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John Wiese |
GGA |
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GGA is a stereo mix of a 4-channel installation by John Wiese recorded
in Los Angeles, CA, February 2011. Two side-long tracks of dynamically
diffused smashing, shattering and crashing sounds. Cover photographs
by Cali Thornhill deWitt. Clear vinyl with insert. 330 pressed.
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"This new Tim Hecker release is composed of sketch pieces recorded in 2010 in preparation for what would become the Ravedeath, 1972 album. All of the compositions are piano driven and minimal in nature.
This is not a new Tim Hecker album, but rather a peek behind the curtains into the working process. That these pieces stand on their own as compelling soundworks is a testament to the fact that Tim Hecker is at the absolute top of his game at the moment." - Kranky.
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An amazing set from one of the most obscure Japanese industrial / power-electronics acts of the 80’s, Grim aka Jun Konagaya. Most of Grim’s trademark tracks are either bizarre heavy industrial or graceful folk songs. In the very early 80s Jun formed White Hospital together with Tomosada Kuwabara. They released one album called "Holocaust" in 1984 and split. At that time Jun had already released the “Vital” tape as Grim. Kuwuhara moved on to form Vasilisk while Jun continued as Grim releasing one LP, a 12” and a 7” as well as contributing to several compilations during the 80’s. This set collect all available material. Highly recommended.
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"Excellent wide-ranging minimal/synth-wave tunes by one of the most outstanding female artists from the 80’s cassette-culture underground who released a total of 4 Tapes, 1 LP, and numerous contributions to compilations. Box includes 'Spurt Ditties' (1982); 'Waiting for the War' (1983); 'Concocting Chaos' (83); collaboration tracks with Unovidual; Searchlight & Torch (84, with Stefan Tischler of Port Said); Limelight (85); compilation tracks from 1983-88; and 'Tempus Fugit' (1988)..." Highly recommended.
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"This vinyl box-set is a treasure trove of rare and out of print noise from the vaults of the legendary early 80’s M Squared label in Sydney Australia. M Squared has been probably the best known independent label in the late 70’s - early 80’s also famous for their incredible rare and sought after vinyl releases of Makers of Ded Travel Fast, Systematics, Scattered Order or SPK.
The heavy Box features previously unreleased tracks from Scattered Order, The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast, Systematics and Height Dismay and out of print tracks and forgotten gems appearing on vinyl for the first time from Prod, Patrick Gibson, Shane Fahey, A Cloakroom Assembly, East End Butchers, Pleasant Peasants, A Volatile T-Shirt all gloriously re-mastered for the 21st Century and your aural excitement..."
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"This LP contains the material of his famous first two, long deleted and rare records as well as released and unreleased recordings from the Nekromantik and Der Todesking soundtracks to the famous Buttgereit/Jelinski movies." Recordings from 1981, 89, with a bonus track from 2004 based on an Octave Mirbeau novel. Dedicated to he memory of Luis Bunuel.
All Vinyl On Demand LPs are on 180 gram vinyl, in limited editions of 500 copies.
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Region free DVD reissue of the out-of-print VHS, limited to 500 copies. DVD edition includes "Welcome To Candyland", an exclusive interview with James Ferraro.
Originally released on a limited critically acclaimed VHS edition, this succulent re-issue present an exclusive extra, WELCOME TO CANDYLAND, an interview with the author and, at the same time, an exciting voyage through some cult virtual-hyper-reality-simulacro. The OJ chase, Hollywood forever cemetery, Dr. Phil are just some ingredients of this delicious visual trippy cake. The movie Rapture Adrenaline is an educational mixtape program, a cyber marine combat training video designed through primitive editing techinques. Operating mythological transformations of popular movie iconography, it reaches the merging point of the magical and the political. - Hundebiss.
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Hype williams films, 2008 - 2011. VHS-PAL, total running time 33 minutes. Limited edition of 300 copies, no repress.
