Experimental / Psychedelic

It’s past being a commonplace—it’s probably in The Simpsons, etc. —there’s the one dancer at a show who doesn’t care. They aren’t necessarily older than everyone else, but that’s what comes to mind. Whether they are high or not is made irrelevant by their dancing, which is both highly personal and in Haight tradition. The kind of eye contact that’s made about the dancer changes, with the age of the showgoers, from an entertained not quite derision that helps build a faith in the non-dancing ways…

"Flam" kicks off with a cinematic drone, followed by what sounds like water torture droplets, and a cacophony of clocks, and music boxes from childhood, and maybe something underwater. Something like a title arrives on the aural screen as GTD get down to the kind of business we love them for: that querying conversation between Steve Gunn’s guitar and John Truscinski’s drums and percussion, though here they venture into new territory, as Steve explains— “This 'Flam' session was open and experimen…

Each composition on Padesip, the debut project from Brussels-based electronic artist Gijs Milius, splices together disparate ways of seeing and hearing. Though most of the songs are between 2 and 3 minutes long, they feel rich, embodied, and surprising, full of left turns and tiny moments of tension that you want to comb through the composition to hear again. Listening to these curious and tactile compositions feels a bit like using a viewfinder toy to flip between images of lakes, canyons, and …

Vanishing Twin's new album pieces together daily recording sessions swapped between rural France and London: a playful collage of postmodern songcraft where the trio trade instruments and roles.

Clawhammer banjo meets synthesizers, loops and pedal steel: Allison de Groot and Nashville's Rich Ruth turn a planned solo record into a shared album of cosmic, tender instrumental music.

Boris and Michio Kurihara reunited at Tokyo's Fever club on 29 December 2018, playing nearly all of Rainbow plus Boris pieces, Kurihara solo songs and covers. Live sound by Soichiro Nakamura of White Heaven, on 2LP in a gatefold sleeve.

Boris and Michio Kurihara of Ghost and White Heaven first joined forces on Rainbow in 2006. Drag City now issues it on vinyl for its 20th anniversary: heavy psych, droning jams and short pop songs, in a tip-on sleeve with a vellum lyric insert.

Three Lobed and Sunburned Hand of the Man have a long history. The label has been releasing the group’s output for nearly two of its three decades of making music. As Sunburned has picked up momentum again in recent years, the label’s been right there, releasing the highly acclaimed "Pick a Day to Die" in 2020, and in late 2022 reissuing a 20th anniversary edition of "Headdress", the classic and confounding first Sunburned LP. Label head Cory Rayborn acted as the catalyst for storyteller Kelly D…

*50 copies limited edition* Surrealist artist Hazel Cline deciphers wings of sapphire on the illusory screen of human eyes. Asymmetrical images harpoon jewelled fragments of bird skeletons changing into circling swarms of bees.

A Kind Of Magic by Astral Syndicate, led by Tommaso Ristori: drone flows, falling percussion and dreamlike voices across five psychedelic pieces. Limited edition cassette on Tocco Magico.

Long overdue reissue of the first Windy & Carl album and first ever vinyl pressing. Originally self-released by the duo as a cassette in 1994, Portal set the template for their singular sonic explorations to come. “…ethereal soundscapes that will transport the listener to other plains of reality.” —Acid Test! “Carl layers willowy guitar arpeggios, foggy keyboards, and chimes over Windy’s murmured intonations and rippling basswork. Everything sounds fresh and unaffected in the careful hands of th…

This is the sound of dream Texas, the cinematic Texas conjured in film and 20th century literary and art myth… big dark blueing horizons swallowing the infinite distance, a lonely poetry of sound, but also a stock taker of the iconoclastic, psychedelic, art rebel side of Texas… the cracked rock music side of Texas, the avant-garde in concrete cracks, the recklessly used, mind expanding drugs Texas, the dripping eastern swamps, the Houston house parties with the sounds of records blasting down th…

By the end of the 1960s, Charles Lloyd was one of the biggest names in jazz. His quartet with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette reached far beyond the usual jazz audience, while Forest Flower became one of the first jazz recordings to sell a million copies. In 1970, at the height of his career, Lloyd disbanded the quartet and withdrew to Big Sur. He continued to make records from time to time, but largely disappeared from the jazz scene while following a more inward and spiritual pa…

Scottish composers Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman are back with a new collaborative soundtrack album, 'House With A Curse'.

