Testpattern
Evelyne/Masao bring Testpattern to Dark Entries for the label’s first foray into vintage Japanese electronics. Masao Hiruma and Fumio Ichimura’s project Testpattern is known for their release Apres-Midi, a cult slab of synthpop perfection released by Yukihiro Takahashi and Haruomi Hosono’s legendary Yen Records in 1982. While Hiruma and Ichimura parted ways following Apres-Midi, Hiruma’s musical endeavors would continue after recruiting French/American model and vocalist Evelyne Bennu.
The duo …
Morning Music
*200 copies limited edition* A few years in the making, Dauw finally announces the reissue of the humble bee’s quietly classic morning music. Now, for the first time, the remastered album is available on vinyl, presented as a double LP, alongside a digital edition.
Originally released in 2010 on Cotton Goods — Craig Tattersall’s own imprint — the extensive album was born from a simple yet committed daily practice: over the course of four weeks, Tattersall set aside an hour each morning — betwee…
Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt
*200 copies limited edition* Iris Our is the new surrealist duo of artists Kiera Mulhern and Sydney Spann. Recital is honored to present their debut album, Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt. Both Mulhern and Spann have released celebrated solo works on Recital: Mulhern’s De ossibus 20 (2020) and Spann’s Sending Up A Spiral Of (2023). Close friends, they would meet up weekly on Saturdays to record; channeling their love, angst, and wit. The synergism of their friendship is evident: poems read in tandem,…
The Wrong Echo
2010 release ** "Canadian sound artist Steve Bates works with hi- and lo-tech instrumentation and equipment to produce a restrained, delicately abstract electronica. ”Everywhere Little Explosions” encapsulates his methodology: a two-note piano motif is looped and fed through distorting baby monitors and computer software until it becomes a sort of psych-fuzz mantra. Bates favours sounds that confound the ear by occupying the exact midpoint between the synthetic and the natural, such as the digit…
DeepSpeeD / KeitaiDenwaChudoku
2005 release ** DeepSpeed is Yoshinori Tanaka, a Japanese musician active from the year 2000. Ran japanese Off Black record label. Mostly known for his Bastarbation project. 携帯電話中毒 is a Japanese noise project that used mobile phones as a baseline. It previously had a second member (around the time of their first CD on Dotsmark), one would operate mobile phones whilst the other would use effect pedals.t 06 of pure lo-fi (ocasionally monolithic) bizarro noise!!! Soundscapes to set up Absurd's cent…
Together We Shall Melt Mountains With Our Blood
2005 release ** Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies in tri-folded cardboard cover. "Intense drone from Portland, OR experimental musician Daniel Menche. A single piece of dissonant, rumbling drone whose sonic depth, volume, and intensity slowly ebb and flow over the course of 49-plus minutes."
Pure Will, Without The Confusions Of Intellect
1991 release **
Ix-Ex-Splue – Shaped By Two / Three / FourEngineer – Ix-Ex-SpluePerformer – Babalu, Dani Meier, Kreie, Markus Jud, Remo HobiPerformer, Guest – Bummi
Dislocation – Depth / On The MoveAlto Saxophone – Yoshinori YanagawaBass – Avant QuasiDrum Programming, Percussion – Avant SelassieEdited By – DislocationPDS 8000 – Syohei IwasakiElectronics – Toyohiro OkazakiEsraj – Fujio KimuraSampler – Robert HortonTrumpet, Violin – DJ No
PGR – Invisible CitiesField Recordings, Extraction – Kim C…
Computer Music Concerto
1988 release ** Excellent documentation of Italian computer music of the 1980's.
Mauro Bagella - Poco prima della notte (1988) realized at the Studio per la Ricerca Elletroacustica Musicale (STREAM) in Rome.Nicola Sani - Tendenze (1987) realized and recorded at the C.P.R.F. of RAI in Rome on 9-12 February, 1987.Serena Tamburini - Per cieli e piani (1986) realized in 1986 at the S.I.M. (Societa Informatica Musicale) in Rome.Giorgio Nottoli - Grid (1985) realized at the S.I.M. in Rome.Francesco Ga…
Punti di ascolto 2005
2005 release ** Documentation of Italian electro-acoustic/computer music of the 2000's.
