The White Edition
FRQNCY LDN, the new project from Alex Lavery and James Ford (producer du jour and one half of Simian Mobile Disco), recently announced their debut album ‘The White Edition’ is arriving on 5 September via PRAH Recordings. The album is built from a live set at St Matthias Church in Hackney, recorded in 2024. Initially conceived as a live project with earlier performances at churches in London and at Glastonbury, FRQNCY LDN’s music is a mix of strings, gongs, oscillators, FX, and spoken word, and t…
Keyboard Suite II
Suite II in the series expands upon their established pallet, integrating more field recordings and studio processing to their dulcet keyboard melodies. As a storm approaches from the distance - keyboards saturated by tape into distortion, bursts of noise from idiosyncratic electronics, aleatoric stuttering - MARV grants us an album’s worth of sonic sublimation.
Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 001: Woo (Sweet Peas)
Our season's first edition by the mighty Woo is an ode to Sweet Peas. It is a thoughtfully curated collection of ambient, minimalist, and new-age soundscapes designed to be the perfect soundtrack for moments of sowing these seeds, which accompany every release in quiet reflection. Composed by the renowned duo Woo—Mark and Clive Ives — this is one of a series of five unreleased albums from their archives. The release combines soothing tones from clarinet, guitars, percussion, and electronic eleme…
Issue 131
Electronic Sound ventures out of the concrete bunker to explore the strange and unsettling world of Cold War Electronica - a thrilling investigation into how the nuclear age rewired our ears. This essential issue comes with an exclusive double CD featuring 35 suitably tense tracks spanning 1980 to 2025.
The cover story consists of 10 connected pieces detailing the sonic legacy of atomic anxiety. From pioneering artists like Karlheinz Stockhausen and Daniel Miller in the West to Georg Katzer and …
Defensive Acoustics
*300 copies limited edition* Aicher is the work of longtime label veteran Liam Andrews (My Disco, Eros), with additional production from his My Disco spar Rohan Rebeiro – an experimental percussionist and erstwhile collaborator of Roland S. Howard and HTRK. Together, they make resoundingly coarse, bullish industrial musick, distilling fascinations with tone and space through eight gristly and darkly sublime cuts, sharpened by production from Boris Wilsdorf of Einstürzende Neubauten and Swans fam…
!?
*Edition of 160* “An album without titles is a blind date with the listener, who is forced to make an extra (or lesser) effort to clearly grasp both the evident and the more hidden elements of a track, in order to form a personal perception, uncontaminated by pseudo-literary or ‘programmatic’ elements.” “!?” is an album with an unpronounceable name, made up of tracks identified only by their duration, and the two tracks shortened in the vinyl version carry the longer duration that appears on the…
Selected Ambient 1988—1989
Infinite Expanse continues its excavation of forgotten Czech sound archives with ‘Selected Ambient 1988–1989’ by Dia Archa – a project that briefly surfaced in the late 1980s and early 1990s before dissolving into obscurity. Formed by Michal Kořán and Filip Homola, Dia Archa emerged from the same circle as Richter Band, Jaroslav Kořán, and Modrá, tracing an overlooked lineage of post-industrial minimalism and domestic ambient experiment.
Working at the tail end of the socialist era with almost n…
Obliteration Bliss
Degraded, faded cities now empty of people. You can hear household appliances in the kitchens still talking, but only to each other. The phrases are distorted, unclear; broken English , Japanese and a few Korean and Chinese automated voices, syllables, shopping lists, play lists for dinner and recipes. Somewhere one of the machines is dialled in on an isolated pre Buddhist monk chant, distant like from a high cliff meditation cell. The flow of the wide, long Black Mother River Kali Gandaki below…
Free Waltz
*100 copies limited release* Artificial Owl Recordings is thrilled to announce the release of Free Waltz, the latest vinyl album from Yekaterinburg’s multifaceted electronic music visionary Andrey Kurokhtin, known as Shine Grooves. Set for release on Dec-1-2025, Free Waltz is a captivating journey through experimental and ambient soundscapes, pressed on limited-edition yellow vinyl for collectors and audiophiles alike. Free Waltz compiles tracks recorded between 2016 and 2024, drawing inspiratio…
Melatonia
*300 copies limited edition* Melatonia marks the seventh full-length release from the drone duo Pausal, celebrated for their work on labels including Barge Recordings, Students of Decay, Own Records, Dronarivm, and Infraction. Beyond their collaborative output, Alex has released extensively under his Olan Mill moniker, as well as under his own name, while Simon’s solo work has appeared on Hibernate Records.
