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V/A: Special Interests |
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Freak Animal |
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Features: Jarl, Jeph Jerman / Hands To, Culver, Locrian, The Vomit Arsonist, Praying For Oblivion, Mark Groves, Haare, Smell & Quim, Jukka Siikala, The Rita, Andy Ortmann. Tape article: Haare, Le Syndicat, Andy Ortmann, Howard Stelzer. Art of noise Kristian Olsson a.k.a. Alfarmania / Survival Unit. 52/A5, full colour covers, offset printed.
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"Finally the ‘new’ album from Monos sees the light of day. Spanning a period of almost four years and involving their one and only public performance, the trio of Darren Tate, Colin Potter and Paul Bradley finally agree that everything is where it should be and the CD is released. Two long contrasting tracks; the familiar and unfamiliar, the context changed, the final result very different, yet at the same time completely natural and cohesive." - Integrated Circuit Recordings.
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A complete anthology of the recordings made for the Lucifer Rising motion picture soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil. This fully authorized and definitive release will include: remastered recordings spanning 11 years, from the ’67 recording to the Tracy Prison recordings of ’78; 4 full-length LPs worth of Lucifer Rising material with half being never-before-heard sessions personally selected by Bobby BeauSoleil; 9 new pieces of art from Bobby: 8 record sleeve panels and one 2’ x 3’ poster; 2 posters: one by Bobby BeauSoleil and one by Dennis Dread; a much-extended version of the “Fallen Angel Blues” piece by Bobby that originally appeared in the Kenneth Anger DVD set; ”Hymns from the Solar Temple”- impressions on a visit to Bobby at the Oregon Correctional Facility in Pendleton, Oregon by Dennis Dread; ”The Saga of a Soundtrack” by Michael Moynihan. All art has been created specifically for this release.
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"Recorded at the same time and in the same place as "Language Barrier", these songs reflect the other side of the experience of the individuals journey. Each disc contains an hour of relaxed moments and stretched out thoughts. The cover is a postcard of a cathedral that was down the street from where we were living, that we would see almost everyday. There is true inspiration in the architecture, and a lot of energy gained by being in such a beautiful part of the world. This is me channelling that energy into my guitar, or at least trying to!" - Mark McGuire.
Colour covers in thick black plastic cases. Limited edition of 200 copies.
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Skullflower / White Medal |
Split |
Turgid Animal / Legion Blotan |
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Split release. One track each by Matthew Bowers Skullflower and George Proctor's black metal project White Medal. Limited to 500 copies.
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Hasegawa-Shizuo |
Lift |
Utech |
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Hirotomo Hasegawa and Shizuo Uchida. Hasegawa was the lead singer of seminal early eighties Japanese punk/hardcore group Aburadako (Greasy Octopus), while Uchida was a long-term member of Haino's Nijiumu medieval dream-drone unit. The recording is the result of unedited improvisation. A beatific recording filled with light and avidity. Recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 2009.Hasegawa Hirotomo and Uchida Shizuo all instruments. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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For the recording, Henrik Rylander and Joachim Nordwall of drone operators The Skull Defekts got together with the legendary performance and noise duo The Sons of God - consisting of conceptual artist and self-proclaimed king of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland Leif Elggren and electro-acoustic sound artist Kent Tankred. The place for the meeting was Rylander's Studio Dental and the album was received in one night. The process developed immediately and there was no struggle to find a common idea of sound. Rylander and Nordwall on no-input mixing desk and analog synths and Elggren and Tankred on amplified metallic rakes, an old fan and FX. Something was caught on tape. That something is what you are now listening to. Photograph by Carley King. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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Kevin Drumm |
S/T |
Perdition Plastics |
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"This is the first re-issue of Kevin Drumm’s self-titled premiere solo recording since its original appearance in 1996. Perdition Plastics is honored to make Drumm’s foundational work available again in a limited edition of 500 copies. Kevin Drumm is an established and respected composer and improvisational player. He emerged as a notable presence in the thriving Chicago avant music scene of the ‘90s. This release introduced Drumm with seven tracks of improvised, advanced tabletop guitar. Recorded directly to Digital Audio Tape without edits or overdubs, Drumm evokes a powerful new perspective in guitar sound and method. By contrasting sparseness and complexity, Drumm links improvised new music with electronic composition. This sedate, monochromatic package helped further obscure listener expectations." - Perdition Plastics.
