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Time of Others
** In process of Stocking. Limited to 150 copies. Includes a 18 x 14 cm printed photo taken by Francesco Bartoli Avveduti ** Laboratorio Palestro presents Time of Others by Family Underground. All sounds, recording and mixing by Sara C. Czerny & Nicolas F. Kauffmann at S.O.S 2020. Instruments used were Buchla Easel, guitar, Minikorg 700s, Novation Bass Station, piano, percussion. Recordings from Indonesia (Pejarakan-Bali and Yogyakarta) made by Czerny/Kauffmann.
Solve
** In Process of Stocking. Limited edition of 150 copies. Clear vinyl with insert on recycled paper ** Laboratorio Palestro presents Solve by Sermonizer. All tracks recorded at The Crypt and Agucchi Home Studio 2016/2019. Photographs by Francesco Bartoli Avveduti. A1= Optical Ectoplasm: A cinematic cornucopia. References include "Pas De Deux" by Norman Mc Laren and "Il Plenilunio delle Vergini" by Paolo Solvay. A2= Ambrosia: a brief sequence from the "Caligulation Method" commissioned by Frank L…
Querimònia
** In Process of Stocking. Limited edition of 50 copies. ** Laboratorio Palestro presents Querimònia by S. Querimònia is two field recordings taken in two different times and places split into N. 2 audio cassettes. All audio involved in the making of the release was recorded live between Summer and Autumn 2019 in Genova by S. Tape 1 was recorded in the port area during dock maintenance work phases. Tape 2 was recorded in city center public gardens during a warm morning of June. Zoom H2N hand rec…
Diazoma
** In Process of Stocking. Limited edition of 50 copies. Cassette album produced and arranged by Biomas, which comes out together with a photobook of his recent snapshot work and a usb card with the audio digital version ** Laboratorio Palestro presents Diazoma by Biomas. Far ranging modern mellow experimental/ambient excursions covering wide electronic landscapes. Laboratorio Palestro is an Independent Italian multidisciplinary platform which operates in different fields as music, photography, …
Standing Water
** Edition of 80 ** T.D. is the personal sound project of Thomas DeAngelo, based in Philadelphia, USA. Thomas is a self-taught musician, music critic (this period writes regularly for FreeFormFreakOut podcast's blog) & publisher (Crisis Of Taste music label). He is very active in the avant garde DIY cassette movement of our days and until now he has collaborated with Allen Mozek (as Association Copy), Jim Strong (as Melkins), Stewart Skinner etc. His work is published on Vitrine, Regional Bears,…
The Divine for Me Is Whatever Is Real
** Edition of 80 ** Alexandra Spence and MP Hopkins are sound makers living and working on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Using foil, flutes, tuning forks, tones, tapes, tiny bananas, stones, mouths + more, their work explores the spatial and sculptural elements of a practice in experimental sound. Their debut release, The Divine For Me Is Whatever Is Real, was recorded on the cusp of Spring one evening in 2020, at Tempe Jets; a disused sports club hall in Sydney. During this session, a stat…
Solemn
** Limited edition tape of 50 copies ** El Fugue is the project of A.V.Serzhen, a classically trained Russian multi-instrumentalist who turned his focus to the world of analog synthesis. After a great debut on Miami-based label Noir Age, El Fugue presents 8 new songs of hypnotic electronic soundtrack music. "Solemn" is an intimate, minimal, emotive and atmospheric soundscape. A modern John Carpenter in a trance.
