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Romantically appealing, faded and lo-fi grubby Dutch wave album about a Dutch/Moroccan couple in the ‘60s Quite kooky and cute in a way reminding us of Pram, Pierre Bastien, early V/Vm “'Together we went to visit Annie's in Leiden once I brought a recorder and a keyboard Annie told stories and we sang songs Later when we...
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Emak Bakia – long out of print masterpieces from 1994 Even in the huge Bryn Jones' discography Emak Bakia really stands out of albums from the period due its rather unique (house-music related) sound and short, by the standards of Bryn Jones, tracks Like a crossmix between Psychic TV (circa Towards Thee Infinite Beat) and...
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What happens when Detroit's WOLF EYES and Austin's BLANK HELLSCAPE team up to provide a suitably nightmarish backdrop for USA 2020 vanquished by fear, greed, incurable disease, etc Fuck if I know, it's not like they recorded their tracks in the same room while watching cable news I mean, credit both ensembles for having an...
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Out of stockIt began with ‘Kwaidan’, a simmering study on the lost art of Japanese ghost story-telling Then there was ‘Komachi’, baptized in the earthly winds and static that define its comforting sonics On ‘Kofū’, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of artforms and...
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Out of stockKamixlo has experienced a lot of loss in the last two-and-a-half years His long-awaited debut LP, Cicatriz, is named after the Spanish word for “scar”, taking its intense and energetic tone from the tough times in the Brixton-based producer’s life An extremely personal album that follows 11 songs with titles like “Sick”,...
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Originally recorded in Seattle, in 2000 and released on CD only later the same year, The Sundowner Sessions is a recording featuring John Massoni (electronics) and Sonic Boom (custom human voice synthesizer) "[Sonic} can make something out of almost anything He'd just pick out a tape of mine (I have a bunch of tapes with sound and...
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Out of stockRepress forthcoming Abstrakce Recods present a reissue of Nurse With Wound's Rock 'n Roll Station, originally released in 1994 First time on vinyl since 2006 and first time with its original track listing Limited one-off pressing with letter press cover and bonus track Rock 'n Roll Station began life with Steven Stapleton asking...
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"First in a series of three records of library music miniatures from composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O'Sullivan (Æthenor, Ulver, This is Not This Heat, etc) For heads, the term 'library music' in 2020 might evoke dodgy Italian gray market LPs and crate diggers hunting for 'funky breaks' -- but London's venerable KPM...
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Out of stockWRWTFWW Records announce the full official reissue of two major works from the great Somei Satoh gathered into one LP: the mystic and meditative Emerald Tablet (1978) and Echoes (1981) Sourced from original masters and available on vinyl with liner notes by passionate Japanese music connoisseur/collector/critic/DJ, Masaaki Hara...
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Out of stockWRWTFWW Records announce the full official reissue of Somei Satoh's magnificent Avatamsaka Sutra inspired Mandala Trilogy with one additional never-released piece Sourced from original masters and available on double vinyl in heavy 350gsm sleeve with liner notes by passionate Japanese music connoisseur/collector/critic/DJ, Masaaki...
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Born and raised in Argentina, Morita Vargas is an experimental artist and producer based in Buenos Aires She manipulates her voice through reverbs, delays and whispers, singing in a self-invented 'language' The sound of Morita’s voice is a portal into her thriving, dreamlike world brimming, shimmering and beating with unrefined...
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This is the standard non-numbered black vinyl edition Danny Hyde on this release: "In 1995 and before I was employed to take tracks home and manipulate the streams to create new content From these experiments came the "Scorn" dreamspace mix, and much of Black Light District After we came back from New Orleans working on the...
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Out of stockDanalogue x Alabaster dePlume have spent the past few years traversing jazz cosmology in neighbouring orbit with one another Now the pair come together for the first time on their debut album 'I Was Not Sleeping' Danalogue's profile as a producer is rising fast due to the recent success of his work at the helm of Mercury...
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From Ajanta to Lhasa is an intense and unique work with mystical and exotic references that sees the light for the first time in 40 years, and find its place among the must-haves artifacts of the Italian experimental/minimalist scene In 1979, upon returning from a two-month trip to India, Arturo Stàlteri, a pianist of undisputed...
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Black Truffle announce the first vinyl reissue of Rafael Toral's Aeriola Frequency, originally released by Perdition Plastics in 1998 Toral made his name in the world of mid-90s experimental electronics with two releases, Sound Mind Sound Body (1994) and Wave Field (1995), both now recognized as classics and reissued on vinyl by...
