New Arrivals
Desert Crawl
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* High Desert free-improv trio, K/S/R (Ben Kujawski, Abigail Smith, and Justin Rhody), provide an ultra-full-length album of studio sessions, private jams, and live expanded cinema recordings. A fittingly intense culmination of time spent, efforts made, emotional response, and intuitive composition. This is a music that's hated by the punks and the conservatory alike - executed in warehouses, microcinemas, and former cookie factories across the United State…
Music for Harry Smith
*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Free-improv quintet recorded live in accompaniment to the early films of Harry Smith at No Name Cinema (an event organized in partnership with the Harry Smith Archives in celebration of Smith's centennial). Also featuring a 14 minute long remix by Cody Yantis (à la Jeph Jerman & Harry Partch daydreaming in the industrial sector).
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Forming Haze [Recordings 1985/86]
"The Crippled Flower was a post-punk band from Düsseldorf - and they arrived late. However, unlike many young, unsuspecting, hairsprayed hopefuls from that time, in 1985 they could sense that the end of their era was approaching. They knew too much to want to take the world by storm. They were four individualists searching their own way. Each of the band members only found their calling after the time that they had spent together – but that's exactly what makes The Crippled Flower still seem rea…
The Subliminal Paths
*70 copies limited edition*
Haarvöl – electronicsEventless Plot – piano, objects, field recordings, tapes, electronics
Stars from Another Sky Pt. 2: Film Songs from the Subcontinent Before the World Was Torn Asunder, 1940-1947
Death Is Not The End release a second part collecting pre-partition film music, compiled by Gary Sullivan of Bodega Pop.
Rides Again
Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Eternities is an intuitive collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter and sound artist Bob Bellerue. Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy. They use harmonic tones from wind instruments played within feedback systems to create multidimensional spectral drones.
This release is live recordings from 2023 and 2024 full of lush clarinet timbre and …
Public Detail
*75 copies limited edition* Operating since the late 2010s, Vienna-based sound artist the concept horse has quietly amassed a distinctive and diverse discography, drawing inspiration from the rich traditions of musique concrète, noise, plunderphonics, microsound, and free improvisation. “Public Detail” follows releases on labels such as Falt and czaszka [rec.], as well as the artist’s own eë editions, and neatly encapsulates the polyglottic breadth of the project. Patinaed piano loops and wistfu…
Shiroyama
SUDA Seishu (1947–) is a master of the Satsuma-biwa and Heike-biwa, traditional Japanese instruments. He was born in Tokyo and studied Satsuma-biwa with Tsuji Seigo and Heike-biwa with Kindaichi Haruhiko. In 1970, he won the Biwa Music Competition and has been a leading performer in the biwa world for over 50 years.
The biwa is a Japanese string instrument with a long history. It came to Japan during the Nara period (710–784 AD) and is thought to have originated in Iran. It is related to instrum…
Monooto
Monooto represents a genuine encounter with objects. The whispers of countless items draw us into an unfamiliar realm, directing our ears toward the shadows where they reside. This is the emerging music genre known as “monooto”. Interestingly, the Japanese term “mono” (もの), meaning “thing” or “object,” carries a subtle eeriness. According to the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “mono” can also denote deities, spirits, or objects of fear and reverence, including ghosts and vengeful spirits. Terms like "mon…
Unaesthetic Harmony
Yengo is an artist recognized for creating experimental sound pieces, including live performances that arrange sound in an installation-like fashion and compositions that heavily feature the repetition of a single motif. Yengo's debut release on ato.archives, titled Unaesthetic Harmony, is accompanied by the artist's own commentary included with the tape for those seeking a deeper understanding. This work, influenced by Vaporwave, internet culture, and similar methodologies and aesthetics, explo…
Revolving Lantern
a0n0 is an electronic musician and a member of the fluid collective "時の崖_tokinogake". His music blends sharp, provocative noise that pushes the limits of audio equipment and hearing, with sequences of sound that are both mellow and lyrical, creating a fresh and stimulating auditory experience. This latest piece is rooted in an improvised performance on a modular synthesizer. It stands out as a unique work, featuring a simple yet multi-layered soundscape where different moments of improvisation i…
しるしまみれ / Shirushi - Mamire
Masahiro Sugaya began his career in the 1980s, working alongside the environmental music scene of that era while also making a significant impact in stage music through his involvement with Pappa TARAHUMARA.
