Smelter
Second album by DNMF, the duo formed between Machinefabriek and the Dutch droning free-jazz combo Dead Neanderthals. Across some forty minutes Smelter develops a highly dynamic amalgam of metal, drone and dark ambient, the heaviness of the Neanderthals' instrumental mass folded into Zuydervelt's electroacoustic processing. The result moves between glacial expansive stasis and dense ferrous noise, holding the two registers in productive friction without resolving them into either.
Musiques Électroacoustiques
**Original LP from the 80s, few copies in stock. Copies are unplayed and new, covers might have some wear here and there due to long storage** The vision of electronic music’s rise - musique concrète and synthesis, during the post-war period, has historically favoured the lens of innovators in Europe and The United States, particularly those associated with the studios like those connected to Princeton and Columbia Universities, Groupe de Recherche Musicales, The San Francisco Tape Music Center,…
Amsterdam CS
Cinema Perdu turns the spaces of Amsterdam Centraal Station - the roofs, the three access tunnels, the IJ-passage - into compositional material. The everyday sonic vocabulary remains constant (announcements, suitcases, conversation) but is reshaped by the changing acoustics of each space. The pieces are built in a Cagean attitude: not romantic vignettes of the station nor pure documentation, but interpretations of how each architecture stages its own atmosphere.
Todo Ubu
Mental Experience present a reissue of Todo Ubu, a record of dark minimal synth electronics and experimental sounds by the mysterious project Los Iniciados, originally released in 1983. Highly influenced by The Residents, they were related to legendary Spanish synth-pop band Aviador Dro. This is their rare and sought-after second album, originally released in 1983 on the DRO label as the soundtrack to a puppet stage play, based on Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (1896). Presented with remastered sound wi…
La Marca de Anubis + El Cantor de Jazz
Originally released in 1982 on the DRO label, La Marca De Anubis was the debut album by Los Iniciados, an obscure project related to legendary Spanish synth-pop band Aviador Dro. Always shrouded in mystery, Los Iniciados decided to hide their identities behind masks. The only visible and confirmed member was Arco Iris (Aviador Dro member Marta Cervera). According to rumors, behind the other nicknames were Biovac N (Servando Carballar, founder of Aviador Dro and DRO label head) and members of Spa…
Tesis
Espacial Discos present a reissue of Aviador Dro's second album, Tesis,
originally released in 1983. In 1983, Aviador Dro, the legendary
Spanish synth-pop band, are at the height of their powers: their own DRO
record label is working full time, they share management with famous
Spanish new wave bands like Alaska y Los Pegamoides, Los Nikis,
their songs are heavily played on the radio and they play numerous gigs
all across Spain. 1983 was also when the band decide to create their
most ambi…
Alas Sobre El Mundo
Espacial Discos present a reissue of Aviador Dro's first, self-released album, Alas Sobre El Mundo,
originally released in 1982. Legendary Spanish synth-pop band Aviador
Dro was formed in Madrid in the late 1970s, influenced by bands like Devo, Kraftwerk, and Cabaret Voltaire
as well as by science fiction and movements like punk, futurism,
anarchism, and Dada. Dressed in matching space-age uniforms, the group
created a particular synth-pop sound, which they defined as "tecno-pop".
Signed t…
Peripherad Debris
Second album in Haarvöl's trilogy, picking up where Bombinate left off. Where the earlier work announced its sonic intention (bombinate, to hum), Peripherad Debris turns toward the conceptual periphery and to remnants of what has already been said: away from the centre, toward the outer turbulence where residual materials remain most stimulating. The album moves between quasi-ambient stillness and dense mass-sound nearly turning to noise, holding all positions in the same hesitant qualifier.
You Are The Universe
A remix/recycle project by Preliminary Saturation (Steffan de Turck and Wouter Jaspers) built entirely from Jos Smolders's Textures and Mobiles (CONV, 2004), an album originally derived from a strictly limited palette of DTMF and CCITT telephone tones and pure interfering sine waves. The duo reprocesses Smolders's source material and folds in their own additions across tape, contact microphones, field recording and synthesis. A recursive electroacoustic exercise within a closed lineage.
Kulverzuchter
Bas van Huizen's third album for the label, and the point at which he turns explicitly toward the minimal and the ambient after the visceral noise of Kluwekracht and Waanzintraan. Kulverzuchter is hazy, ambiguous and understated: textures toned down and surface less layered, with most of the activity unfolding just beneath. Track titles are absurd compound Dutch neologisms; the artwork was made entirely from his daughter's first drawings. A study in subtle contradiction within an ambient frame.
