Electronic Dance Music, 1966-1989
Often credited as the father of multi-media theatre, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) took complete creative control over his productions - including cutting-edge approaches to lighting and costume that transformed human bodies into shifting sculptural shapes, while also composing wildly innovative electronic music as accompaniment.
After initially experimenting with musique concrète and tape manipulation (as demonstrated on the 1959 LP Choreosonic Music of the New Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais) Nik…
Now I Imagine A Place Not The Same
Electric guitarist and composer David Torn announces "now i imagine a place not the same," an expansive new double LP out May 29 via Kou Records. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Thurston Moore), the album revisits the raw electricity of Torn’s early processing language while carrying it forward with the perspective of decades of exploration. Visceral yet weightless, it deepens his long-standing dialogue between alternate tunings, looping systems, and touch-sensitive electronics. Melody, noi…
War Poem
On War Poem, Chris Connelly turns antique tape machines into artillery: a single, accidental loop blooms into side‑long, grief‑stricken immersion, where scorched industrial sonics and stark anti‑war outrage fuse into something brutally intense and unnervingly beautiful.
That Porous Line
On That Porous Line, Push For Night dwell in the blur between song and atmosphere, trading in smudged hooks, low-lit textures and slow, pulsing tension where guitars, electronics and voice seep into one another instead of standing apart.
Healsgebedda Budgerigar
On Healsgebedda Budgerigar, Nurse With Wound turn memory itself into a delirious tape loop: three long, sample‑swollen excursions where pet chatter, phantom TV themes and street detritus melt into a woozy, psychedelic netherworld of half‑remembered sound.
Parallèles (LP)
Rare original edition on d'Avantage of the third album from 1980, with some of the most original and unclassifiable experimental music from that time and a big influence on Nurse With Wound. Featuring Jean-François Pauvros, Mahjun and Malicorne's Jean-Pierre Arnoux and Michel Potage among others. NWW list.
Catalogue (LP)
Rare original edition on d'Avantage of the third album from 1980, with some of the most original and unclassifiable experimental music from that time and a big influence on Nurse With Wound. Featuring Jean-François Pauvros, Mahjun and Malicorne's Jean-Pierre Arnoux and Michel Potage among others. NWW list.
Discreet Music (LP)
1987 re-issue on EG/Virgin of Eno's first ambient side before the Ambient series, backed with arrangements of Pachelbel music assisted by Gavin Bryars, a classic album originally released on the superb Obscure series in 1975.
Music For Films (LP)
Original Italian edition on Polydor of the actual first ambient album from 1978 before the Ambient series, featuring Robert Fripp, Fred Frith, John Cale and éhil Collins among others. Classic.
Music For Airports (LP)
Original Italian edition on Polydor/EG of the landmark first album in the Ambient series released in 1979, featuring Robert Wyatt. Absolute classic.
On Land (LP)
Original Dutch edition on Editions EG of the beautiful fourth album in the Ambient series released in 1982, featuring Jon Hassell, Michael Brook and Bill Laswell among others. Classic.
Apollo (LP)
Original Italian edition on EG of the beautiful ambient soundtrack to Al Reiner's documentary, released in 1983.
Possible Musics (LP)
Original UK edition on EG of the second electronic/ambient/experimental "Fourth World" album, featuring Brian Eno and released in 1981.
Dream Theory In Malaya (LP)
Original UK edition on EG of the second electronic/ambient/experimental "Fourth World" album, featuring Brian Eno and released in 1981.
Day Of Radiance (LP)
Rare original UK edition on EG of the experimental / new age zither player's debut album produced by Brian Eno released as the third volume in the Ambient series in 1980.
The Crystal Suite
On The Crystal Suite, Paul Schütze channels J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World into slow‑burn electronics and guitar haze, rendering time‑sick landscapes where matter ossifies, light fractures, and contemporary collapse glows with eerie, faceted calm.
Quiet Panic
*Edition of 100* On Quiet Panic, Mark Schaub sculpts a slow‑burn tension where stillness never quite settles, his compositions hovering between ambience and unease, finely honed and given extra dimensional depth by Andrea Marutti’s mastering.
Vulcanalia
On Vulcanalia, AX - the solo vehicle of Anthony Di Franco - returns after nearly three decades to his original mandate: vast, beatless torrents of guitar, feedback and electronics, now scaled up into a molten, myth‑drunk monument to Roman fire and stone.
Inside The Dream (LP)
1978 re-issue on Tapioca of one of the masterpieces originally on Pôle Records (Besombes/Rizet, Henri Roger, Pataphonie, Mahogany Brain, Verto... all on the NWW list), a beautiful otherworldly album of cosmic electronic folk and pulsing synthesizer soundscapes from 1975.
Une Éclipse Totale De Soleil (LP)
Very rare original edition on Celluloid of the third album from 1984 by of the most original and unclassifiable musicians of French experimental music, an unsettling masterpiece of musique concrète, sound poetry and experimental folk. NWW list.