Electronic / Abstract

Spring 2024. Carl Stone and Asuna performed together for the first time at an international experimental music festival held in Kanazawa city, where Asuna lives. Carl Stone is a pioneering composer of computer sampled music. and Asuna known for its “100 Keyboards” performance, played in this duo with over 100 toy instruments, samplers, and synthesizers. Carl samples and processed the sound of Asuna's various toys in real time. Asuna then incorporates the sounds into her own sampler and sends agai…

Footsteps, car horns, a drawer sliding shut. wind chimes, family voices, street corners. bus stops, parks, a dog barking, a fight on TV. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Taipei, Oakland, Keelung, San Gabriel Valley, South City.  It draws from a 15-year archive of field recordings that capture the ordinary music of lived life. Rather than aspiring to aesthetic refinement or spiritual escape, Tru Folk exists at street-level. It approaches sound as a vernacular practice that values what is common and hu…

Twenty seven years ago, Jan Jelinek’s debut album Personal Rock was released by Source Records. Under the pseudonym Gramm, it brings together eight tracks that have not been available on vinyl since their original release. Faitiche is very glad to announce the re-release of the album: Personal Rock will appear as a double LP featuring the original cover artwork.What people wrote about Personal Rock two decades ago:“Situated somewhere between Jelinek’s much loved Loop-Finding Jazz Records, Farben…

On Rampe Amalgam, Markus Oehlen extends his studio day into the night, turning the same unruly humour and visual overload of his paintings into skewed, concrète‑spattered electronics: half hidden beat, half dust‑storm, all deliberately “wrong” and fully under control.

After months of careful excavation and meticulous restoration, dj echotree finds his way to ZitStill with a singular artefact. Delving into lost remnants of the spirit world, a gapless collage of found footage, spoken word and otherworldly jazz slowly emerged. A mute yet eloquent testimony, held together by instinct and the steady pulse of the MPC. Much remains to be uncovered about this entity and its teachings, rooted in beliefs that left no written trace. What is known is its devotion to the …

Unlike much of Florian Hecker's recent work, such as 2021's 'Synopsis Seriation' or 'Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera', his acclaimed PAN-released collaboration with Mark Leckey, there's no single overarching narrative that binds 'Natural Selection'. Hecker describes the sprawling, nine-track album as a "constellation of pieces originating from related investigations", and the clue's in the title. Ranging from under a minute to over half an hour, these works have been grouped together because t…

The operating name of New Yorker Al Margolis, If, Bwana were a constant presence in the cassette days. This new record, Bird Brain Bath (Klanggalerie 7") is a wonderfully creaky slab of experimental noise high jinks. One side is entitled "Bird Brain", the other "Bird Bath". Each piece is eight minutes long and if they are played simultaneously they create the record's title tune. Using bird song, blasts from a virtual air rifle, keyboards and dweezly effects of all sorts, Margolis creates two fu…

2026 stock This two-track EP captures Venta Protesix's signature harsh noise aesthetic, blending overdriven digital chaos with provocative themes drawn from deviant and abstract perversions. Tracks include "Excessive Vaginal Wetness" and the title cut "Painful Sexual Perversion," delivering unrelenting bursts of unmastered noise that reject musical convention.

2026 stock Squirting Humiliation is a punishing 7-inch split vinyl unleashing the chaotic noise assaults of Venta Protesix and Vomir. Venta Protesix, the digital noise alias of Italy's Italo Belladonna, delivers glitch-riddled laptop barrages steeped in perverse, ero-guro obsessions and abstract digital derangement. Vomir, French harsh noise wall pioneer Romain Perrot, counters with unrelenting static monoliths embodying his "no ideas, no change, no remorse" manifesto.

Widely regarded as one of the essential entries in the vast Muslimgauze catalogue, Mullah Said returns once more via Staalplaat in a third edition vinyl pressing and a reworked digipack CD edition of 400 copies - both featuring updated artwork with additional gold printing. Originally issued in 1998 as the eighteenth installment in Staalplaat's Muslimgauze subscription series, Mullah Said represents Bryn Jones at the height of his powers. Engineered by John Delf at his Abraham Mosque studio in M…

Very beautiful electronic pieces from the late 1950's by the founder of the WDR electronic music studio and mentor to Karlheinz Stockhausen, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. Essential early electronic music. With insert.

A double 7-inch brings together four sonic meditations of Aymeric de Tapol in all its amateur spiritualism. As his third release with Ångstrom Records, it acts as a strange mirror that bends the sense of what drone & continuous music might be. Each track opens an alternate door that invites us toward the experimental ephemeralism of Aymeric de Tapol’s idiosyncratic reveries.

