Sur quelques mondes étranges
Long-time touchstone of international experimental music presents his monolithic (and first) solo vinyl Sur quelques mondes étranges on Felix Kubin’s Gagarin Records. Jérôme Noetinger is known to most for the audio-visual trio Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine, alongside his countless recorded & live collaborations, compositions for radio & stage, and breathtaking multi-channel diffusions in the acousmatic tradition.
Discovering the ReVox B77 tape machine as his tool for live electro-acoustic mus…
Pérélandra
It was some line up, even for the most open-minded: Emmanuelle Parrenin and her musicians, in 1981, opening for the Clash in Paris, at the Zénith! Unsurprisingly, the crowd roared the name of the English band as soon as the French musicians appeared on stage. Didier Malherbe responded with a saxophone improvisation with all the others joining in behind. If we believe the musician improvising, rather than following the cult playlist of Maison Rose, was what saved them. Created from previously unp…
The Outside
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 500 copies.* Fourth chapter of a series that began with 2007’s “Whispers Of The Approaching Wastefulness” (Cyclic Law). A Conceptual soundtrack envisioning the evolution of a fictional story and of which will soon come a VR experience. After centuries of isolation the human race begins a journey in search of the causes that led to the end of its world, and for the first time it approaches the Structures, new life forms that have developed and evolved in the emptin…
A Wilderness Of Cloades
*2022 stock. Includes CD, MCDr in Wooden Box. Limited edition of 103 copies.* First 103 copies of this very special release will come in a limited wooden-box, top of the box will be silkscreened with Nordvargr / Surachai red logo.What began as a mutual correspondence turned into immediate respect and eventually a sickness and obsession that resulted in A Wilderness of Cloades. The two artists, Nordvargr whom hails from the depths of Sweden's wintered wastelands and Surachai from the frozen concr…
Hypergenome666
*2022 stock. 2xCD in Special Folding Slip-Box. Includes a 80-pages book.* Nordvargr vs. Kenji Siratori - Antimaterial: Tragedy Rom Creature BSE vs. Kenji Siratori - Substance : Sympathy Cell Waves
This will be for sure the more surprising release for 2006 in the ambient-dark industrial field. Those 2 great scandiniavian dark-industrial projects leaded by MZ.412 members are here making an excursion in Kenji Siratori acid world made of encrusted blood & samen, made by all the information in the un…
Emergence & Immersion
*2022 stock.* Two CDs at the price of one! In 2007 Voice of Eye ended their 12-year silence with 2 CD-R improvisation volumes: Emergence and Immersion. The works were released for their European tour in editions of only 100 each and sold out fast. Now those impossible-to-find, extremely limited releases are finally available on factory-pressed CD’s! Old Europa Cafe of Italy has re-released Emergence & Immersion in a fine 2-CD 4 page full-color digifolder, re- mastered with a new bonus track, “Pe…
XVIII Congresso Post Industriale
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies.* The exclusive compilation released for the XVIII Congresso Post Industriale, OEC's traditional venue to be held in Pordenone / Italy on September 11 2021. All tracks are unreleased - those tracks which sounds familiar are new versions.
For the first OEC venue during pandemic we were inviting 3 primer Itaian industrial / dark-esoteric / psychedelic and electronic projects. A journey through uncomfortable sounds.
It's Nothing, But Still
*In process of stocking* Steve Fors offers deeply physical music on his Hallow Ground debut »It's nothing, but still.« Having already established himself as a composer of visceral drone and noise pieces in various Chicago- and New York-based underground projects, Fors’s first release under his given name is even more dense and evocative than his earlier work. A concept album on the subject of breath, the Siavash Amini-produced record sees the now Swiss-based composer blend field recordings with …
Spirit Transform Me
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock.* Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist experimenting in the dark trance-inducing worlds of ambient, industrial and electronic music. His newest collaborative project features the legendary percussionist/composer and mystic Z’EV in a hypnotic series of pieces exploring the inner meanings of the Hebrew Alef-beit. A remarkable vision from beginning to end, with sounds both fragile and powerfully intense, Oren and Z’EV take the sonic investigation…
Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
11 CD set adapted from 12 CD edition. All tracks included. This dense 11-disc retrospective of Pauline Oliveros' early and unreleased electronic work includes her very first piece made for tape in 1961. Organized chronologically, this set not only documents Pauline's earliest electronic music but it also functions as an early history of electronic music itself. Follow as she participates in the establishment of the legendary San Francisco Tape Music Center and then moves to University Of Toronto…
Heroes Of The Second Story Walk-Up
*300 copies limited edition* It's beautiful outside today, though you wouldn't guess it from the darkness of your bedsit. So get up, sleepyhead, I've got a special treat for you. The Fun Years have dipped your madeleine in tea brewed from mescaline. Sip it slowly as you watch the tattered clouds chase passenger jets across the windowpane. Don't miss a crumb on the plate—an extraordinary thing is about to happen.
