New Arrivals
Collection 4
Limited 150 copies, Early Merzbow works featuring Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani. Recorded & Mixed at Gap Works, Tokyo on 16 June 1981. Remixed by Masami Akita at Lowest Music & Arts Studio, Tokyo. Remastered from Original Master Tape on Jan 2010. Originally Released on Lowest Music & Arts 1982.
Angelic gematria
Brand new full length cassette from Clay Ruby's amazing Burial Hex project. Cascades of blackened electronics, distant and buried wailing electronics drenched in throbbing rhythms and grumbling thunderous reverberations, swelling across the two 20 minute compositions, steadily building to utter decay. Limited to 100, pro-dubbed with black and white covers printed on parchment paper
Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix
Palm Wine is a blog run by Simone Bertuzzi started at the end of 2009. It is described as "a possible and distant look at the post-global movement of sounds and imageries, even dazed by alcohol vapours. For this reason, it can take unexpected routes backward and forward, travels in the outer space and depicts a magic conception of distance between past, present and the next world." "Dreamachine / Beyond Digital Mix" is a C60 tape released by Palm Wine after a trip to Morocco attending a…
Omissions
Simple and elegant the music of Jonhatan Borges' project needs concentration, both to be played and listened. It simply concerns repetitive and extatic tape loops that don't need nothing more than the simple repetition. You'll find yourself waiting, with the ear tense to discover a subtle change, a single touch that worth the whole record.Edition of 100
Salicylat
Back in stock. Few copies left. 'Collaborative release from Brume (Christian Renou) & Kommisar Hjuler und Frau (Mama Baer). Features Antizipation Des Generalised Other Parts 1-7. Psychotic, essential, & highly recommended!' label info
M. on X
'In the world of Brussels hip hop L.E.G. are outsiders, noted for their experimental music influences and use of distorted English-language vocals. Producers Sublyme Diagonal and Roger3000 continuously and independently recycle their collective work in which Citizen Ledge finds his inspiration, recounting his doubts about the future of the world and personal existential abyss. The six unedited tracks on this cassette were recorded between 2005 and 2010.' label info
La Catacomb
La Catacomb, purloined from a great abyss of uncertainty, is finally among us. The fourth album proper from Steven R. Smith’s blisteringly psychedelic “power trio” guise, La Catacomb languished for a few years awaiting release from this label & that before landing at Soft Abuse HQ. La Catacomb is the perfect follow-up to Ulaan Khol’s Ceremony trilogy, offering more smoulder than flame, more rumination than provocation. Smith's meticulously-crafted heavy drones & dirges have rarely sound…
Passione Farfallina
Awesome tape! A side project by A Spirale band, first release for the label Joy de Vivre, the Aspec(t) snuff/jazz, their second work after the first one by the Belgian label FFHHH, harsh-noise and electroacoustic research.
The Sky Above The Bud Below
Noisy but not even brutal. Digital enough to preserve the organic and crispy taste of the sound. These are two new stunning recordings from one of the most active and finest artist in the field of noise and improvised music. This is Lasse Marhaug. This is The Sky Above The Bud Below."Marhaug has an impressive range at his fingertips, veering wildly from shock-tactic maximal noise, to near-silent contemplative drones. Much of the time loud and noisy, but also playful and even quiet, wintry and re…
Cathode Deafness
Two cathode ray tube televisions , a tape loop and an echo-looper pedal. The intent is to explore through the two televisions the emptied ether due to the shifting of the TV channels from the aerial signal to the digital . The CRT television becomes a deaf machine, an end in itself, a sort of "bachelor machine". The recordings are the result of a series of live improvisations
Northern Resonance I
In the winter of 2008 C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Jon Wesseltoft (Tongues of Mount Meru, Maranata) would meet in Wesseltoft's native Norway to record the tracks, which comprise this tape. With Yeh on violin and Wesseltoft on harmonium the duo blazes through the northern sky unleashing a meditative eulogy to the Nordic gods of past, present and future. The reeds maintain the momentum while the strings wail in unison. Fans of Tony Conrad and Henry Flynt take note. Artwork by L…
De Leeuwerik 1979
1979 performance of Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Steven Taylor and Harry Hoogstraten recorded live at De Leeuwerik, a small bar in Eindhoven (Holland). Everyone takes turn reading poems and singing songs accompanied by harmonium, percussion and guitar. The set starts with Ginsberg’s ‘Plutonian Ode’ and ends with a wasted ‘Copulation Blues’. Orlovsky reads extracts from ‘Clean Asshole Poems and Smiling Vegetable Songs’, Hoogstraten from his book ‘Boxing Days’. Awesome archival find that…
Mummy Fingers
T TRANCE's latest acid circus. This sparkling C30 slipslides through all his manic dual-keys modes (one hand mans the organ, the other dances up & down a wah-fucked Casio), accented w/ the occasional mushroom starchild sing-songing vocals. Ltd to 120
Two ants were called
Two 10-minute minimal and dark pieces, exploring stasis and low-end dephts from Greek composer Spyros Polychronopoulos aka Spyweirdos (b.1980). Professionally duplicated c-22. Letterpressed sleeve printed by Ben Owen / Middle Press. Numbered edition of 100 copies.
Souls on board
Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. Each side is seventeen minutes forty five seconds long.
& that dead horse
Recorded upstairs mostly 1994. Leslie Winer close friend of William Burroughs and Jean-Michel Basquiat did one album in 1991, 'Witch' earning her the title of Grandmother Of Trip-Hop. 'Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. Recorded upstairs mostly 1994.' label info
Telepathy 101
Artiste sonore et visuel basé à Londres, Jim Hollands a conçu 'Télépathie 101' comme la BO d'une installation vidéo en multi-projection. Électronique façon eighties et sous l'influence de John Carpenter. Première édition de 60 exemplaires.
B
a lovely project by Silentes records, a series of 26 cassette tapes centered around the interpretation on silent sound....Each tape is associated with a letter of the alphabet. Each letter is associated with an artist Each letter gives birth to an unwanted word The music is the artist's personal vision of silence 26 tapes by 26 italian acts. Each tape is hand numbered and limited to 100 copies. And the "B" letter is dedicated to Gianluca Becuzzi
LiveGrodor
We had been talking about this tape for a couple years now: a buncha killer livejams by the great Swedish band Den Stora Vilan (which supposedly translates something as ‘The Great Rest’). Long mellow West Coast influenced psych jams (think ‘American Beauty’ era Gratefuld Dead) meets Neil Young with a bit of Trad Gras Och Stenar thrown in. 200
Spool
Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies. The Tapeworm is really chuffed to have Philip jeck as its first release! Recorded in June 2009, at home in Liverpool. On 'spool', jeck eschews his usual prepared vinyl technique, instead playing bass guitar through various effects boxes. Philip jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves …