The Epidemic Symphony No.9
2006 release ** "We've long championed the work of Maurizio Bianchi, the grim electronic sculptor whose work in the early '80s paralleled the likes of Whitehouse, Ramleh, and Matthew Bower's early power electronics project Total. As much as we would like to ramble on about Bianchi's intriguing musical and existential history in reference to this record, it's almost a moot point as it's really hard to discern any sounds that bear the signature of Mr. Bianchi. Don't let that caveat scare you off f…
Persian Electronic Music: Yesterday and Today 1966-2006
The Sub Rosa label presents the work of Alireza Mashayekhi and Ata Ebtekar/Sote, two essential, key luminaries in the so far very unknown electronic music scene as composed in Iran from the '60s until today. These Iranian music masters work on ancestral structures to create something radically new, travelling around the world as vivid creators, working through the hazards of history. Alireza Mashayekhi (b. 1940) is a pioneer Iranian avant-garde composer whose ideas and works have been performed …
supplementary benefit
side 1 of the lp comprises full length versions of the the first two storm bugs singles; namely the 5 track table matters ep (1980) and the metamorphose single (1981). whilst tracks from these singles have appeared on compilations before, this is the first time they are being presented in their entirety. this means the first re-issue of the spoof industrial rockabilly track tin and the vocal version of make customer matter. the tracks have been digitally re-mastered from virgin un-played copies …
early recordings 77-83
who of you does not know and searches for the wave-classic lp “trust no women”. the performance and video/music-artists zyx from vienna have looked into their archive and are now providing a finest selection of wave-classic-material which has been unreleased on vinyl to this point.
early recordings 1979-83 Lp-2
In the early 1980's, Ptose emerged from Niort, France. They were a trio who released a couple of albums, earning some comparisons to The Residents, and then they dissapeared from view - terrific minimal proto-techno stuff here, highly recommended
C.O.I.T. - A Collection of Isolated Tracks 1981-1988
Eclectic French group (for some time also known as CO2 which started out in the early 80's and still active. Their music ranges from new wave to weird sound experiments. Awesome double LP release in a deluxe gatefold sleeve. "The ultimate compilation with rare, unreleased and demo material with early works of the French goth-legend."
Snatch Paste: An Assortment of Snatch Tapes
Compilation of one of the best DIY-tape labels of the early '80s compiled by Philip Sanderson (former member of Alien Brains) from the three Snatch Tape Compilations 1-3 (originally released (1978-81) with the odd extra bonus drawn from other Snatch Tapes." Artists include: David Jackman, Storm Bugs, Mannequin Movies, Philip Sanderson, Tony Clough, The N4s, Alien Brains, Karl's Empty Body, Orior and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Limited vinyl edition of 500 copies.
Headlock
Reissue of the classic new generation Musique Concrete LP, this is an historic document - with extra contemporary material pursuing the rich drone techniques for which Thomas Dimuzio has more recently become known. Extensively remastered for this release.
Mort aux vaches. Random Dilettantes
Back in stock! 'composition: reinhold friedl this cd should be played with random or shuttle function zeitkratzer will soon be the center of innovative music. This project promises to be endlessly fascinating, the Wire magazin wrote three years ago. Three years later, after a lot of different projects, inluding zeitkratzerÕs already legendary cooperation with Lou Reed, international critics agree: zeitkratzer is the best contemporary music ensemble in the world (entrevista Lissboa, dna Roma).…
Forwaard
Since almost forty years z'ev belongs to the absolute fore front of experimental music. Playing percussive music he gained a lot of attention, but in more recent years he returned to working with electronic tape manipulation. One aspect is working with other people, such as Francisco Lopez or Kasper Toeplitz. On 'Forwaard' he uses field recordings made by Frans de Waard (hence the title), which are 'recoded' by z'ev into a forty minute, densely layered pattern of musique concrete. Many of the wa…
Production and decay of spatial relations vs Reproduction
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Zev studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, Die Stadt is proud to announce the re-release of Production and Decay of Spacial Relations for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six recodings entitled Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations made by Zev in May/June 2005. Back in the day, Zev used to bring boxes over from Holland when he would come back to New York City which he woul…
Prisoner
Hailed as a hero of underground film in the 1960's, director Masao Adachi presents the shocking new film 'Yuheisha (Terrorist)' after a hiatus of 35 years. The soundtrack was composed by Yoshihide otomo, who is known worldwide for transcending the boundaries of jazz, improv, and noise. As a producer and film composer, he has gained critical acclaim for the soundtracks of 'Heart, beating in the dark', 'Canaria', and 'Boku Wa Imoto Ni Koi Wo Suru'. Also appearing in the film and playing acoustic g…
red v green
Hailing from opposite ends of the experimental music spectrum Andy Moor and yannis kyriakides have been making music together for over 5 years. The fifteen tracks recorded here are a result of three improvisation sessions held in 2003. The album is an exciting blend of the visceral and the refined, the raw and the spontaneous that marks the opening chapter of a blossoming collaborative partnership.4 page digipak with a 36-page booklet of Andy Moor's photography.
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2006 release ** Elaborate cardboard sleeve. Xavier Charles, clarinetist and electro-acoustical experimentalist (he uses variety of objects, which he throws into vibrating loud-speaker), played on the first edition of legendary Musica Genera Festival in 2002. Back then, he deeply impressed the polish audience with his charisma, therefore we were waiting for his firther performances with great anticipation, and now we are happy about this album. It's a recording of a live performance on board of M…
s/t
Wrikken is a collaboration between Dutchmen Joris van Perlo and Ivo Bol. Both having played in several punk and new age-bands, both being bored with those genres, both discovering the possibilities of electronic composition and processing...The combination of electronics and their former acoustic instruments, or rather the electronic re-interpretation of those, is like a red line through their work. Although not recognisable as such, the sound of wrikken is based on sampling and distillating the…
Collection
This CD is a collection of the Wolf Eyes w/ John Wiese 7" and two CD-Rs originally released in very limited editions on American Tapes in 2003-04. Digitally re-mastered by Wiese this year, and finally available all together.
Disintegration loop 1.1
Disintegration Loop 1.1 consists of one static shot of lower Manhattan billowing smoke during the last hour of daylight on September 11th, 2001, set to the decaying pastoral tape loop Basinski had recorded in August, 2001. Shot from Basinski's roof in Williamsburg Brooklyn, this is an actual documentary of how he and his neighbors witnessed the end of that fateful day. It is a tragically beautiful cinema verite elegy dedicated to those who perished in the atrocities of September 11th, 2001
The art of buzzing (Excuse the delay vol.1)
2001 release ** "A terrific drone album here, on this first solo-release, Werner Durand presents six works all dealing with the buzzing phenomena. This phenomena is found in many musical cultures around the world as an integral part of the sound, eg. with chinese and korean flutes, ethiopian and basque string instruments and also the Indian tanpura. The results are stunning: dense drones with pulsing, buzzing, dizzying movements swarm with an intoxicating cadence. Recorded in multi-track, the so…
Untitled Songs
2005 release ** This new double CD compilation project departs by celebrating the seminal Gesang der Jünglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen. 21 sound artists and composers share their views upon this piece and reflect its groundbreaking dimension, as for the first time in 1956 it fused electronic and acoustic sounds within a new idea of sonic and listening space. With: @c, Achim Wollscheid, Andre Gonçalves, Andrew Deutsch, Anna Homler, Anthony Pateras+Robin Fox, Asmus Tiechens, cmv Hausswolf, Dale L…
THIS PLACE IS DREAMING
An attempt to convert Brussels' sonic reality into music. Mutated environmental sound materials gathered in Brussels, remixes of interviews with inhabitants and extracts of installations are flanked with atmospheric compositions made with sounds from other cities and countries.