The Deep
2011 release ** "Kasper T. Toeplitz, known as one half of Le Depeupleur (with Zbigniew Karkowski), is successful with his computer trio on the young Icelandic label Zoar. I think Toeplitz can do whatever he wants, it will always retain his special touch of grey sound. Here we imagine how a channelless TV screen with a crackled image is transformed into music. This scene always appears in my mind's eye when I hear music by Toeplitz. And so it is on The Deep - a fearless escapade of hissing, nasty…
../Requiem
2004 release ** "Andrea Resch was one of the two members of the legendary Mynox Layh. "Requiem" is a genuinely unusual, sinister work of morbid atmospheres... disorienting as though waking from a nightmare. Immense, striding, sumptuous string arrangements create a majestic and inspiring atmosphere. A highly recommended "opera" in vein of In The Nursery and old Laibach. There are no other words which could possibly describe the endless feeling of the album. This remastered edition features four b…
A Companion As Glamorous As Sleeping On Wheels
2003 release ** "Not only did Julian Bradley (of Vibracathedral Orchestra) adopt the hilariously cumbersome moniker A Companion as Glamorous as Sleeping on Wheels to use in place of (and/or in addition to?) his own name, he also released this album under his own name, with ACAGASOW as it's title. Lots of shorter pieces here, recorded between 1997 and 2000, released as a CD by the Belgian label Veglia."
Ambiguity
1990 release (RARE) ** "John Watermann was one of the truely underground sound and visual artists. In the late eighties his name surfaced out of knowhere, when a double CD was released by Walter Ulbricht in Germany. Starting out in Berlin, Germany, where he was born, as a filmmaker and photographer, he found out that he needed soundtracks for his films. He started composing music in the mid sixties and moved to Australia in the early seventies. Although he was collecting sound equipment, his fir…
Drilling Holes In The Wall
2007 release ** "The sounds on Drilling derive mostly from modified toy synthesizers, hooked to a variety of electronic devices such as a film projector or a lamination machine. With these, he constructs pieces that move freely between the worlds of sound art and improvised music. Montgomery works along paths determined by the instruments and appliances he uses, but the overall structure is open. Deliberate variations in density and texture do occur as do climaxes, but the pieces often take unex…
Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 3
Sunroof, aka Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones, release their brand new album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3, via Mute’s Parallel Series. Out on limited edition transparent orange vinyl (limited to 1000 worldwide) and CD formats. Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3 is a collection of nine improvised tracks, recorded using the duo’s Eurorack modular systems, and builds upon the self-imposed parameters laid out on their 2021 debut. Daniel Miller, the Founder and Chairman of Mute, and Ga…
The Séance At Hobs Lane
The next in an ongoing series of Ghost Box back catalogue re-issues, Séance at Hobs Lane is an overlooked classic of British electronics. Its sinister atmospherics are comprised of VCS3 synthesizer squalls, howling guitar, skronking sax, and oddly haunting keyboard and cello melodies. The album has a similar eccentric and disturbing atmosphere to the work of great mid-century British experimentalists like Desmond Leslie, Daphne Oram or Tristram Carey.
