Locations, Processed (Blue TB7 Series) LP
Chris Watson, originally the keyboard player of Cabaret Voltaire, then a sound recordist for Tyne Tees Television and founder member of The Hafler Trio, is now perhaps best known for his BAFTA-winning location recording for David Attenborough, Birdwatch, Tweet Of The Day, and range of BBC Radio programs. Here, Chris creates an all new sound journey in honor of Bob Moog via a series of his own location recordings, subtlety processed through The Moog Sound Lab's System 55. Almost a return to the p…
Lydspor One & Two (Blue TB7 Series) LP
LP version. Mika Vainio visited the Moog Sound-Lab in April 2015. He made one his last known solo studio recordings in the form of two vinyl-sized, side-long pieces entitled Lydspor, Danish for "soundtrack". Mika worked almost exclusively with the lab's Moog Modular System 55. This UK sound-lab instrument is the sole prototype model (containing several golden filters) of Moog's sold-out reverse-engineered edition (only 55 units) recreating the 1970s classic. On completion of his sessions Mika an…
The Replicant Dream Sequence (Blue PA14 Series) LP
LP version. Hieroglyphic Being, aka Jamal Moss, visited the Moog Sound Lab towards the end of 2016. Testing the lab through his prismatic rhythmic cubism meets synth expressionism methodology. 21st century Afro-futurism to the max. Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the encounter. Eldon Tyrell on the recordings: "I believe Bob Moog was (in the late 20th century) creating his modular system 55 synthesiser for artists yet to come... artists like Jamal Moss."Moog Recordings Library is n…
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Richard D James' classic album from 1992, re-pressed countless times but still sounding as vital as it did way back when. Still probably the most uplifting and nostalgic thing in the AFX catalogue...Best electronic music album of the late 20th century. A proper gateway drug to the myriad microcosms of Richard D. James a.k.a. Aphex Twin. 100% essential in any collection. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is a desperately sparse album: thin percussion and several haunted-synth lines are the only compon…
Trace. Recordings of Entropic Systems 1998-2018
Another exclusive and elusive release from Stephan Mathieu, a collection of rare and unreleased tracks, Trace is only available as a 2CD - printed in 150 copies only - which includes an instant download of the material. Remastered at Schwebung Mastering in 2018. Design by Caro Mikalef for Cabina. Few copies in stock.
Improvisations
G.I. Gurdjieff was an Armenian and Greek philosopher, spiritual teacher, and musician, whose teachings of The Fourth Way influenced thousands worldwide and created communities that still exist to this day. His goal was to teach humans to reach a higher consciousness out of the "waking sleep" he considered most to be living in. Music was an important part of his teachings and these brilliant harmonium improvisations were recorded in 1949 in Paris, just a short time before his death. Droning and e…
Orphee Ballet
Scored for Maurice Béjart's choreography to the 'Orphée Ballet', based on the Greek god Orpheus, this is one of Pierre Henry's finest works of musique concrète, the genre in which Henry was an early innovator and to which he devoted his career. After years working for the French national radio (RTF) and honing his studio chops on radio spots and editing/composition, Henry formed his own studio in 1958 and began working on modern dance and ballet and soundtrack work. Incorporating percussion, ind…
Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama / Sechs Studien
Herbert Eimert was a German music renaissance man, with his expertise ranging from theory to composition, editing, radio production, and criticism. He wrote numerous books on music theory, worked for years at the British occupational forces run Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. It was there in 1951 that he established a studio for electronic music that he ran until 1961, which hosted recordings from Stockhausen, Xenakis, and Cornelius Cardew, among others. This brilliant work begins on side A with 'Ep…
Reidarin Sähköiset Kuvat
Black vinyl, 500 copies. With liner notes by renowned musicologist and sound researcher Petri Kuljuntausta. Love Records (of Sperm fame) owner Otto Donner saw the commissioned work by electro-acoustic musicians Åke Andersson and Antero Honkanen, who in their daily life were sound technicians at the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, and immediately wanted to produce an album of the project. The 1977 album, which has ended up a very costly collector’s item, hasn’t been reissued in any format until…
Runes
Subliminal Sounds present the first ever vinyl release Kano's Runes, originally released in 1986. A unique, dark and sparse, tribal, minimal synth, drone, trance, new age recording from the mysterious Kano. Previously only issued as an obscure cassette back in 1986 which is now much sought after. Runes is much darker and brooding compared to its new age peers of the era. Drums, metallophone, synths, and more leads you on a deep inwards trip via damp, cold and foggy caves to the ancients. Runes a…
Don't Hold Onto The Clouds
Don't Hold Onto The Clouds is the fourth release on Kutiman's own record label Siyal following Space Cassava (2015), the White Monkey 7" (SYL 003EP, 2017), and 6AM
(SYL 002CD/LP, 2016). In the era of the brand, Kutiman is an anomaly. A
musician who's a video artist, a producer, an animator, and also the
unwilling star of one of Israel's most successful recent documentaries,
every one of his records contrasts with whatever it was that came
before. But that's fundamental to his appeal: no one…
'Split'
Highly synergistic split from Eleh and Caterina Barbieri featuring two sides of similar audio dimensions. These two electronic sound poems slowly unfurl rich timbre and harmonics with an austere stillness that is, somehow, ever-changing. It hardly matters whose side is whose.
