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Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 07:00PM
Sunday
CLOSED
Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 07:00PM
Sunday
CLOSED
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Industrial sound research. A direct lineage from such Colorado essentials as Architect’s Office, Jeph Jerman and Eric Lunde’s “Colorado Terrain Investigation.” Tapes as [...]
Five years in the making, and the first duo recordings — a very, very calculated and controlled effort. Moving past the harsh noise cutups but not eschewing them entirely; rather, moving [...]
Deluxe instant reissue of the much-too-limited edition Housecraft tape, including two new and previously unreleased tracks; 32 minutes of new music. Reflective of our live sets of the past year [...]
“On “Deep In The Night, I’m Lost In Love” Jackson-Pratt swaggers through a skillful display of pummeling chaos across four tracks, each of which engage in an essentially different [...]
“A rust-colored soundscrape of heavy dirt and textured electronics, featuring three distinct tracks of tactile sonic destruction. Painted Rope is the first new full length in nearly 15 [...]
“Lucrecia Dalt’s Anticlines is a volume of poetic theory and sound contemplating the bodies of self above and beneath the earth’s surface. On Anticlines, Dalt conjures a sonic space of [...]
Limited repress! LP reissue of Land And Sea’s limited 2016 tape documenting a performance by guitarists Michael Morley and Bill Orcutt at the L&S gallery in Oakland. “… Once [...]
“Hot on the heels of last year’s Matthew J. Rolin LP (FTR 502LP, 2019), here is a new duo recording featuring Rolin’s acoustic twelve-string and the hammered-dulcimer of Jen [...]
“Penumbra, from the Latin paene (almost) and umbra (shadow), refers to the partially luminescent fringe of an opaque object, like the streetlight outlining the sole of a shoe hurtling [...]
Where have the alienated masses gone after vaporwave? Producer Ramona Andra Xavier, aka Vektroid, Macintosh Plus, Laserdisc Visions, New Dreams Ltd., and a few others, is a good resource, being a [...]
Black Truffle invite you to an evening of drunken revelry in the Batcave! After a chance meeting at a local supermarket in Poughkeepsie, New York, Joe McPhee and Graham Lambkin have performed [...]
2020 repress! First vinyl reissue of the landmark 1967 debut album by AMM, AMMMusic. Remastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Exact replica sleeve by Stephen [...]
Black Editions present a reissue of Toho Sara‘s self-titled album, originally released in 1995. A mystifying work of Japanese avant-garde shamanism, Toho Sara’s 1995 debut introduced [...]
“Time is absolute garbage . . . But here’s the thing: given enough time, your friends are going to keep making records, you’re going to keep listening to them, and if [...]
Grafika Airlines – GRA 5 1981 Recorded at “home studio” 28/02-03/03, 1981. Comes with a 6.5×10 cm insert. Media Condition – VG with light marks and discoloration on label [...]
Cassette on Trax from 1984 by Vittore Baroni, who was one of the label’s co-founders. Looks to be a handmade tape specifically for GX Jupitter-Larsen. Has tracklisting on indside of J card. [...]
Rare Philiosphen In Extase cassette. Philosophen in Extase was a short-lived German noise band, that existed in Lübeck from 1987-1988. Band members were Captain Chaos (5) and Zappo (3). On [...]
Mystery Merzbow tape. One short 5 minute or so track. Says SelfSeed contribution on tape so most likely a submission for a comp that maybe never got released? Most likely from mid 80’s, [...]
Here’s a mysterious and rare one from Jeph Jerman. Noted on inside of J card “Recorded Oct. – Nov. 1986.”
Australian offshoot of Whitehouse’s Come Organisation, associated with hairdresser Paul Hurst. Hurst’s shop, with Ross Canon, Produktion Hair was originally a hair salon in Kensington [...]
Another mysterious one from Merzbow. This one has “Gamma-Titan”, a track from the 1986 “Power Electronics” comp on Tellus, on one side and then says “Merzbow/Total [...]
This one’s kind of a mystery. Looks to be from around 1986 but no record of it’s existence online, no ZSF Produkts labeling, etc. Maybe some kind of Japanese bootleg? Maybe the rarest [...]
Merzbow’s “Lowest Music.2” released on his own label in 1982, later reissued on Extreme, and more recently reissued on LP by Urashima. This looks like a more “self [...]
