Experimental / Musique Concrète

*200 copies limited edition* In 2019, Jérôme Noetinger was invited to join the PIO (Prague Improvisation Orchestra) and there he met Petr Vrba. The chance of touring and musical excitement created this duo afterwards. Petr Vrba works with the trumpet in a very electroacoustic approach with microphones and effects, transforming the instrument into a real generator. Jérôme Noetinger plays magnetic loops on his Revox B77 to metamorphose the sound captured in the moment of its creation. Together the…

Huge Tip! Further Explorations follows on from Gentle Fire’s 3CD retrospective box set Explorations, released in 2020. These new archive recordings came to light in the process of unearthing the tapes for the 4CD box set by their fellow Stockhausen collaborators Intermodulation. The pieces used on this CD are taken from two sessions recorded for German radio in 1973 and 74, one for Sender Freies Berlin and the other for Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt. These beautifully recorded and preserved p…

In the past some reviewers and critics of my series of Ambient / Electronic / Exotic releases mentioned Jon Hassell and even suggested that we should make an album together. That never happened of course and probably never would have. An influence of his music on my exotica music is in some ways true but initially to be honest it was the cover art by Mati Klarwein for Aka/ Darbari/ Java and Dream Theory in Malaya that I would sometimes turn to look at for inspiration. They reminded me of places t…

*300 copies limited edition* Recorded, corroded, degraded, butchered, mixed and edited in Paris between February - June 2023. Hand-made covers, all different, with photos by Antoine Rigaux, Clara Muel, Jean-Charles Delarue, Jim Stickel, Leandro Barzabal, Lucia Bartl and Natasha Nedelkova, degraded with a cocktail of fluids and heat sources.

The terms “nursery rhymes” and “children’s songs” may give rise to visions of idyllic innocence and the charms of childhood, but Play Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs by Tokiyo Ooto & Orhythmo, their first release on EM Records, brings forth quite different aural imagery: this is an eerie and unsettling sonic picture book which hints at the darkness and mystery which form the hidden heart of many traditional songs and rhymes. The length of the songs provides a hint: each piece delves deeply i…

*100 copies limited edition* Very, very broadly speaking, there are two kinds of Nurse With Wound albums: the sprawling, immersive, evolving drone-type recordings - think Soliloquy for Lilith, Salt Marie Celeste - and the wild, surreal freak-outs. A Sucked Orange is a prime example of the latter. Originally released by United Dairies at the end of the 1980s, A Sucked Orange has long been out of print, especially on vinyl. Infinite Fog is beyond happy to bring this singular work back as a 2LP pic…

*2026 stock* Last time, RLW (Ralf Wehowsky—active years ago on P16.D4 and since then releasing a largely uncategorizable brand of noise music across numerous publications) thrilled us on these pages with his album Satanic Inventions. Now, again on Stephen Meixner’s label Black Rose Recordings, the similarly conceptually dense album Fading Pictures is released. In the liner notes, Wehowsky describes the close connection between electroacoustics and Cinéma L’Oreille. He understands electroacoustic…

Discrepant presents the LP edition of Tales from the Source, the original film soundtrack by Bear Bones, Lay Low and Laszlo Umbreit. Originally composed for Belgian-Congolese artist Léonard Pongo’s 2024 film of the same name, this release reworks the film's audio into a continuous, fluid listening experience. The album is built on a direct contrast between heavy electronic manipulation and raw environmental audio. Laszlo Umbreit captured the foundation of the record through field recordings and …

Rudolf Eb.er, founder of Schimpfluch and once Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, in four self-experiments recorded at Om Kult in Osaka in 2026: psychoactive acoustics and cut-up decay on a white 9" lathe cut, thirty numbered copies.

Tip! Jim O'Rourke and Jos Smolders teamed up again after their first collaboration, Additive Inverse from 2021. Over a period of three years, both artists worked in sessions of a day, each in their own studio.The result is sometimes like a warm cloud of sounds, suddenly breaking up into a rhythmic, irregular pattern, after which it dives into introverted mindsets. The music is in constant flux. The project followed the same workflow, but this time Jim took the lead and kicked off with a salvo of…

*2026 stock* Asphere originates from the ongoing dialogue and friendship among the artists Maika Garnica, Aiko Devriendt and Thijs Paijmans, as shared experiences of time and space. The album takes Garnica’s sound objects and their visual aesthetics and sounds, as a ground for musical and audiovisual exchange. Gradually guiding us back into the now, the artists explore the subtle movements in between various spaces: those that arise from the interplay of different languages, the physical spaces …

