Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. A new compilation series by 541, Record Box #01 presents a prime selection of forgotten gems and timeless classics from the crates of TLP aka Troubleman, sound-tracking a 30-year career in nightlife and music. The first edition in this series comes as a double CD and includes a hard cover 24-page booklet and a download code with an exclusive TLP mix. Features tracks by: Teena Marie, Bill Withers, Chronixx, Flip Kowlier, Angie Stone, Davina, Raekwon, Shinehead, Schoolly D, Earth, Wind & Fire, Shelter, Mother Freedom Band, The Undisputed Truth, Chuckii Booker, Levert, Surface, The Roots, Nelly Furtado, Rufus, Chaka Khan, Eric B. & Rakim, Demon Boyz, Slick Rick, Anthony Hamilton, Q-Tip, London Posse, The Family Stand, Soul II Soul, MC Lyte, Kleeer, Jill Scott, Steve Arrington's Hall Of Fame, Ultramagnetic MC's, The Masterdon Committee, Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown, DeBarge, Donae'o, Ghost Town DJ's, and OutKast.
BICKNELL, STEVE: Modes Of Thought 12" (126D 001EP)
DJ and producer, co-founder of the legendary London club night Lost, Steve Bicknell returns to the fray with a brilliant new 12", Modes Of Thought, the debut release on Bicknell's brand new label, 6dimensions. Essential floor gear, Modes Of Thought introduces three tracks of taught, lean minimal techno before handing creativity over to the DJ with the inclusion of six locked groove loops. Lean and precise, with a beautifully controlled palette, wide dynamics and rich level of sonic detail, the record flies out of the blocks with the pumping "Harmonious Balance". Art by Harumasa Kono.
SAROOS X SEQUOYAH TIGER: Saroos X Sequoyah Tiger 7" (ANOST 069EP)
Berlin's otherworldly Saroos and weird-pop youngster Sequoyah Tiger from Verona have been remixing each other. Sharing a certain preference for hardly categorizable music, the results can be found here, pressed to the most beloved of all vinyl formats: the 7 inch.
The American duo The Vacant Lots release Berlin EP on A Recordings, recorded in Anton Newcombe's studio in Berlin. Anton had the band support The Brian Jonestown Massacre in 2014 and was so impressed with their sound, that he offered to produce and remix this EP (also helping out on bass, guitar and synths too.) Berlin EP takes the monochrome sound of the Vacant Lots and adds a layer of Berlin chill: "Promise Me" features lyrics from Jeffery Lee Pierce, "Verschwinden" features the disconnected vocals of Astrid Carter. The shoe-gazing "Land" comes before the throbbing beats of "Funeral Rites".
WOOFERS AND TWEETERS ENSEMBLE, THE: Beatle Barkers LP (ABERRANT 001LP)
Aberrant Records present a reissue of The Woofers and Tweeters Ensemble's Beatle Barkers (1983). Attention Beatles fans and lovers of all things canine - Here's what you've all been waiting for, a vinyl rerelease of one of the weirdest artifacts the world's ever seen. Originally published in 1983 in Australia and New Zealand and long out of print, Beatle Barkers finally answered the vital question: How would the fab four's biggest hits sound as interpreted by dogs (and an assortment of other beasts)? The answer is right there in the grooves of this magnificent oddity, an animal feast of barking, yapping and howling that would have made the Liverpool wonders proud of mankind's best friend. Woof, woof! Edition of 300.
$14.99 UPC: N/A ROCK
A1. I Want To Hold Your Hand
A2. Love Me Do
A3. Ob-La-Di Ob-la-Da
A4. We Can Work It Out
A5. I Saw Her Standing There
A6. I Feel Fine
B1. Can´t Buy Me Love
B2. All My Loving
B3. Day Tripper
B4. She Loves You
B5. A Hard Day´s Night
B6. Paperback Writer
LP version. The Micronaut creates the soundtrack for those moments when the screeching of the subway and the steps on the wet pavement have echoed away into the dark city sky; Those moments when the ghosts of fumes and stop lights haunt the empty streets, when behind glowing windows dreams and urban exit strategies get ready for bed; When everybody is close to each other, but everyone is on his own; When the city comes to a standstill, but the wheels inside the heads of its inhabitants keep spinning. Stefan Streck discovers the musical equivalent for this epic atmosphere somewhere between bass music, electronica and pop. The cinematic soundscapes of his nocturnal city blues have a somewhat tragic vibe, which is very noticeable both during the impulsive, passionate live shows of The Micronaut and on Forms, his third studio album on Acker Records. Between moments of deep melancholy and sudden eruptions of blissful euphoria, he creates a feverish state of tension. Features Saskia Arndt, Sebastian Bode, Laura Deadelow, I Am Halo and Robert Groos-Albouts.
CROATIAN AMOR: Love Means Taking Action CD (ALT 028CD)
Multi-faceted Copenhagen-based artist Loke Rahbek presents Love Means Taking Action under his alias Croatian Amor. It is the first full-length Croatian Amor recording since 2014's The Wild Palms, a release that was made available on cassette for a single month, and only in exchange for a nude self-portrait. Since the inception of the project, Croatian Amor has dealt with a mixture of fiction and reality, often using real events and places as a platform for a largely fictional play. Where there is playfulness, there is revelation. On Love Means Taking Action - without a doubt the project's strongest work to date - the effect of the perpetual collaging of information is keenly felt. Short, unnerving moments appear with slick familiarity. Voices repeat and quietly glitch through tonal shifts. Listeners are ushered along by the shuddering effect of the samples and field recordings on the pristine synthesis, with motifs and plot lines presented as quickly as they disintegrate. Listeners are enticed to find comfort here but are not guided through a space as with much ambient music. The textures and terrains that Love Means Taking Action presents form an array of scenarios with what at times feels like a punishing degree of indifference to the listener. Listeners are bluntly shown snippets of impassioned architectures. It is a process that draws the listener in through alienation.
Outer Space return with Gemini Suite, their first new material since 2014's Phantom Center, released on Editions Mego (EMEGO 196EP). Similar to Brian Eno's Discreet Music (1975) wherein he focused more on an ambient sound than on previous records, Gemini Suite finds the core duo of John Elliott and Drew Veres focusing more on the ambient side of Outer Space while still maintaining and producing their distinct alluring synth sound. Gemini Suite is one long beautiful lush thirty minute piece split over two sides complete with chirping birds and crashing waves fit for late night meditations and long drives on I-71. Highly recommended for fans of Imaginary Softwoods's The Path of Spectrolite (AICD 003CD), previously released by Amethyst Sunset in 2011.
SEBASTOPOL: Sebastopolis, The Journey LP (ADM 101LP)
Sebastopol. From the Greek Sevastos polis: Venerable city. Marc Debroey could arguably have chosen a better moniker for his new musical project. His former efforts - Indicators, 7 A Nou, but especially Fat's Garden - were all as idiosyncratic as they come, but always straight from the heart. Sebastopol is a new state of the union. Not concerned with being the flavor of the month, it's firmly focused on the journey and the destination. The Journey containing instrumental pieces akin to the work of artists as diverse as Legowelt, Alessandro Cortini and John Carpenter. Meanwhile, each song, describes a facet of the human condition against a backdrop of Baltic harbor towns, where the iciness of the water contrasts with the natural warmth of the wooden houses. The Journey was analogically recorded in Marc Debroey's home studio, treated and mixed in Staf Verbeeck's Stiff studio and mastered at Jerboa, by Frederik Dejongh.
NIGGEMANN, ALEX: Balance Presents Alex Niggemann CD (BAL 019CD)
Balance Music's latest offering comes from Germany's Alex Niggemann. Niggemann steps up to the plate with an emotive, murky, and deep selection of grooves. Alex Niggemann's work has always been focused around deep atmospherics and mysterious melodies. His AEON imprint has brought through names like Speaking Minds and Denis Horvat, both of which are featured here. Putting together this mix proved to be a challenge he relished. His shortlist of track choices was whittled down by a process of elimination: a certain track isn't available, so an alternative selection comes into play. "It is a bit like being a soccer manager" he says, "being flexible and able to react to certain changes, still making the whole team work together best." So seamless and congruent is his selection, however, that you'd never know this to listen to it. "For me it was important to create new 'songs' between each track during the transitions between them. For me, a 'mixtape' was always about that; trying to avoid obvious changes and create a fusion between songs, keeping the same mood, so the listener doesn't hear a new song coming in, but realizes after a few minutes that there was a change." His brooding take on deep, melodic and often dramatic techno fits together harmoniously, subtle changes modulating the mix in granular fashion. Beginning with the near-beatless ambience of TVA's "Radio Camaldoli Stereo" with pared back melodies and FX harkening back to the vintage days of progressive house before Andrea Oliva's "Empty Lips" imparts sorrowful melody and militant snare rolls. Trevino's take on Dark Sky's "Rainkist" intorduces the first tense vocal, going into the shimmering melodies of Dave DK and Gui Boratto and the expert hypnosis of Daniel Avery on Ricadro Tobar's "Garden". A new exclusive from Niggemann, "Hurricane", yields a graceful vocal over squelchy kicks, with Trikk and Dubspeeka providing throbbing tracks with delicate melodies. Baikal's minimalist approach provides deep introspection before the warm acid of Philipp Stoya's "Rula" adds a touch of machine funk. TVA and Denis Horvat take the listener into even more tripped-out waters. Going deep again with MUUI's "Rsrsrs", Aril Brikha & Sebastian Mullaert laying on rampant riffs aplenty on "Illuminate" and Valet's "Crisis Of Faith" opening up the atmospheric space further. Etapp Kyle's "Opto" plunges the listener deeper still. Antigone and Ø [Phase] to draw the mix to a close via some floaty ambient techno.
PEACOCK & PAUL BLEY, ANNETTE: Dual Unity LP (BAM 7018LP)
Bamboo present a reissue of the debut album by Annette Peacock & Paul Bley, Dual Unity, originally released in 1972. Annette Peacock's legacy may only just be courting recognition proper with the recent retrospective release of her solo debut I'm The One (1972). Hailed as a pioneer and artistic genius by many, her debut album and predecessor to I'm The One captures Peacock in her element alongside husband; Canadian jazz genius Paul Bley. Dual Unity is a landscape of aural vision captured on tape in 1970 during their first European tour. For 33 minutes and 21 seconds, the listener is absorbed by other spirits. Using Robert Moog's earliest synthesizers, Bley and Peacock apply the strategic use of silence to indicate its reflective nature with captivating results. Originally released in 1971, it is a statement of immensity through synthetic minimalism and a milestone in the avant-garde, free jazz movement. Personnel (in addition to Peacock and Bley performing on all tracks): Han Bennink - drums on "M.J." and "Gargantuan Encounter"; Mario Pavone - bass and Laurence Cook - drums on "Richter Scale" and "Dual Unity". Professionally re-mastered original sound recording with expansive liners, interviews and rare archival photos.
Endless Field, Airaboi's debut EP, is dedicated to the power of changes. With a total of three tracks, Endless Field is the result of a big change in his life, where the tireless struggle for many years culminates in a difficult but right decision - the excitement of a new era. Features a rework by Bataille and a remix by Bearoid.
Bare Hands founding member Sedvs deepens his excursions into classic nineties techno with his first solo EP. Side A kicks off with ambient track "Sunshine And Roses" and descents into up tempo tracks "Brace Of Shakes", playfully contrasting dried-out kick drums and hypnotic vocal sampling encased by a daunting bassline. With the more toolish "Affection", Sedvs lays out the blueprint of his nineties-referencing take on techno. Side B starts out with the 138bpm track "Lust", tapping into more spherical fields with closing track "All Or Any". 140 gram black vinyl and includes hand numbered postcard artwork. Edition of 300.
Re_Grad is the new collaboration between Resoe and Grad_U of Redscale fame. The two of them talked about making a project together, so they started sending sound files back and forth. Apfelbaum EP is the result of the first two tracks they made together, pure dub techno deepness.
Resoe is back with another solo EP on his own label, Baum. With Mammutbaum EP, Resoe shows his darker side of dub infused techno. The EP consists of three heavyweight cuts performed live, made in his new studio on his modular system.
Cerrone is one of the main architects of disco music. His influence is well-known around the world and Red Lips adds to the monument that his discography represents. Over three years, he traveled back and forth to London, Paris and New York to record Red Lips, working with some of the most promising young artists (Kiesza, Yasmin, Brendan Reilly), collaborating with well-established stars (Aloe Blacc, Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip) and worldwide legends Nile Rodgers and Tony Allen. Get ready to dance, the king of the night is ready to claim back his throne. Also features: James Hart, Sam Gray, Wallace Turrell, Mike City, Dax Riders, Chelcee Grimes and Sam Gray. Two translucent red LPs in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner-sleeves and a CD included.
Joy is Brandt Brauer Frick's fourth album and the first one to be truly vocalist-focused and song-centric. With the help of Canadian poet-singer Beaver Sheppard who played a prominent role the composition, BBF explores what the band-members describe as "post-religious" themes, such as struggling to find joy in times of uncertainty and instability. This makes it without any doubt BBF's "Nietzsche album". Following on from their latest album Miami (2013) Brandt Brauer Frick keeps moving away from the dark mood of their early releases and the image of a "classical new music ensemble" to resemble more closely an "experimental rock band". With much more grit and growl than before, they draw upon genres and styles that are not conventionally associated with joy: krautrock, punk, drum'n'bass, indie rock, new wave, and pretty much every other "-wave" from the '80s. With each track offering a contrasting combination of styles and genres, BBF succeed in devoting a whole album to a single feeling without making it either monotone or cliché. Instead, they build on euphoria to expand and enrich electronic music's emotional range with new textures. Joy is more than an album, it is an emotional journey. CD version comes in a digipack and with a six pages accordion booklet.
SPACE ART: On Ne Dira Rien: Best Of All Times CD (BEC 5156657)
On Ne Dira Rien: Best Of All Times is a best-of featuring 15 essential tracks that give a comprehensive overview of Space Art's singular universe. It is the first CD edition pressed from 2010 digital remasters. Includes an eight-page stapled booklet including archival images. Space Art, the duo of Roger Rizzitelli and Dominique Perrier, is a legendary group that is considered a great pioneer of French electronic music. Perrier, having collaborated with Michel Fugain and Il Etait Une Fois, is one of legend Jean-Michel Jarre's closest collaborators. Dominique discovered the very first synthesizer ARP (Odyssey) which he was taken with so much that he created his own band, Space Art, aside his good friend drummer Rizitelli. This curious band endorsed tight and opaque costumes of decontamination which covered their bodies and masked their faces. In 1977, "Onyx", recorded in Studio Ferber mixed by René Hameline, became a very successful single. Issued from the album Space Art (BEC 5156240), the single sold over three million copies worldwide. Two albums shortly followed, in 1979, Trip To The Center Head then in 1980, Play Back (BEC 5156239). Space Art is behind the massive hits: "Onyx", "Give Me Love", "Love In C Minor" and more. Space Art's legacy is the true "techno trance". A keyboard virtuoso, Perrier worked on all of Jarre's albums from Rendez-Vous (1986) to Oxygène 7- 1 (1997) and still tours with him around the world. Space Art toured with Jarre in China in the early '80s. Alongside Jean-Michel Jarre and Cerrone, Space Art are considered one of the pioneers of electro music.
ABSTRAXION: She Thought She Would Last Forever 2x12" (BIOLP 003LP)
2x12" version. After his stunning debut album Break of Lights at the end of 2013 (HAKT 009CD/LP), Harold Boué, better known as Abstraxion, presents his second album She Thought She Would Last Forever. Abstraxion's career has already seen many highlights, two of which being the label he runs with Belgian producer DC Salas, Biologic Records, reaching its ten year anniversary in 2016 and having played some of the best clubs in the world. With his obvious talent and ability to create a pensive beauty in his productions, there is no doubt Abstraxion's career will continue to reach new heights. Full of reveries and hybrid explorations, Harold's second full length She Thought She Would Last Forever evokes images of landscapes and forests. A stretching dark and dystopian atmosphere pervades the album, but he still manages to mesh the melancholy with an overarching and swelling euphoria, contrasting themes of melancholia and exploring the tensions between expectation and reality. The explorative nature of the album is articulated clearly through Abstraxion's use of minor chords and organic sounds. She Thought She Would Last Forever begins with "An Error Occurred", a convivial albeit mysterious and energetic primer that then dives into the tight percussion and pensive vocals of "Just What I've Always Wanted". The title track is a dramatic cut which transcends slickly into the rasping synth, and recoiling bass of "Needed You" accompanied by the entrancing vocals of Loic Fleury from Isaac Delusion. "Spazieren" is a ten-minute leisurely passage through dystopia that has been crafted with finesse. "Blackout" is a minor key track whose lead synth is focused around an arpeggiator to create suspense. "Seascape", a melancholic ambient track which shifts into the more energetic percussion of "Not Far Away From You", picking up pace once again. "Rinjani" is a melodic and menacing march with pulsing synth lines, leading expertly to the final track. "Dystopia" blends otherworldly sounds from the distant future with percussion and reverb, creating space in the musical landscape and bringing Abstraxion's second album to an expansive and poignant close. Mixed by Francis Harris.
Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen - a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalog of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his works on ambient techno and arctic-themed pieces, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His 1997 album Substrata (TO 050CD/BIO 005LP) was voted by the users of the Hyperreal website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album. Cirque - originally released in 2000 - was Biosphere's first album for the UK label Touch. This reissue comes with six bonus tracks and new artwork. Jon Savage in Mojo (UK): "Fourth full album from ambient pioneer. Coming to prominence with 1992's Microgravity (BIO 003CD/LP) - which along with the first couple of Aphex/Polygon Window CDs, defined the genre ambient - Geir Jenssen as Biosphere has made three of the '90s best albums, culminating with last year's near beat-less Substrata. The idea - as it always was thanks to Eno's On Land (1982) - is music as environment (reflecting, creating): working from his base in Tromso, Arctic Norway, Jenssen offers a polar, Apollonian exploration of the human psyche. Cirque is a perfectly constructed 47-minute sequence: cold clarity up against real depth of field, synth cycles dissolving into sudden moments of sonic revelation that sound like a waking dream - try the first 20 seconds of 'Black Lamb & Grey Falcon'. (And if you think that's pretentious - your loss). Inspired by the story of a young American, Chris McCandless, who walked alone into the Alaskan wilderness and perished, Cirque balances the tightrope between warmth and unease, resolving into a moon melody that leaves you a peace. What a good record!."
Oren Ambarchi's Editions Mego release, Hubris (EMEGO 227CD/LP, 2016), gets the remix treatment courtesy of electronic music legend Ricardo Villalobos. Villalobos expertly transforms Ambarchi's layered web of countless sustained and pulsating palm-muted guitars into a funky, mesmerizing and propulsive long-form piece. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin March 2016. Photograph by Estelle Hanania. Sculptures by Daniel Druet. Design by Stephen O'Malley.
FORNO, CARLA DAL: You Know What It's Like CD (BLACKEST 015CD)
Carla dal Forno presents her debut solo album You Know What It's Like, following time in cult Melbourne group Mole House and an earlier association with Blackest Ever Black as a member of F ingers and Tarcar. Her voice is an extraordinary instrument: both disarmingly conversational and glacially detached. It has something of the bedsit urbanity of Anna Domino, Marine Girls, Antena, or Helen Johnstone - stoned and deadpan - but it can also summon a gothic intensity that Nico or Kendra Smith would approve of. This voice is the perfect embodiment of dal Forno's emotionally ambiguous songs: their lyrics rooted in the everyday, observing and exposing a series of uncomfortable truths. "Fast Moving Cars" and "What You Gonna Do Now?" weigh up claustrophobia against loneliness, inertia against acceleration, doubling-down versus taking-off; the title track acknowledges the provisional nature of love and "real" intimacy, then decides to brave it anyway. By the time the startlingly sparse "The Same Reply" arrives, the sense of dejection is absolute. The vocal-led pieces are interspersed with richly evocative instrumentals. Smothered in tape-hiss and reverb, the seasick synthesizer miniatures "Italian Cinema" and "Dragon Breath" channel the twilit DIY whimsy of Flaming Tunes and Call Back The Giants. The drum machine and bassline of "DB Rip" are pure Chicago house, but then its dark choral drones nod to Dalis Car's dreams of blood-spattered Cornwall stone. "Dry The Rain" drinks from a stream of moon-musick that runs through Coil, In Gowan Ring, Third Ear Band, even the Raincoats's Odyshape (1981).
SCNTST returns to Boysnoize Records with a heavy-hitting remix EP of "Thru Infinity". After his latest album Puffer (BNR 024LP, 2015) and his latest EP 4FRIENDZ (BNR 142EP, 2015) the young Bavarian strikes again. With vibrating synths creating a thrilling rhythm full of emotions, the sound of "Thru Infinity" displays an excursion into danceable beats. A new sound produced with perceptible blood, sweat and tears. The EP includes remixes by none other than the Bavarian brother duo Zenker Brother (Ilian Tape) as well as Chicago born Hieroglyphic Being.
CANNELL, LAURA: Simultaneous Flight Movement CD (BRAWL 010CD)
Simultaneous Flight Movement is Laura Cannell's third solo release, following her critically acclaimed Beneath Swooping Talons (FANF 036CD, 2015) and Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth (2014). Simultaneous Flight Movement was recorded live in one take inside Southwold Lighthouse in Suffolk, UK. A collection of semi-composed, semi-improvised pieces from the edge of England which attempts to move away from formal structure and to re-imagine a sonic landscape unrestricted by time or origin. With a background in medieval, baroque, traditional and experimental music, Laura explores the spaces between ancient and experimental music through improvisation to create new music that is rooted in but not tethered to the past. With the seldom used, rich and evocative polyphonic overbow technique and double recorders styled on early stone carvings, Laura creates a minimalist chamber music, where one player makes all the harmonies, encouraging harmonics and different tones to emerge. Medieval cantigas intertwine with the music of long disintegrated renaissance courts, and real-time compositions produce parallel chord movements which seem to originate from the same, ahistorical place.
2016 repress; 140-gram LP. Cluster's self-titled debut was originally released by Philips in 1971; this edition is the first reissue to restore the track running order of the original Philips release. Includes liner notes by electronic avant-garde pioneer Asmus Tietchens. In 1998, The Wire listed Cluster's self-titled debut as one of "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (When No One Was Listening)." Very few albums from Germany can lay claim to this honor. Cluster is a monster; it contains a mere three untitled tracks and was quite an ordeal for untrained ears when it was released. Yet the album pointed the way forward like no other electronic opus. Cluster's previous incarnation was a trio called Kluster. A change in direction and musical differences moved Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius to split from the group's third member, Conrad Schnitzler, in 1970. The following year, in addition to playing live, they recorded their first album in publisher Ralf Arnie's Star Musik Studio in Hamburg. Here they first met Conny Plank, who would himself become a legend. They remained close friends until Plank's death in 1987. Early Cluster music was new. New in the sense that it did not continue any tradition, instead laying the foundations for a future tradition. The duo's utter renunciation of conventional harmony and rhythm, embrace of near total aural abstraction, and confident use of noise, rigorous live electronic improvisation, and a positive mindset were all factors in Cluster's innovative trailblazing of 1971. For want of a better category, Cluster was classified rather inappropriately and incorrectly as "cosmic." Few recognized Cluster for what it was -- a synthesis of pop music, stripped of embarrassing glamor, and so-called serious music without intellectual constraints. Moebius and Roedelius took the liberty of raiding both disciplines to perfect their musical concept. A common enough practice today, but akin to a palace revolution in 1971. So it is that three pieces of electronic music meander and pulsate through Cluster, with no beginning and no end. Cluster's music is free and open in all directions. There are sounds, noises, and structures to be heard on this album that would become ingrained in the electronic pop music of the 1980s and 1990s. Cluster had taken the first step into the future.
Bureau B present a reissue of Rolf Trostel's second album Two Faces, originally released in 1982. While Inselmusik (BB 230CD/LP), released the previous year, was intended as a basis for live performance, Trostel composed and produced the five instrumental tracks on Two Faces exclusively for this album. The music is clearly a product of the Berlin School, yet it is more sophisticated and varied than its predecessor. Some new additions to Trostel's instrument collection are audible. While on its predecessor the still novel strains of the PPG Wave Computer 360 A and its associated sequencer were augmented only by a Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm drum machine, resulting in a fairly puristic sound, the sonic pallet on Two Faces is enhanced by the Minimoog solo synthesizer and a string synth. The CR-78 is considered the first programmable drum machine and can be heard clearly, for example, on Phil Collins's hit "In the Air Tonight" or during the intro of the album version of Blondie's "Heart of Glass". But on Two Faces Trostel uses its potentially assertive sounds relatively modestly and often in the background - surely so as not to steal the show from the wavetable sounds. As with Inselmusik, Two Faces uses numerous synth runs that harness the possibilities of PPG 350 Computer Sequencer, which are layered to complement each other and often also define the chord progressions and song structure. The digital PPG sequencer offered some innovative features for this: The musician could invert the notes of a sequence with the press of a button or use the keyboard to transpose the sequence either at the end of each note or each loop. Of course, in addition to the PPG 360 Wave Computer A, it could also be used to control analog synthesizers. Synchronizing with tape machines was also not a problem. In comparison to Inselmusik, Rolf Trostel himself felt that Two Faces was more versatile and aggressive and "away from the idea of meditation, but without entirely abandoning contemplative structures." The first edition of this self-produced long player amounted to 2000 copies, which Trostel distributed himself.
From Detroit techno and hip-hop's early sampling experiments to Terre Thaemlitz, electronic music has long proven its political potential, even in instrumental form. With OstWest, Berlin-based electronic-kraut-dub trio Automat complete their trilogy with a deep and entrancing take on the failures of neoliberalism. Recorded in 2015 at Candy Bomber Studios in Berlin's former Tempelhof Airport at the height of the European refugee crisis, the band found itself neighbors of thousands of refugees from across the Middle East and Africa who were being provided temporary housing in the airport's former hangars directly below the studio. With the first two parts of the Automat trilogy centering on Berlin's airports, 2014's self-titled album (BB 161CD/LP), and dubs hardware of sonic space travel, 2015's Plusminus (BB 205 CD/LP), OstWest stands as a musical interpretation of the impact of these thousands of new arrivals within Germany and the EU, as well as the rise of xenophobic political movements spurned on by the Brexit. The result is a series of atmospheric and rhythmic meditations that provide the foundation for swirling electronics and the bass-heavy sounds of a changing Europe - from the musical perspective of longtime Berlin residents who have already experienced the destruction of post-Cold War optimism shortly after the fall of the wall. More driving than previous recordings, OstWest is made up of a series of first takes. While the opener "Ost" features a melange of samples, meandering organ and synth stabs that recall both Count Ossie and Basic Channel, it's with the second track "Fabrik Der Welt" that the band's kraut-y push - also featured later on "Europa" - charges forward. Where historically Europe has been used by the likes of Kraftwerk and Cluster as a metaphor for space and freedom of travel, Automat recast it as a dark rain ride to refuge, shaped by the sounds of claps and samples that race past the listener on the way to an uncertain future. The feeling of stylistic exploration remains throughout OstWest in the loping riddims and acid-jazz-like "Tränenpalast" and "Tempelhof", with the former ("Palace of Tears") named after a border crossing between East and West Germany, and the latter a shelter for new immigrants to Germany. The band's continued collaboration with Max Loderbauer is reflected in touches of modular synthesis, which augment the melding of acoustic drums and electronics. Automat is: Jochen Arbeit, Achim Färber, and Zeitblom.
LP version. Includes CD. Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011), composer and concept artist, was one of the most important representatives of Germany's electronic music avant-garde. A student of Joseph Beuys, he founded Berlin's legendary Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a subculture club in 1967/68, was a member of Tangerine Dream (with Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese) and Kluster (with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and also released countless solo albums. Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) has been involved in various musical fields since the late 1980s. Between 1989 and 1997 he played and sang in bands like Locust Fudge and Hip Young Things, before focusing more on electronic music from 1997 onwards, starting up his Schneider TM project. In 1999, Dresselhaus formed the duo Angel with Ilpo Väisänen. The Con-Struct series features Schnitzler's daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. He preserved these exceptional sounds for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances, amassing a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When Jens Strüver, the producer of the Con-Struct series, was granted access to this audio library at the outset of the 2010 decade, he came up with the idea of constructing new compositions, not remixes, from the archived material. On completion of the first Con-Struct album, he decided to develop the concept into a series, with different electronic musicians invited into Schnitzler's unique world of sound. Schneider TM on his involvement: "I am very happy and honored to be invited to do an album for the Con-Struct series and wanted to do something special and genuine in this posthumous collaboration with Conrad Schnitzler. I wanted to get as close to his spirit as possible, so I created a musical situation as if we were actually collaborating together in the same room, with Conrad playing his pre-recorded sound-files or modular system and me dubbing and processing it live on the fly - almost as if it was a live-concert situation. Next to many other aspects of Schnitzler's vast oeuvre, I am fond of the noisy, poly-harmonic, poly-rhythmic and sometimes quite humorous minimalism of his music, as well as his way of using chance, which often leads to magical and raw beauty. There are no other sounds on this record except for ones created by Schnitzler, sent through my system and processed live. During the sessions I had the feeling of being in a conversation with him."
SAKAMOTO, RYUICHI: Music For Film 2LP+CD (BUTBUTSAK 001LP)
Music For Film is the first compilation dedicated to the film music of Ryuichi Sakamoto, played by the Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Dirk Brossé. This selection includes compositions from Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), High Heels (1991), Wild Palms (1993), Little Buddha (1993), Snake Eyes (1998), Femme Fatale (2002), Babel (2006), Hara-Kiri: Death Of A Samurai (2011), Yae No Sakura (2013) and The Revenant (2015). Sakamoto was already a celebrated pioneer in electronic music and composer/pianist/singer in Japan when he was asked by Nagisa Oshima to write the music for the Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence, his first major score. The list of major directors Sakamoto worked with is impressive: the veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada, Takashi Miike, Bernardo Bertolucci, Brian De Palma, Pedro Almodovar, Volker Schlöndorff and Oliver Stone. Sakamoto conceived a unique approach of film scoring: a blend of splendid melodies, synthesizer work, traditional orchestral music, drum tracks, sound effects and unusual musical colors. Out of his striking contrast of musical styles and cultures, he created fascinating and enchanting standout scores. From Merry Christmas, Mr.Lawrence, there's the haunting main theme that manages simultaneously to be Japanese and western, a central idea in the film. For The Last Emperor, Sakamoto's score blends Chinese gestures with accessible melodies. For The Sheltering Sky, based on Paul Bowles's novel, "Sakamoto wrote a rich, profusely emotive score, reflecting the emotional journey of the two characters." For Little Buddha, the composer "integrates a standard Hollywood-style film underscore with several Indian motifs." Sakamoto's one-time collaboration with Spanish director Pedro Almodovar resulted in a flavorful sound, reliant on the sounds of a flamenco guitar. Knowing Sakamoto's admiration for frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann, it's no wonder Brian De Palma asked him for the music for Snake Eyes. As Jerry McCulley testifies, the result was brilliant: "Sakamoto... crank[s] up the brass and swirling strings into an unsettling sonic maelstrom that would've done late '50s Hitch proud." In Femme Fatale, Sakamoto's next collaboration with De Palma is his playful pastiche on Ravel's Bolero, the obsessive rhythm of the opening sequence becoming a jewel heist at the Cannes film festival. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's The Revenant marked Sakamoto's triumphant comeback after he survived throat cancer. For The Revenant, Sakamoto composed new ambient music that's simultaneously subdued, low-key and emotionally powerful. Includes CD.
Deetron's techno run continues with his rhythmic prowess and analog textures forming perfectly on Endless EP. The title track opens like the first rays of the sun. Shimmering and ablaze, the track's thumping kick drum powers the rhythm while its euphoric bass synth drives through. In the alternate version, Deetron adds a percussive layer across the dominating bassline, while finger snaps and hypnotic synth stabs make for a lighter outing. "M1" is a bubbling techno excursion. Frantic dancing basslines rub shoulders with klaxon stabs before it dives further down the rabbit hole with its squelching and shock-laden acidic groove.
Dubs of Silver Apple's third album, which had been mysteriously unaccounted for, were found in a cardboard box in drummer Danny Taylor's attic. The remarkable reunion of the original duo of Simeon Coxe and Taylor hadn't been planned. After 27 years apart, they were reunited when a disc jockey at New Jersey's legendary WFMU radio station received a phone call from Taylor for the station's pledge drive. Taylor had been out of the music business for years, and his call put the pieces in place for Simeon to forge a renewed excitement for the Silver Apples's earliest recordings. The recordings included seven complete songs from 1969 and seven drum instrumentals by Taylor in 1968. Taylor's 1968 drumming demos were blended with Coxe's 1998 "Noodle" efforts.
Beacon is the fourth album for the Silver Apples, the "come back album", produced by Steve Albini and originally released in 1997 on CD only. Eight of the tracks were new songs that former exile and Silver Apples leader Simeon had composed with recent additions Xian Hawkins and Michael Lerner. The remaining three tunes are remakes from the Silver Apples's past. A reworking of "I Have Known Love" opens the record. "You and I" is given an appropriate chaotic reading; a wall of cacophonous keyboards forms in the instrumental breaks, like the video game Stargate on tilt. Of the originals, the vocal-less "Cosmic String" is the standout, developing a Trans Am groove with sounds recalling the moment the beloved Pac-Man is caught by his nemesis, Speedy. Beacon is full of the influence of '80s video games, no doubt incorporated by the twenty-something Hawkins.
Cold Spring Records present Strange City (CSR 228CD & CSR 229LP) featuring completely different music on each format. Officially licensed from Irwin Chusid of the Sun Ra estate, Cold Spring's Justin Mitchell negotiated rare and unreleased tracks from the Sun Ra archive to be remixed and treated by Masami Akita (Merzbow). The tracks incorporate the jazz power of Sun Ra, carried into brutal excess by the legendary Japanese artist Merzbow. CD version comes in a six-panel matte laminated digipak.
LP version. 180 gram vinyl. Includes download code. Cold Spring Records present Strange City (CSR 228CD & CSR 229LP) featuring completely different music on each format. Officially licensed from Irwin Chusid of the Sun Ra estate, Cold Spring's Justin Mitchell negotiated rare and unreleased tracks from the Sun Ra archive to be remixed and treated by Masami Akita (Merzbow). The tracks incorporate the jazz power of Sun Ra, carried into brutal excess by the legendary Japanese artist Merzbow.
Cornbread Records present a reissue of The Crystals's He's A Rebel, originally released in 1963. Released on the heels of the immortal hit title track which went to #1 on the charts in 1962, He's A Rebel is the second album from one of the greatest girl groups of all-time. Lead by legendary vocalist Darlene Love, and produced by Phil Spector, this record is the sound of baby boomer teenagers. Nobody alive in the early '60s could avoid the infectious dance pop of The Crystals and the sound has held up and been emulated by retro-girl-groups for decades since. But nothing can top Phil Spector and The Crystals. Essential early '60s pop reissued on 180 gram vinyl with a deluxe jacket, two bonus tracks, and a download card.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004573 ROCK
A1. He's A Rebel
A2. Uptown
A3. Another Country - Another World
A4. Frankenstein Twist
A5. Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby
A6. He's Sure The Boy I Love
A7. Da Doo Ron Ron*
B1. There's No Other (Like My Baby)
B2. On Broadway
B3. What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen
B4. No One Ever Tells You
B5. He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)
B6. I Love You Eddie
B7. Then He Kissed Me*
BROWN AND THE FAMOUS FLAMES, JAMES: Think! LP (CRNBR 16002LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of James Brown And The Famous Flames's third studio album Think!, originally released in 1960. Though the title track was a cover of The 5 Royales, it's guaranteed that James Brown is who everyone on the planet now associates the song with. Absolutely essential early R&B from the "Godfather" himself, the "Hardest Working Man In Show Business". Reissued on 180 gram vinyl with a deluxe jacket, two bonus tracks, and a download card.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004580 ROCK
A1. Think
A2. Good Good Lovin'
A3. Wonder When You're Coming Home
A4. I'll Go Crazy
A5. This Old Heart
A6. I Know It's True
A7. Can't Be The Same*
B1. Bewildered
B2. I'll Never Let You Go
B3. You've Got The Power
B4. If You Want Me
B5. Baby, You're All Right
B6. So Long
B7. Messin' With The Blues
FRANKLIN, ERMA: Her Name Is Erma LP (CRNBR 16003LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Erma Franklin's debut album, Her Name Is Erma, originally released in 1962. Erma Franklin was born in 1938 in Shelby, Mississippi, but was raised - with her sisters, Aretha and Carolyn - in Detroit, Michigan. The daughter of the legendary preacher, gospel musician, and civil rights activist Reverend C.L. Franklin, Erma grew up singing in the church, like so many other R&B and soul greats of the time. After recording backing vocals with her sister, Erma got the chance in 1962 to cut her debut album. Though she would only record one more album and retire from music entirely in the 1970s, this debut shows a singer just as talented as her more famous sister. A husky, soul belter of a voice is showcased here, with all the tracks from the original LP, including two bonus tracks. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004597 ROCK
A1. Hello Again
A2. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
A3. What Kind Of Girl (Do You Think I Am)
A4. Don't Blame Me
A5. Detour Ahead
A6. Time After Time
A7. I Don't Want No Mama's Boy*
B1. It's Over
B2. Never Let Me Go
B3. Each Night I Cry
B4. Saving My Love For You
B5. Pledging My Love
B6. The Man I Love
B7. Have You Ever Heard The Blues*
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Moondog's Snaketime Series, one of the earliest and rarest of Moondog's recordings, originally released in 1956. "Snaketime" is what Moondog himself referred to as his unique sense of time in music, what he called "a slithery rhythm". And indeed, almost nobody else was making music as unique as this in the 1950s, drawing influence from city sounds, and working on many of his own instrumental invitations, Snaketime Series is truly cutting edge American avant-garde. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl with a deluxe jacket, and a download card.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004603 CLASSICAL
A1. Caribea
A2. Lullaby
A3. Tree Trail
A4. "Death, When You Come To Me, May You Come To Me Swiftly; I Would Rather Not Linger, Not Linger"
A5. Big Cat
A6. Frog Bog
A7. To A Sea Horse
A8. Dance Rehearsal
B1. Surf Session, Part 1
B2. Surf Session, Part 2
B3. Surf Session, Part 3
B4. "Trees Against The Sky, Fields Of Plenty, Rivers To The Sea: This, And More, Spreads Before Me."
