Beyond The Valley Of The Tapes
Coproduced by Troniks and Ninth Circle Music. CD 1: Tracks 1-3 from Killer Bug self-released demo tape 1994. Track 4 from Side A of Brutal Rainbow tape originally released on Noise 1995. Tracks 5 and 6 from Cunt Explosion! EP originally released on R…
Bayt
Green Zone is led by the NY based bassist & composer Kato Hideki. The heavy and dark sounding band was named after the US military base in Bagdad and formed by the founding members of the legendary group, Ground-Zero. The music is based on the curren…
Archives sauvées des eaux
Luc Ferrari's composition Archives sauvées des eaux for two DJs was premiered in Japan and performed by the composer himself and Otomo Yoshihide at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo in 2003. This CD is a live recording of their first and the only performance, bef…
It\'s up to us to live
Lawrence English is media artist, composer and critic based in Brisbane, Australia. It's Up To Us To Live has seen a prolonged birth. It's commencement in 2004 began around the same moments as the final touches were being put to the album Happiness W…
Unstriged Guitar & Cymbals
For over a decade Alan Courtis has been producing extreme music in Argentina as a solo artist and with the now defunct Reynols. Unstriged Guitar & cymbals is no different. This is massive sound.
What We Did In The Afternoons
Terrific reissue for one the best synth band from the Down Under..."The Systematics were a band from Australia. They existed for four years, from 1978 to 1982. They released 3 records: The "Pulp Baby" 7" on the Australian label Doublethink, a 12" EP …
Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse And Other Songs
CD version of a previously released limited cassette. Lengthy droning ragas, that drift hypnotically from deconstructed Appalachia to John Cale like slow-shifting skree (joined on those tracks by violin), to moody melancholy crawls, to thick serpenti…
A Nice Place To Leave
John Hegre is one half of norwegian improv duo Jazzkammer (Smalltown Supersound, Rune Grammofon) w/ Lasse Marhaug and Bergen's pop sensation Kaptein Kaliber (Telle). While he has released a massive amount of music with the latter two projects and as …
Black To Comm
Limited edition of 250 copies! Debut release by this new computer music artist from Hamburg, Germany. An exciting mixture of dark, slowly evolving drones, beautifully distorted melodies, obscure hard rock sampling meets raw data manipulation, digital…
Dishoek
Just before we started to miss Guido Möbius he surprises us with “Dishoek”, his second album, recorded for Hamburg’s Dekorder label. Again featuring a conglomeration of acoustic and electrical instruments (guitar, bass, violin, cornet drums, synthesi…
Rückwärts Backwards
Black To Comm is an alias for Dekorder label owner Marc Richter's audio excursions. "Rückwärts Backwards" is his debut full-length album recorded between 2003 and 2005 in his adopted hometown Hamburg and his childhood home in the Black Forest located…
Straight Edge XXS
Limited edition of 500 copies. Straight Edge XXS denotes something of a creative departure for Finnish artist Uton, who abandons scratchy lo-fi drone exercises in favour of conjuring the sounds of India in a series of short pieces that tap into the k…
Pause For The Jet
Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Dan…
Pause For The Jet
Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Dan…
Fractal Hair Geometry
The Dekorder label's boss Marc Richter is at the creative heart of Black To Comm, and he's certainly putting himself about a bit these days: there are new albums in the works for Digitalis, and in collaboration with Boomkat barnacle, John Xela, but b…
Stillborn Plague Angels
The gates of Birchville Cat Motel crack, creak wide, and crash, unleashing a gush of soul-fried bleakness and love-damage stained with a defiantly metallic pose. Thats "METALLIC... as in, has the surface qualities of metal" not "METAL... as in, has t…
Plays invasion of the body snatchers
One-sided release. Michigan heavy domestic-electronic couple Dead Machines always create records that confuse and intrigue. They are the forefathers of broken gear, appliance, wind instrument basement jamming and have their niche dug deep. 'Invasion'…
Ashtray Navigations, Stellar Om Source, ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE - STELLAR OM SOURCE
How do siamese twins arrange their love lives?Recorded at Ashtray Navigation's basement in Leeds - November 2007 Phil Todd, Melanie Delaney, Bill Kouligas, Christelle Gauldi. Total lo-fi psychedelic sound. Classic UK underground filth. Limited to 300 copies.
Conference of the Aquarians
Brand new, this makes some very pleasing nods to Henry Cow/Fred Frith & a few others; but these are take off points only. Ultimately the album explores a broad swath of musical possibilities, & certainly the release goes a long way in establishing Co…