Electronic / Drone

This compilation was specially curated for those in attendance at the Past Inside the Present Label Showcase, presented by Indy CD & Vinyl on December 5, 2026, at The 808 in Indianapolis, Indiana, featuring live performances by zakè, Wayne Robert Thomas, and Marc Ertel. This sampler brings together selected works spanning 2019 through 2025, offering a retrospective of each artist's contributions leading up to the evening's performances.

2026 Small Repress. Incredible 14xCD lavish box set, a 16+ hour compendium of the electronic music key works from one of the most important electronic composers of the 20th century complete with a 106 page book. Born between wars, Eliane Radigue’s musical journey began in the Paris studios of musique concrète OGs Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry during the 1950s and 60s, experimenting with magnetic tapes, honing her craft in sound construction. But it wasn’t until the 1970s when Eliane moved to…

*200 copies limited edition* A few years in the making, Dauw finally announces the reissue of the humble bee’s quietly classic morning music. Now, for the first time, the remastered album is available on vinyl, presented as a double LP, alongside a digital edition. Originally released in 2010 on Cotton Goods — Craig Tattersall’s own imprint — the extensive album was born from a simple yet committed daily practice: over the course of four weeks, Tattersall set aside an hour each morning — betwee…

*200 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by zakè. Heavyweight picture disc vinyl featuring photography by Benoît Pioulard. Housed in a deluxe, heavyweight 12" picture disc sleeve with flap. 3.5"x2" signed hype sticker. Includes a 2" square sticker featuring album artwork and a vintage 35mm unique photo slide.

Premiering to the world at large, Tony Conrad’s gobsmacking quintessential opus Ten Years Alive is now available to hear for the first time, featuring Laurie Spiegel and Rhys Chatham and arriving via Superior Viaduct just over a year since the death of the iconoclastic avant-garde violinist and composer in 2016

Broken Flag was never only a noise label. Never Say When, the compilation Gary Mundy assembled in 1987 as the imprint neared its end, is the evidence: ten tracks mapping a network that ran from Croydon to Udine, almost none of them behaving the way the label's reputation would predict. Mundy founded Broken Flag in 1982, out of a bedroom in South London, alongside his own project Ramleh. Across the decade it issued early work by The New Blockaders, Consumer Electronics, Skullflower, Maurizio Bian…

The first thing that should strike any attentive listener of Gary Mundy’s work as Kleistwahr is that this new collection of nine songs features drums on the opening two tracks. Combining a manic rhythm with searing white noise, a post-punk guitar chopping angular sounds like it belongs to the debut Banshees’ album, and despairing vocals, ‘Cold Blood Cold Night’ sets the tone for most of the album. While not every song is bound to this same pulverising beat at its core, there’s a lot of untamed n…

The encounter between Ramona Ponzini and Maurizio Bianchi yields a work poised on the threshold between evocation and vertigo: a sonic device unfolding through stratifications, resonances, and semantic as well as acoustic collisions.Maurizio Bianchi, a pioneer of the Italian industrial scene, chisels soundscapes built from abrasive, material noises, dissonant cadences, and atmospheres both dust-laden and rarefied yet simultaneously dense. The listener moves across these terrains as if navigating…

"Below/Light" by Filer Coleman is a selection of ambient works by Jim Filer Coleman. It represents an antidote, or perhaps a counterpart, to the more aggressive music that he may be more known for such as Cop Shoot Cop and Human Impact. These tracks were recorded over a span of a few years, slowly evolving and seeking definition. Electrocoustic in nature, the approach was always exploratory and playful, searching for balance and connection with the natural world. Jim Coleman was an instrumental …

For many years I’ve been obsessed with the music coming out of the small circle around the label The Catbox Corporation, Who has been putting out amazing music in relative obscurity for 25 years. I’m very happy to present the first recording of a new project by label owner Marc Kelaway and close collaborator Tanja Jessen. One hour of vast drone landscapes for guitar, organ and electronics. Sometimes reminiscent of projects like Family Underground or My Cat Is An Alien, but mostly a product of th…

2009 release ** Cardboard cover with 3D artwork and 3D glasses. Edition of 49 copies. Featuring: Archers By The Sea, New Yaki, Enfer Boréal, Vishnu Woods, Strongly Imploded, Partli Cloudi, Imp(s), VxPxC, Starving Weirdos, Shearing Pinx.

*50 copies limited edition* Following last year's debut LP, Almost An Island, released on Past Inside the Present, the trio of James Bernard, Cynthia Bernard, and Kenneth James Gibson return with the three-song EP Few Words Are Enough. The collection includes the title track, previously available only on Bandcamp as part of PITP's year-end compilation, along with an extended ambient version and a brand-new piece, Gift of Place, featuring the enveloping textures of taishogoto harp and lap steel. …

Windy and Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory is a purposefully misleading title for the first collaborative work from four friends who met close to 30 years prior. All active participants in Michigan independent music circles since the early '90s, Windy and Carl are well-known for their foundational contributions to drift and guitar-born ambient sounds, with songs characterized by deep connections to the natural world and a hard to pin down yet impossible to miss emotional vulnerability. Optigan Con…

With Le Temps des Figures du Soleil Noir, Unglee Izi extends his shadowy electronic cosmos into a four‑hour box set: a slow‑burning, ascetic immersion where time dissolves into glacial pulses, spectral overtones and a solitary mind listening to its own echo.

