New Arrivals
Reality From Childhood Remembered as a Dream
Superb unreleased 80s ambient cassettes remastered. Robert Scott Pearson's music can be seen as surrealist, impressionist, post-industrial, mystical or avant-garde, but it goes beyond categories. His work embraces software, philosophy, poetry, visual arts, and generative algorithmic creation in general. At an early age, he began to experiment in this field, and released his first music privately on cassette, being part of the 80s undergound industrial scene in Seattle. Post-industrial, fut…
Teatime (1973-5)
Awesome analog recordings from this quintet of European Free Improvisers taken from their 1975 Incus LP, and a previously unissued recording live at London's Little Theatre Club, 1973. 'The 1975 release of the Teatime LP introduced the outside world to five of the 'second generation' London-based improvisers: Steve Beresford (piano & toys), Nigel Coombes (violin & low grade electronics), John Russell (electric guitar), Dave Solomon (percussion) & Garry Todd (tenor saxophone). The main contents a…
Hinosch EP
Electronic excursions from Düsseldorf/Osaka duo Hinosch (Koshiro Hino (YPY, Goat) and Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot, Schneider Kacirek). Four unruly studio tracks following the pair's collaborative live sets in Japan and Europe, pushing unsynced electronic instruments into knotted spaces of tape treatments. "Talent" offers swelling arpeggios that wobble over distant drums before playfully proceeding into the hiss and bliss of a pitched-down vocal drone, setting the tone for the EP to unf…
Matkormano
Original soundtrack to the movie Matkormano (centered around the alchemist Mage de Marsal or "Matkormano") produced by 529 Dragons and directed by Julien Louvet & Fabien. A beautiful, dark and foggy piece of music that we recommend you to listen especially at night, when the spirits are free to roam the endless roads of our soul-searching minds. Two longform interlinked titles of drone ambient. The movie, , was produced by 529 Dragons and directed by Julien Louvet & Fabien Rennet. "For fans of:…
Instantanes
Montreal stalwart Roger Tellier Craig (of Le Révélateur and Fly Pan Am) returns to Root Strata under his given name to offer a stunningly abstract pair of compositions indicating a severe departure from his earlier work. While Instantanés might at first evoke acousmatic and musique concrète traditions, the two side-long snapshots Roger presents feel far more spontaneous and rustic than those trappings might suggest, or as Luc Ferrari would say "a concrète music of the poor." A studied medi…
Ftarri de Solos
It’s been five years since Ftarri, an online CD shop and record label specializing in improvised music, opened a physical store of the same name in Suidobashi, Tokyo. This is the third title in a four-CD series celebrating the store's fifth anniversary. The two tracks are solo performances by female sound artists who play self-made instruments. Track one is a live performance by suzueri, which took place at Ftarri on March 18, 2017. In addition to self-made instruments, she uses an uprigh…
Ftarri Jam
It’s been five years since Ftarri, an online CD shop and record label specializing in improvised music, opened a physical store of the same name in Suidobashi, Tokyo. This is the second title in a four-CD series celebrating the store's fifth anniversary. The single 33-minute track is a group improvisation by all five musicians who appeared at Ftarri on May 5, 2017, performed at the end of the concert. Masashi Takashima (drums, electronics), who lives in the city of Koriyama in Fukushima …
La boue ralentit le cercle
Chicaloyoh is Alice Dourlen’s solo project. Creating music between soundscape exploration and intimate contemplation, Chicaloyoh is a mix of guitar, keyboards and percussions from distant and various horizons. Chicaloyoh is a one woman band that will attract those who like the priestess singings of Inca Ore or Nico.
