★Gagarin Records
Sur quelques mondes étranges
Long-time touchstone of international experimental music presents his monolithic (and first) solo vinyl Sur quelques mondes étranges on Felix Kubin’s Gagarin Records. Jérôme Noetinger is known to most for the audio-visual trio Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine, alongside his countless recorded & live collaborations, compositions for radio & stage, and breathtaking multi-channel diffusions in the acousmatic tradition.
Discovering the ReVox B77 tape machine as his tool for live electro-acoustic mus…
Werke Für Schlagzeug Und Elektroakustische Geräte
Werke für Schlagzeug und elektroakustische Geräte (Works for Percussion and Electro-Acoustic Devices / Utwory na perkusję i urządzenia elektroakustyczne) is the second album of the Polish percussion duo Miłosz Pękala and Magda Kordylasińska.
Historische Aufnahmen - Historical Recordings 2
8 years after the release of the acclaimed first Historical Recordings collection, Gagarin Records proudly presents Volume 2 of the series. Once again Felix Kubin has invested extensive research and time in compiling rare, unusual, and sometimes unsettling recordings of the past. The history of the 10 tracks of this edition spans a period from 1930 to 2002 including both analog and digital recordings ranging from gramophone records to reel-to-reel tapes, audio cassette and Digital Audio Tape (DA…
Vermin
Close Encounter of the Third Mind! A new full blast psychospastic reverse organ blackfall limerick LP hits the fertile ground of Konzeptwiese!!!
1:17
*2022 stock* Live recording from Issue Project Room, 22 November 2009. Scott Haggart, Lary Seven and Felix Kubin further expand the territory of the original conceptual vinyl record, “1:17", a continuous and lifelong composition by Scott Haggart. The original edit was psychotopologically derived from a 0.7 millisecond recorded extract of sound from a concert performed by the then anonymous Scottish art collective, Diskono (2000). It took many years for the artist to further superimpose and expan…
Wir Bauen Eine Stadt
*2022 stock* In 1930 the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) wrote a series of small pieces for school orchestras. It was described as a “play for children” depicting the construction and survey of a modern city. The unusual thing about it is the age of its inhabitants:“In our city the grown ups have no say (…) Our mayor is seven years old, and all uncles and aunties are children. Even the traffic warden is a child.” We Build A Town comes across as strange in more than one way. Firstly, …
The Light At The End Of The Dial
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Hallo Herr Adler Ich Habe Sie Im Fernsehen Gesehen. Es hat Mir Gut Gefallen
*2022 stock* On his first Gagarin release, Gunter Adler, formerly known as the vicious violinist of Groenlandorchester, created a soil-resisting electronic razor-record in his search for Miss Amanda Lear's true gender. He didn't even need to pay bounties for the cover girls who he fetched from Paris Moulin Rouge. While unpacking the goods, Gunter was suddenly overwhelmed by two hungry hyenas that he would never get rid of again. Hypnotized by the new sound they asked him for a hot bath in order …
Time Deferred
Psychedelic visions, blackouts, and blinding lights reveal an unusual, sick, and feverish musicality. (…) Hospital-like beeps transmit a subtle uneasiness, as electrodes applied to the brain draw bewildering tracings. And while Athanasia represents the idea of immortality in Greek mythology, here the gods come back from the dead only to ensure us an existence nurtured by the freezing rays of a black sun. - Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up
The Ruined Map
Technical drawings is melissa st. pierre (prepared piano) and jesse stiles (electronics). in their debut release the ruined map, they pioneer a new genre that has been termed dub concrete, combining influences from neoclassicism, rock, gamelan, and hip hop with results both weird and electrifying. in one of the record's centerpieces, strange flora, the post-rap poet todd jones verbalizes the musical journey: we found an island on the edge of the world. with no name for it we made a claim for it.…
Ovum Caper
Hauntologically pop, fragile and with a twisted psychedelic Beach Boys side, this album shows an undeniable songwriting craft. Esa Shield's androgynous voice together with the use of guitars, keys and analogue electronics tends to weave "wrong" notes and submarine harmonies into songs that range from psych-folk ("Shelley Duvall") to dark ambient ("Jenkins Other") and super catchy space-age pop ("Monde Capricorn"). Now and then a nostalgic and contradictory bout of fever unexpectedly appear…
Chromdioxidgedachtnis
After its introduction to the public 40 years ago, the compact cassette (aka audio cassette or cassette tape) quickly became the most popular medium for copying music, allowing consumers to record directly from radio or record player to tape. soon the record industry started to worry about a decline in record sales, which led to the notorious "home taping is killing music" campaign. as a side effect, the medium has produced an independent and distinctive underground music scene in the early 1980…
Kimouchi
Candie hank is a grotesque entertainment show with no limit, a collision of rock´n roll, moog influenced but harsh synthscapes breakcore but belly dance punk and gabba like proto pop. His debut lp ´kimouchi´ just got released on gagarin records run by felix kubin who couldn´t deny to release the candie hank stuff and even called it a ´landmark´. Candie hank calls it lubricant sleazecore.
L'Eglise Des Crocodiles
This is the second release of max goldt's early tape music on gagarin records, and yet another brilliant collection of his percussive metallic miniatures. Max has been busy with his music since the late 1970s but is nowadays much more known in germany for his writing. as on the previous album "there are grapefruit hearts to be squeezed in the dark", most of the tracks are created with a simple set-up of prepared acoustic guitar, (pitched) voice, zither, some effect pedals and a multi-track recor…
Territerrortorium
This 7 inch contains extracts of the radio play territerrortorium commissioned by the austrian and german broadcasting stations orf and deutschlandradio berlin. On side a two famous battles are re-animated: in 1410 the order of teutonic knights suffered defeat at grunwald, outfoxed by an united army of polish and lithuanians. 500 years later, the german army conquered the highly superior russian army at a nearby location called tannenberg. this political cocktail comes with a decent flavour of i…
Entertaining Physics
Poland's mik.musik agent wojt3k kucharczyk bugged his robotron family. "entertaining physics" is a poetic and secretful electroacoustic work that sounds like a gathering of digital clocks in the waiting room of an abandoned building. mechanical ants are crawling over piles of paper next to protesting copy machines and sadly shaking faxes. quiet industrial diseases spread in the attic and the doors clap in a-synchronicity. in between, interplanetary melodies are humming in retired telephones. all…
Handmade in the monasteries of Nepal / Eloise my dolly
Ergo Phizmiz is a true jewel in the sewers of the mind. his activities span over a wide array of forms ranging from sound installations to radio plays, plunderphonics, neo-classicism, household abstract pop, opera, deranged chanson and experimental collage. he hosts the popular weekly radio show "phuj phactory" on new york's wfmu and breeds a conceptual podcast series called "codpaste" in collaboration with his friend vicki bennett a.k.a. people like us. recently, they put out a charming collabo…