Headache Contest
A few weeks ago I hit up this resale shop I haven't been to before. Serious junk store.. stuff piled up everywhere, I had to lay on a pile of Christmas wreaths just to dig through some of the records. Anyway... I get to the electronics room. Ironically enough it has no lights... I start looking with the flashlight from my phone. Mountains of wires and junk and speakers and modems. I see this metal box laying randomly under a bunch of wires, I pull it out thinking it's probably some old telephone…
Threads of Memories
*100 copies limited edition* Vigilant is the solo project of Dmitry Polivenko, a musician and sound artist from Voronezh, Russia. Founded in 2020, the project crafts immersive sonic landscapes through the transformation of cassette loops, field recordings, and guitar textures, skillfully blending analog warmth with contemporary digital processing. Drawing from experimental, ambient, and industrial influences, Vigilant creates evocative compositions that balance raw sonic exploration with a stron…
S∞S
** Edition of 100 ** Huerta Ensamble is a collaborative research project by Mexican artists Concepción Huerta and Daniela Huerta, dedicated to exploring sound through synthesis and magnetic tape experimentation. Their practice delves into tuning, electricity, spatiality, psychoacoustics, and the fundamental principles of sound, with live performances unfolding through improvisation and the dialogue unique to each setting.The album, "S∞S", treats sound as a living organism — alive with resonance,…
Dinosaurs With Horns
Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer met at a Halloween party in 1982. At the time, Joseph was making tape loops and recording with Points of Friction, while Rick already had many years of freakdom service under his belt with the LAFMS. They began collaborating on new recordings, with Joseph providing loops and Rick playing an Optigan borrowed from Joseph. The Optigan, made by a toy manufacturer for home use, is a primitive 1970s sampler that plays prerecorded discs ranging from exotica, pipe organ and …
Issue 140 (Magazine + CD)
The new issue of Electronic Sound dives into the world of tape music – from Pierre Schaeffer and Delia Derbyshire to today's sharpest loopers – and comes bundled with an exclusive Steve Reich CD, Tape Pieces, pairing his mid-'60s phasing landmarks Come Out and It's Gonna Rain across some 30 minutes.
L’Oreille Voleuse
On L’oreille Voleuse, Brunhild Ferrari opens her archive of “ear memories” to Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke, who treat her magnetic-tape recollections as a living landscape, improvising a drifting, prismatic electroacoustic Hörspiel about time, listening, and theft as tender attention.
Die Fantastischen Abenteuer von Pawel Denda
On Die Fantastischen Abenteuer von Pawel Denda, Pawel Denda surfaces as a lurid, possibly fictional shadow-figure whose “lost & found” tapes collapse sacrilege and kitsch. Framed as SataniK Industrial-Pop from a corrupt Polish priest’s secret box, the album spins a blasphemous, pulp-noir mythology into jagged, future-facing noise theatre.
Spells
"Broshuda returns on the newly born label Ballads Infinite with another array of absurdist vignettes, lowercase hi-tech ambience and textural degradations of radio transmissions from the bicameral mind. Weaving multiple sonic timelines into silky yet slippery articulations, he sculpts each sound with deliberate care making it breathe, slither and shimmer. Spells conjures a subterranean force through its vanishing presence, with the restraint in the sonic palette feeling utterly refreshing, as wa…
8 breaths
Tape loops and noises from our friend dolphin hospital, initially they were performed live this spring in Paris, being overwhelmed during the shows, we just asked for the live recordings and decided to release them, voila!!!
Terlingua
John Paul Bohon's Terlingua is teeming with electronic life, a record that quite literally synthesizes the veteran musician and engineer's tactile approach to sound and has resulted in a mind-expanding work possessing impossible warmth. Terlingua is equally reminiscent of the languid, electronics-focused psych of legendary forebears like Cluster and Can alongside the ecstatic sprawl of contemporaries like Bitchin Bajas and Kaitlin Aurelia Smith. Bohon constructs entire worlds on these seven trac…
La Manzana Mágica
One of 12k’s most endearing artists is back with a new album. From Argentina, Federico Durand presents La Manzana Mágica, an album in signature Federico style inspired by his collection of Cinderlla stamps, in a way only Federico could do. Named after the folk-tale heroine, Cinderellas, throughout the last century, were considered inferior to official postage stamps, but became a sought-after collector’s item. There are some pieces whose origin, circulation context, or illustrator’s name are unk…
The Gate Is Open
On The Gate Is Open, Zoviet France turn four decades of occult tape‑alchemy into a new portal object: a Hong Kong–forged box of LP, 12-inch and cloth that extends their found‑sound rituals into a meticulously staged, cross‑continental threshold experience.
Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999
Larrison’s Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999 rescues a lone CZ‑5000 and one quietly obsessive mind from cassette oblivion, revealing 26 miniatures where lo‑fi space‑age pop, DIY synth craft and daydream cinema gently fold into each other.
Electric Dead Speak
On Electric Dead Speak. Music inspired by the Electronic Voice Phenomenon, RhaD, Yousef Kawar, Kokum, Sílení, Pnévmma, Mario Lino Stancati, Richard Bégin, Oubys, The Resa, Nerthus, Nikos Sotirelis and Insectarium channel EVP’s eerie aura into twelve post‑industrial and dark ambient seances where tape hiss, spectral tones and fractured signals blur the line between document and hallucination.
Remblandt Assemblage
One of the most essential early documents of Japanese noise, originally recorded and mixed at home in 1980 and released in 1981 on cassette by Lowest Music & Arts, now given the physical treatment it always deserved: a 2LP set housed in a natural birch wooden box with laser print, hand-numbered edition of just 99 copies. Ninety-nine! With a double-sided 42 x 60 cm poster, heavy card insert reproducing the original master tape cover, and black cardboard strip with album credits. An art object, pl…
L-Tryptophan / Somnosections / Pre-Natal
On L‑Tryptophan / Somnosections / Pre‑Natal, Delta‑Sleep‑Inducing Peptide gather three key cassettes into a two‑and‑a‑half‑hour analogue dreamcycle: electro‑hypnotic sleep studies where radio ghosts, tape hiss and synth pulse blur the line between natural and supernatural.
Cassette Culture - Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet-Age (Book, Expanded Edition)
The definitive chronicle of the global hometaper movement. Jerry Kranitz traces the underground network of cassette traders, bedroom labels, and mail-art collaborators that flourished from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Expanded second edition with new interviews and comprehensive index.
Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia
Nicolae Brînduş's Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia reissues the composer’s most eccentric works from the PHTORA cycle (1968-1972), blending collective improvisation, spectral tradition, Romanian folklore, and free jazz into a mesmerizing tapestry. Tape manipulations and reverberation add depth, while Ana Golici’s sleeve art captures the album’s vivid sensibility.
The Tinnitus Chorus
The Tinnitus Chorus, a new album from Michael Scott Dawson, is a collaborative ambient project reflecting on his personal experience with tinnitus. Joining forces with an eclectic cast from the worlds of experimental folk, jazz, and electronics, Dawson weaves tape loops, gentle melodies, and field recordings into a quietly unified journey through sound and vulnerability.
Tract: A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape
"A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape" by İlhan Mimaroğlu is a collage of political sound art blending revolutionary texts, manipulated electronics, and the vocal performance of Tülay German. Recorded from 1972–74, it transforms agitprop tradition into a radical meditation on freedom and dissent.