Archive for the Experimental Category
Peter Brotzmann “Machine Gun” (Cien Fuegos)
Cien Fuegos present a reissue of the Peter Brötzmann Octet’s Machine Gun, originally released in 1968. One of the most important albums of European free jazz, finally in the Cien Fuegos series. Recorded May 1968 at “Lila Eule”, Bremen. Personnel: Peter Brötzmann – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone; Peter Kowald – […]
Peter Brotzmann “Machine Gun – Alternate Takes” (Cien Fuegos)
Alternate versions, never before released on vinyl from Peter Brötzmann Octet’s Machine Gun (1968).
MKWAJU Ensemble “Ki-Motion” (WRWTFWW)
LP version. 140 gram vinyl; Heavy cardboard old Stoughton tip-on sleeve. WRWTFWW Records present the official reissue of legendary album KI-Motion by Japanese percussionist Midori Takada’s MKWAJU Ensemble, originally released in 1981. A highly creative and transcendental fusion of marimba, vibraphone, bamboo percussion, and synthesizers, KI-Motion was recorded in 1981 […]
Mike Patton “1922 Original Score” (Ipecac)
1922 is based on Stephen King’s 131-page story, telling of a man’s confession of his wife’s murder. The tale is told from the perspective of Wilfred James, the story’s unreliable narrator who admits to killing his wife, Arlette, with his son in Nebraska. But after he buries her body, he […]
Body/Head “The Switch” (Matador)
Body/Head is the duo of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace. Creative alchemy doesn’t just happen in the studio or in the practice space; so much of it is the product of solo time with one’s instrument, learning how body and wood and electronics fuse, and of subconscious processes as one […]
Kate NV “For” (RVNG)
Over the ten, symmetrical pieces of ‘для FOR,’ Kate NV scores her native Moscow environment with just enough whimsy to gurgle through the city cracks and grow psychotropic foliage. On her sophomore album, each sound assumes its own personality, moving through the album metropolis like miniature, mutating molecules viewed from […]
Elph Vs. Coil “Worship The Glitch” (Dais)
“Unexplainable” may well be the best explanation for the members of the UK based electronic outfit COIL. Making a radical shift from intentional accessibility, by means of traditional pop songwriting, to abstract happenstance, Coil had entered into a new phase in their career…uncharted waters utilizing what was then the newest […]
Tim Hecker “Radio Amor” (Kranky)
This is the first reissue for Tim Hecker’s classic 2003 album. The original recordings were remixed by Tim Hecker and mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering.
Tim Hecker “Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again” (Kranky)
This is the first reissue of Tim Hecker’s classic 2001 debut full length release. The original recordings were remixed by Tim Hecker and mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering.
Steve Reich “Drumming” (Superior Viaduct)
Steve Reich’s Drumming is regarded as one of the most important musical works of the last century. Distilled through his studies of African percussion in Ghana during 1970 and Balinese gamelan music, Reich revolutionized our understanding of polyrhythms, sculpting a new sonic territory to illuminate the radical potential of Minimalism. Divided […]
Kuniyuki Takahashi “Early Tape Works (1986-1993) Vol. 2” (Music From Memory)
Early Tape Works covers the Japanese house producer’s early material from 1986 through 1993. Volume 2 features seven more tracks taken from Kuniyuki’s archive highlighting a fascinating early period in Kuniyuki’s musical output, released only in a very small private run of cassettes and of which until now, very little […]
Jon Hassell “Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)” (Ndeya)
First new album in nine years by a musical visionary and hugely influential figure in new music. Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell’s Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance […]
Muslimgauze “Maroon” (Staalplaat)
Separated from both its reputation and its sleeve art, the music of Muslimgauze explores the relationship of visual sensations — space, color, depth, illusion — to the listening experience. The music on Maroon is dub-like inspired techno music, laidback with voices appearing randomly in the mix. The thick drums and […]
