Recordings 1971-1983
Limited edition of 500. Don Slepian is a true pioneer of electronic music. He started composing in 1969 and released his first compilation cassette in September of 1978. He left Hawaii and came to Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he was…
What Lies in the Sea
What Lies in the Sea is the fruit of a ten-year collaboration between singer Lynn Cassiers and keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, and is the first release for their duo Lilly Joel. Both musicians are free spirits and lauded innovators in their respective fi…
Fieldtone
The sounds found in nature can have a very slow groove. A groove embedded by silence, so slow it can almost only be felt while spending a few hours at sea, on a forest trip, in open fields... It is this groove and the "silence" of nature that inspire…
First
Tarotplane is the solo project of Baltimore-based musician PJ Dorsey. First, his full-length debut, is a tremendous album etched on the great krautrock and experimental psychedelic records from the '70s. Vintage electronic sounds are mixed with effec…
In the Grassfield
Palais des Bauzards pursued an industrial and electronic variant of the sound that swept into vogue during the first half of the '80s. This compilation digs into the original material provided by the band and offers an amazing selection from start to…
Living on Superstition
"Living on Superstition" is the debut LP from New York native Phil Tortoroli a.k.a. James Place. After his initial cassette release "An Entire Matchbook A Night" (Opal Tapes) in 2014, James Place returns with a harrowing, meditative record of candle-…
Snowthorn
Perhaps the most compelling of the many projects started by one-time members of Wolf Eyes, Mike and Tara Connelly\'s Clay Rendering came to life in 2013 and have since released a trio of singles for Hospital Productions that have gained them the admi…
Som Sakrifis
CD reissue of Pan LP, edition with extra track "Siv". Re-mastered and re-designed. Based in Greece, Mohammad make long-form drone works that explore the lower end of the frequency spectrum while retaining an intense emotional capacity. The results …
Technological Music Vol. 2
A series of calculated disasters wherein compositional intent is exercised to varying degrees before and or after the moment of performance. The Irreproducible Results are single-pass, unedited improvisations featuring borrowed gear configured to m…
Rafia Longer
John Wall, computer, editing sound manipulation. Alex Rodgers, voice, real and computer-generated, text-to-speech. Mastered by Jacques Beloeil. Edition of 200 copies "Wall and Rodgers’] last two collaborations have intermingled Rodgers’ leftfield d…
Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1
**study exCD box edition** After melting minds since the mid-'90s with his beat-based productions, renowned techno producer Anthony Child aka Surgeon now brings the fundamental components of electronic sound production to the fore with Electronic Rec…
Tranceformer
A foundational piece of underground electronic music from Australia, which, remarkably, has not been available on vinyl since its original release almost 35 years ago: this double gatefold LP was in fact released on the independent Fission Chips labe…
Violet Art of Improvisation
** restocked ** Milestone!! Housed in a glorious mini-LP gatefold japanese style papersleeve packaging with custom OBI, double CD edition. This reissue of a largely unknown yet spellbinding touchstone in the canon of early doom music heritage is fina…
Periodikmindtrouble
Milestone!! Dreamy and cosmic, with long drones, deconstructed guitars and repetitive organ chords that are both bleak and mesmerizing, falling somewhere between Brian Eno, Conrad Schnitzler, and Heldon, with similar pulsing electronic sonic space vi…
Noyaux
Seattle producer and songwriter Benoît Pioulard (aka Thomas Meluch) has been following his very own path through the calm scenery of ambient, shoegaze and electronica for over ten years now. Following the release of "Sonnet", his fifth LP for Portlan…
Na Mele A Ka Haku (Music Of Haku)
LP version. Synthesizers and the human voice. Hawaii. The 1970s. Haku, aka Frank Tavares, a writer and musician, had a deep respect for the multiethnic character of his native Hawaii, and composed a number of theater pieces and songs to highlight thi…
Stop Suffering
Stop Suffering is first music to emerge from Camella Lobo's Tropic of Cancer project since her 2013 debut album, Restless Idylls (BLACKEST 005CD/LP). The towering, time-stopping title-track is the culmination of Tropic of Cancer's work to date; rarel…
Archive: The Downwards Singles
The three original songs from Tropic of Cancer's two 10"s on Downwards, The Dull Age/Victims (2009) and Be Brave (2011) (now both out of print and highly sought-after), collected on one 12" with new artwork by Silent Editions. An artifact of a time a…
13
Room40 inaugurates its series of works by American guitarist and composer Norman Westberg with 13. Best known for his work with the seminal outfit Swans, Westberg's output beyond that group is sprawling and restless. His name recurs and ripples throu…
Syntheseis
One of the rarest & most legendary electronic privately pressed album from Italy has been finally reissued. If only its existence were known, this would be the so-called holy-grail of obscure electronic / experimental / musique concrete albums!! Issu…