Experimental / Musique Concrète

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 tactile sonic ecosystem.

During a 2016 trip to Colombia, I was very fortunate to be welcomed by the staff of the Rio Claro Natural Reserve, located in the central Cordillera. After several days of recording in the caves—the ones open to the public—inhabited by small colonies of cave-dwelling Guacharos (Steatornis caripensis), Juan Guillermo Garcés, director and founder of the Rio Claro sanctuary, allowed me to access a secret location outside of the reserve, home to what ornithologists reckon is one of the largest known…

Bright Lights, L'il City was recorded from November '22 until August '25 in Chicago, Kilkenny, Cork and Glasgow. Played, Recorded and Mixed by Sam Scranton and Neil Quigley

A curated collection of music and sound experiments from the archives of the now defunct Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory.

"I call it ‘the Shadow Pattern Vignette’. A fragmentary and pleasingly non-discriminatory exercise in audio capture which, when sequenced, compiled or arranged alongside other such vignettes, leads to the finished work of Nate Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern. You can reach into the hermetic depths of his Hamilton Tapes micro label, recent transatlantic appearances via Infant Tree, Chocolate Monk or adhuman, or indeed, this new LP ‘Live at Somewhere’ and find the Shadow Pattern Vignette. Forever in evide…

Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with »The Dream Island of Birds«. Neither documentary nor abstraction, »The Dream Island of Birds« sits between field recording, memory, and invention — an island heard through time and circuitry. In the early 1990s, Cooper met illustrator and writer Charles van Sandwyk while walking on a small island in Fiji. Van Sandwyk was living there quietly, working from a modest bamboo house near the beach. Years later, Cooper learned that following a serious car accident…

*27 copies limited edition* A limited edition of 27 reel-to-reel tapes, assembled by hand. Housed in a rigid black 'pizza' box and sealed with a pink sticker, each copy carries traces of manual handling and slight variation. The reel sits exposed within the case, held in place by a minimal support, while the inner inlay carries tracklist and credits on one side, and a photograph by Francisco Meirino on the other, echoed in the digital artwork.

* Special embossed, die-cut sleeve with 56-page booklet - 200 copies on black vinyl * Aude Van Wyller (aka Oï les Ox, aka AI les Axes) joins forces with acclaimed poet Lucy Van, author of The Open (2021) and Australian Women's Historical Photography (2024). This debut collaboration weaves together Van Wyller's ambient mutations with Van's incisive, luminous words. In Material, words reach for the image, sounds reach for the word, and one thing becomes another. The result is an intimate, tactile …

Tip! ИМА (Ima) is a work by KiMiMi, the solo project of musician Shin-ya Ohno, which captures the layers of time and the presence of people inhabiting ‘Arimasuton Building’—a self-built structure created over 20 years by architect Keisuke Oka, located in Mita, Tokyo, and reconstructs them into music. A multi-instrumentalist who masterfully handles a diverse range of instruments, with the gaida (an ancestor of the bagpipes) – which he studied in Bulgaria – at the core of his sound, KiMiMi has pre…

*80 copies limited edition* Tired is Thomas DeAngelo's first full length solo effort since the 2023 Voiceprints & Aircuts CD on adhuman, and his second for More Mars following Standing Water released in 2021. Much has changed, both domestically (DeAngelo resides in Philadelphia, USA) and geopolitically in the interim, but, as the title suggests, maybe not really. Employing a sort of seasick, off kilter symmetry and befouled mirror logic, Tired accentuates the form/content dialectic, with motifs …

*80 copies limited edition* Guilty Paradise is an almost 30-minute, fascinating glimpse into Michał Fundowicz’s journey to Japan. There, in the city of Kobe, he met Tim Olive, and over the course of three days they recorded the material that eventually took shape as Guilty Paradise. Both artists engage in improvisation: Tim Olive works with magnetic pickups, oscillator and tuning forks, while Michał Fundowicz manipulates cassette tapes. What can one expect from this collaboration? The two exte…

Two cassette releases by Mexico City experimentalist Rolando Chia, heard by almost no one on their original release, now appear on vinyl for the first time. Batelages and Entrega - sound collage, concrete texture, avant-garde guitar - two lost chapters of the Latin American underground,

“On ‘Dissolving Strawberry’ (2020)” is a collection of interpretive sound compositions thematically centered around the titular painting by Swedish artist Christine Ödlund.
 “Dissolving Strawberry” (2020) portrays an ongoing decomposition process through several parallel perspectives, or planes – molecular and cosmic, as well as symbolic – by means of color pigments produced from the strawberry plant itself. Transfer of knowledge and exchange of meaning between plant and animal world is a consta…

Composed and recorded during tough times in 2025. Using compressed air, percussion instruments, piano and samples, Alessandro Brivio explores varied and extreme approaches to sound processing, diffusion, recording and re-composition, as a tribute to a lost friend.

