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STRAIGHT FROM THE GIFT SHOP OF THE WHITE SANDS GATOR-ADE AQUA TEMPLE COMES THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE WATERY OBSTACLE COURSE... WELCOME TO THE AQUA TEMPLE …SPONSORED BY GATOR-ADE! ARE YOU READY TO HYDRATE? COME TO THE REAR ENTRENCE OF THE RADIOSHACK (YOU KNOW THE ONE!!) AND HARDWIRE YOUR BRAIN IN...
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Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid-1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Forming a new musical language based on repetitive processes,...
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"천국 / ☆ your quest starts here ☆" is a collection of two releases by Jaiden Macintosh, originally published in February and November, respectively, of 2022. You will hear music, you will hear familiar sounds, you will hear your childhood, you will hear your future....
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Neko-San Kill! Kill! is the album for people who find music in the most unexpected scenarios of everyday life—melodies in the mundane. Yuko Nexus6 is certainly one of those people as, over the course of just under an hour, she plucks out rhythms and pulses from familiar, friendly, yet frequently...
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2023 restock; gatefold vinyl reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten's Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000. This vinyl double album contains the track "Pelikanol," first available as a bonus track with the 2000 release of the album and now for the first time available on vinyl. Silence Is Sexy finally receives...
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Originally released in 1990, Royal Trux’s ‘Twin Infinitives’ is being re-issued in all its (yet to be translated) alien glory, by Fire Records. A dismantled overture that sprawls out over two records, an avant-garde masterpiece that was the spark for Drag City Records and generations of new sound seeking musicians....
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Third album from Finnish group Mahti, a collaboration between three members of stalwart avant-rock legends Circle and Hannu Saha. Saha plays the Kantele, a traditional Finnish acoustic instrument which can have five, ten, fifteen, or thirty-six strings, and which is plucked like a zither or harp, producing a delicate string...
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Kata No Wadachi is the latest album by Banetoriko, the solo noise project of Tamaki Ueda. Her first release both on An’archives and on vinyl, it follows several albums for the Neurec imprint – 2017’s Beside the Sluice and 2022’s Yorioto Hogiokuri – and several other cassettes and CD-Rs. With...
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LP ltd to 315 copies. An’archives is proud to present the latest album by Japanese free saxophonist and vocalist Harutaka Mochizuki, Doppelgänger ga boku wo. Since the early 2000s, Harutaka has quietly, yet steadily, released a string of solo and collaborative releases that have allowed multiple perspectives on one of...
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The second LP from this inspired Phoenix DIY punk outfit. "Upstart New York label Dot Dash Sounds have teamed up with Paris' estimable SDZ to bang out this sophomore effort by The Sheaves, an outfit of desert peccaries whose swinley snouts have expertly strung together another string of stinging pearls...
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The 6LP boxset of Mr. Bungle's three legendary albums on Warner Records: Mr. Bungle, Disco Volante & California out July 19. Each album comes as a 2LP Gatefold, all packaged together in a metallic foil box. Mastered by Scott Hull exclusively for vinyl from the original mixes (some for the...
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Audiopile Review: For those who haven’t been keeping up on who Abul Mogard really is, he’s apparently now accepted to be an alias of Italian artist Guido Zen. Fine. Whatever. One slightly disconcerting aspect of this is that Abul Mogard releases quite a lot of albums. Given that Abul is...
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Audiopile Review: An integral part of the Unheard Of Hope imprint, Guatemalan composer Mabe Fratti releases her third solo album for the UK-based label, which quickly follows from the chamber-pop debut of her Titanic project and contributions to this year’s shop highlight from Phét Phét Phét. While Fratti began in...
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Audiopile Review: Another newsletter, another Alva Noto album. You should know the score by now. But if you’ve just started subscribing or whatnot, we’ll get you up to speed. In the early 2000s, Alva Noto (aka German sound artist Carsten Nicolai) was one of the great glitch originators. He released...
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Thom Yorke composed the original score for Daniele Luchetti’s film Confidenza, an adaptation of the Italian drama based on Domenico Starnone’s novel of the same name, which premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam and will be out in Italian theaters in April 2024. Confidenza follows Yorke’s previous full-length...
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Audiopile Review: First new album from Dunedin’s Alastair Galbraith since 2021’s Seconds Mark III, arriving only a few months after the first-time vinyl reissue of Talisman, his beloved 1995 full length of art-damaged lo-fi f art folk. Lagash is issued on the Australian-based Nice Music imprint, a multi-format label largely...
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Audiopile Review: Coming in alongside two represses of albums from Oiro Pena and Ville Lähteenmäki Trio (both listed this week, scroll down for those), Ultraääni Records offer this new album from the prolific experimental artist Olli Aarni, a contemplative counterpoint to the more explosive sound of those two represses. For...
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Spiritual flute jazz by the mastermind Antti Vauhkonen. Artwork by Arsi Keva. Mastered by Samuli Tanner. Risoprinted cover art. ”Wow where did this come from??!? Raw and essential outsider jazz which will be whispered about for years to come…” -Matti Nives / We Jazz...
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Audiopile Review: Just the other day, we had the honour of being messaged by London’s imposingly cool World of Echo record shop. The message read: “M8, we’re blasting The Dead C’s 1992 noise rock classic ‘Harsh 70s Reality’ and it sounds mint. Also, there’s a bloke in here buying a...
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A legendary concert by one of the great unrecorded bands in free jazz history is here at last. WEBO, the third installment in the Black Editions Archive series of previously unreleased recordings from Milford Graves' private tape library, roars into the station June 21, 2024. For the first time, Charles...
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CHBB was a project by Beate Bartel and Chris Haas that developed from their collaboration in 1981, while working on the self-titled album 'Liaisons Dangereuses‘. They released their music only on four limited cassettes. This compilation presents the complete works of CHBB, including all recordings from their original cassettes alongside...
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FUJI||||||||||TA returns to Hallow Ground with his second full-length for the Swiss label after it had released his international breakthrough album iki in early 2020. Active since 2006, the Japanese composer and sound artist has become prolific since the release of iki, releasing a slew of records while also touring...
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The Long Shadow Falls is Current 93's first-ever CD box-set, and is as beautiful as the moon! This gorgeous, elaborate, boxset consists of 7CDs, plus a 7" single, and a beautiful 48-page art-book. The Long Shadow Falls collects the 41 unknown and redreamt mixes that C93 created for two (long-ago...
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DIY tape manoeuvres, sending esoteric dub waves down from the magnetic north. Straight from the studio in Glasgow. Everything done in-house. Hand stamped body. Printed the covers etc Weirdo dubs from ambient to drone with experimental electronic cuts that occupy some frighteningly smoked out alleyway between the club and the...
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Ambient? Sí. But also, a musing on transcendence. So lay down and close your eyes because on this one, our querida joya @eezzmmeerraallddaa wonders what we all wonder every now and then: good old 'What happens when we die?' We sort of know the drill: the cling, the not wanting...
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This 2020 film has already become an indie classic, and it’s taken on a timeliness that its creators could not have foreseen. Teenage Autumn has to flee her rural Pennsylvania town in seach of an abortion, leaving behind her abusive partner, her indifferent parents (singer Sharon Van Etten plays her...
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Guitar explorer Nels Cline is best known these days as the lead guitarist in the band Wilco. His recording and performing career -- spanning jazz, rock, punk, and experimental -- is well into its fourth decade, with over 200 recordings, including at least 30 for which he is leader. Beyond...
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Audiopile Review: At it for almost 25 years, Belgian DIY drone-folk artist Annelies Monseré follows up 2023’s breakthrough release Mares with this new full length, one comprised of material that apparently dates as far back as 2016. Not always easily accessible, physically and psychically, Monseré’s steady drip of hyper-limited releases...
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Audiopile Review: 2020 album from the UK-based experimental artist Luke Cowan, which has somehow survived staying print the past first years despite being pressed in a micro edition of 100, the final copies recently scooped up by one of our more discerning distributors. Somewhere between the experimental folk axis of...
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Audiopile Review: Over the last few years, Japanese composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and electronics experimenter Eiko Ishibashi has emerged as a distinctly distinct musical voice. Given the world’s penchant for pigeonholing musicians (especially, let’s face it, female-identifying musicians) it’s particularly impressive that this emergence has happened largely without reference to her...
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Audiopile Review: Berlin’s Jan Jelinek could easily coast on his reputation as a glitch legend. Seriously, he could just fucking coast. Jelinek’s 2001 classic ‘Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records’ was one of the most accessible albums of the original glitch scene. And his work as Farben and Gramm was among the grooviest music to...
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The NID Tapes’ presents a collection of early Indian electronic music uncovered at the archives of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Recorded between 1969-1972 the compilation chronicles electronic works from the previously unknown Indian composers Gita Sarabhai, I.S. Mathur, Atul Desai, S.C. Sharma and Jinraj Joshipura who worked...
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Black Truffle is pleased to announce Resonant Trees, the first vinyl release from French composer-performer Léo Dupleix. An active member of the international community of younger musicians working with just intonation, Dupleix has composed works for solo instrumentalists and ensembles in Europe and Japan, as well as performing extensively on...
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Garth Erasmus is an artist and musician based in Cape Town, South Africa. Threnody for the KhoiSan is his first album under his own name. Since 1985 his artistic interests have broadened to include music-making, designing and making his own instruments based on indigenous KhoiSan knowledge. From 1999 to 2012...
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Trash Can Lamb is a new solo album from Akron, OH-based multi-instrumentalist Keith Freund. For the better part of twenty years, Freund has been producing intimate, shape-shifting music on his own and as part of collaborative projects such as Trouble Books, Lemon Quartet, and Aqueduct Ensemble. Here, he concocts a...
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Black Truffle is thrilled to present the first vinyl reissue of David Rosenboom’s unique Future Travel, originally released on the short-lived Detroit label Street Records in 1981 and here presented in an expanded edition with an additional LP of wild, previously unheard live and studio material from the same period....
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Edition of 500 copies, screen printed cover. Includes two inserts: a replica of the original insert and the English translation. Henry Krutzen is a relatively shadowy figure in the history of experimental sound. Between the early '80s and the 2010s, there are only a handful of albums that bear his...
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The explorer Walter Maioli makes his most amazing adventure, the journey to the center of the Earth. Retracing the exploits of the Platonic demiurge, he identifies in the cave the deepest meaning of myth. Primordial sounds, not shadows, are at the center of this magical path straddling geology and Paleolithic...
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Merzbow's impact transcends the confines of traditional music, embodying an ethos of constant innovation and fearless exploration into uncharted realms of sound. Navigating through the annals of Merzbow's extensive career reveals an artist who, for over 40 years, has remained dedicated to reshaping our understanding of music and pushing the...
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A band who have justifiably been championed across the world, Tokyo’s Melt-Banana have been responsible for some of the most complex punk rock ever made … that far outshines ninety-nine percent of most other bands out there. The band once described their live show as “Shooting machine gun and laser...
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Love of Life, the band’s eighth studio album, followed soon after White Light in 1992. According to Allmusic’s Ned Ragget, “Love of Life continues the astounding creative roll Swans found themselves on … yet another Swans masterpiece." The vinyl version of this album has also been unavailable since its original...
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White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, Swans’ seventh studio album originally released in 1991, is considered the starting point for the second section of Swans’ inimitable history. Described as “…the glistening, glimmering sounds of the pensive countryside” by Stereogum, this will be the first time White Light from the...
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This album is actually really good in a lot of ways. Too much reverb here and there, but not as intrusive as some other Swans releases (I used to be infatuated with Phil Spector and naively figured that adding reverb could get the same effect). Anyway, I think this album...
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“This sound / synapse transposition is as haunting as it is beautiful—surely Grouper’s best.”—Tiny Mix Tapes “If past Grouper releases have inhabited abyssal trenches and damp backwoods, here Harris takes us journeying across constellations and stars. Two of the most beguiling albums of the year, exquisitely realized and singularly evocative.”...
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Audiopile Review: No longer a mere offshoot of the long-running and many-tentacled noise-punk outfit Shearing Pinx, Nanaimo’s own Earth Ball break from the regional limitations inherit with isolated island living and self-released cassettes with a debut LP on one of the UK’s best imprints, Upset! The Rhythm. Initially formed as...
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Audiopile Review: Softening the edges of the doom-drone-folk of his duo Tongue Depressor, New England multi-instrumentalist Henry Birdsey has managed to break through to a wider audience with his Old Saw project, which began with 2021’s sublime Country Tropics. Much like Tongue Depressor, the sound of Old Saw is steeped...
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Dirty Three Ahoy! Appropriately disheveled, the Three—Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White—emerge from the unending waves of time to pick up their guitar drum and viola / violin / piano / synthesizer / loops / percussion for their first album in a decade. Their playing encompasses ALL—from the original...
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