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  • Black Pus – Primordial Pus
    Black Pus – Primordial Pus
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    “Little surprise that Black Pus should have a scuzzed-out, hyperactive, and extreme sound in general; it’d be surprising to expect anything less from Brian Chippendale of Lightning [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Timeghost ‎– Cellular
    Timeghost ‎– Cellular
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    “Truly modern electronic music by way of synthesizers and found sounds, spoken texts and irradiated thoughts. Everything clicks and whirs into place as if by unseen hands.” Label: [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chris Brokaw – Ghost Ship
    Chris Brokaw – Ghost Ship
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    I set out to make an 8 song statement like ‘Desert Shore’ or ‘Raw Power’, but it became a 9 song…something else. I’ve described it to friends as ‘Twin [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Blank Hellscape – Hell 2
    Blank Hellscape – Hell 2
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    ‘Hell 2’ is not the first album from Austin’s Blank Hellscape, but it’s certainly the most fully-realized. OK, at least it’s the LONGEST. The self-professed three-piece nightmare band knocked [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
    Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
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    Between Soil and Sky is the 2024 CD release by devoted experimentalist, PJ Dorsey (Tarotplane), and his second release with Noir Age. A curated embodiment of an amphibious reality — […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
    Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
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    A multidisciplinary artist, and avant-garde icon in her own right, Little Annie leaves little room for an introduction that is worthy of her prolific career. She has remained relevant for […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
    Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
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    Totality! It can only be good news. The second convergence of Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, years removed from the first, misses no steps and posits low-key revolutions in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Residents – Meet The Residents
    The Residents – Meet The Residents
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    Vinyl reissue of The Residents’ classic debut originally released on Ralph Records in 1974. The whole, bizarre Residents trip started here (at least officially)! Mixing everything from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
    The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
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    The Residents released of their third album, “The Third Reich ‘n’ Roll” in 1976. People have speculated whether the Residents were hinting that Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Residents – Duck Stab
    The Residents – Duck Stab
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    Musically, it’s difficult to describe this diverse album. There is a silky, seductive, and murky aspect which creates a supporting liquid background upon which the lyrics float. There is a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
    Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
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    Tribal dark ambient filled with occult influences. Label: Athanor – ATNR 007 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: France Released: 2000 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
    Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
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    Included with Embryo Zine Issue #2 Label: Natural Sciences – none Format: CDr, Album Country: UK Released: 2022 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The New Blockaders + Ice Yacht – Wer Ist Wer Und Was Ist Was
    The New Blockaders + Ice Yacht – Wer Ist Wer Und Was Ist Was
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    ‘In my hand a beautifully designed CD on Nihilist Records from Chicago. It contains four long soundscapish minimal noise-ambient ‘constructions’ developed by The New Blockaders [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The New Blockaders – Live At Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
    The New Blockaders – Live At Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
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    “Armed with hammers and some carefully chosen materials, TNB perform a ‘conceptual destruction’ of pure sonic violence. By deliberate saturation of the environment by way of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demi – Demi
    Demi – Demi
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    Mix from Softer Recordings. ~~~~ intimacy; a single saline drop, smearing the ink; the sound of 1,000 bedroom sessions; reading silently with a friend, bathed in sunlight; a damp umbrella […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Matmos – Return To Archive
    Matmos – Return To Archive
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    In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
    Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
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    Koln, Germany around 1991. After a 40-minute train ride from Aachen, Christoph Heemann and Jim O’Rourke are sitting around with Jan St. Werner, C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and George Odjik. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • SiP – Leos Ultras
    SiP – Leos Ultras
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    [Out Nov 1st!] A full four years after Chicago organ maestro Jimmy Lacy’s maiden voyage as SiP (Leos Naturals, 2020), he returns with a lush, layered, long-awaited sequel: Leos Ultras. […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Alex York – The Tiger Is In The Library
    Alex York – The Tiger Is In The Library
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    Live set of field recordings & sampled sounds. “Recorded live December 10, 2023 In Yellow Springs Ohio At the Foundry Theatre, Antioch College At a live performance by myself & […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Elon Katz & Michael Vallera – Independence Day
    Elon Katz & Michael Vallera – Independence Day
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    Limited Edition – 125 Copies   NINA – Editorial (Staff Picks) On Nina, one of the tags used to describe Independence Day, the new collaborative release by the artists Elon […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
    Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
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    Four tracks of harsh noise with a junk noise vortex that leans into all manner of collapsed constraint. Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and guests Anjilla Ulfhednar, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
    Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
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    Tracks complied from previously released cassettes released on Property Solution as “Dopamine Scythe”, “Imprudent Abjection”, “Pure Slaughter Value” and “Sabotage Momentum” All sounds and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
    Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
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    Amplexus is a raw unforgiving barrage of harsh noise as one might expect from two well-known figures in the noise world. There is definitely some shared territory with the newer […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
    Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
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    Reissue of cassette on Bizarre Audio Arts from 2018

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Systematic Elimination / Death Cult Ritual – Anti Cult Assassins
    Systematic Elimination / Death Cult Ritual – Anti Cult Assassins
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    Split 7″ from two Midwest noise heavies.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Support Unit – A New World In Our Hearts
    Support Unit – A New World In Our Hearts
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    Harsh Noise Wall from the anarchist project out of Pittsburgh.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Rita ‎– Sharks And The Female Form
    The Rita ‎– Sharks And The Female Form
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    The aesthetics and patterns of a woman’s physical form violently and tragically manipulated in the arts. A revisit of classic sharks/women fetish themes and crackling walls synonymous with THE [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dahulagiri ‎– Spectral Pilgrimage
    Dahulagiri ‎– Spectral Pilgrimage
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    Haunted and decayed dungeon synth from Indonesia

    GENRE: Metal, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Castlerock – Honmaru
    Castlerock – Honmaru
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    inspired by the castles still standing in japan today. all music written and performed by P.T.S. in the winter of mmxx the first entry in the Kuruwa trilogy

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Katabasilisk / Kneipegeist – What Flowers Bloom In Velvet Night
    Katabasilisk / Kneipegeist – What Flowers Bloom In Velvet Night
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    Dark ambient/black metal split. Absolutely crushing.