Tip! *200 copies limited edition* Latest split from Coppice and Toy Bizarre on Ferns Recordings.

Philatélie proudly unveils Paradoxal Innovations, the groundbreaking new double cassette release by visionary artist Uton, the enigmatic Finnish producer known for his immersive sonic exploration.

In Finnish language Alkeis is not exactly a full word, but functions more like a prefix, meaning rudimentary or primitive. It communicates well the habitus of the crude oscillations that are inspected here: the smallest possible, single-cell organism devoid of thought, driven by instinct. Liskoaivo is a finnish word for "lizard brain", the region of the brain that regulates our primitive reactions.As sophisticated as oscillators and modular synthesis might be, at the core lies an unexplainable u…

Philatélie is thrilled to announce the release of Maja, the latest album from the experimental noise project Circle of Shit.

In late fall of 2018, Ryan traveled to Valencia, California to meet with Michael for a weekend of informal conversations at California Institute of the Arts. Before Ryan returned home to Colorado, Michael gifted him a recently released recording of Teodora Stepančić, Assaf Gidron, and Martin Lorenz’s realization of Michael’s Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation, a recording that profoundly impacted Ryan and served as the impetus for this recording. A thrumming monadic field; a constellation o…

Debut duo recording of LAFMS-founder and Airway maestro Joe Potts and John Wiese. Recorded during the Joe & Joe/John Wiese mid-west tour of 2018. Melting/sweating tape music/chopped optigan.

More than 25 years after their first partnership, international collaborators Smegma and Merzbow reunite for an all-new album that pushes the conceptual springboard of random composition generation even further. Consisting of two movements spread over 93 tracks, XCIII presents a collage of abstract electronics, unconventional instruments, reel to reel tape manipulation, loops and effects, best experienced in unique combinations on shuffled play.The first movement, Climactic Gruesome Costumes (wh…

Second album of minimal musique concrète from this Ohio duo. Robert Turman is a sound artist from the United States who is most recognized for his pioneering and experimental work in the fields of contemporary minimalism and ambient music. John Wiese is a sound artist and composer who is well-known for his singular and forward-thinking approach to sound as well as his ability to produce intricate, layered works that blur all boundaries. Both experimental and post-improvisational approaches are u…

Tip! Originally released by Innova Recordings in 1996, Nyahh Records is delighted to re issue this ground breaking and pioneering work of electronic and acoustic work in a deluxe 2 disc set with a 26 page booklet containing new essays, scores  and never seen before photos. This collection includes recordings made between 1973 and 1985 including some of David Dunn’s work which he considers his ‘Environmental Sounds Works’, which include large scale pieces recorded in the Grand Canyon with up to 2…

*50 copies limited edition* I selected short parts of "Polymères" (never published in print) because they reminded me of the inner world of David Lynch, to whom this soundtrack is dedicated.. From Polymères excerpts, originally composed between December 2011 and March 2012 for theater - with organ recordings (played by Jean-Luc Gulonnet), field recordings, and electronics Remixed in January 2025

*30 copies limited edition* Objects, violin, optigan, loops, location recordings, electronics, fails videos, thrift store cassettes. recorded, edited, and mixed at No Spray 205, San Francisco. Thanks to Chris Cooper, Lala Lu, Jon Lee.

*30 copies limited edition* Ross: synths, tapes, field recordings, effectsYpsmael: field recordings, feedback, broken amp, effects.Cover image by Ross Scott-BuccleuchMastered by Grant Richardson

*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Thailand based Field Recording & Experimental recording artist Tossapol contributes 2 beautifully assembled side long compositions for un poco fría editions. Beautifully rich with dialog - captivating in-situ field recordings situate the listener in a highly detailed urban dialog through an expansive yet condensed exploratory narrative. Here - with a similarly parallel fashion, Tossapol thoroughly conducts the tone and timber of strings and wood; using sto…

*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Drumless kick pedal & crank plug nc contact mic through pignose amp. tracked live & direct to tascam dr-03 linear pcm handheld recorder summer 2024. linear-edited & assembled to cassette 4-track in the early winter months of 2024 - yakima, wa usa. mastered by Grant Richardson @ Hex Audio labs

*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* RMSS is a Finnish noise project that draws inspiration from the heavier side of mental heath issues. The Relapsi compositions navigate a raw and visceral soundworld - through the dimly lit, bleak & icy corridors of the furthest depths and darkest recesses of the mind ... - originally self-released in 2023 by Finland based noise composer - RMSS. Little known about this enigmatic Finnish artist - other than the fact that those highly sought after self releas…

*2026  stock. 50 copies limited edition* Nothing in the everyday dies because everything is dead already: the repetitive buried under its own repetition, hidden beneath the surface. Is carrying chaos within oneself sufficient to give birth to a star?

