Shards
Shards is a collection of pieces originally written for various film and TV soundtracks Tim Hecker has scored over the last half decade. These compositions were originally written for scoring projects including Infinity Pool, The North Water, Luzifer, and La Tou
Kuvio
Kuvio is one of the all time classic techno tracks.
B-side is Mika Vainio's richer original veresion of Sähkö Movie soundtrack Scene 1.
Craobh Haven
Ambient explorers SWIMS come up trumps with the debut record by London musician and visual artist Loz Keystone, and Glaswegian electronics tamperer and jazz trumpeter Christos Stylianides. "Craobh Haven" is the dreamlike product of a week's residency in a little cabin in the Scottish village of the same name. Driving around the surrounding countryside each day to gather field recordings, evenings were spent by the duo assembling their findings into tape loops. These little rotating sculptures - …
Comptoir des vanités
*300 copies limited edition* Suffocating, the hidden child of Plastik Man, Farmer’s Manual and Warp. The glitches could just as well be the disgusting sound system of the club crackling under the humidity as a rhythmic pan too well timed to be honest. From durations to sound grain, the gloves are removed. The standards are far behind, the pleasure vibrates from the ears to the lower abdomen. The listener manages to get lost on a straight line, the perfect labyrinth according to Borges, but the e…
Rain / Water
*300 copies limited edition* "rain / water" is the fourth album by Tokyo’s Kariu Kenji. Following 2021’s Sekai, which was also released by Bruit Direct Disques, rain / water is a gorgeous haze of song, a modern driftwork that’s creatively rich, and full of fleeting sensation – it’s an album that captures its artist in process, moving through ideas and sounds with a deft hand. It’s also another step in a ‘career’, of sorts, that’s been continually compelling, from the experimental prog touches of…
Endless Bullshit Vol. 2
*150 copies limited edition* This isn’t really meant to be music, it’s meant to be some kind of audio art work about music, but it just ends up being music. The Christopher Walken character in New Rose Hotel says, “Potato, potahto, government, corporation, it’s the same thing.” This audio is interested in the problem of what we do in a situation where the government corporation is the official sponsor of how we think and feel about every aspect of existence and the possible, is invested in all i…
The Island of Bouncy Memories, NigmaEnigma (2LP Bundle)
Drawing upon deep pools of meaning, woven into poetic states of abstract, electroacoustic sonority, Hundebiss returns with two stunning new LPs: “NigmaEnigma أنيجم النَجم”, the debut solo offering by the Egyptian composer, multi-instrumentalist, writer, and singer, Abdullah Miniawy, and “The Island of Bouncy Memories”, the latest offering from the Italian enigma Ciro Vitiello. Each of them is a freestanding world, rooted in deeply personal and culturally specific creative explorations, issued in…
Haunted House Party
One part surf rock, one part retro film score, one part sound effects record: This is Bradley Thomas Turner’s recipe for a perfect Halloween party soundtrack. Haunted House Party plays like a walking tour through the All Hallow’s Eve soiree of your dreams (or is it nightmares?). This record will make you feel like you’re in an episode of Scooby-Doo, but this time … the monsters are real. "The Sound Effects Department of the Bradley Thomas Turner Studio has been collecting and studying spooky sou…
Illuminescence (Extended)
BArAkA[H] is half of Troum, masters of drone music. Miniatures of the eternal yearning and shimmering nostalgia. This is the extended version of the CD-EP released by taalem in 2021 (alm 100). Everything recorded & produced by BArAkA[H] through the years 2007-2024: acoustic and electric guitars, field recordings, gusli.
"Simply closing your eyes to this music is enough to open up parallel, serene, swirling, intriguing worlds of synesthesia..."