Il Pistolero Dell'Ave Maria
First 200 on Amber Vinyl. 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP, with poster. Presented on vinyl for the first time, here's the awesome score of one of the most ambitious spaghetti westerns ever, 'The Forgotten Pistolero' a.k.a. 'Il Pistolero Dell'Ave Maria' from 1969 by the duo comprised of Roberto Pregadio and Franco Micalizzi. With a title like this, you can probably already feel the music – a dark toned take on the spaghetti western sound of the time – served up with the kind of brood…
Untitled Noise
For the last hundred years, the line dividing music from visual art has grown increasingly obscure. Music has provided inspiration for countless artists, while art has offered the conceptual terms for music to break its own rules. Particularly within the contexts of punk, and experimental music, art schools have fed the ranks -- gifting countless rebellious and visionary minds. These are open worlds, between which positions and ideas freely meet and speak. Within it all, there lies an oft…
Beaute Des Mirages
Mysterious French outfit The Dead Mauriacs return to Discrepant in full exotic wind force after their sell-out cassette, Cocktails Pour La Fin Des Temps (2016). Beauté Des Mirages picks up on the same themes of frantic, abstract exotica and concrete cocktails the French act is known for. Running for two, long 18-minute sides full of fake(?) vintage atmospheres and armchair jungle hallucinations, Beauté Des Mirages is an abstract journey into a beautiful (and sometimes scary) world of mirages…
A Can of Worms
TTW#100 is A Can of Worms. On 29 September 2017 The Tapeworm celebrated its centennial edition with a concert, a cassette and apparel. The concert took place at London’s IKLECTIK Art Lab – for full disclosure, click here for juicy details. Edition of 150. The cassette itself is a C120 mixtape starring 36 of your favourite worms, each serving an exclusive, previously unreleased track for your pleasure:A Can of Worms1: Achim Mohné “A Can Of Worms”2: Simon Fisher Turner “Crow Sculpture”3: Laura Agn…
Damo Suzuki’s Network featuring Château Laut – Ausland
The legendary Can vocalist Damo Suzuki drops this super limited cassette with his Network group and guest collaborators Château Laut. Made up of two thirty minute recordings, “Ausland” is a meditation on long-form sound experiments that we all know Suzuki does best.Château Laut’s Stefan Fähler writes: “I contacted Damo in 2009. He didn't reply immediately and at one point I just forgot about it… So, it was a huge surprise when he replied, exactly a year to the day later, explaining his ema…
Tokyo Sex Destruction
Pharoah Chromium, named after a song by the band Chrome, is a project by German-Palestinian musician and sonic performer Ghazi Barakat. He has released albums on labels such as Grautag, Deep Distance and Labelle69 and has collaborated with Günter Schickert, Vincent Epplay and Osman Arabi among others.
The material included on this tape is based on a live Korg MS-20 recording session for his 2016’s “Gaza” album, a sonic deconstruction of the war waged in the summer of 2014 in Palestine. In …
Untiled
a new untitled work for piano and organ by the highly-acclaimed Chicago-based composer-performer Olivia Block.“This suite was created over a span of several years. I developed techniques inside piano through rehearsals and performances, sketched the basic ideas out – the motives, physical materials etc, leaving a lot of room for improvisation between the composed bits.”
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Interview with Olivia Block
What is your musical background an…
Sousoume Tamachek
Music for desert picnics. Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar delves into his more sensitive side with a minimal studio recording of dreamy ballads. Thumping calabash, droning guitars, and vocal overdubs evoke an imagined desert soundscape. All instruments and vocals performed by Mdou only, creating a very personal and auteur sessions. Emotive and introspective, exploring themes of religion, spirituality, and matters of the heart. After his underground success on the pirate mp3 networks of West Africa …
The Lost Tapes
Aweome unearth lost vintage electronic music from Eastern Europe!!! "Strut, in conjunction with Ambassadors Reception and Future Nuggets, presents the first ever retrospective of fabled band Rodion G.A., one of Romania's best kept musical secrets of the last 30 years. As a band, Rodion G.A. were a unique phenomenon in their homeland at the time, operating in their own universe during a prolific period of recording from 1978 to 1984 at a time of significant political repression under the Ce…
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974) Lp
Death Waltz Recording Company is proud to present a much needed re-press of this legendary soundtrack, featuring updated and expanded artwork by Luke Insect. Jorge Grau directed this classic zombie film in 1974, predating Dario Argento’s Suspiria by three years; you can’t help but think Goblin was inspired by Giuliano Sorgini’s score to Manchester Morgue when recording the Argento classic. Giuliano Sorgini fills his score with psych driven breaks, lush strings, pulsing electronics and ter…
Space 1999
Death Waltz Recording Co. is ecstatic to whisk you far into the future to the end of the 20th century with the truly out of this world Ennio Morricone score to Spazio 1999, starring the late, great Martin Landau. Produced by the legendary Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the feature was constructed out of three episodes of the revered Space: 1999 television show to introduce Italian audiences to Commander Koenig and his crew, and thrilled audiences with nuclear explosions, parallel universes, a…
Apart
Apart is a mini-album containing a set of cello improvisations, conceived during days of solemn recording in the basement of an unused industrial space outside of Bern, Switzerland. Svarte Greiner on the recording process. "In autumn 2015 I was invited to perform and stay for a week 'residency' at the -- as it turned out one off -- Rebirth Festival in Bern, Switzerland. I was staying at an abandoned farm in the hills, half an hour outside the city with the group of young people responsibl…