New Arrivals
Voice Model
Koen Holtkamp’s music is never quite what it seems. There are distinct textures, tones, structures, relationships, and references —the things that bring us back again and again, but the undercurrent remains elusive. For listeners unaware of Holtkamp’…
Transmission in an Expanse of Firelight, Hear Me!
A linchpin of Montreal's experimental community for over two decades, Jean-Sébastien Truchy has performed with Fly Pan Am, Set Fire to Flames and Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche among countless others as well as co-running the presently defunct L…
Knock On Life's Door
There’s a particular twinkle in the great expanse of American songwriting. This has seen countless nostalgic exploitations over the years – collections of popular songs strung together under the banner of the so-called Great American Songbook that ha…
Arke Sinth
These recordings document the brief and intense life of a group formed at the beginning of the 1970s within the fertile and stimulating cultural environment of the town of Padua (Italy), where electroacoustic and computer musi…
Distress Signals I
Unreleased before early version of their stunning debut! Controlled Bleeding's founder Paul Lemos insisted that there are actually two Distress Signals recordings, one of which has never been heard and which is now released on beautiful vinyl thru To…
Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps
Gatefold sleeve. Controlled Bleeding announces its first proper studio album since 2002. Larva Lumps And Baby Bumps is a startling record: it somehow flawlessly mixes industrial noise and prog rock into a beautifully stream-of-conscious work that i…
Body Samples
After several tape-only releases in 1984, Controlled Bleeding released its first album on the then-brand new Dossier label in Germany, a label with which Controlled Bleeding would collaborate closely over the next years. Experimental, noise-laden …
Distress Signals II
Unreleased before, and quite different from the Broken Flag tape!! "Released on Gary Mundy's Broken Flag label in 1984, the first Controlled Bleeding album was Distress Signals, an almost impossible to find cassette-only album of brutal powernoise…
I Have Left You the Mountain
"This 'translation' of absence through song is called këngë kurbeti, migration song. Its drone-based polyphonic form is prominent south of the river Shkumbin—in an area that includes Vlorë and other villages from which thousands of Albanians have lef…
Wetin You Go Do?
One-sided lp commissioned by m hka - museum van hedendaagse kunst antwerpen as part of the exhibition Bruises and Lustre, 16 october 2015 - 17 january 2016.
I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die
"I'm Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die" is the 4th soundtrack from Stockholm-based visual artist Johanna Billing. The underlying 15-minute film installation is playing in Ostia, Rome, and formulates the utopia of free access to informal learning environm…
Pulheim Jam Session
This vinyl record is part of the exhibition Keeping Time, April 11 June 12, 2016 at Villa Groce, Genova, Italy curated by Ilaria Bonacossa. In cooperation with Hollybush Gardens, London, Kavi Gupta, Chicago and Laveronica Arte Contemporanea, Modica.
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Stimulus Progression
Eleven field recordings of some of the last remaining MUZAK sound-systems operating in Helsinki, Finland. Recorded in public locations, such as restaurants, malls and parking garages by local film-maker/artist Mika Taanila. These sonic snapshots – ”f…
Dracula
There is not much to say about the music composed by James Bernard for the Dracula Hammer Films. Everyone knows what we are talking about here. And this version is probably the definitive edition. The new revised artwork includes a rare picture of th…
New Feeling Come
Finally, Ectoplasm Girls's long awaited second album is here!!! The Stockholm duo of sisters Tanya and Nadine Byrne is making an unique blend of post techno, industrial and esoteric pop. This is truly honest, dreamy, dark, evoking music and the he…
Plays Sudden Infant'
Joke Lanz travels down memory lane! Two decks a mixer and a dozen of old Sudden Infant vinyls to spin, scratch, manoeuvre, loop and juggle into a narrative new composition. Recorded and mastered by Rashad Becker in Berlin, this album combines Joke …
This Bitter Earth
This is the completing release to John Duncan's masterful 'Bitter Earth' LP (iDEAL129). Here, Duncan is covering songs by Gladys Knight ('This Bitter Earth'), Pere Ubu ('Final Solution') and Jule Styne ('I Fall In Love Too Easily'). Beautiful vers…
Trouble
Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. "'Every time I hear their recordings, I'm reminded that they are one of the greatest rock bands to ever pick up a guitar and attempt to play it wrong. Listening to The Dead C causes me to think differently. It b…
Juarez
Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and visual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Widel…
The Guardian
Reissue of the 1982 LP by Chicago street musician, bluesman, actor, storyteller and truth seeker known as Little Howlin' Wolf. Wolf is also a true outsider, whose wrenching soulfulness and fire-brained intensity have been captured in a breadcrumb …