Juncture
In the etheric inertness of "Contemplating Nothingness", studio whiz and erstwhile Coil member Danny Hyde revives the Electric Sewer Age alias he began with the late, great John Balance.
Arcane Reawakening
**250 copies on dark green vinyl + 250 copies on silver marbled vinyl** Special release made for the 1st Scenasonica Congreesso festival in Pordenone - Italy on October 11/12, 2019. Two deep ambient-trance tracks for the re-awakening of our ancient selves, all in best Nurse With Wound tradition. Art-work: Photos by Sarah Stapleton / Art by Babs.
Dance Mystique
**2020 stock** "In his first solo album, Roberto Milusic Migliussi, poet, musician, mail artist and painter, takes his first cassettes cut-ups experiments of the '80s, using samples from radio broadcasts and ethnic sounds, subsuming them in an electonic drum & bass background of hypnotic trance. The result is mastered by a major figure in the electronic/industrial scene, Devis Granziera, aka Lunus, from the infamous combo Teatro Satanico.Dance Mystique is edited by ADN the historical italian rec…
Antologica (1976-1999)
**2020 stock, tip!** "Ruggero Tajè is one of the electronic Italian pioneers of the '70s. He started as a jazz drummer playing with guitarist Pino Distaso. Then he was one of the pupils of Italian electronic composer Angelo Paccagnini (protagonist of Italian contemporary electronic music with the more known Berio and Maderna) during the same period of Riccardo Sinigaglia and Gaetano Liguori. After his studies he took the guitar as main instrument. He didn’t release his music till nowadays, apar…
Anthology of Persian Experimental Music
**2020 small repress with slightly different tracklist and artwork** "After more than three years, the Unexplained Sounds Group releases a CD version of the previously only digital “Persian experimental underground survey”, one of the most recognized anthologies focusing on experimental and alternative music from Iran. It includes 4 digital bonus tracks, a new cover artwork and was re-mastered for the CD version. Initially, the compilation was released under the banner “Iranian” experimental mus…
Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music
**2020 small repress** "Following the Second World War (1945-1949), Beirut established itself as the cultural capital of the Middle East, with the Lebanese music scene leading the way. Lebanese music has a distinct sound due to the country’s unique fusion of Western and Eastern influences. Even Lebanese folk compositions often reference Western contemporary music. After 15 years of civil war and a decade of post war rehabilitation, the situation of alternative art and especially music was very p…
Anthology of Contemporary Music from Africa Continent
**2020 small repress with slightly different artwork** A poetically plotted Anthology of Contemporary Music from Africa Continent, a lovely collection of electro-acoustic, computer music, field recordings and soundscapes variations from African artists such as Ahmed Saleh, Healer Oran, Mehdi Halib, Abdellah M. Hassak, In_o, Eryck Abecassis, Victor Gama, and more, meticulously curated by Raffaele Pezzella. Fantastically raw and visceral material, this compilation literally opens up an entirely ne…
Operazione Piovra: The Lead Chronicles
**100 copies** "Mortar Devotions is the new collaboration between Nona Et Decima (Manuele Frau, Nicholas Pucciarelli) and Aleksei Tsernjavski alias Огни. From the Finnish capital, Helsinki, the trio gives life to Operazione Piovra: The Lead Chronicles, a work inspired by the darkest pages of Italian history, in particular the "years of lead" and the war between the mafia and government. The five tracks are conceived as if they were the soundtrack, divided into parts, of a film or a television se…
Apprentissage & Remplacement
"This album is a 4 hours free electronic sonic exploration by Unglee Izi, one of the wildest french electronic freak – a long journey into the wilderness from extreme digital noises to sophisticated landscapes and suspended silences.The vinyl contains 2 extracts, 20 minutes for each side and is accompanied by a CD (74 minutes) and a download card of the original 4 hours track.Mastered and cut by Frederic Alstadt for vinyl and digital.
