Various Artists
Cadaverous Condition – Destroying the Night Sky
**Marbled Black Smoke Vinyl & Inlay, issued to 230 copies. Cover and Inlay artwork done by Steven Stapleton.** The Circle Music proudly presents: Cadaverous Condition – Destroying The Night Sky. Many years ago Death Metal band Cadaverous Condition invited a stellar line up of experimental artists to completely dismember, rearrange and reconstruct songs of their “To The Night Sky” album. The result being “Destroying The Night Sky”, one of the weirdest collaborative albums ever assembled. Extreme …
Hildegard Von Bingen
**2025 stock** From the production Hildegard von Bingen, which was premiered in 2023 at the Kulturhaus Helferei, a vinyl has been created. The edition is published by the Zurich label Czarnagora and was realized in co-production by Nils Amadeus Lange and Elise Lammer. Live concert in the original cast by Catherine Schroeder and Mario Espinoza.
The vinyl release related to the 2023 production of Hildegard von Bingen at Kulturhaus Helferei is a unique edition realized through a partnership between…
Endless – Universal Cosmic Sounds: A Journey Through Cosmic Soundscapes
Favorite Recordings is proud to announce the release of Endless – Universal Cosmic Sounds, a visionary compilation celebrating a decade of musical archaeology and a special milestone: the thirteenth release curated by Charles Maurice since his debut in 2015. Endless is an immersive journey through cosmic soundscapes, where jazz-funk, pioneering electronics, and ambient experimentation merge into a unique listening experience. The collection features 10 rare recordings, meticulously selected from…
Vigilant New Forces
Vigilant New Forces is a compilation celebrating fifteen years of label activity. Featuring all new tracks from New Forces artists - past, present, and future. The finest noise and experimental sound, offered with gratitude to all those who have supported this endeavor. Stay vigilant. Featuring Jackson-Pratt, Mayuko Hino, Kjostad, Mass Marriage, MO*TE, Organ Of Corti, Kyle Flanagan, Rodger Stella & Scant, Wince, Joe Colley, Jeph Jerman, Form Hunter, and Matriarch.
Early Kinky Works 1983-1988
The ultimate statement from Japanese noise legend Kimihide Kusafuka. A "fake compilation" of tracks recorded under various aliases, originally issued by his Kinky Musik Institute label in 1993. Noise, power-electronics, techno, post-punk, psychedelia... Kusafuka does it all on this compilation. A work of unbounded creativity and a key document of the Japanese cassette underground.
"This is a fake compilation. All pieces in this product were composed and recorded during 1983 to 1988, under the na…
Aktion No 1
2014 release ** "Aktion No. 1 features the live testimony of an open collective, as well as the union and welding of the various souls behind the three labels involved and the various related projects, on this occasion represented by A Happy Death, Autocancrena, Cassandra, IRS and Negativeself. We had the opportunity to receive a first taste of this collaboration at the Glue-Lab in Ancona during the mini-festival Roma Soffre, and we find within this tape the result of his performance at Dal Verm…
Thing (Book)
Started in 1989 by designer and writer Robert Ford, THING magazine was the voice of the Queer Black music and art scene in the early 1990s. Ford and his editors were part of the burgeoning House music scene, which originated in Chicago’s Queer underground, and some of the top DJs and musicians from that time were featured in the magazine, including Frankie Knuckles, Gemini, Larry Heard, Rupaul, and Deee-Lite. THING published ten issues from 1989-1993, before it was cut short by Ford’s death from…
Morality
*500 copies limited edition* Following the limited edition CD reissue of Broken Flag’s 'Never Say When' compilation earlier this year comes this new reissue of 1985’s 'Morality', also originally released as a cassette on the same label. Featuring too many tracks to go on one disc, however, 'Morality' is now presented as a 2CD set remastered by Puppy38. As with 'Never Say When', this compilation documents the nascent work of many artists still active today in one form or another besides a number …
Codex of Pleasure and Pain
Codex Of Pleasure And Pain unites dark ambient, drone, and experimental artists to honor Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. Eleven projects evoke the film’s eerie sensuality and dread, creating a bleak, immersive listening experience marked by drones, textures, and spectral rhythms.
