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  • Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
    Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas
    $10.00 |

    A recent long-distance virtual studio collaboration between close colleague and fellow traveller Raphael Alvarez of Guatemala/Cuba via North Carolina, and Richard Vergez. Ongue Ditas is a melding [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • A Fail Association – This Will… CS
    A Fail Association – This Will… CS
    $8.00 |

    Round two for the Sheriff of Dada Drumming and mayor of Funkytown, TX, with two brickwall tracks recorded in 2018. The second AFA release for MT coming 16 years after […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
    History Of Leather – Courte Oreilles To 33rd CS
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.   Brute rust belt concréte compositions of full spectrum, delicate yet hard-edged crumbling narratives [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
    Cut Out – Interlude With Fun Machine
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    Interlude with Fun Machine relies on textures, patterns, found sounds, presets, rhythm boxes, inversion of background and foreground elements, and the very deadpan sense of humor of Steve Fisk [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Wasteland Jazz Unit – Mind Obscured
    Wasteland Jazz Unit – Mind Obscured
    $9.00 |

    Wasteland Jazz Unit presents a mind-frying monolith of brain-scrambled haze and searing screech bursting forth from the psychic fog of Cincinnati’s Jon Lorenz (sax, electronics) & John Rich [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
    Ted Byrnes – Tactility CD
    $12.00 |

    The first release from our CD imprint, ARKEEN – a 7 track, 30 minute full length from Los Angeles based Ted Byrnes. Percussive abuse and aural assault. Fragmented time creating […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    Ted Byrnes – Moving My Body Through Space CD
    $12.00 |

    Recognized as a skilled and sought after collaborator, Ted Byrnes solo albums cast a wide net that capture Byrnes’ adventurous and omnivorous approach to solo percussion. An alumnus of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Cage, David Tudor – Musik Im Technischen Zeitalter 1963
    John Cage, David Tudor – Musik Im Technischen Zeitalter 1963
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    In the winter of 1962-63 the writer on music and supporter of contemporary music Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, professor at the Technische Universität in Berlin, ran the international lecture series [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Limbs Bin – Burnt White Elephant CD
    Limbs Bin – Burnt White Elephant CD
    $11.00 |

    Toiling tirelessly among the shadows of the crumbling imperial superstructure, beloved noise hero Limbs Bin emerges in 2021 with a new full-length studio album on Damien Records. Burnt White [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark Trecka –  Acknowledgment LP
    Mark Trecka – Acknowledgment LP
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    Label Description: Recorded using only voice, piano, and handmade cassette loops, Acknowledgment was conceived of and is presented as an intertextual document reflecting on 15 years of dialogue [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Cryocene – Exclave
    Cryocene – Exclave
    $10.00 |

    “Exclave” is the debut of NYC-based duo Cryocene, comprised of Stefan Aune (Kjostad) and Matt Boettke (Scant). Over the course of 5 tracks Cryocene weave together an ominous landscape [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • H.C.O.D – Instruments Of Destiny
    H.C.O.D – Instruments Of Destiny
    $12.00 |

    “55 minute journey into severe necrological territory. Eight heavily layered tracks that don’t attempt to repair the heavily damaged skeletal system. Suffocating industrial noise and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher – Stockhausen Syndrome CDr
    Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher – Stockhausen Syndrome CDr
    $10.00 |

    “Composed and edited in Portland and Queens, September – December 2020.” – Flea.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon – Conversation for Room with Piano and Loudspeaker Array CDr
    Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon – Conversation for Room with Pi…
    $10.00 |

    Julie Moon and I began collaborating in 2014 as a computer music and prepared piano duo. Over the years we have tried to create a sound palette that we can […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Peter Thoegersen – Facebook Cantos CDr
    Peter Thoegersen – Facebook Cantos CDr
    $10.00 |

    Peter Thoegersen’s new CD on Flea004 is a recording of his Microtonal Song Cycle «Facebook: What’s On Your Mind » (2016-2020). Sung with hair-raising power by Lore Lixenberg, this is […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher ‎– The Past, Present And Future Of Experimental Music (Uncut GRM) CDr
    Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher ‎– The Past, Present And Future Of Exp…
    $10.00 |

    A Reader Response Exercise for 10 Participants & GRM Sample Pack. Made for Erick Laska’s Lateral Addition websit.

