Reissues
Snatch Paste: An Assortment of Snatch Tapes
Compilation of one of the best DIY-tape labels of the early '80s compiled by Philip Sanderson (former member of Alien Brains) from the three Snatch Tape Compilations 1-3 (originally released (1978-81) with the odd extra bonus drawn from other Snatch …
Quatuor Hêlios
Isabelle Berteletti, Florent Haladjian, Jean-Christophe Feldhandler, Lê Quan Ninh. “D’une lumière” (1996) by Jean-Christophe Feldhandler for piano, electric guitar, melodica, percussions, etc., “Oscille” (1997) by Lê Quan Ninh for 4 stones, 4 lightni…
Headphone musics 1 to 6. As I As
In 1967 Z'EV took a tape music class at the UCLA night school. The leader of the course was Joseph Byrd who was the founder and theoretician of the first electronic rock band: the united states of america. So while it's almost 40 years now that he ha…
Production and decay of spatial relations vs Reproduction
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Zev studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, Die Stadt is proud to announce the re-release of Production and Decay of Spacial Relations for the first time on CD. It features the or…
Turntables and computers
Turntables & Computers is an uncut live recording of Otomo Yoshihide and Nobukazu Takemura performing an improvised live set at the Super Deluxe club in Roppongi, for the 'Space Invaded' event on March 29, 2003. This live album documents the first pe…
Geography And Music
Small overview of yasunao tone’s life / work / art, including a 3”cd containing a 1979 piece performed by david tudor, john cage, takehisa kosugi, martin kalve, and yoshiharu suenobu.
Musica Iconologos
A surprising release from the radical Fluxus composer, Yasunao Tone
- an encoded description of the visual image in utmost detail. In the
mythical future, somebody can translate the sounds of this compact disc
back into pictures. Personnel: Yasuna…
Utopia andata e ritorno
2006 release. Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into…
The bird of paradise
Limited to 200 copies only, and long out of print nowadays, Walter Marchetti's Bird of Paradise: Hunting in the City. Performance time: from dawn to dusk. Leave your home, with a cool head, and carrying a briefcase full of birdcalls, of the kind use…
Nei mari del Sud. Musica in secca
Walter Marchetti's Nei mari del Sud may be regarded as the 'epitome' work of all his recent musical output. Firstly for it represents the original re-elaboration of a former work achieved in 1982; secondly, the manipulation techniques here applied ri…
Zeitenwechsel 2
A beautiful sound art compilation featuring works by Ellen Fullman, Horatio Vaggione, Fast Forward, Takehisa Kosugi, Mario Verandi, Olga Neuwirth, celebrating the 35 years of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Comes with 32-page booklet.
Ellen Fullman: T…
New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media: Women In Electronic
It’s becoming difficult to recall the United States music scene without a prominent contingent of women composers, now that Joan Tower, Meredith Monk, Shulamit Ran, Chen Yi, and Joan La Barbara, among others, appear with increasing regularity in c…
Voices Of Dada
Archive aural document collection edited by James Nice and originally released via Sub Rosa in 1989. This unique CD compiles over an hour of original sound recordings made between 1912 and 1959 by luminaries from both 20th Century art movements, incl…
Variations: A London Compilation
This first release on Paradigm Discs includes many new names and is intended to redress the imbalance between the lack of new experimental music in London compared with the proliferation of the tried and tested. "Variations - a London compilation" is…
Variations 2: A London Compilation
Second compilation from Paradigm exhibiting nine works by lesser-know avant-garde composers from in and around the City of London. Features wonderful electro-acoustic work from Akemi Ishijima, minimalism performed on a traditional Mongolian string in…
The Sound Of Nature ~ The Nature Of Sound
Compilation CD with Francisco Lopez, Giancarlo Toniutti, Jeph Jerman, Seth Nehil & toy.bizarre, Kiyoshi Mizutani, MNortham, Eric La Casa. A confrontation of different ideas, views, about nature … and sound… From the electroacoustic deep soundscape of…
SURREALISM REVIEWED
For the very first time, original recordings by key artists, writers, poets and theorists are now gathered together on a single volume. The various recordings, made between 1929 and 1963, include poetry, interviews, lectures and manifestos. Most are …
Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips
One of the most essential collections of early electronic music ever compiled!! Raymond Scott's 'Manhattan Research Inc' boxset from 2000 is one of the finest reissues to have appeared in the last ten years. This new set from Basta is the unofficial …
Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 4: Shigeru Sato Work
These pieces were recorded between 1963 and 1973 at the NHK electronic music studio, Tokyo. Includes 12-page booklet with liner notes in Japanese. This version was withdrawn from sale due to objections from Takeisha Kosugi. His track was then replace…