★Ideal Recordings
End Ground
Second Edition Pressing of 250 copies only. Vinyl-only release, no digital, no CD. End Ground forms the third and final installment in a series of records documenting the solo prowess of Sunn 0)))’s Stephen O’Malley released on Sweden’s iDEAL Recordi…
Dread Live
Second Edition Pressing of 250 copies only. Vinyl-only release, no digital, no CD. Sunn O)))’s feedback architect Stephen O’Malley cranks the amps even louder on his solo vinyl LP Dread Live. This is an extended and extremely loud improvisation for s…
Dreaming Remembering
Ectoplasm Girl Nadine Byrne returns with her first solo album in 4 years, a woozy, unnerving and dreamlike soundworld somewhere betweenLaurie Anderson, James Ferraro and Ryan Trecartin. Huge recommendation... Ectoplasm Girls’ Nadine Byrne lures liste…
Den Förföljdes Gryning
Individually numbered edition of 99 copies. Few copies available. Two blinding wormholers from Daniel Rozenhall on a super limited pressing bound to be sought-after by intrepid sound explorers. A close associate of Stockholm’s EMS studios and the Fyl…
Carpet Proof Of Daily Reports
Hand-numbered edition of 300. It’s a Swedish house thing. Börft boss Jan Zwarre Svensson a.k.a Frak returns to his early project, Villa Åbo, for six deep and rude acid rub downs. Named after the former bank he grew up in and later founded Studio Styr…
Feel Anything
Edition of 200 copies. Fractal, electro-acoustic improv from NYC’s Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida, conjuring a steeply layered investigation of proprioception and dreamtime psyches... Marking Marina’s first appearance since the resoundingly unusual e…
In Love With The Extreme
Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander pound out a powerful new Saturn And The Sun album on the former’s iDEAL Recordings, following up an album for The Tapeworm and the death of their band, The Skull Defekts, with a monotonous, harsh missive from the …
Ultra
**Edition of 200 hand numbered black vinyl copies** Sci-fi soundtrack styles from Swedish synth-fondler Johan Öhman Sollin, landing square between the styles of early 0PN, Hype Williams, and James Ferraro. Marking his debut for iDEAL after more than …
Monstrance
Monstrance documents Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall reshaping guitars, drums and incendiary electronics at Einstürzende Neubauten’s Berlin studio back in 2010. The results were originally issued by Touch in 2013, with this new 2LP edition now arrivin…
Ideal Acid
No hype, this record is the maddest belter you’ll hear this year. A rinse thru three hundred and three acid cherries pitted and sequenced, tweak for tweak, into the only rave weapon you’ll ever need. Taking Evol's obsession with Roland’s squelchy gre…
Weightless
Hugely tipped debut LP from Jasss; a measured, rugged blend of industrial dub, African and dark jazz inspirations that comes highly recommended if you’re into more abstracted and experimental electronic/dancefloor excursions or the work of Christoph …
Vain
All analog - no computers or instrument overdubs - The prodigal return of Venezuelan artist Carlos Giffoni to the avant-electronic music scene he was instrumental in shaping with the seminal, hybridising No Fun Fest and No Fun Productions label, whic…
A Page To A Corner (Ep)
**Edition of 200** The unfathomable quantity of Pan Daijing meets Werner Dafeldecker’s mercurial sound art on this surprise, limited edition 7" pressing.
Leading on from her heavily arresting Lack album for the PAN label, A Page To A Corner is Daij…
Riot
Hand-numbered LP. Edition of 400 copies. Re-dition of this John Duncan 1984 le Riot album: re-recorded, re-mixed at EMS and expanded with material that didn’t make the initial pressings, all taken from original 8-track master tape - which required th…
Macbeth
Ideal follow up aces by Jasss and Vanligt Folk with a side of hand-cranked, lo-fi anti-music in Gabi Losoncy and Allen Mozek's (Twin Stumps, No Intention) Good Area, coming off the curled back of their sides for Kye, Recital, and Hanson Records. They…
Mantra / Ur Sonate
**edition of 200, numbered*Two new vocal based recordings by the conceptual, and ever challenging artist John Duncan. "Mantra" is a piece by himself and is a choral drone that is highly capturing and transcendent. "Ur Sonate" is a classic sound po…
Yamaha Deluxe
Bob Bellerue is a New York based composer, sound activist and artist. His, to us, highly important releases “Brokelyn” (LP, Love Earth Music 2014) and “Damned Piano” (2xLP, Anarchymoon Recordings 2015) were quietly released and distributed but le…
Dead Zones
Jean-Louis Huhta (Dungeon Acid) and Ideal label head Joachim Nordwall unite once again as High Boys for an EP influenced by their love of old school acid, bad vibes, dub 7”s, William S Burroughs and 80s industrial music. The pair are already bandmate…
Study For A Monument
Gothenburg-based artist Johan Zetterquist delivers his debut album for the excellent iDEAL label, unspooling three extended pieces shaped like sound sculptures. It's a profound drone metal variant recorded on a Gibson SG, amplifier and effects, live …
Feedback Overload Unit
A chokingly powerful session of elemental feedback noise from one of iDEAL’s foundational players. Arriving some 13 years after his first missive for Joachim Nordwall’s infamous label, it’s a stoically economical exercise in discipline and control…