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Out of stockZaius Tapes opens 2023 with a reissue that few if any would have predicted The Hams’ legendary and elusive sole release was promoted — as an exclusive — through Systematic via the backdoor in the summer of 1987 amidst the distributor’s fog of bankruptcy The Hams’ label, Down And Out, was equally mysterious, having...
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Oslo’s Deathprod (aka Helge Sten) announces Compositions, his new album out January 27th on Smalltown Supersound, and presents its lead single/video, “Composition 1” The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019’s OCCULTING DISK—“a mesmerizing, terrifying, and emotionally nuanced ‘anti-fascist ritual’ of an...
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A selection of private press 45s featuring Nate Young, John Olson, Alex Moskos, Gretchen Gonzales, Aaron Dilloway & Raven Chacon These collaborations between the core Wolf Eyes crew and friends was originally self-released as a series of super-limited 7” hand painted box sets, but now the core ‘hits’ have been compiled...
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Between 1988 and 2010, Steve Reich composed three string quartets - Different Trains, Triple Quartet and WTC 9/11 Deutsche Grammophon now presents this trilogy of works for the first time on one album, in definitive new recordings from the Mivos Quartet Hailed by The Chicago Reader as "one of America's most daring and ferocious...
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Like clockwork, the latest affirmations from Mosquitoes Following up last year's Reverse Drift / Reverse Change, this record continues the deconstruction of assumptions around the idea of a music group or "band" to descend further into rough shards of notes and ideas Outlines opens with a loop of a distant subway car approximating...
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Ritmiche Italiane transports the listeners through an anomaly in the fabric of musical space-time, connecting the distant past with the modern era and the plains of a lost continent with the cities of the Italian peninsula The artists featured in the compilation strongly believed in the absence of barriers and conventions between...
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Out of stock2022 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...
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Out of stockAlga Marghen presents the last chapter from the Feedback Works documentation series, a brand-new LP including "In Memoriam-Ostinato" and "Danse des Dakinis", two previous unreleased tracks by Eliane Radigue Among the works of fixed duration from the feedback period, "In Memoriam-Ostinato" is the link between "Jouet Electronique"...
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Out of stock2022 repress 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 layout Both works...
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Out of stockReissue, originally released in 1993 White Heaven's second album, Strange Bedfellow, is one of the great unsung albums of the '90s Japanese underground Released two years after their striking debut, Out, the album reveals the group shifting to a more dynamic and finely honed sound You Ishihara's songwriting and arrangements take...
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‘’Zouroku no Kibyo is the first album by Hijokaidan, released in April 1982 It is a compilation of live recordings from 1981, when the extreme performances of Hijokaidan first attracted attention, and is a record of the chaotic inner energy of young people in their early 20s, influenced by rock, jazz, contemporary music, and...
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Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan; the group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, as the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group Hijokaidan Mikawa later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with Fumio Kosakai (also an occasional member of Hijokaidan, as well as a former member of CCCC)...
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Out of stockValentina Magaletti's Rotta is released roughly two years since Blume Edition's last LP in 2020 The album encounters the Italian born, London based percussionist and composer embarking into the territory of the solo performer, sculpting a remarkable sense of emotive ambience and space from complex polyrhythms and electronic...
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This is alga marghen’s third installment of Smegma’s original “Suburban Primitive Avant-folk music” Period (1973-1975) based in Pasadena, featuring three previously unreleased tracks from the deep vault of their home recordings In the beginning, the Band Smegma had only one rule No Musicians Starting from scratch, they...
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Reissue Recorded in St James Norlands Church in London in November 1968 and first released in the following year, this work stands as the first solo bass album in the history of jazz and improvised music Born in 1934 in San Francisco, Barre Phillips is one the most influential bassists of his generation In his long career Phillips...
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Out of stockQueens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone Crafted by the distilled duo of Thighpaulsandra and John Balance, the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural,...
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Out of stockJohn Swing of Gaia Tones debuts under the Monoculture name with four searching and shifting steppers that share the ambition of the best GT work while pushing out into different terrain Across the four tracks, Swing splits the difference between cold world minimal techno (Last), deep house exploration (Untitled Journey) and...
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Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe Potts and Rick Potts and soon joined by Tom Recchion of Doo-Dooettes, LAFMS incorporated free improvisation, modular synthesizers,...
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Sound-art collage of field recordings, voicemails and improvisations collected and curated by LAMFS founder member Joe Potts "Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe...
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Selected works from 1979 'Sound' exhibition in Los Angeles "Sound: An Exhibition of Sound Sculpture, Instrument Building and Acoustically Tuned Spaces opened at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art in the summer of 1979 (and was also on view later that year at PS1 in New York) Curated by Bob Wilhite and Robert Smith,...
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Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members Chip Chapman, Joe Potts and Rick Potts and soon joined by Tom Recchion of Doo-Dooettes, LAFMS incorporated free improvisation, modular synthesizers,...
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This 1997 CD reissue of vintage gorked-out wahoo originally released by Los Angeles Free Music Society in the late '70s includes four bonus tracks (the Pigface Chant 7-inch) A bizarre combo of the tape-loops-and-nonsense later perfected by Negativland, the meandering skronk of Jandek or Gate, and the nightmarish hippie meltdowns...
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Out of stockWASTELAND JAZZ ENSEMBLE is a staple in the world of destroyed music With countless releases cataloged by a literal who's who in the field, (cassettes, CDrs and records on American Tapes, Troniks, New Forces, Oxen, Torn Light, Nashazphone and of course—there was a split 7" w/ Tiger Hatchery on Gilgongo), the duo of JON LORENZ and...
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Jesus Was Born in a Mobile Home, a cassette release from the fall of 1984, represents Spike in Vain's first attempt at a second album Recorded shortly after the release of Disease Is Relative in January 1984, the original group returned to The Island and laid down tracks for nine songs, with a focus on the band's earliest material...
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claire rousay's a heavenly touch blends piano, percussion and field recordings into a hushed, transgressive mix Originally issued on cassette in April 2020 by Already Dead Tapes, this marks its first appearance on vinyl, mastered by Andrew Weathers (Lucy Liyou, Hayden Pedigo, More Eaze) Coming on the heels of last year's...
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Out of stockRecital publish an album of lost Derek Bailey sessions recorded with his friend and collaborator Charlie Morrow In 1982, Bailey and Morrow organized a series of live concerts and studio sessions around New York This new LP is a boiled-down rendering of the master tapes that lived dormant in Charlie's archive, until now Throughout...
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A body is bounded It operates within physical limitations and biological constraints Whilst some see these physiological boundaries as a terminus, others such as Colin Stetson perceive them as a nexus of possibility, and perhaps even of expansion It is in this zone of unsteady tension and promise that his new album Chimæra dwells...
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Out of stockAlva Noto with Martin L Gore and Willian Basinski offer two versions of David Bowie's "Subterraneans" alva noto ·...
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Out of stockThe first new Climax Golden Twins record in many years Founded in 1993 by Robert Millis and Jeffery Taylor, Climax Golden Twins is perhaps best known for the soundtrack to Session Nine (directed by Brad Anderson in 2001, original soundtrack on Milan International) CGT have released ambient recordings (Lovely on Anomalous Records),...
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Out of stock"Bajas Fresh is on the beach here in 2017, existing and thriving in the same wrecked world as you and me How they finding it so chill and pretty It's been over three years since the last proper Bitchin Bajas album -- a natural paradise of woodwinds, droning organs, analog synths, field recordings, and an ever-expanding sense of...
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The official soundtrack to Derek Jarman's 1984 short film Imagining October, with music recorded by Derek's friend and collaborator Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle), and Dave Ball (Soft Cell, The Grid) Recorded at DJM recording studios in Theobalds Road, London Derek Jarman put together a program of films for the...
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On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert This ensemble’s solos spring from collective improvisations and a tumultuous backbeat, loosely inspired by the creations of Coltrane, Coleman, Albert Ayler,...
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Out of stockComing full circle, Vålnad Av Fornskog is the fourth and final part in Arv & Miljö's suite of seasonal ambient albums initiated with Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid (Omlott, 2018) and continued with Himmelsvind (Discreet Music, 2020) and Ensam Är Nattens Rymd Över Vita Vägar (Discreet Music, 2021) Heavily inspired by the...
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Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town somewhere in the USA After a comet hits the town, mysterious things starts to happen The Gothenburg-based artist Magnus Jäverling started to develop the concept and story around 2016, which included a scale model of the town and now the culmination of the project; his 10-track debut album...
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On Bridge Variations, the now Stockholm-based English guitarist Jon Collin changes his guitar for a keyed fiddle Mostly recorded to tape under different bridges around Stockholm during 2021, partly for the sound but also because of their importance to the geographical make-up of the place, the album is like a modern take on...
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Early and mostly previously unreleased recordings from Dundedin's The Strange Girls, a band that initially consisted of Clayton Noone, Kaaterama "Motty" Morehu and Jon Arcus The Strange Girls existed on and off from 1999 up until Motty's passing in 2019 and left behind a peculiar trail of gems scattered around on a myriad of...
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By the mid-1990s, there was a quietly thriving underground in Wellington, New Zealand, made up of a number of loosely aligned operatives - Surface of The Earth and their World Resources imprint; Fever Hospital and 8 Dec, and the music made by the members of The Garbage & the Flowers after that group temporarily dissolved in...
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Out of stockten years in the making, finally the debut album of this belgian sextet with members of Mote, Joe Speedboat and Annelies Monseré arrives Cello, flute, harmonium and violin blend in with the traditional guitar-bass-drums trio – making them land on a unique spot at the crossroad where ancestral doom folk, heady dronerock and...
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Re-release after of another true CLASSIC by Muslimgauze, originally released in 1999 by the label BSI in Portland/USA, and NEVER since re-released! This much demanded first ever re-release comes in completely new artwork, and with all tracks re-mastered especially for this edition The regular black vinyl version is limited to 500...
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Out of stockMutual admirers of each other's work, these titans of Scottish and French dronefolk team up for a split LP - 2 tracks by Pefkin, 3 by Roxane The fact that these like-minded artists explore the boundaries of what connects them, makes it a very exciting release The Pefkin side is Gayle Brogan at her most melodic, whereas Roxane goes...
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Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my...
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Ectopic Ents is proud to announce the long-awaited vinyl reissue of the second Foetus album, ACHE, to coincide with it’s 40th anniversary Released under the moniker You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath, the ACHE album was originally released in 1982 on JG Thirlwell’s Self Immolation label, whilst he was resident in London It...
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John Glacier is a comparatively new figure on the scene, but some have been swift to draw comparisons with one of London’s most revered auteurs, Dean Blunt Listening to “SHILOH: Lost For Words” and that rings true; this is music of elite quality Across the 25-minute mixtape/album, Glacier — not her real name, incidentally,...
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Originally released back in 1972 on collectible krautrock label, Brain, this is the second album from electronic music pioneers, Moebius and Roedelius Between them, they created an atmospheric, droning behemoth through the modulation of their arcane synthesizers An essential item to anyone who has an interest in the evolution of...
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“Pre Zz” is the first album by 5AM, a band and group effort by long time adulthood friends 5ive, Andry, and Moko5ive is known for his ongoing contribution for music-duo, Cos/Mes and other various projects, Andry is a multidisciplinary designer and Moko works as DJ and producer under her project Powder 5AM plays about time,...