New Arrivals
Tektra
**We managed to get a few copies of the original box set of this renowned Roland Kayn masterpiece** A pioneer of electronic, computer, and instrumental avant-garde music, for the majority of his life, the German composer Roland Kayn remained one of the great unheralded figures in the landscape of 20th century sound - a founding member of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, who delved into singular territories entirely his own. Fortunately, in the last few years, in part due to the releas…
Infra
**We managed to get a few copies of the original LP box set of this renowned Roland Kayn masterpiece** A pioneer of electronic, computer, and instrumental avant-garde music, for the majority of his life, the German composer Roland Kayn remained one of the great unheralded figures in the landscape of 20th century sound - a founding member of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, who delved into singular territories entirely his own. Fortunately, in the last few years, in part due to the rel…
Monocosm
**100 copies** "Calum Gunn is a Scottish artist and programmer living in Berlin. Monocosm is an attempt to slip between zones, to capture a recurrent sensation of a space in time extended."
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**100 copies** "What’s this? Listening through the split spaces of experience. Brain full of place fragments and music. Auto-location and orientation. Auto-relation and alone-ness. Off-grid expanse. Virtual zero. In shops, stations and toilets. The feel of the sound of shifting in the seat looking for no-thing.Klaysstarr (Iain Findlay-Walsh) is a Glasgow-based sound artist. He also plays in improvising duo Zoming Flakes, pop group In Posterface and formerly with prog-punk maximalists Lapsus Ling…
Interiors Three - Empty Time
**300 copies** Cobwebbed keys and dust mite spectres perfuse the dimensions of rooms 14-19 in the third and final volume of the Tape Loop Orchestra’s ongoing Interiors investigations, subtly refining the Tape Loop Orchestra sound from vast and moor-like to minimalist and economic. Big tip if you’re into Tim Hecker, William Basinski, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Richard Skelton.Again accompanied by a booklet of evocative 'found' images, TLO vicariously probes our relationship to space and tim…
Patience
**65 copies** Patience is a split release that sees Grant and Rachel Evans aka Quiet Evenings, as well as Roman Kurhan aka Monotronique, each showcase a single, continuous piece of gracefully slow moving ambiance.Monotronique, usually known for his rhythmic and up tempo electro, (which he thoroughly displayed on his debut album Heat Absorber via Opal Tapes this year), turns to a new side of his diverse sonic arsenal, displaying a serene loop of gauzy organ piano intervals that manage to leave a …
Below Sky
**65 copies** With over 40 releases under his belt, including works published on labels such as Angoisse, Constellations Tastu and No Rent Records, as well as collaborations with Celer and Skin Graft, it is safe to say that John Daniel has left a visible mark on the ambient scene via his Forest Management project over the years.Forest Managementʼs solo release for Vaknar, titled Below Sky sees him conjure a downcast and brittle set of saturated loops, coming across as a series of dissolving memo…
Our Complex Pleasures
**50 copies** Starting off Otomatik Muziek in 2016 as a means to release music and working together with friends, S.U.V. aka Franz Joseph Kaputt went on a long journey since then. After the brutal no-input-noise of New Dark Age and excursions in the realms of dark, psychedelic folk on 2018’s Sterben / Shifting, he began working with synthesizers, mostly because they... synthesize. With the pragmatic approach to replace a merzbau of pedals by using synths as multi-faceted tools for live shows, Ka…
Sonno
**Much needed re-press of Alessandro Cortini's 2014 debut album for Hospital Productions, a much sought-after and highly immersive suite recorded using a minimal setup in hotel rooms across the globe while on tour as part of Nine Inch Nails** Hospital Productions debut from Nine Inch Nails’ Alessandro Cortini, a suite of 9 analogue synth pieces complete with found and ambient sounds Alessandro Cortini is best known as the lead electronics performer in Nine Inch Nails’, but in recent years his wo…
Weltformat
**200 copies, 2LP version, 180g clear vinyls housed in a six-panel gatefold cover that unfolds to reveal the graphic score of the album.** Ending the decade of silence which followed more than ten years of remarkable, critically acclaimed activity by the partnership of veteran experimentalists, Luigi Archetti and Bo Wiget, the duo returns with what may be their most ambitious effort to date, Weltformat, issued by Die Schachtel.Switzerland-based Luigi Archetti and Bo Wiget began collaborating in …
Chains of Being
