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10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Hybrid Minds)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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An impediment to achieving a place in the post-punk pantheon — Daszu was based in Milwaukee, not in the UK. Except for cassette distributions in Helsinki and Dublin, and a few scattered performances, they lived, practiced and performed near home. In 1979, Mark Rudolph (now an interactive 3D artist, musician, software developer, mathematician and the director of i3Dmedia LLC) talked in his kitchen to David Wolf about an idea he had for a new music: how music could be 'popular' without rock guitars and a big wall sound such as large amps and organs. "I said we could do a minimal three-piece music based on new melodic lines and poetry and synthesis. I thought that we could remake reality. It was possibly ambitious, but I didn't think so. We decided to do it." They did it. Not with a big polyphonic keyboard, but with a mini-moog sound generator.

The 1/2 Dativa material included on our Lion survey of Daszu's musical innovations was the work of Rudolph and his Australian friend and musician, Greg O'Connor (Boom Crash Opera). Rudolph had been studying mathematics and computer music in Australia, and a mix of Daszu, his computer generated music and O'Connor's great genius with electronic parts is evident in these intense, propulsive recordings made on a pair of DX-7 synthesizers one feverish day in 1983.
• Excavation of astounding underground post-punk recorded from 1979-1983
• Style: minimal, semantic, intense. There is poetic subtlety and musical freshness not confined to one historical period
• 8-page insert booklet contains the Daszu manifesto, poetics for most tracks, a measure of band history, and Part 1 and 2 of Mark Rudolph's poetry from the Daszu era.
• Vinyl edition comes in a heavy-duty tip-on jacket
• First time on vinyl for all tracks
• Contains two additional tracks not on the CD edition

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Hybrid Minds

Reflections

20,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Galaxiid)

Solar X

Outer X Mer

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (System 108)

Biicla

Hyper House

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Exoteric Continent & Cont Ext

Residual EP

7" | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Altre)

13,99 €*

The Light Is Leaving Us All Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Behind this work lays the evolution of our idea of the human, with all that it entails in current times. This is an effort to reflect with compassion and to experience feelings of helplessness through loss. The cognitive volitional duality of being a human in 2016 - Where do we belong?

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Current 93

LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (Cashens Gap)

36,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Movement, Form And Expression

Neues Universum

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Dorit Chrysler

Calder Plays Theremin

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Marlais

Stream Of Forms

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Branes

Iel

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Isabassi

789.0

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Hibylo

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For Future Holographic Suns

Feldermelder

Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Bliss Creek

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Dolomea

A Ghost In My Mind

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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3LP | 2022 | Original (SPV)

Klaus Schulze

Deus Arrakis

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nine Thoughts For One Word

Chat Noir

LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Rare Noise)

30,99 €*

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Oryx)

Les Halles

Invisible Cities

Lightness And Irresponsibility

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The 2014 debut solo collection by French wind-walker Baptiste Martin aka Les Halles remains a masterpiece of soft light and subdued yearning, woven from grainy panpipe samples, tape hiss, and spectral delay. Recorded late at night in a tiny room in Montpellier, Invisible Cities quivers like a candle by the sea, its fragile illumination flickering against an expanse of sky, silence, and sorrow. The pieces feel both ancient and immediate, glimpsing currents behind the veil, at the threshold of presence and absence. The track titles evoke similarly transient states of echo, memory, and negative mirrors. This is music of solitude and devotion, of empty streets and unremembered dreams, fleetingly captured via the eternal alchemy of FX pedals and a 4-track. (Britt Brown)

All tracks recorded by Baptiste Martin, in Montpellier (France), in late 2013. This collection of tracks is named after Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

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Celer

Tape | 2012 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Angel 1

Purple Haze

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Bataille Solaire

Documentaires

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Panabrite

Cortex Meridian

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Celer + Forest Management

Landmarks

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Chihei Hatakeyama

Scene

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Oca

Preset Music

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Poemme

Moments In Golden Light

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Sofie Birch

Island Alchemy

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Loris S. Sarid

Music For Tomato Plants

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2021 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Paperbark

What Was Left Behind

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Soshi Takeda

Same Place, Another Time

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Alex Albrecht

Resolve

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Andy Aquarius

La Force Aquarienne

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Monokle

Ultraflowers

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Constellation Tatsu)

Loris S. Sarid

Music For Tomato Plants

22,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-Field Pop From The CD Age 1989-1996 2024 Repress

V.A.

