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  • The Wire – #463 September 2022
    The Wire – #463 September 2022
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    On the cover… Neu! + 50 Years Of Motorik A special cover feature on the motorik rock originators Neu! to mark half a century since their game-changing debut album. This […]

  • SHV – We Belong Dead
    SHV – We Belong Dead
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    “We Belong Dead” is a gritty piece of late ’00s cassette culture and underground ingenuity from Alley Dennig’s SHV project, with a hard-to-classify sound somewhere between [...]

  • Drone – A Perfect Blind
    Drone – A Perfect Blind
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    The 2nd in our 3 drøne reissues, released on cassette for the first time, in anticipation of new material from the band late ’19, early ’20 a perfect blind was […]

  • Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
    Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD
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    ‘Sissy Spacek reaching full maturation – Hyper destructive low end heavy cut ups. Harsh noise from unheard nether-realms.’ -Brandon Hill (Fantastique / Starved Relations) [...]

  • Primitive Isolation Tactics – Compiling Beliefs
    Primitive Isolation Tactics – Compiling Beliefs
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    Compiling Beliefs is the latest terse cut from Taylor Geddes’ PRIMITIVE ISOLATION TACTICS (Montreal). A swift-paced knot of harsh electronics boiled down, and belting your eardrums before you [...]

  • The Wire  – #460 June 2022
    The Wire – #460 June 2022
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    “On the cover: Phew. The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now [...]

  • Surface Of The Earth – S/T
    Surface Of The Earth – S/T
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    Since its release in 1995, Surface of the Earth’s self-titled first album has gradually been recognized as an unlikely minimalist masterpiece and one of the key albums to emerge from […]

  • Thirdorgan – Loch Ness monster
    Thirdorgan – Loch Ness monster
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    New album from Japan’s most extreme noise artist — Thirdorgan. Owner of Alienation Cult label returns to a mysterious and wonderful theme that will be familiar to Thirdorgan fanatics, [...]

  • Artbreakhotel – Karas LP
    Artbreakhotel – Karas LP
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    Nobuo Yamada returns with his first LP under the moniker ARTBREAKHOTEL (Saitama, Japan). KARAS swivels two unyielding junk-metal-compositions of wheezing steel, fluid screeching, and a horde of [...]

  • Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
    Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
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    In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 40 handnumbered copies. Includes one handnumbered insert. 10 audiotqps with interviews/statements, experimental and electronic music by William Burroughs, [...]

  • Jerry Hunt – Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams
    Jerry Hunt – Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams
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    The final album released by the composer-performer Jerry Hunt before his death, Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams is a rare and foundational audio document of Hunt’s compositional process. [...]

  • Alex Cunningham – Armor
    Alex Cunningham – Armor
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    Six tracks of solo acoustic violin improvisation, recorded at home in October 2020. Alex Cunningham – violin, objects, artwork

  • V/A – Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony
    V/A – Valley Of The Sun: Field Guide To Inner Harmony
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    Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines and defies new age music. Founder […]

  • Nicola Ratti – Continental
    Nicola Ratti – Continental
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    “Continental” is the new full length solo record by Milan-based multi-instrumentalist Nicola Ratti, following recent releases on Where to Now? and Room40. Conceived of by Ratti as a [...]

  • Horoscope – Misogyny Stone
    Horoscope – Misogyny Stone
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    DRONE WHINES IN THE DISTANCE; HOROSCOPE JETTISONS A NEW 5-TRACK LP TITLED MISOGYNY STONE. IT HAS PRESCIENT TIMING: HERE WE SIT AT THE ABYSS OF MASCULINE POWER. ORIGINALLY FROM MIAMI […]

  • R Giradin – Emotional Music
    R Giradin – Emotional Music
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    R. Girardin – Emotional Music is a collaborative release from Palto Flats and Zero Grow, a contemporary rendering of synthetic midi-fusion and DAW experimentalism. Drawing links between Rashad [...]

  • Flanger Magazine
    Flanger Magazine
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    “A set of spry, pastoral Aecoustic Guitar and errant Electronic pieces that harken back to libraries by Teisco, Vittorio Marino, and the like, yet mapped in an alien manner unlike […]

  • Ka Baird – Respires
    Ka Baird – Respires
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    Respires, the second solo album by Ka Baird, blurs the line between word and action, definition and possibility. Spirited yet restrained, bearing its wildly thrummed heart strings and inner calm [...]

  • The Wire – #459 May 2022
    The Wire – #459 May 2022
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    “On the cover: Reynols. As one of the most singular groups in all of rock release their first western album in two decades, following drummer Miguel Tomasin’s Henry Viscardi Award [...]

  • Merzbow & Lawrence English – Eternal Stalker
    Merzbow & Lawrence English – Eternal Stalker
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    On their first official collaboration, Japanese noise pioneer Masami Akita aka Merzbow and Australian sound sculptor Lawrence English present a harrowing, surrealist portrait of nocturnal [...]

