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Music For Dance & Theatre Volume Two

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

19,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Soundtracks

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Music For Theatre And Dance – Volume Two' is the second in a small series of EPs that will focus on music which was initially created for or inspired by dance and performance. Created as a dialogue with the avant-garde and highly experimental work in dance, theatre and art evolving at the time, the music was in turn at times greatly innovative. That it was created for a dance or performance though means that such music was also often highly rhythmic and a number of pieces from this time stand out and seem greatly deserving of a new context. Whether it's more ambient or atmospheric works or whether it's in the more rhythmic or percussive pieces, Music From Memory brings together another selection of tracks that aims to highlight this highly innovative direction in music.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Menace)

Menace '5'

22,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Magnetband - Experimenteller Elektronik Underground DDR 1984-1989

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Bureau B)

27,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Leva Leva: Litany Of The Portuguese Fishermen

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Flee Project)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For most of the 20th century, Portugal's economy has relied on fishery and an exploitative canning industry arising from it. To endure their hardship and coordinate their work, fishermen sang. Leva Leva: Litany of the Portuguese fishermen documents this particular culture of the Portuguese coast, through a vinyl compilation containing undisclosed original recordings of fishermen’s songs and contemporary compositions by artists Filipa Cordeiro, Joăo Pais Filipe, Nandele, Romain Baudoin and S1m0nc3ll0. Alongside the record, the project features a detailed art book (Portuguese – French) (not available through wholesale). The volume gives a voice to artists, writers, witnesses and experts, all invited to reflect upon the question of this culture and the rapid transformation it experienced.

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Lek)

Lek

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Patås premieres his new label LEK with 4 tracks toying around in the Techno/broken beat spectrum. "Måsans dødsleie" (Måsans deathbed) starts the EP following the last journey of Måsan, a character that everybody knows; the one guy in every group of friends that just cant stop partying, the re-uper to re-up them all.

Glitchy percussion, freaky synthriffs, and a heart monitor guides him all the way to the great beyond. Ethereal "Atlantic Potion" (made in collaboration with Canadian Jamie Cox) closes the side out with its cold lushness. On the other side the theme music from Final Fantasy 6 gets reharmonized and redrummed in "Hommage a Uematsu", for some guaranteed nerd chills to all you Jrpg clubbers.

Last track "tma 4ever (Patås remix)" turns Kim Dürbecks epic ambient tune into a broken beat journey with accompanying bird sounds and hectic percussion.

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Lamkin: Versions & Variants Across The Northern Hemisphere

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Death Is Not The End)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Folklorist Derek Piotr teams with Death is Not the End for a third outing, this time plumbing the depths of every archive from West Virginia University to the British Library in search of versions of the ballad Lamkin. Following the template set by Charlie Seeger with his seminal Barbara Allen compilation, Piotr's collection outs versions of the bloody ballad from the last ninety years; most of these renditions haven't been heard by anyone but their original recordists for decades.

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Light Sounds Dark)

L.S.D. Synthesis

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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L'Embrasse (Amsterdam Arcane Tape Recordings 1987)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Domestica)

20,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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L’Embrasse is a compilation originally released in 1987, less than 50 copies were distributed at the time through local shops and it is a portrayal of a unique and very little known scene, generated in the deep underground milieu of Amsterdam. None of the tracks presented on this album has ever been re-released after the ultra-limited original edition on cassette format appeared. At the time, a dozen different acts were featured: Menko (S.M. Nurse founder), Robbie Horsfall, Peter Van Garderen (Nine Circles founder), Der Rudi, Antonia (Tonny Timmermans), No Honey From These, Incredible Coöp (S.M. Nurse members), Tranquil Eyes, Beatnik Love Affair, Cheiron, Spin & Kokkie and The Male Ego. Die-cut 300-gr cardboard jacket. All the elements on the cover have been hand stamped. Includes download code and numbered insert. Mastered by Ruud Lekx from the original tape. 200 copies.

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (All City Dublin)

L.A. Series

28,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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2LP comp of those fire L.A. Producer 10"s that came out a decade ago. Includes a 36 page photo booklet from photographer, B+ . Dope. TIP! "Back in 2010 we released a series of 10" records from L.A., the series featured 22 artists across 11 records representing the various generations and approaches that made up the beat scene, both in LA and around the world. On every cover was a snapshot of the city viewed through the lens of L.A. based Irishman, Brian Cross AKA B+. To mark a decade we have compiled and remastered 24 tracks from the series on 2LP and cassette and bundled a 36 page B+ photo booklet inside and included liner notes from author of forthcoming book “Bedroom Beats & B-Sides” Laurent Fintoni."

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Jasper Mail Ost Gold Transparent Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Earth Libraries)

20,99 €* 27,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Knekelhuis)

... It Wasn't Really Me

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following up 2021’s compilation 'and felt like...', ' ...it wasn't really me' can be seen as the missing part of a diptych, only separated by the passage of time, yet whole in spirit. Again, a familiar company of singular artists showcase remarkable unity in diversity. Similar to its predecessor, a rustic gloom glues everything together into a seamless whole, enabling the collective to transcend each unique contributors' musical voice elegantly.

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ISM Hexadome At MASS MoCA

4LP | 2020 | DE | Original (Institute For Sound & Music)

32,99 €* 54,99 € -40%

Release: 2020 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Vinyl close to NM

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ISM Hexadome At MASS MoCA

4LP | 2020 | DE | Original (Institute For Sound & Music)

35,39 €* 58,99 € -40%

Release: 2020 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Intenta Experimental & Electronic Music From Switzerland 1981-93

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Décalé / Bongo Joe)

40,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Décalé. and Bongo Joe Records present an all new compilation placing the spotlight on the Swiss experimental and electronic scene of the ‘80s and the early ‘90s. The compilation Intenta assembles under-appreciated gems, sought-after titles and newly mixed versions. It places leftfield synth-pop next to otherworldly jazz, and joins the dots between lyrical post-punk excursions and proto-house experimentation.

The compilation covers a period of transition: When songs mutated into sounds. When synthesizers and samplers became the règle du jeu in DIY music-making. When a politicized youth movement slowly gave way to the hedonistic embrace of techno culture in Switzerland. Intenta mines the outer fringes of a scene yet to be. Many of these experimenters were pretty much on their own. Often the only way you would get in touch was at the local synth dealer.

A spirit of bold improvisation inhabited studios between Geneva and St. Gallen: these artists were articulating pop sensibilities (Air Project, Sky Bird, D-Sire, Peter Philippe Weiss), entering computer worlds (Claudine Chirac, Olivier Rogg, Carlos Perón), exploring exotic shores (Andreas Hofer, Bells of Kyoto, Fizzè), building future discothèques (Aborted at Line 6, Carol Rich, UnknownmiX) or finding glacial bliss (Dressed Up Animals, Elephant Château, I Suonatori).

The compilation was put together by Matthias Orsett and Maxi Fischer. Intenta unfolds as a sonic story that is laid-back yet energetic, sultry yet daring. The two crate diggers set out to meet with many of the artists arrayed here. Memories were shared, wine bottles opened. There were moments of sadness: Karl Lienert Löwenherz (Dressed Up Animals) and Claudius Scholer (Sky Bird) passed away during the making of this project. What remains of this journey into the backrooms of Swiss popular culture, is Intenta. If you listen closely, it will reveal a nation on the move. Beyond the Matterhorn, there is sweetness and light.

Compilation, concept and production by
Maxi Fischer & Matthias Orsett
Artistic supervision by Cyril Yeterian
Analog mastering by Tim Stollenwerk
Vinyl cut by Adi Flück
Editorial by Bjørn Schaeffner
Drawings and layout by David Mamie
Typeface (Office Grotesk) by Chi-Long Trieu
Leaflet design by Yanis Carnal
The gatefold cover illustration is the music sheet of ‘Mondtanz” by
Karl Lienert Löwenherz from Dressed Up Animals
Courtesy of the artist’s family

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LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Seance Centre)

Incantations

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Incantations is a collection of sixteen visual and sonic experiments centred around the idea of score as spell,

A spell and its incantation are distinct, but conjoined by a symbolic, almost umbilical force. A spell is a totem text, a material call for change — a seed, a recipe, an instruction, a potential. The incantation of a spell gives it life, brings breath to body, raises hairs, moves minds. For this project, eight spell- scores were created by visual/text-based artists for a musician/composer to incant. Taking a wide interpretation of what can be considered a score, these works include concrete poetry, collage, painting, drawing, spell-poetry, instructional art, and recipe. The resulting sound works give voice to these evocative “texts”, residing in the liminal space between musical form and magical utterance.

