Continuing A Worn Out Tradition
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Teyas
*100 copies limited edition* Archaic Vaults presents Teyas. Recorded live at Cafe Oto, London September 27, 2018 Performed by Christoph de Babalon & WIDT Recorded by Shaun Crook Mixed and mastered by Owen Pratt Image by Mila Nowacka / WIDT Design by Severin Black
Pro-dubbed, unmarked clear cassette.
It Takes Time
*In process of stocking* Union Editions presents It Takes Time by April Clocks. Composed and mixed by Danilo Betti, 2017/2020. Mastered by Miles Whittaker at Full Range Mastering 2022
Live At Vekks
*In process of stocking* Since 1998, American producer puppy38 has been recording under the project name hiroshimabend. With a range varying from found sounds, field recordings and industrial rhythms to long, dark drones and ambient/avant-noise, listening to the music of hiroshimabend has been likened to the experience of swimming in a milky lake of black ink. Over the course of 19 years based in Austin, Texas, to the last few years residing in Vienna, Austria, hiroshimabend has released a signi…
Ibbur
*In process of stocking* Hardy Fox used to be composer for The Residents. He left the group when he didn't feel fit enough for touring and when he turned 70. Since then, he has released many albums under the name Charles Bobuck, switching to his real name Hardy Fox when his albums became more personal. The first, self-titled and also known under the name Heart, is a study of the young Hardy Fox, an album about Love. The second, Nachtzug is about his last days touring with The Residents. It was f…
Subterranean Modern
*In process of stocking* To celebrate The Residents' 50th anniversary, we bring you something rather special: a re-issue of the legendary Subterranean Modern compilation. Subterranean Modern was Ralph Records' first album involving music from anyone other than The Residents or Snakefinger. The idea was to widen Ralph's appeal by bringing a greater variety of styles into the label. To this end Ralph had four band submit contributions on the theme of "San Francisco". Each was required to include …
Ceux Qu'On Aime - Ce Que Je Hais
*In process of stocking* Etant Donnes is a French duo named after Marcel Duchamp's last major work. The group consists of brothers Marc and Eric Hurtado, born in Morocco and working mainly as performance artists and musicians. Their sound can be described as a mix of field recordings, found sounds and sometimes whispered, sometimes violent vocals.
They describe their sounds like this: "Through Marc and Eric, it is the volume of each word that becomes an object-sculpture, together with the power …
Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth
*In process of stocking* A classic masterpiece from 1981, never re-released before. Originally 1000 copies pressed on orange/red vinyl. 120 copies were sold through Rough Trade and Virgin Records. 800 copies were bought and later destroyed by the United Dairies label, makin this record even more rare.
Hastings of Malawi were Heman Pathak, David Hodes and John Grieve. They recorded the album in one night in 1981 with no plan and no idea of what they were doing. They played drums, clarinet, synth…
I N T E R C O N E X I O N
Aurora Central presents I N T E R C O N E X I O N, a collaboration between Concepción Huerta and Milena Pafundi. First edition in blue cassette tapes, with handmade book of photography. QR codes for downloading video documentation of a live performance are also included.
Planos para Construir
*50 copies limited edition, white cover version* 'During the second half of 2019 I contacted some people that write or create with the use of words and sent them music in order for them to create or add a text. There were opportunities in which some of us could create in the same physical space, but also much part of the process happend remotely. The music gave the writers a space, and in it, each of them added the text and recorded their voices in the tracks. After some mutual feedback, a piece…
Perils In The Slums Scenario Three: The Maze Of Death
*100 coipes limited edition* Welcome to the third and final episode of the Perils in the slums saga! In the previous episode ("The corrupt magicians") our heroes found a key with a strange symbol, the same one they saw on the closed hatch in the orcs' basement (see Perils in the slums 1: the orcs commune). They then decide to return to the city sewers, re-cross the orcs' hideout and try if, as they think, the key opens the mysterious trapdoor. Obviously it works! They will get access in a new le…
Hunt On The Nazi-necromancer
The year is 1943. Deep in the forests of the Balkans, a lone company of Yugoslav partisans received a radio message: "Based on intelligence, we suspect that a special detachment led by Count Klaus Krämer, better known as the Nazi Necromancer, arrived in the capital by train three days ago. We also know that the convoy, which we assume is under the Count's command, left Belgrade yesterday and that he set out through the Morava valley to the south. We do not know the further intentions or the dest…
Perils In The Slums Scenario Two: The Corrupt Magicians
Heimat Der Katastrophe is pleased to present the second chapter of the "Perils in slums" saga by Basic Dungeon. In this episode, our heroes investigate the guild of corrupt wizards and discover unspeakable secrets that have to deal with necrophilia, smuggling, tax evasion and ancient evil cults.
