Serie03.mp3
2006 release ** A CDr-mp3 compilation in an edition of 150 copies.. Featuring: Longmo, Kenneth Kirschner, Yuzo Kako, Zimoun, Autobam, Asher, Mahmoud Refat, Pe Lang. "Serie03.mp3” (the unusually calculated follow-up to “Serie01”) offers nine leerraum originals by a wide roster of artists, some of whom are regular guests on these pages. Kenneth Kirschner’s study on silence “november 18, 2004 et al.” has even be discussed on tokafi before and it is a true gift that its magical play with single, sus…
Goal! Mundial
HDK is pleased to present a sensational new album, which will let you relive some of the most legendary moments in sport! Graham Simpson's "Goool! Mundial 1958-1994" is a journey through nearly forty years of football, punctuated by some of the most exciting tournaments of all: the World Cup. Sports stories masterfully told through the melodies of a magnificent musician HDK fans have come to love thanks to his previous albums "Mythology" and "Electrical Storm at the Micro Station." We're talking…
Dungeon Crawling Micro-Synth Music
Hello! This is the complete anthology containing all EPs published in 2024 by Gnomic Dagger. An essential tape for all fans of micro-dungeon crawling! Gnomic Dagger creates synth adventures on Hobbit-sized hardware instruments; handheld synths, micro samplers, and sounds from mini keyboards and vintage half-rack modules.
The Endless Tunnels Of Enlandin
"Several hundred years ago the Mage of Enlandin built a dungeon complex beneath his castle to protect all of his treasures and to serve as a last defense. The army of a neighboring country attacked, pounding the walls with catapults and blasting his defenses with spells.
The Mage and his faithful companions fled into the dungeon as the castle collapsed. Believing the Mage of Enlandin to be buried with his treasures, the attacking Lord ordered his men to dig through the rubble. Before they could …
The Day of Forever
HDK is honored to present a new artist, Alo, who debuts with an album of romantic Berlin-school electronic music in which each track is a fragment of a suspended world, a contemplative and restless electronic experience: hypnotic sequences, pulsating synthesizers, and melancholic textures evoke abandoned cities, decaying technologies, and forgotten memories.
The album (and its title) is a tribute to the English writer J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) and his frightening imaginative power.
Bloodsport Gambler
Bloodsport Gambler is a table-top board game for 1 or 2 players, focuses on a tense & seedy story of risk, luck, and the efforts that sway fate in your favor. Thrust into desperation by swelling debts, you must gamble on the foul pit fights of Ghoulmorrah in a last-ditch struggle to pay off a merciless syndicate of moneylenders. With looming payments fast approaching, the only way to beat the odds is to sleuth, scheme, and sabotage. While a sure bet is favorable to warding off debt collectors, t…
Pirateborg
For the first explorers, the Dark Caribbean was paradise. They had found only deserted islands and rich treasures. It was only when thousands left their overcrowded and corrupted homelands to colonize the islands that the Scourge appeared… Frightening screams echoed across the beaches, and from the night-black waves the undead rose. Terror spread like wildfire. First they came one at a time, then entire hordes, and soon the settlements were submerged by rivers of lifeless, nameless creatures. Po…
Kapitel 1: Fornhistoria
HDK launches its "Educational Series" with this cassette of experimental Swedish music on a prehistoric theme. Suitable for all children in primary and secondary schools, it will accompany them in their learning of history. The cassette is also ideal for adults with rather limited historical knowledge. Unfortunately, for now, it is only available in Swedish. The cassette includes a final test for self-assessment of learning.
