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Original 1981 edition on Adolescent of early industrial new wave masterwork, with connections with the LAFMS, Saqqara Dogs and Minimal Man, with beautif‎ul cover by Monte Cazazza. With original innersleeve.

Rare 2003 2CD anthology in cardboard gatefold sleeve on Storm compiling the 1980/81 single and album plus unreleased live and studio material from 1979 to 1982. Featuring Monte Cazazza and Christian Marclay. With 24-Page booklet.

Thank you : floors, walls, ceilings, corridors, chairs, tables, air-conditioners, heaters, alarms, plastic, paper, foil, tins, boxes, containers, microphones, speakers, shellac, tape, magnets, dust, data, hollows, surfaces, bodies, actions, weather, vibration, Jennifer Callaway, Carly Fischer, Eric la Casa, David Prescott-steed, Martin Kay, Matthew Davis, Francisco Meirino, Justas Pipinis, Ursss, everyone from C3, Simon Whetham, Edwina Eves, Yvan Etienne, Chisato Ishiyama, Pierre Judon, Aposiopè…

*100 copies limited edition* "This album holds a special meaning for me, as it gave me the opportunity to reconnect with Pier Luigi, with whom I shared so much music in the early '80s. Together, we founded A.T.R.O.X., bonding over the intimacy that two people in love with music and the avant-garde scene can share. We spent countless evenings listening to records and creating music together. Pier Luigi later pushed the boundaries of his work through incredible collaborations and received widespre…

Fata Morgana is a work in two parts; The first part, took place and was recorded in a a forest close to Niels Lyhne Løkkegaards childhood home in the western part of Jutland, and is a recording from 2021 of Løkkegaard playing the alto recorder. The second part is thought as a replacing of the first part, and was made in 2024 by Michael Pisaro-Liu in California.

Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood. Brad Wood recorded the material at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville and Sea Grass in Los Angeles in 2025. The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis. sunn O))) g…

For Sara(.es), who has resonated with numerous musicians, this is a special solo live recording, her first in about a year. Weaving together the sounds of bells, water-emitting instruments, harmonica, crystal bowls, triangle, and more, an energy-filled piano solo unfolds. From 1 May to 14 June 2025, the solo exhibition ‘Prayer’ by artist Keiichi Ikegami was held at Gallery Nomaru, the home of .es (dot es) and the base for Utsunomiya MIX. Following the sudden passing of Satoshi Hayashi, former di…

January 2025, Osaka contemporary art gallery ‘Gallery Nomart’ hosted Hideo Takashima's solo exhibition ‘Fill with Empty’. This was Takashima's first exhibition at Nomart, and featured the first live collaboration between British heavyweight drummer/percussionist Roger Turner and sara (.es). The exhibition title ‘Fill with Empty’ refers to ‘a state filled with margins that contain diverse possibilities,’ according to Takashima. Takashima explains that the exhibition title, ‘Fill witt Empty’, refe…

Australian, Copenhagen-based composer Calum Builder delves into a sonic journey inside the body of his dismantled pipe organ.

*40 copies limited edition* Nazlo Records proudly presents Cras, the latest tape release by the enigmatic experimental artist Pakhom. Known for pushing the boundaries of sound and texture, Pakhom dives deep into immersive sonic landscapes with this captivating work. "Cras" weaves layers of spoken word, haunting melodies, and visceral atmospheres, embodying the spirit of nomadic experimentalism that defines Nazlo Records. Recorded and released in limited edition tape format, "Cras" invites listen…

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world,” a first-class snob once stated. So rightful, he was. We feel so petite when the journey is elite. Like during the concert that Kashual Plastik drops here on cassette. For this release, a visual and material concept was carried directly into the artwork: since the artist performs his concerts illuminated only by a single candle, the cassettes were packaged inside matchboxes — a tribute to that fragile, flickering source…

Folklore & Concepts, the latest release by Smegma—now five decades into their outsider avant-garde career—extends the band’s legacy of ritualistic collage, spontaneous improvisation, and anti-academic noise. Infused with tape, synths, prepared piano, horns, and voice, the album melds shamanistic energy with surreal group interplay, creating an unpredictable and stubbornly original sonic tapestry.

