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  • Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
    Dean Spunt – Basic Editions
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    An excursion in electronic sound instrumentally unpacking Dean Spunt’s fascination with language – in this instance, the syntax of the systems and processes of various 64-voice E-mu modules [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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
  • Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
    Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
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    The collection of music you’re about to squeeze through your temporal lobe is not comprised of your standard 4/4 dance remixes. Unlike traditional remix records, these thirteen pieces are [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
    Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
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    Using an idiosyncratic compass and thinly disguised as Broken Telepathy, the Bronx-based duo of Kaori Nakamura (Soft Gang) and Darin Mickey (Dichroics/Soft Gang) navigate a range of emotional [...]

    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
  • Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
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    A solo double bass LP from Zach Rowden. A minimal and  drone album that requires you to let go, and hear Zach’s discipline and from that – patience. Immediately intimate, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Azumi Inoue – My Neighbor Totoro
    Azumi Inoue – My Neighbor Totoro
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    Label: Animage – 7AGS-12 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: Japan Released: 1987 VG/VG+ with noticeable light marks to disc and some creasing to sleeve

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • 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
  • Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis – Day Music / Night Music
    Karen Constance / Dylan Nyoukis – Day Music / Night Music
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    Constance the insomniac presents us with Day Music. Heavy processed electronics, field recordings, mangled voices and tape wrangle constructed late at night in bed. Fend off the darkness fears [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • tik///tik / Salt Swan ? KCPC / Musk Lust
    tik///tik / Salt Swan ? KCPC / Musk Lust
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    Amerige Records takes pride in reviving an overlooked classic, now reissued on vinyl and widely accessible for the first time. Originally distributed on cassette among friends in 2011, this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Leslie Keffer – Represents: Live 2005
    Leslie Keffer – Represents: Live 2005
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    “Vocals, Radios.” As line items on record sleeves go, that’s fairly cryptic – it could mean anything. But that’s what Ohioan noise artist Leslie Keffer was working with on the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
    Baphomet Sex – All Ancestors Standing Beside Your Bed
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    Baphomet Sex is V. Jasper Fairbanks 4 track cassette player with looping cassette 10 channel mixer Genthalz C.U.N.T Earthquaker Organizer, Arpanoid, Astral Destiny Donner loop pedal Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rock Candy – Swimming In
    Rock Candy – Swimming In
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    Delve into Rock Candy’s first ever released recordings – enter their universe of far out features, including sounds from the electric guitar, organ, drum machine and “vintage” keyboard. An [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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
  • Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
    Amelia Courthouse – Broken Things LP
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    On her first album since ruby glass (SPINSTER, 2019), sound artist and composer amelia courthouse (aka Leah Toth) builds on her previous album’s textures, moods, and evocations of memory, adding [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
    Camille Dietrich – Grates of Love
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    Camille is the rawest cellist working today, straight up, no qualifiers. It’s hard to separate her from her dad and co-conspirator Don Dietrich in the same way it’s incredibly difficult […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
    Guilherme Granado – Christi Annu Ali Vyianna
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    When Ab from Cartas de Cartalunya (OCFC-002) sent me Christi Annu Ali Vyianna I thought it was another of his alter egos because it shared the same dreamscape Brazilian cyclical […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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
  • Lord Spikeheart – The Adept
    Lord Spikeheart – The Adept
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    The Adept is Lord Spikeheart’s first full-length album. A ferocious debut that ups the intensity and physicality of his previous releases and promises to bring a telluric big bang in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
    Max Nordile ? Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement
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    Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is the music of listening after listening, when water runs relative to the sound of your own footsteps, and you lean over the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
    Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
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    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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
  • Spiteful Womb – Traumacore
    Spiteful Womb – Traumacore
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    C20, Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
    Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
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    Match made in heaven collaborative hit single from New Zealand-based artists Claire Mahoney (Thistle Group) and Benedict Quilter (P Wits). Recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville, mastered for vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alex York – Electro Paralysis
    Alex York – Electro Paralysis
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    Frequent patrons of the Prime Ruin catalog should already recognize Alex York as a household name but for those that don’t, here is a brief introduction: Hailing from the Cincinnati, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
    Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
