1983-1988
**A true rare pearl of the Italian electronic scene, don't miss this one** Turin, late 1980s. The factory fumes of Italy’s militant industrial city are slowly giving way to a strange disenchantment. Marco Milanesio and Roberta Ongaro, who first as Novostj and then as DsorDNE were central to the city’s underground throughout the decade, take stock of the Zeitgeist in a collection tracing the arc of their early work. Released on HAX in a handful of handmade copies in 1988, the tape described itsel…
Your True Emblem
Your True Emblem is the latest offering from Vancouver’s Cyrillic Typewriter, the enigmatic mantle of Jason Zumpano, joined here with fellow Destroyer alumna Scott Morgan (Loscil) and Nic Bragg, and recent recruit Terri Upton of Frog Eyes.
Turn On, Tune In
Charming first instalment in a series of compilations exploring the ambient sound and vision of Melbourne, Australia’s Lullabies For Insomniacs radio show-turned-label: containing sweet treats in Georgia’s lilting polyrhythmic daydream, Mist ∞ Skat, and the avant-classical elegance of The Magic Carpathians’ Thalassa.
Menagerie # 3
Jake Blanchard's third volume of Menagerie finally
shows up just over a year after #2... The concept this time is slightly
different, not only do the artists create imagery based on the musicians
music, but this time the musicians also create a track based on an
image created by the artist. Two exclusive new tracks from each of these
artists: Ben Nash, Isengrind, C Joynes and Twinsistermoon.
And exclusive new artwork by Jim Stoten, Simon Fowler, Adrianne Neil
and Jake Blanchard. The sleev…
Minimal Milan
Lovely compilation selected by Xiu (Oksana Rodionova) consisting of contemporary minimal electronic and deviant-techno artists based in Milan, Italy. Here's the label's mission statement as you could say: "The musical aesthetism defended by the label admits connections with post-modern qualities and challenges conventions for an innovative musical conversation between analogue instrumentation and technologies." The label will host various types of electronic music always seen throught a dark and…
The Black Book
Epic, brilliantly curated two hour collection of new and exclusive material celebrating iDEAL Recordings' (1998-2018) 20th anniversary featuring JASSS, Stephen O’Malley, Jim O’Rourke (an epic 17 minute trance-enducer - honestly worthy of its own LP), Ectoplasm Girls, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Prurient, Puce Mary and many others...We always say this - we hate comps - they’re almost always shite - but this one’s a bit of a mindmelter, featuring 20 new and exclusive tracks commissioned by label boss…
Arthur Boto Conley's Music Workshop Presents "280913_1 / 280913_
Zweikommasieben: "Your installation Hot Knobbing at Oslo 10, Basel, explores the “live” aspect of performances. What does “live” mean to you in this age of holograms, “live streaming,” and prefabricated Ableton sets?" Thomas Baldischwyler: "The last thing I want to do is strike a blow for authenticity. I refuse to take part in this extremely petit-bourgeois mainstream ritual of getting all heated up over “fake” performances in which the Internet public scrutinizes everything down to the smalles…
Glare
Brilliant bubbling bedroom fantasy-scapes from Roe Enney with her first proper album of drum machine, bass guitar and vocal DIY pop, a shining diamond on the always-excellent Root Strata label, huge recommendation if you're into Tara Cross, Happy Meals, HTRK, The Cure, Tropic of Cancer, Cocteau Twins. "A somnambulant journey through psychedelic bedroom fantasy-scapes, Glare is Roe Enney’s first proper LP after only a few under-the-radar cassette releases on Phaserprone, Discriminate and Piero …
Jared's Lot
It's been nearly two years since we've heard new music from Gary War and we are excited to announce the release of his inevitable breakthrough 'Jared's Lot'. Through the years we have heard the developments from the D.I.Y. psychedelia of New Raytheonport to the more current electronic acid-prog tracks we heard from Horribles Parade and the most recent Police Water EP. Jared's Lot brings the years of laboring and hard work full circle, with every facet of the project dialed into perfection. These…
Police Water
Under the wickedly cryptic title of 'Police Water', Gary War delivers his latest psych-pop dazzler on Sacred Bones - also including the two tracks from his 'Reality Protest' 7". Just as everyone begins to catch up with his brilliant body of work from the last two years, he goes and switches up his sound with reinvigorated song structures, a broader tonal palette and far, far tighter rhythm programming. Don't worry, though, he's not lost the inexplicable post-apocalyptic weirdness, it's just beco…
Locations, Processed (Blue TB7 Series) LP
Chris Watson, originally the keyboard player of Cabaret Voltaire, then a sound recordist for Tyne Tees Television and founder member of The Hafler Trio, is now perhaps best known for his BAFTA-winning location recording for David Attenborough, Birdwatch, Tweet Of The Day, and range of BBC Radio programs. Here, Chris creates an all new sound journey in honor of Bob Moog via a series of his own location recordings, subtlety processed through The Moog Sound Lab's System 55. Almost a return to the p…
Hand That Heals / Hand That Bites
Arriving like the mysterious fully formed monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is the new album from Warsaw, Poland based artist Aleksandra Grünholz aka WE WILL FAIL. Despite the fact this isn't her debut (that was 2014's "Verstorung" also for Monotype Rec.), this new double barreled shotgun of an album entitled "Hand That Heals / Hand That Bites" rings with the boldest sense of arrival you could possibly imagine. With a unique sound that is neither electronic, noise nor experime…
Farewell Is A Building
Von Tesla aka Marco Giotto returns to Chevel's Enklav imprint with a new collection of glitchy, wide-eyed sonic sculptures. Hard ambient is the one way to describe these four tracks, where docile pads and airy drones collide with harsh wisps of noise and synthesized percussion. "City Lights", for example, assembles a groove out of jarring synth keys and would make a fine addition to any house or techno record being played. You'll need three decks, tough!
