New Arrivals
Alien Space Wreck
"As i was looking for tracks for our monthly Kneautwilg radioshow i jumped into my cdr collection and stumbled upon a pile of those mini-cdr's so fashionable in the first decade of this century. Without prelistening i played it on the show resulting in juvenile state of enthusiasm. The hints towards a young Dead C are there, sure. But it sounded different: maybe younger, wilder. So who else can make such a nz guitar assault? I should have known the answer being a long time CJA/Futurians fan. Sur…
Vielle-Electronica
"The first time i stumbled on a hurdy-gurdy was as a little boy on a holiday during a 'bal populaire' in a small village in Brittany (France). Later on i discovered the term hurdy-gurdy from a Donovan track which returned in my adolescent years as a Butthole Surfers track. But somehow the instrument kept returning in my life. Lise Barkas being a good example, and obviously the whirlwind France. Mining deeper i bumped into the traditional play of for instance Claude Flagel.
And the story goes …
Aussicht - Absicht - Einsicht: 25 Jahre Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie
2025 Stock, rare and out of print compilation. 2CD Recordings from the "Bielefelder Colloquium Neue Poesie", an annual conference of worldwide visual and phonetic poets started in 1978 in Bielefeld, Germany. Performances & contributions by Gerhard Rühm, Carlfriedrich Claus, Henri Chopin, Jeremy Adler, Bernard Heidsieck, Franz Mon, Hartmut Geerken, Friedrich Achleitner, Ernst Jandl, Pierre & Ilse Garnier, Robert Lax, Valeri Scherstjanoi.
When the Bielefeld Colloquium Neue Poesie was founded in 19…
Plage
Plage is a power lament of love and loss. It consists of two groups of poems, Seufzer (sighs) and Jauchzer (whoops), read by the author. Charlotte Warsen is a writer and teacher and lives in Berlin.
Forms of Paper
In a worthy tribute to the life and legacy of one of the great artists of our time, the always fantastic, Monterrey, Mexico, based imprint, Aurora Central, returns with a stunning reissue of Steve Roden's seminal 2001 full length “Forms of Paper”. A landmark in the history of Lowercase music - the idiom that Roden helped pioneer - unfurling like an alien, microscopic landscape, it's one of the true marvels of post-millennial sound practices that remains as effective and radical nearly two and ha…
Apocalypse: Biorhythm – Fiction Series
Tip! Super Rare library recorded in 1980 by the powerful duo of percussionist Daniel Humair, one of the most avant-garde in the Swiss jazz evolution experiment, and the familiar and talented cellist Jean-Charles Capon (ex-Baroque Jazz Trio), who is associated with Jef Gilson and Henri Texier. A total of 15 songs that are a masterpiece in which the two performers' eye-opening acrobatics, including unexpected electric modulation, create an insanely hip groove at the edge of indigestion.This magica…
Ralf & Florian
*2025 reissue* Ralf and Florian (original German title: Ralf und Florian) is the third studio album by the German electronic band Kraftwerk. It was released in October 1973 and it saw the group moving toward their signature electronic sound. This work introduces greater cleanliness in the sounds and intensifies the use of electronic instrumentation, namely synths (Mini Moog, the EMS AKS and Farfisa), drum machines and, for the first time, a prototype vocoder. The formation thus approaches the st…
Tim Maia 1970
*2025 reissue* This is the first full-length LP by the famous Brazilian musician and songwriter Sebastião "Tim" Rodrigues Maia, known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and humorous musical style. This album includes the classics "Azul da Cor do Mar", "Coroné Antônio Bento", and "Primavera", which topped the charts for 24 weeks in Rio de Janeiro.
River The Timbre Of Guitar #2 Rei Harakami
A collection of ten hypnotic guitar renditions that dive deeply into the traditional compositional musicality that underpins Harakami’s hallucinatory beatscapes before reconsidering them under a fresh, innovative and engaging new light. River: The Timbre of Guitar #2 Rei Harakami signals a new level of awareness and understanding of both Rei Harakami’s significance and Ayane Shino’s undeniable talent.In 1996 Tokyo-based label Sublime Records received a cassette demo from Rei Harakami, a 26-year-…
The Wind That Had Not Touched Land
Annie A, the one-off collaborative project between Félicia Atkinson, Time is Away, Christina Petrie and Maxine Funke, arrives on A Colourful Storm with an inquisitive, exploratory composition evoking questions of inconstancy and reconciliation, vastness and finitude and the sometimes cruel deception of human perception. Who will conduct our dreams if we never wake?
It is a geographically diverse yet like-minded ensemble whose seeds were sown during an A Colourful Storm show in London, where tim…
13 - LP3
Diagonal celebrates 13 years in business via a 4 x 12" run featuring label stalwarts and influential collaborators. This is LP3, the second in the series. Like LP 1 & 2 before it, this 12" comes with a coloured, elastic H band. All four LPs will be accompanied by these meaning customers can combine the records and complete their own 4 x 12" set!
Jim O' Rourke leads the line on plate 3 with 'ror bypass', a gripping, mediative blend of modular enhanced percussion and field recordings. Kae Tempest …
Issue 122: The Art of Noise (Magazine + 7" White)
We're marking the return of The Art Of Noise with this month's Electronic Sound cover story. Or The Art Of This as they're now calling themselves. And as well as bringing you the very first interview with the band under this name, we’re bundling the magazine with an exclusive silver vinyl seven-inch featuring the new group's debut recordings.
More than 25 years on from The Art Of Noise's last studio album, three of the five founding members – JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley – are reboo…
Early Works Vol. 2: Music From The Archives
*2025 stock* 2020 was a time of fear as Covid blew through the world, shutting countries down and isolating friends and family alike. In a space of a few short months the world seemed a scarier and smaller place as many experienced isolation and a diffuse uncertainty for the first time. For those lucky enough not to be touched by tragedy during the pandemic, or having to battle the illness personally, the lockdown certainly created a space and time to crack open a book, get square eyed over a bo…
Aunes
Aunes is a rare solo album from peripatetic Australian cellist-composer-performer Judith Hamann, presenting six pieces recorded across several years and countries. Developing the collage techniques and expanded sound palettes heard on their previous releases, Aunes makes use of synthesizers, organ, voice and location recordings alongside the dazzlingly pure, enveloping tones of Hamann’s cello. The record takes its name from an old French unit of measurement for fabric, varying around the country…
The Music of Anthony Braxton
Steve Lehman – whom The New York Times has hailed as a “virtuoso alto saxophonist” and a “state-of-the-art musical thinker” – returns with a highly-anticipated new release with his long-running trio featuring bassist Matt Brewerand drummer Damion Reid, joined by special guest tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the past 30 years. On the self-evidently entitled The Music of Anthony Braxton, Lehman pays homage to one of his earliest mentors with a hard-swin…
Estradas
2025 Small repress. Drummer-composer and multi-instrumentalist Valentina Magaletti’s explorative percussions join Afro-Portuguese artist Nídia’s singular beat-making for an exciting new collaboration in dance music. From the first beat, listeners are drawn into a world where rhythm reigns supreme and movement is inevitable. The album explores a diverse yet universal musical language through syncopated drum patterns, pulsating marimba lines, and melodic interludes.
Issue 81 (Magazine)
Cover article: Choice French Label Classics: Arcane & Cryptoplus: Twilight Of The Alchemists - book review, Arbete och Fritid & Archimedes Badkar - Scandinavian fusion legends 8, David Borden and Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - interview, Irish progressive rock, 25 questions with Benoit Widemann interview, Supersister archive, labels: Empreintes Digitales, Modulisme, Buh Records, Cardinal Fuzz, Syngate, Whitelabrecs, Blue Matter, die Schachtel, reviews: Dr space, Elephant9, Supersist…
Issue 74 (Magazine)
*2025 repress. 50 copies limited edition* This issue of Audion magazine was first published in pdf format and then later also as a limited printed edition. The pdf version is available as two Bandcamp downloads: a pdf/multimedia edition and as a pdf only version. The pdf is viewable on all devices that support pdf files and can easily be printed. This multimedia download also comes with extra files and the audio samples shown on this page.
Audion is copyright registered with the British Library,…
watergh0st songs
"Is there only one room? When the listener listens do they stay in their room and the room in which the songs were recorded comes to the listener? Or does the listener go to the room in which the songs were recorded? Or maybe the two rooms come together side by side in tandem, in balance, or in parallel, somehow joined?
Songs of a person in a city going out of a room, looking. Easily walking down a familiar staircase. Foot leaving the last step before the landing. Standing briefly before the swi…
Noise Toys
*2025 stock* Noise Toys are a series of ready-to-go synthesizers created by the long-running Brooklyn circuit-bending trio Loud Objects, who are known for building and programming their own audio hardware. The Noise Toys are portable versions of the music chips Loud Objects use in their live performances, and come in five different glitched-out sonic flavors. Each Noise Toy is programmed with its own 1-bit generative sound pattern, armed with an old-style toggle power switch, two buttons that mo…