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Music From Memory)

28,99 €*

Metamorphose Clear Yellow Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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NO OBI VERSION

Music From Memory is excited to announce a special compilation that they’ve been working on for some time now; Mfm053 – VA – Heisei No Oto – Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996). Compiled by long-time friends of the label, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, Heisei No Oto delves into a world of music released almost exclusively on CD and brings together a fascinating selection of discoveries from a little known and overlooked part of Japan’s musical history. The last ten or so years have seen a global wave of interest in Japanese music encompassing ambient, jazz, new wave and pop records from the 1980s, some of which is increasingly considered the most innovative and visionary music of that time. Although some music from this period, in the form of ‘City Pop’ or ‘rare groove’ records, had been coveted by collectors and DJs for a number of years, most Japanese music from the time was little known outside and often even within Japan. Sometime around the mid 2000s, two Osaka record store owners, Eiji Taniguchi of Revelation Time and Norio Sato of Rare Groove, along with a handful of deep Japanese diggers such as Chee Shimizu of Organic Music records in Tokyo, began to explore beyond the typical ‘grooves’ or ‘breaks’. Much like their counterparts in Europe and the US, they began delving into home-grown ambient, jazz, new wave and pop records, discovering visionary music, often driven by synthesizers or drum computers, that broke beyond the typical confines of their genres. Spending tireless hours in local record stores and embarking on digging trips across the country, Eiji Taniguchi and Norio Sato, much like Chee Shimizu, have been at the forefront of unearthing and introducing many of the very Japanese records now loved and sought after around the world. Yet as YouTube algorithms and vinyl reissues would transport such music into the global consciousness and demand and therefore scarcity intensified for such records, so Eiji and Norio have recently begun to turn their attention to CDs. The title of the compilation Heisei No Oto refers to the sound of the Heisei era, which began in 1989 and corresponds to the reign of Emperor Akihito until his abdication in 2019. Marking the culmination of one of the most rapid economic growths in Japanese history, 1989 also coincided with the music industry’s final shift away from vinyl in favour of CDs. And, although compact discs were first introduced seven years earlier it wasn’t until late into the ‘80s that, beyond dance music labels, CDs became the exclusive format for major and independent labels in Japan and throughout the world. This however didn’t signal the end of the innovation in Japan. Many of those same musicians who have become known for their work in the ‘80s would continue to produce outstanding music well into the mid ‘90s, as greater innovation and advances in musical equipment allowed Japanese musicians and producers to refine and explore new sounds. While musicians such as the seminal Haruomi Hosono, whose productions feature on a number of tracks, would continue to push the boundaries of these new technologies, these technological advances also meant less established musicians were able to make use of increasingly affordable but state-of-the-art equipment. Including music by Haruomi Hosono as well as Yasuaki Shimizu, Toshifumi Hinata and Ichiko Hashimoto who have become known and loved around the world in recent years, Hesei No Oto also features Japanese pop star Yosui Inoue, producers Jun Sato and Keisuke Kikuchi in aaddition to less established artists from the contemporary, jazz, new wave, pop and dance music scenes. Bringing together a selection of tracks that seem to define these specific genres and in fact move fluidly between a number of them, the music on the compilation is again underscored by experimentations with synthesizers and drum computers though with something of a gentle Pop sensibility. Reimagined here then under the encompassing term ‘Left-field Pop’, this is an exciting chapter in Japanese musical history that has only just begun to be fully explored.

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JakoJako

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Bigamo Musik)

23,99 €*

The Power Of Sex Silver Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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“Metamorphose“ is one of those albums that can easily quiet a bustling room in an instant, regardless if you’re a connoisseur of this kind of music or not. It’s a compelling and highly absorbing collection of tracks, a surprisingly immersive experience designed for nocturnal listening (and beyond) that is difficult to not lose yourself within. Still the nine tracks on display feel almost like a paradox: they are fundamentally propulsive, yet they seem to decelerate time and space, they generate tension yet offer a weirdly soothing effect, they feel high-brow and imply endless intellectual stimuli yet they are deeply felt and simply want to provide simple truths about ourselves.

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E-Rotic

LP | 2022 | Reissue (Bros Music)

Release: 2022 / Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Audiolust & Higherlove Limited Orange Vinyl Edition

SG Lewis

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (EMI)

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Magic Pony Ride Black Vinyl Edition w/ Seamsplit

µ-Ziq

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Planet Mu)

28,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Nakid)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Damaged Cover!

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Kakuhan

Metal Zone

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2016 | DE | Original (Meander)

Hreno

Everest

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Meander)

Release: 2016 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Vinyl is close to NM.

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Dewalta

Lyra Pi 2024 Repress

13,99 €*

Lovers Lake Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Lyra Pi from DeWalta is a longplayer with 5 synthesizer and score-like modern ambient works that mark the first release of a new series by Meander. The Meander Horizon Pi Series is a departure from the labels well known dancefloor releases. This record is also the second part of the complementary Lyra album-project. The full album contains a double LP (Lyra) on Meander as well as this Lyra Pi LP. The 180 gram vinyl record comes in a special package, containing a handmade see-through screen-printed PVC sleeve, plus an insert card with artwork. Combined with the separately available Lyra double LP customers can create a 3LP box set.

