Time Profiles
2018 release ** "INERT/E is Lars Åkerlund (electronics) and Kasper T. Toeplitz (bass and electronics). After years of navigating in similar musical idioms - somewhere between noise, contemporary or “experimental” music – using traditional instruments…
Viral Shedding
Originally released on Illuminated Records in 1983, "Viral Shedding" is surely one of the most important references for the industrial/funk dance music. Between pure noise and electronic beats, 'Viral Shedding' creates a twisted and percussive rhythm…
Songs of Love and Revolution
"Songs of Love and Revolution" was a big step forward for Nocturnal Emissions, having a full colour cover and turning their sound further towards electronic pop music. Classics such as "No Sacrifice" and "Never Give Up" have made this an essential al…
Isis and Thoth
Body Without Organs were a duo from New York City consisting of Richard Behrens (lyrics, vocals, guitar) and Carl Howard (electronics, effects) formed in 1982. The pair brought together skill and ideas from such diverse areas as writing, poetry, cere…
Fall of Saigon
An ephemeral trio formed at the very beginning of the '80s, Fall of Saigon take a special place within French rock. A voice (Florence Berthon), an organ (Pascal Comelade) and a guitar (Thierry Den), supported by a foregrounded drumbox, suffice to mai…
Music as a second language
2019 Repress. Speech melodies extracted from sources as various as language instruction recordings, hypnotists and televangelists are re-synthesized and applied to digital musical instruments, becoming eerily beautiful, "the singing of voices more an…
Oscillations
Led by Dominique Grimaud, Vidéo-Aventures is the gathering of numerous musicians hard-to-classify, such as Gilbert Artmann andr Cyril Lefebvre… They offer a music full of references and winks to Erik Satie, Captain Beefheart and The Residents. During…
In A Wild Sanctuary / Gandharva / All Good Men
A double CD collecting three classic albums from Beaver & Krause’s Warner Brothers period circa 1970-1972, featuring the celebrated Moog-friendly collaborators’ quirky mix of early electronics, found sound and musical dalliances from Blues to Soul an…
Two Forms of Contact With Objects
Anne-Françoise Jacques is a canadian composer and performer from Quebecis. She is interested in amplification, erratic devices and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. She is using low technology, trivial objects and rough …
Voice Damage
Edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. Hypnagogic raga drone electronics and mutating, distorted rhythms from L.A.-based experimental musician Byron Westbrook, yielding two compatible improvisations that have stood the test of time in his archive. RIYL…
Six Tableaux De Quelpaert
Limited edition of 200 copies in risograph covers. Jeju is a volcanic island in the East China Sea somewhere between Japan and Shanghai, south of the Korean peninsula. After a long period of being an autonomous and matriarchal society, it nowadays be…
Reference Path
Dueling four-tracker rough music from Matteo Castro (Second Sleep label, Mercury Hall, Lettera 22) and Giovanni Donadini (Ottaven, Canedicoda). Tape loops, field recordings, dub echoes, damaged beats and downgraded tempos creating two short, minimal …
The Honey Dodger
Australian artist/author/designer/musician Matthew Revert weaves something of a hazy opera, leaving crumbs of hypnosis, rap mixtapes, portastudio songwriters, and the overall feeling of waking up several times throughout the course of a night with th…
A Method To Its Messiness
During my one month travel in Europe and UK in June 2017, I recorded snapshots of radio programs as a daily practice. Starting from Brussels to Kassel, Toulouse, Amsterdam, Brussels again, then London, Berlin, and Bordeaux... In any city I was in, I …
Electrocardiograph Of A Cathode Ray Tube
"Electrocardiograph of a Cathode Ray Tube is an audiovisual project which applies a bio-medical sensing technology to an obsolete media apparatus. For decades CRT televisions mediated our perception of the world beyond our direct experience, our imag…
Lepidópteros
Angélica Castelló (Mexico City 1972) is a recorder player, composer, improviser, sound artist, curator, teacher living in Vienna. She plays mainly the “Paetzold” which is a sub great bass recorder, along tapes and electronics. As a composer, she writ…
To The Scaffold
To The Scaffold is the new solo material from Clay Kolbinger (Math Balance Volumes, Private Anarchy) under his Termite Acropolis moniker. Decaying tape music is spread across the 6 pieces of this tape, completing a foggy wilderness.
Misopedia
Misopedia is Allen Mozek’s (Good Area, No Intention, Vitrine ) first release under his own name. Side A consists of Anatomy of Nothing, while Earthbound Editions constitutes the B side. Misopedia is a recreation and a document on tape of the strong…
Phlegma
In November 2016 while working on new material, Kostas Kefalianos recorded several ideas on tape between Kos & Athens. Almost a month later, all this recorded material had been rearranged and mixed by Panos Alexiadis who filtered and captured some of…
Terraen
Sandra Boss is a composer and sound artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark & a member of the artist collective Vontrapp. Her new album “TERRÆN”, is a collection of two sound pieces that explore the malfunctioning lo-fi material of obsolete tapes & antiq…