Imagery Resonance
Legendary Japanese noise artist Aube on a more ambient aprroack to start with before the maelstrom of blissful droning noise.
Rampton (LP)
Very special legacy 180g limited vinyl of Rampton album by Come proudly reissued by Susan Lawly. The year 1980 saw release of this iconoclastic debut LP, first album on the highly collectible Come Organisation label, and first chapter in the long musical career of a then teenage William Bennett after leaving Essential Logic, which subsequently led to the pure electronic Whitehouse and present-day Cut Hands projects. Also notably featuring synthesiser bass performed by The Normal's Daniel Miller.
The Black Stone – Music For Lovecraftian Summonings
Someone claims that H.P. Lovecraft did not like music. He may have suffered from undiagnosed musical anhedonia, a disorder where a person gleans no pleasure from music or sound. The first story that comes to mind when one thinks of music in the “Lovecraft universe” is The Music of Erich Zann (1921). The music in The Music of Erich Zahn, is the kind of frenetic, and frightening music he had always experienced: [...] It would be useless to describe Erich Zann's music on that horrible night. It was…
Rastros Impensados
** Limited edition of 50 tapes, in fluorescent green edition, includes download code** Aurora Central Records proudly presents Climmma's Rastros Impensados. In the beginning of 2020, four experimental composers from different cities of Latin America got together during an event in Córdoba, Argentina. The event culminated in an intense improvisational jam between the four. One week later they got together to continue in the same vein they had taken during the improvisation, to structure it and re…
Two Fucking Tapes
** 2021 Stock ** Brand new 70 mins blast from the Hair & Treasure crew pressed a double dung casing for your listening (dis)pleasure. Recorded between 2017 - 2019 into Uncle Eddie's VHS player, magik happens inside the Archers boudoir.' In the band’s own words: ‘’A clumsy wife with a tricky nose wants to feel deserving of her husband and a former male beauty pageant winner wants his out-of-place arm implants revised or removed.’’ Artwork by Kenny Hosepipe. Mastered by Danny Garcia.
Total Control Anthems
** 2021 Stock ** Proper doomed "Brexit gush" sonic detritus from Discrepant boss Gonçalo F Cardoso and Alex Jones (not that one). Sound collage, drones and industrial waste - what more do you want? Gonçalo F Cardoso might be prolific, but the Discrepant and Sucata Tapes figurehead is so reliable it's actually hard to keep up. This latest jammer finds him again teaming up with Alex Jones to splice together bizarre news recordings, piano loops, field recordings and radio static, overlaying the sor…
Work Ethics
White Centipede Noise presents Work Ethics by Altar of Flies. A new album recorded in summer of 2020, marking a fresh phase of creativity and passion from this virtuosic artist. An eclectic assortment of bumping, scratching, fluttering sounds blend seamlessly together with his signature heavy tape manipulations. The melancholic and emotionally charged elements found on many Altar of Flies releases are less present here, creating a more ambiguous dry atmosphere, as if sitting wide awake in the ey…
MB I I I
** 2021 Stock. Limited and numbered edition of 100 copies on clear vinyl ** Rotorelief presents MB I I I by Moodie Black. Artwork By – Jamee Varda. Layout – Emeric Guémas. Pressed by Rotorelief Records, this limited edition vinyl comes with the bonus track "Ye. Death (feat. Ceschi)" along with lyric poster.
Scandal
** Matte laminate and embossed sleeve, monochrome print and includes a full colour collage fold out poster from Masami Akita ** Scandal collects together three newly unearthed and revised pieces from Merzbow recorded between 1992 and 1995. Each of the pieces here typifies work that sits at a nexus between the experimental cassette and electronic collisions of Masami Akita’s late 1980s works and the emergent noise language that resolved into a series of now legendary recordings completed during t…
Triwave Pagoda
** Deluxe 40-minute Cassette, limited edition of 150, each with full-color six-panel j-card in clear Norelco case, plus full-color outer o-card featuring collage art by Masami Akita ** "Triwave Pagoda" is a blistering sonic depiction of space travel through rough and choppy atmospheres. Turbulence is ever-present and the cacophonic, dying equipment is about to give out. But the occasional shooting comet is still visible. And behind the controls is an impeccably credentialed master of flight who…
Winter
Kleistwahr is the solo project of Gary Mundy, the legendary power electronic and noise-rock musician who is a founding member of Ramleh and runs the highly influential Broken Flag label. Solemn drones and elegiac long-form passages gird Kleistwahr’s Winter, which often chimes, glistens, and glows through a unhurried constructs for organ, synth, guitar, and electronics. Yet Mundy pivots throughout with triumphant explosions of shrill noise, redlined overload, and harrowingly anguished vocals from…
Okinawa Kaidan: Saya No Yume Ha Yoru Hiraku
** 2021 Stock. Limited edition of 186 hand-numbered copies. Full on-body printing cassette housed into a very special handmade glossy cardboard slipcover sealed with two stickers. ** Xn Recordings presents Okinawa Kaidan: Saya No Yume Ha Yoru Hiraku (Saya’s “My Dreams Bloom At Night”) by Saya Kaidan. Performer – Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, Futoshi Okano, Toshiji Mikawa, Okinawa Electric Girl Says. Producer – Jojo Hiroshige.