The album emerged during a period of transition and upheaval for both members, dividing t…
In Four Parts
*300 copies limited edition* The transoceanic partnership of 36 (UK) and Black Swan (US) yielded one of Past Inside The Present’s first truly essential releases in 2019, just a year into the label’s existence. In Four Parts succinctly establishes a beautiful but shadowy gravitas that is core to the PITP catalog, and that each artist has explored throughout successive releases in numerous, genre-defining ways. We are proud to present a limited, black vinyl reissue of this long-out-of-print suite …
Wash Away
*2025 stock. 50 copies limited edition* 'Wash Away' written and produced by zakè, feat. Lucy Gooch and Black Brunswicker. Additional vocal arrangement and synthesizers by Alistair Lax. 'On A Sunny Shore' written and produced by Black Brunswicker. 'Wash Away (quietly)' written and produced by zakè. Photography by Benoît Pioulard on Polaroid SX-70 film. 'Wash Away (quietly)' mixed at Kaleidoscope Tone Studio by zakè. Mastered at Ambient Mountain House by James Bernard. 'Wash Away' and 'On A Sunny …
Thinking Like a Mountain
*300 copies limited edition* Thinking Like a Mountain is the much-anticipated second album by ambient guitar composer From Overseas (aka Kévin Séry), who expands on the vistas and valleys of his début, Home (PITP, 2020), while reflecting on a half-decade that involved a transcontinental relocation and numerous other life changes. Most notably, the main threads weaving through these eight pieces are Séry’s experience as a new father and his graduate studies in Environmental Philosophy, both of wh…
Stars And Silence
*100 coipes limited edition* Five years after their landmark début, Mirrored (ZDR, 2020), Drew Sullivan (Slow Dancing Society) and Zach Frizzell (zakè) present Stars & Silence, a double album that invites internal exploration and deep meditation with its fluid blend of rich ambience, hypnotic IDM, and melodic finesse. “Everything we do is about reconnecting with the resonance and energy that we are made from,” Sullivan states, and in each of the album’s passages, we feel the pulse of an expandin…
Gone To Earth
Gone to Earth is the third solo studio album by English singer-songwriter David Sylvian, released on 1 September 1986. A double album, Gone to Earth is the follow-up to his debut record, Brilliant Trees, and peaked at No. 24 in the UK Albums Chart. The album is a two-record set featuring one record of experimental rock songs with vocals and one consisting entirely of ambient instrumental tracks. Guest artists include Robert Fripp (who co-wrote three songs) and Bill Nelson (who co-wrote one). Thi…
Secrets Of The Beehive
Secrets of the Beehive is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Sylvian. The album was released on 19 October 1987 in Europe and the United States. The album peaked at No. 37 in the UK album chart. The album was released in Japan on 21 November 1987. This re-press is on corona yellow opaque black vinyl and uses the most recent remastered audio.
Alchemy An Index of Possibilities
Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities is the second solo studio album by David Sylvian, Alchemy is an intermediary album, released between his first solo album Brilliant Trees and his next solo album Gone to Earth, and it is made up of various separate projects. Re-presses were released with an earlier b/w photograph of Sylvian instead of the original artwork. This version is pressed on corona gold opaque red colour vinyl and uses the most recent remastered audio.
Nite Closures EP
Mark Fell inaugurates his new label - The National Centre for Mark Fell Studies - with his first solo electronic material in years; a slinky, ravishing volley of unique dance drills that have been in the works for over a decade, feeling somehow like Derek Bailey dissecting Singeli, or Autechre and Hermeto Pascoal dancing in hyperspace. There’s nothing else quite like it.
Back on the ‘floor for the first time since dealing a pair of deep house 12”s with DJ Sprinkles, sending a contemporary classi…
Bone of Contention
Eric Random is a cult figure of the British electronic scene and one of the true pioneers of post-punk electronica. Born in 1961 and growing up in Manchester, Random was drawn to music through his older siblings and was given a guitar by his father. In 1978, he joined Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks and drummer Francis Cookson to form The Tiller Boys, an experimental trio that debuted supporting Joy Division at Manchester’s Factory Club. The band’s brief existence ended in October 1979. After the gro…
ASMR for Suicidal Thoughts
ASMR for Suicidal Thoughts marks Varg2TM back in collaboration with Chatline, an enigmatic figure long in orbit of Northern Electronics. Recorded live to tape, the record resists comfort. Contained within are two harrowing demonstrations that drag on emptiness, anxiety, and abject pleasure. And though terse and severe, that very void becomes the vessel for its mottled meaning.
Unopen to exploration, 'ASMR for Suicidal Thoughts' locks the listener into its own saturated atmosphere. Stripped back …