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Kevin Drumm |
Second |
Perdition Plastics |
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"This is the first re-issue of Kevin Drumm’s Second since its original appearance and out-of-print status in 1999. In a limited edition of 500 copies, Perdition Plastics is delighted to make this work available once again. Drumm is well-known and respected as a composer and improvisational player. Second is indeed Drumm’s second solo release being comprised of three compositions. By appearing, disappearing, and reappearing, subtle and dissonant sounds characterize an internal dialogue within an almost filmic scenario. Foreshadowing his later, dark, ambient drone work, second utilizes a variety of sources including: guitar, organ, accordion, and analogue synth finalized to computer to create this unique document within his extensive output. Compositionally precise and intricate, minute details emerge and illustrate the scope of Drumm’s range." - Perdition Plastics.
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Illusion Of Safety |
Probe |
Perdition Plastics |
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"This is the first re-issue of Illusion of Safety’s Probe since its only appearance in 1992. In a limited edition of 500 copies, Perdition Plastics is proud to reintroduce this notable work of contemporary composition. Veteran provocateurs, Illusion of Safety, examine an audio landscape found between youth and innocence, manufactured entertainment, and suburban complacency. Using a pastiche of field recordings and suggestively composed elements, Dan Burke and Jim O’Rourke strikingly capture ambivalence and their own personal interactions within this environment..." Recommended.
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Ex-Hate Forest, now with chanting dark vocals and Sumerian/ancient Egyptian mythology and history. Werewolf Promotions licensed cassette edition limited to 500 numbered copies.
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Cloama / Mutant Ape |
Split |
Turgid Animal |
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Finlands best kept secret, Cloama meets England's vilest, Mutant Ape in a Power Electronics show down with lyrics and artwork based on dementia. Limited 250 copies on black vinyl.
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Faux Pas |
S/T |
Turgid Animal |
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Lasse Marhaug joins Sten Ove Toft in a true Harsh Noise collaboration project. They hail from Norway and make harsh and unforgiving music. What's not to like? Limited to 200 copies on black vinyl.
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"Don't put baby in the corner. Jerusalem Mall is a newer Christmas time jingle for these hopeful times. Backed with 2 Sick to Death outtakes unavailable on vinyl till now. No one puts baby in the corner. Full colour glue pocket sleeve." - Woodsist.
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"Esoteric Dark Industrial spawned during the early 1990's in the wastelands of Vancouver, British Columbia. Dark churning and brooding atmospheres that summon visions of bleakness and pain.
Material created between 1994 and 1996 was collected onto a single cassette titled "DEMOnology" which has remained in the shadows for over a decade. One track from this recording, "Wasteland Earth" was exhumed for a CD compilation in 2006. Two years later, another track, "Hymn of a Psycho" was procured for the Audial Decimation Compilation Vol. 1 CD...
Pro white shell cassettes with white ink, housed within a vinyl binder with cover and insert. Limited to 100 copies." - Audial Decimation.
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Peter Walker’s quintessential debut, reissued on vinyl for the very first time since its original 1966 release on Vanguard. Featuring contributions from jazz flautist jeremy Steig and Dylan session veteran Bruce Langhorn, Walker’s fusion of psych-folk and traditional Indian raga was ahead of its time. Finally a vinyl reissue of this gem! Heavy cover and vinyl.
