Various Artists
Pop Ambient 2025
In recent years, the introductory texts for the Pop Ambient compilation series, which is released every year on Kompakt as the last release before the Christmas break, often began with the sentence "Every year again...". “Every year again”, a quiet, almost unnoticed maxim of self-evidentness. Because this is already the 25th issue to be published this year. 25 years in increasingly fast-moving times in the even faster-moving music business is an eternity that doesn't just feel like it. It is all…
A Web Of Braided Willow - The Folklore Of The Wickerman
Huge Tip! Sold-out at source. Screen printed front and reverse sleeve, 140g LP housed in black pocket + expanded A5 research booklet, contains a pressed willow leaf and D/L code. Originally released on cassette in 2023, after much demand we decided to expand the edition into a re-mastered vinyl with an expanded research booklet. Exploring eleven folkloric roots found woven within the classic film. It features various artists exploring various folkloric strands located within the cult 1973 film T…
Hold The Sound (Book)
144, printed in offset. Artist Book. Can you hold a sound? This book experiments with giving tangible form to something seemingly immaterial. Within these pages, you will find a collection of thoughts on sound gathered by artists and researchers, each attempting to grasp sound’s fleeting nature through verbal and visual expressions. What are auditories? The plural of “auditory” emphasizes that there is no one way of hearing, and that hearing is not an isolated activity. For the inaugural present…
K-E-L
*Four exclusive pieces. 100 copies made. All copies unique (vinyl colour, hand stamped, numbered). Includes a photo of Leif Elggren's Yellow & Black project (Joachim Nordwall, Porto, 2023). All copies hand assembled by LE and JN. Mastered by Nick Klein for PLEN Audio.* Alice Kemp (b. 1972) uses themes as trance, dream and disturbance in her work. Kemp is moving freely between working with sound, performance, drawing, video, object making and installations. Kemp is based in the south of England. …
The Past Is a Wound in My Heart
Death Is Not The End platforms a selection of brooding, haunting Turkish tango recordings from the decades following the foundation of the republic in the early 1920s through to the mid 1950s.
Drone Islands - Borealis
While the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is largely celebrated as a breathtaking natural wonder, it also has a more eerie, unexplained, and sinister side that has perplexed and unsettled observers for centuries. The strange, flickering lights have long been steeped in mystique, inspiring tales of supernatural forces, spirits, and even foreboding omens. In the quiet of the Arctic night, where the lights can seem to pulse with an almost otherworldly energy, it’s easy to understand why ancien…
She Makes Noise: The Album
Compilation containing tracks by women artists and non-binary people in the fields of electronic music, sound experimentation and contemporary audiovisual creation. Featuring Marina Herlop, Poison Arrow, Dis Fig, Okkre, Electric Indigo, Deena Abdelwahed, Slim Soledad, Nídia, and _deleteD
Concert Percussion For Orchestra
Rarer Italian mono pressing with different gatefold cover of Time Records LP featuring 1930's/40's seminal compostions for percussion by John Cage, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Amadeo Roldan and William Russell.
Nonclassical at 20
Nonclassical celebrate their 20th anniversary with a very special remix EP, featuring 5 artists who are new to the roster. At 20 years, Nonclassical are eager to celebrate their past while also looking to the future. By working with new, exciting and diverse talent, this release is a mission statement. Here's to the next 20 years! Also known for his dancefloor-oriented project Buttechno, Pavel Milyakov is mostly focused on sonic experiments and artistic collaborations under his birth name. Pavel…
Musik vom Nebengleis
Mega Tip! ** Incredible compilation assembled by, and including nonetheless than Brannten Schnüre. Gathering together unreleased tracks by Vox Populi! Limpe Fuchs, Läuten der Seele, Christoph Heeman and more, this is the most pleasant surprise we could get from Quirlschlängle. Still two months before Christmas, but the greatest gift is already here. ** "Nebengleis“ is one of those strange and rare German words that seem to be born both out of the dust of a bureaucratic, functional grammar and a …
With every heartbeat
A c60 compilation. One hour of new ecordings from the likes of Sewer Election, Jordmenneske, and a lot of promising new local projects. Cassette in a5 sleeve.
