Gatefold cover, blue vinyl. Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf. The mantra repeats for thirteen minutes, hypnotic as a highway journey, ecstatic as a stadium anthem. It's 1976 and Klaus Dinger - the drummer who invented the motorik beat, …
MG.ART presents the first official reissue of Ash Ra Tempel (1971) since its original pressing. This 50th Anniversary edition features restored audio overseen by Manuel Göttsching, exact reproduction of the original OHR packaging, and comprehensive a…
Brussels captures Lard Free in raw, exploratory mode: a live document where jazz‑rock, minimalism and proto‑industrial textures blur into long, evolving jams that feel like they’re testing the limits of what a band can do with repetition and noise.
Krautrock, what is it anyway? A genre, a derogative term, a song by Faust, … or: a welcome (and recurring) opportunity to talk about all of this. The music associated with the term in question has eagerly been canonized. From the enthusiastic and idi…
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…
Medium Ambient Collection 2022 is the first highly acclaimed ambient compilation on the Medium label, run by electronic musician/producer Masanori Nozawa. The "black" version starts with Japan's leading sound artist Chihei Hatakeyama, followed by End…
An antidote for noisy times. Kane Banner gathers eight ambient pieces for Secrets Of Sound, from Mark Barrott's Balearic warmth to Steve Roach's desert drift, with Chihei Hatakeyama, Lord Of The Isles and more. New Age approached as living tradition.
ATA Records delivers another essential chapter in their meticulous Library Archive series. Volume 4 represents a sophisticated understanding of library music's golden era, when masters like David Shire and Roger Webb defined cinematic instrumental mu…
An elusive cult gem resurfaces through Glossy Mistakes. Originally released in 1986, L'Empire Des Sons is an otherworldly blend of synth pop, folk experimentation, and cinematic percussive layers-dreamlike, poetic, and wildly ahead of its time. L'Emp…
"The next chapter of the Natural Information Society is here. Since Time Is Gravity, credited to Natural Information Society Community Ensemble with Ari Brown, presents a newly expanded manifestation of acclaimed composer & multi-instrumentalist Josh…
*2025 Repress!! 150 copies limited edition* Rich in musical associations yet utterly singular in its voice, joyous with an inner tranquility, the music of Natural Information Society is unlike any other being made today. Their sixth album in eleven y…
Four side-long improvisations by the Taj Mahal Travellers, recorded in a single day at Nippon Columbia in Tokyo on 19 August 1974. The group formed in 1969 around electric violinist Takehisa Kosugi.
10" coloured vinyl edition. Ten tracks drawn from the 1954-56 Pacific Jazz sessions. Chet Baker Sings is a record that arrived too early for its own audience. In 1954 a twenty-four-year-old trumpet player set down his horn, leaned close to the microp…
Two of the strangest and most beautiful records in all of Brazilian music, reunited. Recorded in a single burst in 1974 and issued the following year on Tim Maia's own short-lived imprint Seroma, Racional Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 are the sound of one of sou…
On this new LP Harry Bertoia shows why he may have been the first industrial musician. Bertoia often referred to his sound sculptures as a "collaboration with industry" and on this new LP Bertoia is intentionally creating heavy, rhythmic music he des…
This is a boxed set of six consecutive CD releases from November 2017, re-edited in chronological order from the "G.R.O.S.S." CD-Rs that recorded live performances in the 2000s, the mature period of Aube's activities. Aube is a noise project by Akifu…
Expo 70, held in Osaka, was a pivotal event for the Japanese people and their relationship with the rest of the world, demonstrating both the nation’s ongoing economic recovery from World War Two and the creative spirit of Japanese society and its ar…
Clube da Esquina is a 1972 double album by the Brazilian music artists collective Clube da Esquina, credited to Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges. Considered one of the greatest Brazilian albums and an important record in the history of Brazilian music…