This seems to be an extended version of the S.F.A.G. ’81 tape released on Broken Flag, that was most likely self released or sent to friends at the time by M.B. Has M B carved into cassette [...]
Untitled 80’s blackhumour tape that includes two tracks from “Radical Positive” from 1986, one track from the Sexorama Vol. 2 comp from 1984, and and one other track titled [...]
Here’s one from the label Tracksound, with a tape from Italian artist Luca Miti. Subtle sound poetry slowly flowing between electronic sources, flutes, toy trumpets, bells, etc. From 1984.
Here’s another one with the Fluxus vibes. Sounds like a dude scraping a piece of metal in a circular motion sometimes softly, sometimes more aggressively. György Galántai (born June 17, [...]
FâLX çèrêbRi is the project of Karsten Rodemann. FâLX çèrêbRi has been releasing material since the early 80’s. FâLX çèrêbRi started as an industrial / experimental project with the 1983 [...]
Here’s a tape from Norwegian artist Anders Moe aka Juryen titled “Radio.” Every listen to 5 radios going at once? Yeah, that’s what this tape sounds like. Layered radio [...]
Ultra rare tape from Brazilian Mail Art / Fluxus artist. This is the kind of tape you’d expect from a Fluxus artist. Weird vocal loops, radio scanning / static, and of course field [...]
Beast 666 comp featuring The Gerogerigegege, Yellowhouse (featuring Eye from Boredoms / Hanatarash), We Never Sleep, Bruce Cossano, The Mormons, and The Ponchans. Front art of J-Card is different [...]
Ultra rare cassette from 80’s mail art artist Keith Bates, out of the UK. Personal copy made for GX Jupitter-Larsen, with small note “For GX Jupitter-Larsen” inside of J-Card. [...]
Ultra rare early cassette from John Hudak. Around since the mid 80’s, USA, has had split tapes and /or collaborative work with Merzbow, Jason Lescalleet, Minoy, PBK, Daniel Menche, etc and [...]
Ultra rare cassette from German mail art artist Klaus Groh from the mid-80’s. Groh directed the Micro Hall Art Center in Edewecht and the cabaret stage Literaturium from 1971-2006. He [...]
2019 C60 and 5″ lathe cut Released as an edition of 100 hand-numbered copies in a resealable clear plastic bag with two folded A5 inserts, one blank white backing board and an outer yellow [...]
1996 Compilation of previously released material. ‘Sum Of The Men – “The Brutality Continues….”‘ was previously released as VMFM 9 LP. Recorded at [...]
C30, 2012 Edition of 26 hand-numbered copies, with spray painted cassettes. Recorded in The Empty Cellar. 5/26 Media Condition-NM Case/Jcard-VG+ with small chip in case
The Chicago “Avant-Industrial Gospel Band” formed 40 years ago when punk was starting to get weird and the weirdos were starting punk bands. Over the years ONO faded from the public light but [...]
Whited Sepulchre Records is thrilled to announce its release of four one-sided 12” records by Andrew Elaban, claire rousay, Fruit LoOops and Ono. The releases run the gamut from modular synth, [...]
HN256 2013, C60 “Recorded and mixed in 2011 at home. Dedicated to The Old Man and The Sea. ” Media Condition-VG+ Case/Jcard Condition-VG+
DL-029 2015 C30 Media Condition -VG+ Case/JCard Condition -VG+
Second Edition 2012 “I made some fresh copies of this cassette for my SXSW trip and have a big stack leftover. Originally released on Bridgetown Records (BT43) last year, I made new [...]
GODS05 2017 Media Condition-VG+ with light marks Case/Jcard Condition-VG+ with old sticker/residue
Japan release Vanilla Records, Vanilla-20 1991 Media Condition – VG+ [plays VG+, visual grades closer to VG] Sleeve Condition – VG+ [case has some light scratches.]
The Japanese masters of audio entropy explode across three tracks of howling shriek, blistering screech & piercing chaos, with the Incapacitants duo of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai [...]
An enveloping document of their 1992 tour of the U.S.A., Loud Sounds Dopa / Live in U.S.A. finds the incomparable C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) exploring a sweeping expanse of [...]