Experimental / Abstract

*60 copies limited edition* Euro Herc is a duo formed by Turmeric Acid and Chemiefaserwerk. They were one of the most successful pop acts during the 1980s, selling more than 30 million certified records worldwide from 1982 to 1986. Influenced by funk and soul music and presenting themselves as disaffected youth, Euro Herc's 1983 debut album, Fantastic, addressed the United Kingdom's unemployment problem and teen angst over adulthood. Their second studio album, Make It Big (1984), was a worldwide…

In the 1980s, this controversial collective shook up the Belgian art world with noise concerts, performances, unusual exhibitions and the "cultural battlezine" Force Mental - proposing a quite different view on art as known by the cultural establishment. Club Moral was founded by visual artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) and performance artist Danny Devos (DDV) in Antwerp on January 1st, 1981. For over a decade it functioned simultaneously as venue, noise band, publishing house, and lightning…

Four text scores composed by Ryoko Akama (VCS3 synthesizer), Bruno Duplant (percussion, tone generator) and Dominic Lash (double bass, clarinet & laptop). The pieces are all text scores, carefully and exquisitely realised by three of the most interesting musicians to emerge on the experimental music scene in the last few years. The musicians combine in a fruitful and intimate exchange, producing a delicate and fragile web of sounds. Four beautifully evolving and carefully paced works.."-Another …

Japanese experimental sound artist kent watari debuts on Phantom Limb with new album subtraction in spiral, coding deep sonics to quantum-percussion and collapsing, post-IDM glitchscapes based on a meticulously constructed metaphysical thought experiment. “This work is centred around a very personal philosophical model,” writes kent watari (b. Tokyo, 1993). “I have constructed a metaphysical model of thought, employing concepts from philosophy and science. This thought model centres on a recursi…

*100 copies limited edition* Two pillars of New York's underground converge. Human Hair brings together Pat Murano and Richard Hoffman - both long-running fixtures of the city's most uncompromising experimental scenes - for an album that slithers, coils, and eventually leaves you floating in open space before you realize the lifeline has slipped from your hands. The pedigree here is formidable. Hoffman's work with Sightings (one of the best bands to ever emerge from NYC, full stop), Insayngel, a…

Tip! 30th Anniversary Edition 2CD Digipack 4 Panels PVC Slipcase. Paul Chain's true masterpiece, the hypnotic “Opera Decima - The world of the End”, has been released on both a double CD and on a boxset of three LP's in late 1990, and it was out of print for decades. P. Chain "evil" minimalistic ambient attempts to shape sound itself using overlapping organic drones and electronic noises to create internal harmonies.

Aleksandra Ionowa (1899–1980) was a Finnish-Russian artist, mystic, and largely self-taught pianist whose music feels like a transmission from another realm.

Announcing Blue Voice, a playful yet unsettling 7-inch by Luke Calzonetti built from distorted cartoon voice-over outtakes — warped, abstract tone-poems that teeter between humor, chaos, and sonic sabotage. Pressed on white vinyl with a blue Pantone sleeve.

Latest LP for Darksmith of California on Second Sleep. Darksmith of California (Tom Darksmith) combines wilting electronics, floppy turntablism and sun-baked cassette protocols and destroys them in a claustrophobic void

*250 copies limited edition* Einheitliches Geschirr is a new album by Marie Vermont, Vienna based sound artist, musician and visual artist. Sound of Einheitliches Geschirr (Uniform Tableware) springs from techno-creative playfulness in which basic tape manipulation melts together with sounds of found objects, trash or self-made instruments and welcomes listeners to the unique dream cave netherworld of Marie Vermont. Einheitliches Geschirr was recorded between November and December 2024 in Vienna…

2025 Repress This is the original double CD, which has long been out of print, remastered, with additional tracks made with the sounds recorded during the project. The album finds Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter spending time on Norway's lofoten Islands inside the arctic circle with no instruments and minimal equipment and sending regular broadcasts to resonance fm via lofotradioen local radio. This double disc on Potter's ICR label contains 7 of these broadcasts. Windswept field recordings, f…