*200 copies limited edition. 5 different cover designs—all outer and inner sleeves are unique // Two 30x30 cm inserts + 4-page lyric sheet + A4 "History of Ashburn County"* Ashburn County is a French-American project that emerged in Louisiana in 2011. Coming out of the mind of Leroy Delbert Quebedeaux, these songs and soundscapes have been telling the stories of the inhabitants of this imaginary county set in the remote rural parts of the Deep South. Inspired by literature and cinema, this music…

Tip! *2026 much needed repress!!* Thorn Wych is a musical instrument maker and musician based in the Lancashire town of Bacup, specialising in work made from tree branches. Particular to her interest are UK native trees; so far Wych Elm, Lime, Wild Cherry, Oak, and Yew. With these unique instruments, crafted in her backyard workshop, she creates music that evokes memories of an unknown world—out of sync with time and place and beyond the boundaries of the material realm.  Her pieces consist main…

*100 copies limited edition* Written, recorded, mixed, and produced entirely by Bessel, Illusion of an Inland Ocean expands the worlds of Visitation (2023) and Mirror at Night (2025) into his most expansive and mysterious work to date. His recent work has received international recognition from publications including SPIN, The Big Takeover, Various Small Flames, Post-Punk, Mystic Sons, Obscure Sound, Destroy//Exist, and others, establishing him as a distinctive voice at the intersection of ambie…

*2026 stock* "When two desert ecosystems collide, the arid terrain blossoms with thriving biological and geological diversity, generating the feeling of existing in two superimposed universes at once. It is deeply appropriate that Cecyl Ruehlen and Derek Monypeny–living, respectively, in the Sonoran and Mojave deserts–would meet at High Desert Soundings festival in Wonder Valley, CA, not far from where those vast southwestern deserts converge. This fated introduction, along with the duo’s shared…

In August 2022 the Australia-based, French born new age musician and electronic music composer Ariel Kalma was invited to participate in BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction series of special collaborations. The program pairs artists who have not previously worked together to create new music cooperatively. Kalma was quick to suggest working with two musicians whom he had never met – International Anthem recording artists Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, whose critically-acclaimed duo debut Recordings …

"Was it a dream or a memory? The images are hard to grasp in your mind. You can recall the surroundings, though it feels like you have never been here. Jamais vu, you read about it somewhere. There is a table and on the table food, almost all eaten. Saliva grows soft in your mouth as you stare at this last piece on the plate. It seems to stare back at you. Are you alone? Or are there others? You see men of retirement age, who spend their time watching, with hands clasped behind their backs, offe…

Offerings is a new project from Bruno Silva (Ondness, Serpente) and Gonçalo F. Cardoso (Lagoss, Prophetas, Hannibal Chew III). Born from a shared obsession with the peripheral—rain puddles, empty city spaces and the flickering crawl of late-night credits—the album occupies a stalled threshold; a space that refuses to resolve into a clear image. It does not strive for the "new" nor the "old"; it exists in a state of suspension, like end credits that refuse to roll, fixed in a permanent noumenal s…

*200 copies limited edition* The sun sat high above the desert outside Joshua Tree on October 17, 2024, baking the rocks and shrubbery outside the Farrington Observatory as a small group of invited guests ventured up a steep path towards the telescope. Kyle Simon, the artist and printmaker who founded the Observatory, was standing outside the print studio sat below the towering cylindrical building, greeting friends alongside his wife Sarah and lifelong friend Brian Weitz, the musician widely kn…

Second An'archives album from Tokyo trio archeus - Keiko Higuchi, Shizuo Uchida and Tomo - recorded in a single day in Koenji, with guest Kiyotaka Moriuchi on two pieces. Free improvisation moving from dense noise to near-silence. Edition of 290 with silkscreened jacket and obi.

First vinyl album by Tokyo duo la scène 裸身. Three unhurried songs moving between slowcore, acid folk and psychedelic drift, with Saya's voice, Eiji's guitar and guest playing from Hiroshi Kurosawa. Issued by An'archives in 290 copies with silkscreened jacket, obi, inserts and postcard.

On Séance of Sleep II: La lévitation de Shéhérazade, David Wunder Brägger turns folk memory, analogue circuitry and microtonal drift into a slow‑burning dream ritual. Droning fiddles, handmade electronics, metallophones and vintage organs rise together, making an ambient record that feels at once archaic, futuristic and gently unmoored from waking time.

On Telegogue, Charlie Thall detonates a 29‑minute, eleven‑track riot of cartoonishly surreal genre‑mashups that feel born and bred in the infinite remix lab of the digital DIY. Frenetic keys, MIDI drums and warped child voices collide into neurotic, hyper‑danceable earworms that treat the internet’s trash heap as sacred compositional mulch.

On Slow Diet Ketamine Era, New York City Chapters and Weird Shit U.S.A. 2 yank sampledelia into a sleazy, rubble‑strewn mixtape fever dream. Two thirty‑minute collages of chopped‑and‑screwed B‑side rips, plundered dollar‑bin grooves and neon grime‑slime hip‑hop loops sketch a pitch‑black, hysterical fiction from the sidewalk’s ignored edge.

