Various
Auto Glamour Sound
Experimental punk from Ohio, with BPA (somewhat confused guitar noise with stomping beat), Cointelpro (similar stuff, but more diverse & better, the second song is "real" punk) and 11000 Switches (more stuff in the same vein, sounds a bit like the weirder side of Mission of Burma). Not too catchy but interesting stuff, and thank god they saved us from saxophones and cheap synths.
De Nagalm Op De Kopf
Excellent compilation put together by Dennis Tyfus and featuring a bunch of material that was supposed to come out on the label over the past few years, with tracks from Noise Nomads, Krystal Knight (aka Jessica Rylan/Can’t), Hacky Pack Zac Sac, Mudboy, Cement Future, Happy Mother’s Day I Can’t Read, Cards On My Cunt, Prurient, Ex Members Of Josh Hydeman, Cloaca & Vom Grill, XO4, Burning Star Core, Kites, Defneg, Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof, Trashbusters, Anthro Rex, Eris Boros, Bloated Ego And T…
Kontext-Sound
beautiful, essential documentation, a compilation of soundpoetry / text-sound activity published on the occasion of the 10th International Festival of Sound Poetry that took place in Stockholm, Amsterdam and London in 1977. Includes sound poetry chronology and discography, interviews with Bob Cobbing and Sten Hanson, articles by Bernard Heidsieck, Francois Dufrene, Henri Chopin, Gerhard Ruhm, as well as amazing visual scores & texts by Bengt Emil Johnson, Ake Hodell, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Chris Ch…
Fluxus Anthology
Fluxus Anthololgy is a collection of music and sound events edited by Maurizio Nannucci with full integrety towards the idiology and spirit of Fluxus, one of the most radical art movements of the second half of this century. Limited edition of 1000 and long deleted now - gatefold cover including that features George Maciunas' "Expanded Arts Diagram", clear vinyl
Source: Music Of The Avant Garde - Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Astoundingly great collection of some of the classic pieces from the 60s avant-garde / live electronic music wave presented here as originally issued (in chronological order) by larry austin & stanley lunetta via their “source: music of the avant garde” magazine & 10” record series between 1967 and 1973 .... Source Records 1 and 2 with Robert Ashley: The Wolfman (1964). David Behrman: Wave Train (1966). Larry Austin: Accidents (1967). Allan Bryant: Pitch Out (1967). Source Records 3 and 4 with A…
This Infernal Love Of Life
A visionary showcase of Sweden's finest artists, paying tribute to the mighty currents of LIFE within us all. This album was originally released as an LP by Topyscan in Stockholm in 1989, in a limited, hand-numbered edition. Included was a booklet with texts, artwork and photographs by the artists. Release date is 15th July 2008. Limited edition of 500 copies in jewelcase. The idea, if any, was to invite artists working with sound and experimental music to illustrate the philosophical, emotional…
Insane Music Box
Insane Music, run by Alain Neffe, has been one of the greatest and biggest Tape-Labels promoting the international cassette-culture of the 80's. Labelrunner Alian Neffe got approached by VOD to compile a 4Lp Box with 7" of his band-projects I SCREAM, BENE GESSERIT, SUBJECT, HUMAN FLESH and PSEUDO CODE. Alain Neffe looked deeply into his archive and found many oscruities and unreleased material in combination with 80's tape-classics and compuled this wonderful Box-Set. All Box-Sets will also cont…
Electroacoustic Music (IV) Archive Tapes, Synthesizer ANS 1964-1
again, long out of print, beautiful CD with pioneering electronic music from the period 1964 – 1971, which is a period when the somewhat lighter hand of Nikita Krushchev was replaced by the much sturdier and more repressive totalitarian reign of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. This CD is a great revelation to the world outside of Russia, giving insights to the experimentation of sound during that important period, when so much was happening in the U.S.A. (San Francisco Tape Music Center) and Europe (The…
50 ans de musique électroacoustique - GRM
This is a long out of print (1998) beautiful glossy magazine, written in 5 languages with a great collection of visual material, giving some background on French and Italian electronic music history, practice and institutions - along with it, a double CD with 57 short pieces or extracts covering the first 50 years of the work of the seminal Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, starting with Pierre Schaeffer (1948) and ending with Christian Zanesi (1998), selected and compiled by INA.GRM its…
Underground
Amazing live + interview DVD with a total duration of almost 4 (four!) hours!!! Underground is a film by Delphine Sanchez on the French Darklight label, that offers an in-depth overview on todays cold musicand alternative-scene. The DVD (in PAL) is divided in a live-part (2hours 40 minutes) and includes excerpts from liveperformances by Gaë Bolg, Suicide Commando, Tamtrum, Violet Stigmata, Von Magnet, Norma Loy, OlenK, The Breath of Life, Frustration, Jabberwock, Jacquy Bitch, Hide and Seek, Col…
Japanoise Of Death I + II
This limited collectors edition comes in a laser-engraved metal box and contains parts 1 and 2 of the cult Japanese Noise compilations. Part 1 was compiled by Koji Tano (MSBR -R.I.P.) and Shinichi Shikada (Noiseuse) and was originally released in 2003 on vinyl (Ltd 500) and CDR (Ltd 100). Part 1 has now been reissued onto CD for this release andt is not available separately! CD1 features: Defectro, Government Alpha, Guilty Connector, Incapacitants, K2, KK Null, Masonna, MSBR, Noiseuse and Wage-S…
People Who Do Noise
People Who Do Noise is a film about the experimental music of Portland, Oregon. Extensive interviews and intimate performance footage provide an intense portrait of the motivations, emotions, and ideas that go into this uncompromising, sometimes brutal musical form. Unwavering in its focus, the film brings to light an art form unfathomable to many, with only the words of the musicians themselves providing any explanation for the pulsating sonic chaos they create.The film takes a very personal a…
Radio art
A long deleted artist record anthology by Nicola Frangione, issued in a handful of copies back in 1997 "During the last 30 years Action Art has found fertile fields of confluence between the experimentation about vision and gesture and poetic- visual sound dramaturgy. A large space of this research has been characterized by the connection of Performance Art with the arguments connected to the poetics of the “total poetry” and by the development of the performance technologies in a technologica…
Italic Environments - Project By Nicola Frangione
another thought to find early compilation by Nicola Frangione, more into droney and electroacoustic vein than the previous, it might reminds the early Franco Battiato music sometimes...highly recommended
Mail Music
An amazing LP conceived and compiled by Nicola Frangione, back in 1983. In the spirit of the Mail Art movement of the 1980s comes the Mail Music project. Collecting 47 sound art samples sent in from around the world, Nicola Frangione compiles them together in a pastiche manner similar to the Distruct LP compiled by P16.D4. Each side is one continuous track and the individual sound submissions which are approximately 1 - 1.5 minutes long, overlap giving the impression of a collage work. This was …
Ohr Paper Sleeves Series
This strictly-limited special outer box set, showing the beautiful Ohr logo and containing these classic 5 Kraut titles (CTCD-625-629)! All CDs housed on papersleeve mini repros of the original LP sleeves. CTCD 625: Guru Guru - UFO CTCD 626: Guru Guru - Hinten CTCD 627: Mythos - Mythos CTCD 628: Annexus Quam - Osmose CTCD 629: Annexus Quam - Beziehungen.
Revolutions Per Minute, the art record
Amazing 2LP document of the Fluxus and associated art scenes from the US and elsewhere. The line-up on these records are amazing. Comes in a beautiful gatefold jacket with a 2-sided pull-out poster with artwork/words from all involved. gatefold sleeve with titles and text-information inside. *With inserted Introduction by Robert C. Morgan (folded sheet) and folded sheet with portraits of the participating artists: i.a. Jud Fine, Eleanor Antin, Terry Fox, Les Levine, Hannah Wilke, Vincenzo Agnett…
Northwest Passage: The Birth of Portland\'s D.I.Y. Culture
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Pacific Northwest witnessed a surge of idiosyncratic creativity that, for a time, banished the slack-jawed banality of mainstream music and art to the shabby bargain basement of the cultural wasteland. Countless young men and women turned their backs on the hollow blather generated in corporate boardrooms, producing their own music and art with a rebellious, energetic glee. Northwest Passage: The Birth of Portland's D.I.Y. Culture is an independent film…
Psychedelic Phinland
Subtitled: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974. Mostly amazing collection of underground Finnish music, presented in definitive fashion by the original Love Records label (there's a schmaltz/theatrical element on Disc 1 just to keep you on your toes). Great booklet of English notes and photos, Love Records does it again! Features Sperm, Baby Grandmothers, Suomen Talvisota, Pekka Airaksinen, J.O. Mallander, and a bunch of others.
More Arctic Hysteria / Son of Arctic Hysteria
...The later years of early Finnish avant-garde. Another incredible volume, following the inspiration and eye-opening 2001 CD Arktinen hysteria -- Suomi-avantgarden Wsipuutarhureita. Perfectly packaged document of more utterly obscure electronic mayhem and theatrical intoxication, presented as near-high-art. Now covered are the 1970s and 1980s. 34 artists. Featuring a lavishly illustrated leaflet of 20 pages. Compiled by Jukka Lindfors. Featuring Jimi Tenor, Läjä Äijälä and early Mika Vainio (Pa…