Dust of Human Race
Raffaele Pezzella's Sonologyst made it to these pages a couple of times (Vital Weekly 1225, 1194, 1134 for instance) and here is a new one, with a quote from Ovi on the cover "Wherever you look, there is nothing but the image of death" (well, in Latin), which, perhaps, says something about the darker nature of the music. Maybe it is a sign of grim times, but in his previous work, Sonologyst wasn't a bundle of laughs either. As I noted previously, you could think that Pezzella's is gothic, but it…
Nganga
** Edition of 300 ** Reissue of this great album by Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh's longstanding JFK project. Originally released in 2017 by US label Chondritic Sound as a limited run vinyl LP, this reissue features two bonus tracks ('Tenebrae' and 'Star Killer II') that only otherwise appeared on a very limited lathe-cut 7" and catches JFK in a more direct mode than subsequent work, with serrated electronics owing more to earlier excursions jostling for attention next to battlefield beats and a m…
Musick From Madness
**200 copies** Musik From Madness is a collection of previously unreleased material, recorded between 1986 and 1990. Schloss Tegal is an American ambient psychogenic sound project duo consisting of Richard Schneider and Mark Burch, that has existed since the 80s, recording conceptual albums that explore extreme and sometimes morbid subjects. The name comes from a castle outside of Berlin that was one of the first psychiatric hospitals. The castle was destroyed and the patients exterminated durin…
Dirge
** Edition of 200 ** Daniel Menche has yet again utilized a piano to create a vast and immense storm of noise and drones. In 2011 he created a piano noise album titled “Guts” that was the sound of a piano being violently attacked and then electronically treated. Ten years later Daniel Menche worked with a grand piano that was in tune and located in a very acoustically sound studio. With carful elegance and care Daniel Menche wove long horse hairs in between the longest strings of this grand pian…
Theological Genocide
** 2021 Stock. Edition of 250 ** Hospital Productions presents Theological Genocide by Death Squad. Ultimate classic Death Squad debut album! Utmost treble electronic torment, his most "power electronics" type of release! 12 tracks, gatefold covers, all original graphics used! More than simply a band or solo project, death squad combined a highly complex assemblage of writings and visuals with performances full of psychological and physical confrontations never before seen and never since replic…
Incomplete
No Rents Records presents Incomplete by Jim Haynes. Describing his work through the pithy phrase, "I rust things", Jim Haynes (b. 1972) is a California based artist who has developed a vocabulary of decay that he has applied to photography, sculpture, installation, and sound. He has exhibited internationally at institutions such as The Exploratorium (San Francisco), WestSpace (Melbourne, Australia), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Diapson (New York), and The Lab (San Francis…
Kakapo
** Edition of 500 Green Translucent Vinyl. 2021 Stock ** Incomparable noise legend Merzbow releases a dense, flailing black hole of a droning noise track, 33 minutes spread over two sides of green vinyl. Aside from several very limited releases and multiple adventurous collaborations, it’s the first full Merzbow record to be released on vinyl for a couple of years.
Starting with an intense machine hum, “Kakapo” then shrieks, stutters and wails while maintaining the all-obliterating industrial dr…
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* 2021 Stock * "In 1965, eight guys from London, Ontario, decided to start a free-improv group — 'free' to the point of building their own instruments, which they decided couldn't be set up to produce specific pitches... Their vocalist, schoolteacher Bill Exley, banged on a cooking pot and bellowed hilariously about stupidity and destruction and Canada. They didn't treat what they were doing as an advanced, visionary form of experimental music, but as a big, stupid, fun, ecstatic noise. By the '…