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Computer World
**2025 Stock. 180g translucent yellow vinyl ** Released in May 1981, Computer World (Computerwelt in the German edition) is the eighth studio album by Kraftwerk and the point where their fascination with technology locks directly onto the coming age of personal computing. Conceived as a concept album about the rise of computers in everyday life, it cycles through themes of data networks, digital communication, electronic banking and social control with an almost childlike lyrical simplicity that…
A Run Through The Forest
*100 copies limited edition* Ryggen Fri Records, the vinyl powerhouse from Gothenburg, Sweden, is thrilled to unveil the pre-order for A Run Through The Forest by Jukka Rintamäki – a limited edition white 180-gram vinyl pressing that's set to vanish as quickly as mist in the morning woods.
This captivating album plunges listeners into an immersive sonic landscape, where brooding atmospheres collide with raw, emotive composition work and haunting melodies. Jukka Rintamäki is known for his intrica…
Massimo Pupillo / Rouilleux
*30 copies limited edition* Acclaimed guitarist Massimo Pupillo (Zu) and visionary French multi-instrumentalist Rouilleux join forces on Echoes of Rust, a blistering new album that redefines the boundaries of experimental rock.
Pupillo, renowned for his seismic riffs and genre-defying work with Italian noise titans Zu and projects like Microfiche, teams up with Rouilleux – the enigmatic force behind blistering acts like Le Son Du Froid and his solo noise odysseys. Together, they forge a soundsc…
Déplier la cervelle secrète
‘Déplier la cervelle secrète’: 12 pieces created from recordings of sequences, (almost) all from the same analogue synthesiser. Material from a single source put to the test of composition, in what could be described as a power struggle: faced with the fragmented inertia of the sound material, searching for resources, relationships and combinations.
In this compact and eruptive material, the pulsating sound patterns reveal new intentions. The result is this album, born of electroacoustic ‘so…
Dreamcast
"The Dreamcast tracks were composed and recorded in a week, while learning to use a K.-O.2 sampler, which was later discredited. They somehow replay the state of virtual projection that a console or idea-image of a game console intensifies over time, only to be forgotten when other means begin to channel these projections. It's a capture of a fairly basic kind of consumerist regression, let's say. But it's also a way of reconnecting with the characteristics of image rendering, body forms and env…
Yongjin Park
Tip! *150 copies limited edition* Renowned experimental sound artists Yan Jun and Lionel Marchetti release Yongjin Park, a captivating immersive mesmerizing album of field recordings, electroacoustic improvisation, and raw sonic poetry. Yan Jun's minimalist precision meets Marchetti's masterful layering of concrete sounds, creating an album that blurs the line between environment and composition. It's a meditation on place, memory, and the invisible forces shaping our auditory world.
Zonal Disturbances III
The next installment in Dirk Serries’ “” cycle. As with the previous chapter, the musician recorded material using electric guitar coupled with numerous effects. He recorded four more longer compositions that further develop Dirk’s direction, constructing his signature ambient style. Organic, somber, and eerie. The entire piece was also recorded live, in a single space, resulting in music that reveals the artist’s penchant for minimalism and slow, repetitive sound clusters, thus drawing on his r…
The Garden
*300 copies limited edition* Margareth Kammerer is a singer and composer from South Tyrol, in northern Italy. Since she moved to Berlin in 1994, she has developed her own highly original composition and singing styles while working frequently with many leading improvisers. She released her debut album, "To Be an Animal of Real Flesh" (Charhizma), in 2004, and "Why Is the Sea So Blue" (Mikrotone) in 2013. In 2005, Kammerer formed The Magic I.D. together with Michael Thieke, Kai Fagaschinski and C…
New Spring
*300 copies limited edition* Pianist Fumi Endo, alto saxophone player Kanon Aonami and Tokyo-based British guitarist Sean Colum have performed together several times in duo and trio formats at Ftarri, Tokyo. The year 2023 saw the release of "Kanon Aonami Composed Works" (meenna-954), an album consisting of duo and trio performances by these three musicians. On January 3, 2024, Taku Sugimoto, a guitarist/composer renowned on the international improvised/experimental music scene, joined the three …
The One Who Walks Through The Night
*300 copies limited edition* The incomparable voice performer Tenko has been performing energetically inside and outside Japan since the 1980s. Satoko Fujii has been engaged in successful activities as a jazz pianist, composer and big band leader since the 1990s. Toshimaru Nakamura, who was a central figure of the so-called Onkyo movement on the cutting edge of the improvised music scene from the end of the 1990s to the early 2000s, is the pioneer of mixer feedback noise performance. Ten-Toh-Mar…
Cabbage Field: time passing, things changing
*200 copies limited edition* Born in Tokyo in 1959, shibatetsu has been active as a piano and melodica player since the 1980s. In recent years he has also been engaged in performances using electronics. Masamichi Kinoshita, born in Ono, Fukui Prefecture in 1969, is a Tokyo-based composer of contemporary classical music who also regularly performs high-volume electronic noise improvisation.
