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The first band to make music with networked microcomputers: Jim Horton, John Bischoff, Rich Gold and Tim Perkis's KIM-1 recordings from the San Francisco Bay Area, 1978-1983. Limited double LP on Death Is Not The End.

Lorenzo Senni's first album in six years and his sixth overall: experimental trance and rave seen through hardcore punk, skateboarding and straightedge culture, with his own voice for the first time and guests Chad Muska, Jamie Thomas and Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu.

Electronic Modular Orchestra: from Neil Young to Stravinsky. Curiosity is the element that allowed the birth of this project. Gabriele Bombardini, Nicola Peruch, Matteo Scaioli, and Max Vicinelli are musicians who have decades of experience in all fields of music. The desire to combine seemingly distant sounds such as the use of old analog synthesizers, a pedal steel that recalls the American folk tradition, and the modular synthesis that leads back to the so-called concrete musical research…

Buh Records present a new album by Peruvian composer and musician Miguel Flores. Lorca: Lost Tapes (1989-1991) recovers unpublished recordings made for stage works inspired by the life and work of the great Spanish playwright, Federico García Lorca. It is an atmospheric and minimalist album, where you'll find flamenco airs, Andean and Afro- Peruvian sounds, vocal experimentation, and various sound effects, all stitched together in a simple but creative studio montage, which turns these pieces in…

Subtitled "Music for Native Peruvian Instruments and Magnetophonic Tape (1978)" this is a wonderful collection of pieces composed between 1976 & 1978 at the Royal College's EMS by Peruvian composer Arturo Ruiz del Pozo. Ranging from extended tape-loop meditations to application of mystical folk instrumentation & enharmonic percussion sonorities, this is an incredibly eye-opening survey of the work of a composer of whose work I was completely unfamiliar prior to this issue.Like many countries in …

David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial success came with The Flying Lizards' single "Money," an international hit in 1979. Originally released in 1976, Cunningham's first solo album Grey Scale has become a landmark statement of DIY minimalist composition – continuing in the vein of the wild explosion of arthouse experimentation from the early '70s.…

In the late 1980s, Ilona Staller aka Cicciolina’s popularity was skyrocketing. It was at that time that she recorded her most representative and iconic song: ‘Muscolo Rosso’. It is finally reissued in 12″ 45rpm from original master tapes accompanied by 3 other dance hits such as ‘San Francisco Dance’, ‘Inno Alla Trasgressione’ and ‘Sexy Porno Shop’.

Harmograph is a project by and with Matteo Scaioli. He summarized his latest research on sound by building various electromechanical instruments, one of which he called the "Harmograph", which gives the name to his whole project. Harmograph is basically a gong remodeled with a unique sound. Scaioli blends the sound of the Harmograph with other self-made instruments including Melodon's Voice, Phonograph Tape, Dhin "Tan" Pathè, and finally his favorite synth: the Prophet 5. Matteo Scaioli - being …

The Scholars did what they had to do. I knew too much, and it was too risky to keep me within the Walls. The Sacred Cycle cannot be touched, even by thought. But I had to know. I could not stop myself… They cast me out into the desert. After two days of walking, I found a small cave where I could rest for a while. I feel strange, as if my mind has been corrupted by the Sacred Cycle. The road through the desert seems to repeat itself in an endless loop. I was relieved to find this cave. Maybe it …

In the centuries long past, the people of the province of Culhaver used to celebrate their successful harvest of the crops by travelling across Yarrowdale moor to the mountains to give thanks to their god who had sent them rain when needed and sunshine to follow the rain. It was on this day of celebration in the mountains, one year long ago, that a fearful dragon appeared, swooping down from the sky and attacking the defenceless gathering villagers. He became known as “Dagmor the Terrible”. Spit…

Oh yes! The Japanese fantasy-chiptune maniac in Turbografx-16 and SuperNes style called Black Tiger is back with a new, psychedelic album that will unleash your imagination! One of HDK clandestine (and unpaid) collaborator, the fantasy blast-beat author called Gian Spazz (sic), after smoking a too big spliff, wrote a weird story, full of plot holes, incongruous events and grammatical errors called "Spawn of the Changing Raven". The guy called Black Tiger has obtained the difficult task of writin…

Near a remote village with a not-so-important name lies the entrance to a dungeon, sadly notorious among the local inhabitants. Legend has it that no one has ever come out of it alive. This is the only certain truth; all the rumors about what awaits you inside are wildly different and often contradictory. This peculiar dungeon is actually a magical dungeon, the foolish (or perhaps amusing?) experiment of a diabolical 36th-level wizard: the dungeon is constantly changing, or perhaps it does not e…

