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Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Chantal Michelle's latest work is an immersive composition across four movements, originally presented as a multi-channel installation and reworked for stereo. As with her previous release on Dinzu, Michelle exquisitely captures the raw, elemental processes of the natural world – here evoking the layered, grainy textures of geological formations. The track's titles both denote these geological processes and describe the composition's sonic behaviors and trajecto…
Audio Erotica, Hi-Fi Brochures 1950s–1980s (Book)
An archive of aural sensations past, teeming with rare and previously unpublished vintage hi-fi brochures Remember roller-skating while wearing your first Walkman? Or relaxing to easy listening in your pure white Philips lounge? Or playing chess on your JVC tabletop radio? All these scenarios can be found in the geeky and rarefied world of the vintage hi-fi brochure, where graphic design and acoustic apparatus make magical music together.From austere postwar Britain to poppy pre-millennium Japan…
Fabulous Soundtracks
Fabulous Soundtracks, the fourth studio album by reclusive Los Angeles musician Jack Name, is an homage to the IRL world and its twisted and varied romance with the worlds of our minds, in a wild collection of "soundtracks'', each a sonic re-construction dedicated to a distinct scene. Both musically and lyrically, this is Name's most adventurous and genre-defying album. Elements of acid, dance, folk, micro-tonal weirdness, horror, sensuality, impressionism, and bursts of rock fuse with Name's mo…
Sun Ra And His Arkestra - Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Bla
Green-Vinyl reissue. "To understand the significance of the word 'featuring' on Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold, consider how infrequently Sun Ra used it and the exact way it had been used. The October Revolution in Jazz, organized by Bill Dixon in the West Village in 1964, presented a vivid cross section of approaches to the new music, including a sextet led by Ra. For the October Revolution's continuation, titled Four Days in December, held at nearby Judson Hall on the last days of …
Ghosted II
In 2021, Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin convened in Stockholm’s Studio Rymden to bring forth several monstrously hypnotic improvisations, ultimately bearing their debut: 2022’s widely-acclaimed Ghosted. Two years on, Drag City is now pleased to announce the release of Ghosted II, out on April 26, 2024. Here, Oren, Johan and Andreas have crafted a follow-up record that fuels a rock-solid foundation with years of performing live together as a trio: a fulmination of propelling g…
grain
*300 copies limited edition* Grain is the third Innode release following on from Gridshifter in 2013 and syn in 2021. A new methodology to make the album is applied yet again from the trio of Bernhard Breuer, Steven Hess and Stefan Németh. The approach is more an anti approach where the trio let the process of creation itself steer the development of the recording, without any prior conceptual agenda. Irregular rhythmic patterns often served as the initial springboard for each piece with Breuer …
Sexarama
In 1962, the world was buzzing with significant cultural and historical events. The Cuban Missile Crisis, a tense confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, had the entire globe on edge as the threat of nuclear war loomed large. On July 3, 1962, Algeria declared its independence from France after an eight-year war for independence. Meanwhile, the iconic musician Bob Dylan released his debut album, "Bob Dylan," which would go on to have a lasting impact on the music industry an…
Dohnavùr//Kl(aüs)
"Early 2022: I started to get a few tracks in from Dohnavùr (Edinburgh) and Kl(aüs (Sydney). “This is what we’re working on, but the album’s not ready yet.” I had an idea. Let’s open the portal between Edinburgh and Sydney and let two of Castles in Space’s longest standing artists loose on each other’s tracks and see what we get. The idea being, original track, remix, flip, original track, remix, flip. I’m happy to be able to report, the experiment worked. We got something very special indeed. T…
Midnight Skin OST
“What a shadow in the instrument, and what a murmur, of the forests from whence issued its wood.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
Willie Dynamite
We are so proud to be able to Offically release tracks from this mighty funky film score by JJ Johnson. Loaded with breaks and samples. Four tracks taken from the Willie Dynamite film score
Megaliths
Step into the shadows of ancient mysticism as Llyn Y Cwn, the maestro of Welsh dark ambient, unveils the mesmerising odyssey that is "Megaliths".
Censorship Is Killing Music (Gross National Products, 1980 To 1990)
Emotional Rescue presents a compilation of the output of the ground-breaking South African composer, producer, multi-media artist and sound designer, Warrick Sony and his project Kalahari Surfers. Born Warrick Swinney, in Port Elizabeth, 1958, he grew up in Durban and showed an early interest in music, playing in school-based bands, covering songs by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and The Who. As his influences progressed to Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, Warrick developed an interest in Indian c…
Blueprints For A Blackout
Emerging out of Amsterdam's vibrant squat scene in 1979, The Ex – a name chosen for the ease and speed with which it could be spray-painted onto a wall – have for four decades been an entirely self-sustaining musical entity, charting a course through the global underground with a spirit of freedom and radical exploration. Blueprints For A Blackout, The Ex's fifth album and first double LP, combines caustic studio experimentations and loose songs from their gripping live-set at the time. The band…
Bristol Pirates
Death Is Not The End's contribution to the Blowing Up The Workshop mix series, subsequently given a cassette release on the label in 2019, finally receives a limited vinyl LP pressing. "A trip across the frequencies of Bristol's pirate radio stations via cut-ups of broadcasts, taken from the late 1980s to the early 2000s ~ also a love-letter to my childhood, an audio document of the years I spent growing up in the city."
Sado Vision
*300 copies limited edition* Sado Vision was a very obsure, S/M & fetishist industrial project from Italy. Clearly inspired by erotic transgressions they attracted the attention of admirers of the most radical and provocative industrial sound. Leded by the Milanese Luca Leuca (aka Leucon) and the unidentified Reverend K, Sado-Vision transformed the concept of studio recording, giving life to real performances in which create musical compositions. Thanks to the crazy attitude of Anjela Water, who…
Violent For Being Sexually Desired
*2024 reprint* Violent For Being Sexually Desired is the debut album by Scopophilia released in late 2021. The collaborative project by Harriet Kate Morgan (aka Military Position) and Ester Kärkkäinen (aka Himukalt). The CD sold-out immediately and is much demanded. Therefore, we are almost sure to do the right thing reprinting it and give a new chance to all those who missed it! One cannot write about Scopophilia without discussing the female condition, as both artists sublimate their own biogr…
Lines of Black Nylon and Red Cut Throats
*300 copies limited edition* Vice Wears Black Hose (V.W.B.H.) is a collaborative project by 2 monsters of the American Noise, P/E, HNW scene: Sam McKinlay aka The Rita and Richard Ramirez aka Black Leather Jesus. Project name was inspired by the Italian "Giallo" movie "Il Vizio ha le Calze Nere" (Italian translation of VWBH) released in 1975 by Tano Cimarosa. No need to describe sounds as you know exactly what to expect. If you need more words you don't need that CD.
Gamma Ænigma
The mission continues! ᚾᛟᚢ II // ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ, a very special & bleak collaborative project by Nordvargr & Trepaneringsritualen, is going to strike again! "Gamma Ænigma" is third chapter in that special trilogy. A full range of Dark, Northern, Ritual Sounds. A deep dive into spirituality and darkness. After Hair and Teeth, the sounds & art-work for this third chapter are devoted to Finger/Nails. As for the first two chapters also this CD comes in a DVD/A5 sized Digipak.
Mechanization Takes Command
"Mechanization Takes Command" was first released on Music-Cassette by Masami Akita on his own ZSF label back in 1983 and this, after 40 years, is the very first re-edition into CD format. A very special and historical album. The large part of sounds on this album have an analogue origin. Masami on this album plays Drums (?) and Guitar (?)... But also many other instruments and sound-surces such as TV ands Vocal samples. And of course Electronics, Loops, Effects, Drum-Machines... The overall is v…
Live At Pit-Inn Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988
Sun Ra Arkestra, Live in Japan! Recorded at Shinjuku Pit Inn on August 8, 1988, this recording has undergone fresh remastering from the master tape, marking the first reissue in 36 years