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An unbelievable post-punk shuffler from 1981, by Tel-Aviv-Brussels band Minimal Compact! This tune is one of our favorite tracks ever and we've been wanting to reissue it since day one But this is no ordinary reissue! The 12'' includes an unreleased instrumental version plus a spaced-out extended dub mix by the living legend, Mad... -
Originally released in 1986, 'Nostalgia De Lo Humano' is almost unclassifiable For Segura, styles are another form of repression, something that serves to label and keep track of those who sees, listens, buys or plays, and especially who sells Despite the fact that Segura has been producing music continuously since the 1970s, his... -
Foam On A Wave is proud to present the first international issue of this chameleonic, shapeshifting record, from one of Hungary's most prolific musician and film composers, János Másik At times it calls to mind 23 Skidoo, Talking Heads and The Pop Group, at others it sits in its own corner of the room 1989 was a revolutionary... -
Picture the scene if you can It’s Sunday evening at the Meakusma Festival, 2019 A small audience (in varying states of inebriation and recovery) sit patiently on the floor, drenched in soft sunlight Fizzy Veins is set up to play - his guitar resting on his knees while he stares into his laptop with an expression displaying... -
"People who are sort of more the outcasts of society tend to tell it like it is" – Scott Seskind, 2015 Sky Girl is a mysteriously unshakeable companion, a deeply melancholic and sentimental journey through folk-pop, new wave and art music micro presses that span 1961-1991 A seemingly disparate suite of selections of forgotten... -
Camisole is proud to unveil another part of the french cold wave history with the reissue of "Paroles Absurdes" LP by White PainHailing from Lyon the band began as a duo with Patrick Saveau and Patrick Gravier in 1984Active figures in the underground scene of their city, they played some gigs and even had their own show on the... -
Electro, New Wave … The year is 1981 The Kiel-based PostPunk / Wave underground outfit NO MORE releases their second ever single „Suicide Commando“ and their world changes forever Well, not only their world – THE world What began as an independently published 7“ single became a cult classic, a genre... -
Artificial Dance is very happy to announce the full archival compilation of work by Richard Zeilstra AKA Genetic Factor Recorded in different parts of the world, at different times - we hope this will give the world a glimmer of the mind of Genetic Factor A mind that has been behind a variety of very influential operations during... -
Geier aus Stahl is one of the many artistic guises of Leonard Prochazka No superfluous elements take away from the core experience of his sound Somewhere a statement from David Byrne crossed our path, able to highlight something of the essence of Leonard's art: “No matter how alienated the subject or the singer might appear, the... -
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Concocted in a share house in the South of Brisbane in the mid-80s, a small collective of well-acquainted musicians including Jon Anderson, Rainer Guth, Gary McFeat & Rod Owen gathered to compose film soundtracks, music for pictures, therefore ‘Picture Music’ To this end, a ‘spec’ tape of Picture Music recordings would... -
Nigel Ayers ov industrial pioneers Nocturnal Emissions supplies cranky, offbeat dubs to Príncipe’s weirder sibling, Holuzam ‘In Dub’ holds Ayers most concerted effort in the echo chamber, committing his formative, longtime love of its etheric spatialisation and meditative appeal after some 30 odd years of dicing with its... -
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Well it's been more than 365 days and nights since we released a record on our small and independent record label based in Vancouver, BC For better or worse we have always operated at a pace that feels natural to us The same could be said for Mood Hut recording artist Jack J who has not released any music in over seven years Do... -
Fifteen artists revisit the tracks AND the cover art of Aksak Maboul's latest album 'Figures'! Ranging from simple remixes to reconstructions and cover versions, these 18 tracks are released on two separate, limited-edition vinyl LPs, as well as on two digital albums In order to extend the fun (and the metaphor in the... -
Fifteen artists revisit the tracks AND the cover art of Aksak Maboul's latest album 'Figures'!Ranging from simple remixes to reconstructions and cover versions, these 18 tracks are released on two separate, limited-edition vinyl LPs, as well as on two digital albumsIn order to extend the fun (and the metaphor in the title), Aksak... -
Once again Studio Mule dives deep into the music history of Japan, unearthing the multi-colored album “A-Key” by Eiki Nonaka, released as CD only on the short living japanese label Sun & Moon Records in 1995 An album, that uniquely unifies global ethnic music styles, the playfulness of Jazz, innovative electronic... -
DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) is an influential German electropunk band from Düsseldorf (Germany) The band claimed not to target anything while writing lyrics, but to surround around Delgado-López's fascination with the sound of particular words While recording their album Für Immer, the band split up After four... -
BBE Music presents the first ever reissue of ‘Classifieds’, an ultra-rare, privately pressed 1985 album by Moonshine aka Monica Rypma & Friends A naive and charming dose of dreamy DIY synth-pop interspersed with off-kilter, ambient interludes, original copies of ‘Classifieds’ are now almost impossible to dig up, but... -
As a co-founder of the legendary UK industrial group Cabaret Voltaire, Stephen Mallinder is free to claim influence over an impressive amount of contemporary underground electronic music With records like 1985’s landmark The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord LP Cabaret Voltaire set a certain standard for dark... -
When Chris Stewart set out to write and record his third album as Black Marble, he was newly living in Los Angeles, fresh off a move from New York The environment brought much excitement and possibility, but the distance had proved too much for the car he brought along With it out of commission indefinitely, he purchased a bus... -
Winterlong, the psychedelic new album from Executioner’s Mask is set for release on Profound Lore Records An epic bouquet of swelling synths, hypnotic melodies, and noisy guitars marry post-punk and shoegaze in ten songs exploring themes of liberation and self-destruction in these end-times In the studio, the core group of... -
“What is Plus instruments The title implies the secondary nature of the tools used to produce the sounds, maybe even of the sounds themselves The means of making sound are not important, but the sounds themselve, but even beyond them there is a force, a grumbling Maybe best represented by the first sound heard on Plus... -
To celebrate the seminal record's 20th year, ADULT and Ghostly have repressed Resuscitation in limited edition black and red vinyl Resuscitation served as a de facto introduction to the duo in 2001, collecting songs on CD (and later, vinyl) that had only previously been available on hard-to-find singles and EPs At the time, the... -
Alessandro Adriani marks his comeback on Mannequin Records with an impressive body of work on this 2xLP 'Program & Rhythm', inspired by the Italian library music and soundtrack composers Italian composers from the 60s to the 80s seemed limitless in their experiments and endlessly colorful, despite being a hidden part in the... -
Stacks is the Belgian duo of Jan and Sis Matthé These Antwerp residents build and undress different timbres and textures into vocal-hooked songs, flouting the rules of pop in the process We at Knekelhuis appreciate this immensely and are delighted to work with them ‘Love and Language’ is a romantic, moody pop-not-pop record... -
Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Micro-Phonies’, as originally remastered in 2013, now reissued on Turquoise vinyl ‘Micro-Phonies’ is Cabaret Voltaire’s most sleek dance record, featuring charting singles ‘James Brown’ and ‘Sensoria’ Released in 1984, the record gained its reputation as the Cabs’ most mainstream album... -
'The Crackdown' is the fourth studio album by Cabaret Voltaire It was released in 1983 This is Cabaret Voltaire's first album after Chris Watson's departure One of Cabaret Voltaire's strongest albums, 'The Crackdown' features the band working a number of menacing electronic textures into a basic dance / funk rhythm; the result is... -
Mute is excited to announce the reissue of Cabaret Voltaire’s The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord Originally remastered in 2013, now reissued and repressed on limited edition White vinyl, out June 17th Known for being their harder, more experimental album, The Covenant, The Sword and The Arm of The Lord was... -
Informations Of Death is a key single from the proto-EBM Florence band Neon, their 1980 official debut with an early duo line-up comprised of Marcello Michelotti and Stefano Gasparinetti The single is now released on double vinyl, accompanied by Oscillator (a 1979 live performance recorded at the legendary Bananamoon Club in... -
Obsessions is clearly a cult single of the era and one of their personal highlights The band recorded the four tracks live in April 1982 and then reprocessed the take at Kindergarten Studio The 12" was then released on the highly influential indie label, Materiali Sonori Neon is still considered as a legend of the Italian new-wave... -
Reissue on white vinyl C'est Disco was the first studio album by the Italian band Rats It was released in 1981 by Italian Records and is a record strongly inspired by the wave and dark scene of that period In 2014 the record was reissued in a vinyl version with the addition of a bonus CD featuring the complete album plus the song... -
It finally took five years and two lineup changes for Handful of Snowdrops to release their debut album, the iconic Land of the Damned While too many of the songs written during that period never made it to tape, some fortunately did This is what we believed is first home recording from the second generation of the band with... -
Recorded over the course of 4 years during late-night, afterhours sessions at RCA's Studio @ Calle Carlos Maurrás in Madrid (one of Spain's best and bigger studio around that time), it was the result of the duo's interest in unorthodox sound-sources which they manipulated in a sort proto-sampling collage technique based on random... -