Creating what became the cover artwork for this release, musician and artist Benjamin Kilchhofer conjured salt paintings reminiscent of ancient runes and salt circles — improvised talismans of protection. Translating these expressions into sound using a hydro harp (water drops hitting tuned water-filled porcelain bowls), musician and artist Tomoko Sauvage evokes an embryonic environment, the cleansing and purification of salt water oceans. Artist Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh created a piece that arose from a drawing ritual — a meditation on textile, pattern, and code. In response, Museum Of No Art (Mona Steinwidder) worked her composition by “weaving the piece, layer by layer”. She was “particularly interested in the state one achieves when one works repetitively, stoically and excessively towards a form. Which leads to trance or meditation and creates its own immaterial energy.”

Dani Spinosa, poet of digital and print media, created a typewriter poem that emerged after consulting Hesiod's “Works and Days and Theogony” to learn more about the witch goddess Hekate. Synchronously, interdisciplinary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom had recently returned to research on Hekate, teaching about the goddess in her class “Queering European Witchcraft Traditions”. Russom spent time with Spinosa’s spell, spoke to Hekate, and then unlocked the gate, seeking to “stir sonic emanations that were radiant, multiple and liminal.”

The side ends with a composition by musician and artist Felicia Atkinson via an instructional text from conceptual artist David Horvitz. What is it like to inhabit the mind of a crow? This simple gesture to befriend a crow, to be in relationship with something other than human implies much more, a re- orientation to our living environment and forms of intelligence.

The B-side opens with electronic composer C.R. Gillespie’s sonic manifestation of a score by bricolage artist Andrew Zukerman. Taking compositional inspiration from the Smiss stone, Zukerman created a collaged visual score on staff paper that hints at the formal aspects of occult symbols and sigils, while remaining obliquely secular. Creating an interlocking tapestry of “Roman gamelan”, Gillespie’s track dramatizes the negotiating power and structure of the abstract score

Over three days, iconic Canadian poet bill bissett created a jazz-scape painting filled with an ecstatic gathering of eidetic spirits, “connekting trembling xploring serching remote brooding grooving melodee solo lifting n refrain filling.” Immersing himself in the energy of the painting, musician and composer Idris Rahman overlaid three takes of bass clarinet and found that “melodies, textures and harmonies emerged without thought and the piece took on a life of its own.”

As a way to explore the connection between food and music, the curators commissioned a recipe from electronic producer and home chef, Yu Su. Her simple and wholesome pudding recipe lays out instructions for texture and taste that musician Scott Gailey stirs into a sonic caldron of field recordings and electronics. The closing chant, penned by writer and activist adrienne maree brown and incanted by musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland, was the result of a synergistic conversation between the two. The refrain, “surrender to the present moment / what’s coming now is all that’s left” is a mantra reminding us of the power of speech, repetition, and the evanescent nature of temporal experience.

he eight spell cards, inspired by the format of oracle and tarot cards, are invitations for further interpretation and play. To be under a spell is to be lost in a transformation, an alternate reality, to be in collaboration with an unknowable and powerful force. The works in this collection have created a spontaneous and ludic alchemy, courageous attempts to catalyze and spark in our present moment.

Curated by Seance Centre

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Favela Discos)

In Trux We Pux 01

16,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In Trux We Pux is an editorial project organized by the Porto based label and collective Favela Discos. Focusing on the city’s thriving experimental and improvised music scene, it sets out to portrait in a series of four volumes some of the characteristic sounds and collaborative practices that have been in development in Porto during the last few years.

In Trux We Pux 01, the first record of the collection, is focused on the electronic side of the eclectic but characteristic experimental and improvised scene in Porto, and contains a selection of 23 musicians that have been developing their own take on whatever niche genre they dwell in. Among the list of musicians are Filipe Silva (hhy & The Macumbas), Crónica Electrónica’s heads @c, ocp, coletivo vandalismo and several others that populate a thriving scene that spans a wide gamut of sounds, from delicate to abrasive.

As the tracks themselves, the different approaches to composition and production add to this compilation’s schizophrenia. The first side of the record offers us a spacious and abstract scenery, starting with a collage of field recordings, banjos, and fans, narrated by google translate’s voice. The following two tracks flow along the granular tide of ambient spaces and atmospheres slowing down a bit before the second side turns around 180º and heads towards more rhythmic fields.

Coletivo vandalismo & querido lider present us with their exploration of half balearic, half german-synth-music pulsing away at the beat of broken down dancehallish drums and reggae breaks. Challenger & Lorr No’s track is a trainwreck heading down a break driven jungle that lead us to the album’s closing arguments: Moscxs’ sludged beat goth-step exploration around the poem “Poema Agreste” by Glória de Sant’Anna.

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cloud 9)

Ibiza Lounge

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2022 | Original (Re:Warm)

Home Vol.1

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Ghost Phone)

Ghost Phone 006

9,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2020 | UK | Original (Ghost Phone)

Ghost Phone 003

9,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Gems Under The Horizon)

Gems Under The Horizon 2

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A1 by Joeri Bultheel in Berlin 2019. A2 by Uman Therma & Yetsuby in Seoul 2020. B1 by Ugne Vyliaudaite & Marija Kudabaité in Brussels, 2020. B2 by Raquel Rivera-Lys in Bogota 2021.

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Smalltown Supersound)

Frijazz Mot Rasisme

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The second release on Smalltown Supersound’s highly promising offside jazz label, ‘Le Jazz Non Series’ follows Bendik Giske and Buttechno’s mighty label opener with a killer compilation bursting with contemporary/outsider Norwegian free music as a show of solidarity against racism in the scene, with a title that translates to “Freejazz against racism“. Stitched and compiled by Anja Lauvdal and Tine Hvidsten, the set features 18 outsider Jazz burners centered around a varied and diverse cast of characters from the young Norwegian scene. While Norway has long had a positive relationship with free music, its players have invariably looked remarkably similar. “Frijazz mot rasisme” aims to address that by expressing the diversity of Oslo’s contemporary scene and show its commitment to anti-racism; of the players featured on the record, many are regulars at Norwegian demonstrations against local anti-Muslim organization Sian - with the compilation designed to collect funds for local anti-racist work. Musically, “Frijazz mot rasism” is a fractal head-fry of the highest order, dilating a fertile movement thru spiraling outsider-jazz. If musical nodes are needed for a point of reference, it flexes from Don Cherry-inspired communal psychedelia sprawlers to fiery shredders, modal percussive cyclones and lushly expressive instrumental virtuosity of a sort we can only imagine would short-circuit and frazzle a pack of bleating Viking gammons. With well over half the tracks originating from female artists, the set also represents a phase shift in perception, wickedly reprising the form’s historic function as fire music and a soundtrack to civil unrest, but with a decided female energy that’s more agitant than aggressive, in a way that might just calm and enlighten the xenophobes. There’s a tonne to get down with; Sanskriti Shrestha & Andreas Wildhagen’s modal tabla groover ‘Eight hands’ is a real standout, with subtle treats in the liminal thizz of ‘Up There’ by Propan, and a strikingly stark solo performance by Inga Aas, held in balance with tussling razz-outs like ‘One out of town’ feat. Brian Sandstrom, and scatting, Dadaist mischief by Agnes Hvizdalek that’s sure to pique interest along with the chaotic swarm of its shred-out finale ‘Primary Antibody’. Wall to wall enlightening, emotional bangers this one = highest Tip!

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First Wave - Drift Ambient Compilation

Tape | 2020 | CA | Original (Drift)

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First Wave is the very first compilation and physical release on Drift, the sub ambient label of Inner Ocean Records. We've gathered together some of the best emerging ambient artists, alongside artists who have been music creators for decades. The result is a very special and diverse collection of music, melding together a myriad of genres into a cohesive body of work to stand the test of time; a true work of art.

