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2025 stock A lot has changed in the way musicians, record labels and publishing houses perceive themselves since record company revenues began their steady decline. On the one hand we are pleased to see a new kind of musician – not really all that new – who bypasses several links in the so-called value chain by selling himself on the Internet. On the other hand we bemoan the fate of many record labels, distribution companies and shops that have had to shut down. These music-obsessed specialists,…
Jeff Özdemir & Friends Vol. 3
2025 stock In the past years, the multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and music enthusiast Jeff Özdemir had been focusing on organising the Live-Mixtape series in Berlin, inviting numerous artists to join him on stage for every single event. However, the year 2020 put an end to this for all the painfully obvious and obviously painful reasons. Undeterred, he instead put together the third instalment of the »Jeff Özdemir & Friends« series, working with singers, musicians and groups such as K…
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2025 stock The new album from Danish electronic trio System is a special kind of collaborative effort with piano magician Nils Frahm. His purpose-built improvisations on synth, organ and piano served as source material for the members of System (Thomas Knak, Anders Remmer & Jesper Skaaning), who merged his warm acoustic tones with their minimalist digitalism and set out to translate their distinctive clicks & cuts electronics into vivid soundscapes. Over two years in the making, the resulting ni…
Jams
*2025 stock* On two 12"s and over the course of a staggering 78 minutes, big things are happening on "Jams", Urban Homes' monumental sophomore album. The highly ambititous attempt at a certain history of dance music, a sweaty night on the dancefloor, an excursion into the fog...But one thing at a time: The 13 Jams go back to recordings of years of communal, midi- and hardware-based jam sessions which, over three years, were painstakingly discarded, refined, condensed, reconstructed and provided …
Farewell Islands
2025 stock Slow Reels combines Ian Hawgood's love of reel-to-reel tape machines and vintage synthesizers with James Murray's melodicism and richly textured digital sound design. Their Morr Music debut, »Farewell Islands«, is an arresting, fluorescing album that blends full-frequency dronescaping with a slow-burning ambient minimalism.
Ian and James met on the minimal music scene releasing each others' music on their Home Normal and Slowcraft labels. Their recording collaboration began remotely …
Am I Home?
2025 stock Skeletons, still »one of the few contemporary bands who can legitimately be called ›original‹« (XLR8R) in 2016, present their ninth studio album and their premiere on Altin Village & Mine.
Skeletons is one of the names of the uctuating ensemble of musicians around composer and filmaker Matthew Mehlan; on »Am I Home?« accompanied by long-time Skeletons collaborator Jason McMahon as well as Greg Fox (Liturgy, Zs, Guardian Alien) and Mike Pride, Justin Frye (PC Worship), Sam Kulik, Sam…
The Secret Garden
2025 stock Protein, registered in every day life as tax payer Tobias Laemmert, released his first official studio album "Süss" in 2001. Mathias Modica, the Gomma label boss, heard Protein's tape by chance during a taxi ride and instantly offered him a contract.
In the here and now Protein sends out sonic distortions into the intermediate world of instrumental music. Whether digital or analogue – his minimalist sound collages and their accurately adjusted de- and reconstructions, broken rhythms a…
A Beat Of Silence
2025 stock With his latest record, Notwist singer & guitar player, film soundtracker and label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating LP of instrumentals. As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves – arpeggios spiralling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures.