*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Effectively over a decade long trajectory…originally released in 2013 as a digital-only edition… Now a newly reworked edition - Mastered by Grant Richardson at Hex Audio Labs from Paul, circa 2019 “….Three noisey unreleased tracks from 2013. Digital Only fundraiser EP to help finance future releases. Feral Parts 1 & 2 were directly recorded to tape and transfered from tape to digital. These tracks were originally intended for a fanzine, but in the end I be…

John Wiese's Sissy Spacek ensemble counts the kinetic drumming of Danny McClain and hazardous, shredded guitar from Corydon Ronnau on their 2007 release, 'Remote Whale Control'. It's all diced and dissected by Wiese and his box of electronics tricks, diffusing their fury into stuttered digital gasps of digital glitch and splintered noise-rock protrusions.

'Aleación y Submersión' by B. Molina is an exploration of sound, electrical vibration, collapse, control, and instinct. Carried across twelve compositions, physical and psychological thresholds of sound get submerged, corroded and remain dissolving. Integrating electroacoustic investigation, industrial ambience, and a starkly emotional minimalism, this album takes you downstream into the abyss, both weightless and heavy, immersed in the dialectics of representation. Recorded between Montréal and…

Brand new David Maranha album, here with Gerard Lebik in a a sound performance held at Cave 211, Lisbon, January 2014 "An accumulation of resonances reinjected into an impressive granular continuum with a growing audio signal stretched to the limits of saturation. Music that leads to trance! David Maranha His work encompasses sculpture, music and architecture. In 1986 he started to develop his work as a musician both as a solo artist and with several bands and has since released more than 30 a…

Promise & Illusion is the first LP from Ecka Mordecai, following the release of her solo Critique + Prosper on Takuroku in 2020. Cello, voice, horsehair harp, violin and field recordings combine to spin narrative melody, rich intimacy and melancholic landscapes. Composed around an exploration of la charnière (from the French ‘hinge’), Promise & Illusion begins with the sound of footsteps and a door opening and closing repeatedly, unsure whether to let us into the mysterious interior beyond. We a…

Here be the final drone / hypnogogic statement from Taiga Remains. The man behind Taiga Remains has now shelved this moniker; but he's far from hanging up his hat, as he now works under his given name Alex Cobb -- also known as the philosopher king who benevolently reigns over his Students Of Decay. There are those at the Agency who can claim to speak with the poetics of corrosion, and we have long admired the sympathetic aesthetic in Cobb's gorgeously elegant compositions for guitar, bells, tap…

The third production from the Stelzer/Murray project hits a sweet spot of slippery, industrial occultation that harkensback to an almost forgotten period of music from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Think Cranioclast, Arcane Device, Phauss, Small Cruel Party, Organum, and pretty much everything from the Quiet Artworks label. Exquisitely composed and overtly nocturnal without ever falling into the tropes of dark ambient and with plenty of gestures, signals, and threats that allude to any number of…

Ass-flatteningly great duo cosmo drone visions from Barbara Kinzle and Birch Cooper of Portland, Oregon that takes dream-pop and devotional choral ascensions to the very edge of euphoric body/gnosis: originally issued as a CD-R in 2010 this beautifully presented vinyl set upgrades the album with two LPs mastered at 45rpm for maximal immersion. Ocean On Ocean feels like the logic of Blinda-era My Bloody Valentine pushed to true post-rock limits, with song-forms exploded in favour of a profound, c…

In scandinavia, it's not uncommon to hear of someone's mother, grandfather, uncle, or plumber who drank him-or-herself to death at an early age; and the swedish drone artist bj nilsen has felt the alcoholic pangs which may foreshadow his own demise. in recent years, nilsen has turned to his icelandic neighbors Sigtryggur Berg sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson (collectively known as stilluppsteypa) in existential sympathy over the problems of their collective lust for alcohol. drykkjuvisur ohljodanna…

Tip! One of the longest standing figures amidst the Discrepant wolfpack, the unstoppable alias of sound collector Laurent Jeanneau returns to the fold 2 years after 'Tanzania II' with this 2.0 update of the elebrated 'The Lisu' sort-of-mixtape released way back in 2014. Based on recordings of music from the Lisu communities in China and Thailand captured on site, this mix shows Gong more like a selector or dj, restricting electronic processing to a bare minimum in order to convey different histo…