In their countless years of deep digging, Dark Entries has uncovered many curiosities, oddball Italo and synth-wave creatures too rare to live, too funky to die. Dark Entries’s conservationist efforts began with 2020’s Endangered Species Vol 1. Six years later, we are finally treated Endangered Species Vol 2, an even more ambitious effort which features eleven specimens previously deemed extinct, now safely preserved on vinyl. Things kick off with an extended mix of Palazzo di Danza’s “Play That…
Opéra de Nuit emerge from their long slumber to grace Dark Entries with the frostiest of reissues. Formed in 1982 in Valréas in the southeast of France, Opéra de Nuit only released 3 records throughout their career: EPs in 1984 and 1986, with a full LP following in 1988. But devotees of dark music will need no introduction to this band, who are almost definitional of the coldwave genre, and whose rabid cult following has each record readily trading for three-digit prices. Opéra de Nuit’s sound i…
Modern Apartments arrive on Dark Entries, with Light on Water, an LP featuring 8 cuts of instrumental cosmic-kosmische analog synth workouts. Modern Apartments is Ryan Ambridge, the musician and producer best known for his work with dark synth projects Linea Aspera and Lust Pattern. While both of those outlets lean towards the greyscale and robotic, Ambridge wanted to explore a more colorful palette with Modern Apartments, a livelier, looser sound.
The medium of film plays a major role here; Amb…
*300 copies limited edition* 'Deep Ground' is where Purl found its foundations, in the misty forests, gloomy dusks and shimmering dawns of my youth. Continuing from the debut EP 'Ground', a work completed in 2004 and released four years later, 'Deep Ground' furthers its excavation into the soil from which we all rise. A few chapters were unveiled between them – the sequence of release rarely correspond to the sequence of creation (especially not in my early days of sending burned CD demos across…
*200 copies limited edition* Los Angeles, 2019. Early days of October. The boys behind Ecovillage and Purl met for the first time in 3D. Their meeting in a city of dreams and dreamers seemed orchestrated by divine forces, just a few months before the world shut down. Everything seemed possible. The air was thick with magic and every day ripe with transformation, whether in heartfelt moments on stage, leaning over the edge into the unknown, or on spontaneous adventures such as a day-long hike in …
*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* There is no way I can formulate in words how deeply the music of Brock Van Wey has impacted my life. It started with envy. I was a confused young man, living with a friend who I looked up to a lot, and we were DJ-ing together (only vinyls of course). My friend bought a copy of one of the first ever bvdub releases to come out, and he was in love with it. I had been trying to get my music released for years with no success, and here was this guy with vinyl …
*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Amorphous is an ambient electronic music project that Slam Mode has been crafting for quite some time, creating immersive soundscapes designed to evoke a wide range of emotions and imagery. Listeners can expect a deep dive into atmospheric textures, rich sonic layers, and meditative rhythms that elevate the mind to higher levels of auditory consciousness. We hope you enjoy our perceptions. Believe.
Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer met at a Halloween party in 1982. At the time, Joseph was making tape loops and recording with Points of Friction, while Rick already had many years of freakdom service under his belt with the LAFMS. They began collaborating on new recordings, with Joseph providing loops and Rick playing an Optigan borrowed from Joseph. The Optigan, made by a toy manufacturer for home use, is a primitive 1970s sampler that plays prerecorded discs ranging from exotica, pipe organ and …
"Pop, the album that has become widely recognized as the defining moment in which Wolfgang Voigt brought us into a clearing of his deep, psychedelic forest. A landmark release in the GAS odyssey that drew international attention, Pop was originally released in 2000 on the iconic Frankfurt imprint Mille Plateaux. Pop was heralded by Pitchfork at the time of release as being “an exercise in sonic texture… pure sonic velvet, the layered drone radiating a palpable warmth.”"Pop blossoms to life in on…
The third part in Jon Hassell’s Pentimento trilogy captures the much-missed artist performing as part of a trio with Rick Cox and John von Seggern in London in 2015, in what would turn out to be his final ever concert. Carefully edited and mixed by Jeff Rona into something much more than a traditional ‘live album’; themes, motifs and riffs from his critically adored albums Listening To Pictures and Seeing Through Sound occur throughout these unique, semi-improvised mutations, making this a fitti…
Before becoming recognized as an influential figure in ambient music, Gigi Masin was working for the Italian postal service. In 1986, he privately released Wind, his first album, choosing to share it mainly with friends and audiences at his intimate performances rather than pursue a commercial distribution. Much of the remaining vinyl disappeared when a flood destroyed his Venetian home. The album’s origins went back to Masin’s years as a local radio DJ, when he used the station’s equipment to e…
*300 copies limited edition* Twenty-five years after its original release, Markus Guentner's debut album In Moll returns in a special anniversary reissue on Black Knoll Editions, reaffirming its place as one of the defining ambient recordings of the early 21st century.
Released in 2001 during the formative years of Kompakt's influential Pop Ambient series, In Moll emerged from a period of rapid transformation in electronic music. New technologies, expanding digital networks, and shifting creativ…
»Music from Tokyo / New York« serves as the 2024 sequel to his previous release, »Music for Joshua Tree«. This conceptual album is divided into Side A (Tokyo) and Side B (New York), utilizing field recordings captured in each location. The ceramic images featured on LP jacket is the work of Namiko Ishikawa (NamipotNYC). On this record, he incorporates ambient, downtempo, trip-hop, and dub—bringing to life the specific sounds currently resonating in his mind and his original roots.
Since the pand…
Whispering Ln. Vol. II was recorded between 2018 and 2019 in America, alongside the pieces that formed the first album. These recordings belong to the same time and space, shaped by the same quiet focus and slow attention to sound. While remaining rooted in minimalism, this album introduces several more rhythmic pieces, drawing inspiration from early electronic music – echoes of composers such as Tom Dissevelt and Raymond Scott.
Movement and stillness coexist throughout this record. Rhythms and …
On SLG3, Juan Manuel Cidrón returns to vinyl with four long-form electronic landscapes shaped by analogue circuitry, minimal pulse and cosmic drift. The Almería synthesist turns S, L, G and 3 into open territories - desert-wide, elemental and quietly visionary - where natural rhythm and machine logic meet in a patient, dream-lit dialogue.
*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Air De Rien, because it is not nothing all these small tunes in the air... This double vinyl is shared - each one its face - by four musicians or groups who each traces in watermark an original line of conduct, soft and harsh, off the beaten tracks.
A lot of purity in this project - and in these four achievements - in those times of useless filling. Music and visuals are discreet, a fine black and white, like the engraving of this psychedelic pseudo-brain…
This compilation was specially curated for those in attendance at the Past Inside the Present Label Showcase, presented by Indy CD & Vinyl on December 5, 2026, at The 808 in Indianapolis, Indiana, featuring live performances by zakè, Wayne Robert Thomas, and Marc Ertel. This sampler brings together selected works spanning 2019 through 2025, offering a retrospective of each artist's contributions leading up to the evening's performances.
*200 copies limited edition* Rather inspiringly, Billy Gomberg is experiencing a career peak in his second decade of composition and improvisation. Through a practice that is humble and rigorous in equal measure, he has issued work with Students of Decay and Dinzu Artefacts alongside numerous self-released editions that document his evolving approach to modular synthesis. Though Gomberg has recently shared many longform recordings, capacity, his first proper album in four years, finds him zeroin…
*200 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by zakè. Heavyweight picture disc vinyl featuring photography by Benoît Pioulard. Housed in a deluxe, heavyweight 12" picture disc sleeve with flap. 3.5"x2" signed hype sticker. Includes a 2" square sticker featuring album artwork and a vintage 35mm unique photo slide.