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Between Fields)

Field Work

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hazy Ambient and bubbling Leftfield Beats from Berlin-based imprint Between Fields featuring members of the family.

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2Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Kashual Plastik)

Field Of Progress

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Wind and cars hum in harmony. Ancestors croon in the factories of the future. Hippos in swimming pools, dancing on mechanical milker rhythms. Cows rehash in the melodic air of church bells. A melodeon sobs in a vague radio broadcast. Someone warps a present, while a data processor calculates his own death. Can frogs talk to the machine? Sacred chants sang about their conversation. That night when the jungle cried. That night when whales hummed waves of sadness. A klaxon symphony on tribal grooves, street talks in Brics countries. Someone flushes the gig economy, while the dishwasher gently weeps. Kashual Plastik been in the fields, bringing home the true fake, that surrounds us every day, everywhere, hidden in the sounds of many. A phonography compilation, that comes in two chapters: Document 1 and Document 2. Nothing authentic, yet genuinely realistic. Recorded in the global economy grasslands. On the fly and thoroughly planned. Netted by mindful observers, who respire the ambient noise for a better tomorrow, that might never come. Snow reaches out to the Tuatara, while in Berlin Spandau trains plow through the afternoon. Somebody comes home from a walk, engines squeal, tailpipes buzz in distance. Let’s fill up a glass of rum and toast on organ harmonics, sitting on a random platform at Tokyo’s Chōfu railway station, seduced by train announcements. Does a quiescent room breed noise? Analogue living in old towns, down there, where working on Sunday is the new Monday. At London’s Kingsland High Street religious rhythms cut the street noise. Nearby, in a local pub, a beer concert cheers millions. A Method To Exist, Malvern Brume, Susannah Stark, Jamie Burke, Laura Not, ML, Nika Son, Felix Kubin, or Red Brut, they all listened and absorbed. And many more too. How does the ambient sound to you? Never asked yourself this question? “Field Of Progress” hands out 28 ethnomusicological answers. They can polish the senses. For the fables of the environment. For the folklore of atmosphere. Bio music for data bodies. Wind and cars hum in harmony …

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Fake)

Fake#1

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP gatefold sleeve, 180 grams vinyl and comes with 24 pages magazine designed by Jonathan Castro Alejo with 10 photo stories, 60 photos and 10 poems. The deaf noise of the socialmedialism thrills misery. The hate array, the dreams of profit spurt a modern ideology made of science and technology for a factory shaped city . The user worker. The content product. Login. All in. Proletarian Romance. Life in sharing. Love by the hour. Idealism motel. Sexual class conflict. Moral hierarchy. Fast Sci-Fi. Internet Overdose. Gourmet overexposition. Speed depression. Ethical inquisition. Wellness preservation. Right patrol. Afflicted soul. The information. The information. The information. Like. The new verbs of the power. To like. To be Liked. The followers. The swollowers. Mobile addiction.The window on the wall. The beginning of the century. Political correct. Business coma. Social Warming. Open Sea. Freedom breakdown. West civilization sunset. Block express. External Memory. Extra limb. Grim. Tough solutions required , the destruction of meaning. Emergency exit only. The Absence.

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Erased Tapes Collection VIII

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Collection number eight celebrating the label's tenth birthday featuring Penguin Cafe, Ben Lukas Boysen, A winged Victory For The Sullen, Rival Consoles, Daniel Brandt, Douglas Dare, etc. Now available on clear double vinyl.

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Erased Tapes 20..---0 Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following its limited vinyl release on Record Store Day, the results of our Erased Tapes 20･･－－－0 project are now widely available in physical form.

"Especially in this time of isolation we need to remind ourselves of the importance of art, just how magical a medium sound is to express, to raise and answer question marks, to open and mend the soul... it’s the most universally speaking of all languages as it knows no borders."

At a time of global separation, Erased Tapes founder and sonic explorer Robert Raths stitched together a project putting what is most important at the forefront — connection. This collection of works by undisclosed artists from the roster gives space and time to appreciate art at its most honest. By shedding the information noise usually attached to release cycles and by bringing music back to the magic of sound, we're presented with an opportunity for exploration when we need it most.

Robert spoke to Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC 6 Music about how releasing music without revealing its origin through the Erased Tapes 20･･－－－0 morse code series enabled him to share what him and the artists have been working on in real-time as opposed to the usual delays that come with releasing music.

“All the information, all that noise... As much as it can help give context, it also takes something away. It tends to cloud your senses and take away from the magic of when you first hear something that’s completely unknown to your ears. How wonderful a sensation it is to just listen and let the music speak for itself without prejudice or the need for any references.”

— Robert Raths

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Frigio)

Ecdisis Volume 3

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following up Batozsek’s four slices on Vol 2, Ecdisis Vol 3 is fresh and ready to wreak some havoc. Some familiar names from the first volume of these series return for the third instalment as well as an otherworldly figure in the electronic music world. Up first is Vinilette, returning after her excellent appearance on Ecdisis Vol 1.

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Earthly Measures)

Earthly Tapes 02

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Part 2 of the compilation series sees the journey evolving, this time with a more upbeat affair. Not much has changed in terms of selection, as we continue to draw inspiration from the wider world, we bring to you the sounds of artists originating from Argentina, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil and the UK. Beyond the restrictions of this physical realm, let you ears nourish the mind & soul as they traverse the world for you… Argentinian resident Silvio Astier introduces us to the record with the aptly named ’Santa Maria del Buen Ayre’ - the former name of his hometown Buenos Aires. Easing us in with a wonderfully atmospheric piece, carefully mixing simple percussion patterns with his own well-crafted luscious guitar work. Next up, we have Japan native/Berlin resident Kotoe continuing the flow of downtempo sounds that slowly settle us into this compilation. ‘Ondami’ conjures up images of a distant dream… the floating vocals and echoing chimes capable of drifting the listener to a place of blissful escapism. The tempo is turned up a notch for the last track of side A, provided by UK born folklorica maestro El Buho. Renowned for his love of merging the traditional and natural sounds of South America with modern electronica, ’Swifts’ certainly ticks those boxes with an added touch of dance-floor-ready groove. Portuguese native duo Oxhala continue to push the sounds on the flip side into heavier territory. ’Earth Spirit’ builds from an amalgamation of stomping tribal drums, hypnotically playful keys and distorted vocals, channeling the listener to our innate primitive spirit - this is one for the body & mind. Dutch party-starter Mytron’s contribution ’Oil’ provides the fuel for the party as he turns to fast-paced conga rhythms, cowbells and elephant trumpets. These exotic sounds bounce along with ever-persistent energy to create the soundtrack to a hedonistic carnivalesque celebration of all things wild. If you haven’t already peaked with the previous offering, Brazilian native El Peche wraps things up nicely with track ‘Rastro De Fogo’ (ft. Mari Branco). Tripped out vocals phase in and out as the track is dominated by a tight bassline before delicate keys bring in a softer element to finish.

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Earthbeat Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jumpin & Pumpin)

46,39 €* 57,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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2LP | 2022 | Original (Demon)

Disco Floorfillers

27,99 €*

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Digging Beyond The Crates

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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DFA Compilation #2 Box Set

4LP Box | 2022 | UK | Original (Dfa Records)

110,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“What could have been a mere anthology of the label's uniformly excellent 2004 output is, additionally, a meticulously assembled personal narrative. This is a label that balances its musical and commercial aspirations with an earthy, no-bullshit disposition and-- let's say it-- the world's best fucking handclaps.” - Nick Sylvester, Pitchfork, in the heady days of 2004.

Behold, Compilation #2. A compendium what are arguably the best prime-era DFA cuts, mostly all recorded and/or remixed at the old DFA Studios on W. 13th Street (with some notable exceptions), released as 12-inches and then compiled onto a 3xCD set for convenience because, at the time, people actually bought CDs more than vinyl.

Now, in the spirit of time not really being much of a linear thing anymore, and for our own selfish desire to have this version of Liquid Liquid’s “Bellhead,” produced by the DFA, finally committed to wax, we have reverse engineered this thing back onto vinyl and presented it as a four-record boxed set.

