Reissues
Nachtstucke
'Nocturnes' from Germany's great electronic miniaturist. Tietchens assembles short, enigmatic synthetic pieces, cool, disciplined and quietly unsettling, poised between pop structure and pure abstraction. Essential early Tietchens.
Der Funfte Himmel
Tietchens at his most seductive. 'The fifth heaven' pairs the Hamburg sound-chemist's rigorous electronics with an unexpected melodic sweetness. Shifting synthetic textures, precise and strange: abstract music that still charms.
Die Vertreibung Der Zeit (1980-1986)
Home-taped minimal synthesis from the German cassette underground, 1980-86. Alu's austere drum machines, cheap keyboards and deadpan Deutsch build a private, hypnotic little world. A lost minimal-wave gem exhumed by Bureau B.
Sternzeit
Von Deyen's debut, an interstellar synthesizer suite of vast pads and slow sequencer pulse. Sternzeit (star time) is pure late-'70s German cosmic music, equal parts Tangerine Dream grandeur and lonely, meditative space.
Nordborg
More deep-space synthesis from the reclusive cosmic voyager. Nordborg unfolds in patient, glacial layers of Moog and Mellotron: Berlin-school drift at its most oceanic and serene. A cult private-press artefact returned to CD.
Atmosphere
Vast, weightless synthesizer vistas from the German cosmic underground. Von Deyen layers Moog and Mellotron into slow-drifting cloudscapes, poised between Berlin-school sequencing and pure ambience. A private-press reverie, on CD for the first time.
The Solar System
Ten tones for ten bodies in orbit. Nothing else. The Solar System is one of Ryoji Ikeda's most reduced objects, a 12" containing ten locked grooves, each cut with a single sine wave at a frequency assigned to a different planet. Where Code Name: A-Z took language as its source, this record takes celestial mechanics, and pares it down to the purest signal available.
It was produced by The Vinyl Factory in 2015 for the UK premiere of supersymmetry, Ikeda's large-scale installation shown at the Bre…
Code Name: A To Z
**Clear vinyl, 26 locked grooves, edition of 500 - 2026 repress** An alphabet reduced to its bones. Twenty-six words, twenty-six frequencies, twenty-six grooves that never end. Code Name: A-Z is Ryoji Ikeda at his most austere and his most physical, a record that treats the vinyl disc not as a carrier of music but as an instrument in its own right. Ikeda's position in the landscape of experimental sound needs little rehearsal. A founding presence in the Kyoto collective Dumb Type and one of the …
Japan Live
After Curiosum (BB 038CD/LP, 1981), the last Cluster album to be released on Sky, Roedelius and Moebius turned their attention to solo work. It was not until the early 1990s that Cluster returned to the electronic music stage with Apropos Cluster (BB 171CD/LP, 1990) and One Hour (BB 172CD/LP, 1994). The duo also took to the road for live shows in Germany and Europe, followed by tours across the USA and Japan. Some of these concerts were recorded in digital quality and offer compelling evidence o…
Terminal Fascination
Dark Entries release Terminal Fascination, a retrospective release of the music of Camille O’Grady, subversive artist, leather witch, punk poet, and gender saboteur. O’Grady cut her teeth in New York’s burgeoning punk scene at clubs like CBGB’s, where her band Leather Secrets would share the stage with acts like Television. She became one of the few women to be welcomed into the Mineshaft, Wally Wallace’s legendary Manhattan gay BDSM club. Towards the end of the 70s, she would trek west to San F…
Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979
On Live at the KiMo Theater Albuquerque 1979, Cecil Taylor leads a newly reconfigured Unit through a rare Western American performance of volatile grace and immense detail. Piano, alto saxophone, violin, bass, cello and multi-instrumental percussion form a shifting, luminous organism - less gladiatorial than Taylor’s 1978 bands, but no less radical in its freedom.
Röntgen
"Röntgen" is Ø's (aka Mika Vainio) subliminal, minimal techno classic, and was featured on the first Sähkö Recordings release in 1993. Spatial, silvery-sharp, and reduced yet frenetic, it's a blueprint of drum machine and synth work that helped redefine an era in techno. This special-edition 12" also features a full-side cut of a previously unreleased Ø track from 1995. The untitled B-side carries the same approach as the title track—minimal TR-808 and acidic synthesis—but in contrast to the har…
Tellus: The Audio Cassette Magazine, Vol. 1
Long before streaming services, podcasts, or even the compact disc, there was Tellus - a radically ambitious publication that imagined recorded sound as an exhibition space. Founded in 1983 in downtown New York, Tellus transformed the humble audio cassette into a magazine, commissioning and publishing new works by musicians, composers, visual artists, poets, writers, choreographers, and performers who were reshaping the boundaries of contemporary art. Each issue invited listeners into a world wh…
Aesthesis
Tip! *2026 much needed repress!!* Thorn Wych is a musical instrument maker and musician based in the Lancashire town of Bacup, specialising in work made from tree branches. Particular to her interest are UK native trees; so far Wych Elm, Lime, Wild Cherry, Oak, and Yew. With these unique instruments, crafted in her backyard workshop, she creates music that evokes memories of an unknown world—out of sync with time and place and beyond the boundaries of the material realm.
Her pieces consist main…
Bella Wakame
*200 copies limitede edition* Roughly two years after the release of their initial statement of intent, debut single “Toutpartout PT2” with its hypnotic ripples, Andi Haberl and Florian Zimmer aka Bella Wakame have successfully channeled the magic of a 2024 live recording (captured at Berlin’s Donau115 & Silent Green) into their first proper studio offering. You can hear inspirations ranging from Bitchin Bajas, Jeremiah Chiu to Groupshow (Jelinek, Leichtmann, Pekler), the hypnotic, intricate bat…
NK012
*150 copies limitede edition* Originally released by Umor Rex on cassette in 2015, NK012 documents the first-ever musical meeting of Berlin-based musicians Aidan Baker (Nadja, Canada), Andrea Belfi (Italy), and Erik Skodvin (Svarte Greiner / Deaf Center, Norway). Now, more than a decade later, the album is available on vinyl for the first time, newly remastered for the format by Rafael Anton Irisarri. This marks the third release in a series of four special, limited reissues to be released in 20…
An Act Of Self Mutilation Is An Act Of Freedom
*2026 stock. 200 copies limited edition* IRM presents An Act Of Self Mutilation Is An Act Of Freedom, a work that transforms inner conflict, physical intensity, and emotional extremity into a radical statement of liberation. Released through Phage Tapes, the album inhabits the unstable space between violence and vulnerability, collapse and renewal, destruction and release.
Rather than offering easy catharsis, IRM confronts the listener with an uncompromising sonic language—raw, abrasive, and dee…
On The Road
Limited edition CD & download album from Danny Thompson’s group fusing jazz with folk music. The triple CD comes in an 8-panel digisleeve with 28 page booklet detailing the complete history of the band and illustrated with photos and images mainly from Paul Dunmall’s archives.
When asked “is it jazz or folk?” about his band Whatever, Danny Thompson replied “well, it’s Whatever!” Hence the name. When Danny started Whatever, a trio with reed player Tony Roberts and guitarist Bernie Holland, and in…
We Are Everyone
A dream come true for A Colourful Storm to be releasing an early gem by Tenniscoats, a duo whose DIY spirit, boundless creativity and lust for life and collaboration has left an indelible mark. From self-releasing albums and tapes on their own Majikick imprint to meeting kindred spirits The Pastels, Bill Wells and Jad Fair in between outings for Morr Music, Chapter and Häpna, to name but a few, Tenniscoats have embodied an understated determination and optimism for over two decades.
"A foghorn m…
Faux Départ
Welcoming Tori Kudo back to A Colourful Storm with a new edition of Maher Shalal Hash Baz's Faux Départ, a document of a stateside tour that culminated in a recording session at the legendary Dub Narcotic Studio with a one-time ensemble of Greg Saunier and Chris Cohen (Deerhoof), Andrew Maxwell, McCloud Zicmuse, Arrington de Dionyso, Takashi Ueno, Saya Ueno, Naoki Otani, Akiko Hotaka, Masaaki Endo and Naoki Otani. Always spontaneous, never rehearsed. Music in and of this world, seemingly teeteri…