Interim Report, March 1979
“Interim Report, March 1979” by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan is Gordon Chapman Fox’s hymn and homage to the brutalist beauty of Cheshire’s designated new towns of Warrington and Runcorn.Chapman-Fox grew up in Lancashire, and having been a frequent user of the famous Preston Bus Station in his youth, he was struck by the enormous chasm between the sixties architects utopian vision for what new towns should be and the sticky-floored, piss-streaked reality. He explains: “The more I …
Infinite You
Tip! "Infinite You" is a much-awaited longer release from Kayla Painter marking the first ever vinyl release from the producer. Joining forces with the label Castles in Space, the EP joins a catalogue of well regarded and pivotal electronic releases on the label. Castles in Space, operating since 2015, have established themselves as key players on the electronic music scene, releasing forward-thinking electronic music taking pride in the story behind the music through beautiful analogue products…
Art Large
Union Editions presents Art Large. Recorded in São Paulo, Brazil, 1999. All Music Written and Produced by Art Large.
Lead Me Where NPCs Sleep
Union Editions presents Lead Me Where NPCs Sleep by Kinked. Composition, mixing and editing by Lapo Sorride as Kinked, mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi, pitched voices on "Dimanche" and "Occhi Di Neodimio" by Melodie Husquin, on "Serenada For NPC" by Bob Hermit. Composed between January and July 2022 in Asile185, Turin. Photo by Dario Terraglia.
MMM Archive 2017–2021
Reissue of all the three unobtainable tapes from MMM Records in a double cassette box set together with a fourth unreleased album "Love Letters" by Aloe Vera. The now defunct record label described itself as: "We want pieces of music that are inspiring, universal, blah-blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic and sentimental."
Galactic Mirage Discs 2
*30 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Known as the progenitor of krautrock / experimental projects Black Tempel Pyrämid, Kösmonaut and Life Education, the prolific Colorado-based musician Patrick R. Pärk presents a six-disc collection titled ‘Galactic Mirage Discs II’, taken from the colossal ‘Galactic Mirage Sonic Omnibus’ box set. A slate of beautiful, abstract psychedelic voyages designed for exploration of inner space.
Galactic Mirage Discs
*30 copies limited edition. In process of stocking* Denver, Colorado-based musician Patrick R. Pärk - a member of the psych-rock / prog-rock bands Black Tempel Pyrämid and Kösmonaut - sees a compendium of his work released via PRP. ‘Galactic Mirage Discs’ is a six-CD companion to ‘Galactic Mirage Tapes’, and includes the albums ‘Sacred Winged Door’ (2021) and ‘Interface Tipping Point’ (2022)’.
Exploring The Cave
Arcane and evocative, elegiac and eerie at the same time: when we first listened to this album we all agreed that it was an authentic spell, the work of a high-level wizard. We later discovered that "Exploring the Cave" is the only record testimony of a Californian singing teacher named Joy Willow, released in 1992. We wrote to Joy some time ago and she was kind and helpful enough to answer us (with the availability that we didn't expect from a high-level wizard!).Joy's passion - today, as in th…
Мрію про Чорнобиль
The authenticity of the sound stuff herein is a controversial issue. Unsupported by reliable sources, we admit that we have no certainty that this 30 minutes of music is really a fragment of the so-called RNLT experiment, but we like to think so, so we invite even the most skeptical among you to do the same.The self-styled "Metapsychical Lodge" gathers researchers from various disciplines of neuroscience. Affiliates of the lodge study so-called PSI phenomena (i.e., phenomena commonly referred to…
Eleventh Hour
Steven Grace's music is composed with intelligence, well focused on the emotions it wants to convey, careful in the choice of sounds: “I've been making electronic music since 1990. My first two albums were privately distributed as homemade cassettes to friends, but since then I've released nine albums via the internet. My main project has been Logic Gate, for music in the “Berlin School” style, but I've also released instrumental electronic music of various styles under my own name, plus one alb…
Arid
Doom Catacomb never ceases to surprise: after having accompanied us to the desolate polar regions, where the ice is eternal and every spark of life is extinguished by the cold, the grim bard annihilates us with a... thermal shock!"Arid" speaks in fact about the hottest and most inhospitable deserts on earth: the temperature changes, but the result is always... the absence of life. Doom Catacomb has decided to tell about those places where nature is cruel, where the signs of humanity are erased w…
