Put your hands on me
Dream-pop duo Paco Sala return with a heavy-lidded sophomore album for Digitalis, continuing to impress with an album likely to appeal to those of you who enjoyed recent albums from Inga Copeland and HTRK. Vocalist Birch is a ghostly but central presence amidst producer Antony Harrison's drowsy backdrops, sashaying waif-like thru ten bare-boned pop arrangements and neon-hued ambient scapes. Everything feels tender to the point of collapse, creating a cathartic tension between the near-whispered …
The death of rave (a partial flashback)
James Leyland Kirby’s near-mythical ‘The Death Of Rave’ material finally given a proper release - original rave classics deconstructed into hazy, ambient flashbacks* Finally, after years of haranguing, Leyland Kirby finally yields 'A Partial Flashback' 8-track vinyl edition of his 204-track dancefloor elegy 'The Death Of Rave'. Conceived after a visit to Berghain in 2006 where, according to the artist "For me personally something had died… Rave and techno felt dead t…
All things being equal
New composition by Pete Kember (Spacemen 3 / Sonic Boom). 5th in Dekorder's recent Hybrid vinyl series, now available digitally. E.A.R. is Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom. He is one of the founders of legendary UK bands Spacemen 3 and Spectrum and currently works as a highly respected producer for Panda Bear, MGMT and others. While Spacemen 3 and Spectrum were mostly relying on song based structures E.A.R. explores free-form (and long-form) mind-altering drone based compositions. Previous albums came…
The Stand
Excepter is the creation of No-Neck Blues Band member John Fell Ryan founded in 2002. Their records have been released on labels such as Load, Fusetron and Animal Collective's Paw Tracks. Most of their improvisational live shows have been recorded and released on the band's website. A new album will be coming out this year on the Blast First (petite) label. The Stand includes three new recordings featuring Lala Harrison Ryan and John Fell Ryan's son John Victory. Victory was only 18 months old w…
Providence
Hybrid-Vinyl 12" releases to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the label** Outstanding, ambitious 14 minute darkside invocation by Hamburg's Marc Richter aka Black To Comm and boss of the inestimable Dekorder imprint. In 'Providence' Black To Comm distills elements of electro-acoustic music, modern composition, noise and No Wave Techno in shockingly concise and acute form, sweeping us up from Mika Vainio-esque depth charges and spectral noise diffusions thru kosmiche drone shimmers guided by …
Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa
Jan Anderzén and his partners celebrate the transcendental power of ecstatic music. Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa is the first Kemialliset Ystävät album in four years. It is the result of chance enhancing online collaboration methods, desire to get lost in the sound archives and the high art of meticulous editing. The album title is from visions of rivers running down from Heart of Darkness to the City of Joyful Noise. If contemporary music is a high speed train passing by then KY's music would be an or…
Keine oase in sicht
There is no oasis in sight. What to do? Walk on. Slowly, perhaps, but steadily. Unswervingly. Ten years after the invention of „New Weird America“ (D. Keenan) and the „return of the collective“ (D. Diedrichsen), Datashock, who are now in their eleventh year, are still exploring „the space of nomadic sounds“ and looking for old sources of fresh sounds, unfazed by contemporary musical mirages. The sun may still be burning down mercilessly in late capitalism, blinding our eyes and making our limbs …
Slow Down Tiger
Dan Melchior on Slow Down Tiger seems to stray a little ways away from his usual partner in crime, the guitar, and dabbles with a foreboding dark ambience with ominous vocal samples (and field recordings) spliced in. To this day, it seems like the only track available for preview off of Slow Down Tiger is “Tongues,” and apparently that’s just a tidbit of what’s available. The synopsis for this record is touting two side-long tracks and I’m really curious as to what else Melchior is serving up on…
Melancholia
Originally released a year after the increasingly iconic The Disintegration Loops, a decade later Melancholia still stands as William Basinski's second most beloved album. To commemorate its 10-year anniversary, we are honored to present the first-ever vinyl edition of this otherworldly piece of music. Remastered from the original recordings and pressed onto audiophile-quality 100% pure virgin vinyl, this limited-edition vinyl reissue is packaged in a stunning gatefold jacket featuring all-n…
Untitled #295
Francisco López is not only famous for his profilic sound creations, but also for different aspects of sound manipulations. Since his very beginnings, he explores different fields of sound and almost entire his work belongs to serie "untitled". Untitled #295 is a piece created specially for two sides of vinyl. Besides Francisco Lopez's famous moving soundscapes, it's the pulse what makes this work driving. And not only typical pulse - a regular one with irregular accents. Slowly developing it ta…
