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Stand By
This is a reissue of the seventh and final album by this quintessential progressive French electronic rock band. Originally released on Egg in 1979, this features the classic Heldon line-up of Richard Pinhas-guitar and electronics, Patric Gauthier-Mo…
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The Films of Kenneth Anger Volume Two
RESTOCKED! Cinematic magician, legendary provocateur, author of the infamous HOLLYWOOD BABYLON books and creator of some of the most striking and beautiful works in the history of film, Kenneth Anger is a singular figure in post-war American culture.…
Open Score
First volume in this electrifying avant-garde DVD series, documenting this 9 Evenings series in NYC from 1966. In 1966, 10 New York artists and 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance,…
Phases And Other Pieces - Electronic Music (1968-1971)
Brand new reissue of an impossible-to-find early Canadian electronic 4LP box by composer Phillip Werren. Only 100 copies were ever pressed of his early electronic work. It was recorded at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), McGill University (Montre…
Radio Thailand: Transmissions From The Tropical Kingdom
2006 release, repressed! This 2CD set is an exhaustive collection of Thai Radio transmissions recorded over a 15-year period from 1989 to 2004. These 23 collage tracks have been assembled and distilled from dozens of cassette and mini-disc recordings…
Radio Phnom Penh
2005 release, repressed! Cambodia's people, economy, and culture have been 're-mixed' perhaps more than any place on earth for the past 50 years. The name was even changed to Kampuchea and then back again to Cambodia. So it almost seems natural that …
For Octavio Paz
CD reissue of sold-out limited edition vinyl. Since the release of Six Organs of Admittance's self-titled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but For Octavio Paz is his first full record to explore the guitar ins…
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Dust & Chimes
A limited edition reissue of Dust & Chimes by Six Organs of Admittance, Ben Chasny's second amazing, underground folk-psych project from behind California's Redwood curtain. Heavy, acoustic guitar and mumbled vocalizations merge with out-there jammin…
Satwa
The first ever reissue of the first private press LP from Brazil. Recorded and released in 1973 by the duo of Lula Cortes & Lailson. A real lost masterpiece from any angel, and the first release of the fertile Recife psych scene of the early 70's... …
(Halb) Schwarz
(Halb) Schwarz is the first CD to collect a wide range of Rolf Julius' diverse compositions from several years. The Berlin-based sound, installation, action, and sound artist began experimenting with various forms of contemporary music in the 1970s. …
Klangbogen
Vol. 2, refers to his music as "small music" utilizing collage, abstract environmental sound acoustics, and a flair for beautiful, subtle, shifting layers of sound. Klangbogen (Small Music Vol. 2) features a crinkled array of pulsing, chirping enviro…
Tanz Fur Zwei Blaue Rechtecke
beautiful early works by Rolf Julius, who is one of the most significant artists in the border areas of music and fine art. Like John Cage, Julius works with the term of "silence." The sounds in Julius' works have spatial and physical qualities such …
Evolution
Tamam Shud was one of the most original and innovative Australian groups of the late '60s and early '70s. They played a very important part as pioneers of acid-rock and progressive music. For many years after they split, they were something of a cult…
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Music, Martinis And Misanthropy
Music, Martinis and Misanthropy is a mellow, apocalyptic folk and spoken word album that combines acoustic and electronic instrumentation with brutal, Social Darwinist lyrics and poetry. It was created by pioneer noise artist Boyd Rice and an assortm…
Tramsebox
This has a cool, underground vibe, due to the sound of the music as well as the primitive recording. Debut album from Swedish psychedelic/progressive band. 9 tracks of ambitious, spooky 1970s psychedelia with atmospheric and cosmic sounds. With Swedi…
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Gudang Garam
Radiomobel are a prog rock outfit from the 1970s, playing the ambitious symphonic rock popular at the time. This issue marks the album's first appearance on CD. First time on CD for classic prog from 1978. Psychedelic symph rock with lots of keyboard…
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Wout Wercammen
Another beautifully presented Aktionism archival document of the insane Belgian 20th century underground. Pulling Hokusai into space and time, Vercammen organised and executed the very first happenings in Belgium in the early sixties. Great collages,…
Fluxus Anthology
Fluxus Anthololgy is a collection of music and sound events edited by Maurizio Nannucci with full integrety towards the idiology and spirit of Fluxus, one of the most radical art movements of the second half of this century. Limited edition of 1000 a…
Arbeiten
Great (but very little known) 1970's sound/text poetry recordings. Featuring two sound poetry recordings from 1973, "Arbeiten - ein Stuck fur alle" (already released as tape on the S Press label back in 1973) and "Cudrefin (minuit) - Found Music No.1…
Panta Rei
An album which has had a mystical allure for the stoned elite around the world since it's initial release. This rare psychedelic/progressive freak-rock album, released in 1973 on Harvest in Sweden, has great instrumental wealth -- flutes, guitars, ma…
Overhang Party
Japan's OVERHANG PARTY were always one of their country's most interesting, multifaceted and imaginative musical units, and Mutant Music are honored to be able to make their long out-of-print debut LP available once more. Overhang Party and its membe…
Holy Letters
Recorded in 1989 and 1990, Hiroyuki Usui's barely circulated masterpiece of deeply felt self-expression beautifully captures the spirit and substance of a half-dozen key sub-underground pillars of sound. Working with guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium,…
Apache / Inca
First CD reissue of this strange late 60s set of artifacts (previously reissued as an elaborate 2LP set on Little Indians). ""California deep Psychedelic loner. Acid leads, mystical vocals, tons of effects, completely stoned feeling. Came out as 2 si…
Philadelphia Folk Fest 1969
An official bootleg featuring the INCREDIBLE STRING BAND performing live at the 1969 Philadelphia Folk Festival. Widely considered to be one of the bandis best live recordings, the album features eight wonderful songs.