"Exclusive collection of the Hype Williams videos work, probably the most genuine reflections of pop culture mixed with the hyper-contemporary obsession of domestic self representation. Here you can find a massive exploitation of the Long Takes and a deliberate use of digital folklore... I've been watching you baby." - Hundebiss.
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The second album by Elodie, the duo project of Timo van Luijk & Andrew Chalk. While the debut album 'Echos Pastoraux' (La Scie Doree) had the sentiments of a homely sketchbook memory,'La Lumiere Parfumee' is a new collection of eight pieces, bringing a more elaborate repertoire with delicate acoustic and electronic arrangements in an impressionistic pallette of pastel shades and shimmering opalescent rays. Packaged in handmade mini LP style gatefold CD sleeve. A limited edition of 400 copies worldwide.
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The recording of The Dunrobin Session took place during a residency at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, during which Pauline Oliveros presented a series of concerts and workshops in collaboration with percussionist Jesse Stewart, who teaches music composition at Carleton. Oliveros and Stewart are composers, performers, educators, and writers, and each has pursued creative exploration of new instrumental resources while developing expertise on a traditional instrument (accordion and drum). Recorded March 16, 2011 by Johannes Welsch at the Dunrobin Sonic Gym, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Recommended.
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"Finally, available now as double vinyl set this is a must for fans of both of these legendary sonic travellers: Steven Stapleton & Colin Potter twist Sunn O)))’s 2000 album “ØØVOID” inside out on Nurse’s dissection table." - Ideologic Organ.
"In 2007 we commissioned Nurse With Wound to re-work the masters of Sunn O)))’s second album “ØØVOID” to be included as a bonus CD on the Japanese reissue of said album. We dug up the original 2" reels from the 2000 session, had Mell Dettmer bake the tapes, made the multitrack transfers and send the drive over to IC studios. The intial brief was to hopefully come up with to come up with something in the veiin of Nurse’s legendary Soliloquoy for Lilith set (my favorite release of the collective)..." - Stephen O'Malley.
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Jac Berrocal, David Fenech & Ghedalia Tazartes |
Superdisque |
Sub Rosa |
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"'Superdisque' is the first album of the French trio formed by David Fenech (electric guitar) with Jac Berrocal (trumpet) and Ghédalia Tazartès (vocals).
Somewhere beyond the borders of rock, jazz, punk and sound poetry... The vocals seem to come from another planet, with lyrics in an improvised language. The winds are blown from Tibetan human bones and conch seashells. Guitars sound like rubber and steel. Expect the unexpected..."
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Jac Berrocal, David Fenech & Ghedalia Tazartes |
Superdisque |
Sub Rosa |
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CD digipak version, featuring a bonus track not on the LP.
"'Superdisque' is the first album of the French trio formed by David Fenech (electric guitar) with Jac Berrocal (trumpet) and Ghédalia Tazartès (vocals).
Somewhere beyond the borders of rock, jazz, punk and sound poetry... The vocals seem to come from another planet, with lyrics in an improvised language. The winds are blown from Tibetan human bones and conch seashells. Guitars sound like rubber and steel. Expect the unexpected..."
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"In 1976, a self-released LP by Art Zoyd appeared in Belgian record stores. At the time, nobody knew Symphonie Pour le Jour où Brûleront les Cités (Symphony for the Day Cities Will Burn) would be the first of many albums from this strange chamber progressive rock outfit.
All the ingredients of Art Zoyd's sound for its first decade are here: unusual acoustic instrumentation for a rock band (violin, cello, piano, and trumpet, plus guitar, bass, and percussion), dark and mysterious atmospheres recalling France's Magma and foretelling Univers Zero (formed by Art Zoyd percussionist Daniel Denis), and complex pieces owing as much to contemporary classical as to progressive rock. The album is split in two. First is Symphonie Pour le Jour où Brûleront les Cités in three parts, an apocalyptic work opening with mad laughter, a vision of the end of the world with percussion clashing, frenetic violin motifs, and the trumpet from Judgment Day..."