Or maybe it already did? Rewind, press play. People are talking about sticky shed sy…
Chagrin
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock. Limited edition of 100 copies.* Third Kind Records releases Wrong Signals's album on C40 printed cassette with art by Karen Constance. Third Kind is a label based in Brighton UK specializing in unique short-run cassettes.
Oscilloghost
*In process of stocking. 2022 stock. Limited edition of 60 copies.* A rare example of gamekeeper turned poacher? Lee Pylon is the curator and presenter of the excellent Kites And Pylons radio show, but has recently crossed the barricades to produce a welter of impressive electronica in his own right. And these two new albums showcase differing sides to his take on minimalist, radiophonic composition. So Nagasaki Collapse Team is a measured reaction to the dystopia of 2020, with the bleak austeri…
Epitaph (Live At Roadburn Redux 2021)
*Limited edition of 300 copies. 3 sided 2LP in gatefold sleeve.* Long time Roadburners will be familiar with Dirk Serries – he has performed at the festival under various guises a number of times. Having already hosted him with Fear Falls Burning, Microphonics, Year of No Light, Yodok III and Scatterwound already, we were due to welcome him back in 2020 with Kodian Trio. Fate had other ideas… but in with a creative spirit that never stops wandering and a thirst for experimenting, we knew that Di…
Subject To Potential Errors And Distortions
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 300 copies.* "...a beautiful collection of music that at once is emblematically peaceful and yet also vibrates with an undeniable substratal energy." – Disquiet On his fifth solo album Fadi Tabbal delves deeper into the theme of alienation in a suffocating city. Composed and conceived almost entirely at his home in Beirut during Covid-19 quarantine, the record is his most intimate yet. While his previous solo work consisted solely of guitar pieces, this time Tabba…
In Macrospace
*Limited edition of 120 copies. In process of stocking.* "In Macrospace“. The monolithic album debut by Hamburg-based DJ x producer x electronic music activist Baze.Djunkiii, the essence of 25+ years on the scene and continuous research in sonic fields reaching far beyond your regular club music.A dark and threatening journey through the realms of brooding DeathAmbient, cold, hostile sci-fi atmospheres and an innate feel of darkness, doom, desolation and industrial wastelands covered in toxic fu…
Time Bends
*In process of stocking.* Turn up the volume and look how time bends before your eyes because that is what Robyn Schulkowsky and Andi and Hannes Teichmann do with their music. They bend time. They make a ring out of it or some sort of ellipse, and then they pull it straight again, they transform it into a rope, and then, of course, they balance on it, forwards, backwards, half speed, double speed, 33 rounds per minute, or was it 45? Just try both.World percussion meets Techno and Berlin club cul…
Sleep Deep
*In process of stocking.* Next Festival Records presents Sleep Deep by Palmovka, recorded live at Next Festival in Bratislava. Palmovka is a project by Lucia Udvardyová who hails from the Slovakian-Hungarian borderlands. She makes improvised electronics using field recordings and custom-made hardware.
Brume Featuring Vrischika
*Limited edition of 500 copies. Packaged inside an A5 sleeve. 2022 stock.* Second co-operation by Brume and Vrishika after the MCD out on Brume's own label.An ethno-industrial moisture with a wide range of ambients.
The Sun / The Rain
*2022 stock. Limited edition of 107 copies including an orange 7" vinyl.* Note from the label: OEC made an error with the mastering of this album. We received a master from Mr Renou (Brume) which wasn’t in the conditions to be sent to the pressing plant and therefore we was burning a new disc. By doing this we entered by mistake a series of pauses between the tracks. We didn’t altered the music, didn’t cut any sound but, as said, entered a pause by each and any ID. That error on the master is 10…