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.
"It's the second time in less than two years that we release music from London based Greek musician Tasos Stamou. The wordplay of "Musique Con Crete" (2018) was a backdoor to an adventurous and 'concrete' experience with sound. "D-A-D" follows up on that. Recorded ...
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"Comic book artist, graphic designer and free jazz improviser are only some of the many talents from Beirut born Mazen Kerbaj. After appearing as part of various ensembles on the label, Ariha Brass Quartet and Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, Kerbaj finally lands ...
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"Comic book artist, graphic designer and free jazz improviser are only some of the many talents from Beirut born Mazen Kerbaj. After appearing as part of various ensembles on the label, Ariha Brass Quartet and Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, Kerbaj finally lands ...
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"Ross Alexander first came to our attention with Memorias Vol.1 - Bugandan Sacred Places, released back in 2017 on Sucata Tapes, it featured a mind altering mix of recorded sounds from a series of visited sites considered sacred within the Bugandan kingdom and session ...
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seam split on bottom of cover "Sometimes you know it's coming, sometimes it's unexpected, but the time to hang your boots will always come. It's better when you have total control, even better if you end up on a high (or on a low). After seven years of sonic ...
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"Kasenian reak is a genre of performative art from the Priangan area of west Java, organized during hajatans (life-cycle celebrations) and nowadays primarily held during weddings and circumcisions. The style, known as a seni lungsuran, is part of the greater family of ...
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listen on bandcamp***""La Danza del Agua" (The Dance of Water) is an eclectic musical journey through Latin American experimentalism - a sort of unofficial companion to the Anthologies of Atypical Portuguese Music volumes but focussing on South American music themes ...
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"French sound artist Felix Blume keeps pushing the boundaries of field recordings for our enjoyment. "Fog Horns" captures the sounds of boat horns in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, the port city that serves some of the most important ferry routes in Greece nowadays. Yes, boat ...
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"New psych jazz doom freak out by tight portuguese trio. A fluent and rich dialogue between outer-world sounds mixed with a free jazz approach to rock, living in the limbo between what is fiction and reality. Meaning, it's music that's doing soul searching without any ...
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"It's time for some new discoveries into Mike Cooper's limitless exploration in his collection of guitars. The title itself, "Tropical Gothic" references Cooper's beloved areas of 'the South' with a Gothic, dark, remote interplay... ''Tropical Gothic includes, but is by ...
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"The hour long performance on this disc was captured live on October 5th 2002 when Wobbly, People Like Us and Matmos circled their wagons in the lecture hall of the San Francisco Art Institute. Having mutually agreed upon a country and western theme, Vicki Bennett ...
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"Third volume of our irregular split series. This time pairing two artists at the top of their 'collagist' game, People Like Us and Porest. Two A sides of parallel radio broadcasts, for beautiful and not so beautiful days. The Parallel Broadcasts presents Porest's ...
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"Ariha is a combination of 3 of the most innovating figures of modern day trumpet playing with tuba virtuoso Carl Ludwig Hubsch. The practitioners here, three trumpeters, Axel Dörner, Franz Hautzinger, Mazen Kerbaj, and Carl Ludwig Hübsch hoisting a tuba, practice a ...
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"Bosaina is a Syrian/Egyptian singer, songwriter & producer known for her work in the Kairo Is Koming Collective as well as her involvement in music-space-turned-club-night VENT. Her autobiographical work takes on a magical insular quality through field recordings and ...
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"Founded by Lebanese visual artist and musician Raed Yassin and Swiss musician Paed Conca in 2006, Praed is a band whose musical oeuvre can be described as a mixture of Arabic popular music, free jazz, and electronics. Praed's body of work explores the terrain of shaabi ...
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"Visions Congo is yet another moniker from Discrepant's head honcho, Goncalo F Cardoso, taking Africa as a starting point to evoke the memories and re-imagined experiences of his 6-month stay in the region back in 2015. Most of the recordings and compositions were done ...
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"Yannick Dauby returns to Discrepant for Vol2 of his ongoing study of the sounds and sights on the Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan. lo-ko-chhu means, in Taiwanese, Coral House. Penghu Experimental Sound Studio Vol2 uses interviews, field recordings, found objects and subtle ...
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"Discrepant presents another unique document of Kink Gong's aka Laurent Jeanneau's collection of surreal soundscapes of augmented field recordings, this time using two very different source recordings to create his own unique brand of alien music. Using contact mic ...
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"The music moves very slowly through four movements: ''Reluctant Swimmer'', ''Movies is Magic'', ''Virtual Surfer'' and ''Dolphins''. 'Floating in out of the exotic ether and disappearing like smoke, engulfed in the alien hugeness of nature... a very elegant set by a ...
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"Exclusive limited white label single from Gonzo. Exploring the depths of East African religious beliefs from ancient animistic traditions to the more recent christian evangelic trends. On B side a more tongue in cheek take on east african dictators' advice and other ...
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"Traditional instruments, electronics and distorted vocals are dragged through an array of influences to create a world that is as original as it is unclassifiable. Originally released back in 2006 by Colombian label La Distritofonica, the limited CD-only album ...
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"Introducing Chupame El Dedo (suck my finger), a new group formed by Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers, Los Piranas) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo, Los Piranas) from Bogota, Colombia. Created for a one off live performance commissioned by Detlef Diederichsen at the 'House ...
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"Andy Moor (guitar) and Yannis Kyriakides (computer) lovingly deconstruct and reassemble their favourite rebetika music in a set of 9 pieces that encompass a wide scope of musical vision. This is an unusual and original take on the so called "blues" music of the Greek ...
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"Gonzo is the ''why so serious?'' monicker of musician, dj and discrepant headhoncho, Goncalo F Cardoso. Since starting the label back in 2010 Gonzo has released a series of limited collage tapes on the label, Dies Irae being the very first one back in 2012. He now ...
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"Chang Fo Ji are small plastic boxes with various Buddhist loops available throughout China and Tibet. Working with batteries, the small speaker can blast from poppy modern Chinese buddhist prayers to ancient recordings of famous tibetan buddhist masters. They can be ...
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