Live At Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali sees Grischa Lichtenberger transfigure a forty-minute set into a tactile, visual, and kinetic experience. Industrial clangor, mechanical pulses, and fleeting ambience merge, sculpted with rigor. Issued by Hermit Records as a collector’s vinyl, it stands at the edge between noise, rhythm, and abstraction

While this album was written and completed in early 2022 the work here reflects about a decade's worth of developing a unique approach to improvising, super-imposition, and sound engineering as a method of constantly shifting and expanding composition. In many ways this work is the logical conclusion of the desire for, and searching after, a certain sound and feeling, which I believe is present here.... ...The ooze is all encompassing. The ooze moves across and through all things. The ooze is ac…

Violinist Mike Khoury came together with Sharif Sehnaoui (guitar, percussion, bouzouki) and Raed Yassin (bass) to create some very natural and organic improvised music during the Irtijal Festival in 2018. Khoury said, “the three of us had an instant connection with a common understood language that predated all of us.” The music was not a part of a festival performance but a sparate effort by the three musicians. Khoury is best known for his work as a soloist, in duet with percussionist Ben Hall…

Fellahin is a violin, wind and percussion format for violinist Mike Khoury. He has assembled this instrumental grouping several times under that moniker. For this album, Khoury travelled to Miami to work with Kenny Millions (Keshavan Maslak) on clarinet and guitar, and Steven Bristol on percussion. Khoury is best known for his work as a soloist, in duet with percussionist Ben Hall and dancer/choreographer Leyya Tawil and as a member of The Northwoods Improvisers, Porcelain Hammer, The Redford Ci…

We are thrilled to introduce Axis Dissected, the debut release of escéptica, and a bold statement from Dangel. A sonic excavation of found sound, field recordings and musique concrète abstraction. Recorded between Berlin and Chile from 2022 to 2024, this album assembles fragments of reality and reconfigures them into a haunting sound experience. Dangel works with intuitive precision, sculpting scenes of acoustic memory and spatial debris. There is a tension here between control and chance, betwe…

2025 Repress. The second beautiful album by the duo of Jessika Kenney -- a vocalist known for her haunting timbral sense, as well as her profound interpretation of Persian vocal traditions -- and Eyvind Kang -- a violist for whom the act of music and learning is a spiritual discipline. All tracks were composed by Kenney (voice, percussion, electronics) and Kang (viola, setar, electronics). "The Central Javanese Wangsalan is a kind of riddle (two lines, twelve syllables each, divided 4 and 8 ), s…

Union Editions presents Un sisma mentre ci voltiamo di spalle by Devi Tensione. Composed by Francesco Castrovilli. Additional production/arrangement by Lapo Sorride aka Kinked. Recorded between France, Turin, Bari. Mastered by Luciano Lamanna at Subsound Studio, Roma.

Fata Morgana is a work in two parts; The first part, took place and was recorded in a a forest close to Niels Lyhne Løkkegaards childhood home in the western part of Jutland, and is a recording from 2021 of Løkkegaard playing the alto recorder. The second part is thought as a replacing of the first part, and was made in 2024 by Michael Pisaro-Liu in California.

200 copies. Black vinyl in full colour die-cut sleeve. Pale Moon is RM"s third Lp. Prepared, costructed and then deconstructed starting from jams recorded on multitrack using two samplers and various effects units, Pale Moon evokes an imaginary tale of havoc (side A) and desolation (side B). The end isn't written but some hope is still hidden under the ashes of a world which is, at least, finally quiet.