Spore Spawn "Nuts is 5000yen” is a hand-crafted, ultra-limited edition record cut one by one on high-quality blanks. Each copy preserves the raw, off-kilter energy of Spore Spawn in a uniquely physical form, with slight variations that make every disc subtly different. “Nuts is 5000yen” captures the project’s twisted sense of humor and experimental edge, blending noisy textures, warped melodies, and unpredictable structures into a brief but intense listening experience. The lo-fi, direct-to-disc…

'Minidisc' was reportedly the first ever Minidisc-only release. This comprised of 45 tracks sliced into 88 portions, and encouraging the listener to loop and shuffle at will. Working members for the minidisc project were Russell Haswell, Sean Booth and Rob Brown.

Ka-ya-ya provides its deep-sea dive into overlooked artifacts from the early 2000s-records that slipped past the mainstream, yet quietly became cherished discoveries for dedicated listeners. The next find is micro majong – Noise Conception: a 2005 debut album, now receiving its first-ever physical edition on cassette. First physical release. Limited to 50 copies. micro majong is the project of Evgeniy Sidorov - a Siberia-based pianist, composer, producer, and mastering engineer. As a mastering e…

Carrier’s debut album features eight elegantly rude arrangements that dance in negative space between Photek’s frictional syncopations, Rhythm & Sound’s dubwise minimalism and Torsten Pröfrock’s fractured dynamics, bolstered on two tracks by contributions from Voice Actor & Memotone, summoning a noirish, jazzier frisson to his signature metrics and temporalities.

xavisphone's debut for Modern Love hits with unrelenting energy; a hyper-kinetic, red-lining funk that joins dots between DJ Anderson do Paraiso’s darkside minimalism, Equiknoxx’s riddmic pressure and DJ Ramon Sucesso’s walloping delirium.

20+ year reissue of Mark Fell’s uniquely compelling debut solo album; a fascinating experimental playground for his ideas on topology, asymmetry, and spatiotemporal disruption, triggering one of modern electronic music’s most fanciful, radical, and peerless catalogues. Essential listening for anyone on the line from Autechre to Ikeda.

*60 copies limited edition* The Washing Planck present The Dimensional Loom, an instrumental electronic album born from the desire to explore and define a distinctly steampunk sonic identity. In a musical landscape where the word “steampunk” is often confined to visual, textual, or narrative aesthetics, this project offers both a reflection and a proposition. Without denying the literary or iconographic foundations of the genre, The Dimensional Loom seeks to translate steampunk into sound: the f…

Warren Walker + Francesco Geminiani present Easy Mountain Listening, an eclectic duo of jazz and electronic musicians. Flamenco footwork? Dub crackology? Arty ambient? All these 2.0 delusions brim at the heart of such an intriguing high-flying dystopian machination. The Easy Mountain Listening album Live at Oblicuo records the performance at OblicuoHIFI in Barcelona on January 5, 2024. The atmosphere is densely populated by a crowd of gentle ghost sounds where uncertainty empowers tranquillity.…

Live at Obliquo, recorded in october 2025. This performance by nara is neus has been taking listeners to their different but indeed so close intimate worlds. The tracks in this album are not so straight anti climax textures evolving into some kind of emotional noise that stays well beyond your spleen and ideal.

"Messiaen traded his goods for brain rot. Mark Harwood, the elusive Penultimate Press helmsman, slips into character again—plural, fractured, unreliable. Two Actors plays like a dialogue without a script: human versus machine, or one man arguing with his own shadow. Unlike his first solo record, "A Perfect Punctual Paradise..” voices only mumble and stumble on occasion. Here the “Actor(s)” appear in a variety of forms; sincere, female, mocking, beautiful, journalistic, operatic and more. Digital…

This cassette is a split release by Dhangsha and Cintruron Negro both dropping a 30 min slab of their own lethal beats assault on each side of the tape.

DJ Marcelle's career has flourished on her own terms, with many critically acclaimed releases: in the past six years alone this Dutch woman has released five albums and numerous ep's. On stage and in the studio she transcends a feeling of freedom whilst always moving forward. Marcelle turns her DJ sets into full-on sonic adventures; she's the g.o.a.t of dancefloor eclecticism.

On Waves of Time, Gazzi lets rhythm dissolve into a slow emotional tide, stretching piano figures, hushed electronics, and carefully placed silences into music that feels less like a set of tracks than a single, continuous act of contemplation.

2026 repress with new cover art, which is the original artwork designed by Takao firstly released on his private Bandcamp page in early 2018. "Stealth" is the aptly-titled debut album from Tokyo-based composer/producer Takao. Gliding in under the radar with thirteen slyly sweet and subtle miniatures, these pieces are refreshing light-explosions of gentle harmony and modestly grand melodies. Fans of New Age and tonal minimalism wil enjoy this music, but its brevity reveals a pop-influenced aesthe…

"When you notice the cheerful mystery playing with the synths, the edges of this small world start to look slightly distorted. In any era, someone is always creating mysterious music on their own." - 7FO

Hylic by J.Tripp distills post-millennial tensions, taking us to the edge of unfamiliarity and then pushing us back, inward, to find comfort in artificial intimacy.

Benefit compilation with exclusive tracks from live performances & installations at eavesdrop festival 2024. All revenues go to charities providing medical aid and food sovereignty in Gaza.

‘Déplier la cervelle secrète’: 12 pieces created from recordings of sequences, (almost) all from the same analogue synthesiser.  Material from a single source put to the test of composition, in  what could be described as a power struggle: faced with the  fragmented inertia of the sound material, searching for resources,  relationships and combinations. In this compact and eruptive material, the pulsating sound patterns reveal new intentions. The result is this album, born of electroacoustic ‘so…

"The Dreamcast tracks were composed and recorded in a week, while learning to use a K.-O.2 sampler, which was later discredited. They somehow replay the state of virtual projection that a console or idea-image of a game console intensifies over time, only to be forgotten when other means begin to channel these projections. It's a capture of a fairly basic kind of consumerist regression, let's say. But it's also a way of reconnecting with the characteristics of image rendering, body forms and env…

The Austrasian Goat started as a black metal outfit that was meant to be anti-nationalist (and of course anti fascist) but that proved ultimately too taxing a fight to have within the genre’s flawed genetics… but The Austrasian Goat never died and comes back as beautiful and bold as ever, its fur now bruised but gilded. The Austrasian Goat is Julien Louvet, who has expertly mastered most of our latest releases, channeling his music from Metz, capital of Austrasia.

*100 copies limited edition* After Kites, Sister, and Mask, House of Strength marked the fourth collaboration between choreographer/dancer Roshanak Morrowatian and composer Rutger Zuydervelt. The performance — and, by extension, the music — has a strong ritualistic quality and can be seen as an inclusive celebration of both spiritual and physical strength. Drawing inspiration from traditional Iranian percussion as well as contemporary club music, the score bridges old and new worlds, shifting be…

*150 copies limited edition* Like all concerts by Conrad Schnitzler, this one is unpredictable and always captivatingly beautiful. A masterfully crafted mix of four solo works, all located in close proximity to the RR album itself. There are few such works in the entire discography, and most of them are included in our top 100.

*150 copies limited edition* 'Memory' is a saturated, multifaceted poem, a work of sound art set against a backdrop of shimmering cosmic space. It is a sonic excursion into memory, reflecting both the light and the darkness of our consciousness. Moving forward and transcending many boundaries, Conrad Schnitzler remains true to the mood established at the very beginning of this 60-minute cinematic work.

LP version. Convex is one of a series of LPs that Schnitzler released himself in the 1980s. It is one of his LPs that convey virtually no visible information. Only the title is printed in large letters on the cover of Convex, and in tiny letters that are easy to overlook, it says: "Cover Conrad und Richard." The labels on the original LP indicate that one side is called "Convex" and the other "Concav." That's all the information there is."On Convex, as on many of his other albums, Schnitzler def…

LP version. "Control was created during a phase of Schnitzler's work in which his friendship with Peter Baumann (formerly of Tangerine Dream) allowed him to try out and use new electronic sound generators and peripheral technologies. He never used these innovations merely for their own sake, but always put them at the service of his artistic flair for experimentation. His signature style is clearly recognizable on Control. The album seems to be a kind of compilation of different musical approach…

"The Sheer Action of Fini Tribe" is a colossal retrospective anthology curated and designed by the band. Compiled from the years 1982 to 1987, it includes a wealth of archival photographs, an essay by original member Andy McGregor, who also designed the sleeve, and essays by longtime friend Shirley Manson (Garbage, Goodbye Mr. MacKenzie) and author Alastair McKay, an early champion of the band. The release features the first legendary John Peel Session, produced by Dale Griffin and originally br…

Opening its second growing season with a new work from Scottish producer Brian d'Souza, also known as Auntie Flo and his ‘Plants Can Dance’ project, the new Seeds release is an ambient composition that draws on botanical research into how sunflowers interact, cooperate, and compete beneath the soil.  ‘Plants Can Dance’ considers the underground world of sunflowers, where root systems engage in complex social behaviours. Recent studies have shown that sunflowers exhibit spatial awareness and a fo…

Lattice of Memory (SW019) is the debut collaboration between Eamon Ivri and JQ. The duo began work on the album while touring Ireland and the UK in 2023, with the process continuing both in person and remotely into a work inspired by the perpetration of nostalgia and augmentation of digital memory. The album spools outwards in different directions from its origins as field recordings, audio ripped online, acoustic instrumentation and improvisation. The result aims to extrapolate the source mater…