New Arrivals
Transmission in an Expanse of Firelight, Hear Me!
A linchpin of Montreal's experimental community for over two decades, Jean-Sébastien Truchy has performed with Fly Pan Am, Set Fire to Flames and Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche among countless others as well as co-running the presently defunct L…
Knock On Life's Door
There’s a particular twinkle in the great expanse of American songwriting. This has seen countless nostalgic exploitations over the years – collections of popular songs strung together under the banner of the so-called Great American Songbook that ha…
Lichter
Lichter is the first piece in a new series of electroacoustic dub compositions by Mouse on Mars. It is a massive, lurching, up-tempo percussive epic – a long-haul runaway train that keeps switching tracks without ever losing sight of its destination.…
Arke Sinth
These recordings document the brief and intense life of a group formed at the beginning of the 1970s within the fertile and stimulating cultural environment of the town of Padua (Italy), where electroacoustic and computer musi…
Distress Signals I
Unreleased before early version of their stunning debut! Controlled Bleeding's founder Paul Lemos insisted that there are actually two Distress Signals recordings, one of which has never been heard and which is now released on beautiful vinyl thru To…
Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps
Gatefold sleeve. Controlled Bleeding announces its first proper studio album since 2002. Larva Lumps And Baby Bumps is a startling record: it somehow flawlessly mixes industrial noise and prog rock into a beautifully stream-of-conscious work that i…
Body Samples
After several tape-only releases in 1984, Controlled Bleeding released its first album on the then-brand new Dossier label in Germany, a label with which Controlled Bleeding would collaborate closely over the next years. Experimental, noise-laden …
Distress Signals II
Unreleased before, and quite different from the Broken Flag tape!! "Released on Gary Mundy's Broken Flag label in 1984, the first Controlled Bleeding album was Distress Signals, an almost impossible to find cassette-only album of brutal powernoise…
Obsolete
CD version. Here's another Gong album no one seems to know about, as this is basically Gong plus poet/musician Dashiell Hedayat (otherwise known as Melmoth). Evidently the lyrical content (especially on the suite "Eh, Mushroom will you mush my room?"…
I Have Left You the Mountain
"This 'translation' of absence through song is called këngë kurbeti, migration song. Its drone-based polyphonic form is prominent south of the river Shkumbin—in an area that includes Vlorë and other villages from which thousands of Albanians have lef…
Wetin You Go Do?
One-sided lp commissioned by m hka - museum van hedendaagse kunst antwerpen as part of the exhibition Bruises and Lustre, 16 october 2015 - 17 january 2016.
I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die
"I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die" is the 4th soundtrack from Stockholm-based visual artist Johanna Billing. The underlying 15-minute film installation is playing in Ostia, Rome, and formulates the utopia of free access to informal learning environm…
Pulheim Jam Session
This vinyl record is part of the exhibition Keeping Time, April 11 June 12, 2016 at Villa Groce, Genova, Italy curated by Ilaria Bonacossa. In cooperation with Hollybush Gardens, London, Kavi Gupta, Chicago and Laveronica Arte Contemporanea, Modica.
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Stimulus Progression
Eleven field recordings of some of the last remaining MUZAK sound-systems operating in Helsinki, Finland. Recorded in public locations, such as restaurants, malls and parking garages by local film-maker/artist Mika Taanila. These sonic snapshots – ”f…
Tube Dust DroneBrückenmusik 1995–2015
A long space with a long history: for 20 years, "Brueckenmusik" has invited the cream of international sound art crop to wrest new artworks from the acoustically over-saturated environment of the aging Deutzer Bridge. The works created there are as …
Moenai Hai
"Having basically dropped off the face of the earth fifteen years ago, Juntaro Yamanouchi gives Moenai Hai a sense of enigma: some contextual food for thought, and some inconclusive ideas. The sudden, low-hype release of Moenai Hai leads one to belie…
Dracula
There is not much to say about the music composed by James Bernard for the Dracula Hammer Films. Everyone knows what we are talking about here. And this version is probably the definitive edition. The new revised artwork includes a rare picture of th…
Scott 4
From the 2013 remasters taken from the original analogue tapes Back to Black is proud to present Scott Walker’s fourth album. This was his first record to be entirely filled with his own compositions. Songs were credited to Scott Engel and the mood b…
Through Mysterious Exotic Barricades: Asian & African
Philip Corner (b. 1933) studied composition with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening and musical analysis with Oliver Messiaen. During the 1960s and '70s he was an active member of Fluxus, a founder (along with James Tenney and Malcolm Goldstein) of the…
Plays Sudden Infant'
Joke Lanz travels down memory lane! Two decks a mixer and a dozen of old Sudden Infant vinyls to spin, scratch, manoeuvre, loop and juggle into a narrative new composition. Recorded and mastered by Rashad Becker in Berlin, this album combines Joke …