B5. Tap Dance
B6. Oo Debut
B7. Drum Suite
B8. Street Scene
BROWN, RUTH: Late Date With Ruth Brown LP (CRNBR 16005LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Ruth Brown's debut album, Late Date With Ruth Brown, originally released in 1959. Probably the best and most popular female artist of the 1950s jump blues and R&B scene, Ruth Brown was a powerhouse vocalist, and Late Date With Ruth Brown is a perfect example of her husky, smoky, and raunchy presence. Before Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, even before Ray Charles, Ruth Brown was the R&B star of Atlantic Records (there's a reason Atlantic was often referred to as "the house that Ruth built", also a nod to another NYC institution, Yankee Stadium). Essential 1950s R&B from an absolute legend, reissued on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004610 ROCK
A1. It Could Happen To You
A2. Why Don't You Do Right
A3. Bewitched
A4. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
A5. I Can Dream, Can't I
A6. You And The Night And The Music
B1. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
B2. We'll Be Together Again
B3. I'm Beginning To See The Light
B4. I Loves You Porgy
B5. No One Ever Tells You
B6. Let's Face The Music And Dance
DIDDLEY, BO: Have Guitar Will Travel LP (CRNBR 16007LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Bo Diddley's Have Guitar Will Travel, originally released in 1960. Ellas McDaniel, better known to the world as Bo Diddley, was born in 1928 in McComb, Mississippi, but like so many electric blues legends, he was raised on the south side of Chicago. After performing on street corners for years on the south side, Diddley finally cut his first records in 1955, for Chicago's own Checker label. Have Guitar Will Travel is his third LP for Checker and a classic of electric guitar driven blues and R&B. Reissued here with two bonus tracks on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004634 ROCK
A1. She's Alright
A2. Cops And Robbers
A3. Run Diddley Daddy
A4. Mumblin' Guitar
A5. I Need You Back
A6. Say Man, Back Again
A7. Lazy Woman*
B1. Nursery Rhyme
B2. I Love You So
B3. Spanish Guitar
B4. Dancing Girl
B5. Come On Baby
B6. Heart-O-Matic Love*
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA: Super-Sonic Jazz LP (CRNBR 16008LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Sun Ra & His Arkestra's Super-Sonic Jazz, originally released in 1957. Recorded in 1956 in Chicago, Super-Sonic Jazz is one of the earliest and most sought after titles from the Arkestra. Featuring Arkestra mainstays like Pat Patrick, John Gilmore, and Julian Priester, the album is, like Ra always was, years ahead of its time. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl with a deluxe jacket, and a download card.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735004641 JAZZ
A1. India
A2. Sunology
A3. Advice To Medics
A4. Super Blonde
A5. Soft Talk
B1. Kingdom Of Not
B2. Portrait Of The Living Sky
B3. Blues At Midnight
B4. El Is A Sound Of Joy
B5. Springtime In Chicago
B6. Medicine For A Nightmare
SUN RA & HIS MYTH SCIENCE ARKESTRA: The Nubians Of Plutonia LP (CRNBR 16009LP)
Cornbread Records present a reissue of Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra's The Nubians Of Plutonia, originally released in 1969. Featuring the early classic Arkestra lineup that included Pat Patrick, Ronnie Boykins, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, James Spaulding, and more, The Nubians Of Plutonia is one of the best and most sought after of Sun Ra's early titles. Recorded in the late '50s in Chicago, this LP is a top-tier landmark in a prolific career. Essential Sun Ra reissued on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005297 JAZZ
A1. Plutonian Nights
A2. The Golden Lady
A3. Star Time
B1. Nubia
B2. Africa
B3. Watusa
B4. Aiethopia
PICKETT, WILSON: I Don't Want No Part Time Love: The Early Years Of The Wicked Pickett LP (CRNBR 16010LP)
Cornbread Records presents a compilation featuring Wilson Pickett titled I Don't Want No Part Time Love: The Early Years Of The Wicked Pickett. Featuring some of his earliest recordings out of Detroit with The Falcons, and very early solo material, this collection shows the legend of soul music when he was just getting started. Though these are early recordings, Pickett's voice is fully formed and some of these tracks are the equals of later hits like "In The Midnight Hour", and "Ninety-Nine And A Half". For fans of American soul music, this collection is absolutely necessary. Issued on 180 gram LP with a deluxe jacket, and a download card.
$14.99 EAN: 8592735005310 ROCK
A1. Pow You're In Love
A2. Feels Good
A3. Billy The Kid
A4. You're On My Mind
A5. Anna
A6. I Don't Want No Part Time Love
A7. What To Do
A8. I Ain't No Crying Man
B1. I Found A Love
B2. Swim
B3. Short And Nappy
B4. Skinny Girl
B5. Lah Tee Lah Tah
B6. Darling
B7. Let's Kiss And Make Up
B8. Take This Love I Got
British producer Bnjmn heads even further into harder techno territory with the heavyweight four tracker, MDCCLXXII. Tipping his cap to '90s industrial techno, the A side delivers two uncompromising cuts. "MDCCLXXII" is tough - brash drums merging with metallic, tonal signals and searing hats. "Tor" is similarly up-tempo, however more stripped in comparison, Bnjmn continuing his inventive and challenging sound design in this Beltram-esque bassline killer. "T.E.N.S" is a short collage of buzzing, cerebral electronics, leading into "Where The Wild Berries Grow" - a fuzzy, hypnotic trip of lo-fi ambience and post-club psychedelia, stretching out over eight minutes.
Curle Recordings reissue some Matthew Herbert deep house goodies. First up is "See You On Monday" from the iconic Part One EP, 20 years old but still timeless. On remix duties is Linkwood, who released his brilliant Expressions album on Firecracker in 2015. He, for one, knows how to keep the groove whilst diving deep. Includes limited silk screen artwork. Edition of 300 on transparent vinyl.
HERBERT: Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) 12" (CURLE P07Y-EP)
Curle Recordings reissue two Matthew Herbert deep house goodies. After the very well received Linkwood remix of "See You On Monday", it's now time for one of Herbert's biggest records; "Deeper", from the iconic Part Two EP (1996). On remix duties is Basic Soul Unit. His remix exceeds all expectations. What a bomb. First edition of 300 on marbled vinyl.
Punk classic reissued on limited edition color 7". First ever reissue of Lockjaw's debut single, originally released in late 1977. Lockjaw began life in Crawley Sussex, first as The Guernsey Flowers and then as The Amazing Doctor Octopuss. This is the first of two singles they recorded for Cambridge-based Raw Records. Their continued claim to fame is that Simon Gallup was later in the band before going on to join The Cure, and it was his older brother Dave who wrote "Radio Call Sign". Bo Zo - vocals; Micky Morbid - guitar; Andy Septic - bass; Oddy Ordish - drums.
Punk classic reissued on limited edition colored 7". First ever reissue of The Unwanted's Secret Police single, originally released in 1977. Formed in March 1977 in London they played under their original name, SMAK, for the first two months, including the recording of Live At The Roxy, before settling on the name of The Unwanted. Consistent line-up changes resulted in a stop-start career. "Secret Police" was a loping sub-reggae single and most fans felt short changed after their original full on punk attack. Ollie Wisdom - vocals; Mark Curzon - guitar; Paul Gardner - bass; Danny Destroy - drums.
$5.79 EAN: 5020422046276 ROCK
A1. Secret Police
B1. These Boots Are Made For Walking
FLUGEL, ROMAN: All The Right Noises CD (DIAL 038CD)
After the major and still ongoing success of his previous albums Fatty Folders (DIAL 023CD/LP, 2011) and Happiness is Happening (DIAL 031CD/LP, 2014), Roman Flügel is back with his third full-length album on Dial Records. All The Right Noises includes adventures into contemporary house/techno music, his finest ambient works, and unique broken pieces. An intense mixture of incredible warmth, weird fluffiness and highest uplift, written in his very own musical language - barely another artist, active since the early nineties, sounds as fresh and surprising as Roman Flügel. From the very first chord of "Fantasy", a dream becomes reality, followed by the wonderfully seducing "The Mighty Suns", a masterpiece of its own. Here the journey starts getting slightly provoking with the techy "Dead Idols". "Nameless Lake" and "Planet Zorg" are excessive hymns to start a rave night out. With "Warm And Dewy", "Dust" and "All The Right Noises", Roman Flügel proves his love for eternal madness. The closing tune "Live Tends To Come And Go" is another warm ambient tune in Roman Flügel perfection.
Doxy present a reissue of Sonny Rollins's Sonny Boy, originally released in 1961.This album screams modernity. Rollins plays hard on this superb bop classic. The album contains a combination of two different recording dates from 1956, shortly after the devastating car accident that took Clifford Brown and Richie Powell. Max Roach, Sonny Rollins and George Morrow still played powerfully, as Kenny Drew filled in nicely. The wonderful hip abstract-expressionist album cover generates the tone contained inside the packaging. Fans of free jazz and bop should not neglect this masterpiece. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020750 JAZZ
A1. Ee-Ah
A2. B. Quick
A3. B. Swift
B1. The House I Live In
B2. Sonny Boy
Doxy present a reissue of Thelonius Monk and Gerry Mulligan's Mulligan Meets Monk, originally released in 1957."(...) At the time of its original issue in late 1957, Mulligan Meets Monk was considered an anomaly. Its two namesake artists represented two different, divergent 'schools' of jazz. Gerry Mulligan, the baritone saxophonist, was associated with the laid-back, relaxed vibe of cool jazz. He had played with Miles Davis on the sessions that would become the definitive Birth of the Cool (RUM 2011122LP). Around the same time, he had made a name for himself as an arranger and performer with Chet Baker. Thelonious Monk, the pianist, was a cutting-edge, rule-breaking composer and performer, so much so that for the first decade of his career he was often viewed as a misguided outcast. Monk's harder, angular, almost percussive style was a crucial influence on the bebop style of jazz. Musically, Mulligan and Monk seemed to have little in common... The sessions that became Mulligan Meets Monk occurred by happenstance, as John Coltrane, with whom Monk had been performing at the time, was the Riverside label's original choice of sax player. Coltrane was unavailable, though, so producer Orin Keepnews decided to have Mulligan take part instead. Good things often happen by accident, and Mulligan Meets Monk is one of those. Over time and several reissues, it has become a favorite among fans of both artists." --John Bergstrom, 2013. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020767 JAZZ
A1. 'Round About Midnight (Monk, Williams)
A2. Rhythm-A-Ning (Monk)
A3. Sweet And Lovely (Arnheim, Tobias, Lemare)
B1. Decidedly (Mulligan)
B2. Straight, No Chaser (Monk)
B3. I Mean You (Monk)
AKIYOSHI, TOSHIKO: Her Trio Her Quartet LP (ACV 2079LP)
Doxy present a reissue of Toshiko Akiyoshi's Her Trio Her Quartet, originally released in 1956. An engaging pianist whose crisp, forceful attacks take off from Bud Powell territory but go well beyond mere imitation, Akiyoshi is also a skilled composer-arranger and ranks as one of the more acclaimed figures in the bop-based modern big band field. Her work in the latter category blends swinging, Gil Evans-esque arrangements with occasional Eastern influences, spotlighting top-notch soloists such as tenor saxophonist/flautist Lew Tabackin. Edition of 500 (numbered). From original liner notes: "(...) About this session, recorded in July, 1956, Toshiko begins by saying of her altoist colleague, 'Boots played so beautifully on the session. Of my tunes, 'Salute To Shorty' I originally wrote for five horns. 'Pea, Bee And Lee' I wrote for Lee Konitz (he does not know it.)' Henry W. 'Boots' Mussulli is an emotionally vehement modernist who has worked with Mal Hallett, Teddy Powell, Gene Krupa, Charlie Ventura, and has headed his own units. Boots along with bassist Wyatt Reuther, formerly with Dave Brubeck and Erroll Garner, and drummer Edmund Thigpen of the Billy Taylor trio is heard with Toshiko on all tracks but 'Pea, Bee And Lee', 'No Moon At All' and 'Thou Swell.' On these three, Oscar Pettiford, one of the major bassists in jazz history and the crisp, spearing Roy Haynes of the Sarah Vaughan entourage accompany Toshiko (...)"
$14.39 UPC: 889397020798 JAZZ
A1. Kelo
A2. Salute To Shorty
A3. Pea, Bee And Lee
A4. Taking A Chance On Love
B1. All The Things You Are
B2. No Moon At All
B3. I'll Remember April
B4. Thou Swell
Doxy present a reissue of Thelonious Monk's Monk's Music, originally released in 1957. "(...) Monk's Music is among the most significant of Thelonious Monk's classic albums. Here he was literally looking back and ahead at the same time, by bringing together Coleman Hawkins (the very first important voice on tenor saxophone) and John Coltrane (on the verge of becoming a major shaping force of the '60s). Equally notable is the incredible rhythmic support provided by combining Art Blakey and Wilbur Ware; and, justifying the album title, a selection of vital Monk compositions - plus his choice of the 19th century hymn, 'Abide With Me' (written by one William H. Monk) (...)" --Music Direct. Edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020811 JAZZ
A1. Abide With Me (Monk) (0:52)
A2. Well, You Needn't (Monk) (11:23)
A3. Blues For Tomorrow (Gryce) (13:32)
B1. Off Minor (Monk) (5:10)
B2. Epistrophy (Monk-Clarke) (10:46)
B3. Crepuscule With Nellie (Monk) (4:46)
B4. Ruby, My Dear (Monk) (5:25)
Doxy present Michel Legrand's original soundtrack for Eva, directed by Joseph Losey and released in 1962. Michel Legrand, the so-called Mozart of the new wave cinema, was made fully aware that he was actually the director's second choice for Eva's soundtrack. Joseph Losey originally wanted Miles Davis for the project. But Legrand's beautifully constructed jazz score serves as a perfect complement to the charismatic images of the film's Venetian setting. The main character's love of jazz music is reflected within Legrand's score. The film also contains two Billie Holiday tracks "Willow Weep For Me" and "Loveless Love". "Adam & Eve" features vocals by Tony Middleton. A fascinating and musically rich score, one of those European '60s soundtracks that simply shouldn't be missed. Edition of 500.
$14.99 UPC: 889397381349 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Adam & Eve (Theme Song) (Tony Middleton Introduction)
A2. Main Title
A3. At The Bar
A4. Water Ski
A5. One Morning In Roma
A6. Willow Weep For Me
A7. Eve's Room
A8. Tivian Visits Eve
B1. Eve & Tivian
B2. Eve & Francesca
B3. Eve, Francesca & Tivian
B4. A Hotel In Venice
B5. The Wedding
B6. Dumped Tivian
B7. Loveless Love (Billie Holiday Epilogue)
B8. Finale
The second EP from Zurich based Pacifica is featuring their new song "Memory Man", a trippy journey combining folk and future house. This EP features two touching remixes. Kalabrese delivers a laid-back, but irresistible version. When it's dropped, the crowd immediately starts to dance and drift. Same thing with the Frankey & Sandrino remix, which works perfectly at the peak-time of a night and results in euphoria on the dancefloor.
$8.39 UPC: 673796006114 ELECTRONIC
A1. Memory Man (6:36)
A2. Memory Man (Frankey & Sandrino Remix) (8:21)
B1. Memory Man (Kalabrese Remix) (8:26)
PHILLIPS, WASHINGTON: Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams CD/BOOK (DTD 049CD)
Dust-to-Digital's inaugural release, 2003's Goodbye, Babylon (DTD 001CD), included two recordings by a mysterious gospel musician from Texas named Washington Phillips, who died in 1954. After fielding inquiries about the hauntingly beautiful songs from listeners around the world, in 2013, Dust-to-Digital checked in with Michael Corcoran, the leading researcher on Phillips, to see if any new information had been uncovered. Indeed, Michael had some leads, but he would need a working budget to track them down. Three years later, in 2016, after combing through various archives and talking with the last surviving people from the Simsboro-area who remembered Phillips, the name of Phillips's homemade instrument (the Manzarene) has been revealed, in addition to the time, place, and manner of his death and many anecdotes about his life. Dust-to-Digital now share this story with Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams, a 76-page hardcover book by Michael Corcoran accompanied by a CD of recordings made by Phillips between 1927 and 1929. To ensure a superior listening experience, the label tracked down the most pristine original copies of Phillips's 78-RPM records, created high-resolution transfers, and had the audio expertly remastered for the best-sounding Phillips reissue to date. Hear the sublime, hypnotic, ethereal music of Washington Phillips in clarity like never before. Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams includes song lyrics, label reproductions, and photos, along with liner notes by Michael Corcoran.
"The mystery of Washington Phillips begins the first time you hear his sweetly-sung Christian blues, bathed in a celestial haze of notes from an instrument that sounds like a child's music box. His music is a simple prayer, with the blessing in the asking, the singing, the playing. But his ethereal sound is also highly developed to the point of being almost psychedelic. Where did this strange and moving music come from?" --Michael Corcoran
VA: Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll 2LP (PT 2007LP)
Double LP in gatefold sleeve with insert and download code. Expanded edition of the soundtrack to the celebrated 2014 documentary film Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll, originally released on CD by Dust-to-Digital in 2015. On April 17, 1975, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge and Cambodian rock and roll was no more. Its star musicians were targeted and killed, record collections were destroyed, clubs were closed, and Western-style music-making, dancing, and clothes were outlawed. The deaths of approximately two million Cambodians and the horrors of the Killing Fields have been well documented; add to this John Pirozzi's fascinating tale of Cambodia's vibrant pop music scene, beginning in the 1950s and '60s and influenced by France's Johnny Hallyday and Britain's Cliff Richard and the Shadows. Cambodian culture has long been synonymous with a love for the arts. Don't Think I've Forgotten pays homage to the country's rock legends who paid for their creativity with their lives. Punctuating rare archival footage with telling interviews with the few surviving musicians, Don't Think I've Forgotten examines and unravels Cambodia's tragic past through the eyes, words, and songs of its popular music stars of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Compiled by Pirozzi, the soundtrack album is very cinematic in nature -- the sequencing and remastered audio transport the listener through the rock and roll history of Cambodia in a way that parallels the film. It is both entertaining and essential to hear so many tracks that have never before been available outside of Cambodia. Performers include The Royal University of Fine Arts, Sinn Sisamouth, Chhoun Malay, Huoy Meas, Baksey Cham Krong, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, Sieng Vannthy, Va Sovy, Drakkar, Pou Vannary, Yol Aularong, and Cheam Chansovannary. Includes two tracks not included on the CD version ("Three Maidens" by Ros Serey Sothea and "Have You No Mercy" by Drakkar).
$20.39 UPC: 880226200718 SOUNDTRACK
A1. The Royal University of Fine Arts - Phnom Penh
A2. Sinn Sisamouth - Under the Sound of Rain
A3. Chhoun Malay - The Story of My Love
A4. Huoy Meas - Unique Child
A5. Baksey Cham Krong - B.C.K.
A6. Ros Serey Sothea - Don't Be Angry
B1. Sinn Sisamouth - Dance a Go Go
B2. Pen Ran - There's Nothing to Be Ashamed Of
B3. Baksey Cham Krong - Full Moon
B4. Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea - Thevary My Love
B5. Ros Serey Sothea - Heaven's Song
B6. Sinn Sisamouth - Navy a Go Go
C1. Sieng Vannthy - Console Me
C2. Drakkar - Crazy Loving You
C3. Pou Vannary - You've Got a Friend
C4. Yol Aularong - Cyclo
C5. Ros Serey Sothea - Old Pot Still Cooks Good Rice
D1. Ros Serey Sothea - Three Maidens
D2. Drakkar - Have You No Mercy
D3. Yol Aularong & Va Sovy - Dying Under a Woman's Sword
D4. Sinn Sisamouth - Don't Think I've Forgotten
D5. Cheam Chansovannary - Oh! Phnom Penh
The Delegation is a project of young phenomena Gabriel Zucker that mixes jazz, classical, electronica, rock, and more into a new sound that lives up to ESP-Disk's old catchphrase "You never heard such sounds in your life!" This improvising group came together at the 2013 Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop and was soon commissioned by the American Composers Forum; the result is the twelve-movement work on this two-disc set, which was premiered at the Jazz Gallery in New York City in 2014 and earned ASCAP's Morton Gould Young Composers Award. Personnel: Gabriel Zucker - piano, compositions, lyrics, electronics, voice; Adam O'Farrill - trumpet; Eric Trudel - tenor saxophone; Jacob Teichroew - tenor saxophone, clarinet; Bryan Qu - tenor saxophone; Mark Chung - violin; Ron Lawrence - viola; Eric Allen - cello; Artemisz Polonyi - voice; Lorena del Mar - voice; Bam Bam Rodriguez - bass; Gabriel Globus-Hoenich - drums; David Su - additional electronics. Acclaim for Gabriel Zucker: "...suavely combined a symphony orchestra and a jazz band, beginning with a haunting orchestral hush and passing a gentle theme through the jazz soloists. It was a nocturne out of early Bernstein or introspective Sinatra." --Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times from Universal at Midnight's Carnegie Hall premiere. Acclaim for Gabriel Zucker from Bach Society Prize of the Yale Music Department for being "a pianist who has excelled in solo, concerto and chamber music genres, a jazz pianist who has sustained a creative and virtuosic activity during his time at Yale, and a composer who has intensified his ambitious endeavor to find a synthesis between his art music and jazz interests."
Berlin-based Scuba, aka Paul Rose, presents the 90th installment of the world's leading house and techno mix series from Fabric. Paul Rose's Fabric appearances have evolved over the years from bass music Fridays to the house and techno of Saturday nights. Rose's ability to select, sequence and stitch together 42 tracks over 75 minutes is remarkable. A diverse range of artists get called upon to build a dark, seductive atmosphere. It means that among the bumping lo-fi techno and cavernous bass sounds, there is a palpable sense of being lost in the rave. Paul Rose is the founder of Hotflush Recordings. Packaged in bespoke slipcase containing die-embossed tin. The mix features debuts by: Isaac Reuben, Glaskin, Blursome, and DXC. Also features: Digitaline, Patrick Cowley, Dense & Pika, Jason Cudmore, Mike Servito, Regis & Antonym, Ben Klock, Carl Craig, Miss Fitz, Ricardo Villalobos, Alleged Witches, Eric Cloutier, Kamera, Truncate, Pearson Sound, Donato Dozzy, Taylor Deupree, Marco Shuttle, Surgeon & James Ruskin, Literon, Markus Suckut, Tallmen785, Sciahri, Tessela, Wrecking Project, Gunnar Haslam, Scuba, Stenny, Jonas Friedlich, Kloves, Kuf, Les Gammas, and Midland.
REICH/TERRY RILEY, STEVE: Six Pianos / Keyboard Study #1 CD (FILM 002CD)
After the widely noticed performance at the "Acht Brücken Festival 2016" at Cologne's Philharmonic Hall, Gregor Schwellenbach, Hauschka, Erol Sarp (of Grandbrothers), Daniel Brandt and Paul Frick (both of Brandt Brauer Frick) and John Kameel Farah release their interpretation of Steve Reich's "Six Pianos" as a studio recording via FILM. The re-recording of this piece is an interpretation of Reich's composition but still far more than just that - it is a modern approach to his idea behind it. The basic idea came up at the beginning of the '70s at the Baldwin Piano & Organ Company in New York. During a rehearsal phase, which Steve Reich spent in this very piano store, the idea emerged of writing a composition for all the grand pianos available to him at the company. By the time of the finished piece, the actual number of pianos had settled down to six, where "Six Pianos" developed in 1973. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the six pianists declare their love to Steve Reich with this release. Shaped by electronic club music as well as their classical education, they form "Six Pianos" in dignified modernity and top it off with today's sound aesthetics and technical recording possibilities. Presented here is not the recording from the Kölner Philharmonie (Cologne Philharmonics), but the ensemble playing six different grand pianos in six different locations throughout Germany. Each pianist performed his part on his piano using his typical studio equipment and passed the recording over to the next one. Thus the six characteristic and individual timbres of the performers overlay to create the overall picture - "Six Pianos" the way it should be looked at in 2016. Jan Brauer mixed "Six Pianos" in the studio while Lukas Vogel provided delays for the "Keyboard Study #1". "Keyboard Study #1" by Terry Riley is a worthy companion for Reich's composition. The piece is kind of a building set of ever lengthening, repetitive patterns played against each other with the right and left hand displaced. The composition proposes various possible combinations for the performer to choose from and repeat at will. And what the performers have chosen proves Gregor Schwellenbach's assumption: "Terry Riley's and Steve Reich's music are open doors for pianists socialized by pop music and their audience."
FIRE MAGAZINE: Issue Three: September 2016 MAG (FIRE 003)
Fire Magazine present their third issue, September 2016. Features: Blues Pills (cover story), Mos Generator, Zodiac, Sahg, The Wounded Kings, HP Lovecraft, Eternal Elysium, Truckfighters, Comet Control, Subrosa, Mondo Generator, Psycho Fest - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bloody Hammers, Temple of Dust, Gozu, Dee Calhoun, Stonewitch, Istvan, Wo Fat, Palace of the King, Godwatt. File under: heavy psych, stoner, doom, sludge, occult, dark, '70s hard rock, space rock, garage, drone. Size: 210mm x 297mm.
Munich pair Jorkes present third new single, Mindemania This scintillating single is the sort of thing to slowly sweep you off your feet with its skyward synths extending out from broody drums. Dreamy yet propulsive, it takes you among the clouds before falling apart with gentle percussive hits and tumbling keys. The "Lovegasm Version" is a more beat-driven affair with drifting vocal sounds bringing a certain steaminess to the groove. Finally, Nikkname presents his eight minute interpretation, embedding the listener in the center of spiraling pads, with harmonic bell sounds and dark cosmic energies.
Anterior Space may strike some listeners of a certain age as an echo of the gilded age of "armchair techno" exemplified by Warp Records's Artificial Intelligence comps. The convergence of the cerebral and the blissful in the four epic compositions HOLOVR (aka Jimmy Billingham) finesses from his analog and digital synths are similar to early-'90s pieces by Black Dog, B12, and others. Discussing the creation of Anterior Space, which is the first HOLOVR release to not feature beats, Billingham reveals, "Dropping drums gave me a bit more freedom in terms of tempo and rhythm, and it was actually really liberating. Having fewer elements in a track also meant it was possible to record live, which is my preferred way of working, as you can capture an actual snapshot of time and a natural, in-the-moment negotiation of the different elements of a track. I'd know a track was ready if I could sit there and listen to it looping round for long periods of time and really get lost in it, and then I'd try and capture a nice section of that in the space of 10 minutes or whatever." You can hear this on Anterior Space's opening 11-minute track, "Into Light". Its subtle gradations of warped tones and implied rhythms teem with hyperactive elegance. The slow, mobile-like rotation of synth baubles over a foundation of yearning, icy drones on "Apparent Motion" creates the illusion of a shimmering stasis, but there's actually a great deal happening here. "There's lots of subtle variation in the tracks, with pattern length differences and parameter tweaks," Billingham says. "I'm really into the hypnotic effect that you can get from this; the feeling of constant change within something that is otherwise staying the same." Thankfully, all these elements on "Apparent Motion" coalesce into a celestial chill-out zone and serve as an aural icepack for your overworked mind. On "Temporary, Autonomous", the lightest of acidic squelches prod this track into a similar rarefied ether as the less propulsive cuts on Plastikman's Sheet One (1993). Eleven-minute closer "Involution" is a gradual procession of globular ambience that seems always to be changing and yet also emitting a steady-state glow. Billingham also records under the aliases Tidal, Venn Rain, Journey Of Mind and Holographic Mind. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering; Artwork by Chloe Harris; 180 gram vinyl in reverse board jacket.
NADJA: The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife CD (GZH 070CD)
Nadja return with The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife, their first release for Gizeh Records. The Canadian/Berlin-based ambient doom duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff continue their ultra-prolific output with a monolithic record which explores the depths of heavy noisescape-related music. Encompassing distorted riffs and hypnotic rhythms the album sonically attempts to continue on from the more structured elements of the duo's recent Queller album (2014), coupling that approach with Nadja's more traditional sprawling, dense and challenging sounds. The relentless fuzzed-out textures repeat and build into a blissful and cathartic whole - a place to be completely immersed. In the deep, glacial and all-consuming world that Baker and Buckareff provide the listener with here, there is a will to dissolve, to let the record wash right over you or perhaps even through you. At times crushingly beautiful, The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife is brought to life by its clever restraints with quieter interludes serving a perfect purpose against its more intense, heavier moments. The album's intriguing title comes from a runic inscription on an Icelandic burial stone but the phrase also appears on the Eggja Stone which provided some of the lyrical content on the record. Nadja have a habit of transcending genres and indeed throughout their career, they have been incredibly difficult to pin down. The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife is a welcome addition to that hefty catalogue and stands up tall against their most impressive work. Aidan Baker - guitars, vocals, drum machine; Leah Buckareff - bass guitar Recorded in the autumn of 2015 at Broken Spine Studios, Berlin. Mastered by James Plotkin. Artwork by Aidan Baker and Richard Knox.
RODRIGUEZ, ARSENIO: Como Se Goza En El Barrio: Havanna & NYC Recordings 1946-1962 2LP (GR 026LP)
Ignacio de Loyola Rodríguez Scull, aka Arsenio Rodríguez, was a Cuban musician, bandleader and prolific composer who developed the son montuno and other Afro-Cuban-based rhythms. Today, he is seen as one of the most important figures in Latin music, with his influence reaching beyond the Spanish speaking world to also include African popular music of the 20th century, though when he died he was not widely known by the public for his contributions and influence. He is also recognized (along with Israel "Cachao" López and Dámaso Pérez Prado) as one of the creators of mambo, what Rodríguez himself often referred to as "ritmo diablo". Some of his best-known, and most-often covered recordings from the '50s and early '60s are included here, among them "Dame un cachito pa' huele'," "Dundunbanza," "El reloj de pastora," "Cambia El Paso," and "Hay Fuego En El 23". Never one to stand still creatively, by the early 1960s Arsenio began introducing other experimental modes of expression taken from his new adopted home (jazz, r&b, rock) into his conjunto, incorporating saxophones and "walking" bass, as well as amplifying his guitar and even singing a few tunes himself (in a jocular, gruff tone). True to his racial pride, he often utilized African religious terms, melodies, rhythms and sonorities. Leaving New York and moving to Los Angeles in 1969/1970 to try his luck on the West Coast, Rodríguez unfortunately remained relatively unknown in California, and by most accounts audiences were indifferent to his by now old-style Cuban music, especially with the rise of Latin rock. In the late '60s and early '70s, Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican bandleader and musical director of Fania Records, had been recording versions of the conjunto and son montuno sound that Rodríguez and others like La Sonora Matancera had pioneered decades before, complete with trumpets and tres, and similar arrangements. Arsenio's innovative techniques, arrangements and compositions have had far reaching consequences because not only was the rise of salsa in the late '60s and '70s fueled in part by his Afro-Cuban son conjunto aesthetic, but one could argue that his pioneering influence can still be felt today through the edgy deconstructionist jazz and punk inflected music of Marc Ribot's Cubanos Postizos and Jacob Plasse's thrillingly eclectic ensemble Los Hacheros. The tracks here have been remastered and restored and some are presented on vinyl after many years. 350g cardboard printed on the reverse side.
A new Caribbean trip through calypso, mambo, cumbia cha-cha-chá, lena, rhythm'n'blues, Latin jazz and others Afro booty-shaking rhythms, Limbo! adds to the great line of Zombie Club releases. All aboard the Zombie Club sonic cruiser, with the same intention/obsession of their previous trips: Gozar! Once again, Zombie Club chart an uncertain course through the Caribbean Islands on their way to New Orleans, visiting Colombia, Cuba, Trinidad, Bahamas, Martinica, Puerto Rico. If listeners enjoyed Come to the Caribbean (GR 021LP, 2014) and Mambo Calypso (GR 022LP, 2014), they shouldn't miss the chance to shake their booty to this selection of West Indies rhythms. Another magical musical journey through steamy and exotic landscapes, the musical selection speaks for itself. So grab a cocktail, put the record on and dance. Features: Lord Tickler with The Jamaican Calypsonians, Cyril Díaz and His Orchestra, Noro Morales, Cortijo y Su Combo, Barel Coppet et ses Antillais, Lucho Pérez, James Moody and His Bopmen, Slilm Gailliard, Pacho Galán y Edmundo Arias, Mon Rivera y su Orquesta, Trío Matamoros, Charlie Adamson, Lord Kitchener and René Touzet.
Guns Of Brixton reissues the 1991 album from Spanish punk band Eskorbuto. Demasiados Enemigos ("Too Many Enemies") is not just the title of another disc by the blazing band from Santurtzi but the album with the difficult duty of putting an end to a legendary combo as we knew it. Eskorbuto was a band of its time and that is shown in every chord and every chorus, branded in fire through the years by those who danced and vibrated around the flames of this cursed band. This is a unique album -- special due to its legacy and the circumstances under which it was recorded. Now it is reissued on vinyl. If you didn't get it at the time or you were too young to know, now you have the chance to request the max from your turntable, not giving a damn if volume affects the structure of the building.
$16.39 EAN: 8437007552270 ROCK
A1. Adiós reina mía (no me olvidaré de ti)
A2. Presagio
A3. Eskorbutín
A4. Cosas de la vida
A5. Únete al desorden
A6. Emborráchate
B1. Intolerable
B2. En la luna
B3. Nueva esperanza
B4. No quiero cambiar
B5. La mejor banda
Sleaford Mods's third Berlin show took place at Kreuzberg's legendary SO36 club. The band took to the stage on a hot sweaty June night and played to a sold out audience. The show was captured by a German documentary crew and this limited edition album captures the highlights of that incendiary performance. Among the 14 tracks on the album are favorites like "Tied Up In Nottz", "Jobseeker", "Fizzy" and the great crowd-pleaser and closer, "Tweet Tweet Tweet". The recording is a testament to the connection between the band and those that follow them. Hear the glorious carnage and madness throughout the record's duration. No language barriers, no borders, no restrictions of any kind. This album also represents the first release on Harbinger Sound's new USA subsidiary label. Fuck England!
$16.99 EAN: 5060446121153 ROCK
01. Bunch Of Cunts
02. Live Tonight
03. No-One's Bothered
04. Jolly Fucker
05. A Little Ditty
06. Mcflurry
07. Fizzy
08. Routine Dean
09. Bronx In A Six
10. Tiswas
11. Tied Up In Nottz
12. Jobseeker
13. Tarantula Deadly Cargo
14. Tweet Tweet Tweet
GLITTER WIZARD: Hollow Earth Tour (Red Vinyl) LP (HPS 039LTD-LP)
Red vinyl version. Glitter Wizard are a band of California riff-lords pillaging the best of vintage hard rock while keeping their laser eyes on the future, creating a unique brand of oddball psychedelia. Their onstage performance is a glammed-up force to be reckoned with and they've been taking their act on the road from the west coast all the way to Europe. The San Francisco glam weirdos Glitter Wizard release Hollow Earth Tour on Heavy Psych Sounds. The alliance continues the label's successful run of Californian hookups - see also: Wild Eyes, Farflung, Hot Lunch, Fatso Jetson, etc. - and when it comes to Glitter Wizard, they come off as the kind of band who are way too busy writing the next album by the time the current one has been released to worry about the particulars. Nonetheless, their strange, vaguely subversive and often catchy heavy rock and roll is at its best on Hollow Earth Tour.
Californian desert rock progenitors Fatso Jetson present their first proper full-length since 2010, Idle Hands. Their last release, 2010's Archaic Volumes, answered the go-anywhere-at-any-time intensity of earlier records like 1995's Stinky Little Gods and 1997's Power Of Three with a refined sense of groove, always bringing in a sense of experimentalism to their foundation of heavy, punk-infused rock. Since that album came out, Fatso Jetson have hardly been idle. They've toured Europe multiple times over, including with Yawning Man, in which Fatso honcho Mario Lalli also plays, and released splits with Yawning Man, and one with Farflung that marked their first collaboration with Heavy Psych Sounds. Mario Lalli says this about the new album: "This record represents one of the toughest years in my life. To be honest, I barely got it done. It's a very important record because I'm in a way coming out of a long troubled period in my life, and with lots of love and help from my friends and family I got to a place where I could get back to music and express some of this stuff. The band spent three days at Rancho de la Luna with Mathias Schneeberger recording and co-producing and writing on some pretty rough ideas. Dino, my son, wrote a lot of the heavier, more angular, intense music, and I was coming from a more melodic, dark vibe... seemed to all come together. Larry and Tony both wrote music on the album and one of my life-saving buddies, Sean Wheeler, collaborated on two songs I'm very proud of. Also was awesome having my daughter, Olive Lalli, singing on half the tracks. The title of the album is straightforward and the record, the contrary action, to faith without works is dead. We are stoked to do the record with Gabriele [Fiori] from Heavy Psych Sounds. He's been so supportive of us for years now, a good friend. That's how this should be."
BODZIN, STEPHAN: Powers of Ten 3x12" (HERZ 050-3LP)
2016 repress; Pressed on 180-gram vinyl; includes download code. German techno mainstay Stephan Bodzin unleashes his full-length musical vision on the world in the form of Powers of Ten, providing another great insight into the melodically rich mind of this modern great. Bodzin says, "Powers of Ten has been with me all my life and is named after a book that has been my background hiss, its confusing truth is my only real faith and its infinity shows me its finiteness. The album is about harmonies, melodies, rhythms. It is an homage to Bob Moog, full of techno beats and sounds and space and party and ecstasy and dancing and listening, and crying and feeling. It is a journey, a philosophy of life, a view of the world, a vague perception. It is my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my passion, my enemy, my greatest fulfillment, my fear, my deepest peace, my power, all my love." As such, this album is hugely personal and is filled with cerebral messages and well-thought-out concepts. All this shines through and makes the listening experience all the more engaging from start to finish. Kicking off with the spine-tingling chords and louche beats of "Singularity," cuts like "Lila" then continue to confirm that Stephan Bodzin has a classical understanding of melody that is way above average. "Blue Giant," "Wir," and "Ix" all manage to be uplifting and thoughtful while simultaneously driven and groovy, and "Birth" comes on with a hymnal high note, long-tailed pads, and subtly shifting beats. The ghostly grooves of "Zulu" mark the majestic midpoint of the album, which then continues to seduce with spiritual synths and more beautiful melodies on cuts like "Odyssee" as well as the album's standout title-track. Unfolding coherently and in soothing fashion, this album once again proves that few producers in the modern world have a knack for melody and an ear for sonic ingenuity quite like Stephan Bodzin.
