Kairos
*200 copies limited edition* Kairos is the sophomore album from Berlin trio Ausklang, following the monumental, critically-acclaimed Chronos (Past Inside the Present, 2020). Throughout its eight movements, Fabian Koppri, Benjamin Sohn, and Simon Ansing play with concepts of relative time and entropy through a masterful balance of melodic post-rock and layered ambient bliss, adorning an understated frame of guitar, bass, and drums with complex, ever-evolving arrangements, ranging from glitchy ele…
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Atmospherics [30th Anniversary Edition]
*200 copies limited edition* Past Inside the Present is proud to reissue James Bernard’s landmark 1994 ambient masterwork, Atmospherics, remastered and packaged with a brand new, track-by-track interpretation of the entire album by friend and collaborator, bvdub. While these versions are separated by an ocean of musical and technological change, together they form a cohesive image of adventurous musicianship, melodic and textural richness, and stylistic timelessness.
We Could For Hours
2008 release ** 199 copies limited edition. Original 2007 CD copies repackaged in a new cover. The old A Silent Place warehouse was flooded by water, so a big amount of goods has been destroyed, in particular the original covers and all printed matters. Few original CD copies were saved and now found, so a new edition has been released. Packaged in a new redesigned cover. "We Could For Hours is instability. It represents the will to open the gates of unknown. It is the dark, whispered sounds and…
Night Shapes
*50 copies limited edition* A Silent Place is back and proudly presents a new Fabio Orsi album, recorded live, edited and mastered in June 2020 in litoranea salentina (Apulia). For this release Fabio plays mono synths and FM synth and effects. Similar to the latest releases, this five-tracks album also maintains electronic atmospheres, sometimes cold and dark, sometimes melodic, but always deep. Another true gem of deep electronic, ambient and cosmic music from Fabio Orsi! The album is available…
Ploutonion
*150 copies limited edition* "One to Many, Brightness to Darkness, Memory to Oblivion.Pluton Helios or Apollo Helios? When Massimo Pupillo and ILIOS visited the ancient site of Eleusis, Greece in 2019, Ploutonion (the entrance to the underworld) was their final destination. Recordings of the Ploutonion project started right after and were heavily inspired from the juxtaposition of the ancient and current state of things. The entrance to the underworld does not produce any poisonous emissions any…
Witchcraft
*200 copies limited edition* The track Witchcraft was originally released by SSS Production on a C25 cassette in 1989. Eighth Tower Records brings to light, re-releasing on CD, this esoteric industrial gem by Capricorni Pneumatici, along with three entirely unreleased tracks. Witchcraft was largely inspired by reading the Compendium Maleficarum by Francesco Maria Guazzo from 1608, in a copy of the famous 1929 Rodker edition edited by Montague Summers. The track was created using the DX7 synth, t…
Where the Word is Never
*300 copies limited edition* If anybody has been paying attention (and in my opinion they bloody well should…), they might be aware that Gary Mundy of Ramleh and Breathless announced several years ago that he planned to do a solo CD every year for as long as he could. His solo guise as Kleistwahr started in the early 1980s as a more directly noise/post-industrial-inspired project that saw a few limited edition cassette releases appear on his much respected Broken Flag imprint. While these casset…
Nati Infiniti
Following up on 2021’s Scuro Chiaro, Nati Infiniti is a 40-minute piece split into five movements, based on an immersive audio installation that Cortini originally created for the Sónar Lisboa festival in 2022 where it was presented across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa’s Moagem. Cortini later debuted the live performance at Berlin’s Atonal festival in 2023, reimagining the work as a unique, evolving dialogue. The record is mixed by Grammy nominated recording engineer, producer, and mixer Ma…
Submission
*2024 stock* 1994 reissue of Submission, the LP originally released United Dairies in 1988 with different artwork. In this release Organum plays with David Jackman, Dinah Jane Rowe, Steven Stapleton and Andrew Chalk.
