Earth Covers Earth
Very rare original 1989 Japanese edition on Supernatural Organization limited to 1000 numbered copies (this is 415) with different cover, including exclusive 7" single with numbered picture sleeve and numbered photo, of the 1988 album featuring NWW's Steven Stapleton, Death In June's Douglas P., Strawberry Switchblades' Rose McDowall and Sol Invictus' Tony Wakeford.
Looney Runes
First CD edition on Durtro of the 1990 album featuring NWW's Steven Stapleton, Death In June's Douglas P., Sol Invictus' Tony Wakeford and Strawberry Switchblades' Rose McDowall.
As The World Disappears...
First CD edition on Durtro of the 1991 album featuring Michael Cashmore and Julie Woods among others.
Island
Very rare original edition on Durtro of C93's 1991 brilliant collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson featuring Tibet, HÖH, Joolie Wood and Bjork. With insert and beautiful cover by Stapleton.
Music From A Room Full Of Synths
We are very happy to present the second installment in our collaboration with SMEM. Dorian Concept spent 10 days at the Swiss Museum for Electronic Music Instruments to record Music From A Room Full of Synths. Even though he doesn't consider himself a "gear-guy," his unique approach led to a record defined by its playful curiosity and free-form arrangements. The entire album was recorded live, with no sequencing or programming involved. Thus, capturing the rawness of the moment, while celebratin…
Locked Grooves
«These highly condensed compositions can be explored like land-scapes: distinct places defined by the forces at play.» - Julian Sartorius
Trunculence
2008 7" compilation of 100 locked-grooves by some 60 artists including Nurse With Wound, in 10" sleeve released in an edition of 333 copies on red vinyl. With insert.
Solid Layers, Deafening Shapes
2016 release ** "A solo percussion album from Francesco Gregoretti, employing traditional instruments and unusual object to create unique audio environment that use predictable rhythmic elements against capricious approaches, giving his playing a personal style fueled by resonance and natural feedback; an album that balances chaotic and structured environments in riveting ways."
Chronopée (2)
2006 release ** "Composing in three phases: First step: the recording of concrete sounds is relentless and the pleasure of caption is incredible and constantly renewed. The stronger the enthusiasm of the initial recording is, more interesting the sounds are once treated. The stronger the echo of that instant is, upon listening, the more musical the variations are. Second step: Transforming this raw sound matter through audio-digital processing and noting the time during which it becomes somethin…
Mimir
2007 release ** "Jim O'Rourke first joined Mimir for Mimyriad in 1992. It was completed and released as the first Streamline CD in 1993. In 1998, a radically remixed and re-edited version was issued as a limited edition Streamline LP. This new CD release contains a remastered version of the Mimyriad LP material and comes in a reworked and updated package. '...peering down, he tried to gauge how close he might be drifting to solid ground, but the darkness made it impossible to judge. He found him…
Mimir
2007 release ** "A completely remixed/reworked version of the first Mimir album which was originally recorded between 1989/'90 and released in 1991: Edward Ka-spel, Andreas Martin, Silverman and Christoph Heemann concentrate on a variety of analog synths and Krautrock guitars: '...immediately after he caught sight of the lights marking the town, he pressed the ejection button and felt himself flung upward with a greater violence than he had expected. For a moment he was enveloped in darkness; th…
Cutting Together Apart
"I imagine that one of the first things I heard in the world was the explosion of a Russian ammunitions factory on the outskirts of my hometown. It blew up the night I was born a new GDR-citizen. I´m not sure I heard a noise when the Wall came down, but it still echoes in my body. The echo contains many frequencies. Some of them sound like Gabber playing in my childhood room over the speakers my grandfather once stole from a Leipzig radio station. Some of them sound like me and my friends runnin…
The Persistence Of Memory (Early Tapes 1990-1993)
Palo Alto is a French group formed in Paris, France in 1989 by Jacques Barbéri, Denis Frajerman, Philippe Masson and Philippe Perreaudin. In their early interviews the group insisted on their musical filiation with Tuxedomoon, and on drawing their inspiration from Made to Measure, a Crammed Discs label. They would later make explicit their interest in bands such as Art Zoyd, The Legendary Pink Dots, Coil, The Residents, Can or Cabaret Voltaire. Science fiction in all its forms is a leitmotiv in …
Javakade 8485
Over the years, we’ve written a lot about the visionary artist, Walter Maioli, many times, highlighting an increasing number of reissue and archival releases that explore the many dimensions of his multifaceted body of work. A central architect of Italy’s singular movement of musical Minimalism, for more than half a century Maioli’s output has remained a constant source of inspiration and awe, entirely carving its own path, while establishing unexpected ties between the ancient world and others …
One (CDr)
2010 release ** "Jim Campbell (aka the preterite) is a turntapelist, for lack of a better term. Inspired by proponents of experimental work with vinyl, early tape and concrete music, Cagean chance practices and both cosmic and free music, the Berlin-based American artist built a one-of-a-kind instrument out of relics of the tape age, his “cassette scratch orchestra”, composed of cast-off phrase trainers, original effects, a re-purposed and prepared analog cassette multitracker and piles of found…
Estasy
2012 release ** "Estasy is the project of Emiliano Maggi, an Italian singer/songwriter who has spent the last couple of years releasing low-key CD-Rs and collaborating with artists and filmmakers in Rome. A lot of the time his live performances with other artists, well-documented on YouTube, are set to spooky visuals, and in those that aren't Maggi wears quite frightening masks. Sure, quite a bit of that does sound like the sort of standard gimmickry rife in 2012, but there's something about Emi…
Ablution
2006 release ** "A collaborative one-track mini-cd from US Tidal (aka David Brownstead, ex-666 Volt Battery Noise, and currently involved in the militan zionist project Barzel) and Dutch Peter Duimelinks (known for his activity in THU20, Kapotte Muziek and Goem), clothed in two splendid photos by Alluvial's own Kevin Wienke. The work is inspired by the Jewish purification ritual, but as the cd gives no further information about that I will stick to the music - which by the way is excellent. "Abl…
Stray Shafts Of Sunlight
2013 release ** "Three pieces recorded live in 2007 but just released. Ultra-quiet approach of electroacoustic improvisation. Guionnet on sax and microphones, La Casa on microphones and laptop, Samartzis on laptop and electronics. All three also play (with) silence. Each sonic intervention is delicated set in relation with what is (and is not) around it. Three sound stories with a thin yet consistent abstract narrative."
Guo1
2017 release ** "GUO is the duo of guitarist and singer Daniel Blumberg (Hebronix, The Howling Hex) and saxophonist Seymour Wright. Both use heavy distortion and extreme amplification which is later processed and manipulated with metal cassettes to create a multi-layered, lacquered object of sinister, fizzing, metallic beauty. GUO1 with text by David Toop, was the beginning of an on-going series of releases that include etchings made by the duo and a piece of ekphrasis from a creative writer res…