Great Prairie Plains: Studies of American Minimalism
** Edition of 150 copies on risograph sleeves ** Dauw presents Great Prairie Plains: Studies of American Minimalism by Dylan Henner. The album starts with an arrangement of Terry Riley's In C. During his school-time, Henner was allowed by his music teacher - with plenty of persuasion, in an environment of mostly much straighter classical music - to study this piece. He not only had a deep familiarity with it, but also the pdf scores that he transcribed for his homework. The arrangement was creat…
Atmosfera
** Edition of 120 Realtime Dubbed Cassettes on Chrome Tape ** Love All Day presents ‘Atmosfera’ a new album of electronic compositions from acclaimed artist & composer, Koen Holtkamp (of the duo Mountains, as well as the creator of solo works for labels such as Thrill Jockey, Type, and Umor Rex). Featuring something of a break from the sound & compositional palette of his most recent releases, Holtkamp spent a year paring down and reconfiguring his modular system focusing on creating a new sound…
Blizzard Amplification
* Originally released as a private edition 6 cassettes box, instantly sold out * Sewer Election at their finest. Double-CD reissue of the six-tape-box. Improvised harsh electronics & feedback. Recorded & mixed at Studio Malign early 2020. "Sewer Election is a name to be held in the highest regard. While initially hooking audiences on one of the most hard-hitting takes on harsh noise available, he also proved to be the master of an unsettling and emotive tape music style which has come to be wide…
Obitvs
* Presented in A5 sleeve, real time 1:1 dubbed cassettes * Heavy psychedelic noise duo from Finland. Decrepit and broken down feedback trails into restrained echoes drenched guitar and bass
Involuntary Response (Tragic Outcomes) - tape
* Presented in A5 sleeve, real time 1:1 dubbed cassettes * Label mainstays Moss Harvest + Death Kneel document traces and relics of trauma. Post-catastrophic behaviours, tragic scuba fatalities, the great herald of death!
Sleepwalker
Following on from their ‘Insect-Talk’ 12”, O Yuki Conjugate return to Utter for the vinyl version of their most recent album ‘Sleepwalker’. ‘Sleepwalker’ documents O Yuki Conjugate’s 2017-2019 live shows but also doubles as the soundtrack to a film of the same name by founder member Andrew Hulme. The music and images were conceived together and the resulting album comprises 10 tracks taken from 24 live performances in nine countries across Europe. ‘Sleepwalker’ captures OYC’s current musical dir…
Try Again
**Purple vinyl edition** Distorted classical choral recordings, synths, processed guitar… The exquisitely complex human-machine interface experiments conducted by Stefano Pilia are kept in a delicate balance by John Duncan‘s lyrics and the soulful quality of his vocals, for an album of electroacoustic songs that are a unique blend for both artists. Seeds and memories from the past are re-actualized in the present through a machine electroacoustic compositional process creating a dark, gloomy and…
Empty Room
On "Empty Room" David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific figure in stockholm's experimental drone scene and a collaborator of Hallow Ground Label Mates Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson, the swedish composer navigates through moments of quietude and crushing volume on these five tracks. Sonica…
Musique Fragile 02
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 500 ** A limited edition series of 3xLP box sets with extensive screenprinted art/packaging for the slipcover box, the individual LP jackets, and three different posters (one for each album). Volume 02 features 'lost' and/or recuperated recordings by Hangedup + Tony Conrad (previously unreleased 24-track and 2-track sessions captured in Montréal several years ago), Kanada 70 (aka Craig Dunsmuir, compiled from his many obscure CD-R bedroom recordings released in Toronto …
Riddled with Absence
** Edition of 250 ** Dalibor Cruz's debut LP traces his families bloodline to the mountain town of Siguatepeque and the native people of Honduras, teaming these ancient rhythms inside the framework of the midwest's noise scene. The artwork is an original piece by Gabrielle K. Brown.
1-4
2020 has been a terrible year for everyone. However, it has also been the year in which some projects have had time to develop. This is the case of Tactil, responsible for the fourth Antimatter refelease. This new tandem is born from the collaboration between the artists from Madrid, Kawn and F-on. Deeply influenced by projects from 90´s like Porter Ricks, Jetone, Gas or Thomas Köner, "1-4" means the first ep from this duo. Drones, wrinkled textures and field recording meet long and progressive …
The Amygdala Expedition
A truly stunning masterstroke with almost no equivalent, "The Amygdala Expedition", by the Hungarian musician and musicologist, László Hortobágyi, weaves a singular world of myth and imagination at the boundaries of New Age, Ambient, experimental, and ethnographic music. Drawn from a body of work that first began to emerge during the late '80s and early '90s, it's issued in a very limited edition of 250 copies on 180g Vinyl that's not to be missed.
Higan
* In process of stocking. Edition of 300 *  Includes fold out insert in duotone litho Reissue of a 2016 cassette. Andrew Chalk has been active since 1985 as Ferial Confine and has worked with many associates over the years, such as David Jackman (in Organum), Vortex Campaign, New Blockaders, The, Darren Tate (in Ora), Giancarlo Toniutti, Jonathan Coleclough, and Christoph Heemann (in Mirror). He has now released a number of releases under his own name which have won widespread acclaim, on labels…