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Please note that only certain select items will now form this part of the website. Other titles, both new and old, can be found, however, via Discogs. You will find a link to this below. Otherwise, as noted elsewhere, small trades, etc. are always considered but do understand that this is not a huge mail order operation. Time here goes on the labels, essentially, and Adverse Effect magazine, which is due to surface again in Spring 2012 (along with a Cut Hands 7"). Beyond this, of course, there are labels, artists and releases that command encouragment but it is impossible to find the necessary time to manage much beyond what is either listed at Discogs or a regularly emailed list these days. If interested in seeing the full list (which sometimes also includes material not on Discogs), please get in touch and let me know. All orders of 25.00 GBP and over will receive 10% discount, too. Please email all orders to the usual address.POSTAGE RATES
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ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE Ama_zone 1: Black Waters CD
Fifteen pieces derived from field recordings by this prolific artist who has been operating since the mid-1990s. Released in 2011. Monochrome Vision, Russia. £8.00
BENE GESSERIT First Time in Aachen CD
2010 release by this defunct Belgian duo, once a major part of the cassette scene of the post-industrial early ‘80s. “In Vital Weekly 733 I was pleasantly surprised by EE Tapes when they re-issued Europa by Pseudo Code. Before they already did a CD by Human Flesh and a CDR by MAL. Now there is a CD by Bene Gesserit. In case you wonder what this is all about, all four bands are from the 80s cassette label Insane Music, and since some time there is renewed interest in them. All of these bands (except MAL, which is a solo project of Daniel Malempre, who also guests here) involve Alain Neffe and each incarnation is something different. It would go too far to explain all these differences, but as Bene Gesserit he plays music with his wife Nadine Bal on vocals. Neffe is responsible for synthesizers, rhythm machines and saxophone. Although Bene Gesserit moved out my sight in the late eighties, they still existed in 1990 when they played in the Malteserkeller Jazz Club in Aachen, Germany. Surely, Bene Gesserit don't play jazz, but they play… well… popmusic? Maybe its popmusic, but with an odd twist,not the kind of stuff that will be big in the charts, but nevertheless popmusic that attract the more serious lovers of minimal wave and new wave. At times romantic, especially the saxophone playing, but at other times also wildly eccentric with vocal improvisations and an over-use of echo effects. I must admit two things: it was great to hear Bene Gesserit after all these years, but from the various bands of Insane Music not my favorite. That would be Pseudo Code and then Human Flesh. Most other music projects where never that much my cup of tea. Bene Gesserit surely play great music, but remains to mildly eccentric popmusic for my taste. I am hoping however EE Tapes will expand further, and that one day we may see a CD with the collected works of the poetry/synth project Cortex or the real 'commercial' tunes of Subject.” (Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly). Limited to 300 in oversized 7” record style sleeve. EE Tapes, Belgium. £9.00
BFFFTH Two Phases of Emanation of Light LP
“Markos Zografos’s complete composition for music and text contains a total of four phases; Heard Worse’s LP contains the third and fourth. It’s a noise drone work, made of slow building intensity, inspired by Xenakis, one in which 'time stops [and e]verything disappears except for the sensation of infinity....'" Limited edition LP from this Australian composer, in pasted-on/recycled cover. Released in 2010. Heard Worse Records, Australia.£14.00
BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND/MCIAA Gramofonu = Voice of the Universe LP
Three incredible collaborative pieces combining drones, atmospheric swirl, haunting voice snatches and the like to a great hallucinatory effect. Limited to 300. Released in 2010. Love Nest/Opax, Czech Republic. £11.00
BIRD’S BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND/RUINU Bohnice, Babi Leto, Scena Poli5 CD
New. Two lengthy pieces combining abstract and positively twisted sonics formed from, respectively, turntables and a fine array of electronics, trumpet and clarinet by these two Czech Republic outfits. Nicely packaged, too. Released late 2011. Poli5, Czech Republic. £6.00
KARL BöSMANN Euphoria Mitte CD
New album by this electronics artist whose work draws from the same pools as AMM, Organum, NWW and Xenakis. “With the whole bunch of very limited edition releases on such labels as Tosom, Domestic Violence Recordings, Verato Project and the luxurious LP made by Youdonthavetocallitmusic, the name of German musician Karl Bösmann [has been] emerging since 2003. This is his second real CD after Unton (2005, Badbeatz Records) and includes several new compositions, showing the maturity and intensity of his prolific talent.” Released 2010. Monochrome Vision, Russia. £8.00
KARL BöSMANN Eskalation LP
Five pieces by the German composer/sound architect, given to generating electronics-bound pieces not far removed from the likes of Organum, AMM, Xenakis, etc. This LP offers six cuts, one of which also includes Markus Daniel’s voice. Limited to 500 with insert and very tasteful embossed sleeve. Released in 2007. Youdon’thavetocallitmusic, Germany. £14.00
HANNIS BROWN Oh Ah Ee CD
Fantastic debut album by a US artist whose compositions soak up all from jazz, improvisation, avant-rock and those regions likewise sometimes explored by contemporary outsider music, yet without betraying a direct and almost accessible edge capable of pushing this beyond the usual confines. Charles Mingus, Pendericki, Dirty Projectors and Elliot Smith are all cited as representing certain parallels on the information sheet, but Oh Ah Ee possesses an appeal that far outreaches this combination. Recommended. Self-released in 2010. £9.00
ANGELICA CASTELLA Bestiario CD
Debut album of abstract electronica by this artist otherwise usually found at home in the Low Frequency Orchestra. Released in 2011. Mosz, Austria. £8.50
RHYS CHATHAM The Bern Project CD
