Balance
The album 'Balance' by Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree was originally released in 2002 by Mille Plateaux on CD only. The 9 tracks on 'Balance' are a perfect example for the aesthetics to arise within the Click & Cuts scene and (ambient-)glitch music movement of the late 90s and early 2000s. The two masters of microscopic sounds and sine wave/white noise-based music constructed these seamlessly mixed pieces around rhythms and melodies, which grants the album plenty of dynamics. The wide var…
Penetrating, For Filtration
Akhira Sano's "Penetrating, For Filtration" was manufactured on C60 Super Ferro tape for a low noise floor, high output, and an incredible warm sound. Packaged in a purple tinted case with silver shimmer printing. Japan's Akhira Sano is a young master of slow, ambient, electro new age music. His compositions are highly organic, growing and flowing with great patience and care. But, like in nature, imperfections and incidentals are allowed to evolve producing sublimely primal and imperfect music…
Patterns of Consciousness
**Packaged in a jewel box with full color artwork and a 4 panel booklet. Her debut album, first time on CD**. Patterns Of Consciousness is the powerful second full-length from analog synth composer Caterina Barbieri. Gorgeous high resolution analog textures and algorithmic melodies unfold under Barbieri's careful control, exploring the basic nature of sound and consciousness. These pieces are minimal in arrangement but maximal in presence asserting Barbieri as a unique voice in contemporary elec…
Born Again in the Voltage
**Packaged in a jewel box with full color artwork and a 4 panel booklet. Incl. bonus track "Bestie Infinite" from 2018 split LP with Eleh** . Born Again In The Voltage is an astonishing collection of electro-acoustic pieces for Buchla 200 system, cello, and voice composed and produced by Caterina Barbieri at Elektronmusikstudion (SE) between 2014 and 2015. Cello by Antonello Manzo. Images by Giovanni Brunetto; Photography by Angelo Jaroszuk Bogasz; Layout by Important Records. Mastering by Giuse…
NNOI#1 Split
Edition of 300 copies, gatefold sleeve. These two well-known Hamburg cook-artists have been stirring in the same pots for 25 years - only! with different spoons. One, the young man, forces his whisk into the sweetest dishes & conjures up delicious dishes - even from the spoiled remains of fish - for the thousands and thousands of hungry mouths. The other, the old gurnard, first pushes his wooden spoon into the humming depths of a beehive to the end of the stem, before enraptured dragging it thr…
NNOI#2 Split
Edition of 300 copies, gatefold sleeve. "This record unites two German greats of the electronic avant-garde of the last 40 years & brings together two worlds that exist like the sides of a coin facing away from each other & yet are firmly connected at the core. NNOI#2 can be described as a kind of miraculous „Göffel“ - a mixture of fork & spoon.Asmus Tietchens, the glass fork, reduces his 9 compositions „Stenograms“ to abstract structures that force a space that transforms its floating hardness…
Vcr
Andrea Borghi (1974) is a sound artist and electro-acoustic composer. His work focuses on the relationship between sound and matter. Andrea graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and studied electronic music, piano and composition at the Giacomo Puccini Music Conservatory in La Spezia. Founder member of VipCancro and Liscarecords. His practice is based on research processes, oriented and multidisciplinary and includes sculptural objects, installations, obsolete media and e…
The Underground Life Forms Of A Past Trouble
Tambour Doux is a project by Canedicoda, a multi-disciplinary artist who works in music, performance, fashion and design. He is also currently active playing as Ottaven, and in Primorje, Fantamatres, Tambour Doux and has 24 years long project as duo with the dancer Roberta Mosca called Musica per un giorno. Mainly his idea of sound is a result of minimal inputs, poor electronics, spurious rhythms, fragrant loops, field recordings, far voices and memories of objects. Improvised compositions that …
The Metaphysics Of Natron
Black Lesbian Fishermen are an international ambient/drone/experimental collective based in Athens and Evia. Between them they have been involved with many projects - Coil, Current 93, Eyeless In Gaza, Nurse With Wound, Whitehouse, Z’ev, Attila Csihar, Rotting Christ – to name a few. Black Lesbian Fishermen, however, stand alone as a mind-blowingly impressive psych band with a distinctive, transportive & ritualistic sound. Since their debut album, ‘Ectopic Apiary’ the band has continued to play…
Anthology of American Pop Music
Six great pop standards remembered: five pop songs are dissected by sampler, stretched, compressed, and re-collaged. In this way, their identity is lost. What remains is a vague concreteness: flashes of déjà vu and remote echoes that evoke the original. GES (Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples) active members: Helmut Schmidt, Jan Jelinek Founded: 2009 Headquarters: Federal Court of Justice, Karlsruhe, Germany.
