Archive for the Experimental Category
Various Artists “Seito: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun” (Akuphone)
Includes 24-page portfolio and download card. Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun gathers Japanese female artists from various electronic and experimental music fields. Like the Tokyo Flashback series issued by P.S.F. in the early 1990s, this collection recorded between 2017 and 2019 exposes the richness of the contemporary […]
Pontiac Streator & Ulla Strauss “11 Items” (West Mineral Ltd)
11 Items is the textured first album by Pontiac Streator and Ulla Straus for Huerco S and his pals at West Mineral Ltd. The album sees the American duo expand upon the hazy mindset of their Chat EP (OUEST 097LP, 2018) across a flux of ambient interzones where they transmute […]
Fennesz “Agora” (Touch)
Agora is Christian Fennesz’s first solo album since Mahler Remix (TONE 052LP, 2014) and Bécs (EMEGO 165CD/LP, 2014). Fennesz writes: “It’s a simple story. I had temporarily lost a proper studio workspace and had to move all my gear back to a small bedroom in my flat where I recorded […]
75 Dollar Bill “I Was Real” (Thin Wrist)
75 Dollar Bill is one of the essential groups at the heart of NYC’s underground. Driven by the telepathic union of Che Chen’s microtonal electric guitar and Rick Brown’s odd metered percussion their long-form sound is unmistakable and compelling. On their third album I Was Real, the group expands in […]
Uniform & The Body “Everything That Dies Someday” (Sacred Bones)
On the heels of their monolithic collaborative LP Mental Wounds Not Healing, the collaboration between industrial-noise post-everything bands Uniform & The Body returns with a second entry, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back. Comprised of an amalgam of abrasive influence that spans Swans-y dirge and purge, Whitehouse’s clenched-jaw noise, middle-period […]
Baroque Jazz Trio “Baroque Jazz Trio” (Souffle Contenu)
Souffle Continu Records present a reissue of Baroque Jazz Trio’s self-titled album, original released on Saravah in 1970. Mixing Baroque, free-jazz, and world music, the unique album of the Baroque Jazz Trio (which is in fact 3/5 of the Bach Modern Quintet) is a difficult-to-label sound object which is far […]
Mike Cooper “Rayon Hula” (Room40)
Room40 offer a re-mastered, re-edited 2019 version of Rayon Hula, originally released in 2004. From Mike Cooper: “After several trips, beginning in 1994, to the Pacific and its Island Nations, Australia and subsequently to South East Asia, I conceived the idea of making an updated more ‘now’ version of some […]
Incapacitants “Extreme Gospel Nights” (Urashima)
Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan; the group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group Hijokaidan. Mikawa, a bank employee who later became manager of one of the largest securities brokers in […]
Masonna “Bursting Absolute Moods: The Lost First Album 1989” (Urashima)
Italian “hard noise” specialists Urashima has unearthed something rather significant here: a previously “lost” early recording from Japanese maverick Masonna that was initially slated for release before what became his 1989 debut album, whose explicit title cannot be repeated here. Comprising two lengthy experimental soundscapes created using feedback, white noise […]
Eliane Radigue “Jouet Electronique/Elemental” (Alga Marghen)
Alga Marghen presents the new edition of Eliane Radigue’s “Jouet Electronique” (1967) for feedback on magnetic tape and “Elemental I” (1968) for feedback of natural sounds on magnetic tape. This LP was first issued in 2010, and it’s now presented for the first time with its own specific artwork and […]
Eliane Radigue “Vice-Versa, Etc…” (Alga Marghen)
2019 repress. Alga Marghen very proudly presents a remastered version of Vice-Versa, Etc…, an LP originally included in the first 400 copies of Eliane Radigue’s Feedback Works 2LP. Vice-Versa, Etc… was originally a small handmade box, signed and numbered and released on the occasion of a show at Lara Vincy’s […]
Alastair Galbraith “Morse” (Digital Regress)
“A central figure of the New Zealand underground since his days in The Rip over three decades ago, Alastair Galbraith has worked alongside scores of Kiwi legends as a multi-instrumentalist and solo artist. Morse appeared in 1992, a Siltbreeze/Xpressway co-release, and despite Galbraith’s centrality to the magical NZ mix, the […]
