Reissues

**limited repress, gold vinyl edition** First reissue of Hastings Of Malawi's classic masterpiece Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth, originally released on the Papal Products label in 1981. Hastings Of Malawi were Heman Pathak, David Hodes and John Grieve. They recorded Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth in one night in 1981 with no plan and no idea of what they were doing. They played drums, clarinet, synthesizer and piano but also made use of things that they found l…

Keenly-awaited compilation of Mika Vainio’s earliest work with Janne Koski and Tapio Onnela in pioneering Finnish industrial/noise unit Gagarin Kombinaatti circa 83-85. Until now, the only locatable evidence of Gagarin-Kombinaatti’s existence was an intriguing listing on discogs - a single track featured on a 2CD of early Finnish avant-garde - but now Sähkö prove they were a real, and rather wicked band, taking strong cues from TG, Einstürzende Neubauten and Test Department, and moulding …

Director's note : "My encounter with Wild Dee, the main actor in Doubleplusungood, was a determining factor in the making of this film. Not only are we strongly influenced by the same literary atmospheres - Among them American authors like Harry Crews, Iceberg Slim, N.Tosches and Belgian horror author Jean Ray - we also share the same cinematic tastes - low budget cinema be it French, Japanese or Spanish. Our main aim was to recreate the spirit, and play with and even subvert, the codes of…

Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-1978. The name 'Die Form' means '(the) form/shape' in German and is a play on the English homonym 'deformed' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (deformed). Die Form is the primary project of electronic musician and multimedia artist Philippe Fichot. He began by recording a number of experimental cassette releases in the late 1970s and formed the Bain Total label to release these early cassettes, as well as various s…

A holy grail of the minimal synth and one of the most obscure Italian musical projects, reissued on Mannequin Records. Originally released in 1981 by Broadbean Records, Flo & Andrew's Take Suicide was home-recorded and home-mixed by the duo in Bologna, using early drum machines like the Boss DR-55 and the Korg KR-55, analog synthesizers, guitar, saxophone and tape loops. "To Committ Suicide" travels through contort and nervous synth sounds and loops, taking somehow inspiration from the No …

** Limited Edition Color Wax ** Camberwell, in South London, pops up infrequently in pop culture. Perhaps you know it from the Camberwell Carrot, the heroically sized joint smoked in cult movie Withnail & I, or perhaps – if you’re attuned to experimental music – you know of Camberwell Now. The group formed from the ashes of This Heat, the art-noise group whose catalog was reissued on Modern Classics Recordings in early 2016. Not so much a supersession as a continuation of that group, Camb…

Second issue of CRU Magazine, the annual magazine of the Berlin art space La Plaque Tournante ran by french composer Frédéric Acquaviva and english mezzo soprano Loré Lixenberg, which states what has happened or could have happened in the last year at La Plaque Tournante. This issue, printed at 500 copies, includes this time 3 catalogues under the form of affiche + postcard + list of material exhibited + poster of the 3 main exhibs of last year, on Broutin (lettrist since 1968), Gil J Wolman (wi…

Limited repress; LP version. "In 1968, three sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire strapped on their instruments and declared themselves The Shaggs. At that moment begun a peculiar tale that would last far beyond the group's five-year run. Dot, Betty and Helen (and occasionally Rachel, the fourth sister) played in the group on the insistence of their father, Austin Wiggin Jr., who was convinced they were going to be big. Years earlier, Austin's mother gave him a palm reading, predicting that her s…

The follow up to Light In The Attic’s game-changing I Am The Center box set is finally here. The Microcosm: Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 is the first major overview of key works from cosmically-taped in artists needing little introduction — Vangelis, Ash Ra Tempel, and Popol Vuh — and unknown masterpieces by criminally overlooked heroes like Bernard Xolotl, Robert Julian Horky and Enno Velthuys.  Whereas I Am The Center called for a reconsideration of an entire maligned genre…

Unearthed before Peter Gordon & David Van Tieghem collaboration from 1978, featuring vocals from special guest Kathy Acker, author of post-modern classic Blood And Guts In High School (1984). Gordon and Van Tieghem play all of the instruments and electronics, overdubbing on a 1" 8-track recorder. The result is intimate and vulnerable, yet ice cold and edgy. "Winter" is a cold-wave, proto-techno track. "Summer" is a lyrical and romantic instrumental. With Van Tieghem's drumming laying down th…

Dust-to-Digital's inaugural release, 2003's Goodbye, Babylon (DTD 001CD), included two recordings by a mysterious gospel musician from Texas named Washington Phillips, who died in 1954. After fielding inquiries about the hauntingly beautiful songs from listeners around the world, in 2013, Dust-to-Digital checked in with Michael Corcoran, the leading researcher on Phillips, to see if any new information had been uncovered. Indeed, Michael had some leads, but he would need a working budget t…

A replica reissue of a legendary, sought-after album, a worthy and historical addition to the collections of all fans of avant-garde duos. Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe's Duo Exchange LP from 1973, originally released by Survival Records. From Thurston Moore's Top Ten Free Jazz Underground (1996): "Frank Lowe has been studying and playing a consistently developing tenor sax style for a few decades now. At present he's been swinging through a Lester Young trip, which can be heard majestically on …

Yellow vinyl edition of 100 with download card. Fabrica Records announces the second volume in the Same Animal, Different Cages series by American composer and improviser David First. On this second installment in the Same Animal, Different Cages series of tonal investigations, David First dons his no-madder-than-you scientist's lab coat and proceeds to fire up and overheat his newest subject, a Korg MS-20. The resulting six tracks are characterized by rapid-fire analog oscillations, relentlessl…

Four works by Alvin Lucier played by the Italian ensemble Alter Ego: Two Circles, Fideliotrio and Three Translations of the Works of Maurizio Mochetti, plus a new recording of I Am Sitting in a Room with the composer.

Three works for viola and tape or electronics played by Vincent Royer: Luc Ferrari's Ephémère in a 2012 version by Brunhild Ferrari, her Le Piano Englouti, and Royer's live improvisation on Ferrari's Ce qu'a vu le Cers.

First volume of Horatiu Radulescu's Piano Sonatas and String Quartets, with String Quartet No. 5 and Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 and 5, the quartet and Sonata No. 5 first recordings, played by the JACK Quartet and Stephen Clarke.

Trunk Records present a highly important and unreleased soundtrack for Circle Of Life, created in 1972 by musician Delia Derbyshire and artist Elsa Stansfield. The soundtrack is a mix of concrete ideas, sound design, tape manipulation, natural environmental sounds and birdsong. The recording was originally commissioned by director, producer and art collector Anthony Roland for his 1972 film about the slides of radical stills photographer, Pamela Bone. The film has been rarely seen and the so…

A photographic essay depicting the everyday work of the members of the mythical workshop responsable for most of BBC´s sound effects between the 50s and 80s. All images are believed to be in the public domain and of BBC origin. Edited captions by Ray White. Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 40 pp / 1st ed - 2014 / 50 copies . . .

S. Talks # is a series of uncut interviews with electronic contemporary musicians. Each interview is individually published in a zine and distributed for free. Originally from Houston, Texas,  James Daniel Emmanuel is a pioneer of electronic minimal music with a career that started in the late 70s and more than fifteen albums released... Zine 10 x 15 cm / Stapled / B-W / 6 pp / 1st ed - 2013 / 100 copies .

"I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution to a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm." About the author in Earle Brown words: "There could have not been a Ligeti, a Xenakis or a Penderecki without a Varèse." Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 6 pp / 1st ed - 2014 / 50 copies .

