Electronic / Drone

Two long-form pieces forgoing melody and rhythm in favour of pure texture. René Aquarius works in a register adjacent to Thomas Köner's darker drone music: a metallic sheen distributed across slowly shifting masses, gestures held to the minimum, every sonic event magnified by the quietness around it. The result is unmistakably dark ambient, but built with restraint rather than gothic excess, the focus turned to the ghostly imagery that emerges from sustained low-density listening.

Second album by DNMF, the duo formed between Machinefabriek and the Dutch droning free-jazz combo Dead Neanderthals. Across some forty minutes Smelter develops a highly dynamic amalgam of metal, drone and dark ambient, the heaviness of the Neanderthals' instrumental mass folded into Zuydervelt's electroacoustic processing. The result moves between glacial expansive stasis and dense ferrous noise, holding the two registers in productive friction without resolving them into either.

A four-movement work probing the reciprocal interference of sound and space. The source material is reduced to elementary sonic primitives - sine waves, white noise - then physically degraded through tape manipulation to generate pulses, beats and emergent waveforms. From this collision between idealised digital signal and the analogue artefacts of magnetic media, van den Broek builds a heightened spatial perception where pure tone and altered source act on the listening field simultaneously.

Recorded in Athens in July 2014, the second album by 300 Basses extends the trio's move from free improvisation toward fixed composition. The investigation here turns on minimal but precisely framed actions: the beating patterns generated by long tones at slightly detuned pitches, the unstable timbre that emerges when reed sustains are layered with bowed cymbal, the slow permutation of a reduced interval set. A sound world built from infinitesimal elements, dense in vibration and microvariation.

Frans de Waard's first full CD under the Modelbau alias, a project built around a deliberate constraint: cassettes, small synthesizers, guitar effects, microphone and amplifier, with little or no computer involvement. Four Squared Wheel was captured in an extended studio session around a Philicordia organ routed through guitar effects and amplifier, signals mixed on the fly into a near hour-long single piece. Live electronic drone with the unmistakable grain of analogue circuitry.

Reissue of this long sold-out cassette on Gift Tapes. Mind Over Mirrors is Jaime Fennelly, harmonium player and electronics builder, whose unique approach to sound manipulation has established him as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary experimental music. Before launching his solo project, Fennelly was a member of the junkfolk band Peeesseye and the psychedelic free jazz trio Acid Birds, experiences that inform his multifaceted approach to electronic sound sculpture. Fennelly creat…

A box collecting seven years of work, from 2000 to 2007: psychedelic drone, experimental electroacoustics, minimal music and deep listening. Monosov belongs to the Frogpeak collective and has worked with Charles Curtis and Duane Pitre.

*Limited to 300 copies * This split LP presents a unique and deeply personal musical collaboration between husband and wife duo Grant Evans and Rachel Evans, performing under their respective solo monikers Nova Scotian Arms and Motion Sickness Of Time Travel. Created to commemorate their crystal anniversary, Crystal Anniversary stands as both an intimate celebration of matrimonial harmony and a compelling document of two of the American underground's most distinctive voices. The Evans couple rep…

Realised on the ARP Synthesizer in 1972. Piano: Gérard Fremy. Recorded at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, December 1979. Arthesis was realized on the Moog Synthesizer at the University of Iowa in 1973. Originally released on Fringes Recordings in 2003, the cd sold out immediately. Finally available again on Senufo Editions. Eliane Radigue's steady-state, pulse and drone oriented works for synthesizer had cast a wider and wider influence over younger improvisers over the years, especially those …

'The first collaboration by these two renowned sound artists. Fabrication saw its beginning during the production of Re-Post-Refabricated, a project in which artists were selected by Richard Chartier to rework-create new works from his 1998 CD Postfabricated for its reissue in 2003. As it was intended as an open project, Asmus Tietchens continued to explore the source materials and suggested further formal collaboration. This evolved into the collaborative work Fabrication. The CD comes in a ful…

Éliane Radigue's L'île re-sonante, one hour-long movement for ARP 2500 inspired by her face reflected in a lake: slow oscillations, ghostly voices and shifting drones. First Shiiin release, Golden Nica at Ars Electronica 2006.

Black Sea is the much-anticipated new album from Christian Fennesz, his first since Venice. Fennesz’s career has come a long way since Instrument, his debut for Mego in 1995, and his first solo album Hotel Paral.lel which followed in 1998. Endless Summer [Mego, 2001] brought him to a much wider audience and Venice underlined his mastery of melody and dissonance. His songs usually embody the skilful application and manipulation of dense sonic textures with a genuine feel for the live, and real-ti…

The first piece Eliane Radigue ever composed on a modular synthesizer, Chry-ptus was realised in 1971 on a Buchla 100 - the same one Morton Subotnick had recently installed at New York University. Conceived as two simultaneous tapes intended to be played together with or without synchronisation, the work produces, on each new realisation, a different play of sub-harmonics and overtones, slight shifts in amplitude and location altering the surface while leaving the underlying structure intact. Th…

Doomy, magisterial drone works, xylophone tones dragged behind trucks ploughing straight through mountains of mud and some classically wasted drum/horizontal blades nod-out ritual ala Outside The Dream Syndicate from this inspired hook-up that pairs Campbell Kneale's orchestra with Anla Courtis of Reynols.