*100 copies limited repress on purple vinyl* Small sounds and huge drones populate the surrealistic landscape of “Materia Vibrante”, Susana López’s gorgeous new album, her third for Elevator Bath and first on vinyl. Extraordinarily evocative, this LP is filled with detail and emotive tranquility, while occasionally swelling with the intensity of a raging sea. Surely López’s most elegant and finely hewn work to date, “Materia Vibrante” offers a fully enveloping sonic meditation. The album was bui…

On Chaos Is A Law, Bob Bellerue treats feedback and rupture as a kind of secular mysticism. Macrotonal drones, rasping noise and inharmonic vortices surge, implode and re-form, turning piano wires, metal and amplifiers into a single, volatile organism where chaos becomes both method and mantra.

*250 copies limited edition* "The origins of Aphelion trace back to 2021, when Jim Wilson of Voice of Eye proposed a collaboration with Thomas Dimuzio. The initial concept was to create a deep space musical project featuring modern Buchla and 1970s-era Korg synthesizers. Eventually, they approached throat singer Soriah to see if he would be interested in contributing his unique organic vocal techniques to complement their ethereal drones, providing an intriguing counterpoint. This collaboration …

*250 copies limited edition* "A speculative investigation into the possible disposition of reificative agencies and their direct or indirect relation to the mechanism of proto-manifestation at the boundaries between the material and non-material states of energetic disposition and organisation" Behind the mysterious notion "Extrusiarch" we find the concept of a 'creation myth' or energy that, loosely based on Gnosticism, is a kind of membrane that transforms unformed things into physical ones, o…

*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* "Voices" is a project born as a live performance for solo voice and loop station. The study of tribal rituals of some primitive cultures has been the main source of inspiration for my work. As various anthropological texts affirm, shamanic rituals are not based solely on music produced by rhythmic instruments (rattles, tambourines and other percussions). It is often the shaman's sing that induces trance. He uses his own voice, producing guttural, hissing,…

*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* Veteran electroacoustic composer Gianluca Becuzzi plunges into abyssal territories with DeepeR, a work that lives up to its title by descending into increasingly profound sonic depths. Active since the 1980s, Becuzzi brings his decades of experience in sound art and vocal experimentation to create an immersive journey beneath the surface of conventional listening. Each track represents a further descent, where pressure increases and light diminishes, repl…

*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* "RedruM" published by Luce Sia and Show Me Your Wound, is the first album in which Becuzzi and Olla join forces to create six radical acoustic reinterpretations of as many murder ballads. Drawing on the centuries-old tradition of the song of Cain, the two provide their own personal interpretation in the balance between ancient folklore and contemporary experimentation. With Becuzzi at singing and Olla at his (D) ronin (self-made chordophones-mollofoni), g…

*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* In 1988 Christa Päffgen, better known as Nico, one of the most influential and charismatic female figures in all contemporary popular music, died. "The End", released in 1974, is an album with an inexhaustible twilight charm and it is unanimously remembered by critics and audiences as one of the greatest masterpieces of the unforgettable German author. "Theend", published by Luce Sia and S.M.Y.W. Prod., is nothing more than the complete rewriting of Nico'…

*2025 stock. 190 copies limited edition* Daniele Ciullini turns domestic space into toxic environment with Poisoning At Home, where household sounds become vectors of contamination. The album transforms the familiar into the threatening, revealing the poison already present in daily life through manipulated recordings of everyday objects and spaces. Each track identifies another source of domestic toxicity - from electromagnetic radiation to chemical off-gassing, from information overload to soc…

*200 copies limited edition* Die Sonne Satans (also known as Die Sonne Satan) is the musical creation of Paolo Beltrame. The name Die Sonne Satans is borrowed from the title of Georges Bernanos' novel "Sous le soleil de Satan", which Maurice Pialat adapted into the eponymous film in 1987. Die Sonne Satans is driven by the desire for self-determination in opposition to dogmas or conventions supported only by tradition, authority, or revelation. It remains one of the most creative and simultaneous…

"Finnish experimental veteran Mika Vainio has kept up a brisk output of new music as of late. In the second half of last year, he put out collaborative albums with Joachim Nordwall and Stephen O'Malley, and on the solo front came Kilo, an arresting set of fierce, heavy rhythms reminiscent of his work in Pan Sonic. Vainio's latest solo effort is Konstellaatio, an atmospheric and often-poignant journey from his legendary Ø project. Konstellaatio is Ø's first proper full-length since 2008's Oleva, …