No Future
*100 copies limited edition* “No Future” wasn’t the first work I listened to by Runes Order (known until shortly before as Order 1968), but it was certainly the one that most deeply disturbed my mind. It appeared as a cassette release, limited to 30 copies (the charm of bygone times…), in September 1993: a work that, as I mentioned, puzzled even the most devoted followers of the Genoese project. A project that, until then, had trodden the path of ritual industrial music, with a keen eye on our a…
Mothercare
2003 release ** Bloodyminded is a heavy electronic band, formed in New York, in 1995, after the dissolution of the pioneering American post- industrial noise group Intrinsic Action, founded by Mark Solotroff, in Chicago, in 1984. Bloodyminded’s live shows are exceptionally energetic and are characterized by physical engagement, layers of abrasive analog synthesizer, aggressive vocals, and abundant feedback.
Botul À La Campagne
2014 release ** "There’s an incredible amount being offered up on Botul à la campagne, which takes ideas and brings out so much that the average musician wouldn’t think to do. Côté and Kese both manage to brilliantly bring forth so many different ideas and techniques, and string them all together into one coherent album package that just works. Botul à la campagne sees jazz music turn into dark ambient music turn into classical music without any notion or effort whatsoever. There’s some wonderfu…
Running on autokinetic
2007 release (RARE) ** Edition of 100 hand numbered copies in a green spray-painted C-shell case. Classic Ashtray Navigations, two hallucino-kinetic tracks.
Post-Asiatic: Lost War Dream Music
2007 release ** "After my recent trip to Asia, my interest in oriental music has definitely greatly increased and then this release fell into my lap... Serendipity or coincidence, I eagerly went through this double bill, listening to all the nuances and influences I could trace back to my trip or recognize the origin of... There is definitely a lot going on but sadly the recording quality didn't seem to have always been determining factor in the choice of material. The release is dubbed as a CD …
Hums
2009 release ** "... We faced each other around a large table in Gandolfo's luminous flat. It felt like a group of scientists at a conference. Until we started playing. The sessions were hard and long. Sometimes with saturated and wrenching sound. Then we walked to restaurants along streets of collapsing buildings with strange transient sculptures of torn cloth. The result is for me I hear: being able to move around inside the music... the components without clean finalised surfaces. But aureole…
Cassette Culture - Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet-Age (Book, Expanded Edition)
The definitive chronicle of the global hometaper movement. Jerry Kranitz traces the underground network of cassette traders, bedroom labels, and mail-art collaborators that flourished from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Expanded second edition with new interviews and comprehensive index.
Points of Inaccessibility
Listening to Points of Inaccessibility is an encounter with a sound field that is constantly in flux. Elements surface briefly, shift position and recede, creating a sense of motion that resists stable interpretation. The music moves between closeness and vastness, carrying traces of memory while withholding a clear point of resolution.
The album’s visual identity completes the project’s conceptual arc. In Mexico City, where Irisarri and Schilp first met, Daniel Castrejón transformed stills from…
Array
Rosy Parlane is a musician from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. His work combines piano, guitar, electronics, and field recordings to create music that sits somewhere between composition and environment – less about performance, more about presence. Parlane first became known in the early 1990s as part of Thela, a trio whose exploratory sound bridged noise, improvisation, and minimal rock forms.
Later, as one half of Parmentier with Dion Workman, he explored digital minimalism an…
Open Window
Studio Mule is proud to announce the latest release from one of Japan’s most respected producers and musicians, Kuniyuki Takahashi. This new single was created with the atmosphere of the listening bar Studio Mule in mind, and showcases Kuniyuki’s unmatched ability to bridge dance music with sophisticated musical expression.
The A-side, »Open Window«, is a modern classical piece inspired by the light and breeze flowing into his Sapporo studio — an uplifting, deeply moving composition. On the B-si…
Hidden
The inimitable Richard Youngs returns to Black Truffle with this third full-length for the label, »Hidden«. Like »CXXI« and »Modern Sorrow«, »Hidden« unfolds across two side-long pieces at once eminently listenable and possessed of the ›bloody-minded‹ dedication to having an idea and sticking with it’ that Youngs himself has identified as one of the key qualities of his work.
At the core of both pieces are rapid, randomised arpeggios generated with a Moog Grandmother, hypnotic patterns that woul…