Album from 2010 by New York’s Chatham, previously known for his monumental early droneworks and forays into modern minimalism. This album was recorded in Switzerland, however, during a tour that took him there, and is a little rawer than other works by him. Includes full band backing, with drums, bass and trombone, etc. Packaged in nice card sleeve. Hinterzimmer, Switzerland. £10.00
CIRCLE Tulikoira CD
Another great entry from Finland's premier psych/prog-trance group, exploding with gtr-drench over four cuts (one of which is over 24 minutes long). The New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal, indeed... Ektro, Finland. £8.00
CLANG SAYNE Winterlands CD
Debut self-released album, from 2009, by this group led by Laura Hyland; known otherwise as an improviser and songwriter. On Winterlands, there are ten songs of a slightly abstract and avant-folk nature. A nice and, indeed, compelling listen. £8.00
COLUMN ONE Early Tapes 1992 – 1994 CD
“Unknown versions of tracks from: 'The Individual Box', 'New-Re-Generation', 'Various Dreamdances', 'Coincidentia Oppositorum', 'THX1138', 'Two Flowers For The Travel' & 'Odyssee' + 4 tracks unpublished before. All material is remastered by Robert Schalinski. Comes in A5 folder includes 8 cards extra. Limited edition of 500 copies. This CD is also available as a part of special box 'No One' released by Column One.” Released in 2011. Nefryt, Poland. £9.00
COLUMN ONE Early Apes 1993 – 1995 CD
“Remastered LP 'Dream Box Experience' (tracks number 1,2,3) + alternative version of tracks from 'This Is My Dream', 'An Analog Anthology - Never Mind The World' & one track published never before. Comes in A5 folder includes 6 cards extra. Limited edition of 500 copies. This CD is also available as a part of special box 'No One' released by Column One.” Released in 2011. Nefryt, Poland. £9.00
RHODRI DAVIES & GREGORY BUTTNER 3 Harp Treatments CD
Three lengthy collab pieces by the Welsh harpist and and German artist. Released in 2009. Anthropometrics, Germany. £9.00
DENSELAND Chunk CD
Drums/electronics/bass/vocals improvisation and poetry on this debut album by the trio of David Moss, Hanno Leichtmann and Hannes Strobl, who are all established artiasts in their own right. Released in 2010. Mosz, Austria. £8.50
D’INCISE Lethargie & Autres Animaux Rugeux CD
“D'incise is a member of the Audioactivity, music & visual collective founded in 2000 in Geneva (CH). In 2002 he starded to produce different kinds of electronic music, from dub to electronica, dangerously sliding to the more experimental ways of electroacoustic. His world is made with sound fractures, nevralgic crepitations, melancolic atmospheres and a non-dissimulated fascination for rust and faded rhythms. Lethargie... , his newest CD, is not far from described above. A mixture of field recordings, objects and distant melancholy makes it a very intense - and rewarding -sound experience.” Released in 2010 in oversized card packaging. AudioTONG, Poland. £8.00
DM&P Insular Dwarfism CD
Noise-drivem free jazz/improv by this Krakow-based trio.“Insular Dwarfism: The process whereby animals living on small islands or in other environments with constrained gene pools reduce in size over time through a process of natural selection. When we first started playing together five years ago, there was a very modest local improvised music scene in Kraków and extremely few clubs or venues were prepared to support or encourage this kind of music. Faced with a situation in which opportunities to exchange ideas with like-minded musicians were severely limited, we were forced to withdraw into ourselves, hone down our extravagant ideas and rein in our reckless impulses in a somewhat vain attempt to pin down and maintain a vestige of necessary control over what made our music valuable or different without sacrificing the sense of adventure and spontaneity that lay at its core. The degree to which we have managed to achieve this alternately frustrating and rewarding task is arguable, but the moments when everything goes right more than make up for those when we miss the boat and everything crumbles into oblivion.”Released 2011. AudioTONG, Poland. £8.00
DMT Selected Funbient Works 1 – 4 2CD
“Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) was a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov (south of Russia), one of the first popularizers of the alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art. The musical project DMT was established in 1995 and released by the end of the ‘90s several limited-edition cassette albums, lapsing afterwards into silence for a while. In the mid-00s the project was revived, had some successful live gigs and recorded a lot of new material, part of which is presented on this double-CD, Selected Funbient Works 1-4 . Plans of this release existed for a long time but unfortunately were not implemented while the author was alive. His life cut short in the autumn of 2009. And now by joint efforts of several Russian labels (namely KultFront, Zhelezobeton, Aquarellist and Monochrome Vision), this release has become available for those interested. The album vividly displays the complex music world of DMT, which like everything innovative exists on the crossing of several musical styles and directions: from dark-ambient and industrial noise sketches to technoid rhythmics and pure sonic experiments.” Zhelezobeton/Kultfront, Russia. £7.50
BERNARD DONZEL-GARGAND Still to be a Storyteller CD
Collection of eight tracks by this musique-concrete artist, released 2009. Monochrome Vision, Russia. £8.00
KEVIN DRUMM/JEROME NOETINGER/ROBERT PIOTROWICZ Wrestling 7”
Three-way electronics/synth/guitar collaboration between these improvisation mainstays. Recorded in 2005 but released in 2011 in an edition of 250. Bocian, Poland. £7.00
JOHN DUNCAN/MICAEL ESPOSITO/Z’EV There Must Be A Way Across This River/The Abject LP Two side-long collaborations. “Edition of 461 copies, pressed on black 140g vinyl, black inner-sleeve, including double-sided insert. EVPs captured on Feb 20, 2009 at John Duncan's childhood home in Prospect Heights, Chicago IL.” Released late 2011. Fragment Factory, Germany. £11.50
ETHNIC ACID Power-Works 1986-88 2CD
Collection released in 2009 by this old power electronics/noise platform for Anthony Di Franco (JFK, AX, Ramleh, etc.). Industrial Recollections/Freak Animal, Finland. £12.00
FAMILY UNDERGROUND Commiseration 7”
“Primitive guitar riffin', synth's drone and effects. Raw beauty and energy in it's primal. File under: minimal/psychedelic/noise-rock.” Limited to 500. Released 2009. Quasi-Pop, Ukraine. £5.00.
