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Graciela Carnevale's Pieza Blanca (1968), an empty white room with an amplified heartbeat, remade in 2025 with her own heart, and a sound work from her gardening project La Huerta in Rosario. Record #07 of Ediciones Inauditas with n.b.k.
Dani Gal fed recordings of his own brain waves during sleep into the EMS Synthi 100 at Radio Belgrade, under voices reading the dreams of people living under political oppression. Record #08 of Ediciones Inauditas with n.b.k.
Loren Connors' second art book: 108 full-color pages of fragile flower paintings, drawings and haiku, gathered over a year of mailed envelopes, with a preface by Yuko Otomo. Hardbound, 8.5 x 11 inches, first edition of 150.
2026 Stock * Pressed on 180-gram fluoro pink vinyl * Carsten Nicolai’s practice investigates the boundaries between visual and audio art forms within an integrated artistic approach. Influenced by scientific reference systems, Nicolai often engages mathematical patterns such as grids and codes, as well as error, randomisation and self-organising structures.
Under the pseudonym noto, Nicolai experiments with sound to create his own semiotic language, and acoustic and visual symbols. Random Groov…
Jean-Michel Jarre's illustrated history of electronic music, built on his own collection of instruments: 150 machines from modular synths to one-off prototypes trace a century of electronic sound, with contributions from Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, Gillian Gilbert, Richie Hawtin and Hans Zimmer.
English version, 11 x 17 cm, 68 pages. Conceived and written by members of INA grm (Groupe de Recherches Musicales de l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel), drawing on more than fifty years of experience in diffusing and presenting electroacoustic music in concert, the »Acousmonium Handbook« offers a synthetic exploration of the issues, techniques and methods applicable to acousmatic diffusion and sound spatialisation. As a manual, it provides numerous keys to designing a multiphonic sound diffu…
Ten tones for ten bodies in orbit. Nothing else. The Solar System is one of Ryoji Ikeda's most reduced objects, a 12" containing ten locked grooves, each cut with a single sine wave at a frequency assigned to a different planet. Where Code Name: A-Z took language as its source, this record takes celestial mechanics, and pares it down to the purest signal available.
It was produced by The Vinyl Factory in 2015 for the UK premiere of supersymmetry, Ikeda's large-scale installation shown at the Bre…
**Clear vinyl, 26 locked grooves, edition of 500 - 2026 repress** An alphabet reduced to its bones. Twenty-six words, twenty-six frequencies, twenty-six grooves that never end. Code Name: A-Z is Ryoji Ikeda at his most austere and his most physical, a record that treats the vinyl disc not as a carrier of music but as an instrument in its own right. Ikeda's position in the landscape of experimental sound needs little rehearsal. A founding presence in the Kyoto collective Dumb Type and one of the …
A Life in Folk (and other bitter songs) brings Kan Mikami’s uncompromising voice into English through his 2000 autobiography, expanded with further writing, interviews and a previously unreleased 2017 Sapporo concert. Part confession, part cultural history and part raw oral transmission, it follows Japanese folk’s great outsider from provincial beginnings to a life lived against conformity.
Ginga gathers the restless visual and sonic imagination of Seiichi Yamamoto in a newly expanded English-language edition. Reworked in full colour with fresh art and previously unpublished photography, the 244-page volume arrives with an exclusive CD of remixed and new material by Omoide Hatoba and Suido Megane Satsujin Jiken - a compact cosmos of noise, image and unruly memory.
In Creating Enka: The “Soul of Japan” in the Postwar Era, Yusuke Wajima dismantles one of modern Japan’s most durable cultural myths. This prize-winning history shows how enka - often treated as timeless tradition - was actively remade after the war, becoming a powerful, contested symbol of national feeling, commercial culture and popular memory.
The second limited print run of the 'Most Wonderful Melodies' - score and text book to accompany The Instruction Manual by Instruction Manual.Designed by Katie Muir, this book is stunningly illustrated and contains engravings of all your favourite songs from the Glasgow robot folk revivalist's debut album 'The Instruction Manual'.This second edition now comes with an online bonus 'remix' of Faith Eliott's 'thys creatur.'
This bilingual book, part of the project Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil, brings together a curated selection of archival documentation alongside newly commissioned texts and artistic contributions. Through historical research, essays, and visual materials, it honours this tradition by tracing its foundations while reflecting on its contemporary transformations and future trajectories. By placing past records in dialogue with present-day perspectives, the publication becomes both an archive …
Do you get nostalgic shivers down your spine when someone mentions the word Punk? Are you a real geek when it comes to record collecting? Have you ever wondered what was out there deep in the underground of the Swedish punk scene? Then this book is for you!
Find out everything you want to know about leading acts such as Ebba Grön, KSMB, Attentat, Anti Cimex, Mob 47, Asta Kask and Strebers. But also about every other band that ever released a record during the first ten years of punk music!
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Want to know who won a scuffle between Stoke-On-Trent punks Asylum and 80s pop stars Dexy’s Midnight Runners? What to do when your band has to play after The Seats Of Piss, and the microphone has been down the front and back of Hendrix Deadboy’s nether regions most of the set? Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye’s brushes with skinheads on the first Black Flag UK tour? Just a few of the numerous and unique reflections revealed in Shot From Both Sides, the first book from Paul May, and Sealed Records.
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The complete, definitive and never-before-published catalogue of Hipgnosis, Vinyl • Album • Cover • Art finally does justice to the work of the most important design collective in music history, which, according to Roddy Bogawa, director of the documentary Taken by Storm (2011), ‘designed half your record collection’.Founded in 1967 by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell and Peter Christopherson, Hipgnosis gained legendary status in graphic design, transforming the look of album art forever and…
The classic account of ambient music, with a new foreword by Michel Faber. David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.
Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking…
Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith IS The Fall - 47 members have come and gone over the years yet he remains its charismatic leader, a professional outsider and all-round enemy of compromise, a true enigma. There have been a number of biographies of the legendary Smith, but this is the fir…
Revealing Merce Cunningham’s creative processes as inspiration for today’s dancers and choreographersIn this book, former members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company detail the technique classes, rehearsal procedures, and compositional approaches that defined Cunningham’s New York studio for more than sixty years. Through firsthand accounts supported by interviews and secondary sources, the authors reveal Cunningham’s creative process—how simple movement phrases introduced in class evolved int…