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Bomb! ** Sourced from the master tapes. First-time vinyl reissue ** Groundbreaking early work from drummer Milford Graves and pianist Don Pullen – a set of long, free improvisations that were originally issued on Graves' Self-Reliance Productions lab…
Jackson C. Frank’s eponymous album is the embodiment of folk legend. Issued in late 1965 on the UK Columbia label, it was for many years more famous for its producer (Paul Simon) and the musicians who would go on to cover its songs (Nick Drake, Bert …
Post-punk, rising like a phoenix during the second half of the 1970s, was a movement that few could have anticipated or foreseen. Sophisticated, and impossible to nail down, bands like Wire, P.I.L., The Pop Group, The Fall, A Certain Ratio, Pere Ubu…
Limited edition translucent red vinyl. Dicks' debut LP has been acknowledged as a foundational statement in Punk ever since its initial 1983 release. Following their first single, 1980's "Dicks Hate The Police," and a live split with fellow Austinite…
Originally released in 1967, Ayler's first LP on Impulse! and arguably his best for the label. "During 1967-69 avant-garde innovator Albert Ayler recorded a series of albums for Impulse that started on a high level and gradually declined in quality. …
2025 repress. For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was inf…
Soon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance’s group Contortions had already evolved— getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite the loss of keyboardist Ade…
Philosopher, musician and anti-art activist, Henry Flynt has long foregone the academicism often associated with "serious music" in favor of a uniquely intuitive, emotional approach to composition. In the 1960s and 1970s he was a part of NYC's vibran…
Double DVD (region free, ntsc) release documenting a sound installation dealing with the suburb Muelheim in the City of Cologne. Based on field recordings, interviews with the population and photographs the sound-video-installation presented a very p…
Lucky restock, few copies due this week ** Edition of 300. One time pressing. No digital. ** In 1934, Swiss engineers completed the Chandoline Hydroelectric Plant, channeling Alpine water through 16 kilometers of concrete pipe. By 2023, the turbines …
On Die Dritte Ebene, Emilio Gordoa and Sven‑Åke Johansson let vibraphone, drums and accordion run in seemingly parallel lines until a mysterious “third layer” appears - a ghost‑music of overtones, pulse and texture that neither player could summon al…
On Breath Vessels, Liz Allbee braids horns, tuning forks, sine waves and voice into a kind of speculative folk ritual, imagining a future orchestra of bodies and resonant objects sharing breath, charge and memory when the grid has finally gone dark.
2015 Live Recording from "Supersense" Festival Melbourne featuring a 'supergroup' formed around Manuel Göttsching, Ariel Pink, Oren Ambarchi, Shags Chamberlain playing material from the classic Ashe Ra Tempel releases "Schwingungen" and "Seven Up". …
Hardcover, 468 pages, 21×27 cm! In the wake of his Cause And Effect cassette label and distribution service, Hal McGee launched Electronic Cottage International Magazine. From 1989 to 1991, its six issues focused on the independent home recording com…
"Lines was born from the desire to take where I’ve left it with 'Fleeting Future' and go a bit more horizontal and ambient. Work with layers of lines, whether they be dotted or straight, and leave them to unfold and see where they would take me." — A…
New Forces is proud to present the first in a series of CD boxsets reissuing the catalog of Hands To, the legendary recording project of artist Jeph Jerman. “Bio Electric” collects the five “body sounds” tapes released by Hands To in the late 1980s w…
The ultimate statement from Japanese noise legend Kimihide Kusafuka. A "fake compilation" of tracks recorded under various aliases, originally issued by his Kinky Musik Institute label in 1993. Noise, power-electronics, techno, post-punk, psychedelia…
Vigilant New Forces is a compilation celebrating fifteen years of label activity. Featuring all new tracks from New Forces artists - past, present, and future. The finest noise and experimental sound, offered with gratitude to all those who have supp…
Warlord is the latest full-length album from Kjostad, the follow up to last year's Extinctionist released on Chondritic Sound. This is the evolution of Kjostad's approach in every aspect, an attempt to distill 7 years of development into the project'…
Primitive Isolation Tactics is the foremost example of how the current generation of Canadian noise builds on the foundation forged by some of the country's textural masters while expanding into new and ever more dynamic territory. There is plenty of…