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  • Lace – Reclamation
    Lace – Reclamation
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    Limited to 60 “RECORDED 2017. ALL SOUND MADE BY lace USING TAPE, MICROPHONES, COPICAT & MS-20. lace : WC & VS

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter – Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
    Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter – Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
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    In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Concept Horse – Tod Durch Museen
    The Concept Horse – Tod Durch Museen
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    Recorded 2021 – 2022 with Trevor’s broken Uher 4000, a small silver bell, high walled white pots, soft-boiled eggs, unused birds & hand-slowed piano.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • High Grove – A Year Of Winter
    High Grove – A Year Of Winter
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    High Grove is the experimental tape duo of Montreal’s Heather Ross and Sara Delecorte. Originally recorded and released on Sloane Distro in 2019, Gracious Host is proud to re-issue this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Franciska – Afvikling
    Franciska – Afvikling
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    The latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
    Form Hunter – Dread Harvest
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    Form Hunter returns with their first full-length album since 2021’s “Violent Adaptation” (Troniks / Helicopter). Dread Harvest refines their signature blend of in-the-red tape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Shelter Death – Unalloyed
    Shelter Death – Unalloyed
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    Rhythmic and pounding noise from Christopher Reid Martin Label: A.C.T.I.O.N. – LAO 18 Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition, C60 Country: US Released: 2015 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – G.E.G.E.N.S.A.T.Z.
    V/A – G.E.G.E.N.S.A.T.Z.
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    Featuring tracks from Corporate Park, Allegory Chapel LTD, L.F.A and Birthright. Label: Nostilevo – #64 Format: Cassette, Compilation, Limited Edition, C32 Country: US Released: 2014 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Craow – Live At No Rave
    Craow – Live At No Rave
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    Recorded live at Social in Ybor City during No Rave on July 26, 2013. Label: Ascetic House –no cat number Format: Cassette Country: US Released: 2015 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Residents, Uninc. ‎– Santa Dog
    Residents, Uninc. ‎– Santa Dog
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    “Welcome to the wild, bizarro world of the experimental artists called The Residents. Little is known about the group’s origins or its members’ identities, although it is widely [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Russell Haswell ‎– Respondent
    Russell Haswell ‎– Respondent
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    “Russell Haswell returns to Diagonal with a new five-track mini-album called Respondent. Not quite an EP nor long enough for a full album, this record marks a significant shift in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill Nace & Chik White – Bill Nace & Chik White
    Bill Nace & Chik White – Bill Nace & Chik White
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    Bill Nace—-acoustic Guitar/amplified acoustic– chik white—vocals, jaw harp Label: Open Mouth – OM63 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chik White ‎– Stranger Calls To Land
    Chik White ‎– Stranger Calls To Land
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    Over the past few years, we started hearing solo jaw harp cassettes by a Canadian musician who called himself chik white. Some of them were straight-forward somewhat-folky blasts of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
    Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
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    “A unique dialogue between the electronic textures of Saint Abdullah with the live drums of Jason Nazary (Anteloper). Saint Abdullah consists of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Schakalens Bror ‎– Omelette Of Disease
    Schakalens Bror ‎– Omelette Of Disease
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    Guitar-driven sheets of noise from the ever-potent Förlag För Fri Musik label. Label: Förlag För Fri Musik – 008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden Released: 2018 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Leda ‎– Neuter
    Leda ‎– Neuter
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    “Sofie Herner (Enhet För Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik III-X LP released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Monocot – Direction We Know
    Monocot – Direction We Know
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    “In one sense all collaborations and recordings thereof have a certain surprise factor. Any time two or more people get together to create something from nothing, the exact contours of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Di Stefano – For The Moment
    John Di Stefano – For The Moment
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    American-born, Japan-based composer John Di Stefano self-released a number of cassettes as part of the 80s DIY underground on his own imprint Oktron Produktions, including Klang’s Drift, a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Pink Vinyl)
    Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film (Original Motion Picture Soundtrac…
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    What happens when you combine SUMAC: a band that uses the volume, distortion, and guitar-centric approach of metal to make music that has the malleability of jazz and textural exploration […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sun City Girls – Famous Asthma / Tibetan Jazz 666
    Sun City Girls – Famous Asthma / Tibetan Jazz 666
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    Throughout the 1980s the inimitable Sun City Girls self-released over twenty full-length cassettes . Each of these cassettes were universes unto themselves, each a slice of the one of a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sun City Girls – Extra-Sensory Defection / Graverobbing In The Future
    Sun City Girls – Extra-Sensory Defection / Graverobbing In The Future
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    Throughout the 1980s the inimitable Sun City Girls self-released over twenty full-length cassettes . Each of these cassettes were universes unto themselves, each a slice of the one of a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Paranoid Time – Paranoid Time
    Paranoid Time – Paranoid Time
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    Patrick Yankee has been making noise as Paranoid Time for two decades now and although physical releases are somewhat few-and-far-between, as well as the projects nearly non-existent online [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Terravault Network – Shelf Intrusions
    Terravault Network – Shelf Intrusions
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    Terravault Network from Denver, Colorado here with a murky tape of what they describe at “submerged cybernetics” This brings to mind the most morbid moments of IOVAE, or the mixer [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Noise Nomads – Obsidian Shards Pooled In Silver
    Noise Nomads – Obsidian Shards Pooled In Silver
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    Noise Nomads I’ve always been inspired by Jeff Harford, for his uncompromising approach to performance, turning it unto a situational moment that is the spirit of live performance , spontaneous [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Primitive Motion – Lost Frequencies
    Primitive Motion – Lost Frequencies
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    Over the past fifteen years, Primitive Motion, the Meanjin / Brisbane duo of musicians and visual artists Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig, have quietly, consistently, insistently, released a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nev Lilit – Hyperit
    Nev Lilit – Hyperit
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    Evolving from a performance lecture by philosopher and Jonna Bornemark at Orionteatern in Stockholm, ‘Hyperit’ (Swedish for a volcanic stone; hypersthenite in English) is inspired by Jennefelt’s [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dan Partridge – Die Singing Säge
    Dan Partridge – Die Singing Säge
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    A focused exercise in idiophonic minimalism from an absolute devotee of extended bowed saw techniques. Recorded in Carrboro, North Carolina. October 2024.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
    John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
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    Medeski, Marsella, Hollenberg, and Grohowski are Chaos Magick—a powerful electric quartet formed to perform Zorn’s twisted and challenging compositions. Founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the heavy [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Maria Chavez & Sandy Ewen – All The Duos
    Maria Chavez & Sandy Ewen – All The Duos
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    Orb Tapes presents “All The Duos,” a brand new collection of collaborative pieces featuring Maria Chavez and Sandy Ewen. A colossal effort, this double CD release contains over 90 minutes […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Arelseum / Recovery Center – Split
    Arelseum / Recovery Center – Split
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    ARELSEUM: all sound by Ryan Lipynsky and Colin Marston RECOVERY CENTER: Synthesizers and feedback by Pow Martinez and Chester Masangya Vocals on “Qlippoth” and “KA RA YA SA TA [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kevin Sims – Yarrow Canon
    Kevin Sims – Yarrow Canon
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    “People misrecite the best portion of what they memorize, memorize the best portion of what they write, and write the best portion of what they hear. So if you acquire […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Life Giver – Enviroments
    Life Giver – Enviroments
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    C-22 Cassette Tape from ORB Tapes

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pet Peeves – Slapstick In The Birdroom
    Pet Peeves – Slapstick In The Birdroom
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    Pet Peeves: drums + screams: J. Cavaliere guitar: A. Maerbach bass: O. Brinner saxophone: Labrat Additional musicians: vocals (track 6): L. Sherman percussion (track 8): H. Rowan lap steel + […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Instant Messenger – Sologuitar 1
    Instant Messenger – Sologuitar 1
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    “This is a set of solo guitar pieces recorded over the course of a few weeks that are sometimes percussive, sometimes droney, sometimes noisy and sometimes nothing. I have recently […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Orphan Parapet – Time Lapse Of Wet Fire
    Orphan Parapet – Time Lapse Of Wet Fire
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    Nick Podgurski and Colin Marston: synthesizers, acoustic and electronic percussion, production Recorded and mixed at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves, NYC 2022 – 2024 finished at the Milman [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Emil Beaulieau – Memories
    Emil Beaulieau – Memories
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    For the first time ever on cassette, Orb Tapes presents “Memories” by Emil Beaulieau, America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist. Originally released on CD on the RRRecords [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Soft As Snow – Organ Candy
    Soft As Snow – Organ Candy
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    Soft as Snow is a Norwegian avant-pop duo based in Berlin. Their music effortlessly straddles the structure and determinism of club and “pop” music and the abstract expressionism of experimental [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Clang Quartet / Crank Sturgeon – Split
    Clang Quartet / Crank Sturgeon – Split
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    Clang Quartet “Hate Wrapped In Prayer (We Say…)” Recorded at Corner Shed Studios by Scotty Irving 2024 Mixed and mastered at Earthtones Recording by Scotty Irving and Benjy Johnson [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Franciska ‎– Tryghed
    Franciska ‎– Tryghed
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    Tryghed is the debut album from Franciska, the alias of the now Copenhagen-based artist Jonas Torstensson. As one of the key figures in the young, vivid scene around the Forlaget […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chris Brokaw – Ghost Ship
    Chris Brokaw – Ghost Ship
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    I set out to make an 8 song statement like ‘Desert Shore’ or ‘Raw Power’, but it became a 9 song…something else. I’ve described it to friends as ‘Twin [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Blank Hellscape – Hell 2
    Blank Hellscape – Hell 2
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    ‘Hell 2’ is not the first album from Austin’s Blank Hellscape, but it’s certainly the most fully-realized. OK, at least it’s the LONGEST. The self-professed three-piece nightmare band knocked [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
    Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
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    Between Soil and Sky is the 2024 CD release by devoted experimentalist, PJ Dorsey (Tarotplane), and his second release with Noir Age. A curated embodiment of an amphibious reality — […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
    Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
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    A multidisciplinary artist, and avant-garde icon in her own right, Little Annie leaves little room for an introduction that is worthy of her prolific career. She has remained relevant for […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
    The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
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    The Residents released of their third album, “The Third Reich ‘n’ Roll” in 1976. People have speculated whether the Residents were hinting that Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
    Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
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    Tribal dark ambient filled with occult influences. Label: Athanor – ATNR 007 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: France Released: 2000 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
    Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
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    Included with Embryo Zine Issue #2 Label: Natural Sciences – none Format: CDr, Album Country: UK Released: 2022 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demi – Demi
    Demi – Demi
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    Mix from Softer Recordings. ~~~~ intimacy; a single saline drop, smearing the ink; the sound of 1,000 bedroom sessions; reading silently with a friend, bathed in sunlight; a damp umbrella […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alex York – The Tiger Is In The Library
    Alex York – The Tiger Is In The Library
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    Live set of field recordings & sampled sounds. “Recorded live December 10, 2023 In Yellow Springs Ohio At the Foundry Theatre, Antioch College At a live performance by myself & […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
    Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
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    Four tracks of harsh noise with a junk noise vortex that leans into all manner of collapsed constraint. Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and guests Anjilla Ulfhednar, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Systematic Elimination / Death Cult Ritual – Anti Cult Assassins
    Systematic Elimination / Death Cult Ritual – Anti Cult Assassins
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    Split 7″ from two Midwest noise heavies.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise