DISCREPANT
Based in London, Discrepant was founded in 2011. They have produced a number of fine vinyl releases for all sorts of experimental music, including vinyl releases by Kink Gong, Charbel Haber, People Like Us, Bosaina, German Army, Ergo Phizmiz aka DW Robertson, Mutamassik, Meridian Brothers (plus sideprojects Romperayo and El Chupame) and many more.
"Continuing his fruitful relationship with Discrepant after the third volume of his ongoing Organic Music Tape Series on Sucata Tapes, Tiago Sousa returns with two longform pieces for organ with 'A Thousand Strings'. A self-explanatory title in itself, 'A Thousand ...
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CREP108 | DISCREPANT
"More than two years after the release of 'Impressões de Outra Ilha', Discrepant's head honcho returns home under his birth name with the appropriately titled 'Exotic Immensity'. Conjured from the seeds of an exhibition of dioramas at Le Bon Accueil in Rennes, this ...
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CREP100 | DISCREPANT
"Initially a combination of two of Lebanon's most active and longest standing groups, JKAVO was founded when Scrambled Eggs (punk-rock band founded in 1998) & "A" Trio (free improv trio founded in 2002) joined forces and mixed styles to record "Beach Party at Mirna ...
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CREP22 | DISCREPANT
"Part of a (very) loose but somewhat like minded kaleidoscope where one can trace something like a Portuguese hauntology, centred around labels like Russian Library or Prisma Sonora Records, Alexandre Centeio joins Discrepant with the surefire release of 'Panorama'. A ...
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CREP99 | DISCREPANT
"Always timely reissue of Muqata'a's first self-released EP from 2017. After years of fertile digital existence on his own Bandcamp, 'La Lisana Lah' now gets a much deserved tactile version through Souk, the Discrepant sublabel responsible for the already classic ...
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SOUK12 | DISCREPANT
"Lisbon based keyboardist, Joao 'Shela' Pereira, a frequent collaborator with many local bands (Paus, Rinding Panico, 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 ...
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CREP101 | DISCREPANT
"More than a decade after the release of 'Land Lines', the mythical Humboldt County, California based duo of Brian Pyle and Merrick McKinlay reappears seemingly out of nowhere with 'Atheistsaregods'. With past releases on such cult-like labels as Root Strata, Weird ...
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CREP94 | DISCREPANT
"Call Back Carousel is an audio time-travelogue, a slideshow of the mind's eye - projecting Kodachrome memories directly into the listener's mind by means of sound alone. It is a way of travelling without ever having to leave the home. A vicarious vacation for the ...
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CREP102 | DISCREPANT
"Eight years almost to the day after releasing his unique re-interpretation album of his field recordings made in the late 90's in Tanzania, Kink Gong is back with another volume of bushmen madness." (label info)
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CREP98 | DISCREPANT
"Sophomore album from Tenerife based trio, LAGOSS (Gonçalo F. Cardoso, Mladen Kurajica and Daniel García). Moving away from their megamix vignette based first volume, the trio now experiments with a more song based approach whilst still keeping their trademark jam ...
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CREP97 | DISCREPANT
"Lebanese musician and composer Marc Codsi has released numerous albums with various projects such as Scrambled Eggs, Lumi, Zalfa and many others whilst maintaining a very active career as a solo artist and film composer. 'Songs from the Aftermath' is his 5th album and ...
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CREP96 | DISCREPANT
"Based on a number of field recordings taken during a life-changing trip to Morocco that felt like a fever dream, 'Dans La Gorge D'un Monstre' reenacts that hazy and hallucinatory mindframe through five tracks where no vivid recollection persists, tainted by the ...
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CREP95 | DISCREPANT
"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 ...
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CREP90 | DISCREPANT
"Somewhere in the middle of the first track, "Torres e Baldios", there's a sudden change of pace with percussion rhythms interfering with the trance-like sound of the first six minutes. It sounds like steps, people running away on a corridor bashing their feet. It ...
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CREP87 | DISCREPANT
"Discrepant presents Istanbul based audio/visual artist Koray Kantarcioglu's follow-up to his debut album Loopworks (CREP59, 2018). Whilst the first volume used 60's and 70's Turkish records as it source material, Loopworks 2 expands the sampling pool to local records ...
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CREP91 | DISCREPANT
"Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice by dj sniff is a project that takes inspiration from historical narratives and personal memories constructed around The Jewel Voice Broadcast (Gyokuon Hoso) that took place on August 15 of 1945. Contrary to common belief, Emperor ...
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CREP88 | DISCREPANT
"A globetrotter in the most pure and respectful sense, away from the trappings of neo-colonialist ventures and predatory tourism, Discrepant head honcho Goncalo F. Cardoso returns to his Island impression series to offers us another glimpse of his deep, abstract ...
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CREP79 | DISCREPANT
"Contemporary and historical Porest recordings channelled from behind the somnambulistic event horizon. The now sound... The bleak oblique. The minimal and the maximal. Filmic chamber drones, meditative radio massage and forged spiritual violence bury pop ephemera into ...
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CREP81 | DISCREPANT
"Continuing our ambitious People Like Us vinyl reissue program with Welcome Aboard - a strangely relevant 10-year-old album (originally released in May 2011) when People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett became stranded in the US after the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano ...
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CREP84 | DISCREPANT
''Zomia is an idea, a concept that, not so long ago, there were two very distinct worlds in southeast Asia, the valley VS highland/hinterland, the civilisation VS the primitive, paddy rice VS slash and burn agriculture, Buddhism VS Animism, fixed territory VS ...
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CREP85 | DISCREPANT
"Introducing a new project by Discrepant label boss Gonccalo F. Cardoso (Gonzo, Visions Congo, Papillon) and Tenerife electronic stalwarts Tupperwear (Mladen Kurajica and Dani Tupper). Diving deep into various phantom island mythologies (the elusive St. Brendan's island ...
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CREP78 | DISCREPANT
"Spencer Clark is back with a futuristic eco-friendly record. It's life on earth as you never heard it. The story goes like this: Spencer wanted to do a soundtrack for the yet to be made Avatar 2. And if you know Spencer's work, you'll know that he engaged on this ...
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CREP75 | DISCREPANT
"Multidisciplinary Portuguese artists Calhau! return in 2020 with a new album and their first release on Discrepant. It's quite possible you've never heard about them. They're not that famous in Portugal or anywhere. Calhau! is formed by couple Alves von Calhau and ...
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CREP73 | DISCREPANT
"Over the last decade multi instrumentalist Tomas Tello has been developing his own personal music style based around an exploration of the guitar and his intense personal investigation of traditional Peruvian music - in particular Andean culture which he grew up with. ...
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