Ten canisters of pressurized tetrafluoroethane over three weeks
Limited edition red vinyl 7", 100 copies. Two pieces for hand-held gas horns realized at the Music Research Centre, University of York, November 2008. Recorded using two Neumann U87 microphones and a Shure SM58 on custom-rigged pendulum.
Harvey Milk
Following critical acclaim of Harvey Milk’s latest album Life… the Best Game in Town (2008), the band’s current home Hydra Head, has gone into the archives for this new/old album. Originally recorded in 1993 by one Bob Weston, these recordings never officially saw the long-playing light of day. Until now. The band is known for being somewhat curmudgeonly, and this proto-debut is fittingly nasty and strangely disconnected. Not for the ‘Milk the youthful exuberance of early spotty Metallica or gri…
Neuma Q
The new addition to the Die Schachtel 'Composers' series, an utter immersion into the purest electronic sound, exploring a broad spectrum of electroacoustic phenomena, low-end drone, magically constructed and sequenced in a way that preserves its intimate feel
Rimandi e Scoperte
Long awaited new album by the enigmatic composer Angelo Petronella, in a superb piece of electroacoustic microsound, intertwining scrupulous minimalism, environmental recordings, and an intense drone nebula. The liner notes to Rimandi E Scoperte are esoteric to say the least, with statements like "In my place there is an arch, both an entrance and a barrier, both a passage and a wall" which clarify little in terms of how this music was made or what processes are involved. That's probably the wa…
Location momentum
Eleh has been an enigma since the first record under that name was released in 2006. In numbered editions with letterpressed sleeves, usually on Important Records from the U.S.A., these vinyl-only releases were evidently a labour of love and attention. Further recordings have been released on the labels Taiga and Touch, making 11 vinyl editions in all. Eleh began as long ago as 1999 as an exploration of analog synthesis, emphasising low frequency oscillation and resonant acoustic phenomen…
Combinatoria
A comprehensive guide to the core recordings of one of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians from Italy, this 2-CD BOX Deluxe Edition captures Pietro Grossi original vision, presenting a wide selection of his studio early recordings, beautifully re-mastered to preserve the enduring quality. Pietro Grossi used to playfully define himself as pigro [lazy], but he wasn’t lazy at all! Few musicians have been working everyday at such a cracking pace, creating, teaching and…
Under the fig tree / The magic carpet
** FEW RESURFACED COPIES, VERY LAST ** Two masterpieces of the early 70s by released by Die Schachtel for the first time ever. Using VCS3 live electronics and environmental sounds, Alvin Curran created a hypnotic and meditative transcendency of minimalist beauty. Limited deluxe vinyl LP edition."The two works presented here are “seminal” pieces of two genres from which a great part of my musical practice springs and to this day continues to evolve from. Under the Fig Tree is in fact the realizat…
Kristallisationen 2
** Edition limited to 420 copies. ** Planam proudly presents the second LP production by Klaus Röder featuring two more pieces from the electronic Kristallisationen series, or “Kristallisation 5” (1993) for microphone recordings of children chimes (played by children), Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer and EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer, “Kristallisation 7” (1997) for microphone recordings and computer sounds, as well as “Frozen Sounds” (2002) for electric guitar sounds and computer sounds and …
Sountracks for the Movies of Pierre Clementi
** Edition limited to 300 copies with full-color sleeve, inner sleeve and insert, reproducing some very inspired scenes from the movies of Pierre Clementi. ** First performed at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux in March 2009, “Soundtracks for the movies of Pierre Clemanti” is an electronic concrete music including many references to psychedelia, kraut, spontaneous sound creation of the 1960s-70s, building an intense dialogue with the specific universe of Pierre Clementi. Even if p…
Noise vs. Subversive Computing
Noise Vs Subversive Computing' is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. There are not only electronic musicians joining this effort but also radical activists, computer hackers and programming code theoreticians. The heterogeneous contributions are collected on USB flash memory and carefully divided in two folders. In the first there are only…
Mag Ik Eens Even In Uw Broek Pissen
Since 69 years I've been begging Daniel de Wereldvermaarde Botanicus, aka CASSIS CORNUTA, if I could please start a second recordlabel which only releases recordings from his archive. This botanic's modesty is an absolute exception in times of a overdose of recorded farts, since 1974 CASSIS CORNUTA combines musique concrète, analog synthesizer carpets, weirdo acid, noise, fieldrecordings, tape music, free jazz etc in a puddle of madness spiced with odd staring, dozens of plants (cacti to be more…
Blind Jesus
A journey in free improv noise ambient performed by a duo comprised of Stefano Pilia (3/4havebeeneliminated) on guitar, audio collages and effects, and media artist Andrew Hooker on electronics. Higly Recommended
Vivian & Ondine
A brand new album from one of the most revered and acclaimed ambient composers of our time, Vivian & Ondine takes the form of a single, three-quarter hour piece, once again constructed from William Basinski's signature style of tape loop manipulation. While the narrative ebb and flow is largely pinned to a single tape fragment, Basinski merged a further "dozen or so" that sunk into the mix in just the right way, adding to the aura of fluctuation and continuous evolution that's so essential to th…
Amarok
Francisco López is known all over the world as one of the main figures of all time experimental music. He performed in hundreds lives, projects and sound-sets in 60 countries of 5 continents and his huge discography has been released by more than 200 labels all over the world. His musical universe moves from human-ear limits to the deepest abysses of sonorous power and it is mostly composed of field recordings caught along the wildest areas of Earth or between the sounds of industrial world.For …
Chronology (The Bain Total Years 77-85) 6Lp + 7"
This 6Lp/7" Box Compilation is an outstanding audio-selection of Tape-Releases by Die Form and its Side-Projects ("Eva-Johanna Reichstag", „Fine Automatic“, "Krylon Hertz", "Camera Obscura", "DF Sadist School", "Mental Code" and "Hurt"), all released between 1977-1985 on the french Minimal/Synth/EBM-Label "Bain Total" which has run by mastermind Philippe Fichot of Die Form. This careful selection has been made by Philippe Fichot and VOD with focus on audio-material which has only been released o…
Spielt Noise Boys
This is Electro 80's minimal punk at its very best - think Grauzone meet D.A.F. meet Suicide!Stephan Eicher recorded the totally 7 songs (only 5 were later released on the debut 7") on a simple dictaphone recorder with no overdubs or mixing and purely with 'stolen' equipment (after the Police stormed the Spex club where Stephan worked, and where the band that was supposed to play had to leave behind their equipment.).With almost no equipment he tried to reproduce tracks by his short living first…
Sintesis: La Produccion Al Poder
Awesome box-set includes the lps "tesis" and "antisesis", an additional '7 and 50-pages booklet, 23 tracks. "síntesis" was el aviador dro y sus obreros especializados' second album. also featured here is the great (and quite different) 12" version of "selector de frecuencias" (dro-020, 1982), the complete "amor industrial" 12" (dro-040, 1983) and "vortex" 12" (dro-074, 1984).
Pulsi�n
This legendary Spanish industrial-rhythmic combo from Madrid released several live releases during the past few years and now strikes back with "Pulsion". The 9 tracks were recorded in Bejing and Rome dealing with influences from traditional Arab and oriental music. The chants and samplings are the main characteristic of "Pulsion". It might sound a bit political-orientated, but the band clearly affirms to not transmit any political or ideological message. These input has been only used for its s…
press my hungry button
Subscribers edition with bonus 7" limited to 250 copies. A selection of the best work of Cultural Amnesia spanning 1980--1983. Includes remastered tracks from their three released cassette albums and from compilations. Nearly half the tracks are previously unreleased, including pieces from two unfinished late albums that the band consider amongst their strongest songs.
Periodikmindtrouble
Periodikmindtrouble is Ilitch's (a.k.a Thierry Muller) first album, released on Oxygène Rec. in 1978. This reissue present for the first time the complete works of Periodkmindtrouble such as it had been conceived and should be released at that time: as a double LP. So, here it is as a double CD (including a 12 pages color booklet) with the following musical works : the album Periodikmindtrouble in its entirety, plus the complete recordings of Innerfilmsequence, plus the unreleased track …