GORDON, DEXTER: Village Vanguard, NYC Feb '83 2CD (HH 3043CD)
Dexter Gordon, live at the Village Vanguard, New York City on February, 27th 1983. Dexter Gordon's long and remarkable career saw him perform alongside Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane and many others. After a long spell in Europe, he returned to the US in 1976, and was named Down Beat Musician of the Year in 1978 and 1980. This superb set was broadcast by National Public Radio, and finds the great saxophonist celebrating his 60th birthday in typically authoritative and entertaining style. Digitally remastered here for greatly enhanced sound quality. Presented with background notes and images.
In 2012, Giulio Aldinucci released Tarsia on Nomadic Kids Republic to critical acclaim. Follow-up Goccia takes a rather thunderous step in the direction of a bang-on classic with one of the most complete, catchy, and ambitious albums heard in a long time. Balancing organic layers with some fantastic melodic synth hooks, flying straight through a maze of frequencies from drones, bleeps, bloops, background music, jingles, jangles, gut-punching subs, and whatever else he can. Features vocals by Nadia Bredice. Mastering and design by Ian Hawgood. Cover art by Peter Nejedly. Comes in a portrait style matte card digipak with hand-embossed printing. Edition of 500.
Moritz Leppers, the man behind the Altars Altars moniker, makes music using a variety of instruments running through his faithful, old reel-to-reel machine. Much has been made of reel-to-reel in recent years, but when you come across an artist who uses its limitations and beautiful randomness to such effect, it's deeply stirring. It is very refreshing to hear someone who makes simple, melodic, and inherently soulful ambient music, and it is a reminder of how rare it is to listen to such music and really feel connected when people play around far too much with computers, software, and plug-ins. Taking a few steps back and letting the music breath in such an organic way really has a truly deep meaning. Mastered by Ian Hawgood. Photography by Dominic Kreutzer. Design by Christian Roth and Ian Hawgood. Edition of 500.
Hospital Productions collect some of the strongest cold-wave pop dirges of a generation with Contrepoison's Discography 2010-2012 survey, wrapping up both his self-released tapes and releases for Dominick Fernow's cherished imprint. Since the late '90s, Québécois musician and noise artist Pierre Marc-Tremblay has been recognized as a vital force in nether musical realms with a palette ranging from hermetic black metal (Akitsa) to the bitterest rhythmic noise (Âmes Sanglantes), and, more recently, the nerve-bitingly melodic pop of Contrepoison, whose I Keep On Searching 12" (2012) - included here - is a firm fixture. Arriving at the vanguard of a new slew of cold-wave revisionists and fetishists in 2010, his music stood, and still stands, head and shoulders above the rest thanks to an incessant drive and directness that can't be ignored by anyone into the original stuff, or who has arrived via the sound's prevailing, contemporary winds. Vacillating belting vocal pop arrangements with howling, stygian instrumentals of synth, guitar and enslaved drum machines, Discography 2010-2012 drags a perfectly malformed body of work, cycling chronologically from the pounding mix of industrial kicks and neo-folk cadence of ...Until Next Morning's amazing title cut (2010), to the blank-eyed dirge of "To Never, Forever", before taking in the stomping "Deserted Story" from his 2011 split with Vatican Shadow, and committing the fucking addictive hits of "I Keep On Searching", best summed up in that raging, glam title tune and sandwiched with aces from the compilation Around The Dragon's Broken Neck Hangs The Medal Of Saint Lazarus (2010). It only gets more wonderfully bombed out and crestfallen from therein, from the plangent siren call of "Nectar Of Destiny" to the exclusive instrumental, "The Moon Has Mad The Eclipse", and a grip of killers off The Thunders Which Collide tape (2011), including the raging banger "The Thunders Which Collide" and another cut exclusive to this set in the instrumental, "As The Blazing Sun Enters Scorpio". Basically, it's riddled with memorable hooks and rages like a wounded beast trapped down a well. RIYL: Cold Cave, Prurient. Edition of 500.
No matter the season or the nationality, every day on Ibiza, tribute is paid to Carthaginian deity Tanit at sunset. The warrior goddess of dance, fertility, creation and destruction lords over the Balearic island, as she has for centuries. Phoenicians, Assyrians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Arabs, and even the Norwegians have conquered the island since ancient times and every summer that history plays out, a similar array of nationalities descending on the island anew. Yet the soul of Ibiza remains intact. Every sunset still ushers in her arrival; that singular, sacred time on the island, taking on the feel of a pagan ritual, a shift in consciousness - the end of the beginning. For those who make the pilgrimage looking for this transformative experience, it requires little more than venturing away from the Vegas-like lights of San Antonio towards such sublimity. Tucked away on the west coast of the island, Hostel La Torre beckons with its beauty and "vista spectacular", encompassing the essence of that authentic Balearic spirit, as pioneered by Alfredo Fiorito at Amnesia and José Padilla at Café del Mar in the early '80s. But this is not an exercise in nostalgia, rather a journey that seeks to reframe Balearic music in the present moment by embracing that "anything goes" spirit via the avant-garde of Finis Africae's "Managua", rare classics like the Arabic pop funk of Ahmed Fakroun's "Nisyan" and Cameroonian poetry of Francis Bebey's "Forest Nativity", with the proto ambient house of Spooky's "Orange Coloured Liquid" and modern productions like Dominique Dumont's "Comme Ça", Andras's "Gold Coast" and Mark Barrott's "Deep Water". Balearic in its truest form is all these things and much more, it's cosmopolitan and countercultural, international yet wholly specific to a singular place on Earth. It lights upon and encapsulates all the evocative beauty of Ibiza, the sounds themselves matching the color palette of the island. The red dirt hills and the white sands, the pink blooms of almond trees and the electric blue of the water surrounding Es Vedrà, the raw beauty of Ibiza is all here. At its root, Balearic music is always experiential. Also features: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Cantoma, Barry Forgie, Il Guardiano Del Fa Ro, Tri Atma Und Gyan, Planet Funk, Gryningen Frün Andra and Hatchback.
Vergers is Sarah Davachi's third full-length release following Barons Court (2015) and Dominions (2016). It marks her second appearance with Important Records following 2014's August Harp cassette on the Cassauna imprint (SAUNA 017CS). In Vergers, she meditates on a single electronic instrument, the EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer, while also weaving sparse acoustic elements - her own voice and violin - into a series of three long-form, muted gestures. Elements of distance and alienation are certainly at play in the textural quality of these compositions, a feeling that is further defined by track titles that reference the spirit world and an album title that calls to mind the solitary tasks of the church orderly. The record opens with the aptly titled, "Gentle So Gentle", a side-long movement that recalls the glacial character of Davachi's previous efforts. "Ghosts And All" and "In Staying" suggest a more disjointed path, with the latter culminating in a subtly dissonant dirge that leaves little absolve between the organic, the artificial, and the impermanent.
Important Records present the first part of a re-release of Eleh's influential Radiant Intervals, originally released in 2010. Radiant Intervals is a meticulously nuanced and restrained exploration of the rhythmic and harmonic relationships inherent in pure analog frequencies, using a blend of intuitive and mathematically based tunings. Dense patterns of sound slowly unravel and are woven together again in new ways while harmonics hover and shift overhead. Radiant Intervals is a purely analog recording, made with a Serge Modular system, Mini Moog, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 and a Pro- One. Comes in heavy-duty, metallic silver-shimmer, screen-printed jackets. 180 gram vinyl.
A celebration of five years for Amsterdam based label Indigo Aera, one of the most trustworthy and respected contemporary Detroit techno labels around. Head honchos Maarten Mittendorff and Jasper Wolff go to the vaults of early day, soul-searching techno regularly, digging up forgotten gems to re-issue them with modern quality standards. Indigo Aera present The Rhythm part one of five, in a series with The Funk, The Spirit, The Soul and The Transformation. The Rhythm features: Yamaoka, Skudge, Museum and Jasper Wolff.
A celebration of five years for Amsterdam based label Indigo Aera, one of the most trustworthy and respected contemporary Detroit techno labels around. Head honchos Maarten Mittendorff and Jasper Wolff go to the vaults of early day, soul-searching techno regularly, digging up forgotten gems to re-issue them with modern quality standards. Indigo Aera present The Funk, part two of five, in a series with The Rhythm (AERA 016-1EP, 2016), The Spirit (AERA 016-3EP), The Soul and The Transformation. The Funk features: Makam, Don Williams, San Proper & Antal and Daniel Jacques.
A celebration of five years for Amsterdam based label Indigo Aera, one of the most trustworthy and respected contemporary Detroit techno labels around. Head honchos Maarten Mittendorff and Jasper Wolff go to the vaults of early day, soul-searching techno regularly, digging up forgotten gems to re-issue them with modern quality standards. Indigo Aera present The Spirit, part three of five, in a series with The Rhythm (AERA 016-1EP, 2016), The Funk (AERA 016-2EP), The Soul and The Transformation. The Sprit features: Ø [Phase], Deniro, Maarten Mittendorff and Louis Haiman.
HAIMAN, LOUIS: The Cosmic Memory EP 12" (AERA 017EP)
Louis Haiman returns to Indigo Aera with The Cosmic Memory EP, featuring a remix by Marcel Dettmann. His first single here is "How Free Am I", and it is eight delicate minutes of floating ambience and subtle, stripped back rhythm. Soothing and absorbing throughout, it becomes a forceful and high pressure bit of techno in the hands of Marcel Dettmann who layers in solid kicks and clacking hits to drive things along. "Hidden Knowledge" is a slithering bit of atmospheric electro with rumbling synths and pads suspending you in deep space.
QUEEN IDA AND THE BON TEMPS ZYDECO BAND: Live From The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, '80 CD (INTR 022CD)
Queen Ida And The Bon Temps Zydeco Band live from The Old Waldorf, San Francisco on September, 7th 1980. Ida Guillory is a jewel in the history of roots music who wears her own crown. Her passionate grasp of Creole roots lay charged behind the accordion, having offered compelling results since the 1970s. Countless appearances alongside her brother Al Rapone in the Bon Temps Zydeco Band have given widespread joy to more than just a roots audience. While San Francisco's famed venue was perhaps more familiar to contemporary rock acts, Queen Ida was always going to be "at home" wherever she played, an attitude that is felt throughout this prized set here. Professionally re-mastered original KALX-FM broadcast with background liners and rare archival photos.
BARROTT, MARK: Sketches from an Island 2LP (IFEEL 029LP)
2016 repressed; Double LP version in gatefold sleeve; 180 gram heavy weight vinyl. Mark Barrott's Sketches from an Island compresses this Balearic heartbeat into nine warm gems which paint a picture of the island, the people, and the magnetic beauty that pulses through it. Recorded in Ibiza's northern hills using "weird percussion, some slide guitars and a few borrowed synths," it's a melodic and mysterious representation of a place seeped in a rich and rebellious history. Opening track "Baby Come Home" radiates with carefree tropical sounds and upbeat harmonies. The blues-soaked melodies of "Essene" perfectly navigates the tension between heart-bursting happiness and melancholy and "Go Berri Be Happy" is like Prefab Sprout gone to Ghana. Its color-smudged, hazy emotions swirl between Brian Eno, Penguin Café Orchestra and Compass Point vibes into a free-flowing cascade of live playing and synthesized sound, perfectly epitomized on the future classic "Formentera Headspace Blues." Barrott himself is a man of serious musical pedigree. He founded the highly-respected International Feel label back in 2008, after moving to Uruguay, where his A&Ring tempted the elusive DJ Harvey out of studio retirement for his genre-defying Locussolus project and he followed it with new work from artists like Quiet Village, Gatto Fritto and the Italian cosmic disco-don Daniele Baldelli. Since moving to Ibiza, he's continued producing and releasing music anonymously on his label as Rocha, Bepu N'Gali, Flights Of Fancy, Boys From Patagonia and The Young Gentlemen's Adventure Society. The releases covered house, Afrobeat and proper downtempo Balearic and quickly sold out. "Sketches is inspired by those weird, unique little oddities that would turn up on early José Padilla mix tapes that he'd sell in the Las Dalias hippy market, before he even went to the Café Del Mar," says Barrott. "It's influenced by living in Ibiza year-round, and by the feeling of what I think Balearic sounds like." It's warm and widescreen music for the days when you need musical sunshine. Or as Café Del Mar's José Padilla, says: "This is what I call Balearic."
WOLF MULLER & CASS.: The Sound Of Glades Remixes 12" (IFEEL 058EP)
The Sound Of Glades Remixes features three remixes of tracks from Wolf Müller & Cass.'s mini-album The Sound Of Glades (IFEEL 054EP, 2016). "Glade Runner" features a remix by Salon Des Amateurs resident Tolouse Low Trax, with wonky insect sounding synths and a perfect bump and ride. On the B side, Müller's version of "Aiolos" takes the original sound of the forests to the beach - Ibiza via Germany. Cass. takes the same track to a more mellow zone to round things off with his trademark drones & drifting vocals, light percussion and flanged drums.
Promo Only - Jolly Jams's 31st release. Brand new four track. A side opens up with a classic Chi- town fueled house tune which is one can only describe as peak time. The second track eases into more familiar territory with bucket loads of blue eyed soul and acid rhythm sounds like a track that Ron Hardy would have played at The Muzic Box. Track three is a bona fide underground disco track, sounding like the German disco band Superamx. Track four is a simple, but instrumental, groovy, rub-a-dub tune.
Portable presents This Frozen Lake. "Odd bedfellows as they might seem, minimal's clinical precision and the trembling passion of vintage soul have been entwined throughout Alan Abrahams's career. As Portable, the South African producer has made intriguing connections between the two genres, with ballads sung in a drowsy, soulful baritone over repetitive electronic grooves." --Resident Advisor. Includes two mixes by Bodycode and Shackleton.
LEICHTMETALL: Mit Dem Bauch An Die Wand CD (KK 095CD)
Dada-pop is the happy specter of contemporary pop music. While picking up musical and poetical clichés and making fun of them, it never loses sight of its own message. From the beginning, Leichtmetall has been an audiovisual piece of art, not only by way of wonderfully shrewd compositions and arrangements, but also by its willfully ambiguous lyrics, reminiscent of children's drawings at first hearing. The incommensurable is brought together: beginning with the fairy tale sounds of multi-voiced glockenspiels and women's voices combined with an electronic beat hailing from the beginning of homemade electro-music. Add lyrics which pick up weighty issues only to tear them down and dwarf them instantly by the use of simplistic rhyme-art. Last but not least, the visual concept of the band reinforces the impression of a musical clock by alluding to both the romanticist E.T.A. Hoffman's humanoid automaton and the electronic-pioneers from the German band Kraftwerk. Thus, Leichtmetall achieve a static-mechanic aesthetic which both charms and disturbs the listener. Most compositions and lyrics are created by Marion Dimbath and her new partner Anja Morell - complemented by an interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Panther" poem and a cover-version of the song "Colored Like Ashes" by Günther and Regina Janssen from Donna Regina. Like other Leichtmetall recordings before, these two multi-instrumental ladies excel in the use of synthesizers, bells, ukulele, trombone, tuba, trumpet, and, of course, the mandatory and name-giving glockenspiel.
LEICHTMETALL: Mit Dem Bauch An Die Wand LP (KK 095LP)
LP version. Includes download code. Dada-pop is the happy specter of contemporary pop music. While picking up musical and poetical clichés and making fun of them, it never loses sight of its own message. From the beginning, Leichtmetall has been an audiovisual piece of art, not only by way of wonderfully shrewd compositions and arrangements, but also by its willfully ambiguous lyrics, reminiscent of children's drawings at first hearing. The incommensurable is brought together: beginning with the fairy tale sounds of multi-voiced glockenspiels and women's voices combined with an electronic beat hailing from the beginning of homemade electro-music. Add lyrics which pick up weighty issues only to tear them down and dwarf them instantly by the use of simplistic rhyme-art. Last but not least, the visual concept of the band reinforces the impression of a musical clock by alluding to both the romanticist E.T.A. Hoffman's humanoid automaton and the electronic-pioneers from the German band Kraftwerk. Thus, Leichtmetall achieve a static-mechanic aesthetic which both charms and disturbs the listener. Most compositions and lyrics are created by Marion Dimbath and her new partner Anja Morell - complemented by an interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Panther" poem and a cover-version of the song "Colored Like Ashes" by Günther and Regina Janssen from Donna Regina. Like other Leichtmetall recordings before, these two multi-instrumental ladies excel in the use of synthesizers, bells, ukulele, trombone, tuba, trumpet, and, of course, the mandatory and name-giving glockenspiel.
Since 2006, Ryan Teague has walked an unpredictable musical path, treading and blurring the lines between classical, electronic, acoustic and soundtrack influences. His latest album Site Specific is yet another twist and turn on this intriguing journey. Still present are the minimalist polyrhythms, electro-acoustic instrumentation and cinematic ambience that have come to define his style, but this time - incorporating a full band - the themes are framed through a lens which also takes in improvisation and minimal jazz. Key collaborators include Gareth Davis (bass clarinet) and Dan Nicholls (Rhodes piano), who weave subtle melodies and textures throughout. The resulting soundscapes echo the timeless feel of In A Silent Way era Miles (1969), channeled through a contemporary palette. The music is at once expressive, dynamic and exciting whilst demonstrating sensitive restraint appropriate to its minimalist objectives. Glitchy ambient opener "Wide Angle" sets the tone perfectly and makes way for the likes of "Second Scene", with its brooding bass, dark drums and minimal melodies. Elsewhere, "Surface Tension" takes a fragmented string loop on an epic cinematic journey, whilst title track "Site Specific" sets agitated drum rhythms and cutting bass against freeform Rhodes and echoing horns in an intense showdown. Ryan has demonstrated time and again that he is unafraid to try something new and Site Specific is no exception. But there's a newfound sense of focus and energy here and something genuinely fresh and exciting seems to have emerged.
LP version. 180 gram vinyl. Includes download code. Edition of 500. Since 2006, Ryan Teague has walked an unpredictable musical path, treading and blurring the lines between classical, electronic, acoustic and soundtrack influences. His latest album Site Specific is yet another twist and turn on this intriguing journey. Still present are the minimalist polyrhythms, electro-acoustic instrumentation and cinematic ambience that have come to define his style, but this time - incorporating a full band - the themes are framed through a lens which also takes in improvisation and minimal jazz. Key collaborators include Gareth Davis (bass clarinet) and Dan Nicholls (Rhodes piano), who weave subtle melodies and textures throughout. The resulting soundscapes echo the timeless feel of In A Silent Way era Miles (1969), channeled through a contemporary palette. The music is at once expressive, dynamic and exciting whilst demonstrating sensitive restraint appropriate to its minimalist objectives. Glitchy ambient opener "Wide Angle" sets the tone perfectly and makes way for the likes of "Second Scene", with its brooding bass, dark drums and minimal melodies. Elsewhere, "Surface Tension" takes a fragmented string loop on an epic cinematic journey, whilst title track "Site Specific" sets agitated drum rhythms and cutting bass against freeform Rhodes and echoing horns in an intense showdown. Ryan has demonstrated time and again that he is unafraid to try something new and Site Specific is no exception. But there's a newfound sense of focus and energy here and something genuinely fresh and exciting seems to have emerged.
KAPITAN KORSAKOV: Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities CD (KKK 003CD)
Kapitan Korsakov - dangerously abbreviated to KKK - are back! After taking a break to focus on his other band Raketkanon, Pieter-Paul Devos (vocals/guitar) gathered his bandmates Pieter Van Mullem (bass) and Sigfried Burroughs (drums) to go camping in Chicago's Electrical Audio Studios and record the successor of the latest Kapitan Korsakov album Stuff & Such (2012). Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities was recorded and mixed by kindred spirit Steve Albini and shows Kapitan Korsakov at their best: an eclectic mix of uncompromised noise-rock, catchy melodies bathing in a mud pool of distorted sounds and heartbreaking songs. "There are no genres in music. There is only good, sincere music and there is bad music," says front-man Pieter-Paul Devos. Honest songwriting, authenticity and disregarding all things fashionable are Kapitan Korsakov's trademarks; Quite the relief in times of mediocre radio-pollution. CD version comes in a jewel case and with an eight-page booklet.
KAPITAN KORSAKOV: Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities LP (KKK 003LP)
LP version. Includes download code. Kapitan Korsakov - dangerously abbreviated to KKK - are back! After taking a break to focus on his other band Raketkanon, Pieter-Paul Devos (vocals/guitar) gathered his bandmates Pieter Van Mullem (bass) and Sigfried Burroughs (drums) to go camping in Chicago's Electrical Audio Studios and record the successor of the latest Kapitan Korsakov album Stuff & Such (2012). Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities was recorded and mixed by kindred spirit Steve Albini and shows Kapitan Korsakov at their best: an eclectic mix of uncompromised noise-rock, catchy melodies bathing in a mud pool of distorted sounds and heartbreaking songs. "There are no genres in music. There is only good, sincere music and there is bad music," says front-man Pieter-Paul Devos. Honest songwriting, authenticity and disregarding all things fashionable are Kapitan Korsakov's trademarks; Quite the relief in times of mediocre radio-pollution. CD version comes in a jewel case and with an eight-page booklet.
Wolfgang Voigt is a man of many means and monikers, having engendered a unique take on electronic expressionism across multiple media - from riotous early '90s acid to cyber-folkloristic techno or the abstract drama of his current Rückverzauberung project, Voigt is a pioneering vision to be found on vinyl, canvas or flickering screens. Ranking among the most dense, hypnotic, atmospheric recordings in his oeuvre, the Gas releases have since become internationally recognized classics with a cult following, hailed as "a wondrous high point in the history of electronic music" by Pitchfork and considered "some of the most influential albums of the '90s" by The Guardian. From foggy dub techno to anthemic electronica and loop-based ambient techno, the list of acts, tracks and even genres influenced by the full-lengths and EPs crafted under the Gas umbrella between 1995 and 2000 seems endless, giving these long sold-out original releases even more of a near-mythical quality. Following the much-acclaimed (and out-of-print) retrospective Nah Und Fern from 2008, Kompakt has decided that it's high time for a reissue that features the core Gas albums, originally released by the legendary Mille Plateaux imprint in the '90s, the records that introduced the project's trademark sound between Schönberg and Kraftwerk, Wagner and the bass drum, "an endless march through the underwoods of an imaginary, misty forest and into the disco." Inside this comprehensive anthology, listeners will experience Zauberberg (1997), Königsforst (1998), Pop (2000) and the sought-after Oktember 12 inch (1999), all together available as luxurious ten LP and four CD edition. Box is the most comprehensive version of these releases ever. The vinyl features edits that were previously unavailable on wax - with each album being presented as three LP pressings (instead of the original two LP pressings), for extended playtime and superior sound quality, finally released the way this music was intended to be heard. This highly collectible box set comes with an art-print book featuring newly processed and previously unreleased photography from the Königsforst woods around Cologne, in the style of the legendary, trail-blazing Gas artwork. Box is to be considered as the definitive take on a unique sound cosmos and an extraordinary period of music. An essential outing for every serious fan of electronic music.
Veteran dub techno producer Brendon Moeller dons his Echologist alias on The Flame EP. The title track is the most experimental, opening the record with tripped-out machine melodies and off-beat drum hits. "Kavorka" follows in the same vein but is more dancefloor focused. Its arps build up the tension until a thick 303 line takes things to a tipping point and eventual release. "Dirtbox" is a fast-paced take on warehouse techno and the deep, atmospheric cut "Candy Mountain" finishes the record in Moeller's signature style. Mastered by Neel. 180 gram vinyl. Packaged in a house sleeve. Artwork by Christopher Honeywell.
Following up his debut 12" for Livity Sound in 2015, Cellar Door/Piste Jaune (LIVITY 499EP), the Parisian brings his varied tastes to this diverse four tracker. From the hazy bumping rhythms of "Gliding" to the pulsating strobed snare assault of "Away From Keyboard", these razor-edge productions demonstrate exactly why Simo Cell has been tipped by so many as one to watch.
MEMBRANES, THE: Inner Space/Outer Space CD (LTW 017CD)
The Membranes released their first album in 26 years with the critically acclaimed Dark Matter/Dark Energy (2015). The album received great reviews all over the world and lots of radio play. An ambitious album, it was sparked by a meeting between John Robb and the head of the CERN project which inspired the songs about the universe, life and death with the death of Robb's father feeding into the songs. Many fellow musicians and authors also called it their album of the year from author Ian Rankin to Mark Lanegan to the Manic Street Preachers. The Membranes decided on another ambitious project - to remix the whole of the album with special guests. The result is Inner Space/Outer Space - a re-envisioning of the whole album. Remixes by: Manic Street Preachers, Phillip Boa, Mark Lanegan, Clint Mansell, Godflesh, Tunnelmental Assembly, Black Yoga Collective, Reverend And The Makers, Keith Levene, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Youth from Killing Joke, Harry Stafford from Inca Babies, Therapy, In The Nursery, Bartak and Einsturzende Neubauten.
$10.39 UPC: 666017305325 ROCK
01. The Universe Explodes Into A Billion Photons Of Pure White Light (Manic Street Preachers Remix)
02. Do The Supernova (Phillip Boa Remix)
03. Dark Energy (Mark Lanegan Remix)
04. The Universe Explodes Into A Billion Photons Of Pure White Light (Clint Mansell Remix)
05. 21st Century Man (Godflesh Remix)
06. Money Is Dust (Tunnelmental Assembly Remix)
07. Multiverse Suite (Black Yoga Collective Remix)
08. Space Junk (Reverend And The Makers Remix)
09. Dark Matter (Keith Levene Remix)
10. If You Enter The Arena You Got Be Able To Deal With The Lions
11. Space Junk (Youth from Killing Joke Remix)
12. In The Graveyard (Harry Stafford from Inca Babies Remix)
13. In The Graveyard (Cosey Fanni Tutti Remix)
14. Hail To The Lovers (Therapy Remix)
15. Magic Eye (To See The Sky) (Bartak Remix)
16. 5776 (The Breathing Song) (In The Nursery Remix)
17. Hum Of The Universe (Einsturzende Neubauten Remix)
LDS/NICO BRUN: Fast House Series #1 12" (LOVEIT 003EP)
Lds kicks thing off with "909 To Heaven", a jacking and Balearic workout. "Snares, Kicks & Rhodes" is a more laid back jam. Lazy warm pads and a slow winding sub bass rise and fall intermittently only to be interrupted by a lo-fi distorted bass. Nico Brun opens the flip side with an absolute banger, hazily reminiscent of '90s warehouse rave. Lds and Nico Brun close the EP with an atmospheric collaboration - splashy beats keep up the footwork whilst pulsating synth sounds slowly wind together and drop with a beautifully crafted sample.
IN GOWAN RING: Visions Of Shadows That Shine CD (LUNE 008CD)
Visions Of Shadows That Shine is a collection in extempore arrangements, and in ways a "bonus" album for In Gowan Ring's The Serpent And The Dove (2015). These songs accompanied Bobin Eirth (aka B'ee) throughout these seasons - playing with friends in the open air or in private chambers, in the sun or around the fire - while working with the original material on The Serpent And The Dove. Certain pieces are considered intrinsically related to this album, having attended the entire process, while others are rather spontaneously included in these late hours. Originally self-released in 2015, Lune Music present a reissue here.
Based on the eponymous play by brothers and author/performer team Tobi and Mike Müller at Schauspielhaus Zürich, Swiss experimental documentary film A1 traverses through time and space along Switzerland's first and most elongated highway structure. Rich in archival sources, it sheds light on the costs and benefits of rapid movement: social, migratory and ecological patterns, economic and military designs that are mostly not immediately obvious to the casual motorist. Stefan Goldmann's soundtrack engages the film's multi-layered aesthetics full on, providing a dazzling array of short compositions. Profoundly synthetic in production, this free-wheeling phantasmagoria of peculiar, yet intensely likeable miniatures branches off into all directions - from minimalistic to overflowing, calm to banging, nightmarish to soothing. The visual patina of historic documents is playfully mirrored in intense distortion and noise artifacts, bound into rhythmic units and melodies formed of ghost notes. Finding new ways of mining his techno background to yield surprising new forms and ideas, Stefan Goldmann has proven his abilities in a dazzling range of projects over the past years. Works for dance, ensembles, an opera and various object-based creations made him a natural choice for the job of finding a refreshing way of linking sound and image. On its own, the music for A1 holds up by putting the listener on a high-velocity road trip of the curious mind.
BAILEY, MARCO: Materia XL2: A Pure Electronic Journey CD (MBE 159CD)
Marco Bailey's Materia brought a new generation of party to the magical island of Ibiza, with a focus on raw underground techno. Marco's vision for his first season at Vista Club brought top techno artists from all over the world including Paul Ritch, Carlo Lio and Shlomi Aber. After the successful release of Materia XL1 (2016), Marco presents Materia XL2 on his imprint MB Elektronics - a powerful collection of 21 tracks that were prominent throughout the season at Materia. Mixed down by Marco himself into a sublime set, it has a selection of exclusive tracks from MBR Limited and MB Elektronic regulars including Marcel Fengler, Dany Rodriguez, Mikael Jonasson, The Persuader and not forgetting the label boss himself, with his unreleased track "Gravity Drag". The array of tracks across this compilation provides a powerful and pure electronic journey, placing it firmly at the forefront of underground techno. Features: Joachim Spieth, Yotam Avni, Margot, Nima Khak, Moteka, Alfredo Mazzilli, Zadig, Sterac, Flug & Miki Craven, Alex Bau, Valent., Shlomi Aber, Blawan, Shifted, UVB, Sigha, Soolee, and Unam Zetineb.
Marco Bailey, a machine-man who never stops, presents Gravity Drag EP. Of course, a new page in his techno encyclopedia couldn't start without a new breath-taking EP which displays the sound of techno Marco will be following and leading. Gravity Drag EP, on his well-built home of MBR Limited, features two spectacular original cuts and two wondrous remixes by the techno titan Markus Suckut, along with a cutting-edge version by the very talented Shlømo. With a package like this, who needs more words? Let the techno speak....
HU VIBRATIONAL: The Epic Botanical Beat Suite - Boonghee Music 4 LP (META 019LP)
Hu Vibrational's The Epic Botanical Beat Suite - Boonghee Music 4 mixes deep percussive African rhythms and Afro-jazz with elements of hip-hop and electronica. Recorded and mixed at Bill Laswell's state of the art studio, this is the fourth album for Hu Vibrational. Produced and mixed by Adam Rudolph together with longtime Laswell engineer James Dellatacoma, the album features seven world percussionists along several special guests including Bill Laswell hitting the deep pockets on bass plus Norwegian guitar whiz Eivind Aarset creating ethereal electronic palettes. Joining Rudolph in the groove department are percussionists from his Go: Organic Orchestra project: Brahim Fribgane, James Hurt, Matt Kilmer, Tim Kieper, Keita Ogawa and Tripp Dudley. Each of these great drummers has performed extensively worldwide; here they perform Rudolph's rhythm compositions on a wide variety of world percussion. The tracks were then electronically processed and transformed into a true ancient-to-future expression; a dance music style Hu calls "Boonghee Music". With two acclaimed releases on Soul Jazz Records, Beautiful - Boonghee Music 2 (2003) and Universal Mother - Boonghee Music 3 (2006), and one release on Scott Heren's (Prefuse 73) Eastern developments label , Boonghee Music 1 (2002), Hu Vibrational's deep spiritual music draws on the links between Africa, jazz music and avant-garde hip-hop. Adam Rudolph is known for work with Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders and other great jazz artists, as well as his 25 year partnership with the legendary Yusef Lateef. He currently also leads his Moving Pictures Octet and the 36 piece Go: Organic Orchestra. Almost ten years since the last Hu Vibrational release of Boonghee Music, Rudolph turns his creative energies back to Hu by creating a deep groove masterpiece - indeed; a vision of future dance music. As Tommy Chong so aptly puts it, "When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world." Personnel: Adam Rudolph - bata, slit drum, rebolo, gangkogoui, udu, percussion; Brahim Frigbane - cajon, tarija, udu, percussion; James Hurt - sogo, kidi, igbo bell, udu, percussion; Matt Kilmer - frame drum, djembe, kanjira, udu, percussion; Tim Kieper - dusun'goni, pandeiro, caxixi, udu, percussion; Keita Ogawa - earthtone drum, frame drum, hadjira, pandeiro, udu, percussion; Tripp Dudley - kanjira, cajon, bayan, frame drum, udu, percussion; Eivind Aarset - electric guitars; Steve Gorn - bansuri flutes; Bill Laswell - electric bass; Alex Marcelo - Fender Rhodes.
GOTTSCHING, MANUEL: Inventions for Electric Guitar LP (MGART 901LP)
Repressed; 180-gram LP version. Originally released in 1975. Remastered by Manuel Göttsching. Recorded July-August 1974, Inventions for Electric Guitar is Manuel Göttsching's first solo album. Written and performed entirely by Göttsching on electric guitar, with a four-track TEAC A3340, Revox A77 for echoes, wah-wah pedal, volume pedal, Schaller Rotosound, and Hawaiian steel bar.
"With his latest record, Notwist singer and guitar player, film soundtracker and Alien Transistor label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating album of instrumentals. As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves - arpeggios spiraling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures. An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmur, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole. Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl. Melancholic but weirdly uplifting arrangements surface throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon's work, A Beat Of Silence beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen. Closing tracks "To the Quiet", a tentative, almost impossibly fragile ballad, and "Kona", a stretched and mangled wash of orchestral drone akin to Plinth or Edmund Finnis, leave the listener fully enveloped, as this incredibly sensitive work draws to a close." --Richard Greenan (Kit Records, Devon Loch) Personnel: Sachiko Hara - piano, harmonium; Cico Beck - marimbaphone, bass-drum, percussion, electronics; Karl Ivar Refseth - vibraphone, glockenspiel, bassdrum, percussion; Anton Kaun - objects, electronics; Markus Acher - harmonium, percussion, gongs, electronics; Tadklimp - electronics, algorithmic processing. Produced by Tadklimp and Markus Acher.
LP version. Includes an inner sleeve and a download code. Edition of 500. "With his latest record, Notwist singer and guitar player, film soundtracker and Alien Transistor label boss Markus Acher, aka Rayon, offers up a sparse, intoxicating album of instrumentals. As the name suggests, the spaces between notes here are treated with as much gravity as the notes themselves - arpeggios spiraling upwards, conflicting yet interlocking in a dizzying overlap of time signatures. An obvious reference point is Javanese gamelan, with its ensemble of hand-beaten metallophones and bamboo flutes, pulling in all directions at once and yet, like a starling murmur, maintaining shape as one, rippling whole. Eschewing electronic equipment, the title track sees marimbaphone, piano and vibraphone appearing to mimic a delay pedal, giving the effect of rain falling with odd regiment into a singing bowl. Melancholic but weirdly uplifting arrangements surface throughout the record, punctuated by mossy synth hums and subterranean rustling. Like much of Rayon's work, A Beat Of Silence beams across like a soundtrack for some forgotten documentary: dusty archive footage of cities being built and eroded in time-lapse seeming to flicker across the screen. Closing tracks "To the Quiet", a tentative, almost impossibly fragile ballad, and "Kona", a stretched and mangled wash of orchestral drone akin to Plinth or Edmund Finnis, leave the listener fully enveloped, as this incredibly sensitive work draws to a close." --Richard Greenan (Kit Records, Devon Loch) Personnel: Sachiko Hara - piano, harmonium; Cico Beck - marimbaphone, bass-drum, percussion, electronics; Karl Ivar Refseth - vibraphone, glockenspiel, bassdrum, percussion; Anton Kaun - objects, electronics; Markus Acher - harmonium, percussion, gongs, electronics; Tadklimp - electronics, algorithmic processing. Produced by Tadklimp and Markus Acher.
SEV DAH/JEFF RUSHIN: Parallel Series 5 12" (MOTE 048EP)
The Parallel Series is back with Sev Dah and Jeff Rushin who produce four techno pieces aimed for early mornings on darker dancefloors. Sev Dah starts with "Svarog", a fierce workout with rolling percussion and an off-kilter melodic line. "Morana" has the mood of early Detroit tracks but with more modern production values. Jeff Rushin's "Solex" is the most disorienting track on the release - A distant kick drum and the rising intensity of a ringing synth line gradually fall together with added percussion. "Obsolete" fills the audio spectrum with layers of dissonant panning and shuffling hats.
MANSON FAMILY, THE: The Manson Family Sings The Songs Of Charles Manson LP (MTARCHIVE 021LP)
M-T Archives present a reissue of The Manson Family Sings The Songs Of Charles Manson, originally released in 1986. Freak folk, acid-country, twisted campfire jamboree, psych-gospel made by scuzzed out dune buggy death trippers, gadflies to the stars, dope dealers to the flower power elite. Recorded in 1970 but originally released in 1986, this cult - in both senses of the term - album by members of the "Family" contains private recordings (made at the notorious Spahn Ranch) of Charles Manson's unpublished songs while he was embroiled in legal proceedings. The infamous "Love & Terror Cult" and their paean to apocalypse. Buy or die!
OFFERMANN, OSKAR: Le Grand To Do Remixed 12" (MUSIQ 207EP)
After an excellent debut album on Mule Musiq (MUSIQ 050CD/191LP, 2015), Oskar Offermann is back with four remixed tracks. Legendary Osunlade (Yoruba Soul) remixed the most club friendly track on the album, turning it into more of a DJ tool - jazzy deep house. Oskar's buddy Edward's remix is simply epic - a very imaginative breakbeats track. Frankfurt's Bodin&Jacob's remix is kind of mash up of some tracks on the album. It's kind of early electro stuff. Metamatics, who provides a remix, is well-known from the end of '90s.
