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Nothing Is As Real As Nothing
A new release by the all-star guitar trio of Frisell-Lage-Riley is always a cause for celebration and this sixth volume in their transcendent legacy completes Zorn’s second trilogy of CDs with a beautiful and intricate suite of music dedicated to one…
Everything I Love Has Fallen From Me
"The Oakland bandʼs darkly psychedelic country-folk suggests things on the verge of collapse… appealingly overwrought, its sweetness curdling into menace like Twin Peaks gone spaghetti western..." - Pitchfork
Dripping
Tip! When Dirk Serries travelled last May to Portugal for a series of concerts with José Lencastre, he didn't know he was going to be invited to record some amazing sessions with several key players from the Portuguese impro scene.  This is one.  Liv…
Live in Luxembourg, December 3rd 2021
*300 copies limited edition* This record contains four tracks taken from a live performance which took place on December 3rd 2021 at the vinyl harvest record store in Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg. The concert was curated by non-profit organisation I a…
Density Dots
*200 copies limited edition* Impetus Group is Dirk Serries’ big band formation. The band name naturally refers to the Latin meaning: urgency, driving force, but even more spiritually to the moving language and strength of each musician in the ensembl…
Earthworks
Following 'Gargoyles' and 'Light Industry', Colin Webster and Dirk Serries recorded their third studio album at the Sunny Side Inc. Studio in May 2022.  With Colin on the baritone, the pressure is high.  Carefully selected from a way longer session, …
Crossing The Trail
*350 copies limited edition.* This edition of "Crossing The Trail" is next installment of the informal series contains Vidna Obmana reissues. This time it is material that was originally published in 1998 by the American label Projekt. The album was …
Hashtag
Tanzprocesz presents Hashtag, Terrine and Fusillier latest split tape release.
Le Diable Couleur De Rose / Music For Fainting
Tanzprocesz presents Le Diable Couleur De Rose / Music For Fainting, Rapport1984's latest tape release.
Ilog3
"Ilog3 was recorded only a little more than a year after the epic Ilog2 session. In-between the two album releases the duo has performed a few high profile festivals like Jazz Em Agosto in Lisboa, A’Larme in Berlin, Meaksuma in Eupen or La Nature in …
Altered Alchemy
*2023 stock* Achim Kaufmann and Ignaz Schick met for the first time in 2015 when they performed together on a Finland tour with Sestetto Internazionale. Both musicians work with refined textures and strongly abstracted sounds, thus a more intimate an…
Now Is Forever
Tip! "During one of my early teenage trips to Strasbourg/France in an urgently needed escape from provincial Lower Bavaria and with the aim of making some money by basking in the streets of France with my saxophone I found amongst some other jewels a…
Hawking Extended
"With Hawking Extended the two Berlin based musicians Ernst Bier & Ignaz Schick present their duo Hawking (formed in 2013) in addition with the Munich based composer, guitarist and live-electronics player Gunnar Geisse. While Hawking performed entire…
Ilog2
*2023 stock* Ignaz Schick and Oliver Steidle started collaborating as Ilog around 2013/2014 with celebrated concerts in the Berlin experimental underground. Their first album on Boomslang Records was released in 2015 and since then the two have been …
Integrale Sui Cammini
*200 copies limited edition* The musical project The Washing Planck is dedicated to generative music and its poetics, which is the automated creative process based on rules. "The Washing Planck" is a wordplay that arises from the curiosity of connect…
Ulyap Songs : Beyond Circassian Tradition
Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. “Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition” represents an attempt to document ancient bards‘ chants and their entanglement with popular rural…
Therapy
On Therapy, his gripping third collection for Imprec, Alexandre Bazin creates concise melodic electro-acoustic environments with ripping timbres, deep staccato sequences and a dramatic immediacy. Elements of classical, minimal techno, modular-ambient…
The Earth Has Memory
*100 copies limited release* Elevator Bath is thrilled to present the first solo vinyl LP from Concepción Huerta, highly accomplished multidisciplinary artist from Mexico who employs tapes to manipulate recordings of everyday objects and electronic i…
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Lepok
*300 copies limited edition* The very unique Basque scene of sound experimentation has had two main hubs for more than twenty years: the highly regarded and sorely missed Larraskito in Bilbao, and the iconic and resilient Matadeixe / Matadero in Azko…
Kwaidan
** 5th Anniversary Edition, CD housed in a 140x140x 6mm customised case, obi, 8pp insert, offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper. Includes 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks. ** Meitei (冥丁) is a Japanese artist from Hiroshima, who starte…
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Livskraft
200 copies pressed, handmade re-used cover jackets. Livskraft contains at least one member from Järnakollektivet and was recorded at a meditation workshop outside of Järna earlier this year. Three long, repetetive chants, all featuring teacher Shakti…
Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992
2023 much-needed repress. Utterly flooring compilation of electronic and contemporary music from Brazil recorded between 1978-1992 (also warded with 8.8 on Pitchfork). John Gomez, who wrote the inspirational liner notes for Music from Memory’s retros…
Pastoral
*200 copies, limited edition* While Korm Plastics publishes books these days, this is a surprise CD only release. We sent him this demo in 2011 & we all forgot about it. Pastoral is a welcome edition to the catalog showcasing a less aggressive stance…
438Hz As It Is, As You Are
Since 2008, "438Hz As It Is, As You Are" is "only" the third solo release from Tomoyoshi Date. The last one dates from 2011. Less is more. In parallel, from 2013 to 2021, he has recorded some releases in collaborations with Toshimaru Nakamura, Ken Ik…
Little Dipper Minus Two Plus (Echo Poeme Sequences)
** Sold-out at source ** An editon of 300 copies on marbled green vinyl, in a spectacular Santini sleeve with a full-colour 12'' insert. Back in 2005, 3 special performances took place featuring Steve Stapleton, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldr…
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Murderock (Uccide A Passo Di Danza)
*2023 repress* Brand new AMS Records/Cinevox operation on the occasion of Black Friday 2023 with a memorable soundtrack by a rock giant: Murderock – Uccide a passo di danza (Dancing Death) returns to vinyl with the first reissue in over thirty-five y…
Interim Report, March 1979
A brand new vinyl cut on 180g yellow/black vinyl in a fully redesigned gatefold sleeve. Includes a bonus 7" pressed on yellow vinyl featuring two contemporaneous tracks which have been reworked by GCF exclusively for this edition.
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Hot Plate Only
Honestly Same is an amplified acoustic and synthetic quintet from Chicago. They improvise patient, contemplative and distinctly contemporary music harnessing the sounds of cello, clarinet, electronics, piano, bass, recorder, percussion, synths and ac…
Spires
*30 copies limited edition* "Bright lights of impossible architecture, airwaves are your travelling wings. I rode up some of those ones, it was already night. It looked like some future city, lights of villages on the other hills below as far as ligh…
Zeeschuim
*100 copies limited edition* Zeeschuim is a continuation of Zeemijl, a long-form piece from 2020. Through their density and movement, these two works become sonic sculptures of the North Sea and the Irish Sea. Consciously or not, life on an island is…
Abel/Kane
*200 copies limited edition* After having painted her own mythology out of antique myths and literature, Golem Mecanique began to work on biblical features. The vehicle is minimalist. The challenge, to go further with the instrument and the voice. Fo…
in spoar
*200 copies limited edition* Since 2008, Mariska Baars (vocals, guitar), Jan Kleefstra (words), Romke Kleefstra (guitars, bass), and Rutger Zuydervelt (electronics) have been creating improvised soundscapes with Frisian poetry. ‘in spoar’ is their si…
Borrowed Photograph
Distorted flows of emotional vistas, frozen and stretched in time. Oceans of song folding in on themselves, breaking like bitcrushed foam underneath the waves. A distilled stream of states.
The Seismograph
*100 copies limited edition* "A large mound of igneous rock beneath the earth’s surface, sometimes attaining the size of a mountain. The vent associated with a volcano which no longer ejects molten lava or ashes, but continues to give off steam and g…
Sunken Dimension
Cyess Afxzs and Scathing both represent the newer wave of harsh noise, with prolific output in recent years, coming up with top notch releases one after another, and in a way I feel it was only a matter of time for this fruitful collaboration to happ…
OAF
Paul van Trigt's project Idler delivers 20 minutes of fantastic micro-cassette abuse. Broken and primitive desolation, death rattle of failing telephone lines, the revolution of man-eating robot printers. Apocalyptic sound of dystopian electronics. 3…
Children Of The Wisteria
Green Tea is noise project by Nick Forté (Half Mortal, Rorschach) with an extremely evocative, even psychedelic approach. 'Children of the Wisteria', the second full-length album following the project's brilliant debut on New Forces, brings forth won…
s/t
Here are four recent Finnish noise artists cooking up a split with outstanding harsh noise, on a release that stands on its own feet. If you’ve been following what's happening in the scene, you should already know that these artists can definitely de…
Peace
Violent Shogun returns to Satatuhatta with a new CD called 'Peace.' This timely named album once again showcases what Remi does best. It combines atmospheric synth sounds and textured tape loops with harsher, organic bangs and scrapes to tell a story…
Burnout
Impakt is a regressive combination of high speed freestyle junk noise and electronics overload. No effort has been spared to deliver a fast moving freight train of bricks and porcupines crunching through your walls and/or eardrums. When the velocity …

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