Hear After: Matters of Auditory Paranoia
**200 copies** "Francisco Meirino's work in my humble opinion speaks for itself. I'm just incredibly honored to be able to put this out for him and help promote it. If you really need a description to go on though, here is my brief thoughts on it. Masterful pacing and layering of eurorack textures, vertigo inducing frequencies, immersive field recordings, broken electronics and reel-to-reel tape. Francisco has a technique that I like to call "slow cuts" where he will make you zone out on a certa…
Canciónes Intactas
Early Venezuelan synthesist and ambient-electronic composer Miguel Noya reissues 1980-1990 career highlights as a remastered double LP compilation through Phantom Limb.
Suoni Immaginari
**CD version** "Before his prolific activity in the field of music therapy, Agostino Nirodh Fortini also embarked on his own path in electronic music. In the early eighties he was a close collaborator of Walter Maioli and Fred Gales, at the time of the pioneering label Sound Reporters.Suoni Immaginari, released only privately on cassette in 1988, contains a wide range of keyboards and lots of ethnic field recordings assembled with an absolutely modern praxis ahead of its time. Nirodh imagines hi…
Kale Plankieren - Dutch Cassette Rarities 1981-85 Volume I
"Featuring a wide range of artists (Das Ding, Plus Instruments, and De Fabriek for a start!) from the Amsterdam Fetisj scene and cities such as Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, and Zwolle. It gives 'a glimpse into the artistic DIY music movement that was growing extensively outside of mainstream circles'.The beautifully printed record sleeve was designed by Steele Bonus. It includes liner notes (in English and Dutch) that paint a great picture of the context where these bands and artists lived and…
Bird Caged: Birdfriend Archives
Very sick comp of new Japanese music - selected by a Japanese person, released on a Japanese label. Enter a world unknown!
Intenta: Experimental and Electronic Music From Switzerland 1981-93
Bongo Joe Records presents an all new compilation placing the spotlight on the Swiss experimental and electronic scene of the ‘80s and the early ‘90s. The compilation Intenta assembles under-appreciated gems, sought-after titles and newly mixed versions. It places leftfield synth-pop next to otherworldly jazz, and joins the dots between lyrical post-punk excursions and proto-house experimentation.
New England Digital
"New England Digital is proudly digital, containing six very different sound vignettes ranging from ‘style brisé’ FM harpsichord to abstract techno. At times dreamlike and detached but never without solid harmonic or rhythmical interest, New England Digital evokes scenes from New England pastoral life during the early settlement years.Christoph Waelkens is a Brussels based musician with a background in both classical and electronic music. In the early nineties he was involved in many dance relea…
Live at Cafe OTO
"Sometimes, precarious habitations - those places of freedom stolen from their abandonment and which are less and less commonplace - make you understand more and more the extent to which a growing world can seem more and more unequivocally to be in some of the last inhabited places on earth. Dreams and explorations of worlds, renewed fantasies, air bubbles, washed up beings and the most tenacious music lovers have drawn from the past and demonstrated that the diversity of sound instruments creat…
Ce Qui Est en Bas, Est Comme Ce Qui Est en Haut
"In his philosophical ideas, René Descartes supports the concept of automatism, referring to the mechanical reactions generated by stimuli from our friends in the animal kingdom. To illustrate: “If I press a dog’s paw, he systematically barks.” Yes, systematically, yes.Here we are in the presence of another system from outre-Quiévrain named Raymonde (what a strange name for an electronic group - why not Simone or Josiane?) coming from the gastronomic capital of France, Lyon.Ideologically, he doe…
Deuce Avenue / Power On To Zero Hour / Dujang Prang / Station / New Raceion / 2007
**special bundle, 2020 stock** This offer includes the following Alan Vega albums:- Deuce Avenue (2LP, 1990)- Power On To Zero Hour (2LP, 1991)- New Raceion (2LP, 1993)- Dujang Prang (2LP, 1995)- 2007 (2LP, 1999)- Station (2LP, 2007)"Born in Brooklyn, Alan Vega was reared on the rock'n'roll sound of Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, but originally struck out on a career as a visual artist and light sculptor, making pieces out of electronic debris. Seeing Iggy Pop fronting the Stooges at the New Yor…
Build a Diorama
ISAN’s Robin Saville speaks to the salubrious qualities of a good mooch in a very sweet album inspired by what he sees and feels during his daily perambulations and incorporating field recordings, drones and acoustic instrumentation.