New Arrivals
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.…
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…
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…
On Bare Ground
*200 copies limited edition* Red Brut’s third album, "On Bare Ground", is a sonic tapestry woven from the final threads of her Rotterdam existence. Entirely composed of soundscapes captured during her last two years in the city, the album evolves into a poignant farewell as its creation mirrors the passage of time, culminating in a profound departure from her life there. “On Bare Ground” is a sculptural work blending its lo-fi with haunting melodies, field recordings, and ethereal soundscapes. U…
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*2024 stock. 40 copies limited edition* Kaset Hitam (Indonesian for “Black Cassette”) is Sjoerd Bruil. All tracks were recorded while being on the road in various busses and trains on a tour through France and the Benelux countries.
Memory Default
Coming down the mountain to the sea… A meeting of enigmatic minds, STROM|MORTS and venoztks, at The Summerhouse on the coast of southern England gave rise to an alliance – "beards vs bald"; venoztks using unprocessed short wave channelled through modular synth, guitar pedals and other unknown physical and non-physical devices which were lost in the maelstrom. The result is just downright peculiar. But with charm; "Hotel Echo" echoes and channels earlier insane attempts to dance to farmersmanual.…
Franciska og Emilie
Jonas Torstensen returns to Discreet Music with the second Franciska album, following up the much praised Tryghed (Discreet Music 12) that was released in early 2023. Since Tryghed came out, Franciska has quickly become an established forefront of a young, new generation of Scandinavian experimental DIY musicians. This time a joint effort with his longtime friend and collaborator Camille Helt Haarder, the new album is dedicated to their shared hometown Odense in Denmark.
Mainly based on piano lo…
Freak Out
We are pleased to reissue the masterpiece cassette of the early Acid Mothers Temple, which is an exquisite mix of psychedelic and noise that creates an unidentifiable sound. The reason for the mysteriousness of the sound is the editing that forms the composition and development of the sound in a way that would normally be unthinkable, and will reaffirm the uniqueness of Acid Mothers Temple.
Issue 47 (Magazine)
Audion 47 (12/2002) 40 pages. Cover article: A Little Bit Of Spaghetti: New Trolls, Nuova Idea, Osanna, Novaplus: Dweller At The Threshold (interview), Eleni Karaindrou - Film Music, Nurse With Wound (9 reviews), Cuneiform Records, Musea Records, Relics Revisited, Garden Of Delights, Some Choice Leicester Talent Volcano The Bear & others, Oöphoi, IQ In Concert - Sat 29th June 2002, Electroshock, etc.
Issue 39 (Magazine)
Audion 39 (2/1998) 44 pages. Cover article: Space Explosion - The ultimate Krautrock Supergroup plus: Rock In Opposition - Part 5: Stormy Six, Burg Herzberg - Open Air Festival 1997, Silver Apples & Support,Crevice, Bondage Fruit, RLW, Premiata Forneria Marconi "10 Anni Live", Captain Trip, Space Dreams, Volcano The Bear - Physio & Firkin, Leicester, 5/9/97, Brian Barritt - Memoirs Of A Cosmic Joker, reviews, etc.
Issue 38 (Magazine)
Audion 38 (8/1997) 48 pages. Cover article: Rock In Opposition - Part 4: The French Connection (Etron Fou, ZNR, Albert Marcoeur, Art Zoyd)plus: NME at the NFT - Julian Cope Presents A Krautrocksampler, Sphere & IQ - The Palace Theatre, Newark, 11/5/97, Artemiy Artemiev, Cluster On Tour, Volcano The Bear - Physio & Firkin, Leicester 1997, SFF - An interview with Heinz Fröhling, Urban Sax - "Street Life" at the South Bank, London 18/7/97, The Deviants, King Crimson "Epitaph", Cunieform Records, Se…
Issue 37 (Magazine)
Audion 37 (5/1997) 44 pages. Cover article: A Chat With Chris Karrerplus: Caravan, Cluster - Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 6/8/96, Faust - The return of Faust Part ???, Moving Gelatine Plates - The Genius Of, Rescued Relics, KLEMdag '96 - Vereniging, Nimwegen, Rescued Relics, Infortecture, Peter Hammill - Union Chapel, London 3/11/96, London Oris Jazz Festival - QEH, Brainticket - The Mysterious Story of..., etc.
Issue 30 (Magazine)
Audion 30 ((2/1995) 40 pages. Cover article: Rock In Opposition, part 1 - Univers Zero/Present/Daniel Denisplus: Made In Sweden 90s Style, Art Zoyd - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Electronic Music From Cologne: Stockhausen, Eimert, etc., Morphogenesis - Conway Hall 3/11/94, New Perspectives In Music, New Synth from Europe: Ron Boots, Frank Quasar, etc., 5uu's, The Hafler Trio, Rufus Zuphall - Avalon And On, etc.
Issue 29 (Magazine)
Audion 29 (10/1994) 40 pages. Cover article: French Special: Jean-François Pauvros / Jac Berrocal / Catalogue plus: UK Electronica 1994, Voiceprint - Radio Sessions, Byoung Duk Kim, Rhys Chatham + 101 Electric Guitars,John Etheridge Band, Mother Gong - Leicester 94, Klaus Schulze - Paris 94, Jacques Rémus: Mecamusique, The Urban Sax Experience, Richard Pinhas & John Livengood - interview, Odd Size, etc.
Issue 26 (Magazine)
Audion 26 (11/1993) (11/1993) 40 pages. Cover article: Arthur Brown - Still Crazy! plus: AMP Records - Electronic Evening 27/6/93, SI Music - Progressive & Melodic Rock, Peter Michael Hamel & Between, Jim O'Rourke - Industrial Soundscapes, Luigi Russolo - Father Of Noise, Prog & Psych Labels (Background, Aftermath, BGO, etc.), Arrival Music, Trettoåriga Kriget - Thirty Years War, Anekdoten, etc.rear cover: Instant Record Collection 4: The Rhythm Devils - The Apocalypse Now Sessions to "Sound Scu…
Issue 24 (Magazine)
Audion 24 (3/1993) 40 pages. Cover article: Gilbert Artman: Lard Free & Urban Sax - plus: Lightwave & Paul Haslinger interview, Iancu Dumitrescu, King Crimson - The Great Deceiver, Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass, Morphogenesis - An interview with, Roach/Reyes/Schulte - live in Paderborn, Germany 2/10/92, Supersister - Who Is Nancy?, Lovely Music, Miranda Sex Garden, UK Electronica, '92, Musea, etc. rear cover: Instant Record Collection 2: Paul Dolden - The Threshold Of Deafening Silence to Lar…
Issue 22 (Magazine)
Audion 22 (7/1992) 44 pages. Cover article: Sound Sculptures: Lasry Baschet, Jean Tinguely, Sonde, etc. plus: Caravan Of Dreams - Live 91, Ozric Tentacles - Live 92, Hawkwind - Live 92, Djam Karet & Atavism Of Twilight, Richard Pinhas (interview), Current 93 - Keeping Up With The Current..., Anckartsröm, Igra Staklenih Perli, Harry Partch, Mario Bertoncini, Sonde, Ian Boddy (interview), plus: Harmonium, Voiceprint, Alquimia, reviews, etc.