Various
Household Objects (And Sundry Massed Gadgets)
Huge Tip! Fifty years on, an abandoned dream takes shape. What began as a post-Dark Side of the Moon whisper - Pink Floyd's notion to compose entirely from household sound - now emerges as a monument to constraint, curatorial vision, and the democracy of domestic sonics. William Hayter and Barry Lamb didn't resurrect a museum piece. They commissioned something altogether more vital: twenty-seven independent visions, each artist tasked with the same elemental rule - excavate your house for sound.…
Die Geburt Des Jahrtausends
One of legendary Steinklang vinyl compilations now available also in Tape, enjoy!
Forest Lifes: "New" Dream World
The mixtape has long been a central facet of Seth Price’s practice, from his compilations of New Jack Swing, industrial, and early video game music contextualized with essays as part of his Title Variable project to his soundtracks for fashion shows. Assembled in the spirit of the eclectic mixes he regularly posts on his SoundCloud page, Casual Holiday is a genre-trotting bricolage of music by Amancio D’Silva, Roy Montgomery, Nancy Dupree with a group of Rochester, NY youngsters, and more. Price…
Collapsing Tape: Experiments in Rupture and Repair
"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 music. It’s really hard to condense the amount of sounds going on in the 90 minutes — but here’s a brief attempt: there’s abstract vocal play (Elaine Mitchener), warm squishy electronics (Luke Sanger), frenetic turntablism (Mariam Rezaei and Dali de …
Music from the Caucasus – The Archive of ORED Recordings, 2013–2023
The label Ored Recordings was founded in 2013 by Circassian friends and fellow musicians Bulat Khalilov and Timur Kodzoko, in order to start an activity which is dedicated to documenting and preserving the traditional and post-traditional music of the North Caucasus. Khalilov and Kodzoko, were just as excited about this music as it sounded like a force that transcends borders and in which time dissolves and community becomes the only compass. Through hundreds of field recordings, which have been…
No New York
*2026 Repress* No New York: The Legendary 1978 Snapshot of NYC's Underground Punk Explosion Returns to Spotlight. One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York captures the raw chaos and innovation of New York City's underground art and music world. Originally released in 1978 on Island Records' sub-label Antilles, this groundbreaking compilation—produced by the visionary Brian Eno—features four of the most daring, rule-breaking bands from the NYC s…
Have You Heard About the World Coming to an End?
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 rhythm and blues, providing the musical routes for the coalescence of the civil rights movement born out of the black church. In the modern world these perennially vital recordings provide a fitting tonic for the near-dystopia we find ourselves living thr…
Milano Undiscovered - Early 80s Electronic Disco Experiments
*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 towards a form of dance music not yet defined, what once seemed like an experimental form, today sounds like a cornerstone for future development in the club scene of key city as Berlin, Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam.
Italo disco was first mistreated, then exalted, forgotten …
babas - letras (Tape)
*2026 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Underground tape label hearsay proudly releases "babas - letras", a mesmerizing new cassette from enigmatic artist babas. Dropping into the world of lo-fi experimentation and poetic soundscapes, this release captures the raw essence of whispered words dissolving into sonic haze—perfect for fans of avant-garde audio poetry and tape-loop reverie.
"babas - letras" weaves fragmented lyrics ("letras") with drooling, dreamlike textures ("babas"), evoking a bilin…
Estate
*Edition of 101* A tin can as time capsule. A season pressed into metal. Estate is the debut release from Akhet Edizioni: an assemblage of unreleased works contributed by the many artists who participated in Akhet's first year of site-specific programming in Naples' historic centre. Conceived as both artifact and reusable ephemeral, the release materializes as a limited edition of 101 tin cans designed by Canedicoda, each containing a USB microchip and other small delicacies. Photographs by Salv…
I Only Like Difficult Art (and music)
Celebrating its 3 year anniversary, Difficult Art and Music presents a double-album of forward-thinking experimental composition. Inspired equally by the classical composers of the Avant-Garde – the likes of Ligeti, Kagel, Young and Cage – alongside the more expressive end of contemporary electronic music, DAAM has spent the last 3 years championing the awkward, the academic, and the overlooked. Founded by the audio-visual artist Distant Animals (who has released work on labels such as Hallow Gr…
MEANS 4: Participatory Economics (Magazine)
Issue 4 of our magazine: 76 color pages of essays, artworks, scores and music relating to our theme of community, economics, and capitalism. Includes free DL of an accompanying album.Sunbathing in the shallow end of late-stage capitalism, it is easy to think of ‘the economy’ as an abstract imposition, something that directs the tenor of our lives but over which we except little control. Mortgages, credit scores, inflation, the stock exchange, each some fiscal boogieman that lives forever in the…
An Irish Almanac Of Noise & Experimental Music From 2025
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 multiple generations of artists in the field of audio experimentation, including Danny McCarthy (turned 75 in 2025) and some new heads on the block like Francesca O and Enola Christ Metalizer.
These 32 tracks cover noise, acoustic, electroacoustic, elec…
Eavesdrop, 2024
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.
The Third Mind. A Sonic Tribute to the Dreamachine
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 illustrate the Dreamachine, but to let it hear itself thinking.
Silberland Vol 3: The Ambient Side Of Kosmische Musik (1972–1986)
Double LP version. On their last trip to Silberland, hurtled along the chrome highways and glass skyways of the kosmische landscape, powered ever onwards in perpetual motorik motion. This time, however, the Hamburg imprint opt for an unhurried itinerary, coasting far beyond the familiar rhythmic terrain to immerse listeners in the ambient side of this alternative Allemagne. Building on the tape loops, tone poems, and minimalist compositions of the '60s avant-garde, these musicians utilized the s…
Club Moral 1981 - 1986
In the 1980s, this controversial collective shook up the Belgian art world with noise concerts, performances, unusual exhibitions and the "cultural battlezine" Force Mental - proposing a quite different view on art as known by the cultural establishment. Club Moral was founded by visual artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) and performance artist Danny Devos (DDV) in Antwerp on January 1st, 1981. For over a decade it functioned simultaneously as venue, noise band, publishing house, and lightning…
Past/Present 2025 Compilation
*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, unreleased pieces from artists who released albums throughout 2025, capturing the spirit and diversity that defined the label’s catalogue during this period. Accompanying these exclusive works is a stunning continuous mix by Los Angeles artist Inquiri (Lacey Harris), wh…
A Shot in the Factory (Book)
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 the history of the Finnish labour movement.
A Shot in the Factory: Workers into the Frame is based on the 1973 Finnish film directed by Erkko Kivikoski. Set at the dawn of the neoliberal era, the film A Shot in the Factory [Laukaus Tehtaalla] tells th…
Optically Suspicious (Book)
Edited, designed, and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book, which inaugurates the Tehnika series, is based on research conducted on the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Optically Suspicious is a publication by Matrijaršija on the life, work, and cultural and artistic activities of the Union of Graphic and Typographic Workers of Yugoslavia. The book is the result of research in the Union's archives in the Printed Material Collect…