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new arrivals

Ramleh

Awake!

Harbinger Sound

 
8CD box-set (ltd.500)
£54.99
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After many hold-ups and much painstaking remastering, the long-delayed Awake! box-set is now released to coincide with the Never Say When - 30 Years Of Broken Flag festival. Originally released as a cassette set back in 1985, this new version contains the complete known recorded archives of the band from their inception on 21/5/1982 to the disbanding on 21/7/1984. This CD set contains all the material featured on that original set along with additional recordings from that same phase. The eight CDs contain over 100 tracks clocking at over 500 minutes of playing time. Each CD is housed inside an individual digipack and all held within a pro-printed 300 x 270 box featuring the classic Broken Flag marine blue and black colour scheme. The set also contains a 60 page glossy booklet featuring artwork, flyer reproductions, lyrics, interviews and other documentation, a large poster and two 1" pins. Limited to 500 copies. Essential.
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JfK

Teenage Fantasy 1987-88

Harbinger Sound / Hospital Productions

 
2LP
£16.99
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Much needed 2LP collection of rare and unreleased tracks from Anthony DiFranco's (Ramleh, Skullfower, Ethnic Acid, Novatron etc.) early solo project, all spanning the period of 1987-1988.

Tracks 1-3 were originally released on the Broken Flag 'Il Pach Preservé' cassette (BF67) in 1987; tracks 4,5,6 & 7 were originally released on the Broken Flag 'Woelf' cassette (BF70) in 1988; tracks 8, 9 & 10 are previously unreleased; and track 11 was originally released on the 'Inna Inner Amen' cassette on Al Margolis's Sound Of Pig label (SOP137) in 1988.

Co-released by Harbinger Sound and Hospital Productions. Highly recommended.
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The Tobacconists

Smoking Is Green

economy of language

 
LP + CD (ltd.365)
£14.99
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"'Smoking is, in fact, green. Very green.'

The long-awaited debut LP from Scott Foust (Idea Fire Company, Tart, Swill Radio etc.) and Frans de Waard (Beequeen, Kapotte Muziek, Korm Plastics etc.), a.k.a. The Tobacconists.

Limited to 365 copies on transparent green vinyl. All copies come with a free digital download of the LP material as well as a bonus CD, entitled 'Smoking Is Green: A Radiophonic Opera In Four Cigarettes', commissioned by WORM/VPRO for Dutch radio (Horspill/Cafe Sonore) in 2011. All artwork by Karla Borecky.

A true tour-de-force from these two modern masters.

'Everyone wins, except the poor smoker.'" - economy of language.


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Arv & Miljö

Orientering I Denna Värld

Ljud&Bild Produktion

 
CD (ltd.300)
£9.99
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Back to basic industrial noise carnage from Matthias Andersson (more known as one half of the chaotic harsh noise duo Heinz Hopf). Recorded in Gothenburg between September 2011 and January 2012 in the aftermath of the Utmarken years, Orientering I Denna Värld is a final closure to the concept initiated on the Öppna Vattendrag (Posh Isolation) and Förändringens Frö (Järtecknet) releases. Gritty, failing electronics, repetitive loops and processed field-recordings from the construction yard that is Gothenburg. 7 tracks, 28 minutes. Photography by Matthias Andersson and layout by Dan Johansson. Digipack CD, pressing of 300 copies.
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Alleypisser

Kvalt

A Dear Girl Called Wendy

 
7 inch + cassette (ltd.100)
£12.99
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"Amplified metal, electronics and tapes from Denmark. Alleypisser takes inspiration from Italian industrial godfathers like M.B. and Mauthausen Orchestra, and his phenomenal use of tapes and metal ensures that Alleypisser is one of the best industrial acts currently active in Europe. Kvalt is a 7" and a C38 - almost 50 minutes of music. Packaged in a reel-to-reel style box with insert. 100 copies." - A Dear Girl Called Wendy.
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Jaakko Vanhala

Feral Earth

Freak Animal

 
CD
£10.99
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"Freak Animal is proud to present debut CD of Jaakko Vanhala who previously worked under name Zoat-Aon. Feral Earth presents the finest of the metal object noise made in world today. It approaches the sound from perspective of skillful craftsmanship, high density of detail and perfection of sonic balance. Use of physicality and large metal objects ensures the finest inspiring sounds yet Vanhala evades all the failures of contemporary music and firmly keeps his feet in lines of noise. Despite of all metal junk recordings Freak Animal has published during recent years Vanhala is able to offer yet another angle. These masterworks are beyond vast majority of caveman antics within noise, only competed by such cult classics like early The New Blockaders albums." - Freak Animal. Recommended.
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Charlemagne Palestine

Two Electronic Sonorities

Alga Marghen

 
LP (ltd.380)
£19.99
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"Alga Marghen proudly presents two seminal electronic music radical realizations by Charlemagne Palestine. These previously unpublished pieces confirm once more how advanced was his Golden Research already in the 1960s, a very personal approach to sound which would have later become so influential for future generations.

Continuous Sound, built by an ever-changing mix of adding and filtering white noise and simple sine tone generators, is the most solid sound construction that Charlemagne created in preparation of his lost electronic masterpiece L’Avventura, inspired by the Michelangelo Antonioni movie with the same title... Crown Chan is an electronic music piece created for a dance by Gus Solomon in 1970. Conceiving music for dancers gave Charlemagne the possibility to experiment and manipulate the reel tapes of some of his electronic sonorities... Edition limited to 380 copies." - Alga Marghen.


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Various Artists

Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982-1985

Vinyl On Demand

 
5LP box-set (ltd.600)
£75.99
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We have a few copies of this long out-of-print and much sought after Vinyl On Demand set. Includes Sutcliffe Jugend, Consumer Electronics, Un-Kommuniti, Maurizio Bianchi, Controlled Bleeding, Ramleh, Male Rape Group (Mundy/Best), Kleistwahr, TOLL, New Blockaders, Mauthausen Orchestra, Falx Cerebri, Giancarlo Toniutti, Vortex Campaign and many more. Also comes with a booklet. Essential.
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Lettera 22

Lack Of Attention

Ljud&Bild Produktion

 
CD (ltd.300)
£9.99
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46 minutes unique blend of failed electronics, crude tape manipulations, field recordings and feedback from Italy’s finest, Matteo Castro & Riccardo Mazza. Closing the album is a 15 minute feedback piece. Airy, delicate and just stunning. Sounds like a drone piece someone dug out from the 60’s or something. Do not miss out! Digipack CD. Pressing of 300 copies.
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Macronympha

Super Oxide

Ljud&Bild Produktion

 
CD (ltd.300)
£9.99
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The first CD collection of early era Macronympha featuring seven tracks from 1990-1993. Previously unreleased and limited release recordings are combined to form an album focusing on the raw early 90's material mixing rhythmic looping noise with heavy freeform freakouts for an hour of shifting, layered and dynamic chunks of distortion, metal and feedback. This a necessary addition to any Macronympha collection. Recorded by Rodger Stella and Joe Roemer between 1990-1993 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and compiled by Stella from his original master tapes with the assistance of Dan Johansson. Essential raw early 90's American noise. Digipack CD. Pressing of 300 copies.
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Traxman

Da Mind Of Traxman

Planet Mu

 
2LP
£13.99
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"Cornelius Ferguson a.k.a. Traxman is from the west side of Chicago and one of the longest serving producers working in footwork with releases stretching back to the glory days of ghetto house on Dance Mania records in the nineties. He’s also one of the co-founders of Chicago's two-decades-old Geto DJz clique and a member of DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn's Ghetto Teknitianz and was one of the creators of the legendary mixtapes on coloured cassettes which were the prototype for footwork's evolution. His unique brand of footwork is very strongly rooted in Chicago's history of soul, funk, house and ghetto trax; he’s a veteran and renowned crate digger who has provided the sample sources for many of footwork's classic tracks over the years. His deep knowledge of music (check the mixes he occasionally throws up on the net) makes him one of the city’s most versatile and skilled DJs and producers..."