We went back and found the master tapes or files for each song - a not insignificant effort given our habit of disorganization. We then rather painstakingly resequenced and remastered it with the guy we trust with such things: Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. The lacquers Bob cut were plated and pressed at what we believe to be one of the best pressing plants in the country: QRP in Salina, Kansas.

We tell you all of this to say: we took this shit pretty seriously. Because we felt like it was important and because we felt like some folks would really appreciate it. It sounds remarkable. It looks great. (Rob Carmichael re-did the original packaging, adding a new photo from DFA OG Tim Saccenti from one of the original parties at W. 13th St.) Of course, we somehow can’t stop ourselves from making labeling errors - Pixeltan’s “That’s the Way I Like It” somehow escaped the center labels on the fourth record. It’s kind of the DFA curse. Has to be!

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (A Walking Contradiction)

Demi Monde 2/2

12,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The second part in A Walking Contradiction's Demi Monde series. The creative imprint from Basel, mostly known for its releases by Varuna, hereby welcomes the next pair of friends to complete their two-part Half World project. Helsinki AWC affiliate Lemont explores dense and icy deepness with two slow-rolling ambient trips. Where Hidden Hawaii / Nullpunkt boss Felix K appears as Flxk1 to go wild with two mind whirling 140 bpm techno steppers.

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Dekmantel 10 Years Part 1

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Dekmantel)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited Edition in fancy sleeves… More Info soon!

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3x12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Chapelle XIV)

Compilation Volume 1

42,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Chapelle XIV Musics gathers an eclectic, adventurous and multi genre range of unreleased tracks for Volume one of its compilation. Between IDM, ambient, futuristic pop, jazz inspirations or deep house, the 15 tracks define the contours of the artistic identity of this new label, between young discoveries and emblematic artists in their fields

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Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Death Is Not The End)

Come, Let Us Sing

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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What shall we sing? Folklorist Derek Piotr presents the third and final installation in the Bare family trilogy, this time highlighting lesser-known and garbled versions of local folk tunes, and again braiding the past with the present by incorporating his own contemporary fieldwork of the Bare's living descendants.

Track 1 recorded by Herbert Halpert in Maryville, TN, April 23, 1939.
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, and 12 recorded by Herbert Halpert in Elk Park, NC, April 12, 1939.
Tracks 5 and 13 recorded by Herbert Halpert near Morganton, NC, April 19, 1939.
Track 6 recorded by Derek Piotr in Morganton, NC, April 11, 2022.
Tracks 7 and 10 recorded by Derek Piotr in Vilas, NC, April 18, 2022.

Cover image of Mrs. Sabra Bare Hampton courtesy of Della Ruth Harshbarger.

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Budino Presents The Sound Of Love International 004

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Love International Recordings X Test Pressing)

28,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Sound Of Love International 004 is a particular poignant collection of rarities, collectables and unearthed gems, pulled together by the Italian DJ and crate digger Budino. For the last two years, the pretty coastal town of Tisno in Croatia has been devoid of the (now) legendary Love International week-long celebration of music, leaving thousands of revellers and regular devotes with only the sounds of Love International to keep the spirits strong until the next time friendships are rekindled and dance resumes under the sun and the stars. Luckily, the fiesta is scheduled for a return to Tisno from 13th – 19th July 2022. Budino, AKA Valentina Bodini, has a lifelong passion for vinyl, amassing an enviable collection of multi-genre LPs and singles via her years spent in Italy and now in Berlin. As resident DJ for Discodromo’s CockTail d’Amore parties, her enthusiasm for music and digging knows no boundaries, and her instalment into the Sound Of Love International series gives us an aural insight into her musical realm. Musically, The Sound Of Love International #004 is a smorgasbord of sound. Opening with the glacial tones of Peter Seiler’s 1986 new-age gem ‘Serengeti’, the twelve track selection glides through proto-house, tribal ambience, industrial EBM, balearic dance and so much more. It’s a testament to the ground- breaking nature of these tracks that most of the music here was originally released some 30-40 years ago. Inclusions from Oliver Leib’s The Ambush project, Vibes Of Rhythm and Scott Edward stem from the post house & techno explosion of the early 90s, whilst the early proto-electronic experiments from the likes of Kirlian Camera, Clock DVA, Bourbonese Qualk and Pyrolator are welcomely revived for a new audience. Interestingly, a flexi-disc only release of ‘Hark’ by William Orbit & Laurie Mayer’s early 80s Torch Song project is also included here, elongated by Budino herself in the edit suite. Two brand new productions from DJ Blasy and Budino & Berko ensure that business is brought bang up to date, offering a unique and modern spin on the sounds of Budino, and her tantalising selection on this compilation.

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Bird Cage: Birdfriend Archives

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (EM)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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* This compilation, available on CD and double vinyl, features 18 tracks by Japanese artists, from 2013-2017, previously available only on hard-to-find cassettes on the Birdfriend label

* Compiled by Hino, who also provides liner notes and cover art

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12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Baroque Sunburst)

Baroquism Volume 1

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Following this year’s VA ‘Marmo’, a collaborative offering co-released with Xcpt, Baroque Sunburst releases its first Various Artists EP. Tracks from Taro, Pugilist, Slacker and Flørist, create a statement record championing subtle yet hybrid club-oriented sounds.

Buffalo, NY's Taro ignites the white label 12" with ‘Gas Burn’, a dreamy, rarified IDM zipper. An off-kilter UK funky remix from Flørist follows (his second appearance on the imprint after 2020's Intermedia 1 EP). The B side drags us into a half-time, downtempo sideroom, with tracks from Slacker (Aqueduct) and Pugilist (Symbiosis) slowing pace but maintaining intensity."

Limited to 300 copies.

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Artificial Intelligence Volume I

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Artificial Intelligence)

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Artificial Intelligence was born in 2005 with the AI Series events in Madrid as a deep and sincere tribute to the pioneers of the early Bleep, Braindance and Idm sound. Thanks to labels such as Warp, Planet Mu, Skam Records, Rephlex… and artists such as Richard D. James, Autechre, Jega, Boards of Canada. Almost 20 years later we are back as a label with this first volume of 14 tracks by 14 different artists with the usual suspects along with some new faces where we want to express our love and respect for this sound.

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Aquapelago: An Oceans Anthology

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Discrepant)

20,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Anthology introducing the first of a series of albums based on the concept of Aquapelago.

‘’ Since the earliest days of the planet there has been a rhythm of tides that creates coastal interzones where humans have foraged and pursued various livelihoods. Developing boats to fish from and technologies that enabled them to immerse themselves deep underwater, the aquatic realm has been one explored, experienced and imagined in various ways. In an effort to express the vitality and richness of this environment I coined the term aquapelago in 2012. The wordplay was deliberate. The neologism was designed to distinguish the liquid inbetweenness of this space from the dry, scattered, lands of archipelagos.

The concept of the aquapelago coalesced around themes taken from various places. Epeli Hau’ofa’s idea of an Oceanic “sea of islands’” was formative but a number of songs were also inspirational. Torres Strait islander Seaman Dan captivated me with his experiences of pearl diving in the Darnley Deeps in his song ‘Forty Fathoms’ and Norfolk Islander singer Kath King imaged how sea-turtles might have experienced ecological change in her song ‘Tech me how fer lew’. Other reflections on watery realms also appealed. Debussy’s solo piano piece ‘La cathédrale engloutie’ soundtracked me as I researched myths of lost Lyonesse while Mike Cooper’s Kiribati, an ambient exoticist album about the imperilled archipelago (recently re-released on Discrepant), caused me to reflect on the social and cultural impact of sea level rise before that topic became a high-profile concern.

This compilation album takes the concept of the aquapelago into new depths and breaches it on fresh shores. The tracks are soaked with the aquatic. Bassy sonorities boom as if heard deep underwater. Bubbly textures breach the surface, water drips and seabirds soar high above waves. Sugai Kei samples fragments of text concerning the Ningen, a fantastic humanoid/whale that reflects the ‘aquapelagic imaginary’ of modern Japan and its preoccupation with industrial whaling. Andrew Pekler continues the orientation of his Phantom Islands project - a sonic atlas of imaginary places - with a soundscape as if heard by a swimmer just offshore, mixing sounds of the island and the sea together. Mike Cooper’s sonic reflection on Hong Kong’s Lamma Island is similar, combining the island’s ubiquitous barking dogs with the slurp of waves on rocky shores, conjuring a languorous time before Chinese crackdowns on the territory.

