La Notte Fa
2008 release ** Drums & laptop. Then add a third ingredient to the first two: multiple samples. In La notte fa, Côté and A_dontigny have laid down sculptural music on a groove. Contribution by Bernard Falaise, Alexander MacSween, Jean René and Alexandre St-Onge. It's the 6th publication - out of 24, one for each hour of a day - produced by &records (Michel f Côté & Fabrizio Gilardino).
63 Apparitions
2004 release ** Everything sounds remarkably organic, blending the electronic and the acoustic into a fluid whole. As I walked around Yonkers, NY's Untermyer Park today, a space I've known intimately for the past fifteen years, I listened to the snatches of melody 63 Apparitions offered up through my headphones. Untermyer is filled with ruined and decaying buildings, overgrown vegetation and crumbling faux-Roman architecture. I couldn't help but thinking that Côté's music provided my stroll with…
Des Gestes Défaits
2004 release ** Circular remixing, deconstructed concerts. Here, Bernard Falaise is the recomposer, abandoning his guitar in the service of Martin Tétreault's material. Eleven pieces of three minutes each make up this body of music, reconstituted from a raw, dense, purely analogue sonic universe, that of MT. BF undid in order to redo. Result: an audacious remix, clear, precise and digital. It's the 2nd publication - out of 24, one for each hour of a day - produced by &records (Michel f Côté & Fa…
MAUBIA55+ODRZ55
*2025 stock. 290 copies limited edition* MAUBIA55+ODRZ55 is a collaborative album by Maurizio Bianchi, a pioneering figure in industrial noise music from Italy, and ODRZ. This release marks a significant encounter between two avant-garde artists known for their experimental soundscapes and cutting-edge production techniques. The album blends Bianchi's legacy of raw industrial textures and atmospheric noise with ODRZ’s unique electronic approaches, creating an intense auditory experience.
Maurizi…
Faraway From Light
*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* "Faraway From Light" is a tripartite CD in a short intro, an equally short outro and a long central composition. Much of the sound sources used in these tracks were recorded in the towers of Teufelsberg in Berlin, a NASA center located in the west of the city, abandoned by British and American intelligence after the fall of the Wall. Teufelsberg, literally "mountain of the devil", stands on an artificial hill, obtained from the sedimentation of the remain…
Live Radio Blackout 1999 (105.250 FM - Torino)
*2025 stock. 60 copies limited edition* In the late 90s i was djing at radio blackout with Fabio Battistetti. A lot was changing for Gerstein: as already happened in1989, I was living a creative crisis, so I thought that the right solution was to change everything. But How? I decided to have a different approach to sound by manipulating samples and frequencies created with the pc. the result are these eleven tracks of which only few have been released in the past. three of them can be found on t…
Tutti I Colori Del Buio / Colloidal Semantika Sessions Vol. 2
*2025 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Mulo Muto and Sshe Retina Stimulants proudly present "Tutti I Colori Del Buio / Colloidal Semantika Sessions Vol. 2," a split tape released by Luce Sia in December 2016 in a limited edition of 60 copies. This collaboration showcases a profound journey into sonic experimentation and atmospheric soundscapes, blending Mulo Muto's ritualistic loops and synths with Sshe Retina Stimulants' unique philosophical noise explorations.
The album captures diverse audit…
Sucker + Suck Harder
*2025 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Italian experimental and electronic musician Maurizio Pustianaz, known as Gerstein, presents a compelling double release featuring the albums "Sucker" and "Suck Harder." This expansive collection showcases Gerstein's evolving sound from the 1990s through the late 1990s, blending intense, mind-bending compositions with innovative electronic elements.
"Sucker + Suck Harder" captures the essence of Gerstein's artistic journey, highlighting his mastery of pian…
32 Years Of Rain
*2025 stock. 60 copies limited edition* Laxative Souls and Evitaxal return with their compelling new album, Riven Nights, a profound journey through moody soundscapes and evocative storytelling. This captivating collection showcases the bands' signature blend of introspective lyrics and atmospheric instrumentation.
Riven Nights weaves together haunting melodies, textured guitar layers, and pulsating rhythms that invite listeners into a nocturnal world of reflection and raw emotion. Each track un…
32 Years Of Rain
2018 release ** “Kiawaltz” is commissioned and compiled by Old Captain to commemorate the early musical rituals composed by Maurizio Pustianaz, a famous Italian experimental artist known since 1984, and his project Gerstein, whose first recordings featured on this compilation represent solo melancholic piano ballads, experimental harsh sounds, synth-guitar powerful extravaganza within post-industrial style. These rare materials were obtained from the original 1986/89 tape releases issued 30 year…
La mer, la bataille, la mort
2005 release ** La mer, la bataille, la mort is Soft Black Star's latest album. Five songs united by a love of literature and cinema. Electroacoustic sounds and field recordings blend into cinematic homages (Aguirre). An early 20th-century vinyl record spins, crackling. Zeno Gabaglio dispenses love with his cello in Moishe & Buddy. Radio waves sinuously flirt with the Farfisa in my living room, with a half-full ashtray on top. The homage to Sokurov in Russian ark, with his inevitable improvisati…
Des Tournages
2008 release ** Originally recorded in 2002 and performed once at l’Oeil de Poisson in Québec City the same year. Fan-CD (mini CD within a transparent full-sized CD), front jewel case is scratched by a microphone 100 times in a circle pattern. Everything revolves around these words: the circle, by the dog. I believe that this word, used by those for whom the earth revolves, is singular: a rigorously extended straight line, plural: an eternally centerless circle which, to advance, turns on itself…
Torn Tongue
2002 release ** Edition of 160 in a 6.75" round three panel cardboard cover. Recorded 1997-1998 in Cambridge, MA and Nijmegen, NL. All sounds taken from the spoken voice of KS, recorded in Gainesville, Florida, in different acoustic environments.
Heart To Heart (A Collection And More)
2014 release ** Oversize silver card cover. A Maurizio Pustianaz (Gerstein) project. Collection of previous releases with four new bonus tracks.
Harakiri For Seven Strings
1994 release ** 3" CD in slipcase housed in A5 package. ""Harakiri For Seven Strings" is a real thunder, because it uses only terrific guitar noise as the base of heavily distorted collages of collapsing brainwaves."
Kiawaltz
2018 release ** “Kiawaltz” is commissioned and compiled by Old Captain to commemorate the early musical rituals composed by Maurizio Pustianaz, a famous Italian experimental artist known since 1984, and his project Gerstein, whose first recordings featured on this compilation represent solo melancholic piano ballads, experimental harsh sounds, synth-guitar powerful extravaganza within post-industrial style. These rare materials were obtained from the original 1986/89 tape releases issued 30 year…
The Death Ointment
Gerstein is the industrial / noise / classical alias of Italian artist Maurizio Pustianaz. “The Death Ointment” collects two early tapes previously released by Ramleh's Broken Flag and Atrax Morgue's Slaughter Production — “The Death Posture” (1987) and “La Pomata Delle Feminine” (1989).
Caged
After 25 years, Ian Boddy and Chris Carter’s rare underground classic Caged returns, remastered and expanded.
Huellas Entreveradas
** 2025 CD Repress ** Beatriz Ferreyra has been at the forefront of electroacoustic music composition since 1963 when she joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales as one of Pierre Schaeffer’s research assistants. She is one of very few composers still performing who was instrumental at the beginning of Schaeffer’s theories of sound objects and reduced listening techniques. She continues to compose commissioned works and perform around the world in a career that has spanned some sixty years.From…