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Various Artists

Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes

Born Bad

 
LP
£15.99
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"Between the late 70s and mid-80s, in the wake of the punk wave a prolific and chaotic music scene began to develop in France, combining the energy of rock and the nihilism of punk with electronic experimentation... The period was not one of optimism and joy, played out against a background of economic crisis and the cold war. The tendency was rather towards disillusion, accompanied by a clear-sighted recognition that a stalemate between the generations would be unavoidable in the short term... The project Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes reactivates this post-punk / French new & cold wave scene, by means of selected works, personal testimonies and documented records. One of the project’s ambitions is to highlight a cross-section of the specific creative diversity of this scene: it does so by engaging with the music it produced, but also with the aesthetics, the attitudes, and the recurring problems that developed in parallel, looking particularly at its relationship to the modern world..."

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William Basinski

Variations For Piano & Tape

2062

 
CD
£11.99
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"Comprised of one 44 minute track, Variation #9 'Pantelleria', this archival release is one of my all-time favorites of the piano and tape variations from the early eighties. Using a lilting piano melody on a small loop, the requisite magic happened in the recording process when this particular loop would randomly slip along the play head revealing an extraordinary counterpoint (in reverse) on the other side of the tape. To me, this piece evokes a lazy Arcandian summer idyll, and will always remind me of an idyllic artist's residency in 2003 on the beautiful Italian island of Pantelleria." - William Basinski, June 2006.
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The Rita

Women's Vocals

Urashima

 
LP (ltd.99)
£17.99
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"For The Rita, the abstraction and minimalism of the female form has played a major role in the fetishized development of his source sounds and eventual harsh sound manipulations. Eye shadow and eyebrow pencil pushed to raccoon-like limits and nylon stockings have been used repeatedly in past recordings to personally investigate via harsh sound the abstracted qualities of the aesthetics. For his latest work utilizing aspects of the female as starting point, The Rita picks apart the woman's voice through the extensive and rough abstraction of the 'singing voice' or 'Women's Vocals' as titled here..."

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Mauthausen Orchestra

Host Sodomy

Urashima

 
LP (ltd.99)
£17.99
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"Within five years (1982 to 1986), Mauthausen Orchestra produced one of the most pristine and extreme collections of electronic deviation ever seen. 'Host Sodomy' was recorded between 1982 and 1983, and represents an unprecedented noise assault, without sparing any form of perversion, relinquishing any moral obligation in the pursuit of the late charge. Tracks remastered from the original tape under permission and supervision of Pierpaolo Zoppo. LP comes in a deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard sleeve. Edition of 99 copies with insert." - Urashima.
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CON-DOM

Have Complete Faith: The Full Recordings

Unrest Productions

 
CD (ltd.200)
£9.99
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A CD reissue of the Have Faith tape originally released on Broken Flag in 1987. It includes the two left out tracks from the same sessions making this the complete document of those recordings. Limited edition of 200 copies.
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Putrefier

Beyond Scathing

Freak Animal / Industrial Recollections

 
CD
£10.99
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"In 1986 the Birthbiter labels first release was the debut tape from Putrefier. 4 tracks of intense electronics which mixed together the spirit of UK power electronics, noise, and experimental industrial. This extremely rare recording is finally presented on CD format, offering great sound and artwork scanned from the original covers. See Industrial Recollections two other Putrefier titles. These 3 together pretty much sum up the 80's / early 90's Putrefier approach." - Freak Animal / Industrial Recollections. Recommended.
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Putrefier

Cog Dominance

Freak Animal / Industrial Recollections

 
CD
£10.99
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"In 1987 the infamous UK label Broken Flag released the second full length tape from Putrefier. 5 tracks of intense electronics, which mixed together the spirit of UK power electronics, noise, and experimental industrial. This extremely rare recording is finally presented on CD format, offering great sound and artwork scanned from the original covers. See Industrial Recollections two other Putrefier titles. These 3 together pretty much sum up the 80's / early 90's Putrefier approach." - Freak Animal / Industrial Recollections. Recommended.
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Putrefier

Unreleased and Compilation Archive

Freak Animal / Industrial Recollections

 
CD
£10.99
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"'Unreleased and Compilation Archive' collects together 10 tracks recorded between 1988-1990, and features tracks from the compilations 'Epitapes', 'Tearing Wings Off Of Butterflies', and the criminally overlooked PE classic 'Pray For Fire' 7", as well as both the longer, original version of 'Suffocation', and the version that was released on 'Dedication Zweite Auslese'. The rest of the tracks are previously unheard/unreleased." - Freak Animal / Industrial Recollections. Recommended.
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Vanhala / Umpio / Keränen

Split

Nekorekords / Salamanauhat

 
cassette
£4.99
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3-way split tour cassette from Jaakko Vanhala (a.k.a. Zoät-Aon, I.Corax), Umpio (a.k.a. Pentti Dassum of Cosmo Jones Beat Machine) and Tommi Keränen (Testicle Hazard, Fumio Tommikawa). Corrupted snippets from Oslo, Göteborg, Jönköping and Kobenhavn, recorded May 2011.
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Julia Holter

Ekstasis

RVNG Int.

 
2LP
£16.99
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"Julia Holter second album, Ekstasis, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Los Angeles, California.

Holter's songwriting stems from a mythological reverence of that which is incomprehensibly beautiful. Her Eating the Stars EP (2007) was a first attempt at musically transcribing this beauty, while discovering the honest enjoyment of unadulterated creativity. The anonymous authorship and shimmering gold detail of medieval illuminated manuscripts particularly inspired the ornately-orchestrated pop song mystery of Stars. Holter's debut album Tragedy (Leaving Records, 2011) embraced similar strains of shimmer, but used sparser textures in a narrative context.

Ekstasis marks a return to the playful searching of Stars, but guided by newly-learned disciplines, slightly better technology, and nearly limitless home recording time..."


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Henning Christiansen

Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG Op 189

Kye / Penultimate Press

 
LP (ltd.500)
£16.99
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Penultimate Press is proud to present in association with Kye the fully authorized reissue of Henning Christiansen's 'Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG OP 189'. Kreuzmusik was commissioned by the Bonner Kunstverein Gallery, Kunstfond, Germany in August 1989, for inclusion in their 'Taking Fluxus Around for a Drive' happening, (also featuring performances by Dieter Daniels, George Maciunas, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Joe Jones and others) and originally issued on cassette in 1990 by Neue Bildende Kunst in an edition of 100 copies. Kreuzmusik FLUXID BEHANDLUNG Op 189 arrives in a full colour high gloss sleeve, with original score reproduction insert, mastered from the original tapes by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs, in an edition of 500 copies.

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Ryan Power

I Dont Want To Die

NNA Tapes

 
LP
£14.99
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"After self-releasing four previous full-length albums, it’s finally time for the long-overdue debut vinyl offering from Burlington, VT songwriter and producer Ryan Power. “I Don’t Want To Die” is a collection of constantly shifting, well-constructed and unique pop songs, teeming with existentialism and groove. Content-wise, this is perhaps not your average pop record. Ryan’s candidly personal lyrics meditate on the fear of death, hypochondria, soul discrepancies, depression, and the lustful mind, while still remaining remarkably emotional, accessible, and catchy. His silvery vocals meld fluidly with imaginative electronic production, evoking elements of late-70′s soft pop, disco, prog and art rock, synth pop, and smooth r&b funk... “I Don’t Want To Die” is complex and technical, yet so charming that you only notice it almost as an afterthought, when you’re trying to wrap your head around the song that’s been bouncing around inside it all day..." - NNA Tapes.

