New Arrivals
Permanent Parts
*300 copies limited edition* "Permanent Parts is the second album released by visual artist Katharina Grosse (synthesizer) and musician Stefan Schneider (synthesizer; So Sner, To Rococo Rot, Mapstation). Grosse and Schneider were joined at Galerie Max Hetzler on 29 April 2023, performing as part of the Spectrum without Traces exhibition, by three artists who all generally work within improvised music – Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Tintin Patrone (trombone and electronics), and Billy Roisz (noi…
Issue 116: Thomas Dolby Issue + remixes (Magazine + 7" Blue)
Thomas Dolby is back! And as well as putting him on the cover of this month’s Electronic Sound, we are bundling the issue with an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks from Dolby’s dazzling ‘The Flat Earth’ album, one of them the awesome ‘Hyperactive!’.
One of the biggest synthpop stars of the 1980s, Thomas Dolby is coming towards the end of a lengthy live tour to mark the 40th anniversary reissue of ‘The Flat Earth’. He’s spent the last few weeks criss-crossing North America and …
Spectreman
Music Collection from 70's Japanese Hero Sci-Fi TV anime serie Spectraman, all music composed by Kunio Miyauchi.
Colours
Tip! Behind the deceptive veneer of the demure monotone artwork, something unassuming lies within this long-play waiting to be explored. Intrigued by the ironic title, enticed by the elegant text positioned alone on the beautifully tactile matte canvas, the listener will experience musical wonderment at odds with the presentation and discover that the 1976 album Colours is a powerful yet sophisticated set of electric soul-jazz. An inspired recording that bursts with warmth and texture, the pivot…
Kontrapunkt
Markus Guentner returns to his longstanding label, A Strangely Isolated Place following the triptych of Theia, Empire, and Extropy, presenting eight inspiring collaborations on Kontrapunkt.
Godzilla Legend: Box Set
*2024 stock* "Released in 2014, this is the first box set to include all four entries in the Godzilla Legend series. Created by Makoto Inoue, the Godzilla Legend series is a synthesized reworking of many of the themes from the Godzilla and other Toho science fiction productions. There have been four releases in the series, with the first in 1983 and the latest in 2011.
For this set, King Records has remastered the music and, aside from some dialogue only tracks in Godzilla Legend III, they all s…
Evergreen / Faraway
Tip! *50 copies limited edition* Tape reissue by Hakobune. Originally released in 2012 on Black Eagle Child's Avant Archive. Includes 2 long form ambient drones, DL code included. Each piece is dubbed in real time.
Pre-Country
*300 copies limite edition* Lucy Sissy Miller is a French/British singer-songwriter, performer and artist based in Paris. On her latest release for Mêtron Records, Pre Country, she renders her own personal take on country music, an ambient and airy ode to her love of Americana. Across 16 tracks, Miller recollects about love-like friendships, breakups, mermaids and missing girl mysteries - the album acting as a movie-like homage to girlhood and desire. “With this album I really enjoyed blurring t…
Microwave Ensemble
*100 copies limited release.* Amateur planetarium music, slacker techno, and alternative atmospherics from home recording hobbyist: Dimitri Manos. He lives in downtown Tucson, Arizona. He has been home recording as "American Monoxide" since around 2009. The process is very personal like a journaling with sounds and a chance to experiment with recording. For this batch of songs he thought to change the framework and reach out to some friends for collaboration. These friends have become the "Micro…
The Radio Phonics Laboratory - Telecommunications, Speech Synthesis & The Birth of Electronic Music
The Radio Phonics Laboratory explores the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating story unravels the intricate threads of telecommunications, from the invention of the telephone to the advent of global communication networks. At the heart of the narrative is the evolution of speech synthesis, a groundbreaking innovation that not only revolutionised telecommunications but also birthed a new era in electronic music. Tracing th…
5 Prose Fictions
Originally self-released in 1976 through A.I.R. Gallery, New York, 5 Prose Fictions is a collection of five unpublished tapuscripts (“The Cries You Hear”; “New York Times IV”; “Headwaters”; “Into Among”; “First Fables of Hysteria”) by Lucy R. Lippard. This republication follows that of I See / You Mean by New Documents as well, highlighting Lippard’s experimental fiction work.
A Year In The Allotment
A 32-page A6 2 colour riso zine documenting a year in an allotment in North Yorkshire!
Wild Combination - A Zine Inspired By The Music Of Arthur Russell
A 24-page A4 2 colour riso zine inspired by the words and music of Arthur Russell. Combining Arthur's lyrics with full page illustrations and comics, this was 1st printed nearly 10 years ago and is back in print again!
The Life Of The Truth
In this brief, dense essay, René Daumal bids us to resist the very notion of the truth, and to recognize it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end. René Daumal (1908-1944) was a French poet and writer often associated with surrealism (though he fought against the label), spiritualism, and ‘pataphysics. He is perhaps best remembered for the posthumously published novel, Mount Analogue (1952).
Subtle Movements
"In the spirit of expansive expression; deep connection to the Sea as it furthers the Sound. The rumination of consideration put forth thru a profound triumvirate of Beings, Fathers, Sons, Family Members, Loved Ones. The Most Powerful Movements of Love are Subtle. They are sublime. They are felt before and after any note is played by the three of us. We are supportive of each other as people, in the true spirit of a Trio. Equilateral in the degrees of consideration towards each portion of our h…
Solar Editions
Green-House's latest EP is a collection of unheard & rare recordings from 2021 & 2022. Imaginary department stores, Wendy Carlos-infused virtual classical, soundscape slices and bonus tracks are all situated radiantly along the spectrum of Solar Editions.
All Songs Written & Performed by Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan Mastering by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen
Sauco
Sonic journey crafted to cultivate poetic gestures amidst Fauna, Flora, Fungi, Mineral Waters, Wind, and Earth. Each track is an exploration of sound's constant transformation, akin to dragonfly particles swimming in the air. Like waves occupying a space in the spectrum, the compositions work with the movement, condensation, and lightness of the air.
Boca Muralha
Tip! Originally written to accompany Catarina Miranda’s ambitious Boca Muralha dance piece, a duet inspired by ancient Greek deities of vengeance the Furies, this tightly-coiled experiment comes off like Steve Reich in a k-hole. Saldanha makes use of a delay to manipulate and control the two voices, freezing fragments and curving them into slippery vortexes. Raw syllables are repeated, intersected and phased from staccato passages into operatic, rhythmic choruses, time-stretching snowballed clus…
The Total Institution
The Surface Mutants were a Sheffield band active between 1979 and 1982. Over these four years, the following people played with the band: Richard Parrot (Sweet Exorcist, Funky Worm), Nort Tron (Hula, Yonni), Pete Brennan, Nigel Manning, Angie Birkett, Christine Parker, Kent Roach, Ian (Beats) Beatty, Henry Fordham, Andy Price, Reverend J Oram and Sim Lister (Chakk). They released only two EPs during their existence: You Take Me Somewhere Strange on Rock Steady Records, engineered by Cabaret Volt…
Devotional Music For Invisible Cities
An anonymous collection of imagined Devotional Musics commissioned by Dramatic over the last two years. Listeners are briefed just as the original artists apparently were: 13 'Invisible Cities' and an accompanying 'belief statement' of appropriate enigma.
"Their City Tessellates Infinitely""Their God Is Ugly""No Two Chants Can Repeat" (repeat until unimaginably portentous…)
These 'songs' play out like the products of a delirious ethnography. Their palette, all deranged chorales and Globalisch in…