Experimental / Musique Concrète

A new Merzbow album, not a reissue: modular analog synthesizer passages and electroacoustic pieces that recall the early cassette years, recorded at Munemihouse in 2021-2022. 2LP on hand-poured Wax Mage vinyl, 300 copies.

Very rare sole edition of the superb 1973 split-LP on Alpha with fantastic electro-abcoustic compositions realized at Ghent's Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music by two Dutch experimental music composers. Never re-issued on either vin…

Rare original edition on Shandar of the breathtakingly beautiful and evocative 1977 electro-acoustic / musique concrète piece by the Swedish composer recorded at Luc Ferrari's studio.

Fantastic 1994 CD on BIS re-issuing the very beautiful and evocative electronic album from 1981 plus two superb earlier electro-acoustic pieces culled from his 1977 collection of Electronic Compositions.

1987 first CD re-issue on Philips of two landmark musique concrète works works from the 60's.

*150 copies limited edition* With Ritual and Radio Waves on the Plains of Elysium, his second album for Unexplained Sounds Group, Rapoon conjures the vast, open spaces of the American deserts and plains, translating the experience of crossing those l…

First vinyl edition of Vinyl Requiem, the 1993 piece by Philip Jeck and Lol Sargent for 180 record players and projections, on Touch.

Two unreleased late works by Pierre Henry for his centenary: Variance (2005), a fugal homage to Luc Ferrari, and Duo (2003), a gestural rhapsody for feedback and piano dedicated to Maurice Béjart. Licensed from Studio Son/Ré.

*200 copies limited edition* Rootless is Andy Guthrie’s fourth album for Students of Decay, following 2022’s Gyropedie. Created in part during a 2024 residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, it finds the San Francisco-based multi-instrumentali…

New Zealand sound artist Rachel Shearer listens to the Earth through Māori and Western practice: field recordings, electronics and voice on her first full album, a deluxe 45 RPM gatefold from Thin Wrist.

The two new Blume LPs together: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.

Tip! Spartiti Spariti is a composition in which diverse practices and experiences converge and overlap: the processing of ‘concrete’ sounds, magnetic-tape collage, field recording and the manipulation of acoustic instruments. At its core lies a profo…

Montreal turntablists Martin Tétreault and Kid Koala, live at Victoriaville on 21 May 2005, vinyl only: old self-help and demonstration records, scratches and loops, from the noise side and the hip-hop side of the instrument.

Second volume of Miúin's Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory anthology, turning to the music cultures around the lab, including commissions by its engineer Tony Quinn. Cassette with book and A3 poster, curated by Neil P. Quigley.

Tip! Longstanding pioneer of the Bay Area, Pacific Coastline underground scene. Seymour Glass has been recording, performing, disrupting and spreading his Musique Concrete trickery for many's the decade. With projects such as Glands of External Secre…

Tip! *250 copies limited edition* The "Films Made of Antimatter" series is a new experiment from the Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity label, based on the concept of soundtracks for films that have not yet been made. It's an idea that is already familiar …

*100 copies limited edition* Tokyo-based artist Ryu Yoshizawa has spent the past decade developing a singular language as Koeosaeme. His works sit somewhere between electronic composition, musique concrète, sound collage and sound art. Following a se…

"Apocalypse of Intimacy" immerses you in a distinct sound universe of Concrète Pop. Strange and inventive, yet unmistakably felt. As if some not-quite-human entity wished to become a folk singer. A contemporary, experimental-electronic work with 11 i…

*250 copies limited edition* Campsite Love calls you to wander a timeless path of rural rustlings and misty atmosphere. Created by the minds behind Jazzhand and Haudat/Monocyclocybercilia, the album combines hands-on field recordings with ambient sou…

CD reissue of Volcano The Bear's 2006 LP, the first release on their own Volucan label: theatrical improvisation, musique concrète and ethno-folk. Four-panel gatefold sleeve, limited to 444 copies.

CD reissue of Volcano The Bear's first mini-album, issued by Pickled Egg in 1999, with two bonus tracks from a 2006 lathe-cut 8" on Alt.Vinyl. Oversized gatefold cover, limited to 444 copies.