FIRST HUMAN FERRO Homo Shargey CD
“Alexander Shargey (Yuriy Kondratyuk) is a representative of passionate enthusiastic inventors who put their lives at stake to accomplish the mission for the future good of the whole mankind. Shargey belongs to a cohort of scientists who were the first to foresee the space conquering. They were great yet mocked-at dreamers and had to fight against all odds twice as hard. Shargey is a ‘recognized’ space theoretic of unique unconventional genius. The name of a self-made engineer since decades has become well up to par with famous scientists like Tsiolkovskiy, Tsander and Korolyov. The Ukrainian First Human Ferro project led by Olegh Kolyada pays a long overdue tribute to its compatriot composing a well-crafted vintage dark ambient album with both poignant and mesmerizing layers of sidereal voyage. Homo Shargey was pre-mastered by Italian ambient magician Vestigial. The release comes in an A5 silver varnished digipak designed by Marcin Lojek for New Nihilism series.” Released 2011. New Nihilism/Requiem/Triangle, Poland. £8.75
RAFAEL FLORES Nubes, Cometas, Romeros y Orugas CD
"First official CD album of Rafael Flores, who hails from the depth(s) of (the) Spanish noise underground scene (and is) known for his early works released under (the) Comando Bruno moniker. This compilation presents the latest decade of his sound experimentation, and shows quite diverse sides of his creative efforts, which ranges from collaged field recordings to noise ambient loops, from rhythmic structures to hypnotic electronic passages." Monochrome Vision, Russia. £7.00
GEM IN EYE (DAME DARCY) Time Travellers 7"
Notable as the creator of the Edward Gorey-esque art comic, Meatcake, Dame Darcy has also built herself an impressive reputation for playing obscure songs on her banjo. Her collaborators include the disgracefully wonderful Lisa Suckdog and filmmaker Lisa Hammer. For her new project Gem In Eye she's teamed up with Victor Cretella to create as big a musical diversion from her accepted sound as possible. Drum machines, guitars, boopy-doopy lyrics. Four tracks of fine, ridiculous psychodrama. Ir-Ar Records. £3.00
PAWEL GRABOWSKI Cirr’s Song 7”
Released in 2004 in an edition of 350, this catches the atmospheric electronics artist delivering two drone pieces. Just found these at the back of a stack of records, completely untouched since, presumably, they arrived here shortly after being released. Includes insert. Drone Records, Germany. £3.50
JEAN-LUC GUIONNET/ERIC LA CASA/PHILIP SAMARTZIS Soleil D’Artifice CD
Three lengthy enough collaborative pieces comprising alto sax, prepared tapes, field recordings and electronics. Released in 2009 in special oversized packaging. Swarming, France. £8.00
HOT CLUB Straight Outta Bagnolet LP
Three recordings from 2008 featuring François Fuchs (double bass), Jac Berrocal (voice, trumpet), Alexandre Bellenger (turntables) and Dan Warburton (violin). Improvisational electronics/free jazz crossover. Limited to 250. Monotype Records, Poland. £13.00
IIBIIS ROOGE eponymous LP
“Iibiis Rooge is the new superastral duo team bringing together the mysterious High Wolf (Not Not Fun Records, Winged Sun) with the seminal talents of Mr. Neil Campbell, better known these days as Astral Social Club (Fat Cat, VHF, Qbico, Important, Textile, Bottrop-Boy and countless other labels around the globe) and (ex-) member of Vibracathedral Orchestra, A-Band, and other obscure/legendary outfits. The new self-titled LP is the debut album of the band (don’t call it "project") combining modern psychedelic High Wolf jams with the fucked up yet refined electronics and techno-infused beat choppery of the Astral Social Club – the result being a lot more then you might have expected from the two, transcending their combined talents into a multicoloured supernova. The strength of the album is an unexpected pop sensibility and airiness, while still being tighter and more consolidated than their regular solo outfits. Even the noisier elements are embedded in loose song structures with a carnivalesque air dominating the whole atmosphere. While the duo’s solo outings are often camouflaging any melodies in oodles of electronic noises or lo-fi psych jams and hiss this is a fairly different affair with simple melodic textures always dominating the four tracks. The defibration of structures is still apparent but the music is constantly pulling itself together again. Where the Astral Social Club is sometimes willingly losing himself in electronic soundscapes and the High Wolf’s short & sketchy songs are rarely fully formulated by nature, all the positive aspects of their respective works are combined and complemented in Iibiis Rooge. These gentlemen are the perfect match. A visible proof that (musical) online dating can be a highly prosperous activity.” Released in 2010. Dekorder, Germany. £9.75
K11/PIETRO RIPERBELLI & PHILIPPE PETIT The Haunting Triptych CD
“The Haunting Triptych is an even denser piece of work. Over the course of its three tracks, ranging from just under fourteen to just over eighteen minutes, the pair carve extremely rich progressive dark ambient drones and textured soundscapes from radio signals, field recordings, electronics, processed acoustics, turntables and glass manipulations. From the sombre isolationist tones of this record emerge moments of glacial beauty. Twelve minutes into 'Chapter 1: Residual Spookiness', the haunting toll of treated brass rises from a cloud of distortions and noise to hover ominously over the rest of the piece. The muffled calls of a distant choir on 'Chapter 2: Shadow Creatures' resonate eerily over the first half of the piece, and the feeling never quite goes away, even when they progressively become drowned in distortions and interferences. Ghostly voices can also occasionally be heard piercing through the gloom of 'Chapter 3: Doppleganger Presence', but it is the more obvious stabs of unidentified noises peppered through the whole piece, which could be everything and anything from rewinding tapes or amplified bat calls to failing computers or paranormal manifestations, which never cease to captivate and intrigue. The heavy atmosphere weighting down on the whole album rarely lifts up for long as Petit and Riparbelli submit their audience to a particularly chilling sonic assault” (Review from The Milk Factory ). Released in 2010. Boring Machines, Italy. £8.00