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John Fahey |
America |
4 Men With Beards |
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Originally released in 1971, America is one of the artistic high points of John Fahey’s career. And yet, for nearly 30 years it was not heard in its entirety, as what was originally intended as a double album was pared down to a single LP. 4 Men With Beards is proud to present the complete America double album, released on vinyl for the first time ever. Fahey himself had this to say about America: “Out of all the songs I ever wrote, I consider only two of them ‘epic’ or ‘classic’ or in the ‘great’ category and they are both on this record.” Deluxe gatefold packaging that includes a reproduction of the original illustrated booklet. Limited edition of 3,000 numbered copies.
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Government Alpha / Evil Moisture |
Split |
Staalplaat |
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"Petrol drilling machine driver Yasutoshi Yoshida (aka Government Alpha) leaves his off-shore extraction platform on the Gabonese territory for 4'50min of furious steamroller for gap-toothed old ladies on the Bomb! side, wrecking on his way the last dwarf mongooses' community who survived the Bulgaro-Christian deforestation in 62 before Judas-Christ. Mr Clean's nephew Evil Moisture (aka Andy Bolus) fills up his bento box on the Skull side with decomposing Halal meat, contaminated blood dressing and varicose veins. Hand-stamped and numbered innersleeve, 5-panel silkscreened cover designed and masticated in South Tyrol by crippaXXXalmqvist and Anna Lili Konishchev, printed by La Commissure. Mastering by Rashad Becker at Dubplates, Berlin." - Staalplaat.
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Volume I in G.X. Jupitter-Larsen’s Zelphabet series. One track each from IDX1274, If Bwana, Incapacitants and Irene Moon. Each release will be alphabetically titled and will contain artists whose name starts with the respective letter. These are pro-pressed CDs not CDRs. The best compilation series we’ve encountered in years. Each volume comes highly recommended.
"To be released over the next 4 years, Zelphabet is a series of 26 CD compilations featuring: Dave Phillips, Francisco Lopez, Giancarlo Toniutti, The Hanatarash, Incapacitants, K2, KK Null, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nocturnal Emissions, Quiet American, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Scott Arford, Small Cruel Party, Sudden Infant, Thomas Dimuzio, Wolf Eyes, Zbigniew Karkowski, Z'EV, and many, many - many more." - G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, The Haters
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1997 release. One piece The Haters & K2, one piece AMK & K2 plus one 3-way collaboration. Final master & mix by K2. Classic late 90’s release with sexy cover-art.
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"At the beginning of the metabolic year 1980, after Maurizio Bianchi finished the embryonal experience as Sacher-Pelz, he decided to undertake the concrete-synchronized course as M.B., a long-lived acronym that will accompany him along his next way of neuro-synthetic experimenter. His first ever release was the private cassette-tape entitled “Metcpyo / Blut”. An haematopoietic experiment decomposed during the months of March and beginning of April 1980 at Mectpyo Studio. Proposed here in its original layout, this 2LP set holds intact, at a distance of almost three decades, the epicentre of M.B. sonorous universe, projected towards an euphonic cacophony... Edition limited to 300 copies in full colour gatefold sleeve, reproducing various graphic materials from the original cassette edition. Attention: this is the real thing, top powerful and modern in its integral length (and not a meaningless edited excerpt as other inexperienced labels in demand would have cheaply proposed you!)..."
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"This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the Alga Marghen copies of Sten Hanson's heavy carboard luxury book titled "Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten". The CDR contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by Alga Marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various “Text Sound Composition” rare LP anthologies issued in Sweden between 1968 and 1970. Edition limited to 90 copies, including a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos as well as concrete and visual poems." - Alga Marghen
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"Monofonic Orchestra is not a disc recorded in mono / is not ambient music / is not funky / is not experimental music / is not funny / Monofonicorchestra is not avant-garde / is not pop / is not op / is not dada / Monofonicorchestra is not fashion / is not hard-core / is not horror / is not Frigidaire was writing Maurizio Marsico at 10h20 on wednesday, December 23rd, 1981.
A country: Italy. Several countries: Italies. Late seventies, early eighties. The ether of punk is in everyone's nose and disco virus invades even the most reticent legs. New-wave for sure rules the underground. Neo dandyism attitude applied to the italian post-rock era; Dolce Vita with a dreamed revolution in the background... limited to 500 copies with full colour digipack sleeve. Also including a 12 page full colour booklet with original graphics, photos as well as liner notes by Samon Takahashi." - Alga Marghen.
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Alga Marghen presents the first edition ever issued of Dick Higgins’ music. Fluxus founding member, in 1958 Dick Higgins studied Composition and Experimental Music with John Cage in his class at the New School for Social Research in New York together with, among others, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Toshi Ichiyanaghi, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Jackson Mac Low... Limited to 500 copies with digipack sleeve, also including a 16 page booklet with full documentation presenting 2 texts by Dick Higgins from the 1960s as well as a Philip Corner testimony, original photos and original scores.
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"This box provides all of Etant Donnes avant-garde tapes released between 1977 and 1983 on the famous french BainTotal Recordings including: La Vue, L’opposition, L'etoile Au Front, Ceux Qu'on Aime - Ce Que Je Hais, Cinq Portes Soudees, Les Cents Jours Clairs. The release also contains a DVD with Live-Peformances of Etant Donnes from the last 3 decades.
The music on this Etant Donnés’s first period (1977-1983) box-set describes a rite of passage from mortality to divinity ,a powerful but hidden passion craving beauty and burning love that can be conquered only by another form of secret pain, that of losing yourself in the cosmos and becoming part of the muddy streams of distant stars. Their soundworks are constructed through the manipulation of natural sounds, using the variation of velocity and intensity of the recordings, the cutting and splicing of tape..."
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"This album is actually really good in a lot of ways. Too much reverb here and there, but not as intrusive as some other Swans releases (I used to be infatuated with Phil Spector and naively figured that adding reverb could get the same effect). Anyway, I think this album holds together well. It was a complete nightmare to make (but then, all the Swans albums were!). I lived in a tent in a mosquito infested studio right next to Cabrini Green in Chicago for what something like 3 months, rarely leaving. Band members and Jarboe and Bill Rieflin etc came and went, and somehow we crafted this thing into what it became. I can still listen to most of this sometimes, so that counts for something. There's some reviews below if that's any help to you." - Michael Gira/Young God Records 2008.
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Limited edition of 100 copies.
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New York Art Quartet (John Tchicai / Roswell Rudd / Finn von Eyben / Louis Moholo) |
Old Stuff |
Cuneiform |
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"This release is truly a remarkable archival find! Formed in the summer of 1964, although the New York Art Quartet existed for barely a year and a half, great interest remains in their work. They consisted of co-leaders John Tchicai (alto sax), who participated in John Coltrane’s ground-breaking Ascension album and Roswell Rudd (considered to be the first free-jazz trombonist), along with bassist Don Moore and drummer Milford Graves. The band participated in the legendary “October Revolution in Jazz”, which journalist Bill Shoemaker called “Arguably the most seminal jazz concert series ever held...it was a comprehensive four-day survey of jazz's cutting edge.... It marked the beginning of the Golden Era of do-it-yourself jazz culture in the U.S...”
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"Founding members of the original 'Rock In Opposition' (R.I.O.) movement and the inventors of 'chamber rock', Univers Zero have continued to change and grow and develop over their entire career, while still keeping a ensemble sound and spirit that is easily recognizable. Clivages is their first studio album in over five years, but much more importantly, it is their first studio release since 1986's Heatwave to feature the energy and sound of a working, rehearsing, live ensemble performing in the studio!..."
