New Arrivals
Obscured Focus
ISoD is the most recent arrival in the adventure in sound started by Gerritt Wittmer more than 20 years ago. In this dazing mixture of industrial and avant-garde - which anticipates and completes an imminent full length album - he drags all the previous syntax, technical and conceptual armory - as well as his heavy emotional tones - into a sonic result of shining modernism and implacable sharpness. Meant to be a tape only release.
Policies Of Satisfaction
"A kind of old school stab at straight ahead harsh noise tape but trying to keep some of my personal glitchy bleeping computer influence". I sincerely think that there can be no better words than what Jacob Winans wrote to describe these flaming tracks that he produced in the summer of 2024. Policies of Satisfaction has been mastered by Grant Richardson.
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Following last year’s “the Inner Room” Freddy Ruppert continues to explore false cinematic world building within these five tracks that are exclusive to this split cassette. Focusing on heavily manipulated samples, this time he brings textures to the forefront, in a blend of creeping ambient noir, synthetic realms, and hazy atmosphere. Although very often simply filled with the most basic vocabulary of the harsh noise canon, the releases - sometimes criminally obscure and limited - of Josh Stewa…
Samling / Collezione Vol.1
"If you are familiar with the two names here you are probably right about what to expect from this tape. Francesco sent instruments and field recordings from Italy and Jonas mixed them with more music, sounds and tape acrobatics." - JDV
The Mundus
The Mundus is Norman Pritchard’s magnum opus, a mysterious work that is both visual and poetic, literary and mystical. The work was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971, a six-year period during which the author refined and reworked its pages, seeking out new literary forms alongside personal transcendence. As Pritchard mentions in a letter to Ishmael Reed in 1968, “Literature in and of itself doesn’t seem to have a broad enough scope for me anymore.” Despite its ambitions and grand sc…
Live In Poland
Huge tip! We present you a very special and limited edition 5-LP box - a piece of Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet European tour in January-February 2024. In this box you will find recordings from the band's only concerts in Poland at Pardon, To Tu in Warsaw and at NOSPR in Katowice. The recordings have been meticulously mixed and mastered for the best sound quality for you to enjoy. Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Quintet visited Poland for the very first time and it felt really important to us to…
Le Jardin Des Plantes
Anton Lukoszevieze, cellist, composer and interdisciplinary artist, founder of Apartment House. Le Jardin des Plantes, in four parts, for cello and electronics. A place in Paris and a novel by Claude Simon. Memory spaces, a source, a scrying of time.
Metello
Beat Records is pleased to reissue on CD the OST by Ennio Morricone for the drama film Metello, directed in 1970 by Mauro Bolognini, starring Massimo Ranieri, Ottavia Piccolo, Tina Aumont Manuela Andrei, Franco Balducci, Claudio Biava, Lucia Bosé, Sergio Ciulli, Pino Colizzi, Luigi Diberti, Adolfo Geri, Corrado Gaipa, Luigi Antonio Guerra , Gabriele Lavia, Renzo Montagnani, Piero Morgia, Mariano Rigillo, Steffen Zacharias, and Frank Wolff.
The OST was first reissued on CD in Japan in 1991 (SCC-1…
Lo Squartatore di New York
Available again the expanded soundtrack from the 1982 cult classic Lo squartatore di New York (The New York Ripper) by the late Italian director Lucio Fulci, featuring the beautiful music of Maestro Francesco de Masi. One of the historical titles in the Beat Records catalog, an abbreviated presentation of this soundtrack was released on LP and CD backed with music from Una Tomba Aperta, Una Bara Vuota by Maestro Piero Piccioni. Now, one of the most incredible movie scores by this extraordinary m…
Star Motel: An American Music Experience
The J&F Band is on the move once again! The new musical journey taken by the band with "Star Motel: an American music experience" spans from the North-East Chicago blues, with Route 66, to the funk of the deep South, going West to L.A. via Nogales, Arizona, to meet the Mingus ghost and his visions, back through the Great Plains where the Rez is the way of life for many. To end where it all began, in the South-East country and funky vibe... The 30-minute Mingus celebration, in the 100th annivers…
Live At The 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival
Recorded September 20, 1963, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, this set featured Miles Davis's new quintet, with George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. This group, minus Coleman and with the addition of Wayne Shorter, would soon go on to make some of the most highly regarded jazz LPs of all time. This smoking set features a wonderful rendition of "So What", among others. Essential live jazz classic.
Soutien De Famille
*300 copies limited edition* Phenomenal ambient explorations from the talented French electronic producer. Music taken from the artistic performance led by visual artists Mark Pozlep and Maxime Berthou. The new compositions by French electronic producer Julien Jabre illustrate the stunning visuals of the Franco-Slovenian duo. Julien Jabre’s Soutien De Famille sees him exploring the subtle gaps and nuances of his past work, crafting ten tracks of low-lit ambient textures and non-percussive rhythm…
Le Grand Ouest - 1978 - 1988
This compilation features tracks released between 1978 and 1988 in Western France.
It Deel III
*300 copies limited release* It Deel is the multi-year project of the Kleefstra Bros together with Popfabryk; production house for Frisian pop culture.For It Deel III the Kleefstra Bros have entered into a collaboration with the Belgian multi-instrumentalist Karen Willems. Together they worked in the Thomaskerk in Katlijk on new material that was released on vinyl by Moving Furniture Records.
The Kleefstra Bros are poet Jan Kleefstra and guitarist Romke Kleefstra, both also members of Piiptsjill…
Theatre Of The Mind
*200 copies limited edition* Theatre of the Mind is a work for bass clarinet and electronics by Swiss composer Roland Dahinden. It was commissioned by the Dutch Foundation Mousai, an organisation that uses contemporary music as a platform to explore and work with issues of mental health. It was written for bass clarinettist Gareth Davis. Roland's composition takes elements of his mixed background performing in jazz and improvised combinations with Miles Davis and Anthony Braxton while at the sam…
Anthropology Cavernous Tremors
*40 copies limited edition*
Completely handmade packaging.The package consists of:-cardboard cover (200 grams thick) printed in color. The cover measures 12x10 cm. closed, and 12x20.50 cm. developed, The cover is closed with three double satin ribbons in blue, white and red, reproducing the French flag-2 mini CDRs with a black and white printed surface, which are contained in a double-sleeved envelope with adhesive attached to the front. The envelope is contained inside a fold of the cover-minip…
Nuances De Spleen
*50 copies limited edition*
Completely handmade packaging.
The edition consists of:- sleeve cover (13.5x13.5 cm.) in black cardboard (thickness 200 grams), on the front of which is attached a figure printed in color on canvas.- 6-fold cover (13.5x13.5 cm. approx. closed, 40.5x13.5 cm. approx. developed), printed in color (200 grams paper)- cdr with printed surface, in black envelope. In the cd envelope is attached a cardboard envelope (12x6.5 cm. approx., cardboard 200 grams thick) which contai…
Die Erde und Ich Sind Eins - I Am One With the Earth
In a once in a lifetime occurrence, we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been able to get our hands on a very limited number of original archive copies of “Die Erde und Ich Sind Eins - I Am One With the Earth”, the debut solo LP by legendary Popol Vuh founder Florian Fricke. An astounding gesture of large ensemble vocal Minimalism, privately issued as the lone release on Fricke’s own Lorck Publication München imprint in 1983, this marvel of deeply emotive and transcendent immersion into rich te…
Psycotron - 1
** 2024 Much-needed repress, Llimited edition of 150 copies, silkscreened covers and printed insert. ** A hazy, claustrophobic bridge between minimalism, drone, creative conceptualism, ambient music, and noise, we’re thrilled to offer the first ever vinyl reissue of Nord’s “Psycotron - 1” - one of the greatest and most sought-after holy grails of early Japanese Noise. Recorded by Hiroshi Oikawa only a handful of years before his complete disappearance and originally issued in 1984 as a cassette…
Agartha
‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ - Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886 Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, perhaps designed by Martians who colonised the Earth tens of thousands of years ago, it’s a similarly mystical, perhaps even…