentriert zu sein: ästhetische Destruktion, um den Kopf und die Ohren freizubekommen für utopische Entwürfe; endgültige Verschmelzung von Kunst und Pop zu etwas völlig Neuem; schrankenlose musikalische Freiheit, gepaart mit der Lust am Geräusch. Alles das ist "Zwei Osterei". Die Linernotes des Reissues stammen von Asmus Tietchens, erhältlich als CD, Download und 180g-Vinyl. https://kluster-official.bandcamp.com/album/zwei-osterei 2012 €13.00
KODI & PAUSA In one week and new toys to play CD Number seven in the BROMBRON series, this time by a dutch impro-duo that does “the weird stuff” and more childish atonal/electronic experiments in the vein of DDAA, KLIMPEREI, FS BLUMM.... “Korm Plastics is proud to present the seventh release in the Brombron series. Originally a co-production between Staalplaat and Extrapool, it is now hosted by co-curator Frans de Waard. In the year 2000 Frans de Waard and Extrapool started the Brombron project. Two or more musicians become artists in residence in Extrapool, an arts initiative in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, with a fully equipped sound recording studio. These artists can work in a certain amount of time on a collaborative project; a project they always wished to do, but didn't have the time or the equipment to realize. Natalie Bruys (Kodi) is foremost a visual artist who studied at De Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she graduated with the production of a vinyl record with her own music. She then moved temporarily to Berlin where she continued to produce her own unique blend of soundscaping, plunderphonica and techno. Lukas Simonis (aka Pausa) has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical 'activist' in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties ( Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond).Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo's) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W and Morzelpronk. At the same time he was writing for underground magazines like Trespassers W, Opscene, Mondain Den Haag and the Koekrandt as well as organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama and finally WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art. At the moment Simonis plays in Coolhaven (with Peter Fengler and Hajo Doorn), Liana Flu Winks (with Nina Hitz and Wilf Plum), ApricotMyLady (with the Bohman Brothers and Ann Laberge), The Static Tics (with Henk Bakker) and Vril (with Chris Cutler and Bob Drake). This sounds like a lot of work (and sometimes it is) but these bands and projects all exist only a few weeks or months a year. (so time enough to sit at home). On 'In One Week And New Toys To Play' Kodi & Pausa combine their totally different background of rock and techno, playing the studio's analogue synth collection (aka the new toys to play) but also guitar, banjo, rhythmbox and a touch of the city's sounds through their use of field recordings.” [press-release] 2004 €6.00
KONRAD KRAFT Accident in Heaven LP 2nd re-issue of Konrad Kraft's mid 80s electronic underground recordings on TAL after "Arctica" in 2018. ACCIDENT IN HEAVEN was originally released in 1987 as a hand-made micro-edition of about 40 cassette tapes. It was only the third ever release on the short-lived now near legendary SDV label which had been established that same year by Konrad Kraft, Bernd Sevens and Dino Oon in Düsseldorf. Finally finding a more substantial and appreciative audience on vinyl over 30 years after its original limited release, ACCIDENT IN HEAVEN is a strong testament to the explorative experiments of Detlef Funder a.k.a. Konrad Kraft, whose homebuilt studio sound attempted to bridge the clinical roughness of Severed Heads and the psychedelia of Coil with the density and force of industrial, post-punk and prototechno. Concurrent with his ever-expanding production skills, KONRAD KRAFT's sound work in the second half of the 80s stayed firmly rooted within a highly stylised underground spirit. Both his music and also the freshly launched SDV label first and foremost served as a medium for communication. The vital urgency of ACCIDENT IN HEAVEN underlines the record's core narrative which arguably sounds even more futuristic today than it did 30 years ago. 2022 €23.00
KOPP, HERMANN / FUSILLER Les Naufrages LP "Best known for his scores to Jörg Buttgereit's cult films "Nekromantik", "Nekromantik 2", and "Der Todesking", this split vinyl (featuring with one with track with dark ambient artist Abattoir) sees German artist Hermann Kopp paired with Parisian electronic artist Fusiller (aka Jo Tanz). "Les Naufragés" ("The Shipwrecked") features geometric loops, dead melodies, synths, noise and vocals. Hermann Kopp started recording songs on tape in the 70's, combining his violin with a Moog imitation in a very personal and minimal approach to music, with lyrics that bordered on surrealism. In the mid-80's he became the fifth member of the experimental synthesizer band Keine Ahnung. Ltd x 200 copies with artwork by Piet du Congo." https://ultimaratio1.bandcamp.com/album/les-naufrag-s 2020 €16.50
KORBER, THOMAS / RALF WEHOWSKY Walküren am Dornenbaum CD "This three year-long collaboration begun in 2006 when Korber and Wehowsky embarked on intense recording sessions in Eggenstein, where the latter resides, lasting several days. The output from these sessions forms the basis of this work, augmented by additional field recordings and various electronic manipulations. Korber and Wehowsky used the same software which allowed them to exchange the pieces at any stage of the compositional process, so that every detail of the music could be shaped in a truly collaborative manner. The result obliterates the borders between improvisation and composition, spontaneity and careful planning. Tomas Korber (Zurich, 1979) received a basic training in clarinet and music theory alongside guitar lessons. He discontinued these studies after five years, shortly thereafter teaching himself to play electric guitar and use the computer and other electronic devices for music making. Korber has written compositions and played improvised music since the early 1990s. He is a prolific solo artist and performer; his work includes film scores and music for dance and theatre, as well as numerous collaborations. In 2009 he was awarded an artist residency in New York City by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Zurich. Ralf Wehowsky founded the group P.D. (later renamed P16.D4) in 1981 and the label Wahrnehmungen in 1980, which was renamed Selektion in 1982. P16.D4 was a highly influential and experimental group. Their concept of materialaustausch (material exchange) was developed long before the term Ôremix' was coined. They performed at punk and No Wave festivals as well as at the bastions of academic avant garde such as Ferientage Neuer Musik in Darmstadt. In the early 1990s Wehowsky adopted his RLW moniker. His quiet, highly complex style of composition is based on artifacts of instrumental and electronic lateral noises. First edition of 300 copies." [label info] www.entracte.co.uk "Nur mit einigen Schwierigkeiten konnte ich diese laminierte Musik aus ihrer Verschweißung pulen. Aber wer würde bei dem Titel erwarten, dass einem da etwas leicht gemacht werden soll? Der Zürcher Bruitist ist durch Releases auf Cut und For4Ears, mit Mersault und dem Signal Quintet, ein seit 2003 wiederkehrender Name in der Noise Culture. Aka RLW reitet bereits seit 1980 ohne Furcht und Tadel auf den steinigen, dornigen Pfaden der Musique concrète und der experimentellen Klanggestaltung. Wobei ich immer schon lieber Spiel als Experiment dazu gesagt habe. Was die beiden da miteinander spielen, zielt, durch die Anweisung PLAY LOUD! forciert, auf das Hör-, nicht auf das Sprachzentrum. Wie es also in Worte fassen? Vinylglissandos und entsprechend verzerrte Samples, manchmal wie von gurgelnden Stimmen, mischen sich mit sirrendem Bohren, rau holpernden, rauschenden Verschleifungen, granularer Körnigkeit, zittrigem Mikrobeben, zischendem Brausen, streuenden Pixeln, aufwallendem und verhallendem Gedröhn zu durchwegs plastischen Eindrücken. ‚Leben in roter Landschaft‘ könnte auch ein Informel- Gemälde heißen, von Schumacher oder Tàpies. Die Ohren tasten über wulstige, körnige, löchrige Oberflächen, voller Grus und mit splittrigen, strohigen Einschlüssen. Als wären das Braillezeilen für brobdignagsche Fingerkuppen, oder eben Vinylauslaufrillen im Riesenformat. ‚Abstieg der Geisterseher‘ fiept zage, plinkt und flattert dazu drahtig. Tropfen hageln und prasseln, aus Liliputperspektive wird diese Perkussion zum katastrophalen Steinschlag. Zuletzt prasselt und knurscht noch einmal eine rote Landschaft, mit Effekten, als würde ein Tonband rückwärts gespult. Das ist nicht der Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind, sondern Reibungsflächen und Strahlungsimpulse des Materiellen." [Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy] 2010 €13.00
KRENG Works for Abattoir Ferme 2007-2011 4 x LP BOX Ten-year anniversary edition of Kreng's massive Works for Abattoir Férme 2007-2011 four LPs worth of slow, skin-crawling cinematic ambience made for the Belgian theater group Abattoir Fermé. It could hardly be a better time to again dive deep into Kreng and Abattoir Fermé's disturbingly beautiful underground worlds. Through eighth full-length vinyl sides you are transported through the most terrifying, shadow-filled, downright bizarre moments of the subconscious. What could be the sound of your darkest dreams or most surreal fantasies gradually unfolds throughout the three-and-a-half-hour duration. Exactly this is what Abattoir Fermé specializes in, and Pepijn Caudron's scores perfectly reflect and accompanies both this theatricality as well as your own fears and desires in a masterful way. Each extended side is crafted from an arsenal of samples, disintegrating vinyl and corroded tape, and Pepijn Caudron manipulates these sounds in a way that belies the sources. Rather than allow the sounds to emerge, they stay trapped beneath swathes of noise, tape delay, and oppressive bass giving you a composition that emerges like a cross between William Basinski, Jerry Goldsmith (circa Alien), and Henryk Górecki. Works for Abattoir Fermé is not for the faint of heart, but for the rest, it might be just what the doctor ordered... 2022 repress; four LPs with original artwork inside 350g slipcase with silver tone print; includes download code; edition of 300. https://kreng.bandcamp.com/album/works-for-abattoir-ferm-2007-2011 2022 €65.00
KTL VII LP "A new timley studio album from the duo of Peter Rehberg and Stephen O’Malley. Recorded and mixed during an unexpected extended stay in Berlin when the borders of the world suddenly closed. The claustrophobic urgency of this scenario is seared into the colossal vibrations set into this vinyl release. Unlike many of their releases this is a studio record made unto itself as opposed to the many soundtracks they have made for theatre works and the like. It also stands as one of their most fully realised releases to date. Proceedings are launched with The Director. Sitting somewhere between contemporary classical and doom this is a sliding and menacing mass of sound, more Masque of the Red Death than The Decameron. Silver lining is an alarming swooping buzzing track, looming and lowering only to rise and descend again. A delicate play with the Shepard-Risset glissando manifesting a delirious swarm of sound. Lee’s garlic orbits into a short fragmented zone with bursts of harsh feedback and crashing fx, all manner of audio enters and is discarded with an underlying sense of despair and frustration. Proceedings continue on Side B with Tea With Kali where a calmer plateau is embedded with oscillating guitar and fluttering electronics. Beating sine waves envelop the listener in a meditative thought piece of sound. Frostless concludes this epic dispatch as a subtle and gentle foray into twitching electronics as a light buzzsaw drone swirls as around your mind. The interplay of sources (guitar, electronic equipment (hardware, software, speakers) is so entwined it’s often difficult to discern who is doing what amongst the broad sound field. KTL VII is instrumental music as visual narrative resulting in an exquisitely crafted release full of sophisticated and sublime illusory effects." 2020 €20.00
KUBISCH, CHRISTINA / FABRIZIO PLESSI Two and Two LP TWO AND TWO is the outcome of the ambitious research developed by Christina Kubisch and Fabrizio Plessi in 1976, a collaborative effort towards the merging of visual and sound elements into a new form of intermedia. Influenced by the aesthetics of Fluxus, the duo produced a highly complex and articulated performance, involving two camera operators and several video screens, as well as a variety of objects and unconventional instruments. The results is structured into four parts inspired by the natural elements, in which single instruments loose their different sonic characteristics to become inseparable parts of a unique visual/acoustic process. SIDE A EARTH 9:44 Alto flute, Voice: Christina Kubisch Violoncello, Electric vibrator: Fabrizio Plessi FIRE 10:31 Swanee whistle, Voice: Christina Kubisch Contact microphone on ventilator: Fabrizio Plessi SIDE B AIR 11:16 Alto flute without headpiece: Christina Kubisch Acordeon: Fabrizio Plessi WATER 11:36 Electronic metronome: Christina Kubisch Waterjet on steeldrum: Fabrizio Plessi www.songcyclerecords.com "Two and Two is an entrancing, historic slab of mutant sound pressure realised in 1976 by pioneering sound artists and Fluxus affiliates Christina Kubisch and Fabrizio Plessi. In striving towards “the merging of visual and sound elements into a new form of intermedia”, the duo forged an exceptional early iteration of rhythmic, electro-acoustic noise which still sounds like it was beamed in from another planet, making this first ever vinyl issue very welcome around these parts. The original performance - of which this is a recording, made on June 17th & 18th, 1976 at Fono Play Studios, Milan - involved two camera operators and a wall of video screens displaying close-ups of the performers actions in a symbiotic representation of what the audience was seeing and listening to, attempting to induce synaesthetic sensations and both loosen up, and lose, the primary sonic characteristics of their chosen instruments in the process. Working to repetitive, techno or raga-like modal phrasings, they use a range of unconventional tools to animate and excite their instruments in ribboning streams of sound. On Air, Christina manipulates her own voice and alto flute whilst Plessi plays a Violoncello with an electric vibrator, resulting what sounds like a pack of wolves circling a wounded buffalo on a bleak high plain at midnight, whereas with Fire they conjure flickering electronic partials and playfully swooping cadence from a Swanee Whistle and contact microphone applied to a ventilator to sound like Clangers on their way to the cheese mines. Likewise in Air Christina’s breaths on an Alto Flute without headpiece are combined with vicious accordion to sound like an astronaut lost in space who receives a deathly distress signal, and the rapid ostinatos of Water elicits comparison with an amplified chorus of hooligan cicadas on their way to a big cup game, when it was actually made using an electronic metronome and water jet on a steel drum. Most crucially, this isn’t an academic piece, but neither is it trivial; there’s the real sense that Christina and Plessi are in pursuit of the most elusive sounds, and safe to say they’ve located at least some of them within." [Boomkat] 2017 €28.00
KUHZUNFT / ACHIM ZEPEZAUER Slotmachine 10inch The „Kuhzunft-slotmachine“ is a website-project, based on a picture of a crayon-painted slot machine. Clicking the start button activates the machine to randomly combine pre-produced recordings (of 45 seconds length) within three slots. Instead of typical fruits in the display, you would see photos attached to the specific sounds by the artists responsible for the content. Even the names of the „songs“ are put together by the single names each artist had chosen for their recordings. The vinyl release on Gruenrekorder documents the project with a selection from 13 artists and 158 recordings, that offered a possibility of 3.944.312 tracks. The online-slotmachine has the ability to continuously grow and contains at the date of the vinyl release (February 1st, 2019) four more artists and a total of 225 recordings, providing some 11.390.625 possible titles. Visit slotmachine.kuhzunft.com to discover the project yourself. You can either simply press START and get surprised or deactivate AUTO PLAY to make a selection. The vinyl features: Jaap Blonk (NL) – Voice John Chantler (AU) – Modular Synth Serge Corteyn (DE) – Guitar Rhodri Davies (GB) – Harp Gailė Griciūtė (LT) – Prepared Piano Richard Lerman (US) – Piezzo, Hydrophone Seán Mac Erlaine (IE) – Woodwinds Jérôme Noetinger (FR) – Tape Machine Pablo Paredes (CL) – Keyboards Michael Vatcher (US) – Drums Simon Whetham (GB) – Field Recordings Marta Zapparoli (IT) – Radio Waves Achim Zepezauer (DE) – Drumcomputer, Electronics, Acoustics The online slotmachine also features: Émilie Girard-Charest (CN) – Cello Florian Hartlieb (DE) – Computer Bart Maris (BE) – Trumpet Carolin Pook (DE/US) – Violin Achim Zepezauer (DE) – Words Pablo Paredes (CL) – Mastering Guida Ribeiro (PT) – Website Developing 2019 €10.00
KUTIN, PETER Burmese Days LP "Over the past several years, Vienna-based composer / producer peter kutin has been working intensely at the little-explored junction between sound art and journalism / documentation. Focusing on sonic experiences in extreme or exceptional conditions. Kutin explores both the physical and psychological impacts of such extremes on how we hear. Later translating or orchestrating these experiences into sound. Despite his age, Kutin has already seen (and heard) many lost corners of the world, having realised field-projects that led him through deserts, jungles, mountain ranges, glacier gaps, war zones, volcanoes, protest marches and even into prison. ‘burmese days’ is not the traditional puristic field-recording album but more an abstract composition, which opens up a wide dynamic range of sonic perception, where electronic manipulations and timbres of selected traditional burmese instruments are interwoven with field recordings to form a captivating sonic essay – probably one of the most abstract and unexpected releases on Gruenrekorder . Peter Kutin : ‘The following piece is mainly based on original field recordings from Myanmar taken between April & May 2012, half a year after the military dictatorship announced its withdrawal and indicated plans for a change towards a democratic – or a ‘hybrid military-civilian’ – system in Myanmar after more than sixty years of a military state and its repression. Suddenly it was legal for journalists to enter officially. When I found a timeslot and got the money and some contacts together, I set up a field trip following a journalistic and documentary approach. One of my main interests was to investigate whether the situation of people of ethnic minorities had already changed since the regime’s withdrawal. There were peace talks, but in fact most of the rebel groups were still at war with the military regime at that time. My route started at the border area between Myanmar and Thailand: topographically, this was a zone covered by a beautiful rainforest and all its richness of sounds; politically, it was a buffer zone : ethnic minorities, rebel groups, expelled people, opium and other drug smugglers and refugee camps. At the end of 2012, US president Obama became the first American president to visit Myanmar in fifty years. He walked barefoot over the sacred marble ground of the golden Shwedagon Pagoda in the former capital, Rangoon, and warmly welcomed the newborn democracy. While I was there, ethnic clashes (some media referred to the terminology of an ‘ethnic cleansing’) started in the western Akran state. More than 30,000 people from the Rohingya (a Muslim minority) were chased from their homes. Many were killed in the violent clashes between Muslims and radical Buddhists. Not a single journalist was allowed to enter or get even close to the area. Freedom and Democracy are more elusive concepts or cachets than the media would like us to believe. My recordings were first used for the production of a feature on Austrian national radio. I was a bit disappointed, feeling that the sounds had been used the ‘wrong’ way due to all the information within the spoken texts… In order I sat down and reflected on my recordings from an aesthetic point of view, thinking about how I could translate my personal experiences (heat, sickness, fear, jungle, rain, radical Buddhism, rebels fighting for freedom or more rights, the sound of mantras, gongs, bells and the language itself …). I also found out that the percussionist of Vienna’s Radio-symphonic-Orchestra has been collecting instruments from Myanmar since more than 10 years. So the use of some of these original Burmese metallophones (and their electronic transformations & manipulations) is now the constant element throughout the record, guiding the listener through different sonic stages. It is a piece about the vague state of the people’s identity – a life lived between hope, anger and fear, between the prospect of freedom and doubt of being betrayed. ‘Burmese days’ may be described as an acoustic diary, focusing entirely on sound and using almost no linguistic information. No interviews were used. The piece’s subtitles refer directly to some experiences. For best result, it should be listened to at a high volume with good bass response. ‘Burmese days’ is originally written for * traditional Burmese metallophones : three Kye zees (high-range scaleed, rotating gong), three gongs of mid-range scale, one low-range gong; played by Berndt Thurner * turntables : I asked the Viennese turntablist dieb13 to cut a vinyl using only my Burmese field-recordings; he could choose from a selection * live electronics (for treating the sound of the gongs) ; 4 channel spatialisation ; played by myself ‘Burmese days’ was premiered at Vienna’s Church of St. Ruprecht in June 2013 . http://kutin.klingt.org/burmese_days.html" [label info] www.gruenrekorder.de "And then Gruenrekorder also expands to the world of vinyl with a rather unusual disc. Peter Kutin is a member of Dirac (see Vital Weekly 708 and 729) and had a solo CD (see Vital Weekly 818), which sees 'all field and studio recordings' by him, but also with Berndt Thurner on original Burmese metallophones and Dieb13 on additional electronics and turntables. If I understood correctly Kutin is the composer of this work that is partly a mixture of field recordings from Burma with some additional music from the musicians, all 'arranged and composed by Peter Kutin'. It's a pretty interesting work; one that works pretty well. The overtones from the metallophone collide nicely with the electronics from Dieb13 and mix well with the insect/bird sounds from the locations. Sometimes, and perhaps that's the best part, it's hard to tell whether we are hearing 'just' field recordings or perhaps also something else, something 'extra'. I guess that's where field recordings and 'music' - what's the difference, I wondered - blend together in a very natural way. 'Part 1' seems to be more about the instruments and 'Part 2' more about the field recordings - but perhaps I am wrong about this. Maybe that explains why this is on LP, rather than CD: to mark the difference between both sides. Excellent stuff all around! Great, moody music, carefully balancing sound art and music, field recordings and soundscapes." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2014 €16.50
KUUPUU Lumen Thäden LP Das neue Album der Finnin KUUPUU erscheint auf dem renommierten TIME-LAG RECORDS, im übergrossen & laminierten Gatefold-Cover. Ihr gespenstischer "low fi wyrd Folk" (das Label nennt das "Pränatal-Folk) erinnert an eine schräge Version von JESSICA BAILIFF oder GROUPER, ähnlich zerbrechlich ertönen ihr elfenhafter Gesang und die sparsame Instrumentierung, zusätzlich aber haftet dem ganzen etwas "schamanistisch-beschwörendes" an... really strange stoff !! "Although Finlander Jonna Karanka has been slowly leaking out little Kuupuu jewels for six years now, somehow it's taken just that long to materialize her first 'proper' album. Maybe it has something to do with the time she's devoted to her beautiful artwork, or her time spent in a highly impressive string of other bands, including Hertta Lussu Assa (with Islaja and Lau Nau), Anaksimandos, Avarus, and many others. But, you know, I always figured Kuupuu music didn't have much to do with 'time' anyway. It's music from another reality, to put it bluntly. A beautiful place no doubt, but somehow totally other. You could call this music a lot of things, all without really saying much. Post-everything? Pre-birth folk? Bedtime acid-art? Naive avant-garde loop witchcraft? Maybe something like a thousand memories & vague images folded into each other and spooled out infinitely like a sloppy film loop. The sound of tiny bioluminescent insects systematically devouring an urban cityscape in hyper-speed, while just as quickly slithering neon flora entwine the metallic gray remains, only to then be gobbled themselves by a leaderless army of pulsating micro-robots. Got that? Now play backwards in slow motion. Surreal might just be an understatement. Packaged in a stunning ultra-heavy laminated full color gatefold cover with full color art labels, all created by Jonna. Pressed on audiophile 180gm vinyl. Limited edition of 750 copies." [label info] "Kuupuu is a bit like a Finnish Grouper, her songs are murky and mysterious, the sounds feel disembodied and otherworldly, her vocals are ghostlike and gauzy, but those Grouper-like sounds are filtered through her Finnish folk filter, having spent time in Avarus, Anaksimandros and a handful of other big time aQ faves. Nearly half the record is made up of hushed intimate lo-fi ballads, muted and muddy and almost underwater sounding, her voice and musical accompaniment bleeding into each other until it's sometimes almost impossible to tell which is which, but those stretches of bleary eyed balladic drift and muffled shimmery dreamdrone are peppered with chucks of weird soft noise, abstract rhythmic workouts and some strange very Finnish sounding bursts of what-the-fuck chaos: plenty of clattery tribal percussion, detuned guitars, demented music box melodies, field recordings and found sounds, tape manipulation, gongs and bells and birdcalls, looped acoustic guitars, super lo-fi tape recorded voices, swooping backwards melodies, and the occasional jagged shard of feedback or streak of fractured crunch, but somehow Kuupuu manages to tie it all together into something much more cohesive and lovely than you might imagine. Definitely for fans of all things Finnish and foresty and folky and freaky: Avarus, Islaja, Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystavat, Kiila, Shogun Kunitoki, Es, etc. And adventurous fans of Grouper might give this a try, if they're not averse to some weirdo noisemaking with their moody melancholia." [Aquarius Records] www.time-lagrecords.com 2009 €23.50
LA STPO (La Société des Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux) Les Liquidateurs LP "La Société Timides à la Parade des Oiseaux (roughly translated to Shy Society at the Bird Parade) is a French band from Rennes, founded in 1984. 'A tribute for all the men and women who gave their life, an homage to what they felt, what they lived, what they had to endure during the rescue mission of the accidented nuclear reactor of Chernobyl. The history mentioned here is about a young liquidator from Armenia. It is freely adapted form the movie 'The Battle of Chernobyl' directed by Thomas Johnson. The musical composition is divided in 6 parts, separated by 'fragments' describing the impact of the radioactivity on (the nearby town) Pipriat's daily life, ignoring the deathly danger. The chronology includes the alarm and liquidator mobilisation's stage, the listening of the instructions given by the chiefs, the rush to the reactor, the hesitation of the president in charge (Gorbatchev), the absolute horror on the roof of the reactor until the death of the liquidator. We precisely follow the story of a young armenian liquidator, lost into his lack of understanding of the russian instructions, with fear in his stomach, and his extraordinary sense of duty. By sacrifying himself like hundreds of thousands of his comrades, he's going to save humanity.' The disc is a 33rpm's vinyl record (12") of about 35 min 's duration, with an album cover by Pakito Bolino from Le Dernier Cri." [label info] http://inpolysons.free.fr 2015 €26.00
LAMIA VOX Alles ist Ufer. Ewig ruft das Meer CD Long awaited new material from Lamia Vox. Titled “Alles ist Ufer. Ewig ruft das Meer” (Everything is shore. The sea calls forever) after the Gesänge poem by Gottfried Benn, the album is’nt presented merely as a musical piece but bears a deep spiritual message and a counterblast to the rational, materialistic and post-theist nihilism of current age. Inspired by early modern poetry, Hermeticism, fin-de-siècle symbolism and naturphilosophie, this new opus celebrates another vision of the world, one of higher dimensions and beyond the human sphere, a world of intoxicated and ecstatic alchemy of poetic language and ideas. An upward movement and a breakthrough from the bonds of materia to the source of life and eternity. Dionysian liberating lawlessness to oppose sterile rationalism and creativity, divine madness, metanoia as a form of ultimate salvation. Poetry flows, it is a sacred art and process and the laboratory of the Magnum Opus, a divine gift of deliberate madness. CD editing of 600 copies in 6 panel digisleeve with matt lamination. 7 Tracks. Running Time 35:09 LP Edition of 300 copies in gatefold sleeve, matt lamination on black vinyl. 7 Tracks. Running Time 35:09 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/alles-ist-ufer-ewig-ruft-das-meer 2020 €13.00
LANG, KLAUS Organ Works Vol. 2 LP "The second instalment of Klaus Lang's organ works and once again, two monumental works that span over two vinyl sides. "ABD" - contemporary vision of sacral chord progressions. "Melrose abbey" - perverse art of mourning music. Ultimate drone. Absolute torment. Performed by the composer in Graz, Austria, 1997." [label info] www.godrec.com 2015 €19.00
LARKIAN Dotted Drives & Drone Delays 12inch "Dotted drives and drone delays' by Larkian is a two tracks ep available on vinyl and as a digital download. Release date : 6th april 2013. Track listing : 1. First part 2. Second part. Total lenghth : 27:38." [label info] www.deadvox.com 2013 €12.50
LASWELL, BILL VS. SUBMERGED Brutal Calling LP "Diese Kollaboration von Bass-Master Laswell mit dem Drum‘n‘Bass-Finsterling und OHM Resistance-Macher Kurt Gluck war 2004 zwischen der Photo Op Before A Long Hard Fuck-Split-10“ (2003) und Todd Bridges On Lockdown (Temulent Remix) / Summery Execution (Corrupt Souls Remix) (2005) als CD beim japanischen Label Avant erschienen und wurde nun durch einen Laswell-Aficionado für Vinyl-Liebhaber neu aufgelegt. Optisch verfinstert mit Totenköpfen Schwarz auf Schwarz, wird nun auch deutlicher sichtbar, dass die beiden New Yorker mit ihren Breakbeats und dem untergründig grollenden Bassbeben einen Nachhall von 9/11 inszeniert hatten. Auf Anschlag, was die Raserei der Beats angeht, hallt in Tracks wie ‚Mass graves‘ oder ‚Decapitation strike‘ Panik wider. Venetian Snares zerrt ähnlich an den Nerven, Brutal Calling greift aber direkter an, durchwegs fiebrig überdreht und bei ‚Lockdown on bridges and tunnels‘ mit einer WahWah-Gitarre, die Hals über Kopf Treppen hinab kreischt und blind nur noch dem Fluchtinstinkt gehorcht. Laswell zeigt hier den zerstörerischen Aspekt Shivas (wie in Chaos Face, Death Cube K, frühe Painkiller, Time Zone), den Crooklyn-Pol der Existenz, zu dem die Deep Vibrations seines Sacred Dub, die Healing Force seiner Ambient-Mantras, Innerrhythms und Space-Psychedelix (Asana, Charged, Divination, Equations Of Eternity, Pete Namlook, Tabla Beat Science, Jah Wobble) die Gegenkraft bilden. Wobei nach Laswells Philosophie wohl nur unterschiedliche Aspekte der gleichen Kraft ihr Spiel treiben. Seine Basslinien pulsieren nämlich hier wie dort mit der gleich sonoren und souveränen Vitalität und Funkiness. Falls Brutal Calling den Fall der babylonischen Türme kommentiert, dann jedenfalls nicht larmoyant. Und wie sehr auch Glucks D’n’BHysterie sarkastisch helterskeltert, durch Laswells Bass werden selbst Kalis Tanzzuckungen auf dem round Zero zu Dynamiken der Transformation." [Bad Alchemy] www.karlrecords.net 2006 €20.00
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS (LPD) 10 to the Power of 9 (special ed.) 2 x CD bag "Deluxe limited edition of 99 copies issued with an extra CD in a cardboard sleeve. The album CD is included in a jewel case and compiles both volumes of the vinyl. Issued in a black velvet bag with a glow-in-the-dark pin and a transparent plastic postcard." [label info] www.rustblade.com "Endlich als CD und limitierte Box-Edition erhältlich. Die Kult-Fomation meldet sich mit einem großartigen Konzeptalbum zurück, erscheinend auf RUSTBLADE als CD im Jewelcase und als lim. Box mit Sammlerinhalten. Selten passt das Attribut legendär so gut wie auf die Gruppe um EDWARD KA-SPEL und PHIL „THE SILVERMAN“ KNIGHT, die seit nun mehr als drei Dekaden für ihren unverkennbaren, einzigartigen Soundkosmos verehrt wird, bei dem Psychedelic-Heads, Dark Waver und Freunde experimenteller (Elektronik-)Klänge gleichermaßen auf ihre Kosten kommen. Mit ihrem neusten Machwerk legen die LEGENDARY PINK DOTS den ersten Teil einer komplexen Story über Konspirativität, Magie und Spiritualität vor. Minimale Synths, Gitarren, synkopische Beats, die Verwirrung stiften, psychedelische und transzendentale Geräusche, welche wie gewohnt von der charakteristischen Stimme KA-SPELs begleitet werden. „Ten To The Power Of Nine Vol.1 „ist ein dunkler und außergewöhnlicher Trip in die musikalische Psyche der LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, die hier wieder einmal ihren Status als absolut unverkennbare musikalische Ausnahmeerscheinung bestätigen. Die limitierte Box-Edition enthält zustäzlich zur normalen CD noch eine Bonus-CD mit exklusiven Songs, einen Anstecker (leuchtet im Dunkeln) und eine transparente Postkarte, verpackt in einem Samtbeutel." [Broken Silence info] 2015 €40.00
Pages of Aquarius CD "The Legendary Pink Dots is an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in 1980. Although far outside the mainstream, LPD have released more than 40 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently. Distinctive vocals and lyrical imagery blended with hypnotic guitar and synth washes and spellbinding bass pulses to create an enthralling, captivating release." [label info] "The problem with the Age of Aquarius is that nobody seems to know when it's due, or indeed whether or not it's already begun. According to the song 'Aquarius' from hippy musical Hair, the dawning will come when "The moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars." Unfortunately, as astrologer Neil Spencer has noted, the moon enters the seventh house daily, while Jupiter and Mars are aligned several times a year. Other astrologers have argued for Aquarian start dates ranging from 1447 right up until 3597. In the popular imagination, however, the Age of Aquarius will always be associated with the “love generation” counter-culture of the 1960s, and represents the utopian new age that their flower power shenanigans were supposed to usher in. In other words, it should be here by now, and it manifestly isn't. As Legendary Pink Dots' mainstay Edward Ka-Spel notes, if this is Aquarius page one then love, peace and good hair are hardly qualities in the ascendant. "It wasn't supposed to be like this," he writes. "Are we in for another 2,160 years of this?" Ultimately though, Ka-Spel's conclusions are optimistic. What we're actually living through are the death throes of the Pisces Age, he argues; it's brutal and painful, but it won't last. The way to get through is by letting go, on both a personal and societal level, and in order to do this we need to look unflinchingly at where we are now, what is holding us back and what will help us move forward. So the album's opening track, 'Mirror, Mirror' tackles introspection, narcissism and self-loathing alongside the hard but necessary task of looking closely at your own self and putting the work in to improve. Stinging synthesiser blasts reflect this flinching process over driving electronic percussion, before a melancholy mellotron passage suggests a degree of sorrowful self-acceptance has been found. On 'The Greatest Story Ever Told,' a swarm of buzzing clockwork wasps soundtrack rising existential dread before the song shifts into a litany of reasons not to worship God, or indeed watch his movies on TV, all set to a queasy rendition of 'All Things Bright and Beautiful.' The Age of Pisces is often identified as the Christian era, and early Christians identified themselves using two fishes as a symbol; among other qualities, Aquarius is associated with the decline of religion and the rise of technology. "We worship technology," Ka-Spel whispers ambivalently at the close. How the glorious analogue squelching of 'D-Train' fits into the concept I'm not sure, but 'Credibility' and 'Trending' take a look at the world around us, the former cursing "Damn your eyes, austerity" over lullaby-like piano, while the latter looks at the mysterious force of the zeitgeist as represented by popular topics on social media. Watching "the great sea ripple," Ka-Spel wonders who or what is driving the trends, directing our thoughts and attention as one linked collective organism. The album concludes with two multi-part epics. The near-eighteen minute 'Don't Go There- Page Aquarian- Jacob's Ladder' begins in haunting yet propulsive style, discussing surveillance culture and "cameras everywhere" before shifting onto memory as a form of observation, returning to the theme of looking unsparingly at your own past actions and how they've led you to where you are now. A collage of found sound leads into a passage of spare percussion over which Ka-Spel considers the stars and the notion of destiny, before the final section finds tentative piano chords reverberating over the sound of a gathering storm. Here considerations of mortality and the afterlife are resolved into the need to make peace and find some kind of acceptance. For CD listeners, that's where the album ends, but it would be a shame to miss out on the sixteen-and-a-half minute 'The Weight of Water Parts 1-4,' which is only available on digital and double vinyl editions. A dry, steady pulse beat supports slabs of musique concrete and some non-judgemental meditations on self-destructive behaviour, before a frantic flurry of low piano notes in a repeating, claustrophobic loop successfully simulates a panic attack. This then shifts into an oceanic evocation of waking at 3am with the realisation that your life has been wasted in deceit and acquisitiveness, before the instrumental final section captures a zen-like sensation of beatific release, with acoustic and electronic textures beautifully balanced against each other. Aquarius of course is the water bearer, and 'The Weight of Water' effectively sums up the pain and difficulty of this period of transition. There's no need though to take the astrological metaphors literally; this album can be enjoyed purely as an unsettling and moving 83 minutes of music, and for those who do listen closely to the words, Ka-Spel's dry sense of humour undercuts any tendency towards new age pretentiousness. Their long history could make some wrongly see the Legendary Pink Dots as unapproachable or worse, irrelevant. But Pages of Aquarius is an album that stands on its own merits. Even if you've never bought a Pink Dots record before, this is a progressive, provocative and ultimately positive statement about the world we're all living in today." [The Quietus] 2016 €15.00
From here you'll watch the World go by do-LP "Ltd. to strictly 499 copies, incl. bonus-Tracks! For the first time on Vinyl, one of LPDs most beloved albums! Moving from noir jazz and grand psychedelic ballads to sophisticated space rock, the charismatic voice of Ka-Spel floats and teases as only his can. Diehard fans of LPD have been waiting long for this gem to be released on vinyl! A must have!" www.rustblade.com 2017 €28.50
Five Days... Complete CD For the first time ever on CD or vinyl, these 2016 recordings from experimental rock icons The Legendary Pink Dots! The genesis of the recording came from a challenge the band issued itself to record, mix and master a full length album in the span of just 4 days, a challenge they missed by just one day! Hours of experimental improvisation went into creating this project in what Edward Ka-Spel describes as a “primeval freak-out!” Available on both CD and as a double ORANGE vinyl set! 2019 €16.50
  Chemical Playschool Vol. 21 / 22 do-CD Indeed, You ARE hallucinating but you have absolutely nothing to fear. Just 'go with the flow.' This small but wildly colourful monument will emerge in 3 different formats in the months to come. Vinyl and cassette will be courtesy of Witch Cat Records in Denver (witchcatrecords.bandcamp.com). The double cd will materialise via The Dots’ own Terminal Kaleidoscope label. Erik Drost - Guitars, Bass; The Silverman - Keyboards, Devices; Edward Ka-Spel - Voice, keyboards. Special guests: Patrick Q. Wright - Violins, keyboards on 2; Quentin Rollet - saxes, sopranino sax on 1,4,5,8,9. Produced and Engineered by EK. Cover concept and photography by Alena. https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/chemical-playschool-volumes-21-22 "Earlier this week, The Legendary Pink Dots came up in a private conversation, with an expert and we talked about the various incarnations of the group over the forty plus years and that prompted me to play some of the earliest Pink Dots, when they have, personal-wise the biggest line-up. It was also the time I first discovered the Pink Dots. One of the releases I played was 'Chemical Playschool 3 & 4', which is still an excellent ride of experiment and songs. That is something that hasn't changed if you play 'Chemical Playschool 21 + 22', which handed to me a few days later. Unlike 'regular' releases by the Dots, 'Chemical Playschool' is their playground to combine songs and experiments and as such, there is not a lot of difference between '3 & 4' and '21 & 22', except that the old one uses a much different line-up, with guitars, drums, violin and synthesizers, which all had a rockier sound, whereas these days the band, consisting of Erik Drost (guitar; he joined after 2000), The Silverman (keyboards, devices) and Edward Ka-spel (voices, keyboards, devices; the latter two are founding members), has a more electronic feel, despite Drost's guitar injections., Quentin Rollet adds saxophone and clarinet on a couple of pieces, and Patrick Q. Wright violin and keyboards on one track; he's also an early member. In recent years, so it seems to me, the Pink Dots' music is more about the texts/lyrics/poetry by Ka-spel, who use a more narrative way to deliver his words. The music serves as the dramatic soundscape in which all of this happens. Even for someone such as myself, not particularly interested in lyrics, understand the dramatic impact of Ka-spel's voice, and it is embedded in the music, rather than something that is on top of the music. The Pink Dots are in excellent form, with their psychedelic outburst, dreamy soundscapes, free jamming, spacious electronics and the always recognizable voice of Ka-spel. Less rocky than years ago, but still the perfect balance between 'song' and 'experiment'." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2021 €22.50
LICHT-UNG Nora 7 We think this is the very first 7" vinyl for this German experimental art / poetry & harsh noise project! Two pieces of extreme feedbacks and an abused home-organ performed in total distortion. Really cathartic stuff! A dance of low & high feedbacks, with destroyed kitschy harmonics underneath! Comes in a white 7"-cover with sticked-on colour photo, in an edition of just 220 copies. A lovely obscure 7" for vinyl collectors ! www.licht-ung.de 2003 €5.00
LICHT-UNG / IRIS GARRELFS split 10inch Split 10" in a tiny edition of this excentric german art-project with the british soundartist IRIS GARRELS. Two pieces with ominous dronescapes, strange clouds of rather dull moaning sounds, pulses, crackles, resonance-bubbles, quite exciting in their indeterminableness. Great record, very much recommended. Comes with colour-photo sticked on, and inlay. Numbered ed. Background to IRIS GARRELFS recordings: "(Talking) Space to Space is an ongoing radio project. Using captured natural radio emissions from celestial objects, Iris reshapes these sounds into an audio composition and flings them back to the stars in a radio broadcast. A poetic gesture, a sensual fiction which takes the past, re-shapes it in real-time and travels with it into the future. The piece was originally performed on Resonance FM in June 04 and as part of Radio Art Riot during the Frieze Art Fair, October 04. An extract was also featured as part of Radio Day of European Cultures in October 05. An extended version was listed for the PRS New Musci Award in 05. An extract wil be released on 10" vinyl by German art label lich-tung in spring 06." [website info] 2006 €13.50
LIFE GARDEN Plutonian Dub (SOLD OUT) 7inch unbelievable intense and mesmerizing two tracks of yearnful ethereal ambience with mighty rhythmical parts, monumental and melancholic at the same time... "LIMITED+NUMBERED FIRST EDITION OF 250 COPIES GREY VINYL; HANDCOLOURED PE-SLEEVES LIFE GARDEN FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA, ARE THE REMAINS OF THE LEGENDARY GROUP MAYBE MENTAL, WHO HAVE BEEN AROUND IN THE 80's IN THE EXPERIMENTALLY ORIENTATED GLOBAL CASSETTE-UNDERGROUND AND RELEASED 7 TAPES (THAT ARE HARD TO FIND NOW), AND ONE SPLIT-LP WITH CONTROLLED BLEEDING. LIFE GARDEN CREATE A UNIQUE STYLE OF THEIR OWN BY COMBINING AMBIENT ATMOSPHERES WITH EASTERN INFLUENCES, MAKING IT INTENSE AND MAGNIFICENT COMPOSITIONS. DRONE RECORDS HAVE NOW RELEASED THE VERY FIRST PIECE OF VINYL BY THIS GROUP, WHICH CONTAINS THE TRACKS 'PLUTONIAN DUB' AND 'CHAOS LULLABY' - WITH THE YEARNING SINGING OF SU LING, THE SURREAL DRONES AND THE POWERFUL RITUAL DRUMMING THIS APPEARS TO BE A TIMELESS AND WISE AURAL MONUMENT. AFTER HAVING HAD 4 BAD PRESSINGS WE ARE MOST HAPPY TO PRESENT THIS UNIQUE 7". FINALLY WE'D LIKE TO SAY 'SORRY' TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAD TO WAIT THAT LONG! " an exploration into a wide range of sound, emotion, wonderment and intensity " DRONE RECORDS DR-20/APRIL 1997 1997  
LIGHTBORNE, MICHAEL Sounds of the Projection Box LP These recordings, made in 2016 and 2017, document the shifting sonic texture of the cinema projection box, as it changes from 35mm to digital projection. By 2014, the majority of UK cinemas had already converted to digital, making many projectionists redundant, and quietly altering the way that cinema works, as both an industry and an experience. Very few cinemas maintain the ability to project 35mm film alongside digital, and it was in some of the remaining, tenacious boxes that I sought the persistent sounds of analogue projection. The unique space that this album investigates is simultaneously a workshop, an engine room, and an artist’s studio. The projection box is a small room at the back of the cinema auditorium that conceals both the apparatus of the moving image, and the labour of the projectionist, ensuring that both remain invisible, and inaudible, to the cinema-goer. This album was developed as part of The Projection Project, a research project based in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Warwick, which seeks to record and investigate the history of cinema projection in Britain. A special issue of the Journal of British Cinema And Television Studies (Vol 15, No 1, 2018), edited by members of The Projection Project, features a number of articles about the history of British cinema projection and the work of the projectionist in Britain, through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It includes an article entitled ‚Sounds of the Projection Box: Liner Notes for a Phonographic Method‘, which augments this album, and elaborates upon the theoretical and methodological rationale for the use of sonic field recording as a mode of enquiry. All of the images that accompany this record were made by Richard Nicholson. Some of them form part of a series of portraits entitled The Projectionists. Side A 1. The thing 2. Making up the thing 3. Breaking down the thing 4. Lacing and Rolling Rear Window (error correction) Side B 1. Hyde Park electromagnetic 2. The noise 3. Manual rewind 4. The Electric 5. The tower (death rattle) 6. Digital light 10 Tracks (43′30″) Vinyl (500 copies) www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=16703 2018 €18.00
LIGHTS PEOPLE Lights People redefines the Meter 12inch Lights People are: Tobias Kirstein, Toke Tietze Mortensen & Sune TB Nielsen Recorded live in Studio 4, National Danish Radio 2007 by Sune TB Nielsen. Mixing by Tobias Kirstein & Sune TB Nielsen. Levels, ins / outs / ups / downs and general music control by Gæoudjiparl assisted by Guido Zen and Tordis Berstrand Mastered and cut to vinyl by Lupo & Gæoudjiparl, D&M Berlin 2008 Cover by Leif Elggren www.fireworkeditionrecords.com "LIGHTS PEOPLE consist of Sune TB Nielsen, Toke Tietze Mortensen and TR Kirstein. LIGHTS PEOPLE have long worked with the power of the general electricity network which runs through everybody's everyday. They use completely analog electricity creating large explosive bassheavy drone-like random force fields and they often invite a fourth artist to guide and create the sound field through the mixer." www.lightspeople.net 2008 €14.00
LILES, ANDREW Ouarda (The subtle Art of...) do-LP Es hat drei Jahre gedauert, bis das neueste Werk 'Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy)' von ANDREW LILES endlich in den Läden landete, wobei der Entstehungsprozess fast genauso lang dauerte. Aufgenommen in Studios in Paris, London und Sizilien ist ,Ouarda." ein Reisetagebuch, das sich schlicht und einfach weigert, für längere Zeit an einem einzigen Ort zu verharren. Die Musik, die LILES hier versammelt, ist genau so unterschiedlich, wie die musikalischen Gäste, die sich auf ,Ouarda." versammeln. Mit dabei: Danielle Dax, Maja Elliott, Rose McDowall, Karl Blake, Edward Ka-Spel und Daniel Padden von VOLCANO THE BEAR, die alle einzigartige und absolut atemberaubende Beiträge liefern. Düster, eingängig, unerklärlich und außergewöhnlich ist ,Ouarda..' ein Manifest des Produktionstalents von ANDREW LILES, der ohne Zweifel ein einmaliger Soundzauberer ist.// Limited edition (600 copies) double LP pressed on colored vinyl. UK-based Andrew Liles' (Current 93, Nurse With Wound) latest offering has taken nearly three years to hit the shelves and almost as long to create. Recorded in London, Paris, and Sicily, Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) is a travelogue that refuses to stay stuck in any one place for any extended period. The music herein is as diverse as the array of guests involved: Danielle Dax, Maja Elliott, Rose McDowall, Karl Blake, The Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel and Volcano The Bear's Daniel Padden all bestow unique and stunning contributions that soar along with Liles' unique brand of minimal surrealism. Obscure, accessible, incomprehensible and exceptional, Ouarda (The Subtle Art Of Phyllorhodomancy) is testament to the breathtaking production talents of Andrew Liles -- arguably the most vital and original soundsmith of recent years." [press release / Cargo translation] www.dirter.co.uk 2008 €22.50
Miscellany Deluxe do-LP Kollektion alter und ältester Aufnahmen des exzentrischen Briten! Dies ist die "einfache" Version im Gatefold-Cover. "Much of the music included in this set is exclusive to this vinyl version of ‘Miscellany’. Andrew Liles has compiled a comprehensive anthology including as much varied, interesting and unreleased material as possible. He spent many an afternoon sifting through piles of cassettes seeking the oldest and arguably most definitive pieces of music from literally hundreds of hours of tape. The earliest recordings on these discs date back to 1984. ‘Find a New Husband’ was made on Liles' fathers very cheap Amstrad tape-to-tape system. The tape machine ceased to work properly shortly thereafter. This track was the result or many hours of rewinding and re-playing and re-recording, and thus began Liles fascination, obsession and addiction with tape-manipulation, sound FX and recording techniques. Listening back to some of these works reminds us of the archaic and laborious fashion in which music used to be created and assembled. In hindsight the merits of working with tape compared to digital technologies seem to be the random nature of what would happen. Tape bleed, mishaps, the low-fi quality and errors seemed to give unique and often unpredictable results. Many of Andrew Liles' early experimentations and accidental consequences are included in this collection. Also included are selections from his two self-released cassettes under the name Lividity. The Lividity tapes were given away to friends and sent as demos to assorted labels. Some 20 years later it is very doubtful that any of them exist other the two remaining copies Andrew Liles has kept tucked away in some forgotten corner." [label info] www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2009 €21.50
Miscellany Deluxe (Box Edition) 3 x LP-Box & T-Shirt Limitierte Box-Version - neben der auch einzeln erhältlichen do-LP gibt es noch eine weitere LP mit weiterem Material so wie ein synapsenkillendes ROSAfarbenes T-Shirt, alles in einer silbernen Box! "Much of the music included in this set is exclusive to this vinyl version of ‘Miscellany’. Andrew Liles has compiled a comprehensive anthology including as much varied, interesting and unreleased material as possible. He spent many an afternoon sifting through piles of cassettes seeking the oldest and arguably most definitive pieces of music from literally hundreds of hours of tape. The earliest recordings on these discs date back to 1984. ‘Find a New Husband’ was made on Liles' fathers very cheap Amstrad tape-to-tape system. The tape machine ceased to work properly shortly thereafter. This track was the result or many hours of rewinding and re-playing and re-recording, and thus began Liles fascination, obsession and addiction with tape-manipulation, sound FX and recording techniques. Listening back to some of these works reminds us of the archaic and laborious fashion in which music used to be created and assembled. In hindsight the merits of working with tape compared to digital technologies seem to be the random nature of what would happen. Tape bleed, mishaps, the low-fi quality and errors seemed to give unique and often unpredictable results. Many of Andrew Liles' early experimentations and accidental consequences are included in this collection. Also included are selections from his two self-released cassettes under the name Lividity. The Lividity tapes were given away to friends and sent as demos to assorted labels. Some 20 years later it is very doubtful that any of them exist other the two remaining copies Andrew Liles has kept tucked away in some forgotten corner." [label info] www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2009 €60.00
  Miraculous Mechanical Monster LP "Limitiert auf 500 Stück auf grünem Vinyl in glänzender, dicker und semipornographischer Hülle! "The Miraculous Mechanical Monster" ist der neueste Zugang zur ständig wachsenden und zum Sammeln animierenden "Monster"-Serie von ANDREW LILES. Die LP ist zum Teil ein Konzeptalbum, das die Geschichte von nicht richtig funktionierenden Robotern, Monstern und bizarrem Sex erzählt. Die Geschichte kann der aufmerksame Hörer verfolgen, wenn er den Text auf dem Rücken der LP liest. So wie alle Veröffentlichungen von LILES passt auch diese LP nicht in ein vorgegebenes Genre und ist damit unbestreitbar eine seiner verdrehtesten und exotischsten Aufnahmen. Diese LP wird in dieser Form nie wieder gepresst oder veröffentlicht werden." [label info] www.myspace.com/andrewowenliles www.dirter.co.uk 2010 €16.00
LINIJA MASS Trud CD "Der Angriff is proud to present the reissue of all three early albums from the famous russian old-school analogue industrial noise project by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (also involved in Stalnoy Pakt and Vetrophonia). Having been previously available only on tapes and long deleted vinyl, those records now are the ones of the most sought after collectibles of russian industrial culture heritage. Each CD is packed into the cardboard black&white package with a poster, which is different to each album. "Trud" (1997) has an exclusive previously unreleased bonus track, "Proletkult" (1999) has a track which has been missed on vinyl edition and appeared only on a tape and CDR, and "Mekano-Faktura" (1999) offers as bonus a track from a rare 7". All the sound material have been remastered from the original source tapes. Each title is limited to 400 copies only. A must for all fans of pure and true industrial art!" [label info] 2007 €13.00
Mechano-Faktura CD "Der Angriff is proud to present the reissue of all three early albums from the famous russian old-school analogue industrial noise project by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (also involved in Stalnoy Pakt and Vetrophonia). Having been previously available only on tapes and long deleted vinyl, those records now are the ones of the most sought after collectibles of russian industrial culture heritage. Each CD is packed into the cardboard black&white package with a poster, which is different to each album. "Trud" (1997) has an exclusive previously unreleased bonus track, "Proletkult" (1999) has a track which has been missed on vinyl edition and appeared only on a tape and CDR, and "Mekano-Faktura" (1999) offers as bonus a track from a rare 7". All the sound material have been remastered from the original source tapes. Each title is limited to 400 copies only. A must for all fans of pure and true industrial art!" [label info] "Great 'mechanical industrial' from St. Petersburg. Real metallic machine-sounds mixed with russian voices. Retro-Futurism at its best!" [original Drone Rec. info, about "Mechano-Faktura"] 2007 €13.00
  Proletkult CD "Der Angriff is proud to present the reissue of all three early albums from the famous russian old-school analogue industrial noise project by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (also involved in Stalnoy Pakt and Vetrophonia). Having been previously available only on tapes and long deleted vinyl, those records now are the ones of the most sought after collectibles of russian industrial culture heritage. Each CD is packed into the cardboard black&white package with a poster, which is different to each album. "Trud" (1997) has an exclusive previously unreleased bonus track, "Proletkult" (1999) has a track which has been missed on vinyl edition and appeared only on a tape and CDR, and "Mekano-Faktura" (1999) offers as bonus a track from a rare 7". All the sound material have been remastered from the original source tapes. Each title is limited to 400 copies only. A must for all fans of pure and true industrial art!" [label info] 2007 €13.00
LIVE SKULL EP CD "24-page booklet with rare and unseen pics and extensive liner notes by band members Tom Paine & MarK C. Formed in 1982 by guitarists Mark C and Tom Paine with Marnie Greenholz on bass and James Lo on drums, Live Skull is considered by many aficionados to be the quintessential New York noise band. Together with Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull defined the term "noise rock" in the 1980s, spearheading the post-No Wave underground music scene in NYC with a series of legendary live performances and eight groundbreaking records released over the course of that decade. Often brutal and yet strangely seductive, each of these classic records creates hooks out of the most unlikely, seemingly disruptive elements, subverting traditional rock forms in previously unheard ways that became an undeniable (albeit often unacknowledged) influence on many of their contemporaries. Live Skull broke up in 1989, just within sight of that magical moment when the sort of music they pioneered began to finally break through, but the band's recorded output reminds us that Live Skull got there first. This is the record that started it all, Live Skull's first EP. A gloriously sprawling collection of deep, dark grooves and insidiously entwined guitars, the Village Voice rightly described the EP as "classic post-punk" and “the best introduction to New York’s guitar explorers.” The East Village Eye proclaimed it “one of the best sounding records to come out of any New York band past or present.” The New York Times put the EP on their short list of the best five records of 1984, declaring, “A few contemporary bands are making music as a deliberate antidote to the burbling synthesizers, polite crooning and polished gloss of today’s well-fed pop mainstream. New York’s Live Skull, Sonic Youth and Swans…are making the sort of music rock’s early opponents must have feared most, the music of their nightmares.” Out of print for far too many years, this 30th anniversary reissue of Live Skull's first EP is now available on limited edition vinyl and (for the first time ever) on CD, complete with a lavish booklet including extensive liner notes by founding members Tom Paine and Mark C, and eight extremely rare bonus tracks. This is the first release in desire’s Live Skull Project, an ambitious, eight-title series of reissues of the entire Live Skull catalogue, personally overseen by Mark C and Tom Paine." 2013 €13.00
LLOYD, DALE Akasha_for Record pic-LP "A welcome return from Dale Lloyd with this, his first new release in three years. Akasha_for Record is a two-part composition, filled with highly dynamic intricacies very carefully arranged. Rich micro-detail meets subtle emotional resonance in a spellbinding work created specifically for the vinyl format. Akasha_for Record is an opulent listening experience, indeed, and one that will reward close, repeated scrutiny. The record's artwork consists of two gorgeous, lightly manipulated, full-color photographic images by Lloyd. The sound/vision combination of Akasha_for Record is truly intriguing and utterly beautiful. Dale Lloyd is well known for phonography, composition, graphic design, and curatorial skills for his highly acclaimed and/OAR label. He has recorded for numerous labels over the years, including Elevator Bath, and/OAR, Alluvial Recordings, Mystery Sea, and Room40. Lloyd lives in Seattle, Washington. This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 216 copies." [label info] "... One of the two sides opens with a modulating hiss that harmonizes with a sinewy drone and gets punctured by a series bone-numbing electrical charges for something that could have some unsavory context had it been generated by John Duncan, but then again it could be a field recording of a grain-slew with minor post-production techniques. In fact, each of the pieces on Akasha For Record have this sense that they could be the results of well-situated field recordings like those of Tarab or Eric La Casa, as the smudges and grittiness of these recordings allude to such strategies. Another track shimmers like the vibration of a loose piece of metal on an industrial HVAC, with the timbres generating a surprisingly fluid and beautiful resonance like something Andrew Chalk would actively seek out. There's greater evidence of field recordings on the tracks that do feature the roar of surf and a cold wind intermingled with the softened white noise of sand getting pushed around. Lloyd had devised this album to complement the crackles that get magnified through the picture disc - a medium which notoriously wears heavier than most pressings of vinyl. The album certainly works well with its medium. Beautiful stuff, and super limited to 216 copies." [Aquarius Records] www.elevatorbath.com 2009 €17.50
LOCRIAN The Crystal World do-CD "A marked change had come over the forest, as if dusk had begun to fall. Everywhere the glacé sheaths which enveloped the trees and vegetation had become duller and more opaque. The crystal floor underfoot was occluded and gray, turning the needles into spurs of basalt. The brilliant panoply of colored light had gone, and a dim amber glow moved across the trees, shadowing the sequined floor. At the same time it had become considerably colder. The Crystal World, the third studio album from Locrian, is an epic journey. Titled after JG Ballard’s 1964 novel that tells the story of a physician who specializes in leprosy sent to a remote African outpost to discover a jungle that is slowly crystallizing and encroaching upon everything it touches. Disc one comprises six tracks while disc two consists of one extended piece, Extinction, that picks up on the intensity of disc one and sustains it for close to an hour. On The Crystal World, Terence Hannum, and André Foisy, are joined by Steven Hess (On, Pan American, Ural Umbo) on percussion and electronics. Hess’ contribution pushes Locrian deeper into the abyss of despair rendering a sound that is darker, bleaker, and engulfing than any of the group’s previous releases. Locrian continue the conceptual trajectory of blackened drone that the group initially embarked on during their first studio album Drenched Lands (2009). Masters of layering, The Crystal World finds the group manipulating tones and textures that transport the listener to an apocalyptic wasteland. At times, the layers are serene and somber, at other times they are chaotic. The Crystal World is Locrian's essential release, finding the band creating a sound all of their own. A sound that evades simplistic analogies to black metal, power-electronics, noise, or other categories. This is the album that will stun fans of the bands previous works with how far the group has come from their early releases. Presented in a Stoughton gatefold sleeve with art by Vberkvlt. Vinyl edition out on Utech Records in 2011." [label info] www.utechrecords.com 2010 €19.00
LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Untitled single piece 1 (SOLD OUT) 7inch first edition: white vinyl, ultra-violet stamped label, stamped white covers, 250 copies released December 1996 second edition: white vinyl, stamped covers, 300 copies "This is more than just two musical pieces on a record! This is something experiment for your mind & body! This is like being underwater, experiencing a new acoustic dimension! Francisco Lopez from Madrid is a scientist and sound-researcher who has been culturally active since 1983. He has released lots of cassettes in the 80's and now begins to release more and more work, also on cd's. His works are more conceptual and cognitive experiences than conventionally approached music. This unique piece of work consists of ultra-deep frequencies that can -nearly- not be heard anymore but felt! It's the first part of a 4 e.p.- series (others will appear on banned prod., cohort records and povertech industries, all usa) to be released this and next year. This music manifests for a unique sensual experience! "this donisis will change your view on what music could be!" [label info] 1996  
LOPEZ, FRANCISCO & RICHARD FRANCIS In de blaauwe hand CD Nice collaboration of these two artists who also once had EPs on Drone Rec. (R. FRANCIS as ESO STEEL) - this studio work made at EXTRAPOOL studios is a one-tracker with a very subtle & droney fluidum, layers of sound develop very very slowly, changes & cut-ups are set and lead to interesting developments but never in a harsh way... a full meditation / transcension drone that goes from silence / void to abundance and back again. "Francisco López (Spain) and Richard Francis (New Zealand) have created "in de blaauwe hand" upon invitation from Extrapool for a brief working residency in Nijmegen, to develop a collaboration piece for the Brombron CD series. Working with very small seed source sound samples that were exchanged between them, two intermingling compositional paths unfolded in two parallel small studios. In a short ¬but very intense- period of time a whole world of very delicate and subtle materials arose. The whole piece (a single one-hour track) merges without mix a dreamy geography of subtleties and complex organicities that is more the result of aesthetic affinities than pre-structured plan. In that sense, this is a composition born from the sound themselves, following the paths indicated by them. And a surprising one. Over the last twenty years Francisco López has been developing a powerful and consistent world of minimal electroacoustic soundscapes, 'trying to reach an ideal of absolute concrète music'. To date, his catalog comprises more than 140 sound works, which have been released by one hundred record labels from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, UK, Norway, Greece, Russia, Canada, USA, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Japan, China, Australia. He has toured extensively throughout Western and Eastern Europe, North, Central and South America, Japan and Australia doing acousmatic performances, and he has received commissions from a number of reknown institutions and organizations, such as the Dutch and Spanish National Radios, the Goethe Institut, V2 Organization (Rotterdam), Yale University Theater (New Haven), the Ralph Lemon Company (New York), the Zeitkratzer Ensemble (Berlin), Creative Time (New York), Quartier Ephemere (Montreal) and Sound Traffic Control (San Francisco). Richard Francis has been releasing works on CD/vinyl, performing solo and in collaboration as a touring artist since 1996. He uses field recordings of acoustic and electronic sounds and a tone generator to compose textural and tonal sound works. He has released solo and collaborative works on a number of labels worldwide and runs his own label CMR through which he releases limited edition lathe cut records by New Zealand artists. In performance he uses a computer and electronics and has toured Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, USA and Europe. Since 2003, Francis has composed works for sound installation, participating in group and solo shows at galleries throughout New Zealand. He has collaborated for recording and/or performance with many artists including Bruce Russell, Francisco Lopez, Jason Kahn, Mattin, Birchville Cat Motel, Gate, MSBR, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lawrence English, Rosy Parlane, Howard Stelzer, Jason Lescalleet, Jay Sullivan, Empirical, Pumice, Kuwayama Kiyoharu, Phil Dadson, Anthony Guerra, Sean Meehan, Ishigami Kazuya, Antony Milton, James Kirk, MHFS, Tim Coster, Paul Winstanley, Takefumi Naoshima, Toshihiro Koike. Design by Richard Francis" [label info] www.kormplastics.nl 2009 €13.00
LUNAR ABYSS QUARTET Hyperborean 10 Erster Vinyl-Release des sphärisch-mystischen Duos (Katerina Baryatinskaya & Evgeny Savenko) aus St.Petersburg - hier enthalten sind 4 Stücke feinster, osteuropäisch geprägter experimental-drone-ambient, bei dem die menschliche Stimme die zentrale Rolle spielt; so gibt es religiös anmutende Gesänge, geloopte Stimmen-Samples und perkussive Strukturen zu hören, oder wie beim zweiten Stück elfenhafte Sirengesänge, die sich mit Meeresbrandung durchmischen... Strong first vinyl-release of this russian duo, where the human voice (looped, chorals) plays a central role.. “ The fifth release in well-acclaimed Prometheus series is a new work of Lunar Abyss Quartet, a very interesting newcomer from St. Petersburg that have played on last year’s Heilige Feuer III festival. It is their first vinyl after a few self-released CDRs and “Zheleznaya Voda” CD. This 4-trx 10” is a mysterious travel into the heart of ancient Baltia, where the cold lakes and moss-covered stones in the pine-woods still keeping the secrets of the times long forgotten… Chants, ambient layers and delicate percussion together with some sound effects shroud the listener in the mist of the Hidden… It could be described as a kind of a mix between first TMLHBAC with some Werkbund tracks but with absolutely unique feel. Their best work to date, very recommended! The release is limited to 300 copies and comes in a usual PROMETHEUS series package with a silver embossed back cover and silver-on-black printed front cover.” [press release] 2003 €12.00
LUNDVALL, TOR The Shipyard LP "Tor Lundvall has graced us with yet another remarkable album this year. Previously, Lundvall had introduced himself to Dais with his masterpiece album Sleeping & Hiding and struck lightning twice with the resilient The Seasons Unfold box set and now we are humbled to be crafting the strings with the curation of his most recent effort. The Shipyard was recorded during the dramatic season change-over of '09/'10, during which time Lundvall was immersing himself in portrait studies of local maritime themes and nautical life at the docks. This instrumental collection of songs composed the soundtrack to the final renderings of these conceptual ideas put side by side, for which semblance he is most know for. Limited to 500 hand numbered vinyl copies (comes with a free MP3 download coupon) with artwork by Tor Lundvall." [label info] www.daisrecords.com 2012 €18.00
  The Park LP "In 2012, ambient composer Tor Lundvall and Dais Records presented his second instrumental masterpiece entitled The Shipyard (2006’s Empty City being the first). After its release and universal praise, Lundvall had confided that there was a third instrumental album nearing completion entitled The Park. Fostering his natural habitat of the wooded landscapes of Eastern Long Island, Lundvall again set about capturing his portrait studies and composing a lurid and abstract soundtrack to accompany his source of inspiration. In Tor’s own words…"I first thought about making an album about a quiet park during a morning walk back in the frigid February of 2011. Song titles started popping into my head long before any music was recorded. 'Symbols on Pavement' was the first title that came to me, but ended up being the last piece recorded. Like most of my previous albums "The Park" follows a timeline, in this case, beginning on an early spring morning and ending on a late summer evening. The track sequence also maps out the shifting light and weather patterns during the course of a day. For the first time in years, I've incorporated field recordings into the music, other than the sounds recorded from outside my studio window. I carried my portable recorder with me during bike rides and walks through my favorite parks, recording birds, insects, lawnmowers, wood chippers, field games, and other less definable sounds. Parks have always been my sanctuaries and my greatest sources of inspiration since childhood. Although this album is not focused on one park in particular, the music resonates strongly with memories of my favorite childhood park, The James A. McFaul Environmental Center in Wyckoff, New Jersey. The McFaul Center is a place of quiet beauty, but it is also filled with shadows and secrets, especially deep within the Nature Trail. The final track, 'Closes At Dusk', is an homage to the siren which shrieked every evening from behind the towering pines." Limited to 300 vinyl editions (along with a free MP3 download coupon) with artwork by Tor Lundvall." [label info] www.daisrecords.com 2015 €22.50
LUNDVALL, TOR & LEILA ABDUL-RAUF Ibis / Quiet Seaside 7inch "Over the past few years, Tor Lundvall has thoughtfully displayed his ambient sound works in connection with Dais Records, releasing two retrospective multi-disc box sets and two full length albums. Apart from his collaboration with Tony Wakeford on Autumn Calls, collaborations with others have been extremely rare. Tor and multi-instrumentalist, Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum / Hammers of Misfortune / formerly of Amber Asylum) first got in touch in late 2011. Their exchanges eventually led to a musical collaboration of both like-minded artists joining in to illustrate their unique and personal visions of nature, life and art. During a visit to Lundvall's home in May 2012, Leila wrote a spontaneous track on Tor's Winter Piano entitled Ibis. Tor recorded and engineered the track along with Leila's vocals. Later that month, Lundvall added various sounds and ambient washes to the mix. A solo version of Ibis, featuring the original piano / vocals but with additional horn, was released on Abdul-Rauf's debut LP Cold and Cloud on Saadi Saati Records in 2013 (Lundvall also designed the sleeve and created the cover art for this LP). The earlier, collaborative version of Ibis has remained unreleased until now. It was agreed that a 7" was the perfect format. On the reverse, Lundvall has written a new piece entitled Quiet Seaside constructed around Abdul-Rauf's guitar riffs which Lundvall also recorded during her 2012 visit. The track captures Tor's signature lush keyboard and ambient whirl. The early mix was sent to Leila who worked in her slow-moving brass performance and textured tone scales to make this work as introspective as it is beautiful. Limited edition of 300 vinyl copies featuring artwork by Tor Lundvall. Release due on August 5, 2014." [label info] www.daisrecords.com 2014 €11.50
LUSTMORD First Reformed CD Lustmord is a Welsh electronic musician, composer and sound designer based in Los Angeles. Active since 1980 he has released a prolific body of work across various labels such as Touch, Hydra Head and Blackest Ever Black. Often credited for starting the dark ambient genre with his 'Heresy' album in 1990, Lustmord's music has been described as sweeping and profound, a vast dreamlike soundscape that utilises organic and real-world scenes as source material. Lustmord and Cargo Records are happy to announce the launch of Vaultworks. Originally an imprint intended to release short editions of live CDs at his live shows, it is now launched as a wider platform for his work in general. Kickstarting a planned series of new releases and reissues is the first time Vinyl and CD release of his soundtrack to Paul Schrader's 2017 film First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried and Cedric Kyles. The release features extended versions of the score formatted as a standalone album. The double vinyl edition includes an extra track "Venice" which was featured at the Venice Film Festival red carpet event. The CD edition has tracks formatted to crossfade into each other for a continuous listening experience. https://lustmord.bandcamp.com/album/first-reformed 2019 €14.00
M.B.(MAURIZIO BIANCHI) / LAND USE TSE-K LP Nach der schönen "Psychoneurose" schon die zweite Zusammenarbeit von LAND USE mit BIANCHI. Zwei lange dark-drone Stücke, sanft walllende sub-marine akustische Massen in denen sich alles verliert: Stimmen, Sirentöne, Klackern, tauchen am Rande der Wahrnehmung auf um in endlosen Weiten wieder zu verschwinden... "Maurizio Bianchi is back on vinyl! A new special limited edition from Small Voices and the father of Italian industrial music, together with Land Use from Holland in this new chapter of his legendary career. An oppressive meditative obscure early-industrial symphony based on two monolithic pieces of thick throbbing stuff. A long deep trip into the darker meanderings of the human mind... good luck!" [label notes] "...Let's be honest, we have no idea what any of that means, but it is clouded in mystery, and in that way definitely represents the sounds contained on TSE-K, which at its very core is a minimal drone record, a gorgeous one at that. nothing really harsh or heavy, more dark and soothing and dreamy, but within the swirling low end tones and softly whirring rumbles lurk all manner of melody, and of texture, overtones create strange rhythmic pulses, the sounds occasionally coalesce into thick shimmering throbs, before slipping back into the drifting blackness below. In the case of TSE-K, headphones are most definitely like a diving bell, letting the listener sink into the inky blackness, and observe the various sonic elements and subtle melodic activities that are all tangled up in the blackened layers of warm ominous murk. The flip side offers up more of the same, but the drone element is a bit more subtle, more of a backdrop for slivers of feedback, and grinding bits of textural buzz, more colors, the shades of black bleeding into browns and reds, not quite as abject and cold, streaks of glowing warmth shooting through a wide open expanse of greyed ambience and abstract post industrial minimalist drift." [Aquarius Records] www.smallvoices.it 2007 €14.50
M.B.[MAURIZIO BIANCHI] + [P. ANDERSSON / NORDVARGR / JARL] S.F.A.G. / S.F.A.G. - De-Composed do-CD "ANTE-FACTS : after the disintegrative period of my production (from “Symphony for a Genocide” to “Das Testament”), the purchase of a misanthropic echo-machine and the consequent decay of the electric-analogue machinery, my efforts was redirected to a pre-recording sound sublimation, so I started to re-compose the electronic metastasis of early times, filtering through dehumanizing effects of the echo-machine, keeping attention particularly to the explanatory process of my ancestral subjectivism. FACTS : the modulatory shaking of S.F.A.G is the oxygenating prelude to the irradiating bionic music later developed through levigating works such as “Endometrio” and “Carcinosi” and represents a milestone in my pre-apocalyptic production which later will culminate into the horrid of “Armaghedon”. The exegesis of this work reflects a strong attachment to smooth and round effects of the roughness of the frantic early days, but with a constant preference for the symbiosis between well pre-ordered sound masses and not well defined radio broadcasts, like nebulae drifting in a space in trembling condensation. POST-FACTS: The interest of Gary Mundy of the British “Broken Flag” label (who later would have released the esoteric "The Plain Truth") gave me the incentive to make him listen to the demo tape which was of his liking so that in January 1983 he decided to publish the album as a tape with the title "SFAG 1981" (the year relates to the link with the date of the beginning of my vinyl production). In the early 90's Tegal Records was releasing a non-authorised "truncated" version on CD, but this new version of OEC maintains the integrity of the entire work and was completely digitally remastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D’être) [Maurizio Bianchi]. The Original album is accompanied by a second CD with 3 de-compositions using extracts of the original S.F.A.G. recordings done by 3 well knows Nordic industrial artists : Peter Andersson [Raison D'Être] Henrik Nordvargr Björkk [MZ.412] Erik Jarl [IRM] For same samples go here : http://www.oldeuropacafe.com/main.php?nav=pd&prdct=10261" [label info] www.oldeuropacafe.com 2010 €18.00
MACHINEFABRIEK Ranonkel CD "After countless self-released 3" CD-Rs, here's the second more widely distributed full-length album by Holland's Rutger Zuydervelt presenting six tracks of post-industrial ambience. Zuydervelt works with live instruments, mostly piano and guitar, and intense computer processing to create gloomy instrumentals. This is Machinefabriek's real follow up to Marijn - which is now available on vinyl through Burning World Records. Zuydervelt on Ranonkel: "Ranonkel is the real follow up to Marijn. A bit more subtle and crystallized. And a little bit better of course in my opinion. The track "Zink" was released earlier as a 3-inch, but it fitted in so good with the rest of the tracks that I could not resist including it on Ranonkel." [label info] www.burningworldrecords.com 2008 €12.00
Veldwerk CD "Sublime drone music and field recordings by Rutger Zuydervelt. 'Slovensko I & II' are best seen as a travel diary, recorded in Slovakia. RZ made 'sound snapshots' with a small digital recorder. A major influence both while recording and assembling the tracks was Chinese sound artist Yan Jun. 'Rusland' is a sound collage comprising field recordings and sections of live performances made in Russia. An incredible adventure and culture shock with long train journeys, bizarre venues and amazing people. 'The Breaking Water' can be heard as a sonic portrait of Rotterdam's famous Erasmus bridge. It includes recordings taken from both on and beneath the bridge, along with further sounds from the river that it crosses, the Nieuwe Maas. 'Floor & Radio' is a contrast to the outdoor pieces recorded for the the installation 'Licthung' in Radolfzell, Germany. Contrasted against the outdoor silence was the squeaking floor in the guest house and the distorted signal and static from the radio. Sometimes there's music in everything. Makino Takashi asked RZ to perform a score for his film 'In Your Star'. After a screening in Tokyo, a studio version was recorded. The result is 'Apollo', a sonic journey to space and beyond. Digipak." [label info] www.coldspring.co.uk " 'Field work' is the translation of this 'new' CD by Machinefabriek. It has pieces of music that deal, one way or another, with field recordings from various travels Machinefabriek made and I put the word new between '' because all but one of this pieces were released before, mostly by Rutger Zuydervelt himself as 3"CDRs but 'Slovensko' as a 7" by Champion Version. I am not sure, but I seem to have reviewed them all, so in the same spirit of this CD, I'll re-run my reviews. (Vital Weekly 651): Recently Machinefabriek played in Russia four concerts as part of the Dutch Punch festival. Everything was duly recorded, but not released as such. The 3"CDR 'Rusland' is an extensive re-edit of all the concerts plus some additional home recording. The guitar plays the all important role here, like in more of Machinefabriek's recent work Soft tinkling, with slowly enveloping pedal work. On top there is a bit of cracks and pops and with sparsely orchestrated field recordings. A thoroughly relaxing piece of music, but one in which there is more sound than in 'Drawn'. Nice release and on the website there is another twenty-five minute piece waiting for you. (Vital Weekly 714): For 'The Breathing Bridge' he uses sounds taped at the Erasmus Bridge and the river Nieuwe Maas, both in Rotterdam and creates two pieces of music with that, although it wasn't easy to see the distinction between both. As with many of his recent outings, Zuydervelt is all about atmospheric music, but arrives there from different ends. Sometimes with musical instruments and sometimes with field recordings, such as in this case. For the most part the music humms at a low, bass end level, until it bursts out somewhere halfway through the second piece, after which things die out again. (Vital Weekly 709): Despite a plethora of releases, Rutger Zuydervelt never ceases to surprise. Not always I must admit, as there is a distinct style of his own, but sometimes he does something out of the ordinary. 'Slovensko' is such a thing. In September 2010 he went on holiday to Slovakia, armed with his camera (he is a designer after all) and these days also with a digital recorder. He collected a bunch of field recordings which he, back home, edited into the two parts of 'Slovensko'. No guitars this time here, but pure field recordings, edited, cut, mixed together into two lovely collages of sound. Motor sounds, dogs, voices, fences and metal gates and some more obscured sounds are put together in quite a cinematic manner. Not just a continuing ambient sound but a wonderful play of various sounds. This may very well be the first time that Zuydervelt worked so solely with field recordings. And with some fine result. (Vital Weekly 756): This work contains excerpts of an audio-visual installation which you can actually still visit, up to December 5th at the Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzeil, Germany. The work is a collaborative effort of Rutger Zuydervelt and Steve Roden, both responsible for the music an Sabina Burger, who did the visual component for this work. The later shows reflection of trees in water, or rain drops falling in water. The music is a duet between Roden and Zuydervelt and seems to be combining the best of both ends: the acoustic sounds of Roden (chimes, bells, cups) and Zuydervelt's careful electronic manipulation thereof. The music and film go together really well, I'd say. Poetic, silent and light. An excellent three way combination. (FdW) (Vital Weekly 768): When I opened this up in Itunes it gave the correct title and as 'genre' it read 'soundtrack', which is quite funny. Apollo and soundtrack: how can be not avoid thinking of Brian Eno? Rutger Zuydervelt is not Brian Eno, simply because the theory side of things lack in his work (so far!), but music wise he is probably quite close to the work of the master of ambient. In this case he presents an 'alternate' edit of the soundtrack for Makino Takashi's film 'In Your Star', which I haven't seen, but its based on the Nasa flight control samples at the beginning and some highly atmospheric music, but with a slight edge to it. There are at times some piercing sounds, a glitch like rhythm here and there and it is strong atmospheric music of great stellar quality. Spacious, to stick with the theme of space travel, like the processed sound of a rocket flying over low. A particular strong work with a slight change of sound, which proofs that Zuydervelt is on the move again. Great package too. For all of you who missed out on these limited releases or who think CDRs suck (or vinyl for that matter) now in glorious 'ever-lasting' CD format. An excellent choice of pieces that really fit together very well." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2011 €12.00
Dubbeltjes CD "Zoharum welcomes multitalented Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek to its fold. We are very happy that Rutger decided to choose our label to release his new compilation of rare works entitled "Dubbeltjes". It consists of 11 track recorded between 2008 and 2013. Rutger Zuydervelt talks about "Dubbeltjes": Short playing time formats, like 7-inches and 3-inch cdrs, are great to work with. More than on regular albums, the durational limitations are useful to experiment with and to create really focused, cristalised pieces. Most of these tracks focus on a very limited palette of sounds. "Hilary" and "Jeffery" for example, are constructed using solely trombone recordings from (you guessed it) Hillary Jeffery (of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble). "Huiswerk" Part 1 and 2 were made using a simple setup of electric guitar and sampler. And probably a suprise in my discography are "My Funny Valentine" and "Oh Doctor Jesus", two jazz classics, in collaboration with bass clarinet player Gareth Davis. All these sets of songs have a very specific quality to them. These tracks are among my personal favorites. Most of them aren't available on a physical format anymore, so it's great to gather them on the album 'Dubbeltjes'. The tracks are presented as pairs or trios, as they appeared on their original releases. It's up to you, the listener, to either experience these combinations seperatly, hear the album in continuous play, or use shuffle mode to make new combinations. "Dubbeltjes" is released in a 3-panel ecopak in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies." [label info] www.zoharum.com "Here at Vital Weekly a lot of music released by Machinefabriek is discussed, but there is a lot more than doesn't make it here, as Machinefabriek is also very active in the field of highly limited vinyl, lathe cut and cassette only releases. Luckily he is well known enough to have every now and then a compilation of these rarities, such as 'Dubbeltjes' ('dimes'). Here we have two pieces from compilations plus two 7"s, a lathe cut 5", a cassette and a 3"CDR, twelve pieces in total. Of these, I reviewed the lathe cut 5" with the jazz standards 'My Funny Valentine' and 'Oh Doctor Jesus' (Vital Weekly 789), which didn't sound like jazz anyway. One of the nicer things about such compilations as this one is that all of these pieces are relatively short and to the point and we hear Machinefabriek occasionally experimenting with form, such as 'Ontrafelde Tonen 1', which is more like musique concrete than his signature ambient guitar sound, which are present here, such as in 'Ax'. All of it gets a place in here, with a nice variety. At forty-eight minutes not the longest of anthologies you could imagine, but it's compiled to be entertaining, listenable and varied, all of which in the comfort of Machinefabriek's drone inspired music." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2014 €12.00
  Drum Solos LP "Drums (played with sticks, mallets, bow and tuning forks) and processing by Rutger Zuydervelt. "Driven by my love for solo albums by drummers and percussionists like Jon Mueller, Wil Guthrie, Nick Hennies and Burkhard Beins, I've made 'Drum Solos'. It's my take on a solo drum record, despite the fact that I lack the talent to hit a steady beat or a play a drum roll. Instead, I used the sounds of a drum kit as a sounce for further processing. I booked a rehearsel room with a drum kit, and recorded as much sounds as I could in one afternoon. Hitting, bowing, stroking, whatever ways I could find to create sounds, I recorded. And these soundfiles were chopped and screwed til it sounded like what you hear on the album. Each track focusses on one part of the drum kit. I like to think that purposefully employed limitations like that make me more creative, and my work more focussed. It's part of the aim to make my music as minimalistic and 'pure' (whatever that may be) as possible. In this case it resulted in a short but varied and at times meditative album that might not have any virtuoso drum acrobatics on it, but shows its quality on a more subtle level." ~RZ. Another great experimental and droning Machinefabriek album. Sleeve printed in metallic pantone gold ink. Limited edition of 300 copies on black vinyl." [label info] www.backwards.it "It shouldn't be a surprise that the ever prolific Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) hasn't found the time to do everything that's he wanted to do in his artistic career. With his hundreds of recordings that have poured fourth in mostly tiny editions as well as his collaborations, he's rarefied the sounds from guitars and electronics into cracked crescendos of half-melodic smears of drone and noise full of doleful cavernous swells and dark-star explosions. Yes, we've long been smitten by his work; but we'll admit that we were a little skeptical of an album entitled Drum Solos that began with the preamble that Zuydervelt had long wanted to study the art of percussion but never found the time. Fortunately, this is not a half-assed first attempt at trying to make avant-garde percussive tumble like Will Guthrie or Eddie Prevost; rather, it's perfectly beautiful Machinefabriek album using the drumkit as the source material. With much filtering and signal processing, Zuydervelt broadcasts echoing tones of slow-unfurling sonar pulses across a bed of soft shimmering ambience and rumbling atmosphere. The cymbals seem to be the only part of the kit that he's left mostly free of processing; but even so, he's bowing the cymbals to create those same textured drones that Organum produced many moons ago. Rhythm is mostly shed in lieu of weightless tone-float and spiralling, ghostlike re-appearances of his reconfigured drum sounds. It's hardly what anyone would ever consider when thinking of a drum solo record, but in the context of a Machinefabriek album, it's pretty damn majestic." [Aquarius Rec.] 2014 €12.50
MAEROR TRI Yearning for the Secret(s) of Nature CD "Dass die Aufnahmen dieses in einer 300er Auflage wiederveröffentlichten Tapes schon fast zwanzig Jahre auf dem Buckel haben, hört man in keiner Sekunde! Da hat jemand eine wirklich sehr gute und feinfühlige Re-Mastering-Arbeit abgeliefert. MAEROR TRI sind ja immer noch in reduzierter Besetzung als TROUM unterwegs und Herr Knappe betreibt das allgemein bekannte Drone-Label mit angegliederten Vertrieb. MAEROR TRI waren sicher damals eine der interessantesten und auch aktivsten Industrial-Bands der Kassettenszene, die schnell den Sprung auf Vinyl und später auch auf CD vollzogen und hervorragend gemeistert haben. Ihre Musik ist sehr spirituell, meditativ und extrem fließend. Nicht wirklich Ambient, dafür gibt es einfach zu viele krachige Eruptionen, noch nicht Drone, was man heute darunter versteht, sondern eine Art psychedelisches Ritual, das positiv, neugierig und befreiend wirkt und in keinster Weise destruktiv oder mystisch verklärt ist, wie es ja seinerzeit sehr beliebt war. MAEROR TRI sind sicher eine der Wiederentdeckungen dieser Zeit und heute noch genauso spannend und unberechenbar wie damals. Vielleicht auch die einzigen legitimen Nachfahren des Krautrocks? Leider auch schon wieder lange Geschichte ... Wunderbar ..." [Carsten Vollmer, OX-Fanzine] "Born as an obscure cassette on Fool's Paradise (London 1993), this exclusive and essential work by Maeror Tri made a brief appearance earlier as a CD-r on EE Tapes (Saint Nix 2001) before it quickly vanished into oblivion. Due to popular demand it has finally been made available again as a limited CD release! Repolished in sound and housed in a new designed jacket, 'Yearning....' has now become of full value between such masterpieces as 'Myein' or 'Language of flames and sound'. Don't miss it this time....... Restoring/remastering work by Anders Peterson @ghostsounds.net Art design by Alan McClelland @eyelyft.blogspot.com" [label info] www.myspace.com/eetapes 2009 €13.00
Multiple Personality Disorder CD "... this debut CD by the German trio Maeror Tri is a devastating experience in sonic art. In the realm of Soviet France, Cranioclast or The Hafler Trio, its's hard to call such constructed wedges of noise music, this is something else. In fact I think it just scared four people who entered the Ultima Thule shop, leaving with bewildered and perplexed looks on their faces! Be they atmospheric or intensive, Maeror Tri offer a challenging sound that defies description." [Alan Freeman, AUDIO, 1993] "Maeror Tri als der J.G. BALLARD der Musik." [Vi-Va-Vogel, Auf Abwegen] "Some music is related to a period, because of the sound of the amplifiers, recording possibilities, effects and synthesizers. The technic colors the sound during that period and gives is that time limit. I cannot say that about the re-release of the timeless sounds at the CD "Multiple Personality Disorder" (MPD) of the not anymore existing German group Maeror Tri. The groups existed from 1998 - 1996 and has the following members Stefan "Baraka [H]" Knappe, Martin "GLIT[s]CH" Gitschel and Helge Siehl. Stefan Knappe and Martin Gitschel continues to make music with the group Troum and releases music with the vinyllabel Drone Records. From 1998 - 1993 Maeror Tri released a lot of tapes. The music for the first CD Multiply Personality Disorder was recorded in 1991 and released in 1993 by Korm Plastics as a limited edition of 600 in the serial Introductionaire to promote the music of new musical artists. For now the re-release has been done by the Purplesoil from the Czech Republic. During the musical project the group examined the different states of mind and characters by means of music and they want to confront the listener with the totally different states of mind and feeling of people with MPD. The CD exist of five compositions, with different moods, from ambient and atmospheric to aggressive and anxious. And really I was confronted with the different moods some with MPD. The meaning of the album has been successful. During that same period I was working in a psychiatric hospital with people with so-called personality diseases. I worked also with people with MPD and they presented themselves with totally different characters, behaviour, clothing, sexual preference and sound of the voice. I was really very difficult to work with these people because I had to deal with one person, but sometimes during daytime with three or four different persons. Most of these people had very bad childhood experiences and they try to deal with the some treating or stressful reality with different personalities. For now MPD has become more on the background but this release is really a good flashback of that period and a successful experiment of Maeror Tri." [JKH / Vital Weekly] 2009 €13.00
  Meditamentum (I & II) do-CD After a successful reissue of a long-lost classic "Emotional Engramm", MAEROR TRI returns to Zoharum and New Nihilism with another album. This time it is a double, deluxe reissue of both volumes of "Meditamentum" (released previously on Holonom and Manifold respectively). Unavailable for many years, "Meditamentum" is a collection of tracks culled from tape releases and rarities hidden on many compilations. It spans the whole existence of Maeror Tri, starting with 2 tracks from 1989 ending with 3 tracks from 1996. It is a sort of "best of" Maeror Tri, as it tells the story of the bands progress. From rough edges of "Peak Experience" to dreamy soundscapes of "The Beauty of Sadness". "Meditamentum" is also a document of the underground tape scene of the 1980s and 1990s, and of a genius of MAEROR TRI as purveyors of mind-altering sonic experience. It's "Music for the Brain" at its best. The release is presented in a lavish gatefold Japanese vinyl replica designed by Marcin Łojek (Ibsendesign, responsible also for the cover for Zoharum's reissue of "Emotional Engramm"). Each volume is extended with a bonus track making the whole collection 155 minutes long and comprising of 23 tracks. The sound is greatly enhanced by our remastering wizard Łukasz Miernik. "Meditamentum" is co-released by Zoharum and New Nihilism to give you the maximum sonic experience. This double CD is strictly limited to 500 copies." [label info] www.zoharum.com "Whenever there is no new music to digest, I return to my collection and see what I have - I guess a pretty normal activity if you love music. I tend to play music label or group-wise, so a while ago I pulled out all the Maeror Tri CDs I have - which I guess is pretty much all of them in their original released form - and had that on play for a couple of days. Not much later it was the turn for Troum, Maeror Tri successor - and I decided that I liked Maeror Tri better, even when the differences are pretty small. Just a matter of highly private opinion, but I am bringing this up, since today I got this double pack of the two 'Meditamentum' releases. The first volume was released by Holonom and then re-issued by Manifold, who also released a second volume of it. Both of these releases compile tracks that were scattered on compilation cassettes in the very early Maeror Tri, the years of inexpexerience and lots of experiment. It's years that I have close to my heart and very early on I was in contact with the band and liked their music straight away. I reminded me of Zoviet*France and was regarded back then as ambient industrial. Through all these twenty-three tracks (two are new bonus pieces, also from compilations, but on the previous volumes) you can follow their early steps from Maeror Tri on CD one which spans 1989-1992 and their more refined sound on CD two, 1992-1996, when their music gained more and more depth. Still all highly ambient, right from 'The Threat' (1989) to 'Res Magnifica' (1996) with endless sustaining sounds, drones, processed field recordings and harmonium/guitar/percussion sounds and sometimes bringing the sound back, deep into the earth. Tons of effects have been used, but all with the right amount. If you are a Maeror Tri fan you may have the original releases, but worth here for the bonus tracks and the excellent remaster. Or if you are curious what the hell all the fuzz is about this obscure band in it's day worth all these re-issues, then this is also your place to start." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2013 €18.00
MALDUR ATAI Patrols of Paradise 10inch "Two long and powerful tracks of Maldur Atai provide a unique interpretation of the political and religious insularity and power of the Muslim world, secret currents and moods of this mechanism expanding its influence. The listeners will discover powerful, solid ambient, political incantations of the Muslims and strong, unsettling atmosphere in the professionally constructed tracks of this 10 inch vinyl. This captures the reflection of today's Iran. It is mysterious and alluring, vilified by Zionist propaganda, yet independent and unbroken." [label info] www.autarkeia.org 2010 €12.00
  Holy Grief 7inch "This first single of Maldur Atai project is surprisingly complete although comes out in a short format. This is a rare case among 7 inch vinyls. It is organic. After you finish listening, you have an impression that a longer format including more tracks would simply destroy this deep, delicately sacral atmosphere. Speaking about style, the single could be classified as ambient, yet while listening to it, it becomes clear that the atmosphere generated by the single is much more than the antiseptic, statistical classification. Compression was deliberately not used for mastering the record. The authors recommend listening to the single silently." [label info] www.autarkeia.org 2010 €8.00
MALONE, KALI Velocity Of Sleep LP "A somnambulant modern masterwork, Kali Malone’s 2017 debut full length album is made available again on vinyl some four years since its limited private press of just 100 copies co-released by XKatedral and Bleak Environment. Composed, recorded and produced in Stockholm 2015-2016, ‘Velocity of Sleep’ sees Kali Malone’s work rendered in a septet of strings, gongs, lute, electronics and tape in the vast R1 Reaktorhallen (Sweden’s first nuclear reactor), the electroacoustic studio EMS, and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her presence is crucial, and liminal, making precise use of tuned sine waves and Studer B67 tape manipulation, while instrumental performance is handled by Peter Söderberg performing on the long-necked Theorbo (a large baroque lute, pictured on the sleeve), Samuel Löfdahl and Oskar Mattsson on Gongs, Vilhelm Bromander on Double Bass, Marta Forsberg on Viola and Adam Grauman on Viola de Gamba - all uniting to produce what feels like a geological time lapse and distillation of European and Indian classical drone musicks. As far as opening solo statements go, ‘Velocity of Sleep’ is among the most memorable to have emerged this past decade from slow music and experimental classical paradigms. Its languorous yet rigorous consolidation of ideas from across the aeons crosses paths with others before her - the musics of Pauline Oliveros, Phill Niblock, Harley Gaber, Oren Ambarchi all spring to mind - but more importantly helped reset the limits of contemporary music in Malone’s own image. The 3-part, 43 minute work is an ideal example of how staid notions of early and classical music have been jettisoned to instead focus on fundamentals of tone, timbre, tuning, space and temporality with a radical and transfixing effect coolly detached from any directly traditional/sacred meanings. Peter Söderberg’s justly tuned Theorbo plucks a slowly evolving additive pattern expanded by frippertronic tape delays on the 20 minute title piece, setting a stark tone for a quietly breathtaking resonance of gongs and floating sine waves in ‘1113’ that rest right on the biting point of sublime dissonance, while ‘In Light of Marwa’ pitches into a sort of raga-folk-drone tuned with the fine, durational intensity recalling Harley Gaber’s ‘The Winds Rise In The North’ and earthy cadence of Pauline Oliveros’ vision, yet somehow concentrated, refreshed in a way that’s best felt, and quite impossible to describe." https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/velocity-of-sleep "Nuclear waste takes 100,000 years to cease to be a danger to human life: recorded in R1 Reaktorhallen, Sweden’s first nuclear reactor (as well as the electroacoustic studio EMS, and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm) Kali Malone’s slow, oneiric debut ‘Velocity Of Sleep’ sonifies some of the eeriness of human action’s long timeframes. Disregarding tired notions of western classical composition, the works here — incorporating justly tuned Theorbo, frippertronic tape delays, tuned sine waves, Double Bass, Gongs and Viola de Gamba — seek to explore tone, timbre and tuning from the ground up, approaching an experience listeners to Indian classical drone music will be more familiar with. A mesmeric, transcendent listen limited to 1000 copies, this reissue offers listeners an insight into the compositional work that would become Cast of Mind and The Sacrificial Code." 2021 €36.00
MANINKARI Phantasmes LP "Phantasmes is a 50 minutes experimental movie written and directed by Thomas Pantalacci. “A sensory experience between dream and reality, fantasy and eroticism, awakening and sleep…” For that purpose, the band Maninkari wrote a two-part - one per side - 39 minutes soundtrack with multiple pieces. The tracks are not marked out because here, even silence is vital. It doesn’t soothe the tensions, but amplifies the feeling of oddness of the music. Dark ambient, syncopated drumming, dissonant chords… Maninkari use all the sonority spectrum, mixing aggressive high-pitched violin with deep and voluptuous bass sounds. Playing on the thin border between dreaming and awakening, Phantasmes is a mental and physical record; seductive, disturbing and lustful. Includes a download code for a free download of the album." [label info] www.three-four.net "The brothers Charlot return here (see also Vital Weekly 843 and 815) with thirty-nine minutes of music which they recorded for a '50 minute experimental movie written and directed by Thomas Pantalacci' and which is described as as 'a sensory experience between dream and reality, fantasy and eroticism, awakening and sleep…'. Usually Maninkari use a lot of percussion, but it seems that in their more recent musical outings they also use other instruments, such as viola, cimbalom, keyboards and samples. And yes, lots of effects. They easily reach for that bit of reverb, to add that extra layer of 'space' and 'mystic' to the music. Thank god, however, not always, and they use it wise and sparsely. Of course I haven't seen the movie, but I can imagine, based on the soundtrack, what it will look like. Dark and moody, but not always as 'loaded' as you would expect. Maninkari also leave room for quieter moments, sparser moments if you will. Sometimes a simple drone is all that we are left with, or even some crackles - it might be the vinyl. But then sometimes the music start to expand, growing, bigger and takes on dramatic courses. For instance on the b-side, somewhere half way through. When that happens, it usually involves percussion, loud and clear - manually and not mechanically played. The dramatic changes in the music made me surely curious about the film. There is a lot of tension in this piece of black vinyl. Excellent mood enhancher." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2013 €16.00
Un Phénomène De Reliance CD After a few years, Maninkari returns to Zoharum with a new, already third studio album for the label. "Un Phenomene De Reliance" is a kind of concept album, it's something like a suite, consisting of four separate compositions. There are no spectacular twists or unexpected musical revolts here. The duo of Charlot brothers continues to follow the path chosen by them, masterfully developing the formula they developed years ago. We are dealing here with illustrative music, extremely vivid, strongly influencing the imagination of the audience.Certainly, it could serve as the soundtrack to an unspecified movie based on a somewhat dreamlike plot. It would be great as a sound for a performance or ballet. The French use classical instruments with quite a lot of freedom, and at the same time with impeccable virtuosity, to create a rather peculiar musical abstract, based on compositions that are characterized by incredible lightness, harmony and melodic beauty, at the same time giving the impression of fleetin, airy miniatures. where each note seems to sound only for a moment before disappearing into a huge space, filled with silence. Trying to properly describe what "Un Phenomene De Reliance" is, we can use the terms "ambient" or "chamber music". However, neither of these expressions will fully represent what is contained in this publication. At the same time, it is worth devoting special time to, somewhere in the privacy of your home, to be able to concentrate on the pleasure of listening and exploring this very intimate, personal and captivating music. https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/un-phenomene-de-reliance ###################### "Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ritual, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Frédéric and Olivier Charlot -who are also involved with other projects like Sphyxion, are back on track unleashing a new opus of Maninkari.They already released several albums but this is their third one on Zoharum. Content: The work features 4 songs which have been progressively built up by the mix of authentic instruments and electronic treatments. The viola injects a deeply, atmospheric, darkness to the work while the rhythmic make it all sound Ritual. + + + : I like Maninkari for their authenticity, the use of acoustic instruments not only adding an artistic touch to the work but also a poignant, atmospheric, touch. The title song is a true masterpiece whereon the Charlot brothers have found a perfect balance between the different instruments. The viola is absolutely terrific here. You also can notice improvised passages but the work remains constantly accessible. – – – : It needs a few minutes before you totally get into the poignant sonic universe of Maninkari. So you better be a little bit patient. Conclusion: Subtle improvisation with a styled, acoustic, touch on top." [Side-Line] 2022 €12.00
  Un Phenomene De Reliance LP After a few years, Maninkari returns to Zoharum with a new, already third studio album for the label. "Un Phenomene De Reliance" is a kind of concept album, it's something like a suite, consisting of four separate compositions. There are no spectacular twists or unexpected musical revolts here. The duo of Charlot brothers continues to follow the path chosen by them, masterfully developing the formula they developed years ago. We are dealing here with illustrative music, extremely vivid, strongly influencing the imagination of the audience.Certainly, it could serve as the soundtrack to an unspecified movie based on a somewhat dreamlike plot. It would be great as a sound for a performance or ballet. The French use classical instruments with quite a lot of freedom, and at the same time with impeccable virtuosity, to create a rather peculiar musical abstract, based on compositions that are characterized by incredible lightness, harmony and melodic beauty, at the same time giving the impression of fleetin, airy miniatures. where each note seems to sound only for a moment before disappearing into a huge space, filled with silence. Trying to properly describe what "Un Phenomene De Reliance" is, we can use the terms "ambient" or "chamber music". However, neither of these expressions will fully represent what is contained in this publication. At the same time, it is worth devoting special time to, somewhere in the privacy of your home, to be able to concentrate on the pleasure of listening and exploring this very intimate, personal and captivating music. https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/un-phenomene-de-reliance ###################### "Genre/Influences: Experimental, Ritual, Cinematic. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Frédéric and Olivier Charlot -who are also involved with other projects like Sphyxion, are back on track unleashing a new opus of Maninkari.They already released several albums but this is their third one on Zoharum. Content: The work features 4 songs which have been progressively built up by the mix of authentic instruments and electronic treatments. The viola injects a deeply, atmospheric, darkness to the work while the rhythmic make it all sound Ritual. + + + : I like Maninkari for their authenticity, the use of acoustic instruments not only adding an artistic touch to the work but also a poignant, atmospheric, touch. The title song is a true masterpiece whereon the Charlot brothers have found a perfect balance between the different instruments. The viola is absolutely terrific here. You also can notice improvised passages but the work remains constantly accessible. – – – : It needs a few minutes before you totally get into the poignant sonic universe of Maninkari. So you better be a little bit patient. Conclusion: Subtle improvisation with a styled, acoustic, touch on top." [Side-Line] 2022 €18.00
MARANHA, DAVID / FERRANDINI, GABRIEL A Fonte de Aretusa LP "A fonte de Aretusa is the convergence between the legendary organist David Maranha and the free-form young revelation drummer Gabriel Ferrandini. Based in Lisbon, Portugal this duo started in 2010, with regular rehearsals and concerts that lead to this first album that captures a bloody free live act where the music is pulsing and vibrating over a droning flow of sound. 42 minutes (here divided in two, due to vinyl restrictions) of a massive attack to the listener among free percussive frames and brutal organic drone merging together into a powerful and permanent movement of vivid music captured in one of their first live performances at ZDB venue. 150g LP, 400 gr carton cover with black inner sleeve." [label info] www.mazagran.org 2011 €17.50
MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN Records ’81-’89 CD Rares Material von diesem berühmten amerikanischen Konzeptkünstler, der mit Schallplatten arbeitet.. (s. „Record without a Cover“, LP von 1985) "Much anticipated release of early material (including unissued stuff) from the NYC master of high-art/lo-destruction vinyl manipulation. Features tracks from 1981 through 1989: early cassette-only material, obscure comp tracks, etc., packaged with detailed annotation from Marclay and liner notes from Thurston Moore. "One Thousand Cycles" is from one of Marclays's infamous recycled records -- cut up and reconfigured vinyl. "Second Coming" & "His Master's Voice" are relatable to hip hop dj-ing, but with Marclay's distinct cut-up aura; "Groove" is a massive looped drone track. The whole thing reeks of historic significance, yet still sounds vital in a contemporary sense as well -- this is the record you have been waiting for." [press release] 1997 €15.00
MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN & OKKYUNG LEE / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 6 CD "This is the re-release of the split ART-LP (Opax Records - special SPACE ART ltd ed of 100/ original 31x31 cm painting on wooden support by Roberto Opalio as cover). Last release in the "From the earth to the Spheres" split series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio aka My Cat Is An Alien on their own Opax Records imprint, sees the Italian cosmic duo splitting the media with well-known audio visual artist, performer and turntable-art innovator Christian Marclay together with cello improviser Okkyung Lee, ubiquitous figure of downtown NY avant-garde scene. Their track "Rubbings" is the result of a live performance recorded at Tonic NYC in December 2003. Christian Marclay's trademarked technique of mixing several ranges of Lps on his multiple turntables, manipulating, fragmenting and altering the phonograph records' sonic nature in accordance with his "theater of found sound" esthetics meets the uncompromising and passionate playing of Korean-born performer Lee, whose powerful cello's stabs interact with Marclay's waves of screaming sounds creating a unique, stunning scenario. My Cat Is An Alien's piece "Beyond the limits of the stars/ Beyond the limits of the grooves" was recorded in 2003 at their Space Room studio in Torino, and has been kept safely in their archive 'till September 2005, when it's been completely remixed and edited appositely for this release. One of their heaviest conceptions to date, the piece is built on electric guitars' strings moaning onto walls of space drones and electronics like ectoplasmic presences emerging from the brillliance of the Void. The initial minimal and claustrophobic guitar chords become more and more an ocean of howling moduled feedbacks combined with fragmented and distorted real-time inserts of post-romantic classical music from old 78rpm shellac records, sounding like radio frequencies transmitted via ether from the furthest reaches of the Cosmos. As the title suggests, MCIAA's need of a non-finite "space music & art" aesthetics research has led them to etch a ghost track (instead of the final lock-groove you can find on the original vinyl) to un-seal the sounds from their actual support; a purpose expressed throughout the whole "From the earth to the Spheres" series' conception." [label info] 2006 €6.66