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After a series of killer 12"s, and one of our favourite albums of 2011 (the unsurpassed 'What We Have Learned') Lebanese producer Rabih Beaini, a.k.a. Morphosis, seems almost unstoppable. For the second remix 12" of tracks from 'What We Have Learned', Berlin techno don Marcel Dettmann (who also seems to be on something of a roll at the moment) delivers two 'Definitions' of 'Too Far', one of the stand-out cuts from the LP. Both remixes shed a completely different light on the darkened dancefloor grooves of the original, which is also included here. Thoroughly recommended.
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"Although it stems from the same artistic process as Volume One in the 'Doctor Boogie presents' series, this is not Volume Two of a series devoted to Bob Hite. The process WAS different in that here I focused on much more obscure tracks taken from the very small portion of what remains of the collection of 78rpms owned by the late and legendary Bob Hite. The collection of this boogie music ogre reached 20,000 78rpms in 1968.
However, toward the end of his life, Hite was forced to sell chunks of his treasure to pay off debts, and the leftovers were literally pillaged after his death.Canned Heat's drummer Fito de la Para managed to salvage a tiny slice of this collection.
The first compilation album devoted to Bob Hite's records focused on a handful of Blues giants, including six titles from Elmore James' repertoire. Here, since there will be no sequel, I decided to pack as much music as I could on vinyl..."
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After the epiphany of An Aural Symbiotic Mystery by Charlemagne Palestine and Tony Conrad this is the first solo work by Charlemagne on Sub Rosa. An impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on a unique instrument - a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.
”Several years ago Martin Kaufmann of Kaufmann Pianos in Brussels told me he had seen and heard an amazing and unique instrument in Italy - A piano with 2 separate bodies! One with a normal grand piano body having 88 notes to be played with the fingers, and below this piano was a second piano also with a grand piano body which could play simultaneously the lower 37 notes of a grand piano with pedals for the feet..."
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Terry Riley's first LP, originally released in 1966 in a limited edition of 1,000 on Mass Art. Includes the first appearance of the time-lag accumulator on record heard in an early version of "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band," along with a version of "Keyboard Studies" on reed organ, and as a bonus, a psychedelic big-band adaptation of "In C (Mantra)" recorded under the direction of Walter Boudreau in 1970. Recommended.
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LP version. This real masterpiece of concrete and synthesized music hasn't been available since its original manufacture in 1973, originally released by Varèse International Records. Dub Taylor is a U.S. composer, producer, engineer and designer born June 22, 1948 in Burbank, California. He has many creative facets: recording and mastering engineer, record producer as well as composer, graphic designer and visual artist. He has studied with pianist Richard Bunger and composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Highly recommended.
"Lumière evolved over a period of three years from 1969 to 1972. I started by recording random sounds: jets taking off at LAX, my girlfriend laughing and screaming, my cat Bartok biting a microphone, conversations, etc. I also sampled music, film soundtracks and TV and radio broadcasts. During this period I acquired the first self-contained portable synthesizer, the newly-designed ARP 2600..."
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Limited vinyl repress of the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin's Peaking Lights. Sold out at source.
"Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes) created a stunner thats full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing drum
sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and Indra's warm drifting vocals. This record is all
its own, everything it needs to be, and it won't disappoint any expectations of its harmony and beauty. Groovy,
spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and silkscreen by Shawn Reed." - Night People.
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"The debut of Yeti’s new, larger, square format, with an awesome Carson Ellis cover, and including a hard vinyl 7-inch EP featuring 4 killer unreleased songs: two 1959 Lomax recordings by Mississippi Fred Mcdowell; The Tiki Men’s blown-out cover of Duane Eddy’s “First Love, First Tears,” recorded ca. 1994; plus a new recording by dreampop slayer Grouper of Dead Moon’s “Demona.”
Inside the book: Photos from the Alan Lomax Archives ca. his 1959 ‘Southern Journey’; poet Margarita Shalina’s recollections of the NYC 1980s hardcore scene; Kim Spurlock’s annotated trove of Neal Cassady ephemera; photos by Nina Dudoladova of abandoned forts in Kaliningrad, Russia; epic essay on forgotten ‘90s surf band The Tiki Men; an interview with translator/author Susan Bernofsky; a great short story by Mimi Lipson; Chris Kirkley on African sign-painter Thiam Bellou; Jamaican gospel 7-inch labels; drawings by Tim Miller, James Trotter, and Shana Cleveland." - Yeti.
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Vice Wears Black Hose |
Part 6 |
New Forces |
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Vice Wears Black Hose is Richard Ramirez (Black Leather Jesus, Werewolf Jerusalem) and Sam McKinlay (The Rita, BT.HN). These masters of North American harsh noise present the sixth instalment of this project, with 2 hours of material ranging from minimal crackling, to thicker walls of harsh noise culminating in one of the more aggressive tracks I've heard from these guys in awhile. Pro-dubbed tapes in vinyl cases, edition of 100 copies.
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The Rita returns with his second full length CD, his ultimate tribute to the great white shark. Almost academic in his noise purity obsession, The Rita mercilessly charts every nuance of crunch & crumble, the space between demolition, white out & heavy flood. Dead Gods pushes nearly 60 minutes thick of raw wall, recorded live using source sound from great white shark cage diving.
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"MIE are delighted to be releasing the excellent Amaranthine on vinyl. Richard is one of our favourite artists on the UK experimental scene and to release this new, singular work by the man himself is very exciting for us.
Bringing rhythm to the fore, Amaranthine is built around layered percussion and Youngs' ever present vocals. The asymetrically patterned underlay is scored for drums, household objects and handheld percussion; at points scything fuzz guitar cuts through the sense of ritual with abandon and deep synths bubble up out of nowhere before dissipating into solo shakuhachi.
Amaranthine is another typically atypical Youngsian release in which he ventures deep into uncharted musical space, all the while retaining his essential Youngs-ness. Limited to 500 copies" - MIE Music.
Undoubtedly the best and most unique vinyl release from Richard Youngs since Like A Neuron, his 2009 all-synth LP on Dekorder. Recommended.
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"A female psychopath is prematurely released from an asylum for the criminally insane. What little is left of her mind soon gives way, as her gluttonous appetite for food is shockingly equalled by her appetite for blood! A 'must' for horror fans! Note: this is not a noise record, it's a fear document. Co-produced by Saxon Gregory Productions straight from VHS. Professionally pressed CD in full colour digipak, edition of 150." - Troniks.
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Phil Blankenship and David Reed |
Rhinestone |
Troniks |
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"A 2007 Camp Blood live grumble located somewhere between Midwestern heavy bummer (David Reed of Luasa Raelon / Envenomist) and West Coast bad attitude (Phil Blankenship of The Cherry Point / LHD). 29:24, no overdub, no edit, no joy. Originally intended for LP release before being rejected as 'too much', it has now escaped as a professionally pressed CD in full color digipak, edition of 175." - Troniks.
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"Public Information presents the first ever compilation of the lost work of British electronic music pioneer Frederick Charles Judd. Electronics Without Tears represents a mammoth undertaking between Public Information, film artist Ian Helliwell and F.C. Judd's widow Freda and son Peter. Trawling through his tape archives Public Information have pulled almost an hour's worth of material into a sonic whole that easily stands alongside that of Judd's better known peers, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram and John Baker.
Fred pursued a career marked by innovation, invention and exploration, disseminating his new electronic music across the country through lectures, radio and writing. The 35 tracks on Electronic Without Tears highlight a prolific and thrilling era in Fred's life, next generation music and sound entirely made at home, with self-built equipment." - Public Information.
