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Black Water/Brown Earth
Ivan The Tolerable is the alter ego solo project of Middlesbrough based musical wizard Oli Heffernan. Aside from his solo work as ITT, Oli has played in numerous bands over the years including Year Of Birds, King Champion Sounds with members of the Ex, Detective Instinct, and Shrug, and has collaborated with icons like Mike Watts of the Minutemen, and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.
On Black Water/Brown Earth, Heff called in the help of his Dutch friends Mees and Elsa in King Champion Sounds again and …
Magic Smoke Chords
Assembled and recorded to tape in 2011 by Oli Heffernan.
''A full-stop on my 20's in mixed media.''
Remastered for vinyl in 2024
Sleeve by Ack! Ack! Ack! Design
Cover Photo by C-Dyer
Released by Industrial Coast 2025
Live In London
Recorded live at The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington, London on friday 13th Sept 2024 - between 8pm - 8:37pm
Oli Heffernan - bass guitar, synths, kalimba, drones, arps
Dedicated to the memory of Stan Brakhage: 1933 - 2003
Design by Ack! Ack! Ack! Design
Autodidact
"I recorded the bulk of this record over a weekend in January 2018, in the midst of a very minor breakdown that was to last for prettymuch the entire year. I was living in a big house all on my own, smoking too much and not really seeing any people. Happy days indeed. It was tracked in the back room of 97 Hambledon Road, Middlesbrough using two questionable microphones, a broken HH 100 amp, my friends drums and a Tascam DP08 (that wasn't to see the year out, RIP 2009-2018) When I was done, Robbi…
Wild Nature!
We are delighted to bring you our next entry from the Ivan The Tolerable archive reissue series, 2019’s ‘Wild Nature!’ Originally released on CD by Ack Ack Ack Records back in 2019, the album has now been remastered and repackaged, and will be released on super ltd edition orange wax. Here’s a bit about the album in Oli’s own words.
‘Wild Nature was originally recorded sporadically during the first half of 2019. It started life in one house, then I moved and it was finished in another. I remembe…
Nocturnes
10 new chunks of lo-fi instrumental library-hop - recorded in 2 days in Summer 2024, ‘Nocturnes’ is the first Ivan The Tolerable album of 2025, and the first one made solo by Heffernan since ‘Wild Nature’ in 2019.
Known for his genre-defying and boundary-pushing approach to music, Heffernan – who has spent years experimenting with various styles,instruments and production techniques – has crafted a collection of tracks that defy categorization. The new album is a sonic tapestry of atmospheric li…
Feeling
2025 stock One of the very best records on Garden of Delights, if not the best one in general. Purely psychedelic music. There are no weak parts on the album at all. Only impressive songs played by talented musicians, recorded professionally, and taken from the master tapes. Everything fits together quite perfectly. Fans of early Pink Floyd will thoroughly enjoy the LP. Its style is reminiscent of the late 1960s. All songs, except for the rather catchy "Lory", are very mysterious and reveal thei…
Ardo Dombec
2025 stock After the re-issue of almost all of the legendary Pilz-label records, Ardo Dombec’s one and only LP (Pilz 2021095-2) is now available as well. The intricate rhythms and jazzy touches of this Hamburg band were at the time quite unusual for a label specialised in folk music. The re-issue LP features two tracks, which were then included in a compilation album, and another two songs from a never released Pilz 7” single as bonus tracks. The insert includes a lengthy band story in German an…
Breaks and Juicy Takes
An album of deep-funk, Afrobeat, jazz, and psych by the Finnish band The Blassics on Funk Night Records. Includes some great flute playing on the tracks which works really well with funk.
Vinegar
An impressive psychedelic LP, highly recommended. Comparable to the early Pink Floyd. Unfortunately the only Vinegar release. One of the most wanted German LPs. "An unknown gem from an obscure and innovative band", as the Freeman brothers write. Drawn from the master tapes. With 40-page booklet in LP size. The original album sells for 1000€ in mint condition.
"An unknown gem", with that the Freeman brothers labelled this really impressive work. Psychedelic and mostly instrumental. Like early Pi…
Point Of Eruption
German progressive with symphonic touch featuring Mellotron and flute, good keyboard playing and a fine guitar. Three of the six tracks are instrumentals. Dag Erik Asbjornsen lists the Troya LP in his book "Cosmic Dreams at Play" among the ten best Krautrock LPs of all time. The original album sells for 1000 € in mint condition. With 8-page booklet in LP size.
Drosselbart
"Was Drosselbart a Krautrock band just because they came from Munich like Amon Düül, sang in German and released their first and only album on a major German record label in 1971?
'No,' says Monika Vincent-Gunia aka Jemima, Drosselbart's singer. 'We were the first punk band in Germany. The guys in the band could only play three chords, maybe four, but they were burning with enthusiasm'.
However, Drosselbart's music on the album of the same name has very little to do with the punk of the mid-seve…
Krautrock & Progressive "The Secret Archives"
Our exploration into mysterious Krautrock & Progressive Rock keeps expanding with The Secret Archives, our second collection on vinyl format. We return to the rock sub-genre that has combined complex arrangements and improvisation with fantasy aesthetics and lyrics. Krautrock & Progressive: The Secret Archives digs even deeper into some of it's lesser known artists like Art Bears, Ashkan, Fuchsia and Fruuupp and blends them with some of the most essential names of the genre like Carmen, Affinity…
We Never Lost Control
2025 stock This is the first officially reissue of the 2nd album of legendary German Krautrockband Nine Days Wonder. After falling apart during their fisrt British tour Nine Days Wonder called it a day in 1972 and bandleader Walter Seyffer had to search for a new band. He soon met up with also Mannheim based Michael Bundt's group Medusa, who agreed to join up and became a new incarnation of Nine days wonder. In comparison with extraordinary first album (also reissued in it's original green foam…
Only The Dancers
2025 stock This is the first officially reissue of the 3rd album of legendary German Krautrockband Nine Days Wonder. Originally released in 1974 Nine Days Wonder with their 3rd album took the opportunity to do a recording session at Londons Chipping Norton Studios in September 1974. With guest musicians Dave Jackson on flute and saxes (of Van der Graaf Generator-fame) and keyboarder Steve Robinson (2066 and Then and early-AERA) the album show the band on its musical peak.
The album is richly tex…
Tango Fango
Over the last five decades, Krautrock forerunners Guru Guru have been breaking boundaries, experimenting with free jazz, rock’n’roll, Indian, South East Asian and African rhythms and scales to create their own brand of psychedelic cosmic rock. Guru Gurus’s most iconic album now available on 180g crimson vinyl
Featuring guitarist Roland Schaeffer making his band debut, Tango Fango was recorded by Guru Guru’s favourite sound engineer and co-producer, Conny Plank, who managed to create an almost ‘l…
Journey Into a Dream
F. G. Experimental Laboratory means Frédy Guye, an artist from the French speaking part of Switzerland who fiddles with sound. Every instrument is played by himself: the organ, the synthesizer with its additional gadgets, and the electric guitar. Yet, he doesn't sound like Mike Oldfield at all, but sometimes rather like Klaus Schulze. F. G. Experimental Laboratory plays a musical mix of electronic and classic which is as unusual as exceptional. In 1975 he released an LP on his own edition Frédy …
Ralf & Florian
*2025 reissue* Ralf and Florian (original German title: Ralf und Florian) is the third studio album by the German electronic band Kraftwerk. It was released in October 1973 and it saw the group moving toward their signature electronic sound. This work introduces greater cleanliness in the sounds and intensifies the use of electronic instrumentation, namely synths (Mini Moog, the EMS AKS and Farfisa), drum machines and, for the first time, a prototype vocoder. The formation thus approaches the st…
Issue 81 (Magazine)
Cover article: Choice French Label Classics: Arcane & Cryptoplus: Twilight Of The Alchemists - book review, Arbete och Fritid & Archimedes Badkar - Scandinavian fusion legends 8, David Borden and Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - interview, Irish progressive rock, 25 questions with Benoit Widemann interview, Supersister archive, labels: Empreintes Digitales, Modulisme, Buh Records, Cardinal Fuzz, Syngate, Whitelabrecs, Blue Matter, die Schachtel, reviews: Dr space, Elephant9, Supersist…
New Age Of Earth
Comes in mini LP replica with OBI & Japanese insert. With his first solo album, which was originally released in 1974, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel) laid the foundation for many other upcoming works. In fact, the guitar was invented here, for his play on the three epic tracks are years ahead of its time: Circular, flat, layered loops and improvisations create a compelling, hypnotic atmosphere and make this album in retrospect a landmark of new guitar culture. The album was completely remaste…