Taking another tack, the Dead Mauriacs gleefully water-ski through collage of tropical island exoticisms, replete with glitchy orientalism, while Babau combines skittering idiophone melodies with resonant glissandi. Vica Pacheco moves between dense and airy sounds, as if crossing between surf lines and the space above. Yannkick Dauby’s track is also imbued with in-betweenness, evoking ambient sounds heard through a ship’s hull. Sculpture’s ‘Froth Surfer’ realises its title, with bubbling sounds and rhythms that evoke Hawaiian surfing filtered through layers of time and distance. Reminding us of the shore necessary for aquapelagic spaces, Franceso Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage’s composition anchors the album, centred around shaken rhythms and resonant ringing tones and drones.

Taken together, the album sketches the contours of the aquapelago as it might be imagined and conjured in sound – an endless oceanic realm that laps on to beaches and crashes against cliffs. The performers navigate this space under alternately starry and cloudy skies, orientating themselves with sounds, textures and sonic samples of their terrestrial homes while we float with them. ‘’ Philip Hayward December 2021

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Lost In Translation)

Anthroposcéne

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lost in Translation is a record label based in Brussels founded by two friends in the Spring of 2022. Anchored in the heart of Europe, the project aims to deliver a unique artist driven vision centered on a collaborative approach to musical storytelling.

Releases are built track by track, providing a space for the featured artists to bounce off of each other’s sonic influences, and weave together a cohesive musical story told from studios around the world.

Accompanied by audiovisual works and short-stories crafted around the music, each release is an exercise in multi-disciplinary world-building, setting out a narrative soundscape that invites listeners to get lost in its evolving atmospheres and rhythms.

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Anjunadeep Presents: Reflections Vol. 1

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Anjunadeep)

60,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

vinyl is close to NM. Original inner sleeve. tiny wear. Limited edition

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Tensor Norm)

Almost Everywhere

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tensor Norm is back. In this ocassion, we visit differents locations of the world geography to bring you an EP full of electro, breaks, acid and IDM.

Side A goes into the coordinates of dark electro in different ways. “Cell Reprogramming” by Clone Theory (one of its members is Heuristic Audio) is a spatial track with smooth percussion, a heavy, oscillating bassline and minimal melodic design. On “Automorphism”, Sigma_ALgebra resorts to smooth percussion and a drone-like oscillating bassline to generate a floating feel, over which choppy, lightning-like melodic profiles occur. Finally, north american LectrO cOd-E, speeds up the tempo to expose the military round bass, synth twitches and vocoder transmissions of “Morphology”.

Side B is incided in borderline spaces with the incorporation of acid sounds as main elements. After an opening that programs the rhythmic structure and adds pad atmosphere, “Amenacid” by Liðvarð aka DJ VLR ratchets up the tension through a brief acid line modified steadily but subtly. The EP closes with “Phanaire Luses”, a track with typical IDM resources with which, through the accumulation of bleep-like emissions, acid figures, sparks and amorphous sounds, Jaquarius builds a psychedelic track.

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Full Dose)

Alien Men

22,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Alien Men is a 9 track compilation of abstract Dub & Synth experiments by a range of new artists coming out of Glasgow's Southside.

The idea for the compilation came about during a time of lengthy periods of isolation, where loneliness, insecurity and a willlingness to connect with other like-minded souls was challenging or near impossible. The artwork was subsequently created and the music followed, allowing each producer to tell their own story throughout this period.

The music featured, although hard to pin down to one notion, is Bass/Grime-esq, mutant Dancehall in parts with awkward, Ambient synth moments across this essential Club/Not Club record.

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Urvakan)

A Collective Memoir

20,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This compilation is a research project commissioned by Urvakan with the support of the Goethe-Institut. It archives a selection of recordings contributed by some of the artists from post-Soviet countries who were meant to play at Urvakan 2020 - a festival that never really happened. The artists were asked to explore the idea of "collective memories" in sound by using aural techniques capable of evoking reminiscences in the subconsciouses of people from fairly different locations, but that are in some ways similar in their cultural codes. The submissions we received were not only inspiring, but also quite accurately fell in line with Urvakan's declared focus on "hauntological" music practices, referenced in the festival's name itself - "urvakan" is the Armenian word for ghost, phantom, or spirit.

Curated by Andrei Zailer Mastered by Flaty Artwork by Maziyar Pahlevan Produced by Sophie Porter and Nairi Simonian

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80s Underground Cassette Culture Volume 2

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Contort Yourself)

33,99 €*

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Rich-poor divide widens. Unemployment soars. The East and West eyeball each other on the brink. 2022 isn't too far off the 1980s. Contort Yourself know this.

Following the huge success of the prophetic 80s Underground Cassette Culture Vol 1, Vol 2 is set to hit shelves and screens with the same brand of distortion soaked didactics.

Twenty one tracks from across the globe make up this second installment with nothing being constant. Instead, the overarching message is one of wanton abandonment; burnt-out artists peddling an electronic punk profanity, marginalised musicians spitting on the establishment and industry.

Rusted guitar strings, cobbled drum machines and fire in the belly; this is the recipe.

A soundtrack of despondent despair, a lament of languid lechery, an anthem of what was then and still is now.

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V. A.

15 Year Anniversary

41,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A new compilation titled Erased Tapes ⼗五, encompassing a two hour cross-section of the label"s 15-year history including hidden gems and previously unreleased material, will be available on November 4 to coincide with specially curated festivals in London and Berlin. The first offering comes from UK producer Kevin Richard Martin aka The Bug and Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit who share their paranormal first collaborative cut After the Storm amongst other unique pairings such as The Art Ensemble of Chicago featuring Moor Mother, Bell Orchestre interpreted by Colin Stetson, Douglas Dare joined by The London Contemporary Orchestra and Ben Lukas Boysen remixed by Kiasmos. Premiered exclusively via The Wire magazine in form of a free download ahead of their debut live performance at Le Guess Who? Festival 2019 in Utrecht, the track is now finally made available on vinyl and streaming platforms alongside other previously unreleased pieces from electronic producer Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles and Icelandic composer Högni. "As a solo vocalist and voice artist, I"d always dreamed of floating and being drowned in a beautiful sonic storm. And then I met Kevin Martin" - Hatis Noit The artwork is composed of the Japanese kanji for "15" - calligraphed by label founder Robert Raths and designed by Munich-based artist Bernd Kuchenbeiser.

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Barro)

#003

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Editions Mego)

UUUU

12" | 2017 | EU | Original (Pain Surprises)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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UUUU is a new outfit featuring Edvard Graham Lewis, Thighpaulsandra, Matthew Simms and Valentina Magaletti. Individually these humans have implanted feathers in caps such as Coil, Dome, Wire, Tomaga, etc. Collectively they form UUUU, a powerhouse construction of fierce and free sonic exploration, as liberating as it is frightening, resulting in the richly rewarding. It's Going All Over The Floor presents itself as a terse meeting between dance, ambient, abstraction and improvisation. UUUU is a schizophrenic seething/soothing masterpiece of a past/present hybrid equally at home in the club, the home and the mind.