Hobs Lane is the fictional tube station whe…
Deep Gray Organics
1999 release ** "Belgian video artist and experimental musician having resided in Barcelona for 30 years, Alain Wergifosse has participated in countless sound projects solo and with groups such as Obmuz, Macromassa and Specop (in Spain). For 10 years, he created interactive sounds and music for Marcel.lí Antúnez (founder of La Fura dels Baus). He co-organized the LEM and NoNoLogic festivals in Barcelona and published 3 albums: “Deep Gray Organics” in 1999 on the Geometrik label (Es), “Flux & Den…
Illu Ogod Ellat Rhagedia (Ustrainhustri)
2000 release - cardboard box with three cards inserted (light storage wear) ** "The second album by A Short Apnea, Illu Ogod Ellat Rhagedia is a concept album divided into three long tracks, themselves evolving tunes composed of different movements. The innovative rock symphony -- involving not only guitar, bass, and drums but also accordion, sax, clarinet, '60s psychedelic experimentation, jazz as free expression, and '90s American noise rock -- breaches today's rock line and finds its place as…
Burial
Burial's groundbreaking debut album. Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of UK garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole's Berlin crackle dub. Burial explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing sound of dubstep. Burial's parallel dimension sounds set in a near future South London underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate radio transmissions, or…
The Extreme Recordings 1989-1992
Tip! Unique wooden boxset limited to 99 copies worldwide, containing the following 3 albums by Paul Schütze, which will be also available separately:
AKT21 Paul Schütze – Deus Ex Machina 2LP -> out in February 2025AKT22 Paul Schütze – The Anihilating Angel LP -> out in January 2025AKT23 Paul Schütze – New Maps Of Hell 2LP -> out in December 2024
Some of the best ever Tribal Ambient Dub albums, originally released on the famous Australian Extreme label. All albums are brilliantly new mastered and…
Jack Ruby
2025 stock When Don Fleming was doing the initial transfers of the tapes we’d gotten retrieved from Randy Cohen’s barn, every evening seemed to bring a new surprise. But nothing was a bigger jawdropper than the material which makes up the second LP of our Jack Ruby archival series.
The central core of the album is the sixteen-and-a-half minute track, “Destroy/Lost”, recorded at the band’s rehearsal space in January ’74. Robin Hall vocalizes and Boris plays electric viola, but the bulk of the pie…
Reciprocess + / vs. 02
2003 release ** "Microsounds, in which every single and minute tone has found it's place, which nevertheless sound warm and human. Or, even more true, electronic sounds with a gargantuan dynamic that help hyperspeeded cyberfreaks to come down and drift in an ocean of sound. What a beautiful thought. Austria melancholic, warm atmosphere and sometimes reminds me of works by Pole, Rhythm and Sound (and other Basic Channel related stuff), and the laptop compositions of Fennesz, Oval or Pimmon."
Crumble
2025 stock ** “‘Crumble’ is full of dramatic turns, immersive drones, glitchy electronics and intimate gestures. The long form piece was made by having violin player Anne Bakker and vocalist Edita Karkoschka improvise on an electronic track, and using these recordings (and added electronics and field recordings) to sculpt a 34 minute piece..”
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New ep by slovakian artist URN (Jakub Volovár). Released as #2 on Pobřeží Moskytů, label focused on small 7" lathe runs of czechoslovakian bedroom musicians.
Edition of 31 copies.
13 - LP3
Diagonal celebrates 13 years in business via a 4 x 12" run featuring label stalwarts and influential collaborators. This is LP3, the second in the series. Like LP 1 & 2 before it, this 12" comes with a coloured, elastic H band. All four LPs will be accompanied by these meaning customers can combine the records and complete their own 4 x 12" set!
Jim O' Rourke leads the line on plate 3 with 'ror bypass', a gripping, mediative blend of modular enhanced percussion and field recordings. Kae Tempest …
Disappearing
*100 copies limited edition* In his latest musical endeavor, "Disappearing", Danish electronic musician Mathias Hammerstrøm, under the alias Amphior, embarks on an introspective journey where the tangible dissolves into the ethereal. Following his 2022 release, "Another Presence", Mathias delves into mesmeric spaces characterized by melodious pianoworks warmly infused with the nostalgic tones of tape machines, guitar pedals, and retro amplifiers. As the luminous glow of analog synths intermitten…
Music for Voilà
Music for Voilà was prepared for listening in 'Voilà' (@voila_tokyo) shop in Jiyugaoka, Tokyo by Rie Nakajima and David Toop.
603... Annus Mundi
Siren Records is proud to release the re-mastered CD edition of "603... Annus Mundi" by Maurizio Bianchi. "603... Annus Mundi" is the second installment of M.B. CD re-issue series on Siren Records, following the first installment "Organemia" CD in 2023 (sold out). Originally released by Italian Sine3pm on download format in 2006. This re-issue CD is beautifully re-mastered by Andrew Chalk (Ferial Confine, Organum, ORA, Elodie, Mirror) and comes with a liner-notes sheet written by M.B.