El-Hadra - The Mystik Dance
*100 copies limited edition* El-Hadra is more than ambient music - it’s a sonic ritual that leaves a permanent mark on the soul. This album has transformed the way many perceive sound, becoming a personal landmark for countless listeners. Originally recorded in the late 1980s, it fuses elements of Sufi trance with hypnotic tabla rhythms, meditative zither, and deep ambient drone to form a truly transcendent experience. Listening to El-Hadra is like entering a space beyond time - a journey one ca…
Fantasma
Fantasma was conceived by Mount Fog for the sound installation CHIARA • dispositivo di ascolto a distanza, a site-specific art project curated by Standards, held in September 2021 around the ancient Chiaravalle Abbey in Milan. The idea behind the intervention was to use the iconic lantern tower of the abbey as a “listening device”, through a specially developed sound diffusion system. As an environmental work, the installation could be freely experienced in the surroundings of the monastery, fad…
Bora Boreas
*100 copies limited edition* This album came together across different moments and shifting moods, moving in opposite directions and never fully settling much like the sudden, restless bursts of a bora wind. Each track belongs to a different time and a different inner weather, carrying its own distance and temperature. Within these shifting winds were the quiet weights of regret, the faint traces of shame, and the strange urge to believe without question in certain things, even when nothing felt…
House Of Strength
*100 copies limited edition* After Kites, Sister, and Mask, House of Strength marked the fourth collaboration between choreographer/dancer Roshanak Morrowatian and composer Rutger Zuydervelt. The performance — and, by extension, the music — has a strong ritualistic quality and can be seen as an inclusive celebration of both spiritual and physical strength.
Drawing inspiration from traditional Iranian percussion as well as contemporary club music, the score bridges old and new worlds, shifting be…
Rr·concerrt
*150 copies limited edition* Like all concerts by Conrad Schnitzler, this one is unpredictable and always captivatingly beautiful. A masterfully crafted mix of four solo works, all located in close proximity to the RR album itself. There are few such works in the entire discography, and most of them are included in our top 100.
Memory
*150 copies limited edition* 'Memory' is a saturated, multifaceted poem, a work of sound art set against a backdrop of shimmering cosmic space. It is a sonic excursion into memory, reflecting both the light and the darkness of our consciousness. Moving forward and transcending many boundaries, Conrad Schnitzler remains true to the mood established at the very beginning of this 60-minute cinematic work.
Convex
Convex is one of a series of LPs that Schnitzler released himself in the 1980s. It is one of his LPs that convey virtually no visible information. Only the title is printed in large letters on the cover of Convex, and in tiny letters that are easy to overlook, it says: "Cover Conrad und Richard." The labels on the original LP indicate that one side is called "Convex" and the other "Concav." That's all the information there is."On Convex, as on many of his other albums, Schnitzler definitely used…
My Shadow
One of the most striking and enigmatic works to appear on Discreet Music in recent years. There is a long tradition of artists who have tried to set scripture to music and failed magnificently - the failure itself becoming the subject, the wound becoming the work. Carrie DeCunzo Mirande's debut album belongs to this lineage. In the twenty-four days before Christmas 2024, she read the twenty-four chapters of the Book of Luke and attempted to respond in sound. Two piano pieces emerged - one inspir…
Surge Studio Music
Spider Taylor crawls over to Dark Entries with Surge Studio Music, an album of archival gay pornographic soundtracks. James Allan Taylor was born into a working-class family in Los Angeles in 1951. Nicknamed “Spider” by his father due to his frantic energy, Taylor was a natural-born guitarist, gifted with perfect pitch and a voracious musical appetite. Throughout the 70s, he expanded his musical repertoire, playing in bands ranging from country to post-punk, like his outfit Red Wedding, while al…
In A Fugue State
*300 copies limited edition* 'In a fugue state’ finds pedal-steel guitar maestro Joe Harvey-Whyte collaborating with tape loop sound scientist Paul Cousins on a warped ambient excursion into the subconscious. Originally written and recorded in one night, the eight tracks of hypnotic electro-acoustic music explore the concept of memory and time. The duo study how we remember and misremember things; forming an imperfect reorganisation of time, events and emotional states. This album exists at a cr…
The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe: 1982-1987
"The Sheer Action of Fini Tribe" is a colossal retrospective anthology curated and designed by the band. Compiled from the years 1982 to 1987, it includes a wealth of archival photographs, an essay by original member Andy McGregor, who also designed the sleeve, and essays by longtime friend Shirley Manson (Garbage, Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie) and author Alastair McKay, an early champion of the band. The release features the first legendary John Peel Session, produced by Dale Griffin and originally br…
ODRZ100
** Edition of 250** Here it is, the big 25 year celebration of ODRZ's performances and recordings. 100 guests and a 100 tracks. Available as a USB-card housed in a 7" fold-out sleeve. Among the various artists: Francisco Meirino, Deison, Lyke Wake, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Enten Hitti, Bruno Cossano, Simon Balestrazzi, Officine Schwartz, Andrea Marutti, Maurizio Bianchi, Iugula-Thor, Maurizio Marsico, KK Null...
