Nuts of Ay
»Nuts of Ay«, the thirteenth album by the Berlin-based electronic pop duo Tarwater (Ronald Lippok and Bernd Jestram), is their first in a decade, since 2014’s »Adrift«. Beautifully poised and smartly dressed, it's an album that draws Tarwater’s various pasts into a high-definition present, while bringing the duo, yet again, into productive dialogue with all kinds of fellow travellers.
Tarwater’s music has always been marked by a hypnotic pop-ness, but that’s particularly evident on »Nuts of Ay«,…
Terrace Of Memories
*250 copies limited edition* 1992’s Terrace Of Memories is an organic ambient album of longing and gentle melancholic minimalism. Sam Rosenthal (Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s founder/synthesist, then based in Los Angeles) and Dirk Serries (then recording under the moniker vidnaObmana in Belgium) blended their atmospheres and somber contemplative electronics on this timeless album filled with lush, dark and beautiful impressions. Energized by a passage of text written by Sam concerning a lost love…
Stories del Tiburón Llorón del Amazonas
Three part journey into an imaginary Amazon from three artists working on the fringes of Field recordings.
Uncle God’s Pag Pag Banquet
Three years in the making, at last we have the stunning new Band Of Pain album. It features contributions from Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles from Nurse With Wound and Jean-Hervé Peron and Jeanne-Marie Varain from Faust, as well as the usual suspects. It is packaged in a beautiful gloss laminated 12” gatefold sleeve with artwork that is unique to this release by Steven Stapleton (Babs Santini). It also features calligraphy by the wonderful Geoff Cox, who is known for his previous work for Cur…
Fantastico Interiore
Big tip! *50 copies limited edition* nobile, one half of the former Milanese duo Voronoi, presents a new series of recordings of ephemeral ambient soundscapes, organic throbs and broken rhythmic textures that sublimate the more instinctual and playful side of his poetics.
The project is haunted by cavernous sounds and an obsession with the 'netherworld' of the videogame Minecraft, and by Le Matin des Magiciens - the classic and revolutionary book that popularised occultism, alchemy and paranorm…
Barbed Wire Disease
The bleeding chords of mindful angels and outstretched tangled in the barbed wire pearly gates return to your rations. Eat now and forever vermin!
Paper board special package with wire.
Under Crumbled Stairs
What did ancient wine taste like? the grapes of pompeii were only red and red they stayed till it’s dying day… Full cassette album of phantasmal electronics domain loving, walking, crawling, petrifying between the shadows of the vineyard that Vesuvius watched disapprovingly of eve after summer eve.
Unlife In The Silver House
*100 copies limited edition* Blood wrecking ball arrives to push the fireball in your stomach even deeper into the bowels with one rhythmic punch after the next until your blood river is totally engulfed in flames and reduced to the strains of a prior civilization. Huge, heavy, landscape synths, chords and chorlas mixed with old school pulsing industrial drums and power electronic voices. Highly recommended new project from Netherlands!
Deus Ex Machina
"Paul Schütze’s debut album from 1989 sets his stall out from the start; with a cyber update on Jon Hassell’s notion of ‘Fourth World Music”. Schütze’s music always sounds like it could be an alternative soundtrack to ‘Blade Runner’ (be aware fellow purists, I did state “alternative”), and this album is probably the perfect candidate if in some other dimension the Vangelis OST was no longer deemed satisfactory (such a dimension surely cannot exist). The listener feels like they’re walking throug…
The Annihilating Angel (Or, The Surface Of The World)
Tom Fryer - guitarJudy Jacques - voiceSandro Donnadi - trumpetSam Mallet & Jeff Jaffers - spoken voicePaul Schütze - keyboards, percussion & programmingarranged and produced by Paul Schütze
Recorded at Absolute Studio & Soundfirm Melbourne, jan - june 1990.Engineered by Steve Burgess.
