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A cornerstone in European experimental and popular modern composition ! Formed around the core of jazz vibraphonist Christian Burchard and drummer Dieter Serfas, the group started his career in Munich in 1969. More than 300 musicians have passed thru' their ranks, from their colleagues in Amon Duül II (Lother Meid, Chris Karrer, Jimmy Jackson), Xhol (Hansi Fischer), Between (Roberto Detree, Peter Hamel) to renowned jazzmen (Charlie Mariano, Mal Waldron) and countless musicians from around the wo…
Einsjaeger & Siebenjaeger
Among the most luminous records ever issued by Popol Vuh, and one of the high points in the singular spiritual arc traced by Florian Fricke across more than three decades of work. Esoteric, reissuing the album on vinyl on July 31st, 2026 in a fresh cut prepared at AIR Studios, London, returns to print one of the essential statements of 1970s German music.
By the time Fricke entered the studio in Munich in 1974 with Daniel Fichelscher on guitars and percussion, Djong Yun on vocals, and Olaf Küble…
Affenstunde
A foundational record. The opening chapter of one of the most singular spiritual journeys in European music. Esoteric returns Affenstunde, the 1970 debut of Popol Vuh, to vinyl on July 31st, 2026, freshly cut at AIR Studios in London, with the original cover artwork restored and an accompanying poster. When Florian Fricke brought a Moog III modular synthesiser into a Munich studio in 1970, alongside percussionist Holger Trülzsch and engineer Frank Fiedler, he was working with one of only a handf…
Electronic Meditation
Remastered edition of Tangerine Dream’s classic and legendary debut album ‘Electronic Meditation’. In autumn/winter of 1969 Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, met Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler. This trio formed the line-up of Tangerine Dream to record the debut album Electronic Meditation. The band was supported by two other musicians: Jimmy Jackson (organ) and Thomas Keyserling (flute), but both were mysteriously left out of the credits of the original album. Edgar Froese: "In 1969…
Africa
Africa, originally released in 1992 on Materiali Sonori, may be a late entry in the Embryo catalog but it is one of their most ambitious and truly progressive albums to date. As the name implies, the Munich group not only draws influence from the continent to their south, but also employs an African percussion ensemble on many tracks.
Beyond The Circle Of The Fixed Stars
*2026 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "Fans of the Kosmische sound rejoice as sonic pioneers Dom Keen and Jonathan Parkes return with another instalment of their essential record series. I found my way to Studio Kosmische via Parkes' Korb project. Whilst I am admittedly tardy to the party, I’m nonetheless smitten by the sounds your about to enjoy in the grooves of this here record.
The album is split into two musical journeys across its two sides. ‘The Rites of Saturn’ starts as a tribal danc…
II
*2026 stock* Holy Magick II is the second studio album from Brighton based psychedelic rock band, Holy Magick. Following the success of the debut album and lead single ‘Even Though’ which gained great worldwide coverage and reviews from BBC6 Music.
Korb IV
"Korb members Jonathan Parkes and Alec Wood have formed a prolific partnership over recent years, building up a catalogue of recordings on their own Dreamlord Recordings label under various aliases, including The Hologram People, whose Village of the Snake God on Library of the Occult remains a high point. Here the duo shifts it's attentions towards the world of Kosmische music and bubbling synths, global grooves and analogue soundscapes, all delivered so effortlessly it's hard not to fall for t…
Electronic Meditation For Inner Space Travel
Like all Studio Kosmische records, Electronic Meditation for Inner Space Travel is less a collection of tracks than a single, unbroken experience. It flows with purpose, every note a step in a silent procession toward understanding.
There’s no urgency, no climax, just a graceful surrender to the unknown. When it ends, the world feels quieter, your thoughts slower, the air lighter. This one’s a record to play deep into the night, when the sky outside your window looks almost purple and the world …
Cara Maluco
Osees return with a four-track EP recorded last year in Tornio, TX. A couple fried trippers and couple tight dance punk numbers. Crazy face indeed.
Symbols
*300 copies limited edition* Once mainly something that existed in a live setting, the group drifts further into its own orbit with a second collection of songs. What began as a collaboration between two voices now expands with the presence of a third, adding new layers that sometimes verge on something almost familiar. The work continues to explore a method that feels less like collecting from the outside and more like rearranging from within. Fragments are taken apart and reassembled: rhythms,…
Nothing Is New In This Room Except The Dust
With Nothing in this room is new except the dust, Ivan The Tolerable returns not to a room but to a weather-beaten tract of being — a north-facing interior where wind has a voice and the light is a thin animal nosing the corners. The trio who forged Black Water, Brown Earth and An Orphan Form — Oli Heffernan, Mees Siderius, and Elsa Van Der Linden — move here with the patience of creatures that have learned the seasons of each other’s blood. If the earlier records surveyed land, this one digs in…
One Take Brewing; Settlement
*2026 stock* Organic Beer is a four-member music and art project organization based in Seoul. The members include Go Woo (vocals, guitar, synthesizer), Ham Seok-young (guitar, chorus), Go Dae-young (bass), and Jay (percussion). Rock'n' roll, funk, psychedelic, world folk music, noise and ambient sound are absorbed and expressed and built with only organic beer. In the performance, the dark sound wave and visual images conveyed to the listener are sufficient to instill a destructive impression.
T.C.R Project
*2026 stock* Organic Beer is a four-member music and art project organization based in Seoul. The members include Go Woo (vocals, guitar, synthesizer), Ham Seok-young (guitar, chorus), Go Dae-young (bass), and Jay (percussion). Rock'n' roll, funk, psychedelic, world folk music, noise and ambient sound are absorbed and expressed and built with only organic beer. In the performance, the dark sound wave and visual images conveyed to the listener are sufficient to instill a destructive impression.
Hosianna Mantra
Newly remastered vinyl edition of this seminal 1972 release. In the history of experimental music, few artistic decisions have proven as radical or as successful as Florian Fricke's complete abandonment of electronic instrumentation on Popol Vuh's third album, Hosianna Mantra. Released in 1972, this stunning work represents not just a departure from the Moog synthesizer explorations that defined the group's first two releases, but a complete reimagining of what spiritual music could accomplish i…
Issue 73 (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Spectrum Orchestrum - French underground today. Plus: Celebrating 5 years since the Audion relaunch as a complete multimedia archive, and with 25 new issues!, Denmark - Scandinavian fusion legends 10, Phog - a French one-man band,…
La Düsseldorf
The mantra repeats for thirteen minutes, hypnotic as a highway journey, ecstatic as a stadium anthem. It's 1976 and Klaus Dinger - the drummer who invented the motorik beat, the man who alongside Michael Rother created Neu! and redefined the very concept of rhythm in rock - has a new machine to drive. He's christened it with the name of his hometown on the Rhine. And the first record he makes with this new formation is called, of course, La Düsseldorf. The first two tracks? Düsseldorf and La Düs…
Epsilon
The self‑titled Epsilon introduces Epsilon as one of those early‑70s outfits that understood rock not as a fixed style but as a volatile intersection of impulses: hard rock muscle, blues phrasing, progressive ambition, and a lingering psychedelic afterglow. The album moves with the confidence of a band that has internalised late‑60s British rock grammar - heavy guitar, insistent Hammond, a rhythm section that can punch and pivot - yet refuses to collapse into pure riff worship. Instead, the grou…
Issue 85 (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as first edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for full contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.Audion 85 contents... The interstellar cementmixers - 20 questions with Japanese oddities and curiosities, Norway - scandinavian fusion legends 12, Panzerpappa - unclassifiable music from Norway; choice french label classics: Gratte-Ciel…
Issue 84 (Magazine)
*50 copies limited edition* 44 page magazine first printed as an edition of 50 copies, and now (12/12/2025) on its second 50-copy run. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Dave Newhouse - Beyond The Muffins. Plus: The untold history of Düsseldorf's Creamcheese, Scandinavian fusion legends 11: Finland, Finnish Oddities and Curiosities, Jim Tetlow …