New Arrivals
S.F.F.
*90 copies limited edition* Never doubt the machine’s own hallucinations observing the patient from the clinic to the catacombs beneath the industrial park. Long, patient, slow, hard skeletal textures and voices of circuitry building from entranced earth by Iggor Cavalera. Mastered in london by Eraldo Bernocchi.
Temple
*50 copies limited edition* Massively cold power electronics follow up to the well received addition to the international misanthropy series - for daylight listening only on broken raided streets of the 31st state in the union. In poly bag with obi and tons of inserts.
That’s how I got to Memphis (and other Egyptian love songs)
While there has been plenty of precedent, regarding Alvarius B’s fascination with the down and out of Anglo/American cultural refuse, That’s How I Got To Memphis is certainly his most realized collection of paying homage to it. The fact that this whole album is a collection of covers that have invaded AB’s current musical obsessions is testament to the timeless nature of the original artists songwriting prowess. Imagine Joe Meek coming back from the dead to produce a country western and northern…
Audio Pathology
Audio Pathology - the peak of the first era of the band and what many consider a stone cold classic of the genre. If anyone wants to know where to start with the seminal self-abusers of american noise - tell them ‘audio pathology’. If someone wants to know what your prognosis is - tell them ‘audio pathology’. If someone is willing to testify what they smelled in summerdale - ‘the decay of the angels’Originally released on armed and loaded on cd only, we present to you here for the first time on …
Programmatika
*150 copies limited edition* Originally released on cassette comes ‘Programmatika’ on vinyl for the first time. Coldest possible industrial from one failed state to the world of new idols, new people, new homes… packaged in ultra deluxe embossed cover mit poster.
New Maps Of Hell
One of the very best ever Tribal Ambient Dub albums, originally released on the famous Australian Extreme label. Brilliantly new mastered, sounds way better than the original recordings. Includes bonus songs from other Extreme releases. For fans of early WARP, Muslimgauze, Future Sound Of London, The Orb, Rapoon and alike.
Plays in London
In June 2024 MAI mai visited London on a family holiday. He was asked to play 2 concerts, one at Hundred Years Gallery with Zheng Hao, Li Song & Blue Harbour. The second at a private address with The Real Leyton Library, Conal Blake, Li Song & Rory Salter. This CD documents 2 sets from the second concert.
MAI mai : amplified guitar (electric & acoustic), voice & feedbackLi Song : laptopRory Salter : amplified guitar (electric) & self oscillating amplifier
Waves
Elina Bolshenkova (aka Eli!) is an activist, artist and musician from Russia who currently resides in Georgia. Her previous long player ‘Flood Management’ was released by the indefatigable Infant Tree label. It is a dangerous time to be an outspoken artist in Russia, so Elina is happy to keep to the shadows for now. The title for the album is taken from a novel of the same name by Soviet-Russian science fiction writer/brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky who were renowned for their fictional fut…
A Cake of Ashes
Featuring the last recording of the organ in Phipps Hall before it was moved to a church in Ripon.Recorded at James Creed's Living Room, Phipps Hall HuddersfieldThomas Carroll - reed organ, pipe organ, decoupled organ pipes, electronicsMia Windsor - piano, decoupled organ pipes, electronics
A Bridge Over The Lagoon
Dean Brown is best known as Little Skull. A basement Florian Fricke, creating grainy chamber miniatures with the same latticework intricacy as the delicate handmade dioramas that serve as the covers of his records. He was (is?) also a member of Nova Scotia, purveyors of reed-heavy skree clouds - a band whose existence feels more like a rumor than a fact and one of the final acts on Peter Stapleton's Metonymic label.
