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Vlakverdeling
Cinema Perdu's third album for the label, extending his investigation of human impact on landscape after Interventions in a Landscape and Amsterdam CS. The material here is drawn from trips through the Frisian polder, where the strict demarcations of the Dutch countryside change atmosphere with weather and light but above all with the geometric clarity of human marking. Field recordings are read as abstract forms and colours, then translated back into new compositions.
Indite
Composed during 2014, Haarvöl's second album consolidates the Portuguese trio's writing practice: a non-hierarchical compositional grammar where analogue, digital and electronic sources sit on equal footing, threaded with field recordings as structural rather than illustrative material. The trio favours density over experimentation for its own sake, building rigorously detailed cinematic textures whose internal consistency works through resonant correspondences rather than repetition.
Lower / Kronborg Polska
*Handcut mono lathe vinyl, risoprint cover and insert + bag of silence* A reinterpretation of Scandinaviaʼs dark folkdance traditions. The 7” features two recordings of heavily downtuned solo viola only accompanied by the musicians footstomps.
Music For Modified Melodica
Suzuki's third solo album, framed by a single instrument she modified herself: a melodica re-engineered to play via foot bellows, so that high-pressure airflow overblows the small reeds into a sustained, loud excitation. The pumped breaths are amplified through time delays, layered with oscillators and manipulated highs to develop the combination tones that emerge at extreme volumes. A durational, psychoacoustic drone work that 'rewards endurance with transcendence', performed live.
Mullah Said
Edition of 500. Widely regarded as one of the essential entries in the vast Muslimgauze catalogue, Mullah Said returns once more via Staalplaat in a third edition vinyl pressing and a reworked digipack CD edition of 400 copies - both featuring updated artwork with additional gold printing. Originally issued in 1998 as the eighteenth installment in Staalplaat's Muslimgauze subscription series, Mullah Said represents Bryn Jones at the height of his powers. Engineered by John Delf at his Abraham Mo…
Jeux de mains
Jeux de mains, a striking new album from acclaimed double bassist Joëlle Léandre and inventive composer-performer Rémy Bélanger de Beauport, arrives as a vivid exploration of spontaneous musical conversation. Recorded with immediacy and an acute sense of shared risk, the record captures two master improvisers at the peak of their creative powers.
Across the album’s immersive tracks, Léandre’s visceral arco, percussive pizzicato, and fearless extended techniques meet Rémy Bélanger de Beauport’s t…
Voice
On Voice, Sofia Jernberg compresses a lifetime of radical vocal exploration into a stark solo document, treating the larynx as full‑spectrum instrument - from split tones and pitchless friction to fragile lyric shards that hang in charged silence.
Libelocus-(alpha), Libelocus-(beta), Libelocus-(gamma)
Big tip! Romanian composer, conductor, and musicologist Iancu Dumitrescu is often described as one of the leading figures of spectral music, yet he has produced a body of powerful works resonating with explosive sound and friction that places him very much in his own universe. Dumitrescu studied under his compatriot, the conductor Sergiu Celibidache, who rarely left behind concert recordings. From him Dumitrescu absorbed phenomenology and conducting techniques, incorporating them into his own co…
Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires
*2026 repress!* After a stint learning the dub craft from innovator King Tubby in the late '70s, Scientist began mixing his own sessions, coming up with a more wide-ranging and effects-riddled sound than that of his mentor. One of a handful of choice Scientist albums on the Greensleeves label, Rids the World of the Curse of the Vampires (1981) not only ably displays the mix masters varied approach, but clocks in as one of his best outings. While Scientist heeds Tubby's minimalist call with "stri…
Radiale
Originally released in 2004 on the highly influential Atavistic label, Radiale is back on May 22, 2026, bringing together explosive energy, avant-jazz improvisation and experimental rock in a landmark collaboration. Featuring saxophone player Ken Vandermark, bassist Nate McBride and gifted afro-american drummer Hamid Drake the record has a slightly more exploratory feel.