Drop The Beat
*2024 stock* Which significance does rhythm have for us? Focus? Means to an end? The main parameter or one parameter of many?How much time do we spend on rhythmic organisation while composing? Is our music danceable?Which sounds do we use to generate beats? How do our electronic “percussion instruments” sound? How is groove generated? Does my computer groove? Can digital groove be distinguished from analogue groove? What do our pulse grids look like? Music on the timing grid, microtiming, quant…
Thai? Dai! (The Heavier Side Of The Luk Thung Underground)
Temporary Super Offer! 2023 repress; originally released in 2011. Fourteen slabs of the heaviest Thai funk and psych rockers ever committed to vinyl. The styles featured on this compilation fall somewhere between luk thung ("song of the countryside") and luk krung ("song of the city"). Bangkok was a melting pot for the evolution of these two genres, the former alluding to musical themes and lyrics aimed at the wider national population and the latter looking westward with a more urban audience i…
Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London's East End 1920s-1950s
CD version. A vibrant soundtrack to the Cockney Jewish experience, when the swinging hot dance bands were still all the rage, and the Yiddish language was spoken on the streets of Whitechapel. Feast on long forgotten 78 rpm discs that have only recently been unearthed, starring a host of recording artists united for the first time. Hear the legendary dance band figures of the era like Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, and Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band, to the relatively unknown Jewish special…
Mind-Drone Vol. 9
A vinyl only series about the various sides of today's experimental drone-music This LP-series from Drone Records is dedicated to the Drones of the World, and the Drones of our Minds. A kind of continuation of the Drone 7"-series, now with artwork based on painting by British artist Pete Greening. Drone Music is seen as more than a mere 'music style', it expresses an approach to perceive and understand the world. Drone-Mind and Mind-Droe build a circle of diverse inter-relations. The Drone as …
European Primitive Guitar (1974-1987)
NTS presents European Primitive Guitar, a compilation of instrumental guitar compositions, mapping out European analogues of the American Primitive Guitar movement, spearheaded by John Fahey in the 1950s. European Primitive Guitar spans works directly influenced by and responding to Fahey’s approach to composition, alongside works by artists that arrived at similar conclusions independently.
The music is, at once, both starkly traditional and contemporary. This is no more evident than with the …
Harkening Critters
Forms Of Minutiae presents 'Harkening Critters', the label’s second non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions highlighting, this time, the incredible variety of animal signals.
The Pain Factory - A Public Access Tv Show 1995-1997
*2024 much needed reissue!!* For about three decades, Michael Contreras has been one of the most consistently intriguing artists in the Industrial Noise scene, beginning under the name Trucido, then as Death Squad, and most recently as MK9. Anyone who has followed his prolific output through the years has recognized Contreras’ versatile use of multi-media elements, including text, photography, performance, and video. Another major piece of his body of work was almost lost, however, nearly forgot…
Atlantic Mavericks: A Decade of Experimental Music in Portugal (82-93)
The first compilation diving deep into the Portuguese experimental scene from 80-90s on a double LP special edition. Iconic figures such as Telectu, Luís Cilia, Nuno Rebelo or Carlos Maria Trindade are featured on the compilation which comes with extensive liner notes. Unveiling an unheard scene: Glossy Mistakes presents "Atlantic Mavericks: a Decade of Experimental Music in Portugal 1982-1993" Glossy Mistakes is proud to announce the upcoming release of "Atlantic Mavericks: a Decade of Experime…
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media
Marking its first decade of activity, Blume returns with the first ever vinyl reissue of the seminal “New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media”, from 1977, the third and final instalment in a suite of releases that includes James Tenney’s “Postal Pieces” and Ben Vida’s “Vocal Trio”. Unquestionably among the most important collections of experimental music to emerge during the 20th Century, “New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media” is the original feminist presentation in its context, rele…