Finnish label Sähkö Recordings is launching a new archival series of unreleased work from its co-founder Mika Vainio. The late Vainio left behind plenty of unreleased material after his passing in 2017. Arc 1 represents the first in a series of releases that draw on Vainio’s archives. The material here was constructed for a 1994 radio project, entitled Ambient City, that Vainio performed as Ø. Both sides here begin with perturbed ambient synth-scapes - grumbling LFOs, digital noise, that sort of…

Anushka Chkheidze + Robert Lippok continue their collaboration with »The Sky Was Out of Tune«. Its eight movements form a long-form ambient piece in constant flux: soundscapes emerge from electronic synthesis and layered textures, while small melodies, rhythmic patterns, metallic noises, or distortions drift through like clouds across the sky. But a sky that is out of tune is still a sky. What shifts is the register in which it speaks. »The Sky Was Out of Tune« emerges from a live performance fo…

*2026 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "Mystic Towers, and all related projects from Adam Kalmbach represent an important time for dungeon synth, one where we didn't really know what was going on and amazing records would come out of nowhere - it wouldn't be until much later when we were able to connect the pieces. Mystic Towers, Erdstall and Abandoned Places were all great projects but it would take time to emerge that these were not only created by the same individual, but all dedicated to t…

*2026 stock. 250 copies limited edition* "Mystic Towers, and all related projects from Adam Kalmbach represent an important time for dungeon synth, one where we didn't really know what was going on and amazing records would come out of nowhere - it wouldn't be until much later when we were able to connect the pieces. Mystic Towers, Erdstall and Abandoned Places were all great projects but it would take time to emerge that these were not only created by the same individual, but all dedicated to t…

*2023 stock. 100 copies limited edition* A deposition of cold electronics and harsh frequencies to testify to the perpetual stagnation of reality. Nothing ever changes except the means through which this successful illusion is maintained. "Stasis" is an exploration, in seven chapters, of the diagrams of the power mechanisms caging us in an invisible prison: civilization. From the anointing ritual of ecstatic pain engrafting the mental germ, to its own epiphany, and to the final revelation: the w…

Love letters via Echelon by Nerthus is a spectral descent into coded romanticism and surveillance. Electronic textures, cryptic samples, and cinematic atmospheres evoke the tension between intimacy and secrecy—a sonic correspondence unfolding in digital shadow and memory.

As he is master of crushing beats/bass, Mick Harris remained faithfull to his primary love - drones! With brand new Lull, Harris deliveres four deep drone pieces, each for one side of vinyl. Beware your record player stylus that it is going to have hard job reproducing the depths of this new dimension music...

*200 copies limited edition* Ten years after "Il dipinto ucciso", Candor Chasma returns with "Seance". While the album comes full circle, revisiting the project's original fixations - the spirit world, stripped of any gothic overtone - it also signals a decisive shift in sonic language. Frameworks of abstract noise, fractured post-techno structures, asymmetric rhythms and heavily processed percussion, filters and saturation pushed to their limits: all shape five compositions poised between hypno…

Recorded at a pivotal moment in his trajectory, M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982 captures Maurizio Bianchi refining sound into a stark environment rather than a composition. Static yet volatile, it strips electronics to bare impulses, anticipating isolationist ambient and dark drone while remaining rooted in the brutal materiality of early industrial experimentation.

*100 copies limited edition* Yūra (幽羅) describes a dystopian future where the last monks of humanity seek illumination through the remnants of obsolete technology. Broken circuits, residual memory, ancient intelligence and flesh are sacred instruments within a continuous rite.

All songs by Felix-Florian Tödtloff. Recorded April 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Field recording on Federaun from Villach, Austria, August 2025.

"Drift was a relatively short-lived project created by Gabriele  Giuliani. Better known through his notorious nom de plume, Dead Body Love. Within the course of only a few short years, Drift released a dozen sought after releases on such legendary imprints as Slaughter, Old Europa Cafe, SSSM, Harmonie, and his own Less Than Zero, before fading behind the curtains Exile was not only the debut release by Drift, but also the beginning to a trilogy of cassettes released on Slaughter Productions. It …

"Second in the trilogy of Drift albums released on SlaughterProductions, The Beyond takes on a minimal yet darker approach, sheding the dense cavernous aspect of the preceding album, Exile. Replaced, is a more introspective Autumnal Dark Ambient style, which will become Drift's trademark on following releases. However, Gabrielle Giuliani never abandons the isolationist atmosphere he previously established. The result is a masterwork in Ambient Industrial Noise.  Winds howl, rain soaked leaves ar…

"On Earthquake, the third and final cassette released on Slaughter Productions, Drift takes on a slightly different angle to the previous  two cassettes. Where as The Beyond and Exile were firmly planted in pitch black ambient territory, the desolation on Earthquake is Saharan. Bright, Sirocco, and sun scorched. Afterall, who said Dark Ambient needs to be cold? In a sense, the listener is transported to an abandoned archaeogical dig while faint middle eastern tones waver in and out of the surfac…

*2026 stock. 100 copies limited edition. CD + 2 x A2 posters, offset, 80 gr uncoated paper* Composed, performed, and recorded by Christian Di Vito with a self-built synthesizer.