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  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kazumoto Endo – Brick And Mortar
    Kazumoto Endo – Brick And Mortar
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    Skeleton Dust is honored to reissue Kazumoto Endo’s “Brick And Mortar”, originally released on Rhystop in 2003. Despite being produced in an ample edition of 500 copies, Brick And Mortar […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    DJ Speedsick / Giugno
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    Released on CDr from endogenesis – housed in a manilla envelope. labeled CDr.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
    Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The P…
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    Underrated album by UK Amon Duul affiliates. Label: Abstract Sounds – ABT049CD Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
    Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
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    Turning his attention to dance for his latest album, Fearless Movement out this May on Young, Kamasi Washington resumes his ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
    Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
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    Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods’ second ‘proper’ album the self-released Divide And Exit was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most effective artistic [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
    DJ Speedsick – You People Make Me Fucking Sick CDr
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    New sixteen-minute piece by DJ Speedsick of cut-up style harsh noise and claustrated blues guitar entrails descending into a vortex; comprised largely of archival recordings and audio extracted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
    Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
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    Emilíana Torrini emerges from hiatus with a brand new album, MISS FLOWER. Returning to an illustrious career, spanning chart-topping hits like ‘Sunny Road’ and ‘Jungle Drum’ from acclaimed albums [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
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    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
    DJ Speedsick – Samples and Loops
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    Undistributed DJ Speedsick business card CDr of samples & loops. Tracks 1, 7-9, 33: samples Tracks 2-6: drum shots Tracks 10-32: loops

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Laibach – Deutschland 1985
    Laibach – Deutschland 1985
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    CDr packaged with fold over cover in polybag. A bootleg live recording from Oberhausen, Germany, performed on 4 December 1985. Bringing to mind the best of underground industrial tapes in […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Glaciers – Superposition
    Glaciers – Superposition
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    TODD A. CARTER – PIANO, RHODES, SYNTH, PERCUSSION, TOYS, ORGAN MICHAEL HARTMAN – PIANO, SYNTHS, DRUMS, PERCUSSION RECORDED AT BEL_AIR SOUND STUDIO NOBLE SQUARE 2019 – 2022 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes & Michael Foster – Solfege CD
    Ted Byrnes & Michael Foster – Solfege CD
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    It’s always very special for me as a ‘harsh noise’ artist to be able to discuss the improvisational works of colleagues such as Ted Byrnes and Michael Foster as I […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • INTRAVIS Compilation
    INTRAVIS Compilation
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    A compilation featuring Nota Grave, Vampiros Kosmos, Universal Cell Unlock, Zach Rowden, Energy Gradient, Tval, Shredded Nerve, Mortido, Prosperity, and Cienfuegos.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Vacation ? Rare Earth
    Vacation ? Rare Earth
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    “Vacation’s new album Rare Earth comes at a time when the powder keg of civilization as we know it is particularly vulnerable to the spark that swallows our very existence. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
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    What our staff has to say: “The birth of NEW FREE JAZZ. A completely unhinged document of New Monuments. Fresh new quartet line-up. This is the next level, and the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
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    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Running – Wake Up Applauding
    Running – Wake Up Applauding
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    2016 release from the alt-punks. Running elbows in quick from the City of the Big Shoulders with Wake Up Applauding. Delivered loudly, dripping in unintelligible menace with the occasional flash [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Running – Vaguely Ethnic
    Running – Vaguely Ethnic
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    The screech. The wall. The slanted-floor nausea. There’s not a word for the signature cyclical howling that Chicago’s RUNNING harnesses and tortures into submission. They play with their food [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
    Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
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    Recital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
    Sissy Spacek – Live In Hong Kong
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    Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
    Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
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    Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. “Sensitive Disturbance” is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
    NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
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    Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No social media. No contact details. The […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Metal
  • Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
    Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
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    Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
    Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
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    »All seals have been broken« proclaims a demonic voice on the titular track of Veil The World, and that is something terrifyingly evident in the music contained therein. On Veil […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
    South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
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    This is South Saturn Delta’s debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • NBDY – Woods & Wires
    NBDY – Woods & Wires
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    Czech Republic based artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with precise immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
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    Released October, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Utarm
    Demonologists/Utarm
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    Released December, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
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    What our staff has to say: “EPA return with a disc of duos. I would say this is a good disc for all Improv Heads, Kraut Rock Dropouts, & Kentucky […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
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    What our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field
    Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the St…
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    Waiting and Counting : Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field Material for this release is based around a performance determined by a partial system of cues (max patch) that occur […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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) [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
    Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
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    “Foment” represents a first-meeting of New Yorkers saxophonist Sam Weinberg & bassist Henry Fraser with Chicago drummer Tyler Damon. Although the three musicians had not played in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Birth! – I Will
    Birth! – I Will
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    What our staff has to say: “Revisited this Midwest classic after hearing of Doug’s passing. An album ahead of its time – and even though it has been years since […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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    Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Snail Mail – Valentine CD
    Snail Mail – Valentine CD
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    Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stare Tasmy – Kryzys Czytelnictwa
    Stare Tasmy – Kryzys Czytelnictwa
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    Debut from this Polish group, whose name means Old Tapes and whose members have an impressive background in punk, improv, experimental and even classical music. They have come together here […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Molly McCann – Das Jahr
    Molly McCann – Das Jahr
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    The first published recordings of Molly McCann, my older sister, playing Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841); a groundbreaking cycle of 12 thematically interlocked character [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • 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 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Mass Marriage – Restless CD
    Mass Marriage – Restless CD
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    After a series of highly regarded tapes releases New Forces is proud to unleash the much-anticipated debut full-length CD “Restless” by Mass Marriage. Across these five tracks [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise