Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:16:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
The Grouch’s sophomore album from 1996, “Nothing Changes”, gets its first ever vinyl edition. Being a founding member of the Living Legends crew, The Grouch has made his name from the mid-90’s on as one of the leading artists out of the flourishing West Coast Underground scene. All independently, all DIY. We at hhv.de are very excited to finally get his full back catalog out on vinyl, for the first time ever!
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:16:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
From Hempstead, Long Island, representing an area that boasts some of rap history’s most iconic giants (Eric B & Rakim, Public Enemy, EPMD, De La Soul), Roc Marciano will settle for nothing less than greatness. After a long history with Busta Rhymes and The Flipmode Squad in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, Roc found himself in limbo without a solo deal. Undaunted, Roc continued to record at his Long Island home studio which became the meeting grounds for his brain child The UN.
With his solo debut on Fat Beats Records, and collaborating with some of the new producers in the game (Marco Polo, DJ Babu and The P Brothers), Roc plans to show the world his raw lyricism and production savvy. “I just remember sitting next to the radio trying to tape Marley Marl’s Rap attack” adds Roc. “It was all about Rakim, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Granddaddy I.U all of that. Back then whoever was the nicest on the mic had to get dealt with. You couldn’t just be talking about anything on the mic. That was millions of blunts ago. I wanna bring a little of that feeling back.” With songs like “Snow” and “Thug’s Prayer” he is well on the road to doing just that.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:16:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
The Instrumentals versions of this bonafide hip-hop classic are finally available, remastered off the original studio sessions. The artwork has been fully restored and expanded, to deliver a deluxe and heavyweight release of pure quality.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:16:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
The Grouch’s debut album from 1995, “Don’t Talk To Me”, gets its first ever vinyl edition. Being a founding member of the Living Legends crew, The Grouch has made his name from the mid-90’s on as one of the leading artists out of the flourishing West Coast Underground scene. All independently, all DIY. We at hhv.de are very excited to finally get his full back catalog out on vinyl, for the first time ever!
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:16:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Diggin’ In The Crates crew are back in the studio, their own studio at that, and the result is their first new album in 15 years. 15 tracks deep, this album features lyrics and production by all members of the crew, including a few new affiliates. Highlights include a return to the microphone by Lord Finesse on the banger “Rock Shyt”, Fat Joe returning to this legendary Bronx crew and DJ Premier production on “Connect 3”. This album was designed to be the first of many new releases coming out of their new headquarters and label, DITC Studios.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:38-07:00April 20th, 2018|
October Language is the debut album by New Orleans based duo Belong, comprised of Turk Dietrich and Mike Jones. Since its release in early 2006, Belongs debut masterpiece has accumulated a dedicated cult following, with comparisons to the work of Christian Fennesz and Gas, with some claims that it plays like My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless (1991) sans the songs. While these comparisons are useful for filing this album into a particular bin in the record shop, time has proven thatOctober Language is a unique album which remains unmatched by its contemporaries. Despite the warm and welcome accolades of the albums arrival, there was no vinyl pressing until 2009, of which a limited one-time pressing vanished immediately. Spectrum Spools present a pristine vinyl cut to go with reimagined album art for the definitive edition of this legendary classic. Includes download card with three extra tracks from the impossibly rare Tour EP from the same era (2006). These tracks are exclusive to the vinyl purchase and are not available through digital outlets.