Dinner at Eight
Reissue of this amazing 1986 album where drum machines meet improv jazz. Wayne Horvitz gathers together his drum machine and synths along with his talented friends -Elliot Sharp included- for this really original record that is both composed and improvised. An obscure gem by one of the most spirited musicians to populate NY 80's avant-garde, a golden era for vanguard attitudes and sounds. Horvitz, keyboard player at Naked City (along with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, and Fred Frith) had classical mu…
Dungeon-synth magazine # 2
Dear dungeoncrawlers, light your torches and sharpen your swords...once again! The success of the first volume of HDK DSM was... dazzling! And so here we are with this Second Issue and we hope you will enjoy it like the previous one (or maybe more!). The dungeon-synth is wonderful and unpredictable music made to give free rein to creativity and to the desire of telling weird and astonishing stories. The four musicians involved in this release will not disappoint your thirst of gloomy and evocati…
Kowloon Neon City Episode 2
HDK is proud to introduce you the second episode of "Kowloon Neon City", the immaginary distopic and retro-futuristic anime released in 199X. In this second part, the story moves from the rejected city of Kowloon to its double Olympus. We will discover a world permeated by technology that brings many aspects of our reality forward, to the extreme consequences. Mei and Cheng, once again the protagonists of this story, have to fight for their lives against the global sistem of surveillance. And we…
Avventura nel Castello
** DIY Super-Limited Tape + Three Pins! ** Heimat Der Katastrophe presents Avventura nel Castello by 1Kbyte Dungeon. Driven by the thirst for adventure, you went down into the dungeons of the castle of the evil Baron Karloff and now you are lost. Behind its endless gates the most monstrous mysteries are hidden. Will you find the exit? Probably not. "Avventura nel castello" is a frightening time-machine able of transporting the listener into the disquieting era of monochrome Rogue-like CRPGs, tex…
Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun
** Fluo Cassette ** Andy Bones and John Dawson are back with the soundtrack of a cyberpunk RPG called "Dancing with bullets under a neon sun". The style of the italo-finnish duo is delightfully the same as the best-selling "Chip of Depression": retro-futuristic-pop and italo-disco with breathtaking melodies and pressing minimal rhythms. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" is a weird cyberpunk RPG for fans of the OSR. "Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun" will provide a unique ambiance to y…
Altnyc88 OST
New York City, year 1988: you are part of one of the many gangs that operate in the slums of the city, hiding in the subway, dungeon under skyscreapers, squatted houses and, when necessary even, in the sewers system. Raids up to streets are dangerous and are always undertaken disguise or under cover of the night: gangs fight for territory and control, as the organized crime and corrupt cops rule with an iron fist. Yes, it's a violent world, baby; but also full of '80s clichés like post-nuke muta…
La Gabbia Umana
** Pro-dubbed black cassette + insert ** In 1979 the director Antonio Rasiera started filming a sci-fi tv-movie called “La Gabbia Umana” (The Human Cage), an alienating and dehumanizing post-apocalyptic parable in which the human body is described as an inexorably closed cage, “without key and without lock”.
A few days after the start of filming, director Rasiera (already prey to his serious disease) dies: today what remains of “The Human Cage” is its soundtrack, composed by the maestro Augusto …
Necromancy in Naat
** Pro-dubbed black cassette + 32 pag. booklet ** The bard of the unexplicable nightmares is back: Doom Catacomb gives us his masterpiece, the third and final chapter of a trilogy dedicated to the writer Clark Ashton Smith, started in 2018 with "Empire of the necromancers" and continued in 2019 with "The weaver in the vault". "Necromancy in Naat" takes the music of Doom Catacomb to even darker and more mysterious levels, it will accompany you on a hallucinating journey into pain and evil, but it…
The Spectre of the Duke
Heimat Der Katastrophe presents The Spectre of the Duke by Lucifer Analog. Some rumors tell of a monumental tomb near the Pok swamp, in Grumacchio region. A long time ago, the Duke Friedrick Gonzagor was buried there at the end of his controversial existence. His life was characterized by a rapid rise and quick decadence. At an nearby inn you bought for a few gold coins a map that indicates the location of the sanctuary that it is said to keep rich treasures. So far, although some adventurers ha…
Eternal Beams
** 2021 Stock ** Travel agents for inner journeys Seahawks take us on a voyage ever deeper into the new age vortex. Their last album 'Escape Hatch' described by Vice as a 'modern masterpiece' only hinted at the transcendent power of Seahawks music. Eternal Beams goes 'further' to create a whole new harmonial experience. Side one: the listener immersed in a soft storm of tape saturated raindrops and distant thunder...numinous waves of sound cascade to create whirlpools of womb-like warmth with ge…
Analog Sensitivity