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UTO

Shelter For The Broken

10,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Useless Idea / Seven Nights Alone

Split EP

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Suction)

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Suction)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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It’s been more than a year since our last release on Suction Records, and we’re excited to be back with the introduction of a new artist to the label’s roster. In fact, this split 12” serves as an introduction to both Useless Idea, and Seven Nights Alone, two aliases from the same Italian artist and producer, Cesare Bignotti. The split also serves as a taster for two forthcoming Suction Records full-length LPs, coming soon from both aliases. Useless Idea, with previous under-the-radar cassette album releases on WéMè Records (2018’s “Acid Hologram”) and Eves Music (2020’s “Xa Peh”), has been quietly recording his own brand of inventive, playful, and melodic IDM/braindance for more than 20 years. We’ve been slowly compiling Useless Idea’s debut vinyl full-length for several years now, and the resulting “Glitch In The Colors” will be released later this year on 2LP vinyl, covering the span of his 20+ years of recording. From “Glitch…” we’ve included standout cut “Mello Tron” alongside two tracks that are exclusive to this split 12”. Seven Nights Alone is a more recent alias, and outside of 1 track released on a compilation, this marks the new alias’ debut release. There is an undeniable Boards Of Canada influence here, but this is a unique and sophisticated take on BOC’s woozy and melancholy electronica. Both “Soft Where” (a menacing, futuristic instrumental hip hop killer) and “Walkman” (like a BoC “Campfire Headphase” outtake but on an optimistic tip) are taken from Seven Nights Alone’s debut 2LP vinyl full-length “Another Place”, to be released on Suction Records in 2023, alongside a 3rd track that’s exclusive to this split 12”. Vinyl is limited to 200 copies, and comes with a Bandcamp download card.

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Useless Idea

A Glitch In The Colors

31,99 €*

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Ill Considered)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Glitch in the Colors” is the debut full-length vinyl release by Useless Idea, aka Italian artist and producer, Cesare Bignotti. Useless Idea debuted on Suction Records in 2021, with a limited-to-300 12-inch sampler (alongside Bignotti’s alter-ego Seven Nights Alone), which Bleep.com named as their “EP of the Week” upon release, writing “Useless Idea’s widescreen array of hazy synthesized atmospheres, intricate samples and processed recordings … conjure thoughts of a fictional past in another dimension.” With previous under-the-radar cassette album releases on WéMè Records (2018’s “Acid Hologram”) and Eves Music (2020’s “Xa Peh”), Useless Idea has been quietly recording his own brand of inventive, playful, and melodic IDM/braindance for more than 20 years. We’ve been slowly compiling Glitch in the Colors for several years now, and the result is a varied, yet cohesive, collection of instrumental electronic beat-scapes recorded over the span of 13 years, with influences ranging from the classic braindance sound of Aphex Twin and Cylob, to the hazy hip-hop electronica of Boards Of Canada, but with a depth of programming and sound design that is all his own. From the melancholy, orchestral hip hop of the title track, to the videogame symphonics of “Yster Know”, to the delicate piano-house reductionism of “Moon Dog”, the scope and variety found on Glitch in the Colors is a revelation. 2x12” vinyl LP is limited to 500 copies, with 100 copies on pink-vinyl, and adorned with the artist’s own original artwork (Bignotti is an accomplished, and highly sought-after, visual artist). Comes with a Bandcamp download card.

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Untitled Tape

Untitled Work

21,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Music For The Other People Place)

Unknown Artist

Topp 011

19,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Touch)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Very special and highly limited electro / electronics project (tributed to James Stinson) from the Fundamental Records camp, produced by different artists that will remain anonymous, if they choose to…

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Unicazrn

Transpandorem

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

12" | 2017 | UK | Original (Lobster Theremin)

Unfinished Portraits

Memory Lake

11,39 €* 11,99 € -5%

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Knackless)

Unauthorized Sunset

Knackless 6

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Blackford Hill)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Knackless 6 by Unauthorized Sunset Asako Fujimoto & Nikolas Neecke

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Ultramarine

Blackwaterside

Ultra Random Analog Orchestra

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In August 2016 Ultramarine created a photo film featuring photographs from Ian Cooper's Survey East website which focuses on a particular stretch of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.
The film (and accompanying soundtrack) was screened on rotation at the Caught By The River Thames festival at Fulham Palace in London.
For this original Blackwaterside audio/print project, Ultramarine created two new pieces of music inspired by their time working close to the estuary. Glasgow based printmaker/sculptor Bronwen Sleigh visited this remote corner of Essex to sketch and draw, using these visual references to create a lithograph, printed in three colours, which features on the cover of the book accompanying the 7" single.
The book features a series of Ian Cooper's original photographs, alongside poetry by the writer Philip Terry, inspired by the Essex coast, taken from his book Quennets.
- Originally released by publishing imprint Random Spectacular
- Re-released by Blackford Hill with obi strip
- 7" vinyl single
- 28-page booklet of photographs and poetry
- Wraparound cover by printmaker Bronwen Sleigh
- Digital download card (including an extra 16 minutes of bonus audio)
- Limited edition of 350 copies
- Played by Nick Luscombe on BBC Radio 3 'Late Junction'
- Played by Gideon Coe on BBC Radio 6

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Third Ear)

Far Away Trains Passing By

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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When you cut into the present, the future leaks out" William S. Burroughs. Third Ear are proud and excited to release a new Brendon Moeller project exclusive to Third Ear... Ultra Random Analog Orchestra. The project kicks off with 13 tracks released on vinyl over 3 individually released 12" and a digital album with 16 tracks. The music ranges from deep, wide-screen Techno to Ambient and beatless, that pushes the limits of the sonic palette. Artwork by The Designers Republic. Brendon says, "The ability to sculpt an audio collage in realtime employing techniques of randomness is one of my favorite pursuits using a eurorack modular system.

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Ulrich Schnauss

2CD | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Scripted Realities)

16,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Quiet Time Tapes)

Ulla Straus

Big Room

Timebeing Black & Opaque Silver Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ulla’s productions reveal a discerning process of stripping tracks to their essence, letting space, silence, simplicity and repetition be her guide. They lend a magic touch to a difficult and minimal style of music, creating an album that is comforting and tranquil, yet hypnotizing and transportive. Most evidently, UIla’s music is inspired, by emotions and experiences unknown to us, but perhaps best represented in her own words: “keeping pictures on a wall left there by someone else. day dreaming about something not real. hearing a friend walk through the front door. letting a plant die. the silence of a room when the box fan is turned off."

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Uji

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (ZZK)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Ubek

20.000 Meilen Unter Dem Meer Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ubek returns. The mysterious Polish duo digs out a new collection of degraded echoes, salvaged from authority. Galvanised as if lost to the shock of formal experiments. Ubek II revises the present and takes us back to other versions of actuality.

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U96

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Motor Entertainment)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Past Inside The Present)

Tyresta

Infinite Branches

18,99 €*

12" | 2017 | DE | Original (Majestic Casual)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Infinite Branches' explores multi-textural sound illustrations that encompass an array of calm tones and gentle movements. The ep features four beautiful arrangements by the artist with eight reworked vignettes- where two branches of the theme share a certain commonality, but never intersect. Infinite Branches is a compelling and inspirational paean to various forms and patterns of the ambient genre which include reworks by: 36, zake, Pausal, City of Dawn, Ai Yamamoto, awakened souls, Patricia Wolf, and Christina Giannone.

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Two Feet

First Steps

210,99 €*

Upon This Fleeting Dream Feat. David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki

Release: 2017 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Single sided Limited edition. Vinyl is close to NM.

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Twinkle3

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Cortizona)

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Marionette)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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On ‘Upon This Fleeting Dream’ Clive Bell’s Twinkle3 embraces medieval and 16th century Japanese poems and haiku about death and saying farewell. Twinkle3, consisting of Dave Ross and Richard Scott besides Clive Bell, expand their sonic borders to unknown territory: bringing these pithy epigrams to a new Fourth World where electro-acoustic sounds glitches into an hypnagogic, if not unconscious level of fragile beauty.

The distinctive voice of David Sylvian, who reads the English version of the poems and created field recordings and the artwork for this album, blends in the most organic way with the shakuhachi,Thai reed flutes and mouth organs played by Clive Bell.

The narrative voices of David Sylvian and Kazuko Hohki’s (Frank Chickens, Kahondo Style…) velvet timbre are the cornerstones of this compelling journey while the tangling and abstract rhythms transcending from Dave Ross’ modular synths and Richard Scott’s sampler and analogue electronics, unravel and unfold a mesmerizing universe with unknown dimensions and frequencies of a fleeting dream.

