Youth Looks So Good On You
“When forty, I was still wearing miniskirts, extravagant patterns, pink, fluorescent colours, star shaped earrings. I walked around with my leopardskin hat, my fluffy bag, my floral outfit, until the gaze of others made me feel like it was not age appropriate anymore. Although I am still the same person I was at 16. It's the others I see changing."
There's no better way to describe ageing than through the gap that arises and continues to grow between physical reality and the specular image of the …
The End of the Brim
At long last, Takao is back with his long-awaited second album, seven years in the making. His 2018 "Stealth" was (and still is) a much-loved set, mixing elements of ambient and environmental music; with this new release Takao breaks free of the gravitational pull of these earlier influences and strides confidently forward. "The End of the Brim" jettisons some of the more abstract elements of his previous work, embracing a "universal listenability" and a more concrete intensity, with a focus on …
The Battlefield is Everywhere
*300 copies limited edition* Since the release of This World is Not My Home in 2014, Gary Mundy (Ramleh, Breathless, Broken Flag) has been releasing one new album per year by his critically acclaimed solo Kleistwahr endeavour. The idea driving this is to keep producing an album a year until he is no longer capable of doing so. While the dedication to this pirouettes starkly between insanity and an admirable stoicism, it’s quite an undertaking when one considers the sound palette Gary works from.…
The Water Garden
A buoyant masterpiece from the early 90s, "The Water Garden" was created by Okinawa-born Kojun Kokuba under the inspiring image of a "happy Asia" thriving in the sea-based trading networks of the medieval to pre-modern era, with the concept that various types of music, as well as physical goods, were distributed and dispersed across the seas connecting various parts of east and southeast Asia. Fittingly, the music here has definite and distinctive Ryukyu island roots, but is informed by a number…
Minami-kaze α Wave
This work is produced by Henry Kawahara, following the well-received Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara, and one of rare 'vocal pieces' produced by him is now available on one-sided 7" and digital.
"Minami-kaze α Wave (Southerly wind alpha wave)" is, as far as we know, the only 'vocal piece' that Henry Kawahara has produced, and released under the name HMD (H Music Deperception) in 1993. The song is a vocal version of the cyber-occult exotic instrumental piece "Nanpu" i…
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Stealth [Gold Edition]
Takao's new album is a rare attempt to recreate a previously released 2018 album. He has re-recorded his debut album "Stealth" and presents it here as a completely new work. This is a 50-minute full-length album with two new tracks, "Moon" and "Seven Sands". This new "Stealth" is subtitled 'Gold Edition'. The cover of the CD version is a swanky dual metallic silver and gold print. CD comes with a standard jewel case. Obi attached.
"Stealth" is the aptly-titled debut album from Tokyo-based compos…
Astral Death
2008 release ** "What the acronym means is a mystery, I do know that R.Y.N. is from the UK and consists of Pete Burn (Marzuraan) and Lee Glaister (Romance). Astral Death is the first full album after a 7" on Drone Records. I also know that Astral Death is a collection of murky ambient drones. A metallic reverberating drone and an organ chord make up opening track Conscious Patient. The constant soundpressure is dazing. The Cleansing echoes ominously but is less numbing, it's surrounding you with…
Nocturnas
*200 copies limited edition* Offthesky (Jason Corder) is experimental-ambient multimedia artist based in Denver, CO. He has been producing music, video art, audio software, and the occasional interactive sound sculpture, for over 20 years. He teaches private courses on generative music and occasionally lectures on various sound design topics at Denver University. He currently is the Audio Director at the Denver based videogame studio Dire Wolf. Over the years, he has worked with labels such as H…
A Rainbow In My Mirror
