If Take, Then Take: Tricks, Half-Tricks & Real Phenomena
*500 copies limited edition* After more than four years in the works, I am beyond elated to announce the release of ballastnvp067: The Hafler Trio: If Take, Then Take: Tricks, Half-Tricks & Real Phenomena (2 x CD, DVD, cards, and enamel pin in custom fabricated box). I originally released If Take, Then Take: Tricks, Half-Tricks & Real Phenomena in 2005 as a vinyl record, and it didn’t go off without a hitch or two. (In the end, I played almost every copy prior to sending it to a customer or dist…
The Small & The Many
*2026 stock* Beißpony is much more than a band. Laura Theis and Stephanie Müller aka Rag*Treasure met at a Kimya Dawson concert at Kafe Kult in Munich in 2006. Experimental pop meets anti-folk, noise, sound art, queer feminist DIY punk spirit, performance, and video art. Despite their long-distance band relationship, the two remain in close contact. German-Turkish songwriter Laura Theis lives in Oxford (UK) and works there as a freelance writer. Steffi Müller's base is the Mediendienst Leistungs…
Diario sonoro • Japón
"Diario sonoro • Japón is the debut solo album by musician and composer Lucas Sierra, better known as a member of the Madrid-based indie trio La Paloma. Somewhere in early September 2023, he boards a flight from Hong Kong, and what follows is less a tourist diary, as the title might suggest, than a portrait of finding one's own position in a state of being elsewhere.
Diario sonoro • Japón chronologically follows Lucas's route through Japan, finding the country in an in-between moment: when the l…
60bpm 33rpm
"After six minutes, time flips into reverse. The sounds of Ramsgate start running backwards. Cackles of seagulls are sucked back into tiny throats, while the distant yelps of school playtime turn giddy and abrupt, doubtless punctuating games of backward hopscotch. Central to the piece is the steady tick of the steam-age turret clock at St George’s Church, which was installed almost two centuries ago. When ticking runs forward, it seems to gift a divine guarantee to the formidable flow of time; a…
The Mild Temper
On The Mild Temper, Kevin Drumm stretches his language of drones, electronics and micro‑acoustics across six hours, fashioning vast, slow‑shifting fields of frequency where restraint becomes a kind of pressure and detail blooms only if you stay. Mastered by Jim O'Rourke.
Veneration for the sacred action
‘Compilation one: veneration for the sacred action’ is the first compilation release by london-based independent record label ‘life is beautiful records’. Released in celebration of the 3 year anniversary (of the label & the gesamtkunstwerk that it exists within), the compilation brings together members of the life is beautiful septet collective, as well as various collaborators and special guests from previous life is beautiful events of the past 3 years. the compilation highlights a range of t…
Fallersleben (LP)
2004 EP on Vinyl-on-demand in an edition of 250 numbered copies with poster signed by Wolfgang Muller, with 1981 recordings by the experimental/NDW performance art and music group.
Strudelsölle (6LP box)
2004 6LP box set on Vinyl-on-demand (their first release) re-issuing the first six tapes from the early 1980's by the experimental/NDW performance art and music group.
Fünfzehn Tonspuren (LP)
Very rare and obscure Astrian compilation produced and released in 1984 by the Hochschule Für Angewandte Kunst in Wien with diverse experimental/electronic/NDW/minimal/free "acoustic materializations of 15 imaginary films/videos in the form of an LP" by artists appearing only here and including Hans Weigand, Gudrun Bielz, Lisi + Rose Breuss, Karl Kowanz, Tommy Schneider, Rupert Putz, Inge Graf + Zyx, Ebba Sinzinger + Anna Petschinka, Christina Brandauer + Ralph Ralph, Helmut Rainer, Gary Texas, …
Displaces
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.
Nuó Xiǎng
On Nuó Xiǎng, Camilo Ángeles and Qiujiang Levi Lu forge an electroacoustic ritual: custom DSP, live processing, extended voice and augmented flute merge into abstract yet visceral soundscapes, echoing ancient Nuó ceremony while stepping beyond any fixed genre.
The Lost Tapes
Big Tip! *Limited edition of 200 copies* Geometrik Records is delighted to once again play a part in the exclusive recovery of Marcelo Expósito's previously unpublished work, which had been lost since its original creation in the 1980s. Marcelo Expósito is one of Spain's most internationally renowned contemporary artists, whose work is regularly exhibited across Europe and Latin America. But he began his career at a very young age during the era of sound experimentation that flourished in the wa…
Music On A Long Thin Wire (2LP)
Rare 2LP set released by Lovely Music in 1980 with the ethereal droning investigation into the physics of the sound of a thin wire. Evocative truly experiemtnal music.
Documentations 1986-91 (VHS)
Very rare privately released in a very few copies 1991 VHS documenting five sound installations including his famous Speaker Swinging and his works with Aeloian strings, films unavailable in any other format.
Pas de la Demi-Lune
"Halfway between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox falls the pagan Lughnasadh festival marking the beginning of the harvest season in Ireland. Pas de la Demi-Lune was originally composed and performed for this festival in a celebration event organized by Phelim Ó Laoghaire. For that occasion, Dylan performed the piece in the river crossing leading to the Brennanstown Dolmen in Co. Dublin, a megalith portal tomb estimated to have been erected sometime in 4000-2500 BC. They chose to record in…
En Concert (LP)
Rare canadian album released by Music Gallery Editions in 1979 of improvised experimental music played on self-built instruments with occasional use of electronic sound-modification techniques. With insert.
Kozmické Louky
On Kozmické louky, Magdaléna Manderlová turns a Silesian floodplain into both subject and collaborator, braiding on‑site field recordings with electroacoustic composition and invited responses to chart a living, climate‑shaken wetland as it listens back.
Prochronisms (LP)
First LP of live electronic improvisation by British super-group featuring Adam Bohman, Clive Hall, Fred Sansom, Michael Prime, Roger Sutherland and Ron Briefel, released by Pogus Productions in 1989 and never re-issued on either LP or CD.
Stromatolites (CD)
1998 CD re-issue of the 1991 cassette with live electronic improvisations by British super-group featuring Adam Bohman, Clive Graham, Michael Prime, Roger Sutherland and Ron Briefel.
9 original photo prints (ephemera)
A set of 9 original color photo prints made by sound artist Koji Tano in the early 90s, documenting one of his very early multi-media installations.