JASON KAHN/RICHARD FRANCIS eponymous CD
Collaborative disc. “First two tracks recorded live at Gus Fisher Gallery, Oakland on 22nd September 2007, third one - on 17th June 2008 at Werkstatt für Improvisierte Musik, Zürich, and the last one - at Le 102, Grenoble, on 19th June 2008.” Abstract works comprising Khan on computer and electronics and Francis on analogue synth and percussion. Monochrome Vision. £6.50
KINIT HER Glyms Or Beame of Radical Truthes CD
Following a small cluster of cassette releases (including this particular album), this represents Kinit Her’s debut CD, from 2009. Twelve cuts of constantly shifting ethereal psychedelia. Packaged, like all of this label’s releases, in fantastic printed card slipcase cover. Hinterzimmer, Switzerland. £8.00
DENIS KOLOKOL Proud To Be Loud CD
Debut album by this Ukrainian artist now residing in Krakow, Poland, whose work arrives from electro-acoustic exploration and improvisation yet aims for the academic approach of certain modern composers. Very nice album, though, full of movement, depth and the fine art of surprise, with enough electronic noise and crackle sewn into it to keep those of us interested in such things perfectly satisfied. Released in 2010 in a 7” type sleeve on Mathka, Poland. £8.00
KSHATRIY Slepok Soznaniya CD “The project Kshatriy appeared on the Russian post-industrial scene in 2004 and has so far participated in several compilations, as well as released some solo and collaboration recordings on limited edition CDRs. Zhelezobeton sublabel Muzyka Voln presents the project’s first ‘professional’ CD, "Slepok Sonzaniya" (which translates as “a mould of consciousness”). This work is based on the concept of consciousness of a warrior, a galactic warrior of light, bringing to world pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, a moment of power and might, a flight of freedom, love, serenity, joy, light, unified time, eternal life, simplicity and bliss. The music of the project can be described as fractal dark drone ambient with lots of patterns, woven from various sonic fibres: synthesized drones, processed field recordings, acoustic echoes and rhythmic loops. Calm and profound, filled with resilience and hidden power, like an endless ocean of tranquility, energy and beauty.” Hand-numbered edition of 500, released in 2009. Muzyka Voln, Russia. £8.50
KSHATRIY Transforming Galaxy CD
Eight new cuts of atmospheric drones and post-industrial yammer. Released in 2012. Muzyka Voln, Russia. £8.50
MARTIN KUCHEN The Lie and the Orphanage CD
Latest album from the Swedish free jazz/improv saxophonist, whose own take on matters proffers something entirely unique. Subdued and breathy sound manipulations emanate from his instrument of choice like little else, only occasionally hinting at their source. Sometimes embellished with a pocket radio and otherwise utilising baritone, alto and tenor saxophones, these eight cuts together add up to one of the most striking genre albums for a long time. Recommended. Mathka, Poland. £8.00
BRIAN LAVELLE Supernaturalist CD
“Exclusive new output from this ambient/electronic artist from Scotland, UK. On Supernaturalist , Brian Lavelle presents 4 long brilliant compositions (70 minutes), minimal at first hearing, but with full maximum impact: bare to multi-layered drones, gentle to hallucinogating field recordings with natural elements, ambient noises and _real instruments (piano, bass…). A classic album with style, hauntingly beautiful!! Full metallised CD housed in the usual 7” folder cover, ‘pâle bleu’ (pale blue), in an edition of 300 copies only.” Released in 2008. EE Tapes, Belgium. £5.00
HANNO LEICHTMANN The African Twintower Suite LP
“October 2005: Seminal German director Christoph Schlingensief (R.I.P. 2010) shoots his latest feature film, The African Twintowers, in Lüderitz/Namibia with Irm Hermann, Klaus Beyer, Robert Stadlober, Patti Smith. Autumn 2006: Schlingensief approaches Berlin musician/composer Hanno Leichtmann (Groupshow, Static, Denseland) regarding a soundtrack for the film. There were hours and hours of raw material; the concept being a movie with few dialogues and music throughout – a 90 minute psychedelic collage; an associative visual and sonic trip. With the help of John Nijenhuis aka Sir Henry as well as a trio of musicians playing indian music (tabla, sitar, tampura), they started to improvise in Leichtmann’s recording studio projecting film sequences on a wall. Within 4 days and nights an enormous amount of tracks had been recorded and several rough mixes had been compiled. After a while though, Schlingensief decided to shift the concept. The film transformed into an art installation with 18 monitors showing sequences simultaneously (presented at the Berlinale and Steirischer Herbst), and later on, a kind of ‘Making of...’ with 90% off-comments by Christoph Schlingensief and very little music was made. Thus, The African Twintowers Suite represents a lost soundtrack; compiling the most interesting recordings, newly edited, layered, collaged, shortened and mixed between 2009 and 2010.” Dekorder, Germany. £10.00
ALAN LICHT & LOREN CONNORS Into the Night Sky CD
Into the Night Sky is the sixth album from avant guitarists Alan Licht and Loren Connors, the first after 2003's In France. Features two lengthy cuts. Released 2010. Family Vineyard, USA. £11.00
LICHT-UNG Kristall 7”
Limited edition release from 2007 by Germany’s Johannes Elbert, who dedicates himself to abstract electronics, noise and that often difficult-to-place frah found skirting around such edges. 300 only, in silkscreened sleeve and including a badge, on marbled blue vinyl. Drone Records, Germany. £3.00
LULL & BEAT CLOUD & ANDREW LILES Circadian Rhythm Disturbance Reconfigured CD
A lengthy collaborative piece by Mick Harris’ drifting electronics project and Beta Cloud, the alias of Carl Pace, plus a slightly (and some might contend typically) more disturbed remix by Andrew Liles. Released in 2012. Cold Spring. £9.00
LYDIA LUNCH & PHILIPPE PETIT Twist of Fate CD + DVD
Released in 2010 and featuring eight songs comprising Lunch on vocals, guitar and ‘sounds’ plus Petit with a wide array of electronics, turntables and various sound-making devices. Includes a DVD of them live at Cabaret Aléatoire in 2009, plus a 32 page colour booklet and DVD packaging. Monotype Records, Poland. £17.50 NB: Postage as for three CDs.
