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Australian experimental label, founded in the early 2000s by Lawrence English. The huge catalogue includes releases by Chris Abrahams, David Toop, Norman Westberg, Chihei Hatakeyama, Janek Schaefer, John Chantler, David Shea, Ross Manning, Tim Hecker any many others.

 

PANGHALINA - LAVA (CD)

"Remember hearing music while dreaming, fully confident that you'll be able to reconstruct it once awake? Music that, as it turns out, you were the sole witness. In retrospect, why ruin the experience by something so vulgar as hearing it a second time, much less having ...
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RM4229 | ROOM40

"Anyone who knows me, knows my obsession with the 1981 film Thief. The opening scenes show a cold, methodical, neon lit diamond heist soundtracked by Tangerine Dream. Contrasted with, the thief sharing a danish with a stranger fishing on an endless ocean at dawn. The ...
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RM4227 | ROOM40

"The process of making music together in Hand to Earth is unlike any other we have experienced. It is not free improvisation but it is not composed either. It is somewhere in between, and it feels like 'weaving.' Through Hand to Earth, we weave the threads of our ...
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RM4231 | ROOM40

Electronics - Eugene Carchesio, Drums + processing - Adam Betts "Occasionally ideas present themselves in ways that no one can expect. This recording from Australia's Eugene Carchesio and the UK's Adam Betts is one such unexpected presentation." (Lawrence English)
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RM4217 | ROOM40

"Beatriz Ferreyra is one of only a handful of female concrète composers who were active across the second half of the 20th century through to today. Her work, which is still very much an active investigation, is simultaneously complex and elegantly simple. Often ...
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RM4210 | ROOM40

ARAKI, YUKO - IV (CD)

"This might sound a little antithetical, but I am interested in making noise music that is free from unnecessary noise. I do realise how this sounds, but it is absolutely at the core of my new recording. I want to create maximum impact and dynamics in the music through ...
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RM4221 | ROOM40

"This recording celebrates many things, amongst them Lockwood's willingness to allow single sounds to resonate, fully. Across each of the twenty three vignettes captured here, Annea Lockwood invites us to lean into the material nature of sound with her. Glass World ...
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RM4204 | ROOM40

"This edition is the product of spontaneous burst of exchanges, buffered by periods of tempered silence. A patient work, charged with unexpected dynamics." (label info) David Toop - Voice, digital electronics, Spanish, electric and lapsteel guitars, bowing, whistling, ...
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RM4205 | ROOM40

"Lionel Palun and I met in 2003 in a context of social struggle. Aware of an inevitable downfall, we decided to discuss our respective practices. Sound for me and image for him. Then there were the basic questions: "What does it do if you connect a video output to a ...
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RM4184 | ROOM40

"Recorded in the later half of 2003, this composition that falls just shy of 20 minutes is composed largely of field recordings, the only processing being via eq and pitch shifting. The work is an abstracted impressionist sound portrait, sketching out the isolated ...
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EDRM403 | ROOM40

SEO, HYUNHYE - EEL (CD)

Produced by Lawrence English and Hyunhye Seo, 2022/3.
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RM4212 | ROOM40

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RM4211 | ROOM40

"The Voice of Theseus is my attempt to explore the obstacles I face in processing external sensory information. If I have trouble perceiving reds and greens, if I have trouble hearing certain frequencies, if I don't interpret written language in a standard way, how ...
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RM4192 | ROOM40

Recorded on Location at Fagradalsfjall, Reykjanes Peninsula Iceland by Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost "These volcanic ruptures, such as those captured on Vakning by Francesco Fabris and Ben Frost, speak to the very living geology of Earth. These recordings, captured at ...
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RM4175 | ROOM40

""Neural" places sound surfaces as its central focus and is inspired by the idea that neural networks develop a memory when they repeatedly send information. The ensemble focuses on vibrations and rhythmic variations of the overtones, which are caused by dynamics and ...
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RM4191 | ROOM40

"Empty, Expanding, Collapsing was recorded in the months after the release of 2021's No Lasting Form. Whilst No Lasting Form documented a return to the creative process after a long period away, Empty, Expanding, Collapsing comes from a more confident and assured place. ...
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RM4197 | ROOM40

"Coming from a background as a performer and clarinet player, the opportunity to record my own music opened up a whole new context to think about music. Sounds are freed from being confined to one place, one time, or even one perspective. I wanted the recording to have ...
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RM4194 | ROOM40

Peter Knight - trumpet, voice, synthesisers, laptop electronics, Revox B77 reel-to-reel, Fia Fiell - synthesiser (Eunoia), Jacques Emery - bass (The Softened Shore), Katherine Philp - cello (The Softened Shore), Rachael Kim - violin (The Softened Shore), Tamara Saulwick ...
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RM4153 | ROOM40

"This recording documents Manuel Mota's and my first public performance as a duo. We had played together previously for a recording session-a relaxed afternoon at Lisbon's ZDB, where I recall zoning out, guitar in my hands, watching the endless throng of people ...
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EDRM431 | ROOM40

"In the summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to visit Antarctica through an invitation extended by the Argentine Antarctic Division. It was nothing short of life-altering, as I am sure anyone would suspect. Upon departing from Buenos Aires for the iced continent the ...
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RM4190 | ROOM40

"'Oionos' was created for the exhibition The Grand Promenade, in Athens, Greece. The exhibition took place in various archaeological and historical sites in central Athens, creating a situation for contemporary site specific works to be in dialogue with their historical ...
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RM4174 | ROOM40

Vladislav Delay - electronics, Eivind Aarset - guitar "Finland's Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay has been responsible for some of the most radically positioned rhythmic electronic music of the past few decades. His willingness to abandon measured and progression senses ...
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RM4161 | ROOM40

"Every blissful moment of the divine process of music-making, that goes back to a sacred process of a child at play - a burning response to the intensity of the neigh to invisible blueness of half-formed ice. The span of time for this music reminds me of my Dad's ...
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RM4168 | ROOM40

releases August 5, 2022 please pre-order "Deafened by the Noise of Time is a speculative take on how sound might decay and disappear; a reflection on the unavoidable entropy and dislocation of all things over time through 4 compositions, one with video. The titled is ...
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RM4149 | ROOM40