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 [...]
Dead Channel is proud to present Forms, a new album, from Mokre’tzy Konstruktor. A monumental mutant minimal synth masterpiece, filled with gnarled electronics and dystopian soundscapes. Based in [...]
The label’s inaugural release (!) is a four-part, double cassette collection of polyrhythmic vignettes from the concept horse: FILLS VOL. I-IV. From the artist: These sonic bits were all [...]
Dallas techno renegade TX Connect (Gavin Guthrie) delivers on his first EP for Dead Channel. With releases on L.I.E.S., Crème Organization, Medical Records, Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, and his [...]
Tunisian artist Anasisana makes his Noir Age debut with “Ever So Beautiful,” a lush ouvre of existential synth pads and droning embers coalescing in five tracks of electronic [...]
“Fred Cole’s legendary 1961-1966 band. The 12” is a straight reissue of the 1968 LP (unfortunately originally released as “The Lollipop Shoppe” but now returned to the [...]
Unbelievably great psychedelic garage rock from 1966-1968. Up there with the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Love and the Seeds in quality but with an outsider edge to it. Tough as nails […]
John Ondolo spent his life traveling between Tanzania, where he was born, and Kenya, where he recorded a string of singles for independent labels in the late 1950s and early […]
What our staff has to say: “South African pianist / percussionist with a crew of San Francisco & Chicago players, including Plunky Nkabinde and Lon Moshe from Oneness Of Juju. […]
First ever compilation of the deep ’60s soul from Jetstar, including Alder Ray Mathis’ Northern Soul stepper ‘Take Me Baby’! Featuring previously unissued tracks from [...]
A sonic snapshot of America’s steel capital, developed in the prosperous cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. Steel, Skyway Soul is […]
After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got to work reinventing […]
Operating in a basement studio at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, pipeline man Howard Neal and his appropriately named Shoestring label was Alton, Illinois’ answer to [...]
Arp Frique returns with a new album after a string of releases, leaving the cratediggers and dancefloor tastemakers with underground classics like Nos Magia, Voyage and Nyame Ye. On ”Analog [...]