MARHAUG, LASSE Spaghetti Western Rainbow CD "Hailing from the land of the rising snow, Lasse Marhaug has become one of the most commanding and respected sound artists in Norway. As a musician and composer he has contributed to cd, vinyl and cassette releases for labels throughout Europe, Asia and America. Aside from solo work, Marhaug contributes to several ensembles including Nash Kontroll (iDEAL) and a large Jazkamer unit (Smalltown Supernoise) with black metal legends Enslaved. Having collaborated with artists from varying fields of musik (Sunn O))), Aaron Dilloway and Maja Ratkje) Marhaug's reach extends into musik for theatre, installations and video. A salvo to Ennio Morricone, Spaghetti Western Rainbow stands testament to the Italian composer's enduring influence. Morricone collaborator Sergio Leone established the spaghetti western genre in 1964 with A Fistful of Dollars. The director used Morricone again to score the remaining two films in his three-part account of greed and violence (For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.) Leone's critics were struck by his brutal depiction of an unromantic West, but his singular style, camera angles and extension of time made his work different from any western that had come before. Lasse Marhaug exacts Leone's slow, beautiful power and love for expanse with shades of Morricone's subtle witchery to create what will inevitably be considered one of his masterworks. Harsh, dry passages blend with drifting soundscapes, bird calls and an asseverate guitar figure that promotes an invigorating context for film musik. Issued on Utech Records [001] as a micro pressing of 100 cdr copies in the winter of 2004. Lasse Marhuag first performed this music as an improvised laptop work for Chicago radio station WNUR. This edition finds the original piece remastered and divided into two tracks that open and close the album. Two unreleased tracks have been added to cpmplete the disk. Artwork inspired by the film The Great Silence." [label description] 2006 €12.00
MASIN, GIGI Plays Venezia LP LP black vinyl // LP gold vinyl ltd. 106 hand-numbered copies // CD // Tape ltd. 100 copies Five years ago, back in September 2016, Stefano Gentile published a photographic book entitled IL SILENZIO DEI TUOI PASSI (The Silence of Your Steps), which collected a series of 56 pictures, both in b/w and colour, dedicated to the nights in Venice. The book was a journey through the most remote "calli" and "campi" (streets, alleys and squares, as they're called in Venice) in search of the true 'breath' of the city, far away from the hordes of tourists who 'attack' it every day during daylight hours. On such occasion, renowned musician Gigi Masin composed a 30 minutes epic ambient track entitled VENEZIA 2016 which was the perfect soundtrack to the images included in the book. The track was published on CD and released bounded with the book itself in a limited edition of 480 copies only, and has been unavailable for years now. In 2021 Gigi Masin returned to that great piece of music and to its timeless sounds. Finally, Silentes can now offer PLAYS VENEZIA, Masin's latest work contanining a re-edited version of that 'pearl', accompanied by two unreleased tracks composed and recorded in the same period. Once again inspired by the city, Masin created an enduring and wonderful ambient masterpiece, a sort of return to the origins, to his home. Adding to the intrinsic quality of the originals, the tracks were beautifully mastered by Brandenburg Mastering in Amsterdam. PLAYS VENEZIA is simply an unmissable release and one of Masin's greatest accomplishment in a long carrier that never ceases to amaze us. 13.silentes.it/private_sounds/sps2143_gigi_masin_plays_venezia.htm 2021 €20.00
MASONNA Freak LP Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna. Maso Yamazaki founded his project in 1987, with a charismatic and glamorous personality who become a cult figure in “Japanoise” scene. Masonna’s abundant productions on his own legendary and astonishing label Coquette were presented in very limited edition, sometime totally confidential (one sole copy), and reflect his predilection for 60’s psychedelic music revisited in its own very peculiar way. He transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static. Freak is an ultra-rare cassette originally released in 1995 by Coquette in an edition of 36 copies in a special gold paper and now return for the first time in a flabbergasting vinyl format fully remastered! This mature work is very brash, earsplitting and mad. The distortion and effects on the vocals are top notch, they in combination with his awesome screaming create a complete audio assault. Sometimes pleading sobs are heard. And they are all, regularly, philologically broken, retouched, stiffened. And they mingle in the vortex. Or at most they come back to be slaughtered a little more only to be thrown back again, finally in the centrifuge. Everything is scraped, fast and beautiful and focuses an electrically overcharged universe, punctuating the thrilling and vocal sonorous power with some quite moments and brief interruptions, conferring a very particular dynamic to this work. Originally released as single side tape C30, this vinyl edition divided into two parts of about fifteen minutes each is limited to 299 copies and comes with A3 size poster with Masonna in “action pose”. Freak is an absolutely astounding piece of work by one of the great pioneers of extreme noise from Japan! This is bound to be a revelation for anyone and it can’t be missed! https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/freak 2020 €21.50
Filled with unquestionable Feelings LP Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna. Maso Yamazaki founded his project in 1987, with a charismatic and glamorous personality who become a cult figure in “Japanoise” scene. Masonna’s abundant productions on his own legendary and astonishing label Coquette were presented in very limited edition, sometime totally confidential (one sole copy), and reflect his predilection for 60’s psychedelic music revisited in its own very peculiar way. He transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static. Filled with unquestionable feelings along with Freak is an ultra-rare cassette originally released in 1995 by Coquette in an edition of only 36 copies and now return for the first time in a stunning vinyl format fully remastered! The two sides of the cassette / vinyl are completely different from each other. Side A can be considered a classic Masonna piece, where it reaches its full artistic maturity here. This side is very brash, earsplitting and mad. The distortion and effects on the vocals are top notch, they in combination with his awesome screaming create a complete audio assault. Remind also to his first period as Open your cunt and Like a vagina tapes. Everything is scraped, fast and beautiful and focuses an electrically overcharged universe, punctuating the thrilling and vocal sonorous power with some quite moments and brief interruptions, conferring a very particular dynamic to work. Side B is completely different. The voice disappears (or is no longer heard because it is covered or transformed by feedback). The structure is more compact and organized but eventually becomes far wilder, building up to pointillistic bleeps and dense layers of electronic fizz that unexpectedly cut to near-silence; these bear many uncanny resemblances to the simple melodic improvs and incessant ostinatos of Terry Riley. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/filled-with-unquestionable-feelings 2021 €21.50
Hate do-LP A towering holy grail of Japan noise music, Urashima is proud to present the first ever vinyl reissue of Masonna’s astoundingly ambitious and very ultra limited cassette, Hate, in one stunning gatefold cover double LP, in a limited edition in just 299 copies. Among the most ferocious and rare cassette from the artist discography, finally entering the light of day on vinyl analogue support. Grab a copy while you can. There aren’t many, and they’re not going to sit around for long. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/track/hate-part-2 2021 €32.00
  Masonna Vs. Bananamara LP Absolutely incredible and visionary - not to mention an engrossing, challenging, and thrilling listen - Masonna Vs Bananamara vinyl reissue stands high among the most significant of the year, allowing us to witness where it all began for a hugely important artist’s lifelong commitment to an exploration of noise music. This beautiful pressing - issued as a deluxe vinyl edition of 299 copies - is the first ever reissue of this masterstroke of noise, faithfully reproducing every aspect of the original 1989 release on Vanilla Record. Truly stunning and historically monumental within the genre, it can’t be missed by any fan of Japanese experimental music and noise Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna , is one of most prolific, adventurous, and respected noise artists, making dozens of releases on his own legendary and astonishing label Coquette, presenting them in very limited editions, sometime totally confidential (one sole copy), and reflecting his predilection for 60’s psychedelic music revisited in its own very peculiar way. He transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static. From noise lines to minimal, warbling expanses, to the ambiences and schizoid thinking effects, it’s a journey into a versatile mind who we clearly never heard enough from. Masonna claims that his interest in making noise is rooted in childhood encounters with the sounds of destruction on tv. Initially playing in Japanese punk band The Sadist, active since the mid '80s, as vocalist under aliases of Rin with his buddy and guitarist Michio Teshima, who founded Vanilla Records in 1985 to release the band's works. In a very few years Michio's label will become a reference point for all Japanese noise projects, releasing artists such as Violent Onsen Geisha, C.C.C.C., Incapacitants, Solmania, Aube, Merzbow and needless to say Masonna. On 1988 Masonna released debut album Like a Vagina on cassette by Coquette (reissued on vinyl by Urashima last year), an overdriven blast of psychedelia and harsh noise, that would rattle everything in its wake. Masonna Vs. Bananamara, Masonna’s second release, was originally issued , of course, on Vanilla Records in 1989 in a tiny vinyl edition of 290 copies. Given its iconic status and rarity, it’s little wonder that it currently commands heavy figures on the secondary market. In classic DIY form, it was recorded at home by Masonna on a variety of instruments, with hallucinatory vocals, and used no mixing and overdubbing, rendering a startlingly visceral and dense effect. Across the album’s two sides - containing a mind boggling 29 tracks - Masonna transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static, heavily underscored by explosive blistering guitars, and cascades of electronic noise, culminating as one of the most striking and emotive gestures in the entire genre of noise. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/masonna-vs-bananamara https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/masonna-vs-bananamara 2022 €23.00
MASSTHISHADDHU Shekinah CD Re-Edition of a rare cult album first out on Steven Stapleton's (NWW) own label UNITED DAIRIES in 1988. Plus as bonus for this special re-issue, a never heard, unreleased track of 30 minutes! Masstishaddhu members were Sean Breadin, Mike Watson and Richard Rupenus, all of whom were also members of METGUMBNERBONE; Richard is also a member of TNB... Tribal & Droning Psychedelia from over three decades ago - a very special album to be re-discovered. Mastered from the original tapes by Colin Potter (NWW). Shekinah comprises two side-long slabs of highly experimental music in the early Coil / Current 93 / Organum vein with touches of Eastern (or is it North American?) mysticism thrown in for good measure. ‘For The Dead & Unborn’ is a wild, chilling and uninhibited chant-cum-invocation featuring wordless vocals set against a hypnotic backdrop of percussion and bowed instruments. ‘Angels Gather Here Between Purity Of Heart and Hopeless Despair’ is taken at a much slower pace with far less accent on the chanting and more emphasis on the bowed strings and singing / ringing percussion and at times had me glancing nervously over my shoulder! - AUDION Shekinah could be described as very dark Gothic Ritual Folk with a sprinkling of occult allure. The title, cover and music all suggest bloodied altars, unfathomable rituals and mystical learning. The low and buzzing drone underscores a lava flow of chants, cellos and percussion. Whatever words are spoken during this procession of yearning melodies and utterly ethereal voices is perhaps best left for the Gods. Whatever secrets the music holds, they are simultaneously a fountain of spiritual beauty and unknowable terror. It's as if its character changed with my dispositions: if I was feeling fear then fear is what I heard. If I was feeling joyous, then the joy of the Gods shone down upon me and relaxed every fibre of my being. - BRAINWASHED In the ‘80s underground, Ritual Ambient and Tribal Ambient were both coming to fruition and although they had a rough framework there wasn't yet a concrete basis for how the genres were set to develop. Masstishaddhu exploited this potential to create a music that sounds like a well-executed modern Free Folk album - in 1988, a good decade before the New Weird America scene (spearheaded by the likes of Sunburned Hand Of The Man) began revolutionizing the idea of Folk music operating under rhythmic constraints. In this sense Shekinah is undoubtedly unique, perpetuating the 'ritual' side of ambient through disconcerting vocalizations and chants. It is deeply embedded within the Folk influence that uses atmosphere to sculpt instrumental improvisations, again, much like well-executed modern Free Folk does. - A TERTIARY SOURCE "Wiederveröffentlichung des Masstishaddhu-Albums Shekinah auf Old Europa Café Veröffentlicht am 11. Januar 2021 von Michael Old Europa Cafe bringt das ursprünglich auf Steven Stapletons Label United Dairies 1988 veröffentlichte Album „Shekinah“ von dem Metgumbnerbone-Seitenprojekt Masstishaddhu, bei dem auch Richard Rupenus von den New Blockaders mitwirkte, auf CD neu heraus. Mit den teils perkussiv-tribalen Momenten, seltsamen Blasinstrumenten und merkwürdigen Stimmen, die zwischen Kehlkopfgesang und Delirium changieren, lässt sich das Album in die Tradition industrieller Ritual-Musik einordnen. Shekinah“ klingt in Passagen, als sei der Nekrophile-Records Backkatalog (der im Laufe des Jahres von Vinyl-On-Demand wiederveröffentlicht werden wird) von David Jackman neu abgemischt worden. Neben den zwei ursprünglich enthaltenen je eine Albenseite füllenden Tracks enthält die CD ein bisher unveröffentlichtes 30-minütiges Bonusstück, das einen stärkeren Free Folk-Charakter zu haben scheint." [African Paper] 2021 €13.00
MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE Totem One LP "Vinyl reissue of the impossible to find first release in MMOB's Totem trilogy. Edition of 1000 copies. Like a reverse dark side of the New Age sound, on the Totem series Master Musicians of Bukkake perform ritualistic electric excursions into the outer and inner reaches. Relying more on the electric power of psyched guitars, analog synth chants, and exotic heavy percussion, Totem One echoes with the delusions of a West Coast Death cult. Outer spaced Gamelan, dusty fuzz rock from celestial deserts, meditations of a deranged Krishna gathering, and the blurry acoustic guitar majesty of the Cascade mountains all reveal themselves here in epic form on Totem One. Every sound and note played was put to tape by a group with a singular purging purpose. Totem One also features Vocals by MMOB honorary member Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls." [label info] www.importantrecords.com 2012 €18.50
MATHIEU, STEPHAN & EKKEHARD EHLERS Heroin LP + 12inch "Between Christmas 2000 and New Year 2001 producers Ekkehard Ehlers and Stephan Mathieu recorded an album of warm, soft, delicately crackling electronic music in the space of that week. It was christened with the ambivalent title "Heroin" and was released on CD via the label Brombron in 2001 and later in 2003 re-issued on Kit Clayton's Orthlorng Musork on double-LP with remixes the pair had commissioned as expansions. 17 years later Heroin sees its first vinyl release to include all 13 tracks from the original CD track-list on this LP + 12“ set. The centerpiece "Herz" finally receives its long deserved vinyl treatment (side C, at 45rpm) and on the flip side Thomas Brinkmann contributes a mirror in a magnificent remix of that very piece on side D. Ehlers and Mathieu were both highly prolific solo artists during the period 2000-2004, and in just two years after the initial release of "Heroin" each had produced over half a dozen new solo recordings: among them the serial masterpiece Ehlers' "Plays" (Cornelius Cardew, Hurbert Fichte, John Cassavetes, Albert Ayler, Robert Johnson) released as 5 stunning LPs in a series on Staubgold, while Mathieu's 'Full Swing Edits' spread over five 10" records plus his album 'FrequencyLib' on Mille Plateaux, 'Die Entdeckung des Wetters' on Lucky Kitchen and ‘The Sad Mac’ on Atsushi Sasaki’s Headz label were greeted to critical acclaim. Both artists were expanding their conceptual sonic approaches in the glow of developing laptop technologies which would to these times in 2020 seem quite primitive, but these two in that period used the state-of-the-art to aid and abet their conceptual visions, while at times the duo used unorthodox experimentation - yet always had a distinctively melodic and musical form at its heart and soul. Ehlers can be seen as a conceptualist, as a meta-musician who interrogates the mediums and methods of sound production - reflecting on the conditions and possibilities of improvisation (e.g. "Plays Albert Ayler") and exploits ideas of mutation and distortion of popular aesthetics played out within a ghostly form of divine pop beauty in his project März. Mathieu, originally a drummer and co-founder of what has come to be known as the Berlin 'Echtzeitmusik' scene. His approach could be similarly described as working a critical analyst and researcher: Subtly and precisely working in the realm of processing as a method of intervening in melodious/harmonic analog sound sources. Ehlers and Mathieu may not think too much about their singular productions and publications outcomes, but instead concentrate on the process and musical personality that characterizes their gesture- style itself stays in the background - and they usher a music from small minimal sound sources coaching a patient music of slow intervention - much like a refraction of light than a concrete painting or a blurred photograph - beatus accident. And indeed, "Heroin" is an album that embraces the happy accident being made up of reduced, often very catchy and very direct micro hooks which seem laser-guided into a space accepting obvious melodic beauty in what feels like an observation of musics unfolding and revealing it's DNA, embed with for a kind of yearning for innocence and naiveté - as if Satie were on the jukebox in "The Crying of Lot 49". Not to say the music is "reduced", but rather: 'restricted' and born from acceptance of limitations, and the artists allowing the sounds to just "be.." with some incremental degrees of coercion. The album not only sounds like that of 2 producers who are both dreamers and scientists, but that Ehlers and Mathieu chose to work with these means in a dialogue together to reduce pop music to its musical/tonal core, it is not Pop music anymore, rather a ghostly pointilistic itteration of song. "Heroin" is located at this transition, around that point at which tracks, that were or could have become pop compositions, irrevocably slip into a static harmonic nirvana. We are invited to follow the arch of Heroin in a slow-motion morphine musical haze. Heroin sounded timeless when originally released and proof is that it remains so, one wishes that Ehlers and Mathieu would convene again for a week, a month or an entire year to continue this process of slow rumination, picking affectionately over the sounds they both love - and then maybe when everything is condensed, evaporated they would write more songs with those sonic refractive elements that remain. Remastered by Stephan Mathieu, March 2020. Vinyl cut by Lupo @ Loop_O. Design by Caro Mikalef for Cabina." https://schwebung.bandcamp.com/album/heroin 2020 €26.00
MAXWELL, JULES Cycles / Nocturnes do-LP "Cycles is the latest album of work by Irish composer Jules Maxwell whose music has featured at London's National Theatre, The Royal Opera House, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and The Roundhouse. Most recently he has been working with the band Dead Can Dance and in 2021 he released an album entitled Burn with singer Lisa Gerrard. Cycles is an exquisite album of meditative instrumental music. It is quiet and circular in nature but deeply atmospheric and dramatic at moments. Cycles will be released on Friday 25th March on Berlin based label Ghost Palace. A limited double vinyl edition will also be available featuring the Cycles album and its predecessor Nocturnes." "Heute morgen, kurz nach fünf, kurz nach Wecker klingeln. Noch ist es verdächtig ruhig und entgegen meiner Gewohnheit, eines jahrelang antrainierten Automatismus folgend, schalte ich nicht erst den Wasserkocher und dann Deutschlandfunk ein. Sondern ich lege, während der Tee vor sich hin zieht, „Cycles“ von Jules Maxwell auf. Genauer gesagt, die erste der Doppel-LPs. Mit dem Opener „Deeper Sleeper“ in den Tag zu starten ist ungewohnt entspannt, denn sogar noisy Kinder und Jugendliche verstummen mit einem „Ohhh“ und bewegen sich auf einmal fast lautlos. Wer hätte das gedacht. Warum ich das jetzt in einer Review erwähne? Weil diese Szene vermutlich am besten beschreibt, was Jules Maxwell auf dieser Platte für eine Stimmung erzeugt. „Cycles“ ist ein ruhiges, meditatives Instrumental-Album, welches mit den ersten Tönen den Pulsschlag entschleunigt. Dennoch schafft es Maxwell Spannung aufzubauen. So, dass der*die Hörer*in ganz bei und in der Musik bleibt. In „A Rose On The Road“ führt ein Klavier, wie ein langsamer, rhythmischer Glockenschlag in den Song ein, im Hintergrund bauen sich sphärische Klänge auf, werden intensiver, dringlicher und bauen eine Dramatik auf, die ab rund dreieinhalb Minuten von einer Geige (oder ist es eine Bratsche, ich tue mich schwer damit das rauszuhören) aufgenommen wird. Nach rund fünfeinhalb Minuten haben sich die Klänge, die Töne, vereint und lösen sich auf, so dass ein sanfter Übergang zum nächsten Song geschaffen wurde. Und das, was ich hier für diesen Song beschrieben und versucht habe in Worte zu fassen, ist exemplarisch und findet auch in den anderen Songs statt. Immer anders, aber dennoch ist das Album eine Einheit und als solches zu hören. Zu hören ist Jules Maxwell zur Zeit auch Live. Er tourt mit Dead Can Dance. Termine findet ihr hier. Doch kommen wir zur zweiten LP, die sich im Gatefoldcover befindet. Hierbei handelt es sich um die, digital schon im März vergangenen Jahres erschienene LP „Nocturnes“. Jetzt auf Vinyl sind „Nocturnes“ und „Cycles“ vereint und auch musikalisch bilden sie eine Einheit. Eventuell ist „Nocturnes“ stellenweise ein wenig verspielter, zum Beispiel in „April 1964“ oder auch „Virgin Territory“ wird im Laufe des Songs verspielter. Grundsätzlich wird aber die Stimmung, die Jules Maxwell auf „Nocturnes“ kreiert hat, in „Cycles“ aufgenommen und intensiviert. Und wer jetzt bei den Stichwörtern meditativ und ruhig denkt, es wäre sicherlich nicht so seine*ihre Musik, dem*der empfehle ich mal reinzuhören. Denn die Platte berührt, egal ob man jetzt vorwiegend Progressiv Rock, Metal oder Radio-Pop hört. Wer’s nicht glaubt, spule nochmal zurück zum zweiten Absatz, oder hört halt mal rein. Erschienen ist das Vinyl auf dem Label Ghost Palace und liegt mir als Testpressung in schwarzem Vinyl vor. [Vinyl Keks] 2022 €26.50
MC PHERSON, DONALD & TETUZI AKIYAMA Vinegar & Rum CD "Originally released in 2006. Recorded in New Zealand in 2004, this is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of two virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. Donald McPherson, a native New Zealander, has released a number of extremely limited lathe-cut folk records. Tetuzi Akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in Tokyo generated around Tokyo's Off Site venue. But Tetuzi's sound owes just as much to the country blues guitarists of the '30s. His sound has taken the blues form into a new world of minimalist improvisations. His loose playing side-steps the usual clichés of the guitar in both the free improv and traditional folk scenes. Tetuzi has a varied number of very different projects from free improvisations, working with musicians across the globe, to hard minimalist electric blues boogies. Vinegar & Rum finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that upon each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem. The CD is limited to 1000 copies, with two extra tracks that do not appear on the vinyl version." [label info] www.boweavilrecordings.com 2007 €15.00
MECANO Waving Goodbye CD MECANO is a post-punk band who statrted in 1978 as a punk band from Amsterdam. They release a 7" vinyl called Face Two Face, and after that the band sound moved to post-pnk like Joy Division. Singer and band leader Dirk Polak is a poet who did few records until 1983, when stopped music to work with paiting and art. The band turned a cult classix of genre (main in Brasil, Israel and Greece). After a while the band reunion in the 90´s to a new album, and after that they did more 2 albuns. That cd was realised to 45 year anniversary for special last tour of the band before stop do live concerts. That Cd is only special for Brazilian audience in São Paulo/ Brasil at Madame Club 9-sept-2023 It was a special mastering and that cd compilation has 4 old band classics + 3 unreleased and new tracks. Mastered by Marcelo Gallo and design by Luciano Arnold. 1) LINKS - by Mecano (Dirk Polak/Pieter Kooyman/Cor Bolten/Tejo Bolten/Ton Lebbink) 2) MECANO - by Mecano (Dirk Polak/Pieter Kooyman/Cor Bolten/Tejo Bolten/Ton Lebbink) 3) NOBLE BLISS - by Mecano Un-Ltd. (Dirk Polak, Sin Banovic, Mick Ness) 4) ROBESPIERRE RE-MARX - by Mecano (Dirk Polak/Pieter Kooyman/Cor Bolten/Tejo Bolten/Ton Lebbink) 5) STATEMENT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN - by Mecano Un-Ltd. (Dirk Polak/Mick Ness) 6) TABOU d'ESPRIT - by Mecano Un-Ltd. (Dirk Polak/Mick Ness) 7) TO LIFE-S REUNION - by Mecano (Dirk Polak/Pieter Kooyman/Cor Bolten/Tejo Bolten) tracks 1-2-4-7 old classics tracks 3-5-6 new and unreleased tracks format: CD release date: 09/9/2023 EXCLUSIVE CONCERT CD code: W168 barcode: 7893595414955 style: post-punk label: Wave Records waverecordsmusic.com https://waverecords.bandcamp.com/album/mecano-waving-goodbye-cd 2023 €16.00
MEESE X HELL Hab keine Angst, hab keine Angst, ich bin Deine Angst do-LP STANDARD 2LP VINYL EDITION - LIMITIERT "Geboren 1970 in Tokio, verbrachte Jonathan Meese seine frühe Kindheit in Japan, und kam mit drei Jahren 1973 gemeinsam mit seiner Mutter zurück nach Deutschland. Als Kind sprach er nur japanisch und englisch. 1995-1998 Studium an der HfbK in Hamburg, 1998 Durchbruch als bildender Künstler auf der Berlin Biennale. In seinen Gemälden, Performances und Aktionen thematisiert Meese immer wieder die Rolle Deutschlands und deutsche Mythen. Eine ursprünglich beauftragte Meese-Inszenierung des Parsifal 2016 in Bayreuth wurde 2014 wegen angeblicher Unfinanzierbarkeit gekündigt. Der Münchener Techno- und House-Produzent Hell ist seit zwei Jahrzehnten ein Bewunderer Meeses. Als Hell vor zwei Jahren bei Jonathan Meese anfragte, ob dieser das Cover für Hells neues, kürzlich erschienenes Album House Music Box gestalten wolle, sagte dieser sofort zu. Die Wertschätzung entpuppte sich als gegenseitig. Man verabredete eine experimentelle Studiosession, um auszuloten, ob die polarisierenden Sprachperformances von Jonathan Meese in Verbindung mit Musik von Hell eine eigene Qualität entwickeln würden. 2019 nahmen Hell und Meese zum ersten Mal gemeinsam auf. Meese steuerte Textideen auf Papier bei, Hell hatte Instrumentals vorbereitet, die sowohl Hells stilistische Interessen, als auch Meeses musikalische Vorbilder - von DAF über Sisters of Mercy bis hin zu Kraftwerk - berücksichtigten. Hell: Mir wurde in vielen gemeinsamen Gesprächen klar, wie musikaffin er eigentlich ist und wie viel unterschiedliche Musik er kennt. Und vor allem: Wie sehr die Musik ihm auch in seiner Kunst als Inspirationsquelle dient. Die Sessions - insgesamt drei, davon zwei gemeinsam mit Meeses 91-jähriger Mutter Brigitte - fanden im Trixx-Studio am Berliner Moritzplatz statt. Meese assoziierte Freestyle über Beats und Loops von Hell. Hell: Ich bewundere Jonathan Meese nicht zuletzt als performativen Künstler - und gerade auch seinen stimmlichen Vortrag. Im Studio sang, sprach oder flüsterte er dann seine improvisierten Texte über die Tracks, die ich vorbereitet hatte. https://meesexhell.bandcamp.com 2021 €25.00
MEGAPTERA Near Death LP Urashima's vinyl reissue captures the essence of "Near Death" in its purest form. The tactile experience of placing the needle on the vinyl and allowing the album to unfold as intended by the artists adds a new dimension to the sonic journey. The haunting melodies and unsettling textures resonate even more powerfully, making this reissue not just a reproduction but a revival of the album's visceral impact. Immerse yourself in the mysterious and haunting world of "Megaptera," a captivating music project that pushes the boundaries of industrial and dark ambient genres. Initiated by Peter Nyström alongside Mikael Svensson, with the participation of Magnus Åslund, "Megaptera" embarked on a sonic journey into the heart of darkness, where atmospheric textures and chilling soundscapes intertwine. "Megaptera" is a project that defies conventional classification. The trio's early collaboration set the groundwork for soundscapes that delve into the darkest corners of the psyche, inviting listeners to confront their fears and delve into the unknown. At the core of "Megaptera" lies an intricate fusion of industrial rhythms, unsettling textures, and atmospheric layers. Each composition is a sonic voyage, transporting the audience to realms where the borders between reality and imagination blur. The music possesses an uncanny ability to evoke emotions that are rarely explored, creating an intense and immersive experience for those who dare to listen. Prepare to be transported to the edge of consciousness with the Urashima's vinyl reissue of "Megaptera - Near Death." Originally released on Sound Source .1917. cassette in 1991, this pivotal album not only marked the inception of the "Megaptera" project but also carved a niche for itself in the annals of dark ambient and industrial music. "Near Death" is a journey into the depths of the human psyche, a descent into the unknown territories of the mind. With the collaborative efforts of Peter Nyström, Mikael Svensson, and the participation of Magnus Åslund, the album takes on an even more profound resonance. The combined creativity of these minds birthed a sonic masterpiece that fuses haunting atmospheres, experimental soundscapes, and industrial rhythms into a symphony of darkness. From the first notes, "Near Death" envelops the listener in an uncanny aura, a sense of foreboding that guides you through its enigmatic passages. The album is a testament to the trio's ability to manipulate sound, sculpting it into a chilling narrative that unfolds across its tracks. The atmospheric textures evoke a sense of unease, while the pulsating rhythms create a hypnotic rhythm that carries you along the journey. Throughout the album, there's a palpable tension, a feeling of being suspended between reality and a realm of shadows. The layers of sound intertwine, creating an intricate web that seems to echo the labyrinthine corridors of the subconscious. The distant whispers, eerie drones, and subtle shifts in dynamics pull the listener deeper, inviting introspection and exploration. In a world that often shies away from the darker corners of human experience, "Near Death" is a fearless exploration. It is an invitation to confront the shadows that dwell within us, a reflection of the mysteries that lie beneath the surface. As the vinyl spins and the sounds envelop you, you'll find yourself embarking on a sonic odyssey that is equal parts unsettling and transformative. "Megaptera" is not for the faint of heart; it is an invitation to confront the shadows that reside within us all. Through its intense sonic explorations, the project beckons listeners to embrace the darkness and embark on a journey that delves into the most primal aspects of human experience. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/near-death 2023 €25.00
MEIRINO, FRANCISCO & KIKO C. ESSEIVA Focus on Nothing on Focus LP "A unique work stemming from a studio collaboration between Francisco Meirino and Kiko C. Esseiva. Using the same source material each artist composed one side of the LP. Assembled in 2012 and 2013 from hours of multitrackrecordings using reel-to-reel tape recorders, emf detectors, piezo transducers, analogue synths and various homemade sound objects. Discover, compare, enjoy the work of these two sound artists ! High Quality 180g Vinyl with excellent sound - not at least due to the cut done by Flo Kaufmann. Numbered edition of 300 copies." [label info] www.aussenraumrecords.com "Whether it’s relevant or not I don’t know, but immediately before listening to Focus on Nothing on Focus by Francisco Meirino and Kiko C. Esseiva in order to make notes for the final review, I watched a documentary about Joy Division. The record is a 12″ vinyl black void with a black label which you might think is a precursor to the abyssal darkness contained within. In fact after Joy Division’s bleak visions born of greyscale Manchester streets steeped in rain and the bedroom’s so cold, you turn away on your side, it was a relief to enjoy some movement, vibration and a surprising selection of fleeting semi-colours. four men on a bridge Assembled in 2012 and 2013 from hours of multitrack recordings as a duo, each artist was given one side of the record to present his individual composition using the original material as the building blocks. As the first release on Andreas Unterkircher’s Ausenraum label, the black and white cover picture of electrical equipment cut up and interrupted, repeated and sliced, slid out of place and readjusted, then partially contained within a perfect circle seems an apt metaphor for the processes etched into the grooves here. she filled her time pushing the pram round Salford There is an interesting YouTube video of Meirino and Esseiva playing together as a duo in an art gallery or something similar. They are set up against a side wall on a long table next to each other. Various people are seated in the white space, others walk in and out informally. Being able to see all this taking place, the physical approach of each artist is interesting and illuminating and offers some understanding into why each side of this LP sounds as it does. tear us apart Meirino stands bent over his black boxes of plugs and wires activating switches and summoning up raw electrical bleed and grime from the insides of these dark objects. He turns a torch on and off at intervals, and the completion and termination of the circuit is heard as a visceral thud. Essevia remains seated at his desk and, amongst other things, manipulates a tape recorder thoughtfully and subtly, reacting and operating within and against the bodily groundedness of the sputtering sound shrapnel exhibiting a concentrated intelligence and sense of purpose. Whether this performance formed part of the substrata from which this LP was carved I don’t know, but it is certainly an informative document. it’s a picture of a tomb For me all Meirino’s music seems to exist in a landscape with enhanced perspective and a very remote vanishing point: In other words the sounds are stretched out from incredibly distant thuds occurring below the horizon to crackles and clicks right up against the eardrum, as if generated inside the speakers themselves independently of anything else. growling like a dog Meirino places us on a ship negotiating a sea of fluctuating plasma. Creaks and groans from the rigging and the swell of undulating static gives way to scuttling creature in the hold. Early on a filament of light, a laser emission like a bowed violin note repeats a few times as a vestige of the sun’s benediction. Later, work of some secret nature takes place. Something rattles back and forth along rails as machines hum. Excited wings vibrate against the microphone and objects drop and roll across the hard floor. People talk, but the men’s voices are rudely cut off and are no more. A crescendo of metal and tooled desolation builds from nothing to form a rattling, prison riot cacophony then… suddenly we are in some dead pond where the water (or some other analogous fluid) carries sounds from afar. Unknown denizens of this inky pool signal to each other ever more frantically, again a crescendo… Nothing… Nothing… Nothing… Run-off groove… Ian’s dead Esseiva is an artist I have never heard before. Seemingly his compositional hand is more controlled than Meirino’s and the work focuses more closely on fewer competing strands. This approach yields a completely different experience, yet obviously both sides of the disc are united by their common provenance. Differences aside each promise is fulfilled in its singular entirety. I came off the phone and went back to the table Kiko C. Esseiva pledges breath and motors and grinding gears. A ribbon of steady sound unfolds and fades just once. This is a workshop in which the instruments that make this music are being built, and the very building of them is the music itself, and after they have finished playing, the dismantling of them is also the music itself. Sheets of steel and other substances are beaten in frantic rapidity. Tiny hammers pound. Insectoid nano-mosquitoes plague the workspace. Cut. Fibrillating electricity. Cut. A buffeted wire fence with mechanical animoids squeaking and chirruping in iron filing nests. Steel wool ruffles and frazzles. Cut. Dead air. A ball bearing rolls around an uneven plane causing other objects to become infectiously agitated and inexplicably animated. An organ plays itself, just once. Vibrating glass planes, jars, flasks and light bulbs. Cut… Near silence… Readjust to the tiny flecks of vinyl crackle not being part of the whole… And yet in a way they are… It all is… Run-off groove… Click… Click… Raise the needle. unknown pleasures" [Chris Whitehead / Sonicfield] 2013 €16.00
MELT FAMAS Serial Weather 10inch "MUSIKZIMMER LABEL: The label Musikzimmer is based in Aarau (Switzerland) and Berlin. It was born with the idea of giving birth to music not only in a ethereal way. We want to materialise what we like. We want to produce, to touch and to spread it. It all started 21 years ago with one of the first „independent“ exhibition spaces in Switzerland, the Kunstraum Aarau. Since approximately 7 years we focus on soundart and sound related site specific interventions. And because not every manifestation finds its form in a frame work of an exhibition, we started to organise concerts and offer now a stage without stairs to concertant situations. To can those situations as long as possible we decided to cut them into vinyl. MELT FAMAS – serial weather is the first conserved situation. It will be followed by a 10“ of chained melodies by RM74. The concept is simple. 10 inch, 1 cover version and the cover sleeve is designed by an artist who does not play on but maybe with the record. MELT FAMAS: When the movement of a terrestrial object around a static point is repetitive, we talk about oscillation...When two people oscillate around several electric devices according to a nearly repetitive movement, we talk about rock‘n‘roll. At Melt Famas, during the supper, we talk about oscillations, aquatic rock‘n‘roll. Dessert comes when the table has already been cleared. In the living room, guitar screams exhort to indiscipline, and voices invite to the reconstruction of a new order. At Melt Famas‘, codes are made for others. According to the stars position, the degree of gravity and the level of caffein of the last tea, sounds meet under the fingers until dizzyness spreads, and invite us to an immobile trance. Fred Billet and Nicolas Magot, or l‘invitation au voyage with a one way ticket. FRED BIGOT: (aka Electronicat) The root of Fred Bigot‘s music is in guitar. The way he makes music is all related to the way he plays guitar, including imperfections, lo-fi sound, noise, melody and the practice of improvisation. The distorted but melodic guitar, the unquantised rhythms, the delay-heavy vocals and the buzzing rumbling 808 bass drum all became characteristic features of the Electronicat sound. His songs encompassed an array of influences in all respects - particularly glam rock, psychedelia, 60s garage rockabilly and experimental electronic music - and took it further making electronic music sound more rock n roll and vice versa. To date he has released numerous albums and singles on international labels (Holy Mountain, Onitor, Disko b, Optical Sound, Ldrr). He has produced tracks for pour Beans, Miss le Bomb, Marina Ribatski (ex- Bondo de Role), remixes for Depeche Mode, Numbers, Bretzel Göring. Fred played all around the world alongside with artists such as Felix Kubin, Stereolab, Adult. He has collaborated with numerous artists and musicians, building up an impressive resume that includes projects with musicians J.G Thirwell, Gerhard Potuznik, Khan and contemporary artists Nicolas Moulin, Anu Pennanen and Pauline Curnier-Jardin. NICOLAS MALLET: After having visited experimental and post-punk music, Nicolas Mallet turned into Nicolas Metall. Melodies in minor chords, Bach is never far. Keyboards, guitars and rhythms. He plays with Fred Bigot (Electronicat) in Melt Famas, with Marie Germinal in a rock-post punk style, he has organised events and works with artists and dancers (Nicolas Moulin, Marie Reinert, Olivier Dohin, Grégoire & Elise Charbey, Clémentine Roy). His most recent Release „ Growing Ideas Of Falling Generations“ is a Double Vinyl on Nicolas Moulin Label „Grautag Records“. „Growing Ideas Of Falling Generations, as the first double LP of Nicolas Metall, has to be heard as the psychoanalysis of the Space Odyssey computer HAL 9000. Electronic-wave music to dance on a russianÕs suburb discotheque dancefloor or to listen to by staring at the sunset , The 2nd release of the berlin-based label Grautag records“ (Grautag Records)" [label info] www.musikzimmeraarau.ch 2011 €12.00
MENCHE, DANIEL Furious Eclipse 12inch We got some last copies of this very first vinyl in the SOLEILMOON–vinyl-series (which was stopped too early), two tracks of awesome monumental & rumbling low-frequency-scratch & heartbeat-drones, press on clear vinyl, with special cover, numbered edition. "Soleilmoon's first vinyl release is from our resident noise monster. It's his first 12 inch record, and it's a numbered limited virgin clear vinyl edition of 693 packaged in hand made Japanese art paper." [label info] 1996 €14.00
Scattered Remains:Early Remixes do-CD Zusammenstellung von frühen & raren Material, meist von nicht mehr erhältlichen Compilations, alles von 1994-1999. Der oft noch eher „noisige“, rauhe, mit mehr konkretem Touch arbeitende MENCHE.... Nice priced, alles re-mastered! “Keeping track of the musical output of Daniel Menche has never been easy. Besides his numerous albums and singles, released by an eclectic range of labels, he has contributed countless tracks to compilations, many of which reached only the smallest of audiences. Scattered Remains tracks his progress from 1995 through 1999, collecting the best of these pieces, now fully remastered, onto two full-length CDs. With the passing of time it has become nearly impossible to find many the original releases these tracks came on, making this rarities collection a must have for long-time fans and new converts alike. Besides the material culled from CD compilations, three tracks previously only available on vinyl appear in digital form for the first time ever. The list of labels involved reads like a who’s who of cutting edge music in the 90s: Banned Productions, Ash International, 23five, Noise Museum, Self Abuse, Isomorphic, KAON, Shirocoal, Suterfuge, G.M.B.H. and of course, Soleilmoon. Best of all, it’s a great value: Two CDs for the price of one. What’s not to love?” [press release] 2005 €13.00
Kataract (Alpha Mix) LP "Edition of 300. Daniel Menche: Waterfall recordings and electronics. All waterfall field recordings were captured around the Pacific Northwest of USA. Mixed and recorded throughout 2007-2009. Mastered in the analog domain at Stereophonic Mastering, Portland Oregon. Artwork and illustrations by Emily Hyde. Photo art reproduction by Circle 23. Design by Johnny Pinkhouse. Another sizzling power blockfrom Menche. This time capturing the intense force of various Pacific Northgwest waterfalls to create a mind blowing audio sculpture. This single track slices itsway through the sonic spectrum over 39 minutes of high end processing. One hell of beauty if beast! Packaged in stunning, almost disturbing artwork. This vinyl edition differs from the previous CD edition and features the original Alpha Mix of Kataract." [label info] www.editionsmego.com 2010 €15.00
  Guts CD "More voraciously bestial soundwork coming from Daniel Menche -- this time, his chosen theme is the piano, in which he attacks, investigates and dissects with the precision of an autopsy surgeon, adding a whole new meaning to the concept of prepared piano, or should we say, unprepared piano, for an all-out assault. Guts lays out quite possibly some of the finest slabs of Menchian sonic mayhem to date. Slightly different track sequence over CD and vinyl formats due to time constraints. Mastered in the analog domain at Stereophonic Mastering, Portland Oregon. X-rays from a Chihuahua dog named Arrow." [label info] www.editionsmego.com "Ohne wirklich ermessen zu können, wie hier der Einfluss nachträglicher Manipulation am Rechner aussieht: Menches Arbeit an den Eingeweiden eines Pianos präsentiert sich auf erhellende Weise komplett anders als die Reinhold Friedls. Menche hat sich schon immer in einer dynamischen Traverse bewegt, die Ambient und Noise in eins setzt, in der Intensität in lineare Verbindung mit “Volume” tritt. So wild-martialisch wie Titel und offizielle Beschreibung klingen, geht es hier nämlich gar nicht zu. Stattdessen scheinen Menches rohe Fieldrecordings (auf Soundcloud) von Wetterphänomenen, Stürmen und Regen, Wind in Wäldern, in den vier vinylseitenlangen Tracks (der letzte auf CD gekürzt und vorangestellt) durch: in unmerklich morphenden Prasseltexturen (Two), mal mit subtil-verblüffender Saitenresonanz (Three), immer busy, groß und raumgreifend, davor mit sirrendem Bohrgeräusch, das zu einem flackernd-schepperstotternden Schiffsbauch mutiert, die am elektronischsten wirkende Arbeit (One), um schließlich durch die Hintertür (Four bzw. 2×4) doch noch bei Friedls schabender Metallverdauung anzukommen, ohne je dessen Fingernagel-auf-Tafel-Effekt anzustoßen. Entspannend!" [Multipara/de:bug] 2012 €10.00
MENUCK, EFRIM MANUEL Pissing Stars LP "Constellation Records beginnt das Jahr 2018 mit dem zweiten Soloalbum des GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR und THEE SILVER MT. ZION Gründers EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK. „Pissing Stars“ ist der großartig intensive Nachfolger von „Plays High Gospel“ und das erste neue Material mit EFRIM als zentralem Songwriter und Sänger seit „Fuck Off Get Free We Pout Light On Everything“ seiner Chamber-Punk Band THEE SILVER MT. ZION von 2014. MENUCK genießt unter den Fans politischen Punks, Post-Rock und Avant-Noise-Anhängern Kultstatus und feiert mit „Pissing Stars“ ein Vierteljahrhundert musikalischen Ausdrucks ohne Kompromisse. Auf „Pissing Stars“ verschleudert MENUCK Giftpfeile, leidenschaftliche Salven und zerbrechliche Blüten und formt das Ganze zu noiselastigen Songs, die sich um maximalistische Electronics und Drones ranken, die von Synthie oder Gitarre umgesetzt und von klagendem, oft verfremdeten Gesang durchzogen werden. Das passende Narrativ kann nur jemand wie MENUCK liefern: „‘Pissing Stars‘ gründet sich auf die kurze Affäre der amerikanischen TV-Moderatorin Mary Hart mit Mohammed Khashoggy, dem Sohn eines saudischen Waffenhändlers. Ich weiß nicht, wie lange sie zusammen waren, ich erinnere mich daran, wie ich als verzweifelter Teenager darüber las. Ich wohnte zusammen mit zwei anderen verwahrlosten Kids und einem Haufen wilder Kätzchen in einem überfluteten Keller und hatte nichts zu essen. Diese seltsame Union – die blonde Frau aus dem Fernsehen und der reiche Saudi-Sohn mit seinem mörderischen Vater – blieb bei mir und beschäftigte mich drei Jahrzehnte lang. Diese Sprösslinge aus Tod und Selbstentfremdung – und Liebe. Dieses Album beschäftigt sich mit dem Ende ihrer Beziehung und der Art und Weise, wie bestimmte eigensinnige Lichter einfach weiterleuchten. Das Album wurde in den dunklen Ecken zwischen 2016 und 2017 aufgenommen, in verschiedenen Stadien der Ungemütlichkeit, mit einem porösen Herzen und einer klaren Mission. So, als würde man mit zwei Messern in den Händen auf einen Abgrund zulaufen und manisch lachen. Besiegt und voller Freude zugleich. Hier geht es um das Ende der Liebe und den Anfang der Liebe. Um das Ende des Staates und wie wir alle darunter gefangen sind." This is an audiophile 180gram pressing in midnight ultra-black vinyl from Optimal (Germany) that comes in a 350gsm jacket with printed inner dust sleeve and 12"x19" art poster, all printed on uncoated matte papers and boards, all artwork by Menuc efrimmanuelmenuck.bandcamp.com/album/pissing-stars PISSING STARS is inspired by the brief romance of american television presenter MARY HART and MOHAMMED KHASHOGGI, the son of a saudi arms dealer. i don’t know how long their union endured, but i remember reading about them when i was a desperate teenager – there was something about their pairing that got caught in my head. i was living in a flooded basement with two other lost kids and a litter of feral kittens. we were all unfed. this strange intersection – the televisual blonde and the rich saudi kid with the murderous father; it got stuck in me like a mystery, like an illumination- this vulgar pairing that was also love. these privileged scions of death and self-alienation, but also love. i’ve carried it in me for 3 decades now, this obscure memory, and i return to it often, tracing its edges like a worn talisman. this record is about the dissolution of their relationship, and the way that certain stubborn lights endure. this record was made in dark corners between 2016 and 2017. a very rough pair of years, shot thru with fatigue, depression, despair, and too many cigarettes and too much booze. but also = the giddiness of enervation, and the strange liberation of being emptied – borne aloft and carried by the drift. the world continues its eternal collapsing, fires everywhere and everything drained of meaning. this record was made in various states of unease, with a brittle heart and a clear intent. like running towards a cliff with 2 swinging knives, roaring with an idiot grin. overcome and overjoyed. this record is about the end of love and the beginning of love. this record is about the dissolution of the state, and all of us trapped beneath, and the way that certain stubborn lights endure. – ExMxMx 2018 €23.00
  High Gospel LP + CD 180g Vinyl inklusive CD + limited edition Poster! EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK ist am besten als Mitbegründer von GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, als Mastermind der Kammerpunk Gruppe THEE SILVER MT. ZION und als Mitglied der VIC CHESNUTT BAND bekannt. Mit dieser Band hat er insgesamt 13 Alben aufgenommen. Dazu hat er das Montrealer Hotel2Tango Studio mitgegründet und mit so verschiedenen Künstlern wie BRITISH SEA POWER, CARLA BOZULICH'S EVANGELISTA, WOLF PARADE und GRANT HART gearbeitet. Fans von MENUCK kennen sich mit seinem höchst eigenständigen und ständig weiter entwickelnden Zugang zur elektrischen Gitarre aus - eine einzigartige Kombination aus kurzen und langen Analogdelays, krasser Kompression und Wolken aus Pink Noise Verzerrung. Entstanden sind die Songs in den letzten anderthalb Jahren und lassen einen tiefen Blick zu in die Seele des Mannes, der nie versucht hat, persönliches, privates Leben von künstlerischer Äußerung zu trennen. Tief beeinflusst von den Emotionen, die ihn während und nach der Geburt seines Sohnes Ezra begleitet haben und geprägt von seiner Liebe zu Jessica Moss (die bei ASMZ auch Violine spielt) pendeln die Stücke zwischen experimenteller Klangentdeckung und Verneigung vor Melodien hin und her. Ein wunderbares Album! 180g Vinyl includes limited edition poster + CD Efrim Manuel Menuck is best known as co-founder of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, leader of agit-chamber-punk group Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and member of the Vic Chesnutt Band (2007-2009); he has a combined thirteen albums under his belt with these three groups. He is also co-founder of Montreal's Hotel2Tango recording studio, with dozens of recording, arranging and guest playing credits to his name, for a list of artists as diverse as British Sea Power, Carla Bozulich's Evangelista, Wolf Parade and Grant Hart. Fans of Menuck will be well versed in his highly original and constantly evolving approach to the sound of the electric guitar - a unique combination of short and long analog delays, biting compression and blown-out clouds of pink noise distortion. His recasting of various folkways through the lens of uncompromising punk-rock is also well-documented in the discography of Thee Silver Mt. Zion, with that band's use of poetically political group singing set against a hybrid of damaged blues, waltz, klezmer and folk instrumental tropes. Perhaps less appreciated is Menuck's work as an inventive signal-bender and soundsculptor, with an overriding commitment to analog processing, tape manipulations, reamping and other iterative strategies. Efrim's aesthetic and techniques remain about as diametrically opposite to the dominant Pro-Tools and DSP culture as it gets for someone working in contemporary multi-tracked rock composition and production. https://efrimmanuelmenuck.bandcamp.com/album/plays-high-gospel 2011 €23.50
MENUCK, EFRIM MANUEL & KEVIN DORIA Are Sing Sinck, Sing LP Efrim Manuel Menuck – founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion – and Kevin Doria from Growing and Total Life, are now officially a duo. Menuck recruited Doria to help him translate his acclaimed 2018 album Pissing Stars from the studio to the stage, and the pair have been touring under the Efrim Manuel Menuck moniker for the past year (often with Doria’s latest solo project KGD opening the proceedings). They’ve also been co-writing piles of new material, diving deeper into whirling maximalist electronics, still shot through with Menuck’s incantatory singing awash in plaintive distortion and hope. Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria are “SING SINCK, SING” presents the first volume of songs forged from this febrile and fertile merger: an antifascist poetics of sound that unspools across five crushing, keening tracks driven by thick sweeping drones and ostinatos, battered by inscrutably searching, ricocheting vocals. Anguish, yearning, and desperate conviction combine in these saturated survivalist electro-hymns, for as long as the power stays on to overload the amplifiers. WE STARTED PLAYING TOGETHER IN THE DARK WINTER OF 2017. 6 OSCILLATORS AND 3 LARGE AMPLIFIERS. DROVE THRU HELLA BLIZZARDS AND/OR HEATWAVES JUST TO LAND IN SMALL ROOMS, VIBRATING. A SERIES OF SHORT TOURS, A PROCESS OF FIGURING OUT WHILE EXHAUSTED WHILE HURTLING WHILE WORRIED. EVERYTHING ILLUMINATED EVERYTHING DESTROYED. WE LANDED IN MEXICO CITY LAST FALL, WROTE THIS RECORD QUICKLY WHILE THE POLICE DROVE ROUND AND ROUND. FIRST SONG IS SELF-EXPLANATORY. 2ND SONG A STATEMENT OF INTENT. THIRD SONG IS AN EMPTY SPACE BETWEEN TWO HIGHWAYS. FOURTH SONG IS ABOUT A MURDERED FOREST. FIFTH SONG INSISTS THAT WE WILL WIN. HOLD ON. THO THESE TIMES ARE DARK TIMES. HOLD ON. – E.M.M./K.G.D (SING, SINCK SING) As the title suggests this is also an interstitial album of sorts, an identity-bridge that leads away from Menuck as ‘solo’ artist and towards SING, SINCK SING which will be the new band name for future work by the duo. Thanks for listening. Recorded in Mexico City and in Montréal, autumn 2018. Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket, Montréal. Intro vocals on “Do The Police Embrace?” sung by Johanna and Ezra. Additional vocals on “Do The Police Embrace?” and “Joy Is On Her Mount And Death Is At Her Side” by Robin Wattie. “Fight The Good Fight” lyrics by Michele Fiedler-Fuentes & E.M.M. Dedicated to Dirk Hugsam, last of the sad german outlaws https://singsincksing.bandcamp.com/album/are-sing-sinck-sing ############################ 180 g Vinyl inklusiver kunstvoller Innenhülle + 4" Farbaufkleber + MP3-Download. Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion) und Kevin Doria (Growing, Total Life) sind nun offiziell ein Duo und präsentieren dieses neue Set von wirbelnder, maximalistischer Antifa-Elektronik-Noise, durchdrungen von Menucks markantem Beschwörungsgesang, der in klagende Verzerrung und Hoffnung taucht. WIR BEGANNEN IM DUNKLEN WINTER 2017 ZUSAMMEN ZU SPIELEN. 6 OSZILLATOREN UND 3 GROßE VERSTÄRKER. FUHREN DURCH HÖLLISCHE BLIZZARDS UND/ODER HITZEWELLEN, NUR UM IN KLEINEN VIBRIERENDEN RÄUMEN ZU LANDEN. EINE REIHE VON KURZEN TOURNEEN, EIN FINDUNGSPROZESS, WÄHREND MAN ERSCHÖPFT IST, WÄHREND MAN SICH BEEILT, WÄHREND MAN SICH SORGEN MACHT. ALLES ERHELLTE ALLES ZERSTÖRTE. WIR SIND IM LETZTEN HERBST IN MEXIKO CITY GELANDET, HABEN DIESE PLATTE SCHNELL GESCHRIEBEN, WÄHREND DIE POLIZEI IMMER WIEDER RUNDHERUMFUHR. DER ERSTE SONG IST SELBSTERKLÄREND. DER ZWEITE SONG EINE ABSICHTSERKLÄRUNG. DER DRITTE SONG IST EIN LEERER RAUM ZWISCHEN ZWEI AUTOBAHNEN. DER VIERTE SONG HANDELT VON EINEM ERMORDETEN WALD. DER FÜNFTE SONG BESTEHT DARAUF, DASS WIR GEWINNEN WERDEN. HALTET DURCH. DENN DIESE ZEITEN SIND DUNKLE ZEITEN. HALTET DURCH. - E.M.M./K.G.D. (SING, SINCK, SING) 2019 €21.00
MERZBOW Marmo CD "After two vinyl releases finally a digital album by the master of Japan-Noise on OEC. This album is entitled "Marmo" (Marble for Italian) and is devoted to the Italian and particularly the Venetian marble. Masami was visiting and playing in this magic Italian city several times and was impressed by all the marbles used in the Venetian buildings and paintings ... The 3 tracks composing this album are entitled "Merzbotanica-parallela", "Botanica parallela" is a book written by the Italian author Leo Lionni who is also the inventor of such botanic science, a parallel iper-real botanic where imagination is more reliable than reality .... A real psychadelic tribute by the Japanese master of noise to Venice and Italy .... Enter this new “Merzcolored-Merzbotanic-Merzpsychomuzak” full of scratching rythms and psychoactive noises and let your brain explode. Special folding cover with Venetian marbled paper effect and golden letterings." [label info] www.oldeuropacafe.com 2010 €13.00
Tamayodo pic-LP "This limited release represents a true gem for all Merzbow fans. The tracks included on this lush 180 gram vinyl will take listeners by surprise, showcasing a new and eclectic side of sound artist Masami Akita. Tamayodo in fact presents us with unreleased works rife with unheard of rhythmic noise, power electronics and piercing feedback [...]" [label info] www.rustblade.com 2013 €29.00
Nezumimochi pic-LP & CD "Cold Spring are very proud to announce our 200th release – the brand new studio album from the King of Japanoise – MERZBOW. The album comes on a stunning picture disc vinyl and CD pack (not available separately). However, both formats contain exclusive and completely different tracks; the CD isn’t simply a copy of the vinyl. Over 90 minutes of crunchy, intense noise, complex structures, and hypnotic samples, all with that special Merzbow touch. Recorded this summer, the album is limited to 500 copies." [label info] www.coldspring.co.uk 2014 €20.00
  Cloud Cock OO Grand do-LP "Merzbow came roaring onto the Tokyo scene in 1979. To this day, the project remains one of the most prolific and aggressively forward-thinking acts in experimental music. Initially a duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, before settling as the moniker of Akita alone, the project took its name from German artist Kurt Schwitters' pre-war architectural assemblage, The Cathedral of Erotic Misery or Merzbau, and quickly set out to challenge entrenched notions of what music could be. Embracing technology and the machine, even in its earliest iterations, Merzbow broke boundaries and pushed toward new territories of the extreme, arriving at an unadulterated manifestation of sonic expression that has continued across the last 40 years, setting the pace for the entire genre of noise along the way. Few projects have pushed boundaries, risen to a more iconic status, or been as influential over the same period of time. Recorded in Holland during the autumn of 1989 and originally issued as an highly limited edition CD by ZSF Produkt in 1990, “Cloud Cock OO Grand” was the first of a series of albums to indicate a change in creative direction that Merzbow would following over the coming decade. During the European tour during which these recordings were laid to tape, Akita was only able to transport simple, portable gear. Rising to the challenge, these limitations led to the development of a signature form of harsh noise, heavily influenced by death metal and grindcore, that would come to define much of his early '90s sound. “Cloud Cock OO Grand” was the first of this shift to be sent into a wider realm. Comprising five individual compositions - three being side-long - “Cloud Cock OO Grand” was composed and performed by Akita on synthesizers, metal devices, noise electronics, and string instruments, all recorded at the extreme volumes for which Merzbow has always gained a unique sense of distinction. Despite being enthralling sonic assault, driven by the frenetic presence of electronic sounds, across the length of the album’s four sides it is hard not to be captivated by a greater sense of dynamics and space within the artist’s work, resulting from sparse acoustic interjections played against Akita’s heavily processed strings. The result, while no less intense of demanding than anything before or since, reveals a surprising sense of intimacy and consideration that’s often not easily observed within the field of noise. Easily among the most captivating gestures within Merbow’s sprawling catalog, pushing endlessly forward while subtly nodding toward historical gestures from the early years of the avant-garde, Urashima beautiful double LP edition of “Cloud Cock OO Grand” marks this seminal and long unavailable album’s first time over on vinyl. Issued in a very limited pressing of 299 copies, with cover that faithfully reproduces the original CD artwork and an A2 poster with an original 1990 draw by Masami Akita, it’s hard to recommend enough." https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-cock-oo-grand 2023 €34.00
MERZBOW / SCUM Scissors for Cutting up Merzbow 3 x LP / 2 x CD set In an interview with Arthur Potter, Akita explained that the album "is an attempt to cut up and mix all of the Merzbow sounds I've done" and that SCUM "is an experiment in changing the context of our own music to create new forms. It's like the disposal of Merzbow into the air." [By disposal] I mean the ongoing process of production. Nothing is really destroyed or disappears, as recycling is part of production. It's a natural and necessary part of post-capitalism. There should be no illusion of only production, as was the case with early industrialization. Present re-production systems point in the direction of a future hyper-dimension of physics. We no longer use a dialectical approach in our disposal/recycling system, only a forward movement to the reproduction of re-production. (Masami Akita) First ever official vinyl re-issue of this classic 1988 Masami Akita side project. Originally published on LP in 1989 by Masami Akita own label ZSF Produkt. Re-issued in an expanded version on CD as part of the Merzbox in the year 2000. This re-issue includes the expanded version on 3 LP and also on 2 CD. Remastered from original tape. Limited edition of 200 copies. www.menstrualrecordings.org/merzbow_scum_scissors_for_cutting_up_merzbow.html 2018 €49.50
MERZBOW KAPOTTE MUZIEK Works 1987-1993 Korm Plastics KP 3050 "Both of these projects hardly need an introduction. Merzbow is since the late ‘70s the project of Masami Akita working in the field of noise music, having released a few hundred CDs/LPs/cassettes by now. In 1987 Kapotte Muziek was then the solo project of Frans de Waard, after Christian Nijs left the group early ’87. De Waard concentrated on working with other musicians, and started trading tapes with a few musicians he was already in contact with, and one of them was Merzbow. The first release was a cassette, which was released in two versions, one of Merzbow’s ZSF Produkt and one on Belgium’s Therapie label (although none ever showed up, so perhaps it didn’t happen). In October 1989 Merzbow was invited to play at V2 in ’s-Hertogenbosch and a subsequent small tour was done in The Netherlands, playing in Utrecht and Nijmegen. On october 3rd 1989 Merzbow played in the evening in a small student club, Diogenes, and in the late afternoon as a duo with Kapotte Muziek. The first 20 minutes were released on one side of the LP ‘Documentation/Collaboration’, whereas the second side has ‘recycled’ versions of those recordings. For their next project Merzbow Kapotte Muziek took all the recordings from that day and reworked them in an extensive process into the LP ‘Continuum’. This 3CD set compiles all of these recordings and more. It includes (CD1) the first cassette, ZSF Produkt version, (CD2) has for the first time the complete live recording from the collaborative concert at Radio Rataplan plus two compilation pieces that were made around the same, and (CD3) the complete ‘Continuum’ LP, as well as three highly obscure compilation tracks, including the long reworked ‘Radio Rataplan’ from the very obscure ‘Dutch Tour’ double cassette by V2_Archief. All expertly remastered by Jos Smolders at Earlabs, all lovingely designed by Meeuw, in a carton box with three CDs, poster, shrinkwrapped and sticker." [label info] www.kormplastics.nl Edition of 300 copies only "In history, a certain type of very conservative – reactionary even - history, key moments and people are outlined, but no longer do we learn the kings and queens, we concentrate on oral histories of last week. So whilst seemingly radical in fact everything in music is still well and truly reactionary ideology. Artists still are identified with and seek to make seminal work, as our Tracey sickly maintains. So when in the late 1970s one Masami Akita stated “I threw all my past music career in the garbage. There was no longer any need for concepts like 'career' and 'skill'. I stopped playing music and went in search of an alternative.” The rest one could say really was history! Only a history that has been both ignored and wonderfully misappropriated into what is now the current noise “scene” of incompetent misfits who imagine their work to be art in the great western tradition. What this 3CD set demonstrates is the origin of this ‘scene’ or site of dissemination of the meaningless and banal of contemporality. The ipad generation were not yet born when Akita and de Waard began a series of interchanges released originally on cassette and vinyl. The ‘history’ of this process is detailed here http://kormplastics.nl/kp3050.html. The consequences of this (and other events) of the time are in a real sense more profound. As if the ideas of a previous generation failed to generate, and how the fin de siècle became an eternal return of the (same) trivial misunderstanding, and failing to understand. The process of this collaboration is obviously a deconstructive one as any current art student would argue – though by virtue of wikipedia and a downloaded paper with Harvard references. So in fact this contemporality changes, in Damian (Peter 1007-1072 not Hirst 1965 -?) fashion, the past to render the noise of Akita and de Waard as meaningful in its reaction to – from the past – of this future we now inhabit. The brilliance of such mutilation of past events not via some modified DeLorean but by the simple expediency of a logical inversion - the logic of the ipad’s NOT gates. (The garbage becomes art and so art becomes garbage….) One might therefore admire Akita and de Waard’s work as contributing to the current ‘scholasticism’ – or perhaps conversely to Damian’s condemnation of philosophy as the work of the Devil and the self flagellation of ‘noisers’ in small bars all over the mid-west. Either way – by not excluded middles they are genius’s. A logically non exclusive OR. And to end - by the by - I’ve been criticized for not describing the sound in a review – so what does this sound like – it sounds like the work that is yet to be produced by a sound ‘artist’ somewhere!" (jliat) 2012 €25.00
MICRO_PENIS Schlim LP Schlim (slime in alsatian dialect) Micro_penis’ third lp released by Doubtful Sounds, is the final instalment of a trilogy. This record is made from rare recording sessions, stretching in time from 2011 until 2015 at the N.E.M. Studio (Noise Ensemble of Mulhouse) located in the Mer Rouge building, Mulhouse, France. The name of the game, collectively agreed on, was that no band member could be chemically restrained. For a psychotic can only ever be himself freed from one’s treatment, thus expressing one’s inside kept insanity. Another rule stated that during each session, one would have to use a different instrument, be it acoustic or electronic, no matter wether mastered or not.#This huge interpersonal tension, through a violent rupture in terms of playing modes and tones, resulted in a broad range of pieces, very much dissmilar from one another.#Then the group switched to an autarkic mode for a couple of weeks. They finalized and gave birth to their new weird baby during endless listening sessions and mixing sessions including sonic tinkering that only those who do not pretend to be mad are capable of.#Cyclothymia and dementia are hidden in each sound, each track of Schlim.#Black vinyl with a postcard. Limited to 300 copies. Mastering by Frédéric Alstadt https://doubtful-sounds.bandcamp.com/album/micro-penis 2016 €17.00
MILLIS, ROBERT Relief LP "Our man Millis is a Climax Golden Twin and a noted curator of globe trotting / time traveling esoterica, amongst other accolades. In the former category, Millis and Jeffery Taylor steadily release some of the most headscratching amalgamations of avant-rock, decontextualized temple music, heightened-state minimalism, and collaged field recordings this side of the Sun City Girls (including the soundtrack to the cult film Session Nine); and in the latter, Millis has published a number of acclaimed anthologies for Sublime Frequencies (Scattered Melodies, This World is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope, Phi Ta Khon, The Crying Princess, etc.) and Dust-To-Digital (our personal favorite, aptly titled Victrola Favorites). With his fingers in so many jars of jam, it can seem like an uncommon occurrence for Millis to release solo work although he is one to smear his sticky hands all over himself in performance, installation, and collaboration. Thus, The Helen Scarsdale Agency is delighted in presenting his latest opus, Relief. A fever dream of blurred harmonics and ethnomusicological spelunking, Relief repeatedly returns to variations on a peculiar yet beautifully serpentine drone, whose twinkling acoustic properties meld the hallucinatory mouth-music of the Bangladeshi Murung people and the curved air hypnosis of Terry Riley. Millis bookends and interrupts his mysterious miasma with comedic interludes snatched from his lauded collection of antique 78s, maudlin piano tone-clusters, and teleported crescendos of spectral ballroom waltzes. More Nurse With Wound than The Caretaker, this polyglot raga-drone of daytime somnambulism and psychedelic slipperiness speaks to the uneasy borders at psychological, cultural, and geophysical states of being. Oh, to be a human on this planet." [label info] www.helenscarsdale.com "Polyglot might be just the right word to describe what Robert Millis and his Climax Golden Twins have been up to for the past two decades or so. An album might be a ramshackle collage of blisterfuck noise-rock, another might be a graceful set of murder ballads, and yet another might hypnotize the listener through an alpha-state minimalism. And then, there's Millis' acclaimed collections of olde-timey '78s and raw field recordings of indigenous folk songs, much of which has been released through those tasty labels Sublime Frequencies and Dust-To-Digital. The solo work from Millis tends more toward the dronemuzik and hallucinatory collage axis of CGT's multi-headed agenda, although he has been known to strum out a sadsack blues number that might straddle the worlds of Alan Bishop and Roscoe Holcomb; but here on the impeccable new album Relief, Millis tunes in and drops out with a blearily psychedelic album of forgotten sounds, ghostly fragments, and Pacific Ocean drones. The album begins with a comedic outburst from one of Millis' 78s with a helpful direction to "hear the secret sentence played out on the talking typewriter" followed by a jaunty clatter of a manual typewriter all wrapped in scratchy-vinyl, crackling goodness. Immediately, the album delves into a swarming tone-float of harmonic overtones pecked with trilling glissandos. The source for this sound has got to be a plung - a Bangladeshi mouth-organ used specifically by the Murung peoples living deep in the rainforest, as this sound is uniquely atonal and wrigglingly eerie in its wavering notes. Millis furthers this wooziness by rarifying these sounds into the holy minimalism conjured by LaMonte Young, Angus Maclise, and company. After swimming here in these golden pools for a good five or six minutes, Millis drops the needle on a dramatic orchestral swell that would be the envy of the Caretaker's sunken ballroom recordings. A couple of hip-swaying recombinations of temple music rhythms and Les Baxter exotica glide in and out of Millis' glassy-eyed shimmeriness and post-Eno piano constellations. The album's finale is an impressionistic driftscape of languid, temple bell & gong tones stretched into a gorgeous, expansive cloud of lush harmonics giving way to a metronomic wooden rhythm that leads to a set of solitary piano notes suspended over Mariana trench diving-bell ambience. Limited to 400 copies, and comes with the requisite download code. So fucking good." [Aquarius Rec.] 2013 €16.00
MILTON, ANTONY & ANLA COURTIS Bronze Age Subway LP "Recorded at Anla's apartment in Buenos Aires in December 2009 'Bronze Age Subway' is a mystic dreamy trip submerged in a warm bath of tape hiss. Listening to this sort of music makes your thoughts run sideways. Presented very much as it happened in the room with minimal editing it is full of surprises, chugging guitars and droning melodic organs work against each other to be finally married in some bright blaze of mystic glory; tin can violin and pounding drums attain odd tidal epiphanies. Released as a sweet vinyl LP by Ikuisuus and Gold Soundz. Recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina at unidentified studios, December 2009. edition of 260 copies in lush silkscreened printed jackets." [label info] www.ikuisuus.net 2011 €15.00
MIMETIC Where we will never go CD with 'where we will never go', mimetic presents his latest full length album, which is, apart from a 3-track vinyl lp released in 2011, his first major work since 'one more than nine'. supported by many guests like vorph, singer of the metal band samael, contra-alto singer agnes martin-sollien and scalper, former vocalist of fun da mental, the 15 tracks are focusing on a large scale of electronic music styles, from crystal clear electronica, bass music, experimental with complex rhythms to techno. this album showcases a multitude of tempers where jerome soudan finds the perfect balance between soothing, spectral and impulsive moods, embedded in a breathtaking wide range of dynamics. also featured are three remixes by mira calix (warp records), mika vainio (pan sonic, mute) and niveau zero, where mimetic's original tracks are transformed into unorthodox abstraction, pulsing ultrasonic minimalism and distorted six-string dubstep rage. on this release mimetic will take you to places where you will never go - here is the invitation to follow. https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-will-never-go 2013 €8.50
MIRROR Still Valley CD “Re-release of DS78 incl. one extra track. One of Mirror's finest works recorded by Andrew Chalk, Christoph Heemann and Jim O'Rourke between May 2002 - January 2005. The music on 'Still Valley' might seem calm on the surface but something mysterious is going on underneath. Edition of 1000 copies in dye-cut cover similar to the LP version.” [label info] „...schwelgen in ewigen Momentaufnahmen, die das Gefühl eines ungemein zärtlichen Fingers aufm Auge zurücklassen. Mirror zerfleischen dabei alle Konzepte einer Temporalität, verlassen sich auf ihre flüchtigen Flächen von nirgendwo und wandeln im Raum wie deine verblasste Liebe zu Herbstbeginn. Zeit ist vergessen und Erinnerung findet während 'Still Valley' etwas anders statt als üblich, sie greift tief ins Nie-Gedachte und friert alle Referenz zum Jetzt rigoros ein. Meisterhaft.” [Ed Benndorf] “...Mirror is here on the most calm moment, even when they are a trio here (core members Christoph Heeman and Andrew Chalk helped out by Jim O'Rourke), in a trio of tracks (one more than the original vinyl) that are utterly relaxing. Soft organ tones paint the living room in a deep warm color, slowly swirling and changing shape. While some of the other Mirror works are a bit more darker and dronier, this is their most relaxing piece of work. Utter minimalist and probably nerve racking to the uninitiated, but I think this is a stunning beauty. But as a devotee of Mirror (he hastened to admit), things can't go wrong anyway.” [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2005 €15.00
MLEHST Breathing in Dead Flies / Cock Sucking Lips CD Breathing in dead flies was the first vinyl release by Mlehst pressed at gramophonov zavody (pre GZ media) in 1996. Basically we sent the master on a high quality chrome cassette tape as that was the highest quality technology we had. The overall sound quality was lo-fidelity to say the least, with a wide dynamic range which meant that a lot of the quieter original audio was buried in the rumble of the vinyl grooves. The 100 copy milky clear vinyl LP cemented the Mlehst and bandaged hand produce DIY aesthetic. For this digital and CD reissue, a vinyl LP rip has been remastered and repaired with substantial work by “esoteric audio renovations” to create a clearer quality product than the original vinyl. The audio levels and dynamic range have been left similar to the original to preserve its integrity, although some passages of audio have been lifted slightly. High volume playback is recommended! Cock sucking lips is an earlier Mlehst recording and a bit of an oddity, based on some very early Mlehst source material (1990/1991) with a slightly humorous edge, albeit demented. Very few copies of this cassette album were released, probably around 10-20 copies existed. These recordings are completely at odds with breathing in dead flies, but do show two sides of Mlehst. For this digital and CD reissue a digital rip has been gently remastered only, with no real renovation needed. https://oxidation.bandcamp.com/album/breathing-in-dead-flies-cock-sucking-lips 2021 €13.00
MNEM For Delta Relics CD ....die erste “echte” CD der finnländischen Analog-Drone-Meister, die sich wieder auf Reisen in abgründige archaic-drone Texturen geben... “Audacious plunge into the undercurrent textures of sound overwhelming with archaic and primal influence yet appearing unprecedented and downright fresh in the present day. Finest sonic massives emitting complex syntheses of post industrial, electro-acoustics and harsh ambience; intensive layers of drones and abrasive loops laying foundation to diverse analog sound sculptures. Utilising old reel-to-reel recorders and analog gadgets has given this Finnish duo an almost trademark sound, now presented on their first full length release with highly acclaimed vinyl releases (Drone Records, Kaos Kontrol) already under their belts. Beautiful full colour sleeve in standard jewel case masterly designed by Stephen O'Malley (Malignant Records, Southern Lord, etc.). Website: http://www.kaos-kontrol.org/mnem“ [label press release] 2003 €10.00
MODELBAU Neither Nor CD-R "Modelbau is not the latest in a series of names used to create music, but it is indeed the latest one for a solo vehicle. Each of the names, and that includes my own name, stands for something particular, an idea, and something not found in the other monikers I am using. Modelbau is, like Freiband, not a proper German word (it should be Modellbau, but I thought that looked ugly) and as such is probably already a lo-fi name, and as such also very personal. As a musician I have noy a particular instrument, nor do I favour any technqiue, and I think one should use what is needed for a particular project or a piece of music. When I started Modelbau, I wanted to use various lo-fi sound sources, such as Dictaphones, walkman, shortwave radio, small synthesizers and such like. This would not be a project for improvisation, but more or less planned pieces of music. All of which to be released in the digital domain only. That was in 2012. Now, in 2017, almost nothing is left of this outline, and yet the msuic is very much what I envisaged as Modelbau. These days Modelbau uses pre-recorded cassettes, iPad apps, sound effects, laptop, shortwave radio, small synthesizers, ancient 2bit sampling device; everything is recorded on the spot, as is, and without multi-tracking and very minimal editing (save for fades and mastering) released as downloads, but also on cassette, CDs and CDrs. Vinyl is only a matter of time. Whenever Modelbau plays a concert (all of which are recorded) preparations are made, and these are also recorded; sometimes they have these preparations can have the length of a concert, but they can also be single pieces of a few minutes. All of these recordings are archived and whenever a release is prepared, the latest sessions are listened to again. 'Does it stand the test of time', is it still interesting. The pieces on 'Neither Nor' were all recorded on a single, particular fruitful afternoon in October 2016, while waiting for guests who arrived too late to be part of any recording. Free form spacious and lo-fi, complex and minimal, steady and yet always with movement." https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/neither-nor 2017 €6.00
MOEBIUS & TIETCHENS same CD "Erste Kooperation der beiden Elektronik-Avantgardisten seit 1976: Mit Asmus Tietchens und Dieter Moebius haben zwei Künstler zusammengefunden, die zu den ganz Großen der deutschen Avantgarde-Elektronikmusik gehören. Beide sind seit den 70er- Jahren dabei, Moebius als Mitglied von Kluster/Cluster und Harmonia sowie solo und in zahlreichen Kollaborationen (u. a. Brian Eno, Mani Neumeier); Tietchens fast ausschließlich als Solokünstler, anfangs in den Bereichen elektronischer und konkreter Musik, später dann vornehmlich im Gebiet der abstrakten Geräuschmusik. Das vorliegende Album ist ihre erste Kooperation seit 1976. Mit ihm lösen Moebius und Tietchens ein Versprechen ein, das sie sich vor 35 Jahren gaben: "Wir müssen mal eine Platte zusammen machen." 13 Stücke transportiert das Album, 13 Ideen, wie sie heterogener kaum sein können. Kein Stück ähnelt dem anderen: Von der hingehauchten Skizze bis zu derb zupackender Rhythmik ist so gut wie alles zu hören, was die beiden Altmeister der E-Musik in ihren Arsenalen haben. So klingt zeitgenössische, neue Musik. Das Vinyl erscheint mit Download-Code. // About the musicians: With Asmus Tietchens and Dieter Moebius, two artists counting among the greats of German avant-garde electronic music have come together. Both have been active for well over thirty years: Moebius (since 1970) as a member of Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, as well as solo and in numerous collaborations (Brian Eno, Mani Neumeier, Conny Plank, Mayo Thompson and many more), and Tietchens (since 1976) almost exclusively as a solo artist, beginning in the fields of electronic music and musique concrète and later mainly in the realm of abstract music. “Moebius+Tietchens” is now their first collaboration in 35 years. With this album, Dieter Moebius and Asmus Tietchens fulfill a promise that they made 35 years ago. That is, in 1976, when the five musicians of Liliental completed the recordings for their eponymous album (released 1978) and again scattered to the winds, Moebius called out to Tietchens from the already moving car: "We have to make a record together sometime." At least that is the report of an ear-witness. Whether or not it's true… In any case, both decided in 2011 to record the album which is now to be released. Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia), since the early years of Cluster, has neither lost his curiosity nor his eagerness for experimentation. On the contrary: He has downright cultivated them. Tietchens is not only a true aficionado of the Cluster's music and friend of the duo, but has also released countless albums of electronic music and musique concrète since the 1980's – like Cluster, initially on Sky Records – then later only in the field of industrial and abstract music. Their album may come from out of the blue, but the large amount of overlap in the music of both artists made it a forgone conclusion to finally make good on the aforementioned promise. Thirteen pieces carries the album. These are thirteen ideas that could hardly be heterogeneous – no two pieces are similar. Moebius and Tietchens show us what they are capable of together. From the rough sketch to densely gripping rhythms, one can clearly hear just what these two old masters of electronic music have in their arsenals. This is not a result of the routine that comes with so many years of experience, nor a thin portion of tired old recipes for success. Other than for a few faint echoes of a bygone era (perhaps as a sentimental reminder), Moebius+Tietchens“ is an album that could only emerge from the here and now. It is contemporary, new music. Unfortunately, this time there was no ear-witness as Moebius and Tietchens said goodbye after finishing these recordings. So we do not know if they made a new agreement similar to the one from 35 years ago. Let's hope so." [label info] www.bureau-b.com 2012 €13.00
MOHR (aka MØHR) How to make darkness visible (SOLD OUT) 7 released in August 1993 in an edition of 200 copies (clear yellow vinyl), in a handmade leather-wax-sleeve second edition of 200 copies in December 1994 (green vinyl). press-information (first ed.): "MOHR is a well-known project in the international Industrial-Cassette-Underground. After the Split-LP with IGNORE ALIEN ORDERS and several tapes this is the very first MOHR-EP. On this EP MOHR presents two fantastic pieces of droning, pulsating and vibrating low Industrial-Nosise. Created with a sensible and subtle feel for brilliant effects, this music evokes a dense and dark atmosphere for a deep mind-imprinting. Too surreal for words! For the RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN" 1993  
MOLJEBKA PVLSE Borrowed Scenery: Appearance maxi-CD During the pandemic, many of the restrictions introduced, in particular, on movement, artists, like most of us, made their journeys mainly in their own rooms or made pilgrimages deep into each other. Mathias from MOLJEBKA PVLSE at that time uses his own studio as a vehicle he traverses through virtual field recordings, composing his own abstract environments and discovering distant lands. The map of these borrowed places is written in 3 long compositions, complementing each other like the topography of neighboring places or overlapping grids showing different properties occurring at the same latitude. It is possible to read them separately, just as it is possible to listen to only one of the three compositions and it gives some idea, allowing you to capture a selected fragment, this listening to the whole gives a deeper insight. The material from the session was divided according to a similar pattern and properly divided into two complementary releases: the album "Borrowed Scenery", which will be released next spring on vinyl, and CDEP "Borrowed Scenery: Appearance", introducing the atmosphere of the longplay, respectively. The CD containing over twenty minutes of composition folded in a 6-inch gatefold with two postcards attached is the next installment of a series of short musical forms, initiated in our catalog by the publication of the material "Klechdy" by Rigor Mortiss. CD EP folded in 6" gatefold sleeve + 2 postcards limited to 200 copies https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/borrowed-scenery-appearance 2021 €12.00
  Topography of Frequency and Time CD The term "Topography" means the study of the forms and features of land surfaces., the physical appearance of natural attributes in a certain area... MATHIAS JOSEFSON aka MOLJEBKA PVLSE has adopted this notion to characterize this long form multiple-layer drone ambient expanse, a continuous flow of sound that can lead you into different aural regions...like the recent "Sacrificed Phloem (Zannec Line)" by LOPEZ/MENCHE (SYM:04) this one-tracker (exactly 70 minutes long) guides through you various stages.. after a massive beginning there's a very mellow / harmonic middle part, the aural topography of sound changes again towards the ending...a continuous "transfer" into non-ordinary states of mood & consciousness... Mathias Josefson shares his thoughts on the album: " 'Topography of Frequency and Time' is an expedition through expansive sonic landscapes that stretch beyond our daily awareness. It serves as an open invitation to transcend the visual confines of physical space, encouraging a deep dive into the unexplored realms of sound and time. This album seeks to chart the uncharted territories of our auditory experience, intricately mapping the intersections of three-dimensional space within the frequency and time domains." MOLJEKBA PVLSE, based in Stockholm and Hamburg, has accompanied Drone Records for a long time, with releases on 7" and 10" vinyl. Active since 1999, the project has evolved from more minimal droning soundscapes on to complex multi-layered atmospheric conglomerations of acoustic and electronic sounds, field recordings and found sounds, feat. various guest musicians. listen to an extract from the album: https://soundcloud.com/drone-records/moljebkapvlse-topographyoffrequencyandtime-excerpt 2024 €13.00
MONTESSUIS, JOACHIM Chapel Perilous LP "After a prolific 2011 with a handful of splendid releases on CD, DVD and cassette + collaborations with the likes of Charlemagne Palestine, Julien Ottavi and The Master Musicians of Joujouka, “Chapel Perilous” marks the debut vinyl release and first proper solo album by the Paris based audio/visual artist and curator of the exquisite Erratum label. 23 tracks, totalling approx. 35 minutes, compiled from recordings made in the course of the past eight years, de- and recomposed for this album in early 2012. Drawing on his voice as the main tool, Montessuis delivers a frantic opus of cut-up noise poetry, making “Chapel Perilous” le chef d’œuvre of his extending body of work." [label info] www.fragmentfactory.com 2012 €17.50
MONTGOMERY, GEN KEN Postcards 1981-1986 do-LP Gen Ken Montgomery, a New York-based Visual Artist and Sound Composer is absolutely genuine; he has no training in traditional music or art. He was never a follower of any direction or school. Instead he founded his own school of off-beat DIY-electronics, driven by irresistible curiosity and ingenuous enthusiasm for sound experimentation and process-oriented performance. His music is dense and full of polyrhythms and counter harmonies with singular control over layers of randomly pulsing, bleeping synthesizers and drum boxes. As a composer in the early eighties Ken was creating multi-channel sound works often performed in total darkness. He began his sound explorations with electronic toys, cheap synthesizers and household gadgetry for which he had a special fascination. His ever present objects of affection are electric machines including an ice crusher (ICEBREAKER), aquarium pump, refrigerator, shoe shine machine, hand massager and a laminator (The Sound of Lamination). Postcards has 41 (!!) tracks; 22 tracks on LP 1 compiled from his first tape Gen Ken & Equipment (1981), his second tape Collaborations (1982), his third official tape Kalkreuth Keks (1986), recorded at Conrad Schnitzler’s Studio, and several live recordings under the name KMZ with Michael Zodorozny of Crash Course in Science. Postcards LP2 includes 19 songs from the 4th official tape Beatmusik 1981-84 (SoP186) released by Sound of Pig, New York, songs from 1984 on his 5th release Room to Roam on Out Of The Blue, Berlin, plus 3 previously unreleased tracks from the same time period, one also as KMZ. Gen Ken & Equipment was self-produced in an edition of 150 tapes in 1981 and led Montgomery to corresponding and trading tapes in the international Cassette Culture and Mail Art network, leading to relationships and collaborations with such luminaries in the underground music scene as Conrad Schnitzler, Giancarlo Tonuitti, CHOP SHOP, David Lee Myers (Arcane Device), Al Margolis, John Hudak, Francisco Lopez, AMK, Istvan Kantor (Monty Cantsin), G.X. Jupiter-Larsen (The Haters), Rod Summers (VEC), Maurizio Bianchi, Masami Akita alias Merzbow, CM von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren among others. “Cassettes were an inexpensive and practical way of getting feedback from the developing international community of sound/noise/music experimenters. Cassettes allowed for spontaneous freedom and experimentation without the burden and commitment of releasing vinyl which was expensive to mail and costly to press in editions of less than 500”- gkm Montgomery used the earliest Casio keyboards, self made electronic gadgets, cheap drum boxes and his favorite instrument, the Korg MS-20 synthesizer. The mixture of noise/pop/rock/electronic and soundscapes all on one cassette show how musical genres hadn’t become entrenched in the Cassette Culture scene yet. “Do it!”, “Small World” and “Treat The Hell Out of It” (released as a flexi-disc included with Onslaught Magazine (Artwerk) in 1982 are examples of the songs he composed at this time. In the early 80s in New York City there were still small record shops such as Venus Records, Bleecker Bob’s, Soho Music Gallery and 99 Records that sold artist produced cassettes and fanzines. Independent mail order distributors like Rough Trade and Aeon Records carried Montgomery’s cassettes and On-Slaught Magazine, Option Magazine, Factsheet Five and other small DIY zines listed them or reviewed them. Montgomery’s interest in structured improvisation and avante-garde theater theatre led to the formation of KMZ with his friend Michael Zodorozny from Crash Course in Science. KMZ performed regularly at the legendary Pyramid-Club in NYC. Tracks from KMZ and collaborations with other artists such as Stephen Spera and Stefan Tischler of Port Said can be found on his 2nd tape Collaborations. Between 1982 and 85 Montgomery spent time in Berlin combining performance art and electronic music where he had the fortune to meet and develop a relationship with Conrad Schnitzler who has had a major impact on his life and work. His third official Tape Kalkreuth Keks was recorded in Conrad Schnitzler’s studio during a 2-week stint in the dead of winter 1986. These 8-track recordings incorporated the violin, guitar, and keyboards with analog synthesizers, processing, voice and the “new” sounds of the Yamaha CX5M music computer. Three of the tracks on Postcards are from these sessions. A 4th cassette Beatmusik, released on Al Margolis Sound-of-Pig-Label (SOP186) in 1988 featured a selection of tracks recorded between 1981 and 86. In 1989 Lord Litter from Berlin also released a fifth Gen Ken-tape called Room To Roam, also with recordings from 1984. A selection from these two tapes can be found on the additional accompanying 7”inch. In 1987 Montgomery, along with David Prescott and Conrad Schnitzler started the label Generations Unlimited. Two cassettes of cassettes of minimal electronic music, Stepping Through Rooms and The One Sided Triangle were released on Generations Unlimited and in1988, GENCON, a collaboration with Conrad Schnitzler was released on vinyl. His involvement in the late 70’s and 80’s Cassette-Culture and the Mail-Art movements led to his creation of the first and arguably still the most important Sound Art gallery in New York City in 1989: Generator. Located in the East Village, then in Chelsea, Generator’s wide scope and novel approach toward audio art made it a vector-point for some of the most interesting and important artists from around the world. Gen Ken also founded A.T.M.O.T.W.— Art is Throwing Money Out The Window — and Generator Sound Art Inc., and he co-founded the seminal experimental label Pogus Productions. The past three decades many of Montgomery’s cassettes, records and CDs have been released in limited editions on small labels outside of mainstream distribution on such respected labels as De Fabriek (Holland), Staalplaat (Holland), Tellus, Mark Lane’s Artwerk, Banned Productions, XI Records (all USA), Firework Edition (Sweden), Old Europa Café (Italy) and Discos Esplendor Geometrico (Spain). Other recorded works are available on his own A.T.M.O.T.W. label, Generator Sound Art and on Touch Radio. Montgomery continues to produce music and soundworks while also producing visual art, collage, bookmaking, and international correspondence art. As The Minister of Lamination (a.k.a. Egnekn) he is the world’s foremost practitioner of sonic Lamination Art and he continues to mail postcards to friends and collaborators throughout the world. www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2012 €27.50
MOORE, ANTHONY / THERAPEUTISCHE HÖRGRUPPE KÖLN Ore Talks do-LP " 'ore talks' limited edition release, gatefold sleeve with booklet. a double lp of essentially electronic and noise-based pieces paired with astonishing texts spoken by anthony moore. the concept is that objects of value, artifacts or minerals, buried deep in the ground send strange signals through the earth up to the planet's surface. they are detected by the ears and instruments of miners, explorers and archaeologists who are tuned-in to the subterranean frequencies. the album contains a large booklet explaining this idea and featuring many pages of eccentric writing about sound." [label info] Four sides of vinyl: this has served as a time constraint from the very outset of the project. With around 18 minutes per side giving an overall run time of 72 minutes, these time slots are designed to offer recordings of four sets of historical, technical processes and their devices. Each of the four chapters is conceived in two parts and realised in a number of actual compositions. A. VALVES / ROEHRE: 1. Their Electrons. The developement of De Forest‘s Audion. 2. Noise as signal and the power of redundancy. B. PIEZOS: 1. Reversibility; Loudspeakers as Microphones and The Transmitting Ear. 2. Mercury Acoustic Delays Lines. C. RECORDERS: 1. Wax Cylinders, Hill ’n Dale, Voices of the Dead. 2. Magnetic Oxide and Memory Machines, Storing Time. D. CRYSTAL SETS: 1. Waves; The Air as One Vast (negentropic) Library. 2. Farewell to AM, Fades to Infinity. A voice is transmitted through various materials; early microphones, the reproducer of an Edison phonograph, glass phials filled with mercury, piezo crystals, transducers, and piezo discs attached to polystyrene spheres, shortwave radios, old russian valves and the self-built circuitry of condensers and switches. What emerges are speech-driven patterns of noise, electronic music and occasional passages where the voice can be plainly heard in 14 separate pieces of widely differing durations. ORE THOUGHTS Galena to Stibnite, starting with lead, ending with lead; the history of soldering, cementing connections for currents of information and noise alike. In the undigital realm, noise is a context for the signal and can be information in itself. For example rotating surface noise is useful for finding the original speed at which early shellacs may have been cut. Redundancy is vital for a proper understanding of the world. So Ore Talks celebrates lead and soldering and making connections and, endotically, noise; noises at the outer ear but also of the inner ear. Perec and the Oulipians employ the term ‚endotic‘ as an antonym to ‚exotic‘ in order to focus attention on the everyday, on what might be dismissed as mere noise. The infraordinaire, as Perec calls it, is very much the subject of a historiographical approach that prefers to explore the lives and times of the distinctly unfamous; a more vivid, sensory history that concerns itself with sights and smells and sounds. In addition, Ore Talks posits a strange attraction between the discoverer and the yet-to-be discovered; between buried artefacts and the archeologist seeking to disinter them; between prospector and rich, subterranean lodes. The ‚ground‘ in the electrical field is a conductor that reaches into the earth. Simultaneously, metalliferous ores and objects alike call out to be uncovered in an equivalent act of active perception. The only prerequisite? Keep an ear to the ground; the telluric source for chthonic voices. Murmurings from below the surface: the call of buried things that seek to be disinterred. Anthropomorphism notwithstanding, there is something to be said for giving a voice to inanimate minerals. After all, their constituent elements come from the stars and have also given rise to us humans. Furthermore, when those same elements are alchemically transformed into compounds of metal and fillers of plastics, of quicksilver and piezo crystals, of the very air, water or copper that play host to sound in its various forms, transporting speech, then ORE TALKS emerges as a title with some resonance. And text too can be a ground from beneath which conceptual objects stem (voices in the grey matter). Here is a list of such objects that have been disinterred in no particular order from the paragraphs above. “Active perception; superluminality in the collapse of the sender/receiver paradigm” “A History of Simultaneity; how far back does same-timedness go?” “Noise in History, noise as history” “The importance of redundancy in human communication” “Sound and the continuum are products of each other” “What holds true for time also applies to sound; they both depend on disappearing as they come into existence.” “The speed of sound is a good rate at which to think about a speed of time” These and related topics are expanded over the following pages. They contain the sources for all readings recorded and subsequently transformed in the ORE TALKS experiments on this double LP. www.therapeutischehoergruppekoeln.de/ore.html "Antimonit Bleiglanz Coelestin... Ein erzernes ABC bis hin zu Zinnober. Verbunden mit 72 Minuten Text + Klang in vier Kapiteln / Vinyl-Seiten: a. Valves / Röhren b. Piezos c. Recorders d. Crystal Sets. Kreisend um Ore [Erz] = Mineralgemenge, die wegen ihres Metallgehaltes abgebaut werden, um es für Werkzeuge und Ähnliches weiterzuverarbeiten. Kreisend um L/ore, dt. Lehre -> Folklore = the knowledge and traditions, frequently passed along by word of mouth. Merke: Transmission is a vital part of the folklore process -> 1. Orality = Mündlichkeit -> 2. Literacy = Reeling and Writhing / Lesen & Schreiben -> 3. Technical Devices = Aufschreibesysteme. Es geht um Medientechniken: Alphabet - Grammophon... (Friedrich Kittler), um Recording Angels' Mysteries (Klaus Theweleit), um Dead Letters (Gregory Whitehead). Bevor Moore 1996 (bis 2015) Professor an der KHM wurde, hatte er mit Slapp Happy den Mond vom Himmel gepflückt, mit Pink Floyd gearbeitet und Soundtracks für Werner Nekes kreiert. Akademisch forschte er dann synchron mit Kittler über die Geschichte und Gesetzmäßigkeiten von Sound, über phonetische und klingende Techniken des Daseins und der Erinnerung. 2004 nahm er teil an Kittlers Sirenenexperiment, das vor Amalfi Odysseus' Affäre mit den Sirenen nachstellte. Zwischen '...and the Gods made love' und Moores 'Dogs of War' spielt sich alles ab, was es zu singen und sagen gibt. Polyphone Erkenntnis über Sound und Zeit, Noise und Information, gefiltert aus den Lebenserfahrungen von der Bronzezeit her. Darüber schreibt und spricht Moore mit medienarchäologischem Knowhow und einem Ohr für die chthonischen Stimmen. Innere Stimmen, wie sie zuerst noch bikameral fluktuierten (Julian Jaynes), dann akusmatisch, mimetisch, alphabetisch, speicherbar, decodierbar, repetierbar wurden. Die Namen Zeiss, Chladni, Tyndell und Helmholtz oszillieren steampunkabenteuerlich an den pythagoräischen Küsten wie Töne und Zahlen zwischen Rauschen und Offenbarung. Schwingquarze geben den Takt an. Memory Machines verflüssigen Vergangenes und Kommendes, um es zu fixieren, so wie Moores Sätze zu Science Fiction verschwimmen. Er raunt von The Etherial Skin of Interference, er wird poetisch, fasziniert von den Ur-Geräuschen, die Scott de Martinvilles Schweinsborsten-Phonautograph einfing oder Rilke der Kronen- Naht des Schädels zu entlocken gedachte. Klang wurde das mit Hilfe der Therapeuten Beck, Grewenig & Hennes (von The Knob, The Finger & The It), Langguth und Specht (einst bei 40 Sekunden Ohne Gewicht und Kunstkopf). Moores Stimme wispert und fitzelt subliminal unter löchrig-perkussiver Bruitistik, er reiht Zahlen oder verschwindet hinter sirrenden Spuren, taktilen Geräuschen, spurenelementaren Impulsen. Silben und Satzfetzen mischen sich mit Hilfe der Hörgruppe zu Kratzern, Partikelkollisionen, Radiowellen, Zeitrost, Reibung von Entropie und Negentropie, sprachmelodischem Blaseton, Frequenzpingpong. Umso überraschender daher die klaren, wenn auch für den Laien kryptischen Sätze über Interferenz, Simultanität, die Unschärfe des Now-Space, von Senden und Empfangen. Moore meditiert über Turings ACE und die Alchemie von Quecksilber-Laufzeitspeichern, aber die Sprache wird wieder verzerrt, der Noise dafür prickelig und wohltönend. Doch dann umfängt einen wieder im ursuppig, uhrsuppig brodelnden, radiowellenberauschten Äther protologisch wummernde Sonic Fiction, die zuletzt endlosrillenstottrig ausgroovt." [Bad Alchemy] 2017 €25.00
MORSANEK / VINKEPEEZER same LP Quasi aus dem "Nichts" erreichte uns diese sehr gute LP von zwei niederländischen "Klangtätern", die beide auf ihre ganz eigene Art ein speziellen Klangkosmos erschaffen... VINKEPEEZER mag einigen noch als WRIKKEN bekannt sein, hatte mal eine 7" auf MIXER ! "Morsanek is an Amsterdam-based guitarist, DJ, and sound editor. In his DJ and editing projects Morsanek attempts to build audio narratives by connecting and disconnecting small timbral and organisational complements. His work as an improvising guitarist uses prepared guitar as a sort of sampler. His first vinyl release is a split LP on the Kazemat label in januari 2009. www.subdist.com/morsanek/ Vinkepeezer: Soundvillain, cut and paste composer, sonic painter. Vinkepeezers' music is built from many tiny sampled fragments that reappear as a swarming flock of birds, falling apart and building up again in ever changing forms. His music is organic, cinematic, warm and thickly layered, full of contrast. The music is performed live with an unique instrument consisting of game controllers such as the Wii remote, and by acoustic instruments played by musicians that reinterpret his compositions. Vinkepeezer is Dutch composer, sound artist and performer Ivo Bol, who works internationally with filmmakers, theatremakers and choreographers. www.ivobol.nl/" [label info] "After the second world war brought a lot of English words into the Dutch language, and it may hardly be no surprise that German words didn't make it. There is one exception, which is the now fully accepted German word bunker. Before World War Two they were called 'Kazemat', which is a beautiful word, I think. Praise to Rob Vugs and Ivo Bol who just started a label with the same name, and more praise to him for this daring move: a bit of heavy vinyl, gatefold, full color sleeve, in an edition of 500 copies. Let's hope this may last longer than just one release. Ivo Bol was once a member of Wrikken, who released a 7" on Mixer (see Vital Weekly 334), but since time works solo as Vinkepeezer, creating music by using game controllers and acoustic instruments. Much of his work is created for film, theatre and dance. In the first two pieces it seems that Bol loves his Oval, through a jumpy myriad of bouncing sounds. Closely out of phase they make a densely shaped total. Its however not a glitch based as Oval, or many of their followers. Bol creates his own strong world, plus he knows how to cut back in sound and make a quieter moment. Nothing earth shaking new, but executed with great care. Morsanek is an Amsterdam based guitarist, DJ and sound editor, who for his own piece, which spans one side of this record, he uses his guitar, effects and sound editing. Its a bit hard to say how much of this was guitar or 'live', as I hear many different layers, which seems to be hard for one person to deal with and there are some sounds which seem like 'real' percussion. Whereas Vinkepeezer stays on the safe side of things, Morsanek goes for the adventure of sound, offering a wider range of sounds and moods, and makes a more surprising piece of music. But both sides are quite nice, so this is a most promising start for this new label." [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.kazemat.com 2009 €15.50
MORTHOUND Death Time LP Step into the enigmatic world of Morthond, a captivating music project that took shape during the winter of 1990 under the creative guidance of the singular talent, BJ Nilsen. Morthond isn't confined by genre labels; instead, it's a canvas where experimental soundscapes, dark atmospheres, and ambient textures converge to create an immersive auditory experience. Unlike traditional projects, Morthond thrives on pushing sonic boundaries and challenging the norm. Rooted in the wintry landscapes of its inception, Morthond captures the stark beauty and chilling isolation of the season. Under BJ Nilsen's vision, Morthond becomes a vessel for exploring the shadowy corners of the human mind and emotions. Morthond's music defies easy categorization, and that's precisely where its allure lies. It dances at the crossroads of experimental, ambient, and dark genres, creating soundscapes that evoke contemplation and provoke the imagination. BJ Nilsen's craftsmanship lies in his ability to orchestrate sounds that immerse listeners in a realm where emotions intertwine with auditory perceptions. Urashima's vinyl reissue of "Death Time" is a mesmerizing portal to the project's formative years. Originally introduced on cassette through Sound Source - CMI in 1991, this album serves as the inaugural chapter in Morthond's sonic journey. "Death Time" not only showcases the debut of the project but also unveils a realm of experimental artistry that defies convention. From the very first moments, "Death Time" announces itself as a sonic exploration unlike any other. It's an audacious fusion of experimental compositions and ambient soundscapes, a testament to BJ Nilsen's unrelenting quest to carve out an auditory path that transcends labels. This album stands as an embodiment of Morthond's early ethos: to defy the norm and venture into uncharted territories of sonic expression. The tracks within "Death Time" reveal a landscape of sound that is both unsettling and captivating. As layers of sound overlap and intertwine, a sense of enigmatic tension unfolds. The experimental nature of the album invites the listener to relinquish preconceived notions and embrace the unknown. Each sonic element serves a purpose – from the echoing whispers to the evocative textures – creating a composition that resonates with thought-provoking depth. Urashima's reissue transforms "Death Time" into a tangible experience. The vinyl format adds an organic richness to the album's soundscape, inviting listeners to immerse themselves fully in Morthond's world. The tactile act of placing the needle on the record becomes an initiation into a realm of artistic exploration. This reissue isn't a mere resurrection; it's an invitation to rediscover the avant-garde essence of Morthond. "Death Time" remains a testament to the enduring power of experimental music to provoke thought and emotion. BJ Nilsen's visionary approach is evident in every sonic layer, making this vinyl reissue a commemoration of artistic exploration and a testament to the ongoing evolution of Morthond's sonic legacy. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/death-time 2023 €25.00
MORTIFICATION TO THE FLESH Le Tresor Maudit CD "First official CD-reissue, previously released in 1988 as vinyl LP on Bog-Art label (cat. # BOG 101) in an edition of 300 copies. Digi-slim sleeve, including all six tracks from the original vinyl + bonus tracks. Even though it was released in a strictly limited edition (original copies of the LP are now sold at very high prices), "Le Trésor Maudit" reached a huge cult-status within the industrial scene. Following the best 80's German music tradition, the band put together different styles into an unique sound, strong and suggestive at the same time. Rhythmic, hypnotic “new wave” (with female vocals) meets courageous experimental music, classic industrial and art-electronics. Mortification To The Flesh: Annett Falkenheiner, Hubert Haverkamp, Imelle Von Dohlen. Featuring, amongst others, contributions by (!) Al Margolis and Giancarlo Toniutti. An essential album for the fans of German industrial music and underground new wave." [label info] www.finalmuzik.com 2011 €12.00
MOSS, JESSICA Pools of Light LP 180gram vinyl includes 12x24 art print poster + 320kbps MP3 download The debut solo full-length by violinist and sound artist Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Black Ox Orkestar, Vic Chesnutt, Carla Bozulich). Recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart, Suuns, Matana Roberts, Eric Chenaux) RIYL: Sibelius, Laurie Anderson, Sarah Davachi, Benoît Pioulard, Loscil. Jessica Moss is known best as the violinist, co-composer, and backing vocalist with the acclaimed chamber-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (SMZ) and the avant-klezmer group Black Ox Orkestar. As fans of these projects will know, Moss has developed a distinctive and impressive approach to violin that combines a natural technical fluidity, a recombinant command of folk, classical and modern idioms, and an adventurous exploration of signal-bending and analog effects that uniquely expand the spectrum of the violin as sound source. Her solo work is deeply rooted in live performance, where she builds up and breaks down stunning longform compositions in real time with an array of pedals - including octave/harmonizers and samplers/loopers. To hear all of this rallied on her debut full-length solo release is intensely rewarding: comprised of two side-length multi-movement compositions, Pools Of Light unfolds at a stately, inexorable pace, combining sound-art and signal-processed timbres, extended melodic and contrapuntal lines, and the periodic deployment of stark, minimalist vocals. Pools Of Light is elegiac durational music at the intersection of neo-classicism, soundtrack, electronic, art-punk and avant-folk - a decidedly organic, non-academic, profoundly searching and emotive work, guided by Moss's liner note mantra: "FEELING LOVE IN A MELTING WORLD". 2017 €23.00
MOTHRA Doom Engine LP "First time on vinyl for this cult album from Japanese Noise / Death Industrial / junk noise group MOTHRA: Jun-ichi Takahashi (Screloma), Masahiko Okubo (Linekraft / Oozepus), Fumihiro Kojima, and Masahito Nozu. Harsh noise, rhythmic death industrial and full of Industrial junk percussion, "Doom Engine" was created using gas tanks, iron plates, junk metal, heavy bass, distorted / screamed vocals, and psychedelic sound imagery. For fans of: early Einsturzende Neubauten / early Test Dept, Kollaps, classic German Death Industrial, but with a distinct Japanese edge. New artwork by RSJS. Ltd x 400 copies on 180gm vinyl in a 350gsm sleeve. Jun-Ichi Takahashi: Metal Junks Masahito Nozu: Drums, Metal Junks Fumihiro Kojima: Electronics Masahiko Okubo: Voice, Bass Mastered by Martin Bowes Graphic Design: Abby Helasdottir Cover Photography: RSJS (Insta: @Rsforkingjs) https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/doom-engine-csr284lp 2020 €20.00
MOTT, NICK The Visitors LP "I'm not entirely sure whether The Visitors are us, the people who put us here, or our future selves. But the music they make is a ritual feast of rain soaked crackling sci-fi environments, orchestrated tap-dancing pools of tape hiss, destroyed electronic soliloquies, precariously stacked slices of malfunctioning melody, rusting springs of elastic horror synths, duets between time stretched fluttering bells and ancient machines, subliminal and writhing bass contortions, collaged violin orchestras, blown out percussion and buried drums, dusty piano splicings, choirs of angels and demons, and creaking vertical conversations between brass and breath......" [label info] www.altvinyl.com 2012 €16.50
  Here begins the Great Destroyer CD "Lumberton Trading Company presents Here Begins the Great Destroyer, English multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Nick Mott's second album under his own name. Mott, previously known mostly for his work as a founding member of the eclectic group Volcano the Bear, has, since his departure, been forging a path very much his own. A couple of other projects aside, namely Skeleton Birds and the Number of God and Spectral Armies, Mott's work under his own name commenced in 2011 with a one-sided 7" art package also released on Lumberton Trading Company (LUMB 006B-EP). Similar to his drawings and photocopied collages, Mott's music beams in from some kind of distorted or fractured reality, reminiscent of the twilit places explored by the likes of H. P. Lovecraft. The ten pieces on Here Begins the Great Destroyer bear witness to a world of unfolding electronic textures, uneasy tones, rhythmic bursts, and a general sense of things not being quite as they seem. However, this is no dark ambient muck. Instead, it rather uncomfortably resides in a space out of which Renaldo & The Loaf, Tuxedomoon, Nurse with Wound, and Andrew Liles have all crawled. Of course, there is a crooked humor evident, too, as no artist can truly traverse such places without it. Here Begins the Great Destroyer is the first step towards what will, in due course, become a deluxe vinyl box set also containing an art booklet by Nick Mott. In the meantime, this album exists in its own right as a Digipak CD, which is limited to 300 copies and will not be reprinted. Mastered by Siôn Orgon (former collaborator of Thighpaulsandra and Peter Christopherson). www.lumberton-trading.net 2015 €13.00
MOUCHOIR ETANCHE (=BLACK TO COMM) Kommunique Zero pic-12inch "An end and a new beginning. Kommuniqué Zéro is the debut outing of new Black To Comm related entity Mouchoir Ètanche. And it is the final release in Dekorder's 10-Year Anniversary hybrid-vinyl series (a mere seven years too late). Combining real and fake acoustic instrumentation, sampling, field recordings, and excessive yet inaudible post production this is a powerful statement of intent. Influences are ranging from (French) classical and opera to the anecdotical compositions of Luc Ferrari, Chinese opera, sacred music, collage, and free improvisation. Marc Richter records as Black To Comm for Thrill Jockey, Type, and Dekorder and as Jemh Circs for his own Cellule 75 imprint. He also produced soundtracks and acousmatic multichannel installations for institutions such as INA GRM Paris, ZKM Karlsruhe, and Kunstverein Hamburg. The Dekorder 10-Year Anniversary hybrid-vinyl series so far included LPs by Pye Corner Audio, Excepter, Experimental Audio Research, Vindicatrix, Kemiallysät Ystävät, Ensemble Economique, Alien Radio, Black To Comm, and Le Révélateur. Music and artwork by Marc Richter. Richard Youngs: counting. Mastering by Rashad Becker Hybrid-vinyl: picture-disc on one side (no music), black vinyl on the other (music); edition of 165." https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/kommuniqu-z-ro 2020 €16.50
MSBR Structured Suicide LP MSBR (Molten Salt Breeder Reactor), aka Koji Tano, was one of the most respected noise artists to arise from Japan's exciting noise/experimental music scene of the 1990s. Much of his material was self-released on his own label, the astounding MSBR Records, which was dedicated to the production of limited-edition releases with incredible artwork. MSBR present a music elaborated with previously chosen source of sounds, whose origins are either naturel or artificial, with use of Korg guitar synthesizer and some effects, working in analog sounds. Oscillating between grappling electro noise (as he describes his musical style) and pure noise, the really surprising quality of the sound research leads to a tremendous kind of noise-texture. After his debut LP and a lathe cut seven-inch, Structured Suicide is third MSBR release and first on tape in amazing package as everything other release by artist. The long track that occupies the entire A side of the cassette and the first track of the B side of over a quarter of an hour, are filled with excellent harsh noise with strong influences of concrete and electroacoustic music, deep and calmer rumble and ambient effluence. Structured Suicide is a terrific undertaking into the wickedness of mechanized clatter as a foreboding, consuming pollution, the unrelenting and ever-building storm of machines slowly lulling the living into bleak states of masochistic artificiality. This is the classic sound of MSBR, which envelops you with its texture of noise scales, suffocating and enthralling, without an immediate impact, but which then, at its harshest, hits you with devastating force! The other two quite short tracks that close the album are less conventional and show how much the artist wants to experiment, without closing himself in a pre-packaged genre. Vinyl comes in only 199 copies with cover that faithfully reproduces the style of original art work, with vinyl labels that replicates inlay tape card. An awesome artefact of early 1990s Japan noise music, resting at the borders of electroacoustic, Urashima’s long awaited, first ever vinyl reissue of Koji Tano’s epoch-making album, 'Structured Suicide', emerges 28 years later as a stunning testament to the importance of the creative expansion to which it belongs. Absolutely essential on every count! https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/structured-suicide 2021 €21.50
