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Limited Edition 12" Ep now available for preorder from one of our in house labels 4Q-HQ
Limited Edition 12" Ep now available for preorder from one of our in house labels 4Q-HQ
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Alan Vega’s name is synonymous with unfettered, tireless creativity. Beginning in the late 1950s, when he was a fine art student at Brooklyn College, through his years playing in Suicide, and all [...]
Label Description: In March 2004 I released what was then, and remains now, one of the titles I am most proud to have released on Cipher Productions: the Astro ‘Shell Star/Spica’ [...]
2021 repress. “American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century. In 1966, along with Frederic [...]
Originally released by Lovely Music in 1981. In this fascinating exploration of acoustical phenomena, Alvin Lucier slips from the domain of language to that of music in the course of 40 minutes [...]
1992 release. First released on Lovely Music in 1980. A 50-foot length of taut wire passes through the poles of a large magnet and is driven by an oscillator; the vibrations of the wire are miked [...]
Over two hours of blistering decay and disruptive shatter compiling an array of sought-after cassette rarities and compilation tracks from the years 2004 – 2015. Featuring material selected [...]
“Originally recorded at Studio Davout in Paris on August 16th, 1969. An intense and sublime album by Archie Shepp with Lester Bowie and Malachi Flavors (from the Art Ensemble of Chicago) [...]
“Super-session recorded in Paris on August 17, 1969. Alan Silva collected here many of the top free jazz players of the time, an incredible 11-piece ensemble featuring, among others, [...]
Recorded August 12, 1969, Studio Saravah, Paris. Reproduction of the 1969 original; issued in a gatefold jacket.
Dead Gods – GODS47 C24 Cassette
This LP is Ayler’s first Impulse set. There are two selections apiece from a pair of live appearances with Ayler having a rare outing on alto on the emotional “For John [...]
Recorded live at “Antibes – Juan-les-Pins” Jazz Festival, July 20, 1970, by O.R.T.F.
Necro Box is a tribute to the degenerate art of Marco Corbelli, aka Atrax Morgue, one of the greatest exponents of the industrial/power electronics in Italy. First LP in box is Necro Sintesi, [...]
2018 repress. Reissue of this 1981 release, featuring arrangements from Charles Reid played by Sly Dunbar (drums), Robbie Shakespeare (bass guitar), Melodice Gladdy (piano) and others.
There are artists that look into the subconscious aspects of perception through plain coincidences generated by even simpler sonic architectures, achieving results that are unequivocally [...]
Alex Keller and Sean O’Neill have created performances and installation pieces together since 2015. Using field recordings, vintage telephone test equipment, and magnetic oscillators, among [...]
Total cut-up harsh noise scum electronics for those devoted to the cause!!!! Originally released as a double cassette in 2004 on Truculent Recordings, this was harsh noise master [...]
“Intelligent, impassioned and inspired by integrity, Arca’s continued growth as an artist promises to be one of the most exciting journeys of the coming years. The musician has no plans to stop [...]
This is the first in Soul Jazz Records’ new series of one-off pressings of limited-edition 1000 copies vinyl-only releases of Afro-funk/Afro-beat exact-replica, super-rare albums that were [...]
Algebra Suicide was a Chicago poetry-music duo consisting of poet and visual artist Lydia Tomkiw and musician Don Hedeker. They formed in 1982 and self-released a 4-song EP that year. It featured [...]
Abrasive, detailed violin improvisation melding harsh detuning and extended technique with warped fiddle sensibilities. “Some of the most singular contemporary music being made with a [...]
Artist / Label Description: ‘Portuguese witchcraft. Sonic sorcery. Joyful confusion and boundless nude motions through the celebration of dark arts.’ Hand assembled linen paper pocket [...]
LP version. An unearthed treasure from the ’70s Italian avant garde archives! A previously unreleased recording from the legendary Beat72 club in Rome in 1973, featuring a one-off [...]
2021 repress . “Compiled from over eight hours of material, Love Is Overtaking Me reaches back further to Russell’s first compositions from the early `70s, the most rare and, at the [...]
Breadwoman is a being who exists outside of time, yet surfaced on tape during the perfect storm of performance art, renegade DIY avant-garde, gallery culture, and esoteric mysticism of early 80s [...]
The first album African Head Charge made for On-U since 1993, this 2005 set was a triumphant return that saw longtime collaborators Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and Adrian Sherwood reunited in the studio [...]
