Zastrugi
*2022 stock* An Iceberg is a large mass of ice detached from a glacier or from a floating platform of glaciers that drifst in the sea. It is in constant motion and most of its mass remains submerged under surface of the water. The goal of this new Iceberg series of releases on Glacial Movements is to describe through techno / dub music this huge mass of ice. Each record release will be produced in a special maxi digipack with images printed and embossed in spot gloss. The first chapter of this s…
Aither
Emotional Rescue pulls deep from the esoteric well with the first of several avant albums over the coming year. The self-styled “Ethno-Industrial” Vox Populi! present their 1989 Aither album, remastered and repackaged with love nearly 30 years later.
Initiated by artist Axel Kyrou in 1982, Vox Populi! was soon joined by long term collaborator Pacific 231 on a series of coldwave/industrial cassette only recordings. Things changed considerably, however, with the meeting of the siblings, Mitra and …
Sunda School
Tapes & Nikolaienko get comfortable behind an organ. These two manage to sneak along some shit of their own though – a bag of sharp rocks to cut perfect tape loops & round ones to play the keys with. The four vignettes on this 7” paint a picture both blissful & threatening. Take “Countryside Emergency” with its loosely galloping rhythm-loop & alarming arpeggiated keys. All this might end with someone getting thrown into a fire. If it wasn't for “Jaaksoni Tamm” to smooth the situation with an inv…
Principia Discordia
** Limited edition of 20 copies only ** Nazlo Records presents Principia Discordia by Memory Fail Safe. New yellow c60 tape in handmade cover with handtyped cover on old marble paper.
Echo Transformations
On "Echo Transformations", Banabila conceptualizes a virtual space and skates around ideas with freeform glee. He's been working as a composer for theater and TV for many years, and has an impressive catalogue of solo albums, as well as collaborations with Scanner and Machinefabriek - this album feels like an opportunity for him to flex his inter-dimensional muscle. The loose framework is hinged around the fourth world stylings of Jon Hassell, but Banabila has more in mind than reverberated mari…
Essentials 1996 - 1998
Akuphone is pleased to present the first compilation dedicated to musician John Bolloten, aka The Rootsman. As a precocious punk, he formed his first band, State Oppression, in his teens. Yet he is best known for his dub music, a genre that gave him international recognition. Largely influenced by the rhythms of North Africa and the Middle East, he built his musical identity around samples from these regional repertoires. His encounter with Bryn Jones — better known as Muslimgauze — further defi…
Monochrome
"Monochrome" is a eulogy to Dmitry Vasiliev, a music enlightener, a label owner, a journalist, an ardent devotee of experimental music. Initially the composer Eugene Voronovsky conceived the album as a futuristic 'hi-res' mass, an alchemical fusion of angelic chorales and dub techno pulsations. A dream-like transparency of the material is deceptive in masking its technical complexity.
Untitled
** Edition of 300 copies in digipak **This 'nameless' Muslimgauze album was first published by Klanggalerie in 1996, and in a strange way sends the listener back to 1993, to the albums Betrayal and Veiled Sisters, being their obvious and natural continuation. Slow and soft, like a lump of hashish, either a dub or a lounge with an intoxicating sultry sound it immerses the listener in a light trance... It gives you a feeling as if you are lying down for an afternoon nap somewhere on the outskirts …
Songs From the City, the Steppes and a Dreaming Past
More sonic labyrinths from former Zoviet France founder. Ambient dub influenced electronica focussed on the voice of vocalist Tatyana Stepchenko.
Vote Hezbollah
A remastered and expanded edition of the CD originally released by Soleilmoon in 1993.This new edition contains the original album plus a bonus CD that Bryn Jones described as having “different mixes and improved sound, plus unreleased song 'Negev Gulag'”. This second disc is exclusive and previously unreleased.
D-Lem - A Day of Visual Geographics
** Edition of 200 copies ** Short cuts for mental stereoscopic labyrinths from former Zoviet France founder Rapoon. Ambient dub influenced electronica recorded live at the Hall of the District of Gracia Council, during the LEM Festival, Barcelona, 04.06.1999.
