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Highdelberg
Guitarist Ax Genrich began his career in 1970 with a brief stint with German prog-kraut rockers Agitation Free. There he was able to develop his improvisational style, but was soon poached by Mani Neumeier to join Guru Guru. Together with bassist Uli Trepte, Genrich and Neumeier enjoyed their first major successes and were soon regarded as the new figureheads of Krautrock, releasing Känguru in 1972, a milestone in the genre. After four years and four albums, Ax Genrich left Guru Guru because the…
Prey detection in web building spiders
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* Second release from L. Linebacker. Needy guitar handling and eventually a talkative radio recorded directly to tape. Only rough edits and simple reamps done afterwards.
I’m going to have to ask you to
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* One long composition for each side. Reminding me of an ultra-stretched version of the beautiful interplays on talktalk’s spirit of eden. Brittle percussive repetitions and muted trumpets slowly maneuvering into lovely tensions.
Compiled loops & experiments
*Dubbed on new ferro tapes* Tape loops, wind-up gramophone manipulations, and other audio fascinations. All of these sounds share the fact that they didn’t fit into any other release. Collected throughout 2024 and 2025, they were set aside on my harddrive. This is a documentation of scrap material, assembled in rough form.
Whatevershebringswesing
2025 stock Melancholic with a tendency towards ballads, this 1973 third album from Kevin Ayers is nonetheless the most accessible of his early work. Featuring the core musicians of guitarist Mike Oldfield, keyboardist David Bedford and drummer Robert Wyatt, the LP is a solid, consistent, and focused outing, which continues to be at the top of Ayer's solo work. Original artwork. New detailed liner notes.
Talisman (Live In Nagoya)
2025 stock Bringing together three of the most voracious and energetic musical minds in new music, Painkiller was one of the most intense live bands ever. Here they are captured at their absolute peak. Culminating their legendary 1994 tour of Japan in a masterful set featuring one of their longest and most inspired improvisations, the thirty-five minute Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia. Beautifully recorded by the unsung fourth member of the group sound engineer Oz Frith and packaged in deliriousl…
The Prophecy
2025 stock John Zorn and Bill Laswell are two of the Downtown scene’s most consistently intrepid musical explorers, and PainKiller, formed in 1991 is their longest running project together. “The Prophecy,” the first official PainKiller release in over ten years, was recorded live in Europe in 2004–5 and pulls together music from several concerts into a powerful and mind blowing suite unlike anything the group has ever released before. Featuring master drummer Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Korekyojin)…
Hyderomastgroningem
2025 stock Along with the Boredoms, Naked City and very few others, this amazing drums/bass duo are masters of quick-change, stop/start tempos, time-signatures and textures. Ruins' explosive and intricately composed tunes are sung in a peculiar language of their own invention. Yoshida cites Magma, This Heat, Debussy and Webern as influences. Masuda's favorites are James Brown and Fred Frith.
Hardcore, art rock, psych, heavy metal, funk and lots more - if Ruins have heard it, they are likely to…
Mandala 2000 / Live At Kichijoji Mandala II
2025 stock A blistering live performance at one of Tokyo's longest running avant garde venues by one of Tokyo's longest running avant garde bands. A breathtaking performance of over twenty stop-on-a-dime Ruins classics, Mandala II captures the raw power and visceral energy of this dynamic band better than any studio recording ever could. Also included is twenty minutes of encores featuring the versatile and dynamic violinist Katsui Yuji. Intense, powerful and frighteningly complex sonic masterp…
Sands
2025 stock Tzadik is proud to release a new recording by Steve Lacy, MacArthur Fellow and for 40 years the undisputed master of the soprano saxophone. Recorded at his home in Paris from February to April 1998, Sands is Steve Lacy's most personal and remarkable solo document, and explores a wide variety of musical and dramatic subjects. Portraits of close friends Barney Wilen and William Burroughs; collaborations with the texts of Allen Ginsberg and Samuel Beckett; and of course his own peculiar…
Tao-Njia
2025 stock A breathtakingly beautiful document of new compositions from a founding member of Chicago's AACM and one of the world's most important contemporary creative musician/composers. Featuring his ensemble Nda-Kulture and the California E.A.R. Unit, Tao-Njia blends jazz, blues, poetry and the cultural traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, Indonesia and America into lyrical and profoundly moving music. Wadada Leo Smith-trumpter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser-has been active f…
乙女の祈りはダッダッダッ！A Maiden’s Prayer
Incl. printed inner sleeve & 4 page fold-out insert ** Spittle Records resurrects a dangerous ride through Japan's experimental underground with the first vinyl reissue of this 1985 masterpiece. Four decades after its original Japanese release, Mizutama Shobodan's sophomore album A Skyfull of Red Petals finally receives the vinyl treatment it deserves, emerging through Spittle Records as a testament to one of Japan's most fearless and uncompromising experimental units. Mixed by master Fred Frith…
満天に赤い花びら A Skyfull of Red Petals
Incl. printed inner sleeve & 4 page fold-out insert ** Spittle Records resurrects a dangerous ride through Japan's experimental underground with the first vinyl reissue of this 1985 masterpiece. Four decades after its original Japanese release, Mizutama Shobodan's sophomore album A Skyfull of Red Petals finally receives the vinyl treatment it deserves, emerging through Spittle Records as a testament to one of Japan's most fearless and uncompromising experimental units. Mixed by master Fred Frith…
On Alligators
2025 stock Four masterpieces by one of the world’s greatest composers of classical concert music, including three pieces that have never been released before. The fourth quartet is perhaps Wuorinen’s most complex and exciting composition, and it receives a passionate performance by the prestigious Brentano Quartet. Also included is the intense and colorful chamber piece On Alligators, conducted by the composer, and a moody piece for organ performed by one of the world’s greatest organists on on…
Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
2025 stock A double-CD collection of Tzadik artists and special guests paying tribute to one of the great geniuses of American music. Burt Bacharach's compositions explode the expectations of what a popular song is supposed to be. Advanced harmonies and chord changes with unexpected turnarounds and modulations, unusual changing time signatures and rhythmic twists, often in uneven numbers of bars. But he makes it all sound so natural you can't get it out of your head or stop whistling it. Madden…
Mectpyo Bakterium
Edition of 100. Eighth Tower Records and Interitvs Nvmen unite to resurrect one of the most vital documents from Italy's industrial underground. In the suffocating heat of 1981's experimental underground, Maurizio Bianchi unleashed Mectpyo Bakterium, a work so clinically disturbing and sonically corrosive that it stands among the most unsettling audio documents of the early industrial era. Now, over four decades later, this pivotal cassette transmission receives its first proper CD treatment thr…
Corrosiv
Orchestroll’s "Corrosiv" critically examines New Age’s commodified mysticism and the disintegration of meaning under late capitalism. Utilizing ambient and experimental sound, the album embodies audio corrosion, merging decay, transformation, and cultural critique. Featuring collaborators and shaped by a residency at EMS, it explores confinement, emancipation, and the slow, inevitable erosion of ritual—leaving only silence to decay.
Environments 12: new concepts in acoustic enrichment
Environments 12 reimagines field recordings for the digital age, blending real and synthetic voices in speculative soundscapes. Machine Listening’s debut LP challenges reality, blurring nature, tech, and human creativity into a mesmerizing, genre-defying sonic experience.
Room for the Moon Live
Room for the Moon Live captures Kate NV’s one-off concert, uniting friends in a vibrant reimagining of her sophomore album. The performance expands tracks with improvisation, joy, and community, offering healing and wild, playful energy.
Silence And Wisdom + Double Happiness
Deux Filles, the elusive French duo, captivated audiences with ambient, melancholic music and a tragic myth—until revealed as a fictional project by Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker. Their two albums, “Silence & Wisdom” and “Double Happiness,” remain haunting, genre-defying gems.