Experimental / All styles

Timo van Luijk's labels Metaphon and La Scie Dorée present three essential releases that map the territory of contemporary experimental music - from the vaults of Romanian fury to the birth of generative sound, from Darmstadt radicalism to psychedelic meditation. Nicolae Brînduș's Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia (1986) remains the most eccentric entry in Electrecord's legendary RCM series - a controlled explosion where Romanian folk memory meets spectral composition, free jazz violence, and ta…

For two decades, Bart De Paepe has navigated the psychedelic underground, creating a singular artistic path through labels like Astres d’Or, Ultra Eczema, and No Basement Is Deep Enough, and through collaborations with Sylvester Anfang’s funeral folks, Louise Landes Levi, Timo van Luijk, and Raymond Dijkstra. Zürahümnah distills his expansive vision into four immersive tracks that blur the line between light and darkness, time and reverie.

Discounted Bundle. Transversales Disques returns with two historically vital releases that reconfigure our understanding of French electroacoustic music: Jean Schwarz's Unreleased & Rarities (1972-2002) and Bernard Parmegiani's Mémoire Magnétique, Vol. 3 (1967-1971). Schwarz's collection marks the first comprehensive survey of the composer's work—thirteen previously unreleased pieces spanning thirty years that reveal his unique fusion of ethnomusicology and avant-garde practice. From the intoxic…

Jealousy Party rapes the suggestions of the free music, avant-rock, the disturbed and unsociable electronics, squirts of songs, saxs, laptop and cds in flames and histrionic vocal manipulations. The mutant project expresses with delirium and destructured transparency the synthesis among creative abstractism, expressive urgency, tragic avant-gardism, theatricality and punk attitude.

At the end of the 1980s, Mariolina Zitta approached the world of natural sounds, studying musicology and developing a passion for speleology. Her encounter with Walter Maioli was fundamental, guiding and influencing her definitive research into sound archaeology and the primitive sources of musical acoustic phenomena. In these recordings Mariolina conducts a magical ritual as a cave priestess, celebrating the icons par excellence of the mysteries of the night: bats. The specific frequencies of t…

Beautiful 144-page hardcover book that is visual chronicle of the No Wave, with an eye-popping selection by Soinic Youth's Thurston Moore and Byron Coley of pictures of your favorite No-heroes such as James Chance, Lydia Lunch, Glenn Branca, etc. but also David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, etc..

Beautiful 200+-page book that is the definitive guide to the No Wave, fully illustrated and with exclusive interviews. Suicide, Richard Hell, Sonic Youth, ESG, DNA, Mars, Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Bush Tetras and all your favorite No-heroes.

Original first US edition on SST of the great third album by Rastafarian hard-core punk band. With insert.

Original first edition of the Dead Boys' singer's first solo album. Includes insert and catalogue.

Mid 80's re-issue of Big Star's second album from 1974, a power-pop milestone.

1978 first UK edition on Aura with different cover of the third and last Big Star album recorded in 1975.

Original UK edition on Chrysalis of the band's fifth album from 1980. With original innersleeve.

Original 1982 UK-only edition of the first album on Fetish of exquisite new wave / power pop album by NJ band.

Original 1983 first US edition on PVC of the second album of exquisite new wave / power pop by NJ band. With original innersleeve.

Original 1984 first US edition on RCA of the third album by new wave / power pop band from NJ.

1983 album of lovely songs on Passport by two members of the power pop combo The Bongos.

1982 Italian edition on Sire of Talking Heads' singers beautiful solo album with music for Twyla Tharp's ballet, featuring Adrian Belew, Eno and Bernie Worrell among others. With original innersleeve.

Original UK edition on Island of Cale's 1974 album with support from various Roxy Music veterans like Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay.

Original 1979 Canadian edition on ZE of the first free jazz/funk/punk album by the fantastic No Wave band led by James Chance.

Original 1979 Italian edition on ZE/Island of the first free jazz/funk/punk album by the fantastic No Wave band led by James Chance.

Original UK edition on ZE/Island of the excellent 1979 disco/funk/free jazz album by the leader of the Contortions.

Very rare 1989 7-song demo tape of Samm Bennett’s percussion song project with Tim Spelios and David Simons. With insert.

Original edition on Big Cat of the industrial noise rock quartet's second album from 1991, with original innersleeve.

Rare original US edition on SST of the 1988 album by the hard rock / avant noise fusion trio.

Original European edition on Blanco Y Negro of the fourth album from 1991 by the hard rock / avant noise fusion trio.

Original Italian edition of the revolutionary 1980 mini-album by the essential no wave band featuring Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori and Tim Wright.

Original UK edition on Editions EG of Lindsay's 1984 first solo album after DNA moving towards (weird) pop and brazilian music. With insert.

Rare 2000 Universal Sound sound compilation of early 80's sparse old school funk by no wave contemporaries. With original innersleeves and insert.

2014 re-issue on Dark Entries of the brilliant 1980 EP by Contortions' Don Christensen, one of the most truly original records coming out of the no wave scene. With insert.

Original French edition (with red labels) on Cellulloid of the debut album one of the main no wave protagonists with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and featuring Robert Quine and fellow 8 Eyed Spy Pat Irwin.

Original Italian edition on Expanded Music of one of no wave icons' second solo album, featuring outstanding future soundtrack composer Cliff Martinez on drums.

Original 1984 UK mini-album on Doublevision by NY no wave icon made mainly in collaboration with Sonic Youth's Thruston Moore. With insert.

1997 double compilation on Lunch's own Widowspeak label, a 1977-1983 retrospective including her work with Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Beirut Slump, 8 Eyed Spy, Rowland Howard, Sort Sol and Die Haut. With original innersleeve and poster.

1982 split LP on 4AD presenting Lunch's sidelong experimental track unavailable elsewhere and the Birthday Party live in London in 1981.

Rare original UK edition on Sire of the very succesful 1992 industrial metal album by Al Jourgensen's band. With original title tag and innersleeve.

Very rare first edition on Ace Of Hearts Records of the progressive punk band's first LP from 1982. With original innersleeve.

Rare 1986 US re-issue on Rhino/Beserkley with three additional tracks and different cover of the first proto-punk album by Jonathan Richman's and Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison's band with John Cale in 1973.

Italian 1978 re-issue on Beserkley of the first proto-punk album by Jonathan Richman's and Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison's band with John Cale in 1973.

Original US edition of Jonathan Richman's band's 1977 album. With original innersleeve.

Original 1980 LP on yellow translucent with green splatter vinyl released by Stiff, the first album by the catastrophic punk metal band led by eye-catching Wendy O.Williams.