** Last copies ** Watching Abul Mogard’s Live performance in Atonal Festival 2017 and his releases on Not Waving’s Ecstatic record label were somewhat of a milestone in Malka Tuti’s sonic aesthetics. His ability to touch us with those pulsating sonic textures coming out of his modular machine inspired us in MTHQ for years to come. We were more then happy that Mogard chose to contact Tapan about their album and eventually deciding to remix not one but two track from the Belgrade duo… It was like …
** Edition 200. Comes with 350gsm card sleeve ** Alter is proud to present ‘Tendrils’, the first LP release from London based artist & musician Malvern Brume. After gathering some hushed praise from the UK underground for a couple of excellent cassette releases and strong local live performances, ‘Tendrils’ is the first definitive document of the Malvern Brume sound world. His instrumentation and sound sources would be considered familiar staples in the world of “experimental” music, but Salter …
**Full-color picture disc, released in an edition of 216 copies. 2021 Stock** A welcome return from Dale Lloyd with this, his first new release in three years. Akasha_for Record is a two-part composition, filled with highly dynamic intricacies very carefully arranged. Rich micro-detail meets subtle emotional resonance in a spellbinding work created specifically for the vinyl format. Akasha_for Record is an opulent listening experience, indeed, and one that will reward close, repeated scrutiny. T…
**Transparent turquoise vinyl** On his stellar debut LP for Mute, Nine Inch Nails keyboardist and formidable solo artist, Alessandro Cortini taps into a poignantly melodic yet ascetic vein of his prized, gauzy style. Volume Massimo, combines his fondness for melody with the rigour of experimental practice that follows on from 2017's universally acclaimed album Avanti. Eight tracks of deftly arranged synthesizers saturated with sonic artefacts and luscious pop sensibilities.Surely well known to y…
* 2021 stock * 3LP in printed inners sleeves in wide spine printed outer sleeve. DL card insert. ‘NTS Session 1’ is the first of four Autechre albums broadcast by NTS radio station back in April in 2018. Developed during live shows over 2017 and in the studio following release of ‘Elseq’, these are the first two hours of the total eight hour broadcast, which was originally split over the course of four weeks.
Following the lead of ‘Elseq’, here they also favour longer track lengths, giving room …
At the dawn of the 1980’s, a few years before her now legendary LP, Through The Looking Glass, took form, a young percussionist playing with the Berlin Philharmonic, Midori Takada, found her creative ambitions looking further afield. Her ideas brought her home to Japan, then peculating with new notions of what avant-garde and experimental music could be, to form The Mkwaju Ensemble with fellow percussionist Junko Arase and Yoji Sadanari. The project quickly recorded two astounding LPs in 1981 – …
Following “La Contra Ola” (BJR015), Bongo Joe is pleased to present La Ola Interior, a compilation exploring the ambient side of the Spanish electronic music produced in the 80’s. It gathers musicians from various horizons and of many generations, who shared the desire to create an immersive soundscape and to combine electronic music with non-Western musical traditions. As a general rule, the Anglo-Saxon tropism did relate the spanish peninsula’s ambient music to the Balearic Sound, that is to s…
Long-time Muslimgauze fans with keen eyes and/or photographic memories may immediately notice something about the newly unearthed Sadaams Children album; with some slight orthographic differences, it just about shares a name with a short track from the classic Narcotic (Staalplaat, 1997; the similarity and the difference is pretty much expected from someone who both liked to reuse names and didn’t care for consistency in spelling as Bryn Jones did). While none of the four lengthy tracks found on…
Two electroacoustic improvisers and composers--Lucio Capece on reeds, analog synths, effects, field recordings, drums machines, speakers in motion, and Marc Baron on field recordings and analog devices--developed these 6 extraordinary recordings that blend motion, perspective, sound and noise, and concrete references in a mystifying and mesmerizing journey in sound.
