侍栽培二
The second release on Samurai Music sub label Saibai welcomes Italian sound-world-builder Pianeti Sintetici for a richly rendered foray into dynamic electronica that moves like a set of vibrant ecosystems.
Davide Perrone has developed his Pianeti Sintetici ('synthetic planets') alias to explore the idea of creating imaginary worlds through teeming, densely layered arrangements of modulating synthesis. He's previously delivered spellbinding albums and EPs to respected labels like Astral Industrie…
Cosmetics For Mannequins
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Daniele Ciullini dissects contemporary society's plastic facades with Cosmetics For Mannequins, eight tracks of manipulated field recordings, toy instruments, and automatic voices that expose the mechanization of human interaction. Recorded at home in 2020 and reworked in 2023, the album reads like a dystopian manual for modern existence.
Titles like "Work Addicted (No Personal Life)" and "Mass Loneliness" reveal Ciullini's sardonic perspective on digital…
Dum Spiro
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* "While I breathe" - the Latin title encapsulates Tam Quam Tabula Rasa's existential approach to sound creation in this eleven-track journey through sonic isolation tanks. The project, active since 1987 and born in Rapallo from the minds of Luca Ferrarini, Marco Berisso, Paolo Gentiluomo, and Roberto Soprani, continues to explore the boundaries between consciousness and void with artwork by Massimiliano Bellini.
The compositions unfold like sensory depriva…
Wenn Die Engel Sterben
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Celebrating their 100th release, Luce Sia presents Wenn die Engel Sterben ("When the Angels Die"), an ambitious compilation gathering fifteen tracks from the label's extended family of experimental artists. This milestone release serves as both a retrospective and a statement of intent, showcasing the diversity and depth of the contemporary experimental underground.
The collection features exclusive contributions from label stalwarts and new discoveries, …
Disassembled Elements
*2025 stock. 300 copies limited edition* Elena and Massimo's meeting took remotely place in hidden areas around Luce Sia label. Elena also deals with graphics for music, and both Elena and Massimo have seen their musical projects released by the Swiss label.
Mutual artistic respect led to a personal approach and the consequent intention to venture into a musical collaboration. The result of this adventure is a handful of songs for bass, objects, electronics and voice, with an ambient, drone, ind…
Concinnitas
*2025 stock. 200 copies limited edition* Concinnitas marks another chapter in Tam Quam Tabula Rasa's exploration of minimalist drone and dark ambient territories. The project, whose Latin name translates to "as blank as a slate," continues its philosophical investigation into sonic emptiness and fullness, creating compositions that oscillate between meditative stillness and overwhelming density.
Building on the foundation established in their previous Luce Sia release Dum Spiro, this work demons…
The Black Cat Sessions
*70 copies limited edition* A summit meeting between two entities of Italian sound experimentation materializes in The Black Cat Sessions, a release marking an unprecedented collaboration in the Luce Sia catalog. Sokushinbutsu Project, the duo formed by Massimo Mascheroni (ODRZ) and Enrico Ponzoni, brings their esoteric ambient/post-industrial research into unexplored territories through dialogue with Enkil, an enigmatic figure from the underground electronic scene who has already demonstrated v…
Pàthei Màthos
*200 copies limited edition* Experimental sound architects Tam Quam Tabula Rasa and Illusion Of Safety join forces for Pàthei Màthos, a boundary-shattering collaborative album that transforms raw noise into profound revelation. Drawing from the ancient Greek maxim "learning through suffering," this release confronts the listener with immersive soundscapes of tension, release, and hard-won insight.
Tam Quam Tabula Rasa, known for their tabula rasa-inspired deconstructions of ambient and industria…
Issue 132 (Magazine + 7", Yellow)
Electronic Sound closes 2025 with an essential cover story celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity – the Düsseldorf pioneers' first fully electronic album and arguably the darkest, most complex work in their legendary 1974-1981 run.
