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Tip! *300 copies limited edition.* First ever release of concrete and electronic collage works by Belgian underground sound explorer Jan Bruyndonckx. This album contains autonomous compositions, music for film and documentary; all independently recorded in his private studio between 1958 and 1965. A small collection of adventurous and mysterious sound evocations with text/poetry recited by Julien Schoenaerts.

Second Sleep presents Surface Ego by Lettera 22. Lettera 22 a project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro wich borns in the deep north east of Italy. Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and  factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields.  Really dinamic structures composed by tape loops, field recordings and feedbacks are destroyed by a violent muscular manipulation. What was concrete becomes distant and too co…

Fukubukuro are special surprise gift bags sold at stores in Japan at the New Year. This fukubukuro CD is being released by the CD shop/label Ftarri to celebrate its fresh start for 2018. Each of the 5 tracks is a solo piece by a different musician. Shuta Hiraki is an electronics musician who creates mainly drone music. He released the CD Unicursal on Kyou Records in 2017. Radio ensembles Aiida, a solo project by A. Mizuki, presents unique performances using shortwave radios as "instruments." Her…

**Limited edition of 500 numbered copies in a wooden box, including LP-sized 24-page booklet and t-shirt** :Zoviet*France: is an idiosyncratic group of anonymous music makers, gatherers of sound, and fabricators of unknown music. For nearly 40 years, they have explored and reported back from the liminal areas of music and composition, walking the margins where little is easily located and consensus reality melds with the hypnagogic and half-heard.  Having wilfully obscured themselves in Newcastl…

*300 copies* The 90's run of :zoviet*france: is, what I consider to be, a divisive time for long time fans of the group. Gone are the days of wild and experimental sound collages and grating industrial, ritualistic ambient banger's and in its place is a more subdued and droning affair. During this period especially the groups hallmark sound would be twisted and shifted into what amounted to a swill of limp krautrock inspired dark ambient. Their live albums especially, are long and desolate treks…

It's an all electronic affair, harmonically maximalist, predominantly symphonic synthetic, requiring active listening. Some pieces function as challengers of musical structural habits, provoking the short attention span culture, others present a problem-solution scenario, collectively via a neoteric noise aesthetic and detailed melodic weaving. Ultimately, the objective was to engineer an assortment of works full of sound, euphonic and vivid in nature.

Distorted Nude is Glenn Dick's new project after Find Hope In Darkness, marking a decisive shift from a wholly computer-based practice to one centred on electric guitar. The Sprawl is a single composed track built from improvised sessions with guitar, effect pedals and laptop, drawing on the Belgian underground's long tradition of droning post-rock. The piece flows between dark melancholic drone and more transcendental zones, holding the listener through patient, slow-burning architecture.

Crijns's first album for the label, in which he coins the term 'N-bient': ambient understood as the meeting point of nature (here, water) and acoustic instrumental writing (passages by classical ensembles). Several classes of material collide and combine - mechanical sound-fields, natural ambient, electronic textures, ensemble passages - folded into surreal, layered textures. An electro-acoustic music whose abstract elements pull the listener inward while the surface holds quiet.

Petrovic's debut album bringing together two previously separate projects. dp[a] takes dysprosody - a rare speech disorder marked by unconventional shifts of pitch, volume and rhythm - as a model for an alternative grammar of expression. hsh, commissioned for a Dansmakers Amsterdam dance duet, takes its title from the Moroccan haschoema and addresses social control and the silencing of women. Glitch-inflected computer music as ethical and linguistic inquiry.

First documentation of an improvised session by Jean-Luc Guionnet (church organ) and Miguel A. García (electronics) recorded at the Conservatorio Jesús Guridi in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2016. Across two pieces, the duo plays the dynamics of the electroacoustic field itself: the work is calibrated so that playing it at different volumes produces materially different listening experiences, with the threshold of audibility used as a compositional parameter. Particularly quiet, post-reductionist.

