New Arrivals / Last 2 weeks
A Minha Vida É Um Filme E Nele Eu Sou O Vilão: Carimbos E Vinhetas Dos Paredões Brasileiros
A mixtape of carimbos and vinhetas, the audio drops of Brazil's paredão sound systems, recorded between the 1980s and 2025, from Rio funk crews to São Paulo mandelão and the rigs of Belém. Compiled by GG Albuquerque.
Split Sous-Terrain
Split Sous-Terrain: Mårble, Dolphin Hospital and Tourbière recorded live at the AAE cave on December 20, 2025, four parts of experimental live electronics. Limited edition tape on Nazlo Records.
Holding Pattern
Holding Pattern by Melbourne composer and cellist Abby Sundborn: a single piece for cello and voice performed live to a small audience in August 2025, fragile music with a deceptive intensity. Cassette on A Colourful Storm.
Passiflora
Passiflora, the tenth edition of the Music To Watch Seeds Grow By series: KiF Productions follow the passion flower from seed to bloom and back to earth in nine collaged ambient pieces. Cassette.
Stu the Goat
Merzbow at pocket size: two two-minute parts of harsh noise recorded at Munemihouse in March 2026, cut into a 5" lathe disc in a folded cover sealed with a hand-numbered sticker. Fifty copies, a goat on the sleeve.
Washed And Waiting
Black Leather Jesus, the Houston harsh noise project Richard Ramirez started in 1989, on a white 8" lathe cut: two sides of almost seven minutes, Washed and Waiting, recorded in Pennsylvania in March 2026. Thirty numbered copies.
Welcome To My Obsession
Emil Beaulieau, the persona of RRRecords founder Ron Lessard and America's Greatest Living Noise Artist, on a 7" lathe cut: two untitled sides of turntable abuse and recycled sound, thirty numbered copies on black, clear and white vinyl.
Einsterbung und Entmenschung – Selbstversuche
Rudolf Eb.er, founder of Schimpfluch and once Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, in four self-experiments recorded at Om Kult in Osaka in 2026: psychoactive acoustics and cut-up decay on a white 9" lathe cut, thirty numbered copies.
Geophonics
Cello feedback through a bass amplifier set against a grand piano, whose strings answer in dense overtones: three long pieces recorded in a former convent in Belgium, between drone and spectral music.
Folkways Records: A Visual History
Large-format hardback from Soul Jazz on the sleeves of Folkways Records, most by designer Ronald Clyne: hundreds of covers for Woody Guthrie, John Cage, Lead Belly, Allen Ginsberg and many more.
I Figli Chiedono Perché
Morricone's 1972 score for Nino Zanchin's film, from the original mono masters: a love theme sung by Edda Dell'Orso and psychedelic harp pieces with echo, back on CD after twenty years.
Music For Solo Percussion And Electronics
First reissue of the Norwegian percussionist's debut, recorded in 1981 at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter: vibraphone, marimba, bells and synths over environmental recordings, between Midori Takada and Fourth World.
Starters Alternators
The Ex's 1998 album recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, their first for Touch and Go: eleven songs of interlocking guitars and stark drums, on vinyl for the first time with a booklet.
Instant
The Ex's 1995 album of 32 instrumental miniatures with Han Bennink, Ab Baars, Wolter Wierbos, Tristan Honsinger and Michael Vatcher: small-ensemble improvisation, on vinyl for the first time.
Sky Yen
Pete Shelley's 1974 electronic recording, made two years before Buzzcocks on a home-built oscillator and a two-track tape recorder: drones, feedback and echo, on CD for the first time.
Parallel Commutator
CZN, the trio of Valentina Magaletti, gong maker João Pais Filipe and Leon Marks, in two long pieces of drums, handmade gongs and cymbals recorded at Abbey Road: the first release on Orator.
Remix EP
Three Panasonic remixes made in 1996 by Zoviet France and by Muslimgauze, found on DAT decades later and issued by Sähkö in 2020: one side of Zoviet France, two Muslimgauze pieces. Repress.
The Fourth Annual
Korm Plastics' yearbook on music, fourth edition: Michel Faber, Robin Rimbaud, Klaus Maeck with Einstürzende Neubauten in 1981, David Elliott on Heldon, feminist labels, Popol Vuh in Norway, the No Fun Fest and more.
Tune In! - An Artist’s Guide To Radio And The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Wouter Jaspers' guide to radio for artists: crystal sets, shortwave, SDR, home-built antennas, the politics of the spectrum, fifteen artistic approaches from Kubisch to Kogawa, exercises and a timeline of radio art 1909-2026.
Limen
Duo of Lino Capra Vaccina and Luca Formentini recorded during a five-day residency at Ritmo e Blu Studio in 2025, five movements between improvisation and composition; CD in digisleeve.