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:38-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Mental Experience present a reissue of Wild Havana’s self-titled album, originally released in 1977. Obscure Dutch private pressing of laid-back instrumental psychedelic/progressive sounds with jazz-funk-groove and abstract/experimental/Latin-indigenous touches. Stoned homemade atmosphere with treated/distorted electric and acoustic guitars, flute, electric piano, primitive drum machines/homemade electronics… Much in the vein of the experimental-underground scene of France and Germany during the early ’70s but actually recorded and released in Holland. Wild Havana was the project of guitar player Johan Smith, helped by his brother Cor on flute. Influenced by artists like Zappa and Herbie Hancock, Johan recorded the Wild Havana album at his home studio on a 4-track, using effect devices developed by himself, like a modified proto-drum machine taken from a Hammond organ. He also used effects like phase shifter, chorus, etc. and experimented with putting wool on the guitar strings and electric effects on the mandolin. The result sounded like nothing else at the time. Buried for many years, we’re excited to bring to life this unique album. RIYL: Herbie Hancock, Richard Pinhas, Christian Boule, Orexis… Insert with liner notes by band memberJohan Smit. “…a beautiful, strange psych-prog LP with abstract compositions ,experimental edges and some funk hints” –Mutant Sounds
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:38-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Limited edition color vinyl. Acid Cream marks the fuzzy comeback of Killer Boogie. Gabriele Fiori and Luigi Costanzo are joined by the new bassist Nicola Cosentino on this 11-track long trip. The new album is inspired by the crazy days of the late ’60s and the ’70s, with a pinch of proto-punk and proto-metal feeling in the sound of this incredible sophomore album. This album is filled with riffs that will please all fuzz and muff lovers. The vocals have both a vintage melodic touch and an aggressive punch. Fast and heavy songs get mixed with catchy and happy ones. From shorter and direct tunes to some with long and changing parts, the power trio gives the listener an easy yet rocking and rolling listening experience. This album, recorded in the summer of 2017 and mixed in the fall, includes new riffs and grooves following the footsteps of MC5 and Cream, together with a bunch of songs played live for a long time and never recorded before. All the tasty licks, the raw sounds and the light-hearted atmospheres are perfectly described by the trippy artwork of the Swedish artist Robin Gnista.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:38-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Another indispensable compendium of the great French experimental artist’s musical opera. With this four-LP box set of fully unreleased archival materials, Ariel Kalma ideally retraces the map of his own path and spiritual journey during the ’70s. Some of music contained in Sarasvati Planet Ariel, Planet Air,Ascend Descend, and Astral Cathedral are born as sound environments for group therapy sessions that carrying healing, trance, and relaxation. The occult and arcane music of Kalma awakens consciousness, expands chakras, sculpts memory indelibly, appears to encompass all the emotional aspects of the universe, and brings its listeners back to the archetypal moments of creation. What is most impressive is the variety of atmospheric stimuli, the rich source of inspiration and compositional mastery. The solemn, triumphal and liturgical, meditative and ascending tone of celestial chapel organs and harmonium, the darkness of Farfisa and Yamaha PS-30 lunar and spectral sequences, the exotic oriental breath of circular dances transfigured and dissolving by the specular shapes of the Wasp Synth… everything converges to the purity abyssal of eternity sound. The melodic and harmonic phrases of sax always reveal a deep song, while the solar blow of flute gives elegiac moments of Debussyian flavor as bucolic recalls of fauns from Eden’s lost. Listeners will be struck by equinoxial and solstitial lights, in perfect balance between flares and shadows, nature and galactic procession. Kalma’s sensitive ear is expressionist, almost a possible scenario for astral architectural utopias of visionaries such as Hablik, Taut,Steiner, or Poelzig; it absorbs and re-reads in a personal way some insights of the cosmic psychedelia of the early ’70s such as K. Schulze, Heldon, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh. The music is fully unreleased, with only a few tracks being different versions of previously released tracks.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:38-07:00April 20th, 2018|
One of France’s premier ye-ye singers, France Gall passed away in January of this year, almost exactly a half-century after the release of her seventh LP 1968. Including songs penned by Serge Gainsbourg,David Whitaker and her father Robert Gall, this collection of chansons is a good one to have knocking about in case you ever start feeling Gallic. Reissued by Blue Wrasse.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:38-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Includes insert with liners notes; Includes download card. Continuing with their reissue campaign of the Toby Robinson’s Pyramid label catalog, Mental Experience now present Temple’s self-titled release. Probably the most “rock” sounding of all the Pyramid titles, Temple were an ad-hoc outfit born out of several late-night sessions at Dierks Studios (where Toby was working at that time), involving local friends of Toby and other musicians from adjoining studios, among them Zeus B. Held (Birth Control). Temple played a kind of heavy, dark psychedelic krautrock with ahead of its time proto-Goth vibe. Loud guitars, Hammond, Mini-Moog, Mellotron, distorted and echoing vocals, effects… RIYL: Amon Düül II, Hawkwind,Birth Control, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Emtidi… 24-bit remaster from the original tapes; Insert with liner notes byAlan Freeman (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg); Includes download coupon.