Amber, the second full-length from Autechre and considered by many to be their ambient opus (though we imagine they wouldn’t call it that!) having been out of print on vinyl since 2001. [...]
The Aphex Twin Cheetah EP uses digital sound generation techniques combined with wave sequencing technology to bring you sounds with movement and depth rarely found on records today. To assure [...]
Karma & Desire — a follow up to critically acclaimed records AZD, Ghettoville, Hazyville, and more — includes collaborations with Sampha, Zsela, Aura T-09 (co-runs Evar Records with John [...]
Razors & Medicine – 010 2008 US Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, no x-ray inserts
Hanson Records – HN166 2007 US Pressing, edition of 500 Media Condition – VG+ with light marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear
The Trilogy Tapes – TTT022 2015 UK Pressing Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear
2020 repress. “Born Alice McLeod into a musical Detroit family, Alice Coltrane began playing piano at age seven and later studied with Bud Powell in Paris. Upon returning to the States, she [...]
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After a stripper tricks him into filming a sex tape, Scott Edwards (Olympic Gold Medalist Mitch Gaylord), a Miami rickshaw runner, becomes embroiled in the murder of an evangelist’s son [...]
Lexachast is an ongoing collaborative work by Amnesia Scanner, Bill Kouligas & Harm van den Dorpel. Initially birthed as a joint, improvised performance between Amnesia Scanner and Kouligas [...]
Within The Gag File, the most recent album from Wolf Eyes co-founder Aaron Dilloway, themes of obsession and neurosis splinter Dilloway’s persona as an artist balancing control and chaotic [...]
‘Modular synthesis from Brandon Hill (Starved Relations, Cloud Rat, Plagues etc.) exploring themes of a Black / Portuguese heritage, adoption, and the sonic and emotional unknown. Debut [...]
Amazon Women on the Moon is a madcap send-up of late-night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. [...]
Arca is one of the world’s most transformative musical talents. Since breaking through with her 2012 EPs Stretch 1 and Stretch 2, she’s created an unprecedented body of work drawing from club [...]
‘Underground uptempo Chicago acid tracks – Raw, late night rave sonics saturated in tape hiss.’ – BH Standard tape w/ j card edition of 50
Autechre return with their 14th studio album, SIGN. SIGN is comprised of 11 songs with a runtime of 65 minutes & 32 second
‘Stunning, gorgeous churning ambient – Modern sound design techniques and emotive tonalities. Intensely beautiful.’ -BH Cassette with full colour artwork. Edition of 100
Souffle Continu Records present the first ever reissue of Alain Bellaïche‘s Sea Fluorescent, originally released in 1976. Frenchman who is on the return from the USA is something unusual. [...]
Though known as a touring and recording musician associated with Nine Inch Nails, Alessandro Cortini has really come into his own via his Forse trilogy, and his 2014 Hospital Productions debut, [...]
Everyone knows the classic American horror titles: Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street, to name but a few. But we want to tell you a different [...]
Recorded on a dark and lively night at Studio 1/4 in Los Angeles, Andy Bolus’ cadaverous murk combines with Joseph Hammer’s reel-to-reel jitters and John Wiese’s electronic jolts to veer from [...]
A powerhouse pairing of pioneering ensembles of improvised music! Los Angeles Free Music Society titans Airway and Japanese icons Hijokaidan energetically tear through two discs of [...]
Doug Lee returns to the label under his AN-I moniker, this time collaborating with prolific Greek producer Unhuman on a new four track ep. This is what happens when you take all the right [...]
DIW – DIW-1134, Osmosis Records – 6001 1984 Japanese Pressing Original Osmosis Records edition issued by DIW Records with Japanese liner notes and obi. Media Condition – VG+ [...]
Denon – YX-7524-ND 1978 Japanese Pressing Comes with OBI. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ (ring and edge wear present)
Limited to 100 numbered copies.
ESP Disk – 15PJ-2023 1980 Japanese Pressing Comes with OBI. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ (edge wear present, some spots on OBI)
Freedom – PA-9710 1975 Japanese Pressing Comes with OBI and insert. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ (few marks on sleeve)
ESP-Disk – 15PJ-2020 1980 Japanese Pressing Comes with OBI. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ (edge wear and some spots on sleeve)
Andrew Nolan (INTENSIVE CARE, WOLFAGRAM) returns once again to Absurd Exposition, following “Background Music” (2018) and “We Know Now What a Modern Society Can Do with a [...]
LP version. “Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the [...]
From Akio Suzuki: “In May 1984 I appeared at a German festival called Pro Musica Nova, organized by Radio Bremen. I then travelled to Berlin by car with Rolf Langebertels, the owner of [...]
Alastair Galbraith is considered nothing less than a genius around these parts. A New Zealand underground legend active since the ’80s, his solo works have seen release on Siltbreeze, MIE, [...]
Antischism – This Is The Enemy Selfless Records – 2 1/2 Stereonucleosis Records – 2 1/2 White Label Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
Johnny (Vincent Spano, Baby It’s You and Over the Edge) controls the drug trade in New York’s rough Alphabet City neighborhood—as long as his mob bosses let him. But, when he refuses to follow [...]
Kevin Micka has returned with his first full-length since 2009’s Memory, Fatigue is a chronicle and culmination of the past 10 years of Micka creating live music for large ensembles. In his [...]
TOR Horror Paperback Miss Finney can grow younger. All it takes is a murder now and then, thanks to the strange little man that her nieces introduce into her life. And thanks to the dark powers [...]
Mandatory noise from the boss of the flawless Dada Drumming imprint. Razor sharp slicing noise executed with breakneck speed and fearless propulsion. A longtime favorite here at New Forces HQ. [...]
Lush studio compositions with rolling rhythms and wistful melodies from Northern Mali’s standout Tuareg guitar band. Disrupted by political conflict in the Sahara, Amanar’s follow up is years in [...]
Contemporary field recordings from the Sahelian empire of Niger. Focusing on guitar music throughout the country, from meditative starlight ballads, fuzzy Hendrix covers, rag tag wedding bands, [...]
The pioneering electronic composer Mort Garson (Mother Earth’s Plantasia) takes on supernatural phenomena with lush synth grooves on The Unexplained, his only release under the name [...]
Sean E. Matzus is a Houston-based artist regarded for his solo projects (Red Hook, Thewhitehorse, The Secret Geography, etc), while also known for his work in several Richard Ramirez projects [...]
Verso Paperback This is especially true of the science fiction film—a genre as old as cinema itself—which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film [...]
You could refer to this as a “meeting of the minds” – and it’s also like, the hundreth good noise/experimental CD to come out this year. It’s the concrete Wiese edit [...]
“For anyone who can remember, Arca’s &&&&& was a moment. Its 25-minute stretch of coiling, contorted grime and glitch; dub and hip hop dropped with the buzz of an [...]
As part of Whited Sepulchre’s 4 x LP release in June, Cincinnati experimental electronic artist Andrew Elaban brings his wide-screen conduction of chance connections and orchestrated unfolding of [...]
ART 01: “The Dark Well” contains four new compositions from the collaborative debut of Ekin Fil and Aidan Baker that spill out in a slow cascade of organ, guitar, and voice. In the [...]
“An intimate and vulnerable emotional portrait that shows her grappling with a period of personal tumult, ‘Whole New Mess’ presents Angel Olsen working through her open wounds [...]
His Master’s Voice – OALP 7505 Australia 1957 Aboriginal Field Recordings. Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
2016 12″ from Annanan Hear below: New Wave Of Nature by Annanan
Alvvays are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle. Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn. As a result, their [...]
Star Trap presents a selection of hitherto unreleased 1990s recordings from Arnold Dreyblatt and his Orchestra of Excited Strings. Following on from Black Truffle’s wide-ranging archival [...]
Gatefold sleeve; includes download code with the two additional pieces on the double-CD version. Black Truffle’s documentation of the prolific recent work of legendary American composer [...]
Atrax Morgue has been one of the very few names to inherit the sound and annihilating effect of the power electronics school of the early 1980s. He remains faithful to visceral (anti)sounds, no [...]
“The sadistic industrial spurts of Atrax Morgue, are secretions of body fluids converted into noise stinging and nauseous and his work is an unhealthy, stinking container, with most [...]
“Exterminate, the most impressive and sinister album by Morgue first way – it is just the thirteenth work in his name, during his first three years of artistic production, returns to [...]
“With every record, Damon McMahon aka Amen Dunes has transformed, and Freedom is the project’s boldest leap yet. Enlisting a powerful set of collaborators that included Parker Kindred [...]
“‘Another Life’ is the debut album from Amnesia Scanner, the Berlin-based music duo, performing arts group, experience design studio and production house, created by Finnish-born Ville [...]
“Following 2007’s Love is Simple, the band reconfigured their approach to touring. They brought along like-minded musicians such as Megafaun, the Dodos and Greg Davis, both as openers and [...]
AMAZING REISSUE (another one!?) Originally released in 1992… Utilizing only the sound of water – the first release on legendary G.R.O.S.S. imprint… A listen that will engulf [...]
“The early 1980s was a formative time for a wide variety of outstanding unique music coming out of Phoenix, Arizona. Experimental DIY, punk, prog rock, noise, comedy, jazz was all mixed [...]
“The musician and spiritual seeker Alice Coltrane was much more than just John Coltrane‘s second wife. One of the few harpists to feature prominently in jazz, she was also a renowned [...]
“The career of Acid Mothers Temple has been an interesting and varied one. With well over 200 releases to their name since 1996, the band have certainly put in the hard yards. Recent times [...]
2017 repress; originally released in 1966. Featured artists: Albert Ayler (tenor sax), Ed Blackwell (trumpet), Don Cherry (trumpet, cornet), Sunny Murray (drums), Gary Peacock (bass), Roswell [...]
“Horace Swaby, known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer, melodica player, and keyboardist. In addition to popularizing the use of melodica in reggae [...]
Following her, Geoff Barrow-produced debut album, Anika returns with this seductive self-titled EP. Anika’s version of The Kinks’ lovelorn classic I Go To Sleep leads the EP, which also [...]
TOM-7025 1979 US Press Media Condition – VG+ with light stray marks Sleeve Condition – VG+ with shelfwear/discoloration
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players. Eager to start afresh, the unsuspecting couple of Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their [...]
Imported Japanese VHS NTSC-J Tapes will work on all US VCR players. A group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their [...]
“Over the past decade, the visionary musician Arthur Russell has entered something close to the mainstream. Sampled and referenced by contemporary musicians, his papers now open to visitors [...]
“It’s just over 3 years since we launched the Africa Seven label in Paris and London. Our first release back then (Airways One) is still our best seller and had to be repressed 4 [...]
“We are pleased to welcome you once more aboard Africa Airways. For your third flight your pilot has informed us of some particularly adverse turbulence en-route. Your trip may be [...]
“With their intoxicating blend of sharp Western electronic music and Eastern sounds & vocals, the Parisian crew have been setting fire to clubs and festivals worldwide, playing over 260 [...]
“Armando Sciascia – by day, notable composer for Italian erotic and exotic cinema – by night, experimentalist and nocturnal avant-gardener. Lovingly crafted in his hand-built Vedette [...]
“Tuareg guitar gets the electronic treatment, with a reissue of the cassette by legendary Nigerien composer Abdallah Oumbadougou. Produced in Benin in 1995, “Anou Malane” is one of the [...]
“In exile from his city in Northern Mali, singer/songwriter Ahmed Ag Kaedy returns to the origins of Tuareg folk with sessions of stripped down solo acoustic guitar. Mellow pentatonic notes [...]
“2015 repress. The most legendary avant-jazz group, reissued by Soul Jazz, raved about by Thurston Moore and accessible to anyone who’d normally not know a thing about this type of [...]
“Released in 1976, Eternity was Alice Coltrane‘s first album for Warner Bros. after eight wondrous records on Impulse! Combining the drones and textures of India, the gospel and [...]
“Nineteen Eighty-Two, Brussels: Living on busking wages and next door to Tuxedomoon, Antena manage to make a contemporary bossanova record that provides the missing link between Antonio [...]
Algebra Suicide was a Chicago poetry-music duo consisting of poet and visual artist Lydia Tomkiw and musician Don Hedeker. They formed in 1982 and self-released a 4-song EP that year. It featured [...]
We’re very excited to have copies of this collection of collaborative work from Aaron Dilloway & John Wiese. Recorded 2007, 2010 & 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan & [...]
“The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature and film. But there’s also an abyss above. There’s a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into [...]
NEW 4K REMASTER OF THE FILM In honor of its 60th anniversary, this Olive Signature edition of A Bucket of Blood celebrates the film’s enduring legacy. Shot in five days on a shoestring [...]
After gate-crashing the Britpop party in 1996 with The First Big Weekend , Arab Strap went on to produce eight albums (six of them on Chemikal Underground) over a period of 10 years. Reflecting [...]
“In 1974 Ana Mazzotti recorded her first album Ninguem Vai Me Segurar (1974), enlisting the in-demand arrangement talents of Azymuth’s original keyboard maestro Jose Roberto Bertrami who [...]