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If it's extreme, leave it to us. Challenging the sound, playing with the sound, laughing at the sound. A docking of debut recordings from the most talked-about street artists and "sound collages & sound gags" by pro musicians with eccentric ideas. An…

A mixtape of carimbos and vinhetas, the audio drops of Brazil's paredão sound systems, recorded between the 1980s and 2025, from Rio funk crews to São Paulo mandelão and the rigs of Belém. Compiled by GG Albuquerque.

Twenty sides cut in the Russian Empire between 1889 and 1917, dug up by Gary Sullivan in the Russian shops of Brighton Beach and Forest Hills: music hall satire, drawing-room ballads and convicts' laments from the years before everything changed.

This bilingual book, part of the project Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil, brings together a curated selection of archival documentation alongside newly commissioned texts and artistic contributions. Through historical research, essays, and visual…

*150 copies limited edition* The ambient lineage, from Brian Eno’s Music for Airports forward, has been characterized as sounds that can recede into the background, creating an absence that exists laterally to the listener’s attention. The Kinetic Vo…

*150 copies limited edition* Overlook is a music compilation inspired by The Shining, the 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubrick, widely regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of cinema. Adapted from Stephen King’s novel and resh…

200 copies limited edition, black vinyl edition Accessing the history of avant-garde and experimental music from Latin America has always been a complex affair - the true breadth of activity during the second half of the 20th Century sinfully under-d…

In the years after independence, Tunisia made an unlikely bet: tourism. Beach resorts rose along the coast, each one trying to outshine the next, and each one needing a band to entertain their guests. A whole generation of musicians grew up on those …

The first time on any format for Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial 1975 vision of the Marquis De Sade's 120 Days Of Sodom, featuring beautiful and discordant classical compositions, in stark contrast to the shocking and cruel events unfolding onscr…

BBE Music’s celebrated J Jazz compilation series reaches its fifth and final volume in early 2026, culminating in a track list that maintains the exceptionally high standard first set with volume one back in 2018. This final volume features a selecti…

"Watching a movie by Tati is a surprising experience; in his films, sound and music speak more than do words, overtaking the conventional discourse – and boredom – of adulthood. Hulot remains silent, or mumbles. Tati knows all about the noises of the…

Here's for the real thing! Sixties Japanese Garage/Psych Rarities Vol. 2 uncovers a lost vein of cosmic rock from late‑1960s Japan, presenting a vivid collection of raw, psychedelic sounds from the heart of the Group Sounds movement. This second volu…

‘I am concerned with the power of sound! and what it can do to the body and the mind,’ wrote composer Pauline Oliveros. In the body, histories and politics come together with sound and listening, memory and feeling. Bodies of Sound offers a resonant …

Conceived by legendary (and controversial) producer Matthew Katz, Fifth Pipe Dream – Volume I is a groundbreaking psychedelic album from 1968 that blurs the line between compilation and concept record. Featuring a rotating cast of  Katz’s San Francis…

Huge Tip!!! Mount Athos, known as the «Holy Mountain,» is a monastic peninsula in northeastern Greece, central to Eastern Orthodox monasticism for over a millennium. Its twenty monasteries house around 2,000 monks dedicated to prayer and worship, whi…

"Deaf City Journal is the de facto Tribe Tapes Of America publication dedicated to international noise and industrial-adjacent artists at leisure – the focus is not strictly music but espousing the other interests and passions of those involved with …

*2026 stock* Egg Shells is a compilation series by the label Biardo Records. These compilations bring together various musicians and producers, blending different sounds and textures into a unified flow. The series isn’t tied to a specific genre — it…

Nippon Cultural Broadcasting (= Bunka Hōsō) is known for airing Toshiro Mayuzumi’s composition for “Works for musique concrète X.Y.Z.” the very first Japanese work of musique concrète. Now, for the first time, the long-lost broadcast recordings produ…

On Wa Wave: New Wave Sounds from the Land of the Rising Sun vol. 2, various Japanese artists push deeper into the margins of 80s New Wave, blending Kraut‑tinted repetition, minimal synth, and glass‑fragile chamber pop into a set of tracks that feel l…