Outside Broadcast
Graham “Dids” Dowdall has been active on the outer limits of music for several decades. Starting out as drummer in Manchester cult band Ludus he then worked with Eric Random & the Bedlamites and spent several years recording and touring with Nico. He’s collaborated live and on record with many others along the way including John Cale, Suns of Arqa, Band of Holy Joy. He is currently a member of avant rock legends Pere Ubu, has an acclaimed solo electronica project Gagarin and works with ri…
Destroying Symmetry
A unique figure in the international noise and industrial music scenes, Osman Arabi is a composer, producer and sound designer from Tripoli, Lebanon. His work elicits images of desolate industrial landscapes and shamanistic rites. From his beginnings in black metal, Arabi has progressed through such genres as dark ambient, industrial, tribal, psychedelic, electro-acoustic, power electronics and noise. His many projects have included Seeker, Kafan, Veinen, Shamanic Death Trance, The Ritual…
West coast soundings
new compilation of works by emerging west coast composers who somehow belong within a John Cage lineage. Music by James Tenney, Michael Pisaro and their students, Mark So, Michael Winter, Chris Kallmyer, Tashi Wada, Liam Mooney, Scott Cazan, Laura Steenberge, Cat Lamb, Quentin Tolimieri and Casey Anderson. Played by Frank Gratkowski (bass clarinet, b-flat clarinet, alto saxophone, radio, triangle), Seth Josel (electric guitar(s), mandolin, radio, triangle) Hans W. Koch (electronics, radio,…
Hephaestus
Arne Deforce is renowned for his passionate and unparalleled performances of contemporary and experimental music. As a soloist, his repertoire consists mainly of solo and chamber music with a special interest in works deemed "unplayable" but "performable" from composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Richard Barrett, John Cage and Brian Ferneyhough. Mika Vainio was one-half of the minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. His solo works, under his own name and under aliases like Ø, are known for their…
D/evolution
LCC (previously known as LasCasiCasiotone) is Ana Quiroga and Uge Pañeda, who hail from the Asturias region of northern Spain, and are now based in Gijon. After a couple of digital-only releases, Editions Mego is now set to release their first physical full length entitled D/evolution. Encapsulating the paradox between man and earth, it reflects on the paradigm that is Evolution, and examines the extent to which our development and technological advancement, which is inevitably bound to t…
Cascando
The work of both Fabio Orsi and Claudio Rocchetti has long been a varied study in internal dynamics. Through an array of instruments and sound sources, Orsi and Rocchetti have made an album that both feels very internal, and yet firmly roots observation on the external; that which is indeed beyond view. The very 'falling' of Cascando is at play across the work. Typically, of course, one associates the act of falling as a negative; something which is accidental and brings pain. Yet as the a…
Enregistre Pour Yehia Le Marabout
Some of the most intense music we've ever heard from the Mali scene – a set that takes the older takamba rhythms, but gives them a propulsive feel from lots of fast percussion and guitar lines – all served up with little other instrumentation at all, so that the whole record's this long rhythmic jam that's mighty amazing all the way through! Notes are spare, but the intense sound is more than enough – and some of the rawest Saharan sounds we've ever stocked.
Taaritt
Amazing cosmic synth from late-80s Niger. An aural relaxation manual, somewhere between ambient library music and minimal wave, throwing ancient Saharan folk ballads deep into the future. Polyphonic analog synthesizers and drum machines interpret ancient Saharan folk ballads in an imagined science fiction future. A proposed relaxation guide, sonically lying somewhere between ambient library music and minimal wave. Recorded in Niger and France in the late 1980s and never before released.
Abrada
Recorded live in Montreal in April 2014 on a single track before performance at Peut-Être. Limited edition of 100 copies with custom stamped cardboard covers.
Evening Star
**200g super-heavyweight vinyl and presented in a re-print of the original sleeve** In 1975 with King Crimson on hiatus (as it would remain until 1980), Robert Fripp's appearances on album or on stage were rare. When he did appear, it was with Brian Eno. Circumstances following an accident in January 1975 led to Eno formulating the idea of ambient music as detailed in the notes to Discreet Music - released in December 1975. The title track of Discreet Music was initially conceived as a backing l…