With centuries of history, traditional instruments carry physical vibrations shaped by human breath and touch. In contrast, electronic music generates vibrations through inorganic principles such as electrical signals and circuits. When the subtle tremors of traditional instruments resonate with the intricate tones of electronic sounds in an improvised dialogue, performers from distinct realms expand each other’s languages, creating a new sensory experience. The project album Ancient Moment mark…

Following years of activity in the UK scene and beyond, and a debut tape in 2020 on don't drone alone, Rekem is proud to present the new release by Leeds based artist, Helen Papaioannou. Kar Pouzi is Helen Papaioannou’s solo project of electronics, baritone saxophone and vocals. Best Wishes, spans the past two-three years of Kar Pouzi’s output, featuring both longer standing pieces from her live sets alongside new tracks. The album reflects Kar Pouzi’s fascination with repetitive tasks, sounds, …

*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "Two guitarists with wild and bold aesthetics met for no cost – Kost Nix, an explosive, freewheeling set... Often it is impossible to know who is doing what. They build on the opening, 20-minute piece «Quiet Concessions» massive walls of sound, delicate and raw, strange, poetic and totally weird at the same time. Byron Coley... hears in this piece echoes of early Grateful Dead, and Sonic youth, but you can add Fred Frith’s Massacree and Sonny Sharrock’s L…

*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Four words become four incantations in BBBB, where Elena M. Rosa Lavita and Samuele Innocenti strip language and sound to their skeletal essence. "Bad," "Bare," "Black," "Bones" - each title a minimalist manifesto realized through bass, bow, objects, and processed voices, with additional production by Nàresh Ran and mastering by Attila Folklor. Recorded at home in 2021, the collaboration captures the intimacy of isolation transformed into sonic ritual. Ro…

2010 release ** Recorded in 1985 "Shadow of a Rose" is fourth full-length album of Duch new wave act Mekanik Kommando. With this album they decided to leave electronic post-punk and start to play more psychedelic and folk oriented music. "Shadow of a Rose" is extraordinary hybrid of sounds of accoustic instruments and raw analog electronics. Original and unprecedented combination. At the time of its initial release, Mekanik Kommando's fanbase was unsure about how to respond to their fourth full-…

** Edition of 80 copies. LP + Artist’s Signed Drawing "Aura" and "Bagatelle", "Continuum", "Pieghe" Artworks. ** HeghL’s Nomia e Hool takes the listener beyond traditional boundaries, presenting two extended tracks as part of a larger multidisciplinary exploration. Originating from a project by Lisa Baume and Francesco Trabattoni, the album gathers creators from diverse backgrounds - music, visual arts, writing, philosophy, science, and more - into a single creative studio. The result is a colle…

Dark ambient folk horror fairytale by Italian maestro Heilige!I recently had the pleasure of delving into the enchanting and eerie soundscape of the four songs instrumental tape release "RIVERSIDE" by the dark folk ambient outfit HEILIGE!. Themed around the dark woods and well… riverside, the release is a journey into the depths of the human psyche, as the artist expertly weaves together haunting melodies, atmospheric soundscapes, field recordings and intricate instrumentation.From the opening t…

Ad Lux Tenebrae, one of the most interesting phenomena in Russian ritual/drone music, have proven themselves as uplifters of first-class ritual sound. Each of their few works, is the fruit of serious musical practices, long-term loneliness, and consequently, the identity, the roots of which can also be seen in an unusual tools and authors. Great powerful sounds from primeval Ural woods. To create music they use original musical instruments - bubens, handmade drums, blowing horns, flutes and othe…

After the re-releases of ‘A Thousand Winters’ and ‘Treat’, AlanTrench and his Neo-Folk project ORCHIS finally returns with an ALL NEW album – the first one since 1999 (Mandragora/Trisol)! ORCHIS is an English Dark Folk band consisting of Tracy Jeffery, Amanda Prouten and Alan Trench (formerly one of the owners of World Serpent). Orchis so far released 2 albums with World Serpent and Trisol plus the special rarities collection ‘Treat’.   "A Dream", probably, last return of Orchis band, and here y…

Orchis is an English Dark/Acid Folk band consisting of Tracy Jeffery (who also sings with Cunnan and J Greco's SQE), Amanda Prouten and Alan Trench (Cunnan, SQE, Twelve Thousand Days(with Martyn Bates), Temple Music). We have so far managed to release four albums to date starting in 1994 with The Dancing Sun (cryptanthus /World Serpent), which was more a collection of formative pieces than anything else, then in 1997 the concept album that was A Thousand Winters (cryptanthus / World Serpent). Ma…

Anti-sexist rumblings from mr. Putin's favorite riot squad! CD edition! Limited to 300 copies.

How Warsaw remembers, commemorates and what it does with the memory of Frederic Chopin? Where this memory is good, and where it fails? What the mind doesn’t want to remember, and where memory turns into a myth? Radio play by three Warsaw artists coming from various disciplines of the arts in Warsaw: Marcin Masecki, Wojtek Zra ek-Kossakowski and Marcin Lenarczyk is an attempt to reconstruction (because “reconstruction” is the most appropriate word here) of the wide memory of great/biggest/most Po…

Blue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams’ lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 6’4” grand piano—creating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie-esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony, always grounded by the distinct emotional vo…

*100 copies lmited edition* Dialog, music, and elaborate sound design fold into a narrative fantasy about self-cannibalization and transformation. Written and recorded over five years, this is McCann’s first album since 2019’s Puck (Recital) and his first opera. The opera is voiced by composer Martin Bresnick, artist Nour Mobarak, musician Max Eilbacher [Horse Lords], and voice actors David George and Krystel Abimeri. McCann performed and recorded most of the music himself, meticulously editing …