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3CD set of previously unreleased material; includes 32-page book with liner notes and unpublished photographs. Utilizing multiple electric guitars and a single chord, 1977’s “Guitar Trio” is composer Rhys Chatham’s signature work, and a euphoric, minimal-punk classic. It’s an inspired amalgamation - the droning, shimmering harmonics of John Cale and Tony Conrad fused with the power and fury of the Ramones - that had a meteoric impact. It placed Chatham at the forefront of the burgeoning No Wave scene; its influence then spread further, as protégés and participants in Chatham’s ensembles folded the sound into their own. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Guitar Trio” on an epic scale, Chatham musters an all-star guitar army for this 3CD set. The sprawling collection features members of Sonic Youth, Swans, Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hüsker Dü, Silver Mt. Zion, and many more; even Tony Conrad gets in on the act...
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"A reissue of an obscure tour only recording from 2005 brings to the light the flickering dance of Mr Yeh and his dives into organic drone music. Unlike the majority of his electronic compositions inside the shadow reveals three textures brought to life with violin , chimes and bells that defy most of the contemporaries limitations to synth only exercises. Yeh proves the heart of landscape oriented linear composition is only limited by the imaginations of the creators and brings warmth to an otherwise cold genre with the flame of inside the shadow." - Hospital Productions.
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Marsfield (Andrew Chalk / Brendan Walls / Robin Barnes / Vikki Jackman) |
The Towering Sky |
Faraway Press |
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Recorded May 2005. Packaged in heavy cardboard, mini LP gatefold sleeve with obi strip.
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First in a trio of limited edition new LP’s from the ever mysterious Vibracathedral crew, returning from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre’ jams. Slightly reorganized around a lineup of stalwarts Mick Flower and Adam Davenport with frequent collaborators John Godbert (Total) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides, taking in several different styles while maintaining “that” sound all the way through. Joka Baya offers up a first side of short pieces, in a high-fidelity style that is in direct contrast to the dark, smoky sound of the rest of the tracks... Cut by John Golden, audiophile pressed at RTI. Limited pressing.
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Second in a trio of limited edition new LP’s from the ever mysterious Vibracathedral crew, returning from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre’ jams. Slightly reorganized around a lineup of stalwarts Mick Flower and Adam Davenport with frequent collaborators John Godbert (Total) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides, taking in several different styles while maintaining “that” sound all the way through... Cut by John Golden, audiophile pressed at RTI. Limited pressing.
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Third in a trio of limited edition new LP’s from the ever mysterious Vibracathedral crew, returning from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre’ jams. Slightly reorganized around a lineup of stalwarts Mick Flower and Adam Davenport with frequent collaborators John Godbert (Total) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides, taking in several different styles while maintaining “that” sound all the way through... Cut by John Golden, audiophile pressed at RTI. Limited pressing.
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"11th release in the series. Much like the flagship release in this 13 month/13 cd series Masami Akita, herein known as Merzbow, returns to his drumset to accompany his complex analogue noise. His prowess as a drummer rivals his abilities as a noise artist making this an essential and exciting entry into the Merzbow cannon.
The CD’s in this series, which was inspired by Olivier Messaien’s Catalogue D’Oiseaux, are pressed in a limited edition of 1000 and once they are sold out they will not be repressed." - Important.
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"...Strange Keys to Untune God's Firmament evokes Wagnerian sonic bombast, a Nietzchean worldview, and a warlike cry of rebellion against the false, encased in a whirlwind both psychotropic and psychoacoustic. Each listen brings new themes to the forefront. Not easy listening by anyone's standards, this is not for the faint of heart, but for those willing to submit and immerse themselves in the deep thick waters of self transformation." - Steve Von Till, Neurosis / Neurot.
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Perlonex / Charlemagne Palestine / Keith Rowe |
Tensions |
Nexsound |
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"This double-CD documents the 5th anniversary concert of Perlonex who on this occasion invited Keith Rowe (AMM) and Charlemagne Palestine as guests in order to feature different aspects of their musical work in two distinct sets. All material is presented as played live and no editing or overdubs have been applied. Recorded at Podewil by Christian Malejka on September 11th 2004 Mixed by Ignaz Schick & Burkhard Beins at AudioCue Studio Berlin.