From the GES Glossary:
Sampling: Compositional practice whereby recorded music i…
Ballades sur lac Gelé
We met Franck Vigroux for the first time years ago at Berlin's Berghain during a soundcheck. At that time he performed with Mika Vainio, with whom Vigroux often worked together. The first track on Ballades sur lac gelé dates back to that time. It was created under the impression of this collaboration and friendship with Mika Vainio. This album is dedicated to him. Vainio's oeuvre is also significant in connection with the history of raster, so it was only logical and our wish to release this alb…
Velvet Noise
Velvet Noise is a collection of 7 experimental pieces made by Linja sometime around 2016-2017, using drum machines and a lot of modular synthesizers. The album is woven with Simple melodies that crack through the squeaks and the bleeps, eery pads that fill the voids all sorts of FX. Listening to Linja’s debut LP makes one think of Polish director Yuri Norstein’s gloomy melancholic (yet playful) movies, or perhaps just of a rainy day, or Chopin. The atmosphere becomes filled with tension when it …
Videosphere
Videosphere, the debut album by Kompakt’s latest signing, the London-based artist Lake Turner (aka Andrew Halford), swoons into focus with “The Sunbird”, a teasing drift of lilting, ambient tones, riding out a submerged piston-pulse rhythm. Across its brief 109 seconds, it manages to traverse evocative terrain – something mythopoetic, something both humble and grandiose, a glimpse of the other behind the sky’s curtain. “I wanted to conjure up something resembling an ancient ceremony or death pro…
GN / Scanner
Vladimir Ivkovic's Offen remains one of Europe's finest, broadest and least predictable electronic imprints, with the only real guarantee being that output will be interesting, weird and unarguably innovative. The latest from Gains't Nait, made with electronic near-deity Robin Rimbaud under his Scanner moniker (see also Githead), is another case in point.
Depth is the crucial factor - tracks feel dense enough to get lost in, catching listeners in a time-space warp, where there's as much to make …
Just a Little Piece of Me / Dream Journal (for Udo) 7"
**Edition limited to 200 copies in glossy full-color sleeve** Planam present the first 7” edition issued in its catalogue, the split-single with consonant musicians Sonic Boom and Papiro. Originally produced as contribution for “Soft Need 23”, a book on Burroughs/Gysin edited by Udo Breger, this 7“ included in the book’s ultra-limited deluxe version is hereby available in its shiny and beautifully repackaged edition. Former Spacemen 3 mastermind and alchemist producer Sonic Boom (aka Pete Kember…
Necrosis en la Poya
Esplendor Geométrico was a pioneer in the noise world and this record is one of his most edgy and advanced works of all. It is noisy, gauzy, confrontational and frankly weird for the way it mangles synths, layers up distortion and contorts vocals into dark apparitions and paranoid sound worlds. This is the first and only legitimate reissue of Necrosis en la Poya which was initially only pressed in very small quantities after an enigmatic fan decided to help out and stump up the funds. The artwor…
Lost & Found - MMXX-15
With touchstones in electronic dance music, and forward-thinking, synthesizer based abstraction, the Paris based organist, composer, and experimental musician Hampus Lindwall’s contribution to Matière Mémoire’s stunning MMXX Series, MMXX-15, weaves a singularly striking world of pulsing, organized sound. Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, on a single sided crystal clear vinyl LP with a laser engraved artwork on the other, housed in a transparent sleeve printed with the MMXX logo, and con…
Fully Automated Luxury Communism - MMXX-14
Italian composer Mauro Lanza delivers a masterful work of electroacoustic artistry with Fully Automated Luxury Communism (MMXX-14), his contribution to Matière Mémoire’s stunning MMXX Series. Careful interwoven detail and buzzing electronics join to render glimpses of a visionary universe of sound. Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, on a single sided crystal clear vinyl LP with a laser engraved artwork on the other, housed in a transparent sleeve printed with the MMXX logo, and containin…
Vol Sombre - MMXX-13
Kassel Jaeger’s contribution to Matière Mémoire’s stunning MMXX Series, Vol Sombre (MMXX - 13), is a subtle expanse of delicate ambiences and long tones, meticulously constructed into an immersive sonorous world. Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, on a single sided crystal-clear vinyl LP with a laser engraved artwork on the other, housed in a transparent sleeve printed with the MMXX logo, and containing an artist print by François Bonnet.
Browner - MMXX-12
New York based minimalist legend, Phill Niblock, delivers a towering work of drone with Browner (MMXX-12), the composer and interdisciplinary artist’s contribution to Matière Mémoire’s stunning MMXX Series. Long tones and intimate harmonics dance in masterfully controlled interplay across this incredible single sided LP. Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, on crystal-clear vinyl LP with a laser engraved artwork on the second side, housed in a transparent sleeve printed with the MMXX logo…