Unknown versions and unpublished tracks from Column One's early years, remastered by Robert Schalinski, in an oversized cardboard sleeve with 8 postcards and liner notes by Till Kniola. Limited to 500 copies.

Early Column One: the remastered Dream Box Experience LP (1994), alternative versions from the This Is My Dream 7" and an unpublished track, in an oversized sleeve with 6 postcards and liner notes by Till Kniola. Limited to 500.

On Displaces, sound artist Francesco Fabris fashions a high‑dimensional cartography of memory, hyperobjects and matter, where langspil, biophonies and geophonies are folded into phased time‑space, drifting between suffocation and release in an eerily…

Aaron Dilloway returns to Dais Records with 'No Skill Comedy Mind Reading', his first full-length album since 2017, a collection of characteristically jarring, absurdist material. Marked by his signature distortions and contortions — feedback-shroude…

Nostalgia is not an ideology, though in this moment, we could be mistaken for thinking it might be just that. Over the past years, the idea of nostalgia has been filtered through various political and technological lenses and has become a tool used f…

*300 copies limited edition* Senderkennungen marks the first ever collaboration between Hamburg veterans of sound art Asmus Tietchens and Felix Kubin, whose friendship began in the early 1990ies. The double album collects 25 original „Senderkennungen…

2009 release ** A broad survey of 14 recent pieces curated by Eric la Casa and Philip Samartzis for Project Space in Melbourne. High definition, highly processed sounds, mostly of environmental origin but made highly abstract and hyperreal. A useful …

1994 release ** Serbian composer born 1932 in Belgrade, Serbia, now living in Croatia, Arsenije Jovanović has been active as a theatre director and stage director for Belgrade and ex-Yougoslavia theaters since the 1970s. He additionaly composes music…

*Front cover is always a unique print/passpartout* "A new duo from Berlin. By and featuring Hanno Leichtmann and Nils Ostendorf. Both are seasoned musicians with eventful careers who operate within very different artistic spheres. One of them, Hanno …

Errands is the first duo recording from Marja Ahti, Swedish-Finnish sound artist and electroacoustic composer, and John McCowen, a native of Southern Illinois, now residing in Iceland, whose work centres on a radical exploration of clarinet multiphon…

Ancient Future is a stop on an ongoing quest of sample creation, manipulation, recombination, and morphological transformation through the modular synthesizer. Densely interconnected sound matter moves between islands of respite in a sea of incompreh…

"Two longer live works of the now-patented blend of sound collage, crude tape mangling and music concrete sound events executed in a somewhat slapstick manner, where everything is balanced so thin that it can fall apart at any point. First piece reco…

Tip! "Whether we experience music as abstract or concrete depends largely on our sensitivity to the richness of perception. Common opinion – often reductive – draws a sharp distinction: music is abstract when it does not “speak,” when it seems diffus…

'Physique is Neil Quigley (Kilkenny, IRL) and Sam Scranton (Chicago, IL). Together they make music by any and all means. Truly, no sound or technique is off limits as they assemble compositions that combine rich, warm sonic atmospheres with musical o…

Kepla debuts on Liverpool label Sink with new compilation “Outside Time”. Following recent collaborations with Steven Warwick (PAN) and Dialect (RVNG Intl), “Outside Time” brings productions and experiments spanning ten years together for the first t…

People Skills - the long running project of Philadelphia's Jesse Dewlow - has spent close to two decades tuned to that lower, stranger frequency, and Several Years Later may be the fullest transmission he has yet let out of the room. Since the mid 20…

Antoine Alcaraz is a French electroacoustic composer based in Paris whose work lies at the intersection of acousmatic composition, performance, and experimental sound practices. He specialized in electroacoustic composition in 2019 at the CRR de Pari…

Gathered as a three‑disc bundle, Adam Bohman’s Music and Words series reads like a sprawling, decades‑deep diary of the British underground. Domestic cassette experiments, found‑object acoustics and stream‑of‑conscious monologues mutate across volume…

Recorded in 1997, on The Shadow Ring’s return from their final American tour, Lighthouse captures the group at their most stripped-down and visionary. Graham Lambkin’s fractured texts conjure Folkestone’s haunted coastline—Vikings, the Morgawr, a fad…