Kugeln / Wallerfangen
Here's the 2nd part in Dekorder's brand new series of highly limited Hybrid-Vinyl 12“ releases to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the label. It comes out simultaneously with parts 3 (Ensemble Economique) and 4 (Kemialliset Ystävät). The 1st part by Pye Corner Audio has been a massive success and sold out within two weeks (remaining copies are only available to subscribers).Future contributions will feature new & exclusive recordings by Leyland Kirby, Excepter, Sonic Boom (EAR), Bill Kouliga…
Plus or Minus Two
Plus or Minus Two compiles 4 songs from Kansas City wave pioneers Short-Term Memory’s first cassette album, Every Head Needs Cleaning, with with a song each from their last cassette release Cinema Mind, and their digital retrospective, Flub Dub and Other Love Songs. This EP focuses on the group’s prescient dance-floor DIN-sync workouts which share sensibilities with contemporaneous early Detroit experiments by Juan Atkin’s Cybotron, Ron Hardy’s visionary Kikrokos tape edit, Shoc Corridor’s exten…
Lexachast
Lexachast is an ongoing collaborative work by Amnesia Scanner, Bill Kouligas and Harm Van Dorpel’s A/V project, it arrives in album form, taking in unspooled/unravelling mixtape fragments, generative avant-EDM and cyberdrone topographies inspired by NSFW imagery and extreme banality. If you were into Haswell & Hecker’s amazing ‘Blackest Ever Black (Electroacoustic UPIC Recordings), or generally fascinated by PAN's sprawling, multi-faceted interests, this incredible album really is a kind of enc…
Circular Forms
2019 Small Repress. Ecstatic finally issue Abul Mogard's modular landscape paintings on 'Circular Forms' a suite of 4 analogue synth pieces. Unfolding through a 40 minute synthesiser suite in four parts, 'Circular Forms' is one of the most captivating examples of Mogard's deeply evocative music, drawing out a sort of direct emotional quality from his limited set-up of Farfisa organs and a self-built modular system.Abul Mogard was born in Belgrade, Serbia and spent most of his life working in a m…
Works
2019 Small Repress. Ecstatic offer a deeply arresting and definitive collection of Works by erstwhile Serbian factory worker-turned-synthesist Abul Mogard; containing selections from two cassettes released in 2012 and 2013 on Steve Moore and Anthony Paterra’s VCO Recordings, as well as a cassette only release last year on Ecstatic, never before available on vinyl. RIYL Alessandro Cortini, The Caretaker, Fennesz, Tangerine Dream, Brain Eno, Tim Hecker...Abul Mogard’s relatively unusual path to re…
Above All Dreams
2019 Small repress. Abul Mogard's first new solo album since 2015’s Circular Forms, a staggering suite of widescreen landscapes painted in self-built modular synth strokes. Hugely recommended if you're into Alessandro Cortini, early OPN, Coil, Brian Eno... Above All Dreams is Abul Mogard’s beautifully absorbing new album for Ecstatic, deploying six longform pieces for the most expansive solo release by Mogard to date. Taking into account its intangible divinity and cinematic quality - the result…
Venus Flytrap Exotica
Surprise new release on Low Jack’s much sought-after Les disques de la Bretagne series, a tropical spell from Dominick Fernow’s Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement on a lights-out dancehall voodoo tip - the first RSE release outside of Hospital Productions. Dominick Fernow (Prurient) and Low Jack untie for this latest incarnation of Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, after stumping one of 2018’s biggest surprises with their dread-filled collaboration ‘Red Ants Genesis’ On the A-side’s noxiously sw…
Negative Fascination
Clear vinyl edition of 500 copies. Silent Servant - former Tropic Of Cancer and Sandwell District producer, Juan Mendez - made his stunning album debut with the poised fusion of epic techno, primitive post punk, and industrial electronics on 'Negative Fascination' for Hospital Productions in 2012. Recorded just months after he stopped recording with Sandwell District, on Negative Fascination Mendez explored his divergent yet compatible tastes to their fullest, recognising and reconciling their …
Den Förföljdes Gryning
Individually numbered edition of 99 copies. Few copies available. Two blinding wormholers from Daniel Rozenhall on a super limited pressing bound to be sought-after by intrepid sound explorers. A close associate of Stockholm’s EMS studios and the Fylkingen venue at the heart of the city’s experimental music scene, Daniel Rozenhall has played a low-key but vital role in Sweden since his trio of albums for Firework Editions and Kning Disk, and the ‘Rozenhall’ compilation, between 2001-2009. Ten ye…
Holy Water Whisper
Limited edition of 100 copies. Fluids flood the entire audio spectrum (20 to 20k). A solid state which is simultaneously and continuously changing.All tracks produced on a Nord Modular G1. One track, one patch; no additional effects or over-dubbing.