20 musicians from around the world created a neofolk / neoclassical charity compilation for the Armenians of Artsakh who were prosecuted and forced to move from their land last Winter... Imbaru, Walden, Regard Extrême, Uwe Nolte (Orplid) and many oth…

"What strikes me again, even now, is that rock from the late '60s through the early '70s remains the most compelling — whether Western or Japanese. In the mid-1960s, British groups like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones swept across the globe, while…

This is the fifth issue of EX! Magazine for Experimental Art (audio, visual, text, etc.). The print version (Book/Magazine) includes the 108-page zine (printed climate-neutral on recycled paper), the digital compilation, and a download code for an ex…

*2026 repress. 100 copies limited edition* Past Inside the Present proudly presents the Past/Present 2025 Compilation, a celebration of the label’s artists and their creative output over the past year. This collection features a series of new, unrele…

Hot on the heels of the Tokyo bliss and Funk Tide sets, Tokyo-based DJ Notoya delivers Tokyo Pulse a new juicy selection of Funk and Modern soul recorded in Tokyo in the 70s and 80s. Most tracks here are making their debut outside of Japan and the al…

Bossa Nova, which emerged from Brazil in the late 1950s, profoundly influenced French music, manifested by artists like Pierre Barouh and Georges Moustaki. This movement, known as Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB), reflected a blend of modernity and a …

Hopes and Dreams is the title of our brand new compilation series, which will celebrate its debut on March 20, 2026. This new series draws on the music selection of Praise Poems, not only in terms of obscurity, but also in terms of genius. Similar, b…

Wewantsounds is delighted to release Ayam El Disco, a new selection of Egyptian 1980s disco and boogie cassette tracks curated by Egyptian DJ Disco Arabesquo, following his highly acclaimed Sharayet El Disco. Most tracks make their vinyl debut in thi…

France's near-revolution of May '68 kicked the country's small but vibrant counter-culture into overdrive and birthed a local underground music scene. The bands it spawned made music with far less rock purity than groups from the UK and US - their in…

With two deeply cherished compilations already in the bag, Luke Una steps up for the third volume in his É Soul Cultura series on Mr Bongo. A love letter to the dancefloor and its power to unite people from all corners of society amid growing divisio…

One of legendary Steinklang vinyl compilations now available also in Tape, enjoy!

"Collapsing Drums tells the stories that matter in a post-pandemic world" - The Wire Collapsing Tape is a sprawling 23 track compilation which celebrates 5 years of the Collapsing Drums label via a diverse pool of artists working across experimental …

Death Is Not The End present a compilation gathering a cross-section of early gospel choirs and vocal harmony groups recorded between late 1920s and the mid-1950s - a period when spirituals & jubilee traditions merged with blues, jazz and early rhyth…

*Special discounted pricing. 2026 repress* 40 years after the beginnings of the Italo disco movement 'Milano Undiscovered' leads us to discover the first ferments of the Milanese post-punk dance scene. In the early 80's future producers began to veer…

Nyahh Records is delighted to present a collection of contemporary noise and experimental musicians from all across the island of Ireland. All crammed into this two disc set with wonderful artwork by Alan Doyle. This significant collection covers mul…

Benefit compilation with exclusive tracks from live performances & installations at eavesdrop festival 2024. All revenues go to charities providing medical aid and food sovereignty in Gaza.

On The Third Mind. A Sonic Tribute to the Dreamachine, a constellation of contemporary artists tune themselves to the flicker-frequency of Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Hypnotic loops, drone hallucinations and cut-up sonics seek not to illust…

The book, a celebration of the German production music library’s 60th birthday, is a collaborative venture between the label and Disco Pogo.

This book explores the theme of workers' struggles at the heart of Finnish director Erkko Kivikoski's 1973 film, drawing on a seminal report by writer Marja-Leena Mikkola on female industrial workers and placing both works in the broader context of t…

Softcover, 244 pages, 21x21 cm  What connects 1950s open-reel tape trading to Quebec's pioneering all-female punk band? How does Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac lead to Amon Düül and the Rote Armee Fraktion? Why should you know about Korla Pandit? And w…

Broken Flag was never only a noise label. Never Say When, the compilation Gary Mundy assembled in 1987 as the imprint neared its end, is the evidence: ten tracks mapping a network that ran from Croydon to Udine, almost none of them behaving the way t…