1. Massimo Carlentini (1966) riversi Mondi diversi (2003)for violin and electronics (11’09”)Diego Conti violinProduction: Edison Studio - Rome
2. Marco Marinoni (1974) WAHN (2005)for piano and electronics (7’24”)Marco Marinoni pianoProduction: composer’s studio.Live electronics project by Davide Tiso
3. Massimo Mariani (1960) Six-o-four (2003)for 8 channel tape and prerecorded voice (stereo version) (9'39")Li…
Voices Of The Dead
2006 release ** Limited to 250 handnumbered copies with a booklet containing an article about EVP and is packed in a special cardboard sleeve. "Dedicated to the electronic voice phenomenon (EVP). Voices Of The Dead" is based on audio and video recordings made during Noises Of Russia concert on 17.05.2005 in "DOM" cultural center, Moscow. The short version of the film was shown as part of Masha Godovannaya's program "Tired Snow III" at the festivals "Autumn #2" (14.10.2005, Modern Art Center, St.…
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2011 release ** Edition of 15 hand-numbered copies in paste-on cardboard sleeve. Zorbiter was born in 2007, between feticism and drones ideas , electronic empirical experiments and protothypes and future post magnetic war experiences.
Sound As Language (CDr)
2008 release ** Plastic Boner Band (PBB) began making meditative harsh noise in Chicago (USA) in 2006.
Worried About The Fire
2010 release ** Packaged in Experimedia’s custom signature six panel folding tall-slim pack. "Experimedia presents the fourth full length solo album by Kansas-based Aaron Martin. A former collaborator of artists as diverse as Machinefabriek and Dawn Smithson (Sunn O))), Martin originally devised 'Worried about the Fire' as the soundtrack to a short film and the record sees him deconstructing preexisting snippets, sketches and samples from various collaborations and solo performances. All prior r…
Involucri
2011 release ** Hand numbered limited edition of 474 with custom deluxe cardboard package. "Behind Uncodified we find Corrado Altieri, who also works as TH26 and Monosonik. This is first release as Uncodified. He uses sounds from analogue and digital devices, manipulating tones and textures. Its the most interesting release of this trio. High piercing sounds and deep textures, with acoustic stumbling around. Drone like, maybe even noise based at times, its an interesting merging of various style…
Double Miroir
2015 release ** With oversize booklet. "Dante Tanzi has studied electroacoustic music and worked for the Musical Informatics Laboratory of the University of Milan from 1985 to 2009. He has written many articles and reviews for various sound art and electroacoustic papers and participated in numerous prestigious events such as the Festival Futura in Crest and the Festival Licences in Paris. As you would expect from such a curriculum vitae, the sound work on Double Miroir is of the highest caliber…
Sound As Language
2014 release ** Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies copies in oversize card sleeve. "Observatoire, a Russian label known for its eclectic sound art and ambient music, is limited to 100 copies and available only on CD-R format. This split album features Emmanuel Mieville, a collector of environmental sounds from around the world; Dante Tanzi, a composer independently discovered by the label, a major achievement for the label; and the mysterious Japanese composer Hiroki Sakaguchi. This alb…
Tribute To Jackie Mittoo
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "Hybrid is a word used indiscriminately in our daily lives. This record isn't a hybrid; it's beyond hybrid, post-hybrid, so to speak. Does this phrase sound complicated to you, and are you never overly convinced by music theory and its caricatural aspect? Then forget what you’ve just read and listen to both sides of this record. You'll soon realise that these tracks are deliciously deft, drawing their essence from dub while leaving room for some skillful …
Le Commerce
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Poly Dance Theatre speeds up the tempo (perhaps in search of lost time) and so here already the first announcement for the next release: POL008, called "Le Commerce" (The Business). It's a very special record. Beyond the deep bass line, the efficient ryhtmics and the ghostly apparitions of dubbed-out commercial romantic melodies, this 10" is above all an object-question, a small political gesture of sabotage. Be careful. Be careful. Rare! Very very very r…
Jazz Band Theory
Here we are with a new LP by Terrine. Jazz Band Theory is Terrine’s fourth album for Bruit Direct Disques. Neither one nor the other are what they were when the first came out. Jazz Band Theory is a river and a drop in a river. You are another river, or another drop in the same river. Or you are Jazz Band Theory, for a few minutes. 31 minutes and 10 seconds pass. Or you are Bruit Direct Disques, the river is full of water. 31 minutes and 10 seconds of inattention in a river of drops. Plic, Plic …