Entangled Visions is the inaugural release of the homonym just-born Experimental Electronics label, based in Italy. Eight moments from eight different artists united by the same goals: disorientation and alienation through sound research and experimentalism. Italian sound artist Giulio Aldinucci introduces the release with "Prima del Mare", immediately marking the concept of this work. Deconstructed rythms and Lanark Artefax-like synthesis are presented by the German producer Shō, the storm afte…

2025 Repress. Three decades after its initial release, Gastr del Sol's Mirror Repair remains one of the most perfectly realized statements in the post-rock canon - a five-track EP that captured the crystalline moment when experimental precision met emotional immediacy. Now, Drag City presents a 2025 repress of this essential 1994 release, offering contemporary listeners the opportunity to experience the album that defined the creative partnership between David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke at its most…

Bryn Jones died January 14, 1999. The man best known as Muslimgauze was 37 years old, and at the peak of his career. During his short life he recorded an astonishing number of albums, some 200 at last count, a great many of them in years immediately preceding his death. Indeed, his output was so great that his labels couldn’t keep up with the virtual flood of music he produced. It’s no wonder new material continues to surface so long after his passing. “Uzi Mahmood” was recorded to satisfy a spe…

*200 copies limited edition* In their audiovisual works under the overarching title Arkestra of Light, the Graz-based visual artists OchoReSotto explore how reality is integrated within the human being and how the environment influences our perception as a society. Arkestra of Light – Vinyl is an avant-garde document of time and sound, bringing together six sound art pieces by musicians Monique Fessl, Denovaire, Josef Gründler, Wolfgang Lehmann, and Mario Zangl. The contemporary and cinematic mu…

Multi-rhythmic harmonies from the backyard! Alive and free improvisations with percussion, synthetic, woodwind and string instruments. Comes with handmade cover! Recorded by GUU, Berlin 2024. Mastered by CGN Wizard. Co-produced by Tax Free Records, TRjj Compiler, iRiAi Verlag, El Muelle 1931 and All Night Flight.

Tracks 1, 3 & 7 Solo live action recorded at Vastavirta-klubi Tampere, during the tour with Paavi, Mark Boombastik and Jack The Rapper. Track 2 inside a rock underneath an orthodox cathedral in Helsinki. Tracks 4 & 6 with Reverend Washington, real time tape manipulations by A.D. Track 5 epic 4-track piece recorded in the sauna department of the Avarus practice space in Turku. CDr and folded paper cover packaged in a plastic envelope.

If the history of The Beach Boys includes the legendary 'lost' (...and rebuilt...) album Smile and The Who's Lifehouse album remained unfinished, even Le Forbici di Manitù can boast their "lost album", an ideal follow-up to their first full-lenght work entitled Saliva calda (Hot Saliva), published on cassette in 1990 by Rosa Luxemburg Corporation and reprinted again on tape in 2016 by The Tapeworm in London. The Vecchie vacche (Old Cows) project was in fact started around 2000 by the two origina…

*Repress of 250 copies on clear vinyl with insert* Robert Turman first came onto the industrial scene in the late 70’s as the ominous ‘other half’ of legendary noise outfit NON. Shortly after recording the classic 1977 single Mode of Infection, Turman went on to pursue his own unique vision as a solo artist. Fusing every possible influence at his disposal while laying his ideas down on self-released cassettes like Flux (1981), Spirals of Everlasting Change (1987), Way Down (1987) and the massive…

The thallus refers to a plant without roots or leaves: lichens, algae. A presence in the world that unfolds discreetly, like a tree covering or a blanket over the sea. t h a l l e is, for me, a subject of randomness and correlation. How do desynchronized elements form a harmonic whole? I can feel great joy in organizing the chaos of these materials, which, through tiny encounters, align in the same time. t h a l l e is also an exploration of vast temporalities, from the smooth time of organ piec…

Mark Harwood follows up his 2022 offering with the new album, or, Urim.