An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flu…
Il Collo e la Collana
2025 stock Instead of taking the short cut and roaring south from Weilheim via the Brenner Pass, Markus Acher prefers to visit and approach foreign places in a different, more cautious way: Whenever he finds the time between his collective work with The Notwist and Lali Puna, he sets out to record film soundtracks under his solo moniker Rayon. This time it's Eleonora Danco's recently released film "N-capace" that inspired 10 cinematic, instrumental sketches, which see Rayon not only heading sout…
Reactions
2025 stock "Reactions" is the debut album from First Tone, the musical partnership of New Orleans-based artists Turk Dietrich (Second Woman, Belong) and composer Duane Pitre (Important Records). While the project has been at work quietly sculpting their sound for years, "Reactions" is the first available set of recordings. Those familiar with the respective works of the two artists will be happy to find a collection of music that is very much of the duo, and yet totally unlike anything they've p…
Noyaux
2025 stock Seattle producer and songwriter Benoît Pioulard (aka Thomas Meluch) has been following his very own path through the calm scenery of ambient, shoegaze and electronica for over ten years now. Following the release of »Sonnet«, his fifth LP for Portland’s kranky label just a few months ago, Meluch returns to Morr Music with four shimmeringly beautiful ambient tracks. Together with Rafael Anton Irisarri (aka The Sight Below) under the name Orcas, he already contributed two albums filled …
Espacios En Soledad
2025 stock Does returning to a place have a sound? Can the ear have a memory? And what if places which we return to are just empty shells? Choreographed rooms which we need to play, fill from scratch each time with fragments from the past and present, layer upon layer, familiar and still somehow always new and differently assembled. Paula Schopf’s Espacios en Soledad are acoustic walks around present day Santiago de Chile, the city where she was born - which she always left, had to leave and to …
Chessa
2025 stock Keplar re-issues the fourth album 'Chessa' by Dan Abrams' project Shuttle358 on vinyl for the first time. The double LP edition includes 3 previously unreleased tracks from the same recording sessions back in 2004, as well as an extended artwork with unseen photographs by Dan Abrams.
While undoubtedly associated with the microsound and 'clicks & cuts' movement around the turn of the millennium, on 'Chessa' Shuttle358 left behind the classical rhythmic patterns of the genre and shifte…
Return
2025 stock Click-clack – click-clack – click-clack: The beat of riding on a train before the invention of pneumatic suspension was no jazz. But combined with the landscape passing by the window its steady pulsing beat had consequences: digressing thoughts, imagination kicking in – roll it! This principle can be heard on Saroos’ third album. The three band members, who live in Berlin and Munich, toured Italy by train numerous times. They liked it a lot, they say. You travel more slowly, you tour …
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2025 Stock. A lot has changed in the way musicians, record labels and publishing houses perceive themselves since record company revenues began their steady decline. With every bankruptcy filed by a label, record shop, distribution company or music magazine comes yet another loss of direction. Music publishers play a special role in this ever-changing landscape—handling rights rather than selling records, positioning themselves at the center of discussions about copyright in the digital age.
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Warm Former
2025 stock Los Angeles-based duo Sana Shenai began in 2009 when their Dublab radio-affiliated ambient quintet Golden Hits went on hiatus. Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, The Postal Service) and Mitchell Brown (LAFMS, Sun Araw, Sissy Spacek) have since amassed a mountain of material culled from 10 years of home recording. In late 2018 the 5-song digital EP "Forewarm" was released by Leaving Records, which now joins seven other pieces on this physical debut double LP for Les Albums Claus, "Warm Forever".…
A Book of Imaginary Beings
A Book of Imaginary Beings by Awkward Corners reimagines electronic groove music through an abstract, global lens. Subtle melodic threads, sparse percussion, and experimental treatments foster an atmosphere imbued with melancholy, curiosity, and intimacy. The album’s 14 tracks evoke characters, settings, and creatures for a book yet unwritten, reflecting Menist’s nuanced approach to minimalism and storytelling.
Konoma
Konoma by Takuro Okada is an evocative exploration of musical identity informed by Afro-American traditions and a Japanese artisanal spirit. With eight tracks that weave intricate guitar textures, this album reflects Okada’s meditation on cultural connection and the possibilities of stylistic fusion, pushing boundaries in contemporary instrumental music.
Good Star Dubs
2025 Stock. In 2007, Tadd Mullinix and Daniel Meteo locked themselves in a Berlin studio for one intense week with a singular vision: to channel the spirit of mid-80s Jamaican digital dub—the raw, revolutionary sound pioneered by Prince Jammy's legendary "Sleng Teng"—through their own experimental lens. The result was 15 tracks of deep, hypnotic dub, combining Mullinix's handcrafted digital rhythms with Meteo's immersive studio treatments. Guitars, organs, keys, and off-beats dissolve into casca…
The Days Within
Vert is back. And it’s as if his last album for sonig just came out. The eleven songs on The Days Within don’t have much to do with ragtime, but they have plenty to do with songwriting. A kind of songwriting that is so typical of Vert, who has meanwhile relocated to Berlin, that it can hardly be mistaken for anyone else’s. The tracks on The Days Within all have such a well-defined profile that it is difficult to describe them in terms of one specific style. Butler doesn’t like to use the same id…