While Perlonex normally don't perform with guests the collaboration with Palestine has been continued and Palestine became a frequent & only guest of the group. After the first meeting documented on this double CD there were several concerts taking place in France, Switzerland & Austria. A recent evening in Vienna which was recorded & broadcasted by ORF radio station documents how intense & unusual the quality of this exchange became..."
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Limited double vinyl edition with bonus CD of exclusive material.
"Since the release of the genre-defining ‘Marking Time’, the music of Richard Skelton has been widely celebrated for its raw, organic beauty, its honesty and restraint. Whether the work has been under his own name or under one of his many shadowy guises (A Broken Consort, Riftmusic, Carousell, Clouwbeck and others) there is a level of skill, a sureness of touch, and an emotional resonance that is virtually unparalleled by his peers.
‘Landings’ is the culmination of four years of recording on the moors and hillsides of Northern England. The resulting album isn’t simply a suite of songs in the mould of ‘Marking Time’, but a form of diary; a dialogue with the landscape itself. It is imbued with a real sense of narrative – and of place – that is both epic in scale and yet intimate in feel..."
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Government Alpha was characterized by its ferociously intense signature sound. Noise fans often speak of a feeling of "pure energy" felt when listening to noise music. Few artists consistently embodies this better than Government Alpha. The "Resolution Of Remembrance 1992-1999" box-set is a selection of 62 tracks from these obscure releases in the years 1992 to 1999, released by labels like Harbinger Sound, Mother Savage Noise Productions, Hospital Productions, Utsu Tapes, American Tapes and of course Yoshida's own Xerxes imprint. The first CD also includes previously unreleased tracks from 1992/93.
4 CDs of 62 tracks, remastered from the original cassette and DAT-masters by Yasutoshi Yoshida; solid box with silver foil printing (similar to the Incapacitants box); 24 page booklet with liner notes by Yasutoshi Yoshida and Tommy Carlsson (Segerhuva, Abisko) + a number of graphic collage works Yoshida-san. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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Faux Amis is a collaborative LP from Helhesten, Chora, Motherfucking, François Virot, Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and more. In April 2008 the collective recorded a marathon five hour jam, of which this LP presents 35 minutes of highlights. The form ranges from obtuse NNCK-style navigations of the furthest fringes of form through lolloping almost International Harvester/Parson Sound-style psychedelic monoliths.
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"Here now, finally, reissued on glorious vinyl and CD editions is perhaps one of the rarest, most enchanting and eccentric albums of the whole Moondog canon (and that’s going some). Perhaps the most extraordinary and unexpected thing about this album is that it features the voice of Julie Andrews. ‘Tell It Again’ was recorded in 1957 and so this is a pre-Mary Poppins, pre-Maria Von Trapp Julie Andrews. Although she wasn’t yet an international superstar, she’s still very much the Julie we know and love, prim and proper in manner and pure of voice. Also on board is English veteran of stage and screen Martyn Green. Andrews and Green take on the roles of adult children, reciting and singing nursery rhymes and playing games over a musical background that could only be the mighty Moondog..."
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This is the second instalment of an ongoing series documenting the far-flung corners of the UK underground. A constellation of artists from Glasgow, Brighton, London, Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle and Edinburgh, the tracks here demonstrate the fertile creativity of artists improvising with spare tools and a boundless radical energy that resonates with an earlier generation of musicians – from Sunroof to Sun City Girls – whilst remaining idiosyncratic and unpredictable. The four-disc set comes with 8 full-colour artworks, including hand-printed lithographs and silk-screens. Featuring: Jazzfinger, Hobo Sonn, Serfs, Single Helix, Hunter Gracchus, Bad Orb, Wounded Knee, Patrick Farmer. Limited to 135 copies.
