Huti ゲーム
After a recent output on Moon Glyph, Nicolas Gaunin is back on Artetetra with a new digital EP of tender digital folklore hymns for personal mini-worlds. Known for his composition style centered on interlocking polyrhythms and bidimensional sound fonts advancing the field of a possible 2.0 exotica, in Huti ゲーム Gaunin momentarily abandons his customary musical vocabulary to experiment with an atypical ‘ensemble’ approach: percussions interweave with string samples and synthetic choirs. This chang…
Lahar
LAHAR is the new musical work of Bandung power duo KUNTARI, Indonesia. A deeply atmosferic, bone-melting session of ancestral doom sounds delivered by the contemporary Indonesian primal music specialists. LAHAR is a Javanese term which was adopted in geology to describe a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water. The material flows down from a volcano, typically along a river valley. Lahars are often extremely destructive and dea…
Baboon and Chest
From the frayed edges of sounds that once hummed and the lingering ghost of forgotten amplifier feedback & the unanswered answering machine message echo, Glands of External Secretion return with their most different album until the next one. "Baboon and Chest" is a four-pronged stumble through the usual-yet-unusual and weird-yet-no-weird delightful auditory wreckage. This "collection" stitches together echoes across time, from 1987 to 2025 and from San Francisco and Long Beach then to Edinburgh …
Mechanical Sound Orchestra
1995 release ** "Matt Heckert has been working as a performance and sound artist since 1978. In the 80"s he worked as one of the directors of Survival Research Laboratories building robots and designing soundtracks for the performances and for film. In 1989 he began working on the Mechanical Sound Orchestra, a group of computer controlled mechanical sound instruments. He has presented this in the USA and in Europe since that time, working solo and in collaboration with others."
If It Pleases The Court
2025 stock "Oh joy, oh rapture! Sweet, sharp noise music by the transcontinental trio, the sound of our men’s small wills writ large. Microscopic made big. I mean, to think it’s been nearly half a decade since we’ve heard from these guys! And is this the end of the road? It's different. While their preceding statement focused on strident bandmember solos, If It Pleases The Court sees Zwangsbeglucktertum finally enjoying each other once again, showcasing an energy that can only manifest through i…
Noising Sheng
*60 copies limited edition* Noising Sheng documents Zhang Meng’s attempt to reinvent the Chinese sheng into a noise instrument. Since ancient time, the sheng has been associated with the virtue of “he” central to Confucian ethics, denoting peace, harmony, and conciliation. In the family of Chinese wind instruments, the sheng is a rare member who is able to fix to a certain tune unaffected by playing, and to play multiple notes at the same time. In an ensemble setting, it often functions on the o…
Reflect
2006 release ** Oversized cardboard sleeve. "Square rhythms, flashes of punk-hardcore (almost deviated rock & roll at times, as in "Part 1"), modulated feedback, more than distorted voices (but never invasive), magmatic stasis, dissonances: this is the recipe of Two Dead Bodies, which will be appreciated both by fans of those who today go crazy for Liars and Wolf Eyes, or by those who nostalgically remember God or the schizoid metal of Naked City."
Psychotic Reactions & Lightnin' Rag
2004 release ** "Here an hybrid instrumentation entangling blues and electro-acoustic music re-plays for us the complete history of recorded music. There is no deferred time between the instrument being played and the reworking of the recording parameters. All movements are connected in real time, as close as possible to the body. Hands on the tapes, fingers on the strings, fresh blood is springing, free from conventions, as if to abolish the principle of separation our society is built on. It’s…
Live In Tokyo & Osaka
2004 release ** Art Byington, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Dave Muller, and Jim Shaw wreak havoc in Japan. Live recordings of DAM performances in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, from 1996. This 17 track 72 minute CD contains early revamped DAM classics of 'You Can't Kill Kill' and 'Evil Works' plus many newer exotic oddities like 'Indecipherable' and 'Show No Shame'.
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."
Palace
The electroacoustic composition Palace combines the autobiographical, the carefully stored, the long lost and the accidentally forgotten with the spontaneity of rediscovery and reinvention.
