Reissues
Evidences Vol.1 - Final Industrial Music 1980
Limited edition of 600 numbered copies. The 5-Lp-Box contains all officially unreleased material on Vinyl.The tracks are re-mastered and digitally transferred from the following tapes: Mectpyo/Blut 1 & Mectpyo Blut 2 (1979/80) Atomique/Murder (1980) Gene-P (1980) Nervo/Hydra (1980) Technology 2 (1980)
C.O.I.T. - A Collection of Isolated Tracks 1981-1988
Eclectic French group (for some time also known as CO2 which started out in the early 80's and still active. Their music ranges from new wave to weird sound experiments. Awesome double LP release in a deluxe gatefold sleeve. "The ultimate compilation with rare, unreleased and demo material with early works of the French goth-legend."
Snatch Paste: An Assortment of Snatch Tapes
Compilation of one of the best DIY-tape labels of the early '80s compiled by Philip Sanderson (former member of Alien Brains) from the three Snatch Tape Compilations 1-3 (originally released (1978-81) with the odd extra bonus drawn from other Snatch Tapes." Artists include: David Jackman, Storm Bugs, Mannequin Movies, Philip Sanderson, Tony Clough, The N4s, Alien Brains, Karl's Empty Body, Orior and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Limited vinyl edition of 500 copies.
Quatuor Hêlios
Isabelle Berteletti, Florent Haladjian, Jean-Christophe Feldhandler, Lê Quan Ninh. “D’une lumière” (1996) by Jean-Christophe Feldhandler for piano, electric guitar, melodica, percussions, etc., “Oscille” (1997) by Lê Quan Ninh for 4 stones, 4 lightnings II and computer, “Kvadrat” (1988) by Vinko Globokar for 4 percussions, “Seasons” (1970) by Toru Takemitsu for percussions and tape.
Headphone musics 1 to 6. As I As
In 1967 Z'EV took a tape music class at the UCLA night school. The leader of the course was Joseph Byrd who was the founder and theoretician of the first electronic rock band: the united states of america. So while it's almost 40 years now that he has been involved in the production of electro-acoustic music, Headphone Musics marks the first release of a product exclusively featuring this form of music. All of the source material is drawn from the collection of cassette tapes Z'EV has amassed ov…
Production and decay of spatial relations vs Reproduction
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the very first Zev studio album which originally came out on Backlash in 1981, Die Stadt is proud to announce the re-release of Production and Decay of Spacial Relations for the first time on CD. It features the original seven tracks from the vinyl plus six recodings entitled Reproduction and Decay of Spatial Relations made by Zev in May/June 2005. Back in the day, Zev used to bring boxes over from Holland when he would come back to New York City which he woul…
Turntables and computers
Turntables & Computers is an uncut live recording of Otomo Yoshihide and Nobukazu Takemura performing an improvised live set at the Super Deluxe club in Roppongi, for the 'Space Invaded' event on March 29, 2003. This live album documents the first performance ever of these two world renowned musicians together, and the intense collision between the sounds of Otomo's turntables and Takemura's computers.
Geography And Music
Small overview of yasunao tone’s life / work / art, including a 3”cd containing a 1979 piece performed by david tudor, john cage, takehisa kosugi, martin kalve, and yoshiharu suenobu.
Musica Iconologos
A surprising release from the radical Fluxus composer, Yasunao Tone
- an encoded description of the visual image in utmost detail. In the
mythical future, somebody can translate the sounds of this compact disc
back into pictures. Personnel: Yasunao Tone and Craig Kendall - image selection and processing; Craig Kendall - computer programming, digital sound creation, manipulation; John D.S. Adams - assistant producer and audio consultant.