MUELLER, JON Death Blues LP "Find Yourself. Impatience. Death Blues. Acceptance. Impermanence. Iron String. The six songs that comprise Jon Mueller's Death Blues are each their own doorway to both a bold new musical statement from the renowned drummer percussionist and an unprecedented journey into a conscious contemplation of death -- and the life that surrounds it. Released in tandem with a multi-part manifesto, Death Blues transcends its own existence as 34-minute, earth-cracking rock album. Much like Mueller, whose landmark solo work stands alongside his role in notable bands Volcano Choir (and previously, Collections of Colonies of Bees), Death Blues embodies the acknowledgement that there's more to experiencing music than simply just listening. Conceived and largely executed in its recorded form by Mueller himself -- adding hammered acoustic guitar and bold vocal patterning to his ever-evolving mastery of percussion -- Death Blues is audibly (and intensely) personal. However, the very act of recording was the first step in a discourse that Mueller began over a year ago, forming a band of brilliant performers from his Milwaukee, WI hometown that would go on to perform Death Blues at Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC and at two sold-out Death Blues events in Milwaukee, where a labyrinth led the audience into a multi-sensory and participatory experience culminating in a climactic performance of the album. It was as close as one could get to being next to Mueller at that moment of discovery: of the inevitability of death as the impetus to become more present in each moment and of the necessity of building his own path to sharing that idea. Death Blues is being collaboratively released by Taiga and Hometapes and is available as a limited edition LP packaged in a deluxe litho-wrapped jacket that includes the Death Blues manifesto; 500 hand-numbered copies of the highest fidelity pressed on 200g virgin vinyl." [label info] www.taigarecords.com 2013 €20.00
MUELLER, JON & JAMES PLOTKIN Terminal Velocity do-LP "Jon Mueller and James Plotkin first combined forces on Physical Changes, scorching the leading LP side of Mueller's 2009 multi-format collaborative investigation. Forging Mueller's blistering percussion and rolling hills of drums with Plotkin's searing guitar and melting electronics, a sturdy alloy was formed. When both musicians were asked to perform at the Utech Records Music Festival in June 2011, at which they appeared as a duo, the pair spent the proceeding days spontaneously unfurling Terminal Velocity. Recorded in rural Wisconsin just outside of Mueller's native Milwaukee, Terminal Velocity is an effort of concentration. On the brink of implosion, the duo reduces dense washes of percussion and guitar to thick crusts, at times deceivingly with a whispered intensity. Sizzling drums meet electronic warbles as two great forces restrain each other to a constant speed. Mastered by Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200g virgin vinyl, Terminal Velocity is presented in an edition of 500 copies. Packaged in a heavy Stoughton tip-on gatefold, the jacket is hand-numbered on the spine and features a textured paper to enhance Karlynn Holland's graphite drawings the album accompanies." [label info] www.taigarecords.com 2012 €31.00
MULTER Köln 4/11/2006 CD-R "One of the best known unknown artists of the german experimental hard-to-classify scene publishes here this document of a one track concert, recorded at the Kulturbunker, Cologne during a concert series organized by Till Kniola / Auf Abwegen in Late 2006. The trio of Neidhardt (guitar/Amps), Geiter (keyboards, live mix) and Hoeschen (field recordings, live mix) performed in their unique style what can be loosely described as memorable post-rock drone. A piece which just keeps growing and developing for close to an hour. The last full length release by [multer] was the sound installation soundtrack ‘Berge Im Bunker’ (consouling sounds, 2011) which was prefaced by the marvelous but vinyl only ‘Kopenhagener deutung’ album (genesungswerk, 2003). Next year shall bring a release of a studio version of this track as well as other projects concluding with the publication of entirely new material and accompanying live performances. For those interested what happened between [multer] activities there is the meanwhile impressive back-catalogue of Hellmut Neidhart aka ‘N’ solo and also releases on Thomas Geiter’s own label inselkind-schalltraeger worth more than a listen. Issued as a limited & numbered cdr with special artwork directed and produced by [multer] and as an unlimited digital dl." [label info] https://klappstuhl.bandcamp.com/album/k-ln-04-11-2006 "Klappstuhl Records zeigt sich, nach ersten Anzeichen 2012 und 2013, seit 2015 zweifelsfrei wiederbelebt, ohne merkliche Gesinnungsänderung zur kassettentäterischen Vorgeschichte in den 80ern (& 90ern). Köln 4 | 11 | 2006 (SP 012, CD-R) wirft nun sogar ein halbes Pfund in die Waagschale. Durch ein silbernes Cover aus Eisen. Zu hören sind, live im Kulturbunker, Thomas Geiter: keyboard, mixing, Mal Hoeschen: fieldrecording, mixing & Hellmut Neidhardt: guitars, amps, Letzterer einschlägig bekannt als N, die drei gemeinsam als [multer]. Sie tasten sich mit blasender, wischender, dröhnender Vorsicht voran. Dröhnend? Es ist das fast ein Singen wie von einer Harmonika, ein sublim changierender Silberstreif am tief gelegten Kulturhorizont. Ein knatternder Helikopter unternimmt einen Aufklärungsflug. Kleine Alltagsgeräusche, Schritte, Vogelschreie, Entengeschnatter, Glockenspiel und Turmuhrschlag oder erst glucksendes, dann anbrandendes und lappendes Wasser akzentuieren als Einsprengsel der Welt da draußen das langwellig sonore, surrend noch unterstrichene Fürsichsein in einem Tagtraumzustand. Ein fernes Akkordeon spielt 'Caravan', die N-Gitarre schnurrt. Zwei Stimmen referieren über den Ausnahmezustand und die Schamlosigkeit, die künstlerisches Schaffen ermöglichen, und über das 'Nein' des ästhetischen Menschen. Nietzsche trapst als Nachtigall: Es giebt zwei Zustände, in denen die Kunst selbst wie eine Naturgewalt im Menschen auftritt, über ihn verfügend, ob er will oder nicht: einmal als Zwang zur Vision, andrerseits als Zwang zum Orgiasmus. Beide Zustände sind auch im normalen Leben vorgespielt, nur schwächer: im Traum und im Rausch. Vinyl knurscht, der Harmonikadrone kurvt und sirrt. Und träumt von der suggestiven Kraft der Musik, ihrer "suggestion mentale"..." [Bad Alchemy] 2016 €11.00
  Basisrealität/Armutsgewöhnungszuschlag/Wolkenkuckucksheim 3 x LP "The three part LP set is the first new studio material by [MULTER] in 10 years and it can be easily seen as the culmination of their artistic approach and search to date. Over six sides of black vinyl, attentively mastered by Fear Falls Burning, the group employ their strategies. a great sense of place is embedded into the sound thorugh carefully placed field recordings. a common-sense lyrical aspect becomes part of the scenery. heavy guitar drone-layers form a dense and almost overwhelming wall of sound. Distorted rhythms drive onwards and electronics counteract the seqeunce of events in the next instance. a beautiful, mature and very personal work." [label info] https://aufabwegen.bandcamp.com/album/basisrealit-t-armutsgew-hnungszuschlag-wolkenkuckucksheim 2021 €46.50
MURCOF The Versailles Sessions CD "Vom Barock zur Elektronik: Wassermusik des mexikanischen Elektronikers: Seinen Titel verdankt das Album dem Ort, wo alljährlich "Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes" stattfindet: das Sound-, Licht- und Wasser-Festival im wohl berühmtesten Schloss der Welt, dem Château de Versailles bei Paris. Der mexikanische Elektroniker Fernando Corona alias Murcof hat für den großen Fontänenabend im Jardin de Roi extra eine Suite geschrieben, "The Versailles Sessions" dokumentiert das Ereignis. Die sechs Kompositionen für das Projekt stammen alle aus dem 17. Jahrhundert (u. a. von Jean-Baptiste Lully, François Couperin) und wurden für das Projekt von Barockmusikern auf Originalinstrumenten eingespielt. Was wie eine Verabschiedung von elektronischer Musik klingt, ist in Wahrheit eine Fortführung von Techniken, die Corona über die Jahre entwickelt hat: die Verarbeitung bestehenden Materials - nur, dass dies jetzt aus dem 17. Jahrhundert stammt. "The Versailles Sessions" sollen dennoch nicht als Nachfolger des Albums "Cosmos" (2007) gesehen werden, eher als Zwischenprojekt zum 2009er-Werk "Océano". Das Album erscheint auf CD sowie als Doppel-LP in limitierter Edition." [label info / Indigo] "In the summer of 2007, Fernando Corona completed a site-specific commission for Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes, an annual festival of sound, light and water at Château de Versailles in France. A suite of music was composed specifically for the grand evening fountain display in the Jardin du Roi. The Versailles Sessions is an aural document of the event, to be released this winter on specially priced CD and limited edition double vinyl. The six compositions prepared for the project derive entirely from recordings of 17th century baroque instruments (including harpsichord, viola da gamba, flute and violin) and a mezzo soprano. GetSound, who commissioned the project, hired musicians specialized in baroque music in Paris. “We recorded pieces by Lully, Couperin and others,” says Corona of the sessions. “They were played traditionally, but we also experimented quite a bit with the music and instruments. It was a great learning experience - the musicians were amazing - very open minded and willing to have fun.” The recording process may appear to be a departure for an artist known primarily as an electronic musician, but in fact it’s a continuation of techniques Corona has perfected over a number of years. “It’s more or less done in the same fashion as my previous work: processing of previously recorded acoustic material. The only difference is the actual source material being so specific to 17th century baroque music and instruments. And since the recordings are the starting point of the composition process it naturally took me to a different place.” Corona’s initial interpretations of the source material didn’t quite go according to plan. “When we did a rehearsal about two weeks before the actual opening, it was pouring with rain so I wasn’t able to make the necessary tests. But being there and seeing the space and the installations (big disco balls and video projections on water fountains), I realised I was going in the wrong direction musically. “The location demanded a different approach: more openness, more time for the sounds to develop and for them to resonate in that big space, so I went back home and during those remaining two weeks I reworked the whole commission into what it is now. “The recordings I used as source material are very rich and cover a wide range of timbres, so I had lots of options as to how to approach the music making process.” The Versailles Sessions should not be considered as the successor to 2007’s monumental Cosmos, rather as a special project while we await Murcof’s next album proper." [label info] www.theleaflabel.com 2008 €12.00
MURMER Periodic Exercises in (f)utility [homework 2016-2022] do-CD this is a Kokeshidisk release - kodi 14 - september 2023 "i work slowly, and sometimes i work not at all. so having an open invitation from taâlem to create work at the end of each year, especially as winter is setting in and it is beginning to feel like i’ve done nothing all year (i haven’t, but it can feel that way), comes as an energy boost, a reassurance, and an opportunity to resurrect some confidence, and a sense of worth. so i push myself to take that opportunity - and have done so each year since the project began (aside from the year in which my father died, explaining the 2019 gap) - and i thank jean-marc for providing it. in many, in fact almost all, of the years represented here, my piece for homework was the only work i published. indeed, this collection is sandwiched by my two most recent (physical) releases: songs for forgetting was released in late 2016, just before the docks sing in strange tongues appeared on homework 1, and tether was released in early 2023, several months after thaw and timber was published on homework 7. so this collection could be viewed as my complete sonic journey over those 7 years, digging in archives, showing off newly discovered sounds, and all in all attempting to prove to myself that it is all for something, that the tape should keep rolling, and that i must pay attention, because my homework will soon be due." (patrick/murmer, june 2023) the docks sing in strange tongues (2016) objects and situations found in rovaniemi, hamburg, mooste, põlgaste, tallinn, and bordeaux between 2003 and 2016. title found in the poem of the same name by panos panagiotopoulos. echo surveys: viljandi (reimagined) (2017) echo surveys is an ongoing series of activities including performances, workshops, installations, and compositions that consist of site-specific sonic interventions; all sounds heard are produced and/or recorded in a chosen space, using only materials found therein. this 'reimagined' work adds a new layer; it is based on a live performance at the noisy november festival at supersonicum in viljandi, estonia on 2017.11.17, and is composed from the initial field recordings made in the space for use in the performance, as well as from the recording of the performance itself. also participating in the performance and therefore in this composition were erik alalooga and taavi suisalu (the event organiser and other performer on the bill that night, respectively) and a number of members of the public. water, grain, oil (2018) water, fingers, and nylon string (france, 2008); disturbed ants (finland, 2014); panelia mill grinding wheel (finland, 2009); empty oil tank interventions (latvia, 2008) nail down your ghosts (2020) source material recorded in an abandoned and now-demolished house in the estonian town of valga in october 2019. sonic interventions performed, and elements subsequently reworked, by liisa hirsch and patrick tubin mcginley, 2019/2020. composed from those elements in june 2020. originally created for the short film to crumble into clouds above your living room by anna hints, commissioned as the estonian contribution to the 2020 venice biennale of architecture, postponed to 2021 due to the covid-19 pandemic. echo surveys: nuti (reimagined) (2021) in november, 2020 i participated in an event curated by shawn pinchbeck for BEAMS (the boreal electroacoustic music society) in canada entitled together apart... an evening of audio wonderments. it was to be another online concert in response to the covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, but due to the time differences for artists spread throughout north america and europe, we were given the opportunity to pre-record our performances. this allowed me to create a piece in our half-renovated farmhouse in the estonian countryside, from which a live stream would have been impossible to organise. the piece streamed online on the night of november 21st, and was then briefly archived on BEAMS’ twitch page. i then made this 'sound film' available permanently online (murmerings.com/2021/01/echo-surveys-nuti/). for this release i reimagined this work for sound only, editing a piece together from the original live performance recordings and the sources used therein. thaw and timber (2022) dripping woodshed roof (estonia, 2022); railings at the bfm (estonia, 2022); thawing earth (estonia, 2022); water heater (france, 2008); toddler making feedback (estonia, 2020); sodablasting log walls (estonia, 2020); inside kreenholm (estonia, 2017); baltijaam wall (estonia, 2011) photographies by patrick tubin mcginley design by désaccord majeur mastered by flavien gillié https://taalem.bandcamp.com/album/periodic-exercises-in-f-utility-homework-2016-2022-kodi-14 "As Taalem sees a restart (see elsewhere), so is their sub-division Kokeshidisk. The mothership Taalem releases a yearly Bandcamp digital-only, pay-as-you-want compilation called 'Homework', and for seven years, they have been doing this every year, resulting in a massive album (always announced in Vital Weekly). I am unsure why they selected Murmer to collect his pieces from six (one year he was absent because his father died) and someone else. Other, of course, then they think these are good pieces. Murmer likes to submit relatively long pieces to compilations, hence the double disc. Patrick Tubin McGinley, the man behind Murmer, isn't the most active musician in the releasing CDs (cassettes, vinyl) department. He's a man of words, and for each of the six pieces, there is a list of sound sources and inspirations for titles. For many years, he has lived in Estonia and is very active with field recordings, which he incorporates in music, installations, workshops, etc. His primary interest lies in finding sustaining and minimal sounds. 'The Docks Sing In Strange Tongues', the first piece here, collects sounds from various harbours and in the mix, it all makes a very coherent, minimalist music piece, which reminded me of Ingram Marshall's 'Fogtropes'. This piece sets the tone for the other five. In each of his works, Murmer uses a limited set of sounds, different sounds, that is, and these are cleverly woven together. Nothing stays for very long in the place, as Murmer uses a variety of lengths, so there is never the same overlap. In that respect, he reminds me of the sadly recently deceased Steve Roden. It bears the same tranquillity, the same effective sparse use of sound sources and working within limitations to a significant effect. His field recordings are usually entirely obscured, which adds to the beauty of it all. In 'Echo Surveys: Nuti', there are wind chimes, and in ''Echo Surveys: Viljandi' birds, perhaps. Water sounds in 'Water. Grain. Oil', maybe, but whatever else? I don't know. Murmer uses quite a bit of filtering (at least, so I believe) and prefers darker sounds. This, too, adds to the ambient quality of the music. It is an excellent release, which begs the question: why isn't there more of Murmer available?" [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2023 €15.00
MUSLIMGAUZE Chapter of purity CD Stücke von längst vergriffenen Vinyl-only releases 1985-1987! ” www.pretentious.net/muslimgauzeI'm pleased to announce the new (is it right term?) Muslimgauze album on Tantric Harmonies. "Chapter of Purity"compilation gives you a chance to see where the legend started. Tracks on this CD were selected from four early Muslimgauze vinyl releases:Blinded Horses - LIMITED 2 (9/1985), Flajelata - LIMITED 3 (2/1986), Hajj - LIMITED 4 (8/1986) and Jazirat-Ul-Arab - LIMITED 5 (3/1987).As always Bryn's music is full of Middle Eastern atmospheres, power and beauty. All titles for the first time on CD format! ” [press release] 2002 €13.00
Deceiver 3 & 4 do-CD "Limited too 500 copies. The original two-disc 'Deceiver' from 1996 is a seminal release in Bryn Jones' sprawling discography, one of the first major ones to really pivot into the noisier/more abrasive side of Jones' sound as Muslimgauze. From its epic, vinyl-side-long title track down to terse, rhythmic snippets like 'A Parsee View,' 'Deceiver' set out many of the avenues that Muslimgauze would continue to explore before Jones' death in 1999. Since then, Staalplaat has continued to release the massive backlog of Jones' work, with the nine-disc set 'Box Of Silk And Dogs' seeing the release of a third volume of 'Deceiver'. Now, for the first time that third volume gets a stand-alone release, paired with the last of the 'Deceiver' tapes." [label info] www.staalplaat.com 2014 €20.00
Syrinjia do-CD "Syrinjia was first issued in 1998 as a limited edition of 850 vinyl LPs. It has been sold out since winter 2002. Bryn Jones (Muslimgauze) always intended for us to release it on compact disc after the vinyl edition was gone, and today we’re happy to announce the fulfillment of his dream with the release of “Syrinjia” as a double CD. Ever the prolific composer, he recorded 20 songs for the album, of which only the first nine were included on the LP, leaving the rest to be released at a later date. Although Muslimgauze was never known for making particularly dance-oriented music, “Syrinjia” was a rare exception to the start-stop noisy feedback-driven assault that defined his style. This change in direction, more a detour, really, was the result of a simple request put to him to make an album that DJs could play for people who might not normally appreciate what he was doing. Rather than look at the request as a demand to compromise or sell out to commercial requirements, Bryn took it as an opportunity to explore a completely different foundation from which to work. While it could be said that the majority of his songs find their inspiration in Arabic or Islamic traditions, “Syrinjia” breaks the mold by looking west towards Jamaica and its vital reggae scene. The beats are rock steady and a sinuous bass line bubbles underneath at a rolling boil, and it’s standing room only once again on Air Palestine flight 132 to Kingston. A limited edition collectors version of “Syrinjia” was issued on CD on July 12, 2004. It was presented in a luxurious handmade silk folder with inserts made from recycled silk fiber. The entire run of 518 copies was sold in the first week of release. This regular edition is presented in a standard jewelbox and comes with a friendly price." [label info] www.soleilmoon.com 2004 €18.50
Jackal The Invizible do-LP Listeners who know much of anything about Bryn Jones' work as Muslimgauze know that he was prolific in both his work and in the way he sent out his work to labels and other interested parties. Fittingly enough for an artist that feverishly productive and often taciturn to the point of frustration, he didn't tend to give much more information than handwritten track titles on the sleeve of a DAT. Why he would submit multiple copies of the same or similar tracks to those he worked with, often in totally different configurations, is now a permanent mystery, but it does lead to Jackal The Invizible, essentially a compilation of material from multiple other releases that Jones had also submitted at the time on its own DAT. All of the songs here were released at least 20 years ago (a few over 30) and as with practically all Muslimgauze releases they were limited and/or hard to get ahold of now. Jackal The Invizible is both a way to issue those tracks on vinyl as the Archive series has been consistently doing, and in interesting look into how Jones would organize and sequence his albums. The track listing here was faithfully reproduced from the way Jones titled these tracks on this submission, which is how you get Fedayeen's "Bharboo of Pakistan Railways" here called "Fedayeen Bharboo of Pakistan Railways 2001". This compilation as with most of his work was submitted without comment, so it can be asked, was it intended to be a compilation? Had he at some point decided he preferred these tracks in this arrangement rather than on their other tapes? Did he produce so much work and/or was so disorganized he simply forgot this batch had been mailed off before? Did he have a standing arrangement with his postal worker and just handed him whatever was closest to the door each week? The new juxtapositions can be quite striking; shifting suddenly from the harshly distorted blurts of "Resume and Shaduf Fatah Guerrilla 1999" to the cooly nocturnal atmosphere of "Abu Nidal 1987" and then to the dubby bass pulses and rattling hand percussion of "Hand of Fatima 1999" is an experience unlike much else in Jones' oeuvre, even though all three modes are ones he has worked in before. Engineered and mixed by J. Delf. Mastering by Rinus Hooning. Edition of 700. 2021 €29.50
Khan Younis pic-LP • Brilliantly remastered picture LP/CD with new stunning artwork! • Unique tribal dub-trance music influenced by arabic culture with a touch of post-industrial. • Hypnotic rhythms mixed with with eastern vibes. • Muslimgauze at it's best! • Released as picture LP in gimmix cover limited to 500 copies • Also available as black vinyl and CD A1 taken from VA - 110 Below - No Sleeve Notes Required (110 Below, 1995) A2 taken from VA - Assemblage Volume Two (Extreme, 1996) A3 taken from Nonplace Urban Field – Golden Star (Incoming!, 1996) B1 taken from VA - Le Sacre Du Printemps (Gonzo Circus, 1994) B2 taken from VA - X-X Section (Extreme, 1991) B3 taken from VA - Directions 2 (Direction Music, 1989) https://othervoicesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/khan-younis-vox-58-mc 2022 €29.50
Veiled Sisters do-CD It's by some strange inversion that since his untimely death in 1999 Bryn Jones' Muslimgauze project has become evermore enigmatic as his publicly available recordings have become evermore vast. The Mancunian artist's sudden passing at the age of 37 prematurely resolved a body of work that remains as experimental as it is diffuse, with an informal archive that was left spread between favoured labels and confidantes. And though this monadic project never abided by genre specifications, it all feels as if it is taking the critical pulses of its time and rendering them into something other than the sum of its obscure compulsions. Jones' double album 'Veiled Sisters' from 1993 is no exception, and it persists as a magnificent outlier in his singular and bewildering discography. Originally released by the label Soleilmoon, an early and lifelong supporter of Jones' work along with Staalplaat, the album is a notable example of the uniquely recombinant fragility and fervour of Jones' work. This 3LP edition marks the album's first appearance on vinyl. Like much of the Muslimgauze catalogue, 'Veiled Sisters' is dedicated to the Palestine Liberation Organization, with its two halves—Sister One and Sister Two—calling on the history and conflicts of the modern Islamic world through opaque titles and snatches of musical oration. Forgoing the raucous timbre and abrasion that Jones could occasionally employ, this album balances a medley of shrill instrumental bursts with a complex patterning of ambient atmospheres. 'Veiled Sisters' moves with a hypnotic gait across its extended runtime with a dynamic ensemble of electronics grounded in a pulsing yet evasive combination of low-slung kicks and dub-soaked bass. The hissy wash of drums, both played and machined, decorate a restless patina all over, and the cacophony of samples send impressions scattershot into Jones' idiosyncratic yet readymade psychedelia. With a quiet intensity that is not often captured this succinctly in the Muslimgauze catalogue, this new edition of 'Veiled Sisters' is a reminder of the haunting wonder that Jones was capable of manifesting. https://alter.bandcamp.com/album/veiled-sisters 2022 €24.00
  Martyr Shrapnel do-LP Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl. Written, played. and recorded by Muslimgauze. Mastering by Yuriy Bulychev. Design by Zavoloka. Photography and production by Dmytro Fedorenko. Grad shrapnel and destroyed machine-gun cartridge were kindly provided by Maryna Fedorenko and Georgiy Potopalsky. Martyr Shrapnel was originally released by The Muslimgauze Preservation Society in 2012. https://ishallsinguntilmylandisfree.bandcamp.com/album/martyr-shrapnel *2012’s ‘Martyr Shrapnel’ was released by The Muslimgauze Preservation Society as part of their mission to bring unreleased material from Bryn Jones’s vaults to light in the wake of his death at the end of the Nineties. Consisting of material recorded between 1996 and 1998 (including six tracks that appeared on 2012’s ‘Analog Zikr’ cassette) it’s characterised by deep, liquid bass and inventively arranged vocal snippets that show Muslimgauze to have been an early progenitor of dubstep.* [Norman Rec.] 2023 €32.00
MV&EE MEDICINE SHOW The Uranian Ray LP "This beautiful vinyl LP edition MV & EE MEDICINE SHOW's 'URANIAN RAY', originally released on the legendary CHILD OF MICROTONES label in 2004, is a stunning 'get-hi-fidelity' remastered reissue prepared on the spirited channels of the SPECTRASOUND mastering system developed by MATT VALENTINE himself. Therefore a fresh take on a previous favorite, the lunar brother to 'MOON JOOK" hand picked from their catalog by SPIRIT OF ORR, capable of achieving a glorious exit velocity, and slightly rearranged for the time limits & opportunities vinyl provides. Limited single pressing on black vinyl." [label info] 2007 €15.00
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN The Dance of Oneirism do-LP "Limited edition of 300 copies in 3 different screenprinting colours. Record 1 on black vinyl, Record 2 on black vinyl. Silver, Blue and White screenprinted vinyl (on D side), each of 100 copies. Comes with a 24 pages art book, an insert and a postcard. From the extended foreword insert by David Keenan: "Our co-ordinates are fixed, or more properly suggested, by the listing of instruments. Self-made double-bodied string instrument, handmade pocket harp, pedal effects, wordless vocalizations, modified analog drum machine, mini-keyboard, alientronics. [...] The session was recorded - instantly composed - in MCIAA's "Alien Zone", situated in the Western Alps, and it sounds it. The central fact of MCIAA's music has always been space but they have never sounded quite so far away, so removed. [...] Occasionally there is the sound of strings, strange steel resonances that populate the music like ghosts, the ghosts of Roscoe Holcomb's high, lonesome sound, of Dock Boggs and the sanctified steel of Washington Phillips. Ash Ra Tempel met Timothy Leary in the Alps [...] The transmissions are fuzzy up here and at points it makes for a music of almost terrifying quiet. It is minimal, sure, but MCIAA are not so much interested in repetition as in eternal expansion. [...] The Dance Of Oneirism is a music of unknowing, a dance with a phantom, the letting go of a dream." [label info] www.backwards.it 2015 €28.00
MY HOME, SINKING King of Corns do-LP If writing is a concentrated form of thinking then the most concentrated writing probably ends in some kind of reflection on dying. This is what we eventually confront if we think long enough and hard enough.” – Don DeLillo My Home, Sinking is one of the many sound projects fronted by Venetian Enrico Coniglio, whose latest album King of Corns blends live instrumentation with field recordings and strange vocals to create a neo-classical work wherein the sum of the whole is greater than its parts. Like Baudelaire’s great book of poems, The Flowers of Evil, King of Corns seems to allude to the interplay between life and death as twin sides of the same coin. The beautiful, haunting sleeve art features the unsmiling bust of a porcelain woman with black eyes from whose neck emerges a full bouquet of roses. Frequently the album is beautiful on its own terms. Consider the opening track, “Bird’s Eye” which features an Eno-esque piano walking over cinematic strings and a lazy harmonica. The piece sounds like an orchestra tuning up before a concert, a call to adventure for the rest of the album. Perhaps more fittingly, it reminds of latter day Talk Talk with tensile strings, errant notes, silent interludes, slow motion piano. Further beauty exists in “Animating Old Postcards,” which is built around a minstrel’s guitar and the ethereal voice of Finnish artist Violeta Päivänkakkara and feels like a springtime return, a much-needed break in the clouds, a patch of blue after heavy storms. With that said, the album’s title track is undeniably terrifying. Led by the quivering, indecipherable falsetto of Jessica Constable and a fearsome piano arpeggio, “King of Corns” sounds something like a witch’s curse or an oracle warning of things to come. The last track on the album, “Full Blank (No Stars)” is a dark aria and again features Ms. Constable, who is not so much singing here as reciting musically, as if in an opera. Clearly, Coniglio’s King of Corns is a marked change in direction from the warm sounds of the last MHS album, Sleet. More sound art, the new work is riddled with anxiety, hesitation, fear. It’s hard to imagine listening to this in polite company or before going to bed. But ultimately the album is successful in that the work demands the listener engage directly with it to form her own interpretation of the material, and in this collaboration she becomes implicit in its creation, a kind of co-author of each track. Often King of Corns sounds like a descent into madness, a journey through the forest of the dead to the darkest parts of the self. But where there is death there is opportunity for life, for new beginnings. KoC proves that Coniglio is a Romantic in the true sense of the word: one who believes that death and darkness and dreams give us secret access to the divine and help us reconnect with the life-giving principle, or what the Greeks called “Psyche” - the soul. -Daniel Williams credits released September 16, 2017 Enrico Coniglio : guitar, melodica, harmonica, horn, electric organ, synthesizer, psalter, tapes & vinyls, found objects, field recordings & programming Elisa Marzorati : piano Piergabriele Mancuso : viola Chantal Acda : vocals and lyrics "I Can't Help It (But This is The End)" Jessica Constable : vocals and lyrics "King of Corns" & "Full Blank (No Stars)" Peter Paul Gallo : vibraphone on "Love Scene" & "I Can't Help It (But This is The End)" James Murray : organ, vocals, loops on "Along the Pipeline"; electronics on "Full Blank (No Stars)" Violeta Paivankakkara : vocals and lyrics, glockenspiel and effect on "Animating Old Postcards (Aikaa Ei Ole Olemassa)" All tracks written, arranged and produced by Enrico Coniglio Design, Calligraphy, Hand Drawn Typography by Chris Bigg Illustrations by James Heginbottom https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/king-of-corns 2017 €28.00
  King of Corns CD If writing is a concentrated form of thinking then the most concentrated writing probably ends in some kind of reflection on dying. This is what we eventually confront if we think long enough and hard enough.” – Don DeLillo My Home, Sinking is one of the many sound projects fronted by Venetian Enrico Coniglio, whose latest album King of Corns blends live instrumentation with field recordings and strange vocals to create a neo-classical work wherein the sum of the whole is greater than its parts. Like Baudelaire’s great book of poems, The Flowers of Evil, King of Corns seems to allude to the interplay between life and death as twin sides of the same coin. The beautiful, haunting sleeve art features the unsmiling bust of a porcelain woman with black eyes from whose neck emerges a full bouquet of roses. Frequently the album is beautiful on its own terms. Consider the opening track, “Bird’s Eye” which features an Eno-esque piano walking over cinematic strings and a lazy harmonica. The piece sounds like an orchestra tuning up before a concert, a call to adventure for the rest of the album. Perhaps more fittingly, it reminds of latter day Talk Talk with tensile strings, errant notes, silent interludes, slow motion piano. Further beauty exists in “Animating Old Postcards,” which is built around a minstrel’s guitar and the ethereal voice of Finnish artist Violeta Päivänkakkara and feels like a springtime return, a much-needed break in the clouds, a patch of blue after heavy storms. With that said, the album’s title track is undeniably terrifying. Led by the quivering, indecipherable falsetto of Jessica Constable and a fearsome piano arpeggio, “King of Corns” sounds something like a witch’s curse or an oracle warning of things to come. The last track on the album, “Full Blank (No Stars)” is a dark aria and again features Ms. Constable, who is not so much singing here as reciting musically, as if in an opera. Clearly, Coniglio’s King of Corns is a marked change in direction from the warm sounds of the last MHS album, Sleet. More sound art, the new work is riddled with anxiety, hesitation, fear. It’s hard to imagine listening to this in polite company or before going to bed. But ultimately the album is successful in that the work demands the listener engage directly with it to form her own interpretation of the material, and in this collaboration she becomes implicit in its creation, a kind of co-author of each track. Often King of Corns sounds like a descent into madness, a journey through the forest of the dead to the darkest parts of the self. But where there is death there is opportunity for life, for new beginnings. KoC proves that Coniglio is a Romantic in the true sense of the word: one who believes that death and darkness and dreams give us secret access to the divine and help us reconnect with the life-giving principle, or what the Greeks called “Psyche” - the soul. -Daniel Williams Enrico Coniglio : guitar, melodica, harmonica, horn, electric organ, synthesizer, psalter, tapes & vinyls, found objects, field recordings & programming Elisa Marzorati : piano Piergabriele Mancuso : viola Chantal Acda : vocals and lyrics "I Can't Help It (But This is The End)" Jessica Constable : vocals and lyrics "King of Corns" & "Full Blank (No Stars)" Peter Paul Gallo : vibraphone on "Love Scene" & "I Can't Help It (But This is The End)" James Murray : organ, vocals, loops on "Along the Pipeline"; electronics on "Full Blank (No Stars)" Violeta Paivankakkara : vocals and lyrics, glockenspiel and effect on "Animating Old Postcards (Aikaa Ei Ole Olemassa)" All tracks written, arranged and produced by Enrico Coniglio Design, Calligraphy, Hand Drawn Typography by Chris Bigg Illustrations by James Heginbottom https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/king-of-corns 2017 €14.00
N [XX] (HELLMUT NEIDHARDT) Anklam [N43] LP Thick rough cardboard covers, black polylined inner sleeves, 180g black vinyl, strictly limited to 100 copies. N is the moniker of Dortmund-based German experimental guitarist Hellmut Neidhardt. In line with the release of his collaboration record with SANKT OTTEN - Männerfreundschaften und Metaphysik - September 2015 sees the release of two further N-related records. The first one is his latest solo record - N(43) - „Anklam“ -, featuring the three tracks „Daemmerung“, „Restlicht“ and „Requiem“. It is a album Neidhardt somehow knew to be located in the dark fields of blinding error and its consequences, thus anything there might be a bit ambiguous in its meanings. From deeply melancholic, coarse-grained waves of sound, buried under tons of beside-noises to the last rearing of the sound of the sun before falling into the sea. And then you are still there, time has stopped, all has stopped. Exept the endless hovering of the requiem. „Anklam“ is once again a direct-two-track recording without any cut and paste, with Neidhardt just using his guitar / FX / amp setup - regardless how it may sound. The second new record is N(49) „Birka“, a collaboration with SIMULACRA from Belgium. This is probably the one of N's collaborations that took the longest time to make so far and Neidhardt is happy to take part of the blame for that: Simulacra is known for his very deep, void-like sound aesthetic, with deeply breathing synth sounds without any artifacts around. For this reason it was very difficult for the two collaborators to figure out a corporate sound; they only knew they found this after it had happend at last... Well and from this moment, it was quite easy. Expect a very dark album, with a lot of bass, with N's guitar sometimes emerging from the depth of Simulacra's soundwalls, sometimes working as something like a driving force from underneath; slowly shifting frequencies through endless caverns, reverberating from the black walls. "This record is soo dark, we love it... (and thus are really happy we made it in the end...)." states Neidhardt. www.denovali.com 2016 €27.50
  Tremonia LP N is one of the most profiled German drone / ambient artists - being active since the early 1990s he has released more than 50 records. On "Tremonia" he returns with the idea to picture a certain place musically - his approach goes further than before, using field-recordings for the first time. "Tremonia" is located under a row of 17 railway-bridges very close to the central station of Dortmund. Those bridges are played by the trains entering and leaving and also give house to an unknown number of homeless people. All these impressions can be heard on the field recordings of "Tremonia" taken in the early morning hours. Technically the record still sticks to N's "no overdub" rule with solo recordings: The field recordings were played over a third amplifier while recording the guitars, thus the mix was done live. Part of the tracks had been selected by Urbane Künste Ruhr for a compilation of places described by music. heavy handprinted rough cardboard covers, black polylined inner sleeves, 180g black vinyl, strictly limited to 100 copies https://n1511.bandcamp.com/album/tremonia 2023 €33.50
NADJA Corrasion do-LP Vinyl-Version des Albums / CD von 2007. Kommt mit neuer Version des Titelstücks und Bonus-Track. 400 Stück gibt es nur, feines Klappcover, schweres Vinyl, und die Musik? "das vielleicht bisher eingängigste NADJA-Album, himmlische Melodien & wuchtige Arrangements, wundersame Drone-Sphären und geisterhaft gehauchter Gesang, im Spannungsfeld & Treffpunkt von Metal, Post-Rock und Sphären-Drone... Wiederveröffentlichung / Neu-Arrangements der Stücke einer CDR von 2003." [Drone Rec info] "Basses Frequences is damn proud to finally give the vinyl treatment to what is certainly Nadja's finest full-length recording. "Corrasion" has Nadja in full doom mode; it is an extraordinary mix of slow, heavy, and layered guitar riffs and the ultra-dense-yet-melodic-drones that have become Nadja's trademark. "Corrasion" has been re-mastered for the vinyl release and includes an exclusive, extended version of the title track as well as the outstanding "numb" to expand on the 2007 CD release. Strictly limited to 400 copies on 180 gram black vinyl ( and 100 on 180 gram blue vinyl - sold out ) packaged in a full-color gatefold sleeve." [label info] www.bassesfrequences.org https://bassesfrequences.bandcamp.com/album/corrasion 2009 €25.00
  Numbness CD "music genres: doom metal, shoegaze, ambient, experimental. Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker (guitar, vocals, drums, piano, flute) and Leah Buckareff (bass, vocals, violin) from Toronto, Canada. Their sounds have been called "ambient doom"; music that combines elements of metal, shoegaze, ambient, post-rock, experimental, and neo-classical. They have released numerous albums on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, The End Records, and Conspiracy Records and have toured extensively throughout the world including appearances at noted festivals like Roadburn, FIMAV, and SXSW. "Numbness" is a special collection of tracks, compiled by Nadja themselves choosing "shoegaze-oriented" tracks among their vast previous titles. Most of the tracks were originally released on very limited vinyls or rare compilation albums. Among the 6 tracks, total time of over 70 minutes, there are two vocal-centered tracks which reveals the influence of My Bloody Valentine. The last track "Numb" is an amazing 21 minute drone noise track as if synchronizing dark psychedelia of Mono and Mogwai. A perfect compilation for Nadja beginners to Nadja freaks. Packaged in a special cardboard sleeve in black ink. Just Awesome! NUMBNESS track listing and info: 1) Veil of Disillusion originally released on Shadows Infinitum compilation (Crucial Bliss 2004) 2) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen originally released on The Holiday Masterpieces compilation (Blod Records 2004) 3) Long Dark Twenties (slightly extended 7" version) originally released on 7" (Anthem Records 2008) 4) Alien In My Own Skin unreleased 5) Time Is Our Disease originally released on Infernal Procession... 3-way split with Atavist and Satori (Cold Spring Records 2008) 6) Numb originally released on Base Fluid 'net release (Foreshadow Productions 2007)" [label info] http://happyprince.jp 2009 €16.00
NADJA & VAMPILLIA The perfect World CD "Staggering collaboration between Nadja and Vampillia. LP is pressed in an edition of 500 with the first 100 copies on color vinyl. This collaborative album combines Nadja's wall of guitars with Vampillia's operatic vocals and classical instrumentation to make a hybrid of doom and neo-classical music. This version of the release for Important Records features a new song, Avalanche, and brand new mixes of the original tracks from the rare Japanese tour edition." [label info] www.importantrecords.com 2013 €13.00
NADJA / AIDAN BAKER Nalepa LP + CD NADJA | AIDAN BAKER NALEPA After their highly acclaimed album “Luminous Rot” (Southern Lord), Nadja continue their body of doom drone shoegaze works with the instrumental album “Nalepa”. On “Nalepa” Nadja are joined by Ángela Muñoz Martínez on drums, also known as one of the percussionists in the always evolving Hypnodrone Ensemble. The three musicians teamed up for a live in studio session at Funkhaus Berlin, after being invited by Jake Muir, with the aim “that we might do something different in the studio than we normally would ourselves” (Aidan Baker). The former DDR broadcast studio with its giant studio rooms, is the perfect place for an epic drone doom session, providing enough room for all the sounds to sprawl. “Nalepa” features the studio session, divided into six parts, or two parts on vinyl. The first half is a pushing forward doom beast, featuring repetitive themes, while the second part comes with a more experimental seething approach, like a volcano close before eruption. The album has its own haunting libertine mood and sounds different, compared to other Nadja albums featuring drummers. Have a listen on soundcloud. In a follow up session some weeks later, Aidan Baker also recorded a solo album at the illustrious Funkhaus Berlin that is featured as a CD, which comes with the Nadja LP. “Nalepa” by Aidan Baker features four dynamic tracks, moving somewhere between ambient, drone, jazz and space rock. All sounds on that record are played live by Aidan. He played drums over live-looped guitar and bass patterns, to create four exceptional energetic pieces. “Nalepa” comes in an edition of 250 copies on LP+CD. Black vinyl with printed labels and reverseboard printed sleeve on 300g cardboard. The CD is housed in a reverse board printed cardboard wallet. Both formats are featuring artwork by øjeRum. Nadja – Nalepa LP Funkspiel I (8:25) Funkspiel II (10:50) Funkspiel III (6:58) Funkspiel IV (12:25) Funkspiel V (7:54) Funkspiel VI (5.24) Aidan Baker – Nalepa CD Radioplay I (10:46) Radioplay II (11:24) Radioplay III (8:38) Radioplay IV (11:18) Credits: Nadja Aidan Baker (guitar) Leah Buckareff (bass) Ángela Muñoz Martínez (drums) recorded live in studio 01.02.2020 at Funkhaus Berlin by Jake Muir, Matias Santos and Olívi Mamberti Aidan Baker Aidan Baker (guitar, bass, drums) recorded live in studio 27.03.2020 at Funkhaus Berlin by Jake Muir, Matias Santos Technical: LP + CD / Limited to 250 copies LP comes on black vinyl / reverseboard printed sleeve / printed labels CD comes in wallet / reverseboard printed sleeve https://www.midirarecords.com/release/md-100-nadja-aidan-baker-nalepa/ 2022 €32.00
NAGAMATZU Neural Interval do-CD " ”Neural Interval” collects all the three tape albums from Nagamatzu: ”Shatter Days” (1983), ”Sacred Islands of the Mad” (1986) and ”Igniting the Corpse” (1991). It also adds ”Space Shuttle Shuffle” 12'' (1987) and an unreleased version of ”Lift Off” as bonus tracks. It gives you an insight into still little known work by this excellent duo (or trio at times) who should have been a mainstay of 4AD, Beggars Banquet or Factory back in the 1980s. We hope that thanks to the vinyl reissues of Dark Entries and Zoharum CD anthology the band will achieve such a kind of recognition they truly deserve. The CDs are housed in a digipak with an additional poster booklet inside. This edition is strictly limited to 500 copies. ”Neural Interval” was mastered by Łukasz Miernik and George Horn. The whole production process was overseen by Michał Porwet." [label info] www.zoharum.com 2014 €14.00
NAMENLOSIGKEIT 1 12inch "From the mystic north dark depths of the Netherlands we offer you Namenlosigkeit. A 180 grams black vinyl produced in total isolation on the wild plains of the Iniaheide. Established without mordern sources of computer technology on a modular synthesizer system." [label info] 2016 €16.00
NAUGHTIEST GIRL WAS A MONITOR untitled LP "VOD is very honored to present one of Sheffield's finest wave bands of the early '80s. The LP contains their first three songs plus 6 unreleased early '80s tracks. Just pure feelings and moods for the summertime." Numbered edition of 600. www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2007 €15.50
NECROPHONIE 1996-2006 10inch Projekt von ATRAX MORGUE und DEVIS.G, attraktiv für Minimal-Elektronik (aber die schleppend-noisige Variante) & "old school"-Industrial-Freunde, Rhythm-Box und lauter fiese Analog-Synth-Noises auf der A-Seite & eine röhrende Industrial-Walze auf der B-Seite. Edles Cover, mit Lederband zugebunden, nummeriert & im Innern Prägedruck. Japan-Import. "Necrophonie is a collaboration project of M.Nothing a.k.a. Atrax Morgue, and Devis G. a.k.a. DeV, Lvnvs, Teatro Satanico. This is their first 10 inch vinyl released in 2006 from Japanese new label "Dogma Chase". Greasy electronic noises are discharged with muddiness reverberation like as leaking from stoned coffin. One side is filled with poisonous shadow as unreleased new track recorded in 2006. The other side is more rusted industrial noise mainly inorganic rhythms and heavy layered paranoid electronics and comes from long deleted cassette tape collaboration as Atrax Morgue/Lvnvs on Slaughter Productions (spt69) recorded in 1996. Special corset styled foldout sleeve with an inside message and full color printed insert. Hand-numbered limited edition 300 copies. details & photos : http://www.molehill.jp/dogmachase/news.html" [label info] 2007 €15.00
NEUFELD, SARAH Hero Brother CD "Sarah Neufeld is a violinist and composer based in Montréal, Canada. Best known as a member of Arcade Fire, she is also a founding member of the acclaimed contemporary instrumental ensemble Bell Orchestre and has performed and recorded with many other groups, including The Luyas, Esmerine and Little Scream. Neufeld began developing pieces for solo violin in a more formal and focused sense in 2011, though she has made improvisation and solo composition part of her process and practice since first picking up the instrument at a young age. Neufeld counts Bela Bartok, Steve Reich, Iva Bittova and Arthur Russell among the formative influences for her solo work, in tandem with an ear for the textures and sensibilities of contemporary electro-acoustic, avant-folk and indie rock music. Neufeld's debut solo album Hero Brother indeed channels all of the above, flowing through shifting atmospheres and oscillating between restrained, stately ambience, emotive études, and raw kinetic energy. Small touches of wordless vocalisation, harmonium and piano supplant the violin in a few places. The album was recorded in Berlin by pianist and producer Nils Frahm, with Neufeld's performances captured in a number of locations with site-specific acoustics, including an abandoned geodesic dome, an underground parking garage, and the legendary Studio P4 orchestral recording hall at the broadcast complex of the former GDR. Hero Brother will be released on Constellation Records in August 2013. Sarah has recently premiered her solo music at BAM (Brooklyn), the WSO New Music Festival (Winnipeg) and Wavelength Festival (Toronto), of which Exclaim magazine wrote "the highlight of the night was most certainly Sarah Neufeld, whose compositions range from Reichian to folksy without skipping a beat; she uses violin squeals, growls, scrapes and slides to express varying emotions and stomps the stage beneath her for percussion. Packaging notes CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve. LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album. Artwork by Tracy Maurice." [label info] 2013 €14.00
NEW BLOCKADERS / CREATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION Negative Mass 12inch - Thick Cardboard Sleeve – Direct Metal Mastering (Extra Loud Cut) – 12″ x 12″ Insert – Limited Edition of 250 Copies – Individually Numbered (Cover Sticker, Main Sleeve & Vinyl) TRACK LISTING: Side A 1) Generation of Matter Side B 1) Theory of Everything (Sample) Here is a 2-track 12″ release that presents 2 prolific (and masked) noise making entities partnering together with the intent of inducing a breakdown of the senses through their own distinctive identity of generating relentless noise assault. This collaboration of UK noise terrorists and harsh noise pioneers THE NEW BLOCKADERS with Serbian’s harsh/static noise/wall act CREATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION (DEAD BODY COLLECTION) sees the merger of two noise genres with unique creative sound methodologies being amplified and redefined to an even greater level of sonic brutality. The 2 tracks: Generation of Matter and Theory of Everything epitomize THE NEW BLOCKADERS philosophy of sonic nihilism through anti-art and anti-music as well as the dark and sadistic psyche of CREATION THROUGH DESTRUCTION’s Dr Alex. This is a full on display of explosive sonic violence, anguished background screams drowned further by a wall of weaving noise. This incessant ear battering of tonal destruction sustained through the complicated textured layers of brutal grating pandemonium is what nightmares are made of, and made even more disturbing by the masked anonymity of madmen. Best Blasted Loud! www.4ibrecords.com 2014 €15.00
NICO BBC Sessions 12inch "Previously only available as a vinyl release on John Peel’s and Clive Selwood’s Strange Fruit label during a brief period in 1988, this four track vinyl EP was the first of two sessions Nico performed for John Peel (the second was in 1974), and was recorded live for BBC Radio One’s Top Gear on 2nd February 1971 and broadcast the following week. This haunting session is Nico at the height of her creative powers as testified by those who saw her solo concerts accompanying herself on harmonium around this time." https://store.gearboxrecords.com/products/nico 2015 €18.50
NID Plate Tectonics CD Aufnahmen eines Konzertes aus Arnheim, Niederlande, vom Dezember 2002, in Studio-Qualität. Allertiefste dumpfe Dronescapes & verlangsamte Stimmen, Klassik-found sounds, glockige Klänge, obskure Vinyl-loops, immer dunkel & ominös & in einem dynamischen Feld voller unerwarteter Sounds. Eine recht einmalige Verbindung von Vinylloop-Plunderphonics, tiefbassigen Dronescapes und Geräuschen von selbstgebauten, oft ober-obskursten Gerätschaften und Objekten. "Crawling back into the wound: NID 1995 – 2007. NID is an experimental group whose aim it is to challenge conventional concepts and structures of electronic music by experimenting with the source of sounds. The music is created on the spot, making each performance a genuine and unrepeatable event. It has been described as moving sound-objects, improvised electronic noise, or broodng ambient music. It has been compared to an underwater-journey, a pathway to the inner self. Given enough volume, it certainly affects the body as well as the mind. In which way remains open to the listener’s psyche. NID was formed in 1995. Over the years the core-members have performed in art-galleries, rock-clubs, bars, water-reservoirs, cinemas, as well as at industrial and electronic festivals and in record shops. In 1998 they were invited to play onboard the MS Stubnitz when it was anchored in the harbour of Stockholm as part of the “European Culture Capital” activities. They were also involved in the 2001 Six And More & R:IP jubilees, improvising with 30 other electronic free-jazz musicians. As for the group name… A “nid” is a curse or insult with homosexual connotation that was frequently in use in the Viking age. It brought a depth to the concept of honour and shame. It could be used as a challenge or simply to ridicule another (which was a challenge per se). It could reveal anyone else to be no better than he was, and it undermined social structures. NID disbanded in 2006. Chris Sidgell continues in various projects, most notably his solo project B-Tong. Jürgen Eberhard releases music under the name Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim. This is NID’s one and only proper CD release. The sound on this work may appeal to fans of Lustmord, New Blockaders or collage post-industrial in general/experimental ambient. The music on this CD was recorded live in Arnheim by Mars Wellink (Vance Orchestra). The cover was done by Katja Wahl..." [band info & press release] "While not new, we only just discovered NID, and our discovery came about in a very random manner, considering various related works were right under our nose. We listed a killer 4 way split 12" a while back called One Man Drone, and our favorite track from the spit was a piece by a group called B(degree)Tong. We later discovered that the man behind B(degree)Tong was previously a member of German experimental sound-collective NID. But what we did not know was that NID was sometimes also known as Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim, a group who had various releases on the Drone Records label, one of which is included on the recent tUMULt collection of out of print Drone singles. So now it's sort of come full circle and we have this, the only proper full length recording (as far as we know) from the group NID, aka Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim and it's pretty amazing. Pretty bizarre too, but then with a (sometime) name like Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim, what else would you expect? Three looooooooong tracks. Each an epic, incredibly varied soundworld, blending found sounds and field recordings with drones and intense blasts of layered sound. The opener begins with a muted cacophony of birds and crickets, before disappearing into a roiling black cloud of rumbling low end and distant droning guitar buzz. It almost sounds like sticking your head out of a speeding car, the wind whipping by and causing all sorts of distortions, but blurred into an impressively massive wall of sound. Within all this whipping sonic wind and rumbling whirs, are strange bits of percussion, the clang and bang of metal on metal, shakers and simple rhythms, they drift briefly in the eye of the storm, before the drone drops again, even more furious than before, until it fades out amidst the dreamy shimmer of female vocals and haunting minor key melodic buzz. Really intense and strangely beautiful. The second track is another deep cavernous roar. A bit smoother than the previous number, but not for long, bit of metallic buzz surface amidst the undulating rumbles, with some serious dynamic spikes, some of which sound like brief bursts of SUNNO 0))), and others are even lower and more aggressive bits of low end exploration. There are bits of static and random buzz here and there, but mostly it's black and dark, a massive growling beast, slowly uncoiling into a monster that blocks out the sun. Near the end of the track, the darkness abates and in its place is a strange skipping stuttering snippet of music, wrapped in hazy distortion and looped into a mesmerizing rhythm, repeated over and over and over, gradually crumbling and becoming more and more distorted before erupting into a final burst of chest rattling low end, finally slowing down and sputtering to a halt. The final track is over twenty minutes and is the most melodic of the bunch. Beginning with a looped cycle of xylophone melody, over a throbbing low end pulse and streaks of keening distant guitar and bits of operatic female vocals. Very ominous and mysterious sounding. When suddenly everything stops, and there's a guy with a British accent ranting over someone ransacking a kitchen, breaking glass, clanging cutlery, and suddenly it's gone, and we're back in some new dronescape, a mumbled voice looped into a haunting mantra, beneath distant thunder like rumbles, and little blurs of high end melody, indistinct, but gradually building in intensity. The drones drift away leaving birds and voices, and some strange bits of hiss and skree, before transforming into a plodding doomdrone beast. A simple stretched out rhythm over cavernous thrums and the sound of subway cars, everything pulsing and throbbing, a bizarre bit of dark collage, that manages to be strangely musical and completely hypnotic. An amazingly weird record, and absolutely essential listening for the drone obsessed, which we would assume should be most of you..." [Aquarius Records] "Posthumous release by this Swiss-German trio dedicated to mostly drone-bound sounds, noise manipulation, foggy samples and dialogue snatches. Here, three lengthy pieces encircle some fantastic voyages through muted hum, looped voices, gentle vibrations and the stench of noxious ooze. The last one, ‘35000 Feet Below the Ocean Surface’, clocks in at almost 22 minutes and hints at a leather-clad NWW surveying a desert of black ash. Which works a treat for me." [RJ, Adverse Effect] 2007 €13.00
NIEDOWIERZANIE Paradies CD " 'Paradies' is the latest Niedowierzanie album. This is the first CD release in rich discography of the project, after three vinyl releases and two cassettes. It is a unique project with a Polish name run by a Frenchman who lives in Berlin. The sounds presented on Niedowierzanie albums are equally cosmopolitan. The influences of modern classical, electronic music and folk can be heard here. This album is a dramatic soundtrack, ranging from slow and lazy patterns to abstract noise crescendos and drowning melancholic loops, using mostly cello, accordion and mandoline along electronic treatments. It was composed and recorded in Berlin, as a memory of the south, the Mediterranean coast, the lost wanderings under the burning summer sun. This is probably the most cinematic and melodramatic Niedowierzanie album to date. The CD is housed in gatefold sleeve in the vein of Japanese-style vinyl replica and is strictly limited to 300 copies. The album is mastered by Demian (O Paradis)." [label info] www.zoharum.com 2015 €12.00
NIHILIST ASSAULT GROUP Silent Movie LP + DVD "Documents the only known live performance (at No Fun Fest) of the alias of THE NEW BLOCKADERS. The DVD contains silent footage only and one must spin the vinyl simultaneously in order to hear the sound while witnessing this futile destruction. DVD also features additional commentary by G.X. JUPITER-LARSEN of THE HATERS. Edition of 500." [label info] 2010 €20.50
NILSEN, BJ [BJ NILSEN] Distant Brilliance 10inch "BJ NILSEN releases his very first 10" vinyl record in a career spanning more than twenty years, and the result is simply a must for anyone interested in experimental electronic music. "Distant Brilliance" contains two new tracks, namely "The Question" and "The Answer", which were composed especially for this release on 13 and were recorded at Odd Phasing and Echoes, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2019. Packed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with images created by Stefano Gentile, the layers of abstraction and decay in the artwork were the catalyst for the music, which comes as a welcome addition to both the label's and the artist's ever-growing catalogues." 13.silentes.it/private_sounds/sps2034_bj_nilsen_distant_brilliance.htm 2020 €26.00
NIMH Beyond the Crying Era CD Brand new label release 22nd February 2019. NIMH - Beyond The Crying Era CD. Nimh is an avant-garde ,deep ambient, industrial electronic project formed by the multi- instrumentalist and sound designer Giuseppe Verticchio. Nimh has evolved on the territories of truly ecstatic-drone ambient music since the 90s with a vast catalogue of releases published on various independent labels such as Afe, Silentes, Eibon Records. On 'Beyond The Crying Era', NIMH has brought together a selection of dark/ambient/experimental tracks. This album is rich with darkened ambient music, created by the use of a cinematic collage of rumbling drone pieces, heavily layered melodic textures, field recordings, voices, sustained sounds and doom-laden guitar. Haunting, melancholic, intriguing and engaging, 'Beyond The Crying Era' is an incredibly atmospheric release which will capture the imagination of many sound travellers. It's an extended edition of a much shorter version, which was originally released as a vinyl LP limited to 100 copies. The tracks have been recorded over a 10 year period. All tracks compiled for 'Beyond The Crying Era' have been carefully re-edited and remastered for this CD release, on the Winter-Light label. https://winter-light.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-crying-era 2019 €13.00
NITSCH, HERMANN Day 3 of LP + CD-R "Packaged in 12" deluxe gatefold sleeve with 12" full-color printed inner-sleeves. Day 3 of Vienna Aktionist Hermann Nitsch's magnum opus total experience in a 6 Day excess, a Baccanalian rite that is sub-titled the Orgies Mysteries Theater. Two separate editions exist for Day 3 in a 12" Gatefold Jacket. Part two of this edition includes a 220 Gram Vinyl pressing of the Finale of Day 3. The second CD is a CD-ROM Cinepak movie compatible with the Windows media player and Quicktime: 220 Gram Vinyl. DMM Quality Pressing. Limited Edition 500 copies." [label info] 2001 €35.00
NNHMN Deception Island CD NNHMN returns to Zoharum with "Deception Island" a compilation CD of tracks taken from vinyl EP-s titled Deception Island Part 1 and 2 respectively, released by Spanish Oráculo Records. As expected, the duo of Lee and Michal Laudarg deliver hell of a ride. Dark Wave, Synth Pop, EBM, New Romantic, Dark Disco - you name it. Spirit of '80s nostalgia is strong in this music. It's hard to listen to this without nodding your head or moving your hands and feet. Deception Island is very propulsive. From the first synths of "In Darkness" to the last beats of "Nachtgang" NNHMN keeps you enslaved on the dancefloor. The track order has been slightly rearranged so the compilation has a more album feel and makes you find yourself listening to it for the third time in a row moving and watching the stars. You just don't want it to stop. Restless dance of the night endless. CD edition of 300 copies comes in "silk" digipack. https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/deception-island-full-length-album "The Berliner based Polish duo of NNHMN last year released two EPs entitled “Deception Island 1” and “Deception Island 2” on Oráculo Records. Zoharum this year released both EPs together as an album featuring the ten original songs. Content: NNHMN is a band I personally consider as one of the greatest revelations from the past few years; Minimal-Electro-Wave music, which is clearly reminding me of the sterile- and cold atmospheres of the 80s. The whispering and totally emotionless way of singing of Lee creates an icy, sensual touch while Michal’s sound production creates a kind of dark-cellar dancefloor sensation. + + + : If there’s one band that awakens my curiosity on each new work it for sure is NNHMN (Non Human). They aren’t setting the world alight, but creates a fascinating vintage exposure with a true Minimalistic approach. The typical melodic strings, dry snares and icy sequences are reminding me of the 80s. I think it’s a real good thing both EP’s have been assembled as a full length album and there are some brilliant songs on it like “Deception Island”, “Education Lost”, “In Darkness”, “Nachtgang” and “Robot Woman”. – – – : This album is a kind of compilation so if you already know both “Deception Island”-EPs you’ll be not surprised. Conclusion: I remain totally addicted to the impressive Minimalism of this Berlin based duo; this is how Electro-underground music has to sound!" [Side-Line] 2021 €12.00
NO XIVIC I do blame you mCD-R Noisiger & apokalyptisch wummernder als auf der Drone 7”, tönt es bei diesem One-Tracker des finnischen Projekts. Metallische Sirenen & knisternde Lava-Massen von Sound in diesem Gänsehaut-Drone-Sumpf ! Ein einziges Knirschen, Dehnen & Ächzen. Grosses Hörkino ! “no Xivic is Henkka Kyllönen, a finnish artist you may have discovered thanks to his untitled 7" released last year by Drone Records, described by the label as "underground 'dronish' experimental sounds, based on long & moving metallic drones mixed with higher, near-distorted frequencies and low rumblings. this results in pure & elegant floating dronescapes that never stands still, giving you nothing to fix upon from your completely immersed mind.". "i do blame you" might be harsher & noisier than this previous piece of vinyl. here, no Xivic proposes us a near 24min long track, perfect blend of noise and dark ambience, piercing frequencies and rumbling drones. "try this in supermarket or some place filled with people ! (works everytime)" [label info] 2004 €5.00
NOIT, HATIS Illogical Dance LP "Japanische Vokalkünstlerin mit ergreifenden Klangskulpturen, die ohne Worte auskommen. Bislang war "Illogical Dance" exklusiv in Japan erhältlich, im März 2018 erscheint die EP der japanischen Sängerin international und erstmals auch als Vinyl. In vier unvorhersehbaren, geheimnisvollen und wunderschönen Tracks präsentiert Hatis Noit ungekannte, die Geräusche der Natur nachahmende Klangwelten, die ganz ohne Worte auskommen. Für ihre komplexen und komplett improvisierten Skulpturen greift sie auf so unterschiedliche Elemente wie westliche Klassik, japanischen Folk und natürliche Töne zurück. Der immense Stimmumfang von Hatis Noit basiert auf einem vollkommen autodidaktischen Ansatz, der erstaunliche Einflüsse verbindet: Gagaku, der höfische Musikstil Japans, und verschiedene Operntraditionen zählen ebenso dazu wie bulgarische und gregorianische Gesänge oder Pop- und Avantgarde-Sänger. Bemerkenswert: Es ist kein einziges Sample zu hören - selbst wenn es so klingt, als ob herabgefallene Blätter zerdrückt werden, es ist Hatis Noits Stimme, die dieses Geräusch imitiert. Die von Haruhisa Tanaka und Matmos koproduzierten Vokalwelten erinnern an den experimentellen Ansatz Meredith Monks, der mit der ausgefeilten Produktionsweise einer Holly Herndon vereint wird. Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit will release her enigmatic EP Illogical Dance via Erased Tapes worldwide on 23rd March 2018. The arresting 4-track record creates unique song-worlds with transcendent vocal interpretations that at once deconstruct and recombine Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature’s own ambience atmosphere. Illogical Dance also features Björk-collaborators Matmos, who were so impressed with Hatis Noit’s recordings, they volunteered to edit the lead track Illogical Lullaby. Hailing from the distant Shiretoko, a small town in Hokkaido, which is the largest island in north Japan, Hatis Noit’s accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. The sounds she created on Illogical Dance, co-produced by Haruhisa Tanaka and Matmos, bring to mind the experimental vocal patterns of Meredith Monk with the attentive production of Holly Herndon. It was at the age of 16, during a trek in Nepal to the Buddha’s birthplace, when she realised singing was her calling. While staying at a women’s temple in Lumbini, one morning on a walk Hatis Noit heard someone singing. On further investigation it was a female monk singing Buddhist chants, alone. The sound moved her so intensely she was instantly aware of the visceral power of the human voice; a primal and instinctive instrument that connects us to the very essence of humanity, nature and our universe. The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis Noit, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side; the past, a memory, our subconscious. It is the same for Illogical Dance, a set of transformative songs that taps into our most primal instincts. “The human voice is our oldest, most primal yet most powerful instrument. I use it to describe nature’s many sounds, a language that isn’t logical. Yet it forms a beautiful conversation that isn’t restricted to words like the human language is. I want my music to remind us of that.” Wanting to interpret and mimic the sounds Hatis Noit hears in nature, Illogical Dance is as unpredictable, beautiful and mysterious as the world around us. Each track is made up from multi layers of vocals, all improvised and without words, before being carefully pieced together. Astonishingly no samples are used throughout, even the sound of crushing leaves came from Hatis Noit’s own vocal chords. The result is a stunning array of sound sculptures that see her switching between multiple styles with great ease. From the sweet operatics on Illogical Lullaby, the manipulated vocal loops duplicating electronic production on Anagram c.i.y. to the primordial chanting call to arms of Angelus Novus, a 10-minute odyssey that features whispering and leaves crunching, it showcases Hatis Noit’s full range and introduces a truly original artist. Previously only available in Japan, Illogical Dance will receive a worldwide release on 23rd March 2018 including a first edition on 12” vinyl. https://hatisnoit.bandcamp.com/album/illogical-dance 2018 €16.00
NORDHEIM, ARNE Electric do-LP "Among the most stunning and musical electronic works ever produced, these five compositions represent the complete electronic works of Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim (1931-2010). They have stood the test of time remarkably well and have been embraced by new generations of influential musicians. This audiophile 2LP comes in an edition of only 500 copies in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with updated credits and liner notes. The sound has been mastered by Helge Sten (Deathprod) specifically for this vinyl edition, sourced from the original analogue master tapes and painstakingly restored before being transferred to 24bit/96kHz for the best possible audio results." www.runegrammofon.com 2017 €45.00
NORTHAUNT / SVARTSINN The Borrowed World LP & CD "Inspired by Cormac Mc Carthy´s novel 'The Road', the two Norwegian masterminds Haerleif Langas and Jan Roger Petterson joined forces to create this stunning split album. This release brings finally new recordings since Northaunt´s 'Horizon' from 2006 and Svartsinn´s 'Elegies for the End' from 2009 (both CDs released on Cyclic Law). 'The Borrowed World' is the soundtrack for a world in decay, directed by the emotive and grandly melancholic signature of both projects. This is isolationist ambient music that unfolds its meditative atmosphere with majestic and melodic waves of droning sounds, environmental field recordings from the icy landscapes of the deepest North and magnificent Cello recordings of Amund Ulvestad. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from it's shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone. This is the gatefold vinyl version that includes the CD as well in slip case. Limited to 300 copies." [label info] www.loki-found.de 2014 €20.00
NOSTALGIE ETERNELLE Sans Fin LP "NOSTALGIE ETERNELLE (,ewige Sehnsucht") (NE) wurde im Oktober 1986 von Stefan Heinze und Dieter Mauson in Leer / Ostfriesland gegründet. Dieter hatte zuvor in diversen NoWave und PostPunk-Bands Bass gespielt. Stefan hatte schon über längere Zeit Elektronikmusik gemacht und seit 1982 einige Tapes in geringen Auflagen veröffentlicht. In der ersten Zeit spielte NE vor allem auf diversen Festivals in Ostfriesland. 1987 begann die Band erste Aufnahmen im ,Heimstudio' zu machen, die dann auf Cassettensamplern zuerst in Deutschland, dann in ganz Europa und später in Japan und den USA veröffentlicht wurden. Verbreitet durch Fanzines, Flyer und Briefe bestand in den 80ern eine riesige internationale Cassettenszene. NE wurde ein Teil von ihr. Viele Freundschaften entstanden, die teilweise bis heute bestehen. Die Szene veranstaltete Festivals - vor allem in den Niederlanden und Belgien. Im Sommer 1991 verlies Dieter Mainz und kehrte in den Norden zurück. Er zog nach Hamburg und gründete dort eine Familie. Zunächst glaubten Stefan und Dieter über die Distanz mit NE weitermachen zu können. Es entstand ein letztes Tape (COURAGE AND DESPAIR) das einzige Studiosolotape. Danach stellte NE seine Aktivitäten ein, doch die Freundschaft zwischen Stefan und Dieter blieb. Über die Jahre redeten Inox und Dieter immer von einem Neuanfang von NE. Und 2009 trafen sich die beiden, 18 Jahre nach ihrer letzten Aufnahmesession, wieder im Studio von INOX in Wespbaden. Die ersten neuen Stücke entstanden. Im Januar und Februar 2011 wurde weiteres Material im neuen Heimstudio von Dieter in Hamburg-Altona aufgenommen. In diesen Sessions in 2009 und 2011 entstanden die Stücke für das Vinylalbum SANS FIN (,ohne Ende"), dass nun - im Januar 2012 - auf HAFENSCHLAMMREKORDS in Hamburg erschienen ist. Im Juni 2011 war bereits NE-Archive-Material auf einer Vinyl-EP auf dem belgischen Label EE-Tapes, sowie auf einer CD mit dem Namen NOTRE DEBUT auf FINAL MUZIK in Italien erschienen. Ein weiteres Doppelalbum mit Musik von 1988 bis 1991 ist auf dem französischen Label INFRASTITION in Arbeit. NOSTALGIE ETERNELLE is back!" [label info] 2012 €14.00
  Magie Fragile LP "NOSTALGIE ÉTERNELLE (ewige Sehnsucht) wurden 1986 in Leer / Ostfriesland von Stefan Heinze (Inox Kapell) und Dieter Mauson gegründet. Verwurzelt im Punk, NDW, Industrial, NoWave, Post-Punk und der Elektronikmusik beginnt das Duo ihre Musik auf nationalen und internationalen Cassetten-Samplern zu veröffentlichen und Konzerte in Ostfriesland zu spielen. 1989 erfolgt dann der Umzug ins Rhein-Main-Gebiet. Es werden nun auch Konzerte im Ausland gespielt. Nach einigen Tapes und Beiträgen zu Vinlysamplern zieht es Dieter 1991 zurück in den Norden (Hamburg). 1992 löst sich das Duo aufgrund der räumlichen Entfernung auf. Der Kontakt bleibt über die Jahre bestehen. 2009 fassen die beiden den Entschluss ihre musikalische Zusammenarbeit fortzusetzen. Inox wohnt inzwischen in Berlin (und zweitweise noch in Wiesbaden) und Dieter noch in Hamburg. Wie in den Anfangstagen singen beide Bandmitglieder und während Inox zumeist für die Elektronik zuständig ist, spielt Dieter vornehmlich Bass und Gitarre. In der Folgezeit werden Alben mit Archivmaterial der Band in Belgien, Italien und Frankreich veröffentlicht. 2012 erscheint ein Vinyl-Album (Sans Fin) mit neuem Material auf Hafenschlamm Rekords in Hamburg. Das Duo beteiligt sich auch wieder an internationalen Compilations, die auf Vinyl, CD, Tape und als Freedownload in Belgien, den USA, Brasilien und Spanien erscheinen. Seit 2012 spielen NOSTALGIE ÉTERNELLE auch wieder Konzerte. Einige kleine Touren haben sie in den letzten Jahren durch Deutschland, die Niederlande, Belgien und die Schweiz geführt Wieder auf Hafenschlamm Rekords erscheint nun im September 2015 ein weiteres Vinyl-Album (Magie Fragile) mit neuem Material. Einige der Songs sind bereits liveerprobt." [label info] www.hafenschlammrekords.de 2015 €16.00
NURSE WITH WOUND Alice the Goon CD "June 2009, new reissue. United Jnana are pleased to announce the next installment in our ongoing Nurse With Wound reissue series, 'Alice the goon'. Originally released in a limited vinyl edition in 1995, it was expanded for its CD debut in 2000. This version replicates the 2000 reissue With a 4 panel digipak. Tracks: (I Don't Want to Have) Easy Listening Nightmares (9:28) ¥ Prelude to Alice the goon (12:51) ¥ Untitled (7:24)." [label info] "Alice the Goon was previously a vinyl-only issue of 500 pieces, available to a lucky few at the Nevers Festival in France. It was hard to come by and selling for high prices on auction websites. Fortunately, for the Nurse With Wound fans not so lucky to be in France, Stephen Stapleton has agreed to allow everyone a chance to hear this music again. The CD features the two songs from the original release plus an additional, untitled piece which many call simply 'Alice the Goon.' The first track sounds like it would fit right in on the Sylvie and Babs release; imagine an old phonograph player belting out a brass-laden instrumental. The second track is a little less involved. The third track, however, sounds right out of A Missing Sense. There is little movement and many drones in this song that could certainly lull you to sleep." [Paul Kustos] www.durtro.com 2009 €16.00
Spiral INsana do-CD & BOOK Same content as the vinyl reissue but on two CDs inside an art book with screenprinted artworks. www.discogs.com/Nurse-With-Wound-Spiral-Insana/release/9809026 2017 €27.50
  Homotopy to Marie BOOK / 2 x CD Double-CD version includes 30-page metallic hardcover book (15 x 20 x 2cm) containing color and black-and-white art by Babs Santini (Steven Stapleton). Rotorelief present a reissue of Homotopy To Marie. the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, originally released in 1982. Music and sleeve created by Steven Stapleton. The album is "a step on from the Dadaist rock of Merzbild Schwet, with much use of tape manipulation and classical avant-garde techniques". The album, which combines tape edits with resonating gong tones and disembodied children's voices to create a sonic collage, is far removed from the harsh improvisations of the group's early albums. The title of the brief closing track derives from a passage from "Les Chants de Maldoror" (1869), a surreal poetic novel written by Le Comte de Lautréamont. This appropriation of a phrase from Maldoror is shared in common with the title of Nurse With Wound's debut album, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979); both phrases appear in Lautréamont's work. The album was first issued on Stapleton's own United Dairies label on vinyl, cassette, and later in remastered compact disc including an extra track "Astral Dustbin Dirge". This masterpiece reissue is the official full, double album from the original recording sessions. The four tracks from the original LP are accompanied by additional recordings from the same period. 2018 €27.50
NURSE WITH WOUND / OCTAVE MIRBEAU Alienation / Un Homme Sensible mCD + book "Je ne crois pas avoir jamais été méchant. Non, en vérité, je ne le crois pas. Tout enfant, j’étais même doué d’une sensibilité excessivement, exagérément douloureuse qui me portait à plaindre, – jusqu’à en être malade – les souffrances des autres… pourvu – cela va de soi, car je suis un artiste – qu’elles ne se compliquassent point de laideurs anormales ou de monstruosités physiologiques. Ah ! ce n’est pas moi – vous pouvez m’en croire – qui admettrai jamais l’esthétique de M. Rodin. Et, je puis me vanter que j’en ai jeté des pommes cuites à son Balzac !… Écrivain et critique, Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) est notamment l'auteur de L'Abbé Jules, Le jardin des supplices et Journal d'une femme de chambre. Dans Un homme sensible, il conte l'histoire d'un assassin bien décidé, au nom de l'harmonie du monde, à débarrasser celui-ci de « tous les organismes inaptes à une vie harmonieuse et forte ». De quoi inspirer Nurse With Wound, qui, en guise d'illustration, nous livre ici Alienation (The Devil's Interval), une nouvelle pièce de musique inédite." www.lenkalente.com/product/un-homme-sensible-d-octave-mirbeau-nurse-with-wound "Let me finish where it all started. With Nurse With Wound whose music I have been listening to for the last ooooh thirty five years or so. Late eighties maybe? Mid eighties? Memories lost in the fog of time. You listen to so much you lose track. What was my first Nurse With Wound album? Probably ‘A Sucked Orange’, maybe that collaboration with Hafler Trio that came out on Staaltape. ‘A Sucked Orange’ I found hilarious; I’m A Frayed Knot, Pleasant Banjo Intro With Irritating Squeak, Scrambled Egg Rebellion In The Smegma Department. I listened and thought to myself but aren’t Nurse With Wound supposed to be dark and scary? Somewhere lodged in the back of my brain was the cover art for ‘Chance Meeting ...’ and that leather clad dominatrix and the thought that only weirdos listened to Nurse With Wound and here was ‘Raymonde Fluffs It’ in which Raymonde fluffs his opening lines. Laugh? I nearly bought myself one. The split with Hafler Trio meanwhile, that truly fried my brain. I had no idea what was going on but I knew that I liked it. Shortly afterwards I availed myself of twenty nine United Dairies cassettes via Ron Lessard and have proudly walked stride by stride with Nurse With Wound ever since, diving in to the back catalogue and buying new stuff when the chance arose. Until recently when the thought struck me that barring what Lenka Lente have released I haven’t listened to a new Nurse With Wound release for what must be over ten years. How did that happen? How did I manage to overlook what one of my favourite bands have been doing for the last ten years? I decided to make up for lost time by drawing up a list of every Nurse With Wound release catalogued on Discogs and ticked off all those that I had physical copies of. I discounted the two Nurse With Wound MP3 discs I bought in St Petersburg in 2003 because a] I dislike the Russian and Chinese attitude towards copyright and b] MP3’s are a bit shit. I now realise that far from having everything Nurse With Wound had recorded from inception to the year 2000 and bits beyond I was the proud owner of quite a bit of it with several gaps that needed filling. To fill these gaps I need time and money so for the foreseeable the blog is being put to bed as I venture forth on the good ship Nurse With Wound proudly captained by Steve Stapleton and his crew. Whether I shall ever rouse it from its slumbers we shall have to wait and see. In the meantime I’m going to find out what Nurse With Wound have been up to these last ten years. I need to hear what awaits me within that decade and the gaps that lie beyond. I shall also paint and draw, read, listen to the radio, go for walks around Scholes, see out this sodding lockdown, survive the virus and hopefully emerge like a vaccinated butterfly sometime during the spring months. By then I will have listened to lots of Nurse With Wound. Lots. Masses. Hopefully I’ll have bought quite a bit too. Maybe I’ll sell off some stuff to make room for it. My very own dedicated Nurse With Wound shelf with a vinyl copy of ‘A Sucked Orange’ forever proudly on display. My Lenka Lente/Nurse With Wound CD’s will also go there though the shelf will have to be a tad smaller to accommodate them. These three inch/five centimeter discs have been virtually my only portal to what Nurse With Wound have been up to recently. The last one that came through the door piquing my interest enough to having me seek out their Tusk set from 2017, which by the way in case you are interested and why shouldn’t you be is quite stunning and well worth your time. If only I was there. Woe is me etc. ‘Alienations [The Devil’s Interval]’ is a fifteen minute slice of a ‘sleep concert’ Nurse With Wound gave in Ireland also during 2017. Sleep concerts being eight hour long overnight shows where Stapleton DJ’s his back catalogue while mixing in live sounds [I’m guessing] as the audience chills out for the night on airbeds and sleeping bags. Somnolence and hypnogogia being the perfect state of mind in which to receive the slowly moving drones of say Soliloquy For Lilith. Whether Stapleton played ‘Chance Meeting …’ in its entirety at four a.m. isn’t recorded. You can achieve the same state of mind at home by smoking a big bifter and playing Soliloquy For Lilith on repeat while rubbing the rim of a glass bowl with a wet finger. Just don’t try it with ‘A Sucked Orange’ ... unless you’re an insomniac. The results will be very different. Fifteen minutes culled from eight hours of DJ’ing will have to suffice for now then and beautiful it is too with the merest hint of Aurelie Lierman’s vocals helping to lull you safely in to the droning arms of morpheus. As for Octave Mirbeau, I vaguely remember buying a copy of his ‘The Torture Garden’ when I was going through a very expensive and steep transgressive reading curve. If I had all the money returned to me that I spent on books of a transgressive nature I’d have enough to buy a good chunk of the Nurse With Wound back catalogue on original vinyl, in mint condition. Needless to say I was wholly unprepared and underwhelmed by Mirbeau’s satire on the brutality of humankind wanting and expecting something of a far more base nature for my money. I left Mirbeau and much of transgressive literature behind around the same time. Maybe I should go back now that I am older and wiser? Now that I have more time on my hands. Now that I’m reacquainting myself with Nurse With Wound. The perfect partners perhaps? I could translate all of ‘Un Homme Sensible’ while listening to ‘Automating Volume Three’. I’m sure that it would be time well spent." [Idwal Fisher] https://idwalfisher.blogspot.com/2021/02/octave-mirbeau-and-nurse-with-wound.html 2021 €16.00
OBLIVION ENSEMBLE Phonorecord (SOLD OUT) 7inch "Subliminal Music! This american duo (so far one outstanding CD on Complacency) builds a sound that is uneasy to describe: subtle white electronic noises, drone-explosions, light nebulous ambience, undistinct & foggy somehow, music that seems to have effect directly on the Unconsious Archetypus. An oscillating miracle with a playtime of 20 minutes! silver vinyl, handmade blue covers w. yellow/red paint, each one is unique. contains also inlay and sticker!" [Drone Records info August 1998] 1998  
OFFTHESKY / PLEQ A Thousand Fields do-LP & 7inch A Thousand Fields is the first collaboration between Denver, Colorado based artist offthesky (Jason Corder) and Warsaw, Poland based musician Pleq (Bartosz Dziadosz). From the opening restrained "Ashes of America" with intermittant ominous strings through the industrial landscape of "drown under..." with it's glittering glass and harmonious drones breaking through, this work of ambient tapestry sees each artist pulling the best work from one another. Both are veteran experimental and ambient recording artists with dozens of recordings to their credit. Featured on a multitude of labels that read like a roster of contemporary ambient and soundscape recordings - Home Normal, Ephre, Taalem, Databloem, dataObscura, Basses Frequencies, Constellation Tatsu to name just a few. This recording feels like a potential has been met. What has been hinted at in solo and prior collaborations meshed together with an influence of equal parts minimalism, fourth world ambience, field recordings, drone, and experimental composition to a stunning degree. Composition is thrilling when notes are allowed to breathe, to vibrate. A single piano string, the circular slow melody of a violin, as on the nostalgic "Delicate Exit" or the delicate assembly of abstract beauty - distant harp, an interrupted string section, shuffling of feet, a ghostly echo as on "simulacromancer". This is a 2xLP set, mastered by Carl Saff, cut at 45 rpm. It is housed in a tip-on style heavy gatefold sleeve with OBI strip featuring artwork from Pyhai. The first 300 copies will include a bonus 7" entitled "Still Your Bones" (INFX 062 S) with 2 exclusive tracks. The entire pressing is a 500 copy edition, available in white 180g vinyl (limited to 100 copies **White vinyl Sold Out**) and the remaining 400 copies will be on black 180g vinyl. Includes unlimited streaming of A Thousand Fields via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-fields 2015 €32.00
  A Thousand Fields CD A Thousand Fields is the first collaboration between Denver, Colorado based artist offthesky (Jason Corder) and Warsaw, Poland based musician Pleq (Bartosz Dziadosz). From the opening restrained "Ashes of America" with intermittant ominous strings through the industrial landscape of "drown under..." with it's glittering glass and harmonious drones breaking through, this work of ambient tapestry sees each artist pulling the best work from one another. Both are veteran experimental and ambient recording artists with dozens of recordings to their credit. Featured on a multitude of labels that read like a roster of contemporary ambient and soundscape recordings - Home Normal, Ephre, Taalem, Databloem, dataObscura, Basses Frequencies, Constellation Tatsu to name just a few. This recording feels like a potential has been met. What has been hinted at in solo and prior collaborations meshed together with an influence of equal parts minimalism, fourth world ambience, field recordings, drone, and experimental composition to a stunning degree. Composition is thrilling when notes are allowed to breathe, to vibrate. A single piano string, the circular slow melody of a violin, as on the nostalgic "Delicate Exit" or the delicate assembly of abstract beauty - distant harp, an interrupted string section, shuffling of feet, a ghostly echo as on "simulacromancer". This is a 2xLP set, mastered by Carl Saff, cut at 45 rpm. It is housed in a tip-on style heavy gatefold sleeve with OBI strip featuring artwork from Pyhai. The first 300 copies will include a bonus 7" entitled "Still Your Bones" (INFX 062 S) with 2 exclusive tracks. The entire pressing is a 500 copy edition, available in white 180g vinyl (limited to 100 copies **White vinyl Sold Out**) and the remaining 400 copies will be on black 180g vinyl. Includes unlimited streaming of A Thousand Fields via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-fields 2015 €14.00
OJERUM (øJERUM) When Birds Fly, the Eyes of Heaven can Rest LP Released by Aurora Borealis Recordings, 2017 Post-Production on Part 1 by Andrew Chalk Description by the label: As fans since 2014, we’re very excited to be releasing the debut vinyl from Danish multi-disciplinary artist øjeRum. Titled ‘when birds fly, the eyes of heaven can rest’, the LP features two extended tracks of aetherial, haunting and otherworldly beauty. The cover art is a hand-cut collage, part of an ever growing body of incredible work from this talented Dane. The artwork expresses the audio perfectly. A floating, drifting haze of light, subtly shifting, organic. This is a world to lose yourself in. credits released January 30, 2017 "Denmark’s øjeRum makes a sublime vinyl debut with the anaesthetising ambient tones of When Birds Fly, The Eyes of Heaven Can Rest for London’s Aurora B [...] Veritably curling off the platter like opium smoke, the two sides of When Birds Fly… place the listener in a gorgeous state of suspended animation akin to the blissful serenity encouraged by Kevin Drumm’s Imperial Distortion, but perhaps massaged with Elodie’s special oils, which should maybe come as little surprise as Elodie’s Andrew Chalk is responsible for post-production on Part I. That first side is a real beauty, unfurling some 17 minutes of thee most languid, golden synth and choral harmonics and shivering partials with a patience and steadiness of hand that’s just an absolute pleasure to undergo. Likewise, Part II is a pure dream sequence, but this time riding dense, phosphorescing waves of organ drone with a deeply blue, melancholic quality that places it in a very special category on our shelves. Don’t sleep on this one!" - Boomkat "[...] OJERUM ascends toward the heavens out over a sea of bliss (again, both sonically and visually), establishing a more distinct connection to the classical ambient model than ever existed in previous works - measured ebb and flow of gentle tones finding contemporary relatively sunny side up comparison to DAVID ANDREE, KYLE LANDSTRA and WILLAMETTE - i might think of this as OJERUM's moonshot, "a world to lose yourself in" indeed, exquisitely presented on neatly full color labeled clear vinyl with glorious "hand-cut collage" cover art AURORA BOREALIS also did a cassette edition "in keeping with the artist's previous catalogue" but also in keeping with OJERUM's catalog it didn't last long - but rest assured this is as about as good as it gets for me in terms of a "proper vinyl debut" so might as well enjoy it as such, sure to be one of my absolute favorite ambient albums of the year." -PSI Lab https://oejerum.bandcamp.com/album/when-birds-fly-the-eyes-of-heaven-can-rest-2 2017 €27.50
OLIVEROS, PAULINE The Well & The Gentle do-LP The Well & The Gentle, two of the major works of Pauline Oliveros, are presented here in a first time reissue on double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with extensive liner notes. If Oliveros had followed a more conventional path she may have, all social obstacles aside, been considered among the major composers of her time. However, Oliveros approached composition in a more egalitarian manner. She wrote music for musicians to interact with or, in the composers words, she wished to create "an inclusive and interdependent and unfolding world of relationships." Oliveros' propensity towards inclusion is part of what makes this work so remarkably distinctive. The Well & The Gentle is carefully crafted, allowing performers to participate in the creation of the work. Players are asked to collaborate, focus, react and make imaginative choices. Only then can the performers "pass through stages of awakening to the possibilities inherent in making music, working together, leading to the essence of what can shape musical impulses and individual freedom simultaneously." Unlike most major composers of the era, Oliveros' work focuses on collaboration and improvisation. For Oliveros, the processes involved in making music are as fundamental as the music itself. Oliveros creates, as Arthur Sabatini put it so eloquently in the liner notes, "A world in which sound and the practices entailed in making music merge; become, at once, source and atmosphere, energy and essence, presence and dynamic." Pauline Oliveros was an electronic music pioneer, accordionist, composer and educator who resided in Kingston, New York. Her instrument was tuned in Just Intonation and she often included it in her meditative improvisational music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating, rather each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled Sonic Meditations. A central figure in post-war electronic art music, Oliveros is one of the original members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center (along with Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Anthony Martin), which was the resource on the U.S. West coast for electronic music during the 1960s. The Center later moved to Mills College, where she was its first director, and is now called the Center for Contemporary Music. Oliveros often improvised with the Expanded Instrument System, an electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances and recordings. https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/the-well-the-gentle 2023 €36.50
OMENYA Transmissions / Transitions 7" Schöne Single vom US ritual / esoteric ambience Projekt, und gleichzeitig erstes OMENYA-Vinyl ! Seite A sehr spacig-elektronisch-rhythmisch, Seite B ethnisch-atmosphärisch.. handgemacht (bemalte, besprühte & collagierte) Cover! “Finally, the long awaited Omenya debut on vinyl. Adds a new side to the band´s output, one side rhythmic, one ambient. Hand-made sleeve and hand-painted centre labels! Ltd. ed. 100 copies.”[label info] 2004 €15.00
ORGAN EYE same LP Traumhafte Kombination zweier unserer Lieblings- Minimal & Drone-Projekte, OSSO EXOTICO und MINIT! Hammond-Orgel, Violine, Synth, eine Bass-Trommel und mit Bogen bespielte Klavierseiten formen zwei lange Drone-Mandalas, die eine überraschend rauhe Gestalt annehmen und volle Aufmerksamkeit erfordern... Die Vinyl-Version im wunderschönen Siebdruckcover ist auf 250 Stück limitiert ! www.staubgold.com 2007 €16.50
ORGANUM Valentin 7" "233 numbered copies. Heavy matte picture sleeve plus matching card insert (both full CMYK). First vinyl release by Organum in over 7 years. It is hard to underestimate the importance and significance of Organum. David Jackman (the force behind the project) wishes the audio to speak for itself and prefers not to attempt to describe the contents of this release. However, it is worthy to note that the greatest possible care was made to every aspect of this release -- which was mastered at Prairie Cat Mastering, who provided the most clear and dynamic audio possible. A release worthy of inclusion in the extensive discography of Organum." [label info] www.chronoglide.com/equation.html 2010 €12.50
ORIGAMI ARKTIKA At Royspytten 7inch Neue Single der Norweger, hier beschreiten sie sehr subtil dark-folkige Wege.. The same Origami Arktika dreamteam line up as the last single on killer – at Snippen. This time the Norwegian folk music undercurrents are even more pronounced, including their very own version of a Jørund Telnes song (Norwegian folk music performer). Since last time the band has released several CDs - >brook< - a spilt CD with Lull and a live CD from Poland. This single is the first material to arrive from their latest session and hopefully the rest of this material sees the light of day. Origami Arktika sounds like nothing else on earth, a bit folk music, a bit drone rock, a bit outlandish as a freeform arctic storm. Personnel are Tore H. Bøe, Kai S. Mikalsen, Bjarne Larsen, Rune Flaten and Kjell Ø. Braaten. Current activities include Salvatore, several Origami fractions, Kobi, Ka, Sketch, Palace of Pleasure and a lot more. Beautiful colour cover courtesy of Jarle Hrafn Grindhaug.45 rpm, edition of 300 where 100 are on dark lilac vinyl” [press-release] 2002 €6.00
ORPHANAGE COMMITTEE A Significant Change LP THE ORPHANAGE COMMITTEE is the solo project of Orphan S.C. Wallace, residing in Sint-Niklaas (Hellgium). On his long-awaited debut LP, he delivers fresh and playful soundscapes, often with a spastic beat, but mostly with a serious twist, undoubtedly! Put this record on, loud as it will play and enter the challenging playground of THE ORPHANAGE COMMITTEE. Strongly recommended for your mental moves! \'All music is equally abstract, but some music is more equally abstract than other\' - Orwell S.C. Wallace Available as LP on sealed 180 gm black vinyl, 200 cps with insert and DL https://eetapes.bandcamp.com/album/a-significant-change-2 2022 €20.00
  Sol in Solus LP The Orphanage Committee is the brainchild of Orphan S.C. Wallace. The committee in itself can be seen as a singular abstract entity, while its different faces show themselves in their different aspects of music or variety of genre they create. Second vinyl LP for label resident Orphan Wallace! 'Sol In Solus' is a concept album about nature and self-reflexion. An overall organic suite in ten parts comprising multi genres and instruments conceived and performed by this talented local electronic artist! Guest appearance by Michiel De Malsche on A: V.Topsoil Girl. Back to nature! 'For the Sun is our Force of Habit, Giver and Taker of Life, For our Solus is the Merit, The Way, the Truth, the Light.' Tracklist A: I.Tiny Rivers II.Mother Tree III.Le Fort IV.Bound Like Blood/My Very Last Chance V.Topsoil Girl B: I.Aquarius II.Forest Spirits+ III.As Long As I Have My Sense Of Wonder IV.Earth, Bind, Oxidize V.My Darling Thunder Tags: abstract, ambient, experimental, field recording, minimal, modern classical ################# " 'Sol In Solus' is already the fourth release by Belgium's Orphan S.C. Wallace, also known as The Orphanage Committee. He writes, "The committee in itself can be seen as a singular abstract entity, while its different faces show themselves in their different aspects of music or variety of genre they create, " which may account for the slightly varying approaches in sound. The title means The Sun Alone, a concept album "about nature and self-reflexion". Ten parts spread over two sides of the record, each flowing into the next. Instruments aren't mentioned, but if I have to guess, I'd say there is an abundance of sampling going on, and many of these are samples from real instruments. Lots of percussion, keyboards, strings and such, and the result is again a diversification from his earlier work. The music is atmospheric again but in a slightly more orchestral sense of the word. The Orphanage Committee isn't using big-time-sustaining sounds but melodic sampled electronics. One name that sprang to mind was Fetish Park, but I forget which CD of theirs. The whole thing has an air of modern classical music but an artificial version. I admit not seeing the relation with nature easily here, or, come to think of it, self-reflection. Only when he mixes some field recordings do things become more nature-based, obviously with these forest sounds. It is all quite pleasant to hear, maybe too lovely and light at times; perhaps I love a bit of darkness, a bit too much, and there isn't always that much of it here. Having said that, there is enough to enjoy here, as each of the ten sections works very well as part of a whole, and there is some excellent variation in the music here. Another record by The Orphanage Committee, another variation in approaches, another winner." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2023 €20.00
ORSI, FABIO Osci LP Italienischer Newcomer auf SMALL VOICES mit einer von Nostalgie und Melancholie durchdrungenen Drone/Ambient-Produktion, field recordings und traditionelles Folk-Material wird z.T. loopig verwebt mit Gitarren- & Synth-Klängen, 3 nostalgische Postkarten runden das verträumt-nostalgische Bild ab... für Atmo-Melancholiker. “SmallVoices is happy to present a new Italian promising artist: Fabio Orsi. 'Osci' is a two long tracks album (remixed by Gianluca Becuzzi/Kinetix) of ambient drone music, field recordings and experimental melancholic soundcapes... Using processed folk music parts (taken during folkloristic festivals, typical of the Apulian folk tradition), Fabio creates a dreaming atmosphere crossing between balls and bellows, silence and spirituality, everyday life: at home, in a church, in the countryside, at the small-town feast. All these sounds mixed and processed through digital machines: an encounter between modernism and tradition. Image a sort of mixture between Alio Die's ambient works, William Basinski's melancholia, Phil Niblock's experimentalism. Fabio Orsi plays: guitars, samples, field recordings, laptop. The black heavy weight vinyl was packaged in an elegant sleeve and including 3 postcards.” [label info] “Osci is a deep hole into the ground of the loved/hated traditional music. It is a snatch with the past, watching it from unusual perspective, with deforming lens under coloured lights. Osci never meets "Art", it is something like a hack. As the sickle relates about the man, but it's completely unconcerned with their destiny. He speaks the speech of crickets and ants. Time no exist. Telephone are not used to ring and the bees are assembling a "flying saucers" with the elements of an old washing machine. Telephone doesn't know how to ring and voices are gliding in to the dark from mouths full of soil and cheap beer, talking about obscene love proposals. Under the Sun we reverse a big stone and the name of a girl crawls out, into the grass. Someone picks up it from the ground, and put it on the neck as an amulet. Violin's strings clasp the heart in an August night. Flames itching the flesh with pain. Finally our body shows infinite chances. Inside and outside. Every single pore is a hole. Inside is outside. A blink. We would like to shake the skin from bodies, jumping in the fire. A blink. Then we leave by car, disappearing on dusty roads. Sentenced to a slow craziness. All the rumours pushing under the scab. Where the streets are swelling as the veins and the buildings are collapsing, we plant a microphone, cold as a needle.” [liner notes] 2006 €15.00
Find Electronica CD FABIO ORSI is another artist using long endless-delays / loops, like AIDAN BAKER or FEAR FALLS BURNING, but his drones are "lighter", more electronica-like so to say, the atmosphere evoked is less dark, more peaceful and calming. FIND ELECTRONICA presents 3 pieces that are maybe his most meditative & and sweet ones, perfect as background-ambience in the truest sense, using much more synth-elements as before.. "In only two years of work Fabio Orsi has achieved critique and fans, imposing his name as one of the most promising and representative of the entire Italian independent scene. A drift began with the excellent vinyl LP "Osci" (SmallVoices 2005), followed by the famous split CD "For Alan Lomax" (A Silent Place, 2006) together with Italian My Cat is an Alien and a couple of cooperations with Gianluca Becuzzi: "Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines" (A Silent Place 2006) e "The Stones Know Everything" (Digitalis Industries 2007). Today, as final confirmation of his talent, A Silent Place is proud to present this new Fabio Orsi solo. "Find Electronica" is a wonderful album finely full of lyric, structured as a long drone/ambient suite divided in two portions which are the frames of the articulated central track. A strictly personal exercise on the "Weird Folk" theme, hypnotic and seductive. The "found" electronica meets the humoral sonorities made by the six chords, projecting enchanted landscapes on a vibrant horizon, with an intimate sensibility. Abstract and emotional, deep and dreamy, "Find Electronica" is a great album: an essential step in the ascending Fabio's career. Another great/small gem from that "silent place" in the deep Italian South." [label info] www.asilentplace.it 2007 €10.00
Wannsee LP "RICERCA SONORA proudly presents, as its third release (RS3), a new FABIO ORSI work titled “Wannsee”. Wannsee is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger Großer Wannsee (Greater Wannsee) and the Kleiner Wannsee (Little Wannsee), are located on the river Havel and are separated only by the Wannsee bridge. The larger of the two lakes covers an area of 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi) and has a maximum depth of 9 m (30 ft). (quote from Wikipedia) Recorded at Wannsee locality in October 2011 and edited, produced and mastered by Fabio Orsi, "Wannsee" is a composition - divided in three parts - of field recordings in its purest form. A nostalgic work done exclusively with environmental sounds captured on location. One-time pressing of 200 copies only, one-sided black vinyl, in white sleeve with UV varnished printing and one insert." [label info] www.ricerasonora.com 2012 €15.00
  Late Afternoon Tapes CD-R recorded, edited and mastered in my studio, Litoranea salentina, March 2022 fabioorsi.bandcamp.com cover collage by Robert Kerber “Für gewöhnlich versuchte er, einen winzigen Augenblick in der Zeit festzuhalten, aber manchmal fand er Vergnügen daran, kleine Geschichten zu erzählen” robertkerberart.wordpress.com With this album, the labels attenuation circuit, run by EMERGE, and Grubenwehr Freiburg, run by Grodock, launch a new series of co-releases, marked by their catalogue code with the label 'initials' ACGF, but especially by their over-sized artwork in the format of a 7'' vinyl single sleeve. The aim is to give artists a broader exposure across the various networks of the two labels. Fabio Orsi, who divides his time between Berlin and his native Southern Italy, makes ambient music in the best possible sense of the term. Not in the sense that it is music that just textures the air as some kind of acoustic wallpaper or furniture and doesn't actually deserve attentive listening. But rather music that attunes itself to the slow changes in atmospheres, light and weather conditions, the ambience in the sense of the (natural) world that surrounds and in many ways (still) defines us. “Late Afternoon Tapes” with its slowly meandering guitar-based textures will not only appeal to fans of guitarists like Robert Fripp or Christian Fennesz, but also – and the “Tapes” in the title may be a conscious hint at that – to anyone who enjoyed William Basinski's “Disintegration Loops”. When it's late afternoon, the light fades into an eventual darkness. This is music to go gentle into that good night, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, or at least Fabio Orsi's music “makes time pass a little less painfully” (Anne Clark). File under: ambient "Last week, I wrote about the Silentes label and Fabio Orsi, these are very active people. Here we have a CDR release. It marks the beginning of a collaboration between Attenuation Circuit and Grubenwehr Freiburg. As I commit these words to the screen, it is not yet late afternoon, but the idea behind the music is evident. Daylight fades, the day ends, and there is a soundtrack for that. 'Thursday Afternoon' from Brian Eno is such an appt title in this respect. Orsi's recent music is all about synthesizers, sequences and arpeggio. I am not sure if that is the case with this new release. Maybe he returned to his guitar and loops? Or perhaps it is a combination of both? I suspect the latter to be the case here. These five pieces sound not unlike Eno or Fripp, solo or together, and are something of a departure for Orsi; or a sidestep. The music is slow, with minimal changes. A few notes are hanging in the air thick of cloudy drones. The result is fuzzy and hazy music. I enjoyed this very much, but I guess Orsi can't do much wrong in my book. For me, this is not the soundtrack of the end of the day, but rather the start of the day, my favourite moment to play ambient music. In that sense, this is music for every day, all times of the day, depending on what the listener chooses." [FdW /Vital Weekly] 2022 €8.50
OSSO EXOTICO VII (SOLD OUT) 7 "OSSO EXÓTICO hail from Lisboa, Portugal, and since their early releases (three LPs) they have developed a truly unique style – an atmospheric, meditative ambience created through the use of concrete classical instruments. Their last CD Church Organ Works (on Sonoris, France) was played entirely on church organs.... This EP could be considered a follow-up to the CD. The material presented here was likewise produced solely on church organs. OSSO EXÓTICO don't play the organ in the orthodox, classical manner; they instead create a minimal lull, both orchestral & droneful, using the natural reverberation of the church, thus evoking full, other-worldy atmospheres. This EP might make you listen attentively to a different kind of organic harmony. The "music of the spheres" can be found here!! CLEAR VINYL, COVERS CONTAIN SPICES! ALL 7"es APPEAR IN A LIMITED & NUMBERED EDITION OF 250 COPIES." [press release] 1999  
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD Fucking Dracula Clouds LP "Stunning new LP from Campbell Kneale's post Birchville Cat Motel project. Continues with the vibes set on his superb LP for Dekorder, total psychedelic filth noise. Two side long heavy pieces of gushing electric destruction, one sound lurches in and tears down another one, which it rebuilds an even more ferocious version of the original sound. Pressed on 180gram vinyl. Limited to 400 copies in pro printed wrap around sleeve on 400gsm silk card." [label info] www.blackest-rainbow.moonfruit.com 2009 €16.00
PACIFIC 231 & RAPOON Palestine (ext. edit.) CD “Palestine” was the first effect of collaboration between two titans of industrial and underground music Pierre “Pacific 231” Jolivet and Robin “Rapoon” Storey. Originally released as limited CD in 2007 by Old Europa Cafe and “Dedicated to the struggling Palestinian Nation and to the memory of Bryn Jones 1961-1999.” Zoharum is proud to present you a first time ever LP reissue of this important album. Given that “Palestine” is dedicated to Muslimgauze and Israeli-Palestinian conflict it’s easy to predict what you’ll find here. Each side of the record presents artists' take on middle eastern rhythm and sound. Side A is raw. For over 20 minutes Jolivet focuses on subtle processing over hypnotic distorted drum loops. On side B Storey takes us on a long, a bit IDM-ish trip following what seems to be Muezzin call. CD contains additional 3 rare tracks that were taken from the limited Old Europa Cafe version of the album and Pacific’s “el-Arish” business card CD. This album is as important due to the subject it touches as it’s true and uncompromising and is still relevant now as it was in the time of its creation. Remastered by Robin Storey. LP edition of 300 copies comes on red translucent 180 g vinyl with CD insert. CD edition of 200 copies comes in a 6 panel ecopack. https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/palestine-ext-edit 2021 €13.00
PAIK, NAM JUNE Works 58-79 CD “ this is a wide panorama of Nam June Paik work as musician - Hommage à John Cage (1958-1959), Étude for Pianoforte (1959-1960) and Simple (1961) are good exemple of neodada music and de-structuration in the late 50', this is basically irreverent audio-collages. Prepared Piano for Merce Cunningham (1977) captures an improvised performance by Paik on a de-tuned piano. while Prepared for Merce Cunningham was later mixed and edited for use by Cunningham, this raw, straight -to-tape version is favored by Paik. Duett: Paik/Takis (1979) this is the only piece already released (by 20 years ago on a limited vinyl edition) Paik improvises on piano and voice, while Takis performs on his metal sculptures.” [label info] 2001 €13.00
PAIN JERK Neurotten LP Kohei Gomi began experimenting with home recording in the 1980s and got so lost in extreme sonics under the Pain Jerk moniker that his output inevitably spilled out into the wider world. By the mid-90s, he was one of the most prolific and influential noise units operating out of Japan, hurling maelstroms of chaotic chunder and deranged grime at anyone who could handle the extremes. Pain Jerk became one of the leading figures in the "dynamic" style of Japanese noise or Japanoise and is also the owner of the noise tape label AMP that during the 90s releases about fifty cassettes of his amazing noise project. Among his works released in his most prolific period, Neurotten stands out without a doubt, reaching cult status and instantly becoming a classic of the genre. Recorded in 1996 and published the same year on the legendary Slaughter Productions by Marco Corbelli aka Atrax Morgue, in only 80 hand numbered copies in a special A5 tin-foil sleeve with translucent insert and instead some using a red cardboard insert accompanied by a small curved iron rod, similar to a dentist's tool and now it has become a worship object for the most avid collectors. The assault here is very high-end heavy: relentlessly aggressive. The sound severs and bleeds more than it beats and bludgeons. Side A is divided into two tracks, Gushcore and Teen-Wreckage, of incredible beauty. Nothing compares to the sounds emitted by vinyl grooves composed with a mysterious configuration of constantly flowing noise - always recorded live without overdubs. Devastating, unfriendly harsh noise: the hardest rock that is pierced by the sharpest diamond! With only one track on side B, which takes 23 minutes, we encounter one of most iconic compositions from his wide discography: Disembowel. Hearing impaired volumes that duel, bouncing sound structures displacing the ego and generating many difficulties in brain processing. There’re a lot of rips and chaos, pulsating pulses of recycled transient sounds and some loops, muffled high tones that twist into spastic shapes capable of breaking the faint speaker cones. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/neurotten 2021 €21.50
PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST same LP "Debut recording from Italy's Opalio brothers (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini. An esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism, and emotion. Each track recorded at a different mystical location in the western Alps, and centered around Ramona's beautiful vocals, all of which are sung in traditional Japanese. Maurizio & Roberto add sparse accompaniment by means of toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. The whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted, depending on your attention & mood. Silence, space & ritual are hugely important here, with notes & words hovering frozen in time... while the My Cat Is An Alien moniker might leave some folks scratching their heads, here the Painting Petals On Planet Ghost name nails it : fragile, beautiful, cosmically isolationist, and totally spooked... pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl, and lushly packaged with letterpress printed cover & insert. Printed with copper ink on exquisite & massively thick handmade ivory art paper, each sheet cast one at a time & air dried. Hand numbered edition of 560 copies." [label info] www.time-lagrecords.com 2005 €29.50
PALE Beyond the Pale 7inch + BOOK PALE are håkan paulsson, emma ekered, christina blom & joakim engström from jönköping / gothenburg sweden. PALE is raw, abrasive and dark northern industrial, which could be described as challenging but also captivating. the band is using traditional style power electronics and aggressive rhythms confronted with a provocative wall of sound - purely authentic and with full dedication. four charismatic singers are screaming their heart out to hymns of noise for the ultimate level of intensity. the members håkan paulsson and joakim engström are already known from their countless performances with the legendary band SANCTUM. pale is already existing since more then 15 years and they did several live shows, but it took till today for the very first vinyl release. the band\'s lyrics deal with themes of death, suffering and dystopia and deliver a solemn and immersive dark soundscape to the environment we are fenced in. PALE. beyond the pale [video] www.facebook.com/watch/?v=588797695468291 https://raubbau.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-pale 2023 €24.00
PAN AMERICAN For waiting, for chasing LP „Mark Nelson, früher Labradford, hat es gefunden, so scheint es. Pan-American-Alben waren immer großartig, aber man spürte immer die Verbundenheit zu seiner alten Band, die Weite und Schwere der Songs. Das ist jetzt anders und es fühlt sich nach einem großen Schritt an. Nelson klingt elektronischer und denkt dabei immer noch akustisch, spielt seine dronigen Trümpfe anders aus, ist nicht mehr offensichtlich vom Berliner Dub beeinflusst, lässt das Knistern der Steine für Minuten im Track einfach stehen und betupft diese ungelenken Gebilde nur sehr zurückhaltend mit weichen Haltegurten. Die Sehnsucht nach Stille klang nie so aufregend. Ein großes Album.“ [Thaddi / DeBug] "For Waiting, For Chasing was originally issued in a limited pressing by the Stefan Németh (Radian) curated Mosz label in 2006. This is the first time it is being made widely available and also the first time it is being issued on the vinyl LP format. As Mosz eloquently stated at the time of release, "...it is not about the process or the media, which have been used. It is about how elements and structures are put in a detailed relation to each other, ending up in a slow-moving, breathing organism. Filaments of percussive elements condense to polyrhythmic elements, layers of sound, instruments and field recordings merge to build up a mystic parallel, not so much fictional world." Perhaps the most skeletal and minimal of all of the works in the PanAmerican canon, it may also be the most compelling. Released on CD and 140g black vinyl." [label info] www.brainwashed.com/kranky 2010 €15.00
  For waiting, for chasing CD „Mark Nelson, früher Labradford, hat es gefunden, so scheint es. Pan-American-Alben waren immer großartig, aber man spürte immer die Verbundenheit zu seiner alten Band, die Weite und Schwere der Songs. Das ist jetzt anders und es fühlt sich nach einem großen Schritt an. Nelson klingt elektronischer und denkt dabei immer noch akustisch, spielt seine dronigen Trümpfe anders aus, ist nicht mehr offensichtlich vom Berliner Dub beeinflusst, lässt das Knistern der Steine für Minuten im Track einfach stehen und betupft diese ungelenken Gebilde nur sehr zurückhaltend mit weichen Haltegurten. Die Sehnsucht nach Stille klang nie so aufregend. Ein großes Album.“ [Thaddi / DeBug] "For Waiting, For Chasing was originally issued in a limited pressing by the Stefan Németh (Radian) curated Mosz label in 2006. This is the first time it is being made widely available and also the first time it is being issued on the vinyl LP format. As Mosz eloquently stated at the time of release, "...it is not about the process or the media, which have been used. It is about how elements and structures are put in a detailed relation to each other, ending up in a slow-moving, breathing organism. Filaments of percussive elements condense to polyrhythmic elements, layers of sound, instruments and field recordings merge to build up a mystic parallel, not so much fictional world." Perhaps the most skeletal and minimal of all of the works in the PanAmerican canon, it may also be the most compelling. Released on CD and 140g black vinyl." [label info] www.brainwashed.com/kranky 2010 €15.00
PANHUYSEN, PAUL Pendulum Change LP "First vinyl LP edition by Dutch sound and visual artist Paul Panhuysen since 1986. In terms of sound art, Paul Panhuysen is well-known for his long string installations, yet he has produced a vast amount of other sound installations using different materials and sound sources ranging from various instruments to animals such as birds. This LP contains a recording of the installation "Pendulum Change Ringing", displayed at Pand Koloniale Waren in Hasselt (Belgium) in 2012. The installation consists of twelve engraved Turkish metal platters, each mounted onto a black plastic bin, and placed in a 20 meters long row. The rim of each platter is hit by a metal pendulum operated by a tiny electromotor. Each hit causes the platter to resonate with a rich sound texture full of dissonant overtones. During the recording, the twelve pendulums are activated one after the other. The paces at which they swing differ due to their rods having different lengths. This causes interlocking rhythmic patterns to emerge that become more complex with each step and never stay the same. Hits aggregate into clusters, then thin out again. The sound is not chaotic, yet its regularity is hard to comprehend. "You might call Pendulum Change Ringing a typical Paul Panhuysen piece: it works according to a system, quite a simple one in fact, but its effect surpasses that apparent simplicity by far." (René van Peer) Edition of 300 copies. Full-color sleeve with photos of the installation and liner notes by René van Peer. Black poly-lined inner sleeve." [label info] www.edition-telemark.de 2014 €22.00
PANTALEIMON Under the Water 7 Sammlerstück ! Einseitig bespielte Single auf klarem Vinyl, mit kunstvollem Siebdruck auf der B-Seite. Instrumental-akustische Folk-Ambience mit Gesang, nicht unähnlich z.B. FOVEA HEX.. "Here's a gorgeous one-sided single. 'Under The Water' is an alternate version of a song scheduled for release on an upcoming solo LP, and it's a brilliant, mystical breath of air of pure longing. The lyrics are simply structured and circular, the music is a mix of accoustic plucks and drones, and the mood is wonderfully doleful. Nice package too." [BYRON COLEY, WIRE] "BLUESANCT is very pleased to announce that the next release in our ART SINGLES series will be by PANTALEIMON. Like the MOUNT EERIE 7", it will be a beautiful single, with an exclusive recording on one side, and a screenprinted image of the song on the other side. For those not familiar with PANTALEIMON's work, it is essentially the work of ANDRIA DEGENS. She creates gorgeous acoustic soundscapes of droning ambience accompanying beautiful folk melodies. Besides her work as PANTALEIMON, Andria is also a frequent guest on the recordings and in the live emsemble of one of my favourite all time projects, CURRENT 93 and her music will be featured in the upcoming GUS VAN SANT film." [label info] www.bluesanct.com 2006 €8.00
PATTERSON, BEN & BRANDSTIFTER / FRANZ KAMIN / KOMMISSAR HJULER SUXULFART LP A1 –Ben Patterson & Brandstifter silent refugee night A2 –Franz Kamin BGESS #4 B –Kommissar Hjuler Der Jordt LP in Fluxus +/- Series by Kommissar Hjuler / Psych.KG, limited to 75 copies, numbered and signed, black vinyl. Front Cover shows part from a mixed media painting by Yukiko Nasu & Kommissar Hjuler (project BROTKATZE Collaborations). Backside Cover shows Ben Patterson & Brandstifter at Kaiser & Cream, Wiesbaden, photo by Udo W. Gottfried. Track "Silent Refugee Night" was recorded on April 24th, 2016 at Kaiser & Cream Wiesbaden by horstundireneschmitt for FLUX ON DEMAND, copyright by Ben Patterson & V.E.B. Freie Brandstiftung. Track "BGESS #4" has been released on MC before by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE / Widemouth, copyright by The Franz Kamin Estate, Nor Hall and Marie Nesthus. 2016 €25.00
PECORELLI, DANIELE / MARK SCHAUB & LP " &, first production of the newborn Anomala Soundscapes wants to be a programmatic manifesto of what the label intends to realize. The debut album of a new label has the difficult task of giving the editorial imprint in one fell swoop. Vinyl was chosen as the format and split album as a formula. The format of the vinyl was not chosen for the alleged better listening quality compared to than other media, but rather and above all for to recover a certain now rare “listening ritual”. The & project was intended to be released as a vinyl record from its very origin. Each side separately presents the work of one of the two musicians, neither of whom had heard the work of the other until the release. Who’ll frame my memories in ash Daniele Pecorelli We are our consciousness, and our consciousness is the form and content of our memory. What happens to our memories the moment we die? They become an electrical residue that fades away. As we are conscious that our memory is falling apart, a new consciousness arises that in turn disintegrates into kaleidoscopic fragments until they dilate into the final moment of our recorded time. Combustion Mark Schaub Material, rough, sometimes unprejudiced, dark but carnival, tries to render the idea of transformation in an informal way without emotional variations. In particular chemical transformation, the allusion to fire is made explicit by the title. The transformation is an action of opposing forces and from the tension develops the passage that explores all the audible frequencies (even inaudible) trying to materialize the intimate tension of the matter and the dissolution of the same in the final suspended and almost incomplete." 2019 €22.50
PENDERECKI, KRZYSZTOF Kosmogonia CD Unnerving, intense, bloodcurdling, sinister, dramatic – the music of “Kosmogonia” features Penderecki’s famous, unorthodox instrumental techniques, and some of the darkest music ever composed. Hailed by The Guardian as “Poland’s greatest living composer”, Krzysztof Penderecki is the maestro behind the unforgettable, disturbing music on The Shining (including ‘De Natura Sonoris No. 2’, featured here). A complex tapestry of sound with striking use of pizzicato and flexatone, with aggressive barrages from brass and percussion, dissonant woodwind chords, spoken and hissing sounds, fervent strings, swirling organ, climactic choral and solo vocals. Krzysztof Penderecki’s unique music has featured in films such as: The Shining, The Exorcist, Children Of Men, The People Under The Stairs, Shutter Island, and many more. Thanks to the estate of Krzysztof Penderecki, Cold Spring are honoured to present this masterpiece in digital format for the first time since the 1974 vinyl release. Sympathetically remastered for CD by Denis Blackham and Martin Bowes. Composed by Krzysztof Penderecki Performed By: Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic, Warsaw Tenor: Kazimierz Pustelak Soprano: Stefania Woytowicz Bass: Bernard Ładysz Chorus Master: Jozef Bok Conductor: Andrzej Markowski Mastered By: Denis Blackham (Skye Mastering) Final Mastering: Martin Bowes (The Cage) Graphic Design: Abby Helasdottir coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/kosmogonia-csr238cd www.coldspring.co.uk 2017 €12.00
PENNY RIMBAUD'S L'ACADEMIE DES VANITES (CRASS) Yes Sir, the Truth of Revolution CD "CRASS WAS THEN - THIS IS NOW. WAKE UP TO IT CRASS' album, 'Yes, Sir, I Will', was possibly the most angry and hard hitting attack on the political/military/industrial complex ever consigned to vinyl. Written by Penny Rimbaud in 1982 at the height of the Falklands conflict, it seethes with righteous indignation over what he saw as a pointless but vicious exercise in vote catching by a government whose popularity was severely on the wane. So powerful was this critique that it led to threats of prosecution by that very same government, threats which were typically used by CRASS to further their attacks on it and its tyrannical leader, Margaret Thatcher. Over thirty years later, in 2014, Rimbaud was asked to participate in the Rebellion Festival, a yearly punk gathering held in Blackpool, UK. Realising that the opening date of the festival closely coincided with that of the euphemistically named 'Great War', Rimbaud and the festival organisers agreed that as an appropriate response they should open the event with a performance of 'Yes, Sir, I Will'. In preparing for this performance, Rimbaud began to question the relevance of some of the content of 'Yes, Sir'. It seemed to him that much of it was pertinent only to the time in which it was written, a time when a genuine social uprising had appeared to be a very real possibility (one that was violently and conclusively squashed during the miners' strike of 1984). But times change and there was, he now felt, an element of aggression within the work which veiled its essential message of love and peace; it was a passion that could all too easily be mistaken for blind anger. With this in mind, and inspired by John Lennon's 'All You Need is Love', he set about rewriting 'Yes, Sir' from what he describes as a more Taoist viewpoint. Through replacing screams of anguish with laments of love, he was largely able to satisfy his wish to change 'Yes, Sir' into an expression of compassion, that being the hugely demanding realm of love in its unconditional form. For the Rebellion performance of the now retitled 'Yes, Sir, the Truth of Revolution', Rimbaud was joined by CRASS' lead vocalist Eve Libertine plus a group of leading musicians from the London jazz scene with whom they'd worked extensively in the past. Named 'L'Académie des Vanités', the band consisted of Eve Libertine/vocals, Penny Rimbaud/vocals, Louise Elliott/sax, Kate Shortt/cello, Jennifer Maidman/guitar, Phil Robson/guitar, Thad Kelly/bass and Gene Calderazzo/drums. The live recording of that show, presented here, captures all the tense excitement created by presenting a primarily punk audience with complex poetics of love, accompanied by equally demanding freeform, improvised jazz. However, as had generally been the case with CRASS' output, wild, willing and worrisome, it would be wise to expect the unexpected. Equally, through its progressive and colourful imagery, the vibrant packaging designed by Gee Vaucher shows a refusal to harp back to the illusory golden past of punk dreams and conceits. 'We are poets, armed with the cobblestones of love, unconditional, uncompromising, beyond need of proof.' However, if proof is needed, it will most surely be found in the content of this radical, imaginative release." [label info] www.coldspring.co.uk 2016 €12.00
PEPE WISMEER Le Stridor de l'Escargot LP + CD-R ... kaléidoscope maîtrisé d’influences éparses et vastes, l’univers très personnel de pepe wismeer désarçonne par son irrésistible beauté et sa mélancolie ambigüe. mêlant rêverie entêtante avec son ambient bizarroïde et délire expérimental psyché sombre, le duo entraîne dans son ballet et en son cœur les fantômes des legendary pink dots, coil, the cure ou même arvo pärt ... "This is a 1-off pressing of 100 copies on high-quality vinyl, printed labels AND an extra (free) CD-r E.P., with an original photographic insert (numbered by the artist). The LP itself has a special "DJ-confusion" cut (where the track marks do not coincide with the actual tracks themselves) and was done as an homage to Throbbing Gristle's "D.O.A." who pioneered this mischievous tactic around 35 years ago with their own DJ-confusion cut." [label info] www.chronoglide.com/equation.html 2013 €20.00
PERRY, BRENDAN Eye of the Hunter / Live at the ICA do-CD https://brendan-perry.bandcamp.com/album/eye-of-the-hunter-live-at-the-i-c-a Out of print since release in 1999, Dead Can Dance"s Brendan Perry"s debut solo album "Eye of the Hunter" is being reissued this summer and has been expanded to now also include his 1993 live show as part of 4AD"s infamous 13 Year Itch week of concerts at London"s ICA, a live show that has to date only been available as a very rare promotional cassette. Having mutually disbanded Dead Can Dance so he and Lisa Gerrard could focus on their own material (a hiatus that would last seven years between live shows and sixteen between albums), Brendan"s debut built on his renown as a solo performer, having often played just he and an acoustic guitar during his band"s otherworldly live shows. Indeed, Dead Can Dance"s first official live album, 1994"s Toward The Within, captures just this with three Brendan solo tracks helping to set the scene for what came next. Backed by the band of Liam Bradley (drums), Glen Garrett (bass guitar) and Martin Quinn (pedal steel), Brendan performs the guitar, a 12-string guitar, mandolin and keys to achieve a rich, gothic sound while the album"s incredible production elevates his vocals to Scott Walker and Tim Buckley levels of delivery; two clear influences, the latter"s "I Must Have Been Blind Here" is thoughtfully covered here. A record that has been out of print on vinyl since its release in 1999, people have been asking for it to be repressed for long enough. Having been remastered at Abbey Road, fans will be delighted to hear that not only is Eye of the Hunter finally being reissued but that it"s also being expanded to include Live at the I.C.A.. A true collectible, this extra album has previously only been available on a rare as hen"s teeth promotional cassette, recorded during the 4AD label"s infamous 13 Year Itch residency at the storied London venue in 1993 2023 €16.00
PETIT, PHILIPPE Henry: The Iron Man CD "One lost lemonish night sleepwalking on a lost country road I dreamt that Shinya Tsukamoto was working on a blurred remake of "Eraserhead", and I was to soundtrack the grotesque mutation of Henry into an "Iron Man". I decided to manipulate and take advantage of the vinyl material to fondle crackles and released noises, to process textures and their resonances into vertiginous travellings of sound ; conjuring up flashes of disturbing black & white grainy sounds, behind-the-scenes close-ups, rapid nightmarish stop-motion effects. I embarked on a visceral musical voyage, an intricate and imaginative soundtrack gathering both organic and sonic elements and giving life to a noisy magma where unexpected clicks stumbled over interferences, where digital accidents happened and drones and acoustic resonances filled the spaces in time. The music sprang on me and got caught in my eye. A few years ago BiP_HOp had started a series called "Reciprocess", thus to celebrate 10 years since the inception of the label + my 25 years of activism/DJing I composed a 70+ minute soundtrack, cut it into pieces which were sent to friends to add their spices to. The Wire magazine liked the idea and agreed to give it away with their issue # 301, in March 2009. AIDAN BAKER & Philippe Petit CHAPTER 24 & Philippe Petit COSEY FANNI TUTTI & Philippe Petit SIMON FISHER TURNER & Philippe Petit KLANGWART & Philippe Petit DOUGLAS BENFORD & Philippe Petit MARKOVO & Philippe Petit BELA EMERSON (feat. vocals from RANDALL FRAZIER) & Philippe Petit KUMO & Philippe Petit EUGENE S. ROBINSON & Philippe Petit SEVERIN 24 (feat. vocals from KATHY COMPTON) & Philippe Petit JASON FORREST & Philippe Petit LYDIA LUNCH & Philippe Petit JEAN-HERVÃ� PERON (art-Errorist/Faust) & Philippe Petit STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Hervé Vincenti & Philippe Petit) SYBARITE & Philippe Petit JESU & Philippe Petit dDAMAGE & Philippe Petit Born in Marseille, South of France, where I started Djing, animating radio shows and editing zines in the 80s. In the 90s I contributed articles (under the pseudonym Candy Apple Grey and Filth Simpson ) for such magazines as Ruta 66 (Spain), Merlin’s Music Box (Greece), Maximum R&R (USA), What Wave, Cryptic Tymes (Canada), and French-written Taktik, Rage, Rocksound, Best, 491, Abus Dangereux, and many many more that no one will remember of… In those days, I had some fun and interviews w/ such bands as Nirvana, Fugazi, L7, Neurosis, Fuzztones, Babes In Toyland, Mudhoney, Pixies, Cynics, Dum Dum Boys, Alice Donut, Brood, Grotus, Fleshtones, Buzzcocks, Nick Cave, Sting Rays, Poison Idea, Jon Spencer, Soft Machine, Lydia Lunch, No Means No, Godflesh, Steve Albini, Gallon Drunk, Melvins, New Bomb Turks, and many other “noisy-rock” luminaries. In 1991, I started Kinetic Vibes Music, a Garage Punk zine and label releasing music by: Willie Loco Alexander, Pleasure Fuckers, Dead Moon, Bevis Frond, Lust-o-Rama, Ultra 5, Overcoat, Cryptones, Devil Dogs, La Secta, Dirteez, Tommyknockers and some other… Still available the mythical compilation “Electric Carnival” gathering 23 bands from 10 countries. In 1993 I founded the experimental label Pandemonium Rdz. Working with the likes of Guapo, Zeni Geva, Ground Zero, Condense, Cows, Headcleaner, Drive Blind, Double Nelson, Alboth!, Melt Banana, God Is My Co-Pilot, Samiam, Burning Heads, Cerberus Shoal, Flying Luttenbachers, Unsane, Bästard, Kepone, Ron Anderson, Ruins, Hint, Andy's Car Crash, Spaceheads… That is well documented there and many releases are still in print: www.pandemoniumrecords.com 41 records later, I needed to rejuvenate and started a new label: BiP_HOp was physically born in 2000 and will document avant electro for the century to come... A webzine, a radio show, organizing live events, and above all a label documenting the state of electronic art and sound design, unconventional sound adventures, modern ambient, contemporary alliances between acoustica vs. digitalia... Musics challenging the ears and the mind. www.bip-hop.com In 2000 Philippe Petit became Dj/ip@bip-hop.com chosing to use my e-mail address to keep contact with the listeners… Under this moniker I have been invited to play festivals and some of the best venues in Europe, Northern america, and even recently Mexico. According to me a DJ is not only an instrument for dancing but as a living musical library I should also take the audience to a new cultural trip / discovery. I want to entertain listeners and to open new "doors of perception", to create a virtual world to enable them to forget about their own existence for a short while. Sometimes I feel an urge not to be solo onstage which led me to start the duo Ear_Thrillerz. ; the now defunct group Deviationists ; and most actively these days the international collective : Strings Of Consciousness. www.stringsofconsciousness.info Today I still animate a radio show for Radio Grenouille which is the biggest non-commercial local radio www.grenouille888.org/dyn/ I still write in Noise Magazine. A bi-monthly mag, printing 25 000 which can be found in newstand all around France and is the best one dealing with Rock, indie rock, metal, post rock, punk, stoner doom, industrial, experimental, prog, Noisy music. Also a website (3000-3500 unique visitors/day) http://www.noisemag.net/ " [label info] www.blrrecords.com 2009 €10.00
PHALLUS DEI Black Dawn CD "Ein in dichte, undurchdringliche Dunkelheit gehülltes Szenario, in welchem sich nur schemenhaft kleine Details zu erkennen geben. Erst mit der Zeit scheint sich das Dunkel etwas zu lichten, nach und nach geben sich immer mehr Gegenstände zu erkennen, die langsam aber merklich in Bewegung geraten. Und doch bleibt all dies so rätselhaft und unklar wie zuvor, und ganz auflösen wird sich das Dunkel ohnehin nicht. Was bleibt ist der Eidruck einer diffusen Bedrohung. So in etwa könnte man sich eine schwarze Morgendämmerung oder ein schwarzes Erwachen vorstellen. Phallus Dei haben für ihr neues Album einen wahrlich passenden Titel gewählt. Phallus Dei besteht als Projekt bereits seit Ende der 80er – damals noch als Solo-Projekt von Oliver St. Lingam, doch bald kamen andere Musiker hinzu, und seit langem bilden Lingam, Marc Ernsting und Richard Van Kruysdijk eine feste Band, die sich aber immer wieder Gassänger und andere Kollaborateure aus ganz unterschiedlichen Ecken ins Boot holt. Dies und ein wahrscheinlich ohnehin recht breit gefächertes Interesse an Musik sorgt bis heute dafür, dass die Gruppe ihren stilistischen Ort auf fast jedem Release immer wieder neu definiert hat, und so kann man auf Phallus Dei-Platten phasenweise rituellen Industrial, Ambient, Crossover oder, wie zuletzt bei „A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson“ melancholische Songs in teilweise akustischer Instrumentierung hören. In einer schwer zu definierenden düsteren Verschrobenheit findet man erst mit der Zeit ein vage verbindendes Element. Das vor kurzem wieder beim alten Stammlabel Dark Vinyl erschienene „Black Dawn“ wirkt von der musikalichen Gestalt her wie eine radikale Antithese zum besagten Vorgänger, denn während „A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson“ äußerst eingängig war und einen leichten, luftigen Sound hatte, findet sich auf dem aktuellen Longplayer die schwerste Dröhnung, die man von der Band bislang zu hören bekam. Gleich das eröffnende „Slewed“ besteht vordergründig betrachtet aus einer tonnenschweren, statischen Klangdecke von zähem, klebrigem Material. Assoziationen zu mittlerweile klassischen Sunn O)))-Alben oder deren Zusammenarbeit mit Boris liegen nahe, auch wenn man aus Distinktionsgründen sicher obskurere Vergleiche finden könnte. Doch Phallus Dei klingen elektrifizierter, schaffen ein meliertes Amalgam aus Gitarrendöhnen, Beckenrauschen und Elektronik. Am interessantesten jedoch sind die vielen Beigaben, die die vermeintliche Statik durcheinanderbringen und immer wieder für Dramatik sorgen: kurze, hektische Rhythmen, die so schnell von der Bildfläche verschwinden, wie sie erschienen sind, eine Schuttlawine aus bedrohlich heranrollenden Sounds, desolates, rituell angehauchtes Pochen, seltsame Hochtönereien. Ist „Slewed“ noch mehr „black“ als „dawn“, so ändert sich dies zumindest bei den nächsten beiden Tracks, bei denen sich die einzelnen Komponenten weit mehr an die Oberfläche wagen. Bei „Starman“ ist dies – nach einem längeren Vorlauf aus verrauschtem Pulsieren und hypnotischem Celloeinsatz – das Tenorsaxophon keines Geringeren als Peter Brötzmann, dessen Spiel perfekt mit dem Rest interagiert und zugleich für die emotional entfesseltsten Momente sogt. Das Cellospiel von Jacqueline Hamelink prägt auch das folgende „Zauberwald“, das mit seiner beklemmenden Atmosphäre fast einen Gegenpart bildet. Durchgehende Rhythmen und die einzigen Sprachfetzen auf dem Album geben diesem Stück vorübergehend die Klarheit eines luziden (Alb-)Traums. Das fast zwanzigminütige „Krieger“, das Phallus Dei wieder im Alleingang bestreiten, knüpft in seinem zähen Bombast an den Opener an. Würde das Album nach der ersten Hälfte des Songs enden, hinterließe es den Eindruck eines äußerst fatalistischen Zyklus, doch entrückt über der Dröhnung schwebende Synthies und das Hauchen einer sanften Stimme lassen schon ahnen, dass die doomige Schwere nur ein retardierendes Moment darstellt – eine Erwartung, die sich im kraftvollen Drumeinsatz erfüllt. „Stigmata“ (das auf der mir vorliegenden CD-Version enthalten ist, auf der 2LP-Version findet ich stattdessen der Track „Corpus“) sorgt mit dem tiefen, ornamentalen Saxophonspiel Niels van Hoorns und verspielter Elektronik für einen ereignisreichen Abschluss. Letzteres stammt aus der Ideenschmiede Merzbows, der dem Charakter des Stücks jedoch keinen derart individuellen Stempel aufdrückt wie die anderen Gastmusiker. „Black Dawn“ ist ein ungemein intensives Album, das garantiert ganz unterschiedliche Hörergruppen jenseits von Genregrenzen zu begeistern versteht, wenn es denn die entsprechende Verbreitung erfährt. Sanfte Gemüter, die beim Vorgängeralbum gerade die relativ leichte, stellenweise fast poppige Gestalt mochten, sollten sich diesen Brocken jedoch mit einer festen Grundlage im Magen zu Gemüte führen. (U.S.)" [African Paper] 2017 €13.00
PHILLIPS, DAVE Sixth Mass Extinction LP "black vinyl lp in embossed sleeve, edition of 300. comes with a free 8 page newspaper featuring articles that offer a broad view of what homo sapiens has achieved in terms of coexistence and in taking care of its home. 1. Things Falling Apart 21:12 2. Radical Hope 20:12 about things falling apart - composition for three PA’s (stereo version): the original 6 channel piece was commissioned by bad bonn kilbi festival düdingen switzerland 2018. radical hope - live action (studio version): this incarnation of live action was initiated in january 2016 and has developed since. triggered by a broken heart, it’s a critical analysis of subjective behaviourisms, self-reflections, self-criticisms and conclusions thereof. the subsequent translation of derived intentions into ritualised actions include purging, activating learning and healing processes, self-betterment, empowerment and hair-burning. has since morphed into a piece about the relationship of the human as a species with planet earth as a cherished entity, such as a loved one, a friend, a partner, a companion, a parent or a family member, a home or an origin. all audio by dp. decomposed may to november 2018 for schimpfluch. mastered by riccardo mazza. artwork by brett wagg using photos by dp. https://totalblack.bandcamp.com/album/sixth-mass-extinction Dave Phillips INTERVIEW by CHAIN DLK ( By Vito Camarretta - August 11, 2021) dave dp phillips long story short fields of re/search: existences and behaviourisms humanimalistically. works that oppose the omnipresent restriction and reduction of life and living, that activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden under the debris of civilization, inviting rumination, encouraging intervention, endorsing catharsis, liberating, cleansing. therapeutical stimulation is acknowledged. sonic activism, ritual protest music, humanimalism methods: audio de/construction, composition, sonic rituals, psycho-acoustics and performance tools: voice, body, fieldrecordings, electronics, objects, video reason for this interview: his recent release “to death” (7th July 2021, Misanthropic Agenda) enjoy the reading! Chain D.L.K.: Hi Dave! How are you doing? Dave Phillips: Quite alright. I moved house earlier a month ago, I’m settling in… Chain D.L.K.: I heard you recent ‘to death’ and I honestly think it’s a listening that I would likewise honestly recommend in this historical stage… but before focusing on it, even if those well-informed readers of our zine, whose memory has not been reset yet, don’t really need any introduction, how would you introduce yourself, your sound art and its direction(s)? Dave Phillips: Puh. Well. My music is rather free, abstract, “cinematic”, and personal. It sounds more organic than it does electronic. What I seek in sound/music is altered states of consciousness, states of trance and liberation, cathartic and purging kind of highs, some sort of elevation. Sound for me is communication, so I like it to have some sort of narrative, intentionality, something shared. I’m interested in the effect of sound as much as its aesthetic form. Sonically I’m inspired by contemporary (classical) composition, the sounds of insects, traditional music, improvisation/free music, bass music, as much as the energy of radical punk and metal. Literature is a big inspiration too. My sound work is often accompanied by topical contexts that touch on environmental and existential issues but are more driven by the interconnectedness of things, the thing that some call chaos, this enormous ecosystem that we are a part of, the kind of free life that is uncontrollable and beyond our systems of control or scientific measurement or language. I call my music “ritual protest music” – I protest against the reduction and restriction of life – I describe my way of approaching sound as “sonic activism”. Uhm, long “introduction” but there you go…. just open ears… Chain D.L.K.: The last outputs I vividly remember of yours, who reached somehow my desk (I often don’t know how or why some sonic entities reach my desk, besides the fact someone delivers them to my mailbox), has been a super limited split with Emerge on Nazlo, that was a tribute to Dmitry Vasilyev. Have you ever met him? Which tracks did he leave in your memory? Dave Phillips: I met Dmitry Vasilyev a bunch of times. The last time was in September 2018 when Dmitry had organized a tour for me and emerge in Russia. We met in Sevastopol before embarking on a tour together. The day before our tour began, we went swimming in the Black Sea and Dmitry drowned. The tape you speak of is a reaction to that tragic loss. Dmitry’s enthusiasm for and energy invested in experimental music was amazing… Chain D.L.K.: I have to amend… There’s also a CD from Attenuation titled ‘Post Homo Sapiens’, but I honestly haven’t unfolded it yet… What a shame! Can I get excused for that? What should I expect? Dave Phillips: Of course! Post Homo Sapiens imagines a world where insects and plants rule. Dave Phillips imagephoto courtesy of Jesse Newman Chain D.L.K.: I enjoyed the reading of some of your texts (ref: https://www.davephillips.ch/texts), the last of which includes many interesting and praiseworthy ecologist thoughts and reflections, but it dates back to 2015. Are you writing some new text for the recent evolution of human history? Dave Phillips: “For the recent evolution of human history”, haha. Besides writing, I collect and present texts too, and my texts sometimes take from articles and books that touch me. For the “sixth mass extinction” LP (2019) I collected a bunch of articles that together offer a picture of how humans are doing in terms of coexistence with other beings on this planet. It’s probably no surprise that we’re not faring very well – what we seem to be good at though is causing mass extinction and destruction. Said articles were accompanied by a profound text by professor Jem Bendell on “navigating climate tragedy”. For an upcoming split with sist en 343 called “thinking future coexistence,” I used a text by Charles Eisenstein on what happened since corona blessed us – this should be out in the autumn. I am supposed to write something for an upcoming compilation, but I haven’t got there yet… Chain D.L.K.: So let’s go back (or forward) to ‘to death’. I remember the words of a Tibetan monk on this subject, who said that we have to notice that when a baby comes to life cries, and we smile, when a person comes to death (let’s say so) sometimes has a smiling expression on his/her face, while we cry. Is this somehow ironic viewpoint close to the meaning of death you were referring to on your last release? Dave Phillips: Yes, very much so! Accompanying my father on his last journey was a profound experience that demystified death to an extent where it mostly wasn’t this “horrible thing” that people often seem to associate with it, but something quite different…. somehow magical, often peaceful and serene – my father was smiling a lot as he lay dying – and also somewhat unbiased, more to do with “life (in all its stages) never fails to amaze me”, where often opposing angles together make the whole. Chain D.L.K.: I think that most of the weirdest consequences of this likewise weird pandemic crisis can be interpreted by using the filter of human fear of death. How did this situation influence your ‘to death’? Dave Phillips: I was living in such intense reality bubbles at the time of the pandemic that the pandemic itself seemed to be happening on a side-stage, it didn’t seem to have that much impact on me. In hindsight, though, I realize it played into my perception more than I acknowledged. It affected my perception of the world. The slow dying of my father seemed to go hand in hand with the dying of something that somehow defines us as humans, as we grow more and more separate and distanced from one another and from purpose and freedom – as we have from the “natural world” at large, a separation that we are imposing on us more and more. That’s a slow dying. I mean, the empire is failing and falling, it will crash, no doubt, it’s just a question of when and how. And it sure won’t be pretty. People, please remove your filters! Chain D.L.K.: I also enjoyed the fact that in the title, there seems a first part missing. You can expect an ‘Hymn to death’, an ‘Ode to death’ or even a ‘Yell to death’! But it’s as it is… just ‘to death’! How did you draw inspiration for it? I read it was somehow related to your father’s last moments (of course you have my deepest sympathy). Dave Phillips: Thank you. Yes, it’s mainly inspired by my father’s illness, which was devastating and my being his carer for the last 15 months of his life. I witnessed his person being eaten away by disease – in a way, he was gone before death gave him peace. At the same time, I found myself in a role that made sense on so many levels, and somehow I managed to pull it through – I’m so glad I did. Taking care of the old is like taking care of the young, is like education, is like a purpose in life – outsourcing that to a paid service or a job or some system is missing out on profound experiences, on things essential, maybe on things that define us as animals or mammals or tribal beings. Something that teaches more than schools or universities can, but also demands more. So really it’s more about the journey, the path, the story of accompanying someone all the way “to death” and all that it sets free. My father’s wish was to die at home, and I’m glad that my siblings and I made that wish come true. But this journey also leads to other related topics. There are many readings of the title. The ode/hymn “to death” is certainly in there, probably poking at the wish to demystify death as the huge taboo that it still is. the title also addresses what we’re doing to planetary life – to plants and other animals. Thus, also what we’re doing to ourselves: when I view my father’s disease in a global context, it’s a common cause – nowadays. The main causes of death in our times show us how sick our allegedly “civilized” way of life makes many of us. So much human waste. We are “civilized to death”. And then there’s what this is all doing to us emotionally and existentially – areas where many of us seem more dead than alive, where we merely function and follow rules. The slow death of human potential through our educational systems and through our imposed “normality” is part of that. The death of freedom through total control of life, as per recent events. I mean, life IS uncertain – that’s the exciting part, isn’t it? All our puny attempts to create “safety and security” are laughable if they weren’t so devastating in what they actually do to us – but we’re like animals born in captivity. Our established political and economic systems seem rather dead too – I mean, an economy that functions linearly is just grossly inadequate for a world and lives that happen in cycles. So there are many paths and pointers “to death”. I can also turn it around: if death is the only certainty in life, then a tribute to death is a celebration of life! Chain D.L.K.: What are the reversed words in the opening ‘A Cycle Completed’ to say? Dave Phillips: The tone matters more than the words. What do you hear? Chain D.L.K.: Death is maybe the aspect of existence that keeps the strongest taboos still on. Do you agree with such a statement of not? Dave Phillips: Yes, that’s also why I wanted to make an album that demystifies that, that steers us away from this taboo, from this conditioned denial or shame, this refusal to face all aspects of existence. I wanted to describe death as what it is, part of a cycle as natural as birth, something to encounter and to know, not something to primarily fear. On the contrary, I feel the awareness of death is one of the driving forces of life, it brings out deep emotions which frankly make me feel very alive. Death the experience has many beautiful aspects to it, at least in my experience. To reduce death – or this album – to just something “dark and scary” is merely scratching the surface – it’s looking away. If we could include death in the bigger picture as something normal, we may enjoy more freedom in our lives… Chain D.L.K.: That piercing scary and somehow beastly scream on “To Death We All Go, The Sooner The Better”… how did you grab it, if it can be said? Dave Phillips: I often start a recording based on notes I made or impulses, ideas about sonics, and sentiments. The tape starts running and… I try to put these sentiments into sound, and then… often things happen, I get carried away…. I go places, I enter different states of being, it’s like I travel like I’m somewhere else. Then sometime later, thump, I land again, it’s like I’ve returned from far… and sometimes it even translates onto tape ;o) Like this album. I didn’t plan to do something about this particular topic, or about my father. I had a bunch of ideas noted, things I wanted to work into, but nothing like “to death”. Then I started recording. It was like a trance. It just poured out of me. The basic recordings happened within about ten days, basic structures of pieces were completed the following week. When I started listening back to what I had done, I was surprised. Then I realized what it’s about… Chain D.L.K.: Paraphrasing and quoting the title of one of my favorite tracks of the album, what’s the real catastrophe you wanted to represent or maybe exorcize? Dave Phillips: “The real catastrophe is that humanity continues”. It refers to the coronavirus and a reason why it might’ve appeared. I mean, we humans have vastly overpopulated this planet, and we are a very sick civilization, we’ve taken a couple of wrong turns too many, and we’re destroying not only our home but also that of all other inhabitants and them with it. It’s time we became extinct, or at least drastically reduced in numbers. We, humans, are the catastrophe… haha… it’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek, my sense of humor, though I reckon part of me means it ;o) Chain D.L.K.: Is there any moment of ‘to death’ that you want to keep deliberately indecipherable? Dave Phillips: Honestly, I try to be transparent with all that I do. My intentions, sentiments, feelings, it’s all there really. I don’t try to be cryptic or mysterious. On the other hand, it’s very subjective – I’ve put things out into the world that I thought were obvious and then find myself surprised by very different interpretations. So in this work, there are wordings, for example, that are only my own words for this particular moment, this context, they are subjective and not telling in terms of a narrative, so they needn’t be clear, they are only relevant in terms of opening spaces, it’s your own words or sentiments that take you through those spaces, and that’s fine. Chain D.L.K.: Any plan to lend or adapt ‘to death’ for other forms of art (theatre or video art maybe)? Dave Phillips: Not for now. The way this album poured out of me, the way it happened, this format is quite right for now. Emotionally, I’m quite elsewhere now anyway, also thanks to having this album happen. Chain D.L.K.: Any work in progress? Dave Phillips: Always :o) I’m currently finalizing two pieces for a 7″ for a young Portland label, and a comp track, but there are other pots cooking too… Visit Dave Phillips on the web: https://www.davephillips.ch/about https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/dave-phillips vimeo.com/davephillips 2019 €20.00
PHURPA Rituals of Bön I LP "Phurpa is an extraordinary artistic and cultural project, not only on a European scale. For years, its members have been exploring the traditions of Bön - the magical practices of ancient Tibet, Iran and even Egypt, and they take it closer to their listeners. Over the last few years they have recorded dozens of sessions, released on various formats. They have already played countless number of concerts in various parts of the globe. Each of their performances assumes the character of a ritual where Phurpa members, thanks to their "rgyud-whence" singing and playing traditional instruments, often made of human bones, bring the audience into a kind of trance, a transgressive journey, inviting to a meeting with the ancients gods and demons of the pre-buddhist era. "Rituals of Bön I" is the first part of the cycle, which presents this most sacred aspect of the Russian troupe. It's over 40 minutes of shamanic trance. The vinyl album is strictly limited to 300 copies." www.zoharum.com 2016 €20.00
Rituals of Bön II LP "Phurpa is an extraordinary artistic and cultural project, not only on a European scale. For years, its members have been exploring the traditions of Bön – the magical practices of ancient Tibet, Iran and even Egypt, and they take it closer to their listeners. A year ago the first volume of “Rituals of Bön” was released on vinyl. Zoharum now presents the second volume of this series, based on the recordings from the Moscow gigs where Phurpa performed magic shows lasting up until a few hours. The participants would certainly confirm that they are a highly intensive ritual in which both the band and the audience participate. As in the case of the previous LP, the second part of the series presents the sacred aspect of the Russian troupe’s activity. It’s more than 40 minutes of shamanic trance. Just like the first volume, this edition on black vinyl is strictly limited to 300 copies." www.zoharum.com 2017 €20.00
  LTA ZOR LP Zoharum is proud to present another ritual recording by Phurpa brought to you on beautiful 180g vinyl. After Rituals Of Bon I & II, “Lta Zor” is the third installment of mysterious Russian duo on Zoharum. If you ever had the opportunity to experience Phurpa live you know how overwhelming experience this is as this is not a gig. This is a ceremony in purest sense of word. Overtone singing piercing through your mind and soul creating vibration that penetrates every cell of your body, occasionally accompanied by traditional Buddhist instruments (some of them made of human bones) all veiled with dense smoke of incense. This is what “Lta Zor” is like. It’s a spiritual transfer enclosed in an album format. This is the power of human voice. This is the power of sound. Album mastered with care by Natt comes on 180g LP limited to 300 copies https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/lta-zor "And so, Phurpa are back. Like Russian Cenobites stepping slowly from the shadows and wreathed in a thick fug of juniper smoke, they are here once more to bathe us in their power and resonate our chakras in sympathy with the universal vibration. For those not already familiar with Phurpa’s low-end majesty, they are a “roving monastic choir” from Moscow, led by the enigmatic Alexey Tegin and comprising a slowly-revolving cast of participants. Importantly, they are also devotees of a schismatic form of Bön, the ancient shamanistic spirituality of Bactria, in Central Asia. Their music is a reflection, or probably more accurately an expression, of these beliefs, a transfer of spiritual energy and meaning shaped in sound and given form through a style of overtone singing called rgyud-skad, or “tantric voice”, all supported by an array of traditional Tibetan instruments: the dungkar (a horn made out of an enormous conch), the dungchen (a three-metre-long horn / trumpet), the silnuyen (flat cymbals), the nga (a double-sided drum), the damaru (a drum made from human skulls), the kangling (a human thighbone trumpet), the shang (a Bön tambourine) and an assortment of other cymbals such as the rolmo. Powered by their physical and mental commitment both to Bön and to its musical embodiment, Phurpa are a band who do not dabble in half measures. Not only is their musical practice intense, but their life and lifestyles, their whole approach to physicality and mentality, are all tailored towards supporting the essential performance of the rites of Bön. This extends right down to the exercise and diet regime, Tegin once stating that: There is power in food. If you want to feel wild like a tiger or shark you need raw meat, maybe a little salt and pepper. I like horse meat, in Moscow this is possible. When you eat it, there is fire inside you. Sometimes your body says ‘stop fire’, then you drink yoghurt. This is for PHURPA, action aspect – if you instead want information from space you drink only water and eat vegetables. And so, like their namesake Phurpa Drugse Chempa, the God of resolved action, Phurpa’s live shows are more ceremony than gig per se, combining the hypnotic and transformative power of the music, with ritual, darkness, costume and smell. This is very much a Gesamtkunstwerk designed to overcome and still the restless conscious mind and allow the body to open up and receive the liturgy unmediated. In the correct setting and with the right approach, as Tegin explains, “if doctrines are powerful enough, they’re universal and can settle in other cultures”. LTA ZOR captures one such ritual, spread across two dense, intense twenty-minute slabs of performance. And as with all such live moments transferred into the recorded medium, it pays dividends to approach it in the right way: put on some headphones, turn off the lights, lie on the floor. If you want to burn some heavy, musky incense whilst you’re about it, I think Tegin would probably approve. And a horse meat dinner beforehand? Well, that’s at your discretion. Part I is almost entirely vocal driven, the mesmeric tones of aural energy pulsing with power, battering themselves slowly against your consciousness like a siege engine. When listening to this, I closed my eyes and decided to ponder the illustration given to explain the duration of the kappa, the Buddhist eon: “Suppose there were a city of iron walls one yojana (about 15km) in length, one in width, one yojana high, filled up with mustard seed. Therefrom a man were to take out at the end of every hundred years a mustard seed. That pile of mustard seed would in this way be sooner done away with and ended than an eon.” That is scale on which it seems fitting to imagine Phurpa’s resonances and messages. Part II begins with a startling flurry of horn before giving way to an eerie passage of low drones and deep drum hits – for some reason redolent to me of the quiet yet foreboding shots of the Nostromo travelling in deep space at the beginning of Alien – and thence a collision of voices. This really is Phurpa at their absolute best, organic, acoustic, yet with such controlled power, operating at frequencies to which the body, however swaddled under the vestments of the modern world, cannot help but respond. The voice and the drum are the primal instruments; they were our modes of musical expression before we even had language or the written word, and thus, when we attune ourselves to them, we can travel back into our own deep time. This is, I think, more than anything Phurpa’s message. Given that none of us are likely to be getting back into a live venue again any time soon, LTA ZOR is the closest anyone will get to seeing Phurpa’s incredible ritual in the flesh for now. With our enforced focus inwards during these times, turn that from a necessity into an opportunity and embrace the power of Bön." [David Solomons / FREQ] 2020 €20.00
PICK-UP Mouthless LP "... So hat FdW neuerdings mit Martin Luiten, der vorher mit Girlfriends aktiv war, einen neuen Partner für ein weiteres Projekt namens PICK-UP, von dem nun gleich zwei Tonträger Kunde geben. Das Debut Mouthless (imprec 123, LP) erschien bei Important Records in Newburyport, MA, einem Label, das mit seinem Faible für Psychedelic, Noise, Avantness und Orginalität Daniel Johnston, Jad Fair, Kimya Dawson, Diane Cluck, Merzbow, Acid Mothers Temple, Fe-Mail, Larsen, Angels Of Light, Kluster, Pauline Oliveros, Grails und Conrad Schnitzler zu Bettgenossen machte und auch schon einiges von Beequeen herausgebracht hat. Luiten spielt Gitarre & Electronics, so dass FdW, der diese Klänge, ein Fahey‘eskes Twanging und Picking, an seinen Laptop verfüttert, um gitarristische Loops und elektronische Drones mit zusätzlicher Modulation und Ornamentierung aufzumischen, quasi an sein Gitarrenprojekt Shifts anknüpft. Bei ‚Klemmend‘ vibrieren Stimmengewirr und Beifallklatschen als klickernder Rauschvorhang hinter Luitens countrybluesigem Strumming." [Bad Alchemy] "Pick-up is a new duo of Frans de Waard (Beequeen) on laptop and Martin Luiten (Girlfriends, Uw Hypotheek Advies) on guitar. Limited edition of 300. Hand made cover artwork. This is the 9th release in our Arts & Crafts series which pairs music with handmade artwork by the artists responsible for the recordings." [label info] "Hot on the heels of their first album comes this bright orange-colored vinyl follow up. 'Mouthless' however was recorded prior to their first release, so this is really - with some delay - Pick Up's debut. The concept of Pick Up is simple; the music is based upon the (resonator) guitar playing by Martin Luijten, which is reworked via Frans de Waard's laptop. At times field recordings are added. 'Mouthless' contains 4 long tracks. The title tracks opens the proceedings with gentle John Fahey-ish picking. Luiten uses a resonator guitar (also known as a Dobro) on this album. The body of this guitar contains one or more metal cones, instead of wood, which makes the sound louder and gives the guitar a distinctive blues-grass sound. The style of Luiten's fingerpicking is friendly and traditional, using the occasional slide. After a while looping and gentle feedback sets in, which makes 'Mouthless' a wonderful, restrained track. In contrast, the second track 'Klemmend' is far more chaotic with dominant field recordings of what sounds like a kindergarten. In the background the guitar is fighting to be heard. Side two opens with 'Magnifying Glasses', which features reflective guitar playing by Luiten only, showing his versatile skills. Very nice. If you like this sort of guitar picking I can highly recommend any of the early Takoma LP's by John Fahey. On the second track, 'Tracing', the electronics set in again with looping. A mirror image of side two, here too the sound is less structured. As a whole, this is a very fine album (with an original combination of electronics and resonator guitar), even though you could argue that it would have been an idea to put the two more quiet tracks on one side and the more chaotic tracks on the other. But that is just a thought. Packed in two heavy cardboard sheets (like the previous Pick Up album) with a hand-colored paste-on sheet, this looks very sturdy indeed. And, if you're lucky, you will find the album in luminous orange vinyl (the first 100 of a total of 300 copies) inside." [FK, Vital Weekly] 2009 €15.00
PITRE, DUANE Live at the Stone. ED09 for String Ensemble LP "ED09 is an evolving, long-tone composition by Duane Pitre. The work’s current score calls for 12 or more performers from the string and/or woodwind categories, along with the possible addition of bowed electric guitar (played by the composer). Approximately half of ED09‘s score instructs the performers to execute specific notated pitches that coincide with conducted hand signs, while the remainder of the score allows the performers to make minor decisions that affect the pace and texture of the piece. These decisions are based on a structure consisting of set playing methods, technique restrictions, fixed pitch classes (the ‘pitch pool’), and spontaneous conduction (aka real-time ‘mixing’)–resulting in slow-shifting harmonic movement over a long duration. Essentially, the score enables all of the performers to approach a performance of the piece in the same manner, thus creating a group of musicians that thinks and plays as a cohesive unit. The result is a piece of music that is focused, yet fluid, minimal, yet dense–yielding a sound that is not unlike slow-motion chamber music. ED09 is an exercise in discipline and freedom, in the refinement of music, and in communal focus. The piece involves a temporary community of musicians with a central goal stripped of self: to become one. 180gr vinyl, edition of 350 (280 black / 70 clear)." [label info] www.bassesfrequences.org https://bassesfrequences.bandcamp.com/album/ed09-for-string-ensemble-live-at-the-stone 2011 €15.00
PLANNING FOR BURIAL Desideratum LP "New Jersey gloom band Planning For Burial will release its first full-length in almost four years this May on SF-based dark music label The Flenser. Titled Desideratum, this album is the band’s first full-length since 2010′s cult hit Leaving (Enemies List). Simultaneously straddling the line between being completely nostalgic and futurist sounding, Planning For Burial is the product of a single wunderkind taking healthy obsessions with certain influences and filtering them through a droning, gloomy spyglass that evokes only the most concrete blues (the emotion not the music) this side of the gray waters of the Atlantic. While Planning For Burial gets lumped in with the whole wave of “bedroom recording artists” (which is where the project toiled for years until Leaving finally was released), the mastermind behind the project sets himself apart from his peers due in no small part to his background in sound. Planning For Burial’s brand of dark shoegaze/gloomgaze is hard to categorize, but it’s sound contains elements of slowcore, shoegaze, doom, drone, 90′s alt rock, 80′s goth, and black metal, while never being defined by any one of those genres. Over the course of the last four years, Planning for Burial has been sporadically popping up in live venues (sharing the stage with a wide breadth of musical compatriots from Chelsea Wolfe to Deafheaven while seeming out of place at none) along the east and west coasts and releasing a slew of EPs and splits on various labels. Now, as Planning for Burial gears up to release Desideratum, the band will also perform a series of live shows – tour dates can be found below. PFB commented, Expected to ship on or before May 13th. LP comes in a heavy jacket with a heavy inner sleeve. The CD version comes in a case-wrapped jacket with an inner sleeve. CD/LP package can be ordered below. The colored vinyl edition is Half & Half Oxblood/Swamp Green and is limited to 200 copies. Inspired by a gloomy Jamison bottle." [label info] theflenser.com 2014 €21.50
POLMO POLPO Like Hearts Swelling CD New Canadian project on Constellation, encharming us with quite relaxed & a bit melancholic half-electronic / half-acoustic instrumentals... develops his very own style.. first release on Constellation after a CD on Alien8 with re-released vinyl-tracks. “New signing to Constellation! Toronto-based artist creates genre-busting album full of electronic wavefields, full-on dronescapes and a fully realized conceptual thread. Tune in.“ [Southern Records] www.cstrecords.com 2003 €16.00
  Like Hearts Swelling LP New Canadian project on Constellation, encharming us with quite relaxed & a bit melancholic half-electronic / half-acoustic instrumentals... develops his very own style.. first release on Constellation after a CD on Alien8 with re-released vinyl-tracks. “ New signing to Constellation! Toronto-based artist creates genre-busting album full of electronic wavefields, full-on dronescapes and a fully realized conceptual thread. Tune in.“ [Southern Records] www.cstrecords.com 2003 €16.00
PORTION CONTROL Progress Report 1982-1986 do-LP "This material from PORTION CONTROL clearly demonstrates their early experimentation both as ‘musicians’ and with at the advent of analogue electronic machines. The eclectic material ranges from cassette portastudio material recorded in Peckham and Kennington, South London to high end studio recordings. The punk roots show as PORTION CONTROL demonstrate unrivalled creativity breaching the gap between UK industrial, early ambient and the formative signs of electronic dance music. The music features rising appegiators, proto bass lines (a true PORTION CONTROL signature) dark sound design and recurring beats and rhythms... many elements that became the bedrock of future darker electronic music. During this highly charged period PORTION CONTROL established themselves at the forefront of the Formative, Underground UK Electronics scene." [label info] www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2015 €27.50
PRAXINOSCOPE same pic-LP “Praxinoscope is a new project which sees the duo Roberto Opalio (one-half of My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (close collaborator of the Italian space-brothers). While in the debut album as Painting Petals On Planet Ghost (out in early September 2005 on Time-Lag Records) Ramona will focus on her Japanese vocals alongside both brothers' acoustic tunes, here she plays little Japanese percussions and wind chimes, creating a resonant texture over Roberto's alien wordless vocals and space electronics. The material comes from a whole session recorded in a mysterious location of the Western Alps, directly transferred to cd using neither overdubs nor outtakes, practice which the Opalio bros have made us addicted to. For the entire lenght of its 40 minutes, the piece will stifle you the breath because of its so pure essence and intimate mood; a mystic, suffocated chant reminding the silence of ancient rituals, the ultimate exorcism to avert the Infinite Pain. Limited edition of 500 copies only as vinyl picture disc 12" LP with psychedelic artwork!” [label info] “…..This project traverses a similar terrain as MCIAA, but is perhaps closer to Roberto's brilliant solo album, "Chants From Isolated Ghosts". Opalio's vocals star here, taking the limelight and thriving inside it. Effects drench his voice making it something truly not of this world. These lunar oceans of sound are magnificent and totally enthralling. It's as though he's a cosmonaut trapped inside a glass box, unable to travel the reaches of space. Such confinement derails your mind and Opalio sounds like a person struggling against himself. At times, hearing this is almost too much - there's simultaneous discomfort and exorcism happening and you can't quite focus intently on either. You are a passive player in this exercise, lost in the crevices Opalio and Ponzini create. I cannot discount Ponzini's contributions to this 40 minute piece, either. While it may seem minimal on the surface, her various "Japanese percussions" (mostly chromatics, cymbals, and the like) add a great deal of needed texture to counterbalance Opalio's haunted wails. It is reminiscent of the way Finnish master, Keijo, works in a lot of percussive elements to his tracks. And it has the same effect. Praxinoscope is a great new project from the always wonderful My Cat is an Alien. This is one of Opax's finest releases. Bringing to mind the vocal transcendence of the Skaters, Praxinoscope are proof that you don't need any instruments to make amazing sounds. This is wonderful, wonderful music” [Brad Rose, FOXY DIGITALIS] 2006 €15.00
PRIME, MICHAEL Requiem LP Für „Requiem“ hat der unterbewertete Experimental-Composer aus England Sounds von NEGATIVE ENTROPY (sein Projekt mit Geert Feytons von den NOISE MAKERS FIFES), eine „sound sculpture“ von LEN LYE, und „the voice of Miro“ benutzt. Herausgekommen ist dabei eine fantastische, geisterhaft dröhnende Komposition die eine unglaubliche Weite und absorbierende Atmosphäre besitzt und sehr spannungsreich verläuft. Drown-Drones ! Schöne Artwork im Klappcover – ein Muss für jeden Drone-Freund!! Fantastic new album by MICHAEL PRIME, creating ghostly, otherworldy dark drones which rich details and an unbelievable width and absorbing atmosphere ! very much recommended ! “A new album by Michael Prime who is another prolific sound composer for many years. Being an active member of Morphogenesis he also collaborated with among others: David Jackman/Organum, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost, David Toop, Adam Bohman. He's also one half of Negative Entropy a collaborational project with G. Feyton (Noise Makers Five) and is running his own label Mycophile. Recorded between December 1998and December 2000 'Requiem' is one of his most intense works so far and quite different from his more enviromental studies. Dedicated to M, H and LL. Pressed on 180 gramm vinyl the record is coming in a full color gatefold sleeve. Limited edition of 700 copies.” [label press release] 2002 €15.00
PROPERGOL Tormentor 7 Der neue Stern am Industrial & harsh noise -Himmel heisst PROPERGOL: Intelligent gemachter, psychologisch inspirierter Power-Noise mit Struktur (aus Frankreich). “First 7" and vinyl release for this French confirmed project. "Tormentor" is dealing with usual PROPERGOL’s intimate obsessions and again music is nothing less than a reflection and an exploration of his confused and chaotic innerworld… Tracks are made of nervous, repetitive and hypnotic pulsations as well as noise injections and vocals in the typical PROPERGOL’s style made of anger and despair underlying his personal oversensitivity… With this 7", PROPERGOL takes you both to a trip to places overwhelming with imagination and to a mental journey on the sinuous and unhealthy roads of neurosis when your own imagination is becoming your most intimate enemy. Like a nice musical score on schizophrenia… Deluxe packaging on a glossy fold-out cover plus postcard. “ [label description] www.nuitetbrouillard.com 2003 €8.00
PSYCHIC TV Ov Power CD "Live at Klecks Theatre, Hamburg, 16th September 1984. Originally issued as a vinyl bootleg in 1985 in an edition of 500 copies. Completely remastered and expanded. Psychic TV at their most Industrial. For thee realization ov this project Psychc TV were: Genesis P-Orridge, John 'Zos Kia' Gosling, Paul 'Grimsby' Reeson and Alex Fergusson.// Live im Hamburger Klecks Theater am 16. September 1984 aufgenommen. Ursprünglich 1985 als streng auf 500 Stück limitiertes Vinyl Bootleg veröffentlicht. Komplett neu gemastert und aufgepolstert. PSYCHIC TV auf ihrem Industrial Höhepunkt. ,OV Power" wurde realisiert mit: Genesis P-Orridge, John 'Zos Kia' Gosling, Paul 'Grimsby' Reeson und Alex Fergusson." [label info] www.coldspring.co.uk 2012 €10.00
Alien Be-In 12inch "Dark Entries Editions is venturing into new waters with a remix EP of Psychic TV’s classic Acid House song “Alien Be-In”. Psychic TV was formed by Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson after the breakup of Throbbing Gristle in 1981. After various line up changes, the band shifted direction to dance oriented songs influenced by the Acid House scene in America. By 1988 experimental electronic musician Fred Giannelli, of Turning Shrines, joined the band and over the next 2 years started to record songs for “Toward The Infinite Beat”. The album was a mix of deep, multilayered tracks full of bright and hypnotic dance numbers, providing the soundtrack to the rave culture that sprung up in the UK in the 90s. “Alien Be-In” was written in early 1989 on an E-mu Emax Sampler and an Alesis MMT-8 sequencer. Vocal samples were taken from a tape American investigative reporter Don Bolles sent to Genesis. A didgeridoo rides throughout the song, heavily modulated by a Gristleizer creating a hypnotic effect. Near the end of the song the breakbeat slides out of time yet the band chose to leave this in because it sounded strange and fit the concept of the track. Genesis played a spaced out Echo Violin and the band used 360 degree panning rotation devices. For this reissue Fred Giannelli takes a stab at remixing the mono mix of the original sequence sourced from the Emax floppy discs. On the flip are two brand new mixes, the first from Los Angeles based producer, Silent Servant, who updates the classic with his modern brand of driving EBM techno. The second remix is a team effort from Silent Servant and veteran producer John Tejada, that re-creates the original melody using a Roland TR-808 and TB-303, paying homage to early Chicago Acid House artists like Lil Louis and Robert Owens. All songs have been mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The 12” is housed in a mind-alerting, metallic silver die-cut sleeve and a neon green label that pops through, featuring the psychic skull transformed into an alien cone head label all designed by Eloise Leigh. Each copy includes a 2-sided 11x11 square insert with black and white photo of the band from 1988 and liner notes by Fred Giannelli." [label info] www.darkentriesrecords.com 2015 €16.00
  Pagan Day CD "Shortly before Christmas 1984, the core songwriters, Genesis P-Orridge and Alex Fergusson, of underground arts collective Psychic TV quietly released a limited edition record containing sketches and ideas for songs. Some songs would become later fully-realized arrangements, some abandoned and others were just covered in praise of their creator. The record, in recognition of its seasonal release, was simply titled A Pagan Day and would capture the intimate songwriting sessions that were prevalent during crucial time in the band’s career. In classic Psychic TV fashion, rumors and myths surround the album’s creation. Most have suggested that it was recorded in a single session over a cup of coffee on a lone 4-track cassette recorder above an old YMCA building in London, though later revealed that the recordings were from various sessions over the course of a couple years prior to the record’s release. After quickly pressing the songs to vinyl, the record was originally only available through Rough Trade for a few hours on December 23, 1984 and pressed on picture discs, which adorned a photo of P-Orridge’s first born, Caresse, in exactly 999 copies. Release Date: 7/14/17." www.sacredbonesrecords.com 2017 €13.00
PURE Noonbugs CD Minimaler Dark Ambient von diesem österreichischen Projekt, besonders gefallen die Parts mit Streichern... “ Pure's debut full length on Mego continues to explore realms of sinister sonic's and edge of the equation audio initially previewed on the highly regarded "the.end.of.vinyl" 3" CD / 12" pic disc. As a complete serve the full extent of this world is revealed to be an elaborate exploration - rich in texture, variation, mood and quality. In some ways this release can be seen as a take on the darker edge of 20th classical / avant garde as seen through a 4th generation raised on industrial/electronic mediums. Comprising of a continuous work and what seems to be minimal process, this is by no means an unfolding minimal record along lines of Alvin Lucier or Elaine Radigue. Changes are more immediately discernable (whilst avoiding noise, distortion or any other 'immediate' tactics). The result is in an unsettling journey throughout an array of balanced elements: looped violins sway amongst ringing tones, a distant police siren adds an element of isolation to washes of dark frequencies. Fragments of suspense guide the listener on a series of subtle subversion's coming together as a dynamic thematic whole. A see-saw of subversive sonic's which make for some prime late night ambience. One could say this is as close to dark ambient as Mego has come, but like all the best Mego releases Pure's is one that questions the exact nature of the genre from which it has sprung whilst incorporating certain signifying elements in an entirely new way.” [press release] 2002 €13.00
  Ification CD "Mir ist PURE durch seine Releases auf Mego, Feld und dOc Recordings ein Begriff, andere kennen Peter Votava schon aus Ilsa-Gold-Zeiten, als Loop- und Sub/Version-Macher und Electronica-Veranstalter. Auf Ification (Crónica 038) schafft der Ex-Wiener und jetzige Berliner erneut mit dröhnminimalistischen Mitteln sieben Soundscapes. Die lassen einen eintauchen in dark-ambiente Dunkelwolken (‚Blind Flight‘) oder lethargisch und wie unter einem Bann dahin driften durch eine Nacht, die kein gutes Ende verspricht (‚End‘). ‚Iron Sky‘ ringt mit zähen und drückenden Verstrickungen wie Laokoon mit den Schlangen, die fatalen Beats schlägt - wie auch bei ‚After the Bomb‘ - Martin Brandlmayr, die Stimme ist die der Bolzn-Screamerin Alexandra. Die hatte auch schon in der Geisterbahn von ‚Sonomatopoeia‘ gestöhnt, zu giftigem Sirren, Theaterdonner und Gewummer, während die krachig verzerrten und gewellten Impulse des Auftakts ‚Fire‘ auf der Gitarre von C. de Babalon basieren. Die dystopische Melancholie von ‚After the Bomb‘ entsteht durch gedämpfte Drones, silbrig durchfunkelt, voller sirrender Frequenzen und mit dem fernen Nachhall von Sirenen und Gefechtslärm, den Brandlmayr mit Besenschlägen und Cymbalbeats andeutet. ‚Approximation‘ nähert sich mit dunklem Stöhnen - wie von den Sirenen der Titanic oder Tubas des Jüngsten Gerichts - und diskant schrillenden Strings, spärlich durchsetzt mit perkussiven Akzenten, dem Bereich der Klassik, mit offenbar ungescheutem pathetischen Effekt. Wer in Pures Elevator Noir einsteigt, muss sich auf einen Trip ans dunkle Ende der Gefühlsskala gefasst machen." [Bad Alchemy] "After more than ten CDs and several vinyls under different aliases, projects or collaborations that ranged a multitude of musical styles over the last 15 years, Pure's newest release is now proudly presented by Crónica. Three and a half years later than scheduled, and six years after his previous studio CD release “Noonbugs” on Mego, Pure returns with his fourth solo full-length album — “Ification” — the outcome of a long period of live work (documented in the first two volumes of the “Home Is Where My Harddisk is” series), residencies — in France, with Johnny Dekam, where the “Reqoil Displaced Peaceoff” DVD was produced — and collaborations — the “Heart Chamber Orchestra” with Erich Berger, an audiovisual performance based on the heart-beats of an orchestra of 12 musicians. “Ification” presents a collection of seven highly diverse tracks that revolve around dense, filmic and eerie atmospheres, without ever drifting into obvious or simple harmonies. As in his previous work, Pure takes from music history whatever serves his narrative needs and appropriates it through his." [label info] "Something entirely different is the latest album by Pure, from Vienna. He works under various guises, and this is fourth Pure CD, following 'Noonbugs' on Mego for four years ago. Seven pieces of electronic music, six of them recorded with the help of others, like Christoph de Babalon on guitar samples, Martin Brandlmayr on drums, the screams of Alexandra von Bolzn and Anke Eckardt on bass guitar. What Aubrey lacks in variation is made up here by Pure. The heavy start of 'Fire', into to post nuclear war zone with no survivors of 'After The Bomb' (an appropriate title), Pure takes the listener on a ride that ranges from subtleness to the utter crude, which ends with the nightmares of 'Iron Sky'. Excellent music for b-movies that deserve a-music. Certainly not always 'pleasant' in terms of nice background music for your living room, but unpleasant music to make your life a bit easier and less painful." [FdW, Vital Weekly] www.cronicaelectronica.org 2008 €14.00
R.O.T. Ceci n'est plus avioth / ils chantent pour vous LP Eine one-sided LP dieser merkwürdigen belgischen Combo, die sowohl ihr Instrumentarium als auch ihren Proberaum auf vielfältige Weise für geräuschhaft-dronige (& absolut disharmonische) Improvisationen nutzen zu scheinen, ein knarziger Analog-Drone & Obertöne halten diese low-fi Geräuschmusik zusammen... "Since the start of this free-music collective in 1998, R.O.T. rogressively took the shape of a mainly acoustic big band introducing a lot of different analog sound sources (guitars, organs, wind instruments, percussion, objects, modified electronics, etc...). This new record is perhaps R.O.T. at its most minimal. 'Ceci n'est plus avioth' is their first vinyl release since their well acclaimed LP on (k-raa-k)3 in 2006, which brought them to the attention of The Wire and Thurston Moore. The one-sided LP comes in a jacket silkscreened by Jelle Crama and is limited to 175 copies, so order fast!" [label info] www.morctapes.com 2008 €12.00
RACHEL'S The Sea and the Bells do-LP "Ihr '96er Album, klassisch angehauchte Instrumentalmusik von warmer Melancholie & Nostalgie, mitunter mit exprimentellen Drones angereichert... in Vinyl gegossene Schönheit! Wäre auch perfekte Filmmusik..." [old Drone Rec. info] "Rachel's is a collective of musicians based in Louisville, KY. Since releasing their first Quarterstick Records cd in 1995, the group has performed in libraries, churches, rock dungeons, ballrooms, gardens, bowling alleys, and movie theaters across North America and Europe. They have often worked with filmmakers, dance companies, stage productions, printmakers, and photographers. Their recordings and shows have elicited numerous descriptions including "subversives with a cello”, “classical post-rock," "post-classical”, and "lo-fi Louisville loafers." [label info] www.quarterstickrecords.com 1996 €21.00
RADIGUE, ELIANE Transamorem Transmortem CD \" “Before the greatest achievement Before the greatest detachment. At the limit of the frontier space of the unconscious - tuned waves - \"consonant things vibrate together\". Where does the change happen? In the inner field of perception or the exterior reality of moving things in the course of becoming. \"And time is no longer an obstacle, but the means by which the possible is achieved\". Eliane Radigue - June 20, 1973 \"Transamorem - Transmortem\" was premiered on March 9, 1974 at The Kitchen in NYC, where the music programmer at the time was Rhys Chatham - this was right before his guitar phase. During this period, \"Transamorem - Transmortem\" was presented along with other compositions by Eliane Radigue in a linear mode of listening, although the piece had originally been conceived, during its composition, as a sound installation. Of course, both modes of listening are possible, and each works marvelously in its own way. In their original form, Eliane Radigue\'s works are magnetic tapes. After being played a few times in public, the tape disappears to its case until a release proposal makes it available again through a disc. During this period Eliane Radigue\'s compositions became fairly long, some lasting over an hour. Because the tracks could not be edited for some obvious reasons, a vinyl release was unthinkable. It was only in the 90\'s, with the advent of the CD format, that the long compositions of Eliane Radigue were made available (with the exception of the \"Song of Milarepa\" LP on Lovely Music, a work already divided into multiple movements and thus able to be fit onto two sides of an LP). For these reasons, the work of Eliane Radigue remained virtually unknown for twenty years - from the 70\'s to the 90\'s. It was in 2004, when she accepted my aid in digitizing her archives, along with Lionel Marchetti, that I discovered \"Transamoren - Transmortem.\" Immediately, I was awed by the majestic grace of this very long tangle of frequencies, this set of seemingly unchanging tones, whose variations are of a delicate subtlety. \"Transamoren - Transmorten\" is recognizable as one of the most radical of Radigue\'s compositions, comparable to the first \"Adnos,\" the work that follows \"Transamoren - Transmortem\" chronologically. Very few transformations, an apparent formal aridity that is then contradicted by the physical play of the frequencies as the listener turns her head gently from right to left, or better yet as the listener moves slowly throughout the music space. Moving through zones of specific frequencies, the listener\'s body experiences localized zones of low, medium and treble frequencies which vary according to the acoustic properties of the space. As Radigue wrote of \"Adnos\": \"to displace stones in the bed of a river does not affect the course of water, but rather modifies the way the water flows.\" Here, we find the same meditative tension proposing a peaceful movement through the spaces created by the different frequencies that compose \"Transamoren - Transmortem.\" Very well-organized, Eliane Radigue\'s archives are a pleasure to explore, and \"Transamorem - Transmortem\"\'s case contained a mine of information. What excited me most was the short text entitled \"Inner Space\", which described the ideal conditions under which \"Transamorem - Transmortem\" should be presented. That is to say as a sound installation. \"Inner Space - This monophonic tape should be played on 4 speakers placed in the four corners of an empty room. Carpet on the floor. The impression of different points of origin of the sound is produced by the localization of the various zones of frequencies, and by the displacements produced by simple movements of the head within the acoustic space of the room. A low point of light on the ceiling, in the center of the room, produced by indirect lighting. Several white light projectors of very weak intensity whose rays, coming from different angles, meet at a single point\". Eliane Radigue - 1973 I immediately felt that it was necessary to make \"Transamoren-Transmorten\" available once again, and this time in its ideal form, in trying to follow Radigue\'s recommendations word for word. It was with this idea in mind that the Cumulus collective (also responsible for the contemporary music festival Why Note) organized the Continuum festival in Dijon along with the art space Le Consortium (one of the founders of which had persuaded the goup Circle X to record their first, mythic EP in Dijon in 1979 - but that\'s another story!). The goal was to correctly present some of Eliane Radigue\'s sound installations, an aspect of her work now completely forgotten. And yet, between 1967 and 1971 her work was often exhibited in galleries of contemporary art, mostly in Paris (Lara Vincy, Yvon Lambert ... ), a reflection of the fact that French people have had a harder time than Americans placing the work of Radigue. She herself hesitated for quite a while to use the word \"music\" to describe her work, a complex that is familiar to this very generation of musicians, and which is now no longer really a problem. Who would claim that the work of Eliane Radigue is not musical? That would be strange ... The 2006 Continuum festival in Dijon saved four sound installations from the dust (an expression that Radigue uses to describe her archives): \"S=a=b=a+b\" (1969), \"Omnht\" (1970), \"Labyrinthe Sonore\" (1970) and \"Transamorem - Transmortem\" (1973). The first two installations are composed with feedbacks, the two others with the sounds of the ARP 2500 synthesizer. Each one is based on a strategy of specific spatial presentation, but that\'s also another story ... Now it\'s your turn to enjoy this enveloping electronic space ...\" [liner notes] www.importantrecords.com 2011 €16.50
RAIONBASHI In Teufel's Küche? 10inch "... The music is great, yet hard to define. Is it musique concrete? Perhaps one could say it is. There is the use of piano sounds, various objects picked up with contact microphones and perhaps some voice material. But what Raionbashi does with this material is not drown it in electronic processing, but built in various layers of unprocessed nature. Lots of layers it seems, but with various moments of silence built in. I perhaps wrongly expected some noise, but this is far from it. This is some great obscured music (as opposed to obscure music), with some intense moments. Not easy listening, but one that grows every time you play it ." [FdW / Vital Weekly] " 10" Vinyl published by Absurd (Greece) and Ignivomous (USA). Follow-up release of 2006 'Kollekte' LP on Hanson Records (USA). All Voices, Noises, Instruments, Body-Functions & Apostrophes by DL. Performed, recorded and mixed 2005-2008 at No-Go-Area, Berlin. Mastered at Clunk, and cut at D+M, Berlin, by Rashad Becker. Edtion of 500 copies. 33rpm." [label info] " "In The Devil's Kitchen." So translates the German title, the first that we've stocked from Daniel Lowenbruck, who both records as Raionbashi and runs the Tochnit-Aleph mail order service out of Berlin. He's also a long standing member of the Schimpfluch Gruppe whose provocative recordings and performances directly channel the Vienna Actionists such as Hermann Nitsch, Gunter Brus, and Rudolf Schwartzkogler. Where the Austrians were pushing their transgessive acts through art world channels, Schimpfluch has their origins in punk, industrial culture, and (at least for the case of Schimpfluch's Dave Phillips) metal taken to a Dada extreme laced with theatrical ultra-violence. So begin these deconstructed tapes and mangled silences. Lowenbruck cites that the sources to his Devil's Kitchen include 'noises, instruments, body functions, and apostrophes.' The discernible sounds are a piano being struck by a hammer fist on the lower octave of the keys, a police whistle blowing out the condenser mic on a Walkman, and some downpitched vocal howls that come across as way more demonic than those wolf growlings on Ben Frost's album By The Throat. Between these recognizable elements, Lowenbruck cuts and pastes with monochromatic noises that puncture grey curtains of leaden hiss. Compositionally, certainly hits the mark with the guttural musique concrete from the Schimpfluch Gruppe, somewhere between the machined ruptures of Dave Phillips and the unsettled ambience crafted by the impeccable G*Park; or less self-referentially stated, somewhere between the sound poetry of Henri Chopin and the corroded tape work of Joe Colley. Limited to 500 copies and highly recommended!" [Aquarius Records] www.tochnit-aleph.com 2009 €10.00
RAPOON Dream Circle CD "The long-awaited re-issue of the very first album of Rapoon initially released by now long defunkt Death Of Vinyl Entertainment in 1992. “Dream Circle” was out just after Robin Storey left Zoviet France and it has a lot of common with his former project’s late 80-es/early 90-es sound, especially with the same DOVe label release “Shadow, Thief Of The Sun”, which is now maybe the most sought-after CD of Zoviet France. “Dream Circle” is a bridge between the old and new projects, a kind of a witness to this difficult times. It’s dark, esoteric and dense, with a lot of haunting loops, frightening whispers and subtle trance-inducing rhythms. Though it’s nearly 20 years old, it sounds fresh and actual, as now the spiral of time made its turn bringing us closer to this point of eternal dream circle, just one level higher (or lower, who knows). The release limited to 500 copies comes in a mini LP-like embossed cover with inner sleeve, both printed gold-on-black." [label info] 2010 €13.00
Fall of Drums CD "It has been a year since the release of highly-acclaimed album entitled "To West and Blue". After various archive releases (the second volume in the rarities collection entitled "Seeds in the Tide" plus expanded reissue of a classic album "The Fires of the Borderlands") and new albums on other labels ("Psi-Transient" and "Conduits And Estuaries"), Robin Storey aka Rapoon presents a carefully woven new masterpiece called "Fall of Drums". The new Rapoon album marks his return not only to the analogue electronics territories, but also to ethnic rhythms which he was known for in the very early days of his solo project. We are back to Middle Eastern territories, to deserts, opium hallucinations and ghosts whisper amidst the sand. 4 long hypnotic tracks of staggering beauty take us on an hour-long journey into your subconsciousness. In other words, it is another top quality album from Robin Storey. The CD is housed in gatefold sleeve in the vein of Japanese-style vinyl replica and is strictly limited to 500 copies." [label info] www.zoharum.com 2014 €13.00
Seeds in the Tide Vol. 3 do-CD "Third part of "Seeds in the Tide" out now. The third volume in our ongoing series of albums collating Rapoon's rarities from 2003 and 2004. As always it's composed of 2 discs. The first one features two rare releases; number one is ”Monomyth: Par Avion” CDR (limited to 199 copies only) is a source material for a collaborative album with Birds of Tin, and number two is ”Jane from Whitley Bar” 7” vinyl plus a number of tracks from compilations. The second disc is a real treat as it contains a previously unreleased recording from a 2004 gig in Vienna. The CDs is housed in a digipak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to 500 copies. The cover was designed by Maciej Mehring based on Robin Storey's paintings. "Seeds in the Tide Volume 3" was mastered by Łukasz Miernik. The whole production process was overseen by Michał Porwet." [label info] www.zoharum.com 2014 €16.00
  Ghosts from a Machine 3 x CD The compilation “Ghost From A Machine’ has been initially issued by the record label Vinyl-On-Demand. It contains alternative versions of the pieces, which were created while early albums of Rapoon, mainly "Raising Earthly Spirits", "Fallen Gods", "Vernal Crossing", "Easterly 6 Or 7", were in the making. All those pieces were put together by Robin Storey and Frank Mayer and created an entirely new album, released on 3 vinyl records. For 10 years since the premiere, that release has become a rare collector’s item and surely a delight for a refined collector. The new edition, prepared together by the author and Zoharum Records, is visually and sonically referring to the first issue, creating a sort of a replica, available for the first time on 3CDs. Issued as an 8panel digipak the volume is limited to only 500 copies. https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts-from-a-machine 2020 €20.00
RATKJE, MAJA S.K. / JOACHIM MONTESSUIS Janus LP "Recorded, composed, mixed between Paris & Oslo, the Janus LP is a collaboration started in 2008 and finished in 2013. Experimental mouth music duet, free interlaced vocal noises, sonic poetry and free electronics. A convergent formal meeting of two complementary paths between poetry and music. Mastered by Frédéric Alstadt. Master cutting and vinyl manufactoring : magnetic.fr. Cover : Janus bust of Silenus and a Satyr, A.D. 120-150 Roman Marbel, Chrysler collection. Artwork by Joachim Montessuis." https://soundcloud.com/erratum_musical/maja-s-k-ratkje?in=erratum_musical/sets/maja-s-k-ratkje-joachim 2013 €15.00
RE-DRUM / B°TONG Hush! / Ascending in the Light of an alien Sun CD "The split album between Russian RE-DRUM and Swiss B°TONG. Each project has prepared 30 minutes for this special release. Avid Zoharum observers already know Pavel Aleshin's project called Re-DrUm. 5 years ago we released his album "S" and it was our 7th release. In the meantime, he has been touring extensively plus released one full album, a digital EP and offered his music on a split release with Rovar17. Now Pavel returns to Zoharum with 3 new tracks of contemplative nature. They are full of slow acoustic sounds and field recordings. His sound on "Hush!" is less droney than on "S", but much more organic and laid-back. The second part of this release belongs to Chris Sigdell and his renowned project b°tong. In contrast to Re-DrUm, "Ascending in the Light of an Alien Sun" is a different affair - a dark, brooding affair full of oily drones and treated sounds. Again, composed of 3 songs, it takes you on a trip to the desolate factory inhabited with ghosts of its previous owners. This special project is released in a mini-vinyl sleeve and is strictly limited to 400 copies worldwide." [label info] www.zoharum.com 2014 €12.00
REED, RICK The Way Things go do-LP "Here, finally, is the gorgeous presentation that astronomy domine Rick Reeds music so richly deserves: Two black vinyl LPs, pressed on 180-gram virgin vinyl, with full-color labels, inside black poly-lined sleeves, housed in a matte-finish full-color gatefold jacket adorned with Reeds vibrant and fantastically evocative paintings. Included with each copy of this set is a full-color download card featuring access to high-quality MP3s of the complete contents of the vinyl records. This package has been issued in an edition of 515 copies. - - - - Welcome to an atmospheric realm of blurred synth drones, textural shortwave radio, and vivid sine waves. Welcome to the highly individual sonic world of Rick Reed. For around 25 years now Reed has been toiling away, composing, performing, and fine-tuning his craft of very personal and powerful electronic meditation. And his expertise is plainly evident. His is incredibly engaging music with an almost physical presence. Reeds level of mastery is virtually unparalleled - it seems that no one else can combine these elements with quite the same finesse, with the same ear for arrangement, or with the same sense of purpose. If Rick Reed is not yet a household name it is likely due to his relatively slim body of work. 'The Way Things Go,' then, is an attempt at resolving this issue, for here are 83 worthy minutes of top-shelf electronic tonalities. 'The Way Things Go' covers a span of eight years of work, and yet the material flows very naturally from one piece to the next. Yes, the evolution of technique is on display here, but Reed found his voice some years ago and his stylistic development has therefore been suitably subtle and deliberate. This is the work of a composer who is extraordinarily familiar with the sounds at his disposal and whose editorial skills are equally honed. Massimo Ricci, inspired by one of the pieces in this set (Hidden Voices, has noted: I can't stress enough the importance of composers like Reed, who thrive in semi-obscurity and without the praises given to people [worth] less than half their value, continuously finding alternative interpretations of the word 'emotion.' The observation is astute and the idea of an emotional presence is crucial to understanding Reeds work. His music is sometimes noisy, sometimes tranquil. Harsh frequencies give way to beautifully sustained tones. Jarring textures and lilting melodies are both to be found in this sphere. Above all, though, Rick Reeds work is challenging. There is no easy classification for music of this complexity. The curious listener is best advised to investigate personally. In addition to his solo work, Rick Reed has participated in a number of productive collaborations over the years with Keith Rowe, Jgrzinich (in Frequency Curtain), the Abrasion Ensemble, and SIRSIT, among others. Reed's music has previously been released by labels such as Ecstatic Peace, Beta-lactam Ring Records, and Elevator Bath. He currently resides in Austin." [label info] www.elevatorbath.com "Over the years Rick Reed has played with Keith Rowe, Jgrzinich (as Frequency Curtain), Abrasion Ensemble and Sirsit but also explored the world of drone music as a solo artist. Hard to say what he does to create his drone moves. One could easily think of a bunch of analogue synthesizers, or perhaps heavily treated field recordings. Maybe its all computer work? One look at the cover though and its revealed: moog and EMS synthesizers, sine wave generators, shortwave radio, found radio sounds and voices. The pieces on this double album are from anywhere between 2001 and 2010 - the title piece. Its both an excellent overview of his work and a very coherent body of work. One could easily argue that in those ten years Reed didn't progress at all, and that his approach to composing stayed rather the same. That's one way of looking at it. One could as easily argue that it all makes up for a very consistent approach that reveals a fine craftsmanship in creating dense electronic landscapes. In those ten years Reed never released much work, so its hard to say that he is overproductive and that 'it is always the same'. I thought this was all excellent music, a fine cross road of musique concrete and electronic music.Taking the best out of cosmic music, drone and experiment and put that into all immersive music. Music that sucks you totally into in it, like a hot bath, especially when you play it loud. Very refined." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2011 €25.00
REFORMED FACTION The World Awake / 11 Stueck do-CD "The World Awake! / 11 Stueck is a new double album from Reformed Faction, the duo of Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. It follows the triple CD release for Soleilmoon, ‘I am the Source of Light I am not a Mirror,” in 2009. Robin Storey was born in 1955 in Cumbria, England. He studied fine arts at Sunderland University and took classes in electronic and experimental composition, joining with friends to perform the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen (a key influence, as were the Krautrock bands of the early 1970s). In 1979 Storey formed the pioneering industrial group :zoviet*france:, remaining a member until 1992: The same year Storey issued the first Rapoon album, Dream Circle, its entrancing fusion of Indian ragas, African rhythms and experimental textures anticipating the evocative soundscapes of the many releases to follow. Also a noted visual artist and animator, Storey's work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the collections of many major galleries. Mark Spybey was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1961. He has always worked in mental health care. After a long time as a member of :zoviet*france: he moved to Canada and worked under the names Dead Voices on Air and Propeller. He collaborated widely, toured and was vocalist of the acclaimed band Download (ex-Skinny Puppy). He was also a member of Sofortkontakt!, led by the late Michael Karoli of Can, appearing at Can’s 30th anniversary shows. Spybey has worked with a variety of artists who inspired his music, including Damo Suzuki of Can, Faust, Michael Rother (Neu!, Harmonia and Kraftwerk), Dieter Moebius (Cluster and Harmonia), Genesis.P.Orridge (Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV), James Plotkin, Martin Atkins, Mick Harris and The Legendary Pink Dots. He returned to the U.K in 2000. The World Awake! Was originally intended for a vinyl release and recorded from improvisations made on one day in November of 2009. 11 Stueck was compiled from improvisations made on December 1st 2009, with drummer Christian Alderson and bass player Oscar Ruiz Fernandez. The Austin Texas based musician Tony D’Oporto, aka Gnome, also appears on one track. The work references the writing of Henry Miller, in his aptly entitled essay, “With Edgar Varese in the Gobi Desert.” “The World Awake! Just to repeat that to yourself five times a day is enough to make an anarchist of you. How would you awaken the world – if you were a musician? With a sonata for rusty tin openers? Have you ever thought about it? Or would you rather remain asleep?” “We have been educated to such a fine – or dull – point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it’s all about. We don’t trust our five senses. We rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.” Varese said, “What should be avoided; tones of propaganda. As well as any journalistic speculation on timely events and doctrines. I want the epic impact of our epoch, stripped of it’s mannerisms and snobberisms…. Imagination is the last word.” This first edition of “The World Awake/11 Stueck” is presented in a high-quality screen printed perfumed sleeve with printed slipcases for each disc. It is limited to 444 copies." [label info] 2012 €20.00
REIBEL, GUY Douze Inventions En Six Modes De Jeu LP "Format: LP (180gr, insert, download code, 500 items) Release date: december 4th 2015 Guy Reibel is one of the most enigmatic figures in the post-war electronic music scene. He started out with a double qualification: he first became an engineer – due to the pressure of his parents – and then studied composition with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, the teacher of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Francois Bayle, to name just a few… Pierre Schaeffer, the director of the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales at Radio France), very soon offered him a position: he was not only responsible to edit and work out the famous Solfège-3LP-Box that was the practical part of Schaeffer’s theoretical manifest “Traité des objets musicaux”, he also codirected with Schaeffer the class for electroacoustic music at the National Music Conservatory. During that period Guy Reibel worked intensively in the studios of the GRM. He did not only compose some milestones of electronic music, he also developed a very music-based theory of electronic music: he included his ideas of musical gesture and game theory already in the sixties long before anybody else discussed those issues. His theories as well as his education as a musician with absolute hearing etc. soon brought him in conflict with other members of the GRM, who at that time more and more emphasized the media nature of electronic music. Guy Reibel – who was for long time considered to be Schaeffer’s successor as the director of the Group – lost the competition with Francois Bayle and in consequence not only quit the GRM but also electroacoustic music. He kept his composition class at the conservatory, toured the world as conductor of his newly founded Groupe Vocale de France (who realized the first complete recordings of Ligeti’s choir-work) and also took over a director’s position at Radio France. Meanwhile his electronic music almost disappeared. There were two or three LPs available on the early GRM series, later only one CD. Guy Reibel became in some ways the Trotzky of the GRM, who was removed from the acoustic photos of the group. Now, decades later, these struggles are over, and the GRM generously offered the possibility to use their studios for the digitalisation of the old tapes. So Guy Reibel and Reinhold Friedl could digitize his whole archive of his electronic pieces in late 2014. This vinyl is one result: “12 Inventions …” is now being released for the very first time: a milestone in electronic music and a perfect example for Reibel’s musical austerity: very defined and limited musical material results in concentrated and dense forms. The unusually vital character of the music is also due to Reibel’s use of hybrid sound production: he very often combined amplitude envelopes of acoustic sounds and noises (especially and very often of polysteron) on synthetic electronic sounds. A few of the “12 inventions” are even played at least partly live: TM+, the legendary first live-electronic French group, was founded in 1977 by three of Reibel’s students: Denis Defour, Lurent Cuniot and Yann Geslin. They were almost the first purely electronic group that also toured Europe extensively with their analogue synthesizers. A separate vinyl of this group is also up to be released on Karlrecords’ Perihel series soon! But this LP documents how Guy Reibel succeeded to compose a music that combines the density and purity of electronic music with an unbelievable sound sensuousness. A real listening experience, here released for the very first time! Reinhold Friedl All music composed by Guy Reibel Commissioned by ina-GRM, Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Radio France, 1979 Tracks 3, 6, 8, 11 played by TM+, Trio Instrumental Électroacoustique: Laurent Cuniot, Denis Dufour, Yann Geslin, recorded at Grand Auditorium, Maison de la Radio, Paris, May 7, 1979" [label info] www.karlrecords.net 2015 €18.50
REICH, STEVE Four Organs / Phase Patterns LP "This classic minimal music album is now available again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s. In recent decades Steve Reich's music has been presented internationally at major venues, performed by high-profile musicians including the Kronos Quartet, guitarist Pat Metheny, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. But in 1970, when the music on this LP was recorded, Reich's audiences gathered in museums and art galleries to hear his work interpreted by the composer himself and a group of friends. "I am interested in perceptible processes" Reich had written in 1968. "I want to be able to hear the processes happening throughout the sounding music.' Four Organs is a radical realisation of this goal. Against the steady rattle of maracas, individual tones within a single chord are gradually lengthened. No changes of pitch or timbre occur, and the drawn out nature of the process provoked outrage at some early performances, when audiences found themselves caught up in a decelerating loop, being dragged towards stasis. Phase Patterns, composed a month later, relies on a phasing technique developed during Reich's earlier experiments with magnetic tape recordings, which he allowed to drift out of sync. Identical figures initially in unison shift out of phase, generating unexpected patterns. When these pieces first appeared, on the adventurous French record label Shandar, they were regarded as defining works within a musical movement that had developed during the late 1960s. Reich was seen as a pioneer of minimalism, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Philip Glass, whose music also featured in the Shandar catalogue. With hindsight the term is inadequate and inappropriate when applied to much of Reich's subsequent oeuvre, which includes rich and varied works such as The Desert Music for voices and orchestra, Tehillim - a setting of Psalms, and his multimedia opera The Cave. But these two works from 1970 are purely minimalist, in a way that the visual artists and sculptors who formed Reich's early audiences would have recognised. These pieces may have clear affinity with conceptual art as well as the minimalist aesthetic, but Reich's allegiance is to making music rather than sound art or acoustic research. Characteristically, after creating Four Organs Reich looked for antecedents in musical history, and found them in the medieval organa of Léonin and Pérotin. His subsequent work has found acceptance and a substantial following within the established institutions of composed music. He has become a major composer. In the same year that these Four Organs and Phase Patterns were written Reich travelled to Ghana to study with a master drummer. On his return to New York he started work on Drumming, an hour-long distillation of his interest in African and Balinese music and their polyrhythmic processes. It forms an impressive culmination to his use of phasing technique and is widely acknowledged as a minimalist masterpiece. But if it is the radical edge of uncompromising hardcore minimalism that you are after, this reissue of Four Organs and Phase Patterns delivers two key examples. "Obviously music should put all within listening range into a state of ecstasy" Steve Reich in 1969." [label info] www.aguirrecords.com "Two of our favorite pieces of all time from minimalist composer Reich, available again! Both pieces were recorded in 1970, one at the Guggenheim in NY and the other at the University Museum in Berkeley. This is electric organ overdrive! Four Organs not surprisingly is a piece played on four electric organs (with Reich playing one as well as his good friend Philip Glass...), while beneath the organs is the repetitious shaking of maracas. The short pulsations of the organ gradually stretch out, lasting longer and longer, creating a totally dynamic tension that evokes standing in a massive and grand church that's empty except for the mesmerizing sounds of the organs lulling you into some sort of a trance. Phase Patterns manages to increase the tension with the four players using identical organs and playing to a precise strategy that Reich has calculated. These pieces predate and predict so much of the minimalist electronic and experimental music to come over the next three decades." [Aquarius Rec.] 2016 €22.50
REICH, STEVE / ENSEMBLE AVANTGARDE Four Organs / Phase Patterns / Pendulum LP "Three early compositions (1968-1970) by Steve Reich, one of the most prolific exponents of minimal music, in stunning interpretations by the critically acclaimed Ensemble Avantgarde. Available on vinyl (180gr, gatefold sleeve incl. download code) for the first time ever! Steve Reich (born 1936) is undoubtedly one of the key figures in 20th century contemporary music and along with Terry Riley or Philip Glass one of the founding fathers of so-called minimal music. With classics like “Music For 18 Musicians”, “Drumming” or “Different Trains” the American composer proved himself one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history" (The Guardian). The four pieces on this collection date back to the time before his famous master pieces (1967-1970): “Four Organs” and “Phase Patterns” build on short, repeated patterns that gradually go in and out of phase with each other, creating “a shimmering matrix of sound that is both hypnotic and fascinating in detail” (Allmusic.com) and anticipate Reich’s later trademark sound. “Pendulum Music” is a process piece where only a few starting parameters are given: four microphones are suspended within an array of amplifiers and speakers, then set in motion - the shifts in feedback as they move in space create the music, the results differ with each new performance (as can be experienced listening to the 2 versions here). Reich’s early works are presented on this LP in stunning interpretations by Leipzig based Ensemble Avantgarde whose dedicated, inspired renditions of essential masterpieces of modernism (documented on CDs on reputated labels such as Wergo or Hat Hut Records) won them the Ernst von Siemens Foundation Prize and the Schneider-Schott Prize of Mainz." [label info] www.karlrecords.net 2014 €17.50
REIDY, JULIA In real Life LP Black Truffle present In Real Life, the latest in a flurry of releases from Berlin-based guitarist and composer Julia Reidy. Having drawn acclaim for solo performances on 12-string acoustic guitar that bridge microtonality, ‘American primitive’ stylings and classic minimalism, Reidy’s recent releases have utilised an increasingly broad sonic palette, fleshing out guitar-based composition with electronics, field recordings, and – most strikingly – heavily auto-tuned vocals. On In Real Life, Reidy pushes one step further, crafting an epic LP-length suite that moves from abstracted song to lush electronics and explorations in contemporary musique concrète. Beginning with a passage of eerie electronics and creaking percussive interjections, Reidy’s heavily auto-tuned voice quickly takes centre stage. Surrounded by explosions of electric guitar and synthesised arpeggios, the auto-tuned voice delivers a melancholic ode, bringing together poetic images to reflect on the instability of experience and mutability of identity in a contemporary world saturated by digital technology. This concern with the unsettled relationship between the physical and digital is reflected musically by the constantly shifts in emphasis between Reidy’s physically demanding guitar-picking and the various forms of synthesis deployed. Similarly, the dynamic imagery of cutting, shattering, and ‘racing streams’ present in Reidy’s lyrics also serves to characterise the structure of In Real Life, which ceaselessly shifts between distinct episodes. The song-based opening, long sequences of frenetic 12-string guitar shadowed and eventually overtaken by synth tones, passages of delicate chiming harmonics, electro-acoustic cut-ups – each flows seamlessly into the next, often recurring throughout the record’s duration, which lingers over interstitial moments between these episodes. Mixed and mastered by Joe Talia at Good Mixture, Tokyo. Vinyl cut at 45rpm for maximum fidelity by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin. Artwork by Suze Whaites. LP desgn by Lasse Marhaug. 2019 €20.50
REJECTIONS Clone EP MC "The Clone EP was actually recorded in late 2011 and followed close on the heels of the Concur EP, which was released on Tiny Lights in December 2011. It is therefore a reaction to that first EP, a desire to keep moving forward artistically and a reflection of where my my head was at during the time I was mixing the tracks together. Where the Concur EP was essentially a series of remixes using samples from my brother's band I Concur to create something new while reflecting the spirit and energy of those songs, The Clone EP is very much a fresh piece of work, starting with nothing but an interest to make beat driven music and to keep revising and editing the same samples until I came up with three linked but unique tracks, hence the title of the EP. Therefore the techno rhythms of Clone 1 almost seamlessly morph into the broken beats and noise of Clone 2 which in turn dissolve into the drone soundscapes and reverb drenched percussion of Clone 3. They are cannibal and brethren, feeding off one another and mirror image at the same time. The sound of the three tracks is again very much a reflection of that period of time as well. I had recently discovered for myself just the potency of Sandwell District, in all of their sounds, images and guises. At the same time I was grinding my way through a number of long term influences such as Mika Vainio, Throbbing Gristle, Public Image Limited, Burial, Ben Frost, Autechre to name but a few, trying to do my best to endure the typically bleak British weather and the tendency for reflection and introspection which typically invades ones consciousness as we near the end of another year. Limited to 100 copies." [label info] www.altvinyl.com 2012 €10.00
RESIDENTS Coochie Brake CD "Vor einer Million Jahren fiel einen riesiger Felsbrocken aus dem Himmel und landete mitten in Louisiana. Naja, zu der Zeit war es noch nicht einmal Louisiana. Was auch immer: der Felsbrocken stürzte auf die Erde, schlug hart auf und ließ einen riesigen Abdruck zurück. Nach und nach füllte sich Abdruck mit allerlei Dingen, doch es ließ sich nicht leugnen, dass der Abdruck noch immer sichtbar blieb. Der Abdruck füllte sich genug mit Wasser, um einen urzeitlichen Sumpf namens ,Coochie Brake" entstehen zu lassen. Ein paar Jungs schlugen im Coochie Brake ihre Zelte auf. Sie kletterten auf die riesigen Granitbrocken, die nach gesundem Menschenverstand gar nicht da sein sollten. Sie erforschten die Höhlen. Sie saßen still und ließen ,The Brake" sprechen, wie nur dieser Sumpf es kann. Diese Teenager wurden erwachsen. Und wurden zu THE RESIDENTS. A million years ago, a big rock fell out of the sky and landed right in the middle of Louisiana. Well, it wasn't Louisiana at that time. But that rock fell, and it hit hard making a giant dent. It gradually filled in but no matter what, it still left a dent. And that dent held just enough water that it became a primeval swamp known as Coochie Brake. Some young guys used to camp in Coochie Brake. They climbed the massive granite boulders that common sense said should not be there. They explored the caves. They sat still and let the Brake speak to them as only the Brake can. Those teens grew up to become The Residents. Vinyl version." [label info] www.mvdb2b.com [label info] 2011 €12.00
Coochie Brake LP "Vor einer Million Jahren fiel einen riesiger Felsbrocken aus dem Himmel und landete mitten in Louisiana. Naja, zu der Zeit war es noch nicht einmal Louisiana. Was auch immer: der Felsbrocken stürzte auf die Erde, schlug hart auf und ließ einen riesigen Abdruck zurück. Nach und nach füllte sich Abdruck mit allerlei Dingen, doch es ließ sich nicht leugnen, dass der Abdruck noch immer sichtbar blieb. Der Abdruck füllte sich genug mit Wasser, um einen urzeitlichen Sumpf namens ,Coochie Brake" entstehen zu lassen. Ein paar Jungs schlugen im Coochie Brake ihre Zelte auf. Sie kletterten auf die riesigen Granitbrocken, die nach gesundem Menschenverstand gar nicht da sein sollten. Sie erforschten die Höhlen. Sie saßen still und ließen ,The Brake" sprechen, wie nur dieser Sumpf es kann. Diese Teenager wurden erwachsen. Und wurden zu THE RESIDENTS. A million years ago, a big rock fell out of the sky and landed right in the middle of Louisiana. Well, it wasn't Louisiana at that time. But that rock fell, and it hit hard making a giant dent. It gradually filled in but no matter what, it still left a dent. And that dent held just enough water that it became a primeval swamp known as Coochie Brake. Some young guys used to camp in Coochie Brake. They climbed the massive granite boulders that common sense said should not be there. They explored the caves. They sat still and let the Brake speak to them as only the Brake can. Those teens grew up to become The Residents. Vinyl version." [label info] www.mvdb2b.com 2011 €15.00
  Duck Stab! Alive! 2 x 10inch / DVD BOX Als The Residents im Jahr 1978 die 33-RPM-EP "Duck Stab!" Im 7" Format veröffentlichten, war das für die Gruppe eine nette Abwechslung von den sich über Jahre (1975 -1979) hinziehenden, anspruchsvollen und experimentellen Aufnahmen an ihrem epochalen Eskimo Album. Außerdem brauchte das Label Ralph Records, eine Einnahmequelle um die lange Phase ohne ein "echtes neues" Album zu überbrücken. Zur allgemeinen Überraschung wurde die EP ein Hit und verkaufte mehr als 50.000 Einheiten in wenigen Monaten. Die Nachfrage ließ auch in der Folge nicht nach und so drängte Ralph Records The Residents eine zweite EP - "Buster & Glen" - aufzunehmen, die dann schlussendlich zusammen mit "Duck Stab!" als LP-Release zu einem Klassiker und großem Verkaufserfolg wurde. Einige Jahre später, zwischen 1981 und 1988 übernahm Night Flight, eine damals populäre Sendung im US-Kabelfernsehen, Video-Clips von The Residents in ihr reguläres Programm auf - insbesondere "Hello Skinny", das legendäre Video zum "Duck Stab! / Buster & Glen" -Album. Für viele Fans der Band war Night Flight der erste Berührungspunkt mit The Residents. Im Jahr 2016 feierte der Sender unter dem Namen Night Flight plus fröhliche Wiederauferstehung als Internet Streaming-Service und bat The Residents anlässlich des 40ten Jubiläums des Programms um einen Video-Beitrag. Da die Gruppe ohnehin an einer Live-Version von "Duck Stab!" als Teil ihrer 50ten Jubiläums-Tour im Jahr 2022 arbeitete, bot sich "Duck Stab! Alive!" als eine naheliegende Wahl an, um daraus eine Show für Night Flight plus zu produzieren. Und so begaben sich The Residents unter der Leitung von Regisseur John Sanborn und Kameramann Frazer Bradshaw vom 19. bis 21. Mai 2021 in die 25th Street Studios in Oakland, Kalifornien um die neu ausgearbeitete Performance "Duck Stab! Alive!" live im Studio aufzunehmen. Die spektakulären Ergebnisse dokumentiert auf zwei 45 RPM 10"-Vinylplatten sowie einer Video DVD bilden den Inhalt dieser aufwändigen und limitierten Sammler-Box. Weltweit auf 3.000 Stück limitiert! The Residents released DUCK STAB! as a seven inch, 33 1/3 rpm EP in 1978. For the group, the relatively lighthearted EP represented a break from the much more experimental Eskimo recordings which consumed the majority of a four-year period from 1975-79; for Ralph Records it was a much-needed revenue source at a time when the band was not producing much product. To everyone’s surprise, the EP was a hit, selling 50,000 copies in a few months. The demand was so high that Ralph insisted the band record a second EP, Buster & Glen, which they paired with DUCK STAB! to make an LP, which was also quite successful. Several years later, Night Flight, a program featuring alternative programming on the USA cable channel, aired Residents’ video, including the Hello Skinny music video based on a song from the DUCK STAB! / Buster & Glen album. The program aired from 1981-88 often highlighting The Residents to the extent that many of the group’s fans cited Night Flight as their initial introduction to the band. Fast forwarding to 2016 when Night Flight resurrected itself as a streaming video service, Night Flight Plus. In recognition of their long-standing connection, Night Flight invited The Residents to create a program in celebration of the service’s 40th Anniversary on June 5, 2021. Since the band was already rehearsing DUCK STAB! as part of their upcoming 50th Anniversary Tour, the forty-year-old EP/LP seemed like a perfect choice for Night Flight. With a professional camera crew, led by director John Sanborn and director of photography Frazer Bradshaw, The Residents performed the reworked DUCK STAB! ALIVE! music over three days from May 19-21,2021 at the 25th Street Studio in Oakland, CA. The results, as you can hear and see on the discs of this limited boxed set, are spectacular. https://www.grand-chess.com/duck-stab-alive 2021 €79.50
REUTOFF ReuTRauM IV (SOLD OUT) 7 "This Russian trio comes from a suburb of Moscow (called Reutov), and this, following some cassette-releases, is their vinyl-debut and first release outside of Russia. As one of the pioneers of the Russian industrial-scene REUTOFF create an ultra dark visionary music, using elements of ambient as well as rhythmic industrial. "WAILED", the A-Side, begins with atmospheric, but rather unpleasant samples & sounds, before harsh electronic beats come in; "VEILED" on the B-Side however, is a perfect example for the group's ability to build unsettled, sinister & creepy dark ambient industrial sounds, with an overall atmosphere of despair & deep melancholy, maybe mirroring today's "Russian soul". There is no light in this darkness, maybe only behind it. "The space of Reut as the dream of regret" TRANSPARENT GREY VINYL, HANDPRINTED BLACK SLEEVES WITH PHOTOGRAPHS ON EACH SIDE" [label info] 2000  
  NullRauM do-CD "Retortae is proud to present an epic work from the most world well-known Russian industrial combo called Reutoff which has just celebrated its 15 years of existance. NullRauM is a collection of all the tracks included in ReuTRauM series initially released as seven 7” vinyls issued by seven different labels in seven different countries as well as four tracks made especially for this collection. The entire period of its creation took around 15 years – as long as the project exists – and it could be considered as the band’s most important work to date. Complex dark drone ambient structures typical to Reutoff presented here in all their historical development, from the very first 7” released in 2000 by legendary Drone Records to the most recent tracks made exclusively for this release. The result is extremely pessimistic and profound reflexion of the old world collapse and desperate anticipation of the shape of things to come. Though NullRauM material is a collection of the tracks made during such a long period of time, today it looks really homogenous and holistic, and its mosaic elements have finally found its providential shape. Extremely recommended to absolutely everyone. The release comes in laminated full colour digisleeve with 16 pages booklet." [press-release] 2014 €17.00
RIPARBELLI, PIETRO / K11 Radiodrama (feat. BAD SECTOR) CD + CD-R Wer sich für die geheimnisvolle Welt der Äther- & und Radiowellen-sounds interessiert sollte hier hellhörig werden ! Diverses Basismaterial wird hier vom Klangkünstler PIETRO RIPARBELLI (aka K11) auf kunstvolle Weise bearbeitet, es entstehen schwindelig machende, fauchende, zischende, röhrende Geräuschtracks. Auf der Bonus CDR befinden sich die uneditierten Basistracks von z.B. BAD SECTOR, GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ, A.M.K., PROJECT D.A.R.K., etc. Alles handgemacht /verpackt in Pappbox mit Booklet und extra-Videotrack, 211 Stück gibts davon in dieser Edition. "A SPECIAL CONCEPT ALBUM WITH INCREDIBLE AND ORIGINAL RADIO SIGNALS AS SOURCE MATERIALS, RECORDED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD BY: BAD SECTOR, STRANGE ATTRACTOR, CLAUSTHOME, GALERIE SCHALLSCHUTZ, SIMM-EL, GRUPPO PSICOFONICO DI GROSSETO; RECOMPOSED BY PITERO RIPARBELLI. A CONCEPT ALBUM CREATED FOCUSED ON THE ESOTERIC SIDE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTIVITIES (ITC, EVP, AND TRANS-DIMENSIONAL PHENOMENAS) ALL AROUND US... Listen this sounds in your hands... 3 DIFFERENT KIND OF CONCEPTUAL EDITIONS ARE REALIZED FOR THIS GREAT WORK OF RADIONOISE, INCLUDING AN ENHANCED CD-R (AUDIO + VIDEO AND EXTRAS) + A XEROGRAPHIC BOOK EDITED IN A SPECIAL HANDMADE DIGIPACK, BASED ON THE AUDIO INSTALLATION "CAMERA SONORA", REALIZED BY PIETRO RIPARBELLI/K11 DURING PIOMBINO EXPERIMENTA 3 - INTERNATIONAL SOUND ART FESTIVAL, WITH UNEDIT PIECES REALIZED BY: MASSIMO MAGRINI/BAD SECTOR, GIANLUCA BECUZZI, ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI, A.M.K., GLOBSTER, VITTORE BARONI/L.T. MURNAU, PROJECT D.A.R.K. Full lenght audio: 45:00 min. "RADIODRAMA - CAMERA SONOR"A track list: 1 PIETRO RIPARBELLI/K11 - COLLAPSE#01 2 GIANLUCA BECUZZI - RADIO TANS_IT 3 BAD SECTOR - PROPAGAZIONE 4 RM-ED/L - LISTEN REVERSE: A CONCEPTUAL VINYL MANIPULATION - DOCU-DRAMA, WITH: ALEKSANDER KOLKOWSKI A.M.K. GLOBSTER VITTORE BARONI/L.T. MURNAU PROJECT D.A.R.K. Full lenght audio: 40:00 min. INCLUDING A SMALL DOCUMENTAL VIDEO + INSERTS." [label info] www.radicalmatters.com 2008 €16.00
RIPIT Tsatsa Tushen 12inch For ‘Tsatsa Tushen’, Ripit created four trance-inducing tracks of swampy industrial dub music, using vinyl loops of ethnographic African recordings, modular synths and intense dub-mixing. The general smokey atmosphere is generated by the collision of several unsettling rhythm layers, scattered echoes, crawling basses, raging stabs and drowned-out voices, guiding the listener on a unstable path towards a dissociative rite. It should come as no surprise that Ripit releases these tracks now, as dub music has always been a part of his musical heritage. Not just in his work with Fujako, but also in his prolific early years in the late 1990s, you’ll find obvious links to dub. Hence the title, which means ‘knots of time’ in the main West-African language Hausa. ‘Tsatsa Tushen’ combines the old with the new, the dusty ethnographic records with modern electronics, bending the time and space continuum in a noisy Dub. Since the 1970s, dub and industrial music find their common ground in the recycling of found sounds and in exploring electronic tools. Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound blended Dub with diverse emerging musical influences and industrial artists explored diverse forms of music, their paths regularly crossing. Ripit merged these influences and philosophies in this record. Think of dusty-needled, hand-driven turntables playing sun-bent vinyls such as African Head Charge’s ‘Songs of Praise’ Muslimgauze’s ‘United States of Islam’, Test Dept’s ‘Critical Dub’, Badawi’s ‘Jerusalem Under Fire’ or The Bug’s ‘Tapping The Conversation’. 12” limited to 300 copies All tracks by Nicolas Esterle at Zen666 2014-2015 Mastered & cut by Frederic Alstadt at Ångström Mastering Images by Eric Desjeux Design by Silken Tofu 2017 €15.00
RITSCH, WINFRIED Woodscratcher pic-LP "This release turns out to be the best way to celebrate little GODrec anniversary: the tenth release of the label! Woodscratcher (Scratching Wood) is a composition and sound generating machine from Austrian composer, media-artist, sound-sculptor and performer, Winfried Ritsch. Already known as collaborator in different projects with Bernhard Lang (pieces from his series Differenz/Wiederholung, Trike), Peter Ablinger (Klavierautomat), Ritsch created 'my own dedication to noise pieces of experimental music from 70s onwards'. This machine cuts a 2-5cm thick disk of a wooden trunk in a circular line along the growth rings of the wood, which makes this nothing else then monumental turntable. At the same time, the wood is amplified with four pickups (sensors) and the signals picked from microphones are spatialized over four loudspeakers in the corners of the room which spans acoustically the slice of the wood. This scratching in the concert is done until the inner part of the disk falls to the ground and the piece ends. The movement of the cutting tool behaving like an over-sized record player needle, has the performing function and is an allusion of the production of records, as well as playing them. The woodscratcher pretends to extract and play the information which resides in the piece of wood cutting it in an excessive performance. The wood is heard as acoustic material with inhomogeneities annual rings by superimposing a loops of the cutting process. With the progression of the cutting process the sounds evolves of the pieces in more and more rubbing and squeezing sounds. The audio signal filter functions of the wood is heard like repeatedly changing formants, almost imaging voices in the noise. Composition : With this performances not only the machine as performer is broached as the issue, also the exploration of unknown material is an artistic statement as also defining the structured and timing of the piece. The aesthetics lies in the excessive performance beyond feasible by a human actor or musician and also, links the many possible associations and associative to the world of music performance. One of them is the sound based on the noise of the experimental music pieces since the 70s and another with ideas of Herbert Bruen's computer music project sawdust from that time, when the rejection of oscillators as a tone generator for free definition of single events down to the scale of samples as a liberation of note-oriented Music generation. The transition in algorithmic composition to the composition of processes as instrument like done in live composition is expanded to the construction of a mechanical machine which is the live composer. The main aspect of this is that the process does the composing and the machine is composed for executing the process of extracting the piece out of the disc of wood, destroying it and defining the audible result of the piece. So composer becomes a mechanical engineer and inventor of machines and the musician the operator as machinist. The picture vinyl release is vinyl simulation of woodscratcher: a vinyl record has a picture of a wood on itself and recorded sound of scratching the wood." [label info] www.godrec.com 2012 €20.00
RLW Satanic Inventions CD !!! Limited to 200 copies only !!! 51+ min. playtime October 2022 PRESS RELEASE Artist: rlw (Ralf Wehowsky) Title: Satanic Inventions Track Titles: 1. Early Symptoms 2. Normality, Lost # 1 3. Overworn With Watching # 1 4. Fever Glazed Thine Ears # 1 5. Fever Glazed Thine Ears # 2 6. Normality, Lost # 2 7. Fever Glazed Thine Ears # 3 8. Overworn With Watching # 2 9. Normality, Lost # 3 10. Overworn With Watching # 3 11. Overworn With Watching # 4 12. Normality, Lost # 4 13. Fever Glazed Thine Ears # 4 14. Overworn With Watching # 5 15. Out Of Joint Format: CD Cat no: BRCD 22-1021 Release Date: October 2022 Black Rose Recordings are proud to present the stunning new solo release by Ralf Wehowsky. He is currently one of the most respected electronic composers of our day. With this release his starting point is the comparison of the black plague and covid-19 as there are some astonishing similarities of how people dealt with the diseases. Denial of reality, conspiracy theories, searching for scapegoats, etc: Surely satanic inventions are the source of all calamities? Extracts from documentary recordings and a few fragments of ars nova/subtilior compositions have been transformed, extended, fragmented and re-contextualised, from which the 15 pieces of this release are built. Ralf Wehowsky was one of the founder members of the seminal German group P16.D4 and the label Selektion whose ground-breaking releases influenced many working in today’s experimental music scene. Previous releases have seen him collaborate with such well known and diverse artists such as Merzbow, Bernhard Guenter, Jim O’Rourke, Achim Wollscheid and Lionel Marchetti. His music is impossible to pigeonhole into one simple bracket. It is neither industrial or musique concrete, nor computer music nor improvisation. “RLW's work moves on the edge of musique concrete, but never looses it's touch with industrial music on the one hand and with microsound on the other. But it defies these categories and can perhaps only be classified as RLWmusic. Great work!” – [Vital 584, The Netherlands] “…truly outstanding” – [www.chaindlk.com] "There have been many documentations on differences and similarities of the pandemics, which plagued mankind over the last centuries and millennia. Comparing the black plague and covid-19 there are - besides the obvious differences (more victims in absolute numbers because of increasing overpopulation, decreasing number of victims in relative numbers because of the evolution of scientific knowledge) - astonishing similarities how people dealt with the diseases. Denial of reality, conspiracy theories, searching for scapegoats: Surely satanic inventions, spread by elites, papists, jews, communists, etc, are the source of all calamities? Human stupidity never should be underestimated. For tunately, history teaches that the misery ends someday, even if the pandemic meets with war, famine etc. Amidst similarities new powers do grow. In the late 14th century ars subtilior must be pointed out. Liberation from religious themes, breaking open rhythm, introducing bizarre chromatic passages, odd dissonances, etc. Therefore, it seemed natural to combine documentations of actual madness with songs from that past. Some short extracts from documentary recordings and a few fragments of ars nova/subtilior compositions have been transfor med, extended, fragmented and recontextualised, from which the 15 pieces of this release are built. Recorded from April 2021 to March 2022, Eggenstein, Germany" [liner notes] "Seeing such a political statement on an RLW CD is something I don't recall seeing before. It is about the pandemic and the conspiracy theories that spawned, which I (too) believe is the true disease of our times. "I can read", usually means, "I like to cherry-pick popular notions", and "science is an opinion" is usually said by someone who has no clue as to what science is. Or, as I challenged someone: "How do you prove that all swans are white" to which I got the answer ", by killing all black ones", which seemed proof that not all swans are white. RLW says that all misery end one day, and something will grow. In the 14th century, Ars subtiloir (subtler art) became a musical style. It was rhythmic and notional, more complex. The end of the plague (well..) ended in something new. RLW uses music recordings from that time and short extracts from documentary recordings. Not that you easily recognize any of this in the fifteen pieces of music. Sure, some of this finds origins in voice material, and a word here or there is recognized, but who or what remains a mystery. The abstraction level is very high, as with much of RLW's music. He applies a collage-like approach to his music. A surprising element is the use of turntable/vinyl, which I haven't heard from him in some time. RLW's music is of a different complexity than the original Ars subtiloir, so I assume (not being an expert here), that he applies his musique concrète techniques to the music. Editing, stretching, granular synthesis and whatever else there is are as strong as any other RLW record. One thought I had with hearing these voices bending and twisting; maybe they sound like shapeshifting alien reptiles? Having read most of David Icke's books (to be found in a folder on my hard drive labelled 'humour'), there must be a place here for the sounds of reptiles. Throughout, there is some excellent, imaginative music here. I would say that even without the backstory, this is still a great release; it can be enjoyed equally."[FdW/Vital Weekly] 2022 €13.00
RLW / PAAK Klingelbeutel LP "After RLW (Ralf Wehowsky) and PAAK (Peter Kastner) worked (together with Ine Ophof and Jan van Wissen) on the theme 'food' (see CD on Hinterzimmer Records) they both come now to the next basic theme, the religious mania. Basic material for the pieces 'pay the prayer' (RLW) and 'opium 1 - 4' (PAAK) were recordings of prayers and other christian propaganda from TV and records. The vinyl-record is limited to 154 pieces and comes with 3 inserts, one of them is a signed stamp print for enlightment and accompaning during listening to the record each is printed on one page of a catholic prayer - and songbook). There's no business like holy business. PLAY IT LOUD." [label info] 2012 €17.50
ROCCHETTI, CLAUDIO These are the days LP CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI (von 3/4HADBEENELIMINATED) benutzt auf dieser LP sein MC- & Vinyl-Archiv als eine Art Gedächtnisspeicher in Verbindung zur Welt; die hier gespeicherten Informationen sind auf vielfältige Weise verbunden mit den Vorbesitzern & ihrer Aura. Auf "These are the days" werden Teile davon collagenhaft neu zusammengesetzt und ganz neue Geschichten "erzählt", es wirkt wie kurze Schnappschüsse des Unterbewussten ins Verborgene der Alltagsgeräusche, kaum fassbar und doch nicht chaotisch, mit viel Raum für Pausen und Rauschen, Knirschen, Crackles... eine besondere Scheibe, die mit mehrmaligem Hören an Schönheit gewinnt! "These are the days" is a collection of short pieces all around of memory concept... a sort of back-up of experiences on Claudio's preferred media (tapes and vinyls). Tapes and vinyls are here used in a double way: in their common way, the Universal recognized one. As sound reproducers, as technological element of our day-life with their own personal story linked to all the people who owned them... they are full of memory, they are part of our World. But if you change the rules and use the machines in an unusual way, the story change and also the result. Driving them over the limits we can discover unexpected borders... "...I'm attracted by places where the human presence is denied or cancelled, but where you can still hear their vibes. Abandoned flats, tube stations in disuse, spaces in which Nature grows between asfalt and cement, resuming what men has stolen..." CR. Limited to 300 copies." [label info] www.asilentplace.it 2007 €14.00
ROMULUS & REMUS Zalmosis 10inch Collector’s item – trilogy part 2 ! Excellent tribal / ethno – percussive trance-pieces with edges on this sec. part of the trilogy, silkscreened / woodcut covers & inlays. “Ed. of 111 numbered copies with a bonus coupon. Collect all 3 coupons and send them to R/R and receive a handmade object to hold all 3 releases. Audiophile vinyl packed in a tri-fold cover, signed and numbered. Part 3 of this trilogy will feature Markus Wolff (Crash Worship, Waldteufel). Romulus And Remus are no longer just for Rome. They have become modern dark facilitators for all. Where previously the whiley brothers paid homage to the moon goddess through last year's "Hekate" 10" (B-lRR mt039), they now make worshiping at the alter of the Death God easier and more affordable than ever. Rather than having to defer to the sticky mess of tossing some poor bloke on spear point to appease the ancient Thracian God-O-Death, Zalmosis, all you now need is a turntable and a copy of the new 10" and, by turns, the tides will be turned in your favour without the cleanup. While it certainly can be said that, like its predecessor "Hekate," "Zalmosis" has its bloody scythe lightly dipped in the halotosis of Muslimgauze, the unmistakable "Z" factor of this latest opus reeks of an absolutely distinct Romulus & Remus-ness. The hand percussion breaks are expertly woven into a sonic miasma that often sounds like the record player is on the fritz. Syrupy raga drones become beds for the rhythms to lie in and decay or sometimes be smashed to bits (and, yes, that scraping noise IS supposed to be there, you ninny). There may even be a little one-upmanship over the "Hekate" 10" because, after all, what is the moon goddess going to do in protest? Moon? Nonetheless, both 10"'s are beautifully rendered, extremely limited and indispensable companion pieces with a third on the way. Which is to say that your Zollection is not Zomplete without Zalmosis!” [press release] 2003 €22.00
ROSE, NEIL Wilbur Whateley / Psychopomps LP "... Inspired by the writing of HP Lovecraft this concept album is going to have a beautifully crafted gatefold sleeve and 180 grams worth of black vinyl to enhance your audio pleasure and bring about the apocalypse! Neil Rose is a Plymouth based electroacoustic composer and his debut album fully deploys his considerable skill at interweaving concrete sound sources, the spoken word and awkward polyrhythmic beat material. It is dark and brooding, and at times yields results no recording should produce, and yet retains a danceable sensibility." [label info] "Neil Rose, sonic artist and lecturer at Plymouth College of Art, has developed a double A side concept album – his first, and something of a departure for him – titled Wilbour Whatley / Psychompomps, inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft. Lovecraft, whose writing is liberally descriptive of sound in conveying horror, isn’t interested in poetry. His writing is quick, crude, and hurried – rushing towards something so hideous yet so compelling it wipes out all mind, all sense. He is not escaping from this cosmic horror, he’s escaping to it. It’s a kind of inverse nirvana, and in the album, this expiry of sense, mind, reason – this point of encounter in the music – is devastating. The gathering energy of Yog Sothoth hit me hardest, and it was the oncoming need to dance that I found devastating – if Tolkien’s Belroc was a DJ, he’d play this... " [Arts & Culture] www.onec.tv 2009 €13.00
RUIZ, MIGUEL A. - & BARDOSENETICCUBE Exclusion Zone CD "A collaboration work of Spanish musician Miguel A. Ruiz (Orpheon Gagarin, Efficient Refineries, etc.) and Russian project Bardoseneticcube. Dangerous zones of sonic landscapes painted with the help of analogue synths and sequences, all sorts of samples, vinyl records and even folk instruments (percussion, gusli, penny whistles and pipes). Schizophrenically twisted ambiental collage of the fragments of the modern soundsphere. Rhythmic excursions into contaminated areas. Industrial psychedelia." [label info] "... On the same label, but a concert sadly missed is a release by the duo Bardoseneticcube, who have been active for many years, who do a collaboration with long serving Spanish hero Miguel A. Ruiz. The Russians supply 'basic sounds and samples' while Ruiz add 'sounds, track arrangements and mastering'. What can be noted here, in difference with the previous work of Bardoseneticcube is the presence of rhythm, lots of rhythm actually. They form the solid backbone of the music, which otherwise involves field recordings and electronics. The rhythm part is solid, minimal but truly techno inspired. It bangs and it bangs. It reminded me of of the CD 'Electroid' by Sympathy Nervous from 1994. It has that same solid attitude. The field recordings are also sampled while the electronics are used to play around with, to add that somewhat nice krautrock and psychedelic touch to the music. Despite its minimalism there are lots of minor changes going on, that add a really nice edge to the music. Quite powerful stuff going on here, and a solid, fine work." " [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.aquarellist.ru 2009 €10.00
RV PAINTINGS Samoa Highway LP "RV Paintings were born in California. Humboldt County, to be exact. It is nearly impossible to imagine their origins being elsewhere since the brothers Brian and Jon Pyle, who currently pilot RV Paintings, constantly mine the metaphysical properties of their homeland through a heavy-lidded psychedelia. The redwood trees that majestically rise from the rugged terrain may have been one of the endemic objects that inspired RV Paintings to "jam nature;" but Humboldt County's other major cash crop -- marijuana -- cannot be far behind. As much as the Pyle brothers channel a psychotropic animism through sound, their diaphanous drones and foggy ambient tangles spring from a schematic intelligence that belies any method acting of getting stoned and jamming in a room. Samoa Highway is the second full album for RV Paintings, following the nature jam transmissions of Trinity Rivers published by Root Strata in 2007 and a well-suited split LP with Taiga Remains from Blackest Rainbow. Just as the debut payed homage to the rugged river system that cuts through forests and mountains of the region, Samoa Highway refers to the lengthy bridge that runs between two coastal communities in Humboldt County, one of which houses a municipal airport. A swarm of drone guitars announces the opening of the record on "Millions," with a shoegaze wash collapsing into rarified tone purity and bulging through a metallic buzz. Field recordings of airplane take-off and firework explosions punctuate the undulating bleary smear of the Pyle brothers' guitars. The result is one of levitation, even as RV Paintings seem to be plugging their guitars and electronics directly into the moss, soil, and mycelia of the Humboldt forest. Echo-soaked flutes, maudlin strings, scabrous noises unearthed from the bottom of the Pacific, and a cinematic arcs of guitar shimmer complete the beautiful and haunted miasma of Samoa Highway that falls somewhere between Taj Mahal Travellers, Organum, and The Caretaker. Brian Pyle may be best known as one of the founders of the Starving Weirdos and records his solo work as Ensemble Economique. Samoa Highway stands the first piece of vinyl published by Helen Scarsdale Agency and includes a code for a digital download. Pressed in an edition of 500 copies." [label info] www.helenscarsdale.com "Two brothers, Brian and Jon Pyle are behind RV Paintings and hail from Hunbold County, California, home of redwood trees and marijuana. Bryan Pyle is also a member of Starving Weirdos and solo known as Ensemble Economique. The brothers jam about about to start with and then edit these out into fixed compositions. They use guitars and effects, I believe, and if I am to believe the press text, also flutes and strings. The recording quality doesn't seem to be something that they care about that much, or perhaps its just the pressing that is not that great? It moves into slight distortion which doesn't justify the music. Unlike many of the previous releases by The Helen Scarsdale Agency, this is drone music of a somewhat different branding. More improvised, more loosely played also, these drone based textures are a bit crude and bending the idea of static drone music, with its metallic scraping and reverb effects in the background. A bit like a toned down 'In Extremis' by Organum, with the addition of field recordings, buzzing effects and other obscured sonic debris. A bit more raw than is usual, and that surely marks a fine difference. Because its not top perfect, all the more nice." [FdW/Vital Weekly] "Two brothers from Humboldt County are RV Paintings - one is Brian Pyle, whose name should probably strike a chord as one of the principals in Starving Weirdos and recently has been generating some impressive work under his solo Ensemble Economique moniker; the other is Jon Pyle, who occasionally makes a guest appearance in the Weirdos but also operates in Nudge with Honey Owens, Paul Dickow, and Brian Foote. For all of the method acting from the brothers Pyle in getting stoned and jamming, they have been remarkably consistent and consistently good in all of their ruminations, with RV Paintings probably the best that they've mustered. The RV Paintings debut on Root Strata is three years out but is still a timeless, gorgeous dronesmear of bowed metals and elongated guitar; this was followed by a well-suited split with Taiga Remains on Blackest Rainbow, and now, they've got this stunner on Helen Scarsdale. RV Paintings speak about, to, and from their own immediate surroundings: the moss, mushrooms, and mycelium of the awe-inspiring redwood forests, the heavy fog that hangs at the coast and from their bongs, and the weightiness of the Pacific Ocean just off to the west. The title Samoa Highway gives the impression that the two brothers were on their own trip during a cold, wintery day, gazing off to the southwest and pondering the warmer climate of American Samoa. But no, the Samoa Highway is located in Humboldt County, connecting Eureka with the small community of Samoa on the other side of the bay which was thought to resemble that of Pago Pago in the mid-19th Century. It's also the bridge that would get you to the Arcata/Eureka Airport. So, the album begins with field recordings of airplanes lifting off on the jawdropping track "Millions," as sitar-like harmonics and ghostly, levitating drones emanate from the distance. It's a perfectly narcotized smear of echo and drift, hanging in space as the remnants of a particularly lucid dream or the foggy headspace from an afternoon of smoking pot and staring at the sun. This is a track that could spiral onward forever. So nice! Samoa Highway continues with "Mirrors" driven by melancholy looped melody from a cello that dissolves into a flurry of shimmered guitar fuzz, whose shoegazed mantra has been submerged under centuries of felled trees and lichens. Cyclical patterns of samples from dark yet pastoral orchestral passages rounds out the album. If it weren't for the delicate freeform clamor of the drumkit, tracks such as this wouldn't be that far removed from the 'pop ambient' cuts by Gas. Citations of Taj Mahal Travellers, Organum, Grouper, Barn Owl, and The Caretaker certainly hit the mark. Music for airports? More like Music for California airports! Fuck yeah! And a download coupon is tucked within the sleeve as well!" [Aquarius Records] 2010 €10.00
RYN (or R.Y.N.) Whistle and I'll come to you (SOLD OUT) 7inch Britisches “Power-Drone”-Duo mit erstem Vinyl! Metallisch-rauhe Fliess- & Vibrierkräfte schwemmen die Ratio hinweg und schaffen eine willkommene Leere im Hirn! Cover kommt in 2 Ausführungen: Mit Vollfarb-LaserArt oder s/w eissem Siebdruck! “RYN is a quite new british duo (with members also active as MARZURAAN) and this is after few CDR-outputs their first vinyl release. Their drone-style could be described as “power-drone”, using solely field recordings (here: electric shaver vibration on bits of metal & refrigerator hum) for these two pieces presented here. These energetic sound-sources build masses of heavy clouds in movement that flood your mind away, pure metallic flood-noises that brings a most welcomed VOID into your head. Filed under: Power-Void-Drones PURPLE VINYL. HAND-PRINTED FULL-COLOUR ART SHEETS & SILKSCREENED COVERS” [press release] 2006 €6.50  
SAAADON м​р​е​т​ь (​н​а​у​т​р​о н​о​ч​ь​) [Die (in the morning night)] CD In 2018, the longtime partnership between the St-Petersburg based duo Sádon (familiar to us from their collaboration with Treha Sektori) & France's Romain Barbot alias Saåad (who has curated & managed the BLWBCK label and released Sádon's early material) finally turned into a musical collaboration as Saáadon. Entitled мреть (наутро ночь) (which can be translated as « Die (in the morning night ») is centered around the melancholic and introspective poetry of Donat Mavleev, evoking a secular dream, the end of time, its horizon and beyond. The trio's music moves across drone & ambient soundscapes, giving birth to a disturbing strangeness with radiant hues, simultaneously intense and peaceful. A poignant emotional journey the likes only such a joining forces can conjure. CD edition of 300 copies in 6 panels Digisleeve, Matt Lamination. 5 Tracks. Running Time 37:02 LP Edition of 200 copies on black vinyl with printed inner sleeve, Matt Lamination. 5 Tracks. Running Time 37:02 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/- 2021 €13.00
SALOMAN, GABRIEL Adhere LP "When legendary noise duo Yellow Swans dissolved just prior to releasing Going Places, it left in its wake two musicians with very distinct but very different voices. Pete Swanson's post-YS technoid experimentations have been well documented, but that still leaves Gabriel Saloman, who, after leaving the group, buried himself headfirst in sounds and images that were possibly even further away from his comfort zone. Adhere is Saloman's first "proper" solo album, and it finds him stripping away the blood, sweat and tears of his old band, revealing a rich seam of ominous restraint. Delicately-picked strings, piano and hocking woodblock percussion are drowned in reverb and drawn out in cold anguish giving a cracked, minimalist mirror to the work of fellow Miasmah alums Kreng or Elegi. A softly-spoken record, while Adhere pushes away Saloman's noise history, none of his well-documented intensity is discarded and lost. Instead, the blistering punk nihilism is allowed to simmer and boil over in different ways, and the occasional moments of post-Cocteau Twins shimmering bliss we could just about make out on Going Places are now given a chance to shine in all their glory. Adhere is a surprising, challenging and perfectly-paced album, and fits into its very own niche, ushering in a new generation of listeners to Saloman's distorted, hazy vision. Includes mp3 download." [label info] www.miasmah.com "After the breakup of the much-loved floor-core noise duo, Yellow Swans, Pete Swanson has carved quite a solo career for himself, but we haven't heard as much from fellow YS member Gabriel Saloman. As it turns out, Saloman has been rather busy himself over the past few years in Vancouver working on various solo projects of his own under the monikers of GMS and Sade Sade and with collaborative projects Diadem and Chambers. Most of his projects have taken on a conceptual form of social resistance like his Music for Prisons project, which employed field recordings of protests for imprisoned Tamil refugees with original music to be broadcast at extreme volume outside of prison walls as a form of political protest against authoritarian-imposed incarceration. But Adhere, his vinyl debut for the Miasmah label, is the first time we're getting a full sense of the range of Saloman's sonic vision, and it is uniquely compelling and powerful. Composed in collaboration with a contemporary dance group, Adhere reads as a modern classical composition in seven parts with intense builds and pregnant silences, centered around reverberated piano, bowed strings, ambient guitar, percussive woodblocks and martial drumming into a captivating and beautiful soundscape. Sometimes the intensity is restrained by minimal piano stabs in a big empty room, in the third part, we hear some gorgeous Robin Guthrie-ish guitar washes, still later some dramatic yet solemn percussion. The entire composition toggling back and forth between quietly pensive dynamics and voluminous crescendos that give a sonic drama to an obviously visual accompaniment. Perfect for the Miasmah label which has always had a strong focus on marrying works of experimental classical forms with dark penetrating ambience." [Aquarius Records] 2012 €16.00
Movement Building Vol. 1 LP "Over the past few years Gabriel Saloman has developed a reputation for releasing penetrating works of haunting beauty in his new role as a solo performer and composer. Known for his part in the seminal electronic-noise duo Yellow Swans (alongside Pete Swanson), Saloman has taken the sweeping drones and fried electricity of his former band and embedded them within an expanding pallette of bowed strings, martial percussion and resonant piano. The majority of his work to date has been developed as music for contemporary dance, exemplified by two recent solo albums with Miasmah, 2012's melancholic Adhere and last years celebrated ode to mud and decay Soldier's Requiem. As he continues to prolifically produce music for dance, Saloman has developed a new series with Shelter Press to make these works available: Movement Building. The first of two volumes to be released individually on vinyl and together on CD, The Disciplined Body is a 34 minute work that moves through ghostly minimalist drones, poly-vocal drumming and culminates in an aching climb through sheets of shimmering guitar chords before erupting in a violent spurt of harsh noise. While at its climax it may be evocative of transcendental string manglers ranging from My Bloody Valentine to Godspeed You Black Emperor, in its more subtle moments it wades through the kind of blackened water that suggests the outer boundaries of ambient metal, or the ghostly remnants of a cassette dub of beatless electronics. Composed for Daisy Karen Thompson's 'Re-Marks on Source Material', the music shares that dance's Foucault influenced questioning of the limits imposed on our bodies by technology and labor, reaching for an ecstatic escape from discipline and control. Listeners may want to reach for the same - to do so we suggest they play this recording very very loud. Mastered and cut by Elmut Herler at D+M (Berlin) and pressed in a limited edition of 500 copies worldwide." [label info] www.shelter-press.com 2014 €17.00
Movement Building Vol. 3 LP Shelter Press has made good on its promise to deliver the third and final volume of its series featuring Gabriel Saloman, released both on vinyl and collected with Movement Building Vol. I (2014) and Vol. II (2015) as a double CD. For fans of Saloman’s post-Yellow Swans work – an already dense catalog of darkly cinematic compositions mostly conceived as accompaniment to some of Vancouver’s edgier contemporary dance companies, Movement Building Vol. III is not only a much anticipated conclusion to this trilogy, it is the most fully realized album in years. Where as Movement Building Vol. I & II acted primarily as documentation of time-based artworks, Movement Building Vol. III offers a more coherent and narratively rich album that will appeal to admirers of Soldier’s Requiem (Miasmah, 2013). Listeners will recognize the emotive bowed strings, militant percussion and searing guitar eruptions that evoked memory and trauma in that previous album. Joining this pallet are other familiar Saloman sounds: shoegaze washes of distorted guitar, minimalist piano attacks, melancholic appregiated melodies, and a patina of harsh noise. Added to this is a more 21st Century approach to drums and bass, perhaps an effect of his collaborations with producer Michael Red in their dub-ambient project Chambers. Saloman’s music has never sat comfortably in any genre, sharing with a select cohort of other artists (Stephen O’Malley, Lawrence English, Grouper, Kreng, Tim Hecker, among others) an ambiguous position between “modern classical”, “electronic music”, and the more outer limits of metal. Movement Building Vol. III doesn’t clarify as much as it expands Saloman’s oeuvre further into an idiosyncratic musical no-man’s land that fails to be faithful to any popular musical trend – contemporary, retro or futurist. Movement Building Vol. III’s themes are taken from the dance it was composed for, 2015’s What Belongs To You, created by longtime collaborator Vanessa Goodman (Adhere, Soldier’s Requiem). That work sent its dancers through a physical journey exploring the needs of the body, for shelter, for love and for self-actualization, roughly aligned to Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs”. The resulting album seems to achingly soundtrack the struggle for survival, not simply for bare life but for something greater and more transcendent that would make survival have meaning. It holds dread and hope in equal parts, never quite giving away the end of the story. Though this record was recorded two years ago Movement Building Vol. III could be the perfect album for our current era of civilizational near-collapse, whether at the hands of maniacal politicians, the slow burn of the Anthropocene or the constant enclosure of the corporate driven, social media enabled surveillance state. Movement Building Vol. III arrives both as a stand alone vinyl release, and as part of a collection of all three volumes packaged in one double CD. The collection of these works allows one to see clearly Saloman’s techniques and approaches to a relatively limited number of instruments – guitar, percussion, occasional piano and tape. Movement Building Vol. I is presented as one continuous piece, moving through an extended set of drone and loping drum play before climaxing in the kind of glorious guitar chording most often associated with My Bloody Valentine, GSYBE or Mono. Movement Building Vol. II explores various combinations of drum and drone, ASMR inducing high end clatter and the now infamous take on Miles Davis’ classic My Funny Valentine. The digital versions of these albums, mastered by Helmut Erler at Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering, restore to them their full range of frequency and dynamics, providing a deeper glimpse into the theatrical origins of their composition. Movement Building Vol. III is not only the final installment in Shelter Press’ series but also represents the culmination of a prolific period of creation for Saloman that began with 2012’s Adhere. From 2011-2016, Saloman produced dozens of recordings in collaboration with various dance artists. Currently living in Santa Cruz, California, and working on a PhD concerning noise and protest, it’s unclear how a new home and a new political reality will shape the music he makes next. One thing is for certain: it’s unlikely that Saloman will be silent for long. shelter-press.org/gabriel-salomanmovement-building-vol-3/ 2017 €20.00
  Movement Building do-CD Shelter Press collect all three volumes of the compelling Movement Building works for dance by Gabriel Saloman (Yellow Swans) in a handy double CD set, providing a first opportunity to listen and immerse yourself in the noise deity’s most refined and touching body of work since going solo after Yellow Swans’ demise. Since 2014 Shelter Press has been steadily releasing a multi-volume series of documents showcasing Gabriel Saloman’s music for contemporary dance. Under the title of Movement Building, these albums have covered a wide breadth of themes and approaches, all of them coalescing around Saloman’s darkly cinematic approach to contemporary guitar music. Known for his part in the seminal electronic-noise duo Yellow Swans (alongside Pete Swanson), Saloman has taken the sweeping drones and fried electricity of his former band and embedded them within an expanding pallette of bowed strings, martial percussion and resonant piano. Shelter Press has now made good on its promise to collect all three volumes of this vinyl only series – Movement Building Vol. I (2014); Vol. II (2015); and Vol. III (2017) – as a double CD featuring two hours of music, new artwork, previously unreleased tracks, a new digital master by Helmut Erler of Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering, and an extensive essay on dance, politics and the themes of each album written by Saloman. These collected volumes provide an absolutely necessary document for any fan of Saloman’s work, past or present. The first disc collects Movement Building Vol. I and Vol. II, the former a sprawling 36 minutes epic that had previously been separated into two discreet tracks for vinyl and is collected here as one continuous piece, moving through an extended set of drone and loping drum play before climaxing in the kind of glorious guitar chording most often associated with groups such as My Bloody Valentine, GSYBE or Mono. Movement Building Vol. II explores various combinations of drum and drone, ASMR inducing high end clatter and Saloman’s infamous take on Miles Davis’ classic My Funny Valentine. The second disc collects Movement Building Vol. III, including two tracks not available on the concurrently released vinyl version. Vol. III shares with earlier albums the emotive and disorienting bowed guitar, militant percussion and searing guitar eruptions that was so evocative of memory and trauma. Joining this pallet are other familiar Saloman sounds: shoegaze washes of distorted guitar, minimalist piano attacks, melancholy guitar melodies, and a patina of harsh noise at just the right moments. Added to this is a more contemporary approach to drums and bass, perhaps an effect of his collaborations with producer Michael Red in their dub-ambient project Chambers. Saloman’s music has never sat comfortably in any genre, sharing with a select cohort of other artists (Stephen O’Malley, Lawrence English, Grouper, Kreng, Tim Hecker, among others) an ambiguous position overlapping “modern classical”, “electronic music”, and the more outer limits of “ambient metal”. The recordings collected in Movement Building doesn’t clarify as much as it expands Saloman’s oeuvre further into an idiosyncratic musical no-man’s land that fails to be faithful to any popular musical trend – contemporary, retro or futurist. 2017 €17.00
SALTLAND I thought it was us but it was all of us LP "Saltland is the new project led by Montreal-based cellist Rebecca Foon, best known as a founding member of contemporary chamber group Esmerine and a former member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Set Fire To Flames. Foon began composing solo work in 2010, featuring multi-layered cello and hushed vocals at the intersection of drone, no-wave, improv, dream-pop and minimalism. Joined by Jamie Thompson (Unicorns, Esmerine) on miniature percussion, programming and signal processing, Foon's live performances in Montreal and abroad over the past two years have seen her sound progress towards gently rhythmic and electronic territory as well. She has transfixed audiences with this new music while sharing the stage with Mary Margaret O'Hara, Julia Kent, Nat Baldwin and Sam Amidon, among others. As her largely home-recorded debut album began taking shape throughout 2011, with numerous guests contributing to various pieces, Foon adopted the Saltland moniker for this work. I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us is a beautifully restrained debut album that telescopes the directness and economy of Foon's compositional and vocal styles into lush, twilight atmospheres aglow with luminescent tendrils and flickering particles. Foon sings of childhood innocence lost, of tender utopic reveries and downcast dystopic horizons, and the search for soft, stoic strength in a darkening, devolving world. Foon’s voice is discreet but defined, drifting on buoyant currents of sound sourced from her plucked and bowed cello lines, in most cases propelled by Thompson's bespoke percussion and understated programming/processing, with touches of guitar, bass, horns, woodwinds, strings and backing vocals added by a cast of supporting players. The record unfurls like a gauzy flag in a restless breeze at dusk: a delicate, resolute sentinel set against the fading light. The album's ambience also owes much to the work of Mark Lawson, the award-winning engineer (Arcade Fire) who collaborated closely with Foon to record and mix these songs at Six Saint V, her apartment studio in Montreal. Lawson, along with friend and percussionist Thompson, helped to forge a balance between lo-fi intimacy and shimmering breadth with these recordings, remaining faithful to the all-anologue instrumentation of the source material while judiciously deploying signal processing strategies to subtly refract, saturate and expand the sonic landscape. With contributions from Laurel Sprengelmeyer and Jess Robertson (Little Scream), Mishka Stein (Patrick Watson), Colin Stetson (Bon Iver), Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) among others, Saltland offers up an unassumingly immersive debut album of searching songs that blend several core influences into a distinctively naturalistic sound. Saltland stakes out an unaffected, meditative, clear-eyed and earnest space where minimalism, dream-pop, drone, shoegaze, confessional folk, chamber music, and ambient/electronic coexist and coalesce. Release date: 14 May 2013 Running time: 38:32 Packaging notes CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on 100% recycled paperboard in 4-colour process. LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight gatefold jacket printed in full-colour process." [label info] www.cstrecords.com 2013 €23.00
SAMARTZIS, PHILIP & LAWRENCE ENGLISH One plus One maxi-CD "The turntable has enjoyed a varied history in the realm of performance and experimental music. From the early phonographic works of John Cage to the spliced cut-ups of Christian Marclay in the 1980s, the device has proven to be a versatile tool for the creation and transformation of sound. Following a joint billing at Brisbane's Metro Arts Space in 2002, Melbourne based composer Philip samartzis and sound artist Lawrence English shared a 30-minute performance that was to become the beginning of their on-going turntable duo. Both samartzis (a member of the legendary Australian turntable group Gum) and English (a regular player with DJ Olive, Janek Schaefer and others) have long histories of live actions utilising turntables and together each of them brings a wealth of gestures and unique sonic qualities to the instrument. Recorded in early 2006, this edition captures the initial studio works from these two artists and seeks to reflect on the potential of the cyclical nature of vinyl and the surface noise that envelopes the very medium itself." [label info] www.room40.org 2006 €7.50
SAND Vibrating Cloud do-CD Over 5 decades Sand is a timeless narrative machine full of pictures and scenarios, each title a unique piece that stands alone. The band took off with 'Golem', the analogue primitive robot that became independent and out of control. A hybrid creature related to Enki Bilal's mutants, androids, animal humans or automatons. This is their collaboration with artwork by Bilal. Contains 16 tracks of which 6 are remakes from the '70s. Comes on 200 gram vinyl. https://rotorelief.bandcamp.com/album/vibrating-cloud 2020 €18.50
SATOH, SOMEI Mandala Trilogy + 1 do-LP WRWTFWW Records announce the full official reissue of Somei Satoh's magnificent Avatamsaka Sutra inspired Mandala Trilogy with one additional never-released piece. Sourced from original masters and available on double vinyl in heavy 350gsm sleeve with liner notes by passionate Japanese music connoisseur/collector/critic/DJ, Masaaki Hara. Deep deep deep into the abyss... The Mandala Trilogy blends Somei Satoh's own slowed down Buddhist chant vocalization and early electronics to create a radiant and meditative atmosphere conveying serenity and timelessness. It includes three pieces recorded separately. "Mandala" was recorded at the NHK Studio of Electronic Music in 1982 and was included on the album Mandala/Sumeru, released on Kojima Recordings' ALM. "Mantra" was an NHK commissioned work, recorded at the same studio in 1986. "Tantra" was recorded at Victoria University of Wellington's Lilburn Studios for electronic music and recording in 1990. Included as a bonus is the 20-minute "Mai", a composition commissioned by harpist Ayako Shinozaki and recorded at the Kioi Hall in Tokyo on November 11th, 2004. The piece was conducted by Tetsuji Honna and performed by the Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo. Satoh says: "The harp is one of my favorite instruments. Also, by combining my affectionate percussion instrument, the chromatic gong and steel drum, with the harp's most beautiful tone, I attempted to bring out a mystical sound." Although it is not an electronic music piece, the stunning composition elegantly complements the deep mystical world that Satoh expresses in his Mandala Trilogy. Mandala Trilogy + 1 is reissued in conjunction with Somei Satoh's Emerald Tablet / Echoes LP https://wrwtfww.com/album/mandala-trilogy-1 2021 €30.00
SAVAGE REPUBLIC Tragic Figures (40th Anniversary Edition) do-CD Welcome to the world’s first (and only) post-punk-industrial-trance-psychedelic-surf album! The fact that it took us so many adjectives to describe Tragic Figures lets you know just how unique of an album it is. Sure, there are echoes of other artists, like krautrock legends Can, post-punkers Public Image Limited (Savage Republic opened for PiL on their 1982 West Coast dates), avant-garde guitar players like Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, scrap metal industrialists Einstürzende Neubauten, and Bay Area sludgecore nihilists Flipper—but really, this unlikely product of (mostly) UCLA undergrads sounds like no other record before or since. And only adding to Tragic Figures’ mystique are its graphics, which displayed band co-founder Bruce Licher’s trademark letterpress printing and featured a UPI photo of rebels getting executed in Kurdistan, the ghostly images sharing space with a red lettering that gave the album’s title in script that roughly translated “tragic figures” into Arabic (which, in turn, had the unexpected effect of drawing more Iranian and Middle Eastern people to their shows)! Tragic Figures wasn’t just a bold musical statement; it was an objet d’art in its own right. For its 40th anniversary edition, we at Real Gone Music worked with Bruce Licher to preserve and expand on the magical, talismanic quality of the initial release. The original album has been remastered from the original tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, while both the CD and LP editions both boast an extra disc of largely unreleased rehearsal recordings taped in the bowels of UCLA parking garages, where the band used to practice to take advantage of the extended reverb afforded by all the concrete surfaces (imagine being an unwitting undergrad happening upon this unearthly din coming out of nowhere)! Richie Unterberger’s liner notes feature interviews with band members Licher, Philip Drucker, and Jeff Long, and the LP comes with the original cover graphics expanded into a gatefold jacket pressed in heavyweight “chipboard” paper stock. Finally, the LP pressing is in red vinyl limited to 2000 copies. Clear your calendar and set aside a couple of hours to listen to Tragic Figures…you won’t end up where you started. 2022 €30.00
  Live in Wroclaw January 7, 2023 do-LP + 8" lathe "Hailing from the Los Angeles underground of the 1980s, Savage Republic forged an astonishing reputation for themselves as art-punk and industrial pioneers with their legendary performances. Their brand of ritualistically tribal exhibitions blurred the boundaries of Post-Punk and Industrial music. Their music incorporates minimialist bass rumbles, exotic and/or militaristic drumming, Arabic melodies, alternate tunings, primal chants and even a bit of surf guitar. Savage Republic released four full length albums in the 1980s, plus several live records and compilation tracks. 1989 everything went quiet as the republic scattered to pursue other interests and their labels and distributors folded. After reuniting in 2002 for a brief U.S. tour supporting the boxed-set reissue of their five studio albums by Mobilization Records, several of the members began sharing ideas for new songs, reviving the band officially in 2005. In 2006/2007 Savage Republic added drum professor Alan Waddington (the Unforgiven) to the line-up and released "1938" on Neurot Recordings, the band"s first studio recording in 18 years. The limited edition "Siam" EP was also released on Neurot Recordings featuring alternate mixes of some of the "1938" material. In 2021 Savage Republic released the album "Meteora" on Gusstaff Records and during the tour promoting this album in January 2023, the band also played a concert in Wroclaw, Poland. It became not only a document of this route, but also a kind of summary of their entire history. The album is released in CD format (the entire concert), as a black LP (over half of the concert) and as a limited red vinyl with an 8-inch vinyl record (lathe-cut) added with a few remaining songs from the concert. Both LP versions were pressed on thick 200g vinyl. Vinyl versions include download codes with the entire concert. 2023 €33.50
SCHAEFER, JANEK Le petit theatre de Mercelis CD JANEK SCHAEFER CD which comes on a new sublabel from SUB ROSA and packed in large DVD-Box! “ Manipulated field recordings are combined with live modified vinyl and found sound in a 'Concréte ruffian style' [The Wire 1998]. His most recent research has been examining the role of the record/vinyl as a compositional tool. And as in his recent " Pulled Under" he forms an enveloping and dense stream of macrosonic [close focus] soundscapes. Navigating fluidly through a series of absorbing and granular abstract environments. The raw material mostly combines modified travel recordings, live out-takes and custom made vinyl manipulations using the 'Twin' turntable. Not hearing here, his 'Tri-Phonic Turntable' was recently entered into the Guinness Book of Records as the worlds 'Most Versatile Record Player'! This important unpublished work comes from a recent sub rosa event (20-21 april 2002 in brussels). highly abstract with an obsessive slow changes including strange forms of scratchings.” [label press release] 2002 €13.50
  Inner Space Memorial in Wonderland LP "Dekorder presents two new vinyl editions composed and designed by UK sound artist Janek Schaefer, who is known around the world for his wide variety of engaging and unpredictable works for installation, concert and composition. Following his highly acclaimed ‘Lay-by Lullaby’ album on 12k [which Pitchfork listed in the ‘Top 10 under-the-radar releases for 2014’], Janek has created and collated a collection of tracks that showcase both his more ambient works [077], and his highly charged sonorities [078]. A beautiful pair of LP’s that ideally should be experienced together for your home listening pleasure. The tracks were mastered by Stephan Mathieu and cut by Lupo at Calyx Mastering. 'Over the years, I have produced a number of works in praise of the ideas of J.G Ballard. He lived just over the river from my home. While reading his autobiography in 2009, I was wandering how to go and say hello, but found out I was too late. I produced a monument in honour of him called the ‘Inner Space Memorial’, part of my Retrospective at the Bluecoat in Liverpool. A pair of speaker cones were turned around to play back into the void of their cabinets. An epitaph for a great mind.' 'Wonderland is the finale of my exhibition soundtrack to "Asleep at the wheel...". A work that questions where our culture is heading further down the highway ahead. A single majestic daydream that drives you forwards as reality undertakes you. Location recordings were made in the middle of the night on a footbridge over the M3, at the end of Ballard's street. I was fascinated to work out that while he was writing Crash and Concrete Island, the six lane motorway was being built right past the front of his home. Ideal music for when you need to stay awake on the road!' Biography: Janek Schaefer has exhibited, lectured, and performed widely throughout Europe [Sonar, Tate Modern, ICA, Strasbourg Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art], USA/Canada, [Walker Art Center, Mutek, Princeton, XI], Japan, and Australia [Sydney Opera House 2003]. His foundsound concerts and installations explore the spatial, social and celestial qualities that sound can communicate, through the twisting of old and new technology. The context of each idea is central to its development and resolution, often exploring themes of appropriation, accident, & alteration. Janek studied Architecture at the Royal College of Art where he worked with Brian Eno, creating “Recorded Delivery” in 1995, and discovered how important sound is in perceiving space, and place. In 2008 he won the British Composer of the Year Award in Sonic Art, and a Paul Hamlyn Award. The Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool exhibited a Retrospective of his career to date in 2009. He is represented by the Agency gallery, London, and is a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes Sonic Art Research Unit. He lives and works in Walton-on-Thames." [label info] www.dekorder.com 2014 €14.00
SCHICKERT, GÜNTER & PETER UNSICKER Mauerharfe LP + CD Günter Schickert, krautrock maestro of echo-driven psychedelia, returns on Marmo one year and half after the release of the Labyrinth LP. Mauerharfe consists of old and special material, which has officially never seen the light before. It is due for release on the eve of the 30th anniversary of Berlin Wall fall, in 12” LP with CD, CD and digital formats. The physical versions contain exclusive pictures, linear notes, a prose poem by Peter Unsicker and some draft writings by the artists with reflections on the project. Berlin, August 1990, first post-wall Summer. Two friends, the locals Günter Schickert and gallerist Peter Unsicker perform a spectacular yet symbolically intimate interpretation of those epochal changing days by building a sound installation with a damaged piece of the Berlin Wall. They persuade the patrol “Feliks Dzierzynski” of the Western German army to transport and relocate a the piece outside Peter`s Wall Street Gallery on the Zimmer Strasse, in the borough of Mitte, where only a few months back the intact structure actually passed through. 
Once the wall was positioned, they bend down the bars of the iron structure that crop out the concrete, bind piano chords to them, stretch the strings down to the bottom base of the construct and connect guitar amplifiers to the set up. The Berlin Wall is ready to be played as a harp. Günter Schickert`s Mauerharfe are executed between August and October 1990, resulting into three long field recordings. Side A features a 19` long piece. The tape-induced background noise lays down a carpet of haunting atmospheres and introduces the experiment. Günter starts to test the chords by pulling out, with his fingers, dry and acid timbers. The warm up evolves by investigating wider sinusoidal waves and dilated metallic riffs. The track takes the form of a more conventional music narration, as the artist bangs the harp with a sort of rudimental violin bow creating marching percussive patterns. Layers of psychedelic ambience take over the scene before mixing up with roaring industrial spasms. Lunar sceneries seem to emerge, paving the way to sudden strings feedbacks, crackling distorted clicks and menacing reverbs. Flipping side, a similarly long take opens up with ferocious urge, like being catapulted into a warfare between iron and cement, sounding like a real military operation. As the strings get hit and pulled, the metal seems to crash into thousands of pieces, dissolving into merciless distortions. Yet it is intriguing to notice how these dynamics of madness occasionally generate wavy and gentle sub-harmonics. This piece adds up intensity in comparison to the previous one, containing enhanced abrasive and distorted frequencies. The final part is marked by monstrous echoing rhythms, before drifting back to a chaotic rumble of fire, metal and concrete. The third piece, Mauerharfe 3, is a 30 minutes long performance dated August the 13th 1990. As Schickert recalls, 29 years before exactly on that same date, the construction of the Berlin wall was accomplished. This take appears exclusively on CD, with copies included inside the vinyl package and as a separate CD format release. The recording is cleaner than the previous two, giving more width and definition to the sounds. As opposed to Mauerharfe 1 and 2, where the wall of sound is overwhelming, in this 3rd take human presences can be heard : fragments of women voices, a baby crying, the siren of a police car. The compositional approach is more sober, the tones of the harp warmer, closer to an actual one, its notes more gentle, discrete and meditative, sometimes resulting into deep, gong-like percussive timbers. As Günter Schickert claims, the idea behind the project was the one of representing, in a personal musical way, the feelings and sensations that he – as well as many others experiencing the division and eventually the removal of the Wall - felt through the decades around the presence of this monstrous separator. The wall becomes an instrument, seen both as an object and executor of the experiment, while the human and artistic presence almost vanishes. The atonal and harsh sounds embody the ugliness of an inhuman separation, the terrible echoes of prisons and the lament of its prisoners. The pulling of the strings suggests the repression of a regime, while releasing these it indicates a dash of freedom. You can get lost into the intensity of the Mauerharfe, find always new sensations and a countless amount of details. If you approach the listening with adventurous spirit and a good dose of curiosity, it can really throw you back into the past, a past of segregation, austerity and suppression, yet of an urging desire of liberation. https://marmomusic.bandcamp.com/album/g-nter-schickert-peter-unsicker-mauerharfe 2019 €22.50
SCHIMKAT, ANNA Brot und Ro-sen LP Anna Schimkat's "Brot und Ro-sen" (Bread and Ro-ses) explores the connection between music, collective memory, and women's struggle for recognition through interviews with women from East and West Germany. The piece includes a score of sound and text fragments based on the interviewees' memories, which was first performed as a sound installation at the ODP Gallery in Leipzig, Germany. It was later performed live by young women at the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig as part of the "Conscious Inability - The Archive Gabriele Stötzer" exhibition. The accompanying booklet includes Marcel Raabe's "Sound Space Body," (“Schall Raum Körper” in German language) and the vinyl's B-side features Schimkat and Raabe's interview collage "Takt halten kann ich nicht" (I can't keep tact). Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl. Including 12pp booklet with score, photographs and liner notes by Marcel Raabe (in German). Singers: Henriette Aichinger, Clara Ehrenwerth, Kristin Elsner, Marie Kraja, Lea Oelkers, Johanna Posenenske, Josefine Poser, Juliane Schmidt, Vera Seyffert Interviewees: Gabriele Stötzer & Verena Kyselka, Bettina Schröder-Polten & Annette Benjamin, Bettina Schimkat, Ingrid Schmidt-Viertel, Dr. Eva Gutheil, Renate Gieg.Musical Assistance: Michael Barthel Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi Design by Marian Reinig https://fragmentfactory.bandcamp.com/album/brot-und-ro-sen 2023 €20.00
SCHITTKO, CLEMENS / LOUIS JUCKER / THE SPYON / JEROEN DIEPENMAAT / KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BÄR Home Made Universe LP Tracklist A1 –Clemens Schittko Selbstkritik A2 –Louis Jucker Fake Fake Folk A3 –The Spyon Got Milk (#6) A4 –Jeroen Diepenmaat Home Made Universe A5 –Louis Jucker Vielle Laroque B –Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär Copenhagen Magazines LP is series FLUXUS +/-, limited to 100 copies, LP appears in black vinyl with black labels. 2018 €22.00
SCHLIENZ, GÜNTER Book of Dreams CD "Günter Schlienz, one of the leading creators of modular electronica placed at the intersection of ambient and new age, gained positive reviews with his last album, "Autumn", the first one released on Zoharum. Now he comes back with a reissue of "Book of Dreams". First released in a small amount of 100 copies on vinyl, it was sold out in just a few weeks. Now this excellent album is back in expanded form, complemented with two additional tracks. It is a surprising release, because it is completely different from "Autumn", consisting of shorter recordings with much more dynamic. Original sleeve notes for the album: "Book of Dreams" was inspired by notes about dreams I wrote down shortly after I woke up from my sleep. In those strange moments between fantasy and reality, when you can still remember the images and feelings of the dream before they are rubbed off by daytime thoughts and troubles. The compositions which can be heard on this album trying to recapture those images and feelings mixed with a second thought, kind of a sober interpretation of the sometimes wild and furious adventures with somnia. The album "Book of Dreams" is released in a 3-panel ecopak in a strictly limited edition of 250 copies. The cover was designed Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek). It is mastered by Niko. The whole production process was overseen by Michał Porwet." https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-dreams 2017 €12.00
SCHNITZLER, CONRAD / PYROLATOR / WOLFGANG SEIDEL / KOMMISSAR HJULER / ETC. A Tribute to Anthony Braxton LP Tracklist A1 –Conrad Schnitzler & Wolfgang Seidel kWh 01/03 A2 –Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator 287_4 A3 –Kommissar Hjuler Gerichtsverhandlung fuer Eimer und Giesskannen B1 –Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau _____Br/I+ T° n_/ B2 –Albrecht/d. & Der Mußikant Duett Notes LP, limited 75 copies, numbered, black vinyl, white labels, part of series FLUXUS +/-. 2016 €23.00
SCHWARZ, ROBERT The Scale of Things LP "Distantly rooted in musique concrète, ”The Scale Of Things” discloses an uncanny, multilayered sonic universe of its own. The seven compositions are based on the exploration of nature recordings for unheard details and hidden layers, focused on patterns of stochastic order and unique chaos created without musical intention. The harmony we hear is the harmony of overwhelming and collective uncertainty, because this nature is chaos. Audio transformations that remain hidden, accompanied by modular synthesizers purposely blur most links to the “real” world, in favor of a strange and poetic realm, following the erratic patterns of nature. Mesmerizing and disturbing at the same time, an ambivalent dualism emerges of a strange world that is dissolving and not dissolving. A world that can only be described by it’s surface. Expulsed from nature, as our brain is expulsed from nature. Die Natur ist das einzige immerwährende Menschenunmögliche. Track list: 01 Drift Following The Seam 02 In The Flat Field 03 Frost 04 Self-Propelled-Sound-Particles 05 With The Witch 06 Mabalel 07 From Surface Downwards 7 Tracks (35′42″) Vinyl (300 copies) recorded, composed and produced by Robert Schwarz field recordings from Bale, La Gomera, Mmabolela(*), Naxos, Vienna and Yangshuo (*) ‘Sonic Mmabolela’ residency/workshop, organized by Francisco López and James Webb produced in Vienna 2013-2014 r-schwarz.tumblr.com soundcloud.com/schwarz mastered by SELF" www.gruenrekorder.de 2015 €16.00
SERRIES, DIRK / STEFANO GENTILE The Disintegration of Silence CD + BOOK DIRK SERRIES THE DISINTEGRATION OF SILENCE 28-page 8" Book + CD, ltd. 250 handnumbered copies Stefano Gentile and Dirk Serries met almost thirty years ago when Stefano’s Amplexus label released Vidna Obmana’s seminal classic "The Transcending Quest" on a limited 3” CD. Fast forward twenty years later, after the ending of Dirk Serries’ critically acclaimed Vidna Obmana project, Stefano and Dirk, under his own name, regathered with another gem "The Devastation Chant", a limited 8” lathe cut and a 10” vinyl on Gentile’s new label Silentes/13 that featured Stefano’s own impressive collage artwork. Now again, after four years, Dirk Serries, fully operational under his own name as a free (jazz) improviser, frequently returns to his trademark ambient music while continuing to push himself as an artist and sound sculptor. THE DISINTEGRATION OF SILENCE is Dirk’s new album that, partially inspired by the melancholic collage artwork of Stefano Gentile, plays with the sounds he has been recognized and appreciated worlwide for almost four decades, while - so typical for Dirk’s ongoing knack for adventure - expanding the comfort of his ambience with alienating analog and real-time treatments. An album that has been performed solely on electric guitar in conjunction with plenty of pedal effects and absolutely no computers. Enjoy this breathtaking work of melancholy and introspection, marking it another milestone in the collaboration between Stefano Gentile and Dirk Serries. https://dirkserries.bandcamp.com/album/the-disintegration-of-silence "The most extensive package is the 28-page booklet, 8 inches squared of collages by label boss Stefano Gentile and music by Dirk Serries. The two go back some thirty years, when Gentile's first label enterprise, Amplexus, released a 3"CD by Serrires, then working as Vidna Obmana. Four years ago, Gentile released some more music by Serries, now working under his own name, on vinyl and 'The Disintegration Of Silence' is their latest offering. In the booklet, we find collages by Gentile from fashion ads, words, and newspapers, all looking quite colourful. As I am playing Serries' music at the same time, I am thinking about his music concerning the collages. Maybe the music resembles black-and-white photography of nature shots, trees and such. Still, the relation between images and music becomes more apparent if you look at the images as worn-out pages from magazines from a long time ago. These days, Serries is more known as a player of free improvised music, but he occasionally returns to the world of ambient music, and this is what he does here, playing five excellent moody tunes on his guitar. Many guitar effects are used, some of which are a bit hissy, such as in the second part. At times, it sounds like he has been made on a reel-to-reel tape, using various bits of tape stuck together, with the music recorded later. It creates a refined, somewhat unsettling atmosphere and sometimes just a beautiful atmosphere in the longest and final piece. It's always good to hear Serries doing this kind of music occasionally. I understand his heart might be somewhere else, but I assume he also wants to unwind after a hard day of improvising and do what he does very well. A true beauty." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2023 €20.00
SEVERED HEADS Clifford Darling please don't live in the Past do-LP "Severed Heads are one of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, incorporating elements of ‘industrial’ noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Garry Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads was the vehicle for composer Tom Ellard. In 1985 their record label asked them to release a retrospective, so they dragged out bits that we had lying around from 1979 up til 1983. The compilation was titled “Clifford Darling Please Don’t Live In The Past”, spread out into a montage over four sides of vinyl. Bradbury and Ellard would fuss each bit and sling it on their new digital recorder, and since they still have the digital recorder, this reissue is made directly from the bits assembled twenty years ago. This compilation includes live recordings, raw demos, unreleased studio recordings and solo pieces from each member of the band during from the first five years. Their early music was characterized by the use of tape loops, noisy arrangements of synthesizers and other dissonant sound sources in the general category of industrial music. After several releases in that vein, Severed Heads began incorporating various popular music tropes, such as a consistent 4/4 rhythm, strong melodic lines, resolving chord arrangements and the occasional vocal. This move was underscored by the incorporation of mimetic devices, such as drum machines and bass synthesizers. The result was a striking hybrid of the avant-garde industrial and pop. All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in a jacket featuring brightly colored, distorted, VHS graphics output by Stephen Jones’ video synthesizer created by Tom Ellard video piece “Kato Gets The Girl” in 1985, designed by Eloise Leigh. Each copy includes a fold-out poster with a color video still photo on one side and liner notes and credits on the other. 30 years later Severed Heads’ perverse creativity is still paving the way for powerful imaginative challenging music far and wide." [label info] www.darkentriesrecords.com In 1985, Severed Heads were commissioned to collect a retrospective of their (then) six years in existence. Instead of the standard 'best of' anthology, Tom Ellard and Co. took the opportunity to create a sprawling collage of a whole slew of material never heard before, with cutting room edits, tape loop assemblages, live tracks, and numerous experiments that never found their way onto any of their albums. That approach is emblematic of the subversive manner in which Severed Heads produces and contextualizes their heavily mediated electronics, tracks that boisterously flaunt new wave pop structures butted against chunks of machined voltage-control noise and volatile industrial rhythm. On this release, more than pretty much anywhere else in Severed Heads catalog, do comparisons to Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle make the most sense. (Aquarius Rec) 2015 €28.00
SEWER ELECTION Kassettmusik LP "April 2007. Moments captured and repeated in raw mono. Contact mic, cassette loops + cassette amplifier" Originally released as two private edition cassettes and then reworked for a CD release on iDEAL in 2008, Kassettmusik still stands out as one of Dan Johanssons' most confounding and bold moments. Upon its release, the extremely minimal and restrained approach on the recording took a quite unexpected turn compared to the brutish harsh noise and 'Killing For' endeavours Sewer Election was known for at the time. Crude cassette loops of sparse electronics and body sounds with the fidelity of the disintegrated magnetic tape becoming an important piece of the two side-long compositions. Pressed in 500 copies in a matte sleeve. Insert with liner notes by Chris Sienko. Vinyl master by Viktor Ottosson. Fördämning Arkiv 5. https://soundcloud.com/idischidelbarone/sewer-election-kassettmusik 2022 €18.00
SHARON'S LAST PARTY Blue light and blue eyes 7 Romantischer Titel, aber äusserst unromantische Musik auf dieser ersten 7” dieser Schweden, klassisch-kraftvoller Industrial - wer jemals TG geliebt hat, wird entzückt sein von so viel dunkel-aggressiver Energie. “Two tracks from this very promising new Swedish act. You may have heard their contribution on CMI's "Nihil" compilation 2LP - if not, GET IT! The music is powerful electronics and noise firmly rooted in the "old school" (argh) industrial spirit. To be blunt, this is just as good as TG always promised to be, but never managed to be on vinyl. Excellent vocals on the A-side, and a dark brooding instrumental track on the flipside. Buy, motherfucker, buy.” [press release] 2003 €3.00
SHE SPREAD SORROW Huntress LP "The new album by She Spread Sorrow (Alice Kundalini) is the story of a huntress and her morbid and psychotic relationship with her prey. The protagonist is Blue, a girl whose existence is marked by obsession with another woman of the same age and by nightmares that leave her without peace. Between love and psychosis, a tragic story is consumed, which vibrates in the stomach, like the music that accompanies it - dark and hypnotic death industrial, with moments of dark ambient, power electronics and noise. Inspired by Kundalini’s nightmares and her fervent world of dreams, "Huntress" was born after 3 years of intense recordings. It pursues the need to whisper secret, forbidden tales and to stimulate the deepest shadows of the human being, exploring the boundaries between the delicate and the violent; between love and obsession; between fantasy and madness. "Huntress" is the soundtrack of a tragic game between opposites in a reality of total solitude. CD in 6-panel digipak LP on 180g vinyl in 350gsm sleeve. Ltd x 500 Alice Kundalini: synth, pedals, vocals Music and lyrics by: Alice Kundalini Recorded, mixed and produced by: Luca Sigurtà and Alice Kundalini Photos by: Stefano Majno Mastered by: Martin Bowes (The Cage) Layout by: Abby Helasdottir https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/huntress-csr282cd-lp 2021 €23.00
  Huntress CD "The new album by She Spread Sorrow (Alice Kundalini) is the story of a huntress and her morbid and psychotic relationship with her prey. The protagonist is Blue, a girl whose existence is marked by obsession with another woman of the same age and by nightmares that leave her without peace. Between love and psychosis, a tragic story is consumed, which vibrates in the stomach, like the music that accompanies it - dark and hypnotic death industrial, with moments of dark ambient, power electronics and noise. Inspired by Kundalini’s nightmares and her fervent world of dreams, "Huntress" was born after 3 years of intense recordings. It pursues the need to whisper secret, forbidden tales and to stimulate the deepest shadows of the human being, exploring the boundaries between the delicate and the violent; between love and obsession; between fantasy and madness. "Huntress" is the soundtrack of a tragic game between opposites in a reality of total solitude. CD in 6-panel digipak LP on 180g vinyl in 350gsm sleeve. Ltd x 500 Alice Kundalini: synth, pedals, vocals Music and lyrics by: Alice Kundalini Recorded, mixed and produced by: Luca Sigurtà and Alice Kundalini Photos by: Stefano Majno Mastered by: Martin Bowes (The Cage) Layout by: Abby Helasdottir https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/huntress-csr282cd-lp 2021 €13.00
SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW First thus CD Leider immer noch ein totaler Geheimtip, die sphärischen Welten des COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD ! Nach einigen schönen CDRs und Vinylen hier die erste volle CD, die eine Art Zusammenstellung von neu bearbeitetem älteren Material darstellt....Vier Stücke, sehr „neblig“ & schwammig“ & analog –elektronisch, dann aber seltsame Harmonien und Sounds darin, eine einzige wabernde Transzension und Auflösung in den Klangäther..... "First thus" is a phrase used by book sellers, publishers, collectors, etc. to describe a book which may be considered a first edition and/or first printing, but which has been available previously in a slightly different form. A true first edition is the original, first printing of a given book, while a first thus is the first printing of a new version of that book. This classification can come about for any number of reasons, though often times it has to do with a new translation of a particular work, the involvement of a new (different) publisher, or with a new forward or introduction.... First Thus is Sheffield's debut solo album. The recordings on this disc were entirely composed using other commercially available recordings. The goal was to distill the essential qualities of these works and then utilize that essence for new recordings. Only very brief sections of the original works were selected. These raw components were then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new was forged. The result is gorgeous ambient music that gradually shifts and unfolds, offering subtle nuance and quiet restraint. In a sense, it is a collection of other people's work, but this music appears here for the first time in a new setting or, if you will, a new translation. Packaged inside two elegant printed sleeves of 100% recycled paper, this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 330 copies." www.elevatorbath.com 2005 €13.00
  Don't ever let me know LP Don't Ever Let Me Know is Sheffield's first solo release since 2018's Repair Me Now (Glistening Examples) and is a work in a similar mode to that album in that it comprises two lengthy pieces of multiple movements and moods. For this new work, and as a kind of ode to his late father, Sheffield has employed samples entirely taken from (or inspired by) the city in which both men were born. In this way, the sounds have been utilized as a kind of shorthand for the specific subjects at hand. The two audio assemblages, meanwhile, mirror the ways in which loss and memory are processed - with both melancholy and wonder in equal measure: at once beautiful and confounding. The audio has been mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. The LP comes in a lovely jacket featuring photography by the late Allen W. Sheffield and extensive spot gloss printing. https://aufabwegen.bandcamp.com/album/dont-ever-let-me-know "Don't Ever Let Me Know" comprises two lengthy pieces of multiple movements and moods. As a kind of ode to his late father, Sheffield has employed samples entirely taken from (or inspired by) El Paso, the city in which both men were born. The two audio assemblages mirror the ways in which loss and memory are processed - with both melancholy and wonder in equal measure: at once beautiful and confounding, nostalgic and emotional. "The first half of the LP consists of loops of dissolving music, open resonate spaces, and bizarrely treated frequencies. Density builds and there is a sense of speed throughout, as he swaps out musical loops for harsher, digital sounds. There is definitely pre-recorded music used as some of the source material, but Sheffield sculpts it into something entirely different. The other side is more polarized in sound, blending lush, melodic layers and buzz saw-like noise passages... There is a distinct combination of quieter, reflective sections and harsher swells, with his careful manipulation of delays and feedback bringing things just to the point of chaos but never crossing that threshold." (Brainwashed). Mastered by James Plotkin. Ltd x 200 copies in a spot-varnish sleeve with photography by the late Allen W. Sheffield. "In his work, Sheffield uses a lot of samples from his extensive record/CD/tape collection; work that you can describe as either turntablism or plunderphonics, but the results are usually a bit different, more ambient in approach than an ironic comment on social events, the more common approach in that world. On his new record, he does something different. He works with samples from the city where he was born, El Paso, Texas. His late father was also born in this city, so it's an ode to that city and his father, a work of loss and contemplation, the thing we all do the older we get. Yet, it is also known that if I hadn't known this, I would have never garnered from the music. As such, the music stays on a very abstract level. Within these forty minutes, I never had the idea I was listening to samples from a city. Granted, I have not been to El Paso, but I assume it is a city; it sounds like one. In his usual approach to sound manipulation, Sheffield twists and turns the original material and cooks up a delicate ambient-inspired soundtrack of granular synthesis working overtime. He's not interested in playing the long-form, sustaining drone card, but instead is on that crossroad of granulating sounds, pitching up and down, creating a constant shift in the music that, superficially, would mean this is not ambient at all, but, rather oddly, it works out that way. A soundscape of a city, abstract it is, that feels like a sonic journey through the city, as seen through a mildly distorted lens. Sheffield applies collage-like techniques, and to stay with the analogy of the city, a hard cut is like turning a corner; the scenery might change completely. Dark at times, intense always, relaxing sometimes and beautiful throughout." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2023 €20.00
SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW / JAMES ECK RIPPIE Variations LP "Variations is a selection of works from the duo of Colin Andrew Sheffield (samples, processing) and James Eck Rippie (turntables, guitar). The three pieces comprising this album were recorded "live" with no additional production and were wholly improvised. Each of the album's pieces utilizes sounds from a single acoustic instrument as its sole source material. Here, the duo's examinations of the harp, guitar, and flute result in three unique components of a unified whole: a textured ambience that is rich and subtle, simple and complex. On black 180g vinyl with lovely full-color jackets, in an edition of 400 copies." [label info] www.elevatorbath.com "Interessante Zusammenarbeit von C. SHEFFIELD mit JAMES RIPPIE... zu hören gibt es drei atmosphärische, dronige Kompositionen mit sowas wie verfremdeten Harfen oder Gitarren-Sounds, vielen digitalen Brüchen und eigenartigen Texturen, die eine ganz eigene Harmonik entwickeln.. nice collaboration presenting atmospheric,droney compositions using effected harps and strange textures that develop their very own harmonics.. " [Drone Records info] 2001 €15.00
  Essential Anomalies do-LP Colin Andrew Sheffield (sampler) and James Eck Rippie (turntables) began playing music together in Dallas, Texas in 2000 and released their debut LP, "Variations," a year later. They separated soon afterwards, relocating to cities 2,600 miles apart; and though they continued with solo work, they remained inactive as a duo until recently. During this hiatus, Sheffield stayed busy dealing antiquarian books and running his Elevator Bath label; Rippie became an accomplished sound mixer for major motion pictures and television shows. And yet the collaboration between these two friends of a quarter century has always held a special significance (as Francois Couture of AllMusic stated: "The level of understanding between [these two artists] ... commands respect"). So, in 2015, when the two found themselves both living in Austin, a reactivation of their improvising duo was a happy inevitability. "Essential Anatomies" is the fruit of the pair's renewed efforts. Comprising four pieces originally issued on limited edition cassettes and now widely available for the first time, the double LP is an experiment in audio collage and instant narrative composition. The main tools are sounds from the past: commercially available recordings manipulated and sculpted into a medium with inherent potential. Unlike their plunderphonic ancestors and contemporaries, however, Sheffield and Rippie place a heavy emphasis on atmosphere and a kind of musicality. Their work is surprising and challenging, but it is infused with their keen sense of structure and listenability. Elements of sound art, drone, glitch, and noise emerge from their altered samples. These sounds have been stripped of any extraneous cumbrances, leaving just the crucial components. The parts that remain, the essential anatomies, form the basis for an ongoing abstract dialogue between two artists with a remarkably developed affinity. The results capture dual streams of consciousness, coursing with a description of nonrepresentational beauty. "[B]est described as abstract plunderphonics. Sheffield and Rippie use samplers and turntables to sculpt the past into new forms that defy instant categorization; suffice it to say that the old has never sounded so new." - Richard Allen, A Closer Listen "Essential Anatomies" has been released by Elevator Bath as a limited edition double LP, copies of which are also available here: www.elevatorbath.com Mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin Cover art by Eugenia Loli credits released July 7, 2017 Colin Andrew Sheffield (b. 1976, El Paso TX) is the founder of the Elevator Bath recording label. He has released a number of solo recordings on labels such as Invisible Birds, Mystery Sea, Quiet World, and 23five. James Eck Rippie (b. 1977) is a visual/sound artist originally from outside Nashville TN. His recorded work has been as a turntablist, but he has also worked extensively with other instruments and mediums. He has released his work with the Crónica Electronica and Sirr labels, among others, and has collaborated with sound artists Simon Whetham, Paulo Raposo, and eRikm. Sheffield and Rippie will tour the US this summer. elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/album/essential- anatomies-3 "Compiling recent small-run cassette works into a luxurious double record set, Essential Anatomies represents a reunion for the duo of Colin Andrew Sheffield and James Eck Rippie. Collaborators since 2000 and friends for even longer, the four lengthy recordings here capture their Texas reunion in 2015, and with its undeniable sense of complexity and cohesion, makes it clear that they have not missed a step from their time apart. On paper, what Sheffield and Rippie do is well-trod ground: processing and recontexualization of samples and other forms of pre-recorded music. But rather than being another pair of John Oswald wannabes, they do so with distinct expertise and precision. To use a slightly abstract metaphor, they are much closer to Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad production, taking bits here and there and using them as elements in a much different whole, than they are Puff Daddy’s wholesale plagiarism and lack of innovation. The first of the four lengthy pieces (each around 22 to 23 minutes long) is an instant launch into the gloom that is Essential Anatomies. Chilling, piano like scrapes cut through a blackened, churning abyss of sound. Some shrill, sharp bits pierce through the darkness here and there, but the piece largely stays pleasant, even though it is rather bleak and covered in a nicely noisy sheen of fuzz. Tortured, almost melodic tones occasionally shine through a wall of ghostly drifts and heavy rumbles, at times heading toward a bit of harsh crunch, but stays in check. The melodies appear here and there again, acting as a slightly less oppressive counterpoint to the sound of decay that surrounds it. Finally, the duo end the piece on a lighter note, like sun shining through menacing gray skies. What is abundantly clear right from this start is that Sheffield and Rippie are not only extremely proficient at creating moods and space with their samplers and turntables (respectively), but also a creating dynamic compositions that are quite expansive and varied, changing often but returning to reoccurring motifs that results in a more composed, rather than improvised sound. The second piece allows a bit more of their source material to shine through, mostly in the form of piano notes and what sounds like frozen reverberations of chimes far in the distance. There is the same sense of space, but erratic loops and mangled notes result in a composition that builds in tension, eventually transitioning into haunting church organ like walls that dominate the latter half of the piece. Comparably, the second record comes across a bit less melodic and a bit more textural in the composition and structure. Part three begins with an almost percussive, crunching machinery like opening that is eventually melded with a batch of wet, almost organic like noises and radio static. Bits of recognizable music still sneak through here and there, but it is less the focus. Instead, metallic sweeps and unnatural field recording like sounds fill out the mix, though it ends on a slightly more ambient note. The final composition first is free and spacious, with some crackling tactile like elements at first, but soon it takes on a decaying sound. More organ and mangled string fanfares give a more conventional signpost here and there, but by the end the duo has already transitioned the sound to one of tension and fright, slowly evolving into an uncomfortable silence to end the record. While I do not believe I could ever manage to place the source of the sounds Colin Andrew Sheffield and James Eck Rippie utilized in making Essential Anatomies, never does it feel like the two overly processed or from their source. Meaning that, there is some of the original character left from the source material, however subtle it may be. Instead these audio building blocks are obscured but tastefully utilized to construct these atmosphere heavy works. Rippie’s day job is a sound mixer for films and television shows, which surely aided the two in creating the cinematic mood that these two records conjure up. It is that combination of sonic nuance and compositional strength and diversity that make Essential Anatomies so good." [Creaig Dunton/Brainwashed] 2017 €25.00
SHOEMAKER, MATT Isolated Agent Stranding Behaviour pic-LP "Elevator Bath's ongoing series of picture disc LPs (each record being adorned with full-color artwork by the recording artist) continues with Matt Shoemaker's debut appearance on vinyl: An enigmatic pairing of new recordings with appropriately cryptic artwork. Much of Shoemaker's recorded output prominently features the use of field recordings (see his Tropical Amnesia One CD), but in this case he has eschewed such grounded measures and has instead sculpted a two-part puzzle which seemingly exists on some other plane(t). Layer upon evolving layer of sonic phenomena is still the methodological trademark, but the content is almost entirely electronic, lending a great deal of vivid color to a description of blackest space. The two works presented here are powerfully mysterious, unsettling examples of Matt Shoemaker's prowess as a composer of details, of moods and tenses. The improbably relevant artwork for this picture disc consists of two collages utilizing Shoemaker's own hand-dyed paper. The images, as well as their meanings, are essentially abstract and yet remarkably familiar. On the A side, the Isolated Agent scuttles in a circular motion, forever locked in an endless search for the unknown element. The B side depicts the constant retreat, the Stranding Behavior inevitably resulting in/from confusion. "You realize what you are implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects." Matt Shoemaker's music has been released by such labels as Trente Oiseaux, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, and Ferns Recordings. He resides in Seattle. This picture disc LP has been released in an edition of 233 copies. Total running time: 30 minutes" [label info] www.elevatorbath.com "The other record is by Matt Shoemaker, who seems to be always present, with his regular releases on labels as Ferns and The Helen Scarsdale Agency. His work recently shifted a bit more towards that of working with field recordings, but on this LP it all seems to be electronic again. I have no idea wether these are the result computers working overtime or meters and meters of cable connecting one synthesizer to another, and once connected start playing themselves, almost, as it were. Shoemaker layers the results of whatever process he applies on a multitude of tracks and does some highly creative mixing with those sounds. Highy atmospheric (obviously! I'd say) of course, but Shoemaker's work is also a bit more experimental than the usual drone minds (UK, USA, otherwise). Shoemaker knows how to put in a strange angle in his work, that makes it just a bit different than the ordinary drone record. Partly based in the seventies cosmic tradition, partly drone and partly serious avant-garde, but with a long, stretched time signature. Great record." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2010 €17.50
SIGILLUM S 23/20 do-LP Seit über 20 Jahren gibt es das italienische Industrial- & Elektronik-Trio SIGILLUM S, um die es in den letzten Jahren sehr ruhig wurde. Diese do-LP ist eine Kollektion mit vielen Remixen und Kollaborationen in fantastischer Aufmachung und deckt eine unglaubliche Bandbreite ab zwischen pumpenden "old school" rhythmic Industrial Sounds, dunklem death & ambient Industrial und abenteuerlichen eher am Song-format orientierten Stücken mit Vocals & Gitarreinsatz und gar dubbigen Einflüssen.... ein mächtiger Bastard, hervorragend produziert! Das Vinyl hat z.T. andere Tracks als die CD-Version! "More than ever, fringe culture methods and cutting edge acoustic science mate for the generations of endless layers and bursts of sonic pleasure - voices and drones clans across plans and peaks, fishing for universal tremors and sensorial catastrophes. iconic translations of lost symbols flow like pathogenic lava into temporal sequence and weather forecasts become performances for alien audiences.\ The 20th anniversary album from post-industrial noise alchemists SIGILLUM S, \ 23/20\ , features (together with the original line up of Eraldo Bernocchi, P.NG5361.Bandera and Luca Di Giorgio) sound contributions from long time collaborators and friends, such as Bill Laswell, Toshinori Kondo, Professor Shebab, SH Fernando / WordSound, Martino Nicoletti, Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, ZU, Xabier Iriondo, Ephel Duath, Karyn Crisis and various members of the same band , Mark Solotroff, Thomas Fehlmann, Gudrun Gut, Andrea Marutti, Claudio Agostoni and many others.\ 23/20\ is available as two radically different and complementary formats, a digipack CD and a limited edition gatefold double vinyl, with different track lists and sequences for each format - nine tracks are on both formats, while others (seven per format) can only be found either on CD or vinyl (sixteen tracks per format, twenty three in total)." [label press release] www.sigillum-s.com 2007 €28.00
SIGMARSSON, SIGTRYGGUR (BERG) Into the Second Half LP Icelandic artist and musician Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson is known not only for his work with Stilluppsteypa but also numerous solo albums and collaborations with Swedish composer BJ Nilsen as well as several other artists. On Into the Second Half, his new solo album, recorded in 2022, Sigmarsson takes the listener into a calming yet mysterious world of sound. Starting from almost silence he creates a different state of listening that we could only find elsewhere when concerned with works of Robert Ashley. Carefully composed textures as subtle as the changes of light in the forbidden zone in Andrei Tarkovsky"s Stalker weave in and out of each other to make for a hypnotic ride. The cover and label photos were taken by Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson. Mastered for vinyl by Jim O"Rourke 2024 €30.00
SIGUR ROS Von CD "Wieder lieferbar, die erste SIGUR ROS von 1997, damals noch weitaus experimenteller und droniger als heutzutage...in einer hyper-sphärischen, frei fliessenden Art und Weise verbinden sich auf vielen Stücken dunkles Grummeln, field recordings, Instrumentalklänge und z.T. mehrstimmige Elfen-Gesänge zu geräuschhaften Dronescapes... daneben gibt es Stücke die schon typische Song-Strukturen und klassische SIGUR ROS Harmonien andeuten ... aber vieles klingt noch reichlich anders, rauher, z.T. auch heftiger rockend, mit extremen Studioeffekten & Cut-Ups versehen, wunderschön das folkige Titelstück VON." [Drone Rec.] "I remember the feeling that enveloped me the first time that I heard Sigur Ros - a copy of Agaetis Byrjun played over the loudspeakers at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, New Jersey (bless 'em) - my knees quivered, my jaw dropped, and I had one of those all too rare musical epiphanies. Subsequently, I worried that once acquainted with their lovely and idiosyncratic music, it would never elicit quite the same genuine and fresh response again. The reissue of the group's elusive debut, Von, on One Little Indian, puts those misgivings to rest. It may be Sigur Ros's debut, but it is as ambitious as albums come. Yes, Von is a sprawling work - 72 minutes of sprawl - reveling in sonic experiment, diverse in texture, and somewhat ambling in formal design: so what? When layers of choir-boy vocals are added to the group's singing ("Hun Joro"), when feeble, naturalistic sounds are used in questing improvisations ("Sigur Ros"), or when acoustic instruments coalesce with a swath of electronics ("Dogun"), you'll find your jaw on the floor, too, stunned as ever." [Christian Carey / Junkmedia] www.xl-recordings.com 2014 €14.00
SINN/RD One-legged tap Dancer 12inch " 'One-legged tap dancer' by Sinn/rd is a four tracks ep available on vinyl and as a digital download. Release date : 20th April 2013. Track listing : 1. Scar 2. The Rhythmace 3. Pem-x 4. The Fuzzin'E. Total length : 25:31.With contributions from Stéphane Babey (Les Poissons Autistes) and Jon Attwood (Yellow6)." [label info] www.deadvox.com 2013 €12.50
SKELETON BIRDS AND THE NUMBER OF GOD These dark Roots of Heaven LP "Nick Mott with Ben Jones and Sarah Sullivan from Jazzfinger. An atmospheric recording captured in a cave in Cornwall with later manipulation and overdubs by Nick Mott. Also featuring weird demonic voices courtesy of 5 year old Gabriel Mott. Disintegrating tape loops, home made pipes, distorted violins and guitars, cheap keyboards, percussion, water and rocks. Influenced by Nick and Bens shared appreciation of Avant Garde Black Metal and Occult Noise this album is however loose, free and almost fragile in its incorporation of found and sampled sounds. Discordant and disjointed in places, yet occasionally an almosy tribal melody is allowed to evolve before being plunged into a brass sample or sonic blender..mysterious and intense. 180 gram vinyl. Limited to 250 copies." [label info] www.altvinyl.com 2010 €18.50
SLAVES, THE Ocean on Ocean do-LP "The mystical drone-folklorist Jon Porras introduced us to the luminous sound of The Slaves, so we thought it fitting that he should expound upon their radiant shoegazing heaviness. Here speaks Mr. Porras: "A shadow moves beneath the water. Ocean On Ocean: two abysmal surfaces echoing into one another. Mutually reflecting an endless geologic score to a post-apocalyptic litany. Planes of ambivalence obliterated by light, voices eclipsed by devotional low end, synthesized stereography spiraling from an eternal core. Hovering above the weighted disposition of Doom and below the consolation of Shoegaze, the duo transmit a burdened grace that unfolds like a radiant mammal writhing in black water. We discover an object heavy and obtuse until placed into the sea. Lines of light swell and dissipate behind hushed lyrics. Feedback and whitenoise ebb and flow, the mammal's breath hollowed, tumbling below the surface. The hum offset and displaced by water that surrounds. Holographic accord materialized by invalidated hopefulness. We are unsure and skeptical of what this optimism holds. What lies waiting at the depths carved between these two reflective surfaces? Ocean On Ocean implies a tangible province exists between these mirrored planes. A staircase built from reflective feedback, extending horizontally into bliss. A bliss that is fleeting and simultaneously petrified in the present. A paradox realized by the duo's distillations of urgent ambiance and luminescent melancholy. Conjuring environments that billow out from instrumental restraint, Ocean On Ocean is an exercise in disciplined abstraction. Initially a cd-r, Ocean On Ocean reaches its supreme possibility today. An acoustic artifact cast into alchemical tangibility, these recordings are finally at peace on vinyl. Now the relics hidden between these Oceans can be crystallized." The Slaves are Barbara Kinzle and Birch Cooper, who hail from Portland, Oregon and who have released other works on Digitalis and Paradigms to considerable acclaim, drawing favorable comparisons to the likes of Grouper, Slowdive, Earth, and Barn Owl. The 2LP of Ocean On Ocean is limited to 400 copies, and the recordings were mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin." [label info] www.helenscarsdale.com "Fuck, yeah! Here, we have the double lp reissue of the aQuarius favorite Ocean On Ocean by The Slaves, the Portland duo of Birch Cooper and Barbara Kinzle. We got the cd-r of this album back in early 2011, upon the enthusiastic request from the former aQ-staffer Jon Porras, known to some as one half of of drone-doom duo Barn Owl. The rough sound of the cd-r has been considerably improved via remastering by James Plotkin, with the vinyl cut at 45 rpm so that all the heavy / dreamy / shoegazy loveliness is even richer and more radiant. Still one of our favorite albums, made even better! We love bands whose music-making formula appears, on the surface, simple and intuitive, yet the sounds they create are huge, engulfing and seemingly complex. Using two synthesizers and echoing vocals, The Slaves inhabit a sound that is as lush and dense as it is mysterious and minimal. Their debut album, Ocean on Ocean, is the perfect showcase of a group that can conjure up bountiful sounds within a restrained approach. Honestly, we can’t get enough of Ocean on Ocean, something about those enormous, dreamy, engulfing songscapes just leaves us wanting more. Their oozing brew of minimal pop melts and blurs with the melodic thickness of MBV's Loveless or early Slowdive, but surrenders to a contemplative mode that falls somewhere between Gregorian hymn and pagan ritual. The duo spin a radiant web of sustained vocals and heavy synth, each chord drawn out and smeared into a neon haze while indecipherable lyrics suggest longing, loss and submission to oblivion. "Seventeen" unfolds with a slow arching chord progression that grows and dissipates like a coastal tide. Female vocals creep into the oceanic haze while fluttering noise and cosmic wash hover in obscurity. And though the rhythm-less wash may appear to be aimless improv, a close listen reveals a defined structure beneath the veil of long tones and heavy atmospherics. And yes, The Slaves are heavy. And it's not a "down-tuned guitars through a wall of amps" kind of heavy. It’s more evident in the slow movement of the songs, and the visceral effects felt by each musical gesture. The duo have perfectly crafted a searing offering of "soft doom", so gorgeous and mesmerizing we’ve had Ocean on Ocean on repeat for the past week. "Shadows" is another noteworthy track. We love the push and pull of heavy synth and whispery vocals, whirls of female voice echo into the night then dissipate into huge swells of HEAVY distorted synth. Crumbling low end amid ethereal dream chants, what else could we ask for?? One of our favorite records in recent memory and highly recommended!" [Aquarius Records] 2012 €22.50
SLEAFORD MODS UK GRIM CD Krieg, steigende Energiekosten, Inflation. Eine politische Klasse und ein gespaltenes Land. Das Unbehagen nach dem Brexit, Akte nationaler Selbstbeschädigung und verhängnisvolle Realitätsfluchten. Verzweiflung, Wut und Entfremdung. War es jemals schlimmer da draußen? Willkommen bei "UK Grim". Das zwölfte Album der Sleaford Mods baut auf den einzigartigen, aufrührerischen Stärken früherer Alben auf und verfeinert sie gleichzeitig auf eine neue Weise. Es handelt sich um nichts Geringeres als eine Band und eine Stimme ihrer Generation, so wie es The Jam, The Clash oder Public Enemy zuvor waren. Begonnen haben die Arbeiten zum neuen Album in den Lockdowns von 2021. Schließlich setzte man die Arbeit im JT Soars fort, dem Arbeitsraum und der Kreativzelle der Band, und vollendet "UK Grim" dann im Heimstudio des musikalischen Kopfes Andrew Fearn. Das Album präsentiert die Band in ihrer makellosesten Wut, gepaart mit wilder Poesie. Nach "Spare Ribs" von 2021 (ihrem dritten UK-Top-Ten-Album seit 2019 und ihrem bisher erfolgreichsten) ist es, wie alle ihre Platten, eine Diagnose der Krankheiten der Gesellschaft. Obwohl "UK Grim" größtenteils vor den Turbulenzen des Jahres 2022 entstanden ist, nimmt es die Erschütterungen einer Gesellschaft, die den Verstand verliert, auf unheimliche Weise vorweg, erzählt von einem Mann, der entschlossen ist, sich mit Heucheleien auseinanderzusetzen, insbesondere mit seinen eigenen. Die 14 Tracks klingen nach knarzigem Punk, widerspenstiger Elektronik und Elementen von Hip-Hop. Sie beschreiben die Realität in zu brutaler Unverblümtheit, um nur einfache Protestsongs zu sein. Sie sind zu Vinyl gewordene Wut, aufgekocht von den Großmeistern des pointierten Zorns - den Sleaford Mods! Wie bei den "Spare Ribs" Kollaborationen mit Billy Nomates und Amy Taylor helfen auch bei "UK Grim" Freunde aus: Florence Shaw von Dry Cleaning ist auf dem schaurigen "Force 10 From Navarone" zu Gast. Williamson ist ein Fan der Band und sagt: "Sie erinnert mich wirklich an die frühen Sachen, die ich gemacht habe, einfach die Art und Weise, wie sie ein einziges Wort benutzt, um eine ganze Geschichte zu erzählen." Perry Farrell von Jane"s Addiction rappt auf dem bizarren "So Trendy", einem Song, von dem Williamson sagt, er sei "sehr vorsichtig... ein wirklich seltsamer Track". Seit ihrem Durchbruch-Album "Divide and Exit" von 2014 hatten die Sleaford Mods immer mehr Gelegenheit zum offenen Austausch, sowohl im In- als auch im Ausland. Sie sind eine unermüdlich arbeitende Band, die mit ihren minimalistischen Liveshows unter anderem 2021 in der 10.000 Zuschauer fassenden Nottingham Motorpoint Arena auftrat. Zu den weiteren Meilensteinen ihres Erfolgs gehören Auftritte im US-Late-Night-TV, Headliner-Auftritte auf Festivals und Chart-Platzierungen in ganz Europa mit "Spare Ribs". Ein großer Bewunderer ist Iggy Pop, der der Band mit einer persönlichen Version des Drogenrausch-Grand-Guignols "Chop Chop Chop" Tribut gezollt hat. 2023 €12.00
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY/LLYN Y CWN Sargo / Posidonia LP The ultimate deep listening experience from two masters of dark ambient. A slow descent into the blackened watery abyss, where light cannot reach. The first release from Sleep Research Facility since 2012\'s \"Stealth\" (Cold Spring) is inspired by the deep sea ocean floor. The Canadian-based composer explores notions of awareness and perception in the sub/unconscious listener. Focusing primarily on sound bereft of rhythm based energies, SRF provides an environments wherein the music adds texture to the silence. Using form without structure and concentrating on space as opposed to narrative, SRF entertains the idea that music can reside in the very fabric of sound itself. The brand new material here was created specifically for this split release. Taking inspiration from the beautiful, but often harsh landscapes and environments of his home on Anglesey, North Wales, Llyn Y Cwn has built on the nautical theme of \"Du Y Moroedd\". These tracks are based on field recordings relating to the ocean, and could be seen as a companion piece to the album. \'Dale Dawn\' features a recording of the dawn chorus made from the floating pontoon at Dale, Pembrokeshire. \'Pebble\' includes the sound of waves crashing on a Dorset cobble beach, thousands of rocks colliding in chorus. \'Doppler Current Profiler\' is based on the sound of an ADCP, an acoustic sonar instrument used to measure water currents - a 600Khz ping slowed to a heartbeat. Limited Edition LP on audiophile black vinyl for best sound presentation. CD in mini-LP sleeve, replicating the vinyl design. The artwork features a separate front cover design with individual art for each side, making this a true split release. https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/sargo-posidonia-csr317lp 2023 €23.50
SMALL CRUEL PARTY Islands of Sleep CD "Verpackt in ein großformtagiges S/W-Geäst – Cover kommt die erste SCP-LP daher. Die Aufnahmen entstanden in Paris im Juni 1997. Concrete music based on glass, wood and water manipulation: rubbing, tinkling, lisping, resonance, sharp & bass tones confrontation. Raw calm. Das ganze auf 250gr vinyl und lim. auf 365copies. V.a. die A-Seite,die eigentlich auf 45 rpm läuft, ist sehr schön, und kann auch auf 33 rpm in Entzücken versetzen." [Drone Rec. info zum LP release 1998] "SCP makes astonishingly hermetic electro-acoustic brain-melters that resist being easily described. This is no exception. There are (thankfully) no simple emotional signifiers or familiar genre-exercise moves to help you along. For active listening. Favorite track: ...Cette Haine Dirigée Contre Lui Mordait Son Marbre Et Sculptait Sa Beauté.. " [Howard Stelzer on Bandcamp] 2018 €12.00
SMALL THINGS ON SUNDAYS Searching for LP "The Copenhagen based duo Small Things on Sundays are proud to present their first LP, "Searching For", the seventh album release by the duo - but the first that will be available on vinyl. Small Things on Sundays have focused on their musical vision to create an album of beauty and shade, which will take the listener on a sound journey exploring the filmic images the tracks presents. It can be investigated with further listenings revealing subtle details. The title "Searching For" refers to the duo's own quest to create new moods and athmospheres, where time stretches out, as the listener, and the band themselves, submerges into harmonic ambient layers and more abstract unsettling textures that emerge from the improvisations. To be engulfed in these mesmerizing sounds, can serve as a way to step out of daily life for a moment, which seems needed now and again. "Searching For" can also be seen as an imaginary interpretation of places on earth, like "Echo Lake at Night", or in space "Enceladus" (Earth-like moon orbiting Saturn). The basic sounds on the LP are derived from live improvisations, using turntables, detuned guitar, toy keyboard, viola and laptops. Some of the tracks are kept as the first live-takes, other tracks are the product of long hours of re-imagining and re-arranging tracks from the sound archive." [label info] www.skratrecords.com "Following a string of releases on CDR, cassette and download, some of which we reviewed in Vital Weekly (see for instance Vital Weekly 717, 732, 777 and 862), Danish duo Small Things On Sundays, now venture out to their first full length vinyl release. Henrik Bagner and Claus Poulsen use turntables, guitars, casio-keyboard, viola and laptops. They tell us that some of the pieces here were recorded in one take, and others took hours and hours to do on the computer. Cleverly they don't tell us which. It's not easy to say, and probably not very interesting to think about it. Easiest is to state that Small Things On Sundays play 'dark ambient' music. I was, recently, listening to some older Zoviet*France releases, even before I knew this LP was coming and it's nice to see the Zoviet*France template on an album like this. The careful use of real instruments, the abundance of sound effects, the creative use of tape-loops, the spacious nature of this music. As Small Things On Sundays note in the letter with this record, this is perhaps the lightest and most accessible of the trilogy '4AM' (717), 'More' (732) and now this one. I totally agree. The sharper edges of the music might be gone indeed, but I think that works well. The newly placed refined sounds make up for that rough edge but it also moves the work forward, onto the next level. The brightness of the music shines through here, like an early morning sun with a soft breeze on a nice spring day. The music is opening up and we see the potential of Small Things On Sundays much clearer now. This is a road they should explore more and more. Not trying to replicate the music, but to see what else lies in this brighter light. It's surely something they should do!" [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2013 €15.00
SMEGMA I am not Artist 6 x LP-Box / DVD-BOX "This astonishing 6LP/DVD Box-Set compiles most of Smegma's long out or print and impossible to find Vinyl-releases and contributions on labels such as their own legendary PIGFACE-Records, LAFMS, TRAP, DOM and SELEKTON. The box incl. their first three 7" inches "Disco Diarrhea", "Flashcards", "Pigface Chant", their Lp's like "Pigs for Leper" or "Glamour Girl 1941" as well as a 2Lp-sided extract of the Live 73-82 Double Tape „Spontaneaous Sound, all in one place. Smegma started collectively by Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cheese it Ritz, Chucko Fats, Dennis Duck, Amazon Bambi and Cheesebro and found many other Avantgarde/Freejazz/Improv-musicians to participate in the next 3 1/2 decades to come. This Box is taking you on a journey with the least likely Folk-Primitive-Avant-Gard band in Pasadena, California, through Portland Oregon's Punk Rock revitalization and first melt down, to become the serious force in weird music that continues today. Box is accompanied with a DVD-Version of the original Video "10 years wasted" released in 1983 which is a great document of Smegma's first 10 years of existence & work Box is accompanied with a DVD version of the original amazing Video "Smegma the first 10 years“ by Mike Lastra released in 1983 plus 2 Bonustracks of performances from 1978 & 80." [label info] www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2010 €95.00
SOLMANIA Highdrophobia LP Solmania is a Japanese noise music project founded in 1984 by Masahiko Ohno. The hallmark of this amazing artist, who builds his experimental electric guitars from spare parts, is his freakish ability to use the stringed instrument by generating absolutely unique sounds, both in his live performances and recordings. The guitars used by Masahiko Ohno are multi-neck guitars and harp guitars and take on extremely bizarre shapes, using unconventional body shapes, extra-necks, strings and pickups in unusual places, and various extraneous gadgets such as mics or tweets. Pushing far beyond expectations of free improvisation, Solmania weaves blistering passages that incorporate touchstones from progressive , punk, metal, noise, and drone, into more intricate movements of dystopian avant-gardism, culminating as a strikingly forward-thinking expanse of sonic creativity that pushing toward uncharted ground. Still, in all this, his advanced technical and interpretive skills are always evident, and his sense of lyricism in all music, quite profound. Traveling through the winding and jagged grooves of modified noise guitar, we come across Highdrophobia. Recorded and mixed in September 1986 and released the following month on cassette on Fatagaga Tapes FTC-08 in an extremely limited edition, this rare gem finally rear its ugly head in a new analog version on 12" vinyl. With his stunning modified guitar, Solmania uses tape, radio, metal, turntable and vocals creating three incredible sound tracks of wild noise madness, offering the listener an excellent overview of his music’s development. From side A single session, with its gumtree-shaking shimmer and mottled chords, through to the wildly sophisticated free noise sculpting of side B, divided into two tracks, where a horse-galloping guitar figure transform and uplift it from standard to something deeply original. A sublime, noisy effort of left field DIY minimalism constructed from recurring guitar pieces, vocal and a peppering of diverse object as turntables, radio and invisible effects, Highdrophobia illuminates a hidden but remarkable legacy of a great performer at the begin of his creativity and consciousness in the mid of the 80s. Highdrophobia is a masterpiece of guitar drone, its dense harmonics and overtones induce trance-like states, providing one of the most creatively thrilling, immersive experiences that we can call to mind. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/highdrophobia 2023 €24.00
SONIC YOUTH Slaapkamers met Slagroom LP "Auf 3 langen Stücken zeigen S.Y. ihre free-floating, “improvised”, aber kraftvolle, experimentelle Seite… kommt auf grünem Vinyl, die zweite VÖ auf SONIC YOUTH’s eigenem Label.. " [old Drone Rec. info] 1997 €15.00
  The Eternal CD "Sonic Youth’s 16th album, ‘The Eternal’, will be released on double vinyl, compact disc, and digital album by Matador Records on June 9. Produced by John Agnello and the band, ‘The Eternal’ not only marks Sonic Youth’s return to the independent label sphere (titles on their own SYR label excepted) after a long association with Geffen, but more importantly, ranks as one of their more inspired efforts in a 28 year career. Recorded through November and December of last year at the band’s Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, NJ, ‘The Eternal’ features many firsts for a Sonic Youth album, including a number of shared vocals between Kim, Thurston, and Lee, and the studio debut of former Pavement/Dustdevils bassist Mark Ibold, a member of Sonic Youth’s touring band for the past few years. The band’s current extracurricular activities are as always, quite varied. The Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany is now hosting the touring museum exhibition SONIC YOUTH ETC.: SENSATIONAL FIX, which focuses on the band’s multidisciplinary work since the band’s formation in 1981, including their collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians. Kim Gordon launches a clothing line, Mirror/Dash, at Urban Outfitters on February 16, and is showing at The Armory Show in NYC March 5-8. Lee Ranaldo, with co-conspirator Leah Singer, just opened installations at the Konsthall in Stockholm and the CNEAI in Paris, and he has a piece in the travelling exhibition “Bad Moon Rising 3″, currently at Boots Contemporary Art Space in St. Louis. A Beck/Sonic Youth split 7″ is being released by Matador on April 18 for Record Store Day. And the band recently collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (along with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and mixed-media sound composer Takehisa Kosugi) on a work celebrating, and being performed for, Cunningham’s 90th birthday on April 16 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Upcoming SY shows include April gigs in Austria and Germany (including the closing of SENSATIONAL FIX in Dusseldorf) and May 16 at the No Fun Festival in Brooklyn. They will be touring throughout the summer in support of ‘The Eternal’. Of ‘The Eternal’, Matador’s Gerard Cosloy says, “We’ve not had a record in our recent history that’s been the subject of nearly as much speculation and anticipation. Suffice to say we’re pretty amazed at the way the band delivered something this neoteric while still sounding like, well, themselves. Less of a reinvention and perhaps more to do with a particularly awesome dozen songs.” Matador will shortly announce a Buy Early Get Now scheme for the album with some very interesting bonus material. Sonic Youth are: Steve Shelley Lee Ranaldo Kim Gordon Thurston Moore Mark Ibold Track listing: 1. Sacred Trickster 2. Anti-Orgasm 3. Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso) 4. Antenna 5. What We Know 6. Calming The Snake 7. Poison Arrow 8. Malibu Gas Station 9. Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn 10. No Way 11. Walkin Blue 12. Massage The History [label / website notes] www.matadorrecords.com 2009 €16.00
SONIC YOUTH / JIM O'ROURKE Invito al Cielo LP "Third installment in the limited edition, home-recorded, self-released series. CD packaged in a mini-gatefold cardboard sleeve; vinyl pressed on the clearest of wax, all text in Esperanto. Three wild, spontaneous pulsations that celebrate contemporary musical abstraction at its most uninhibited." [label info] 1998 €15.00
SONOLOGYST Phantoms CD https://sonologyst.bandcamp.com/album/phantoms Voices of children in a park, people playing a handball game, dogs barking, a man talking of philosophy, a demon lurking in a dark corner. Dreamlike mental landscape of nonsensical memories, a metamorphic passage from the blackness, the shadows of a lost beauty. Everything frozen in the stillness of phantom recordings. Recordings by SONOLOGYST Sound Design, Turntables, Trumpet, Azzax, Voice. "The previous release by Raffaele Pezzella, also known as Sonologyst had "Silencers, usually known as Men In Black" as a sort of theme (see Vital Weekly 1134). I'm not sure if there is an overall thematic approach on 'Phantoms', other than some ghostly activity. Originally inspired by modern classical composers (Stockhausen, Henry, Ferrari, Subotnick, Nono, Pousseur, Parmegiani and Maderna), Sonologyst's music has not much to do with that, certainly not on this new one. The previous sounded a bit more improvised than before, with a violin playing an important role, here the sound sources are "turntables, trumpet, azzax (which is an "electrified cymbal that I play with wooden or Plexiglas sticks”), voice and sound design". I recognized some of the turntables already, with its crackling sounds, but it has not the meaning lead. Like before, Sonologyst music has a great soundtrack-like quality to it, and this time it is the phantom in the attic movie. The voice (by Pezzella? By others? I don't know) doesn't sing or speak, but it is rather more along the lines of making sounds that have emotions; crying or shouting, but in a controlled manner, and it is not featured in all pieces. The music has a sort of improvised feel to it, again, but these recordings have been overlaid, edited, and are presented as collages of sound. In that way, it owes to the world of musique concrete, perhaps also because of the vinyl used and what seems to be field recordings, and less to the world of improvised music, as found on his previous release. In these pieces, he offers quite some variety and in each of them, he explores the sounds in a fine collage form. The music is not shy for a bit of noise here and there and it that respect owes to the world of classic industrial music, but Sonologyst is capable of keep matters interesting and above all varied." [FdW/Vital Weekly] ––– Address: https://sonologyst.bandcamp.com/ 2019 €13.00
SOUNDSCAPE ROST (ELIN OYEN VISTER) Spaces and Species Vol. I LP Soundscape Røst-Spaces and Species Vol I is a unique collection of field recordings and soundscapes, from the Røst archipelago – 100 km into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nordland (NO/Sápmi). The album is a careful edited selection of hours and hours of sound material listened to and recorded between 2010 and 2011. The listener will experience a multitude of nature and sea-bird voices/spaces and acoustic moments, spanning from booming roars to the faintest of hums. You can listen to the song of the multitude of pelagic seabirds breeding in the Røst archipelago and the Nykan nature-reserve and the acoustic moments in time of their ocean-and land spaces they spend their time in every spring and summer, mating, breeding their chicks, socializing and coming and goings searching for food.The lowfrequenzy grunts of the Razor Bill, the song of the last Kittiwakes of Vedøya, the swarming of hundreds of Puffin wings and their ancient cowlike song and grunts in their nests in Hernyken nature reserve, The Eiders of Kårøysundet an early winter-spring morning and the sounds of the ebb and flow on the Northside of Røstlandet are amongst the soundscapes on Vol 1. Vol I is eavesdropping to the rapidly changing soundscapes of one of Northern Europe most numerous seabird breeding colonies which has for half a century experienced an escalating dramatic decline of the pelagic seabird populations, resulting in the silencing of the bird mountains . Soundscape Røst also listen to and documents the acoustic realities of a marine land -and seascape over time and listens to nature-culture in an everlasting continuum of interdependency. The vinyl album is an integral part of the sound installation Soundscape Røst – The Listening Lounge, (2012) and is the first album in the Soundscape Røst triology. Note to the reissue on Gruenrekorder. Since the album was released in 2012, the decline in the seabird populations have escalated. During the summer of 2020 the bird mountain of Vedøya became silent. Statistically speaking there are no more Kittiwakes and Guillemot breeding on Vedøya. In 1980 there was approximately 1.5 million pairs of Puffins breeding in all of the Røst archipelago and on Vedøya alone, 12000 pairs of Guillemots and 25.000 pairs of Kittiwakes. Now the overall Puffin population is down to around less than 200.000 pairs and the few Guillemots left are hiding in small caves and crevices. The last Kittwakes of Røst are now clinging on in Kårøya and Gjellfruvær. If the decline continues, there will be no Puffins left in Røst by 2040. https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=18960 2021 €18.00
SPECTRAL ARMIES The Vanished People LP "After resigning from Volcano The Bear, this is Volcano The Bear founder member Nick Mott's new group, continuing and expanding on the experimental precedent set by Volcano The Bear. Recorded outdoors at a disused quarry and on two farms in Cornwall. Environmental sounds, traditional and hand made acoustic instruments, voice-as-instrument, distortion and electronics. There is the trademark VtB wash of noise distortion punctuated by whiplash percussive samples and abstractions. A rumbling momentum of charged strings, churning amplification and atmospherics. Psychedelic Concrete Folk Noise. 180 gram vinyl. Limited to 250 copies." [label info] www.altvinyl.com 2010 €17.50
SPIEGEL, LAURIE Expanding Universe do-CD "The Expanding Universe is the classic 1980 debut album by composer and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The album is reissued here for the first time in a massively expanded two-CD set, containing all four original album tracks plus an additional 15 tracks from the same period, nearly all previously unreleased. Some of the already well-know works included in this set are Patchwork, the complete Appalachian Grove series, and Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds, which was included on the golden record launched on board the Voyager spacecraft. The pieces comprising The Expanding Universe combine slowly evolving textures with the emotional richness of intricate counterpoint, harmony, and complex rhythms (John Fahey and J. S. Bach are both cited as major influences in the original cover's notes), all built of electronic sounds. These works, often grouped with those of Terry Riley, Phil Glass, Steve Reich, differ in their much shorter, clear forms. Composed and realized between 1974 and 1977 on the GROOVE system developed by Max Mathews and F.R. Moore at Bell Laboratories, the pieces on this album were far ahead of their time both in musical content and in how they were made. Each of the included works broke new ground, pioneering completely new methods of live interaction with computer-based logic - ways of creating music that are now reaching the heights of their popularity with Ableton Live, Max MSP and other interactive music software entering mainstream music production. The package also includes an extensive 24-page booklet with notes by Laurie Spiegel and period photos." [label info] www.unseenworlds.net "And yet again does Unseen Worlds provide us with something Unheard, at least over here. From the world of minimal and electronic music they find those interesting gems that are from really rare releases - of the kind you don't even see on the most outsider/underground blogs. I never heard of Laurie Spiegel or her album from 1980 on Philo Records. We are dealing here with some highly computerized music from a time when computer where not things for your desk or your lap, but apparatus that filled rooms. Its all told in the booklet, albeit with a lot of technical speak that perhaps sometimes may elude the uninitiated. But the whole text breathes 'another time, another world', even if you don't understand what it is all about. It is about limitation with those early big computers to create music, and perhaps that's the real surprise if you hear it. Take for instance a piece like 'Drums', which sounds like Pan Sonic or Goem, with a bouncing back and forth rhythm. The booklet tells us, about these pieces, that Spiegel has a folk influence, but that's hard to hear (well, that, or more inside knowledge is required). In other pieces there is perhaps something that we would call these days 'cosmic music'. Spiegel's music is not of a plink-plink nature that one perhaps would associate early computers with. Instead she plays long form, sustaining pieces, which slowly develop. Now, here she is clearly been influenced by the world of minimal music. Various of her pieces start out with with a bouncing single note which slowly expand - 'get longer' - and then starts to build slowly. The length of a piece is usually five to ten minutes with some being well over that, such as the title piece which is close to thirty minutes (which was also pressed in this length onto vinyl, so a CD version is more than welcome, I should think). No doubt with some of this music one could easily think its too simple and with my laptop running live you could easily do the same results in a few minutes, but I prefer to take the historical position: wow, with such limitations, these results! Spiegel's discography is rather small, and this double CD contains the entire debut LP, various pieces from later works (such as 'Drums' and 'Appalachian Grove I-III'), but also many pieces that are here for the first time. I can imagine that close to three hours of this music is perhaps all bit much to take in, but this is yet another remarkable re-issue on Unseen Worlds. Boy, what a great label so far, what surprises they have next for us?" [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2019 €18.00
SPIRACLE Evestrum 7inch "SPIRACLE is the original project of Japanese artist HITOSHI KOJO (currently residing in Switzerland), known to some for his label OCTPIA & some solo-releases (recently also part of JÜPPALA KÄÄPIÖ). On this, the first SPIRACLE vinyl release, two pieces of sublime Drone-Muzak are placed, mesmerizing and mind-expanding sonic clouds. The two tracks EVESTRUM and EXUSIAI are "focused on the physicality and the osmosis of the sound" as HITOSHI describes it. The acoustic basis-material comes from a glass harp, resonated trumpets, metal sheets & electronics. A kind of sonographical report of a process that a "subtle spiritual existence merges into a physical body and becomes tangible through the senses." The unbelievable cover-artwork as an object is paradoxically representing an invisible world. Filed under: ASTRAL BODY DRONES TRANSPARENT VINYL, SILVER LABELS. EXTREME HANDMADE (& COMPLETELY WHITE) COVER USING COTTON WOOL, GAUZE BANDAGE, THREAD & SPECIAL PAPER. SILVER PRINTED INLAY. THE FINAL STATEMENT OF DRONE RECORDS AND THE LAST RELEASE OF SPIRACLE!" [label info] "The final one is by Hitoshi Kojo, also known as Spiracle. He's from Japan, but currently lives in Switzerland and who has had various releases before. For this 7" (his first vinyl actually) he uses a variety of acoustic objects, such as a glass harp, resonating trumpets and metal sheets, as well as electronics. The sound here reminded me of the very first Organum record, 'In Extremis'. Slowed down metal scraping, which occasionally folds into electronic overtones and makes a very beautiful vibrating and resonating sound. Like the Wyrm 7", this is not exactly the type of drone music that lulls the listener into a deep sleep, but has a great unsettling character. An excellent work, topped with a great handmade, cloth cover. And apparently this is also the final record by Spiracle. That's two very sad occasions, I should think." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2010 €7.00
STAHLWERK 9 / SAL SOLARIS split 10" Die ANGRIFF 10” Industrial – Reihe geht munter weiter, diesmal nicht rein russisch besetzt, sondern mit dem deutschen Projekt STAHLWERK9 auf einer Seite und den guten dark ambientern SAL SOLARIS auf der Flipside.. thematisch geht es hier um das russische Raumfahrtprogramm und entsprechend fallen die Beiträge aus: exzellenter Elektronik-Ambient von STAHLWERK9; dunkel-harmonische, sehr filmische Spaceflächen und mächtigere Drone-Monolithen von SAL SOLARIS, inkl. Teile von russischer Propagandamusik (ausser „GAGARIN“ können wir leider nichts verstehen). Atmosphärisch stimmig und etwas obskur. Kommt im Postercover. “This split release is dedicated to soviet space program. Most delicate, subtle and wonderful tracks both bands ever did. Haunting mysterious atmosphere of the unknown fills the heart of the listener with a sense of a strange sadness and slight anxiety. Dark ambient with melodic background and some noise elements. Not to be missed! Sal Solaris is known for their Hau Ruck! CD, Der Angriff 10" in Prometheus series and Heilige Feuer I compilation appearance, Stahlwerk 9 have released now sold-out CD on Achtung Baby! as well as numerous vinyl releases, on Eternal Soul, Steinklang and Neuropa to name a few. A2-sized poster cover printed on stylish beige paper, limited edition of 370 copies. 4 tracks, total time - 28 min.” [label press release] 2004 €10.00
STALNOY PAKT Russias Awakening (Probuschdenie Rossii) CD Debut-CD des St.Petersburger Projekts von ALEXANDER LEBEDEV-FRONTOV. Pompös-orchestraler Industrial, Maschinen-Noise, Propaganda-Zitate & Musik aus (konter)-revolutionärer Zeit.... “This is the first full-length CD release of the new project of A. Lebedev-Frontov (Linija Mass, Vetrophonia) after the brilliant 10” release in Prometheus series and the split 10” with Rasthof Dachau, both issued by Der Angriff. This time it is dedicated to those Russians who, being in European emigration, still tried to fight for the freedom of Russia after the Bolshevik revolution has happened. The music is in the same vein as on the previous vinyl releases – deep profound ambient with analogue noise touches and phrase samples. Non-standard sized silver-on-black printed cover, limited edition of 500 copies. 10 tracks, total time: 53.43.” [label description] 2004 €14.00
STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT Mirrors & Tides, Shivers & Voids CD "Eyes closed, ears wide open, we are given freedom to dream the void. Sweeping, intricate, sometimes ominous yet always exuding a warmth and depth of emotion, The Stargazer’s Assistant produces pure cinema of sound. For this record David J. Smith (Guapo) is joined by Circle vocalist Mika Rättö’, who sings on the heartbreaking “Coral Butterfly”. David also had the honour of playing the late Finnish jazz drummer Edward Vesala’s Sound & Fury collection of unique metal percussion. Ancient forests, vast plains, billowing clouds, rusted metal hulks, wet rock walls, light flickering in dark: these are the subtle visions of The Stargazer’s Assistant. Originally released on Utech Records in 2013 as a double 10” vinyl this recording is now available for the first time on CD. David J. Smith, perhaps best known as the band leader & drummer of avant garde rock group Guapo, formed The Stargazer’s Assistant in 2007. Originally a solo recording project set up to provide soundtracks for his work as a visual artist, it has since grown to encompass live concerts and collaborations with film makers and performance artists. The group is at present a trio comprising: David J. Knight (Danielle Dax, Lydia Lunch) with whom Smith also performs in the group UnicaZürn (together with Stephen Thrower - Coil, Cyclobe) and Michael J. York (Coil, Cyclobe, Teleplasmiste). Smith & York have collaborated since working together from 2012 in the live incarnation of Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown’s group Cyclobe. 2018 saw the latest release Resurgam I, Resurgam II on House Of Mythology (the follow up to their 2016 debut for the label - the double LP Remoteness Of Light). Smith is currently working on a film for the Resurgam pieces with artist Maurice Burns. https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors-tides-shivers-voids 2019 €13.00
START! The KREV National Anthem # 6 7" "Three-track 7" of The National Anthem of Elgaland-Vargaland #6. This 7” is the fourth in a series of vinyl acoustic versions of the National Anthems of Elgaland-Vargaland. See also the Mariachi version [Ash 7.2], the Klezmer and Afrobeat versions [Ash 7.4], and the Norwegian School Marching Band and Underwater versions [Ash 7.6] issued between 2007 – 2008 by Ash International. These recordings were regally made during the unofficial inauguration of the KREV Ministry of Bankrupt Shopping Malls in Porto, Portugal, on October 10, 2008, in the presence of the KREV Ambassadors Mike Harding and Heitor Alvelos. Genuflections to the Future Places digital media festival, University of Porto Masters in Image Design and the University of Texas in Austin, and Transmedia Brussels. Mixed by: Anselmo Canha, Heitor Alvelos, Mike Harding and Philip Marshall. Cut by Jason at Transition. Sleeve photography: Heitor Alvelos and Anselmo Canha." [label info] www.ashinternational.com 2009 €7.50
STIMULUS Programme Music 10 Mit ihrem Debut-Vinyl begeistern STIMULUS aus England mit einer sehr ansprechenden Mixtur aus atmosphärischen Effekten und eher strukturierten & harmonischen Electronics, eingängig und trotzdem anspruchsvoll, sehr schön gemacht.. Nr. 3 in der LACTAMASE-Serie. Part three in the lactamase series is by STIMULUS, an experimental trio from England, creating a very appealing hybrid of effectful sounds and more structured & harmonic electronics. Recommended! “Futuristic electronica? Repetitious tonalities (croaking textures, tempered guitars, sparse, resonant bass), into a sand blasted piano denouement, introducing one to the taut, kinesthetic dynamics utilized by Stimulus. Each track is constructed around repetitious cadences upon which disparate textures twitch and spasm. The muffled, steel wool scrubbed, looped rhythmic impetus of the hypnotic "transference" is shattered as agitated streaks of fluorescent light hover and screech like flaming electronic pterodactyls. Though they utilize a love of "Nurse With Wound, '70's Italian Prog, Iron Maiden & field recordings" as inspiration, Stimulus move well beyond, exploring sonic territories uniquely their own.” [taken from label press-release] www.blrrecords.com 2001 €12.50
STROM, ANNA PAULINE Trans-Millenia Music do-LP Otherworldly and anomalous, hushed and hallucinatory, Pauline Anna Strom’s unique style of inner space music reaches across time to futures and pasts far from our own. Trans-Millenia Music compiles 80 minutes of Strom’s most evocative work, composed and recorded between 1982 and 1988 across seven albums released in minimal vinyl and cassette editions. Strom’s heightened sensitivity to sound and spirited sensibility with the pioneering synthesizer tools of her trade elevates this music beyond the catch-all containers of New Age and ambient music into a realm of its own. rvng.bandcamp.com/album/trans-millenia-music 2017 €28.00
SUBINTERIOR / SELAXON LUTBERG The Meeting do-LP "Stunning 4-part collaborative series between these 2 Italian ambient artists, released together in one glorious 2xLP set! Originally released on Selaxon Lutberg's own label, Cold Current Productions, each part is dedicated to a season and was released separately on 3"" CD-R in an edition of only 50 copies. We (denovali + murkhouse) just thought this was too good to be heard by so few people and limited to the CD-R format, though. Beginning with Winter Meeting and going through the seasons in order to end with Fall Meeting, each part will be given one side of 12"" vinyl. The mood on each part is slightly different, reflective of the mood or feel of its respective season, ranging from cold, icy textures to warm, soothing ambience. comes with an amazing artwork on thick printed innersleeves, thick gatefold cover and 180g vinyl. Limited to 500 pieces in total and no repress!" [label info] www.denovali.com www.myspace.com/selaxonlutberg 2010 €22.50
SUDDEN INFANT Lunatic Asylum CD Joke Lanz and Sudden Infant once again return in their razor-sharp trio setting whereby the absurdist nature that Joke's work is already cut with is reconfigured in a gnarled and beefy punk-fucked contorted rock setting. Short bursts of angular flex are heavily propelled by depth-charge rhythms, wry lyrical musings on modern living, and sensibilities hatched from years of experience in the worlds of sound art, abstract music, industrialised junk-noise and related areas have manifested in the perfect follow up to 2018's Buddhist Nihilism album on Harbinger Sound. Aided by Christian Weber on bass and Alexandre Babel on drums, Joke lays on a battery of electronics, loops, field recordings and samples to complement mostly semi-spoken vocals that appear like they've been swept from the overflowing gutters of a shopping centre into a huge ball of malaise that can only be laughed at as world leaders look on perplexed. Exactly as the title suggests, 'Lunatic Asylum' depicts a world in absolute disarray as the seams binding it together slowly fall apart to reveal jesters whose best attempts to glue everything back in place are built on bigger lies more transparent than ever. Meanwhile, citizens of the developed world turn on each other for the stupidest of reasons or grow fatter with their descent into an ignorance nourished by half-baked cultural nuggets pre-packaged and sold as great and awe-inspiring work. And everything has to be recorded, photographed and shared as brain cells are decimated by false ideals, propaganda, exaggerated lifestyles and a huge tub of popcorn swimming in indiscernible yellow gloop. Such are the snapshots that resonate as Lunatic Asylum takes some well-aimed swipes at the human condition of the 21st Century. Featuring a fantastic guest appearance by Franz Treichler (The Young Gods) on ' Il y a des Enfants', each of the 14 songs that constitute Lunatic Asylum are bold, heavy, playful and rife with surprising twists and turns Joke's mostly English splatter-poetry helps guide into a space that's about as accessible as the outer reaches of rock can get. In a perfect world, this is the stuff even daytime airwaves should be pregnant with but, since the world is presently tripping over its own feet more so than ever, we will have to suffice with wherever this can nudge with the help of Fourth Dimension Records. One day, hopefully, more will catch up. Please note that a vinyl version of Lunatic Asylum will appear later, but due to continuing heavy delays at the pressing plants this won't be available to pre-order till June. In the meantime, the CD features two bonus tracks. https://suddeninfant.bandcamp.com/album/lunatic-asylum 2022 €14.00
SUDDEN INFANT / CARLOS GIFFONI Oslo Oscillation Orgy LP "This collaborative release has its origins in a joint performance which took place in ‘a shady pub in London’, according to Carlos. Recordings have since been exchanged and reworked, and finalised when the two played together again in Oslo last year. Based in Berlin and London, Joke Lanz toils ceaselessly to create new sounds. He crafts an abrupt musique concrète, a bewildering edifice of no-fi electronics, turntables, and unexpected and disorientating sound sources. Since 1986 he has appeared under a variety of guises, including Schimpfluch-Gruppe, Schnäbi Gaggi Pissi Gaggi, WAL, Catholic Boys in Heavy Leather, Opposite Opponents, and the ubiquitous Sudden Infant. Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan artist based in New York. His compositions utilise analogue and digital synthesis, modular manipulation, feedback systems, and rewired electronic instruments. He is a prolific performer, appearing with Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, Kid 606, Merzbow and Smegma, amongst many others. Carlos is the curator of the annual experimental music No Fun Fest in Brooklyn, and also a member of no wave/noise/rock trio Monotract. First edition of 200 copies" [label info] "Two masters of noise team up. The old master from Switzerland is Joke Lanz, also known as Sudden Infant since about twenty years and Carlos Giffoni from Venezuala but since some time in New York. They met four or five years ago and have played together a number of times. The record now released by Entr'acte was recorded in last two years in London and New York. For some reason I expected the full forty minute noise blast, but not so. Of course this record is not the softest discussed this week, but it turned out to be one interesting slab of sound collating through skipping vinyl, looping of sounds (which could be from reel to reel recorders) and manipulations through computers. Occasionally these things explode into noise, but throughout everything sounded more through out than I anticipated. After the recent release by Sudden Infant on Absurd which I didn't enjoy very well, this is a real blow in the face. Intelligent noise, well crafted." [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.entracte.co.uk 2007 €15.00
SUN RA Media Dreams do-CD "This is the companion to Disco 3000, made on the same classic Italian quartet tour with John Gilmore, Michael Ray (trumpet) and the minimal but perfect Luqman Ali (drums). Ra himself plays piano and electronic keyboards, including the mysterious Crumar Mainman, which Ra describes as ‘like a piano, organ, clavichord, cello, violin and brass instruments’ and which also, importantly, has a facility for pre-programmed bass-lines and electronic percussion, which Ra uses constantly and to great effect in this small ensemble setting and seldom, if ever, elsewhere. The best of this collection (most of CD1) is luminous: very electronic, often rhythmical and melodic, always economical and making every sound count. These tracks are like no other jazz ensemble and, although recognisable as Ra – who else could think of, and then get away with, this – unlike any other Ra ensemble either. Ra makes the machines do amazing, visionary things while the band exercises restraint, remaining always in focus. In between, there are piano, saxophone, trumpet and drum vignettes, fresh and perfectly judged; this real was a fine band. This places the original vinyl release (and related releases, Sound Mirror and Disco 300) back into the context of the concerts, from which they were drawn. An important addition to the Sun Ra canon, since it is a rare document of an unusual Ra project that produced three classic late ‘70s LPs. Beautifully packaged and well annotated." [label info] www.rermegacorp.com 2008 €17.50
SUNN O))) Kannon CD "Kannon is an album which was composed in the aftershadow of SUNN O)))’s most recent successes in immersive collaboration (the group worked with Scott Walker on Soused, Ulver on Terrestrials in 2013 and 2014) and also from the broad and influential wake of their epitimous Monolith’s & Dimensions . Kannon emerged both independently as a conceptual entity and with roots in the legacies of those projects, yet was fully realised years later, in 2015. The album is 36 minutes in length and consists of three pieces of a triadic whole : Kannon 1, 2 and 3. The album celebrates many SUNN O))) traditions ; Kannon was recorded and mixed with SUNN O)))’s close colleague and coproducer Randall Dunn in Seattle, in Studio Litho, Aleph and Avast!; and the LP includes performances by long term allies and collaborators Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Rex Ritter, Steve Moore and others. And at the core the composition centers around the dynamic and intense guitar and bass interplay of SUNN O)))’s founders : Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson. It’s possibly the most figurative album SUNN O))) has created, which is unusual as they usually dwell in layers of abstraction and subjectivity. On the other hand the album is the most outright “metal” in years, drawing personal associations and memories of cherished albums like Panzerfaust and Twilight of the Gods again to the forefront of consciousness. At the third time it is very close to the cyclical character of mantra which the band has evolved into as a living creature, the enormity of intense sensate detail and manifestation of the live in concert face of SUNN O))), the organism that has flourished, metamorphosed and transcended tremendously over the past ten years. The literal representation of Kannon is as an aspect of Buddha: specifically “goddess of mercy” or “Perceiving the Sounds (or Cries) of the World”. She is also sometimes commonly known as the Guanyin Bodhisattva (Chinese: 觀音菩薩) amongst a plurality of other forms. There is a rich lineage behind this idea tracing back through many asian belief systems, with as many names and cultural personifications of the idea. SUNN O))) commissioned critical theorist Aliza Shvartz to write a text / liner notes around these ideas and topics. She also explores the relations and perceptions to their approach to these ideas via the metonym of music and SUNN O)))’s place/approach within the framework of music and metal overall. SUNN O))) also commissioned Swiss designer/artist Angela LaFont Bollinger to create the cover artwork, an abstracted sculpture of vision of Kannon, and the French photographer Estelle Hanania to capture portraits of the core trio (Csihar, Anderson, O’Malley) in the impressive and obscurant Emanuel Vingeland mausoleum in Oslo. The LP is packaged in immaculate tip on gatefold sleeve by our long time comrades Stoughton Printing, and pressed at Cascade in Portland, Oregon. CD, download and coloured vinyl versions are also available. – Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson / SUNN O))), 11 September 2015" [label info] credits: Released December 4th 2015 Attila Csihar - Vocals Stephen O’Malley - Guitar Greg Anderson - Guitar, Bass Guitar Oren Ambarchi - Guitar, Oscillator (K1,K2) Randall Dunn - Korg MS 20 (K1, K2) Rex Ritter - Moog (K2) Brad Mowen - Concert Bass Drum (K2) Steve Moore - Juno 106 (K2) Conch trio : Dempster, Priester, Moore Recorded at studio Litho, Avast! and Aleph, Seattle by Randall Dunn Mixed at Avast! by Randall Dunn Assistant recording engineer (Litho) : Mell Dettmer Mastered by Jason Ward at CMS Kannon 1, 2, 3 written & arranged by SUNN O))) Lyrics by Attila Csihar Produced by SUNN O))) with Randall Dunn SUNN O))) art direction : Stephen O’Malley Cover and typographic design by Allison Lafont Bollinger Text by Aliza Shvarts Band portraits by Estelle Hanania / Detail from mural Vita at the Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum, Oslo © Emanuel Vigeland Museum / ARS 2015 www.southernlord.com "Those grimrobed ambient metal overlords O'Malley & Anderson (here with guests including Oren Ambarchi and vokillist Attila Csihar) add a new opus to their extensive discography of doom/drone masterwerks! The three part Kannon, which may have germinated from the track "Cannon" found on their live Domkirke double lp from 2008, is art to play loud. All deep drones, deep voices, doubtless deep thoughts (check out the liner notes by critical theorist Aliza Shvartz). And here are OUR notes: Abyssic atmospheres of vast grinding drones. Layered, liturgic cavernous ritual. Gorgeously sculpted feedback flowmotion. Along with moments that remind us of the wide open Western spaces twang of more recent Earth (or Barn Owl) as well." [Aquarius Rec.] 2015 €13.00
SUPERSILENT 11 CD "This is the eleventh release in the Supersilent series. These recordings are taken from the very fruitful sessions that resulted in Supersilent 8 (RCD 2067CD), but are no mere leftovers. Indeed, Supersilent 8 was originally scheduled as a triple release, but producer Deathprod (Helge Sten) finally decided to split it. This is also the first vinyl-only release from the band. Supersilent 8 was recorded during a 5-day studio session at Athletic Sound in Halden, Norway, the all-analog facility where other Rune Grammofon albums like Supersilent 1-3 (RCD 2001CD), Scorch Trio (RCD 2025CD), Luggumt (RCD2040CD/RLP 3040LP) and Raus Aus Stavanger (RCD 2049CD) were recorded. From the monumental hardcore blizzard storm of 1-3 to the elegant electro-jazz of 4 and from the quiet soundscapes of 5 to the epic 6, Supersilent yet again re-invented themselves with 8, an album that to a certain degree explored more abstract and mysterious pathways beyond categories and comparisons. In fact, these sessions turned out to be so fruitful, that producer Deathprod finished 5 hours of music and at one point considered making it another triple CD. In the end, 68 minutes ended up on Supersilent 8, but it was always understood that more of the excellent music that didn't make it to the final cut would appear in one way or another at a later time, and indeed, here it is as a vinyl-only release. This was also Jarle Vespestad's final studio session. This 180 gram audiophile vinyl edition was carefully mastered by Bob Katz and cut by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering. Members include: Helge Sten (audio virus, electric guitar), Ståle Storløkken (synthesizers, keyboards), Arve Henriksen (trumpet, voice, electronics), and Jarle Vespestad (drums)." [label info] www.runegrammofon.com 2014 €15.50
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Offal CD Post Industrial pioneers Sutcliffe Jugend take everything to a new level with the beautifully packaged album “Offal”. Available on deluxe double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, and CD in a gatefold digisleeve, featuring monochrome paintings by Kevin Tomkins. With printed lyrics included for the first time, we get to the heart of Sutcliffe Jugend at their euphoric and vilifying best. Words that will make you question what it is to be truly human and not the conformist PC neo-liberal slave so prevalent and encouraged in the modern era. The production on the album sounds massive compared to previous releases, giving the carefully constructed songs an intense, brutal and relentless environment not heard before. Kevin Tomkins’ vocals are pushed to new extremes, doing battle with Paul Taylor’s vicious guitar and synth work. “Offal” features four epic tracks (55 minutes) of naked emotional release that will leave the listener breathless and gasping for more. Watch the video for Crawl: youtu.be/jmg9hVk4UCM coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/offal-csr209cd-lp 2016 €12.00
SVARTSINN Mørkets Variabler CD Now 8 years since the last full length for Cyclic Law, Norway’s SVARTSINN returns with a new opus, reaffirming his place as one of the world’s premiere Dark Ambient acts. For this album Jan Roger Pettersen is accompanied on some tracks by fellow Norwegian Amund Ulvestad on Cello, providing new elements to Svartsinn’s distinct ominous drones. Mørkets Variabler translates to "Variables Of Darkness" and it is a certain combination of such variables that fuels the urges and need to create the atmospheres translating as Svartsinn. Darkness comes in various shapes and forms and through these new pieces we are plunged into this vast and singular subject, left to our senses to explore it’s subtle meanings and impressions left within ourselves. Presented in a unique Limited Edition Hardcover Digibook as well as a Limited Gatefold Double vinyl. The vinyl version includes an exclusive remix of the track “Echoes Of Silent Cries” by Sweden’s KAMMARHEIT. Artwork by Dehn Sora. CD Digibook Edition of 500 Copies. Hardcover, 4 panels sleeve with 16 pages Booklet. 7 Tracks. Running Time 63:51 Double Vinyl Edition of 300 Copies. Gatefold Sleeve with printed Inner Sleeves on Black Vinyl. 8 Tracks. Running Time 72:00 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/m-rkets-variabler 2017 €16.00
  Traces of Nothingness CD Reissue, for the first time on vinyl as a double LP in Matt Laminated Gatefold Sleeve, in standard Black as well as Grey in Black Marble Special Edition, and also available as a limited Digipak. Both formats include 4 bonus remixes by Lamia Vox, Triarii, Letum and Gydja. Also features all new artwork by Dehn Sora. The 3rd offering from Norway's Svartsinn could be acknowledged as the end of a trilogy, the first opus "Devouring Consciousness" was an album containing stories made during what the artist explains as being some difficult and rough times. The second offering, "Of Darkness And Re-Creation", was the process of trying to deal with these struggles and reflect on them. "Traces Of Nothingness" is simply the reaction, result and the path ahead in this ongoing, seemingly endless darkness. A slightly more melodic, sad and obscure side of Svartsinn that still keeps the cold and dark atmosphere that defines his sound. CD Edition of 300 copies in 4 panel Digipak, Matt Lamination. 12 Tracks. Running time; 74:56 https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/traces-of-nothingness “....Beatless, desolate dark ambient soundscapes. Traces of Nothingness opens with the words "It lives ... in the dark ... something in the dark" - an appropriate introduction to this collection of brooding thunderclouds. Whale-like groans and distorted, distant impacts populate this world of shadow and bubbling ooze - there is at times the sound of a colossal drum pounding a broken beat, there are huge air movements and amorphous disturbances. On a number of tracks tonal material bleeds in briefly toward the end - drones, strings, humming textures - strikingly beautiful against the vast bleakness of the background atmospheres....” [Morpheusmusic] 2021 €13.00
SVASTI-AYANAM Sanklesa CD Wer sich schon immer eine Melange aus tibetischer Ritual-Musik und perkussiver ambient Industrial-Trance und dunklen Maschinen-Drones gewünscht hat, liegt bei SVASTI-AYANAM genau richtig ! Dies ist die Wiederveröffentlichung eines lange vergriffenen Albums von 1998 vom RAISON D'ETRE-Seitenprojekt, enthält 2 Bonus-Tracks! "Svasti-ayanam is Peter Andersson's foray into dark, Tibetan-Nepalese ambience. Andersson is well known for his work as Raison D'etre, Atomine Elektrine etc. In this incarnation, his signature Raison D'etre sound has been modified in an incredibly pronounced, and effective way. Sanklesa is marked by strong tribal rhythms that draw the listener into distant, foreign, ritual soundscapes. Andersson has released a prolific catalogue of music, that includes many CD's, limited vinyl and countless compilation appearances. Album incl. 2 exlusive bonus-tracks." [label info] www.eternalpride.ru 2007 €13.00
SWANS To be kind do-CD & DVD Freunde der musikalischen Trostlosigkeit dürfen sich auf Neues von den legendären Swans freuen. Mitte Mai erscheint ihr neues zweistündiges Doppelalbum "To Be Kind" via Mute. Mute hatte bereits in den Achtziger Jahren mit den Swans zusammengearbeitet und das klassische Werk "Children Of God" über das Sublabel Product Inc. veröffentlicht. Mit von der Partie sind diesmal mit St. Vincent, Cold Specks und Little Annie gleich drei illustre Gastsängerinnen. Swans sign to Mute and release a new album 'To Be Kind'. 'To Be Kind' contains 10 new Swans songs that - like their Homeric last album, 2012's 'The Seer' - will punish and reward listeners for more than two hours. Some songs are quite melodic and the emotions are not so severe. The shortest song lasts eight minutes, the longest, whilst 'Bring the Sun,' is a full 35 minutes. Special Guests for this record include (among many others): Little Annie (Annie sang a duet with Gira on the song 'Some Things We Do', the strings for which were ecstatically arranged and played by Julia Kent); St. Vincent (Annie Clark sang numerous, multi-tracked vocals throughout the record); Cold Specks (Al contributed numerous multi-tracked vocals to the song 'Bring the Sun'); Bill Rieflin (honorary Swan Bill played too many instruments to list here, ranging from additional drums, to synthesizers, to piano, to electric guitar and so on. He has been a frequent contributor to Swans and Angels of Light and is currently playing with King Crimson). Double CD - ​10 Tracks. CD / DVD - 10 Track Double CD plus a DVD of Swans live 2013 Primavera. Triple Vinyl - 10 Tracks plus Download. 2014 €22.50
SZKIEVE Ekranoplanes mCD Fast schon “elektro-akustisch” nennen kann man diese komplexen synth / elektronischen / konkreten sieben Miniaturen des HUSHUSH-Labelbetreibers aus Kanada.... zum genauen Zuhören, für das aurale Kino im Kopf bestens geeignet! “szkieve is dimitri della faille who founded the project in 1998. besides several szkieve releases, dimitri has also collaborated with martiens go home and vromb, and made a split-vinyl with ammo. szkieve's music is made of intense and complex compositions that assemble rich textures and expansive sounds. this is then combined with chords, string melodies and high-pitched synthetic tones. szkieve's sound explorations could be described as 'scientific', comparable to the works of modern electronic composers. but instead of 'dry, academic experiments', szkieve transforms moods into music and the result is quite unusual for this genre. 'ékranoplanes' is a concept work: because they require huge amount of resources and money, science and technologies have always been at the mercy of politics. this mini cd is a study of a lost technology of the former soviet union. that is, the futuristic vision of one man confronted by the needs of a country engaged in a battle for the world. ékranoplanes are the platypus of transportation, they are both planes and boats or something entirely else. these incredible monsters of steel and oil broke the waves of the caspian sea while intelligence around the world were still trying to figure out what they were. made of tons of rivets, motors and grey matter - those having the chance to spot such a special animal never forgot the sound of its metal bouncing on water or its wings cutting the air. with this release, szkieve renders the grandeur of this forgotten technology and pays a tribute to the developments of modern science.” [press release] 2005 €8.50
TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS August 1974 do-LP High quality reissue of the monumental work August 1974 by Japanese experimental music ensemble Taj Mahal Travellers. Pressed on 180gr. vinyl with extensive liner notes by Julian Cowley. In April 1972 a group of Japanese musicians set off from Rotterdam in a Volkswagen van. As they crossed Europe and then made their way through Asia they made music in a wide range of locations. They also paid close attention to the changing scene and to differing ways of life. Midway through May they reached their destination, the iconic Taj Mahal on the bank of the Yamuna river in Agra, India. The Taj Mahal Travellers had fulfilled physically the promise of the name they adopted when they formed in 1969. But their music had always been a journey, a sonic adventure designed to lead any listener’s imagination into unfamiliar territory. The double album August 1974 was their second official release. The first July 15, 1972 is a live concert recording, but on 19th August 1974 the Taj Mahal Travellers entered the Tokyo studios of Nippon Columbia and produced what is arguably their definitive statement. The electronic dimension of their collective improvising was coordinated, as usual, by Kinji Hayashi. Guest percussionist Hirokazu Sato joined long-term group members Ryo Koike, Seiji Nagai, Yukio Tsuchiya, Michihiro Kimura, Tokio Hasegawa and Takehisa Kosugi. The enigmatic Takehisa Kosugi, whose soaring electric violin was such a vital element in their music, had been a pioneer of free improvisation and intermedia performance art with Group Ongaku at the start of the 60s. Later in that decade, before launching the Taj Mahal Travellers, he had become known internationally through his association with the Fluxus art movement. During the mid-70s the Travellers disbanded and while his colleagues more or less stopped performing as musicians Kosugi continued to reach new audiences across the course of several decades as a composer, regular performer and musical director for the acclaimed Merce Cunningham Dance Company. August 1974 captures vividly the characteristic sound of the Taj Mahal Travellers, haunting tones from an unusual combination of instruments, filtered through multiple layers of reverb and delay. Their music has strong stylistic affinities with the trippy ambience of cosmic and psychedelic rock, but the Taj Mahal Travellers were tuning in to other vibrations, drawing inspiration from the energies and rhythms of the world around them rather than projecting some alternative reality. Films of rolling ocean waves often provided a highly appropriate backdrop for their lengthy improvised concerts. This is truly electric music for the mind and body. 2018 €27.00
TALVIHORROS Descent into Delta CD "A year passes by and finally Talvihorros is back with his latest album Descent Into Delta to be released on both vinyl and CD. The man behind this one man guitar driven excursion is London based Ben Chatwin who in addition to hibernate has had material released through Benbecula, My Dance The Skull and our sister label Rural Colours. Despite only recently forming the Talvihorros project in 2008, Chatwin has been experimenting with sound ever since he first picked up a guitar as a teenager. His live performances have seen him share a stage with the likes of Tim Hecker, Stephan Mathieu and Ian Hawgood to name just a few. Chatwin has to this point juggled live performances and studio work as two separate entities with studio material being culled from sounds derived from as many different instruments as possible and live performances being restricted to just guitar and pedals. Descent Into Delta marks the blurring of the lines which separate these two disciplines. It was live performance that ignited the production of this record, which began life as a series of live improvisations, these were then selected and edited over a long period of time. During the mixing process the concept to Descent Into Delta was born and it slowly developed through many hours of editing and arrangement. Chatwin became interested in different states of mind, realising it actually produces frequencies or waves - much like sound, itself. When the mind is alert, awake or anxious, these waves are Gamma, at the other extreme, during deep sleep, Delta waves are produced. It was in turn Chatwin's intention that the sounds of Descent Into Delta would loosely depict a journey from Gamma through to Delta, as a kind of experiment to see whether the listener could be subconsciously encouraged to trace this path through sound. Towards the last few moments of the album on the last track 'Delta', Chatwin was joined by viola player Anais Lalange who added a subtle but effective impact to the closing stages of this record. The addition of this instrument brings a whole new dimension and texture to the guitar explorations of Talvihorros." [label info] www.hibernate-recs.co.uk "Back in Vital Weekly 731 I reviewed the first CD by Talvihorros, also known as Ben Chatwin, a man with a guitar and effect pedals. He has had a couple of other releases, which I didn't hear. Up until this album there was a separation between live concerts and studio work. In his studio he would be using whatever sounds he could produce from whatever instrument, but live he was restricted to guitar plus effects. For this new studio album he took many hours of live playing into the studio and then started to edit and arrange this. Of his previous release on Hibernate I thought it was all quite ambient, but on this new one, things are less strictly defined. The guitar is overall a dominant factor for this, and its played at times in a more improvised way, feeding through bundles of sound effects. That results at times in menacing walls of sound such as in 'Beta', in which it reaches for the ambient doom of Nadja. Darkness is anyway something that lingers in all five pieces here, even in its more introspective and quiet moments, such as the very beautiful 'Delta', which has a nice viola to it. One could say that with this album Talvihorros found more a voice of his own than on the previous. Blending ambient with the improvised textures of ambient doom/metal into five fine tapestries of sound is very nice, though not unheard before, but a fine move indeed." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2011 €12.00
TAMING POWER Selected Works 2001 CD-R "There was a time when Vital Weekly reviewed a lot of vinyl and cassette releases by Taming Power, the musical project of Askild Haugland. That's what I wrote back in Vital Weekly 711 too, when he released a double LP of his work following an extensive gap before and, as we know now, after that. He never released many CDRs, but he did so in 2001, when he released this CDR which is now re-issued, which was to promote his music to concert organizers, as back then he was interested in playing studio pieces in between bands, rather than having a DJ on. It was intended to have this released on vinyl and maybe some day it will. Apparently I call Haugland a 'liar' as he wrote me 'please DO NOT once again call me a liar', but that seems a bit of a harsh word for me to use. I don't recall exactly but maybe I had some doubts about how he generated some of his drone like pieces. He writes also that the 'music was made entirely and exclusively from tape recorder feedback. Sounds and sequences were generated on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and then edited to a 4 track recorder'. I am not going to argue with that, he's the creator, he's right. I must admit I didn't hear much of his music again, but these ten shortish pieces (lasting thirty minutes) are quite nice works for multiple layers of feedback, creating moody and occasional harsher textures and defies the easy goin' drone music. I like the fact that these are almost pop-like length pieces and each piece is a rounded set of improvisations, disguising themselves as compositions. I am not sure if these should be re-released again on vinyl, but this is perhaps a fine reminder that Taming Power should do some new music." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2013 €6.00
TAPAGE Recursive Behaviors LP 'recursive behaviors', in more than one sense, investigates a mutual space where humans and machines mingle and exchange sonic materials with one another. machines infused with chaotic processes, allowed to follow their own strange and unstable logic. as one encounters these shapeshifting entities, riddled with unpredictabilities, one soon realizes that they can merely be infuenced and explored, but never fully controlled. the machines develop their own internal sonic language. a lexicon and syntax of sound, at times playing fragile melodies, other times developing textural structures, locked into semi-repetitive rhythms. timbres emerging from the intertwined recursions that form the backbone of their internal wiring. machines able to analyze their own actions and adapt behavioral patterns. machines that hum, sing, mumble and scream. 'recursive behaviors' started out with extended recordings of these machines, letting them act out in uninterrupted passages of sonic expression. these recordings formed the backbone of each of the pieces, as a opening statement waiting for a response. my initial counter took the shape of cello improvisations, complementing the electronic textures with slow moving, sorrowful drones. this resulted in a back and forth between the calls of the cybernetic machines and a range of acoustic responses. pieces written as much by the instruments themselves as through any human engagement with them. tapage - compound disturbance [video] www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqcRZn0KFoA tapage - the error-controlled regulator [video] www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXrqtCVpKNU all sounds and video by tijs ham (tapage) mastered by jos smolders at earlabs design by stefan alt this is ant-zen act420 pure black 12" vinyl. matte black die-cut sleeve & inlay (kraft cardboard). limited edition of 100 copies incl. digital download-code. https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/recursive-behaviors 2022 €26.00
TAPE MEASURE KID [N + JIM CAMPBELL] Zero is an Even Number LP + CD TAPE MEASURE KID is the new live-playing duo of N, amps + guitar, and Jim Campbell (aka the preterite, www.the-preterite.com), lofi samplers, modified analog 4-track recorder and effects. On their double debut releases “Ours Is A Stubborn Monster” and “Zero Is An Even Number” they expand N's drone / ambient style to something that is at the same time drone and beyond drone, including a sort of dark and sometimes weird improv tendency. very unique and for some of you maybe as if N's sustained guitar had been mangled through a computer by some strange wizard. but in fact all you can hear happened in real time, with a cable feeding the guitar signal to jim's cassette scratch orchestra, with the possibility of real-time manipulation while playing, cutting loose from boundaries. Both records show this special live-appeal of TAPE MEASURE KID, with the live-in-studio material on the vinyl part and the live-on-stage cuts on the CD part of both releases. Thick covers printed on rough cardboard, 180g black vinyl, CD contains bonus material, strictly limited to 100 pieces. https://n1511.bandcamp.com/album/tape-measure-kid-zero-is-an-even-number 2013 €32.00
  Ours is a Stubborn Monster LP + CD TAPE MEASURE KID is the new live-playing duo of N, amps + guitar, and Jim Campbell (aka the preterite, www.the-preterite.com), lofi samplers, modified analog 4-track recorder and effects. On their double debut releases “Ours Is A Stubborn Monster” and “Zero Is An Even Number” they expand N's drone / ambient style to something that is at the same time drone and beyond drone, including a sort of dark and sometimes weird improv tendency. very unique and for some of you maybe as if N's sustained guitar had been mangled through a computer by some strange wizard. but in fact all you can hear happened in real time, with a cable feeding the guitar signal to jim's cassette scratch orchestra, with the possibility of real-time manipulation while playing, cutting loose from boundaries. Both records show this special live-appeal of TAPE MEASURE KID, with the live-in-studio material on the vinyl part and the live-on-stage cuts on the CD part of both releases. Thick covers printed on rough cardboard, 180g black vinyl, CD contains bonus material, strictly limited to 100 pieces. https://n1511.bandcamp.com/album/tape-measure-kid-ours-is-a-stubborn-monster 2013 €32.00
TARKATAK Skärva / Oroa (SOLD OUT) 7inch "First full-lenght E.P. of a quite unknown German project, which only appeared on 3 ½ cassettes so far and on a split-7" with DEEP. TARKATAK uses synths and other electronic devices, the music is slow & dull, non-impulsive and dream-like. Very low rumblings, dark harmonies, some subliminal & dense backwards-effects, this is sensible "archaic music" which could be easily compared to old Zoviet France and the likes. Another Mind-Drone. If you're able to go INTO the sound, the sound will pulsate in YOU and have effects for a long time... BLACK VINYL, [was impossible to press this music on coloured vinyl!!], BROWN HAND-COLOURED AND STAMPED COVERS, EACH ONE WITH TWO "STRINGS" "Two spacious new E.P.s for entheogenic minds - out on Drone in December 1998" 1998  
TAZARTES, GHEDALIA & MAYA DUNIETZ Schulevy Maker LP "Holotype Editions was founded as a means of bringing out music by some of the most unique and peculiar artists of the last decades. What could be more fitting for the imprint’s seventh release, than the duo of cult artist Ghédalia Tazartès and multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Maya Dunietz. Recorded live at Cafe Oto, in December 2013, Schulevy Maker documents the duo’s first live appearance. An amalgam of bizarre samples, concrete sounds, live piano and bells, juxtaposed with the otherworldly voices of Dunietz and Tazartès. At times light and humorous, at others dark and ritualistic, Schulevy Maker can hardly be labeled or tagged. The album title refers to Shoemaker-Levy 9, a disrupted comet that collided with Jupiter in July 1994. Tazartès and Dunietz freely reassembled the syllables of the comet’s name, coming up with this obscure title. A truly life-affirming record, by two artists defying categorization, Schulevy Maker comes in a limited edition of 300 copies, pressed on black vinyl with a beautiful cover designed by We Are Still Bold and Beautiful. Recorded live at Cafe Oto, London - December 2nd, 2013 by James Dunn. Mixed by Daniel Meir. Mastered by Nikos Lavdas at Kiwi, Athens, 2017. 2017 €16.00
TBC & GUY SALDANHA / BALINESE BEAST Thunderbird Hotel 7inch "Released on July 2013. 7"vinyl, self-released, two tracks. Balinese Beast play: volcanic cut-ups, overdriven sax, 2" samples, pop 'n roll chews & chops following a cicada sine heatwave. TBC & Guy Saldanha play: textured and skillful noise wall, distorted guitars, feedbacks & analogue in/outs. 4 color offset labels & cover. Edition of 200. Balinese Beast is a duo project from Greece with Giorgos Axiotis and Ilan Manouach, working with electronics, home hacked-fi systems, samples, drum machines and the whole saxophone family. They have performed extensively in Greece and also in Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, France and Austria." [website info] balinesebeast.bandcamp.com 2013 €7.00
TEHOM Live Assault + Extra Assault pic-LP + mCD TeHÔM brought a new LP album "LIVE ASSAULT" with live audio recordings of the performance at the well known BRUTAL ASSAULT Festival @ "Keep Ambient Lodge" in Czech Republic on 12th August 2016. and was released through spanish based label LA ESENCIA Records (LER016). This edition comes presented in a 12" LP vinyl picture disc with the bonus CD "EXTRA ASSAULT" that contains extra and unreleased studio material only available on this set in physical version, a A4 printed sheet and a set of 3 nice postcards, one of them in magic chrome paper with metalic effect mirror. . “Kolaps” track from bonus CD is ultra rare never released track from 1991. All 3 "Extra Assault" tracks are recorded at CO.EX Studio. Live was recorded both, through the mixing board as well as from two room microphones to capture glimpses of the live experience. Vocals and special drone sounds are made live with a tube instrument for this occassion and extra sounds are added in the live set. Tracks are slower than the original studio album versions to give them even more sense of dense and organic ritual to the performance. This album is dedicated to the memory of beloved JOHN RUSSEL MURPHY (11 July 1959 – 11 October 2015) https://tehom.bandcamp.com/album/live-assault-lp-extra-assault-cd-3-postcards 2017 €18.50
TESENDALO Entwurf (SOLD OUT) 7 released in July 1994 in an edition of 200 copies on white vinyl. Nice and always different patterns of colours on each Coverside. Press-Information: "The open ambient project TESENDALO of Peter Schuster, founder of the long-existing tape-label PRION TAPES, charms you with magical ambience you will possibly drown into and forget your selves in. The two tracks "Entwurf I + II" work with similar elements (drones, guitars, effects + nature-recordings) to create slightly different dreamy soundscapes that will dip you and your environment into emotional atmos-spheres. This is in our opinion a perfect example what ambience is able to express... We'd also like to recommend the wonderful debut-LP of TESENDALO which cam out on Marginal Talent (a sub-label of Empty Records) recently." 1994  
TEST DEPARTMENT / TEST DEPT. Disturbance LP In an ideal world, Disturbance, the new album from industrial pioneers Test Dept, would not exist. It wouldn’t need to. Britain would not stand divided by xenophobia. Working class communities would not be under siege. Capitalism would not have created a climate change crisis pushing the planet towards a dangerous brink. And the Thatcherite ideals that Graham Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy spent Test Dept’s early years raging against would not be so terrifyingly back in political vogue. Back in1981, Cunnington, Jamrozy and a revolving door of talented artists from disparate disciplines and backgrounds formed Test Dept, forging an incendiary new sound from a squat in New Cross that made them underground heroes, landing the group under surveillance by the British government. 37 years later, on Disturbance, that sound is as incendiary as ever. “It began with a project to do with our archive,” recalls Cunnington. It was the early 2010s and Test Dept had been dormant for years. The pair wanted to sort through Test Dept’s old recordings to “re-establish our history and get our music out there again” after record label red tape left many of their 14 albums out of print. When attention turned to the “next logical step of a new album”, an idea emerged – taking germs of ideas from old songs and turning them into new, sledgehammer-heavy sonic experiments full of powerful protest poetry. Politics had come full circle. It felt fitting to do the same with their music. The result is an album that at once peers into the past and roars into the future, across eight tracks that conjure the raw power of Test Dept in their original, 1980s incarnation while adding new elements. “We’re different people now – not spring chickens anymore,” laughs Jamrozy. “We’re still angry but it’s tempered by a slightly different wisdom. We tried to upgrade the sound, to soup things up further.” “Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer to shape it,” the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote. It’s a mantra that continues to drive Test Dept. who return to their past on this eviscerating new album in order to move into a bold new future. They hope Disturbance can soundtrack a society doing the same. music merch Disturbance by Test Dept Wishlist supported by dauvit thumbnail dauvit Test Dept. have always sounded like Test Dept. and nobody else sounds like Test Dept. Another fantastic release. jvvoda thumbnail jvvoda Not a case of sentimental cash-out reunion call, quite the opposite. This record will keep you pushed to the edge of your comfort zone, and true to the title, it will leave you disturbed - in the best possible way - as a wake up call from your apathy and ignorance back to action. mipsen thumbnail mipsen What a great interpretation of my favorite track of the "Unacceptable Face of Freedom"! 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Landlord 00:00 / 04:41 Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. £5.99 GBP or more Record/Vinyl + Digital Album package image package image Single black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with artwork designed by David Altweger Includes unlimited streaming of Disturbance via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ships out within 3 days £17.99 GBP or more Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album package image CD in 6 panel digipack with artwork designed by David Altweger Includes unlimited streaming of Disturbance via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ships out within 3 days £8.99 GBP or more 1. Speak Truth To Power 06:21 2. Landlord 04:41 3. Debris 04:33 4. Full Spectrum Dominance 07:27 5. Information Scare 04:50 6. Gatekeeper 05:32 7. GBH84 04:21 8. Two Flames Burn 07:53 about In an ideal world, Disturbance, the new album from industrial pioneers Test Dept, would not exist. It wouldn’t need to. Britain would not stand divided by xenophobia. Working class communities would not be under siege. Capitalism would not have created a climate change crisis pushing the planet towards a dangerous brink. And the Thatcherite ideals that Graham Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy spent Test Dept’s early years raging against would not be so terrifyingly back in political vogue. Back in1981, Cunnington, Jamrozy and a revolving door of talented artists from disparate disciplines and backgrounds formed Test Dept, forging an incendiary new sound from a squat in New Cross that made them underground heroes, landing the group under surveillance by the British government. 37 years later, on Disturbance, that sound is as incendiary as ever. “It began with a project to do with our archive,” recalls Cunnington. It was the early 2010s and Test Dept had been dormant for years. The pair wanted to sort through Test Dept’s old recordings to “re-establish our history and get our music out there again” after record label red tape left many of their 14 albums out of print. When attention turned to the “next logical step of a new album”, an idea emerged – taking germs of ideas from old songs and turning them into new, sledgehammer-heavy sonic experiments full of powerful protest poetry. Politics had come full circle. It felt fitting to do the same with their music. The result is an album that at once peers into the past and roars into the future, across eight tracks that conjure the raw power of Test Dept in their original, 1980s incarnation while adding new elements. “We’re different people now – not spring chickens anymore,” laughs Jamrozy. “We’re still angry but it’s tempered by a slightly different wisdom. We tried to upgrade the sound, to soup things up further.” “Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer to shape it,” the poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote. It’s a mantra that continues to drive Test Dept. who return to their past on this eviscerating new album in order to move into a bold new future. They hope Disturbance can soundtrack a society doing the same. credits released March 1, 2019 Graham Cunnington - Percussion, Electronics, Vocals Paul Jamrozy - Percussion, Electronics, Vocals Zel Kaute - Drums Lottie Lou - Electronics, Live Sound David Altweger - Visual Director Rob Lewis - Additional Drums Ashley Davies - Bass / Percussion Laura Thompson - Additional Vocals on 'Gatekeeper' Roz Corrigan - Piano on 'Debris' Michelle Outram - Cello on 'Truth' Jordi Blanchar & Ilenia Bombardi - Additional Vocals Recorded: Flesh & Bone Studios, Hackney The Shed, Nunhead Mixed & Produced: The Shed Engineered: Lottie Lou Mastered: Giovanni Versari at La Maestra Mastering, Tredozio (FC) GBH84 Is dedicated to The Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign Artwork by David Altweger Photos by Michael Kötter 2019 €20.00
TESTCARD #24: BUG REPORT. Digital war besser BOOK " »Wie würden Sie das Internet beschreiben?« »Als die Hölle in bunt, mit Nullen und Einsen. Eine binäre bunte Hölle.« – Bernd das Brot Bei kaum einem Medium fallen Theorie und Praxis so wenig in eins wie bei Computern und dem Internet. Wir lesen Blogs, auf denen in einer Breite und Tiefe über nischenhafte Popmusik gesprochen wird, wie es im »goldenen Zeitalter« des Pop-Journalismus niemals möglich gewesen wäre. Wir halten unsere Plattensammlungen mit Datenbanken, die von ihren NutzerInnen gefüllt werden, auf dem neuesten Stand. Gleichzeitig steht uns ein Großteil der Musikgeschichte mit ein paar Suchanfra­gen zur Verfügung – womöglich illegal, auf jeden Fall aber kostengünstig. Auch die testcard-Redaktion selbst, die sich zwischen drei Großstädten und einer bayerischen Universitätsstadt aufteilt, wäre ohne das Netz kaum koordinierbar. Trotzdem hört man gerade in sub- und gegenkulturellen Kreisen Klagen, die weit über die Kritik an der Datensammlung durch Regierungen, Geheimdienste und Medienkonzerne oder mickrigen Spotify-Einnahmen hinausgehen. Von »digitaler Erschöpfung« ist da die Rede oder von »kommunikativem Kapitalismus«, von einer Verschränkung von Liberalismus und Kybernetik, der Herrschaft der Algorithmen oder vom »fucking Internet«. Zeit für eine Bestandsaufnahme jenseits von kalifornischer Ideologie und »Disruption«, aber ausdrücklich nicht auf der Seite derjenigen, die mit aller Macht ihren Einfluss von den alten Medien in die neuen herüber­retten wollen. Vielleicht sprechen wir letztlich über ein altes Problem: Was ist die Basis, was der Überbau, wie verhalten sie sich zueinander? Das Sprechen über Digitalisierung und das Netz fällt uns vielleicht deshalb schwer, weil die Form von Technologie nicht ohne ihren polit-ökonomischen und sozialen Rahmen zu denken ist. Oder sind ein anderes Computing und ein anderes Netz möglich? Aus dem Inhalt: Sounds der Digitalisierung >> Verschaltete Welt >> Kleine Genealogie des Computers >> Digitales ABC >> Zustand und Zukunft des Webcomics >> Digitale vs. analoge »Gegenwart« >> Nathan Jurgensons Webtheorien >> Mensch-Maschinen und Roboter >> Erzählen in der Digitalisierung >> Altern der digitalen Ästhetik >> Retrospieleboom >> Ungegenstand der Musikinformatik >> Let’s Player >> Indie-Computerspiele >> Ästhetik des Post-Digitalen >> ... Inhaltsverzeichnis Christian Werthschulte: (right now, please). Warum die digitale Gegenwart ­irgendwie auch nicht besser als die analoge geworden ist Roger Behrens: Digital ABC Roger Behrens: Digitale Frist. Computer. Pop. (Beta-Version) eve massacre: Network of blood. Von »Augmented Reality« bis zum »Liquid Self«: Nathan Jurgensons Webtheorien Waltraud Blischke: Bugs, Big Data und die ­UnverNETZbaren. Ein Gespräch mit Peter Bittner, Stefan Hügel und Julia Stoll vom FIfF Marco Schröder: Eine Maschine für alle Maschinen. Kleine Genealogie des ­Computers mit Implikationen für seine Anwendung in Philosophie und Musik Raphael Smarzoch: Rumorende Algorithmen. Die Sounds der Digitalisierung Flora Könemann & Chris W. Wilpert: Part of your distortion. Effekte im Zeitalter ihrer Re-Auratisierung Julian Rohrhuber: Dienst nach Vorschrift. Über den Ungegenstand der Musikinformatik Waltraud Blischke: t-cardcomp. Die Musikliste zur ­ungeregelten ­Geschmacksynthese Jonas Engelmann: In Love With the Modern World. Ein virtueller Roundtable über Zustand und Zukunft des Webcomics hierzulande Carl Wiemer: Das schnelle Altern der ­digitalen Ästhetik. Samuel Beckett und der Zenit ?ästhetischer Modernität David Schwertgen: Der Autor im Zeitalter seiner ­technischen ­Reproduzierbarkeit Johannes Ullmaier: Human Trouble. Transhumane ­Anthropologie im Turing-Test Hommer / Lenzin: Parolen aus der Stadt. Abenteuer eines Wolfes. Episode 3 Bettina Wilpert: Guided by Voices. Erzählen in der Digitalisierung Waltraud Blischke: »Wenn man damit Geld ­verdienen kann, muss das ja salonfähig sein.« Ein Gespräch mit dem Let’s Player SgtRumpel Philipp Eichhorn: Technology in our hands. DIY als Totengräber des Fortschritts anhand des Retrospielebooms Fiona Sara Schmidt: Die Geschichte muss das ­Medium ­notwendig ­machen. Die Spieledesignerin Lea Schönfelder über Autorenspiele, Zensur und ­perfekte Posen Benedikt Frank / Thomas Schröder: Wo andere ­Urlaub machen. Arbeit im Spiel, Spiele als Arbeit Rezensionen Tonträger: 20.SV: The Great Sonic Wave ADDISON GROOVE: Turn Up The Silence ALOA: s/t ALTE SAU: s/t ALVARIUS B: Chin Spirits AMANDA FEERY: Spells From The Ice Age AME ZEK: Rostfrei AMON DÜÜL II: Düülirium ANDROMERDA MEGA EXPRESS ORCHESTRA: Live on Planet Earth ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB: Medow Mechanicals BANANA PILL: Weave BANKS: GODDESS BART DE PAEPE: Rhode BEYONCÉ KNOWLES: s/t BILL ORCUTT: Daddy’s Got A Spice Rack BILL ORCUTT: Fantomas ? Le Faux Magistrat BIRD PEOPLE: King Of the Grove / ­Nightshades BOHREN UND DER CLUB OF GORE: Piano Nights BRIDGET HAYDEN: Just Ideas/The Night’s Veins BUCK GOOTER: Molescules BULBUL: Hirn Fein Hacken CATHY LANE: The Hebrides Suite CHRIS PETIT: The Museum of Loneliness CHRISTINA KUBISCH UND ECKEHARD GÜTER: Mosaïque Mosaic CICADA DREAM BAND: Bug Music CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE: Signals from the Pier Thirteen DANIEL BACHMANN: Orange Co. Serenade DANIEL BLINKHORN:Terra Subfónica DAS WEISSE PFERD: Inland Empire DATA­SHOCK: Keine Oase in Sicht DEUTSCHE TRINKER­JUGEND: Scheissegal DIE HEITERKEIT: Monterey DIE PARTEI La Freiheit des Geistes DIVIL A’ BIT: In Deference To The Squeamish DJ RASHAD: Rollin’ EP / Double Cup / We On 1 DJ SARDENA: The Voice: Studio Sardena DJ SLUGO: King Of Ghetto House DSR LINES: Spoel EEK: Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute EIKO ISHIBASHI: Imitation Of Live EMBRYO: Message From Era Ora FENNESZ: Bécs FENSTER: The Pink Caves FILIPE FELIZARDO: Volume II ? Sede e Morte ? Guitar Variations For The Thirsty And The Dead FKA TWIGS: LP1 GONZÁLEZ & STEENKISTE: Dimly Lit GÜNTER SCHLIENZ: Contemplation HAILU MERGIA: Shemonmuanaye HALSABSCHNEIDER: Havelmusik 1982?1984 HEIN SCHOERS: The Sounding Museum: Box Of Treasures HELEN: Witch/Zanzibar HELLVETE: Ode HONIGRITTER: Kellergeister in unserem Haus IF, BWANA: Live at the Logos Tetrahedon INEZ LIGHTFOOT: Sleep By Day / Fly By Night ISLAJA: S U U JA, PANIK: Libertatia JAMMIN GERALD: Factory Funk JASON LESCALLEET: Much To My Demise JEFF & JANE HUDSON: Flesh JIM O’ ROURKE / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE / LASSE MARHAUG: The Love Robots JIM O’ ROURKE: Old News / No.?9 / No.?5 / No.?7 / No.?6 / No.?8 / FIRE! WITH JIM JOSHUA BURKETT: Xavier’s Birds JUMPING BACK SLASH: Namhlanje EP KELIS: Food KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT: Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa KILLERLADY: s/t KK NULL + THE NOISER: s/t KLINISCH SAUBER: Kommerz Krieg Mond! KREIDLER: ABC KREISKY: Blick auf die Alpen KRISSI B: The Duke LANA DEL REY: Ultraviolence LASSE-MARC RIEKS: Helgoland LAU NAU: Valohiukkanen LEAST CARPET: Back Alley LIEVEN MARTENS MOANA: Os Canais LILY ALLEN: Sheezus LIMPE FUCHS / VIZ MICHAEL KREMITZ: Kugel Haus Musik LOS MICROWAVES: Life After Breakfast LOUIS SARNO: Song From The Forest LOVE A / KOETER: Split LUKE FOWLER: Fowl Tapes II MAMMANE SANI: La Musique Électronique Du Niger / Mammane Sani And The Workstation / Taaritt MANY ARMS: Suspended Definiton MARCELLUS PITTMAN: Do You Like ­Music EP / 1044 Coplin MARION, FRANZISKA UND ARNULF MEIFERT: Incredible Familiar Music / Absolute Relative Music MARK PRITCHARD: You Don’t Know Me MARY OCHER: Eden MERZOURGA: 52°46’ North 13°29’ East. Music For Waxcylinders METABOLISMUS: Sus MOUSE ON MARS: Spezmodia EP MURENA MURENA: Ghoaster Coaster MUTTER: Text und Musik MY BLOODY VALENTINE: mbv NOXAGT: Brutage / Collection 1 O’ ROURKE / Steamroom OLIMPIA SPLENDID: Nuttu Nurin ORACLES: Stanford Torus EP OREN AMBARCHI, KEIJI HAINO & JIM O’ ROURKE: Imikuzushi / Now While It’s Still Warm Let Us Pour In All The Mystery ORPHAN FAIRYTALE: My Favourite Fairytale PANABRITE: Wasteland Cycle PARRIS MITCHELL: Project EP PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES: Aulos’ Second Reed PASCAL NICHOLS: Nihilist Chakai House PATRICK COWLEY: School Daze PETER MICHAEL HAMEL / THOMAS GUNDERMANN: Coincidence PETER MICHAEL HAMEL:Voice Of Silence PHARRELL WILLIAMS: G I R L RAMBLING BOYS: True To Blue RASHAD BECKER: Traditionel Music of National Species Vol. 1 RAUM: Event Of Your Leaving RAZEN: Reed Bombus LFO RODOLPHE ALEXIS: Morne Diablotins RP BOO: Legacy RUARI O’ BAOIGHILL: The Faceless One RYLEY WALKER: All Kinds Of You SCHREIN: Einszweinschrein SIR RICHARD BISHOP: Solo Acoustic Vol. 8 STAER: Daughters STEVE GUNN / MIKE COOPER: Cantons de Lisboa / Way Out Weather STOSSTRUPP REVIVAL DUETT: s/t SUN RA: Mix-Tape SUNROOF!: Rock Power SWANS: To Be Kind TENSES: Howard THE SPACE LADY: The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits / »Major Tom«/»Radar Love« / Recorded Live in San Francisco / Songs in the Key of Z. Vol. 2 THE YOUNG MOTHERS: A Mothers Work Is Never Done THEO PARRISH: Footwork / American Intelligence / Theo Parrish’s Black Signature TOM WU: s/t TRAXMAN: Da Mind Of Traxman / Da Mind Of Traxman 2 / Westside Boogie Traxy Vol. 3 TREK WITH QUINTRONIC: Landing Plus VALERIO TRICOLI: Miseri Lares VAPOUR THEORIES: Split-LP VENN RAIN: Crepuscular Raze VARIOUS ARTISTS: Keine Bewegung! VARIOUS ARTISTS: Pulsating Strings: A Collection of Psychedelic Asian G­uitar Music VARIOUS ARTISTS: 10 Year Anniversary Hybrid Vinyl Series VARIOUS ARTISTS: Cassette Van Antwerpen VARIOUS ARTISTS: La Psicotropia VILLAGE OF SPACES: Gathering WESTBAM: Götterstrasse WILLIAM ­ONYEABOR: Who Is William Onyeabor? WILLIAM TYLER: Impossible Truth WOOG ­RIOTS: From Lo-Fi to Disco ZEA: The Swimming City Rezensionen Papier: ALBERTINE SARRAZIN: Astragalus ASTRID KUSSER: Körper in Schieflage. Tanzen im Strudel des Black Atlantic um 1900 BENJAMIN STEIN: Das Alphabet des Rabbi Löw BLACK HAWK HANCOCK: American Allegory. Lindy Hop And The Racial Imagination BRECHT EVENS: Die Amateure CHRISTIANE BAREITHER, KASPAR MAASE, MIRJAM NAST (HG.): Unterhaltung und Vergnügung. Beiträge der Europäischen ­Ethnologie zur Populärkultur­forschung CHRISTOPHE BLAIN: Gus: 1. Nathalie / 2. Schöner Bandit / 3. Ernest CLAUDIA BOSSE (Hg.): Cheap Method Edition #1. Struggling Bodies In Capitalist Societies (Democracies) DANIEL CLOWES: Der Todesstrahl DAVID BUCKLEY: Kraftwerk. Die unautorisierte Biographie DAVID PRUDHOMME: Einmal durch den Louvre DAVID SIMONELLI: Working Class Heroes. Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s DENNIS EICK: Digitales Erzählen. Die Dramaturgie der Neuen Medien DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN: Über Pop-Musik DIETER MERSCH: Ordo ab chao ? Order from Noise DIETMAR DATH / OLIVER SCHEIBLER: Mensch wie Gras wie DIETMAR DATH: Feldeváye ? Roman der letzten Künste DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: Present Shock EKKEHARD KNÖRER: Battlestar Galactica ENNO STAHL: Diskurspogo. Über Literatur und Gesellschaft ERIKA SCHMIED: Peter Kurzeck ? Der radikale Biograph ERWIN IN HET PANHUIS: Hinter den schwulen Lachern. Homosexualität bei den Simpsons FANNY BRITT / ISABELLE ARSENAULT: Jane, der Fuchs und ich FLORIAN CRAMER: Exe.cut(up)able statements. Poetische Kalküle und Phantasmen des selbstaus­führenden Texts GUNNAR HINDRICHS: Die Autonomie des Klangs HANS BLUMENBERG: Präfiguration. Arbeit am politischen Mythos HANS-CHRISTIAN DANY: Morgen werde ich Idiot. Kybernetik und Kontrollgesellschaft HEIKO KOCH: Casa Pound Italia. Mussolinis Erben IAN F. SVENONIUS: 22 Strategien für die erfolgreiche Gründung einer Rockband JAN SÜSELBECK (HG.): Familiengefühle. Generationen­geschichte und NS-Erinnerung in den Medien JOE SACCOS: Der Erste Weltkrieg ? Die Schlacht an der Somme JONAS ENGELMANN: Gerahmter Diskurs ? Gesellschaftsbilder im Independent-Comic JÜRGEN SCHMICH: Plattensüchtig. Expeditionen in eine andere Welt. 7 Schallplattensammler im Interview JÜRGEN ZIMMERER: Kein Platz an der Sonne. Erinnerungsorte der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte KATIA FOUQUET: Jonas oder der Künstler bei der Arbeit KITTY KRAUS: Lidschlag LINDER STERLING: Frau/Objekt LUCIUS BURCKHARDT: Der kleinstmögliche Eingriff MAGNUS KLAUE: Verschenkte Gelegenheiten. Polemiken, Glossen, Essays MAISHA EGGERS / GRADA KILOMBA / PEGGY PIESCHE / SUSAN ARNDT: Mythen, Masken und Subjekte. Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland MANUEL MENRATH: Afrika im Blick. Afrikabilder im deutschsprachigen Europa 1870?1970 MARIA JANION: Die Polen und ihre Vampire. Studien zur Kritik kultureller Phantasmen MARK BUTLER: Das Spiel mit sich. (Kink, Drugs & Hip-Hop). Populäre Techniken des Selbst zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts MARTIN NIEDERAUER: Die Widerständigkeiten des Jazz. Sozialgeschichte und Improvisation unter den Imperativen der Kulturindustrie MERCEDES BUNZ: Die stille Revolution. Wie Algorithmen Wissen, Arbeit, Öffentlichkeit und Politik verändern, ohne dabei viel Lärm zu machen MICHAEL PETRY (HG.): Nature Morte ? Stillleben in der zeitgenössischen Kunst MICHAEL PHILIPP / BUCERIUS KUNSTFORUM (HG.): Dionysos. Rausch und Ekstase OSWALD WIENER: die verbesserung von mitteleuropa OUMAR DIALLO / JOACHIM ZELLER: Black Berlin. Die deutsche Metropole und ihre afrikanische Diaspora in Geschichte und Gegenwart PETER KURZECK: Bis er kommt / Angehalten die Zeit SPRING: The ABC of Tragedy / Wunder STEFFEN SCHOLL: Musik ? Raum ? Technik. Zur Entwicklung und Anwendung der graphischen Programmierumgebung »Max« STEPHAN PACKARD (Hg.): Comics & Politik STUART HALL: Ausgewählte Schriften SUSAN ARNDT / ANTJE HORNSCHEIDT: Afrika und die deutsche Sprache. Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk SUSAN ARNDT / NADJA OFUATEY-ALAZARD: Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht. (K)erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache THOMAS MEINECKE: Analog. Kolumnen TOBIAS GOLL / DANIEL KEIL / THOMAS TELIOS (HG.): Critical Matter. Diskussionen eines neuen Materialismus VARIOUS ARTISTS: In 50 Comics um die Welt / Comics zur Lage der Welt VOLKAN ÇIDAM: Die Phänomenologie des Widergeistes. Eine anerkennungstheo­retische Deutung von Marx’ ­normativer Kritik am Kapitalismus im Kapital VOLKO KAMENSKY / JULIAN ROHRUBER (HG.): Ton. Texte zur Akustik im Dokumentarfilm WENZEL STORCH: Die Filme WERNER SCHWAB: Fäkaliendramen WOLFGANG HERRNDORF: Arbeit und Struktur" [Verlags / website info] www.ventil-verlag.de/katalog/testcard 2014 €15.00
THALASSA Bonds of Prosperity LP "Thalassa is the avant-drone project for Aaron Turner (Sumac, Isis, Mamiffer, House Of Low Culture, etc.) and William Fowler Collins. In his many guises, Turner articulates a chimerical aesthetic that intrepidly explores beyond the scope of sludge, hardcore and post-rock. In Collins’ blackened earth drones, he steadfastly engages in the elemental exploration of the New Mexican landscape that often inspire comparisons to the potency of black metal without the need for a single blast beat. It makes a hell of a lot of sense these two would eventually cross paths and collaborate. The project name Thalassa harkens to ancient Greek mythology of a primordial sea-goddess, later reprised in the early 20th century through an obscure psychoanalytic treatise by Sándor Ferenczi who posited ideas of human sexuality in symbolic return to the sea. For Turner, the project's name was sparked by a blood disorder called Thalassemia, whose root name is that very same Greek goddess. The ocean, blood, rain, sand, the desert, heat, fog -- all of these elemental / environmental forces are at play in the heavily sedimental drones and crumbled noise from Turner and Collins on their debut release, Bonds of Prosperity. Pressurized torrents of sound build incrementally through layers upon layers of aggregated grit, soot and flotsam. Given the ecological and mythic references, these tracks suitably take the long-view through a uniquely muscular approach to American minimalism. Thalassa finds itself in very good company with Maeror Tri, Deathprod, Sunn O))) and Lustmord. 2XLP edition of 300 copies, housed in a custom printed 2LP sleeve, pressed on black vinyl only." sigerecords.blogspot.de 2017 €27.50
THE BRAIN Experiments for Guitar + Machines LP About Workshop of Filthy Creation Created in early 2020 by American graphic artist Scott Summers and German-born guitarist/electronics engineer Karl Gottlaus, Workshop of Filthy Creation is a small privately funded record label that serves as the "official" production and distribution node for The Brain. Workshop of Filthy Creation also exists as a platform for the release of projects by other artists whose music exists somewhere in that vast gray area where experimental music and improvisational electronic music intersect. Workshop of Filthy Creation also intends to re-release works by various artists from the 1970s and 1980s whose music was either neglected or underappreciated during their time. The Brain's debut release Experiments for Guitar + Machines is also the debut release on Workshop of Filthy Creation, a label devoted to the exploration of noise, sound and music in an uncertain world. The Brain's initial album, available on vinyl and as a digital download, is a collection of experimental guitar/electronic soundscapes that recall the early work of Heldon, Cyborg-era Klaus Schulze, and the surreal kling-klang blitzkrieg of Conrad Schnitzler. Mesmerizing analog synthesizer drones collide with abrasive guitar textures to create dense sound collages that blur the distinction between industrial mayhem and ambient calm. If the true essence of music lies in its inherent unpredictability, then The Brain's initial release fully captures this anarchistic spirit. It is an approach to music that has been nearly abandoned in this new sterile age of MIDI and the endless programming of beats, where music has become merely a commodity for mindless consumption and perfunctory excretion. Available in LP/DD formats from Bandcamp at www.thebrainshop.bandcamp.com and directly from Workshop of Filthy Creation. For more information and orders, contact Scott Summers or Karl Gottlaus. Artist: The Brain Title: Experiments for Guitar + Machines Catalog #: WLP02 Release Date: August 2020 2022 €23.00
THE LORD Forest Nocturne LP The debut solo album from sunn O))) axe-man Greg Anderson as The Lord. 8 song collection of dark heavy cinematic-inspired darkness. Limited edition vinyl release. Forest Nocturne sees Anderson taking cues from legendary film composers: John Carpenter and Bernard Hermann, in order to create cinematic landscapes which are heavy with tension, and offset by the injection of lethal doses of early 90s Scandinavian Death Metal - with Attila Csihar (of notorious Norwegian black metal band Mayhem) lending his putrid vocals to final track ‘Triumph of the Oak’. For Forest Nocturne, Anderson worked with renowned producer Brad Wood. Dan Seagrave's epic and fantastical style is instantly recognizable on the album's stunning artwork, something which seems to depict an ancient and unknowable force in the woodlands. Forest Nocturne is described by Anderson as “the music of the night”, but inspired by imagery conjured on daytime hikes, and majestic and beautiful trees, which he sees as survivors - and perhaps the last known connection that we have to an ancient world, and acting as a connector between past, present and future of the human race and of our time on this planet. https://thelordsl.bandcamp.com/album/forest-nocturne 2022 €20.00
THE NORTH SEA Bloodlines LP "Brad Rose is an artist who is notoriously hard to pigeonhole. He might spend his days running the esteemed Digitalis imprint (sidelining the wonderful Foxy Digitalis webzine) but his nights are wiled away chiselling at the petrified corpse of experimental music. Donating sounds to Ajilvsga, Altar Eagle, Sea Zombies and Ossining (among many, many others) he has somehow found time to fashion a new solo work for Type and it could hardly be further removed from his last outing. ‘Bloodlines’ is an album rooted in synthesis – the kind of busted power electronics that emerged in the early 80s with Ramleh, Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse. This is not however simply a noise album – Brad has anchored his sound in this explorative mode, but uses his expertise to take it far beyond murk, grit and fractured teeth. With the help of Zelienople drummer Mike Weis (who accompanies the entire record on percussion) the record is a gloriously spacious excursion, with the fizzing Radiophonic blips, drones and tones set against gongs, scrapes and clanks. The sounds are dark and often punishing – torturous and occasionally frightening, but Brad somehow manages to offset it with an occasional flourish of beauty or calm. The record is cut into two distinct acts (split lovingly for vinyl listening) and each ‘song’ blends into the next giving a true album experience. ‘Bloodlines’ is not a simple collection of pieces but a distinct narrative from beginning to end. As it tumbles from 50s sci fi synth tones into haunting off-world terror there is a sense of purpose and most of all, place. Brad has created a record that might not be an easy listening experience, but is one which grows on every successive play. It is truly deep and intensely troubling music." [label info] www.typerecords.com 2010 €16.50
  Bloodlines CD "Brad Rose is an artist who is notoriously hard to pigeonhole. He might spend his days running the esteemed Digitalis imprint (sidelining the wonderful Foxy Digitalis webzine) but his nights are wiled away chiselling at the petrified corpse of experimental music. Donating sounds to Ajilvsga, Altar Eagle, Sea Zombies and Ossining (among many, many others) he has somehow found time to fashion a new solo work for Type and it could hardly be further removed from his last outing. ‘Bloodlines’ is an album rooted in synthesis – the kind of busted power electronics that emerged in the early 80s with Ramleh, Throbbing Gristle and Whitehouse. This is not however simply a noise album – Brad has anchored his sound in this explorative mode, but uses his expertise to take it far beyond murk, grit and fractured teeth. With the help of Zelienople drummer Mike Weis (who accompanies the entire record on percussion) the record is a gloriously spacious excursion, with the fizzing Radiophonic blips, drones and tones set against gongs, scrapes and clanks. The sounds are dark and often punishing – torturous and occasionally frightening, but Brad somehow manages to offset it with an occasional flourish of beauty or calm. The record is cut into two distinct acts (split lovingly for vinyl listening) and each ‘song’ blends into the next giving a true album experience. ‘Bloodlines’ is not a simple collection of pieces but a distinct narrative from beginning to end. As it tumbles from 50s sci fi synth tones into haunting off-world terror there is a sense of purpose and most of all, place. Brad has created a record that might not be an easy listening experience, but is one which grows on every successive play. It is truly deep and intensely troubling music." [label info] www.typerecords.com 2010 €6.00
THE ONE ENSEMBLE OF DANIEL PADDEN Wayward the Fourth LP "Now also available on vinyl –very limited edition of 300 copies!-, thanks to Clear Spot's very own Daffodelic label! The One Ensemble from Scotland (led by highly regarded musician Daniel Padden) blend European folk, narrative, popular and chamber forms to create modern compositions that provide attention-grabbing hooks and thought-provoking challenges. At times formal and at others improvisational, it is difficult to pin down the One Ensemble's sound. Influences range from the classic pop-psychedelia of Robert Wyatt to the deep experimental drone of Third Ear Band. Blissful free jazz, delicate acoustic out-folk, tape collages, Eastern raga and mystical modern minimalism all peacefully coexist in the One Ensemble's unique and beautiful universe. (The CD version of this unbelievable album was released earlier this year by Secret Eye Records.)" [label info] "... As with the recent Live at VPRO CD-R (Brainwashed), Wayward the Fourth is the work of a genuine ensemble, quartet to be exact, captured in a studio. The songs are gorgeous, twisted amalgams of European and American ethnic musics, free jazz, chamber music, minimalism and experimental plateaus rarely glimpsed in the western world, dispersed with just the right emotional — ranging from giddy to somber — intensity. There’s vocals on a few tracks, a few bizarre deconstructions on some others, but what strikes me most about this is the sheer musicality, the deliberate attention to space, detail and compositional structure. One Ensemble albums have always sounded like this, but just as with Volcano the Bear’s brilliant Classic Erasmus Fusion (Beta-Lactam Ring), the ensemble approach has reached new depths of cinematic, multi-hued brilliance. Easily one of the best ‘07 has coughed up so far.” [Womblife] www.clearspot.nl 2007 €10.00
  Oriole LP " 'oriole' is the new album by the one ensemble. bolder and more dynamic than previous albums, it showcases the one ensemble's ability to combine thrilling live playing with compositional elegance, shifting between hard-nosed rhythmic workouts and string miniatures, between wayward waltzes and open-throated song. oriole features the core quartet of shane connolly (drums and percussion), peter nicholson (cello), daniel padden (guitar) and aby vulliamy (viola and accordion). the one ensemble started life as the solo project of volcano the bear's daniel padden, but after two albums it became a live band, taking padden's experimental folk and expanding it into a fuller, more orchestrated sound. under padden's leadership, the ensemble developed a curious and strident brew of eastern european folk, chamber music, a pinch of robert wyatt and some kind of earthy psychedelic primitivism." www.altvinyl.com "This LP sees Daniel Padden's One Ensemble laying down some Eastern European-sounding folk business with accordions and fiddles and stuff. It's all quite dusky and repetitive and there's sometimes some vocals. It's not a straight folk record by any means, though, with the ensemble free to play around in more jazzy and experimental territory when they want to. It's not a million miles away from Leeds's finest chamber jazz-folk troupe 7 Hertz actually, and there's shades of A Hawk and a Hacksaw in its warm, bubbling fusion vibes, and Phil reckons there’s a bit of an Alexander Tucker-esque medieval feel here too, and when they take it down a notch like in ‘Chicken on a Raft’ it’s reminding me of Lungfish’s Dan Higgs. Padden is of course best known for his work with Brit oddballs Volcano The Bear, and that's no surprise listening to this record either, as the band he's put together seem perfectly happy to switch from bustling gypsy folk to disorienting neoclassical to even more disorienting free expression without so much as a hiccup, and some of the most effective moments see them taking repeato-rock ideas and throwing folk textures all over them. It works really well and is thoroughly charming, with the physicality of the traditional instruments really shining through in the strained, warm tones. In fact I think as far as charm and listenability go it’s the equal of his other band. Well worth investigating." [Norman Records] 2012 €16.50
THE RITA Queen Sheets do-LP "Some time ago a colleague emailed me and informed me that an artist made a short video of herself knitting to THE RITA’s ‘Thousands of Dead Gods.’ I watched the short video and thought it was interesting, but then also noticed that the woman had a link included on her ‘Instagram’ account for her sculptural works. I had a look at her work and was instantly taken by the sheer immensity and power of her structures, all exemplary of long hours of labour and provocative patterns behind the materials. The most notable structure for me was the piece ‘Untitled Form (Barrier)’ which was made up of timber, bricks, mortar and a semi-dynamic use of the material chiffon to hold bricks in a hanging fashion. The semi-opaque, stretching quality behind the white chiffon with height of almost 8 feet instantly brought to mind the focus of my past recordings that delved into the world of nylon and stocking fetishism, eventually contemplating the semi-opaque salmon pink qualities behind the tights used by classical ballerinas and the expanded practice and tradition therein. Looking at an imposing 8’4 x 8′ structure like Megan Miller’s ‘Untitled Form (Barrier)’ and it’s materials made me think that any sound made by the structure’s movement of bricks against each other piled in a virtual sling of moving chiffon would be perfect for textural, abrasive sound source. After some discussion with Megan, it was decided that a new structure would be built for a collaboration with THE RITA that embraced not themes of fetishism, but expanded utilitarian themes around the use of nylon; the stockings, tights and nylon that women wore to work, what our mother’s wore for warmth, comfort, and most importantly the virtual make-up of the fabric, the inherent qualities it featured. Her eventual new outdoor sculpture was entitled ‘Queen Sheets’ and also made use of brick and mortar, expanding over a flat area with semi-opaque chiffon stretching over the whole of the area, covering it. ‘Untitled Form (Barrier)’ was also erected again in the same outdoor area, and this time the labor intensive building process of both sculptures was recorded for eventual processing by THE RITA. Sam McKinlay ‘’An exquisite and entirely feminine material, much can be said of nylon. It moves like us and with us, stretches like us and with us, and, although extremely delicate and easily torn, the fiber is strong enough to make me wonder if it could support bricks. Pantyhose become our second skin, our birth-skin held in its softness. The sound of its softness is remarkable – the sound of second skin of birth – skin and the light sweet between.’’ – In a letter to Sam from Megan on March 31th , 2014 – (in response to the Rita’s ‘’Ballet Feet Positions’’) Both records are impressive, inspired and near perfect examples of Mr. McKinlay brutal sonic talents. This is easily one of the highlights of this year noise releases and a high point in the Rita discography. A must have item for HNW/Noise fans; but also a great entry point into the genre to see how one of the masters of the form performs. Double Lp has been pressed on 140 gr black vinyl with black label and black inner sleeve and comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve, limited to 199 copies w/insert in luxury 160 gr ivory paper, plus four color photographs. All package in a clear plastic sleeve to protect double Lp, cover and inserts from dirt, shelf wear and damage." [label info] 2021 €26.00
THE SWIFTER Wall Sailor LP "For some this could sound like a supergroup: Simon James Phillips' vivid piano playing with Andrea Belfi's precise percussion and drum patterns make the perfect companions for BJ Nilsen's electronics, welding together a driving energy. It is a rare treat to come across a record that imparts music as spacious as Wall Sailor. The album's ability to capture the listener with a mixture of acoustic instruments, field recordings and digital processing, with constant movement and relentless tension, is nothing but astonishing. Just like an actual murmuration in the sky, the trio's music refuses to keep steady and allows us to perceive its structures and formations from afar. These pieces could go everywhere; and yet they remain as pleasant as they are fascinating and never fail to impress. The Swifter's compositions breath an urgency for expression that never gives in to their controlled and skilled performance. Listening closely, you can imagine following the beating of wings, as if these tracks have been waiting to be released to cherish their freedom. Vinyl comes in a reversed cardboard jacket, printed in- and outside with Full Tone Colours, Lasercut-Artwork and Printed Inner Sleeve, ltd. to 500 copies." sonicpieces.com 2016 €24.00
THEOLOGIAN A Means by which to break the Surface of the Real LP "We at Redscroll Records are very excited for our first release under the Nothing Under The Sun imprint. It is very fitting that it is with THEOLOGIAN, a long-time compatriot and embodiment of the direction we intend to take with Nothing Under The Sun, distorting the known into the unfamiliar. A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real features DAVID CASTILLO of PRIMITIVE WEAPONS / WHITE WIDOWS PACT, DANIEL SUFFERING of WHORID, as well as contributions from MATT SLAGLE and engineer KEVIN D. REILLY JR., who has periodically worked with Lee M. Bartow since the earliest incarnations of Navicon Torture Technologies (back in the mid-late ‘90s). Tortured screams reach out over the tumbling industrial workings below. Low register whispered meanderings slowly rise to meet those screams. Machines’ rhythmic drones fold in on the voices. Sirens invite and warn. Sink into the synthetic abyss." [label info] redscrollrecords.com "Another nod to Hellraiser is found in the title to this vinyl only release from the larger than life project Theologian. Lee M. Bartow, the author and creator of Theologian's death-synth epics, has stated that Clive Barker's horror stories are fundamental to his work, even referencing the Hellraiser books as his bible in various interviews. In this quote, we are introduced to the puzzle box that when solved opens a portal into another plane of existence, with any number of demonic characters to be found on the other side, Pinhead included. The roar of big machines endlessly churning, boiling, and grinding with an infernal purpose is heard throughout this album, with the side long B-side "Truthseeker's Pick" emerging as some sort of hellish field recording of sulfuric vents, locomotive clatter, and metal-on-metal clank with nothing but misery and pain to be experienced in such a realm. The album's introductory track "God Comes As A Wall" finds Theologian screaming into the void of a collapsed black hole, crushing rock, building, planets into a singular thrum of cataclysmic white noise. "The Sun Failed To Rise Today" is a continuation of the plodding industrial dirges that Theologian crafted on the mighty Some Things Have To Be Endured, spiralling with spectral noise, megalithic rhythms, and soaring mechanized screams. The shortest number makes for one of the more intriguing pieces in "Surface Of The Real" with its subaquatic techno pulsations bracing the clarion melodies for guitar and / or voice. Limited to 500 copies." [Aquarius Rec.] 2015 €18.50
THEY FOUND MY BODY BY THE RIVER (ANSGAR WILKEN) same 7inch "7” Vinyl Record, 7 Tracks, Ted Serios Music No 3. Music and Drawings by Ansgar Wilken. Additional Voices by Mark Washeim & Max Hahn. Mastering by Gregor Hennig, Artwork by Javier Lozano (www.javier-lozano.tumblr.com)." www.theyfoundmybodybytheriver.tumblr.com 2012 €7.50
THIS HEAT Health & Efficiency maxi-CD CD Re-issue of the genius 12" from 1980, re-mastered ! "1980 veröffentlichten This Heat die hier besprochene 12"-EP (oder Maxi-Single), die 1998 von These Records als Mini-CD wiederaufgelegt wurde. Gleichzeitig erschien das Material zusammen mit den Stücken von "Repeat" auf einer Doppel-LP (mit dem Titel "Health & Efficiency / Repeat"). "Graphic/Varispeed" ist zudem auch auf der "Repeat"-CD zu finden. Zwei sehr unterschiedliche Stücke haben This Heat hier auf die beiden Seiten der EP pressen lassen. Das Titelstück stellt ein Destillat der Musik der drei Engländer dar, eine energiegeladene Zusammenfassung ihrer musikalischen Ideen in 8 Minuten, ein dichtes und spannendes Konglomerat aus schrägem Song, Tonbandeffekten, RIO-Krach, Schlagzeug-Freakouts, quasiindustriellen Klängen, wavigem Rock, Canterbury-Rudimenten und nervösem Tonschweben. "Health & Efficiency" ist meiner Meinung nach das beste Stück, dass This Heat je gemacht haben. Wer sich nur eine Nummer der Gruppe antun möchte, sollte sich dieses Stück anhören. Genial! "Graphic/Varispeed" bietet dann, mehr oder weniger, nichts. Ein ewigliches, einförmiges Tonschweben kommt hier aus den Boxen, mal lauter mal leiser, mal hoch mal tief, mal weich mal hart. Wenn man das Brummen eines alten Kühlschranks aufnehmen würde, wäre das Ergebnis wohl ein ähnlich abwechslungsreiches Stück "Musik". Das Ganze ist eine extreme Minimal-"Kunst", die man wohl mit einem verblüfft-verständnislosen Lächeln hinnehmen muss. Man kann den Nichts-Effekt übrigens noch steigern, wenn man die EP bei 33 rpm abspielt ... den Besitz der Vinylversion vorausgesetzt (diese langsame Version der Nummer ist übrigens auf "Repeat" zu finden). Trotzdem, das Titelstück sollte man kennen (wenn man denn die beiden Studioalben von This Heat schätzt)!" [Achim Breiling / Babyblaue Seiten] www.rermegacorp.com 2006 €9.50
  same LP "Second pressing of vinyl re-issue. First official vinyl re-issue in collaboration with original band members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward. 24 bit/96 kHz re-master from original analog tapes. Includes booklet with track notes and archival photos. Isn't it so often the case that the most innovative works of art -- the ones that break the ground where others follow -- are the ones that seem to reach only the ears of those who take those ideas and run with them? So it is with This Heat and their eponymous debut album frequently referred to as 'blue and yellow' for its ultra-minimal jacket. Within its 48 minute run time, the seeds of post-punk, avant rock, noise rock and post-rock can be found. Formed in Brixton, a multicultural, and -- at the time -- down-at-heel part of south London, This Heat were born into a music scene in rapid flux, first thanks to the punk explosion and then via new wave and its myriad offshoots into pop, rock and art-rock. But while many sought to apply punk attitude to chart-friendly sounds, This Heat were concocting some of the most experimental ideas ever committed to tape, taking influence from musique concrète, krautrock, the burgeoning industrial scene and even the dub reggae blasting out in their home borough. Their debut album had -- for the time and for the DIY scene -- an unusually long gestation, recorded in sessions between February 1976 and September 1978 in a variety of studios including their own Cold Storage, a converted cold storage room in the Acme Studios complex. Innovating throughout, they combined loops and tape manipulation with live performance and haunting vocals to a complex, dissonant whole. The band recorded everything they ever did -- including gigs -- and tracks such as 'Water' were entirely improvised in the studio. Given the difficult, abrasive, and involved nature of their sound, This Heat never found anything approaching mainstream success, but patronage by the influential Radio 1 DJ John Peel meant they reached a national audience -- whether that audience was ready for them or not. Celebrating This Heat's 40th anniversary in 2016, Modern Classics Recordings will re-issue the band's catalog -- 1979's This Heat, 1980's Health and Efficiency, and 1981's Deceit -- with full co-operation of surviving members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward. Four decades on, the tireless efforts of This Heat's process can once again be a revelation for new audiences." [label info] www.lightintheattic.net „Was diese so Band so ausnehmend macht und selbst unter heutigen Maßstäben so ungemindert bestechend, ist in meinen Ohren der Thrill zwischen schwebenden Momenten, in denen die Musik die Luft anzuhalten oder garottiert zu werden scheint und sich enorme Energie aufstaut, und den unglaublich intensiven Eruptionen in Gestalt des ostinaten Drummings und sich ins Gehirn fressender Loops. Dazu kommt dann noch an besonders sublimen Momenten HAYWARDs Gesang mit einem Timbre, das einem die Kehle zuschnürt durch den wehen Ton und mit heißkalter Dringlichkeit die Schädeldecke aufstemmt....“ [Bad Alchemy #51] “A landmark recording by one of most important British bands, full stop. this, their first release, tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. First, the music: without precedent, then, the musicians: all extraordinary, all uncompromisingly radical, then the way it was all put together: endlessly surprising, hammeringly intense, and the sound: hard, radical, crafted, rich, with complete control of the frequency range. Beautifully recorded, radically mixed, this was breathtakingly present. Stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn't aged. this is deep, complex work that creates its own world, anticipating much that was to follow in the next 15 years. A luminous release out of print (for almost a decade?). Re-mastered by the group for this re release.“ [label info] "Earlier this year, a few months back, we made the 40th anniversary This Heat vinyl reissues our Records Of The Week. More like Records Of All Time, really. The two full-lengths (This Heat and Deceit) quickly sold out, and have been sadly absent from our racks for the past little while - but now they both have been repressed, and are available again at a slightly lower price than before (thanks to no longer being in gatefold jackets). If somehow you missed out before, we urge you to get 'em now! Our review of this one... Oooh, at last nicely reissued on vinyl, automatic Records Of The Week!!! What more is there to say that we haven't already said (at length, below, you'll see) about these This Heat records? Trying to explain why this record is so good is sort of like trying to explain why ice cream is so delicious. Or maybe it's kind of like writing an introduction for the new Pynchon novel. Or telling a few jokes before Richard Pryor comes on stage. Or throwing a couple quick passes before Joe Montana comes on the field. It's that daunting, that overwhelming, that impossible. The trio of Charles Hayward, Charles Bullen, and Gareth Williams known collectively as This Heat were one of the few bands that literally changed people's lives. Changed the way folks thought about music. I (Andee) couldn't believe music like this actually existed. It was everything I wanted to listen to before I knew that THIS was exactly what I wanted to listen to. Hit It Or Quit It publisher / rock critic / indie scenstress Jessica Hopper once wrote that she literally pee'd her pants the first time she heard This Heat. And it's not hard to see why. Without This Heat, modern, alternative, avant garde music as we know it would be a whole different beast. Post rock, math rock, avant rock are hugely indebted to the genre shattering experimentalism of This Heat. Tortoise, You Fantastic, Yona Kit, Brise Glace, Psychic Paramount, Laddio Bolocko, Radian, Village Of Savoonga, Larsen, Starfuckers, Circle, Salvatore, I Am Spoonbender - none of those bands would even exist if it weren't for This Heat, or if they still did you can bet they would sound a whole lot different. And that's just off the top of our heads, AND that's -just- bands whose sound directly reflects the influence of This Heat. Imagine how many performers and artists were influenced by This Heat but who let that influence manifest itself in not so obvious ways. We once described This Heat as "Krautrock-ish hyper rhythmic tape-looped prog." Which comes close to succinctly describing the magical musical alchemy of This Heat, but still only scratches the surface. This is their self titled debut, originally released in 1979, which manages over the course of about 50 minutes to redefine almost all music that has come before. The sound of This Heat is rhythm and texture and dynamics. The recording studio as instrument. Every sound and every song is based on rhythm and texture. There are hooks, and melodies, but they exist to serve the rhythm and are often born from the deft manipulation of sound and tempo. Even the most static and repetitive parts manage to sound -musical-. There are vocals, but they are minimal and otherworldly, weary and sing songy and completely mesmerizing. A droning musical accompaniment to the haunting whirs and clanging percussion in the background. This record is such a totally immersive and strangely lovely musical environment. From the machinelike Krautrock of "Horizontal Hold" to the dreamy contemplative "Twilight Furniture" with its simple chiming guitars, muted tribal percussion and keening vocals, to the bizarre affected drum workout of "24 Track Loop", it's like wandering through some alien musical world. As sky full of greys and blues, smeary drones floating gently by, haunting quavering vocals drifting below, like tendrils of smoke, the barren landscape littered with all manner of rhythmic outcroppings, harsh jagged crashes and booms, as well as low rolling thumps and stutters, off in the distance simple spare melodies float and hover, each note a glowing spot on the horizon. Absolutely and utterly overwhelmingly brilliant. There are plenty of places on the web and in magazines to read more about the history of the band, the band members, the various releases and reissues (see elsewhere on the AQ website for reviews of past editions of various TH recordings) but none of that ultimately matters as much as the sound. And oh the glorious sound. Just take a listen to the sound samples and no words will be necessary." [Aquarius Records] 2016 €26.50
THISQUIETARMY X N Zerfall / Zerfallen LP + CD Thisquietarmy and N met during live shows and festivals on and off for years. As both are always interested in doing collaborations it was just a matter of time, when both would team up for a guitar drone convention. All started with an improvisational live set in Cologne, followed by a studio session in Duisburg, back in 2019. “Zerfall | Zerfallen” features all the tracks of those two sessions, except one track, that is featured on “Zerstoeren”, the sister release (MD 098). “Zerfall” (LP) features two epic tracks and it is obvious after the first seconds, that the studio session was a loud unfaltering monster. We can say that for sure, because this is one of the rare occasions, we had the chance to join the recording session. Imagine an old industrial building with a big studio room on the upper floor, where two guitarists are sitting in front of an amp wall, playing so loud that no earplug can save you. The first track “Zerfall Alpha” flows with loud noise soundwalls by N and the looming sounds of thisquietarmy, evolving into soundscapes that feel like both guitars are melting into one unbending soundwall, going loud and sometimes quiet even to get subsequently louder. “Zerfall Beta” is the evil twin of the A side track and unfolds a massive drone doom wave. “Zerfallen” (CD) features the other three tracks of the session, in the same mood like “Zerfall” but with an individual sonic evolving. All rounded up by the live session from Cologne “Zerstaeuber“, which is also featured on “Zerfallen”. Here you can discover, how the musicians approached very tentative, how their sounds work together for the very first time. All in all, you get 2 hours of massive drone doom ambient noise guitar fulmination. Listen loud for maximum aftermath. “Zerfall | Zerfallen” comes in an edition of 222 copies on LP+CD. Black vinyl with printed labels, housed in reverse board printed sleeve on 300g cardboard. The CD is housed in a reverse board printed cardboard wallet. If you want to read more about the recording session, here is an intrview Eric and Hellmut did for Fifteen Questions: 15questions.net/interview/thisquietarmy-and-n-share-their-creative-process/page-1/ Zerfall (LP) A Zerfall Alpha 22:27 B Zerfall Beta 23:20 Zerfallen (CD) 01 Zerfallen Eins 11:21 02 Zerfallen Zwei 12:52 03 Zerfallen Drei 31:27 04 Zerstaeuber 17:24 Technical: LP + CD / Limited to 222 copies LP comes on black vinyl / printed labels / reverseboard printed sleeve CD comes in reverseboard printed sleeve thisquietarmy (amps+guitars) N (amps+guitars) recorded by Tobias Stieler, June 2019 mixed+mastered by Eric Quach, March 2021 photography by Roxane De Koninck www.midirarecords.com/release/md-097-thisquietarmy-x-n-zerfall-zerfallen 2022 €27.50
THO-SO-AA LPZG/BLGM Live LP "L.ed. 300. LPZG/BLGM is the first Live-Document of Tho-so-AA and also the first full length release on Vinyl. Side 1 was recorded in 2008 in Leipzig at Sonic Lodge Festival and contains special versions of well known, rare and unreleased tracks from the Identify-Era. This was the only recorded Gig with the flutes played by EvaNaRa. Side 2 was recorded in 2004 in Belgium and contains special versions of tracks from Minus and the ultra rare Spoiler EP." [label info] www.tesco-germany.com 2014 €18.00
THORSTEN SOLTAU & COMRADES Roman Feast & a Grape from Thor Heyerdahl's Table do-MC BOX "Roman Feast & A Grape From Thor Heyerdahl's Table features a wide collection of Thorsten Soltau's layered concrete sounds and the sources that created them. On this double-cassette album he and his "Comrades" have created a beautiful, and sometimes haunting journey through ambient drones, concrete music and cut-up sound collages. An arrangement varying from whipping noise layers and piercing feedback drones combined with amplified objects, to field recordings, repeating piano rhythms and hidden voice fragments to spoken word storytelling! An adventure in experimental music! Feat. Max Kuiper, The Dead Mauriacs, Marina Stewart, Mihkel Kleis, Rainier Lericolais, Gildas Brugaro, Fluorescent Grey and Susan Matthews Two high-bias chrome cassettes in special vinyl packaging. Comes with one hand-numbered and signed art print out of the four motifes: The Center, Poor Man’s Deathbed, Bring Me A Head Full Of Thoughts or the Red Killer." [label info] "For whatever odd reason I was thinking that Thorsten Soltau was one of the guys from the old cassette network, but in fact he started to play music in 2009 and on discogs it says about his work that he works "exclusively with concrete material, plundered data carriers and vinyl sources and leaves his first proper use of digital manipulation behind. Influenced by first electronic music and the avant-garde cut-up of musical and non-musical sources Thorsten Soltau decided to teach himself a form and musical language of strange, two-dimensional musique concrete and jarring rhythms." He works with other people a lot, I think, as this excellently designed double tape proofs. The comrades are people like Max Kuiper, Marina Stewart, Mihkel Kleis, The Dead Mauriacs, Roman Feast (all on the first tape, sometimes with more comrades per track), while Kuiper and Kleis return on the other tape along with Gildas Brugaro, Susan Matthews and Fluorescent Grey and Rainier Lericolais provide a remix. A vivid little scene, as The Dead Mauriacs also release on this label. In the first four piece, all on cassette one, I must admit I heard some great music but hardly something that translated to concrete material, plundered data carriers and vinyl sources, but rather something that sounded like ambient inspired synthesizer work, despite whoever was collaborating. These pieces were all quite dark, quite heavily layered with synthesizer like sounds and didn't sound surprisingly new, but they did sound surprisingly good. Music that fits the dreary grey day, ending with a boom and a clap in the Lericolais remix. On the other tape we find more what discogs (at least) promises: plundered sound sources, vinyl work and such like. First through a live recording (Soltau/Kuiper/Brugaro/Matthews) which opens with the crackling of vinyl and ends with noise and we move in between through these ends. Thereafter is a piece by the first three but with the addition of Kleis and it's quite a lovely piano sample being repeated over and over, but shifting back and forth, going the all out of phase way from Steve Reich and slowly morphing into a marimba or glockenspiel. He would be proud of the simple yet highly effective piece of music. The Fluorescent Grey remix doesn't much add to this beauty, it just makes it a bit noisier. 'Plagot 2' is a nice faint technoid like piece, but also seems a bit superflouos. Otherwise: excellent release." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2014 €14.00
THROBBING GRISTLE The Second Annual Report do-CD "Nach 30 Jahren sind THROBBING GRISTLE zurück auf ihrem eigenen Label Industrial Records. Und zur Feier dessen erscheinen die ersten fünf THROBBING GRISTLE Alben auf Vinyl und CD. Jedes Album wurde mit Liebe von den Digitaltransfers der ersten Analogtapes neu gemastert. Jede der CD Special Editions erscheint als Gatefold Sleeve mit restauriertem Originalartwork und einem integrierten 8-seitigen Booklet. Jede CD Special Edition wartet außerdem noch mit einer exklusiven Bonus-CD mit Material aus dem Jahr des Originalreleases auf wie z.B. Livetracks und neu gemasterte Singles. Die Vinyleditionen haben ein großformatiges 8-seitiges Booklet mit THROBBING GRISTLE Material mit bisher unveröffentlichten Photos. Jedes Vinyl ist auf 2000 Stück limitiert. Die Tracklisten von CD und Vinyl sind gleich. Das "Greatest Hits" CD-Special verfügt überdies noch über zwei bisher unveröffentlichte THROBBING GRISTLE Mixe aus den 80er Jahren. Die Vinyle und CDs werden in wöchentlichem Abstand veröffentlicht werden. On 26th September 2011 IR will make the following titles available as part of a 'TG Time Capsule' CD series of reissues. Each title has been remastered by Chris Carter and comes packaged for the first time in the digi-pak format to better represent their original IR LP artwork. Each release in this 'Time Capsule' series, comes with an additional disc of selected TG live performances culled from our TG24 archive recordings. They are selected to represent TG live performances specific to the original release year of each album." [label info] www.industrial-records.com 2011 €18.50
  A Souvenir of Camber Sands do-CD Mute are happy to announce the release of Throbbing Gristle’s A Souvenir of Camber Sands digitally, on double CD, and limited edition double white vinyl with high definition audio download on November 29. This release is the infamous live show recorded at Throbbing Gristle’s 2004 performance as part of Jake and Dinos Chapman’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival line up. The performance and CD were both dedicated to their dear friend and co-conspirator, John Balance, who passed away in November 2004. The CD-R set was on sale minutes after Throbbing Gristle finished performing. The few remaining copies of this limited edition set were briefly available through Mute Records, but quickly sold out. This is the first CD reissue, and the first time A Souvenir of Camber Sands is available on vinyl and digital platforms. Throbbing Gristle are Chris Carter, Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson (who sadly passed away on November 25, 2010), Cosey Fanni Tutti, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Other recent Throbbing Gristle re-releases on Mute include D.o.A., Throbbing Gristle’s Greatest Hits, and Part Two: Endless Not + TG Now. 2019 €16.50
THUJA same LP "A brand new vinyl only full length from aQ beloved ambient improvised free rock explorers Thuja. The core group is all present, Loren Chasse, Glenn Donaldson, Steven R. Smith and Rob Reger, joined for these sessions by Thuja satellite members: Greg Bianchini, Keith Evans, Bryan DeRoo and former aQ mailorder mistress Christine Boepple. Collected from various live performances, these tracks find Thuja setting up in various venues around the Bay Area, and transforming each location, at least briefly, into a forest glade, or a darkened wood, or a fog shrouded seashore, using traditional instruments as well as sticks and stones and other found objects to conjure up ghostlike soundscapes , each track, every performance, a slow burning sprawl of humid and humming minimalism. Almost the entirety of the A side is taken up by an epic stretch of alchemical minimalism, a muted series of washed out melodies, of gentle scrapes and distant shimmers, various notes and chords expressed in long streaks, the guitar lines unfurling lazily, the band eventually coalesce into a glistening high end crescendo, suddenly reminding us of Sunroof! with their upper register ur-drone skree, but here that skree is more muted and muddied, a mournful keening, before the band elves back into a more minimal moonlit crawl. Disembodied slowed down riffs are draped over whispered whirs, while the band lurk in the shadows, letting tiny bits of light spill out, creating barely there sonic patterns, and dusty dreamlike song skeletons. The B side is even more understated, each track a brief soundscape, exploring dark dusty corners, shuffling through a blanket of dead leaves, the band barely there at all. Almost like they set up their instruments and just stood there, letting the wind and the wildlife create the sounds. When the music does materialize, and take more solid form, the guitars weave themselves into delicate little tangles, drifting over deep resonant swells, all around sounds betray the environment, but become inexorable parts of the organic sound being created, snippets of conversation, voices, footsteps, alongside subtle bits of percussive thump, warbly distant melodies, a deep dark ambience, a gorgeously subtle sound that manages to be quietly propulsive even as it seems to hover motionless. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES!!" [Aquarius Records review] label-website: www.importantrecords.com 2008 €15.50
