New Arrivals
Embrace 4: Orakelstücke / Aquin
On Embrace 4: Orakelstücke/Aquin, Polwechsel open their rigorously quiet universe to two singular composers, Peter Ablinger and Klaus Lang, yielding a diptych where struck objects, voices and long, glowing tones summon an almost liturgical sense of mystery from everyday sound.
Last
On Last, Leda distils Sofie Herner’s loop‑based guitar minimalism into six slow‑burning pieces: proto‑industrial basement buzz, worn tape atmosphere and stubbornly simple figures that erode into something hypnotic, eerie and oddly tender over 33 minutes.
Pianoply
This is my fourth solo piano release on this wonderful label. The studio’s Yamaha piano is an older darling, bless her, with an easy mechanism and unusual bright tone - lovely to play! It was also my first time recording at Sansom Studios in the West Midlands, some distance from Lancashire where we live. The album was recorded in a few hours and is in three sections. Two tea breaks divided the music in effect, no edits, completely improvised. I was curious about recording in a studio again, most…
Mostra/Punch
The innovative musical partnership of Tomo Katsurada and Misha Panfilov is set to captivate audiences with their latest 7-inch vinyl release, featuring the enchanting tracks “Mostra” and “Punch.” This double feature showcases their unique sound—a blend of intricate melodies and vibrant rhythms, pushing the boundaries of contemporary music.
“Mostra” invites listeners into a world of sonic exploration, with its ethereal soundscapes and dynamic instrumentation. The track is a testament to Katsurada…
Psyché II
Psyché II is the sophomore album from the Neapolitan band formed by Marcello Giannini, Paolo Petrella, Andrea De Fazio, and Roberto Porzio. While their debut was rooted in the myths of the Mediterranean, Psyché II pushes beyond those borders. Here, the sea is a living, vibrant route connecting shores and cultures—from North Africa to Brazil, from the Middle East to Colombia.
The Mediterranean becomes a crossroads of different peoples, traditions, and sounds: cosmic jazz, desert blues, dub, Anat…
Pequeño clima doméstico
*100 copies limited edition* The Buenos Aires–based producer’s second album on Umor Rex can be read on at least two levels. The most direct traces its origin to the influence of environmental music, as well as to some pioneers of electronic music. The album was recorded in a single session, making extensive use of loops that were later edited and condensed into the six pieces that make up Pequeño clima doméstico. This working method responds to a playful approach that runs through Entidad Animad…
Past/Present 2025 Compilation
*2026 repress. 100 copies limited edition* Past Inside the Present proudly presents the Past/Present 2025 Compilation, a celebration of the label’s artists and their creative output over the past year. This collection features a series of new, unreleased pieces from artists who released albums throughout 2025, capturing the spirit and diversity that defined the label’s catalogue during this period. Accompanying these exclusive works is a stunning continuous mix by Los Angeles artist Inquiri (Lac…
Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Compilation, Numbered **
Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara - translating, with characteristic Japanoise black humor, as something close to "Goodbye if you step on a landmine" - is one of the essential compilation documents from the Vanilla Records catalog, gathering the label's core artists into a single tape and offering a compressed portrait of the underground it had quietly built since 1985.
To understand the Vanilla Records compilations is to understand how Ja…
Live Materials 1980-1993
2026 stock, reduced price. A thirteen-year archive compressed into a single cassette. Live Materials 1980-1993 by Nord traces the arc of a project that stretches back to the earliest years of Japanese experimental electronics - years before Japanoise had a name, before Vanilla Records existed, before most of the artists who would define the scene in the late 1980s had begun recording.
The breadth of the timeline captured here is significant. 1980 is contemporaneous with the earliest industrial a…
呪術装置
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
Among the more enigmatic entries in the Vanilla Records catalog - and one of the rarest. 藤圭子's ダーク・ポップ is a cassette about which almost nothing has been committed to public record, which is itself a kind of document: the extreme scarcity of information surrounding certain Vanilla releases is inseparable from the conditions under which the label operated, pressing in tiny numbered editions for an audience of a few hundred at most, …
Extreme Gospel Nights
2026 stock, reduced price **Clear cassette case, 4-panel J-card stamped with the label info on the inner side. **
The most radical act of any art is the refusal to aestheticize. Incapacitants have held that refusal for over four decades, and Extreme Gospel Nights - a cassette recorded live at Gospel in Tokyo in 1993 and released on Vanilla Records the same year - remains one of the most uncompromising statements of that position.