    GENRE: Metal, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • People Skills – Subalternity Interlude
    People Skills – Subalternity Interlude
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    Avant-folk electronics and surrealistic sound construction from Philadelphia.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Creode – Zep Tepi
    Creode – Zep Tepi
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    The duo of Samantha Flowers and Tyler Hicks have been perfecting their dulcet tones for over ten years now. Combining, as if in a cauldron, blender, or analogous mixing device […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Mark Anderson & Anthony Guerra ‎– River Transcription
    Mark Anderson & Anthony Guerra ‎– River Transcription
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    Gently lay your palm on the warmed belly of a flat stone, and skim your humming thoughts across the murmuring divide. The opposite shore is a shadowed encampment of slowly […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Russell Walker – Back To The Womb
    Russell Walker – Back To The Womb
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    “Stockport’s Regional Bears unleashes their label MVP Russell Walker for what seems to be their debut solo album proper on ‘Back To The Womb’ – a rambling masterclass of British […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hugo Randulv – Drunkna I Ljus
    Hugo Randulv – Drunkna I Ljus
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    The much anticipated sophomore solo album from Hugo Randulv (Enhet För Fri Musik, Amateur Hour, Makthaverskan etc). Drunkna I Ljus was composed and recorded mainly during 2024 and consists of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Five Years Of Failure
    V/A – Five Years Of Failure
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    Five year anniversary compilation from Discreet Music featuring new or unreleased music from Facit, Eftergift, Demeters Döttrar, Sewer Election, Juho Toivonen, Leda, Shadow Pattern, Livskraft, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Parasite Nurse  – Lack
    Parasite Nurse – Lack
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    Parasite Nurse’s follow up to 2023’s “Life Is Beautiful” with “Lack” which as far as I’m concerned, it might be necessary to listen to as a whole, all [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
    Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
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    A live documentation of a collaboration between T. Mikawa: Electronics and Reona: Tap Dance, Metal sheets, Chains, Loud speaker. Disarming, complex tension creeping through a labyrinth of junk [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Lovely Midget – Lovely Midget
    Lovely Midget – Lovely Midget
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    A long time in the works vinyl edition of one of our favorite New Zealand albums. Rachel Shearers astonishing debut as Lovely Midget was originally released as a CD on […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Franciska Og Emilie – Franciska Og Emilie
    Franciska Og Emilie – Franciska Og Emilie
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    Jonas Torstensen returns to Discreet Music with the second Franciska album, following up the much praised Tryghed (Discreet Music 12) that was released in early 2023. Since Tryghed came out, […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Arv & Miljo – Arv & Miljo
    Arv & Miljo – Arv & Miljo
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    The final album from Arv & Miljö consists of two sidelong pieces based almost entirely on field recordings. The recordings roughly span from 2014 to 2024 and were primarily recorded […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Cage Meets Sun Ra – The Complete Concert • June 8, 1986 • Coney Island, NY  (Clear Vinyl)
    John Cage Meets Sun Ra – The Complete Concert • June 8, 1986 • Coney Island, NY (Clear Vinyl)
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    “If you were going to envision the ultimate avant-garde meeting-of-the-minds jam session, who would you pick? Even the most hopeful fan of strange and innovative music couldn’t have [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sam Prekop and John McEntire ‎– Sons Of (White Vinyl)
    Sam Prekop and John McEntire ‎– Sons Of (White Vinyl)
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    “Sam Prekop and John McEntire are two artists, who together and as individuals, have expanded the definition of rock. Each is acclaimed for their singular musical voice and for their sonic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ekin Fil – Sleepwalkers
    Ekin Fil – Sleepwalkers
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    the drone-pop consternations of ekin fil emerge through vaporous tone and forlorn, distant song, as if plucked from a dream. these exist on their own accord, moving with their own […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ekin Fil – Maps
    Ekin Fil – Maps
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    ekin fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on maps. for many years now, this istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ekin Fil – Dora Agora
    Ekin Fil – Dora Agora
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    ekin fil returns to the guitar on dora agora. her earliest recordings, notably her debut on root strata, prominently featured guitar in this urgent expressions of a dreamy dreariness that […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Jim Haynes – Inauspicious
    Jim Haynes – Inauspicious
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    in a recent interview, the california artist jim haynes was asked to name his top five noise albums. in quick fashion, he listed off kill the king, send, desnos, persona, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Natural Information Society* & Bitchin Bajas – Automaginary
    Natural Information Society* & Bitchin Bajas – Automaginary
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    The invisible force meets the ancient object — two ensembles for the price of one and a half! Synths, sintir, and much more. Sky music by deep earth people…

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Apple Cottage – Apple Cottage
    Apple Cottage – Apple Cottage
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    Incredible noise collage work from “Apple Cottage” – rough edits but a good ear made this.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Slacking / Black Corolla – Lonely God
    Slacking / Black Corolla – Lonely God
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    Noisey split from Slacking & Black Corolla.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise