New Arrivals
I Can Feel The Fun
Zahgurim formed in 1983 and were early contributors to the Industrial Music scene associating with the Temple Ov Psychick Youth. They were invited by Konnex Records Manfred Schiek to record an album for his Berlin Atonal label resulting in Moral Rearmament produced at Julian Gilbert and Simon Crabs studio at the Old Ambulance Station on Londons Old Kent Road. It became Berlin Atonal’s fifth release. Live performances at Dimitri Hegemanns pioneering Berlin Atonal festival with Psychic TV, Test De…
GOD O: Music For A Gallery Opening
The Residents are an American art collective best known for their over 60 studio albums that were recorded over a period of over forty years. They also created some outstanding multimedia works, mainly three CD ROM projects and more than ten DVDs. Charles Bock was a pseudonym that Hardy Fox, co-founder and primary composer for the group, used from 2012 to 2017. About a dozen albums were released using that name until Fox started using his real name for his solo recordings. "GOD O" was the openin…
SINN/ist
The Valentin Duit Quartett consists of Robert Unterköfler on saxophones, Tobias Meissl on vibraphone, Ivar Roban Križić on double bass and Valentin Duit on drums. The quartet interprets pieces by Valentin Duit which offer space for collective and solo improvisation in different ways. It emerged from the Tobias Meissl Trio in 2023 and has existed as a collective exploratory ensemble ever since.
Valentin Duit is a Vienna-based drummer who plays with various ensembles mainly in the fields of jazz a…
Surface Disorder
Multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and scene creator, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, has been releasing music under various guises for two decades. With the successes of his moniker HHY (Nyege Nyege Tapes) whether in symbiosis with The Kampala Unit or the syncopationophilic big band of The Macumbas, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha's sonic signature continues to grow more and more singular. Ever synthetic and digital, Uliel Saldanha's work-ethic never eases—having recently started a label of his own, Horror…
Music For Writers
Music for Writers is a wordless collection of pieces meant to accompany thought and inspire another way. It is music made in both stillness and motion, music that listens as much as it speaks. Each track offers a space—open, textured, often slow-moving—where ideas, images, and feelings drift in and out. It's a record I've been thinking about and wanting to make for a long time - my first solo instrumental album. The album was recorded across places—Brooklyn, Berlin, Latvia—using a minimal setup:…
Personal Jesus
To mark Nina Hagen's 70th birthday, Personal Jesus is being released for the first time on vinyl, including a bonus track – exactly fifteen years after its original release. The bonus track is titled "I Am Born To Preach The Gospel" and is a cover of Washington Phillips. With Personal Jesus, Nina Hagen delves deep into rock, blues, and gospel in 2010. Raw, unpolished, and full of intensity, she interprets songs about faith, resistance, and redemption – carried by her unmistakable voice, which bu…
I Carried You For Years And The Deers Are Still Hungry
*Comes with distributor exclusive 350gsm recycled card insert featuring more beautiful artwork by in house designer Lewis McLean* Recorded last April following their debut tour of Japan, the first LP from Burn Into Sleep and Dream Skills is a compelling fusion of their distinct creative approaches. Drawn from two expansive improvisational sessions, the album’s eight tracks traverse a vivid sonic landscape—ranging from neon-drenched nocturnes and taut industrial rhythms to knotty free improvisati…
Styx
Arriving just four months after his previous release, Tombed Visions obsession with the work of guitarist Takashi Masubuchi continues with the release of 'Styx'.
Microcanonical Ensemble
Microcanonical Ensemble is an album woven with subtle paradoxes, balancing stasis and movement, resonance and decay, improvisation and composition, precision and raw performance. While the echoes of Morton Feldman, Jürg Frey, and the Wandelweiser scene whisper through their music, the group's contrasting approaches, coupled with an openness and fragility, create a sound that is rustic and fallibly human.
With purely acoustic instrumentation, the quartet of Takashi Masubuchi, Wakana Ikeda, Tom So…
The Lolita Years
'The Lolita Years' is a new archival compilation of previously unreleased music by Thierry Azam & Alain Michon aka Pray-Pax, two artists who formed part of the extraordinary French art collective Lolita Danseduring the 1980s.
