Various Artists
Driller Killer
It's taken almost 50 years for the long-lost original score and soundtrack to Abel Ferrara's 1979 grindhouse / video nasty "The Driller Killer" to finally be released. Composed by Joe Delia, it features contributions from Tony Coca-Cola And The Roosters, and classical pieces by J.S. Bach."Driller Killer was a crash course in real time to scoring music to picture. We sat around the Steenbeck scoring directly to Jackie's 2 track Tandberg deck. We had two synthesizers... an ARP odyssey and an ARP s…
Wandlungen Unplump
Seven electroacoustic pieces curated by Michael Hoeldke for Edition DEGEM, with Robert Henke, Ralf Hoyer, Julia Mihály, Denise Ritter, Stefan Schulzki and Brian Smith. CD, 2014.
Word Countdown Vol.2 (Book)
Lansdowne Books returns to World Countdown, the music newspaper that Charles Royal published in California every two weeks between August 1966 and July 1969. Original copies are very hard to find today. World Countdown - Volume 2 picks up where the first book stopped and reproduces every issue from July 1967 to May 1968.
These are the months right after Monterey, when West Coast psychedelia was at full strength and the paper followed it issue by issue. In its pages: Love, Moby Grape, Spirit, Blu…
Music For Black Pigeons
** 2026 limited edition double vinyl with the original cover by Tal R. ** After 14 years of filming/recording some of today’s most influential musicians, the music from Andreas Koefoed’s and Jørgen Leth’s celebrated film “Music For Black Pigeons” is now available for the first time (vinyl only). The soundtrack is based on compositions by Jakob Bro, performed by Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Craig Taborn, Paul Motian, Andrew Cyrille, Arve Henriksen, Midori Takada and many others.
Venice Film Festival…
Kosmische Psychédélique (Motorik, Astral and Avant-Garde Musik from Deutschland and Beyond 1970-2025)
Two-Piers' Psychédélique series lands in Kosmische Musik: La Düsseldorf, Neu!, Harmonia, Cluster, Schulze, Faust, Guru Guru, Tangerine Dream and Cosmic Jokers, then the heirs, from Boards of Canada and Tortoise to Beak>.
Cosmic Cowgirls & Female Outlaws 1951-1979
Psychedelic and acid-tinged country-folk by fearless women, 1951-1979, compiled with Hackney's Stranger Than Paradise: Connie Converse, Annette Peacock, Linda Perhacs, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Brigitte Fontaine, Bobbie Gentry.
Bridges Towards Open Spaces: Circadian Rhythms 1967-2025
A record-shop memoir in sound from Two-Piers, moving between ambient, balearic and dub: Brian Eno with Moebius and Roedelius, Kuniyuki Takahashi, The Durutti Column, Meat Beat Manifesto, Daniel Avery and Spectrum.
Lounge Psychédélique (The Best of Lounge & Exotica 1954-2022)
Third chapter of Two-Piers' Psychédélique series: lounge, exotica and space age pop from Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, Mort Garson and Leonard Nimoy to library cuts by Keith Mansfield and Jack Trombey.
Music for the Stars (Celestial Music 1960-1979)
Two-Piers' late-night compilation of 1960s and 70s songs for stargazing: Skip Spence, Fred Neil, John Fahey, Roedelius, Captain Beefheart, Eden Ahbez, Nina Simone, Lonnie Liston Smith, Tim Buckley, Bill Fay and Gene Clark.
Sound City Joburg - South Africa's Township Soul 1969
It feels as if it were yesterday. In 2002, after returning to Frankfurt from a record-hunting trip to Johannesburg, I put one of my new South African discoveries on the turntable and jumped into the shower. Suddenly, the record player erupted into a terrible noise, as if someone were hammering the needle. I ran out, dripping wet, and discovered that the stylus had hit a deep cut carved into the vinyl. A Kenyan friend, Dan Ojwang, had sent me to a record shop opposite the Market Theatre in Newtow…
Brao Gongs of Ratanakiri (Cambodia)
Tip! This is raw, unfiltered ceremonial gong ensemble music recorded on location by Laurent Jeanneau in Ratanakiri, Cambodia’s northeastern province, bordering Laos and Vietnam. Along with Mondolkiri to the south, it was once home to many of the country’s ethnic minority communities. During the colonial period, the French failed to establish full control over the region. After independence, the Khmer state also struggled to govern it, while Khmer Rouge rebels hid in its forests in the 1960s amid…
Mekong Shellac: Cambodian Artifacts from the 78-rpm era
Tip! Mekong Shellac is an extremely rare collection of classical and popular styles of Khmer music from the 1930s to the 1950s. Restored from the few original remaining copies, this compilation reveals a remarkable world of early 20th-century Cambodian folk music previously lost in time through war, cultural shifts, and modernization. These recordings were selected for their distinctive musical qualities, the physical condition of the 78 rpm records from which they were sourced, and the circumst…
Dalga: A Selection of 80’s Pop Oddities from Turkey
Dalga – A Selection of ’80s Pop Oddities from Turkey is the first compilation to bring together rare Turkish pop oddities from the 1980s, and the first compilation to explore how new studio technologies shaped the sound of 1980s Turkish pop and dance music. Features six tracks that were released only on rare cassette tapes.
In the aftermath of Turkey’s 1980 military coup, collective music-making gradually gave way to studio-based production, as drum machines, samplers, and synthesisers took cent…
Spiritual Jazz 19 - West Coast USA Part 2: 70s & 80s
Two x 2LP sets that examine the influence and expression of the underground jazz that evolved in California and surrounding states during the latter part of the 20th century.
Spiritual Jazz 19 - West Coast USA Part 1 & 2: 50s - 80s
Two x CD sets that examine the influence and expression of the underground jazz that evolved in California and surrounding states during the latter part of the 20th century.
Yerevan Nights (Soviet Armenian City Pop 1986-1992)
Available October 30th, 2026, this compilation pulls back the Iron Curtain to bring a bevy of physically unreleased music of Soviet-era Armenia. Songs that were exclusively broadcast on radio and television, stored on reel-to-reel tapes, and shelved in a government-owned vault alongside tens of thousands of various recordings by Armenian artists - all inaccessible to the public. Fully licensed from Public Radio of Armenia, with additional clearance from all composers or their living descendants …
Sowas Von Egal 3 (German Synth Wave Underground 1981-86)
The third dig into Germany's synth-wave underground, 1981-86. Cold drum machines, cheap keyboards and DIY nerve from the NDW margins, a trove of minimal-wave obscurities rescued from the cassette age.
Various Artists - My Heart is Dust Before Him: 21st Century Gasba from Algeria
Across western Algeria, the gasba, a reed flute central to Bedouin folk traditions and ceremonial music, continues to appear in new forms. Once associated primarily with saint festivals and trance rituals, its distinctive hypnotic sound now sits alongside the drum machines, synths and electronic textures of contemporary raï. The recordings collected here come from Oran, the port city of Western Algeria widely regarded as the birthplace of raï. Before raï became an international pop phenomenon, i…
Frightened Birds Head House
“Frightened Birds Head House” is a compilation. It is not a “sampler,” a term that implies the practical function of serving as a label’s calling card. (…) Toward the end of the 1970s, records and cassettes made by independent record shops and individuals rather than large corporations—ones that required little more than a name, a logo, and something they wanted to release—were also playing that role, whether or not their creators intended them to. In Manchester, there was Factory. In Brussels, …
Tellus: The Audio Cassette Magazine, Vol. 1
Long before streaming services, podcasts, or even the compact disc, there was Tellus - a radically ambitious publication that imagined recorded sound as an exhibition space. Founded in 1983 in downtown New York, Tellus transformed the humble audio cassette into a magazine, commissioning and publishing new works by musicians, composers, visual artists, poets, writers, choreographers, and performers who were reshaping the boundaries of contemporary art. Each issue invited listeners into a world wh…