Landlines
*300 copies limited edition* John Davis is a sound artist and filmmaker based in the Bay Area. Active since the mid-aughts, he has published recordings on labels such as Root Strata and Digitalis, as well as on his own Bimodal Press imprint. “Landlines” sees a return to the SOD catalog for Davis, following a full-length release in 2013, and may be seen as somewhat of a spiritual successor to that album. In all of Davis’ work, there is a specific pastoral sensibility that feels firmly rooted in t…
vÄäristymä 2014 - 2024
"Once we got the Amiga, creating music meant starting from scratch and experimenting on our own. At that time our technical skills were so lacking that we recorded our first song using a video camera pointed at the screen speakers. Later, with the addition of a microphone, cassette recording became an easier process. Eventually we discovered the direct transfer of sound to a cassette recorder via RCA cables. At some point, tracker programs entered the scene, enabling easy and systematic serial p…
आकाश (Äkäsh)
Chandra Shukla (Travelogue, Xambuca +++) has embarked on a debut solo release entitled Äkäsh, that merges his past North Indian classical music training on sitar with modular synthesis, midi control, studio effects and guitar embellishments. All of which can be heard on solo work under his name alone.
“You really get something completely unique and mesmerizingly beautiful. A masterpiece all in itself.” - Jan Willem
Unmapping The Distance Keeps Getting Closer
12k is very happy to help usher in the return of Ezekiel Honig, a New York City-based artist and founder of both the Anticipate Recordings and Microcosm labels, which have released music from Sawako, Nicola Ratti and Mark Templeton, among others, throughout the 2000s.
Honig returns with Unmapping the Distance Keeps Getting Closer, an album of very stark, and often dark and vulnerable music. Honig describes the work in the context of the feeling of listening while walking through the city, and th…
Deep Valley
Deep Valley is a new work by Australian artists Seaworthy (Cameron Webb) and Matt Rösner, composed and recorded during a week long residency at Bundanon Art Museum on the south coast of New South Wales. The Bundanon property was gifted to the Australian people by renowned artist, Arthur Boyd and his wife Yvonne in the 1990’s. In making this gift, the Boyd’s opened a creative place for artists to immerse themselves in a truly distinctive Australian landscape. The property sits on the banks on the…
Negative Space : Gradients
Originally conceived as a four-song experiment, “Negative Space: Gradients" marks a new chapter for Lehnen. Building on the lush synthesizer and ambient textures of its parent album, “Gradients" brings the ambient and electronic elements to the forefront, setting it apart from anything else in the band’s discography. While attentive listeners may recognize familiar melodies, tracks, or structures, many of the album's songs transform into something entirely new. Where “Negative Space" channels th…
Into the Darkness of the Night
Hiroshi Ebina presents a lullaby for the sleepless with his latest album, Into the Darkness of the Night. A follow-up to his debut on Kitchen. Label, In Science and the Human Heart, this album delves deeper into the serene and weightless analog soundscapes that have become Hiroshi's signature, crafted specifically for the quiet hours of the city night. Into the Darkness of the Night transcends the concept of sleep, transforming it into a profound thematic exploration. Inspired by his partner's s…
I Am The Dirt Under Your Fingernails
*Limited edition of 400 copies.* Since 1983, Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, Council Estate Electronics, The Sidewinder, etc.) has been producing largely solo, but sometimes collaborative, work under the Final moniker. Beginning as a more obviously power electronics-inspired project it has during the past two decades or so evolved into one which still retains that sonic intensity but has a more expansive sound. 'I Am the Dirt Under Your Fingernails' is the latest album, closely following 'I…
What is a Body
Yes, your eyes tell you the truth – this is the first new record by Zero Kama released since 2008 live vinyl! During these 16 years Zoe Dewitt was active with book publishing, Zero Kama and Korpses Katatonic reissues, lectures, scientific research, exhibitions, and rare but bright live shows. However, most of us have forgotten our dreams of seeing new releases of Zero Kama. Originally, "What is a Body" is the 50-minute background soundtrack for Zoe Dewitt's lecture performance in the anatomical …
A Colour For Autumn
"Somehow, 15 years has passed since I worked on A Colour For Autumn. This recording was, in many ways, a critical one for me. In some respects, it rounded out a period of work that was focused on a particular marriage of thematics and harmony. Like For Varying Degrees Of Winter, it dwelled on old world impressions of the seasons, something that, in the southern hemisphere, isn’t intrinsically part of our way of approaching place. I think it was this incongruity with my own lived experience that …
Neuromancer
"It’s hard to imagine that this year William Gibson’s Neuromancer celebrates its 40th anniversary. Having recently re-read the book for the first time in a great many years, the world building Gibson undertook in that text and the lingering cultural spectres he conjured, feel ever so evocative of moments of our contemporary lived experience. The books continued cultural resonance has resolved in a way that captured a future reading of an, at that time of its release, unknown internet era. It was…