**300 copies** Avantgarde electronic ambient walking through the paths of Brian Eno, Harold Budd or Roedelius. A conceptual and contemporary approach to Early Music, exploring its ambiences, timbres and feelings. Delicate experimentation with sound textures where different tones of white noise can meet the strings from a viola da gamba. A cinematic work, very touching and emotional. Almost mystic, spiritual ambient.Presented in a very careful edition, the record comes packed in a folder printed …
Vientos Eléctricos
**300 copies** An ambient journey to the inner reaches of the sound modulation. Weird rhythms that remind to Craig Leon, blended with synth sequences close to the kosmische Berlin School and experimental guitars giving an organic touch. An LP of experimental minimal electronics with ambient traces. A cyclical cloud that renovates de orography of places already explored by artists such as Dieter Moebius, Steve Hauschild, Conrad Schnitzler, Cluster, Harmonia...Mecánica Clásica is a new project bou…
Folkadelic Volume One
From the curators of the Mood Mosaic series, here comes a new collection of tracks that gave rise to the Psychedelic Folk scene in the late '60s. It contains 17 seminal tracks collected together for the first time. For lovers of Devendra Banhart, Espers, and Animal Collective among others.Tracklist:1 - Rena Sinakin - Make Music2 - Linda Perhacs - Moon and Cattails3 - Injun Joe - Indian Priest4 - Breakout - Warm Up My Lips5 - Terry Brooks & Strange - High Flyer6 - Synanthesia - The Tale of the Sp…
Pari & Dispari
"My first contact with the Pari&Dispari Archive and the Panizzi Library of Reggio Emilia dates back to nearly a year ago, when I was given the opportunity to collaborate in an exhibition project tied to documenting important performance experiences derived from the work and career of Rosanna Chiessi.This consisted in a visual trajectory comprised of images dedicated to many events, exhibitions, and performances organized by Chiessi for fairs in Bologna and several other places. The experiences d…
Palm Sunday
An insatiable listener, learner, and reader, Stuart Saunders Smith (b. 1948) has taken into his mind and spirit myriad styles of musical performance spanning centuries, methods of compositional practice of all sorts, and innumerable close personal relationships with artists of all disciplines. He has absorbed this vast expanse of knowledge, art, and personal experience, and rather than mimicking anything he has encountered along the way, he has manifested a truly personal, honest voice that ring…
Loudspeakers
Charles Amirkhanian (b. 1945) can be regarded as a central figure in American music, and on several fronts. As a composer, he's been pervasively innovative in two genres: text-sound pieces, in which he can draw engaging rhythmic processes from wacky word assemblages such as 'rainbow chug bandit' and 'church car rubber baby buggy bumper'; and natural-sound electronic pieces which go far beyond the usual confines of musique concrète to create long, poetic sound narratives poised between collage an…
I Enjoy the World
**300 copies** I Enjoy the world is the first solo album by Efraín Rozas. The piece was composed to be listened to as a sonic meditation of 40 minutes. Buh Records (Lima, Peru), previously released the album as a limited cassette edition in 2017, accompanied with an animated video by Muriel Holguin. The album has now been remastered and pressed on vinyl by Futura Resistenza, a new record label from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. "I Enjoy the World is the second installment of the Myth and Prosthesi…
Particle / Matter-Wave / Energy
Kompakt welcomes veteran contemporary experimental producer Marcus Schmickler with the release of his spectacular noise / techno fused medallion entitled Particle / Matter-Wave / Energy.Marcus Schmickler’s fifty plus release discography is one of the most fascinating in his field. From his studies under Cologne based Stockhausen collaborator Johannes Fritsch to his releases through legendary imprints a-Musik, editionsMego and Mille Plateaux, over the years Schmickler has been behind innumerable …
Repression's Blossom
**300 copies** Aaron Turner's solo debut Repression's Blossom explores the realm of avant-garde and reductionist metal. Avoiding the pitfalls of unintentional monotone, the album's abstract narrative tightropes through viscous noise mayhem and clinical serenity towards the mythical echelons of minimalism with gravity analogous to Kevin Drumm, Caspar Brötzmann and Pauline Oliveros. The drone-supported fragments of exquisitely manipulated audio create a magnificent multi-layered backdrop for Turne…
Gypsy House
Sundays & Cybele (Cybele no Nichiyobi) are a four piece psychedelic band formed in Hokkaido, Japan, in 2004. Their name is taken from the notorious French movie. Tsubouchi is the main guy who writes all the music derived from 60's/70's Japanese psych rock. Gypsy House is their first official full length album and consists of six songs which was remastered and chosen by Tsubouchi himself from the 2xCD Japanese edition originally released in Japan back in 2012. For fans of Les Rallizes Dénudés, Ac…