Bidödaren
**200 copies** Bidödaren means Beekiller, approximately... In Swedish there is a double meaning; bi is the insect bee (in English), but also has the meaning of something like a "side-effect". Like if the killing of bees is just something being done beside doing something else... Includes exclusive tracks by Unken Reflex, Joe Colley, Daniel Menche, Small Cruel Party, Tarab, BJ Nilsen, Toy Bizarre, Steve Roden.
Primitive Substance
"After Liquid Liquid disbanded in 1985 I continued to record electronic music at my home studio in Edison, New Jersey, but I decided to mix the songs for Concepts at another studio so I could have another set of ears to help with the mixes. I was lucky when I looked in the local music ads to find Gabriel Farm Studios in Princeton, New Jersey, owned and operated by Andy Gomory. Andy was a true talent, a keyboardist and arranger, we hit it off immediately. After he recorded my mixes we would recor…
Rise
Marco Papiro is one of the most intriguing artists in Switzerland today; graphic designer, violinist, experimenter and underground mainstay, he was a founding member of the legendary band Mir until the death of drummer Daniel Buess in 2016, while also releasing seven solo albums over the past twenty years in which he established his own unique brand of electronic music. Rise consists of five instrumental tracks, as always displaying Papiro’s artistry in creating poignant environments with his sy…
Music for Tinguely
Last copies**50 copies** New designed cover version of Omega Point’s early Toshi Ichiyanagi LP appeared just now! Ichiyanagi is the best known composer for domestic and foreign avant-garde music fans. Especially during the brilliant 1960's, he created many great tape music pieces. This LP includes some of his most obscure tape works. Music for Tinguely was made from junk objects created by kinetic sculptor Jean Tinguely. Appearance is a piece of live electronic music and includes the participati…
Aoi-no-Ue
Last copies **50 copies** New designed cover version of Omega Point’s early Joji Yuasa LP appeared just now! "Aoi-no-Ue is composed mainly based on metamorphosed sound of Noh-chant. The other sound is concrete sound such as birds songs, water drops, glasses, warped sound of vibraphone, some generated electronic sound and others. My Blue Sky (No.1) is a special electronic work for me, for most of my other works on this field are based on White Noise. Where as only this piece is exceptionally usin…
Cehennem
A key figure during the birth of Turkish rock and roll, a founding father of Anatolian Rock and the studio brains behind the first Turkish electronic pop records, Gökçen Kaynatan's influence runs like the lifeblood through Turkish pop and rock. Having shunned the recording industry early in his career he remained a driving force behind the scenes and on TV screens, spearheading the explosion of synth technology in Turkish music with his pioneering use of the EMS Synthi AKS, the fruits of which w…
Noa Noa Noa
**300 copies** Nicolas Gaunin's surreal sound experiments lift you out of your ordinary life and transport you to an off-world Tiki lounge set high amongst the tree tops of a tropical rainforest, where you're surrounded by bizarre, colourful creatures and weird psychotropic plants. Noa Noa Noa is modern Dada, a neon soundtrack to your most outlandish fever dreams. Nicolas Gaunin is the alter ego of Nicola Sanguin, part of the vibrant experimental music scene around Padua, Italy where he plays in…
Greed
**200 copies on transparent plum colour vinyl in gloss sleevecopies** After being busy in 2018 with three field recording projects, a soundtrack to the popular HBO series Blinded By the Lights and Decaying Land, a companion album for Vanishing Land recorded in 2013, Mirt returns with his newest release entitled Greed, a much darker effort in respect to his previous albums, fusing rhythmic frameworks with modular melodies. Still playing with various textures ranging from shimmering nature sounds …
All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains
**300 copies DMM Pressing on 180gm vinyl, matt outer sleeve + UV selective varnish on 350gm paper, black paper inners, hand numbered** All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains unites the UK’s The Humble Bee, America’s Offthesky, and Spanish photographer and artist Nieves Mingueza. Iikki focus on dialogues between visual artistry and musical artistry, and All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains is a heavenly episode. Opener For Her Breath Is On All That Hath Life is a delectable, swirling drea…
Live at Bam Balam
Richard Pinhas, the founder of '70s legends Heldon, is one of France's best-known experimental musicians and is a key figure in development of rock music fusing with electronic music. Live at Bam Balam is solo guitar and processing as well as drone electronics with the use of a Metatronic Delay system: no re-recording. This brilliant collection of solo improvisations was recorded in Bordeaux (France) on April 16th, 2016 and April 21st, 2018. Limited edition vinyl-only release for the French Reco…
Rough & Wojtyla featuring Richard Pinhas
