Various Artists
Zeitgenössische Musik In Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 8 (1970-1980) (3LP box)
Eigth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1970 and 1980 by Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Walter Zimmermann, Josef Anton Riedl, Peter Michael Hamel, Mauricio Kagel, Isang Yun, Mathias Spahlinger, Nicolaus A. Huber. With insert.
Zeitgenössische Musik In Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 10 (1970-1980) (3LP box)
Tenth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1970 and 1980 by Helmut Lachenmann, Dieter Schnebel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, York Höller, Robert HP Platz, Wilhelm Killmayer, Wolfgang Rihm, Mauricio Kagel. With insert.
Italia Wiva Complication 1
Rare 1983 LP seminal compilation of Italian new wave bands released by Suono Records and featuring Art Fleury, Ruins, Bisca, Lunar Sex, Illegal Coiffeur, Nai-Lon, Avion Travel, Litfiba, Naif Orchestra and Al Aprile & The Electric Art.
Brian Jones Died For Your Sins (tape + fanzine)
Rare 1986 cassette-only compilation on Crazy Mannequin accompanied by an A4 xeroxed booklet, featuring Peter Sellers and other very obscure Italian new wave / psych / garage bands - Bad Medicine, Acid Flowers, Human Jukebox, Screamin' M.C., This Gun For Hire, Falling Spikes - playing hommages to the Rolling Stones martyr.
Gathered
Original 1982 edition of the "new Italian rock" compilation released by Electric Eye covering new wave, punk, metal and electronic music by Victrola, State Of Art, X-Rated, Not Moving, Blaue Reiter, Death SS, Dirty Actions, B-Sides, Style Sindrome, Wax Heroes, Eazy Con, Pankow.
Lucifer's Friends (LP)
1988 compilation on Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party's label Crazy Mannequin featuring severeal Italian and British post-punk / neo-psych band including Swell Maps' Nikki Sudden's Jacobites plus The Acid Flowers, The Jazz Butcher, Kim Squad And Dinah Shore Headbangers, The Falling Spikes, King Holiday And The Shadowmen, Diggers Maze, Hitchcock's Scream, Degenerazione Musicale, Sir Chime And The Lovers, Membranes, Pinky Silence And The Mad Horses, Bad Medicine, Jacobites, Last Train From Drug …
Prima Dell'Alba (tape + Sexual Lobotomy nr.3 fanzine)
Very rare cassette compilation of very obscure new wave bands: D.H.G., Atelier Du Mal, Clima, The Khan Chy's Yawn, Colour Movies, Braque, Δtx. With Sexual Lobotomy nr.3 fanzine included in original PVC bag.
Zero Zero (tape + fanzine)
Rare very varied 1985 cassette compilation of Italian punk / new wave / synth-wave bands featuring Bahnhof, Reptil Chime, Weimar Gesang, 2+2=5, Oh Oh Art, Kubrix, Nijinsky Folie and Funebris Suavitas complete with booklet.
Portraits polychromes n°1: Luc Ferrari (book)
2007 expanded edition of the 2001 INA-GRM book, first volume of the "Polychrome Portraits" series, with three essays on the composer plus a biographical catalogue. French text.
Luc Ferrari - Tautologos III (book+DVD)
Beautiful book+DVD documentation of the 2018 performance in Milano of the 1969 open piece, organised by Sergio Armaroli and Steve Piccolo, featuring Brunhild Meyer-Ferrari, Walter Prati, Francesca Gemmo and other musicians.
Musique Concrète N° 2 (7" EP)
Re-issue of the epochal second BAM EP of musique concrète from 1959, featuring Pierre Schaeffer, Luc Ferrari and Iannis Xenakis.
Electronic Panorama (4LP box)
Essential monumental 4LP box set on Philips' silver covers "Prospective 21e Siècle" series presenting music from four international experimental music studios (France, Japan, Holland, Poland) and featuring Ivo Malec, Luc Ferrari, Guy Reibel, Bernard Parmegiani, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Ivo Malec, Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle, Jaap Vink, Milan Stibilj, Frits Weiland, Jacob Cats, Alireza Maschayeki, Luctor Ponse, Jos Kunst, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Maki Ishii, Minao S…
Musique Concrète (LP)
American presentation of French musique concrète compiled by Ilhan Mimaroglu in 1969 and featuring Pierre Schaeffer, François-Bernard Mâche, Michel Philippot, François Bayle, Luc Ferrari, Ivo Malec and Bernard Parmegiani. With insert.
Panorama of Musique Concrète (LP)
Historical first collection of musique concrète compiled in 1956 and featuring Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaffer and Philippe Arthuys
Second Panorama De Musique Concrète (LP)
Historical second collection of musique concrète compiled in 1957 and featuring Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaffer and Michel Philippot.
Gather in the mushrooms
Compiled by Bob Stanley, Gather in the Mushrooms distils the British acid folk underground into a single, hallucinatory fireside. Drawing on 60s and 70s obscurities, it traces a lineage of homemade mysticism, radical withdrawal and fragile, autumnal songcraft that still feels eerily contemporary.
The Blues of the Indian Ocean
The islands of the Indian Ocean witnessed a rapid and chaotic mixing of cultures: Africans kidnapped from different regions of the continent, the indentured labourers from Africa and India and settlers from the Middle East and China. The infinite creativity of humans confronted with the hardship of colonial capitalist reality gave rise to a new form of music that – just like creole language – had not existed before. New instruments were created: the ravann – a form of frame drum, and the maravan…
Serie03.mp3
2006 release ** A CDr-mp3 compilation in an edition of 150 copies.. Featuring: Longmo, Kenneth Kirschner, Yuzo Kako, Zimoun, Autobam, Asher, Mahmoud Refat, Pe Lang. "Serie03.mp3” (the unusually calculated follow-up to “Serie01”) offers nine leerraum originals by a wide roster of artists, some of whom are regular guests on these pages. Kenneth Kirschner’s study on silence “november 18, 2004 et al.” has even be discussed on tokafi before and it is a true gift that its magical play with single, sus…
Post-Asiatic: Lost War Dream Music
2007 release ** "After my recent trip to Asia, my interest in oriental music has definitely greatly increased and then this release fell into my lap... Serendipity or coincidence, I eagerly went through this double bill, listening to all the nuances and influences I could trace back to my trip or recognize the origin of... There is definitely a lot going on but sadly the recording quality didn't seem to have always been determining factor in the choice of material. The release is dubbed as a CD …
25 Years Of Kapotte Muziek
2010 release ** Cardboard sleeve. “2009-2010 sees the celebration of twenty years of Kapotte Muziek, the first musical project of Frans de Waard. Expanded in 1993 with members Peter Duimelinks and in 1995 Roel Meelkop, this trio explores the world of micro electro-acoustic music, playing on waste found on the streets and with a fine addition of field recordings. Before 1993 Kapotte Muziek was largely known as a player in the field of industrial music and musique concrete. To celebrate their 25th…