M21
Underpinning the foundation of “M21” are some incredible low frequency drones created by amplifying the hum from portable record players. Ugly contact sounds from touching the arms, noise and scratches: all kinds of sounds fly past, warped into a tough, tenacious sound world.
"So this is how you push turntables into revolt! Divorcing them entirely from their original purpose, into a repeating infinite amplification of motors (rotation) and cartridges (contact). Essential!" - Otomo Yoshihide
Orpheus Prayed For Me
In 2021 The Weirdo From Another Planet, known to family and friends as The Craven Wizard, announced that he had been dead since 2017. Musicologists, concerned with what would become of the legacy of the polymath artist and winner of the illustrious "World's Saddest Turntablist" prize, sifted through the droves of recordings he left behind. Of the 900+ songs in The Weirdo's archives, the team in charge of the project decided to delete all but 11, which are gathered here. This material serves as a…
Duo-1
*2023 stock. 400 copies limited edition* Improviser Junji Hirose is not just a sax player; in the 1980s he started playing the SSI (self-made sound instrument), which he created by combining numerous devices and everyday objects from which noise sounds are produced in a scattered way. In 1989, Hirose recorded the SSI/turntables duo album "Silanganan Ingay" with Otomo Yoshihide and released it independently as an LP. Three decades later, in 2022, a new SSI/turntables duo album by Hirose and Otomo…
Solo Works 1 Guitar And Turntable
This album is a collection of 20 solo guitar and turntable improvisations performed and recorded by Otomo Yoshihide in his home studio in March 2023. Otomo has released solo guitar and turntable works in various forms in the past, but this is the first time he has recorded an entirely improvised studio performance. This will also be the first time that Otomo himself has illustrated the jacket.
吉祥寺
*2023 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Collaboration between Ken Ueno: Extended voice & megaphone and dj sniff: Turntable & electronics. Recorded December 20, 2017 at GOK Sound, Tokyo. Recording & mixing by Yoshiaki Kondo.Cover Art: 北山Q男
False Currency
*100 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Tsss Tapes presents False Currency by Clinton Green and Ian Andrews. Recorded in Melbourne and Sydney using automatic/aleatory systems, 2021-2022
La vie des objets
*100 copies limited edition. In process of stocking.* Dinzu Artefacts presents La vie des objets by Charles Barabé. Kaleidoscopic textures of crackling noise and subterranean drones woven from a ubiquitous 'silence.' Vinyl records sampled and processed through a modular system further isolating and magnifying the sound.
Bolzplatz
**Limited and hand-numbered to 300 copies ** Four tracks on a 10”, one track each side at 33rpm and two others in a different groove at 45rpm. Bolzplatz – a green field, a place somewhere behind an old industrial building, beside an acher, in the backyard of an agglo. No-man’s-land for kids skipping school, to kick, move, run, play and foul. Near darkness for dealers, bored teenagers, village-youth with their mopeds. Everything is in its own rhythm – in the grass, the puddles, on broken asphalt,…
Mosquitoes and Crabs
Chulki Hong, turntables, guitar, electronics. Will Guthrie, drums, percussion, electronics. Recorded by Taku Unami, Mullae Arts Village, Seoul, South Korea, 20-22 October 2016. Mixed and edited by Taku Unami.Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer/percussionist living in France. He works in many different settings of music: live performance, improvisation and studio composition using various combinations of drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification and electronics. Born in 1976, Hong Chulki …
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After more than ten years of making music with turntables, tapes and loops the swiss based musician, artist, performer and architect Christoph Hess started in 1998 the project Strotter Inst. to concentrate just on the manipulation of turntables not using any records or sounds made by someone or something else. Strotter Inst.rument's machineries have dual roles as objects and as instruments. The first live impact is as installations, then the sounds start to grab the listeners' attention. The aud…