The Royal Garden Covered in Ash
Limited edition of 200 copies Mastered by Jacques Beloeil. Music by Fabio Orsi and Brian Pyle Recorded in Taranto, Italy and Manila (CA), USAFabio Orsi is an Italian producer and photographer. Born in Naples, he cites the field recordings of American folklorist Alan Lomax as a primary influence. Brian Pyle is from Northern California. He is a founding member of Starving Weirdos and also records as Ensemble Economique.
Floating Weeds
Edition of 200. Japanese-born and London-based sound artist Ken Ikeda has previously appeared on the label’s project “Quark: How Does Invisible Sound?” (Q06). He now teams up with Rie Nakajima and Makoto Oshiro for a series of collaborations included in this CD alongside his solo opening track. The album title is borrowed from the 1959’s movie by Yasujirō Ozu called Ukikusa (Japanese word for Floating Weeds). Motors, sound objects, automated gestures, mixed materials as opposed to synthesizer-ge…
Frequencies
Edition of 200. This is the last release in the series of Nicolas Bernier’s worldwide
acclaimed and Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica awarded project
“frequencies”. The piece frequencies (a / archives) is a composition based on sounds
from the scientific archives of Rennes 1 University (France). This
impressive collection of antique scientific apparatus includes one of
the few remaining "Grand Diapason" built by Rudolph Koenig circa 1880.
The two gigantic forks of the Grand diapason can gen…
You & I Are Earth
'You & I are Earth' begins with the sound of a woman talking. She
recalls memories of being a young girl during the London Blitz fire
bombings of World War II. She speaks calmly at first, with memories of
the event slowly creeping up on her. These impressions soon become
illustrated through Vanessa Rossetto's own collage of mechanized cacophony.
Eventually, they develop into her signature Feldman-esque flowing-out of
strings.
The woman’s voice belongs to none other than Rossetto’s mother,…
Svensk sommar i stilla frid
**Edition of 300 Copies **The 7 compositions on 'Svensk Sommar I Stilla Frid' further explores the home-brewed, on-thin-ice ambient hinted at on a few recent Arv & Miljö recordings. Mainly inspired by Anna Själv Tredje and perhaps the lesser sides of Ralph Lundsten and such, this is the Gothenburgian outsider synth album no one certainly ever asked for. While at this time around being somewhat fully rooted in a proposed tradition of Swedish new age electronics, an ongoing heavy obsession with Ne…
Weapon Design
The very latest from Ramleh's Anthony Di Franco, whose long-running solo JFK project has been dedicated to the kind of concrete-mixed rhythmic pummel countless others would almost kill for since the cassette network culture of the 1980s. It's an immersive sound that, naturally, shares a little common ground with Ramleh yet emphasizes the monstrous chasms that can be drawn from a sturdy combo of bass-churn and galvanized beats. Whilst the labyrinthine textures beamed in from steelworks remain ver…
Pale Bloom
**Limited clear LP edition** Pale Bloom finds Sarah Davachi coming full circle. After abandoning the piano studies of her youth for a series of albums utilizing everything from pipe and reed organs to analog synthesizers, this prolific Los Angeles-based composer returns to her first instrument for a radiant work of quiet minimalism and poetic rumination.Recorded at Berkeley, California's famed Fantasy Studios, Pale Bloom is comprised of two delicately-arranged sides. The first – a three-part sui…
Inscrutably Obvious
A lost electronic gem of UK post punk vintage resurfaces with Kevin Harrison’s 1981 debut ‘Inscrutably Obvious’
Schleissen 1
Emotional Response's 1st Schleißen volume pairs a grand expanse of ecstatic drone by Serbian former factory worker Abul Mogard, with the pulsating, hyaline patterns of Harmonious Thelonious. Mogard's 'Dizziness That Shakes Rivers And Mountains' unfurls 18 minutes of yearning synth drone conducted with a glacial patience and romantic intent that's hard to ignore, especially if you've ever fallen for the frayed, somnambulant projections of Leyland Kirby or William Basinski. By contrast, the two H…