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"The Telematic Concert brought together American electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros with Argentinian experimental musician Alan Courtis of Reynols, improvising across continents for the Deep Listening Institute’s Dream Festival in October, 20…
Tip! **200 copies, screenprinted cover** "Elin Engström from Monokultur and Skiftande Enheter goes solo as Loopsel. Recorded for a video installation in Copenhagen April 2019, The Spiral was originally released as a cassette on Amatör Kassetter in an…
**CD version** Following 2019’s New Atlantis LP under his alias Efdemin, Phillip Sollmann’s Monophonie is a project dedicated to uniting different strands of utopian music. His approach: combining and recontextualizing rare historical instruments of …
**300 copies** "Experimentation and Italian library music are the coordinates in which Didactic Music is written, the second work of the solo project Mouse and Sequencers by Nicola Giunta (The Lay Llamas), published by Backwards. The Sicilian multi-i…
**250 copies** "Backwards is really pleased to present the new Fabio Orsi release. This time Fabio offered a monumental work: eight long tracks contained in a huge box set with four compact discs. Musically it stands on the new course of the artist: …
"Impressioni Organizzate di Ansie Liquide" is an immersive, languid realm, filled with elegant, poetic beauty, that bristle with unknown elements and the lingering potential of danger. Andrea Marutti and Carlo Giordani have created an album that simu…
"This aquatic collaboration between these two italian artists (the ambient master and the field recordist) is the first part of a large body of work that will be fully released sooner or later..." - Jean-Marc Boucher"[...] Large chunks of field recor…
**200 copies** "A cautionary tale is a tale told in folklore, to warn its listener of a danger. There are three essential parts to a cautionary tale, though they can be introduced in a large variety of ways. First, a taboo or prohibition is stated: s…
**200 copies** "Like The Snow delivers his first work after five years of research and experimentation. The project comes to life collecting a series of tracks that travel through electronic and ambient music in a dark sound world... At times almost …
**CD version, to be released in late June 2020** Recorded at Creek house, Swanyard and Bushmead studio in 1995-1998. "In 1995 and before I was employed to take tracks home and manipulate the streams to create new content. The way I did this was a pro…
**100 numbered copies in gatefold sleeve, to be released in June 2020** Chimeratorium is based on an audio dream that Deison had. He dreamt about making a new piece together with John Duncan: they were in a large room, in an old church, sculpting fre…
Tip! **25 copies deluxe edition: a stamped and pasted 7" reel-to reel box containing the CD, a giant 840 x 960mm poster, an art-print, a unique signed and numbered artwork and various undisclosed theme related artifacts** New full length CD by Martij…
"Patrick Cowley (1950–82) was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo, Cowley moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By the mid '70s, his synthesize…
**180gr LP + 48-page book in a clear PVC bag, to be released in early June 2020** "David & Stephen Dewaele (aka Soulwax/2manydjs) have always been fascinated by collecting instruments and recording gear. Their passion hasn’t been born by completism: …
Alva Noto returns to his much awaited Xerrox project with Vol. 4, the fourth installment of the five-piece intended series based on the concept of digital replication of source material.
Tip! **50 copies** "Many people all around the world hear strange sounds emanating from the sky, or from the depths of the ocean, or from deep underground. In many cases these sounds remain unidentified while science still can't provide an explanatio…
Tip! **200 copies** "Many people all around the world hear strange sounds emanating from the sky, or from the depths of the ocean, or from deep underground. In many cases these sounds remain unidentified while science still can't provide an explanati…
**New vinyl reissue remastered from the original 1979 master tapes, packaged in classic Folkways-style tip-on jackets with liner notes.** Ann McMillan did not record prolifically, but she was at the vanguard of electronic composition in New York in t…
Tip! **100 copies** Matthewdavid is a co-founder of the Los Angeles label Leaving Records, and a collaborator of Flying Lotus, Sun Araw, Julia Holter, Laraaji, Odd Nosdam, among others. Experimental Bliss is his first album on Umor Rex, two long piec…
**100 copies** Tropical Syndroms is the second album by Thé Déluge, a.k.a. Vincent Caylet, also known as Cankun (Not Not Fun / Hands in the Dark). Like his debut album Forest Structures (Umor Rex, 2017), this new installment is an amalgam of sounds g…