This anthology is the second compilation from EM Records of the works of the late Henry Kawahara, a media artist and electronic music producer who was particularly active in the Japanese cyber-occult underground of the 1990s, a scene linked with technologies such as 3D (binaural) recordings, brain machines, sound chairs, computer graphics and compact discs. These tracks, produced 1990-95, include a series of recordings described as "Parallel Data Sounds" and "Sound LSD", a "new language system t…

Legendary French industrial pioneers Vox Populi! arrive on Dark Entries with a reissue of Sucre De Pastèque. Vox Populi! was founded in Paris in 1981 by Axel Kyrou, a multi-instrumentalist of Greek, French, and Palestinian roots. He soon recruited his future partner, Mitra, and her brother Arash Khalatbari, who were born in Iran and came to Paris in their teens, as well as bassist Fr6 Man (Francis Manne). Their sound was motley, combining elements of musique concrete and early industrial with ho…

Sung Tieu employs sound as a critical tool to dissect how social and political power manifests within sensory realms. Through layered compositions, the artist examines the emotional and psychological effects of controlled environments, transforming space into an immersive auditory experience that highlights the structures of surveillance, bureaucracy and institutional design. Civic Floor examines the evolution of prison architecture, tracing the shift from the radial model developed in Britain i…

Euro TV is an ongoing instrumental collaboration begun in 2021 by artists Nicholas Cheveldave and Will Sheridan Jr.. Blending piano, trumpet, and other instruments with recordings of night buses, glass breaking, drifting voices, and the hum of empty streets, the album traces a journey through the city’s after-hours pulse. Moving in and out of bars, clubs, and moments of soberness, romance, and exhaustion, the work pieces together a rhythm of ‘interpersonal sound’—an echo of lives half-remembered…

*125 copies limited edition* An alto saxophone and acoustic piano engage in an intimate musical dialogue, reflecting on the current state of improvised music. Okuda and Dyberg’s album unites two artists at the peak of their musical collaboration, deconstructing jazz history into shimmering fragments, reassembling them in new forms that deliberately move away from traditional references. The music incorporates diverse influences—glimpses of classical composers like Webern and Prokofiev, abstract …

*200 copies limited edition* In their audiovisual works under the overarching title Arkestra of Light, the Graz-based visual artists OchoReSotto explore how reality is integrated within the human being and how the environment influences our perception as a society. Arkestra of Light – Vinyl is an avant-garde document of time and sound, bringing together six sound art pieces by musicians Monique Fessl, Denovaire, Josef Gründler, Wolfgang Lehmann, and Mario Zangl. The contemporary and cinematic mu…

*300 copies limited edition* Dominique Grimaud, a historical figure in French musical avant-garde, is known as a founding member of Camizole and Video Aventures, two groups that profoundly shaped the underground scene of the 1970s in France. Camizole, formed in 1970 in the wake of the May ’68 protests, stood out for its improvised performances and happenings, inspired by the Living Theatre and characterized by radical expressive freedom and a rejection of commercial musical conventions. The grou…

*300 copies limited edition* "Dis qu’t’as tort" is the latest venture from Tagubu (Denis Tagu, formerly of Hellebore, Look De Bouk, and Toupidek Limonade), realised in collaboration with Klimperei (Christophe Petchanatz, known for his work with Pierre Bastien, David Fenech, and Palo Alto, among others). The album represents a creative response to the increasing prevalence of autocracies and dictatorships across the globe, reflecting a world that is not simply changing, but rather derailing. The …

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.

Elations Recordings presents "Depois do Silêncio", an intimate, forward-looking acoustic bass, digital keyboard and synthesiser recording by Brazilian avant-garde jazz luminaries Zeca Assumpção and Lelo Nazario. This release celebrates almost fifty years of the duo's friendship and musical affinity, continuing a musical dialogue between long-time collaborators. The duo began working together with Hermeto Pascoal's "Grupo Vice Versa" in the mid 1970s before forging one of Brazil's most adventurou…

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…

Babb's Bridge by id m theft able is an experimental sound art album released in 2014. The album is inspired by a historic 19th-century bridge in Windham, Maine, and captures natural and environmental soundscapes with a unique approach. The music blends acoustic sound sources alongside id m theft able's signature use of unconventional instruments and field recordings, creating an immersive auditory experience reflecting the atmosphere and history connected to the bridge and surrounding nature. No…

As the second in the 'Stafell Sbâr Sain' series, a collaborative project launched by Sain last year, this new album features 12 tracks curated by Tŷ Gwerin and features 12 prominent artists on the thriving Welsh folk scene today. Sain is delighted to work with Tŷ Gwerin, one of the most notable stages in terms of supporting and promoting folk music and artists over the past ten years. The album is a celebration of  Tŷ Gwerin's success and marks Sain's commitment to invest in supporting our folk …