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Equipment Pointed Ankh - Downtown! LP
Zach Rowden - No Middle Without The Beginning LP
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  • Kali Malone – Living Torch
    Kali Malone – Living Torch
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Another needed reissue in from GRM. One of the best Kali Malone releases IMO. Dive into some minimalism here. It’s dark and psyched out.” […]

  • La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – 31 VII 69 10:26 – 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 – 3:11 AM The Volga Delta
    La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – 31 VII 69 10:26 – 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 – 3:11 AM The Volga Delta
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “‘Composer La Monte Young Does Not Understand His Work’ – Tony Conrad, 1990” – Cleo “La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in [...]

  • Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing
    Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Falling asleep to Automatic Writing, having a nightmare during Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon, waking back up to She Was A Visitor and going about […]

  • Sydney Spann – Sending Up A Spiral Of LP
    Sydney Spann – Sending Up A Spiral Of LP
    $27.00 | Add to cart

    The first vinyl release from American artist Sydney Spann, Sending Up A Spiral Of well encapsulates Spann’s body of work thus far. On their music, which reacts to themes of […]

  • “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Out Of The Blue
    “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Out Of The Blue
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Worth it just for A Letter From Home. ‘This train is lit by the luminescence of the town and the faint morning light, and […]

  • Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Resolve
    Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings – Resolve
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Resolve acts in dialogue with the minimalist inspirations of the first Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings release, 1982’s Nodal Excitation – in effect, looking beneath the [...]

  • Peter Weibel – Sound Art
    Peter Weibel – Sound Art
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    Essays and images that map art’s new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout. This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists’ engagement with sound. Since the beginning of [...]

  • Takehisa Kosugi – S/T
    Takehisa Kosugi – S/T
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Slowscan’s latest, a stunning, remastered vinyl edition of Takehisa Kosugi’s New York, August 14, 1991 – expanded to include an entire second LP of recordings made by the [...]

  • Magnus Jäverling – Bowdark
    Magnus Jäverling – Bowdark
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Feels and sounds like a real movie score. For fans of electronic music sounds.” – Jack Bowdark is the name of a fictitious town […]

  • Franciska – Tryghed
    Franciska – Tryghed
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Another Discreet pick for me this week. This record crafts the ultimate comfort sound, dropping you into a soundscape that feels like laying on […]

  • Zach Rowden – No Middle Without The Beginning LP
    Zach Rowden – No Middle Without The Beginning LP
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    Ships prior to release date of 9/29/2023. Zach Rowden’s new album, titled “No Middle Without The Beginning”, radiates the current musical concrete. Two pieces, each spanning a [...]

  • Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
    Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Gorgeous ambient soundscapes through manipulated samples of jazz records. While the source material is mostly unrecognizable, completely repurposed into amorphous [...]

  • Kerry O’Brien And William Robin – On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
    Kerry O’Brien And William Robin – On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “A revisionist history of minimalism’s transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating [...]

  • VA – Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
    VA – Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record)
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Originally released in 1982 and now available from Song Cycle Records, Revolutions Per Minute (The Art Record) showcases 3 to 5 minute sound pieces […]

  • Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
    Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Michael Snow may be more recognized as an artist/filmaker, but has crossover into recorded media (music) as well, starting with his involvement with free […]

  • Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood – Tete-a-tete
    Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood – Tete-a-tete
    $27.00 | , , Add to cart

    Over the course of a nearly 50 year romantic and creative partnership sound artist Annea Lockwood and the late pioneering electronic composer Ruth Anderson have shared space on a number […]

  • Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Insane amplified violin shredding on top of electric guitar on A side – I’ve never heard a violin sounding like that, blending completely with […]

  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Lasse Marghaug’s magazine Personal Best is back! Issue number 9 will be in hand and shipping mid to late June. Still my favorite magazine around. Issue 9 features interviews with […]

  • Tony Conrad: Writings
    Tony Conrad: Writings
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his [...]

  • Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
    Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Moondog is one of America’s great originals.–Alan Rich, New York Magazine Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth […]

  • glas – Two
    glas – Two
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Heavy zoned out synths that feel like you’re cascading down a pit. Listened to this while eating potato skins the other night and it […]

  • Cages – Folding Space
    Cages – Folding Space
    $4.00 | Add to cart

    The shaking notes that make up “Folding Space” were recorded by two people holed up in their whole respective imaginations of visions of loops, layers and pleading lyrics. They sought [...]

