Geld Her!
2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only. ** Founded in 1978, the Croox consisted of graphic designer and Ink Records founder Mike Schmidt (who also worked for Kraftwerk, Sandra, Hubert Kah, Michael Cretu, Münchner Freiheit and Spider Murphy Gang, among others), Sabine “Bine” Niedergassel and Gerd Gaida aka Crashman , Clemenz and Kay Wolde and were a fixture in the New Wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s from the artistically fertile Düsseldorf. In addition to Croox, Ink Re…
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2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only. ** Founded in 1978, the Croox consisted of graphic designer and Ink Records founder Mike Schmidt (who also worked for Kraftwerk, Sandra, Hubert Kah, Michael Cretu, Münchner Freiheit and Spider Murphy Gang, among others), Sabine “Bine” Niedergassel and Gerd Gaida aka Crashman , Clemenz and Kay Wolde and were a fixture in the New Wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s from the artistically fertile Düsseldorf. In addition to Croox, Ink Re…
Rex
2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only.** The new wave/experimental duo Reifenstahl was founded in 1979 by PA distributor and Croox member Gerd Gaida together with Matthias Rapp. In 1981, the debut album was released on Ink Records by Mike Schmidt, who was temporarily active with Reifenstahl alongside bandmate Michael Reinhardt. The band has been broken up and revived several times, the last sign of life so far is the second album “Rex”, released in 1986 on the Ink Records success…
Die Wunderwaffe
2024 Stock. Limited to 300 copies, Japan release only.** The new wave/experimental duo Reifenstahl was founded in 1979 by PA distributor and Croox member Gerd Gaida together with Matthias Rapp. In 1981, the debut album was released on Ink Records by Mike Schmidt, who was temporarily active with Reifenstahl alongside bandmate Michael Reinhardt. The band has been broken up and revived several times, the last sign of life so far is the second album “Rex”, released in 1986 on the Ink Records success…
Denk Daran!
2024 Stock. Japan release only.** The cult and now legendary Christmas compilation “Denk Daran!” with exclusive contributions from well-known artists of the early experimental/minimal/pre-NDW era was first released in 1980, compiled by Xao Seffcheque and published as an LP by the Düsseldorf city magazine “Überblick”. appeared.
For Christmas 2021, “Denk Daran!” will now receive a worthy new edition from Krautrock and NDW specialist Suezan Studio as a carefully digitally remastered, original Japan…
Boku・Neko・Platanus (Expanded Edition)
A Japanese synth curio? A lost techno-pop classic? So might run the standard view of the electronic album 'Boku・Neko・Platanus', recorded in 1984 by Shinichi Omata. The facts point that way. The futuristic 'Platonische Liebe' and Omata’s technodelic take on the traditional Greek folk track 'Omorfoula' (here titled 'Egyptische Knabe') are timeless electro tracks with a radically simple pop concept and robotic flavour that closely echo Japan’s most recognisable exports from the era - sounds and sty…
Mummies and Madmen Grow Dark In The Sun
24th August 1983. The scene: a small and chaotic terraced house in Craven Street, Coventry. Bob Oliver, main man of eclectic tape label Slob Tapes, and Alan Rider, head of early industrial label Adventures in Reality Recordings (Attrition, Stress, Irsol, SPK, Test Department, Muslimgauze and others) and one half of electronic duo Stress, have come together with the mysterious Cryptic Z Mostmen to record a single track, ‘Mummies and Madmen Grow Dark in the Sun’, over the course of an afternoon. I…
Die Nacht Aus Blei
2024 Stock. Asmus Tietchens' Die Nacht aus Blei is a novel by German writer Hans Henny Jahnn (1894–1959), first published 1956. – The special edition of the CD was designed by german artist Christian Blau. It can only be opened by damaging it. Atmospheric sheets of sound, slowly becoming more differentiated, with a growing number of more accentuated noises: dripping water, a crying human, distorted voice fragments, finally culminating into a mostly comprehensible spoken text. A journey through …
Aufzug
Tip! *100 copies limited edition* Flip-Flap is pleased to announce that the series of works chosen by Conrad Schnitzler for publication with us is now continued with the help of the Dutch-based distributor Fonodroom. This selection of works was originally made by Conrad Schnitzler himself in 2008 for a 100 CD boxset edition planned to be released by the now defunct Waystyx label. As heirs to Waystyx, Flip-Flap offers Conrad's fans an opportunity to further immerse themselves in his universe of e…
Dome Bundle
The 3 Dome LPs in a special discounted bundle With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of "using the studio as a compositional tool" and recorded and released three Dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: Dome (July 1980), Dome 2 (October 1980), and Dome 3 (October 1981). These albums represent some of the mo…
The White Arcades
*2024 stock* A classic Harold Budd album originally released in 1988. Partly recorded at the Cocteau Twins studio with production help from Robin Guthrie and Brian Eno, 'The White Arcades' effortless blend of glistening synths, limpid piano notes, foggy textures and space result in a beautiful contemplative whole.
“Although its aura is ethereal and unworldly, Budd's music is actually an exemplary form of humanly useful music. When the mundane urgencies of life, or the nonsense of our political c…
Aith Ochnal, Rungholter Tänze, Zweites Buch
2024 Stock. ** 1000 hand-numbered copies, it comes with 4-page booklet ** Mechthild Von Leusch (aka Werkbund) this album should be viewed not as a collection of tracks, but as a mood album segmented into nearly a dozen pieces. It opens with a sombre spoken piece in German which evolves into a soaring harmonic 'vocal' piece, presumably using a Mellotron or similar, called "Legenden Des Windes". This is by far the least interesting piece on the entire album. Next comes "Rungholter Tanz 12", the fi…
Illusions Of Infinite Bliss
2024 Stock. ** 888 hand-numbered copies, it comes with 4-page booklet ** Australian composer born in Germany, John Watermann (1935-2002) composed a special kind of electro-acoustic music infused with a post-industrial aesthetic. His style is characterized by the shortness of tracks, obsessive loops, media samples, treated field recordings and a pervading feeling of menace. His aesthetic blends Cold War freezing climate, claustrophobic movies like Eraserhead, post-Auschwitz memorabilia (he was te…
Regel
Oblio, a brand new imprint dedicated to reissues from the moodier spectrum of Italian experimental music, launches into action with the first ever fully remastered vinyl reissue of Maurizio Bianchi's 1982 private press masterstroke “Regel”. A seminal cornerstone of early '80s Italian experimentalism, Industrial music, and noise - long hunted by collectors - that is regarded as one of Bianchi's most definitive works - bristling various sound sources, electronics, and synths - more than 40 years o…
Dome 2
With the demise of Wire in 1980, founding members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio, Dome took the ethic of "using the studio as a compositional tool" and recorded and released three albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: Dome (DOME 001LP, 2019), Dome 2 (1980), and Dome 3 (1981). A final fourth album, Will You Speak This Word: Dome IV was released on the Norwegian Uniton label in 1982…
Dome 1
With the demise of the group Wire in 1980, founder members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis joined forces to create Dome. With the assistance of engineer Eric Radcliffe and his Blackwing Studio Dome took the ethic of "using the studio as a compositional tool" and recorded and released three Dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: Dome (July 1980), Dome 2 (October 1980), and Dome 3 (October 1981). A final fourth album, Will You Speak This Word: Dome IV was released on the Norwegia…
Fred Ventura Presents Milano Undiscovered 1988-1992 - Unreleased
Third chapter of the "Milano Undiscovered" series, curated by Fred Ventura, takes us on a journey through the vibrant Milanese techno and house scene of 1988-1992. This latest installment unveils a treasure of unreleased demos, showcasing the productions that emerged from the city's flourishing underground during this era. Inspired by the pioneering sounds emanating from Chicago, Detroit, London and Sheffield, a wave of Milanese producers embarked on a creative odyssey, crafting their own unique…
R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O
Deluxe vinyl reissue of R.N.A. Organism's sole LP, remastered by Stephan Mathieu from brand new transfers of the original reel-to-reel tapes. Pressed by RTI, and housed in a hefty Stoughton tip-on sleeve, this edition also includes an expanded insert with an illuminating essay by producer Kaoru Sato. A key document of the late ’70s experimental music scene in Kansai, Japan, R.N.A. Organism’s R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O (first released by legendary Osaka label Vanity Records in 1980) is a hallucinatory…
R.E.K. 1
*2024 stock* R.E.K. 1 is the singular album by German New Wave/electro-pop musician Richard Edward Kersten, performing under his initials with studio partner Frithjof Krepp. The album was released in 1983 on RCA. 35 years anniversary edition.
Final Alley
*2024 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Cosmic heads, here comes one of your your dream releases of 2020. Final Alley is the 1980 follow up to Alex Cima’s sought after debut „Cosmic Connection“ from 1979. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft/Polydor label was intersted to release it in 1980 as well as they did with the first album „Cosmic Connection“ but „Final Alley“ remained and insanely rare promo only release. US based producer Alex Cima returning with his cosmic funk and psychedelic Disco on t…