New Arrivals
Programm 2
2021 Stock ** Remastered. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only** Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). The original LP was released on Klaus Schulze’s Innovative Communication Label in 1981. Produced and mixed by Klaus Schulze. First time reissue on CD!
“Don A Testbild comes from Berlin, so do I. The 70’s brought the wellknown “Berlin School of Electr…
Programm 1
2021 Stock ** Remastered. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only** Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). This is their first album on Klaus Schulze’s Innovative Communication Label in 1980. Produced and mixed by Klaus Schulze. First time reissue on CD! Including 3 Remixes from “TV Junk And New Beat Funk”, 1989 compilation album. Remixed by Fritz Hilpet …
Vertrauensmann Des Volkes
2021 Stock * Edition of 300 * The original LP was released on Zensor in 1982. Guiest musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Alexander von Borsig, Angelika Maisch, Christian Kneisel (ex. Agitation Free). Including bonus tracks from “Valeska”, his first 7” EP (1979) and more. A long awaited reissue attempt of Frieder Butzmann's first album from 1981. Butzmann, a self proclaimed "spokesman of the people," more specifically of the Berlin underground, published his debut album after the famous "Waschsalon" 7"…
Du Bist So Nett Zu Mir +
** 200 copies** The anonymous project that makes a pun on a famous Schlager singer!? This mysterious singer was really Jens Kraft from Saal 2. Their only release was published on Unser Angebot label in 1982. This reprint CD is including 2 tracks from the single and 2 unpublished recordings. This is a complete collection of his work!
Auf Der Suche Nach Dem Glück
* Edition of 300 * In 1994, Jens Kraft and Godeke Ilse reunited the band. The increased number of their band name like "SAAL 3", "SAAL 4" and "SAAL 5" was returned to "SAAL 2" as the original. "Auf der Suche nach dem Glück" was released after the reunion, but their first first album. This reissue CD includes unpublished tracks additionally as bonus. Producer: Detlef Diederichsen (Die Zimmermänner).
* 2021 digitally remaster used. * Including full-color booklet. * Limited edition, Japan release O…
Saal 3 + Saal 4
* Edition of 100 * Including all the official tracks from the Saal 3 and Saal 4 era. Plus an unpublished track as bonus. Limited to 100 copies
Weil Das System Nicht Funktioniert!
* Edition of 300 * Saal 2 was formed in Hamburg in 1980 and had an influential position in the German music scene then. Including all the tracks from "Angust Vorm Tanzen" (their debut release from ZickZack, 1980), compilation track and unpublished tracks from the same time. This compilation album was previously released on LP from VOD label in 2005. This CD, in addition, includes 5 more unpublished tracks as bonus.* 2021 digitally remaster used.* Including full-color booklet.* Limited edition, J…
Anmut Und Würde
2021 Stock * Edition of 300 * Andy Giorbino's second solo album from 1983. These tracks were recorded with the support of Tom Dokoupil and Holger Hiller. Including the rare tracks (7", flexi-disc and cassette) as bonus. . This reissue CD is released under supervision of Alfred Hilsberg, founder of ZickZack label
Lied An Die Freude
2021 Stock * Edition of 300 * Andy Giorbino's wonderful solo albums are finally reissued on CD! The original vinyl was released on ZickZack, the legendary label based in Hamburg, in 1981. Including the rare tracks (7" and compilation) as bonus. This reissue CD is released under supervision of Alfred Hilsberg, founder of ZickZack label
Kalter Lärm - The Early Recordings
2021 Stock * Edition of 300 * Special compilation album of Ralf Dörper's (Die Krupps, Propaganda) early rare recordings from 1979 - 1981. Experimental sound collage works!! All tracks are digitally remastered. Liner notes: Ralf Dorper (English & Japanese).
Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour)
* Limited marbled vinyl, incl. insert * Maurice Louca is one of the most gifted musicians and composers on Egypt's thriving underground music scene. This forthcoming full-length album draws voraciously on Arabic music, psychedelic folk. The title Saet El-Hazz is a coded saying in Egypt to refer to a good time and usually implies a great deal of debauchery. "When you mention to someone that you've had a saet hazz, there are no questions asked. It is what it is." The initial spark for Saet El-Hazz…
Aktual University
Milan Knízak canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, contains ten short lectures outlining the university's character -- On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university. In the first piece, Aktual University, Milan Knízak reads his own text, with Opening Performance Orchestra providing the musical accompaniment. It was performed live in Oct…
For Cathy
Sarah Defrise dedicates her first new music album to the American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian. The disc features exclusively a capella pieces which were written for Cathy by some of the most prominent composers of her time. Berio's Sequenza III, Cage's Aria and Cathy's own Stripsody have become new music "hits", but For Cathy also presents lesser-known repertoire such as Henri Pousseur's Phonème pour Cathy, Bussoti's fragment from Passion selon Sade and Entretien, a piece for electronic tape c…
Caravan
Caravan's groundbreaking debut album from 1968 captures the freakish and exploratory moods of the times
Variation
Essential jazz album among the influences of the future-jazz quartet Sleep Walker by trombonist Hiroshi Suzuki. "Variation" is a joint project including the legendary jazz drummer Masahiko Togashi featurig pianist Yuji Ohno, saxophonist Jun Suzuki and trumpeter Tetsuo Fushimi. Masahiko Togashi was a major figure alongside Masahiko Sato, Masayuki Takayanagi and Yosuke Yamashita in the blooming of free jazz in Japan in the late sixties whose "Variation" is one of the iconic masterpiece.
Catalina Matorral
Tip! * Edition of 300 * Catalina Matorral is a comet. Catalina Matorral is a duo; Marion Cousin and Borja Flames make up its double head and four hands. At the beginning of the 2010s, they were called June et Jim — we remember some disturbing EPs they released before joining the label Le Saule (a small, chivalrous table whose holy grail is everything unheard, where folk-singing is avant-garde and avant-garde is synonymous with enchantment). Their first LP, Les Forts, evoked the songwriting of in…
Emak Bakia
* 2nd Edition in Black Vinyl with different artwork and a posterLimited edition of 500* Emak Bakia – a long out of print masterpieces from 1994. Even in the huge Bryn Jones' discography Emak Bakia really stands out of albums from the period due to its rather unique (house-music related) sound and short, by the standards of Bryn Jones, tracks. Like a crossmix between Psychic TV (circa Towards Thee Infinite Beat) and Muslimgauze's trademark percussion and eastern vibes. Re-mastered and with new s…
Live At Nancy Jazz Pulsations
* 2021 stock * It was in 1973, on the 14th of October, late in the afternoon; on a pretty Sunday under the Big Top in the heart of the “Parc de la Pépinière”, in Nancy; it was the “premiere”, the world first hearing, and it has so far remained the only one commissioned by composer and trumpet player lvan Jullien, for the first international Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival.In order to complete this work of composition and orchestration, Ivan asked the great Eddie Louiss on organ, and chose to do w…
Music From Africa Vol. 2
* 2021 Stock * The Music From Africa series comprises two volumes of never-heard South African library music from the early '80s.
They were recorded and produced by Johannesburg musician/producer Tom Mkhize and released then on vinyl only to be sent to TV and radio stations, as well as cinema productions (never commercially available). Traditional South African rhythms re-imagined, dubbed-out and disco-fied by this legendary producer!
Each side of each volume is an A-Side of the original LP's,…
Vol. I - Katakata
* 2021 Stock * Amazing Afro-beat album from a Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s disciple. A sublime spiritual & political session recorded at Phonogram studio (Lagos, Nigeria) in 1979, on a 16 tracks. After the critically acclaimed second album we're very proud to present the first and really hard to find vinyl reissue of Kingsley Bucknor. Also know as "King Bucknor" the famous Nigerian producer, arranger and singer delivered two brilliant, hypnotic and long traditional afro-beat tracks .All the ingredient…