Les Spectres du Crépuscule
A dusty tape full of creaks, hisses and squeaks swooped down at HDK headquarters a while ago. Its author, one who calls himself "the Prince of Darkness" (sic), remains a mystery. On the tape minimal sounds, limping scores, silences full of anguished expectation, short instrumental excerpts that have the flavor of foggy and humid winter evenings, of the soil of ancient cemeteries, of loneliness, of putrefaction and decay.HDK has delighted and entertained you with orchestral soundtracks, accompani…
At The Borders Of Orion
It’s a great pleasure for us to introduce an Italian cosmic courier named Robert Kaylos. Robert lives in Verona, northern Italy, but his true home is deep space: certainly the intergalactic space that hides the mysteries of life and death, but also the infinite and equally mysterious space of human interiority (Ballard's “Inner space”).Tangerine Dream wrote in the liner notes of their album "Alpha Centaury" (1971): "Dedicated to all people who feel obliged to space". We are sure that Robert feel…
Vostok 1
*Limited edition of 120 copies* After the success of "Starcity" (HDK 91), Andy Bloyce returns to the HDK catalog with a new monumental collection of songs entitled "Vostok-1". In the background, as always, the utopian dimension and the crude reality of the Soviet Space Program; the dreams, the anguish and the exploits of men launched towards the unknown, towards the mysteries of deep space and those of human existence.If you have loved the sidereal rides contained in "Starcity", you will go craz…
Max Roguish: Lightbite
Following a nuclear catastrophe, the Earth has become an immense desert. Day time is short, and sunlight has red and purple glares. Living beings went through mutations due to the radiations, social order has come apart and humans live in what is left of a huge megalopolis, where neon palely lightens the never-ending nights. People have organized small anarchic-capitalist communities and they survive by selling stuff, spare parts and food. There is no official law but only the rules that each gr…
Neighborhoods
2022 Repress expected to ship early November - Ernest Hood’s Neighborhoods was released some two decades after the Portland, Oregon born and raised musician’s first forays into field recordings. These very recordings, and those captured over intervening years, define the universal sound and aural images of childhood, a theme memorialized by Hood’s privately-pressed opus of 1975.Sprawling through a haze of zither, synthesizer melodies, and foraged pedestrian sound, Neighborhoods is both a score …
Paloma
*In process of stocking. Limited edition of 500 copies.* Laila Sakini's new album 'Paloma' arrives via Modern Love and is her most striking and ambiguous to date - a pointed and timely meditation on hope and hierarchies that riffs on Zbigniew Preisner's magical "The Double Life of Veronique" score and enduring outsider music tome "The Langley Schools Music Project". Subtly transcendent, fathoms-deep music that's had us in cold sweats for months - highly recommended if you’re into Dominique Lawal…
Arbores
Tip! Troekurovo Recordings is a production team made up of Toki Fuko, Vadim Basov and Evgeny Vorontsov and they have been hidden away deep in some enchanted Russian forests recording music. Now they are putting out the results on this superb double pack. This project started back in 2016 as a live experimental jam and is now an annual tradition made on loads of analogue gear on the banks of a canyon that was formed many years ago by a melting glacier. The locale provides inspiration - from the f…
Pavonine
*In process of stocking.* "Pavonine" is the second offering from the collaborative duo of Dominic Coppola and Angelo Harmsworth, following the 2017 "Cordial" release on Strange Rules. The album was conceived in late 2020 and completed in spring of 2021, which requires no further explanation when it comes to recording and living conditions.
The duo deploys an array of minimalist structures, steady in span and measured in concept. Each track is executed with a precision focus on antithetical compo…
Passed Me By
*2022 re-press* Andy Stott's radical 2011 bonecrusher returns on its first new pressing for almost a decade, still screwing the dance and heads like nothing else with its lo-sprung suspended takes on boogie dub and claggiest rhythmic thumpers.
The sludgy, slow-motion slug of ‘Passed Me By’ marked a pivotal point when Stott swam against the grain of prevailing currents of the post-dubstep era’s turn toward garage-techno and UKF-inspired percussive house. Working loosely adjacent to a then emergen…