On The Beach
A re-reissue of this classic recording of Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble. This record has only been previously available in limited quantities and is back in print now due to the collaborative efforts of Kelan Zulu productions and K…
The Dawn Wind
Australian folkie Paul Adolphus created some magical music back in the mid-1970s: mostly acoustic, intimate songs with a bewitching psychedelic gloss. This excellent obscurity was recorded in Japan in '73, and although it was critically acclaimed, it…
Source: Music Of The Avant Garde - Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Astoundingly great collection of some of the classic pieces from the 60s avant-garde / live electronic music wave presented here as originally issued (in chronological order) by larry austin & stanley lunetta via their “source: music of the avant gar…
Sound art: beyond music, between categories
 Totally essential guide to sound art: a 304 pages book in hard cover + a CD with pieces from Bill Fontana ('Harmonic Bridge'), Steve Roden ('Rust'), Jean Dubuffet ('Terre foisonnante'), Destroy All Monsters ('Jam Smear'), Anthony Burr et Charles Cur…
Beyond The Valley Of The Tapes
Coproduced by Troniks and Ninth Circle Music. CD 1: Tracks 1-3 from Killer Bug self-released demo tape 1994. Track 4 from Side A of Brutal Rainbow tape originally released on Noise 1995. Tracks 5 and 6 from Cunt Explosion! EP originally released on R…
What We Did In The Afternoons
Terrific reissue for one the best synth band from the Down Under..."The Systematics were a band from Australia. They existed for four years, from 1978 to 1982. They released 3 records: The "Pulp Baby" 7" on the Australian label Doublethink, a 12" EP …
L'ile Re-Sonante
Éliane Radigue's L'île re-sonante, one hour-long movement for ARP 2500 inspired by her face reflected in a lake: slow oscillations, ghostly voices and shifting drones. First Shiiin release, Golden Nica at Ars Electronica 2006.
Insane Music Box
Insane Music, run by Alain Neffe, has been one of the greatest and biggest Tape-Labels promoting the international cassette-culture of the 80's. Labelrunner Alian Neffe got approached by VOD to compile a 4Lp Box with 7" of his band-projects I SCREAM,…
Faces the Firing Squad (1978-81)
A document from one of the most charged moments in British underground music. Face The Firing Squad, the sole album by Third Door From The Left, was recorded across a span of ten months - October 1980 to August 1981 - in a South London rehearsal spac…
Decades
This Lp of We Be Echo (Kevin Thorne) offers 15 extremely rare tunes from his superb 80’s Tapes “Cezi Eva” with tracks from 81-83 and the two Tapes on Mystery Hearsay “Nothing Left“ and “Pressure Point” released in 85 as well as 80’s compilation-contr…
The 80\'s Works Series
Astonishing reissue!! Conrad Schnitzler has been an institution in the German electronic music scene for thirty years. For a complete  electronic muisc journey of Conrad Schnitzler on eighties. The Japanese label Captain Trip proudly presents "The 80…
Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse And Other Songs
CD version of a previously released limited cassette. Lengthy droning ragas, that drift hypnotically from deconstructed Appalachia to John Cale like slow-shifting skree (joined on those tracks by violin), to moody melancholy crawls, to thick serpenti…
Solaris. The Mirror. Stalker (1972-1979)
Another addition to the early electronic music from Russia, this album is a compilation of music drawn from three Russian movies directed by Andrei Tarkovskiy - not having seen any of them I know of "Solaris" only by repute. The music here, composed …
Electroacoustic Music (IV) Archive Tapes, Synthesizer ANS 1964-1
Long out of print, beautiful CD with pioneering electronic music from the period 1964 – 1971, which is a period when the somewhat lighter hand of Nikita Krushchev was replaced by the much sturdier and more repressive totalitarian reign of Leonid Ilyi…
50 ans de musique électroacoustique - GRM
This is a long out of print (1998) beautiful glossy magazine, written in 5 languages  with a great collection of visual material, giving some background on French and Italian electronic music history, practice and institutions - along with it, a doub…
May
May is the latest collaboration between New York composers Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner. Recorded on May 9, 2008 at the OFFF Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, the album represents the first available live recording of Deupree and Kirschner's conc…