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Suzanne Ciani is a true electronic music pioneer The five Grammy nominated Italian-American neoclassical composer is unquestionably one of the greatest minds that contemporary music has ever witnessed After an incredible career spanning forty years, Ciani's accomplishments have become a benchmark when discussing the origins of...
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Soul Note Vinyl present a reissue of Bill Dixon's In Italy - Volume One, originally released in 1980 Bill Dixon one of the great visionary composers and improvisers in modern creative jazz, In Italy - Volume One was recorded in Milan in 1980 and released on Soul Note A wide-open tapestry and a rare example of open interaction...
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Out of stockMannequin and Platform 23 Records reissue what is considered to many the most complete album by perennial anarcho-outsiders Bourbonese Qualk 'Preparing for Power' was the last album recorded at the bands base at the Ambulance Station on the Old Kent Road, London, and again released on their own Recloose Organisation, saw the...
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The sound recordings for Jimi Tenor's Sähkö movie got lost in mid 90s It was only last spring Warp Records retrurned all the demo tapes Jimi sent them in 90s Happily the Sähkö soundtrack parts were on those tapes too We decided to compile a soundtrack EP from them for Mika Vainio's memorial in Oslo in September 2018 All the...
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The undisputed king of Japanese noise MERZBOW returns, as the landmark album Venereology celebrates 25 tinnitus-inducing years with its inaugural vinyl pressing! Remastered by James Plotkin (ISIS, ELECTRIC WIZARD, FULL OF HELL, and more) and featuring reworked art, this is the most extreme recording of harsh electronic...
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Relapse presents a remastered reissue from the undisputed king of Japanese noise-MERZBOW Pulse Demon is one of the most celebrated releases of Masami Akita's storied 4 decade long career Composed entirely by live noise concrete and the use of a fuzz box, Pulse Demon eschews all overdubs and studio trickery,...
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Out of stockBetween Christmas 2000 and New Year 2001 producers Ekkehard Ehlers and Stephan Mathieu recorded an album of warm, soft, delicately crackling electronic music in the space of that week It was christened with the ambivalent title "Heroin" and was released on CD via the label Brombron in 2001 and later in 2003 re-issued on Kit...
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One of 2020’s few saving graces, CS + Kreme hypnotically expand upon the styles of their AOTY ’Snoopy’ in two durational beauties for TTT Conrad Standish’s serpentine bass work and Sam Karmel’s slanted electronics lay the foundations for two sumptuous works involving vital input from Judith Hamann (Cello) and Dan...
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Out of stockTara Clerkin Trio present their self titled debut LP on Laura Lies In Similar to that directorial effect of filming at double speed and then slowing down for playback, the record ambles with assurance, expertly paced Opening with a jovial cacophony before the beatific ‘in the room’ confidently relieves, washing away any...
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From Mike Cooper: "Playing With Water is a novel written by James Hamilton-Paterson I was introduced to his writing by the Australian poet Peter Bakowski who gave me a copy of his book Seven Tenths - The Sea And Its Thresholds; a book that influenced my record Globe Notes and subsequent works immensely Another of his books Playing...
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Out of stockGatefold sleeve The Acid Lands, created by the Prague-based Opening Performance Orchestra, was first heard in public in 2014 at the Movement-Sound-Space festival in Ostrava, to mark the centenary of William S Burroughs's birth The piece was performed live by Opening Performance Orchestra and their guests, the theremin player...
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Out of stockLaughing Hands worked in the experimental music scene in Melbourne in the very early 1980s They were an improvisation group using tapes, synthesizers, guitar, and hand percussion much of which was then treated through the synthesizers, producing their soft, insistent and rhythmic sound Dog Photos was originally released in 1981 by...
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Out of stock2020 restock To mark its 2015 ten-year anniversary, the Finders Keepers label presents an improved, remastered repress, with updated liner notes in a gatefold sleeve, of its first release, a reissue of Jean-Claude Vannier's 1972 album L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches At the time of the 2005 reissue the resurgence of '60s Gallic pop,...
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Out of stockReissue of Mika Vainio's final album under the Ø moniker Following on from the crushing technoid scapes of 'Kilo' under his own name and the blackened alloys of his ÄÄNIPÄÄ album with Stephen O'Malley, 'Konstellaatio' reveals the revered producer at his most sensitive, teetering on the brink of the abyss and projecting...
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'Allt Är Intet' is the second full-length by the power house quintet featuring Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson (Fire!, The Thing), Norwegian saxophonist Kjetil Moster (Moster, Zanussi 5), Ethiopian born vocalist Sofia Jernberg (Fire! Orchestra, PAAVO), Norwegian guitarist Anders Hana (MoHa!, Ultralyd) and Norwegian drummer...
