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The first release from Mr Bungle since 1999 The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo is a re-recording of the band's 1986 high school thrash metal demo along with songs written then, but never recorded The record also features covers of classics by SOD and Corrosion Of Conformity This version of Mr Bungle is original members Mike...
Composed, produced, and arranged by Eartheater alone, Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin draws a path back to the primordial lava lake from which she first emerged, as it also testifies to the reincarnating resurrections the project has undergone over its first full decade of existence While the album renews her focus on guitar...
Cindy Lee, the performance and songwriting vehicle of Canadian artist Patrick Flegel (who fronted influential indie group Women earlier), previously stunned listeners with Act Of Tenderness, a heart-wrenching statement informed by the noirish core of celebrity, and has continued to enchant with every album, including the startling...
Some bands struggle to transcend their initial mythos, those stories that introduce them to the public eye But The Dead C is a notable exception They appeared in 1986 under a cloud of mystery, their unconventional location (South Island, New Zealand) helping to fuel their erratic sound Name-dropped through the nineties by...Out of stock
An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges...Out of stock
2020 repress #8 on Pitchfork's "50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time" list To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, Important Records offer a definitive double-LP combining the classic, complete original 1989 release with selected tracks from the Deep Listening Band's 1991 album, The Ready Made Boomerang Recorded in a...
"Laibach is art, but more than just art Founded on 1st June 1980 in the then heavy industrial Yugoslavian town of Trbovlje (today a city in central Slovenia), the band took their name after the German designation of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana which was undesirable in Yugoslavia during the Tito's and post-Tito era In 1987...
Originally released in 2015 End of Summer captures Jóhann Jóhannsson's journey to the Antarctic Peninsula to discover the calm scenery of a landscape changing seasons, barely influenced or even noticed by humanity The Super 8 film is a comforting study of a peaceful setting in one of the most crucial and endangered areas of our...
Lunch Money Life make apocalypse music, impossible to categorise, rich in texture, immersing the listener in a world of disgust and yearning - 'Immersion Chamber' is the perfect embodiment of that Full of foreboding energy, restless beats and agitated noise: it's mardy electronics married with tense jazz-tinged and combative...
Black Sweat Records present a reissue of Roberto Laneri's Anadyomene, originally released in 1987 The eclectic sensitivity of the composer Roberto Laneri (Prima Materia) looks unparalleled in the Italian avant-garde context Anadyomene, published for the first time in 1987, shows the myth of Venus in a dystopian and dreamlike world...Out of stock
KEN KESEY's Ultra Rare 1966 studio recording of the Acid Test with THE GRATEFUL DEAD Legendary documentation of the 1965-66 Bay Area Acid Test scene from 14 hours of the actual trip (recorded in a studio) Lots of amazing mind games and word play with Ken Kesey and KEN BABBS in good form Ad libbed poetry, fractured harmonica...
Compassion is a cycle of music born of the need for healing It’s a great moment in life to realize when healing is required No matter how broken in body and spirit, to be able to recognize what is needed—that something is needed at all—is the beginning of relief Jim Becker has been playing music for several decades, in...
Pennsylvania native Keith Kenniff’s output as Goldmund has established him as one of the preeminent composers of minimal piano-based ambient music alongside peers like Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran, and even Ryuichi Sakamoto, who himself once described Kenniff’s work as “so, so, so beautiful” His recordings tread sincerely...
Los Angeles-based harpist Mary Lattimore returns with Silver Ladders, the full-length follow-up to acclaimed album Hundreds of Days Since 2018, Lattimore has toured internationally, released collaborative albums with artists such as Meg Baird and Mac McCaughan, and shared a friends-based remix album featuring artists such as...
Veteran NYC based Scottish electronic musician Drew McDowall's latest work is his loftiest, most liturgical, and least industrial outing to date — and potentially the apex of his recent discography Named after an ancient Greek word for votive offering, Agalma exudes a hooded, devotional aura, creaking and keeling under vast...
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( ) - Sigur Rós’s celebrated third album, and for many people - especially in US where it remains their biggest selling work - the most quintessentially “Sigur Rós” record of their career to date It is the only album where Jónsi sings entirely in the wordless lyrics of Hopelandic A desire to elide meaning and...
2020 repress Alga Marghen very proudly presents a remastered version of the complete documentation of Eliane Radigue sound installations from 1969-1970, including the broad tectonic vibrations of "Omnht," the celestial voices of "Usral," the massive chant of "Stress Osaka," and more -- the works of this artist's feedback period...
Alga Marghen present these astonishing archival works by Eliane Radigue, originally released along with Feedback Works as a double pack, and now available as standalone LP Listening to Radigue's music is a transformative, humbling experience Her singular sound is best described by Michel Chion as "infinitely discreet next to...
1982, the seasons turn from spring to summer Two young men in the peak of their youth are eager to immerse themselves in the recording of a single cassette tape In March of that year, Soichiro Suzuki and Michio Kojima emerged under the band name “World Standard” This record was produced in a room in Kojima’s...Out of stock
An intricate lattice of runaway storms are tailored into E-Saggila's latest EP, 'Anima Bulldozer' Careering off the edge from its own furious torque at some intersections, E-Saggila resolves the heady gains of the commotion with some of her most soothing composition to date by the EP's...
The cutting-edge ambient music from Japan brought by up-and-coming producer and musician Okada Takuro and sound artist duenn This urban sound is made to be the “air” to you “As ignorable as it is interesting” is how Brian Eno describes ambient music Then how should this interesting yet may be ignored sound be part of...
In May 2018, Jaimie Branch took up a month-long residency in the shipping container-turned-recording studio at Pioneer Works, an arts center down the street from her home in Red Hook, Brooklyn She called up Jason Nazary, and he rolled by the studio loaded with acoustic drums, electronic triggers, modular FX unit, synths,...
Mrs Piss is a new collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie Drawing on their collective rock, metal, and industrial influences, the project began while the two were touring around together during Wolfe’s Hiss Spun album in 2017 The result is their debut album Self-Surgery, which was recorded at The Dock Studio...
Sunquake is the first ever vinyl compilation of work by Désaccord Majeur, the alter ego of French artist Jérôme Mauduit who played a crucial role in Europe's post-industrial/ethno-ambient scene Linking with figureheads Muslimgauze, O Yuki Conjugate, and Rapoon (Zoviet France) via cassette compilations and seminal label...Out of stock
After more than 12 years, Einstürzende Neubauten's long-awaited new studio album Alles In Allem is finally going to be released The album marks the quintessence of the band's output, opening yet another unexpected door in 40 years of ongoing sound research by a very experimental group of musicians around Blixa Bargeld This band,...
12" vinyl reissue of the rare and infamous double-7", originally published by FMP in 1973 Recordings from a workshop at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, April 1972, featuring 15 children (aged 8-11) and Peter Brötzmann, Fred van Hove, Han...
Edition of 400 Reissue of Hermann Nitsch's very first release, originally published 48 years ago by Edition Galerie Klewan in a limited edition of 100 copies Produced and recorded at the WDR Radio in Cologne, Germany, the Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel (Aktion 38b) is "neither a radioplay nor a work of music It merely portrays the...
Long-time Muslimgauze fans with keen eyes and/or photographic memories may immediately notice something about the newly unearthed Sadaams Children album; with some slight orthographic differences, it just about shares a name with a short track from the classic Narcotic (Staalplaat, 1997; the similarity and the difference is...
" In 2008 during a large Muslimgauze transferring and remastering project for Roger Richards / Extreme Music, AP recorded a remix as a bonus addition, applying a more drone and ambience - based approach to counterpoint the Muslimgauze rhythms The year after three additional remixes were recorded as well, based on material...
In the pantheon of electronic music Terry Riley's 'A Rainbow In Curved Air' adorns a pedestal front and centre Taking inspiration from Hindustani classical music and the jazz techniques of Bill Evans and John Coltrane before him, Riley's minimalist psychedelic masterpiece can claim a direct influence on generations of musicians...