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:38-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Mondo Groove present a reissue of Azoto’s Disco Fizz, originally released in 1979. Azoto is a project by Celso Valli, one of the most important exponents of Italo-disco. He pioneered the whole Italo sound, with incredibly ahead of their time productions going right back to the ’70s. Disco Fizzcontains “San Salvador”, one of the most covered disco tracks of all time, which has reared its head under countless of remixes and cover versions, however if you dig a little deeper this album is packed full of incredible and timeless Italo disco: “Anytime Or Place” literally jumps out the speakers to get you moving, while “Exalt-Exalt” showcases their take on the darker side of electronic disco. Disco Fizz bridges traditional disco from the American ’70s with the space-age synthesizer/vocoder-powered Italian brand of disco that was beginning to invade with new innovations at that time. A must-have for any DJs.The record is officially reprinted on LP for the first time from the original master tapes.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
No artist has emerged from Minnesota this decade and walked his own private catwalk quite like Prof. After spending the early part of the 2010’s building a strong local following, his subsequent signing to Rhymesayers Entertainment and the release of his landmark 2015 debut, Liability, helped propel him to the next stage of his career. For example, his annual self-headlined Prof Outdoors festival has repeatedly sold out a 4,000+ capacity each year. While there’s been a perception that the eccentric Minneapolis MC is out-of-control, Prof’s undeterred, unwavering commitment to his fans reveals the craftsmanship behind the perceived chaos. Today, as his latest album title states, the newly sophisticated Prof is more accurately referred to as Pookie Baby.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Grammy award-winning American Roots band Old Crow Medicine Show return with their latest studio album, Volunteer. The album was recorded at the historic RCA Studio A and produced by Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson). Since the release of their last Grammy-winning studio effort Remedy, Old Crow Medicine Show has taken their versatility to another level, by not only reinterpreting Bob Dylan’s seminal album Blonde On Blonde, but also collaborating with pop sensation Kesha. Volunteer is yet another fine example of how Old Crow Medicine Show remains one of the most vibrant and forward thinking traditional bands of their time. The songs on Volunteer illustrate themes that resonate far beyond Old Crow Medicine Show’s diverse fan base, while also showcasing the depth in the group’s songwriting. The band’s recent accomplishments demonstrate that they still have the hunger to evolve and thrive in a variety of musical settings. While trends in music have come and gone, Old Crow Medicine Show has maintained their sense of integrity, continuing to share their infectious hybrid of traditional mountain music wherever they go.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Vinyl reissue of Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son – the fourth album by France Gall where she is accompanied by Alain Goraguer and His Orchestra. It was originally released in April 1965. The album documents her rise as a teenage pop icon. The hit density isn’t quite as high as on her follow-up Baby Pop, where almost every song is a certain winner. Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son, Sacré Charlemagne and especially Laisse Tomber les Filles are instant winners and had been highly successful as singles and on EPs.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
This album is the definitive collection of Gallic girl France Gall’s upbeat, irresistible girl pop, recorded for Phillips 1963-1968. She won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with Poupée De Cire Poupée De Son, written specially for her by the legendary cultural icon Serge Gainsbourg. She was the first pop singer he’d written for. Made in France: France Gall’s Baby Pop includes all the songs Gainsbourg composed for France Gall, bringing them together for the first time outside France. It’s also the first time Poupée De Cire Poupée De Son has been released in the English-speaking world since the 60s. As well as satirising Swinging London on Made in France Gall brought her naive magic to subversive Gainsbourg songs like Teenie Weenie Boppie” (about LSD) and Les Sucettes (a barely cloaked metaphor for a sex act – she had no idea what the song was about). Also unique are the first chance to hear her shelved take of Gainsbourg’s Bloody Jack outside France, and the first-ever reissue of her Japanese-language version of Poupée De Cire Poupée De Son.
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:37-07:00April 20th, 2018|
The latest from CATE LE BON and TIM PRESELEY as DRINKS. “A month spent in an old mill in the under belly of France. River swimming thrice a day. Hot nights soundtracked by the rattle of randy frogs. Scorpion fear. In the sheets, on the face. Hours of bird watching—no phone service. No wifi. 3 DVDs. Jurassic Park 1, 2 & 3. Violin practice. Bread scoffing. Early morning coffee drinking before the sun was too hot to do anything but snooze in the thick walled house. Music in the afternoon after a dip in the river and a cold beer on the square. With all the ease and air needed, in this mysterious place, we made an album made for each other by one another with no hands, eyes or ears piercing the bubble other than our dear friend Steve who slid in under the door and took note of it all.”—Cate Le Bon
Audiopile Records2018-04-20T14:15:36-07:00April 20th, 2018|
Instant is the trio of Bernd Schöll (Bass, Vocals, Rhythm), Mike Hauer (Guitar, Synth, Percussion), and Marion Siekmann (Vocals) from Munich, Germany. They formed in 1980 after meeting through mutual friends attending the local art and graphic design school. The trio were dissatisfied with their surrounding musical environment. Inspired by the Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk, and Giorgio Moroder, they set out to create their own brand of Neue Deutsche Welle fusing Dada, disco, and Krautrock. Over the course of 2 weeks in Summer 1980 the band teamed up with local producer Mario Strack to record 6 songs. These would make up their debut eponymous album that was originally self-released on 10” vinyl in 1981. They utilized a simple set up of guitar, bass, and keyboards, plus the BOSS DR-55 Dr. Rhythm drum machine. Metal scraps clanging appear on the tracks “Do Not” and “Optimate Minimum”, and a washing machine was sampled on the track “Joyboy”, which features Marion reading from the appliance’s instruction manual. The A-side features 4 tracks in 11 minute, while the B-side hosts 2 songs in the same stretch of time. “Charade” features no wave saxophone accompaniment from Kai Taschner of Munich New Wave band Luna Set. Marion’s vocals are between Nico’s Teutonic chill and Alison Statton’s (Young Marble Giants) playfulness, while Bernd takes a monotone approach. Lyrics for “My Boy” and “Everybody’s Gotta Mutate” were adapted from ‘Rotwang’, a fragmented novel written by Tim Hildebrandt, one of the brothers famous for illustrating the works of Tolkien. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in a replica of the original jacket design, which features a neon red screen-printed drawing of a cut-out doll family on a stark white background. Each LP includes a postcard insert with lyrics.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T23:03:22-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Reissued many times before – this version has great remastered sound quality. A truly incredible psychedelic African rock n’ roll record. Blown out guitars, Black Sabbathesque heavy rhythms, garage rock sincere vocals. It’s all here. One time small pressing not to be missed. Old school “tip on” cover.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T23:02:49-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T23:02:37-07:00April 12th, 2018|
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s new album Gumboot Soup.
Gumboot Soup follows February’s Flying Microtonal Banana, June’s Murder of the Universe, August’sSketches of Brunswick East, and, finally, November’s Polygondwanaland, for which the band shared the masters and tasked listeners with pressing the recordings themselves. In an interview with Consequence of Sound, the band’s Stu Mackenzie described their final record of 2017 as a “place for us to put a lot of different ideas that we’re trying to experiment within the song, rather than within the whole record. And for me, some of my favorite songs of the year are on the fifth record. It’s more song-oriented than album-oriented.”
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T23:02:23-07:00April 12th, 2018|
U2’s 9th studio album, Pop, was a number one album in 1997 in the UK, US, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Turkey, Czech Republic, Iceland and Greece. Produced by Flood, with Howie B and Steve Osborne, the album was recorded in Dublin (Hanover Quay, Windmill Lane, The Works) and Miami (South Beach Studios). Featuring the singles: Discothèque, Staring At The Sun, Last Night On Earth, Please, If God Will Send His Angels and Mofo.
2LP – Remastered and pressed on Double 180 Gram Black Vinyl with Download. Artwork faithfully reproduced from the original, including a gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves and a lyrics insert.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T23:01:47-07:00April 12th, 2018|
When asked to describe the title track from his new record, Kyle Thomas—aka King Tuff—takes a deep breath. “It’s a song about hitting rock bottom,” he says. “I didn’t even know what I wanted to do anymore, but I still had this urge, like there was this possibility of something else I could be doing… and then I just followed that possibility. To me, that’s what songwriting, and art in general, is about. You’re chasing something. ‘The Other’ is basically where songs come from. It’s the hidden world. It’s the invisible hand that guides you whenever you make something. It’s the thing I had to rediscover to bring me back to making music again in a way that felt true and good.”
While it would be easy to think of The Other as a kind of reinvention for King Tuff, Thomas views the entire experience of the record as a kind of reset that’s not totally removed from what he’s done in the past. “I can’t help but sound like me,” he says. “It’s just that this time I let the songs lead me where they wanted to go, instead of trying to push them into a certain zone. King Tuff was always just supposed to be me. When I started doing this as a teenager, it was whatever I wanted it to be. King Tuff was never supposed to be just one thing. It was supposed to be everything.”
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:57-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Rekids latest signing Peggy Gou serves up two subterranean slices of quality with L.I.E.S. producer Terekke providing a remix. The South Korean artist. who was raised in the UK and now resides in Berlin. kick started 2016 for Rekids with her Art Of War release. She now returns to Radio Slaves imprint with a sequel. Jen High boasts a heady bassline whilst quivering synths make way for serene key melodies. ‘When Round. They Go then deploys robust kicks as ebbing pads join acid licks. before Germanys Terekke provides a floating rendition comprised of soaring atmospherics and jazzy aesthetics.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
After a successful release with Church Recordings at the start of the year Ben Hauke returns to his label WOOP Records for a five track EP . First Takes. First Takes EP combines the sounds of broken beat and house music with a strong nod to 90s Hip Hop throughout. Ben is cementing his own sound and approach to music through his eclectic sampling of jazz records detailed drum sequencing and no nonsense attitude
Setting the tone for the record, Ben starts with a raw 2-step swinging jazz rhythm ‘One forGoldtooth’. This short and snappy banger highlights Ben’s standalone sound - not quite Broken Beat - not quite Hip Hop - but somewhere in between. We follow with ‘Sideman’, a floor filler with a serious London attitude and a soulful vocal to accompany it. Next track ‘I Don’t Believe’ feels like a broken beat remix of your favourite hip hop instrumental, with high energy drums pushing the song forward throughout. This track will be on repeat for a while! The B sides of this release are straight house bangers starting with ‘Yeh Yeh’ featuring 2016’s much hyped saxophonist Nubya Garcia. ‘Yeh Yeh’ is a down-tempo jazz house roller which is sure to be a DJ favourite. We end the EP with a hard hitting Mr. G inspired track ‘film yourself, you’ll feel better’. The addictive vocal loops and serious bass part in this track makes it a perfect midsetfiller with lots of room to play with.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
From the knowledge gained on our expeditions. we are able to track down the jets fired during each unique eruption and share them with the people of this majestic orb. The first squirt led us to The Yard in Hackney. where Ross From Friends performed live for one of the first few times in his already sparkling career. >From the performance came a track called ‘Champagne’. a wave of sax washing over you accompanied by plinking guitar and of course those fuzzy hi hats that go right to your head. This track could previously only be experienced by seeing the trio play live or by watching our documentation of the performance. until now. We’ve printed 300 copies only of this vintage moment from the summer of 2016.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:38-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Lapiana has composed an album where you get to travel with him on a sonic journey into the deepest corners of his mind, baring vulnerabilities as well as strengths. Intraverso carries a feeling of ancient atmosphere via its melodic language through its whole running time, perhaps since the foundation of the album is based on emotions and the mind. Thoughts, feelings and mental states that always have been with us, no matter the time and place. It is a mature debut album for an artist that proves he is willing to risk going into different areas than the tried and tested ground. One might say Intraverso is a record created for an introvert introspective dancer, willing to see what lies beyond that of which is visible at first glance.
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Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:59:37-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:58:47-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Melody As Truth returns with Talk From Home an album from Los Angeles native Suzanne Kraft. Talk From Home showcases Krafts emotional depth as a producer. and skill as a multi-instrumentalist. Recorded over a few weeks in the winter of 2014. the intimacy of the recordings shines through in a melancholic yet hopeful world of melody and tone.
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Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:58:47-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:58:46-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2020-03-07T06:23:12-08:00April 12th, 2018|
The No Man Is An Island EP is a single cut from the debut album of the same name by Aalko. a new project by Kebko Music founder Akiko Kiyama. Renowned for her minimal techno track featured in Richie Hawtin s seminal DE9 Transitions album. the Japanese producer reveals her another side under this new alias. The project has already created a stir as Aalko has garnered support from Gilles Peterson on his BBC 6 Music radio show and premiered a live performance at MUTEK’s Tokyo launch. where she drew the audience into an inspiring frenzy.
Aalko is a culmination of Kiyama’s recent practices in a wider musical spectrum that go beyond the confines of her minimalistic techno characteristics. It conjures her distinctive soundscape where a variety of styles coexists: she demonstrates her knack for breaks, ambient and irregular time signatures, her acute ears for unadulterated tone and texture of sounds standing out in sharp relief.
Taking a floor-oriented side out of the No Man Is An Island cassette album, this single cut features three tracks that work wonders in a DJ context. “Body & Soul” is an erratic rhythm experiment jumping between several beat styles. “Mixture” offers Kiyama’s unique interpretation on syncopated dynamics of breaks. Wrapping up the EP is ‘B.I.C’, a long-awaited exclusive track that ranked among Gilles Peterson’s top 20 tracks of 2017. Its dubby functionality makes it a powerful tool that can work at various stages of the night.
These tracks give the nod to Kiyama’s peculiar self full of sonic idiosyncrasies, showing no fear of breaking accepted conventions.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:58:46-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Limited Classic Repress !! Including amazing tracks like Scientist. Pornoactress. Sterilization. Rocket scientist. Cellularphone and Speak and Spell. This is almost as important for a complete techno generation as Kraftwerks Computerworld and Autobahn was for many in the 70 s. Finally available again after being out of print for years!
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:58:46-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Spanish quartet Hinds – Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrotte, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – release their long-awaited second record I Don’t Run. The new album shows a bigger, better, faster, funnier, more dexterous Hinds. Co-produced by the band and Gordon Raphael (The Strokes, Regina Spektor), and engineered by Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Perfume Genius, The War On Drugs, John Legend), I Don’t Run is the product of a band fighting for their place, a band unwilling to rely upon their successes, a band who have just begun to prove themselves, and a band who plays hard but works even harder.
Some might expect them to write songs about being happy, young and carefree – “but we’re not satisfied with that,” explains guitarist Ana Perrote. “On this album the struggles are clear. We want to be brave.” I Don’t Run is Hinds’ return with an honest reflection on a period that changed their lives beyond their wildest imaginations. After everything they’ve overcome, one might think a band like Hinds would have second album jitters, but think again. Hinds are chomping at the bit and with defiant confidence. “We loved making this album,” says Perrote. “We knew what we wanted and we have what we wanted. This is a new start for us and we’re fucking ready.”
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Brand new album from Philadelphia’s much loved neo-space rock stoner drone outfit. A euphoric transcendental journey to a mountain top nirvana, a psychedelic tapestry that slowly unwinds as they travel onwards into the inner mind. A 40-minute opus delivered from a hail of reverb soulfully caressed by a ceremonial flute, that makes way for a shroud of Weld – era Neil Young fog. Bardo Pond is your rather ruffled tour guide to this far off place, this distant sense of wonderment at the crossroads with bewilderment. Loved and lauded by the late Lou Reed and his wife Laurie Anderson, Jesus and Mary Chain, Mogwai and many more.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Uncertainty Is Bliss is the Relapse debut from German psychedelic, hard rock trio BLACK SALVATION. BLACK SALVATION (Featuring Uno Bruniusson formerly of In Solitude and Grave Pleasures and currently of Death Alley), challenge the listener to open wide the doors of perception and slowly drift away amongst their transcendental compositions and deeply hypnotic tales of magic and mysticism. Across eight tracks and 40+ minutes, BLACK SALVATION exquisitely blend hard rock, doom and psychedelia into an intoxicating synthesis of rock n’ roll alchemy. Uncertainty Is Bliss is surely one of the most captivating rock debuts in years.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
The American hardcore punk band Agnostic Front formed the side project Madball in the late 80’s, when front man Roger Miret let his brother Freddy Cricien perform the lead vocals. They released their debut album called Set It Off in 1994 as a document of the hardcore music they were making by that time. The classic album features a wide range of sound effects above the groovy and doomy atmosphere of the music. The speed of the title track alternates between fast parts and mid-tempo bits and brings the focus on the ever ongoing riffs. The album also features the song Down by Law, where the heaviness of the sound is brought in the drum beats.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Special limited edition purple vinyl release of 16 bone crushing tracks from ‘80s L.A. punk icons, Decry!