Encompassing unearthed soundtracks created by Pray-Paxfor the vibrant performances of the multi-disciplinary group, the rich, anarchic music collected here spans no wave, minimal wave, post-punk, avant-garde jazz and outlandish DIY composition. Steeped in surrealism, pranks…
We Do Recover
We Do Recover, the new album from Powell and his first album proper on his own Diagonal Records, is a vitalising record of recovery and a statement of reassurance. The music is intensely emotional and lean, and forms a uniquely expressive story that opens up new ground in the artists's bizarre continuum of synthesised sound — this time triggered by experiences of grief and addiction.
The suicide of one of his life-long friends in 2024 was a life-changing loss which eternally altered Powell's lif…
Flyers & Blues
Pushing boundaries and redefining sonic experimentation, Gabi Losoncy and The Rita join forces for a striking new CD, “Flyers & Blues.” This uncompromising release offers a visceral audio experience, with each track composed entirely using NHL regulation hockey sticks and pucks, performed and recorded indoors. Heralding a union of physicality and sound, both Losoncy and The Rita channel the intensity and unpredictability of the rink, translating it into pure auditory form. The result is a raw, t…
Was That Always There?
Cyess Afxzs announces the release of "Was That Always There?", a bold new project crafted by S. McCune and Caesar Oetterli, blending raw and experimental electronics for an immersive sonic journey. The record captures novel textures—recorded between November 2024 and February 2025—featuring drums by Caesar and all other instrumentation and mixing by McCune.
"Was That Always There?" marks a significant evolution for the Cyess Afxzs project, known for pushing boundaries within the harsh noise and …
Joropop
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic picnic where you can feast on a music scene that was rich, sparkling, multi-colored, ground-breaking and it’ll blow your mind. A prodigious soundscape that blends the Caribbean and the Amazon sophistication and flavors; raw yet delicate textures. “Joropop. Psych Pop & Folk in Venezuela, 1968-1976” features infectious Latin rock rhythms and timeless folk melodies across 15 ultra-rare tracks—most of which have never been reissued until now. Let’s set off together to disc…
Brainwave Music No. III
On October 30, 2021, Brainwave Music No. III was recorded live as part of a series of ten groundbreaking Brain Wave sound installation performances by Ilpo Väisänen and Dirk Dresselhaus (die Angel). The event took place in the evocative setting of the Life on a Leaf House in Turku, Finland.
At the core of this performance was an interactive system driven by brainwave interfaces. Harnessing the performers’ neural activity, the system enabled Väisänen and Dresselhaus to directly process and shap…
Echo of Being / Grace in Rot
Echo of Being / Grace in Rot is a powerful sonic meditation on grief by the duo Neti-Neti, composed of vocalist Amirtha Kidambi and percussionist Matt Evans. The project originated from improvisation sessions born out of personal loss, evolving from an intimate exchange into a practice that bridges the personal and the political.
Normification
London-based label Diagonal is proud to announce the release of Normification, an ambitious new project by renowned sound artists Florian Hecker and Marcin Pietruszewski. Conceived as a multidisciplinary exploration between design, algorithms, and sound, Normification arrives as a deluxe 2CD package, accompanied by two 16-page booklets designed by acclaimed Zurich-based studio NORM.
At the core of the project lies the radical idea of translating graphic design procedures and algorithmic proces…
The Twinkling Star
Legendary Egyptian vocalist and cultural icon Umm Kulthum, revered worldwide as “the Voice of Egypt” and often described as “Egypt’s fourth pyramid,” remains one of the most powerful figures in music history. Originally released in 1961 on Parlophone, The Twinkling Star is a luminous showcase of her unparalleled vocal mastery—an album that captures both the grandeur of her artistry and the emotional intensity that made her a cultural phenomenon across the Arab world and beyond.
A cornerstone o…
Clang Quartet / Crank Sturgeon
*100 copies limited edition* Noise. Ritual. Performance. Transformation. Two of experimental music’s most uncompromising voices — Clang Quartet and Crank Sturgeon — collide in a brand-new split release that drags listeners deep into the unpredictable wilderness of sound.
For decades, both Clang Quartet (North Carolina’s Scotty Irving) and Crank Sturgeon (the ever-morphing project of Matt Anderson) have built reputations for visceral, unhinged, and deeply theatrical approaches to noise. Now, on…
Demo
*50 copies limited edition* Orb Tapes is proud to present Demo, the debut offering from Castellar, a project whose sound sits at the intersection of shadowed atmospherics and raw sonic immediacy. Emerging from the underground currents of experimental music, Demob captures the urgency, openness, and unpredictability that can only come from first transmissions.
Across its unfolding passages, Demo balances restraint with intensity: fractured textures collide with moments of stark beauty, while la…