New Arrivals
Smashed Platitudes Avillion, Abbotsford, Adelaide/Heaps Of Sorrow
A drastic left turn from NM label head Simon J Karis, following some notable 2024 output. The manic jubilance of both last year’s ‘Thrash’ (his collaborative effort with UK experimental/club royalty Actress) and his hugely evocative, slightly foolish solo full length ‘So Little Sorrow’ (accompanied by a book of 50 watercolour paintings by legendary ambient musician and visual artist Andrew Chalk) commanded new ears and scratched heads further across the globe than Karis had enjoyed prior. So wit…
A thousand tiny mutinies live
Bassist and composer Joseph Franklin returns to NM for a wildstyle heat exchange, actioned live in collaboration with synthesist, composer and improviser Ben Carey. Modestly, this one does what it says on the box, however ‘a thousand tiny mutinies live’ revises motifs and prompts from Franklin’s solo bass and extended technique LP for NM in 2024 with spectacular license, captured in stunning high resolution audio.
Surrounded by an encircling audience, Franklin’s fragmented acoustic cycles issued…
The Incessant Need To Fill In Blank Spaces
The album offers massive long-form drone with a beautiful ambient touch—it is the first part of a trilogy. The artwork consists of an embroidery hoop enclosing a piece of felt that holds the cassette and credit inlay.
Leikarring
The album is an experimental, atmospheric journey with wonderful sounds. The artwork consists of a wooden box with a sticker. The credits are printed on a long strip of paper that wraps around the cassette.
Empire Des Pulsions
Founder of KUMP and Meth.O tapes, Lyon’s Marc-Étienne Guibert (AKA Gil.Barte) awakens his new Mert Seger moniker for a shadowy Plaque excursion. Nine slow burners strike from the murk with venomous precision.
Remnants
"I don’t keep photographs, old letters, keepsakes or memorabilia. I have sound-files, thousands of them, un-used, un-heard: folders of field recordings; sonic sketches; experiments that failed but weren’t deleted. The files are saved on hard drives or the cards of obsolete pieces of equipment replaced – bit by dusty bit – with something new, clean and shiny. A remnant is what’s left over when the greater part it once belonged to has been used up, removed, or destroyed. I think of my sound-files …
Aura
Sound images collected in abstract tales: this is perhaps the aspect that emerges from the explorations of “Aura”, a research in which the continuous recoding of signs is drawn at the same time from the temptation of unlimited semiosis and the structural coherence of musical composition. These pieces reflect a working method that always starts from field recordings and concrete sounds. They may have been recorded in closed or open spaces, in cities or in natural places. Their subsequent digital …
Megaliths In Dub
A deep reworking of Llyn Y Cwn's "Megaliths" (2024). The original was a profound dark ambient exploration of the sacred resonance embedded within stone circles; "Megaliths In Dub" is the echo beneath the surface, the unheard rhythm that has always been there. The megaliths stand - timeless, unyielding. Their histories stretch beyond recorded memory, their presence imbued with silent narratives of the land. "Megaliths" sought to channel this ancient energy into pure sound. Yet no history exists w…
A/Version
P'derrigerreo is a project by G Patrick Foley and Pierre Plantevin, who live in the United States. Although they look mysterious because they have released few works, they create very interesting sound collages with their unique sense. This work has the texture of a collage that seems to have been made using tape manipulation, and it reminds us the some eerie works of Nurse With Wound while changing their style from sound collage to noise acoustic, the precision of the electroacoustic compositio…
Culmus
Culmus (Latin for "stalk") marks the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration that began in September 2023 and continues to evolve. As co-inhabitants of a shared ecological and mental space, Franki Wals and Chang Deng-yao navigate a sonic continuum that bridges the human and the non-human, creating a piece where electroacoustic improvisation productively meets the indeterminate resonances of wind-activated plant matter. These materials intertwine and form a subtly layered aural tapestry, where…
Fractured Landscape Vessels
Fractured Landscape Vessels is a collection of deconstructed sonic ceramics. Each of the four pieces is a vessel containing interconnected vignettes of space and place. Inspired by local Cornish landscapes and the drift and drag of everyday life, the work fractures field recordings of various terrain through manipulated gestures and performance. In doing so the process has created an exhibition of partial scenes, obscured photographs and fragmented pieces put back together.
Heavy Cloud is a pro…
Glaciers
Thorsten Soltau is a Germany-based artist who has been working since 2009. Until now his works were released on labels focusing on noise/soundscape such as Auf Abwegen, Gerauschmanufaktur, Chondritic Sound, Sentimental Productions, and so on. Glaciers, dedicated to his lost friend, is a 31.5 minutes long piece and it is filled with ambience and electronic drone. The tones are sometimes gentle and warm, and sometimes melancholy. There are sounds of objects, voices, electronic sounds, and various …
All Bliss, Every Tree
*50 copies limited edition. All revenue from these tapes placed towards families in Gaza via mutual aid organisation Art Saves Collective, hand-marbled, each one goes different* Leaving label boss/producer/composer Matthewdavid presents a long-form cut from the Los Angeles trio of Aaron Shaw, Carlos Niño, and himself. The deep listening collage of zither, saxophone, and percussion was constructed through a process of re-sampling source material from the trio’s archive of live LA community concer…
Voyage
After a series of EPs and releases across different media (magazines, posters, digital), dTHEd returns with a new LP — their first in six years since the debut Hyperbeatz vol.1 on Boring Machines — titled VOYAGE (Vital Operations and Yearly Administration for Galactic Existence), a bold, genre-defying concept album chronicling humanity’s flight from an uninhabitable Earth to the deep unknown of interstellar exile. More than an album, VOYAGE is a full speculative fiction universe — part musical e…
Dead Mind Records Bundle
A comprehensive survey of experimental sound practices across generations, geographies, and aesthetic approaches. This four-release bundle from Dead Mind Records presents vital documents of uncompromising artistic vision: from contemporary electronic collaboration to archival excavations of ambient and industrial histories.
At the center stands Carlos Giffoni & Joachim Nordwall's New Music - a visceral convergence of two sound artists operating at the outer edges of techno, noise, and electro-ac…
Le Cri Du Caire
Le Cri du Caire is a striking mosaic of Sufi poetry, jazz, and spoken word, led by the magnetic presence of Abdullah Miniawy alongside Peter Corser, Karsten Hochapfel, and Erik Truffaz. Fusing hypnotic loops with visceral strings and evocative brass, the album channels the hopes and struggles of Cairo’s youth into a transcendent musical ritual - challenging, inventive, and brimming with emotional intensity.
A Fraying Space
2025 stock Imagine being a punk rocker before there were any others, or a hippie whose message of peace was infused with a sardonic whimsy. That’s what it must have been like to be Pip Proud, in Sydney in the late 1960s, railing against the media and its hypocrisies, making a music that cut through all lies. — David Nichols Pip Proud, sui generis, could be considered an Australian outsider, with his untutored and uninhibited singing style, his primal guitar playing, his resolutely personal visio…
The Meters
Debut 1969 album by New Orleans’ The Meters. Led by organist Art Neville, the quartet was rounded out by jazz-influenced guitarist Leo Nocentelli, along with the bubbling rhythm section of bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo” Modeliste.
Their regional influences were a smashing together of rock n’ roll, syncopated ‘second line’ rhythms from Mardi Gras parades, and jazz improvisations that only could have come from the New Orleans music scene.
The Meters helped move R&B music t…
Look-Ka Py Py
1970 seminal second album by New Orleans’ The Meters is one of their most beloved releases. Produced by one of New Orleans’s preeminent musicians, Allen Toussaint. Between backing such names as Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris, The Meters cranked out a follow-up that was even funkier than its debut.
Gandalf
If you’re as obsessed with unfairly unheralded bands as we are, bringing out a proper, well-deserved official re-release to change that course is always an honor. Case in point, Jackpot Records proudly announce Gandalf’s 1969 self-titled release as one of our proudest moments. Working alongside band member Peter Sando from the original master tapes, it is time for the rest of the uninitiated to catch up with this beautifully crafted haunting psych- pop record (fans of THE LEFT BANKE, KALEIDOSCOP…