Toshiji Mikawa formed Incapacitants in Osaka in 1981 as a solo pr…
Materialism Rock
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
Deisel Guitars was the name under which Youki Noseyama (能勢山陽生, born 1967) first operated - a duo formation that preceded his long solo career as Diesel Guitar and, later, under his own name. Materialism Rock, released on Vanilla Records in 1992, is one of the project's two cassettes from this period, followed by Atom in 1993, before Noseyama continued as a solo entity running the independent noise label Good Microphone.
The sound o…
Mighty Truth
Old friends Julian Bates and Alex Gray -- working together as Mighty Truth for the first time since 1995's From The City To The Sea -- filled a car with old analogue synths, kids' noise toys, and collected field recordings, took a road trip down to hole up in an old water mill in southwest England's bird-twittery, bee-loud Quantock hills. Things got cinematic: unequal measures of early Weather Report, Wim Wenders, and Serge Gainsbourg kept them wonderfully lost in their imagined world. Back in L…
29.1.1991 Live in “Woody”
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents 29.1.1991 Live In “Woody” by 愛と誠 (Love And Sincerity). Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – 鈴木敬, Drums, Percussion – 伊藤拓也, Fretless Bass – 水澤秀彦, Guitar – 能勢山愛, Keyboards – 神田聡 (tracce: A1, A3, A4, A5), Tuba – 高橋良行, Violin – 神田聡 (tracce: A2, A4), Vocals – 能勢山愛 (tracce: A3), 伊藤拓也 (tracce: A2, A4, A5), 神田聡 (tracce: A1), Voice [詩の朗読] – 塚田雅也 (tracce: B).
Morphine Nocturne
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
Solmania is the project of Masahiko Ohno, one of the key figures of the Osaka noise underground in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Alongside Masonna, Incapacitants, C.C.C.C., and others circulating through the Vanilla Records orbit, Solmania emerged from the same world of home-recording and ultra-limited cassette runs - noise made on homemade instruments and homemade systems, outside any commercial framework and mostly unknown beyo…
月蝕
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
月蝕 - lunar eclipse. The title is apt for a cassette that arrived in 1991, was heard by almost no one, and vanished almost entirely from the record. Vehiyd was a four-member noise and psychedelic band comprising 博子 on bass, 真由美 on drums, 界 on guitar, and Piaa on vocals - and this Vanilla Records cassette, single-sided and numbered in the label's characteristic manner, is the only recorded document the group left behind.
The genre ta…
Refugee / On The Move
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
Nagoya produced a noise and improvisation scene that ran largely parallel to the Osaka-Tokyo axis - less documented, less exported, but no less intense. Dislocation was one of its legendary formations, a collective comprising Toyohiro Okazaki, Yoshimei Yanagawa, Keishi Kiyokawa, Fujio Kimura, and others, whose name appeared alongside Merzbow, C.C.C.C., Masonna, Monde Bruits, Solmania, Incapacitants, and Violent Onsen Geisha on the …
Portuguese Man-Of-War
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
The name comes from the French for "noise world" - Monde Bruits, the project of Shohei Iwasaki (岩崎昇平, 1962-2005), a figure whose significance to the entire architecture of Japanese noise exceeds what the relatively small scale of his recorded output might suggest. It was Iwasaki who organized Masami Akita's first Merzbow concert in Osaka - a founding act of the network that would, over the following years, connect Japanese noise to…
Flamenco Party
2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **
The name means "mercury lamp" - 水銀ランプ - and the industrial implications are entirely intentional. Suigin-Lamp was a trio: Kumiko Yamamoto on bass and sampler, Kazuhide Kawata on guitar, vocals, and sampler, and Kosei Yatani on violin and guitar. Flamenco Party, their only recording, was captured live at Shinjuku Ongakukan in April 1991 and released on Vanilla Records the same year - six tracks on a single-sided C62 cassette, number…