Kapotte muziek by
The thirteenth installment in this series is the first full- length CD split by Richard Chartier and Boca Raton. Their approaches to sound are similar, so it is a good idea to combine them on a split release. Boca Raton is an ongoing musical project …
Incidence
This release is an expression of long-lasting artistic ties between both labels. In the greyness, heavy waves begin to glide into the one-hour work. They swell and flood a vacuum. Richard Chartier intensifies this maelstrom in long and graceful moves…
Current
Richard Chartier’s sound installation and recorded pieces evoke a state of aural awareness. Working with a variety of minimal structures and refined sound sources, Chartier has been responsible for some of the most austere audio works of recent years…
An angel moves too fast to see
By the late 1980s, Rhys Chatham was chafing against the logistical and financial constraints imposed upon him in the States; in his mind was a vast, unprecedented sound. Moving permanently from New York to Paris, Chatham began composing his masterpie…
Die Donnergötter
Rhys Chatham altered the DNA of rock. The New York-born composer began as a classically-trained prodigy, but by 1975, Chatham was fusing the overtone-drenched minimalism of John Cale and Tony Conrad with the relentless, elemental fury of the Ramones.…
Hoarse Frenzy
Indescribable Italian artist who has had previous releases on Fringes, Fusetron and Public Eyesore. Hoarse Frenzy is like Faust doing a folk album; terribly beautiful and weird. Incredible use of sound space and field recordings. "Last Visible Dog …
Elektronische musik
One of the biggest finds in total Kraut electronic underground in the recent years. Crack in the Cosmic Egg asks: Does this exist? Yes it does! A Student of Eimert, Reinhold Weber produced several records of his own, two between 1969 and 1971, both o…
Pech
Pech is the latest duo recording from inside pianist Reinhold Friedl and avant- percussionist Michael Vorfeld. Over the past five years, this pair of German musicians have created some of the most engaging and imaginative electro-acoustic music, expl…
Futaie / Tchernoziom
Régis Renouard Larivière was born on 3 December 1959 in Paris. He decided to devote himself to acousmatic composition following the Adac-GRM training course he attended at the end of 1984 with Jacques Lejeune and Philippe Mion. He has been teaching s…
Manhattan research inc.
First time-ever release of 1950s-60s recordings featuring Raymond Scott's performances on his pioneering electronic music inventions (the 'Circle Machine,' the 'Rhythm Modulator,' the 'Bass-Line Generator,' the 'Electronium,' the 'Clavivox,' & other …
Soothing Sounds for Baby Volume 3
Third of three mini-albums to soothe babies by, composed and performed by Raymond Scott on self-designed electronic instruments.
Soothing Sounds for Baby Volume 1
First of three mini-albums to soothe babies by, composed and performed by Raymond Scott on self-designed electronic instruments. To be enjoyed by infants of all ages. As ambient music, it predates Eno and Fripp. Reissue produced by Gert-Jan Blom, lin…
Desert ambulance
this is an album from none other than recently rediscovered early electronics guru Ramon Sender. After last year’s critically revered ‘Wormfood’ album also on Locust, this is yet another slice of otherworldly musical brain candy. Side A, entitled ‘Ko…
Worldfood
Worldfood is a wild, psychedelic warble & drone of looped, overlayed tape pieces produced by 'goosing' an ampex tape player with a computer calibration device. The resulting two pieces -- 'Worldfood vii (To See With my Eyes)' and 'WorldfoodXii' -- bo…
Cases
Musique concrete realized 1999/2000 in Chicago and Mainz. Released in a 6-panel digisleeve.
Sound Mind Sound Body
Rafael Toral's music is guitar based, but doesn't seem to involve any of the usual guitar histrionics. Instead he focuses in on the little details, the expansion of the sustained note. Sound Mind Sound Body is indeed a sustained note; the music is no…
Harmonic series 2
Japanese-only release. Recorded live in Japan in 2003, Harmonic Series 2 is a 43 minute piece for computer generated sinewaves, custom software, guitar and analog electronics. It follows Harmonic Series 0 which was released on Table of the Elements. …
Wave Field
Reissue of the 2nd album by this Portuguese guitarist/composer Rafael Toral, originally issued by the small Moneyland label 1995, which was not widely distributed. This record is what every guitar/drone/crunch/snap,crack and pop afficionado has ever …
Bek
Recorded and mixed August 6-10, 2001 at Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