Double LP version. Munster Records present a reissue of Étant Donnés's Re-Up, originally released in 1999. For Re-Up, France's Étant Donnés (Eric & Marc Hurtado) brought in Alan Vega, Lydia Lunch and Genesis P-Orridge to provide lyrics and vocals for specific contributions. Vega, featured on the first four tracks, juxtaposes his stream-of-conscious vocals with the phasing pulses and analog crackles and sighs on "Shadows Lights", responding to the rhythmic ticking and splintering synth on the title cut, helping on a track he originally wrote with Martin Rev to cover Suicide's "Ghost Rider" with an eerie Elvis Presley vamp, along with the epic "Brutal Piss Rods". Lydia Lunch follows on "Sexodrone", a lengthy piece where treated trumpet from Mark Cunningham duels with Lunch's breaths and icy cold delivery. Genesis P-Orridge brings along a different feel with a steady spoken word work on the three final tracks: the metallic gongs, bells and revolving synth washes of "At Last", the companion piece "Angel With Iron Wings" and "Secret Tear". The latter track also features Bachir Attar, leader of The Master Musicians Of Jajouka, playing the ghaita; P-Orridge and Attar conclude the voyage with a vigorous call-and-response between P-Orridge's instrument of flesh (voice) and Attar's human-made one. A perfect soundtrack for sensual explorers. The last bonus track is a 2014 remix of "Ghost Rider" by Marc Hurtado that gives the feeling of being transported into the center of an intergalactic war. Packaged in new artwork.
2016 marks Non Series's fifth anniversary and to celebrate the Spanish label is releasing a compilation series. Five will bring together artists from the label family as well as some new faces to deliver three various artists EPs according to the Non Series sound. The first EP features the bleep-like groove of the label head Psyk, the textured sound of Architectural, ROD's representative funky rhythms and a mesmerizing cut from Yotam Avni.
In December 2016, Psyk's imprint Non Series will reach its fifth anniversary and to celebrate the Spanish label will be releasing a compilation series. Five brings together artists from the label family as well as some new faces to deliver various artists EPs according to the Non Series sound. Five II features Dimi Angelis, Henning Baer, Savas Pascalidis, and Chevel.
Spread over six discs, Particles present Circus Days, over 100 of the finest pop, psych and pop-psych gems ever mined. Dating from the glory days of British flower power, the set encompasses performances both by familiar acts (Vashti Bunyan, Arzachel, The Factory) and lesser-known ones (Rhubarb Rhubarb, Blue Yoghurt, The Katdz), and even a smattering of clowns (Bob Monkhouse, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore spring to mind). Coming complete with a packed program featuring many rare pictures, this is one freak-show for which you'll want a ringside seat. Deluxe six-CD set with 105 rare tracks, many previously un-compiled. Full-color 52-page booklet with detailed group biographies. Sleeve notes by Nick Saloman. Features: Clover, Los Brincos, Lomax All-Stars, Stars, Head West, Waterloo, Johnny Burton, Tandem, The Penny Peeps, Jon Plum, Nick Garrie, Dry Ice, Alex Harvey, The Fruit Machine, Orange Peel, The Smoke, Nimrod, The Fingers, Blonde On Blonde, The Wire Machine, The Eggy, Fruit Machine, The Green Scarab, Cirkus, Tamara Koran and Perception, Hat & Tie, The Actress, Shy Limbs, The Churchills, The Lovin', The Summer Set, Thane Russal, The Mirage, Earth, Druid Chase, The Marianne, The Fenmen, The Living Daylights, The Medium, Cat's Pyjamas, Jerusalem, Kate, Opus, Andromeda, Bent Frame, The Answers, Juan & Junior, Cardboard Orchestra, Broken Toys, Shubert, Temple Row, Jon Isherwood, Peter & The Wolves, Peter Janes, The Cortinas, Tuesday's Children, Tomorrow's Thoughts, Rainbows, The Worrying Kynde, The Secrets, Threshold Of Pleasure, David Copperfield Style, Jason Crest, The Sweetshop, Dave Justin, Cecil McCartney, Pattern People, Juice, The Scots Of St. James, Together, Price & Sheridan, The Cymbaline, Timothy Grass, Queen Flora's Recollections, Motivation, Leze Majesty, Sparrow, The Idle Hands, Green Pavane, The Amelia Smile, The Essence, The Majamood and six mystery tracks.
$22.39 EAN: 8690116300730 ROCK
Volume 1:
1.01. Clover - Ice Cream Man
1.02. Los Brincos - Nobody Wants You Now
1.03. Rhubarb Rhubarb - Moneylender
1.04. Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled
1.05. Lomax All-Stars - Honey Machine
1.06. Stars - Auntie Annie's Place
1.07. Head West - Someday
1.08. Waterloo - Why May I Not Know?
1.09. Johnny Burton - Polevault Man
1.10. Tandem - Shapes & Shadows
1.11. The Penny Peeps - I See The Morning
1.12. Jon Plum - Alice
1.13. Nick Garrie - Wheel Of Fortune
1.14. Dry Ice - Running To The Convent
1.15. Arzachel - Garden Of Earthly Delights
1.16. Vashti Bunyan - I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind
1.17. Mystery Track #1
Volume 2:
2.01. Alex Harvey - Dance Of The Green Scarab
2.02. The Fruit Machine - Follow Me
2.03. Orange Peel - I Got No Time
2.04. The Smoke - Dreams Of Dreams
2.05. Nimrod - The Bird
2.06. The Fingers - Circus With A Female Clown
2.07. Blonde On Blonde - Castles In The Sky
2.08. The Wire Machine - The Doves
2.09. The Eggy - You're Still Mine
2.10. Blonde On Blonde - Circles
2.11. Fruit Machine - I'm Alone Today
2.12. The Green Scarab - Asariah's Dance
2.13. Cirkus - Amsterdam
2.14. Tamara Koran and Perception - Veils Of Mourning Lace
2.15. Rhubarb Rhubarb - Rainmaker
2.16. The Wire Machine - Mind Fascination
2.17. Mystery Track #2
Volume 3:
3.01. Hat & Tie - Finding It Rough
3.02. The Actress - Good Job With Prospects
3.03. Shy Limbs - Reputation
3.04. The Churchills - Too Much In Love To Hear
3.05. The Lovin' - Do It Again
3.06. The Summer Set - It's A Dream
3.07. Thane Russal - Drop Everything And Run
3.08. The Mirage - Tomorrow Never Knows
3.09. Shy Limbs - Love
3.10. Earth - Resurrection City
3.11. Druid Chase - Take Me In Your Garden
3.12. The Mirage - And Life Goes On
3.13. The Marianne - You Had Better Change Your Evil Ways
3.14. The Fenmen - Rejected
3.15. The Living Daylights - Jane
3.16. The Mirage - My Door
3.17. The Medium - Edward Never Lies
3.18. Mystery Track #3
Volume 4:
4.01. Cat's Pyjamas - Virginia Water
4.02. Jerusalem - Kamakazi Moth
4.03. Kate - Shout It
4.04. Opus - Baby, Come On
4.05. Andromeda - Go Your Way
4.06. Bent Frame - Fairylights
4.07. The Answers - Tawney Wood
4.08. Juan & Junior - To Girls
4.09. Cardboard Orchestra - Yes I Heard A Little Bird
4.10. Broken Toys - Broken Toys
4.11. Shubert - Until The Rains Come
4.12. Temple Row - King & Queen
4.13. Jon Isherwood - Apple Pie
4.14. Peter & The Wolves - Little Girl Lost And Found
4.15. Peter Janes - Go Home Ulla
4.16. The Cortinas - Phoebe's Flower Shop
4.17. Tuesday's Children - She
4.18. Mystery Track #4
Volume 5:
5.01. Tomorrow's Thoughts - Night Is Like Day
5.02. Rainbows - Rainbows
5.03. The Worrying Kynde - Sand & Water
5.04. Clover - Ice Cream Man (Psychedelic Version)
5.05. The Secrets - I Think I Need The Cash
5.06. Threshold Of Pleasure - Rain, Rain, Rain
5.07. Peter & The Wolves - Lantern Light
5.08. David Copperfield Style - I've Been Wrong, I've Been Right
5.09. Jason Crest - Juliano The Bull
5.10. Blue Yoghurt - Lydia
5.11. Clover - Dream Dream Dream
5.12. The Sweetshop - Barefoot & Tiptoe
5.13. Dave Justin - You Outside
5.14. Cecil McCartney - Liquid Blue
5.15. Pattern People - Take A Walk In The Sun
5.16. Juice - The Elastic Band
5.17. Mystery Track #5
Volume 6:
6.01. The Scots Of St. James - Eiderdown Clown
6.02. Together - Memories Of Melinda
6.03. Price & Sheridan - Tracy Smith
6.04. The Cymbaline - Fire
6.05. Timothy Grass - Second Glance
6.06. Queen Flora's Recollections - Red Brick House
6.07. Motivation - Little Man
6.08. Leze Majesty - Regency Gardens
6.09. Sparrow - Dream Song
6.10. Kate - Don't Make A Sound
6.11. The Idle Hands - Remember
6.12. Green Pavane - The Nymphs Of Untwalumi Wood
6.13. The Amelia Smile - Father Good's Space Flight
6.14. The Factory - Red Chalk Hill
6.15. The Essence - Call Me A Friend
6.16. Peter & The Wolves - Smokey Wood
6.17. The Majamood - 200 Million Red Ants
6.18. Mystery Track #6
Poom present their debut album, 2016. Poom differ from the French song scenery with their electronic sounds inherited from the French touch, their love for funk and disco and a hint of symphonic orchestra. The influences of French artists such as Michel Legrand, Daft Punk, Gainsbourg or Air are apparent on 2016. The texts are intimate and their performance swings between elation and melancholy which contrasts with their energetic arrangements. Taking advantage of their art studies, Poom created the whole visual universe of the project. Their debut album gathers ten tracks written since the start of the project, with two modern covers of French writer and artist Boris Vian and French singer Georges Brassens. Their first two singles "Les Voiles" and "De la Vitesse à l'vresse" were released in 2014 and 2015 on Partyfine and got great press in France. It also received surprising international recognition, Pharrell playlisted "Les Voiles" on his Beats1 show for example.
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN: Ende Neu LP (POTOMAK 919821)
2016 repress; LP version. Einstürzende Neubauten's Potomak label reissues their classic 1996 release, Ende Neu -- originally released on the Mute label, now reissued for the first time on vinyl. On this release, the quintessential scientists of the post-avant-garde abstain from focusing on listener disintegration tactics as they did on prior albums, but opt instead to hone their craftsmanship in new compositional areas. Some followers of their earlier material might object to the obvious and comparatively conventional song structure and style that is displayed on Ende Neu -- picking up a power tool to highlight a piece rather than centering the entire work around it, or leaving a stage before setting it ablaze -- but the destruction has already been performed, and here they erect a brave new anti-building of musical art. Exploring intricate processions of time and toying with melodious harmonies, this album reveals Blixa Bargeld and company maturing gracefully. The opening cut, "Was Ist Ist," is a furious, fast-paced slander of the greediness of mankind while simultaneously serving as a tongue-in-cheek remark on how absolute, scientific power overrules impossibility. From there, Ende Neu continues to musically rewrite the band's style, using familiar topics such as ethereal chaos ("Die Explosion Im Festspielhaus"), cosmic complacency ("The Garden"), revolt ("Installation Nº.1"), and even a Kafka-esque piece, "Der Schacht Von Babel." This was the band's first release after the departure of founding band member Mark Chung, and it is obvious that the remaining members took the time to contribute to the void left by his departure. Ende Neu delivers a precision-fed matrix of audio-encrypted knowledge in a manner not like the chaotic Neubauten of the early '80s, but more strategic, and more mature. Dark, focused explosions, with theatrical strings and tightly-wound vocal structures. This reissue includes reworked artwork.
With their extraordinarily epic and artful musical poetry, Maud Geffray and Sébastien Chenut - the two sonic warheads who make up the electronic music group Scratch Massive - have always been able to enrich sensory experience in a way that brings together the fringe and the extremes, the here and there, the past and the future, with a never-disappointing desire to express the blues of the soul and the blues of the world. The Parisian DJ/producer duo have made their mark with icy grooves and epic productions, a perfectly-executed musical path that has led them to become one of the driving forces of French electronic music since the '90s. After the dark and melancholic convulsions of its studio album Nuit De Rêve (2011), Scratch Massive invites the listener to intimately explore new heights through the sublime images and existential travels presented in Day Out Of Days - the 2015 film by director Zoe Cassavetes. This intense musical duo has undertaken a veritable revolution, giving body and soul to their latest project. Day Out Of Days is a troubling and enraptured vision of "The California Dream" - the one that always seems to slip away at the last moment from under the feet of the film's disappointed heroine. On this album, Scratch Massive trades in its somber ways and the dark beauty of its electronic odes for a new pop sensibility nourished by the grand air of the Pacific Ocean and the frenetic rhythm of a city that never sleeps. From the wide-eyed pop song "Turn Away" that opens the album, the new wave mirages that inspire the superb "Frolic Spleen" and "A New Deal" and the infectious magic of "Paris" (an electro-pop hit carried by the irresistible voice of Daniel Agust, former lead singer from Icelandic cult band GusGus), Day Out Of Days brings together an elegant, out-of-control bacchanal evoking dreams snuffed out by the stark realism of the daily grind, shady sunsets reflecting undetectable fears too heavy to bear. Could this be the sound of "California Dreamin" under modernity's magnifying glass? Quite simply, with Day Out Of Days, Scratch Massive have made a modern electronic album, perfectly at ease with the influence of pop as a way to revisit and reexamine its clichés, its stylistic effects, and the hungry nostalgia for the 1980s. "Turn Away" features Tobias Buch.
DJ HAUS: Artificial Intelligence 2LP (RINSE 035LP)
After the sweat-soaked throwback fervor of his 2015 debut album Burnin' Up (RINSE 034CD/LP), Unknown To The Unknown and Hot Haus main man DJ Haus returns to Rinse for the ten-track album Artificial Intelligence. Working at a formidably high rate of productivity, Haus returns with Artificial Intelligence less than 12 months after his last; and he shows no signs of slowing down, maintaining his reputation for creating hard-edged dance anthems that leave a lasting effect on the dancefloor. Each of the album's ten tracks take on a life of their own as DJ Haus mutates his own nostalgic influences through rave, acid basslines, Detroit techno and more to create something that's genuinely innovative, but no less devastating to the dancefloor. Using Haus's broad sonic palette, Artificial Intelligence harks back to golden eras of dance music without ever seeming pastiche; DJ Haus splices pre-existing genres to produce hybrid sounds that are rooted firmly in the future. Collaborations with the likes of Arun Verone and DJ Octopus & Steve Murphy utilize their signature quirks, integrating them into Haus's creations to fabricate something completely unique. Opening to the frenzied sounds of acid house, "Feels So Good" instantly consolidates the producer's deft ear for a purpose-built vocal sample. Using typically overlaid embellishments as rhythmic elements, DJ Haus utilizes repetitive vocals & high-octane rave stabs to create a natural movement that is sure to heat up clubs worldwide. "Got Me Where You Want Me", a collaboration with midlands-based tech house don Arun Verone, brings to the forefront an intensely percussive beat that's progressively anchored by acidic basslines, adding weight to the production's abrasive drum line. For all the album's nods to the golden eras of classic genres, Artificial Intelligence doesn't veer away from experimentation, with the pummeling percussion of "Pump It" soon to be running up heartbeats, the 8-bit computer game-esque sounds of "Blip Blorp", and the paranoid chimes of "Artificial Intelligence". As one of the most productive artists in the club scene, DJ Haus has pooled from a huge pool of inspirations and dipped back in time to the most misty-eyed moments of rave culture to present Artificial Intelligence, an album that's deadly, hard-bodied and most importantly, like nothing out there in the club stratosphere.
$17.79 UPC: 800071004873 ELECTRONIC
A1. Feels So Good
A2. Get On Down
B1. Got Me Where You Want Me (feat. Arun Verone)
B2. Gotta Luv Me (All Nite Mix)
C1. C'mon Letz Work
C2. Open Your Mind
C3. Blip Blorp (feat. Dj Octopus & Steve Murphy)
D1. Didn't Want 2 Hurt U
D2. Pump It
D3. Artificial Intelligence
MME CHANDELIER: Post-Coital Tristesse CD (RPTD 014CD)
Mme Chandelier is the alter-ego of Anthony Sahyoun, guitar player with Kinematik, a Lebanese post-rock quartet he founded with keyboard player Rudy Ghafari in the winter of 2014. Sahyoun's first solo record Post-Coital Tristesse was recorded using guitars, pedals and three analog synthesizers. It includes some sample deconstruction, such as slowing down the tempo to the point of sampling errors, reversing. Edition of 250.
Third solo album from Fadi Tabbal, lead guitarist with Lebanese psychedelic rock band The Incompetents and various others. How's Annie continues further the work of sound exploration through guitar treatments, which began with On the Rooftop Looking Up (2013) - a finely-devised interaction of ambient soundscapes with John Fahey-inspired acoustic meanderings - and developed further on 2015's Museum of Disappearing Buildings (TFRK 002CD) - an interplay of ambient guitar drones and grainy electronics. For his third album, Tabbal continues further his exploration of electronics, beats and synthetic sounds through his guitar. The single, 32-minute track brings to mind the early work of sonic mavericks Ben Frost, Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin. Recorded live in one take without any cuts or overdubs. Edition of 250.
Dubfire and Miss Kitten take the listener on another late night road trip. Presented in Miss Kittin's own artwork, the two long term friends and musical kindred spirits cover a side each with two version journeys you'll never forget. Kittin jumps straight on the autobahn in a tank-shaped techno hummer. Thumping the tarmac down with every gas-guzzling kick drum, lights blur and trace and the mission gathers momentum. Dubfire brings the listener to the trusty widescreen house plains. Roads running parallel with the grand, emotional highways; Unhurried, restrained and timelessly crisp and futuristic.
VA: Scotch Bonnet Presents: Puffer's Choice CD (SCOB 007CD)
Scotch Bonnet loves reggae music's rich heritage. Not only is it is as strong today as it ever has been, soundsystem culture has now spread to every corner of the world. To celebrate this, Scotch Bonnet has compiled a few musically important releases from some of the key musicians and producers that have influenced and nourished Scotch Bonnet records since the start. Some have appeared on singles, some are dubs that Mungo's Hi Fi couldn't stop playing on the soundsystem, and there are some brand new pieces to keep it crispy fresh. The end result is Puffer's Choice. Features contributions from: Prince Fatty, The Hempolics, Mungo's Hi Fi, Solo Banton, Danny T & Tradesman, Dark Angel), Viktorious, Parly B, Disrupt, Zeb & Scotty, Led Piperz, Subactive, Sugar Minott & Daddy Freddy, Stalawa, Delroy Melody, Naram, Tenor Youthman, Mr Williamz, Bim One, Macka BOBF and Charlie P.
Venom is Stephan Hinz's latest offering and it offers three incredibly massive tunes. "Venom" kicks off the EP with a devilish throbbing groove while mischievous organ stabs rise and fall, generating an impeccable balance between tough and playful. "Primal" follows up with a more devious style where relentless percussion and sinister synth stabs culminate into absolute debauchery. "Out Of It" shows Stephan twisting the track's elements into a grooving, up-beat tool with a contagious faction of ingredients that transform into a sublime trip suitable for a million situations.
Europa, the second album from Shrubbn!!, the duo of Ulli Bomans (Schieres) and Marco Haas (T.Raumschmiere), displays a map of Europe on its cover, as might be expected from the title. The song titles on Europa also draw from the inexhaustible riches of the dialects and villages. From a musical perspective, this record is like an amazing journey through a Europe that is fed by more than just numbers, tables and statistics. Unlike its predecessor Echos (STRIKE 136LP, 2012), which represented something rather hidden and gloomy, Europa changes direction towards land and people. All the tracks on Europa are named after cities. "Elk" is the sound of the universe screeching as it lands on earth. With saw-toothed flowers and an utterly beautiful intro, the universe finally lands on the lost Alp. "Lom" is cubist electronics over a dense beat. "Eskilstuna", somewhere in Scandinavia, sounds something like snow and rock crystal. One melody after another sits between the round and beautifully layered chord pads. "Vovchans'ki" is a typical track from the Europa phase - A European yearning for the avant-gardist of 1922, modern and extremely brilliant. "Äthäri" sees Schieres and T.Raumschmiere manoeuver through snapshots, waves and highways in a meadow from elsewhere. "Anenii Noi" is a fantastic Shrubbn!! track that still breathes the spirit of Echos. It has a wonderful delayed beat, painted in tonal drums. With "Mondragon", a European spirit is conjured again, one that is much freer and more beautiful, and seems lost for nearly 100 years - crashing layers of melodies and clear sounds of a modern age from the past. "Shumen", previously called "Kolarowgrad", wanders from A to B. "Freistritz an der Gail" is composed of sound. Shrubbn!! builds a wall-of-sound out of hisses, synth teeth and flashes of genius. "Drunen" and "Nöo" are sort of downbeat, but definitely beat. Very dream-like and beautiful. "Nea Koroni" sounds a bit like the Alps and the mountains and valleys and meadows and bells. Shrubbn!! go through "Hrafnagil" and leave the listener in "Leirbotn". If the previous album Echos can be described as a profoundly intense journey through spaces and depths, reverb and shaft, Europa warms up like a dream landscape of earth and clay. The tracks have their own dialects; they are either coming from or traveling to someplace. There are colorations and stories told.
LP version. Includes download code. Europa, the second album from Shrubbn!!, the duo of Ulli Bomans (Schieres) and Marco Haas (T.Raumschmiere), displays a map of Europe on its cover, as might be expected from the title. The song titles on Europa also draw from the inexhaustible riches of the dialects and villages. From a musical perspective, this record is like an amazing journey through a Europe that is fed by more than just numbers, tables and statistics. Unlike its predecessor Echos (STRIKE 136LP, 2012), which represented something rather hidden and gloomy, Europa changes direction towards land and people. All the tracks on Europa are named after cities. "Elk" is the sound of the universe screeching as it lands on earth. With saw-toothed flowers and an utterly beautiful intro, the universe finally lands on the lost Alp. "Lom" is cubist electronics over a dense beat. "Eskilstuna", somewhere in Scandinavia, sounds something like snow and rock crystal. One melody after another sits between the round and beautifully layered chord pads. "Vovchans'ki" is a typical track from the Europa phase - A European yearning for the avant-gardist of 1922, modern and extremely brilliant. "Äthäri" sees Schieres and T.Raumschmiere manoeuver through snapshots, waves and highways in a meadow from elsewhere. "Anenii Noi" is a fantastic Shrubbn!! track that still breathes the spirit of Echos. It has a wonderful delayed beat, painted in tonal drums. With "Mondragon", a European spirit is conjured again, one that is much freer and more beautiful, and seems lost for nearly 100 years - crashing layers of melodies and clear sounds of a modern age from the past. "Shumen", previously called "Kolarowgrad", wanders from A to B. "Freistritz an der Gail" is composed of sound. Shrubbn!! builds a wall-of-sound out of hisses, synth teeth and flashes of genius. "Drunen" and "Nöo" are sort of downbeat, but definitely beat. Very dream-like and beautiful. "Nea Koroni" sounds a bit like the Alps and the mountains and valleys and meadows and bells. Shrubbn!! go through "Hrafnagil" and leave the listener in "Leirbotn". If the previous album Echos can be described as a profoundly intense journey through spaces and depths, reverb and shaft, Europa warms up like a dream landscape of earth and clay. The tracks have their own dialects; they are either coming from or traveling to someplace. There are colorations and stories told.
A stunning collection of quiet and soft piano pieces by the legendary German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius co-founder of seminal krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia. Inspired by the monumental work of Erik Satie, the album was originally released in 1991, and is recommended for fans of Max Richter, Goldmund, and Sylvain Chauveau. Two 180-gram LPs in gatefold sleeve. 45-RPM audiophile edition. Includes the bonus track "In Der Dämmerung."
$28.39 UPC: 889397719937 ROCK
A1. Gunst der Stunde
A2. Die Ernte Reift
B1. Einfach So
B2. Vergegenwärtigt
B3. Bonheur
B4. In Gedanken
C1. Gut So
C2. Leicht Gemacht
C3. Verweht
C4. Frieden für Adjan 02
C5. Begegnung
D1. In Der Dämmerung
First reissue of one of the holy grails from the vault of the amazing Italian library music label Octopus. Originally released in 1973, Climax is a killer studio session by Amedeo Minghi, Piero Montanari, and Roberto Conrado. An incredible collection of psych jazz funk tunes with crazy Moog sounds, violent drums, and deep bass. An ultra-rare, hard-to-find item finally available again, on 180-gram virgin vinyl.
$20.39 UPC: 889397719951 ROCK
A1. Climax
A2. Save Up
A3. Glaze
A4. Frog In Love
A5. Sampler
A6. Quoin
B1. Sliding Scale
B2. Glitter
B3. Pow-Wow
B4. Ready Money
B5. Pool
B6. Maze
"The compilation album Heures sans Soleil was originally released in October 1985 in an edition of 1000 copies. It was the fourth vinyl release on LTM, the label I founded while still at school in Edinburgh, and followed on from singles by Minny Pops and A Primary Industry, as well a live album by Crispy Ambulance. . . . I can't claim the idea of an artsy cosmopolitan compilation album was terribly original. I was 19 years old at the time, and still deep in the thrall of earlier Crépuscule collections such as From Brussels With Love and The Fruit of the Original Sin." Includes extended liner notes by James Nice. Released in collaboration with LTM/James Nice. 180-gram vinyl. Includes tracks by Section 25, Anti-Group, Minny Pops, Tuxedomoon, Mazowsze, Eric Random, Dislocation Dance, The Happy Family, Crispy Ambulance, and A Primary Industry.
$20.39 UPC: 889397719982 ELECTRONIC
A1. Section 25 - An Introduction
A2. Anti-Group - The Discussion
A3. Minny Pops - She Said Go Go Go
A4. Tuxedomoon - Shelved Dreams
A5. Mazowsze - The Little Candle End
A6. Eric Random - 6:55
B1. Dislocation Dance - The Next Year I Returned To St. Michelle (But Marie Had Gone And With Her My Childhood)
B2. The Happy Family - March In Turin
B3. Section 25 - Hold Me
B4. Crispy Ambulance - Rain Without Clouds
B5. A Primary Industry - From This Prospect
SNOW, MICHAEL: Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder 2LP (CY 999LP)
Musician, visual artist, composer, writer, and sculptor Michael Snow is also one of the world's most highly acclaimed experimental filmmakers. In 1975 he released this album under the record company Chatham Square. The label was founded by the owner of Michael Snow's gallery, the Bykert Gallery, which also issued the first Philip Glass recordings. This reissue is released in collaboration with Michael Snow. 180-gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve.
$28.39 UPC: 889397719999 ELECTRONIC
A1. Falling Starts (Beginning)
B1. Falling Starts (Conclusion)
C1. W In The D
D1. Left Right
XAM Duo is the new outfit formed by Matthew Benn of Hookworms and Christopher Duffin of Deadwall. This self-titled release is six tracks of improvised ambient beauty - both meditative and peaceful, it is astral jazz with an experimental kosmische undercurrent; modular synths meet saxophones; Cluster meets Terry Riley; Laurie Spiegel meets Pharoah Sanders. XAM Duo is a warm, immersive record that rewards repeat listens. XAM was originally Matthew's solo project. He recorded a number of tracks at home between Hookworms albums in 2014 which were released in 2015 as the Tone Systems EP on Deep Distance. Christopher says he approaches each song as a "mini-soundtrack to an imaginary film" and reveals that, while he was practicing at home, he played along to clips of There Will Be Blood (2007), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Synecdoche, New York (2008) to get the requisite atmosphere. "I appreciate that improvised music isn't for everyone, but it's something I love doing," Matthew concludes. "And, more often than not, Chris and I create something beautiful together."
ANTONINI E LA SUA ORCHESTRA, WILLIAM: William Antonini E La Sua Orchestra LP (SME 026LP)
Sonor Music Editions present a reissue of William Antonini E La Sua Orchestra, originally released in 1971. A very rare "cult" library and orchestra album by pianist William Antonini and his orchestra, recorded with the deep sounds of Dirmaphon studios in Rome. Expect some strong blues rock influences with loads of killer psychedelic sounds all over the place - amazing jazz-funk and blues funk vibes, heavy progressive riffs with big band swinging jazz and jazz-rock tunes. Huge basslines with stoned flute and deep tenor sax along with amazing early '70s freak-beat clubbing tunes are to be found on this lost, collectible gem. Reissued with the original back liner notes written by Italian jazz father, Carlo Loffredo.
UMILIANI & I SUOI OSCILLATORI, PIERO: Switched On Naples LP (SME 027LP)
Sonor Music Editions present a reissue of Piero Umiliani & I Suoi Oscillatori's Switched On Naples, originally released in 1972. A very underrated Umiliani album, Switched On Naples is an outstanding library album with a pure touch of genius. Maestro Umiliani revisits Naples's popular songs by the use of synthesizers, carrying the record out with entirely electronic sounds.
$18.39 UPC: 769791963771 ELECTRONIC
A1. Maria Mari' (2:05)
A2. O' Marenariello (3:04)
A3. Marechiare (3:12)
A4. Santa Lucia (3:48)
A5. O' Pazzariello (5:25)
B1. Tarantella (2:00)
B2. Fenesta Che Lucivi (3:11)
B3. Vieni Sul Mar (3:15)
B4. Cicerenella (2:23)
B5. Fantasia di motivi: Vierno/O' Sole Mio/Funiculi' Funicula' (6:06)
AMBROSINI, MARCELLO: Post-Industriale: La Scena Italiana Anni '80 CD/BOOK (SPITTLE 977001)
The Italian post-industrial scene, born in the early '80s, was one of the most creative and vibrant in the whole of Europe. Officine Schwartz, CCC CNC NCN, F:A.R, Giardini Di Marzo, Mauthausen Orchestra, Rosemary's Baby, Thelema and T.A.C. are just some of the Italian protagonists cited by Marcello Ambrosini in his work, Post-Industriale: La Scena Italiana Anni '80 ("Post-Industrial: The Italian Scene Of '80"). Italian post-industrial was an underground movement that sparked a whole generation of musicians and artists and has represented the Italian independent scene as one of the most varied and interesting in history. This volume of Marcello Ambrosini's writing will be accompanied by an original compilation on CD with nine tracks featuring, among others, Ain Soph, F: A.R., Mauthausen Orchestra, Sigillum S, T.A.C. and Tasaday. The choice of the artists included in the CD has been inspired by the chapters collected in the book, tracing the large part of the industrial sub-genre. 45 minutes of true Italian post-industrial music. Much room has been given to the first chapter "Prima Generazione Post-Industriale" ("First Post-Industrial Generation") due to the presence of absolutely influential names and side-projects inclined to the "do it yourself" aesthetics, like Luke X's Ah Nahm Inc. - featured in the CD compilation. As for the "Power Noise" chapter the choice has been easily afforded with Mauthausen Orchestra. This category is probably the one that left the most traces in past and present decades with many artists and labels influenced by the sounds. Back to the book the "Esoteric Way" is represented by masters, Ain Soph and Sigillum S, with a rare effort form Thee Tree Rings as well. A different matter with the bonus track, an exclusive performance from white noise maestro M.B., a contemporary signal recorded only a few years ago. Numerous names should have been picked up, but more than a manifesto, this compilation is meant as a tool for contemporary followers of "grey areas" and "extreme culture". NB: The book's text is in Italian.
$23.79 EAN: 9788899770013 ELECTRONIC
01. Mauthausen Orchestra - Untitled
02. Sigillum S - The Monstrous Crack
03. Thee Tree Rings - The Inevitable Collapse
04. T.A.C. - I Think About You All The Time
05. Tasaday - Le Porte Dell'equilibrio
06. Luke X's Ah Nahm Inc. - Science Just Married
07. Ain Soph - Kshatriya
08. F: A.R. - Possibilita Sfinite
09. M.B. - Erasedbrain (Excerpt)
COSMIN TRG: In Your Body/Kapotasana 12" (SPORTIV 001EP)
Relax your eyelids. Focus on the darkness. This is your time to relax. You don't need to think about anything. Except being right here, right in this moment. Don't think about tomorrow, or yesterday, Just be here, In your body. Sportiv is a dexterous white label operation that brings heavyweight rhythmic performances from the world of techno athletics. Cosmin TRG presents their first release.
Lucy and Rrose team up as a production duo for The Lotus Eaters. "Chloroform" is anything but anesthetic: at high volumes, its monstrous low-end surge and prickly, scintillating sonic ephemera bring attention to imperceptible phenomena. "Peeling" develops its own cascade of sensory impressions from deep-bass loops, injections of surface noise, and pitch-shifted/harmonizer-effected phantom phrases. "Stained Glass" is a potent distortion of the mundane, primed with shivering bell tones, tamed feedback and hints of speaker cones fraying. "Foil Gardens" is an elegant study in harmonics whose time-dissolving ability nods to the works of Charlemagne Palestine or Eliane Radigue.
VA: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 3 3LP (SR 220LP)
The third volume of Sub Rosa's Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music available on vinyl for the first time. The third volume continues to show all the aspects of electronic music from the early beginning to the present - including two pieces of historical concrete music (of the '70s), several pieces of American tape music (Columbia University) with a special focus on all the electronic music from Germany - WDR early works, krautrock, electronic music of the '90s. Features recent work from the greatest noise artists and several unsung electronic pioneers. Includes a six page poster including extensive critical and biographical notes. Features: Keith Fullerton Whitman/Hrvatski, Hugh Le Caine, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Bernard Parmegiani, Michel Chion, Zbigniew Karkowski, Masami Akita/Merzbow, Michael J Schumacher, Justin Bennett, Scott Gibbons/Lilith, Francisco López, Erkki Kurenniemi, Carsten Nicolai/Alva Noto, To Rococo Rot, Peter Rehberg/Pita, Herbert Eimert & Robert Beyer, Faust, Michael Rother (Neu!), Asmus Tietchens, Günther Rabl, Rune Lindblad and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff & Erik Pauser/Phauss.
$21.79 EAN: 5411867332206 ELECTRONIC
A1. Keith Fullerton Whitman/Hrvatski - Stereo Music For Serge Modular Prototype (5:30) (2003)
A2. Hugh Le Caine - A Noisome Pestilence (3:25) (1958)
A3. Ilhan Mimaroglu - The Last Largo (9:33) (1989)
A4. Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum: Matières Induites (3:44) (1975)
A5. Michel Chion - Requiem: Dies Irae (6:00) (1973)
B1. Zbigniew Karkowski - Execution Of Intelligence (8:20) (2004)
B2. Masami Akita/Merzbow - Birds And Warhorse (11:30) (2004)
C1. Michael J Schumacher - Room Pieces: Excerpt (4:41) (2003)
C2. Justin Bennett - Ovipool (3:25) (2003)
C3. Scott Gibbons/Lilith - Reciprocal (3:30) (1992)
C4. Fred Szymanski /Modular - Flume (6:41) (2003)
C5. Francisco López - Untitled #148 (10:03) (2003)
D1. Erkki Kurenniemi - Sähkösoittimen Ääniä #4 + #1 (5:26) (1971)
D2. Carsten Nicolai/Alva Noto - Time...Dot(3) (4:26) (2000)
D3. To Rococo Rot - Contacte (4:30) (2004)
D4. Peter Rehberg/Pita - Early Work 6 (3:00) (1984)
D5. Herbert Eimert & Robert Beyer - Klangstudies II (4:43) (1952)
E1. Faust - The Faust Tapes: Untitled #16 + #17 (2:55) (1973)
E2. Michael Rother - Feuerland (7:20) (1976)
E3. Asmus Tietchens - Teilmenge 35 C (4:40) (2004)
E4. Günther Rabl - Eve (6:00) (1987)
F1. Rune Lindblad - Till Zakynthos (Op. 205) (13:39) (1988)
F2. Carl Michael Von Hausswolff & Erik Pauser/Phauss - Eternal Love #3 (13:07) (1993)
Sub Rosa present Michel Redolfi's Desert Tracks as part of their Early Electronic Series, originally released by INA-GRM in 1988 alongside "Pacific Tubular Waves". In 1987, Michel Redolfi hit the California desert road during the fall, to catch those hypothetical poly-sensorial desert tones. He visited the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Palm Canyon and came back with an extraordinary album of early electronic music, sparse and bright to express the crude light and the divine silences. In 1969, Michel Redolfi, with the co-foundation of the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, pursued his passion for electro-acoustic music at an early age. During the '80s and '90s he composed collaborative works with Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, Pierre Henry and Jean-Claude Risset. As a resident of the United States from 1973 to 1984, he carried out his research with several new music centers, including the CME at the University of California in San Diego and the California Institute of the Arts. Also during this period he developed several collaborations with American composers. The natural elements highlighted by technology are a constant in Redolfi's catalog: many of his electroacoustic pieces stylize and orchestrate sound matter, and are recorded in remote locations as on Pacific Tubular Waves, originally released with Immersion in 1980 (REGRM 014LP, 2015) and Jungles (1997). He currently heads a major studio in sound design, Audionaute, based in Nice, France. CD comes as a six-panel digipack with a 12-page book.
LP version. Sub Rosa present Michel Redolfi's Desert Tracks as part of their Early Electronic Series, originally released by INA-GRM in 1988 alongside "Pacific Tubular Waves". In 1987, Michel Redolfi hit the California desert road during the fall, to catch those hypothetical poly-sensorial desert tones. He visited the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Palm Canyon and came back with an extraordinary album of early electronic music, sparse and bright to express the crude light and the divine silences. In 1969, Michel Redolfi, with the co-foundation of the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, pursued his passion for electro-acoustic music at an early age. During the '80s and '90s he composed collaborative works with Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, Pierre Henry and Jean-Claude Risset. As a resident of the United States from 1973 to 1984, he carried out his research with several new music centers, including the CME at the University of California in San Diego and the California Institute of the Arts. Also during this period he developed several collaborations with American composers. The natural elements highlighted by technology are a constant in Redolfi's catalog: many of his electroacoustic pieces stylize and orchestrate sound matter, and are recorded in remote locations as on Pacific Tubular Waves, originally released with Immersion in 1980 (REGRM 014LP, 2015) and Jungles (1997). He currently heads a major studio in sound design, Audionaute, based in Nice, France.