  • glas – One
    glas – One
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Glas “One” CDr is a 39 minute piece of atmospheric synth music. Noise, improvisations & modular rhythms. Leaning close to midnight movie amateur gazings & drugged out early [...]

  • Tetsuya Nakayama – Vestige
    Tetsuya Nakayama – Vestige
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    enmossed is pleased to present 𝑬𝑵𝑴𝑺, a new cassette series curated by artist and perfumer Daisy Paradise, Florian T M Zeisig, and Glyn Maier. Releases consist of pairing an artist’s […]

  • V/A – Sound
    V/A – Sound
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Etats-Unis (Superior Viaduct’s more experimental reissue label) had a recent LAFMS drop (Smegma, ID Art #2, Blorp Esette Volume One, and the La Forte […]

  • Ross Gentry – September LP
    Ross Gentry – September LP
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Please Note: This item is a Pre-Order! Expected to ship the last week of February or earlier! The inaugural Ceremony of Seasons release! The music accompaniment to VISUALS Wine’s first […]

  • Henning Christiansen – Satie I Hoj So
    Henning Christiansen – Satie I Hoj So
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    Restocked, last copies. The Institute for Danish Sound Archeology and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark present a reissue of the most enigmatic and rare of Danish artist […]

  • Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
    Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    It should come as no surprise that ‘deep listening,’ a practice attributed to the late Pauline Oliveros, gestated into a form of ‘music,’ often labelled ‘as ambient, ethereal, [...]

  • MEV / AMM – Live Electronic Music Improvised
    MEV / AMM – Live Electronic Music Improvised
    $60.00 | , Add to cart

    Mainstream Records – MS/5002 Media Condition – VG, has some marks but plays well Sleeve – VG, light stains

  • Ryu Hankil – 3
    Ryu Hankil – 3
    $24.00 | Add to cart

    Released by Incheon Art Platform in Korea. “This is also connected with exorcism. In the ruling system of medieval religion and politics, demons, devils, etc. were treated as viruses that [...]

  • Zeitkratzer – Alvin Lucier
    Zeitkratzer – Alvin Lucier
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    By zkr director Reinhold Friedl’s personal request now available on vinyl for the first time: zeitkratzer’s critically acclaimed interpretations of compositions by Alvin Lucier. Alvin [...]

  • Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
    Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Cage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will [...]

  • Gary R Amedy – The Cold Room CS
    Gary R Amedy – The Cold Room CS
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    Label Description: Gary R Amedy has also gone by the moniker Neurospora and plays bass in Sea of Bones. More akin to the former and under his given name we […]

  • Malcolm Goldstein – Early Electronic/Tape Collage Music
    Malcolm Goldstein – Early Electronic/Tape Collage Music
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including some of the seminal electronic/tape collage pieces by Malcolm Goldstein, created in close connection to the sulphuric New York pre-Fluxus [...]

  • Wilted Woman – Songs in the Key of Wilt
    Wilted Woman – Songs in the Key of Wilt
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Originally released digitally by the artist at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, “Songs in the Key of Wilt” is a succinct and satisfying offering from Berlin’s Wilted [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
    Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
    $300.00 | Add to cart

    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
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    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. [...]

  • Roberto Cacciapaglia – Sei Note In Logica
    Roberto Cacciapaglia – Sei Note In Logica
    $7.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Cool little minimal cassette” – Jack Cassette edition from Nagrania Cukiernicze. “Cacciapaglia is an Italian composer with a long career; this [...]

  • Daniel Schmidt – Cloud Shadows
    Daniel Schmidt – Cloud Shadows
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Cloud Shadows is the third album by the American gamelan composer, Daniel Schmidt. The pieces in Cloud Shadows, which are quite varied and more current than the work represented on […]

  • 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 [...]

  • Geklaper – Penitent Judge
    Geklaper – Penitent Judge
    $11.00 | , Add to cart

    A rich, introspective journey towards the deep zone of repentance. The newest effort by Russian artist Geklaper is a broken, tape flutter-stained affair, retaining some moments of hopefulness but [...]

  • Doris Dana – Sentimental Atmospheres
    Doris Dana – Sentimental Atmospheres
    $11.00 | , Add to cart

    Thought forms arranged on a timeline swept along by the dusty cacophony of emotional debris. Radiating vibrations trapped in memory vessels, existing in our constantly rotating loop of life. [...]

  • Mary Lattimore – Hundreds Of Days (Rose Petal Vinyl)
    Mary Lattimore – Hundreds Of Days (Rose Petal Vinyl)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Memories – places, vacancies, allusions – are fundamental characters in Mary Lattimore’s evocative craft. The Los Angeles-based harpist recorded her breakout 2016 album, At The [...]

  • Diatom Deli – Time~Lapse Nature
    Diatom Deli – Time~Lapse Nature
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Diatom Deli’s Time~Lapse Nature is a channel between cerebral ascension and somatic memory, tethered to the micro-present though humbled by a beyond. Dilated by celestial fluctuations and dynamic [...]

  • V/A – INASOUND: retour aux sources de l’électro avec l’INA GRM
    V/A – INASOUND: retour aux sources de l’électro avec l’INA GRM
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Pioneer of electro-acoustic and experimental music, the French Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Musical Research Group) created by Pierre Schaeffer right after World War II still influences [...]

  • Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe
    Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe
    $55.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “I remember when this first got reissued on unseen worlds a few years ago. Its blew me away and began a 4 month tear […]

  • Marv – Basse Danse CS
    Marv – Basse Danse CS
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    What our staff has to say: “Magical little tape here, hits on all cylinders. Label hails from Boone NC, artists from Durham NC. Places both family and friends are located […]

  • Marv – Marv
    Marv – Marv
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Marv is a keyboard duo based in Carrboro, NC. This effort is their debut, self-titled, LP, recorded in February and July 2019 in Campobello, SC and Carrboro respectively. Each track […]

  • Golden Braid – Golden Braid
    Golden Braid – Golden Braid
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Ambient tone loop collage by Mike Adams (Crossroads of America, Burnt Toast Vinyl, Sounds Familyre, Joyful Noise)… special one-time 300 copy pressing LP that can be played forwards and [...]

  • Francesco Messina – Reflex
    Francesco Messina – Reflex
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Francesco Messina is perhaps best known for his collaboration with fellow composer Raul Lovisoni on the album Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo, originally released on seminal Italian label Cramps [...]

  • Clarence Barlow – Talkmaster’s Choice-Three Versions
    Clarence Barlow – Talkmaster’s Choice-Three Versions
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Previously unreleased recordings from the early ’90s featuring voice recordings manipulated by an Atari computer from the legendary Computer Music pioneer

  • Nikolaus Gerszewski – ART CD
    Nikolaus Gerszewski – ART CD
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Feldmanesque string quartet in 10 parts from contemporary German composer.

  • Kieran Daly – Total Orderings For FLEA
    Kieran Daly – Total Orderings For FLEA
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    New release from singular musician who has consistently pushed the limit musical form.

  • Indiegubben – Morka Moln
    Indiegubben – Morka Moln
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    He doesn’t tell me too much about how he makes the music, it just happens. Wise decision making from a seasoned listener and (only recent) sound creator. Magnus Jensen is […]

  • Night Foundation – Reflection
    Night Foundation – Reflection
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    Reflection first began as a series of three recordings I made for my close friend and colleague, the performance artist Ana Mendez. The purpose of the music was to accompany […]

  • Roedelius – Jardin Au Fou (Japanese Pressing)
    Roedelius – Jardin Au Fou (Japanese Pressing)
    $55.00 | , , Add to cart

    Egg – GP-710 1979 Japanese Pressing Media Condition – Strong VG+ with only a few stray light marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light wear/discoloration

  • Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
    Adriano Spatola – Ionisation
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    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 […]

  • Loren Rush – Dans le Sable
    Loren Rush – Dans le Sable
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Dans le Sable is the first new album in over 40 years by composer, pianist, and digital audio pioneer Loren Rush (b. 1935). A surreal opera scene. A narrator dwells […]

  • Mary Mazzacane – The Art of Mary Mazzacane
    Mary Mazzacane – The Art of Mary Mazzacane
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Her son Loren Connors writes… “These recordings, no matter how rough the sound quality, capture the essence of the art of bel canto soprano Mary Mazzacane. Born in an Italian […]