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To Sail, To Sail
One of the most profound solo statements to date from a musical master who has been crossing musical borders for over three decades! Concentrating exclusively on the acoustic guitar, Fred Frith stretches himself and the instrument like never before, performing with the eloquence and grace of a master in peak form. With a prodigious technique and elegant sense of maturity he draws upon a lifetime of study and experience to bring together influences as diverse as classical, blues, folk, gypsy and …
Back To Life
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Anyone who thinks of multifaceted composer/performer Fred Frith primarily as a guitar player with Henry Cow and for his 1974 album Guitar Solos is way out of touch with what he's been up to in, say, more than 30 years. The 2008 release of Back to Life on Tzadik represents a good opportunity to reconnect with Frith and summarize what he has been doing since the heady days of his scrambling, intense electric guitar improvisations like "Alienated Industrial Sea…
Eye To Ear III
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Fred Frith continues to be one of the most important composer/performers of his generation—a groundbreaking, genre busting musical master whose work ranges from improvisation to rock, classical, folk and more. The third volume of his film soundtrack music is his most diverse and accomplished work to date, and includes studio work from the past six years. Features some of the greatest musicians in the Bay Area music scene.
Golden Quartet
A longtime dream project of Wadada Leo Smith, one of creative music’s most original voices, Tzadik is proud to present the first recording by a modern jazz supergroup. The four instrumental giants that comprise the Golden Quartet are veterans of some of the most influential bands in jazz history and here they are at the height of their powers. Five new compositions bring together lyricism, groove and fireworks in this exciting recording destined to become a classic of new jazz.
The Great God Pan
The third chapter of this extraordinary trilogy by the world's most extreme musical explorers—John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris.
Samsara
Thirty-three years after their first meeting, Samsara is a spectacular reunion of three of the world's most extreme musical explorers—John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris.
The Equinox
The Equinox is PainKiller's much anticipated sequel to their critically praised 2024 album Samsara, and it has a more varied and adaptable style than their previous work.
Wonderful World Of Werkpiloten
2012 release. Limited edition of 500. Die Werkpiloten were Christian Aufderstroth aka Krischi (vocals) and Stefan Caesar aka Prinz Eisenhart (programming). The duo was active from 1981 until 1986, and released four cassettes including a compilation on their label Werkpilot Industrial Releases, as well as contributions to various tape compilations of the '80s cassette culture. This double LP compiles their first two tape releases published on their own tape label including 22 beautiful wave songs…
Miscellany Deluxe
Finally arrived : 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…
C.O.I.T. - A Collection of Isolated Tracks 1981-1988
**Edition of 300 double CDs and 7" plus 6 offset metallic printed postcards housed in black varnished wooden box with slide close lid** 'This amazing archival collection from Vinyl on Demand brings together 28 tracks of kinetic, dark and unusual French wave and industrial aces by Clair Obscur. Many of them formerly appeared on the 'A Collection Of Isolated Tracks' CD, but this compilation adds 13 previously unpublished gems bundled with the first ever vinyl issue of their 1982 tape, 'La C…
Exotic Percussion / Death TV
In the heart of Sheffield's electronic / industrial music scene of 1979, Peter Bargh and Mark Holmes created the experimental project Mein Glas Fabrik. This VOD release is a combination of their two cassette albums, recorded on simple equipment using tape loops, home made synths, samples, random radio frequencies and a legendary Shergold guitar. Death TV was favourably reviewed in local fanzine "Tigers on the Moor", Exotic Percussion followed soon after. While influenced by a wide spectrum of mu…
Insane 80s Tracks from the Insane Label
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. Full of raw analogue electronics, and plenty blood-curdling screaming, thise selection feature BeNe GeSSeRiT, Pseudo Code, Human Flesh and I Scream
Demonstro 1981-1986
Slices of Attrition's earliest existence. A Double-Lp with previously unreleased, rare and demo recordings from the earliest days on Third mind records and beyond. From the initial post punk line up to the early experiments with analogue electronics in the bands fledgling home studio. Rescued from forgotten cassette mixes and 4 track tapes, restored and remastered by Martin Bowes, including sleeve notes by Third Mind's Gary Levermore, unreleased photos and artwork and available for the fi…
The M.A.L. Tapes
One side full of great Minimal/Synth-Tracks from his early 80’s Tapes „Chemistry“, „Two Faces“ and „Outlaw“ on labels like Grafika Airline and Insane Music; the other side with two mind-blowing and -opening electric-guitar-tracks from 1971-74 which will definately touch your consciousness for music-history and hopefully help re-writing it. Alain Neffe of Pseudo Code / Bene Gesserit (Insane Music) participated on two of the pieces. M.A.L.'s cassettes have been remastered in superb sound quality b…
Sheet Tape Registered Black 1977-1979
Steve Hitchcock (currently known as Ferrara Brain Pan) began experimenting with music and art in early 1977 as a freshman-year university student in San Diego, where he edited and published five issues of a Neo-Dada mail art 'zine called 'Cabaret Voltaire’. While active in mail art, he corresponded with Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Funni Tutti of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle and thereby became involved with the early Industrial music movement. During the years 1977-79, he created thes…
In A Fit Of Delirium • 1978-82
VoD expose the nether regions of obscure French minimal/synth music with two LPs of ultra-rare recordings by Lucas Trouble. In his many guises - The Gitanes, Jerking Idols, The Mystic Riders From Spectral South, Temple Gates, Vietnam Veterans, to name a few - he's notched up over 300 releases in the past 30 years, oscillating wildly between unhinged avant-pop to spiky punk and spookily evocative synth instrumentals. 'In A Fit Of Delirium' sums up his nascent aesthetic nicely, presenting one side…
1980-1980
Music has a time and a place. Early 80's post punk eclecticism gave rise to an independence of mind and spirit which opened doors to infinite possibilities. No longer confined by the strait jacket of major labels and imbued with the confidence and imagination of a new era new sounds appeared. The spirit of punk engaged with an aspiration for a wider musical vision and a willingness to experiment with sound. The era of home made cassette music allowed people to share and copy - and more i…
Galen Herod Word & Musics Recordings 1983-88
Galen Herod has always considered himself a “recording artist”. Not in the traditional sense, as in, “recording artist Frank Sinatra!” But as an actual description of what he does. Sometimes the art he records even turn into songs. That’s what this 2 LP set is all about. While creating several cassettes of his homemade modular electronics in 1980/81 he created 3 cassettes of improv/post-rock/synth recordings with Phoenix area compatriots ’Metalmonkey’ and in 1981 he met Greg Horn and the…
The First And Second Side Of The Mystic Synth
This limited 400 2Lp in gatefold-sleeve presents the last and long overdue work of the highly influential, enigmatic & near mythical Italo-Group Fockewulf 190. As Protagonists to the Dark Side of Italo Disco evolving and developing in the mid 80’s music-scene, they influenced countless newborn artists all over the globe. This newly recorded Studio-LP in combination with a re-work of the 1986-Demo-Lp “In a Room of Memory“ represents the final chapter of Fockewulf 190’s output as mastermind & co-l…
Living On A Red Line 1983-85
Los Paranos (also called LOSP) is a french group created in the late 70’s by Christophe Petchanaz (one half of the still very active french Duo Klimperei). Other projects were Deleted, Torentanz, Al & Del, Fuss, Dents, Klimparag...Los Paranos music is a mix of the classic beat-driven minimal-synth-attitude incl. a nice touch of 80’s Wave and therefore fits just perfectly on the label VOD-Records.