"While solo improvisational albums can be, and often are, great, the true potential of freely played and electroacoustic music is r…
Through 'Experimental & Parametric Music 1976-2017', more than 40 years of the Joris De Laet's work are unveiled. We discover here for the first time the great coherence of this work: from 'Signalisations' (1976) to 'Mnemosyne pour une acousmaman' (2017). The twelve compositions are annotated and explained in detail by the composer, as well as a kind of wild autobiography.
Inspired by the deep control on electronic sonics, he has been defining his work since 1979 as 'Parametric Music,' music whe…
Jojo Hiroshide (guitar), T.Mikawa (electronics), Fumio Kosakai (electronics), Junko (voice), Futoshi Okano (drums), Akira Sakata (alto sax). This CD is studio recording after 8 years from their The Last Recording Album and a first recording CD since Okano Futoshi (ds) joined Hijokaidan. In this CD, especially, Sakata Akira blows intensely in all tunes. This 24 track analogue recording reveal their so-called meta-noise music. A tune all member play about 30 minutes, rare Junko (vo) and Sakata duo…
** Compilation of the two Womankind cassettes released on Survivalist in 2010 and 2012. Remastered in an edition of 200 copies ** A new compilation featuring the two Womankind tapes by The Rita released on Survivalist in 2010 & 2012. Remastered by Grant Richardson and co-released with Self Abuse Records.
** Remastered by Grant Richardson. Edition of 200 CDs in digipak covers ** Reissue of the classic The Rita's album released on Solipsism in 1998. Featuring new artwork and co-released with Self Abuse Records. A true noise classic.
2014 new reissue. Having sat through two full cd’s of some of the most sublime, drifting piano based variations I’ve ever heard im not quite sure how to go about putting the experience into words. Whilst 'archival' may bring to mind dusty stacks in library basements, there's a slew of old material being reissued by labels at the moment that might just serve to extinguish this semantic connection. A digital reappraisal is American composer William Basinksi, whose extensive 'Variations: A Movement…
Debut release from Linda Aubry Bullock, a long-time fixture on the Boston-area experimental music scene through her various groups (including, not mentioned below, the please, a trio with Hubby Mike Bullock & Brendan Murray) ...
This set’s a neat mix of throbbing industrial electronics & sound-art-lineage mood pieces (such as the vibrating-plate mechanics of the segment in the sound-sample) all played by a revolving quartet including Linda, Mike, Eric “Rambutan” Hardiman (proprietor of the exce…
** 2021 Stock ** Hospital Productions presents The Ascent of Deimos by Torture Chain. Morbid and baroque keyboard organ intros accompany a caustic and harsh hammering black death metal, complete with ripping guitar solos courtesy of Arthur Rizk with winding interactive single note leads set atop the crumbling temple of riffs. Highlights even hit the stressful agony of mayhem's chimera at its nastiest peaks or the angular dissonance of corpse vomit’s debut. This could easily have sat alongside so…
Robert Rental was a British pioneer of the post-punk DIY industrial electronic music scene in the United Kingdom. Originally from Port Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s, and became involved with the local music scene. Robert Rental however released very little of his solo music, preferring to collaborate with Thomas Leer, as well as with Daniel Miller.
The only solo recording from The 1970s is the 7" single "Paralysis" first released on the ho…
Asmus Tietchens is a sound artist and composer from Hamburg, Germany. He got interested in musique concrete by listening to a German radio programme when he was 10 years old. In 1965, at the age of 18, Asmus started experimenting with tape loops and turned them into musical collages. Soon, the use of synthesizers was added. In 1980 his debut album Nachtstücke was released, produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream. This was soon followed by a series of albums of electronic pop music fo…
Konstruktivists was formed by Glenn Michael Wallis in 1982 out of the ashes of Heute, a kraut rock influenced trio using electronics as well as conventional guitars and bass. Around this time - in the late 70's/early 80's Glenn Michael Wallis was heavily involved with Throbbing Gristle, the U.K. pioneers of "Industrial".
The first Konstruktivists vinyl album "A Dissembly" was issued in 1983. This was quickly followed by their seminal LP "Psykho Genetika" after signing to the newly-formed Third M…
Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England who where active from 1979 until 2003. The group were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work – they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organisation and music venue (the legendary ‘Ambulance Station’) – they refused to integrate into the commercial music racket turning down publishing deals from major labels – stubbornly opting for total independence. Bourbonese Qualk were also known …
**500 copies only, already sold-out at source** Drone: as with anything else that rarely changes, it's necessary to latch onto subtleties. What minimal suggestion put forth by a drone is so easily applied to pretty much any impression you might have that, predictably, describing one often leads to vague subjectivities bordering on bad poetry. And as much as I'd love to go around proclaiming my love for "deeply resonant, holy abysses" (not), I wish there were an easier way to communicate the real…
Until now, Sir Ashleigh Grove has been shrouded in mystery, having only appeared on a handful of legendary compilations on labels such as Broken Flag in the early-mid 80's and having briefly collaborated with The New Blockaders before inexplicably disappearing without trace around 1984. Sir Ashleigh's work has been compared to other Power Electronics artists of that era, in particular Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend and Ramleh (Sir Ashleigh, in a live collaboration with TNB, supported Whiteh…
Originally released on vinyl in the summer of last year, and presented as an extended play single, these three pieces total less than 25 minutes, and while the collaborators have chosen to present the recordings in these versions, the fade-outs suggest there's more to them than what we're given.
There's a lot of movement in the stillness here. The faint rhythms on "Queen of Heaven" are only a backdrop to the very prominent sustained layers of keyboards and almost inaudibly low frequency ba…
Brand new Andrew Chalk release packaged in an elaborate handmade slipcase with a Japanese language obi strip. Exactly the same style as the recent ‘Violin By Night’ LP, ie. super thick sturdy slipcase/box with a dowelling spine and a full colour inner sleeve. All copies handmade by Andrew Chalk."Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies Wave Serene features as many tracks, tiny sound worlds ;impressionistic views of landscape and indistinct memories, compiled into a musical suite lasting 54 minutes." - Far…
Packaged in mini-LP style gatefold jacket. Beautiful hand-made mini-LP style gatefold sleeve. "Andrew Chalk has again walked a very fine line between complete abstraction and conscious identification...Chalk steps a bit differently, proceeds with his sound in a fulfilling fashion, and somehow works with his sound more like a composer than anyone else. I can imagine him toying with his sounds like they're clay, shaping them to make an architecture or to plan an entire geographic region. Every rel…
** Edition of 500. Digital Extras. Download Code Included. ** Urpa i musell and co-editor The Indian Runners feel very fortunate to announce our newest release by the recent Catalan revelation Tarta Relena, entitled Pack Pro Nobis. Pack Pro Nobis is a double LP album. The first LP compiles the back catalogue that the duo has released until now, two intense and solid EPs: ‘Ora Pro Nobis’ (released on CD by The Indian Runners, 2019) and ‘Intercede Pro Nobis’ (released digitally by The Indian Runne…
**2021 stock** Backwards present two exclusive tracks from great American artist Benoît Pioulard. Seize & Marre were composed based on lyrics and recordings that Benoît Pioulard originally created at the age of 16, in the years 2000-2001. Another 16 years on, he has revisited those early efforts through the eyes & ears of his adult self, having spent that time sculpting a creative identity across five albums for Kranky and numerous collaborations with the likes of Rafael Anton Irisarri and Kyle …
** The 12” that spawn an international cult. Re-issued as the original editions with an 'over-sized' (14.6 cm / 5¾") center label ** Alexander Robotnick (aka Maurizio Dami) is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of Avida, a dance-cabaret band featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuoch. in 1983 he attained international popularity with his track “Problèmes d’amour”, published first by the Italian label Materiali Sonori and then by…
This Mini-LP was originally released on Materiali Sonori in 1984 in Italy and is long out of print. Alexander Robotnick (aka Maurizio Dami) is an Italian electronic musician. He made his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding member of Avida, a dance-cabaret band featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuoch. in 1983 he attained international popularity with his track “Problèmes d’amour”, published first by the Italian label Materiali Sonori and then by Sire-Wea. “Problèmes d’amour” we…