Theremin´s virtuoso interviewed by synthesizser´s maverick Robert Moog in 1977. "I am a violinist and a musician. I wanted to see if it were possible to use the theremin to make real music. Bach couldn't write for the theremin when he was alive, but there is no reason why I can't play Bach on the theremin today. "Clara Rockmore Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 8 pp / 1st ed - 2014 / 50 copies . .

 "Where does music fit into George Maciunas´s definition? Where does music fit into Fluxus praxis? Music fit where all the other individual arts fit into Fluxus - into a process of de-definition that robs music and the other arts of media that is itself not easily distinguished from the rest of life." Zine A5 / Staple / ByW / 6 pp / 1st ed - 2015 / 50 copies .

"Towards this condition of musical and societal "isolation," a variety of attitudes has been expressed, usually with the purpose of assigning blame, often to the music itself, occasionally to critics or performers, and very occasionally to the public. "

Minimalism´s father Steve Reich explains his composition method in this short essay which was first published in his book " Writings about music 1965-2002" ."I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music." .

Luigi Russolo´s 1914 futurist manifesto on the inclusion of ambient sounds in music. “Let us invite young musicians go genius and audacity to listen attentively to all noises. Our increased perceptivity, which has already acquired futurist eye, will then have futurist ears. Thus the motors and machines of industrial cities someday be intelligently pitched, so as to make of every factory and intoxicating orchestra of noises.”

“I appeal to the young. Only they should listen, and only they can understand what I have to say. Some people are born old, slobbering spectres of the past, cryptograms swollen with poison. To them no words or ideas, but a single injunction: the end..”

CD digipack incl.20-page booklet. Unreleased recordings from 1963 sessions! The 22 musicians presented on this album can be referred to as the leading names of jazz in Germany. In the “'German Jazz Poll 1963' Albert Mangelsdorff was elected 'musician of the year', the prize winners on individual instruments from trumpet to bass are included, as are the two leading ensembles – the Michael Naura Quintett as the best modern jazz combo, the Feet warmers as the best traditional band. Rarely ha…

CD digipack incl.12-page booklet. Unreleased live recordings from the 4th Antibes Jazz Festival. Since 1960 a jazz festival is held in Juan-Les-Pins at the Côte d'Azur, which is regarded as one of the best summer festivals worldwide. Apart from the big names - from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Miles Davis or Keith Jarrett - it also featured legends such as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. The 4th Festival in 1963 saw a meeting of representatives of traditional and mo…

CD digipack incl.24-page booklet. Unreleased live recordings from the 9th German Jazz Festival 1964 in Frankfurt am Main! Apart from well-known bands such as the Jazzensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks and the Klaus Doldinger Quartet, the German Jazz Festival 1964 focussed on jazz from our Eastern neighbouring countries, here represented by the Zagreb Jazz Quartet from Jugoslavia. Saxophonists Karl Drevo, Emil Mangelsdorff and Joki Freund also played an important part and are featured in thi…

Unreleased live recordings - featuring the pioneers from the Euro-pean New Jazz scene! This is the third in our series of exciting jazz albums with beautiful unreleased live recordings from the German Jazz Festival 1966! Please check the whos's who of the European jazz scene in the tracklisting.This 2-CD set comes in a SABA-style packaging. We had the impression that those recordings could easily have been part of the SABA/MPS catalogue back in 1966 - that's why we decided to design the co…

Tomasz Stanko was considered the first free-jazz trumpeter in Europe. He debuted at the end of the 1950s in Krakow and in the1960s joined Krzysztof Komeda’s quintet, later recording a masterpieceof European jazz, the album “Astigmatic”. In the early 1970s he was part of the international free jazz sceneand performed at major European festivals with his Tomasz Stanko Quintet. In the 1980s Stanko played with Cecil Taylor, and led his own bands that incorporated reggae, latino, electronic, and rap …

Part of the underground collective Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), the American iconic weirdos SMEGMA were formed in Pasadena, California in 1973 to reinvent improvisation with a DIY etchic, against the boring, conventional commercial-rock of the time. This release gives the holder the opportunity to capture the development of their own “primitive suburban folk” approach and traditions of their existence. First side of this tape is featuring drunken chaos at a Party, then an inner mind S…

Mannerlaatta (Tectonic Plate) is Mika Vainio’s soundtrack for a “74 minute lettrist film made entirely without a camera” by Finnish film maker Mika Taanila; his 3rd following their previous collaborations, A Physical Ring (2002) and Return of the Atom (2015). The music was written very early on in the film’s two and a half year development, and subsequently held a strong sway over the rhythm of the film’s editing and visual narration - which takes place as a series of black and white images made…

From the very first second, "Impact – Synthesized Sound And Music" is a difficult, icy release, embracing many cornerstones of what would become known as industrial music. These 16 sonic experiments are totally devoted to synthsizers, which are the main architects of whirling escapes, white noise and sonic landscapes in the mood of early Warp releases. "Impact – Synthesized Sound And Music" was originally released via Armando Sciascia’s Vedette label in 1971, under the alias H. Tical: it’s a rea…

In stock. Italian Soundtrack milestone and pure masterpiece of Italian Giallo Thriller exploitation. Infamous, legendary Score for the film directed by cult italian director Pupi Avati and originally released on Gemelli label in 1970. Mindblowing scary Giallo vibes / stunning cinematic sinister beats with the participation of Edda Dell'Orso who gives some astonishing frightful vocals / dope thrilling vibes allover. Thomas aka Thomas e gli indemoniati - Horror/Thriller/Fantasy/Drama/Grotesque fil…

Outstanding double LP production originally released in 1971 on the very small Union label, founded by G.P.Ricci and Remigio Ducros. One of the most rare Library productions ever, a true holy grail for record collectors all over the world. This double monster features some of the hottest Breakbeats, Funk and Psychedelic tunes from Italy, with mental grooves, samples and themes. Absolute top of the top early '70s Italian classy sounds. Entirely composed and realized by the brilliant Remigio Ducro…

In stock. "Stati d'animo vol.2" aka Feeling originally released on CAM CmL series in 1973. Music here is almost for sure by the same session men behind the "The Fine Machine - Habitat" LP and other delights released under the same nickname. The jam featured Nico Fidenco (Donimak), Giacomo & Gianni Dell'Orso (Oscar Lindok / Proluton) and other obscure musicians. Tracks appear signed by Donimak (Fidenco's alias), Tamborelli (standing for Aldo Tamborrelli aka Ghein), and the mysterious Nicoletta Bo…

In stock. Originally released on Fonit Cetra Hi-Fi International series in 1973, this mega-rare Italian Library still unknown in the record collectors circle features some of the most insane grooves made in Italy. Outstanding, spaced-out Breakbeats with the best uptempo, Hip Hop beats and B-boy Funk tunes you could ever desire, alternated by Easy Listening scores and happy Synthesizer themes. This killer prolific duo (Brugnolini-Carnini) have pulled out in the early 70s some of the most insane t…

Another legendary jam on Fonit Library series 'Hi-Fi International' composed by maestro Stelvio Cipriani. Probably written for some obscure movie, this infamous session from 1976 recently discovered immediately became a grail for DJs and collectors. Outstanding Score vibes, several Western and Romantic movie themes in the vein of Ennio Morricone are alternated by some insane beats and spacey Avant-garde. The mindmelting groove of "Notte delle streghe" is an incredible Experimental arrangement of…

When 20-something saxophonist Trevor Watts was demobbed from the RAF in the early 60s, he moved to London and co-founded the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Although clearly aware of Ornette Coleman’s new conception of Jazz in America, he soon developed his own, more fluently inclusive style, filtering and synthesising the history of jazz saxophony like few others—David Murray is one obvious counterpart in that respect—and giving it a personal twist. He also developed a unique conception of musical …