*100 copies limited edition* Across two decades of restless exploration, Haptic—the trio of Steven Hess, Joseph Clayton Mills, and Adam Sonderberg—has earned a reputation for meticulously assembled recordings and compelling live performances that veer from rigorous minimalism to densely textured, immersive sonic environments. Consistently blurring the lines between different genres and disciplines, their experimental practice has expanded to include installations, soundtracks, and unique site-sp…

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…

*40 copies limited edition* »Know I've Been Here Before« by Dan Gilmore is a suite of eleven songs, based on reassembled and overdubbed audio files recorded between 2007 and 2010. What I hear in these recordings are not only various sound sources such as the guitar, the (self-built) synthesizer, or microphones, not only movements, rhythms, textures, or even harmonies, but also ideas, aspirations, circumstances, a mode of production. It is music that, through association and disassociation, makes…

*300 copies limited edition* Following 'The Sympathy Portal' LP, released earlier this year, 'The Neon Weeps Tonight' was similarly recorded during lockdown and released as a very limited CDr in early 2022 before its being mooted for this slightly edited reissue. This time comprising six compositions, it begins proceedings with Edward in a typically reflective mood that sometimes feels barbed as much as steeped in a yearning for times lost as melodic yet sombre keys assume a haunted quality befo…

Forest Factory is the duo of fellow nomads Elvin Brandhi and Andreas Trobollowitsch. Each using self-made turntables, sampler and voice to create a unique acoustic repertoire, suffusing computational and organic tonalities. Their vinyl debut Holzweg is a compositional amalgamation of recording sessions made in diverse ecosystems: Auditorium Novecento, Naples (2023), Ruang MES 56, Yogyakarta (2024), and their Japan tour in 2024. Redefining themselves in a range of contexts lends fluidity and plur…

The sound of this composition comes from 2 live shows that were superimposed and than mixed with field recordings. The voice sings circular texts. One side is called Além and the other Aquém which means beyond and short of.If you are curious about the lyrics we can share la première strophe of Além The head, banging against the screen, searching for a decapitated cure, promises a Prometheus to the atheist,who didn't even touch the fire.

*50 copies limited edition* Seven musings on death, the afterlife, communication and the musicality of the non-musical, 'Polycrisis Apparitions' is the latest release from Misery Bacon. Misery Bacon is a solo audio project by Luke Drozd, an artist, illustrator and musician based in Bergen, Norway. Following on from 2025's 'Turning in the widening gyre', a release that unspooled over two longform tracks filled with serrated drones, distorted noise and harsh blown-out samples, 'Polycrisis Appariti…

*300 copies limited edition* Reliques de Roses, musical tandem formed by two household names of the European underground: Laure Boer (Edition d’Art, Arbore...) and Tom Val (Orion Music Workshop, HWYUIOD...). Bridging the Berlin-Paris experimental connection, the duo brings us a collection of nostalgia-tainted songs, noisy improvisations and synth-led talk-over songs. A fragile Art-Folk with industrial touches strongly reminiscent of Vox Populi!, Throbbing Gristle, and in more recent times, DIY h…

*300 copies limited edition* More than twenty years of friendship haunt Vrhältnis, the new album by Antoine Chessex and Dave Phillips, out now on Coherent States and Krim Kram. Its source material reaches back twenty years, originating from live performances during a 2005 joint tour in Lausanne and Basel and a studio session recorded the same year at the Dynamo/Popkredit Studio in Zürich. Both sessions were then filed away, the recordings disappearing into the archive, untouched for nearly two d…

*75 copies limited edition* This release celebrates a wonderful night in Edinburgh in April 2024. However (as per usual) the Arttu Partinen set was not recorded so it has been replaced with another recent live recording. This one is from the Skanu Mezs festival in Riga. The whole thing is tied together with the graphic vision of young Oran Paton, from the original poster. On side A, Artsy Records head honcho Arttu Partinen attempts to confound both your expectations & his own as he argues his ca…

With centuries of history, traditional instruments carry physical vibrations shaped by human breath and touch. In contrast, electronic music generates vibrations through inorganic principles such as electrical signals and circuits. When the subtle tremors of traditional instruments resonate with the intricate tones of electronic sounds in an improvised dialogue, performers from distinct realms expand each other’s languages, creating a new sensory experience. The project album Ancient Moment mar…

