New Arrivals
Cut Up, Locked In
A cardboard box, some famed-not-so-famed faces, cut out of old glam magazines, ready-made for your very own career as a collagist. A tape, for an ancient tape player. A Late 7inch vinyl specially cut for intimate listening pleasure as a loop creator. The new Franz Aembient on Kashual Plastik brings all that distinctiveness an inimitable artwork should carry. Ahead, there is music. Harsh catchy stuff, for wake them up, all those who are asleep. Looking for ears that stand fear. Tripping through l…
Brace for Impact
First pressing of 500 units. Hampus Lindwall unveils Brace for Impact, a groundbreaking album that positions the pipe organ as the ultimate instrument for our hyperconnected era. This isn't your grandmother's church music – it's a visceral forty-five minute journey that transforms one of humanity's oldest instruments into a vehicle for exploring contemporary anxieties, digital culture, and the collision between ancient tradition and algorithmic thinking. The Swedish composer and organist, who ha…
Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas
Tip! Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas is Pietu Arvola’s first album under his own name. The album was created during a year of loss and a remarkably grey time when most of the formerly distinctive seasons coalesced into a seemingly endless rainy period.
Field recordings captured in the last natural forests of southern Finland are interwoven with the swirls of microtonal bells and disorienting clatters. Acoustic and synthetic sounds are detached from their sources, …
Trabant II
Four decades after their formation in the underground tunnels of Communist Hungary, Trabant return with Trabant 2, a stunning continuation of one of experimental music's most remarkable and unlikely stories. Following the revelatory impact of their debut compilation, this second volume plunges deeper into the band's vast archive of clandestine recordings, unveiling another chapter of music that was never meant to see the light of day. Born from the anti-authoritarian underground of 1980s Hungary…
Friar Tuck
Julian Cope, The Prince of Fried has brung forth 12 brand new humdingers: all hummable and lyrically compelling and replete with wah-acoustic guitars and beautiful orchestrations of Mellotron 400 from Liverpool’s Blondest. So inhale the garage fuzz dub of 'R in the Hood'; the mantric powerdrive of 'Four Jehovahs in a Volvo Estate'; the sentimental Pete Burns lamentations of 'In Spungent Mansions'… and who could resist the affectionate micro-trolling of 'Will Sergeant’s Blues'?Stay cosy, defiant …
Ego Eraser
Laserdisc Lathe Cut! Inkasso again. Earlier 2024 a vinyl on Stockholm’s käfTen, now a Laser Disc with an arcane vinyl Late cut via the home address, so Kashual, so Plastik. As ever the inexplicable Berlin-based duo provides controlled chaos. This time not as harsh as they can do. It’s a slightly gentle approach to rhythm machines and synthesizers. Their unpredictable patterns hit calmer, tripping catchy on silver. The Laser Disc Late cut comes with a custom-made cover, shines like a star, and br…
Thank You Kirin Kiki
Rindert Lammers' debut album, Thank You Kirin Kiki, weaves personal narratives and cinematic imagery into ambient jazz, offering a heartfelt expression of gratitude. Born in 1994 in Gulpen, Netherlands, and raised in a creative household Rindert's passion for composing began early. Inspired by Genesis, he started writing his first songs as a teenager in the attic of his parents' house, before joining a prog rock group in 2014, and then launching a spoken word ambient project with his brother in …
Tales From The Subterranean
Fifth solo album from saxophonist Julius Gabriel. “Tales from the Subterranean” embodies a blend of primal energy and inventive exploration across twelve tracks. The opener “Time Riding” sets the mood, a tearing rhythm that sounds like a frenetic tap dance. It invites you to move and when you get to “Footworks” you are all set up, merging saxophone finger percussion with a continuous siren whisper emanating from the instrument, provoking euphoria, fear and satisfaction all at once.
Moving on, yo…
S/T
2025 stock We're not exactly fans of the super group concept, but we sometimes enjoy providing soups like this. Angélica Salvi, Ece Canli, João Pais Filipe and Pedro Augusto are four musicians and composers who have followed, in parallel, an important national and international path in the fields of experimental music, electronics and sound research. All with recently released albums, the connections they have established multiply between collaborations and co-editions but never in this close wa…
Dragonflies With Birds And Snake
2025 stock This Lovers & Lollypops’ brand new release was born out of an invitation from Curtas of Vila do Conde to Black Bombaim and João Pais Filipe to provide the soundtrack of “Dragonflies with Birds and Snake“, a film by Wolfgang Lehmann.