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    “Who is he?!” While the subgenre of gorenoise may be a hair outside of this label’s wheelhouse, Gracious Host is no less proud to present the debut of Ithaca’s STINKMEAT. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • 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
  • 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
  • Simon Fisher Turner, Edmund de Waal ? A Quiet Corner In Time
    Simon Fisher Turner, Edmund de Waal ? A Quiet Corner In Time
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    A Quiet Corner In Time began life as a sound work created by the composer Fisher Turner for renowned ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal’s architectural installation, – one way […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sven Torstenson – Drugs
    Sven Torstenson – Drugs
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    Sven Torstenson‘s notorious Drugs is a loopdigga’s fever dream, bursting with breaks for days and featuring possibly the most iconic cover of all library music’s cult classics. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Helm – Axis (Clear Purple Vinyl)
    Helm – Axis (Clear Purple Vinyl)
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    London exploratory industrialist Luke Younger characterizes the creation of his latest collection, Axis, as a liberating return to roots: “It felt like going back to the beginning, it felt [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Ty Segall ? Whirlybird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Ty Segall ? Whirlybird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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    Ty Segall meets a new non-rock challenge head-on; soundtrack music for the documentary film Whirlybird. A variety of synth sounds, electric keyboards, drums, percussion and saxophone (and yeah, a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
    Emily Robb – If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection
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    The fantastic new album from tireless seeker Emily Robb. It’s a no-frills, high-minded celebration of guitar and sound and tone and string and amp and adventure committed to tape at […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Habitat Ensemble – S/T
    Habitat Ensemble – S/T
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    Self-titled debut album of Habitat Ensemble, a new musical collective headed up by musician Marius Houschyar. The collective originates deep in the south of the Czech Republic, on the border […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nigel Rolfe – Island Stories
    Nigel Rolfe – Island Stories
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    Nigel Rolfe’s “Island Stories” is a unique record for 80’s Ireland. An unusually experimental electronic and abstract record for the time, it was originally released to little fanfare on Reekus [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • CoH – Radiant Faults
    CoH – Radiant Faults
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    Ivan Pavlov aka CoH characterizes his latest solo work, ‘Radiant Faults’, as “the recording of a dialogue,” rather than a set of compositions. Crafted using a rare new [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Tent Music – Tent Music
    Tent Music – Tent Music
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    It’s difficult not to feel like everything’s already been discovered and documented, posted, scrolling under our compulsive thumbs; that what we have to look forward to is, at best, only […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese – Magnetic Stencil/ 2
    John Wiese – Magnetic Stencil/ 2
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    This is the second installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—19 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Wiese – Magnetic Stencil/ 1 LP
    John Wiese – Magnetic Stencil/ 1 LP
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    This is the first installment in a series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Composed and mixed by John Wiese Cleveland, Ohio—19 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Desperate Nights 7″ (H2L)
    Desperate Nights 7″ (H2L)
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    H2L007 – Desperate Nights High Tolerance B/w Unclean Machine 7” Lathe Cut/mastered at Str Mastering Center Label Design Luke Yamasaki Cover Design Erektor Korp Layout Assembled Packaged and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Adios Mundo Cruel 7″ (H2L)
    Adios Mundo Cruel 7″ (H2L)
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    H2L008 – Adiós Mundo Cruel En Silencio B/w Estrella De La Mañana 7” Lathe Cut / Mastered at Str Mastering Center Label Design Luke Yamasaki Design Layout Assembled Packaged and […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • 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
  • Bill Nace – Through A Room
    Bill Nace – Through A Room
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    What our staff has to say: “Fever dream experimental guitar with an array of other instruments that are all completely abstracted. Uneasy listening.” – Hannah Using the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bill Nace – Both
    Bill Nace – Both
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    Free guitar for the new age: improv with intention, construction and destruction, all with the grain and air of performance captured and telescoped in a sonic particle collider. Makes sense, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
    A Handful Of Dust – The Drum Is The Shaman’s Horse
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    With the death in 2020 of long-standing occasional third member Peter Stapleton (percussion/electronics), A Handful of Dust has regrouped as the core duo of Alastair Galbraith (violin, guitar, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sofia Carbonara – On Names
    Sofia Carbonara – On Names
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    ON “ON NAMES:” I recorded the voices of my parents (Joaquin & Daniela) reading off phonemes (the sounds in words) from Spanish, Italian, and German in search of what my […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
    Grey Windowpane – Churn Clockburning Ace CS
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    Ships by 7/28/23. Writing about Mazozma aka Ma Turner’s work is like trying to frame a river. Throughout the course of their prolific career and many projects, the Lexington, KY […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
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    Ships by or around 7/21/223 “Do you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?” Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore
  • 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