This in-depth feature draws on exclusive interviews with former members Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flür, alongside Emil Schult, co-writer of seven tracks on the album. Rare radio archive material featuring both Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider c…
Electric Voyeur / Moonlight, Again
*300 copies limited edition* Big Blood, the intrepid voyagers into the outer reaches of hallucinatory noise-rock and eclectic freakadelia opt for a new path along the circuit board of creativity. Electric Voyeur was made by applying strict limitations using home-made electronic instruments and voice alone. The result is an album that is as trippy as it is devotional in its exquisite craftsmanship. The glorious scent of solder and silicon wafts all over this music. Crafted over the course of ten …
Never Say When
Broken Flag was never only a noise label. Never Say When, the compilation Gary Mundy assembled in 1987 as the imprint neared its end, is the evidence: ten tracks mapping a network that ran from Croydon to Udine, almost none of them behaving the way the label's reputation would predict.
Mundy founded Broken Flag in 1982, out of a bedroom in South London, alongside his own project Ramleh. Across the decade it issued early work by The New Blockaders, Consumer Electronics, Skullflower, Maurizio Bian…
Oblivion
*150 copies limited edition* A surprise album by bvdub and zakè. No album description. No songs available to listen to. Must buy blindly.
Home
“rat” is an electronic project born from the gutters of Brussels in 2024 by long-standing collaborators “neither” and “Milius.” After 15 years of hidden experiments they have been assembling a sonic language where glitch, ritualised circuitry and spectral noise merge. Their debut release "home" (Futura Resistenza) unfolds as a labyrinth of disjointed rhythms, haunted textures and fleeting moments that feel slightly out of time. Very little is known. All you can do is listen.
Mechanics & Music (2CD)
"The Italian post-industrial scene has certainly been very rich: bands like Officine Schwartz, Rosemary's Baby, Ain Soph, Sigillum S, Atrax Morgue, T.A.C., and many others are testament to how this genre unexpectedly took root in Italy. F:A.R. came from a quiet city like Savona, yet their claustrophobic, frenzied, and obsessive music seems to originate in some hellish place dominated by disused factories with machinery that occasionally turns on itself. F:A.R. formed in the early 1980s and made …
Entités
2010 release ** Limited numbered edition of 142 copies. Special cardboard sleeve. Entities is the spectral realization of a process of transformation, or even a mutation, of a sound material stemming from recordings of tracks originally created to be played in concert. These works for voice, bass and double bass, processed with computer, were organically modified to insure their concrescence, their future, and confront them with the game of difference. After all, these entities come from everywh…
Serie03.mp3
2006 release ** A CDr-mp3 compilation in an edition of 150 copies.. Featuring: Longmo, Kenneth Kirschner, Yuzo Kako, Zimoun, Autobam, Asher, Mahmoud Refat, Pe Lang. "Serie03.mp3” (the unusually calculated follow-up to “Serie01”) offers nine leerraum originals by a wide roster of artists, some of whom are regular guests on these pages. Kenneth Kirschner’s study on silence “november 18, 2004 et al.” has even be discussed on tokafi before and it is a true gift that its magical play with single, sus…
Goal! Mundial
HDK is pleased to present a sensational new album, which will let you relive some of the most legendary moments in sport! Graham Simpson's "Goool! Mundial 1958-1994" is a journey through nearly forty years of football, punctuated by some of the most exciting tournaments of all: the World Cup. Sports stories masterfully told through the melodies of a magnificent musician HDK fans have come to love thanks to his previous albums "Mythology" and "Electrical Storm at the Micro Station." We're talking…
Dungeon Crawling Micro-Synth Music
Hello! This is the complete anthology containing all EPs published in 2024 by Gnomic Dagger. An essential tape for all fans of micro-dungeon crawling! Gnomic Dagger creates synth adventures on Hobbit-sized hardware instruments; handheld synths, micro samplers, and sounds from mini keyboards and vintage half-rack modules.
The Endless Tunnels Of Enlandin
"Several hundred years ago the Mage of Enlandin built a dungeon complex beneath his castle to protect all of his treasures and to serve as a last defense. The army of a neighboring country attacked, pounding the walls with catapults and blasting his defenses with spells.
The Mage and his faithful companions fled into the dungeon as the castle collapsed. Believing the Mage of Enlandin to be buried with his treasures, the attacking Lord ordered his men to dig through the rubble. Before they could …