A Compilation of Minimal Wave From Around The World (1980-1991), The Bedroom Tapes features rare, unreleased, and licensed tracks all the way from Belgium to Australia to Japan The Bedroom Tapes excitedly marks Minimal Wave’s 66th release and is a follow-up in the series to The Lost Tapes, The Found Tapes, The Hidden Tapes, and... -
Alan Vega's work with Suicide is revered by just about every electronic music artist who's tapped a keyboard or moved a mouse; his snarling, rockabilly-styled vocals teamed with Martin Rev's ominous, repetitive soundscapes blazed a trail for post-punk, synth pop, industrial rock, technothe list goes on Vega's solo career... -
The Bridge, a seminal electronic album, is available on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1979 With Robert Rental unfortunately passing away in 2000, this record, Thomas Leer and Rental's one and only album together, stands alone in capturing the duo's pioneering capabilities The Bridge was originally released... -
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Centered round the cultural melting post of the St Paul’s district, it’s pubs, clubs and blues parties threw together young and old to the sounds of dub, funk, jazz and soul plus the spark lit by punk rock and new wave and spawned music that still resonates today Consisting of a floating line up based around main members Rob... -
‘The DNA of DMA’ is the sound of an early 20-something studio engineer rush-recording a slew of his own post-punk tracks into electronic form It’s a recording that sets the blueprint for what would become known as the ‘Genetic sound’ – a sound that would rapidly dominate the airwaves the world... -
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"This is the neat little dog with the dainty walk that looks like a lamb and can fight like a demon" Mitt Stora Nu is the second album from the Gothenburg-based duo Treasury of Puppies, consisting of Charlott Malmenholt and Joakim Karlsson Nine tracks of life-affirming downer music that were mainly recorded during 2021 and that... -
The first release in a new catalog series dedicated to the 7" Here are two reworks produced between Italy and the United States, inspired by Italian cosmic atmospheres of the late 70s: “Cascades” by Stephen Schlacks (1978) and “Pulsazioni” by Filippo Trecca (1979) “Cascate Emozionali Volume One” is a tribute to these... -
On his new album for Artificial Dance, Tsampikos Fronas aka June takes a departure from his dance orientated earlier work Recorded between 2018 and 2020, Window of Time sees the Berlin-based producer explore sparser arrangements than his previous releases The record unravels like a dystopian cyberpunk novel, something akin to... -
2022 restock 180 gram LP version Bureau B reissues the first Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft album, originally released in 1979 True DAF connoisseurs will, of course, be aware of the early phase of the Düsseldorf-Wuppertal combo But most fans of the subsequently world-famous duo may well be taken aback when confronted with... -
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Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire The German studio project’s 1980s recordings had been compiled on the now cult-classic double LP Saâda Bonaire, released by Captured Tracks in 2013 Though the group had continued working until 1994, founder Ralph “von” Richthoven had... -
When entering the funny world of Charlene Darling, you will first notice that nothing is really square yet everything seems at its right place This single is all about love, rythm and voice, a frontal topic and a minimalist setup - drum and vocals - that leads to a surprisingly full and energetic... -
Favorite Recordings presents Dark Is The Color, the first LP by Alan Shearer reissued on vinyl for the first time Despite being initially composed and produced for the French library label PSI, this rare and obscure in-demand gem from 1985 sounds retrospectively like a proper album with great coherence and sophistication all along... -
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Across two 7”s, Death Or Glory (1982) and Death Rocks (1983) and one 12”, Anguish (1982) Jimmy Smack carved his own bleak chasm amidst the LA Death Rock scene that he inhabited After decades dormant in the crypt, Knekelhuis finally compiles Smack’s full recorded output, providing it a lavish place to rest on the Death Is... -
After a first reissue, which seduced music lovers nearly 40 years after the group's disbanding, Le Backstore and On The Roof have repressed the works of IKO as a double vinyl set '83 & Extra Studio Works includes the entirety of the '83 album, plus four tracks recorded after its original release The additional pieces reveal an... -
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Emerging from Lower Franconia's hidden reverse, Johannes schebler, known as ambient-poltergeist "Baldruin" and surreal folklorists Christian Schoppik & Katie Rich of "Brannten Schnüre"-fame have puzzled and amazed outernational audiences from the stranger end of the avant/lo-fi spectrum in recent years The trio is now... -
Lovely crafted tip-on sleeve Remastered from the original master tapes Sunstroke were Ben Bollaert and Etienne Delaruye, both were obsessed with the burgeoning possibilities of electronic music and it made sense that they collaborate in the studio The resulting experiments culminated in the 1985 release of Nothing's Wrong in...
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