Closed System Potentials
Following the RVNG reissues of A Period Of Review(ranked the #7 reissue of 2014 by The Wire) and Artificial Dance (ranked the #2 reissue of 2015 by The Wire), Closed System Potentials, recorded in 1979 and originally released in 1980, finds its way back to vinyl in a completely remastered and expanded edition. The LP includes two previously unreleased tracks, and the download card includes an additional two unreleased tracks, all taken from the original Closed System Potentials sessions. In thei…
British Cassette-Culture: Recordings 1975-1985
An unparalleled showcase of 'British Cassette-Culture: Recordings 1975-1985' presenting tape releases by This Little Alien, Legendary Pink Dots, Stephen Cadman, All the Madman, Carl Matthews and Kevin Harrison, avalaible on vinyl for the first time. Frank Maier's Vinyl-on-Demand turns its attentions to the UK tape productions during that golden era.
It pays particular focus to:
Carl Matthews. Especially the german music he got into right from the sta…
Lung Function Recordings 1982-1986
This box will give a nice insight into the world of the Adrian and Derek Smith's musical legacy during their very productive stage and the early years of their Lung Function-Label from 1982 to 1986 with the Solo- (Adrian Smith) and Side Projects (Half Nervous/Those Nervous Surgeons, EFF) to the EBM-Legend Click Click. Adrian Smith, the main-figure behind the EMB/Dark-Wave-Legend Click Click started to experiment with sounds as early as 1974. In 1976 Adrian managed to get his hands on a decent …
...it's eternity, Ester
Rubix cube electronica from Sheffield unit Carers and featuring artwork by EVOL main man Roc Jiménez. Over the course of twelve minutes or so, the sounds meander between noisy interludes of musique concrète to more drooping eyelids drone passages. Great start to what promises to be a label to watch.
Gridshape
Gridshape is an intersection of heavily distorted violent sounds with points of kinetic aural quietness through the interaction between digital electronics and guitars. Franz Rosati: Electronics, distorted guitars. Francesco Saguto: Classic, distorted, prepared guitars.
Watertube / Ringspiel
Remastered version of the ADN Tape of 1985, Limited Numbered Edition of 50. "Exquisite ambient synthesizer electroacoustic music, published 1985, using soothing sounds a la Musci & Venosta or Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon. Riccardo Sinigaglia was born 1953. His discography include: 1985 ‘Riflessi Sensibili’ and 1989 ‘Correnti Magnetiche’, both on ADN. Correnti Magnetiche (1985-1996) was also the name of a studio and band he founded in Milan with Mario Canali in 1985, and including people like F…
Omgivelser & Portando CD
Kåre Kolberg (b.1936) is one of Norway’s foremost contemporary composers and is regarded as one of the pioneers of early electronic music and multi-disciplinarity art in Scandinavia. He has composed music for film, theatre and chamber orchestras to jazz acts such as Svein Finnerud Trio and Jan Garbarek. Kolberg’s Omgivelser (Surroundings) was a commissioned piece made for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in 1970. It was made as a soundtrack for a short TV-film of the same name that w…
Sustains
Amnon Wolman - composer, was born at Jerusalem Israel, 1955. He has written more than fifty pieces which include symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different types of ensembles, film music, music for theater and dance, and works involving computer generated or processed sounds. His music is recorded by Wergo (Germany) and the Stanford University Press (California, USA), and published by the Israel Music Institute. He is now the head of the electronic music department at Brooklyn Colle…
End of Summer
End of Summer captures Jóhann Jóhannsson's journey to the Antarctic Peninsula to discover the calm scenery of a landscape changing seasons, barely influenced or even noticed by humanity. The Super 8 film is a comforting study of a peaceful setting in one of the most crucial and endangered areas of our planet. Accompanied by rich and detailed field recordings of the surroundings, this footage forms a perfect foundation for Jóhannsson's musical compositions, performed together with fellow m…
Eaten away by shadows
“It's flashback time at Shock! Everybody loves the '80s now innit, and everybody positively adores old tapes of bedroom noodling... So, always keen to exploit the latest trends, Shock has rummaged through the archives to come up with EATEN AWAY BY SHADOWS, over 79 minutes ('value' for money!) of SJ archive stuff recorded between '82 - '83, before editing Shock Xpress, playing in Whitehouse, Skullflower etc…This was recorded mostly in Bristol, some in London while living in a squat up the road fr…
End-Music
In the follow-up to The Reoccurrence (2015), Arek Gulbenkoglu presents End-music: a series of insular sonic imprints via use of tape detritus, voice and abused electronics. End-music continues Gulbenkoglu’s fascination with sound at its most elemental level and comprises three sculptural pieces in which textures are examined from different angles, and threads are pulled bare. This is a transparent and tactile music that accumulates, shifts and contorts.
Radiant intervals
Radiant Intervals' is the first Eleh LP on Important since '08s 'Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Vol.3', and follows one of the Wire magazine's (and our) top records of 2010, the incredible 'Location Momentum' for Touch. Continuing with investigations into physically tactile tones and drones, this LP offers four further modular synth expeditions eternally moving towards the distant point depicted on the gorgeous, letterpress printed sleeve. After a stoically inert start 'Night Of…
Rainbow In Cologne
Mystical, largely organ-based live concert by legendary experimental composer Terry Riley. Terry Riley’s organ and tape loops concerts are the stuff of legend and it’s pretty marvelous to finally have this astonishing performance released. "Minimalist composer Terry Riley premiered his work 'In C' in 1964, a big influence on minimalism in contemporary composition and on subsequent works bycomposers like Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams. 1967’s 'A Rainbow In Curved Air' and its companionp…
A Poem In Cycles & Bell & Other Music For Tape Recorder
You would never believe this record to be a relic from a past of electronic music that happened before anybody even spoke about rock music. In 1957 this compilation of electronic and orchestral compositions by the three masterminds Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky and William Bergsma saw the light of the stars for the first time and has become a cult piece among lovers of electronic space music since then, despite the fact that only the first side features the so called tape compositions of Lu…
L'Occident Est Bleu / L'An Cinquante-Six
Reissued for the first time! Plus 2 Bonus Tracks! Pierre Henry is most popular among rock fans for his collaboration with the English band Spooky Tooth in 1969 but already had a great reputation as composer and performer in the field of modern classics, musique concrète and pioneering electronic avant garde. And so it is obvious that there have been quite a few albums by him and in cooperation with other artists not necessarily from the field of music. This record at hand dates back to 1958 and …
Edicion Antologica 1969-2014
Extensive ovierview on Spanish electronic music pioneer Edoardo Polonioa, containing a biographical account filmed by Javier A. Bedrina (video) and a audio dvd with a selection of 48 electroacoustic works composed between 1969 and 2014. The total length is nearly 10 hours (!) and it has an extensive booklet with this that details in alphabetical (rather than chronological) order these pieces, in English and Spanish. Eduardo Polonio has been one of the key figures of Spanish music since the late…
Phantoms Of Dreamland
Following their release of the Michal Turtle 12" Are You Psychic?/Astral Decoy (MFM 008EP, 2015), Music From Memory present Phantoms Of Dreamland; a compilation of works by the UK musician recorded between 1983-1985. This double LP features tracks drawn from the recording sessions for Turtle's album Music From The Living Room (1983) and also collects material Turtle recorded shortly after that, for an album which would never materialize. With three tracks taken from Music From The Living Ro…
Untitled
Originally released on cassette in 2011 | All songs: Keijo Virtanen & J. Koho | Recorded at: Kuusankoski, Finland, 19.-21.11.2010.
Arke Sinth
These recordings document the brief and intense life of a group formed at the beginning of the 1970s within the fertile and stimulating cultural environment of the town of Padua (Italy), where electroacoustic and computer music pioneer Teresa Rampazzi had started, a few years earlier, the NPS Group (Nuove Proposte Sonore - New Sound Proposals).
Arke Sinth was a group of four young musicians and artists, who decided to perform their own music, an experi…