Dimensions
"Sealed, original copies of this wonderful 1986 private-press home-studio Electronic Music outing, direct from the artist. While reissues and contemporary efforts unquestionably dominate the the current landscape of recorded music, among its more fascinating and rarely mentioned objects, are warehouse finds. These records, due to lack of demand upon their initial release, have lingered for decades on shelves and pallets, in closets and under beds, waiting for a new generation of sonic explorers…
Immersions
Rod Modell returns as Deepchord for his first solo release on Astral Industries since inaugurating the label with his sought-after ‘Lanterns’ EP. Consisting of two stunning long-form pieces split on one side each, 'Immersions' captures the emotive, halcyon sound that Rod has long become synonymous with. Opening with glistening ambient textures, ‘Immersion I’ grows into an 18-minute piece of deep rolling dub techno. On the other side ‘Immersion II’ paints pristine soundscapes of soft, lapping wav…
Elektronische Musik Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen (4
2017 "upgrade" of this early Creel Pone title; this replica edition includes all of the material from Reinhold Weber's two Corona-label LPs, "Elektronische Musik" & "Elektronische + Phonetische Kompositionen" - Creel Pones #009 & #099, respectively - along with everything from his two later Sound Star Ton LPs (again) "Elektronische Musik" & "Computermusik", all on four separate discs. Those who have already acquired the first two titles in earlier sweeps can simply purchase the CP 009-099.2 pack…
Pop Surgery
Following the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece I Don't Remember Now / I Don't Want To Talk About It and his brilliant follow-up Plaster Falling, Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began assembling his third and last album, Pop Surgery, in late 1982. While all of Bender's work draws from intimate home recordings – featuring the artist alone with various keyboards, analogue sequencers and tape delays – Pop Surgery remains the one that perhaps best distills his arrant deconstruction of the …
Applied Autonomy
The great Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot) returns with his first solo album in seven years, Applied Autonomy for Olaf Bender's Raster. A survey of what he’s been up to, as much as a statement of intent for here and now, Applied Autonomy reprises the fine balance of tuff-edged minimalism, spatial illusion and melodic delicacy that emerged with Redsuperstructure [2011], but ratcheting its effect with a renewed vigour for a frankly epic impact.As the title makes explicit, Robert’s 3rd solo album is c…
Le Robot, Symphonie Rouge, Symphonie Jaune
2018 edition. As I understand it, in the short history of Creel Pone thus far, there have been a few candidates for replication that were refused simply on the grounds that the music within fell outside of the “Core” EAI - or "Era of Interest" - represented by the series: 1948 - 1981; those dates on the foil-seal. Why these specific dates, you ask? Well, on October 5th, 1948, the ORTF broadcast Pierre Schaeffer’s “Cinq Etudes de Bruits,” hailed by many as the birth-date of Musique Concrète and s…
Elektron Musik Studion, Dokumentation 1-4
2018 repress. Issued privately by Stockholm’s "Elektron Musik Studion” (EMS)
between 1966 & 1973, the four “Dokumentation” LPs were something of a
seasonal report card of the studio’s charter output, “internally”
issuing key early works. Composers Ralph Lundsten
& Leo Nilsen - whose side-length “Aloha Arita” & “Kalejdoskop”
have only been issued in severely excerpted form in the interim, -
Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Jan W. Morthenson, Arne
Mellnäs, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, and Sv…
Electro/Acoustic, The Referee Has Vanished, Zaat
Lovely set of tape-music by composer Jack Tamul, issued in 1980
by Spectrum - not the Wergo sub-label, but the same Bear Mountain-area
powerhouse that released William Hoskins’ “Galactic Fantasy” &
William Strickland’s “An Electronic Visit to the Zoo” the year prior -
“recorded at the Jacksonville Museum of Arts & Sciences."Starting with a series of pieces incorporating acoustic
materials: “Genesis” is a choir piece peppered with synthesizer &
tape-manipulation; “Lament for Gettysburg” is …