Feu !
F.J. Ossang's MKB Fraction Provisoire, recorded in ten days in 1993 with Jac Berrocal: machine loops, typewriter-speed poetry and noise'n'roll. Remastered 2023, deluxe CD with lyrics booklet.
Chance Meeting On a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
Nurse With Wound's 1979 debut, newly mastered from the original 1978 source. Metallic purple gatefold sleeve, purple particle effect vinyl limited to 300 numbered copies. Three long pieces of collage, drones and studio improvisation.
Macabre Visions
*100 copies limited edition* Founded by Moreno Daldosso in 1992, Murder Corporation emerged during a crucial transitional period for the Italian industrial underground. The ritualistic and experimental tendencies that had characterized many projects of the 1980s were progressively mutating into harsher territories shaped by power electronics, death industrial, noise extremism and transgressive performance aesthetics. Within this shifting environment, Murder Corporation rapidly developed a distin…
Cyano
In Cyano, synthesist and composer Emily A. Sprague questions self, other, ecology, and life in a distant realm. Conjured around the idea of an imagined planet whose inhabitants are rebuilding forbidden capacities for expressivity and emotional connection, Cyano is a meditation on visibility, psychic transformation, light transmission, and worlds beyond our knowing materialized through an intuitive use of modular synthesizers and voice.
Saga
On the eve of the 15th anniversary of Vladimir Karpov’s voyaging, visionary solo synth entity X.Y.R., the project unveils its vastest quest yet: Saga. Recorded and revised intermittently at his home studio in Alexandrovskaya, St. Petersburg across 11 years, the album’s four side-long songs span overlapping panoramas of twilit drone, desert wind, stargate electronics, and jungle temple percussion, alternately elevated and desolate. Working with his signature Soviet-era synthesizer, the Formanta-M…
1983-1985
Fukuoka, early '80s. In the backstreets of Hakata, between neon lights and moonlight, three figures shaped darkness and grey shades from the Far East. The "Moonlight" EP and all the Neo Museum rarities finally collected in one vinyl release: the most ritualistic and lunar side of Japanese new wave shines again.
Technical Music Planning
If it's extreme, leave it to us. Challenging the sound, playing with the sound, laughing at the sound. A docking of debut recordings from the most talked-about street artists and "sound collages & sound gags" by pro musicians with eccentric ideas. An exciting, bold, and humorous "bright" New Wave omnibus album. Featuring artists like: Kaoru Sato (EP-4), Masumi Hara & Banana, Shingo Tomoda, Chinju, Mammy, Muzeum, and more.
Fred Ventura Presents Italo International - Modern Disco From Europe (LP)
Following the acclaimed Milano Undiscovered, Italia Undiscovered and Italia Synthetica series comes Italo International: a new collection celebrating the enduring legacy of Italo Disco. Eight exclusive tracks by established European artists reimagining one of Italy's most influential musical movements with originality, respect, and a contemporary vision.
Italo International is a journey through the many shades of elegant and visionary electronic music, moving between Italo Disco, Synth Pop and d…
Qurmami
Maryos Syawish (b. 1993, Iraq) is a Chaldean Iraqi artist and musician based in Naarm/Melbourne working fluidly across visual art, sound and curatorial practice. His creative work spans more than 15 years and is defined by a lawless, unorthodox approach that resists traditional genre boundaries. His Research Records debut is an introspective and meandering exploration of place, legacy and personal history. It’s a marked change of pace for the Melbourne-based producer, who has carved his name int…
Life Extension
Marco Farina aka Canva6 is an Italian artist and longtime member of the Presto!? roster. He has performed at MACRO Roma, Triennale Milano, C2C Festival, Aaniwalli Helsinki, Signal Festival Prague and across Europe. His music has also crossed into film and contemporary art: “Still Cry at High Speed” was featured in Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s Eat the Night, presented at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, while “Raging Euphoria” and “Sleepwalking” were used in Stephanie Comilang’s Search for Li…
Parity Symmetry is Conserved
Rekombinant is the solo project of Rome based composer and sound artist Alfonso Montagnese. Blending electroacoustic composition, analogue electronics, magnetic tape and sound design, his work explores the physical qualities of sound, embracing imperfection, transformation and degradation as expressive compositional tools. Borrowing its title from the physical principle of parity symmetry, the album is less interested in scientific theory than in the possibility that an identity may endure even …
The Sound Of Lights When Dim
*100 copies limited edition* Twenty years after its original release, The Sound Of Lights When Dim remains a remarkable opening statement from Drew Sullivan’s Slow Dancing Society. First released on September 6, 2006, the eight-track album established a musical language that Sullivan would continue to explore and refine for the next two decades: slowly unfolding electronics, treated guitar, soft rhythmic movement and melody shaped less by conventional structure than by memory, atmosphere and emo…
Endless summer
Endless Summer, originally released in 2001 by Mego, was a breakthrough album for Christian Fennesz. The album which brought his name and music towards the first steps of mainstream recognition. Following on from the more experimental Hotel Paral.lell and the Beach Boys homaged Plays single Endless Summer brought the guitars more to the front, the electronics shimmered more, and the melodies shined more brightly. It went on to be a classic of its time, topping many end of year polls. This new de…
Camminando di Notte
Following two remix EPs featuring reworks by Mad Professor, Peaking Lights and Danilo Plessow, Sensible Soccers return with Camminando di Notte, an album exploring the space where instrumental electronics, organic rhythms and dub-inflected textures converge into a sound of warm, hypnotic and subtly disorienting beauty.The album opens with “Chuva Morna” and "Balsinha Mentirosa", setting the tone with softly played guitars, hazy electronics and rarefied percussion. Rather than moving towards a con…
The Future
Synapscape, the German duo of Philipp Münch and Tim Kniep, return with eleven tracks of heavy technoid industrial: glitching electronics, dense rhythmic machinery and dark atmospheres rooted in early EBM, with singing saw by Babsi Teichner.
Curving Time
Curving Time is what happens when two musicians spend over a decade circling the same question from opposite directions, and finally sit down to answer it together. Sunshine Yellow cassette in a smoke tinted case with screen printed white title in custom Spaciousness font. Sleeve notes with artists image of playground in liminal Tokyo.
Takeshi Nishimoto and Hiroshi Watanabe have individually spent more than twenty years exploring the emotional reach of instrumental music - one through guitar, s…
Bad Trip
*100 copies limited edition* "Bad Trip" is a nightmarish plunge into a dystopian world that, unfortunately, is all too close to reality. With this album, composed in secret over several months alongside various other projects and collaborations currently in progress, Noise Entropy sought to synthesize his diverse musical influences through his personal soundscape. The result is a blend of industrial and dark ambient, with a cinematic quality. Noise Entropy describes his music as "cosmic, hypnago…
Each Day, as if it Were Your Last
'Each Day, as if It Were Your Last' marks a striking new chapter for Pallette and a complete departure from his Past Inside the Present debut, 'Pathways'. Released in November 2020, Pathways emerged from an introspective period in Alexander Carlo Buckley’s life, presenting four lovely loop-based compositions shaped by hypnotic, consonant arrangements, fleeting melodies, and a patient sense of ebb and flow. Each Day, as if It Were Your Last moves beyond those meditative foundations, expanding Pal…
Soileth
*250 copies limited edition* Soileth collects the complete recorded output of Holeist, a short-lived project featuring Dan Burke, Jeph Jerman and Eric Lunde. It stands as the final document of a brief encounter between these major figures of the American experimental underground, recorded in 1989 - a time when cassette culture, primitive sampling technology and extreme sound experimentation were colliding into something entirely new.
The material for side one was recorded during a single-day ses…