Birchville Cat Motel & Yellow Swans
Yellow Swans & Birchville Cat Motel is the first collaboration between these two underground phenomenons. Both groups have amassed sturdy back catalogs and a great deal of critical acclaim. This collaboration was recorded entirely in New Zealand both live and in the studio.
Tarantismo Summit Vol. 1
Featuring SMEGMA, KK RAMPAGE, GHOST MOTH and INSECT JOY. Rooted derogatively in the spirit of Nonesuch Records' pioneering steps into the foray of primitive avant garde in the early 1960s, Tarantismo Summit ushers in a new age of reclamation of the broken and damaged arts, coercing the music enthusiasts of the present day to expand their horizons and explore new territories, still unfamiliar, yet unwavering. Limited 400 copies.
Radio Phnom Penh
2005 release, repressed! Cambodia's people, economy, and culture have been 're-mixed' perhaps more than any place on earth for the past 50 years. The name was even changed to Kampuchea and then back again to Cambodia. So it almost seems natural that modern Cambodian record companies have been re-mixing the old classic pop and rock tracks from the pre-Khmer Rouge era, overdubbing drum tracks, and sometimes all instruments leaving only the original vocal in tact. These re-mixes, designed to hold t…
Like A Frog In Winter
In 2004 while residing in Providence, Dominic Fernow of Prurient and Hospital began compiling Like A Frog in Winter, in response to his perceptions that noise had become rather hi-fi, technological, and cold--entertainment rather than entertaining, something clean, something stimulating. Fernow's choices represent a more psychological, minimal, dismal, and rejected feeling, and calls for a return to the fetishistic and erotic attitude of noise--and a negative one at that. Participating criminals…
Acoustic Counterpoint
As a collection, these pieces reflect some trends for guitar music in the 80's -- a freedom from the influence of the Spanish tradition; individual and disparate languages of composition; the blurring of stylistic divisions; and the increased incorporation of the guitar in chamber music settings. These five pieces incorporate, in turn, a painting, a Central African horn theme (Reich's "Electric Counterpoint" -- recorded here in its first entirely acoustic rendition), an abstract form, the noctur…
Chaos 1978-86
First-time ever reissue of rare evil psycho machine-funk from '80s Washington, D.C., including previously-unreleased mixes. Now is not the time to doubt your senses -- the Wicked Witch does exist. Born and raised in the musical magical cauldron of Washington D.C., Wicked Witch combines elements from alchemical mentors Parliament Funkadelic, Sun Ra, ESG, Run DMC, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix to cast a crazed spell on the innocent listener. An evil mass of machine-funk with lashings of rhythm and …
A snare is a bell
This is the first in a series of solo percussion LPs on Ultra Eczema titled STS. A meditative psychedelic experience is what I would like to call this, though I realize I make it sound like a silly zen blowout, and that's not what it feels like at all! When I first saw it live in a giant church in Mechelen, Belgium, I was yelling 'this is the best show of the year.' I thought there wouldn't be an end to it and didn't even feel a build-up to a more tense sound or a drone. There was a difference i…
De Nagalm Op De Kopf
Excellent compilation put together by Dennis Tyfus and featuring a bunch of material that was supposed to come out on the label over the past few years, with tracks from Noise Nomads, Krystal Knight (aka Jessica Rylan/Can’t), Hacky Pack Zac Sac, Mudboy, Cement Future, Happy Mother’s Day I Can’t Read, Cards On My Cunt, Prurient, Ex Members Of Josh Hydeman, Cloaca & Vom Grill, XO4, Burning Star Core, Kites, Defneg, Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof, Trashbusters, Anthro Rex, Eris Boros, Bloated Ego And T…
Glistening Inn
Very very excited to announce the first LP in 10 years by Massachusetts based Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase!! Pretty much nine years it took to make this album, I cannot say I know a lot of people that have the patience to work on one thing that long, maybe I am mistaking hyper neurotic action with patience here though. Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase is the moniker of Chris Cooper, a multi instrumentalist, cat and moustache toucher, neologist and member/guitarist or ex member/guitarist of bands such as Deerh…
Solo Cello no. 1 For Charles Curtis
Composed By Ilya Monosov For the Fluxus 40th Anniversary Exhibit. Recorded & Mixed by Preston Swirnoff at The Habitat in San Diego, CA w/ assistance from Roy Silverstein. All sound recorded live in one take w/ no multitracking or layering of any kind. LIMITED TO 500.
Holy Letters
Recorded in 1989 and 1990, Hiroyuki Usui's barely circulated masterpiece of deeply felt self-expression beautifully captures the spirit and substance of a half-dozen key sub-underground pillars of sound. Working with guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, digeridoo, and more, Usui blends delicate folk, psychedelia, and experimental sounds into a mostly subdued but undeniably glowing suite. The layered but careful instrumentation on the epic title track and "Troll…
Camoufleur
This is the latest upgrade of the thing known as Gastr del Sol. And it's also their most musical album. Sometimes it's like an overstuffed musical armchair -- quite comfy, even when lumpy. The contribution of Markus Popp, whose style of digital scratching has made Oval an experimental household name, adds to the density and often provides an echo of Gastr past while the rest of Camoufleur paints the future.
10 Quartet
Four performances of Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram's iO String Quartet playing their compositions for string quartet & tape live in London, Brussels and Paris. Iancu Dumitrescu: 'Spectrum (VI¡' (2006) for string quartet. Live performance in London, Conway Hall, 22.11.2008. 'Perspective au movemur' (1975) for string quartet. Live performance in Brussels, 16.11.2008. Ana-Maria Avram: 'Nouvelle axe (V)' (2007) for string quartet. Live performance in London, Conway Hall, 22.11.2008. 'Ikarus' (1…
Flame desastre
French pionner experimental rock band (trio) founded in the early 90's, Sister Iodine (Lionel Fernandez, Erik Minkkinen, Nicolas Sakamoto-Mazet) made themselves known with 2 albums recorded on the R.I.P French Label Semantic; ADN 115 (1994) & Pause (1997), collision between the savage energy of No Wave, the game of collage tapes and exploration of their instruments inspired by concrete music, their primitive love of Noise, and and a primal free rock approcach. From 1992 to 97 they did some outst…
Al voltant d'un para.lel
Ferran Fages: electric guitar. Recorded live by Pablo Rega, january 19th 2007 at Almazen, Barcelona. Some tracks are versions or new approaches of pieces released before in the album 'a cavall entre dos cavalls'. 'Al voltant d«un paral.lel ' brings to light a tension, which matches that of the previous two guitar albums of Ferran Fages. It's probably because a parallel could also be thought of as the lanes of a horse race, as a permanent conflict, or as a trait of one's character that never disa…
Strings Of Consciousness & Angel
This is a collaboration between Angel (containing members of Mum and Pan Sonic) and Strings Of Consciousness. This dense and droney construction echoes platinum reflections with warm fluidity and delicate detail. The more attention you'll bestow on that record, the more unsuspected new paths you'll be invited to wander about. This is an intricacte and imaginative soundtrack with several layers of sound, gathering both organic and sonic elements to assemble a post-industrial sound structure. The …
The Death Of Patience
First true full-length solo effort from Eva Aguila, aka Kevin Shields. The pieces on this release focus on various combinations of function generator, omni-chord, and a homemade mechanical device. Sheer cliffs of feedback ice, throbbing and grinding gear distortions, and angelic digital bursts slowly cancel each other out creating additives that are neither impatient nor dead. Here Eva shows how much her sound has developed through extensive touring of both the US and Europe, with recordings mad…
Les mailles
The duo of Dean King and Tomas Phillips came together in 2000 with the mere intention of exploring a shared aesthetic. Their aim was the achievement of a balance between digital and non-digital sound and a functional recognition of their differences in terms of utility and signification. Whilst computer technology remains central to their work, they make an effort to locate composition within a space of physicality. Hence the use of acoustic instrumentation and field recordings gathered on the p…
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Robert Millis: a Climax Golden Twin, a collector '78s resulting in the impeccable Victrola Favorites book & compilation, purveyor of searing avant-scum-noise-rock in AFCGT, a world traveler in search of esoterica for Sublime Frequencies... Despite his many activities, Millis' recorded output has almost entirely been by way of collaboration, making this gem of a solo album all the more special. This is closer related to the collage work that Millis has contributed to the Climax Golden Twins, brid…
Helix
Composed between November 2006 and June 2007 by Jos Smolders (Tilburg, The Netherlands), Christopher McFall (Kansas City, USA), and Sascha Neudeck (Vienna, Austria). The composers have never met in person; all the material for this release was exchanged digitally. Mastered at EARLabs, Tilburg, 2008. The first collaboration was between Jos and Christopher. Sascha joined the project a while later. The initial material (two compositions) was prepared by each participant and then exchanged via a web…