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"Public Information presents the first ever compilation of the lost work of British electronic music pioneer Frederick Charles Judd. Electronics Without Tears represents a mammoth undertaking between Public Information, film artist Ian Helliwell and F.C. Judd's widow Freda and son Peter. Trawling through his tape archives Public Information have pulled almost an hour's worth of material into a sonic whole that easily stands alongside that of Judd's better known peers, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram and John Baker.
Fred pursued a career marked by innovation, invention and exploration, disseminating his new electronic music across the country through lectures, radio and writing. The 35 tracks on Electronic Without Tears highlight a prolific and thrilling era in Fred's life, next generation music and sound entirely made at home, with self-built equipment." - Public Information.
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"Ramp is very proud to present the first release on the label from new signing, Dro Carey. Coming straight outta Sydney, Austraila, the DroC has been actively freaking people out with his Brain So Soft Tumblr for the past 18 months, earning him a place in FACT Magazine’s coveted Ones To Watch in 2011. A few almost impossible to get hold of releases on Will Bankead’s Trilogy Tapes, Templar Sound, and Ikonika’s Hum&Buzz, labels followed, along with an epic two hour FACT mix. Both an audio and visual artist, Dro arrives at Ramp with new EP; Journey With The Heavy, and first real mission statement to the world. Written as a love letter to early house music, Carey’s EP is as unhinged and hazy as his previous work, but showing a new, fresh, focused approach to his sound. His music lands deep in the Atlantic, equidistant from both the rhythms of modern day London and yearning dulcet harmonies of Detroit." - Ramp. Recommended.
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"Lethal footwork from three originators. The A is dancefloor murder, honed and nasty, vintage Chicago and Detroit gone clear across the SA border; the flip is a fierce, futuristic juke vocal collage, hard as nails." - Honest Jons.
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"Morphosis epic remix is more spaced and spooked than the original — the dread in check — but still body-rocking and stepping out of its silences. B-boy rimshots, a rough snare, a thumping kick-drum and spare bass are layered with emotive synths and brilliant effects, as Shackleton's dream liturgy unfolds in its full, twisted glory — an eerie, garbled sublimity, like a kind of black-magic plainsong. Magnificent work by Rabih Beaini." - Honest Jons.
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Four works written by Satie for his collaborations with the artist Pablo Picasso, including the 'Cubist' ballets Parade (1917) and Mercure (1924). Both scores are presented here in arrangements for solo piano as well as full orchestra. CD also includes two rarely-heard Satie avant-garde miniatures, The Puppets Are Dancing and Diversion (The Statue Found). Booklet includes images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward.
"Cubist Works shows the artist less concerned with playing catch-up with the innovations of other media than unpacking its implications for his own work... The liner notes are excellent, and by drawing out the explicit links between Satie's work and the frenetic, sectarian art world of Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, LTM has done a great service to Satie's legacy, allowing the listener to index just how much Satie was both of and ahead of his time" - Dusted.
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The acclaimed 1990 recording of the sparse but haunting 'symphonic drama' Socrate (1918) together with a collection of Satie songs written between 1886 and 1923, grouped together as Trois Melodies (1886), Trois Autres Melodies, Quatres Petites Melodies (1920), Trois Melodies (1916) and Ludions (1923). Originally released by Factory Classical in 1990, this digital recording was conducted by Richard Bernas and features Robin Bowman (piano) and Susan Bickley, Eileen Hlse and Patricia Rosario (sopranos). Booklet includes new artwork, new liner notes by James Hayward, and the texts of the lyrics in English in French. 21 tracks, 61 minutes of music...
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"Dilloway's got a grave problem! Tense ghost clatter and haunted Michigan sputter collapse helplessly into fever, exhaustion, depression. This is home-taping of unconscious dread and hopeless shudder. Originally released in a small edition on his own Hanson Records, Bad Dreams return for the Wolf Eyes / ex-Violent Ramp / Galen / Couch member. When Aaron wakes up, he'll wish he were dead..." - Troniks.
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Newly issued Chion work from 1984.