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Actress

R.I.P

Honest Jons Records

 
2LP
£13.99
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"R.I.P underlines Actress’s reputation as one of the most eloquent voices to emerge from the sub-bass nexus of London dance music. His intuitive and original grasp of beats, textures and rhythm puts him on a parallel path to dance music innovators such as Basic Channel, Burial and Aphex Twin. But the way he engages with electronic sound from first principles, realising his own self-contained sonic worlds, hints at less obvious kinships outside the dance music fraternity, with pioneers of homebrewed sound experiments such as Cabaret Voltaire, Pan Sonic and Oval. It moves the body but the sounds also tap into to something more intangible inside you; you dance, but also slip/drift into another realm, probably without even realising." - Honest Jons.

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Eli Keszler / Keith Fullerton Whitman

Split

NNA Tapes

 
LP
£14.99
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"NNA is very excited to announce a split LP between world-reknowned electronic music composer Keith Fullerton Whitman and multi-instrumentalist composer Eli Keszler. This LP is a conversation in sound between two prominent artists, one working in the electronic realm (Whitman), and the other in the world of live acoustics (Keszler)..."

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The Vivids

MT Radiant / Hangman

Downwards

 
7 inch
£6.99
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After a break from the 7" format, Downwards return with a very beautiful release from newcomers The Vivids. Sounding like The Chameleons if they had come from L.A. The Vivids embody greats like The Names, early Dead Or Alive or Bunnymen. Very limited copies.
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Ugandan Methods (Regis & Ancient Methods)

Sixth Method

Ancient Methods

 
12 inch
£7.99
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"Ugandan Methods comprise the unholy pairing of Regis and Ancient Methods. The music they make together is a fearsome take on industrial techno — bleak and full on, albeit imbued with enough tribal swing to fell a municipal block. On this EP they unite for their second outing, an apocalyptic howl of exuberantly uninhibited techno. And while much of Regis’ recent work — both with Sandwell District and solo on Blackest Ever Black — has been (for those well acquainted with Downwards, at least) tempered with a new-found restraint, those hankering after some of the visceral filth of old will be pleased to find this release is, by way of comparison, pleasingly deranged.

“Under The Black Arch” leads with a bruising full-frontal rhythmic assault — a seething ticking war chant of a track, submerged in thick encumbering folds of sub weight. If Mala engaged Surgeon in a soundclash and you found yourself standing between two vast stacks, it would sound something like this..."


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Various Artists

Sandwell District (Sampler Single One)

Sandwell District

 
12 inch
£6.99
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"Amid numerous anonymous labels, many of which are growing less mysterious by the day, Sandwell District has somehow retained its enigmatic edge. This is somewhat peculiar, as all of the artists associated with the label are well known, highly respected and have been around since the 90′s. Yet their blog provides more questions than answers, and by placing little importance on track titles or artist credits, Sandwell District have strongly defined themselves as a collective. Two new multi-artist sampler singles, which are apparently appetizers for the forthcoming Sandwell District collective album, only reinforce this perception.

Sampler one kicks off with an “Intro” that consists mainly of the ominous sounds featured on last year’s “Variance” and industrial drones..."
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Valley of Fear

S/T

Legion Blotan

 
CD (ltd.500)
£7.99
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Debut release by Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Voltigeurs, Total), Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu) and Samantha Davis (Voltigeurs, Harm). 4 tracks of off kilter and noisy black metal influenced experimental rock with trademark sounds from each members thrown into a melting pot. Harsh and glorious! Limited to 500 copies.
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Spine Scavenger

Weighted Ghost

Cylindrical Habitat Modules

 
LP (ltd.500)
£14.99
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Proper vinyl issue of 2007's classic "Weighted Ghost" cassette from Aaron Dilloway's Spine Scavenger project. Addictive and terrifying raw synthesizer music from the boss. Edition of 500 copies on black vinyl pressed at Archer with heavy, beautiful silkscreened jackets done at VG kids. Recommended.
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Davy Graham

Anthology (1961-2007 Lost Tapes)

Les Cousins

 
3CD
£23.99
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"Les Cousins Music proudly presents Davy Graham: Anthology 1961 – 2007 Lost Tapes – a three-disc compilation of “lost” recordings made throughout the enigmatic artist’s career. Davy Graham is without doubt the undisputed guitar hero of British folk-blues clubs... This collection reveals the private and public musician, and includes the first recording of “Anji” from a reel to tape machine as captured by Len Partridge in 1961. This tape is “THE” tape that revealed Graham’s style to Bert Jansch in Edinburgh long before Davy appeared on Vinyl. It also showcases Davy as a hardworking musician playing incendiary blues and fusion to folk-club audiences in 1966 and features recordings that demonstrate Graham’s eclectic and developing repertoires, as he grew older." - Les Cousins.

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AMK

Super Panoramic Sound 5000

Pacrec

 
CD (ltd.500)
£5.99
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Another fine AMK release. Experimental noise designed for random play. Edition of 500 copies.
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Tourette

Jardin Du Sommeil

Troniks / Iatrogenesis / Antropofago Ateo

 
CD
£6.99
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Long awaited new full length cd from Parisian harsh noise artist Tourette (Benjamin Clement). Three extremely well structured compositions of violently rapid, sharp cut-up electronic and junk metal tones contrasting and melding beautifully with darkly passionate, subdued atmospheres. An epic achievement of incredibly detailed and moving harsh noise. Co-released with Antropofago Ateo and Iatrogenesis Records. Highly recommended.
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LHD

Even Still

Troniks

 
2CD (ltd.200)
£9.99
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"For dedicated harsh vortex fanatics only. The Double Flamethrower Unit of Phil Blankenship and John Wiese returns with a 2CD, two and a half hour compilation of the LHD vinyl discography recorded 2002 - 2007. Pure West Coast destruction mastered from the original audio for maximum density and speaker shred. You have been warned. Includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Professionally pressed CDs in an edition of 200." - Troniks.
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Dolphins Into The Future

A Star Maker, Strange Dreams, and Clairvoyance

NNA Tapes

 
cassette
£6.99
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"Naturalist visionary Lieven Martens brings us along the latest voyage of his musical vessel, Dolphins Into The Future. 'A Star Maker, Strange Dreams, and Clairvoyance' induces a state of lucid dreaming where we experience tales of romance, stargazing, cosmic motion, and eternity. Not unlike a painters brush, Martens utilizes a sound palette of colorful, synthesized organics to bring the listener directly into the vivid and exotic world that Dolphins has spent years cultivating. After much anticipation, we’re very pleased to offer the latest creation of a true hero of the Nu New Age." - NNA Tapes.
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Idea Fire Company

Days

Plinkity Plonk / Swill Radio

 
7 inch (ltd.200)
£6.99
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The companion release to the excellent recent LP by Idea Fire Company 'Music From The Impossible Salon', with two pieces of piano, synth, voice and tapes. As delicate as the LP. The b-side was recorded during the sessions for the classic 'The Island of Taste' LP, and as well as Scott and Karla also features Graham Lambkin and Matt Krefting on tapes and voice. Limited to 200 copies in a beautiful silk-screened sleeve. Highly recommended.
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The Tobacconists

Superior Blend

My Own Little Label

 
3 inch CDR
£5.99
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"Another Tobacconists tour item. Seven previously released compilation tracks from 2010-2012, including a splendid rendition of Peggy Lee's Fever to a pisstake on whitehouse in 'Poor Man's Music'." - My Own Little Label. Recommended.
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Y Front

The Final Session

My Own Little Label

 
3 inch CDR
£5.99
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"Scott Foust, Rich Labrie, Mike Popovich and Chris Scarpino's first venture in No Wave rock music, back in 1981. This is their final session from the 20th of April that year, and was released as a tour item for The Tobacconists April 2012 tour." - My Own Little Label. Recommended.
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Cortex

The Whole Story

Plinkity Plonk

 
2CD (ltd.300)
£12.99
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"In recent years there has been quite a renewed interest in the works of Belgium’s Alain Neffe and his Insane Music label, resulting in a 5LP box set for Vinyl On Demand, various 7”s for EE Tapes, a CD for Plinkity Plonk by Human Flesh, and more. In all of this curious revival one name from his past has been absent, and that name is Cortex. This omission is now corrected by the release of this double CD, which tells us the whole story of Cortex. This is perhaps Alain Neffe’s most personal project, in which he plays music on synthesizers, rhythm boxes, sound effects and writes the lyrics, which can best seen as poetry..."

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Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland (Hype Williams)

Black Is Beautiful

Hyperdub

 
LP
£11.99
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"After three albums for as many labels, Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, also of the group Hype Williams, release their debut Hyperdub LP, 'Black Is Beautiful'. Amid rumours circulating, and confirmed by their 'advisor' Denna Frances, the album was recorded during a tremulous period for the two : Inga Copeland’s Arsenal girls tryouts, Dean's 'Waschbärgate' trial (he was implicated in being behind a one night robbing spree across 16 taxidermists based in London and the South East, allegedly only for racoons) and his subsequent conversion to Nation of Islam upon being acquitted..."

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Philip Corner

Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal

Ricera Sonora

 
LP (ltd.300)
£17.99
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Three previously unpublished compositions by one of the giants of Fluxus, recorded in various locations: "Ear Wave" (Venice, October 1994) for Korean cymbal in water, ecstatic with acousmatic interjections of metallic resonances, subtle water, and the midnight bell of San Marco; "Gong/Ear" (S. Andrea di Rovereto, June 1990) for gong together with rain and thunder; and "I Respiri/The Breaths" (Teatro Scandicci, 1992) for alphorn and gong. Edition of 300 copies with 2 inserts.
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Factor X

022

Monochrome Vision

 
CD (ltd.500)
£10.99
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"Factor X started in June 1983 in Paignton as a conceptual music project by Shaun Robert. Since then, a lot of tapes were released, on labels like Drahtfunk Products, Schimpfluch, SPH, Jeremy Bamber Tapes, BV Tapes, Intransitive Recordings and Old Europa Cafe. The collaborative CD with TAC and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock was published by Harsh Dept. in 1996. It has been quiet for many years, but now Shaun Robert emerged again with some new projects like Mutant Beatniks etc. It's a good time to remember his old and quite obscured recordings from the 80s! Limited edition of 500 copies." - Monochrome Vision.

"022 was put together over the year 1985, there's a sound on here that take me right back to the time I recorded them, the first that comes to mind is the recording of a fire engine from the roof top where I was living, and the squeaking bed sounds from a flat I moved into later..."


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Tuff Sherm (Dro Carey)

Canal Cloaking

Reckno

 
cassette (ltd.100)
£6.99
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"Tuff Sherm aka Eugene Hector is a man who also strolls by the name Dro Carey. This is a sleek 30 minute trip through previously unknown territory that might make you want to close your eyes and dance really slowly. Weathered like a yellowing sci fi novel that lost it's cover way back. I imagine a story in which a robot falls asleep thinking about food and wakes up, drifting through space, on a massive deserted ship. He thinks he sees his family in a room he can't access, he smokes fags and has a wet dream. He passes his time playing grime and techno records on the ship's stereo and paints pictures of what he imagines the ocean looks like.

Head to the looming web presence: the brain so soft tumblr to check out more. Dro also has records out on the following labels: Ramp, The Trilogy Tapes, Hum and Buzz and Templar Sound. Edition of 100 pro dubbed luxury gold cassettes." - Reckno.
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