ERIC LUNDE CandyhOle CD
Latest collection of works by this prolific US artist whose work is usually to be found available via numerous CDR releases. Thirteen pieces of abstract electronics/noise/tharsh texture-based works. Released in 2010. Freak Animal, Finland. £9.00
MACHINEFABRIEK Vloed CD
Album from 2010 by the prolific Dutch artist, Rutger Zuydervelt, here furnishing us with four more lengthy atmospheric droneworks of the kind he’s made his name on under the Machinefabriek moniker. Incredible music. Cold Spring. £9.00
MACHINEFABRIEK Veldwerk CD
Recent album by this Netherlands’ based platform generally given to creating grainy atmospheric droneworks. Released in late 2011. Cold Spring. £9.00
THIERRY MADIOT Ziph MusiquePour Trompes Et Ballons CD
Four pieces spanning about an hour by the French freeform trombonist. Released in 2011. Prele, France. £8.00
MATSUTAKE Singin’ Skin CD
“Oh, how tempting for a musician a path of imitating the effect of the music that inspires him. However, the result of such activities is usually a dopey, flat, diffident epigone which stands for ‘I can also do that’ rather than for ‘This is my music!’ The others' fire can't burn you down, but simply keeps you warm. To an inattentive ear the music of Matsutake might sound a bit like ‘70s prog and kraut-rock, a bit like electronics from ‘90s with a touch of shoegaze... But something is wrong on all levels: while the details are quite bizzare (the textures are holey, the rhythms stumble upon themselves, and the dissonant stumps stick out from every second melodic passage), on a higher level this wild bush is actually very well groomed. Its seemingly unbridled, pert and uncontrolled character in fact hides a bunch of energy, which is highly confident in its development and never doubts about the direction where to make the next step. And, well, that's the thing - it is not just ‘all is possible’ approach, but is organic or - if you prefer - ecological imitation. In other words - it's not an imitation of some particular music, but taking its very essence, processing by (milled through?) author's aesthetic sensors and giving birth to a new independently functioning organism. Not a genetically modified product, but organically raised mutant claiming his own place under the sun. This kind of imitation is not an acknowledgment of creative helplessness and not a surrender to the problem of self-expression - it's rather letting the music from the past intrude naturally into creative process. But nobody kneel down before it - instead it's being honestly and saucily exploited. It's highly recommended to feel sincere curiosity and optimism towards an ecological imitation.” (Denis Kolokol) Released in 2010 in oversized, 7” type sleeve. Mathka, Poland. £8.00
DANIEL MENCHE Blood of the Land 3” CD
A short collection of field recordings spanning approx. 20 minutes by this prolific US artist. Released 2010. Ferns Recordings. £4.75
MERZBOW Graft LP
Released in 2010 and limited to 150 copies on green vinyl and with a bonus 7” only otherwise to be found available direct from the label. Cold Spring. £11.75
MERZBOW/Z’EV Spiral Right, Spiral Left CD
From 2010. Collaborative work between these two masters of their chosen fields. In nice textured card sleeve. Cold Spring. £10.00
MIRT Most 12”
Two pieces of molten electronics. Very nice. Released in 2009 and limited to 250. Nefryt, Poland. £10.00
STEVE MOORE Demo 2003 + Bonus Track LP
Restock of this limited edition LP (500 only) from 2008, comprising ten (count ‘em!) cuts of atmospheric drone-orientated shimmer ‘n’ glaze. Hlava, Germany. £11.75
MR. PETER HAYDEN Faster Than Speed CD
This six-piece operates with three guitars, bass, drums and percussions sometimes adding some vocals, sythesizers and saxophone to the mix. They travel in space and time in the spirit of forgotten ‘70s German krautrockers and doped up Deep Purple. They deliver their art honouring the forgotten ways of Finnish magic and the shamans who once had the pure knowledge of it. Almost 10 years old sextet released their first full lenght album last autumn through Winter Records and Post-RBMM. They have also played at the most appreciated doom/stoner/psychedelic clubs and festivals in Finland, including Psychotropic Caravan Festival, Amplifier Festival, Space Force One, Club Planed Caravan and they were special guest at Club Mega Therion hosted by Mat McNerney of Dodheimsgard, Code and Hexvessel. some press quotes: "...from Finland and for some reason this country has always produced excellent bands within the Progressive Rock and Space Rock genres of music. This band has to be one of the best in terms of musicianship as while its mostly mellow and ambient stuff, the elements of everything from Jazz to movie soundtrack themes are added effortlessly and without you noticing the subtle variations taking place, this is pure art of the highest order." "Where Mr. Peter Hayden really stand apart is in the construction and arrangement of their material......Its a rare thing for a debut to sound so unique" "...hell kiddies, each 33-minute epic offers such a radically different and useful Weltanshauung that you could meditate, exercise or even just bask in an All Night Orgy of cunted timelessness. What? Theyre that much on ye programme? Yup, THAT much on ye programme." (Julian Cope) Released 2011. Winter Records, Finland. £7.00
SEIJIRO MURAYAMA/MICHAEL NORTHAM Moriendo Renascor CD
Collaborations from 2003/2004, comprising field recordings, electronics and text inspired by Lionel Marchetti. Released in 2009. Xing Wu, Malaysia. £7.00
MARIAE NASCENTI Raise Your Paw to the Sky and Break the Truce CD
“Second Mariae Nascenti 's long awaited full length album on Final Muzik is out, _and we're proud of it! Produced by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen), Raise... is without any doubt the best ever recorded work of Mariae Nascenti: pain, loneliness, immagination, dreams, blood, souls and flesh collide together in this emotional wonderful album. You can file it under (some) Coil or Current 93 early recordings, or it could remind you a few NWW song-oriented chapters. That's ok... but Raise... develops though vital energy a devastating tabula rasa of feelings, through another-dimension melodies, ‘found’ songs, silences, sudden spoken texts, obscure nightmare soundtracks and cold nocturnal music for black'n'white memories. Limited edition of 1.200 copies, digipak, including video-track and mini-booklet. Featuring musicians from Larsen, Northgate, Blind Cave Salamander, Femina Faber / Ludmila, DsorDNE, and many, many other artists and Ango's friends…” Released in 2007. FinalMuzik, Italy. £6.00
FREDERIC NOGRAY Nelki CD
“Frédéric Nogray diverts his rock crystal crucibles from their usual function in the silicon industry to generate an ample and tactile music, a music that succeeds as much in making the listener's intellect wander as it does in moving the material itself. Although entirely acoustic, this music is powerful, the different-sized bowls being generators of distinct waves operating in the range of frequencies from infra- to ultrasonic. Because of their superimposition and the acoustics of the space they are in, chimeras or interferences are born. A musical event partaking simultaneously in the creation of perception and corporal experience. Recorded by Eric Cordier, Décembre 2007 in churches Normandy, France.” Released 2008. Prele Records, France. £8.00