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'Naqoyqatsi' is the third and final film in the Qatsi trilogy, translated as "life as war" Just like its predecessors 'Koyaanisqatsi' and 'Powaqqatsi' the music was composed by Philip Glass Performed by members of the Philip Glass Ensemble, and featuring the amazing Yo-Yo Ma on cello, this completes the lengthy score which was...
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Out of stockPianist Rick Simpson’s impeccable technique and restless imagination have earned him a place at the forefront of contemporary UK music He’s equally at home exploring the tradition or pushing fearlessly against the boundaries, and now his unique creative voice is back in the spotlight with a typically...
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Maximilian “Twig” Turnbull, the Toronto-based creative with a flair for the eccentric, has a certain way of making madness seem comprehensible Though different from his normal brand of neo-psychedelia (which is often recorded under the name Slim Twig), Turnbull’s Badge Époque Ensemble, a mostly instrumental musical...
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Out of stockSecret Pyramid is the nom de nocturne of Vancouver, BC’s resident ambient explorer Amir Abbey Having perfected his brand of elegant elegia over the past decade heard on albums released by illustrious imprints as Students of Decay, Ba-Da-Bing!, and Nice Up International and collaborated with the likes of Loscil, Abbey makes his...
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"After a banner year that witnessed Lafawndah release her first album Ancestor Boy, the debut of her soundsystem Fara Fara, and further incursions into film, contemporary art and fashion, the ceaseless artist returns with another plot twist: The Fifth Season Inspired by her encounter with author NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy,...
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Out of stockFeedback drenched noise for the classic "France" Demos from Japanese psych noise legend, Les Rallizes Denudes Limited to...
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Out of stockVanish is Julia Reidy's yearning, fat debut for Editions Mego Since 2019, Julia's bubbling 12-string guitar work -- sighing streams of crystal plucks drawn closer or echoing on -- has moored a tactile, ever-lusher sound On "Guitar", the Australian, Berlin-based musician melts down sharp synths; electric fuzz and flex; uncanny...
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Out of stockSix great pop standards remembered: five pop songs are dissected by sampler, stretched, compressed, and re-collaged In this way, their identity is lost What remains is a vague concreteness: flashes of déjà vu and remote echoes that evoke the original GES (Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples) active members: Helmut Schmidt,...
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Out of stockLaurel Halo lands on Latency with a cinematic suite featuring Oliver Coates on cello and drums by Eli Keszler Making her first move since 2017’s remarkable ‘Dust’ album, Laurel takes inspiration from her score work for Metahaven and Ursula Le Guin’s translation of the ‘Tao Te Ching’ in pursuit of a quieter, more...
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Out of stock“Smalltown Superjazzz was a free-jazz subsidiary label to Smalltown Supersound from 2005-2012 The label has been dormant in the years 2012 to 2019, but is now reborn as the Actions For Free Jazz series "The AFJ-Series represents a new start - built on the foundation and heritage of the Superjazzz label AFJ-Series is short for...
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MANSUR is the newly initiated project by Jason Kohnen (ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, ex-The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation) joined by Dimitry El-Demerdashi (ex-Phurpa) and introducing Martina Horváth on vocals The sound of MANSUR navigates between the waters of musical fantasy and reality - it morphs and blends...
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Composed between 2017 - 2020, these songs came to fruition over a period of time coinciding with an awakening spirituality 'Time Together' is an attempt at describing the beginning of a journey into self knowledge and spiritual awareness through music, creating something soothing and meditative that is also percussive and bass...
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Out of stockEstonian violinist & singer Maarja Nuut & LA's psyche-experimentator Sun Araw hand in gentle, unpolished improvisations on their collaborative album “Fantasias for Violin & Guitar”, recorded live on location by Jackson Bailey aka Tapes Brought together by Tallinn’s IDA Radio under the umbrella of a 10-day...
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McDermott is releasing Roped In, a gorgeous, intimate, and often spare album that pulls back from the collaborative nature established on Going Steady for a collection of fragile drone pieces anchored by McDermott’s intricate but direct guitar playing and haunting pedal steel work from Portland, Oregon’s Barry Walker Featuring...
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The second release on The Henning Christiansen archive label is a compilation of four works from 1967-1972 including a poem set in a bath, an unknown musical work, the musical backdrop to a horse sacrifice and a soundtrack to a school play What binds these works together alongside the period when written is their basis in "song"...
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Out of stock"Here is the first volume of protean solo improvisations recorded by Loren Connors in his artist's garret in New Haven, Connecticut It was committed to tape on February 20, 1979 and pressed to vinyl soon after As with the two earlier LPs on Loren's Daggett label, singer/recorder-player Kath Bloom also appears on this record,...