Il mito dei vinili parlanti
*2025 stock* Italian visionary artist F.A.R. announces the release of Il Mito dei Vinili Parlanti (The Myth of the Talking Vinyls), a groundbreaking CD that breathes new life into the golden era of analog sound. This mesmerizing album weaves experimental electronica, ambient textures, and spoken-word mysticism into a tribute to vinyl records that seem to "speak" forgotten stories from the grooves.
Drawing from ancient myths and the tactile magic of spinning records, f.a.r. transforms crackles, p…
Time Out Of Joint
*2025 stock. 60 copies limited edition* The Tapes, a cult-favorite act in the underground cassette scene, unveil their captivating album Time Out Of Joint. This rare tape captures the band's signature blend of experimental soundscapes and lo-fi grooves, drawing from psychedelic and ambient influences prominent in 1980s-90s indie releases.
Tracks on Time Out Of Joint showcase The Tapes' innovative use of tape loops, field recordings, and minimalist compositions. Standout moments include disorient…
Bees
*2025 stock. 60 copies limited edition* After a split cassette in 1997, «Bees» is in fact the first collaboration ever between the two historical Italian experimenters Deison and Devis G. Deison and Devis worked meticulously, but in an instictive and natural way to this project, inspired by the natural order of things, by bringing piece after piece sounds, texts and rhythms, gathering them together to build a complex structure, like bees do.
M.B. For Buddha
*30 copies limited edition*
This work had previously appeared only as a file on a compilation: now it has found its physical release. A single track of over 17 minutes of very reflective industrial and dark ambient music. A usual non-standard package made by BeTon Raw.Handmade packaging.The mini CD-R is contained in an envelope (14x9 cm) with fake postage and a postmark featuring the M.B. logo.In addition to the mini CD-R, the envelope also contains four postcard-style inserts (13.50x8.70 cm), t…
Atholgog
*30 copies limited edition*
Reissue of a work edited by Stridulum in 2007: 22 minutes of experimental-industrial and dark ambient. Usual not standard package made by BeTon FlashCut with a photo in black and white of M.B. in person!Handmade packaging.The mini CD-R is contained in an envelope (8.5 x 8.5 cm) contained in a 14 x 9 cm package, all printed in high quality paper (200 grams).The pachage is closed with a double black satin ribbon holding a golden nail.In addition to the mini CD-R, the en…
Light Behind Me
*200 copies limited edition* Paperbark is the ambient project of Jon Mulville, who has been shaping rhythmic and textural soundscapes since 2016. His music is rooted in memory, as a way to process emotional fragments. Guided by time spent in nature and created in response to a culture that often feels lacking empathy, his work aims to create space for reflection. He has released eight albums, primarily on Seil Records. "Light Behind Me" marks his first CD release and only his second appearance o…
Sea Island
*2025 repress* 2014's »Sea Island« was recorded over two years. While many of these compositions were performed live extensively prior to recording, others were constructed in the studio and are being heard for the first time here. Musically, the album represents a range of compositional approaches. Murky, densely textured depths of sound are explored with subtle pulses and pings woven within, contrasted with composed or improvised moments of acoustic instrumentation making a move into the foreg…
Elektronic für alle
*100 copies limited edition* Electronic songs composed, performed and produced by Benjamin Adams in Cologne 2024/2025. Mastered by Marcus Zilz at Mount Wobble Studio. Song 1, 7 and 8 originally composed for the performance on miraculous things heard by Constantin Leonhard. Song 8 includes samples of the Ringing Rocks of Montana, recorded and provided by Kevin Stahl.