Heldon “Third (It’s Always Rock ‘N’ Roll)” (Bureau B)
Double LP version. Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon’s third album Third (It’s Always Rock ‘N’ Roll), originally released on Disjuncta in 1975. Third album from the French space-rock electro combo masterminded by Richard Pinhas. Heldon’s darkest work lays another stone in their sonic mosaic: synths, drones, fuzz, and […]
Heldon “Agneta Nilsson” (Bureau B)
Bureau B present a reissue of Heldon’s fourth album Agneta Nilsson, originally released on Urus Records in 1976. Agneta Nilsson opens with a mind-paralyzing track that proves stillness can have a pulse. “Perspective I” spends ten minutes poring through tectonic layers of heavy sound, piling everything so thick that the […]
Sophia Loizou “Irregular” (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
Irregular Territories is a new EP of hyper jungle-ist future sickness by Bristolian sound artist Sophia Loizou for Shapednoise’s Cosmo Rhythmatic label. Sophia’s first release since the much acclaimed Singulacra (KTX 004LP, 2016), Irregular Territories provides a definitive example of Loizou’s sound as it firmly asserts her music in a […]
Various Artists “Spider-Jazz: KPM Cues Used In The Amazing Animated Series” (Trunk)
Subtitled: … That We Are Not Allowed To Mention For Legal Reasons. Rare and brilliant music as used in the late 1960s amazing animated series we are not allowed to mention for legal reasons. And the same music was used in all the NFL clip shoes throughout the ’60s and […]
Michal Turtle “Return To Jeka” (Music from Memory)
Music From Memory return with more Music From The Living Room (1983). Delving further into the archives of British musician Michal Turtle, Return To Jeka brings together eight previously unreleased works recorded between 1983 and 1985. Drawn from a larger archive of works the compilation highlights a fascinating period of […]
The Thing “Again” (The Thing)
The Thing, recorded July 2nd and 3rd, 2017. Personnel: Mats Gustafsson – tenor and baritone saxophone; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – electric and double bass; Paal Nilssen-Love – drums, percussion. Recorded July 2nd and 3rd, 2017 by Øyvind Gundersen at Studio Paradiso, Oslo. Mixed October 2017, by Andreas Werliin at Repeat […]
Richard Wahnfried “Time Actor” (Dark Entries)
Dark Entries is honored to re-issue one of the greatest and most overlooked albums of the 1970s. “Time Actor” was the result of a collaboration between legendary Crazy World & Kingdom Come visionary Arthur Brown and German synthesizer and ambient genius Klaus Schulze, recording under the pseudonym of his alter-ego […]
Ché-SHIZU “A Journey” (Black Editions)
Black Editions present the first ever vinyl release of Ché-SHIZU’s signature album A Journey, originally issued in 1994 by Tokyo’s legendary P.S.F. Records. Ché-SHIZU is one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from the Tokyo underground. Founded by master improviser Chie Mukai in 1981 the group […]
Mogard Abul “Works” (Ecstatic)
2018 repress. Ecstatic offer a deeply arresting and definitive collection of Works by erstwhile Serbian factory worker-turned-synthesist Abul Mogard; containing selections from two cassettes released in 2012 and 2013 on Steve Moore and Anthony Paterra’s VCO Recordings, as well as a cassette only release on Ecstatic, never before available on […]
Steve Reich “Live Electric Music” (ECM)
Steve Reich was one of the early musicians that fell into the loose genre eventually known as “minimalism”, which may be a bit of an unfortunate name, but it will do. There can be considerable argument as to the origin of this type of music, and it could easily be […]
Oneohtrix Point Never “Age Of” (Warp)
It’s Daniel Lopatin’s most cohesive and richly composed work to date, weaving a tapestry of disparate musical histories — early music, country and folk balladry, melodic pop, computer music and much, much more — that demonstrate both the complexity and range of the artist’s repertoire. With sounds that are unsettlingly […]