Special thanks to : Steve Burgess, all at Soundfirm, Philip Brophy, Robert Goodge, all the Tunisian extras who sang & played for us between scenes during the shooting of Isabelle Eberhard & finally to Sylvie Partio…
New Maps Of Hell
One of the very best ever Tribal Ambient Dub albums, originally released on the famous Australian Extreme label. Brilliantly new mastered, sounds way better than the original recordings. Includes bonus songs from other Extreme releases. For fans of early WARP, Muslimgauze, Future Sound Of London, The Orb, Rapoon and alike.
Loop Blood
*50 copies limited edition* Active since the late 1970s, Rosa Arruti was a member of bands like Mohochemie, Tendre Tembles and Psicópatas del Norte. Since 2000, Arruti has been working on her solo project, Nad Spiro, delving into experimental electronic soundscapes and crafting intricate guitar textures. Known for collaborations with international artists like My Cat is an Alien and Atsuko Kamura, her work has been released on labels such as Geometrik Records. Arruti's music is recognised for it…
Dis Fac
Dis FAC is the first release of an eponymous project which sees Andrew Hulme (co-founder of O Yuki Conjugate) reunited with Tom Fazzini for the first time in 20 years since their previous group A Small Good Thing (active 1989 - 2002).
Waves
Elina Bolshenkova (aka Eli!) is an activist, artist and musician from Russia who currently resides in Georgia. Her previous long player ‘Flood Management’ was released by the indefatigable Infant Tree label. It is a dangerous time to be an outspoken artist in Russia, so Elina is happy to keep to the shadows for now. The title for the album is taken from a novel of the same name by Soviet-Russian science fiction writer/brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky who were renowned for their fictional fut…
Ghost In A Broken Shell
Michał Jan Kozłowski is a post-conceptual artist born in Warsaw, Poland in 1986. He began making music at the beginning of the millennium, founding rockabilly band Flymen, releasing tracks on punk labels and gigging throughout the early decade of the 2000s. Later in London he started an improvised noise duo, Unknown Unknowns, with fellow visual artist James Lander and with those who wish to remain anonymous. TV Sunset is his new retro-futurist project. According to Kozłowski, "Ghost in a Broken …
Kosmischer Pitch
"Like the cosmic compositions it delicately references, Kosmischer Pitch is proof that the higher and lower pleasures can triumphantly combine.” - The Wire Magazine
MPU105
Ilian Tape kicks on with another entry into its ITX Series, this time with a lovely hand-stamped long player from MPU101. It is a deep dive into escapist ambient worlds with plenty of grainy tape hiss and cosmic static, celestial melodies and provocative moments of introspection. Analogue machinery is really brought to the fore on fuzzy sounds like 'CreamyPORTAL-Xa' with patient and pastoral synth smears, while 'APEX CA 91352' has brighter and more mellifluous melodies rising up through the mix.…
A Shaw Deal
Some things take a long time. And some things are meant to last. But how you know that, or learn how to find out, that’s a more intangible thing. That’s A Shaw Deal – intangible. A communal meeting place for two old friends and their different musics. A Shaw Deal is the first album by Geologist and DS. They go back a long ways – back before Highlife, before Shaw joined White Magic – back to the early childhood of Animal Collective. Basically, Doug Shaw touched down in NYC around 2003, and he and…
A Picturesque View, Ignored
*2024 stock* Echoes of disconnected sound reverberate meshing together into a cascading river of intersecting sound elements – occasionally confrontational, ultimately unforgettable.
Archivio 1
In these early Pragma works, sound artist TeZ channels a primal industrial and electronic spirit, blending cosmic and concrete sonic elements to guide the listener through alien, pagan landscapes marked by entropic rhythms and magical atmospheres. For the third edition of this lathe-cut release, TeZ invited Sumus (formerly Psychick Warriors of Gaia) to contribute their masterfully fragmented collages of acoustic wonders, adding a unique dimension to the work.