First reissue of Hastings Of Malawi's classic masterpiece Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth, originally released on the Papal Products label in 1981. Hastings Of Malawi were Heman Pathak, David Hodes and John Grieve. They recorded Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth in one night in 1981 with no plan and no idea of what they were doing. They played drums, clarinet, synthesizer and piano but also made use of things that they found lying around the studio - old records, cook books, telephone directories and a telephone. The recordings were played down the phone to randomly dialed numbers with the reactions added to the recording. All three had been involved in the recording of the first Nurse With Wound album Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella (1979) and had contributed metal scrapings, piano, effects, clarinet and guitar during the session. The star of the record is Pat Simmons who was the voice of the UK speaking clock between 1963 and 1984. In his book Lipstick Traces (1989) writer Greil Marcus seeks to draw a line from Dada through the Situationist International to punk rock. If this line exists, then Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth sits on the end of it. The only review that the album received was from Steve Stapleton who suggested that "nobody should miss this vinyl disaster" - good or bad are not concepts that can be applied to this recording. The record stands firmly in opposition to the now all pervading concepts of commercialization, celebrity culture and the commodification of creative activity. Originally 1000 copies were pressed on orange/red vinyl. 120 copies were sold through Rough Trade and Virgin Records. 800 copies were bought and later destroyed by the United Dairies label, adding to the elusiveness of this record. This reissue is on red vinyl, just like the original pressing. File under: dada, underground, post-industrial, concrete music, DIY, punk.
Joining Subaltern for his debut release on the label is arcane beat maestro Ago, member of Numa Crew from Italy. "Backlash" opens with an eerie western atmosphere and spacey bells, before emerging into a tsunami wave of bass. "Trust Inc." pulls the listener into a subversive mind state with a hypnotic rhythm carried by pumping subs, executed with clinical precision. The dreamy "Opium Riddim" rounds off the record letting the mind wander off into the void. Melancholic vibes creep through pads and percussive lines, moving in trippy and spaced out realms.
2016 repress. Originally released in 2003. From the liner notes by Alan Bishop: "Java is the center of Indonesian culture. Three out of every four Indonesians live on Java. It is the home of some of the most elegant musical styles to be found anywhere. To the veteran international sound collector, Javanese music is no secret. For the uninitiated, rather than going through an introductory outline of Javanese music history, I will wish you away to the internet, a library, or bookstore where you can find plenty of information on the subject. The selections on this CD are a combination of random radio excerpts sequenced in collage form and assembled in the summer of 1989. This disc is a highly unique document featuring many angles of Javanese sound finally slipping through the cracks. Among many other oddities, you'll hear several examples of Javanese pop (from Dangdut and Keroncong to hard rock and disco), news snippets, folk music, radio commercials, Jakarta DJ's, The west Java Sundanese sound, spooky theatre extracts, and high-octane Jaipongan variations that are completely over the top. There has never been anything like this."
VA: Radio Sumatra: The Indonesian FM Experience CD (SF 021CD)
2016 repress. Originally released in 2005. Recorded, assembled and edited by Alan Bishop. From the liner notes by Alan Bishop: "The music and production encountered here represents a cross-section of Sumatran FM radio and to a greater extent, what's happening now in Indonesian culture. From the signature sounds of Sumatra (Melayu, Minang pop, the Batak ballad) to the widespread Indonesian phenomenon of Dangdut, this exclusive 'FM only' radio collage will leave your skull shattered, wondering why it's taken so long to be turned-on to the modern pulse of the world's fourth largest country. Some of these selections come from Java and other parts of Indonesia via the FM airwaves of Sumatra's major cities. Islamic folk, gambus rock, and gorgeous anomalies are also placed in the mix amidst brief news reports, advertisements, prayers, and karaoke call-in shows. Many of the station ID's could be mistaken for American or European networks and much of the music is highly influenced by western pop/rock/punk/metal/rap/etc. But beyond these obvious comparisons are an explosive musical kaleidoscope; still fresh, somewhat sincere and naive, and a bit resistant to the grasp of the world's cultural export Moguls. This is an essential listening experience. There is undeniable evidence here of how Indonesians have crafted some of the world's most thrilling popular music... yet the rest of this world somehow refuses to recognize it... that is, until now!"
VA: Proibidão C.V: Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de Janeiro CD (SF 038CD)
2016 repress. Originally released in 2007. Proibidão is the name given to a certain kind of electronic funk music produced in Brazilian favelas, especially in Rio de Janeiro where it started to appear in the beginning of the '90s as a parallel phenomenon to the growth of drug gangs along the city's more than 600 slums. A raw mix of live funk vocals and Miami bass structures, these anonymous funk tracks are spread illegally by DJs and gang-sponsored parties. Proibidão is a raw musical genre that captures the dark side of Brazilian favelas. The explicit lyrics of apology to drug gangs and violent content make them illegal to broadcast through radio or as live public events. Proibidão can only be heard in the bailes or dances that the gangs organize and that run every day of the week in different locations in the slums around Rio. The production of a Proibidão occurs in different ways. A DJ spins Miami bass rhythms straight from sample CDs, and an MC talks on top of it, mainly live in street bailes and then recorded through a simple multichannel to a minidisk or simply straight. No mix is done and only sometimes an extra production is done. The gang leaders, to spread the respect and love for the gang as well as hate to the other gangs, finance the bailes and hire the DJs and sound systems. At most parties, this is recorded live and spread then as an mp3 or CD to different other DJs and bailes. Its life runs a minimum of 6 months and depending on its popularity, it can go on for more than one year. The selection featured on this CD compiles music recorded live during the beginning of 2003 in different favelas from Zona Sul, South Rio de Janeiro - a zone once controlled by the drug gang called Comando Vermelho, mainly responsible for the city's growing rates of homicide and power corruption, as well as Rio's and Brazil's growing drug consumption. All audio imperfections are left as they were when collected, as these tracks are the only remaining documents of this music. Recorded and assembled by filmmaker Carlos Casas, courtesy of some anonymous MCs and DJs in different bailes along the favelas of Zona Sul, Rio de Janeiro during March-April 2003.
2016 repress. Originally released in 2008. The Union Solidarity & Development Association (USDA) has grown to become one of the most pervasive organizations in Burma, claiming over 22 million members (nearly half the country's population). Very little is known of the USDA to the outside world, but it has become embedded throughout the social infrastructure of the state. Its widely-published statutes expressing the importance of state sovereignty and public solidarity can be found in all mediums throughout the country: newspapers, television, billboards and radio broadcasts. Known as the "Three Main National Causes," "Four-Point People's Desire," "Seven Point Road to Democracy," and "Twelve Political, Economic and Social Objectives," each broadcast day begins with their recitation. Most of the recordings featured in this radio collection were captured in Yangon during March and April of 2007. With the authorities attempting to control all information coming into or leaving the state, the world rarely catches a glimpse inside Burma. This is a special opportunity for listeners to delve behind the headlines and into the airwaves; to hear for themselves the sounds, rhythms, and voices of urban Burma's radio experience, unfiltered by the international press or state-spokesmen. Myanmar's Voice broadcasts nearly 24 hours a day across much of the country, playing an assortment of Burmese classics; USDA pledges; and recitations of articles published by the state-run The New Light of Myanmar Times. Due in part to the near-blackout of all foreign music on state airwaves, the few FM stations that do exist in Yangon and Bago divisions, transmit a rather bizarre assortment of music from 7am to 9pm: synth ballads, hip-hop jingles, and internationally popular songs re-recorded in Burmese. This release also features assorted tracks recorded between 1994-2002, highlighting many wonderfully strange and beautiful pop, folk, and classical music styles. There are vast resources easily available to anyone interested in learning more about Burma or the USDA; this recording is simply intended to showcase the extraordinary sounds rarely heard beyond its borders. Recorded, assembled and sequenced by Geoff Hawryluk and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls).
2016 repress of this 2LP vinyl edition, originally released in 2007. Baby Grandmothers were a short-lived Swedish band, but one of the most prolific and unique psychedelic, modal, experimental power trios to emerge out of the Scandinavian psychedelic underground scene in 1967. Although hailing from Stockholm, Sweden they only released a single in Finland, which has since become one of the most sought-after pieces of vinyl from the era. Formed out of the legendary R&B/beat band T-Boones which included guitar-wiz Kenny Håkansson, who ushered the group into the psychedelic sounds of the time. Not only were they the house band at the legendary psychedelic club, Filips, they also supported Jimi Hendrix on his Swedish tour in 1968 and then turned into Mecki Mark Men, who became the first Swedish rock band to tour the U.S. This unique collection includes live recordings made at Filips, their impossibly rare single and a rare live recording made in Finland. Painstakingly collected and researched by Dungen's guitarist, Reine Fiske.
LP version. Lush and exciting, rich and vibrant, Ìxtahuele are back with their exotic sounds on their second full length album. Guiding your mind's eye over oceans and mountains, through jungle and desert, teasing and enticing with layered soundscapes and catchy melodies, you'll find yourself whistling along on a winding mountain road, stalking through the rainforest, or humming lazily on a tropical beach when listening to Call Of The Islands. Building on their previous releases, both musically and thematically, the group flirts with jazz, mambo, and space age pop, all the while retaining their classic acoustic exotica sound and high level of musicianship. Call Of The Islands provides music to lounge by the pool to, to armchair travel on a cold rainy night - it's the perfect soundtrack for a quiet drink with a lover or a friend. Sophisticated and savage, it's exotica for the modern age.
Earlier in 2016, Subwax Bcn made an important contribution to the electronic music community by remastering and reissuing the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion (SUBWAXFX 001CD). First released in the year 2000 on Chain Reaction, Vibrant Forms II is widely considered to be one of the greatest achievements in the genre. As it turns out, Vibrant Forms II became one of the last records to be released on Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald's classic label - a suitable swan song if there ever was one. And that's it, right? Well not quite. If one would search for Fluxion's Vibrant Forms III, Discogs would come up empty and Google would treat it as a misspelling - until now. Konstantinos Soublis, aka Fluxion, and Subwax Bcn have decided to pick up the banner and release Vibrant Forms III. It contains everything anyone could hope for and more: The massive, booming basses, the clicks and hisses, the atmospheric thunderstorms, the opium smoke-scented streaks of reverb, dub echoes and the warmth. Yes, above all else the warmth: Sometimes moist and dripping as in "Safe Harbour", sometimes blisteringly dry as in "Variant". It's no easy task, giving cold, dead machines warm breaths. And no-one quite does it like Fluxion. The reissue of Vibrant Forms II was an act of cultural preservation. It reminded us about the legacy of the Basic Channel label family, in which Chain Reaction played an important part. Without this legacy, the contemporary body of electronic music would look different and make very different sounds. With the release of Vibrant Forms III, Subwax Bcn takes it one step further. Fluxion's Vibrant Forms III album reminds any listener of the timelessness of truly great music, never mind the genre.
The second studio album for Tiger & Woods not only marks a desired return to a specific format, but is also a huge leap forward in their area of expertise. Their brand of fun and functional dance music gets broadened by influences from electronica, Italo disco and up-tempo house, while keeping a groove that is distinctly linked to what some people refer to as boogie. After travelling the world from left-to-right and from top-to-bottom with a live-set to boot and skillful DJ sets that resemble that genre melting approach, On The Green Again is the result of spending valuable studio time at the "Tiger's Lair" - a carefully-built new work place that plays its own part in the creative process for the prolific production team responsible for starting T&W Records. Honing a craft that is rooted in edit culture as an ethos, but has since long left that bumpy road dependable on samples and their clearance, Tiger & Woods make On The Green Again work as an album that defies the difficulty usually attached to such ventures. Ten brand-new tracks make up the course between peak-time prime cuts similar to "RockMeLoveMe" or "Come And Get My Lovin" and an almost heart-aching track like "Endless Affair". Mixed with bits and pieces in-between and neatly placed between a classic intro and outro segment, these tracks are a testament to that aforementioned wider scope. To put it in a nutshell, On The Green Again is not concerned with leaving a comfort zone, but with making the listener comfortable no matter which zone they are in. CD version features three previously released bonus tracks.
Ethiopian minimal wave from 1986. Teranga Beat presents Yishak Banjaw's first international release. Yishak Banjaw is a composer and keyboard player from Addis Ababa known to his country for his innovative compositions and unique sound. His ability to transform traditional Ethiopian songs into spacey minimal-wave gems creates an ultra-hypnotic and psychedelic atmosphere. Love Songs Vol. 2 was recorded in 1986 at Yishak's house, while he was working for the Police Band in Eritrea. It was released by an Eritrean label on cassette and was also distributed in Ethiopia. However, due to the shaky political situation, Yishak was forbidden to travel anywhere outside his country, including Ethiopia. Consequently, Love Songs Vol. 2 remained a very obscure and neglected musical experiment, until now. Yishak has released seven albums on cassette but, unlike many Ethiopian musicians, he has never managed to reach a wider and international audience. On this album, Yishak Banjaw chose to play everything on a small Casio PT, "a keyboard for kids" as he proudly mentions. He recorded the whole album live, directly to his tape recorder. Although his main instrument was a Godwin keyboard, he actually preferred to rent the Casio from a friend, as he was blown away by the way it sounded. This choice alone reveals a genuine talent that dared to go beyond what his colleagues were doing at that time. CD version includes a booklet with photos and liner notes outlining the story of this unique musician who carried the long tradition of Ethiopia into another level.
This tribute to Ø [Phase]'s 2015 album Alone in Time? (TOKEN 057CD/LP), the second LP on Token, offers remixes of two of its tracks. The utilitarian discord of "R-Mash" is remixed by James Ruskin and Karl O' Connor (Regis) under their O/V/R collaboration. They highlight the rattling percussion of the original and its juxtaposition with the tense and uneasy anti-harmony. Ø [Phase] revisits the album's title piece. "Alone in Time?" originally appeared as a restless arrangement is re-imagined as a solid construction for the dancefloor.
Steve Rachmad's, aka Sterac, extensive collection of projects over the years has provided a wealth of inspiration in its many forms. Although much of Rachmad's music has been influential on the development of Token from the beginning, there is one body of work in particular that encapsulates the essence of the label, in a classic and inimitable form. Scorp was an alias and label project operating between 2000 and 2004. Although not the best known of Rachmad's many aliases, its importance was not overlooked by discerning tastemakers at the forefront of the techno movement at the time. This compilation contains nine tracks in total, selected from these releases, plus one track previously unreleased from the same period. These ten tracks clearly demonstrate Token's alignment with this classic sound, exhibiting Rachmad's mathematical precision in employing bare-bones percussion to captivate, doing away with the formality of a lengthy introduction and urging a hypnotic state with immediate effect. All of the music has been remastered.
KENNEDY, INIGO: Surrender/Castles In The Air 12" (TOKEN 067EP)
Inigo Kennedy is back with Surrender/Castles In The Air. "Surrender" begins with a textured awakening. The inter-mixture of slow swells and attentively-dashed accents in a range of timbres guides the listener blindly towards a shocking, strident interruption when the percussion is suddenly introduced with full and resolute force. "Castles In The Air" retains a similar theme. Gloomy, lingering chords begin and then pause with more than a moment lingering in reverb. When the full arrangement appears, it kicks at least twice as hard as the introduction could ever have prepared the listener for.
Yann Novak is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Ornamentation is Novak's first physical release on Touch and continues his investigations of presence, stillness and mindfulness through the construction of immersive spaces, both literal and figurative. On Ornamentation, Novak resists modernism's problematic relationship to race, class and labor, and attempts to decouple contemporary minimalist sound work from this historical precedent. The title refers to Adolf Loos's notorious 1913 manifesto, Ornament and Crime, in which the author argues that the desire to adorn architecture, the body, objects, etc., is a primitive impulse, and the proper and moral evolution of Western culture depends in part upon the removal of ornamentation from daily life. Loos devalued the labor traditionally associated with aesthetics and beauty, and equated ornamentation with the degenerate. In this context, one could consider ornamentation as a way of viewing decay. His examples as such (tattoos, fashion, style, painting, et al.) predictably fell along divisions of race and class, coding modernity as the next outward manifestation of white, capitalist patriarchy. Throughout the process of creating Ornamentation, Novak attempts to sidestep some of Loos's modernist intolerances by focusing on the labor of composition itself, rather than particular processes or structures. Novak began by incorporating specific field recordings from his archive, deliberately selected for their poor quality; awkward interruptions, low fidelity smartphone recordings, problematic frequencies. The selection of these difficult sounds, processed alongside recordings of modular synthesizer, created a unique set of challenges where the familiar, reductive approaches would fail to be useful, Novak ultimately abandoning them in favor of more dynamic, additive, and laborious processes. Unlike minimalism with its roots in modernism, or "sound art" with its conceptual biases, Novak creates a work that acknowledges these conventions, yet stands apart as a meditation on beauty, labor, and aesthetics; Ornamentation as an adornment of time itself. Presented live in Los Angeles at a small, private event. Source material includes field recordings captured throughout the United States and Canada from 2006-2016 and modular synthesizer recordings, all digitally altered.
KLINT & EDVIN E, ANTON: Tryck003 EP & Tiago Remix 12" (TRYCK 003EP)
Tryck & Ton is run by Edvin E and Anton Klint. After a couple of amazing edit releases, the guys return with the first original work from the newly founded label. "Conga Liver" is a percussion driven banger with serious highs and lows. The track gets remix treatment from Lisbon's finest, Tiago, who adds a disco groove, horns and an incredibly groovy baseline to the table. Final track, "On The Flip", is a playful groover sounding like Robotnik having a loud wine-impregnated argument with Tony Allen over who gets to host the after party.
Turbo Recordings present the definitive collection of remixes for "Planet E", Tiga's collaboration with Hudson Mohawke from 2016's No Fantasy Required. Dense & Pika's remix deliver what can responsibly be called one of the year's biggest chart-topping smash remixes. Danny Daze's remix sees the Miami-based produce a future-Italo-electro hit. On Melé's remix, the UK producer's love of Brazilian beats, classic house tracks, and trans-Atlantic hip-hop shine through.
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A1. Planet E (Dense & Pika Remix)
B1. Planet E Danny Daze Remix)
B2. Planet E (Melé Remix)
San Francisco native Vin Sol presents his debut EP on Ultramajic. "Instinct" is a straightforward introduction, bleeps and a pounding kick drum carry the track to a frenzied finale. "1314" ushers in a darker atmosphere, born out of a combination of simple elements, Vin manages to twist and build a unique energy. In "Can't Cope", Vin utilizes a complex drum pattern to drive the track forward, never losing the momentum of the dance floor. Matrixxman remixes the title track. Taking things back to basics, Matrixxman strips it back for a pitched down, minimal intro before reintroducing the bleeps and cymbals.
LP version. Colored vinyl. Includes CD. Hydrogen Sea's debut album In Dreams is the next chapter in the band's intriguing story. On their first full length, they reconcile the electronic with the acoustic in eleven stunning pop songs. Hydrogen Sea is Birsen Uçar and Pieterjan Seaux's musical lovechild. The band formed in 2011, four years after these night owls united. When night falls and the city settles down, they start composing. Multi-instrumentalist, Seaux, is the creator of Hydrogen Sea's "slow motion techno" and its intoxicating melodies. He particularly has a knack for blending layered electronic elements with acoustic instruments. Uçar is the vocalist and writes the lyrics. She longs to translate stories into music while creating a cinematic atmosphere. Birsen aims to captivate her beholders and to absorb them completely. The band's debut EP Court The Dark came out on Unday Records in 2014. The vinyl release sold out in no time. The two of them also joined Selah Sue, Gabriel Rios, Oscar And The Wolf and Joan As Policewoman on tour. They played over 100 shows in New York, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands. Hydrogen Sea worked hard, hired a drummer and grew into an impressive three piece live band. They wrote, explored, and developed their distinctive sound. In the shadow of their work for Hydrogen Sea, the band members collaborate with other artists, such as Selah Sue. In 2016, it's time for the next chapter. They recorded In Dreams at Joris Caluwaerts's (STUFF.) studios in Antwerp and finished it in Glasgow with Tony Doogan as additional producer and mixer. The Scottish maestro is best known for his work for the likes of Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, David Byrne and Minor Victories. Birsen's vocals evoke Little Dragon, Azure Ray or L'altra. The compositions are entrancing and gloomy, the bass lines are reminiscent of Massive Attack and Portishead. If In Dreams were a photo, it would be taken at slow shutter speed. Hydrogen Sea's debut is a glimpse into their nocturnal dream world, mysterious and lushly arranged. Welcome to their universe.
Mei (the Japanese feminine name, pronounced "May") is the artistic alter ego of Dijon based newcomer producer, singer, dancer and choreographer Caroline Masson. She does all the songwriting/editing by herself on "an ordinary laptop", but her results are far from ordinary. Until recently, Mei wanted to become either an insect researcher or a dancer in the legendary "Le Crazy Horse" cabaret in Paris. But then, making music took over her life. She quotes Gustav Mahler, Kate Bush, Machine Drum, Les "King of Exotica" Baxter and Flying Lotus as her influences. Mei about Mei: "I treat music like a real being. I raise it like a little animal by my side, making sure that I leave its primary and wild aspects intact. I love the extremes. I love the unknown. I am not afraid of life. When I make love, I see landscapes." Partura, years in the making, is a debut album of immense scope: yearning, melancholic, post-clubbing space ballads ("Nelumbo"), flirty, fragmented, avant-pop ("Feles") and somber, haunting "Exotica"-infused melodies, ripped from old movie soundtracks over glitchy beats ("Why Do We Do") and so much more: Neo-baroque instrumentals ("Cellula"), sounds of nature/wildlife, pastel-colored industrial ("High") there is a lot going on this record. Mei's vocals range from to futuristic android lullabies ("Cradle Of The Cradle") to intimate, yet solemn cyberpunk-chansons ("The Three Ends") and there are even some sprinkles of the hedonistic, angular, synthetic 1980s in there ("Insects"). In Mei's own words: "If Partura was a building, it would be one of these organic design studies by architects: A white, round cocoon house in the middle of nature quaint, a little alien and mysterious. This album is a bit like me: A little wild, untamed, all about intense feelings. If Partura was a person, it would be a teenage girl."
Vampisoul present a reissue of Perujazz's self-titled album, originally released in 1987. "Manongo Mujica (drums, percussion), Jean Pierre Magnet (tenor saxophone), Julio 'Chocolate' Algendones (percussion) and Enrique Luna (electric bass) founded Perujazz in 1984. All four already had embarked on diverse musical ventures when they formed the band. Mujica had played as a jazz drummer and also with the psychedelic rock group Los Mad's and then as an experimental music percussionist. Jean Pierre had been a multi-instrumentalist in Traffic Sound and saxophonist in several jazz ensembles. 'Chocolate' had been part of the Afro-Peruvian ensemble Perú Negro and was one of Chabuca Granda's percussionists of choice. His meeting with Manongo Mujica in 1981 was the beginning of series of collaborations, blending African influences and avant-garde jazz percussion. Meanwhile, in Chile, Enrique Luna had been a member of several fusion ensembles and, together with Manongo, set up the improvisation band Solos at the end of the '70s. Carrying this musical baggage with them, Perujazz was formed in 1984 when Jean Pierre got them together to play jazz standards in a venue that had just opened called Satchmo. They were part of the new musical scene in Lima, strongly influenced by the cultural climate of the '70s, by Chabuca Granda and his innovations in criollismo, as well as by neo-folk and nueva canción, all under the nationalist politics of the government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado. Perujazz managed to hold its ground and soon led the way in the avant-garde jazz scene. Inspired by jazz fusion from the '70s, they mixed cajón drums and Afro-Peruvian, Andean and jungle sounds with jazz, rock and funk in a powerful blend full of groove and psychedelia. Toni Cosenza took them to a Rome's Studi Titania and they recorded five songs for a promotional LP but then lost track of the record after that. That LP ended up being a co-production between the RAI and the Instituto Italo Americano. Titled Verde Machu Picchu, by the Quartetto Perù Jazz, it was released in 1987 in a vinyl edition that wasn't widely distributed. Perujazz would journey far and wide, becoming one of the most original Peruvian ensembles and also one of the most international in scope." -- Luis Alvarado. Presented with new artwork. Includes liner notes written by Luis Alvarado. 180 gram vinyl.
Versions is the new project by Spanish artist's Psyk and Tadeo. The project is intended to be as a live set and focused on the dancefloor. Their work on the production is based on raw material and improvisation. The recording of the tracks has been completed in one shot delivering fresh spontaneous jams. Three tracks by the Spanish duo: "Intro - Metaphor" leads you into their cosmic atmospheres in a narrative way, "Twisted Forms" expands a spatial trip of synthesizers and drums and "Track Two" brings you to a hypnotic climax of funk.
GILLESPIE, DANA: Weren't Born A Man LP (MRSSS 537LP)
Vinilisssimo present a reissue of Dana Gillespie's Weren't Born A Man, originally released in 1973. Hardcore David Bowie fans should have heard by now about the so-called Bowpromo album (2011). It contains "rough mixes" of original tracks that would later be included on the Hunky Dory (1971) and Ziggy Stardust (1972) albums, as well as an exclusive track and the early (and shorter) versions of some amazing songs that would later make their way into Dana Gillespie's Weren't Born A Man: "Mother, Don't Be Frightened" and "Andy Warhol". In fact, these two tracks on Dana's album were produced by Bowie and Mick Ronson, featuring Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey, members of The Spiders from Mars, as the backing band. Weren't Born A Man is Gillespie's third album after some previous folk and pop recordings and a rather successful career as an actress. She played Mary Magdalene in the first London production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972. However, her involvement in music would soon be connected to some of the key players in the London scene, such as Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page and David Bowie. But there is much more to this album that just Bowie's glam sound influence. "All Cut Up On You", "All Gone", "Eternal Showman" or the title track are all outstanding tracks on their own that show Dana Gillespie's various moods, from mellow notes to sexually ambiguous statements. Sadly, record sales did not match RCA's expectations and after one more album, Dana was forced to take a long break on her recording activity, one that would eventually lead her to a very different approach to music. During the '80s, Gillespie made a comeback becoming a member of the Mojo Blues Band and her career as a blues singer has not stopped since then, releasing over 25 albums to date. 43 years after its original release, Weren't Born A Man stands as a must-have record for anyone with an interest in '70s music. 180 gram vinyl.
Watergate Records introduce two newcomers: Cle and Eva Be who have both been at the cutting edge of house music culture for well over a decade as solo artists but only recently formed LoYoTo. Over the course of three tracks, the duo traverse an array of timeless aesthetics infected with a dub narrative they have fittingly christened "Starsprangled Dubmosphere". From the twisted, low slung vibe on "Sheijk", to the surging intoxication of "3 Balls" and the timeless fusing of classic dub and modern perspective on "Feel The Bumpin", LoYoTo have constructed an exquisite ride into their sonic universe.
Portuguese sound artist Vasco Alves presents a collection of new material developed through his work with homemade AM transmitters and transistor radios broadcasting and manipulating reduced sine wave compositions. The project continues Alves's ongoing research into the structural behaviors of electronics and the points of resistance and malleability present within these technologies. Across the recordings Alves works with a characteristically focused production process, using two sine waves with variable frequencies broadcast to two panned transistor radios. The simple signal chain generates a dynamic paired field of textural noise, resulting from the combination of the signal volatility, overdriving, frequency modulation and its consequent harmonics all interacting with the innate analog tendencies of the short wave ether. Together the production method creates untamed sonics and pulsing noise that is uncompromising in its raw articulation of sound as material. Currently based in Lisbon, Alves's interests lie in the investigation of unstable electronics through the use of radio and both customized and malfunctioning devices. His work explores processes that are often volatile in nature with the outcomes being subjected to strict live processing techniques.
Since the debut of Shlømo on Wolfskuil Limited in 2015, Avadon EP (WLTD 027EP), the young DJ and producer has taken off touring the world alongside techno heavy-weights and managed to put out a slew of twelve-inches. Vanished Breath is the Frenchman's sophomore release on Darko Esser's Wolfskuil Limited series. "Vanished Breath" opens with a beautiful introduction, smooth atmospheric pads transcend before the break beat inspired percussion of "The Ritual". On the flip-side, Shlømo brings the heat with "Obsession", a proper club stomper with its resounding bass kick and climaxing hi-hats, while "M.U.M." delivers a synth-heavy travel through space a time.
Rome's Goa Club first choice Simona Calvani, AKA DJ Red, debuts on Darko Esser's Wolfskuil Limited series with Raw Cacao EP. "Raw Cacao" opens the EP with a finely crafted production, which maintains its addictive groove and sensual attitude throughout the track, while on the flip side the mighty Ricardo Villalobos keeps working his magic on the rendition of DJ Red's original cut, offering a standout, lush remix that is hypnotic, atmospheric and playful, all in equal measures.
Dutch producer Cadans delivers four energetic dancefloor monsters. "Hollow Funk" kicks off with an erratic drum pattern which slowly builds into frenetic raw claps and a very danceable bass kick. "Got Woodblock" serves up a dose of suspense as a hollow pitter-patter echoes throughout. "Vocal Exercise" delivers a myriad of percussions which perfectly harmonize between a beautiful orchestral interval. "Papercuts" is conceived with his brother Kracht, and slows down the tempo while still maintaining the industrial flavor of is elements, together with deep vocals and lively hi-hats.
"First House is the final recordings from free jazz legend and Birmingham, Alabama native, Arthur Doyle. The LP was recorded live at the Stone July 11, 2012 and these six pieces are backed by His New Quiet Screamers, a Brooklyn-based ensemble adding muscle and movement to Doyle's always already free, non-linear saxophone, flute and vocal lines. Born in Birmingham in 1944, Doyle studied Music Education at Tennessee State University in Nashville. In his early years, Doyle worked with a wide array of musicians and in a broad range of musical styles, from R&B to soul to traditional jazz, collaborating with everyone from future Sun Ra Arkestra trumpeter Walter Miller to funk-soul-disco diva Gladys Knight. Doyle officially emerged on the international jazz scene, however, playing on Noah Howard's iconic The Black Ark (1968), and later on Milford Graves's 1976 IPS LP Babi (1977). In 1978, Doyle debuted as a band leader and soloist with Alabama Feeling, released on Charles Tyler's Ak-Ba label. Alabama Feeling features Charles Stephens (of the Sun Ra Arkestra) on trombone, drummers Rashied Sinan and Bruce Moore, and bassist Richard Williams. After the release of Alabama Feeling, Doyle continued to ignore boundaries and generic conventions, playing with Rudolph Grey as part of The Blue Humans, which introduced his music to NYC's downtown and no-wave scenes, including the likes of Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. In the early 1990s, Doyle's work was re-introduced to another generation, through releases for labels like Ecstatic Peace and Audible Hiss. Since the late '90s, Doyle continued a fevered pace in terms of his collaborations, most notably with Sunny Murray, Hamid Drake, Takahesi Mizutani (of the Les Rallizes Denudes) and Sabu Toyozumi, among many others. His New Quiet Screamers consists of an acclaimed ensemble of musicians with a wide array of history and associations. Members have played with and/or include: Sunwatchers, Dark Meat, First's Western Ennisphere, Matana Roberts, among others. This gatefold LP includes a commissioned essay from noted jazz historian Clifford Allen who describes His New Quiet Screamers as 'vault[ing] and envelop[ing] Doyle's bursts' of sound to the point where Doyle 'sounds positively invigorated.' Doyle's final recordings offer what Allen characterizes as a kind of 'unfurling' of the free jazz lexicon, offering insights on 'the spidery architecture of an obliquely referenced standard' that defined this enigmatic artist's entire career. Standard and experimental improvisation alike, First House offers a window on Doyle's last performances, an artist very much at the top of his playing and artistic form."
10" version. "When you listen to the Shacks's self-titled debut EP, you might imagine that Shannon Wise and Max Shrager are much older than their respective 18 and 20 years. But when Shannon's whisper-vocals breeze through the speakers, you hear the youthfulness of their sound which then in turn explains the fearlessness of their songwriting. Both vaguely familiar and completely fresh, The Shacks are one of the most interesting NYC bands to surface in a minute. Since the release of their first single, 'Strange Boy,' which they recorded with El Michels Affair, The Shacks have been compared to '90s indie icons like Mazzy Star, Jesus and Mary Chain, and Broadcast. As good as those bands are, you wouldn't find a single one of their records in Max and Shannon's music collection. All these bands are drinking from the same well, just 20 years apart."
"From the same misty mountaintop tape spool as August's A Weird Exits (2016), Thee Oh Sees bring the companion album An Odd Entrances. Delving more towards the contemplative than the face-skinning aspects of its predecessor, this sister album is a cosmic exercise en plein aire with John Dwyer and company double-drum shuffling, lounging with cellos, following a flute around the groove, and spooling a few Grimm-dark lullabies along the way. Lurking in the grass are a snake or two, like the celestial facing instrumental buzz of 'Unwrap The Fiend Pt. 1.'... But for the most part this is a relatively hushed affair, a morning rather than evening listen."
ESP OHIO: Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean CD (GBVI 070CD)
"Like a long-lost artifact from some golden age of rock that never existed, ESP Ohio's debut album grabs the ear-holes and demands immediate and undivided attention. Robert Pollard says it's a band, rather than a collaboration -- a distinction which may seem like splitting hairs, but rather than putting melodies and lyrics on top of other people's instrumentals, Pollard wrote these songs and sent them off to Brooklyn-based bandmates Doug Gillard, Mark Shue, and Travis Harrison to be fleshed out and then returned to him for vocal recording and mixing in the Buckeye State. Instead of fitting words and melodies around someone else's musical structure, he created the musical structure to fit his words and melodies. Also, there's a band photo. It makes a difference -- Starting Point harkens back to Isolation Drills-era Guided By Voices, perhaps inevitably because Doug Gillard is playing guitar and contributing arrangements the way he did in that era of GBV, but this debut has its own unique characteristics as well. The result is some of the most joyful noise Pollard has made in recent memory: melodic, playful, upbeat, and... what's the word... sparkly? Sure -- call it sparkle rock -- a mix of bold-faced rock with weirdo proggy-psych elements and textures. Pollard won't say whether this is a one-off or the first of a series, but he's keeping the door open."
ESP OHIO: Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean LP (GBVI 070LP)
LP version. "Like a long-lost artifact from some golden age of rock that never existed, ESP Ohio's debut album grabs the ear-holes and demands immediate and undivided attention. Robert Pollard says it's a band, rather than a collaboration -- a distinction which may seem like splitting hairs, but rather than putting melodies and lyrics on top of other people's instrumentals, Pollard wrote these songs and sent them off to Brooklyn-based bandmates Doug Gillard, Mark Shue, and Travis Harrison to be fleshed out and then returned to him for vocal recording and mixing in the Buckeye State. Instead of fitting words and melodies around someone else's musical structure, he created the musical structure to fit his words and melodies. Also, there's a band photo. It makes a difference -- Starting Point harkens back to Isolation Drills-era Guided By Voices, perhaps inevitably because Doug Gillard is playing guitar and contributing arrangements the way he did in that era of GBV, but this debut has its own unique characteristics as well. The result is some of the most joyful noise Pollard has made in recent memory: melodic, playful, upbeat, and... what's the word... sparkly? Sure -- call it sparkle rock -- a mix of bold-faced rock with weirdo proggy-psych elements and textures. Pollard won't say whether this is a one-off or the first of a series, but he's keeping the door open."
"Monument Builders is the new album from Loscil, the ambient/electronic project of prolific composer Scott Morgan. It was primarily created on sample-based instruments in Morgan's century-old Vancouver home. Like that aged space, this music is also rough-hewn, with rickety samples of boiling kettles and resonant moving air. Recordings from a vintage micro-cassette recorder contribute distortion, rattles and textures that serve as both percussion and abstract aural color. According to Morgan, the genesis for the album may have begun as he viewed an old VHS copy of the American experimental film Koyaanisqatsi. 'Something about the time-tarnished visuals and the pitch warble on Philip Glass's epic score added a new layer of intrigue for me,' says Morgan. 'Glass has always been an influence but lo-fi Glass felt like a minor revelation, as if the decay was actually enhancing the impact of the film's message.' The investigations on Monument Builders also took inspiration from the anti-humanist writings of influential philosopher John Gray, as well as photographer Edward Burtynsky's iconic aerial photographs of pollution and environmental destruction. 'Gray's writing, particularly his book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, reinforced a bleak notion I had that we humans don't have much say in how it all turns out,' says Morgan. 'With Burtynsky, I was struck by the fact that something so strikingly beautiful could be the result of large-scale waste and exploitation.' Monument Builders was composed during a period in which the life-and-death battles of close friends and family forced Morgan to examine his own feelings on mortality. In the course of that introspection, Morgan found himself buoyed by a feeling of celebration and a stubborn sense of survival -- an acknowledgement of what it means to be able to breathe and create amidst the clash of love and chaos. Ultimately, Morgan hopes the music here can offer listeners solace while leaving room for exploration and surprise."
"Great songs form one of Ethiopia's most beloved singers - Talhoun Gessesse (English spelling varies). These recordings span from 1969 to 1975 and cover the range of Talhoun's styles and moods. Some mystical modal songs, some straight up rockers, and some ballads. All totally killer songs from the golden age of Ethiopian Soul Music. Talhoun's voice, alongside Mahmoud Ahmed's, is one of the strongest in the land. Don't miss out on this monstrously good LP."
2016 repress. "Compilation of early gospel recordings spanning from 1927 - 1955. Sanctified blues by the Two Gospel Keys, Mother McCollum, Blind Rosevelt Graves, Lottie Bracey, Sister O.M Terrell & Rev. IB Ware. Beautiful slow country gospel by the Anglin Brothers & Delmore Brothers, Intense vocal performances by the New Gospel Keys, Elder Richard Briant & the Silent Grove Baptist Church Congregation, & much more! All killer no filler compilation that rocks hard & gets deep & sad too. Old school 'tip on' cover.."
