New Arrivals
Come On Die Young
*2023 reissue* 24 years after its initial release, Mogwai’s iconic second album ‘Come On Die Young’ is to be reissued on coloured vinyl. Presented in a gatefold sleeve with original artwork, the white vinyl will come with a digital download code.Originally released in March 1999, ‘Come On Die Young’s artwork references The Exorcist and a title scalped from a well-known Glasgow gang slogan. Instead of the cover’s suggested apocalypse-harbouring, pre-millennial assault on the senses however, this …
Blues For Gassman
Limited edition The most valuable of Gürtler’s (founder of Saar Records in 1950) jewels came from the jazz world. Gürtler donated all his passion and expertise to jazz, financing every project without complaints. The jewel in the crown of his productions was the LPJ 5007 album (Basso-Valdambrini Octet), considered by critics the best one ever published in Italy till that moment. The records selection, to which also Gürtler took part, leaned towards the classic themes of the American repertoire, …
Wa No Wa
The much-awaited vinyl version of a musical piece which has garnered much attention over the recent years in Japan. The sound is eye-opening, profound, spiritual, and will leave you in awe. Absolutely mind-bending. This is beyond categories and beyond good! The highest possible recommendation!
Fishy Tales
Inspired by Kraftwerk's "Autobahn", Southampton-based musician Steve Hartwell, aka The Dead Goldfish Ensemble, started to craft his own music in 1983 using sequencers and the MSX computer, which could be said as the first generation of home computers available for music production. Hartwell made a tremendous amount of recordings in his home studio until 1993, reflecting his take on minimalist music of Steve Reich and Philip Glass, it featured strange imaginative polyrhythms and friendly playful …
Wild Boy: The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez (uncut studio versions)
The new release of Wild Boy intends to keep the atmosphere of studio cuts as authentic as possible. The album has a few minutes more of Eden Ahbez in the studio than the previous release had. Minutes full of emotion and life...
Vocal Patterns
Music De Wolfe Library music reissue of the sought after 'Vocal Patterns' by The Roger Webb Sound. A fantastic dreamy album, highly recommended from Library Music and soundtrack fans.
Japan Blues Meets The Dengie Hundred
Six years since his debut Japan Blues album ‘Sells His Record Collection’, Williams is back - and it’s been worth the wait. Based around enka and minyo recordings made with London based singer Akari Mochizuki and Tsugaru shamisen master Hibiki Ichikawa at London’s Earthworks studio back in 2018, Williams adds field recordings made while traveling through Japan, inviting The Dengie Hundred to co-produce, bringing his own sound worlds into the mix. The two spent several months shuttling ideas bac…
Paris 1970
Soft Machine, live from the Théâtre de la Musique, Paris on March 2nd, 1970. Despite their gradual dissolution in the late '70s, Soft Machine's stock has never been higher thanks to a steady stream of archival recordings that continue to surface and throw light on the importance of varying line-ups. The quintet version of the band, captured at the Théâtre de la Musique, Paris on March 2nd, 1970 for France's Pop Deux TV show features that short lived and often lamented line-up of Lyn Dobson and E…
Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals
A reissue of a great exotica LP, recorded in 1958 and originally appearing in 1961. Dave Harris' only release as a band leader was a magnificent tribute to Raymond Scott, the legendary forerunner of space-age sound.
A Life In Waves (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on 12” Clear Vinyl. Suzanne Ciani's first full career retrospective release.
Afghanistan / Ziegenmarkt
* Edition of 25 copies: 1 x LP Dubplate, double sided A4 score printed on Neobond synthetic paper, full colour poster (297mm x 400mm) 3 x Photo documentation of the Zeigenmarkt aktion printed on Chromoluxkarton paper, 1 x Numbered authentication certificate with credits. All housed in a hand stamped rigid board box with metal corners * Two rare Henning Christiansen works from the eighties. Ziegenmarkt previousely only as a part of the PPHC cassette set (Penultimate Press) in an edition of 100 co…
Neoplatonic Aquatic Symposiums
** Edition of 300 copies, Deluxe 2LP includes a 12-page vinyl-sized zine ** In the flowing mode of olive tree groves, un-secluded temple vortices elaborated with Super-Receptacles reflect a floating “Supernatural Hall of Interaction”, and accompanied by this very scene, painted by a Daemonic being in a multiple of perspectives, there appears an assemblage of excellent genera including a hybrided-code statuette of Hermanubis. This temple vortex is a star on earth active for holographic dream clas…
We Are in Open Circuits. Writings by Nam June Paik (Book)
* Hardcover Edition. Large size, nearly 500 pages * Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished.
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Arguably the most important video artist of all time, and certainly among the most influential and prolific, Paik was a legendary innovator who transformed the electronic moving image into an artist's medium. He wrote incessantly—corresponding …
Reminded by the Instruments. David Tudor's Music (Book)
** 768 Pages | Over 300 illustrations ** David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization of indeterminate graphic scores and his later performances using homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity …
Stripsody
** Italian Edition. 384 pages ** Stripsody, riedizione del celebre volume pubblicato nel 1966 in occasione del felice incontro artistico tra Cathy Berberian, Eugenio Carmi e Umberto Eco. Si tratta di un libro che illustra pagina dopo pagina, nelle tavole di Eugenio Carmi, il percorso sonoro vocalizzato da Cathy Berberian, usando solo le onomatopee codificate dalla lingua dei fumetti. La voce inconfondibile di Cathy Berberian canta Stripsody – senza più bisogno di musica – fondendosi con le illus…
Hagoromo (Book)
English edition, 21,5 x 28,5 cm (Hardcover), 472 pages. Edited by Luca Cerizza and Cristiana Perrella. Contributions by Fiona Bradley, Luca Cerizza, Laura Cherubini, Carlo Falciani, Chus Martínez, Jeremy Millar, Cristiana Perrella, Marco Scotini, David Toop, Andrea Viliani. The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist. In Japanese Nō theater, Hagoromo is the title of a pièce featuring the fisherman Hakuryo, a magical mantle of phoenix feathers, and a Tennin, a dancing spirit…
Ocean of Sound
Italian Edition. 384 pages «Negli anni mi è capitato spesso di descrivere Oceano di suono come «uno dei libri di musica più importanti mai scritti» e ogni volta la definizione mi è sembrata fuorviante, imprecisa, non in grado di restituire il respiro di un’opera che, in un impeto di entusiasmo, il mensile «The Wire» arrivò a paragonare nientemeno che alle Città invisibili di Italo Calvino». - dalla prefazione di Valerio Mattioli. La straordinaria storia sonora di David Toop inizia nelle foreste…
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past
** 376 Pages, soft cover ** Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone audio producers and DJs between the mid-1960s and century's end commodified drone- and loop-based records as "ambient audio": slow, spare, spacious audio sold as artful personal media for creating atmosphere, fostering c…
Handmade electronic music. The art of hardware hacking. Second e
** 452 Pages, soft cover ** Nicolas Collins's Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making—as well as creatively cannibalizing—electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. You will also learn how to make contact microphones, pickups for electr…
Seligpreisung
The fourth LP by Popol Vuh was originally released on Kosmische Musik in 1973. It follows the religious theme of its predecessor and features the line up of Florian Fricke with Conny Veit on guitars, Daniel Fischelscher on guitars and drums (he was the drummer of Amon Düül II), Robert Eliscu on oboe, Djong Yun on vocals and Klaus Wiesse on tamboura. Reissued from the master tapes in quality vinyl pressing, full glory laminated gatefold cover and featuring an insert with liners and photos. Limite…