Listening to Radiale feels less like following a sequence of songs and more like being drawn into a continuous sonic current. …
Not Knowing
Costa Monteiro's fifth solo accordion album, and the one in which he deliberately reverses his earlier recording strategy. Where previous works placed microphones almost inside the instrument to foreground materiality, structure and deconstruction, Not Knowing instead treats the accordion as an object in space, with the architecture of the recording room becoming essential to the work. The result blurs the limits of identification, holding the instrument's identity in productive uncertainty.
Soleils Noirs
First in a series of collaborations between artists already on the label. Bruno Duplant on church organ, Alfredo Costa Monteiro on synthesizer, composing remotely a single long-form piece. The vocabulary moves between mass, flow and slow combustion: tonal accumulation that the artists frame in alchemical terms as an athanor of doubt and dream, a continuous sublimation that renews itself. Slow drone built across the organ-synth axis, mastered by Duplant.
Electronic Cottage - The Complete Collection (Book, Hardcover)
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 community – artists who had developed their craft in the post-punk DIY era. The contributors were nearly all members of the hometaper community. The magazine featured articles providing helpful tips and highlighted the challenges hometapers faced. It in…
Weerkaatsing
First studio meeting between two figures long circling each other in the Dutch experimental scene. The structure is itself a kind of mirror: Spiegeling is Machinefabriek's remix of Orphax's De Eerste Dag, Reflectie is Orphax's twenty-minute remix of Machinefabriek's 2007 piece Stofstuk, and the title track is the only fully joint composition. Long-form drone built through indirect dialogue, with each signature still audible but inflected by the other.
Love & Noise
Reemerging three decades on, C.C.C.C.’s Love & Noise hits vinyl for the first time, a still‑devastating artefact where Mayuko Hino’s charged electronics and Hiroshi Hasegawa’s Moog storms turn harsh sonics into something crushing, psychedelic and strangely exultant.
Go On
Go On with the George Otsuka 5 was recorded in 1972 in Japan for the Three Blind Mice label. The album features a quintet led by drummer George Otsuka, a major figure in Japanese jazz in the 1960s and 1970s. The repertoire includes original compositions as well as contemporary hard bop standards.
Members... Don't!
Members… Don’t! is the tour-de-force new release by acclaimed drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey that offers a bold reinterpretation of Max Roach’s potent album Members, Don’t Git Weary, connecting its message of resilience in the face of struggle to the present day. It follows on a string of albums from Sorey that feature pianist Aaron Diehl, the latest of which – The Susceptible Now (Pi 2024) – received 5-Stars from Downbeat, which describe it as “a garden of sonic ecstasy… Sorey’s trio conjur…
Altes Stadtbad Leipzig
*2026 stock* The album features a mesmerizing live recording of Absolute Body Control captured at the historic Altes Stadtbad in Leipzig, Germany during the E‑Festival. Showcasing 11 standout tracks from the band's remarkable catalogue, the release delivers raw energy, atmospheric synth textures, and a powerful, intimate performance that highlights their signature blend of cold-wave minimalism and dark electronic intensity. Remastered for clarity, the recording preserves the venue's cavernous ac…
La Manzana Mágica
One of 12k’s most endearing artists is back with a new album. From Argentina, Federico Durand presents La Manzana Mágica, an album in signature Federico style inspired by his collection of Cinderlla stamps, in a way only Federico could do. Named after the folk-tale heroine, Cinderellas, throughout the last century, were considered inferior to official postage stamps, but became a sought-after collector’s item. There are some pieces whose origin, circulation context, or illustrator’s name are unk…
1001 Est Cremazie
On 1001 Est Crémazie, the self‑titled orchestra of middle‑schoolers and Cégep staff capture the exuberant birth of modern Quebec: raw jazz‑rock, DIY tape lore and Quiet Revolution aftershocks pressed into one unlikely, fiercely alive school‑band artefact.