Schwarz Deluxe
Limited to 25 copies only! 7" lathecut made in Yerevan with 3 types of stickers
Malyshka Anubis - vocal / Ne Ne - synths, drums / Nikita Kozyr - synths, drums / cover design - Lust Customer / mastering - Wassily Bosch
Attention! The sides of the record may be mixed up
conceived in Armenia / recorded in Georgia / produced and mastered in France / cut in Armenia / printed and assembled in Georgia / distributed WORLDWIDENAZLO Paris-Kavkaz, 2025
solidarité avec les morts
Limited to 15 copies only! with a sticker attached to the blach sleeve, handmade cross aplication and outer plastic sleeveproduced in france, cut in armenia, assembled in paris in german package recorded and mixed in France 2023 - 2025track one made for film by Stanislav Dorochenkovartwork by Daniil Borisov
dedicated to Artiom Vasilenco (sanspatrïè) and all our metaphisical siblings dead or alive (but mostly dead)released on the occation of annual celebration of our label's patron's birthday an…
Via Brasil
One of the most outstanding Bossa Jazz productions from West Germany at the beginning of the 80s! These masterpieces captivate with their stylistic perfection and journey from Bossa Nova to Jazz to slight Disco´n Boogie influence. Its still on of the most DJ spinned Bossa tunes from W.-Germany in the last 30 years!
The two highly talented, creative and sensitive artists Judy (Jude Enxuto) and Ximo (Ximo Gregorio) had lived in Germany since 1980 and performing in several clubs, small art stages a…
Ich Will Die Zeit Nicht Bereuen / Sonderbar
Sound Essence is more than proud to presents a very special production from East Germany of the early 70s! One of the TOP Soul-Jazz & Beat combos in the country led by bassist and singer Horst Kruger, recorded two previously unreleased, outrageously good titles here in the newly formed septet format. "Ich will die Zeit nicht bereuen" ("I don't want to regret the time") is probably by far one of the most crispy produced German-language soul beats numbers that existed in the GDR at that time! From…
Dedos
Here comes a true South American Latin JazzFunk treasure from Argentina!!! Sound Essence is more than proud to present these lost recordings from 1974 to music lovers again in all their glory. Carlos Franzetti, who has once again been in the spotlight in recent years thanks to the re-release of his strong late 70s JazzFusion record "Graffiti", was also in charge of this record called Dedos. The story behind: In 1974, after Carlos Franzetti was living in Mexico and worked as the musical director…
That Look Of You / The New York Business
Here comes one of the most exclusive and sought-after recordings of a hotel band from the Caribbean Antilles. The resident and highly talented soul singer Lloyd Baptiste played there during the 70s with his group "The Joys" in the popular hotel called Divi Divi on the then Dutch island of Aruba.
The finest soul, funk and disco filled the repertoire of this outstanding formation. This led to the hotel management sending them to the Pyramid Sound Studio, New York in 1976 for advertising purposes a…
On In Out
Advanced Public Listening Records is the new Japanese label established by Miho Mepo, a veteran of the Berlin music scene as a booking agent, label owner and manager of artists for the past 22 years. After recently coming back to Japan, she decided to start this new, highly conceptual label that symbolizes her unconventional musical vision, experience and network that she accrued while living in Europe. As she has stated, “This is my dedication to the musicians and music lovers everywhere. What …
Long Courrier
Few lovers stay together for life-and beyond. Just as rare are the artists who manage to keep alive the burning flame of their creative desire. Areski Belkacem is one of those who nurtures in his heart a fire that never dies out, a passion that burns just as intensely for music as it does for his beloved. As long as the message eventually reaches its intended recipient, he cares little for how long the journey takes.
His new album, Long Courrier, is proof of this: twelve unreleased songs that …
3
Taken from Abdullah Ibrahim’s summer 2023 sold-out headline date at London’s Barbican Centre, the new album “3” follows suit and is spread across two performances – the first is recorded without an audience ahead of the concert straight to analogue on a 1” Scully tape machine, which had previously been used by Elvis at the famous Memphis-based Sun Studios.
The second recording is taken from the evening’s performance itself with Ibrahim performing in a unique trio which includes Cleave Guyton (fl…
The Ruin
"This album is the most personal I’ve made to date. Named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon poem from the 9th century AD about the former glory of an unnamed ruined city, “The Ruin” is inspired by the feeling of living in England (“a country that feels like a living ruin”), the bleak landscape of where I grew up (Medway towns), and a kind of self-portrait reflecting how we all live amongst the ruins of our past selves both collectively and individually. All the musical material on “The Ruin” is taken…