Ben Spiers mostly performs solo and has produced a spartan architecture of lonel…
Little Skull
*200 copies limited edition* Aotearoan expat Dean Brown has been slowly growing the Little Skull catalogue for the last 21 years. His sound belongs to the Aotearoan underground tradition, folding in elements of portastudio rock, folk and noise. As well as HoP his works have appeared on Planam, Elica, Digital Regress and Anomalous. These two tracks find Little Skull staring into space with his toes in the sand as he conjures a tumble-down cosmic blues dusted with tape hiss and distortion. As usua…
Ghost In A Broken Shell
Michał Jan Kozłowski is a post-conceptual artist born in Warsaw, Poland in 1986. He began making music at the beginning of the millennium, founding rockabilly band Flymen, releasing tracks on punk labels and gigging throughout the early decade of the 2000s. Later in London he started an improvised noise duo, Unknown Unknowns, with fellow visual artist James Lander and with those who wish to remain anonymous. TV Sunset is his new retro-futurist project. According to Kozłowski, "Ghost in a Broken …
MPU105
Ilian Tape kicks on with another entry into its ITX Series, this time with a lovely hand-stamped long player from MPU101. It is a deep dive into escapist ambient worlds with plenty of grainy tape hiss and cosmic static, celestial melodies and provocative moments of introspection. Analogue machinery is really brought to the fore on fuzzy sounds like 'CreamyPORTAL-Xa' with patient and pastoral synth smears, while 'APEX CA 91352' has brighter and more mellifluous melodies rising up through the mix.…
Syne Vuyle Hoeck
*300 copies limited edition* The Ghentian skyline has low peaks and hides its horrors in full view ~ walk streamside and you’ll quickly be confronted with façades that leer with their tales and secrets, the angels and demons that built this city holding up its mortar and stone in an inextricable embrace. It is within this incongruous backdrop that Benoît Monsieurs has fostered the Venediktos Tempelboom persona. Using the 12-string guitar as his main instrument, the self-taught musician creates p…
A Shaw Deal
Some things take a long time. And some things are meant to last. But how you know that, or learn how to find out, that’s a more intangible thing. That’s A Shaw Deal – intangible. A communal meeting place for two old friends and their different musics. A Shaw Deal is the first album by Geologist and DS. They go back a long ways – back before Highlife, before Shaw joined White Magic – back to the early childhood of Animal Collective. Basically, Doug Shaw touched down in NYC around 2003, and he and…
Live in Porto, 24 November 1989
A historical live recording by Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown, founders of legendary post-punk band Tuxedomoon, here in their parallel guise as a classical piano and violin duo, one they have maintained throughout the decades.
This is the "other" 1989 Blaine and Steven concert in Portugal, performed two days after the Lisbon gig immortalised many moons ago on "One Hundred Years of Music". "Live in Porto 1989" is undoubtedly the better of the two gigs (just listen to "Iberia"!…), but the oc…
A Rose In The Garden Of Winter
This album marks a significant evolution for Dream Division, evolving from a solo project into a full band experience. Blending the rich sounds of Italian soundtracks with psychedelic rock, Tom McDowell, the band's core member and founder of Library of the Occult Records, has assembled an all-star lineup for this collaborative record. Featuring members of The Hologram People, Garden Gate, The Psychic Circle, Miles Brown and Men From S.P.E.C.T.R.E., the album navigates through genres while mainta…
Issue 80 (Magazine)
Audion 80 (12/2024) 44 pages. Cover article: Dr Space - a chat with the pilot of the Øresund Space CollectiveCornelius Cardew Treatise (event), Mirthrandir - article & interview, Pekka Pohjola - Scandinavian fusion legends 7, Choice British label classics: Virgin part 2 (plus Caroline, and a round-up of other releases), Modulight & others - live at The Church of Sound (event), Alain Basso, labels: Bam Balam, Fou Records, Seelie Court Digital, reviews: Flasket Brinner, Lightwave, Moonseeds, Nurse…
Issue 66 (Magazine)
Audion 66 (12/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Datashock - "Neo-Hippie-Spook-Folk"plus: Alco Frisbass, Etherfysh - interview, The return of Ken Moore, Guranfoe, Dave Powell: Fried Rosin, The Scratch Orchestra: with Cornelius Cardew, Vangelis: the progressive/experimental era, Witthüser & Westrupp , Choice British Label Classics: Dandelion, Alan Freeman - Topology Of A Phantom City (review), the return of "the avant-garde sector", Prix Russolo at The Western, Rescued Relics: The Electric Prunes, Ta…
Nothing Will Disappear
London-based experimentalists Kinkajous have announced their new studio album, Nothing Will Disappear, set for release on October 18th via Nottingham's Running Circle label. Maximalism at its most subtle and tender – ambient music at its most rejuvenated. There are echoes of Sam Shepherd's collaborative work with Pharoah Sanders as Floating Points, and the subtle timbre shifts of Jon Hopkins and James Holden more so than their capital-"J" jazz contemporaries. A marked step-up from their previous…