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:51-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:50-07:00April 12th, 2018|
After Bay Area avant-garde cornerstones Ludicra called it quits in 2011, most of the band continued with their other musical endeavors, but former vocalist Laurie Shanaman and guitar player / vocalist Christy Cather haven’t resurfaced in a big way until now—Ails marks the return of both to center stage. In 2015 the duo’s desire to play the music they love brought them together with like-minded friends Sam Abend (Abrupt, Desolation), Colby Bryn (2084, One In The Chamber), and Jason Miller (Phantom Limbs). The Unraveling, Ails’ epic debut album, is more than just the ghost of Ludicra. It stands firmly on its own, offering an intense synthesis of raucous black metal and melodic death metal driven by the formidable dueling vocals of Shanaman and Cather. These are songs of despair, heartache, inner torment, and physical and mental suffering that make an immediate and lasting impression.
“Ails beautifully synthesizes melancholy melodic death metal, stately doom, and atmospheric black metal, teasing every iota of intensity from each individual note and capitalizing on Shanaman’s vocal might.” —Noisey
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:50-07:00April 12th, 2018|
XYZ = a Trans-Atlantic American/French project featuring IAN SVENONIUS (CHAIN & THE GANG, MAKE-UP, ESCAPE-ISM, et al.) on vocals and MEMPHIS ELECTRONIC (of the groups NON!, DUM BUM BOYS, DIE IDIOTS, et al.) on instruments. Twelve dancefloor rockers and sexy glam numbers with fuzz guitars, drum machines, and analog synths on this irresistible plastic platter! XYZ? A new solution to an old problem.
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:50-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Seattle punk legends ZEKE return with their first new album in over 14 years entitled Hellbender! Short, fast, loud, and to the fuckin’ point,Hellbender contains fifteen tracks laced with ZEKE’s signature mix of hyperspeed thrash-punk and Motörhead possessed, hard as nails, rock n’ roll. Complete with raucous, in-your-face production by Jack Endino (Nirvana, High on Fire, The Accüsed), Hellbender is the culmination of a band 25 years into their career, sounding more aggressive, immediate and turbo-charged than ever before! Ride to live…
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:50-07:00April 12th, 2018|
Prepare the mind, the body, the deepest recesses of the soul: the black gates that Dark Buddha Rising opened a decade ago with I open further in 2018: the band’s II EP continues to twist spiritual gyres and follow calls from beyond.
For ten years, this Finnish band has convened in the now-famous Wastement—set below their home city of Tampere—to roil in the sounds of the underground, to meet dark spirits, to breathe in time with rhythmic pulses sent from the skies, the stars and the very dirt around. On its face, the band emits the blackest of psychedelia; deep down, theirs are sounds forged in the blue fires of the ancients—exhalations of gods, goddesses and demons alike.
Of this new offering, V. Ajomo says: “To drain our sonic temple, we wanted to record the new material which was made for 2016 shows in order to proceed towards the unknown with open minds and hearts. After the cleansing, we initiated our chamber with ambient meditation and opened the portals of inspiration for our future work.”
Audiopile Records2018-04-12T22:57:46-07:00April 12th, 2018|
MAYA DEREN journeyed to Haiti to make a film of ritual dances, instead, she came to be accepted as a Voudoun initiate, whose devotees commune with the cosmic powers through invocation, offerings, song and dance of the Voudoun pantheon of deities, or Loa, whom are witnessed as being living gods and goddesses, actually taking possession of their devotees. Deren describes the relationship between magic, science and religion bringing a uniquely lyrical voice to her narrative. This paints a multi-textured, infinitely complex portrait of a spiritual tradition with roots stretching back to the very dawn of humanity. Joseph Campbell calls Divine Horsemen “the most illuminating introduction that has yet been rendered to the whole marvel of the Haitian mysteries as ‘facts of the mind.’” Included in this album are some of the first recordings ever made during religious ceremonies near Croix de Missions and Petionville featuring selections that serve as a soundtrack to the film she shot documenting Voodoo ceremonies and festivals conveying the incantatory power of the ritual drumming and singing. One can hear the sounds of nature while processions begin across the landscape further giving the effect of an audio memoir. For the first time in almost 40 years, this long out-of-print cult classic is now available in a limited edition featuring a beautiful screen print cover by GRANT CORUM, risograph insert with liner notes by CHEREL ITO, original cover art by TEIJI ITO and mastered for the first time by TIMOTHY STOLLENWERK.
