Flowers
'Flowers', the new EP from Elizabeth Davis, finds itself at the cross-section of many factors. In part, it’s the result of Davis’ obsession with a seminal folk song. But it also coincides with her rediscovery of the voice and language as an instrument. It was recorded during an autumn residency at Sternhagen Gut, the cultural refuge run by Gudrun Gut and Thomas Fehlmann, located deep in the Uckermark countryside halfway between Berlin and the Baltic coast. The six tracks on 'Flowers' all take Pe…
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Emotional syntheses, more or less dilapidatedMelodic obsessions, more or less acceptedMore or less
Les Démons
Emotional syntheses, more or less dilapidatedMelodic obsessions, more or less acceptedMore or less
Silence and Secrecy
Zos Kia’s music is an essential insight and archival piece into the early work of the industrial scene and particularly of Coil in their formative stages. Their recordings are even darker and more industrial-rooted than much of the Coil material that followed. The music is primal, brutal and reveals the interests that surrounded Coil/Zos Kia and the early years of Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth (TOPY) / Psychic TV...
John Gosling was an original member of Zos Kia (as Joan D'Arc), alongside John …
Exterminating Angel
On Exterminating Angel, Dark Day turns their minimalist electronics toward something more sinister and cinematic, fusing icy synth patterns and ritualistic rhythm into a claustrophobic séance on desire, control and self‑erasure.
Darkest Before Dawn
On Darkest Before Dawn, Dark Day strips post‑punk down to a skeletal, nocturnal pulse, turning minimal synths, deadpan melody and spectral atmosphere into a stark hymn for the final hours before collapse.
Household Objects (And Sundry Massed Gadgets)
Huge Tip! Fifty years on, an abandoned dream takes shape. What began as a post-Dark Side of the Moon whisper - Pink Floyd's notion to compose entirely from household sound - now emerges as a monument to constraint, curatorial vision, and the democracy of domestic sonics. William Hayter and Barry Lamb didn't resurrect a museum piece. They commissioned something altogether more vital: twenty-seven independent visions, each artist tasked with the same elemental rule - excavate your house for sound.…
Oda
Vic Bang's "Oda" arrives quietly - it was waiting for the right moment. The eight tracks are shaped by listening, by circling around sound instead of chasing it... you can definitely hear patience in the pacing, a willingness to let ideas linger, to let all the small motifs breathe.
The album moves with a softer and more deliberate rhythm than much of Vic's earlier work, as the sound world here feels concentrated and cohesive, built from a limited set of elements that gradually reveal themselves…
Episodes
Sun Electric - the legendary Berlin duo of Tom Thiel and Max Loderbauer - returns with Episodes, an enticing new album. While the pair has been active and creating over the years (remember their track 'Every Now And Then' on the 10 Years De:tuned compilation in 2019), Episodes marks their first album of original material in nearly 20 years. Now, with a renewed way of working together, they present fresh and captivating music on the Belgian De:tuned label, built from recordings made with the vint…
I Only Like Difficult Art (and music)
Celebrating its 3 year anniversary, Difficult Art and Music presents a double-album of forward-thinking experimental composition. Inspired equally by the classical composers of the Avant-Garde – the likes of Ligeti, Kagel, Young and Cage – alongside the more expressive end of contemporary electronic music, DAAM has spent the last 3 years championing the awkward, the academic, and the overlooked. Founded by the audio-visual artist Distant Animals (who has released work on labels such as Hallow Gr…
Vistas Fijas
The sole 7" EP by three key figures of Mexico's underground (1985). Minimal synth, ambient textures, post-industrial drift. Nearly 18 minutes of haunting electronic experimentalism at its most spectral.
Never Say When
Following the success of the CD reissue in early 2025, a limited edition LP of this classic compilation album originally released by Gary Mundy's renowned Broken Flag imprint in 1987 follows in March/April 2026. Remastered by Puppy38, this also features two bonus tracks not included on the original (and long o/p) LP but only previously found on the even rarer cassette and now included here as a bonus 7". A timely reminder of this fantastic archive document full of boundary-pushing artists mostly…
The Black Empathy Box
Introducing The Black Empathy Box by Tzii — a groundbreaking concept album that plunges listeners into a deep, visceral journey through a low-fidelity culture club atmosphere. Crafted around a hypnotic dancefloor rhythm of 27 BPM (±150), this album channels the raw energy and intense emotions of 90s trauma, evoking a soundscape that is both haunting and immersive. Housed in a unique crystal case, each cassette contains a blotter, an artistic nod to the era’s underground scene and experimental se…
Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia
Nicolae Brînduş's Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia reissues the composer’s most eccentric works from the PHTORA cycle (1968-1972), blending collective improvisation, spectral tradition, Romanian folklore, and free jazz into a mesmerizing tapestry. Tape manipulations and reverberation add depth, while Ana Golici’s sleeve art captures the album’s vivid sensibility.
Voyage
After a series of EPs and releases across different media (magazines, posters, digital), dTHEd returns with a new LP — their first in six years since the debut Hyperbeatz vol.1 on Boring Machines — titled VOYAGE (Vital Operations and Yearly Administration for Galactic Existence), a bold, genre-defying concept album chronicling humanity’s flight from an uninhabitable Earth to the deep unknown of interstellar exile. More than an album, VOYAGE is a full speculative fiction universe — part musical e…
Am I Home?
2025 stock Skeletons, still »one of the few contemporary bands who can legitimately be called ›original‹« (XLR8R) in 2016, present their ninth studio album and their premiere on Altin Village & Mine.
Skeletons is one of the names of the uctuating ensemble of musicians around composer and filmaker Matthew Mehlan; on »Am I Home?« accompanied by long-time Skeletons collaborator Jason McMahon as well as Greg Fox (Liturgy, Zs, Guardian Alien) and Mike Pride, Justin Frye (PC Worship), Sam Kulik, Sam…
M_Sessions
M_Sessions is offering a contemporary version of Mania D., Malaria and Matador’s music for the 40th anniversary plus the rare originals. Bringing the past into the now and into the future. Monika Werkstatt seemed the perfect choice for new interpretations. Founded in 2015, comprising female electronic musicians and producers from the entourage of Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. The loose collective played dozens of improvised concerts around Europe and released a studio album and live record…
Before Aksak Maboul - Documents & Experiments 1969-1977
Belgium’s avant-rock legends explore their prehistory in a special archival project. Retrieved from long-forgotten reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes, this collection of previously-unreleased tracks unveils some of the meanders which eventually led to the inception of Aksak Maboul in 1977. These 17 tracks and 80 minutes of music will take us for a stroll through moments of free rock, improv, quasi-kraut, modular & ambient electronics, and various experiments. Out on November 21 on digital, limited…
Morality
In 1985, Gary Mundy of Ramleh sent out an invitation. He asked artists in the orbit of his label Broken Flag to respond to a single concept: morality. Define it, refuse it, occupy it, destroy it. The results arrived on a cassette, catalogue number BF41, pressed in a run that circulated through the postal networks that kept the underground alive in those years. Most of it was never heard outside those networks. The title was not ironic. It was a provocation with genuine stakes.
Morality was alway…
Kielholen
Herpes Ö DeLuxe’s Kielholen dives headfirst into the murky waters of industrial decadence. With Hinterzimmer as its unsettling core, the record dissects German cold wave through rusted machinery and post-human irony, a claustrophobic yet hypnotic experience simmering between performance art and corrosion.