NUMINOUS EYE Live/Studio LP
The debut by this US/Japan team-up comprising Mason Jones (Trance, SubArachnoid Space), Koji Shimura (High Rise, Acid Mother’s Temple), Chris Van Huffle (SubArachnoid Space, Gay Barbarians) and Hiroshi Higo (Friction). One side of live material recorded in Tokyo, plus one of studio. Duo/trio work comprising bass, guitar and drums in full-on psychedelic onslaught mode. From 2007. Little Mafia, USA. £8.00
CHRISTINE ODLUND Phenomena CD
Seven cuts form this album from 2008 by this Swedish artist, here given to ‘morphic explorations through electronic music swathed in deep atmospherics and touches of musique concrete. In Digipak with 12 page booklet. iDEAL Recordings, Sweden. £9.00
ONOMATOPOEIA Irrelevant LP
New album from the long-running project of Steve Fricker’s, although it only actually a reissue of a cassette that originally appeared in 1997 on the Perverse Series imprint. “Irrelevant started life in 1997 as a cassette that ran to 70 copies. The 7.17 From West Wittering Is Late Again have reissued it on vinyl and in doing so have done us a great service. Utilising a single instrument for each track Onomatopoeia create sounds that range from the almost Industrial to pure experimentation. On 'Corduroy Croquette Clap-Clinic Cull' a single cymbal is hit repeatedly, little rhythms building and dying away. 'Blennorrhoea' [utilising one Piccolo] creates a ghostly ambience, 'Cellophane Cucumber Clamjamphire' [utilising one hunting horn] is equally funereal. You get the picture. Horns cymbals, piccolos, a bass guitar and a zambomba [an African drum] all taken in some way to create sounds that become removed from the original instrument. There must be some treatments or multi tracking going on tho I’m no expert, with maybe the cymbal track coming though as the purest [and harshest] of the lot and 'Bland Basingstoke' [utilising the zambomba] being mangled in such a way as to sound like a looped Con-Dom fill. My only slight criticism of the whole enterprise are the latter parts of the almost side long 'Chafed Cervix Coleslaw Cum Chutney Cesspit' [utilising bass guitar] in the latter parts of which the bass guitar becomes too obviously apparent. In a track that begins with some fine two phase oscillating fizz it peters out into random bass farts that end up sounding like a poor mans Sonic Youth solo. But let us not depart Onomatopoeia waters on such a low note because for us Onomatopoeia fans any appearance is to be warmly welcomed. I for one hope that some equally benevolent soul takes up the task of reissuing those other obscure Onomatopoeia releases but for now I’m more than happy with this.” (Idwal Fisher). Released in a numbered edition of 300 in 2010. The 7.17 From West Wittering Is Late Again. £13.50
JAMES O’SULLIVAN Feed Back Couple CD
Abstract, textural and even sometimes percussive guitar-based works from this songwriter with leanings towards improvisation. Released 2011. Forwind. £9.00
THE OVAL LANGUAGE Tapes, Singles and Remixes CD
“This first CD album presents the old tracks restored from tapes, as well as exclusive remixes made by Guido Hübner (Das Synthetische Mischgewebe). It's a wonderful excursion into the world of underground noise music which is sometimes extreme but always interesting and unpredictable. Thi is a very special appearance in our personal music research, and is a real discovery for all the fans of the experimental music genre.” Released 2010. Monochrome Vision, Russia. £8.50
DAVE PHILLIPS ? CD
“Assembled between April and June 2009 as part of a therapeutic process during a period dominated by severe disturbances of loss, mental abysses and despair, ? is the new gospel from Swiss experimentalist Dave Phillips, co-founder of grindcore legend Fear of God, a member of the sense perplexing Schimpfluch-Gruppe and the pulverizing force behind the Rudimentary Peni one-man-doom-drone worship act Dead Peni, among numerous other projects. __? offers a 79 minutes album of field recordings oriented compositions that feature murky cello, piano and accordion parts, nocturnal voices, a vast array of concrete snippets and more resonances of existences that give Albert Ayler's "Music is the healing force of the universe" new depths and meanings. ? sees Phillips observing and carefully dissecting his human psyche into ten intimate and innovative music pieces, confronting them with the bile and degradation of the omnipresent while deconstructing his own ravage with a binding urge to cleanse. And it's a fascinating insight to listen to.” Heart & Crossbone, Israel. £7.00
ROBERT PIOTROWICZ Rurokura and Eastern European Folk Music Research Volume 2 7”
Ultra-limited pressing of this single by Poland’s Robert Piotrtowicz, here treating us to three cuts that, respectively, take up the ‘Wedding’ and ‘Funeral’ side via some supposed recordings of a Greek Catholic School Boy Choir, the Molomotki Ocarina Orchestra and a School Girl Band subsequently hammered way beyond all recognition. Occasionally rhythmic, wound like tightly coiled metallic tubes and definitely and defiantly ‘out there’ in the best possible sense, this little pearl is one to cherish. Released in 2009. Bocian, Poland. £4.00
PSEUDOCODE Europa CD
Reissue of this electronic Belgian group’s album from 1980, minus one song and including both a different version of another and several extra tracks otherwise once released as two EPs. “The Belgian label EE Tapes has mainly used us to dive into the deepest realms of experimental music, but the release of Pseudocode can be considered as an exception to the rule! Pseudocode is a Belgian combo that was active between 1979 and 1982. To be honest with you, I never heard from this band before, but back in time distribution and promotion was hard to find while internet facilities didn't even exist. Europa is a kind of anthology bringing the Europa LP and 2 EP's back to life as a full length CD featuring 19 songs. The songs smell like the good-old spirit of the early 80s electronic experiments. It's easily recognizable and most of the songs still make sense! The debut cuts ‘She's Got Blue Eyes Wow’ and ‘Addis Abeba’ will for sure evoke some good-old memories. Today we would call it minimalist electronics, but back in time this band was active at the same time as famous pioneers like Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, etc.. I even perceived a few songs (cf. 'Sub-Rosa - The Last Hole', 'Far Away From My Own Land', ‘Suffering’ and ‘Memories’) reminding me of the more experimental style of Throbbing Gristle. Pseudocode seems to have moved in between more 'classical' electronics and experimental forms. In a more explicit electro style a song like ‘Simulation (To The Blue Eyed Boy)’ is a pretty short, but efficient song. I think it's a very good initiative of EE Tapes to bring this unknown Belgian band back to life. This album is a limited release available in 2 cover versions.” Released in 2010 and packaged in oversized single-type sleeve. Limited to 300. EE Tapes, Belgium. £7.00