Utopia andata e ritorno
2006 release. Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence that is an objective future, but, accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the true reality -- the true foundation, the real and actual continuity: this is music's sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the…
The bird of paradise
Limited to 200 copies only, and long out of print nowadays, Walter Marchetti's Bird of Paradise: Hunting in the City. Performance time: from dawn to dusk. Leave your home, with a cool head, and carrying a briefcase full of birdcalls, of the kind used by hunters, as well as a portable tape recorder, slung across your back on a carrying strap. You will use it, at the proper time, to play a tape, which has also been placed in the briefcase. Once outside, you begin your performance of 'The Hunt' by…
Nei mari del Sud. Musica in secca
Walter Marchetti's Nei mari del Sud may be regarded as the 'epitome' work of all his recent musical output. Firstly for it represents the original re-elaboration of a former work achieved in 1982; secondly, the manipulation techniques here applied rise in the same principles formerly developed for recording the Antibarbarus set of pieces, a cycle to which the new work therefore refers in terms of an ideal continuity, though it preserves some peculiar characters strictly connected with the source…
Zeitenwechsel 2
A beautiful sound art compilation featuring works by Ellen Fullman, Horatio Vaggione, Fast Forward, Takehisa Kosugi, Mario Verandi, Olga Neuwirth, celebrating the 35 years of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Comes with 32-page booklet.
Ellen Fullman: Transmission Particle 1 for Long String Instrument and Oboe (2001; 9:00 min)[Ellen Fullman, long string instrument; Eliza Slavet, oboe]Horatio Vaggione: Scir for contrabass flute and tape (1988; 11:37 min)Beate-Gabriela Schmitt, contrabass fluteFast F…
Voices Of Dada
Archive aural document collection edited by James Nice and originally released via Sub Rosa in 1989. This unique CD compiles over an hour of original sound recordings made between 1912 and 1959 by luminaries from both 20th Century art movements, including: Marinetti, Antonio Russolo, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Wyndham Lewis, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck. Includes musical and interview material, tone poems, and sleevenotes. Artwork…
Variations: A London Compilation
Released in 1995, this debut compilation is a showcase of seven London-based experimental artists. Features John Wall (sonic sampling collage wizard), Andrew Jacques (Put Put member using a microphone and guitar amplifier for disruptive sound sources, sampled by Wall), Crow (great, futuristic fragments of experimental sound/text recordings by a UK installation artist), Alquimia (dream-state mutterings and aura, from an experimental artist from Mexico City), John Grieve (powerful electronic-like …
Variations 2: A London Compilation
Second edition of Paradigm Discs Variations compilation, originally released in 1998. Another collection of lesser-known and infrequently recorded artists living in London. Beautifully packaged and musically focused -- unlike so many "experimental" compilations loaded up with 30-second toss offs by "name" artists, this features nine pieces of ultra-quality sound fabrication, with the intent of providing durable home listening. Features: Akemi Ishijima (crackling electroacoustic genius), Michael …
The Sound Of Nature ~ The Nature Of Sound
Compilation CD with Francisco Lopez, Giancarlo Toniutti, Jeph Jerman, Seth Nehil & toy.bizarre, Kiyoshi Mizutani, MNortham, Eric La Casa. A confrontation of different ideas, views, about nature … and sound… From the electroacoustic deep soundscape of Eric La Casa to the droney stones of Giancarlo Toniutti, from the rough fresh stream field recordings of Kiyoshi Mizutani to the heavy processed insects, wood and grass sounds of Seth Nehil & toy.bizarre… from the silent nature of Francisco Lopez to…
SURREALISM REVIEWED
For the very first time, original recordings by key artists, writers, poets and theorists are now gathered together on a single volume. The various recordings, made between 1929 and 1963, include poetry, interviews, lectures and manifestos. Most are in the English language, and some in French. Some, such as those by Desnos (1938) and Read (1937), have not been heard since they were first recorded onto acetate discs. The cover reproduces a painting by Yves Tanguy, This Morning (1951)15 tracks, ru…
Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips
One of the most essential collections of early electronic music ever compiled!! Raymond Scott's 'Manhattan Research Inc' boxset from 2000 is one of the finest reissues to have appeared in the last ten years. This new set from Basta is the unofficial follow up, easily their most perfectly realised project to date consisting of 4 cd's, seven booklets, posters, stickers, transcriptions and a time chart all contained within a high gloss stiff card box. It focuses on the early electronic music works …