★PCP Records
LSD
** Lucky restock, totally sold out at source ** Lovely reissue of the mindblowing 2nd Nord LP, originally . L.S.D. features rough hewn sheets of ominous yet trippy pulsating textural electronics with an obvious debt to the stark teutonic soundworlds of Kluster and (especially) Seesselberg. Any glimmers of transcendence are immediately offset by a deadzone ambience that reeks of Maurizio Bianchi. Hiroshi Oikawa's solo explorations of the galactic void seem considerably more enticing to these set …
NG Tapes
Hiroshi Oikawa's two mid-'80s solo LPs under the Nord moniker are among the rarest and most sought-after Japanese experimental releases of the era. Issued with minimal information (the latter title in a plain black jacket with simply a strip of sandpaper affixed to the front), the albums are dense, otherworldly explorations of the outermost edges -- or innermost core -- of reality. As Mutant Sounds put it, 'If this is cosmic, than it's the cosmos as viewed from the vantage point of a burned…
Ego Trip
Amazing replica of the legendary 3d LP by Nord, released in a miniscule edition of 100 copies at the time, now re-issued in a Limited and numbered edition of 300 copies, with handmade cover with stamped insert. Ego Trip is a powerful noisedrone album that hews rather closer to the air free MB aesthetic that was more latent on LSD previous lp. side A starts a mite tenuously but eventually settles into a pleasingly disorienting suctioning wooze. Side B begins rather annoyingly with someone playing…