The Hymn Of The 7th Illusion
Pan Sonic, arranged and edited by Barry Adamson, with an additional re-arrangement by The Hafler Trio. Here, Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic have composed a 12-minute music piece that is performed by the Hljomeyki Choir
and Pan Sonic. Originally released on CD by Icelandic label Kitchen
Motors in 2001, now released on vinyl for the first time by Cold Spring.
Produced by Barry Adamson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Pan Sonic. The cover
art features Icelandic electronic composer Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson…
III Hymne
First time LP reissue from the original 1985 master tapes on 180gr vinyl. Including liner notes. On 'III Hymne' Jean Hoyoux further explores the electronic instruments he also used on 'Planètes' which results in a marvelous album that in some way connects the dots between ambient, library, cosmic and spiritual music. Two years after his debut double LP 'Planètes' Jean Hoyoux recorded three new compositions in the home build studio, Madame Bois. In his later published book 'Noos, la naissance à l…
Monolog
Dark Entries is proud to present the first ever vinyl issue of Jon Krocker’s debut album ‘Monolog’ originally released on cassette in 1983. Jon is from Winnipeg, Canada and got his start as half of the synth noise duo Dialog. In 1981-82, while studying for a BA in Film Studies, he would go to the studio and practice. No writing or patch memories, composing on the fly. His set up consisted of a Minimoog, Oberheim Two Voice, Roland RS-202, Roland Space Echo, EML 400, Roland DR 55, Roland System 10…
Acezantez
Originally released in 1977. Rich textural pieces constructed from an unnotatable, intricate interplay of percussive squeals, scrapes and rattles, parched and pitchless woodwinds, and dislocated keyboards On the evidence here, Acezantez founded by the versatile Croatian composer and instrumentalist Dubravko Detoni merit wider recognition. Contemporary Croatian Masterpiece !Here are supposedly stylistic affinities between early Nurse With Wound and Detoni's music. This Detoni (born February 22, 1…
And The Light Beams Will Guide The Way
Lullabies for Insomniacs keep their remit steeply psychedelic with a 2nd invocation of Raga drone by Unearth Noise complemented by his Dreamspeak collaboration with vocalist Mariam Zohra D, a.k.a. Myrh On the first disc Roger Berkowitz a.k.a. Unearth Noise goes dolo down a wormhole of plasmic drones and glossolalia vox echoing the worldly psychedelia of Lullabies For Insomniacs’ prior reissue of László Hortobágyi’s ‘Transreplica Meccano’, leading to exceptional highlights in the free-floating c…
Artificial Intelligence
Mannequin Records presents a trilogy of reissues from the avantgarde Italian-born producer Doris Norton, "Norton Computer For Peace" (1983), "Personal Computer" (1984), "Artificial Intelligence" (1985). Apple's first music "endorsement" (later IBM consultant) and early Roland affiliate, Doris Norton is one of the most important women pioneer in the use of synths and in the early electro / computer music. While the beat-oriented style of Norton’s music aligns her with such global fellow-traveler…
Panama / Suez
A-Ton is proud to announce Panama / Suez, the first EP by trio Oren Ambarchi, Konrad Sprenger and Phillip Sollmann (aka Efdemin). The three multi-instrumentalists collaborated with the goal of creating subtly shifting musical passageways: sonic routes that run between continents of musical category. The results are two variations of kraut-y, groove-based post-techno that unfurl through mutating polyrhythms and chiming, ethereal guitar play – a rare moment of guitar and techno in deep embrace. Wi…
NTS Sessions
**One-time pressing, sold out at source** 12LP in printed inner sleeves with foil block to each cover. Housed in a two-part rigid slipcase wrapped in printed offset stock with foil block to cover. DL card insert. Autechre weigh in the labyrinthine 8 hour ‘NTS Sessions’, parsing the guts of their hard drives for gold and other precious materials dating back to 2011 The duo were initially commissioned to do a DJ residency on NTS, following their show from early 2016, but what transpired is closer…
Homage To Dick Raaijmakers
LP version. 140 gram vinyl. Thomas Ankersmit's new album for Shelter Press Homage To Dick Raaijmakers is an all-analog electronic music composition inspired by legendary Dutch composer/electronic and tape music pioneer and multimedia artist, Dick Raaijmakers (1930-2013). The work takes inspiration from Raaijmakers's music from the 1960s, his texts on sound composition like "Cahier M", and notes on his own music. On this recording, Ankersmit plays Serge Modular feedback and sine/pulse/random gene…
Conduit
2018 release ** "Originally conceived for live context employing high volume playback and extended duration, Conduit pushes the parameters of musical composition and perception. Minimal in construction, applying high frequency staccatissimo that gradually turns in on itself, Kaori Suzuki's latest output delivers a striking twenty-six minutes of intoxicating computer music. A remarkable statement. Kaori Suzuki (b. Tokyo) is based out of Oakland, CA. Her musical works are concerned with our inner-…