New Arrivals
Mondo Black Chamber
Sub Rosa recordings 1996-2003: the complete series of works made by David Toop for the Belgian Sub Rosa label, housed in a lovely deluxe double CD set. "It is amazing that an artist active since the 1970s can still reach new heights in 2003 without repeating himself. Young experimental electronica and electro-acoustic composers could learn many lessons from David Toop, especially from his Black Chamber. The pacing, the variety in moods and textures, the artistry of the electronic treatments -- e…
Mantricoom
About 1 hour and a half of droning doom/ dark ambient on 2 cd in a de luxe handmade packaging by Luigi Mennella. As a long, phlegmatic journey towards annihilation, "Mantricoom" opens the door to a new perception of the union of ecstatic rapture and pain. With this rotten, obsessive, lysergic double album Croce (ex-keyboard player from metal combo Power Symphony) starts a new path among the meanders of the most viral sludge core, the meditative drone doom and a post-industrial sound corroded by …
Sonja Henies Vei 31
“Sonja Henies Vei 31" is a profoundly moving document of the personal and artistic union between Crys Cole and Oren Ambarchi. Abandoning their usual instrumental artillery, both performers make themselves vulnerable to the listener, undertaking a committed exploration of pure physical gesture. Surrounding an explicitly intimate duo performance is a hazy collage of field recordings, tape hiss, metallic clinks and wandering voices. This forces the listener to hover in a disorienting psychological …
Khyber Mail
Sohail Rana, versatile maestro of film and pop composition, and leading force in pioneering the cultural landscape of modern Pakistan. His longplay masterpiece, Khyber Mail is stocked with groovy eastern moods, electric organ, sitar soul and surf guitar. Alan Bishop (Sublime Frequencies/Sun City Girls)
As the son of renowned Urdu poet Rana Akbar Abadi, Sohail Rana was born into a respected family in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, 1938. Having achieved academic qualifications in his formative years …
Cassette Van Antwerpen
A compilation tape filled to the brim with only contemporary Antwerpian (experimental) music. With tracks by Miaux, Mik Prims, Innercity, Joris Van De Moortel, Ria Pacquee, Gerard Herman, Blaastaal, Crimpers, Beach, Dolphins into the future, Smokers, W. Ravenveer, Steve Van Den Bosch, Possessed Factory, Orphan Fairytale, Cassis Cornuta, Vom Grill, Mittland Och Leo, DSR Lines, Dog Republic, and Remörk.
Kerstmis 1980
The strangest lp in the UE Antwerpian archival series so far! Recorded on christmas eve in 1980 by visual artist and general lune Bruneau, who is illegal about everywhere on this planet, and his pals Tom Van den Broek, Ewald Van Dyck and Jan De Pauw, at the time all creating trouble in the Antwerp scene around the legendary punk/glam basement Cinderella's Ballroom, Café Tom Tom (and Radio Centraal), Café De Mok and so on! The same puddle Ze Barbies were swimming in. B.P. was rather ambitious in …
String cycle
Between the floor cracks of her whispered folk pop music as a solo artist, burning various violin and bass strings in Thurston Moore's Chelsey Light Moving, breakdancing for a Jackie O Motherfucker and playing in 1234 other bands in and around Soho NY, Samara Lubelski melts all other violinists on earth in a small metal bucket, while still hot she wiped their fat on her strings and blurred out 2 stripped, beautifully psychedelic solo violin pieces!
S.F.A.G. 81
"Maurizio Bianchi's 1981 Symphony For a Genocide LP is the artist's most well known work, widely recognized as a classic of early industrial music. A year and a half after its initial release on vinyl in a limited edition of 227 copies, the album was reissued on cassette by the Broken Flag label. It was at this time that Bianchi created an entirely new recording drawn from the audio of the original LP. Entitled S.F.A.G. 81 and issued in January 1983 as a companion to the Symphony For a Genocide …
Change
2013 Reissue.Xex were an all-synthesizer band from South River, New Jersey in the late 1970s. The band formed when a trio of high school misfits with funny names (Waw Pierogi, Thumbalina Gugielmo and Alex Zander) teamed up with some friends from Rutgers College. They released their debut album “group: xex” in 1980 which Dark Entries reissued in 2010. We were lucky to discover the master tapes of their unreleased second album “xex:change” in Waw’s basement. “xex:change” takes a leap from where th…
Politiken der Frequenz
LP version. Following a hypothesis according to which "Music and Economics share a fundamental object: number," Marcus Schmickler and Julian Rohrhuber's project Politiken der Frequenz circles around the acoustic rendering of number concepts. Inspired by Alain Badiou's Le Nombre et les Nombres, and accompanied by mixed choir, the piece attempts to question the apparent immediacy of numbers that allows calculation to govern today's economy, social sciences and everyday life. "Change, flexibilit…
Zemsta Plutona
Felix Kubin looks a lot like an alien on the cover of this set – and sounds a fair bit like a space visitor in the music as well! The work\'s got this very cool blend of electronics and playful rhythms – served up in a style that really takes us back to some of our favorite German work of the post-punk years – particularly the music of Der Plan and Pyrolator, both of whom would be a great comparison to Kubin\'s work! The tunes are catchy and playful, but also have this undercurrent of darkness t…
Soundtrack
Sax legend Mats Gustafsson teams up with experimental artists dieb13 and Martin Siewert. There's a distinct fusion approach to the album which results in many a dissonant moment with Gustafsson's jagged sax leading the way through the shrouded clouds of machine generated mess. Despite the overall hysteria embracing the improvisations, the trio manages to create calm areas in this storming affair, and thus making a nice contrast to the ever growing turbulence.