  • Blod – Pilgrimssanger
    Blod – Pilgrimssanger
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    Pilgrimssånger is the first of two new Blod albums deeply inspired by the Swedish Christian parish culture. The songs deals with human connection and solitude in a life built upon […]

  • Alie – Whole
    Alie – Whole
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    𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 For 𝑊ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒, Berlin-based Alie illustrates a selection from the Ashtavakra Gita with a sprawling excursion of […]

  • Tarkamt – 1100dB
    Tarkamt – 1100dB
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    Tarkamt, the solo project of Egyptian artist Cherif El-Masri (The Invisible Hands), unfolds its second release 1100 dB. A deluge of mass psychotropic soundscapes, churning crude spurts of coarse [...]

  • pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
    pnl(a) – Compulsion Fabric
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    The first cassette release by pnl(a), a project conceived by Brandon Auger (Halifax, NS) in 1995 and now highly active after some torpid years. Compulsion Fabric droops sentimental tones tangled [...]

  • Daniel Wyche – Earthwork
    Daniel Wyche – Earthwork
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    ““A lot of this record is about memory and long stretches of time – not just making, but remaking, constantly tinkering.” That’s Daniel Wyche – a Chicago-based guitarist, [...]

  • David Tholfsen – Walk With Me
    David Tholfsen – Walk With Me
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    What our staff has to say: “Layered vocal melodies that guide you through a natural world. FFO Avant yodeling.” – Dan David Tholfsen is an American musician and artist living [...]

  • Loopsel – The Spiral
    Loopsel – The Spiral
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    2022 U.S. Reissue Fans of the Swedish underground should be familiar with Elin Engström from her time playing in Monokultur, Skiftande Enheter, and excellent solo recording project Loopsel. Her [...]

  • Loren Connors – 9th Avenue
    Loren Connors – 9th Avenue
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    What our staff has to say: “Room next door practice amp blues. Total control and fearlessly personal riffing – TRUE BLUES.” – Alex For me, this is the blues. Utterly […]

  • Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
    Sudden Infant – Lunatic Asylum
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    Joke Lanz and Sudden Infant once again return in their razor-sharp trio setting whereby the absurdist nature that Joke’s work is already cut with is reconfigured in a gnarled and […]

  • Orquere – Foundations
    Orquere – Foundations
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    With an explorative approach Orquere organizes concrete sounds into experimental structures of cold and dry sonic landscapes where sounds appear as objects. Stripped down to their bare essence. [...]

  • A.B.O. – Documentation 89-93
    A.B.O. – Documentation 89-93
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    An exellent glimpse into one of the more poorly lit corners of Swedish experimental sound. This CD collects some of the earliest solo recordings of Joachim Nordwall, under the moniker […]

  • Mika Vainio – Last Live
    Mika Vainio – Last Live
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    2022 repressed; double LP version. “This edition was produced and finalized in a particular context, Mika Vainio having left us on 12.04.2017. This material is the last concert he has […]

  • Chris Fratesi – Stunad
    Chris Fratesi – Stunad
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    “The immense detail and expression of the slow decay of ‘symmetry’ displayed via two examples of exhaustive long form audio patterning.  Both tapes achieve ‘non composition’ via subtle yet [...]

  • Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
    Timber Rattle – Phantoms Of Place
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    2017 release on BLUESANCT, “Phantoms Of Place” is a psyche-pastoral hymnal which seems to be as informed by noise shows in West Coast Basements as it is by the Blue […]

  • Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
    Drekka – Examinations – 2016 – 2018 CD
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    For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes. Working for as many years under the name Drekka, he […]

  • Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
    Drekka – Sleeping Patterns Of The Discontent
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    «One can be a discontent – that is, an insurgent or a revolutionary – but there is also that more literal, personal meaning of the word which may be in […]

  • Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
    Drekka – Beings Of ImberIndus
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    “Beings of ImberIndus” was commissioned as a hexaphonic sound installation to accompany the “Beings of ImberIndus” solo soft sculpture show by Carrie Weaver; presented at [...]

  • Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
    Drekka – There Is No Silence Left (Drekka Remix)
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    “There is no silence left” is a collection of remixes and reworkings by Mkl Anderson of Drekka, released under various monikers between 1996 and 2012. Contains 13 previously [...]

  • Drekka – Examinations: 2016 -2018
    Drekka – Examinations: 2016 -2018
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    For over twenty years, Mkl Anderson has curated a vast archive of recorded material for his cinematic ambient industrial soundscapes. Working for as many years under the name Drekka, he […]

  • Drekka – Grieve
    Drekka – Grieve
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    Drekka’s debut full-length, “Grieve”, was release on August 24th, 1996. This was the day of my friend Phil Perry’s funeral and the first copy was buried with him. Phil was [...]