Vinyl edition with printed inlay and extra insert

File under:
electronica, spoken word, fourth world, sound art,shakuhachi, dub,minimal,ambient, abstract and good music

Recommended if you like:
David Sylvian, Japanese poems, Jon Hassell, Pan Sonic, Laraaji, Brian Eno, electronic, organic and excellent music

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Twinkle3

Minor Planets

17,99 €*

10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Isbessa Musik Gmbh)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Minor Planets completes a trilogy of cosmically themed electro-acoustic albums by UK and Berlin based trio Twinkle3, 15 years in the making. This third installment is once again all about the unique synergies the group discover in combining free group improvisation with studio and musique-concrete techniques. The group's combined love of everything from Lee Perry to Noh Theatre via Karlheinz Stockhausen and King Sunny Ade lead them to respond musically to create a single universe where they all coexist and interact. Aleatoric analogue sequencing, chamber-like acoustic improvisation and dub treatments become distilled into a distinct and emotive narrative that takes us on an exhilarating hyperspace cruise to the outer reaches.

Clive Bell is a virtuoso of the Shakuhachi. His aesthetic takes us on a timbral journey between noise and pitch, expressed and phrased rhythmically by the contour of human breath. This creates a perfect context and focus for a music that moves seamlessly between rhythm, suspension, time modulated analogue states, dissonance and melody. Richard Scott and David Ross share a background in acoustic free improvisation and have pioneered new approaches to rhythm using self-designed analogue systems. On Minor Planets these seemingly paradoxical orthodoxies cross-pollinate in a spirit of wonder and optimism to produce original and experimental music that is both life affirming and uplifting.

Album artwork by Benjmain Kilchhofer captures the feeling of peering through the vacuum of space and catching a rare glimpse of the mysterious alien biomes, fossils, and silhouettes cast by dwarf planets, asteroids, Kuiper belt, and other trans-Neptunian objects."

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Tutti Bounce

Jackie

21,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Cracki)

Tushen Rai

Drums Circle

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Layva)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For his first solo EP, Tushen Raï designed a record in the form of a colorful patchwork of sounds, a meticulous collage of samples, surrounding noises and synthesizers. Here, Maori percussion dug on field recording discs from the late 60s and 70s meet Indonesian chants recorded on phones and posted anonymously online. A nostalgic yet deeply contemporary testimony to an imagination weakened resulting from the cultural globalization. With Drums Circles, Tushen Raï wants to reconnect with the adventure novels, from Jules Vernes to Barjavel, which nourished his childhood. Thought out as an ode to the diversity of our cultures, our practices and our beliefs, Drums Circles is a cry in favor of open-mindedness and curiosity. It is an invitation to discovery rather than to conquest. A humble invitation to embark on a journey and to collective trance

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Tukan

Atoll

25,64 €* 26,99 € -5%

Samurai Champloo Music Record - Playlist

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Somewhere between electronic music, jazz and post-rock, Tukan unveils a percussive sound with a heady groove, taking you on a computerless electronic journey.With an analogical approach, Tukan takes up the codes of electronic music and delivers an exhilarating sound, taking Tortoise, Badbadnotgood, Floating Points, Squarepusher and Lone as reference points.

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Tsutchie

2LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Flying Dog)

76,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original

Tsudio Studio Ft Hallca

Promise Of Summer

17,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Capricorn Sun Red Vinyl Edition

TSHA

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Ninja Tune)

31,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Avenue 66)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tsha returns to Ninja Tune with her long-awaited debut album ‘Capricorn Sun’, set for release on Friday 7th October 2022. Recorded over the past two years, the record delivers on the promise of her previous EP’s and Singles with 12 tracks that perfectly encapsulate the emotive blend of underground electronic and hook-laden pop sensibilities that have led to her being one of the most talked about new artists of the past few years. From gracing the front cover of high-profile magazines, appearing on numerous billboards, being included in flagship playlists and programmes by multiple streaming services and being placed on countless ‘best of’ & ‘one to watch’ lists, alongside high-praise from across the music press and radio – Tsha shows no sign of slowing down in 2022.

The album follows her recent compilation for the revered ‘fabric presents’ series and an immense touring schedule that has seen her booked for over 100 shows across 2021/22, including opening for Disclosure at their two Alexandra Palace shows, performing to 40,000 fans across the West Coast of America with Bob Moses, a run of North American shows with Flume — including a stop at Colorado’s iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre — a festival run that includes a set at this year’s Glastonbury and an ongoing residency at Ibiza’s Dc-10 for Circoloco to name just a few.

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Trux

Orbiter

17,99 €*

Tribute Summon Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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There’s been an air of hypnagogic mystery surrounding Acid Test’s sublabel Avenue 66 from the start. Joey Anderson’s oblique, Prince-inspired incantation “Above The Cherry Moon” set the tone for a label that’s sound that has found beauty in the furthest recesses of the dance floor, in the murkiest decay of kick drums and rave stabs. Fitting then, that the first album on the imprint comes from Trux, an artist who has chosen to reveal nearly nothing about themselves. Following a cult classic mini-LP for Office Recordings, “Orbiter” bears out the anonymous producer as a master of liminal, conceptual dance music. “Orbiter’s” ten tracks have a vaporous, shape-shifting quality, threatening to topple over into full-on kick drum bliss or vanish into ambience. Opener, “With It,” moves from heady ambient rush to skeletal piano, while “Blinko” and “Roy’s Garage” spell out a hazy memoriam for the UK continuum. Forlorn pianos ring out amongst the field recordings, excitable toms and jungle bass all softened in the enveloping gauze. “Orbiter” positions Trux as an unknown auteur who puts evocative world of tone and echo into dizzying motion, content to watch from the wings.

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Trust Fund Ozu

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

Tribute Summon Red & White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Bold, anthemic & controversial, Trust Fund Ozu's Tribute Summon bares her soul as pure hyperpop. Faye Fadem supercharges addictive hooks with ingenious production and lyrics as irreverent as they are personal. Spawning several viral singles such as “Poison Ivy,” “Peppermint” and “Succubus,” Trust Fund Ozu proves that there is absolutely no-one else like her. Features special guests Ben Levin and Justice Cow, with mixing by Angel Marcloid.

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Trust Fund Ozu

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Needlejuice)

28,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Penny)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Preorder shipping from 2024-10-25

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Tropicantesimo

Session 3

12,99 €*

Demonstration: Takes & Retakes Krikor & Civilistjävel! Remixes

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tropicantesimo is an extended musical ritual which takes shape through the celebration of sound and dance. Originally born as a regular party at the Fanfulla club in Rome, Tropicantesimo gradually transformed into a collective listening experience which eventually found place at Pescheria the group's official home and studio. Slowly the collective animated by djs Hugo Sanchez, Lola Kola, Rocco Mago, Gabor and Egeeno, began to open up to impromptu jams and collaborations with musicians and djs of various backgrounds. The rhythms are incessant, the BPM is slow and hypnotic. Voices flow between songs, messages and pure sound. The music is kneaded organically to release energy. All this can be found through the extensive production work based on tons of recordings collected over the years. Tropicantesimo Session 3 is the third in a series of three EPs that anticipate the release of the album "Gitania". Like in the previous two chapters here you have three songs recorded and mixed at Pescheria.

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Tristan Disco

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Camisole)

18,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (No Format)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tristan Disco was an ephemeral Japanese project led by Takayuki Shiraishi (bgm, Mld) focused on making dubbish Post-Punk. In 1982 they elaborate a no-wave full of unrehearsed breaks and cavernous vocals. Boundless dark jamming sessions through shades, effects and reverbs always submerged by a tense nervous bassline. On the B side Krikor delivers a hard-hitting Industrial reconstruction of "Social Dance" perfect to shatter your brain. Retakes from the mysterious ambient artist Civilistjävel! are more brooding. Introspection and faded horizons are the main purposes here but a glimpse of hope still glow.

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Trio Sr9

Déjà Vu

Fall To Pieces Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Still sealed with hype sticker.

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Tricky

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (False Idols)

Trance Farmers & Kourtney Roy

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tricky continues to be productive in Berlin, dropping an album every two years now for some time - while also working on establishing is own label False Idols. Last year saw the release of the labels compilation and his book "Hell Is Round The Corner". With his new album, "Fall To Pieces", he once again proves a lucky hand in finding a singer that fits carrying the vocals, since he does not prefer to do the vocals all the time. Most songs on "Fall To Pieces" are sung by Marta Zlakowska. Some songs featuring her vocals have been released on Trickys digital EP "20,20" a while ago with "Hate This Pain" making the album, too. They met on a concert, when Tricky was left without a vocalist. It was the first date of the tour. She saved the tour and Tricky liked her "humble and down to earth" nature. "She just wants to sing", he says. The album was recorded in Tricky's Berlin studio in 2019 and it also features two songs sung by Oh Land.