During a 2016 trip to Colombia, I was very fortunate to be welcomed by the staff of the Rio Claro Natural Reserve, located in the central Cordillera. After several days of recording in the caves—the ones open to the public—inhabited by small colonies of cave-dwelling Guacharos (Steatornis caripensis), Juan Guillermo Garcés, director and founder of the Rio Claro sanctuary, allowed me to access a secret location outside of the reserve, home to what ornithologists reckon is one of the largest known…

Bright Lights, L'il City was recorded from November '22 until August '25 in Chicago, Kilkenny, Cork and Glasgow. Played, Recorded and Mixed by Sam Scranton and Neil Quigley

The Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory (K.E.R.L.) announces the release of the third and final volume of its acclaimed anthology, a richly layered exploration of experimental sound, artistic collaboration, and the cultural phenomena orbiting the enigmatic Kiely cousins, Owen and Tom. Bringing the series to a compelling close, this volume bridges archival research, oral history, and critical reflection, tracing the roots and reverberations of a uniquely Irish avant-garde movement. The b…

A curated collection of music and sound experiments from the archives of the now defunct Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory.

Great electronic/tape pieces realized in 1976 at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and released on the composer's own Finnadar label.

This is my ode to corn in 3 parts, all featuring corn as corn himself. There are 6 pieces composed for 7 handmade instruments, made entirely out of different parts of corn, with some thread and wood glue as well. There is a cornfield recording, taken on a day they were harvesting just under a mile or so away. And there is a musique concrete type of piece featuring field recordings and the instruments. This album was made during my residency at Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska, surrounded by infin…

Textures of belonging, relentlessly woven into the epigenetics, layer upon layer, building palimpsests of human existence that are both fragile and resilient, with nothing but a wobbly strand of DNA. The way our grandparents' experiences spill across our systems, the way their grandparents’ experiences formed them in the first place, like a busy cityscape humming in the background, keeping the flow, making things operate, and despite their physical peril, hearts still flicker and divulge poetry …

"I call it ‘the Shadow Pattern Vignette’. A fragmentary and pleasingly non-discriminatory exercise in audio capture which, when sequenced, compiled or arranged alongside other such vignettes, leads to the finished work of Nate Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern. You can reach into the hermetic depths of his Hamilton Tapes micro label, recent transatlantic appearances via Infant Tree, Chocolate Monk or adhuman, or indeed, this new LP ‘Live at Somewhere’ and find the Shadow Pattern Vignette. Forever in evide…

Mike Cooper returns to Discrepant with »The Dream Island of Birds«. Neither documentary nor abstraction, »The Dream Island of Birds« sits between field recording, memory, and invention — an island heard through time and circuitry. In the early 1990s, Cooper met illustrator and writer Charles van Sandwyk while walking on a small island in Fiji. Van Sandwyk was living there quietly, working from a modest bamboo house near the beach. Years later, Cooper learned that following a serious car accident…

The tracks that make up Fragments of Soaring Vessels are conceived as “sensitive vehicles.” Although they seem quite different at first listen, closer listening reveals multiple points of intersection—often overlapping, sometimes paradoxical. The Inexpressible Feeling of Dereliction approaches an attempt at a sonic transposition of a feeling of emptiness and rupture that may arise in an extreme situation, in which a pious person is confronted with a moment of absolute disillusionment regarding t…

Excellent electro-acoustic album blending modular synthesis and sound processing, released by Spectrum in 1980.

Excellent experimental LP split bwtween short electronic/instrumental pieces and a long evocative musique concrète composition, released by ReR Megacorp in 1989.

Great and underrated obscure experimental 1970 LP on Orion pairing a lovely piece for cello and tape with two truly amazing ear-splitting electronic/tape pieces. Brown labels.

Great and underrated obscure experimental 1970 LP on Orion pairing a lovely piece for cello and tape with two truly amazing ear-splitting electronic/tape pieces. Black labels.

1967 re-press (Allentown) of the second album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting three classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions originally released in 1966.

Original US pressing of the third album on Turnabout's landmark "Electronic Music" series presenting four classic and essential early experimental electronic compositions, released in 1967.

Great album of early electronic / musique concrète pieces realized at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, released by Folkways in 1967 and never re-issued. Mono version with blue labels, with insert.

Excellent compilation of electro-acoustic pieces from the early 1970's by American and Swedish composers, released by Spectrum in 1976.