"A tracky, hardcore double-header, true Tessela-style. 'Sorbet' expertly cuts scraps of canonic singing into pounding warehouse rhythms. 'Diving' constructs a minimalist, propulsive, feel-good banger out of five different treatments of the break from Lynn Collins's 'Think'."
2016 repress. "Carnival rumpus, DIY electro and out-compas. Kicks off with some 1979 folk revivalism plonking Kraftwerk inna Port au Prince. Haunting vocals, heavy drum machine. Then some rough and rugged rara, with a one-note bass-line from a Vaksin bamboo-flute; and a beautiful mini jazz arrangement of the evergreen mateau, with criss horns. For those still standing, a stiff shot of psycho-compas, laced with swirling organs, screeching vocals and heavy bass. Boom."
2016 repress. "New limited edition series from Sofrito: Sofrito Super Singles, which will bring to light the finest reissues of rare and forgotten tropical dancefloor sounds. The debut release celebrates the Afro-disco and boogie scene of South Africa -- where Salsoul meets Soweto. Comes housed in a new look Sofrito house sleeve. The three track EP features Teaspoon & The Waves -- led by veteran alto player Teaspoon Ndelu. They released one album in 1980, covering a mix of disco and funk sounds for the SA dancefloors. 'Oh yeh Soweto' is a cheeky version of Lamont Dozier's 'Going Back To My Roots' -- changing the lyrics and toughening up the beats, but with the same killer riffs. 'Saturday Night Special' is from the same LP, a spaced out Afro disco groove with excellent percussion and psychedelic synths, re-edited by the Sofrito team. The B side features a track by the Nzimande Allstars -- another mysterious group of session musicians. The drawn out groove of 'Highway Sporo Disco' fuses a heavy disco backing with jive guitar and stellar horns and organ for a unique taste of the underground sound of the Cape. Coming up soon on Sofrito Super Singles will be a slice of Trinidad Soca Disco and some raw Haitian sounds."
"Bert Jansch recorded his second album in 1965, just after his self-titled debut earlier that same year. The sessions were a step-up from the intimate, field-recording setting of his first album, although still not labored over too much in the studio. 'I figured that the faster I put down the tracks, the faster I could get out of the place,' Jansch told NME, 'so I just ordered about a dozen bottles of wine, put the microphone in front of me and off I went, for three hours.' The lyrics of It Don't Bother Me shift vividly between pure poetic imagery and the hollow resonance of pain. The LP's underrated title song stands as a manifesto for the way Jansch lived at the time. 'My Lover,' featuring guitarist John Renbourn, has almost sitar-like drones, while 'Lucky Thirteen' is a captivating, melancholy instrumental that shimmers with brilliant fingerpicking. This first-time domestic release is remastered from the original tapes and features liner notes by Richie Unterberger. Bert Jansch's It Don't Bother Me remains another essential British folk LP that belongs next to Nick Drake, Roy Harper and John Martyn in every record collection."
"A special issue this one, with the features section taken up by a series of essays devoted to exploring the role spirituality in underground music, from the divine drones of Éliane Radigue to the cosmic jazz of John & Alice Coltrane, from Christian private press records to the links between Hare Krishna and punk rock, and beyond... Meanwhile, elsewhere in the issue we'll have all the (un)usual news, views, interviews and reviews from all corners of the global underground music network..." Also: Invisible Jukebox: Dagmar Krause; Chris Cobilis; Magnetoceptia; Kill Alters; Bonaventure; Pamelia Stickney; Global Ear: Taipei.
2DIY4 present an EP of Moby remixes. Swiss duo Adriatique remix "Wait For Me" - preserving the original's piano line, the pair use a deep bassline and rearrange the breathy vocals for a more dancefloor facing version of the original. Magdalena takes on "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" - a stomping build-up utilizes elements of the original's percussion over a rumbling sub bass. Johannes Brecht's take on "Natural Blues" features the original piano motif, a grooving bass line and more prominent vocals. Stimming uses an old school build up approach for his percussive remix of "Natural Blues".
$8.39 EAN: 4018939310783 ELECTRONIC
A1. Wait For Me (Adriatique Remix)
A2. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (Magdalena Remix)
B1. Natural Blues (Johannes Brecht Remix)
B2. Natural Blues (Stimming Remix)
PopHop looks like a pirate, and what he launches from his music studio sounds like pirate ships. On board of these ships there's always a very colorful, exotic bunch of personalities. They are the multicultural characters of the original tracks from all corners of the world. Under the command of PopHop they sail straight towards the eye of the thunderstorm, which means the heart of the dancefloor. It's the place where he feels home. Little by little, PopHop accumulated so many remixes, edits and own tracks that they fill a whole treasure chest. That's exactly what you get: A treasure chest full of dancefloor gold, and a string of pearls that is a mixed version of all these precious grooves. Features: Zigan Aldi, Sandeck, Il Civetto, Pulsar Trio, Timboletti, Ziski, Brummkreisel, Jan Ploetzlich, Kalletti Klub, Jpattersson, Skazka Orchestra, Into Lala, Die Vogelperspektive and Stephan Zovsky.
$8.39 UPC: 880319839313 ELECTRONIC
01. Zigan Aldi - Blue Hill (Feat. Sandeck) (Pophop Remix)
02. Il Civetto - Libertè Ana (Pophop Edit)
03. Pulsar Trio - But Pelzig (Pophop & Timboletti Remix)
04. Timboletti - Helva Selva (Pophop feat. Ziski Remix)
05. Brummkreisel Vs. Pophop - Hey Maedchen (Pophop Mix)
06. Jan Ploetzlich - Scotch (Pophop Remix)
07. Kalletti Klub - Light Up (Pophop feat. Jpattersson Remix)
08. Jpattersson - No Hau (Pophop Remix)
09. Skazka Orchestra - Georgian Dance (Pophop Remix)
10. Pophop & Kalletti Klub - Sherele
11. Into Lala - In The Woods (Pophop Remix)
12. Die Vogelperspektive - Mighty Fat (Pophop & Stephan Zovsky feat. Jpattersson Remix)
James Brown, live on Soul Train, America's leading TV showcase for soul, funk and R&B. By 1973, James Brown was known as "the Godfather of Soul", reflecting his huge influence over a new generation of black singers. It was therefore inevitable that he would appear on Soul Train, America's leading TV showcase for soul, funk and R&B acts, broadcast on WCIU-TV. This album presents the entire original WCIU-TV broadcast of two stupendous performances captured on February 10th 1973 and September 14th 1974, showcasing material from his remarkable back catalog, as well as his hugely popular The Payback LP (1973). Presented here with background notes and rare archival photos.
$11.99 EAN: 5292317805712 ROCK
February 10th, 1973:
01. Get On The Good Foot
02. Soul Power
03. Make It Funky
04. Try Me
5. Hot Pants
06. Sex Machine
07. Never Gonna Give You Up
08. Super Bad
09. Please Please Please
10. Say It Loud
September 14, 1974:
11. I Can't Stand It
12. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
13. The Payback
14. Hell
15. Try Me
16. Papa Don't Take No Mess
17. My Thang
The Wasp Factory is the very first opera from Bedroom Community's Ben Frost and it is an adaptation of the Iain Banks novel (1984). It was first premiered at Austria's Bregenz Festival and finished up in London's Royal Opera House. This is the first time the audio has been released. Frank is no ordinary boy. The sardonic, misogynistic antihero of Ben Frost's first opera, The Wasp Factory - libretto by David Poutney - is a young psychopath, a sort of mad scientist manipulating human beings like insects in a depraved behavioral experiment. Born and raised off the grid on an isolated island and warped by brutal trauma, he recounts, in a series of monologues, the obsessive rituals, up to and including dispassionate human sacrifice, with which he attempts to find the balance and order hidden in the seeming chaos of an indifferent universe. The Wasp Factory is the title of a miniature maze into which Frank feeds actual wasps as a form of divination, the method of each insect's demise - fire, poison, drowning - standing as a portent of the future. It is also an emblem of his own maze-like mind: a living, buzzing machine and a labyrinthine deathtrap. The opera itself is a kind of ritual, unfolding with the same coldly indifferent and clockwork inevitability as Frank's machinations. However, the materials Frost works with here are perhaps warmer than one might expect from the composer of electronic experiments like Aurora (2014) and Theory Of Machines (HVALUR 002CD/LP, 2006). Now the focus is on the "live" sounds of a small string ensemble and, for the first time, the human voice and over the repeating, tessellating musical cells of that string accompaniment he sets Poutney's text to tuneful, even soulful vocal lines, an extraordinarily unreliable narrator describing scenes of extreme violence and horror in music of incongruous loveliness.
$10.99 EAN: 5051083112048 ELECTRONIC
01. The Wasp Factory
02. I See You've Washed Your Hands Again
03. Death, No Less
04. Low Tide
05. Blyth
06. My Greatest Enemies Are Women And The Sea
07. High Tide
08. To Be Mastered, The World Must Be Named
09. What Happened To Me
10. You Don't Have To Sleep
11. Stormfront
12. The Bomb Circle
13. Esmeralda
14. Eric Is Getting Nearer
15. Inferno
Yally is a new project from Raime, who inaugurate a new series of one-sided releases from Boomkat Editions with their most 'floor-dedicated session in more than five years of operations - two scudding, killer steppers productions from Raime's expert bladesmen, Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead. The paranoid bruiser "Burnt" pins the listener by the windpipe with shanked hi-hats and ratty claps whilst cavernous. With the dread inversion "Sudo", they pronate on the tightest, simmering half-step; harnessing illicitly overloaded, vintage Air Max PSI allowance with shoulder rolling organ motif and nerve-tying ligature.
Thigh Master have been mainstays of Brisbane's thriving underground guitar scene for years now, building up a formidable reputation for both their fierce live shows and their early recorded output. Their first two singles Head Of The Witch (2014) and Songs To Wipe Your Mouth To (2015) both sold out their initial runs after charming fans both in Australia and abroad with their urgent and catchy tales of inner-city malaise. They have already played with Guitar Wolf, The Coathangers, Ty Segall, Ariel Pink, The Clean, Real Estate and Courtney Barnett. Early Times, their debut LP, was recorded and mixed by Blank Realm guitarist, Luke Walsh. Once more Matthew Ford and company turn this introspection and angst into high art, with another infectious offering which is sure to turn heads in all the right places. RIYL: Kitchen's Floor, Buzzcocks, Blank Realm. "I haven't been excited about guitar pop like this in a while, transporting a presence of Polvo/Archers-style string bend, plus huge riff from some 8000 miles away, familiar but still vital, and given exuberant, shook-up life." --Doug Mosurock, Still-Single.
Bureau B present a reissue of Adelbert Von Deyen's second album Nordborg, originally released in 1979. Electronic musician Adelbert Von Deyen's debut and sophomore album were released just a year apart from each other. Sternzeit (BB 237CD/LP) was followed by Nordborg, which featured only one track on each side. Again, Von Deyen took his time crafting a meditative maelstrom of ambient sounds. Von Deyen's debut album Sternzeit had caused quite a stir in 1978 in his home town of Lübeck, where the unconventional young artist found himself inundated with fan mail and booked for autograph sessions. His contract with Sky Records obliged him to deliver a set number of albums to the label - one per year. Enjoying financial independence, he was able to give up his job and focus exclusively on his music. Nordborg appeared in 1979 and featured just two tracks, one on each side. It was inspired by a short holiday in Nordborg on the Danish island of Alsen, which coincided with a violent blizzard. "Moonrise", the A-side title, is a slow motion improvisation on the rising of the moon on Nordborg. Opening with synths evocative of seagull cries, meditative soundscapes mesh together massive lead sounds in unhurried harmony. Winds swirl, synths twist into electronic spheres of sound, drifting without any clear dramatic structure. Immersed in introspection, Adelbert Von Deyen celebrates life in the moment. "Iceland", the B-side piece, is an acoustic interpretation of a snowstorm in Nordborg, Denmark, as remembered by Von Deyen. Perfect for Adelbert Von Deyen's artistic expression: sustained organ tones deliver beat frequencies, an electric piano pattern is lost in reverie, winds build through the ARP Odyssey, finally sinking into icy melancholy and detached organ tones. Towards the end we are reconciled by an almost sacral organ part which Adelbert Von Deyen brings full circle as he returns to the opening theme. Adelbert Von Deyen recorded the second album, like the first, on a Revox A77 tape machine in his little home studio. The instrument list echoes that of Sternzeit, with an ARP Odyssey performance synthesizer, a Farfisa VIP 233 organ, a Farfisa String-Orchestra, Hohner Clavinet D6 electric piano, rhythm computer and an electric guitar.
Bureau B present a reissue of Adelbert Von Deyen's third album Atmosphere, originally released in 1980. Album number three from electronic musician Adelbert Von Deyen marks the end of his ambient phase. Whilst Atmosphere largely swathes listeners in familiarly vast expanses of sound, the driving analog drums of the opening track (Von Deyen's most successful, as it turned out) signal a shift towards electro-kraut terrain. Atmosphere showcases Adelbert Von Deyen at the peak of his powers. The opening track, "Timemachine", sees him launch into zestful electro-krautrock, aided and abetted by Wolfgang Zabba Lindner on drums. Lindner had already popped up in the early 1970s in a prog-rock combo by the name of Tomorrow's Gift and recorded an interesting experimental percussion album in 1974 with Carsten Bohn (Vollbedienung Of Percussion). He can also be heard on the second piece "Silverrain" (in rather less zestful mode). A further eight tracks follow - revolving around the theme of Atmosphere - layers of synths glide slowly by, accompanied by drones which resound for minutes on end. Beats and synth FX add to the air of contemplation. A huge amount of time and money went into the production of this album. Adelbert Von Deyen composed tirelessly in his home studio, experimenting with his synthesizers and searching for new sounds. Lars Hidde added the final touches, taking care of the mix and mastering at Star Studio, Hamburg. All in all, it was worth the effort. Atmosphere proved to be Adelbert Von Deyen's most successful album. In his biography he writes: "Reactions to this opus were extreme, but absolutely positive, especially in other countries. 'Timemachine' appeared on quite a few LP and CD compilations and became an instrumental hit, the single selling around fifty thousand copies!" If Adelbert Von Deyen's first two albums saw him strive for artistic and financial independence, Atmosphere marked the beginning of a metamorphosis. Atmosphere is still in the sphere of ambient electronica, but the first two tracks are indicative of a clear shift towards krautrock or electronic rock. Von Deyen's next album would head off in a different direction altogether. The soft rock ballads and socially critical lyrics of Eclipse (1981) came as a complete surprise.
$11.99 EAN: 4015698006421 ELECTRONIC
01. Timemachine (5:02)
02. Silverrain (4:32)
03. Atmosphere Part I (11:38)
a. Sunrise
b. Altitude Flight
c. Astralis
04. Atmosphere Part II (22:09)
a. Skywards
b. Spaces Of Infinity
c. Crystal Clouds
d. Voices Of Infinity
e. Dawn
Cinedelic Records present a reissue of Egisto Macchi's Il Deserto, originally released in 1974. This incredible double album recorded in 1974 is truly an astounding experimental mystical trip to the desert. It is the rarest avant-garde music library by Egisto Macchi (founding member of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) and surely one of the most interesting and intriguing experimental albums. This reissue presented here comes with the original, longer uncut tunes from the master tapes.
$26.39 EAN: 8055323520553 ELECTRONIC
A1. L'eco Delle Gole (4:03)
A2. Segni Preistorici (6:29)
A3. Cammelli (10:06)
B1. Suoni Per Un Rito (3:07)
B2. La Notte Dei Deserto (12:58)
C1. Le Genti Del Deserto (8:59)
C2. Ghibli (3:03)
C3. Sabbia Immobile (9:23)
D1. Il Sahara (11:43)
Cinedelic Records present a reissue of Giuliano Sorgini's Under Pompelmo, originally released in 1973. The legendary killer psych funk album Under Pompelmo is the most "cult" album by Giuliano Sorgini. It sees Sorgini mix beat, prog, funk and psychedelia. It is one of the most sought Italian rare groove delights in the world. Sorgini also produced Zoo Folle (1974) and The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue (1974). The wonderful cover art by Sandro Symeony has been faithfully reproduced from the original.
$16.99 EAN: 8055323520546 ROCK
A1. Under Pompelmo (16:50)
B1. Echos From Canyon (2:41)
B2. To Rebound (3:00)
B3. Wandering Man (3:12)
B4. When I See You (3:08)
B5. Honda (3:07)
MORRICONE, ENNIO: Eat It (Mangiala) LP (CNST 704LP)
Cinedelic Records present a reissue of Ennio Morricone's soundtrack for the 1968 film Eat It (Mangiala). Even if you find the film Eat It, a film bit too weak-willed of social satire and advertising, the first and last of director Francesco Casaretti, you cannot miss out on the soundtrack from the two-time Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone, composed during his most prolific and experimental period, available for the first time from original master tapes. Morricone wrote a score that is, as always, brilliant, conducted by Bruno Nicolai with the choir I Cantori Moderni di Alessandro Alessandroni. The tracks range between danceable, a known nursery rhyme, classical motifs, romantic, a touch of bossa nova, all of which embrace all the psychological and environmental nuances of alienation and paradox that marks the plot of the film. There are also disturbing and abstract experimentalisms that make this soundtrack unique. Particularly in "Quinta Variazione / Africami" with the fuzzy guitar by Alessandroni, and "Settima Variazione" with its three dreamy amazing underwater variants and ending with "Eat It", in the same version as the highly collected 45rpm that came out at the time and is, until now, the only existing track on vinyl from this score - a legendary cult object and sought out for the killer heavy drum by Vincenzo Restuccia and distorted psychedelic Fender Stratocaster of Alessandro Alessandroni. Highly rigid hand-glued Cinedelic cover, with a folder insert of four facades with photos from the movie.
$22.39 EAN: 8055323520362 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Eat It (Tema)
A2. Prima Variazione: Mangiami
A3. Notte Di Pace (II Variazione)
A4. Terza Variazione Amami
A5. Quarta Variazione: Ballami
A6. Quinta Variazione: Africami
A7. Sesta Variazione: Pianofortecciami
A8. Settima Variazione: Temimi
A9. Settima Variazione: Temimi (2a Versione)
A10. Ottava Variazione: Pizzicami
B1. Eat It
B2. Falsa Sacralità
B3. Eat It (Ripresa 2)
B4. Notte Di Pace
B5. Prima Variazione: Mangiami (Ripresa 2)
B6. Settima Variazione: Temimi (3a Versione)
B7. Prima Variazione: Mangiami (Ripresa 3)
B8. Eat It (Ripresa 3)
B9. Eat It (Versione Singolo)
REVERBERI, GIANFRANCO: Riti, Magie Nere E Segrete Orge Nel Trecento LP (CNST 705LP)
After 45 years, comes the soundtrack, from the original master tapes, of the truly mad and weird exploitation euro-erotic-horror cult movie filmed in 1971 (but released only in 1973) by Renato Polselli (Ralph Brown). Incomprehensible and inconceivable beyond the reach of the human intellect, Riti, Magie Nere E Segrete Orge Nel Trecento (The Reincarnation Of Isabel) shows a cult of pseudo-Satanists in tight red jumpsuit and black cape requiring the blood and eyes of seven virgins in order to resurrect the corpse of the persecuted witch Isabella (Rita Calderoni), who was impaled and burned at the stake some 500 years ago. A precious nonsensical gem, with nervous zooming, nude women's breasts in a colorful scenery, and an overly cryptic storyline; loony. The soundtrack composed and produced by Gianfranco Reverberi (well known for his sample on Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy") encapsulates, in its fifteen total tracks (including the two released at the time), all typical sound elements of the "scary music" of the seventies but with a hard lysergic touch of madness, experimentation and psychedelia. Female vocals give out agonizing and distressing groans, tribal African rhythmic, turned-over words, plucked stings of the piano, baroque elements and lot of effects makes this soundtrack a cult object, not even to mention the obsessive care of the packaging. Comes in a gatefold, heavy thick cover; front cover design by Michele Targonato with embossed flames. Bi-color red-blue vinyl; Includes download code; Edition of 666 (numbered).
$24.99 EAN: 8055323520379 SOUNDTRACK
A1. Orgiastic Ritual
A2. Secret Orgy I
A3. Black Secret (Piano Version)
A4. Isabella's Heart
A5. Psycho Tape Loop
A6. Secret Orgy II
A7. Balsorano's Castle
A8. Sacrifice
B1. Secret Orgy Suite
B2. A Full Coffin
B3. Black Secret
B4. Secret Orgy III
B5. Decamerotic
B6. The Reincarnation
B7. Black Secret
Dagored present a reissue of Berto Pisano's soundtrack for the 1969 film Interrabang, originally released in 1970. Berto Pisano was a bass player, composer, arranger and Italian conductor. Among the interesting soundtracks he composed, there is certainly a major spot reserved for Interrabang, the cult giallo/erotic film of 1969 which at the time was quite out of the box, as it matched the exotic-erotic genre with the psychological thriller. Strong jazzy themes supported by strings, vibraphone, soft drums, some great bossa nova mixed with shakin' mid-tempo tunes and the magnificent vocals of Edda Dell'Orso. This soundtrack is a truly beautiful experience. Edition of 500 on colored vinyl.
$20.39 EAN: 8013252732355 SOUNDTRACK
A1. A Piedi Nudi Sulla Spiaggia
A2. La Scogliera Dell'amore
A3. Il Colore Degli Angeli
A4. Tema Di Valeria
A5. Sabbia E Mare
A5. Little Snack Bar
B1. ...E Il Sole Scotte
B2. Tramonto Sulla Scogliera
B3. La Vallata Sommersa
B4. Luci Sulla Baia
B5. Tema Di Valeria (2)
B6. Tema Di Valeria (3)
B7. Tema Di Valeria (4)
MINGUS, CHARLES: The Eldridge Session LP (ACV 2068LP)
The great bassist and band leader Charles Mingus cut some of his most exciting and rewarding recordings in 1960. Taped during the apex of Mingus's creativity, this incredible session showcases such stars as Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Jimmy Knepper on trombone, Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Jo Jones on drums. First edition of 500 (numbered).
$14.39 UPC: 889397020682 JAZZ
A1. Mysterious Blues
A2. Body And Soul
A3. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
B1. R & R
B2. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Alt)
B3. Me And You
SEEGER/BIG BILL BROONZY, PETE: Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago 1956 2CD (ECHO 2077CD)
Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy, live at Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago on October 25th, 1956. American author, historian, actor, broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Louis 'Studs' Terkel was the perfect point of communication between poet and people. The Studs Terkel Program was broadcast each weekday between 1952 and 1997 when he interviewed guests as diverse as Martin Luther King, Leonard Bernstein, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, Tennessee Williams and Big Bill Broonzy ("our land's most distinguished singer of 'undressed' blues"). Chicago's WFMT were invited to record Big Bill Broonzy's authentic, high octane blues alongside Pete Seeger's observational folksong for Stud Terkel's weekly "Almanac" broadcast in 1956. Broonzy and Seeger pair up on Lead Belly's "Midnight Special" to close the show with Terkel declaring, "Broonzy and Seeger are of disparate cultures, yet share the big common denominator: they are free in song." Studs Terkel also remarked, "The program was unplanned. We approached the WFMT mike, and let come what did." Echoes presents the entire original WFMT-FM broadcast of Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy together in song at Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in 1956. Professionally re-mastered original FM broadcast with expansive liners and rare archival photos.
$16.39 EAN: 5291012207715 ROCK
1.01. Introduction
1.02. Midnight Special
1.03. Backwater Blues
1.04. The Foolish Frog
1.05. Green Corn
1.06. This Train Is Bound For Glory
1.07. Mrs McGrath
1.08. Crawdad Song
1.09. Musical Instruments
1.10. The Glory Of Love
1.11. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
1.12. Goofing Off Suite
1.13. Willie Mae
1.14. Bill Bailey
1.15. Alberta
2.01. Deep Sea Blue
2.02. Que Bonita Bandera
2.03. Aimee McPherson
2.04. Various Student Songs
2.05. Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram
2.06. Black Fly
2.07. Wimoweh
2.08. Michael Row The Boat Ashore
2.09. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
2.10. Mama I Saw A Boo Boo
2.11. Ananias
2.12. A Soldier's Prayer
2.13. John Henry
2.14. I'm Gonna Sing Me A Love Song
2.15. In the Evening When The Sun Goes Down
2.16. Down By The Riverside
Hiele's soundtrack to the film Saints (2016), by Dieter Deswarte. Eleven tracks on this 10" vinyl. Specks of land in the vast infinite sea, islands have long fascinated the human imagination. Oddly exotic & gently paced, Hiele's soundtrack drags the listener into eleven pastorals bulking of fragile sustained breaths of melody. Accents of resonating strings, airy playfulness and sacred fragments of droning nature drive with the instrumentation of clarinet, double bass and various electronics. Cover photo by Sylvie De Weze. Saints is the documentary film about isolation and the impact that it can have on a small society.
Slight Freedom, Jeff Parker's first ever solo record, presents the first opportunity to hear the guitarist in fully self-revealed circumstances. Recorded in 2013 and 2014 in the Hollywood Hills as he relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles, Parker combines the dark tonal palette and percussive attack he's known for with real-time processing elements and field recordings, deftly crafting a unique world of solo guitar music - multi-lingual, mysterious, alive with extraordinary sonic events, with a sturdy intelligence in charge and a raw home-style vibe. Jeff Parker is a longtime member of Tortoise. He creates works that explore the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, and improvisation and composition. He is also a member of Isotope 217 and Chicago Underground, and has been an associate member of the Association For The Advancement Of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1995.Slight Freedom is yet another defining moment for Parker in 2016, a year that already includes a brilliant ensemble album (The New Breed) and Tortoise's 25th anniversary tour and record (The Catastrophist). Parker's title composition sets the albums cavernous mood. Terse lines and ricocheting loops morph into a gnarly ambient section that resembles Neil Young droning out over a copy of discreet music. Parker creates a different sort of ambient space in his take on Frank Ocean's "Super Rich Kids", bending the melody around a bossa nova rhythm into a Moodsville tone poem. Parker makes an extraordinary long-form statement out of Chad Taylor's "Mainz", a piece he first recorded with Taylor and bassist Chris Lopes on the album Bright Light In Winter (2011). Twice the length of the trio recording, the multi-layered soliloquy finds Parker leaping from the high rung to damn near orchestral heights, pushing his techniques and concepts to their breaking points. It's one of the great solo performances you'll hear from a musician this year. To say "Lush Life" comes with formidable baggage is an understatement. Parker achieves instant classic status with a rendition that sounds beamed-in from a decommissioned satellite - burned out, covered in space grit, yet still formally nuanced and beautifully reflective of Strayhorn's world-weary lyrics. Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl by RTI; Presented in a heavyweight Stoughton "laserdisc" sleeve, printed by Stoughton; Silkscreened by Alan Sherry of Siwa, who also silkscreened the labels and the inner sleeves; Edition of 850.
$21.79 UPC: 769791964471 JAZZ
01. Slight Freedom
02. Super Rich Kids
03. Mainz
04. Lush Life
Nina Kraviz is a Siberian born singer, producer, song-writer and DJ renowned as a passionate record digger and for her outstanding taste in idiosyncratic electronic music. She is the founder of respected label трип (Trip). Her earliest international solo hits appeared on Underground Quality and Rekids, where she released her album Nina Kraviz in 2012, with a DJ Kicks mix in 2015. Fabric 91 is pieced together from a series of live takes and careful listening will reveal two narratives, separated by a breath, weaving together techno, IDM, electronica, ambient and many disparate facets of acid. The mix includes collectors rarities from Bedouin Ascent, Frak, Mike Henk, DJ Slip and Woody McBride, as well as under-exposed Russian '90s IDM and electronica from Species Of Fishes and New Composers & Pete Namlook. Some of Nina's favorite but less known acid stompers, illustrate her personal take on acid and acid trance, drawn from practitioners across the globe. Every track is either a classic rarity or an unreleased treasure from the future. Also features: Tim Taylor, Dan Zamani, Freddie Fresh, Soren, Leo Anibaldi, DJ RX-5, Nikita Zabelin, Bjarki, PTU, Orange Juice Man, Birk Brainwash, Breaker 1 2, Panasonic, Beverly Hills 808303, Kirlian, Biogen, Unit Moebius, Nina Kraviz, Torul V, Christian Bloch, DJ Tuttle, Drax LTD II, Air Liquide, Claude Young, Negative Return, Automatic Sound Unlimited, The Detroit Escalator Co. and AFX (Aphex Twin). Packaged in bespoke slipcase containing die-embossed tin.
$11.39 UPC: 802560018125 ELECTRONIC
01. Species Of Fishes - Tak
02. Bedouin Ascent - Ruthless Compassion
03. Woody McBride - TV
04. DJ Slip - Jill's Meth (Side A)
05. Tim Taylor, Dan Zamani, Freddie Fresh, DJ Slip - Iceberg
06. Soren - 19C
07. Leo Anibaldi - Aeon Fusion 1
08. DJ RX-5 - Like A Boogie
09. Nikita Zabelin - Confusion
10. Bjarki - Denise It Ain't Easy 2
11. PTU - A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day
12. Orange Juice Man - Huckfuq 3 (Uxi Mix)
13. Birk Brainwash - Deli At Night
14. Breaker 1 2 - Sueno Malo
15. Panasonic - Murtaja
16. Birk Brainwash - Goyfax
17. Beverly Hills 808303 - Acid Planet 4 A2
18. Kirlian - Groove 2
19. Species Of Fishes - Crash Recovery
20. Frak- First Snow In Harlem
21. Species Of Fishes - Bfg9000 Vs. Barons Of Hell
22. Biogen - Irrelevant Information
23. Biogen - Lag 38
24. Species Of Fishes - Sh
25. New Composers & Pete Namlook - Tetra
26. Unit Moebius - Radar
27. Nina Kraviz - You Are Wrong
28. Torul V - Denwer
29. Nina Kraviz - Pochuvstvui
30. Mike Henk - Dox-003 Untitled B1
31. Woody McBride - The Power Hour
32. Christian Bloch - Refuse
33. DJ Tuttle - Universe Of Love
34. Woody McBride - Prolonged
35. Drax LTD II - Amphetamine (Air Liquide Remix)
36. Claude Young - Locked
37. Negative Return - First Light
38. Air Liquide - Revelation
39. Automatic Sound Unlimited - Approaching
40. The Detroit Escalator Co. - Fate (As A Chasm)
41. AFX - Fork Rave
FRANK HURRICANE: Mountain Brew Light LP (FTR 256LP)
"Frank Hurricane is a steward of benevolent mischief, and there is no slowing his holy roll. He has inhaled deeply from a wide swath of this country's bizarre atmospheres, and when he exhales, one gets the distinct impression that he might actually be making some sort of sense out of an entire host of experiences that might otherwise simply confuse and confound. Frank has yanked terms such as 'spiritual' or 'haunted' down from their ridiculous alters and placed them into tactile, more nuanced tonal motifs. The words don't take on new meanings, per se, but they do exhibit new shades, new hints of character. And character is something sorely lacking in these rotten times. Frank Hurricane gives such terms breath, and through that breath they live anew. That's what literature is, I think. There's a propulsive thrust here, a bottom end, a deep bass bed, and above it everything else does soar and fly. Frank's legitimately unique storytelling abilities are allowed to swim to their own peculiar rhythms. It's trite to say that any artist (let alone musician) 'marches to the beat of their own drum', but in this case the phrase becomes not only accurate, but necessary. All told, this is some sort of distillation of a vision. You distill some things, and you end up with bullshit - dogma, restrictive formal constraints, hate. You distill things another way and you end up with holy whiskey. Or love. No matter your poison - yeti, racquetball, tennis, pool, whatever - all are welcome at the Hurricane's table." --Matt Krefting, 2016.
$13.79 UPC: 019962207822 ELECTRONIC
A1. Ying Yang Feather
A2. Obeesa, Queen Of The Green Hole
A3. Sand Mountain Blues
A4. Dark Brown Haired Girl
A5. Dry Creek Road Blues
B1. Lexington Market Blues
B2. Shrympanati Blue
B3. Salamanders
B4. Southern Mountain Home
B5. Night Tyme Drives
MANDRAKE MEMORIAL, THE: 3 Part Inventions CD (FLASH 1008CD)
Having made two superb psychedelic albums and gigged with The Doors, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground and many others, in June of 1969, The Mandrake Memorial came to London. The plan was to record with famed producer Shel Talmy (The Kinks, The Who, Pentangle), but when that fell through, they persevered alone. Long thought to be lost, 3 Part Inventions anticipates the woozy, dream-like vibe of their 1970 masterpiece Puzzle, combining eerie vocals, trippy guitar and otherworldly electronics to create a unique whole. Transferred directly from the master tape, it's released here for the first time, together with a detailed band history, rare images, two previously unheard outtakes from a 1969 acetate, and a rare radio interview.
$11.99 EAN: 5056297100812 ROCK
01. The Puzzle
02. Ocean's Daughter
03. Tadpole
04. Part Of My Dreams
05. Wouldn't You Like It?
06. Bucket Of Air
07. Witness The End
08. Cassandra*
09. The 12th Brigade*
10. Rock Star Interview*
SPIRIT: Live At The Ash Grove, 1967 Volume 1 CD (FLASH 1009CD)
Flashback present a live recording from Spirit, titled Live At The Ash Grove, 1967 Volume 1. Lead vocalist Jay Ferguson talks about the recording: "The Ash Grove was a legendary venue for folk and early Los Angeles rock, and really the birthplace of Spirit. We brought in a younger, less inhibited crowd, a mixture of hippies and jazz freaks. Spirit, at its inception, was more of an improvisational jazz/blues group than anything else. Our first shows had very few structured songs, lots of free-form going on. We were constantly writing, trying out, and discarding songs. Getting to play in a major LA club, building a following, trying out new ideas, and forging what the group would become. It was a magical time for us."
$11.99 EAN: 5056297100911 ROCK
01. Tunji
02. Free Spirit
03. Our Topanga Home
04. Ostrich Head
05. Gramophone Man
06. Silence
07. Boo
08. Say Your Name
09. Eventide
10. Hey Joe
11. Matt's Theme
12. Wade In The Water
13. Outro (Spoken)
Fungus Cerebri: Selected Tracks From Cassettes 1981-1989 includes a selection of tracks by Esplendor Geométrico, originally released on cassette and recorded between 1981-1989. They have been remastered from the original tapes for this edition. The 16 tracks are taken from Sinn & Form cassette compilation (Daterverarbeitungm, 1982), En Directo Madrid Y Tolosa (EGK, 1987), Esplendor Geométrico En Roma (EGK, 1986), Madrid Mayo 89 (Línea Alternativa, 1990), and Diez Años De Esplendor (Línea Alternativa, 1991). The '80s are a period particularly appreciated by the followers of this cult band, pioneers of the more rhythmic strain of industrial music. Minimalism, raw and harsh analog electronica, distortion, Arabic sounds, shortwave radio recordings are all typical elements of their style during this first period of Esplendor Geométrico, when they achieved a sound ahead of its time and is still imitated nowadays. Esplendor Geométrico were always very present within the '80s international scene of underground cassette labels. This double LP is the first one of a series dedicated to this movement in Spain, still fairly unknown despite its activity at the time, with dozens of labels operating from different cities. Artwork by Juan Carlos Sastre, founding member of Esplendor Geométrico. Track selection by Andrés Noarbe, the band's manager since their beginnings in 1980 and director of Geometrik Records. Comes as a double LP in gatefold sleeve; Edition of 700.
$20.99 EAN: 8435008885144 ELECTRONIC
A1. 2-TI-2 (5:34)
A2. Cuarenta Años Nos Iluminan (5:12)
A3. Fungus Cerebri (4: 43)
A4. Comisario De La Luz VI (4: 49)
B1. Llamada Del Afropoder. (5:55)
B2. Bleno Boca (5:13)
B3. Tarikat. (5:10)
B4. Allo Terre? (Live 1987) (3:25)
WALKABOUTS, THE: Feel Like Going Home: Cover Albums 6LP+4CD BOX (GR 897LP)
Besides being probably one of the best and most underestimated indie-rock bands from the United States, Seattle's The Walkabouts always delivered remarkable and outstanding covers. In 1993, they released Satisfied Mind the first cover album in the band's history and truly an alternative country masterpiece. 20 years after the release, MOJO elected it as one of the "Best 5 Americana Albums of All Time". In 2001, the highly anticipated Train Leaves At Eight was released - the counterpart to Satisfied Mind - covering only European music from Norway to Greece. Satisfied Mind was released as a single LP in 1993, maybe not the best decision for sound reasons, whereas Train Leaves At Eight was never released on vinyl. Both albums are now available for the first time ever remastered and on double vinyl. As a bonus and a special gift to the fans, this box includes a third double LP, the live album Gone To Hell, Back By Eight. This album includes two recordings of two concerts from the time of creation of both Satisfied Mind and Train Leaves At Eight. Remastered from the original tapes by Grammy nominee Hans-Jörg Maucksch (Pauler Acoustics Studio). The Walkabouts's Feel Like Going Home: Cover Albums comes as a deluxe box set with three double LPs (180 gram vinyl) plus four CDs.
$99.20 EAN: 4030433789711 ROCK
Satisfied Mind (1993):
01. Satisfied Mind (by Rhodes & Hayes)
02. Loom of the Land (by Nick Cave)
03. The River People (by Robert Forster)
04. Polly (by Gene Clark)
05. Buffalo Ballet (by John Cale)
06. Lover's Crime (by Pewee Maddux)
07. Shelter for an Evening (by Gary Heffern)
08. Dear Darling (by Mary Margaret O'Hara)
09. Poor Side of the Town (by Johnny Rivers)
10. Free Money (by Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye)
11. The Storms Are On The Ocean (by The Carter Family)
12. Feel Like Going Home (by Charlie Rich)
13. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone (Traditional)
Train Leaves At Eight (2001):
01. The Train Leaves At Eight
02. Man From Reno
03. That Black Guitar
04. Disamistade
05. Silenci
06. Hard Winds Blowin`
07. Everyone Kisses A Stranger
08. People Such As These
09. Wake Me Up Before I Sleep
10. Solex In A Slipshod Style
11. That`s How I Live
12. And She Closed Her Eyes
13. Death`s Threshold Step #2
14. Leb´ Wohl
Gone To Hell (Satisfied Mind Concert):
01. Satisfied Mind
02. Polly
03. The River People
04. Buffalo Ballet
05. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone
06. Loom Of The Land
07. Feel Like Going Home
Back By Eight (Train Leaves At Eight Concert):
01. Train Leaves At Eight
02. Wake Me Up Before I Sleep
03. Everyone Kisses a
04. People Such As These
05. Man From Reno
06. Disamistade
07. Death's Threshold Step #2
08. Silenci
DELLO AND FRIENDS, PETE: Into Your Ears LP (GKL 007LP)
Got Kinda Lost Records present a reissue of Pete Dello And Friends's Into Your Ears, originally released in 1971 by Nepentha. Into Your Ears is the sole full-length offering from Honeybus founder member Pete Dello (assisted by a coterie of close friends). The album is a wonderful, timeless work of incisive, plaintive folk-pop balladry and buoyant, idiosyncratic creations, led along by Dello's honeyed voice, which eases effortlessly into falsetto, and expertly executed arrangements featuring minor orchestrations. Into Your Ears represents the zenith of Dello's songwriting, comprised primarily of tunes written specifically for this project, supplemented by a few tracks intended for Honeybus which were re-cut for the occasion. The songwriting reflects a jovial playfulness, but also feelings of intense lovelorn longing, hope, wistfulness and moments that could serve as a great soundtrack to a break-up, with the brightness of delivery never making them ache with depression. Everything on Into Your Ears comes from personal life experiences, even if twisted through a unique prism, with the deep emotions, whimsical moments and orchestration that never clutters the arrangements all achieving perfect balance. But, above all, the songs resonate with a pure dedication to "pop" and beckon you to listen in repetition, until they're at one with your very existence. There's something present, timeless and at times nearly indescribable about this very special set of songs that can't be pinpointed by simple equation. Widely regarded by Honeybus fans, '60s-'70s collectors and anyone who's happened into its beatific orbit, Into Your Ears is a lost classic deserving of further exposure. Includes liner notes culled from interviews with Jeremy Cargill (Ugly Things/Got Kinda Lost), presenting the most thorough examination of Dello's career to date; Original gatefold LP artwork restored, illustrated by Roger Dean. RIYL: Ray Brooks, Duncan Browne, John Cale's Paris 1919 (1973), Ray Davies (The Kinks), Bill Fay, Nick Garrie, the early careers of Ralph McTell and Clifford T. Ward.
$18.39 EAN: 4040824086596 ROCK
A1. It's What You've Got
A2. There Is Nothing I Can Do For You
A3. I'm A Gambler
A4. Harry The Earwig
A5. Do I Still Figure In Your Life
A6. Uptight Basil
B1. Taking The Heart Out Of Love
B2. On A Time Said Sylvie
B3. A Good Song
B4. It's The Way
B5. Go Away
B6. Arise Sir Henry
New boogie, straight out of Melbourne, Australia. Fronted by long-time collaborators Françoise d'Argent and Benny Badge, So Good To You showcases an evolution for Silver Linings and the duo's signature soul-boogie sound. Moments such as "Start It Over" and the brooding "34th Floor" are an ode to UK electro-jazz; there's the Sade-esque "Waiting For Your Love"; whilst "This Time" and "So Good To You" are a head-nod to street soul legends Loose Ends and 52nd Street among others.
$16.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
01. So Good To You
02. Start It Over
03. This Time
04. 34th Floor
05. Not Your Only
06. Waiting For Your Love
07. Too Much
Marquis Hawkes's sound ranges from club-ready weapons of slamming and sleazy, to swinging and acid-laced, beholden to vintage US house music and jacking dance floor jams. After the monumental success of his debut album Social Housing (HTH 058CD/LP, 2016), Marquis Hawkes returns with an absolute beauty of a package alongside the indisputable queen of RnB and soul, Jocelyn Brown. The release also includes two remixes from house legend Paul Woolford and Polish duo Catz 'N Dogz, each tackling the crystal clean house anthem "I'm So Glad" turning them into monumental dance anthems.
$9.79 UPC: 802560206669 ELECTRONIC
01. I'm So Glad
02. I'm So Glad (12" Satisfied Mix)
03. I'm So Glad (Paul Woolford Rework)
04. I'm So Glad (Catz 'N Dogz Remix)
Snow Ghosts follow their two digital single releases of 2016 with an EP collating the tracks onto vinyl, alongside a very special bonus track in the shape of a remix of "Lied" from Prurient which takes the original's darkness and transports it into a terrifying new audio netherworld of fractured beats and shards of noise. 180 gram clear vinyl; comes with a bespoke PVC tessellated "H logo" outer protective 12" wallet and a die cut outer sleeve; Cut and mastered by MPG Awards Mastering Engineer, Matt Colton.
$16.99 UPC: 802560207062 ELECTRONIC
01. Vetiver
02. Undertow
03. Lied
04. Dawn
05. Decorate My Bones
06. Lied (Prurient Remix)
The last and eighth release in this series opens up with Christian Wunsch's remix of "Ex Machina" - all hypnotic bounce, roaring chords, cutting through the irrepressible groove. Mørbeck's remix of "Ghost Town" is an atmospheric but tough interpretation of the original, kicking hard with jackhammered drums, coupled with metal scraping metal sounds and a simplicity that builds tension. Jonas Kopps's remix of "Miscellaneous Pt. 1" creatively pairs heavy rolling 909 drums with a classic four-on-the-floor clap pattern. A re-mastered version of the utterly timeless and epic club hit "1969" by the mastermind Christian Morgenstern himself.
$8.99 UPC: 880319758218 ELECTRONIC
A1. Ex Machina (Christian Wunsch Remix)
A2. Ghost Town (Mørbeck Remix)
B1. Miscellaneous Pt. 1 (Jonas Kopp Remix)
B2. 1969 (Original)
Mad About Records present the first reissue of the self-titled, legendary funk soul album from Toni Tornado, originally released in 1972. Son of a Guyanese father and a Brazilian mother, at 11 years old Toni ran away from home and ended up in Rio de Janeiro where he became a street kid and made a living selling peanuts and shining shoes. Toni began his artistic career in the '60s with the stage name Tony Checker, lip-synching and dancing on Hoje é Dia de Rock show of Jair Taumaturgo. Toni imitated singers like Chubby Checker and Little Richard. Even in the '60s, he traveled to the United States where he lived for five years in New York. In New York, Toni served as drug dealer and a pimp, to deceive the immigration department, pretending to be an employee of a car wash. While in New York, Toni met another Brazilian singer, Tim Maia. Back in Brazil in 1969, he worked in the group of Ed Lincoln and also sang at night with the pseudonym Johnny Bradfort - the owner of the club forced him to pretend to be a foreigner. In 1970, he adopted the name with he came to be known, "Toni Tornado". Influenced by James Brown, Toni was one of the artists who introduced soul music and funk to Brazilian music. Working-class black cariocas (residents of Rio) of Zona Norte began using the English phrases "Black Power", "Brother" and "Black Is Beautiful". They played African-American soul records at their bailes (dances) and incorporated the lyrics and sounds into their music. Maia, the godfather of música soul, spent five years in the United States. He came to know the sounds of black America intimately. When he returned to Brazil in 1964, Maia incorporated the soul and funk influences into his songs. By the 1970s, other Brazilian musicians, such as Toni Tornado, Banda Black Rio, Cassiano, Gerson King Combo, Jorge Ben Jor and Gilberto Gil began making soul records. This nova (new) music spoke to an experience - both universal and unique at the same time. The time period was known as "Black Rio". By the end of the '70s, funk and disco would take over where soul left off, but it was the latter that helped to shape a generation of artists around a universal black identity. Comes in authentic collector's '70s "paste-on" packaging; Edition of 500.
Mental Experience present first ever reissue of AK Musick, originally released in 1972. Radical, freaked-out sound with hints of free-jazz, improv and avant-garde, AK Musick was an improv collective assembled by clarinetist Hans Kumpf to "make music in a very democratic way". The five players had a classical education but they were also influenced by avant-garde composers like Helmut Lachenmann and Johannes Fritsch. Their only album, AK Musick, was recorded at the famous Bauer Studios in just three hours and engineered by Martin Wieland, who had previously worked with Keith Jarrett for the ECM label. A wide arrangement of instruments were used: clarinet, cello, oboe, organ, piano, darbuka, tam-tam, ektare, flute, zither. Includes the amazing "Impro-Vision" which sounds like electronic music, but using only natural instruments. AK Musick saw the light in 1972 on Kumpf's own AKM Records label. It was a private homemade edition of 150 copies, with spray-printed covers. During the '70s, AKM Records was also home to other free-jazz rarities like Free Blacks by Perry Robinson/Hans Kumpf (1976), where Hans also collaborated with his friend Wolfgang Dauner, and In Time by Theo Jörgensmann (1977). Reissue under license from Hans Kumpf. Remastered sound; Insert with liner notes by Klemen Breznikar (It's Psychedelic Baby) plus rare photos and memorabilia. LP edition includes download code. RIYL: Anima, Annexus Quam, Albrecht D, Gulda, Nihilist Spasm Band, Nurse With Wound.
$11.99 EAN: 4040824086619 ROCK
01. Hava
02. Schace
03. Impro-Vision
04. My Ape & My Monkey
05. Ron Do
06. Baz
Fjaak tease their long-awaited debut album with a both varied and coherent single. The "Wolves" unleashed by Fjaak aim straight for the throat. Over a gritty and hypnotic groove, psychotic organ sounds cut through the mix like suppressed memories. There's a break, but no time to breathe, really: the warm bassline emerging from the intense near-silence only comes with more appetite for destruction. The sonic center of "Pray For Berlin" is occupied by a sophisticated breakbeat, flanked by dreamy synth lines, which lends an irresistible drive to the track, despite its mid-tempo pace.
Fjaak's path led them from the periphery to the center, and from there, further through the world. Their self-titled debut album for Monkeytown is as much a summary of what had happened in the previous three years as it is an artistic statement. Fjaak combines the energetic peak-time sound of the Berlin-based trio's acclaimed techno singles, like Oben/Unten (2015), with sophisticated breakbeat arrangements and atmospherically dense ambient textures. These eleven tracks are the provisional highlight in a unique success story which started aside club culture's conventions and to this day refuses to compromise. Felix Wagner, Aaron Röbig and Kevin Kozicki were still teenagers when they developed a distinct sound which positioned itself outside beaten paths, both geographically and musically speaking. The trio cut their teeth in Berlin-Spandau's open-air scene and celebrated their first success in the city's center shortly thereafter before taking the techno world by storm with their elaborate analog sound. Having released a few records, they found a permanent home on Modeselektor's Monkeytown in 2014, while incessantly traveling the world. Fjaak draws its overwhelming power from their signature hands-on mentality and the explosive charm of their live sets. Earlier this year, Fjaak let FACT into their Berlin studio for an "Against The Clock" feature, the result of which - an anthemic techno jam - showcases the trio's spontaneous working process. "Against The Clock" sounds rough and unpolished, just like it's supposed to be: Fjaak capture the energy of their jam sessions on Fjaak. Apart from the previously released tracks to be found on the single Wolves/Pray For Berlin (MONKEY 070EP, 2016), the album also features a reworked version of the Fjaak classic "Gewerbe 15". However, Fjaak is far more than a document of Fjaak's studio virtuosity. On it, Kozicki, Röbig und Wagner channel the diverse influences that have informed their unique sound from the very beginning. On "Sixteen Levels", you can hear their love for UK bass sound while "Snow" and the vivid collaborations with Rødhåd or Modeselektor highlight a more placid side of Fjaak. Whether it's peak-time techno or the cowbell-heavy breakbeats of "Fast Food", Fjaak seamlessly blends the musical tensions between subtle textures, raw kicks and smart arrangements. Here and there, there are references to a specific '90s sound. However, Fjaak is first and foremost dedicated to a new musical future.
$10.99 UPC: 817231013149 ELECTRONIC
01. Spnd Ballett
02. Sixteen Levels
03. Wolves
04. Snow
05. Offline (feat. Rødhåd)
06. Fast Food
07. Das Programm
08. Gewerbe 15 (Album Version)
09. Tomorrow
10. Against The Clock
11. Fjkslktr (feat. Modeselektor)
Neos presents Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015. The German premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's "Oktett" is a work commissioned by Trombone Unit Hannover, financed by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung; Trombone Unit Hannover is: Frederic Belli, Mateusz Dwulecki, Karol Gajda, Lars Karlin, Angelos Kritikos, Tobias Schiessler, Mateusz Sczendzina, Yuval Wolfson. The world premiere of Johannes Boris Borowski's "Sérac" is a work commissioned by SWR; played by Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by Peter Eötvös. The world premiere of Stefan Prins's "Mirror Box Extensions" is a work commissioned by SWR; played by the Nadar Ensemble; Nadar Ensemble is: Elisa Medinilla - piano; Yves Goemaere - piano; Thomas Moore - trombone, stage manager, production; Bertel Schollaert - saxophone; Dries Tack, clarinet; Katrien Gaelens - flute; Marieke Berendsen - violin; Pieter Matthynssens - cello, artistic director; Kobe Van Cauwenberghe - guitar; Culture Crew (Vincent Jacobs) - video software; Wannes Gonnissen - sound, electronics; Stefan Prins - artistic director; Rebecca Diependaele, general manager. The world premiere of Mark Andre's "über" is a work commissioned by SWR; Features Jörg Widmann on clarinet and the Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by François-Xavier Roth. The world premiere Francesco Filidei's "Killing Bach" is a work commissioned by SWR; Features Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by François-Xavier Roth. The world premiere of Yoav Pasovsky's "Pulsus alternans" is a work commissioned by SWR; features Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, conducted by Peter Eötvös and Gregor Mayrhofer.
$20.39 EAN: 4260063116117 CLASSICAL
1.01. Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953) - Oktett für 8 Posaunen (2015) (19:50)
1.02. Johannes Boris Borowski (*1979) - Sérac for orchestra (2014/2015) (24:55) Stefan Prins (*1979) - Mirror Box Extensions for ensemble, live electronics & live video (2014/2015)
1.03. Scene 1: Hybrid spaces #1 (7:51)
1.04. Scene 2: WYSI(N)WYG (11:11)
1.05. Scene 3: You will only be allowed to express yourself if you become a hologram (4:48)
1.06. Scene 4: Hybrid spaces #2 (8:52)
2.01. Mark Andre (*1964) - "über" for clarinet, orchestra and live electronics (2015) (38:10)
2.02. Francesco Filidei (*1973) - Killing Bach for orchestra (2015) (20:50)
2.03. Yoav Pasovsky (*1980) - Pulsus alternans for orchestra (2015) (12:12)
MAHNKOPF, CLAUS-STEFFEN: Hommage a Daniel Libeskind CD (NEOS 11616CD)
Deeply impressed by the architecture of the Jewish museum in Berlin, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf started to compose his cycle Hommage à Daniel Libeskind in 2001. "As in each of my numerous tribute pieces, my aim was to find a point of intersection between the art of the dedicatee and my music. At the surface level, it is the deconstructive disposition: with Libeskind in an aesthetic of fragmentation, and with me in the 63-part form. Poetically speaking, it lies in the equivalent to the cool expressivity of Libeskind's ingenious edifice." Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, born in 1962 in Mannheim (Germany), studies in composition, music theory, piano, musicology, philosophy, and sociology with Brian Ferneyhough, Klaus Huber and Jürgen Habermas among others, obtaining a music degree and PhD. Since 1984, he has recieved international prizes and awards, including the Gaudeamus Prize, Stuttgart Composition Prize, Ernst von Siemens Music Grant, Villa Massimo. Since 2005, he has been the Professor of Composition at the Leipzig Academy of Music and Theater, Editor of the journal Musik & Ästhetik and the book series New Music And Aesthetics In The 21st Century, author of over 150 essays and numerous books (e.g. Kritische Theorie Der Musik (2006), Von Der Messianischen Freiheit (2016)). Extensive oeuvre in all genres, performed by renowned groups (e.g. Ensemble Modern), important commissions (e.g. Salzburger Festspiele) and numerous portrait concerts worldwide. Hommage à Daniel Libeskind, as presented here, is performed by Ensemble SurPlus. Personnel for Ensemble SurPlus: Martina Roth - flutes; Christian Kemper - oboe and cor anglais; Nicola Mioranda - clarinet and bass clarinet; Stefan Häussler - violin; Bodo Friedrich - viola; Beverley Ellis - violoncello; Peter Veale - conductor.
$10.99 EAN: 4260063116162 CLASSICAL
01. Hommage à Daniel Libeskind, Vol. I for six players (2002) (15:10)
02. Hommage à Daniel Libeskind, Vol. II for six players (2010/2011) (22:07)
03. Hommage à Daniel Libeskind, Vol. III for six players (2010-2012) (17:25)
SCIARRINO, SALVATORE: Musica Viva 26 CD/SACD (NEOS 11626CD)
To praise Salvatore Sciarrino as a famous European composer means carrying coals to Newcastle. Neos presents Volume 26 of their outstanding series, Musica Viva, featuring the music of Sciarrino played by one of the best orchestras of the world, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, together with internationally well-known soloists like Carolin Widmann and pianist Tamara Stefanovich. Personnel: Tamara Stefanovich on piano, Chorwerk Ruhr, conducted by Florian Helgath, and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, for "Un'immagine di arpocrate"; Carolin Widmann on violin and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Jonathan Nott for "Giorno velato presso il lago nero".
$10.99 EAN: 4260063116261 CLASSICAL
01. Un'immagine di arpocrate for piano and orchestra with choir (1974-1997) (46:51)
on texts from Faust (J.W. von Goethe) and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
02. Giorno velato presso il lago nero for violin and orchestra (18:52)
Trends & Boylan wrote an anthem with "Norman Bates". Easily the biggest grime instrumental of 2016, "Norman Bates" has been played and rewound time and time again, at all of the biggest shows. On the flip, there are individual tunes from the two producers. Boylan goes on an orchestral workout with clarinets and strings providing the catchy riffs alongside classic square waves on "Shimmy". Trends uses his signature robotic bass sounds matched with a dark moody choir on "Octopus".
Hammer presents his vinyl debut on Optimo Music Disco Plates. This three track 12" is a vinyl only/club use only, limited edition guaranteed dancefloor activator. Tech-house DJs might want to skip this one.
$8.99 UPC: 880319799716 ELECTRONIC
A1. At Once (6:52)
B1. Stripes (7:00)
B2. Stripes (Special Disco Disco Remix) (5:10)
UNDERSPRECHE: Invito Alla Danza Part 2 12" (OT 027EP)
Italy's Underspreche presents Invito Alla Danza Part 2, the second of two parts of an album split across two four-track EPs. Optimo Trax considers it some of the most nuanced and advanced music they have ever released. There are several dancefloor destroyers here but also music for more developed/leading-edge floors too, as well as some music simply designed to make one's mind melt. Super-advanced, organic sampling, inspired vocalizations, acute psychedelic modular sequences, forward-thinking drum programming.
$10.99 UPC: 880319796111 ELECTRONIC
A1. Invito Alla Danza (6:25)
A2. Flash Of Inspirations (5:30)
B1. Sequins Sequence (6:14)
B2. Mi Luz Es Distina (6:33)
BRACKETT, ALAN LEE: Peanut Butter Conspiracy Theories: Lost Songs 1967-1968 LP (OSR 052LP)
Out-Sider present Peanut Butter Conspiracy Theories: Lost Songs 1967-1968, previously unreleased recordings by The Peanut Butter Conspiracy's main-man, Alan Lee Brackett. Mostly written and recorded in 1967, when PBC were at their fame peak, Alan explores a number of different styles, encompassing fuzzed-out garage numbers, sunshine pop, folk rock and full blown psychedelia. Including ahead of its time garage-psychedelic, DIY homemade recordings on which Alan plays all instruments by himself plus pro-sounding studio cuts. Although best known as a member of The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Alan Brackett enjoyed a long career in the music business that book-ended his time with that legendary group. A multi-talented musician so adept at playing numerous musical instruments, he was a veritable one man band, and a skilled songwriter who penned many of the PBC's best loved songs. Alan's musical pedigree is second to none. From his early days on the folk circuit through his time with one of the West Coast's premier psychedelic groups and on to his solo career in the seventies, he crafted a body of work that many musicians would envy. Most of the tracks included here were recorded by Alan between 1967 and 68 at his home studio, using a Teac A1200 tape deck. His employed an innovative DIY approach: he used improvised drum kits made up from household objects and manipulated amps and guitars to create feedback and distortion effects. The remaining tracks from this collection were laid down during sessions at a pro studio, Hollywood Sound, although such is the quality of Alan's home recordings you would be hard pressed to single out which ones were made in more professional surroundings. There are surprising guests such as Glen Campbell, who plays tasty lead guitar on "Freeways Of Love". Alan also collaborates with his friend Knox Henderson (songwriter of some of the hits for Mouse & The Traps) on a couple of tracks included here. Songs like "Shell Of A Man", or "Blowin' My Mind Over You" could've been easily included on any of the Peanut Butter Conspiracy albums, while others like "Summertime Changes" or "Love's Only Sleeping" are amazing examples of homemade, DIY psych-fuzz. Master tape sound; Insert with detailed liner notes by Gary Newell (Shindig!, Ugly Things), track-by-track comments by Alan Lee Brackett and rare photos.
$18.39 EAN: 4040824086398 ROCK
A1. A Dream (1967)
A2. A Plea For Peace (1968)
A3. Blowin' My Mind Over You (1967)
A4. Freeways Of Love (1967)
A5. I Don't Care What You Do Any More (1967)
A6. Love's Only Sleeping (1967)
B1. Morning (1968)
B2. Shell Of A Man (1967)
B3. You're Not There (1967)
B4. Soul Diggers (1968)
B5. There's Got To Be A Reason (1967)
B6. Summertime Changes (1967)
BECKER, RASHAD: Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II LP (PAN 074LP)
Rashad Becker's new full length album, Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II, is a newly developed continuation and exploration of work since his highly-acclaimed first volume (PAN 034LP, 2013). Incorporating more instrumental-sounding components, the record moves through both fluid and dissonant sounds, which take on different structural and sculptural challenges through carefully-layered compositions. Following Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I, Vol. II expands in various elements, distorted and warped, focusing in on the tension and energy of synthesized sounds that appear to exist, hauntingly physically. Known for his unrivaled attention to sonic detail across his work, Becker's unique techniques and expressive manipulations of sound are laid bare in an exhilarating new form, stylistically distinctive and uncompromising. The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Bill Kouligas.
$18.39 EAN: 5060165482528 ELECTRONIC
01. Themes V (4:25)
02. Themes VI (4:10)
03. Themes VII (4:01)
04. Themes VIII (4:48)
05. Dances V (4:58)
06. Dances VI (4:06)
07. Dances VII (4:08)
08. Dances VIII (4:20)
Obgon is Andrew Lee's drilled-up high speed dancefloor project. Lee is known as one half of Interchain. Obgon's ("overtake" in English) debut EP on PG TUNE accelerates from the very start - think Road Rash 3D, but also imagine Moscow - a huge megalopolis under construction. Where street sounds, heavy machinery, road dust, radio waves, engine smoke and steam are constantly vibrating in a titanic symphony. 180 gram vinyl with art direction by СКОБЫЧ for PG TUNE; includes a download code, giving you access to an original sample pack recorded by Obgon in Moscow.
Pharaway Sounds present the first ever reissue of Group Titan's Anatolian Break Dance, originally released on the Diskotür label in 1985. Turkish ancient melodies get an '80s electro-funk treatment on this obscure album. Probably the work of an "ad-hoc" studio band (nothing is known about the musicians), this is a delirious mix of exotic melodies and lots of analog synths, cheap Atari-styled electronic effects, distorted guitar and '80s beatboxes. File under: Anatolian funk, '80s boogie/electro, cosmic disco, Balearic, oriental grooves.
BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE: Geisterfaust CD (PIAS 39223292CD)
Pias present a reissue of the 2005 album from Germany's doom jazz cult band Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Geisterfaust. Geisterfaust, featuring the slowest band on earth in an even more reduced and slow motion style, is back in full glory, with 58 minutes of playtime over five astonishing tracks. "Geisterfaust" might be translated as "the fist of a ghost" and the individual tracks are "trigger finger", "ring finger", "middle finger", "thumb" and "little finger". The group, who are much loved by musicians like Mike Patton (of Faith No More and who releases their albums on the Ipecac label) or Stephen O'Malley (SunnO), deliver outstanding music. For fans of SunnO, OM, Max Richter, Fennesz and David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti. This is instrumental music of the highest caliber.
BUNNY TYLERS, THE: Glitches And Drones 2013-2016 CD (RPTD 016CD)
The Bunny Tylers is a collaboration between Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs, Malayeen, Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra) and Fadi Tabbal (The Incompetents, Under The Carpet, Safar). The Lebanese duo explore different guitar bowing techniques on Glitches And Drones 2013-2016, and they celebrate the smell of cold tobacco, cheap after-shave, eternal sunsets and surfer suicides. RIYL: AMM, Spectrum, Sonic Boom. Edition of 300.
$11.99 EAN: 5055300372772 ROCK
01. Contact Transfer Stains
02. Music For Debris Found Along The Coastline
03. The Colorful Dreams Of The Cross Dressing Killer
04. Mothers Make Murderers
05. While Her Blood Screams His Name
06. Western Front Academy
MOCTAR, MDOU: Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai DVD (SAHEL 028DVD)
The first ever Tuareg language fictional film, based on the legendary rock-u-drama Purple Rain (1984), Akounak explores the world of a musician trying to succeed in the raucous subculture of the Niger guitar scene. The protagonist, real life musician Mdou Moctar, must battle fierce competition from jealous musicians, overcome family conflicts, endure the trials of love, and overcome his biggest rival - himself. Carried by stunning musical performances from Mdou, the film is a window into modern day Tuareg guitar and an experiment in participatory ethnographic filmmaking. In Tamashek, with English and French subtitles; 75 minutes, all region DVD, NTSC format. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
Siamese returns with its second offering, the debut EP from electronic live duo Stereocalypse. Title track "Lace Star" is subtle, yet hypnotic. Sterocalypse utilizes the full duration of the track to add layers to an ever evolving soundscape, with a guitar, echoing synths and a subtle bassline coming together towards the track's climax. "Not A B-Side" is an atmospheric cut with a fusion of percussive and electronic elements giving it an exotic feel. "Shandy's Eagle" shows a little more of the duo's experimental side, its trippy synth layers and soft bassline make for an ideal way to round off this eclectic EP.
Vinyl now at a new lower price. Atmospheric sound design creates a bed of complex, often atonal qualities, with delicate synth and orchestral arrangements drifting throughout to produce a multi-layered, emotive and hauntingly intimate album. Some titles are punctuated with Jansen's characteristically minimal drum patterns and off-kilter time signatures while others are structured with more classical elements such as piano, cello and orchestral string arrangements. All music and arrangements are by Jansen with guests vocalists providing their own lyrics and vocal melodies on five of the tracks.
$20.99 EAN: 5055300390455 ELECTRONIC
1. Captured, 2. Sadness, 3. Her Distance, 4. Memory of An Imagined Place, 5. Give Yourself A Name, 6. Diaphanous One, 7. Faced With Nothing, 8. Mending A Secret, 9. Simple Day, 10, And Birds Sing All Night.
In 1978, Japan released their debut album Adolescent Sex and kick started a career that would span decades. With Steve Jansen on drums, the band enjoyed huge success whilst simultaneously creating a back catalogue of music that still inspires today. Fast forward to 2007 and after many years working and collaborating with artists such as Richard Barbieri, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Bernd Friedmann, Steve released his debut, solo album Slope. Steve Jansen's second solo album Tender Extinction is an evocative blend of songs and instrumentals enlisting some of the singer/songwriters that appeared on Jansen's previous solo work Slope, namely Tim Elsenburg (Sweet Billy Pilgrim) and Thomas Feiner (Anywhen), as well as featuring new collaborations with Perry Blake (Ireland), Melentini (Greece), Nicola Hitchcock (UK) and including some vocal performances by Jansen himself. Atmospheric sound design creates a bed of complex, often atonal qualities, with delicate synth and orchestral arrangements drifting throughout to produce a multi-layered, emotive and hauntingly intimate album. Some titles are punctuated with Jansen's characteristically minimal drum patterns and off-kilter time signatures while others are structured with more classical elements such as piano, cello and orchestral string arrangements. All music and arrangements are by Jansen with guests vocalists providing their own lyrics and vocal melodies on five of the tracks. Steve on the album: "I spent a long time with the material, honing it down to those elements that blend together well in an attempt to allow the dissonance that weaves throughout much of the music to settle into its own space and not overly distract from the more harmonious content. The album is somewhat reflective and subtly addresses aspects of transience and transformation and a romance in holding onto those things we think of as precious and that will inevitably cease to exist."
$10.99 EAN: 5055869503907 ELECTRONIC
01. Captured
02. Sadness
03. Her Distance
04. Memory of An Imagined Place
05. Give Yourself A Name
06. Diaphanous One
07. Faced With Nothing
08. Mending A Secret
09. Simple Day
10. And Birds Sing All Night
Stag-O-Lee presents the second volume in their Jukebox Fever series - ten-inch records done chronologically by year - focusing on 1957. The series features rare and cool 45s that might have made their way onto a dusty jukebox in the middle of nowhere - primal rock 'n' roll, super rare rockabilly and rambunctious R&B. The United States was in crisis. Elvis Presley could only be filmed from the waste up on TV. Girls were in a state of constant perspiration and the guys were digging James Dean. On Ed Sullivan's show, "The King" gave the Bible Belt "Peace In The Valley". People were confused but hoped that, in 1957, teenage music and rock 'n' roll was a fad that might just pass. In Liverpool, no-one had caught onto that and the Cavern Club opened. And, in the mysteriously super cold and suitably austere Russian empire, Sputnik 1 and 2 were launched. The cold war was gearing up and notable births in that year included Sid Vicious, The B52s's Cindy Wilson and Siouxsie Sioux. Monkeys would soon go into space - nothing would ever be the same again. Down on the corner in anywhere USA, the jukebox was getting stacked with vinyl that asked plenty of questions. These records threw together sounds that didn't belong and storylines and one-liners that sparked the imagination. The established acts were crossing musical barriers to get into the spotlight jukeboxes all over the globe were being bent out of shape. Three songs could change everything - forever. On 1957, we are featuring rare and cool 45s that might have made their way onto a dusty jukebox in the middle of nowhere. Includes a CD features five bonus cuts. Features: Teddy (Mr. Bear) McRae With Teddy McRae & His Orchestra, Junior Wells, Jesse Lee Denson, Vincent Maloy, Danny Andrew, Al Casey, Skeeter Bonn, Ray Anderson, Haskell May & The Sundowners, Roy James, Wesley Hardin With The Roxters. Included CD features bonus cuts from: Johnny Bond, Vincent Maloy, Dusty Owens & His Rodeo Boys, Burt Keyes With Teddy McRae And His Orchestra and Lee Emerson.
$14.99 EAN: 4030433007914 ROCK
A1. Teddy (Mr. Bear) McRae With Teddy McRae & His Orchestra - Hi Fi Baby
A2. Junior Wells - Lovey Dovey Lovely One
A3. Jesse Lee Denson - Heart Of A Fool
A4. Vincent Maloy - In Deed I Do
A5. Danny Andrew - Bongo Boy
A6. Al Casey - Guitar Man
B1. Skeeter Bonn - Chained
B2. Ray Anderson - Living Too Fast
B3. Haskell May & The Sundowners - Party Line
B4. Roy James - Rock 'n' Roll Mama
B5. Teddy (Mr. Bear) McRae With Teddy McRae & His Orchestra - Hold Out Baby
B6. Wesley Hardin With The Roxters - Anyway
Bonus tracks on the included CD:
01. Johnny Bond - Lay It On The Line
02. Vincent Maloy - Flying Love
03. Dusty Owens & His Rodeo Boys - Hey Honey
04. Burt Keyes With Teddy McRae And His Orchestra - Stop Jivin' Start Drivin'
05. Lee Emerson - Start All Over
Slow Grind Fever Volume 6 was compiled by Slow Grind Fever guest DJ Simon Laxton. Expect the best in late '50s slow dance. Features: Little Jimmy Scott, Bo Diddley, Jeanette B. Washington, Don Sargent And The Buddies, Bob Kayli, Malcolm Dodds, Bill Doggett, Donnie Elbert, Eddie Jacobs, Lavern Baker, Aki, Freddie And The Hitch-Hikers, The Delta Rythm Boys and Jon Thomas.
$13.79 EAN: 4030433008010 ROCK
A1. Little Jimmy Scott - Somewhere Down The Line
A2. Bo Diddley - The Great Grandfather
A3. Jeanette B. Washington - Medicine Man
A4. Don Sargent And The Buddies - Voodoo Kiss
A5. Bob Kayli - Tie Me Tight
A6. Malcolm Dodds - Laugh My Heart
A7. Bill Doggett - Backwoods
B1. Donnie Elbert - Wild Child
B2. Eddie Jacobs - Comin' Home
B3. Lavern Baker -Tiny Tim
B4. Aki - Voodoo Drums
B5. Freddie And The Hitch-Hikers - Sinners
B6. The Delta Rythm Boys - St. James Infirmary
B7. Jon Thomas - Hard Head Pt 1
Slow Grind Fever Volume 5 & 6 combines the latest two volumes of Slow Grind Fever on CD. Includes a 12-page booklet. Expect the best in late '50s slow dance. Features: The Hollywood Flames, Rose Hardaway, The Marquis, Hillard Street With Jack Marshall's Music, Steve King & The Echelons, Johnny Burnette, Dee Clark, The Night Caps, Birdie Green, The Shields, Nappy Brown With Teacho Wiltshire's Orchestra, Singin' Sammy Ward, King Coleman, April Stevens, Little Jimmy Scott, Bo Diddley, Jeanette B. Washington, Don Sargent And The Buddies, Bob Kayli, Malcolm Dodds, Bill Doggett, Donnie Elbert, Eddie Jacobs, Lavern Baker, Aki, Freddie And The Hitch-Hikers, The Delta Rythm Boys and Jon Thomas.
$10.99 EAN: 4030433008126 ROCK
01. The Hollywood Flames - Let's Talk It Over
02. Rose Hardaway - Senor Blues
03. The Marquis - Strange Is Love
04. Hillard Street With Jack Marshall's Music - Comprende
05. Steve King & The Echelons - Satan Is Her Name
06. Johnny Burnette - Touch Me
07. Dee Clark - Fever
08. The Night Caps - Haunted Sax
09. Birdie Green - Tremblin'
10. The Shields - Nature Boy
11. Nappy Brown With Teacho Wiltshire's Orchestra - My Baby
12. Singin' Sammy Ward - Who's The Fool
13. King Coleman - Crazy Feelin'
14. April Stevens - I Want A Lip
15. Little Jimmy Scott - Somewhere Down The Line
16. Bo Diddley - The Great Grandfather
17. Jeanette B. Washington - Medicine Man
18. Don Sargent And The Buddies - Voodoo Kiss
19. Bob Kayli - Tie Me Tight
20. Malcolm Dodds - Laugh My Heart
21. Bill Doggett - Backwoods
22. Donnie Elbert - Wild Child
23. Eddie Jacobs - Comin' Home
24. Lavern Baker - Tiny Tim
25. Aki - Voodoo Drums
26. Freddie And The Hitch-Hikers - Sinners
27. The Delta Rythm Boys - St. James Infirmary
28. Jon Thomas - Hard Head Pt 1
HAINO/JOZEF DUMOULIN/TEUN VERBRUGGEN, KEIJI: The Miracles Of Only One Thing CD (SR 439CD)
Japanese legend, Keiji Haino, meets two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians, keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin (Lilly Joel) and drummer Teun Verbruggen (Othin Spake). The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting. Keiji Haino, without any doubt one of the most important musicians from the Japanese underground scene, is at his best, Teun Verbruggen and Jozef Dumoulin did a three-week tour in Japan in September of 2015, playing concerts as a duet, but also solo and with local musicians. One of those musicians was hero Keiji Haino, whose work has spanned rock, free improvisation, noise, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drones. Besides his legendary bands Fushitsusha and Lost Aaraaff, he has worked with artists and bands like Boris, The Melvins, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Peter Brötzmann and Steve Noble. As for Dumoulin and Verbruggen, they are both known for their always refreshing and groundbreaking work that breaks the barriers between free improvisation, electro, jazz and more. Jozef Dumoulin is part of the duo Lilly Joel appearing recently on Sub Rosa with What Lies in the Sea (SR 416CD, 2015). The three teamed up for a studio recording and a recorded live-show. Out of all the material, they distilled an album that reflects both the excitement of the new bond as well as the deep and vast sonic landscapes that their joined forces laid bare. Personnel: Keiji Haino - guitar, vocals, flute, gongs; Jozef Dumoulin - Fender Rhodes; Teun Verbruggen - drums, electronics.
$10.99 EAN: 5411867114390 ROCK
CD:
01. Non-Dark Destinations (25:47)
02. Hotel Chaika (19:22)
03. Snow Is Frequent, Though Light, In Winter (5:09)
04. Tonight (10:10)
LP:
A1. Non-Dark Destinations (25:47)
B1. Hotel Chaika (19:22)
B2. Snow Is Frequent, Though Light, In Winter (5:09)
Once again, the spirit of collaboration is a key element: Teklife is a closely connected group of friends, working together harmoniously, and pushing each other to greater heights and depths through a shared love of footwork. "Smoke Dat Green", Taso's collaboration with DJ Earl, was featured on Open Your Eyes (TEKLIFE 002EP, 2016), and now, Taso himself takes center stage for the next installment, presenting unreleased classics alongside brand new footwork sounds on New Start. An accomplished DJ and MC, Taso frequently appears alongside DJ Spinn at Teklife showcases all over the world. A multi-instrumentalist with a degree in audio engineering, Taso fuses raw musical talent with technical expertise. Since January of 2016, he has released an impressive eight volumes of the Cold Heat EP series, bringing together a whole range of musical styles and moods through his MPC at 160 BPM. This versatility and willingness to draw inspiration from different sources is evident throughout the New Start LP. The title track is sultry and soulful, with Rashad and Spinn's masterful influence clearly present. "Don't Get Mad" provides a stark contrast - a dancefloor-orientated hype track featuring an on point vocal by Gant-Man. "Bussin", featuring DJ Manny and DJ Tre, sounds like a love letter from footwork to jungle music. The flip side starts off with "AM Track", another beautifully crafted classic, featuring DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn. "In The Green Room", featuring DJ Taye, is a muscular, speaker-rattling West Coast jam, and "Murda Bass" takes its cue from golden era UK dubstep. The heavily-filtered final notes of "De Capo Al Coda", featuring DJ Earl, round off a diverse but consistently high-quality outing from Taso and the Teklife family.
$12.39 EAN: 5055869544412 ELECTRONIC
A1. New Start (feat. DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn)
A2. Don't Get Mad (feat. Gant-Man)
A3. Bussin (feat. DJ Manny, DJ Tre)
B1. AM Track (feat. DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn)
B2. In The Green Room (feat. DJ Taye)
B3. Murda Bass
B4. Da Capo Al Coda (feat. DJ Earl)
Sex Swing present their self-titled debut album on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation. Sex Swing are a British "underground supergroup" comprising of: Tim Cedar (keyboards), formerly of Ligament, who fronts Part Chimp and runs Dropout Studios in Camberwell; Jason Stoll (bass) is a member of revered Liverpool psych champions Mugstar and also makes tumultuous and foreboding sounds with Bonnacons Of Doom and runs God Unknown Records; Colin Webster (sax) is involved with a plethora of free jazz projects (including Dead Neanderthals) and releases many of them through his Raw Tonk label; Dan Chandler (vocals) sang in the masterful Dethscalator; Stuart Bell (drums) played in the same and Gin Palace; while newest addition Jodie Cox (guitar) currently also plays with Seattle drone metal overlords Earth. Dealing in sweaty groove and physical menace, Sex Swing are musically tied to an England both squalid and hallucinatory: rain-soaked and rat-bitten but also (genuinely) psychedelic. Because while psych - a contentious phrase at the best of times - is often thought of in terms of beatific hyper-color and can readily encompass everything from jangling '60s revivalists to bedroom laptop alchemists, Sex Swing operate at the brutal end: a grey-scale dockland in a warped hive mind screwed by lack of sleep and haunted by the twisted waking dreams that inevitably ensue. Waves of cranial discomfort tempered by the pure physical release of the music.
$10.99 EAN: 5051083110679 ROCK
01. A Natural Satellite
02. Grace Jones
03. Karnak
04. The Murder Of Maria Marten
05. Nighttime Worker
06. Murder Witness
PARKER, MIKE: Disintegrating Sand EP 12" (TRESOR 289EP)
Tresor Records present Disintegrating Sand EP, the first release by the legendary Mike Parker on the label. Parker has established an arsenal of unique sonic trademarks, produced and modulated with high precision. The EP's title track is evocative of Parker's penchant for analog sound: raw oscillations cascade over a highly reverbed bassline that periodically punctuates the track. The A side intensifies and expands in "Angels In Cages". "Gyroscopic Precession" is perhaps the most driving track on the EP - nuanced in its steady introduction of sweeping effects that arch over heavy kicks and an abrasive midrange.
DERBYSHIRE AND ELSA STANSFIELD, DELIA: Circle Of Light CD (JBH 061CD)
Trunk Records present a highly important and unreleased soundtrack for Circle Of Life, created in 1972 by musician Delia Derbyshire and artist Elsa Stansfield. The soundtrack is a mix of concrete ideas, sound design, tape manipulation, natural environmental sounds and birdsong. The recording was originally commissioned by director, producer and art collector Anthony Roland for his 1972 film about the slides of radical stills photographer, Pamela Bone. The film has been rarely seen and the soundtrack has never been released until now. This is the longest known work by Delia Derbyshire - either alone or in association with anyone else - and has been licensed by Trunk Records exclusively worldwide from the Anthony Roland archive/collection. Mastered by Jon Brooks, AKA The Advisory Circle. Full color four-page CD sleeve.
$10.99 UPC: 666017307428 ELECTRONIC
01. Circle Of Light Part One
02. Circle Of Light Part Two
VA: Tropical Britxotica! Polynesian Pop And Placid Jazz From The Wild British Isles! LP (JBH 062LP)
The incredible follow-up to the successful Britxotica! (JBH 057LP, 2015) and Britxotica Goes East! (JBH 059LP, 2016) LPs. This time, Jonny Trunk and the legendary DJ Martin Green take the listener to a magical musical place full of tropical delights - with songs of heatwaves, coral reefs, Haitian rituals and treasure islands, not forgetting the stormy seas and the odd hurricane. 16 tracks in all from a post-war era of musical adventure, this is Britxotica at its very hottest, most exotic and very best - incredible, rare, lost and exotic music from the wild British isles. Britxotica! (pronounced "Britzotica") neatly describes an odd and yet undocumented pre-Beatles British musical scene where famed UK composers, as well as unknown singers and bandleaders, threw convention on holiday and went wild. For part three of the Britxotica series, the compilation goes to the South Seas for a musical adventure of stormy seas, Hawaiian honeymoons, spooky rituals, dreamy walks through mango groves and a few sips from the juicy coconut. But this is more than just exotic music, the talent here is breathtaking: Kenny Graham, George Melley, Ted Heath, Malcolm Lockyer, Edmundo Ros and more -legendary artists adventuring into unknown territory with incredible results. There are songs and instrumentals here to charm and even beguile - there's even an amazing British cover of "Quite Village" - when did you ever hear one of those? This is wonderfully obscure music, and only Trunk records could compile and package such a compilation of bizarre and super rare British music so superbly. This all new compilation of British treasures is like no other, and will have you booking your ticket to the South Seas for Christmas. Featuring: Lucille Mapp, Frank Weir, The Sound Of Ed White, Ron Goodwin, Geoff Love, Marion Ryan, Dick Katz, International 'Pops' All Stars, Johnny Gentle, Betty Smith And The Malcolm Lockyer Group, Martinas And His Music and Norrie Paramor. Single LP on standard black wax.
$16.99 UPC: 666017309712 ROCK
A1. Lucille Mapp - Mangoes
A2. Frank Weir - Hawaiian Honeymoon
A3. The Sound Of Ed White - Coral Reef
A4. Ron Goodwin - Tropical Mirage
A5. Geoff Love - Heatwave
A6. Marion Ryan - An Occasional Man
A7. Edmundo Ros - Summertime
A8. Dick Katz - Dreamride
B1. George Melly And Kenny Graham - Run See Jerusalem
B2. International 'Pops' All Stars - Green Eyes
B3. Johnny Gentle - Milk From The Coconut
B4. Ted Heath - Haitian Ritual (feat. Kenny Graham)
B5. Betty Smith And The Malcolm Lockyer Group - Stormy Weather
B6. Martinas And His Music - Quiet Village
B7. Norrie Paramor - Hawaii
B8. Lucille Mapp - On Treasure Island
Anthony J Hart (Imaginary Forces) is back in Basic Rhythm mode with a trio of hungry hardcore mutations, with a remix from Rabit. The title track comes spoiling with speaker-worrying levels of scything half-step patterns punctured by dancehall declamations, rinsing a paucity of elements for kernels of brutalist truth, providing the backbone to the ravenous slaughter of "Bombastic Plastic", whilst "The Curse" rolls out at full stretch with scabrous proto-grime drums balanced by a skinny, but crucial lick of pensive strings. On the remix, Rabit channels "Slewage" into a K-hole of masticated sound system samples and anti-peristaltic wretch.
OHNO/YOU AND EXPLOSION BAND, YUJI: Isn't It Lupintic?: Lupin The Third TV Special Original Sound Track LP (V 84676LP)
Victory present a reissue of Isn't It Lupintic?: Lupin The Third TV Special Original Sound Track, originally released on CD in 1999. Yuji Ohno is a Japanese jazz musician, principally known for his musical scoring of Japanese anime. His most well-known works are for the anime-television series Lupin The Third and the feature film The Castle Of Cagliostro (1979). Ohno is also well-known as a member of a jazz trio with bassist Miroslav Vitous and drummer Lenny White. The tracks collected here for Lupin The Third are oozing with seventies cool, exemplified by opener "Theme From Lupin III" where the snares shuffle, the pianos tease and the upright bass walks with all the swagger of a French master thief. Great funky tunes from the Japanese jazz master.
$16.99 UPC: N/A SOUNDTRACK
A1. Theme From Lupin III
A2. Funky Junky Trip
A3. Love Theme
A4. Midnight Cruise
A5. Angel Dance
B1. Isn't It Lupintic?
B2. Going Out On The Town
B3. Saudades Do Rio
B4. Peek-A-Boo
B5. Remember
B6. Manhattan In The Rain
A fresh new breeze is blowing through the Belgian music scene, taking the form of SCHNTZL. This duo of Hendrik Lasure and Casper Van De Velde is cheerfully pushing the boundaries of traditional jazz, armed with only piano and drums. The two young top talents are experimenting with minimalism, electronics and classical music, in their search for the preservation of fragility: how can strict composition and free improvisation be combined? How do acoustic and electronic elements fit together? The unique way in which they answer these questions leaves enough space for silence and takes the listener to the essence of music. Their first full album Schntzl was recorded by producer Koen Gisen (Dans Dans, Flying Horseman, An Pierlé, Robbing Millions). For fans of Nils Frahm, Radiohead and Keith Jarrett.
C1. Doggy
C2. He Sees Only Bird
C3. Flow My Tears
D1. Biggy Pink
D2. The Big Silver Pepper
D3. Océane Mille
FORTHCOMING, OTHER LABELS:
2062 (UNITED STATES):
BASINSKI, WILLIAM: A Shadow In Time CD (2062 1701CD)
"Basinski's first new release since 2015's Cascade & The Deluge. A Shadow In Time features Basinski's rare Voyetra 8 synthesizer for the first time since Watermusic. 'For David Robert Jones' features two ancient tape loops from deep in the archive as a remembrance for the brilliant, legendary artist known as David Bowie. Basinski has been touring these works to sold out audiences internationally since January 2016."
$10.00 UPC: 616822131121 ELECTRONIC
AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA (UNITED STATES):
POULO, AWA: Poulo Warali CD (ATFA 024CD)
"Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania. Largely pastoral and often nomadic, Peulh- (or Fula-) speaking peoples are found from Senegal to Ethiopia but predominate in the Sahel region of West Africa. Awesome Tapes From Africa is proud to release Poulo's newest recording of highly virtuosic folk-pop, fresh from the studio, broadcasting her vision of Peulh music beyond the grazing grounds and central markets of her remote home region in southwestern Mali. It's not very common to find a female singer performing publicly among the Peulh. But Poulo's mother's co-wife is Inna Baba Coulibaly, who is a celebrated singer most Malian music fans know. Coulibaly herself was brought into music by forces outside her control when a regional music contest required an entry from her village and she was chosen to be a singer. So, set in motion by a surprising series of events, young Poulo's entree into the music world was auspicious as she gained popularity across the region. After several locally released tapes and CDs, this record is Poulo's first internationally-distributed record."
$10.00 UPC: 616892451143 WORLD
POULO, AWA: Poulo Warali LP (ATFA 024LP)
LP version.
$12.50 UPC: 616892445340 WORLD
BA DA BING!:
BYRNE, JULIE: Not Even Happiness CD (BING 130CD)
"Sometimes it can take years to find your calling. Not so for Julie Byrne, whose power of lyrical expression and musical nous seems inborn. Her second album, Not Even Happiness, has evolved at its own pace. It spans recollections of bustling roadside diners, the stars over the high desert, the aching weariness of change, the wildflowers of the California coast, and the irresolvable mysteries of love. Teaching herself guitar, having picked it up when her father became ill and could no longer play, Byrne also admits she can't read music and doesn't even listen to it all that much -- her own vinyl was the first in her possession. 'Without possessing the right words, I'd describe to [producer] Eric Littman (Phantom Posse) and Jake Falby (who contributed strings) the feeling I wanted a song to evoke, or I would take a shot at singing what was in my head. Though over all, their contributions to the record are entirely their own vision and their own power.' The follow-up to 2014's critically lauded Rooms With Walls And Windows, this latest offers a bigger picture through a wider exploration of instruments and atmospherics, revealing an artist who has grown in confidence over time. Whether witnessing the Pacific Northwest for the first time ('Melting Grid'), the morning sky in the mountains of Boulder ('Natural Blue'), or a journey fragrant with rose water or reading Frank O'Hara aloud from the passenger seat during a drive through the Utah desert into the rainforest of Washington State ('The Sea As It Glides'), Not Even Happiness is Byrne's beguiling ode to the fringes of life."
$7.50 UPC: 600197013021 ROCK
BYRNE, JULIE: Not Even Happiness LP (BING 130LP)
LP version.
$13.50 UPC: 600197013014 ROCK
CAPTURED TRACKS (UNITED STATES):
STRAY TROLLEYS, THE: Barricades And Angels CD (CT 252CD)
"Before there was The Cleaners from Venus, prolific singer-songwriter and national treasure of Wivenhoe, England, Martin Newell was in a band called The Stray Trolleys. In 1980, he and a few youngish unknowns got together in a little home-built country studio and recorded a handful of songs for an album that eventually emerged on a DIY cassette, Barricades And Angels. They weren't perfect, but there is something very special about this collection. The music captures a time. Just listen."
$10.00 UPC: 817949012861 ROCK
STRAY TROLLEYS, THE: Barricades And Angels LP (CT 252LP)
LP version.
$13.00 UPC: 817949012854 ROCK
CONSTELLATION (CANADA):
AVEC LE SOLEIL SORTANT DE SA BOUCHE: Pas Pire Pop, I Love You So Much CD (CST 121CD)
"Psychedelic rock, krautrock, desert rock, punk rock, noise rock, Afro-beat, experimental pop, post-rock, electronic; all are touchstones for Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche. Their multi-movement durational music arguably combines trance rock and audio collage above all - a diced and spliced approach to long-form multi-movement groove music played by a stripped down quartet of two guitars, bass and drums, synched to pre-recorded electronics and musique concrète. The band's unique restlessness and inventiveness seduces with shifts, turns and dovetails, consistently destabilizing its own inexorable musical logic in highly satisfying fashion. Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche deploys a panoply of buoyant musical ideas, subtly sumptuous sonic treatments, and joyous stylistic nods - while remaining fundamentally devoted to working the groove from a kaleidoscope of angles. Their sound always seems to be escaping overt homage or retro tendencies; neither freighted with reverence nor weightless with irreverence, the music of Avec Le Soleil routes and uproots itself along its own refreshingly untrodden path. Pas Pire Pop, I Love You So Much is post-modern psychedelic trance-pop that sounds like no other. RIYL: Can, Talking Heads ('80-'83), This Heat, Neu!, Stereolab, Do Make Say Think, Animal Collective, Tinariwen, Black Dice, Battles, Fly Pan Am"
$10.50 UPC: 666561012120 ROCK
AVEC LE SOLEIL SORTANT DE SA BOUCHE: Pas Pire Pop, I Love You So Much LP (CST 121LP)
LP version. 180 gram vinyl.
$16.25 UPC: 666561012113 ROCK
DFA RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
SPIKED PUNCH: Guinea Pig 7" (DFA 2507EP)
"Spiked Punch is a new project from 2/3 of Black Dice, Eric Copeland and Aaron Warren. After the third member Bjorn Copeland relocated to Los Angeles in 2015, Aaron and Eric worked on a Black Dice remix commission for Awesome Tapes From Africa, for artist Aby Ngana Diop. Through this creative process, they hit upon a new sort of inspiration for making music and Spiked Punch was born. These two tracks were born out of long form improvisations between Eric and Aaron. It is most definitely music born of their environment in Brooklyn - the lo-fi bodega beats seeping out of the dozens of delis, trial and error with early sample chopping, watching YouTube tutorials for help, the eerie comfort of late night local TV, and a sweltering Brooklyn summer cooled and fueled by Tecate. The duo also emphasizes the music was recorded on an iBook from 2004. The music Spiked Punch have created is wildly percussive and zig zags around tweaked vocal stabs and dubbed out bass lines. When pressed for more personal descriptors for the music the band responded with this: 'Coconut bongos, pineapple kick drums, stolen bike vocals, peanut chew bass-lines'."
$5.75 UPC: 829732250718 ELECTRONIC
FABRICA RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
COURTIS, ALAN: Los Galpones LP (FABREC 038LP)
"Los Galpones is the latest solo full-length release conjured by the prolific Buenos Aires-based composer Alan Courtis (aka Anla Courtis). He has straddled the international noise underground and the academic-centered modern composition scenes since the early 1990s. As a solo artist, with the Argentine experimental group Reynols, and in collaborations with Pauline Oliveros, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Lasse Marhaug, Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear), Okkyung Lee, and Daniel Menche among others, Courtis has amassed an impressive discography. This latest album contains four dark and grimacing industrial-tinged drone pieces. Employing the electric guitar, the violin, springs and other found objects, Courtis's soundscape is at times oppressive and dense -- perhaps a reflection on the post-industrial urban landscape of his native Buenos Aires. This album should be played loud."
$15.00 UPC: 600197503812 ROCK
FLYING NUN (NEW ZEALAND):
FEATURES, THE: X-Features LP (FN 564LP)
"The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post-punk in the Auckland, New Zealand scene. The band formed in late 1979, led by Jed Town (guitar) and James Pinker (drums). Both were members of The Superettes with Paul Kean (later The Bats), and when Kean left to join Toy Love they pulled in Karel Van Bergen (vocals, ex-Primmers), and Chris Orange (bass, ex-Terrorways) to complete the line-up. Features are repeatedly named as a primary influence by many acts that followed them, breaking down, as they did, the barriers that had been constructed by the first and second waves of New Zealand punk."
$14.50 UPC: 942190363254 ROCK
BATS, THE: The Deep Set CD (FN 568CD)
"New Zealand's The Bats, that great band from the south, are back to remind us how sweet, lovely and connective pop songs can be. The Deep Set is the enduring indie pop four pieces' ninth studio album in a career that has spanned nearly 30 years and influence countless bands around the world."
$5.75 UPC: 942190360024 ROCK
GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL (UNITED STATES):
RECONDITE: Corvus LP (GI 273LP)
"After spending the past three years cutting acclaimed records for such esteemed imprints as Innervisions, Hotflush, and Acid Test, Recondite has rejoined the Ghostly International fold with an EP that builds on the robust field recordings and pale, moonlit melodies of the Berlin producer's breakthrough LP Hinterland. Named after the foreboding family of birds that includes ravens and crows, Corvus is a chilling listen inspired by everything from The Revenant's Ryuichi Sakamoto soundtrack to Max Frisch's heady novel Homo Faber. After all - the Rottal-Inn native insists there's a light at the end of this particular tunnel. Or as he puts it, 'Melancholic doesn't necessarily mean dark. Music can be happy and moody.' "
$7.50 UPC: 804297827315 ELECTRONIC
NO LABEL (UNITED STATES):
EYE: 005 12" (EYEREC 005EP)
"Fresh and new, but rough, layered and head-nodding like classic UK street soul, this is the fifth and for us the best-yet installment in Londoner Eye's excellent, under-the-radar series. Slippery and hard-to-pin-down as usual, but rooted in funk and soul connoisseurship. Two-sided this time -- boozier, dizzier and more spaced-out on the flip, smudged with echo and effects, and scraps of horns and singing. Beautifully hand-decorated sleeves as per."
$9.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
NORTON RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
SUN RA & HIS ARKESTRA: My Way Is The Spaceways LP (ED 391LP)
"Fourth volume of spoken word wisdom -- direct from Saturn! The Music Is Like A Mirror / My Way Is The Spaceways / The Music Is A Sound Image / Music Is A Vibration"
$10.75 UPC: 731253039119 JAZZ
NUMERO GROUP (UNITED STATES):
VA: Shanghai'd Soul: Episode 4 LP (NBR 007LP)
"Everybody's still talking about the good ole days! A rough and rugged collection of Numero Group classics that have inspired swarms of killer beats. A head nod to the sounds of Shaolin, the thirteen chambers of shanghai'd soul have led a generation of lyrical chefs and production geniuses to compose some of their most ominous hip-hop. Bound by heavy drums, moody chords, and haunting melodies, Gods and earths alike will appreciate the raw funk and smoother-than-a-Lexus soul that come together like Voltron on this special compilation."
$11.75 UPC: 825764009614 ELECTRONIC
VA: Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon LP (NUMERO 008LP)
"By 1970, the folk revival had all but ended. Gone were the heady days of 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' and 'If I Had A Hammer.' Hootenanny had been cancelled. Broadside was out, Rolling Stone in. Richard Fariña was dead; Bob Dylan had plugged in. Paths paved by Joan Baez and Judy Collins had led a younger, more introspective generation of songwriters into the woods, while the ethos forged in weather-beaten hills and tempered on the lower east side of Manhattan was being reborn in the canyons of California, as songs for seagulls crafted in Joni Mitchell's visage. Culled from beyond the crop of crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon examines the world of private folk via the works of 15 unlikely heroines who sang beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing to coffeehouse chatter and church picnic silence. Each of these wayfaring strangers walk in the handmade aesthetic of lyrics scribbled into faded denim, of delicate movements captured and released."
$13.75 UPC: 825764100816 ROCK
PARADISE OF BACHELORS (UNITED STATES):
CHAPMAN, MICHAEL: 50 CD (POB 029CD)
"After five decades of recording and touring, veteran British songwriter and guitar sage Michael Chapman has finally made what he calls his 'American Record,' and the aptly titled 50 now stands as his late career masterwork, a moving legacy statement by a legend. Backed by a collaborative group of friends and acolytes - Steve Gunn (who also produced), Nathan Bowles (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers), James Elkington (Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson), Jason Meagher (No-Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Rhyton), and fellow UK songwriting luminary Bridget St John - Chapman tears into both bold renderings of new songs and radical reinterpretations of material from his revered catalog, the crack band adeptly scaling the same rarefied sonic heights of classic Harvest albums like Fully Qualified Survivor, guided by a true survivor's instinct, wit, and wisdom. The result is a sublime chiaroscuro self-portrait, more shadow than light, as an invigorated Chapman wrestles with weighty themes of travel, memory, mortality, and redemption, his world-weary whispers assuming the incandescent power of prophecy. The CD features a gatefold jacket, lyrics, and two bonus tracks."
$10.00 UPC: 616892414544 ROCK
SACRED BONES (UNITED STATES):
EXPLODED VIEW: Exploded View LP (SBR 146LP)
"Exploded View is a new collaborative project helmed by the UK-born, Berlin-based political-journalist-turned-musician Anika (Invada Records/Stones Throw). After playing a string of 2014 solo shows in Mexico with a backing lineup composed of local producers Martin Thulin, Hugo Quezada and Amon Melgarejo, Anika and her new bandmates discovered a chemistry that they simply had to capture on tape."
$13.00 UPC: 616892373049 ELECTRONIC
ROSS, LEOPOLD ROSS AND BOBBY KRLIC, ATTICUS: Almost Holy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP (SBR 159LP)
"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's social and political institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure. A number of the nation's youth wound up homeless and addicted to a lethal cocktail of injected cold medicine and alcohol. Steve Hoover's documentary Almost Holy follows a pastor named Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who saves street kids, at times by forcible abduction, and brings them to his Pilgrim Republic rehabilitation center - the largest organization of its kind in the former Soviet Union. The film's depiction of a country in the grip of poverty, addiction, and warfare is made even more powerful by its captivating electronic score by award-winning composer Atticus Ross, his brother Leopold Ross, and Bobby Krlic (The Haxan Cloak)."
$13.00 UPC: 616892409441 SOUNDTRACK
UNIFORM: Ghosthouse 12" (SBR 166EP)
"Uniform formed in New York City in 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (ex-The Men, Hubble, and the producer/engineer responsible for much of the Sacred Bones catalog) and Michael Berdan (ex-Drunkdriver, York Factory Complaint) reconnected and realized that they had evolved to a similar place musically. Wanting as intimate an experience as possible, they decided to keep the project a two-man show, eschewing a live rhythm section for programmed drums and low-end synths, augmented with Greenberg playing guitar and Berdan handling vocals. The collaboration quickly yielded a raw 12", followed by a full-length, Perfect World. The Ghosthouse 12" is the first Uniform release on Sacred Bones Records, and it will be followed by a full-length in early 2017. Ghosthouse shares a basic configuration with the previous Uniform releases, but the tools have evolved far beyond their initial drum machine and bass synth setup. These songs have grown from a broader palette of sounds - shots, explosions, implosions, impacts, ricochets, collapse; the sounds of conflict, war, and destruction that we witness every day. The result is the most sonically confrontational Uniform material to date, and Berdan's lyrics, largely inspired by his lifelong battle with insomnia and depression, match them for relentlessness."
$10.00 UPC: 616892421344 ROCK
VA: Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2 CD (SBR 3019CD)
"After the initial blast of punk rock bands made their impression on the youth of the late 1970s, subgenres quickly emerged. Some preferred the faster, louder aggression of hardcore, others the angular danceability of post-punk, some the raw and more personal home-made sound of DIY, and so on. Looking back among and between these genres we now recognize various blends of punk, post-punk, goth rock, industrial, and DIY as 'deathrock'. In 2014, Sacred Bones Records launched the series Killed By Deathrock to document an entire scene of bands that haven't yet received proper recognition. This is the second volume of that series."
$10.00 UPC: 616892396246 ROCK
VA: Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2 LP (SBR 3019LP)
LP version.
$13.00 UPC: 616892396147 ROCK
SECRETLY CANADIAN (UNITED STATES):
ONO, YOKO: Plastic Ono Band CD (SC 281CD)
"This long-overdue vinyl reissue of Yoko Ono's seminal, but massively under-appreciated Plastic Ono Band has all the makings of a classic rock nostalgia trip: Ono, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman. All the pieces are here to stir up a dangerous amount of nostalgia. But once the needle drops, the record achieves something exactly perpendicular to nostalgia. Released in 1971, the album not only influenced the approach of other musicians for decades, it also sounds absolutely modern 44 years out, eternally fresh despite the forward march of time. Plastic Ono Band not only predicted the intersection of the avant-garde and rock that would take place in the second half of that decade, the album would sound right at home at where that intersection is happening today."
$10.75 UPC: 656605028125 ROCK
ONO, YOKO: Plastic Ono Band (Clear Vinyl) LP (SC 281C-LP)
LP version. Clear vinyl.
$15.00 UPC: 656605028132 ROCK
ONO, YOKO: Plastic Ono Band LP (SC 281LP)
LP version.
$15.50 UPC: 656605028118 ROCK
LENNON/YOKO ONO, JOHN: Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins CD (SC 289CD)
"Turns out the very sound of falling in love is just as abstract, subjective and loopy as the concept itself. Yoko Ono and John Lennon are two of history's greatest lovers, and Two Virgins is the document of the pair falling in love in real time. The album is a curious and amazing suite recorded over one weekend in Spring 1968 at Lennon's Kenwood home: Distant conversations; comedic role playing and footsteps; laughter, birdcalls and plunking piano lines; silly songs and space; tape delay stretching shrieks, bass rumbles and moans to the moon and back again. The now-iconic cover (featuring Ono and Lennon standing nude together) not-with-standing, nothing about Two Virgins is safe. It would be a risky move today for artists in the larger, pop-culture conversation just as it was a risky move in 1969. But this is an uncomfortably private, two-person dialogue about - and celebration of experimentation, inspiration and play. And these two souls bravely let us look through the keyhole."
$10.75 UPC: 656605028927 ROCK
LENNON/YOKO ONO, JOHN: Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (White Vinyl) LP (SC 289C-LP)
LP version. White vinyl.
$15.50 UPC: 656605028941 ROCK
LENNON/YOKO ONO, JOHN: Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins LP (SC 289LP)
LP version.
$15.50 UPC: 656605028910 ROCK
LENNON/YOKO ONO, JOHN: Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions CD (SC 290CD)
"Life With The Lions is the sound of Ono and Lennon validating their love as something impenetrable and timeless. It's when we, the listener, begin to fully understand that the scope of their recording efforts was much more than a recording collaboration, and something closer to a performative documentary, a declaration of 'Our life and our love is our art - every nitty, gritty part of it.' "
$10.75 UPC: 656605029023 ROCK
LENNON/YOKO ONO, JOHN: Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions LP (SC 290LP)
LP version.
$15.50 UPC: 656605029016 ROCK
STARLIGHT FURNITURE (UNITED STATES):
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/JEAN-MARC MONTERA: Union Of The Supreme Light LP (STAR 028LP)
"Joining Maurizio and Roberto Opalio on their fourth album for Starlight Furniture Co., legendary French-Corsican guitarist and co-founder of Groupe de Recherche et d'Improvisation Musicales brings his noisy lyricism to three long tracks of oddly sensual and animalistic space howl. As their past collaborations attest, My Cat Is An Alien's self-sustaining biosphere is an environment where the surreal dreamscapes of mavericks and eccentrics flourish. Jean-Marc Montera's home-made guitar table, objects, and electronics forge metallic ribbons that twitch between the distant clangs of gigantic spores, while Maurizio (on home-made double-bodied string instrument and effects) and Roberto (on alien-tronics, effects, and modified electronic devices) set worms adrift in a zero-gravity aviary stocked with narcotized satsuma fowl. Roberto adds disorientation to the trio's fog-blurred horizon with wordless vocalizations that could pass for billowing laments hooted by mutant sea mammals with enoki mushrooms growing on their larynxes."
$12.00 UPC: 655035302812 ELECTRONIC
SUPERIOR VIADUCT (UNITED STATES):
MORRICONE, ENNIO: Un Uomo Da Rispettare LP (SV 047LP)
"Un Uomo Da Rispettare translates to 'A Man to Respect,' which can easily be said of Ennio Morricone himself -- the unparalleled maestro of the soundtrack. This 1972 crime film stars Kirk Douglas as a master safecracker at a crossroads in his life, emerging from prison yet tempted by one last big job. Morricone builds the main theme around Cicci Santucci's flugelhorn as riveting leitmotifs reprise amidst variations of noir-jazz abstraction to frame the composer's grand vision. A strident, two-note piano phrase sets the mood of heightened tension, while muted timpani and trance-like descending bass patterns sweep dramatically across the cinematic stereo field. On '18 Pari,' slinky rhythms and softened wah-wah guitars offer a distinctly Italian library music, adding elements of lightness to the overall avant-garde score. Un Uomo Da Rispettare's dissonant chords and angular arrangements recall Morricone's free improvisation work with Gruppo D'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of Krzysztof Penderecki, Harry Partch and Sun City Girls."
$18.50 UPC: 855985006857 SOUNDTRACK
BENDER, JOHN: Plaster Falling LP (SV 102LP)
"Plaster Falling was recorded at the same time as John Bender's first album, I Don't Remember Now / I Don't Want To Talk About It. Released in 1981 on the artist's own Record Sluts label, copies of Plaster Falling's initial pressing came hermetically sealed in plaster (and later latex). Thus, listeners had to literally break open the record to find what's hidden inside. Produced in relative isolation, Plaster Falling is a beacon of brilliance in the nascent minimal-wave sphere. Veering towards skeletal urgency, these recordings set bright analog melodies against half-whispered vocals and expand Bender's electronic cryptography thru a series of lone signifiers: 'Station,' 'Plaster,' 'Women,' etc. As Bender explains in the liner notes, 'I began to distance myself from the present and describe scenes as if in a movie -- seeking concrete, terse, juxtaposed imagery.' This first-time standalone reissue is recommended for fans of Gareth Williams & Mary Currie's Flaming Tunes, Minimal Man and Grouper. Pressed on translucent blue vinyl in a limited / numbered edition of 1,000 copies."
$18.50 UPC: 855985006024 ELECTRONIC
DIXON ORCHESTRA, THE BILL: Intents And Purposes LP (SV 119LP)
"After spending the early '60s playing in groups with Cecil Taylor and Archie Shepp, trumpeter Bill Dixon recorded his singular and visionary masterpiece in 1967. Intents And Purposes remains not only Dixon's defining statement as a composer, but also one of the most luminous moments in the history of avant-garde jazz. Combining orchestral timbres with free jazz intensity, Dixon leads a ten-piece ensemble including such heavyweights as Byard Lancaster, Robin Kenyatta, Jimmy Garrison and Reggie Workman. Closing each side of the album, 'Nightfall Pieces I' and 'Nightfall Pieces II' are evocative duets featuring Dixon's flugelhorn accompanied by flautist George Marge. With Intents And Purposes, Dixon creates a work focused as much on sculpting and defining space -- emphasizing moments of resonant stillness around which the compositions thrum and swell -- as on purity of expression. This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton and Henry Cow. 'One of the richest and most compelling LPs to taunt and tempt listeners into a life of freakdom.' --John Corbett."
$18.50 UPC: 855985006192 JAZZ
TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LIMITED (UNITED STATES):
BASINSKI, WILLIAM: A Shadow In Time LP (TRR 278LP)
LP version.
$15.50 UPC: 656605327815 ELECTRONIC
MONO: Under The Pipal Tree 2LP (TRR 282LP)
"Under The Pipal Tree is the debut album by now-legendary Japanese experimental rock band, MONO. Released in 2001 on avant-garde icon John Zorn's Tzadik label, Under The Pipal Tree showcased a young Japanese quartet whose wide range of influences - most notably Sonic Youth, Mogwai, The Velvet Underground, and Neil Young's Crazy Horse - were on ferocious and ambitious display. Though MONO would eventually become known for their expert marriage of metal and classical genres, Under The Pipal Tree highlights the band's psychedelic roots. Long stretches of hypnotic, melodic washes give way to scorching guitar freak-outs that evaporate into haunting silence. It's remarkable not just for its earnest exploration, but for its startling execution. Fifteen years and eight albums later, Under The Pipal Tree stands as one of the great debut albums by a seminal underground band. Finally released on vinyl for the first time ever, Under The Pipal Tree has been remastered for vinyl by longtime friend and tour mate, Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. The double album is packaged in all new artwork, and is pressed onto audiophile-quality 100% virgin vinyl. This stunning album has never looked, sounded, or felt better."
$17.50 UPC: 656605328218 ROCK
THE TRILOGY TAPES (UK):
BORED YOUNG ADULTS: Shy Dancers On Bungalowdorf Beach 12" (TRILOGY 046EP)
" 'Shy Dancers On Bungalowdorf Beach' begins with a funereal horn, and the pace of what follows resembles a procession more than the stampede typical of a Blawan record. To be clear, it still bangs. Roberts' reserve is relative, as 'Check Up From The Neck Up' demonstrates. Built from rusted percussion and an undulating drone, 'Check Up From The Neck Up' has a skipping gait that recalls Roberts' early explorations of UK dance music. But Shy Dancers On Bungalowdorf Beach isn't a comprehensive synthesis of old and new. It casts a narrow focus on texture -- the dirtier, the better. On the title track and 'Check Up From The Neck Up,' that can be a little drab. 'But We Need This Bench,' however, bonds earthy tones to sparkling chimes, coiled around the track like Christmas lights, and sweeping synth pads. It's a glimpse of a producer lightening up, not slowing down. As Bored Young Adults, Roberts takes an opportunity to explore another side of himself." --Resident Advisor.
$12.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
NAPLES, ANTHONY: Slice Of Life 12" (TRILOGY 049EP)
"The record contains two sidelong tracks, 'Lekker' and 'Momentos Mágicos', which clock in at a combined 19 minutes. It'll be the US producer's third full appearance on Will Bankhead's label, following 2013's El Portal and 2014's Zipacon. Slice Of Life is the ninth vinyl release on The Trilogy Tapes in 2016." --Resident Advisor.
$12.50 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC
WE ARE THE MEN RECORDS (UNITED STATES):
MEN, THE: Devil Music LP (WATM 005LP)
"The Men are Rich Samis, Kevin Faulkner, Nick Chiericozzi and Mark Perro. We created Devil Music in our practice space over a weekend in January. We wanted to give ourselves something enjoyable to listen to with this record... Something that had our personality in it, not just another record to get reviewed, to get into festivals, to get on TV, to participate in some sort of endless, winless game. This isn't a campaign. Jordan Lovelace (member of Pampers) engineered and recorded Devil Music. Jonathan Schenke (member of Eaters and engineer of 100s of records) mastered the sessions on a Neve console in New York. These fine gentlemen knew we were after a raw four track sound. They used our strokes on the tape to get us where we wanted to go. Every record sounds a bit different than you think it will. Some newer things came along for the ride like cassette cut ups, damaged vocal cords from years of yelling, a saxophone and of course the ten new songs. Some old ideas are still in the mix: the tracks were all done live, including the vocals, the packaging/artwork was designed and produced by us."
$13.00 UPC: 616892413745 ROCK
WESTERN VINYL (UNITED STATES):
BOTANY: Dimming Awe, The Light is Raw LP (WV 140LP)
Pink vinyl. "Under the Botany moniker, Spencer Stephenson creates rich psychological and emotional experiences through audio. His music is a thoughtful attempt to convey the non-verbal through his particular mental prism, where sounds have potent symbolism in ways that are all but forgotten in the modern world. On Dimming Awe, The Light Is Raw, the 28-year-old producer and composer continues dissolving the borders between his disparate-yet-beloved psych, hip hop, and ambient influences. Album standout 'Au Revoir,' is a shimmering piece of sampler-psychedelia that bolsters verses by rapper Milo, and gracefully leads into the drum-less hum and crackle of 'Birthjays'. Matthewdavid - the high-priest of ambient bass himself - lends a rare vocal feature to the uplifting burner 'Glow-up' while the electro-inspired 'Bad CGI' stitches Bambaataa chants and sci-fi flutters to a shamanic pulse, then morphs into a late-night opiated channel-surfing montage, and the seams rarely appear."
"The terrific opening salvo of this thrilling prospect of a label, imprint of the eleven-strong, Bristol-based collective. Intensely intimate, dread ruminations about racism, being and the UK -- rooted in the dub poetry of LKJ and Mutubaruka -- in tense, widescreen settings by Amos Childs, out of Jabu and O$VMV$M, and Sam Kidel, moonlighting from The Death Of Rave. Hotly recommended."
