Descenes and Discords: An Anthology (Book)
Limited to 800 copies! Each book is numbered and signed by the author. Large format book. Descenes and Discords: An Anthology is a powerful time capsule of the birth and evolution of punk music through the pages of two influential fanzines: Descenes and Discords. These publications, originally printed and distributed in Washington, D.C. during the late 1970s and early 1980s, captured the raw energy, irreverent spirit, and revolutionary ethos of the underground music scene - first local, then nat…
Let's Go To Hell: Scattered Memories of the Butthole Surfers (Book)
The Butthole Surfers lived like nomads, built their legend on never-ending tours and shows resembling hedonistic acid tests. Author James Burns returns with new interviews and shocking revelations in this explosive 10th anniversary edition of Let's Go to Hell — the first no-holds-barred chronicle of the band's rise, fall, and enduring infamy. 315 pages.
Still in a Dream : Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 (Book)
The definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock. Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated through the late Eighties into the early Nineties. Capturing the musical exhilaration of the era along with the alienation of youth during a period of ascendant conservative politics and glitzy mainstr…
Soundsphere
Akio Suzuki has always been an artist in search of unexpected sound, and curiosity has been his guiding principle. Whether that be curiosity for objects, spaces or places, his work has been guided by a porousness and pliability which has allowed him to explore an enormous sonic terrain. This freedom has also allowed him to develop a language in sound that remains utterly his own. Nowhere is this more evident than in his approach to instrument creation. During the 1970s Akio Suzuki devised a seri…
Kino Variants 1967-1986
Continuing their longstanding explorations of unexpected and adventurous territories of sound, Von - the imprint run by filmmaker and sound artist Carlos Casas - is pleased to present Kino Variants 1967-1986, the first-ever collection to illuminate the vast body of work created by the Uzbek composer Rumil Vildanov during the second half of the 20th Century. Offering a rare glimpse of liberated creative spirit operating behind the Iron Curtain, this engrossing double LP - complete with printed in…
Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis (Book)
In Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis, Dr. Aram Yardumian situates the composer’s monumental electroacoustic piece amid wartime biography, architectural practice and Iranian state spectacle, tracing how one work came to shadow both the Shiraz Festival and the Revolution that followed.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (Book)
In BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective, writer William L. Weir recounts how a small, overstretched BBC unit accidentally invented the sound of the future, tracing its tape‑loop alchemy from children’s shows to the DNA of electronica and ambient.
20th Century Ambient (Book)
In 20th Century Ambient, writer Dusty Henry blends prose and comics to trace how ambient music quietly became one of the century’s most pervasive forms, from Satie and dub to Eno, Alice Coltrane and streaming‑era wellness soundscapes.
Minimalist Music (Book)
In Minimalist Music, critic George Jr. Grella treats minimalism less as a style than as a set of techniques, tracing how process, repetition and reduction have migrated across genres to become one of contemporary music’s most adaptable practices.
The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond (Book)
In The Sound of the Machine, former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos offers a wry, detailed memoir of life inside and beyond Kling Klang, tracing how post‑war childhood, pop dreams and classroom work converged in some of electronic music’s most enduring songs.
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music Today (Book)
In Futuromania, critic Simon Reynolds assembles essays and interviews into a time‑spanning narrative of machine music, tracing how electronic pop, from Moroder to Burial, has channelled science‑fiction fantasies and anxieties into new futures for sound.
Ukrainian Field Notes: Sound, Music And Voices From Ukraine After The Full-Scale Invasion (Book)
In Ukrainian Field Notes, Gianmarco Del Re uses more than 300 interviews to trace how war reshapes listening, following Ukrainian musicians as they compose amid sirens, shelters and displacement while forging new local and diasporic sonic communities.
Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide to Late 20th-Century Underground Music (Book)
In Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan gathers decades of visionary criticism, charting late‑20th‑century underground sound through ecstatic essays, interviews and close‑listening dispatches that treat marginal scenes as the true engines of musical modernity.
EX! Zine Edition 5 (Magazine + DL)
This is the fifth issue of EX! Magazine for Experimental Art (audio, visual, text, etc.). The print version (Book/Magazine) includes the 108-page zine (printed climate-neutral on recycled paper), the digital compilation, and a download code for an exclusive album by Wraith Sector.
EX! Edition 5 is feat A.J. Kaufmann, Aleksandr K, Belinda Guerriero, Cedrik Fermont, Corina Retzlaff, Disorganism, Elise Wilson, Ici Chien Chien, Jesse Narens, Jolanda Moletta, Manuel Carbone, Robert Kerber, Sascha Ros…
Black Ark (Book)
Black Ark is a 600‑page visual and textual immersion into Lee “Scratch” Perry’s legendary Kingston studio, assembled by Ishion Hutchinson, Kodwo Eshun, Lee Scratch Perry and Veerle Poupeye: a dense, collaged “house‑book” where dub’s sonic revolution is mirrored in murals, talismanic objects and layered histories.
Spacemen 3 Vinyl - (Extended Edition) (Book)
In Spacemen 3 Vinyl – Extended Edition, Danny Passarella assembles the definitive visual chronicle of Sonic Boom and J Spaceman’s recorded universe: a lavish, full‑colour archive of global pressings, ephemera and new interviews that turns their vinyl trail into a tactile, time‑spanning narrative.
Hypnotised: A Journey Through Trance Music (1990–2005) (Book)
In Hypnotised: A Journey Through Trance Music (1990–2005), Arjan Rietveld traces trance from smoky backrooms to global main stages, charting how a marginal, emotional strain of dance music became a worldwide language of euphoria, melancholy and collective release.
Site Maps
Recorded over the course of many years on analog equipment at various locations in Arizona - Black Mesa, Dead Horse State Park Cemetery, Spring Creek Ranch, Badger Springs, #3 Tank, McElmo Canyon, red Rock State Park, Picture Canyon and Cornville ruins.
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping
On Through The Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, Derek Jarman reads his only known work of narrative fiction: a chromatic, psychosexual road‑fable in which a blind young king and his valet traverse a mythical America that feels like the seedbed of Jarman’s later alchemical cinema.
Svartmálmur – Icelandic Black Metal
Svartmálmur, Ditto’s latest publication, is a portrait of the Icelandic Black Metal scene by photographer Verði ljós, the alter-ego of Wormlust musician Hafsteinn Viðar Ársælsson.