RAMLEH Switch Hitter 10” Two recordings from 2004/2005 by a group most of you should be familiar with, here (of course) continuing their rock-based phase. Black Rose Recordings. £7.50
RANNISTO Surrur 7”
Two untitled cuts on this limited edition release from 2009 by Antti Rannisto, proffering the type of meaty and rhythmic electronics previously witnessed by Profan and some of the MaxErnst releases and falling somewhere near the deeper and darker end of minimal techno. 200 only. White vinyl. iDEAL Recordings, Sweden. £4.00
RAUDIVE BUNKER EXPERIMENT Falling 7”
Limited edition release, from 2009, comprising early ‘80s electronic and tape recordings by Andy Wilson (ex-Bourbonese Qualk, plus responsible for one of the Faust online forums). Two neat songs that have the waft the post-industrial cassette scene over them. Youdon’thavetocallitmusic, Germany. £3.50
RAUDIVE BUNKER EXPERIMENT eponymous 2LP
Stunning gathering of early ‘80s material by Andy Wilson (ex-Bourbonese Qualk), mostly originally released via cassettes and a compilation LP appearance under the RBE moniker. Fractured rhythms, raw tape spillage, and a sensibility wavering between abstract pop and post-industrial madness. 24 cuts in all, gatefold sleeve, and limited to 500. Released in 2009. Youdon’thaveto callitmusic, Germany. £15.00
REVENANT Topolo CD
“Revenant is an ongoing project with open membership that focuses on site-specific acoustic actions, or activiated environments. Each action is a document of a specific moment in time in a specific location. Huge pines, chestnuts, beeches, and a few oaks. A vague border. On one side a Slovenian village, on the other an Italian one, which our maps locate at the end of a cul de sac. En route for this slovenian village, on this ageless path, having begun in the village of Topolò, bags full of bits and pieces: a few biscuits, a recorder, some chocolate, several worn out old violin bows. The path becomes ever steeper and more tortuous, sometimes blocked by fallen logs, sometimes aided by stone steps barely showing. The trees try to tempt us off the path; then one or two of us give in to the call of a huge pine standing proudly to one side. With the first light touch the tree speaks: a strangled sound pierced through by a note both muffled and sharp, a pluck of another twig, a bowing of a third, a held frequency, a slight pressure on another until it breaks. Each dried branch of this sound-tree gives rise to stammers, murmurs, cries or whispers, linguistic trial… (from Olivier Feraud's text).” Released 2008. Prele Records, France. £5.00
RLW The Pleasure of Burning Down Churches CD
Four pieces of German electro-acoustic artist Ralf Wehowsky’s trademark, yet distinctive, blend of musique concrete, crackle, field recordings, scrunched-up electronics and micro signatures, this time inspired by and using material recorded during his travels in Vietnam in the ‘90s. Highly recommended. Black Rose Recordings. £8.00
RLW & TITO Mahlzeit CD
Collaborations between these two artists from 2006 to 2007, then released in 2008. Grizzled electronics, musique concrete, abstract sounds, etc. Fantastic card sleeve packaging. Hinterzimmer, Switzerland. £8.00
EUGENE S. ROBINSON + PHILIPPE PETIT The Crying of Lot 69 CD
New release comprising collaborative pieces featuring Petit providing the backdrop of electronic sounds to Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson’s spoken word musings. Very effective. Also features Rhys Chatham on trumpet on one piece. Monotype Records, Poland. £9.00
STEVE RODEN Ecstasy Shorewed Its Petals With the Full Peal of the Bells 3" CD
Fantastic sweeping and molten timbral electronic piece by the US artist, spanning almost 22 minutes. Released 2009. Ferns Recordings, France. £5.00
STEVEN SEVERIN/CODEX ASTRA Circles of Silver CDS
New release by Severin’s Codex Astra project/series, here with two very nice abstract yet atmospheric electronic pieces that see his work taking on more depth than earlier solo releases. Limited to 777 copies in nicely embossed digipak sleeves. Erototox Decodings, USA. £5.00
STEVEN SEVERIN Blood of a Poet (Le Sang D’un Poete) CD
The second release in Steven Severin’s Music for Silents series, here bringing together his score for Jean Cocteau’s surrealistic classic from 1930 and, in turn, a suitable mix of often haunting textures and tones, rhythmic swells and occasionally melodic refrains. Fantastic piece of work. Released 2010. Cold Spring. £7.00
SICKNESS/JOHN WIESE Amnesia 7”
Four collaborative electronic noise pieces by these mainstays of, well, such areas of music. Released in 2011. Freak Animal, Finland. £4.00
SKULLFLOWER Fucked Up On A Pile of Corpses CD
Album from 2011 by Matthew Bower’s longstanding drone-rock/noise/psych-metal group. Cold Spring. £9.00
SMEGMA Morass Live LP
Eleven cuts originally from 1986 and 1988 by the long-running abstract electronics/improv/noise/collage group. Released in 2009 in an edition of 300. Bimbo Tower, France. £10.50
SONNAMBLE Seven Months In E Minor CD
Seven cuts by this London –based duo who remain dedicated to the idea of manipulations of stringed instruments via homemade software. Nicely hewn soft-focus abstract electronicaa. Released in 2010. Forwind. £8.00
SONNAMBLE Blindlight CD
New album, comprising four pieces of string-led electronica/droneworks. Released in 2011. Forwind. £8.00
SUB LOAM The Ley Hunter’s Companion CD
Following a few low run CDR releases by this UK project, The Ley Hunter’s Companion is the debut album ‘proper’ and brings together two lengthy pieces of ambient electronics not so far removed from some of Jliat or Tangerine Dream’s work. Released in a numbered edition of 230, in oversized sleeve, during late 2011. Dissolving Records. £11.00
THEME Valentine (Lost) Forever CD
The third album by Richard Johnson and Stuart Carter (both of Splintered notoriety), released in late 2009 and pushing the atmospheric and organic droneworks of before into a ‘song’ context with heavier emphasis on lyrics, electronics and an often overwhelming sense of a world teetering at the point where violent dreams and claustrophobia meet. Includes exclusive Steven Severin remix. HCB Recordings, Israel. £8.00
ASMUS TIETCHENS Eine Menge Papier CD
Collection of tracks previously available on now mostly hard-to-find singles and the like by the prolific German electronic artist. Released in 2009 in an edition of 500. Auf Abwegen, Germany. £5.00
TROUM Autopoiesis//Nahtscato CD
Remastered collection of long o/p LP and 12” by the German duo given to often melancholic and sombre dronescapes. Includes two previously unreleased tracks, too. Released in 2010. Zoharum, Poland. £7.00
TROUM Seeing-Ear Gods CD
One piece spanning almost an hour, originally recorded for a US radio show’s broadcast in 2001. Usual fantastic cover/presentation for this label, too. Released in 2011. Zoharum, Poland. £8.00
ULAN BATOR Tohu-Bohu CD
The ninth album from this French/Italian avant-rock trio, here returning to their earlier sound of punchy yet angular rhythms blended with melodic guitars, noise, piano, trumpet and all manner of different instrumentation. Features James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, ex-The Bad Seeds) and Terry Edwards. Released 2010 on founder Amaury Cambuzat’s own imprint. Acid Cobra Records. £9.00
UNBORN UNICORN eponymous LP