TIETCHENS, ASMUS Litia CD “Fifth part in the ongoing rerelease series of all early vinyl albums by Tietchens on CD. This one from 1983 marks the end of his Sky 'phase' and was the last to feature his very own version of 'Synthesizer Pop Music' for some time (he'd only return to this music with the release of his HEMATIC SUNSETS albums in the late 1990's). The CD also feat. the rare 'Rattenheu' 10inch only release plus one unreleased archive track and comes in a transparent jewel-case with full colour poster booklet feat. a reproduction of the original cover art and extra photos. Edition of 1000 copies. Total playing time: 63:01 min.” [press release] “The years 1982 and 1983 proved to be a time of extreme musical schizophrenia for me. On the one hand I could not let go of the rhythmic synthie-etudes. On the other, and at the same time, I had already turned to 'Industrial Music'. The latter manifested itself in the release of four cassettes between 1981-1983. But for one last time I was intrigued by some new gadgets. I felt that with their help I could take my rhythmic work much further: namely, one of the first digital, programmed rythmn machines (MFB521) and the Korg Polysix polyphonic synthesizer. With the help of these two machines I was able to create structures, I simply could not make with the other machines available at the time. But while working on LITIA, I reflected on the growing imbalance between my own creative input and the possibilities of the factory sounds (presets, sequencer, sound colours, ect.), with the result that my early fascination with these gradually disappeared and a more thoughtful attitude emerged. More and more I was impressed by the machines but less and less was my own creativity involved. It was high time for me to re-consider and to come to terms with this situation with regard to my own view of human dignity. Nevertheless, I wanted one more album to be released on Sky, and with the above instruments and an even more complex studio set-up it was recorded in no time. This had to be the finale, though. The bonus tracks 11-15 on this CD, which belong to the LITIA series, and which were released in 1996 as a 10inch entitled "Rattenheu", are to be viewed more as a kind of musical joke, one which would only be heard again at the Aroma Club in 1998. With the issuing of LITIA a four-year release period reached its end, a period which was marked by the use rhythmic and harmonic preset sounds and by flashy-coloured LP sleeves. The above-mentioned and long-ago completed aesthetic shift to an utterly different musical attitude, coupled with a partial throw-back to musical experiences of the late 1960's, would be made public in the album releases which followed. Again, I would like to give my warm thanks to Günter Körber (Sky Records) for his friendly co-operation. Take care, Günter!” [Asmus Tietchens, 2004] 2004 €15.00
Spät-Europa CD Nummer Drei der Re-Release-Orgie auf dem feinen Bremer Label. SPÄT-EUROPA ist eines der vier frühen SKY Records Alben und beinhaltet 20 Miniaturen mit unnachahmlichen frühachtziger analog-Elektronik-Sounds... “Part Three in the ongoing rerelease series of all early vinyl albums from 1980 - 1991, this is Tietchens second album for SKY Records recorded in 1981 documenting his search for his own style of'pop music'. Edition of 1000 copies in jewel case with poster booklet feat. the original cover artwork. Liner notes: Asmus Tietchens 'Spät-Europa' (Sky Records 070) 1981 Even more consistently than on 'Biotop' I kept all of the tracks on this album deliberately short. Originally, all of them were supposed to be exactly two minutes in length but, back then, without a computer, this was not really possible and the idea could not be carried ot precisely. Nonetheless, this strict concept gave the listener a total of twenty miniatures, four more than on 'Biotop'. The technical standard of the studio had improved rapidly. It was possible for me to indulge in as many tracks as I wanted ! However, these two aspects presented me with a creative problem: I either had to respond in a very appropriate way, or would end up producing somewhat useless 'filler' material. The first I was not yet capable of and the second would have been embarrassing. 'The shoemaker should stick to his last'! I decided to stay with a maximum of eight tracks as this would give me no problems at all. New synthesizers (Polymoog, ect.) and an enlarged array of additional equipment (EMS Vocoder, Ring Modulator, Sampler, ect.) forced me to learn a lot of new things, but I worked my way through it all quickly and thoroughly. The results found their way into the music on this album. The jubilant sound of 'Schöne Dritte Welt' was created by the late Andreas Hoffmann, a.k.a. C.V. Liquidsky. Parallel with this album I worked on a series with the working title of 'Experimentelle Geselligkeit', a string of musical sketches which I was wanting to use with my regular electronic equipment. I then realised that the relative inflexibility of the rythmn machine made it impossible to transform these sketches into complete works. The rythmic patterns proved to be incompatible. As a result, that work came to a halt, leaving the sketches unreleased. Two of them are included as bonus tracks on this CD. 'Soirèe' and 'Zum Tee bei Frau Hilde' were intended, in a re-arranged form, to be the basis of an album with the previously mentioned title of 'Experimentelle Geselligkeit'. The series was never completed, and the fragments were put aside. Only thirteen years later, when the 'Aroma Club' opened its doors, did I return to the idea. I would particularly like to thank Günter Körber of Sky Records for his permission to re-release 'Spät-Europa' and the other three Sky albums, and to use the LP labels in facsimile.” [press release] 2004 €15.00
Fast ohne Titel, Korrosion CD "Black Rose Recordings are proud to present the exceptional new album by Asmus Tietchens. Corrosion is a degradation mechanism. It is an insidious process often difficult to recognise until deterioration is well advanced. Are these new pieces a comment on the current state of noise music, serious music or both? As a pioneer of electronic composition his work spans over three decades and doesn’t fit easily into any one category. Early recordings ranged from experiments with tape machines and electronic sound through to experimental pop. Later works were a more sculptural blend of abstract microelectronics, industrial sounds and musique concrete. Never straightforward or obvious, always unpredictable and innovative his ground breaking music influences many working in today’s experimental music scene. He has worked almost exclusively as a solo artist but recent releases have seen him collaborate with well known and diverse artists such as Dieter Moebius (Cluster & Harmonia), Thomas Koener and Richard Chartier." [label info] www.tietchens.de "In my spare time I listen to pop music, usually, but then, in 2013, I asked myself: why do I still have so many CDs? Isn't it about time to listen to those again, and see what you have, which are keepers and which are goers. In a random fashion I pick a bunch of CDs of the shelf and play them until the end, because, when not played to the end, what's the reason for keeping them? From some artists I stayed away for a while. I can safely say I have almost all of the works by Asmus Tietchens, but I was afraid of going there. I feared I would not find enough concentration to examine each and everyone properly and make the wrong decision and see them go. But once I started to play them I was totally immersed. I am nearly done with all of them, and then much to my surprise, here's a new work by Tietchens. The titles poke fun with the notion of 'ernste musik', the German term to create a distinction between serious music and entertainment music. Maybe its a comment, Black Rose asks, on 'the current state of noise music, serious music or both'? An interesting question, perhaps, but much to my surprise I notice something else. In the past ten years Tietchens explored the quiet areas of electronic music, with some highly refined music, not unlike the work of say Richard Chartier. Here he seems to return to some of his earlier electronic music, from the late 80s, early 90s, but perhaps generated with the means he uses these days. This results in a piece like 'Kaum Noch Ernste Musik', with a pulsating click beat (think Pan Sonic or Goem), and the well-know Tietchens tricks on oscillators. It's something entirely different than what you would expect. Maybe it's a bit long this piece which clocks in at over ten minutes. Throughout the pieces on this album, eight in total, do not have strong rhythm sounds, but they surely sound louder than we are used from him in recent times. It takes the 'serious' electronic music from the sixties, with it's sustaining sounds fading in loud and about. It's heavy music, but it's great music. Only in a few pieces, aptly called for instance 'Sehr Ernste Musik', Tietchens shows some of his more quiet side, but in the other pieces he sounds like his tape manipulation work 'Daseinsverfehlung', bursting about, such as in 'Eingeschränkt Ernste Musik'. And then there is also the humorous Tietchens with a vinyl loop in 'Keine Ernste Musik' or 'Im Ernst? (Für H.K.)', which sees him playing something that sounds like Trautonium. This, ladies and gentleman, is an excellent CD. If you are keen to hear new musical movements by this man, but not every move, then this is one of those releases you should surely hear." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2013 €13.00
Adventures in Sound / Nachtstücke do-CD Das Bremer Label DIE STADT startet eine Wiederveröffentlichungs-Serie von nicht mehr erhältlichen TIETCHENS-Scheiben – hier der Anfang mit der allerersten LP ‚Nachtstücke’ von 1980, die noch Früh-Achtziger Charme aufweist, dazu schier unglaubliches Material aus den Sechzigern auf der zweiten CD !! “First in a series of 18 CD's aiming to make available all early vinyl albums by ASMUS TIETCHENS between 1980 - 1991 on CD. Each release feat. the original tracks (sometimes extended / original versions) + unreleased bonus tracks from the same recording period, original artwork + accompanying texts by TIETCHENS. This - the only 2CD in the series - feat. his very first album 'Nachtstücke' from 1980 (incl. 4 bonus tracks) + a 2nd CD with archive material recorded with his long time friend Okko Bekker between 1965-1969. These are the first works in TIETCHENS long career as a sound artist and were never released before. Edition of 1000 copies in jewelcase with full color poster booklet. About the artist: ASMUS TIETCHENS started recording music as early as 1965 (documented here on 'Adventures In Sound') though his first release only appeared 15 years later ('Nachtstücke'). Ever since then he stayed very productive and had numerous cassette, vinyl and CD releases on numerous labels (Sky, United Dairies, Dom, Staalplaat, Ritornell and Die Stadt to name just a few). He has collaborated with various other like minded artists such as Okko Bekker, Cluster, Conny Plank, Terry Burrows, Liquidski, David Lee Myers (Arcane Device) and most recently with Thomas Köner who is one half of their ongoing collaborational project KONTAKT DER JÜNGLINGE (who so far released 3 CD's DS34/DS39/DS48 on Die Stadt).” [press release] 2003 €18.00
Eine Menge Papier mCD "Asmus Pre-Mengenserien und somit alles vor der sonischen Auseinandersetzung mit Sinus und Rauschen birgt noch wesentlich feinere Schätze als man denken mag- beachtet man Tietchens Output an Material in den letzten zwanzig Jahren und lässt man sich davon nicht abschrecken, entgehen einem Dinge wie »Papier ist geduldig« oder »6.9.98 7 Uhr/8 Uhr« nicht. Ersterem gewährt aufabwegen in sehr hochwertiger und edler Manier einen Publikumsneuzugang (der angesichts der damals sehr niedrig gehaltenen Limitierung auch geraten erscheint) und erweitert das recht kurzweilige Material der original Syntactic 7“ um eine weitere, nie veröffentlichte Single sowie Material aus den Sitzungen, die es nicht auf das Vinylformat geschafft hatten. Der Klang ist erstaunlich für die 1996 umgesetzte 7“, hier zieht vor allem Tietchens’ großartiger Umgang mit dem Quellmaterial sämtliche Register avantgardistischen Könnens. Wie unschwer zu erkennen bzw. auch zu hören, beruht das Material dabei auf Papiergeräuschen, eine Serie die Asmus aufgrund des limitierten Frequenzganges des Materials und seiner beschränkten Weiterverarbeitung jedoch frühzeitig wieder beendete. Teilweise sehr krachig mit deutlichen Anleihen an Asmus Tietchens Achtziger-Konkretindustrial: »P.I.G. 5« mit seinen betont sinusoiden Einzelklängen gerät zur fast schon skizzenhaften Abstraktion von Papierklang, hingegen betont »P.I.G 4« auf recht kurze Weise die Schönheit von Tietchens Bearbeitungsmanie, kennzeichnet sich das Stück doch durch recht scharfgeschnittene und –gefilterte Einzelereignisse ehemaliger Schriftstückverformungen. Letztes Stück bietet dem Hörer eine wunderbar noisige Vertonung all dessem, was Tietchens an Papier in seinem Studio wahrscheinlich aufbieten und –gespannt lauschend und schelmisch lächelnd- auch zerknüllen konnte. " [Thorsten Soltau, AEMAG] “Eine Menge Papier” assembles 20 minutes of sounds derived from using paper as the sound souce. Two tracks originally came out as a limited 7” record on the austrian Syntactic label in the 1990ies and appear here for the first time on CD. The other two tracks were planned for a follow up 7” on the same label that never materialized. The fifth track is a study of sonic material in the same series. There are two further tracks from the P.I.G. series that are considered by the artists as failed attemps. These remain in the closet. The five sonic movements on “Eine Menge Papier” go back to the Tietchens sound right before he started the Mengen series, using primarily sine waves and white noise. “Eine Menge Papier” is an interesting documentation of the transition in Tietchens’ sound from the concretish, post-industrial rumblings and textures to the more refined, abstract and cold atmospheres. Asmus Tietchens has been producing electronic music since the 1960ies and is one of the most renowned sound artists today in Germany. In the last five years he was awarded twice the SWR state radio prize “Karl Sczuka Preis” for radio art. He has released more than 80 records and CDs on labels all around the world." [label notes] www.aufabwegen.com www.tietchens.de 2009 €9.50
Marches Funebres CD www.diestadtmusik.de https://www.aufabwegen.de/at/?p=210 Das zentrale Stück von MARCHES FUNEBRES ist ’Grünschattiger Nachmittag’. Die bereits 1979 als Skizze mit analoger Rhythmusmaschine und Minimoog aufgenommene Komposition (hier als Bonustrack) ließ sich mit dem Fairlight CMI nicht realisieren. Es sollte neun Jahre dauern, bis der technische Standard der Audiplex Studios ausreichte, um die von vornherein geplante Orchesterversion einzuspielen. Mit Hilfe mehrerer Sampler, einer aufwendigen Kompositionssoftware, und nicht zuletzt mit Unterstützung meines Lehrers und Mentors Okko Bekker wurde 1988 das Stück nach wochenlanger Arbeit endlich zum Klingen gebracht. Spötter meinten damals, es klänge ein wenig so, als wolle Django den Bolero tanzen. Ein Urteil, dem ich mich nicht ganz verschließen konnte. Ich bin gewiss kein Freund seichter Unterhaltungsmusik, aber wenn schon Kitsch, dann auch richtig Kitsch. Insofern stehe ich auch heute noch im nachmittäglichen grünen Schatten. ’Linea 5′ sollte die Balance auf der LP herstellen, etwas ähnlich Strenges wie ’Linea 1 – 4′ schwebte mir vor. Aber ’Linea 5′ uferte völlig aus. Im Rausch der Delays und Hallräume verlor ich mich bis zur Erschöpfung in erratischen Klanggebirgen, einschließlich Elmsfeuer und Alpenglühen. Und wären nicht irgendwann die Bernhardiner mit den Schnapsfässchen gekommen – ich weiß nicht, wie diese spät-psychedelische Tour geendet hätte. Den Fragen der Spötter verschloss ich mich diesmal. Mit MARCHES FUNEBRES hatte ich mich zum zweiten Mal auf symphonisches Glatteis begeben. Vorangegangen war die Faircomp-Serie, und es sollte noch ein dritter Versuch folgen: Die Kollaborations-LP “E” mit Okko Bekker. Das war’s denn aber auch. Der Schuster soll bei seinem Leisten bleiben. Dass aber eine LP wie diese überhaupt veröffentlicht werden konnte, zeigt, wie groß die Bandbreite des Möglichen 1989 geworden war. Spätestens jetzt, an der Schwelle zu den 90er Jahren taten sich neben dem rasch verblassenden Industrial weite, neue Horizonte auf. Rechner wurden erschwinglich, und die CD begann, das Vinyl zu ersetzen; frische Ideenschübe generierten eine bis dahin ungehörte Musikvielfalt. Der Neustart stand 1989 unmittelbar bevor. Asmus Tietchens, 2010 2010 €15.00
Spät-Europa LP "Wieder veröffentlichtes Album aus der Frühphase des Avantgardemusikers. Asmus Tietchens ist wohl einer der bekanntesten Künstler im Bereich abstrakter Musik. Fünf seiner Frühwerke, die grob unter Avantgarde-Synthiepop zu verorten sind, werden jetzt vom Label Bureau B wieder veröffentlicht. Während Tietchens mit "Biotop" (1981) plante, "in die Zukunft" aufzubrechen, zeigt er sich auf "Spät-Europa" in dieser angekommen. Als zweites Album der "Zeitzeichen"-Phase im Jahr 1982 auf Sky Records veröffentlicht, führt es den Stil des Vorgängers nicht nur weiter, sondern bringt ihn um eine Nuance treffender auf den Punkt. Auch "Spät-Europa" transportiert jene gallig übersteuerte Pseudo-Pop-Klangwelt voller verstolperter Rhythmen und schräger Melodien. Dabei ragen mitunter düster grollende Industrial-Elemente in die neonbunten Stücke hinein, wohingegen die Form der Stücke knapp und pointiert gehalten wird: Wie schon auf "Biotop" strebte Tietchens auch auf "Spät-Europa" 20 Zwei-Minuten-Miniaturen an. Und auch hier bildet mit "Epitaph" ein betont sperriges Stück den Abschluss. Asmus Tietchens is one of the best known German artists in the field of abstract music. His early works though are finest avant-garde synthesizer pop. "Biotop" was Tietchens' first release on the German label Sky Records (Cluster, Michael Rother etc.). It is inhabited by insectoid squeaks, banging percussion and echoes of displaced nursery rhymes. These blaring, crashing tracks glare with artifice, mirroring the ideas of an artist lacking the inclination and capacity to compose straightforward easy listening music. "Spät-Europa" also conveys a banefully distorted pseudo pop soundscape of disjointed rhythms and oblique melodies, defined by nervous pulses, cool alacrity and croaking toots; tongue in cheek it most certainly is, but the musical arrangement again affirms its own identity. Here, shadowy, rumbling industrial elements cut into the neon coloured pieces indicative of the artist's parallel lines of development. Both reissues are available on CD (Digipak), vinyl (180g) and for download." [label info] www.bureau-b.com 2013 €18.50
  Dämmerattacke CD Asmus Tietchens is a sound artist and composer from Hamburg, Germany. He got interested in Musique Concrete by listening to a German radio programme when he was 10 years old. In 1965, at the age of 18, Asmus started experimenting with tape loops and turned them into musical collages. Soon, the use of synthesizers was added. In 1980 his debut album Nachtstücke was released, produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream. This was soon followed by a series of albums of electronic pop music for the Sky label, home of many Krautrock bands. Tietchens often uses special source materials for his compositions such as water (Seuchengebiete), human voices (Von Mund zu Mund), paper (Papier ist geduldig). He is associated with the Industrial music scene through his collaborations and releases on labels such as United Dairies, Esplendor Geometrico or Dom Records. Tietchens never studied composition, he has no academic background, everything he does is self taught or learnign by doing. Nevertheless, he was professor for sound design in Hamburg in recent years. The album Dämmerattacke was originally released on Dutch Korm Plastics label in 1997 as a limited edition vinyl LP only. It was later reissued as a double CD with Eisgang. For this latest edition, we have added another bonus track making the CD 20 minutes longer than the LP. Full track list: 1. Zweite Dämmerattacke 2. Erster Nachtschatten 3. Zweiter Nachtschatten 4. Dritter Nachtschatten 5, Schlagschatten 6. Franz-Joseph-Land. www.klanggalerie.com/gg251 2017 €15.00
TIETCHENS, ASMUS & TERRY BURROWS Watching the burning Ride - Burning the watching Bride do-CD "The two collaborative albums by Asmus Tietchens and Terry Burrows, Watching The Burning Bride and Burning The Watching Bride have just been reissued on double CD. The works originally appeared on vinyl in 1986 and 1998 respectively. The double CD is jointly released be Die Stadt and aufabwegen forms part of the Asmus Tietchens reissue series. The double CD features two short bonus tracks plus a lengthy text by Terry Burrows explaining how the collaboration came about." 2017 €17.50
TIETCHENS, ASMUS / MIKI YUI Neues Boot CD TAL presents the first musical collaboration between Hamburg based Asmus Tietchens and Japanese artist Miki Yui, operating out of Düsseldorf for almost 20 years now. Highly respected and hugely influential artist Asmus Tietchens first made his mark on the electronic music scene in the late 1970s, whereas Miki Yui debuted her sonic settings in 1999. Their first joint album NEUES BOOT envelops the listener with a poetic sound sensibility and a conceptual clarity which was processed and passed back and forth between their individual studios in Hamburg and Düsseldorf. Asmus Tietchens: After Stefan Schneider suggested to release a Yui-Tietchens album on his TAL imprint Miki and I quickly developed some ideas towards our eventual collaboration. We agreed upon an ongoing mutual exchange of material. We have both been very familiar with each other's music for a long time and we found our individual approach towards sound design to be uniquely compatible. We do not use our electronic tools in order to merely achieve the maximum of technical possibilities, but to illustrate aesthetic necessities. This entails a deliberate reduction and refined perception of the sonic characteristics of the material. Only this approach enabled us to fully realise the complete spectrum of the sounds and noises we were working with in order to construct this New Boat. Each and everyone of my treatments is e x c l u s i v e l y based on a track supplied by Miki. I added no new sound sources. Naturally the spatial and temporal dimensions of the source material were thus altered. These transformations are exactly what makes our collaboration special and unique. Very early on we had agreed on New Boat as a working title and a guiding light . Of course in the beginning we had no idea where this New Boat might take us. Now we do know. After several months of ship-building the boat has now set sails for new sonic horizons. Ahoi! Miki Yui: The title of the album as well as the individual tracks have been inspired by conversations with Asmus. When we had a chat after one of his concerts, he told me about Kōdō, the Art or the Way of the Scent. It is a 8th century Japanese incense ceremony. Very frequently the names of Japanese incense sticks are derived from natural themes, e.g. Bairin is the plum grove, the scent of the first blossom heralding the end of winter. This poetry, the ephemeral nature of the world reminded me of Kigo, words from a Haiku (a form of Japanese poetry), which reference a particular season or a natural phenomenon. So I chose the names of the individual pieces from Kigo as if The Boat was exploring nature whilst sailing through the seasons. Only in retrospect I realised that the titles combined create this poem: Early spring a hazy view in the night (Oboro) Plum groves (Bairin) Over a Dayfly (Kagerou) A Milkyway (Amanogawa) Dawn (Akatsuki) Art of fragrance (Kōdō) On fragile thin ice (Usurai) https://asmustietchensandmikiyui.bandcamp.com/album/neues-boot "Exquisite electronic subtleties from two generations of explorative artists, pairing the tactile sensitivities of cult Hamburg based Asmus Tietchens with Düsseldorf resident Miki Yui for the first time with marked success. Mutual spirits, Tietchens and Yui have long operated in pursuit of a lower case, spectral muse, and now at the behest of TAL’s Stefan Schneider they present a beautifully insoluble sound that transcends the sum of their parts. Incredibly delicate, and full of nanoscopic movement, the seven tracks unfurl between passages of burbling pastoralism and oneiric drowse, with particular highlights in the hypnotic timbral artefacts of ‘Kagerou’ or ‘Usurai’, and their 10’ of lush scenery inhabited by peacocks and a canopy of phosphorescing animaliculae and atmospheres in ‘Akatsuki’ recalling aspects of Mark Fell & Rian Treanor’s tape for our Documenting Sound series." [Boomkat] "It’s a sad, hard fact that circulating music by means of physical objects is becoming the exception and not the rule. So, if you’re going to do it, might as well do it right and make it special. Future Audio Graphics makes LPs that bind interdisciplinary collaborations within gatefold LPs. Each combines a text by one artist, images by another and a record of sounds by a third. Ironically on Sculpture Gardens the efforts of writer François Bonnet (aka Kassel Jaeger), sculptor Virginia Overton and sound artist Anne Guthrie cohere into a consideration of impermanence. Through his efforts to reissue works of electronic music on vinyl, Bonnet, a published author and the artistic director of Groupe de Recherche Musicales in Paris, has had plenty of opportunity to think about how ready-made vinyl objects can concentrate attention upon work, as well as how rapidly records become items to be hunted rather than merely purchased. Even when one fixes one’s work within an object, other peoples’ perceptions of the object and the work cut into it aren’t fixed. Neither is the object’s availability; LPs sooner or later drift into the collector’s realm. Bonnet doesn’t waste words on the peculiar circumstances of vinyl records in his essay, but a reader might think about his efforts to present them while reading his discussion of the relationships between art objects, ready-made objects and time. Time and the changes that accompany its passage are, he suggests, part of the artist’s material. Virginia Overton’s images depict aluminum pans that she installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She used them as containers of small gardens; when the plants died, she flipped them over and used them as sound resonators. Inside one of the museum’s galleries, Overton had placed cast-off pieces of metal and wood, which she repurposed as sculptures. Nothing stays the same, but in change new phenomena emerge. Anne Guthrie’s portion of the work uses sounds collected from Overton’s exhibits as a starting point. She collected field recordings of the gallery interior, the outdoor area where the gardens were installed, weather, distant machinery and close-up captures of herself moving objects and deploying microphones. The magnified sounds of precise work and plants living and dying, sometimes straight and sometimes processed to draw out particular timbres, loom over distant jets and HVAC units, and into this mix Guthrie weaves the distant parping of her French horn. Across four discrete tracks, one can hear different moments and environments fixed for a moment in one representative configuration, which is now an object that can be bought and displayed and played in other times and places. Guthrie’s decisions and actions use Overton’s work as a starting point to illustrate Bonnet’s words." [Bill Meyer /DUSTED] 2021 €14.50
TORAL, RAFAEL Space do-LP "Vinyl version of Toral's latest creation. After 15+ years of accomplished work on guitar & electronics, the Portuguese musician, producer & sound engineer found his way into a complete renovation of his music. Leaving the guitar behind, Toral has equipped himself with instruments such as a theremin-controlled noise generator, amplified coil spring percussion, & a random pulse width modulation oscillator. With these he has launched a jazz-fueled craft through Earth's atmosphere, into outer space. The resulting voyage is one where the sounds created recall the blasts of a ray gun, the gurgle of a velociraptor, the rush of a primordial geyser, all seasoned with vintage analog appeal & interspersed with meditative moments of silence. Includes unreleased 17-minute vinyl-only bonus track." [label info] www.taigarecords.com 2008 €18.00
TOY BIZARRE KDI DCTB 49 / 23 (SOLD OUT) 7inch "TOY BIZARRE from Limoges, France, are one of the leading outfits for new "natural" or "environmental" music, which uses places as instruments. The compositions strongly relate to geography and cartography. These two pieces are made of sources coming from a railway station & a little summit named "Cote 358": the train, wind, electrical flux, grasshoppers, fences, barbed wires, storm & rain... All these sounds were organized raw & uneffected in a very suspenseful & unique way. Listen to a totally alienated world around us! grey vinyl, creased thick wrapping-paper covers." [label info] 1998  
  kdi dctb 257 [A] mCD "On “kdi dctb 257 [A]”: In 2010-2011 I was invited to work with 2 groups of students within the frame of « Territoires sonores, portée art'ur, réseau d'action culturelle deslycées agricoles publics des Pays de La Loire », in the cities of Saint-Herblain and La Roche-sur-Yon. We worked for a few months listening, recording, and composing with their sound environment. I was particularly interested by one the recording session they made in the Conservatoire de Musique: hearing instruments through walls, stairs and corridors... It sounded really great... a basis for a a real maze. So it became my basis to what I call "my first ever pop music piece", which is a real maze, a glance through the building at first, and then it goes deeper and deeper." Biography Cédric Peyronnet (aka toy.bizarre / ingeos) is a sound artist working since the ’90 around phonography (Field recordings, “sound hunting”…), soundscapes, using the principles of concrete, acousmatic, electroacoustic music. His work, whose main theme is the exploration of places by sound recording, listening and sound sculpting, take form of compositions and sound pieces (CD, Vinyl … more than fifty references published since the ‘90), concerts, sound screenings and sound installations." [label info] www.aufabwegen.com 2015 €8.50
TOY BIZARRE / EMERGE untitled LP Since the 1990s, French sound artist Cédric Peyronnet has established himself as one of the most prolific and original composers working with field recordings. After numerous CD releases under his own name and as ingeos and toy.bizarre, this is his first ever vinyl. It was made commissioned by composer and label head EMERGE. A long-standing fan of Peyronnet, he contributes a piece to the split release that is based on Peyronnet’s recordings. The theme running through the whole split album is the acoustics of mines. All material is based on field recordings made by Peyronnet in (partially disused) French mines in the mid-1990s. Scratching, gravelly, cavernous sounds dominate the soundscape, evoking a world of subterranean gloom that seems familiar to listeners of EMERGE’s bass-heavy drone compositions. In Peyronnet’s piece, the field recordings are simply arranged in a collage-like manner, but the atmosphere created by this editing is strikingly similar to the one dominating the album side processed by EMERGE. This turns the album into a subtle play with the expectations of the audience. What just a second ago seemed to be mere random ambient sound suddenly turns into a musical structure through rhythmic repetition, and an apparently documentary audio snapshot might actually be digitally treated. Through this intriguing interplay, the two artists make us reflect on the role of the recording medium which, through the very fact that it is a medium, turns every ‘natural’ sound into a ‘cultural’ artefact. toy.bizarre - kdi dctb 018 Original recordings were made in Puy-Les-Vignes disused mine, April and May 1995. Some parts were used on the M.SL tape published by kaon. Composed / Mixed @ TBS, Tlse, 2014. SACEM 2014. www.ingeos.org EMERGE - msl all sounds recorded by Cédric Peyronnet with analog device (tape) around 1995 in the MSL mine, reworked on site & replayed with speakers inside the place then re-recorded by Cédric Peyronnet treatment and composition by EMERGE in 2014 photography by Cyril Herry design by EMERGE label info www.attenuationcircuit.de 2015 €16.00
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave CD Trepaneringsritualen return to Cold Spring with an album-long ritual working entitled ᛉᛦ — Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave. On this record — constructed from a series of rituals designated to guide the last ceasing of ᛏᛇᚱᚫ ᚾ ∴ ᚾ ∴ ᚾ — T × R × P is manifest in its most obscure form. Sonically minimal yet devastating in emotional impact, this working lets the listener grasp the last vestiges of Nifl and Múspell, and with them as weapon and beacon traverse the Night. ᛉᛦ reveals a barren landscape where crooked paths lead onward, through soot black veils to a point of radiant light where all that is is Union & Dissolution. Dedicated to our sister, ᛏᛇᚱᚫ ᚾ ∴ ᚾ ∴ ᚾ. T × R × P channelled through the forms of ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ, ᚾᛟᚺ ⩝⚭⩝, and ᛏᛇᚱᚫ ᚾ ∴ ᚾ ∴ ᚾ at the 63rd Link, 4 & Rising, and Zone Rouge December 2017 e.v. — July 2018 e.v. Mastered by Martin Bowes. Artwork by Nullvoid. ___ I tordön rister marken och i ett enda andetag rämnar alla världar. Den arma kropp som en gång med knapphet höll samman faller nu itu, och itu, och itu. Tills varje beståndsdel blir till Ingenting. Likt en vålnad utan hud och blod och anda — utan köttets förtvivlan — kastar jag mig — handlöst och av vanvett vredgad — i ditt vidunderliga gap. Här, i gudars sotsvarta skymning, där natt och dag förgås, hörs alla ord och stäv för första gången tydligt. Här tar alla vaga förnimmelser sin sanna form och stiger ur ett disigt skimmer. Här, i alla solars gyllne gryning, strålar tusen — åter tusen, pilar av det mest förblindande ljus, mot en enda punkt. Skapandet, och varandet, och blivandet löses upp där prisman splittrar ljuset. Framför mig syns vägen klar och uppenbar. Vi Vandrar Vidare V ∴ V ∴ V CD in 6-panel digipak LP - Limited first edition of 500 copies on 180g black vinyl. Printed inner sleeve with reverse board outer sleeve. Official teaser: youtu.be/8bTlXaUPpzI https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/algir-eller-algir-i-merkstave-csr275cd-lp "After a run of strong albums framed around vocal driven, rhythmic death industrial compositions, Trepaneringsritualen ‎(TxRxP) has chosen to take an abrupt left-hand turn (onto the left hand path?) to deliver an extremely minimalist ritual dark ambient album, thus harks back to an earlier phase of the project. In fact this new instrumental album is so minimal and ritualized in style, it would not at all be out of place on the Aural Hypnox label. Compositionally this album consists of two lengthy nineteen-minute tracks, each titled with the algiz rune, but noting for the second track the algiz rune has been inverted. To glean meaning from this, in its upturned position, the algiz rune can be interpreted as a human with upraised arms to received the protection, guidance and wisdom from the Universe. But in its inverted position can be interpreted as meaning hidden dangers for the self and the need to reflect and look within as part of the process of gaining strength and connecting with higher self. Yet even with the cover image of the algiz rune formed by tree branches, based on the spartan artwork and text in Swedish, how the algiz runes should be interpreted in context of this album remains unclear. Sonically speaking the atmosphere is one of bass driven tonal depth and catacombic echo, where blackened washes of archaic drones blend with reverb drenched ritual percussive sounds, including: deep catatonic drum hits; sparse gongs; wailing horns; ritual chimes; singing bowls, low atonal piano notes etc. Yet for all of its apparent minimalism, this album is one that immediately draws you into its sinister clutches and does not loosen its grip for the entire album duration, particularly given the ample tensile sonic elements which keep interest and engagement throughout. Although cut into two separate tracks, the sound effectively plays out at an album length track as the sound between the two pieces bridges the same pace and articulates visions in the mind’s eye of a ritual ceremony being conducted in the falling twilight on the damp forest floor, while tree limbs creak and sway in response to the winds gusting through treetops far above. Also of note is the deep shuddering thud featuring at the start and end of the album album, as if sonically representing the opening and subsequent closing of a ritual cycle. Prior to the release of this album, perhaps I had assumed that TxRxP would continue to forge ahead with a song-based approach. That impression has been proven to be completed incorrect, but at the same time, ᛉᛦ – Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave is an exceptional example of minimalist and strongly meditative ritual dark ambient music, and completely takes me back to the earliest days of when I started listening to this type of music. Recommended." [Noise Receptor] 2019 €13.00
  Oberhausen Ritual LP 12" heavy 180 gram black vinyl. solid black matte cardboad sleeve with glossy black hot-foil print, plus 12" inlay and sticker. this lp includes an mp3-download-code. hand numbered edition 200 copies + overpressing it was in the fall of 2016 that trepaneringsritualen in the shape of th.oth XIX graced the maschinenfest stage with one of their infamous rituals, and naturally this is mandatory to be documented via the raubkauf series. trepaneringsritualen has made quite a name for itself, with the signature “dödsindustri” sound since 2008, an especially vile brew of upfront electronic noise, feedback and agitating night-rhythms, fuelled by eclectic references to all kinds of magick. the set presented on “oberhausen ritual” is a concise representation of their musical output so far, familiar tracks alternating with unheard ones, all coalescing into an intoxicatingly vile stream of sound, clocking in well under 40 minutes, yet leaving nothing to be desired. it’s with the bleak abyss of “immaculate & incorporeal” that the listener gets sucked into the otherworld that is trepaneringsritualen, with th.oth XIX’s trademark vibrant, guttural vocals kicking in on “a black egg”, and “the 7th man” offering the first appearance of the drums of death. from there, it’s a constant buildup, with every track adding more of the ritual’s raw, primordial force, culminating in the glorious “he who is my mirror”. and it’s that grand finale which also best exemplifies his crossover credibility with other extreme music scenes (i.e. metal). the success of trepaneringsritualen doesn’t simply come from producing led-heavy death industrial, it comes from being unique and authentic. originality and dedication, simplicity and a more than convincing overall picture – to which this live document adds an important feature. https://raubbau.bandcamp.com/album/oberhausen-ritual-live-at-maschinenfest-2016 2020 €25.00
TRICOLI, VALERIO Misery Lares do-LP "It has been 7 years since 'Metaprogramming from within the eye of the storm', the last solo full length release by Valerio Tricoli. In the years between he has established himself as a formidable presence on the international experimental live circuit and released acclaimed collaborations with Antoine Chessex, 'Coi Tormenti' (Dilemma Records, 2010) and Thomas Ankersmit, 'Forma II' (PAN, 2011) along with the fifth full length release by his band with fellow Italian cohorts 3/4HadBeenEliminated, 'Oblivion' (Die Schachtel, 2010). Throughout these shows, collaborations and ongoing explorations Valerio has developed on his signature style of beautifully unsettling Musique Concrète. The result of his tireless explorations, 'Miseri Lares' is his magnum opus, a multilayered and heavily nuanced work which epitomises the uncanny in the realm of sound. 'Miseri Lares' explores a variety of interlocking themes and sonic tapestries that combine in a quietly disturbing and deeply existential work. As a contemporary take on Musique Concrète Tricoli utilises his full explorations of the Revox taperecorder alongside digital processing whilst retaining all of the mystery and surprise elements found in the classic approach of pioneers such as Bernard Parmegiani, Eugeniusz Rudnik and Michel Chion. Themes of the internal, represented by both the psychological and the physical, play throughout the record. As a symbol of spirits preying on the grief within, haunting wisps of sound swirl around a throbbing bass in 'Hic Labor Ille Domus et Inextricabilis Error', whereas ÔLa Casa Deviata' emphasises the paranoid structure as looming creaks make way for abandoned pipes and a cloud of escaping water. Here, the tension at play is injected with a treated dictaphone recording: 'Tell me what happened','I can't remember THE SMELL!!! There was a tape recorder, where is the tape'? Spoken text (Italian and English) appears throughout the record, mostly as texture or as a dehumanised floorboard - a play on the albums themes of the psychological, emotional and irrational horror within. Texts by Italian poets Dante and Guido Ceronetti appear alongside excerpts from The Ecclesiastes (in hebrew, Qohelet), H.P. Lovecraft, E. M. Cioran, and writings by Tricoli himself. These add an extra weight to the recording, making it reminiscent of Robert Ashley or even the comedic tragedy of later day Scott Walker (baritone aside). Valerio Tricoli's release for PAN adds another piece to the puzzle of narrative-based concrete music, yet deviating from all conventional forms and playing out like a literary form of unsettling sound sculpture. 2LP mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, pressed on 140g vinyl. Vinyl set packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened pvc sleeve with photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Bill Kouligas." [label info] www.pan-act.com 2014 €28.50
TROUM AIWS CD "AIWS is the first full-length cd release from Troum since 2003. It covers studio-recordings composed from 2002-2005. These musicians have compiled some of their most favorable pieces through the years to be placed on this release. Presenting nine analogue (4&8 track) recorded compositions that lead the listener through vast feelings of beautifully deep melancholic and hypnotic states of mind. Composed with guitar-drones and harmonic phrases that are processed in various ways creating an atmosphere of the sublime and emotional meditative states that transcend listener to immerse within themselves. Ingredients: Sufi-songs, old vinyl-crackles, acoustic & e-guitars, e-bow, e-bass, voice & whisperings, accordion & flute. Stunning photography & design work by Alan McClelland(Eye.lyft). One of the most emotional and profound Troum releases to date now available on Transgredient Records. Dedicated to Eternity. TRACK LISTING of AIWS [* and meaning of titles & phrases] 1. AHMATEINS 2. AGGILUS 3. SPIRARE 4. PER SONUM 5. PANTAH 6. [GA] PLAIAN 7. PENTHOS 8. NEHEH 9. PELETÄ total length: 49:30 min [* AIWS=Eternity (gothic language), also shortcut for "Alice-In-Wonderland-Syndrome". 1. "Inspiration" (gothic) 2. "Angel - Carrier" (gothic) 3. "breathing - aspirating - sighing - smelling " (latin) 4. "through sound" (latin) 5. "way - path - line" (old indian) 6. "supplication" (persian) 7. "the sorrow of mourning - lament" (greek - also a greek god), 8. "Eternity" (egypt) 9. "escape - flight, also: rescue - salvation" (hebrew) " [label info] "... nach einigen 12“s und Kollaborationen die 7. CD des TROUM-Duos. GLIT[S]CH & BARAKA[H] sind dafür bekannt, dass sie sich zu Nietzsches „Die Welt ist tief, viel tiefer als der Tag gedacht“ tief in die Augen blicken und dann ihren Fliegenden Teppich starten. ‚Ahmateins‘ ist, bewusst analog und lo-fi, gewebt aus engen Gitarrenwellen und sämigen Drones von E-Bow und E-Bass. Flug und Flucht, Atmen und Seufzen sind dabei eins. Sound ist der Weg und das Ziel. AIWS ist nicht nur das gotische Wort für Ewigkeit, es steht auch für das Alice in Wonderland Syndrom. Prosaisch ist das eine mit Kopfschmerzen verbundene Sehstörung, metaphorisch aber heißt das doch: Die Welt mit Alicens Augen als Wunderland sehen können. Troums Zauberteppich schwebt auf harmonischen Strömen durch Rauch und Licht dahin, auf einem spiraligen Kurs ins Sublime. ‚Pantah‘ lässt den Saitenklang deutlicher erkennen, in [Ga]plaian‘ ist Sufigesang verdichtet, in ‚Penthos‘ scheint ein Akkordeon zu pumpen, in ‚Neheh‘ Licht nicht bloß zu schimmern, sondern zu singen. Tiefenmusic Reaching Our Unconscious Minds." [Bad Alchemy] "....The pieces on this new CD were recorded from 2002-2005 on Troum's own analogue equipment, all live to four-eight track recorders, without the involvement of computers. Troum, a duo (be it hard to believe), is best a live band, even when working in the studio. Their instruments are guitars, e-bow, bass, voices, accordion & flute, old vinyl. And oh, sound effects. Lots of those are involved in the music of Troum, but they never stand in the way of the end result. Spacious head music. Loud at times, quiet when necessary, but there is a certain roughness about the band, which is an element I really like. Even when things are quiet, they never really are quiet. 'Neheh' is just an example of some sparse organ like loops, feeding through some delay and bouncing gentle forward, but with a certain grittiness. Highly atmospheric even when experienced without the help of any chemicals or other illegal substances and the best but perhaps more frightful experience when played in the dark and with the headphones tied to your head. You are bound to play it again, if not only because it might be too scary to leave the room... Of all things experimental, ambient and industrial (Menche, Zoviet*France, Lustmord), Troum can easily stand the test and be the best of the lot." [FdW / Vital Weekly] 2007 €12.00
  Nargis 7inch Sehr rauhes, etwas älteres Material, basierend auf verzerrten e-bow Gitarren & extrem verlangsamten Gesang... majestätisch & unheimlich zugleich... die "heavy" Artwork stammt von MARS WELLINK (VANCE ORCHESTRA), fullcolour cover & inlay. "Latest slab of guitar based whir and drift from these masters of the drone (they do in fact run the DRONE record label after all). Formerly Maeror Tri, Troum embody the drone, they live, breathe, eat and sleep drones. And it shows. Their records are gorgeous and epic, but seem so effortless, as if the sounds they create are simply channeled through their corporeal forms, but have been created in some fiery forge at the center of an alien planet. The first half of this single still sounds like Troum, but is unlike anything we've heard from them, strange looped high end guitar, what sounds like backwards chords, almost choral vocals, dramatic and haunting and cinematic, very much like some super stylized horror movie music almost, warbled and wavery, over a distant grinding low end tone drifting way off in the background, washed over by epic sweeping swells.. The other side is a bit more raw and intense, a seriously corrosive guitarscape, distorted and crumbling chordal buzz, looped and layered into a strange glacial riff, strewn over deep dark swirls of slow shifting sound and haunting minor key melodies. It manages to be intense and fierce but also gloriously washed out and blissful. Super swank, full color covers, full color inserts, and pressed on nice thick vinyl. And of course limited, just not sure - how- limited..." [Aquarius Records] www.vivahaterecords.com 2007 €6.00
TSUNODA, TOSHIYA Landscape and Voice LP Black Truffle is pleased to present Landscape and Voice, a radical new work (and rare vinyl release) from major Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda. Undoubtedly one of the most influential artists working with location recordings since the 1990s, Tsunoda’s work possesses a rigorously searching quality that sets him apart from his contemporaries. Tsunoda is known to many listeners for the subtle atmospheric poetry of his early Extract from Field Recording Archive series, which focussed on vibrations recorded in various indoor and outdoor environments in his native Miura Peninsula, often inside pipes, bottles and other vessels. In more recent years, his work has explored the implications of his claim that field recording should be seen as ‘depiction’ rather than ‘documentation’. He has explored disorienting editing and processing in his works with Taku Unami, and, perhaps most radically, represented Maguchi Bay as a kind of kinetic sculpture for shaking speakers by removing all but the inaudible low frequencies from a field recording (Low Frequency Observed at Maguchi Bay). One of the recurrent concerns of Tsunoda’s recent work, as he explains in the crystalline liner notes accompanying this release, is ‘exploring how I can establish a subjective relationship with an environment, rather than seeing it merely as an object to be recorded’. This has taken various forms, from documenting simultaneously an outdoor environment and the blood flowing through the listener/recorder’s body (captured with a stethoscope) on The Temple Recordings, to representing his own experience of the landscape as made up of ‘grains of space and time’ by inserting looped fragments into field recordings in Grains of Spring. On Landscape and Voice, this meeting between subject and object becomes an almost mystical union between the natural and the human. As with all of Tsunoda’s work, a relatively simple concept leads to compelling, thought-provoking results. Landscape and Voice combines vowel sounds spoken by six voices with short, looped fragments of field recordings, their noise character suggesting consonants: voice and landscape thus join together in something like words. The record consists of three pieces, each using a different, richly evocative field recording, which periodically freezes, catching on a looped fragment to which is synchronised an abruptly looped spoken vowel sound. The lengths between these interruptions vary, as do the tempi of the loops. The interruption of these lushly immersive recordings of the world – bristling with bird song, rushing water, distant traffic, and clinking metal – only serves to intensify them, as if the depicted environment itself had been returned to the listener each time it abruptly reappears. At the same time, the constant interruption creates an uncannily frozen effect, as if the recorded environment were an object rather than a stretch of recorded time. When combined with the bare human presence of the vowel sounds, the result is both austere and magical. Pressed on 45RPM for maximum fidelity, in a gorgeous sleeve designed by Lasse Marhaug with liner notes from the composer, Landscape and Voice is a radical proposition from one of the deepest thinkers in contemporary sound. https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-and-voice 2022 €23.50
TURMAN, ROBERT Way Down CD "Originally released as a small cassette run in 1987, only to fall into tape label obscurity, ROBERT TURMAN's industrial genre-bending masterpiece 'Way Down' finally sees a proper vinyl reissue after 23 years in the shadows. This album solidifies Turman as a cut above the rest with respect to his talent and his natural ear for experimental composition. Turman first came onto the industrial scene in the late '70s as the ominous "other half" of legendary noise outfit NON, alongside BOYD RICE, together releasing the now classic first NON single, 'Mode of Infection' b/w 'Knife Ladder' in 1977. After parting ways, Turman went on an excursion of self-released cassettes to which he fused every possible influence at his disposal, culling together past habits of experimental know-how and going forward into uncharted terrain. This vinyl reissue of 'Way Down' serves as the blueprint of what Turman sought to render as a very accessible minimal synth/industrial album, yet keeping it just obtuse enough to make it one of the most brilliant and engaging albums to be ushered into the canon of '80s experimental culture." [label info] www.infinitefog.ru 2014 €13.00
TZESNE HuffDuff (SOLD OUT) 7 TZESNE is quite a new project from Spain, who has only two brilliant CDR-releases out to date. On HuffDuff’s two tracks “Enviar Ayuda Ahora” and “La Voz Flamante” one dives deep into mysterious sounds derived solely from radio-receivers, creating a droney and eerie imaginary soundtrack to the communication between Submarines in the Second World War. “Something” is there in the sub-ether, but it can’t be identified. Very thick & foggy subliminal sound-waves, the time is standing still... "The communication becomes simple propaganda due to the saturation, the freedom of the person is restricted to the field of the selection and not to the one of the creation". [Tzesne] Filed under: Secret-Listening Radiowave-Drones BLACK VINYL. HANDMADE COVERS USING SILK-SCREEN, GLUE, PHOTOCOPIES, EACH ONE UNIQUE! 2005 €6.50  
TZII SAnd HAert RAge 12inch "Hyperactive musician and filmmaker TZII is no newcomer to the TuT/RuR roaster, since we already had the pleasure to release his much acclaimed BLACK MONOLITH SPACE QUEST soundtrack on Rectangle Astral, and to welcome him on JAW with his project SOLAR SKELETONS. TZII has been making music for almost two decades, and yet SAnd HAert RAge is a first in the artist’s career in several ways: amidst a long discography of CDs and tapes, it is his first solo appearance on vinyl; and more importantly perhaps, it is the first time that he chooses to tackle one of the most fundamental experiences of his life, his Saharian childhood. TZII spent his early years, until adolescence in fact, in Africa, confronted to a multitude of intense, deeply life-altering experiences, from Beninese Voodoo rituals to the endless landscapes of the Sahara desert. An extreme environment, provoking extreme and very divergent emotions, which find their musical expressions in the changing ambiances of the record’s four tracks. From mystery to simple beauty, from melancholy to pure joy, this is an intimate but exalting record, where meditative and festive moods rub shoulders in the most natural way. Best Oriental Chill-Wave for both the dance-floor and your inner eye." [label info] www.tutrur.com 2014 €13.00
UGGERI, MATTEO The Next Wait CD + CDR In 2013 my wife Gaia was pregnant. We were then waiting for our first born to come, expected for November of that year. A few little obstacles and troubles occurred during the nine months, so my anxious nature at the time generated in me the need to somehow express the feelings in a record, where I conveyed the worries that a father, especially a musician that needs his own moments for playing, may have in terms of an expected potential future lack of time and energies. I also decided to involve fellow musicians I got to know at the time, like Maurizio Abate (guitar), Enrico Coniglio (guitar and organ), with whom afterwards I would have made full albums - but you can find here the first traces of our collaboration. There were Andrea Serrapiglio (cello) and Cristiano Lupo (bass), that I knew for quite some time, and featuring female voices. I asked Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (that I discovered through her marvellous presence on a Doug Sharin solo album) if she wanted to sing on a track, and she did, providing her own lyrics. The American singer Jenny Oakley, aka Empty Vessel Music, did the same on track one, as well as a glitching sample from Nicola Ratti is also featured. The central piece of the whole album can be considered “Family Man”, a sort of cover from a song by Black Flag, totally reversed by my wife Gaia Margutti. She re-interpreted the lyrics her own way, and she performed it in an unforgettable session of home recordings, with my daughter Olivia, now finally born, hanging from her neck. Indeed, the album took quite a long time to be made, and then the ‘wait’ was over, transformed in the new life we were all three now living together. The second half pieces, actually a long track sliced in three parts, are dedicated to this transition period, where also tensions in the family are occuring. The tracks are built on a piano melody provided by the Japanese artist, Mujika Eisel, that collaborated with me on a previous album. Now it is 2019, and not only is Olivia 5 years old, but also Nora was born, in March 2017. This album, is now dedicated to both of them, and can in a away, be perhaps considered a bit too ‘direct’, (as a Henry Rollins song!) but it’s for me a sincere expression of feelings and sensations. The concept of waiting can be interpreted in different ways, and anyone can ask himself what the two dogs in the front cover (kindly provided by the Italian photographer Adriano Zanni) are expecting to come. Anyway, the album is finally released, thanks to the generous and neverlasting effort of US label Infraction, available in the three formats of LP/CD/DL, with an additional 7” containing two outtakes entitled “After the Wait” (exclusive to physical formats only), when the new life was becoming a new set of routines. I even made a video in 2018, featuring - guess who? - my family. It can be seen on Infraction Bandcamp and on my website as well. I hope that this long pathway of experiences, feelings, music and visual art will be shared with careful listeners all over the world. - Matteo Uggeri Album editions : 100 copies of clear blue water LP + 7 inch (after the wait) 150 copies of black vinyl 180 gram edition Each LP is housed in a Stoughton tip-on style heavy sleeve. The 7" is a clear vinyl. 250 copies of full-length CD. The first 100 copies will contain a bonus CDR with 2 exclusive tracks (entitled 'After the Wait'). The CD will be housed in a Stoughton style mini-lp gatefold sleeve. Maurizio Abate (guitar) Enrico Coniglio (guitar, organ) Andrea Serrapiglio (cello) Cristiano Lupo (bass) Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (vocals) Jenny Oakley (vocals) Nicola Ratti (electronics sample) Gaia Margutti (vocals) Mujika Eisel (piano) https://infraction.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-wait 2019 €16.00
UHLIG, MIRKO VIVMMI LP "As mummy thought us: you have to put your money where your mouth is. So when we claimed praise for a small CDR release by a relatively new German composer Mirko Uhlig we dabbled with the idea of releasing it on LP. Now we did. We doubled the edition of 65 to 130 and it has great carton sleeve (like last year's Pick-up LP). Since 2006 he has retreated to his nom de passport (formerly known as Aalfang mit Pferdekopf), Uhlig has exchanged the naive bewilderment of experimental bricolage with the pursuit of pure beauty and there is suddenly confusion as to his motives: Are these silent outbursts of refined romanticism intended as some sort of clever commentary on the Drone genre, as a neo-conservative return to proven values or part of something different altogether? 'VIVMMI' has been remastered for vinyl." [label info] www.kormplastics.nl 2009 €15.00
ULTRA MILKMAIDS Jain Umpoulet (SOLD OUT) 7inch "The Masters of glowing ambient soundsculptures from Dijon, France, present their second 7" (after "Lou" on their own label U MOHOL) on Drone. Two pieces of harmonic melancholic beauty, with lots of droning guitar-work and shimmering effects. We love these emotional jewels! Their debut-CD came out last year on NOISE MUSEUM. White vinyl, silk screened covers." [Drone Records info May 1998] 1998  
ULTRASOUND Death comes from the left 7inch Endlich wieder erhältlich, die feine Single des US-“handplayed deep ambience” – Projekts in der zweien Auflage ! Klares Vinyl, klare Hülle... „Eine pulsierende Wolke aus Gitarrenschwingungen in typischer Ultrasoundwärme. Kirk Laktas & Robert F. Ovetz an Gitarren & Bass, hier verstärkt zum Quartett mit Natalie Hill (guitar) & Tiana Hux (percussion), lassen wieder ihren dröhnenden Drachen steigen, mäandernde Waves als healing force, ein sonores Om aus allen Klangfarben des Regenbogens zusammengesetzt...“ [Bad Alchemy] “Coming originally from Texas, the trio ultrasound (partly ex-STARS OF THE LID) are now located in Den Haag, Netherlands, and Austin, Texas, USA. They did a couple of fantastic guitar-drone-releases in the 90s, climaxing in their so far latest CD-album Hamesh, that went into new musical territory combining melodic songs with drones. With this, their first ever 7 EP, they present two unbelievable emotional touching pieces of guitar & bass-drone-music, where long echoes of overtone guitar-sounds melt in one stream of pure sensible acoustics... ultrasound submerges the listener into a deep salty sea to float on the frail border between air and water, light and reflection, perception and knowing. This is pure yearning transformed into sounds.“ [original info August 2001 ] 2005 €6.00
V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) Serene Moments (NACHT / NORTHAUNT / SHINJUKU THIEF / UMBRA) do-7 Nächtlicher gothic-ambient & neo-klassik-Industrial von vier Projekten, im Klappcover, auf dem polnischen FLUTTERING DRAGON – Label ! “Concept double 7" vinyl presenting mysterious sounds, chants, whispers and yells created by Nacht, Shinjuku Thief, Umbra and Northaunt. Four magic projects on four sides vinyl disc. Six incredibly mesmerizing tracks which will make the last sunbeams die...Edition limited and numbered to 505 copies.” [label info] 2004 €10.00
Verfassung LP Erste „offizielle“ Compilation des HÖRBAR e.V. aus Hamburg! Enthält 14 Stücke der Mitglieder, die das grosse Spektrum der derzeitigen experimentellen Musik fast abdecken, von dröhn-minimalistischen Sphären über cut-up & Collagen, musique concrete und Impro bis zu post-industriellem Noise, mit Y-TON-G (ex PARA NOISE TERMINAL) und TBC sind auch zwei Drone Records-Vertreter dabei, aber auch sonst durchweg hochklassiges Material von u.a. EVAPORI, [HYPH]; AUDIBLE PAIN, INCITE, GREGORY BÜTTNER, SONATA REC und natürlich darf ASMUS TIETCHENS nicht fehlen. “On the newly released vinyl LP "Verfassung" (German for "state" or "constitution") 14 electronic tracks by 14 musicians and projects can be heard. The music includes all styles of experimental electronic music: minimal to noise, musique concrète, improv, cut-ups and collages. The record not only shows the current state of the experimental music scene in Hamburg, despite the different individual approaches and styles it creates a musical flow, offering a diverse and exciting listening experience. All musicians on the record are members of the "Hoerbar" (German for "audible" and "listening bar"). For over 10 years it has been an important meeting point for producers and consumers of experimental music in Hamburg, Germany. Once a week a lively exchange between composers, musicians, labels and collectors takes place. Once a month local and international musicians are invited to the "Unüberhörbar" concert (German for "unignorable"), among the guests have been Jim O’Rourke, Hafler Trio, Keith Rowe, People Like Us and many others.” [label info] "the audible VERFASSUNG of our loosely organized group of producers [called HOERBAR] is being reflected by this audio document, which is representative but cannot be complete.some children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those courageous explorers of electroacoustic music continued walking on analogue and digital paths, avoiding the academic castles of compulsion and the sweat-moistened dancepalaces, being driven by furious excitement to add something personal to the pool of established aesthetic strategies. knowing that the wheel cannot be reinvented is not a cause for resignation or for becoming Epigones, but made us develope our ambitions to learn from historic achievements so that we can walk upon new roads and even stray with our heads up. so, the electroacoustic VERFASSUNG [constitution / condition / circumstance / state of mind] compiled by hoerbar hamburg manifests the whole spectrum between the righteous ponderer‘s efforts and the unconcerned homo ludens‘ arabesques. we will go on." [Asmus Tietchens] “Ah the classic format of compilation LP, with booklet. It looks retro, very 80s like, but it's 2006. The Hörbar in Hamburg is an organisation that puts on concerts, mainly in the B-Movie cinema. Hörbar is mainly run by musicians, who work as volunteers, doing the sound, the bar and the door. Every week they meet up and do something. Now Hörbar also acts as a label, and this compilation is the first release. Of course it features music from the people that make up the Hörbar organization. The good thing is that it holds many musicians I never heard of, such as Pizza Ni Ni, Renoise, Margitt Holzt, Guy Saldanha and Ebinger, sitting next to somewhat more known locals such as Evapori, Gregory Buettner, Sonata Rec, [Hyph-], TBC, Incite and Y-Ton-G. Of course the biggest star from Hamburg, Asmus Tietchens, is also present, with the most silent and reduced piece of the lot. What can be noticed that there is a fair amount of noise material on this record, such as TBC, Guy Saldanha and Audible Pain. Margitt Holzt and Incite represent the rhythm side of this bunch, whereas Tietchens has his own followers such as Gregory Buettner and some seem to follow their own track, such as the curious piece by Ebinger (who he?). Evapori and Sonata Rec play pieces that are a cross over between the world of Tietchens and the underworld of noise. The most curious piece is by Pizza Ni Ni, entitled 'E', it seems just the one time strumming of an E chord on the guitar. A booklet describes the pieces and has a bunch of nice quotes. Limited to 300 copies - that is the final trick from the 80s, make a few and create a rarity!” [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.hoerbar-ev.de 2005 €15.00
KKH 1 LOCK GROOVES 7inch Obskure Veröffentlichung des "Königlichen Stockholmer Unversitätskollegs für die bildenden Künste", diverse schwedische Soundartisten / Studenten haben unter der Initiative von CM VON HAUSSWOLFF Endlosrillen beigesteuert: LINDA JANSSON, CM VON HAUSSWOLFF, KLASNY RUSSIA ERIKSSON, MATHIAS JOSEFSON (MOLJEBKA PVLSE), LENA BERGENDAHL, JENS EVALDSSON, NANNA HELLBERG auf Seite 1, auf der B-Seite ein Remix von allen von HAUSSWOLFF. "The lock groove pressed in a lump of vinyl is a great tool for DJs, and of course we are all DJs... well, all but me (someone's gotta give up). C.M. von Hauswolff seems also an unlikely figure as a DJ, but on his initiative six students of the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm produced this 7" - each, plus Hauswolff making one lock groove. They are cut on side A. On side B, Hauswolff produces a piece of music out of it. Also it should be noted that all seven participants have now a group where the lock grooves are mixed live on seven record players. It's been a while since I heard such worn out ideas. But hey, I'm not a DJ, so I don't need the tools." [FdW / Vital Weekly] Address: http://www.kkh.se/royalrecords 2007 €6.00
FRANNCE 3 x CDR Ausufernde Compilation auf dem DIY-Label aus Frankreich, wohl etwas ironisch als "Ode an France" untertitelt. 45 Projekte zwischen kraftvoller Drone-Psychedelia, wirbelnden Analog-Electronics & Instrumental-Madness, so ziemlich alles aus dem Bereich "Experimenteller / Impro Folk-Drone" was man sich nur vorstellen kann... "A quick look at the listing of groups on this super limited triple cd-r collection of songs from France, or about France, or with some sort of French angle, should have most weird music fans freaking out bigtime. All exclusive tracks from tons of AQ faves, including: The Shitty Listener, Quetzolcoatl, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Silvester Anfang, Heavy Winged, Tom Carter, The North Sea, Taiga Remains, Ashtray Navigations, Uton, The Futurians, Mike Tamburo, Tanakh, Black Forest Black Sea, Ben Reynolds, Volcano The Bear, 6majik9, CJA, The Stumps, Gregg Kowalsky, Fursaxa, Seht, Valerio Cosi, Fabi Orsi, Birds Of Delay, Bjerga / Iverson, Robert Horton and more more more. 3+ hours of strange and magical sounds from all over the world, but all centered around France. From the ultra lo-fi barely audible pop genius of The Shitty Listener, the gorgeous mournful steel string Appalachian folk of The North Sea, the washed out murky drift of Quetzolcoatl, some super spare solo electric guitar drift from Tom Carter, a bit of haunting high end tribal buzz from Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, some gorgeous shuffle and twang, slither and creep from Silvester Anfang, an epic druggy slowburning NZ-style krautrockish jam from The Stumps, some whispered crystalline shimmer from Fursaxa and we could go on and on. Varied and expansive, from folk to drone to noise to pound to swirl to buzz to twang... As with all RuralFaune stuff, meticulously packaged, each one hand assembled, three spray painted discs, rouge, blanc and bleu (the colors of the French flag), housed in a cool textured red and orange wallpaper cover, in a thick vinyl sleeve, with a sticker on the front. Inside is a huge fold out, 2 sided poster insert, with liner notes on one side and a painting on the other, as well as a bunch of other inserts, stickers, a tiny square of paper hand numbered and a "piece of blotting paper impregnated with red wine"! LIMITED TO 300 COPIES. We will NOT be able to get more..." [Aquarius Records] www.myspace.com/ruralfaunelovesyou 2007 €18.00
OEC 100 / THE OLD EUROPA CAFE 7 x CD-Box OLD EUROPA CAFE fing wie einige andere heute noch existierende Experimental-Labels (z.B. ANT-ZEN, KORM PLASTICS) in den 80er Jahren als Cassetten-Label an, um später auch Vinyl & CDs herauszugeben... Nun gibt es das Label von Mastermind RODOLFO PROTTI bereits seit 25 Jahren, und das wird mit dieser irren Compilation eindrucksvoll zum Ausdruck gebracht. 101 Stücke von Gruppen, Musikern & Projekten die irgendwie mit OLD EUROPA CAFE in Verbindung standen oder stehen sind hier verewigt, und das Thema soll sein: EUROPA. Von Post-Industrial über Harsh Noise, Dark Ambient und Neo-Folk, das Spektrum des Labels reicht sehr weit, die Wurzeln liegen aber ganz klar in geräuschvollen Industrialsounds.. "This compilation was planed during 2007 for the 25th OEC anniversary. For celebrate the label and all the work done over all those years 101 artists / groups / projects which was / are / will be involved with OEC was invited to submit an unreleased or anyway re-worked / exclusive track devoted to the theme : Europa ! Europe : from Portugal to Russia Europe : his history Europe : his culture Europe : his cities Europe : his beauty …. At last, a true Old Europe Cafe soundtrack .... Tracklisting / in Alfabetical Order : 1. A Challenge of Honour - Iberia 2. Aesthetic Meat Front – Twilight in Berlin 3. Ain Soph – Tra le Rovine 4. Albireon – Un Cavallo Senza Nome (Sonne Hagal’s Italian covered track) 5. Alessandro Pacciani – The Colour of the Human Ashes 6. All My Faith Lost … - Septembre 1871 7. Argine – Risveglio 8. Artefactum – The Night Waltz in Vienna 9. Asianova – Trieste 10. Astro - Old European Son 11. Autopsia & K.Rossmann – Fragment II 12. Bad Sector – Old Europa On Air 13. Beyond Sensory Experience - Fadren 14. Black Sun Productions – Gegen Verfuehrung / Grande Inno di Ringraziamento 15. Bleiburg – Europaean Heartbeat 16. Camerata Mediolanense - Guillotine 17. Circus Joy – Signora Europa 18. Claustrum – Penitential 19. Cristian Renou – U-Rop Impress (heavy version) 20. Cropcircle – The Balkan Doll will never Grow 21. D.B.P.I.T. – Lili Marlene 22. David E. Williams – Erlkönig 23. Dawn & Dusk Entwined – Occident 24. Dead Man’s Hill - Parc Abbey / The Heverlee Lakes 25. Deutsch Nepal – The Lonely Comming Down 26. Discordance – Jokela, Finland 27. Division S – Further Knowledge 28. Dogs Hate Monet - In This Dream 29. Dream Weapon Ritual – excerpt from The Mysteries Of E 30. Egida Aurea – L’Ardente Fiaccola della ragione 31. Folkstorm - United under a black sun of utmost splendour 32. Foreign Trade – With You 33. Foresta di Ferro – Europe Greets the Storm 34. Furvus – Evropa 35. Gerechtigkeits Liga – Controlled Europe 36. Grey Wolves – Decapitation Zone (Euro Carve Up) 37. GX Jupitter-Larsen – Norge Om Polybølge 38. H.E.R.R. – A Newer Rome (2007 Version) 39. Horologium – European Macht Muzik 40. Hybryds – Resistance (Old Europa Mix) with samplefood by Wejdas 41. 40.Jerome Deppe and Gentlemen Oscura – Song for Nero 42. K. Meizter – Prypiat 43. Kallabris – Holzweg , Scherzo for Scandinavian wood winds and tape manipulation 44. Kenji Siratori – Crusade 2007 45. Knifeladder – Warsaw , 4pm 46. Lark Blames – Small Cars 47. Lonsai Maikov & Dissonant Elephant – Occident : 111 48. Lt. Caramel – Estación de Princípe Pío 49. Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte- White Jazz (Excelsior Cafe Version) 50. Malato – EU 51. Mauro Guazzotti – Clockwork Europe 52. Moljebka Pulse – Avra 53. Musterion – Underneath Stockholm 54. MZ.412 - Overthrowing European Christianity 55. Naevus – The Petty Task 56. Nazi UFO Commander – Flying Dutchman 57. Ninth Desert – Oscript 58. Njurmannen - Music for an erotic TV show 59. Nocturne – Old Nocturne Cafe 60. Nordvargr - Facing the ghost of the past 61. Northgate – Brief 62. Ô Paradis – Contigo 63. Organisation Toth – Follow the L.ight O.V. .E.uropa 64. Pacific 231 – Mezquita 65. Peter Andresson – Kitchenscape 66. Post Contemporary Corporation – Il Martirio di Wagner (live attack !) 67. Rapoon – We Whisper Revolutions in the Cafe’s of Europe 68. Richard Ramirez – The Colours of Dark Clouds over Italy 69. Roma Amor – Der Treue Husar 70. Runes Order – In the Endless Regions of Europa (Hate IV) 71. S.Q.E. – Shards 72. Sacher Pelz – Pchearsezl 73. Sala Delle Colonne – Scilla e Cariddi 74. Second Amendment – The Stranger 75. Seelenblut – Sudden Light 76. Seelenlicht – Return to Summerisle 77. Selfishadows – Poison 78. Shining Vriel – Of Coin + Ruin 79. Siegmar Fricke - Euroceutik 2007 80. Simulacrum – Naturatum EU 81. Sleeping Pictures – Kiss the Dirt 82. Slogun - Palma:1986-2002 83. Space Alliance – Abduction of Europa 84. Spiritual Front – Funeral Blues 85. TAC - Sixth From Jupiter 86. Tam Quam Tabula Rasa – New Ropes Suffocate my Hopes (Rendhagyò Olasz Dallam) 87. Tears of Othila – Up our Banners ! (Special Old Europa version) 88. Teatro Satanico – Veneto Industrial in Europa 89. The Lindberg Baby – No Promises 90. The Soil Bleed Black - Thou Art Mine 91. Thomas Nola et Son Orchestre – Mother’s Ruin 92. Tribe of a Circle - Demokratür - Final Act 93. Troum / Asianova / Voice of Eye – Dream for a New Europa (Re-Entry Edit) 94. Ventral Metaphor – Lost in Pordenone 95. Vestigial – Substorm’s Curtains 96. Voice of Eye – Inside the Breath of the Adriatic 97. Vox Populi! – Soft entrance to nature’s camino de luz 98. Wermut – Maladia Europa II 99. Wertham – Which Way Western Man 100. Wheian – Europa 101. XX Century Zorro – Phelin Phelix Cover art-work features reproductions of oil paintings by : Mass Inc. As you can see this will be a true Mammoth compilation ! We didn't put limits to the sound stiles , so here you can really hear all the sounds of the Industrial sub-culture featured on OEC ! A BIG document on OEC work ... A BIG thank you to all the artists who was walking with OEC !!! A BIG thank you to all who was supporting OEC for such a long time !!!" [label info] www.oldeuropacafe.com 2008 €36.00
v-p v-f is v-n 7 Höchst obskure 7"-Compilation mit 20 (!) Stücken, wobei 5 Endlosrillen eingearbeitet wurden, überwiegend sind Projekte aus der "Microsound-Drone-Ambience" Szene vertreten, z.B. LAWRENCE ENGLISH, CIVYUI KKLIU, ILYA MONOSOV, ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO.. die Bandbreite ist aber sehr gross und machen dies zu einer spannenden Hörerfahrung. Kommt im sehr schönen "letter-press" Cover, wie alles auf WINDS MEASURE RECORDINGS... (Label aus New York City). "v-p v-f is v-n 7" compilation series, 7001 jeph jerman + albert casais, ting ting jahe, richard garet, alfredo costa monteiro, ben owen, lawrence english, jeph jerman, civyiu kkliu, tommy birchett, ilya monosov, mpld, andy graydon, and ben scott. edition: 350 7" black vinyl record letterpress sleeve and insert." [label info] " "v-p v-f is v-n is a 7” black vinyl compilation consisting of twenty terse pieces (with five being lock grooves) - nine on side I rotating at 33RPM and eleven on the side II spinning at 45RPM - and serves as aural digest of the was, is, and will be of Winds Measure Recordings collaborators. This wonderful 7”-teaser is a little sonic who’s-who (and who will be) of Winds Measure Recordings collaborators. There are a lot names (most familiar to me, a few not) present on this compilation - label owner Ben Owen, Jeph Jerman, Albert Casais (Omnid), Ting Ting Jahe (collective), Richard Garet, Lawrence English, Civyiu Kkliu, Tommy Birchett, Ilya Monosov, Andy Graydon, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, mpld (project of Gill Arno), Ben Scott (participant in Ting Ting Jahe),Tommy Birchett (also participant in Ting Ting Jahe), and Rudolf Unger. As I was listening to v-p v-f is v-n for the second time, I had the volume turned up fairly high having discovered that several of the tracks especially on the 33RPM side are moderately subtle and/or sprarse explorations of sound (although dotted with a few startling moments). The other members of my family, not really appreciating my peculiar musical interests in general, kept asking (actually yelling) “What’s that noise?”. Well there is a lot of noise on this album, but to my ears, the noises that these artists make is music. There are some considerably abstract, challenging sounds here in the sense of being quiet, fragmented, and rough. Listening to the first three pieces on side I - Jeph Jerman & Albert Casais, Ting Ting Jahe, & Richard Garet - will confirm this observation. Be forewarned to drop the volume before the piercing frequencies of Alfredo Costa Monterio’s Élytre [track 4] kicks in and quickly disrupts the quiet atmosphere established by its predecessors. In sharp contrast, Ben Owen brings back a sense of calm down with Typhoon, kii-tanabe consisting of what appears to be a minimally processed field recording containing some vocals and natural background ambiance, and then Lawrence English complements this with a droning piece of naturalness titled Water Run Sand. mpld follows this up with another drone segment titled Red Tape but this time sounding coarser and very machine-like. Side I concludes with two lock grooves (Jeph Jerman, Ben Owen). Side II begins with Civyiu Kkliu and Rudolf Unger joining forces to produce a minute’s worth of vibrating, rumbling noise that becomes a little broken towards the end. Jeph Jerman then delivers a beautiful 50-second piece of macrobiotic resonations that goes hand-in-hand with Ben Owens’ sparse and reverberating 16-second miniature s-s-e, sm ca. Listen carefully or Tommy Birchett’s barely audible 11-second interlude will be absorbed by Ben Owens’ piece or made imperceptible by Andy Graydon’s gorgeous Two Fold Note - a dark and harmonious tonal drone. Ben Scott’s ccc is an interesting 25-second experiment in percussive clatter that is followed directly by Ilya Monosov’s For Well Treated Trumpet. Short Version - a rather warped and amusing piece of discordant abstractness. Side II concludes with three lock grooves (Civyiu Kkliu, mpld x 2) and short-lived 7-second reprise by Tommy Birchett. v-p v-f is v-n gives a candid retrospective of what Winds Measure Recording has offered and also provides a peek at what the near future might hold. Nice to see it released on vinyl as this medium serves the label’s sonic aesthetic well." [Larry Johnson, EARLabs] www.windsmeasurerecordings.net 2008 €9.00
Ten Grand Tonearm LP Darling, darfs auch etwas ausgefallener sein? Eine australische Compilation auf dem Label von RATS WITH WINGS, irres handgemachtes Recycle-Cover, haufenweise Acts aus dem Abstract Noise / Impro Experimental Bereich, abstrakter, geräuschhafter und Synapsen-sprengender geht es wohl kaum....really advanced & wild ! "The elaborate packages continue on this one also as they use old vinyl jackets on which they apply their posters. Sun of the seventh contribute in this compilation the last track of the first side (as a full force 25 member big band) along with (in order of appearance) rlw (the Johannes Frisch and Ralf Wehowsky duo, on this track they improvise on abstract structures using a sitar as a point of reference), castings (who have released in labels as chocolate monk american tapes), rahdunes (they add elements of early 80s german industrial), cygnus (in a lo-fi ambient track based on guitar accompanied with synths in the background), xNoBBQx (volumes of feedback combined to delay, wah sounds and low pitched frequencies) loachfillet (with the enigmatic sample in the beginning of a female voice that repeats in greek “it is usually raining” while it is followed by a freakout improvisation of noise produced by electronics, guitar and drums that bring to mind the USA scene), Marco Fusinato (who takes the lead from loachfillet in almost the same manner, he has collaborated around 2000 with Thurston Moore on live performances in the centre of contemporary art in Australia). The second side of the vinyl starts with the British the vitamin b12 (vocals processed thru o sequencer or something), Mark Harwood (a member of the australian honch synaesthesia who presents a quietly evolving track based on processed field recordings), werewolf Jerusalem (electronic noise), misty lavender doughnuts of shame (a spectacular name), arse lunch (xNoBBQx’s side project, drone based on feedback and high pitched guitars recorded live around 2007), pigs in the ground funally William de Kooning (locked grooves). This release by heard worse is a high quality one. They manage to leave the labels mark while at the same time they succeed to bring to forth what connects them with the contributed artists without being boring due to the difficult music and sound aesthetics. This is an art object for sure." [Fervent, Random E-Zine] 2008 €15.00
SOURCE RECORDS 1-6. Music of the Avant Garde, 1968-1971 3 x CD Absolut lohnenswerte Wiederveröffentlichung von sechs 10" Vinylen die vor gefühlten Ewigkeiten (1968-1971) im Rahmen des "Music of the Avant Garde" Journals herauskamen. Enthält z.T. echt wahnwitzige Stücke aus der "klassischen" nordamerikanischen Elektronik- Avantgarde, z.B. geht ROBERT ASHLEYs "The Wolfman" (1964) locker als ausschweifende Feedback-Elektro-Noise-Orgie als auch als etwas angegrauter "Industrial" durch, oder DAVID BEHRMANs "Wave Train" (1966) als röhrend-droniger Dark Ambient... Man steht / sitzt / oder liegt mit offenen Mund vor diesen Pioniertaten der Geräuschmusik, das alles wirkt so gar nicht angestrengt kopflastig oder intellektuell, sonder eher "direct into the face (ears)". Super!! "..."Source: Music Of The Avant-Garde" was a magazine which included scores, articles, interviews, essays and music, placed on a 10" record. First released in 1967 and then semiannually until 1973, although the records were released until 1971. Some of these pieces on these records have turned to be true classics of our time. Here we have the first version of 'I Am Sitting In A Room' by Alvin Lucier, 'The Wolfman' by Robert Ashley and 'Wave Train' by David Behrman. Some other composers here are still the big shots of today, like Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran and Annea Lockwood, and some I must, perhaps shamefully, admit I never heard of, like Larry Austin (the founder of the magazine), Arthur Woodbary, Mark Riener, Lowell Cross (who has a great drone like piece), Stanley Lunetta (with a great noise based of electronics) and Arrigo Lora-Totino, who has a piece that uses just voices. Most pieces clock in at fifteen minutes, the length of a 10" side. All of the pieces deal with electronics in some way, along with real instruments. One could say that its a pity that the magazine, the printed words, aren't available, say as PDF's on the disc (or a website), but this is a lovely three CD set of some great music. Always nice to hear Lucier's piece again, even in this shorter version than on the CD by Lovely music, some interesting discoveries such as Larry Austin himself, Lunetta and Cross. A most needed re-issue." " [FdW / Vital Weekly] "Source Records 1-6. Music of the Avant Garde, 1968-1971. The digital reissue of the Source LP's on 3 CDs : CD One - Source Records 1 and 2 Robert Ashley, The Wolfman; David Behrman, Wave Train; Larry Austin, Accidents; Allan Bryant, Pitch Out CD Two - Source Records 3 and 4 Alvin Lucier, I am sitting in a room; Arthur Woodbury, Velox; Mark Riener, Phlegethon; Larry Austin, Caritas; Stanley Lunetta, moosack machine CD Three - Source Records 5 and 6 Lowell Cross, Video II (B)/(C)/(L); Arrigo Lora-Totino, english phonemes; Alvin Curran, Magic Carpet; Annea Lockwood, Tiger Balm Pogus is extremely proud to reissue the recordings included in the seminal new music journal, Source: Music of the Avant Garde, Vols. 1-6, Issues 1-11, Source Records 1-6, 1967-1973. The original six ten-inch LP Source Records contained some of the most important experimental music of the nineteen-sixties to mid nineteen-seventies ­ and they have now been reissued as a 3 CD set. Source ended publication in 1973, having published, since 1967, contemporary musical materials, scores, articles, interviews, photo essays and recordings over seven years, with up to 2000 subscribers to the semiannual journal: the subscribers avidly anticipated receiving two new and critically acclaimed issues each year during that period. Most of the original tape masters for the records, after over forty years, have vanished or have seriously deteriorated; hence, we have carefully transferred, noise-reduced, and crackle-removed all the actual LP record tracks to the digital medium, then mastered to the compact disc format for this reissue: the result is an authentic recreation of the original LP, characteristic sound." [label info] www.pogus.com 2009 €33.00
Dark Ambient Radio Volume 2 CD "This compilation is the result of almost one year of careful design and polishing of cutting-edge dark ambient songs, good cooperation, and intense competition. After already releasing a very good compilation with Vol.1, Dark Ambient Radio managed to raise the level with this superb collection of dark ambient music. This is not a big surprise since the 11 songs on the CD were selected out of 26 quality tracks that have been submitted during 2008 and would have been sufficient to release a good 2CD compilation. The selection of the tracks was a painful but fair process as the participating artists voted for the tracks individually and the agglomerated rating decided which tracks ended up on the compilation. So you can be sure that there is no weak track on the CD. All tracks have been done exclusively for this compilation. Das Genre 'Dark Ambient' ist eine Randerscheinung einer Randerscheinung. Das liegt zum einen daran, dass im Gegensatz zur populären Ambient-Musik nicht auf Easy-Listening-Qualitäten gesetzt wird, sondern im Gegenteil das psychoaktive Potential der Vorarbeiten von innovativen Ambient-Künstlern wie z.B. Brian Eno bis in den letzten dunklen Winkel ausgelotet wird (ohne aber zu sehr in Noise- oder Industrial-Gefilde zu geraten bzw. sich in abstrakten Genüssen wie Minimalismus oder der meisten Elektroakustik zu ergehen). Zum Anderen fehlt dieser Art von experimenteller Musik eine angemessene Öffentlichkeit, etwa eine Club-Szene. Letzterer Mangel wurde allerdings mit der Gründung des Dark Ambient Radio ein wenig gelindert. Die 2. Compilation, die aus dem Umfeld dieses Web-Radio Projekts hervorging, ist Resultat eines rigiden Auswahlprozesses: Nicht weniger als 33 Acts aus dem Bereich Drone, Ritual, Black & Dark Ambient wollten wissen, wer der Beste ist und haben sich fast ein ganzes Jahr Zeit genommen, um an ihren Tracks zu feilen. Die elf besten Stücke wurden mit Hilfe eines Ratings der Künstler untereinander bestimmt. Schwache Tracks sucht man deshalb auf dieser Zusammenstellung vergeblich. Vertreten sind Künstler aus Argentinien, Bulgarien, Deutschland, Kroatien, Norwegen und Polen. 74 Minuten internationaler Underground-Ambient at its best! Wer jetzt noch nicht den Mut geschöpft hat, sich eine einmalige Sammlung zu zu legen, kann vielleicht erst einmal über das Internet auf Dark Ambient Radio hineinschnuppern. Aber vielleicht es doch der beste Weg, sich anhand einer repräsentativen Genre-Compilation einen Musikstil an zu eigenen... Manchmal ist es eben wie beim Kaffeetrinken: Zuerst das Sahnehäubchen -- das schmeckt am Besten! Künstler-Info: Tholen ist das Dark Ambient Projekt des leipziger Multi-Genre-Künstlers Eisen. Mit Sternklang hat er mit Sicherheit eines der besten Dark Ambient Alben des Jahres 2007 veröffentlicht. Mit dem grandiosen Auftakt-Stück auf Vol.2 lässt er erahnen, auf was wir uns beim 2. Tholen-Album, das demnächst bei Cyclic Law erschein, freuen dürfen. Inner Vision Laboratory ist das ambitionierte Dark Ambient Projekt des polnischen Musikers Karol Skrzypiec. Mit Arkhitektur Noir führt George Georgiev die Tradition der Beteiligung bulgarischer Künstler an DAR Compilations fort. THERRADAEMON ist das neueste Projekt des norwegischen Ambient-Künstlers Hærleif Langås, besser bekannt durch sein Vorgängerprojekt Northaunt. Aspectee ist das Solo-Projekt des kieler Musikers Michael Frenkel. Das Aspectee Debut-Album ist November ’09 bei First Fallen Star erschienen. Es ist das Nachfolge-Projekt von Evoke Scurvee, eines inzwischen (zu unrecht) in der Versenkung verschwundenen Elektronik-Projekts, das Ende der 90er aktiv war. Phelios scheint im Moment eines der rührigsten Dark Ambient Acts zu sein. Der wuppertaler Musiker hat in den letzten Jahren neben drei Alben und zahlreichen Compilation-Beiträgen vor allem live eine außerordentliche Präsenz gezeigt, u.a. auf dem WGT, in der Wuppertaler Schwebebahn oder als Initiator des Phobos-Festivals. Aktuell erscheint ein Vinyl-Split zusammen mit Kammarheit bei Loki Foundation. Ein weiteres Album wird demnächst bei Malignant Records (USA) erscheinen. CrepusculaR ist ein das Projekt des argentinischen Musikers Angel Jose Lozano. Dies ist seine erste Veröffentlichung auf Polycarbonat. Nagual Art ist das Dark Ambient Projekt des Freiberger Musikers Andreas Kantner, der mit diesem Projekt bereits mehrere Alben erschuf, die allesamt als freie MP3-Downloads verfügbar sind und von der Qualität her allemal eine CD-Veröffentlichung wert wären. Die Beschränkung auf Internet-Downloads hängt vielleicht mit seiner Funktion als Chef seines Netlabels Paralucid zusammen. Das bremer Duo Troum bedarf als Drone Ambient Urgestein sicher keiner weiteren Beschreibung. Phobos ist das elektronische Sammel-Projekt des kroatischen Musikers Petar Sakic, dessen Tracks sich auf zahlreichen Compilations tummeln, u.a. auch auf den zwei existierende DAR Volumes. False Mirror ist wiederum ein reines Dark Ambient Projekt. Der Ulmer Musiker Tobias Hornberger war - wie bei Vol.1 so auch bei Vol.2 - prädestiniert für den Schluss-Track mit seinen filigranen und extrem trance-induzierenden Kompositionen. Die ausgefeilte Technik und originelle Sound-Designs sind wohl seiner Experimentierfreudigkeit bei der Klangerzeugung, u.a. selbstgeschriebenen Soft-Synthies und deren Kopplung an optische Sensoren, zu verdanken. Auf Vol.2 kommt aber auch akustisches Instrumentarium zum Zug. Der vorliegende Compilation-Beitrag ist eine gute Einstimmung auf das demnächst auf Malignant Records erscheinende neue Album Derelict World." [full release info] www.darkambientradio.de 2009 €13.00
Ekhnaton CD "This compilation, originally released in 1984 as a vinyl LP by MULTIPLE CONFIGURATION in collaboration with the legendary ADN label, is finally available again in a completely remastered CD version. "Ekhnaton" collects tracks recorded by the most daring and remarkable bands that were active in the experimental Italian scene during those years. "Simple Italian Research Vol. 1" was (and still is) the subtitle of an album that includes two tracks from each of the following bands: Maze 1066, Tasaday (whose "Implosione tra le pieghe dell'anima" has recently been reissued by Silentes), Evitaxal - an alias for Roberto Marinelli, also active as Laxative Souls - and the more well-known and active TAC (TOMOGRAFIA ASSIALE COMPUTERIZZATA). Through a valuable and accurate restoration, we're glad to make available again an unmissable view on the first intuitions and the experimental methodologies that shaped their times, leaving a permanent mark - in Italy and abroad - on the following generations." [label info] www.silentes.net 2010 €12.50
25 Years of Kapotte Muziek CD "2009-2010 sees the celebration of twentyfive years of Kapotte Muziek, the first musical project of Frans de Waard. Expanded in 1993 with members Peter Duimelinks and in 1995 Roel Meelkop, this trio explores the world of micro electro-acoustic music, playing on waste found on the streets and with a fine addition of field recordings. Before 1993 Kapotte Muziek was largely known as a player in the field of industrial music and musique concrete. To celebrate their 25th anniversary they staged two nights, one at Extrapool in Nijmegen and one at Occi in Amsterdam and asked long term friends to pay hommage. This CD is a compilation of 'edited highlights' from both nights, displaying a variety of interests, old and new: Radboud Mens offers a piece of drone music using 'three sinewave guitars', DMDN, as guest DJ present, played old and new tapes and vinyl from the past twenty five years of Kapotte Muziek in a striking collage of industrial sounds. Howard Stelzer, known for his extensive use of cassettes, restricted solely to cassettes from the past, while Jos Smolders showed up with his laptop and reel-to-reel machine to incorporate even dance music like moves. Asra and Asmus Tietchens, as well as Kapotte Muziek, use detailled improvisation on a variety of junkyard instrumentation and real instruments. An excellent compilation showing a true love of sound exploration by all involved." [label info] www.kormplastics.nl 2010 €10.00
I.D. Art # 2 CD "When the Los Angeles Free Music Society 10 CD set came out I eagerly flipped through the contents to see what treasures had finally been made available again. Much to my surprise the early compilation I.D. Art #2 was not included in this otherwise major overview of the LAFMS. I.D. Art #2 was the second LP release on their label, coming after Le Forte Four’s ‘Bikini tennis shoes’ LP, and before the 2LP ‘Live at the Brand’, a split album between Le 44 and The Doo-Dooettes. It dates from 1976. It is also probably the most difficult LP on their catalogue to find. Originally released in an edition of just 200 copies, most of which were given out to the 44 artists and groups who appeared on this extraordinary LP. The deal was that each track was paid for by the contributor at a rate of $8 per minute in exchange for 4 copies of the disc. Consequently very few copies were ever made available via the LAFMS mail order service. With a running time of 66 minutes and the sheer variety of contributions, I.D. Art #2 remained for most people a mysterious and tantalising item. Most of the contributors came from the students at Otis Art Institute in LA, and many make their only ever recordings for this disc. Among the known names from the LAFMS scene are: Le Forte Four, Joe Potts, Fredrick Nilsen, Mr Foon, Ace & Duce, Dennis Mehaffey as well as 6 tracks by Smegma. Other artists include the painter Miles Forst, violinist Josie Roth, film makers Doug Henry and Gary Beydler, mail artist and dog portrait painter Irene Dogmatic, Otis librarian Joan Hugo, graphic designer Kathe Schreyer and many other creative artists and designers at the start of their careers who submitted their audio idea, be it via telephone, in subways, recontextualising old vinyl, philosophising, story telling, being abstract, joking, rehearsing and lo even playing instruments. This exhilerating journey, bursting with ideas was compiled by Joe Potts and Waynna Kato." [label info] tracklist: • 1a. Mac McCloud; b. Mac McCloud (2:19) • 2. Harold Schroeder “Silent rituals” (3:32) • 3. Greg Neutra/J.D. Elliot “Grieg fatigue” (2:01) • 4. Smegma a. “Rrose Selavy will wait for my washing machine, even” b. “The Andalusian dog often digs into the furniture with onyx fingers.” (2:02) • 5. Smegma “Potatoe war” (0:59) mp3 • 6. Fredrik Nilsen “You can’t hide from aldehyde” (1:40) • 7. Miles Forst “Art, art, art” (0:41) • 8. Smegma “One moment” (1:30) • 9. Smegma “Pig face blues” (0:24) • 10. Doug Henry “View this command as a verbal enactment of a command” (0:15) • 11. Josie Roth “Heal, and another little time” (1:01) • 12. Joe Potts “I don’t want to go to the farm” (0:21) • 13. Otto Fick (0:48) • 14. Smegma “Excerpt from: I’ll have Julie Nixon-Eisenhower for my appetizer (sour lungs to my surprise)” (3:01) • 15. Karen Kato “Xmas 1952” (0:35) • 16. J.J. Allen Vargas “Victim of racism” (1:25) • 17. Dennis Guy Mehaffey “Busta Nosa” (1:47) • 18. M/R/Zuniga “Vulnerability: rape, male vs. female” (1:31) • 19. Mike Green “Martin Heiddeger revisited” (dedicated to Molly) (0:15). • 20. Mehaffey a. Introdution by Buckminster Fuller. b. “I stumble/You laugh” (4:01) • 21. Jules Lemelle (1:03). • 22. Maureen Abbott (0:14). • 23. Smegma “Take one” (3:29). • 24. Dan Weiss/P. Hamilton Ross “A bicentennial tribute to America’s freight trains” (0:56). • 25. Mr. Foon “Timeless #1” (5:50) • 26. Bertil Petersson “Monologue to Henry VIII” (2:05) • 27. Amrein & Stoll (1:04) • 28. Ace & Duce “Dogs are barking" (0:37) • 29. Irene Dogmatic/Rose Tatoo (0:36) • 30. Gordon Shields “Cotton duck, up and back” (0:59) • 31. Gary Beydler “Record stick” (0:16). • 32. Tom Kemp “Pasadena subway station poetry stills” (3:39) • 33. Donald Spaulding “I don’t want this to happen” (0:32) • 34. Janice Felger/Joan Hugo “One minute of art news update in 30 seconds (1:04) • 35. Sue Farthing (0:22) • 36. Waynna Kato “White/Noise” (0:29) • 37. Jim Abuan/Peter Muzzey “Why does love have to be so sad?” (0:20) • 38. Juan Gomez “This is my country” (2:47) • 39. P.J. Campbell (1:01). • 40. Kathe Schreyer “Don’t make me laugh” (0:15) • 41. Mary Dana Chodzko “Patty Smith by Mary Dana Chodzko” (1:42). • 42. Gary Laskin “Have sex with Rex” (1:25) • 43. Jean Koller “Dream” (3:20). • 44. Le Forte Four a. Discarded portion of the soundtrack for Rick’s film “Burger madness” b. From “The origin of Largie Schrapnel” c. “I haven’t heard you for a long time...” d. “Fat ape” (1:17) www.stalk.net/paradigm 2007 €13.00
IMPREC300 LP "After ten years Important Records is extremely proud to present IMPREC300, a vinyl only collection of exclusive live tracks from a handful of Important bands including Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Grails, Mugstar, Cave, NHK yx, Bardo Pond, Grails, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Chord & Bass Communion." [label info] www.importantrecords.com 2011 €12.00
TOUCH. 30 Years and counting do-LP "Compiled, edited, mixed and produced by Mike Harding & Jon Wozencroft, 14-15th October 2012. Cut by Jason at Transition, 16th October 2012. Artwork & Photography by Jon Wozencroft. Release date: 5th December 2012. Released to coincide with Touch's 30th anniversary celebrations at Beaconsfield, London, on December 5th and 6th 2012, all tracks are exclusive and original to this release With Fennesz, Bruce Gilbert, Rosy Parlane, Oren Ambarchi, ELEH, BJNilsen, Nana April Jun, Chris Watson, Mika Vainio, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jana Winderen, Philip Jeck, Francisco López, Z'EV, Hildur Gudnadottir, Biosphere. 30 years and counting is an echo of a time when the world was in a critical condition, and potentially about to blow itself into oblivion at the tail end of the Cold War. As such the title is a wry reflection on the situation we find ourselves in today, where the final curtain is less likely to close, but the stakes somehow seem to be more extreme and polarised than ever. As far as Touch is concerned, it is an expression of our youthful relationship to the work. Mike Harding and Jon Wozencroft invited each of the Touch artists to contribute a glimpse of their current practice to what is effectively a group show rather than a compilation. The brief was not only to celebrate a situation, but to remind each other why we are doing it, and make a kind of documentary realism. Some artists responded quickly with significant twists and returns to their signature sound and others left it to the last minute. The net result was that Mike and Jon mastered the LP/CD more or less as live performance in the cutting room, Transition, as an expression of the vitality of the project rather than some pre-ordained historical item. The history is built into the cover with two images of the first computer, the ‘Colossus’, built in Bletchley Park during the early 1940s as a means of cracking the Enigma codes… Here the pressure of time is at its most compressed. Two contra-punctal images were shot only recently, backstage moments of Touch 30 situations which as historical events, pale in comparison – they are just personal, memories in a flash. 30 years and counting is a filmic/time-based response from a collective of artists who have made a distinct impression on contemporary music and the way things go. Fennesz, Eleh, Hildur Gudnadottir, Chris Watson, Philip Jeck, Biosphere… We should really list everyone. That’s what they try and do on hip-hop albums. We started with cassettes; this project commenced as a dedication to vinyl rather than digital, a question concerning the art of recording. 30 years and counting is a manifesto after all these transformations. It is available on CD and download. The vinyl flares with the crackle of the present." [Jon Wozencroft, November 2012 / label info] www.touchmusic.org.uk 2012 €24.50
Complete 10inch-series from Cold Blue 3 x CD "Back by popular demand (and available for the first time on CD), this boxed set of three CDs collects all the music released on a popular series of 10-inch vinyl records that were put out by Cold Blue in the early 1980s. During the Cold Blue label's first incarnation, this music by seven West Coast composers created much of the company's reputation as a challenging and always interesting source of new music. Although bound together by a common concern with music's basic sensuality, the pieces collected here are wide-ranging in Style -- process-driven works, carefully through-composed pieces, ambient soundscapes, and music that draws on influences from around the world. In instrumentation, this music is also wide-ranging -- from violins accompanied by gourd rattles to an ensemble of clay ocarinas and whistles and flutes to works for piano (solo and duo), synthesizers, singers, speaking voices, cello and piano, electric guitar and clarinet, and perhaps the only known piece of new music for pedal steel guitar accompanied by multiple dobros. The diverse, free-spirited, genre-bending music in this set was characteristic of certain trends in West Coast music of the 80s. And, to some degree, most of this music tangentially addressed the lingua franca of 70s minimalism -- embracing certain aspects, fleeing others." Composers: Peter Garland, Michael Jon Fink, Barney Childs, Read Miller, Chas Smith, Rick Cox, Daniel Lentz." [label info] 2003 €24.00
Japanoise of Death I+II do-CD / metal box "This limited collectors-edition comes in a laser-burnt metal box and it contains part 1 and 2 of the Steinklang cult-compilations. part 1 was compiled by Koji Tano (MSBR - r.i.p.) and Shinichi Shikada (Noiseuse) and it was originally released in 2003 on vinyl lim.500 and on CDR lim.100. part 1 was rereleased now exclusively for this collectors-box as a real factory-made CD in jewelcase and it is not available separately! part 1 -> 45 min. / 10 tracks MSBR / NOISEUSE / GUILTY CONNECTOR / KK.NULL / GOVERNMENT ALPHA / INCAPACITANTS / K2 / DEFECTRO / WAGE-SLAVE EXCHANGE / MASONNA part 2 -> 78 min. / 16 tracks NORD / HIJOKAIDAN / SOLMANIA / AUBE / DISSECTING TABLE / INCAPACITANTS / ASTRO / KK.NULL / GOVERNMENT ALPHA / THE GUILTY CONNECTOR / KAZUMOTO ENDO / MOTHRA / SCRELOMA / MONTAGE / CROSSBRED / TIMISOARA " [label info] 2008 €29.00
The Post Romantic Empire Album do-LP & 7inch "Doppel-LP auf schwarzem Vinyl mit Prägecover, bedruckten Innenhüllen und zwei Einlegern. Stell' dir vor, du könntest deine Liebllingsmusiker zusammentrommeln, um mit ihnen deine liebsten Songs (neu) aufzunehmen. So kommen PETER HOOK, DAVID TIBET, ANNABELLA LWIN und DAVE BARBAROSSA, ANDREW LILES, MASSIMO PUPILLO mit vielen anderen zusammen, um die neue, psychedelische und ultimative Version von "Love Will Tear Us Apart" aufzunehmen. Roger O'Donnel von THE CURE und JULIA KENT steuern ihre persönliche Interpretation von Tausendundeine Nacht bei. Dies ist das ,Post Romantic Empire Album": ein Traum (der weitere Träume beinhaltet), gepresst auf Vinyl. Das Album ist die Geschichte einer Idee, die von Stimmen erzählt wird, die weit auseinander liegen: vier Komponisten (Roger O'Donnell, Baby Dee, Matt Howden und Maja Elliott) wurden eingeladen, um Songs (neu) zu schreiben, die als potentielle Archetypen zeitgenössischer Musik ausgewählt wurden. Jeder von ihnen lud weitere Musiker ein und sämtliches Material wurde von jeweils einem Produzenten (Roger O'Donnell, ANDREW W.K., Andrew Liles und Matte Spinazze) glattgeschliffen. Mit dabei: Roger O'Donnell (THE CURE), Julia Kent (ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS), Maja Elliot (ex CURRENT 93), Gitane Demone (ex CHRISTIAN DEATH), John Contreras (ex CURRENT 93), Pueri Cantores Regina Nivis Chor, Matt Howden (SIEBEN), Peter Hook (JOY DIVISION und NEW ORDER), Nat Wason (NEW ORDER, THE LIGHT), David Tibet (CURRENT 93), Annabella Lwin (BOW WOW WOW), Dave Barbarossa (ex BOW WOW WOW), Vin Cassidy und Larry Cassidy (SECTION 25), Massimo Pupillo (ZU), Andrew Liles (NURSE WITH WOUND), Baby Dee (CURRENT 93), Little Annie Bandez (ex CRASS), Matt Sweeney, Matthew Robinson, Skip Shirley, Sarah Alden, Robbie Lee, Sarah Nowicki, Andrew W.K." [label info] 2013 €39.00
DRONE-MIND // MIND-DRONE Vol. 3 (SOLD OUT) LP the NEW LP-series from Drone Records, dedicated to the Drones of the World, and the Drones of our Minds. A kind of continuation of the Drone 7"-series on a more user-friendly format. Each LP features four artists from the international drone-scene and is limited to 500 copies, pressed on four different vinyl-colours. Vol. 3: JIM HAYNES (USA), MANINKARI (France), KSHATRIY (Russia), EXIT IN GREY (Russia). stunning artwork paintings by British artist PETE GREENING, design by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS. JIM HAYNES: psychogeographical drones of rust and decay. This highly interesting sound-artist from San Francisco (also active as painter, label-manager, & writer) is focused on the unpredictable processes of rust & decay in connection with the perception of time. For his contribution "He stopped at a picture..." to the re-newed Drone Rec-series he is using field recordings from a world war 2 era radar outpost (located near the Golden Gate Bridge), combined with shortwave, motors, wire-tapping microphones, analogue electric sounds.. => a breathtaking experimental & raw drone-collage, full of tension & almost dramatic suction, sound of " psychic loss & american paranoia" (JIM HAYNES). EXIT IN GREY: timeless natural drones. The main project of Russian Sergey [S] from the Moscow-area (who is also active as FIVE ELEMENTS MUSIC & SISTER LOOLOMIE) is mesmerizing the listeners since years with small & handmade editions of emotional daydream-drones, intuitively woven together with guitar, field recordings & analog synths. The long piece "Drawn by Memory/The Wind 2012" is a perfect example of his skills and creates with minimal instrumental & natural sound-sources an atmosphere of timelessness and nostalgia.. KSHATRIY : dark psychedelic (higher?) consciousness drones KSHATRIY means 'warrior' in Sanskrit and expresses the artists believe in the universal power of sound. Hailing from the fascinating St. Petersburg scene in Russia comes this "fractal dark drone ambient' project, especially focused on cosmic/transpersonal consciousness themes - these "Shifting Waves" sound secretful & mysterious with a phantastic spatial sound-quality (open to both digital & analogue sound sources) for the perfect cosmic mind-movie. MANINKARI : handplayed / instrumental trance drones. This French duo (consisting of two twin-brothers from Paris) has blown us away with their captivating "handplayed" instrumental drone music, with influences from various styles like Jazz, Art Rock and Classical Music, combining improvisation and composition. Often based on percussion & strings, they look at their sound as a spiritual tool causing a disorder of the mind, a 'visible' transformation of the uncontrollable dreams & their own subsconscious. The two pieces "Enstase 1 & 2" sound at the same time subtle, airy and dense using a suprising instrumentation, and show impressively one of the possible new directions of drone music. = four projects that differ considerably from each other, but united through the idea of the power of the Drone. ~ ~ The drones of their minds "materialized" ~ ~ The "intelligence" of drones materialized ~ ~ four vinyl-colours, each 125 x: WHITE & GREEN MIXED // BLACK // MIXED YELLOW RED // CHRYSTAL CLEAR & WHITE MIXED. design by Tilmann Benninghaus (Berlin) using bronce-colour & UV gloss Mastered by Sergey Uak-Kib http://kshatriy.pro/ 2013 €15.00  
Smm: OPIATE LP "Vinyl limitiert auf 800 Stück im dicken Sleeve mit bedruckter Innenhülle. 'SMM: Opiate' ist der zweite Teil in der SMM Serie von Ghostly International, die eine Erforschung der weitreichenden Möglichkeiten des Sounds zwischen klassischem Minimalismus, Electronica und Drone, Soundtracks und zerbrechlichen Vorstellungswelten zum Ziel haben. 'SMM:Opiate' ist der Nachfolger zu 'SMM: Context' von 2011 und genau wie damals gesellt sich auch hier eine sorgfältig ausgewählte Selektion von Musik, die über zwei Jahre und die ganze Welt hinweg zusammengestellt wurde. Als Ganzes ist die Erfahrung sicherlich ähnlich derer des Opiats aus dem Titel, doch tatsächlich ist dies eine Zusammenstellung, die den Hörer dazu einlädt, seinen eigenen Sinn zu finden oder einfach nur der Schönheit der Musik zu huldigen und der Welt für eine Weile zu entkommen. 'SMM: Opiate' versammelt Originaltracks von SIMON SCOTT, A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN, CELER, BLACK SWAN, JIM HAYNES, EN, PJUSK, FIELDHEAD und NOVELLER. // SMM: Opiate is the second release in Ghostly's SMM series, which is an ongoing exploration of the evocative possibilities of sound, with a focus on classical minimalism, electronic and drone composition, film soundtracks, and fragile imaginary landscapes. Opiate is the follow-up to 2011's SMM: Context, and as with that record, it's a carefully chosen selection of music, compiled over some two years from around the world. The record opens with Simon Scott's "Water Shadow," a luxuriant piece of beatless ambience that's like a wash of warm water or the first touch of the summer sun on your face after a long, cold winter. It's a warmth that doesn't last, though — "Ti Prego Memory Man," by A Winged Victory for the Sullen, is no less beautiful. It's a stately, alpine beauty, its chilly sounds a harbinger of things to come. Celer's "Nothing So Mystical" is more minimal still, while Black Swan's "Passing Heartbreak" brings whispers of humanity, its sound coalescing out of an atmospheric whirl of vocal textures. The wryly titled "This Is Radio Sweden," by Jim Haynes, is all brooding background noise that's shot through with what sounds like an old-fashioned telephone engaged tone, a track that seems shot through with connotations of absence and loss. EN's "White" is both somber and somehow transportive, setting plucked chords from what sounds like a banjo over a glistening synth figure, while Pjusk's "Dorsk" slows to a sort of stasis, with only the faintest of basslines to indicate any sign of life. Fieldhead's "37th" is like a slow, mindful from such a reverie, and Noveller's "Bright Cloud Blooms" brings the cycle to a close with another brief flush of precious warmth. As a whole, the compilation seems to follow a narrative arc, descending through a series of stages into near-complete stillness, and then slowly ascending back to where it began. As a whole, the experience is certainly evocative of the opiated sensation evoked by the record's title — but really, it's a compilation that invites you to find your own meaning in it, or simply to appreciate the beauty of its music and escape the world for a while." [label info] www.ghostly.com 2013 €17.00
National Crime History 2 x MC “Belgium is a swamp, a boggy yet fertile ground in which new emergences are never clearly shaped but subtle, drifting just below the land’s muddy surface. They often remain hidden in the midst of a complex ensemble that is often made of chaos and opposition rather than order and harmony.” (Yannick Franck) From the North to the South of Belgium, a new generation of artists are connecting the dots between classic Belgian Industrial/EBM and the contemporary electronic scenes that have emerged worldwide these last years. A ‘New Belgian Industrialist Movement’ that freely combines elements such as distorted atmospheres, analog pulsations or mantric rhythms, lingering in the grey area between experimental techno and post-industrial music. National Crime History is a compilation curated by Belgian labels Silken Tofu and Idiosyncratics, both known for crossing borders and disregarding genre limitationsIt features Icon Template, Ripit, Onrust and Orphan Swords. The fact that these entities are now joining forces should come as no surprise. They have a long history together on many levels and now emerge as a collective that has been taking shape over the years. Double tape edition of 150 copies (incl download). Digital release available via https://silkentofu.bandcamp.com/album/national-crime-history" target -- ONRUST's electronic mindfuck is influenced by 80's rhythmic industrial, 90's underground techno and 00's psyched out drones & mantras. Active for now two years she has quicky become one of the most remarkable acts in the new Belgian industrial techno scene. After several releases on some notable Belgian labels, her first 12” vinyl ‘Luthuli/Tagore‘ was released in 2015 on Silken Tofu. ORPHAN SWORDS focus on massive beatmaking, throbbing industrial soundscapes and wild live action. Their music has been released on Instruments Of Discipline, Desire Records, Clan Destine, Idiosyncratics and +Nurse+. ICON TEMPLATE provides raw industrial hypnotism and mindblowing techno rhythms. It expresses a rebellion against the established order by instilling chaos and feed the conscious perceptions of its dark sides. After its first release on An Der Grenze in 2015, Icon template has performed in venues and festivals such as Bozar Electronic Art Festival (BEAF) or FUSE. RIPIT began his music career as a black metal guitar player. Yet he has quickly developed into a radical electronics act, unveiling noisy and psychedelic rhhythms based on primitive synthesizer use. Nowadays his music has complexified, tending to beat micro-surgery and orchestral bombast. He extensively uses modular synths, ol’time drum machines and no-input mixers to create dancy acid music, plunging the crowd into a magma of electric textures. -- Mastering by Nicolas Esterle at Ångström Mastering, Brussels Photography by Yannick Franck Design by Silken Tofu -- 2017 €13.00
Turritopsis Nutricula LP Tracklist A1 –Laurent Fairon Marée Nocturne A2 –Cody Brant & Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau FOKUOUKO 9000 A3 –Magnús Pálsson Forn A4 –Louis Jucker Cello St Medoc A5 –Paul Fuchs & Zoro Babel Artoxin B –Mama Bär 23XX / 23Xy LP in series Fluxus +/-, limited to 65 copies. LPs in black vinyl with black labels. 2018 €22.00
Die Rückkehr in Parallel-Meeseversum (2. Kepler-452b Pre-Sequel) LP Tracklist A1 –Frank Drake (2) Interstellar Radio Message Sent To Globular Star Cluster M13 From November 16th, 1974 A2 –Jürgen Schneider (5) & Softday RMXfallout A3 –Vrillon / Ashtar Galactic Command Message To Mankind From November 26th, 1977 A4 –Jonathan Meese DR. NOANGSTEA'S DORIAN Scarlettierbaby's Revolutions Parfum: DICTATORSHIP OF ART (Suessesuessesuesse, You (Mr. Majestickx On The Run Loganfox)) B1 –Kommissar Teotihuacán Und Die Gefiederte Schlangenfrau* fRagenta K'inich Janaahb' Pakal LP in the series FLUXUS +/-, limited to 74 copies, numbered. LP appears in black vinyl with black labels. Pair and impair copies appear with different backsides. Co-release with Edition Kepler-452b. Some copies appear with handmade changes for backside and/or frontside by Kommissar Hjuler, some copies are signed. 2018 €23.00
Strain, Crack & Break : Music from the Nurse With Wound List Vol. 1 (France) do-LP After years of mythology, misinterpretation and procrastination Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton finally chooses Finders Keepers Records as the ideal collaborators to release “the right tracks” from his uber-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List, commencing with a French specific Volume One of this authentically titled Strain Crack Break series. Featuring some Finders Keepers’ regulars amongst galactic Gallic rarities (previously presumed to be imaginary red herrings) this deluxe double vinyl dossier demystifies some of the essential French free jazz and Parisian prog inclusions from the alphabetical “dedication” inventory as printed the anti-bands 1979 industrial milestone debut. When Steven Stapleton, Heman Pathak and John Fothergill’s anti-band Nurse With Wound decided to include an alphabetical dedication to all their favourite bands on the back of their inaugural LP the notion of creating a future record dealers’ trophy list couldn’t have been further from their minds. By adding a list of untravelled European mythical musicians and noise makers to their own debut release of unchartered industrial art rock they were merely providing a suggestive support system of existing potential likeminded bands, establishing safety in numbers should anyone require sonic subtitles for Nurse With Wound’s own mutant musical language. Luckily for them, the record landed in record shops in the midst of 1979’s memorable summer of abject apathy and its sound became a hit amongst disillusioned agit-pop pickers and artsy post-punks, thus playing a key role in the bourgeoning “Industrial” genre that ensued. On the most part, however, the list , like most instruction manuals, remained unreadable, syntactic and suspiciously sarcastic… As potential “real musicians” Nurse WIth Wound became an Industrial music fan’s household name, but in contrast many of the names on The Nurse With Wound List were considered to be imaginary musicians, made-up bands or booby traps for hacks and smart-arses. It took a while for the rest of the record collecting community to catch on or finally catch up. Since then, many of the rare, obscure and unpronounceable genre-free records on The Nurse With Wound List have slowly found their own feet and stumbled in to the homes of open-minded outernational vinyl junkies, D’s and sample hungry producers, self-propelled and judged on their own merit, mostly without consultation of the enigmatic NWW map. But, to the inspective competitive collector’s chagrin, one resounding fact recurs, NWW got there first! via vinyl vacations, on cheap flights and Interrail tickets, buying bargain bin LPs on a shoestring while oblivious to the pending pension worthy price tags after their 40 year vintage, Stapleton and Fothergill, even if you’ve never heard of them, were at the bottom of the pit before “digging” became paydirt. And NOW at huge international record fairs that occur in massive exhibition halls (or within the confines of your one-touch palm pilot) amongst jive talk acronyms such as SS, PP, BIN, DNAP and BCWHES the coded letters NWW have begun to appear on stickers in the corner of original copies of the same premium progressive records accompanied by a customary 50% price hike to titillate/coerce the initiated as dealers extort the taught. Like “psych” “PINA” or “Krautrock” did before, “NWW” has become a buzzword and in the passed decades since its first publication The List has been mythologised, misunderstood and misconstrued. It’s also been overlooked, overestimated and under-appreciated in equal measures, but with a growing interest it has also come to represent a maligned genre in itself, something that all members of the original line-up would have deemed sacrilegious. Bolstered by the subtitle “Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden,” all bands on the inventory (many chosen on the strength of just one track alone) were chosen for their genre-defying qualities… A check-list for the uncharted. Forty years after Nurse With Wound’s first record, Finders Keepers Records, in close collaboration with Steve Stapleton remind fans of THIS kind of “lost” music, that there once existed a feint path which was worn away decades before major label pop property developers built over this psychedelic underground. As long-running fans and liberators of some of the same records, arriving at the same axis from different-but-the-same planets, Finders Keepers and Nurse WIth Wound finally sing from the same hymn sheet resulting in a collaborative attempt to officially, authentically and legally compile the best tracks from the list, succeeding where many overzealous nerds have deferred (or simply, got the wrong end of the stick). Naturally our lavish metallic gatefold double vinyl compendium would only scratch the surface of this DIY dossier of elongated punk-prog peculiarities hence out decision to release volume one in a series which, in accordance with Steve’s wishes, focuses exclusively on individual tracks of French origin, the country that unsurprisingly hosted the highest content of bands on the list. Comprising of musique concrète, free jazz, Rock In Opposition, Zeuhl School space rock, macabre ballet music, lo-fi sci-fi, and classic horror literature inspired prog, this first volume of the series entitled Strain Crack And Break throws us in at the deep end, where the Seine meets the in-sane, introducing the space cadets that found Mars in Marseilles. Like the Swedish flat-pack record shelves that attempt to house the vast amounts of vintage vinyl that goes into a multi-volume compilation like this, it is time to prepare your own musical penchants and preconceived ideas about DIY music and hear them slowly strain, crack and break. https://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/shop/strain-crack-break-nurse-with-wound/ 2019 €24.00
