Electronic Diffraction Patterns
Setting aside the 70's synth LP vibe of his first album for another trip back in time to the raw electronic sounds of the 50's, Erik Ursich's new exercise in style is much less musical in nature and focusses more on the sounds themselves. Sounds of v…
I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed
Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2-disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soun…
Gas
For the first time ever, this book wolfgang voigt – gas presents the visual aspect of the comprehensive gas project. it is not meant to be a monolithic retrospective of his visual work, but it features a broad spectrum of photographic images taken be…
Fades
Catalogue: size 29 cm x 24 cm, 128 pages, 52 photos (48 stills from the movie + 4 installation views) + DVD pal, 13 min, stereo and 5.1 surround. Fades is video installation for a specifically designed environment. ultra fine sprays of mist are intro…
Plastic Star
Olaf Bender is co-founder of Raster-noton label. With Plastic star he (pre-)releases an ep of his upcoming album death of a typographer on the label. Plastic star, the title track, illustrates quite well his main concern with music. a stoical bass dr…
Rhythm
LP version. Probably Bretschneider's most direct, clear and concentrated work yet, ãRhythm' is neither pop nor avant-garde, but deals simply with the basic principles of any modern music: rhythm. A combination of programming, composition and construc…
Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966
Sub Rosa presents Pauline Oliveros' early and definitive tape and electronic music of the late fifties and sixties -- all released for the first time ever! Born in Texas in 1932, Pauline Oliveros is more than ever an important American composer. Her …
The Short Night
BJNilsen (b,1975 Sweden) is a sound and recording artist, has since the early 90’s been putting out work in various constellations. Primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and spa…
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This is Christian Fennesz' 2nd solo full album after the highly acclaimed 'Hotel Paral.lel' (Mego 16). He also released 'fenneszPLAYS', a 3" CD originally issued by Mego but now on Jim O'Rourke's new label, Moikai. Fennesz has also made various contr…
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Done by ibitsu, March 2008. Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, September 2008. Artwork by Soma, July 2008. A curious and highly fine tuned digital composition emerging from somewhere in Japan. Starting life nearly a decade ago, this piece was refined, r…
Das Platinzeitalter
Bianchi began to produce music in 1979, at the peak of the industrial scene since 1980 using electronic equipment with the avowed goal 'to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on complete realizing of the modern decadence,' but his …
Whispering Pages
Like collaborator Andrew Chalk, Vikki Jackman's compositions retain a calm thread of memory. The album's tranquil passages seep into your brain as if staring at the sun and closing your eyes tight, following the flashes into your childhood, with the …
Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution
As innovative as they are influential, Kraftwerk's contribution to the development of electronic music since their formation in 1970 remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Coldplay, Siouxsie to Radiohead, this bizarre collective …
Electronic Works 2
"Featured pieces" "Polytope de Cluny" (1972, for 8-channel tape); "Hibiki hana ma" (1969-70, for 16-channel tape); "Fer Chaud" (1957, original film soundtrack). "Mode continues its Iannis Xenakis Edition with the second volume dedicated to his electr…
Suite: Live In Liverpool
Suite: Live In Liverpool follows Philip Jeck's acclaimed collaboration with Gavin Bryars and Alter Ego on a new version of The Sinking of the Titanic. It is the companion release to his latest solo album, Sand; a set of five new compositions that hig…
The Beauty Of The Steel Skeleton / Drifting Depths
The first 200 copies of this limited vinyl-only, packaged in handmade copper colored letterpress jackets. Important Records is quite pleased to be presenting this split release consisting of two new drone works from Pauline Oliveros and Eleh. Olive…
Eye Of The Storm
The second Mirror album Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann produced together in 1999, originally released as a limited edition vinyl LP, is now available on CD for the first time. Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann think that it is a very boring idea…
Affenstunde
Every once in a while I like to post something that doesn't fit the theme of this page and give ya'all a glimpse at some of my all time favorites. The spread the gambit. From punk to... early Krautrock. Popol Vuh was the creation of Florian Fricke. I…
Riverberazioni Sonore
**Last copy in stock** "Here’s a nice mouth-watering item: a seven inch record by Enore Zaffiri (whom we all know from his fantastic LP on Die Schachtel), including two contemporary (1998) pieces and one from 1973 (which wouldn’t be out of place on t…