Olímpia
**150 copies** "Part of a long steady lineage of Portuguese romantics, Pedro Magina breaks a five-year hiatus after releases on Not Not Fun and Mental Groove. When we first heard these songs, we were mesmerized by their mellowness. Inspired by many changes in his life over the last few years, “Olímpia” is a straight to the heart record, mixing lounge atmospheres, Balearic heat and the blissful “I don’t give a shit feeling” about what’s happening out there. This is not a 2020 record. This is a fo…
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**2022 stock** "The first time I heard this it took me on a total journey and it blew my head off. I couldn't believe how good it was! Concert Silence is the live duo of Matthew Cooper of Eluvium and Charles Buckingham and this album is the first of their manipulated fruits to surface. They're both into live sound manipulation, so this performance was organised and here is the mastered music. It's quite different for Infraction as the vast majority of the output on the label has been ambient but…
An Idea And Its Map
**2022 stock. Edition of 400 copies ** Drape is an ambient duo comprised of Ryan Gracey and Spencer Williams. They have been crafting soundscapes since 2004. Their debut, 'dream words' (Gears of Sand) saw a limited CDR release in 2009. It was well received and garnered comparisons to Stars of the Lid, early 70's Tangerine Dream as well as late 80's space ambient. Their follow-up was an interesting pairing on cassette - a split w/ experimental artist Odd Nosdam. 'An Idea And Its Map' marks a refi…
Auriemma
** Edition of 50 copies ** The duality of what Joe LiTrenta & Miki Kizh have created with 'Auriemma' is revealed with the first as well as the 100th listen. 'Auriemma' is undeniably influenced by the passing of 2 brothers who were close to the artists. Rob & Aidan died in separate accidents a few weeks from one another. So the result is a somber, haunted recording but it somehow retains some optimism throughout each of its sprawling tracks. Chords appear out of the air, and then expand for what …
Rain Furniture
"In this project, we find Matthew Cooper, moonlighting from his Eluvium dayjob, communing with Charles Buckingham on a project dubbed Concert Silence - a recording captured then released. Word had hardly spread among ambience-chasers and Eluvium-spotters before it was withdrawn, taking on a mythical Shangri La-like aspect, to be ever-pursued - spoken of with a faraway wistful look. Generally speaking these tracks work in a far more subtle way than on the album... The short opener 'With Bicycles'…
Varying Degrees Of Alive
**Edition of 200 copies** ‘Lantscap’ is a collaboration between Ian Hawgood and Warren Kroll (Forrest, High Tides) which mostly focuses on guitar and vocal loops processed through stomp boxes. Their work has been compared to the ‘Mirror’ releases of Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann. ‘Varying Degrees Of Alive’ was mastered by James Plotkin, with photography by Toshiba Watanabe, and was released on white and baby blue vinyl on the Infraction label in 2013. Their follow-up is due out in 2018.
Let There Water Air
** Edition of 200 copies ** Spencer Williams and Ryan Gracey's 2nd full length LP as Drape on Infraction. Analog orchestras and guitar notes that expand for minutes on end. The first two tracks on Let There Water Air are awash in a guitar and cello haze, rising up on 'new mountains' like the morning sun cresting over the horizon. When it gets quiet, as in with the opening of 'Interiors', it is a stark-like Cage piano piece with the sounds of the piano repair shop these tracks were recorded in c…
Black Lake
** Edition of 150 copies ** Previously issued in Poland in 2017 on the Requiem Records imprint as a CD only, "Black Lake" gets the vinyl treatment here. A pressing of 200 copies, with 150 copies on 180g black vinyl and 50 copies on gold vinyl. The sleeve will be a thick tip-on style with OBI with printed inner sleeve. Design and layout by Timothy O'Donnell. Bartosz Dziadosz may need some introduction, as although he has been extraordinarily prolific over the past 15 years, most releases have bea…
Issue 87: Wolfgang Flür (Magazine + 7")
The new ES issue, with a superb Wolfgang Flür seven-inch to accompany this issue too. It's pressed on white vinyl and it features two versions of 'Electric Sheep' – a maddeningly catchy tune and a definite highlight of 'Magazine 1'. Wolfgang takes on the role of a friendly android on the track, which sounds like the theme music of a TV advert in some utopian alternative reality. To seal the deal, he winds up with some key facts about sheep. "Earworms, right?" he says. "You cannot get them out!" …
Forage / Presence
** Edition of 100 copies ** Drape's 3rd album for Infraction. This is a double vinyl & digital issue of the limited cassette release 'Forage' (Baro, 2016) on one LP, and then a new album 'Presence' on the 2nd LP. Spencer Williams and Ryan Gracey have expanded their sound with each successive release. Forage/Presence finds the duo (with contributions from Doug McDiarmid) working in an almost ethereal folk realm, using acoustic guitars, piano, woodwinds, female voices in addition to painting mini-…
Schwarz
*2022 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "<< Schwarz>> is a total black CD-R it contains 6 tracks of industrial noise- repetitive loops etc, which appears to be different on each channel, the 7 inch sleeve has a picture of a decomposing corpse. This is a re-release, from a 1994 tape. There is nothing special about the sounds, Murder Corporation obviously exploit violence, in particular sexual violence against women and Nazi violence. All works if taken seriously I suppose involve a critique of …
Tomorrow Is Too Late
Australian born, Sweden based artist John Chantler returns to Room40 with his fifth solo edition. Tomorrow Is Too Late was commissioned by INA GRM for their Présences Électronique festival in 2018 and sees Chantler significantly expand the horizons of his acoustic palette. Moving from subtle microtonal movements to passages of intense harmonic saturation, Tomorrow Is Too Late is his most dynamic work to date. A powerhouse of reductive intensity that bares witness to Chantler’s uncompromising son…
Pilote De Ligne
*2022 stock. 150 copies limited edition* Red Lebanese presents Pilote De Ligne by Bruxelles based producer Buntlax. Music Composed And Produced By Buntlax Between 2008 And 2015. Lyrics Written By Constance Barrère From England. Samples By Veshelite. Visuals Made By Guillaume Del Marmol. Released By Red Lebanese 2015 (C) Instruments Used: KAWAI SX240, WALDORF Pulse, MFB 522, KORG EMX-1, ACIDLAB Bassline2, NOVATION Nova2 aka , VOCODER NEXT VoxII, KORG Monotron.
Music Is Not A Copy
On Music is Not a Copy Kink Gong turns crystal pop into syrup musak, a skippy glitch digital re-configuration of Chinese popular music, sounding like a broken unrelenting CD player under Beijing’s main underpass. We can’t think of anyone else making music like this, being it destructive or celebratory, dive in, never come back.
Permaculturaumana
The endemic concept of Oceans is to be a platform really available to all/and it is for this reason that the co-production with Fango Radio - Dissipatio.label - Dire Graft - Diazepam - Dischi Devastanti Sulla Faccia - Workin' Klass Noize [support], wants to extend to a process of integration and exchange up to the creation of a collective without fixed base and components - beyond genres, categories, egosystems - mobile and ready to change continuously. The result of this methodology, in which m…
Zapalenie Kaletki Maziowej Rzepki
*2022 stock. 40 copies limited edition* Do you like the sound of fast forward? What about pitch bending feedback and fast foreward? What about stuttering spewing bent feedback on fast forward? What about stabbing your guitar with an ice pick? Did somebody kick the cord out? Side B picks up where side A left of more or less but introduces more variations on a theme of digital stuttering collapsing cities of electronic cyrstals. This tape is pretty short but that's okay as it's likely to bend your…
Stonewalling
“Stonewalling” offers a collection of electroacoustic pieces taking as input the Mexican vernacular music from the golden age of Mexican cinema of the first part of the 20th century. In those films, music was used as communication due their poor verbal communication-skills. This is an album about communication, about the impossibility to do so to resolve conflicts. In the technical side, some of the sources used as layering in the tracks come from radio frequencies taken from explorations into t…
hi leaves
“hi leaves” is the new full-length record from soft tissue, the duo of Glasgow-based artists Feronia Wennborg and Simon Weins. Following their self-titled debut for Penultimate Press in 2019, this collection examines microsound by way of extended amplification technique, bone conduction, domestic recordings, and digital feedback. Tracks like “plant pot” and “kettle” appear to disclose their source material, presenting wonderfully tactile environments of highly articulate sound. Wennborg and Wein…
Droneworks I-V
"Droneworks I-V" is a collection of five long beatless soundscapes, composed with the purpose of inducing hypnotic and meditative states. Healing music, aiming to calm the mind from the background noise of our chaotic reality. Orghanon is the solo venture of Sergio Calzoni, producer and musician active since the '90s in various musical outfits (Alma Mater, Act Noir, Colloquio, Iluiteq). With Orghanon Sergio Calzoni blends melancholy with silence, depicting stark yet deeply emotional soundtracks …
Nocturne Incertain
The composition of the Duplant / Heraud duo fits perfectly with the centuries-old tradition of music inspired by the night, minimal variations follow one another carrying out a sound flow made of magnetic tapes, analog synthesizers and who knows what else. A stimulus to the listener's synapses, an album that breaks the boundary between reality and dream.