Astasie-abasie is a project of Ian Andrews which evolved out of a long running performance collaboration with Garry Bradbury. The project focuses on the amplification of small sounds (following the approach of John Cage, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor) through the capture of sounds generated by small objects by way of contact microphones, home constructed cartridges, miniature piezo microphones and conventional microphones. Various devices are used as constraints in order to distance any performin…

Reeling in the weeks -- which felt like years -- after my first Current 93 album, I had started on the difficult second C93 album, Dogs Blood Rising. Having been asked to appear on both Top Of The Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test 93 times in the same week after the release of Nature Unveiled, I realized that God was telling me that I had hit on a winning formula of Christian eschatology and Apocalyptic Christian texts over a Soundscape as cool as flies, but that I was missing the vital ingredi…

"Swastikas For Noddy is possibly, probably, maybe, or not, a seminal and sidereal masterpiece, the inspiration for 93,000 Masks On Nothings, none of which were groovy. For me, well, it was my first hallucinatory pick-nick, and the skies turned pixie red for it. I was given the album's title during an acid trip: seeing Noddy crucified in the sky, I asked God what the most inappropriate birthday present for Noddy might be. God answered me from the acid whirlwind: "Swastikas!" I recorded her in a r…

Current 93's first and last album, Nature Unveiled dragged together my obsessions, as I had decided to make a pop album that dealt with my primary fascinations: Christian apocalyptic and eschatological Christian texts. In my speed-ridden soul and mind, I thought I was reinventing The Ronettes, and that the two long sides of Nature Unveiled were A- and B-sides of a wall of soundhogs HIT! But the reality is that I was sharing a squat in Vauxhall with little annie anxiety, and hanging out with yout…

"The Light Is Leaving Us All is one of the C93 albums that haunts me the most. I was OverMoon and Blessed to work on it with the astonishing aeonic beautiful talents of Reinier Van Houdt, Alasdair Roberts, Ossian Brown, Rita Knuistingh Neven, Andrew Liles, Aloma Ruiz Boada, Michael York, Davide Pepe, Ania Goszczyńska, and Giulio Di Mauro. Once again, the voice in the mask of one of my favorite authors, and longest colleagues, Thomas Ligotti, also joined C93. The album's title was given to me in …

Huge Tip! The New York based duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown, 75 Dollar Bill, return with Power Failures, their first full length since 2020. Issued as a beautiful double LP by Karlrecords, and possibly their best record to date - taking on expanded explorations and a greater sense of abstraction - across its four sides we encounter Chen and Brown interweaving hypnotic polyrhythms and complex tonal collisions, with occasional (and brilliant) contributions from "Little Big Band" mainstays Steve Ma…

** Limited Purple Vinyl. Wide front-back artwork and inlay print by Emma Pryde ** Aestum’s self-titled debut album is an in-depth journey into supreme and tranceformative soundscapes. Oscillating around the apex of spacious power ambient and drone, the compositions recorded during 2020 combine monolithic electronica with decaying fantasies and slow-motion euphoria. The imagination for the album was inspired by the idea of panortosia (universal reform) as described in old scholar books devoted to…

Keith Rowe: tabletop guitar, electronics  Thomas Lehn: analogue synthesizer  Marcus Schmickler: digital synthesizer, computer

** Edition limited to 350 copies including a large booklet with sinister photos, surreal drawings and lyrics in German and English. ** Right on time for its 30th anniversary, “Herzschlag Erde”, cassette debut album of Die Welttraumforscher, is being re-released in a collaborative effort between the labels Planam and A Tree In A Field. The new, limited vinyl edition includes a large-format, 20-page booklet as well as the previously unreleased follow-up album, “Verdunkelt die Sinne”. Die Welttraum…

Mari Return dispatch a quietly uncanny collection that sits somewhere between decayed songform and domestic interference. Mote of Interest was recorded in a room beside the River Ribble, where environmental influence seeps into the fabric of the album - not through literal field recordings, but in the album’s fluid pacing and sediment-like layering. Pulsing beds of tone, gated hiss, and tape-warped textures feel half-submerged, eroded. Guitar phrases stagger and repeat with hazy logic - part ins…