Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm
This anthology is the second compilation from EM Records of the works of the late Henry Kawahara, a media artist and electronic music producer who was particularly active in the Japanese cyber-occult underground of the 1990s, a scene linked with technologies such as 3D (binaural) recordings, brain machines, sound chairs, computer graphics and compact discs.
These tracks, produced 1990-95, include a series of recordings described as "Parallel Data Sounds" and "Sound LSD", a "new language system t…
Courage Bones
*200 copies limited edition* The dynamic duo of Audrey Chen and Tashi Dorji proudly present their new collaborative album "Courage Bones." This release showcases an intense dialogue between Chen's raw, visceral voice and layered analog synthesizer with Dorji's blazing, anti-capitalist ethos-driven guitar work.
"Courage Bones" embodies a fearless journey into improvised sonic storytelling that defies conventional boundaries. Chen employs a personal and ecstatic language, blending traditional and …
Viser og countryrock på fynsk
*200 copies limited edition* Self-released private press style LP from Jonas Torstensen, distributed by Discreet Music. Grainy and broken singer/songwriter music, one of the major highlights so far in what is already a rather astonishing discography! "This record is an attempt on doing an album of songs. I recorded it in the first half of 2025. I played all the instruments with varying luck. It’s quite different from what I wanted it to be, mostly because of my lack of technical skills, but I’m…
Notes from the nave
*100 copies limited edition* Notes from the nave is the debut album by 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗦. - Michiel Dondeyne’s alter ego. It’s a musical correspondence from the refuge of an introvert: the ‘nave’ - or the middle part - of a church in Antwerp, Belgium. It’s there, where he established the improvisations on piano that sprouted this album. Loose ideas became the blueprint of extended collages, wherein piano, subtle loops and samples conflate with the cello of Clémence Clarysse and the tenor saxophone…
Transmission - Live In New York
*100 copies limitede edition* Experimental guitarist Christoph Götzen proudly presents Transmission - Live In New York, a powerful new live album that captures the raw energy and intricate textures of his latest performances in the iconic city. Recorded in front of an enthusiastic audience, this album showcases Götzen’s masterful blend of electric soundscapes, abstract rhythms, extended techniques and immersive atmospheres.
Bower
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* « Male Bowerbirds Build Camps Of All The Best Stuff They’ve Found - Like A Tiny Museum Of Magic Things To Seduce The Female. This One Is Not Just To Impress A Girl, It’s For Everyone. Anyone Who Finds It. It’s To Make Them Fall In Love With Everything! » - Lanny (Max Porter)
On his solo album entitled 'Bower' 𝗔rto van Roey searches for mesmerizing fingerpicking patterns that evoke dense sound tapestries full of harmonics, with a fanatic urge to experimen…
Stop Scaring The Customers
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Milica's pop song keep the 8th notes song where we both sing? song where's only piano + drums drum solo vocal solo soft improv harsh improv processing drums processing processing processing stop. Stop Scaring The Customers. Elements overarching the collage "softening the sedimented" fusion we are playing songs english lyrics it's acoustic not being disrupted by unwanted elements stop scariyng the customers.
T h a l le
The thallus refers to a plant without roots or leaves: lichens, algae. A presence in the world that unfolds discreetly, like a tree covering or a blanket over the sea. t h a l l e is, for me, a subject of randomness and correlation. How do desynchronized elements form a harmonic whole? I can feel great joy in organizing the chaos of these materials, which, through tiny encounters, align in the same time. t h a l l e is also an exploration of vast temporalities, from the smooth time of organ piec…
or, Urim
Mark Harwood follows up his 2022 offering with the new album, or, Urim.