City of Djinn
Sounds for which Muslimgauze was well known: Dub, Ambient, Drone plus the usual Arabian Tribal sounds collaborating with legendary U.K.Producer The Rootsman.
Spaced Out
* sold out at the label * Musique Pour La Danse is proud to present Spaced Out!, a compilation curated by Belgian artist and producer DJ Athome (Front de Cadeaux) focusing on psychedelic dub, space rock, and early electronica created in the UK’s festival scene between 1986 and 1996. Dredging lost marbles from the trampled grass and mud of the festival scene Spaced Out’ is a superb exploration of the UK scene that laid the groundwork for and paralleled the ‘90s rave movement. Scanning trax by ti…
Biokinetics - 25th Anniversary
** 2021 Reissue **Techno isn't a genre that has birthed many classic albums, and the dub techno subgenre even less so, but one indisputable classic is Porter Ricks' debut Biokinetics. Originally issued on the legendary Basic Channel sub-label Chain Reaction in 1996 following a trio of 12"s, Biokinetics was the first of the label's album releases, and still stands as its crowning achievement. The duo was made up of dark ambient pioneer Thomas Köner and sound engineer Andy Mellwig, and between the…
Full Circle
A total peach comes back into circulation with Holger Czukay’s beguiling, heavily grooving ‘Full Circle’, starring crucial input from his Can bandmate Jaki Liebzeit on drums and Jah Wobble weilding the bass
Instantly loveable for the grooving punk-disco ear worm of album opener ‘How Much Are They? - a big anthem in mid ‘80s Belgium and elsewhere - listeners will also encounter the muggy dub of ‘Where’s The Money?’ and the playfully exotic concrète-jazz-funk of ‘Full Circle R.P.S. (No. 7)’, along…
Oktember
Oktember was the second EP release under Wolfgang Voigt’s mythical GAS project. Originally released in 1999 on the iconic Frankfurt imprint Mille Plateaux, and then reissued in 2016 as a part of GAS' Box, Oktember is now released on his own label Kompakt on 180 gram vinyl in its original artwork. This reissue features the single Tal '90 – originally released as a part of the Pop Ambient 2002 collection.This two-track long player starts with A-Side Tal 90. Sampled strings and guitars soundtrack a…
Eis Heauton
Berlin electronic duo Driftmachine’s new release is called Eis Heauton – a Greek term for being in “a conversation with oneself”. This reference highlights the fact that Driftmachine is not composing music in a classical sense here, as they did on their debut album Nocturnes.Instead, three of the four tracks have been developed from so-called self-generating patches: the duo of Florian Zimmer (Saroos) and Andreas Gerth (Tied & Tickled Trio) were only framing technical parameters and subsequently…
Acid Escape (Volume One)
**100 copies** The new duo of electro-acoustic disciple, Zachary James Watkins and analog spacesynth master, Ross Peacock conjures a new possibility of tone, rhythm and light. Influenced by the likes of Dub, Krautrock and experimental pioneers Cluster, Brian Eno and Scientist, their live improvised blend of psychedelic electronica embraces the fragility of analog and digital hardware systems. Watkins / Peacock engage in vibrant patterns over time with an investment in exploration and exchanges.W…
Lalique Gadaffi Handgrenade
**700 copies** Incredible late '90s dub-noise gear from Muslimgauze resurfaces along with previously unreleased, genius electro-dub goodies in the latest Staalplaat volley. Can a person ever have enough Muslimgauze records? The answer is a firm no, and Arab Jerusalem (1996), found on the A-side, is a sterling example of the Manchester-based outlier at his trippy, expressive best, swirling samples of Arabic voices in a thick mist of dubwise FX with sloshing tabla and drones that seem to fade in a…
Deep Shit / The Drop
**200 copies, white vinyl** "A killer 45 of pure, blunt, steppers dub-noise force from Joachim Nordwall aka The Idealist, big recommendation if you are into Muslimgauze, Pan Sonic, Alva Noto...Faithfully brought to life with mastering by Jack Callahan ov Sunburned Hand of the Man and Bánh Mì Verlag esteem, The Idealist’s second 7" sees him knuckle out two minimalist, monotonic steppers that fall in the gulf between dub, noise and Pan Sonic-like techno purism. The trudging swang of Deep Shit is m…