New Arrivals / Last 4 weeks
A New Life
Shimmering and deeply inward-looking, A New Life finds Florian TM Zeisig tracing grief, anger and stillness as one continuous current of sound. Harp, saxophone and cello drift through long ambient chords, shaping a 41-minute spiral that treats emotio…
Music From the Other Side of the Fence
A collection of previously unreleased material (between '75 & '90) by Enno Velthuys.Compiled by Hessel Veldman.
Towers of Silence
On Towers Of Silence, Adult Fantasies’ Belgi‑dirge pop blooms anew: slow‑burn songs where Nico‑ish ennui, Coil‑like dread and late‑night guitars seep through perfectly sequenced, woozy mixes that feel like memories you’re sure you never lived.
Spoki
On Spoki, Ingus Bauskenieks cracks open his private sonic world: homemade electronics, odd pop instincts and spectral melodies that refuse consensus, turning “ghosts” into solitary songs built strictly on his own terms.
Music Compilation: 12 Dances
On Music Compilation: 12 Dances, TRJJ turn disguised authorship into groove: twelve slow, zoned, sample‑rich “dances” that treat anonymity as a filter, stitching African and American folk, free improv and loner ambient into one beautifully crooked co…
State Music
On State Music, Laurent Güdel turns his fascination with classic electronic studios into a political instrument, folding EMS, KSYME, Radio Belgrade and Columbia CMC into a critical sound‑essay on funding, soft power and the uneasy bond between DIY dr…
Die Dritte Ebene
On Die Dritte Ebene, Emilio Gordoa and Sven‑Åke Johansson let vibraphone, drums and accordion run in seemingly parallel lines until a mysterious “third layer” appears - a ghost‑music of overtones, pulse and texture that neither player could summon al…
Clandestine Anticipation
On Clandestine Anticipation, Krisma leave Italo-disco behind for a humid, video‑age dystopia, nine songs where synthetic funk, proto‑industrial atmosphere, and tropical mirages collide into one of the strangest Italian pop artefacts of the early 80s.
Lightscape
Doug Aitken in collaboration with Grant Gershon. Produced by Austin Meredith and Rodaidh McDonald. Performances by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 180g blue vinyl in an embossed, gloss-UV outer sleeve
Routine
Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalists Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe didn’t set out to make an album. Instead, as the title ‘Routine’ suggests, they found their way there through a process of habitual making and listening, developing an intuitive mus…
The Classic Sound of Miles Davis & Friends
Nicely assembled compilation with some early Miles plus specific collaboration with Sonny Rollins, Michel Legrand, Gil Evans & Cannonball Adderley
Our Broken Time Machine
Stern Records is proud to present Our Broken Time Machine, welcoming back Bug Bus Piano with their second full-length release on the label. As a freshly assembled puzzle swells, countless connections begin to bubble within the slowly buckling square.…
Live Critique of Judgement
Mitsuru Tabata began his musical career in 1982. Since then, he has played a key role in many of Japan’s most influential underground and experimental groups, including Noizunzuri, Boredoms, Leningrad Blues Machine, YBO2, Zeni Geva, Acid Mothers Temp…
Peter der Große / Gudbrandsdal
Two of Henning Christiansen’s tape works from the 1980’s, Peter der Große op. 174 (1986) and Gudbrandsdal op. 178 (1987), are now released for the first time by the Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology.
Danish Tape Amateurs 1959 - 1976
2026 stock. Very last copies around. Long understood as the realm of advanced composition, plumbed only by a small handful of adventurous listeners, the spirit which began the history of tape music and musique concrète, is too often overshadowed and …
Electronic Music
2026 stock. Very last copies around. Bent Lorentzen is widely considered one of the key figures and pioneers of early Danish electronic music and he was one of a few classically trained composers seeking out the possibilities of the new technology in…
Les Éphémères
2026 stock. Sold out at source, very last copies around. The record is accompanied by a 24-page booklet illustrated with Knud Viktor’s photos, as well as an extensive essay. Only a few weeks ago, with their incredible 10", rescueing long lost works b…
Ambiances / Images
Double LP reissue, remastered. Two original albums - Ambiances and Images (early 1970s) - collected on one set. Includes inlay with the original liner notes and a selection of Viktor's paintings, photographs and film stills. Institut for Dansk Lydark…