Mer Changeante
"To whom does a record belong, once it’s been released, once it's released and lives its own life, outside the thoughts of those who composed it? Does it not also belong to those who listen to it and find in it realities, unsuspected joys and desires at the time of its creation? For as long as I've known him, Michel Wisniewski has been exploring, under the pseudonym Supermalprodelica, the effects that the music of others, which he listens to with a sensitive ear, produces on him. And he has the …
A Synonym for Repetition
""A Synonym for Repetition" weaves together a tapestry of parallels, all intricately linked to Japan. The project initiates with a collaboration with a Tokyo-based musician, which ultimately fails to materialise during Jason Kolar’s recent visit to the country. From an original approach that has to mutate in its starting phase, the record was conceived from the beginning to embody a sincere homage to Ryuichi Sakamoto, also a Tokyo native. Shaping ideas within the context of a city with a vibrant…
Ornamental Hermits
"Incidentally this cassette confirms a sinister suspicion I've had for a while that the synthetic pan flute is back - fantastic! I feel so lucky for this generous amount of delightfully bubbling synthesizer music from C.D. Noé. A 90 minute exploration of melodic geometry—intricate yet efforless, synthetic yet alive. Melodies ripple, chords shimmer, patterns unfold like a living system in balance. The artist never falls into the sharp-edged maximalism that, at least to my ears, often weighs down …
The Last Question
Transparent Lime Vinyl. Limited to only 150 copies. Tim Clark’s The Last Question is a foundational work of cosmic electronic music, now reissued in a definitive edition that brings this elusive 1971 private-press masterpiece back into the spotlight. Originally composed and recorded while Clark was Music Director at the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, NY, these pieces were crafted as the soundtrack to the planetarium’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s visionary short story, The Last Question.…
The flow of the river is ceaseless, and yet its water is never the same, while along the still pools foam floats, never stay long.
*200 copies limited edition* Yoshiki Ichihara is a Tokyo-based synthesizer player who performs at concert venues in the Tokyo area, including the space at Ftarri. In 2022, he released the CD Live at Ftarri (Ftarri, ftarri-963), a recording of his duo concert there with Naoki Nomoto (computer, synthesizer).
This CD is a solo album made up of three pieces studio-recorded and produced by Ichihara. In addition to synthesizer, he plays guitar and six-string cello, as well as two tracks with ambient d…
Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music)
Available on CD (or any other format) for the first time outside USSR, Soviet composers perform their works on the legendary ANS synthesizer.
Chinese Restaurant
*2025 repress* Spittle Records presents a reissue of Chinese Restaurant by Italian new wave duo Chrisma, originally released in 1977. The album was recorded between London and Milano during the second half of 1977, and the results were something like post-punk. More in the direction of bands such as Ultravox, The Stranglers, and Suicide than the Sex Pistols and the Ramones, due to the use of electronic keyboards, obsessive rhythms, tense harmonies, and scratching vocals emerging from generally d…
Mono
Material Object is the main production alias of veteran Australian producer Andre Ruello. His focus is on the most psychedelic forms of techno and ambient. As well as his own productions he has collaborated extensively with Uwe Schmidt (Atom™) and the late Pete Namlook, including releasing on Namlook's Fax label. Ruello has performed and DJed live all over the world, including a number of appearances at Japan's Labyrinth festival. The summer of 2024 sees him give his debut live performance in th…
The Blind Sublime
Andrew Ostler’s fifth album for the Expert Sleepers label continues his trajectory away from a sound largely based on synthesizers towards orchestral textures and heavily processed saxophone. Building on the string arrangements of his previous LP “Dots on a Disk of Snow”, and taking a heavy dose of sax drone from the earlier “Four Drones for Saxophone and Modular Synthesizer”, this record also adds a full choir, taking the music to another level of spiritual intensity.
The first side of the LP p…
Lars Boutrup's Music For Keyboards
2005 release ** "The man behind the album is the keyboard player and composer Lars Boutrup. After years in the business with rock, silent movie music and classical music. Performance as well as composing, in all sorts of different constellelations. Lars Boutrup is now releasing his first solo album. Music for Keyboards is an album with both beautiful numbers to reflect on and sense the universe to. There are also moments where you can have a laugh and freak out to funny synthesizer sounds and me…
Flux
Tip! “In May 2024, the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where I was born and have lived all my life, faced the worst climate catastrophe in its history. After weeks of relentless, torrential rain, its rivers overflowed, flooding much of the region. Entire cities were submerged. More than 170 people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands of animals perished. Amid this dystopian and desperate situation, flux was composed and recorded in about a week. Initially, the album was created sole…
Low Fidelity
*300 copies limited edition* ‘Low Fidelity’ brings us up to speed with Mats Lindström’s actions of the past dozen years in a range of seven works spanning live recordings and studio commissions, all sharing a certain bloody-minded, uncompromising focus on atonality and arrhythmic structures. Definitely one for harder-nosed noise and avant garde fiends, the set fits very neatly within iDEAL’s roster of brutalists, with whom Lindström shares a taste for sounds, spaces, and rationales that test the…
BBC Broadcast In Concert 1975
The legendary 1975 Fairfield Hall Croydon broadcast now available as a high quality vinyl pressing. Broadcast as part of a short UK tour following the release in 1974 of Autobahn.
Mirages II
AIR 's Jean-Benoît Dunckel & Jonathan Fitoussi have joined forces to release Mirages II, a sonic exploration of analogue synthesis, moving from the minimal to the cinematic. "After their first album as a duo, released in 2019, JB & Jonathan have gone back together to build another work, in which their two personalities unfold even more surreptitiously, always very attentive to each other. At their heart, an electronic spirit, anchored to a very mineral rhythm. There are glimpses and echoes of th…
Kosmische Musik
Original 1971 2LP compilation of early Kosmische Musik featuring Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream.
Trans-Europe Express
Mid-90's US Elektra CD re-issue of the 9th Kraftwerk masterwork from 1981.
The Man-Machine
1995 release ** European CD re-issue with 2-panel cover. "The Man-Machine is closer to the sound and style that would define early new wave electro-pop - less minimalistic in its arrangements and more complex and danceable in its underlying rhythms. Like its predecessor, Trans-Europe Express, there is the feel of a divided concept album, with some songs devoted to science fiction-esque links between humans and technology, often with electronically processed vocals (The Robots, Spacelab, and the …
Trans-Europe Express
1995 US Capitol CD re-issue of the 6th Kraftwerk masterwork from 1977.
Radio-Activity
1992 US Cleopatra CD re-issue of the 5th Kraftwerk masterwork from 1975.
Я Твой Слуга Я Твой Работник
Rare 2LP set of Kraftwerk live in Germany in 1981 with folded poster cover.