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Lovers Lake

LP | 2022 | US | Reissue (New Retro Wave)

Release: 2022 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The Devil And The River, Volume One

William Fowler Collins

Tape | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Karl)

11,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Fat Possum)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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In his most recent solo release, “The Devil And The River: Volume One”, recorded live in his rural New Mexico studio, William Fowler Collins tremolo brushes his electric guitar using a calligraphy brush, playing a single chord with no overdubs to produce two compelling side-long pieces of music. Ever present are the minimalist widescreen reflections of the high desert environment in which he lives, with the two sides giving the impressions of a sun rising and then a sun setting over the vast and sparsely populated landscape. The music in the two pieces shifts dynamically from gentle and hypnotic to immense and resonant walls of drone, searing and overdriven. At times the music can suggest a collision between Terry Riley’s “Descending Moonshine Dervishes” and the loud, distorted, emotional abstractions of My Bloody Valentine.

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Al Green

Call Me

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Whiskey Light Green Vinyl Edition

Jay-Jay Johanson

LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Space Teddy Collection 2024 Repress

Ebi

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Transmigration)

28,99 €*

7" | 2012 | US | Reissue (Medical)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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No introduction needed here, the collectors version of 2 previously re-issued LPs on Transmigration no available as one double LP. Now complete with Obi strip and insert.
Susumu Yokota's vision of techno - house, lovingly collected in collaboration with Space Teddy and the Yokota family. Presented through linear notes in English and Japanese with archival photos from Uwe Reineke and Mijk Van Dijk. All tracks have been remastered by Steffen Müller.
Very limited quantities!

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Disco Volante

No Motion

10,99 €*

LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Shunsuke Oshio Self-released)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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For the first 7" record released by Medical Records, we are proud to reissue the long lost and out of print 7" by Disco Volante. Disco Volante was essentially Terry Clarke (aka Terry Tanx) formed in London in 1982. Inspired by the early Bond films and their soundtracks (Disco Volante was a yacht in Thunderball), Tanx played live in a number or small clubs between 1982-1986. Using a small number of Roland instruments (TB 303, TR 606, MC-202, and SH-09), Disco Volante self released a cassette entitled "Traction in Rehash" now which is sadly lost. In 1984, the 7" single "No Motion" with the same title as A side and "Click" and "Punishment Tank (Live)" as the B side on Catalyst Box Records. Terry recollects that the recording only took 2 days, and the engineer had no experience with this style of music. The end result has a very DIY aesthetic despite the use of a professional studio. Unfortunately, the single was not commercially popular and received no publicity due to music press strike at the time. The single began to gain cult underground popularity in the 90s and 00s with the resurgence of new wave which resulted in a spike in prices for the long lost single. The track "No Motion" is a very catchy layered synthpop hit that is quite unique yet capturing the essence of the early 80s new wave sound very nicely. "Click" on the b-side is a march-like track with propulsive synthetic bass textures and monotonous analog drum beats. The final track "Punishment Tank Live!" is a track recorded live at the Red Box, London with a punk feel with intense delayed vocals, guitar and overlayed synth hooks. Beyond out of print and sure to appeal to lovers of the DIY coldwave and synth 7" revival and resurrection. Presented on high-quality thick transparent green 7" vinyl in a limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies.

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Shunsuke Oshio

Karmic Dream Sequences

17,99 €*

LP | 2020 | DE | Original (Shunsuke Oshio Self-released)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A dreamy sequence, the beauty of the void, attempts to melt and form itself while seeking internal and external karma.
Perspective from the tremendously minutest moment to the most hugest puls.
The illusion of listening to the whispering of a tiny fetus in the mother’s womb.
Auditory hallucinations as if hearing the roar of magma wriggling at the depths of the earth.
All musical components here are the sounds of electric guitar,bass,synthesizers,human/animal voices, bells, and rhythm machines, which would be lost from their original substance and context,while they try to be re-harmonized and redefined in an amorphic way.
Like an ancient memory that disappeared suddenly after waking up from his longtime sleep.
Like some sutra paragraphs, you draw to get your stolen sleep time back.
These might be very similar to the fragments of your reminiscences, which degraded after excessive tracing and editing.
But it`s all a dream.

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Shunsuke Oshio

Waterfall

17,99 €*

Nevermen & Boards Of Canada

Release: 2020 / DE – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Waterfall is self released solo debut album of Shunsuke Oshio with 12inch analog record and digital format.

Album is composed by electronic and acoustic instruments that imitates the physical and metaphysical images of a waterfall.

Shunsuke Oshio is musician ,based on Düsseldorf Germany.

musical instruments used in this album are:
fender electric guitar,yamaha acoustic guitar,many guitar`s effects pedals,boss looper,akai sampler,acoustic kalimba,rhikiram sitar,tanbura app,moog synthesizer,moog multi pedal(mp-201) and analog rhythm machine.

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Mr. Mistake

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Lex)

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (30th Century)

Karen O & Danger Mouse

Lux Prima

34,99 €*

LP | 2016 | UK | Reissue (Finders Keepers)

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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First re-press since the initial 2019 release of critically acclaimed album featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs' lead vocalist Karen O, and Danger Mouse, one of the most influential artist/producers of the 21st Century.

Debuting in March 2019, Lux Prima was hailed by Pitchfork as a “dreamy and poignant collaboration.” It featured the single “Woman,” which was accompanied by a memorable Spike Jonze-directed live performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The single was also nominated for the Best Rock Performance Grammy.

The new package includes the original artwork plus a 16 page booklet highlighting their interactive exhibition “An Encounter with Lux Prima”, held at Los Angeles’ Marciano Arts Foundation featuring a 360 degree soundscape of the album mixed at famed Skywalker Ranch.

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Suzanne Ciani

Buchhla Concerts 1975

24,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Editions Mego)

Release: 2016 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Finders Keepers invite you to witness these incredible earl Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking. This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance. In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith. These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then. The importance of these genuinely lost pieces of electronic musics puzzle almost eclipses the glaring detail of Suzanne’s gender as a distinct minority in an almost exclusively male dominated, faceless, coldly scientific landscape. Those familiar with Suzanne’s work, a vast vault of previously unpublished “nonrecords”, will already know how the creative politics in her art of “being” simultaneously reshaped the worlds of synth design, advertising and film composition before anyone had even dropped a stylus in her groove. Needless to say this record, finally commanding the archival format of choice, courtesy of the Ciani and Finders Keepers longstanding unison, was not the last “first” with which this hugely important composer would gift society, and the future of a wide range of exciting evolving creative disciplines. You have found a holy grail of electronic music and a female musical pioneer who was too proactive to take the trophies. With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues to take a torch through the vaults of this lesser-celebrated music legacy shining a beam on these “non-records” that evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again. You, are invited!

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KMRU

Peel

Tape | 2021 | US | Reissue (100% Silk)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Kmru is the moniker of Joseph Kamaru, a sound artist, and producer based in Nairobi. One of the leading exponents of the burgeoning experimental music scene in Nairobi and beyond he was listed by Resident Advisor as one of ’15 East African Artists You Need To Hear’ in 2018 and is a regular performer at the fabled Nyegenyege Festival having also presented live performances at CTM festival and Gamma Festival. Peel is Kmru’s first release for Editions Mego.

Exquisite mix of field recordings and electronics unravelling at a repetitive and leisurely pace to expose a rich tapestry of sound that has been revered for it’s ability to cross bordear with the sheer undertow of emotional content. The subtle calming atmosphere within Peel belies the compositional prowess as layers of delicate sounds wrap around each other creating a hybrid new form ambient musics both captivating through it’s textural depth and kaleidoscopic patterns. The track titles lend themselves to the themes and mood set within: Why are you here, Well, Solace, Klang, Insubstantial and the title track. This is a deep heartfelt journey with a new strong voice being expressed through the means of organically presented electronic ambient sounds, one which reveals further layers on repeat listens.

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Shoshi Takeda

Floating Mountains

11,99 €*

Sensitive G Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tokyo visionist Soshi Takeda’s second album took shape across eight months of the winter and spring, inspired by an iconic mid-80’s photography book of Chinese landscapes. Scenes of lantern-lit fishing boats on misty mountain lakes seeded a mood of hidden paradise, ancient waterways snaking secret paths into the past.

Recorded at his home studio using exclusively hardware synths and samplers from the 1990’s, the six songs of Floating Mountains (plus digital-only bonus cut, “Deep Breath,” from the recent 2nd Life Silk compilation) evoke shrouded cinematic vistas of liquid skies and shining lakes, like some Li River twist on Balearic half-light house. Shades of cosmic drift and crystalline electronica ebb and flow within the nocturnal pulse, pagodas and pearls reflecting the waning moon: “I hope you can feel the cool and exotic atmosphere.”

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Eyedress

2LP | 2018 | UK | Reissue (Lex)

27,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Situations - Have In Mind

Cetu Javu

12" | 2020 | Reissue (Blanco Y Negro)

24,99 €*

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Nightmare Logic Purple & Red Splatter Vinyl Edition

Power Trip

LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Southern Lord)

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Kranky)

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The second crushing, soul mangling, neck bustin' album from Texas hardcore thrashers: Power Trip. Quite possibly the best thrash album you will have heard in the last decade. IMMENSE, MAMMOTH, MASSIVE. Recorded by Arthur Rizik (Inquisition) , mastered by Joel Grind (Poison Idea, Toxic Holocaust) and features cover art by Paolo Girard. POWER TRIP is a real band like no other. Their raw energy, musical proficiency, perfect song structure, rich tones, fierce riffs, persecution, and collective attitude have seeded them as one of the most prolific underground staples in the US metal, punk, and hardcore scenes. POWER TRIP has relentlessly toured the world for years with the likes of Anthrax, Lamb Of God, Cro-Mags, Negative Approach, Turnstile, Backtrack, Eyehategod, Bane, Off!, and more, and has performed with countless others, in addition to pummeling audiences at major festivals all over the US, Europe, and beyond. The band will be touring endlessly in support of this new album!

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Belong

Common Era

27,99 €*

Modular Guitar Fields I-Vi Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Itʼs been five years since the last Belong long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return. Common Era shows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the Colorless Record EP from 2008 which contained covers of four should-have-been classics from the original psychedelic era. The new material has such common pop elements as “songs”, vocals and drum machines, but the results could hardly be called conventional and are like little else happening on the current “scene”. The songs themselves are akin to radio transmissions received from another time and place, just as likely to be the future as the past, or even from a contemporary alternate universe. They are both passionate and dispassionate, grey yet technicolor, ghostly and palpable, distant yet immediate, grainy and focused. Upon listening these conceptual contradictions are dismissed with ease, as the recordings reveal that they fit all of these descriptors simultaneously, an extraordinary balancing act.

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Zimoun

LP | 2023 | US | Original (12k)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CD | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Kompakt)

GAS

Der Lange Marsch

15,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Kompakt)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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At the latest with the release of the albums "Zauberberg" and "Königsforst", in the mid-1990s, one associates GAS, Wolfgang Voigt's very own artistic cross-linking of the spirit of Romanticism and the forest as an artistic fantasy projection surface, with intoxicatingly blurred boundaries of post-ambient infatuation and the impenetrable thicket of abstract atonality. The distant, iconic straight bass drum marching through highly condensed, abstract sounds taken from classical music by the sampler or modulated accordingly, and the enraptured gaze through pop art glasses into the hypnotic thicket of an imaginary forest, manifested over the years this unique connection of audio and visual, which to understand fully, then as now, would be neither possible nor desirable.

Quite the opposite. The album GAS - DER LANGE MARSCH once again invites us to follow the deep sounding bass drum, to give in to its irresistible pull into a psychedelic world of 1000 promises. In the process, the journey leads us past stations of memories sounding from afar, from "Zauberberg" to "Königsforst" and "Pop", from "Oktember" to "Narkopop" and "Rausch", back and forth, now and forever.

Way. Destination. Loop. Forest loop.

No beginning. No end.

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GAS

Der Lange Marsch

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Dallas)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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300,000 V.K.

Der Sturm

29,99 €*

LP | 2019 | UK | Reissue (Kit)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Finally, the 300.000 V.K. project's album, DER Sturm, has seen the light of day. The material for it was initially compiled around 2010, but the recordings were lost and then sporadically leaked out in various forms over the next ten years, until two years ago when a full album was assembled from the fragments. The release was then further delayed by the Covid epidemic and, additionally, for a further year by vinyl pressing delays. The album is now here at last, more or less in its original form, also with the design, conceived over a decade ago.

DER Sturm is a metaphysical album of techno-electronic provenance, with themes that draw on planetary, atmospheric, cosmic, interstellar communication and the journey of radio waves, yet it also features tracks such as Grozny and Exodus, which directly touch on more Earthly themes (war and refugees).

300,000 V.K. or Dreihunderttausend verschiedene Krawalle (Three Hundred Thousand Various Uproars) is a project originally established in 1982 as a more experimental offshoot of the Laibach Kunst music section, defined in Laibach's founding manifesto (10 Items of the Covenant) as a 'retrospective futuristic negative utopia'. The original members and founders of the project were Dejan Knez and Tomaž Hostnik. Later this Laibach 'sub-group' was joined by Iztok Turk and Peter Mlakar, and the first album - 'Peter Paracelsus' - was only released on Nika + Ropot Records in 1994.

In terms of authorship, DER Sturm is a solo project, formally signed by Baron Reichenbach, A. D. Knez and Elk Eber. It is one and the same person, but mentally split and multiplied. Dejan Knez, who is also a co-founder of Laibach, experienced a lightning strike in 1987 and with it a kind of cosmic enlightenment, which unfortunately also resulted in a deepening bipolar disorder, which led to personality stratification and occasional episodes of manic depression. His cooperation with the parent group Laibach therefore became rather disturbed and limited after 1987, and since 2006 it was almost completely interrupted, however he remained a respected member of the group on the symbolic level. In the meantime, he devoted himself more to work on the 300,000 V.K. missiles.

