New Arrivals
Satan’s Imperials
Satan’s Imperials by Pain Appendix & Tantric Death compiles five live-collaboration tracks into a burnt offering of noise extremity. The sound is wrenched from malfunction, with synths, feedback, and howl colliding under the “malevolent gaze of a pun…
Absolute Earthbound Spirits
Absolute Earthbound Spirits by Death Kneel is a collection of five cassettes originally released on Life of Sensation between 2023 and 2024. Now presented as a unified CD album, it traverses harsh noise domains with a granular attention to texture, r…
Ghost Story
Ghost Story, by Ron Geesin, is a previously unreleased, wildly inventive soundtrack to Stephen Weeks’ cult British horror film of 1974. Blending traditional folk motifs, modern electronic experimentation, and eccentric studio craft, Geesin’s score is…
The Birds of Marsville
The Birds of Marsville, the seventeenth album from Friendly Rich, is a whimsical and experimental sound guide to 76 imaginary birds inhabiting the fictional island of Marsville. Featuring orchestrion, chamber ensemble, and a playful mix of genres, th…
Suns of the Heart
Suns of the Heart, the sixth solo album from Colin Fisher, unfurls a suite of intricate, emotionally charged improvisations that blend treated guitar, elemental electronics, and gestural samples. Across six movements, Fisher crafts an enveloping soun…
Mirante
Mirante, the ninth album by Nick Storring, is an impressionistic, multi-instrumental homage to Brazil. Across seven movement-rich tracks, Storring weaves liquid ambient textures, intricate rhythms, and a panoply of both Brazilian and experimental inf…
Synthetic - A Synth Odyssey: Season 4
Synthetic: Season 4, the final installment in Rich Aucoin’s quadruple-album saga, is a landmark in ambitious electronic artistry. Recorded over five years and utilizing 103 vintage and rare synthesizers—including the Buchla Electric Music Box and Ond…
Synthetic - A Synth Odyssey: Season 3
Synthetic: Season 3 by Rich Aucoin continues the Canadian artist’s ambitious four-part electronic saga, zeroing in on dance and rave music influences with vintage synthesizer textures. Recorded across multiple studios between 2020 and 2024, the album…
Holy to Dogs
Holy to Dogs, the newest album from The MIDI Janitor, is a haunted, downtempo odyssey of outsider electronics and dusty, dreamlike beats. Vancouver’s Jonathan Orr repurposes scavenged MIDI controllers and obsolete synths, producing spectral melodies,…
Maggot Brain #21 (Summer 2025)
A REAL music magazine on printed paper. As always: substantial content delivered! Maggot Brain returns with issue #21 for Summer 2025. Underground music journalism the way we need it. The way we want it! No corporate sanitization, no algorithm-friend…
Horizoning
Horizoning, the sole album from Stefan Gnys, emerges as a deeply atmospheric and personal artifact of 1969, where raw, introspective songwriting meets lo-fi folk production. Long considered a Hamilton cult rarity, the reissue preserves Gnys’s solitar…
Electric Taal Band
Electric Taal Band, the eponymous debut from Electric Taal Band, is a vibrant Toronto project that forges unexpected connections between Punjabi percussion, cosmic jazz, and modern electronics. Channeling inspirations from Little India crate-digging …
The Tinnitus Chorus
The Tinnitus Chorus, a new album from Michael Scott Dawson, is a collaborative ambient project reflecting on his personal experience with tinnitus. Joining forces with an eclectic cast from the worlds of experimental folk, jazz, and electronics, Daws…
Kokoro no Kibi
Kokoro no Kibi, the new release by Shoko Igarashi, is an album of ambient and electronic meditations inspired by the Japanese phrase for “the delicate nuances of the heart”. The Brussels-based composer and saxophonist blends gentle analog textures, i…
Ajomasé
Ajomasé marks the influential debut of Gasper Lawal, legendary Nigerian percussionist, now presented in a vibrant reissue by Strut Records. Originally released in 1980, the album bridges Yoruba traditions and Western funk, propelled by layered drummi…
Orbital
Orbital is the debut album from Orbital Ensemble, a Toronto-based jazz fusion group melding psychedelic grooves, Brazilian MPB influences, and intricate improvisation. The resulting LP weaves together melodic openness, vintage moods, and crisp ensemb…
Language at an Angle
Language At An Angle by Sam Wenc is a reflective exploration into the interface of sound, text, and performance, redefining the emotional and spatial possibilities of instrumentation. Renowned for upending genre expectations, Wenc crafts ambient text…
Xenakis-Reich (Live)
Trio Xenakis – comprising percussionists Adélaïde Ferrière, Emmanuel Jacquet, and Rodolphe Théry – presents Xenakis-Reich (Live) on B Records, a rigorous examination of two foundational approaches to contemporary percussion composition. This vinyl ed…
Tract: A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape
"A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape" by İlhan Mimaroğlu is a collage of political sound art blending revolutionary texts, manipulated electronics, and the vocal performance of Tülay German. Recorded from 1972–74, it transforms a…
Ritualer, Blot Och Botgöring
**2025 Stock** Ritualer, Blot Och Botgöring stands as the uncompromising debut of Trepaneringsritualen—Thomas Martin Ekelund’s celebrated project that laces religious dread, magick, and esoteric sorrow into the very fabric of death industrial. Origin…