F/EAR THIS! BOOK + 2 x CD "F/Ear This!" was originally a double album compiled at the end of 1986 and released in 1987 by PEACE, a completely informal gathering of ziners, activists, musical groups and small Italian record labels which included Blu Bus (Franti, etc.), Particolare Music (Plasticost), Rockgarage, Trax (Vittore Baroni, Piermario Ciani, etc.), UT / Communications (Giacomo Spazio), Catfood Press (Marco Pandin) and Tunnel Records (Detonazione). Marco Pandin was responsible for collecting the material. The idea for the title was born from Vittore Baroni, who also assembled a 28-page A4 booklet using some of the graphic art sent to him by some of the various musicians participating to the compilation, and adding images taken from the Trax archives. "F/Ear This!" was released on vinyl and on cassette. All the proceeds were destined to support "A/Rivista Anarchica" anarchist magazine. "It was decided to not reveal the list of participants on the cover: this was not going to be a 'regular' compilation. The idea behind "F/Ear This!" was to put together - asking for help from friends musicians, graphic artists and poets scattered all around the planet - contributions connected, or somehow linkable, to a common theme: "fear". Fear was something we all lived and shared, like being poisoned and feeden black bread on a daily basis: let's do something then, let's protest, let's turn the volume up. We tried to spread the news and rally, to pass the word and share the sense of alarm. The work done then was digitally reproduced, respecting its integrity as much as possible. The audio was restored from the original reels and cassettes, and some tracks which were originally left out were added. The new layout includes a 48-page 8" booklet with original artworks and also some new works done for this edition. store.silentes.it/catalogue/sn202001.html 2020 €20.00
Made to Measure Vol. 1 LP Crammed's legendary MADE TO MEASURE Series of New Music was described at the time as the aural equivalent of a collection of art books. Charting a map of some of the most interesting instrumental music of the era, thirty-five albums came out between 1983 and 1995, including works by artists such as Hector Zazou, John Lurie (his soundtracks for the Jim Jarmusch films), Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Zelwer, Steven Brown, Peter Principle, Harold Budd, Brion Gysin, David Cunningham, Benjamin Lew, Ramuntcho Matta, Karl Biscuit, Daniel Schell, Aksak Maboul, Minimal Compact and more. The loose idea behind the title of the series was: this is music which has been or could have been "made to measure" as a soundtrack for other media (film, theatre, dance, video). We'll also be rolling out selected vinyl reissues of some of the series' classic early releases, starting with the inaugural volume, MADE TO MEASURE VOL. 1, the multi-artist album from 1984, containing music created by Minimal Compact, Benjamin Lew, Aksak Maboul and Tuxedomoon for films, theatre plays and dance performances. www.crammed.be/index.php?id=37&rel_id=514 2021 €18.00
Strain, Crack & Break Vol. 2 : Germany do-LP With his ongoing commitment to like-minded archivist label Finders Keepers Records, industrial music pioneer Steven Stapleton further entrusts us to lift the veil and expose “the right tracks” from his uber-legendary and oft misinterpreted psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List. Following the critically lauded first instalment and it’s exclusively French tracklisting both parties now combine their vinyl-vulturous penchants to bring you the next Strain Crack & Break edition which consists of twelve lesser-known German records that played a hugely important part in the initial foundations of the list which began to unfold when Stapleton was just thirteen-years-old. From the perspective of a schoolboy Amon Düül (ONE) victim, at the start of a journey that commenced before phrases like kosmische and the xeno-ignant Krautrock tag had become mag hack currency, this compendium is devoid of the tropes that united what many would accurately argue to be the greatest progressive pop bands in Europe (namely CAN, Neu! and Kraftwerk) and rather shatters the ingredients across a ground zero landscape for both inquisitive fans and socially rehabbing musos to begin to assemble a unique self-styled identity. If Krautrock was the music that journalist told us lurked behind schlager (German pop) in the 1970s, then this record includes the music that skulked behind Krautrock and perhaps refused to polish its backhanded name belt. Including lesser-known artists like the late Wolfgang Dauner whose career proceeded and outlived the kosmische movement while consistently informing and outsmarting ‘em whenever they got stuck in their metronomic ruts, or how about Fritz Müller, the man who was to Kraftwerk what Stuart Sutcliffe was to The Beatles but had more in common with Yoko and quite rightly couldn’t give a shit about the Fab Four’s Hamburg roots. Elsewhere we have a plethora of German bands made for German audiences as they try and shed second hand flower power Americanisms and feel the benefits of much harder drugs and the realisations of difficult second album budgets while Kommune 1 newsflashes wipe smiles from everybody’s faces and replace them with opioid chic or acid-sarcastic grins. Bonzo Cockettes show us their Big Muffs and drummers ask for extra mics while Conny Plank goes for parliamentary office and gives babies good firm hand shakes for the camera. Strain Crack & Break Volume Two is the sound of Steve Stapleton’s sponge-like mind and the dividends of anyone who was brave enough to even peek inside those brick-thick gatefold covers never mind drop the needle, with tracks by Mr. and Mrs. Fuchs (aka Anima-Sound) who played their instruments completely naked throughout their anti-career alongside previously unpressed tracks by the scene’s leading Detroit-born African American drummer Fred Braceful who’s band Exmagma officially had the coolest record sleeves and track titles of ALL TIME (Torpedo Tits? Yes Please!). From an era where it was embarrassing to go into your local record shop and hum the tune over the counter, well that young lad Steve Stapleton was braver than that, and besides, these tracks are unhummable and at times unutterable. Did somebody in the crowd shout out for Joel Vandroogenbroeck! Good luck with that one. Stapleton is sharing. Even Stevens. Over forty years since Nurse With Wound’s first album was released, Finders Keepers Records and Steve Stapleton take connoisseurs of OUR kind of music, back to the disused elevator shaft towards ground zero. Arrriving at the same checkout from different departments, Finders Keepers and Nurse With Wound continue to sing from the same hymnal with this ongoing collaborative attempt to officially, authentically and legally compile the best tracks from Steve’s list, where many overzealous nerds have faltered (or simply, got the wrong end of the stick). After Strain Crack & Break Volume One merely scratched the surface of this DIY dossier of elongated punk-prog peculiarities, our second lavish metallic gatefold double vinyl compendium drives a much deeper groove, which, in accordance with Steve’s wishes, focusses exclusively on individual tracks of German origin - the country whose music forged the prototype of the NWW inventory in the form of his secondary school vinyl want-list in the early 1970s. Comprising of disassembled free jazz, unshowered stoner psych, hypnotic prog, deranged monk funk and fuzzed out Deutschmark bin bonzo beats this second volume of the series throws us straight back in the deep end, putting the Bad in Baden and the odour in The Oder with little need for cheap Cologne. Willkommen to another forgotten plateau found beneath the psychedelic underground, as Steve Stapleton and Finders Keepers dig new tunnels through the fabric of your vinyl wish-list, these German records are heavy, so find Solid Ground or watch you floorboards Strain Crack & Break before your bloody ears. https://finderskeepersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/strain-crack-break-music-from-the-nurse-with-wound-list-volume-two-germany 2021 €27.50
Sintomas de Techno: Ondas Electronicas Subterraneas Desde Peru LP Síntomas de techno : Ondas electrónicas subterráneas desde Perú (1985​-​1991) Symptoms of techno: Underground electronic waves from Peru (1985-1991) This compilation presents for the first time various underground techno groups and projects that emerged in Lima in the mid-1980s. Projects such as Disidentes, Paisaje Electrónico, T de Cobre, Meine Katze Und Ich, El Sueño de Alí, Cuerpos del Deseo, Círculo Interior, Ensamble and Reacción were responsible for introducing styles such as techno-pop, EBM, industrial and minimal synth in Peru. Coinciding with the explosion of punk in Lima and the appearance of the so-called Rock Subterráneo [underground rock], these techno groups shared the same DIY spirit, performing in many punk concerts and even creating their own fanzines, and, above all, opening a space for other types of sonic experiences. Meine Katze Und Ich, El Sueño de Alí and Paisaje Electrónico were also the parallel projects of the members of Narcosis, the iconic punk band, one of the founders of Rock Subterráneo. Disidentes and T de Cobre brought extreme sounds to local electronics: viscerality, mechanical rhythms and the use of Casiotones or synthesizers, which resulted in an atypical sound that, in turn, portrayed a critical time in Peru, and which has made them an unavoidable reference for any historical account of techno and industrial music in Latin America. The title of this compilation is inspired by the name of a concert held in Lima in 1991, considered to be the first techno concert to have taken place in Peru. Even though not all intervening groups were doing techno at that time, they did share the fact that they all used keyboards. Four of them, however (Cuerpos del Deseo, Ensamble, Círculo Interior and Reacción), were in fact affiliated to an electronic sound (techno-pop, EBM). The concert was a sign of the diversification of musical styles in Lima's alternative scene, and in particular of the emergence of a micro scene, for which the concert Síntomas de techno [Symptoms of Techno] represented an important step towards the development of a local culture of electronic music during the 90s. Many of the recordings included here are extracted from demos with limited circulation, practically impossible to find. Other tracks are unpublished pieces which come from the private archives of the artists themselves. The compilation has been made by Luis Alvarado and is part of the Essential Sounds Collection, with which Buh Records is making available a vast archive of avant-garde Peruvian music. This compilation is published in vinyl format in a limited edition of 300 copies, with extensive information and visual documentation. Mastered by Alberto Cendra. Art by René Sánchez. Cover photography by Rogelio Martell. This project was awarded with funding from the Economic Stimuli program of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. Limited edition of 500 copies, booklet with extensive information in spanish and english, and visual documentation https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s-ntomas-de-techno-ondas-electr-nicas-subterr-neas-desde-per-1985-1991-essential-sounds-collection 2022 €25.00
LA MATERIA VERBAL - Antologia De La Poesia Sonora Peruana LP La Materia Verbal - Antología de la Poesía Sonora Peruana The Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry This compilation brings together 22 sound poems, including both pioneering and current pieces, and constitutes itself as the first great overview of sound poetry from Peru. It continues a cycle that began in 2009 with the appearance of a CD called Inventar la voz: Nuevas tradiciones orales [To Invent the Voice: New Oral Traditions] and was followed up in 2011 with another one called Irse de lengua [To Let It Slip], both of which contributed to articulate diverse manifestations of poetry that used technological means, also in the context of intense activity in the local scenes of experimental music and sound art that opened spaces for interdisciplinary dialogues. What we know as sound poetry is the product of a technological revolution associated with the appearance of various means of recording, transmission and amplification of the voice. A long process that took shape in the 20th century, until it became a discipline, articulated as an international movement which, based on phonetic research, expanded into a universe of oral/vocal artistic practices as part of a new technological context. The recordings gathered here comprise a time frame that goes from 1972 to 2021. We find poems that work with montage techniques, either because they explore simultaneity or juxtaposition, such as those by Mario Montalbetti, Frido Martín, Florentino Díaz, Carlos Estela, Luisa Fernanda Lindo, Macri Cáceres, Rodrigo Vera Cubas, Tilsa Otta, Giancarlo Huapaya/Omar Córdova, Virginia Benavides, Lisa Carrasco and Luis Alvarado. Others emphasize vocal/oral performance: we find the phonetic poems of Carlos Germán Belli and Eduardo Chirinos, as well as the concrete conceptual poems of Michael Prado, Sandra Suazo, Peru Saizprez, and the oral/guttural poem of Omar Aramayo. Finally, we find another group of pieces where the poem starts with the creation of a computational parameter or algorithm, as is the case with the pieces by Jorge Eduardo Eielson and Enrique Verástegui, eventually reaching the use of Artificial Intelligence as in the poems by Francisco Mariotti and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado. The Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry is part of a series produced by Buh Records for Centro del Sonido, a website set up as a digital archive of Peruvian experimental music and sound art. The compilation has been made by Luis Alvarado and is published in a limited edition of 300 copies in vinyl format. It includes extensive notes and visual documentation. Mastered by Alberto Cendra. Art by René Sánchez. This project was awarded with funding from the Economic Stimuli program of the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. ------------------- THE VERBAL MATTER AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERUVIAN SOUND POETRY It is difficult to imagine today\'s world without thinking about the influence that inventions such as the phonograph, the gramophone, the radio, the telephone or the microphone have exerted on the fields of culture, communications and human relations since their appearance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the activities that are part of our daily life originated in that auditory revolution and in those that came after: from the appearance of tape recorders and personal players, to the infinity of resources that the socialization of the digital revolution brought about. Today these technologies are available to anyone. We all carry a cell phone, a device that can record, reproduce, store and transmit sounds. What we know as sound poetry is the product of that technological revolution. A long process that took shape in the 20th century, until it became a discipline, articulated as an international movement, which, based on phonetic research, expanded into a universe of oral/vocal artistic practices as part of a new technological context. As a live and performative act, sound poetry has admitted multiple resources: accompaniment with video or dance, the use of live electronic techniques, multichannel systems, improvisation techniques, repetitions, mantras, solo or group actions, of simultaneous voices using samplers, loops, as well as texts, instructions or scores, among others. We are going to refer here, however, only to what constitutes sound poetry as a recorded piece. And in that sense, what distinguishes many works of sound poetry is that they make use of editing. Sound poetry, like cinema or radio art, is an art of montage, juxtaposition, concatenation, sound planes, that uses many resources from concrete music as well as from various digital processing techniques. But sound poetry is also an art of recording: it is therefore a performance of the voice, alone or electronically processed, before a microphone and a before a recording device. Like the songs we hear on the radio or any streaming platform, sound poetry is stored as a phonogram. Sound poetry also encompasses sound organization systems, from the design and control of parameters to complex computational processes with algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, working therefore in an area related to various methods of composition of contemporary or electronic music. The Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry is an album that continues a cycle that began in 2009 with the appearance of a CD called Inventar la voz: Nuevas tradiciones orales [To Invent the Voice: New Oral Traditions] and was followed up in 2011 with another one called Irse de lengua [To Let It Slip], both of which contributed to articulate diverse manifestations of poetry that used technological means, also in the context of intense activity in the local scenes of experimental music and sound art that opened spaces for interdisciplinary dialogues. The present compilation brings together 22 sound poems, including both pioneering and current pieces, and constitutes itself as the first great overview of sound poetry from Peru. We find poems that work with montage techniques, either because they explore simultaneity or juxtaposition, such as those by Mario Montalbetti, Frido Martín, Florentino Díaz, Carlos Estela, Luisa Fernanda Lindo, Macri Cáceres, Rodrigo Vera Cubas, Tilsa Otta, Giancarlo Huapaya/Omar Córdova, Virginia Benavides, Lisa Carrasco and Luis Alvarado. Others emphasize vocal/oral performance: we find the phonetic poems of Carlos Germán Belli and Eduardo Chirinos, as well as the concrete conceptual poems of Michael Prado, Sandra Suazo, Peru Saizprez, and the oral/guttural poem of Omar Aramayo. Finally, we find another group of pieces, where the poem starts with the creation of a computational parameter or algorithm, as is the case with the pieces by Jorge Eduardo Eielson or Enrique Verástegui, eventually reaching the use of Artificial Intelligence as in the poems by Francisco Mariotti and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado. It is important to mention that Peru is a country with a great oral tradition, especially in the Andean and Amazon regions. It is also a country with a great linguistic diversity, 47 languages, many of them spoken in indigenous communities with little population, and running the risk of disappearing. This makes the implementation and systematization of recording technologies essential, urgent for the creation of oral history or spoken word archives. There are several projects underway, but there also remains much to be done. We can also find there a key to understand the process of sound poetry in our country, insofar as its origins, practice and development are related to how well established is an archive culture of our spoken word. Going back in time, in 1892 the Peruvian poet Carlos Germán Amézaga published a poem called “The phonograph”, which was recorded with the first phonograph that arrived in Lima. There we could read these verses: “The heart does not preserve harmonies / As the cylinder does... / Its sorrows and joys are erased / Everything in the heart, everything goes away!” [“No guarda el corazón las armonías / Como el cilindro aquel los guardará…/ Bórranse sus pesares y alegrías / Todo en el corazón, todo se va!”]. The cylinder mentioned by Amézaga is the recording medium of the phonograph. The poet describes the power of the machine to record sound, which he opposes to to oblivion as a human condition. The phonograph was undoubtedly an important tool for the development of ethnographic research and the preservation of oral tradition. In this sense, the great Peruvian writer, José María Arguedas, saw in the recording device and in radio broadcasting, important means for the preservation of folklore and endangered oral traditions. Arguedas has often been described as a man glued to a tape recorder, given his work as a compiler. Among the many recordings he made, in addition to Andean songs, there is a long and intense hymn poem of his authorship titled “Tupac Amaru kamaq taytanchisman” (“I sing to our father Tupac Amaru”) (1962), in Quechua and Spanish, published as a written poem, but also recorded in an oral version intended to be broadcast on radio, a medium that could potentially reach various remote villages on the mountains. In the poem Arguedas made a vindication of Andean culture, and established a communication between the chief god, son of the serpent, and the Andean people, in communion with their land, their animals, their landscape. \"Listen to the vibration of my body\" [Escucha la vibración de mi cuerpo], the poet is heard saying, perhaps seeking to reveal that spectrum of emotion which defines the orality of the poem. Due to its length, Arguedas took advantage of the recording machine to pause and then resume his declamation. If we listen carefully, we will be able to perceive the stop and start of the tape, and hear the renewed voice of Arguedas reappearing from time to time. The art of recording offers those possibilities. Towards the mid-70s Jorge Eduardo Eielson defined as “audio-paintings” [audiopinturas] or “verbal structures” [estructuras verbales] a form of vocal poetry that consisted of pieces presented as schemes, permutations and rhythms, whose intonation qualities opened an interstice between poetry and music. They were unique vocal performances that were recorded on tape and that constitute the earliest antecedent of a form of sound poetry produced by a Peruvian poet. The Verbal Matter is a sample of various moments in which Peruvian poetry has led to forms of oral/vocal art, based on an awareness of the poem as a way to start other chains of meaning in language. Sound poetry has been a way to bring the sounds of speech, the poet\'s own voice, to a stripped, dislocated area, where the poem emerges from that tension between sound and meaning. These are culminating moments or extreme moments, and therefore also insular moments, an inquiry into the border with that purely auditory dimension, mediated by new technological devices, where the poem takes shape in the air, is amplified and electrified. https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-materia-verbal-antolog-a-de-la-poes-a-sonora-peruana 2022 €25.00
  Territorio del Eco : Experimentalismos y Visiones de Lo Ancestral En El Perú (1975-1989) LP Territorio del eco: experimentalismos y visiones de lo ancestral en el Perú (1975-1989) The Land of Echo: Experimentalisms and Visions of the Ancestral in Peru (1975-1989) First compilation brings together the Peruvian experimental scene from 1975 to 1989, a period was the most prolific for a generation of Peruvian artists who, based on musical conceptions derived from modern jazz and techniques inherited from avant-garde music, sought to integrate the sounds of Andean, Afro-Peruvian and Amazonian cultures in search of a new musical universe. Native instruments and folk melodies were used in compositions that demanded modern recording techniques and electronic sounds. This generation was articulated in Lima and was made up of musicians such as Omar Aramayo, Manongo Mujica, Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, Miguel Flores (Ave Acústica), Douglas Tarnawiecki (Espíritus), Luis David Aguilar, Chocolate Algendones and Corina Bartra. But more than a movement, it was a set of individuals from dissimilar origins, who came from rock, jazz, contemporary classical and popular music, but also from the visual arts and poetry, and who had in common the cultural climate of the late seventies and early eighties in a country marked by a series of social and economic transformations, as well as the emergence of new visions and insertions of Andean culture and folklore in the city. The appearance of a mythical substrate connected the work of these musicians and defined an aesthetic, based on the deconstruction of folklore and the exploration of the possibilities that indigenous instruments offered. And from there they could go towards abstract, symbolic and conceptual forms, but also towards more melodic forms, with a strong influence of jazz, while also taking advantage of electronics and the possibilities of the recording studio. Territorio del eco: experimentalismos y visiones de lo ancestral en el Perú (1975-1989) - The Land of Echo: Experimentalisms and Visions of the Ancestral in Peru (1975-1989) - is a compilation that offers an overview of what was one of the moments of greatest creative intensity for experimental music in Peru in its encounter with indigenous sounds. Rescued from private archives and limited editions on cassette, these pieces are reissued for the first time in vinyl LP format. The album includes extensive notes written by Luis Alvarado, author of the compilation, as well as much visual documentation. Cover art by Paloma Pizarro. Beneficiary project of the Economic Stimuli for Culture 2020 of the Ministry of Culture of Peru. -------------------- Primera compilación reúne la escena experimental peruana desde 1975 a 1989, período que fue el más prolífico para una generación de artistas peruanos que a partir de concepciones musicales derivadas del jazz moderno y de las técnicas heredadas de la música de vanguardia, buscaron integrar los sonidos de la tradición andina, afroperuana y amazónica en búsqueda de un nuevo universo musical. Instrumentos nativos y melodías del folclore fueron empleadas en composiciones que demandaron de novedosas técnicas de grabación y de sonidos electrónicos. Esta generación que se articuló en Lima, la conformaron músicos como Omar Aramayo, Manongo Mujica, Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, Miguel Flores (Ave Acústica), Douglas Tarnawiecki (Espíritus), Luis David Aguilar, Chocolate Algendones y Corina Bartra. Pero más que un movimiento se trató de un conjunto de individualidades de procedencias disimiles, que venían tanto del rock, como del jazz, de la música clásica contemporánea, y popular, pero también de las artes visuales y la poesía, y que tuvieron en común un clima cultural como fue el de ese tránsito de los 70s a los 80s en un Perú marcado por una serie de transformaciones sociales y económicas, y de la aparición de nuevas visiones e inserciones de lo andino y el folclore en la urbe. La aparición de un sustrato mítico emparentó el trabajo de estos músicos y definió una estética, basada en la deconstrucción de lo folclórico y en la exploración de las posibilidades que los instrumentos nativos ofrecían para a partir de allí ir hacia formas abstractas, simbólicas y conceptuales, pero también hacia formas más melódicas, de marcada influencia jazzística y con un aprovechamiento de la electrónica y del estudio de grabación. “Territorio del eco: Experimentalismos y visiones de lo ancestral en el Perú (1975-1989)” es una compilación que ofrece un panorama de lo que fue uno de los momentos de mayor intensidad creativa para la música experimental en Perú en su encuentro con las sonoridades nativas. Rescatadas de archivos privados y tirajes limitados en casete, por primera vez se reeditan en formato de vinilo LP. El álbum incluye amplias notas escritas por Luis Alvarado, autor de la compilación, así como mucha documentación visual. Arte de tapa por Paloma Pizarro. Proyecto beneficiario de los Estímulos Económicos para la Cultura 2020 del Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/territorio-del-eco-experimentalismos-y-visiones-de-lo-ancestral-en-el-per-1975-1989-essential-sounds-collection 2021 €23.00
VAINIO, MIKA / PAN SONIC Lydspor One & Two LP "2015 wurde das ,Moog Sound Lab UK" gegründet, ein offenes Studio von Moog Music, in dem neue elektronische Musik erschaffen wird und das zum Anlass des zehnten Todestag des Moog-Erfinders Dr. Robert Moog eröffnet wurde. Das mobile Studio wurde Moog Inc. designt und dreht sich um eins der seltensten Instrumente, die 2014er Version des legendären System 55 aus den sechziger Jahren - die Stradivari der modularen Synthesizer. Neben dem System 55 tummeln sich im Sound Lab auch noch komplett austauschbare Racks mit den neuesten Moog Instrumenten und Prozessore mit Moog Keyboard Synths und einem Vintage Taurus Bass Synthesizer. Mika Vainio kehrte im April 2015 im Moog Sound Lab ein. Er nahm seine letzten bekannten Solo-Studioaufnahmen in der Form von zwei langen Stücken auf, die genau auf eine Schallplatte passen und die er ,Lydspor" - Dänisch für ,Soundtrack" - taufte. Vainio arbeitete fast nur mit dem System 55. Als er fertig war, sagte er: ,Ich könnte für den Rest meines Lebens mit dieser Maschine arbeiten und würde nichts anderes mehr brauchen." Ursprünglich war eine weitere Moog Session geplant, doch tragischerweise starb Mika Vainio bei einem Unfall im April 2017, kurz nachdem er das Vinylmaster freigegeben hatte. " 2018 €20.00
  Lydspor One & Two CD 2015 wurde das ,Moog Sound Lab UK" gegründet, ein offenes Studio von Moog Music, in dem neue elektronische Musik erschaffen wird und das zum Anlass des zehnten Todestag des Moog-Erfinders Dr. Robert Moog eröffnet wurde. Das mobile Studio wurde Moog Inc. designt und dreht sich um eins der seltensten Instrumente, die 2014er Version des legendären System 55 aus den sechziger Jahren - die Stradivari der modularen Synthesizer. Neben dem System 55 tummeln sich im Sound Lab auch noch komplett austauschbare Racks mit den neuesten Moog Instrumenten und Prozessore mit Moog Keyboard Synths und einem Vintage Taurus Bass Synthesizer. Mika Vainio kehrte im April 2015 im Moog Sound Lab ein. Er nahm seine letzten bekannten Solo-Studioaufnahmen in der Form von zwei langen Stücken auf, die genau auf eine Schallplatte passen und die er ,Lydspor" - Dänisch für ,Soundtrack" - taufte. Vainio arbeitete fast nur mit dem System 55. Als er fertig war, sagte er: ,Ich könnte für den Rest meines Lebens mit dieser Maschine arbeiten und würde nichts anderes mehr brauchen." Ursprünglich war eine weitere Moog Session geplant, doch tragischerweise starb Mika Vainio bei einem Unfall im April 2017, kurz nachdem er das Vinylmaster freigegeben hatte. 2018 €14.00
VAN DER VLEUTEN, MAARTEN High Intolerance toward low Energies LP "Van Der Vleuten, 1967 geboren, veröffentlicht mit der "High Intolerance Towards Low Energies" LP sein erstes Album unter seinem Geburtsnamen, den er fortan für seinen musikalischen Output verwenden will. "High Intolerance Towards Low Energies" ist eine von Tonefloat sehr ansprechend gestaltete LP, limitiert auf 500 Exemplare, und auf 180g Vinyl gepresst. Das luxuriöse Gatefold Cover mit einem eher rostig anmutenden Artwork trifft gut den submarinen Charakter des Albums: Man meint von der Wasseroberfläche des Meeres langsam abzutauchen, Druck baut sich auf, je tiefer man sinkt. Dröhnen in den Ohren und plötzlich sieht man in der Tiefe ein altes, mächtiges Schiffswrack auf dem Grund liegen. Der Rost zeigt, dass es da schon gar Jahrhunderte liegt. Neugierig und interessiert umkreist man es, aber irgendetwas scheint nicht zu stimmen. Flüstern und Murmeln, wabernde Stimmen und rhythmisches, maschinelles Stampfen. Nervöse, pulsierende Bass- Frequenzen und seltsame, gebrochene Melodiefetzen. Halluzinationen? Tiefenrausch? Man weiß es nicht. Maarten Van Der Vleuten gelingt es auf "High Intolerance Towards Low Energies" ein eigentümlich dichtes Gewirr aus Drohnen und Ambiancen zu schaffen, das in seiner Gesamtheit zu überzeugen weiß. Dass Van Der Vleuten mit dieser LP ein anderes Bild im Kopf hatte als mein submariner Eindruck, ist nicht weiter schlimm. Er legt den Fokus der Interpretation eher auf eine radikale Darstellung unserer sich immer schneller beschleunigenden Umwelt und will diesen Eindruck mit "High Intolerance Towards Low Energies" eingefangen haben. Diese Intention passt auch wunderbar zu dem unruhigen, fast bedrohlich wirkenden Charakter des Albums. Die enthaltenen 4 Stücke offenbaren eine nervöse Welt in der man entweder immer wieder ob der Bildhaftigkeit paralysiert und staunend stehen bleibt oder eben wie im Fieberwahn durch einen Irrgarten voller unruhiger, fremder Stimmen stolpert." [Creative-Eclipse] "Amidst an infinite ocean of information, finding yourself is turning into a complex mission nowadays. On his latest full-length, ambient house pioneer Maarten van der Vleuten is returning to the memories of demolished Dutch monastery Regina Coeli, his head still spinning from the confounding excess of images and impressions. on his long and winding journey, he has come a long way from his early dance singles to being recognised as a widely respected, colourfully uncompromising personality. High intolerance towards low energies, pressed in a limited edition of 500 copies in a luxurious gatefold sleeve, has consciously been conceived as a radical representation of our rapidly accellerating environment: nervously pulsating bass frequencies and frenzied percussion are underpinning shattered sonic figments like the ground drone of a surreal urban raga, with shardes of song and prayer forming broken melodies. Finding his way through this menacing maze has certainly paid off for van der Vleuten: after releasing under 26 different pseudonyms over the last two decades, he has found his definitive musical identity on this haunting soundscape, with future works to be published exclusively under his common name. The album is pressed as a 180 grams black vinyl lp in heavy gatefold picture sleeve." [label info] www.tonefloat.com 2008 €16.50
VAN WISSEM, JOZEF / SQÜRL Only Lovers left Alive (OST) do-LP "Soundtrack for the critically acclaimed Jim Jarmusch film Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton. The score for Only Lovers Left Alive - a collaboration between SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch, Carter Logan and Shane Stoneback) and Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem - serves as a reflection of the distinct textures of Detroit and Tangier, bridging ancient and modern sounds, entangled and timeless. Avant-Baroque lute weaves through twenty-first century guitar grit, heavy back beats, Moroccan percussion, synth bass, field recordings, and numerous sonic effects to create a cinematic tapestry. Guest vocalist Madeline Follin (Cults) appears on SQÜRL's syrup soaked re-interpretation of the Wanda Jackson hit "Funnel of Love". Zola Jesus' commanding vocal soars through Van Wissem's "In Templum Dei". And Yasmine Hamdan's intimate and evocative "Hal", recorded on the set of the film and mixed by SQÜRL. The film and soundtrack album were released worldwide in 2014, and quickly earned the group the Cannes Soundtrack Award from a consortium of film and music critics. In the years that have followed it has remained a favorite of critics and fans alike, who have continued to hunt down the limited vinyl copies in existence." https://squrlnyc.bandcamp.com/album/only-lovers-left-alive-original-motion-picture-soundtrack 2021 €29.50
VANCE ORCHESTRA Hot Water Music (SOLD OUT) 7inch "This outfit comes from Arnhem, Netherlands, where they started to confuse the listeners with a mixture of strange loops and unexpected sounds in 1995. Their first 7" with two tracks presents electronic soundsources, effected field recordings and samples which are combined for an intelligent, atmospheric & suspenseful acoustical ride. Orange vinyl, beautiful coverartwork, each one is unique!!" [Drone Rec. May 1998] 1998  
VELEZ, DAVID Sonido Descompuesto CD “On January of 2011 I visited “Las Margaritas” a farm where my aunt and uncle have a country house, crops and some cattle too. The land is located between the towns of Briceño and Zipaquira and for a few days I stayed there and dedicated mostly to capture sounds. The diversity of objects and landscapes there was incredible rich: the river Neusa passes near by so there is water running everywhere acquiring different sonorities through different points. They were also farmers playing acoustic guitar and old vinyls being played in the house. The different agricultural activities, the animals, the chimney’s combustion, the bugs, the old tractors, the construction work around the farm, the many wind mobiles, they all had beautiful sonorities. There is also a forest close to the farm filled with what seemed like phosphorescent moss: the space is obscured by the many trees but a “green” light comes off the floor: the place was particularly silent and quiet sounding. Overall I just had incredible sounds everywhere and plenty of time to record them. With the sounds captured I first worked on a an improvisational piece (#0) that later would be edited (#1). Then I composed a series of short fragments (a, b, c, d). #1 was then put together with a, b, c, d on a second edit (#2). The second edit was then split into small fragments (#2/8) and rearranged intuitively (#3). #3 is “Sonido descompuesto” (Decomposed sound).” (David Velez) www.unfathomless.net 2012 €14.00
VELIOTIS, NIKOS & XAVIER CHARLES Kaspian Black LP "Kaspian Black create sonic landscapes that balance between extremes of uninhibited 'cacophony' and painstakingly detailed exploration of static floating sounds, powerful attacks and serene atmospheres. Kaspian Black is Xavier Charles [clarinet] & Nikos Veliotis [cello] Nikos Veliotis - After an initial involvement in the Athens pop/electronic scene during the late 80s as a founding member of In Trance 95, Veliotis later turned to the experimental field (working primarily with cello & video). Since the late 90s he has pushed the boundaries of sound and image using unorthodox cello techniques,silence and multilateral abstract visuals. Collaborations include Cranc (with Rhodri & Angharad Davies), Looper (with Martin Kuchen & Ingar Zach) and Mohammad (with ILIOS & Coti K., and released on PAN records). Xavier Charles is an active clarinetist in the world of improvised music, known from a variety of constellations and ensembles like ‘Dans les arbres’ and ‘Contest of Pleasures’. Currently his musical research ranges from performance on the clarinet and bass to the installation of vibrating speakers, at the edge of improvised music, noise and electro-acoustic sound. He is further involved in the music world as an organizer of the fesival Densités (FR). in heavy silk screened sleeve. ltd to 250 copies" [label info] www.altvinyl.com 2015 €19.50
VERNON & BURNS MEETS LIED MUSIC Lost Lake LP Lost Lake sees the return of the collaborative project between sound art duo Vernon &: Burns (Mark Vernon and Barry Burns) and Lied Music (Luke Fowler and John W Fail). It is a sequel to the long-sold out LP Lied Music vs.Boy-Band Tax Returns (released on Ultra Eczema, 2006). This LP merges musique concrète compositional approaches with absurdist improvisational strategies. The four artists met in Glasgow where they recorded a series of sporadic improvised sessions using a diverse array of sound-making instruments (amplified toys and objects, guitar, analogue synths, percussion, squeeze box, field recordings and found tapes). Improvised sessions from 2008 were subsequently manipulated, tortured and caressed, both individually and collectively, into a series of highly idiosyncratic song-forms and sound collages. https://vernonandburns.bandcamp.com/album/lost-lake "The latest entry in the Vernon & Burns catalogue sees this Glasgow duo teaming up with Lied Music, the duo of Luke Fowler and John W. Fail. Lost Lake (SHADAZZ SHA.11) is one of the stranger and darker emissions from these talented creatives, particularly if you care to compare it with the sometimes more playful assemblages of V&B, or the deliciously offbeat melodic avant-pop tunes created by Fowler as part of Rude Pravo. At first spin the record is a near-bewildering toasted-cheese sandwich, a concoction which contains at least a zillion ideas apparently thrown together any which way. Faced with such an array, discerning avant-LP listeners may want to reach for The Faust Tapes as one touchstone, but another credible precedent is the unearthly Bladder Flask LP 1, that ne plus ultra of cut-up sound art put together by a teenaged Richard Rupenus as if possessed by some fevered desire to surpass the worst excesses of the lunatic fringe end of the United Dairies catalogue. But the Bladder Flask release had the underlying sinister aim of sending all those who heard it mad, through highlighting the complete absurdity and futility of everything. Lost Lake has a more benign mission, thankfully. The album has been very carefully crafted, using sets of recorded improvisation sessions produced by the four players, aiming to resculpt the near-chaos of that source material into a coherent structure. Within that structure, fractured songs and equally fractured stories emerge; yes, a scrambled form of a radio listening or cinematic experience, which is an effect Vernon & Burns have striven for with a good deal of their work (and have produced many items expressly in radiophonic mode). As to the cinematic, Fowler is also a film-maker. There is a logic to this scheme, but it is hard to follow and weaves its way around in a highly secretive and intuitive fashion, like an errant underground stream full of eccentric fish and darting river-insects stained in unnatural colours. We could account for some of this quirkiness by pointing out that all four creators were involved in the refashioning process, rather than a single editorial hand behind the editing knife; one can imagine the clashing dynamism generated by four powerful personalities, each of them bending the path of events in their favour. Additionally, the source material itself was not exactly straightforward music to begin with, but created using the now-virtually-standard set-up of the modern improviser, that is amplified instruments, toys, found tapes, field recordings, and live electronics. From this rich stew, voices and tunes emerge from amid a varispeeded and highly layered humid aggregation of extremely strange sounds. And yes, like the Rupenus LP, it is quite absurdist, but I like to think it’s a fun and cartoony absurdity, rather than bleak and Beckett-like. That said, this aural bric-a-brac crawls out from a dark attic of the mind, and is as much an unsettling listen as it is entertaining. Corin Sworn’s cover art encodes all the above information quite perfectly. Using collage technique (naturally), it depicts a figure sitting on a sofa surrounded by hideously “tasteful” drapes and furnishings. This image of bourgeois normality is thoroughly disrupted by replacing the outline of the figure with fragments of urban horror and machinery, then further scrambling the visual schema with concentric rings and diagonal bars, suggesting the power of the aural emanations on the record. The album is, we are told, a sequel to a 2006 release called Lied Music vs Boy-Band Tax Returns, which we reviewed in our Vinyl Viands issue." [Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector online, December 15, 2012] 2011 €16.00
VERNUSKY, MIKE Aatma LP "Aatma is the re-imagining of my recent journey into Mumbai through sound, place, and moment with a Nagra SD recorder. The work was composed immediately upon my return while these things were, in a very real sense, still resonating in my mind. Part 1 is the arrival. Echoes of the shanka can be heard from a distant past across the Arabian Sea, as waves wash debris ashore and push you deep into the tumult of the city. Here you may experience the current of life and ride old trains into spectral shadows of obscure & eccentric Bollywood and devotional vinyl records from a local music boutique. Part 2 is a precarious walk across the narrow causeway leading to Haji Ali Dargah, a 600-year-old mosque only accessible at low tide. It is difficult to reach the mosque without being taken aback by the disparate forms of life unfolding on the way in, both in the sky and on foot as can be heard here. Part 3, the final section, is a departure from the hustle of the city altogether. This section delves into the droning, colorful, and percussive instruments with their richly complex and evolving timbres. It culminates in a return to daily shanty life on the beach accompanied by transistor radios blasting modern bollywood music. Aatma is a tribute to Mumbai’s wonderful people and culture, and in the hope of representing different and altered states of listening, living, and celebrating. I hope you find this journey as inspiring as it was for me." [Mike Vernusky] Music and field recordings by Mike Vernusky Mastering and additional tempura by Cory Allen Design by Noopur Choksi Photography by James David Smith Kind logistical support by Bhanuj Kappal, Damian O'Riain & Jay Kumar Singh. Special thanks to Manuella Blackburn and illapfest UK. Bollywood vinyl courtesy of Pilak Bhatt of MusicCircle. https://fernsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/aatma 2021 €18.00
VERTONEN Return of the Interrobang CD VERTONEN gehört mittlerweile zu den interessantesten US–Elektro-Geräuschmusikern, tönt stets abwechslungsreich und überraschend. So auch hier, ein übergreifendes „Thema“ sind repetitive Klangstrukturen..... so gibt es ein langes welliges Drone-Stück, welches sich gut entwickelt; pumpende Sinustöne- und Gameboy-artige Sounds beim nächsten, repetitive Orgel-artige Loopmuster, Samples von lockerer Piano-Barmusik, etc. etc. “Produced with support from a CAAP grant, this disc highlights three aspects of experimental audio I have been exploring over the past years: deep drone washes, throbbing, lurching activities, and manipulated turntables/vinyl.” [Vertonen] “Have seen a lot of Vertonen shows here in Chicago, bumped across a comp track or two, heard him on the radio twice, but this is surprisingly the first time I've sat down at home with a Vertonen release. So far the live stuff has come across as great loud deep-flow crash-sizzle, often with a nasty beat orientation wrecking through it, but on wax it's been unpredictable, softer but somehow heavier--and Return of the Interrobang surprises me further with deep glacial industrial dare-I-say-mellow textures. First track is a rather gorgeous and fairly soft (but thick) drone, not completely unlike something you'd hear from Birchville Cat Motel.... Great tones, glowing embers with doom undercurrents, packed with a sci-fi title: "Toroidal Circulation 1 & 2." (Never mind, I just looked it up and it's a science fact title.) Second track comes in with a hard beat, your basic urban alarm siren drill kind of thing, with mysterious sounds floating in the background, and it's pretty heavy, but ends up the most 'typical' track on the CD, because the remaining three, a trilogy called "The Medical Turntable Variations," are just lovely little subtle stumbling loop miniatures. I mean, sure, you can infer a creepy entropic 'broken machine' connotation with all three tracks, and the title of the third part, "Deplete To Ruination, The Wide Shift," is of course something scary to contemplate, and topical too: the ostensibly approaching era where dystopian science fiction becomes dystopian science fact. (There's that "it's not science fiction, it's science fact" thing again, he's good with that.) Possibly the loveliest of the three, but it does have a haunted piano thing going on...like, say, the haunted piano bar of a big-city luxury hotel in ruins, long abandoned by human life, now a bizarre gargantuan relic of the oil age...oh, and hey, what's an interrobang?! Is that science fiction or science fact?!—[Blastitude 18] 2004 €12.00
  The ocean is gone, the ship is next CD VERTONEN aus Chicago vertont hier seine Turntable-Experimente und betört den willigen Hörer mit knisternd-knarzigen Rauschdrones, bizarren Vinyl–loops, noisigen Pulsations-mustern und ganz konkreten Metall-Geräuschtupfern. * Vertonen is Chicago experimental music veteran Blake Edwards and this CD continues an ongoing exploration of turntable-fueled drones. The opening track's title is self-explanatory: "untitled for air organ and turntable motor". Recorded live on the radio in Chicago, this piece is a fourteen minute long deep and dense mix of beautiful bass tones and thick breathy hums playing endless phase games with each other. On the second piece, a very heavy speaker-rattling bass tone loops through the beginning as metal-percussion sounds slowly cycle in the background. Scratchy vinyl sounds and dense ambient tones continue throughout as some recognizable vinyl-sourced sounds emerge- like a looped horn-line perhaps. the regular sound of the loop disturbs the drone atmosphere a little, adding some humor to a track that doesn't seem to need any. The next piece, "Four chambers plus their various fluids" kicks out the noise from the get go- fast and loud cycling noise whirring and flanging endlessly. Hissy field recorded sounds predominate as the track fades out to silence. "Soma Trio Study (2)" is the shortest cut one here at 5 minutes and could have used a little more time to develop. The sounds at play are delicate and melodic slowly evolving loops drifting in and out of phase- a bit like Philip Jeck, perhaps and much more romantic than the claustrophobic sounds on the previous pieces. Final track begins with warbly locked groove piano sounds eventually overtaken by a darker, machine loop that slowly fades in as the piano plays on. The mix of endless drone frequencies and more loopish vinyl sounds works wonderfully throughout this disc.” [Angbase] 2003 €8.00
VIDNA OBMANA 1984-1986 [Testament of Tape] 3 x LP-Box "1984-1986 Testament Of Tape captures vidnaObmana in its most experimental phase during the obscure tape period, searching for its own musical voice, Dirk Serries (well-known sound-artist, especially known for his Fear Falls Burning-Releases) is moving on this Box-Set through various styles. From utterly relentless noise music to rhythmical industrial outbursts. This 3LP set features unreleased and extremely rare tracks from a personal friend's private collection (music that was recorded exclusively for him) to songs from early cassettes releases. While Lp Number 1 combines very beat-orientated-material in best manner of early Blackhouse or even Esplendor Geometrico. Lp2 and 3 presents the fundament and roots for his later works (Lp1 lmtd.123 copies, 3LP-Box lmtd. to 477 (300 members, 177 for wholesale/distribution)" [label info] www.vinyl-on-demand.com 2009 €46.50
The ultimated Sign of burning Death LP "Vidna Obmana (stylized vidnaObmana on many album covers) is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. 'The Ultimated Sign Of Burning Death' is officially his first tape ever. Completely recorded in his small bedroom at his parent's house in 1984, the music was made on a KORG MS20, using self-fabricated tape loops of various lengths, vocals, a few effects and an old DJ mixer. All pieces were real-time recorded on a standard Marantz tapedeck, with no overdubs. Since originally only a handful of copies were self-released, Belgium's Therapie Organisatie reissued the tape in 1985 for a limited run of 50 copies. Over time the reputation of this hard-to-find tape grew slowly but consistent. Now this rarity appears on beautiful black vinyl with remastered sound. The record is pressed on 140-gram black vinyl and comes in a deluxe silkscreened cardboard sleeve with new artwork, a luxurious insert and a plastic protection sleeve." [label info] www.urashima.it "Yes, that is "Ultimated" you are reading; and no, we're not too sure about it either. Vidna Obmama is the long-standing project of the Belgian electronic musician Dirk Serries. His best known work dates to the '90s, in a series of oceanic ambient records that spilled through an occluded / fictionalized ethnomusicology similar to what :zoviet*france: and O Yuki Conjugate were up to at that point in time. But the earliest cassettes by Vidna Obmana (which translates from Serbian as 'optical illusion') lives up that name as a completely different beast than those tranquilizing soundpaintings or even his smolderingly long-form guitar drone expeditions as Fear Falls Burning. The Ultimated Sign Of Burning Death was the very first release for Vidna Obmana, and has the distinction of being an aggressive industrial noise proposition, pretty much the exact opposite of what he's best known for. That said, Serries did release a compendium of his mechanically inclined industrial tapes on Vinyl On Demand several years back, showcasing his earlier more aggressive inception. But even in comparison to that box, Ultimated Sign Of Burning Death is a dense, almost power-electronic squall of unkempt distortion and hurricane-shock vocal bellows. Controlled Bleeding and early Ramleh would be very worthy reference points. Super limited pressing of just 99 copies on the ever-collectable Italian noise-imprint Urashima. Restocks are unlikely." [Aquarius Records] 2014 €27.50
  The Face that must die CD Vidna Obmana – The Face That Must Die CD (OCCD32) Vidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian artist Dirk Serries. He has been one of the most significant names in the ambient scene for more than three decades, releasing over more than 50 solo albums and numerous collaborations. Apart from his main ambient colleagues, Vidna Obmana originates from the industrial cassette network scene in early eighties. ‘The Face That Must Die’ was recorded when Vidna Obmana was slowly transforming into his trademark ambient signature. In-between the noise outbursts and his melancholic ambient music Vidna Obmana produced a few albums which are industrial-oriented but more of an orchestral and percussion nature, in the vein of Autopsia. With turntables, shortwave radio, voice and synths Vidna Obmana recorded one of his most underrated albums full of tribalesque, doom-risen and dark ambient atmosphere. Originally released in a limited run on Vidna Obmana’s own Mechanical Orchestration Music and almost around the same time issued by Trev Ward’s The Order Ov Wolves, who also narrates the opening track, this is verily an indisputable masterpiece accompanied with four rare vinyl tracks from the same obscure era to turn the edition into a true collector’s precious document. Limited to 300 copies in a 4-panel matte-laminated black & white Digipak. Tracklist: 1 Prologue Voice [Introduction By] – Trev Ward 04:10 2 Doom Asylum 08:48 3 Angel Of Life 04:10 4 Grave Upon Body 07:20 5 Sweat Session Pt. 1 04:09 6 Almost Certainly 04:31 7 Proto Anguish 03:55 8 Entombed 01:41 9 Bring Out Your Dead 03:43 10 Second Praise For Little Hope 07:11 11 Hidden Voice 03:39 12 Sweat Session Pt. 2 01:59 13 Burnpassion 02:31 14 Inferno 05:00 15 Another Earth To Pass 02:19 16 Bondage Doom To Creator 05:19 credits released April 25, 2017 Original Tape Release : 1988 (Mechanical Orchestration Music, Belgium) Tape Reissue : 1988 (Order Ov Wolves, UK) BONUS TRACKS : 13.14. from A Thunder Orchestra/Vidna Obmana split 7” (Climax Productions 1988) 15. from Motop 1 LP (IF Records 1989) 16. from Cobwebs TAPE (Epitapes 1988) Vidna Obmana : electronics, loops, turntables, shortwave radio, voice. Introduction by Trevor Ward. https://oldcaptain.bandcamp.com/album/vidna-obmana-the-face-that-must-die 2017 €13.00
VIGROUX, FRANCK Totem do-LP New full length album by one of France’s most singular contemporary composer. Reflecting on ancient culture’s use and reverence for emblematic monuments which most often represent myths and stories, the album’s narrative has been infused with such symbolic and depicts an envisioned mythology, unfolding through it’s 10 aural pieces. Franck Vigroux‘s music is unique and comprised of tectonic tension, pulsating rhythms and abrasive analog textures like few can produce. Applying his own calculated personal signature in his sonic explorations his distinctiveness comes not only by his unique approach to sound but also by his incorporation of new media practices and performing arts into his A/V work. Mastering by Denis Blackham. Cover Photography by Emile Barret, model Armand Yerly / 2010 Double Vinyl Edition of 500 copies in matt laminated Gatefold Sleeve. 10 Tracks. Running Time 55:10. https://aesthetical.bandcamp.com/album/totem "With a title like Totem and its evocation of Native American traditions and the stereotypical association that evokes of nature and animals one could be forgiven for assuming French producer-composer Franck Vigroux has gone down a folk road. Instead his collision of musique concrète and electronica reasserts folk’s relationship to both the avant-garde and dance music, albeit in brutalist and abrasive fashion. This isn’t music for a campfire sing-song or to be played in a pub at midsummer but its rugged vigour nonetheless stretches away from modern production tools into something more primeval. Totem features some of the most uncompromising and colossal electronic music you will hear this year. In a manner not a million miles away from the later work of the great Scott Walker, Vigroux builds up and juxtaposes hefty blocks of sound, often alternating between moments of calm and seething noise, as on ‘Capaupire’ on which a metronomic, minimal backbeat and ambient textures are sporadically interrupted by walls of abrasive white noise. On ‘Tropiques Tropiques’ these slabs of noise come close to echoing the caustic doom metal of a SUNN O))) or a Wolves in the Throne Room, another North American pagan leitmotiv to chime with the album’s title even as it slyly confounds any expectations of the tropics. For all the sturm und drang, however, Totem is a subtle and intricate album that owes just as much to Wolfgang Voigt as it does Throbbing Gristle or Merzbow. Tracks like ‘Rhinocéros’, ‘Frontières’ and ‘Baron’ are low-key electronic explorations, hypnotic beats and looped synth patterns building quietly, with the expected explosions of noise kept at bay. The joy is in delving into the sonic depths Vigroux plunders to parse out hidden melodies and meanings. ‘Cris’ and ‘Chronostasis grand finale’ meanwhile are redolent of Ben Frost’s epic constructions but with the Australian’s bombast stripped away to reveal a moody, haunted core. ‘Elephant’ takes this mood to notable heights as synth lines and disembodied voices swim in and out of focus like ghosts pleading to be noticed before a wave of drone swallows them whole like a tide. On Totem, Franck Vigroux’s take on folk traditions sees him heave up almighty boulders of sound to unearth the hidden ghosts underneath. Quite how they relate to a notion of totems remains somewhat out of reach, as do the animals evoked in certain track titles. Is this a form of unpleasant cultural appropriation or a case of sardonic humour? Such questions can make it a frustrating experience but on the other hand Totem certainly towers like its namesakes tend to and between this scale and the mysteries it contains, it’s an album that lingers in the memory even after the last notes have faded away." [The Quietus] 2019 €28.50
Totem CD New full length album by one of France’s most singular contemporary composer. Reflecting on ancient culture’s use and reverence for emblematic monuments which most often represent myths and stories, the album’s narrative has been infused with such symbolic and depicts an envisioned mythology, unfolding through it’s 10 aural pieces. Franck Vigroux‘s music is unique and comprised of tectonic tension, pulsating rhythms and abrasive analog textures like few can produce. Applying his own calculated personal signature in his sonic explorations his distinctiveness comes not only by his unique approach to sound but also by his incorporation of new media practices and performing arts into his A/V work. Mastering by Denis Blackham. Cover Photography by Emile Barret, model Armand Yerly / 2010 Double Vinyl Edition of 500 copies in matt laminated Gatefold Sleeve. 10 Tracks. Running Time 55:10. https://aesthetical.bandcamp.com/album/totem "With a title like Totem and its evocation of Native American traditions and the stereotypical association that evokes of nature and animals one could be forgiven for assuming French producer-composer Franck Vigroux has gone down a folk road. Instead his collision of musique concrète and electronica reasserts folk’s relationship to both the avant-garde and dance music, albeit in brutalist and abrasive fashion. This isn’t music for a campfire sing-song or to be played in a pub at midsummer but its rugged vigour nonetheless stretches away from modern production tools into something more primeval. Totem features some of the most uncompromising and colossal electronic music you will hear this year. In a manner not a million miles away from the later work of the great Scott Walker, Vigroux builds up and juxtaposes hefty blocks of sound, often alternating between moments of calm and seething noise, as on ‘Capaupire’ on which a metronomic, minimal backbeat and ambient textures are sporadically interrupted by walls of abrasive white noise. On ‘Tropiques Tropiques’ these slabs of noise come close to echoing the caustic doom metal of a SUNN O))) or a Wolves in the Throne Room, another North American pagan leitmotiv to chime with the album’s title even as it slyly confounds any expectations of the tropics. For all the sturm und drang, however, Totem is a subtle and intricate album that owes just as much to Wolfgang Voigt as it does Throbbing Gristle or Merzbow. Tracks like ‘Rhinocéros’, ‘Frontières’ and ‘Baron’ are low-key electronic explorations, hypnotic beats and looped synth patterns building quietly, with the expected explosions of noise kept at bay. The joy is in delving into the sonic depths Vigroux plunders to parse out hidden melodies and meanings. ‘Cris’ and ‘Chronostasis grand finale’ meanwhile are redolent of Ben Frost’s epic constructions but with the Australian’s bombast stripped away to reveal a moody, haunted core. ‘Elephant’ takes this mood to notable heights as synth lines and disembodied voices swim in and out of focus like ghosts pleading to be noticed before a wave of drone swallows them whole like a tide. On Totem, Franck Vigroux’s take on folk traditions sees him heave up almighty boulders of sound to unearth the hidden ghosts underneath. Quite how they relate to a notion of totems remains somewhat out of reach, as do the animals evoked in certain track titles. Is this a form of unpleasant cultural appropriation or a case of sardonic humour? Such questions can make it a frustrating experience but on the other hand Totem certainly towers like its namesakes tend to and between this scale and the mysteries it contains, it’s an album that lingers in the memory even after the last notes have faded away." [The Quietus] 2019 €13.00
Ballades sur Lac Gelee LP Black vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket, printed inner sleeve, artwork by Olaf Bender. We met Franck Vigroux for the first time years ago at Berlin's Berghain during a soundcheck. At that time he performed with Mika Vainio, with whom Vigroux often worked together. The first track on »Ballades sur lac gelé« dates back to that time. It was created under the impression of this collaboration and friendship with Mika Vainio. This album is dedicated to him. Vainio's oeuvre is also significant in connection with the history of raster, so it was only logical and our wish to release this album by Franck Vigroux. With the beginning of the corona pandemic, Franck Vigroux took up this early material again, he continued to formulate it and completed the present album »Ballades sur lac gelé«. The title already defines the theme of the ballad, a "song/poem with very minimal structures" (quote Vigroux). "Ballade" is also a play on words with the French word "balade", in this sense a ramble, a ramble over a frozen lake. The reduced, cool structures reflect this. But at the same time, under the surface, the (often distorted) sound carpets steadily increase to immense power. Like ice that grows and tectonic forces that have to erupt, glacier-like. Vigroux is very skilled at creating music in this minimalist setting. The intertwining of very few musical elements creates a kind of soundtrack that is multi-layered and at the same time universally intelligible. »Ballades sur lac gelé« will be released on June 26th, 2020 as a digital pre-release exclusively on our sites. The physical formats, i.e. CD and vinyl, can be pre-ordered. The official worldwide release date will be announced at a later point in time. https://raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/ballades-sur-lac-gel 2020 €21.50
  Atotal CD New full length album of Franck Vigroux's uncompromising signature sound of colossal electronic music. Atotal gathers material from Franck's latest live A/V of the the same name. Working with his long time visual partner Antoine Schmitt, ATOTAL is an audiovisual performance aiming to reconstruct in order to better deconstruct the processes of imposition of will by repetition and absolute synchronism, to propose a breach to a potentially life-saving decoincidence. The total work of art, when pushed to its paroxysm of absolute coincidence of the perceptions of a captive spectator, is similar to the techniques of mental manipulation of totalitarian regimes, proceeding by annihilation of the critical mind, repetitive semantic pounding, subliminal messages. The ideal of a deterministic universe of Newton in which everything rationally stems from its causes, in which everything is predictable like a totality for Laplace’s daemon, where everything can be considered already written, has been undermined in the infinitely small of the uncertainties of Heisenberg which tell us that it is impossible to know everything about a particle, in the quantum mechanics of Schrödinger which reveals to us that the looker affects the looked-at, and in the infinitely abstract of Gödel’s incompleteness which explains to us that certain things are literally unexplainable. The show ATOTAL slips into these flaws and, like a clinamen of Lucretia, deviates the visual and audio atoms from their destiny. Mastering by Denis Blackham. Artwork by Mostafa Khaled. With the support of Adami 365 Vinyl Edition of 300 copies in matt laminated Sleeve. 11 Tracks. Running Time 55:10. UPC: 0694536563278 CD Edition of 300 copies in matt laminated 4 panel Digipak. 11 Tracks. Running Time 55:10. UPC: 0694536563285 https://aesthetical.bandcamp.com/album/atotal 2021 €13.00
VINCENT, VERONIQUE & AKSAK MABOUL Ex-Futur Album do-LP "Crammed Discs founder Marc Hollander and Honeymoon Killers vocalist Véronique Vincent finally release their trailblazing avant-pop album, recorded and unfinished in… 1980-83! This record was never completed. What was originally intended to become the third album by Aksak Maboul (the seminal band formed by Marc Hollander) had gradually evolved into a strange artefact, closely mingling (iconic Honeymoon Killers chanteuse) Véronique Vincent’s dreamy vocals and deceptively bubbly lyrics with Hollander’s musical ramblings. Electronic pop music with genre-wrecking leanings. But the project (too pop to be experimental? too quirky for early ‘80s pop?) was dropped at some point, and life went on. When they were ‘rediscovered’ three decades later, it seemed obvious that the songs had aged delightfully well, and that they probably make a lot more sense now than they did then… So here’s that Ex-Future Album, collated from demos and rough mixes (some of them on cassette tapes), and brought to you in its original glorious unfinished state, with a slight delay of 30 years. This most unusual story is far from being the only point of interest of Ex-Futur Album: the songs overflow with memorable melodies, with playful trademark Aksak Maboul instrumental moments and eventful arrangements which all give the album a retrofuturistic, almost timeless aspect, often predating certain hybrid musical trends which may or may not have emerged later on (think pop meets proto-techno, with African, Middle-Eastern, dub, jazz & cinematic French flavours…) Recorded by M.Hollander & V.Vincent in collaboration with (Aksak Maboul member and Congotronics producer) Vincent Kenis, the album contains 10 tracks, plus 6 bonuses (including wild live versions of some songs), three of which will only come with the download code included in the CD and vinyl LP versions. The first single is Chez les Aborigènes (and its visionary lyrical stabs at the Western world’s exploitative attitude towards world music… this is 1981, remember…). It comes with a new remix by great electronic music duet EΔSY & C.O.U., stalwarts of the Nordic skweee scene (they’re the main –and sole- exponents of the sub-genre called Oriental Skweee…)." [label info] www.crammed.be 2015 €27.50
VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA Shocks! Shocks! Shocks! LP "The Tokyo-based Japanese experimental musician Masaya Nakahara as kwon as Violent Onsen Geisha has been dazzling us with his entirely singular approach to sound since 1989. Harnessing his unique natural approach to mixier by combining techno, pop samples and hip hop, as well as his sister's karaoke singing or his parent quarreling, screams and glass or ceramic bowls broken, he incredibly built a body of work in recorded contexts that has almost no parallel, producing arrangements where all the style and the sonic atmosphere meet in a happy junk room and elaborating his delirious patchwork studio from magneto-phone tapes. His amazing cut-up proved interesting to major band such as Sonic Youth and Beck, who invited him on a US tour in 1995. At the height of his music career as Violent Onsen Geisha in 1998, Nakahara published Mari & Fifi No Gyakusatsu Songu Bukku (Mari & Fifi’s Massacre Songbook) and made his debut as a novelist. In 2001, he received the 14th Yukio Mishima Award for “Arayuru Basho Ni Hanataba Ga” (Bouquets of Flowers Everywhere), and became increasingly active as a writer and movie critic. His best-know cassette Shock! Shock! Shock! released in 1989 from legendary Vanilla Records, first time reissued on vinyl format, takes us deep into the intimately responsive aspects of his work. Despite the density of its structures, that combine the most disparate musical genres with deafening shouts and crashes, Shock! Shock! Shock! feels like a breath of fresh air, fearlessly skirting the line between creative rigor and focused interplay and a playful irreverence in ways that leave you wondering where the hell you are. ‘’For someone who has no musical talent like me, the only thing that I could naturally create was noise.’’ Masaya Nakahara" Vinyl with the magnificent mastering by Andrea Marutti is a truly thrilling exchange of collages, vacillating between kitsch, the austere, and boundary pushing structures, all played against and pushed onto the next level by Nakahara incredible talent. Unflinchingly beautiful and creatively challenging, Shock! Shock! Shock! completely defies genre and definition, rising as a wonderful reminder of what noise music is all about. A justly radical zone of creative patchwork sound that renders an engrossing listen that you can’t pull out of once you’re in. Released in an edition of 299 copies sole, unquestionably one of our favorite reissues of the year. Absolutely stunning, this is a stone-cold killer that can’t be missed. https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/shock-shock-shock 2022 €23.00
VIVENZA Fondements bruitistes BOOK / do-CD "Deluxe double-CD book, 108 pages in three languages: French, English, Japanese. Included The Art Of Noises - Futurist Manifesto - by Luigi Russolo (1913). 'The Bruitist Foundations of Action' (French title 'Fondements Bruitistes d'Action'), which came out in october 1984, opens the period in Vivenza's work on Bruitist sound when he started to incorporate the question of the relationship that holds between the technological and mechanical industrial fabric Ð which makes up the reality of the modern world Ð and the human and social environment. It is released in double albums as two separate vinyl LPs in the context of the Archives of Industrial Music from France." [label info] http://rotorelief.com 2015 €26.00
VOICE OF EYE Anthology 2 (1992-1996) do-CD "Since a few years Texan group Voice Of Eye are back. Their various new releases have been reviewed before. But its the second incarnation of the group, a duo, which existed before from 1989 to 1996. They were pretty active back then too, with lots of releases, like CDs, cassettes, 7"s (for Drone Records among others) and contributions to compilations. Last year Vinyl On Demand already released a double LP of that older stuff, but now Troum's Transgredient label goes out even more, with a double CD of material from 1992 to 1996 (and makes it the first non-Troum release on the label). To say that Voice Of Eye play ambient music is not entirely true. Their music is indeed based on all things 'atmospheric', using an array of drone like sounds, percussion and the heavenly voice of Bonnie McNairm, but what sets Voice Of Eye apart from so many others is their free flowing sound, almost psychedelic, always full of sound effects (the reverb is hard to avoid here), widely meandering ab out. There is always a rough edge with Voice Of Eye that makes them a bit different from many other drone artists, which is perhaps due to the fact that they use many effects and maybe due to the fact that the recording medium is not the greatest. Also they use various bits of percussion, acoustic objects (one track is entirely made of bicycle wheels). Its great to have this collection of rare CD compilation pieces, 7" vinyl and long unreleased pieces - especially the very free floating space of 'Sonic Works Live Dress Rehearsal'. Two long CDs of highly weightless space music. Excellent stuff." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2011 €10.00
VOLCANO THE BEAR That People don't know they are Monsters 7 Seite A: Ein quäkendes Stück Melancholie. Seite B: perkussiver Mantra-Folk. Leider viel zu schnell vorbei. Fabulöse Single auf dem ukrainischen Quasi-Pop Records, Vollfarbcover.. "QPOP REC02. 7-inches vinyl (black). limited edition 500. total time: aprox. 10 min 1. Side A: “That People Don't Know They Are Monsters” 2. Side B: “Bow Heavier My Lord” You may think it's a ballad, noise, tribal shamanism, folk or acoustic. But it's not really." [label info] www.quasipop.org 2009 €8.00
Commencing 5 x LP BOX "Leicester, England – mid 1990's. Aaron Moore, Nick Mott, Clarence Manuelo & Daniel Padden create a free form group named Volcano The Bear out of their frustration with standard musical limitations. Now, after 20 years of experimenting with improvisation, folk, Dada, Post Punk, Krautrock, noise, surreal comedy, pure avant-garde and more, the group has obtained a cult following and high critical praise across the globe. Reknowned for their highly theatrical and obscure live performances, as well as their mind-blowing catalogue of releases, VTB truly is a one of a kind group, consistently pushing forward with their own unique, experimental approach to sound making. Commencing manages to be both a retrospective of the group's 20 year history as well as it ´s own unique release filled with vast amounts of material. The 5 albums, 64 tracks & over 4 hours in length, presented here has been carefully put together over the last couple of years to become an entity – working as much by itself as well as a whole. Expect an abundance of unreleased material, alt-versions, tracks from early cassette albums never released on vinyl, live recordings, pieces from forgotten compilation appearances and more, all mixed and compiled together to form 5 stand-alone albums. The physical release also includes a book of writings, photos and flyers from their long history, along with a bonus download only album of tracks that didn't make the final cut. This is the ultimate VTB release for fans of the group and of surreal, experimental musical history in general. Deluxe Silkscreened Box-set, incl. 5LPs with individual covers & linernotes for each track on the back, 50 page book of photos, artwork, flyers and stories of the band´s 20 years of existence. Also includes a free download of all 64 tracks + 10 track bonus album. 2015 €90.00
Yak Folks Y'Are CD Nefryt - N 029 Format: CD Country: Poland Released: 26 May 2018 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Avantgarde, Experimental Tracklist 1 Where Are The Bounds? 2 Banket Ball 3 Nobody's Falling 4 Egg Knowledge 5 Oslo Top 6 Hello Graham 7 My Favourite Lungs 8 Massive Furniture Invasion Notes: Yak Folks Y'are originally issued by Pickled Egg in 1999 as a mini LP. My Favourite Lungs & Massive Furniture Invasion originally issued by Alt.Vinyl in 2006 as a lathe cut 8". Thank You Alan Jenkins, Stew Brackley, Steven Freeman, Steve Hill, Alan Freeman, Kev Reverb. Copyright Volcano The Bear 1998 4 panel gatefold sleeve. Limited to 444 copies. "Out on Pickled-Egg from the UK, Volcano's first LP consists of 6 new songs by these growing and mind-expanding UK surrealists. On a whole, the release is filled with a bizarre emotion that leaves a sinking feeling in your stomach. Side A ("Yak Folk") starts with the low-fi, reverb-drenched track, "Where Are the Bounds?," which is reminiscent in feel of the first track ("Planetary Bethlehem") from The Inhazer Decline. The second track is a short snippet of eerie noise, leading into "Nobody's Falling," which utilizes their eccentric—but extremely compelling—vocal work. With a very psychedelic-rock sound, they play horns, organs, and consistent high hats, which blend to conjure up a surrealist lounge. Side B ("Y'Are") has some beautiful, brilliant work—the best VtB I've yet heard. "Egg Knowledge" makes me feel as if I am in the presence of ghosts. The vocals are haunting and extremely bizarre (comparable only to a dying elderly), and combine with the tension-building noises and tribal-esque drums to leave a queasy, almost painful mindset. Next is "Oslo Top," made of twinkly noises with demonic vocals. And finally, "Hello Graham," the long ending track, tops the album with its usage of slurred vocals and beautifully simple acoustic guitar overlayed and interchanging, putting emotions out for grabs that are both frightening and captivating. The feeling for most of the LP is, in fact, a strange, ambiguous line between comforting and terrifying; but it is executed in such a manner that is purely hypnotic." [Brainwashed review on the original LP edition from 2000] nefryt.bandcamp.com/album/volcano-the-bear-yak-folks-yare 2018 €13.00
  Volfurten CD Nefryt ‎– N 029 Format: CD Country: Poland Released: May 2018 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Avantgarde, Experimental Tracklist 1 Speg It Darn 2 Eggstretch 3 The Woman Who Waited For The Woman Who Weighs Out The Wool 4 Chariots Of Fur 5 Beef Cattle Lovely Couple 6 Benoit's Solution 7 Dominant Larks Rise Notes Volfurten originally released on vinyl by Volucan in 2006. 4 panel gatefold sleeve. Limited to 444 copies. 2018 €13.00
VROMB / SZKIEVE Le pavillon des oiseaux / Le monorail 7 Kanadische Collaboration-Single mit einem tiefpulsierenden Klangobjekt von VROMB und industrieller Hypnosis von SZKIEVE. “ The monorail provided by les Enterprises Hushush will take you on a journey to our own World Fair, an exhibition for advanced technologies and oddities. Recorded on this seven inch vinyl is a visit to the Birds Pavilion, “le pavillon des oiseaux” as well as an overview of the site. Often remembered for the showing of tomorrow’s technological advancements, World Fairs presented many mechanical, electronic and magnetic types of equipment. Thought to be the way of the future, some of them remain now very odd pieces of history, yesterday’s tomorrows. This recording is the first collaboration effort for Vromb. The Montreal dark electronica wonder has teamed up with an almost Canadian fellow, Hushush’s headhoncho project, Szkieve. Only 500 copies were made, this is guarenteed to be a very fast seller." [label description] 2003 €7.50
W>A>S>P>S / NACHT UND NEBEL split 7inch "Comes on black vinyl, with red, green or white cover. nacht und nebel - 3 tracks of rumbling, scraping 'cello misuse. W>A>S>P>S - 1 track of brutally heavy bass surf wall and electricity shock. "Stark and potentially horrifying sounds within" [label info] https://nachtundnebel.bandcamp.com/album/split-7-w-w-a-s-p-s "I love that this singles like this exist. This split from experimental musicians W>A>S>P>S and Nacht Und Nebel is a conceptual single who's mere existence without even putting it on the turntable is proof enough of the vision and intent. This record isn't intended to be music for the livingroom or to illicit some kind of emotional response. Instead they're the the conclusion to their equation. A proof of a theory and making the conceptual an actual object you can hold in your hand to reenact this document of a particular set of circumstances. A crazy vision that they had to follow to it's end point. In the case of W>A>S>P>S, Benjamin Hallat is presenting a sound, a long droning speaker-breaking low end crackle that would make anyone check their needle and amp, which hasn't ever existed in nature. This is a completely man made sound that exists entirely because of electricity. It's a humming dangerous sound. It's a transformer overhead jammed between poles of power lines that's shorting out in the acid rain. The lower end hum shifts through a narrow spectrum of tones because now we have to mention the limitations of whatever this was recorded on. The mic and tape have been turned up to maximum input which boosts that rumble and obscures everything else. Like some kind of circuitry didgeridoo it warbles and melts away under a static crackle that comes from malfunction. It could be a simple conversation on a telephone, a sample recorded off the tv...which was then successively rerecorded over and over. Each time a new one was made from the record of the last time, getting exponentially more broken. W>A>S>P>S have transformed it into something else completely that will never exist as a 'live' sound. It's a weird world we live in. Welcome to the future. Nacht Und Nebel (or Night and Fog, which has equally ominous connotations as Nazi coined 'Joy Division') on the B-Side is the solo project, of Henry Davies. The press release says the three tracks on this side are manipulations of a cello but you wouldn't know it on "Those That Tremble as if They Were Mad" that features a cycling warm wooden sound that slowly works it's way through digital sounding crunches and crushes of various bit sizes, turning into a deadly swarm. A hiss of digital swarming bees from the '50s. Theremin warps and old synths sparkle and give off tesla sparks of lightning. It ends up underwater as a long past memory you'll want to forget in this stark apocolpytic future. "Derinkuyu" is the sound of a far off thunderous footstep from a massive robot and you're listening through an old tin can telephone, the only technology left. It's also on the heels of those fucking digital bees and walks ever so closer with pinging noises from an equally deadly submarine. It's as if we're listening to creatures who can't even hear and have no use for sound waves. These tracks are the leftover detritus of a forgotten way they used to communicate before theygave up on the whole damn thing. Those bees are stuck inside an old Atari on "Anareta". I even forgot this came from a cello? Basically unimportant except for the fact there's deliberately no reference whatsoever to the original source. Henry is saying it doesn't make a difference how this started, it's been bent into a completely new thing. The traditional organic sound has been obliterated. This one skitters around in waves after the initial bzzzzz and fades out as the EQ was pushed down into negative Db's above 500hz. It's not happy, you aren't going to put it on in the car on the way to work but it's inspiring as hell. Head over here to get one of these 250 copies, xerox sleeves, minimal as hell. Stark and potentially horrifying sounds within." [Jason /7inchesblogspot] 2013 €7.00
WAKHEVITCH, IGOR Les Fous d'Or LP "Released by Pathe Marconi in 1975 and housed in a fantastic surrealist cover designed by his father, Russian painter/art director Georges Wakhevitch, this album marks the debut of Wakhevitch's long-standing collaboration with american dancer/choreographer Carolyn Carlson. It also shows the composer's progression into a more esoteric and lyrical grounds: a departure from the violence of his first three albums into quieter yet equally dark and mysterious regions. Divided in two sides (called "CORNERSTONE"/"LES FOUS D'OR") the whole record oozes a dreamy, mysterious, surrealist atmosphere enhaced by the spoken word introductions that open a series of mesmerising electronic pieces which range from the gentle to the hypnotic. Animal sounds, ritual horns, wordless vocals and assorted metal banging and scrapping add to the whole mix for a landmark sound that will evolve in future albums. Six different pieces that take off where Hathors' 'Aurore' left before moving into a crazy and disjointed landscape that echoes the crazyness of Docteur Faust yet in a subtle, stranger, more warped way. Strictly limited to 500 copies on transparent clear vinyl. Single cover reproducing the original 1975 artwork. Includes insert with liner notes reproduction of the original Les Fous d'Or insert." [label info] www.wah-wahsupersonic.com 2013 €23.00
WALKER, SCOTT & SUNN O))) Soused CD "Freigeister unter sich: Der US-Chansonier trifft auf die Drone-Doom-Band: Als Sunn O))) im Jahre 2009 erstmals bei Scott Walker anfragten, ob er einen Beitrag zu ihrem Album "Monoliths & Dimensions" beisteuern wolle, ahnte niemand, dass es einmal eine echte Zusammenarbeit geben würde. Vier Jahre später meldete sich Scott Walker schließlich bei der US-amerikanischen Drone-Doom-Band: Er habe neue Musik geschrieben und dabei stets eine Kollaboration mit Sunn O))) im Sinn gehabt. "Soused" ist das beeindruckend wuchtige Ergebnis einer Kooperation zweier Freigeister. Scott Walker feierte in den 60ern weltweite Erfolge mit den Walker Brothers, veröffentlichte in Folge viel beachtete Soloplatten und etablierte sich als Chansonier mit teils bitterböser Lyrik. In den 80ern erfolgte ein radikaler Stilwechsel und zudem eine Änderung seiner Arbeitsweise. Alben wie "Climate Of Hunter" (1984), "Tilt" (1996) und "The Drift" (2006) zeigten einen wandlungsfreudigen Künstler, der 2013 mit dem komplexen Meisterwerk "Bish Bosh" seinen Weg fortsetzte. Mit "Soused" folgt die logische Konsequenz Walkers künstlerischen Schaffens. Das Vinyl erscheint mit Downloadcode. /// When Sunn O))) first approached Scott Walker about appearing on their 2009 album Monoliths & Dimensions, little did they know what it would actually lead to. Four years on, Scott was back with something even more enticing, collaborating on Soused, a body of work he was writing with them in mind. Recorded in London in early 2014 and produced by Scott Walker and long-time ally Peter Walsh with the assistance of musical director Mark Warman, Soused is a 5-track 50-minute body of work that cements both acts’ wide-reaching and otherworldly renown." [label info] www.4ad.com www.4ad.com 2014 €12.50
WARDROBE MEMORIES The Mean MC "Wardrobe Memories has been around since 1999 - serving Drones and melodic dark ambient on CD-R, vinyl and Cassette. After releases on Dhyana Records, EE Tapes and several other hard-to-purchase longplayers, sparsely spread in very limited runs, a new LP on shhhh records appeared in 2011 with foggy soundtracks and subtle beats. Now after 2 years (and almost one year in the making) the new album by Wardrobe Memories appears with a green C-50 audio cassette on Voluntary Whores, strictly limited to 48 copies, serving 14 soundtrack-songs for a never released steampunk-darkfuture-movie. Release comes with a futuristic object and oversized printed artwork." [label info] www.voluntarywhores.de 2013 €8.00
WATERMANN, JOHN Calcutta Gas Chamber pic-LP Wiederveröffentlichung dieses Klassikers, jetzt als picture Vinyl! "....ein dunkles, dichtes Werk mit elektro-akustischen Qualitäten, viele konkrete Geräusche & Sounds & Cut-ups, meist undefinierbar, aber voll von unheimlich beseeltem maschinellen Leben... absolut packend!" [Drone Records] "Re-release of the long out-of-print album by the late John Watermann. The idea for this project came about after a visit to Calcutta in 1990, and through the nightmarish experiences during that short visit. The concept of aurally conveying the horror of a gas chamber was realised through field recordings in an abandoned electrical power station in Brisbane in 1992. The sounds are grating and harsh, a mixture of field recordings and electronic manipulations. One can rarely pinpoint a location or action but the images the sounds conjure up are of all sorts of nefarious activites related to death by machinery. The sleeve notes take you into the horror that is the Calcutta Gas Chamber. John Watermann started the re-design for this re-issue (originally released in 1993 on US label ND), but tragically passed away in 2002 before its realisation. A beautifully composed and produced album, completely remastered and feat. new artwork. This special picture LP is limited to 444 numbered copies. A CD version of 'Calcutta Gas Chamber' was released by Cold Spring in late 2006." [label info] 2007 €18.00
WESOLOWSKI, STEFAN Kompleta LP "This record is the reissue of Stefan Wesolowski's first album, Kompleta, which was composed in 2006 and released on Gusstaff Records in 2008. Given that he was only 21 at the time, a record which was considered a first attempt now seems something of a master work. It portrays a universe deeply influenced by sacred music and offers clear, direct compositions and liturgical chants which are powerful vectors for emotion. These songs are interpreted by Stefan Wesolowski himself accompanied by Maja Siemińska and their work fits together wonderfully. The record also marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship with the composer Michal Jacaszek who did the electronic arrangements. This worked so well that they have collaborated on several other projects since. A tangible spirituality emanates from these 9 tracks, providing a contemplative, introspective experience for listeners. Kompleta is mainly based on strings (violins, viola, cello) but also manages to distance itself from traditional compositional methods by including subtle electronic touches to help anchor the work in a resolutely progressive dynamic. It is also interesting to note how Wesolowski decides not to choose between the spheres of heritage and modernity - on the contrary he seeks a balance between the two without ever deforming or betraying his sources of inspiration. In around 30 minutes, Stefan Wesolowski marks the start of a remarkable career. The Mind Travels Series is under the spell of this record and happy to be able to offer Kompleta a new lease of life, fittingly illustrated by a fine new serie of photographs by Françis Meslet. The album has been re-mastered and will be released on CD and for the first time as a vinyl LP. It is a record for all lovers of Modern-classical and contemporary music looking for new sounds to go with their albums by Greg Haines, Arvo Pärt, Nils Frahm, Steve Reich, Hildur Gudnadottir, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Jóhann Jóhannsson... For other listeners, it is an ideal gateway to these universes where elegance and intensity are key." stefanwesolowski.bandcamp.com/album/kompleta 2015 €18.00
WESTERHUS, STIAN Pitch Black Star Spangled LP "Stian Westerhus is the most exciting guitarist on the Norwegian experimental music scene, his vinyl only release ”Galore” (TLRC1) and this new solo album ”Pitch Black Star Spangled” showing a musician challenging and stretching the limits of his instrument beyond the normal confines of the electric guitar, balancing raw expressiveness against virtuosity and melodic instinct. He is a founder member of Puma and the Monolithic duo with Motorpsycho drummer Kenneth Kapstad, he was for a short period a member of Jaga Jazzist and played on their ”One-Armed Bandit” album and is currently a member of Nils Petter Molvær´s new trio." [label info] www.runegrammofon.com "The second solo release by Stian Westerhus further confirms both his interest, and that of the Rune Grammofon label, in exploring the idea of what jazz can mean to new limits. Pitch Black Star Spangled, its very title suggestive of a jumble of approaches, could just as easily have the label of dark ambient or experimental or whatever else might apply. From the start and the sawing arc of feedback on "Don't Tell Me This is Home," Westerhus seems intent on ignoring an easy label. If the initial blasts of the album seem overwhelming, the quiet, focused tones he creates for the start and center of "Sing with Me Somehow" aim more at a fragile beauty, as does the drone-touched flow of "Empty Hands Mirrored Softly," which feels less like guitar and more like a sarangi or sitar. At other extremes, as with much of the 12-minute long title track and the entirety of "Music for Leaving," among others, he more readily compares to the most open-ended electronic stutter and buzz approach of someone like Loren Mazzacane Connors. Where he is arguably his most traditional, he always seems to find other possibilities: the central bass-heavy groove of "Thy Gospel" could be something from 1955, but with the screech of extra guitar noises eventually supplanting it entirely, is something of an unsettled meditation, free jazz-inspired possible logical conclusion. One also has to credit him for a sense of humor that would result in a song title like "Trailer Trash Ballad," even if (or especially because) the music suggests more of a yearning epic release somewhere in a blasted American Southwest." [Allmusic.com] 2010 €20.00
WHITE STAINS Singleminded Dualisms CD WHITE STAINS came into the minds of many listeners thanks to the regular debut album, recorded together with Psychic TV "Live At Stockholm". However, the history of this band and its metamorphoses goes back much further. Founded by Carl Abrahamsson, from the beginning it served as a tool for proclaiming manifestos inspired by the works of, among others, Aleister Crowley (White Stains is the title of one of the most important texts of the British magician) and other proponents of free thought. While the issues they raised were invariably focused around the subject of occultism and secret knowledge, in the musical layer the band underwent many metamorphoses: from occult/gothic rock through ambient to experimental electronics. As their style crystallized, Carl and Thomas Tibert renamed White Stains to Cotton Ferox. This publication opens the series of reissues of the Swedish group. It is a collection of all short publications that preceded their debut, recorded in the years 1987-1989 and released in the same time only on vinyl 7" and 12" EPs. So far, they have not been available on any other medium. The whole thing was provided with a proper commentary by Carl Abrahamsson, which is a great introduction to listening to the material, pointing to the context in which the compositions contained therein were created. On the occasion of this publication, we have prepared a special collector's edition in a wooden box, limited to only 50 pieces, which, apart from the regular CD, contains various extras: cards with replicas of the original covers, a sticker, pins and a backpack (bag) with the characteristic logo of the Swedish band. credits released June 15, 2023 Previously released / tracks taken from: 1. Sweet Jayne* 2. Here to Do* (1988, AOIT 001, 12” 400 copies w 40 in purple vinyl) 3. It’s Yours If You Want It* (1988, TOPYSCAN 002 PETS, track on the compilation LP “Swedish Exotica Vol 1”, 1000 copies) 4. Express Your Desire* 5. Death At Hand* (1989, TOPYSCAN 004, 7”, 500 copies) 6. The Energy** 7. Phase of Madness** (1988, TOPYSCAN 001, 7”, 93 copies, with 23 copies in red vinyl) 8. The Awareness*** 9. My Hallucination*** (1989, TOPYSCAN 003, 7”, 93 copies, with 23 copies in blue vinyl) 10. The Result*** 11. Ov Like Mind*** (1989, TOPYSCAN 007, 7”, 93 copies, with 23 copies in green vinyl) * Carl Abrahamsson: vocals, Jan Ekman: lead guitar, Tomas Sandell: guitar, Johan Sandell: bass guitar, Nicklas Hansen: drums ** Carl Abrahamsson: vocals, bass guitar, Jan Ekman: guitar *** Carl Abrahamsson: vocals, Peter Bergstrandh: bass guitar, Jan Ekman: guitar, Thomas Tibert: synthesizers https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/singleminded-dualisms 2023 €13.00
WHITEHOUSE Dedicated to Peter Kurten CD Special 40th anniversary legacy CD edition of legendary 1981 LP Dedicated To Peter Kurten originally released on fluorescent green vinyl, now a highly sought-after collector's item. Even more so than with the earlier Erector, its transgressive themes and wild electronic harshness became a critical defining influence on, indeed often template for, the noise and power electronics genres of the mid/late 80s and long beyond. This brand new Susan Lawly legacy reissue CD features a beautiful 12pp booklet packed with photos, information, plus the original LP inserts and artwork. 2021 €15.00
WHITMAN, KEITH FULLERTON / ALIEN RADIO split LP "We are stoked and honoured to release this Deutsch-Amerikanische meeting of two Meisters of the Modular Electronic Music System (originally invented by Don Buchla in 1963 for the likes of Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley et al at the San Francisco Tape Music Center). Both are presenting very distinct approaches displaying the vast possibilities of the machine yet maintaining similar Klang aesthetics (and maximum quality). KFW is a renowned master of the Modular, especially in live situations. 101105 is Whitman captured at his most symphonic. Recorded last year at one of the semi-monthly The Bunker parties in Brooklyn opening for members of Ectomorph he sent the audience (all high on LSD) straight into sawtooth arpeggio heaven. 101105 is a condensed edit of these recordings, cut on 45rpm for maximum fidelity. KFW has released records on a myriad of labels, most notably on Kranky and Planet µ (under his Hrvatski pseudonym). Last year's (vinyl-only) album Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness on Pan made it into many year-end Top 10 lists, including The Wire and Boomkat. This year Whitman has been commissioned a residency at GRM studios to work on a piece for François Bayle's original 80-channel acousmonium! Alien Radio is one of many aliases of Northern Germany's Ulf Schütte, a (part-time) member of Datashock, Black To Comm, Aosuke, Phantom Horse, etc. and founder of the Tape Tektoniks cassette label. His recent Modular System explorations showcase a more basic, sketchy and song-based approach, reminding of Jan Jelinek's Ursula Bogner recordings and having been compared to the likes of Conny Planck, Delia Derbyshire and Dick Raaijmakers. His debut release was a split 7 on the Belgian Kraak label with Köhn, Ducktails and Peaking Lights." [label info] www.dekorder.de 2011 €13.00
WICKED MESSENGER Officium Nocturnum do-CD "Each disc has its own catalog number, Plague 017 & Plague 018, and is housed separately in smartly designed cardboard jacket. Do not file under dark ambient. Tracklisting 1-1. Movement I (27:38) 1-2. Movement II (26:57) 2-1. Movement III (51:27)" [label info] Reviews "Some important dates and facts ... 539 bc: Cyrus II The Great concurs Babylon. June 11th 323 bc: Alexander The Great dies. 64: Saint Peter dies in Rome. June 8th, 632: Mohammed dies in Medina. April 2, 747: Charles The Great is born in Herstal. November 10th, 1483: Luther is born in Eisleben. June 22nd, 1812: Napoleon declares war to Russia. 1913: Luigi Russollo introduces his "Intonorumori" to the world. 1959: Ornette Coleman releases The Shape Of Jazz To Come on Atlantic. 1986: Hellbastard releases their Ripper Crust demo. March 2010: Wicked Messengers double CD Officium Nocturnum is released on Plague Recordings. 2013: The BBC broadcasts a documentary about undercover reporters that have filmed in dark rooms, watching 70 year old Catholic priests doing a bizarre occult ritual. Is it drugs? Is it a spiritual experience? Is it a religious experience? Questions that are not asked by the reporter but are asked by the music that accompanies this documentary. Music that makes you start to think about what is and what is not. The kindergarten-version of this documentary uses Sunn O)))'s Monoliths & Dimensions as soundtrack. The adult version of the documentary uses Officium Nocturnum as soundtrack. 2023: Vinyl-on-demand releases a Wicked Messenger 6XLP box. 3078: The human race is exterminated. That's it folks." (mudbirdshivers.blogspot.com) *** "A new direction for Mr Messenger, evocative of medieval europe, the inquisition, dark monasteries, fire, torture and death. Followed by cataclysm, disaster and doom. It is intriguing, unsettling and hypnotic all at the same time and I really enjoy it. New sound elements are very welcome such as church bells, monk chanting etc as well as the general mass destruction we have come to enjoy from WM. I was surprised by the spoken word section on the second movement but fascinated by the dark tones from a sacred text. I'm glad that WM has continued to produce excellent work and it is a departure from the last album Vision Rites, showing that there is continued innovation in the areas of deep dark horror soundscapes and Grand Ambient. Congratulations!" (B.L.Underwood, UK) www.plaguerecordings.com 2010 €18.00
WIEMAN Cryptonesia LP "Ini.itu is releasing a new vinyl LP, composed by Wíeman (Roel Meelkop and Frans de Waard). Roel Meelkop studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is a member of Goem, Kapotte Muziek and THU20. In the last couple of years, Meelkop has focused on solo works in composition and installation work. Frans de Waard is making music since more than 25 years under many aliases and in different line-ups, the most well-known being Kapotte Muziek, Goem, THU 20, Beequeen, Ezdanitoff, the Tobacconists and of course Freiband, under which name he already released an LP on ini.itu a few years ago. Wíeman is their «meltpop» duo, which was previously known as Zèbra. The project for this LP started when some obscure tapes released under the moniker Cybe in the early 80’s found their way to one of those MegaUpload accounts that disappeared a few months later. So “Positive Movement Muzak / New Age Synthesis” “Cybernetika” and “Cybonesië -Tropische Klankbeelden” were temporarily out in the world again. With the help of some synth forums the man behind that name could be located. With his approval and upon request from ini.itu, Wíeman, already famous for their reappropriation of Martin Hannett samples on “Live in Leugen”, used snippets from those Cybe tapes to create new pieces. What you have now with “Cryptonesia” is the unexpected meltpop child of dangdut and krautrock, filtered through electronica and post - exotica lenses. Refusing the temptation of going subtropical gabber, the good-natured beats, boisterous and carefree, exhale a cheerful and joyous mood. The epic 18 minutes long B-side is a freewheeling and energetic construction of meandering and hypnotic pseudo-gamelan riffs, resulting into trippy and lush washes of bliss. A record to enjoy, not only for its hedonistic take on music history reverse engineering, but also for the sake of its ecstatic feeling. The LP was mastered by Taylor Deupree." [label info] 2015 €13.00
WIESE, JOHN Circle Snare LP "PPM31 - JOHN WIESE LP. FIRST PRESSING OF 500. BLACK VINYL. HEAVY UNCOATED PAPER STOCK. PRINTED INNER SLEEVES. Description - John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Evan Parker, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari. Consider “Circle Snare” a hard-wrought souvenir. Composed and realized in the midst of a comprehensive Scandinavian/European tour in 2008, John Wiese found himself tangled deep in dialogue with his instruments and ideas. wiese increasingly scrutinized his native tongue and vocabulary, seeking new forms of grammar and cadence, as only extensive dives in unfamiliar waters can inspire. his given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, and msp folded out of their hard accustomed formations, breaking out into a more cogent and vital arsenal. “circle snare” is the cumulative result, a finely detailed and dimensional evolution of an already unique voice. the circle is a spiral from the side, and the greatest trap is standing still. cd version released on no fun productions in 2009, this vinyl version is limited to 500 copies." [label info] www.postpresentmedium.com 2010 €16.00
WISHART, TREVOR Machine CD Endlich wiederveröffentlicht, das erste grössere Werk des britischen Elektronikers von 1971, erschienen zuerst als Teil der "Electronic Music from York" 3LP-Box 1973. Bearbeitete Field Recordings von Maschinen und Fabriken kombiniert er mit "spoken word" und Chor-Elementen, "echte" Instrumente kommen gar nicht zum Einsatz! "Although Machine was completed in 1971 it was not released until 1972, shortly after the release of Journey Into Space. Machine is therefore the first major composition by Trevor Wishart. It was composed at York University and was originally issued on vinyl as 3 sides of a highly adventurous 3LP box set called Electronic Music From York, released by the University's own record label. In common with Journey Into Space (also on Paradigm Discs), Machine makes use of a large number of volunteer contributors, mostly from the student body at York. With this recording, however, there are no instruments used. Instead, the music of Machine is made up entirely from a combination of spoken text and carefully directed improvising choirs that take their lead from prerecorded factory sounds. These are extensively mixed and edited with yet more collected Machine sounds and other sources of musique concrète, as well as occasional use of basic electronic sources. The scale of this work, and the degree of preparation involved in scoring it, seem to have more resonances with the world of theatre or film rather than tape composition. Much of Wishart's early work involved the use of musicians and artists being directed to perform in new ways, outside of their usual remit. A combination of late 60s openness, detailed scores that provide frameworks for improvisation and slavish editing have resulted in an incomparable sound work. With a continuous playing time of one hour, the wild and previously unexplored terrain covered by this pioneering work of British experimental music moves in turn through the full range of possible audio landscapes from the oceanic calm of the doldrums to earsplitting factory mayhem. Jewel case cd with 12 page booklet." [label info] 2008 €13.00
WRIGHT, PETER Magpie Attack on the .. 7 "New 2-song single by New Zealand-born, London-based Peter Wright. Aquarius Records says Peter is one of the most compelling sound makers we have ever heardä and has released records on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Drone, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, aRCHIVE, and PseudoArcana. Peter uses a 12-string guitar, effects, amplified mini tambura, bells, chimes, and other gizmos to create powerful, organic noise. For fans of Smith and Youngs, Matthew Bower, and Birchville Cat Motel. Mastered by John Golden for maximum volume and pressed on thick vinyl." [label info] 2007 €7.00
WRIGHT, PETER & BRIAN GRAINGER Peint Arbre CD-R https://pspsph.bandcamp.com/album/peint-arbre Initially recorded between Summer and Autumn of 2009, then stashed away in the shade for almost nine years, my collaborative full-length album with Peter Wright is now finally issued forth into the universe. A mammoth album of drones, feedback, sub-bass harmonics and psychedelic textures, set across three different pieces, Peint Arbre is a dense and enveloping trip through the tangential and exploratory minds of two men, working almost 8,000 miles apart. Peter Wright, if you are unaware, is an outright legend of drone music, guitar improvisation and spectacularly filmic textures, having been active in the New Zealand experimental music culture since 1992. I've long been influenced by his recordings, and in 2009 I was lucky enough to host his epic Snow Blind double-album at INSTALL, the now-defunct label I co-operated with David Tagg. We followed Snow Blind with a vinyl release of Wright's transcendent Orbit, and he also guested on my One Bleak Try album, lending many additional layers of sonic seasoning to the track "Black Rust Caress." Since INSTALL closed its doors years ago, I've wanted to give this unreleased album we did a proper release. Since so much time had passed, Peter decided to revisit the recordings and add/subtract some things to bring it into its present form (so for those few out there who heard this album in its previous iteration, this is a different beast). Peint Arbre is an interesting cross-pollination of my distorted bass monolith drones, generated using guitar and organ in the Rolling Knoll studio, and Peter's contributions of guitars, vocals, percussion and all sorts of other instruments. Indeed, it feels very alive, and that is almost all Peter's doing - I merely provided the initiative steps. So it follows that hopefully another collaboration is due between us, and the door is of course always open for Peter to issue something of his own here at Psøma Psi Phi. W/P by Peter Wright & Brian Grainger. Principal recording done in South Carolina at Rolling Knoll, Summer 2009. Subsequent and final pass recording done in New Zealand, 2009 and 2018. Text and design by ABM&D. This is Psøma Psi Phi number ØΨΦVII. Packaged in a clear CPP plastic 120-micron thick sleeve with two hand-cut pastel cardstock inserts, custom hand-affixed text decals and black ink stamping, with an in-house duplicated/printed white CD-R. 2018 €13.00
X-NAVI:ET Aurum 10inch (lathe cut) Composed, performed and mixed by Rafał Iwański (shanti chimes, metal objects, microphones, fx) Aurum I recorded live at GOK, Przytoczna, 13.05.2016 Aurum II recorded at Studio Eter, Toruń, May 2019 Mastering: Marcin Bociński legatomastering.pl Artwork: Ewa Bińczyk ewabinczyk.pl Thanks to Darek Gorzelak & Piotr Barski xnaviet.bandcamp.com Płyta nie jest tłoczona, każdy egzemplarz jest wycinany, w czasie rzeczywistym. Nakład limitowany, numerowany, 66 szt. X-Navi:Et czyli Rafał Iwański - znany z grup HATI, Alameda 5, Innercity Ensemble, KAPITAL i projektu muzyczno-astronomicznego VOICES OF THE COSMOS. Perkusjonista, z wykształcenia etnolog (UMK w Toruniu), tworzy muzykę elektroakustyczną budowaną na brzmieniu modyfikowanych analogowo i cyfrowo instrumentów elektronicznych i akustycznych. Jako solista zagrał ponad 100 koncertów w Polsce, Niemczech, Wielkiej Brytanii, Austrii, Czechach, na Słowacji i w USA, w tym na festiwalach jak Unsound, Audio Art, Hradby Samoty, Trans/Wizje. Brał udział w nagraniu i realizacji kilkudziesięciu albumów wydanych na nośnikach CD i DVD, płytach winylowych i kasetach. Współpracował koncertowo i przy nagraniach płyt z innymi artystami dźwięku i obrazu takimi artystami jak Z'EV, Richard Pinhas, Peter Votava, Jeff Gburek, Zdzisław Piernik, Jerzy Mazzoll, Raymond Salvatore Harmon i wieloma innymi. Członek Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Muzyki Elektroakustycznej. https://sklep.gusstaff.com/x-navi-et-aurum-vinyl-10-limited.html 2019 €18.00
YASNAIA Oniro do-CD Zoharum is proud to present “Oniro” an extended 2CD reissue of 1996 classic previously released by World Serpent - home to projects like Current 93, Death In June, Coil and alike. Leen Smets aka Yasnaia - vocalist of Hybryds project (until her departure in 2000) takes us on a great journey through many states of consciousness and dimensions. Her haunting and hypnotising voice guides us through 10 tracks of the album. Chants and incantations keep us captivated from very beginning to the very end. Dark rites and ethereal psychedelia. A sexual energy channeled in rhythm driven magical tribalism. Exclusive to this release is a second CD containing live performance recorded at "Wolfsmond", München, Germany on 16th of August 1997 giving you a pretty good impression of how the whole ritual conducted by Yasnaia might sound and look like. The CD ends with 3 tracks, two of which were previously released on 7” vinyls courtesy of Ant-Zen and Spectre (Nexus) and third has been unreleased - until now. A great testimonial of '90s Art of industrial music. Unparalleled and essential. 2CD edition of 500 copies comes in 6 panel digipack. Tracks 1-10 taken from the original album released by World Serpent in 1996. Tracks 11-17 Live recordings Track 18 taken from 7" Picture Disc (AntZen 1997) Track 19 taken from 7" split with Hybryds / P.A.L.(Spectre 1997) Track 20 unreleased https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/album/oniro-extended-edition 2021 €17.00
YELDHAM, JUSTICE & THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE Birthdays LP Dokumentation zweier live-Gigs vom Mai 2007 (Marseille und Porto) von diesem extrem freakigen Body-Performer, der sich eine (mit Kontaktmikros abgenommene) Glasscheibe ins Gesicht presst und durch diese hindurch orales / vokales Lautmaterial hindurchgibt, während er mit den Füssen Effekte bedient. Der Sound der dabei entsteht ist höchst abartig, am Ende zerschlägt er die Glasplatte aus einem Kopf was stets in einem kleinen Blutbad endet. Die starke Physis dieser Performance wirkt natürlich am besten "live", aber auch der Mitschnitt sorgt bestimmt für einigen Eindruck! "Birthdays consists of two live sets by maverick amplified-glass player Justice Yeldham recorded during his & Keg's recent tour of Europe. If you've never heard of the guy you are in for a bloody treat. Using concert-grade piano contact mics, he amplifies a sheet of glass and plays it with his mouth and face, processing it with pedals attached to his belt, usually barefooted. The results are unworldly, and hearing it you would never imagine what created it, something an Aussie could especially achieve. Like careening assaults of insect spaceships, he transports the listener to other worlds of sound, ending most often in a crash of the glass upon his head. He survives, bloody but alive, never worse for wear in the morning. Side A was captured in Marseille on the eve of Justice's 35th birthday while side B was recorded on Kegs birthday in Porto (for a preview listen at myspace.com/justiceyeldham). And to top off the birthday cheer Keg also did the cover illustration as a gift for Justice's Birthday. Mastered by the god-like Rasheed of Dubplates (Berlin), the record has been collaboratively released in an edition of 600 copies across the world by Anarchymoon Recordings (North America), Turgid Animal (Europe) & All Thumbs Press (Australia). Black vinyl, B-on-W labels, 2-sided glue-on cover art (lim 600)." [label notes] www.anarchymoon.com 2008 €14.50
Z'EV Production and Decay of spacial Relations vs. Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations do-CD "Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Z'EV studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, DIE STADT is proud to announce the re-release of 'Production and Decay of spacial Relations' for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six 'recodings' entitled 'Reproduction and Decay of spatial Relations' made by Z'EV in May/June 2005. Back in the day Z'EV used to bring boxes over from Holland when he would come back to New York City which he would sell to Bleeker Bob (a famous Record Shop situated in the East Village of NY) who told him: "this is the best industrial record ever and I sell it to every japanese buyer who comes into the store". The CD is housed in a reproduction of the original LP (!) cover and comes with a special handmade insert. First edition of 500 copies. Total playing time: 79'57 min." [press release] "...This was z'ev's first studio LP from 1981, recorded and released in Rotterdam on a curious and regrettable long forgotten experimental music label Backlash Records (who also released Tuxedo Moon and Nyrabakiga). Up to that point z'ev in various guises just released live recorded material. It is where the interests of z'ev started to mingle: the live playing of percussion and the studio techniques, which he used in several other projects, such as Stefan Weisser. I don't what the studio of Backlash looked like, but it's a pretty interesting production. The sound gets processed, slowed down, but then new layers are added and strange muffled but strong rhythmic sounds occurs. None of the original power has been lost here. It was in its day already a masterpiece of 'industrial' music, and still is. On the same CD all the material gets a treatment in 2005, through some of the techniques z'ev uses these days. The layers are much thicker and fatter and lays less on the rhythm aspect. It makes this a great document. And with the first 500 copies there is also a second CD with three pieces from 1982. The first one is a live piece of metal percussion, which gives an idea what it sounded like in the day: raw and untamed. The second piece is a sound poetry/tape piece of heavily layered voices and 'Element/L' is a highly deformed piece of layered percussion, until it becomes an engine like sound." [FdW /Vital Weekly] 2006 €16.00
ZOS KIA / COIL Transparent CD ZOS KIA was formed by John Gosling (MEKON), John Balance (COIL) and Min - with guest Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (THROBBING GRISTLE). Their one and only album, Transparent, was released August 23rd 1983 in a cassette only edition on the now defunct Nekrophile label, Austria. They were the first released recordings of both COIL and ZOS KIA. It was reissued years later by COIL (Threshold House / Eskaton) in an edited edition. The entire recordings are now released on CD/vinyl for the first time and are completely remastered from the unedited tapes. Includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks by AKE (pre-ZOS KIA). The music on Transparent is genuinely unsettling and disturbing, with a more primal Industrial feel than the Coil album which followed; 'Scatology'. An essential insight into the very early work of these extraordinary artists and an undeniable link between Coil and Throbbing Gristle. Double vinyl edition in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve with 12" booklet of unseen images, with download card. CD edition presented in a 6-panel digipak with booklet containing unseen images. CD Tracks: 1. ZOS KIA 'Sicktone' | 2. ZOS KIA 'Baptism Of Fire' | 3. ZOS KIA 'Violations' | 4. ZOS KIA 'Poisons' | 5. ZOS KIA 'Truth' | 6. COIL / ZOS KIA 'Sewn Open' | 7. COIL / ZOS KIA 'Sicktone' | 8. COIL / ZOS KIA 'Silence And Sorcery (Section)' | 9. COIL / ZOS KIA 'Truth (Version)' | 10. COIL / ZOS KIA 'Stealing The Words' | 11. COIL / ZOS KIA 'On Balance' | 12. AKE 'No Mas' | 13. AKE 'Rape Live @ Equinox' www.coldspring.co.uk 2017 €13.00
ZOVIET FRANCE Feedback [Mort Aux Vaches] do-LP "VOD's third batch of Zoviet France reissues focusses on recordings and albums between 1996–2013, presenting many of them on vinyl for the first time. In this era, the pioneering band expanded their production techniques, exploring new sound worlds, without giving up the mysterious momentum of their music. »Feedback« (1998): For the first time on vinyl, this album meanders between crackling and rather noisy tracks and deep drones. It was originally released within the Mort Aux Vaches series.

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  A Long Walk do-LP VOD's third batch of Zoviet France reissues focusses on recordings and albums between 1996–2013, presenting many of them on vinyl for the first time. In this era, the pioneering band expanded their production techniques, exploring new sound worlds, without giving up the mysterious momentum of their music. »A Long Walk« (2011) sees its first physical release within this 3rd batch. 2022 €31.50
ZOVIET FRANCE & FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT [ZFAMP] Flexible Pooling 7inch flexi "Ltd edition 7 inch ep white flexidisc at 33rpm in custom packaging with insert and accompanying free download. this is two sides of audio at 11minutes and a download for a further 18 minutes...a 29 minute 'mini LP' in all... :zoviet*france: and Fossil Aerosol Mining Project take their collaboration, which resulted in last year’s ‘Patina Pooling’ double album release by alt.vinyl, a stage further – into the realm of pliable reverberation. Using the near-redundant record format of the 7-inch flexidisc, ‘Flexible Pooling’ consists of two new tracks that have been devised with the lo-fi quality of the format in mind. The low grade sound fidelity and susceptibility to physical degradation of flexidiscs intentionally becomes an additional layer to the recordings, a surface audio patina analogous to the rusting of the steel sleeves of last year’s album. Coded access to the free download of an additional, extended track will be supplied exclusively with the single. Flexible Pooling will be released by alt.vinyl and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art this month, in conjunction with the Baltic 39 exhibition, The Curves of the Needle." [label info] www.altvinyl.com "In 2014, we were blessed with a few copies of the first collaboration between the like-minded alchemists :zoviet*france: and the Fossil Aerosol Mining Projects, which came to us as a double lp, housed in a beefy slab of metal. Those few copies did not take long disappear, and we certainly expect that same fate to fall upon this outing as well. Flexible Pooling is intended to be the material antipode to the heft and durability of that first, with this 7" being a mere flexidisc and housed in a thin paper sleeve, with various printed ephemera gracing the package as well. There's two tracks found on the flexidisc and a download track, making the entire program an honest 30 minutes in length. It's a radioactive blizzard of tape machined errata, countervailed with subcutaneous drones and slippery layers of bedraggled, haptic noise compressed and / or exhumed from the vaults of some deep sea science station collecting data on thermal vents at the ocean floor before it was abandoned. The two entities organically sift through their material, sending various flutters, glissandos, snippets of unknowable dialogue, and electrical malfunctions into accreted and aggregated chorales of raw hypnogogia. Beautiful and eerie, Flexible Pooling represents a perfectly realized sound between two already exceptional authors of the sublime drift. Extremely limited." [Aquarius Rec.] 2015 €18.00