New Arrivals
It's About Time
Pioneering synthesizer soundscapes originally issued in 1974, available again. The electronic duo of Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil aka Tonto released their influential debut, Zero Time, in 1971, showcasing what they described as "the world's first and largest multi-timbral polyphonic analog synthesizer." Three years later, they released this classic follow-up, recorded in Malibu. Building on their earlier achievements, it incorporates guitar, bass and drums into the unique sound of Tonto: …
La dama rossa uccide sette volte
For the first time ever on vinyl, Dagored bring us Bruno Nicolai’s legendary score for the Italian giallo classic La Dama Rossa Uccide 7 Volte (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times). The film was first released in 1971 and tells the story of two young women who are haunted by a family portrait depicting a Red Queen who every 100 years comes to life to kill seven times. It is a classic film of its genre and now thanks to Beyond Horror Design and Dagored, its score is being put on wax for the first tim…
Antimonument
Antimonument was recorded in 1986 and shows a large use of loop based material and a great deal of harsh metal noise sounds in all its analogic greatness! Antimonument was originally issued by ZSF produkt in 1986 in an edition of 225 copies picture discs LP. Copies of the original are now very rare and very expensive. This re-issue was remastered in 2014 by Masami Akita and contains extra material for a total of 61:55 in lenght.
Object Relations #1
Object Relations is a very promising new 7" label curated by Mark Fell focusing on collaborations between diverse artistic practices. Recorded in Milan, 2014, the label's inaugural edition establishes its remit in a unique combination of Fell's crafty Linndrum programming with the adroit, keening cello improvisation of trained cellist and composer Sandro Mussida, following their meeting and performance in Tuscany at the International Encounters in Sound event. On both sides, Fell's ellipti…
Hallucinogenic Doom Steppy Verbs
Mastered by Matt "The Alchemist" Colton and sleeved in Diagonal disco 'jak-it'** Japanese techno tearaway Kouhei Matsunaga aka NHK gets lively on a killer, 5-track, 26 minute debut for Diagonal. Viewing classic dance tropes askance, 'Hallucinogenic Doom Steppy Verbs' follows his trio of 'Dance Classics' volumes for PAN thanks to a keener, almost aggressive thrust/lust for the 'floor, chucking up buckled variants of tech-step, acid, and garage-techno in the process. Making up for lost time…
Live Knots
"Live Knots", Oren Ambarchi’s first release for PAN, presents two live realizations of ‘Knots’, the epic centrepiece of his Audience of One (Touch, 2012) release. Built on the interplay between Ambarchi’s swirling, guitar harmonics and the metronomic pulse and shifting accents of Joe Talia’s DeJohnette-esque drumming, the piece merges the organic push and pull of free improvisation with an overarching compositional framework.‘Tokyo Knots’ presents the complete recording of a duo performance of t…
Fresh Insights EP 2
DJ Sprinkles serves alternate, killer mixes of his massive 'Fresh Insights' session with Mark Fell (and Tony Benn). The future-classic B-side, 'Fresh' is given a slinkier rub-down by the Tokyo-based artist, propping *that* rousing speech by Socialist firebrand Tony Benn on a subtly reshuffled groove that surely marks up as one of the biggest deep house curveballs since, oh, at least their 'Complete Spiral' EP starring Arthur Scargill in 2012. Flipside, 'Insights' is also given the alterna…
Melody, Silence (For Solo Guitar)
Michael Pisaro - Melody, Silence (for guitar solo). Cristián Alvear. Melody, Silence is a collection of materials for solo guitarist, written by Michael Pisaro in 2011. There are up to 12 fragments (or pieces) which can be played in any order and which allow for various transformations, cuts, extensions and silences. Cristián Alvear developed his own version over a period of several months in 2014. This chilean guitarist has been focusing on contemporary and experimental music, in particular o…
25
The French experimental quartet GOL (with Jean-Marcel Busson, Frédéric Rebotier, Ravi Shardja, Samon Takahashi) celebrates his 25 years with this double 10inch. Very nice home-made object with unedited material coming from their achives. GOL has also collaborated with artists like Iancu Dumitrescu, Charlemagne Palestine, Ghédalia Tazratès or Brunhild Ferrari. Their music could be file under rural electroacoustic and experimental ! Unique ! Normal edition with insert limited to 189 copies.
Open Like a Flute
Finally!!!! Here it is, in stock. This double album is a combination of two Ariel Kalma releases under the same name ‘Open Like a Flute’: the original Astral Muse cassette released in Canada 1982, and the Nightingale cassette from 1984, recorded from 1981 to 1984 in Montreal, Paris and Hamburg.
