New Arrivals
Pianoply
This is my fourth solo piano release on this wonderful label. The studio’s Yamaha piano is an older darling, bless her, with an easy mechanism and unusual bright tone - lovely to play! It was also my first time recording at Sansom Studios in the West Midlands, some distance from Lancashire where we live. The album was recorded in a few hours and is in three sections. Two tea breaks divided the music in effect, no edits, completely improvised. I was curious about recording in a studio again, most…
XIBIPIIO. In And Out Of Experience
A singular work of deep sonic exploration returns, now unveiled in a definitive vinyl edition.
EmphasYs
*100 copies limited edition* For more than three decades, Germany’s drone ambient pioneers Troum have explored the liminal zones between sound and sensation, shaping immersive sonic environments that dissolve boundaries between ritual, memory, and matter. Emerging from the industrial-ambient underground of the 1990s, Troum have remained devoted to a singular artistic intent: to create transformative listening experiences, dense with atmosphere and charged with inner movement, where sound becomes…
Mostra/Punch
The innovative musical partnership of Tomo Katsurada and Misha Panfilov is set to captivate audiences with their latest 7-inch vinyl release, featuring the enchanting tracks “Mostra” and “Punch.” This double feature showcases their unique sound—a blend of intricate melodies and vibrant rhythms, pushing the boundaries of contemporary music.
“Mostra” invites listeners into a world of sonic exploration, with its ethereal soundscapes and dynamic instrumentation. The track is a testament to Katsurada…
Psyché II
Psyché II is the sophomore album from the Neapolitan band formed by Marcello Giannini, Paolo Petrella, Andrea De Fazio, and Roberto Porzio. While their debut was rooted in the myths of the Mediterranean, Psyché II pushes beyond those borders. Here, the sea is a living, vibrant route connecting shores and cultures—from North Africa to Brazil, from the Middle East to Colombia.
The Mediterranean becomes a crossroads of different peoples, traditions, and sounds: cosmic jazz, desert blues, dub, Anat…
E.A.T.
Echo Libero is presenting a remastered version of the self-titled debut album by E.A.T., which was originally released in 1998. This forgotten experimental electronic music was ahead of its time when it was first released on CD in the late 90s. It was overlooked at the time, but it sounds more relevant than ever now. E.A.T. consists of members of the band Dunkelziffer, including the high-profile keyboardist Helmut Zerlett and progressive drummer Reiner Linke. The group also features Boris Polons…
Pequeño clima doméstico
*100 copies limited edition* The Buenos Aires–based producer’s second album on Umor Rex can be read on at least two levels. The most direct traces its origin to the influence of environmental music, as well as to some pioneers of electronic music. The album was recorded in a single session, making extensive use of loops that were later edited and condensed into the six pieces that make up Pequeño clima doméstico. This working method responds to a playful approach that runs through Entidad Animad…
Past/Present 2025 Compilation
*2026 repress. 100 copies limited edition* Past Inside the Present proudly presents the Past/Present 2025 Compilation, a celebration of the label’s artists and their creative output over the past year. This collection features a series of new, unreleased pieces from artists who released albums throughout 2025, capturing the spirit and diversity that defined the label’s catalogue during this period. Accompanying these exclusive works is a stunning continuous mix by Los Angeles artist Inquiri (Lac…
The Lisu
Tip! One of the longest standing figures amidst the Discrepant wolfpack, the unstoppable alias of sound collector Laurent Jeanneau returns to the fold 2 years after 'Tanzania II' with this 2.0 update of the elebrated 'The Lisu' sort-of-mixtape released way back in 2014.
Based on recordings of music from the Lisu communities in China and Thailand captured on site, this mix shows Gong more like a selector or dj, restricting electronic processing to a bare minimum in order to convey different histo…
Wave Weave - Sono Obi
Tip! **Premium gatefold sleeve with die-cut window and special finishing. Scratch-resistant matte lamination + spot UV gloss details. Includes an insert booklet (multiple panels/pages) presented in a cover sleeve with a satin ribbon detail ((This site pictures a selection of examples).**
Alva Noto - Wave Weave – Sono Obi is the original soundtrack by Alva Noto, composed for a film by Carsten Nicolai. The project emerged from a collaboration with an 12th-generation kimono textile manufacturer in …
Design Slipcase (for Vinyl) / Xerrox series
Limited LP Slipcase for 5 LP´s. Does not include LP´s, LP´s need to be purchased separately! Noton - Xerrox 'reMASTER' LP Slipcase. The slipcase can accommodate the 5 LPs of Xerrox Vol.1-5 (reMASTER).Design by Carsten Nicolai.
Design Slipcase (for CD) / Xerrox series
Limited CD Slipcase for 5 CD´s. Does not include CD´s, CD´s need to be purchased separately! Noton - Xerrox 'reMASTER' CD Slipcase. The slipcase can accommodate the 5 CDs of Xerrox Vol.1-5 (reMASTER).Design by Carsten Nicolai.
The Moth
"A friend of mine told me he had visited the place that Cancer House live and record. He said they jammed together all afternoon. In the moment, in the zone so to speak, he became more and more convinced that what they were making together was the best music he had ever been involved with. As the afternoon drifted by, second by revelatory second, he began making grandiose plans to release the recording. By the time it was dark outside the windows he imagined it as a future lost classic, a key li…
Kwasy I Zasady
What do jazz improvisation, Polish Radio, dingy rap from Memphis, cassette tapes, trap, drill elements and hip-hop loops have in common? These are the ingredients that the Błoto quartet used in their lab to cook an explosive mixture for their third LP entitled “Kwasy i zasady” (eng,“Acids and bases”). Nobody thought that a band who appeared suddenly and unexpectedly on the jazz scene would develop so rapidly and in such an unforeseen direction. A year ago, critics and music journalists treated …
Music For Parents
Music For Parents is a low-frequency, vibroacoustically informed album developed through research into sound, rest, and nervous system regulation. Composed between 2019 and 2020, the record explores slow-moving bass structures and reduced harmonic density, inviting a form of listening that is felt as much as heard. The work emerged from a personal process, shaped by a desire to support rest and release through sound. Music For Parents takes its title reflecting on the dynamics of parent–child re…
See-Through
Following her debut album, 'I’ll Look for You in Others' (Past Inside the Present), earlier this year, Patricia Wolf joins Balmat label with 'See-Through', her second album. 'See Through' finds the Portland, Oregon musician and field recordist continuing to develop her signature style of ambient, balancing radiant soundscaping with a carefully expressive sensibility. But the new album is also marked by an important difference. Where 'I’ll Look for You in Others' was largely written in response t…
On the Edge of the Outside
Vasopressin presents On the Edge of the Outside, collecting four works by Nurse With Wound — three composed in response to texts by Kafka, Tzara, and Forneret, one previously unreleased — on vinyl for the first time. Electroacoustic abstraction, minimalist drones, and grimy ambience, in a limited edition of 300 black and 100 clear vinyl copies.
Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Compilation, Numbered **
Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara - translating, with characteristic Japanoise black humor, as something close to "Goodbye if you step on a landmine" - is one of the essential compilation documents from the Vanilla Records catalog, gathering the label's core artists into a single tape and offering a compressed portrait of the underground it had quietly built since 1985.
To understand the Vanilla Records compilations is to understand how Ja…
Live Materials 1980-1993
2026 stock, reduced price. A thirteen-year archive compressed into a single cassette. Live Materials 1980-1993 by Nord traces the arc of a project that stretches back to the earliest years of Japanese experimental electronics - years before Japanoise had a name, before Vanilla Records existed, before most of the artists who would define the scene in the late 1980s had begun recording.
The breadth of the timeline captured here is significant. 1980 is contemporaneous with the earliest industrial a…
Skull
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
Floating around the sub-underground for years, rarely surfacing, rarely seen. Skull by Zyklon B. Zombies is one of those cassettes that circulated mostly as rumor - a ghost tape, a name that appeared on want lists - until Minimum Table Stacks finally pressed it to vinyl in 2023, giving a wider public its first proper encounter with what had been locked inside. This is the original 1993 Vanilla Records cassette.
Zyklon B. Zombies wa…