Surrender, Render, End
First and foremost, Surrender, Render, End is an electro-acoustic dialectic, unremittingly engaged in a pugilist conflict between art and accident. The Swiss noise-composer Francisco Meirino began working on the skeleton for this piece in 2014 as a multi-channel, modular synth patch, which has been in an ongoing state of modification through public diffusions and private rumination. Meirino posits the album as a metaphysical puzzle of manipulated tape, atonal synthesis, and concrete sound. He is…
The Stargate Tapes
2018 repress. Sharing social circles and spiritual ideologies with artists such as Iasos, Connie Demby and Deuter, whilst splitting label release schedules with Laraaji, Laurie Spiegel and Wendy Carlos, the unique Florida-raised soul mate duo known as Emerald Web
released their privately pressed debut LP at an axis where post-prog
rock met proto-new age and ambient electronic music. At the turn of the
1980s, Bob Stohl and Kat Epple embarked on a ten-year
spiritual journey playing at planetar…
FloodLines
FloodLines was recorded live at Cafe Oto as part of "Touch presents" on January 31st, 2016. Simon Scott is a sound ecologist and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, England. His past albums include Insomni(Ash International) and Below Sea Level (Kesh/TouchLine). His work explores the creative process of actively listening, the implications of recording the natural world using technology and the manipulation of natural sounds used for musical composition. He plays the drums inSlowdive and has r…
Alan Vega Martin Rev
Remastered, first ever vinyl reissue of Suicide’s classic second album - an essential part of the puzzled post-punk new wave landscape
Suicide
Suicide's landmark self-titled LP was originally released in 1977, seven years after the group's initial conception as part of the performance art scene on the Lower East Side. It is hard to overstate the importance of the seven tracks on Suicide, which paved the way for punk, industrial, hip hop, noise and beyond. "Ghost Rider" accelerates with brutal anguish and desire for everything rock 'n' roll. Martin Rev's utterly singular "instrument" pounds out a synthetic soundscape, while Alan …
La Legende D'Eer
The second release in the Perihel series is one of the most famous electroacoustic compositions by Iannis Xenakis. When Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), who had fought against the occupation as part of the communist resistance, moved to Paris in 1947 it was the start of a highly creative and impressive career. Xenakis not only studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and became one of the most innovative composers of the 20th century, he also worked as assistant to Le Corbusier and realized a.o.…
Modular Electronics 1979 - 1982
** restocked, last copies around ** Galen Herod is one of the pioneers of-american-cassette-culture synthesist-artists and During 1979 and 1982 he produced several outstanding and creative electronic Tape-Releases which he distributed either via Eurock or by himself in the Phoenix-Area. His very early Tape-Works are dominated by abstract, austere, experimental electronics in the vein of Conrad Schnitzler using tape loops and completely homemade synth-equipment: oscillators, filters and seq…
Vaulted visions filmworks, synth pop, demos 1978-85
Richard Bone is an American electronic musician who began his professional musical career creating soundtracks and scores for several off-Broadway companies working in experimental theater. In 1979, he released with his band Bone the single "Pirate the Islands/Headlines Have It" before joining the new-wave band Shox Lumania in 1981. Bone then recorded a solo 7" entitled "Digital Days/Alien Girl" on and was subsequently signed to Survival Records in the UK in 1983 where he released several LPs, E…
Selected Tracks 1. 1992-1998
Limited numbered edition of 700 copies celebrating Esplendor Geométrico's 2015 35th anniversary. The band formed in Madrid in 1980 and went on to become an international cult act and one of the most influential pioneers of industrial music. This set contains four LPs packaged inside a special deluxe box and individually screenprinted using a metallic copper ink. The four covers, when put together, make up a main image. The box set also includes a poster. The LPs feature a selection of tra…
Sounds of Now
A companion piece to the previous compilation, The Ultra Sonic Perception (DUAL005), Dual Planet offers a further glimpse into the eccentric world of electronic music innovator Eric Siday. Sounds Of Now is a collection of electronic 'sound logos' and switched-on library cues used in production and broadcast in the 1960 & 70s. Included here are variants of the creepy manipulated synthesizer theme which accompanied the 1964 Screen Gems logo, which was subject to the 2010 documentary The S From Hel…
Weltanschauung
At the beginning of 1981 Maurizio Bianchi sent some demo tapes to the Come Organisation in England; after that, they extracted and blended together the sounds to get the final work. The title « Under The Victory Banner », an anachronistic and detrimental track for the rest of the album has been replaced by the title of the same set « Plutoniumetrio » edited in 1982 by the Come Organisation for the compilation « Für Ilse Koch », which fits much better with the other tracks. The Come Organisation…
Mema Verma
[mema verma] is the final step of a study about an indian shruti box G (low) tuned, mostly used without emitting any note (as in the first two tracks, sampling and processing the breaths, whistles and noise produced by the reeds. The third track, is the only one in which the shruti is played in a more standard way, as well as its sound was recorded through a set of very old mid-range speakers, later sampled and processed. A split into three tracks but the whole project is sort of a metam…
Suijin
Komodo Haunts is the psychedelic drone solo project of Ollie Tutty (aka Mt. Tjhris), from Lincolnshire, UK. With his music he explores drone structure, sonic textures, meditative zones and personal fictions. Making use of analogue and digital technologies; tape jams playing on human familiarity, natural ambiances, faux-exotica, mythologies, "reality therapy".
Taking inspiration from drone masters and new age wanderers the Suijin album is all about getting into "the zone” and could be the so…
On A Business Trip To London
On a Business Trip to London is an album of curious electronics and sissy dance conceived under the shadow of Big Ben by Vivid Extreme. Initial research carried out at Ibis City Hotel, London; purple nail polish applied in Berlin and New York City. The result is the perfect and perhaps overdue meeting of emasculated P.E., limp-wristed ornamental industrial, sickly minimal synth, and cheap suntanned trollop techno. What's more, its tinny rhythmic ringtone cycles of humiliation and debasement evin…
Bu/Bu-Musikverbreitung - Recordings 1980-1985
Limited edition of 400. After ten years of planning and intensive artists-convincing, a dream for many collectors of minimal synth music and has become reality.
A vinyl box with early-'80s audio formerly released only on super-rare and highly collectable tapes and 7"s by two of the most radical minimal synth artists from South Germany, Rolf Schobert and Georg Alfred Wittner, with their projects Heute and Der Musikant (solo project of Schobert with name variations as Der Künftige Musikant, D…
2/8 Bregman 4/8 Deutsch 7/8 Hecker 1/8 Holler
restocked: Presto!? is happy to announce the release of "2/8 Bregman 4/8 Deutsch 7/8 Hecker 1/8 Hõller", a double 10” Vinyl set produced and compiled by Florian Hecker with a contribution by Carsten Höller The title "2/8 Bregman 4/8 Deutsch 7/8 Hecker 1/8 Hõller" indicates the percental inputs of the eight pieces, intertwines practical, theoretical and conceptual proportions and its audible dramatizations 6/8 of the pieces are untitled, 2/8 and are titled ‘Gelbgrün’ and ‘UpDown’, 8/8 play on 45 …
Drumming for creation
A new series of vinyl and download only releases, from the archives.... Originally released on cassette in 1985, Touch # T33.3 is now available on vinyl. Walo Shatan Gwari: The ensemble, led by Malam Walo, belongs to the Gwari people of Niger State. The performances, at London's Commonwealth Institute, also encompassed drumming sessions and instrument-making workshops. Edition of 300 vinyl.
Al-Bashariyya
'Al-Bashariyya’, the latest vessel from Vindicatrix, is an island of menacing political detritus sitting low in claret waters, drifting with intent…slate stenographers annotate proceedings without the need for an internet connection, their elongated taps and scrapes emitting coded cries for clemency…colloidal conservatives ruminate heartlessly as anchors feel hopelessly for anchorage in ‘designated zones’…both these wideband travelogues sift and navigate for answers in the desolate fug with pene…
Peau Froide, Leger Soleil
Double LP version. Peau froide, léger soleil is the result of a three-year recording process initiated by Mika Vainio and Franck Vigroux after a series of shared live experiences, beginning with a show in Paris in 2012. Their collaboration is an exercise in sensitive intensity, drifting through the whole space between minimalist meditations and maximalist kinetics. Vainio's signature brutalist production resonates throughout the album, constructing a psychic scenario for Vigroux's researches in …
Everyone Is Not Alive
Reissued limited edition 2 color vinyl of Touch People's debut album from 2 years ago (originally on The Faint's blank.wav imprint). Darren Keen, aka Touch People, records guitars, drums, bass, and keyboards, and then assembles via experimental/modern production that is both visceral and cerebral. The resulting sound bears resemblance to Steve Reich, Battles, Dan Deacon, and Tortoise.