The Sludge Of The Land
The Sludge Of The Land is the new album by digital folklore and post-exoticism Italian duo Babau. Their first full length since 2023’s Flatland Explorations Vol. 2, with The Sludge Of The Land Babau lands on Impatience with their signature audio-prestidigitation at it’s most disorientingly pungent and zonked, a uniquely contemporary approach described as the sound of a continent moving; animals, plants and minerals included.
As part of a residency at Casa degli Artisti, Milan, in 2022, Babau tur…
Consume Budots
DJ Backstage has returned with a new album titled Consume Budots. If the initial output, New Metal Music Machine, showcased an interest in nu-metal, this time he shifts his focus to Budots, an electronic dance music and dance culture that originated in Davao, Philippines, known worldwide through DJ Love. Simply put, Budots is a blend of ultra-high elasticity 140 BPM pop edits, high-pitched siren sounds, and some Filipino rap. This music possesses an intensely stimulating energy that can be dange…
Microscript
*2026 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Kuang Program's member Choi Taehyun's new solo album Microscript. It consists of 7 tracks, inspired by the Swiss writer Robert Walser's book Microscript.
These Rays of Sun which illuminated the Darkness of my Body and my Mind left Room for subjective Interpretations on the Exile that is Life
After months of careful excavation and meticulous restoration, dj echotree finds his way to ZitStill with a singular artefact. Delving into lost remnants of the spirit world, a gapless collage of found footage, spoken word and otherworldly jazz slowly emerged. A mute yet eloquent testimony, held together by instinct and the steady pulse of the MPC. Much remains to be uncovered about this entity and its teachings, rooted in beliefs that left no written trace. What is known is its devotion to the …
Natural Selection
Unlike much of Florian Hecker's recent work, such as 2021's 'Synopsis Seriation' or 'Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera', his acclaimed PAN-released collaboration with Mark Leckey, there's no single overarching narrative that binds 'Natural Selection'. Hecker describes the sprawling, nine-track album as a "constellation of pieces originating from related investigations", and the clue's in the title. Ranging from under a minute to over half an hour, these works have been grouped together because t…
My Shadow
One of the most striking and enigmatic works to appear on Discreet Music in recent years. There is a long tradition of artists who have tried to set scripture to music and failed magnificently - the failure itself becoming the subject, the wound becoming the work. Carrie DeCunzo Mirande's debut album belongs to this lineage. In the twenty-four days before Christmas 2024, she read the twenty-four chapters of the Book of Luke and attempted to respond in sound. Two piano pieces emerged - one inspir…
Lattice of Memory
Lattice of Memory (SW019) is the debut collaboration between Eamon Ivri and JQ. The duo began work on the album while touring Ireland and the UK in 2023, with the process continuing both in person and remotely into a work inspired by the perpetration of nostalgia and augmentation of digital memory. The album spools outwards in different directions from its origins as field recordings, audio ripped online, acoustic instrumentation and improvisation. The result aims to extrapolate the source mater…
Kapitel 1: Fornhistoria
HDK launches its "Educational Series" with this cassette of experimental Swedish music on a prehistoric theme. Suitable for all children in primary and secondary schools, it will accompany them in their learning of history. The cassette is also ideal for adults with rather limited historical knowledge. Unfortunately, for now, it is only available in Swedish. The cassette includes a final test for self-assessment of learning.
Array
Rosy Parlane is a musician from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. His work combines piano, guitar, electronics, and field recordings to create music that sits somewhere between composition and environment – less about performance, more about presence. Parlane first became known in the early 1990s as part of Thela, a trio whose exploratory sound bridged noise, improvisation, and minimal rock forms.
Later, as one half of Parmentier with Dion Workman, he explored digital minimalism an…
VC1 : 2024
*2025 stock* Emerging from the cutting edge of electronic music, Virtual Culture presents VC1 : 2024, a visionary debut album. This captivating project melds analogue warmth with digital precision, crafting a sonic landscape that is at once nostalgic and boldly futuristic.
