Reissues
La grande vallee / Micro-climat
** 2022 Repress ** "I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the '80s as, whilst composing 'Micro-climat', I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Mont…
Persepolis
One of the milestones of electroacoustic music: Iannis Xenakis’ mindblowing 54-minutes oeuvre “Persepolis”, mixed from the original 8 track tapes by Martin Wurmnest“Persepolis” is the longest electroacoustic composition by Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) …
Diamorphoses / Concret Ph / Orient Occident / Bohor
Iannis Xenakis's early electroacoustic works define already the compositional space he is using later in his mature, almost one-hour long works like Persepolis or La Légende d'Er. After arriving in Paris as a Greek refuge in 1947, Xenakis quickly fou…
Taurhiphanie / Voyage Absolu Des Unari Vers Andromède / Gendy 3 / S.709
Iannis Xenakis's late electroacoustic music became electronic: all sounds are synthetic "explicit computer music" as Peter Hoffmann called it. The music presented here shows Xenakis's way back from spatialized immersive music and multimedia spectacle…
Labyrinth Of The Inner Ear
Tip! ** Full colour 6 page dvd-type embossed digipak. 300 copies. In Terry Fox's own words: "For the exhibition "Sonambiente", I will produce a new audio work for compact disc. The title of this work will be "Labyrinth of the inner ear" and it will b…
Morning Flight
*2022 stock* Recorded in 1973, “Morning Flight” by trombonist Hiroshi Fukumura is a stunning modal and spiritual jazz album! Genius work from Japanese trombonist Hiroshi Fukumura – working here at the helm of a twin-trombone group that also features …
Standards
*2022 stock* Sublime release from Masaru Imada Trio. Imada's got a way of letting a tune really find its way organically – almost as if the songs here are little flowers opening up in his fingers on the keyboard of the piano – although never in a sty…
Alone Together
*2022 stock* "A lyrical duo work that was created during the legendary Czech-American jazz bass player, composer, also occasional saxophonist George Mraz's tight schedule. Imada's original, light "Blue Road" and romantic "Blue Rain" will make you int…
It's OK To Be Happy (1999-2001)
Early and mostly previously unreleased recordings from Dundedin's The Strange Girls, a band that initially consisted of Clayton Noone, Kaaterama "Motty" Morehu and Jon Arcus. The Strange Girls existed on and off from 1999 up until Motty's passing in …
Ya Cha Ban
Second limited edition of 30.* Ya Cha Ban is a hill to the north of Lijia Village, a village in South China, where Li Jianhong grew up. On one side of the hill lies a woodland graveyard where the village ancestors are buried, the other hillside, faci…
Electronic Minimal Music 1979-83
Super Tip! 3LP Set. The rediscovery of J D Emmanuel by critics and audience in the early 2010s and Emmanuel's comeback to the underground scene were crucial in reweaving the development of electronic music in the early '80s. This deluxe three-LP set …
Fire Music Reloaded
Fire Music was composed by Reynols in 2002 with fire recordings made at Tigre (Río Capitán) and different locations in Buenos Aires city and around. With some of this material, a CD EP appeared in Japan in 2002 through the Digital Narcis label, howev…
Problemi d'Oggi
** Much needed reissue ** Don't let the name mislead you! The enigmatic M. Zalla is one of the numerous aliases of the italian maestro Piero Umiliani who, during his period of fascination for psychedelic and electronic atmospheres, started to compose…
Urubamba
"Urubamba by the Italian duo The Tropicals is the perfect foil to Nino Nardini’s and Roger Roger’s Jungle Obsession (1971). Both albums are released a few months apart, are made by Italians and Frenchmen, intermix field recordings and sound libraries…
Cants Dels Trobadors: « La Douceur D'Un Son Nouvel »
Super Tip! Reissue of a traditional French Experimental/Folk rarity. Be ready for a spaced out trip through French medieval times. Ancient instruments, musique concrète, spoken word, old Occitan dialect minstrel songs, drone, from dark ambient and mi…
Bourbonese Qualk
Founded in Southport in the North West of England in 1979, Bourbonese Qualk operated on the experimental fringes. Their early output merged primitive industrial forays with oblique social commentary, while later albums took in everything from EBM and…
So Long Sam (1945 - 2006)
So Long Sam (1945-2006) is a two disc compilation by The Residents, containing a live recording and a collection of demos from their 2010 one-off live show of the same name (itself an early version of the one-man show Sam's Enchanted Evening, later p…
Mysterious Kitchens
A special delicacy for all you Severed Heads fans: In th 1980s the cassette was a much desired format. They were cheap, inexpensive to buy, easy to duplicate and manageable for less technically skilled people, too. The sound was raw and hissy, encour…
Noblesse Oblige
Mannequin Records present Atelier du Mal's Noblesse Oblige, originally self-released on cassette in 1984. A brilliant comet of the Italian new wave scene, Atelier du Mal were formed in Florence in 1983 by Lapo Pistelli (synths, electronic drums), Iac…
Moral Rearmament
Early pioneers of the UK industrial music scene, Zahgurim were formed in 1983 by Paul Ackerley and William Vince and were associated with the iconic Temple Ov Psychick Youth. Recorded on October 24th and 25th, 1984, Moral Rearmament was the first and…