Over the past few years, shibatetsu has presented a concert series featuring electronics, titled "shibatets…
The Journey To Reach The Fathers
A descent beyond death, a return to the origins of memory.
Shock Factory - The Visual Culture of Industrial Music (Book)
Back in stock! 640 pages! Industrial music has long been recognized for its sonic innovations, but the radical visual culture that accompanied this underground movement has remained largely unexplored. Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music presents the first comprehensive examination of how industrial artists created a coherent aesthetic language across multiple media—from xerox art and mail art to installation and performance—fundamentally challenging modernist utopias while pro…
Takla Makan
Sai Yoshiko (佐井好子) - one of Japan's most legendary and enigmatic singers - made her debut in 1975 with Mangekyou, an album of superbly crafted songs and crystal-clear vocals over Yuji Ohno's lush, funky arrangements. Three more masterpieces followed in rapid succession: Mikkou (1976), Taiji no Yume (1977), and Chou no Sumu Heya (1978). Her melancholic, poetic lyrics drew from the gothic imagination of Japanese novelists like Ranpo Edogawa, Mushitaro Oguri, and Yumeno Kyusaku - dark fairy tales s…
Chou no Sumu Heya
The room where butterflies live. A place between worlds. Enter at your own risk - you may not find your way back out. Sai Yoshiko's fourth and final album of the 1970s stands as one of the most singular documents in Japanese music - a jazz-inflected fever dream that marked the end of an era. Originally released in 1978 on Columbia (LX-7058-A), Chou no Sumu Heya represented a dramatic departure from her earlier psychedelic folk explorations. Here was something else entirely: a surreal and dynamic…
Europe 1964
Super tip! Holy ghost music. The real deal. The sound of four men tearing a hole in the fabric of what jazz was supposed to be and letting something else pour through - something ancient and raw and utterly new. In their short time together, Albert Ayler and Don Cherry created a body of music that genuinely exists in the moment. Oblivious to rules and aesthetic boundaries, they played what they felt on their nerve-ends, embracing mistakes and wrong turns as part of the experience of making art i…
Forever
It's been a long ride to Forever - but now that they've arrived, the vibe's lightning and the blink of an eye. Glyders have been dreaming up this sound for over a decade. Joshua Condon and Eliza Weber founded the band in Chicago back in 2014, building a reputation through countless shows, late nights at the tape machine, and a revolving door of drummers that never quite clicked. They self-released EPs (DIM, Lend a Hand) and in 2023 delivered their debut full-length, the acclaimed Maria's Hunt - …
Radio Lusaka
Includes deluxe 12-page booklet with unpublished photos, lyrics, translations, and liner notes written by NTS radio host Jamal Khadar. Before there was a Zambia, there was Alick Nkhata. Born in Kasama in 1922 to a Tonga father and Bemba mother, Nkhata would become the voice of a nation that did not yet exist - and help sing it into being. Vocalist, guitarist, bandleader, broadcaster, archivist, freedom fighter: he moved between these roles as effortlessly as he moved between lonesome country sli…
Four For Trane
August 10, 1964. Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. A young saxophonist from Philadelphia enters the studio to record his first album as a leader for Impulse! Records. At his side, as co-producer, stands the man to whom he owes everything: John Coltrane. Archie Shepp was twenty-seven years old when Four For Trane was recorded - an age that in 1964 jazz still meant being an emerging voice. Born in Fort Lauderdale but raised in Philadelphia - the same Philadelphia as Coltrane, eleven…
Percussion Bitter Sweet
August 1961. Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Max Roach - the man who reinvented jazz drumming alongside Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in the 1940s, the co-leader with Clifford Brown of the definitive hard bop quintet until tragedy struck in 1956 - enters the studio with something to say. Something that cannot wait. Something that demands a new language.
The year before, Roach had recorded We Insist! Freedom Now Suite for Candid Records, a searing response to the Civil Right…