Score for indeterminate ensemble by Swiss composer Stefan Thut (2012), here realised by Cristián Alvear, Cyril Bondi and D'Incise. The piece is governed by three categories of sonic material - 0 for faintly coloured noise, 1 for amalgam of noise and pitch, 2 for pure pitch - circulated across six pages and as many rounds in an ever-shifting structure of repetition and turn. A rigorous taxonomy of sound material in the lineage of Wandelweiser and post-Cage indeterminacy.

Second album for the label, composed in China where van Huizen was based. Waanzintraan extends his investigation into what he calls 'the harmony of noise': not noise as genre signal but as aesthetic and visceral material, deployed within often consonant frames. The piece weaves processed field recordings from Shanghai and Xi'an into a sustained electronic discourse of contrasts, where harsh and resonant matter coexist within a unified compositional logic, on the ambient-noise threshold.

Composed during 2014, Haarvöl's second album consolidates the Portuguese trio's writing practice: a non-hierarchical compositional grammar where analogue, digital and electronic sources sit on equal footing, threaded with field recordings as structural rather than illustrative material. The trio favours density over experimentation for its own sake, building rigorously detailed cinematic textures whose internal consistency works through resonant correspondences rather than repetition.

On his first physical release, Glenn Dick steers Find Hope In Darkness away from the broken-beat and post-rock textures of his earlier digital work, redirecting it toward sustained drone form and the darker reaches of ambient music. The writing favours long, slowly modulating tonal masses over event-based gesture, working with low-register density, harmonic ambiguity and the gradual erosion of timbral edges. Dark ambient and isolationist drone treated as immersive interior.

Recorded in a single late-night session in 2005 - electric guitar by Alasdair Satchel processed live by Ruaridh Law (TVO) through AudioMulch - and first issued as an elusively limited CD-R on Diesel Combustible. Here remastered to cassette with an added Orphax remix. The music sits on the threshold between drone and live processing: feedback and slow textural beds opened up through computer-assisted transformation, weighing organic warmth against an abstract, unstable foreground.

Drawn from material composed between 2005 and 2007 and revised through 2010, the first standard CD under the Orphax name. Sietse van Erve's writing rests on minute compositional detail: slow-shifting drone fields that drift between long-tone minimalism, isolationist soundscape and lo-fi experimental ambient. A deepening of Orphax's investigation into psychedelic, mind-altering atmosphere through reduced means, where harmonic stillness and slow textural accretion carry the structural weight.

Built entirely from a single acoustic source - a rare zither-family instrument of 114 strings, with eleven chromatic chord banks switchable between major, minor and suspended-fourth voicings via semitone levers, plus three octaves of plucked melody strings. Across two impromptu sessions, Sandy's playing is processed live by Rose: long sympathetic resonances, prepared techniques and varied attack points open a suspended landscape between minimalism, drone and modern classical.

First compilation in a series where other musicians reframe pieces from Orphax's ongoing Dream Sequence cycle, an open-ended sequence of experimental ambient and drone works. Haarvöl, Jos Smolders and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) each take a different Dream Sequence as point of departure, returning quiet contemplative re-readings that fold their own languages into the source. A study in remix-as-translation across the Dutch and Portuguese electronic-experimental axes.

Nazlo Records presents Unknown Legacies by If, Bwana and Emerge. Transparent recycled tapes and 2-sided printed j-card edition of 40.

Digipack CD with Obi * First-ever officially licensed compilation of this kind Artwork by noted illustrator/designer Koichi Sato New liner notes by Mark “Frosty” McNeill Double LP housed in wide–spine jacket * Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980–1988 hovers vibe–wise between two distinct poles within Light In The Attic’s acclaimed Japan Archival Series—Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980–1990 and Pacific Breeze: Japan…

"Jeff Carney's sophomore effort for audioFile (1989) could not have been criticized were it to have remained in similar territory as the electronic wall of sound he had created on Imperfect Space Journeys. Instead, he created a more sparse, evolving tapestry of analog timbres. Using an exclusively vintage analog arsenal and recording live without overdubbing, Carney pushed forward with new ideas and uniquely developing sweeps of filter madness. The side-long 'Questions (Unanswered)' is immensely…

Acclaimed UK electronic musician Kevin Richard Martin (The Bug, King Midas Sound) releases a stunningly powerful rescore of Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal 1972 movie Solaris on Phantom Limb.

** Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies ** "February 2021. During a stay in an isolated house in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, I returned to four compositions Renaud Bajeux had sent me a few months prior. I had listened intently and enjoyed them very much, but in this new setting, at this very moment, they took on another dimension. For several days, I went on long walks in the surrounding nature and this album, all in half-light, became an obsession. In sync with the perfection of this moment, wi…

The abrasive, epochal debut. Moebius and Roedelius push organ, guitar and homemade electronics through banks of effects into three untitled slabs of proto-ambient drift. Year zero for German electronic music, still startling fifty years on.

** 2xCD digipack** Waveshaper Media presents Electron Music/Shore Leave, a new LP by former Pere Ubu synthesist and electronic music trailblazer, Allen Ravenstine. The LP is comprised of two EPs (1 per vinyl side), the first two parts in Raventine’s new Tyranny of Fiction series. Waveshaper Media first came into contact with Ravenstine when we interviewed him in 2012 for our modular synthesizer documentary I Dream Of Wires. For those in the know, Allen Ravenstine has been one of the most creativ…

After his critically acclaimed roto-dub 12" Riddims du Lieu-dit (2018), Low Jack produces Breizh, a highly articulate hybrid mix CD edited from an Editions Gravats showcase, showing his strange meeting of industrial cut-up dancehall and organic artificial intelligence. Originally produced digitally for the Hospital Productions CDMX earthquake benefit showcase in Mexico City last year, this is the first physical document of this alien mix. As always, Phillipe Hallais' sophisticated and cryptic ar…

"First tape release for Hinterzimmer Records as well as for Herpes Ö DeLuxe, coming in time to a short tour celebrating their 15th year of existence. Ember consists of two side long tracks (both around 18 minutes). Absolument Pas is a complex, multi-part composition and has already been released last year on a split-LP with German band S/T in an edition of 100 copies only. Fur Wahr is a slowly evolving psychedelic track they already recorded a while ago but never found an appropriate possibility…

* Edition of 200 12" Turquoise Colored Vinyl. Hand-numbered. * "Odeyalo" is a Russian word that means "blanket". This blanket is made from many rags. It's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, but the main thing is that you can cover yourself with this blanket. Foresteppe is the musical project by Egor Klochikhin, artist and history teacher from Russia. Foresteppe's music is a constant experiment with the sounds of tape cassettes, acoustic instruments, field recordings and electronic…

Monte Cazazza is a San Francisco-based industrial music pioneer, artist and filmmaker and a genuinely unique artist whose influence on culture in the 20th century has yet to be recognized. The Cynic is Monte's first album since the early '80s. His original releases were through Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records and San Fran's Subterranean Records. He was regularly featured in the seminal RE/Search magazine and books. In the early '90s, Mute Records gathered most of his earlier recordings to…

17 years later, Pump’s second CD, Sombrero Fallout, has just been released by the Belgian label, Plague Recordings. Pump was a group of sorts, comprising David Elliott and Andrew Cox. They met at univ 30 years ago, formed a group called MFH, released 5 cassette albums in the early 80s' heyday of cassette labels, changed our name to Pump, released an LP in 1987, recorded a follow-up which was supposed to come out in 1993 but for various boring reasons never quite happened, then we kind of fizzled…

All in all Mahlzeit is a collaborative release, but in a special way as some tracks were created by Ralf Wehowsky (of P16.D4 fame) using sounds by TITO and vice versa, but some were just done by one part of the project, assimilalting suggestions from the other part. It mixes electroacoustic composition, early electronic music and bizarre Kraut-era avantgarde.

Songs’ by Inverz is granny records’ third release following the split release between eventless plot and good luck mr gorsky (2008) and the compilation cd ‘bits of quartz glitter’ (2004). Inverz is the moniker under which Savvas Metaxas records his music the last years. The ‘songs’ album was recorded during the winter of 2008 at inverz’s home and the compositions were built upon various layers of electric and acoustic guitars, vintage synths and field recordings. The album is enhanced with two c…

Granny Record’s 5th release is the self titled album by Athens duo, Free Piece Of Tape. The album’s structure is based on nine compositions. Although they have been recorded through deifferent periods of time, the result ends up homeomorphus and coherent. The strucuture of the compositions is based in its bigger part on improvisational forms that evolve and change over in real time.  The characteristic sound of Free Piece Of Tape derives form the coexistance of self-made musical devices along wi…

Four-CD box collecting reworks of Orphax's 44 Sketches of 44 Seconds, in which Sietse van Erve handed forty-four short source sounds to friends with an open brief to take them outside their usual practice. The contributing artists - TVO/Ruaridh Law, Modelbau, Fani Konstantinidou, Machinefabriek, Jos Smolders, Elif Yalvaç, Siavash Amini and Orphax himself - produce over four hours of new music, each retaining their compositional fingerprint while submitting to a constrained shared palette.

First collaborative album by Philipp Bückle and Martijn Pieck (Cinema Perdu), grown out of their shared track for the Moving Music compilation. The vocabulary fuses field recordings with heavily treated modular synthesis to construct what the artists call a fictitious urban landscape on the other side of the door. Seven pieces unfold as a soundwalk through a city that does not exist - landmarks, brief encounters, machine sounds, muffled hallways - shot through with provisional sparks of light.

Second solo album by Gagi Petrovic, mastered by Jos Smolders. The pieces are performed on GEST, an instrument Petrovic designed himself with STEIM: a light-sensor interface that translates hand gestures breaking light beams into commands for a granular-synthesis environment built on audio recordings. The album frames itself as an exit from arbitrary expectations of what music should be, foregrounding intuitive performance and indeterminate structure within a precise compositional architecture.

* 2LP set, imported from Japan. Limited edition pressing of 400 from* R.N.A. Organism landed themselves a place on the legendary Vanity Records roster after sending label head Agi Yuzuru a cassette by air mail in order to fool him into thinking they were from overseas. The ploy worked, and the group soon entered the studio for free-form sessions of minimalistic, rhythmic excursions played on an array of synths, drum machines and other gadgets. Working with producer Kaoru Sato (later of EP-4), RN…

Neon was one of the most active bands in the 80s Italian new wave scene. The band was born first as a duo at the end of the 70's, a part of Florence's underground culture, they soon stood out for their Kraftwerk inspired synth sound, which made their style a unique 80s specimen, together with a new-romantic and post-punk thought similar to bands like Joy Division, Ultravox and Human League.In 1980, the band got off to an electronic start with the single "Information of death", and later, through…

Maurizio Marsico is one of the most extrovert, versatile and prolific musicians on the Italian scene. Always fascinated by artificial sounds and the interaction between man and machine, Marsico is an emblematic example of those musicians who - despite being born in an academic environment - deal with modernity and technology. During his career he has been able to range from austere experimentation to typically 80s Italodisco, from collaborations with RAI programme to cosmic electronics. In all, …

Special discounted pricing. In the Italian panorama of the '70s, Chrisma (Christina Moser and Maurizio Arcieri) skirted the common rules of Italian pop (the aura of progressive rock or the first wave of prolific folk singers); in fact, they created Italian new wave from scratch. After the release of their 1977 debut album Chinese Restaurant (SPITTLE 051LP) -- so far from the punk revolution and so deep into the algid dynamics of the Mittel-European sound -- came Hibernation, their creative peak …