Cherchez la femme
New studio-album by this exciting electric/acoustic ensemble, led by ken Vandermark, that bridges his musical strengths of composition, organization, and improvisation. Founded in 2011, the saxophonist drew together bassist Devin Hoff (The Resonance Ensemble), drummer Timothy Daisy (Vandermark, Sound In Action Trio, Bridge 61), and a new contributor, Christof Kurzmann (electronics). In the early 2000s, Vandermark's interest in non-jazz elements like funk and reggae developed with his Spaceways …
Boot!
After more than 600 concerts around the globe, five studio albums and a variety of live releases over the years, the Scandinavian garage, free jazz trio, The Thing – Mats Gustafsson (bass, baritone, tenor and soprano saxophones), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (electric bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums) — are excited to present their sixth studio album, BOOT! As the first album on their new label, The Thing Records, and first studio album following their collaborative release with Neneh Cherry, 2012’s…
Schl8hof
Trost presents Chicago's premier live band, DKV Trio: Hamid Drake (drums), Kent Kessler (bass) and Ken Vandermark (clarinet and tenor sax), plus Mats Gustafsson (tenor and baritone sax), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), and Massimo Pupillo (electric bass).
Cocaine Death
One of Prurient's most sought-after albums now issued on vinyl for the first time, remastered and cut by Matt Colton, housed in a hot-foil printed sleeve. At long last Prurient presents his incredible 'Cocaine Death' pressed on vinyl for the first time. Collecting three C10 tapes individually issued in 2007 - 'Cocaine Death', 'Caribbean Overdose' and 'Tylenol Murders' - released on CD in 2008, it serves to highlight some of the most viscerally affective, evocative material in Dominick Fernow's a…
Der Michel und der DOM
Sound art project that connects the city of Hamburg’s church St. Michaelis and the funfair "Hamburger DOM" :: soundcompositions, soundscapes and remix: Gregory Büttner, Roland Etzin, Stefan Funck, Costa Gröhn, Christoph Korn, Martin Moritz, Lasse-Marc Riek, Philip Samartzis, Hans Schüttler, Suspicion Breeds Confidence, Asmus Tietchens "Der Michel und der DOM" is a sound art project that connects the city of Hamburg’s church St. Michaelis ("Michel") and the funfair "Hamburger DOM" by merging the …
AudioArt Compilation 02
Costa Gröhn “Zwergohreulen in der Vikos-Schlucht”, Martin Moritz “No Input Output”, Thomas M. Siefert “No I, Improvisation gong”, Lasse-Marc Riek “Fahnenstange”, Suspicion Breeds Confidence “Ein Abenteuer ist zumeist nur eine verpaßte Mahlzeit”, Dirk HülsTrunk “Forward”, Etzin “Wundschwelpn”, Gran où lée “Bird cage blues”, Dirk HülsTrunk “Fall out”, Waldlust “Krachgarten”, Gran où lée “Tangonflies”, Etzin “Voegel-Verteidigung der Nester”, Ohrginal “Kombinationen 04”, Dirk HülsTrunknie “Live at G…
Rhythm
Peter Cusack “Through the Robots", Eric La Casa "Clisson: Moulin de Gervaux", Roland Etzin "Premium 900", Jez Riley "Boat Ropes & Lake Hollow Pole", Takahiro Kawaguchi "for example #01", Dale Lloyd "1928 Australian Streetcar", Takefumi Naoshima "self adjustments on mirror", Lasse-Marc Riek "Matti, 06.02.2007, 10:29 am", Sawako "Rain Clock", Walter Tilgner "Tag, Mittelspecht".
Neuklang Kirchenlied
German bands and solo artists bring old hymns into contemporary music. The spectrum ranges from jazz to pop, from rock and metal to acoustic art. An essential part of the concept is that text and melody are preserved. The tradition of hymns is a living one and variation has always been part of it. The remixes of this project bring more variation to it. Tracks by Arbeit, Lüül, Joni & Joni, Workshop, Die Praktikanten, A.R.S., Der Bote, Snubnose, Zeitblom feat. Hitomi Makino, Nicolas Weiser.