Industrial Relations
Strung-out yet precise. Introverted but with something to say. Industrial Relations is a further unraveling of the stories untold left lingering around the Piedmont capital. Cloistered away behind one of Turin’s many crumbling doorways, a basic studio set-up alongside a scattering of found photos and a type-writer forms the backbone of this bureau.
Noticeably more barbed than its predecessor Chamber Music, drums are frayed and left to splutter. Grungy guitar chords come in at angles, occasiona…
Dejing Dejing
*100 copies limited edition* 11 piano miniatures. Each a meditation on loss.
Rough and tumble
Althoff, the master of kinetic sound sculpture, returns to machines for a new offering of textured compositions. Knowing that I used these items for music-making, a friend recently gave me a large old aluminium pot lid with a beautifully flanged edge, just begging for some marbles to roll around in it. Attaching the lid to the platter of a slanted record player meant the marbles would gather at the lowest point, and roll when the lid rotated. Fixing a ‘bump-post’ in the path of the marbles push…
Further Explorations
Huge Tip! Further Explorations follows on from Gentle Fire’s 3CD retrospective box set Explorations, released in 2020. These new archive recordings came to light in the process of unearthing the tapes for the 4CD box set by their fellow Stockhausen collaborators Intermodulation. The pieces used on this CD are taken from two sessions recorded for German radio in 1973 and 74, one for Sender Freies Berlin and the other for Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt. These beautifully recorded and preserved p…
Window Left Open
*300 copies limited edition* Keith Freund’s music occupies a space where careful musicianship and homebrewed experimentation meet and shake hands. On “Window Left Open,” spacious melodies drift through dense fields of electronic activity: saxophone lines rise above buzzing circuitry, percussion flickers at the edges of the frame, and clustered glitch textures dart through the music like insects in tall summer grass. Every sound feels vividly animated, a charged part of the same mercurial ecosyst…
Crónicas del Sol de Bambú
La Isla Borrego gathers fragments and echoes from the last few years. Based on an invented dream, this is not a composition, but a sediment; not a field recording, but an archive of mistreated memories. There is no map for La Isla Borrego. Instead, there is the architecture of an invented dream: an accumulation of acoustic residue shipwrecked on the conscious island of the last six years. Sounds are not emitted, but reflected and bounced. A catalogue of biographical errors; a series of echoes sa…
Nothing Is Hidden
"In the fall of 2016, after many years away from making music, I started Tyresta as a creative outlet to help process everything I was going through at the time. It took me a few years to find my voice as an artist, but I feel like the project truly came into its own around 2019–2020 with the recording and release of All We Have on PITP. After releasing All We Have and its follow-up, Small Hours (2023)—albums centered on grief, loss, and healing—I found myself wanting to write music that reflect…
Stochastic Parrot
In the past some reviewers and critics of my series of Ambient / Electronic / Exotic releases mentioned Jon Hassell and even suggested that we should make an album together.
That never happened of course and probably never would have. An influence of his music on my exotica music is in some ways true but initially to be honest it was the cover art by Mati Klarwein for Aka/ Darbari/ Java and Dream Theory in Malaya that I would sometimes turn to look at for inspiration. They reminded me of places t…
The Rest Is My Ghost
Nostalgia is not an ideology, though in this moment, we could be mistaken for thinking it might be just that. Over the past years, the idea of nostalgia has been filtered through various political and technological lenses and has become a tool used for forgetting, rather than remembering. Instead of embracing histories’ complexities and inconsistencies, this version of nostalgia seeks only singular recollection. This contemporary phenomenon of nostalgia has become a methodology at best, and a we…
I Can Only Put So Much Into a Song
*70 copies limited edition* Bruno Silva returns under his Ondness moniker for his most personal album yet. Recorded as an homage, a reference map, and a temporal slippage back to a transformative period of Bruno Silva's life, I Can Only Put So Much Into a Song conjures the threshold between his shoegaze-leaning teen years and a young adulthood defined by profound sonic landmarks: Iran’s The Moon Boys (whose cover serves as a key influence), The Microphones’ It Was Hot, We Stayed In The Water, Fe…
Fray Field
For a long time, we had been working on a very different album, guided by a simple set of methods: feedback, the layering of short sound fragments, and a process of repeated listening through which memory and response gradually accumulated. At a certain point, we felt the need to step away from that framework, if only temporarily. We decided instead to engage in a free musical exchange and explore a conversation through improvisation. It's from that encounter this body of music emerged. When we …
AT/DC
"I first knew of Darren through his earlier band Gerling, who were an inspiration to me at a time when I was absorbing new sounds, genre experimentation and discovering the broader world at large. In recent years we’ve come to know each other and become friends, as our musical paths have in many ways aligned. Darren’s D.C Cross solo/‘ecstatic' guitar project is responsible for some of the finest current wave of that form of music going around and it’s been a pleasure hearing the project develop …
Lost Meridians
"For those of us who inhabit worlds that sit in-between other worlds, this music making thing can be strange. The work of Matt Rosner sits in parallel to that of my own. We have a shared expression and a continued practice in listening and looking. Images, landscapes and our surroundings are translated into sounds, emotions and feelings. They are often built in solitude and created through lost moments, captured air or fragmented tonalities that have run adrift in our subconscious. To put it sim…
Variierende Töne Vol.II - membranes + machines
Descending from the first volume, Variierende Töne vol.II retraces the essential threads of the label, this time through two parallel perspectives: membranes + machines. A continuity of path, where past and future blur into new readings, into sounds that move between repose and tension, between presence and absence.
The work is divided into two movements. Side A: an immersion in organic matter—field recordings, acoustic research, surfaces shaped by Hanna Maria & Mattia Onori, Marco Ragni & Leona…
Sahkomies
On Sähkömies, Jimi Tenor fuses lo‑fi drum‑machine electronics with smoky, Sun Ra‑indebted jazz, announcing himself as techno’s first cabaret surrealist. Recorded alone in a New York apartment and released on Sähkö/Puu in 1994, the album’s eight roughcast tracks turn bedroom gear, cheap synths and tenor sax into a playful, futuristic minimal‑acid songbook.
The Swamp Live
The Swamp’ is a get-to-know-you party where furniture is broken, wine glasses are smashed and walls are defaced with graffiti, but the living room remains more beautiful than the night before. The album is the first meeting between vocalist Maja S. K. Ratkje, guitarist Torstein Slåen and electronics artist Sigurd Ytre-Arne. With a fair dose of anti-bullshit inherited from decades of jazz/improv/contemporary music mixed together in the Norwegian stew pot, they improvise new songs across time, aes…
Bright Madness
Bright Madness is the third album from the pinch-me-is-this-real improvising trio of Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs, and Bonner Kramer. Fresh off their 2025 Big Ears appearance, Squanderers slid on over to Kramer’s adopted hometown of Asheville, North Carolina and laid down the glorious afternoon’s worth of instant compositions that stands before you. It’s the sound of Eisenberg, Grubbs, and Kramer doing their damnedest to dazzle one another, from shell-game sleights of hand to the effortless bea…
Undercurrent / Wanderlust
With a refined, modern sensibility and a deeply human sense of space, “Undercurrent / Wanderlust” balances detail and emotion. Each track unfolds like a short journey: moments of clarity and restraint giving way to tension, color, and release. The partnership between Suzuki’s expressive musical voice and Okagawa’s atmospheric approach creates a sound world that is both immersive and immediate—an invitation to listen closely, then follow where the music leads.
Death Drug And TV Screen
Started out as a sideproject to Incipientium and The Family Men, Gustav Danielsbackas' Future Chemicals has slowly evolved into its own ugly thing, exploring his passion for video culture and dystopian, technological havoc. Death Drug And TV Screen was initially meant as a soundtrack for a film started in 2022 that got forever stuck in limbo. Saved from the production room vortex, Discreet Music now presents the whole, massive thing in its mind-melting entirety. Clocking in on almost 70 ambitiou…
Tongue Ebbing Into a Tenebrist Dusk
*25 copies limited edition. Includes a Solar Magic Tongue Amulet, an envelope with a handwritten poem, and a small bell. Signed and numbered editions made by NNN Cook.* "On his new album Tongue Ebbing Into a Tenebrist Dusk, St. Louis artist NNN Cook explores the complex terrain of speech and thought, of quiet interiority and the outward expressions that can emerge from it. Following this interest in language, each track title presents a variation on a tongue depicted in a new tint, though the tr…