Over the past 20 years, Sugaya has shifted from traditional composition using instrumental music to creating works for 8-channel multi-speaker systems, incorporating environmental sounds and field recordings. His latest album continues this evolution, featuring collages of environmental soun…
Interactive Pictures Vol. 2
*100 copies limited edition. 2025 stock* Stéréogramme returns with the second opus of his “Interactive Pictures” series. Walking the same road as last year, paved with new age, freak folk and leftfield synths, the Paris-based label also ventures to new paths like minimalism, no wave and vocal experimentations. Once again divided in two musical panoramas, this 11-track tape will definitely bring back your happy childhood memories to the surface. First, take a nap with the soothing lullabies of Hé…
B.L.E.V.E
*50 copies limited edition* An industrial incident, a long live act, a four hands portrait. There comes the third opus of Meth.O.Tapes label catalogue, in a dense, deep fog. Following a first album out on Big Science Records, the duo Warzabart sets up a throbbing nightmare, a mental image of what a « BLEVE » is, namely a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. Between noise monolithism and the exciting richness of live takes where the machine itself tends to create the adequate language to tel…
Yétèkpãnra
*60 copies limited edition. 2025 stock.* There are nights carved like the journey of the dead out of the livings' daylight. Mert Seger brings to our senses a two steps ritual for this debut on Kump. « Yétèkpãnra », freely inspired by the funeral rites of the Batãmmariba of Togo and Benin depicted by Dominique Sewane, runs along with no clear beginning nor any end, a sound sketch where the shapeless rustle from the depths of the night meets a procession of artefacts. In this space where the dead …
Tales of Fear Will Forgive Me
This tape is an edit of Emiliano Maggi's live performance at Villa Lontana on 22 November 2022. It includes selected tapes from the artist's personal archive, vocals and acoustic instruments played live by Emiliano Maggi. The title comes from an essay by Clarice Lispector published in the Jornal do Brasil in 1967.
Mono
Material Object is the main production alias of veteran Australian producer Andre Ruello. His focus is on the most psychedelic forms of techno and ambient. As well as his own productions he has collaborated extensively with Uwe Schmidt (Atom™) and the late Pete Namlook, including releasing on Namlook's Fax label. Ruello has performed and DJed live all over the world, including a number of appearances at Japan's Labyrinth festival. The summer of 2024 sees him give his debut live performance in th…
Cinema Ouvido: Experimental music by filmmakers from Latin America
This compilation introduces the sound pieces created by the Latin American experimental filmmakers and is curated by the film artist Tetsuya Maruyama. Tetsuya Maruyama born in 1983 in Yokohama, Japan and currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Graduated from the University at Buffalo's School of Architecture in 2007 and from the Visual Language Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro's School of Fine Arts in 2024. His work spans film, text, performance, sound, ideas, and instal…
Agora
Born in Athens, raised in Yokohama, and currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Spends daily life at Ipanema Beach, enduring a heat index over 60°C, cracking coconuts with a pinky, eating the flesh inside, and diving into the ocean—on repeat. Always accompanied by a loyal German Shepherd (definitely four years old).The soundtrack to his bicycle ride near the beach is Baden Powell. Connected with Tetsuya Maruyama, curator of the upcoming tape release, through this very dog. (Both Maruyama and t…
Space Noise
Born in Tokyo, 1978. Lives and works in Kanagawa. Takashi Makino graduated from Cinematography / Sound Recording course at Department of Cinema at Nihon University College of Art, Japan in 2001 and he studied about film, lighting, and music under Quay Brothers at Atelier Koninck QBFZ in London in 2001. Makino gained his skills relating to film and videos while he was undertaking coloration as a Colorist on various filmography, CF, and music videos from 2001 to 2011. He has been started screening…