Various
Underground
Amazing live + interview DVD with a total duration of almost 4 (four!) hours!!! Underground is a film by Delphine Sanchez on the French Darklight label, that offers an in-depth overview on todays cold musicand alternative-scene. The DVD (in PAL) is d…
Japanoise Of Death I + II
This limited collectors edition comes in a laser-engraved metal box and contains parts 1 and 2 of the cult Japanese Noise compilations. Part 1 was compiled by Koji Tano (MSBR -R.I.P.) and Shinichi Shikada (Noiseuse) and was originally released in 200…
People Who Do Noise
People Who Do Noise is a film about the experimental music of Portland, Oregon. Extensive interviews and intimate performance footage provide an intense portrait of the motivations, emotions, and ideas that go into this uncompromising, sometimes bru…
Radio art
A long deleted artist record anthology by Nicola Frangione, issued in a handful of copies back in 1997 "During the last 30 years Action Art has found fertile fields of confluence between the experimentation about vision and gesture and poetic- visu…
Italic Environments - Project By Nicola Frangione
another thought to find early compilation by Nicola Frangione, more into droney and electroacoustic vein than the previous, it might reminds the early Franco Battiato music sometimes...highly recommended
Mail Music
An amazing LP conceived and compiled by Nicola Frangione, back in 1983. In the spirit of the Mail Art movement of the 1980s comes the Mail Music project. Collecting 47 sound art samples sent in from around the world, Nicola Frangione compiles them to…
Ohr Paper Sleeves Series
This strictly-limited special outer box set, showing the beautiful Ohr logo and containing these classic 5 Kraut titles (CTCD-625-629)! All CDs housed on papersleeve mini repros of the original LP sleeves. CTCD 625: Guru Guru - UFO CTCD 626: Guru Gur…
Revolutions Per Minute, the art record
Amazing 2LP document of the Fluxus and associated art scenes from the US and elsewhere. The line-up on these records are amazing. Comes in a beautiful gatefold jacket with a 2-sided pull-out poster with artwork/words from all involved. gatefold sleev…
Northwest Passage: The Birth of Portland\'s D.I.Y. Culture
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Pacific Northwest witnessed a surge of idiosyncratic creativity that, for a time, banished the slack-jawed banality of mainstream music and art to the shabby bargain basement of the cultural wasteland. Count…
Psychedelic Phinland
Subtitled: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974. Mostly amazing collection of underground Finnish music, presented in definitive fashion by the original Love Records label (there's a schmaltz/theatrical element on Disc 1 just to keep you on y…
More Arctic Hysteria / Son of Arctic Hysteria
...The later years of early Finnish avant-garde. Another incredible volume, following the inspiration and eye-opening 2001 CD Arktinen hysteria -- Suomi-avantgarden Wsipuutarhureita. Perfectly packaged document of more utterly obscure electronic mayh…
Canaries on the Pole #2
Jacques Foschia (eb & bass clarinet), Christoph IRMER (violin), Georg Wissel (prepared alto & tenor saxophones, objects) and Mike Goyvaerts (percussion, objects, toys). Recorded in 2008.
I Belong To This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
This current collection of Sacred Harp singing is the first to offer a full range of recordings by traditional Sacred Harp singers from 1922 to the present, and is a companion to the Sacred Harp documentary by Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacre…
Art Of Field Recording Volume II
Subtitled: Fifty Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum. This is volume 2 of Dust-to-Digital's robust and highly-acclaimed Art of Field Recording series, assembled by esteemed archivist Art Rosenbaum. This impressive 4CD set …
Pangaea noise
A follow-up to Beyond ignorance and borders including noise artists from Puerto Rico (Cornucopia), Indonesia (Aneka Digital Safari), Singapore (Mindfuckingboy), China (Osci-Vibra-Tor, Li Jianhong), Algeria (Nihil Humanum), Slovenia (Aluviana), Iran (…
Impala Eardrums: A Radium Sampler
Radium is regarded as Table Of The Elements' rock offshoot, although they do write that in inverted commas (that's 'rock', in case you were wondering what that would look like). The label is given a showcase by this eight-track LP, calling upon Jonat…
Trax Reprint 2: Notterossa/Rednight
Much more than a simple record label, the TRAX experience coordinated from 1981 to 1987 by Vittore Baroni and Piermario Ciani represented a very original contribution to the "networking culture" that, making its first steps with Fluxus, Mail Art and …
Streets of Lhasa
Streets of Lhasa lifts us to the high plateau of Tibet where anonymous street balladeers sell folk songs for a living and ghostly voices drift in an ambience of time forgotten. Children, birds, trains, prayers and a traditional temple activity called…
Messthetics Greatest HISS: Classics Of U.K...
...Cassette Culture D.I.Y.: 1979-1982 (Volume 1). An introduction to the D.I.Y. cassette scene 1979-84. The U.K.'s original cassette-scene hosted some of the most inept shambling in the history of recorded music, but there was no shortage of musical …
Fluxus & Happening Friends
Fluxus & Happening Friends was presented at L'Autre Caserne on the evening of October 21st 1998 in Limoilou, Quebec. The selection of artists and the choice of fluxus scores had been entrusted to Larry Miller, who also served as Master of Ceremony on…