For these records, Ariel converted his 1/4’’ analog tape masters from the 80’s to 24bit digital tracks. Ah, the analog warmth! Released just after his classic album ‘Osmose’, these tapes are a perfe…
A Year With 13 Moons
A master of romantic abstraction, Jefre Cantu–Ledesma is not new to the scene. In fact, he’s been releasing a steady stream of music for nearly twenty years. With the brilliant album A Year With 13 Moons, however, the ever–prolific Ledesma appears to be hitting a new high. Or low, depending on how you like to see things. More on that later. First, some background. Born & raised in Texas, Ledesma’s formative artistic years were spent studying painting & sculpture in San Francisco. He bega…
Thermal
Mario De Vega, Mexican artist living in Berlin, focuses his research on natural vibrations using the resonance frequencies of the space. Thermal is part of an ongoing project around the idea of vulnerability, the molecular excitation, receiving high frequency and amplification of electromagnetic phenomena. Mario De Vega (Mexico City, 1979) : De Vega constructs systems and situations that investigate connections between the living and the inert, exploring space and time in terms of both perform…
Four Forms
"sources of sound that have the lives of small creatures, maybe small creatures that hibernate in darkness but then come to life when exposed to the light. These creatures of which I speak are activated to perform their own cycles of drumming or scraping, all working together as if moving inexorably toward the sudden miraculous synchronicity of flashing light that a few fortunate observers have seen in firefly displays. What I am saying, should it be unclear, is that this is a kind of intensely …
Cores / Eruct
"In Coppice we create a nexus of integrated forms connected by our primary focus on sound, audio, and music. Cores/Eruct is an album about «what is kept in.» The five tracks are compositions dated between 2009-2012.In them we’ve intertwined instrumental interaction with electromagnetic interference through structuralist constraints to form complex timbral horizons that engorge, tip and hemorrhage. The instruments heard are prepared pump organ (Kinder), shruti box, funnels, tape processors…
Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Countr
Largely unheard, criminally undocumented, but at their core, utterly revolutionary, the recordings of the diverse North American Aboriginal community will finally take their rightful place in our collective history in the form of Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985. An anthology of music that was once near-extinct and off-the-grid is now available for all to hear, in what is, without a doubt, Light In The Attic’s most ambitious and historically signi…
Issue 5
Fifth volume of this luxurious fanzine edited by Lasse Marhaug. Excellent overall work as usual, the right dose of anecdotes and information. Published February 2015. Format: 210 x 285 mm. 100 pages. Colour.Fanzine for noise, music and the cosmic soup. After a year of silence Personal Best returns with its fifth issue. The approach is again conversation-based in-depth personal interviews with artists from the wide field of experimental sound and visual arts.Issue 5 features: Anla Courtis (Arge…
July 18, 2004
10th anniversary of the first recording coming to vinyl. Recorded live, direct to reel-to-reel on July 18, 2004 at Infrasonic Sound Studios in Los Angeles. The first official recording, music performed was purely improvisational. This recording was Justin Wright, Paul Kneeje (Kill Shaman label, Bipolar Bear, German Army) and Bryan Levine (Kill Shaman label). This trio also performed The Smell in Los Angeles shortly after this recording. 180 gram pressing, limited white vinyl in an edition …
Split
This split constitutes an exciting collaboration of these two French experimental/avant-garde/dark jazz acts. In mutual respect and appreciation, both Dale Cooper Quartet and Witxes selected a track of their split companion and created a fundamental and independent rework of around 20 minutes length.Based upon parts of Witxes' "The Apparel" -- from the last album "A Fabric of Beliefs" -- and afternoon summer recording sessions, the Dale Cooper Quartet's "Le Strategie Saint-Frusquin" contains the…
Quatorze Pieces De Menace
Dale Cooper Quartet and The Dictaphones are back with their third album called "Quatorze Pièces de Menace". This new full-length of the cult French Dark Jazz collective is the follow up of the highly acclaimed 2011 output "Métamanoir" - the second release for the German experimental music label Denovali. Halfway from their debut "Parole de Navarre"'s ambient and drone driven soundscapes and the more orchestrated "Métamanoir", this new collection of tracks is following their quest for dreamy but …
The Hollow Organ
Luke Younger's Helm returns to PAN with four vital incursions marking his first new material since the sessions that birthed his acclaimed 'Impossible Symmetry' and 'Silencer' releases these last couple of years. Since those releases Younger has been hard at work building his Alter label into one of the most interesting imprints around whilst also honing a petrifying, improvised live set that's turned our bones to stone every time we've heard it. 'The Hollow Organ' delivers four tracks of…