"The corrupt magicians" is an interactive album in which you can choose how to face the adventure by choosing from four lines of investigation: you can choose to look for news about the corrupt magician…
Exkursion In Das Hügelgrablabyrinth
*100 copies limited edition* Do you remember the sensations we had when we were kids and we explored abandoned places and caves in the woods behind our house, places that had nothing special but that we imagined to be infested with monsters and ghosts? Well, those are the same feelings that made your Dungeons & Dragons sessions exciting! As you are in front of the dungeon entrance, those joyful childhood sensations come to mind, when life was an adventure every day. This album is the celebration…
Milano: Difesa Anti-atomica
*60 copies limited edition* A few months ago the tranquility of Heimat Der Katastrophe headquarters was broken by an astonishing find: poking through the garbage, we came across a tape of dark recordings dating back to a period between the 80s and 90s. After some research, we discovered that it was unpublished soundtracks recorded for broadcasts of a local TV of our city called Docuvideo TV, which went bankrupt in the early 90s. Between the late 70s and the late 90s, a lot of private TV stations…
Rails and Other Tracks
Tip! *300 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* First ever release of concrete and electronic collage works by Belgian underground sound explorer Jan Bruyndonckx. This album contains autonomous compositions, music for film and documentary; all independently recorded in his private studio between 1958 and 1965. A small collection of adventurous and mysterious sound evocations with text/poetry recited by Julien Schoenaerts.
Drag Acid #10
*In process of stocking* Art book with 30 minutes of new exclusive music by Black To Comm.20pp – 178 x 178mmCover prints 4/4 on 250gm Shiro Echo recycled uncoatedInner prints 4/4 on 160gm Shiro Echo recycled uncoatedSaddle StichedRecycled materials.Music is on a vinyl styled CDR. 30mins of new music.Handnumbered edition of 200 copies.
Last Live
This edition was produced and finalized in a particular context, Mika Vainio having left us on 12.04.2017. This material is the last concert he gave. It took place at Cave12 on 02.02.2017. We needed time to listen to this archive again, which we did in situ in June 2020 with Cindy Van Acker. After this listening, we felt invested in having to make this archive public. In order to work on this material, we asked Carl Michael von Hausswolff to do the editing. He extended the invitation to Stephen …
Hordijk, Vol. 1
This compilation is a tribute to the works of Dutch designer Rob Hordijk, who in the last two decades has created a unique and extraordinary range of electronic instruments. On numerous occasions he has shared his vast and fundamental knowledge to the scene and to some of us individually. In conversation with Rob he always shares his deep understanding of the physics of sound, explaining how you can employ electronic circuits to produce not only the purest waves but most of all how they can work…
Surface Ego
*In process of stocking* Second Sleep presents Surface Ego by Lettera 22. Lettera 22 a project from Riccardo Mazza and Matteo Castro wich borns in the deep north east of Italy. Influenced by the contest of their everyday living in a place compressed between countries, mountains and factories, their sight points directly to men, machines, fields. Really dinamic structures composed by tape loops, field recordings and feedbacks are destroyed by a violent muscular manipulation. What was concrete b…