Best of 2015
Wind
2016 limited repress. Italian electronic musician Gigi Masin's much sought-after 1986 first album, Wind, restored and remastered from the original tapes. Never commercially released, the LP was only given away at a number of small concerts, with many of the remaining copies destroyed during floods in the Venice-based musician's house. Quickly gaining recognition as something of a landmark ambient album in recent years, Wind is now lovingly presented again in its entirety. True to its origi…
Havet
Aweseome!!!!!This is the Goodiepal's long lost first ever album, recorded in 1990 and never before published. For years even the Goodiepal considered this to be lost, but he found the master some months ago, so we're proud to be releasing this in all its vinyl glory. The LP comes with two inserts printed in graphite black ink on heavy golden yellow paper, with liner notes and autostereograms to enhance the powerful New Age vibe. Cut by Simon at The Exchange Mastering Studios, London.
Works 1976-1981 : Scorrevole
2016 restock Riccardo Sinigaglia truly is a key figure in the late 70s mid 80s experimental scene from Italy, and this small selection of concrete, electronic and experimental instrumental works is just amazing. The albumis drawn from the late 70s to mid 1980s, mainly rescued from two early pieces: Scorrevole 1, mostly recorded outside with a portable tape deck and a Sennheiser stereo microphone MKE 2002 and then the sounds are elaborated with the concrete music traditional techniques. The secon…
The Holy Mountain
2016 Restock. Double LP version. Pressed on 140-gram vinyl. Unanimously considered amongst fans of all strains of alternative pop culture the flamboyant cinematic masterpiece known as Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain can proudly claim, amongst all its other accolades, one of fantastique cinema’s greatest red herrings of all time. In the interest of anti spoilerism we are not referring to the film’s reconstituted plot here (recycled from René Daumal’s 1952 fictitious mountaineering journal) b…
Vivere A Tokyo: Citta' Del Paradiso
Sensational and almost impossible to find in its original edition Original Soundtrack for the documentary composed by Perigeo's bassist Giovanni Tommaso ("Living in Tokyo: City of Heaven"), very active and prolific in writing Library music during the '70s. This extraordinary Score was composed to be the soundtrack for a documentary focused on Tokyo city and his inhabitants, where Giovanni Tommaso added some typical elements of melodic/harmonic Japanese music and meltied them with a kind o…
For Friends And Relatives: The Complete Scandia and Discophon Re
Landmark work from the Finnish scene of the 60s – one of those ultra-rare European jazz records that collectors have dug for decades! The set's got a stark, modern sort of feel – but also a nice soulful swing, too – a balance that few of the other Scandinavians hit so well at the time – as they were either hanging between farther-out progressions, or more inside, tightly arranged jazz! Drummer Christian Schwindt's vision here is exceptional – full of rich feeling, deep tone, and careful…
Mindbender
2016 re-edition in blue-yellow splatter vinyl. An incredible album that's as evocative as its title – one that blends together strings and electronics into a sublime suite of sound library grooves. Originally released in 1972, can be put in the field of so-called "library music," records made for use in movies and TV productions, commercials, and for similar purposes to enhance the tension of the atmosphere in very dramatic scenes or accompany the more mellow and relaxed moments with lush …
Lawrence of Newark
2015 restock of this cosmic/spiritual jazz masterpiece. Grey area exact repro, originally released on Perception in 1973. A welcome reissue of this pure underground jazz classic from Newark, NJ's own Larry Young. He's in 'out' mode here, putting aside his more well-known styles (as heard on his classic Blue Note LP Unity) and laying down some Arkestra-style jamming alongside the shredding of James Blood Ulmer and some other underground cats. A killer melting of cosmic, Eastern, Afro and fr…
Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments
CD version. Spectrum Spools presents the first reissue of American minimalist composer and electronic music pioneer David Borden's 1981 masterpiece, Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments, a work of the highest archival significance. A radiant achievement in sonic elegance, experimentation, and ambitious composition technique, Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments contains four pieces, each utilizing three players and six keyboard instruments. - Borden was a central figure in the developmen…
Gancio Cielo
** restocked ** Gancio Cielo is the first full length of Francesco Cavaliere, an artist we had the pleasure to introduce to the public some years ago with a legendary tape called “Neverending Somersault”. After years of live performing and an intense studio work, Francesco developed a unique style using his voice as main source of sounds and an incredible archive of home made sound FX. Gancio Cielo is a magical space standing on its own, where a fantastic night-time story combined with exo…
Die Form - Fine Automatic 2
This release is the unique and complete full album from one of the Die Form side projects, named "Fine AutomatiC & Die Form" (from the "Endless" short tapes serie). This one is released in double albums as two separate vinyl LPs in the context of the Archives of Industrial Music from France (offering inside this collection : identical covers, excepting specific typography of the artist or of the band and personalized logotypes) in order to point out its radical aesthetic unity and…
The Message: Live at Kargart
2016 limited repress, edition of 200. A meeting with the giant. In this live session recorded in 2014, the konstruKt quartet's basic lineup reunites again with Peter Brotzmann, with whom they recorded the amazing studio album Dolunay (rec. 2008, rel. 2011) and Eklisia Sunday (rec. 2011, rel. 2013; also with Huseyin Ertunç and Dogan Dogusel). As the title says, all are invited to listen to the message hidden in these rhapsodic vibes, where the energy of an elephant stampede is channeled into a…
Nosferatu
The story of the Nosferatu soundtrack editions through the years appears a little caotic. Several editions, with several sleeves and completely different tracklists have appeared in different countries. What we tried to offer here is the definitive edition of Popol Vuh's works for this fantastic Werner Herzog 1979 tribute to the old Murnau classic. When asked for a new soundtrack for Herzog's project, Florian Fricke and Daniel Fichelscher came out with a magnificent album that once again, as it …
About enough still not to know
Enough still not to know is a 4 CD box set with music by John Tilbury and Keith Rowe, produced by visual artist Kjell Bjørgeengen for an upcoming video installation. The music is improvised, but it is quite evident that the two artists have developed a strong understanding throughout their five-decade long collaboration.
Keith Rowe and John Tilbury are especially known from their work in the Scratch Orchestra and AMM with Cornelius Cardew. Tilbury is also known as one of the foremost interp…
Jungle Echoes
Finally reissued, legendary Afro-drum insanity by this unique/sensational drummer.."The story of Chaino is something between truth and fiction, you can read on the linear notes, it remembers Tarzan! Originally released in 1959 contains nine unique tracks: tremendously energetic, absolutely mind-blowing to this day and – here comes the intrinsic twist – glaringly sexualized and suggestive, if not via their track titles, then because of the moaning females and groaning male chants. This tribal…
Cardinal
Philip Jeck writes: "To make this record I used Fidelity record players, Casio keyboards, Ibanez bass guitar, Sony MiniDisc players, Ibanez and Zoom effects pedals, assorted percussion, a Behringer mixer and it was edited it at home with MiniDisc players and on a laptop computer." "...and they sparkled like burnished brass" "Out of the depths of our complaints, it could be all so simple. To be never fooled by the finesse of a long-yearned for solidity, but in the momentary aplomb of a sle…
Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1
After melting minds since the mid-'90s with his beat-based productions, renowned techno producer Anthony Child aka Surgeon now brings the fundamental components of electronic sound production to the fore with Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1. Focusing on the development of timbre and texture, Child creates exquisite drones that offer insight into his improvisatory sensibility and dig deep into the potential of modular synthesis, largely inspired by the spiritual musics of artists…
Richard Maxfield
MASTERPIECE!!! This double LP introduces an invaluable selection of early electronic Richard Maxfield pieces featuring four distinct works composed between 1959-1964 and previously unpublished (Dromenom, Electronic Symphony, Suite from Peripateia, and Wind). While Maxfield did not exclusively compose electronic music, winning the Gershwin Prize in 1959 for his orchestral work Five Movements, it was within the genre of electroacoustic composition that Maxfield's contribution had the most influen…
Musiques Electroniques En France 1974-1984 Vol. 1
Exemplary collection of obscure French synth music circa 1974 - 1984, all remastered and available on (180g) vinyl for the 1st time! Replica Records scout the little known nooks of early French synth music with this vinyl edition sourced from rare, original, and mostly unreleased recordings. Birthed in the democratisation of synth music around the early ‘70s, when some adventurous musicians were able to afford legendary models such as the VCS3, the Synthi AKS by EMS, the Mini-Moog, or the ARP 26…
Musiques Electroniques En France 1974-1984 Vol. 2
Exemplary collection of obscure French synth music circa 1974 - 1984, all remastered and available on (180g) vinyl for the 1st time! Replica Records scout the little known nooks of early French synth music with this vinyl edition sourced from rare, original, and mostly unreleased recordings. Birthed in the democratisation of synth music around the early ‘70s, when some adventurous musicians were able to afford legendary models such as the VCS3, the Synthi AKS by EMS, the Mini-Moog, or the ARP 26…