In Palace, I interweave older archival recordings from my time as an Ives-playing pianist, field recordings, accidentally rediscovered leftovers and scraps of my daughter's singing and piano playing, as well as newly created live performed material using oscillators, feedbacks and all of the above – sampled, …
Ganglions
Tip! *2025 stock* "On Ganglions, Badrutt sculpts sinusoidal sounds, internal and external feedback as well as voice inputs and other sources into two pieces of otherworldly music. The release takes the listener into the realm of an arthropod central nervous system and its nerve cells processing tactile and visual information (Supraesophageal). The B-Side – Suboesophageal – showcases a more primitive, destructive approach that could well be aligned with a nerve cluster that processes environmenta…
Sauerkraut
*2025 stock* In 2013, the collaboration of electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt and saxophonist Ilia Belorukov began in a trio with accordionist Jonas Kocher, and in 2014 the album Rotonda was released on Intonema. Since then, time has passed, Badrutt and Belorukov have toured also as a duo, Belorukov later switching to a modular synthesizer.
In March 2019 in Biel/Bienne, the duo fruitfully worked in a new context, looking for fresh ways to interact, not only with each other, but also between ele…
Direct Action
Since their formation in 1977 Mark Perry’s group Alternative TV have moved far away from their more direct punk rock beginnings into all manner of other areas of music that have sometimes themselves drawn from improvisation, free jazz, industrial and electronic music. On 'Direct Action', Alternative TV’s first studio album since 'Opposing Forces' in 2015, we are presented with six instrumental tracks which steadily rip apart all expectations as they shed all allusions to rock music in favour of …
Ceremonial County Series Vol.XIII - Oxfordshire | Derbyshire
*100 copies limited edition* Oxfordshire: The Black Horse Tails by The Grey Funz Derbyshire: The Drowned Village of Derwent Valley by Mark Vernon
- C-30 printed cassette housed in library case - 6x panel reseach note sleeve - Unique OS map cut-out piece - D/L code
Volume 13 in the 24x volume set of ceremonial county cassettes.
Radio Free Alcatraz
2012 release ** Unique hand-made covers. "Fritz Welch approaches his urge to express from many angles, regularly melding drawing, sculpture, text, sound and performance into site-specific installations that lurch at our craven consumerism and the casually accepted madness of the mundane. Texan roots via a long-time residence in Brooklyn spread to his current home of Glasgow, and as well as being exhibited across the US and Europe following his debut in New York’s A/C Project Room, you’ve probab…
Corpse On Horseback
This is a reissue cassette released by Aaron Dilloway in December 2024. (Originally released in 2003). It contains two lo-fi noise concrète tracks.
Dry Lungs V
1992 release ** "Fifth and final installment in a series of industrial noise/experimental albums compiled by Paul Lemos of long-running New York group Controlled Bleeding, released in 1992 by Subterranean Records and Dark Vinyl Records. Features various tracks from Controlled Bleeding and associated projects (Skin Chamber, Fat Hacker and solo works), tracks from a variety of Japanese noise artists including Merzbow, KK Null, Incapacitants, Masonna, etc., plus a variety of other artists and group…
Gehörgänge
2002 release ** "Psygram is Siegfried Fischer (voice, accordion, samples, percussion) and Dirk Grützmann of Temps Perdu? who is responsible for real time audio processing, electronics, loops and engineering. The group started around the same time as Temps Perdu?, with the music focused on surreal ambient-industrial soundscapes and hypnotic live improvisations in a studio setting with influences of electroacoustic music. "All our music is recorded in those magic moments where emotions, dreams and…
Noise And Fury (Noise Music Festival June 15-17, 2000)
2001 release ** "HXA from Chelyabinsk was formed in 1987 by Lev Gutovsky, a graduate of Ural State Conservatory. His ensemble was arguably the only professional musical act in the USSR dedicated to creating music for absurdist theatre and postmodernist happening. By the end of the 1990’s, HXA shrunk to a trio of Lev Gutovsky (voice, electronics), Sergey Belov (trombone, electronics) and Olga Leonova (voices) increasingly focused on modern improvised and electro-acoustic music. Lev Gutovsky is cu…