2011 release ** Custom deluxe cardboard package. Hand-numbered limited edition of 474. "Simon Balestrazzi, an eclectic figure on the Italian experimental scene, has been associated with bands that have made history here over the past 35 years, including Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata (T.A.C.), Kino Glaz, Dream Weapon Ritual, and Candor Chasma. He has also collaborated with artists such as Z'EV, Ikue Mori, Elio Martusciello, Gianluca Becuzzi, Kirlian Camera, and many others. “A Rainbow In My …
De Immenso + Atrocity Exhibition
2011 release ** Oversize card sleeve including page torn from an unknown book. Following the previous “Atrocity Exhibition”, dedicated to the figure of Girolamo Savonarola, the new monumental chapter of the Maribor collective project is finally available. Based on a concept by Stefano Gentile, this new CD is inspired by the works and life of Giordano Bruno. In addition to Stefano Gentile himself, this new work includes contributes by Maurizio Bianchi/M.B., Mauthausen Orchestra/Pierpaolo Zoppo, N…
Ocean Planet
We're incredibly proud to announce the new album by Blaine L. Reininger of Tuxedomoon, now a Dark Companion artist. Ocean Planet is an ambient-avant-garde work written, recorded, and mixed by Blaine himself in Athens, Greece, and features 12 deeply intense, atmospheric, and introspective tracks. The beautiful cover art is based on a painting by Blaine's wife, Maria Panourgia. Some of the songs had been sitting in Blaine's drawer for a while when producer Max Marchini discovered that some of them…
Rückverzauberung im Tunnel
Wolfgang Voigt makes a return to Astral Industries, seeing the continuation of his long-running Rückverzauberung (Reverse Enchantment) series. In line with previous volumes, one may expect the unconventional, idiosyncratic sound Voigt is reputed for. ‘Im Tunnel’ however, takes a more concentrated viewpoint - a metaphysical transmutation that brings with it an experience of mind-melting drones and swelling intensity.
Entering the tunnel is like opening a portal, but as the fabric of time-space b…
Temps Boro
"It all originates from a state between dream and reality - a drunkenness. Each title alludes to something blurry, abstract, or even unfinished. The next day, you wake up and don't know if what you did was, or simply wasn't. A distinctive endeavor with a somewhat lo-fi filter, featuring ambient touches, experimental dub elements, and holistically defined as avant-garde." New identity for new music, Bastien is part of anonymous Barcelona. And little more can be said about him.
Local Maxima
This release is a journey, a weaving together of fleeting visions from parallel, yet intertwined sonic realms. It ventures boldly through a rich tapestry of sounds and textures, each track born not from rigid intention but from an unrelenting pursuit of the elusive, those shimmering, transient spaces in the soundscape, like the mysterious limbo of Vaalbara. The music unfolded live, forged in real-time with an arsenal of synthesizers. In these moments, delicate interactions gave way to sudden sto…
Mutable Depths
Matt Shoemaker's art focuses upon the treatment of sonic phenomena. Shoemaker manipulates sound, sourced from both natural and electronic means, in an affected and often grotesque manner, so as to convey compositions that uniquely imagine a space encrypted to the point of vanishing definition.
Malheur
Comes in 4-panel cover in plastic wallet. Edition of 30 copies. "Because it's so much fun to make: another beat-oriented snack, after Hinkelstap, Tuimelval, Haast, and Kadans. As with the others, I'm not sure if it's any good, but let's hope y'all enjoy it."
Gruwel
Business card CDr. "It was about time that I released a business card CDr again. I also had this drawing which I thought would work great as a cover image. The only thing I had to do is make the music for it. So here it is. It turned out a bit dramatic, stylistically, with desolate fog horn like swells and faint electronic rumblings. It's all quite sombre, but with all the horrible conflicts in the world today, what else could I do?"
Suchness
2022 release ** Limited edition of 30 copies. R. Pierre (Caleb Dravier) is a Los Angeles based artist and composer exploring minimal / “absolute” music through reductionism and the recontextualization of small-sound phenomena in processed field recordings and microelectronics.
Overture
2022 release ** R. Pierre (Caleb Dravier) is a Los Angeles based artist and composer exploring minimal / “absolute” music through reductionism and the recontextualization of small-sound phenomena in processed field recordings and microelectronics.