Rough & Wojtyla Featuring Richard Pinhas is Rough & Wojtyla's second album. Richard Pinhas, the founder of '70s legends Heldon is one of France's best known experimental musicians and is a key figure in the fusion of rock with electronic music. Guitar drones are supported by either tribal or jazzy sounding drums and collide with various key instruments and found sound. The influence of musique concrète which prevails on the duo's first LP, can also be felt as the sounds and moods shift abruptly.…
Delay Music
**111 copies, DMM Pressing** Delay Music is a collection of minimal music for fretless bass, sampled mallet instruments, electric guitar and a delay system, performed by Slow Attack Ensemble, aka Canadian producer Chuck Blazevic. Blazevic’s spare melodies float through variable length delays in a muted, ethereal style, scouting solitary time lag spaces and wistful after images of records past: cascading fretless bass lines and space echo harmonics find inspiration in Orchestra of the Eighth Day’…
For the Moment
American-born, Japan-based composer John Di Stefano self-released a number of cassettes as part of the 80s DIY underground on his own imprint Oktron Produktions, including Klang's Drift, a collaboration with Joel Graham. Living in San Francisco, Di Stefano had access to multiple University electronic music studios, where he had an impressive array of synthesizers at his fingertips, including both Buchla and Serge modular systems. Combining his knowledge of modular synthesis with a background in …
Genera - Live at AB Salon, Brussels
A lifelong expatriate, Bana Haffar was born in Saudi Arabia in 1987 and spent much of her childhood in the GCC. Having trained as a professional bass player and a classical violin player, she has now embraced electronic music fully, exploring live modular synthesizer performance. She is an enthusiastic proponent of the latest Moog and eurorack technology and has a growing discography of releases (VENT, Make Noise Records) in the last couple of years that highlight a unique melodic direction. Thr…
Arc 1
Finnish label Sähkö Recordings is launching a new archival series of unreleased work from its co-founder Mika Vainio. The late Vainio left behind plenty of unreleased material after his passing in 2017. Arc 1 represents the first in a series of releases that draw on Vainio’s archives. The material here was constructed for a 1994 radio project, entitled Ambient City, that Vainio performed as Ø. Both sides here begin with perturbed ambient synth-scapes - grumbling LFOs, digital noise, that sort of…
Auto-Da-Fé
* Second press with grey cover. Includes a postcard with the tracklist printed on it * "The first side of Auto-Da-Fé consists of singles dating back to before the release of Information Overload Unit, while the second side is post-Leichenschrei, but pre-Machine Age Voodoo material. With early material vacillating between noisy textures and punk trappings, and the later tracks showing hints of their synth-pop direction, there's a definite dichotomy here, but both halves excel greatly in what they…
Maqui de Hierro
Jardín was made up of Orlando Ramírez and Raúl Gómez, and has been a true cult band of Lima's experimental underground since they made themselves known at the end of the 1990s, when they started playing at electronic music venues as well as in the context of art performances and contemporary dance events. Maqui de Hierro, their fourth published work, defined the sonic universe of the duo, in which electronic cosmic experimentation converges with hypnotic rhythmic patterns inspired by ritual perc…
Anexo3
Anexo3 (2017-18) was composed by Jaime Oliver La Rosa and Ensemble KLEM over residencies in Bilbao, Lima, and Santiago de Chile, through elaborated processes of sound design, experimentation, improvisation, recording, and reflection. Often processed beyond recognition, violin, flutes, and saxophones are performed along güiros, motors, and a system of aluminum plates, struck and induced into resonance through feedback processes controlled by microphones, transducers, and computer software and joi…
Inducing the Pleasure Dreams V2
**500 copies** "In 1995 Justo Bagüeste released a record called I.P.D.; it claimed to induce in the listener a pleasant dream, heading for the final sprint towards that collective promise beyond the end of the millennium. I.P.D. was some sort of Goldberg Variations for the turn of the century, played on mini-Moog, short-wave radios and analog synths. In 2016, Bagüeste and Suso Sáiz (producer of I.P.D.) performed at Periferias Festival in Huesca; they were to play a reinterpretation of the record…
Voces a 45
**250 copies white vinyl** Orfeon Gagarin is the Miguel A. Ruiz's main project, a veteran electronic musician from Madrid (Spain). Ruiz's music has been the best-kept secret of Spanish underground electronics since the early '80s until now, although he's not as well known internationally as other contemporary musicians (Esplendor Geométrico, Francisco López, or Diseño Corbusier, to name but a few). In 1986 he released his first cassette on his own (now legendary) Toracic Tapes label. Since then …