1988
* In process of stocking * Straight outta Longwy-City (post-industrial helltown in the East Of France), Garbage Collector is a powerhouse of a noise band not a lot of people have heard of. Hence the long-awaited and definitive reissue of their sought-after only LP from 1988, finally available again thanks to Replica Nova. If you were looking for the real chaotic deal, a band that in uenced everyone around Lorraine (from AH Kraken and Noir Boy George to Le Singe Blanc, Dead For A Minute and Feeli…
Confusional Quartet
* Red vinyl, 180gr Vinyl. A milestone * Out of any classification of musical genre, "Confusional Quartet" is a distillation of the creativity and freedom of expression that in 1977 put Bologna at the center of the international cultural scene. This record places the Confusional Quartet in the history of Italian alternative music Futurism with its dynamic force, youthful spirit, attention to innovation and a bit of Italian histrionism; the sixties with their hopeful and playful atmosphere and the…
Peter and the Wolves
Adele Bertei is a poet, writer, actor, performer, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. She entered the downtown New York scene of the late 1970s as organist for musical insurrectionists, the Contortions. Bertei appeared in lead roles in several indie films, notably Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, and has toured with, written songs for, and recorded as a vocalist for artists as diverse as Tears for Fears, Sandra Bernhard, Culture Club, Scritti Politti, Whitney Houston, and Lydia Lunch. Bertei’s fir…
New York City 1980-1984
Stunning debut release from Confuso Editions, a new label operating out of NYC/Rio de Janeiro here venturing into the furthest realms of outsider pop with the first ever public airing of recordings by John Zieman, a student of electronic synthesis at Hampshire College and collaborator with Nam June Paik, John Sanborn, and Dara Birnbaum. Distilling 80s midtown sleaze (digi-saxophones, drum machines, listless ballads), we’re once again reminded of the sheer volume and wealth of outsider brilliance…
Cleveland Confidential
**Shipping the next week. Limited edition translucent orange vinyl**"When I say 1980 was a kind of dead zone in the Cleveland music scene, I can hear a collective, 'Isn't every year a dead zone in Cleveland?' Go ahead, take your Johnny Carson-era jokes and see what they buy you. Puff your chest about NYC in '75 or London in '76 or L.A. in '77 to some 27-something today. Allow me to save you face and remind you to add in late '70s Cleveland. Because when you revisit this comp of struggling, strag…
Night After Night
**Limited edition translucent red vinyl** New York no-wavers Ike Yard are perhaps best known for being the first American band signed to Factory Records, and it isn't difficult to hear why: the group's music has much in common with the existential frigidness of Joy Division and early New Order as well as the mutant noise-funk of Section 25 and A Certain Ratio. That said, the sound of Night After Night, the band's debut EP, is one that could only have emerged from the lawless dystopia of '70s New…
Love
*250 copies** "Yor is a Leipzig outfit formed by artists Nataly, Tony and Susanne. Known in their local scene for their Beach Boys covers and associations with bands like Mosquito Ego, the trio confounded the bleary-eyed audience at KRAAK Festival 2019’s 24-hour experiment with their offbeat no wave that does not shy away from moments of funky reflection or manic free-form detours.On Love, they bounce from energetic bursts of guitar-laden catharses to groovy bass lines designed for a strange int…
Ref. 907
Originally released in collaboration with the historic Italian Records label, this compilation deeply influenced the Italian underground music scene at the time, clearing the road for technological innovations. This pioneering artistic and musical model, cast aside any form of sentimentality, for a more intimate relationship with the electronic universe. In 1981, Absurdo, Eurotunes, Ipnotico Tango, Kerosene and Metal Vox appeared on this compilation by Toni Brillanti, lighting the way for even…
Launderette
First-ever reissue of Vivien Goldman’s legendary „Launderette“ 7“, produced with Adrian Sherwood and Public Image Limited’s John Lydon and Keith Levene in 1981. A strictly limited one-off pressing of 500 copies worldwide. The contrast between Vivien’s high, lilting tones and the deep rumble of the bass is a hallmark of all Goldman’s work, giving a haunting frisson of sex and alienation to songs like “Launderette,” which was produced with PiL’s John Lydon and Keith Levene. Vivien knew John as a f…
Back Ground Music
**2020 small repress** BGM was the very first project by Japanese living legend and electronic music producer Takayuki Shiraishi; the album was released on legendary experimental music label Vanity Records. Now, one of the most demanded alternative music album from Japan is finally reissued on vinyl, remastered from the original tapes by Kuniyuki Takahashi.Shiraishi created Back Ground Music when he was a 17 year old high school student. Wanting to realize his musical vision at the time, he invi…
The Third Ascension
The Third Ascension is a return to the 4-guitar, bass and drums format of his legendary 1981 release The Ascension as well as 2010's The Ascension: The Sequel. The recording is a live performance by The Glenn Branca Ensemble at NYC's The Kitchen in 2016. Emerging from the late 70's No Wave scene and moving into composition, Branca’s 45 years of work as a composer included music for experimental rock bands, large ensemble instrumentals for electric guitars, symphonies for both electric instrumen…
3 E / 11,000 Volts
"The group later known as Mars came together in late 1975 through a chance meeting of those involved. Common obsessions led directly to the music. "We started out jamming on Velvet Underground songs in a loft with Sumner Crane on piano, China Burg on acoustic guitar, myself on bass and Nancy Arlen on paper bags. This rapidly led to abstract expression far from the source. China and Nancy started playing their instruments at the first rehearsal. Sumner and I were self-taught. We all were ready fo…
Mars Archives Volume Three: N.N. End
** 500 copies ** "Barring some miraculous discovery (never out of the question!), "Mars Archives Volume Three: N.N. End" is the final LP in our series of LPs documenting the music of New York's most amazing combo of the No Wave era, Mars. From their more-quotidian beginnings as China, whose sound was influenced by The Velvet Underground and Television, Mars mutated and grew in a variety of nearly unchartable directions. "N.N. End" documents the latter, immaculate stages of the band's destruction…
A Taste Of DNA
First-ever reissue of an important slab by DNA who were among NYC’s handful of influential No Wave iconoclasts documented in the Brian Eno-produced No New York compilation.
Frammenti De Junk
This is the first record by this violent and mythical industrial band Circle X (just before the death of Bruce Witsiepe). Precursor (From 1977) of all New York No Wave groups, they were also famous in the art of performance, pictural arts and teXts. On this mini-CD, they leave a little the industrial kind of music they played before to eXplore more classical roots and put the uneasy singer's voice forward. A less violent but deeper work.' Last copies.
Triptyque
An incredible long out of print 'cult' release either on musical and artistic profile: this project, the second release for the New International (N.I.R.) label, was a suitably absurd, logistically complex and expensive project: A limited edition of 1000 3 X 12″ Lp Box sets were divided up to form a series of 10 X 10 ‘canvas’ made of record covers. Ten painters were commissioned to paint a painting on each of the ten ‘canvasses’ which were photographed and made into ten postcards. the canvases w…
La Bamba
Over 15 years ago Daniël de Wereldvermaarde Botanicus (hat and cacti collector Cassis Cornuta) deejayed a ton of horrible la bamba versions for 2 hours in the now defunct situationist radioshow RTVS (Radio Centraal-Antwerp). The 'galdezen' of RTVS yelled-sung along, creating their own versions of la bamba while getting more and more hammered or naturally gone from a bamba trance! After telling me this short story Daniël mumbled 'I always wanted to dj all night long la bamba, I think it will driv…