Live One
The late, great experimental duo Coil left behind a legacy of uncompromising artistry that continues to influence musicians decades after their final performances. "Live One", now receiving a definitive reissue, captures the band's otherworldly stage presence and transformative soundscapes at their most visceral peak. Originally documented during Coil's celebrated live appearances at the turn of the millennium, this essential recording showcases John Balance and Peter Christopherson at their mos…
Magonia LP
*200 copies limited edition* Overmacht means "force majeure"—a concept that perfectly captures the essence of the electronic music duo of María Pandiello and Jacco Gardner. It represents the uncontrollable forces that shape musical improvisation,where sound unfolds in response to the moment. At its core, Overmacht is musical dialogue with the unexpected, the accidental, and the fragile nature of creation.
“Magonia” is a debut album that blends playful precision with emotional depth, it's about d…
Fundstück September 02
Asmus Tietchens is a sound artist and composer from Hamburg, Germany. He got interested in Musique Concrete by listening to a German radio programme when he was 10 years old. In 1965, at the age of 18, Asmus started experimenting with tape loops and turned them into musical collages. Soon, the use of synthesizers was added. In 1980 his debut album Nachtstücke was released, produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream. This was soon followed by a series of albums of electronic pop music for the S…
The Mosaic Of Starlight Slips Back Like The Lid Of An Opening Eye
This piece is the newest element in the ongoing Garden Of Instruments project which began in 1997 with Second Site.Since then the project has expanded to include sound, writings, video, virtual photography, printmaking, light-boxes, installations and lenticulars. The new piece, which at one hour and twenty-five minutes is broken across two CDs, further explores the astronomical/architectural phenomena of the Janta Manta instruments. To me they have always stood as monuments that collapse the ill…
GN
fft_Materialism is a new series curated by Riforma. The projects and subjects involved are invited to reflect on their use of the Fourier Transform algorithms. Can a mathematical formula be considered a living being? What are the relationships between non-human and human entities? Is it possible to expand human narratives understanding the intra-actions within the digital realm? These and other questions are part of an investigation which dresses the shapes of experimental music, in a playful hy…
Neither in the sky nor on the ground
Neither in the sky nor on the ground is the long-promised new album from Tbilisi-based producer and DJ Ani Zakareishvili. Initially prepared as a unique live set for Tkeshi festival with its own dialogue and dramaturgy, the record is now presented in purely instrumental form. But even though the narrative elements are gone, the album follows its own arc, it breathes, rises and falls, like the rib cage of a sleeping creature. Mysterious, spacious, yet vaguely familiar, 'Neither in the sky nor on …
0 Points
*30 copies limited edition* Arturas Bumšteinas’ latest album, "0 Points", composed from instrumental samples of the songs that “received” zero points in Eurovision Song Contest 1962 - 2015, is a striking new release that further cements his reputation as a leading figure in experimental music and sound art. "0 Points" is a limited edition 10-inch LP that explores the intersections of acoustic sound works, installations, and radio art, blending these mediums into an engaging sonic experience. The…
Web Wide World 1.5 game OST
Web Wide World is proud to announce the release of Web Wide World 1.5 game OST, a new collaborative album by sound artist Aliyah Hussain and visual artist/musician John Powell-Jones. Expanding on the sonic universe first created for the Web Wide World project, this soundtrack immerses listeners in a hybrid world where experimental electronics, playful melodies, and immersive sound design converge.
Composed as the audio backdrop to the evolving Web Wide World game experience, the album shifts b…
Horns of Death
Is it possible for an instrument to be cursed? Every sound on 'Horns of Death' comes from a replica fox-hunting horn bought online. The album is an open-ended investigation of this replica, exploring how a copy of a tool designed for a specific function could act as an instrument when misused and removed from its intended role. Recorded in a bedroom in a small flat in south-east London then squeezed into a computer, for some tracks the horn is (literally) pulled apart to find what other sound so…
Natural Sonic
Tip! Yoshiaki Ochi's "Natural Sonic" from 1990 from one of the Japanese leading environmental music label "Newsic". Magical sound & ensemble of the mother nature, perfectly melting in with the electronics. Released on Wacoal Art Center’s Newsic label, Yoshiaki Ochi’s Natural Sonic shares some of the same magic heard in the music of fellow roster mates Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase, and Mich Live. This time the aural trick would be one of the most simple of them all. Largely composed, conceived, …
Animistic Resonance
Animistic Resonance marks a new stage for Mexican artist and electronic musician Leslie García (currently based in Berlin through the DAAD Artists Program), as it is her first album under her own name, following several releases as Microhm and her parallel work as founder of the contemporary art studio Interspecifics, where she has developed an extensive body of sonic projects presented in major museums and programs worldwide. The album is the culmination of a profound and extended exploration o…
Issue 129 (Magazine + 7", Yellow)
Electronic Sound magazine presents its most ambitious cover story of the year, featuring Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe as they prepare to release their third collaborative album in 2025. The issue comes bundled with an exclusive lush purple vinyl seven-inch featuring tracks from their ongoing creative partnership. The creative alliance between ambient pioneer Brian Eno and composer/conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe—whom Vice called "a musical weirdo and visionary"—has already produced two acclaimed al…
Runner's High
Pneumatic Tubes presents Runner’s High, a dazzling double album of ambient, psychedelic, and American Kosmische music, crafted by acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Jesse Chandler (keyboard and woodwinds player for Midlake and Mercury Rev). This latest solo release takes listeners on a radiant journey—melding the magic of running with Chandler’s transportive soundscapes.
Runner’s High fuses rhythmic vitality with meditative atmospheres, inspired by Chandler’s personal running rituals and his late f…
All The Young Droids - Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985
All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 is a new compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesizer in '80s popular music. Compiled by curator Phil King, the music here connects the dots between DIY synth enthusiasts grappling with new, cheap synthesizers at the tail-end of punk and wannabe, jobbing songwriters enthrall to the new music pioneered by Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and Daniel Miller's Mute Records. Featuring rare tracks of auto-didactic prog…
Astral Disaster
At the turn of the millenium the original „Astral Disaster“ subcription-only vinyl release was somewhat of an Unholy Grail for Coil collectors!
The Empty Hollow Unfolds (Expanded Edition 2021)
In a long-awaited unveiling, celebrating it's 25th anniversary, raison d’être’s critically acclaimed dark ambient opus The Empty Hollow Unfolds will be available for the first time ever on vinyl, released as a deluxe Double LP edition on Marbled vinyl and standard Black. Originally issued in 2000 this reissue marks a significant milestone in the legacy of Swedish composer Peter Andersson, whose immersive soundscapes helped define an era of industrial ambient music.
The Empty Hollow Unfolds is no…
Ashes
When war erupted in Ukraine, French sound sculptor Lambwool found himself overtaken by an overwhelming surge of fear and anxiety. The escalating threat of nuclear disaster, the looming specter of global conflict, and the harrowing imagery of destruction awakened in him a long-buried childhood trauma: the paralyzing terror of an impending apocalypse. For ten days following the outbreak of war, Lambwool was engulfed in a state of absolute panic. Searching for a way to purge these suffocating emoti…
New Revelations of Being
*300 copies limited edition* American Dark Ambient sound sculptor Ajna returns with his latest full-length work, New Revelations of Being, an eleven-track descent into the abyss of human psyche and metaphysical dread. Following his acclaimed Cyclic Law releases, this new opus draws direct inspiration from the fevered writings of Antonin Artaud’s Artaud 1937 Apocalypse.
With New Revelations of Being, Ajna channels Artaud’s fragmented visions of destruction, renewal, and transcendence through a va…
And The World Will Perish In Flames
*300 copies limited edition* Forged in the fires of Spain’s underground, Dayofwrath unleashed their uncompromising vision with the limited cassette release of And The World Will Perish In Flames via Cloister Recordings in 2021. With its raw aggression, suffocating atmosphere, and apocalyptic intensity, the album quickly became a coveted cult artifact. This new CD edition preserves the original spirit, unrelenting, furious, and bleak, while opening the door to a wider audience. Its presence withi…
Magnetism
Super Tip! Kali Malone and Drew McDowall have orbited each other's work for over a decade, their individual explorations of sustained tones and harmonic space suggesting an inevitable collaboration. When they finally entered McDowall's Brooklyn studio together, what emerged on Magnetism transcends mere musical compatibility. Malone has spent recent years extending the legacy of Éliane Radigue, redefining what electronic minimalism can accomplish through pipe organ and synthesizer. Her compositio…