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Effenaar
* A masterpiece of DIY and the countercultural Dutch scene. Includes tracks by Rabbit Fun, Vovo Kai, Tubifex and Viva La Muerte, all remastered from the original tapes.* Discos Transgénero present the first ever vinyl reissue of the essential DIY Dut…
Malam Minggu: A Saturday Night in Sunda
Akuphone resumes its reissue operations with its latest compilation, Malam Minggu: A Saturday Night in Sunda. This release brings us once again to Southeast Asia, with a stopover in the Indonesian archipelago – to the region of Sunda in western Java.…
Plastic Dance 2: Domestic Synth Pop & Patchbay Punk
... Let's talk about the dangerous counterrevolutionaries who went out
and bought a cheap synth and a rudimentary drum machine. The ones that
got what 'punk' was really about. The democratization of art . . . Sniffing Glue said learn three chords a…
Option 1
Since 2015, Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio has been the host of Option, a series of intimate concerts of improvised music. Featuring an uncommonly wide range of players representing virtually all haunts of free music, the series has fostered not…
Antipodean Anomalies
For musicians inhabiting the Antipodean countries of Australia and New Zealand during the 70’s and 80’s, it was a geographically and culturally isolating environment. Boutique shops, community radio and mail order exchanges championed independent and…
Buntús Rince Explorations in Irish Jazz Fusion Folk 69-81
Buntús Rince translates from Irish as 'basic rhythms', and this new compilation explores how Irish musicians were influenced by strands of different genres of music from around the world, merging them to create their own unique sounds. The compilatio…
Test Pressing II
**300 copies** Ukrainian label Muscut celebrates its anniversary with "Test Pressing II", its tenth record. The first release, "Test Pressing", was published in 2012 on 7". Like six years ago, the current title is a compilation of Muscut's resident p…
Cleopatra Jones (Soundtrack) LP
One of the best of the blacksploitation scores of the early 70s – a masterpiece of music that we rate every bit as high as Shaft or Superfly – maybe even higher! The music here is incredible – a surprising funky turn for JJ Johnson, who most folks kn…
Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1984-1996
"Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1984-1996" is the second installment of Music From Memory’s Brazilian series. This volume picks up where the first Outro Tempo left off, shedding light on a new wave of experimentalism t…
Musica Per L'Immagine II (2LP) Lost Italian Library Music
Handily compiled selection of lost Italian soundtrack recordings from the 1970s and '80s. Massive props to Fly By Night Music for doing the groundwork and digging up this selection of impossible to find or verging on priceless gems... Highly recommen…
Making Sense of Sound
In 2016, elnicho and Buró-Buró curated a panel as part of the "SOMA Wednesday" program in the context of the elnicho#5 festival. The theme revolved around the relevance of sound in art and the relationship between them. From a socio-cultural point of…
Making Room for Sound
Sound and music seem to have been underwhelmingly part of contemporary museums. However, they are shyly making their way in the area of contemporary art, often via visual artists keen on using sound in their work or inviting musicians or sound-focuse…
Milano After Punk: Rare And Unreleased Tracks
Milan, 1979, only two years had passed since the explosion of punk but it seemed like ten years had passed, 1977 had inexorably changed the destiny of a generation of musicians. Milan in those years felt a bit like Manchester, a city in black and whi…
Small Town Country, vol. 1
killer collection of archival tunes from around Texas compiled by compiled by Austin-based musician and record collector Jason Chronis. Liner notes by Jack D. Fleischer and vinyl mastering by John Golden, pressed at RTI. The collection is a bunch of …
Turn On, Tune In
Charming first instalment in a series of compilations exploring the ambient sound and vision of Melbourne, Australia’s Lullabies For Insomniacs radio show-turned-label: containing sweet treats in Georgia’s lilting polyrhythmic daydream, Mist ∞ Skat, …
Offstrings: Inventions for guitar
"Around the turn of the century there seemed to be a wave of guitarists versed in experimental and electronic musics who sought out ways of drawing new sounds from their instrument of choice; the likes of Fennesz, Tim Hecker, Keith Fullerton Whitman …
Menagerie # 3
Jake Blanchard's third volume of Menagerie finally
shows up just over a year after #2... The concept this time is slightly
different, not only do the artists create imagery based on the musicians
music, but this time the musicians also create a tr…
Minimal Milan
Lovely compilation selected by Xiu (Oksana Rodionova) consisting of contemporary minimal electronic and deviant-techno artists based in Milan, Italy. Here's the label's mission statement as you could say: "The musical aesthetism defended by the label…
Live at the Jolt Festival Basel
- 2014 release - JOLT-Festival Basel is an interdisciplinary art and music festival that took place November 7.-13. 2011 at Galerie Stampa und Gare Du Nord in Basel, Switzerland. The festival was curated by Daniel Buess and James Hullick in the spir…
The Black Book
Epic, brilliantly curated two hour collection of new and exclusive material celebrating iDEAL Recordings' (1998-2018) 20th anniversary featuring JASSS, Stephen O’Malley, Jim O’Rourke (an epic 17 minute trance-enducer - honestly worthy of its own LP),…