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Romeo Poirier

Plage Arrière

22,99 €*

LP | 2016 | US | Reissue (Stones Throw)

Release: 2019 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A much needed repress of French ambient composer and lifeguard Roméo Poirier's cult debut record, Plage Arrière. Released with updated artwork, by London imprint Kit Records.
Plage Arrière is a deep sea meditation on a constellation of Greek beaches across three islands. Trumpets, echo-clicks and Harold Budd-esque shimmer piano whirl together on these sand-caked missives, tumbled and re-engineered by their surroundings like seaglass. Poirier evokes the sub-aqeaous ambitions of Jürgen Müller, or Jan Jelinek inspecting a coral reef.
Limited to 300 copies.

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The Mild High Club

Skiptracing

Stefano Pilia / Alessandra Novaga / Adrien Utley

Release: 2016 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Mild High Club founder Alexander Brettin grew up playing flute in the school band and majoring in jazz studies in Chicago. In 2012, a visit to Los Angeles allowed him to connect with the Stones Throw crew. Within a year, after passing the early demos of what would become Timeline onto Peanut Butter Wolf, Brettin made the move out west.

“The difference between Timeline and Skiptracing is detail,” Brettin said. “I was stubborn with the process for Timeline, it took almost three years to let go of it.” On Timeline, Brettin resorted to vague lyrics so as to highlight the music itself. But for Skiptracing there’s both a heightened thematic aspect as well as more complex musical arrangements encasing it. In Brettin’s estimation, the album’s story arc is that of a “private investigator attempting to trace the steps of the sound and the spirit of American music.”

And in investigating the spirit of American music, Mild High Club re-imagine AM radio hits as blasting in from a parallel universe, the sound of early 70s LA in a smog of sativa. If Todd Rundgren was the primary touchstone for Timeline, Brettin and band now look to the wry, trenchant wit of Steely Dan, gazing deep into the dark underbelly of sun-bright L.A. and coming away with catchy songs underpinned by slippery jazz phrasings.

Dig deeper into the lyrics and imagery and that detective story slowly emerges. But it’s no simple whodunit? Instead, think The Long Goodbye, The Late Show, Chinatown, Night Moves or any early 70s inversion of the detective noir genre, where the gumshoe protagonist ultimately winds up investigating himself, navel-gazing so as to solve the ultimate mystery. Skiptracing is Philip Marlowe driving around LA listening to Caetano Veloso or that deleted scene in John Cassavetes’s The Killing of a Chinese Bookie where Cosmo Vitelli reads Cosmic Trigger.

In crafting Skiptracing, Mild High Club have made an album that strikes a balance between the known and unknown aspects of art and creation. While Brettin sought to have complete control over the creation of the previous album, in opening up and allowing these creative variables in, he learned a valuable lesson that lies at the heart of Skiptracing itself: “When you wish upon the unknown, you might be surprised by the rewards.”

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Spiralis Aurea Trio

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Maple Death)

TV Songs Hand-painted Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Everything about Stefano Pilia’s spiritual journey always seemed to point directly towards ‘Spiralis Aurea’, his astounding 2022 release for Die Schachtel, a deeply resonating piece of art that intertwines traces of sacred geometry, collective experience and elusive connections between nature and human kind. ‘Spiralis Aurea Trio’ adds an extra layer, an opera of sheer beauty and execution, will, force and composure. The original cycle of compositions live and breath, adapted and transformed, taking their initial meaning and depth to new heights, while maintaining the concepts of ‘divine geometry’ and their sacred mystique intact, displaying a deep resonance with works by La Monte Young, Arvo Pärt, Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Terry Riley.

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Shela

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Discrepant)

22,79 €* 23,99 € -5%

Tomasz Guiddo / Nirosta Steel

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited to 50 copies. Each cover has a unique handpainting.

Lisbon based keyboardist, João ‘Shela’ Pereira, a frequent collaborator with many local bands (Paus, Rinding Pânico, LAmA, Linda Martini and others) presents a new strangely haunting album, TV songs.

A scrapbook of recordings from the heart... Piano TV is a compendium of spontaneous notes of ideas on the piano, to the rhythm of a television set in the background... these are scraps of expression in a form of dirty bucolic sketches aspiring to a hypothetical larger, washed, pristine composition... they live best as an hypothesis, an aspiration, in infinity...

Because life is dirty, imperfect and real, it is this reality that allows us to taste the sublime, and the sublime can be found in these WhatsApp recordings.