Second release in Buh's "Sounds Essentials Collection," documenting the history of Experimental Music in Peru. Miguel Flores is, alongside musicians such as Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, Luis David Aguilar or Manongo Mujica, one of the most important representatives of that period that spans from mid 70s to mid 80s, when experimenting musically in Peru united modern composing techniques of avant garde music and the search of the sounds of mother land. Miguel Flores’ Primitivo is as mind-blowing as they …
An overview of Holger Czukay's solo work and collaborations, also including Canaxis 5 (1969) - a legendary album which fuses ambient, ethnic music and early form of sampling, several years before anybody else started to get to grips with any of those ideas - Movies (1979), On The Way To The Peak Of Normal (1981), Full Circle (1982), Der Osten Ist Rot (1984), Rome Remains Rome (1987) and Radio Wave Surfer (1991). This five-LP set features a 36-page booklet, DVD of movie starring Czukay for which …
One third of the drone trio France and part of the La Nòvia collective, Yann Gourdon's practice focuses on acoustic phenomena and dynamic relationships with the environment. Having learned to play traditional music from Auvergne by listening to field recordings, Gourdon re-orientates tradition via minimalism, honing in on a place or location's unique vibratory fields, volumes and surfaces. Yann Gourdon: Hurdy-Gurdy. Recorded at librairie Pied-de-Biche Marque-Page (43) by Guilhem Lacroux. Artwork…
2021 Repress. In "Plein Soleil", Fitoussi explores the continent of his electronic instruments, watching them move along with him on his journey, like uncharted territories, beyond what’s already been said, done, composed and played. In these tracks, or should we say, between them, something new unfurls.
**130 copies, 2019 stock** Panthalassa is the second official release of Davide Bartolomei, an artist / musician based in Bologna (Italy). Bartolomei has developped his personal language after a first period of noisey experimentations. In his musical output he tries to explore the hidden possibilities of the interaction between strings and circuits.With Remote, a collaborative work with Emanuele Magni, he started to move in the realms of deep meditative music. His second effort goes further in t…
** 2021 Stock ** Delmore FX delivers soundscapes from the other side of the mirror. Hands, soul and mind behind the Das Andere Selbst label and the psychotropical duo Marimba, Elia Buletti is one of the most enlightened figures in the Neukölln underground scene. Dealing with micro-sounds, kaleidoscopic collages, deconstructed and multilayered textures created by means of both digital and analogic devices, his sonic palette is a world on his own, constantly changing and rearranging itself in unim…
** 2021 Stock. 69 hand-numbered copies pro-dubbed on transparent and golden cassettes, includes insert and digital download ** Golden Omnipresent Mystery comes from a spontaneous, performative approach to minimalist and improvised music, focusing on repetition and harmony and simultaneously on non-structures and dissonances. A continuous amorphous flow in search of the abstract yet corporeal representation of the universal energy that rises from chtonian spirituality and free emotional expressio…
**CD version, 250 copies in handmade textiled artwork** Invisible Island is a fitting title for an album that seems to exist in a place quietly removed from the problems of the world. It's playful and imaginative, living in a soundscape filled with exotic fruits that fall from invisible trees. The record feels like a continuance from her album Minor Planet (2016) that shines through as an ethereal fog.Although the pieces on the album mostly centre around the piano - played in a soft, minimal way…
ISAN’s Robin Saville speaks to the salubrious qualities of a good mooch in a very sweet album inspired by what he sees and feels during his daily perambulations and incorporating field recordings, drones and acoustic instrumentation.