Infinite Fog Productions presents the long-awaited complete version of the 'Sara Dale's Sensual Massage' OST with 8 exclusive and unheard tracks 'Sara Dale's Sensual Massage' was a delightful erotic video with a mystic soundtrack by Coil Quite unusual for the band: dreamy ambient, almost spa-relaxed soft harmonies, bland tribal...Out of stock
Reissue of 2000 album Coil deals with the threat of lavishness and responds with noise This intense density of energetic anger explores areas Coil have threatened upon out in the past, but rarely have persued with such hallucinatory...
Reissue on vinyl of Coil's 2002 5-track album Few copies...
BACK IN PRINT ON DOUBLE-LP! Originally released in 2011, the third full-length by the groundbreaking experimental jazz collective is now available...
2020 repress, originally released in 2013 Recollection GRM assembles Greek experimental composer Iannis Xenakis' works for Groupe de Recherches Musicales circa 1957-1962 "Concret PH" (1958) was assembled for the Brussels World Fair The industrialist Philips commissioned Le Corbusier's famous "Philips Pavilion": "I'll create an...Out of stock
Shit And Shine return to the mighty Riot Season, the label that was brave enough to put them on the map in the first place This LP, like 2019's Doing Drugs, Selling Drugs returns to the sludge Sludge the way sludge is meant to be fucking sludgy and evil This shit is ridiculously heavy, in fact it could be one of the heaviest...
Compilation album curated by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The directive for the composers featured on Breathing Instruments was, in effect, to accentuate the ways in which instruments sound like they are breathing Some have recreated the literal experience of feeling or hearing the human breath Others take a more abstract approach, where...
Marco Corbelli's artistic journey began in the early '90s Under the pseudonym of Marco Rotula, he started to release a series of fanzines in A5 format The first was The Pleasure Agony, followed by Sick and Murders The aesthetics of these first fanzines were very sophisticated and the content deals with topics that will follow...
Exterminate, the most impressive and sinister album by Atrax Morgue first way -- it is just the thirteenth work in his name, during his first three years of artistic production, returns to torture the eardrums and brains of who comes across with his industrial, claustrophobic and distressing nightmares at least as much as the...
The sadistic industrial spurts of Atrax Morgue, are secretions of body fluids converted into noise stinging and nauseous and his work is an unhealthy, stinking container, with most depraved delusions that the human brain can give birth The fourteen splinters of Esthetik Of A Corpse were recorded in spring 1995 and released on tape...
Atrax Morgue has been one of the very few names to inherit the sound and annihilating effect of the power electronics school of the early 1980s He remains faithful to visceral (anti)sounds, no structural enrichment, no attempt to improve: the skeleton of nothing, the absolute point of no return, the representation of non-being,...Out of stock
Urashima present a reissue of Masonna's All Live Recording At My Room, originally released in 1989 Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna Maso Yamazaki founded...Out of stock
BACK IN PRINT! Seductive but perilous, this 2009 session featuring the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble under the Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation moniker combines drones and jazz, leading to a deep, dark and yet seductive trip This DOUBLE-LP comes with a thick glossy heavy gatefold...
Crossover mixture from japan It comes with influences that remind early Afrika Bambata, Cybotron, Egyptian Lover, De Lasoul and many...
Three years on from their debut collaborative album “Passive Aggressive“, Jonny Nash and Suzanne Kraft return with "Knife", the lead single from their forthcoming album, “A Heart So White” The single comes with an exclusive bonus digital track, "Processing The Negative", which will not appear on the full album “A...
The debut offering from Shakey, a new project from Silvia Kastel and Lizzie Davis (Wilted Woman) Shakey, then, is a syncretic meshing of both artists sensibilities, encompassing both’s love of digi-dub, jungle, musique concrete, and the fusing of ambient textures with abstracted rhythms Front cover and label artwork by artist...
This music does not come out of nowhere It comes from a guitar amplifier and a drum kit, and you are standing directly in front of them And it’s beautiful, all dozen tracks of the Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s "Soundkeeper": beautiful loud exchanges between Steve Gunn’s shimmer-blast guitar and John Truscinski’s outside-in drums,...
