Il Moto delle Onde
Tip! ** Edition of 55, glass-mastered CD in handmade cover featuring a unique collage made by the artist, also includes a numbered insert and a poster - all copies are different. ** After years of activity under the pseudonym Petroglifi Solubili, Italian sound artist Loris Zecchin releases his first album under his own name - a natural evolution that coincides with some of his most accomplished and fully realised work to date. Constructed using his characteristic toolkit - contact microphones, a…
Recordings 1980-82
On Recordings 1980–82, Sea of Wires condense Coventry bedroom kosmische into slow‑burn circuits: Chris Jones and Tony “T” Murphy channel Hawkwind and German electronics into looping, improvised voyages that feel handmade yet eerily vast.
Recordings 1980-1981
On Recordings 1980–1981, Those Little Aliens / This Little Alien bottle the moment when punk’s “anyone can do it” collides with cheap synths, mail‑art cassettes and Throbbing Gristle shock, turning a Leeds bedroom into a crackling, homespun laboratory.
Recordings 1982-1987
On Recordings 1982–1987, YU - Dwaine Woodliff, his brother David and Gaylon - turn Austin’s DIY tape underground into a lo‑fi philosophy lab, smuggling post‑punk, bedroom electronics and dark humour into concept‑cassettes about how not to come apart.
Recordings 1988
On Recordings 1988, YU - brothers Dwaine and David Woodliff with Gaylon - push their Austin DIY ethic to a strange, addictive peak, fusing minimal synth, post‑punk anxiety and home‑taped intimacy into songs that feel like intercepted private signals.
Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999
Larrison’s Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999 rescues a lone CZ‑5000 and one quietly obsessive mind from cassette oblivion, revealing 26 miniatures where lo‑fi space‑age pop, DIY synth craft and daydream cinema gently fold into each other.
Cassette Culture - Homemade Music and the Creative Spirit in the Pre-Internet-Age (Book, Expanded Edition)
The definitive chronicle of the global hometaper movement. Jerry Kranitz traces the underground network of cassette traders, bedroom labels, and mail-art collaborators that flourished from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Expanded second edition with new interviews and comprehensive index.
Tante Case Vuote / Scritte sul Retro / Angiporto / Terreni Golenali
Tip! *35 copies limited edition, handmade 4 CDr bundle* Elusive and enigmatic, Loris Zecchin—working under the name Petroglifi Solubili—has, for several years now, been developing his own personal vision of noise music. His work blends literary influences—shaped by a deep passion for Italy’s rich short stories tradition—with fragments of marginal cultures like mail art (hence his fondness for handmade, photocopied album inserts), and the unconscious forces that seep into even the most mundane ge…
The Voice Of The Taniwha
2005 release ** "First real CD from little known NZ knob-twiddler/sound-sampler/drone-minimalist in the footsteps of Peter Wright and Omit. Seht is one Stephen Clover, who has released a handful of drone-oriented limited lathe cuts under different names. Not as single-minded as you might think; Mr. Clover's approach to the drone thing uses different instruments to create a series of droning and repeating pieces that vary wildly in mood from each other, and sometimes pull a sudden internal switch…
Underground Wave Volume 4
Limited reprint of the sold-out Volume 4 from the Underground Wave series, featuring Belgian and Dutch wave, synth, and minimal artists. Most tracks were previously only on cassette. Walhalla Records is dedicated to reviving the 80s/90s cassette scene by releasing rare material, often for the first time
Underground Wave Volume 3
Limited reprint of the sold-out Volume 3 from the Underground Wave series, featuring Belgian and Dutch wave, synth, and minimal artists. Most tracks were previously only on cassette. Walhalla Records is dedicated to reviving the 80s/90s cassette scene by releasing rare material, often for the first time
At That Time
Originally issued on cassette in limited runs between 1989 and 1990, At That Time is a long-overdue excavation of Nostalgie Éternelle – one of the most quietly crucial names in the European DIY underground. The compilation brings together tracks from three early self-released tapes – Damned Forever Those Who Listen To This Tape (split with Due), Art Is The Tool (split with From Nursery to Misery), and Virtual Reality (split with PN 4632402) – issued on the band’s own One Last Dream label and cir…
Acaip
DIY 80's solo album by Turkish bassist Bahtiyar Taş. His solo project after leaving Beyaz Kelebekler, reknowned Pop-folk band from 70s Turkey.
Drying Up The Streets
Tip! Black Vinyl. MIA/Mass Marriage collab LP, between aggressiveness and melancholy, raw industrial and eerie melodies. Vancouver-based artist Melissa Paget offers the pinnacle of Mass Marriage's unique vision: suffocating heavy electronics, abrasive noise, and harrowing vocals that conjure up a dense, intimate atmosphere
Mental Detentions
Robert Rental takes up residence with Dark Entries again for a reissue of Mental Detentions. Robert Rental was a Scottish pioneer of DIY electronic music. Along with his illustrious collaborators like Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller, Rental helped shape the countercultural sound of the UK with his timely melding of Krautrock, dub, and punk. Originally from Port Glasgow, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s, and became involved with the local music scene. Robert Renta…
Reels 1977-1986
The endlessly engaging Italian imprints, Soave and Orbeatize, deliver what is unquestionably one of the most important and ambitious archival releases of 2024: “Reels 1977-1986”, an astounding 14 CD box set dedicated to the neglected, visionary Swiss electroacousitic composer Ernst Thoma. Presenting a radically singular approach to experimental electronic music - highly rhythmical, ranging from poetically elegant and minimal to frenetic and mind-bending - across its astoundingly expansive durati…
Backside
New studio album featuring Bladder Flask. Originally issued as a limited edition Lp lathe cut. Contains 20 minutes extra material. New cover art by Babs Santini. Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask first crossed paths in 1980. The following year saw the release of NWW’s fourth album, Insect & Individual Silenced and Bladder Flask’s debut (and in fact only) album, One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling (Orgel Fesper Music.) The LP quickly came to …
Segnale Unico di Avvio
Tip! ** Edition of 100, glass-mastered CD, includes poster ** A new face from the furthest North-East of Italy, Trieste: the city of the "bora", a powerful and relentless wind that for many of its inhabitants represents a state of mind, more than a simple typical atmospheric event. Petroglifi Solubili is the project by Loris Zecchin (Solar Ipse fanzine), born in 2021 with a simple sampler (the legendary Roland SP-404) and gradually expanded with an equipment that includes a number of synths, gui…
Music in Crisis
Mega Tip! **Double vinyl with eight electronic music pieces, three of which are now on record for the first time.** Roberta Settels was an American composer and industrial designer. She studied composition at Juliard in New York, and during the 70-ties and 80-ties, composed electronic music in Stockholm at EMS, and in Paris at IRCAM, and studied with the composeres Pierre Boulez and Iannis Xenakis. Later she created her own studio. Isolation from 1985 is her only released recording. It was relea…
Spiraling Synthesizers For Heavy Cosmic Music
Cosmic synth music on Delodio, channeling the spirts of John Carpenter, Manuel Göttsching and Daniel Baldeli. Crystal clear vinyl, small batch of 500 copies vinyl only,
Delodio label's managing duo ( Fafane and F.M ), have been piling up tonnes of tapes and cassettes in their studio for many years. The tracks compiled here, by an as of now unidentified artist, come from one of these cassettes. One thing is certain, the artist who made this instrumental cosmic music loved / loves soaring synthesi…