Arriving from the island of Cyprus to the HDK catalog is the Mediterranean dungeon-synth of "Idylls of the Last King." The prolific artist continues his tale of suspended narratives, ancient stones, and echoes of bygone splendor. "A Year at the End of Time" comprises ten tracks recounting the fall of empires through the metaphor of the changing seasons, from the frost of winter to the fading of autumn. Included with the cassette is a handy tool for creating the perfect decadent settings for your…

Somber, damp, and tactile, the sound emerges slowly—like water timidly seeping through rock, swelling drop by drop into a steady flow: stern drones, buried melodies, and musique concrète chase one another, transforming a sparse landscape into an increasingly dense, unstoppable mass. It is music that smells of rotting leaves, pine needles and wet earth after a storm — of something ancient breathing underground...We were captivated by the sound of this dungeon-synth foray by Blood Resignation; we …

Welcome to the second chapter of “Glimpse into Horror,” a journey into the most twisted and bizarre corners of pulp horror. We return to the United States of the early 1950s—the brief but glorious era of horror comics that predated the Comics Code—a frenetic time when newsstands were overrun by walking corpses, vampires, severed heads, mad scientists, and outlandish monsters.Between 1950 and 1954, before the advent of the Comics Code Authority, American horror comics enjoyed a period of extraord…

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔎𝔯𝔧𝔨, 𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔬𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔙𝔢𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔡 ℌ𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔰, 𝔞 𝔪𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔴𝔬 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔰 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔲𝔫𝔣𝔬𝔩𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰: 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔯 𝔎𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱, 𝔞 𝔭𝔞𝔩𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔬𝔯, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔇𝔷𝔲-𝔗𝔢𝔥, 𝔞 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔣 𝔪𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔣 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔱. 𝔄 𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤: �…

Third solo album by the Syrian keyboard master behind Omar Souleyman's sound: cosmic electronic dabke recorded in Iceland, produced by Randall Dunn with Mark Gergis.

Ten pieces built around Aimé Césaire's 1950 poetry collection Corps Perdu: processed hand-played melodies, field recordings and static, a companion to Works in Metal.

Argento is David August's new project: an imagined soundtrack to the Tyrrhenian coast, synthesizers and field recordings with Lorenzo Setti on drums and percussion, in the wake of Italian library music.

Marina Herlop's most ambitious work, self-released: one unbroken body of music built on the Hero's Journey, with orchestral brass for the first time and gamelan recorded in Bali.

Dark ambient pioneer Lustmord and drummer Dave Lombardo meet as Lustmord Lombardo: evolving walls of low-frequency sound shot through with percussion and synthesizers, mixed and mastered by Lustmord.

Thirty-four minutes of original demos by Tati au Miel, textured and distorted, in the SINK [50] series of mixes issued on 50 CDs.

Sixty minutes of new one-take drone recordings by London artist Flora Yin-Wong, for the SINK [50] series of mixes on 50 one of a kind CDs.

Ever unpredictable, Kevin Drumm this time takes the fellow time-traveller through what sounds like an electronic field recording, a journey through an electronic soundscape of luminescent textures that invites immersive listening.

"From the Host of Late-Comers represents the latest challenge manifested by Plastic Palace People, the duo of Jim O'Rourke and Christoph Heemann, who have been collaborating continuously (even though in a largely unnoticed fashion) since 1989. Previous Streamline releases from Mimir contain some of their earlier work; Plastic Palace People first saw release in 2011. After two releases in quick succession, it has been a long wait for more, and finally here is a recent piece of work from the…

*2022 stock* Andrew Chalk's Over the Edges was recorded in one day at Colin Potter's studio, using only two strings of an acoustic guitar played with an E-Bow. The results belie the simple sources, and the album is a rich drone texture which draws the listener into its sound world. All four tracks share a common language, a slightly buzzing, gently undulating drone in a lower register, often layered until the pitches grow together. But each track also has noticeable differences from the others. …

With only a few trips made on Sean McCann’s Music For Public Ensemble and alongside Laraaji on Professional Sunflower and the S. Araw “Trio” XIII to quench our thirst in the meantime, this loosely strung and sprawling set renders Cameron Stallones and the gang at their most ir/reverent and dare we say, North American; delivering a subtly funny and playful suite that’s more Billy Crystal on magic beans than Alejandro Jodorowsky on mescaline, as far as desert trips go.  Incorporating a phalan…