When a synth master like Steve Moore joins forces with KPM, magic must materialise. And so it does with Analog Sensitivity: cinematic, enigmatic synthscapes to both haunt and heal. With the clue right there in the title, Analog Sensitivity is built up from the quieter aspects of the sound Steve has been exploring and evolving for over 20 years. It’s a layering of ambivalently dense and airy, muffled and echoing sounds created on his collection of synthesizers and other electronic music hardware.…
The Age of Electronicus / Maracatú / Word Jazz
This bundle collects three of the latest Pleasure For Music essential re-releases:Dick Hyman "The Age of Electronicus" (1969)Elisabeth Waldo "Maracatú" (1959)Ken Nordine "Word Jazz" (1957)Dick Hyman "The Age of Electronicus" (1969)
In his long career Dick Hyman has covered a great variety of music fields, from Broadway through music for film and television to jazz, classical, pop, and electronic music. The Age of Electronicus, originally released in 1969 is one of his Electronic Pop jewels. A br…
Extrema Ratio
Inspired by the screenplay 'Maldoror - Il Dio Selvaggio' by Alberto Cavallone. Self-released CD. Composed, performed, recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Nicola Bogazzi e Gabriele Gasparotti.
Rural Objects
* 250 copies on black vinyl. 350gsm cover and insert featuring artwork by Francis Plagne * Expanded vinyl edition of the 2019 tape/digital release. This release features two previously unreleased tracks. Francis Plagne’s work straddles songwriting, electronic composition, and improvisation and has appeared on Kye, Penultimate Press, Black Truffle, and Albert’s Basement as well as his own Mould Museum imprint.
His first for Horn of Plenty, Rural Objects was recorded to tape at home in Melbourne b…
Space Oddities 1970-1982
** 2021 Restock ** A master of the mixing board, from the late 60s until the 90s Bernard Estardy was the wizard of French musical recordings. As head of CBE studios, he shaped everything from Gérard Manset’s concept albums to Claude François’ hit singles, Françoise Hardy’s delicate tear-jerkers and Michel Sardou’s soul-stirrers. This “giant” had his hand in the whole range of mainstream French music by making his studio a veritable playground for experimentation. His legendary album “La Formule …
News! News! News!
The incomparable Piero Umiliani (under his mysterious Moggi moniker) weighs in with another killer library gem of 1979. “News! News! News!” was originally released in few copies on the small imprint Sound Work Shop, both label and recording studio owned by the cult maestro. Musica Per Immagini gave another chance to its eleven amazing electronic and jazz tracks played by some of the best musicians who took part in the golden age of Italian music libraries. This sought-after album is the way the …
The Age of Electronicus
In astounding gatefold sleeve, tip! Dick Hyman’s 1969 opus, The Age of Electronicus - a visionary, funky excursion into the vast potential presented by the newly developed Moog synthesizer - stands as a shining example of the post-war avant-garde’s infiltration of the popular realm. Awash with creative optimism about the role of progress, change, and technology in society at large, it’s one of those obscurities that’s long been championed by diggers across the world, but has never fully gotten i…
Some Funkettes
Dark Entries is humbled to continue digging through the archives of legendary producer Patrick Cowley. While best known for his production on chart-topping cybernetic disco anthems such as Sylvester’s “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” or his own “Menergy”, Cowley, who passed away from AIDS-related illness in 1982, left us with a substantial body of work. Since 2009, Dark Entries has been working with Cowley’s friends and family to shed light on the lesser known facets of this singular artist’s ou…
The Electric Lucifer
* 2020 Repress * Bruce Haack's The Electric Lucifer is rightly considered one of the masterworks of 20th century electronic music. Originally recorded in 1968-69 (released in 1970), it's an eminently listenable work where pop-psychedelia and Moog/musique concrete sounds coalesce. Acclaimed upon its original release (one of Rolling Stone's favorite albums of 1970) yet unavailable for over three decades, The Electric Lucifer is presented here for the first time on LP. Remastered and restored from …
Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) LP
**Limited to 1000 copies worldwide. Double white vinyl. Live album from the legendary founder of Can.** Irmin Schmidt goes back to his Stockhausen roots with a new live album. Nocturne (live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) comprises three pieces performed live on a partly prepared piano, along additional pre-recorded soundscapes. The live performance of 'Klavierstück II' is a pensive improvisation using essential elements of the original piece. 'Nocturne' starts with the ambient…