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"Collection of very recent live excursions with MV&EE, all high quality recordings from shows in November 2009. The A side opens with a MV/EE duo perfromance of 'Mine All Troubled Blues' from Art Damage Lodge, Cinncinnatti, OH on 20/11/09. This heads straight into two interpretations of 'Environments', one from Project Lodge, Madison, WI which again is just raw MV/EE action, but the second features an enhanced line up with Muskox and Doc Dunn. The two versions are blurred together into one long blazing 11 minute space jam... Edition of 400 pressed on heavyweight vinyl with hand stamped labels in black and white pro printed wrap around jackets with cover art by Jeremy Earl of Woods/Woodsist Records." - Blackest Rainbow.
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"While my face drips with pus, yellow soup, manjuice and morning youghurt, I finally got an injection against measles, which I also suffered from until I found out about Preggy Peggy and The Lazy Babymakers (both thru a CDR on the great Chocolate Monk and on Preggy's own "Being Weird Isn't Enough Records"!), I thought they deserved it more then I did. As a "price" I could release their record inspired by the subject matter. Which became a beautiful audiobook like a madman's guide to alienville! The medicine these chaps have to use makes em sing in different colours and add styles to each other that never heard of each other's existence..."
Comes in a collaged cover with a new born baby on it and prince charles and an insert.
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"...Leo Coomans then compiled a bunch of unheard and beautiful basement recordings, collecting the period he mainly played in the Antwerp jazz and artist bars!
When putting it on I expected some decent free music, relating to the other freaks from Antwerp from those days, my mouth fell open though that this rather modest man made seriously strange outsider weirdness instead of free-jazz from hell.
Kicking of with Aerosol, duo undertone singing to a aerosol machine he had to use for his asthma! Watermuziek, playing with a bunch of tubes, saxophones, mouthpieces and his own voice in a bath tub half filled with water! Untitled droning harmonica pieces which clearly shows his link with raga folks like Wannes Van De Velde and such... The cover design is 2 live shots, one of which he uses the aerosol machine. It also comes with an insert with more photos..."
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First Tchantinler Recordings' vinyl release. "The Burning Mountain" b/w an alternative version of "Dry Leaves" from the forthcoming LP. Limited to 500 copies in litho-printed fold out sleeves. Each copy is individually handstamp-numbered.
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Bohren & Der Club of Gore |
Delores |
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"New album by European cult band sounding a little like Sigur Ros meets ‘Twin Peaks’. The band have got one of the most unique sounds in music history. Their fans range from Faith No More’s Mike Patton to Sigur Ros, Mogwai and Burial to The Melvins who have invited them to perform at ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas. Double vinyl edition."
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Dub remixes from Lustmord's "OTHER" album, by Justin K. Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh, Final) and Lustmord. Featuring Adam Jones (Tool) and Paul Haslinger. On Hydra Head Records with a limited pressing of 500 copies.
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New Monuments |
S/T |
Important |
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Limited to 500 copies. Featuring Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus), Ben Hall (Graveyards) & C Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core).
"At Instal Fest '08 in Glasgow, Scotland, at David Keenan's suggestion, the idea for a trio of Don Dietrich, Ben Hall and himself was hatched. As the idea for the tour came together, Keenan unfortunately had to step out for personal reasons. CSY graciously accepted to take his place, and what was originally to be an acoustic Babi Music cover band became the electro-acoustic behemoth The New Monuments. Sharing a common head for so-called "abstract sound" constructions, the members come from related, though diverse, musical backgrounds. With saxophone, violin, and trapset, they attempt to soundtrack the maiden voyage of a luxury cruise ship constructed solely out of granite cement and ball bearings." - Important.
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"Personal obsessions skewed by drug use, codes of behaviour observed by a misanthropic mind. Bitter and cold. Nihilistic and scornful. Elitist and Pure. Behavioural Decline documents the rise of treachery and the fall of honour. Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise. 'Concert For Evening Battle' was recorded live at Radio Black Forest's festival of electro-acoustic music 22/8/2009, Birmingham, England. A deeply personal Recording." - Cold Spring.
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