Sun Araw yields his most cryptic glyph to date with 'Belomancie' for Drag City. Replete with a recommendation "to give 'Belomancie' your full attention, and to listen at the highest volume that is comfortable on high quality speakers with a pronounced stereo field or on an excellent pair of headphones", it's the most cerebral and focussed effort we've yet heard from Cameron Stallones', acutely contrasting with his looser, noisier psychedelic dub excursions. Its predominantly electronic palette a…

Delicious album of stoned psyche from Camerone Stallones, his first solo full length since last year's massive 'On Patrol'. In the meantime he's released some well received and diverse collaborations with Matthewdavid and Eternal Tapestry, but really, he's at his very best when left to own devices and free to wander bleary eyed and dopey through the sun baked dub soundscapes of his mind. It's so hard to escape any imagery of bacchanalian dream sequences given the sleeve and track titles, …

On Patrol, originally released in 2010, is a double album in two parts, and the fourth full length album from Sun Araw. An album for heavy-steamin' late nights in the city, inter-dimensional back alleys, ghost cabs; it creeps and tunes in on a much darker, sparser, and more classically minded channel than its predecessors: dark and deep steam-vent ruminations on Phil Cohran, lenticular objects, and fried Hot 92.3 R&B slow-jams. A cold bug makes a real 'live wire.

In the wake of the acclaimed Inland See, the on-growing analog ecosystem being animated for ten albums now by Bitchin Bajas boasts new high energy views. “Isle Peaks” speaks of directions in beats of time, weather and the heart to wherever coast they found themselves when they got it all laid out. Sourced from Inland See sessions, these cuts were subjected to further edits and tweaks, with electroacoustic textures of sampled kalimba, field recordings, autoharp and EWI to activate and transport d…

A moment that fell down in the life of Haley Fohr on January 22, 2016 — now in album form! Redefining and realizing the goals that were set to allow Haley become Circuit des Yeux and Circuit des Yeux to become Haley. 

*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Air De Rien, because it is not nothing all these small tunes in the air... This double vinyl is shared - each one its face - by four musicians or groups who each traces in watermark an original line of conduct, soft and harsh, off the beaten tracks. A lot of purity in this project - and in these four achievements - in those times of useless filling. Music and visuals are discreet, a fine black and white, like the engraving of this psychedelic pseudo-brain…

Coil’s year 2000 electric storm is their next legendary chapter for legit reissue, exemplifying the fathomless variegation of their vision with overproof levels of digital noise masking deeply trippy song structures.  After tenderising flesh with the reissue of the ‘Musick To Play In The Dark’ volumes, Dais unleash Coil’s tempestuous sore thumb ‘Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil’ for a sharp right swerve into the depths of their profound catalogue. Issued the same year as ‘MTPITD’, as well as ‘…

Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Amina Hocine blends sine waves, field recordings and her own foghorn organ in X3, while Espen Sommer Eide revisits his Phonophani years and the Tromsø ambient techno scene of the late 1990s.

Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Jules Négrier’s two-movement electronic piece An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids meets Maria W Horn’s All Solids Melt Into Aether, organ chords pushed to their limits against computer-generated tones.

Incest Songs is the final chapter of the Murder Ballads trilogy, and its most fully realized expression. Where Drift and Passages explored the post-isolationist frame through voice and single instrument, this third volume dispenses with that approach entirely, opening instead onto a more labyrinthine sonic architecture - one built from overlapping, saturating, blurring voices, all of them Martyn Bates'. The decision feels both inevitable and quietly inspired. Bates' vocalizations unfold as layer…

Electronic Sound issue 142 puts Faust on the cover, with a cover story on the four albums released on the same day by the band's four surviving original members, bundled with an exclusive clear vinyl seven-inch EP, Four From Faust, one track from each album.

XKatedral Anthology Series III is the third installment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music. The pieces presented here focus on the use of synthetic and acoustic sound as well as algorithmic composition as tools for precise work within the realm of spectral exploration. This double-vinyl set is issued in celebration of the label’s decennalia and contains works from 2014 - 2025. It is re…

Tip Tip Tip!  2026 Repress XKatedral Anthology I is the first in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by XKatedral affiliated composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music. This double-vinyl set contains an array of pieces dating from 2010 - 2020. Four of the works  included here were originally released on cassette tape early on in the label’s history, while the two remaining pieces are presented by the label for the first time. “The w…