Cosmetics For Mannequins
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Daniele Ciullini dissects contemporary society's plastic facades with Cosmetics For Mannequins, eight tracks of manipulated field recordings, toy instruments, and automatic voices that expose the mechanization of human interaction. Recorded at home in 2020 and reworked in 2023, the album reads like a dystopian manual for modern existence.
Titles like "Work Addicted (No Personal Life)" and "Mass Loneliness" reveal Ciullini's sardonic perspective on digital…
Dum Spiro
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "While I breathe" - the Latin title encapsulates Tam Quam Tabula Rasa's existential approach to sound creation in this eleven-track journey through sonic isolation tanks. The project, active since 1987 and born in Rapallo from the minds of Luca Ferrarini, Marco Berisso, Paolo Gentiluomo, and Roberto Soprani, continues to explore the boundaries between consciousness and void with artwork by Massimiliano Bellini.
The compositions unfold like sensory depriva…
Wenn Die Engel Sterben
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Celebrating their 100th release, Luce Sia presents Wenn die Engel Sterben ("When the Angels Die"), an ambitious compilation gathering fifteen tracks from the label's extended family of experimental artists. This milestone release serves as both a retrospective and a statement of intent, showcasing the diversity and depth of the contemporary experimental underground.
The collection features exclusive contributions from label stalwarts and new discoveries, …
DIsassembled ELements
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Elena and Massimo's meeting took remotely place in hidden areas around Luce Sia label. Elena also deals with graphics for music, and both Elena and Massimo have seen their musical projects released by the Swiss label.
Mutual artistic respect led to a personal approach and the consequent intention to venture into a musical collaboration. The result of this adventure is a handful of songs for bass, objects, electronics and voice, with an ambient, drone, ind…
Concinnitas
*2025 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Concinnitas marks another chapter in Tam Quam Tabula Rasa's exploration of minimalist drone and dark ambient territories. The project, whose Latin name translates to "as blank as a slate," continues its philosophical investigation into sonic emptiness and fullness, creating compositions that oscillate between meditative stillness and overwhelming density.
Building on the foundation established in their previous Luce Sia release Dum Spiro, this work demons…
The Black Cat Sessions
*70 copies limited edition* A summit meeting between two entities of Italian sound experimentation materializes in The Black Cat Sessions, a release marking an unprecedented collaboration in the Luce Sia catalog. Sokushinbutsu Project, the duo formed by Massimo Mascheroni (ODRZ) and Enrico Ponzoni, brings their esoteric ambient/post-industrial research into unexplored territories through dialogue with Enkil, an enigmatic figure from the underground electronic scene who has already demonstrated v…
Pàthei Màthos
*200 copies limited edition* Experimental sound architects Tam Quam Tabula Rasa and Illusion Of Safety join forces for Pàthei Màthos, a boundary-shattering collaborative album that transforms raw noise into profound revelation. Drawing from the ancient Greek maxim "learning through suffering," this release confronts the listener with immersive soundscapes of tension, release, and hard-won insight.
Tam Quam Tabula Rasa, known for their tabula rasa-inspired deconstructions of ambient and industria…
Never Say When
Following the success of the CD reissue in early 2025, a limited edition LP of this classic compilation album originally released by Gary Mundy's renowned Broken Flag imprint in 1987 follows in March/April 2026. Remastered by Puppy38, this also features two bonus tracks not included on the original (and long o/p) LP but only previously found on the even rarer cassette and now included here as a bonus 7". A timely reminder of this fantastic archive document full of boundary-pushing artists mostly…
Live At The Melkweg 25.9.87
100 copies. C60 cassette with improved master and fullcolor print on the cassette but original printwork. Los Angeles, September 1987. Savage Republic are in the middle of their first European tour when they land at Amsterdam's legendary Melkweg. What gets captured on eight-track tape that night is pure alchemy: tribal post-punk, cosmic surf, oil drum industrial and guitars droning like desert prayers.
Founded in 1981 by Bruce Licher and Mark Erskine in the underground parking garages of UCLA - …
Mechanics & Music (2CD)
"The Italian post-industrial scene has certainly been very rich: bands like Officine Schwartz, Rosemary's Baby, Ain Soph, Sigillum S, Atrax Morgue, T.A.C., and many others are testament to how this genre unexpectedly took root in Italy. F:A.R. came from a quiet city like Savona, yet their claustrophobic, frenzied, and obsessive music seems to originate in some hellish place dominated by disused factories with machinery that occasionally turns on itself. F:A.R. formed in the early 1980s and made …
Entités
2010 release ** Limited numbered edition of 142 copies. Special cardboard sleeve. Entities is the spectral realization of a process of transformation, or even a mutation, of a sound material stemming from recordings of tracks originally created to be played in concert. These works for voice, bass and double bass, processed with computer, were organically modified to insure their concrescence, their future, and confront them with the game of difference. After all, these entities come from everywh…
Botul À La Campagne
2014 release ** "There’s an incredible amount being offered up on Botul à la campagne, which takes ideas and brings out so much that the average musician wouldn’t think to do. Côté and Kese both manage to brilliantly bring forth so many different ideas and techniques, and string them all together into one coherent album package that just works. Botul à la campagne sees jazz music turn into dark ambient music turn into classical music without any notion or effort whatsoever. There’s some wonderfu…
Running on autokinetic
2007 release (RARE) ** Edition of 100 hand numbered copies in a green spray-painted C-shell case. Classic Ashtray Navigations, two hallucino-kinetic tracks.
Post-Asiatic: Lost War Dream Music
2007 release ** "After my recent trip to Asia, my interest in oriental music has definitely greatly increased and then this release fell into my lap... Serendipity or coincidence, I eagerly went through this double bill, listening to all the nuances and influences I could trace back to my trip or recognize the origin of... There is definitely a lot going on but sadly the recording quality didn't seem to have always been determining factor in the choice of material. The release is dubbed as a CD …
Hums
2009 release ** "... We faced each other around a large table in Gandolfo's luminous flat. It felt like a group of scientists at a conference. Until we started playing. The sessions were hard and long. Sometimes with saturated and wrenching sound. Then we walked to restaurants along streets of collapsing buildings with strange transient sculptures of torn cloth. The result is for me I hear: being able to move around inside the music... the components without clean finalised surfaces. But aureole…
Hidden
The inimitable Richard Youngs returns to Black Truffle with this third full-length for the label, »Hidden«. Like »CXXI« and »Modern Sorrow«, »Hidden« unfolds across two side-long pieces at once eminently listenable and possessed of the ›bloody-minded‹ dedication to having an idea and sticking with it’ that Youngs himself has identified as one of the key qualities of his work.
At the core of both pieces are rapid, randomised arpeggios generated with a Moog Grandmother, hypnotic patterns that woul…
25 Years Of Kapotte Muziek
2010 release ** Cardboard sleeve. “2009-2010 sees the celebration of twenty years of Kapotte Muziek, the first musical project of Frans de Waard. Expanded in 1993 with members Peter Duimelinks and in 1995 Roel Meelkop, this trio explores the world of micro electro-acoustic music, playing on waste found on the streets and with a fine addition of field recordings. Before 1993 Kapotte Muziek was largely known as a player in the field of industrial music and musique concrete. To celebrate their 25th…
Pulses on the Horizon - Modular Music of Taiwan
Curated by Taiwan-based modular artist Ryan J Raffa, this compilation offers a vivid introduction to Taiwan’s thriving modular music scene.
Engravings
Created by electronic producer and composer Matthew Barnes, and originally released via Tri Angle Records, 'Engravings' received instant acclaim from the likes of Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, The Guardian and saw Barnes take his hypnotic live show across festivals like Sonar, Glastonbury, Unsound and Le Guess Who.
While much of British electronica is defined by its inner cities, 'Engravings' was recorded in Barnes' hometown on the banks of an ancient river in Merseyside, the album's earthy, orga…
S’enfouir
2012 release ** An excellent CD, I thought, full of sparkling pieces, strange moves and with an exciting brief character per track. Certainly moving around various musical circles. It's the 20th publication - out of 24, one for each hour of a day - produced by &records (Michel F. Côté & Fabrizio Gilardino).