On A Body of Water, Kaloja - the duo of Jan Anderzén and Paul Wilson - summon a strangely pastoral, hyper‑alive electronic ecosystem. Psychedelic synthesis, physical modelling and impressionistic sound‑painting converge into abstract figures that ripple through an unstable yet welcoming landscape, like sentient currents moving beneath a calm surface.

Fifteen years on, Lee Noble's cult bedroom classic No Becoming returns to vinyl in a 2026 remaster on Primordial Void: eight ghostly lo-fi hymns of analog synth, harmonium and tape, poised between hauntology and New Weird America. Remastered by A.F. Jones, limited to 200 copies.

The Sun City Girls were unlike any band before them or that has come in their wake. Their catalog, their ethos, their *being* - you name it, with the Girls that “it” was singular and became legend. This singularity started early and extended to their release schedule and the means behind the same. While the band would prove to be wildly prolific throughout their existence, during their nascent days they quickly realized that they could not be contained by any sort of traditional label schedule. …

The Sun City Girls were unlike any band before them or that has come in their wake. Their catalog, their ethos, their *being* - you name it, with the Girls that “it” was singular and became legend. This singularity started early and extended to their release schedule and the means behind the same. While the band would prove to be wildly prolific throughout their existence, during their nascent days they quickly realized that they could not be contained by any sort of traditional label schedule. …

2025 stock Black vinyl. Here we have the third solo LP by London's Alison Cotton, following on previous successes, All Quiet at the Ancient Theatre (FTR 424LP, 2019) and Only Darkness Now (FTR 564LP, 2020). And as with each of Cotton's projects it is a stylistic advance as well as another example of her dark signature sound. Alison's work with bands is well documented by recordings with Saloon, 18th Day of May, Trimdon Grange Explosion, and her current, ecstatic folk/psych duo, The Left Outsides…

Big Tip! These three previously unreleased tracks reflect the cultural influences of a very young Riccardo Sinigaglia. In particular, the Anti-psychiatry movement founded by Ronald David Laing, author of the influential books The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise. As well as Jung's theory of archetypes, a subject explored in depth in the writings of Elémire Zolla. The compositional processes of concrete music are fundamental, while the extensive use of fragments from other cultures…

*Coming in a hand made & screen printed box* Hey, did I ever tell you about that time when things are going ok. When the music is never over, and stars are crushing down on you. Since I was little, I come to this music store every chance I got. I sneak in through the alley. I still make this trip a lot. Some weeks ago, during a trip, they played this “A Mistake by Mistakes” cassette tape compilation, out on that enigmatic Berlin, Neukölln based label Kashual Plastik. Sick folk-not-folk-modern-fo…

*10 copies limited edition* Taking its name from a mythical region in modern-day Zimbabwe, loosely translated as “land of tall grass”, Guruuswa is a roughly hewn piece of freely improvised psychedelia and a significant renewal of a decades-long musical partnership.Recorded live at Dash The Henge in London, the performance features Fr33zehead label collaborator Andi Jackson on taishōgoto and effects, alongside Beanie Bhebhe on drums and percussion. The piece opens with gently cascading, luminous …

** Split 7”, Edition of 100 machine numbered copies w inlays ** Unexpected but needed split 7” between the Swedish tape loop & analog synth trio Organ of Corti and San Francisco guitar master Bill Orcutt! The OOC track is a dive deeper into their rather confusing, psychedelic and eternal sound. A true creeper. Orcutt is doing a repetitive guitar attack which is a very addictive piece. So, warning.Organ of Corti was formed in 2022 by Dan Johansson (Sewer Election, Enhet för Fri Musik), Mattias Gu…

From The Edge is a long-form musical work shaped by the acoustics, history, and atmosphere of Dover.

Do you remember when albums used to be fourteen tracks long, with clear song structures and a sense of narrative development? No? Neither do we. And that is exactly why Artetetra is thrilled to welcome Orange Car Crash in their roster with their new album Fake Man. Shaped by years of circulation across psych, jazz, punk, and experimental scenes, featuring collaborations with projects like Lay Llamas, Mamuthones and Snüff, Andrea Davì’s Orange Car Crash operates less as a solo project and more as…

On Obscure Residue, Dimples - the bicoastal duo of Greg Hartunian and Colby Nathan - sharpen fifteen years of friendship into bittersweet, uptempo pop where orchestral arrangements lift codeine‑dream melodies while lyrics circle time, scars and the quiet truth that some currents just turn you around.

Very rare second album of mysterious psychedelic electroacoustic/noise music by the wonderful Kangaroo Kourt (later Mauve Sideshow and several different names), self-released on Castle Records in 1987 with hand-painted title on back sleeve. Fantastic.