Broken Music Vol. 2: 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists
Paperback. 248 pages. The essential continuation of Ursula Block's legendary 1989 Broken Music. Artists' Recordworks exhibition and publication. This volume traces the development of the vinyl record as an artistic medium from the post-war period to the present across seven decades. Based on the 2022-2023 exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, curated by Sven Beckstette and Ingrid Buschmann, the book presents over 700 records arranged in ten chapters, establis…
Ideal Secret Circle (11CD Bundle)
Mega tip! *80 copies limited edition bundle.* Ideal Secret Circle It's an 11 CD limited-edition set of albums packaged in digi packs designed by Philip Marshall. The series is curated by Joachim Nordwall.1. Sins For Beginners - We Don’T Need No Music (For Pita)2. Susana Santos Silva - The Fabrication Of Time 3. Merzbow - Gareki No Niwa4. Jim O’Rourke - Subtracted5. Spykes - Memoirs Of Pogonophores Vol. 2.6. A. Bolus - Evil Moisture Plays Music In The Style Of Organ Of Corti7. Eternities - Foreve…
Künstlerschallplatten. gelbe MUSIK (Poster)
Original exhibition poster, 1987. Big Size. A rare document from the origins of the legendary Broken Music project. In 1987, a small Hamburg gallery—an artists' cooperative—invited Ursula Block of gelbe MUSIK to organize a groundbreaking exhibition of artists' records. To accompany the show, this poster was printed, featuring images of exhibited objects and short texts. The exhibition followed Block's first KÜNSTLERSCHALLPLATTEN (Artists' Records) show at gelbe MUSIK in Berlin in 1986, which inc…
Thailand's Golden Sounds
Baa Records’ Thailand's Golden Sounds (80's Synth-Pop & Disco) is a vibrant compilation spotlighting the evolution of Thai pop as synthesized textures and disco grooves emerged from Bangkok’s Golden Sound studios. With a focus on overlooked 1980s gems, these tracks fuse local melodic sensibilities with Western production tricks, capturing a unique and danceable era both nostalgic and unexpectedly forward-looking.
Four Fold
Four Fold unites four singular musicians—Iva Bittová, Marilyn Crispell, Benedicte Maurseth, and David Rothenberg—in a chamber where jazz, improvisation, and modern composition intertwine. Voices and instruments curve and spar, yielding an album of subtle poetics and palpable communion whose articulated silences are as charged as its most explosive moments.
Music For Black Pigeons
*2025 stock* After 14 years of filming/recording some of today’s most influential musicians, the music from Andreas Koefoed’s and Jørgen Leth’s celebrated film “Music For Black Pigeons” is now available for the first time (vinyl only). The soundtrack is based on compositions by Jakob Bro, performed by Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Craig Taborn, Paul Motian, Andrew Cyrille, Arve Henriksen, Midori Takada and many others.
Venice Film Festival title “Music for Black Pigeons,” directed by Danish filmmake…
Pure Will, Without The Confusions Of Intellect
1991 release **
Ix-Ex-Splue – Shaped By Two / Three / FourEngineer – Ix-Ex-SpluePerformer – Babalu, Dani Meier, Kreie, Markus Jud, Remo HobiPerformer, Guest – Bummi
Dislocation – Depth / On The MoveAlto Saxophone – Yoshinori YanagawaBass – Avant QuasiDrum Programming, Percussion – Avant SelassieEdited By – DislocationPDS 8000 – Syohei IwasakiElectronics – Toyohiro OkazakiEsraj – Fujio KimuraSampler – Robert HortonTrumpet, Violin – DJ No
PGR – Invisible CitiesField Recordings, Extraction – Kim C…
Computer Music Concerto
1988 release ** Excellent documentation of Italian computer music of the 1980's.
Mauro Bagella - Poco prima della notte (1988) realized at the Studio per la Ricerca Elletroacustica Musicale (STREAM) in Rome.Nicola Sani - Tendenze (1987) realized and recorded at the C.P.R.F. of RAI in Rome on 9-12 February, 1987.Serena Tamburini - Per cieli e piani (1986) realized in 1986 at the S.I.M. (Societa Informatica Musicale) in Rome.Giorgio Nottoli - Grid (1985) realized at the S.I.M. in Rome.Francesco Ga…
Punti di ascolto 2005
2005 release ** Documentation of Italian electro-acoustic/computer music of the 2000's.
1. Massimo Carlentini (1966) riversi Mondi diversi (2003)for violin and electronics (11’09”)Diego Conti violinProduction: Edison Studio - Rome
2. Marco Marinoni (1974) WAHN (2005)for piano and electronics (7’24”)Marco Marinoni pianoProduction: composer’s studio.Live electronics project by Davide Tiso
3. Massimo Mariani (1960) Six-o-four (2003)for 8 channel tape and prerecorded voice (stereo version) (9'39")Li…
Earthen - A Cold Spring Sampler
With two exclusive tracks by Coil and Psychic TV.
Krautrock - Cosmic Rock and its Legacy
** condition: (book) EX** Softcover book with illustrations.
The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Communes were spreading, protests organised throughout the entire country, the desire to begin everything anew permeating the young. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarchic, at others mystical, magickal, or utopian, it pushed rock beyond any known limits. Never a genr…