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Xambuca – Dissimulata CS
    Xambuca – Dissimulata CS
    $11.00 |

    Recorded live, March 2020, just prior to the closure of the world Xambuca is Chandra Shukla: Xambuca are an international concept multimedia/music performance group consisting of sound artist [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Paolo Coteni ‎– Nel Corso Del Tempo, A tribute To Laura Grisi LP
    Paolo Coteni ‎– Nel Corso Del Tempo, A tribute To Laura Grisi LP
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    Edition of 220 copies. Conceptual artist Laura Grisi (1939-2017) was mostly know for work with natural elements and phenomena such as fog, water, wind, air & light. Quoting Germano Celant [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Relly Tarlo ‎– Territorial Landscape No. 1 LP
    Relly Tarlo ‎– Territorial Landscape No. 1 LP
    $30.00 | ,

    Edition of 250 copies. Sculptor Relly Tarlo (° 1949) is mostly known for his large scale installations which he specifically designs for certain locations, i.e. an outside staircase, a park […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Giuseppe Chiari ‎– Gesti Sul Piano LP
    Giuseppe Chiari ‎– Gesti Sul Piano LP
    $28.00 | ,

    Edition of 250 copies, historical recordings from 1975 and 1980. Giuseppe Chiari was one of the leading names associated first with Fluxus (being the only Italian member of the interdisciplinary [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Matt Shoemaker – Isolated Agent Stranding Behavior
    Matt Shoemaker – Isolated Agent Stranding Behavior
    $9.00 | ,

    Limited edition picture disc Much of Shoemaker’s recorded output prominently features the use of field recordings (see his “Tropical Amnesia One” CD), but in this case he has [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Colin Andrew Sheffield & James Eck Rippie ‎– Essential Anatomies
    Colin Andrew Sheffield & James Eck Rippie ‎– Essential Anatomies
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    Colin Andrew Sheffield (sampler) and James Eck Rippie (turntables) began playing music together in Dallas, Texas in 2000 and released their debut LP, “Variations,” a year later. They [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Yana – Obitvs CS
    Yana – Obitvs CS
    $12.00 |

    Heavy psychedelic noise duo from Finland. Decrepit and broken down feedback trails into restrained echoes drenched guitar and bass. Edition of 100 packaged in A5 sleeve

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Skull Skull – Count To One
    Skull Skull – Count To One
    $9.00 |

    Jagged waves of shrieking shatter from the dueling guitars of Aaron Hemphill and Jarrett Silberman. Excavated from the deep archives of the mid-2000s Los Angeles explosion, Count to One shows [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ted Byrnes – All Hands
    Ted Byrnes – All Hands
    $7.75 | ,

    “There’s something life reaffirming about each Ted Byrnes release. The intensity of his playing is ejaculatory and joyful. His recordings are intimate, and every time I hear them I [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Knurl – Initial Shock CD/DVD
    Knurl – Initial Shock CD/DVD
    $15.00 | ,

    CD – Reissue of Knurl’s debut 1994 tape “Initial Shock” with 3 bonus tracks, all mastered for CD in 2020. Approximately 1 hour of material. DVD – Footage from 9 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Oil Thief – The Colony LP
    Oil Thief – The Colony LP
    $16.00 | ,

    Vinyl debut, after a string of tapes and lathes, and a CD issue of the first release. Oil Thief deftly straddles the treriksroset between industrial, noise and techno while giving […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Waxy Tomb – Imminent Fold LP
    Waxy Tomb – Imminent Fold LP
    $18.00 | ,

    LP includes a 25 page full-color art booklet. Amorphous and perplexing, Jules Litman-Cleper’s work as Waxy Tomb can incidentally incite a notion of chaos or randomness in the foreground while [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • James Fella – Inactive Parts
    James Fella – Inactive Parts
    $14.00 | ,

    “Inactive Parts” was a December 2014 installation at The Trunk Space in Phoenix, AZ consisting of paintings, screen printed xerox pieces, lathe cut 7″ records and two sets of [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Filthy Grin – Saturn In The Mirror
    Filthy Grin – Saturn In The Mirror
    $14.00 | ,

    Gerald Biggs developed Filthy Grin as a living sound journal to document explorations in the sonification of sculpture and body movement. Currently located in Montreal, over the past decade he [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Tashi Dorji & John Dietrich – Midden
    Tashi Dorji & John Dietrich – Midden
    $16.00 | ,

    While the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Limbs Bin – Unrelenting Barrage Of FLowers And Amethyst Energy CDr
    Limbs Bin – Unrelenting Barrage Of FLowers And Amethyst Energy C…
    $7.50 |

    Blow the horn and tap the tambourine! For want of live performances in this blighted year, LIMBS BIN has self-released a pro CD-R containing two of 2019’s most ecstatic declarations […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Andrew Elaban – VARIEGATED TRIBUTARY / WOVEN CRESCENT
    Andrew Elaban – VARIEGATED TRIBUTARY / WOVEN CRESCENT
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Marsh Chapel – Child Of YHWH
    Marsh Chapel – Child Of YHWH
    $16.00 | ,

    New Torn Light release that we have been more than excited to work on with Drew & the crew. Torn Light has a huge place in our heart for records […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alternative Particle Choir-Black Hole Diaries
    Alternative Particle Choir-Black Hole Diaries
    $27.00 | ,

    “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 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • James Fella – Weak Left Input
    James Fella – Weak Left Input
    $13.00 | ,

    Weak Left Input” LP (GGGR-070, September 2014): Two improvised and unedited pieces focusing on meandering / overlapping electronics, guitar and tape noise. Over an hour of material ranging [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic