Frequencies In The Fog
100 copies limited release Sound trails, minimal structures built with pads, discreet electronic elements, slow, deep and enveloping bass lines, backgrounds of confused voices treated in reverse, circular movements alternating with liquid stasis and quiet... Creaks on layered sound substrates of indecipherable nature, which seem to emerge from a thick blanket of fog that reveals fragments of real landscapes here and there, ready to disappear from view again after a few moments, once more hidden …
Grotto In The Sun
*100 copies limited release* Winding through cavernous and dark meanders, amid gurgling water, rustling sounds, low and deep pulsations, incisive and impactful sound masses, floating waves, crystalline drips, sudden rays of light, electronic spirals, and unexpected openings onto almost soothing soundscapes and quiet environmental stasis, Rod Modell paints musical textures that are apparently abstract and contemplative, but in reality charged with pathos and drama, taking advantage of a spectacul…
Music In DNA
"When you notice the cheerful mystery playing with the synths, the edges of this small world start to look slightly distorted. In any era, someone is always creating mysterious music on their own." - 7FO
Fallen Angel
Somewhere between heaven and hell…there is Fallen Angel. Dark Entries continues its mission of shining light on a generation of composers and musicians lost to AIDS with Brandy Dalton’s Fallen Angel, his soundtrack work for the award-winning Fallen Angel series. Brandy was known for many years in the LA underground for his performances with his boyfriend, Robert Woods, who was the resident DJ at Club Fuck. Eventually, they recruited John Munt to form the band Drance, becoming infamous for their …
A sad song for A.
«The project “a sad song for A.” was born from an insight Stefano Gentile had, driven by his moods and, in particular, a regret he had experienced in the past. It all began almost by chance, one evening, during an informal conversation. Stefano suggested that I narrate what I was experiencing most intensely at that moment: anxiety. After thoroughly analyzing this emotional state, he asked me to translate it into words, to write texts that could give voice to the emotions surrounding it. From the…
Implodendo in una accecante oscurità Pt.1 + Pt. 2
*200 copies limited edition* Italian ambient pioneer Gigi Masin returns with his captivating new album, Implodendo in una accecante oscurità. The title, which translates to "Imploding in a Blinding Darkness", hints at the immersive sonic journey within—a delicate balance between light and shadow, stillness and movement. This record showcases Masin’s signature blend of ethereal melodies and textures, weaving intricate soundscapes that echo the vastness of inner emotional landscapes. With subtle s…
Particles, Peds & Pores
*200 copies limited edition* "Jaime Fennelly, as Mind Over Mirrors, makes music that pushes the known to the lip of the unknown, where it rocks precariously and in exhilaration. He scrambles the familiar and tweaks the comfortable, not through aggression, but a throbbing estrangement. When placed at a distance, these require longer reaches to grasp. The reward for this effort is an enlarged field of perspective, experience, and also of feeling. This is deeply feeling music to feel deeply.
In al…
Eavesdrop, 2024
Benefit compilation with exclusive tracks from live performances & installations at eavesdrop festival 2024. All revenues go to charities providing medical aid and food sovereignty in Gaza.
Vistas Fijas
The sole 7" EP by three key figures of Mexico's underground (1985). Minimal synth, ambient textures, post-industrial drift. Nearly 18 minutes of haunting electronic experimentalism at its most spectral.
Layering Buddha
For AI-41 Astral Industries presents a vinyl reissue of Robert Henke’s multifaceted concept album ‘Layering Buddha’. An erudite masterclass on sampling and composition, ‘Layering Buddha’ encapsulates the material process of metamorphosis and a well of nascent, ever-present potentialities. This new edition comes remastered by Henke himself.
Originally released in 2006, ‘Layering Buddha’ began with a curious encounter with the ‘Buddha Machine’ - a pocket-sized, battery powered playback device tha…
VEIL + e/tape remix (Gems Under the Horizon 3)
Multidisciplinary Brussels-based artist Sagat steps up with a new mini album on the Basic Moves side label, Gems Under The Horizon, featuring a remix by Slovenian ambient bird e/tape. A few years ago, Wiet Lengeler, aka Sagat was invited by Basic Moves to create a live visual show using an analogue video synth setup to accompany a 5-hour dj set by e/tape at Face B in Brussels. From that moment on, the synchronicity between the two artists was clear - and this EP is the result.
Besides his visua…
Assume Intimacy
Shattered, I began to turn to the core. The swirling ease that is shedding its skin to remember me; In my deepest, I always assumed the intimate. Dawning in me gently and unaltered I can feel you, you unnamed. Inward, my beloved—are you the world? Can you touch me with your quiet?
Me, looking through you; you, nesting in me.
Naturally, you place your melody in the shell of my ear. Ever listening, I find myself playing the strings of your instrument that bodies my imagination.
Come closer, my …
Déplier la cervelle secrète
‘Déplier la cervelle secrète’: 12 pieces created from recordings of sequences, (almost) all from the same analogue synthesiser. Material from a single source put to the test of composition, in what could be described as a power struggle: faced with the fragmented inertia of the sound material, searching for resources, relationships and combinations.
In this compact and eruptive material, the pulsating sound patterns reveal new intentions. The result is this album, born of electroacoustic ‘so…
Dreamcast
"The Dreamcast tracks were composed and recorded in a week, while learning to use a K.-O.2 sampler, which was later discredited. They somehow replay the state of virtual projection that a console or idea-image of a game console intensifies over time, only to be forgotten when other means begin to channel these projections. It's a capture of a fairly basic kind of consumerist regression, let's say. But it's also a way of reconnecting with the characteristics of image rendering, body forms and env…
The Journey To Reach The Fathers
A descent beyond death, a return to the origins of memory.
Maggots On The Cliffside
Two names. Four decades of uncompromising noise. One collision. Genocide Organ - the masked Mannheim collective who have defined the outer limits of power electronics since 1985, founders of the legendary Tesco Organisation, architects of Leichenlinie and Save Our Slaves - meet Prurient, the Wisconsin-born, New York-forged vessel of Dominick Fernow, the man who built Hospital Productions from a teenager's bedroom label into the most influential noise imprint of the 21st century.
This is not thei…
Spectral
*200 copies limited edition* Stärker, the France / Canada based duo of Frederic Arbour and Martin Dumais returns with "Spectral", their most fully realized work to date. Known for shaping a world of pulsating analog frequencies, brooding atmospherics and industrial tinged techno, the duo expands their sonic reach with a record that moves with sharpened precision, wider depth and a more deliberate sense of immersion. Described as crafting fierce, dense, widely reverberating techno, Stärker estab…
Nacht
*200 copies limited edition* Aesthetical presents Nacht, a new collaborative project uniting Franck Vigroux, the renowned French composer, producer and sound artist, with Loïc Varanguien de Villepin, poet and vocalist known for his intense spoken-word performances and existential lyricism. Emerging as a logical progression of Vigroux’s sonic language, Nacht expands upon the stark electronic minimalism and visceral textural depth familiar from his earlier releases on Aesthetical. Yet where Vigrou…