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Queen Of Nowhere

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (IIKKI)

2LP | 2020 | JP | Reissue (Sparklejon)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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»Queen Of Nowhere« is the result of the photographic works by Kourtney Roy and the musician Dayve Samek (Trance Farmers). Samek has recorded his first album in 2014 on Leaving Records (Stones Throw Records). His music ranges between sweaty, garage-born ballads brush shoulders with drifter anthems and gasoline drenched doo wop with at some points some beats close from the past Anticon works. The Canadian photographer Kourtney Roy was born in Northern Ontario in 1981. She conjures an intimate universe pervaded by both wonder and mystery. Her photographer’s eye is drawn to places and settings whose lyrical qualities underscore the sublime banality of everyday life.

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Toyosick

Shushinsei

39,99 €*

Tape | 2017 | CA | Original (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Release: 2020 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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toyosick's 2nd Album (Originally released on September 2020) is now available as a double LP 180g-heavy-weightvinyl for the first time! The album is a black-and-white sonic picture scroll created solely by the artist, who handled the lyrics, music, editing, programming, recording, mixing, and artwork. The album has a deep blend of darkness, minimal, psychedelic, breakbeats, classic and ambient.

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Toyohirakumin

Drive

16,99 €*

Recorded At Frequency Farm 1993 - 1994

Release: 2017 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Pro manufactured limited edition run / 100 with LED printed shells and full colour artwork in norelco cases.

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Toxic Frequency

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Delodio)

22,99 €*

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Hessle Audio)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First vinyl edition of these homemade electronic tracks, recorded in a primitive bedroom studio between 1993 and 1994 by Mahk Rumbae, a British born fan of synths and drum machines. A surprising crossover, as it alternates between the soft balearic sound heat and the urban indu-electro rigour.

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Toumba

Petals

Totalement Sublime Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Hessle Audio welcomes Toumba to the label with the four track EP 'Petals'. Based in Amman, Jordan, Toumba explores Levantine microtonality, rhythms, play styles and timbres across the record. Lead track 'Istibtan' is a twist on a typical Jordanian wedding song with deep subs providing the foundations, while 'Petals' rides on the heavy swing which is unique to music from the south of Jordan. On the flip side, 'Hazzeh' deconstructs Dabkeh, while the EP is rounded off with 'Identity Crisis' which is four minutes of lilting melodies all in Maqam Rast but played in an untraditional way.

Toumba is a producer, DJ and sound designer and is a curator at Mnfa, a club and arts space in Jordan's capital Amman. A nationally respected artist, Toumba also holds a residency at the Mmag Foundation. The foundation works with a selection of the most gifted artists in the Levant, providing a space for artistic research, production and critical discourse.

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Totalement Sublime

LP | 2020 | CA | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Release: 2020 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Bonbonbon)

Totalement Sublime

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Ideal)

Tot Onyx

Senno I

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The debut album from group A's Tommi Tokyo is an illusory marvel made up of snatched half-heard voices, ritualistic rhythms, digi-fucked power electronics and emetic sci-fi drones. Impossible to classify, incredible to absorb - like Vainio, Stockhausen, Anima, Porter Ricks and Ramleh playing in a small room.

Since 2012, Tokyo-based duo group A have been toying with the concept of performance, attempting to melt various art styles - from body art and live painting to noise and performance - into their jaw-dropping live sets. Tommi Tokyo strikes out solo with "Senno I", her debut under the Tot Onyx moniker that appears a couple of years after an impressive collaboration with Hiro Kone emerged on "More Light", 2020's Berlin Atonal box set. Alone, Tommi is able to approach her art from a more personal, even biographical angle. She describes the record as a "study of her interior life", and played from beginning to end it feels like being plugged into someone's brain as it dumps its most polar content, "Johnny Mnemonic" style.

Each track appears to comb through a different cortex: opener 'Voice Calling' juxtaposes her voice with distant ritual drums, cyber-animal gurgles and plucked strings; 'A Leaf Laughs' is distorted close-mic'ed fauna crunches set against low-end rumbles; and the lengthy 'Inhabitants of Brain' is a dial-up powered flicker of faint floppy disk buzzes, indecipherable voices and nauseating electronic burbles. The album shifts into a different gear when it hits 'a-h5n1', referencing the flu subtype to help evoke a crushing mood punctuated by ketamized percussion, dissonant string scrapes and retching industrial noise.

It's a record that's honest enough to capture the ugliness and cavernous depth of the mind; all its beauty is inevitably snatched away to be buried by guttural screams or digitally rehashed machine belches. Any rhythm - which emerges frequently and pointedly - is disrupted by Isdn cable interference or ghostly muttering. At its best, the record tips fully into cyberpunk dystopia, coming across like a ghastly simulacrum of recent Porter Ricks transmissions and Slikback on the submerged 'Maggots' and pneumatic 'Plague'. The latter is a particular highlight, electro-plating acoustic drums and forming them into stuttering error-pools of post-Schematic grit and grind.

It's a harrowing journey, tipped to William Gibson fans or anyone who scoures the lower levels of Discogs for rare Japanese improv.

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Toshiya Tsunoda

Landscape And Voice

LP | 2022 | AU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Black Truffle is pleased to present Landscape and Voice, a radical new work (and rare vinyl release) from major Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda. Undoubtedly one of the most influential artists working with location recordings since the 1990s, Tsunoda’s work possesses a rigorously searching quality that sets him apart from his contemporaries. Tsunoda is known to many listeners for the subtle atmospheric poetry of his early Extract from Field Recording Archive series, which focussed on vibrations recorded in various indoor and outdoor environments in his native Miura Peninsula, often inside pipes, bottles and other vessels. In more recent years, his work has explored the implications of his claim that field recording should be seen as ‘depiction’ rather than ‘documentation’. He has explored disorienting editing and processing in his works with Taku Unami, and, perhaps most radically, represented Maguchi Bay as a kind of kinetic sculpture for shaking speakers by removing all but the inaudible low frequencies from a field recording (Low Frequency Observed at Maguchi Bay).

One of the recurrent concerns of Tsunoda’s recent work, as he explains in the crystalline liner notes accompanying this release, is ‘exploring how I can establish a subjective relationship with an environment, rather than seeing it merely as an object to be recorded’. This has taken various forms, from documenting simultaneously an outdoor environment and the blood flowing through the listener/recorder’s body (captured with a stethoscope) on The Temple Recordings, to representing his own experience of the landscape as made up of ‘grains of space and time’ by inserting looped fragments into field recordings in Grains of Spring.

On Landscape and Voice, this meeting between subject and object becomes an almost mystical union between the natural and the human. As with all of Tsunoda’s work, a relatively simple concept leads to compelling, thought-provoking results. Landscape and Voice combines vowel sounds spoken by six voices with short, looped fragments of field recordings, their noise character suggesting consonants: voice and landscape thus join together in something like words. The record consists of three pieces, each using a different, richly evocative field recording, which periodically freezes, catching on a looped fragment to which is synchronised an abruptly looped spoken vowel sound. The lengths between these interruptions vary, as do the tempi of the loops. The interruption of these lushly immersive recordings of the world – bristling with bird song, rushing water, distant traffic, and clinking metal – only serves to intensify them, as if the depicted environment itself had been returned to the listener each time it abruptly reappears. At the same time, the constant interruption creates an uncannily frozen effect, as if the recorded environment were an object rather than a stretch of recorded time. When combined with the bare human presence of the vowel sounds, the result is both austere and magical. Pressed on 45rpm for maximum fidelity, in a gorgeous sleeve designed by Lasse Marhaug with liner notes from the composer, Landscape and Voice is a radical proposition from one of the deepest thinkers in contemporary sound.

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Toshiya Tsunoda

Landscape And Voice

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Biophon)

Release: 2022 / AU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Still sealed with hype sticker. Tear in shrink wrap. tiny wear.

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Toshihiko Mori

Jinen