"...This work was already composed in 1984, using the voices of Pierre Schaeffer (as Anthony), Michele Bokanowski (as Ennoia), Chion as the narrator and others. Now of course this is all spoken/narrated in French, although Anthony bumps into an English speaking guy (must be a demon), but it all quite interesting to hear. Just as a radiophonic work, with objects falling to the floor, the rustling of papers and other obscured sounds to tell this story, with this fine variety of voices, sounds all very nice. I just sat back and listened and actually enjoyed it a lot. Its like listening to a radio station from a country which language you don’t grasp – or perhaps its my temptation, not to understand this. Fascinating, though." - Frans de Waard.
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"A new and troubled addition to the Blackest Ever Black family. The Night Of The Burning is the debut vinyl offering from Young Hunting - Edinburgh's Marc Dall and Alex Ander. A masterful melding of lavish orchestration, arcane lyricism, sewer electronics and militaristic drumming. A meditation on madness, ritual sacrifice and erotic servitude. The most pungent, passionate articulation of youthful desire and disquiet to emerge from the UK underground in years." - Blackest Ever Black. First edition in picture sleeve.
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"I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana is an album of sounds and performances recorded live in 2008 in the churches of Ghana's capital city. Produced by Calpin Hoffman-Williamson, this album could be seen as the missing link between American gospel records by artists like Rev. Johnny L. Jones and traditional African artists like those featured on Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM...."
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This is another great piece of musique concrete from Michel Chion. Never published before. Composed in 1979 at the GMEM studios in Marseille. Comes with a 16 page booklet with texts from Michel Chion and Lionel Marchetti. Recommended.
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William Bennett's debut Cut Hands release now available as 2 separate limited vinyl editions with additional tracks.
"A bludgeoning mix of machine and vaudou/Central African percussion plus other acoustic instruments combine to create one of the most physically intense musical experiences ever. Since 2007's Whitehouse album Racket, and after his original 'Afro Noise' mix became one of the most downloaded experimental mixes ever made, William Bennett's remarkable Cut Hands album has seen 4 long years of meticulously obsessive studio work in the making, notably deploying his special collection of Congolese and Ghanaian percussion instruments." - Dirter Promotions.
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William Bennett's debut Cut Hands release now available as 2 separate limited vinyl editions with additional tracks.
"A bludgeoning mix of machine and vaudou/Central African percussion plus other acoustic instruments combine to create one of the most physically intense musical experiences ever. Since 2007's Whitehouse album Racket, and after his original 'Afro Noise' mix became one of the most downloaded experimental mixes ever made, William Bennett's remarkable Cut Hands album has seen 4 long years of meticulously obsessive studio work in the making, notably deploying his special collection of Congolese and Ghanaian percussion instruments." - Dirter Promotions.
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"Fylkingen has, in the course of its many years of activity, become a familiar factor in Swedish, as well as international, musical life, a unique forum for the presentation of experimental art. Since very early it began to work in collaboration with an electronic music studio in Stockholm for the creation of technically satisfactory performance possibilities. The movement within Sweden in sound poetry/text-sound composition took hold in the early 1960s with the reorganization of Fylkingen, aiming to develop the relation between art and technology. Sten Hanson's work is an excellent example of sound poetry treated extensively in an electronic studio; The Sonosopher Retrospective LP covers the long period of 30 years activity." - Alga Marghen.
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"On Christmas Eve, 2004, John Duncan received a mysterious email from an archaeologist working at the site of the Nazca Lines in Peru. He claimed to have discovered, and over time recorded, a variety of sounds actually generated by the enigmatic lines themselves. Familiar with Duncan’s “Infrasound-Tidal”, composed from source recordings taken from tides, seismic activity and barometric data from the Australian coastline, he suggested to Duncan the composition of a piece with these sources. All of the sources were modified in the studio of John Duncan, some radically, to bring out an unsettling, haunting quality. In mid-June 2005, the glorious 5-track piece was finally ready. John Duncan sent several messages to the archaeologist, none of them ever answered or returned. A hard disk crash effectively destroyed all of the email correspondence between them. What remains are the notes he sent that ostensibly describe the details of sites and times for the source recordings..."
