Drum Machine

First duo album by trombonist Kalia Vandever and DARKSIDE guitarist Dave Harrington, recorded in three rainy days in Los Angeles: brass and guitar between drum machines, samples and quieter, intimate pieces.

*2026 stock* Released in April 1986, Victorialand finds Cocteau Twins creating a world of extraordinary delicacy and atmosphere. Built around Elizabeth Fraser’s otherworldly vocals and Robin Guthrie’s shimmering guitar textures, the album floats free of conventional rock rhythms, inviting listeners into a landscape shaped by sound, silence and feeling. Recorded by Fraser and Guthrie as a duo, Victorialand takes a more spacious, restrained path than the band’s earlier work. Its nine tracks unfold…

Cabaret Voltaire's 1987 album, co-produced with Adrian Sherwood: the turn to synth-pop and mechanistic funk, remastered from the original tapes by Denis Blackham and back on Mute.

The Swiss trio's new double LP turns from brutal, linear minimalism to slowness and immersion: four long pieces of guitar, bass and drums recorded almost entirely live, with a drum machine for the first time. On Cuneiform.

Cocteau Twins' third album from 1984, the first with Simon Raymonde alongside Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie, reissued by 4AD on 180g vinyl with new masters from high definition transfers of the original analogue tapes.

Vittoria Corona's Corviria project at its darkest: short, gloomy pieces for treated piano, strings and synthesizers, tape delay and wordless voices, until the drum-machine lullaby Seagull Song lets the light back in.

Seven percussion works by Vinko Globokar, including Toucher for a speaking percussionist, ?Corporel for body percussion and Ombre with tape and rhythm machine, played by Matthias Kaul, a coproduction with Deutschlandfunk.

Oregon's 1987 ECM album, the first after Collin Walcott's death: Ralph Towner (guitars, piano, synthesizer), Paul McCandless (oboe, cor anglais, soprano sax), Glen Moore (double bass) and Trilok Gurtu (tabla, percussion). Recorded March 1987 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.

Gary Peacock (double bass) with Jan Garbarek (tenor and soprano saxophones), Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn) and Peter Erskine (drums, drum computer), playing Peacock's compositions. Recorded March 1987 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo.