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…
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.
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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…
Neuer Almanach
*50 copies limited edition* On his new cassette album Neuer Almanach, Felix-Florian Tödtloff creates a reflective narrative of electronic ambience, flowing guitar renderings and field recording observations. All created in Spain, Germany, Georgia and France, these pieces are filled with pondering musical intent without the need for borders.
VC:02 / VC:11
*Presented in a custom metal-plate sleeve - with a transparent film overlay* Virtual Culture, the visionary electronic project known for pushing the boundaries of contemporary electronic music, returns with its latest album VC:02 / VC:11. This ambitious release blends immersive synth textures, pulsating rhythms, and exploratory atmospheres to craft a sound both hypnotic and forward-thinking.
Virtual Culture’s ongoing dedication to sonic exploration cements this release as an essential listen in …
Childhood Stories #1
2013 release ** Cardboard sleeve. Childhood Stories is an art project with sociological approach: it composes narrations of individuals about their childhood in order to create an authentic image of the social environment they grew up in. Therefore we gather material about childhood in a specific country by using a questionnaire. The answers are anonymized, translated and used as literary material, they are condensed or cut up, then arranged in a dramatic text – that’s Regina’s part. Christian c…
Violent Identity
2006 release ** Super jewel box packaging. Samhain is already fixed star of slovac industrial scene and after more interesting compilation it's comming with it's in fact debut album. During existaton of this electronical compilations it´s sound was substantialy changed, but noise roots which was strong inspiration at the beginning are still identical in this powerfull electronical act which is huge complex of consistent athmospheres, industrial blocks, krystal electronics and experienced vocals.…
Malignant Shields
2007 release ** Super jewel box packaging. Endless transformations and experimenting with sound is natural phase that brings Disharmony in their next work. This time fifth stop and mapping of their territory, Disharmony opens their next phase and with their new album opens the gates into the space of electro underground. Combining industrial elements and idm puts Disharmony into the modern, electro revolution and with this opens next phase and possibility to look into the ambiental waters covere…
X Frames
2006 release ** Super jewel box packaging. In order, it's 4th album of Bratislava's dark-electro project. This time the protagonists are maping their early period of time and on their new release they´re presenting works, regarding to release Moonflower. The tracks on this CD are actually unreleased retrospective and the material, which appeared on this CD leaves in the listeners the phases where Disharmony keeps moving. Rhythmical, hybrid structures. Atmospherical spaces and film moods meet on …
The Colloidal Semantika Sessions Vol. I
*2025 stock. 60 copies limited edition* SShe Retina Stimulants, the renowned experimental electronic project led by Paolo Bandera, releases The Colloidal Semantika Sessions Vol. I on limited-edition cassette via Swiss label Luce Sia.
Paolo Bandera, active since 1994, explores industrial experimentation through SShe Retina Stimulants, drawing from his broader work with Sigillum S and other ventures. This release continues his ultra-ventennale investigation into electronic industrial sounds, inspi…
Engravings
Created by electronic producer and composer Matthew Barnes, and originally released via Tri Angle Records, 'Engravings' received instant acclaim from the likes of Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, The Guardian and saw Barnes take his hypnotic live show across festivals like Sonar, Glastonbury, Unsound and Le Guess Who.
While much of British electronica is defined by its inner cities, 'Engravings' was recorded in Barnes' hometown on the banks of an ancient river in Merseyside, the album's earthy, orga…
Impending Divulgence
Startled out of a nightmare, words and melodies echo – emissaries of the Tempted Dissident. Minimalist analogue electronics and haunting vocal lines emerge from the darkness and get caught in the folds of the brain. That’s how you might feel after listening to the fourth album by Te/DIS. The clarity of the electronics and vocals does not fail to make an impact. With this release, Te/DIS continues the sonic path laid out by the previous albums, shaping a body of work whose internal coherence is a…
Déjà Si Mort
Déjà si mort is a manifesto of inconsolability. The eponymous title track is deeply moving. At its core lies a female voice of disarming authenticity, permeable and vulnerable. This creates an immense emotional density: pain that is not staged, but lived. This is underpinned by throbbing analogue drums, whose stoic pulse carries the almost liturgical synthesizer motif. The second track responds in its own way. And in general, Distoromance do things their own way – they sound like no one else.
Ailleurs
2012 release ** The achievement of Ailleurs is that by mutating its intonation and freeing the bass from its limitations as a purely rhythmic instrument a new interface appears. The reverberating result is of an expansive formula that evocatively builds on expected bull fiddle timbres the way a realistic photograph could be the basis for a surrealistic art. It's the 19th publication - out of 24, one for each hour of a day - produced by &records (Michel F. Côté & Fabrizio Gilardino).
Ctenophora
2011 release ** This release occupies a very rarefied and odd aesthetic, evocatively pitting flurries of remote-sounding electronics against thin sinews of violin. The disc oscillates between a type of ironed-out fiddle music (all ornamentation and melodic contours pressed neatly into fibrous drones) and crackling electrostatic emissions, synthetic hacks and bleats ― a renovated version of sounds from the bygone era of analog abstraction and punch-card operated computing. Said oscillation happen…
La Formule Xyz
2011 release ** No concessions made by the three brooding magicians here to variations in tempo, register, or pitch, and XYZ soon succeeds in wearing down your resistance. Succumb freely to these splendid close-knit wafers of electro-acoustic intensity. It's the 15th publication - out of 24, one for each hour of a day - produced by &records (Michel F. Côté & Fabrizio Gilardino).
Palétuvier (Rouge)
2010 release ** Musically, the trio succeed in conveying a true “Heart Of Darkness” soundscape with their playing, painting a dark green hell where we can feel the moss and fungus dripping down our backs, and Werner Herzog is never more than five feet away in his questing canoe. The music also suggests the grandeur, the solitary and unknowable nature of these grand old men of the forest who probably keep the secrets of the ancients locked up in their thick bark. Truly atmospheric! It's the 14th …
Ellipsis
2010 release ** Ellipsis is a gorgeously and skillfully rendered set of pieces that calls for listening to over and over again. It's the 13th publication - out of 24, one for each hour of a day - produced by &records (Michel F. Côté & Fabrizio Gilardino).
Ave <W>
2010 release ** Taking the form of a sumptuous and exquisite musical nightmare, Ave <w> is Tiari Kese’s first album. Recorded and produced by Michel F Côté, these enigmatic electronic compositions feature as well an array of conventional instruments such as piano, organ, strings, percussion, trumpet and vocals. A sonic treat for insomniacs, Ave <w> can also be experienced along with illicit substances or divine drinks, or both. It's the 10th publication - out of 24, one for each hour of a day - …
À L'inattendu Les Dieux Livrent Passage
2010 release ** Nine pieces of some great orchestral music. Moving slowly, like gentle minimal music, which slowly, over the course of these pieces built up. It combines improvisation (although sparsely here), with minimal glissandi and small melodies, which rise up from those gentle waves of heavily and heavenly layered small orchestral sounds. Think Olivia Block, but perhaps with a bit more improvisation in some parts. Great chamber music, relaxed atmosphere, jolly fine music. It's the 9th pub…