Reissues
It\'s always rock'n'roll vol.2
One of their best work, released as double LP in 1975 by the French electronic band led by RICHARD PINHAS: If you're looking for really uncompromising and rough music - this is it. Very neurotic and tough, driving electronic drones all over, this is music not for the faint-hearted! It's quite aggressive stuff, usually very alien sounding, with cold and abstract synthetic drive. If you like sweet twittering music for relaxation, you will probably have a heart attack when listening to this.
It\'s always rock\'n\'roll vol.1
One of their best work, released as double LP in 1975 by the French electronic band led by RICHARD PINHAS: If you're looking for really uncompromising and rough music - this is it. Very neurotic and tough, driving electronic drones all over, this is music not for the faint-hearted! It's quite aggressive stuff, usually very alien sounding, with cold and abstract synthetic drive. If you like sweet twittering music for relaxation, you will probably have a heart attack when listening to this.
Collapsing
The 2nd Amon Düül I album, of 1969 recordings. This is one that did not come come out on Captain Trip, and hence the most in-demand of the Spalax issues. Short, spectacular trance-out blasts in a similar vein to Disaster.
DOKUMENT III0 1979-1983
3 copies available, this box is already sold out at source! The Ultimate DOKUMENT of time of a historical Band. S.P.K., a Myth, a Cult, a Philosophy. After more than 12 months of planing and organising this Momumental release is finally realised. VOD is proud to present a limited 800 copies Wooden-Box-Set that documents the first 5 years and the first stage of the band. 6-Lp’s with 36-page Booklet documenting the time plus a T-Shirt. Besides the official Tape-Releases such as Wars of Islam, Fro…
Adenoids 1977-1985
Contains earliest Tracks from 77-81 plus Tracks from the Terse-Releases Earbidden, Clean, the long lost Side 3-Tape, Blubberknife,Cheesecake and various other tracks from 83-85. To subscibe this treaure it is best to state what Tom Ellard had to say: "And here we have it - the ultimate produce of the new millennium. A box of vinyl discs with music from as much as thirty years ago. Could something express any less faith in the future? My guess is that we seek to capture some 'purity' that has sin…
Oto No Hajimari Wo Motomete 5: Tsutomu Kojima Work
The fifth in this superb series covering historical Japanese electronic music from the Nhk studios, the first covering pieces engineered by Tsutomu Kojima (prior volumes dealt in pieces assisted by Shigeru sato and Hirosi Siotani) highlights herein include Jo Kondo’s “never return” (harsh/psychedelic vocal/piano cutups from 1971 !!!), Hifumi Shimoyama’s fumon iv a, and oto no hajimari wo motomete perennial Joji Yuasa’s my blue sky.
1. “Beyond the Clouds” Keiki Okasaka
A work was intentionally…
microtonal music, first performances
The release of this CD of John Eaton's early music for synthesizers is a major historical event. For one thing, Eaton's music is so personal and powerful that it's an exceptional demonstration of early synthesizers, including the Syn-Ket, built in 1964 in Rome, Italy, by Paolo Ketoff, and an early Moog synthesizer. But there's more to it. What is probably the first live performance with an electronic music synthesizer took place in April 1965 when John Eaton performed his 'Songs for R.P.B.' at t…
Early Filmworks 1996 to 2006
As an artist, Sänpäkkilä is someone who transcends conventional boundaries: film, music and visual art each vie for his attention. In fact, these separate areas are integrated in his work to such an extent that he could with equal justification be considered a visual artist, a filmmaker or a musician. His experimental short films are most notably characterised by a certain suspension. For instance, Sänpäkkilä portrays repetitive jumps, trudging through snow or waking up repeatedly. This suspensi…
The Magic Sun , a film by Phill Niblock
The classic 1966 film by Phill Niblock featuring Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra, plus rare & exclusive Sun Ra footage, photos & audio 'proclamations'! Composer, photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock's classic of experimental underground filmmaking with a sensational soundtrack by pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra. Shot in the mid '60s, when the Arkestra was based in New York, this film was produced using a unique negative process and ultra-tight close-ups on the moving hands a…
Branca Ensemble Live At The Kitchen
The Branca Ensemble, captured at their biggest & most brutal performing his powerful elegies live in 1995, at NYC's then institution-of-the-moment, The Kitchen. Gorgeous 3-camera live shoot, excellent HEAVY sound courtesy Sir Wharton Tiers, handsome package." NTSC all-region, 70 min., 5.1 surround sound.
play Phallus Dei
Long deleted now, an extraordinarily rare and timeless piece of footage of a legendary and hugely influential band at the peak of their lysergically enhanced powers.Un filmato davvero raro, che cattura in concerto una delle più grande band tedesche degli anni'60/'70, gli Amon Düül II. La pellicola originale è del 1968 e presenta la primissima, leggendaria formazione del gruppo, impegnata in musiche che avrebbero poi visto la luce sul loro album di debutto, pubblicato l'anno seguente. La pellicol…
Musica per un anno (1968)
** LAST COPIES** The seminal project "Musica per un Anno” (Music for One Year, 1968) was composed and recorded in 1968. Based on a cycle of 360 days, it was conceived as a possible sound track for ambients: the sound events change imperceptibly but continuosly, in relation to months, days, hours and minutes. Every instant of time has its unique music, which merges with the light and the air of the ambient. As this music develops over time, with no clear beginning or end, every minute of it is "…
Musicautomatica
The long awaited CD edition of our first vinyl release ever (2003), will finally give a wider audience the opportunity to listen to some of the most intense compositions of this visionary and uncompromising composer. Minimalist before the Minimalists, pioneer of Computer Music, founder of the Studio of Phonology of Florence, visual artist and hacker ahead of his time. This was Pietro Grossi, a larger-than-life Italian composer who questioned the concept of musical authorship and the idea of per…
Venus in Cancer
The 1969 guitar classic, remastered from the original tapes. With new reflections by Will Ackerman, Max Ochs, Steffan Basho-Junghans, and Pete Townshend. "Robbie Basho released Venus in Cancer in 1969 on the Blue Thumb label. After five albums for the Takoma label in the '60s, Basho had cemented his reputation alongside John Fahey and Leo Kottke as one of the most brilliant guitarists of his generation. His wide range of musical influences from around the globe set him apart from other blues-bas…
Une anthologie poétique
An awesome edition by the well-known artist and 'Une anthologie poétique' with 'RH l'optophonétiste' by Isabelle Maunet+ CD with 'RLQS poème en trois cascades' (1947), 'Interview avec les lettristes' (1946), 'Sound-rel' (1919). These works rotate around the notion of synaesthesia, both in the sense of a harmony between the senses, and also, so to speak, in preparation for new sensory environments, of which there were more to come during the twentieth century. In contrast to the alleged revelatio…
The Sound Of Being Alive
Whitehouse remind us what it’s all about with a remastered collection of classics spanning 1998 - 2007: “Look up, look all around you, dump the fucking rubbish, and rise up. Listen to the sound of being alive...” Assuming that you’ve never heard of them, Whitehouse are thee arch, original power noise unit formed around William Bennett (vocals, electronics, percussion) and Philip Best (vocals, electronics) who met in London around 1982, and the pair would go on to establish one of the most notor…
Birthdeath Experience
Official reissue of the 1st Whitehouse album, originally released on the Come Organisation in 1980. Includes William Bennett's original LP design. Includes the warning: "Extreme electronic music: please acquire with due caution." "The place it all began: the seminal first album by Whitehouse. Even to this day, it is a remarkable piece of work created entirely with tone generators and EDP Wasps, and lyrically full of what would be their uncompromising trademark irony. It would prove instrumental …
Halogen
a very nice reissue of the 1994 studio album recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago and featuring colour artwork by Trevor Brown. One of their few truly 'minimal' and 'meditative' is i can say so...
a sounding of sources
Malcolm Goldstein has been labeled an “improviser” and a “composer-violinist” (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, “At the core of Baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation,” and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way his music represents a further evolution of t…
Music For Keyboard 1935-1948 / The Early Years
This double-CD set combines two of the key titles of Columbia Records's
legendary "Music of Our Time" series curated by David Behrman. Jeanne
Kirstein's recording of Cage's early keyboard works remains a touchstone
of Cagean interpretation notwithstanding the passage of time. Christian
Wolff recalls, "I remember Cage saying that Jeanne Kirstein's playing
caught the spirit in which the pieces were written at the time he wrote
them-a kind of simple excitement and enthusiasm (also, surely, ou…