So Little Sorrow
A new album by Simon J Karis, the follow up to 2017's 'Madrugada'. Widely available digitally and in a limited CD edition, housed in a deluxe bound A5 book of watercolour illustrations by Andrew Chalk. Mastered by Kane Ikin.
Estradas
2025 Small repress. Drummer-composer and multi-instrumentalist Valentina Magaletti’s explorative percussions join Afro-Portuguese artist Nídia’s singular beat-making for an exciting new collaboration in dance music. From the first beat, listeners are drawn into a world where rhythm reigns supreme and movement is inevitable. The album explores a diverse yet universal musical language through syncopated drum patterns, pulsating marimba lines, and melodic interludes.
III-II + Binnenin
Special discounted Bundle. The venerable Black Sweat returns to their longstanding dedication to the work of the Antwerp based electronic composer and musician David Edren / DSR Lines, with a much needed reissue of 2015's “III-II” and a brand new full-length “Binnenin”. Occupying two extreme, interconnected poles of Edren's larger body of 'Organic Electronic Music' - rippling expanses of hypnotic minimalism and immersive ambiences that border on total experience - whether approached individually…
Rausch
"Rausch with no name / My beautiful shine / You are the sun / This is where I want to be / Rausch with no morning / This is where we burn / The Stars sparkle / In a sea of flames / Horns and fanfares / Fanfares of joy / Fanfares of fear / The wine we drink through the eyes / The moon pours down at night in waves / Careful with that axe Eugene / Personal Jesus / No beginning no end / Eighteenth of Oktember / The night falls / The king comes / The hunt starts / Freude schöner Götterfunken / The lo…
Les Années 1967-1984
Biggest Tip! ** 200 copies. Hardboard linen box with silk screened lettering + 16 page booklet with biography, interview, track info and photos.** Metaphon is thrilled to present this collection of 14 phenomenal electronic and electro-acoustic works by French composer Fernand Vandenbogaerde, realized between 1967 and 1984. After his science studies Fernand Vandenbogaerde (1946) studied at the Conservatoire de Roubaix and did various classes and courses with a.o. Jean-Etienne Marie, Olivier Mess…
The Grave and Beautiful Name of Sadness
ICR distribution present a new Nurse With Wound LP, remastered by Colin Potter. 600 copies. The Grave And Beautiful Name Of Sadness features two archive mixes of the original 1984 recording. A 2007 epic variation recorded for possible inclusion in Peter Strickland's film 'Katalin Varga' and a unique 'psychedelic' version from 2012 which until now has never been heard.
Columns / Falling Columns
*300 copies limited edition* Ben Kelly is one of the UK’s most influential designers. Kelly is best known for his interior design of the legendary nightclub, The Haçienda in Manchester. His practice has produced influential work for 180 Studios, Virgil Abloh, The Sex Pistols, The V&A, Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren and Factory Records. The Vinyl Factory first collaborated with Kelly to commission and stage his installation RUIN, produced in collaboration with Virgil Abloh, at 180 Studios in …
Resignation I-II-III
*300 copies limited edition* Nordvargr’s Resignation project was initially born in 2008 exploring rhythmic and repetitive aspects of his musical output, merging elements of electronic music with dark ambient soundscapes. We present here the first 3 volumes of this venture in a deluxe 3LP boxset with poster as well as a 3CD 8 panels Digisleeve version, both with unique and exclusive material. From it’s inception delving into the more gaseous realms of dubby techno and evolving through the years t…
Resignation IV
*LP version. 200 copies limited edition* Nordvargr Announces the Release of Resignation IV, the Fourth Installment in the Resignation Series. Swedish dark ambient and experimental artist Nordvargr (Henrik Nordvargr Björkk) is set to release the highly anticipated Resignation 4, continuing his sonic journey through rhythmic, atmospheric, and melancholic soundscapes. Building on the foundation laid by the Resignation trilogy, Resignation 4 expands the project’s signature blend of techno-inspired b…
Eeriærmor
*300 copies limited edition* Eeriærmor (E:Æ:R) is the very personal and immersive new sound mapping motif of Kevin Gan Yuen (Sutekh Hexen, CTE, etc.). Conceptually E:Æ:R honors memory and the moment via granular synthesis sculpture, utilizing detailed dynamic frequency layering techniques. This stunning full-length debut offering is a powerful emotional imprint, guiding the listener from states of liminal ecstasis to expressing unification of beauty and brutality.