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Go Back Kalabreseshahrokh Dini Remix

12" | 2019 | Original (Compost Disco)

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Dusk To Dawn (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) White Vinyl Edition w/ Cornerbump

Emancipator

3LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Loci)

Sarah Kivi & Non-Orchestra

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Damaged Cover.

Deluxe Anniversary Edition of the 2013 Emancipator album 'Dusk to Dawn'. Features 4 previously unreleased songs from the album sessions. 3LP vinyl edition also includes remixes of 'Dusk to Dawn' tracks.

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Booty Call Blues / Leikkokukka

7" | 2013 | EU | Original (Roihis Musica)

11,99 €*

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2014 | WW | Reissue (Trad Vibe)

Imhotep

Kheper Wax

Hairy Situations (With Slightly Damaged Cover)

Release: 2014 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Kheper Wax is the second solo album of Imhotep, artist known for have being the sound architecht of IAM, a very popular hip hop group from Marseille (South of France) in the 90’s and the early 00’s.

The 100% instrumental album is a blend of Dub and Trip-Hop, infused with oriental music samples.

It was self-released by the artist in 2013 and since, the album price has increased a lot on Internet.

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F.B. Illwig

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Moonwalk X)

16,19 €* 17,99 € -10%

100% Electronica Magenta Clear Splattered Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A few copies arrived with a damaged Cover. We're therefore selling it on a reduced price.

„One day I was on a visit sitting in his kitchen and when we decided to change to the sofa in the music room, his girlfriend proposed to listen to these old recordings, as maybe I would be weird enough to like them. „Recorded in my homestudio, low budget style with a cheap microphone, a sampler, drum machines, vinyl and a few borrowed synths. … A commitment to the funk, a raw analogue sound and also a dedication to black music and its architects.“ the artist comments on it. I immediately dug the rather short demos a lot. As I had to swallow the information that there never were real plans to release them, I later decided on the bus home, I just had to puke out a „label“. Soon I asked him to extend some of the songs and let me do some mixing and here is the album.“ Cid Hohner

An entire long-player on hair, representing the complete Illwig catalogue. Beautifully raw electronic funk. Obscure, bouncy and atmospheric. Right. This is F.B.Illwig with the first official release on Moonwalk X Records after a singlesided promo 12“ sporting the extended version of „Why Do My Hair“.

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George Clanton

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (100% Electronica)

30,99 €*

Virtua.Zip Blue Black Splattered Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The record that started it all is back for a 4th pressing! Available for the first time ever on Neon® Green vinyl. Made from the same master as the 2017 2xLP release with 200% Electronica, this version does not contain any of the digital-only Bonus Tracks listed below, and ends with "Kill You In Bed". Limited to 500 copies.

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Esprit

LP | 2021 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Ooh Rap I Ya Yellow Orange And Blue Splattered Edition

George Clanton

LP | 2023 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Enchanted Instrumentals And Whispers Blue Marbled Vinyl Edition

Windows96

LP | 2019 | US | Reissue (100% Electronica)

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One Hundred Mornings Black-In-Clear Deluxe Vinyl Edition

Windows96

LP | 2023 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Glass Prism Mint Marbled Vinyl Edition

Windows 96

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (100% Electronica)

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Patterns EP Dark Green Vinyl 2024 Repress Edition

Colyn

12" | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Afterlife)

14,99 €*

Time's All Gone Cloudy Dark Burgundy Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Colyn develops his unique sound with a second EP for Afterlife. On ‘Patterns’, he weaves the emotive vocals of his brother Maurits Colijn around a downbeat rhythm and dreamy, synth melody. It sets the tone for a euphoric set of creations which draw from diverse influences and a rich sonic palette. The following tracks dial up the intensity, showing the more club-focused edge to Colyn’s talents. They are radiant and uplifting; delicately balanced on the border of styles, it’s a space Colyn can call his own.

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Nick Waterhouse

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Innovative Leisure)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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CBD Reiki Moonbeam Pink & Black Splattered Vinyl Edition

Neggy Gemmy

LP | 2023 | US | Original (100% Electronica)

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The NID Tapes: Music From India 1969-1972

V.A.

2LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (The state51 Conspiracy)

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Kitchen Label)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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The NID Tapes’ presents a collection of early Indian electronic music uncovered at the archives of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Recorded between 1969-1972 the compilation chronicles electronic works from the previously unknown Indian composers Gita Sarabhai, I.S. Mathur, Atul Desai, S.C. Shama and Jinraj Joshipura who worked at the nation’s first electronic music studio founded at the NID during the utopian years following India’s independence - a radical period of visionary experimentation and artistic freethought.

The studio was founded with support from the New York composer David Tudor who personally set up a Moog modular system and tape machine in the autumn of 1969, and The NID Tapes also includes an excerpt from Tudor’s work discovered amongst the collection of tapes. The release developed from a long-term research project by the British artist and electronic musician Paul Purgas who travelled to Ahmedabad over many years to explore the origins of electronic music in India. This resulted in the discovery of the electronic music archive at the NID and its eventual restoration and digitising, which featured in the acclaimed BBC radio documentary Electronic India.