Chamber Music
Tip! Turin is a city of crumbing facades and fading surfaces. A memorial to regal splendour and industrial boom. Behind every door is a different world. Pass through a grand double-door in the southern part of the city into a quiet courtyard, through into a small room with a high ceiling and cracked white coving. The room holds a modest studio set up, everything laid out as if the occupant just left. It’s a workshop, littered with blank cassettes, sepia-tinted journals and unidentified family sc…
Alchemical Theatre
Friends and musical cohorts since the early 1980s, these three master improvisers come together to perform a freewheeling set of outrageous and mind-blowing improvisations. Recorded at Roulette, founded in 1978 and one of New York’s most adventurous venues, the music is full of surprising twists and jumps from one mood to another with mercurial synchronicity. Dedicated to the memory of Downtown theatrical genius Richard Foreman, “Alchemical Theatre” presents nine pieces of tele-pathic, counter-i…
IPY25
IPY25 unites three trailblazers of experimental music — Ikue Mori (DNA, Downtown NYC scene), Phew (Aunt Sally), and YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, Saicobab) — for their first trio project. The album captures their telepathic interplay across electronics, drums, voice, and bamboo flute, fusing avant-garde soundscapes with an urgent sense of improvisational freedom. Recorded live at Club U.F.O. in Tokyo and crafted during the 2020 shelter-in-place period, this collaboration radiates both raw energy an…
Banka
Studio Mule is proud to present the first-ever vinyl edition of Banka, the 1991 CD-only masterpiece by Shinsuke Honda. Renowned as the guitarist of the legendary band Hachimitsu Pie, Honda’s work on the album Silence is widely celebrated as one of the most remarkable achievements in Japanese ambient guitar jazz. Now, with this release, Banka joins that legacy on a beautifully crafted double LP.
Building upon the spirit of Silence while exploring new depths of refinement and sound, Banka offers a…
Off the wall
The long-awaited and reissue of Wada's 1985 LP "Off The Wall", recorded in Berlin and originally released on the esteemed FMP label. A minimalist yet majestic monsterpiece ("massive", as Tom Johnson declares in his perceptive liner notes), "Off The Wall" features Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ, and percussionist Andreas Schmidt-Neri.
The original album consisted of two side-long pieces recorded on successive days by Jost Geber, who captured the power and dynam…
Earth Horns With Electronic Drone
Yoshi Wada and EM Records presents the first-ever, world-premiere release of Earth Horns With Electronic Drone, recorded live in 1974. Combining four of Wada's self-made "pipehorns" (made from plumbing materials, over three meters in length), with an electronic drone tuned to the electrical current of the performance space, this is a lost masterpiece of early minimalism, placing Wada rightfully in the pantheon with La Monte Young, Phill Niblock, Maryanne Amacher and Alvin Lucier. Recorded live i…
Singing in Unison
"Singing in Unison" is the final in a series of recordings from acclaimed sound artist, composer and performer Yoshi Wada. Recorded live over two nights, March 14 and 15, in 1978, at New York City's legendary performance space The Kitchen, "Singing in Unison" is a dramatic yet meditative work: modal improvisations for three male voices, singing, with great gravitas, in purposeful unison.
These previously unreleased recordings, featuring vocalists Richard Hayman (aka R.I.P Hayman), Imani Smith an…
Clan Caimán
The music of Clan Caimán is primitive and hypnotic. It is located in the pre-rock era and from there, it proposes a different evolution path for music from the 1950s to present day. Like a different musical development in a parallel timeline. Gamelan, Hawaiian music, surf, exotica, rainforest or aquatic; these elements make up the palette which constructs a mystic and profound music that seeks ancestral connection.
Formed in 2016 by musician, composer and producer Emilio Haro looking to create m…
Joy In Fear
goat (jp) are renowned for two albums released in 2013 and 2015 that took Kraftwerk’s man-machine concept back to its roots with swingeing, inch-tight drums, bass and guitar patterns that needed to be heard to be believed. For their long-in-the-making new album ‘Joy In Fear’, band leader Koshiro Hino (ypy, Kakuhan) describes the process as “90 percent pain” - and we can well believe it - few other records we can think of transmute DAW-composed rhythmic precision into such an expressive instrumen…
What We Do When in Silence
Huge Tip! * Limited edition of 300 copies, Embossed cover, comes with insert and postcard * Killer record here! Three Italian heavyweights doing what they do best - radical improvisation that sits somewhere between electronics, silence, and pure Mediterranean mystery. This is the real deal. Nicola Ratti, Alessandra Novaga, and Enrico Malatesta - three names you need to know if you're serious about contemporary improvised music.
The sound? Imagine if AMM had been born in Southern Europe with lapt…
Repeat Until True: Triptych
*100 copies limited edition. 2CD edition contains the entire album, LP contains only the Maria Chávez recordings* Big tip! Repeat Until True works to build a musical ontology. This is a collection of recordings made by Zach Cooper, Odeya Nini, and Maria Chávez. It’s an exercise in composition via rule-based improvisation using contrabass, the human voice, and turntables. Taken one step further, the contrabass and voice versions were committed to vinyl and used as score and material for Chávez’s …