Deep Meaning
“Deep Meaning” is the debut album by Maria Wildeis, a Cologne-based artist and expert in real-time sound design for installations. The tracks on “Deep Meaning” oscillate between club and experimental music and are characterized by a lightness unique to debut works. Particularly notable is the inventive use of synthetic, organic, and sampled vocal elements. Voices constantly morph into melodies and back; words become notes, chords turn into text. Maria’s real-time approach to composing is evident…
Nocturne / Aubade
In the delicate transition from night to dawn, a profound transformation unfolds. The quiet of the night sweeps away the emotional remnants of the previous day, unveiling a new palette of colors and perspectives with the emerging sun. The second album by Finnish electronic musician Mirror Ghost, "Nocturne / Aubade" invites listeners to reflect on the mysterious quality of this transition.
Infused with elements of ambient, dark contemporary jazz, modular synth music, and Japanese environmental m…
Mosaic
★ Japan exclusive LP ★ First press limited edition. Fennesz, who creates unique electronic sounds with guitars and computers, has released his first album in about five and a half years, "Mosaic." It is an unparalleled masterpiece with incredibly beautiful sound images constructed with incredible precision. This is Fennesz's most introspective album to date. It was written and recorded at the end of 2023 and finished in summer 2024. Fennesz opened his third new studio space in the last four year…
Towards The Melancholy Of A Future
All music by Hara Alonso (piano) and Concepción Huerta (tape recorders and electronics). This album was recorded at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm. during Autumn 2023 thanks to the support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Voice in track 2 by Heba Habib narrating a poem by Menna el kiey. Special thanks to Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola and all the technicians at EMS.
Desire And Discontent
The world became another since the release of »Decadent yet Depraved« and Belief Defect's reflection of it: now darker, political, honest - end times in Cinemascope. When the duo reunited in the studio after the 2 year fracture COVID inflicted on reality, the album that had been on pause all this time seemed insufficient against whatever life had morphed into, while humanity hid from itself. Finishing an album coherent to the present moment took prolonged studio shut-ins that proved to be as cat…
Tales Of The Dying Earth
A bizarre musical creature called Scrying Glass appeared a few years ago on the radar of the weird music fans, leaving us speechless: in Scrying Glass' music, there is the whole history of the most oblique and (today) neglected pop-rock music: a bit of classic progressive sound by Yes, Gentle Giant and Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, a bit of the 70s sci-fi aesthetics so dear to Tangerine Dream, Eloy and Hawkwind and a bit of jazz-fusion easy listening to give an unfashionable elegance touch. All are …
Dichte
This is the recording corresponding to a radio broadcast produced for the program Perspective contemporaine (France Culture) on April 17, 2007. In it could be heard “Dichte”, an extensive sound poem that the author Charles Pennequin created with the musicians Jean-François Pauvros (electric guitar) and Yvan Etienne (electronics). A sound poem made up of several poems that are, to a large extent, love poems. Pennequin said them in French. His vocal realization, effusive, repetitive, and even tran…
Berlin + Brooklyn
Schizo-improvisations by Swiss artist Joke Lanz (turntables and electronics) and American vocalist and composer Shelley Hirsch (vocals). Recorded 1 July 2011 in Berlin / 25 September 2011 NY
Tonal - Nagual
Joke Lanz and Christian Wolfarth are two of the most interesting and extreme Swiss improvisers. They combine ritual reductionism with anarchistic playfulness, atmospheric soundscapes with cut-up noise and physicalness with unpredictability. Physical and electro-acoustic experiments are the flesh and bone of Tell. They break the boundaries between Improv, Experimental and Noise.
Joke Lanz - turntables, electronics // Christian Wolfarth - percussion
Our Circadian EP
Grand River and Sofie Birch are set to unveil their collaborative EP, titled "Our Circadian," through Melantónia.
Variierende Töne Vol.I
*2025 stock. 200 copies limited edition* 'Variierende Töne' series by Melantónia's collaborators.
Produced and mixed by Lindsey Wang, Mattia Onori, Andrea Cossu, Simone Giovannetti, Natasha Giordano, Filip Sijanec and Camilla Pisani.
Mastered at Dadub Mastering, Berlin
Photograph and visual design by Pablo Diserens.