The Kaplan Text
The Kaplan Texts is based on a book Renato produced for the project Acherotipismo by Al Mare (Teatrum Botanicum 2018, PAV, Torino), inspired by the character George Kaplan from Alfred Hitchcock’s film North By Northwest. Sections of the novel were subjected to repeated translational deformations to produce a number of scripts that Double Goocher Shop used to create this text-sound piece. The work is a cracked form of recitation, where character analysis, defamation, and fantasy blur into a ruffl…
Rat Tapes One
* 2021 Stock * With 18 untitled tracks, there’s no shortage of the mutant voices and clanks from the darkness that I’ve come to expect. However, I was most surprised by the amount of rhythmic material found here, especially on the second half of the disc. “Track 10” could very well be a backing track left over from the Rock and Roll Sessions. Strangely enough, “Track 12” is a techno song with little of the Nurse With Wound signature other than some operatic elements and the oblique, gaping maw o…
Fabulous Paris
* 2021 Stock * An excellent release of classic Trevor Wishart material. Fabulous Paris was commissioned by Swedish Radio, Malmö, and the Birmingham Rumours Festival. This 3-movement, secular oratorio explores our collective and individual experience of the mass industrial society in which we live, through the medium of the human voice. CD release includes extensive liner notes on the 3 pieces.
Music From Films by Ludo Mich
** 2021 Stock ** Post-Materialization Music presents Music From Films by Ludo Mich. Limited edition of 200 copies in riso-printed paper sleeves.
Ballast
Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, and Ju Suk Reet Meate (three original members) are joined by Rock ’N’ Roll Jackie (35 years in the band), John Wiese (approximately 10 years), and a cast of others form the current third phase Smegma. Personnel of this album, “Ballast”, consists of this line-up plus Charlie Mumma, a member of Sissy Spacek since 2008.The source material of “Ballast” was recorded at home and on the Los Angeles radio station Dublab, but what we hear is not exactly Smegma and Sissy Spac…
Scissors
* 2x7-inch, gatefold cover * 20th anniversary edition of Sissy Spacek's second album, first reissue since it's original release, this time as a double 7-inch in a deluxe gatefold cover. An incomprehensible, discombobulated wreck."This four-track explosion of sound had my jaw agape from the first note to the last. With minor percussive breaks between sizzling hard-wired damage, this wasn’t at all what I expected. Instead John Wiese has offered tracks that intensely re-align your senses for their …
Hieroglyph Of Thought
This is not a lathe, just a good old hifi sounding vinyl record. Xeaxx Xeaxx is a musique concrete unit featuring John Wiese & Brace Paine. In 15 years Xeaxx Xeaxx have released one CDEP on Troniks and one 7-inch on Fast Weapons and played two shows (one in the bathroom at The Smell and I can’t recall where the other one was, but involved us both trying to get into a sleeping bag with some microphones)… 15 years later we have a new 7-inch! Maybe we will do an LP in 2048? For this recording Brace…
Nature's Crackling Fire
* 2020 Stock * Leather Bath is a performance and art project founded in 2010 by Greh Holger and John Wiese in Los Angeles, California. Their work consists of sound-based performance and video, collage, and installations, creating explicit publications communicating reality to mature adults. Nature’s Crackling Fire is their first full length album.
Live At Super Deluxe / Tokyo
* 2020 Stock. Digipack CD * Helicopter presents Live At Super Deluxe by Hair Stylistics, Pain Jerk, and John Wiese. Recorded live 27 September 2018 at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan.
Live at Akihabara Club Goodman / Tokyo
* 2020 Stock. 6-Panel Digipack CD * Helicopter presents Live At Akihabara Club Goodman / Tokyo by Toshiji Mikawa, John Wiese, and Seiichi Yamamoto. Recorded 24 September 2018 at Akihabara Club Goodman, Tokyo, Japan.
In Mono
* Deluxe digipak pressing for 2020! * Burning in hell with no relief. Nearly two full hours of scorched audio and blistering paralysis recorded in Los Angeles between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Compiling four original LHD albums onto two compact discs, featuring the complete recordings of Curtains (PACrec), Young and Restless (Blossoming Noise), Opaque (RRR/Pure) and Limbs of the Fawn (Misanthropic Agenda).
Even Still
* Deluxe digipak reissue for 2020! * Two-and-a-half hours covering the complete LHD vinyl discography recorded between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Pure West Coast destruction, maximum density and speaker shred. Includes tracks from these 7-inches: Asthma (Helicopter); Hands of the Priestess (Miisc); Fascination (Swampland); Hotel Fire (P-Tapes); Normandie (Tape Room); Lock Up (Helicopter); Los Angeles (Troniks); and Veiled (Helicopter), and t…
Night of the bloody tapes
* Deluxe, limited edition 6-panel digipak reissue of the defining The Cherry Point document * A Troniks / Helicopter co-release, 2020. Night of the Bloody Tapes by The Cherry Point provides a shattering drive-in experience of unrelenting horror & harsh noise nightmares fueled by Fangoria magazine, import laserdiscs, third generation vhs bootlegs, damaged contact mics, and DOD death metal distortion. Four tracks, over 40 minutes of static walls, electronic jabs and junk crashes compiled from a br…
Barren
**In process of stocking** ICR is happy to announce our latest release - a double CD with 2 recordings of concerts by Nurse With Wound that are judged to be amongst their most unusual performances. The first is from Florence in 2012 with the lineup of Steven Stapleton, Paul Beauchamp & Colin Potter. The second is from Karlsruhe in 2013 when the performers were Stapleton, Potter & Andrew Liles. Disc 1 'Confluence' incorporating 'Letter from Topor' & 'Eyes's of a Scanning Girl' 55'57'' Disc 2 '…
Les Transports
One third of the France sauvage crew concrete musique made of field recordings, synths, drum machines & heart 3 super narrative works to be listened whenever you can technology and pebbles reconciled think Luc Ferrari & Lionel Marchetti bingo.
Composé, monté, mixé entre 2014 et 2015 Merci à Guillaume Dubreu pour les "crikaka", à Henri Michaux pour la "Grande Garabagne" et à Jo.
Mangé Par Les Oiseaux
Solo electronic improvisation using feedbacks, fields recordings and electromagnetic fields. New proposal fromthe man who hides behind Somaticae. Naturalism & noise electro-acoustics. Microscopic assembly and electron swirls.
Anthology of Experimental Music from Mexico
* Edition of 200 * For this new compilation, Anthology of Experimental Music from Mexico, the Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group has gathered artists from different generations who are striving to keep this "scene" alive, not only through their music but also by creating spaces and communities for other artists, both national and international, to thrive in. Even if its presence runs deep and is widely felt, stumbling upon this music feels like a reward, like unlocking a door to a secret pla…
Songs in the Attic / Live at Leeds
* Edition of 100 * Side A, recorded live 14.5.2020 at Musa Ullakolla 6 Online Festival. Side B, duo with Stuart Arnot, recorded live 18.11.2015 at Wharf Chambers in Leeds, UK. Mastered by Pasi Salmi. Photo by Antti Makkonen. Layout by Kryptinen Käki.
Cloaked Travels
Following her debut LP (kraak, 2018) and a string of tapes and 7-inches, Red Brut drops her second album, Cloaked Travels. It is a joined release by the Finnish labels Ikuisuus and Lal Lal Lal. In many aspects, Cloaked Travels is an amazing realisation of what Red Brut does best: molding the absurd, the amateurish, and the crude into beautiful and elegant sound pieces. These eight “songs”, organised in two suites, dwell between abstract avant-garde and pop sensibility. Working with cassette tape…
Concentration Patterns
* Hand-numbered limited run of 300 copies * C.R. Gillespie is a Canadian musician and sound artist. Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, coastal living on Vancouver Island influenced his textural overlapping of “waves”; focused layering of soothing tones that tremulate and merge in a vast and expansive synthetic ocean. This aesthetic is at the forefront of his new release, Concentration Patterns, a sprawling 75-minute ambient suite which envelops the listener in a vibrating collage of drifting tex…