The compilation presents excerpts from the 27 reels of archive tape spanning the three years of the studio's operational history, showcasing work from the pioneering electronic composers which included the musician and poet Atul Desai, NID teachers and technicians I.S. Mathur and S.C. Shama, Gita Sarabhai who had previously studied with John Cage in New York in the 1940's and the young architecture student Jinraj Joshipura who was just 19 years old at the time of first composing with the Moog synthesiser. The audio showcases their various visions for electronic music production, exploring analogue synthesis, tape collages, voice experiments and field recordings revealing a meeting point of Western and Indian avant-garde traditions, and offering a unique insight into South Asia’s post-colonial sonic imaginary. The vinyl and digital is a collaborative release by Strange Attractor Press and The state51 Conspiracy and has been mastered by Hari Shankar Kishore (hvad) with design for the release and a vinyl etching created by Shreya Aurora a recent graduate from the National Institute of Design.

Launching at the same time through Strange Attractor Press will be a book titled ‘Suncontentinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972’. Edited by Paul Purgas this collection of critical essays will reflect on the larger cultural and political dialogues surrounding the studio as well as written contributions by Geeta Dayal, You Nakai, Rahila Haque and Jinraj Joshipura the last surviving composer from the NID.

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Meitei

Kofu

29,69 €* 32,99 € -10%

LP | 2015 | CA | Reissue (Tiger Blood Tapes)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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2024 Repress!

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Pom

Pomu

33,29 €* 36,99 € -10%

Release: 2015 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Goodbye Future Funk White Vinyl Edition

Chanece Delasoul

LP | 2020 | CA | Reissue (Tiger Blood Tapes)

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (0)

Release: 2020 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited edition 12" vinyl LP on white wax in full colour jackets and shrink wrapped.

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12" | 2022 | UK | Reissue (Le Chatroom)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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This board appears to be highly advanced and buggy as ever. The system is realised… a ton of blinking lights and information. The fourth release on 0 produced by c3d-e and hashman.

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Pluralist

Console EP

Release: 2022 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Tower Of Silence 2024 Repress

Roberto Musci

2LP | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Music From Memory)

LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Field)

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Travelling extensively across Asia and Africa from 1974-1985 to study music, Roberto made many field recordings and collected many instruments on his travels which he would then combine with synthesizers and electronics back in Italy. TIP!

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Celer

Perfectly Beneath Us

27,54 €* 28,99 € -5%

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Nakama)

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Field Records takes a look into the vast catalogue of Celer, the prolific ambient project from Tokyo-based artist Will Long. Perfectly Beneath Us was originally released in 2012 as a Cd-r on Still*Sleep, and now it’s being presented as a vinyl release remastered by Stephan Mathieu.

Celer began in California as a collaborative project in 2005 between Long and Danielle Baquet, resulting in reams of self-released work up until Baquet passed away in 2009. Long opted to keep their project going, and Celer has continued to grow as an expansive exploration of purest ambient. Meanwhile Long’s solo work under his own name has been equally accomplished, with scores of releases on DJ Sprinkles’ Comatonse Recordings and respected Norwegian leftfield label Smalltown Supersound.

With such a sizable library of sounds to explore, the reissue of Perfectly Beneath Us serves as an ideal entry point into the Celer catalogue, presenting four pieces of sustained, glacial movement wreaking profound emotional impact from the subtlest methods. Long exercises the utmost patience from the shorter ‘Distressing Sensations’ and ‘Ultra-terrestrial Yearning’ through to the 10-minutes-plus stretches of ‘Slightly Apart, Almost Touching’ and ‘Absolute Receptivity Of All The Senses’.

It’s truly immersive, captivating drone music that rewards the attentive listener as much as it soothes the casual drifter. Originally limited to just 100 copies in 2012, it’s now beautifully framed on a carefully considered reissue which adds to Field’s own repertoire of evocative, subliminal electronics.

About Field Records Field Records has been publishing versatile electronic music from a string of high-principled artists since 2008. Firmly rooted in minimalism and modesty, the label gained a reputation for its versatile and atmospheric output - which includes works from the likes of Artefakt, ENA, Imaginary Softwoods, Monolake and Sugai KEN.

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Filosofer

Landet Er Gitt Oss

18,69 €* 21,99 € -15%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Motvind)

Maja S.K. Ratkje

Vannstand

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Conrad Sound)

Moe / The Observatory

Shadows

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Mad But Soft Green Vinyl Edition

Mecha Maiko

LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (Newretrowave)

28,04 €* 32,99 € -15%