New Arrivals
MNE Is Not NME
MNE is Toshi Mikawa of Incapacitants and Hijokaidan on electronics, Jun Numata on guitar and electronics and Martín Escalante on saxophone: dark, extreme noise improvisation recorded in Tokyo in December 2023. Digipak CD.
Insetti / Cartesius
Split release on Minotauro: Thomas Hand Chaste's Insetti, where progressive rock atmospheres meet dark minimal ambient and dirty industrial sounds, paired with Felis Catus's Cartesius. Seventeen tracks in all.
Whatweare
Second album by Giuseppe Fantini as Zerogroove: eight short songs on obsessive drum-machine beats, dirty and minimal guitars, keyboards and synths, and a voice soaked in reverb. Retro-futurist pop from Italy, in a glass-mastered CD of 150 copies.
Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis I-IV
The complete Floating Frequencies / Intuitive Synthesis cycle on four cassettes: Eleh's three foundational volumes of pure analog tone (2006-2008), dedicated to La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine and Pauline Oliveros, plus Volume IV. Remastered by Tom Eaton in 2025, Cassauna.
1978-1983
The first band to make music with networked microcomputers: Jim Horton, John Bischoff, Rich Gold and Tim Perkis's KIM-1 recordings from the San Francisco Bay Area, 1978-1983. Limited double LP on Death Is Not The End.
Music For Two Films About Water
Liz Harris, aka Grouper, collects two scores for short films about water by Tanja Engelberts and Takashi Makino: two long pieces of Mellotron, tape loops, Wurlitzer and field recordings. On Kranky.
All Ages
Lorenzo Senni's first album in six years and his sixth overall: experimental trance and rave seen through hardcore punk, skateboarding and straightedge culture, with his own voice for the first time and guests Chad Muska, Jamie Thomas and Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu.
Squall Line
Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay's Humboldt County duo returns to Discrepant with seven ritual pieces of voices, violins, flutes, synths, drums, bells and field recordings: end-time visions for the unquiet spirit.
Shadow Web
The Swiss trio's new double LP turns from brutal, linear minimalism to slowness and immersion: four long pieces of guitar, bass and drums recorded almost entirely live, with a drum machine for the first time. On Cuneiform.
A Whole System Of
Matthew Shipp on piano and William Parker on bass in only their fourth duo album, the fruit of a four-decade friendship that began in the David S. Ware Quartet. Recorded in Brooklyn in June 2025, limited LP on Tao Forms.
Hurry Red Telephone
Marc Ribot's first all-instrumental album since Live at the Village Vanguard: a quartet with Chad Taylor and the saxophones of James Brandon Lewis, Brian Settles and Briggan Krauss, between free jazz and No Wave. On Pi Recordings.
NAD
French-Moroccan singer Basma Otmani sings in Darija over Temir Alcy's mix of ambient, leftfield and experimental folk: eleven songs on grief, a broken love and a slow return to light. Released by Stroom.
Mystical Rodent Underworld Vol. 2: Exile
The Scholars did what they had to do. I knew too much, and it was too risky to keep me within the Walls. The Sacred Cycle cannot be touched, even by thought. But I had to know. I could not stop myself…
They cast me out into the desert. After two days of walking, I found a small cave where I could rest for a while. I feel strange, as if my mind has been corrupted by the Sacred Cycle. The road through the desert seems to repeat itself in an endless loop. I was relieved to find this cave. Maybe it …
Into The Dragon's Domain
In the centuries long past, the people of the province of Culhaver used to celebrate their successful harvest of the crops by travelling across Yarrowdale moor to the mountains to give thanks to their god who had sent them rain when needed and sunshine to follow the rain. It was on this day of celebration in the mountains, one year long ago, that a fearful dragon appeared, swooping down from the sky and attacking the defenceless gathering villagers. He became known as “Dagmor the Terrible”. Spit…
Spawn Of The Changing Raven
Oh yes! The Japanese fantasy-chiptune maniac in Turbografx-16 and SuperNes style called Black Tiger is back with a new, psychedelic album that will unleash your imagination! One of HDK clandestine (and unpaid) collaborator, the fantasy blast-beat author called Gian Spazz (sic), after smoking a too big spliff, wrote a weird story, full of plot holes, incongruous events and grammatical errors called "Spawn of the Changing Raven". The guy called Black Tiger has obtained the difficult task of writin…
Dunjon Majik
Near a remote village with a not-so-important name lies the entrance to a dungeon, sadly notorious among the local inhabitants. Legend has it that no one has ever come out of it alive. This is the only certain truth; all the rumors about what awaits you inside are wildly different and often contradictory. This peculiar dungeon is actually a magical dungeon, the foolish (or perhaps amusing?) experiment of a diabolical 36th-level wizard: the dungeon is constantly changing, or perhaps it does not e…
A Year at the End of Time
Arriving from the island of Cyprus to the HDK catalog is the Mediterranean dungeon-synth of "Idylls of the Last King." The prolific artist continues his tale of suspended narratives, ancient stones, and echoes of bygone splendor. "A Year at the End of Time" comprises ten tracks recounting the fall of empires through the metaphor of the changing seasons, from the frost of winter to the fading of autumn. Included with the cassette is a handy tool for creating the perfect decadent settings for your…
Nameless
Somber, damp, and tactile, the sound emerges slowly—like water timidly seeping through rock, swelling drop by drop into a steady flow: stern drones, buried melodies, and musique concrète chase one another, transforming a sparse landscape into an increasingly dense, unstoppable mass. It is music that smells of rotting leaves, pine needles and wet earth after a storm — of something ancient breathing underground...We were captivated by the sound of this dungeon-synth foray by Blood Resignation; we …
Squarcio nell'Orrore vol. II
Welcome to the second chapter of “Glimpse into Horror,” a journey into the most twisted and bizarre corners of pulp horror. We return to the United States of the early 1950s—the brief but glorious era of horror comics that predated the Comics Code—a frenetic time when newsstands were overrun by walking corpses, vampires, severed heads, mad scientists, and outlandish monsters.Between 1950 and 1954, before the advent of the Comics Code Authority, American horror comics enjoyed a period of extraord…
Life Caster
ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔎𝔯𝔧𝔨, 𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔬𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔙𝔢𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔡 ℌ𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔰, 𝔞 𝔪𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔴𝔬 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔰 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔲𝔫𝔣𝔬𝔩𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰: 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔯 𝔎𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱, 𝔞 𝔭𝔞𝔩𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔬𝔯, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔇𝔷𝔲-𝔗𝔢𝔥, 𝔞 𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔣 𝔪𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔣 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔱. 𝔄 𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔢𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤: �…