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  • Smegma / Merzbow – XCIII
    Smegma / Merzbow – XCIII
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    More than 25 years after their first partnership, international collaborators Smegma and Merzbow reunite for an all-new album that pushes the conceptual springboard of random composition [...]

  • 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 […]

  • Merzbow / Smegma – Plays
    Merzbow / Smegma – Plays
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    Available for the first time as the artists originally intended! In their first collaborative album, influential outsider artists Merzbow and Smegma traded source material through the mail – from [...]

  • David Cunningham – Grey Scale
    David Cunningham – Grey Scale
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    “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial [...]

  • Nurse With Wound – Gyllenskold Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs
    Nurse With Wound – Gyllenskold Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs
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    2022 restock. “This 1983 period in which Gyllensköld was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton’s audio art. His collaborations with Diana Rogerson, [...]

  • Eiko Ishibashi – Hyakki Yagyo
    Eiko Ishibashi – Hyakki Yagyo
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    2023 repress. Black Truffle announce a new solo album by Eiko Ishibashi, her first for the label, following on from the duo recording Ichida alongside bassist Darin Gray (BT 039LP, […]

  • Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
    Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams
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    From the viscerally punishing and nerve wrecking, to the wistfully sublime, Kevin Drumm’s work often yield a ferocious intensity through the timbres of minute details. Now, throughout this [...]

  • Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi – Improvisation Sep. 1975
    Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi – Improvisation Sep. 1975
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    What was supposed to be a soundcheck for this session became the session itself: a haunting 50-minute séance of intense avantgarde improvisation using a large instrumentation and live processing [...]

  • Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O’Rourke – Tonic 19-01-2001
    Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Jim O’Rourke – Tonic 19-01-2001
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    What our staff has to say: “Three experimental mainstays from across decades come together to conjure this gnarly drone. Dissonant, overtone-laden, and completely mesmerizing.” [...]

  • Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow
    Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow
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    What our staff has to say: “Haunted & solemn guitar works from Orcutt. ‘The Conversion Experience’ is my favorite track. Fits in between the best blues & folk records you’ve [...]

  • Gavin Bryars – Sinking Of The Titanic
    Gavin Bryars – Sinking Of The Titanic
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    What our staff has to say: “I’m not sure there are words to accurately describe listening to ‘The Sinking of the Titanic’ or ‘Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.’ It […]

  • Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
    Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
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    What our staff has to say: “Definitely my favorite Nurse With Wound release and probably one of my favorite pieces of experimental music. Frightening, funny, surreal and everything in [...]

  • Amanaz – Africa
    Amanaz – Africa
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    What our staff has to say: “This record is amazing for many reasons but for me, the track ‘Khala My Friend’ really sets it off. I first heard this track […]

  • Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
    Michael Snow – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder
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    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 […]

  • V/A – Pacific Breeze Volume 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR, & Boogie 1975-1987
    V/A – Pacific Breeze Volume 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR, & Boogie 1975-1987
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    Light in the Attic’s Pacific Breeze series has supplied the world’s growing legions of Japanese music fans with an expertly curated selection of the most sought-after City Pop recordings—the [...]

  • William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
    William S. Burroughs – Break Through In Grey Room
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    Inspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another [...]

  • William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
    William S. Burroughs – Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
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    In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of (then-)Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of [...]

  • Alan Licht, Charles Curtis, & Dean Roberts – May 99
    Alan Licht, Charles Curtis, & Dean Roberts – May 99
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    In the spring of 1999, Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, and Dean Roberts brought an unconventional mix of drone, improvisation, and experimental rock on an eleven-stop tour of Europe. The concept […]

  • Coil – Queens Of The Circulating Library (Transparent Baby Blue Vinyl)
    Coil – Queens Of The Circulating Library (Transparent Baby Blue Vinyl)
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    Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the [...]

  • Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – FRKWYS Vol. 13 – Sunergy (Expanded) (Pacific Blue Vinyl)
    Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – FRKWYS Vol. 13 – Sunergy (Expanded) (Pacific Blue Vinyl)
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    Sunergy brings together synthesists Suzanne Ciani and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith for the thirteenth installment of FRKWYS, RVNG Intl.’s intergenerational collaboration series. For this expanded [...]

  • Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
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    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 […]

  • John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
    John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
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    High Life is like a mini-album, a short journey or guide. The perfect use of the 7″ format, showcasing the range of this inventive duo with each playing their core […]

  • Personal Best 9
    Personal Best 9
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    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 […]

  • James Fella & Gabriella Isaac – Performances LP
    James Fella & Gabriella Isaac – Performances LP
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    Ships in 1-2 weeks! A follow-up to the duo’s LP, CCTK Music (2021, Gilgongo Records), Performances features three sets from Fella and Isaac, from Gilgongo Records’ 15th Year [...]

  • Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
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    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

  • Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé
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    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

  • Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: The South Indian Film Music Of Vijaya Anand: Dance Raja Dance
    Vijaya Anand – Asia Classics 1: The South Indian Film Music Of Vijaya Anand: Dance Raja Dance
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    You won’t hear Vijaya Anand sing on this record. Nor will you hear him play any of the instruments. He is the invisible presence behind each of these songs. He’s […]

  • Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
    Ahl Nana* – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
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    Lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara. This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that […]

  • Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
    Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986
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    Analog Africa’s forthcoming compilation Perú Selvático – Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa No.36) is highlighting a unique style of music : Amazonian [...]

  • Government Alpha – Xerxes
    Government Alpha – Xerxes
    $58.00 | Add to cart

    Limited to 350 copies. Comes with a 16-page booklet. CD’s come packaged inside a cardboard box, with individual inner sleeves.

  • Monde Bruits – Tapes 1991-1994
    Monde Bruits – Tapes 1991-1994
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    What our staff has to say: “Big fan of noise CD boxsets and this one does not disappoint, including some great photos, and documentation of the original cassettes. Great cheap […]

  • Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-1982
    Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-1982
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    Available now is the authorized history of the obscure and influential Los Angeles art and music collective World Imitation Productions (WImP). Emerging as creators of collaged and photocopied [...]

  • The Free Music & Najib Alhoush – Free Music
    The Free Music & Najib Alhoush – Free Music
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    “Blisteringly groovy collection of completely off-the-radar songs by Libyan composer/producer Najib Alhoush’s group The Free Music, circa 1976. Releasing an astonishing ten albums, [...]

  • Brian Eno – Forever Voiceless (RSD, Clear Vinyl)
    Brian Eno – Forever Voiceless (RSD, Clear Vinyl)
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    An instrumental edition of the critically acclaimed 2022 album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, written and produced by Brian Eno. Available for the first time on LP and pressed on crystal clear vinyl in [...]

  • Edgar Froese – Ages (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    Edgar Froese – Ages (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
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    Edgar Froese is the Founder of TANGERINE DREAM. This release Ages from 1978 is known as his greatest solo album from his most desirable time period. It has been out […]

  • glas – Two
    glas – Two
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    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 […]

  • Hijokaidan – No Paris / No Harm LP
    Hijokaidan – No Paris / No Harm LP
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    Originally released on LP through Jojo Hiroshige’s Alchemy Records in 1988, Hijokaidan’s No Paris / No Harm captures the vitriol and terror of the legendary noise group’s studio and live […]

  • Heart of Palm – Tropique Concrète: Collected CD
    Heart of Palm – Tropique Concrète: Collected CD
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    “The palm tree leaves have been uprooted. Each petal turns pink, shedding the season’s rime” The side project of Clotting’s Shea Hardacre, Heart of Palm is a fading audio [...]

  • Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm
    Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm
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    The new sprawling double disc from black noise classicists Skullflower – referencing Inferno 17, Dante and Virgil’s spiralling descent into the abyss on demon Geryon. Full of harsh beauty and [...]

  • Trepaneringsritualen – Perfection & Permanence
    Trepaneringsritualen – Perfection & Permanence
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    Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the hidden realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and [...]

  • Troum – Acouasme
    Troum – Acouasme
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    After the much praised collaboration with RAISON D’ETRE released summer 2015 (“De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu”) and the final volume of the ‘Power Romantic’ trilogy with “Mare Morphosis” in late [...]

  • Cages – Folding Space
    Cages – Folding Space
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    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 [...]

  • Lull & Beta Cloud, Andrew Liles – Circadian Rhythm Disturbance Reconfigured
    Lull & Beta Cloud, Andrew Liles – Circadian Rhythm Disturbance Reconfigured
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    From England to the United States and back again… it all started as a simple drone project between LULL (aka Mick Harris of Scorn, ex-Napalm Death), and BETA CLOUD (aka […]

  • 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 [...]

  • K. Reinshagen Technik – I Am Seeing Fear 7″
    K. Reinshagen Technik – I Am Seeing Fear 7″
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    Transitioning from from his longtime LFA/Liable moniker, Nostilevo label head K. Reinshagen delivers two sides of lurching tape loops and unvarnished industrial rhythms perfectly suited for the [...]

  • Merzbow – Life Performance
    Merzbow – Life Performance
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    Over an hour of best analogue material from the King of Japanese noise. Reissue of an extremely rare cassette, dating back to 1985, originally released by Merzbow’s own label ZSF […]

  • John Wiese – Camouflage Body 7″
    John Wiese – Camouflage Body 7″
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    Initially only available during John Wiese’s 2022 North American tour, the latest entry in his ever-expanding catalog of 7″s is now available in wider release.

  • Drew Daniel & John Wiese – Through Mazes Running LP (Black Vinyl)
    Drew Daniel & John Wiese – Through Mazes Running LP (Black Vinyl)
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    The second collaborative album by Drew Daniel (Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek), “Through Mazes Running” builds turbulent complexity from a real time cage [...]

  • Drew Daniel & John Wiese – Through Mazes Running LP (Clear Vinyl)
    Drew Daniel & John Wiese – Through Mazes Running LP (Clear Vinyl)
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    The second collaborative album by Drew Daniel (Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek), “Through Mazes Running” builds turbulent complexity from a real time cage [...]

  • FM Einheit* – Exhibition Of A Dream (Interpreted By FM Einheit)
    FM Einheit* – Exhibition Of A Dream (Interpreted By FM Einheit)
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    Twelve dreams of musicians, artists, and filmmakers, interpreted by FM Einheit (ex-EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN), with voices by: Lee Ranaldo (SONIC YOUTH), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (PSYCHIC TV / [...]

  • Hive Mind – Elysian Alarms LP
    Hive Mind – Elysian Alarms LP
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    “Surfacing from deep eddies of despair, brined in nearly a decade of retrograde emotions, Hive Mind extends and surpasses 2011’s Elemental Disgrace with a new vision of blurry, bleary [...]

  • Merzbow – Animal Liberation – Until Every Cage Is Empty
    Merzbow – Animal Liberation – Until Every Cage Is Empty
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    Cold Spring proudly presents the new studio album from MERZBOW. As a life-long campaigner of animal rights, Masami Akita has delivered a brutal assault on those that cage and murder […]

  • 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 […]

  • The New Blockaders – Live At Sonic City
    The New Blockaders – Live At Sonic City
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    What our staff has to say: “The ultimate noise artists, The New Blockaders, with an amazing live set from Sonic City in Belgium, 2017. Includes a DVD of the performance. […]

  • Coil / Nine Inch Nails – Recoiled
    Coil / Nine Inch Nails – Recoiled
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    “Recoiled” is a rambunctious alchemy, of magikal Coil sensibilities and hi-tech home circa 90’s mixing technique, all fused in the cave-like early studios of Danny Hyde (Coil, Electric Sewer Age) [...]

  • Hijokaidan / Incapacitants – Δ8000 / Prelude To Pallo CS
    Hijokaidan / Incapacitants – Δ8000 / Prelude To Pallo CS
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    Repress available April 15, 2023* “What can possibly be said about these two legendary groups that hasn’t been said already? Ironically, when this split cassette tape was originally [...]

  • Monde Bruits – Purgatory LP
    Monde Bruits – Purgatory LP
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    Monde Bruits is a Japanese experimental noise project formed in the early 1990s, from the brainchild of Iwasaki Shōhei. The sound has been compared to other experimental noise acts of […]

  • Violent Onsen Geisha – Wagamama Na Ofukuro LP
    Violent Onsen Geisha – Wagamama Na Ofukuro LP
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    Please Note: This item is a Pre-Order! Due to ship late March / Early April In 1987, Nakahara Masaya founded the project Violent Onsen Geisha, which quickly became one of […]

  • glas – One
    glas – One
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    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 [...]

  • Merzbow – Vibractance LP (Pollen Colored Vinyl) (Pre-Order)
    Merzbow – Vibractance LP (Pollen Colored Vinyl) (Pre-Order)
    $38.00 | , Add to cart

    Please Note: This item is a PRE-ORDER! Expected to ship late April 2023 Originally released in France in 1998, Vibractance is one of the most unique and haunting titlesin Merzbow’s […]