  • Tim Hecker – Konoyo
    Tim Hecker – Konoyo
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    Experiential composer Tim Hecker’s ninth official full-length, Konoyo (“the world over here”) was largely recorded during several trips to Japan where he collaborated with members of the gagaku [...]

  • Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore – Ghost Forests (Green Vinyl)
    Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore – Ghost Forests (Green Vinyl)
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    Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore’s collective work—as solo artists, band members, and collaborators—could fill a small record collection. Despite this productivity, these two long-time friends have [...]

  • Geography Of Hell – Verdun, 1916
    Geography Of Hell – Verdun, 1916
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    LP version. Includes booklet and download code. Verdun, 1916 is full of ghosts. The voices of survivors now departed and the vacuum of the dead. Members of Geography Of Hell […]

  • Altar Of Flies – Återblick
    Altar Of Flies – Återblick
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    What our staff has to say: “Incredible 3 LP of Mattias Gustafsson’s 2020-2021 sessions. Some of my favorite experimental music of recent years, a triple LP is so fitting. Compiling [...]

  • The New Boyfriends – The Fourth Season
    The New Boyfriends – The Fourth Season
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    The fourth installment from this brilliant Finnish duo consisting of APRAPAT and MOGAO, two relative newcomers who have climbed to the top of the pig-pile over the past 2 years. […]

  • K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
    K.M Toepfer – Retrace No Steps
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    Cold, surgical harsh noise achieving militant purity through unorthodox means. Minimalistic brain drilling, carving, and rolling textures. Latent tones that attack the body’s nodes and trigger [...]

  • Testicle Hazard – Fifty-Sixty
    Testicle Hazard – Fifty-Sixty
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    The long-lost psychedelic album from the Incapacitants of the North! On Friday the 13th, 2009, Lasse Marhaug and Tommi Keränen had an extremely productive day at a real-deal high-end studio […]

  • Jason Crumer – Ruth
    Jason Crumer – Ruth
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    Ruth is Jason Crumer’s previously inaccessible harsh noise masterpiece. Recorded specifically for CD (and mastered apocalyptically loud) in 2004-05, Ruth was planned for release on numerous [...]

  • Lacerations
    Lacerations
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    Six international artists showcased across two compact discs of shredding sound, clattering depths, power electronics violence, and deafening discordance. Though a diverse compilation, [...]

  • Aaron Dilloway & Jeph Jerman – Casual Collisions
    Aaron Dilloway & Jeph Jerman – Casual Collisions
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    Casual Collisions is a collaborative album by two of the most prominent voices in experimental sound, Aaron Dilloway and Jerph Jerman. Recorded in 2013 and originally self-released on CDR by […]

  • Helm – Axis
    Helm – Axis
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    What our staff has to say: “Incredible Record that Dais put out. There are moments on this that will have you in a complete daze and then in awe of […]

  • Vasculae – Broken Lust
    Vasculae – Broken Lust
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    The distant clang and scrape of metals, slow burning atmospherics, and subdued electronics both tonal and textured; less blast and more resignation this time around. Mostly recorded and composed [...]

  • Shredded Nerve – Bleeding From The Head
    Shredded Nerve – Bleeding From The Head
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    mt114cs released July 31, 2017 2016-2017 Linden St., Brooklyn NY

  • FPBJPC – Jubilee
    FPBJPC – Jubilee
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    Jubilee is an album of selections from the last five years of multifarious output by the art collective FPBJPC, including Jonathan Gean, Michael Pollard, Ben Schumacher, and Peter Friel. [...]

  • Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
    Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
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    Ionisation is the first LP by Italian poet Adriano Spatola. Born in Yugoslavia in 1941, by the age of 23 he became a major force in the Italian Avant-Garde. “Towards […]

  • Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
    Liv Landry, Sean McCann, & Eric Schmid – St. Francis
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    What does it mean to pray? To address someone, to plead for something, to welcome humiliation and failure: Please, let me forget about the China Chalet parties, please let there […]

  • Sean McCann – Puck
    Sean McCann – Puck
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    Puck is here. Music for Public Ensemble, my previous album, was released three years ago. And three years before that was Private Ensemble. Puck is both public and private in […]

  • Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
    Geoffrey Hendricks – Stones
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    The first audio document ever published by Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018). There is a romanticism found in Geoffrey, that, in my mind, sets his work aside from his Fluxfriends. […]

  • Charlie Morrow – Chanter
    Charlie Morrow – Chanter
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    To celebrate composer Charlie Morrow’s 80th birthday, Recital presents 80 minutes of voice-based recordings in his new album, Chanter. Curated by Sean McCann, this collection spans over 60+ years [...]

  • Dead Goldfish Ensemble – Fishy Tails
    Dead Goldfish Ensemble – Fishy Tails
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    conatala presents “Fishy Tales” – the first ever vinyl release of the works of The Dead Goldfish Ensemble, the recording name of UK musician Steve Hartwell. Hartwell began [...]