Project from 2007 by Aaron Coyes (a.k.a. Face Plant) of Rahdunes and Peaking Lights, comprising eight cuts of lo-fi textural drone rock. Packaged in recycled classical LP sleeves and doubtlessly limited. Heard Worse Records, Australia. £12.00
UTON Straight Edge XXS LP
"Straight Edge XXS is the 2nd vinyl album by Finland's Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on the Dekorder label. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself. While Uton’s last Dekorder album, Alitaju Ylimina, (and most of his other recorded works respectively) are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely diffferent affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. Or is it World Music from an unknown planet recorded by those Sublime Frequencies guys from mysterious short wave transmissions? Well, it is all that and more. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting. One of the purest forms of music you could imagine; while all the familiar Uton elements remain evident in a hazy backcloth. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) is released on LP by Dekorder simultaneously.” Released in 2008. Dekorder, Germany. £9.00
UTON Unexplained Objects LP
"Unexplained Objects is the 3rd vinyl-only LP by Finland’s Uton for the Dekorder label, like his previous Dekorder albums released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies in a beautiful full-colour heavy duty sleeve designed by Hirvonen himself. While the last albums explored rural soundworlds from the outer reaches of this planet and hidden places of the inner human (and animal) mind, he has finally left planet earth completely and is now reaching out for outer space and alien communication. Hirvonen seems to have traveled the spaceways, bringing home folk music and field recordings from faraway planets and alien cultures. Erich von Däniken beware! Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) has been released on LP by Dekorder as well.” Released in 2009. Dekorder, Germany. £10.00
V/A Ten Grand Tonearm LP
DIY-assembled compilation album, with semi-handmade sleeves utilising pasted on labels over old cover stock. Includes RLW, Castings, William de Cunting, The Vitamin B12, Arse Lunch, Mike Harwood, Pigs In the Ground and others. Music ranges from improv and electroacoustic works to the kinda fug clearly beamed from the edges of our solar system. A nice collection, and doubtlessly limited. Released 2008. Heard Worse Records, Australia. £12.00
VOLCANO THE BEAR That People Don’t Know They Are Monsters 7”
Restock of this limited edition release from 2009 by the UK avant-garde rock group. Quasi Pop, Ukraine. £5.00
JOHN WIESE & C. SPENCER YEH Compound 7"
Limited edition collaborative release by these two prolific free improvisation/musique concrete/electroacoustic artists (who have worked together before and can be found on several other records). 300 only. Released in 2009. Von, Italy. £6.00
WOODEN VEIL eponymous CD
“Wooden Veil is a Berlin-based art group formed in 2007. Inspired by the shared hauntedness of their respective homelands, they combine elements from forgotten and misremembered traditions to create a microcosmic world which only Wooden Veil inhabits, complete with its own symbols, clothing, food and shelters. Performances, installations and videos are characterized by an expansive wardrobe of ritual dress, and the creation of shrines, relics and talismans used to create music. The group consists of artists Marcel Türkowsky (also a composer, founder of Snake Figures Arkestra, Cones, Uuhuu, collaborations with Datashock and Christoph Heemann), Hanayo (known for her solo work as a photographer and singer, collaborating with the likes of Christoph Schlingensief, Merzbow, Red Crayola, and Kai Althoff), Christopher Kline (Valkenburg Hermitage, †, Night Music, and Soft Peace), Dominik Noé (member of krautrock legends Lustfaust), and Jan Pfeiffer (Songs For Rocks, Soft Peace, Purple).” From 2009. Dekorder, Germany. £9.00
RICHARD YOUNGS Like a Neuron LP
“Richard Youngs is a prolific British musician (located in Glasgow) with an extremely diverse output. Dusted Magazine once wrote he is ‘defying strict genre classifications since the early nineties, swapping labels, styles, partners, motifs, and recording techniques as the desire has struck him. So [this] album for Dekorder might not be a surprise to anyone following his career. Still, a self-proclaimed all-electronic ‘ecstatic House record’ comes somewhat unexpected. With a line of distinctive synthesizers often used for Techno/House Music Youngs recreates the energy, euphoria and frenzy of these styles without ever trying to recreate the music note by note. The final outcome sounds like recordings made by aliens who have received transmissions about House Music but never listened to the music itself. The album reminds [one] of the sound of hallways/corridors inbetween large House parties where you can hear the music from several floors collide. While it’s an emulation, interpretation or replica of House Music, it’s still managing to evoke similar feelings even though some might find it difficult to dance to the music.” Released in 2009. Dekorder, Germany. £10.00
ANDREW ZEALLEY Themes & Variations LP
“The score to Treleaven's film on pandrogyny (starring Genesis P'Orridge and the late Lady Jaye Breyer), GOLD's cycling vortex of digital and acoustic sounds is followed by two variations on the same melodic and tonal themes: APOTHEOSIS II (an early audio sketch for GOLD), and HABITAT THEME 2 (developed for Luis Jacob's HABITAT installation at AGO). The plaintive love-pop electronics of SIGNAL, originally produced for Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay's CONSTELLATION performance piece, is newly remixed by PSBEUYS for the album. The swirling dream-scape of SILVER, the score to Treleaven's homage to John Dee (starring AA Bronson), is a seemingly endless sustain of electronics, violin and bell tones. ARENA, featuring the "beatbox" vocals of Luis Jacob, is the audio score to Joey Medaglia's video RE: FORM (BECOMING VISIBLE). An alternate version of ARENA's motifs can be heard on Zealley's exhibition soundtrack, AA Bronson School For Young Shamans. THEMES & VARIATIONS concludes with the 3-part score for LUSTRE, Treleaven's super8 tryptich starring Massimo & Pierce (Black Sun Productions). Here Zealley turns to a more classical interpretation of "themes and variations," literally voicing the score's tender melodic main theme (written for a local violin busker), through a series of pastoral string and oscillating electronic deconstructions.” Limited edition of 300, numbered and signed. Includes insert. Tourette, USA. £18.00
ZENIAL Connection Reset By Peer CD
New collection of live excerpts and remixes, plus a video, by one of Poland’s more prominent figures on the electronica circuit. A neat blend of grizzled electronics in both a contemporary and more musique concrete setting. Released in 2012. Zoharum, Poland. £8.50
Z’EV & HATI Heart of a Wolf 2CD
Two lengthy live collaborative tracks by the hypnotic Polish group and metal percussion survivor, Z’ev. Limited to 423 copies. Lavish packaging. Released in 2011. Zoharum, Poland. £11.00
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