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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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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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"No guitars and fuck two-second gaps. A collection of six 7"s (Gutter Splint, Fortune b/w The Eyes Of Men, Epistasis, Vacuum, Vanishing Point, and the split with Agathocles). Charlie Mumma/Corydon Ronnau/John Wiese. The only band to make a Milton and a Mentors reference on the same album. Typically I think noisecore is best in small blasts, but for those who can't find or play the records, this collection is still pretty terse, don't worry. " - Gilgongo Records. Very limited quantities, and sold out at source.
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"58 tracks of unrelentingly destroyed music, cautiously partitioned into short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore, redefining 'raw punk', and an even more destructive force than the already damaged tone of recent output. 'The same vein' in a sense, but ruptured and bleeding out, heavily. Coupled for the first time with Anti-Clockwise and properly 'in the face' on CD. Featuring Lasse Marhaug (Jazkamer, Testicle Hazard, etc.), Corydon Ronnau, Will Stangeland (Silver Daggers), and John Wiese." - Gilgongo Records. Very limited quantities, and sold out at source.
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Second killer 12" from this London duo - takes me back to the darker side of jungle/drum 'n bass (but before it went all boring and anodyne) and the best, most dread-fuelled early dubstep. These guys are really pushing and honing their sound here - tribal, cavernous, strangely disorienting but still somehow luring you back to the dancefloor every time, serious as hell but without the po-faced 'artistic' pomposity that many of their peers (no names!) hide behind. All in all, just a great 12". Limited to 300 copies, and highly recommended.
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"Anticipating Fluxus celebrations in 2012, Alga Marghen proudly presents one of the masterpieces from the glorious 60s, by master of ecstatic music Philip Corner.
“Remember? When you made these things at home, on the best equipment you or your other poor friends could find? And you had that Japanese tape recorder with a built-in mic; indeed that was the only piece of furniture on your tatami floor on the Lower East Side that summer of 1961”.
A home recording of water running from a faucet into a sink. New York City, the Lower East Side, sometime in the 60's. With Bill Fontana on microphone.
“And I always dreamed of passing an entire night bathed in this… It was never long enough”.
Edition limited to 180 copies with front sleeve design and calligraphies by Philip Corner." - Alga Marghen.
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The MEV group was formed in September 1966 by Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allan Bryant, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, and Jon Phetteplace. In the beginning they performed compositions by themselves and others which involved the use of electronic sound produced in real time, or "live" electronic music. In the summer of 1967 they began to work more with improvisation and less with determinate structures. MEV focus more on interpreting the moment, rather than constructing repeatable programs; creating meaningful rituals, not images; becoming involved with the process, the operation, and not with the result of it, or its effects on people. MEV music is highly eclectic, resisting ready classification by combining elements of improvised music, computer music, world music, jazz and classical composition, without being clearly definable as any one of them...
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Solo acoustic guitar improvisations at home, some with telling spoken commentaries, plus solo stereo electric guitar improvisations (with two volume pedals and two speakers) in concert. A great collection. Reissue of Quark 9999, with additional material from the same sessions that appeared on Caroline C1518 and Emanem 3404. 67 minutes in total. Recommended.
"I use the guitar normally. It's tuned normally. I work on, sort of, certain pitch relationships, when I use pitch. I work from a practical point of view. That is, the music to be acceptable as far as I'm concerned, has to work in my terms. That is it has to sound right. I don't have any sort of huge abstract theories into which I try and make the music fit regardless of this other aspect of playing - if it sounds good when you're performing, then that's the main thing..."
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"Evan Parker (saxophones), Okkyung Lee (cello), Peter Evans (trumpets). The art of trio improvisation is taken on here by three pitch producing instruments each from a different family: reeds, brass and strings. Each player comes from a different continent but the music speaks of unanimity. Purely acoustic real time improvised music continues to develop." - Psi.
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