Kali Malone “The Sacrificial Code” (Ideal)
Double LP version. Kali Malone presents a new album featuring nearly two hours of concentrated pipe organ pieces governed by a strict acoustic and compositional code. It’s a major new work with ultimately profound emotional resonance. The Sacrificial Code takes a more surgical approach to the methods first explored on […]
Pauline Oliveros & Guy Klucevsek “Sounding/Way”(Important)
Pauline Oliveros and Guy Klucevsek’s Sounding / Way was originally released on cassette in 1986 and has been out of print ever since. This LP was cut by John Golden and pressed at RTI in order to achieve a quiet, dynamic pressing. The Sounding / Way concept was simple: Each […]
Pauline Oliverso “Tara’s Room” (Important)
Pauline Oliveros’s Tara’s Room has long been a favorite at Important Records and here they release it on LP for the very first time. Tara’s Room was cut by John Golden and pressed at RTI in order to achieve a quiet, dynamic pressing. Originally released on cassette in 1987 following […]
Mister Water Wet “Bought The Farm” (West Mineral Ltd)
Following a golden first streak of releases by uon, Exael, and Pendant in 2018, Huerco S’ West Mineral Ltd. returns to mine a rich seam of ambient jazz sampledelia by Mister Water Wet; a Puerto Rican artist with a gift for conveying in-between, gently altered states of mind and the […]
Takayuki Shiraishi “Missing Link” (Studio Mule)
Studio Mule presents Missing Link, a collection by Japanese living legend electronic producer Takayuki Shiraishi. Missing Link is a collection of unreleased material recorded in the late ’80s. Shiraishi started his career in working with BGM, who released material on the Japanese experimental label Vanity Records. Their one and only […]
Neurosis & Jarboe “Neurosis & Jarboe Reissue” (Neurot)
Neurot Recordings are proud to reissue the landmark collaboration Neurosis & Jarboe, which was originally released in 2003. This latest version is fully remastered and with entirely new artwork from Aaron Turner, available on vinyl for the first time, as well as CD and digital formats. When two independent and […]
TRJJ “Music Compilation: 12 Dances” (Stroom)
TRjj is made up of several people that meet regularly since 2016. It is practiced collectively with interchanging names and roles, so the full control about disguised authorship would be guaranteed. Everyone involved was set to meet half way. TRjj is a filter for the kinship of many. Its the […]
Exael “Dioxippe” (XPQ?)
Set of raw, far-out, adventurous leftfield Techno & Electronica experiments
Muslimgauze “Babylon Is Iraq” (Staalplaat)
Unsurprisingly for a creator as prolific as Muslimgauze’s Bryn Jones was, when he was asked for a contribution for any sort of group project, he would tend to provide more options than necessary. In the case of longtime label Staalplaat’s 1996 compilation Sonderangebot, where Jones would find himself in the […]
Coil “Theme From The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex” (Musique Pour La Danse)
Purple vinyl. Musique Pour La Danse present Coil’s unreleased soundtrack for the VHS only, pre-internet, sexual education documentary entitled The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex released in 1992. Members for this project were John Balance, Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, and Danny Hyde. The OST, to quote John Balance’s interview for […]
Ramleh “Great Unlearning” (Nashazphone)
Ramleh return with The Great Unlearning: four rocking sides with downbeat electronic leanings making a complex and bold follow-up to 2015’s Circular Time. Produced by Anthony Di Franco and Gary Mundy and also featuring Philip Best, Stuart Dennision, Sarah Fröelich, and Martyn Watts, The Great Unlearning represents the most complete […]
Delia Derbyshire “The Dreams” (Fantome Phonographique)
Delia Derbyshire is one of the most innovative electronic musicians of the 20th century. She is best known for her pioneering work for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and for composing the classic theme song for the original Doctor Who, believed to be the earliest “electronic” theme song in television history. […]