Essentials 1996 - 1998
Akuphone is pleased to present the first compilation dedicated to musician John Bolloten, aka The Rootsman. As a precocious punk, he formed his first band, State Oppression, in his teens. Yet he is best known for his dub music, a genre that gave him international recognition. Largely influenced by the rhythms of North Africa and the Middle East, he built his musical identity around samples from these regional repertoires. His encounter with Bryn Jones — better known as Muslimgauze — further defi…
Emak Bakia
* 2nd Edition in Black Vinyl with different artwork and a posterLimited edition of 500* Emak Bakia – a long out of print masterpieces from 1994. Even in the huge Bryn Jones' discography Emak Bakia really stands out of albums from the period due to its rather unique (house-music related) sound and short, by the standards of Bryn Jones, tracks. Like a crossmix between Psychic TV (circa Towards Thee Infinite Beat) and Muslimgauze's trademark percussion and eastern vibes. Re-mastered and with new s…
Disappeared Redux
More blissfuldark ambience from Robin Storey a.k.a. Rapoon, founding member of the legendary post-industrial group zoviet-france. With almost 50 releases under his belt, Rapoon is a household name in the ambient world.
Church Road
Another spellbinding meditation from 2006 from Robin Storey a.k.a. Rapoon, founding members of the legendary post-industrial group Zoviet France.
Muslimgauze Vs Celtarabia
Limited edition of 300 copies in a 4-panel matte laminated digipak, Celtarabia play a wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats given a radical remix treatment from Muslimgauze.
Silknoose
Russian reissue of a long out of print album originally released by Daft Records. Usual great Arabic and Tribal Sounds in the best Musimgauze tradition.
Media Studies
Former Zoviet France dark ambient mainstay Robin Storey's 2009 opus adds another stunning release to his expansive catalog of moody dark ambience evolving and disolving rhythms hypnotic post industrial swathes of sound.
Wasteland Raga
Former Zoviet France dark ambient mainstay Robin Storey's 2009 opus adds another stunning release to his expansive catalog of moody dark ambience evolving and disolving rhythms hypnotic post industrial swathes of sound.
Jackal The Invizible (2LP)
*Edition of 700 * Listeners who know much of anything about Bryn Jones' work as Muslimgauze know that he was prolific in both his work and in the way he sent out his work to labels and other interested parties. Fittingly enough for an artist that feverishly productive and often taciturn to the point of frustration, he didn't tend to give much more information than handwritten track titles on the sleeve of a DAT. Why he would submit multiple copies of the same or similar tracks to those he worked…
Eighteen Movements
‘Eighteen Movements’ is a collection of recordings captured at live performances between 2017 – 2019, now brought to vinyl for the first time. On a meditative outing of rich textures, ambient soundscapes, tribal rhythms, field recordings, and ritualistic atmospheres, Parisian artist D.K. is engaged in full flight mode, illustrating the project’s aptitude for deep transcendence. Chronicled in the moment, alternating between rhythm and repose, momentum and aviation, 'Eighteen Movements' sees D.K. …
Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones 1983-88
**Epic 11 CD box set, coming as a deluxe book-like folder, compiles the earliest material from Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze dating back to 1983 and up to 1988. It includes a whole raft of mindblowing productions that will surprise and inspire anyone with even just a vague notion of what the sound of Muslimgauze was really all about.** For years, Vinyl-On-Demand has offered a special level of devotion to the legendary solo ventures of the Manchester, UK, based artist Bryn Jones, better known as Mus…
Commutator
CZN stands for copper, zinc and nickel the raw path of materials used by percussionist and sculptor Joao Pais Filipe, composer and drummer Valentina Magaletti (from the great Tomaga) and producer Leon Marks. This is ritual music for the whole family. Recorded in Porto at Oficina João Pais Filipe. Mixed by Leon Marks. Mastered by Enrico Mercaldi. Artwork by Nicola Giunta. Sleeve by Patrick Keuthen.
1 / 3 + 2 / 3 + 3 / 3
This special bundle collects all three Deadline Paranoia albums released by Ongerhoord between 2018 and 2021:
1 / 3 (LP, 2018)2 / 3 (LP, 2018)3 / 3 (LP, 2021)1 / 3 (LP, 2018)
When it comes to music, time and geography can have a strange effect. Divisions form and dissolve. Things which were heard can be forgotten. Things which were not are often remembered. As many of us know, this is increasingly the effect of the reissue market, with its radical reappraisals for history, pulling the lost and o…
3 / 3
** 300 copies only, no repress ** DIY cassette culture - flowering across the globe during the late 1970s and 1980s - has proven, from a distance, to be among the most fascinating contexts of music to emerge during the last half century. Taking the form of reissues and archival releases - taping this astoundingly rich vein of exploration and covering a vast field of distinct creative territories - incredible artefacts have fallen, one after another, into our hands. Among the most striking of the…
Narcotic
Narcotic is perhaps one example of an album in both camps of the Muslimgauze spectrum, it denotes the expertise acquired in oriental percussion by Bryn Jones after a crescent development and practice through action, part Tribal, part Ambient with shades of texturized noise, glitch details and field recordings, as result the listener is inside this intoxicant atmosphere of exotic madness, where the basic musical premise constituted by the consistent tribal beats from darbukas and tambourines cont…
A Nice Random Meet
Lost 1990s recordings one half of the band V Neck Mark Churcher takes time out from from his Chicago Bee project to deliver his first full length album on Emote. He teams up with the cult Brighton based experimental artist Alasdair Willis (The Vitamin B 12) who plays saxophone on 3 of the 11 tracks on the album. The album has all the hallmarks of an Emote record and more. Likely to be listed as abstract ambient and blending many different styles together.
Shouting at the Ground
**300 copies** The quintessential ZF. "'Shouting at the Ground' showed a dramatic improvement in sound quality and production from their earlier albums - all of which, by the way, are excellent in their own right. What we have here are an arsenal of hand made instruments, mostly stringed and percussive in nature, that are squashed through various delay and echo filter machines, creating an otherworldly, timeless and overwhelming creepy atmosphere. Outside this website Zoviet France are classed…
Just an Illusion
**300 copies** Just An Illusion represents a continuation of the Zoviet France electronic style of the late 80s early 90s. Together, Acend A Fall and Caught In The Square comprise a hypnotic masterpiece. A combination of industrial grinding, modified guitar and electronics. Other tracks apply synthesizers and tape loops with far more sophistication and impact than on the earlier albums. With longer mood pieces and shorter works that highlight the Middle Eastern and Asian influences which have o…
Look into Me
**300 copies** Look Into Me contains a combination of industrial grinding, modified guitar and electronics. Other tracks apply synthesizers and tape loops with far more sophistication and impact than on the earlier albums. Zoviet France cycle and recycle abstract noises into a constantly changing texture, composed of sonorous drones, grindings, scrapings, squeakings and so on. It's atmospheric without conjuring up any obvious imagery at all, thanks to the unreality of most of the sounds used. Oc…
Shadow, Thief of the Sun
**300 copies** Released just before a four-year layoff, Shadow, Thief of the Sun is both one of Zoviet France:'s better releases as well as one of its rarer albums (the label it was on, Death of Vinyl, had limited distribution and eventually went out of business). While :zoviet*france: often wanders out into fairly random soundscapes, most of the material here is grounded by a drone of some sort, with atmospheric chanting and other instrumentation designed to complement the drone. The drones are…