Winner Takes All (Stockholm Electronic Arts Award and emsPrize 1995-2004)
Within the scope of the festival week Stockholm New Music, Caprice Records and EMS presented a double album entitled Winner Takes All, Stockholm Electronic Arts Award & ems Prize 1995-2004. It is the winners and the Swedish honorary citations from those years, and their award-winning works are included on the two CDs. A booklet is also enclosed in the box.
The first festival for text-sound art was arranged already in 1967 by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation and Fylkingen at the Museum of Mod…
Cupar Grain Silo
'Cupar Grain Silo' is Sam Annand's first release on the Blackford Hill label. Its nine tracks blur the lines between ambient electronica and sonic history, as synthesised melodies and rhythms reverberate through the extreme acoustics of the disused Cupar Grain Silo in Scotland. Built in 1964 as a sugar store, the silo towers 60 metres above the surrounding Fife countryside. Its industrial life was short: in 1971 it was closed, and barring a short period as a grain store, remained empty for decad…
Never Say When
A limited edition CD reissue of this classic compilation album originally released by Gary Mundy's Broken Flag imprint in 1987. Remastered by Puppy38, this also features two bonus tracks not included on the LP but only previously found on the even rarer cassette, this is a timely reminder of this fantastic archive document full of artists mostly still active in one form or another.
In uno Spazio Immenso
When the world's chatter is hushed to a whisper and emptiness replaces clutter, time falls away completely, exposing a vast, open canvas for the imagination fill with reflection, contemplation and abstraction. On their first collaborative album, released via Caterina Barbieri's light-years label, Grand River and Abul Mogard gaze longingly into the abyss, capturing atemporality, splendour and tranquillity with confident, impressionistic sonic strokes. Dynamic and poignant, 'In uno spazio immenso'…
Birds Of Paradise
Celebrating the interconnected strands of head-tripping electronica she holds dear, Nadia Struiwigh arrives on Dekmantel with her fourth album of widescreen machine soul. Birds Of Paradise joins the dots between electro, techno, ambient and jungle as a reflection of the symbiotic relationship between the contrasting elements which drive all life on earth - the inescapable and chaotic forces of cause and effect. Echoing the free-spirited approach of electronic music in the mid-90s, it’s an album …
The Ghosts Of Ogilvie Station
The Phantom Monographs Echo Voices/The Ghosts Of Ogilvie Station is part of an ongoing collection of essays and observations into the nature and experience of Electronic Voice Phenomena. The collective, entitled 'The Phantom Monographs', will have future releases which will be available over time and may be assembled in a final completed monograph. - Michael Esposito and Per Svensson.
Is Peace Wild?
An album of hypnagogic nocturnes that relentlessly searches for a sense of calm in the great unknown, 'Is Peace Wild?' is German producer, drummer and visual artist Ludwig Wandinger's upcoming release on light-years. He dreamt it up while unpacking the breakdown of a long relationship, working in hotel rooms during the downtime between a series of chaotic live shows. To help empty his mind, Wandinger developed a suite of soulful reflections that prioritize harmony over rhythm and clarity over tr…
Iskra
*300 copies limited edition* Iskra is the debut album by Polish multi-instrumentalist and composer Olga Anna Markowska. Starting at “Dawn” and ending at “Dusk”, it is a journey of melancholic depth and true beauty filled with warm memories from what was & what could be.
Using zither, cello, electronics and occasional wordless voice, Olga weaves together something so affecting and under the skin beautiful that it is hard to shake, bringing to mind classics from artists like Jacaszek and William B…
Nestor's Nest
Rob Mazurek graces the Keroxen Records waves with a genre defying album of field recordings, modular electronics, trumpet harmonies and spirit call chants.
An unstoppable force his first recordings in the early 90’s Rob Mazurek has been at the forefront of experimentation and adventurous improvised music for most of the last 4 decades. The American composer, cornetist, and visual artist has been developing his own style of improvisational music with a myriad of collaborators, too many to list bu…
Ronce
Back after 2 years of unbearably unbearable silence.Underground melodies & film music.Hidden virtuosity, cumulative experimentation & narrative fluidity.
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Transmondial mysterious collective & fulgurances collaboratives.Spoken word, melodic amazement, textural ambience.High-value selection culled from a plethoric database.
Moselle Vampire
Physical version of the digital EP announced in a past episode.Still ghost. still rolling carpet. Still the calm after the storm.Still dedicated to D. & S.
Noli Me Tangere
Half of acte Bonté, originally known by the cryptic blaze NMT.Light melancholy, upside-down rave parties, synthesized vocabularies.Global digitalism & time-reversal mirrors.
L'Album Q
Melancholic dancefloor & dancing melancholy.Machines in emotive moonwalk version.The French government renamed them after one of their concerts.
I Greet You At The Beginning Though I Can’t Control Your Exit
Moth Drakula’s second release on Misanthropic Agenda finds them revisiting and refining early industrial explorations with a more mature and precise ear; utilizing cracked microphones, raw natural sounds, sparse voices, analogue synthesizers and various samplers which scrub and oscillate the source material into peals of fevered dread. The impetus and focus of this recording was based on the process of attempting to bury the psychic history of a loved one. “I Greet You At The Beginning Though I …
Waltzing The Dune
2024 stock *300 copies limited release* Backwards proudly presents the new Fabio Orsi Studio album. Recorded in the lockdown period, for this release Fabio plays two mono synths, sequencers and effects. Similar to the latest releases, this five-tracks album also maintains the electronic atmospheres to which the monophonic synths give warmth to the infinite melodic sequences. Another true gem of electronic, ambient and cosmic music from Fabio Orsi! The release is available in DL format and in a l…
Artificial Dance
The story of electronic music pioneer Kerry Leimer continues with a focus on his auteurist studio project Savant. Compiling the standalone album, 1983’s The Neo Realist (At Risk), with Savant’s debut 12″ and a grip of compilation and unreleased tracks, Artificial Dance documents Leimer’s complete collaborative venture into the unpredictable realities of music, exploring the gulf between what is expected by its creators and what is eventually – and eternally – committed to tape.Savant was designe…
Drying Up The Streets
Tip! Black Vinyl. MIA/Mass Marriage collab LP, between aggressiveness and melancholy, raw industrial and eerie melodies. Vancouver-based artist Melissa Paget offers the pinnacle of Mass Marriage's unique vision: suffocating heavy electronics, abrasive noise, and harrowing vocals that conjure up a dense, intimate atmosphere
Love Potion Number 999 (aka The Long Playlist - The Big Bubble Party)
Once is not custom, Fractal Records is celebrating an anniversary for the first time in its history, but not just any anniversary, its 30th. For this commemoration, Fractal Records presents: « Love Potion Number 999 aka the Long Playlist - The Big Bubble Party » a compilation:
- Conceptual, centered on an album cover and a song by The Clovers for the theme with the number 9 as a highlight.- Eclectic, to remain in perfect harmony with the label’s editorial line since its creation.- International,…
In Dub
Brought to life in 1976 on his small imprint Stars, In Dub is one of the most sought after Tappa Zukie album. Alongside Man Ah Warrior it is a mandatory purchase for any reggae lover more akin to the spacey reverberation of the studio facilities. With his deep, rumbling bass and the prodigious engineering of King Tubby (the album was cut at his own studio) the record still maintains his adventurous tenure. This crucial re-issue present the complete original tracklist with the addictions of two e…