Guided by a passion for experimental synthesis, VC1 : 2024 pushes the boundaries of electronic music through its fusion of avant-garde textures, cyberpunk aesthetics, and modern production techniques. Each track invites listen…
The Black Empathy Box
Introducing The Black Empathy Box by Tzii — a groundbreaking concept album that plunges listeners into a deep, visceral journey through a low-fidelity culture club atmosphere. Crafted around a hypnotic dancefloor rhythm of 27 BPM (±150), this album channels the raw energy and intense emotions of 90s trauma, evoking a soundscape that is both haunting and immersive. Housed in a unique crystal case, each cassette contains a blotter, an artistic nod to the era’s underground scene and experimental se…
News From Nowhere
*2025 stock. 80 copies limited edition* First album in 26 years from Italian brothers Giancarlo and Roberto Drago, the Genoese duo behind one of the most significant minimal-industrial projects to emerge from Italy's "Anni di Piombo" (Years of Lead). Active from 1982 to 1993, The Tapes released over twenty cassettes on their own Industrial Tapes label before moving to legendary imprints like Minus Habens and Amen.
Their inclusion in the Strut compilation Mutazione: Italian Electronic & New Wave …
Gaslighting
*2025 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Debut album from Emiliana Voltarel, formerly keyboardist in gothic-rock bands Yabanci and Bazalt. OndaRock's review compared her icy post-industrial electronics to 1990s Coil and Lustmord, while also citing contemporary artists like Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone and Puce Mary.
Voltarel was assisted by heavyweights of Italian post-industrial: Maurizio Pustianaz (aka Gerstein), ODRZ, and Marco Milanesio who handled mixing and mastering. Tracks like "Saturnalia" …
Primordia
*70 copies limited edition* Norwegian–Cuban duo to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest return with their second album, Primordia. Using field recordings, electronics, and live instruments, they craft improvised soundscapes that blur the line between natural and musical environments. Primordia continues their focus on the interaction between people, nature, and sound, combining raw textures with subtle improvisation. The result is an immersive work that feels both organic and …
Smashed Platitudes Avillion, Abbotsford, Adelaide/Heaps Of Sorrow
A drastic left turn from NM label head Simon J Karis, following some notable 2024 output. The manic jubilance of both last year’s ‘Thrash’ (his collaborative effort with UK experimental/club royalty Actress) and his hugely evocative, slightly foolish solo full length ‘So Little Sorrow’ (accompanied by a book of 50 watercolour paintings by legendary ambient musician and visual artist Andrew Chalk) commanded new ears and scratched heads further across the globe than Karis had enjoyed prior. So wit…
Remnants
"I don’t keep photographs, old letters, keepsakes or memorabilia. I have sound-files, thousands of them, un-used, un-heard: folders of field recordings; sonic sketches; experiments that failed but weren’t deleted. The files are saved on hard drives or the cards of obsolete pieces of equipment replaced – bit by dusty bit – with something new, clean and shiny. A remnant is what’s left over when the greater part it once belonged to has been used up, removed, or destroyed. I think of my sound-files …
I Have A Special Plan For This World
"I had become close friends with Thomas Ligotti, the pre-eminent writer of Nights and DeadEnds and Doubled Darknesses. I had written him many fan-letters, and we both wanted to work with each other. I Have A Special Plan For This World was our second work together, after our In A Foreign Town, In A Foreign Land. This album Channels an enormous emotional response from me. Ligotti was, is, and will be a huge influence on my work. No-one has seen the bells tolling, tolling, tolling for us all like …
Organum Quadruplum - Ipotesi A - L'Opera Abbandonata (LP)
condition (disc/cover): M/M (still sealed) One of the holy grails of Italian electronic music! Vittorio Gelmetti (1926-2005) was a self-taught maverick who remained fiercely independent from the official avant-garde establishment while creating some of the most radical electroacoustic works of the 1960s and 70s. This exceedingly rare LP—essentially a private pressing on Premier, a label otherwise devoted to "liscio" dance music—documents three landmark pieces that defined his vision of "music ma…
Pure Will, Without The Confusions Of Intellect
1991 release **
Ix-Ex-Splue – Shaped By Two / Three / FourEngineer – Ix-Ex-SpluePerformer – Babalu, Dani Meier, Kreie, Markus Jud, Remo HobiPerformer, Guest – Bummi
Dislocation – Depth / On The MoveAlto Saxophone – Yoshinori YanagawaBass – Avant QuasiDrum Programming, Percussion – Avant SelassieEdited By – DislocationPDS 8000 – Syohei IwasakiElectronics – Toyohiro OkazakiEsraj – Fujio KimuraSampler – Robert HortonTrumpet, Violin – DJ No
PGR – Invisible CitiesField Recordings, Extraction – Kim C…