VII
Drone pursues new resonant frequencies with its twelfth release, a tonal, penetrating, and experimental album, Von Haze's VII. VII was recorded by laying full takes of synthesizers and guitar feedback with repetitive melodies as a nod to the tradition of ragas. Each song was written for a specific power center in the body and to engage both active and passive effects of sustained and concentrated sound.
Al-Bashariyya
'Al-Bashariyya’, the latest vessel from Vindicatrix, is an island of menacing political detritus sitting low in claret waters, drifting with intent…slate stenographers annotate proceedings without the need for an internet connection, their elongated taps and scrapes emitting coded cries for clemency…colloidal conservatives ruminate heartlessly as anchors feel hopelessly for anchorage in ‘designated zones’…both these wideband travelogues sift and navigate for answers in the desolate fug with pene…
The Chosen Themes - Program II
Recorded between 2012-2014, Jared Blum's (of GiganteSound, The Talking Book, Blanketship, Vulcanus 68, et al.) Vision Heat project is a laser guided, hyper vintage conflation of early to mid 80's centric production, montage and style. Recalling such luminaries as Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Harold Faltemeyer, Craig Safan and such lofty houses as KPM, Bruton and Parry with nods to oddballs from Russia and the Eastern Bloc, Blum still manages to be forcefully yet effortlessly unique. Inspired…
Thermal
Mario De Vega, Mexican artist living in Berlin, focuses his research on natural vibrations using the resonance frequencies of the space. Thermal is part of an ongoing project around the idea of vulnerability, the molecular excitation, receiving high frequency and amplification of electromagnetic phenomena. Mario De Vega (Mexico City, 1979) : De Vega constructs systems and situations that investigate connections between the living and the inert, exploring space and time in terms of both performan…
Echoes In The Wonderland
As the album title could say, this is a way to the "wonderland" (also called as "the other side" - many names have been used during the history of humankind), which shouldn't be mixed with the adventure's of the famous Alice - though it might give some idea about what is going to happen, but that's just the start of it all - the start of nothing else but listener's mind. What are the "echoes" then? They are something which is coming from beyond to here where we stay - so the album is a link betw…
And The Light Beams Will Guide The Way
Lullabies for Insomniacs keep their remit steeply psychedelic with a 2nd invocation of Raga drone by Unearth Noise complemented by his Dreamspeak collaboration with vocalist Mariam Zohra D, a.k.a. Myrh On the first disc Roger Berkowitz a.k.a. Unearth Noise goes dolo down a wormhole of plasmic drones and glossolalia vox echoing the worldly psychedelia of Lullabies For Insomniacs’ prior reissue of László Hortobágyi’s ‘Transreplica Meccano’, leading to exceptional highlights in the free-floating c…
Like A Packed Cupboard But Quite...
First full length, full size album by Dekorder (Matt Wand, Black To Comm, John Hegre, a.o.) and it is dedicated to Un Caddie Renversé dans l’Herbe the meta-global wunderkind from Sao Paulo, Brazil, now residing in Barcelona, Spain, that uses all these weird instruments from far away continents to find and refine subtle yet exciting tracks. At times the music sounds so tiny and little and to be cared for and at times it grows into planetary proportions by the added value of meaning and a message.