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…
Trahnie
Editions Mego issues the first album by duo Lucio Capece and Mika Vainio. At first glance, the two seem unlikely partners. Two standard-bearers at opposing poles of extremity, both sonically and geographically. Lucio from Argentina and rooted in the traditions of jazz and improv, while Mika, hailing from Finland, sourced in early '90s electronic and industrial scenes. However, they both share an alarming attention to detail when it comes to their audio compositions, and neither are afraid …
Yellow Swans & The Cherry Point
Live at Camp Blood, a psychic seance of toxic neon junk, collaborative retch and wrangle. The is the new sound of vomit crunk, a heaving mess of strangled feedback & black mood confusion, death grasp electronics, mangled guitar and mutilated voices congealing into an unpleasant future. Just who could have survived and what was left of them? No one, nothing. Not recommended for fans of music ! Full color artwork in jewelcase: cover by Jesse Jackson, designed by John Wiese, mastered by Pete Swanso…
Radio Silence No More
Birgit Ulher, trumpet and radio. Recorded in Ulher's apartment July - August 2007. Final Mix by Hrólfur Vagnsson. Graphic form Karin Almlöf. Produced by Olof Bright and Birgit Ulher.
Maja af Svea
Sound is an essential aspect of Maja Spasova's work, but not the only one, because she uses so many different matters. But she does not create aesthetic objects. Her art is more a way of producing relations and processes. Thomas Millroth. Maja af Svea : The Sound Art of Maja Spasova. Born 1959. Studies at The ArtAcademy in Sofia 1979-84 and guest student at The Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm 1986. CD1 with pieces from Maja Spasova. CD2 with Maja Spasova's remixes remixed by Hans Appelqvist, M…
Beyond The Valley Of The Tapes
Coproduced by Troniks and Ninth Circle Music. CD 1: Tracks 1-3 from Killer Bug self-released demo tape 1994. Track 4 from Side A of Brutal Rainbow tape originally released on Noise 1995. Tracks 5 and 6 from Cunt Explosion! EP originally released on Releasing Eskimo 1995. Tracks 7 and 8 from Your Wife Is Mine EP originally released on Self Abuse Records 1995. CD 2: Track 1 from Side A of Steaming Gash tape originally released on B B Tapes 1995. Track 2 from Side A of Vaginal Disco tape originally…
Bayt
Green Zone is led by the NY based bassist & composer Kato Hideki. The heavy and dark sounding band was named after the US military base in Bagdad and formed by the founding members of the legendary group, Ground-Zero. The music is based on the current US invasion in Iraq, the American imperialism and beyond. Their second CD, Bayt is a bold remix of their dynamic live performances from their Japan tour in March, 2006. All music composed by Kato Hideki. With Kato Hideki : electric bass, analog syn…
Archives sauvées des eaux
Luc Ferrari's composition Archives sauvées des eaux for two DJs was premiered in Japan and performed by the composer himself and Otomo Yoshihide at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo in 2003. This CD is a live recording of their first and the only performance, before the French composer passed away in 2005. The included are the intimate liner notes by Brunhild Ferrari and Otomo, and a 10 minute CD-Extra edition of live video clip slow landing, produced by studio Malaparte, as a bonus track for the initial pre…
It\'s up to us to live
Lawrence English is media artist, composer and critic based in Brisbane, Australia. It's Up To Us To Live has seen a prolonged birth. It's commencement in 2004 began around the same moments as the final touches were being put to the album Happiness Will Befall (issued originally by Cronica). In some ways these two records pair one another - they form a spiraling coil of echo location and feedback. Whereas 'Happiness...' might be considered a lush and evocatively melodic affair, It's Up To Us To …
Unstriged Guitar & Cymbals
For over a decade Alan Courtis has been producing extreme music in Argentina as a solo artist and with the now defunct Reynols. Unstriged Guitar & cymbals is no different. This is massive sound.
What We Did In The Afternoons
Terrific reissue for one the best synth band from the Down Under..."The Systematics were a band from Australia. They existed for four years, from 1978 to 1982. They released 3 records: The "Pulp Baby" 7" on the Australian label Doublethink, a 12" EP called "Rural" and a 7" EP called "Fat Cows Go Down An Eastern Beach" on the Australian label M Squared. The music of The Systematics is unique. It comes from the grey area somewhere between No Wave, Post Punk, Minimal Electronics and Pseudo Pop Musi…
Plays The Mirror Of The Apocalypse And Other Songs
CD version of a previously released limited cassette. Lengthy droning ragas, that drift hypnotically from deconstructed Appalachia to John Cale like slow-shifting skree (joined on those tracks by violin), to moody melancholy crawls, to thick serpentine swirls of snake charmer melody & reverberating steel string shimmer. Raw & lo-fi for sure, but so darkly emotional, & dreamily hypnotic.
A Nice Place To Leave
John Hegre is one half of norwegian improv duo Jazzkammer (Smalltown Supersound, Rune Grammofon) w/ Lasse Marhaug and Bergen's pop sensation Kaptein Kaliber (Telle). While he has released a massive amount of music with the latter two projects and as a member of Der Brief "A Nice Place To Leave" could be considered his solo debut (though he has released a few solo tracks on a project CD w/ Marhaug and Supersilent's Helge Sten). "A Nice Place To Leave" is music beyond improvisation, composition, g…
Black To Comm
Limited edition of 250 copies! Debut release by this new computer music artist from Hamburg, Germany. An exciting mixture of dark, slowly evolving drones, beautifully distorted melodies, obscure hard rock sampling meets raw data manipulation, digital noise and computer improvisations. A wonderful and disturbing record! On this release Black to Comm works with MP3-sampling, Photoshop composition and broken software. Clear Vinyl.
Dishoek
Just before we started to miss Guido Möbius he surprises us with “Dishoek”, his second album, recorded for Hamburg’s Dekorder label. Again featuring a conglomeration of acoustic and electrical instruments (guitar, bass, violin, cornet drums, synthesizer, clarinet among other things.) and a variety of guests, so that one hardly dares to call it a solo album. Still everything is magically held together by one single person. Melodies and noises, styles and individual characteristics, intelligence a…
Rückwärts Backwards
Black To Comm is an alias for Dekorder label owner Marc Richter's audio excursions. "Rückwärts Backwards" is his debut full-length album recorded between 2003 and 2005 in his adopted hometown Hamburg and his childhood home in the Black Forest located in the south of Germany. With a background in many musical styles (from Psychedelia to pure Computer Music) BTC's music is never easy to pin down. This album is essentially created from scratchy shellac and vinyl loops merged with ambience field rec…
Hevoset
Hevoset is the duo of two of the most enigmatic individuals of the Finnish Underground, namely Jan Anderzen and Jani Hirvonen, both hailing from Tampere. Anderzen is ringleader of a mysterious multitudinous beast known as Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal Records), a part-time member of Avarus and Islaja and records solo as Tomutonttu (Ultra Exzema, Beta-Lactam Ring Records) with a new album coming out on Dekorder this year (hopefully). Hirvonen is best-known under his Uton monicker with two LP’s on De…
Straight Edge XXS
Limited edition of 500 copies. Straight Edge XXS denotes something of a creative departure for Finnish artist Uton, who abandons scratchy lo-fi drone exercises in favour of conjuring the sounds of India in a series of short pieces that tap into the kinds of instrumentation and rhythms of the subcontinent's various sounds. It's hard to discern what's field recording and what's regular instrumentation on this record: the whole thing sounds like some anonymous archive of alien psychedelia and outsi…