EERIÆRMOR explores the space b…
Svältens Tid
*LP version, 200 copies limited edition* Swedish act Beckahesten present their latest material, "Svältens Tid" (translating to The Time of Famine). This eagerly awaited album promises to captivate listeners with its hauntingly beautiful sonorities and evocative lyrics, showcasing the band's unique ability to blend dark, atmospheric soundscapes with powerful storytelling. The album, driven by the creative forces of Peo Bengtsson and Per Åhlund (member of Sophia, and currently active with Diskrep…
The Sarajevo Spiral
*300 copies limited edition* Nam-Khar and Vortex, two of the most prolific bands in the German occult underground, have joined forces to create their latest album, "The Sarajevo Spiral." Both bands have developed their respective ritualistic styles over numerous concept albums, making this collaboration a natural progression amidst the rising global conflicts of the current 'new 1920s.' The result is a martial and meditative album, unfolding eleven complex compositions that reflect on the human …
TG Berlin Box Set
Throbbing Gristle and Mute’s partnership continues with the release of TG Berlin, a lavish box set chronicling their previously unreleased work in Berlin around a very special series of live events at the Volksbühne in 2005/2006. The event, curated by Throbbing Gristle, saw the band perform a live set on New Year’s Eve and an improvised live soundtrack to a new 16mm print of Derek Jarman’s In The Shadow of the Sun (1981) on New Year’s Day, and, while the band were in Berlin, they recorded two fi…
The Gate
*100 copies limited edition* Welsh musician Aisha Vaughan presents The Gate. It is upon us to renew the deep-cut, heavy-weighted melancholy of Celtic New Age for 2024. New Age music from the Celtic/British Isles crossed over into the mainstream in the late 80s - notably with Enya (and her band Clannad), the perhaps now lesser-known instrumental Celtic harp music of Patrick Ball, and the slew of now mostly forgotten various artist compilations that saturated the New Age CD and cassette music mark…
Voltæ (Chthulucene)
Melancholic. Intense. Deep. Epic. “Voltæ (Chthulucene)” is a tribute to electricity and telluric forces, a complete celebration of life, a symbiosis for an epistemic shift.
För Alltid
*80 copies limited edition* 'För alltid' is an album about time. The fuzzy & shapeless memories floating without coherence. Shortwave radio recordings picking up unbroken codes from the past. Hopeful voices whispering about a possible future from a hopeless now.
Inscriptions
*100 copies limited edition* "'Inscriptions' is an album inspired by the melancholy romance of autumn, the reflection of leaves in the rippling surface of a lake, crumbling architectural facades, and faded ink scripts on parchment. The album began with a collection of environmental sounds I recorded in Tallinn, Estonia back in the autumn of 2011, during a residency at the Estonian Artists' Association. These field recordings focus in on the quiet, everyday sounds of streets, parks, a lake and a …
Пустоши
*50 hand-numbered copies* On the summer solstice of 2023, NEN, with joy and sorrow, presents a new recording by tremorkikimor, "a non-human fem ensemble from the nearest swamp", now scattered by Russian war against Ukraine across different countries. Word to the authoresses: ‘Russian expression “В лихую годину” (‘In a bad times’) is right about the chronotope of our album. A field recording with crows and a humming port on Kanonersky Island, essential for this recording, was made amidst the pand…
Can Stones Evade Taxes?
*50 hand-numbered copies* The voice from the box said, "What if the ultimate border situation between garbage and art is actually laughter? (...) The literal yoga of excrement (排泄物的瑜伽), a coprolitic essay on how we, as listeners, encounter 'objects of fear,' process them, and transform them into sound. It's 石头 in our ears."I said, "But 'for our purposes,' it seems to me that 'just a lonely voice' is needed."Onufr Gaptev said, "For those who take a vow of silence, any word is shit compared to the…
John Tyler Selection
*100 copies limited edition* A successful example of a collaboration between critic/listener and musician, where existing artifacts acquire a new sound through their combination. This release is an essential tool in the musical arsenal of both a beginner, who is first diving into the depths of CON's structural electronics, and a mature fan of the patriarch of the Berlin school. Get your colorful entrance ticket to CON's Cosmos! Willkommen!